Spring comes and winter, winter goes and spring comes.

It rained fresh in early spring, and the weather was still a little cool.

Xiao Yin walked along the corridor, still holding the two volumes of books he had just brought from Liu Ke's study, and saw Xiao Qiyun holding Rongyue's hand and walking out of the room.

Xiao Yin hurriedly put the book in Cai Apple's hand and trotted forward. "Sister!" , shouting, while holding Qiyun's hand.

The two sisters sat together around a stone table in the courtyard atrium.

A few little maids were squatting on the edge of the peony garden, holding bamboo tubes and carefully pouring something along a white-glazed dragon-handled pot.

"Be careful, just the top layer." Rongyue walked over and instructed.

"Is it the dew that was just picked?" Xiao Yin asked.

Qiyun smiled and nodded.

Hearing this, Rong Yue walked over: "No, it's the dew that was picked this morning." Before sunrise, the dew on the spring flowers that have just been harvested is left in the bamboo tube, and then only one layer can be taken. ”

"So troublesome! With such rare water, I don't know what kind of tea is worthy of it. Xiao Yin couldn't help but sigh.

A maid carefully held the white-glazed dragon-handled pot and walked over: "Master, I just happened to collect a pot." ”

"Send it to the teahouse over there, tell the people in the teahouse, you still don't have to say that I sent it," Qiyun paused, and then said, "If you ask, just say something to Lu Zhan." ”

The maid answered.

The dew that my sister bothered to collect turned out to be prepared for the tea room on the prince's side, and Xiao Yin was quite surprised. After living in the prince's courtyard for more than a year, Xiao Yin always thought that his sister cared about Lin Xi and was extremely disinterested in the prince. Therefore, although my sister is the crown princess, she is willing to live in this secluded courtyard in the inner courtyard, and she doesn't care at all about Wei Liangdi's favor and provocation, and the prince's coldness.

But today, Xiao Yin suddenly felt that he didn't understand his sister's mind. My sister may have the prince in her heart, but why can't she let the prince know, and why don't she hide in this small courtyard and not let go of the fight?

Xiao Yin looked up, although her sister is always tired with a trace of delicate fatigue now, she is still the moving woman who was curvy and graceful back then, plus she has the status of the crown princess and the mother of Qilan Xiao's family, why should my sister be so compromised?

"Sister," Xiao Yin couldn't help it after all, looked at Qiyun, and said cautiously, "In recent years, the northwest has not been peaceful because of the Qi clan, and recently Beidi seems to be ready to move. Wei Liangdi was born in a general, she doesn't know how to write and ink, and her personality is pungent and refreshing, so I'm afraid many things are beyond her power. ”

Xiao Yin looked at Qiyun and moved, and then said: "Actually, Your Highness, you still need my sister very much. ”

Xiao Qiyun still did not answer.

Xiao Yin still didn't let go, and asked, "My sister obviously remembers His Highness in her heart, isn't it?" ”

"Don't say it," Xiao Qiyun slammed the teacup in his hand onto the stone table and made a crisp sound, "I won't fight for anything anymore, and I'm not qualified to fight for a long time." ”

Xiao Yin seemed to see a trace of sadness and bitterness flash on her sister's face, and soon returned to calm.

"My heart has long been on the shore of Yanbo Lake, and what I have done now is only atonement." Xiao Qiyun's beautiful eyes were long, looking at the bamboo tube on the jade dustpan on the edge of the fence of the peony garden, and muttered, "He won't need me, and he won't forgive me." ”

Xiao Yin was silent.

Xiao Yin returned to the room, Cai Ping was sorting out the picture scrolls and books on the desk, looked up and saw her come in, and asked, "What's wrong with Lord Weng, why does he seem to be a little restless?" ”

Xiao Yin didn't answer, walked to the inside, took out a wooden box from the sandalwood cabinet in the inside, opened it, and inside was Lin Xi's Jiaoweiqin. If you look closely, you can see a crack in the body. More than a year ago, by Yanbo Lake, Lin Xi's pathos, Xiao Yin remembered it vividly.

"Why did Lord Weng remember to turn this object out today?" Cai Apple followed, "It's better to put away this piano." The slave maid also felt that what the prince said was right, these people and things, it was better not to let the mother think of them again. There are some things that it is better to let go. ”

"Well, put it away." Xiao Yin commanded, and there were some doubts in his heart, did my sister let it go? What knot does she not want to say? She didn't know how to solve the mystery.

Xiao Yin, who had been following the rules for a long time, finally sneaked out of the inner courtyard in the afternoon of that day.

A small door in the corridor of the outer courtyard of the Prince's Mansion sounded twice. "Who", a thin and small black-armored guard heard the voice, but he didn't expect that it was Xiao Yin who was wearing a riding uniform who knocked on the door.

"The little one has seen Lord Weng," the black armor guard hurriedly bowed and saluted, "I wonder why Lord Weng came to the outer courtyard?" ”

Xiao Yin saw that it was the thin and agile black-armored guard who followed him every day in Luoyang, and he was relieved and asked, "Du Huke, please tell him that I have something to ask him for help." ”

"If you go back to Lord Weng, you will be ordered to go to Jiaozhou."

"Jiaozhou?" Xiao Yin was a little disappointed.

"What a favor, can I help?" A man behind him said with a smile, Xiao Yin looked back, and it was Liu Chen, the king of letters.

Xiao Yin looked at Liu Chen, smiled and shook his head: "It's really a coincidence." You're here, so there's nothing to do. ”

"You're looking for me? It won't be because I'm thinking about my wine," Liu Chen put his hands behind his back, led the horse, laughed twice, and was high-spirited, "It's just right, I came back from Xiuwen Hall to see my father and the emperor, and I am going to come to meet the emperor's brother." It's a pity that the royal brother is not here. Cheap for you. ”

As he spoke, Liu Chen turned over and stretched out his arm: "Come?" ”

Xiao Yin smiled, took a hand, and got on the horse.

"Take you to a different place."

The horse's hooves are light and dusty, and they have to go. Turned out of the alley outside the Chunming Gate and went straight to the back of Daxing Palace.

Daxing Palace is in the north of the mountain, and the previous dynasty was set up as an imperial garden, and it is usually impossible to enter, and there is no interesting scenery. But Xiao Yin didn't expect that the mountain in the north of the palace protruded a small bag on the east side, and the mountains and rocks were stacked and green, although they were not encircled into the imperial garden, they were also quiet and few people.

Along the trail upward, in a vacant lot halfway up the mountainside, you can just see several pavilions and pavilions in the back garden of Daxing Palace in the shade of mountains and forests.

"This place is interesting, those pavilions and water pavilions usually don't look at anything, but here through these branches, the scenery is suitable for far and near." Xiao Yin said with a smile.

"I knew you would like it here," Liu Chen took out a wine bag from the saddle and handed it to Xiao Yin, "Looking from this little lonely mountain, there is a bit of the smell of looking at the Jade Smoky Mountain on the roof of the palace the year before last." ”

Thinking of the embarrassment at that time, Xiao Yin lowered his head and smiled, pulled the cork of the wine bag, took a sip, and exclaimed: "Is it the Sang Luo Brew of the Drunken Immortal Residence?" ”

"You really have a good memory, how's that, am I a friend enough, righteous enough?" Liu Chen smiled, "By the way, what are you looking for me today?" ”

Xiao Yin was upright and asked, "Actually, I want to know, the Wei family ......."

"The Wei family started with martial arts and won the title of Dingguo Gong. Now the eldest son of the Wei family is in charge of the patrol camp, and the daughter is the good brother of the emperor, so she is naturally powerful and beautiful," Liu Chen cut off Xiao Yin's words and replied quickly, "But according to your and my temperament, it is useless to study these things." ”

"......"

"I know you're worried about your sister. When he was twelve years old, the imperial brother was framed and almost deposed, and your sister also fell seriously ill, and later moved to the meditation garden where she lives now. It's not for you and me to make it clear," Liu Chen's tone slowed down, "But there is one thing, you can rest assured that the imperial brother is gentle and kind, and he will definitely not treat the imperial sister-in-law harshly." ”