Today is Li Tai's twenty-third birthday, and there are more than 300 guests who come to the banquet with their relatives and dependents, not counting the scribes of the Literature Museum, and the most important thing is that they must have more than six official residences to have the qualifications for the banquet, but identities like the eldest grandson Wuji and Fang Qiao, in order to avoid suspicion, receive the banquet stickers, and will only send their children or the main room to come to the scene.

Tonight's banquet is really exquisitely arranged, in the banquet hall on the second floor of Ziyun Building, 200 tables are full, eating on the table, salty, sweet and crispy evenly matched, the wine is fragrant, the music is curling, and it is a bright river view outside the building as far as the eye can see.

The braziers placed in each corner on each side are warm, but they have the warmth of a spring night.

The princes, in addition to the prince who has not arrived, even the young tenth prince Li Zhi has been present with Chengyang, although Li Yuanchang and Li Yuanjia are Li Tai's elders, they are of the same age, and they also went to the banquet.

Yiyu and Li Tai sat on the same seat, behind the word sixteen high-headed four seasons landscape brocade screen, the hall everywhere hanging eight treasures exquisite tower lamp, reflecting the couple's brocade clothes and jade face, just like a celestial person, but in this staggered banquet, there is a faint sense of staying out of the matter.

Li Kuan and Li Ke chatted with Li Tai about the manuscript of "Kun Yuanlu" across the distance, and Yu Yu had a decent smile on his face, coping with the conversation of the female guest on the other end.

However, the guests are not full of goodwill, there are also people like Princess Wu who hide knives in their smiles, and a few people who hide needles in Wushuang Society, and Yiyu has played a few rounds of Tai Chi with them, and the other party wants to know that today's day is not too much, and he has to live in peace.

Because it is Li Tai's birthday, as the princess, if she deliberately sends a banquet to an unmarried woman, it is easy for people to have other misunderstandings, so tonight only a few married women from the Moying Literary Society were invited, Shi Lian, Zhou Yunlan and Feng Yating were all listed, and fortunately, in the face of the clothes to talk about below, Yu Yu would not be absent-minded to the extent of running away.

I only saw Mrs. Cheng, but I didn't see Cheng Xiaofeng, and the jade was inevitably lost, since the two quarreled, she could sense that Cheng Xiaofeng was avoiding her, and she didn't think about taking the initiative to find someone, but Cheng Xiaofeng was engaged to Qi Zheng, and the wedding date was at the beginning of next year, she was afraid that Cheng Xiaofeng would think of Lu Zhi when she saw her, so she could only consume it like this.

Lu came back with a letter half a month ago, Han Li's cold poison had been cleared, but Mrs. Lu was in poor health, and the two were reserved to spend the New Year in Yangzhou, and the return date was uncertain.

Today should be a happy day, but I am estranged from my friends, my mother is far away, and I was separated from my husband half an hour ago.

Finally waited until the third tour of the wine, the guests were invited to sit on the incense gallery by the railing, watch the singing and dancing downstairs, take advantage of the time when everyone got up, the jade looked for an opportunity, and the banquet to the present, and Li Tai said the first sentence:

"There's a medicinal meal later, I'll go to the kitchen and have a look, so they don't make a mistake."

"Let the next man go."

“... I want to go out and breathe. ”

Li Tai glanced at her, but did not answer, and walked down the incense corridor, and Yu Yu stood in place, hesitating whether to follow him or go downstairs, when he saw Li Tai and Du Chuke say a few words, turned around, and walked towards her again.

"Let's go."

"Huh?" Seeing that he was going to walk with her, Yi Yu hurriedly said: "I'll go for a walk by myself, you better stay and accompany the guests." ”

"No, you don't."

Li Tai's expression naturally wrapped around her shoulders and led her to the staircase with reluctance.

At this time, most of the guests were attracted by the lights downstairs, and few people noticed that the couple left the table at the same time.

A huge hibiscus garden, each small garden is separated by a garden, two people from the Ziyun Building slowly to a small garden, Ah Sheng followed far behind, branch the passing attendants, so all the way over, only listen to the music and the voices of the people gradually drifted away, the atmosphere became quieter.

Without saying anything all the way, walking on the long flower corridor, a bamboo lamp hanging under the eaves shortens the figures of the two people in front of one after the other on the bluestone slab, and then elongates, separates, and overlaps again.

I don't know who stopped first, stood under a section of the corridor hanging over the small lake, and looked back at the bright moon in the sky, and the bright half of the sky was floating with mottled silver light and shadow.

A gust of night wind struck, and Yu Yu shrank her neck, and Li Taihuan's hand on her shoulder moved, covering her exposed skin with the wide sleeves, and at the same time bringing her body closer to his arms.

Just such a small action made Yi Yu's nose sour, and he leaned his hands on the cold railing, trying to use an ordinary tone, and asked:

It seems to be very busy these days, day and night, do you live in the literature museum? ”

"It's not." Finally, she was willing to take the initiative to talk to him, and Li Tai naturally cooperated with the answer.

Yi Yu's throat tightened, "Then where do you stay at night, have you slept well these days?" ”

"Well, rest in the courtyard."

"Annex? Is it in the capital, why haven't I heard you tell me, where is it? When Yi Yu heard the word "other courtyard", he was a little incoherent.

This question obviously made Li Tai hesitate for a moment, and it was difficult to answer, so he chose to avoid it, "It's in a secluded place in Beijing." ”

Is it in the annex of Yongheibo?

Yi Yu opened her mouth and almost asked, but because of his evasive attitude, she held back, and clenched the fence under her palm with ten fingers, because she didn't dare to ask for fear that she would really find out something

Seeing her strange appearance in his eyes, Li Tai frowned, suddenly understood, put his left hand on the back of her hand, hugged her into his arms again, and said in a low voice:

"Do you mind if I don't come home for a few days? Didn't I send someone back with a message, I have indeed had a lot of things recently, and I will accompany you after a while. ”

Once a woman has suspicions, it is an excuse to listen to anything, no matter how busy he used to be, he would go back to the house to rest at night, Yi Yu really couldn't think of anything important, did Li Tai have to live in another courtyard at night, and he needed to hide it from her?

Unless it's because of women.

The eldest grandson came to the palace that day, although he didn't take advantage of the slightest advantage in Yiyu, but in the end, he planted the seeds of suspicion, Li Tai's various abnormalities, in Yiyu's eyes at this moment, even if it wasn't because of the late Su Lan girl, it couldn't get rid of her.

The courtyard, the woman, who did not return at night, was busy for no reason, and the hidden answers were shrouded in the clouds of suspicion over Yu Yu's head, and Li Tai's words not only did not comfort her, but made her even more irritable.

"No need, you can be busy with you, I'm not a child, and I need you to accompany me all day long."

Li Tai is not deaf, he heard her tone rushing, chewed back what he had just said, and didn't feel that there was anything wrong, and before he could ask again, the person who disturbed him came.

"Master."

Ah Sheng stood at the end of the corridor, called from a distance, and saw Li Tai turn around, so he walked over quickly and looked at the jade.

"I'll go back first." Yi Yu was upset, and when she saw that Ah Sheng wanted to avoid her, she wanted to leave very familiarly, and what made her even more angry was that Li Tai not only let go of her hand, but also left a message behind her back:

"Go over there and wait for me."

Whoever wants to wait for you, you can whisper here

Yi Yu secretly snorted coldly, glanced at Ah Sheng, who was embarrassed, with his sleeve copied, passed by him, and walked away.

"What?" was disturbed that the two were alone, and Li Tai's voice was low, obviously unhappy.

Ah Sheng hurriedly said: "Master, someone has caught it, but there is something strange. ”

Li Tai turned sideways, "Have they been tried?" ”

"Yes," Ah Sheng looked suspicious, "The person was caught near our palace, it is a woman, her mouth is extremely hard, and her appearance has been ruined, I can't ask what matters, whether the people of Hongzhuang are still to be decided, but for some reason, she stubbornly wants to see you, saying that she has something important to tell you, you see?" ”

"Did anyone bring it?"

"Yes, it's locked behind the Imperial Banquet Palace, do you want to go and see it?"

Li Tai thought for a moment and nodded.

After saying this, Ah Sheng lowered his head, cleared his throat, and whispered: "Forgive your subordinates for talking too much, it seems inappropriate for you to take that person to live in the garden like this, princess she-"

"This king has his own plans, you let people stare at it, don't make any extraneous branches."

Ah Sheng knew that it was useless to mention it again, so he promised to answer and left behind Li Tai.

The master and servant only talked for a while, and Li Tai went to the other side of the corridor to find someone, but there was no trace of the relict jade, because he knew that Yi Ning and Yi Hua were following her in the dark, so he was not worried that she would have an accident in his own home, so he turned around and took Ah Sheng to the back of the Imperial Banquet Palace to meet the poison master who was captured from Li Ke's men.

As everyone knows, Yu Yu did not return to Ziyun Tower directly, but coincidentally went to the west.

The hibiscus garden is very large, adjacent to the courtyard pavilions on the left and right, and the gardens are next to each other.

Staring at the brocade box that could not be sent out in her hand, she sighed lightly, and walked through a small courtyard again, looking left and right to recognize the way, when she caught a glimpse of a courtyard wall at the end of the road, and suddenly felt a little familiar.

After thinking about it carefully, some hazy memories came flooding back, eh, isn't this the courtyard where she lived a few years ago? What's it called, oh, yes - it's Apricot Garden.

There are stone lamps along the way, and she has something on her mind, so she doesn't feel that there is anything to be afraid of visiting the garden alone at night, and when she goes far away, she sees two guards standing outside the apricot garden, and the two also hear the footsteps, and when she approaches the door, she can see the face clearly through the lantern.

"My subordinates have seen the princess."

Yi Yu waved his hand to signal them to get up, and as soon as he stepped towards the door, the two of them stretched out their hands at the same time to block:

"The princess stays."

Yi Yu felt strange, glanced twice at the black hole garden, raised his eyebrows, and pretended to be displeased: "What, there are still places in this hibiscus garden that I can't enter?" ”

It was the study room in Li Tai's office, she knocked on the door and went in, and after half a year, this was the first time she walked in her own home, and she was stopped, uncomfortable, and more intuitively felt that there was something wrong here.

"The subordinates don't dare, the princess forgives the sin, and the prince explained that no one is allowed to enter or leave this garden."

Yi Yu frowned, and felt more and more that there was a problem, not letting people in and out, what secrets were there that could not be seen?

The guards didn't dare to fake Li Tai's words, and Yu Yu had no intention of going against Li Tai, although he was full of doubts, he still stopped to go in and take a look, and then looked inside, and then turned around to leave, just then, she walked out seven or eight steps, and heard a faint sound of the piano behind her.

She suddenly turned her head, and her gaze passed through the doorway, and fell tightly on the dark apricot garden, which was the direction from which the sound of the piano came from.

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