Chapter 56: Plum Blossom Hairpin
Chinese Looking at the beautiful woman in front of her, Su Liuying's face was pale and her steps froze, and she stood dumbfounded, her lips trembling but she couldn't speak.
After seeing her face clearly, the people who came were even more excited that the hands holding the umbrella were trembling slightly.
"Hotaru - it's really you!" In the next moment, the woman's tears rolled down like clear springs on her cheeks like a silver plate, and the umbrella in her hand could no longer hold it and fell to the ground, but she stepped forward and hugged Su Liuying.
"Liuying, it's really good that you're not dead......" The woman had a light orchid fragrance on her body. Smelling this familiar smell, Su Liuying's hard heart also melted instantly, suppressed the tremor in her heart, and finally choked out with a hard voice
“…… Sister. The woman in front of her is Su Shiyu, the daughter of the Su family, who is also Su Liuying's cousin, and Lou Yue's side concubine...... Su Shiyu is low-key, usually kept in the deep boudoir, and rarely goes out, but today is the Laba Festival, and as the only wife and concubine by Lou Yue's side, she wants to enter the palace on behalf of the female relatives of King An's Mansion to ask Queen Lou for peace.
Su Shiyu's tears couldn't stop flowing, and she looked at Su Liuying carefully for a long time before crying and laughing
"At first, I heard that you were still alive and in the palace, and I didn't dare to believe it, until I heard the queen mother mention it in Yongkun Palace, I completely believed it, and I couldn't wait to see you. I didn't expect it to be really you......" A smile appeared on Qingli's face, and Su Shiyu smiled happily
"I didn't expect that in my lifetime, my sisters and I would be able to see each other and reunite, it's great." Reuniting with her relatives, Su Liuying also had all kinds of feelings in her heart, thinking of her uncle's indifference and despair when her father was killed, she felt cold.
But this lobby sister has always been close to her, and she treats her better than her own sister, but she has no resentment towards her in her heart......
“…… Sister, I'm sorry, Liu Hotaru has been to the palace before, but it's just ...... At that time, the other second rooms of the Su family had broken off the relationship with Daddy, and now I am embarrassed and have no shame to go to see my sister, so I ......" Speaking of the past, the look on Su Shiyu's face also became solemn and guilty, and she took her hand with red eyes, rubbing the calluses that came out of her hands, and said distressedly
"What happened back then, it was indeed my father and third uncle who did too much...... But at that time, the situation was urgent, and as the head of the family, my father was more likely to take care of the safety of the other two people, so he ...... And for my sake, don't take it to heart. No matter what, you are the Su family, and you must not be left alone, and you are trapped in this deep palace as a slave...... When I go back, I will ask my father to come forward and ask someone to take you out of the palace. "When the family changed, the attitude of the other two rooms of the Su family made Su Liuying's heart cold.
When she was most desperate and had no way out, she refused to go back to the Su family for help, and now, it is even more impossible for her to return to the Su family.
"Sister, your kind sister understands. It's just that my sister and I stayed in this deep palace to find out the truth about Daddy's case back then, so I can't leave the palace now. In the face of Su Shiyu, Su Liuying did not hide it, the most important thing was that thinking of the Su family's desperation for her father and her second room, she didn't want to have anything to do with the Su family.
Even if she becomes a beggar on the street, she will bypass the gate of the Su family...... Hearing this, Su Shiyu was stunned for a moment.
Looking at the weak sister in front of her, Su Shiyu was shocked. She never expected that she would have such a plan in her heart...... If the family knows that she still doesn't give up on the case of the year, she wants to rehabilitate the second uncle, but I am afraid that my father and third uncle will be afraid of getting into trouble again and refuse to let her enter the house...... Thinking about it like this, Su Shiyu no longer had the confidence to say that her father would let Su Liuying return to the Su family, but she was more worried
"Liuying, you are alone in this deep palace, and there are many dangers. I also heard that Concubine Ning has been making things difficult for you, and even forced you to ...... with the old eunuch Although there is a prince to protect you, but now ...... The prince already knows that you are still alive, and you are still involved with the prince again, but I am afraid that you will be more worried in the future. Hearing this, Su Liuying's pale face became more and more pale, and she suddenly understood in her heart that Lou Yue had not appeared for so long, and it must have something to do with King An.
Thinking that he was implicated in order to help himself, Su Liuying felt very uncomfortable. However, when he thought that his cousin might doubt Lou Yue's relationship with him like an outsider, his eyes couldn't help but flash panic and guilt, and he said with a white face and trembling
"Sister, the prince has indeed helped me a lot, but he is all for your sake...... I'm innocent with him, and I don't have anything to do with him......"
"My sister knows." Su Shiyu looked at her worried look, and she was also relieved in her heart, and said with a light smile
"I don't know you yet, but I saw you swear poison in front of your second aunt." Speaking of Ah Niang, Su Liuying's heart became sour and uncomfortable - yes, she once swore in front of Ah Niang that she would never get close to the Lou family in this life, let alone marry into the Lou family...... However, in addition to agreeing to A-Niang's words, when she and Lou Yue first met in Bianzhou, she also had a bad impression of him, thinking that he was a ruthless and vicious person, plus he was Su Shiyu's husband, so she resolutely rejected Lou Yue's proposal back then!
She thought that she would never have any more intersections with Lou Yue in this life, but then she didn't expect that too many things would happen later, so that she had to accept his kindness again and again...... After going through so many things, how could she not understand Lou Yue's dedication to herself.
But, since it is impossible to be together in this life, why should she let him have hope...... Retracting her thoughts, she said
"Sister, wait for me." She ran back to the house to open the package, took the white fox cloak that Lou Yue gave her, as well as the dagger and the cloak he lent herself in the prison, wrapped the other package, walked out of the house and handed it to Su Shiyu, suppressed the tremor in her voice, and said softly
"Trouble my sister to return these things to the prince for my sister......" Looking at the package in his hand, Su Shiyu's eyes flashed a trace of gloom, and he smiled bitterly
"My sister gave me such a drudgery...... If you ask, how do I reply to him? "In the wind and snow in the sky, the last bit of light in Su Liu's eyes was completely annihilated-
"Just tell him, I'm Su Liuying, in this life...... Don't Lou house anything! Lou Yue, who accompanied her mother to celebrate the Laba Festival, didn't know Su Liuying's decision at the moment.
He asked Nanshan to go back to the city before dark, and then go to the palace again, saying that he would enter the palace to ask Queen Lou for peace, but Nanshan knew that the prince who was busy tracking down the assassination of Concubine Ning these days wanted to see someone...... Rushing to the palace, halfway through, the carriage that came to the palace in front of him was Su Shiyu who came back from the palace.
After Su Shiyu heard the coachman's announcement, she got out of the car in advance and waited on the side of the road. Seeing this, Nanshan had to stop the carriage.
"What?" As soon as the carriage stopped, Lou Yue asked.
"Hui Yuye, it's Concubine Su." Without waiting for Lou Yue to speak, Su Shiyu's voice sounded softly through the car curtain and said respectfully
"The concubine invites the prince to be safe, the prince has worked hard." In the car, Lou Yue's face was calm and waveless, she reached out and lifted the curtain of the car and glanced at Su Shiyu outside the car lightly, neither calling her to get into the car with her, nor saying a word more, so she had to hum softly without care.
Compared with not seeing Su Liuying for half a month, although Su Shiyu is the only side concubine in Lou Yue's back house, it is rare to see him for a month, or even longer.
Therefore, when she met him here, Su Shiyu was happy in her heart. However, before she could take a few more glances at him, the curtain of the car had been lowered, and seeing that Nanshan was about to drive a horse in the direction of the palace, Su Shiyu couldn't help but say loudly
"The prince is coming back from a busy job, why don't you go back to the house to rest first? The old lady is still waiting for the prince to go back to celebrate the festival together......" The curtain was not lifted again, but Lou Yue's face was a little colder, and his voice was cold, and he said coldly
"I still have to go to the palace to say hello to the imperial aunt, you go back to the house to accompany the old lady first." Feeling the dissatisfaction in his words, Su Shiyu's little face turned a little pale, but she still spoke
"Niangniang is accompanying the emperor for the festival at the moment, and the prince is going to go at this moment, but I am afraid that Niangniang will not be able to spare time...... In addition, the concubine's sister entrusted the concubine to bring things to the prince...... "It's nightfall, and the cold wind is getting stronger, blowing Su Shiyu's body trembling gently, and even her voice trembled slightly.
Hearing the sound, Lou Yue was stunned for a moment, and when she realized that the sister in her mouth was Su Liuying, her whole body was shocked, and she blurted out
"What's that? Give me. Before he could finish speaking, the closed curtain finally opened again. Looking at the curtain of the carriage that was opened again, Su Shiyu felt sour, turned around and went to the carriage to pick up the package and send it to Lou Yue.
Lifting the curtain and entering Lou Yue's carriage, she found that there was a small red clay stove burning in the car, and there was still a bowl of warm things on the small stove, smelling the smell, Su Shiyu knew that it was Laba porridge.
Looking at the amount, Su Shiyu's heart trembled, if she guessed correctly, I am afraid that this bowl of laba porridge was specially brought by Lou Yue to Su Liuying...... Thinking that no matter how cold the day is, he doesn't like to burn charcoal pots in the carriage, and he thinks the smell is stuffy.
And now, for Su Liuying, not only did he burn the stove, but he was also afraid that the porridge would be cold, and he didn't open the curtain...... In an instant, Su Shiyu's heart was full of ice and snow, and a happy heart gradually cooled...... Seeing that Lou Yue couldn't wait to open the package after taking it, she couldn't help but say loudly
"Master, do you want to go back to the house and see again?" Hearing this, Lou Yue's movements in his hands froze, and he already understood something in his heart.
However, the next moment, he finally unwrapped the package and saw the contents clearly. The snow-white white fox cloak, the dagger he gave her, and the dark cloak he covered her personally...... Give back everything he gave her!
The hand holding the package tightened involuntarily, and Lou Yue's voice was as cold as frost.
"What does she mean?" Looking at his appearance, Su Shiyu felt very painful in her heart, and she didn't want to hurt him by saying what Su Liuying asked her to bring.
However, at the cold eyes of Shang Lou Yue, her heart tightened and she snorted
My sister said...... She said that she was ...... in this life Don't want Lou's things......" As soon as these words came out, there was a dead silence between heaven and earth, not only the sound of wind and snow could not be heard, but Lou Yue was even breathless...... After knowing him for many years, Su Shiyu has never seen a frustrated look in Louyue, and even when Su Liuying refused to marry, he only had anger and sadness on his face, but he was not as frustrated and desperate as he is now.
At that time, Lou Yue thought that she didn't understand herself, and what happened in Bianzhou made her misunderstand herself, so it was natural that she was unwilling to marry her.
However, when they reunited four years later, he opened the closed door of his heart and gave her warmth and tolerance again, why did she still treat herself so cruelly?
Lou Yue couldn't figure it out, and he was even more unwilling. He was going to ask her personally why she was so unfair to him?! His eyes were as deep as ink, and he said coldly
"Now that the words have been brought, you go back first." Su Shiyu didn't expect to hear Su Liuying's words so ruthlessly, and he insisted on going to the palace to see her, the sourness in his heart was overwhelming, and it made her heart ache, and the indifference she had suffered in the past four years was not worth the hurt at this moment...... After sending Su Shiyu away, Su Liuying sat alone in the courtyard for a long time, the bottom of the bowl at her feet was covered with snowflakes, and her body was also covered with ice and snow.
At first, Sui'er heard a voice in the yard and knew that someone was looking for her, but then she didn't come in for a long time, and there was no sound, so she couldn't help but go out to look, only to find that she was sitting in the snow in a daze, so frightened that she hurriedly dragged her into the house and exclaimed
"Why are you freezing in the yard on such a cold day, are you going to freeze yourself to death?" Her body was cold, Sui'er also hugged the futon on her bed and covered her, thinking about what she heard in the yard just now, she felt sorry for her in her heart, and sighed
"Although those palace maids gossip about you behind your back one by one, in fact, everyone envies you in their hearts, and envy you for having the love of the two best and outstanding men of the Dayong Dynasty at the same time...... But now, Lord Li wants to marry Princess Rongqing, and you ruthlessly rejected Lou Shizi again, driving both men away from you at once, but your reputation is ...... Alas, what will I do in the future? "Later?
Is there a future in her life? The moment she handed over the package to Su Shiyu, her heart was empty, and it was even more empty and uncomfortable than when she learned that Li Xiu was going to marry Rong Qing...... Helping and sheltering again and again, but in exchange for his own refusal again and again, he will not forgive himself again...... Her whole body seemed to be drained of a trace of strength, her eyelids were very heavy, sinking one by one, her face was wet, and she cried and cried and finally fell asleep...... In her sleep, she dreamed that she had fallen into the well, the water was cold and biting, and she was very uncomfortable with the cold, and she desperately reached out to grab something, trying to get a life-saving straw to escape from this cold and cramped terrible space, but she couldn't grasp anything around except the smooth wall of the well.
Just when she was desperate and helpless, she couldn't help but shout, and a pair of warm big hands suddenly came, holding her hand tightly.
Her whole body was loose, and she held her big thick hand tightly and was no longer willing to let go...... When she fell asleep again, Su Liuying was stunned for a moment, and when her eyes were stung by the sunlight outside, she suddenly sat up from the bed - she slept so late, what should she do on an errand?
! However, before she could recover from the panic of getting up late, her eyes fell on the package beside the bed, and in an instant, her whole body was stunned.
Wrapping her acquaintance, it was she who asked Su Shiyu to take out of the palace and return it to Lou Yue before. Could it be that he was here last night?
The big hands that gave her warmth and security in the dream were him? Su Liuying's heart was blocked instantly, and after hesitating for a moment, she finally reached out and opened the package.
There are a lot of things in the package, and there is also a yellow wax plum blossom. It's just that this wax plum blossom was not picked from the tree by him for her, but carved from the precious gold silk jadeite and made into the shape of a flower hairpin.
Su Liuying had heard a jade merchant say in Bianzhou that this kind of pure yellow gold silk jadeite is extremely rare, and it has to be that the jadeite stone has just been buried in the gold mine after thousands of years to form, not only has the translucent water of jadeite, but also has the unique pure bright color of gold, which is really rare.
And the plum that Lou Yue gave her is the best in the golden jade. In the light, you can clearly see the clear gold threads in the jade, as if the veins on the petals of the plum blossoms, the hairpin is more and more delicate and lifelike.
Even though Su Liuying never cared about these things outside her body, she was still shocked by the golden silk jade wax plum hairpin in her hand.
Looking at the wax plum hairpin in his hand, the scene when Yunling Louyue helped her wear the wax plum blossom that day uncontrollably appeared in front of her, and even the warm touch on her cheek when his hand gently touched her seemed to remain on her face...... When Sui'er came in from outside, she saw Su Liuying sitting on the bed in a daze with a crimson face, rubbing her frozen hands
"Today's wind and snow are exceptionally heavy. Hello, with the protection of the prince, you don't have to do any errands. Although she knew that she was joking with herself, Su Liuying still showed guilt on her face and snorted
"I'm really sorry to let you do the work of two people by yourself today, tomorrow you rest in the house, and I will do the work alone......" Looking at her serious face, Sui'er couldn't help but smile and said
"There's no need, your work will naturally be done by the prince, but I didn't help you with the work." Anyway, without waiting for Su Liuying to ask about last night, she took the initiative to come to Su Liuying's front and said seriously
"You don't know, after you fell asleep last night, Lou Shizi suddenly broke in, and his face was black, which didn't scare me to death...... Later, I don't know why, I guarded you by your bed for a long time, and I didn't leave until the palace ban arrived, but I looked very good when I left, and I was rewarded with a bag of silver, hehe! Listening to Sui'er's words, Su Liuying's heart flashed with suspicion.
It stands to reason that he must have angered Lou Yue by doing this, but why didn't he blame himself, but also left the package he sent, and stuffed an extra valuable hairpin to himself?
What the hell happened when I fell asleep?! Over there, Sui'er grinned while taking out the money bag that Lou Yue had rewarded her and counting it carefully
"This prince is much more infatuated than that Lord Li. That Master Li has never seen him come to you since he got married, and this world is interesting, you rejected him, not only did you get angry, but also made persistent efforts to be good to you, tsk, it's really ......rare" Su Liuying's heart welled up with bitterness, she knew Li Xiu, he was a responsible person, since he promised to marry Rongqing, he said that he was willing to break off the relationship with her, so he would not come to him again...... And Lou Yue ...... She didn't understand why he was so attached to her.
Sui'er suddenly remembered something, patted her head suddenly, and said anxiously
"Oops, I forgot the most important thing." With that, he packed up his money bag and ran out like a smoke.
After a while, Gong Hui cautiously came in with a small celadon bowl. As soon as she entered the door, Su Liuying smelled the sweet and glutinous smell, and saw that she was holding a bowl of laba porridge in her hand.
The season has passed, where did the Laba porridge come from? Sui'er brought the porridge to Su Liuying's face like a baby and said with a smile
"This was specially brought to you by Lou Shizi last night, but he didn't wake you up again when you were asleep. Listening to the entourage around him, this porridge was boiled by the princess's mother and concubine herself, which was very different from that in the palace. Taste it! Su Liuying was very shocked, she didn't expect Lou Yue to send her Laba porridge for the festival yesterday, but she said such cruel words to him.
Thinking about his feelings when he heard those words, he couldn't help but regret it in his heart - why did he hurt him on this day for so many days?
Looking at Sui'er's envious look, Su Liuying poured out half a bowl for her. The taste of Laba porridge brought to her by Lou Yue is indeed very different from that in the palace, it is estimated that the materials are different, and it is much lighter and more mellow than in the palace.
At the end of the drink, Su Liuying felt a sense of familiarity in her heart, and she always felt that she seemed to have eaten this taste before, but she couldn't remember it for a while...... After eating the porridge, Su Liuying carefully put away the package returned by Lou Yue, and the plum hairpin was carefully wrapped in a silk handkerchief and placed on the bottom floor of the cabinet...... After Lou Yue's personal arrest, the assassin who assassinated Ning Guifei and his party was finally captured and imprisoned in the prison before the New Year.
The moment she learned the news, Su Liuying hurriedly begged Concubine Ning and asked her to order her permission to go to the Heavenly Prison to interrogate the assassin in person.
Ever since Su Liuying of Anguo Temple helped Ning Guifei find out the real culprit who murdered her prince, Ning Guifei trusted her very much, believing that she had a way to get the information from the assassins about the mastermind they wanted.
The prison is where the Criminal Department detains felons, and at the beginning, Su Liuying's father committed suicide after only three days of being imprisoned here...... After four years, Su Liuying stepped here again, and the image of Daddy dying tragically in the cell appeared in her mind, and her heart suddenly clenched, and she broke out in a cold sweat all over her body.
These assassins are said to be outlaws in the rivers and lakes, and more than half of them were killed and injured during the pursuit, and in the end, only three people were left in prison, and they were locked up in an underground water prison.
Su Liuying was in no hurry to interrogate the three assassins. She changed into the clothes of a criminal officer, blackened her face, and followed the officials of the criminal department every day, watching them interrogate important criminals.
Three days passed, all kinds of torture were exhausted, and the three of them gritted their teeth and did not vomit a word. Just when the officials of the Criminal Department were at a loss, Lou Yue came.
As soon as he entered the criminal department, his eyes swept over everyone, and when he saw Su Liuying, whose face was as black as a charcoal man, his brows were tightly twisted, and his handsome face immediately became cold and frosty.
Seeing that he frowned and had a cold face for no reason, the officials of the Criminal Department thought that he was blaming the Criminal Department for its ineffective work, so he couldn't help but kneel on the ground one by one and plead guilty in a panic.
Lou Yue's eyes kept falling on the thin figure kneeling at the end, and she thought indignantly in her heart, she really ate the courage of an ambitious leopard, she dared to come anywhere, dare to touch anything!
From the moment he found out the identities of these people, he knew in his heart that the people behind these people were from the palace.
The people of the rivers and lakes will not be involved in the court for no reason, unless they buy murder! Therefore, this matter is not something that her little palace maid can meddle in at all.
Ignoring the presence of others, he strode forward, picked up the 'charcoal man' on the ground and walked away without looking back.
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