Quietly in the apse, the incense burned incessantly in the bronze furnace, and the milky white light smoke was exhaled from the hollow lid to the outside. The hazy smoke spread out like a flocculent and permeated the quiet room, gently swaying like a soothing hand.

Hailan's spirit is much better, but he is dry, his hair is unkempt, and only a pair of eyes are wide open, like two bottomless black holes, looking out vigilantly. The whole person is embedded in the heavy curtains, as thin as a shadow. Ruyi just came in, and Hailan was so frightened that she quickly shrank to the corner of the bed and covered herself with a quilt. When he saw that the person who came was Ruyi, he dared to show his face. Ruyi's heart was sour. The Imperial Doctor's words were actually wrong, although the injury on Hailan's foot was serious, extending to the heart and kidneys, but her mind was even more devastated. Last night's humiliation had completely damaged her dignity and will.

The bamboo leaves in the rain swayed with the wind, and the bamboo shadows moved lightly, faintly reflected on the Biluo window screen. Hailan immediately turned around in panic and shouted in a panic: "Pull on!" Close the curtains. ”

The palace people were busy, Hailan opened her frightened eyes, and pulled Ruyi to sit down: "Sister, here, sit here, don't go anywhere, there are people who want to harm us outside!" ”

Ruyi stroked her shoulder and comforted: "Don't be afraid, the sky is already dawn, and the matter has passed." The emperor still feels sorry for us, such a big matter, he said that he would expose the past, and let you live in my palace. Isn't that what you've been looking forward to? ”

Hailan sat dumbfounded, letting the tears slide silently and wantonly: "But sister, as long as I come with me, I feel that there are so many eyes looking at me, watching me barefoot and being tortured, watching me being framed for stealing, watching me almost be stripped of my clothes and searched." The eyes of so many minions watched, I ......" She shuddered and gasped for breath, looking frightened and uneasy.

Ruyi hugged her tightly: "Sister, I know you are scared." But we have lived in the dive for all these years, and now we stay in the harem, and after a day, you should understand one day better. Hailan's haggard face looked at Ruyi, revealing a confused look, and Ruyi continued, "Yesterday's days have passed, and you should live more clearly today." The people who live here, the wind knife and frost blade, the mouth and the honey belly sword, what haven't you received, what can't you do? When a basin of cold water was poured down yesterday, I hated it so much. But what's the use of hate? I still have to lift my backbone, and when I'm done, I can continue to live my life, and then guard against such open guns and arrows. ”

Hailan was stunned, and reached out to wipe her tears for Ruyi, only to find that her eye sockets were so dry that there was no trace of tears. Her voice was low and soft: "Sister, if you are wronged, just cry." ”

The corners of Ruyi's mouth grew a little smile, the smile became deeper and deeper, slowly climbed up her smile, and reached the bottom of her eyes, but the smile was cold: "Crying? Aren't they expecting me to cry? I don't cry, everyone when I was wronged in Xianfu Palace last night, I didn't feel wronged. I can't bear it, gritting my teeth and smiling and enduring it, and then think of other ways. I'm crying? When I cried, I was amused by them. ”

Hailan shrugged her shoulders in fear: "Sister, no, I can't, I can't do it!" She humiliated me like that, and Xiangyun ......"

Ruyi helped her sit up straight: "Xiangyun, who killed you, has been beaten to death with a stick, and it's not over when she dies, and she has made people stuff a mouthful of hot charcoal and burn her mouth." As for the rest of the people, if you feel ashamed of yourself, then everyone will humiliate you as a joke. If you don't take it seriously when you get up your spirit, if people laugh at you, you smile at her, and if you don't take it seriously, then no one can laugh at you anymore. ”

Hailan was stunned for a long time, and her eyelashes trembled slightly: "Sister, I can't do it...... I...... I'm afraid I won't be able to do it......"

Ruyi stood up and asked Ye Xin, "Has the little master taken all the medicine today?" ”

Ye Xin hurriedly said: "I drank it all, and there was not a drop left." ”

Ruyi said in a deep voice: "Hailan, take the medicine and slowly cure your illness." As for your heart, I have already told you how to cure it. If you refuse to use it yourself, then I will be a useless person who was desperately protecting me last night. I protected her this time, but I couldn't protect her next time. ”

Hailan listened in a daze, her shadow floating on the tent, as thin as a broken paper figure singing shadow puppetry. Ruyi was about to persuade again, and Sanbao tiptoed in and said in a low voice: "Little master, the emperor announced that you should immediately go to the warm pavilion of the Heart Cultivation Palace." ”

Ah Jiu's face was full of joy and said with a smile: "The little lord was wronged enough last night, and the emperor must have announced that you should go and comfort you a few words." She turned her face to see Hailan bowing her head in despair, and said busily, "Naturally, there is something for you to bring to Hai Changzai." ”

Ruyi nodded, and said, "What can I say?" ”

Sanbao said: "The little eunuch who came to deliver the decree was very angry, and only said that it was an important matter, so please go quickly." ”

Ruyi had to get up and leave, took two steps and instructed Hailan: "My words are not good, but the medicine is bitter, you can weigh it yourself." ”

It was freezing rain outside, the ground was wet and slippery, and the weather was continuous rain and snow, and the brick cracks of the long street were slick and greasy with mildew, and even the vermilion palace wall was dyed by the moisture into a large patch of white dark red.

Because it was summoned by the emperor, the warm sedan chair walked quickly and steadily, but after a stick of incense, it arrived in front of the Heart Nourishing Palace. Yi Xinzheng took an umbrella and helped Ruyi get off the sedan chair, but saw a person kneeling under the white jade steps on the side. Ruyi raised her face, and hurriedly helped her over, and after a closer look, it was Li Yu who was waiting in front of the emperor.

Ruyi was slightly taken aback, and hurriedly said, "Li Yu, what's wrong?" ”

Seeing that it was Ruyi, Li Yu raised a face that was drenched in the rain and was full of water droplets, and said with a bitter face: "Don't ask, Concubine Xian, it's nothing more than a slave who did something wrong and was punished." ”

Ruyi's eyes lowered, but she saw that Li Yu was not kneeling on the masonry floor, but kneeling on the broken tiles. She was taken aback: "What the hell is going on?" ”

Li Yu said with tears in his eyes: "Zuo is just a prince punishing a slave." It's cold here, so let's go inside. ”

Ruyi saw that others didn't pay attention, and said in a low voice: "Kneeling this hurts your knees too much, so you have time to come to Yanxi Palace, and this palace will let you prepare medicine for you." Ruyi wanted to say more, but when she saw Wang Qin coming out, she smiled and said, "Concubine Xian is here, why don't you go in and talk to the slave here." ”

Ruyi didn't care: "Okay, why is Li Yu kneeling here?" ”

Wang Qin sneered: "If you don't serve you properly, you will be a little hot with the tea for the emperor, and you will burn the emperor, shouldn't you be punished?" Concubine Xian, don't worry about the slut, please go inside. ”

Ruyi stepped into the warm pavilion, but saw that the emperor and the empress were sitting precariously with no smile on their faces. Her heart sank, and she went down: "The emperor is blessed, the queen is blessed." ”