Yuehua sent Rong Lu away with a smiling face, and then sat down on a chair in the courtyard, feeling like a numb.

Xiangshen knew her thoughts, brought the tea, and coaxed softly: "Miss, don't get angry, drink some chrysanthemum honey to quench your thirst." ”

Yuehua was only stunned and didn't speak, a little distracted.

"There are less than six days left." Mama Wei muttered quietly, counting with her fingers, as if she was thinking about something in her heart.

"What happened on the sixth?" Xiang Shen couldn't help but ask.

"The Empress Dowager's birthday, this is a feast, and the officials and nobles of Chang'an, the prime minister and the princes will come to congratulate you. With such a beautiful scene, the costumes are naturally shabby, and you have to make a good living, and I don't know if you can prepare carefully in these six days. ”

Yuehua was upset, her heart was so stuffy that she wanted to get angry, but what Mama Wei said was reasonable, and she couldn't refute it, so she turned around and entered the house angrily.

Xiang Shen talked back to Mama Wei for the first time, and said angrily: "Is it possible that Mama Wei doesn't know the thoughts of our young lady?" At such a juncture, you are still busy sprinkling salt. ”

Mama Wei was unwilling to defend herself, so she opened her mouth, but Xiangshen had already stomped her feet and chased into the house uneasily.

Yuehua was sitting on the bed, reaching out and stroking the set of moon-white brocade robes in the corner of the bed, seeing the incense sink in, she was afraid of revealing her daughter's thoughts, so she hurriedly pulled the brocade quilt on the side to cover it.

"What's there to be afraid of?" Xiang Shen walked over in three or two steps, squatted down, put his hands on Yuehua's knees, looked up at Yuehua, and his eyes were full of eagerness: "Lord Shao is a hot character in the capital, a white-clothed scholar, stunning Chang'an, walking on the street, throwing fruit and car, which woman doesn't love?" ”

"Nonsense!" Yuehua was poked at the center of the matter by a word, and she scolded in a panic, and covered up: "Why can you say such a shameless and shameless thing?" ”

"Miss," Xiang Shen shook her hand, dismissive of Yuehua's reprimand: "I heard that Master Shao is romantic, with three thousand fans, but he is so restrained in front of you, and he is often flustered and at a loss, according to Xiang Shen, he is ten percent thoughtful about you." ”

Yuehua thought of his imminent departure, smiled bitterly, and was a little lonely: "You are too careful, Lord Shao just saw that I was pitiful and gave me a little help." As you said, that's a bright moon in the sky, a figure like a mountain looking up, and the three thousand red fans in Beijing can't get into his eyes, what am I bored with myself? ”

"Then today's emperor is an unattainable immortal figure, isn't the empress dowager still the same as Miss Yu? Why is the young lady so self-indulgent? In the eyes of Xiang Shen, Miss you have a good heart, and you are a kind heart with affection and righteousness, a wonderful person who is one in a million, if you can win the favor of Miss and entrust it for life, it is the blessing of thousands of years of cultivation. Xiangshen held her hand, exerted a slight force, and her eyes were full of expectation: "Are you willing to really enter the palace and be buried in the pile of fat powder in the red wall for the rest of your life?" ”

Yuehua's hand couldn't help but tremble, and she was a little angry: "What can I do if I'm unwilling?" I thought that I could be safe and sound after escaping the cage of the Chang family, but who would have thought that disaster would fall from the sky today. ”

Xiang Shen looked up on her face, and the lamp was already in the room, reflecting her eyes shining: "Miss, go find Shao Gongzi and ask him to give you an idea." He is full of resourcefulness, and there will be a way. ”

"What a rashness!"

"Why not give it a try? Even if it doesn't work, there's no regret, isn't it? What can face be? Xiang Shen continued to persuade: "Or, ride a fast horse, go straight north, and go to the border to find Young Master Bai." Anyway, I just don't enter the palace. As soon as Xiang Shen remembered that day, the mediocre and unscrupulous person who bullied the young lady indiscriminately on the street, he gritted his teeth with hatred. ”

Yuehua's heart began to move, first trembling gently, then beating violently, urging her so vigorously that she could barely sit still.

Xiang Shen stood up "poofed", copied the burden of the brocade clothes, and stuffed it into Yuehua's arms: "So far, what is there to hesitate about?" ”

Yuehua looked at the dark sky outside, hesitated, and flinched a little: "It's already dark, I'm a woman running to someone's house, wouldn't it make people laugh, or tomorrow?" ”

Xiangshen boldly stretched out his hand to drag her: "Miss is the one who Mama Wei nagged under your ears every day, she was restrained too much, and she was timid." When is it, the fire burns the eyebrows, and how much worry are you about?! ”

Yuehua pondered for a moment, feeling that what Xiang Shen said was indeed reasonable. She originally dared to love and hate, she didn't cower and look forward to the future, so she simply gritted her teeth, and obeyed Xiangshen's pout: "You help me hide from Mama Wei, I'll go." ”

"Hmm!" Xiangshen nodded excitedly: "Why don't I accompany you, just say that there is something in the shop, or go and choose the materials to measure it, so as not to make her suspicious and nag again and again." ”

The master and servant went out of the house, told a lie to Mama Wei, went out under the pretext, turned a corner, and walked straight to Shao Ziqing's mansion.

Shao Ziqing's mansion is not too far from Yuehua's residence, although he lives alone, but the emperor gave him a large mansion, the two inquired all the way, and hurriedly walked over, but it was just a stick of incense.

The wide gate mansion and the Shishi town gate show the arrogance of the Zhumen deep household.

Xiangshen stepped forward to find someone to spread the word, and the guards saw that they were two girls, and looked up and down critically, talking about fat and thinness, which seemed to be commonplace, but fortunately, the tone was calm, and only said that Shao Ziqing had entered the palace and was not in the house.

Yuehua was slightly disappointed, as the saying goes, "one drum, then decline, three and exhaustion", she retreated a little and turned around to leave. was dragged by the incense and hidden, hidden in the hidden place of the lamp at the head of the door, and coaxed with good words.

After standing for a short time, he saw a carriage turning from the corner of the street, and the guard raised his voice to the two and quipped: "My lord has returned, and if there is anything to say, my lord will never invite a girl into the house." ”

Yuehua had a sense of looking up to the nobles, which made her more and more humble, and she couldn't turn around and leave immediately.

Shao Ziqing had already seen the two of Yuehua's master and servant, and before the carriage stopped, he jumped down from the carriage and greeted, "Miss Yuehua? ”

Xiangshen pushed her, but Yuehua didn't have the courage to speak after all, she lowered her head, and her heart was in turmoil.

"Did you come here a long time ago?" Shao Ziqing felt a little guilty: "I'm really sorry, there are too many trivial matters, I came back late, Miss Lao has been waiting for a long time." ”

Yuehua shook her head a little flusteredly, unable to abandon her reserve: "No, no, I just came over, by the way." ”

"It's cool here, hurry up and talk inside."

The door of the house was wide open, and the two guards couldn't help but look at her with admiration.

"Oh, no." Yuehua lowered her head, her eyes wandered, and she didn't have the courage to raise her eyes for a while: "I'll say a few words and I'll reply." ”

Xiang Shen took a few steps back with his eyes, but secretly sweated for Yuehua.

Shao Ziqing's voice trembled slightly when she heard her speak, thinking that it was a cold wind, and she was too cold, so she quickly took off the cloak on her body and draped it on her thin shoulders.

Yuehua lowered her head, and the elegant breath like Lan Rugui enveloped her head, her body was warm, and the cloak with his body temperature had wrapped herself tightly, and her slender fingertips brushed her shoulders, and she hung down reluctantly, Yuehua felt as if her blood was boiling, warm from head to toe, and finally had warmth.

"I've just recovered, why are you wearing such thin clothes?"

It seemed to be slightly disgusted, but with a little smile, Yuehua raised her head suddenly, and in Shao Ziqing's lowered eyes, in addition to the thick night, there was also the warmth of the two lights.

"It's fine." Yuehua stretched out her cold fingertips and clenched the neckline of the cloak, and also clenched her heart, giving herself a little confidence.

"Is there something wrong?" Shao Ziqing looked down and saw the burden in her hand, and took the initiative to ask.

"Well," Yuehua responded very lightly, and said in a low voice, "There is someone in the palace today." ”

Shao Ziqing was stunned and immediately asked, "What to do?" ”

"Pass on the Empress Dowager's decree, let me enter the palace to serve the Empress Dowager on the eighth day of the lunar calendar."

Shao Ziqing was also stunned, pursed his lips, did not speak, and his hand in the cuff trembled slightly.

"I don't want to enter the palace," Yuehua gritted her teeth, raised her eyes, and said extremely firmly: "No matter what the Empress Dowager's intentions are, I don't want to enter the palace, and I don't want to have anything to do with the Forbidden City." But I have no choice but to come to you, do you have any good solutions? ”

Yuehua put aside her shyness and the reserve of her daughter's family, and looked at him with hope, her eyes full of eagerness.

Shao Ziqing still didn't speak, and his face was a little gloomy under the dim lantern light. The cold wind whimpered in front of the two of them, and the little residual heat surging between them was blown away without a trace.

His indifference looked at Yuehua's eyes, a little indifferent and cold, Yuehua's eyes dimmed little by little, just like the two lanterns in the autumn wind, the flames shrank little by little, and finally became the size of soybeans, crumbling, and then couldn't resist the destruction of the cold wind, and suddenly went out, only a wisp of green smoke remained, which could not be seen in the night.