Chapter 16: Fault
The sun was in the sky, the carriage was a little stuffy, and Meili lifted the curtains to let the breeze in. It has been out of the city, and the green trees and green hills on both sides of the road are pleasant. The green crops in the farmland in the distance make people feel happy and happy when they see it.
She leaned back in the carriage, enjoying the cool breeze on her cheeks and soaking up the beauty of the greenery of late spring. Because I can't sleep peacefully at night, the carriage gently shakes the air and freshens it, and Meili's sleepiness gradually hits, and she falls asleep lightly against the window lattice.
I don't know how long it took, but she felt someone gently push her to wake her up, and when she opened her eyes dimly, she saw Yonghyuk's handsome face smiling. He leaned in and put his arm around her shoulders.
"Get out of the car, I'll camp here today." He pulled her and half-hugged her out of the car.
When she got out of the carriage, Meili found that because she fell asleep and didn't get out of the car, everyone else had gathered on the small flat land where she was parked. Her and Yonghyuk's overly intimate posture attracted many people's cold eyes. But Yonghyuk seemed to be holding her hand unconsciously, frowning at the red mark on her forehead because of leaning on the carriage for a long time. Miri tried to pull her hand out of his hand, but he still clenched it hard. She winked at him anxiously, and he reluctantly let go of his hand after he glanced around at the gazes of the people around him.
Xiaozhuang saw it in his eyes, smiled at them, and looked at Ying Ru Fujin beside him with relief, Ying Ru Fujin sighed secretly, responded to the smiling face of the ancestor, glanced at his son helplessly, and turned his head to talk to other Fu Jin.
Jing Xuan led some young people from the clan to supervise the camp, and glanced coldly at Yonghyuk, who was still standing beside Meili.
Yonghyuk pursed his lips secretly and smiled at Meili before quickly following behind Jingxuan and listening to him deploy tasks.
Seeing that he was ordered to lead the team to inspect the surroundings with a steady look, Meili couldn't help but smile slightly, he pretended to be serious in front of Mr. like a naughty student.
Unintentionally looked back but found that Jing Xuan was looking at her with a cold face, she was stunned and smiled lightly. She had already turned away from him as he wanted, forgot him, and went to find his own happiness, why did he still look at her with such disgust?
She followed the Ancestor's team without looking away, and was extremely pleased to find that no matter what he thought of her, she didn't care...... She was truly liberated. A smile spread from her eyes to the corners of her mouth, and she breathed deeply into the fragrant air of the suburbs, feeling as if she were about to fly in the wind.
The tent was quickly set up, because there was no suitable place to camp within a day, and there were many female dependents, the emperor took the elite of the Eight Banners to continue to move forward, and the ancestor took the female dependents to rest on the spot.
The camp was well chosen, with a flat and wide meadow by the mountains and rivers, and a clear river a few steps away from the camp, and the girls who had settled down ran to the river to play in the water, which not only relieved the boredom of the road but also washed off the dust on their bodies.
Meili deliberately waited for most of the girls to come back before slowly walking to the river, and sure enough, it was close to evening, and the camp was full of smoke, and there was no one else on the riverbank except for the kitchen soldiers who washed vegetables and fetched water. Meili silently looked at the surrounding scenery for a while, and when she came out of the cold palace, she especially liked to see the vast mountains and forests and plains, or the quiet and quiet pastoral scenery, which made her heart feel an indescribable sense of peace and stability.
She squatted down, half playing and half cleaning the cloth carefully, she was used to not applying fat powder, not like other girls to be careful, happily holding the water to wet her cheeks, the coolness of the river water made her feel happy, she actually laughed out loud, one after another picked up the water to play, and splashed around, the water splashed in the glimmer of the setting sun, she smiled, at this moment her heart did not suppress the pain, there was no humility and patience, she seemed to return to the carefree time, once ...... She is also such a naughty and lively girl.
"You're having a good time."
The mocking and cold tone was said by the girl's delicate voice, and there was a terrifying feeling.
Meili didn't turn around immediately, she wrung out the cloth at hand, wiped the water droplets from her face, and her smile was wiped away, and she regained her indifferent expression before she stood up and looked at the person talking behind her.
As expected, it couldn't have been Yindi alone.
She raised her eyebrows, she wanted to laugh but couldn't laugh, how could Yindi, who was staring at her here, forget that if she was a senior, she was a senior.
She looked at the girls of her age opposite, all of them glaring at her with great disdain, but she knew that they were also cowardly in their hearts, otherwise they would not have come in a large group. In the past, she and Sister Ziqing hated Ruoyu Jiao very much in front of men, and they were so jealous that they didn't dare to go alone when they decided to "teach" her.
Jing Xian sneered and stood behind this group of immature girls, quite a sense of staying out of the situation and watching coldly. Apparently she was just here to see her jokes and have fun. Meili looked at the resentment in her eyes all the time, the sneer on the corner of her mouth, and Jingxian...... Before she could recover from the blow, Miri sighed.
"You!" Yindi pointed at her fiercely, "Stay away from Yonghyuk!" ”
Meili didn't argue, the ancestor's finger marriage was just a tacit understanding between the people involved, and she shouldn't ...... I don't want to say it first.
"Aren't you crazy about Brother Jing Xuan?! Go and like it! He hasn't been blessed yet! Sangzhu was glared at by her cousin a few times, and felt that it was very unrighteous to come out and ask questions actively.
"Yes!" Someone took the lead in questioning, and there were more people who echoed it, and the girls talked about it as if they were competing to see who was more vicious.
"You're not going to be so watery, are you?! The whole capital knows that the person you like is Brother Jingxuan! ”
Skittish?
Meili listened to their swearing, only this sentence entered her ears, she felt very ironic, and now she finally let go of her heart and hands, but she fell into the reputation of a water-based poplar?
"Isn't it ......," she whispered amusefully, looking at the deepening twilight, "that I didn't pay enough for that mistake?" ”
Her low voice somehow suppressed so many sharp voices at once, everyone seemed to choke, and the surroundings fell silent all of a sudden.
All the girls kept their mouths shut with difficulty, yes, everyone knows, because Brother Jingxuan refused to ask her at the beginning...... She was thrown into the cold palace for two whole years, in fact, very miserable. They can laugh at her poverty, they can laugh at her lowly habits in the cold palace, but they can't bear to laugh at her broken infatuation to her face. They are all girls, and they all have such a person in their hearts, after all...... They're not vicious enough to do that.
"Anyway, you...... You're a little away from Yonghyuk! Yindi said angrily that she had realized that although there were many of them, they had also been defeated.
"You're mistaken! I'm going to be close to her! "Yonghyuk doesn't know when he came out of the camp and how long he has been standing behind the girls. He had a cold face and looked a little intimidating.
He stared at Yindi, "Tell you, I just like her, and I will marry her in the future!" Don't let me see you bullying her again, or don't blame me for beating women. He warned with some youthful impulses.
Yindi was stabbed by his attitude, and her face turned red with anger, "You want to marry her?!" She frantically touched the beautiful glass with her hand, "Do you know how cheap she looked when she pursued Jing Xuan at the beginning?!" She doesn't like you at all, it's because Jing Xuan doesn't want her anymore, so she will frown at you! ”
"Shut up!" Yonghyuk was so angry that he strode towards Yindi, and his fierce momentum frightened the girls to dodge. Meili was taken aback, his personality was simple and impulsive, and he really hit Yindi, and the consequences were serious. She hurriedly ran to pull him, why did he compare himself with the girl's family?
Could it be ...... She felt a pain in her heart, Yindi said what he cared about?
Although Eundi pretended to raise his chin fearlessly, he was also trembling with fear when he saw that Yonghyuk was really angry.
"I'll let you do it one last time today!" Yonghyuk's hand pointed at the pale-faced girls, "Let me hear you speak ill of her again, and let me see you bullying her, don't blame me for being rude!" ”
Miri took his arm to stop his anger, and listened to his childish words funny and touched.
Yonghyuk defended Meili so much in front of so many girls, Yindi couldn't hold her face at all, she cried loudly, hid her face and ran away.
Jingxian gritted her teeth and watched this scene, the resentment in her heart suddenly boiled, the man in the Taihe Hall also bullied her in order to defend another woman! It hurt her to be unable to hold her head up in front of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military harem clan for the rest of her life!
Her eyes were bloodshot with hatred, and Sen laughed coldly and brushed away.
Yonghyuk was so annoyed that he was still panting, "It's so annoying, it's strange that you can get married?!" ”
Meili looked at him with a wry smile, "If you quarrel with the girls like this, you will be laughed at." A big man......"
"What's wrong with the big man, does the big man have to endure it?" He said with a wink.
Her hand holding his arm tightened, and her eyes lowered, and she didn't dare to look at him at this time, it was because she was not good that she caused him such criticism and anger. "You...... Do you care? She couldn't repeat what they said, and she could command herself to be calm when she listened, but in front of him, she was still ashamed and guilty.
Yonghyuk was stunned, he didn't expect her to look at him like this, and frowned, "Meili, do you still like Brother Jingxuan?" He asked bluntly, without the slightest hint of subtlety.
Meili froze, suddenly not knowing how to answer.
"That's what I want to know."
She lowered her eyes and shook her head, "No...... I liked it. She didn't know why she didn't dare to look into Yonghyuk's eyes and say, after all, her feelings for Jing Xuan were also true, although it was ridiculous and shameful, and it was all over, but let her deny it indifferently, she couldn't do it.
"That's good!" Yonghyuk didn't notice her dodge, he got the answer he wanted, and that was enough. His anger just now turned into joy in a blink of an eye, and he proudly kissed her drooping little face.
Meili glanced around in a panic, for fear that the lively people would see this unconventional intimacy. There was a cheerful chuckle in Yonghyuk's ears, she looked at him a little embarrassed, he was really angry and dispersed quickly, and Meili also laughed, he had a child's temper.
Near dinner, Yonghyuk still had a lot of chores, and when he arrived at Yingmen, Meili took the initiative to urge him to go, and Jingxuan, who was in charge of the province, said that he was procrastinating.
As soon as she wanted to enter her tent, she heard a sneer, the night had thinned down, she followed the sound, and saw Jing Xuan leaning on the shady side of the tent with his arms crossed.
Meili frowned briskly and blessed him, "Qing Wang Ye is auspicious." Not wanting to talk to him, she pulled up the curtain and prepared to go inside.
He quickly stretched out his arms and pulled her into the corner of the tent, his hand pinching her chin so hard that it hurt.
"Give me less of this! Qing Wangye...... Are we so strange, Meili? He sneered, the sarcasm in his eyes as strong as fire.
She glanced away from him, "strange...... Isn't it good? ”
He strengthened his fingers again, forcing her to look up at him, "You have to figure it out, you have been in the cold palace for two years, and you yourself have been unlucky enough to step on someone, and it has nothing to do with me!" He leaned over, she was too thin...... The original pink apple face has completely become the beautiful face of a girl, and when the big eyes stare at people, the water is rippling...... It's soft-hearted. He had never noticed that her eyes were so bright and so beautiful.
"Hmm." She smiled blandly, yes, she had already told him, so why bother to emphasize it so angrily.
"The price you paid for that mistake...... It doesn't matter how much it doesn't matter to me! He said almost ferociously.
She shuddered, and at that time...... Did he hear me?
The light was dim, and he still saw that her pointed little chin had been pinched blue by him, and he couldn't help but let go.
"Your man is ridiculous! He jumped out and said those things that would make those women hate you even more. He smirked sarcastically, "Like an idiot." ”
She looked at this handsome and charming man coldly, yes, in his eyes, Yonghyuk's scheming methods were as young as a fool, maybe his momentary pleasure made things worse, so what?
She also looked at him indifferently and smiled, and he was stung by her smile.
"Anyway, when I need him...... He stepped up. She said with a bit of pride.
His eyes narrowed suddenly, and his lips pursed.
"Just now...... Why did you hesitate to answer his question? He grimly rubbed his fingers against her chin.
Leaning too close, she smelled the faint scent of jasmine on his body, she was familiar with this smell, because she had smelled it on Su Ying, and the ancestors had also praised this beautiful and unique taste, it was the top jasmine essence, and a small bottle was the cost of her Qianwang Mansion for a few months.
He seems to ...... All have seen and heard. Moreover, even what Yonghyuk didn't notice, he also had an insight.
She smiled, and he was always on the sidelines.
"Because, I'm guilty! I'm guilty of Yonghyuk! ”
He glared at her for a moment, let out a long sneer, and let go of her with his hand, "Good." ”