When the snow particles fluttered down, Xiao Yan was reading a book in Chongwen Hall.

Chongwen Hall is located in the East Palace, which is the reading place of the crown prince, and it is also the place where the secret books in the palace are proofread, and it is a large royal library - Xiao Yan stepped here to read books.

Today, the crown prince's canonization ceremony, the East Palace is under full martial law, and the attendants and school scholars in the hall have been sent home, and only the attendants who are responsible for book collection and sprinkling are inside. Xiao Yan was still wearing the Xuanjin official uniform of the Grandmaster of the Crane Guard, with the gold medal of "Walking in Front of the Emperor" hanging under his waist, and he entered the Chongwen Museum to see the collection of books.

After checking the gold medal, the museum supervisor didn't dare to slack off, thinking that the internal guard was going to handle some case, so he didn't dare to ask more, so he asked the inner attendant below to submit the bibliography, but saw that Xiao Yan picked out all the books of flowers and trees, and couldn't help but wonder, followed by another Rin - could it be that it was to check the poisonous flowers and poisonous weeds? …… Thinking of King Qi's poisoning case, my heart became more and more awe-inspiring.

Xiao Yan looked at the collection of books, there were a lot of books of flowers and trees-the curator said that the sage used to collect such books when he was in the East Palace, and now there are two bookshelves - so he asked the waiter where he was, and went to search for it in front of the bookshelf by himself.

Xiao Yan was looking for a book about roses.

She once asked Murong Jue, what is the special meaning of the rose flower? Murong replied to her after a few days: There is a sense of lovesickness. The expression on his face was a little strange when he spoke, and he added: "The elder of the family said it." Xiao Yan's expression was also very strange, with an expression of being struck by lightning.

- Surely that is not what I meant!

She thought to herself, how could Shen Qingyi use the meaning of "lovesickness" to let herself send roses?

That's not what it means!

But Xiao Yan has been with Shen Qingyi for many years, and knows that she is delicate and her words are twisted and twisted, how could she mention roses for no reason when she asked her what gifts she liked?

- There must be a reason.

Xiao Yan intuitively felt that he had to find this "reason" - this is very important.

Rose may not be important, what matters is what her sister really wants—and this truth is hidden in Rose.

What Xiao Yan is looking for is this true meaning.

Otherwise, what's so hard about sending a pot of roses?

When she thinks of Shen Qingyi, she always thinks of the sentence "more quietly soaked in the rippling cold blue", thinking of the cold water of the lake in Jingyuan, the green trees are also soaked in the cold, and under the thin sun in winter, it looks a kind of bleak loneliness. Every time Xiao Yan thought of this scene, he felt a kind of pain in his heart, a kind of distress and pity.

She hoped that Shen Qingyi would be well.

But whatever Shen Qingyi likes, she will do her best to find it for her.

No matter how hard it is!

Xiao Yan's gaze slid over the book, not every book was picked up and read, first read the bibliography with his divine sense, if there was a rose, he would pick it up and open it, and sweep it with his divine sense. Although the speed of her divine sense browsing was a hundred thousand times faster than that of her gaze, it took a lot of time to search through the entire two bookshelves and nearly two thousand books, even though her divine sense was so strong that she had reached the perfection of the Cave True Realm.

But nothing came of it.

The hall had already been darkened, and the glass cover was lit. Xiao Yan put the last book back on the shelf, saw that it was late, and decided to come back tomorrow...... Always find clues.

When she came out of the Chongwen Pavilion, it was almost dark outside, and the snow particles had turned into snowflakes, and pieces of them were flying down like goose feathers.

It's already midwinter in December, and it's snowing again, and it's getting dark early.

Xiao Yan didn't need to eat dinner, so she walked unhurriedly, and the snowflakes landed silently a foot away from her, and no snow could get close. She thought that it was still early, and she would find an open place to practice knives when she returned to the inner court; I thought about asking Li Yuzhen what her plan was, who she wanted to kill, when she would kill, how long she needed to stay in Chang'an, and if she was sure, she would send a letter back to save her father and fourth brother from worrying; I thought about it again, I am afraid that I will not be able to go back for the Chinese New Year this year, so I have to prepare New Year's gifts for my family in advance; I thought to myself, since Li Yuzhen has woken up, there is no need for her to stay in the palace, right? She prefers to live in her mother's house, which can not only get along with A-Niang more, but also more convenient in action, unlike the palace, where it is inconvenient to enter and exit the palace gate; She wanted to meet Shen Qingyi: If King Qi's poison is resolved, maybe my sister will return to Daomen, and if she wants to meet, she doesn't know when.

While thinking about it, he walked out of the palace wall of Chongwen Pavilion, and in front of him was the Guangtian Palace, and saw a young man in a purple-robed dragon suit walking out of the west palace wall, holding a silk and yellow-faced umbrella, twelve or thirteen years old, leather belt and sword, handsome eyebrows and red lips, heroic, eyebrows and eyes are somewhat similar to Li Yuzhen - Xiao Yan knew that this must be Li Yuzhen's younger brother, Li Yuxiang, the king of Guangping County.

She stopped and walked to the side of the road, and waved her hand to Li Yuxiang, "I've seen the king of Guangping." ”

Li Yuxiang held the umbrella and widened his eyes.

But seeing the woman in front of me with a round-necked arrow sleeve and a sword in a crane-swords, dressed in the uniform of the Crane Guard Grandmaster, she was like this-young! Good looks!

seems to be about the same age as my sister, but she is actually the grandmaster of the Cave True Realm?!

Oh, she looks prettier than her sister!

Xiao Yan shouted, "County King? He came back to his senses, his face immediately turned red, he coughed, put down the umbrella in his hand, and waved his hand in return—this is the respect for the Cave True Realm Grandmaster. Although his face was still hot, the young county king had already regained the demeanor and calmness of the prince, his eyes quickly swept over the gold medal of "walking in front of the emperor", and greeted politely: "This grandmaster's surname? Xiao Wang is polite. ”

Xiao Yan said with a gentle expression: "My surname is Xiao." Walk in the East Palace for the time being. ”

Li Yuxiang sighed twice, suppressed the cat-scratched curiosity in his heart, and didn't ask any more. The crane guard is the emperor's internal guard, the identity is special, unless the saint specially appoints to guard someone, otherwise including the prince can not intersect with it, if you meet in the palace, it is common to salute and say hello, but to talk more is to overstep.

Li Yuxiang nodded, and passed by Xiao Yan with an umbrella.

After walking more than a dozen steps, I couldn't help but stop and look back - but I saw that the person was calm, walking like flowing water, with a natural sense of fluidity, a slender and straight back, and a unique free and easy temperament; Walking in the winter snow and darkness also gives people a feeling of light and self-illumination: transparent and clear.

Li Yuxiang stood for a while before turning forward.

The man was already in my mind.

Whoever has seen such a person can never forget it!

……

The snow was getting heavier and heavier, Li Yuxiang walked out of the East Palace quickly, out of the Imperial City from the Yanxi Gate, and went to the Daming Palace - he was not the prince, so he couldn't take the palace road in the West Inner Garden, so he could only go out of the Imperial City, cross the East Street of the Imperial City, and then enter the palace from the Jianfu Gate of the Daming Palace.

He has not yet reached the age of twenty years old to open the palace, but he did not move into the Daming Palace with the emperor and queen, and still lives in the East Palace. But he usually lives in Tiance Academy, and only returns to the East Palace during the mid-year vacation, today is the Imperial Sister's Book of Prince Ceremony, and the Academy gave him a day off, but he didn't expect to meet such a character in the East Palace!

Li Yuxiang regretted it in his heart, but it was a pity that he was an internal guard, otherwise he could still find a way to make friends.

In the afternoon, he went to the palace to visit his father, who had just woken up from a sleep and was in good spirits, and asked him to go back to the palace for dinner in the evening, and the family would be together. He first went to Qingning Hall to greet his mother, and then went to Zichen Hall with his mother.

Because the emperor could not get up, he ate in the dormitory, the door between the inner hall and the outer hall of the dormitory has been removed, and three dining tables were placed in the outer hall, the queen sat on the south side, facing the emperor in the inner hall, and Li Yuzhen's sister and brother sat on both sides. There was a small table on the emperor's couch, a bowl of medicinal porridge, a medicinal soup pot, served by the palace maids, used slowly, and looked at the children from time to time, and the mood was very good.

Li Yuxiang looked at his sister while eating.

Li Yuzhen glanced at him, put down his teeth and said, "Why, I haven't seen your wise and martial sister for a long time, and I can't get enough of it?" ”

Li Yuxiang really felt that if he didn't see his sister, he thought in his heart, and when he saw his sister...... Listen to her and your mouth twitches.

The king of the county rolled his eyes in his heart, he couldn't see his sister so narcissistic, remembered the person he met in the East Palace, put down his teeth, and said: "Sister, I met a beauty in the East Palace, which is what you said, 'The sun and the moon are bright, and the face will shine' - the real beauty!" ”

When the emperor heard this, the corners of his eyebrows twitched, and he remembered that his daughter interpreted Mencius's words when she was young - there is no flaw under the sun and the moon, and there is light in the darkness, this is a real beauty! - can make Meng Fuzi angry, and actually continues to poison her younger brother, who is angry and funny for a while, and swept her daughter's eyes.

Li Yuzhen smiled back at his father, turned his face to look at his younger brother with a smile, "You're talking about her." There was a bit of intimacy in the tone.

The queen raised her eyebrows slightly.

Li Yuxiang said with great interest: "That's right, it's the Grandmaster Hewei surnamed Xiao, who looks so young, it seems to be about the same age as you, Sister." He turned his face to his father and said, "I haven't seen it in my father's palace before—which senior is it?" Or is it really so young? ”

The emperor smiled, put down the spoon and said, "Three or four years younger than your sister." ”

Li Yuxiang was stunned, although he felt that the grandmaster should not be a senior in his thirties or forties, but he was so young, a few years younger than his sister, which made him feel like a thunderbolt, and only after a while did he say in his voice: "There is actually a second character like my sister!" ”

The queen smiled, put down her teething, and said teasingly: "That beauty, more beautiful than your sister?" ”

Li Yuxiang wanted to say, "It's better than my sister!" But when the words came to his mouth, he turned around, and he still said very sisterly: "It's just a little bit less beautiful than my sister." ”

The emperor and empress laughed at the same time.

Li Yuzhen laughed, "Baoxiang, I believe it, you are really my brother." ”

Li Yuxiang glared at her, "Of course I'm your own brother!" ”

Li Yuzhen smiled and said: "Let's be honest, Xiao Yuezhi is better looking than me." ”

Li Yuxiang suddenly had a surprised expression on his face, "Sister, it's really rare, you can actually say that others are better looking than you?" - I think at the beginning, you still said that Cousin Cui Qi is not as good-looking as you! In fact, he really felt that Cui Qi's cousin was very handsome, more handsome than Pei Songzhi, the eldest man of the Pei family, but her sister said that she was not as good-looking as her, and she really didn't know how to compare.

It can be compared with one of Xiao Yue...... Li Yuxiang suddenly vaguely understood that the kind of "good-looking" that her sister said was a kind of bearing that did not distinguish between men and women.

That Xiao Yuezhi has a kind of bearing, when you see her, you won't think of men and women at all, and when you see it, you will take it for it.

Li Yuxiang suddenly sighed, "It's a pity......"

It's a pity that Xiao Yuezhi is not Lang Jun, otherwise wouldn't she be worthy of her sister?

Wait, that Xiao ...... Xiao what?

Li Yuxiang suddenly exclaimed, "Xiao Yuezhi! ”

He felt that this name sounded familiar, wasn't it the seventeenth Lang of the Xiao family who had an affair with her sister - Xiao Yan Xiao Yuezhi!

That...... Not alone, right?

Xiao Seventeen is Lang Jun!

That "Xiao Yuezhi" is a female grandmaster.

He looked at her sister stupidly, "Sister, her surname is Xiao, her name is Yuezhi, right?" "It's not a word, is it?

His sister looked at him sympathetically, "She is Xiao Seventeen." ”

Li Yuxiang: "......"

The boy was completely confused.

…… Xiao Seventeen is a woman?

……

In the evening, the two sisters returned to the East Palace together. Li Yuxiang rubbed his sister to walk the palace road, entered the West Inner Garden from the west gate of the Daming Palace, and entered the Xuanfu Gate of the East Palace through the south end of the West Inner Garden, which is the Inner Court of the East Palace. Li Yuxiang saw that he had returned to the ground of the East Palace, his expression became active, he approached his sister, his elbows were limped, and he squeezed his eyebrows, "Sister, I have something to say." ”

Li Yuzhen glanced at him, and then laid down a True Qi Enchantment, "Let's talk about it." ”

Li Yuxiang's face was mysterious, "You and that Xiao Seventeen, there was a scandal before...... Really? ”

Li Yuzhen seemed to smile, "Really?" How about the fake? ”

Li Yuxiang was stunned for a moment, isn't this really fake for his sister to say?

The boy suddenly realized.

He glared at his sister in shock.

"Sister, you really ......"

Who is his sister? If it's fake, I don't bother to say a word at all, and I just look at you coldly, so that you can't wait to cut off your tongue, and you have never asked this, where will there be a sentence - "Really?" How about the fake? ”

…… This is clearly true!

Li Yuxiang felt that his brain was booming, and there was a thunder and lightning.

After a long mess, he found his voice back, "Sister, she is from the Xiao family." ”

His sister likes a woman, although Li Yuxiang was surprised, he didn't think it was a big deal, Emperor Zhaozong also set up a female empress back then! There are also many princesses and county lords in their royal family who like women, and his second aunt, Princess Anfu, and Su Shaowei, the right secretary of the Ministry of Industry, are well-known and enviable couples. Like Aunt Jiaguo's cousin Qunyu, she was married to Dugu Shilang before, but she left a year later, and now people say that she likes women, and she is still pursuing Murong Shi Niang at the Chrysanthemum Garden in September. - What does it matter if his sister likes women?

…… However, this woman can't be surnamed Xiao!

Li Yuxiang instantly felt that he was going to turn white.

The little boy's worried appearance made Li Yuzhen funny and a little heartwarming, raised his hand and patted his head, and rubbed his hair bun again, causing the young man to roll his eyes and jump to his feet in a hurry, "Sister, let's get down to business!" ”

"What are you anxious about?" Li Yuzhen's tone was slow, calming down the young man's impatience.

She raised her eyebrows and smiled, confident and domineering.

"I like it, what about the surname Xiao!"