April 210 BC

When Brother Qian brought me breakfast in the morning, she said that Wu Yi had returned to Xianyang Palace today.

"Why did Your Highness suddenly return to Xianyang Palace?" I put down my chopsticks, frowned and asked, "Didn't Your Highness say that you hate going back the most?"

"Today I have to go back, I heard that His Majesty the First Emperor will go out on patrol tomorrow. Brother Qian helped me fill a bowl of chicken soup and said with a smile: "His Royal Highness Xue also cared about His Royal Highness Wu Yi, when you moved to this small courtyard, I thought you and the prince had quarreled." ”

I smiled and didn't answer him.

Last June, on the third day after Zhao Gao's birthday banquet, I moved into this small courtyard on the west side of the Star Picking Garden. It was Wu Yi who made this decision, saying that he was not at ease when I slept next to him.

I was about to fall asleep when he suddenly made a noise.

"You can move to the nursing home tomorrow, I don't worry about letting you continue to sleep here. He frowned.

"What's not to worry about, I can't touch a single hair of you at all. "I think it's funny.

"It's not that I'm worried about you, I'm not worried about myself. He took out the knife under his pillow and looked at it, and said self-deprecatingly: "Originally, I developed this habit to prevent thieves, but I didn't expect that now I can't even hug my lover." ”

There was a trace of forbearance between his eyebrows and eyes, which made my heart quite sour, and I reached out to brush away the sorrow, but I reached out in the air and took it back.

The nursing home arranged by Wu Yi for me is very quiet, and there are many bamboos planted in the yard, one by one, which is very green and pleasing to the eyes, and it makes people feel comfortable and calm. Originally, Wu Yi had ordered someone to cut down these bamboos and plant hydrangeas, but in the end I stopped them. I told him: Bamboo nourishes the heart, and it is very suitable to plant it in this heart-nourishing courtyard.

I have lived in the Heart Raising House for nearly a year, and I rarely go out this year, except for being Wu Yi's favorite concubine to accompany him to attend some banquets of the prince, I have always stayed in the Star Garden. Wu Yi became obviously busy, he began to meet with officials and princes frequently, rarely stayed in the Star Picking Garden during the day, only when the bright moon was high, he would come to my courtyard to sit down, or drink a few bottles of wine, or drink a few bowls of tea.

I know that the reason why he is busy comes from Zhao Gao, although he gave up the opportunity to let me assassinate Zhao Gao last time, but he is as smart as Zhao Gao, and he must have investigated my details after that. In other words, although it was not specified, the assassination had been exposed, and now Zhao Gao regarded Wu Yi as a thorn in the flesh, and he just wanted to get rid of it as soon as possible. In order to protect himself, Wu Yi had no choice but to start befriending officials to expand his power, in order to compete with Zhao Gao, who was becoming more and more favored.

I gradually became his burden from his pawn.

On the days of the New Year's Festival, he did not go back to Xianyang Palace, but ordered people to hang lanterns in the garden, and bought a lot of explosive battles to come back, and personally put nearly a stick of incense for a while.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, he suddenly left me in his room uncharacteristically, saying that he wanted me to accompany him to keep the New Year.

I sat opposite him by the charcoal brazier, and he didn't speak, but occasionally plucked the charcoal with a copper rod. The red firelight reflected his face, making his originally bewitching face more charming, and it became more and more incomprehensible.

"Cher, are you having a good time?" he asked me suddenly. I looked up at him, but his eyes were still down, staring at the red-hot charcoal in the brazier.

"It's good. I picked up the pot of peach blossom wine in the wine pot, poured him a glass gently, and said with a light smile: "Your Highness treats me very well, and Brother Qian also takes great care of me, of course I am doing well." ”

"Would you like to stay forever?" he looked up at me, his dark eyes shining brightly in the firelight.

"I have nothing to rely on, if Your Highness is willing to take it in, I naturally have no reason to refuse. I handed him the wine.

"Even if Changxi comes back, he will stay forever?"

"Shhhh

The cup of peach blossom wine that had been handed to him slipped out of my hand and fell into the brazier, and the mist rose in front of me and him, and half of the charcoal fire in the brazier was extinguished. The room was filled with the aroma of peach blossom wine, and Wu Yi and I were silent.

"That's it. He used a copper rod to pull out the wet coals, added a few new pieces of coal, and said to himself, "You have no question of what you want." ”

The days passed like that, and when Brother Qian was holding a bouquet of kapok and preparing to insert it into the vase in my room, I finally realized that a year had passed.

At this time a year ago, I lost Xiaoxu and lost my longevity.

Ah Fang Gong is afraid that the kapok is also blooming now, is the kapok forest in the Zhao Palace Garden burning with a red cloud this year? Thinking so, I suddenly missed Qi Luoying and Xiangzi.

I left suddenly, and I was taken back to the Star Picking Garden by Wu Yi directly at the hairpin banquet. And my luggage and clothes were all specially sent back by Wu Yi, and I have never returned to Afang Palace, nor have I seen them.

It turns out that I haven't seen them for a year.

"Did Your Highness say when you will be back?" I asked Brother Qian.

"No, but I guess it will take at least a few days. Brother Qian raised her eyebrows, "His Royal Highness Xue is looking for His Highness Wu Yi for something?"

"It's nothing, I just want to go back to Afang Palace to have a look. I shook Brother Qian'er's hand with some requests: "Brother Qian'er, I haven't seen those sisters for a year, and now that His Royal Highness is gone, you can be confused this time." ”

Brother Qian looked embarrassed, she looked at me, and finally nodded.

Since tomorrow is the day of Yingzheng's patrol, there are hardly any street vendors on the streets, and even pedestrians are very few. I sat in the carriage and looked at the deserted outside the carriage and couldn't help but sigh.

This tour is Yingzheng's fifth tour. The first time he went out to patrol Longxi and Beidi, out of Jitou Mountain, and returned to China, which lasted one year; the second time he toured eastward, standing stones on the mountains, so as to demonstrate in the Six Kingdoms; the third time he traveled eastward to Yangwu and fighting wolf sand, and was frightened by the thieves, so he had to end hastily; the fourth time was the northern tour, he made the general Meng Tian send 300,000 troops to the north to attack Hu, and slightly took Henan to meet the Xiongnu. And now this time, I don't know what will happen.

He said that he wanted to restore the country, so wouldn't he be worried about Ying Zheng's life every day? In this way, Ying Zheng's current eastern tour was the best time for him, and he would definitely take action.

But now that the Qin State dominates the world, with tens of millions of soldiers, will he be ...... Boil the ocean?

"Your Highness Snow. Brother Qian tugged at my sleeve and asked me with a smile, "What are you thinking?

I opened my mouth to refuse, but it was more troublesome to explain, so I nodded.

"That's great. "Brother Qian is in a very good mood," His Royal Highness Wu Yi's intentions over the past year have not been in vain. Your Highness Xue, you know that Your Highness Wu Yi has never been so close to anyone before you. At first, he was reluctant to get along with people, and later because of his ruthlessness, many people did not dare to get along with him. I have been serving His Highness's food and daily life since I was a child in this Star Garden, but I have never seen him so happy this year. Your Highness Xue, you must be the one who His Highness Wu Yi hit. ”

"Who knows?" I smiled wryly, "human life is so long, and there are so many changes, who can accompany whom to the end?"

Brother Qian was stunned, and wanted to say something, but when she saw that I looked absent-minded, she fell silent again.