Chapter 35: The Palace

"Princess, drink tea."

"Bumper, good, good."

"Princess, eat a piece of pastry."

"Uh-huh, it's delicious."

"Princess, ...... this song?"

"Good sound, good sound, good ......"

Queen Yunjiang's gentle smile has always been on her face, as if that face was born with only this one expression. I grew up in the palace since I was a child, but like Queen Yunjiang, I haven't seen anyone who can always wear a smiling mask without getting tired.

I smiled and picked up the teacup, covered my face with wide sleeves, pretended to drink tea, and whispered to Bai Tingyu: "Isn't she tired?" ”

In the entire hall, only me and the queen sitting on it pretended, Bai Tingyu didn't bother to pretend at all, and the whole person sat lazily on the side, not looking at the queen.

"I see you had a good time chatting with her, didn't you?" As he spoke, he pointed to a plate of dates in front of me, "Get me two more." ”

The queen on the seat seemed to hear it, and when she looked at it, I put down my sleeves, pulled out a smile, took two dates, and handed them to Bai Tingyu, "Here you go, you eat slowly, if you eat too many dates, it is easy to get angry." ”

"The princess is right, the king of mercy should pay attention, don't be too greedy."

Bai Tingyu didn't seem to hear her speak, the two dates went down to his stomach, and he spit out casually, and pointed to the dates in front of me: "Two more." ”

I tried my best to keep the smile on my face from disappearing, but the movements in my hands could no longer hold my strength, and the two dates were stuffed into his hands, "The queen has told you, don't be too greedy." ”

Bai Tingyu pointed to the dates, "Two more." ”

The queen still looked at us with a smile on her face, and there was a little envy in her eyes: "I think back then, the queen and the king were so affectionate. King Min and the princess reminded me of when I was younger. ”

Affectionate? The kind that wants each other to die quickly?

I held back the emotions in my heart and continued to flatter: "The queen laughed, the queen is still very young. ”

"Yes," she said, stroking her cheek and smiling brightly, looking a little shy.

"Nature, nature." I picked up the teacup and drank tea, while I couldn't help but talk to Bai Tingyu: "You're not fooling me, are you?" Is this really the queen of your Yunjiang? "I always felt that this queen was no different from the sisters in the Feng Accord in her gestures, and she was not at all like the queen of a country, without any majesty.

"And what do you think a queen should look like?" Bai Tingyu's voice was very loud, and the queen looked at her suspiciously, and I hurriedly explained: "I just told Zifu that you are very kind. When I said the word "Zifu", I vaguely felt the disgust of the people around me.

"Our king likes to be gentle." The queen said softly, the smile on her face seemed to turn into a puddle of warm water. Even a woman and I will be melted away by this spreading soft water.

I struggled in this soft water: "The king is so blessed, so blessed." ”

At this time, an attendant walked to the queen's side in a panic and whispered a few words to her, the queen's face was still smiling, but there was a trace of doubt in her eyebrows, she stood up, Bai Tingyu and I had to stand up with her, and there was a man's hoarse cough and angry reprimand outside the hall.

A man with a withered face was helped in, and the queen on the throne changed her previous smile and walked over with worried eyes and hugged him.

Bai Tingyu and I exchanged glances, and were about to bow down, but the King of Yunjiang lowered his head and stretched out his hand, without even looking at us.

The queen said, "The king is not feeling well today, so the children should retreat first." ”

The incense stick on the table is not half burned, so it is driven out? I had doubts, but Bai Tingyu on the side didn't say anything, said "yes" and turned around and left.

Outside the hall, Bai Tingyu was in a good mood, the gloom on his face disappeared, and I kept a distance from him, and I didn't want to communicate with him.

"Do you know what happened to the king?" He spoke to himself, and seemed to be in a happy mood.

"Today, there are courtiers who report that there are candles and underground gambling houses. The scale is extraordinary, and even many dignitaries have patronized it. ”

I stopped.

"The king must not believe it, who dares to risk his life for the crime of killing his head? But guess what? Bai Tingyu stopped, turned around and showed a flamboyant smile: "Cao Fangde, the captain of the guards, handed over a debt book of the gambling house, and also caught a woman who worked in the gambling house. ”

He paused and said, "Such a big casino is at the foot of the capital, who do you think will be behind it?" You say, what can you do to make the people behind the scenes show their feet? ”

He gradually approached: "Xu Chaodui, I have to thank you, if it weren't for you, my subordinates would not have had a chance to have such a talent." ”

I stared at his chin and sneered, "How funny, thank me?" ”

Didn't seem to guess that I would be this reaction, "What do you mean?" ”

"It's not interesting, I just want to tell you that you look down on me, go and thank the person you deserve."

………………

"If I choose to escape now, I won't do it, okay?"

Under the white undershirt, there was a deep cut, I was not good at school, in my opinion, this is a waste.

Chu Zhilan was very calm: "I can save my life, don't worry, at most, I will lose an arm." ”

I nodded indifferently.

"What do you mean by an arm? Half an arm, no, it's a hair I don't want to lose! Li Yang lay on the bed in pain and howled.

I grabbed Chu Zhilan's hand, "Ah Lan, let's stop doing it." ”

"Fuck off! Lao Tzu's arm is going to be wasted, and now you say that if you don't do it, you won't do it? ”

Chu Zhilan pressed him on the bed, "You lie down, otherwise you may lose more than your arm." Then he took my hand and smiled: "I got on the thief ship and went to the center of the river." "It's just just going to do it or jumping into the water.

"Can the gambling house abolish the King of Li?"

Sweat streaked across Li Yang's pale face, and I poured out basins of blood and water, and I was going to be numb.

Bai Tingyu took a look halfway, his face was gloomy, and he didn't say a word. Li Yang propped up his weak body, just to confess to his master.

"It's me who is reckless, Brother Wen told me that there is a master in the mansion, but there is no obstacle all the way, I relaxed my vigilance, I don't want to be attacked by a swordsman, fortunately, Brother Wen is here."

Chu Zhilan didn't say anything, and handed me a basin of blood water, "The blood has stopped, this is the last basin, it's hard." I looked at it with a blank face. It's okay, it's not hard, I can bring Senior Brother Li to death by blood.

When I came back with the basin, the atmosphere in the room was obviously wrong, and the most wrong thing was Li Yang, who was paralyzed on the bed, weak and helpless, with a trace of fear in his eyes. Chu Zhilan's face was expressionless, showing a little gentle smile when he saw me, and Bai Tingyu's face seemed to be even more ugly than when I left.

I helped Li Yang to lie down, and tucked the quilt for him, he looked at me with a frightened face, and I pointed out the door: "Bai Tingyu, you let me out, didn't you see the children scared you stupid?" ”

Bai Tingyu roared in a low voice: "This is my house!" ”

Chu Zhilan retorted calmly: "Who are you yelling at?" ”

Bai Tingyu wanted to speak and stopped, as if he wanted to say something to me, looked at Chu Zhilan beside me, swallowed the words again, and left angrily.

I took out a quilt from the collapse and put it on Li Yang's body, and the snow with the candle fell for three days.

"Is the daughter of Wanhu Villa beautiful?"

"I didn't look closely, I don't know."

I glared at Chu Zhilan, who suddenly accosted him, "I didn't ask you." Lying on the bed, the poor Li Yang rolled his eyes, "You talk to me?" ”

"You don't want the beauty tent to be warm, don't you regret it?"

Li Yang suddenly smiled stupidly: "I'm not worthy of her, it's okay, I didn't have the heart to agree as soon as I was hot." ”

In the afternoon, I pulled Chu Zhilan to have a snowball fight, and he told me that Yunjiang had not had such a big snow for many years. I told him that in the Imperial Mausoleum, the snow is heavier every year, and the thick snow can bury people in it.

"Every year in the snow disaster, the court has to spend a lot of silver, and my father's worst mood is in winter." Spending money for the New Year and disaster relief, ordinary people may not think that the palace will also be troubled because of lack of money.

"I don't know if the snow in the Imperial Tomb is as heavy as in previous years this year."

I picked up the snow on the ground, my hands were red, but it was hot, Chu Zhilan was like a flexible rabbit, I couldn't hit him all the time, and I was sweating a snowy day. I pinched a snowball, it was huge, as big as my head.

I held it and handed it to Chu Zhilan,

"Oh, the large Night Yin Bead, for you."

Chu Zhilan took it and held the "Night Yin Pearl" with one hand: "What is this?" Your dowry? It's also not very big. He gestured to my head, "It's about the size of your head." ”

As soon as I said this, I suddenly couldn't look directly at the snowball in his hand, and I felt that the snowball had really become my own head, and he was playing with it in his hand.

I rushed over and smashed the "Night Yin Pearl" with one palm: "This is not big enough, I'll pinch a big one for you, it's as big as Bai Tingyu's head, and the night can illuminate the entire Night Yin Bead of the candle." ”

All the plans seemed to have fallen silent with this silent snow, Li Yang's body gradually improved, and his arms were not useless, in his own words, he couldn't hold the sword anyway, and he could still call the pulse.

During this period, Director Yu also came to visit once, and he talked to me for a long time as soon as he came, and he exchanged a few words with Li Yang. Bai Tingyu never appeared in front of me again, and everyone in the Minwang Mansion was not allowed to enter the Lanfang Garden where we lived, so there was no maid, Li Yang was a patient, the patient was the biggest, I was the maid, and Chu Zhilan was the maid.

I clearly knew that under the calm were the surging waves, Bai Tingyu was missing, Chu Zhilan was silent, and no one told me what was happening now. I was watching "Yunjiang Medicine" by the stove while decocting medicine to Li Yang. After the snow melted, Chu Zhilan was worried that I had nothing to do and was bored, so he actually asked me to memorize the medicine and do spot checks, I didn't take it to heart, he couldn't force me anyway, but it was too boring!

I memorized it for three days in a row, and Chu Zhilan's eyes changed when he looked at me.

"Qingyi, you're very powerful." He took my hand, a little smug. I gently pushed him away: "I'm not your student, I have a master, okay." ”

"I mean worthy of my wife." He hugged my waist, put down the book in his hand, and lit the incense with one hand.

"You take it easy, don't hold it so tight every time."

"You fucking fart!"

I slapped it with another palm, and Chu Zhilan quickly dodged it.

In the middle of the night, a chill attached to the body, and a palpitation. It's the third night in a row that I've woken up. My heart felt like it was about to jump out, and I held on to my chest, my heart beating like a drum. Eventually, I got scared.

I gently pushed Chu Zhilan, he opened his eyes, and it looked very clear in the soft candlelight.

"You...... I didn't sleep. ”

"Sleep, didn't you call me?"

I pointed to my heart: "I suddenly panicked here, every time it was at night, three days, uncomfortable." ”

Warm fingers gripped my wrist and stayed there for a long time.

"Are you cold?"

I stared at Chu Zhilan's eyes and nodded slightly. "Cold, I suddenly felt very cold, my heart was very panicked, and I woke up."

"Dreaming?"

"No, I don't remember." After saying that, I thought about it for a while, and I really don't remember.

"You're dreaming." Chu Zhilan said with certainty: "You are still talking in your dreams, I'll listen to it." ”

But I really don't remember.

"It's nothing, you're just not quiet."

Restless? I fell asleep this night, how do I know if my heart is still or not? I had a gut feeling that Chu Zhilan was lying to me.

He looked at me with a hint of inquiry in his eyes, and his warm hand was placed on my waist and he took it into his arms. After being stared at for a long time, I felt inexplicably weak and subconsciously retreated.

"Is it fun in the palace?"

I asked suspiciously, "Why do you suddenly ask this at night?" Chu Zhilan didn't answer, so I had to be honest: "That's it." ”

"Is it fun to have a royal tomb or a candle?"

I was confused, and I didn't know what kind of nerves this brother had suddenly made in the evening. "It's all good."

"I'll take you back later, okay?"

When I heard this, I immediately became excited: "Come back to the Imperial Tomb with me?" Of course it's good, I'll do it when I go back, I'll take you around the Imperial Tomb City, there are a lot of fun and delicious ......"

I didn't dare to continue, although Chu Zhilan's face did not change, I always felt that he was in a bad mood.

"Why didn't you say it?"

Don't dare, don't dare, I don't know how to provoke you, we don't know, we don't dare ask.

He burst out laughing, pinched my face, and his hand was so strong that I couldn't laugh at all. It's me who comes to comfort when Yin Yin is uncomfortable, and I don't understand what's so funny about it.

"Then say okay, when the dust settles, I'll take you back to the Imperial Tomb." He stopped laughing and held me in his arms, "If you keep going, you can go home." ”

Go home? I stuck it in his neck socket and grinned: "It's been a long time since I left my home, so I don't want to go back." ”