Mu Jingzhao stood beside Jiang Ning, lowered his head and looked at her for a long time, his eyes fixed on the blue and black under Jiang Ning's eyes.

During this time, he saw Jiang Ning's hard work in his eyes, and now seeing that even if she was asleep, she couldn't help but work hard for the birthday of the concubine, Mu Jingzhao's eyes showed a little distress.

If you want to say that Jiang Ning is working hard for Liu Jinfu, he can see it all, but if you want to say that these two are just general friends, Mu Jingzhao will not believe it.

But...... Mu Jingzhao looked at Jiang Ning's sleeping face and gradually became distracted.

The surroundings were silent, only the footsteps of the palace maids and eunuchs coming and going, with the warm breeze of spring with a slight smell of water, and in the depths of the breeze, there seemed to be a little fragrance of magnolia flowers.

The spring sun fell on Jiang Ning's forehead appropriately, like a bright mole. Mu Jingzhao's gaze fell on her face with that ray of sunshine.

He thought that if Jiang Ning was awake, she would probably start chattering again and start calling herself to help her do all kinds of work.

Mu Jingzhao secretly sighed, sure enough, when she was asleep, she was much cuter than when she was awake.

His gaze scrutinized her almost blemish-bare, pale girlish face.

Why is it that someone can understand the world and be sincere at the same time?

Mu Jingzhao didn't understand.

He couldn't see so many puzzles on Jiang Ning's body clearly, and he gradually couldn't see himself clearly when he got to the back.

He sometimes asks himself repeatedly, why is there so many puzzles and dangers in this person, but he can't help but get so close to her?

But no matter how much he asked himself, he didn't get a clear answer.

Just like he also didn't understand why he was always reluctant to look for Concubine Zhenning.

Mu Jingzhao's thoughts wandered, and his gaze slowly fell on the half-pruned magnolia branch on Jiang Ning's side.

He sighed slightly, squatted down, and took the scissors from her hand.

Unexpectedly, his action made Jiang Ning's body tilt suddenly, and the whole person fell towards his body.

Mu Jingzhao was shocked, and subconsciously wanted to reach out to grab her arm, but he was worried that the scissors in his hand would accidentally hurt her.

In a hurry, he could only hold her arm with his wrist to stabilize it, and then sat down immediately, grabbed Jiang Ning's arm and let her lean on his shoulder.

Even after such a toss, Jiang Ning still fell asleep, and so many days of hard work seemed to have drained all her energy, making her whole body fall into a kind of self-escaping dormancy.

The surroundings were quiet, and occasionally a few palace maids and eunuchs hurried by with things in their hands, and when they saw each other snuggling up to each other in their positions, a tacit and ill-intentioned smile appeared on their faces, and then they left in a hurry.

After such an experience, everyone in the palace is afraid that they have already decided that Jiang Ning will be in charge of this harem sooner or later.

Mu Jingzhao was carelessly pruning the flower branches, as if he didn't pay attention to the strange gaze of the people who came and went to the palace.

After Jiang Ning's many exercises, he seems to have trained his face to be indestructible.

He quietly pruned the flower branches, and there was the sound of Jiang Ning's steady and soothing breathing in his ears, and the faint fragrance of flowers was surging in the air.

Countless movements of lowering his head and turning his face sideways, Mu Jingzhao's cheeks rubbed against the top of Jiang Ning's hair, and the tingling sensation made him a little uneasy.

Soon, Mu Jingzhao pruned all the flower branches, he put the scissors in his hand, but there were also redundant movements, just sat quietly, watching the palace people in front of him come and go, feeling the spring light flowing, and smelling the fragrance of magnolia flowers in the wind.

Gradually, he seemed to lose track of time.

This warm and comfortable feeling made Mu Jingzhao fall into it, and gradually became a little sleepy, and after yawning a few times in succession, he finally closed his eyes slightly and leaned on Jiang Ning's head.

Just when Mu Jingzhao's consciousness was about to be withdrawn, Lin Zheng was dressed in black and walked quickly from the side of the pavilion, he looked at the two people who were snuggling up to each other and drowsy, and turned his face away lightly.

"Your Majesty." Lin Zheng bowed and saluted, and his voice was not loud or small.

Mu Jingzhao's eyes that had just closed slowly opened again, but there was no extra movement in his body, "What's the matter?" ”

Lin Zheng's face did not change, "The Prime Minister, General Liu, and Shen Shangshu have already entered the palace and are walking towards here. ”

Mu Jingzhao turned his face slightly and looked at Jiang Ning beside him, "I know, I will send Concubine Ning back to the palace first, and I will go to greet him." As he spoke, he held Jiang Ning's shoulder with one hand, stood up, and tried to take Jiang Ning away.

Unexpectedly, at the moment when he reached out to hug Jiang Ning, her eyes widened instantly, and she struggled to get up from Mu Jingzhao's arms.

"Ha, it's okay, the concubine is fine, the concubine can go by herself."

Holding Jiang Ning's hand, he jumped into the air, Mu Jingzhao's face still didn't have any expression change, he turned his head to look at Lin Zheng who was standing aside, and then withdrew his gaze.

Xu is because she has just slept for a long time, Jiang Ning's face still has some traces of being pressed out, and on the originally neatly combed bun, the strands of hair are a little disobediently cocked, coupled with her ignorance, it looks inexplicably a little cute.

Mu Jingzhao saw that she looked like she was in a hurry, but he didn't say anything, but reached out a little unconsciously to straighten out her unkempt hair.

As if sensing Mu Jingzhao's movements, Jiang Ning's eyes widened in horror, and then his body unconsciously shrank back, avoiding the other party's action of arranging his hair.

Mu Jingzhao paused, but did not withdraw it, just slightly turned his head to look at Lin Zheng behind him, and took advantage of the situation to land his hand on Jiang Ning's shoulder and patted it gently.

"You woke up just in time, the guests are here, you go with me to greet you."

Jiang Ning's movements in her hand paused, and she thought a little unconsciously in her mind, it was already an exception for her to organize the birthday banquet for the concubine, and she went with the emperor to greet the guests, is this really a compliant distance?

Although she didn't know what contradictions had arisen between the queen and the emperor, she was very sure that if she continued like this, she would definitely be hated by the queen.

However, Mu Jingzhao seemed to have a different understanding of her hesitation, and without waiting for Jiang Ning to agree, he grabbed her wrist and dragged Jiang Ning's whole person away.

The height gap between the two of them is huge, and Mu Jingzhao's steps are huge, almost forcibly dragging Jiang Ning's whole person forward.

His strength was extremely heavy, and Jiang Ning's wrist hurt slightly, and when he left the pavilion, he turned his head and glanced at Lin Zheng, that gaze seemed to be jealous and provocative.

(End of chapter)