Chapter 138: Return Gift
Late at night, Jiang Ning lay on the bed in the dormitory, but he couldn't sleep anyway.
Her mind kept echoing the words Mu Jingzhao said not long ago, "The horse who was given this medicine will rest until death." ”
"Till death, Fang Xiu."
Jiang Ning's heart became more and more uneasy, and finally he turned over and got out of bed, and went to the stable with a piece of clothing on his hand.
In the middle of the night, there was silence in the stables, a few oil lamps were lit alone, and the occasional unconscious purr of the horses in the air was heard quietly.
Jiang Ning's movements were extremely slow, and as she walked forward, she couldn't stop looking around, as if she was expecting something.
In fact, she knows better than anyone else that she can't come back from the snow, and the snow won't appear again, but she always has a trace of luck in her heart.
Perhaps, maybe such a spiritual horse, it is impossible to say that he will be able to find the direction of his return.
Comforting herself, she kept walking in the direction of the snow treading stable, until she was about ten meters away from the stable, and a somewhat thin back appeared in front of her.
The back figure was dressed in white, with his hair scattered, and his whole figure was slender and thin, looking like a sense of weakness and weakness.
The oil lamp was dim, stretching the figure long, long.
The night breeze suddenly poured into her white clothes unscrupulously, blowing the wide robe to the side.
The slender figure under the robe was gradually revealed, and the well-defined outline added a bit of perseverance and stubbornness to her.
Almost with a glance, Jiang Ning recognized that the person was Liu Jinfu.
She suddenly felt as if her breath had stopped for a moment.
It was late when they returned to the palace today, and she wanted to apologize to Liu Jinfu in person, but she couldn't find the right time.
Jiang Ning even felt a little lucky, she looked at Liu Jinfu's indifferent look today, and even comforted herself in her heart and felt that maybe Liu Jinfu was not so sad.
It wasn't until now, in this situation, that she finally realized how wrong she had been.
Jiang Ning's head slowly drooped, and she suddenly felt a little weak.
The two of them stood silently one after the other, not knowing how long it had been.
The noisy cicada chirping of the summer night was suddenly mixed with two footsteps, and when Jiang Ning heard the sound, he saw a small servant leading a horse in the direction of Liu Jinfu.
The little guy was dressed in very simple coarse cloth clothes, and his face looked quite familiar.
She thought about it carefully for a moment, and finally realized that the person who came was the one next to Liu Bing during today's hunt.
And what really caught Jiang Ning's attention was a horse behind him.
The horse's whole body was snow-white, there was no impurities on its body, its fur was oily and slippery, and as it moved forward, the muscles of the horse's body flowed slightly, which was worth a lot of money at a glance.
The little guy led the horse and stopped not far in front of Liu Jinfu, and when he saw the person in front of him stop, the horse raised his head slightly, and a pair of cunning eyes looked at Liu Jinfu in front of him with some curiosity.
Jiang Ning's eyes widened instantly, and he was stepping on snow.
But then, she shook her head in self-denial, no, not treading snow, this horse is far smaller than treading snow, and its eyes look more young and immature than treading snow.
Even people like Jiang Ning and Liu Jinfu who are very familiar with treading snow have to look carefully to find the difference.
If the man was not familiar with stepping on the snow, I am afraid that he would not be able to see any difference between the two horses at all.
The dejected look in Jiang Ning's eyes eased slightly, not to mention that the horse itself is in excellent condition, and the price will not be low, just because it is difficult to distinguish the truth from the snow, I don't know how much manpower, material and financial resources have been spent.
The little guy didn't know what to say to Liu Jinfu, and raised his hand to hand over the reins of stepping on the snow.
Liu Jinfu never moved, and he didn't seem to have any intention of taking it.
The two didn't know how long they had been deadlocked with each other, and the little guy's face was full of embarrassment, and Liu Jinfu always had his back to Jiang Ning, so that people couldn't see the expression on her face.
In the end, the little guy led the horse away, and Liu Jinfu returned to his previous appearance, standing alone in front of the stable that was treading the snow.
Jiang Ning looked at her back, took two steps forward with some hesitation, and then retreated, she sighed heavily, and finally turned around and went back to the cold palace.
On the second day, early in the morning, Jiang Ning had just finished freshening up when she saw Mu Jingzhao jumping into her room with an excited face.
Jiang Ning, who was drinking porridge, was taken aback by him, and didn't make any other moves, just lowered his head and continued to drink porridge, "What's the emperor's business?" ”
Mu Jingzhao had long been accustomed to her lukewarm attitude, and beckoned Zheliu to bring him a bowl of chopsticks to serve porridge, and while drinking it in a hurry, he told Jiang Ning vaguely.
"I'll tell you, although it's true that the harvest of this hunt is not good, there are still some good things."
Jiang Ning didn't say anything, but just sent porridge to his mouth without a match.
She didn't have the heart to pay attention to anything that was prey or not prey now, and the figure of the stable where Liu Jinfu stood alone last night always lingered in her mind.
She thought again and again that she always had to go to Liu Jinfu's palace to say something to her, but now that it had come to this, what could she do?
"Hey, can you please stop taking me so seriously."
Mu Jingzhao's heart was full of joy, he glanced at Jiang Ning with some dissatisfaction, drank all the rice porridge in his hand in one gulp, and put the bowl on the table heavily.
"What's the matter?"
It's okay that Jiang Ning didn't ask, but this question made Mu Jingzhao even more angry.
"You're getting more and more unspoken right now."
Seeing that Mu Jingzhao's face turned blue and white, Jiang Ning finally realized his faux pas.
Even if she usually gets along with Mu Jingzhao, no matter how big or small, but the other party is the emperor above 10,000 people under one person, and she still can't be too uninformed.
She swallowed the porridge in her mouth with difficulty, slowly put down the porcelain bowl in her hand, and smiled slightly, "The emperor came to find the concubine, but what is the matter?" ”
Such a sentence obviously did not have any comfort for Mu Jingzhao, but he was a little relieved by the word "concubine" in Jiang Ning's mouth.
"I've got a good thing for you." ‘
What flashed in Jiang Ning's mind was the white horse last night.
Could it be that the emperor still wants to go with the son of the Liu family?
Seeing Jiang Ning like this, Mu Jingzhao stopped talking nonsense, took out a wooden box from his arms, and handed it to Jiang Ning, "This is a rare and rare thing, if you take this little thing, it will be regarded as a return gift from me to you as the whistle yesterday." ”
(End of chapter)