Inside the Luanfeng Palace.

Huiyi was sitting upright on the soft collapse with her head lowered, fiddling with the purse in her hand with stitches and threads.

She has never been good at female red, and she originally embroidered one before, but the pattern is really ugly. Anyway, I had nothing to do, so I simply learned a few stitches from Zilan and started embroidering again.

It was beginning to snow outside the window, and the cold breath filled the air, and the goose-feather snow fell lightly on the ground, on the treetops, and on every piece of rubble.

The earth gradually covered with layers of snow.

From time to time, Huiyi glanced out of the window to see the snowflakes flying lightly in the air.

The silver charcoal in the charcoal stove was crackling, and the boiling teapot next to it was steaming.

Outside, it was cold and windy, and snow was falling.

The house is warm like spring, and the years are quiet.

Zilan added a few pieces of silver charcoal to the charcoal stove, and peeled another fresh orange and put it in front of Huiyi.

"Princess, the sweet orange that has just been paid tribute is sweet and fresh, you can taste it."

Huiyi glanced at it and said lightly: "Put it away, my purse hasn't been embroidered yet." ”

Zilan said: "Didn't the princess embroider one before?" Why do you still embroider? As he spoke, he leaned his head and glanced over, and found that he was embroidering the same pattern again, but the needle and thread obviously hadn't grown much......

Huiyi said: "The embroidery last time was too ugly, and I was not satisfied." ”

Zilan said in her heart: This embroidery is not good......

However, Zilan could only think about it in her heart, but she didn't dare to say anything to hit her, so she had to remind euphemistically: "Princess, have you forgotten the acupuncture method that the slave taught you before?" This should not be embroidered here, it should be embroidered with double strands. ”

"And here, you embroidered wrong, how can you embroider like this, the needle and thread are messy, you look at the eyes of this mandarin duck, they are all embroidered with their mouths here......"

"Ouch, my little aunt, how did the wings of this mandarin duck come to the buttocks? Princess, did you embroider with your eyes closed? ”

As soon as the words came out, Zilan knew that she had said the wrong thing, and sure enough, as soon as she raised her eyes, she saw Huiyi looking at herself resentfully.

Zilan hurriedly said: "Forget it, princess, you are a golden body, you can't do this kind of rough work, let the slave embroider it for you, and make sure to embroider a lifelike mandarin duck." ”

Huiyi raised her hand and said, "Don't!" I'm just going to embroider one myself! If you embroider a lot of insincerity. ”

Zilan muttered: "What was given to Lord Bai at the beginning, isn't it different that the slave maid embroidered it?" ”

Huiyi saw her muttering in her mouth, and said, "Dead girl, what bad words are you saying behind my back?" ”

Zilan changed her words and said: "The slave didn't say anything, the slave wanted to ask you, who is this purse embroidered for?" ”

Hui Yi said: "I haven't thought about it yet, I will give it to whoever pleases my eyes." ”

Zilan pretended to be surprised and said, "Huh? It turned out that it was not given to Lord Qi? The slave maid thought that the princess had embroidered it for Lord Qi. ”

Huiyi said: "It's not for him!" ”

Zilan said: "The slave maid thought about it, it shouldn't be for Lord Qi, the slave maid heard that Lord Qi likes magnolia and doesn't like mandarin ducks." ”

Huiyi said: "What does my father-in-law like about him, dead girl, you have nothing to do, right?" ”..

Zilan said: "If you have something to do, the slave maid will go and pick a few snow plums for the princess." So saying, he turned and left.

As soon as Zilan left, Huiyi dismantled all the embroidered needles and threads, flipped over and over with the embroidery samples, and muttered to herself: "Dead girl!" Don't say it sooner! The mandarin duck that has made me embroider for so long! ”

In the end, she found the style of the magnolia flower in the sample book, and said with a smile: "It's still tasteful, the mandarin duck is ugly and difficult to embroider, this magnolia flower is much simpler!" ”

She embroidered extremely seriously, and if she made a mistake, she dismantled and re-embroidered, and she always embroidered until she was satisfied.

However, after the embroidery, she hadn't thought about how to give it to Qi Ming.

She thought about it, and caught a glimpse of a few night pearls on the candlestick.

She raised the corners of her mouth.

Isn't there an excuse?

He gave her the pearl of the night, and she gave him a purse. If he doesn't take it, he has to take it! If she dared to be like Bai Yutang and throw her purse into the lake behind her back, she would smash the night pearl he gave him in front of him!

Thinking of this, Huiyi couldn't help but feel happy.

Then, her fingers hurt, and when she lowered her eyes, she saw that it was a needle that pierced her finger, and a small drop of blood soon appeared on the tip of her finger.

She frowned slightly, took the pricked finger in her mouth, and sucked it.

At this moment, Zilan ran in from outside like a gust of wind, looking panicked.

"Princess ......"

Huiyi raised her eyes to look at Zilan, and when she saw her flustered face, she couldn't help but tighten her heart, and said in a deep voice, "What's wrong?" Panicked? ”

Zilan walked up to Huiyi with heavy footsteps and said, "Slave maid...... The slave maid heard about it...... The Great Song Dynasty was defeated, and Xiling sent envoys to ask you to marry Xiling and your relatives, otherwise, Xiling Iron Cavalry will level the entire Great Song Dynasty......"

The purse in his hand fell to the ground, and Huiyi said, "Has my father agreed?" ”

Zilan said with red eyes: "Answer...... Promised. ”

"Later, the decree of marriage and marriage will be delivered here......"

Huiyi's head was empty for a moment, and she was silent for a long time, staring blankly at the snowflakes falling outside the window.

I didn't notice that the snow outside the house had already accumulated a thick layer.

The snow was so white, so white......

Zilan hesitated for a long time, but couldn't help but say, "Princess...... Otherwise, run away, escape from the palace, and escape as far away as possible. ”

"The people of Xiling are brutal and unkind, and your past is tantamount to sending you to death! The emperor wants to exchange your life for the short-term peace of the Great Song Dynasty......"

Hui Yi said with a hollow look in her eyes: "The imperial city is so big, but where can I escape?" I'm a princess, isn't it my fate to exchange peace for peace? ”

originally thought that her father loved her and that she could get rid of the fate of being a princess in all dynasties, but she didn't expect that she still couldn't escape her fate after all!

She lowered her eyes to look at the purse that had fallen on the ground, and suddenly laughed silently.

What is she hoping for?

She leaned over slowly, picked up the purse on the ground, pinched it in her hand and looked at it, not knowing what she was thinking, and finally, she got up, walked to the charcoal stove, and threw the purse into the charcoal stove.

Zilan said: "Why did the princess burn it?" ”

Huiyi said: "There is no meaning, everything is meaningless......"

The purse was engulfed in flames in an instant, but Zilan could still see the pattern on the purse at a glance, which was clearly a magnolia flower born towards the sun.

Zilan pondered for a moment and said, "Princess, you can go with Lord Qi, he ...... He's waiting for you in the Imperial Garden right now......"

Hui Yi looked at Zilan in astonishment and said, "What did you say?" ”

Zilan said: "Lord Qi wants to take you away, he asked the slave to come to you to pass the word, if the princess can trust him, he will leave the imperial city with him, he said, if you marry Xiling, you will definitely die, Xiling is treacherous and cunning, and will not keep his promise......"

"The emperor has no choice now, so he wants to sacrifice you to go to Xiling and his relatives, in exchange for a short period of peace in the Great Song Dynasty."

"But Lord Qi said that peace is not a long-term solution, and he believes that the prince will definitely turn defeat into victory!"