Liu Qingshu couldn't get out of bed with a leg injury, so she couldn't have dinner together.

So only Xin Wei sat at the red sandalwood round table in Weiyang Palace with Shen Xiao, watching the maidservants bring up exquisite dishes one after another, and seeing all the maidservants retreat.

Shouldn't someone be on the side of the dishes?

Xin Wei didn't ask, but silently picked up a dish with chopsticks.

Shen Xiao paused as he muffled his movements of eating and drinking, and looked at her in a little surprise.

Xin Wei stopped her chopsticks at a loss, not knowing what she had done wrong.

"You didn't eat this before." Shen Xiao said.

Xin Wei remembered that when she was a child, she refused to eat mutton because she belonged to sheep. I don't really understand what the zodiac is, and only regard the sheep as his patron saint.

But now, she doesn't think like that anymore.

When the mutton was eaten, Xin Wei asked, "Did the emperor know the concubine in the past?" ”

Shen Xiao took a sip of wine, his complicated eyes fell on the yellow stewed mutton, and he groaned in a low voice: "Xiaochi is still the same, the colorful mandarin ducks are playful, and things are not people." ”

Xin Wei lifted the celadon white peony wine jug and filled him with a glass.

"Take advantage of the people in front of you."

Shen Xiao took the wine glass and looked at her with an uncertain expression: "Cherish the people in front of you...... Who are you talking about? ”

"Naturally, it should be Concubine Liu," Xin Wei said, "Isn't the emperor also deeply fond of Concubine Liu?" ”

"Concubine Liu?"

He smiled, drank all the wine in the cup, looked at her and said, "They all said that Concubine Liu was like you, but I didn't think it was before, but today it is a little similar." ”

Xin Wei's eyebrows skipped a beat.

Originally, Liu Qingshu was dignified and beautiful, but today she is miserable, scarred, and embarrassed, is this similar to her?

What is this, criticizing her appearance?

Shen Xiao's eyes sank slightly, his words changed suddenly, and he said lightly: "You are pulling the imperial sister to calculate and calculate, what do you want to do?" ”

Xin Wei stood up and stood to the side in fear.

"Why did the emperor say this? How dare the concubines calculate the emperor? ”

Shen Xiao leaned back, the corners of his lips were frivolous, and he looked at her with playful eyes: "You can ask the imperial sister to go to Fengyi Palace to fish for people a few days ago, but you have to wait for Concubine Liu to be tortured, so that when she thinks that there is only one way to die, then come to the rescue, you are a desperate person, so you will be especially grateful for saving your life?" ”

He can see a lot.

From sending Chu Ying out, to the poison of the stew pot, to today's Fengyi Palace's hearing to testify for Concubine Liu, even if the soldiers were dangerous, she finally benefited.

Or for favors, or to intensify the dispute between Yong'an Palace and Weiyang Palace, what does she want to do?

Xin Wei said in her heart, he is really the heart of a villain. Even if the queen was beaten into a move, and when the people were mentioned to the emperor, he looked for tolerance to show the grace of the saint, so that General Liu and Liu Qingshu were grateful.

He was so calculating that he would speculate on her so much.

"It takes time to find out the ins and outs, collect evidence, and testify as an interpreter. The eldest princess must convince people with reason when she does things, so she will wait until today. Xin Wei's eyes were deep, and she said in a low tone, "The concubine calculates the emperor, isn't it an ant shaking the tree?" ”

Shen Xiao smiled: "You used to be high-flying, and there was no one in Jinling City who could make you soft." Now your knees are weak, and your mind is more. ”

Xin Wei thought to herself, knees are worth a few taels, if my father knew how to lower his eyebrows and pleasing his eyes earlier, and he didn't do everything in one body, he wouldn't have made countless enemies in the court, and now he can probably stay in Jinling City safely and have a place.

"The emperor can take the life of the concubine in a few words," Xin Wei pretended to be pretentious, "The emperor should not scare the concubine." ”

The more she gestured like this, the more Shen Xiao felt a breath in her throat, and she couldn't go up or down.

I had to take a sip of wine and said coldly: "You really think that I will always tolerate you." ”

"Naturally, no," Xin Wei put away her pretentious tone and said with a wry smile, "I used to think that the love of children was like a blue sea and a blue sky, and it could tolerate all kinds of difficulties and dangers, but I was wrong." Human affairs, the road of the world, only the word of affection, is the most useless. ”

Since she couldn't pass perfunctorily, she didn't pretend anymore. Isn't he going to hear the truth? Then she'll tell the truth.

But does he like to hear the truth?

Shen Xiao's hand was slightly stiff and put the white jade wine glass on the table, looking at the moonlight outside the open window, her former bright and arrogant appearance appeared in front of her, and her eyes couldn't help but be dark.

The picture in her mind suddenly turned, and her eyes, which were originally as bright as pearls, became as dark as a cold night, with a light of contempt and determination, looking at him coldly, as if countless ice vertebrae were stabbing at him.

These eyes, this cold gaze, often popped into his mind in his spare time, making him drowning in a swamp and breathless.

Shen Xiao felt as if there were insects and ants gnawing in his head, dense and faint pain, and his ears were also buzzing, he tried to concentrate, closed his eyes for a moment, and then slowly opened them, and his eyes became clear again.

"There is no need to talk about the past," he coughed, "and you shouldn't have come back." ”

When she returned, she disturbed his thoughts and made him uneasy.

"Yes, it shouldn't."

Xin Wei echoed his words and said helplessly, "It's really because of this face that I was forcibly summoned into the palace by the queen, and I didn't mean it." ”

The queen took the portrait and searched throughout the Great Xia Dynasty, who could escape those who looked good, and who dared not obey?

Shen Xiao pondered for a long time, raised the handtea, and filled her empty white jade cup with wine.

That's it, good food and wine, and the nature of food.

He shouldn't have told her that. I've known her for more than ten years, doesn't he know her well enough? She will do whatever she wants to do.

It's a big deal that when I can't bear it anymore another day, I let people tie her up and send her out of the palace and send her back to Gusu.

"Lan Sheng is not drunk, he is not as good as Du Kang." Xin Wei watched him pour wine and said.

"Do you still want to get drunk?"

On Chinese New Year's Eve, she was drunk as soft as mud, sometimes frightened, sometimes painful, isn't this drunken madness enough to lose face?

"It's boring if you're not drunk, and the wine doesn't taste good." Xin Wei said.

The bitter and sweet smell burned her throat, and she always choked up tears, but it was painful.

Shen Xiao leaned back in the chair and looked at her carefully, with a smile on his lips.

"Lonely man and widow, are you sure you want to drink Du Kang?"

The man was drunk, and it was hard to guarantee that he could still resist his impulses. If something happens, you can't regret it.

"Ink," Xin Wei said as she stared at him, "don't you dare." ”

Looking at her urging tone, Shen Xiao was in a trance and remembered the past.

She and the imperial sister always have many like-minded places, and they dare to break through the sky together. So they always looked down on him, thinking that he was not bold enough, taking care of this and that, and being too restrained.

He is so natural in nature, but he envies her for being debauched and uninhibited, daring to do things he does not dare to do, wanton and free, proud as the bright moon on the river.

She is the bright moon on the river, how can she fall into the dust, grovel in the palace walls, and the same group of women are exhausted?

Shen Xiao closed his eyes and said gloomily: "I will be inconvenient to drink tomorrow, you have to drink Du Kang, go back to Huguang Pavilion to drink." ”

Before he could stand up, Xin Wei bowed down and saluted, and said in a crisp voice: "Congratulations to the emperor." ”

She wished he had left.

The corners of Shen Xiao's mouth twitched, and after a moment, he got up and strode out as if angry.