"Close your eyes." The man's hands burned like lava, blindfolded her, and her eyes were plunged into darkness. The sound of snow outside the house, Xiao Xiao was a little suppressed by his indifferent voice.

Zhao's smooth and soft back was against the cold floor, and countless goosebumps floated on his skin in an instant. Shame and fear overwhelmed her. The man was covered with fine fox fur, and the loose golden silk cloud brocade robe fell on her bare skin, and the cloud was as soft as a cloud.

She didn't know what was going on.

Today she was dispatched to the imperial dining room to help, and when she was on duty late at night, the palace gate was keyed, and she had nowhere to go, so she found a ruined palace and took refuge temporarily. The palace has been abandoned for many years, and because of its remote location, almost no one will come.

That's exactly what she thought before the man barged in.

In the bright moonlight, a man who was like a fairy stumbled into this ruined temple, and he had a face like a god.

The god floated and fell to the ground. Zhao Yu didn't know what was bewitching, and trembled forward to help him, but saw that the god's eyes were crimson, and he fell into the abyss and turned into a demon in an instant, choking her throat and tearing her clothes.

Sharp pain ran through her, and a blinding white light flashed through her mind. In the dazzling light, she saw her grandmother's kind and kind face. I miss her so much, I miss her so much.

Her parents died early, and she grew up with her grandmother, and at the age of ten, in order to make a living, she said goodbye to her grandmother and entered the palace. I haven't seen her in eight years.

Thinking of his grandmother, Zhao's heart was like a knife. After a few more years, she can leave the palace and reunite with her. But why should she be allowed to do this? If the palace maid loses her body, she will be exiled at least and killed with a cane.

She is as humble as dust, and she has been cautious in the palace for so many years, for fear of causing trouble. She has always followed the rules and kept to herself, and if she only took half a wrong step, she stepped into hell. She didn't do anything bad, but she wanted to die a tragic death.

Her eyes widened in grief and indignation, and she used some force to bite the man's shoulder hard, and the thick iron smell spread in her mouth. The man's courageous movements were sluggish, and he pressed sideways against her shoulders, stopped moving, and looked at her with complicated eyes. Looking at each other, tears flowed from the corners of Zhao's eyes.

Glowing pale white in the moonlight.

During the stalemate, she saw that half of his eyes were burning and half were cold like ice, and the two emotions were frantically tearing and fighting. Eventually, the flames flooded the ice field, and he raised his hand to cover her eyes.

Only the movements of the body gradually slowed down.

There was a crisp sound of "pop", and it was an old glass lamp on the table that the night wind blew in, and the fragile glass fell into pieces.

The snow in early winter is cold. After a busy day, Zhaoyun's energy was gradually exhausted, and his body was completely numb.

The man's body was very warm, like a natural heater, and the confused Zhao couldn't help but lean on him, trying to absorb his warmth. He seemed stunned for a moment, then scooped up the large stubs scattered on the ground to cover her trembling body.

Outside the house, it was snowy, and Zhao Yu slowly fell asleep despite extreme fatigue.

Nightmares never stopped, and I couldn't sleep well. Early in the morning, he was startled by the sound of a jackdaw fluttering his wings. He stroked his chest and turned his gaze to his side.

The man's eyebrows were slightly furrowed, his eyes closed, and he was still deeply asleep.

The jade crown was loose, and the hair was messy on the dilapidated floor, and the face was like a bright moon against the background of the decadent ruined temple. Last night was His Majesty's Birthday Day, and countless dignitaries, princes and grandsons, and foreign envoys entered the palace to celebrate their birthdays. Who is he?

No matter who he is, as a maid of the East Palace, she does not return at night, loses her innocence, and defiles the palace, which is a capital crime. Zhao Yu bit his lip lightly. She didn't want to die.

Her gaze fell on his torn clothes.

Run, run now.

Reason returned, and Zhao Yu slowly had an idea.

Zhao looked at him deeply, making sure he was asleep.

She moved slightly, carefully pulling out the tunic that was pressing under his head. The slender arms trembled slightly from the cold and fear, and they made people more and more pitiful.

In a panic, her hands and feet put on her middle clothes, her exposed skin was covered by clothes, and her shame seemed to be sheltered.

There was still a coat missing, and she remembered that he seemed to have thrown it under the table, squatted down to look for it, and sure enough, she saw the gray and blue coat.

"Who are you?"

Zhao Yu was startled, his hand that had just touched the corner of his clothes trembled, and he got up suddenly, and his head almost hit the corner of the bookcase.

She sighed in her heart, hoping that the person was dreaming.

The next moment, a bony hand stretched out diagonally, holding her wrist tightly, the man's voice was low, with a majesty that was not angry and self-assured, and asked her word by word: "Who are you?" ”

Crunch –

The long knock of the door sounded in the silence of the morning.

Zhao Yu woke up from his dream, raised his hand to lift the bed tent and looked out, and saw Lianzhou coming back from outside with a wind lantern in his hand.

It turned out that I dreamed about last winter's events again.

"Got you?" Lianzhou looked at her apologetically.

Zhao Yu shook his head, whispered that it was okay, and lay back on the couch, his heart full of trouble. It's been two or three months, and everything is on track, but she is often disturbed by that event, and she always sees a pair of horrible red eyes in her sleep.

The spring cold is steep, the spring rain is falling, and the weather is getting colder and colder, which is not much better than the snowy days in winter.

Zhao Yu didn't have the habit of lying in bed, and got up after lying down a little, and saw Lianzhou sitting under the window, his eyes slightly red, and he was distracted.

"It's so cold, why are you sitting here?" Zhao asked softly.

Lianzhou frowned and sobbed when he heard this, and actually started crying. At first, it was just a soft sob, but slowly it was uncontrollable, and it was as if it was uncontrollable, and it was crying.

Zhao Yu didn't expect this, and suddenly hurriedly took a handkerchief and pressed the corner of her eyes: "What's wrong?" Why are you crying? ”

Lianzhou pumped and shook, and he couldn't understand the words. It took Zhao Yu a long time to hear her spit out Shaoying intermittently. Bing Tao was also woken up by Lianzhou's cry, surrounded her, and finally understood after listening for a while: "Shaoying is gone." ”

Zhao Yu was stunned for a moment.

Shaoying was originally a palace person in charge of tea, once the king of Guang'an visited, she went to serve tea, was favored by the king of Guang'an, and wanted to go to the palace to be a concubine, at the beginning of the year gave birth to the daughter of the king of Guang'an, was carried as a side concubine, and since then she has soared into the sky and become a model in the eyes of the palace people.

After crying for a long time, Lianzhou gradually calmed down, holding Zhaoxuan's hand as cold as ice, she cried: "Last time, when she came to say goodbye to me, I still complained about her clear words, but she refused to take me out of the palace with her. Said a lot of hurtful things. ”

"I knew that something would happen to her, and I shouldn't have been angry with her." Lianzhou regretted not being at the beginning.

Zhao Yu lowered his eyes slightly, gently stroked Lianzhou's back, and silently comforted. Bing Tao said incredulously: "How could it suddenly be gone?" ”

Lianzhou sobbed: "I said that I accidentally fell into the lake, and it was too late for people to find out." But she was flooded when she was a child, and she was so afraid of the water that she didn't dare to go to the water's edge at all, so how could she go to the lake? ”

Lianzhou recalled her face that was so swollen that she was almost unrecognizable, and her heart ached like a knife: "She was very favored after entering the mansion, I went to pack her relics, and those people only gave me a small burden......"

Zhao Yu looked at a green cloth package on the table, and glanced at it slightly, as a relic of the princess of the palace, the package was indeed a little shabby.

Bing Tao tugged at Zhao Yu's sleeve and muttered in a low voice: "Is there something strange about Shaoying's death?" ”

Zhao Yu covered her mouth: "Don't talk nonsense, don't talk about it." ”

"Lianzhou, it's okay for you to cry with us, don't mention it to anyone when you go out." Zhao Yu patted the back of her hand gently.

A simple reminder immediately made Lianzhou realize the seriousness of the matter. Even if Shaoying's death is unclear, it is not something she can say. Which one can be spotlessly clean? But that dust is by no means something that they can touch as a little palace maid.

"It's me who overdid it, and I don't have any sense of proportion." Lianzhou lowered his eyelashes and tried his best to suppress the sadness in his heart.

Zhao Yu hummed softly, his eyebrows and eyes were extremely gentle, and his voice was low and comforted Lianzhou: "Lianzhou, I know that you and Shaoying have a good relationship, and it will be difficult to accept the reality for a while. The Dans are gone, and the living will continue to live. In the past few days, I will go to Mama Chen to give you a few days off, and you can rest. ”

Lianzhou's eyes were blank and he cried silently.

The bang struck three times, and it was not too early.

Zhao Yu put on a gray and blue cloak and went out with an umbrella. When I arrived in front of Mama Chen's room, I met Poria cocos that came out of it. Poria is Mama Chen's niece, with her support, Poria cocos can be moisturized, she has been a steward early, she has more than a dozen people in her hands, and she doesn't usually have to work, and her hands are white and clean.

Zhao Yu was very envious of Poria for a while.

Zhao Yu glanced at Poria's displeased eyes, and blessed her body in a proper manner.

She had obviously just been reprimanded, but she held her head high and walked away quickly.

The little palace maid led Zhao Yu into the house. There is a ground dragon in the house of the mother, and as soon as you step in, your face is warm.

"Zhao Yu greets Mama." Zhao curtsied.

Mama Chen was having breakfast, she didn't look at her, lowered her head and stroked the tea cup in her hand, and said, "You have nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace, why did you come to me today?" ”

After speaking, he looked up at her. The woman in the gray green palace stood there curly, although her chest was slightly hunched, but it was difficult to hide the scorching scorching splendor under her humble posture.

Mama Chen hated her inadvertently revealed quiet beauty.

"Lianzhou suffered from the wind and cold last night, and I was afraid that I would pass on my illness to others, so I wanted to take a three-day leave with my grandmother." Zhao Yu said slowly.

"Ugh." Mama Chen sighed lightly: "Spring is about to start, I have to prepare spring clothes, this time she made a mistake on leave, I can't afford it." ”

After a pause, Mama Chen was embarrassed again: "There have been too many things to do recently, and yesterday His Royal Highness sent someone to ask us to send someone to the Anguo Mansion to serve the sick." Lianzhou is going to take leave again, look at this ......"

Zhao Yu is not an elm pimple, her words are to the point.

An Guogong is the father of the queen, and when His Royal Highness the crown prince was young, the emperor and the queen were busy with war, and they have been fostering him in the Anguo Mansion. His Royal Highness can be said to have been brought up by An Guogong, and the grandparents and grandchildren have a deep affection. An Guogong is old, and this time he is sick, although it is just a cold, but the prince is still not at ease, and specially dials the palace maid of the East Palace to serve the sick.

It stands to reason that it is not Zhao's turn to go, although it is to serve the sick, but after all, it is to do filial piety for His Royal Highness, and it is impossible to really dial people casually, and at the very least, he has to be a steward.

Most of the above pointed to Poria to go to the Anguo Mansion, but she was sheltered by Mama Chen at Huanyi, and lived a job that did not touch the spring water with ten fingers, where would she do the work of serving people.

I was afraid that she would come to Mama Chen to make a fuss, so she was so unhappy when she left.

Zhao Yu smiled and said: "The work in the hands of the slave and maid was almost done yesterday, and now the hand is empty. If the mother does not dislike the slave maid for being stupid, the slave and maid are willing to go to the Anguo Mansion to serve the father. ”

Although Mama Chen dislikes Zhao Xun very much, she has to sigh that her point is clear, and this ability to observe words and colors compares her unsuccessful niece to the edge of the sky.

"You go to the Anguo Mansion......" Mama Chen pretended to be worried, and said after a while: "That's okay, you are the old man in the palace, and I can rest assured if you go." Lianzhou was sick, so let her recuperate well, and go to duty as soon as possible. ”

"You will go to the West Gate early tomorrow morning, and Yunfeng will lead you out of the palace."

Zhao Yu came out of Mama Chen, still thinking about going to Anguo Mansion tomorrow. She has a humble status, and when she gets there, she should also run errands and do menial work, and there is nothing to worry about.

Zhao Yu had just gone back and was collecting the umbrella under the eaves, and Bing Tao smiled and turned her arms towards her: "Bai Yu is here." ”

She turned to look sideways, and really saw a figure standing under the osmanthus tree in front of the courtyard.

Bai Yu stood under the osmanthus tree, the rain dripping from the branches on his tung oil umbrella, making a crackling sound. Seeing Zhao Yu walking towards him from a distance, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but float a warm smile.

"Look at your chilblains have always been bad, you come across someone selling this in the market, you take it and try it." Bai Yu paused.

Bai Yu is not good at lying, and when he lies, he will always blink weakly. Zhao Yu recognized that he was lying, and did not break it, so he took the thing with a slight smile and said, "Thank you." ”

She had seen that chilblain cream used Poria cocos. Poria has leisure and money, and often asks people to bring in strange things from outside the palace. The chilblain cream was sold by merchants in the Western Regions, and it not only had a particularly good effect, but also tasted very good.

She told Bai Yu once, but she didn't expect him to remember it.

Seeing that the things he had selected for a long time finally arrived in her hands, the smile on his lips deepened. He tried to hold on to himself, to look a little more seized.

"It's spring lately, and you're going to have a lot to do." Zhao Yu said.

Bai Yu immediately answered with a smile: "It's about to start busy, I may have to go south on an errand next month, and it will take about two months, if you have anything, let me do it for you as soon as possible." Have you gotten better lately, do you still need to soak bamboo leaves? ”

"I'm not in a hurry, I may not have made a small problem for a long time." Zhao Yu smiled and nodded: "You don't have to worry about me when you go out, I'm fine, you have to be more careful when you're outside." ”

"You don't have to worry about me, I'm fine." Bai Yu patted his chest, "Grandma, you can rest assured, I will let people take care of her when I leave." ”

The man's eyes burned, and he looked at the akagi when he was in the morning. Zhao Yu looked at him gratefully, and before he could speak, Bai Yu blocked her words back: "If you thank me again, I will be angry!" ”

Zhao Yu had no choice but to stop the thank you that poured to the tip of his tongue, and said softly: "I don't thank you, I wish you a smooth journey." ”

The corners of Bai Yu's lips curled deeper.

"Are you going out and having so much fun?" Zhao asked.

Bai Yu scratched his head embarrassedly: "After the matter is done, you can go up to the next level when you come back." ”

Zhao Yu smiled and said, "Then I'll congratulate you in advance." ”

He didn't stay long, and it was time for the things to be delivered. Zhao Yu watched his figure disappear around the corner, and then lifted his clothes and went back to the room.

Bing Tao saw the two of them talking under the tree from a distance, and couldn't help but raise the corners of her mouth: "Bai Yu is really good to Ah Yu, and he has been meticulous about the cold and warmth over the years." ”

Lianzhou cried all morning, his eyes were red and swollen, and he looked in the direction where Zhao Yu came from: "Sister Ah Yu is good-looking, Bai Yu is also so handsome, the two of them are really a pair like golden boys and girls." It's a pity, how is Bai Yu a eunuch? ”