a pillow in autumn

In the back house of Prince Rui's Mansion, there is a gazebo with slanted eaves, facing the covered bridge and water pavilion in the distance.The pavilion has hexagonal corners and one side of the built-in piano case.Around the gazebo, a large field of iris, pink blue and lavender, spreads its wings like a butterfly, lingering in the spring equinox and warm sunlight.

Shen Xianxun sat alone in front of the piano table, her slender fingers like water onions rested on the strings twisted from ice silk, slipped them casually, and swayed a piece of the piano.

"Miss." Siyuan looked outside the pavilion for a while, saw her play a few tunes, and then became dazed again.She handed over a small hand stove and said: "But it's cold? Your Highness said that it's cold in spring, and you've always been weak, so you can't stand the cold. Let us all be careful."

Xian Xun took the stove and held it in her arms. This person, who is busy outside by herself, only thinks about the affairs of the house. There are a lot of right and wrong in the court, and I don't know how many people will hate her for her temper.

Thinking of Zhou Mubai, she sighed leisurely.She has been studying under the dance master since she was a child. She knows that the music comes from the heart. When the heart is calm, the piano is quiet.

Today, my heart is inexplicably disturbed, and I always feel in a trance and can't settle down.I'm afraid I can't play this piano anymore.

"Miss?" Seeing that she still seemed unable to recover from the small hand stove, Siyuan couldn't help laughing and jokingly said: "Miss looks like this, don't you miss my uncle?"

Xian Xun's pretty face flushed slightly, she glanced at her, and said angrily: "The injury is better and you need to be beaten again, right?"

Siyuan giggled, smiling with a little melancholy.She walked into the pavilion, took a long skewer to pick out the incense sticks burning in the copper tripod, poured another cup of hot tea and put it in Xian Xun's hand, and said somewhat expectantly: "Miss... I want to ask you something. "

"What's the matter?"

"I want to beg you...help me to marry His Highness, and ask her to agree to betroth Shuyao to me."

Xian Xun froze for a moment, then turned to look at her.Siyuan's figure was blurred in her eyes, but the image in her mind was still clear.Her thoughts suddenly flew to the past in the Shen residence when she was not out of the pavilion.

Siyuan was only seven years old when she entered the house, she was small, not very smart, sometimes even stupid, but she had a special affinity with her.It seems that it hasn't been long since they grew up together, and she is almost twenty years old.She has grown into a big girl and has her own responsibilities. Whether it was last year in Chonghai County, she rushed forward to block the knife for herself without hesitation, or today, she asked for this ruthless invitation.

Xian Xun bit her lip and asked, "Have you thought about it?"

Siyuan nodded vigorously: "I've made up my mind." After a pause, he said again: "Miss, will you...won't you wait to see us?"

"What are you thinking?!" Xian Qian glanced at her: "Just you need to know, it's easy for me and His Highness to admit you, and the world admits you... I'm afraid this road will be difficult."

"Miss, when we were in Chonghai County, there was a personal guard who often sent us here and there." Siyuan said abruptly.Xian Xun raised her head and motioned for her to continue, and she continued: "Shuyao always refuses, but he still brings it from time to time. One day, I felt very uncomfortable and the wound hurt, so I vented, then Does the person like you? Every day in front of his eyes. Guess what Shuyao said?"

"I told you not to worry, she only likes you." Xian Xun pursed her lips and smiled.

Siyuan shook her head: "Shuyao was stunned at the time, and it took a while to say, I thought he liked you, and he was angry with himself for many days. You are sick, so I can't question you." Siyuan turned his mouth up and smiled, but his eyes were slightly red: "I'm so happy to hear it. It's just that guessing like this will inevitably hurt people. She is the treasure in my heart. Instead of worrying about being hurt by others Thinking about it, it’s better for me to keep it and protect it for the rest of my life.”

Xian Xun nodded, thoughtfully.

Siyuan bent his knees, knelt in front of her lady, looked at her and said solemnly: "Since Shuyao and I agree with each other, I beg Your Highness and Miss to make the decision, let us be a couple."

The sun has already begun to set, and His Highness will return home in time.Siyuan got her lady's promise, her whole heart jumped for joy, she frowned and chatted with the lady.Xian Xun stroked her hair and walked out from behind the piano case.The little girls waited for Sister Siyuan to help the princess out of the pavilion before going forward to pack the utensils.

The two of them bypassed the covered bridge and walked along the garden path all the way to the dormitory. Just as they reached the courtyard connected to it, they saw a figure hurriedly coming out of the dormitory.

"Shuyao!" Seeing it clearly, Siyuan raised his voice and shouted, his voice was flying high.

When Shuyao saw them coming, she didn't have time to answer her, so she stepped forward and said: "Master, you are back. The maids are looking for you everywhere." Before the princess asked, she hurriedly said: "His Royal Highness was injured on the way back to the palace. , Lord Shen Lan came to pick you up into the palace, and he is waiting in the front hall."

Xian Xun's hand on Siyuan's arm tightened, wondering if it was just a day's turmoil that turned into prophecy.

Shen Lan paced back and forth alone in the spacious front hall, clenched her right hand into the palm of her left hand, and looked out from time to time. The little girl brought tea, but she just put it on the table without moving.

"Has your princess not been found yet?" He grabbed a passing boy.

The little boy's voice changed a little when he heard his anxiety, and hurriedly replied: "If you come back to the master, the servants are not allowed to enter the back house. The sisters have already gone to the back house to look for them. I think they will come back soon."

Shen Lan let him go, and walked to the front of the hall, the steward walked quickly from the side, and said to him: "Master Shen, the carriage is ready, and twenty ordinary servants who accompany the masters to come and go as guards have been ordered."

Shen Lan nodded and said: "I'm sorry to trouble the housekeeper. I also brought more than ten Shen family generals to escort the princess all the way, so don't worry."

"Brother Lan." Shen Xianxun turned around the Yimen Gate and walked straight to the front hall.

"Princess!" Shen Lan walked over a few steps, greeted her casually, and said anxiously: "His Royal Highness was assassinated and suffered some injuries. Now he has returned to the palace and is under the care of Mr. Pei. Brother Youtang asked me to come Take you into the palace."

Xian Xun nodded, without asking any further questions, walked out of the courtyard with the two girls, and boarded the four-horse carriage.

The servants of the Shen family and the guards of the palace surrounded them, the carriage ran fast and bumped all the way, Xian Xun tightly pursed her lips, her face was a little pale.Shu Yao stuffed a small hand stove filled with fragrant pancakes into her cold palm, and comforted her: "Master, don't worry, maybe it's just a minor injury. Your Highness has kung fu, so it won't be a problem."

The faint fragrance of plum blossoms evaporates from the warm copper stove, warming people's hearts slightly.Xian Xun nodded, remembering what Siyuan said that Mu Bai often told them not to let the princess catch cold, she tightened her palms to protect the small hand stove.

Dozens of fast horses rushed to the north gate of the imperial palace and dismounted together, only Shen Lan protected Shen Xianxun, and led Shuyao and Sijin to the palace where Zhou Mubai was.

When he got to the door, he didn't see Shen Youtang, and went straight in, only to see him sitting on a nanmu chair with a dazed expression.

"Where's Your Highness?" Xian Xun tried her best to identify him, and guessed from his figure that it was her brother.

Youtang raised his eyes in a daze, but didn't speak.Shen Lan's heart sank, and Xian Xun hurried towards a house in the direction of Youtang's raised head. Suddenly, a young man flashed out of the door and bumped into him recklessly. Shen Lan had quick eyes and quick hands, and stopped him.

"Pei Yue!" he shouted.

Pei Yue's head was covered with sweat, as if he had come back to himself when he heard the cry, he said anxiously: "Hurry up, ask someone to bring you more hot water! You need a big towel!" After saying that, he turned around and went back to the room.

He hardly had time to take a look at who he almost bumped into just now, Shen Xianxun stood a few steps outside the door, heard the sound of the door closing, and then heard Shen Lan running away from him, a series of voices calling for warmth water.She couldn't see Pei Yue's appearance clearly, but she could hear his voice mixed with anxiety and panic, and she could also smell the strong blood radiating from the moment the door closed.

The sky outside the door was dim, and a thin ray of light fell in front of the court, and she couldn't help shaking.Shuyao immediately supported her, "Master."

She shook her head, motioned for Shuyao to help her sit on the high chair beside her, Sijin ran to make a cup of strong tea, Xian Xun took the small hand stove and held it in her arms, her voice wavered like water: "Brother, Mubai's injury , how is it?"

Shen Youtang paused when he heard the words, then turned his head silently.Xian Xun was looking at him with misty eyes.Shu Yao who was standing beside the two of them could see it clearly, Deputy Shen Dianjun's face was pale.

There is a Linyuan hall next to the bustling Dongshi in Ruijing, which is one of the ten scenic spots in the capital. At this time, the spring flowers are in full bloom, and young men often play together and sing poems and poems to the scenery.

Several moderately sized houses were built outside the Linyuan Hall. I heard that the one on the left is a newly moved house. It looks nothing special from the outside, but inside it is decorated with carved beams and embroidered pillars, which is very rich and honorable.It's just because the male master came back from time to time and never stayed for a long time, and the female master was quite pretty, but she only hid in the deep house and never talked about it with outsiders.Gradually, there were messages, and the neighbors privately said that this was a concubine raised by the rich man's young master outside, and he couldn't take it back to the main house.

The house has three entrances in depth, and the innermost one is an independent yard, and the lamps are burning in the house.A man came out of the courtyard, dressed in a dark blue robe, walking very lightly, obviously with martial arts.The twilight covered his figure, but it couldn't cover a sinuous and ugly scar on his face.He looked up at the figure reflected on the window before knocking on the door and entering.

"Master." The man knelt on the ground, respectfully said: "This subordinate is incompetent, today's matter has failed."

After a while, another voice sounded in the room, and said lazily: "It's okay, you can get rid of the third child, but you don't need to do anything in the near future. The remaining clues in the dungeon can be Tidy up?"

The man cupped his hands and said, "Yes. It's already clean."

There were only lights and candles flickering in the room, and there was no more sound.

"Report!!" The servant's slightly rash voice suddenly sounded outside the royal study of the palace: "Your Majesty, report urgently!"

Zhou Muchen twitched his brows slightly, and after gathering his composure, he said, "Come in."

The little servant entered the door with his hands folded, kowtowed and bowed: "Your Majesty Qizuo, Lord Tingwei tried to offend Longyan's assassins during the day and night to interrogate him. Unexpectedly...the few survivors who were captured were poisoned for no reason and died. !"

Zhou Muchen stared at him for a long time, a smile slowly emerged from the corner of his mouth.

The little maid knelt on the ground and shivered.

But Zhou Muchen said in a calm voice: "It's all right. Let's go down."

The little servant got up, slowly retreated to the door, went out, turned around and patted his thin chest, as if saving his life.

The emperor breathed a sigh of relief while sitting on the gold-painted dragon chair. Fortunately, the little servant did not bring bad news about the third brother.Those in the dungeon should die if they die. Since the people behind the scenes can't stand their loneliness, why not wait a little longer.

The author has something to say: This is to make up for yesterday.Don't ask me why I didn't update yesterday, I am me, I don't want to make excuses. (blushes, points fingers)

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Jiang Xia dropped a mine;

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Thank you for your love, everyone.The author Bacteria is also working hard.