a pillow in autumn

The two-four-horse carriage ruddered along Weiming Street, Shen Xianxun leaned against the wall of the carriage with her eyebrows folded, her eyes closed tightly, showing no emotion.

Shuyao was accompanying her all the way, so she naturally knew what happened just now.She half-sat on the couch and comforted her, "Your Highness's feelings for Master are clear to others if they don't know. Your Highness will never do anything to offend Master. Please rest assured, Master."

Xian Xun let out a "hmm", still closed her eyes and meditated, and said after a while, "I know she won't let me down. I was angry just now and didn't think about it. Now that I think about it, it seems that the queen mother deliberately led us to the imperial garden." If that is the case, what is the mother's intention?"

The carriage drove directly from the west side gate of Prince Rui's mansion into the Yimen of the mansion, Shen Xianxun did not get off the car immediately, and the girls and servants outside were waiting on the ground.She rubbed the tip of her brow and sighed.

Seeing that the princess seemed to get up, Shuyao thought about opening the car door for her first.She had only put her hand on the wooden door when Xian Xun suddenly said, "Could it be that the Empress Dowager wants to make her a side concubine?"

Shu Yao was stunned for a moment, then turned around, Xian Xun said: "If it's something else, that's fine, if it's really this matter..." Her beautiful brows were all locked tightly: "I'm afraid His Highness's identity will be in danger."

"Master, you have to find a way to help His Highness." Shu Yao became anxious after hearing this.

Xian Xun glanced at her: "How can I help? You also saw just now, the romantic debt she incurred herself!"

Shuyao was anxious, and she didn't think too much when she spoke: "Master, now is not the time to vent your anger. You should find a way to help her, or... When His Highness comes back, punish her to kneel on the washboard."

The double-circle door of the carriage opened outwards, the little girl handed over the high and low pieces, and helped the princess down, Siyuan and a few older girls came out from the inner house to welcome the master, seeing the master's expressionless face, they all followed silently to the bedroom.Just walking halfway, Shen Xianxun suddenly looked at Siyuan and said, "How many times have you kneeled on the washboard?"

Siyuan was stunned, and immediately turned to look at Shuyao, Shuyao's face turned red quickly, she lowered her head and did not look at her, after a while, even the tips of her ears turned red.

The remaining girls didn't know why, they just looked at each other.Shen Xianxun raised her eyebrows, seeing that Siyuan's face was also red to the ears, she couldn't help being a little funny.He also thought that if Zhou Mubai returned to the mansion, hmph, it would be better to punish her not to touch her for a month.

Suddenly realizing what she was thinking about, Shen Xianxun bit her lip and blushed a little.

After entering the outer room of the bedroom, before he could sit down, Zhou Yuanzheng ran over from the side.

"Mother." He was wearing a beautified brocade dress, and he stretched out his two little arms, "Hug."

Xian Xun took him and put him on her lap, teased him for a while, and then heard him ask in a childish voice: "Mother, where is the father? Zheng'er hasn't seen the father for a long time."

The wet nurse first smiled at the side when she heard this, and seeing that the princess didn't speak, she said with emotion: "The princess is not in the mansion often these days, the young master is crying every day looking for his mother, and finally saw the princess came back, and he is always talking about it. I'm looking for my father. What a filial child."

Xian Xun grabbed Yuan Zheng's little paw, put it to her lips and kissed the palm of his hand: "Zheng'er is good, father is still in the palace, there is something to do, he will be back in two days."

Zhou Yuanzheng blinked, half-understood, hugged his mother's neck for a moment of silence, and then asked: "When the father is back, do you want to release the paper kite?"

This child is not yet two years old, but he knows how to release paper kites. I think the girls often carried them to play with them in the past.

Xian Xun hugged him and sat on her lap. Something flashed through her mind. She thought about it for a while, and seemed to have figured out the key point. Finally, she stretched her eyebrows, pointed at Yuan Zheng's nose and said with a smile: " Good. When your father comes back, let her take us to release paper kites."

Zhou Mubai, who was far away in the Quyuan Pavilion in the imperial garden, naturally did not know that the two of them were thinking about her kite.At that time, the Empress Dowager and Princess Rui had just left the Sifang Lotus Pond, the thin breeze blurred the eyes, a petal of apricot blossoms fell on the steps in front of the pavilion with the wind, Zhou Mubai turned around and smiled gently at Sun Qi, raised his hand and draped it on his shoulders He took off his new clothes: "Thank you for your kindness, Miss. Xiao Wang is ashamed to accept this dress, please take it back, Miss."

The smile on Sun Qiqiao's face froze, she looked at her thin figure after injury, Linfeng stood in front of the imperial steps, still dazzlingly bright.

"Your Highness, my lady has put a lot of thought into this dress." The little girl at the side couldn't stand it, and protected her little master and said: "Every stitch and thread is sewed by her own hands, even the empress dowager praises her thoughtfulness The meticulous workmanship is amazing. Do you know that it takes one or two hours of work just to make a bamboo leaf on the cuff!"

The material is the soft silk cotton brocade that is popular in Ruijing. The gown is finely stitched and the colors are sparsely selected. The cuffs, lapel and hem of the brocade robe are embroidered with lifelike slender bamboo leaves, implying that a gentleman is like bamboo and warm like jade.

Sun Qi wanted to stop the girl and show a respectful attitude, but tears were already in her eyes, she couldn't say anything, she felt extremely wronged.

"It's precisely because Miss Sun has put a lot of thought into this dress, so Xiao Wang can't accept it." Zhou Mubai still smiled, placed the brand-new brocade clothes on the bluestone table, and cupped his hands at Sun Qi: "Miss kindness, lonely king Got it."

"Could it only be a heart collar?" Sun Qihong looked at the cotton robe and brocade with circles of her eyes, the wound on her finger pierced by the needle point was still vivid in her mind, and a tiny trace of blood was hidden under the lapel. She still wanted His Highness to wear this dress. Clothes will carry her temperature.Now the scar is like a piercing in the heart, fine and dense pain.

Tears slid down her immature cheeks, staining a touch of apricot petals.She bit her lip tightly to keep herself from crying.

Zhou Mubai lowered his eyebrows slightly, and said quietly: "I can only, I understand."

The apricot blossoms outside Qu Yuan Pavilion were like snow, fluttering and fluttering Prince Rui's thin robe. Sun Qi stood in the pavilion, watching her step by step, getting farther and farther away from him.

Tears rushed out, blurring her vision, she liked her so much, no less than others, why she couldn't see at all.

The next day.

After the morning court, Zhou Muchen went to Jinyu Palace to greet the Empress Dowager, and stopped by to look at Zhou Mubai. Mubai was struggling to salute her, and Muchen pressed her shoulder and said, "Let's have a good birth."

"You saved me again." Zhou Muchen smiled inexplicably, "This time, what reward do you want?"

"Wei Chen..."

"Mubai." Zhou Muchen interrupted her, looked into her eyes and said, "Since when did you stop calling yourself a minister?"

Since when?Zhou Mubai sighed inwardly, only to hear Zhou Muchen's self-deprecating continued: "That's right. It started with me...it started with me calling myself Zhen."

"Brother Huang." Zhou Mubai heard his lonely tone, maybe there are some things that you and I can't help ourselves.

Zhou Muchen smiled again when he heard that she had changed back to her previous address, "Tell me, is there anything you want."

"My brother...my brother has nothing to want. Protecting the safety of the emperor is the duty of every citizen of Rui Kingdom."

"You really don't want anything?" Zhou Muchen gave her a contemptuous look: "The queen mother whispers in my ears every day that she wants to point out Grand Master Sun's granddaughter to you."

Zhou Mubai immediately made a bitter face: "My brother doesn't want it."

At first Zhou Muchen just laughed, but at the end he suppressed his smile and said half-truthfully: "But I must reward you with something. Otherwise, what if one day you think about it and ask me to take back my life?"

Zhou Mubai lowered his brows, knowing that he was talking about the matter of entering the palace and begging him to let go of the generals of the Xuanyi Army at the beginning of his enthronement.

"Since that's the case, I dare to beg the emperor's brother." Zhou Mubai raised his head for a while, looking into Zhou Muchen's eyes.

At that moment, she wanted to say that she wanted to take the princess to the fiefdom.

According to the ancestral system of Ruiguo, the crowning ceremony will be held when the prince is twenty, and then he will move to the fief, and a certain amount of the fief's income will be provided to the court every year as tax collection.It's just that many things happened inside and outside after Zhou Mu's white crown ceremony, so this one was delayed.

Seeing her serious tone, Zhou Muchen also looked back at her: "What's the matter?"

Zhou Mubai blinked slowly.When the words came to his lips, he changed his sentence: "My brother wants to go back to the palace."

Zhou Muchen was stunned for a moment, not thinking that what she brought up was just such a matter. A moment ago, he thought she was going to go far away.He even wondered if he should let her go.She has led thousands of troops and won many battles. The Red Wing Army took her as their leader, and the Black Wing Army also mostly thanked her for saving their lives.Such a person can't be at ease under his nose, how can he allow her to go away.

But she saved her life.again.

"Brother Huang?" Mu Bai sat on the rug, slightly raised his head, the expression on his face was like a boy who was looking forward to returning home.

"Emperor Pei said that your injury is serious and you are not suitable for driving. Let it take two days. After your wound has healed, ask Imperial Physician Pei to apply Bingyu Ning Xianglu on you, and I will send the imperial chariot to take you back." Zhou Muchen Came back to his senses, patted her on the shoulder, and still said the same sentence: "Be good."

In the afternoon, the small kitchen brought gold-threaded snow clams again, this time it was the girl in front of Zheng Xuan.Zhou Mubai has recovered a lot, he took the jade bowl and used it himself.Pei Dongcheng came over with a small medicine box to change Zhou Mubai's medicine, Zhou Mubai said solemnly: "Brother Huang came here today, I asked you to use Bingyu Ning Xianglu for me."

Pei Dongcheng glanced at her: "Your Majesty specially sent me to the imperial study to tell me that you need to heal your injury, and I can use Ningxianglu for you in two days."

Seeing that he was not fooled, Zhou Mubai gritted his teeth.Just as he was about to think of another way, he saw a little girl coming in from the outside, gave her a blessing, and said that it was someone from Prince Rui's residence.Before she finished speaking, Zhou Mubai stood up with the strength of Pei Dongcheng's arm, and was about to walk out with a lot of noise.

In the main hall of Jinyu Palace, Shuyao was kneeling in front of the Empress Dowager to answer a question, when she saw two maids supporting Zhou Mubai coming out from behind, they kowtowed eagerly.

"How is the mansion?" Mu Bai raised his hand.

Yesterday, he had a glimpse from a distance, and he also left in a hurry, but when he saw her again today, he found that Prince Rui had lost a lot of weight.Fortunately, he is in good spirits, not as gray and defeated as he was a few days ago.

Shuyao said with red eyes: "If you go back to Your Highness, the mansion will be fine. The princess is afraid that His Highness is used to the things in the mansion, and she will not be around for a while, so I will send some over." She said Qi Open a pillow case, take out a few small things, and put on two sets of brocade clothes.

Zhou Mubai took the clothes and caressed them naturally.Sun Qi, who was standing beside Zheng Xuan, saw it clearly and knew that it must have been made by Princess Rui herself, and it might not be so expensive or gorgeous, but held in Prince Rui's hands, it was like a rare treasure.

But what about the brocade robe he sewed?Oh, she has put it into the rattan box by herself.In the end, she was reluctant to just throw it away like this, after all, it had warmed her body temperature, even if only for a short moment.

Sun Qi was thinking about her own thoughts, her eyes were sour, she might as well see Aunt Lu gave her a deep look, she restrained her expression, and heard the girl from Prince Rui's residence still talking.

"The young master and the young lady are arguing every day to find the father. Yesterday, the young master refused to eat. The princess coaxed him for a long time, saying that His Highness would be back in two days, and coaxed him to use half a bowl of minced meat. The young lady I have teeth for a few days, and I have a fever, so the mansion invited a doctor, who said it was all right, and prescribed a prescription, and the concubine asked me to bring it, so I could give it to Imperial Physician Pei."

"Okay, okay." Mu Bai turned his head in response, Pei Dongcheng understood, and stepped forward to take Fang Zi.Mu Bai took two steps, and said: "The lonely king will go back in two days. You tell the princess that in two days, the lonely king will return to the mansion when he feels better. Let her not worry and take good care of Zheng'er and Hua'er." He said anxiously: "By the way, are the eyes of the princess all healed? I heard from Imperial Physician Pei that these days should be eight (nine) points better, but is there any problem?"

"Princess's eyes are much better. It's almost the same as before. It's just..."

"Just what?"

Shuyao glanced at the empress dowager who was sitting in the high hall, Zhou Mubai saw it, stepped forward anxiously and said: "Say it! It's just what?"

As soon as Shuyao was drunk by her, she immediately knelt down and said, "My concubine is going to deliver these things to His Highness herself today, but she felt cold after returning from the Imperial Garden yesterday, and she didn't know why in the second half of the night. Start a fever..."

"Fever? Is it important? Have you hired a doctor?" Mu Bai's tone became more urgent, she was stunned for a while, and then said: "You guys came to the palace yesterday? Why didn't I know?"

"What are you in a hurry for!" Zheng Xuan scolded, seeing Mubai turned his head and looked straight at her, she said calmly: "Yesterday when Princess Rui entered the palace, you happened to be away...not in Jinyu Palace, Aijia heard Princess Rui's eyes are hurt, and it is not appropriate to stay outside for too long, so let her go back to the residence first."

Mubai squeezed his palms and sighed, just now she clearly heard Shuyao say that Xun'er felt the cold after returning home from the imperial garden, but the mother didn't mention a word!She let go of her palms and cupped her hands and said: "The princess is not feeling well, and I want to go back to the palace to have a look. Please forgive me, the queen mother."

She said that she saluted and was about to leave.

Zheng Xuan said angrily, "Stop!"

Mubai turned his head, Zheng Xuan stood up from the Chengxiang chair, pointed at her, put down his hand after a while, and said slowly: "You are still seriously injured, go back to the side hall first, Aijia will send you back in two days .”

Mubai stopped in his tracks, and turned around as he said, Zheng Xuan sat back on the chair, but saw Mubai kneeling in front of him and said: "Mother, my son wants to go back to the mansion. I beg my mother to make it happen." She said while knocking. There was a "bang", a slight muffled sound.

Zheng Xuan was stunned, Mubai straightened up, didn't look at her, just kowtowed down again, "Queen Mother, I want to go back home. I beseech Queen Mother to make it happen."

Every time she said a word, she kowtowed, and the gauze-wrapped wound on her abdomen opened in the twists and turns, gradually oozing blood.Shuyao and Pei Dongcheng followed her and knelt behind her.

She knocked her head several times in a row, and Zheng Xuan shouted, "What are you doing?!"

Mu Bai was so hurt that he could hardly speak, Zheng Xuan said: "Forget it. If you want to go back, go back. It's just Mu Bai, you only love your princess, but don't you know that your mother loves you too?" She shook her head, His voice gradually choked with disappointment and loss.

Mu Bai breathed a sigh of relief, knelt down beside Zheng Xuan, raised his head to look at her, "Mother..."

Seeing the cold sweat on her forehead, Zheng Xuan felt distressed again, and turned to the girls and said, "What are you doing in a daze, why don't you help Prince Rui get up."

"Let's rest in the side hall tonight, and tomorrow morning, Ai's family will pass on a sedan chair to take you back." Zheng Xuan stood up after speaking, not wanting to look at her again, and went straight to the back hall.

Mu Bai's wound was in severe pain, and she knew that she would not be able to walk today, so she supported Pei Dongcheng's arm with her palm, and the little girls protected her left and right, and went to the side hall.

Aunt Lu came over and made a gesture to Shuyao. Shuyao knew the rules in the palace, but she didn't agree. People outside the palace were not allowed to stay in the palace. She bent her knees and left.

In the noisy hall, Sun Qi was the only one left.The sun outside the hall was still bright, but she stood alone on the edge of the light, only feeling cold in her heart.

As the night was getting darker, Zhou Mubai drank the soothing decoction prepared by Imperial Physician Pei in the side hall, and fell asleep in a daze.

The little girl was sitting outside watching the night, dozing off from time to time.A girl in apricot-colored clothes came in, patted her on the shoulder, and said that she could just watch by herself tonight and let her go to sleep.The little girl knew that she often kept vigil for Prince Rui these days, so she nodded gratefully and went back to her room in peace.

From the shadow of the corridor, a young girl in brocade clothes came out and walked slowly to Prince Rui's room. The girl in apricot clothes showed a nervous and pleading look on her face: "Miss, are you really thinking about it?"

Under the lamp, the girl bit her lip, raised her wrist and placed it on the carved door, trembling slightly.

The bedroom door was pushed open, Sun Qi walked into the room, her footsteps were a little weak, but she still locked the door behind her backhand.

Mu Bai closed his eyes tightly and slept soundly.Sun Qi stood by the bed and stared at it for a while.Her eyebrows...her eyes...the thin lips she pursed...the curvature of her mouth when she smiled.

This is the last night, she thought, even though her heart was beating fast, she slowly raised her hand and unbuttoned her skirt.

The outer robe, the skirt, the middle coat... One by one, they fell to the ground.

She lifted Zhou Mubai's brocade quilt, leaned over, and slid into her warm embrace.

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It's really too late to reply to everyone's messages one by one, but I read each one carefully.Thank you to all the friends who came to join us.In addition, the technical bacteria asked whether to open a group so that everyone can communicate about the little princess's counterattack plan, what do you think?

And: ... Zhou Mubai looked confused: "Huh? What the hell is the counterattack plan?"...