cold moon is king

The Chinese New Year in the palace is not as warm as usual at home. Even though the bright red lanterns and window grilles can be seen everywhere, it is a kind of cold and lively, but the servants are happier than before. Even if they make mistakes during the Chinese New Year, they will not be severely punished. This is the rule handed down from the ancestors.

Of course, there are more rules than ever.

The Eastern Palace did not have these rules, and most of the servants in the Eastern Palace were dismissed, leaving only two rough envoy servants who swept the outer courtyard and two personal servants.

This was Chu Jiangli's meaning, Lu Jinyin didn't care about these things, he didn't care about the outside world at all, he only cared about where Chu Jiangli went and when he would come back every day.

Chu Yu has always wanted to enter the palace to serve Chu Jiangli, but Chu Jiangli did not agree. Chu Yu has other functions for him, and he does not want this narrow square sky to trap Chu Yu.

Chu Jiangli seldom went to the military training ground during this period, and only once a week. He could rest assured that there were cronies watching over the military training ground, and he never slackened in the palace. Looking at the book of war, even if Lu Jinyin is not interested in these, he will not show it, and he studies very seriously.

Because of Chu Jiangli's face, the emperor came to the East Palace to eat a few times, and when they met, he also quizzed Lu Jinyin, and Lu Jinyin answered all of them. At that time, the emperor's eyes rarely showed admiration .

It was getting colder, and the place where the eyes were covered was covered with a misty gray, and the breath turned into white mist and floated into the sky. Nie Zheng came back with silver bone charcoal from Guangchusi. They were all leftovers of waste charcoal, not to mention the thick smoke and choking nose. Last year, Lu Jinyin had a sore and itchy throat because of it, and he suffered from it for more than two months.

After Chu Jiangli came to the East Palace, the treatment in the East Palace was also different.

Nie Zheng walked outside the house with a big red lantern in his hand, and compared it to the tall eaves. He felt a kind of hope for the future in his heart. After all, everything is developing in a good direction now. He is holding the lantern. When she was about to step on the pillars to climb up, out of the corner of her eye she saw a rough servant girl standing in the distance with a broom in her arms.

Nie Zheng paused, and he walked over with the lantern in his arms. The maid suddenly came back to her senses, and the broom in her hand fell to the ground. Dodging Nie Zheng's eyes timidly, he murmured his lips twice, but never said a word.

Nie Zheng thought for a while before he remembered the maid's name, Lu Tong, she was not very old, only fifteen or sixteen years old, he couldn't understand Lu Tong's appearance for a while, and said: "Lu Tong, have you finished cleaning today? "

Lu Tong's eyelashes trembled, she raised her eyes to meet his and lowered her eyes, and said falteringly: "Do it, it's done."

She pursed her lips, and her two fingers were tangled together. She still hadn't mustered up the courage. A strand of her jet-black hair was bundled into a bun and scattered around her ear. Nie Zheng pinned the strand of hair behind her ear, puzzled. Said: "Do you need to find me?"

Lu Tong blushed and clenched the broom tightly in her hand. After a while, she said in a low voice: "No, it's okay. I just want to ask, do you need help?" She hurriedly added, "I, I know everything. , cut window grilles, sew clothes, I can do it!"

Nie Zheng was stunned for a moment. It was the first time that a girl was willing to help him. He didn't understand the little girl in the girl's heart, so he didn't refuse, and replied: "Not now, then I will trouble you in the future. "

Lu Tong finally showed a shy smile, with small dimples sunken deep in her cheeks, she blinked her round eyes, then smiled carefully, and said, "That's settled."

Nie Zheng couldn't figure it out, but he also felt that Lu Tong was a good girl, and she was willing to help her. His Highness loves to play, and often rubbed his robes. He was blinded by the dim candlelight sewing clothes every day, and he was clumsy. The sewing is also crooked and ugly.

Neither of them noticed Lu Jinyin who was hiding in the grass. Lu Jinyin held a ceramic spoon and stared at the two of them blankly. He squatted for a long time and no one noticed him. His chest was inexplicably dull. When he got up, he pouted and coughed heavily.

Hearing the sound, Nie Zheng turned his head vigilantly, and saw Lu Jinyin squatting on the ground, wearing a white robe, which he had put on for him in the morning, and the gilt hem was dragged on the ground, stained with mud. On top, two sleeves were buried in the soil, and his brain twitched just by looking at it.

When he walked over, Lu Jinyin was still staring at him blankly, Nie Zheng forced a smile, squatted on the ground and said, "Your Highness, let's go change some clothes."

Lu Jinyin pursed her lips and said, "I haven't finished what I'm doing yet."

Nie Zheng looked down and saw that the ceramic spoon Lu Jinyin used to dig the soil looked very familiar. When he looked again, he couldn't help but laugh. That spoon was for him to eat, and he didn't know that Lu Jinyin Where did he find it? His smile froze on his face, and he was speechless for a while before asking, "Your Highness, what are you doing?"

Lu Jinyin blinked, "Why are you so stupid, can't you see that you are digging a hole alone."

Nie Zheng: "..."

Seeing that he was still puzzled, Lu Jinyin couldn't bear his stupidity, sighed helplessly, took a long while from his sleeve, and then carefully took out an object and shook it in front of Nie Zheng.

As soon as the object was taken out, a strange smell of blood mixed with rot rushed towards his face. Nie Zheng's heart shuddered, and a bad premonition suddenly arose. Lu Jinyin did not do this kind of thing less in the past. He widened his eyes and saw the object clearly—a dead sparrow.

He heaved a sigh of relief in his heart, but it's okay, after all, it's not some kind of dead mouse, Lu Jinyin shook the sparrow in his hand, looked at him with clear eyes, full of innocence, "I just want to dig a hole and bury it. He stroked the sparrow's gray feathers sadly, and said in a low voice, "It's so poor, it's too cold, it froze to death."

Nie Zheng thought to himself, His Highness should take pity on himself, and he has to wash His Highness's clothes in this weather, but he couldn't say so, he could only say: "Your Highness, let the slave come, you should go and change your clothes to endorse, otherwise The general will be angry when he wakes up from his afternoon nap."

Lu Jinyin groaned, shrinking his neck reflexively, and looked around. He hadn't seen Chu Jiangli lose his temper with him yet, but he was still very scared. He didn't want Chu Jiangli to be angry.

He hurriedly stood up, patted the dirt on his body, the dust flew up immediately, Nie Zheng touched the ashes on his face, coughed and said: "Your Highness, go and wash up."

Lu Jinyin nodded, turned his head and walked away. After a while, he turned back and looked at Nie Zheng with a serious face. Nie Zheng felt a little guilty when he saw him like this. He was about to ask, when he heard Lu Jinyin stared, lowered her voice and said, "Don't tell Yueming."

Nie Zheng: "..."

Does His Highness distrust him so much? Is he a person who likes to sue?

After Lu Jinyin left, he dug the hole without complaint, and buried the treasure that Lu Jinyin picked up. After he finished all this, Lutong had already left. He looked at the sun, and it was getting late , he washed his hands and went to wake Chu Jiangli up.

When he entered the room, he found that Chu Jiangli had woken up a long time ago, and was leaning against the bed to look at his jade fan. There was a word next to the picture of a chicken pecking rice on the jade fan. The picture was ugly, but the word Vigorous and powerful, giving people a majestic sense of killing, this is Chu Jiangli's character.

Thinking of Jun is like a full moon, diminishing the brightness every night.

Nie Zheng shivered, thinking, it's really boring.

Chu Jiangli finally noticed him, and he knew what he was going to do with a glance, "What's wrong, Your Highness?"

Nie Zheng sighed and said, "Your Highness went to play with dirt again."

Chu Jiangli was speechless for a long time, and finally he just said: "Let your Highness go down, the East Palace is not very interesting, and imprisoning him is also boring, His Highness should be happy."

"But His Highness has already developed in a good direction, hasn't he? If His Highness is strictly disciplined, His Highness will definitely be able to return to the same level as ordinary people."

Chu Jiangli frowned slightly, and looked at him with displeasure, "His Royal Highness is no different from ordinary people now, but His Highness is a little naive. I don't want to hear what I said today again."

Nie Zheng said, "Yes, Lord."

After Lu Jinyin finished washing, he ran in with hot steam all over his body. Seeing that Chu Jiangli had woken up, he put aside all his worries just now, and hurriedly threw himself on Chu Jiangli, who caught him firmly. Stopped him and said: "Huai Bing, why are you wearing so little?"

Lu Jinyin remembered what he had done just now, feeling guilty, his eyes rolled around, and finally landed on Chu Jiangli's fair neck, he buried his head down sullenly, and bit his neck lightly. Take a sip, "I'm not cold."

Chu Jiangli didn't stop him, and let him make trouble on himself, he just said: "The weather is cold, what should I do if I have a fever."

Lu Jinyin was caught disheveled and put on more clothes. When he came back again, Chu Jiangli had already put on a bright red fox cloak. The fiery red fur made that fair and delicate face even more beautiful, and the sharp eyebrows and eyes became more beautiful. Suppress this gorgeousness by three points and add a kind of heroism.

Nie Zheng straightened Lu Jinyin's clothes, and said, "Your Highness, there is going to be a palace banquet in the palace tonight, so you have to go there early, and don't break the rules by talking casually after you go."

Lu Jinyin pursed his lips and listened to Nie Zheng's high-pitched voice. He didn't know how long Nie Zheng had been talking, but his head began to dizzy. Chu Jiangli finally couldn't stand it anymore and interrupted Nie Zheng. Long-winded, "Okay, the rest is up to me."

The palace banquet at night was said to be the grandest in ten years. Not only civil and military officials were invited, but also the third prince of Chinu, and even the number of family members of civil and military officials was twice as large as usual.

This also means that Chu Jiangli's grandmother will come this time. Chu Jiangli has not seen her grandmother for a while. After the news of the injury last time was reported to the general's mansion, her grandmother's eyes were red from crying. Hearing from Chu Yu, After scolding General Chu all day, he scolded him for not allowing Chu Jiangli to marry into the palace.

It's not that Chu Jiangli has never been injured before, it's just that grandma has to find an excuse to vent.

In fact, why didn't grandma know that no one could stop Chu Jiangli from deciding on his own.

Chu Jiangli lowered his eyes and unconsciously raised the corners of his mouth when he thought of his grandmother with a loving face. Lu Jinyin was puzzled, curiously leaned on him, and said coquettishly, "Whatever Yueming is laughing at, Gu wants to listen."

Chu Jiangli looked up at him, "Tonight, I will introduce someone to Huai Bing."

"This person is very important to me. She must be very happy to see you." He paused, "Because, as long as I like it, she will be very happy."