foxy charmer

In the pavilion in the garden, Yu Chili asked Melo, "Recently, you seem to like playing the song Yulou Chunxiao very much."

Melo put her fingers on the strings, she turned her head and asked, "Don't you like to listen to it, my lord? If you don't like my concubine, I won't play it."

"Play yours." Yu Chili lifted his chin slightly, "As long as it is a song with heart, I will love to listen to it."

He sat for a while, squinted his eyes, propped his head on the stone table, showing a little sleepiness, "Recently, I have been busy with affairs in the imperial court, and I always feel sleepy from time to time, and I can't lift my spirits. What is a good way to refresh your mind?"

Melo smiled, "Guess, my lord, will my concubine tell you?"

Yu Chili smiled, "Yes, it's too late for you to persuade me to rest, why would you tell me how to refresh myself."

"Good sleep in the afternoon, the prince should go to sleep for a while." Melo said softly, "Let's go back."

"Okay, it's up to you."

……

Back at the Haitang Pavilion, after serving Yu Chili and taking a rest, Qiu Shi stepped forward with a strange expression.

"What's wrong?" Melo asked.

Qiu Shi glanced at Yu Chili who was asleep in his eyes, and whispered in Melo's ear, "The concubine Qiu just came, and she cried outside the courtyard for a long time, and the maid looked strange," she said. After that, he frowned and added, "Before the side concubine came, Yi'er came to invite you to the garden to enjoy the flowers with the side concubine. I'm afraid the side concubine saw the master and the prince."

Mello sighed, "Got it."

"Master..." Qiu Shi hesitated to speak, as if he wanted to remind something, but he couldn't say it generously.

"Go down." Melo closed his eyes, leaned on the table and sat down with a tired face.

She knew that Bai Shao was sad, and she was not happy with this man who humiliated her the first time they met.

This stalemate should change.

……

Qiu Baishao should have indeed seen the scene in the garden, she seldom came here for a few days, and when she came, she looked unhappy.

Melo didn't say anything to her, sometimes the words were too thin, and the stalk in the middle was not removed. She said it this time, and she would still be the same trouble next time.

The two of them have been like this for more than half a month, as if separated by a thin film, so hazy that they can't really get close.

Qiu Baishao was so indifferent, Qiu Shi couldn't help sighing, "When she was with the lord, the master didn't say anything, but when it was the master's turn to get closer to the lord, she put on such a cold face. Master... small door and small household My daughter, after all, is selfish. What you did before is really not worth it. "

Melo raised his chin to ask Qiushi to draw flowers for himself, and smiled lightly when he heard the words, "You are wrong, love is deeply responsible, I didn't care about it before, but it's because I don't care."

The pen in Qiushi's hand paused, "Master, you mean she can't rub the sand because she cares too much about you?"

Melo sighed deeply, "The word love is hurtful."

"The queen mother came to urge again the day before yesterday," Qiu Shi said after finishing the last stroke, checking for any mistakes, "It seems that the emperor's body is about to fail."

This sentence is thought-provoking. After a long while, Melo nodded and said, "That's fine, I'm tired too." She turned around and stared at herself in the mirror, as if she was looking at her makeup, but also as if she was talking to her. Look at each other.

She stared, then raised her hand, and unbuttoned the high tunic, revealing a slender neck and a pair of collarbones.This action is like opening the silk cloth wrapping the jade carving. Once the cloth is untied, the beauty of the jade is revealed.

However, this jade is so rare that people dare not take a closer look.Qiu Shi took a step back, lowered his head heavily, twisted his hands, and fixed his eyes on his toes.

The woman in front of the mirror stretched out her hand, and she touched her neck with her right hand, then closed her eyes and took a deep breath.

She imitated the posture of being locked by someone's throat, and tightened the five fingers of her right hand, and soon her face began to flush abnormally.She opened her mouth to inhale, and the feeling of her neck being strangled was instinctively frightening.

Suffocated, congested and numb, dizziness began to appear in front of his eyes.

Qiu Shi gritted his teeth and sobbed softly.

After a long time, Melo finally let go, she let go of her strength, and coughed for a long while on the table, only the woman's panting was left in the whole room.

After a while, she finally calmed down and wiped away the tears that overflowed from the corners of her eyes. It was not caused by sadness, and her face was calm.

Melo has never cried because of sadness in her life. She is too lazy to do anything, especially the laborious work of crying. She will never cry because of her own emotions.

The woman raised her chin to look carefully at the fingerprints on her neck, it was terribly red.

"It's still a bit lighter." She frowned, "Let's make do with it."

The skirt of the dress was still open, revealing a bit of the back, from which it can be seen how the woman's slender, white neck continued downwards, continuing the graceful figure under the clothes.

Hongmei leaned out of the wall, looking at the looming one, the appearance of the whole tree was even more imaginative.

"Come here." She said, her voice was still gentle and amiable.

Qiu Shi trembled, she didn't want to go there.

Melo looked back helplessly, her eyes sparkling, on that half of jade-like side face, matched with her eyebrows and eyes, a helpless smile on her lips, and the unfallen clothes, like four Yue Fangfei.

It's too beautiful.

"Come here." She called Qiu Shi again, "If you keep rubbing, the marks on the neck will disappear, and I will have to pinch again."

Qiu Shi finally moved a step, her face was full of tears, she stood in front of Melo, raised her sleeves and wiped her face before bowing her head.

Melo raised his head, leaving enough space for her.

Like a swan raising her neck, she opened her upper arms, caressing the back of Qiushi's head, and pressed her into her arms.

The skin was wet to the touch, it was wet tears, and then the collarbone was covered with tenderness, and after the tenderness, it hit a hard object.

Sobbing, Qiushi opened his mouth to bite the woman's collarbone, her teeth held the master's flesh, and she couldn't stop biting hard.

Melo hugged her, sighed lowly, and rubbed the hands on the back of her head in circles, "Silly girl."

Qiu Shi cried even harder.

She closed her eyes, her brows were tightly erected, and her eyelashes were trembling in pain.

Finally, she used her strength to bite out the marks.

The pain smelled like blood, and Melo froze for a moment, then quickly relaxed with restraint.

In an instant, Qiushi backed away.Melo patted her head, as if praising the student's teacher, and handed her the handkerchief kindly.

"Let's go find Bai Shao." She said, straightening and fastening her clothes, calmly, "Tell her, I really want to see her."

Qiushi pressed the handkerchief under his eyes, and bowed, "Yes." She didn't use the handkerchief to wipe off the blood sticking to her lips, she wiped it off with her own tongue.

She turned and walked out the door.Melo sat where he was, touched his collar, and after making sure everything was safe, he got up and sat on the kang bed, waiting quietly for someone to come over.

The waiting time was not long, Qiu Shi went there crying, his tone and demeanor were very unnatural, even though Qiu Baishao appeared indifferent on the surface these days, she always remembered Melo in her heart.

She instinctively felt that something serious had happened, so she hurried to Haitang Pavilion without thinking about dressing up.

When she arrived at the door, she saw Melo sitting on the kang bed from a distance. The woman's expression was indifferent, but it was different from the usual laziness. It was more like despair after exhaustion, with a hollowness and numbness. .

"Sister Mei..." She took off her cloak and walked over, "What happened?"

It wasn't until she sat next to Melo and took Melo's hand that Melo didn't realize she was coming.She raised her eyes and looked at Qiu Baishao.

Those eyes were as dazed as falling snow, and endless paleness piled up.She exhaled warm air, and a ball of white rose in the cold winter day.

Today's Haitang Pavilion has not yet burnt charcoal.

Qiu Baishao was startled, Melo's hands were so cold.

"I just want to see you." She blinked, her eyelashes fluttered, and the confusion in her eyes faded a little, with a little more vitality, but very little.

"Me?" Qiu Baishao laughed, "What's so interesting about me?" She looked into Melo's eyes, always feeling that she was hiding something from herself, "Sister Mei, do you have anything to say to me? "

Mello lowered her eyes, bowed her head and said nothing, just staring at the hands that were clasped by the two on her lap.

When she lowered her head like this, Qiu Baishao noticed something strange.It's cold in winter, and Melo is wearing a skirt with a half collar today, with a circle of rabbit fur rolled around the neckline. When she lowered her head, there was an abrupt red mark under the white rabbit fur.

Qiu Baishao was taken aback, she moved closer, pushed down the rabbit fur on one side, and saw the whole story——

On the woman's slender neck, there were bright red fingerprints, as if someone had strangled her, extremely ferocious.

Melo didn't expect that she would suddenly pick off his collar, so he was really startled, and subconsciously waved her hand away.

"What is that?" Qiu Baishao opened her eyes and stood up, "Is...is it him..."

"No, it's not him!" Mello denied very quickly, so quickly that it was almost obvious.

Qiu Baishao didn't believe what she said, she stretched out her hand to untie her skirt to check, but Melo held her tightly and refused to let her go.The more she refused to give way, the more Qiu Baishao wanted to see her. Her strength was stronger than Melo's. During the struggle, she tore open a corner of her skirt, revealing the bloody tooth marks on her right collarbone.

On the skin as white as jade, the blood color was even more glaring.

The place where the clothes were opened was a mess, and all the embarrassing things were ripped out. Melo lay down on the table, closed his eyes and wept silently.She finally didn't hold back, and cried embarrassingly, like a begonia that had been raped wantonly, falling into the mud, dying.

Qiu Baishao staggered and took two steps back in disbelief, "He, why did he treat you like this!" She had clearly seen that man calling her Luo Er and hugging her.

Melo shook his head, tears flowed down his jaw, across the fingerprints on his neck, and then flowed into his blood-stained muscles.

"Xu Shilang from the Ministry of Officials has repeatedly participated in the reform of people recommended by the prince," she smiled wryly, as if she was laughing at herself, but also seemed to find it ridiculous. With mixed feelings, those inexplicable emotions pooled into a spring, fell from the eyes.

"The prince went to question yesterday. He said that the prince even handled the matter in the backyard of the palace so biasedly, and the people who wanted to recommend it were mediocre."

"Then what does this have to do with Sister Mei!"

"Xu Shilang is my eldest sister's husband."

Melo raised her head, and she looked at Qiu Baishao sadly, with tears in her eyes, so hazy that she could only see the color of water, it was empty, there was nothing, and there was everything.

With just one sentence, the cause and effect are clear.

Yu Chili suspected that it was Melo who complained to his sister that he had been wronged in the palace, so Xu Shilang ganged up on his people in order to vent his anger on his wife.

"But he was still treating you a few days ago..." So tender.

Hearing this, Melo sneered, closed his eyes sadly, "The emperor's family, how can there be warmth."

After she finished speaking, she looked at Qiu Baishao sadly, covered her face, tears rolled down, and silly laughter sounded.

"I've had enough, I've really had enough, the sky in this mansion can't see the light, I don't want to hold on anymore, I wanted to have a good talk with you before I left, since you have found out, just right, let's bid farewell. "

"Sister Mei!" Qiu Baishao was shocked, she grabbed Melo's hand and made her look at herself, "What do you mean by that, it's just a misunderstanding with the prince, you are going to seek short-sightedness because of this trivial matter ? You are not such a person, you were very strong."

"It's not a trivial matter!" Melo, who seemed to be gentle in clinker, suddenly raised her voice. She screamed sharply, crying so hard that she couldn't open her eyes, and shook her head in despair, "This is not a trivial matter, it's not a trivial matter... Bai Shao, this is implicating me. The Mei family is full of disasters, I can't be so selfish..."

"How do you say that?" Qiu Baishao was frightened by such a crazy Melo, "Why did you implicate the Mei family?"

"Do you still remember that day when the queen mother announced me into the palace?"

Suddenly mentioning this matter, Qiu Baishao reacted, "I remember, sister Rimei came back very late that day." It seemed like she had cried.

"The emperor is seriously ill. Seeing that he is in danger, he intends to make the third prince the emperor." Melo calmed down a little, her voice was hoarse and weak after crying, full of tiredness. "The empress and the empress dowager are of the same family. The empress dowager always hoped that the sixth prince would inherit the throne. She called me into the palace that day to tell me that if I couldn't find out the hidden clues that the third prince had placed next to the sixth prince, I would have to use it privately." The Mei Clan was beheaded on the grounds of accepting bribes."

She said, her face ashen, "My lord doesn't even allow me to set foot in the study, how can I find out such a hidden secret."

Qiu Baishao was stunned.Therefore, after the queen mother called sister Mei into the palace, Yu Chili began to go to Haitang Pavilion frequently, not only because of Yu Chili's unilateral reasons, but also because sister Mei intended to keep him.The song Yulou Chunxiao was just one of the means by which sister Mei wanted to gain Yu Chili's trust.

That's how it is... No wonder Melo couldn't help saying that day, "My lord really trusts you, and he's even willing to tell you about the affairs of the court".

After she suddenly understood, before she had time to think deeply, she heard Melo muttering to herself, "The time limit is coming soon, she used her family to blackmail me, and once I die, she won't have to touch the Mei family."

"Sister Mei!" Qiu Baishao stood up, knelt down in front of Melo, and grabbed her forearm to make her look at her.

"If you go like this, how will your parents be sad, and how will I survive in this palace alone."

"Then what can I do?" Melo looked at her desolately, her eyes were covered with red, like ruby ​​soaked in a shallow stream, so clear that one could see the hopelessness in it at a glance.

"I don't have a choice," she said.

She had been crying for too long, and the tears not only wet Melo's face, but also wet the back of Qiu Baishao's hands as they dripped down at this moment.As if boiling oil splashed down, Qiu Baishao felt a burning pain.

"I can enter the study, the prince has no taboo against me." She said, holding Melo's hand.That hand was cold, Qiu Baishao used her own temperature to warm her up.

Melo opened his eyes, stunned for a moment, then slowly shook his head, "Bai Shao, do you know what will happen if the sixth prince ascends the throne?"

How could a tiger be allowed to sleep soundly on the side of the couch, this information was passed to the Sixth Prince, and when he ascended the throne, the first priority was to deal with his mighty brother.

For the sake of her family, Melo would rather give up herself, but Qiu Baishao has no choice, her only reliance is Yu Chili.She and Yu Chili are one body, one prospers and the other loses.

"I know." She raised her head, with seriousness and bottomless ruthlessness in her eyes, "But no one is more important than Sister Mei. Sister Mei is right, the life of the concubine is what we want , and only in those days can we no longer have any worries.”

"Bai Shao..." Melo's pupils shrank slightly, and he was so shocked that he couldn't speak for a long time.She opened her mouth several times, then closed it again. After a while, she lowered her voice, "He is your husband!"

Qiu Baishao sneered, her face was resentful and cold, but when her eyes fell on Melo, they turned into melting spring water, gentle and admiring, with deep attachment.

As if touching a beam of light, she raised her hand and lightly touched Melo's collar, where there was a hideous scar.

"Husband? I wish he was dead now." The woman breathed out, her tone full of infatuation.

"If he's dead, no one can hinder us anymore. Even if the sixth prince ascends the throne, he won't take revenge on widows like us. Sister Mei, he deserves to die. If he dies, we can be fine."

Melo was stunned, before she could react, Qiu Baishao had already made a decision for her.

She knelt at Melo's feet, rested her head on Melo's knee tenderly and lovingly, and interlocked her fingers.

"Sister Mei, Bai Shao loves you, Bai Shao is willing to do anything for you."

Don't be sad, she will take care of everything.

Sister Mei just needs to love her.

The author has something to say:

Pupu, why Melo casually mentioned "I really envy the life of the concubine".Of course, Mello's casual mention is too much, far more than this one.

After the finale has completely solved the mystery, everyone will read it again, and you will be able to see many meaningful small details. [For example, Melo knew what it was when he smelled the medicinal smell of Qiu Baishao for the first time. I haven't heard about the days. Melo lowered her eyes. Now she doesn't need to wait on the bed, and she doesn't need to be a housekeeper. She really enjoys a lot more happiness than Qiu Baishao."), but she has to wait for others to get better with herself before asking worriedly ,'What’s wrong with you?How can the prince have the heart to treat you like this'.Another example: Compared with the current Melo, the Melo who got along with the prince at the beginning was simply stupid. Basically, she would say whatever the prince disliked (Chapter 11. Yu Chili: "If it wasn't for the queen mother's persecution, I would have married Shaoer a long time ago. Already!" Mello: "Yes, I was given to you by the Queen Mother, how could you treat me like this?").There are many, many more little details like this. 】