A glance at the spring breeze

It stands to reason that there should be someone serving the prince, but after looking around, Ruan Lan didn't find half of the palace servants.

Ruan Lan took the little prince's hand, helped him pat the dirt on his body, and asked, "Where are all the maids serving His Highness?"

Yin Xuan shook his head: "Xuan'er... Xuan'er ran out secretly alone."

Ruan Lan wants to teach Yin Xuan that it is against the palace rules for the prince to climb over the palace wall to leave the palace privately, not to mention that the guards in the palace are so strict that it is impossible for the little prince to get out.But looking at the little prince's scratched palms and those eyes that were about to cry, he couldn't open his mouth no matter what.

Ruan Lan thought for a while, and said, "Today, I will help Your Highness go to the pastry shop outside the prime minister's mansion to buy some cloud cakes?"

"Really?" The little prince grinned and wiped the moisture in his eyes with his backhand, only a faint cry could be heard in his voice, "Master, do you really want to help me?"

"Well." Ruan Lan replied, "It's just that the minister is a foreign minister. If you buy pastries outside the palace and give them to concubines in the harem, even if it is through the hands of His Highness, you will inevitably give excuses for outsiders and ruin your reputation. Little, it will be bad for the imperial concubine's reputation."

The little prince frowned, nodded in agreement, and pouted his chin to pretend to be old-fashioned: "Master's words are reasonable, but... so what should I do?"

Ruan Lan went on to say: "Today I went to buy Yunpian Cake, and I will give it to Director Zhang early tomorrow morning, saying that it is a folk delicacy specially presented to His Majesty. Your Majesty will reward His Highness with a few slices, and then His Highness will bring the cloud slice cake to the noble concubine, won't you be afraid of other people's gossip?"

The little prince followed Ruan Lan's thoughts, and it was indeed a good strategy. He immediately slapped his thigh and agreed, "Okay! Let's do it like this!"

After Ruan Lan left, the little prince patted the ashes on his knees, and shouted to the air in front of him: "Come out quickly! He's gone!"

A girl who was half a head taller than the little prince jumped down from a pomegranate tree, and the leaves scattered all over the ground.

The girl looked clever and cute, her bright eyes were as clear as a mountain stream, and her pair of slender and curled eyelashes fluttered.She ran in front of Yin Cheng with small steps, nodded and praised: "Your brother did a good job, and my concubine will be very happy when she sees the cloud cake we brought her."

The person who came was Yin Fuyuan, the eldest princess of the palace.

Judging from her words, the little prince's rhetoric to Ruan Lan just now is obviously a bit of a "bitter trick".

The little prince was very happy, and he had no guilt in his heart for "deceiving" his wife: "When my concubine eats cloud cake tomorrow, my highness will definitely speak a few words of kindness for him in front of my father."

Yin Fuyuan was a little disdainful after hearing this, and patted her little brother's head: "You can save yourself. Alas! Let me tell you, I just secretly went to see the father. Guess what?"

"how?"

"Actually, it's nothing... It's just that I feel that Father is a different person in front of your wife."

"A different person?" The little prince frowned and recalled for a long time, "Father seems to be gentler to Mrs. Ruan than others, but I don't think it's okay, after all, I... Sister Huang, you helped me a few times before... After running away with so many teachers, now that Father finally found another candidate, it is normal to treat him better than others, right?"

Although the princess was still somewhat puzzled, she still couldn't figure it out after thinking for a long time, so she said: "Forget it, let him alone. It's Eunuch Zhang, I don't know if Mr. Ruan brought something, Eunuch Zhang will present it to the emperor. I have grown up so much, I have never seen anyone who dared to bring food from outside the palace for Father."

"I haven't seen it either." Yin Xuan frowned, and his mood suddenly became depressed, "I remember that Father doesn't like to eat cloud cakes. If the manager remembers this, he won't even ask Father if it doesn't work. The emperor threw them away."

After hearing this, the eldest princess pursed her mouth and said displeasedly: "If Mr. Zhang really throws it away, you can secretly go and pick up the Yunpian Cake, do you hear me?"

"Okay, okay, I got it, Miss Huang." Yin Xuan thought about it, and said "Hey!" , also need to walk a certain distance, if there is no one to lead the way for the first time, it will take some effort to find it.”

"I think your wife looks honest and trustworthy. Don't worry, he will buy it for us."

"Yeah, what Miss Huang said is true."

At this time, the setting sun had slanted to the horizon, and the fiery red afterglow diffused from the western sky and penetrated into layers of clouds.

On the other side, Ruan Lan had already left the palace, he looked up at the sky, and thought that he should walk faster, otherwise it would be dark when he returned home.The prime minister's mansion is in the southeast of the imperial city, next to the original Ruan mansion, only a few streets away from his current mansion, and it only takes a detour to get there.

Ruan Lan walked through the quietest and strictest area in front of the palace, and passed some government offices, and finally came to the bustling street.

Like Ruan Lan, most people are heading home after a day's work. Some people come from the market in the west, carrying a pole full of goods on their shoulders; He is holding a bow; some people are like him, returning home from the palace or government affairs after taking care of political affairs. direction.

With sharp eyes, Ruan Lan suddenly saw a person walking against the flow of people.If it was a stranger who didn't know his name, he would definitely turn his eyes away and look elsewhere the next moment.But as the two got closer and the other's face became clearer and clearer, Ruan Lan was stunned for a moment.

The man was wearing a dark green coat, his eyes were also an unusual blue color, his hair looked more curly than before, and his figure was indeed stronger than the surrounding Central Plains people——

"Qi Mo?" Ruan Lan looked at the man and blurted out.

Qi Mo obviously saw him too. He had no expression on his face, but when he saw Ruan Lan, he began to smile, showing a row of white teeth: "Ruan Lan! Why are you here!"

He jumped in front of Ruan Lan, looked around Ruan Lan, then narrowed his eyes suddenly, pointed at Ruan Lan and said: "Oh! I see, you are an official! I see you are leisurely on the street. Leisurely, won't the father of your sister-in-law who is a high official kill you?"

It was only then that Ruan Lan remembered that when Yin Zhan came to look for him in Qiumang Mountain, she had pretended to be his brother "Ruan Lin", so Ruan Lan had no choice but to nod, and followed Qi Mo's words: "Yes. You How did you come to the capital?"

Qi Mo snorted proudly: "I was hunted down again, and I ran to the capital in a panic, but once I entered the capital, I never saw their shadow again. I think they might be afraid of the imperial guards in the capital. Too many, dare not come in."

Ruan Lan was full of doubts: "Why are you being hunted down again?" Seeing that this is not the place to talk, "I'm going to the south to buy some pastries, after I finish shopping, you follow me back home, let's talk slowly. "

"Okay, yes."

Although the former Vice-President Wang has been promoted to be the current Prime Minister, the location of the palace has not changed at all. Even the road to the palace is the same as before. However, the tofu stall on the west side has been replaced by a stall selling nuts and melon seeds. , The cloth shop in the east was also changed into a small soybean oil workshop.Unexpectedly, that pastry shop was still making Yunpian cakes conscientiously. After a closer look, even the boss was still the old man with a big waist and a round waist.

It is not easy.

Ruan Lan went to the pastry shop to buy two big bags of Yunpian Cake according to the little prince's instructions.One bag was left for Ruan Lan's own house to eat, and the other bag was sent to the palace tomorrow.

On the way back, Qi Mo offered to help him share a bag of "heavy work". Ruan Lan walked in front and heard Qi Mo say to him, "Ruan Lan, I haven't had a full meal for a long time."

Ruan Lan guessed that it should be the result of being chased and killed all day long, sighed silently in her heart, and said: "You open the bag of pastries in your hand and eat it, first, I will ask my servant to make it for you after returning home some good food."

Qi Mo was very "obedient". As soon as Ruan Lan finished speaking, he quickly took three pieces of Yunpian Cake in his hand and put them into his mouth, looking like he was wolfing down for fear of being snatched by others, which showed that he hadn't eaten for a long time.

Qi Mo ate most of the bag in one go, and almost choked on the way, his lips and chin were covered with white flour foam.After eating almost, I said: "Do you know, I was chased by them, my clothes were all torn, and I had many wounds on my body, do you still have any wound medicine at home?"

"Yes." After thinking for a while, he felt wrong, "The clothes are all torn? I see that your clothes are fine."

"You don't understand this. I snatched my current outfit from a clothing store after I came to the capital. I snatched a few rolls of gauze to stop the bleeding. Otherwise, the wound would be exposed and my life would be in danger."

"Stealed it?" Ruan Lan was startled, and stared at Qi Mo for a long time, only to realize that although the suit Qi Mo is wearing now is dark green like before, it has a very different style and is quite different from before.Ruan Lan said: "Where did you snatch it, tell me, tomorrow I will ask someone to send the money to—"

Qi Mo was disdainful: "The shopkeeper of the clothing store didn't come after me, what are you afraid of?"

As soon as the words fell, the two heard the chaotic sound of dancing sticks behind them.

——"Catch the thief!"

"That's him! He broke into a shop and robbed him in broad daylight!"

"Catch them! Tie them up and send them to the government!"

"Go up—"

Just when Ruan Lan was staring blankly at the tall and thick man behind him, Qi Mo grabbed his sleeve and shouted, "Run!"