Gongshang Confidante

Zhou Chiyu chuckled, looked at her slyly, and said, "My name is Chiyu, Zhou Chiyu",

"Chi Yu..." Su Muxue muttered silently, looking down at the stove, stroking the hollowed-out plum pattern on the stove cover with her fingertips.

Casual thoughts, slight regret, although I can no longer call Zhao'er, it is good to call her boudoir name,

Chi Yu, Chi Yu, Yanyan Yufei, and Chi Qiyu.

"Muxue, it's so cold." Zhou Chiyu put his hands together on the stove as well. It seemed that he was going to cover Su Muxue's hand, but it landed in the right position, not far or near, and he couldn't touch it.

"Well", Su Muxue nodded in response, and withdrew her thoughts. She is a smart and sensitive person, and she can say nice things, but when she is in front of Zhou Chiyu, her mouth is very clumsy. She doesn't know what to say, and she thinks it's good to get along quietly .

"Why did you come out of the Imperial Academy?" Zhou Chiyu asked naturally,

Su Muxue moved her fingertips closer to Chi Yu's fingers. Chi Yu's fingers were white and slender, her nails were pink and neatly trimmed, and she blurted out, "Go to the Metropolitan Procuratorate",

"Why go to the Metropolitan Procuratorate?" Zhou Chiyu continued to ask, Su Muxue lowered her head, her fingers were longer than Chi Yu's, probably, um, there was one knuckle, she continued to move her fingertips, and then Getting closer, almost bumping into each other, he asked casually, "Why did your highness go out?",

Zhou Chiyu seemed to be dissatisfied with her rhetorical question, and raised his fingertips. The fingertips that were about to approach were far away, and repeated in his mouth, "Call Chi Yu",

"Huh?" Su Muxue looked at the far away fingertips in a little disappointment, and looked up at Zhou Chiyu's dark eyes, reflecting her somewhat helpless eyes, and heard Zhou Chiyu say, "From now on, Mu Xue will call me Chi Yu." , Her Royal Highness, it sounds very natural."

What Su Muxue misses most is Chao'er before she was six years old, and misses the days when she got along with her in Gu Zhai in Suzhou.

During the days when the two were separated, they were finally estranged, and even when they met for the first time, what she saw on Chao'er's face was strangeness and indifference, without the joy of reunion.

Is it because she made a promise when they finally separated, but she didn't enter the palace to see Chao'er for four full years?

Was she annoyed that she wouldn't let herself call her Chao'er again?Do you think you don't deserve to call her by her name again?

"Chi Yu, during those four years, I..." Su Muxue wanted to explain, but Zhou Chiyu didn't want to hear it, "Chao'er is a baby name, so it's not appropriate to call it anymore", as if knowing what she was thinking, Zhou Chiyu explained, no It means nothing else, it's just that she has grown up and can no longer use her baby name, that's all.

Su Muxue nodded in agreement. She was four years older than her next year. Her thoughts were like mirrors in her eyes. She could see clearly. look out.

Following her line of sight, by the snow-covered lake, where the boulders sheltered from the wind and snow, a crab claw lily protruded. Or due to the cold, the petals are tightly wrapped into buds and cannot bloom.

"It's been four days, and it hasn't bloomed yet? After the flowering period, it can only wither," Zhou Chiyu said with emotion, looking at the only bright red plant in the desolate scenery,

Su Muxue took her words, "If you order someone to remove it and plant it in a flower garden, I'm afraid it will be easy to survive."

Zhou Chiyu shook his head, the corners of his mouth slightly turned up, his eyes moved back, and he said calmly, "The kind of life that is sheltered is called living. The ice and snow refine the soul, and the bitter cold quenches the bones. Either die silently, or live proudly and freely",

It is clear that there is still a smile in the corner of the mouth, but the words are clear and sharp, and the corners of the slightly curved eyes are light, sharp and bright.

Looking at her clear black eyes, Su Muxue couldn't hide her sharpness, showing the power and dignity of the emperor's aristocrats, and what flowed in her body was the blood of the emperor.

Zhou Chiyu's eyes flowed and did not move, clear and settled, like stagnant pool water, with things that could not be traced, perhaps others could not see it, but Su Muxue understood it very well.

That thing has never existed before, but now in Zhou Chiyu's eyes, it occasionally flashes faintly.

That thing is called ambition.

"Go back to the Imperial Academy!" Zhou Chiyu said, "Get up the sedan chair! Imperial Academy!" Xia Ling exhaled whitely and shouted, her hands were so cold that she couldn't feel it, she stomped her feet vigorously, the little ancestor finally agreed to leave.

Su Muxue looked at Chi Yu in a daze, disbelief, shock, hesitation, and pity welling up in her heart, she was not like this, the one who held her hand, yelled presumptuously, but was easy to coax with a piece of candy Zhao'er, that's not the case.

What happened during those four years of being neglected, bullied, and favored again?

Zhou Chiyu didn't speak, and focused on the changing expression on Su Muxue's face, until the sedan chair was lifted up, and Su Muxue was startled, then she remembered the business and hurriedly said, "Grand... Chi Yu, I have to go to the Metropolitan Procuratorate",

"It's getting late, let's have dinner with me, Mu Xue." Zhou Chiyu's words were soft, but unquestionable.

"En", Su Muxue nodded, she would certainly like to have dinner with Chi Yu, or go there later.

Seeing that her mind was wandering, Zhou Chiyu said, "If there is something important, let the maid deliver a letter first." Su Muxue shook her head, thinking about Cao Ping's

He said, "It's not a big deal, but it's important. There's a pleading paper sent over there, but there's no news. I'll go there in person later."

Zhou Chiyu raised his eyes to look at her, and said with a light smile, "The editor of the Imperial Academy has nothing to do with the affairs of the Metropolitan Procuratorate."

Whenever she talks about important things, she always looks calm and breezy, but Su Muxue knows that the softer her words are, the more important they are, just like Chao'er in the past, the more she wanted, the more she spoke. don't care.

"It was a paper handed over by the common people who stopped the official sedan chair. The Yamen and Dengwengu didn't dare to accept it, so I handed it directly to the Metropolitan Procuratorate." Su Muxue explained, originally, the official affairs should not be discussed with the princess. , but she just mentioned it without going into details, in order to talk to Chi Yu more and break the barrier of alienation between the two.

While listening to her talk, Zhou Chiyu took an incense shovel from the incense tube to smooth out the ashes in the stove in a slow manner, poked a small hole with the incense chopsticks, took out a piece of fire barrier made of fire raccoon from the jar, took the incense Chopsticks took a piece of incense cake from the blue and white lotus leaf incense jar, and put it on the fire partition.

She held the hollowed and carved furnace cover, closed it carefully, and said softly, "The Yamen dare not accept it, Dengwengu dare not accept it, I guess, the procuratorate has accepted it, and there is still no news. I am afraid that this person has a high rank. Small".

When the incense cake is heated, a faint incense escapes from the hand stove. It is as light as a plum, ethereal and boundless. The smoked clothes are dyed with a unique fragrance, which smells very good.This warm and fragrant sedan chair made Su Muxue not want to leave for a moment.

Su Muxue looked down at her act of burning incense, as if she had done it many times. It was indescribably beautiful and had a charm, even watching it was a kind of enjoyment.

Su Muxue was a little fuzzy, and couldn't help saying, "It's a lawsuit against Shi Caoping, the chief minister, forcibly buying people's horses and bullying the people."

Zhou Chiyu paused for a moment with his incense-picking hand, and then he just asked, "This is not a small matter, did Mu Xue discuss it with the prime minister?",

"Prime Minister agrees," Su Muxue replied, Zhou Chiyu's eyes were slightly cold, and he didn't mention the matter anymore, and only let Su Muxue go back to the palace with her for dinner.

Su Muxue was a little restless. She didn't know why Zhou Chiyu mentioned the prime minister, but she saw her eyes drooping slightly, thoughtful.

Xia Ling and Xia Sha were still watching the meal, Su Muxue frowned, seeing that Zhou Chiyu had only used a little, she waved her hand to ask Xia Ling to stop serving the dishes, couldn't help changing the serving chopsticks, and picked up the food for her. In the bowl, "The princess is thin, eat more",

Zhou Chiyu raised his eyebrows, the corners of his mouth slightly turned up, and said calmly, "Mu Xue has seen the riding and archery ceremony, I am not thin." After finishing speaking, he looked at her provocatively childishly,

Su Muxue thought of her heroic appearance when she shot down the black feather and hit the bull's-eye that day, and thought to herself that Zhou Chiyu was really in the crowd that day, and when she saw her at first sight, she thought about the later meeting and giving the bead, maybe she was waiting for it.

Thinking of this, his face became a little hot, and he pretended to be inadvertently lowered his head to drink the soup, but the roots of his ears turned red.

"Yes or not?" Zhou Chiyu asked, Su Muxue lowered her head, and only responded softly, the heat on her face went to her neck, and thin sweat started to form on her back.

"You guys go down." Zhou Chiyu motioned for Xia Ling and the two to back down, so that Su Muxue's embarrassment eased, and after the heat faded, she raised her head, her shiny skin was stained with a thin blush, and there was a little panic in her usually light eyes. Dodging and not daring to look directly at Zhou Chiyu.

"Why is your complexion blushing?" Zhou Chiyu asked inexplicably, "The soup is hot, and the room is warm." Su Muxue took out the silk from her bosom, and fanned it lightly, her eyes dimmed, annoyed at the young In front of Zhou Chiyu's eyes, there were times when he was restless.

"Muxue has always been calm and self-possessed, and she is upset today, but because of Cao Ping?" Zhou Chiyu asked, "Huh?" Su Muxue's mind was disturbed, and she was stunned when she suddenly heard her question.

Zhou Chiyu said indifferently, "Aunt Qing said before that those who are officials should be ranked by their virtues, and those who serve as officials should help the people with their bodies. No...", "If you are incompetent, you will be punished!" Su Muxue followed her without finishing her sentence The words, said in unison, Zhou Chiyu smiled at her lightly.

Su Muxue recalled the time when she was young, holding Chao'er and Xiaobao, surrounded by Aunt Qing in Gu's house and listening to her teachings, the corners of her lips curled up slightly.

"Mu Xue, you know the reason, but you don't know the relationship between Cao Ping and the Metropolitan Procuratorate. It's no wonder that the paper is like a rock and sinks into the ocean." Zhou Chiyu's words sounded, making Su Muxue's face darken.

"Mu Xue knows that Cao Ping is the husband of Xue Gui and his cousin. He is supported by Mr. Liu, the left censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. He is the out-and-out Xue faction among the two factions of the court, China and the Soviet Union." Zhou Chiyu's next words let Su Muxue's eyes were as cold as ice, and her heart was surging.

What does it mean that Su Muxue informed her grandfather Prime Minister Su about suing Cao Ping that day, and Su Zhinian acquiesced in her actions?It meant that Su Zhinian, the leader of the Su faction, knew that the Metropolitan Procuratorate wanted to protect Cao Ping, but he chose to stand by and watch.