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"It turns out Miss Su is really right in calling you an idiot. You look like an idiot in a daze..." After Ye Lingxi finished speaking with a smile, she walked over and waved to the busy guards and workers around to stop saluting and continue. busy with their own work.

Zi Yuan smiled and clasped her fists and said, "My little one pays my respects to the princess."

Ye Lingxi said indifferently: "I heard from Jinnu that Captain Qi chose the moat as the competition point. I was really curious, so I decided to go out of the palace to have a look."

Ziyuan nodded, glanced back at the prototype of the grand event along the coast, and sighed: "If my sister can also participate in the National Fragrance Ceremony, that would be great..."

Ye Lingxi didn't know what to say for a while, so she could only sigh slightly.

The willow shoots on the moon, the river water is long and sparkling, everything seems to have stopped suddenly.

"Miss Su will come back..." Ye Lingxi raised her skirt and sat down on the river bank suddenly, her feet swaying slightly on the river bank. At this moment, she did not look like the imperial concubine at all, on the contrary, she looked like a commoner The ordinary girl, natural and amiable.

Ziyuan looked at Ye Lingxi in astonishment, coughed twice, and said, "Princess, this is outside the palace. If you are sitting like this, if others see it and spread it, I'm afraid..."

"Qi Ziyuan, you look less and less like the Qi Ziyuan I knew at the beginning..." Ye Lingxi smiled softly, her lips curled up like a crescent moon in the sky at this moment, making people feel inexplicable Warmth, "This is the first time I saw you, you dared to poison the well of the national temple. When you saw me, you didn't care about etiquette as much as you do now..."

Ziyuan shook her head and smiled, and sat on the bank of the river, "I was like a child who couldn't grow up, how could I know how to behave?"

"Oh? What about now? Is this palace getting smaller, or are you growing up?" Ye Lingxi asked quietly, the smile in her eyes widened by three points, she continued without waiting for Ziyuan's answer, "Ben The road after the palace is not easy to walk, I just hope to have more friends to accompany me along the way, Captain Qi, would you like to take a few more steps with me?"

Ziyuan was startled, then suddenly smiled wickedly, "Did the princess forget? The little one promised the princess to fall, and this life will be a cow and a horse!" After a slight pause, the smile became more solemn, "Perhaps the young one will ask the princess to help me."

Ye Lingxi smiled sadly, "Didn't this Palace promise you what you asked for in the daytime? You and Miss Su are a match made in heaven, and I am willing to grant you as lovers."

"Actually..." Ziyuan stopped talking abruptly, and said with a smile, "The most important thing right now is to help the princess complete the National Fragrance Ceremony."

Ye Lingxi smiled slightly, and looked back, as if she was waiting for someone?

Ziyuan couldn't help asking: "Princess?"

Ye Lingxi frowned slightly and said, "Strange, why hasn't Jin Nu come back?"

Ziyuan suspiciously said: "She always protects the princess every step of the way, it's really strange..." Ziyuan suddenly thought of the relationship between Seventh Brother and King Qi, and couldn't help but solemnly said: "Lin'an has been a bit uneasy in recent days, the princess still It’s better not to go out of the palace.”

Ye Lingxi smiled calmly and said, "If the whole world is dangerous in my own home, then the dream of a prosperous age can only be a dream..."

"Crash-"

There was a sound of water, and a small boat appeared on the river. The person who punted the boat, with gray hair, was Jin Nu.

Ye Lingxi asked in surprise: "Didn't I ask you to throw off Cao Boxiao and follow? Why did you come back in a small boat?"

Jin Nu said with a livid face: "This Mr. Cao is really a thick-skinned man, the servant deliberately drove to the outskirts, and he followed, the servant had to park the carriage in the suburbs, and quietly took a shortcut to get back. No, I was afraid that the princess would be worried about waiting for a long time, so I rented this small boat from the boatman at the entrance to the city, and rushed to join the princess."

"Jin Nu?" Ye Lingxi seemed a little puzzled, she looked at Jin Nu, wondering what she was suspicious of?

Jin Nu glared at Zi Yuan suddenly, "Captain Qi, this servant is really old, and I feel tired even after rowing, why don't you come to row the boat to send the princess back to the palace by water, and let the servant rest?"

Ziyuan was stunned for a moment, and she didn't have time to think about it. After all, Cao Boxiao was really capable of following Chushan. If Ye Lingxi didn't return to the palace sooner, she would be entangled by Cao Boxiao again. big event.Thinking of this, Ziyuan simply jumped onto the boat and said respectfully, "Princess, please."

Ye Lingxi stood up on the shore and saw the boat gradually approaching the shore. Jin Nu on the bow of the boat stretched out her hand and helped Ye Lingxi onto the boat.

"Jin Nu, what tricks are you playing today?" Ye Lingxi couldn't help asking in a low voice.

Jin Nu didn't answer Ye Lingxi directly, but just smiled meaningfully, lowered her head and helped Ye Lingxi sit in the small boat.

"Look, Captain Qi and Princess Chushan are in the same boat..."

"The only one who can get so close to Princess Chushan is Captain Qi, other than Prince Cao..."

"Could it be that... Captain Qi may also become the son-in-law..."

The soldiers of the imperial guards and the workers suddenly started talking in low voices, and those scorching gazes cast their gazes one after another, making Ye Lingxi's cheeks flushed suddenly, she lowered her head, and suddenly understood what kind of trick Jinnu was playing today?

"Didn't Ben Gong say..."

"Princess is such a good person, you shouldn't wrong yourself. This kind of person gives up without fighting for something, but she doesn't have the temperament of a princess at all..."

The two whispered in their ears, Jin Nu said it frankly, but Chu Shan felt that under the shyness was a deep sense of shame. At this moment, if she showed favor to Zi Yuan, she would undoubtedly be taking advantage of others. It shouldn't be!

Ziyuan is no longer the Ziyuan who didn't understand anything back then, seeing the blush on Ye Lingxi's face, she quickly turned her face away and concentrated on rowing.

After all, she is just a woman, she already owes too much to Sister Su, if she owes another woman, then she will really be guilty of a thousand sins in this life.

The lights on both sides of the bank are long, and the faint yellow is projected on the river water. Sometimes it is fragmented, and sometimes it is reunited.

Ziyuan's heart is like this, and Ye Lingxi's heart is also like this.

Those haunting thoughts made Zi Yuan and Ye Lingxi silent for the first time, not knowing what to say to dissolve the sudden condensed atmosphere.

Liu Si lightly brushed the river bank, and on the small bridge, a lonely black shadow passed faintly, and disappeared into the night.

At the other end of the moat, a painting boat has been standing there for a long time.

The candlelight swayed gently in the painting, and the person who had been silent for a long time finally spoke.

"Is everything I want ready?" There was a deep chill in the voice, and the woman who spoke was still so cold. After she finished speaking, she looked up at the smoked willows outside the painting boat.

"Zhan Xue, how can a brother neglect your orders?" Xiao Ye, King of Shu, finished speaking with a smile, clapped his hands, and signaled his subordinates to carry the things.

After a box of brocade boxes was placed in front of Ah Ling, Xiao Ye continued: "Zhanxue, the Emperor Dayun came here suddenly, clearly trying to lure me out to negotiate peace, why are you going to dip into this muddy water? "

A Ling glanced at the candle, and asked lightly: "Father is willing to let you act at the same time as King Qi, it must be because your health is getting worse?"

Xiao Ye's silence was a default.

A Ling said in a deep voice: "Perhaps you will think that the sooner the father dies, there is no need for me, the source of the deadlock, to stay. You can prepare a new national teacher to compete with King Qi's power Down."

Xiao Ye seemed to have been taken into consideration by what he said, and he dared not answer.

A Ling's sudden sharp eyes fixed on Xiao Ye's eyebrows, "If the father dies, the national teacher is still the national teacher, even if I haven't become the host of the emperor's gu, the chips in your hand are not enough to win Aye's family supports King Qi." After speaking, A Ling stood up, "You never raise Gu, you don't know that although the host of Emperor Gu is rare, as long as you have the blood of the Xiao family, you can still last for a few more days , as long as the old Emperor Gu does not die, which of those civil and military court officials who are afraid of the national teacher would dare to listen to your orders to shake the world?"

Xiao Ye couldn't help but gasped in shock, and said with a guilty conscience: "I never want the emperor's uncle to die..."

"It's best to never have such thoughts..." Ah Ling's faint voice sounded, but it was enough to warn Xiao Ye, "Father's body won't last long, so we have to search for the Longevity Cup, this time the National Fragrance Ceremony , we must not miss such a good opportunity!"

Xiao Ye endured the dissatisfaction in his heart, and smiled apologetically: "Now the dance clothes have been found, but who knows where is the performer?" After a pause, Xiao Ye whispered, "Su Zhexue is still missing Unknown..."

A-Ling shook her head and said: "I can cultivate a Su Zhexue, and then I can produce a second Su Zhexue. I have already prepared the performers, and all that is needed is the decoration of this painting boat and the cooperation of the musicians. "

"This is easy, but..." Xiao Ye was still worried, "I still have one thing I don't know. This Emperor Dayun is clearly not a womanizer. You have kept Su Zhexue in Lin'an for so long, and no one knows her reputation as an oiran. Didn't it also attract Ye Chengtian to call her into the palace?"

A Ling shook his head and said: "I was wrong in my calculations, and Shen Yuan would fall in love with Zhexue. Although Ye Chengtian is not emperor material, he is not a fool. He would not be angry with the powerful and powerful for a woman, so he will not touch Zhexue. .”

"In case the beauties performing this time are spotted again, then this plan won't happen again..."

"There will be no mistakes this time!" A Ling interrupted Xiao Ye's words, and said firmly, "Ye Chengtian has endured it for so many years, I believe this time he will be able to get along with him..." A Ling thought for a while, and suddenly Frowning, he told Xiao Ye seriously, "Cousin, you have to remember, if you don't want to discuss the peace talks with Princess Chushan in advance, you should not be curious about leaving the palace anyway, and watch this National Fragrance Ceremony."

"How many beauties do I have in my career, would I care less about the vulgarity of this big cloud?" Xiao Ye laughed mockingly.

A Ling glanced at Xiao Ye with a cool gaze, and said in a deep voice: "If you want Dashan, your best choice is to form an alliance with me, don't try to play tricks behind me..."

Xiao Ye sneered: "You don't have to remind me again and again, at least I have more sincerity in forming an alliance than you."

"Really?" Ah Ling asked coolly, "The soldiers and horses you have secretly stationed outside Hanxi Pass can be withdrawn. At this time, you are trying to attack Hanxi Pass in vain. You are weakening your own power." Then, Ah Ling took a step forward and approached Xiao Ye, "You and I know how far we are from King Qi's power. If we don't save some troops now, I'm afraid I will win against Guo Xiang." This step of the Grand Ceremony will not bring back the decline of you and me."

"you……"

"Cousin, compared to King Qi, you are still a little younger..." A Ling finished speaking coldly, walked to the window of the painting boat, looked at the long river, and sighed, "I have suffered a crushing defeat, how much do you think you have?" What are the odds?"