stealing from you

The days in King Jin's Mansion are very leisurely, enjoying flowers, tea, moon and wine.

In this remote courtyard, Yusheng no longer remembers how many days and months he spent.

There are maids who come to clean the yard every day, and there are more gossips:

"After the prince brought this woman back last month, he has been shutting himself out, eating and drinking in the room. It's really evil."

"This woman is a remarkable person. You haven't heard of it. The prince has planned for a long time to imprison her in this courtyard. It is said that this is the future Princess Jin..."

"What nonsense, she has become a princess, what should the princess do?!"

"..."

The chirping sound of birds came to her ears, and the teacup in Yusheng's hand shattered. She looked at the not-so-high courtyard wall, like an insurmountable barrier, trapping her in it.

Yusheng never imagined that he would end up today.

On her way to and from Yaoyao Valley, she was left in a private house overnight by a heavy rain on the way. In that private house, she met Duan Qing.

Knowing from Duan Qing that someone was going to harm Ye Zhou, out of concern for Liansheng beside Ye Zhou, Yusheng sent Zi Sangtuo, who was about to investigate something, to visit Liansheng along the way, and handed over the weapon Duan Qing gave to Liansheng. Let Zisang Tuo carry it over.

After staying in the private house for three days, Yusheng set out on his way home alone.Who knows that Prince Jin's soldiers and horses are ambushing her in front of her. It is true to say that she is outnumbered, but what she is more curious about is the purpose of Prince Jin.

He is ambitious and scheming, he is definitely not a man who would mobilize soldiers at will for his children's private affairs, he besieged Yaoyao Valley with a thousand elite soldiers, as long as she escapes, all men, women and children in Yaoyao Valley will die.

It's not that Yusheng doesn't have the urge to break the boat, but she still wants to wait until things turn around. What's more, what Prince Jin wants is her life.

The fine white jade teacup was broken, and Yu Sheng picked up a piece, cut his finger with it, and threw the bloody piece in front of those noisy maids. She said coldly, "Send it to your lord."

"Why do you order us?" The servant girl objected.

Yusheng turned up another teacup on the table, poured tea, blew on the heat from the cup, and said, "You don't have to send it, someone will take it for you."

The two servant girls ignored Yusheng and left with the broom. As soon as they left the yard, they were cut in half by a figure falling from the sky.

Blood flowed like a river, and the smell of blood dissipated with the wind.

The figure turned into a young man in a black cloth shirt in the wind, with a navy blue hairband and a gloomy face.

He walked into the yard, picked up the broken jade on the ground, turned around and walked out.

Yusheng drank tea with his eyes closed, as if nothing had happened.

There was a knock on Prince Jin's door, but no one answered.

"Guard Xuan, didn't the lord tell you to go in without knocking on the door in the future." Such a sentence came from the roof.

Guard Xuan opened the door and entered the room, but the room was empty.

As if he was used to it, Guard Xuan found the mechanism on the bookshelf familiarly, opened the secret door, and there was a bright secret passage inside.

Going down the stone steps, guard Xuan saw a secret room at the end of the light.

Prince Jin is admiring the paintings on the wall of the secret room.

"My lord." Xuan Huwei knelt on one knee.

"Didn't I ask you to guard Yusheng?" Prince Jin asked calmly, standing with his hands behind his back.

Guard Xuan raised the broken jade over his head: "She ordered someone to give this to you."

Lord Jin turned around, picked up the broken jade in the palm of Xuanwei, stared at the blood stains on it, rubbed it lightly with his fingertips, and said, "Did she eat well?"

"Eat very little."

"Then give it a few more times." Lord Jin held the broken jade in the palm of his hand, "She can walk anywhere in the palace, and those gossips will be dealt with. Except for freedom, she will give whatever she wants."

"Yes." Xuan Huwei took the order and left.

Blood flowed from Lord Jin's fingers, but he ignored the pain in his palm and stared at the drawing paper on the wall without taking his eyes off it.

……

A mountain of delicacies was piled up in front of Yusheng, and at a glance, there were dozens of dishes.

She couldn't help asking: "What's the meaning of five meals a day in Prince Jin's Mansion?"

The boy who delivered the food was not very old, lowered his head and tremblingly said: "Yes, yes, it was ordered by the prince, I want, I want you to eat more, eat more."

"..." Pigs can't eat so much.

After the boy who delivered the food left, Yusheng began to pick food from the table full of dishes, and then put the untouched dishes back into the food box. She put the food box at the door, sat back at the table, and said: "Don't cook these dishes in the future, I don't like them." After she finished speaking, she looked towards the door, and the food box was gone.

The efficiency of the people in the palace is really...flying speed.

When she was full, Yusheng walked out of the yard. She visited the palace once, and then she didn't bother to go out of the yard. Now it's for entertainment.

Having experienced famine, she knows that food is precious.

I didn't meet any servants of the palace along the way, and the palace was eerily quiet under the moonlight.

Walking to a waterside pavilion, Yusheng sat down, and she watched the fireflies dancing by the water for a while, fascinated.

After a while, Yusheng said, "Give me a flute."

Soon, Guardian Xuan appeared on the stage like a ghost again, presenting a jade flute with both hands.

Yusheng took the flute, and the guard Xuan immediately ran away without a trace, the speed was comparable to lightning.

After playing with the flute for a while, Yusheng played the flute, and the beautiful tone swayed across the pond. The breeze blew the lotus leaves, and the water in the pond was full of waves.

Frogs croaked all over the sky, and the sound of the flute was melodious. The evening wind carried the sound of the flute far away, crossed the high wall of King Jin's Mansion, and echoed for a long time.

Prince Jin was not far behind Yusheng, just watching silently, but he couldn't touch it.Lord Jin knew that as soon as he got close, the picture in front of him would be shattered.

After the song was over, Yusheng looked back, but there was nothing, but just now, she did feel someone's gaze.

In Prince Jin's mansion, except for the guardian Xuan who watched over her, there was only one person who would come to see her, and Yusheng didn't think about that person.

Guard Xuan was basking in the moon on the top of the gazebo, and Prince Jin had just joined them.

Bored, Xuan Huwei propped his chin to look at the moon, the more he looked at it, the more he felt that the huge full moon looked like the pork biscuits sold at the street in the morning.

Yusheng returned to the courtyard with the flute, Prince Jin flew down, and guard Xuan followed closely behind.

"Don't approach her yard at night, she is very vigilant." After explaining to Prince Jin, he felt uneasy, and added: "Send a stupid little girl to wait at the door of her room."

Stupid?Guard Xuan was a little confused.

Prince Jin saw his confusion, and said with a smile, "It's the stupid ones that make people unsuspecting."

"..."

Before Yusheng fell asleep, he heard footsteps coming from the door.

Guard Xuan would never step into this yard at night, and the sound of his footsteps was very light.

"I was sent by the prince to watch the night. If you have anything to do, girl, just call me." The girl standing at the door was about ten years old, her voice was low and inaudible, and she could clearly hear her nervousness.

Yusheng's distaste for the rich and powerful Prince Jin's Mansion added an extra point.

In comparison, Ye Zhou who pampered Liansheng and provided him with food and drink, and even gave him a room to sleep alone was simply a living Bodhisattva.

The little girl at the door didn't hear the response from the room, and she was terrified. If she offended the people inside, she would be beaten.

But all night, the house was silent, without any movement.

The next day, the little girl was rewarded with a full meal and new clothes.

"You have to thank the girl in the yard well, take good care of her, and you will have a good life." The old servant who has been teaching her said so.

The little girl wore new clothes to thank her, but she was not qualified to enter the yard during the day, and she did not dare to enter casually.

While hesitating, Yusheng came out from inside.

The little girl blinked her eyes, she had never seen the girl living in the yard, so she was a little dazed.

Yusheng saw her, a very small and lovely girl, with shofar braids and a somewhat loose dress, her eyes were jet-black, round and big...

Speaking of which, when I was a child, my mother dressed Lian Sheng as a girl and took her to the temple fair.

Thinking of Liansheng, Yusheng smiled lightly, touched the little girl's head, and passed her by.

Was, got patted on the head? !The little girl had never been treated this way, and she didn't recover for a long time. When she recovered, she had already been led to Prince Jin.

"This, give it to Yusheng." Lord Jin, you give her a green pendant.

The little girl knelt on the ground, took the pendant, and held back for a long time before mustering up the courage to ask, "Yusheng, who is it?"

Sure enough, he was very stupid. Prince Jin's satisfaction with the child increased, and he smiled kindly: "It's the sister who touched your head this morning."

"Ah." The little girl came to her senses.

"Go, give this to her." Prince Jin waved his hand, and the little girl was taken away.

Holding the pendant, the little girl came to the back garden full of flowers, and she saw Yusheng studying a blooming flower.

Being pushed, the little girl staggered two steps and walked directly in front of Yusheng.

"Is there something wrong?" Yusheng didn't turn his head.

"Yusheng, sister?" The little girl was successfully misled by Prince Jin and called out such a title.

Yusheng turned around and was not surprised to see her.

"This is for you." The little girl thought of her mission and handed the pendant to Yusheng.

This is the emerald ornament hanging on the flute...it's really extravagant, Yusheng accepted it, "Thank you."

"It's from the prince." The little girl didn't dare to take the credit.

Of course Yusheng knew that she just didn't want to mention Lord Jin, so she changed the topic to the flower she had been looking at just now, "Do you know what flower it is?"

The little girl had never been to such an elegant place in the back garden, so she could only shake her head.

"This is peony." Yusheng said, "It's medicine."

"Peony...it's medicine." The little girl repeated.

Yusheng caressed the petals of the peony flower with complicated eyes, "It has another name, Jiangli."

"Will leave?"

"Yes, Jiang Li." Yu Sheng was a little careless.

It took many years for the little girl to understand the meaning of Yusheng's eyes at that time: farewell.