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The shadowy man pressed his body against the window of the bedroom, listened for a while, felt that he had not been discovered, and was sure that he was safe.

He slowly stretched out his hand, pushed open the closed window, and quickly hid himself in the queen's bedroom.

From his skilled movements and techniques, the night watchman in the palace could confirm that this person was an acquaintance who often came to the Queen's bedroom.

Under the cover of night, the black shadow turned to the side of the queen's bed, stared at the sleeping person in the tent with wide eyes, and stood quietly, not daring to make a sound.

From the sound of breathing in the tent, he seemed to be sure that the sleeping person would not be fake.

Suddenly, a terrified cry pierced the silent night, and the people on duty in the palace could hear that it was the queen's miserable cry.

"Please, please, please spare me!" Who was the queen begging for mercy in horror?

The black shadow trembled with fright, jumped onto the roof beam, and looked down at the ground.

He saw the queen suddenly throw off the quilt, stand barefoot on the ground, with disheveled hair, wearing thin clothes, looking at the window in horror, kneeling on the ground with a "plop", begging to the mid-air, begging for forgiveness of her crimes.

The Queen is crazy, the Queen is crazy.

How could the queen be crazy?

The black shadow man stared at the queen calmly with his astonished eyes.

"Queen, it's too cold in the ground, please get up, go to bed and rest, don't freeze!" The queen's personal old lady took a cotton coat and put it on the queen.

"I don't want it, I don't want it, I'm guilty, please forgive me." The queen knelt on the ground, clasped her hands together, and prayed to the air.

After tossing for a while, the queen finally lost her strength and fell to the ground, falling into a semi-comatose state.

The old nanny dragged the queen to the bed with great difficulty, let her lie down comfortably, covered her with a quilt, and sighed tearfully: "Poor!"

From the beginning to the end, there were only the queen and her close-knit old nanny in the room, other than that, there were no other people.

At this moment, the shadow man felt his heart ache. He jumped off the roof beam, stood by the bed, and watched quietly.

The old mama was startled, and opened her mouth to call out, but the shadow man covered her mouth, and said in a low voice, "It's me, don't call out."

"Well," the old nanny nodded vigorously, indicating that she had recognized it.

The black shadow man let go of the old nanny, and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong with the queen mother?"

The old mother looked at the shadow man sadly, pulled him into the dark of the bedroom, and told him: "On Qixi Festival, the queen was imprisoned by the emperor in the Kunning Palace because she offended Miss Lin, the future auxiliary princess. One night, the old slave heard a noise, got up to look at the queen, and saw that she was fine before going to bed at night, but she went crazy for some reason, and it has been like this now."

The black shadow man rolled his eyes a few times and asked, "After the mother was imprisoned, did the father or anyone else come to see the mother?"

The old mammy thought for a while, and said with certainty: "No, no one has ever come. Things are delivered to the door. Anyone who comes puts down their things and leaves."

The black shadow man walked over, looked at the emaciated queen, and told the old mother: "You serve the queen well, and I will thank you very much in the future."

The old mother knelt on the ground, kowtowed and said: "Serving the Queen's master is the duty of a servant."

Looking up again, the shadow man is gone.

The shadow man moved quickly, and he thought he was ignorant of anyone.

In fact, everything he did fell into the eyes of the night watchman in the palace, and he followed him all the way to the study of Prince Yi's mansion. He saw him open the secret compartment and hide his night clothes and dagger before he left calmly.

On this day, the sky was clear and the rising sun was particularly bright. It was a rare good weather in winter.

Shui Rong punched a set of punches on the shore of Chenghu Lake in Yuyuan, and danced with his sword for a while. Seeing that it was getting late, he handed the sword in his hand to Shi Jian and walked towards Zhilan Hall.Meeting Xueyan going out with a copper basin in her hand, she smiled and asked softly, "Is Yu'er awake?"

Xueyan pursed her lips mischievously and said with a smile: "Young lady is sleeping soundly, shall I go in and wake her up?"

"Don't, don't, I'm fine, just sit here and read a book, it's the same." Shui Rong smiled very well.

Daiyu heard someone talking in the outer room in the inner room, stretched her hands out of the quilt, stretched herself, and asked, "Xueyan, who are you talking to?"

Without waiting for Xueyan to answer, Shui Rong walked in and said with a smile: "It's me, come and see Yu'er, see if she's up."

Daiyu hurriedly retracted her arms into the quilt, blushing, and said angrily: "Why are you here? You haven't woken up yet, get out!"

Shui Rong was slightly startled and said, "Yu'er, didn't we agree to go to Gongzhuling to see plum blossoms today?"

"Then you can't just be like this, come to me, if this is known, what's the matter? I think you don't want me to live, you must let people's spit drown me." Daiyu said With thin anger.

"Good Yu'er, you don't want to sleep anymore, just get up, A-Shan and Xiugu prepared the car and things to go out yesterday, just wait for you to get up, and go out after breakfast." Shui Rong begged in a low voice with a good temper Daiyu.

Daiyu wanted to be angry, but when she saw him like this, she couldn't get angry, she sighed and said, "Oh! It's so frustrating. How can you tell me to get up here?"

"I turned around and just didn't look at it. I like the smell in Yu'er's room. It's an indescribable fragrance. It makes people feel good after smelling it." Shui Rong said, sucking his nose greedily a few times , really turned around, facing out the window.

Daiyu still wanted him to go out, but she didn't say anything, Zijuan smiled and persuaded Daiyu: "Girl, it's very windy outside today, the prince just came in after practicing the sword, his face is covered with sweat, if you go out, you will be so tired." It’s not good if it’s cold.”

Daiyu pouted, and said to herself angrily: "I really don't know who is your master?"

"Of course the master of the servant girl is you." Zijuan said softly, holding the clothes in her hand, and came to serve Daiyu with a smile.

She asked Zijuan to serve her, while staring at Shui Rong, paying attention to whether he kept his promise.

Shui Rong really faced the window, staring at the window without blinking.

As soon as Daiyu got dressed, Shui Rong turned her head.

Zijuan laughed and said, "How does the prince know that the girl is dressed?"

"Hehe, I can count." Shui Rong smiled happily with happiness blooming on his face.

Daiyu glanced at him, walked to the window, her face suddenly turned like a big red cloth, turned around, raised her small fist angrily, beat the water solution desperately, and said angrily: "You are bad! You are so bad!"

Shui Rong chuckled, deliberately dodged here and there, bowed and said, "I'm sorry, Yu'er."

It turned out that Shui Rong was standing here, and Daiyu could be seen in the reflection of the window glass.

In this era, there are many rules and regulations that restrain girls, especially girls from wealthy families. They were raised in deep boudoirs since they were young, and they have the most contact with their own women all day long. Even their own father and brother rarely meet and talk.

Most of them are shy when they meet people, talk shyly and blush, and give people a feeling of being coy. Few of them behaved generously like Daiyu, who was aloof and aloof and unconstrained by the suave and celebrity style of Tanhualang from childhood. Girls are hard to find in the world.

She has a similar personality to Ru Shui Rong, eclectic, and doesn't take the world seriously, which was rare at the time.

"Yu'er, please don't do this, please accept me to take care of you." Shui Rong begged earnestly.

Daiyu said softly: "I dare say that there are not many people like us in this world."

Shui Rong took it and said with a smile: "Yu'er, don't think so much, we live our own lives and have nothing to do with others."

Daiyu nodded slightly, and said with a smile: "Look at how lightly you said it, it's like living in a secluded fairy mountain Qiongge and not understanding the world of mortals."

"The less you know about ordinary things in the world of mortals, the better, so how much trouble you can save? Yu'er, we just need to be happy and don't care what others say. Because what those irrelevant people say will affect our mood, so it's not worth it." Shui Rong was serious. She persuaded Daiyu deeply.

The two chatted and laughed, and sat there together after breakfast, Zijuan Xueyan accompanied Daiyu in the car, Ah Shan drove the car himself, and Shui Rong rode the tall and handsome white horse beside Daiyu's car, heading towards Gongzhuling Set off.

Gongzhuling is in the southwest suburb of the capital, about twenty miles away from the capital.

There is a wide area here, surrounded by mountains, which is relatively warm. There are many plum trees planted in it, and the flowering period is earlier than other places.

Every year around the Spring Festival, the wintersweet tree here is full of a kind of flower heart with purple brown, the so-called "sandalwood chime mouth", which has a strong fragrance and gives people infinite reverie.

There is also the kind of flower with a white heart, which is euphemistically called "Bingxin Wintersweet", which attracts many young men and women in the capital to watch it as a strange flower.

There are flowers on every branch of the tree here, and there is no empty branch.

And it grows very densely, one next to the other, squeezed into a bunch.

Crowded and crowded, the bustling trees and flowers are full of flowers, and the yellow spit to the clear winter sky, under the sunshine of winter, blooming beautifully to the fullest.

The air in the valley is filled with a refreshing fragrance, which makes people feel refreshed and happy.

In this season, wealthy and powerful families in the capital like to bring their family members and subordinate Fengya to enjoy plum blossoms.

Those high-ranking officials and dignitaries are even more unwilling to be left behind, and some businessmen and celebrities bring geisha to enjoy plum blossoms and have fun.

Under the wintersweet tree, from time to time, you will see beautifully dressed ladies and beautiful maids, with smiles on their faces, lightly raising their bare hands, pulling plum branches, and lowering their heads to smell the fragrance of plum blossoms.Suddenly looking back and smiling, Xiao Lang was a passerby from now on, but he left people with endless aftertaste memories.

This picturesque and wonderful scenery often attracts many young men to admire the beauty from far or near.

Originally, she was a middle-class and lower-class family who was waiting for a daughter in a boudoir and hoped to be a good relative. She liked to bring her daughter to play. It goes without saying that she hoped that her beautiful daughter would be seen by the son of a wealthy family. Among them, mediators come to ask for a marriage proposal, which is interpreted as a natural fashion story of young men and women in the capital, and it happens every year.

Because more and more people come to play every year.

Thoughtful businessmen have built many exquisite pavilions and pavilions here, attracting wealthy and tasteful guests, inviting friends, and coming to watch the scenery and drink together.

In addition, there are also poor entertainers who come here to sing and dance, perform juggling, and earn a few rewards.

There are also some students who came to Beijing in advance to take the exam, and the down-and-out literati who came to Beijing to seek officials sat in groups of three or four, sitting under the plum tree, with a mat, a few cushions, a few lotus leaves wrapped in stewed vegetables, and a few pairs of bowls and chopsticks in front of them. , a few jugs of small wine, sitting there drinking poorly and slowly, talking nonsense, but also very interesting.

There are also stalls selling snacks, trinkets, and small handicrafts under the plum trees, forming a very interesting scenery.

In the peaceful and prosperous age, here is getting more and more lively every year.

Daiyu wanted to take her out to relax because of seeing Yingchun in pain yesterday, so after making an appointment with her to go out, she went to pick her up and Xiuju.

So when we arrived at Gongzhuling, it was almost noon.Daiyu's car didn't stop until the high hall with the "Qinxin" plaque hanging on it. As soon as Zijuan helped Daiyu out of the car, a beautiful woman in costume came down from the pavilion, giggling coquettishly and said, "Lin Girl, we've been waiting for you for a while, I'm afraid you won't come."

Daiyu raised her head when she heard the words, and it turned out that the princess was standing there, smiling and waving happily at Daiyu.

Qinxin Pavilion is built on a high place in the valley. There are only two floors in total. The roof is flat and a glass house is built. When the weather is fine, wine and vegetables are placed on it. You can enjoy the plum scenery during the day and at night. Moon and stars, Qinxin Pavilion is surrounded by dense wintersweet trees.

This season, Qinxin Pavilion seems to be floating in the sea of ​​plum blossoms.

In other seasons, Qinxin Pavilion seems to be floating in the green ocean.

This Qinxin Pavilion has the best view, the most high-end price, the most elegant layout, and it is also the place for the most noble people to relax.

This Qinxin Pavilion is not for ordinary rich people, only those who can sit here, at least nobles and family members of the first rank or above, are eligible to come in for a small gathering.

Of course, those famous prostitutes, singers, tasteful prostitutes, and beautiful pheasants are also allowed to come in.

In this beautiful plum season, this place is very hard to get a reservation.

Daiyu followed the princess into the second floor of Qinxin Pavilion, and saw that all the furnishings here have the charm of Jiangnan.

There are rosewood furniture, Suzhou embroidery curtains, fake celebrity calligraphy and paintings hanging on the walls, and exquisite palace lanterns of all sizes hanging on the roof.

Daiyu couldn't help feeling like a luxury restaurant in the south of the Yangtze River when she saw it, and suddenly remembered that when she was young, she was dressed in boy's clothes and went to a teahouse and tavern with her father to drink tea and wine.

The past is over, it is unbearable to look back, and then look back, Yin and Yang are separated by many years!

"Miss Lin, are you tired after taking the bus all the way? Sit down and drink a cup of Xiangxuemei tea, which is a famous tea unique to this place." The princess cordially greeted Daiyu to sit at the main seat.

Daiyu smiled and walked over with the Crown Princess on her arm, and gently pressed the Crown Princess on the main seat, while she sat on her lower arm, and took Yingchun to sit next to her.

The Crown Princess smiled, appreciating Daiyu's actions in her heart, and called her personal maid to serve tea.

Shui Rong stood beside Daiyu like a Bodhisattva, and he felt that there seemed to be no place for him to sit here.

He smiled and pulled a chair over, and said to Daiyu, "I'll just sit behind Yu'er."

Laughter came from the next door separated by the screen: "Brother Huang, your place is here."

Shui Rong looked at Daiyu embarrassedly and said with a smirk, "I'll go over and have a look, and come back later."

The Crown Princess looked at Daiyu and said with a smile, "Miss Lin, you are really blessed." As she spoke, she glanced at Yingchun.

Daiyu saw the look in the princess's eyes, and then remembered the introduction, and said with a smile: "This is my cousin Jia Yingchun."

Yingchun smiled, saluted generously and said: "Minutes see the Crown Princess, the Crown Princess is auspicious!"

The Crown Princess looked carefully at her weird attire that looked like a girl and a daughter-in-law, and asked unintentionally, "Are you the second girl of the Jia family?"

Yingchun replied in embarrassment: "Minnv has nothing to do with the Jia family."

"Oh," the princess blinked and looked at Daiyu puzzled.

Daiyu felt that it was not easy to say, so she turned her eyes to Yingchun.

"Ah! It's hard to describe in one word," Yingchun said with a sad smile.

The Crown Princess is a very well-educated woman. Seeing Yingchun recalling the past, her expression was mournful, and it was hard to say anything. Of course, she didn't ask any more questions. In her heart, she immediately liked the honest and gentle Yingchun. In addition, she was brought by Daiyu. Yu is a sister with a very good relationship, and treats her like a friend.

Although these people have lofty status, their hearts are still young.

The woman here whispered the secrets of her girlfriends, and chuckled from time to time.

The man over there said funny things loudly, often laughing with open arms.

When everyone was talking vigorously, someone from below reported that the lunch was ready and asked when it would be served?

Shui Rong and Daiyu are only separated by a screen, but still feel unsatisfactory and want to be with Daiyu.

Shui Che, who is good at scheming, of course knows about his small thoughts, having grown up in court battles.

Shui Che smiled and said, "Why don't we go to the top of the pavilion to have dinner, it's bright and you can see the scenery there. If you just eat here, it's really a beautiful sunny day, but it's a bit cold this winter. "

Shui Rong remembered that Daiyu's body was a bit weak, so he couldn't help hesitating.

Someone nearby laughed and said, "It's not cold. The roof of the pavilion is all covered with glass, so the cold wind can't blow in. Because there are female relatives, the shopkeeper ordered people to put several smoked cages around the corner. Even if it is snowing heavily, the inside is still very cold." warm."

Following the voice, Shui Rong came out together with the prince and the princess' brother Jie.

When the prince saw Daiyu, he was taken aback, and came over to say hello with a smile.

When Jie saw Daiyu, he was also stunned for a moment, and was shocked in his heart that there is such a beautiful girl in the world.

He bowed down to Daiyu politely and said: "Good luck, princess!"

Daiyu blushed and turned her head away.

Shui Rong said happily, "Excuse me!"

Jie walked up to Yingchun and saluted each other. There was a feeling of familiarity between each other, and they smiled at each other unconsciously.

In the glass room on the top of Qinxin Pavilion, two tables were originally planned to be set up, with male and female guests each occupying a seat.

Out of selfishness, Shui Rong suggested: "We are not too many people. We only have one table. Divide it into two tables. One is wasted, and the other has no atmosphere. Why don't we put two tables together and make everyone lively? How good would that be?" !"

Of course, Shui Che is obliged to support Shui Rong, and the princess is always a husband and wife.

Yingchun and Jie didn't say anything, they were very easy-going, Daiyu was the only one who disagreed.

The Crown Princess persuaded Daiyu in a low voice: "Miss Lin, here are all our own people, and there are no outsiders, so don't be too constrained by the emperor."

Dai Yu gave the Crown Princess a look, and said coquettishly, "I'm a commoner, and I'm not only obedient, I don't have the right to speak here."

"My God! There are ordinary people like you? Even our emperor looks at you everywhere." The crown princess exaggeratedly widened her eyes, covered her small mouth, and screamed in astonishment.

Suddenly, noisy voices came from below Qinxin Pavilion, Prince Shui Che frowned unhappily, turned his head and asked the personal eunuch, "Isn't this place reserved by us? Why is there such a commotion down below?"

"Going back to the prince, I booked this place a few days ago. I don't know who is so bold that I let the servant go down and have a look." Saying that, the eunuch ran down.

After a while, the eunuch ran up, with sweat dripping on his face, and reported to everyone: "It was Prince Yi who brought Princess Yi and others, insisting on coming up to meet the crown prince and the assistant prince. There are female relatives, Lord Yi said that he also has female relatives, everyone is a family, and they don't want to leave, they are waiting below."

Shui Rong seemed very impatient, seeing that Daiyu was holding hands with the Crown Princess, and Yingchun was standing next to her, standing in front of the half-opened glass window, looking at the golden wintersweet flowers below, whispering.

"Brother Huang, since Prince Yi is here with his family, if we don't let him come up, it seems like we're going to make people gossip again." Shui Rong looked at Shui Che, wanting to promise Prince Yi to come up.

To be honest, although every time Yi Wang sees Shui Rong, he doesn't smile or speak, he is more respectful than any brothers and sisters.

But Shui Rong always rejected Prince Yi in his heart, and felt that this Prince Yi's smile was always on top of his face, as if he was wearing a thick mask, giving people a very unreal feeling.

That Princess Yi, although she was well-dressed, smelled fragrant even if she was far away, every time Shui Rong saw her, it was like eating a fly, her throat felt itchy, and she couldn't help but want to vomit.Shui Rong secretly guessed: Such a person, even looking at him would be annoying, and Daiyu must also feel uncomfortable.

Originally, I was here to be happy with Daiyu, but if such a person came, it would definitely make Yu'er's good mood greatly diminished.

Since then, Shui Rong has become more and more unhappy, and his face can't help but sink.

Shui Che smiled apologetically at Shui Rong, shook Shui Rong's hand lightly, and after implying that he would forgive him a lot, he ordered, "Your Majesty, please."

Shui Che, who grew up beside Shui Jing and was used to watching court battles, is more aware of the relationship between people in the court than Shui Rong, who went to fight in the northwest not long after returning to the court.

He was very clear about the relationship between the seventh prince who committed suicide and the Yi Wang brothers, but he couldn't show any abnormal behavior before he had enough evidence.

The father didn't act. As the prince, he had to show his love and respect for his brother. He couldn't let people say that he killed his brother before his butt got on the dragon chair. A tyrant who can't stand even his own brothers.

The father is in the prime of his life, and he is not the only son.Be careful and make no big mistakes, take small losses to gain big advantages, this is the principle that Shui Che set for himself when he is not in power, he must abide by when he is a prince.