Xiao Yungong was stunned for a long time, and then raised his eyes to accept it, with a slight blush on his round cheeks.
She put him on the ground and said: "Hey, our county prince is really heavy, you should go alone!"
Yungong quickly took the tiger and ran to the screen. He smiled at Qingya, then walked outside the screen and got into the arms of Wanyanyong who was playing chess with Kuike.
Wanyanyong twisted a white piece in his hand and was about to play the game, but Yun Gong touched it. He suddenly took his hand off and said dotingly: "This child."
Mingxuan saw Yun Gong's cute look and staggered away, then said to Gong Ren: "Look, this child is not inseparable from Qing Ya. Normally, he makes a fuss when someone else hugs him in the house."
"A child! It's normal."
Gongren raised his eyes and saw that the candles on the candlestick were getting dim and the coals in the furnace were about to burn out. He said, "Xuan'er, are you and Lu'er going back tonight? It's snowing heavily outside again!"
Tantan took over: "Yes! Sister-in-law, why not stay overnight at Li's house tonight!"
She paused and spoke a little louder: "It still depends on what the king means."
Wanyan Yong looked inside the screen: "Okay, according to the wishes of the imperial concubine, I will stay at my uncle's house tonight."
Li Shiju observed the chessboard between the two of them: "Of course, of course, I sent people to clean up the house earlier, just because I was afraid that it would be inconvenient for you, Lu'er, to return home."
"My uncle is still careful. After Na Kui Ke and Gu Wang finished the last game, they took a rest."
Kuike smoothed his sleeves and said, "Okay, okay."
Wanyanyong said slowly while playing chess: "Uncle, Wulu will take Qingya to the government in a few days."
"Okay, just pick her up and let her be disciplined!"
"What my uncle said is absolutely true. Wulu will treat Qingya well."
In front of the screen, the two of them were chatting freely. Only Kui Ke glanced at Qing Ya behind the screen with distress. She could vaguely be seen sitting upright, listening to their words, feeling secretly sad and silent with her head bowed.
Qingru suddenly spoke provocatively: "What's wrong with my second sister? Are you still unwilling?"
Everyone sitting here saw the tears in Qingya's eyes. Gongren had no choice but to lower his head. Xianke, who was reading in front of the small window, slowly closed the book. Qingru shook her head, only holding her Gu Tantan asked cautiously: "Little sister, don't think too much!"
After hearing this, she suddenly couldn't help her emotions, so she stood up, her thin figure swaying in front of the dim candlelight. She bowed her head and asked: "Sister-in-law Mingxuan, please talk to your sister-in-law." After talking, Qingya felt a little tired, so she went back to the embroidery building first."
Mingxuan saw that she was leaving: "Qingya, I will come with you today! If you are sleepy, go back and rest first. I will come later."
She looked into Mingxuan's eyes and nodded: "Okay, Qingya will go back first."
She walked slowly towards the screen alone, then saw the majestic figure of Wanyan Yong, then staggered two or three steps to the door.
It took Li Shi a long time to notice:
"Qingya, what are you doing? The king is still here!"
Wan Yanyong raised his head and said to her: "It's okay! I'm afraid Qingya is sleepy, let her rest early!"
Li Shi thought for a long time before answering: "Okay, you can go ahead!"
With the permission of the two of them, Qingya took small steps, stepped across the threshold, and walked along the small stone path. She took two steps and rested, taking a closer look at the remaining flowers and white snow around her. The cold wind blew away the delicate red flowers and flew through her hair. Sticking to the plain decoration between her buns.
She walked alone along the small corridor, red tears secretly hanging on her clothes. Her steps seemed to be filled with helplessness and heaviness. She leaned on the railing and looked out. In the courtyard, there were several rare trees with red beauties, standing against the railing, and caressing the snow on the railing. , it was actually stained with ice.
She was disappointed in her eyes and murmured in her mouth: "Why does the world treat me like this? Why?"
When she was lost, mist appeared in her eyes, and her whole body was trembling. Frost fell on her cheeks, making her shiver from the cold, but she did not move a step. She was alone and worried, hiding her tears for fear of being asked. Steal injury.
At three o'clock in the evening, I was lying on the wooden bed in Qingyaju's surroundings with a square pillow reading a cyanotic book. After taking a bath, Mingxuan came in wearing plain clothes and rolled up the curtain.
"Qingya!"
She turned her head and paused, then got off the bed again after a while: "Sister-in-law is here!"
"Get in bed quickly, it's cold outside!" Mingxuan was so concerned, and she slowly got into the quilt again.
Cuihe led Mingxuan to sit in front of the bronze mirror, and served her at the side, gently combing her hanging hair.
She caressed the red paint on the dressing table and carefully opened her simple makeup powder box. She saw that the powder inside was already caked in small pieces, mixed with many gray particles, and there were many unused powder boxes beside it. Yes, it seems to be new makeup powder and rouge.
She frowned slightly, then stood up and looked around her embroidery building. Although it looked like all the utensils were in place, when she got closer, she saw that they were all shoddy and inferior products, and the curtains were all made of not very good fabrics. , together with the clothes she usually wears on the small rack, it seems that the stitches are uneven and the embroidered flowers are crooked.
Upon seeing this, Qingya asked: "Sister-in-law, what's wrong with you?"
She pursed her lips and replied with a smile: "I'm wondering what kind of flowers are on your clothes. Why are they so unique? The crooked stitches are different and have a unique flavor."
After Mingxuan finished speaking, she walked to the bed and lifted up the quilt. She pinched the thick quilt, looked at the neat and detailed embroidery on the quilt, and then quietly lay down.
"I don't know. I wonder if all the brothers and sisters in the family are like this? How unique is that?"
"You think it's the same?"
Qingya nodded obediently: "I haven't looked at it carefully. Pay attention to what these are doing."
Cui He lifted the bed curtain and bowed his head and retreated, leaving only one candle behind before retreating, and all the others were extinguished.
The two of them were lying on the bed, their eyes facing each other, with only the dim candlelight flickering in their eyes. Mingxuan gently stroked her back: "Qingya, why are you still not warm under the bed after sleeping for a long time? , this Tangbao is so cold."
After saying that, she took out a porcelain round vessel wrapped in velvet from under Qingya's body and placed it on the small cabinet beside the bed.
Qing Ya smiled slightly: "Oh, I've been like this since I was a child. I can't get warm all year round. Now I'm used to it."
"Come, come closer to me, your hands and face are cold!" After saying that, Mingxuan pulled her arm over, but suddenly saw her trembling.
She was being pulled, and the old wound ached again, and she was afraid of being found suspicious, so she smiled and moved into Mingxuan's arms, pretending to be relaxed.
"Why don't you lie down well? How can you sleep well lying down like this?"
"I'm used to sleeping like this now, it doesn't matter! It doesn't matter."
Mingxuan seemed to have noticed something, so she put her wrist on the pillow and met her eyes: "Qingya, have you been living well these years?"
She swallowed the sour taste in her mouth and replied with a smile: "What are you talking about, sister-in-law? Qingya is naturally living a good life!"
"really?"
"How dare you lie to our imperial concubine!" Qingya smiled foolishly and covered Mingxuan with the quilt again.
"Sister-in-law, I have been following you and my cousin for a long time since I was a child. Come to think of it, now more than ten years have passed."
"Yes, if we hadn't gone to Liaoyang six years ago, we would have grown up together."
She raised her head and spoke: "It's only been six years, but the friendship between my sister-in-law and I is as deep as the ocean. Time cannot be measured."
"Yes, now His Majesty has asked your cousin to serve as an official in the capital for a few years, and then to sit in Liaoyang City. Your cousin means that in the past few years, he will be walking around among the Jurchen and Bohai tribes, and he will not appear so cold. By the way, I'm thinking about returning to Liaoyang after I accept you into my house," she said while looking at the sky in trance.
Listening to these words, Qing Yaben raised her head and quietly fell on the pillow: "Sister-in-law and brother Qin Se harmoniously, what should I do?"
"The king really likes you. If you don't enter the Yongguo Mansion, then wherever you go, you will see that I got married when I was only eighteen years old. I have always been in poor health. If it were a girl from an ordinary family, who would You don't have to get married when you are fourteen or fifteen! You will be thirteen soon. If you haven't thought about marriage yet, what will you do when you do?"
She hesitated and said: "I... have my own thoughts."
"What are you thinking about? You cling to the king when you urinate, you want him to pamper you, want him to love you, and now you want to regret it?"
"How can the love between brother and sister be compared with the love between husband and wife?"
"You two are not brothers and sisters. Taizu once said that my nephew's family has the meaning of Qi Jiang and Zhou Ji. If you get married, you will be more intimate. Besides, I looked at you and you were stiff-spoken. Just now you were here. I watched you two being intimate in the corridor, and now I don’t believe this rhetoric.”
"That was a misunderstanding. He forced me to do it."
"Girl, don't be too strong. Although you and the king are cousins, he is also the king above one person and above ten thousand people! In this world, except for your majesty and the empress, who can disobey his orders? He is willing to By accommodating you like this, it proves that he cares about you, don't go too far and ask for trouble!"
She paused and sighed, and said calmly: "I just can't explain it to my sister-in-law. Sister-in-law, please go to bed early!"
After saying that, she turned her head away and closed her eyes to sleep. Mingxuan raised his head to look at her and felt uncomfortable all over again. After a while, he also fell asleep on his own.
During the night, Mingxuan suddenly woke up, stood up, leaned on the bedside rails, and put his hands on the wooden cabinet beside the bed.
She caught a glimpse of a drawer that was not closed tightly, so she reached out to close it. After pulling it out for a long time, the drawer was stuck in the hole, so she pulled back with both hands, and with one pull, the drawer was completely pulled out. .
There was a small box inside the drawer. Out of curiosity, she opened the box lightly. It was full of thick stacks of letters, large and small.
She looked through the notes one after another, but saw that they were all signed by one person - "Yuan Gong."
Mingxuan knew something immediately, and his eyes widened. He quickly put away the letters one by one, put the box full of letters in the drawer and closed it, and fell asleep stroking his chest as if he was frightened.
I lay down but did not fall asleep again until the next day.
