Even though the storm is about to come, Purantai is also in a strange kind of calm.
Yin Shang guessed that the matter of Emperor Yongzai's lingering on the sickbed could not be hidden for too long. After all, there were royal families in Pulan Terrace. Except for Jiang Yixue, who was really unpopular and weak, there would be rumors in other families. Send a message and tell them to be careful in everything.
Sure enough, within half a month, even Suo Qianyu knew about the changes in the palace and hurriedly came to Yin Shang, feeling a little confused.
Yin Shang reassured him and said: "Although Emperor Yongzai is ill, he can still survive for a while. If someone takes advantage of the chaos and raises an army, the family will send someone to pick us up. Don't worry."
Suo Qianyu nodded worriedly, thought for a moment, and said, "You said...if Emperor Yongzai dies, can I take my sister back?"
Yin Shang's mind turned around for a moment before he realized that the sister he was talking about was Wang Ji, the Moon Branch Chief in the palace.
When he was young, he was still ignorant, and under the influence of his father, he kept away from his sister and younger brother. However, when he became more sensible, he realized that the purpose of Wang Ji's coming to Dingzhou was completely different from that of his coming to Dingzhou.
When he was eight years old, he mustered up the courage to pay his respects to Emperor Yongzai and proposed to meet his sister who had become a palace concubine.
After Emperor Yongzai agreed, he followed the eunuch through the long and winding palace corridors of the harem, and saw his sister who was locked behind layers of palaces.
We haven’t seen each other for three or four years, but we are in a foreign country, but under the control of others.
The two siblings didn't say much, but as soon as they met, their eyes became red.
Since that time, Suo Qianyu would visit his sister every month when he was paying his respects, and the relationship between the siblings has also improved a lot.
Hearing this, Yin Shang shook his head and said: "Your sister is pregnant. As long as she can give birth smoothly, she does not need to be buried according to the ceremony. However, it is obviously impossible to return to the moon branch."
Suo Qianyu grew up and became much smarter. He immediately caught the loophole in her words and said, "On the bright side?"
Yin Shang raised his eyebrows and repeated: "On the bright side."
He smiled and said, "I understand, Sister Yin." After saying that, he didn't have the intention to sit down any longer. He hurriedly thanked her and immediately got up and ran out the door.
Yin Shang looked at his back and continued to sip the tea in his hand.
Over there, Lin Boyu saw Suo Qianyu leaving, so she walked in and said to Yin Shang, "Your Highness, the Second Queen of Tingxi said that she would have a birthday the day after tomorrow and invites you to come with her."
Yin Shang glanced at her suspiciously and said, "The day after tomorrow?"
Lin Boyu nodded and said, "The day after tomorrow, the people around Er Wangji came to tell me in person."
It's not like Zhou Yuan has never held a birthday party in the past, and everyone came to support it, but with the current situation this year, it's impossible that she didn't know about it, so she still held it.
Yin Shang had a gut feeling that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell where it was.
birthday? At most, she just brought them together, and it was clear that under her name, she couldn't do anything to them... That's why.
She really couldn't understand it for a moment.
Lin Boyu seemed to feel something was wrong and asked softly: "Your Highness, are you going?"
Yin Shang nodded and said, "I must go, but I don't know what she wants to do."
Yin Shang didn't believe it if she just wanted to celebrate her birthday.
Lin Boyu thought for a moment and said, "Could it be that Ting Xi knew about Queen Xi Di's plan?"
Now the eldest daughter of Emperor Yongzai, Zhou Li, was dissatisfied with the throne and wanted to join forces with her aunt Tingxi, Princess Yongning and Zhou Zhu to rebel. After Queen Xidi Zhou Wan found out about this, she postponed her plan to attack Emperor Yongzai and planned to After Zhou Li takes action, he will reap the benefits. If Zhou Yuan finds out about this, the most he can do is catch Zhou Xiangxun and threaten Zhou Wan, so why gather them all together.
Yin Shang shook his head and said, "It doesn't look like that. Let's go and take a look tomorrow. I don't think she will do anything big now."
She looked pale, raised her hand gently, and drank the tea in her hand.
Zhou Yuan is not a fool, on the contrary, she is very smart. After so many years, Yin Shang can also see that she deliberately hides her clumsiness, and presumably the other party can also see her.
…
That night, Yin Shang went to find Jiang Yixue as usual.
The two of them had just expressed their feelings to each other and made a promise, which was naturally the most sticky moment. Yin Shang came to see him every day.
The lights were turned off in the room, and only the bright moonlight shone down. The two of them sat in the lounge chairs by the window, leaning against each other and whispering in the quiet night.
"...Then what? Does it snow in the winter in Nianping?"
"It's raining, but it hasn't snowed heavily. It's just a thin layer. You can still go hunting in the winter."
"Have you been there too?"
"I went there with my mother when I was a kid, but I didn't catch anything."
Hearing this, Jiang Yixue laughed softly, her face particularly dazzling under the moonlight, and said softly: "You must be able to do it now."
"Well," Yin Shang held his slightly cold hand and said, "I'll take you there when the time comes."
His smile did not change, he leaned into her arms with a blush on his face and said, "Yin Shang, will you really take me away?"
Once I got something I had planned for many years, I had already given everything I could, so much so that I was so concerned about gains and losses.
Yin Shang moved his hands, hugged him into his arms, and asked softly: "You don't believe me?"
Jiang Yixue hurriedly shook her head and said, "No," he looked up at him, with a little fear and uneasiness hidden in his cyan eyes, and said, "I believe you, but I really don't want to go back to Dongpei. "
That place was his nightmare. In the deep palace, he was beaten, scolded, bullied, hungry and cold for many years. Everyone could speak softly to him and everyone could step on him.
When his father wanted to send him away, his mother tried her best to stop him, but was mercilessly stabbed through the heart by the guard beside him.
Thinking of his mother's death, his face turned pale and he held Yin Shang's hand tightly.
Yin Shang noticed it, squeezed his hand harder, intertwined their fingers with his, and said, "I won't let you go back." She turned her head to kiss his forehead, and then kissed the tip of his nose. , finally hanging above his lips.
The two breaths intertwined, the atmosphere was ambiguous, Yin Shang's voice was tender, and he said softly: "Trust me."
Jiang Yixue stared into her eyes for a long time, then gently raised her waist and offered herself up.
Their lips touched each other lightly, and they separated as soon as they touched.
Jiang Yixue's face turned red and she was a little confused. Just as she was about to chase him, she was hugged by Yin Shang.
She hugged his slender waist tightly with her arms, kissed the side of his face lovingly, and said, "Wait until I marry you."
Hearing this, he didn't know what he thought of, his face turned even redder, he hummed softly, and stayed in her arms obediently, hugging her safely.
He really hated the injustice of fate, but fate made him meet Yin Shang.
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Two days later, everyone was invited to attend Zhou Yuan's birthday.
Not many people came. In addition to her, Jiang Yixue, Suo Qianyu, and Zhou Xiangxun, there were also Cui Jun from Shibai, Feng Zhaoqing from Jiwu, and Ru Yanyun from Xiangzhen. In addition, either Those who are not familiar with each other are either in the same class as Zhan Lubo and Shen Yuexi and have no friendship with them.
Zhou Yuan sat at the top, with a sincere look on his face, and said without concealment: "Everyone knows that the current situation is unstable. If we part ways this time, we don't know when we can meet again. Therefore, I invite everyone to come here. For the last time, I Although we are from different countries, we have been together for eight years, which is also fate."
Hearing this, everyone's expressions became a little more sincere, and they gestured to her from afar and drank all the wine.
Yin Shang's ability to drink is not very good, so she has been restraining herself from drinking too much. To be sure, she always carries anti-alcohol medicine with her.
In the second half of the banquet, everyone was a little drunk, and they joined together to play drinking games, and drank even more wantonly.
Jiang Yixue was still sober. Last night, Yin Shang specifically told him not to drink too much and also gave him sobriety medicine.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but smile and glanced at Yin Shang not far away calmly.
He was sitting in a posture, with his back straight and his waist slender. He was wearing a sky-blue robe with a cross-collar collar, and his neck was extended to show off his neck. His face, which was so beautiful that it was so beautiful, was stained pink due to alcohol, making it even more beautiful and charming. This glance also looked at Shen Fei, which made people lose three souls and seven souls.
However, this heartbreaking scene was not noticed by Yin Shang who was having fun not far away, but it fell into the eyes of another person.
The atmosphere in the courtyard was joyful for a time. Yin Shang played with them for a while and they all won, but Zhou Xiangxun lost miserably and drank several pots in a row.
However, just as she gradually let down her guard, she suddenly smelled a strange fragrance.
Her nerves suddenly became tense and she immediately held her breath.
The people around him were drunk and didn't feel anything was wrong at all. Even Zhou Yuan was still drinking with Zhou Xiangxun.
But within a quarter of an hour, everyone began to feel dazed and fell to the ground one by one.
Zhou Xiangxun also rubbed his forehead, put his hand on her shoulder, and said in a vague voice: "Yin Shang, why am I so dizzy..."
As soon as she finished speaking, she rolled her eyes and fainted in Yin Shang's arms. Yin Shang also pretended to be exhausted and passed out in the next breath. He put his sleeves under his mouth and nose and gave himself a hangover pill first. .
After a little while, the lights in the courtyard suddenly went out, and everything in front of him became pitch black. Yin Shang listened carefully, and heard a rustling sound not far away, followed by several chaotic footsteps.
There seemed to be a sound of the courtyard door opening and closing from the backyard, and the whole house fell silent again.
After waiting for dozens of breaths, Yin Shang carefully opened his eyes.
The room was dark, with only a few rays of moonlight streaming in from the window, and the swaying outlines of people on the ground could barely be seen.
She carefully propped herself up and looked around. After a few breaths, she lifted her up and lay on her body, looking around and pushing her.
There was no response from the other party.
Yin Shang had no choice but to stand up and walk forward looking for a place to stay.
She wanted to take Jiang Yixue and Zhou Xiangxun away first to avoid anything happening.
But when he walked around, there was no one at Jiang Yixue's place.
Yin Shang's nerves were tense all of a sudden, and his heartbeat was a few breaths faster. Worried that he hadn't seen clearly, he searched around again, but there was still no trace of him.
After being frozen in place for a moment, she suddenly realized what the banquet was about.
She subconsciously glanced in Zhou Yuan's direction, but she was still sleeping in a daze, with no sign of waking up.
There was no time to think about it further, so she hurriedly ran towards the backyard. The door was slightly closed, and there was a bamboo forest path outside.
Yin Shang stepped onto this path carefully.
Behind their yard is a bamboo forest. Behind the bamboo forest is a small lake with a cloister and a water pavilion. This place is elegant and unique, and people come to play or enjoy the scenery on weekdays.
At this time, the doors and windows of the water pavilion were closed, and it was dark.
She was not sure whether Jiang Yixue had been brought here, so she could only proceed with caution this time. However, just as she stepped onto the corridor, a moderate collision sounded in the water pavilion, which was particularly clear in the silent night.
Yin Shang reacted, hurriedly walked forward, knocked hard on the door, and asked in a drunken voice: "What are you doing? Keep drinking?"
There was a pause for the sound inside, and then there was the sound of the window opening and closing, and a burst of rapid footsteps sounded messily, and soon disappeared.
He probably ran away from behind the water pavilion.
Yin Shang didn't try to chase him, but immediately opened the door and walked in.
There were only a few tables, chairs, and a soft couch in the water pavilion. The moonlight poured in from the open window, illuminating the mess.
Jiang Yixue fell on it, pulling at her torn and messy clothes in shock, looking at her with fear.
When Yin Shang got closer, he discovered that his hair was disheveled, there was a clear palm print on the left side of his face, and a trace of blood seeped out of the corner of his mouth. Even so, he was still breathtakingly beautiful.
But it is precisely because of this that all parties covet him more.
Seeing someone approaching, Jiang Yixue first took a few steps back in fear. When she saw clearly that it was Yin Shang, she seemed to have grasped some life-saving straw, loosened her tight grip on her clothes, and rushed towards him crying.
"Okay, okay, it's okay, it's okay." She caught him, patted his back to comfort him, quickly took off her robe and wrapped him up, staring out the open window with gloomy eyes.
He hugged the person in his arms tightly and called her name while crying: "Yin Shang, Yin Shang... wu wu wu..."
Yin Shang's eyes were cold, but his voice was gentle, and he said: "I'm here, I'm here, it's okay, be good, it's okay."
She hugged him sideways and said, "I'll take you back first." He sobbed in her arms and hummed with a trembling voice.
…
Until the medicine was given, Jiang Yixue still looked like she was in shock, clutching Yin Shang's sleeve tightly and not letting go for a moment.
Yin Shang hugged him and asked softly: "What's going on? Have you seen who it is?"
Jiang Yixue shook her head and said slowly: "I felt a little dizzy when I was in the house, so I took the medicine you gave me, but, I was still a little groggy, and then I felt someone lifting me up. I wanted to move but couldn’t.”
He swallowed, leaned into Yin Shang's arms again, and said, "I felt myself being put somewhere, heard someone talking, and soon someone came to take off my clothes, and I struggled hard... It was too dark, I didn’t see clearly.”
When he said the last sentence, he was already crying. Yin Shang hurriedly stroked the uninjured right side of his face and said softly: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid..."
She lowered her head to kiss him, no longer leaving him at the touch of a finger. Instead, she opened his teeth and kissed him deeply to soothe his emotions.
Jiang Yixue wrapped his arms around her neck subconsciously and felt his tears falling down his cheeks and between their intertwined lips and teeth, and he didn't know who swallowed them.
…
Yin Shang stayed in his room until the sky turned white.
Jiang Yixue slept very uneasily, so Yin Shang did not put him on the bed, but held him and slept all night.
When he had to go back, Yin Shang gently shook him awake. Jiang Yixue immediately opened his eyes and looked at her in panic.
Yin Shang lowered his head and kissed his lips again, and said warmly, "I have to go back."
The uneasiness in Jiang Yixue's eyes flashed, but she still obediently came out of her arms, sat on the bed and looked at her with a pitiful little face.
Yin Shang felt a little distressed and touched his long, cloud-like hair and said, "You stay in the room and don't go out. If anyone comes to see you, they will complain about illness. I will come to see you in the evening."
Jiang Yixue nodded and saw her turn around and walk towards the window, but subconsciously stepped forward and grabbed her sleeve.
He was about to cry, straightened up and approached her, his voice pitiful, and begged: "Kiss me again, Yin Shang."
