Prince Jing's Mansion is at the end of Shengjing City East Street, and the British Government's Mansion is in the middle of East Street, so it can barely be said to be on the way.
Now that the queen has spoken, there is absolutely no reason to refuse. Zhao Jie put down the blue and white jade cup with Chi pattern, got up and cupped his hands to Empress Chen and said: "The minister is taking his leave, it's getting late, and the queen mother will also rest earlier."
Empress Chen nodded and ordered Mother Qiu to take them to the gate of Qingxi Palace.
There is a Wang Qing Gai car parked outside the palace, its appearance is low-key, but its interior is gorgeous and extravagant. Wei Luo climbed onto the carriage on black lacquered nanmu pedals, opened the gold-embroidered dark-pattern curtain, and got in as soon as she lowered her body. In the middle of the carriage is a small mother-of-pearl table with purple lacquer painted with gold and landscape patterns, on which there are several kinds of melon and fruit snacks, including seasonal plums and yellow peaches, as well as nuts such as walnuts and almonds. Wei Luo glanced at Zhao Jie who came in from behind, and thought that this man really knows how to enjoy himself. The exquisite decoration in just a carriage is enough to show how meticulous his life is.
He is such a deep-minded person who doesn't show his emotions or anger, why should he help himself today
The carriage rumbled forward and gradually drove out of the palace.
Wei Luo couldn't figure it out, she rested her chin and stared at the walnut in front of her, her pink lips were slightly pursed, with an absent-minded expression. Zhao Jie's actions today have undoubtedly offended King Ruyang. King Ruyang has the military power in his hands and has made great achievements in battle. It is a very advantageous chess piece. Why doesn't he want it? Thinking of this, a flash of inspiration flashed in her mind, and she suddenly thought of something!
Li Song is Zhao Zhang's companion, so does King Ruyang plan to support Zhao Zhang
Thinking about it this way, it seems to make sense. She tried her best to search for the memories of her previous life in her mind. What did King Ruyang do to help Zhao Zhang? Has he expressed his attitude at this time? No wonder Zhao Jie wanted to attack Li Song, he probably wanted to use this opportunity to challenge King Ruyang, if he couldn't hold the chess piece in his hand, it would be better to destroy it, once and for all.
Wei Luo finally figured it out, it turned out that he wasn't trying to help him, but that he just gave him a chance to warn King Ruyang.
The little girl was sitting upright on Luo Yin's soft couch, with long eyelashes hanging down, she didn't know what she was thinking, she pursed her lips for a while, and then suddenly realized. When she finally figured it out, those dark and bright eyes sparkled, which made her whole little face much more vivid. In the words of Empress Chen, she was very spiritual.
Zhao Jie couldn't help but think of the scene when he saw her in the study today. She was riding on Li Song. He couldn't see her expression when standing behind him. He could only see her raising the arrow and aiming at Li Song without hesitation. eyes pierced. That small body contained enormous strength. At that moment, he thought that Li Song would definitely die, but he didn't expect her to stop at the last moment.
She asked Li Song if he was scared, her voice was soft and ironic.
Zhao Jie found it very interesting. He had people tie Li Song to the target to warn King Ruyang, but it was also to vent her anger. She is only six years old, so she can be so bold and presumptuous. If someone pampers her and pushes her back, how big a mess will it be
Zhao Jie saw that she had been staring at the walnuts on the white-glazed flower blooming Fugui plate, thinking that she wanted to eat them, so he took two and squeezed them in the palm of his hand, one of them was easily released. He peeled off the walnut meat inside, and seeing that Wei Luo still looked preoccupied, he couldn't help but raise the corners of his lips, and fed the walnut meat to her mouth: "Open your mouth."
Wei Luo was really thinking about something. She was thinking about what King Ruyang did in his previous life to help Zhao Zhang seize the throne? These are palace secrets, and there are not many folk rumors. She only remembers that Li Zhiliang was treated badly by Zhao Jie later. Not to mention the confiscation of military power, he was even dispatched to Changbai Mountain as an official, where the weather was freezing and the mountains were covered with heavy snow, so Li Zhiliang must have suffered a lot there.
It seems that standing in the right direction is very important.
Wei Luo's mind turned quickly, and she sorted out the situation in a short while. Just as she was about to see when she would arrive home, a piece of peeled walnut suddenly appeared in front of her. This is a fresh walnut. After the skin is peeled off, the white walnut flesh inside is exposed. It tastes sweet and fragrant in the mouth. She subconsciously opened her mouth, ate it with Zhao Jie's hand, raised her head and smiled sweetly at Zhao Jie, "Thank you, Brother Jing."
Zhao Jie withdrew his hand, put the remaining walnuts on the small table, crossed his legs, and looked at her with his chin propped up: "What were you thinking just now?"
In the past, he would have disdain to ask such a question to a little girl. What can a child think? It's nothing more than eating, drinking, drinking and playing. But she is different, she always surprises people, and there are all kinds of strange things in her head, which made him curious for the first time.
Of course Wei Luo couldn't tell him that she was thinking about her previous life. She thought the fresh walnuts were delicious, so she took the walnuts he had cracked and continued peeling them herself: "Brother Jing just shot an arrow at Li Song. His father, will his father be angry?"
Zhao Jie raised his eyebrows in surprise, he didn't expect her to be so thoughtful.
But so what? His purpose is to make King Ruyang angry, and he will be disappointed if he is not angry.
Zhao Jie smiled softly and looked away, "With this king here, what if he is angry?"
The carriage slowly drove to the gate of the British government. At this time, the sky was already dark, with only a little afterglow hanging in the west, reflecting most of the houses and streets in Shengjing City.
Zhao Jie carried Wei Luo out of the carriage, leaned over and licked her lips, removed the walnut skin on the corner of her mouth, and joked: "Eat less walnuts, lest you eat the other front tooth too. "
Knowing that he was laughing at her again, Wei Luo bulged her cheeks, and couldn't help but retort, "Big brother must have never lost his front teeth when he was young, otherwise why would he always laugh at me?"
After finishing speaking, he shrunk his mouth, turned around and left.
Zhao Jie couldn't help laughing, could the little girl be angry? He didn't mean to be against her on purpose, but he couldn't help but want to tease her when he saw her leaky front teeth. Who told her that her reaction was amusing and made people laugh.
Zhao Jie turned around and was about to get on the carriage, when he suddenly saw a young man in an indigo brocade robe standing at the gate of the British government residence, with a long body and a jade body, as clean as the wind.
Wei Luo didn't see Song Hui until she reached the door, she opened her mouth in surprise, why is he here so late? "Brother Song Hui?"
Song Hui must have stood at the door for quite a while, and picked her up with a smile, "Why did Ah Luo come back so late?"
Today, he heard that Wei Luo was going to enter the palace as an accompanying student for Princess Tianji, so he rushed over to have a look. Unexpectedly, after waiting for two hours, Wei Luo still did not come back from the palace. He was about to go back and come back another day, when he happened to see a carriage coming this way, and it was Prince Jing himself who sent her back.
Song Hui saluted Zhao Jie, then carried Wei Luo into the mansion.
Wei Luo has a slender frame and not much flesh on her body, so she doesn't feel heavy at all in her hands. Song Hui walked with ease, carried her back to the Pine Garden in one breath, put her on the plinth carved with lion patterns inlaid with marble in the main room, and asked carefully, "Have you had dinner in the palace?"
Wei Luo nodded, with a cute smile on her face, "I've used it, the empress left me for dinner, that's why I came back so late."
Not long after, Wei Kun and Chang Hong also came over, thanked Song Hui, and led Wei Luo back to the room to wash and change clothes.
Seeing that she was fine, Song Hui didn't stay for long, bid farewell to Wei Kun and returned home.
From then on, Wei Luo had to go to the palace to attend lectures in the study every day. There are special rules for going to the study room. After five days of class, there are two days off. The homework assigned by the teacher must be completed the next day. Wei Luo not only learned knowledge, but also got closer and closer to Zhao Liuli. Every day after the teacher finished the class, Zhao Liuli would leave Wei Luo to write big characters together, and let her go back after finishing the homework assigned by the teacher.
The days in the study room were very peaceful, like flowing water.
Why so calm
Because since Li Song was tied to the target by Zhao Jie and shot an arrow, he never came to study in the study. He didn't come, and the fifth prince Zhao Zhang didn't come either. Without the two little devil kings in the study, it was naturally clean.
The seventh day of August was Jiang Miaolan's death day. Wei Luo asked Empress Chen and Taifu Chang for a day off, and went with Chang Hong to Qingshui Mountain outside the city to pay respects to Jiang Miaolan's grave.
Wei Luo didn't have much affection for Jiang Miaolan, so she didn't plan to go, but Wei Kun insisted on her going. Not only that, but also specifically asked Song Hui to take the two of them there.
Wei Kun didn't go by himself. He hadn't visited Jiang Miaolan's tombstone for so many years. He was probably trying to avoid something, and he was still unwilling to face it.
The British government's carriage took them to Qingshui Mountain. Wei Luo also visited this place when he was a child, and now he doesn't have much memory of it. She took Chang Hong's hand and came to the tombstone. She really had nothing to say, so she casually bowed and burned some paper money without shedding a single tear.
On the way back, the two little guys were in a bad mood. Song Hui thought they were thinking about their mother and felt sorry for them, so he bent his lips and asked with a smile: "Back to the city in a while, brother Song Hui, can I buy you sugar people?"
Chang Hong was not interested, and didn't give him any face: "No."
Song Hui was not angry either, and asked with a smile, "Then what do you want, candied haws?"
Chang Hong ignored him, held Wei Luo's hand and said, "A Luo, I want to eat cold cake."
Wei Luo changed her gloominess just now, and nodded with a smile, "Okay, I'll eat whatever you eat."
The carriage quickly drove to Shengjing City, passed through the moat, and passed the gate, and there was a prosperous and lively scene inside. When the carriage reached the center of the street, Song Hui ordered the driver to stop at the side of the street. He led Wei Luo and Chang Hong out of the carriage, and took them to the opposite tea shed to eat cold cakes.
Although the place here is not very good, the cold cake is the most famous in Shengjing City. Sweet but not greasy, refreshing food, many people come here every day.
Song Hui wanted to take them to relax, so he was not in a hurry to go back. After eating the cold cakes, he took them to the side vendor to buy noodles. Jin Lu and Jin Wu followed step by step, and behind them were the guards of the Duke of Zhongyi's residence, so they were not afraid of accidents. The master of the kneader pinched a little girl wearing a pink white butterfly and a flower skirt according to Wei Luo's appearance. She looked so lifelike, even her smiling expression was exactly the same as Wei Luo's.
Wei Luo took the dough mask and looked left and right, obviously liking it. She was about to let Chang Hong take a look, but when she turned around, she saw a familiar figure again.
That person was Lin Huilian whom she met on the street last time.
She was still dressed as that day, with a silver hairpin on her hair and an apricot-yellow shirt. She didn't break the bamboo basket today, it looks like she didn't come to sell silk flowers... However, what surprised Wei Luo wasn't this, but that there was a person beside her, the little girl who helped her escape from Longshou Village in her previous life!
That night, she was almost buried alive by Lin Huilian and his wife. She escaped at night, and happened to meet Adai, an orphan girl in the village, on the way. Adai does not have a surname, and has always lived alone in the back of the village. She is a loner and rarely gets attention. If it wasn't for Adai's help that day, she would have been unable to escape the pursuit of Lin Huilian and his wife.
Why is Adai walking with Lin Huilian now? Not only that, they seem to be close, like a mother and daughter...
mother and daughter!
Wei Luo was startled, startled by her own thoughts.
Could it be that they failed to adopt themselves in this life, so they wanted to adopt Adai? Adele is seven years older than her, and is now thirteen. In my previous life, I married their son in a shady marriage at the age of fifteen. If the partner is A Dai, then there are only two years left...
Wei Luo didn't want to think too much, she wanted to step up to see what happened, to see if she had identified the wrong person—
Lin Huilian's figure was walking away. Before she had taken two steps, a figure suddenly appeared in front of her, blocking her way.
She looked up and saw that the person in front of her was arrogant and arrogant, who else could it be if it wasn't Li Song