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Letters sent back from Huaizhou, at the beginning, there were at least two letters every month, but after the twelfth lunar month, none of them came. Although Jiang Rao wanted to know what happened there, there was no way out, and she felt a little uneasy .
Around the twelfth lunar month, Jinling was very snowy, and it fell continuously for more than ten days. The snow was thick and the road was difficult to travel. Emperor Zhaowu gave the courtiers a ten-day rest, took his concubines and some confidant courtiers, and lived in the palace very close to the hunting ground. For a while, hunt to relieve boredom.
In the past six months, although Emperor Zhaowu treated Concubine Yun indifferently, the treatment was the same as before, but he stopped going to Concubine Yun. Concubine Yun saw that she had everything she deserved, and she didn't have to serve the emperor, she didn't do anything , I have everything, I wake up with a smile almost in my dreams, Emperor Zhaowu is going to go winter hunting, she must follow her normally, but this year I don’t even bother to follow, but Sheng Jia and the Queen want to show off in front of her that Emperor Zhaowu is right Her favorite, Qin Yun's name was written in the roster of accompanying concubines.
Concubine Yun Gui was annoyed by Empress Jiahe's lack of eyesight, and seeing Jiang Rao depressed, she took her with her when she went to the palace, and went to relax together.
As soon as Jiang Rao got off the carriage, she saw Hu Tang waving at her in front of the palace gate.
Hu Tang was dressed in red, and ran to Jiang Rao in a few steps, smiling happily, "I'm so happy to hear that you will come."
Mrs. Hu and Emperor Zhaowu are distant cousins, and Hu Tang can call Emperor Zhaowu his uncle. General Hu was stationed at the frontier and had no children. Emperor Zhaowu felt somewhat compensatory towards him, and also had the thought of looking at General Hu's daughter in Jinling so that General Hu did not dare to turn his back on him. good. Even if courtiers often came to him to read about General Hu's daughter's willful behavior and lack of control, he would turn a blind eye to it, and would bring Hu Tang with him during this kind of winter hunting to let her live the addiction of fighting and killing.
Jiang Rao was not surprised to see Hu Tang.
With a bow on his back and an arrow in his hand, Hu Tang said with a hearty smile, "I will go hunting in the next few days, just wait, I will bring you a little rabbit back."
Jiang Rao was stunned.
After spending so many days with her, Hu Tang knew Jiang Rao's temperament. Realizing that she couldn't see the bloody scenes of beatings and killings, he blamed himself for a moment, and hurriedly put the arrow in his hand back into the quiver, sighing. Said: "Hey, I was wrong, I am already a little tired of hunting."
She hopped and walked to Jiang Rao, "You haven't been to this palace before, have you? This palace is very spacious. Meilin and the mountain behind are very interesting. I'll show you around."
Jiang Rao knew that she was taking care of her, smiled softly, remembered something, took Hu Tang's hand and asked, "Have you ever heard the news about Huaizhou from your father?"
General Hu's garrison is in the north, and Huaizhou is in the south. Jiang Rao knows this but still asks this question. He is really desperate.
Hu Tang shook his head, looked at Jiang Rao's troubled expression, and asked her, "Are you still worried about His Highness Ninth Prince?"
Jiang Rao sighed wearily, "I almost ask everyone."
But everyone is like Hu Tang, who doesn't know anything.
Rong Ting told her to stay in Jinling because she was afraid that the three of them would become tigers, but in the past few months, she couldn't do anything except stay in Jinling worried.
According to her father, there were indeed people in the court who said bad things about Emperor Zhaowu from time to time, but Mr. Liao at the Ministry of Industry firmly suppressed the rumors, and his methods were naturally more flexible than her, a woman in the back house.
She felt useless.
Jiang Rao and Hu Tang walked into the palace together, and when they walked through the corridor, looking at the unfamiliar scene here, Jiang Rao's gray eyes brightened slightly.
Maybe here, I can find out some news.
No matter if it was the movement of Emperor Zhaowu or the movement of Empress Jiahe, it was easier to get it in this palace than in the strictly orderly palace.
Hu Tang looked at Jiang Rao worried, and said to her: "If I hear anything, I will definitely come and tell you."
Concubine Yun Gui arrived one day earlier than Jiang Rao. Although Jiang Rao and Hu Tang lived on the east side of the palace, their courtyards were separated by a hundred steps in two directions. He led them to Concubine Yun.
Before going to Concubine Yun Gui, Jiang Rao led her maid here and asked where Empress Jiahe and Emperor Zhaowu lived.
Empress Jiahe's residence is next to that of Emperor Zhaowu, but her aunt's residence is a little remote.
The difference between being favored and being out of favor can be clearly reflected in the little things.
Jiang Rao felt the oppressive feeling of her aunt living in the palace. Once she was not favored, those things that she could get before would be like floating clouds, and she could no longer hold them in her hands.
Her aunt loves to argue with others about everything, so she may not be able to swallow her breath being assigned to such a remote courtyard today.
Jiang Rao was very afraid that Concubine Yun would be overwhelmed, so she thought of ways to amuse her along the way, but was brought to Concubine Yun by the maid, only to see a smiling beauty holding a small coat to catch the cat.
Concubine Yun Gui is trying to put a brightly colored dress on Pomegranate.
Seems to be in a good mood.
Jiang Rao finally calmed down.
Concubine Yun dressed the pomegranate, saw Jiang Rao coming, and carried the pomegranate over, "Look, I made this for the pomegranate with my own hands, and I will make one for you in the future."
Jiang Rao looked at the small clothes on Shiliu, which were as clumsy as the stitches she embroidered, with the same resistance as Shiliu's in her expression, took a step back, and weakly called "Auntie".
Concubine Yun Gui laughed, "I won't scare you anymore."
She sat beside Jiang Rao, "I saw that you have been unhappy for the past few months. I told you to come here. Don't think about Huaizhou. When it's time to come back, His Highness Nine will come back naturally. It's useless for you to be anxious." .”
Jiang Rao understood this truth in his heart.
But it doesn't mean that you can make yourself worry-free when you figure it out. It was the first time she had tasted the feeling of caring about someone like this.
She lowered her head and said, "There has been no news from Huaizhou for more than a month."
Last month, she collected a lot of medical books related to the epidemic from Jinling and sent them to Huaizhou, but there was no reply, and she didn't know if the medical books had arrived.
"I don't see worry on the emperor's face, so nothing happened. If you don't receive the letter, don't panic, maybe you lost the letter on the way."
Jiang Rao was dejected, and Concubine Yun rubbed her head, "Don't just worry about Huaizhou, you also worry about yourself."
Her face turned slightly cold, "Pay attention to the queen, I will serve tea at her place today, she seems to want to know if you are here, although I didn't let her know, it is not something that can be hidden after all. You Being engaged to the Ninth Prince is in the way of her. I have been fighting with her for so many years, and I know her temperament clearly. No matter how magnanimous she looks, she is stingy inside. If she is unhappy, she will bear it After a few years, you will have to get it back in the end, I am afraid that she is thinking of ways to harm you."
…
Empress Jiahe is staying with the Seventeenth Prince.
The Seventeenth Prince was beside Empress Jiahe, watching her write a letter, and said impatiently: "Mother, it's been four months, why didn't you ask General Xi to do it?"
"There are some things that need to be done without anyone noticing."
Empress Jiahe frowned.
If Rong Ting died easily on the battlefield, Emperor Zhaowu might give him a title, thinking about the anger Rong Ting made her suffer, she couldn't bear such a result, even if Rong Ting died, she would We must also find a way to let him die on the charge of treason, and make him a sinner who will be remembered forever.
After she finished writing the letter, she gave it to her confidant to take away.
The anxious expression on the Seventeenth Prince's face did not abate.
"This month is a bit strange. General Xi's letter has not come for a long time. My son is a little worried."
"Don't let other people's aspirations destroy your prestige." Empress Jiahe glanced at him, "I underestimated the enemy last time. General Xi joined the army twelve years ago. He fought on the battlefield for more than ten years. How could he not be able to defeat a crippled brat? You can rest assured."
The seventeenth prince pursed his lips, and Empress Jiahe taught him to call out, "You should think about how to get along with your father, what did you do when you were with your father this morning? Tell the queen mother."
"I played a few games with my father."
"Your father is in a good mood today. It doesn't matter if you win him a few more rounds. You can also show him your skills. It's just the last round. Let him win. Don't spoil his mood."
"That's how my son-in-law behaves."
"Father seems to be very kind to me recently." The Seventeenth Prince took out a ruby snuff bottle from his sleeve, "Mother, this is something that Father rewarded me."
Empress Jiahe took over the small snuff bottle. The things used by Emperor Zhaowu were naturally expensive, but she was not new to the world. Is there anything in Jinxiu Palace that is not valuable? She just saw the meaning behind this object, and her brows and eyes were crooked with a smile.
Today, Emperor Zhaowu rewarded the Seventeenth Prince with a snuff bottle, as if to let her see the day when Emperor Zhaowu passed the throne to the Seventeenth Prince.
She was jealous when she saw Qin Yun's pampering before, and disdained Qin Yun's pampered temperament, but now that the feng shui flowed to her, she acted even more arrogantly, holding the ruby snuff bottle in her hand, looking up Chin, proudly and firmly said to the seventeenth prince: "Don't cause any trouble in front of your father, he will definitely give you more rewards in the future."
The seventeenth prince listened to Jiahe Empress's pleasant voice, and then said to Jiahe Empress: "Mother, I went outside the palace this morning."
Empress Jiahe frowned, just about to ask him why he went there, when the Seventeenth Prince said, "I saw the carriage of Ning'an Bofu."
Empress Jiahe's eyes lit up, and she sneered, "I guessed that she would come, Qin Yun is not favored now, and he doesn't have a child, so why don't you just expect her little niece to relieve her boredom?"
She smiled, her expression turned cold, "Since she's here, there's no need to ask Mr. Bai to hang around outside her shop every day. You instruct someone to find Mr. Bai."
The Seventeenth Prince was undecided and asked, "Is it really possible?"
Empress Jiahe said slowly: "Mr. Bai has good eyes."
Empress Jiahe couldn't figure it out all the time. It's not difficult for a girl born in the uncle's family to marry a good person. Why did she fall in love with Rong Ting, a cripple
After thinking about it, the only explanation is that she took a fancy to Rong Ting's face, just like Emperor Zhaowu took a look at his biological mother back then.
Since he is a color lover, Rong Ting is not the only one who is good-looking in this world.
Bai Yushu's reputation as a handsome man is great, although in her opinion, his color is still a bit inferior to Rong Ting's, but fortunately, his body is healthy, and he is much better than a disabled person who is not good at walking. What's more, his eyes are charming, and when he looks at people with tenderness, as long as Jiang Rao is greedy for color, he will definitely not be able to resist the tenderness in his eyes.
The little girl is from every family, and after encountering such a good-looking man several times, she may begin to feel that this is the real fate.
Empress Jiahe laughed leisurely.
Once she let out this bait, and Jiang Rao can take the bait, she will definitely publicize her unruly deeds and cause her to be scolded by others, and then she will take revenge for blocking her good deeds and making her angry.
…
During the few days Jiang Rao stayed in the palace, Hu Tang often came to look for her. She knew that Jiang Rao didn't like the scene of killing, so she never talked about the hunting scene in front of her. Looking at the clumsy stitches, she somehow developed blind confidence in her own embroidery skills.
Hu Tang often came to Jiang Rao to embroider things with her needle and thread.
That day Hu Tang didn't come all day, and when dusk fell, Jiang Rao was looking for someone to look for her, when Hu Tang came in shivering, covered in snow, his teeth chattering.
Jiang Rao hurriedly followed her to the stove to make fire.
Hu Tang's frozen body softened a little, still trembling, he said to Jiang Rao, "Guess what I heard when I was sleeping on the tree at Mei Lin's place just now?"
The Meilin in the palace is a place where both men and women can go. Jiang Rao wanted to know the news of Huaizhou from other people. Bai Li often went there every day. Today, because he couldn't wait for Hu Tang, he stayed in the yard to wait for her. I didn't go there.
She shook her head and said she couldn't figure it out.
Hu Tang asked her, "Have you heard of the name Bai Yushu? He is a famous handsome man in Beijing."
"I was the one who escaped from my mother and caught me home. I climbed the tree in a hurry. I wanted to get down quickly while no one was around. Who would have thought that he would suddenly stand under the plum tree and stand there for a while." It was only two or three hours, which made me suffer another afternoon of freezing in the tree, this man is really powerful, the movement of looking up at the plum blossoms has not changed much, I was so scared that he thought he was looking at me."
Hu Tang folded her arms, unable to warm up for a while, her face was flushed from the cold, Jiang Rao handed her a cup of hot tea, "Maybe it's just a person who loves plum blossoms, that's all."
Hu Tang immediately glanced at Jiang Rao, "The important thing is not that he is admiring the plum blossoms, but that I heard him say your name under the tree."
Jiang Rao was slightly stunned, and Hu Tang said again: "He also asked the boy to go and see if you have come. It is obvious that he is specially waiting for you under the plum tree."
"Wait for me?" Jiang Rao felt a little weird, "I don't know him before."
Hu Tang put down his tea, leaned into Jiang Rao's ear, and murmured softly, "I overheard the conversation between him and his servant. He was appointed by the Queen to seduce you, Hong, Xing, Chu, Qiang."
Jiang Rao was completely stunned.
"real?"
"Naturally it is true."
Jiang Rao laughed back angrily, "Who does this take me for?"
She doesn't follow the rules, but she doesn't do anything wrong either.
"Who said it wasn't? It's a dirty trick." Hu Tang warmed up and went to Jiang Rao to wrap her arms around her, "But I'm curious about how good-looking that Bo Yushu was, that he gained the reputation of a handsome man. I only saw the top of his head on the tree, but the hairpin is more complicated and beautiful than the one I used."
"Go and see?" Hu Tang whispered in her ear.
Jiang Rao had nothing to do, so after thinking about it, he couldn't ask Bai Yushu to always wait there eagerly.
She is not afraid of the slanting shadow, and she is not afraid of what others say.
But the flies were already flying in front of me, so I had to wave my hand to hit a dozen, otherwise it would be really annoying to circle around.
"Let's go and have a look." Jiang Rao said.
But when she was walking out, she suddenly had another idea in her heart.
"When did he stay in the plum garden?" She stopped her steps and asked Hu Tang beside her.
"I heard his impatient and grumpy tone, and it seemed that he was there all the time except when he was eating."
"Then as long as you enter the Merlin first when you are eating, there is a loft in the Merlin, and you can watch him from afar and you don't have to deal with him face to face."
Hu Tang nodded, "It's almost time for lunch, do you want to find a maid to visit the Plum Garden?"
But Jiang Rao didn't tell anyone to go out.
Hu Tang is impatient, once she thinks about something, she wants to do it, otherwise she is as impatient as if there is an itch in her heart that cannot be scratched. She took Jiang Rao's hand, "Don't you want to go and have a look?"
"Don't think I'm talking nonsense, Bai Yushu has really been under the plum tree, waiting for you to appear." She pursed her lips, afraid that Jiang Rao would not believe her.
"Of course I believe you, I just thought of something fun." Jiang Rao blinked at Hu Tang, "Don't go today, I'll find someone to watch, besides waiting for me in Meilin, is he still waiting for me? Going to do something else."
Based on what she knew about the vicious methods of Jiahe and Empress, she shouldn't just call this Bai Yushu and just stay under the plum tree and wait for her to appear.
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She has to find out first.
It happened to hang Bai Yushu out for a few days.
Since he wants to seduce Hongxing out of the wall, he should freeze to death under the tree first!
…
He sent a maid to inquire for a few days, and seeing that Bai Yushu did not do anything out of the ordinary except wait under the plum tree, Jiang Rao confidently and boldly pulled Hu Tang over, and waited in the pavilion in the plum garden early on, asking someone to guard him. , Once they enter the pavilion, they can't ask others to come in, hold the sleeve stove, by the window on the top floor, and glance outside from time to time.
When he saw the figure appearing in the snow, Hu Tang's eyes lit up, "Is this Bai Yushu?"
She stared at the figure for a long time, and said with emotion: "No wonder people say that the young master of the Bai family is good-looking, and he is really good-looking."
Jiang Rao glanced at it casually, then turned her gaze back without much interest, "I just looked at it, and it doesn't look very good."
Hu Tang raised his eyes and glanced at her, "Don't compare him with His Highness the Ninth Highness, but compare him with the servant behind him, will you feel better immediately?"
"His little servant..." Jiang Rao glanced down after hearing the words, but unlike what Hu Tang said, he felt that Bai Yu's book was beautiful, but his heart was weird, and said to Hu Tang, "Tang'er, don't you think, Is his little servant too ugly?"
When picking maids and servants in rich families, most of them like to pick good-looking ones, and taking them out will not lose the master's face.
As for the servant next to Bai Yushu... Even if she had no malice and no derogatory look in her eyes, she could only say that the servant's appearance was not even ordinary.
Not only is it ugly in appearance, but it is also somewhat short in stature.
Set off his master perfectly.
Jiang Rao frowned.
It's okay if she can't see this, but after she sees it, she will look at Bai Yushu's movement of looking up at the plum tree, and the thin clothes that just show off his slender figure, and she will feel that there is deliberation everywhere.
Jiang Rao murmured brokenly, "I have long heard that Mr. Bo's son is in poor health, and even the best doctors can't cure him. Seeing how thin he is dressed in snow, I feel sympathy for those doctors."
Hu Tang looked at her suspiciously, and Jiang Rao said, "No matter how good your medical skills are, you can't cure disobedient patients."
Jiang Rao beckoned Ming Shao to come in and told her a few words.
Hu Tang was listening, and suddenly had a new understanding of Jiang Rao.
I always feel that she looks delicate and weak, why sometimes her mind is quite dark
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In the winter, Bai Yushu held on to the fan, dressed in plain white clothes, stood under the plum tree and waited, looking up at the plum blossoms. The appearance is clear and beautiful, just like a painting, as if he will become immortal in the next second.
But he froze while waiting under the corridor, and didn't wait for Jiang Rao to come out once, so he couldn't help being a little impatient.
Just as he was about to ask the servant next to him whether the news from the queen was true or not, a call came from behind him.
"This young man."
Bai Yushu looked back and saw the visitor, overjoyed.
Although he had never met Jiang Rao before, he knew what the maid next to her looked like. Seeing Ming Shao was like seeing Jiang Rao. With a slight smile, he asked knowingly, "Who are you?"
"Uncle Ning'an's mansion, the servant girl next to the fourth girl." Ming Shao glanced at the ugly servant behind Bai Yushu, thinking about what Jiang Rao told her, she couldn't help feeling very disgusted with Bai Yushu in her heart, and she said: "Girl Call me over to ask you something."
Bai Yushu knew that his hard work in the cold these past few days was not in vain, he shook his fan with joy in his heart, smiled lightly and nodded frequently, as if he knew everything, "I want to ask something, but it's okay to say it?"
His tone is gentle.
Ming Shao coughed, as if she couldn't bear it, but she still said what Jiang Rao taught her, "Miss asked me to ask, sir, which shop did you use for the powder?"
Bai Yushu hesitated, as if he didn't hear clearly, "What?"
"Miss asked me to ask, sir, which shop did you use for the powder?" Ming Shao saw that he had lost his ears and raised his voice, "Master, can you tell us for the convenience?"
Bai Yushu's expression changed.
"Just... just want to know what kind of powder I use?"
Others in the plum garden looked this way one after another, and Bai Yushu suddenly realized something, and became anxious, "No, I'm not a fan, I was born like this."
He has always been most proud of his appearance, but he modified it a little before going out, how can he be regarded as a fan
This maid also has problems, so just ask, why is she so loud? If people can see him, wouldn't they laugh at him for being unmanly
Ming Shao cut, "If you don't tell me, don't tell me. You are not a fan, we are a girl like you, you can tell it at a glance."
Bai Yushu's face flushed with embarrassment, "I've been standing here for four whole days, and your girl only sees the powder on my face?"
He shivered from the cold, and looked a little pitiful, confirming what he said he had stood here for three or four days.
"Ah, the girl also said that it's really uncommon for people to stand in the snow for three or four days in such thin clothes in such a cold day."
Bai Yushu breathed a sigh of relief, shook his fan, and became graceful again.
"If you have a good mind, you can either dress thickly or stay indoors."
Bai Yushu was about to go crazy, "Master is out of his mind!"
"Tsk."
Ming Shao followed Jiang Rao's instructions step by step, forcing him to jump, and then confessed: "My girl knows who sent you here, Mr. Bai should put his mind on serious things, don't bother him again, otherwise, See you once, call me once."
Bai Yushu knew that it was useless for the queen to let him come. He thought that Jiang Rao was born beautiful, and the queen arranged him to do such a job. When he came out to taunt him, he hated Jiang Rao's inaccessibility in his heart, he was already out of breath, but his face still looked pitiful, he bit his lip, "I... I was coerced, but what I did, Everything comes from the heart.”
How to deal with this, Jiang Rao has never taught Ming Shao, she can't, she just turned her head and ran away,
Bai Yushu still didn't give up, looking at the direction Ming Shao ran back, he knew where Jiang Rao was, raised his face, raised his eyes, and looked up sadly and melancholy.
He looked up and hoped that Jiang Rao would take a look at him.
He knows how attractive his face is. When he goes to the brothel, he is always the most sought after guest by the girls there.
When she sees his face, she may have other thoughts.
Jiang Rao paid attention to the movement below, and naturally saw Bai Yushu looking up.
She frowned in disgust and closed the window directly.
After closing the window, I shivered with aversion to cold.
"I really don't want to see this man again."
Jiang Rao complained to Hu Tang in a low voice with bored face.
Just now, Bai Yushu's arms crossed and his pitiful expression couldn't get out of her mind, causing her to shake her head in disgust.
Suddenly stopped.
She seems to have seen this kind of pitiful and cowardly attitude before...
It's not that I've only seen it once or twice, it's very familiar when I think about it.