Tomorrow is New Year's Eve. Meng Qiqi heard that Sheng Jiayan was extremely busy these days, and he had a banquet with courtiers in the previous court and received foreign envoys. That's not the point, the point is... Suhe seems to be giving birth soon.
These few days, she was walking freely in the palace with her stomach erect, and Meng Eqi was scared for her when she saw it.
Just now, Su He walked into Fengyi Palace with a plate of kumquats and pouted, and she swaggered into a chair. After eating two oranges, I found Meng Eqi looked at her in surprise, and then said nonchalantly: "What's the matter? I was not found. This was stolen by my family's Nie Lin from the imperial kitchen. Your family's Sheng Jiayan has so many oranges. , is it okay to steal a few of him?"
Meng Eqi asked suspiciously: "Is the guards in the palace really that bad? You can come and go in the imperial kitchen as you please?"
Su He looked away with a guilty conscience, and slipped another orange into his mouth: "After all, it's New Year's Eve, and the imperial pantry is busy today, so it's possible not to notice Nie Lin. Besides, my family's Nie Lin is highly skilled in martial arts. It makes sense not to be found out, right?"
Meng Eqi nodded suspiciously, and took the orange that Su He handed over.
Just at this moment, Nie Lin pushed open the door and entered. He took off the chicken feathers on his head with a dark face. Su He was stunned when he saw it, then covered his mouth and snickered constantly: "Are you hiding in the chicken pen?"
Nie Lin slanted over and gave him a cold look: "Pack up, we'll set off tomorrow."
"What? So fast? Isn't it after the New Year's Eve?" Meng Qiqi stood up abruptly. She hasn't said goodbye to Sheng Jiayan yet. She originally thought she could spend another year here, but she didn't expect that New Year's Eve would be over
Su He bowed his head abnormally and said nothing, but Nie Lin looked at Meng Eqi and said, "Ming New Year's Eve is a good time for many omissions in the palace. If Ming doesn't go out, he can't leave so easily when King Ping enters the capital after the New Year's Eve. ."
"King Ping entered the capital?" Meng Eqi frowned: "Didn't King Ping refuse to return his military power, but now he is willing to come back?"
Nie Lin wanted to do something else, so Su He hurriedly stood in front of him, took Meng Qiqi's hand and sat aside: "Of course, no matter how powerful King Ping is, if he doesn't return to the capital, he will rebel with troops. So there's nothing wrong with coming back now. , Qiqi, don't worry about it. In my eyes, Sheng Jiayan is a monster with three heads and six arms, and nothing can stop him. All you have to do now is to pack your bags and go back to Chu with us tomorrow. "
"He's not a monster..." Meng Eqi muttered, and asked again with confirmation, "Will you come back in the future?"
Suhe nodded: "As long as you want to come back, I will send you back. But we have to wait until the storm has passed."
At the Jianzhang Palace, Sheng Jiayan handed over the written will to Fuquan for safekeeping.
Mo Chunfeng came in from the outside to report: "King Ping's troops will arrive in the capital tomorrow, and Lord Nie has also informed them to leave tomorrow."
Sheng Jiayan leaned on the dragon chair, his eyebrows drooping slightly: "You and Dingchen don't have to stay by my side tomorrow, and escort Qiqi all the way back to Chu with them."
Xiang Dingchen lifted the curtain and entered and heard such a sentence. He looked at Mo Chunfeng, and then said to Sheng Jiayan: "Your Majesty, it has been arranged properly."
Mo Chunfeng was at a loss: "What's the arrangement?"
Sheng Jiayan chuckled softly: "Of course I want to say goodbye to Qiqi."
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Meng Eqi learned that Sheng Jiayan wanted to see him, so he was lying on the bed in a trance, and when he heard the eunuch's words, he immediately jumped up from the bed. She washed quickly for a while, her eyesight was not good and she dragged Su He, who had a big belly, to tie her hair for her.
"Suhe, isn't my face particularly bad?"
"No," Su He put a few pearls in her hair for her: "You're blushing now, it's no problem to go to see your lover."
"I didn't go to see my lover... I was thinking about running away, but I kept it from him, and I felt sorry for it..." Meng Eqi became louder and louder, until she looked down and saw that the clothes on her body were wrinkled, and hurriedly ran to change Wearing a crimson skirt.
This skirt was made for her by Sheng Jiayan at the beginning. The color is like haze. Because of the special texture, it looks like she is wearing the sunset on her body from a distance. The colors are bright, and Meng Qiqi can match such colors.
In the evening, Meng Eqi followed Fuquan, who had come to pick him up, all the way to the appointed place.
Due to the atmosphere of the Chinese New Year, red lanterns are hung on the surrounding dead branches, and some are decorated with colored glaze. With the sudden gust of snow that fell yesterday, it has a different taste.
Meng Eqi walked behind Fu's body for a long time, and finally couldn't help but say, "Father Fuquan..."
Fuquan smiled maturely: "Miss Meng, if you want to ask anything, just ask. Father-in-law, I must know everything and say everything."
Any woman who was about to see the emperor would be excited, and it would be reasonable to want to inquire about the emperor, and Fuquan knew this very well.
"No, Eunuch Fuquan..." Meng Eqi quickly walked past him and walked in front: "I recognize the road to Penglai Lake, you are walking too slowly, I am afraid that Your Majesty will wait. The snow-covered road is slippery. One step ahead!"
Well, she walked away with her skirt in hand.
Fuquan stood behind her and shouted, and in the blink of an eye, Meng Qiqi ran away without a trace.
Meng Eqi ran all the way to the shore of Penglai Lake and stopped abruptly. She squinted her eyes, and vaguely saw a figure standing on the bridge over the lake.
She stroked the hem of her skirt and pressed the pearl in her hair. Step up onto the bridge.
Penglai Lake is the largest lake in the palace. A white jade bridge stretches across the lake, connecting the shore and a pavilion in the center of the lake. It snowed heavily last night, the snow on the bridge has been swept away, and layers of broken ice are floating on the lake. I don't know which palace maid was naughty, and put a few lanterns on the lake, and even the moon tonight was extraordinarily soft.
Sheng Jiayan was wearing his usual attire, which was his favorite black color. His hair was tied in a purple-gold crown, and his stern eyebrows were so familiar, Meng Eqi stepped up and stood beside him.
Sheng Jiayan turned his head to look at her, Meng Qiqi's heart was beating loudly.
He gently raised his hand to touch her hair, and she bowed her head shyly.
Then…
Sheng Jiayan plucked a piece of orange peel from Meng Qiqi's hair: "You hide your food in your hair?"
Meng Eqi's eyes widened to see that it was indeed a piece of orange peel. She grabbed it and squeezed it tightly in her hand, scolding lowly, "This Suhe..."
Sheng Jiayan suddenly smiled: "Is the plum blossom beautiful?"
His words seemed to be asking about the softest underworld in Meng Qiqi's heart. She nodded in response, and then she mustered up the courage to pretend to joke: "When will your majesty come to Fengyi Palace to see the plum blossom and snow scenery?"
Sheng Jiayan's smile faded a little: "later."
"In the future?" Meng Eqi couldn't see his expression clearly: "Is there really a chance in the future?"
After tomorrow night, when she will come back is unknown. Accompanying Sheng Jiayan for more than ten years, once they parted, they were willing to be fake. Thinking of this, her nose was slightly sour. She was afraid that Sheng Jiayan would turn her head to the side and asked in a sullen voice, "Why did Your Majesty call me out today, it's New Year's Eve, so I don't need to meet foreign ministers today?"
"Qiqi," his voice was a little soft, and it was most pleasant when he called Meng Qiqi's name: "We may not see each other for a long time."
Meng Eqi was stunned for a moment, then a wry smile spread across her lips.
Perhaps it is indeed the best decision to leave Jin State by himself now. Even in the palace, he couldn't help Sheng Jiayan. Instead, he asked him to take care of himself from time to time, causing the courtiers to be dissatisfied, so what he meant was that he might keep him for a little longer...
In this case, Sheng Jiayan's worries are completely unnecessary. But what he said was also quite right. He would not see him for a long time, because he was going to Chu State tomorrow, and if he heard about Sheng Jiayan in the future, he might have learned from rumors.
He will have his grand plans and hegemony, his beauty is like jade, and his prosperity will be peaceful.
Meng Qiqi lowered her head and said nothing.
Her eyes were sore, and she seemed to want to cry, but she couldn't.
Meng Qiqi raised her hand and rubbed her eyes, still suffering from severe pain.
Neither of them said anything. For a long time, Meng Qiqi said, "Last time I was poisoned by Shuzhong, and I thought I was about to die. Lying on top of you at that time, I had something to say..."
"What?"
"If I die, I will still be your subordinate in the next life. At that time, I only had this idea, I just thought that if I died, I would still want to be a person of Rose Garden in the next life. Because you were so kind to me, so good that I felt even if I died. It's worth dying in your arms, not to mention your kindness for pulling me out of the hundreds of corpses in Meng Mansion."
Sheng Jiayan's brow smile became colder: "Is it a person from Rose Garden or mine?"
"What is the difference?"
"The difference is huge," Sheng Jiayan's lips curled slightly, and he pondered: "People in Guiyuan are born and die, and my people... just need to memorize the Tao Te Ching."
Meng Qiqi's cheeks suddenly flushed red, knowing that Sheng Jiayan was deliberately teasing herself, she said stubbornly: "It's still life and death for people in the Rose Garden, endorsement to please Your Majesty, I'm stupid, I can't do it. Chunfeng is smart, he is also Happy to endorse."
Mo Chunfeng, who was far behind the tree, stretched out his ears when he heard such a sentence, and almost rushed out to express his intentions, but Xiang Dingchen pressed his arm against the tree and couldn't move.
The two figures were reflected in the water, and Sheng Jiayan's eyebrows became more and more handsome.
"If you can be reincarnated in the next life, you still have to hope that you can live a stable life. If you follow me, you will be running around, or like today, there is no freedom, and you can't help it."
His words were extremely cold, like a mass of snow covering Meng Qiqi's heart. She pursed her lips: "But for you, even if you can't be free and easy, what does it matter."
If she went on with her words, she made her heart clear in front of Sheng Jiayan.
But Sheng Jiayan was reluctant to give her this opportunity: "people are born for themselves. I am like this, and you should be like this."
No matter how stupid Meng Eqi was, the meaning in her words was clear enough. Her fingertips were cold, rubbing each other in her sleeves. She only heard her voice trembling and asked: "I want to ask a question at the end, when Wenzhou City was far away from the capital, and you were young, why did you appear there and save me?"
"Because back then, the rumors about your eyes were well known in the capital. Even if I didn't show up that day, it would still be King Ping, Crown Prince, or King Xiang."
Meng Qiqi was stunned for a moment, and she couldn't ask any more questions after that. A few plum blossoms slipped from her sleeves and fell to the ground. Those plum blossoms were just right. They were brought by Meng Qiqi before going out and wanted to show Sheng Jiayan a look. It fell to the ground now, and maybe tomorrow it will be trampled into a smear of fragrant mud by the palace servants who come and go.
"It's late at night." After a long time, Meng Qiqi heard a soft voice: "I'm going back to Fengyi Palace to rest. Your Majesty, please rest earlier."
She turned around and went down the steps, paused when she walked to the bottom, turned her head sideways with a bright smile—
"Ayan, happy new year.