"Princess, why didn't you listen to the secret that the Fourth Miss said?" After Zhou's mother escorted Qiu Mingzhu to see Princess Yang, Su He poured a cup of rose water, handed it to Qiu Yilan, and asked curiously, "My maid I think she should really know some secret..."
"But does it have to do with us?" Qiu Yilan smiled slightly, took a sip of rose water, and said, "The first thing we ask now is to protect ourselves, and then we don't look at other people's eyes. There are other things after that. Things have to be busy… It’s not a good thing to know too many secrets too early!”
She thought to herself, there was a chuckle outside the window just now. Who knows if it was Princess Yang or Mrs. Lu's people who followed Qiu Mingzhu all the way, and maybe they were still lurking in the back window and eavesdropping at this moment
Su He nodded as if he understood: "The Fourth Miss is telling you, but she has no good intentions! She is really bad!"
"Auntie and Mrs. Lu will take care of her, so we don't need to pay any attention to her." Qiu Yilan glanced meaningfully at the back window and patted her, "It's getting late, let's arrange it!"
It was windy and snowy at this time. Even in the dead of night, Qiu Yilan was still not sure whether the eavesdropper was gone. Anyway, the incident caused by Qiu Hongzhi falling into the water will not end immediately. Qiu Yilan thinks it is better to be careful and wait until tomorrow to bring up the matter.
Let Su He make the bed and send her to the outer room to wait for Zhou's mother to come back.
Originally, at least one of her grandparents had to sleep on the footrest in front of her bed to keep her vigil, but Qiu Yilan developed the habit of being unable to sleep peacefully when there were people nearby during the last days, so she went to look for her when she came back from Dizi Mountain. An excuse to change this rule.
After Su He left, Qiu Yilan was about to fall asleep when someone tapped the back window rhythmically several times.
"Huh?" Qiu Yilan frowned, thought for a moment, and shouted in a low voice, "Who?!"
"I'm in Xiajiang Yashuang." A young man's voice, who also deliberately lowered his voice, came from the back window. He was gentle and elegant. "I came here to apologize to the princess. May I ask the princess to come to the back window and say something?"
Does Princess Ningtai miss that little General Jiang that she has never met? The beloved grandson of the Duke of Qin, the son of General Zhenbei, the nephew of Queen Jiang, and the cousin of Princess Yongfu...
Qiu Yilan narrowed her eyes: Only fools would be inconvenient!
She didn't hesitate: "Please wait a little! I'll be right over!"
Wrapped casually in a fur coat, she hurriedly walked behind the screen and opened the back window. However, there was no wind and snow as expected, only a few wisps of cold wind swept in - a young man wearing a white fox fur saw her appear in front of the screen. He reached out to the window and pulled down his hood, revealing his jade-like face and smiling kindly at her.
This young man held an emerald bamboo-topped hairpin to hold his long black hair. There was already a finger's thickness of snow on his fur coat. He stood in front of the back window like a javelin, blocking most of the wind and snow for her.
"Jiang... Young General?" Qiu Yilan only glanced at it and knew that the chuckle she just heard must be him, with a hint of surprise on her face, "Neither your sister nor the Young General did what happened last time intentionally. I just thought about it and let it go, why should I worry about it so much?"
Jiang Yashuang bowed outside the window, smiled softly, and said: "Yongfu was fooling around, and I greatly offended the princess that night. How can we just forget about it later?" He took out a box half a foot square from his sleeve, He handed it over through the window, "This is the palace's secret jade dew ointment. It can make the skin soft and fair, and remove scars. I hope the princess can accept it!"
"I need this exactly, so it would be disrespectful to refuse it!" Qiu Yilan thought for a moment and took it immediately.
"Originally I and Yongfu planned to visit us, but there was something wrong with what the Xihe Palace said about returning Nianxue. In addition, it is not convenient for the princess to enter the palace due to the New Year's Eve banquet this year." Jiang Yashuang did not say goodbye, but continued. He said softly, "So I have no choice but to come here tonight. I hope the princess will forgive me." After saying this, he bowed again.
Qiu Yilan secretly lamented that the Jiang family was a good tutor - it would be better if the two sons of Qiu Mengmin had the opportunity to share the same bed, so they would not take advantage of it, and why should they apologize afterwards? It's almost as if he turned back on himself to seduce them afterwards!
She pursed her lips and smiled: "Thank you, little general, for making this trip. In fact, I have already forgotten those things."
Jiang Yashuang chuckled and said: "The princess has a broad mind, I am very grateful!" He pondered for a moment and then said, "I have taken the liberty to inquire about the princess these past two days. My sister-in-law plans to invite the fourth aunt to a New Year's Eve banquet. I’d like to mention the princess, but I don’t know if the princess is willing?”
"Your Highness the Princess has good intentions, I'm afraid... I deserve it!" Qiu Yilan was startled when he heard this, but immediately shook his head, "I said, now that the matter is in the past, I have forgotten it. Accept this tonight "Xia Yulu Cream, I am already uneasy, how dare I bother you again?"
Without waiting for Jiang Yashuang to say anything else, she said again, "Young general, you have been out for a long time. Please go back early to avoid the heavy snowfall at night, which is bad for your health!" She nodded and said directly in front of Jiang Yashuang. Lock the window with a bang!
Jiang Yashuang stared at the closed rear window for a moment, a playful smile appeared on her lips, she raised her hand to brush off the snow on her shoulders, and then she drifted away.
After a while, in the Jiang Family Courtyard adjacent to the Xihe Palace, a girl of twelve or thirteen years old, with delicate eyebrows that looked like a painting, curled her lips and commented: "No wonder Princess Ningyi was bullied like that by the Xihe Palace. ! She's so cowardly! She doesn't even dare to show her support! It's such a waste of my kindness! "
Jiang Yashuang, who had just returned, leisurely picked up Xinu and poured herself a bowl of hot tea. Then she said with a half-smile, "You are wrong. If I were in her situation, I would have refused!"
Princess Yongfu was surprised: "Why?"
"Because you want Fourth Aunt to mention her in public instead of mentioning her yourself -" Jiang Yashuang said lightly, "Fourth Aunt is the current queen! Every word she says in private will be speculated and speculated by countless people, and even more What’s more, mentioning a person in public, or someone who has never been mentioned before at a New Year’s Eve banquet?”
"You only know that mentioning her by Fourth Aunt will make everyone in the Xihe Palace dare not neglect her again. But you didn't think of anything else." Jiang Yashuang shook her head and said, "Have you forgotten Princess Ningyi's fiancé Deng Yi? He She is the nephew of the Queen Mother! What would the Queen Mother think if the fourth aunt mentioned Princess Ning Yi? How could she be involved in the dispute between the two queens now? Of course, she would rather give up this opportunity than be defeated by the Queen Mother! It’s better to cast suspicion on Si Gu and die without a burial place!”
Princess Yongfu thought for a moment and said, "I understand. Then I will tell my mother when I get back and ask her not to mention Ning Yi."
"Actually!" Jiang Yashuang smiled meaningfully and said, "If you want to help her, there is another way..."