Apart from them, in the imperial garden, there are only snow covered branches on the ground and clusters of open pink camellias.

Huge courtyard, empty and quiet.

In Rong Ting's heart, it was like a thousand horses crossing the border, and the ground was in a mess.

It just so happened that Jiang Raohuan blinked his moist eyes and looked at him very seriously, "Are you really as bad as you say?"

When she thought that he might not want to marry her, even if his face was pure and innocent at the moment and cleaner than the surrounding Luoxue, she was actually a little annoyed.

She interpreted this annoyance as if he didn't want to marry her, then all the hardships she had suffered these days would be wasted effort.

Jiang Rao took a deep breath.

Now, not only did she have the impression that she was fond of him from her father and aunt, but even Chen Bing and Chen Congyun knew that she was deeply in love with him.

If she wants to go back on it, she must explain it, saying that she doesn't like him anymore.

Otherwise, with her aunt's temper, she knew that the person she wanted to marry didn't want to marry her, and she was afraid that she would go directly to the emperor to rob someone like the king of the mountain.

Jiang Rao had two hands behind her.

But the slender fingers have a tendency to close.

The roots of Rong Ting's ears were dyed red the same color as the camellias on the branches.

It's just that the subtle joy that had just sprouted in his heart was instantly uprooted and trampled into mud because he recalled what he had just said.

The tall and straight posture was tense at this moment, and the black clothes were like ink, and the figure looked stiffer than the stone wall behind him.

As if she had become dumb, her Adam's apple rolled, but she couldn't speak for a long time.

Jiang Rao frowned even more because of his silence.

"No...is it true?" she asked hesitantly.

"No." Rong Ting denied immediately.

His voice was extraordinarily low.

I didn't control the vocal line a little bit, and the tail sound was a little trembling.

He lowered his eyes as before, and his expression showed the kind of pity that could attract her sympathy the most.

But... this expression made Jiang Rao suspicious, "You... didn't you feel wronged and lied to me again?"

She glanced at him incredulously, and seeing his drooping eyes and a docile expression, she felt that he really looked like someone who did this, and she couldn't help but think, "Don't be like the one before, for fear of causing me trouble. , I would rather hide some words in my heart than say them to me."

The word "again" made Rong Ting choked, "There is no hidden language."

He just hadn't thought about it, he would be the one who would be reminded from time to time, scolded from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, and even figured out what means to take care of after finding it.

Originally, if that person dared to entangle with her, he would have thought about which knife to use to chop her.

"Not really."

He took a heavy breath, looked a little depressed, turned the wheel of the wheelchair, and said in a dull voice, "I... I'll go back today."

Jiang Rao shouted towards his back, "You should go west."

Rong Ting's back stopped for a while.

He turned around stiffly, turned in the right direction, and left from the moon gate in the east. After a moment of disappearing behind the moon gate, his figure quietly emerged from behind the moon gate.

Jiang Rao was about to leave when she saw his figure reappearing outside the Moon Gate. As soon as she stopped, he dawdled back.

In just a short while of leaving, a blush appeared on his cheeks.

As if he had just stepped out of the soup pool, it seemed that this snowy day was not so cold.

This blush didn't detract from his handsomeness, but instead made his complexion no longer as cold as before.

"I didn't mean that I didn't want to be engaged with you. I... I didn't know that person was me before."

His tone was remorseful.

If he had known it was himself, why would he think about smashing himself into thousands of pieces every day?

Instead, he should have come to entangle with her earlier.

"I'm only betrothed to you."

"I'm only yours."

His voice finally returned to normal, abandoning the panic, becoming low, caught in the cold wind, his voice was slow, magnetic and pleasant.

Word by word, very solemn.

After speaking, he glanced behind her, and suddenly shoved the oiled paper bag full of snacks into Jiang Rao's arms and left again.

Jiang Rao looked at his back, a little strange.

She wasn't very fierce just now, why did he leave like he was running away?

It was the first time she saw him in such a hurry.

The dim sum in the bag was still slightly warm. She looked down, thinking of his deep voice when he finally assured her, and the tips of her ears suddenly itch.

All the anxiety and anger just now disappeared.

She moved her toes, rubbed against the snow leisurely, and muttered, "I've made me fat." When she turned around, she was stunned.

Concubine Yun Gui was leaning against the hanging flower door on the other side, looking at her with a smile, not knowing how long she had been standing here.

Jiang Rao subconsciously hid the bag in her hand behind her,

The white fluff of the fox fur cloak was piled up beside her delicate and soft face, and the fluff was quivering in the wind.

"What is so precious?" Concubine Yun Gui walked over, opened the oil paper bag of Li Ji in Jiang Rao's hand, fed Jiang Rao two pieces of snacks, and ate one herself.

She teased with a half-smile, "Did you all come to see the Ninth Prince when you came to the Imperial Garden these two days?"

Jiang Rao nodded with a snack in his mouth.

Concubine Yun Gui let out a "tsk", and stuffed the bag back into Jiang Rao's arms with some disgust, "It's too sweet."

"Where did Auntie go?" Jiang Rao swallowed the cloud cake and asked Concubine Yun, "I woke up at the right time this morning, but I couldn't find Auntie in Shuxiang Palace."

"Ah? Me, it's hard to find someone else."

Yun Guifei lifted the hem of her skirt, jumped up and down on the snow, raised her eyebrows with a smirk, Jiang Rao understood, "Queen?"

Concubine Yun Gui nodded, "The emperor suddenly fell ill two months ago. Although he was cured, he often coughed after winter. It was a snowy day. I got up early in the morning, made some pear soup, and waited for him to go to the imperial study. On the way, I gave him pear soup."

Concubine Yun Gui looked very sleepy, but she always wore a leisurely smile, as if she had just returned from a victorious battle.

She leaned closer to Jiang Rao's ear and whispered, "Look, is my makeup look haggard like I haven't slept all night?"

Jiang Rao looked at her carefully. Concubine Yun Gui's makeup was thin today, and her eyes were specially marked with a haggard crow blue, and she didn't apply any mouth fat. Jiang Rao said helplessly: "I feel distressed when I see it."

"That's what I want." Concubine Yun Gui smiled beautifully, "Otherwise, how could I coax that man into thinking that I have a deep affection for him?"

But she cocked her chin arrogantly, "Even if my makeup is so bleak, I will look much better than the queen."

On snowy days, the palace servants carried the sedan chairs, and it was difficult to walk on the palace road.

Qin Yun and Jiang Rao got off the chariot and walked back to Shuxiang Palace together. After entering the Nuan Pavilion, Concubine Yun Gui and Jiang Rao spoke louder.

"The emperor was sick this time, and he asked the queen to make a good vent."

"She served in front of the emperor every day, and she acted as a virtuous and virtuous person. Not only that, but in exchange for getting down, saying that other palace concubines didn't care much about the emperor and didn't come to visit the doctor, as if she was the only one who could serve the emperor. , life is the same."

She muttered in pieces and complained dissatisfiedly, "It was obviously her who made the decree not to ask other concubines to go."

"I really can't get used to her style. By giving pear soup, I went to the emperor to cry and complain. The queen changed her words again, saying that the emperor needed to rest, so she didn't ask other concubines to disturb her, and she would turn the rudder when she saw the wind. ."

"What did the emperor say?"

Concubine Yun Gui raised her eyes in disdain, "It's just mud."

"He just wants to enjoy the blessings of all the people in the harem, and let the women in the harem truly love him, and want them to be in harmony." Concubine Yun Gui sneered, "Sincerely?"

She yawned with a tired look on her face, "The palace walls are only within the walls. I'm afraid he won't get what he wants."

Jiang Rao listened to Concubine Yun's words so much that she could be beheaded by the emperor, and she was not as nervous as before. She just held Concubine Yun's hand secretly, and she was going to take her out of the palace in the future. thought about it many times in mind.

Concubine Yun's eyes swept to the table, looking at the cloud cakes that had been placed on the plate and scattered neatly, she suddenly smiled, "Don't talk about these boring, I'm watching, the ninth prince and his arrogant father The emperor is different."

"He was cautious in front of you, and he seemed a little afraid of you. You haven't changed your marriage, but your wife is standing pretty well."

wife gang...

Jiang Rao: "..."

She remembered the back of Rong Ting fleeing, and lowered her eyes, "He is too timid, not cowardly."

"It's almost the same." Concubine Yun Gui curved her lips in satisfaction, "You don't need to be so hypocritical as I am in front of such a cowardly and gentle man, he will think of a way to please you, you If he stomps his feet, he may be as scared as he is today and hide in the shell."

Jiang Rao: "..."

Cowardice can't be replaced.

Hiding back in the shell is somewhat apt.

She touched her cheek.

Although she doesn't regard herself as a rare beauty in the world, she also knows that she is good-looking and likable, "Do I look so fierce?"

"It's better to be fierce, you won't suffer in the future."

That is really fierce.

Jiang Rao was a little depressed, Yun Guifei peeled a handful of pomegranate seeds to feed her, "Shen Xiuying, don't you remember, you only mentioned that to me, the second daughter of Lord Shen Que."

"nature."

"Just now when I confronted Queen Jia and Queen, an eunuch came to send a message and called her away early, saying that Second Lady Shen was waiting for her in Jinxiu Palace. Queen Jia and Queen were very anxious to leave."

"I'm a little surprised. Even though Shen Xiuying is only the daughter of an ordinary official, the Queen's demeanor is very respectful."

Concubine Yun Gui's face was full of confusion, "I have only seen the empress respect the eminent monks in the temple so much before."

Jiang Rao frowned.

She remembered that at the end of August this year, Shen Xiuying had angered Queen Jiahe about the scene she dreamed of before entering the palace to attend the flower viewing banquet.

In the blink of an eye, only a few months have passed, and Queen Jiahe's attitude towards Shen Xiuying has turned a corner?

This is really weird.

She thought and thought, and said in a precise tone: "Shen Que was very close to my uncle before, and had nothing to do with the Xu family. At the flower viewing banquet in the palace at the end of August, Shen Xiuying ran into the queen, although she was not punished. , but the scene is very embarrassing.”

"I don't really care who the queen is dealing with, but this Shen Xiuying always provokes you before, and I'm always worried that she and the queen will be bad for you." Yun Guifei looked at Jiang Rao, her eyes softened , "Nian Nian, when I say this, are you afraid?"

"I'm not afraid."

Jiang Rao shook his head.

Except for the accident of Jiang and Qin, she is not afraid of anything else.

Chen Congyun has been placed on high hopes since he was born. He has been treated harshly since he was a child. He compares his family to a shackle. Now he just wants to abandon his family and run away.

But she was in a different situation from her, no one put pressure on her, but she willingly carried the shackles on her back.

As it approached noon, the shadow of the sun moved eastward, and a ray of dawn appeared in the gloomy sky.

At this time, a palace maid bowed and walked in from the outside, reporting: "Niangniang, someone from Bo Ning'an has arrived."

"Let her in!" Yun Guifei looked back at Jiang Rao and smiled sweetly.

"Your father, he really knows a lot about tofu in the knife mouth. It's only been two days, and he can't hold it anymore."

Jiang Rao didn't laugh, thinking of her father softening so quickly, she felt a little pantothenic acid in her heart.

The hanging fringe on the heavy curtain moved a few times, and after it was lifted, the people waiting outside stepped in.

Jiang Rao was surprised and delighted when she saw the face of the person who stepped in, the pear vortex sank softly, and looked happy, "Ming Shao?"

Ming Shao's eyelashes were covered with hoarfrost, and hoarfrost was also on his face.

The frost on her eyelashes was the white snowflakes she had smeared while walking in the wind and snow, and the hoarfrost on her face was the tear stains dried by the cold wind.

Jiang Raohuan didn't have time to be happy, but when he saw Ming Shao's sad face, he was stunned for a moment.

Ming Shao's lips were trembling, and her face was blue and white.

She didn't even salute to Concubine Yun Gui. After seeing Jiang Rao, she knelt down with her knees soft, and hurriedly said, "Miss, something happened."

She said in a flustered tone, without a word, and said in one breath: "Someone impeached the fourth master's paintings in the early years and committed great disrespect to the emperor. It's all over the court."