Jiang Rao originally wanted to suppress her unprovoked discomfort, but his words caused her emotions to get back into order again, and somehow, it was as cold as being in a world of ice and snow, and she was born again. With a slight anger, he looked up at Rong Ting in surprise.

He lowered his head for a long time, his lips were slightly pursed in despair, and his drooping eyelashes were so heavy that they seemed to be wet with dew. That pitiful appearance... magnified the uncomfortable feeling in Jiang Rao's heart a hundredfold, and directly to the point where she could not stand it.

She frowned, "What did she do to you?"

In a soft tone, there was sullen anger.

Rong Ting turned his face away in embarrassment as if he was speechless.

Huai Qing didn't know what medicine was sold in the gourd of the ninth highness.

Last night he was awakened by the movement of the palace maid escaping the palace. He came to the study with a lantern and took a look. His Royal Highness's clothes were still as they were during the day, not a single piece, not even a lot of pleats.

When he came, His Highness Ninth Highness was cutting bamboo with a knife to repair the lantern. Without turning his head, he ordered him to take out the cushion in the study and burn it, with obvious disgust in his tone.

It wasn't until the next day that he figured out that the cushion might have been kneeled by the palace maid.

Disgusted to such a degree, I am afraid that the palace maid did not touch the corner of her clothes.

Originally, even if something happens, the man will not be the one who suffers.

It was the custom among the noble children of the Jokhang Dynasty to find a maid and palace maid to serve them early. It was rare for someone to be ignorant at the age of the Ninth Highness.

"Huaiqing, you say."

Rong Ting didn't speak for a long time, Jiang Rao was anxious and turned to ask Huaiqing.

Huai Qing glanced at Rong Ting's eyes, but didn't mean to stop him, he paused for a moment, then slowly replied: "The palace maid who served the bed was stuffed by the empress, and Yi Zhi couldn't refuse. In the west wing, she left to fend for herself, but I think she was unwilling to break into His Highness Ninth Highness’s study in the middle of the night when there was no one to be guarded.

Rong Ting coughed.

Huai Qing choked and did not continue to say more.

Rong Ting said in a low voice, "You go to the door to guard", and opened Huai Qing.

Huaiqing didn't say anything about the most important thing, it was like drying Jiang Rao's heart on the fire.

The night is dark and windy.

A wicked servant of the palace maid.

A leg was injured, and it was difficult to move. Recently, it was replaced by a prince who had just suffered from an illness.

Uncontrollable thoughts came to her mind

In the folklore of those strange and curious words, the female fairy who picks the scholar at night and generates yang/qi.

Rong Ting raised his eyes slightly, and his eyes slowly swept across Jiang Rao's face.

Inch by inch, her frowning, pursed lips, tensed chin, and clear jawline were all captured in her eyes.

The long finger tapped twice on the wheelchair.

He wanted her to worry about him too, and wanted her to stop being indifferent.

He waited for the little girl's face to slowly turn red with anger, hated as if he was about to stomp his feet. He couldn't hide the joy in his heart no matter what, but he lowered his head and pouted the corners of his mouth so that he would not laugh, and lowered his voice. Line said, "That woman, didn't touch me."

Jiang Rao's heart was sullen.

She never thought that the existence of one person would make her feel as uncomfortable as a thorn in the flesh, she must clear her out! She didn't want to continue to ask Huaiqing any more, she just wanted to go to Rong Ting's mansion and find an excuse to drive away that ill-intentioned palace maid. After hearing what Qing Rong Ting said, she thought about it and said: " Even if she doesn't meet her, she will be kicked out."

"Huan?" Didn't meet?

She groaned angrily in her own emotions, and was suddenly stunned.

"The powdery scent on her body was disgusting, and I didn't let her touch me."

Jiang Rao's heart was burning all the way, and the fire was burning more and more vigorously, and it went out all at once.

On the contrary, the inexplicable joy ignited like a small flame.

She herself felt that she was a little abnormal today, and she was suddenly sad and happy, and she was no longer like herself. Her face was hot now, she exhaled, and doubts appeared on her face again, "Then why do you say that you are not clean?"

"The study is the place to read the books of the sages. She sneaked here in the middle of the night and broke the rules set by the ancestors. The ancestors saw it in the sky and would definitely call me dirty and ignorant of etiquette and integrity."

Rong Ting's tone was sincere, with a look of disgust with himself, unable to raise his head.

Jiang Rao completely understood the cause and effect of the incident, and couldn't help laughing.

From childhood to adulthood, she has traveled from north to south, and has seen the customs of various places. In some frontier areas, women's status is no different from that of men, and they can do things that only men can do. But in those places, she had never seen such a man who paid attention to reputation and kept himself clean.

But she was a little happy in her heart. She couldn't explain why, and her voice became softer. "It's not your fault. Even if the ancestors saw it, the curse was the person who broke into your study."

"Blame me for being careless and giving that palace maid a chance to break in."

"It doesn't count."

Jiang Rao asked him,

"Where is the maid now?"

"She became angry because of my rejection and ran away."

Jiang Rao's smile fell, and she found it strange, "Why do you look... a little unhappy?"

The palace maid left, isn't it a good result?

"Before leaving, she scolded me for being disabled, saying that I was only half a person, and I didn't know what to do..."

He drooped his eyelids, his voice low, as if he was really hurt by these words.

Jiang Rao looked at Rong Ting in front of him, and seemed to see how he looked when he was insulted by that palace maid.

At this time, she hoped that he would be like the Jiuye in her dream, who would take vengeance and be a little more lawless.

She shook her head slowly, "don't listen to her, no matter how good or bad your legs are, you are a very good person."

Rong Ting looked uneasy, "Don't you dislike me?"

Jiang Rao was very firm, "I won't."

There was a loud knock on the door.

Ming Shao couldn't see Jiang Rao's whole heart on Rong Ting. Jinling was no better than the outside world. It was easy to be blamed for making the slightest mistake. She had to supervise the girl's observance of the ceremony and knocked on the door twice, "Girl, your ninth highness, you guys Are you done talking?"

Only then did Jiang Rao remember the business.

She took an envelope from her sleeve.

"After the fall, if you can really enter the Ministry of Industry, it will be useful."

After she heard the news that Rong Ting would join the Ministry of Works, she sent someone to inquire about the list of officials in the Ministry of Works and their respective temperaments and preferences, and wrote them down on a piece of paper.

With the Xu family's connections in the DPRK, it was easy for Rong Ting to enter the Ministry of Industry, but if he wanted to get along well in the Ministry of Industry, there would be some resistance. The earlier you know what kind of people are inside, the easier it will be to go later.

Rong Ting took the letter.

When Ming Shao was outside, she urged impatiently, "Girl?"

Jiang Rao lifted the curtain to go out, and Huai Qing lifted the curtain to enter.

In this short period of time, Rong Ting had opened the letter and read the name of the person and the small print after the person's name.

Huai Qing glanced at it, a little surprised, "Isn't this something that the Ninth Highness asked me to inquire about?"

"Would you like to talk to the fourth girl so that she won't waste her time in the future?"

Rong Ting looked at the figures of the master and servant outside the curtain. He held the thin letter paper and said in a low voice, "You don't need to let Nian Nian know that we have inquired."

Huai Qing suddenly remembered the palace lanterns under the corridor and the bonsai in the courtyard. He understood what Rong Ting meant, and knew that he had said the wrong thing just now, "It's a slave who has overstepped."

Outside the curtain, Ming Shao watched Jiang Rao come out with bright eyes. Looking at her appearance, she felt that she was happier than usual, and she also became happier, but only for a moment.

When he thought that the person who made Jiang Rao happy was His Highness Ninth, Ming Shao couldn't be happy anymore.

The corner of his smiling mouth drooped down again, and he glanced inside the house with some resentment, "Girl, there are guests in the house today, and they will stay for dinner. The fourth master told us to go back early, we should go."

"guest?"

Ming Shao stuck to Jiang Rao's ear and said, "It's Pei Shaoqing."

Jiang Rao also guessed that it would be him.

Since the day she met Pei Songyu under the corridor, she has often seen Pei Songyu come to discuss matters with her father.

Pei Songyu has helped her father a lot recently, and she will not always be humble because of only arrogance. He doesn't claim to be a gentleman, but his behavior will make people feel that this person is really golden and jade outside of him, and he is elegant and clear, and he will be like a star. It is difficult to make people hate it. It's not bad for his father to associate with him.

Jiang Rao's impression of this distant cousin was good, but the only dissatisfaction was that when Daddy was discussing matters with him, he always liked to occupy the Huxin Pavilion where she liked to go to enjoy the cool air. There it is.

Ming Shao continued: "The old uncle will also come, girl, you can't miss this occasion, it's time to go back and get dressed up."

"It's just for dinner together, so there's no need to dress up." Jiang Rao seemed indifferent, but she couldn't find an excuse to refuse. She opened the curtain, said hello to Rong Ting, and turned back to Ming Shao and said, "We Go back first."

Seeing that she was willing to go back, Ming Shao followed her and said with a smile, "Even if you don't dress up, the girl is very beautiful."

Jiang Rao was used to hearing this, and she didn't feel much in her heart for a long time. When she walked out of the alley, she asked Ming Shao softly, "Tell me, why is there a palace maid beside the ninth highness, I will be unhappy?"

Ming Shao was stunned for a moment.

Sleeping? Nine princes? Isn't he crippled?

The unmarried little girl knew little about this kind of thing, but she was a little unhappy because of Jiang Rao's words, and she was keenly aware that something was wrong.

She thought about it for a long time and said to Jiang Rao, "It's because the ninth prince is too weak, you should worry about his body."

Jiang Rao didn't answer any more.

Ming Shao followed Jiang Rao step by step, and instructed worriedly, "The girl is born so beautiful, in the future, I must find a handsome uncle to stand with the girl, they are a pair of beautiful people. How envious of others."

she "stands"

Biting extremely hard, he pulled Jiang Rao's sleeve, his eyes were full of worry, and he wrote the exhortation "Girls don't jump into the fire pit".

Jiang Rao never thought about that, and didn't hear the deep meaning of Ming Shao's words.

On the contrary, because Ming Shao was always beside her recently talking about marriage and marriage, she glanced at Ming Shao angrily, and pretended to be vicious to scare her, "If you talk more, I will move the Buddhist scriptures of Nanyun Temple together with Muyu.Go to your house and let you read happily every day."

Ming Shao immediately shut up.

...

After the master and servant left.

Rong Ting's eyes were gloomy and cold.

Huaiqing only knew that Jiang Rao and her personal maid had said something outside the curtain before leaving, but his ears were not good, and he was inside the house, so he couldn't hear what they were talking about.

In order to avoid people's eyes and ears, she originally waited for a while after Jiang Rao left, and could leave when there was no one in the alley. Huaiqing glanced outside the alley, and heard Rong Ting behind him say, "Go back to the academy first.I have something to do, I want to see Mr.