The Queen of Romance: A Summer of Sweet Classics

Chapter 285 The Way to Be Jealous – Leaving the Palace

I went back to the banquet with my waist stiff, and I searched twice but couldn't find Qin Lian.Surrounded by beauties, Su Qi was obviously happy and at ease, and basically forgot that there was a sister like me.

I went back to the East Palace ahead of time, and when I got into the bedroom, I realized that someone had come back earlier than me.Qin Lian was already sitting upright on the edge of the bed, with his head tilted slightly, his legs crossed, and it was rare that he didn't have a fan, books and other objects in his hands, but he was lazily resting on his legs.A pair of eyes looked a little careless. Hearing the sound of footsteps, he looked up at me, looked at me again, and then slowly said: "What's wrong with you?"

In fact, Qin Lian's speaking speed has always been slow, with deep traces of long-term pampering and strict training in the court.Every word and deed is a standard etiquette template, even if he is angry, others can't feel it from his tone.This is one of the things he hates more.I'm afraid that when he really did something, other people would realize that he had offended someone, but unfortunately, the auspicious time has passed, and it is too late to regret.

I said: "The structure of the rockery behind the Zhaoming Hall is not good at all. It is obviously a smooth and neat plane, but there is an extra corner in the middle. I am definitely not the first one to hit there because of the darkness, and I am sure. Won't be the last."

"I don't know if you walk a lot at night, you will always fall a few times. What are you doing outside if you don't stay in the hall?" Qin Lian stretched out a hand towards me, "Come here and let me have a look."

I was dragged over by him, he pressed the back of my waist unconsciously, I immediately took a "hissy" breath, slandered a few words in my heart, frowned and said: "His Royal Highness, your status is precious!" , just let Ah Ji help me..."

Qin Lian acted as if he didn't hear my words, and opened up layers of clothes. I felt a chill down my waist, his fingers were colder than the air, and when he touched that piece of skin, I immediately shuddered.

Qin Lian said without emotion: "It hurts?"

I felt that my face was distorted, so I said bitterly, "Why don't you try to bump your head against the corner of the bed?"

He laughed, put down my clothes again, raised his voice and said to the door: "Xueyan, bring the medicinal wine."

I was flattered to enjoy a high-level massage this evening.Qin Lian claimed that this was the experience he had accumulated while leading the army. His strength was just right, and the bruise gradually became hot. I lay down under the quilt and almost fell asleep comfortably, but suddenly I heard him say: "Today's The maid who eavesdropped has already been expelled from the palace."

I said "oh".

Qin Lian was smiling but not smiling, his long and narrow eyes were as black as black jade under the lamplight, shining brightly: "You are quite calm."

His fingers slid to my armpit, and the cool fingertips carried a flexible and flexible force, which made me shiver.Qin Lian leaned down, brushed his hair against my cheek, and whispered in my ear: "I didn't arrange that maid."

I said "huh", closed my eyes and said, "I know."

"Oh?" He chuckled, straightened up and said, seemingly authentically, "If only you really knew."

After the banquet, Su Qi and Qin Lian became very busy.It is probably to negotiate the land of Qi Kingdom, and the national interest is at the forefront, and no one dares to slack off, so I am the only one left in the East Palace.

I can't find anyone who can ask specific information, so I can only guess on my own.I originally thought that the country of Qi should be like a pear, the first to strike is the strongest.However, after thinking about it, it shouldn’t be like this. A more appropriate description should be to regard it as a gold coin. No matter how it is covered with charcoal, oil and sludge, it is still a piece of valuable gold.So it's no wonder that Su Qi and Qin Lian are so busy with it.

However, when Su Qi finally made time to come over for tea, I asked him about the border, but he refused to tell me in detail.His rhetoric couldn't be more ambiguous: "What's the use of me telling you? If I lose money, you worry about me, and if Qin Lian loses money, you worry about him. You might as well not know anything."

I was crazy: "If you were a cat, and there was a fish hanging in front of you, but you could only look at it but not eat it, would you be willing? Since you let me know that you have drawn a boundary, but you don't let me know what is it? Whoever loses wins, how can you be so cruel?"

"I just won't tell you." Su Qi said lightly, "If you want to know, ask Qin Lian and see if he will tell you."

I wish I could scratch him with my paw: "Su Qi!"

Su Qi gave a "hmm" and said, "Call brother to listen."

I wished I could tear him apart, but I still said on the face: "Brother..."

Su Qipo responded with Qiao's voice, pinched the tea lid to rinse the tea leaves, and repeated slowly: "But even if I call you brother, I won't tell you."

"..."

It's just that although he didn't tell me, I still knew some details about the negotiation after all.With so many pairs of eyes on the court, the news of this state affairs spread very quickly.Su Qi blatantly played a scoundrel in the court hall with reason and restraint, and his gleaming lips fooled a group of old courtiers.His sophistry eloquence is learned from Jue Wuzi, the most outstanding lobbyist in the world, so most people are not his opponents.And I usually can bicker with him for more than ten sentences, usually because he is willing to let me go.

Although this is a state matter, there is no rule that no one can gossip about state affairs.I really want to see with my own eyes how these two well-known young masters fight wits and courage. However, the negotiation time is too long, and many of the plots in the middle can no longer be remembered. I only inquire about Qin Lian's state. Unexpectedly, it was not good, almost standing there while listening to Su Qi's nonsense while wandering in the sky.Later, Su Qidu had already made the courtiers speechless and blushing, but he was still wandering. In the end, he was so wandering that even the emperor couldn't stand it. He coughed heavily and finally dragged him back from the sky, and then Qin Lian Frowning, he said lightly: "Su Qi, the words of the lion's big mouth are tailor-made for you."

One of the key points of playing politics is thick skin.And Su Qi had obviously cultivated to become a master, and he said without changing his expression on the spot: "Then respected His Royal Highness the Southern Dynasty Crown Prince, what are your thoughts?"

Qin Lian said: "It's still the same old saying, the land of Qi Kingdom is divided into half, with Mingling Mountain as the boundary, the north belongs to the Su Dynasty, and the south belongs to our country."

Su Qidao: "The north of Mingling is all mountainous and uninhabited. It's hard to believe how difficult it is to reclaim the land. Anyone with a brain knows how to divide such land to us. What do you want us to do guarding the mountains? It's okay. Climb up to bask in the sun when it's time?"

Qin Lian said: "Don't make it seem like there is no land there. The capital of the Qi Kingdom is located north of Mingling. The size of a city of the Su Kingdom is not enough to satisfy your appetite?"

Su Qidao: "Since you said that the north of Mingling is so good, how about we exchange it, we want the south of Mingling, and give you the north of Mingling?"

Qin Lian said: "It's not a smart way to rule each other by separating them from each other."

Such a stalemate, but the patience of the two is still very good, from the sun rising in the east to the sun setting in the west, finally the emperor said: "It is fairest for a country to divide half. No matter how you say it, the ending will be the same." It's all the same."

Su Qi smiled slightly, and said slowly: "Then what if we don't?"

I have to say, Su Qi is really courageous.It's nothing more than coming to the Southern Dynasty alone to go deep into the tiger's den, and dare to step on the tiger's tail openly in the tiger's den.If the emperor of the Southern Dynasty was furious, and broke his promise and detained and killed Su Qi on the spot, with the current situation of Su State, it is possible that there would be a mess.However, when I mentioned it to Su Qi later, he smiled lazily, picked up a black jade chess piece with his index finger and middle finger, dropped it on the upper right side of the chessboard, and said with certainty: "No."

I despise him for his attitude of grasping the pearls of wisdom: "What if? What if the battle is wrong and really wrong?"

Su Qing looked at me with more contempt than I did: "Why don't you think of me better? Negotiation is a gamble, as long as you bet on me to win, you will definitely not lose. My beautiful and lovely sister, Your Highness, You can rest assured."

However, although Su Qi seemed confident about the outcome, Qin Lian also did not have the slightest attitude of a loser.The two of them are very good at concealing their emotions, showing no flaws on their faces. If there is any change in Qin Lian recently, it is that he likes to torment me more and more.

That day he and Su Qi talked from dawn to dusk, and it was past dinner time when they came back.I fell asleep on the crooked bed in a daze, and suddenly something cold and soaked stretched out to my neck, which made me wake up with a gasp.

I half propped up my body and stared at him. Qin Lian had already changed into casual clothes and was sitting on the bedside. He slowly withdrew his wicked hand, took a citrus from the bedside, slowly peeled it open, and squeezed another piece to my mouth. side.

I said, "I don't want to..."

Before the word "eat" was finished, he stuffed the orange into my mouth. I swallowed hard and was about to speak, but Qin Lian saw the timing and stuffed another piece of orange into my mouth.

"..."

His fingers lingered on my lips, rubbing them over and over again, his eyes remained motionless, very silent and strange, many things were hidden in the pitch black depth.I swallowed the orange petals with difficulty under his gaze, Qin Lian finally mercifully threw the orange back on the small table.Before I had time to rejoice, my eyes suddenly darkened, and a shadow pressed down on my wrist.

In the middle of the night, I fell into the quilt feebly, and said: "You just said clearly that it will only be once today, you are a villain if you don't believe your words..."

Qin Lian gave a half-smile, "It was the first half of the night, so it was yesterday. Now it's the second half of the night, so it's today."

"..." I didn't even have the strength to argue with him, so I said quietly, "Can you loosen my wrist first..."

"No." He still held my two wrists with one hand and pressed them against the head of the bed, bent down, bit my lips, and said solemnly, "May I tell you a story?"

I tried my best to turn my head on the bed: "But I'm sleepy..."

"Hee'er."

These two words were read by Qin Lian in an extremely long murmur, which made me open my eyes immediately: "Please tell me."

"Suddenly I don't want to talk anymore." He turned over and lay down, held me in his arms, straightened the jade pendant around my neck, and ran through the hair on my back over and over again, and said slowly, "Xi'er, if Su The country and the Southern Dynasty will fight each other one day, what will you do?"

I look up at him.Qin Lian's eyes were still calm and indifferent, as if he was talking about the weather that had nothing to do with it.And my forehead is against his heartbeat, and the beating there is neither faster nor slower at the moment.

I said, "You're trying to embarrass me on purpose."

Qin Lian smiled: "Then I won't make things difficult for you." He leaned forward and kissed my eyes, "Go to sleep."

Three days later, the two countries finally finalized the future border issue.With his iron teeth and copper teeth, Su Qi insisted on biting a small gap, and finally made Nanchao reluctantly agree to add an additional county to the border of Su State on the original basis, but the premise is that Su State agrees to trade between the two countries. , and shall not take the initiative to launch a war against the Southern Dynasties within ten years, violators will be breach of the contract.Breaking the contract means breaking promises, losing the support of public opinion, and the two countries have equal national strength, which means losing the opportunity for war.

However, according to the old courtiers of the Southern Dynasty who had been calculating carefully all their lives, even if such a treaty was signed, the Su Kingdom would still be at an advantage.Moreover, criticizing Su Qi is really too eloquent and slick, not at all the prudence and maturity that young people should study hard.Then it was unavoidable to compare Su Qi with Qin Lian, and then even more praised how calm and calm his prince was, how wise and generous it was.

It's just that in my opinion, the reason for these words is mostly because the old men are inferior to Su Qi's eloquence in the court, and they suffer too much suffocation, so they have no choice but to spread such rumors when they are speechless. Vent anger.But what they probably didn't expect was that Su Qi's face was actually thick to a certain extent, and it was not easy to get him to pay attention to these things. Su Qi obviously didn't care, and listened to the music when he should. If you want to have fun, you will have fun, and when you meet a beautiful woman, you will play it quietly, and your life is as comfortable as in Su.

Facing such a contract, Qin Lian also had a noncommittal attitude.He looked as usual, acted as usual, lived as usual, and everything was as usual.There is no evaluation of whether it is a profit or a loss, but the fact is that he didn't even mention the signing of the contract.When he came back the night he signed the treaty with the State of Su, I was so bored that I began to adjust a guqin. He started to accompany me on the first day, and it has been twelve years since then.

I fiddled with it lightly, and immediately there was a clanging piano sound, and the lingering sound took a long time to subside.It's like plum blossom petals falling into the water, leaving some ripples.

I pressed my fingers on the strings of the qin, and remembered that when I was in Suzhou, I studied qin, chess, calligraphy and painting. Guqin was the shortest learning time, but so far, I am best at guqin.

I am not as good as my sister Su Zi, I do not have her slender and beautiful fingers.Su Zi's fingers are very beautiful. The real beauty is like a flower and her hands are like jade. When playing the piano, her fingering is so complicated that it is dazzling. Even when she is playing chess, the moment when her slender and white fingers are touching the black chess piece is equally impressive.

But my fingers are a bit shorter than Su Zi's, which naturally makes it more difficult for me to learn the piano than hers; although playing chess is not bad, it is not beautiful either; even when dancing, those who need to use gestures to compare When making all kinds of delicate and soft shapes, I often hide my hands in my sleeves and get it done hastily.

This naturally caused me to muddle along when the old master taught me to play the piano when I was a child.However, the year before last, I was angry with myself for a period of time, and spent three months studying Guqin day and night.Those exquisite fingerings, complex rhythms and various piano scores from ancient times to the present have been played by me from very unfamiliar to very familiar in a short period of time.Now when the fingers touched the strings again, it was like water flowing over the hills, naturally without any hesitation.

I played aimlessly for a while, and when the last tremolo disappeared in the air, Qin Lian behind me said, "What are you playing?"

I turned around and said seriously: ""Su Shi's Absolute String", is it very nice to listen to?"

Qin Lian raised his eyebrows and said, "Sounds good? I just think it's a pity that I lost a good piano for nothing."

I said angrily: "As the saying goes, the music is high and the few are high, and the music is high and the few are few. It must be because you don't know the music so you can't hear it well."

Qin Lian smiled, and sat down beside me: "Then, do we want to compete?"

So I moved out another piano.Qin Lian sat across from me majestically, plucked the strings with his slender fingers, and looked at me calmly: "Let's begin."

The moment the piano sounded suddenly, I vaguely saw the old days when I lived in the courtyard outside the Su Palace.One year the summer sun was extremely dazzling, and there were two purple sand teacups on the small stone table in the cool place, and the cannas a few steps away were in full bloom, so dazzling and arrogant, it was almost as if they were scorched by the sun , dazzling people's eyes.

My cough improved a lot in that year, and my piano skills improved a lot in that year, but in that year, all I can clearly remember is that day.

When I slowly came back to my senses, the musical notes had flowed through the entire palace like plain moonlight, and Qin Lian's right hand had changed more than a dozen fingerings. Sleeve gown, engraved skirt edge, downcast eyes indifferently.

After Qin Lian collected the last syllable, I lay down on the table and said powerlessly: "I admit defeat."

Qin Lian laughed and said, "You haven't done your gestures yet, how can you admit defeat?"

I said: "Don't you just want me to admit that your piano skills are better than mine? It's not difficult, I just admit it."

Qin Lian said, "I didn't think so."

I said, "You must think so deep down in your heart."

Qin Lian laughed again, he seemed to be in a good mood tonight, and said again: "Why don't you compare yourself to something else?"

I said cautiously, "I'm not going to compare with you."

Qin Lian's ending sound raised "Oh": "Why?"

I watched him stand up from behind the guqin, and said solemnly: "If I lose a lot, I will be unhappy, and I will definitely not be able to sleep tonight; if I win, you will be unhappy, and I will definitely not let me fall asleep tonight." No matter what, it’s my fault, so I won’t compete with you.”

He came over, fished me out of the chair, and while carrying me to the bed, he said: "Actually, there is one thing. If you beat me, I will definitely not be unhappy. It's a pity that you are too disappointing. Passed up the opportunity."

"What is it?"

He lowered the curtain with one hand, and the red hibiscus flowers on the top of the tent immediately opened my eyes. Qin Lian squeezed my face and said slowly, "Nvhong."

"..."

Su Qi stayed in the Southern Dynasty for six days, and lived a very leisurely and peaceful life every day.The assassination operation that I was worried about did not take place.Ah Ji told me that the imperial father's letter from Feige had arrived in Su Qi's hands the day before, and he was basically ordered to go back immediately after the negotiation.However, Su Qi was obviously not very well-behaved. It was too difficult for a lazy person like him to travel on a starry night. It is said that after reading the letter, he threw it aside and continued to play with the letter he had just left from the armory. A sharp dagger I found.

On the seventh day, Su Qi wandered to the East Palace and saw that I was holding an embroidery needle in my hand. He said "tsk" and said with emotion: "Our second princess just imitates what she looks like. If someone sees you like this I'm afraid you really think how much you know how to embroider."

I immediately made a gesture to stab him, but he dodged lightly, and after a while, I leaned over again, studied the pattern carefully, and said, "Is this embroidery for Qin Lian?"

I cleared my throat and said, "It's not for you anyway."

"Even if you really give it to me, I don't want it." Su Qi retorted, took the tea offered by Ah Ji and put it aside, picked up a small white ball at his feet, touched it in the palm of his hand, and said, "You learn how to do embroidery." What? The daughters of Su's royal family never learn this stuff. What a boring and eye-straining job."

Seeing that I didn't answer, I asked again: "What are you planning to embroider? What kind of pattern is this? It seems to be... like ducks in water and reeds rippling?"

I was about to stab him again, but Su Qi backed away and smiled lowly: "Okay, okay, can't I know? It's not a duck or a mandarin duck, or a reed or a lotus. Don't you just want me to say this? But you It’s really not like the embroidery.”

I said viciously: "I only got a few stitches, and you can tell if the embroidery looks good? You are really capable."

Su Qi hugged the little white cat in his arms, picked up the teacup to drink tea, and said slowly: "As far as your female celebrity level is concerned, do you still let me see? Tell me, shouldn't you use a straight needle now? Why did you use a needle?"

"..." I raised my head, looked at him sincerely, and said very modestly: "What is a straight needle? What is a circular needle?"

Su Qi almost choked on a sip of tea: "How dare you tinker with embroidery without knowing anything?"

I became a little annoyed: "Anyway, anyway, there are people in this palace who know it, so you can learn it. As the crown prince of the Su Kingdom, it is really out of character to make such a fuss about things."

Su Qidao: "I'm leaving Nanchao tomorrow, so can't you say something nice to me? Otherwise, when I miss you in the future, I'll be full of your fierce appearance, so you think it's good?"

I stopped immediately and looked up at him: "...tomorrow?"

I couldn't get back to my senses, Su Qi's voice filled my ears, but my brain couldn't keep up, I only saw his lips opening and closing: "My things should be done almost, Father has already urged .Do you have anything to bring or a letter? For example, for Su Zi..." Su Qi stopped talking abruptly, and his voice suddenly became a little flustered, "Hey, don't cry..."

When he said this, I suddenly felt my face was a little wet, and I wiped it with the back of my hand indiscriminately, and then I saw Su Qi's handkerchief handed over, and then I pushed it away without hesitation, and finally he sighed, He looked at me with his chin propped up: "You are so reluctant to part with me? I think you married to Nanchao, but you didn't shed a single tear."

I wiped my eyes again, finally wiped my face clean, raised my eyes and said: "Then there's no need to cry. The emperor arranged for me to agree, it's clearly your wish."

Su Qi quickly pinched his forehead: "Your love and my wish don't seem to be used like this..."

Although I claimed that my tears were just lamenting that the minced meat porridge that Qin Lian forcibly poured down in the morning was too unpalatable, which left an unpalatable taste in my mouth, but Su Qi still insisted that my tears were because of my deep affection for my brother The true feelings of friendship are revealed, but I am thin-skinned and refuse to admit it.Then he expressed his great touch, and he promised me that I would definitely see him again within a year and let me take good care of myself.

According to past practice, although Su Qi behaved carelessly on weekdays, since he made a promise, he would definitely keep it.However, I still couldn't help thinking that this time I was able to meet him because of the border dispute between the two countries in southern Jiangsu, so when I see him next time, I don't know what kind of opportunity it will be because of.

When Qin Lian came back at night and caught sight of the half-drawn embroidery in my hand, I was ready to argue with him.If he still said something like "It's a pity a good piece of fabric" with a half-smile on his lips as before, I would definitely reply with "You don't know how to be a girl, you are a person who doesn't know how to be a girl." You can’t comment on people who study female celebrities, you don’t know what is straight needle and what is dial needle?” But Qin Lian’s performance this time exceeded my expectations, his very beautiful eyebrows were raised, He smiled and said, "You have been embroidering like this for a day?"

I said: "Ah."

Qin Lian said: "This is... a mandarin duck?"

I said: "Ah."

Qin Lian said: "The embroidery is not bad."

I said: "...Huh?"

The next day, Su Qi returned.It was early winter, and a thin fog fell on the capital of the Southern Dynasties. I watched his back on the horse gradually disappear outside the metasequoia forest, leaving only the clear and fading sound of horse hooves. I remembered his words before parting: "Xi'er, you have to Remember, you are not only my father's daughter, but also my own younger sister."

When he said this, he was rare and solemn. With his phoenix eyes, he put away all the ridicule, ignored Qin Lian who was not far away with a calm expression, and held my wrist with a meticulous expression.I thought about it and said, "Actually, there is no difference, right?"

Su Qi smiled: "There's a big difference. I'm not the same as my father."

I said, "Okay, I'll remember. Then tell me, when are you planning to officially declare war on Qi?"

"Huh?" Su Qixiang thought, "It should be after I return to Su."

"Will you go out in person?"

"Probably not." Su Qi pursed his lips and smiled, "Qin Lian probably wouldn't either."

I nodded, Su Qi pondered for a moment, and said again: "How about I leave two hidden guards for you?"

I looked up at him, looked straight at him, and said sternly, "Brother, don't hurt me."

Su Qi glanced at Qin Lian, and after thinking for a while, he finally agreed reluctantly: "That's fine. But don't let Ah Ji leave easily when you're free. You take care of yourself."

Su Qi headed north, Qin Lian and I headed south from the palace gate to the East Palace.His expression has been calm, without any emotion.Now the prince of the Southern Dynasty is more and more reserved, compared with when I first met him, the expression on his face is almost less than half.

In the carriage, he casually played with a piece of jadeite round jade the size of a pigeon egg in his hand. His fingers were shiny and slender, and together they had an indescribably elegant and unparalleled elegance.After a while, my gaze shifted from his cuff to his face, and I whispered, "Qin Lian..."

He looked up at me, I cleared my throat, and said, "What's on your mind recently?"

He raised his eyebrows: "Why do you see that?"

I said: "I always feel that you have been behaving abnormally lately..." Seeing him narrowing his eyes dangerously, he hurriedly took a step back and changed his words during the interrogation, "It's not that kind of abnormality, how can someone as smart as you have an abnormal brain... I mean Yes, have you resented something lately? But it doesn't seem right, with your way of doing things, how could something dare to block your way..."

Qin Lian looked at me, and returned to his half-smile look: "Isn't it good Fengshui in the Southern Dynasty? Why do I think you are much smarter than when you first came here?"

I coughed, and said solemnly: "The one who is close to the ink is black, but the one who is close to the ink is black."

Qin Lian smiled again, put the jade in his hand into his sleeve, and said, "Come here."

I looked at him warily: "I won't go there."

He quickly squinted his eyes, Qingyouyou said my name once, and then Qingyouyou said: "You are really getting more and more courageous."

The space in this carriage is too small, I watched him open and close his arms, and finally dragged me into the sphere of influence.Accompanied by the rustling sound of clothes rubbing against each other, I heard his clear voice above my head, and he called my name clearly again, and then said slowly: "Your lineage of the royal family of the Su Kingdom is a den of foxes. "

I looked up at him and happened to bump into his nose.He lowered his head, put his fingers on my wrist, as nimble as a creeper, winding up my inner elbow.His fingertips scratched there lightly, and there was a numbness and tremor. If he hadn't sealed my lips in time, I would have almost cried out.

I opened my eyes wide and looked at him, watching him finally retreat a little bit, trembling and weakly said: "You, what do you want..."

Qin Lian said, "Guess what I want?"

"how could I know……"

His fingers went up again, pinching that small inch of skin, I bit my mouth just in time before I could speak out, and looked at him bitterly, while he smiled very calmly: "I'm extorting a confession by torture."

"..."

He said, "Since you want to know when the war with Qi will start, why don't you ask me?"

"..."

He added: "Su Qi still wants to leave two hidden guards for you. What does he think of the Southern Dynasty?"

"..." I opened my mouth and murmured for a long time, "So you have good ears..."

"Wrong." Qin Lian said leisurely, "I have clairvoyance. I can read mouth shapes."

"..."

"So," he still looked at me calmly, "do you want to say something?"

"……No."

"No?"

"Hmm." I looked at him, "Not a single word."

Unexpectedly, he didn't force him, instead he said slowly, "That's good."

After Su Qi returned to the State of Su, he indeed immediately dispatched troops to attack the State of Qi.And exactly as he said, he and Qin Lian did not go to the battle in person. The Southern Dynasty sent Zhao Youyi's older brother Zhao Youchen to supervise the battle. It was rumored that on the last day of the Qi Kingdom's fall, the cold north wind blew the flags and rattled them. The king of the Qi Kingdom stood on the city wall, angrily denouncing the insatiable greed of the two southern Jiangsu countries.He started from the story of how his ancestors obtained this seal, all the way to Qin Lian and Su Qi's abandoning faith for the sake of profit, and doing everything for the purpose. This is the prelude to the collapse of the world.Hearing the end, Zhao Youchen was already impatient, waved his hand and said two words: "Let the arrow go."

So the king of Qi State was shot to death on the city wall by random arrows.The death was so tragic that it is even said that the corpse was stepped on several times by the blood-stained boots of the soldiers of the two dynasties.

Objectively speaking, there is no fairness in politics.The monarch of Qi State seeks his own government in his position, and so do Qin Lian and Su Qi.So it's a bit too much to judge them to be treacherous, although they are indeed too arrogant sometimes.

When the good news came, Qin Lian was resting in bed, with a calm face and a little tiredness.In the past six months, the health of the Holy Majesty has been deteriorating, and he has been bedridden for days due to lack of physical strength. Qin Lian has recently been supervising the country as the crown prince, and at the same time worried about his father's illness, he has not closed his eyes for several days.Looking closely now, the fundus of his eyes even has a light blue color.And his skin has always been fair, so it became more and more obvious.

It's rare for him to sleep soundly like today. At this moment, all the aggressive postures in his eyes are gone, his breathing is steady, his face is calm and as warm as jade.

What's more depressing is that Qin Lian's day and night have been turned upside down recently, and there are too few quiet moments like this, and he has recently added an annoying new habit, as soon as he wakes up, he stretches out his hand to touch the bed and finds no one. Before I even opened my eyes, the magic sound came out, but the two words, clear and light, made me feel like I was put on a magic spell: "Su Xi."

I consider myself to be magnanimous, so if he just called me like that, it would be fine.But every time he called me to his side, he began to use me as a court lady, helping him change his clothes, grinding his ink, beating his shoulders, and what's more, he would help him read the flattering memorials of his courtiers' praises, and every time he called All day, it took up my time for teasing flowers, cats and starlings. If things go on like this, I can't bear it no matter how generous I am.

One day I refused to accept the memorial he handed over, angrily said: "Why do you ask me to read the memorial!"

Qin Lianyun said calmly: "My eyes are tired from looking at it all day, isn't it my responsibility as a princess to share my husband's worries?"

"..." I stood at the corner of the table and looked down at him, expressing anger, "But as a wise prince, you should have thrown aside the memorial that was obviously sycophant!"

Qin Lian said indifferently: "You mean, I am a crown prince, but I am a stupid prince?"

"..." I was short of breath for an instant.

Qin Lian glanced at me, then hit the snake with the stick and went up the tunnel: "Didn't your brother Su Qi tell you that you read too many serious memorials, and you need this kind of sycophant to adjust it?"

"..." I wanted to follow his words and say "Su Qicai has never done this before", but thinking about Su Qi's daily behavior, I am afraid that even I don't believe this sentence, so when the words came to my mouth, I couldn't believe it. Had to change his mouth, "Su Qicai never asked anyone to read the memorial."

Qin Lian spread out my palms again, put the memorial on it again, and said casually: "Don't change the main point of my words. Keep reading."

"..."

When Qin Lian woke up and learned the news, he still remained calm.I stretched out my arms and let me put on his robe, then he pinched my chin and said with a smile: "You just won the battle, why are you so absent-minded?"

I said, "Winning the battle or not winning the battle has nothing to do with me. If you let me go out of the palace for a walk, I must be refreshed immediately."

He stroked my hair on the sideburns, and said with a smile: "I'll take you out of the palace after you finish embroidering that pair of embroidery."

However, on the second day after the news of the victory, internal strife broke out between the two victorious countries.The state of Qi was destroyed, and the treasury was wiped out by the officers and soldiers of the two countries in southern Jiangsu. There may be some unequal distribution of wealth, but there was no major mistake; There was a disagreement in the classics, Su insisted on first-come-first-served, and wanted to keep all the records for himself, but Nan Chao obviously disagreed, so they quarreled in front of the bright sun, first verbal disputes, then group fights, until In the end, no one knew who actually lit the fire and burned all the important documents of Qi State.

A dispute between two countries that don't see eye to eye, no matter how small it is, can become a big thing, let alone such a serious matter as the burning of documents and books.Yet I was relieved.I was a little worried about whether the generals of the two dynasties in southern Jiangsu would have the impulse to sneak attack on each other while they were unprepared, which would first cause casualties and then lead to war between the two countries.However, the facts have proved that my worries were unfounded. It seems that both countries want to abide by the demarcation agreement signed before.

In recent days, His Majesty's physical condition has been good and bad, but most of them are bad.However, on the day when Zhao Youchen's class teacher returned to the court, the spirit of the Holy Majesty was very rare. He not only condolences and rewarded the soldiers who went to the expedition, but also left extra energy to give a banquet to the Zhao family.

Qin Lian went out very early that day and didn't come back until the sun went down.I originally thought it was just an ordinary royal banquet, but when the lights were turned on, the gossip about the Holy Majesty's second marriage to Qin Lian blew into the East Palace like the north wind, which made me stunned, who was pretending to be posting.

Ah Ji has always been truthful, since she told me that Qin Lian is going to accept a side concubine, the news should be pretty sure.

On weekdays, the news about Qin Lian has always been very exciting, let alone such a big event as marriage.It is said that halfway through the banquet, the Holy Majesty was very happy to be coaxed by the Zhao family's calm flattery. When he was happy, he felt that the Zhao family was a loyal general. Concubine Zhao Shuangyi's words, so with a wave of Wan Jin's hand, he casually promised a reward to the Zhao family and asked them what they wanted.

There was silence in the hall for a while, no one expected the Holy Majesty to give such a reward, everyone was thinking about how to pick up this piece of pie that fell from the sky out of thin air, but Zhao Youyi stood up first, blessing a standard court , her face was stained with a layer of blush, and she said crisply: "Youyi is disrespectful, I want to ask the Holy Majesty to give Youyi a marriage."

Then she turned her eyes to Qin Lian, took a look and quickly retracted her eyes, lowered her head lower, and her voice was much softer and softer than before: "Youyi's wish since she was a child was to marry Brother Qin, no Concerned about the level of fame. I hope the Holy One will complete it."

As soon as these words came out, the hall became even more silent.

When Ah Ji said this, I couldn't help being stunned again.I really don't know if her brother brought her a leopard gut from the border, so that she could speak out so boldly and calmly in front of all her family members, in front of the most noble and majestic emperor in the world, if she was so reckless.In a way, she is really the most outspoken noble lady I have ever seen.If I had been there at that time, if the person Zhao Youyi wanted to marry hadn't been Qin Lian, then I probably couldn't help applauding her.

I didn't speak for a long time after listening, Ah Ji looked at my face, and called out "Princess" softly after deliberation.

I said "ah", regained my senses, and waved my hand: "I see. I'm a little hungry. Go and serve the hibiscus cake."

"Princess," Ah Ji didn't move, his expression still pale, "Don't you want to know Qin Lian's reaction?"

I said, "How else could he react? If it were me, I would never disagree. I'm hungry, go get some pastries."

Ah Ji looked at me, but still didn't move.

I pushed Lin Tie away, lay down on the table, and said slowly: "It's obvious. No matter how Qin Lian reacts now, Zhao Youyi will marry in after all. Hmm... Now there are rumors that the Crown Princess Su Xishan is a witch The tricks, fox-like deception, made the prince more decisive and gentle, and he was no longer vigorous and resolute in handling the relationship between the two countries. I know all of these. Anyway, no matter what I do, I will definitely be a disaster if I put it in the mouth of the ministers of the Southern Dynasty. Your Majesty Being so wise, and knowing that the end is approaching, she will definitely not sit idly by when she hears these rumors. Zhao Youyi dared to say this in the lobby, maybe someone secretly instructed her to support her, and since she said so, the Holy Majesty must It is also pushing the boat along the way. Even if the boat is really blocked by Qin Lian for a while, how can he alone stop the power of everyone? Besides, if Qin Lian doesn't want to be a future foolish king, he should know that he should find married a side concubine."

Ah Ji took a step forward, with worried eyes: "Princess..."

I waved my hand and straightened my expression: "I'm hungry, go get some pastries. Don't make me say it a fourth time."

I went to bed early, but never fell asleep.The candle finally burned out, the wick crackled, and the room fell into darkness.From the darkness, I heard the sound of the door being gently pushed open. Through the gap in the curtain, I could see the shadows of trees reflected on the window, and the ground was glowing with cold moonlight, as if covered with a layer of frost.And Qin Lian walked in by moonlight.

By the time he lifted the curtain, I had already closed my eyes.After the rustling sound of cloth rubbing against each other, he lay down next to me, accompanied by the smell of alcohol.A strand of his hair brushed against my neck, and the ends of the hair seemed to be brushing away, just like his dexterous fingers. I almost screamed at that moment, but I managed to hold back and continued to close my eyes and pretend to be asleep. .

There was no movement behind my back for a long time, Qin Lian's breathing was steady, as if he had fallen asleep.I rolled on the bed calmly, but I didn't expect him to follow suit soon.I rolled again and he was closer to me than before.In the end, I couldn't get away, and Qin Lian was right behind me, so close that I could almost feel his breath.

I kept my sideways position until I ended up stiff.Finally he couldn't bear it and turned over, but the space was too narrow, so he accidentally rolled into a certain embrace behind him.

Then the whole person was locked, accompanied by a chuckle: "Continue to pretend?"

"You smell so much of alcohol." I simply opened my eyes, and I didn't even have to quibble, "If you don't wash up, you have to sleep, Xiaobai knows better about hygiene than you."

Xiaobai is the little white cat.After Su Qi came to the Southern Dynasty, he learned that it didn't have a name yet, so he asked me to pick one.I said it was Xiaobai, and he said it was Xiaoxue. I despised Xiaoxue for being vulgar, but he retorted that Xiaobai didn't understand style.The solution after the endless quarrel was that Su Qi said that it was only fair to let the kitten decide for himself.So Ah Ji was ordered to hold the kitten between us, I called Xiaobai, he called Xiaoxue, the kitten landed on all fours, looked at him and then at me, then meowed softly at me and ran over to lick me finger.Then Su Qi argued that it was unfair because it was more familiar with me. In the end, we followed the oldest method of rock-paper-scissors, and I still won.So in the end it was called Xiaobai.

Qin Lian let out a "huh", put his lips on my earlobe, licked it, and let go before I screamed, and said with a smile: "Are you angry?"

I said, "Where did you see that I was angry?"

Qin Lian grabbed my waist, I dodged and hit the wall.He laughed instead: "Stiff as a log."

I gritted my teeth, closed my eyes and tried to sleep.

He laughed in a low voice, his voice was low and sweet, and his fingers were around my chin. Under the faint moonlight, I could barely see the silver piping of his cuffs, stretching and swaying like dodder grass.

I waited for him to speak, but unexpectedly he did not speak again.I just stroked my hair, stopped moving my hands and feet, and then fell into a deep sleep.

In the early morning of the second day, when Qin Lian left the East Palace, I dragged Ah Ji along and slipped out of the palace without a trace.It was the first time that Ah Ji saw that I did not object to breaking the rules, but acquiesced very readily.Hearing that I was going to leave the palace, I prepared silver taels to help me leave the palace without saying a word.

The exit from the palace was so smooth that I couldn't help but wonder if Qin Lian deliberately let it go.But there is no place to go outside the palace.I led Ah Ji to the teahouse where Qin Lian took me to listen to the Confucian scholars' verbal battle last time.And I found that the news here is more informed than I imagined. They also knew about Zhao Youyi's blatant intention to marry Qin Lian in the court the day before.

Ah Ji and I picked up a table in the corner and sat down, and heard a person not far away say: "I heard that His Majesty has been seriously ill recently, and His Royal Highness is ordered to supervise the country. Prince, the Zhao family has a lot of power for a while, and it is unrivaled. It is said that His Royal Highness and the two thousand gold of the Zhao family are in love with each other. When the time comes, Miss Zhao will blow the pillow, and the future of the Zhao family will really be bright. ah."

"The two are in love?" The other person snorted, "Where did you hear that the two were in love? It was all a long time ago, how can the Zhao family's bedside wind be as powerful as the Crown Princess?"

Hearing about me, I sat up a little bit, the person just glanced at me, I shrank subconsciously, but obviously I overestimated myself, the other person's gaze didn't stay on me for a moment, seeing Having already whetted everyone's appetites, he lazily continued: "Since his wedding, His Royal Highness has done a lot of foolish things because of his beauty. A few days ago, when the prince of the State of Su came to the Southern Dynasty, someone suggested that he Detain directly, and then slightly provoke the relationship between Su Guo's vassals and towns. The current king of Su Guo is getting old. Not only did he refuse to accept it, but he also handed over a city in the former Qi Kingdom to Su Qi, allowing Su Kingdom to take advantage of it for nothing, which made people extremely sad."

Someone soon echoed: "I have heard of this a little too. It is said that the Crown Princess is the most beautiful woman in the country of Su. After entering the palace, after marriage, he loved the princess very much. He accommodated everything and received constant rewards. He never forgot the beauties in the palace when he went to war. Crown Princess."

Ah Ji listened quite calmly, and the tea that I swallowed down my throat was almost choked out.Instinctively, I wanted to rush up and ask him if he was sure he was talking about Qin Lian, why didn't I sound like that at all, but more like the famous faint king of the Fenghuo opera princes in history.

Immediately afterwards, someone loudly shouted with righteous indignation: "I knew that Su would not be peaceful! Sending such a vixen here, the intention is obvious! One day the crown princess is here, and one day is not peaceful for me! Your Highness the Crown Prince If you continue to be obsessed with it and don't realize it, how can I feel in the future of Da Nanchao!"

This statement quickly won the impassioned support of everyone, and everyone showed a look of concern for the country and the people, as if they had really seen the end of the Southern Dynasty.

I silently lurked in the corner, not saying a word with Ah Ji.Listening to other people talk about themselves and things related to themselves without any scruples, this feeling is really... too complicated to describe.Finally, I personally realized the greatness of rumors.In the past, I only read about the so-called troubles of women in paper books. Looking back, you can captivate the city, and you can cover up the country with a smile. A low eyebrow and a slight smile are enough to overturn the rise and fall of a country.At that time, I was dreaming about what a beautiful woman that must be, to have such incomparable strength that can overcome strength with softness.Now combined with myself, I finally come to realize that being beautiful or not is not the most important thing, as long as you accidentally get involved in the so-called national-state conflicts, it is impossible for anyone to retreat unscathed.Instead of becoming the scourge of the so-called enemies who seduce the Lord, or become the traitors who are collaborating with the enemy and traitors in the so-called national population.

I sat in my seat pretending to be calm and calm, and listened to them criticizing the current Southern Dynasty princess all afternoon, until I heard the sunset.A young man next to me suddenly turned his head, poked my arm, and smiled gracefully: "In such a lively place, why have you two brothers been silent?"

His voice was not small, and he immediately attracted a lot of people's attention to me.I looked back at Ah Ji, who immediately understood, and said in a rough voice: "My son's vocal cords have been damaged recently, so it's inconvenient to speak. Come here just because of your name, just listen."

The man glanced at the melon seeds in front of us, and smiled lightly: "How can you eat so many melon seeds with damaged vocal cords?"

I:"……"

Ah Ji: "..."

I didn't mention going back to the palace at night, and neither did Ah Ji.The two of us waited for a long time in the guest room of the inn, and there was no sign of officers and soldiers searching for people. Finally, we breathed a sigh of relief, washed up and went to bed.

Ah Ji tucked up the quilt for me, saw that my eyes were still open, and said, "Can't Her Highness sleep?"

I nodded, fell silent for a while, gripped the quilt tightly with my fingertips, thought for a while in my heart, finally closed my eyes, and blurted out in one go: "How did Qin Lian react at the banquet yesterday?"

I spoke coherently without pausing, and I despised myself after I finished speaking.When Ah Ji offered to ask yesterday, I insisted not to listen, and if I didn’t listen, I refused to listen, and now I still have to ask.Ah Ji's eyes were cold, as if he had expected my question a long time ago, and his voice was calm and calm, and he said unhurriedly: "The Holy Majesty's golden words, the decree cannot be changed. His Royal Highness, Zhao Youyi is still young. The Holy Majesty asked for a postponement of the wedding, but the Holy Majesty did not agree. It seems that His Highness went to meet the Holy Majesty again after the banquet, but the will of granting the marriage has not changed until this morning."

I looked at her, and after a while, I said "oh", opened my mouth and didn't make a sound, Ah Ji looked at me, and said the answer to the question I wanted to ask but didn't want to ask in my heart smoothly and smoothly with a blank face: "In According to the Holy Majesty's will, His Highness will marry Zhao Youyi one month later."

My mind was guessed, and I had the urge to hit the wall.But the real reaction was that his eyelids twitched, he wrapped himself even tighter in the quilt, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Spend the Spring Festival together? Have a good day."

On the second day, Ah Ji and I went to the teahouse again, and these scholars had a new topic, but it was about the flood season, which I was not interested in.He came out in less than a stick of incense, but he didn't expect to see Zhao Youyi in the cloth shop opposite.

I reckon that although I wear men's clothing with Ah Ji, it will be easy for people to recognize that I am not a normal man.When ordinary people see my height and appearance, they will definitely think that I am an actor in a theater or a palace servant; if that person is as sinister and cunning as Qin Lian, they will probably already think that I am just a girl in disguise Men's women's clothing.

But wearing men's clothes is still good, but the first impression people will think of you when walking on the street is that you are just a man with an unusual job.Just pass by with contempt, and won't take a second look.It's not like when I was wearing women's clothing before, I was still being looked at by people in ordinary clothes. Those eyes made me feel as if I was a corn with peonies blooming.

And now there is another advantage, that is, Zhao Youyi didn't recognize me either.Or it could be said that she was only concentrating on choosing the cloth, and had no time to care about anyone around her, including me naturally.

After picking out a lot of red fabrics, she walked away.She still looked like a noble lady with her head held high, her brows and eyelashes stained with joy, obviously what happened yesterday still made her very excited.

Ah Ji frowned, and said coldly: "It's so arrogant."

I glanced back at her.She quickly lowered her head and stopped talking.

On the third day, I still dragged Ah Ji to the teahouse.There was a new topic today, it was said that Zhao Youyi accidentally broke her leg while swinging on the swing, and she kept crying until Qin Lian arrived at the Zhao residence.A hundred days of pain and injury, so it is no longer possible to make the wedding perfect.It can only be selected when the wedding date is postponed and one-legged worship.It is said that Zhao Youyi originally wanted to hold one-legged worship as scheduled, but was severely criticized by her sister Zhao You'e for lack of restraint, so she had to inform the Ministry of Rites to postpone the wedding to three months later.

Three months later, it will be the spring equinox, which is warm and cold.According to the current situation, I don't know what it will be like by then.

There is something new in the teahouse every day.On the sixth day, it was mentioned that Su Qi seemed to have the intention of getting married a few days ago, so at present, all the royal family and nobles of Su who have daughters who are waiting to be married are gearing up and arranging all kinds of casual coincidences.From morning to night, Su Qi could meet all kinds of beauties who were fat, swallows, and thin, who threw themselves into his arms. In the end, he was so annoyed that he simply closed the door to thank the guests.But even so, someone still sneaked into his bedroom by some means, and when he came back drunk from the dinner party, he saw a glistening beauty lying on his bed, and covered her cherry mouth, Shouting "Help" loudly.

I laughed so hard after hearing this.Su Qi once complained to me that the beauties in Su country are all tigresses, the kind that cannibalize people without leaving any bones.It seems that it is even worse than before.

On the ninth day, it was the turn of the news related to my departure from the palace.According to the rumors, my image is even worse. Not only is my beauty harmful, but I am also jealous.As soon as he heard that Qin Lian wanted to accept his side concubine, he left the palace in a fit of anger the next day.And before he left, he had a big fight with Qin Lian, Qin Lian was so angry that he let me wander outside the palace, and would not take me back to the palace without asking.

The rumors are vividly described, and the detailed descriptions are so imaginative, I can't help feeling that this is really a treasured place for playwrights.How can those stories be as fascinating as those literati and scholars.

Ten days have passed, and I still haven't returned to the palace, and Qin Lian hasn't sent anyone to look for me. No.11 fell into the night, before I went to bed, I heard a commotion outside.Opening the door to look, I found that the lobby on the first floor of the inn was already full of officers and soldiers waiting in battle.

I held on to the banister of the stairs and watched Ulala, the person below, knelt on the ground.And Qin Lian was dressed in black, standing in the middle of the lobby with his hands behind his back, with a solemn and indifferent posture that I have rarely seen before.

Then, as if he had sensed something, he turned slightly and raised his eyes, staring at me with great precision.

Under the bright lights, his eyes were deep and indescribable, and the contours of his face were sharp and angular.Even though I am higher than the other, I still feel that he is condescending.

Under his gaze, even a slight procrastination felt like I was committing a crime. While slandering my stomach, I dared not neglect to go downstairs. When I approached him, he grabbed my wrist. Difficult eyes looked at me from top to bottom, and in the end there was no expression at all, but the corners of his lips moved slightly, and he uttered two words: "Return to the palace."

From the first moment I saw Qin Lian today to the time we returned to the palace, his expression was not very good-looking.We sat side by side in the wide carriage, my left hand was a foot away from his right hand.Since Qin Lian dragged me into the carriage, he has been resting his head with one hand and closing his eyes. A faint light traced his side face, reflecting his slightly furrowed eyebrows, straight nose bridge, and cool lips.

It has to be said that the side face is really unparalleled in style.

When Su Zi and I were idle and bored studying gossip about the royal families of various countries, we once summed up the handsome and wise monarchs in history, and Su and Southern Dynasties were on the list.Then we secretly summed up the love history of these handsome and wise monarchs, and found many interesting things.

With so many kings, they didn't find that they were pure-hearted and ascetic, but all of them went to extremes, either suave or romantic.No matter from the perspective of official history or unofficial history, our country of Su obviously belongs to the former.From the founding of the country to the present, there have been five emperors, all of whom are suave characters. They have been suave from the palace to outside the palace, and from outside the palace to abroad. In Su Qi's generation, he was the only son left to grow up.

The Southern Dynasties are just the opposite.From the founding of the country to the present, except for the current one, everyone is infatuated, and the degree of infatuation has gradually deepened, until the current appointment of the Holy Majesty came to an abrupt end.The emperors of the past dynasties have done countless infatuated things. They can be jealous with ministers for the one they love; Or die a country.

At that time, I always felt incredible, what a magical royal family this Southern Dynasty royal family should be.Since ancient times, beauty has been like a disaster, but since the founding of the country, the disaster of the Southern Dynasties has been flowing for nearly 300 years, and there has not been a foolish king, which is really incredible.

When we discussed this topic, the sun was shining and the spring was warm. No one expected that I would marry Qin Lian one day, and no one thought that I might have a chance to become a disaster in the Southern Dynasty. Chui, said lightly: "I don't know who will marry him."

This "he" refers to Qin Lian.At that time, Su Zi and I had studied his life and deeds very deeply, as if Qin Lian was really familiar with us.And I patted the back of Su Zi's hand, trying to comfort her: "Actually, it's not necessarily true. Since the current monarch is not infatuated, his son may have abolished the tradition of infatuation among the emperors of the Southern Dynasties, so I say There's nothing wrong with marrying him."

Su Qi was also present at the time, and it was rare for him to agree with me. He pointed to the portrait of Qin Lian on the back of the fan, and said in a serious manner: "You must have never seen the portraits of emperors before the Southern Dynasty. I have, and the lips are very thick. It's only since this monarch started to change, look at this Qin Lian again, his lips are as thin as two dumpling wrappers, since ancient times thin lips are so ruthless, he must be a ruthless person."

I looked at Su Qi at that time, and decided to seek truth from facts: "Brother, in fact, your lips are quite like two dumpling wrappers."

Su Qi had a very thick skin, he didn't even move his eyebrows lightly, he just said "Oh" and said calmly: "Your lips are not like dumpling skins, they are round like a rolling pin for grinding dumpling skins. "

"..."

When I recalled the past, I kept staring at Qin Lian's lips. He kept his eyes closed, indifferent, as if he had really fallen asleep.I quietly moved closer, narrowed my eyes, and traced the outline of his side face with my fingers.From the jade crown on the top of her hair to the collar around her neck, Qin Lian's appearance is exquisite but not feminine, and she really deserves to be the number one card on the fan of the Southern Dynasty.

I sketched for a while and felt bored, and was about to return to my original position to look out of the window, but his hand was held by him.

It's a cold winter in the Southern Dynasties now, Qin Lian's hand is still very warm, even the green jade wrench on his thumb is warm.I looked up at him, Qin Lianzheng had a half smile on his face.

He asked me casually, "Did you have fun outside the palace?"

I stepped back: "Better than, better."

Qin Lian said: "Don't return to the palace for eleven days..."

I interrupted him before he finished speaking, and corrected him: "Ten and a half days. I left the palace in the morning, and it's only night now, so No. 11 days haven't passed yet, so it can only be counted as half a day."

Qin Lian glanced at me coldly, and still said: "Is it reasonable for you not to return to the palace for eleven days? When did I say that you can stay outside for so long?"

I retorted in a low voice: "But, you didn't say you couldn't stay for so long..."

"I really didn't say that." Qin Lianyu turned around and sneered: "So it's my fault that you left the palace and didn't return?"

"..."

Qin Lian slowly took out another object from his bosom, spread out his palm, and the white silk fabric stretched out immediately, revealing a striking red color the size of a copper coin in the middle.

The first moment I saw this thing, I started to shrink back quietly.

Qin Lian said, "Is this the mandarin duck you embroidered?"

I gave a dry laugh and exerted all my strength, trying to snatch it from his hand, but he still dodged lightly.

Qin Lian glanced at me and continued, "Did I tell you that you can only leave the palace after you finish embroidery?"

I laughed dryly again, nodded, and began to back up with my hands on the seat.

Qin Lian leaned forward, with a half-smile and said: "So, the mandarin ducks in Su are complete with only one head? They only have a beak and no eyes. Do you think mandarin ducks are like you, they can live if they only know how to eat but not how to see?" Yes or no?"

I have reached the corner of the carriage behind me, and there is no way to retreat.And Qin Lian stood in front of me, I tried to push him, but he didn't move.

He looked mocking, I looked at him, and finally closed my eyes, with an expression of a dead pig not afraid of being scalded by boiling water, with a cock in my neck, and said loudly: "Anyway, I'm leaving the palace, so you can do whatever you want! "

Qin Lian snorted and laughed: "Why, want to rebel?"

I closed my eyes tightly and raised my chin. After a while, the surroundings became silent. I opened half of my eyes, but before I could see the things in front of me clearly, a heavy snap of my fingers landed on my forehead.

Qin Lian didn't care about the strength of his hands, and I was stunned in pain, tears almost popped out inadvertently.As a result, Shi Shiran backed away again, Shi Shiran sat upright, stroking the circle of fox fur on the cuff, and said slowly: "What have you been doing outside for so many days?"

I clutched my forehead and said in a low voice, "I didn't do anything. I just listened to those sour scholars in the teahouse telling stories."

Qin Lian raised his eyebrows and asked, "Have you heard any good stories? Let's tell them."

I thought for a while and said: "Those people praised the current princess of the Southern Dynasty as the most beautiful woman in the world, and she was also the first calamity in the creation of the world. Disaster for the country and the people has never done good deeds."

Qin Lian said "Oh" without moving his eyebrows: "And then?"

I said unfairly: "When I was in Su State, my style was obviously very good. Even if I can't compare with my brother and sister, there is nothing bad about it. Who would have thought that so many people would suddenly hate me when I came to the Southern Dynasty? Obviously I don't know them at all, but their words are so serious as if I am really Daji in this world."

Qin Lian chuckled and didn't speak.Leaning lazily on the soft cushion behind him, he bent his lips after a while and said lazily, "If you are Daji, then who is King Zhou?"

When Qin Lian dragged me out of the inn, I was thinking why he came to pick me up and go back to the palace.This trip out of the palace is different from the last one. According to what I have learned about his personality and the way he used to teach others, he should have just left me to fend for myself outside. With nowhere to go, watch me go back to the palace obediently.Picking me up to the palace in person like this now really shouldn't be something he usually does.

And when I returned to the palace, I finally understood the reason.There have been rumors in the palace.The current Holy Majesty has been in a coma for two consecutive days, and the day of his death may be within these two days.

Qin Lian escorted me back to the East Palace, but he went to his father's side without even stepping on the threshold, and he didn't return to the East Palace for two days after that.In the early morning of the third day, I was still sleeping, but Ah Ji woke me up and said in a low voice, "The Holy One is dead."

This was expected, so not much of a surprise.When we arrived, people in filial piety knelt on the ground, crying loudly.Zhao You'e was the first to see me, and greeted me with her husband and eldest prince Qin Xu.Then the married husband Qin Chu, whom I hadn't seen for a long time, also saw me, and soon his eyes lit up, and he immediately looked behind me for Ah Ji.

It seems that since he married the princess, he still doesn't give up on Ah Ji.I glanced at him and reminded him of the current situation in a low voice: "Your Highness, Third Prince."

"Hmm." Qin Chu replied casually, still looking for Ah Ji's figure, but unfortunately he couldn't find it after searching for a long time, so he turned his head and looked at me sullenly, and asked in a low voice, "His Royal Highness, I heard that the former You have been unwell for two days, but you have recovered these two days? Why did you come here without a maid?"

There are obviously two little girls standing behind me.I glanced at him and was speechless.Besides, I don't know whose rumor it is this time. I am obviously in good health, with a good appetite and no cough.The third prince and concubine next to Qin Chu obviously looked a little ugly, but they still held back.He turned his head to look at His Majesty Dan.

I also looked up following her eyes, and saw Qin Lian not far away.Standing tall with his hands behind his back, his face is solemn, and there is an aura that I am not familiar with that emanates from the inside out.I lowered my head and whispered to Qin Chu: "It's just a small problem, it's no longer a problem. Thank you, Your Highness, for your concern."

Seeing that I didn't agree with him, Qin Chu gave up angrily.After a while, I was still unwilling, turned my head and whispered to me: "His Royal Highness, I miss Miss Aji very much."

I reminded me sternly: "Your Highness, the late emperor has passed away."

"Ah, yes." Qin Chu made a sudden realization, and said, "So the fourth brother ascended the throne, should I call you queen now?"

"..." I and his way of thinking are not in the same species, so I had to shut up silently.

The former king passed away, and everyone was busy.Among them, the busiest one is probably Qin Lian.From then until the ten days before he took the throne, I saw him no more than twice.

Two days after the first emperor's visit, rumors spread from the palace.It is said that the first emperor came back to light that day, and when he was a little sober, he called Qin Lian to have an audience alone.After Qin Lian entered, a moment later, there was a faint sound of dispute.The father and son, who had always been harmonious, quarreled for some reason, and then the voice became louder, and the emperor broke the medicine bowl and fell into silence again.

The servants rushed in to tidy up, and saw Qin Lian kneeling by the bed, with his head slightly bowed, unable to distinguish his expression.The first emperor leaned against the bed, waved his hands and said wearily: "I can't control you anymore. I shouldn't have agreed to the marriage of the two of you in the first place. You can do it yourself."

Apart from Zhao Youyi and Qin Lian, the only marriage that the former emperor promised to the prince is me and Qin Lian.Judging from the current situation, it is obvious that Qin Lian and I are the ones that the late Emperor regretted.

This story was relayed by Ah Ji. After listening to it, I felt mixed feelings and didn't know what to say.I hugged Xiaobai, lowered my head and stroked its fur, Ah Ji looked at me, and slowly said: "Princess, should we..."

I grabbed Xiaobai's neck violently, and it immediately scratched me with its paws to protest.I put it back on the ground, patted a few white hairs on its body, and said softly: "No."

We are about to move out of the East Palace, Ah Ji is busy tidying up, and I am left to play with the cat, coax the bird, and feed the goldfish with nothing to do.I put Xiaobai next to the fish tank, and saw that it was curiously trying to catch the fish in the water, but was afraid of the flowing water, so the white paws were touched and quickly retracted, and this cycle repeated several times. I didn't feel tired either.

Xiao Bai's posture reminded me of my daily relationship with Qin Lian.I was used to being oppressed by him, and I thought about getting up, and I would not be reconciled if I didn't tease him a bit, but I had the courage to tease but didn't have the guts to bear the consequences, so I was oppressed even more heavily by the shameless people.It's such a vicious circle, and the strange thing is that I don't have a long memory every next time.

I finally met Qin Lian the day before I ascended the throne.When he stepped into the East Palace, there was a chill from outside, and the dignified and serious clothes set off his expressionless face even more coldly.He stood there looking at me, and I immediately stepped forward to help him change his clothes.

"It's still warm here." He sighed, raised his neck and asked me to unbutton it, and then hooked my chin with his cold fingers, "I'm going to move to a new palace tomorrow, have you packed everything?"

"Almost..." Before my words fell, I heard a crisp "bang" behind me.

I was startled, and quickly looked back.The fish tank on the table was missing, but debris was scattered on the table foot, the water meandered along the gap, a goldfish was struggling half-dead on the ground, and another goldfish was jumping desperately in the cat's mouth, dying.

Xiaobai held the fish body in his mouth and looked at me proudly.Thinking about it, it has been staring at these two fish for many days, and it is hard not to be proud that it succeeded in a desperate effort this night.

I put down the unbuttoned Qin Lian's collar, and was about to go to rescue me, when Qin Lian grabbed my waist and said, "What if the fragments pierce my hand?" A maid came to clean up.

The two maids rushed over together, and Xiaobai wanted to run away with a light body, but the maid quickly caught her by the tail.Right now, he pinched the cat's chin and was about to pry its teeth open. Xiaobai, who was challenged to a question of principle, was obviously quite displeased. She scratched it rudely with her sharp claws, and a long red streak suddenly appeared on the back of the maid's hand.

The two of them were in a stalemate with the cat, but Qin Lian didn't care, and while unbuttoning himself, he said leisurely: "That fish probably won't survive, let it go."

He spoke so generously, but I felt very distressed: "That fish is much prettier than the rest..."

Qin Lian looked at me with contempt: "You put the fish in front of the cat on purpose, and now you're thinking of fake mercy?"

I opened my mouth: "..."

I was still wondering if there was something in his words, he had already walked behind the screen without turning his head, and casually said another sentence: "Tomorrow someone will get you two more."

That night I had a nightmare and woke up gasping for breath, feeling a heavy weight in my chest.Turning my eyes slightly, I realized that it was Qin Lian's arm that crossed my heart, making it hard for me to breathe.

I moved a little and found it very difficult to shake off Qin Lian's arm.I had no choice but to pinch his sleeve and drag it down. I didn't expect this dragging to wake up Qin Lian by the way. A deep voice suddenly uttered in the darkness. The speed of the speech was steady, the tone was normal, and there was no sleepiness in the voice: "You what are you doing?"

The degree of shock that this voice gave me was comparable to that pair of breathtaking cat eyes in the dream just now.I took a deep breath, and Qin Lian covered my mouth in time, and he suppressed all the screams I wanted to make in my throat.

I whimpered and struggled, and he finally let me go.I patted my shocked chest, looked at his open eyes and said angrily, "You don't prepare yourself for talking in the middle of the night!"

Qin Lian changed his posture, took me into his arms, closed his eyes again, and his voice gradually lowered: "Who told you to be dishonest. Go to bed, I'm very sleepy."

The enthronement ceremony will be held the next day, and the canonization ceremony will be held in two days.Before that, Ah Ji once said that it was a matter of course that I was canonized as a queen, and I said that nothing in this world is a matter of course.As a result, the facts really proved that my theory was correct, and the ministers really started to oppose my canonization as a queen with all kinds of messy reasons.

There is almost a one-sided trend in the court, searching for more than a dozen reasons to prevent Qin Lian from being canonized, and even directly pointing out that I, as the princess of the Su Kingdom, have the appearance of harming the country and the people, and marrying into the Southern Dynasty must be rebellious In the heart of the world, with a woman from another race as the queen, it is difficult to calm the hearts of the world.When Emperor Kuang Xin ascended the throne, there was no need to rush the canonization ceremony.

It is said that the speech was fierce at that time, and the loud words of the courtiers' righteous indignation almost toppled the ceiling of the hall.And Qin Lian kept silent all the time, resting his chin with one hand, his eyes hidden behind the twelve-legged emperor's crown, his expression was difficult to understand, and became more and more unpredictable.

When the first emperor passed away, according to the old system of the Southern Dynasties, the new emperor had to observe mourning for at least three months.

Among the courtiers who opposed Li Hou, Zhao Youyi's elder brother Zhao Youchen was the most vocal.In the past two years, the Zhao family has become more and more popular, and it has become a family name in the court, and there are many supporters.Although Zhao Youchen kept admonishing the new emperor to think twice before taking the overall situation into consideration, since his doting younger sister was going to marry Qin Lian in March, it was hard to believe that he had no selfish intentions.

During a short morning court, the two sides still insisted on their own opinions, so they had to let it go for the time being.

In fact, I have always felt that Qin Lian was inexplicably persistent, and I couldn't understand why he insisted on making a princess from the Su country as the queen.If he had been able to consult me ​​as one of the parties, I would have told him that I didn't really care about that title.Although this may sound a bit false, it is indeed my truth.

Because everyone knows very well that this is just superfluous.

If this matter is left to the country of Su, if it is considered by Su Qi, who loves the country more than beauties, or my father, they are probably not even lazy to perfunctory, and the first thought must be the country The overall situation is the main point, and the words of the courtiers are the key points. If you say a few clever words of comfort to your favorite concubine, reward a few precious and rare jewels, or at most build a new palace, this matter can be overturned lightly.

However, Qin Lian's mind has always been a needle in the sea, so I can't fathom it.After much deliberation, only one reluctant explanation came to mind.He always likes to prepare more comprehensively, and then more comprehensively, until the precise calculation is carried out to the smallest detail, and every detail is considered.

Therefore, even if it is acting, it must be done from beginning to end.Temporarily concealing the image of a faint king who loves beauty and does not love the country, in the name of governing the country without a way, he acts in the dark to hide the truth.When the spring flowers are in full bloom, I hear both Su Guo crying and Nan Chao laughing.

Although I have not yet been canonized, I have already been placed in Yong'an Hall, where only queens can live.When Qin Lian quietly stepped into the palace threshold without being notified, I was feeding the goldfish with A Ji.I lay down on the table, looked at the goldfish wagging its head and tail in the fish tank, and said worriedly: "Aji, have I fed too much fish food..."

Ah Ji said softly, "Then stop feeding."

I said, "But I haven't fed them for half a month, I'm afraid they haven't had enough yet..."

"..." Ah Ji said patiently, "Then you can feed some more."

"But I'm afraid they'll last."

Ah Ji: "..."

It wasn't until someone behind us coughed that we both came back to our senses.There was no maid left in the dormitory, and Qin Lian tapped the corner of the table with his index finger, glanced at me, and said nothing.

Ah Jiyi's eyes have faded away, I silently walked up to Qin Lian, looked at the moon hanging on the treetops outside, and looked up at him.

I really don't know what to say.In the past, when Qin Lian came, he would always start with an opening sentence such as "what are you doing", but now he walked in as silently as a cat, with a faint expression on his face without saying a word, which made me lose my mind Stuck, don't know what to do.

Qin Lian looked calm and relaxed.I calmly picked up the ink painting I smeared and threw on the table, looked at it, and threw it away again, then looked around the bedroom calmly, finally turned around and sat down by the bed, and continued to look at it calmly I do not speak.

"..."

In this way, the final result is that I also walked over, silently walked around him and climbed into bed, watched the lights go out, and then silently watched him stretch his arms in the dark, and the two of them were firmly attached to each other.

After a long time, everything around was silent.I squinted my eyes and tried my best to look at Qin Lian's cheeks, full forehead, straight nose bridge, and sculpted jaw in the dark.It is really a beautiful and attractive face.

In fact, if we look back at the past when we got married in the early days, and ignore the future with many variables, Qin Lian and I get along more and more harmoniously now.

Needless to say, when Qin Lian was the crown prince, he did an outstanding job; as a husband, he was probably pretty good, at least, much better than what I imagined before I married and came to the Southern Dynasty.

I often wonder what kind of mentality those princesses who were married off had when their husbands lifted their red hijabs when they married far away; People, what kind of mentality should they have at the moment when they kneel down to the king of another country.

I think, among them, although I am not considered lucky, I should not be considered the most unfortunate.

There are times when I think to myself, I wish this was just a dream and I could never wake up from it.

But it is not a dream after all.And sometimes I also think selfishly that leaving a name in history and being infamous for thousands of years are things after death, and those things have nothing to do with me, so why don’t I just obey my wish and don’t care about anything , enjoy now.But after thinking about it again, even if I wish to indulge in it, but under the overturned nest, there will be no eggs.Besides, if I were really so selfish, I would probably never feel at ease.

Qin Lian's breathing was steady, I stared at him for a while, then pulled my hand out of the quilt, and lightly brushed his lips with my fingertips.

It has a nice touch that is different from other skins.

He didn't respond.The lines of the figure were motionless in the darkness.

I became a little more courageous, and then leaned closer, and then leaned closer, trying not to make any noise, then leaned over half of my body, supported the pillow, tilted my head slightly, and quietly printed my lips on it.

I kissed him, but Qin Lian still didn't respond.And the feeling of lips touching is better than the feeling of receiving it with fingers just now, so I hesitated for a while, then lowered my head and kissed again.

But this time the strength was not right, and my teeth almost hit his.But Qin Lian's sleep has always been light, I was so shocked that I quickly fell back on the bed and pretended to be dead. After a while, I didn't expect that he still didn't respond.

So I slowly leaned over and tried to do the third time...

This time finally no luck.Qin Lian opened his eyes suddenly in the darkness, I was so scared that I almost cried out.He covered my mouth in time: "Don't bark."

After a while, I removed his hand that had moved to the neck, and was about to put it on the pillow and fall asleep again, when he reached out and grabbed it, and I immediately lay on top of him, and when I regained my composure, my hands were tightly grasped. The front of his clothes was tightly wrapped around his chest, and his heavy hands were pressed against his back.

"You can't sleep?"

I calmly said, "I'm going to sleep..."

"What were you doing just now?"

"Sure, get ready for bed..."

Qin Lian let out a "huh" and said slowly, "It seems that someone kissed me just now..."

I continued to calmly say, "You must be dreaming."

Qin Lian laughed, and slid his hand from my back all the way to my side face, touched it, and then smiled deeper, even with a teasing tone in his tone: "Then why is your face so hot?"

"..."

This man can't be fooled at all.

I remember that when I was in Su State, Su Qi held the handle of his fan and said to me: "Su Xi, as an elder brother who cares about you, I sincerely suggest you, with your brain, if you find a husband in the future, find a husband." Generally smart is good. If you are too smart, I feel that your future is uncertain. You said that if you fight against him, what else can you do besides embarrassing and embarrassing our royal family?"

I:"……"

I didn't think so at the time, but now that I'm married to Qin Lian, I really think so.

I glared at him in the dark with great gloom, rolled off him, and turned over to face the wall.Qin Lian leaned over from behind, put his arms around my waist, and smiled in my ear: "You can't sleep?"

I closed my eyes as hard as I could, trying to ignore the growing sensation in my body, and gritted my teeth: "No, I fell asleep."

He sneered, and combed my hair with his fingers like a five-toothed comb. He combed my hair slowly and lightly, making me almost fall asleep. Unexpectedly, two pieces of soft things were printed on my hair On the back of the neck, with strength and numbness, I opened my eyes suddenly, my whole body lost all strength, and I even muttered: "You..."

The voice is as low as a mosquito, which can be ignored.And Qin Lian really ignored it. He kissed from the back of the neck to the back, and then lightly touched the earlobe. Both hands were not idle. The moves were all with precise strength and position. I was like drunk He was generally stupefied, and he thought that the acupoints were controlled by an expert, and he kept controlling his body. Even if he bit his tongue desperately, he couldn't resist it. In the end, he let out a weak hum from the corner of his lips.

I thought I would have to make a fuss tonight, but I realized that I was still in the filial piety period of the new king, and I was planning to say something to reflect my dignified, virtuous, and important understanding of the overall situation, but he suddenly retracted hands.

I couldn't help turning my head to look back at him, but I didn't expect his breathing to be smooth and natural, as if the raging hands just didn't belong to him at all.He wrapped the two of them under the quilt again, then patted my arm under the quilt, and said very gently: "Go to sleep."

"..."

I woke up earlier the next day, and only after hearing the noise outside did I realize that it had snowed heavily the night before.

By the time I finish washing slowly, the snow in Yong'an Hall has been swept away, revealing blocks of blue square bricks.Aji and I looked at each other, and she quickly came over with a hand stove knowingly, and then the two of us went to the West Garden not far away that hadn't had time to clean it.

When I was in Su, since I could only lie in bed and cough every winter, especially during the snowy days, according to the theories of the old men in the imperial hospital, I was even more unable to take half a step out of the dormitory, so I was not able to see the snow. Touching things has always been eager to see through.

When I was very young, I was still ignorant. Once, ignoring the imperial physician’s advice, I sneaked out while the maid was unprepared. The creaking sound of my feet on the snow, and the hexagonal shape of snowflakes dripping on my fingertips made me feel It was very fresh, so I hid in a remote place in the imperial garden and played secretly for an hour.However, what I didn't expect was that this moment would lead to dozens of hours of high fever in the future. I didn't know what happened. When I woke up two days later, I only felt sore all over my body. It was the acupuncture that pierced my whole body that dragged half of my life back from the gate of hell.

And according to Ah Ji's description, in view of my horrible situation at the time, the 11-year-old Su Qi, who had begun to take shape in terms of body, mind, and temper, was very rarely furious, and almost stabbed all the maids in the palace. The skewered meat was skewered onto his peerless sword.

Since then, I have never dared to be presumptuous again.So for more than ten years, snow has been more luxurious to me than the spices tribute from the Western Regions.

Under the guidance of Ah Ji, I just rolled a snowball in the palm of my hand when I heard a dull bell ringing not far away.That was Qin Lian's early court.

In the past, I always felt that the court meeting time in Su State was very inhumane. As early as winter, even the sun did not have time to come out, and the officials had to go home and sleep in the cage before they could go to work.However, after I came to the Southern Dynasty, I found out that the court meeting here is even half an hour earlier than that in Su State. If Qin Lian teased me for a long time in the first half of the night, he would have to lift it up as soon as I fell asleep in the second half of the night. Open the quilt and get up.

In the past, his movements were very light, basically not disturbing my sound sleep; however, Qin Lian's behavior has been relatively abnormal these days, and one of the abnormal manifestations is that he has become very fond of me sleeping the most slumberly after he falls down every day When I was there, I stuffed my cold hands into my neck, and then I sat up with a smile like a spring breeze while watching me with a scream.That smile really doesn't have the slightest sense of doing something wrong, so disturbing Qingmeng can be so righteous, I have never seen anyone so thick-skinned except Su Qi.

Under the guidance of Ah Ji, I rolled out a palm-sized snowball, then stuffed it into her neck without hesitation, and then quickly backed away.Ah Ji was stunned for a moment, then he squeezed out a snow cake and threw it towards me.

I throw it again, and she throws it again.After playing like this for a while, both of them breathed out a big cloud of white gas. I saw Ah Ji's snowball flying towards the door again. I was unsteady, and of course I started to lean into the snow.

During this period, I heard the neat exclamations of the surrounding maids.

However, I did not hit the ground after all.A pair of hands grabbed my arm in time and pulled me up a foot off the ground.

Then I heard the neat gasps of the maids around me.

I looked up the sleeve with the delicate cloud pattern, and finally saw a familiar face.It's just that this face doesn't look the same as usual at this time, although the line of the jaw is still beautiful - there is a lot of snow on Qin Lian's forehead, and his brows are slightly frowned because of this.

At a glance, I can see that it is the credit of the snowball that Ah Ji originally planned to throw at me.

The surrounding maids immediately fell to their knees.Qin Lian raised his eyelids to look at me, and with a slight movement of his eyes, snowflakes fell from his forehead.His hand slid from his arm to mine, and he lifted me up to my right.Then he looked at me again, and after a while I finally came to my senses from my stupor and swept the snow off his head with my hands.

Just as I threw away the snow in my palm, a servant trotted over from not far away, and said softly, "Your Majesty, Zhao Youchen, Master Zhao, please see me."

I clearly saw Qin Lian's eyes twitch slightly.Then he caressed my neckline slowly, and said slowly: "Xuan."

This is the first time for me to see Zhao Youchen up close.In the past, he mostly appeared in the rumors that Ah Ji told me.Although Zhao Youchen is a general, he doesn't have the mighty and tall body of a general. Instead, he looks a bit thin and scholarly, but his lips look thinner than Qin Lian's, and the corners of his eyes form a long and narrow arc, with sharp eyes shining slightly In a flash, it was not a character that could be easily dealt with at first glance.

But if I didn't know in advance that he is three years older than Qin Lian, based on his appearance alone, I would have thought he was a young man in his early twenties.

Qin Lian turned his back to him, leaned slightly, rubbed a handful of snow in his palm, and said casually: "Zhao Qing's house, this is the first snow this winter."

Zhao Youchen bowed slightly, his voice was as young as his appearance: "Return to Your Majesty, yes. The auspicious snow heralds a good harvest, and next year will definitely be a good harvest."

I stood aside and looked up at Qin Lian's side face. Although his expression was normal, there was a sense of cold dignity that made people dare not look at him directly and get close to him.

It turned out that Qin Lian looked like this in front of his courtiers.

Qin Lian played the snowball up and down in his hand, and said leisurely, "Yesterday, the right minister mentioned his wish to retire and return to his hometown. Is this why you came?"

Zhao Youchen paused, but still respectfully replied: "Your Majesty is wise. The position of Prime Minister is indispensable for a day, and it is also a confidential position that is below one person and above ten thousand..."

He was interrupted by Qin Lian with a smile before he finished speaking: "One person is under one person and above ten thousand? Yesterday you said that the position of queen is also a position under one person and above ten thousand. According to your theory, there must be someone in this world How many people are under one person and above ten thousand?"

He spoke very slowly and his tone was gentle, but Zhao Youchen quickly knelt down on the snow and bowed his head deeply: "I am terrified."

Qin Lian gave a faint "hmm", took my hand, put the extremely round snowball into my palm, then dragged my wrist and left without looking back, leaving only a light voice Echoed behind him: "It's time to panic. Then just kneel for now."

(End of this chapter)