Fingers of crossing

The night is already deep.

The night wind from the top of the mountain made the camp roar, and the wound on Jiang Ningzui's arms burst into burning pain. She leaned on the couch, her indifferent face was as pale as paper from the pain.

Hearing the sound, Jiang Ningzui turned her head to look, and saw Lu He walked in with the water basin in her hands, her mouth was pouted, and she walked in with a displeased face.

Qing Fu reached out to take Lu He's basin, frowned and looked at her, and said, "What's wrong with you?"

"It's nothing." Lu He gave Jiang Ningzui a strange look, bit her lips and hesitated to speak, and finally couldn't hide her words, and complained all over her head: "The servant is worthless for the princess, and the empress is not worth it in the morning." Suffering such a serious injury, the eldest princess not only refused to seek justice for her mother, but even took Princess Qiyue to her side, and now she is eating with King Beiyang and Princess Jing in the main tent. Slaves, look, this lady The injury is in vain."

Jiang Ningzui didn't react, but Qing Fu at the side made a movement first, she quickly pushed Lu He, frowned and scolded: "Presumptuous, how can you chew your tongue in front of your empress?"

After Qingfu scolded, Luhe realized that she was talking too much, she quickly closed her mouth, and quietly looked at Jiang Ningzui's expression, but saw her expression was normal, she was indifferent all the way, although her attitude was cold, but she looked It didn't look like she was angry, so she let out a sigh of relief and stepped aside.

After washing and washing, Qingfu poured water and hurried back, leaned over to Jiang Ningzui's ear and said, "Your Majesty, the side concubine is here."

Concubine?

Jiang Ningzui was puzzled for a while, she thought about it for a while, and finally said: "Please come in."

Changing into a gorgeous palace dress during the day, Liu Huanxue walked in from outside the tent in a pink dress. She first saluted Jiang Ningzui, then lowered her head to inspect Jiang Ningzui's injuries, and finally said with a smile: "elder sister."

"There's no need to be too polite." Jiang Ningzui's voice was cold and weak, and she whispered, "Sit down."

After finishing speaking, Jiang Ningzui contemplated for a moment, then turned her head and said to Qingfu Luhe, "You all step back."

Seeing that Jiang Ningzui asked them to leave, Lu He originally wanted to say something, but Qing Fu stopped her first, shook her head at her, and pulled her to turn around and leave.

It wasn't until Qingfu and the others left that Liu Huanxue sat down with a smile on her face. With worried eyes, she took a closer look at Jiang Ningzui's bandaged arm and asked, "Sister, is everything okay?"

"It's nothing serious." Jiang Ningzui lowered her brows and said, seemingly unintentionally, "I'm sorry to bother my side concubine to come to see me."

"The dinner party was boring, so I decided to come out for a walk." Liu Huanxue said, and she didn't know what to think of, the dimples on her cheeks became shallower, her pale face was separated from the candlelight, and her expression was blurred. "Besides, I always wanted to thank my sister in person for what happened to Chi Wei last time. If there is no sister..."

"You don't have to thank me." Coldly interrupting Liu Huanxue's words, Jiang Ningzui leaned sideways on the soft couch, her voice was flat, but there was always a sense of alienation and indifference that puts people thousands of miles away. "I didn't do this for Chi Wei."

Hearing Jiang Ningzui's ruthless words, Liu Huanxue just smiled lightly and said, "I understand, my sister is for the eldest princess."

Jiang Ningzui glanced at Liu Huanxue calmly, not flustered at all by being poked at the center of the matter, she smiled slightly, looked at Liu Huanxue's quiet eyes and said nothing, her silent attitude seemed to be both admitting and denying.

"In my memory, the Eldest Princess always looks like she is planning and aloof, but today at the racetrack, it was the first time I saw the Eldest Princess mess up because of someone." Liu Huanxue smiled at Jiang Ningzui's bright eyes And Qingqing, she said, turning her head to look out of the window, her voice was soft and ethereal, which sounded particularly unreal. "In this palace, especially for such a powerful person as the eldest princess, the most rare thing is sincerity. Sister, you must understand that they are destined to be not ordinary people from birth, so you can never ask for it with the eyes of ordinary people. They, because while they gain power, they also lose what ordinary people can have."

Liu Huanxue said again: "Although I don't know what happened between my sister and the eldest princess, and I don't intend to find out about it, but I always feel a little pity to see the estrangement between you two during the day."

The secret between Jiang Ningzui and Yan Yilan, even if they don't tell, everyone in the palace understands that their relationship is not normal, but among so many people, only Liu Huanxue dares to do so Straight to the point.Because of this, Jiang Ningzui couldn't help but feel dazed when she heard it. When she came back to her senses, her black eyebrows frowned suspiciously, her expression completely blank.

"In the days when Chi Wei left, I often thought, if we were not born in official families, then maybe we would be in a different situation today." Only when referring to Chi Wei, Liu Huanxue's Only the expression will be tainted with real helplessness and sadness, and those carefully stacked gentle smiles will be left behind, leaving only the despair in the eyes. "But then I thought for a second, if it wasn't for this, then we would never have met each other. I think that what people say about the impermanence of the world to make people laugh, maybe it's just to embarrass us."

Liu Huanxue's exclamation could not help disturbing Jiang Ningzui, who also lost her mind, and found that there were many mediocre thoughts in her mind, Jiang Ningzui slowly exhaled the depression in her chest, not allowing herself to think about it.

"I didn't mean anything else when I said this. I just hope that my sister won't end up like me and Chi Wei in the end." Liu Huanxue said as she turned around and smiled at Jiang Ningzui: "Besides, I can tell that the Eldest Princess cares about her elder sister. As an outsider, I can see clearly, both elder sister and Eldest Princess are extremely intelligent people, so why can't they think clearly?"

Yes.If she hadn't been thinking about her kindness to her and Chi Wei, then according to Liu Huanxue's smooth temperament and her current attitude of not caring about world affairs, she would never have made a special trip to say these words.

And Liu Huanxue's words undoubtedly regenerated waves in Jiang Ningzui's already calm heart, which made her heart fluctuate repeatedly, and it was difficult to calm down again.

"My sister is injured, so it's inconvenient for me to bother you." Liu Huanxue said, got up and gave Jiang Ning a drunken blessing, and said, "I'll take my leave first."

Hearing Liu Huanxue's farewell, Jiang Ningzui didn't hold back much, she nodded and silently watched Liu Huanxue leave.

The dim candle lamp swayed with the wind, smashing the faint light all over the place.Liu Huanxue's slender body is smudged under the light and shadow, and gradually merged together. It should be a beautiful picture, but Liu Huanxue's figure always reveals a lingering loneliness, like a candle that will be broken if it is folded in the light The core is too fragile to withstand a single blow.

It wasn't until Liu Huanxue left that Jiang Ningzui realized that there was no sound in the entire tent, except for the lonely sound of the night wind blowing through the tent.In the dead silence, Jiang Ningzui looked at the curtain that was blowing up and down, there was no longer Liu Huanxue there, only the lonely night wind blowing on her empty heart, leaving only a bleak echo.

Thinking of Liu Huanxue's words before, Jiang Ning stood up wearily. She looked out along the slightly opened curtain, and could vaguely see the bustling scene in the main tent. If she listened carefully, she could even hear the singing and dancing at the dinner party. music.

The huge contrast was like a big stone stuck in Jiang Ningzui's heart, and the dull feeling made her feel unhappy. She put down the curtain and walked to the side of the bed, and suddenly saw the candle lamp on the table shaking , there was a faint sound of fierce wind in her ears, her heart trembled, and she was about to raise her head to find out what happened, only to hear two whistling winds, and several palace lanterns by the window had already been extinguished by the wind , leaving only the palace lantern beside her flickering with a faint light.

There was the sound of wind gliding behind him, Jiang Ningzui caught the movement keenly, and when she turned around to look, she only saw the curtain by the window flying up, and a white shadow flashed across in front of her eyes, following the direction of the shadow and turning her head Go, a figure leaned over and approached him.

The situation developed so unexpectedly, before Jiang Ningzui saw the figure's owner clearly, that person was already sideways, forcing Jiang Ningzui to retreat in her direction, and in the blink of an eye, she had been captured The man staggered to the edge of the wall, slammed his back suddenly, and immediately felt a burning pain in his arm, forcing Jiang Ningzui to give up all resistance.

"Chi Wei."

It is not necessary to see the face of the person lying in front of her, Jiang Ningzui has already recognized the person just by the shape and feeling of her body.She frowned slightly, she couldn't tell whether it was out of surprise or anxiety, but she just looked at the uninvited guest indifferently, with a gloomy look in her eyes.

"Hush." ​​Before Jiang Ningzui was allowed to finish asking the doubts in her heart, Chi Wei's cold voice rang in her ears first. "somebody is coming."

As soon as these words came out, Jiang Ningzui didn't even have time to react and prepare, she had already heard a sound of small footsteps outside the door, her breathing stagnated, and slowed down with the sound of approaching footsteps.

"Ningzui." Yan Yilan's voice was particularly hoarse and pleasant in the silent night, but now Jiang Ningzui didn't have much thought about other things. She held her breath and silently watched Yan Yilan's figure appear in front of her. Outside the tent. "it's me."