Willing to be hired by Jiangshan

Sleeping on a snowy night

Lin Rongchen was thinking hard to find an excuse, when he suddenly heard a burst of exclamation in front of the hall.

Everyone looked up, and saw a colorful phoenix flying towards this side, and there was a person sitting on the phoenix, with a light veil covering his face.But from that graceful figure, it can be seen that she must be a beautiful fairy.Everyone was stunned. They didn't recover until Phoenix landed in front of them.

Yan Xi went down generously, walked up to the Empress Dowager, and presented the bamboo basket in her hand: "My concubine wishes the Empress Dowager a long and boundless life!"

The Empress Dowager came back to her senses when she saw his basket of flat peaches, and she was very pleasantly surprised: "Good! Good! Good! This is the first time in the Ai family's life that they have seen such an ingenious birthday gift! It was so unexpected and so happy !"

Lin Rongchen didn't expect that he would come up with the idea of ​​pretending to be a fairy and giving flat peaches to celebrate his birthday. He really deserves to be the number one scholar. Thinking of this, he feels very... gratified.

Bright and bright like light clouds covering the moon, fluttering like the flowing wind returning snow.

Yan Xixue stood in front of the hall, feeling a sense of peerless independence, she covered her mouth and chuckled, looking forward to shine.

Lin Rongchen was momentarily bewildered.

Everyone knew in their hearts that this beautiful woman from Xi was so guarded that the clouds would open and the moon would shine.

Hu Qingqing wanted to wring off the handkerchief, but Huang Wan looked at her calmly, and she knew that someone was more anxious than her.

Sure enough, Hu Qingqing said afterwards: "Xi Meiren, the Empress Dowager is celebrating her birthday, it's not appropriate for you to dress like this?" Is she a pig brain?In order to get some fairy spirit, she was dressed in plain clothes!

"Concubine Yi doesn't know, this is the dress of a celestial maiden! You must have not looked at the painting in Aijia Palace carefully, it's hard for her to be so caring! Today, the fairy came down to celebrate her birthday, Aijia is very happy! I just don't know this fairy , can you show Aijia what you look like?"

Yan Xi's eyes involuntarily glanced at Lin Rongchen, and seeing that he was also looking at her with a smile, she nodded and removed her veil. "The concubine has seen the empress dowager!"

"You are really Ximei! Come up quickly! Tell Ai's family how you came up with this idea." The Empress Dowager took his hand and praised him again, which made all the concubines displeased.Which of the gifts they sent out was not selected after thousands of choices, but this is a good thing, but a little beauty stole the limelight!

"Your Majesty, the Ai family felt very cordial when they first saw this beauty Xi, and even more so today, you must reward her well!" Yan Bi cast a meaningful glance at Lin Rongchen.

Lin Rongchen was as good as he was, "Don't worry, grandma, I won't treat her badly! Beauty Xi, come and sit here!"

Yan Xi: "..." Can he not go up?

During the singing and dancing, Lin Rongchen said in a low voice: "I never thought that you would use such... a peculiar way to celebrate the birthday of the imperial grandmother."

Yan Xi said: "Speaking of which, General Zhao has worked hard, the emperor should thank him well."

"That's natural."

Seeing Yan Xiwu eating by himself, Lin Rongchen reminded: "I am in front of you, how can you only care about yourself? There are so many eyes watching! No matter which concubine is replaced, it is normal to invite pets at this time!"

"..." Yan Xi said in a low voice, "Then Wei... what should concubines do?"

"Did you see the orange in front of you?" Lin Rongchen reminded with his eyes, "Peel a petal and feed me!"

Yan Xi: "..."

Lin Rongchen didn't look sideways, "Don't make people suspicious!"

Yan Xi gritted his teeth and pushed aside the orange, took a piece, and put it near Lin Rongchen's mouth.I don't know if Lin Rongchen did it on purpose, but his mouth was so wide that it even covered his fingers.

Although it is winter, Yan Xi's face is full of peach blossoms.

Lin Rongchen hugged his waist, chuckled, and swallowed the orange.

After the banquet was over, Lin Rongchen said to Liuli: "Go back and prepare, and send your beauty to bed tonight!"

"Yes!" Liuli was so surprised that she almost jumped up.

Yan Xi couldn't laugh, what does it mean?

After returning to the Hehuan Palace, someone immediately brought a bathtub and hot water, and prepared new underwear. Liuli kept urging Yan Xi, "Beauty, hurry up and take a bath and put on your makeup."

Yan Xi said: "..."

He didn't want to move, he couldn't bear Liuli, who was more excited than him, and forced him to take off his clothes.

Yan Xi waved his hands again and again, "Okay, okay, I'll do it myself!"

The tub is sprinkled with plum blossom petals, a little bit of vermilion, which is quite elegant on the steaming water.

Yan Xi stripped naked, soaked in hot water, sighed comfortably, tilted her head, leaned against the edge of the bucket, closed her eyes and rested.After Liuli urged him a few times, he slowly came out of the bucket, put on new clothes, wrapped himself in a big cloak, and sat down beside the dressing table.

Liuli called someone to clean up the room, took a plain towel and wiped Yan Xi's wet hair, "The beauty is deeply liked by the emperor and the queen mother today, maybe after tonight, the emperor will promote you!"

"I hope!" Yan Xi said perfunctorily.Does he care about these?Even if he became a queen at this moment, what was the use to him?But when he thought about seeing Lin Rongchen later, he still couldn't help but chuckle to himself.

The thousand petals of cinnabar outside the window have already bloomed, Kazuki's bright red is blooming proudly in the snow, faintly wafting a very faint and cool fragrance.He walked out, Liuli grabbed him, "Beauty, it's snowing outside."

Yan Xi turned her head and said: "It's okay, I'll just break off branches of cinnabar plums!"

Liu Li was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said: "Could the beauty be given to the emperor?"

"Well. The plum blossoms bloomed well this year. The emperor liked this thousand-petal cinnabar plant. I'm sure he will be happy if you give him one!" Yan Xi stood in the snow, looked up for a long time, and chose a branch that bloomed. The most beautiful one was folded off, "Find a more modest vase and put it in!"

"Yes!" Liuli took it with a smile.

Yan Xi wrapped her cloak tightly and hurried into the house, but the snow outside was getting bigger and bigger.He stood at the door, looking at the goose-feather-like snowflakes, he was inexplicably anxious, "Liuli, what time is it?"

Liuli covered her mouth with a smile and said, "Don't worry, beauty, Eunuch Zhou will be here soon."

Yan Xi's face suddenly bloomed with two red plum blossoms, "I'm not in a hurry."

"Well, beauty is not in a hurry." Liuli smiled and put the vase on the desk, and handed the heater to him, "Come in quickly, and close the door! Wear such thin clothes, don't catch the wind!"

Yan Xi didn't resist either, and just let her play around.

As soon as he put the stove into his arms, the gate of Hehuan Palace creaked open.

Yan Xi opened the curtain and poked her head out.

Eunuch Zhou walked in against the wind and snow, saw him, and said with a smile: "Miss Xi, follow this old slave to the Hall of Supreme Harmony!"

Yan Xi took the quilt in his hand, wrapped herself up, and stepped into the wind and snow.

Eunuch Zhou followed closely, holding an umbrella for him, and after walking a few steps, Yan Xi came back to his senses and said to Liuli, "Bring the vase!"

Liuli raised the vase in her hand, "I keep it with me all the time!"

Yan Xi nodded in a daze.He didn't speak along the way, and he couldn't tell whether he was happy or unhappy. Eunuch Zhou didn't ask much though he was curious because there was someone behind him.

When he arrived at the Hall of Peace, he pushed open the door, and a gust of extremely warm air rushed towards him. Before he could see how many charcoal fires had been burned in the room, he felt empty and the quilt had been taken away.Immediately there was another burst of warmth——Lin Rongchen put a roasted warm goose feather cloak on him. "Is it cold?"

Yan Xi nodded, "It's okay."

Lin Rongchen winked at the left and right, and handed over a bowl of steaming ginger soup. Lin Rongchen took it and passed it to Yan Xi, "Drink it quickly, to warm your body."

"En." Yan Xi drank obediently.

The left and right took the bowls and retreated together.For a while, only the two of them and the occasional beeping charcoal were left in the room.

Lin Rongchen was wearing a dragon robe embroidered with twelve chapter patterns, with a golden crown tied around his hair, and a jade belt tied around his waist.Yan Xi saw him wearing all kinds of court clothes, regular clothes, and formal clothes, but today, he always felt a little different.Maybe he didn't take a closer look before, but now he realizes that his figure in this bright yellow suit is extraordinarily slender.

Lin Rongchen led him to the inner room, skipped the dragon bed in the outer hall, and said with a smile: "I can only wrong you to sleep here first tonight."

Yan Xi was surprised, "Weichen will sleep here tonight?"

Lin Rongchen asked back: "Why, don't you want to?"

"Uh... That's not true." He heard from Liuli that concubines would not stay in the Anhe Hall overnight.When the emperor is done, they will be sent back.Thinking of the wind and snow outside, Yan Xi shuddered, and then wrapped herself in a goose feather cloak.

"Let Liuli deliver your clothes tomorrow morning, and you can go back." Lin Rongchen sat down beside him and stared at him.

Yan Xi was a little overwhelmed, "Why does the emperor look at me like this?"

"It's nothing." Lin Rongchen smiled suddenly, pointing to the vase on the low table beside the bed and said, "You gave it to me?"

"The flower is the emperor's flower, and the vase is also the emperor's vase. The humble minister is just borrowing flowers to present to the Buddha." Yan Xi thought, the two of them are always different from others, and this branch of thousand-petal cinnabar has too much meaning.

Lin Rongchen reached out and fiddled with the petals twice, and said two words, "Thank you."

Yan Xi blushed for no reason, "The sharp edge of a sword comes from sharpening, and the fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the bitter cold. I just think that this plum blossom is very similar to the emperor."

While talking, there was a report from outside the door, and then he heard Zhou Gonggong's suppressed scolding voice, "You bastard, don't hurry down! You disturbed Shengjia, be careful of your head!"

Yan Xi asked with his eyes, Lin Rongchen said, "Yuanzheng, what's the matter?"

Eunuch Zhou replied through the door of the inner room: "Reporting to the emperor, a little eunuch with no winks asked the emperor if he wanted to go to the imperial study tonight. The old slave has already sent him away."

Yan Xi smiled and said: "The emperor is so hardworking? Every time he finishes his work, he still has to go to the imperial study?"

Lin Rongchen looked at him and said: "The little eunuch has been following me, knowing that I won't rest so early, seeing that the time has passed today, and I haven't gone to the imperial study, so I came to ask."

"Then why did the emperor rest so early today?"

"Ask knowingly." Lin Rongchen looked at him with piercing eyes, "Because you are here."

Yan Xi couldn't speak anymore.

Seeing that he was silent, Lin Rongchen smiled, "Go to sleep!"

Yan Xi moved inside, leaving most of the beds.Lin Rongchen pulled him into his arms as usual, "Master Yan, don't you have anything to ask me?"

"...Yes." But he also knew he couldn't ask.

"What do you want to ask? Why don't you ask?" Lin Rongchen buried his head in his hair. "The answer I asked you last time, have you thought about it yet?"

"Um, Your Majesty, I'm sleepy."

"...Then go to sleep."

The two closed their eyes in different thoughts.

Yan Xi didn't move at all, Lin Rongchen almost thought that he was asleep, sighed slightly, suddenly felt a heat in his waist, and wrapped his arms around him.

He opened his eyes and met a pair of pupils. There seemed to be something overflowing from those pupils, which made his chest swell and slightly sore.Just when she was about to speak, her lips became hot again, and Yan Xi kissed her...

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