The General and the Princess

The two originally planned to leave the palace after taking the medicine, but before You Tao and Luo Xiang came back, they waited in Fengxi Hall.

"Princess, take me around Fengxi Palace." Di Shengyue suggested, "I want to see the place where you grew up."

Xiao Yinxue gave a soft "hmm", then took Di Shengyue's hand, and led Di Shengyue around.

Di Shengyue looked at the hand held by Xiao Yinxue, her eyes moved slightly, and she secretly turned her fingers, turning their hands into a ten-fingered appearance.

Xiao Yinxue seemed to have noticed it, but she paused for a moment, and did not wave Di Shengyue's hand away.

Di Shengyue curled her lips slightly and tightened her grip.

After walking with Xiao Yinxue for a while, and enjoying the scenery of Fengxi Palace for a while, Di Shengyue said: "Princess, I want to visit your bedroom."

"It's just an ordinary dormitory." Xiao Yinxue stopped in her tracks, her cheeks turned red for some reason, "What's so interesting about it?"

Di Shengyueyuan only mentioned it casually, but looking at Xiao Yinxue's slightly red cheeks, she suddenly smelled something unusual.

"Princess, what are you nervous about?" Di Shengyue walked up to Xiao Yinxue, looking into her eyes.

At this moment, there was a trace of shyness in those bright eyes of autumn water. The moment his eyes touched her, he was slightly startled, and immediately avoided it.

"Who, who's nervous!" It should be an aggressive retort, but Xiao Yinxue didn't have any momentum when she said it at the moment.

Di Shengyue suddenly became more interested in Xiao Yinxue's bedroom, Xiao Yinxue was rarely so nervous.

Di Shengyue took a step forward.

Xiao Yinxue took a step back subconsciously, but found that Di Shengyue was holding her hand and could not back up.

She tried to break free from Di Shengyue's palm, and when she sensed Xiao Yinxue's movement, Di Shengyue gripped Xiao Yinxue's palm even tighter.

Di Shengyue leaned close to Xiao Yinxue's ear and asked, "Could it be that there are some secrets in the princess' bedroom?"

Xiao Yinxue's cheeks turned red all of a sudden: "There is no secret."

Thinking of the things in the bedroom, Xiao Yinxue couldn't help feeling a little guilty, her eyes were erratic, and she didn't dare to look at Di Shengyue.

With Xiao Yinxue's appearance, it was clear that something was wrong.

"Since there is no one, then the princess..."

But before she finished speaking, she was interrupted by Xiao Yinxue: "This princess doesn't like others looking at her bedroom."

"Oh?" Di Shengyue raised her eyebrows, and looked at Xiao Yinxue with playful eyes.

Xiao Yinxue avoided Di Shengyue's sight, and pulled her towards the backyard: "I'll take you to the backyard for a walk! It's beautifully repaired over there."

"But I just want to see the princess' bedroom."

"My princess said she didn't want to, so she didn't want to!" Xiao Yinxue said, her pace couldn't help but quicken a bit, as if she wanted to escape from a certain place.

Di Shengyue looked at Xiao Yinxue's anxious look, with a playful smile in her eyes, she secretly glanced at several dormitories in a completely different direction from the backyard, it seems that Xiao Yinxue's dormitory should be in that direction Now, maybe sometime, she can sneak a look and see what little secret Xiao Yinxue is hiding.

While walking quickly, Xiao Yinxue felt panicked with embarrassment, thinking in her heart that she must find a chance to tidy up the bedroom.

The backyard of Fengxi Hall is very grandly repaired, and many plum trees are planted around it.

"I heard from the old lady that these plum trees were transplanted by my father from far away." Xiao Yinxue looked at the plum trees in the distance and said, "It is said that in order to plant these rare trees, my father It took a lot of thought.”

It's a pity that the emperor's father's love for the empress did not last long.

Seeing Xiao Yinxue's depressed mood, Di Shengyue didn't say much, just stood beside Xiao Yinxue, quietly accompanying her.

Xiao Yinxue glanced at Di Shengyue with a little warmth in her eyes.

She took Di Shengyue into the gazebo in the backyard, where there was a chess box.Because it has not been used for a long time, it has become old, and a few cracks can be seen faintly on it.

Xiao Yinxue touched the old chessboard, and his eyes were stained with longing: "When I was young, I often played chess here alone. I heard from the old mother in the palace that the queen mother often played chess with the emperor father here. I I haven't seen the queen mother much, so I always want to do some things that the queen mother has done, and feel the existence of the queen mother. The Taifu in the palace taught the most basic pairs, how to play games, how to lay out, and didn't mention it at all. I I once asked my father to give me some advice, but when my father saw this chessboard, he left angrily."

Xiao Yinxue took a white piece, put it on a corner of the chessboard, and said: "I didn't know until the mother told me. The queen's mother's chess skills are superb, but she is also a very strong person. Every time the father and the mother play chess, there will be troubles." They broke up unhappy. That's why the emperor was so unhappy when he saw the chessboard."

"The empress is indeed a person who refuses to admit defeat." Di Shengyue said, remembering what her father told her about the Empress Yuan, "It is precisely because of her refusal to admit defeat that she has the title of 'God of War' in Xiao Kingdom."

"Yes, 'God of War'." Xiao Yinxue whispered.

With a "pop", another sunspot landed on the other corner.

The two chess pieces, one black and one white, occupy different places and echo each other, but they can't touch each other.

Just like Xiao Yinxue and Empress Yuan.

"Did the princess ever hate the queen?" Di Shengyue asked.

Not long after Yuan Empress gave birth to Xiao Yinxue, she went to the battlefield, and she hardly had any chance to get along with Xiao Yinxue.

Then in the second year, when the Empress Yuan came back from victory, she was pregnant with the eldest prince, and she was all focused on the eldest prince, and she was very indifferent to Xiao Yinxue.

It's just that the Empress Yuan was too weak because of too many injuries on the battlefield, and when she gave birth, the fetus was in an abnormal position, which was extremely painful.

In the end, the First Prince was stillborn, and the Empress Yuan also passed away because she was too weak.

Only then did Xiao Yinxue become a princess without the love of her mother.

Thinking of this, Di Shengyue's eyes dimmed, she used to think so.

But judging from the conversation between Xiao Yinxue and the emperor in the previous life, it seems that the death of Empress Yuan is inseparable from the emperor.

The darkness of the palace was far more terrifying than she had imagined.

Xiao Yinxue shook her head and said: "How can I hate my mother. The mother has always been my pride. I just regret that my body is not up to the mark, otherwise I want to be like the mother and protect the things I care most about."

When Xiao Yinxue said these words, she raised her head and looked at Di Shengyue.

Di Shengyue was startled suddenly, Xiao Yinxue, who understands righteousness so well, how could she think she was unreasonable in her previous life!

Di Shengyue looked at Xiao Yinxue with a softer expression.

There was tenderness in those eyes.

She took a step forward, hugged Xiao Yinxue, and let her head rest on her waist.

"Princess, you don't need to protect anyone anymore." Di Shengyue's voice was so gentle, full of tenderness.

You have protected me very well, no matter in the previous life or in this life.

So

Di Shengyue said seriously: "From now on, I will protect you."

Leaning on Di Shengyue's body, Xiao Yinxue felt a peace of mind she had never felt before.

"Hmm." She responded lightly.