autumn clouds

"Aifei, it was agreed yesterday that I will have dinner at Aifei's place this morning."

Yun Qiuyu followed Shi Shuyan closely after the court, lest someone who didn't pay attention would run away.

"..." Shi Shuyan glanced at the emperor who had been following her until she looked like a servant girl. He couldn't let go of this, but he had already agreed to return the Anluan Pavilion today, which seemed to be an urgent matter.

"Your Majesty, the concubine wants to leave the palace today, and dinner will be..."

"It's okay, I will go with my concubine."

Yun Qiuyu was secretly happy, did her Yan'er agree with her?

"...I'm not running away, I'm going back to my mother's house to have a look."

Shi Shuyan gritted his teeth a bit, but judging from the current situation, it is safest not to offend Yun Qiuyu.

"Isn't Yan'er a killer, an assassin? Back..."

Yun Qiuyu was an emperor no matter what, and she wasn't stupid. She pretended to be crazy and asked questions, and first she smoked when she got angry.

"I didn't come here to be your concubine! You can't stop me from leaving the palace! Otherwise, I'll kill you directly!"

Shi Shuyan leaned close to Yun Qiuyu's ear, threatening and angry.

"I...worry about Yan'er."

Yun Qiuyu lowered her head, her aggrieved voice really sounded like she was scavenging smoke when she was worried, and she was indeed misunderstood.

"You! It's the most dangerous thing for me! Stay away from me, thank God!"

"Okay, then you have to come back early."

"...I really don't want to come back." Shi Shuyan glared at Yun Qiuyu, turned around and took two steps, and turned to look at Yun Qiuyu.

Yun Qiuyu was still aggrieved, looking at herself pitifully, like a woman from a good family who was abandoned by her husband, while she was like a heartbroken person.

Yun Qiuyu, a woman from a good family, turned her head to look at her when she saw it, her eyes lit up, and she was just fantasizing, but her Yan'er regretted it? Can't bear to leave?

"Don't follow me secretly, and don't send someone to follow me!"

Shi Shuyan completely shattered her fantasy.

Shi Shuyan went back and took Hanying with her, and when she left the palace, Shi Shuyan held the exquisite jade hanging around her neck through her clothes, and was so cherished by herself. Wang Yan, Yun Qiuyu has such a good relationship with the little eunuch, I think it will be very grand after all, when all the princes and ladies from various families will be there, maybe they will meet her.

……

In the secluded bamboo forest, after a dispute, the cold air was filled with the smell of blood.

Among the dead people, there was a young girl holding a knife in her hand, her face and body were covered with blood, her own and others'.

She was frightened, shivering and backed away, everyone was dead, she didn't kill, she killed... She killed people, so she couldn't live.

A gust of cold wind blew by, and a figure walked towards her...

When she woke up again, the wound on her body had been bandaged, and she was lying in a small wooden hut, with a faint scent of medicine, she was not afraid anymore, got out of bed and walked out.

"You're awake. It just so happens that you drink the medicine."

The man brought the medicine to her. He wore a veil and couldn't see what he looked like, but his voice was very gentle, and he didn't look like a bad person.

"Who are you? Why did you save me?"

Although she doesn't look like a bad person, she is still a little scared.

The man chuckled, "It's not someone. I saw you are cute, so I saved you."

"Aren't you afraid that I'll kill you?" She frowned.

"Will you?" the man asked with a smile.

She took the medicine and drank it in one gulp.

"Aren't you afraid that what I let you drink is poison?" the man asked again.

"I believe you."

She wiped her mouth and returned the empty bowl to the man.

The man took the bowl and handed her a piece of candy.

She looked at her, but didn't take it for a long time.

"Why? Afraid of being poisoned? Don't?" The man laughed again.

She shook her head and took the candy, "It's so sweet, but the medicine is so bitter."

"Like it?"

"Hmm." She nodded.

"What's your name?"

"Yan'er. What about you?"

The man shook his head.

Shi Shuyan pouted, "Stingy!"

The man laughed again, "Well...can I give Yan'er candy every day from now on?"

"it is good!"

……

The man accompanied Yan'er to recuperate, and in the blink of an eye, more than two months passed, but the man seemed to be afraid of something and never took off his veil.

"Yan'er, your injury is almost healed, I should go."

One evening, the man seemed to be a little anxious and said.

"elder sister……"

Shi Shuyan knew that she would not be with her all the time, and also knew that there would be such a day, but when such a day really came, Shi Shuyan's heart was still empty.

"I've been here for too long, it's time to go back, otherwise the family is really in a hurry."

The man counted gold dollars on the table, "Get out of here, it's not safe, live a good life."

After the man finished speaking, he turned and left, Shi Shuyan held her back, "Yes, don't you want to go?"

"No."

Knowing that it is impossible, but still wishing "Will that Yan'er see you in the future?"

The man turned around, touched Shi Shuyan's black hair, "Maybe."

"Then where can I find you?"

"Qingyan." She thought for a while, took out a jade pendant, and hung it on Shuyan's neck, "This is a token."

Shi Shuyan touched the jade pendant and pulled her, "Sister, squat down."

"Um?"

Shi Shuyan leaned over and kissed the man through the veil.

The man was startled, "You..."

Shi Shuyan said with a simple face: "The elder sister in Hualou said that this means that she likes someone alone."

"...haha." The man was amused by Shi Shuyan's silly cuteness, "Okay, then...after Yan'er finds me, I'll marry Yan'er, okay?"

"En! It's a deal!" Shi Shuyan nodded.

The man touched Shishuyan again, turned and went out.

"Wait!" Shi Shuyan chased him out again, and handed the man a sachet, with two white camellias embroidered on the clear blue cloth, "This is for you."

……