Rong Xuan

The person who impulsively kissed Cao Hui calmed down and felt a little scared, and as expected, he didn't dare to come back during dinner.

Similarly, Cao Hui also felt that he didn't know how to face Sima Xuan, so he went directly to the bedroom to rest after eating.

At night, when Sima Xuan met the people he was supposed to see, finished his busy work for the day, and sneaked back to the west courtyard of the Xun Mansion with Liu Sheng in the dark, the crescent moon on his head had already climbed to the sky.

"Madam has already fallen asleep?" Sima Xuan lowered his voice and asked Yuyan outside the bedroom door in the west courtyard.

Yuyan bent her knees, and also lowered her voice: "Returning to the master, because the mansion said that the madam was sick, the madam went back to the room alone after dinner, and when the servant girl went in to change the tea, she saw that the madam seemed to have fallen asleep."

"...Oh, I seem to have fallen asleep," Sima Xuan rubbed his nose, and subconsciously turned his head to look at Liu Sheng.

Liu Sheng scratched the back of his right hand with his left hand, not knowing what to say, while Yu Yan was a little confused by the behavior of the master and servant in front of him—why did you come home like a thief?

"Master, do you want to eat?" Yu Yan asked.

"No...you don't need to be on duty tonight, you both go down and rest." Sima Xuan sighed long and long, and finally walked up the steps in front of the door, opened the door and walked in.

After Sima Xuan closed the door again, Yu Yan and Liu Sheng also left together.

Yuyan felt that something was wrong when the master came back this time, so she walked towards the Baosha where she was sleeping, and asked Liu Sheng next to her: "Did something happen outside in the evening? How does the master look like?" ... seems a little guilty?"

"Isn't that just a guilty conscience?" Liu Sheng touched his nose, and put his left hand casually on the handle of the Wuhen knife at his waist: "You don't know, the master went to Mingyue Tower to have a drink in the evening, and when he came out, he was wearing a mask on his body." The smell of makeup and powder is strong, tsk, the heavy master dare not come back directly!"

"You went too?" Yuyan tilted her head slightly towards Liusheng, and gently sniffed the smell of this man - the rouge and gouache used by the girls in Mingyue Tower were all from Zhuyan Pavilion on Weiyang Street Specially provided, the smell is easy to distinguish.

"Master is there, can I not go as a bodyguard?" Liu Sheng grabbed his collar and smelled it, and laughed, "Oh, no wonder the master has to go back to the Marquis Mansion to take a shower and change clothes first. It tastes really special."

"..." Yuyan didn't speak, and after walking to the three-way intersection under the corridor, she turned straight to the right.

Liu Sheng stopped, and when Yu Yan's figure disappeared from his sight, he grabbed his collar and smelled the stain on it—he was just at the door of the house where the masters were with Han Suiwu from Wuwen Garden. Standing on guard outside for several hours, when did you get these smells on your body?

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In this room, after Sima Xuan entered the bedroom, he first held the ring hanging from his waist to prevent it from making a clanging sound due to the movement of her walking. Looking in the direction of the bed——

Over there, a lampstand by the bed was dim, and the left and right bed curtains were hanging down, blocking her sight and preventing her from seeing clearly what was going on inside.

In the quiet room, suddenly there was an abrupt "bang" sound - it was Sima Xuan, because the light in the room was dim, she accidentally knocked over a round stool, and the round stool hit the table leg with a loud noise. The noise of human liver trembling.

The guilty person hurriedly supported the overturned stool, she subconsciously held her breath and looked over there, there was some small rustling movement in the bed curtain, Cao Hui really made a sound.

"You're back," her voice was a little hoarse, sleepy and lazy: "Are you hungry?"

"No—" Sima Xuan put the stool away, then suddenly changed his words: "I haven't had dinner yet."

The curtain of the bed was lifted from the inside, Cao Hui got up and got off the bed.

She put a coat on her body, tied her hair into a ponytail with a hair tie, walked past Sima Xuan, and went straight out of the bedroom.

Sima Xuan watched as Cao Hui tied her hair with the curly cloud-pattern vermilion black headband that was pressed with gold thread, and followed Cao Hui directly to the small kitchen in the west courtyard without saying a word.

After entering the kitchen, Cao Hui lit two oil lamps in the kitchen, and then Sima Xuan saw that the smaller stove over there had not been turned off.

But Cao Hui didn't seem to be surprised by this. She poked open the stove familiarly with a fire stick, then turned around and said to Sima Xuan who was standing outside the door and didn't dare to come in, "Come in and help me light the fire", and then went Wash your hands before the sink.

"..." Sima Xuan was silent, walked in obediently, and squatted under the stove with a fire stick to light the fire.

After cleaning his hands, Cao Hui rummaged through the food table where the ingredients were usually placed, and finally picked out a few eggs and some dishes.

"There is nothing left in the small kitchen today, only a few vegetables. Shall I have a bowl of pasta with you?" Cao Hui held two eggs in his left hand and a handful of vegetables in his right, and turned to look at the burner squatting on the ground. fire man.

Sima Xuan tilted his head and blew on the small flame under the stove, his voice was hoarse and slightly nasal: "Oh, good."

After a while, Cao Hui, who was wearing a shawl, quickly got busy—she first washed the vegetables in the wooden vegetable cleaning pool over there, then drained them, and then brought the porcelain specially used for kneading noodles. Make the basin, step to the big chopping board where the noodles are rolled and knead the noodles.

"Is the water hot?" After a while, she said, "If it's hot, bring some for me. I'm going to make dough."

Sima Xuan patted the dust off his hands and stood up to check. The water on the stove was already hot, so she scooped up half a bowl and brought it to Cao Hui.

"Actually, I was in the Yunyun Pavilion that day. I meant to respect Huihui." Sima Xuan squatted back under the stove again. His eyelashes cast a shadow under his eye sockets: "I needed to hold her back for a while, but I didn't think of a good way, so I just followed her way,"

"I arranged for Yuyan to watch you, but I never thought that you would run over in person." Sima Xuan raised his hand to scratch the scar on his forehead, and quickly turned his head to look at Cao Hui's back: "Minister of Rites Cha Liang The He case was the result of my cooperation with Qing Jia that day."

"Thank you, Junhou, for your frankness. In fact, I probably guessed it later," Cao Hui, with his sleeves high, held the edge of the basin with one hand, and gently mixed the soft and hard dough in the basin: " That day and night, the young master of Cai Guogong's mansion would go there to eat flower wine, it should not be accidental."

"I'm an idle military general, so I shouldn't pay attention to those treacherous things in the court, but Zhao Dalang has done too many things that shouldn't be done and can't be done over the years. The person who ascended the Jiuding Supreme..." Sima Xuan rubbed his forehead with the back of his hand, his hoarse voice was low and depressing.

"It's nothing more than random placement of manpower and eyeliner in the northern border army. He also sent some incompetent guys to the Northwest and Northwest borders to do military service. Over the years, the two borders have lost too many good people's lives because of those people. As a member of the Sima family, I can't stand by and watch, Yuanrong, you..."

"I can understand," Cao Hui paused for a moment before she nodded and said, "I can understand how you feel about doing this, but——if I guessed correctly, I will be lucky enough to be the chess player on your chessboard after all." a chess piece."

Sima Xuan didn't defend herself, she just smiled silently, and said: "Most people in Chang'an City like to play with each other, and everyone is always confident that they are in control of the overall situation. It's ridiculous that, So many people, after all, no one can escape the fate of becoming a pawn, they are held in the hands of others, and they can't even decide their own life and death."

"When I first retired from the Northern Border Army, I had quarrels with some high-ranking officials because of some matters in the court. After suffering a lot, I finally understood what my father always said to me ,

He said that no one in this world can truly achieve no desires and desires, even those monks and Taoists who are so devout and wish all sentient beings to be free from suffering and find happiness, to put it bluntly, they all seek to become Buddhas, immortals and Taoists. Feisheng, the world of mortals is ten thousand feet high, and the world is full of waves. Even a person who is ascetic as he is will eventually have his own obsessions, and as long as you can catch this person's greed, you will have caught everything..."

Cao Hui put the reconciled dough on the chopping board to let it wake up for a while, she folded her arms and half leaned on the edge of the table behind her, listening to Sima Xuan's words with a gloomy expression.

"The greed of Cha Lianghe, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, is greedy for glory and wealth, the greed of Zhang Bufan, king of Zhenhai, is greedy for power and position, the greed of Zhao Xuan, the vice-president of the East Palace, is the dominance of ninety-five, and my greed is too much delusion. ,” Sima Xuan shook his head with a wry smile, and muttered to himself in a low voice: “This is one of my crimes.”

"This time I want you to say that you are living in Xun's house. Although it is a precautionary move, I am really afraid that the dog in the East Palace will jump over the wall and hurt you. My brother-in-law has successfully escaped from the prince. The Crown Prince and King Baoxin have had a long-standing grievance, and now there is a fuse again, and there will be a big disturbance between them in the near future—" Sima Xuan lifted the lid of the pot, and his eyes were squinted by the steaming water. : "Yuanrong, the water in the pot has already boiled."

Cao Hui came over, scooped up a few ladles of cold water and poured it into the pot, then picked up the rolling pin and started rolling the dough.

Sima Xuan's legs were numb from squatting, so she pulled out a cot from under the table next to her and sat on it. She tilted her head to stare at the fire under the stove, crossed her fingers around her knees, and said in a chatty voice:

"The case of Cha Lianghe is just the beginning. Prince Baoxin, as the most virtuous Prince of the Five Beads among the princes, he is only one step away from the position of the East Palace. He has already become a stumbling block to the East Palace. To this point, Zhao Dalang will not give up until he kills his younger brother."

Cao Hui nodded: "I have also thought about it, if I fulfill the agreement with the Tian family, encourage you to take away Yuanzhi's position as the eldest son, force you to inherit the Sima family, and then let you be loyal to the East Palace for the rest of your life, when the time comes Will the Tian family really announce the truth of my father and brother's case to the world before he leaves office, and restore the innocence of the more than [-] members of the Cao family and the [-] good sons of the Cao family army?"

Cao Hui shook his head again: "At that time, I was blinded by hatred. Now that I know all the truth, I finally figured it out. Tianjia definitely wouldn't do this."

He is the son of heaven, the son of heaven who was ordered by the emperor to open the temple. In his life, he was ordered to be defeated when the army was defeated, and when the emperor was in danger, he knew people and appointed them on their merits. History!

He is the emperor of the Chao Kingdom, the owner of Tonghe Hall, he is sage and heroic, full of grace, how could such a perfect person, when his glorious emperor career is about to come to an end, take the initiative to expose himself to the world as the leader of a country? What about your conspiracy?

He, Zhao Yujing, would definitely not let himself do this.

……

The vegetable and egg noodles were ready quickly, and Cao Hui served a bowl for Sima Xuan, along with some sauerkraut from a pottery urn in the corner, and brought it to Sima Xuan as a side dish.

"I've said so much, after all, I just want to remind you that you'd better have a plan in mind for what kind of situation is going on right now, so don't accidentally step on the wrong foot." After Sima Xuan finished speaking, he bent his legs. Sitting on the Hu bed, he started eating noodles without saying a word.

She wasn't too hungry, and she didn't dare to eat too unruly in front of Cao Hui—every word Cao Hui said to Princess Jinghui that night was still engraved in her heart, Sima Xuan.

Although she always said that Ren Cao Hui hated her or hated her, but in all honesty, how could a person not care what the person he likes thinks of him?

No matter what, I don't care about it, no matter how good the pretending is, it doesn't matter, deep down in my heart, I care the most.

Thinking of this, Sima Xuan logically recalled the incident in the evening when he took advantage of Cao Hui's unpreparedness and kissed her. Thinking about it, the man's ears couldn't help turning red again.

Perhaps it was because the expression on Sima Xuan's face was too obvious, Cao Hui suddenly felt that he knew what Sima Xuan was thinking at this moment.

She hurriedly turned around, washed the flour off her hands, and then stood in front of the stove. She showed a busy look, doing that for a while, and doing this for a while, anyway, she just didn't dare to talk to her in silence. Sima Xuan got together.

"I'm done eating, just throw these things away, and let the servants clean up tomorrow." Soon, Sima Xuan put down the bowl and chopsticks, went to the side to rinse his mouth, and took out a handkerchief from his sleeve pocket to wipe the corners of his mouth. , said slowly.

"Well, that's fine..." Cao Hui put down his rolled-up cuffs, with his eyes half downcast, and turned his backhand to untie the cloak tied behind him. As a result, the lace on the nape of his neck seemed to have been accidentally tied into a knot by her. , I couldn't untie it for a long time.

"Hey, you, help me fix it, I can't untie it." Cao Hui stood in front of Sima Xuan and said with his back to her.

"Okay," Sima Xuan pulled Cao Hui's shoulders, and turned the lace on the back of her neck toward the light source next to her.

In the dead of night, the wind was cool, and the oil lamp swayed with the wind, with a small, weak flame, and the light was flickering. Sima Xuan couldn't see how to untie the tie, so he had to bend slightly, and approached Cao Cao. Symbolizes dead knots.

"...Is it all right?" After a while, Cao Hui couldn't help asking.

Sima Xuan was very close to her, standing behind her, his warm breath seemed to brush the back of her neck, her heart seemed to start to itch.

"Okay." After a while, Sima Xuan, who was clumsy with hands and feet, finally untied the tie, and successfully helped Cao Hui take off his coat.

Out of the small kitchen, Sima Xuan raised her hand and rubbed her nose while walking, the moon in the sky moved with her, she turned her head to look at the person beside her by the moonlight, "I didn't mean to kiss you in the afternoon, you don't want it, Do not be angry."

Cao Hui: "Yes."

"..." Sima Xuan, who had already walked into the yard, reached out decisively and grabbed Cao Hui's wrist. She looked at Cao Hui with eyes full of water and moonlight: "But I always feel that you are angry, Yuan Rong , you, I... Sigh! I couldn't help kissing you, it was my fault, if you beat me, let you bully me back."

Both of Cao Hui's wrists were caught by this man, and she couldn't break free for a while, so she sighed and said calmly, "Well, just lean over here."

"Are you really going to hit me?" Sima Xuan was taken aback, muttered in a low voice, let go of Cao Hui, and obediently leaned over slightly: "Oh, this lady wants to hit me, so I will take the initiative to stretch my face over. , determined not to bother Madam to raise her arms—"

After all, the word "work hard" could not come out of Sima Xuan's mouth——Cao Hui tiptoed slightly, and at the same time Sima Xuan leaned over, he quickly kissed the man's lips.

She looked at Sima Xuan, the bright moonlight was quite contented in her gentle eyebrows and eyes.

"I've thought about it for a long time, and I think it's more cost-effective to bully him like this, Sima Xuan."

The author has something to say:

Cao Hui: How is it?

Chang Wenzhong: Yes, yes.

Sima Xuan: I think I can do it again... (dragged away by someone surnamed Cao)