Chapter 3 Section 3: The love story during the Chenghua period (3)

Those guards were not wearing armor, but were dressed in brocade clothes, with long knives hanging from their waists. Under the sun, the bright silver on the scabbard shone dazzlingly. Wan Zhen'er always squinted to look at the guards, and the guards would also look at her and whisper. She smiled slightly, she knew it was inappropriate, but she thought, maybe this is a way to leave this deep palace. She knew that the emperor sometimes bestowed maids of honor to guards or officials, and the officials who received the rewards would treat her specially because the woman was from the inner palace, which was also a good way to return.

She was walking in the sunlight with the prince in her arms, the sunlight reflected her fair skin, and a pair of eyes kept staring at her.She knew who the owner of those eyes was, that young man seemed to have a relatively high official rank, and he always stared at her figure unscrupulously, without any taboo. Looking at the golden mouth of the man's long knife from the corner of his eyes, Wan Zhen'er noticed a tiger-shaped jade ornament hanging on his belt. The man stood far away beside the palace gate, his figure cast long on the ground. Wan Zhen'er stepped on the figure intentionally or unintentionally, and caught a glimpse of the man's half-smile expression in a blink of an eye.She couldn't help but blush, knowing that her actions were too frivolous.

At this time, the child in his arms suddenly burst into tears.She was taken aback, it was the first time the child was crying like this in her arms, she hurriedly coaxed the prince softly, pacing back and forth, but the prince was still crying. She was a little anxious, maybe she was hungry, so she hugged the prince and walked towards the palace.When she turned around, seeing the concerned gaze of the young man, she blushed again, and she thought, who is this person? Days passed, and when winter came, the prince was half a year old. The first snow fell in October, and the entire imperial city was covered in snow.

The poplar trees planted in the courtyard of the East Palace had lost their leaves, and the branches were covered with snow. Occasionally, one or two jackdaws would perch on the branches, croaking a few times. Wan Zhen'er likes the courtyard after the snow very much. In such a cold weather, the crown prince can no longer be brought into the courtyard. Sometimes she slips out of the house alone, and the cold wind blows on her skin. Feel. The courtyard became more and more desolate, and the imperial city seemed to become desolate, and the scope of people's activities began to be limited to the house.

That Jin Yiwei still stood outside the palace gate every day, his body was covered with snow and he didn't move.But the fiery eyes followed Wan Zhen'er all the time, which made her feel uneasy. Looking at his tall and strong figure through the window, Wan Zhen'er felt like it. Such a man was very different from the eunuchs in the palace. The eunuchs and maids in the palace sometimes go against each other, pretending to be a phoenix, and the empress dowagers turn a blind eye.After all, the lives of those eunuchs and court ladies are too lonely, and they lack many normal people's emotions.However, Wan Zhen'er always disliked those eunuchs. Whenever she thought of the eunuchs' high-pitched voices, twisting movements, and wet hands, she would feel sick.She didn't understand why some court ladies never tire of it, maybe life is really too lonely!

Looking at the Jin Yiwei at the gate of the palace, Wan Zhen'er couldn't help thinking, if one day she really left the palace, she would be very happy to be able to marry such a person, perhaps even happier than being a noble concubine!