Chapter 11 Chapter Eleven Meeting

Although my hair was still half wet, I didn't have time to do it anymore, so I had no choice but to tie it up with a jade hairpin at the back of my head, and put on a light blue gauze skirt.The beginning of May in the lunar calendar is approaching the summer solstice, and the weather is getting hotter. The season of wearing saree is coming soon. The night in the Wangfu is very quiet, the lanterns in the corridors of the eaves hang quietly, occasionally swaying left and right with the evening wind, and the shadows of the candles flicker red.I silently followed Li Qing to the northwest of the palace, which was a direction I had never set foot in since my wedding.

"Here we are, please go in by yourself, the old slave is leaving." After walking for about ten minutes, Li Qing led me to the destination. I looked up and saw a large flower garden full of roses in front of me. Except for the entrance where I was standing and the opposite veranda, green shrubs were planted around the flower garden, forming several natural fence walls, which are very inviting to "plant fences". rain" trend.Along the gravel path in the middle, through this charming red flower sea, I came to the winding veranda on the opposite side. The veranda was built on the pool, and every three meters, there was a red lantern hanging on the eaves of the veranda, reflecting the water surface under my feet. It was shimmering, and golden-red fish could be faintly seen tumbling and swimming in it.

After turning around and walking through the chaoshou veranda, I finally saw the word "Jingyuan".The plaque with white characters on a black background is very eye-catching, hanging high above the Moon Cave Gate.After stepping through the door, you can see the shadows of trees inside, the fragrance of flowers coming towards you, and the pavilions and pavilions are looming. I walked towards the brightest place, and when I approached slowly, I realized that it should be the study room. The candlelight cut out a big figure on the window. "Princess, please wait until the slaves report to the lord." At this moment, a figure stood in front of me.

After a while, the light in the room opposite to me went out, and Jun Huangyue came out from inside, still wearing a white robe, with long hair tied in a bunch hanging behind her head. I stood there quietly, watching him walk towards me step by step. The mask on his face glowed with a faint silver light in the night, making the darkness in his pupils even more terrifying. I looked at him calmly, not avoiding the gaze in his eyes. He stood still in front of me, and suddenly pulled the hairpin from the back of my head, and the long hair immediately fell loose on my shoulders and back. "This hairpin is too ugly. Tomorrow I will ask Li Qing to send you something else to choose." After he finished speaking, he casually threw the unplugged hairpin on the ground.

The crisp sound of jade breaking was especially obvious in the silent night, and I was a little angry. This is one of the simplest jade hairpins in my dowry. But for the sake of getting rid of my wet hair, I decided not to bother with him. I brushed my hair casually and said, "Do you have anything to eat here? I haven't had dinner yet." After hearing what I said, he raised his hand to the side, and the servant who stopped me just now came out from nowhere. "Go to the kitchen and get a piece of Seven Star Rolled Crisp, a piece of Rose Cake, a piece of Hibiscus Yellow Rice Cake, a bowl of white fungus and lotus seed soup, and a bowl of rock sugar bird's nest porridge, and bring them all to the side hall."

"I want another jujube flower and a pot of unsweetened chrysanthemum tea." I added that jujube flower is made of jujube paste twisted into petals. I usually like to eat it, and chrysanthemum tea is used to clear Intestinal, a lot of sweet and greasy things eat too much and it doesn't feel good. Jun Huangyue led me through the shadows of the trees to a door, and another servant appeared at the corner, quickly pushed the door open and turned on several lamps, and the room suddenly brightened. The exquisite and translucent walls around are carved with latticework, and the floor is covered with red 氍毹.There is a square couch under the window on the right, and the couch is covered with jade mats.On one side of the couch stands a gold and copper pixiu tripod, and on the other side stands a bluestone bonsai. The vertical and horizontal momentum of the bonsai pierces the noble and dull room. sit down.

Who knew that as soon as I sat down, Jun Huangyue also sat down next to me, and I quickly moved my butt to the side.The moment he sat down just now, I smelled the unique fresh body fragrance on his body after bathing, like the smell of hibiscus flowers, very weak and very light. "Isn't there a stool in front?" I pointed to the high brocade padded stool next to the carved lacquer round table opposite and said to him. "I usually just sit here." He said softly in his unique smooth voice, leaning his elbows on the pillow of the square couch, slanting his body and looking at me.

The small square couch was more crowded because of his slanted posture, and the faint scent of hibiscus was rubbed into his nose from time to time. I suddenly couldn't stand being with him in such a narrow place on such a quiet night, so I stood up abruptly. . "Then I will return your seat to you." I said as I walked towards the round table in the middle of the room. "In the future, we don't need to distinguish you and me so clearly. After all, you are also my princess." "Really?" I smiled lightly after hearing this, "But I almost forgot that you are my prince."

"It's okay, as long as you don't forget your identity as a princess." He seemed to always have a calm tone, and I couldn't see any expression on his face through the mask. "Did you come to me just to say this?" I chose a brocade stool and sat down on the table facing him, but I felt a little uneasy. It also violates the identity of the princess, I don't know how much he knows. "Three days later it will be the twentieth birthday of the First Prince and Concubine. The First Concubine has invited all the family members of high-ranking officials above the third rank in the capital, as well as Princess Gege, to attend her birthday banquet, and I want you to attend by name."

It turns out that this is the case, it seems that this princess is not easy to be, and some "upper society" social activities still require me to socialize. "The eldest concubine is still your cousin, and my cousin, the eldest prince Jun Luoxu is your aunt's son, so it's no wonder she pays so much attention to you." I thought to myself, maybe the reason is more than that simple, the most important thing is that I married a husband who is too famous, and this husband is just too mysterious, of course others will put their curiosity on me. I often heard this sentence before: There is always a great woman behind a great man. I don’t know if I can change it to: There is also a mysterious woman behind a mysterious man.Because Zhou Yunxin can be regarded as a mystery. In the fourteen years before I came here, 99% of the servants in the Zhou mansion had never seen the fifth lady of the Zhou family. Others wanted to inquire about the mysterious princess of Prince Rong. It's hard to look like anything.

"Well, I'll be there on time." I replied with a slight sigh. At this time, the servant finally brought my dinner in. After I said thank you, I immediately started to eat. I drank a lot of wine in the afternoon and did not eat a single grain of rice. "You've been drinking." Junhuang Yue lay lazily on the bed, but what he said made me almost choke on the yellow rice cake. "How do you know?" I continued to eat and drink, the pastries were so delicious, and the porridge was just right. "Do you think the smell of alcohol in your mouth is still not obvious?" He asked me back, his tone was still calm, and nothing unusual could be heard. I shrugged my shoulders and said, "It's okay, I don't feel much myself." After I finished speaking, I scooped up the last bite of bird's nest porridge in the bowl and ate it, and licked the small spoon full of desire. "Do you want to order another bowl?" Junhuang Yue asked me. I quickly waved my hand and said: "No need, here is a bowl of lotus seed soup, oh, and jujube flowers and crispy flower cakes, all of which should be enough." After I finished speaking, I realized that I seemed to be too hungry. I looked at Jun Huangyue in a little embarrassment, but I could only see the silver mask and the eyes as silent as water. I laughed at myself: Why should I care about him? , He doesn't even care about me going out to drink, let alone pay attention to how I eat. So I immersed myself in my belly-wrapping project, and didn't go to see him again, and he didn't speak, and only heard the sound of me pouring tea, chewing biscuits, and drinking soup from the empty side hall. After a while of sighing, I wiped my mouth with a handkerchief in satisfaction, cleaned up the table a little, and got up to leave. Jun Huangyue also got down from the couch at this time, took a look at me and walked out the door, I hurriedly followed. When he got out of the door, he said to the servant standing by the door, "Don't follow me," and then he kept walking, so I had no choice but to follow silently. The temperature dropped rapidly at night, and the evening wind made my dress flutter, and a little bit of coolness came in through the gauze holes in the gauze.I took a deep breath, unconsciously hugged my arms around my chest, and shrunk my neck, hoping to resist some cold wind. I knew that I shouldn't have worn this skirt earlier because of the refreshingness of the gauze. Maybe it was because I was breathing too loudly, Jun Huangyue, who was walking in front, stopped and looked at me, and he saw me trembling. Seeing that he stopped and couldn't leave, I had no choice but to stand where I was, and couldn't help but say: "Please hurry up and find someone to take me back, the temperature at night has also become really fast." He walked back to me slowly, and I still looked at him suspiciously with my neck curled up and my arms folded, not understanding why he didn't leave.But I saw that his eyes were shining brightly, his thin lips were tightly pressed, and then I was hugged into his arms. I looked up in surprise, only to see his well-defined chin.His shoulders are very broad, and the cold wind that was raging on me just now was suddenly blocked by his warm embrace.His hand was gently placed on my back and waist, not as hot as Yu Wujian's palm, but very warm, just like the warmth he left in my palm on the day of the wedding, through the thin Thin gauze sticks to my skin. "Thank you." I said softly, I don't reject his action, just like what he said just now, I am also his princess after all. After hearing my thanks, he didn't say anything, but hugged me around the waist instead.I whispered and quickly wrapped my arms around his neck. After living for nearly thirty years, this was the first time I was hugged so high by a man. My face was almost completely attached to his neck, and I seemed to feel the blood in the aorta in his neck churning up and down, and I could smell the faint fragrance of hibiscus from his body, and the few strands of hair scattered on his forehead and ear temples. Silk fluttered in the evening wind as he moved forward, scratching my face from time to time. My mood seems to overlap with Zhou Yunxin's sixteen-year-old age. Thinking back to the time when I was in the blooming season and the rainy season, I had imagined that the boy I had a crush on could hug me like this.But in my previous life, I was as tall as Zhou Yunxin among girls, and none of my boyfriends had ever tried to lift me up in the air. Now, in a different time and space, when I was past the age of dreaming, there was a man who did this to me, and he was also my husband in name, and I was so embarrassed for a while. When I was still thinking about the past in my mind, my body was suddenly put down, and I came back to my senses, and found that I was carried by Jun Huangyue to a bedroom, and I was sitting on the only sandalwood bed in the room , Two meters away from the bed stands a row of carved wooden screens with colored lacquer. Other than that, there were no other decorations, only Junhuang stood firmly beside the curtain beside the bed. A man and a woman share a room in the middle of the night, and there is only a very wide bed in this room. The most important thing is that this man and this woman have been married for more than two months. Thinking of these things, I gradually feel uncomfortable stand up. Realizing that I was still sitting foolishly on the bed, I immediately jumped up like burning my ass, but Jun Huangyue held my shoulders tightly.I sat back stiffly, looked down at the azurite silk silk cloud satin mattress sitting under my buttocks, and kept twirling my hair loose around my waist around my fingers. But Jun Huangyue sat down next to me on my shoulder, and the hand that was holding my shoulder slowly slid down and wrapped around my arm.My heart suddenly rose to my throat, and I bravely looked at him with a forced calm. His eyes were black and deep at the moment, like a mysterious and distant night sky, with stars twinkling in it.The silver crescent mask is particularly annoying at this time, because I can't see his expression and don't know what he is trying to do. Relying on others is worse than self-help, I stabilized my mood and said in a flat tone: "The way you help me keep out the cold is really special." In this atmosphere at this moment, it is really inappropriate to ask to leave directly. "Wear more when you go out at night." He moved his hand behind my back as he spoke, slowly stroking my hair, his voice slightly hoarse. Wherever he touched, it brought up a (and bird) skin bump on my body, and my chills almost stood on end, so I had to keep talking in order to divert my attention, "I didn't feel cold when I went out just now, maybe it's because The wind in your quiet garden is too strong, but my Lanxiangyuan is very good, and the high walls around it block any wind." "Then I chose the courtyard for you to live in. It was really the right choice." He slowly whispered in my ear, the movement of his hand did not stop, but it went down more and more, and it was almost up to my waist. up. "But it's not good to live in summer. If the wind doesn't come in, it will definitely be very hot. I'm most afraid of heat." I hurriedly followed his words and continued, pretending to move my body inadvertently, and slightly pulled his palm away. distance from my hair. What made me breathe a sigh of relief was that after I finished speaking, he didn't stick his hand up again, but stood up and said to me: "It's late at night, I'll take you back." Then he turned around the screen and gave me a black cloak, I took it and put it on silently, and vaguely smelled the hibiscus flower again. On the way back to Lanxiangyuan, he didn't talk to me again, but he didn't walk in front of me alone, but walked side by side with my steps, just like the day I was married to him, he led me His hands kept pace with mine along the way, neither fast nor slow.The difference is that tonight he didn't hold my hand. When I returned to Lanxiangyuan, Laixi was standing at the door of my room looking around, with a worried expression on his face.A hot current slowly flowed through my heart, and I quickened my pace and walked in front of her. "Oh sister, you're finally back. You've been away for so long. I'm so worried." "I'm in the palace, what do you have to worry about." I smiled and patted her face. "Why don't you worry? You weren't in the palace when you were injured two months ago. I wanted to go with you just now, but Manager Li refused." Laixi pouted and complained. I smiled and said: "Jingyuan has never allowed outsiders to enter casually. Even Manager Li just sent me outside Jingyuan and never went in again." "It's fine, let's talk in the room quickly." Laixi urged me. It was then that I remembered that Jun Huangyue was still standing at the gate of the yard, and I quickly turned around to look, but there was no sign of him.