The palace servants were busy shuttling around every corner of the palace, making final preparations for the upcoming chrysanthemum viewing banquet.

Ladies dressed in dignified and luxurious official uniforms began to enter the palace one after another, bringing with them the daughters of their families.

The momentum was quite large. As a disabled person, Wu Qing was one of the few palace maids who was not called up.

Most of the palace servants in Desheng Palace were transferred to the Imperial Garden.

Wu Qing had previously asked He Cui if there was any place where she could hide from others and still see the excitement of the chrysanthemum viewing banquet.

He Cui found an opportunity to ask He Tian, ​​and He Tian really lived up to her expectations and asked Chunying which pavilions and towers in the Imperial Garden would not be used this time.

So now He Cui took Wu Qing to a place called Lanyue Pavilion. The two went up to the second floor, opened a window halfway, and peeked at the scene below through the window.

How should I put it? Wu Qing had always seen this kind of scene on screen before, but this was the first time she was standing on top of the heads of so many noble ladies, looking at their hair from the perspective of the palace, and she couldn't hear what they were talking about. This was very strange.

From afar, I watched as their tiny dots passed through the screen wall, walked along the winding corridor, and finally arrived at the Moon Gate of the Imperial Garden.

The palace maids quickly stepped forward and led the women from each family to their designated seats.

Some people even passed by the Lanyue Pavilion where Wu Qing was.

Seeing that most people had arrived, Wu Qing became unhappy. She didn't know any of the people who came. Even if she wanted to eat the melon, she didn't know where to start. How could she be happy?

Just when she was about to ask He Cui, she realized that someone was still standing behind her. "Cui'er, please sit down. There's no one else here. It's tiring to stand. Come on, sit down."

As soon as He Cui sat down, Wu Qing pushed the food on the table towards He Cui.

It is very difficult to get snacks in the palace. Apart from snacks to fill the stomach when hungry, there are only dried fruits. There are too few varieties, but they are healthy.

Now that the emperor is not in the palace, she has to think about how to talk to Eunuch Su about borrowing the small kitchen in Desheng Hall to do something.

He watched He Cui sit down, carefully eat two peanuts, and smile at him.

Wu Qing knew where to start eating the melons in the melon patch... "Cui'er, do you know who is the eldest daughter of the Qian family?"

He Cui looked out the window, peeled a few peanuts, and carefully peeled the red skins before placing them on the plate in front of Wu Qing. "There are a lot of people... I see, over there," He Cui said, pointing to Wu Qing, "the third table in the west row, that's the Qian family."

Wu Qing looked in the direction that He Cui pointed. It was a little far away, and there was no close-up shot like in TV dramas, so she couldn't see the faces, but she could tell that there were quite a few people from that family. There were four people sitting in the front row, an old man, three middle-aged women, and many young girls sitting behind them.

It’s no wonder that He Cui couldn’t point out who the eldest daughter of the Qian family was. It’s really not easy to find her.

Wu Qing sighed, "Are all the children in this family girls?"

He Cui waved her hand and peeled a few more peanuts for Wu Qing. "No, the Qian family is a big family. There are more young men than girls."

Oh my god, this is more prosperous than the imperial palace. "How many wives and concubines does this have?"

He Cui blinked, "Ah? These are not from the same branch. The ones in Beijing should be from the third branch. They are the children of all three branches."

"Oh!" I forgot that people don't divide the family easily. If several families live together, won't it make sense to have many children?

He Cui looked at it carefully for a while before saying, "The first seat at the top of the second row should be the eldest daughter of the Qian family, but it's too far away to be sure. It might be one of the young ladies."

Wu Qing understood this time, "Do other families sit like this?"

He Cui nodded as if it was her duty. She suddenly stood up, saw that the teacup was empty, took the teapot and poured some for Wu Qing, then said, "Sister, there are flowers. I'll go get them."

Wu Qing didn't understand what was going on. Seeing He Cui's excited eyes, she simply asked, "Can I get it? We're just watching secretly, don't let it get revealed."

He Cui's eyes flickered. "These little flowers are given to everyone to wear. They are never counted. You can take them."

Wu Qing nodded, "Go quickly, and be careful when you come back."

He Cui nodded like a chick pounding rice, and trotted away.

Looking at the clothes of those ladies and girls, they are really beautiful, but also really complicated.

Without He Cui's chattering in his ears, Wu Qing looked at the ladies for a while, then looked away. After a while, he felt bored and went to open a few other windows.

I opened each window a little to see what the view outside was like. It was indeed beautiful, with a different view from each window.

A window faces a flower garden with a large field of chrysanthemums of various colors. Li Shangyin's "Chrysanthemum" is immediately concretized:

A faint, hued purple, a mellow, smoky yellow. Tao Ling's hedge-line hues, Luo Han's house-house fragrance. When will the heavy dew cease? Truly timid of the setting sun. May I ride a golden parrot to ascend to your white jade hall.

Wu Qing originally thought that she had forgotten the poems, but as long as the scenery was right, they would emerge from her mind on their own.

Looking at the setting sun, she could only say: “How wonderful!”

There is also the golden parrot in the distance and the White Jade Hall in front of me...

There was a window overlooking a large pond. If I remember correctly, it was once a lotus pond, but now there were no lotus flowers, as the remaining ones had been cleared away. However, there was a stone pleasure boat in the pond, and a waterside pavilion by the side.

This is a quiet and indifferent beauty that is different from the gorgeous flowers.

Wu Qing stood in front of the window and looked for a while, when suddenly someone caught her attention - she was just about to exclaim in surprise that she could spot Helian Han from such a distance.

Suddenly she felt something was wrong. The man who always attracted her attention was taking off his outer robe. What was going on?

Looking into the lotus pond again, I saw a hand reaching upwards. It was someone calling for help!

She just took a look and the hand sank down.

Although it was unexpected, she was sure that someone was in danger.

Wu Qing felt her scalp tingling. She was not crazy. She knew that her splint had just been removed and the imperial physician had warned her that it would take at least half a month and she could not exert any force now. However, people were much lighter in water, so she felt that she could save the patient.

It's not her fault. Since she was a child, whenever her father went on a business trip, she became her mother's carry-on luggage. Her mother works in the surgical emergency room. She has been influenced by these uncles and aunts who risked their lives to save people since she was a child. Without giving it any further thought, there are only two words running in her blood: save lives!

She didn't believe that there was anyone in the world who could save a drowning person better than her.

Wu Qing hurried downstairs, untying the belt of her coat along the way, while her eyes were fixed on the water. Her hand stretched out for a moment, then sank again.

It’s not that she is not in a hurry, she is waiting for the other party to run out of energy. Otherwise, if she goes there too early, it would not be saving people, but committing suicide.

With a thud, someone jumped into the water before her. Wu Qing did not hesitate and threw off her coat and jumped into the water at her own pace.

Helian Han didn't see anyone fall into the water, but when he looked up to find a figure, he saw an arm stretched out above the water... His head buzzed, he could not hear anything, and only looked at the hand.

He took off his outer robe and jumped into the water without hesitation.

I've grown up, I'm here, I will definitely save you! Definitely!

He swam hard towards the hand.

He wanted to save her. He had forced himself to learn how to swim despite being afraid of water all these years. He could do it, definitely! Wait for me!

He couldn't feel the temperature of the water, and his brain was screaming frantically: Faster, faster!

He believed that this time, he could pull her out of this quagmire...

Wu Qing went into the water and swam hard towards the drowning person, but found that the hand did not come out of the water for a while. She dived into the water to look for the person, but she did not expect to see Helian Han with a pale face and staring eyes.

She was sure that he came down to save people, but the situation was not right, very wrong.

She swam to him and pushed Helian Han out of the water. He was able to swim here from where he entered the water, which showed that he could swim. As she brought him out of the water, she slapped him in the face to make him come to his senses.

Yelling at him face to face, "Are you okay? Can you swim back?"

Helian Han came back to his senses after being hit. He wiped the water off his face and nodded vigorously, "Yes." He had seen Wu Qing save the seventh sister. His absence was the greatest help, so he turned around and walked away without saying anything.

Wu Qing took a few breaths in the water, held her breath, and dived underwater again to look for someone.

The person who fell into the water was finally found. It was a woman, but the water had covered her face with her loose hair, so it was impossible to tell who she was.

But what Wu Qing didn't expect was that this person could swim, but he was also very strong, his eyes bulged outwards, and he pointed at the ground below her. Wu Qing then saw that this person was entangled by water plants, and hurried over to help her pull out the foot.

The man must have been holding his breath very quickly, so he kicked his feet and swam towards the surface of the water.

This time, the kick landed squarely on Wu Qing's shoulder. Hiss - she held back the hiss, waiting to get out of the water to deal with the pain.

She followed the drowning person to the surface and asked, "Are you okay?" But she saw the man swimming desperately towards the shore without even looking back.

She had just observed this dress in the Lanyue Pavilion. The person sitting in the first seat in the second row of the Qian family's dining table was most likely the eldest daughter of the Qian family.

What kind of fate is this? The girl that the person she likes likes... hehe!

Wu Qing's expression froze for a moment.

Urgent, waiting online, she saved her love rival, if the other party wants to thank her, what should she say?

However, she was just having fun by herself, there was no way she could let her know. She had come to the garden secretly, so she had to avoid causing any trouble.

She estimated the Qian family girl's swimming speed, which was enough to beat her by two blocks. She knew she couldn't swim at that speed while wearing such a complicated palace dress.

Wu Qing began to wonder if she had disturbed her underwater escape. It didn't seem like it.

She stared blankly at the back of the girl from the Qian family. After a while, she came to her senses and smiled. What was going on?

By this time she had also swam to the shore. This time she was more experienced than last time. She sat on the shore and gathered her skirt.

Just as she was about to stand up, she heard a voice of "Thank you" above her head. It was such a nice bass voice that even if she was blind, she could still recognize who it was.

Wu Qing sat on the ground, looking back up. The water droplets sparkled in the sunlight, as if all the stars in the sky were surrounding him, flowing down from the muscles beside his perfect ears and sliding into his collar.

Helian Han brushed back his loose hair. This simple action made Wu Qing feel like she was injected with adrenaline, and her sexual excitement was rekindled. This was too sexy!

But Wu Qing could also see that his expression was not right. There was no light in his eyes, which were dark and gloomy. When he blinked, they became even darker like the abyss.

Helian Han also looked at her. He knew that something was wrong with his condition. From the moment he saw the hand in the water, he felt that even his breathing was not right. He even asked himself: Why am I still alive?

He thought that when Wu Qing saw him, she would ask him again, just like her third brother, seventh sister, and master, "Are you okay?"

But Wu Qing smiled, facing the light towards him, her smile bright and warm like the sun.

Her smile was simple and relaxed. She didn't ask anything. She shielded the sunlight from her eyes with her hands and said with a smile, "The weather is nice today. It feels very comfortable in the water, but it's a little cold when I get out."

His mother had said the same thing, "It feels comfortable in the water, but it's a little cold when you get out." Helian Han's heart shuddered. The woman in front of him was a danger to him!

Helian Han was afraid of water, a fear that came from deep in his heart. However, he was forced to learn to swim when he was five years old. During that time, he was like a madman, spending more time in the water every day than on the shore.

So what if he was afraid? He would swim until he was no longer afraid. Later, he was no longer afraid, or rather, he thought he was no longer afraid.

The water always made him feel suffocated, but with his tenacity, he managed to overcome it.

But he didn't expect that even though he was familiar with swimming skills and could swim in the water like a fish, when the same scene happened again, he just wanted to let himself sink in the water and even wanted to drown himself.

But just as he was losing consciousness and about to stop breathing, a slap hit him in the face, just like the cold winter wind when he was five years old, chilling him to the bone and then waking him up.

He was surprised to find a person suddenly appear in front of him, a woman who claimed to like him, but this was also her who looked down on his future palace.

This woman broke into his territory again and again, like the fairy child his mother told him about when he was a child.

Break in and ruin your original plan, but look innocent and naive.

There was a layer of water under her eyes, which made her face look exceptionally beautiful. Her bright eyes flickered and when she looked at herself, they were full of undisguised admiration, and her gaze was dazzling and radiant like the sun.

The ripples on the water surface are just her background. The sunlight is refracted onto this face and her bright eyebrows and eyes after hitting the water surface.

She shook off the water droplets on her hair and stared into his eyes. Wu Qing smiled and asked him, "It's cool by the water. Can you help me pass my clothes?"

"Okay." Helian Han responded.

The sun was setting, and Helian Han picked up the clothes that Wu Qing had thrown on the ground. The shimmering water was like melting gold in the setting sun. Although she was only a few steps away, he could only see her silhouette, but it was burned into his heart unexpectedly.

Helian Han's hands trembled from the heat...

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