Fingers of crossing

The days in the East Palace were really leisurely, Jiang Ningzui was confined to the Zhaoling Palace every day, and there was no outsider to disturb her except the imperial physician, and the injuries she suffered gradually recovered day by day.

It is summer in a blink of an eye, the lotus in the lotus pond is in full bloom, the breeze is blowing, with the fresh aroma of soil and petals, making people feel refreshed.

Jiang Ningzui sat under the window and watched quietly. Although her body was seven to eight points better, her complexion was still not good. Doctor Yan has been taking care of her for the past two months, but the effect is not obvious.Jiang Ning can take it easy when she is drunk, her physique is up to her, so there is no rush.

"Your Majesty." Lu He hurriedly came from outside the palace, saluting: "The Eldest Princess just sent Sister Biyuan to deliver a message, saying that it is now summer, with frequent droughts, and the people are struggling to live. The Eldest Princess has been involved in government affairs recently. I don’t have time to leave to visit my empress.”

Ever since she returned to the East Palace, Jiang Ningzui refused to let Yan Yilan come to her Zhaoling Hall often in order to avoid talking. After the private release of Chi Wei, many ministers in the court have already criticized her moral integrity. Well, she naturally didn't care what the ministers said about her, but she couldn't tolerate these unkind words falling on Yan Yilan.

"Go back to Bi Yuan for me, just say I know about it." Jiang Ningzui didn't know the seriousness, and she didn't feel wronged that Yan Yilan didn't come, but she couldn't help feeling a little worried, and her mouth couldn't help but He instructed: "During these days, the Eldest Princess is involved in state affairs, and she will definitely miss her rest. Tell Bi Yuan to let her pay more attention, and don't let the Eldest Princess work too hard."

"Yes, this servant is going back to Sister Biyuan."

Lu He got up and retreated, Jiang Ning was drunk in the silence of the room and turned back again, outside the window was still the lotus blooming, it was too beautiful, but this time, she had no intention of admiring it again.

What's the use of blooming flowers?Jiang Ningzui was thinking, lowering her eyelashes slightly, a hint of worry appeared on her indifferent face.

If you don't share the reward with me, you will lose your color after all.

When Lu He walked in from the door again, what she saw was Jiang Ningzui with an indifferent face, clearly looking at the lotus outside the window, but her eyes were empty.

"By the way, empress." Not wanting Jiang Ningzui to be so silent, Lu He simply opened the topic, saying: "When the maid sent Yan Yuyi away, I happened to see the prince coming back from the morning court. Guess where your highness went?"

Prince?

Counting it, it has been two months since Jiang Ningzui returned to the East Palace, but she has never even seen the prince. Only when she was first injured, the prince sent someone to send some precious medicinal materials. The distance of a wall, but there is no intersection.

Probably both of them understood in their hearts, if they really wanted to meet, how could there be no chance?The reason why he didn't see him was just because he didn't want to add to the embarrassment.

These are all outsiders' affairs, Jiang Ningzui is not interested in knowing, but seeing Lu He trying to coax her to speak, she couldn't help but ask: "Where did you go?"

Lu He glanced at the closed palace door behind her, then approached and said in a low voice: "The Prince has gone to the Shaohua Palace."

Jiang Ningzui's eyes sank immediately, and Lvhe felt uneasy for a while, fearing that Jiang Ningzui was doubting her words, Lvhe nodded hurriedly, and said: "I have been hearing rumors that the side concubine has a strange disease. , That's why I lost all the emperor's favor overnight. Looking at the situation now, I really can't tell whether the rumors are true or not."

Where is there any strange disease?The reason for such gossip is just to cover up the real reason why Liu Huanxue fell out of favor.After all, if the news about Liu Huanxue's consumption of purple eggplant flowers was spread, let alone Liu Huanxue's head would be lost, even the crown prince would be laughed at by the world.

The dignified future monarch of Yan Kingdom even dared to defy him like this, so what should he do to convince the world in the future?

"Your Majesty thinks that His Highness the Crown Prince's visit to the Shaohua Palace today means that... the side concubine Empress is going to regain her grace?"

"Regain the grace?"

Hearing Lu He's words, Jiang Ningzui chewed the last four words carefully, and couldn't help but smile faintly, but her eyes became more and more ruthless. "It's just hurting others and yourself."

The Hall of Shaohua is still the same as it was before, but now it is so quiet and unreal, like a forbidden place isolated from the world, holding Yan Junyao back in his footsteps.He stood outside the main hall for a long time, finally raised his footsteps hesitantly, and pushed open the main entrance of the main hall.

The sun was shining brightly outside the hall, but there was no life in the hall, it was as deserted as in late autumn.When Yan Junyao stepped into the hall, he felt that the room was so silent that he could even hear his own breathing clearly.

Liu Huanxue was leaning on the soft couch in the side hall, and I don't know if she heard the sound of him pushing the door in, but she just closed her eyes motionless, her previously delicate and beautiful face was devoid of color, like a bird pulling strings. A puppet has a beautiful skin, but its heart is empty.

Yan Junyao's heart ached for no reason.

People are really contradictory and pathetic.In the past few months, he tried his best to restrain himself from thinking about her, and no longer came to see her. He thought he hated her so much, but now seeing her haggard and pale, he felt no joy in his heart.

Obviously he should ask her sternly, but he couldn't say anything, he just felt distressed.His heart hurt so much that even breathing became a torture.

What else is there to hate?What else is there to punish her for?Isn't Liu Huanxue's appearance now the punishment she gave herself?

"I……"

Yan Junyao's throat was dry, and his voice sounded so weak. As he spoke, he saw Liu Huanxue's closed eyes move. He was not sure when Liu Huanxue noticed his presence, but Liu Huanxue's indifferent attitude made him It can be felt.

Liu Huanxue's indifference made him angry. He deliberately lowered his voice and said, "I just want to know why you did this? Do you hate me so much?"

Even if Yan Junyao's tone was deliberately suppressed, the incomprehension and hatred in it still couldn't be erased. Hearing this, Liu Huanxue calmly opened his eyes and looked at him, watching his handsome features stained with incomprehensible resentment. Xia shook his head.

"I don't hate you." Countless days and nights in the past flashed before her eyes, and Liu Huanxue's brows and eyes were calm, just like what she said. "Because we are equally pitiful."

We are all poor people who love too much.Just like you can only get my people, but you can't touch my heart, I also have helplessness that I can't express about Chi Wei.

The dignity in Yan Junyao's bones did not allow Liu Huanxue to say such a thing, like a beast that had been stabbed in the wound, his eyes turned red for a moment, and he walked up to Liu Huanxue in a few steps, staring angrily at He said: "Tell me, how can I treat you so that your heart can belong to me?"

"Heart?" As if hearing some foolish joke, Liu Huanxue laughed inappropriately, but this smile revealed the sadness in her heart. "My heart died as early as the day I entered the palace four years ago."

Liu Huanxue's eyes reflected her own appearance, and what she saw through Liu Huanxue's eyes was so sad and ridiculous.Yan Junyao took a few steps back weakly, and the words he spoke were hoarse that he didn't understand. "So, all these years, I've been just a joke in your eyes, haven't I?"

To this day, perhaps in Yan Junyao's heart, he is still the most important.He thought that what he put in would definitely bring something back, but unfortunately not everything in this world can be calculated clearly, especially people's hearts.

Liu Huanxue looked at Yan Junyao without saying a word, she seemed to feel extremely tired, she closed her eyes again, and sighed quietly: "The prince can't stop insisting on these things, so what's the point?"

"Okay." Nothing could make Yan Junyao's heart torn apart more than Liu Huanxue, who was so calm and out of the way. He took a deep look at Liu Huanxue and said, "Let me ask you one last thing. Huanxue, in this life, can we start all over again?" came?"

Do it all over again?

That's right, in the past countless days and nights, she looked at Chi Wei who was close at hand, and couldn't help but want to ask her several times, Chi Wei, can we go back to the past?However, she couldn't blurt it out even once, because the answer was already obvious before she asked it.

"Ah."

Liu Huanxue chuckled, but she didn't know if she was laughing at Yan Junyao who refused to recognize the truth at this time, or at her stubborn and ridiculous self back then. "My time is running out, and the prince really doesn't need to waste time on me, a dying person. I only hope that I can spend the rest of my life with the blue lantern in peace, and if The prince still has a little pity for me, and I hope the prince can make it happen."

Although Liu Huanxue's words were obscure, the intention in them was very clear. Yan Junyao stared blankly at Liu Huanxue who had no nostalgia in front of him. He suddenly didn't know her in front of him. Perhaps, he had never really seen her in the first place. Did not understand her.

Leaving Shaohua Palace as if fleeing all the way, Yan Junyao walked forward in a daze, he suddenly couldn't help thinking, if he hadn't insisted on keeping Liu Huanxue by his side back then, maybe now, he wouldn't let them be in such an embarrassing situation for each other.

Could it be... he was really wrong about all this?

His mind was in a mess, and his feet began to lose direction. When Yan Junyao saw the palace suddenly appearing in front of him, he stopped in a daze, and when he looked up, he suddenly found that he had walked to Zhaoling Palace unconsciously.

"The servant pays homage to the prince."

Lu He's panicked cry suddenly pulled Yan Junyao back to his senses, he couldn't help being startled, he followed Lu He's voice and saw Jiang Ningzui who was sitting by the window concentrating at this moment.At this time, she also heard Lu He's greeting, and looked up, her eyes full of doubts.

It's just that even this puzzled gaze is cold.

Reversing the memory, Yan Junyao remembered the shy and immature princess who always liked to secretly watch her every move with a pair of cautious eyes, as if she was not looking at a single person, but her whole world.Yan Junyao couldn't help thinking, if he hadn't personally sent her to the imperial sister's side back then, if he had treated her well back then instead of using her to hurt her, then maybe now, the princess is still the same ignorant The crown princess, not the calm and distant appearance in front of me.

It's a pity that everything really can't go back to the past.

Memories always hurt people, Yan Junyao coldly fell back to reality under Jiang Ningzui's indifferent gaze.People are different, so what's the point of coming to Zhaoling Palace again?Here... there is no longer the little girl who would be happy to wait for him to come. The current Jiang Ningzui probably wouldn't want to see him.

Waving his hand to signal Luhe to get up, Yan Junyao turned around and was about to leave.

"I just made a pot of tea," Jiang Ning's drunken voice came from a distance, as if it was separated by clouds and mist, unique but clear.Yan Junyao turned his head and saw Jiang Ningzui's smile as cold as hers, "Would the prince be interested in tasting it?"