January passed quietly under the watering of the spring rain, and the spring breeze was slightly cold. Gong Yu, who had just recovered from a serious illness, did not go to other places except for the morning court.
Originally, the early court was used by the princes to study political affairs, but Gong Yu fell ill several times, and the number of times of leave was even more than the number of times in the court.But for some reason, recently, ministers often asked Gong Yu how he was.
Most of Gong Yu agreed, but felt a little baffled.
After all, all the officials in the court are human beings. After seeing the rise and fall of the parties in the court, Gong Yu doesn't want to take chances.
But in the imperial court, Gong Yu couldn't even hide, but realized that Dai Ruyan said at the beginning that enjoying the status of a prince, she couldn't escape the cruelty of being a royal family.
It is indeed reasonable to say that as long as one party intends to secretly form a party, whether the other party is fighting back or self-reporting, even if he does not want to participate, I am afraid he will have to be forced to engage in party disputes.
Thinking about how glorious the Third Highness was when His Highness lost power, it took only half a month for these people to start secretly looking for a new suitable candidate.
Gong Yu left the hall along the stone steps, wishing she could get far away from this stinky court battle.
But today coincides with the queen's birthday, a banquet was held in the palace, and Gong Yu asked people to prepare a jade Ruyi to go to the banquet.
During the banquet, the sound of the zither was mellow, and Gong Yu saw Dai Ruyan who was playing the qin at a glance. The hall where the banquet was held was surrounded by windows, which were very bright when they were opened one by one.
Dai Ruyan was wearing a light blue sleeve dress, her expression was focused on Guqin, while Gong Yu was focused on her.
"Xiao Jiu, you are here!" His Highness called out holding a wine glass.
Only then did Gong Yu come back to her senses, and she couldn't help feeling annoyed that there were still many princes, maids, and even the queen here, why did she look so stupid?
"Congratulations to the empress." Gong Yu saluted the empress and said with a smile.
"His Royal Highness has a heart." The queen's make-up is exquisite, and her smile is beautiful. Such a person does not look like a murderer at all.
Gong Yu was seated, but the distance between Dai Ruyan and Dai Ruyan was still a bit far.
The sound of Dai Ruyan's piano on the side was melodious and moving, and everyone in the room was quiet. I don't know if they were focusing on Dai Ruyan's beautiful piano sound, or because of Dai Ruyan's good-looking appearance.
When Dai Ruyan stopped, the sound of the zither lingering in the hall was still slowly echoing, Gong Yu was still a little surprised.
Seeing all kinds of cakes on the table, Gong Yu couldn't help eating a few pieces of each, thinking that if it was delicious, she might as well study it next time.
For a while, he didn't care about the conversation of the next few highnesses, unlike the Fifth Highness who suddenly brought the topic to Gong Yu and said with a smile: "Why is Xiao Jiu still as greedy as a child?"
Immediately, the eyes of the palace gathered, and Gong Yu blushed a little in response: "The empress has a variety of sweets in the palace, and they look very tempting."
The queen smiled and hugged the little princess Zhu'er in her arms and said: "Your Highness Ninth Prince is still the same as Zhu'er, if you focus on the cakes, you don't care about anything."
Everyone laughed, Gong Yu blushed and ate half of the pastry in her hand, all embarrassed to look at Dai Ruyan.
The faint sun fell on the hall through the dense branches and leaves. Gong Yu touched the lacquered wooden table where the cakes were placed, and it seemed to be warmed by the sun.
The hall was peaceful, as if there was no intrigue between them, and there was no need to die.
Of course this is just an illusion.
Gong Yu drank the tea by herself, not only lamenting that she was still not qualified for her acting skills.
The maid at the side put vanilla in the small smoker, Gong Yu smelled it and felt that the spices in the Queen's Palace seemed to be different from those used by Dai Ruyan.
"What herbs are these spices ground from?"
"I don't know, my servant, most of these spices are prepared by the Empress herself." The little maid was obviously still a novice, and suddenly she was inexplicably nervous when asked by Gong Yu.
"Does the empress use any other herbs or spices?"
The little maid thought for a while and shook her head: "Ever since the slaves entered the palace, the Empress has been using this."
Gong Yu eased the atmosphere, smiled and said, "So that's the case."
His Royal Highness suddenly approached and said: "Xiao Jiu, although this maid looks good, but after all, she is someone close to the Empress, so it's better not to touch her."
amount……
Brother, are you thinking too much?
However, Gong Yu didn't explain it, so that he would be suspicious, after all, the third highness had already buried himself in peace.
When the banquet was over, Gong Yu got up and straightened her robe, and peeked at Dai Ruyan who was still sitting beside the queen.
I thought that after all the empress is so close to Dai Ruyan, maybe she will occasionally use Dai Ruyan's vanilla.
Gong Yu also felt that she was deceiving herself and others. The queen's food and clothing were all regulated. If she really liked the vanilla Dai Ruyan matched with, why did she only put the sachet and use something else in the palace?
Perhaps that sachet was not left by the queen at all, so the herbs in it would naturally not be the herbs commonly used by the queen.
Gong Yu wandered around the garden in the Queen's Palace alone, only felt that the answer seemed to be ready to come out, but Gong Yu forcibly vetoed it.
No, A Yan will not be such a person, she has no reason to do such a thing.
It happened that the little princess Zhu'er was in the pavilion, Gong Yu came back to her senses, and stepped forward.
A few court ladies were waiting at the side, and the little princess was playing with the wreath in her hand, looking very serious.
"Zhu'er." Gong Yu called out with a smile as she sat on the side.
The little princess turned her head to look at Gong Yu, who also laughed and uttered words, still unclear: "Ninth brother, be well."
"This garland is beautiful."
"Pearl, I want to give it to the queen mother."
It was often rumored in the palace that the empress was kind and treated the little princess Zhu'er very well. Gong Yu saw that the little princess Zhu'er's face was rosy and cute, and she should be doing well.
The little princess on the side slowly circled other flowers, and it seemed that she was planning to make another one.
The sun in the pavilion was warming up, it was a rare fine weather, Gong Yu reached out and took another flower and handed it to the little princess, "Is Zhu'er making so many garlands for the empress?"
"Mmm." Zhu'er took the flowers from Gong Yu, guilt flashed in her eyes and said, "My stepmother's hand...a lot of blood is bleeding from her hand."
"Injured?" Gong Yu asked puzzled, "How did you get hurt?"
Pearl bit her lip tightly and said, "It's bleeding to make new clothes for Pearl."
"Don't cry, Zhu'er." Gong Yu hurriedly coaxed the red-eyed Zhu'er, and said in a soft voice: "When the empress sees the wreath from Zhu'er, the injury will not hurt anymore."
"Really?" Zhu'er stared at Gong Yu with deep eyes.
Gong Yu nodded with a smile and said, "Really, and the garland made by Zhu'er is the most beautiful garland Jiu Ge has ever seen."
The little princess laughed again, making the wreath seriously, and the moisture around the corners of her eyes hadn't dried yet.
I can't help but sigh that children are really good, and they forget everything when they are coaxed.
Gong Yu, who walked away, looked around the Queen's palace, and the delicate flower buds were blooming in the garden, obviously impatient to bloom.
The cause of death of His Highness the Third Highness suddenly came to mind, the murder weapon was a shattered porcelain teacup, not only did it suddenly come to the conclusion that maybe the murderer was really the empress.
Making clothes is nothing more than being pricked by a needle, why do you bleed so much?
Besides, judging from Zhu'er's expression just now, the injury was indeed serious, unless Zhu'er saw the Queen while treating the wound,
So I had no choice but to find a reason to make clothes.
Gong Yu walked quickly through the garden, and ran quickly in the corridor, the context of the whole thing emerged in her mind.
The pain of bereavement caused the queen to resent the third highness and the Dai family, so the queen wanted to get rid of the third highness, but how would the queen get rid of the Dai family?
The deep-rooted Dai family is powerful among the royals and grandchildren of the court, and the queen needs to design, or plant.
The current Dai Ruyan is the granddaughter of the Dai family. She is the best candidate for the future queen in the hearts of the people of the palace. If she is destroyed, even if the Dai family cannot be hurt, it will still be a face to the Dai family.
So the sachet contained herbs that Dai Ruyan personally prepared, and there was no other person in the whole palace except Dai Ruyan.
The person the Queen wants to kill is Dai Ruyan.
Gong Yu hurried to the palace, but saw the empress's contemporaries, Ru Yan, drinking tea together with natural expressions.
Gong Yu, whose cheeks were covered with sweat, leaned against the pillar panting because of running too fast, Dai Ruyan got up and walked over full of worry.
"What's the matter?" Dai Ruyan asked in a soft voice holding a handkerchief to wipe the sweat off Gong Yu's cheek.
Gong Yu stared at Dai Ruyan closely, and replied with a calm emotion and expression as much as possible: "It's nothing, I just ran too fast."
Dai Ruyan breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a serious face: "How old are you, and you still run around and play."
"I won't dare next time." Gong Yu smiled and followed Dai Ruyan into the hall.
The queen folded her hands in her sleeves so that Gong Yu couldn't see where the injury was.
"His Highness Ninth Prince and A Yan are really as close as the rumors say." The queen said with a smile.
"The empress is joking." Gong Yu sat on the side and responded.
Dai Ruyan drank the tea and didn't speak, the three of them sat down very quietly, or it seemed a little too quiet because of Gong Yu's arrival.
Fortunately, the little princess Zhu Er came in from outside with a wreath in her hand, calling out childishly, "Mother's Queen."
"What's the matter, Pearl?"
"Pearl made a beautiful garland and gave it to the queen." The little princess stood in front of the queen and said seriously.
The queen smiled and said, "Okay, can Zhu Er be brought to the queen mother?"
"Yeah." The little princess smiled and bent her eyes, slightly tiptoeing and carefully put the wreath on the queen's head.
After putting on the wreath, the little princess leaned coquettishly against the queen's arms, and the queen naturally stretched out her arms to hug the little princess.
The bandaged wound on her right hand almost came out just now, Gong Yu looked at it seriously, her heart almost stopped.
Dai Ruyan at the side just handed the pastry plate to Gong Yu and said, "Try this snowflake cake."
Gong Yu's thoughts were interrupted, she obediently reached out and took some cakes to eat, and said with some surprise: "Why does this cake taste cold?"
The queen hugged the little princess and said: "This snowflake cake is Zhuer's favorite food in summer."
"Ninth brother...do you like to eat too?" The little princess asked with a smile.
Gong Yu nodded cooperatively and said, "Well, brother Jiu likes to eat cakes the most."
Dai Ruyan smiled silently and said, "I just ate so many cakes, how can I still eat them?"
amount……
Didn't you push this pastry in front of me for me to eat?
Gong Yu looked at Dai Ruyan full of grievances, but Dai Ruyan just drank tea and did not look at Gong Yu, which was clearly on purpose.
Hey, but what can Gong Yu do, she can only let Dai Ruyan tease her.
When she came out of the Queen's Palace, Gong Yu was really full of pastries.
Dai Ruyan at the side strolled without saying a word, seeing that Gong Yu was already far away from the queen's palace, she stretched out her hand and lightly grabbed Dai Ruyan's sleeve.
Dai Ruyan turned her head slightly to look at Gong Yu's little move, and said with raised mouth corners: "I didn't let Xiao Jiu eat up the whole plate of pastries, it's your own greediness."
Gong Yu gently held Dai Ruyan's Weiliang fingertips along the sleeves of her sleeves, her palm was smooth and delicate, and there were no scars.
"The pastries taste really good, but it's a pity that Ayan doesn't like sweet ones."
"How does Xiaojiu know that I don't like sweets?"
"I'm guessing, every time Ayan is sweet, she eats very little. On weekdays, she doesn't taste the cakes in front of her, but likes to drink that kind of bitter tea that is more bitter than medicinal soup." Gong Yu said close .
Dai Ruyan held Gong Yu's hand and said softly, "Bitterness makes people sober, sweetness makes people addicted."
"But people can't always be awake, such as when sleeping."
"You are messing around, the two cannot be compared."
"Okay." Looking at the long palace road, Gong Yu wished she could walk more slowly, so that she could hold Dai Ruyan's hand all the time.
Dai Ruyan suddenly asked, "Why did Xiao Jiu come over in such a hurry all of a sudden?"
Gong Yu stopped and asked hesitantly: "Then, can Ayan tell me whether the sachet belongs to Ayan or the empress?"
"What's the point even if Xiao Jiu knows?"
"I guess the sachet was given to A Yan by the empress, right?"
After all, if the things embroidered by the queen are missing, there will be some troubles.
Dai Ruyan sighed and said: "It is true that my aunt gave me a sachet, and I put it in the sachet with herbs."
"So when Ah Yan saw the sachet, did she already know the Queen's plan?"
"Ah."
Gong Yu held Dai Ruyan's hand, and said with a sigh of relief: "I thought Ayan didn't know, I was so scared that I ran straight into the palace, my legs are still weak."
Dai Ruyan smiled and squeezed Gong Yu's fingers in response: "This is the imperial palace, is it possible that Xiao Jiu is afraid that my aunt will hurt us here?"
"Although it is true to say so, I am still worried."
"coward."
Gong Yu walked forward holding Dai Ruyan's hand, the stone that was pressing down on her heart disappeared, and she couldn't help but feel a lot more relaxed.
"Why isn't Ayan angry?"
"Why should I be angry?"
Dai Ruyan looked sideways at Gong Yu and said softly: "This is my aunt's choice. When I stole the sachet from my aunt, it means that my aunt knows what she wants to do."
"Anyone who wants to do is her freedom, and of course she has to bear the consequences."
For Dai Ruyan's calm answer, Gong Yu was a little surprised that she couldn't understand, she held Dai Ruyan's hand tightly and replied:
"But the empress wants to frame Ayan, and she wants to pin the murder charge on Ayan."
"Little Nine..."
"What's wrong?" Gong Yu looked sideways at Dai Ruyan and responded.
"Is my Xiaojiu angry?" Dai Ruyan smiled lightly.
"Yes, I'm just angry." Gong Yu didn't shy away from the scrutinizing eyes on behalf of Ruyan, and responded with tight lips: "I'm angry. If I am strong enough, I won't let Ayan be calculated by others, and I will definitely No one is allowed to hurt Ayan."
Dai Ruyan stopped suddenly, although her expression was the same as usual, but the strength of holding Gong Yu's hand was much stronger.
Gong Yu asked with some confusion: "What's wrong?"
"It's okay." Dai Ruyan held Gong Yu's hand tightly, smiled and said like a spring breeze: "Xiao Jiu, don't worry, no one can hurt me."
The wind-blown hair was pulled behind Dai Ruyan's ears, Gong Yu stared blankly and felt her heart was beating so fast.
As if I heard Dai Ruyan call my Xiaojiu just now, um, that's right, Dai Ruyan really called me that.
"Okay, you can't hold my hand anymore."
Dai Ruyan let go of Gong Yu's hand, then straightened Gong Yu's robe and said seriously: "This is the end of this matter, don't worry about it."
Gong Yu looked helplessly at Dai Ruyan, who was close at hand, swallowed her saliva and asked, "How does Ayan plan to solve it?"
"I can't solve it." Dai Ruyan tapped Gongyu's nose with her fingertips and said, "The Empress is my aunt, so it's natural for my grandmother to solve it."
"Isn't it to kill the empress?"
"The way to solve problems has never been just killing. Why is Xiao Jiu always thinking so simple?"
Is this calling yourself stupid in disguise?
In any case, Gong Yu felt that the general truth of the Third Highness should be like this. Anyway, as long as it has nothing to do with Dai Ruyan, then everything doesn't matter.
Although Gong Yu didn't understand why the Queen had to kill the Third Highness with her own hands, she could have ordered her personal maid or accompanying guards to do it, but at least Gong Yu was sure that the person who injured the Third Highness must have been injured.
By mid-February in spring, the snow had almost melted, and the snow water was ticking along the eaves.
And this time the imperial examination is about to be held for the third time, at this moment Gong Yu is wandering around in the inn where the candidates who participated in the examination live.
After a while, Gong Yu sat beside him drinking tea and asked, "Why did you choose to drink tea in this inn, sir?"
"Your Highness, haven't you heard that the leaked test questions are rumored in the capital?"
"I've heard about it, but it's just drunk nonsense from frustrated candidates in the examination room."
"But just last night, the drunk and nonsense examinee fell into the water and drowned."
Qin Hua said seriously.
Gong Yu, who was peeling peanuts, looked at Qin Hua in surprise. Although Qin Hua was usually serious, but most of the time he was also a gentle scholar. Today's sudden excitement really surprised Gong Yu.
"Although it's a bit too coincidental, I heard that the scholar who fell into the water was already drunk when he came out of the restaurant, and an old man saw the scholar who fell into the water with his own eyes, and there was no one around him."
Qin Hua frowned, seemed to think about it for a while, and said, "I can't understand even this point."
Seeing that something was wrong with Qin Hua's expression, Gong Yu asked, "Since there is nothing wrong so far, why do you still think that there is something wrong with the candidate who fell into the water?"
"The examinee's name is Jin Zhaowen, who is my childhood friend. Although I was disappointed in the imperial examination, but my family was poor, I participated in the provincial examination to be a scholar, but I lost my ranking in the general examination. After that, I gave up the scientific examination and worked as a section The accountant of the day, and later went to be a doorman."
Qin Hua calmly said as if reminiscing: "Jin Zhaowen has a good family background. Although he is addicted to alcohol, he passed the provincial examination six times and became a scholar. He also quit drinking for many years."
"How could you get so drunk that you went to drink only two days away from the meeting?"
Gong Yu listened for a while and asked hesitantly: "Does the gentleman know whether Jin Zhaowen really knows the answer to the leaked question?"
Qin Hua shook his head and said, "I have never heard him mention it, not even his wife and children."
Since there were no clues about this matter, at a small scale, it was a drunken drowning incident, and at a large scale, it might be murder.
Moreover, the answers to the three-year scientific examination of Gong Guo were leaked, which is a case of reckless death.
There is no evidence that Gong Yu can't talk nonsense, and Qin Hua's mood is not stable at the moment, Gong Yu doesn't want to stimulate him too much.
At sunset, Qin Hua left, and Gong Yu returned to the mansion in a sedan chair. When passing by the restaurant, there was a commotion outside the sedan chair, and the sedan chair stopped.
When Gong Yu opened the curtain and was about to ask what happened, she saw countless sheets of paper floating down from some tall building, and she reached out to catch one.
I saw that what was written on this paper turned out to be the answer to the third round of the exam tomorrow.
This person is really blatantly insane, how could someone throw out the answer meeting in the dignified examination so easily.
But Gong Yu saw countless people reaching out to pick it up, and even fighting for the fallen paper.
Crazy, really crazy, this is obviously fake.
In the early morning of the next day, the emperor was furious as expected, but Gong Yu did not expect that the answer on the paper turned out to be true.
"This time we will test the case of leaking questions, and send someone to fully investigate who is flouting the laws of the palace!"
Originally, the Taifu had the full power to manage the imperial examination, but because of his advanced age, the Taifu handed over the management of the third test paper of the examination to Zhou Wencai, a fourth-rank official.
Therefore, the flame of leaking the question followed Zhou Wencai to His Highness the Sixth Highness who was closely connected with him.
However, the former Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment suddenly fell ill, so the case could only be referred to Dali Temple Secretary Chen Ming for inquiry.
It was the first time for Gong Yu to see many officials look solemn after leaving the court, as if the case of leaking questions had become the most troublesome thing in the court.
His Highness Six was pale, and Zhou Wencai and Zhou Wencai walked in a hurry.
At some point, His Royal Highness came to the side and said with a sneer: "These old guys finally know they are panicking."
"What are you talking about, Brother Four?" Gong Yu asked with her head turned.
"It's nothing."
His Royal Highness smiled and said: "I just think that the affairs in the court are really changing from day to day. It's very interesting. Now it's still uncertain who will have the last laugh."
What she said was so vague, Gong Yu always felt that the four Highnesses seemed to know something.
The weather was just right, so Gong Yu took a sedan chair and rushed to Dai Ruyan's courtyard. She didn't come for a while, and before she knew it, the courtyard had lost the desolate silence in winter, and the courtyard surrounded by trees seemed like a hermit's residence.
Of course, there are not some old men with white beards here, some of them are fairies in the peach blossom garden.
Gong Yu smirked as she walked, and waited until Bi Yu, who was inside and outside the hall, came out, looked at Gong Yu and said: "It's unfortunate that the Ninth Prince came down, so Miss fell asleep."
"It's okay, I'll take a look, and I'll be out soon."
"That's not going to happen, the lady finally fell asleep." Biyu obviously didn't want Gongyu to go in.
Helplessly, Gong Yu had no choice but to stand outside, thinking that this trip could not be in vain, when she was planning to make a fool of herself.
Dai Ruyan's voice suddenly came from the hall calling: "Xiao Jiu, come in."
Gong Yu walked into the hall with a smile, and saw several screens in the hall, walked around the screens and walked a few steps in, saw Dai Ruyan lying flat on a low couch with a thin blanket on her body, her face looked a little pale.
"Is this sick?" Gong Yu sat on the side, stretching out her hand to lightly touch Dai Ruyan's forehead.
But the temperature was a little cooler, the rest was the same, Dai Ruyan stretched out his hand to hold Gong Yu's hand and said, "It's just that my body is inconvenient, do you think I'm as easy to fall ill like you?"
This is blatantly underestimated.
Gong Yu was aggrieved and lay sideways on the low couch and said in disbelief: "I'm in good health, Ayan will make trouble with me."
"This low couch is not spacious. If you fall off, I won't care about you." Although Dai Ruyan said so, he still lay down on it with his arms around Gong Yu.
Gong Yulai, who felt at ease, responded in Dai Ruyan's arms: "That's not true, I have to hold Ayan and fall with me."
"Little scoundrel!" Dai Ruyan leaned his head sideways and read, as he spoke, his warm breath went straight into Gong Yu's ears.
Her heart beat a little faster, Gong Yu turned her head slightly and dodged guiltily, in order to cover up, she stretched out her hand and pulled the thin blanket on Dai Ruyan's body to cover herself casually.
"Do you feel cold?" Dai Ruyan asked, then pulled off the thin blanket and covered most of Gong Yu's body before she felt relieved.
Seeing Dai Ruyan's careful movements, Gong Yu became even more attached to Dai Ruyan and replied, "It's not cold."
"Not cold? Then you still hug me so tightly?" Dai Ruyan reached out and tapped Gong Yu's nose full of disgust.
"Don't you miss me after not seeing Ayan for so long?"
"What do you want to do?"
Gong Yu bravely put her arms around Dai Ruyan and said: "Ayan's words really hurt my heart."
Dai Ruyan trembled slightly as if laughing, and rested his fingertips on Gong Yu's brow and said, "Last time you were exposed to the rain, became feverish and unconscious, and I took care of you for a few days, but I didn't see you say you missed me. It’s really bad to say you miss me.”
"What's wrong with me?" Gong Yu looked at Dai Ruyan with her eyes open innocently, stretched out her hands to support her body and looked down at Dai Ruyan who was lying on her back, and said, "I can't wait to read Ayan three times every morning and three times after dinner. Yan, you have to say Ayan three times when you fall asleep at night."
"You're talking nonsense." Dai Ruyan smiled and said, "I'm not a Buddha. What are you doing thinking about me so many times?"
"Because I miss you." Gong Yu felt that if there was a mirror, everyone would be able to see that she was blushing like this.
Dai Ruyan smiled and reached out to hug Gong Yu gently, letting Gong Yu close to her arms and whispered: "Since you miss me, why don't you come to see me, you are a little villain."
Gong Yu could clearly hear Dai Ruyan's peaceful heartbeat, even Dai Ruyan's eyes were clean, full of tenderness and doting, but it was a pity that there was a little love missing.
In other words, Gong Yu never seemed to see any strong emotion in Dai Ruyan's eyes, and some only smiled politely, or ignored indifference.
Of course Dai Ruyan would smile warmly when facing herself, but that's all.
Dai Ruyan, who was lying on his back, let Gong Yu look at him, stroked Gong Yu's cheek with his fingertips and said softly, "How have you eaten recently?"
"What?" The voice brought back Gong Yu's thoughts.
"It seems that it has grown fleshy."
"Am I fat?"
Dai Ruyan pinched Gong Yu's cheek lightly with her fingertips and replied: "Not fat, you were sick a while ago, and your body also became thinner. I was afraid that you would always be thin like this."
"Fortunately, Xiao Jiu can eat it, and it's only a matter of time before he grows meat."
Is this a boast?
Gong Yu was really powerless to refute, looking down at Dai Ruyan lying flat, perhaps because she was about to fall asleep, the thin clothes on Dai Ruyan's body could even slightly reveal the skin inside.
The scattered hair, perhaps because it was just washed, exudes a faint fragrance.
In the past, I just couldn't get tired of watching Dai Ruyan, but now Gong Yu is more sure, Dai Ruyan's eyes are very cold, but in those dark eyes, he can always look at Gong Yu gently, so that Gong Yu can't help but feel Indulge in it.
The corners of the eyes are raised slightly to outline a little charm, and these little charms on Dai Ruyan's cheeks can always make Gong Yu inadvertently fascinated.
It's just that Dai Ruyan has a pair of thin lips. Hearing that people with thin lips are fickle, Gong Yu felt that there might be some truth in what she said.
Her fingertips naughtily pressed the corner of Dai Ruyan's mouth, thinking that Dai Ruyan really didn't seem to want anyone in her heart.
When she first heard that she was leaving the capital, Gong Yu wondered why Dai Ruyan left her family.
After getting along for the past few years, Gong Yu feels that Dai Ruyan may not have any nostalgia for his family at all.
But why does Dai Ruyan treat his family like he treats ordinary people?
Whenever Gong Yu hears about her family in Dai Ruyan, her tone is almost unfamiliar, as if she is talking about passers-by.
Yes, Gong Yu has felt this way more than once, family members are not important to Dai Ruyan at all.
So if the family members don't care about it, it's even more impossible for the friends to come.
Thinking of this Gong Yu, he felt that his future was bleak. Dai Ruyan didn't care about his family, let alone his friends, so how could he get into Dai Ruyan's heart?
And such a beautiful Dai Ruyan was lying in front of Gong Yu's eyes, her clothes were slightly disheveled, and her thin soft lips were right in front of her eyes.
Gong Yu's heart was beating fast, she turned her head slightly and leaned into Dai Ruyan's arms and whispered: "Ayan..."
"what happened?"
"You said before that you don't want to leave the capital, is it because there are some important people or something important that hasn't been done?"
Dai Ruyan rubbed Gong Yu's earlobe lightly with her fingertips and said in a low voice, "I don't want to leave, but I just think staying in this capital might be interesting."
"very funny?"
This is the second time Gong Yu has heard it today.
Gong Yu held Dai Ruyan's hand in confusion and asked, "What's so interesting about this capital city?"
"Everyone is busy fighting for power and profit, and there are traps and conspiracies everywhere. Maybe someone will fall in a pool of blood in a second."
"Is Xiao Jiu scared?" Dai Ruyan held Gong Yu's cheeks with both hands, and comforted her forehead intimately: "Don't be afraid, I'm here."
For some reason, Gong Yu felt that Dai Ruyan seemed a little different from before.
Gong Yu stared at Dai Ruyan, touched Dai Ruyan's cheek with her fingertips, and saw the reflection of herself in search through those dark eyes.
Dai Ruyan just let Gong Yu go, just reached out to grab the thin blanket that had slipped from Gong Yu's body and lightly covered the two of them.
The thin blanket covered most of the light, leaving only a little bit of light, Dai Ruyan smiled and asked, "Am I so pretty?"
"good-looking."
"But I'm sleepy and I need to rest."
"Are you going to bed so early?" Gong Yu rubbed Dai Ruyan's white arm with her fingertips as she held up the thin blanket.
Perhaps Dai Ruyan felt a little itchy, reached out to hold Gong Yu's hand and said in a low voice, "Yes."
"Will Xiao Jiu sleep with me for a while?"
Gong Yu's eyes landed on the heart which fluctuated slightly following Dai Ruyan's words, and her mouth was extremely parched.
He made a gesture to poke his head out from under the thin blanket, but Dai Ruyan stretched out his arms to hug Gong Yu, and the crisp laughter rang in his ears, leaving the evil Gong Yu nowhere to hide.
"I want to go out."
"You are not allowed to go out." Dai Ruyan was still flat, holding Gong Yu with his arms, and said unreasonably as they were very close to each other.
Gong Yu didn't dare to move any more, because Dai Ruyan's clothes were really too thin, and the collar was even more spread out than before.
Dai Ruyan's seductive appearance is too easy to make people commit crimes.
"Okay, I won't move, Ayan let go first, okay?" Gong Yu swallowed her saliva and said slowly.
This is like coaxing a child to play a prank.
But Dai Ruyan is not a child, if she really wants to say, Dai Ruyan is a witty and cunning beautiful fairy.
"No." Dai Ruyan resolutely refused, and even asked innocently: "Why did you let go?"
"Because..." Gong Yu felt that her forehead might have started to sweat, and her vision became clearer because she was used to the darkness.
Dai Ruyan obviously also noticed this, wiped the sweat stains on Gong Yu's forehead with his fingertips, then lifted the thin blanket and said: "Okay, let's stop making trouble, let's go to sleep."
But Gong Yu was not willing to part with it, so she softened her posture and moved slightly closer to Dai Ruyan, burying half of her face in Dai Ruyan's arms.
The whole person was very close to Dai Ruyan, and Dai Ruyan put his hand lightly on Gong Yu's back, stroking comfortingly, but he didn't notice Gong Yu's tense nerves at all.
But it's only up to here, Gong Yu's contemporary Ruyan is very close, and she can even feel her breathing is hot.
Dai Ruyan beside her ear hummed softly, feeling that she should be in a good mood now.
Gong Yu tried her best to get closer, breathing gently and asked: "Did A Yan not sleep well last night?"
"Well, it's too late to read."
Dai Ruyan closed his eyes without any defense, and Gong Yu seemed to be waiting for Dai Ruyan to fall asleep, silent and did not speak any more.
For a while Gong Yu felt that Dai Ruyan must have fallen asleep, but she still thought about waiting a little longer.
But without a clock, Gong Yu could only count from one to one thousand in her mind.
Then she leaned forward slightly, Gong Yu slowed down her breathing, gently brushed away the hair sticking to the side of Dai Ruyan's face with her fingertips, her movements couldn't be more gentle.
The bright red thin lips are right in front of her, Gong Yu can't help but get nervous thinking of this.
Fingertips moved along Dai Ruyan's cheeks to the thin lips, this place is very familiar to Gong Yu, because Gong Yu has touched this place just now.
At that time, Ruyan was still awake, so Gong Yu didn't dare to let her eyes stare, because she was afraid that Dai Ruyan would be disgusted when she saw the ecstasy in her eyes.
But now it's different, Dai Ruyan is sleeping peacefully, Gong Yu thinks that as long as she kisses more gently, Dai Ruyan won't find out.
If she hadn't been discovered, maybe she could kiss her a few more times, Gong Yu thought in her head.
After Gong Yu slowed down her breathing, she lowered her body, and carefully kissed Ruyan's brow and cheek with her lips, and the second aunt touched the corner of her mouth where her fingertips stayed just now.
The movements were very light, but Gong Yu felt like she had practiced arrows all morning, and her back was soaked with sweat.
It's just that it's not time to relax, because Gong Yuhai has never kissed Dai Ruyan's lips.
Gong Yu was really nervous at this moment, when she leaned closer to kiss those thin lips, her whole body was hugged suddenly, this action frightened Gong Yu's whole heart almost jumped out.
Dai Ruyan looked at Gong Yu calmly and asked, "What was Xiao Jiu doing just now?"
"I... just kissed a few times and did nothing else." Gong Yu, who wanted to argue, replied quite honestly.
Dai Ruyan slightly raised her body and looked down at the guilty Gong Yu and said in a low voice, "Why did you secretly kiss me?"
Gong Yu felt that at such a time, it would be better to be frank and lenient.
"Because I like Ayan."
"Do you want to kiss me if you like it?" Dai Ruyan's expression made Gong Yu unable to tell whether she understood or not.
It was not even possible to tell whether Dai Ruyan was angry or didn't take it seriously at all.After all, Dai Ruyan often treats Gong Yu like a child.
"Of course, you can kiss if you like."
Dai Ruyan stroked the back of Gong Yu's neck with her fingertips, her eyes were as calm as usual, not even angry.
Gong Yu felt that today might be her own death day, as long as Dai Ruyan said a word or a dislike
Originally, the early court was used by the princes to study political affairs, but Gong Yu fell ill several times, and the number of times of leave was even more than the number of times in the court.But for some reason, recently, ministers often asked Gong Yu how he was.
Most of Gong Yu agreed, but felt a little baffled.
After all, all the officials in the court are human beings. After seeing the rise and fall of the parties in the court, Gong Yu doesn't want to take chances.
But in the imperial court, Gong Yu couldn't even hide, but realized that Dai Ruyan said at the beginning that enjoying the status of a prince, she couldn't escape the cruelty of being a royal family.
It is indeed reasonable to say that as long as one party intends to secretly form a party, whether the other party is fighting back or self-reporting, even if he does not want to participate, I am afraid he will have to be forced to engage in party disputes.
Thinking about how glorious the Third Highness was when His Highness lost power, it took only half a month for these people to start secretly looking for a new suitable candidate.
Gong Yu left the hall along the stone steps, wishing she could get far away from this stinky court battle.
But today coincides with the queen's birthday, a banquet was held in the palace, and Gong Yu asked people to prepare a jade Ruyi to go to the banquet.
During the banquet, the sound of the zither was mellow, and Gong Yu saw Dai Ruyan who was playing the qin at a glance. The hall where the banquet was held was surrounded by windows, which were very bright when they were opened one by one.
Dai Ruyan was wearing a light blue sleeve dress, her expression was focused on Guqin, while Gong Yu was focused on her.
"Xiao Jiu, you are here!" His Highness called out holding a wine glass.
Only then did Gong Yu come back to her senses, and she couldn't help feeling annoyed that there were still many princes, maids, and even the queen here, why did she look so stupid?
"Congratulations to the empress." Gong Yu saluted the empress and said with a smile.
"His Royal Highness has a heart." The queen's make-up is exquisite, and her smile is beautiful. Such a person does not look like a murderer at all.
Gong Yu was seated, but the distance between Dai Ruyan and Dai Ruyan was still a bit far.
The sound of Dai Ruyan's piano on the side was melodious and moving, and everyone in the room was quiet. I don't know if they were focusing on Dai Ruyan's beautiful piano sound, or because of Dai Ruyan's good-looking appearance.
When Dai Ruyan stopped, the sound of the zither lingering in the hall was still slowly echoing, Gong Yu was still a little surprised.
Seeing all kinds of cakes on the table, Gong Yu couldn't help eating a few pieces of each, thinking that if it was delicious, she might as well study it next time.
For a while, he didn't care about the conversation of the next few highnesses, unlike the Fifth Highness who suddenly brought the topic to Gong Yu and said with a smile: "Why is Xiao Jiu still as greedy as a child?"
Immediately, the eyes of the palace gathered, and Gong Yu blushed a little in response: "The empress has a variety of sweets in the palace, and they look very tempting."
The queen smiled and hugged the little princess Zhu'er in her arms and said: "Your Highness Ninth Prince is still the same as Zhu'er, if you focus on the cakes, you don't care about anything."
Everyone laughed, Gong Yu blushed and ate half of the pastry in her hand, all embarrassed to look at Dai Ruyan.
The faint sun fell on the hall through the dense branches and leaves. Gong Yu touched the lacquered wooden table where the cakes were placed, and it seemed to be warmed by the sun.
The hall was peaceful, as if there was no intrigue between them, and there was no need to die.
Of course this is just an illusion.
Gong Yu drank the tea by herself, not only lamenting that she was still not qualified for her acting skills.
The maid at the side put vanilla in the small smoker, Gong Yu smelled it and felt that the spices in the Queen's Palace seemed to be different from those used by Dai Ruyan.
"What herbs are these spices ground from?"
"I don't know, my servant, most of these spices are prepared by the Empress herself." The little maid was obviously still a novice, and suddenly she was inexplicably nervous when asked by Gong Yu.
"Does the empress use any other herbs or spices?"
The little maid thought for a while and shook her head: "Ever since the slaves entered the palace, the Empress has been using this."
Gong Yu eased the atmosphere, smiled and said, "So that's the case."
His Royal Highness suddenly approached and said: "Xiao Jiu, although this maid looks good, but after all, she is someone close to the Empress, so it's better not to touch her."
amount……
Brother, are you thinking too much?
However, Gong Yu didn't explain it, so that he would be suspicious, after all, the third highness had already buried himself in peace.
When the banquet was over, Gong Yu got up and straightened her robe, and peeked at Dai Ruyan who was still sitting beside the queen.
I thought that after all the empress is so close to Dai Ruyan, maybe she will occasionally use Dai Ruyan's vanilla.
Gong Yu also felt that she was deceiving herself and others. The queen's food and clothing were all regulated. If she really liked the vanilla Dai Ruyan matched with, why did she only put the sachet and use something else in the palace?
Perhaps that sachet was not left by the queen at all, so the herbs in it would naturally not be the herbs commonly used by the queen.
Gong Yu wandered around the garden in the Queen's Palace alone, only felt that the answer seemed to be ready to come out, but Gong Yu forcibly vetoed it.
No, A Yan will not be such a person, she has no reason to do such a thing.
It happened that the little princess Zhu'er was in the pavilion, Gong Yu came back to her senses, and stepped forward.
A few court ladies were waiting at the side, and the little princess was playing with the wreath in her hand, looking very serious.
"Zhu'er." Gong Yu called out with a smile as she sat on the side.
The little princess turned her head to look at Gong Yu, who also laughed and uttered words, still unclear: "Ninth brother, be well."
"This garland is beautiful."
"Pearl, I want to give it to the queen mother."
It was often rumored in the palace that the empress was kind and treated the little princess Zhu'er very well. Gong Yu saw that the little princess Zhu'er's face was rosy and cute, and she should be doing well.
The little princess on the side slowly circled other flowers, and it seemed that she was planning to make another one.
The sun in the pavilion was warming up, it was a rare fine weather, Gong Yu reached out and took another flower and handed it to the little princess, "Is Zhu'er making so many garlands for the empress?"
"Mmm." Zhu'er took the flowers from Gong Yu, guilt flashed in her eyes and said, "My stepmother's hand...a lot of blood is bleeding from her hand."
"Injured?" Gong Yu asked puzzled, "How did you get hurt?"
Pearl bit her lip tightly and said, "It's bleeding to make new clothes for Pearl."
"Don't cry, Zhu'er." Gong Yu hurriedly coaxed the red-eyed Zhu'er, and said in a soft voice: "When the empress sees the wreath from Zhu'er, the injury will not hurt anymore."
"Really?" Zhu'er stared at Gong Yu with deep eyes.
Gong Yu nodded with a smile and said, "Really, and the garland made by Zhu'er is the most beautiful garland Jiu Ge has ever seen."
The little princess laughed again, making the wreath seriously, and the moisture around the corners of her eyes hadn't dried yet.
I can't help but sigh that children are really good, and they forget everything when they are coaxed.
Gong Yu, who walked away, looked around the Queen's palace, and the delicate flower buds were blooming in the garden, obviously impatient to bloom.
The cause of death of His Highness the Third Highness suddenly came to mind, the murder weapon was a shattered porcelain teacup, not only did it suddenly come to the conclusion that maybe the murderer was really the empress.
Making clothes is nothing more than being pricked by a needle, why do you bleed so much?
Besides, judging from Zhu'er's expression just now, the injury was indeed serious, unless Zhu'er saw the Queen while treating the wound,
So I had no choice but to find a reason to make clothes.
Gong Yu walked quickly through the garden, and ran quickly in the corridor, the context of the whole thing emerged in her mind.
The pain of bereavement caused the queen to resent the third highness and the Dai family, so the queen wanted to get rid of the third highness, but how would the queen get rid of the Dai family?
The deep-rooted Dai family is powerful among the royals and grandchildren of the court, and the queen needs to design, or plant.
The current Dai Ruyan is the granddaughter of the Dai family. She is the best candidate for the future queen in the hearts of the people of the palace. If she is destroyed, even if the Dai family cannot be hurt, it will still be a face to the Dai family.
So the sachet contained herbs that Dai Ruyan personally prepared, and there was no other person in the whole palace except Dai Ruyan.
The person the Queen wants to kill is Dai Ruyan.
Gong Yu hurried to the palace, but saw the empress's contemporaries, Ru Yan, drinking tea together with natural expressions.
Gong Yu, whose cheeks were covered with sweat, leaned against the pillar panting because of running too fast, Dai Ruyan got up and walked over full of worry.
"What's the matter?" Dai Ruyan asked in a soft voice holding a handkerchief to wipe the sweat off Gong Yu's cheek.
Gong Yu stared at Dai Ruyan closely, and replied with a calm emotion and expression as much as possible: "It's nothing, I just ran too fast."
Dai Ruyan breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a serious face: "How old are you, and you still run around and play."
"I won't dare next time." Gong Yu smiled and followed Dai Ruyan into the hall.
The queen folded her hands in her sleeves so that Gong Yu couldn't see where the injury was.
"His Highness Ninth Prince and A Yan are really as close as the rumors say." The queen said with a smile.
"The empress is joking." Gong Yu sat on the side and responded.
Dai Ruyan drank the tea and didn't speak, the three of them sat down very quietly, or it seemed a little too quiet because of Gong Yu's arrival.
Fortunately, the little princess Zhu Er came in from outside with a wreath in her hand, calling out childishly, "Mother's Queen."
"What's the matter, Pearl?"
"Pearl made a beautiful garland and gave it to the queen." The little princess stood in front of the queen and said seriously.
The queen smiled and said, "Okay, can Zhu Er be brought to the queen mother?"
"Yeah." The little princess smiled and bent her eyes, slightly tiptoeing and carefully put the wreath on the queen's head.
After putting on the wreath, the little princess leaned coquettishly against the queen's arms, and the queen naturally stretched out her arms to hug the little princess.
The bandaged wound on her right hand almost came out just now, Gong Yu looked at it seriously, her heart almost stopped.
Dai Ruyan at the side just handed the pastry plate to Gong Yu and said, "Try this snowflake cake."
Gong Yu's thoughts were interrupted, she obediently reached out and took some cakes to eat, and said with some surprise: "Why does this cake taste cold?"
The queen hugged the little princess and said: "This snowflake cake is Zhuer's favorite food in summer."
"Ninth brother...do you like to eat too?" The little princess asked with a smile.
Gong Yu nodded cooperatively and said, "Well, brother Jiu likes to eat cakes the most."
Dai Ruyan smiled silently and said, "I just ate so many cakes, how can I still eat them?"
amount……
Didn't you push this pastry in front of me for me to eat?
Gong Yu looked at Dai Ruyan full of grievances, but Dai Ruyan just drank tea and did not look at Gong Yu, which was clearly on purpose.
Hey, but what can Gong Yu do, she can only let Dai Ruyan tease her.
When she came out of the Queen's Palace, Gong Yu was really full of pastries.
Dai Ruyan at the side strolled without saying a word, seeing that Gong Yu was already far away from the queen's palace, she stretched out her hand and lightly grabbed Dai Ruyan's sleeve.
Dai Ruyan turned her head slightly to look at Gong Yu's little move, and said with raised mouth corners: "I didn't let Xiao Jiu eat up the whole plate of pastries, it's your own greediness."
Gong Yu gently held Dai Ruyan's Weiliang fingertips along the sleeves of her sleeves, her palm was smooth and delicate, and there were no scars.
"The pastries taste really good, but it's a pity that Ayan doesn't like sweet ones."
"How does Xiaojiu know that I don't like sweets?"
"I'm guessing, every time Ayan is sweet, she eats very little. On weekdays, she doesn't taste the cakes in front of her, but likes to drink that kind of bitter tea that is more bitter than medicinal soup." Gong Yu said close .
Dai Ruyan held Gong Yu's hand and said softly, "Bitterness makes people sober, sweetness makes people addicted."
"But people can't always be awake, such as when sleeping."
"You are messing around, the two cannot be compared."
"Okay." Looking at the long palace road, Gong Yu wished she could walk more slowly, so that she could hold Dai Ruyan's hand all the time.
Dai Ruyan suddenly asked, "Why did Xiao Jiu come over in such a hurry all of a sudden?"
Gong Yu stopped and asked hesitantly: "Then, can Ayan tell me whether the sachet belongs to Ayan or the empress?"
"What's the point even if Xiao Jiu knows?"
"I guess the sachet was given to A Yan by the empress, right?"
After all, if the things embroidered by the queen are missing, there will be some troubles.
Dai Ruyan sighed and said: "It is true that my aunt gave me a sachet, and I put it in the sachet with herbs."
"So when Ah Yan saw the sachet, did she already know the Queen's plan?"
"Ah."
Gong Yu held Dai Ruyan's hand, and said with a sigh of relief: "I thought Ayan didn't know, I was so scared that I ran straight into the palace, my legs are still weak."
Dai Ruyan smiled and squeezed Gong Yu's fingers in response: "This is the imperial palace, is it possible that Xiao Jiu is afraid that my aunt will hurt us here?"
"Although it is true to say so, I am still worried."
"coward."
Gong Yu walked forward holding Dai Ruyan's hand, the stone that was pressing down on her heart disappeared, and she couldn't help but feel a lot more relaxed.
"Why isn't Ayan angry?"
"Why should I be angry?"
Dai Ruyan looked sideways at Gong Yu and said softly: "This is my aunt's choice. When I stole the sachet from my aunt, it means that my aunt knows what she wants to do."
"Anyone who wants to do is her freedom, and of course she has to bear the consequences."
For Dai Ruyan's calm answer, Gong Yu was a little surprised that she couldn't understand, she held Dai Ruyan's hand tightly and replied:
"But the empress wants to frame Ayan, and she wants to pin the murder charge on Ayan."
"Little Nine..."
"What's wrong?" Gong Yu looked sideways at Dai Ruyan and responded.
"Is my Xiaojiu angry?" Dai Ruyan smiled lightly.
"Yes, I'm just angry." Gong Yu didn't shy away from the scrutinizing eyes on behalf of Ruyan, and responded with tight lips: "I'm angry. If I am strong enough, I won't let Ayan be calculated by others, and I will definitely No one is allowed to hurt Ayan."
Dai Ruyan stopped suddenly, although her expression was the same as usual, but the strength of holding Gong Yu's hand was much stronger.
Gong Yu asked with some confusion: "What's wrong?"
"It's okay." Dai Ruyan held Gong Yu's hand tightly, smiled and said like a spring breeze: "Xiao Jiu, don't worry, no one can hurt me."
The wind-blown hair was pulled behind Dai Ruyan's ears, Gong Yu stared blankly and felt her heart was beating so fast.
As if I heard Dai Ruyan call my Xiaojiu just now, um, that's right, Dai Ruyan really called me that.
"Okay, you can't hold my hand anymore."
Dai Ruyan let go of Gong Yu's hand, then straightened Gong Yu's robe and said seriously: "This is the end of this matter, don't worry about it."
Gong Yu looked helplessly at Dai Ruyan, who was close at hand, swallowed her saliva and asked, "How does Ayan plan to solve it?"
"I can't solve it." Dai Ruyan tapped Gongyu's nose with her fingertips and said, "The Empress is my aunt, so it's natural for my grandmother to solve it."
"Isn't it to kill the empress?"
"The way to solve problems has never been just killing. Why is Xiao Jiu always thinking so simple?"
Is this calling yourself stupid in disguise?
In any case, Gong Yu felt that the general truth of the Third Highness should be like this. Anyway, as long as it has nothing to do with Dai Ruyan, then everything doesn't matter.
Although Gong Yu didn't understand why the Queen had to kill the Third Highness with her own hands, she could have ordered her personal maid or accompanying guards to do it, but at least Gong Yu was sure that the person who injured the Third Highness must have been injured.
By mid-February in spring, the snow had almost melted, and the snow water was ticking along the eaves.
And this time the imperial examination is about to be held for the third time, at this moment Gong Yu is wandering around in the inn where the candidates who participated in the examination live.
After a while, Gong Yu sat beside him drinking tea and asked, "Why did you choose to drink tea in this inn, sir?"
"Your Highness, haven't you heard that the leaked test questions are rumored in the capital?"
"I've heard about it, but it's just drunk nonsense from frustrated candidates in the examination room."
"But just last night, the drunk and nonsense examinee fell into the water and drowned."
Qin Hua said seriously.
Gong Yu, who was peeling peanuts, looked at Qin Hua in surprise. Although Qin Hua was usually serious, but most of the time he was also a gentle scholar. Today's sudden excitement really surprised Gong Yu.
"Although it's a bit too coincidental, I heard that the scholar who fell into the water was already drunk when he came out of the restaurant, and an old man saw the scholar who fell into the water with his own eyes, and there was no one around him."
Qin Hua frowned, seemed to think about it for a while, and said, "I can't understand even this point."
Seeing that something was wrong with Qin Hua's expression, Gong Yu asked, "Since there is nothing wrong so far, why do you still think that there is something wrong with the candidate who fell into the water?"
"The examinee's name is Jin Zhaowen, who is my childhood friend. Although I was disappointed in the imperial examination, but my family was poor, I participated in the provincial examination to be a scholar, but I lost my ranking in the general examination. After that, I gave up the scientific examination and worked as a section The accountant of the day, and later went to be a doorman."
Qin Hua calmly said as if reminiscing: "Jin Zhaowen has a good family background. Although he is addicted to alcohol, he passed the provincial examination six times and became a scholar. He also quit drinking for many years."
"How could you get so drunk that you went to drink only two days away from the meeting?"
Gong Yu listened for a while and asked hesitantly: "Does the gentleman know whether Jin Zhaowen really knows the answer to the leaked question?"
Qin Hua shook his head and said, "I have never heard him mention it, not even his wife and children."
Since there were no clues about this matter, at a small scale, it was a drunken drowning incident, and at a large scale, it might be murder.
Moreover, the answers to the three-year scientific examination of Gong Guo were leaked, which is a case of reckless death.
There is no evidence that Gong Yu can't talk nonsense, and Qin Hua's mood is not stable at the moment, Gong Yu doesn't want to stimulate him too much.
At sunset, Qin Hua left, and Gong Yu returned to the mansion in a sedan chair. When passing by the restaurant, there was a commotion outside the sedan chair, and the sedan chair stopped.
When Gong Yu opened the curtain and was about to ask what happened, she saw countless sheets of paper floating down from some tall building, and she reached out to catch one.
I saw that what was written on this paper turned out to be the answer to the third round of the exam tomorrow.
This person is really blatantly insane, how could someone throw out the answer meeting in the dignified examination so easily.
But Gong Yu saw countless people reaching out to pick it up, and even fighting for the fallen paper.
Crazy, really crazy, this is obviously fake.
In the early morning of the next day, the emperor was furious as expected, but Gong Yu did not expect that the answer on the paper turned out to be true.
"This time we will test the case of leaking questions, and send someone to fully investigate who is flouting the laws of the palace!"
Originally, the Taifu had the full power to manage the imperial examination, but because of his advanced age, the Taifu handed over the management of the third test paper of the examination to Zhou Wencai, a fourth-rank official.
Therefore, the flame of leaking the question followed Zhou Wencai to His Highness the Sixth Highness who was closely connected with him.
However, the former Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment suddenly fell ill, so the case could only be referred to Dali Temple Secretary Chen Ming for inquiry.
It was the first time for Gong Yu to see many officials look solemn after leaving the court, as if the case of leaking questions had become the most troublesome thing in the court.
His Highness Six was pale, and Zhou Wencai and Zhou Wencai walked in a hurry.
At some point, His Royal Highness came to the side and said with a sneer: "These old guys finally know they are panicking."
"What are you talking about, Brother Four?" Gong Yu asked with her head turned.
"It's nothing."
His Royal Highness smiled and said: "I just think that the affairs in the court are really changing from day to day. It's very interesting. Now it's still uncertain who will have the last laugh."
What she said was so vague, Gong Yu always felt that the four Highnesses seemed to know something.
The weather was just right, so Gong Yu took a sedan chair and rushed to Dai Ruyan's courtyard. She didn't come for a while, and before she knew it, the courtyard had lost the desolate silence in winter, and the courtyard surrounded by trees seemed like a hermit's residence.
Of course, there are not some old men with white beards here, some of them are fairies in the peach blossom garden.
Gong Yu smirked as she walked, and waited until Bi Yu, who was inside and outside the hall, came out, looked at Gong Yu and said: "It's unfortunate that the Ninth Prince came down, so Miss fell asleep."
"It's okay, I'll take a look, and I'll be out soon."
"That's not going to happen, the lady finally fell asleep." Biyu obviously didn't want Gongyu to go in.
Helplessly, Gong Yu had no choice but to stand outside, thinking that this trip could not be in vain, when she was planning to make a fool of herself.
Dai Ruyan's voice suddenly came from the hall calling: "Xiao Jiu, come in."
Gong Yu walked into the hall with a smile, and saw several screens in the hall, walked around the screens and walked a few steps in, saw Dai Ruyan lying flat on a low couch with a thin blanket on her body, her face looked a little pale.
"Is this sick?" Gong Yu sat on the side, stretching out her hand to lightly touch Dai Ruyan's forehead.
But the temperature was a little cooler, the rest was the same, Dai Ruyan stretched out his hand to hold Gong Yu's hand and said, "It's just that my body is inconvenient, do you think I'm as easy to fall ill like you?"
This is blatantly underestimated.
Gong Yu was aggrieved and lay sideways on the low couch and said in disbelief: "I'm in good health, Ayan will make trouble with me."
"This low couch is not spacious. If you fall off, I won't care about you." Although Dai Ruyan said so, he still lay down on it with his arms around Gong Yu.
Gong Yulai, who felt at ease, responded in Dai Ruyan's arms: "That's not true, I have to hold Ayan and fall with me."
"Little scoundrel!" Dai Ruyan leaned his head sideways and read, as he spoke, his warm breath went straight into Gong Yu's ears.
Her heart beat a little faster, Gong Yu turned her head slightly and dodged guiltily, in order to cover up, she stretched out her hand and pulled the thin blanket on Dai Ruyan's body to cover herself casually.
"Do you feel cold?" Dai Ruyan asked, then pulled off the thin blanket and covered most of Gong Yu's body before she felt relieved.
Seeing Dai Ruyan's careful movements, Gong Yu became even more attached to Dai Ruyan and replied, "It's not cold."
"Not cold? Then you still hug me so tightly?" Dai Ruyan reached out and tapped Gong Yu's nose full of disgust.
"Don't you miss me after not seeing Ayan for so long?"
"What do you want to do?"
Gong Yu bravely put her arms around Dai Ruyan and said: "Ayan's words really hurt my heart."
Dai Ruyan trembled slightly as if laughing, and rested his fingertips on Gong Yu's brow and said, "Last time you were exposed to the rain, became feverish and unconscious, and I took care of you for a few days, but I didn't see you say you missed me. It’s really bad to say you miss me.”
"What's wrong with me?" Gong Yu looked at Dai Ruyan with her eyes open innocently, stretched out her hands to support her body and looked down at Dai Ruyan who was lying on her back, and said, "I can't wait to read Ayan three times every morning and three times after dinner. Yan, you have to say Ayan three times when you fall asleep at night."
"You're talking nonsense." Dai Ruyan smiled and said, "I'm not a Buddha. What are you doing thinking about me so many times?"
"Because I miss you." Gong Yu felt that if there was a mirror, everyone would be able to see that she was blushing like this.
Dai Ruyan smiled and reached out to hug Gong Yu gently, letting Gong Yu close to her arms and whispered: "Since you miss me, why don't you come to see me, you are a little villain."
Gong Yu could clearly hear Dai Ruyan's peaceful heartbeat, even Dai Ruyan's eyes were clean, full of tenderness and doting, but it was a pity that there was a little love missing.
In other words, Gong Yu never seemed to see any strong emotion in Dai Ruyan's eyes, and some only smiled politely, or ignored indifference.
Of course Dai Ruyan would smile warmly when facing herself, but that's all.
Dai Ruyan, who was lying on his back, let Gong Yu look at him, stroked Gong Yu's cheek with his fingertips and said softly, "How have you eaten recently?"
"What?" The voice brought back Gong Yu's thoughts.
"It seems that it has grown fleshy."
"Am I fat?"
Dai Ruyan pinched Gong Yu's cheek lightly with her fingertips and replied: "Not fat, you were sick a while ago, and your body also became thinner. I was afraid that you would always be thin like this."
"Fortunately, Xiao Jiu can eat it, and it's only a matter of time before he grows meat."
Is this a boast?
Gong Yu was really powerless to refute, looking down at Dai Ruyan lying flat, perhaps because she was about to fall asleep, the thin clothes on Dai Ruyan's body could even slightly reveal the skin inside.
The scattered hair, perhaps because it was just washed, exudes a faint fragrance.
In the past, I just couldn't get tired of watching Dai Ruyan, but now Gong Yu is more sure, Dai Ruyan's eyes are very cold, but in those dark eyes, he can always look at Gong Yu gently, so that Gong Yu can't help but feel Indulge in it.
The corners of the eyes are raised slightly to outline a little charm, and these little charms on Dai Ruyan's cheeks can always make Gong Yu inadvertently fascinated.
It's just that Dai Ruyan has a pair of thin lips. Hearing that people with thin lips are fickle, Gong Yu felt that there might be some truth in what she said.
Her fingertips naughtily pressed the corner of Dai Ruyan's mouth, thinking that Dai Ruyan really didn't seem to want anyone in her heart.
When she first heard that she was leaving the capital, Gong Yu wondered why Dai Ruyan left her family.
After getting along for the past few years, Gong Yu feels that Dai Ruyan may not have any nostalgia for his family at all.
But why does Dai Ruyan treat his family like he treats ordinary people?
Whenever Gong Yu hears about her family in Dai Ruyan, her tone is almost unfamiliar, as if she is talking about passers-by.
Yes, Gong Yu has felt this way more than once, family members are not important to Dai Ruyan at all.
So if the family members don't care about it, it's even more impossible for the friends to come.
Thinking of this Gong Yu, he felt that his future was bleak. Dai Ruyan didn't care about his family, let alone his friends, so how could he get into Dai Ruyan's heart?
And such a beautiful Dai Ruyan was lying in front of Gong Yu's eyes, her clothes were slightly disheveled, and her thin soft lips were right in front of her eyes.
Gong Yu's heart was beating fast, she turned her head slightly and leaned into Dai Ruyan's arms and whispered: "Ayan..."
"what happened?"
"You said before that you don't want to leave the capital, is it because there are some important people or something important that hasn't been done?"
Dai Ruyan rubbed Gong Yu's earlobe lightly with her fingertips and said in a low voice, "I don't want to leave, but I just think staying in this capital might be interesting."
"very funny?"
This is the second time Gong Yu has heard it today.
Gong Yu held Dai Ruyan's hand in confusion and asked, "What's so interesting about this capital city?"
"Everyone is busy fighting for power and profit, and there are traps and conspiracies everywhere. Maybe someone will fall in a pool of blood in a second."
"Is Xiao Jiu scared?" Dai Ruyan held Gong Yu's cheeks with both hands, and comforted her forehead intimately: "Don't be afraid, I'm here."
For some reason, Gong Yu felt that Dai Ruyan seemed a little different from before.
Gong Yu stared at Dai Ruyan, touched Dai Ruyan's cheek with her fingertips, and saw the reflection of herself in search through those dark eyes.
Dai Ruyan just let Gong Yu go, just reached out to grab the thin blanket that had slipped from Gong Yu's body and lightly covered the two of them.
The thin blanket covered most of the light, leaving only a little bit of light, Dai Ruyan smiled and asked, "Am I so pretty?"
"good-looking."
"But I'm sleepy and I need to rest."
"Are you going to bed so early?" Gong Yu rubbed Dai Ruyan's white arm with her fingertips as she held up the thin blanket.
Perhaps Dai Ruyan felt a little itchy, reached out to hold Gong Yu's hand and said in a low voice, "Yes."
"Will Xiao Jiu sleep with me for a while?"
Gong Yu's eyes landed on the heart which fluctuated slightly following Dai Ruyan's words, and her mouth was extremely parched.
He made a gesture to poke his head out from under the thin blanket, but Dai Ruyan stretched out his arms to hug Gong Yu, and the crisp laughter rang in his ears, leaving the evil Gong Yu nowhere to hide.
"I want to go out."
"You are not allowed to go out." Dai Ruyan was still flat, holding Gong Yu with his arms, and said unreasonably as they were very close to each other.
Gong Yu didn't dare to move any more, because Dai Ruyan's clothes were really too thin, and the collar was even more spread out than before.
Dai Ruyan's seductive appearance is too easy to make people commit crimes.
"Okay, I won't move, Ayan let go first, okay?" Gong Yu swallowed her saliva and said slowly.
This is like coaxing a child to play a prank.
But Dai Ruyan is not a child, if she really wants to say, Dai Ruyan is a witty and cunning beautiful fairy.
"No." Dai Ruyan resolutely refused, and even asked innocently: "Why did you let go?"
"Because..." Gong Yu felt that her forehead might have started to sweat, and her vision became clearer because she was used to the darkness.
Dai Ruyan obviously also noticed this, wiped the sweat stains on Gong Yu's forehead with his fingertips, then lifted the thin blanket and said: "Okay, let's stop making trouble, let's go to sleep."
But Gong Yu was not willing to part with it, so she softened her posture and moved slightly closer to Dai Ruyan, burying half of her face in Dai Ruyan's arms.
The whole person was very close to Dai Ruyan, and Dai Ruyan put his hand lightly on Gong Yu's back, stroking comfortingly, but he didn't notice Gong Yu's tense nerves at all.
But it's only up to here, Gong Yu's contemporary Ruyan is very close, and she can even feel her breathing is hot.
Dai Ruyan beside her ear hummed softly, feeling that she should be in a good mood now.
Gong Yu tried her best to get closer, breathing gently and asked: "Did A Yan not sleep well last night?"
"Well, it's too late to read."
Dai Ruyan closed his eyes without any defense, and Gong Yu seemed to be waiting for Dai Ruyan to fall asleep, silent and did not speak any more.
For a while Gong Yu felt that Dai Ruyan must have fallen asleep, but she still thought about waiting a little longer.
But without a clock, Gong Yu could only count from one to one thousand in her mind.
Then she leaned forward slightly, Gong Yu slowed down her breathing, gently brushed away the hair sticking to the side of Dai Ruyan's face with her fingertips, her movements couldn't be more gentle.
The bright red thin lips are right in front of her, Gong Yu can't help but get nervous thinking of this.
Fingertips moved along Dai Ruyan's cheeks to the thin lips, this place is very familiar to Gong Yu, because Gong Yu has touched this place just now.
At that time, Ruyan was still awake, so Gong Yu didn't dare to let her eyes stare, because she was afraid that Dai Ruyan would be disgusted when she saw the ecstasy in her eyes.
But now it's different, Dai Ruyan is sleeping peacefully, Gong Yu thinks that as long as she kisses more gently, Dai Ruyan won't find out.
If she hadn't been discovered, maybe she could kiss her a few more times, Gong Yu thought in her head.
After Gong Yu slowed down her breathing, she lowered her body, and carefully kissed Ruyan's brow and cheek with her lips, and the second aunt touched the corner of her mouth where her fingertips stayed just now.
The movements were very light, but Gong Yu felt like she had practiced arrows all morning, and her back was soaked with sweat.
It's just that it's not time to relax, because Gong Yuhai has never kissed Dai Ruyan's lips.
Gong Yu was really nervous at this moment, when she leaned closer to kiss those thin lips, her whole body was hugged suddenly, this action frightened Gong Yu's whole heart almost jumped out.
Dai Ruyan looked at Gong Yu calmly and asked, "What was Xiao Jiu doing just now?"
"I... just kissed a few times and did nothing else." Gong Yu, who wanted to argue, replied quite honestly.
Dai Ruyan slightly raised her body and looked down at the guilty Gong Yu and said in a low voice, "Why did you secretly kiss me?"
Gong Yu felt that at such a time, it would be better to be frank and lenient.
"Because I like Ayan."
"Do you want to kiss me if you like it?" Dai Ruyan's expression made Gong Yu unable to tell whether she understood or not.
It was not even possible to tell whether Dai Ruyan was angry or didn't take it seriously at all.After all, Dai Ruyan often treats Gong Yu like a child.
"Of course, you can kiss if you like."
Dai Ruyan stroked the back of Gong Yu's neck with her fingertips, her eyes were as calm as usual, not even angry.
Gong Yu felt that today might be her own death day, as long as Dai Ruyan said a word or a dislike
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