At noon, Gardenia woke up to the joyful chirping of birds. She listened quietly for a while before opening her eyes. She habitually looked at the tent ceiling. Her mind was blank at first, and then gradually filled with what had happened.
The wound was cold, so I was probably using the muscle-replenishing ointment that only the Imperial Palace had. I straightened up and felt dizzy. It seemed that I had lost too much blood last night.
"Leyin——." Gardenia called out. The door of the dormitory was pushed open, and Leyin walked in.
"Master, you are awake."
Facing Leyin's smiling face, Gardenia nodded slightly and said, "What time is it now? Where is Xi'er?"
"Master, don't worry. The princess is fine. The maids are waiting for the princess to have some snacks. I will call her over now." Just as Leyin turned around, Luoxi ran in unexpectedly.
"Mother——" Luoxi shouted as she threw herself in front of the bed.
Looking at her nervously, Gardenia asked: "Xier, how are you? Did you get hurt by the assassin last night?"
Luo Xi smiled and said, "Mom, Xi'er is fine." He raised his neck and said, "It's just that this place is a little red. Uncle Feng has already checked it with Xi'er and said it will disappear soon."
Gardenia felt relieved, and suddenly thought of the assassin, and asked Leyin: "Where is that assassin? Does the emperor have any plans for him?"
Leyin was slightly stunned, not knowing how to answer Gardenia's words. Gardenia said: "Tell me."
Leyin knelt on the ground and said in embarrassment: "Master, please don't force Leyin. The emperor has ordered this slave not to tell you anything about this matter."
Taking a deep breath, Gardenia lifted up the snow silk quilt. Leyin hurriedly supported her and said, "Master, you are injured. The emperor has told you to have a good rest."
"Tell me where the emperor is?"
Leyin still refused to say anything. Luoxi, who was not shy about the world, said: "Mom, daddy went to Jinhua Palace."
"Princess——." Leyin gave her a wink, but Luoxi didn't understand what Leyin meant at all.
Bending slightly, Gardenia asked with a smile: "Xi'er, tell Mom, what are you doing at Jinhua Palace?"
Luo Xi blinked his big clear eyes and said, "When I was in the royal study room in the morning, I heard my father and Uncle Feng saying that the assassin who wanted to kill my mother last night was a slave of Jinhua Palace."
"anything else?"
Luo Xi shook his head and said, "Xi'er came out because she thought it was not fun, and then she saw her father and Uncle Feng heading towards Jinhua Palace together."
"Leyin, help me get dressed. I'm going to Jinhua Palace." Although he was not dead, he still had to figure out the cause of the injury.
"Master, please spare this slave. You are injured now. If something happens again, I cannot afford to pay for your life." Leyin knelt down and begged, crying.
He helped Leyin up and sighed: "Leyin, I know you are doing it for my own good. I have a sense of discretion in my heart, so don't stop me. Don't you want me to figure things out?"
Leyin looked at Gardenia hesitantly, gritted her teeth, and compromised: "Yes, I will accompany you."
Situ Ling heard news about Lianhe Tower outside the palace, so Luoxi saw that soon after Ling Jiyun and Feng Qing left, they returned to the Imperial Study Room and did not go to Jinhua Palace at all.
"It has been confirmed that a lot of troops have been secretly gathered in the Western Region. It seems that they will take action soon." When encountering such serious matters, Feng Qing would become serious.
Ling Jiyun sat on the dragon chair, put down his hand and listened to the jade cup, and said with a sarcastic smile: "A bunch of rabble."
"Although the Western Region Country is a small country with only a few hundred thousand troops, what I'm thinking is that if we can think of it, even Helou will definitely think of it. Since he knows that we will think of it, why doesn't he stop the plan? Does he have to
Are you sure of winning?" Feng Qing analyzed it carefully.
Ling Jiyun frowned slightly, propped up his chin with his hand, and fell into deep thought.
A few maple leaves, with a strong autumn feeling, gently drifted down beside me with the wind. They lifted up and fell down as they walked by.
Pointing to the palace in front of him, Leyin said: "Master, this is Jinhua Palace."
Gardenia raised her eyes and looked at the three large gilded characters of Jinhua Palace. There were two eunuchs standing at the door. Gardenia stopped and felt something was wrong. "Leyin, go and ask the emperor if he has been here?"
Leyin nodded and walked over, looking at what she was talking to the eunuch. The distance was not far but not close, and her hearing was a little blurry.
After a while, she welcomed the music back and said, "Master, it's really strange that the emperor didn't come to Jinhua Palace this morning."
Never been here? Gardenia thought silently, what is going on? Children can't tell lies. She concluded that the assassination last night was related to Jinhua Palace. She clearly heard that the emperor came here, what happened now?
Didn't come again? Did something happen? Suddenly I felt a little impulsive and came to Jinhua Palace just based on Luoxi's words. What happened to me? Ever since I entered Aoran City, my indifferent temperament seemed to be
He is getting further and further away from me, why are you so concerned? Is it because of him?
"Leyin, we are not going to Jinhua Palace anymore. Now that we are out, let's go sit in the Imperial Garden." She needed to calm down and sort out her thoughts that had been almost confused these days.
Under the azure sky, there is not a trace of cloud. On the quiet shore of Chengying Lake, the silky catkins sway gently in the wind, and the withered yellow leaves cover the flower path. They look like a kind of incomplete beauty. The sound they make when walking on them is,
Like a crisp and cheerful tune.
In the pavilion in the center of the lake, an elegant woman quietly supported her chin with one hand, her willow-like brows filled with sorrow, and the white silk scarf in her hand was gently swaying in the wind.
"Leyin, you have known me before, right?" The wind walked across Huying Lake, and the footprints set off layers of microwaves.
Gardenia had never asked her about past events. When she suddenly heard this, Leyin Luoluo was a little surprised. She nodded and said, "Well, I have known my master before."
"Can you tell me what happened before?" She wanted to know, maybe her original intention of choosing to forget was that she thought she would never encounter it again, but now that it was God's will, she had to face it.
Leyin felt that Gardenia was a little abnormal today, but she couldn't explain why. Leyin thought for a while and felt that it wouldn't be a bad thing to say it, so she thought of speaking, "Actually, Master..."
Before he finished speaking, a voice was heard: "Didn't you just come to ask for help? Why did you turn around and hide here again because you were bored?"
Looking at Lu Xinlan, the woman she only remembered once, was looking at her arrogantly, with anger, disdain, and contempt in her eyes. Did she hate herself so much?
"Are you the master of Jinhua Palace?" Gardenia asked calmly, but her heart was rippled. Is this woman the Concubine Lan whom Leyin mentioned?
Looking at Gardenia, Lu Xinlan raised her eyebrows and took away all the grievances she had suffered over the years: "Don't do this with me, I don't care if you really don't remember me or if you pretend you don't remember me.