That night, Jianyu arrived as scheduled and stopped outside Jingsi Ju. He picked up Ling Ruo after washing and went to the Louyun Kaiyue Pavilion. As soon as he entered, he saw Yinzhen sitting in a chair and reading a book carefully. In front of him was
There was a large plate of cut honeydew melon on the table, with ice underneath.
Seeing her coming in, Yinzhen smiled slightly, put down the book and waved, "Come here and try it. This is a fresh honeydew melon from the Western Regions. It's crispy, sweet and delicious. I specially reserved one for you."
There were not many people in the Honey Melon Mansion. They only rewarded a few Fujin and Ye family, not even the concubine Fujin. She never thought that Yinzhen would specially leave one for her. There was a warmth in her heart and she took the gift from Yinzhen.
He picked a piece of the silver melon handed to him by putting it in his mouth and biting it lightly. The juice immediately overflowed, and it was a bit sweeter than the honeydew melon sent by Mrs. Li.
"Is it delicious?" Yinzhen asked, with expectation in his eyes.
Ling Ruo swallowed the honeydew melon in her mouth and said softly: "It's so sweet. It's sweeter than any fruit I've ever eaten before."
"As long as you like it, eat more. It's a pity that you can't keep this melon for a long time after cutting it. Otherwise, you can save half of it and eat it tomorrow." Yinzhen pulled Ling Ruo and sat on his lap, saying with a little regret.
"The Fourth Master has a concubine in his heart, and I am more important to him than anything else." She put her hands on his warm neck and smiled sweetly, "I am destined to accompany the Fourth Master for the rest of my life, so there is no need to fight for the throne.
Xi, right?"
"What do you want to say?" Yinzhen asked, stroking her slender waist-length hair, his eyes gradually cooling down in silence.
Ling Ruo's heart trembled, she stood up from his lap and knelt down and said: "I am just a humble body. To be favored by the Fourth Master is a blessing that I have cultivated for countless lifetimes. I really cannot be more worthy of the Fourth Master."
Much kindness.”
What kind of person is Yinzhen? How could he not understand the meaning behind her words? He raised his eyebrows with a sharp look, "What you call kindness is referring to the fact that I let you spend the night in the Kaiyue Pavilion in Longyun."
?" Seeing that Ling Ruo didn't answer, he became more and more sure of his guess, "Tell me, who is giving you a hard time?"
Ling Ruo shook his head slightly, "No. It's because I don't want to break the rules of the house again and again. Besides, if this matter spreads out, and uninformed people hear it, they will say that the Fourth Master is too doting on me.
He doesn't even care about the rules, which is really a hindrance to Fourth Master."
"So, should I thank you?" Yinzhen's voice contained a hint of ridicule and boredom.
It turns out that she is just like this... protecting her own safety wisely, huh, people are like this, but he thinks too much. There is only one Meier in the world, how can he expect to have a second one.
He is not as lucky as Yinzhi to receive Meier's wholehearted and desperate love...
Every woman who hangs around will first think of herself and the family behind her, but she will not think of him. Ling Ruo, who once thought things would be different, is like this...
The loss in Yinzhen's words made her heart twitch violently, and she suddenly realized that she had made a stupid mistake.
She has been using common sense to infer Yinzhen, but she has forgotten the most important point: Yinzhen is a prince, a prince who has grown up in intrigues and intrigues since he was a child. He has never seen any tricks and tactics, and he is afraid that he has already seen through what she is thinking.
Think about it. With Yinzhen's mean and suspicious temperament, which cannot tolerate a grain of sand, he will definitely feel that he is hypocritical and artificial.
Just as she was nervously thinking about how to make up for this mistake, Yinzhen had already stood up and walked to her side. His voice was so indifferent that it scared Ling Ruo, and his voice was like the falling clouds in the sky, unpredictable, "Get up, as you wish.
"
Yinzhen waited for a long time, but still didn't see Ling Ruo get up. He looked down one by one, and saw her with her head lowered, and drops of transparent liquid dripping on the back of her tightly curled hands.
Beautiful tears are often the most touching. Even though Yinzhen has a cold nature and is dissatisfied with Ling Ruo, she can't help but move slightly. She raises her tear-stained face and speaks softly, "Why are you crying? Didn't I already give you permission?"
?”
"That's why I want to cry." She looked up at Yinzhen, and there was a soul-stirring beauty as the tears fell down her beautiful and delicate face. "The Fourth Master has so much trust in me, but I have betrayed the Fourth Master. I really
Damn it.”
This answer made Yinzhen stunned, and he blurted out: "What do you owe me?".
Ling Ruo smiled sadly, held his thick big hand and said with tears: "I don't want to stay overnight in Rouyun Kaiyue Pavilion anymore. Although there are reasons mentioned before, the most important thing is that I am afraid. I am afraid of this.
favor
It will arouse jealousy. The so-called gathering favor in one person is also gathering resentment in one person. The fourth master asked if someone is making things difficult for me. If I continue to be like this, I don’t know how to advance or retreat, the fourth master thinks there will be a place for my concubine in this house.
?”
"As long as I'm here, no one can touch you!" It started raining outside at some point, rustling on the leaves, making his decisive voice sound a little blurry.
Ling Ruo smiled self-deprecatingly, her long hair flowing gracefully in the ignorant candlelight, "The fourth master can protect me for a while, but he cannot protect me for the rest of my life. What's more, only with peace in the house can the fourth master be able to worry about the affairs of the court. For
The emperor shares the worries and seeks the welfare of the people of the world."
Use retreat to make progress, treat each other with sincerity. Bet on whether Yinzhen is willing to trust her again.
The wind, coming from nowhere, blew the thin and weightless shark gauze tent into the air and then quietly fell down, blowing past the two people who were facing each other in silence.
For a long time, the rough palm with clear lines was close to Ling Ruo's cheek. In the warmth that came over her, Ling Ruo heard words that made her extremely reassured, "Don't hide anything from me in the future."
"Never." A smile bloomed silently on her lips, and she knew that he had forgiven her.
That night, Yinzhen did not keep Ling Ruo overnight anymore, and ordered Zhou Yong to send her back to Jingsiju before midnight.
In the days that followed, Yinzhen called Lingruo less and less often. Later, it only happened once every seven or eight days, and he never stayed overnight again. This made the girls who were jealous of Lingruo secretly happy and thought that Yinzhen
I favored her before because it was just a novelty, not because I really liked her. Once the novelty wore off, it would naturally become so-so.
The four seasons cycle, summer passes and autumn arrives. In the blink of an eye, it is August when the sweet-scented osmanthus is fragrant. The lotus flowers in the Jianjia Pond are gradually fading. Yinzhen seems not to want to see the withered and decayed lotus flowers, so he has not been there since autumn.
Jianjiachi, I just ordered Gao Fu to clean it up for the coming year.
Gao Fu followed Yinzhen's instructions and cleaned up the remaining lotus and silt. He also specially invited lotus root diggers to dig out the lotus roots hidden in the silt. After the water in the pond returned to clear and transparent, he released hundreds of golden-red koi carp in it.
In the water, you can often see traces of them swimming by when walking on the shore. When encountering feeders, they will rush over to grab food. They are full of vitality and sweep away the previous decadence.
As for the dug lotus roots, they were washed and distributed to various courtyards. Jingsiju also got a share, and it was the best and freshest. Everyone else thought that Yinzhen had lost interest in Ling Ruo, except for Gao Fu and a few others.
Close confidants knew that Yinzhen often went to Jingsiju alone after finishing his political duties, and did not leave until dawn.
This was not only a protection for Ling Ruo but also an accommodation to her. To accommodate a woman with the dignity of a prince, and with a proud and mean temperament like Yinzhen, is actually a hundred times more difficult than the superficial honor.
Gao Fu would not dare to look down on a woman who was treated like this by Yinzhen, even if he had the guts to do so.