Before getting close to Taiye Pond, the noisy residual warmth filtered through the leaves and branches, and even the remaining leaves on the branches became a little more green.
Seeing that Yu Qiansi's purpose was clear, the palace officials were frightened and tried to dissuade him one after another.
"Master Jade, it's almost noon. You worked hard last night, so you'd better leave the palace early to rest."
She stopped and thought about it. These people only followed orders. If they offended the powerful, they would be scolded for nothing. Survival in the palace was not easy, let alone maids like them.
So he said: "It doesn't matter, you can go back and resume your life now. Just say that I resigned you and stayed in the palace."
In this way, the Qingning Palace also had an explanation.
These palace people had heard about Yu Qiansi's methods many times. The princess committed suicide before, which made her even more prominent in the court. They did not dare to dissuade her, but seeing that she had spared them, they naturally thanked her and left.
Yu Qiansi and Boyi waited for a moment. When no one was around, Boyi smiled clearly and led her across the cobblestone path, around into the dense forest, and towards the banquet location.
past.
The slanting branches above their heads were like a canopy, covering them close to the top of their hair, and the grass leaves were blooming under their feet. Listening to the distant breathing in his ears, he recalled many memories in a daze.
It was the first time he walked side by side with her in the spring, when he picked off a green leaf on his head and played with it. It was also the time in the summer night when she narrowly escaped death in the ghost market, and she carried the river she bent down to cross.
He still clearly remembered the pattern of the leaf in the Yongning Houfu Villa in his palm, but in the blink of an eye, they had walked side by side through Yangchun Zhuming.
The footsteps beside him stopped, and he stopped immediately. The two of them stood on a hidden path, separated from the bustle of Taiye Pond by only a tree.
Seeing that this place was facing the stage, and everyone under the stage could be seen clearly, Yu Qiansi glanced at him, and the curvature of the corner of his mouth showed that he was satisfied with the path he had taken.
"Do you know everyone here?" She felt her head was as big as a bucket after just one glance. Those gaudy silks and satins turned late autumn into spring.
Boyi frowned and looked at it for a long time, then shook his head helplessly, a little embarrassed.
Recently, he has gone out of his way to make up for the relationships between people in the capital, but every portrait he can find is more exaggerated than the last, and now it seems that none of them really match the real person.
"No problem——"
"—Who's sneaking around there!"
Before Yu Qiansi could finish her words, she stood in front of the tree where the two of them were invisible, dressed in pink clothes, accompanied by a coo.
Without thinking, Boyi went to see if he had disturbed the guests at the banquet. After a moment, he turned his eyes and saw that the woman in pink clothes had been dragged in front of them by Yu Qiansi.
He was shocked, thinking that Yu Qiansi was really bold enough to catch someone in the palace, so he blocked her in front of her without even thinking. Countless ways to cover her up ran through his mind in the flash of lightning.
But what he didn't expect was that when he protected Yu Qiansi behind him like a chicken, he was met with Yu Anning's eyes in disbelief.
"Sister Yu, brother Boyi, why are you here?"
She blinked her eyes, wondering why she met the two of them here and now in such a strange way.
"I thought..." At this point, she blushed and stopped talking.
She originally thought that some wild mandarin ducks in the palace were acting recklessly after drinking too much wine. She was worried that they would disturb the banquet and be punished, so she spoke out to scare them away. Therefore, she also strictly controlled the volume so as not to disturb the people at the banquet.
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Boyi didn't know why she blushed. He was relieved when he saw it was her, touched the end of his eyebrows, and then said calmly: "We were going out of the palace, but we were attracted by the bustle here, so we looked for
Come over here."
Yu Anning said "Oh", thinking of her misunderstanding just now, her pink face turned a little red, as if she had applied too much rouge.
And when she accidentally glanced at Yu Qiansi while avoiding her eyes, it looked more and more like the orange-red jujube wine she had just tasted at the table.
Yu Qiansi naturally noticed her dodge and raised his eyebrows in surprise: "Princess Princess, this is..." After not seeing her for three or four months, when he saw her, it felt like he had encountered a ferocious beast.
Yu Anning showed a rare coquettish look, twisting the handkerchief in her hands and murmuring: "I'm sorry, Sister Yu."
She took a deep breath, lowered her head and poured out all the thoughts in her mind recently.
"At first, I thought that you would capture Lin'an and marry her after you found out that she was not dead, so I didn't tell you. In fact, I... I knew that she was not dead a long time ago."
At this point, her voice weakened again, leaking into the gaps in the grass blades under her feet, and was almost impossible to find.
Ever since she heard about the Dachao meeting, she understood in her heart that Sister Yu would fulfill Ma Jian's wish and let him be the murderer of the so-called "princess killer" only after knowing the truth about Lin'an.
And what did I do? Sister Yu gave me the opportunity again and again to tell her the truth, but she kept concealing it again and again. What a villain! It turned out that Sister Yu was also willing to help them both.
Yu Qiansi thought that Yu Anning was troubled by not looking for her recently, but she didn't expect that Yu Anning didn't dare to come to see her, and she was also a little stunned, not knowing what to say.
After a long time, he said: "So, my guess is right? You should be allergic to osmanthus in Lin'an, so on the night of the Zhaixinglou incident, when Boyi said he smelled osmanthus hair oil, you guessed it?"
Yu Anning nodded with difficulty: "Lin'an fell from the building, and there was Ma Jian upstairs. I never believed that he would hurt Lin'an. I was in a daze at the time, but as soon as I heard what Brother Boyi said, I immediately guessed
I'm afraid that this is the plan he and Lin'an discussed to fly away. But Sister Yu, you were ordered to investigate the case. If you find out Lin'an's whereabouts, it will be bad..."
"Later, I secretly went to find Ma Jian, wanting to ask him about Lin'an's whereabouts and help him settle down in Lin'an. But he pretended to be distracted in front of me, as if Lin'an was really gone. I
I couldn't help it, so I had a big argument with him..."
Speaking of this, Yu Anning secretly glanced at Yu Qiansi: "Sister Yu, you guessed it then..."
Yu Qiansi's eyebrows twitched, and there was a dull pain in her heart.
That was the day when the real Lin'an corpse was discovered. But it seemed that Yu Anning didn't know yet.
She breathed a long sigh of relief and comforted softly: "It's okay."
Hearing the sigh above her head, which had no intention of blaming her no matter how hard she thought about it, Yu Anning returned to her usual expression.
She looked around for a moment and asked in a low voice: "Sister Yu, is Lin'an okay now?"
Before Ma Jian's execution, she bribed the jailer to see Ma Jian.
She also asked Ma Jian about Lin'an's whereabouts at that time.
But he just looked at her with determination and said, "I believe in the Master of the Jade Hall."
Since everything is left to Sister Yu, she will definitely be able to handle everything properly!
But...it was sad to think about it. She thought that the two of them could finally stay together forever, but she never expected that Ma Jian would give up his life for Lin'an...