This queen is not too curly

The man in Confucian robe saluted under the moonlight, his gentle voice seemed to melt into the night wind.

Chen Ling couldn't open his mouth, so he kept his saluting posture, bowing slightly like an arrow stretching a string, and dormant quietly.

Yan Yuan suddenly couldn't hear her own heartbeat.

It seems to have stopped.

In the stalemate, a suffocating silence spread.

After an unknown amount of time, Chen Ling's cold voice sounded, "Excuse me."

The man finally straightened his body, and the moment his hands fell, his eyes avoided Chen Lingchen, and precisely landed on Yan Yuan's body.

The long and deep gaze, as if across thousands of mountains and rivers, finally fell on Yan Yuan's face like frost and snow.

Ji Fei.

Yan Yuan tried her best not to shout out.

She and Ji Fei never had a real farewell. When he led away the pursuers outside the cave, he was probably ready to leave and never return, and he didn't even say a word of parting.

At that time, I hurried away.

She never saw him again.

She has also turned back to the snowfield, and these years, she has sent people to the snowfield to search for it every year, just to find a corpse, or even a piece of clothing, so that the soul of the person who has been buried under the snow for a long time can return to his hometown.

However, she never found anything.

He was still alive.

Standing in front of her alive.

The heartbeat that could not be heard just now suddenly exploded in the chest cavity.

Yan Yuan suppressed her breathing, but her body was covered in sweat due to the overly agitated emotions. For a moment, her mind went blank, and only one thought fell to the ground.

Since it is still alive.

Why...don't you come to me?
The night wind blows, and the wet forehead bears the cold wind, and the coolness almost penetrates into the bone marrow.

Yan Yuan finally came back to her senses, shivering and tightening her body.

Seeing her movements, Ji Fei was slightly taken aback.

Princess Yuerong's voice interrupted the silence: "Your Majesty, I am a guard who was guarding the place where I stayed. I just saw that I have not returned, so I came to look for it. Does Your Majesty want to investigate further?"

Chen Ling said coldly, "No need."

Princess Yuerong bowed and saluted: "Then Yuerong will take my leave for the time being."

As she spoke, she walked forward on her own, and the guards behind her naturally followed the master to leave. Only Ji Fei, whose footsteps froze for a moment, finally turned around and followed Yuerong's pace .

Ji Fei!

Yan Yuan's breathing tightened.

She wanted to chase after him to find out, but she also knew that with Chen Ling sinking beside her, she had no position or identity to chase after.

She is Yan Yuan.

She is the daughter of Marquis Dingbei and the queen of Yan State.

Only not Ning Bai.

So the hurried footsteps only took one and a half steps, and then stopped.

Yan Yuan closed her eyes, her chaotic mind gradually became clear in the cold wind.

She turned her head to look at Chen Lingchen, with a small guilty conscience hidden in her eyes.

Was she just...obvious?

Yan Yuan wasn't sure, and didn't dare to rashly explain that it was superfluous, so she just lowered her head and waited for Chen Lingshen to ask.

However, Chen Lingchen didn't open his mouth. He didn't even ask why Yan Yuan had to leave the banquet early at the end of the dinner, and then squatted on the only way to leave the imperial garden.

He didn't seem at all interested in what she was doing.

He just lowered his eyebrows, hiding his expression in the night, then moved to Yan Yuan's side, bent slightly, and took her hand.

Yan Yuan's palms were sweating, it was as cold as ice.

He warmed hers with his palm, then took his hand and walked out of the imperial garden slowly.

Yan Yuan didn't dare to move.

The chariot that came to pick her up had already parked outside the garden, so she didn't dare to make a sound, so she could only let Chen Ling hold hands and walk all the way from the imperial garden to the gate of Wangshu Palace.

Cold wind all the way.

Feel guilty all the way.

She stopped at the gate of the palace, raised her head and stared at Chen Lingchen.

Chen Lingshen met her gaze, lowered his head docilely, and his thick eyelashes cast a shadow on his cheek.

Yan Yuan said awkwardly: "You..."

Just now, she wanted to give that princess Yuerong a mantis, cicada and oriole, so she sneaked away under the pretext of being unwell, but she didn't expect to be caught by Chen Lingshen.

There is only one chance, she has no choice but to take him together as a weasel.

How delicate is this dog emperor, how could he not think too much?
But he just didn't ask anything.

If he didn't ask, how could she argue?

Yan Yuan wanted to speak to him directly, why don't you ask something!

But when the words came to his lips, they turned into: "Your Majesty promised my concubine that I will take a rest tonight to catch up on sleep."

Chen Lingchen probably didn't expect that Yan Yuan's first words would be about this matter, so he froze for a moment.

He let go of his hand and said softly, "Okay."

Yan Yuan thought for a while, and decided to take the moral high ground first: "Give him back the black iron piece of Qiu Yu's crossbow."

Chen Ling's heavy eyelashes drooped: "Okay."

Yan Yuan didn't expect him to admit it so readily, and suddenly she didn't know how to make trouble, so she could only say forcefully: "Then the concubine...the concubine has returned to the bedroom."

Chen Ling said softly, "Okay."

Yan Yuan hesitated, turned around and walked into Wangshu Palace.

Chen Ling left slowly.

The eunuchs carried the chariot and followed behind him not too far or too close.

The father-in-law in charge of the Qianzheng Palace stepped forward several times and asked cautiously: "Your Majesty, it's cold and windy in winter, so why don't you get on the sedan chair, Your Majesty?"

Chen Ling said seriously, "No need."

The father-in-law turned around in a hurry: "Then the sage should add some clothes?"

Chen Ling said calmly, "No need."

He needs the cold wind.

At least for now.

In this way, he rode the wind all the way back to the Qianzheng Hall.

He also ordered someone to light the lamp in the imperial study room, and then followed the familiar bookshelf to find the document he wanted to find.These documents were searched when he went back to the palace to thoroughly investigate Ning Bai's whereabouts, and they were all about Jian Boying.He looked at them once and never wanted to open them again, and they have sat on his bookshelf for years now.

The light of the candle illuminates the booklet, and the text on it is clearly visible:
Seven years ago, I met Bo Ying, the chief general, whose surname was Ji.

Ji Fei.

The dust has settled.

There is a reasonable explanation for her strangeness today.

Because he suspected that there was his former general among the guards around Princess Yuerong, he did not hesitate to take risks; because he was not reconciled, he left the table early to wait for the rabbit;

Because of Ji Fei.

So she was restless, anxious and flustered.

Chen Ling looked at the writing on the document quietly.

After a long time, the voice of the eunuch in charge sounded behind him: "Your Majesty, this servant has prepared some wine to drive you out of the cold."

Chen Ling said calmly, "No need."

The eunuch in charge hesitated and said, "Your Majesty..."

Chen Lingchen gently closed the booklet: "Prepare the soothing incense."

……

Wangshu palace.

Yan Yuan also had a sleepless night.

Joy and irritability coexisted, and anxiety clung to her thoughts like vines.

She had to work hard to force herself to lie on the bed, instead of climbing over the wall to visit the princess's residence at night.

Ji Fei is still alive.

What about the others?
Is it also possible to be alive?

She tossed and turned on the bed, and she also wanted to understand why Ji Fei didn't find herself immediately: after her father rescued her, he erased all the traces of Ning Bai left on the snowfield, he might have thought she was dead ?

But if this is the case, why did he avoid it today?
Coincidence or...

He knew that she was also at the banquet today?

A lot of problems condensed into a ball, so she didn't feel sleepy at night, until the sky outside was pale, she took two clothes and put them on without waiting for Ruan Zhu to come.

She has already thought of the reason.

Princess Yuerong came here for the birthday banquet, and she was ordered by the Queen Mother to host the birthday banquet, so entertaining the envoys is naturally one of her responsibilities.

She hastily had her breakfast, thinking of going to the Palace of Kindness to ask the Queen Mother first, and volunteered to take charge of Princess Yuerong's entertainment in the palace today, but unexpectedly, before she had time to leave, the Queen Mother's order arrived first.

The content of Yizhi was exactly the same as her thoughts.

The father-in-law who delivered the decree smiled and said: "Princess Yuerong said that she was very kind when she saw the empress, so she asked the empress last night that she would like the empress to be her companion during the few days in the palace."

As soon as the father-in-law passing the decree left, Ruan Zhu gritted his teeth and thought: "Provocation, definitely provocation..."

Ruan Zhu pushed Yan Yuan to the dressing table, removed her bun, and redressed her makeup.

Ruan Zhu said: "My lady, don't be afraid, today we can still crush her without wearing court clothes!"

Yan Yuan: "..."

Yan Yuan laughed: "It's not necessary, I feel that now..."

She wanted to say that light makeup is good now, but don't make it into a jewelry stand like last night, but halfway through, she looked at herself in the mirror, and suddenly her heart skipped a beat.

In the mirror, Yan Yuan didn't apply any makeup or powder, her face and facial features were unobstructed, and she was five or six points similar to that princess.

She stared blankly at herself in the mirror, and suddenly realized why she felt an indescribably familiar look at that Princess Yuerong last night, because she had only seen that picture in the mirror before setting off for the Royal Garden last night. Face.

It was her own face.

...Why is this happening?

……

Half an hour later, Yan Yuan went to Princess Yuerong's residence with her stomach full of doubts.

The place where the princess stayed was a small courtyard beside the imperial garden. At that time, the warm sun was shining on the earth, and a magnolia tree in the courtyard was covered with branches full of blooming flowers, like a white bird fluttering its wings on the same tree.

The Princess Yuerong set up a couch under the tree, squinting her eyes and basking in the sun under the flowers.

When Yan Yuan walked into the courtyard with the sound of the palace servants, Princess Yuerong just got up from the couch. Her face was not as heavy in make-up as last night, and her eyes were still full of tiredness. When Yan Yuan arrived, she smiled lazily.

"You're here." She said lazily, "Want some tea? I brought scented tea from Jin."

Yan Yuan was stunned, they were obviously not such a familiar relationship, but her tone of voice seemed to be directed at someone she had known for many years.

This feeling was so weird that she didn't know how to respond for a while.

Ruan Zhu was obviously stunned. She had never seen such a bold and arrogant person, and she was so angry that she wanted to go forward and argue: "Please ask the princess to..."

Yan Yuan stopped Ruan Zhu: "You should look back at Shu Gong first."

Ruan Zhu said anxiously: "Your Majesty!"

Yan Yuan said softly: "It's okay, I also want to have a good chat with the princess."

Ruan Zhu had no choice but to leave the small courtyard with a worried face.

Princess Yuerong yawned and said, "If you want to drink, I'll make some, just wait a while."

She only put on light makeup today, and passed Yan Yuan with her skirt in her hand, and glanced back when she passed by.

Yan Yuan looked at the face that was similar to her, and suddenly felt that five or six points were not enough to summarize the similarity between the two of them - she was almost [-]% like her, and the reason why no one noticed last night was because The moon is dark and the wind is high, and secondly, she probably deliberately covered the features of her face with makeup.

Did she already know?
Yan Yuan stood in the small courtyard, her mind had already turned thousands of times.

When Princess Yuerong came out after making tea, she saw that Yan Yuan was still standing there, and immediately laughed: "Do you Yan people like to drink tea standing up?"

Yan Yuan suddenly recovered her senses and looked around, and sat down at the coffee table under the magnolia tree.

Princess Yuerong sat across from her, and pushed a cup of tea to her: "Have a taste?"

Yan Yuan lowered her head and saw that the teacup was steaming hot, and a few small purple flowers that she had never seen before were churning in the water, and a pleasant fragrance came to her nostrils.

Yan Yuan didn't think much about it, she raised her teacup and took a sip, only feeling a cool taste pouring into her heart.

Princess Yuerong stared at her and said, "How?"

Yan Yuan said honestly, "It's a bit strange."

Obviously the tea is hot and the mouth is hot, but for some reason it feels cool when swallowed.

The taste was very magical, and she took a few more sips out of curiosity.

Princess Yuerong smiled across from her, and asked her softly: "Aren't you afraid of being poisoned?"

Yan Yuan asked, "Is it poisonous?"

Princess Yuerong said: "A little bit."

Yan Yuan: "..."

Princess Yuerong squinted her eyes and smiled: "How about a cup of poisoned tea, one question?"

When she smiled, she was sly, her eyes rolled, and her plain face had an indescribable charm.

Yan Yuan drank the tea in the cup: "I want to see Ji Fei."

Princess Yuerong shook her head: "No, this is not a problem."

Yan Yuan thought for a while and said, "Can I see Ji Fei?"

Princess Yuerong froze for a moment, probably because she had never thought about the game she proposed had such a way of playing, and suddenly fell into a dilemma.

Yan Yuan blinked, her face full of sincerity.

Princess Yuerong sighed: "You are cheating, Miss Ning Baining."