The world's ambitions are unparalleled

Chapter 22: Dream Short Screen Deep Qing Night Sorrow (1)
When I came from Qingyue, because of galloping all the way, it only took less than one month to go.But when returning at this time, for some reason, Jinse always felt that the group of people seemed to be walking very slowly and dawdling.

On this day, she finally couldn't bear to lift the curtain and came out, looking at Su Li: "I want to ride a horse!"

Su Li turned his eyes to look at her, and saw that her brows were finally in high spirits again, turned her head and slightly hooked the corners of her lips, and actually gave her another horse to ride.

The itinerary picked up quickly, but by the time they returned to the capital, it was already late February.

The Empress Dowager hadn't seen Su Li for more than a month, so naturally she was very concerned about it. As soon as they returned to the capital, someone came from the palace to tell Su Li to enter the palace.

These days, Jinse seems to have put the unhappiness in Zhongli behind her, and she is still carefree and happy in the past, but this day she was summoned, and Su Li came to ask her in person: "What is the matter in the palace?" Summoned, are you willing to enter the palace with the king tonight?"

Jinse was excitedly arranging the gadgets she bought along the way, but she seemed to be taken aback when she heard this: "Huh?"

"That's all." Seeing this, Su Li said calmly, "You can rest."

He turned around and went out, but just as he walked out of Jinse's garden, Jinse had already chased him out, with a rather helpless tone: "I'll go with you, lest in the future, you say I don't understand the rules."

Su Li nodded, and led Jinse all the way out of the palace with a calm expression, watching her board the carriage, the corners of his mouth twitched inexplicably.

The cold noodle king can also laugh?Don't say that the housekeepers and guards around didn't believe it, even the Queen Mother was surprised when they entered the palace.

"What's going on here?" The queen mother looked at Su Li's softer face than before, and felt a little funny, "I haven't seen you in such a good mood in a few days, could it be that going to Zhongli is very rewarding?" ?”

When Jinse heard this, she suddenly raised her head to look at the Queen Mother, wondering if she knew about Su Li's ambitions, but she saw that the Queen Mother was smiling gently, which didn't seem to have any meaning at all.After all, Su Li still has to be more cautious about sharing the same mother with the emperor.

Su Li listened to the Queen Mother's teasing words, but suddenly became serious, and restored his usual stern face: "Mother Queen!"

"You still have to pretend to be in front of the Ai family. The Ai family really can't do anything about you." The queen mother sighed slightly, and said, "You left in a hurry that day, and the Ai family had no time to talk about you. As for the marriage, The emperor also said that he will not be here for a while, why are you in such a hurry? Even if it is really imminent, why do you need to go there and make yourself suffer for no reason, and you will lose a lot of weight after going out this time!"

"My son just wants to take advantage of this season to go out for a walk." Su Li replied, "It's just that I haven't been with my mother for the New Year's Eve this year. Why is my mother so fussy?"

Hearing this, Jinse's face couldn't help getting hot, she lowered her head and sipped her tea silently.

"The Ai family doesn't want to argue with you." The queen mother sighed, "It's just that the emperor is ridiculously busy these days, and your second brother is ridiculous, and you are not with the Ai family—"

"What's wrong with the second brother?" Su Li glanced at Jin Se, interrupting the Queen Mother.

Jinse sat there with her eyes lowered all the time, as if she didn't hear what they said at all.

"Didn't the Ai family mention the two daughters of the General's Mansion a few days ago? I intended to point out that one of them would be his concubine, but your royal brother had the idea of ​​marrying again, and he had already said that he would marry Princess Zhongli. , the general naturally put it on hold. Unexpectedly, Ah Mo still had contacts with those two ladies. After going back and forth, the elder sister was taken in by him, and the younger sister was also seduced by him. Now they are clamoring for marriage. He, General Zhou begged Aijia to be his master every day, this master, what should Aijia do?" When the queen mother said that, she seemed to be really angry, "I'm already in my twenties, and I'm still so disrespectful , Aijia really has nothing to do with him!"

Su Li frowned slightly, but just looked at Jinse who lowered his head to eat candied fruit.

Jinse seemed to notice his gaze, raised her head and smiled at him, but said: "The whole body hurts from being bumped on horseback these days. If I want to go out for a walk, I won't bother the Queen Mother and the prince."

Just as Su Li was about to speak, the Queen Mother nodded slightly: "Go."

Jinse got up and went out of the hall, only to see a few young maids in the court kicking the shuttlecock with great interest.

Jin Se had always been "insolent" when she was under the eyes of the Empress Dowager Li. Not only were the little maids not afraid of seeing her, but they happily pulled her to join them.

Jinse really thought about it, took off her cloak, and took the shuttlecock.

Because I hadn't kicked it for a long time, I was quite unfamiliar with it, and after a few kicks, I missed it. I watched the shuttlecock fly straight forward, and landed on the figure who had just entered Shoukang Palace.

The little maids around were stunned for a moment, and when they came back to their senses, they hurriedly said hello: "My maidservant has seen the King of Qin."

Jinse was also stunned, but just looked at the shuttlecock that fell to the bottom of Su Mo's feet.

"Get up." Su Mo chuckled, leaned over to pick up the shuttlecock, looked up at Jinse, smiled slightly, walked two steps closer, and handed the shuttlecock to her.

Jinse stared blankly at the shuttlecock in his hand for a long time, but in the end she still didn't reach out to pick it up, but turned around and took her cloak from the hand of the maid next to her, tied it on, and walked out of Shoukang Palace with her head bowed and her brows furrowed.

From the beginning to the end, he didn't look at Su Mo.

Su Mo's hand was still stretched in the air, Jinse brushed past him as if he was transparent, but he didn't seem to be embarrassed at all, and looked at the group of little palace ladies with a smile: "Whose shuttlecock, don't you want it?"

"My, mine." A little maid finally ran over, took the shuttlecock from him, and smiled silly, "Thank you, Second Lord."

Su Mo looked at the court lady and smiled, a flash of pampering flashed in his eyes, he recovered, but he just returned to normal and walked into the hall.

Jinse strolled in the imperial garden, with nowhere to go, and nowhere to be interesting, so she simply circled around a high and wide rockery.

Until she didn't know how many times she had circled, a voice suddenly sounded above her head: "Princess Ning!"

Jinse was taken aback, and when she looked up, she realized that there was a pavilion on the top of the rockery, and at this moment, a head was sticking out of the pavilion, but it was Min Yu, the chief servant: "Princess Ning, Your Majesty, please come up." Sit down."

Jinse never dreamed that the emperor would be on that rockery, that is to say, she has been circling here just now, but the emperor actually saw her?For a moment, she felt that her head was getting bigger, but she still had to bite the bullet and find the way to the top, and walked up.

There is a heater in the small pavilion. It was originally extremely cold, but it added a bit of warmth.A jug of wine was steaming on the small stove on the stone table, and there were exquisite and complicated appetizers on the table.

Naturally, there is also the emperor sitting at the table.

When the emperor saw her, there was a smile that couldn't be hidden in his warm eyes: "I saw you walking back and forth so many times below, I just thought you smelled the wine and wanted to beg for a drink, so I sent you You called me up. I wonder if I guessed right?"

Jin Se looked at his somewhat similar eyebrows and eyes with Su Mo, and couldn't help feeling a little dazed, only to realize that this person was the emperor, and laughed dryly, not knowing how to answer.

The emperor didn't blame him, but still smiled and said: "I heard that the third brother went to Zhongli this time, and you also went with him?"

"Yes." Jinse replied obediently.

The emperor looked at her, and suddenly stretched out his hand to caress his face: "Is my birth appearance terrifying?"

"Of course not." Jinse replied hastily.

"Then why are you afraid of me?" The emperor smiled and drank a glass of wine, playing with the taste.

Are you afraid of him?Jinse looked at his smiling face, thought for a while, and seemed to be really scared.

In fact, this person looks like Su Mo, probably because they both follow his father, but he still loves to laugh like Su Mo. Although the smiles are different, but due to the similar eyebrows, it always makes people feel like He and Su Mo should be brothers of the same mother, but they are Su Li.However, the funny thing is that Su Li Jinse, who always frowns and has a dark face, is not necessarily afraid, but the emperor who smiles like water in front of her faintly makes her feel terrified.

"Then... can I not be afraid of you, the emperor?" Jinse said suddenly.

The emperor laughed out loud, sighed and said: "There are many people who are afraid of me in this world, and this is the first time someone asked me if I can not be afraid of me. In this case, I will give you this first face, and you are allowed to Don't be afraid of me."

"Really?" Jinse was dubious, which is too easy to talk about.

The emperor seemed to be more happy, pointing at Jinse and said to Min Yu, the head servant, "Min Yu, you said that the youngest married such an interesting concubine, why hasn't he changed his temper?"

Min Yu said with a smile: "From my slave's point of view, King Ning's temperament can't be changed overnight. It's not a day's cold to freeze three feet."

Jinse heard them making fun of her, and also laughed a few times, and she was not so scared. She grabbed something to eat with chopsticks, and suddenly remembered something: "Your Majesty, King Ning... and King Qin are both in the Empress Dowager's palace. Why are you drinking here alone?"

The emperor heard the words and looked around: "I love the scenery here."

Jinse also looked around, but she didn't feel anything strange: "It's nothing more than seeing the whole imperial garden. The emperor grew up in the palace. Could it be that he hasn't seen enough?"

"It's not uncommon to see the imperial garden, but this is the only place where you can see the entire imperial garden." The emperor still had a gentle smile on his face, and lightly drank a glass of warm wine.

These words seemed to mean something, Jinse's heart suddenly went cold again, and she vaguely understood why she was afraid of him before.

She suddenly remembered that she was still Princess Ning, and Su Li was bent on fighting against him, the elder brother of the emperor, but she was ignorant and didn't know what the emperor was thinking, so she sat opposite him and drank wine like this , seems a little too incomplete.

Thinking of this, Jinse hastily put down her chopsticks, and was just about to get up to say goodbye, but the emperor suddenly said: "I have seen your sister before, you are not half alike to her."

Jinse didn't expect him to suddenly mention Jinyan, and for a moment she forgot that she was going to leave, and said with some trepidation: "Yes, my sister is very good, I can't even match her by half. If I don't have this body Relative by blood, I really dare not tell others that I am her younger sister."

The emperor laughed softly when he heard the words: "Why do you need to be so presumptuous? In my opinion, you and your sister have their own merits."

Thinking of her sister repeatedly, Jinse became inexplicably irritable: "Now that my sister is gone, what else can I compare with her?"

The emperor looked at her, and suddenly smiled faintly: "Yes, your sister is very good, but it's a pity that the beauty is unlucky."

Hearing this, Jinse felt that there was something in her heart that was constantly expanding, and when she couldn't restrain it, she was about to burst out, suddenly there was a slight noise from below, and then it was Su Li's voice: "It turns out that the emperor is here. Here alone at ease."

Then he was not the only one who came up from the rockery, but also Su Mo.

The words that Jinse was about to blurt out suddenly froze on the edge of her mouth, and slowly flowed back into her heart.

"It's so lively now, you two are here." The emperor lightly raised his hand to stop Su Mo and Su Li who were going to salute, "There are no outsiders here, please sit down."

Su Li sat down beside Jinse, lowered his voice and said, "Why are you here?"

"I invited her to come up." The emperor smiled casually, and looked at Su Mo again, "It's just Ah Mo who left me, why did you come back?"

Su Mo sat on the seat opposite Jinse, took the lead to drink a glass of wine, and then said with a smile: "At first, I wanted to pay my respects to my mother, but I didn't want my mother to be angry with me. How dare I stay there and say a few words Then I came out. Just as the third brother heard that Brother Huang was drinking alone here, he said that he would come over to offer the New Year’s Eve glass of wine to Brother Huang, so they came together."

"Yes." Su Li poured a glass of wine for the emperor, toasted another glass, then put down the glass and looked at Jinse, and said with deep eyes: "It was fine before, why is your face so bad now?"

"Is there?" Jinse stretched out her hand to caress her face, and said with a doubtful smile, "I'm fine."

"It's fine." Su Li's face darkened slightly, and he stopped looking at her.

"Where did you come here to toast me? It's clear that I am inseparable from my princess for a moment, and I came out to find someone." The emperor sighed with a smile, and looked at Su Mo, "Ah Mo, we'd better go Bar."

Jin Se suddenly blushed in embarrassment, lowered her eyes and remained silent.

Su Mo chuckled and said, "Since the emperor came here first, there is absolutely no reason to let him go. Let him find another place by himself. However, no matter whether you go or not, I will take my leave first."

Seeing Su Mo got up and was about to leave, the emperor suddenly called him: "Ah Mo!"

Su Mo turned his head, and the emperor said again: "Leaving in such a hurry, could it be that the beautiful woman has an appointment? With the two young ladies of the Zhou family, at least you have an explanation, don't let the queen mother worry about it."

Su Mo smiled nonchalantly, and his peachy eyes flashed: "Don't worry, brother, one is that I am not going to see those two sisters, and the other is that I will explain to them sooner or later."

Seeing him leave, the emperor sighed helplessly: "This time, I'm afraid it will be Linglong Garden again?"

Su Li couldn't help but glanced at Jinse again, but saw that Jinse's expression hadn't changed at all, and then looked at the emperor: "Why does the emperor know about Linglong Garden?"

"Naturally, I have heard of such a famous place, not to mention how many officials live there every night in my court."

Su Li's expression gradually turned serious: "Brother Huang also suspects that place?"

The emperor stood up slowly and stood with his hands behind his back facing the outside of the pavilion: "If so many officials come and go among them, if they are used by someone with a heart, how can I be at ease? What's more, I have sent someone to investigate—"

"I can't find any clues about who is behind the scenes." Su Li said lightly, the emperor glanced back at him, and said with a smile: "You have also checked."

"Exactly." Su Li also stood up, "This situation is indeed worrying."

Jinse listened quietly from the side, and also vaguely heard a clue, but just pretended that she didn't hear it, and ate in silence.

From the day until he returned home, Su Li's expression never looked good again.Jinse knew why, but she always felt that she had no position to explain, so she had to let him go.

The next day, Jinse took Luhe back to the Hou Mansion.

Father is not in the mansion, neither is Song Heng.

Jinse only felt that ever since she married Su Li and became a couple in name only, the Marquis of Anding's mansion became less and less homely, and there was no master at home all the time.

Unexpectedly, without a host at home, Jinse welcomed guests instead.

When she came to the flower hall after hearing the announcement from the housekeeper, she saw two beautiful girls sitting in the hall. The older one was tall and slim, and the younger one seemed a little undersized. In terms of beauty and demeanor, they are really evenly divided.

Seeing her, the two stood up together: "I have seen Princess Ning."

"Miss Zhou, you don't need to be too polite." Jinse greeted with a smile, "I don't know why you two came here this time?"

The two Miss Zhou, one big and one small, are the two daughters of General Zhou, the two who would not marry unless Su Mo.

The eldest lady Zhou Yun saluted in a low voice, Fang said: "To tell you the truth, Princess Ning, the two of my sisters came this time for the sake of the former Second Prince and Concubine."

elder sister?Jinse's face changed slightly, but she still had a smile on her face, ready to listen with great interest.

"My sister has passed away for several years, and the two of you said that you came here for my sister, which really confuses me." Jinse said with a smile, taking a sip of her tea.

The second lady, Zhou Qi, seems to be a character who can't hide her words. After hearing what Jinse said, she said bluntly: "Suwen Princess Ning is straightforward, so I will just speak bluntly. My two sisters came here this time because they wanted to go Take a look at the former residence of the second imperial concubine."

Jin Se frowned slightly: "My sister's former residence?"

"Yes." Zhou Yun continued, "My sister and I came here to pay homage to the former residence of the second imperial concubine to show our respect."

Jinse vaguely understood something, but said: "My sister's former residence has long been abandoned, it is really inappropriate for the two young ladies to go, please forgive me."

Zhou Yun said again: "My sister and I have no other intentions, but the place is already deserted, so it is always necessary to pay homage."

"My sister's tomb is in the eastern suburbs." Jinse stood up, "If you want to worship, you can go there by yourself."

As soon as she stood up, she made it clear that she wanted to see off the guests, but the two young ladies of the Zhou family also stood up, Zhou Yun said: "In that case, I will disturb Princess Ning, and my sisters will leave first."

Jinse smiled and ordered: "Housekeeper, send the two Miss Zhou off."

The two left the Marquis' Mansion, and when they boarded the carriage, Zhou Qi said, "According to my sister, is there any ambiguity between Princess Ning and King Qin as rumored?"

Zhou Yun frowned slightly and said: "It's hard to say. After all, we came here this time, and the excuse we made was to pay homage to the former residence of the second imperial concubine. Although Princess Ning's face is ugly, I don't know whether it is purely for her sister or the king of Qin."

"In my opinion, she just doesn't know the king of Qin." Zhou Qi has his own opinion, "If she is for the second imperial concubine, she should be sad, but I don't think she looks sad. , but—”

"Angry." Zhou Yun also nodded and said, "Exactly. Just wait and see if she will go to King Qin, and you will know everything."

In the flower hall, Jinse watched the two sisters leave, her face finally collapsed completely, and she sat where she was with a pale face.

Lu He sneered slightly: "These two sisters are too ridiculous. By visiting the former residence of the young lady, one can get a sense of the living habits of the young lady in the past, so as to please the second master, right? Who came up with this idea for them ?”

"What does it matter who advises them?" Jin Se also sneered, "What matters is who is the culprit!"

In the evening, Jinse changed into men's clothes and went to Linglong Garden alone.

Hui Niang, the head of Linglong Garden, seemed to have some impression of her face, but she was a little uncertain: "Master, this is your first time here?"

"That's right." Jinse didn't shy away, "I come here here for the name, doesn't it mean that Aunt Hui doesn't do business with strangers?" After she finished speaking, she gently turned the jade wrench on her thumb, which was exactly on the right hand. The priceless one bestowed by the emperor.

"Where is this talking!" Hui Niang hurriedly said, "Since the young master is willing to come here, it is our Linglong Pavilion's luck! Then please come with me, young master, to see which girl is happy?"

Jinse got up and followed her in the exquisite courtyard. When she walked through the Begonia Garden and saw the White Lotus Garden in front of her, Jinse stopped and looked at the dancing figure in the garden: "Just her."

"Okay." Hui Niang smiled, "Then from now on, Bai Lian will be the young master's man!"

"Thank you, Aunt Hui." Jinse nodded slightly.

Hui Niang took another deep look at her face before turning away with a smile.

Jinse is not stupid.With a person like Hui Niang who has seen so many people, plus the fact that she caused such a big incident in Linglong Pavilion last time, how could she not recognize herself?And the reason for pretending not to know is probably the way of survival of Linglong Pavilion?
(End of this chapter)