Chapter 205 Merlin's Coincidence
Yingluo was recovering from the Jinxi Palace for more than half a month. During this period, the servants in the palace seemed to have reached a tacit understanding. Whenever they saw Yingluo, they all smiled respectfully, especially the Butler Qiao, who ordered the kitchen to provide Yingluo with various food and tea all day long. Yingluo told him several times that Butler Qiao did not need to be so polite, but on the surface, the Butler Qiao agreed well every time, but the meals he served later seemed to be more refined and sumptuous than the original ones.
At this time, Yingluo could only sigh helplessly. If her body allowed her, she would still want to return to her mansion as soon as possible. In the Jinxi Palace, although everyone was very enthusiastic about her, for some reason, Yingluo always felt strange, but something was wrong and couldn't tell her.
"Jiao'er, please help me go to the yard for a walk." The weather was good today, and the sun was shining. The plum blossoms in the yard were in full bloom. Yingluo glanced out the window and said to Qiao'er.
Qiaoer was a little embarrassed, "Girl, but Mr. Qu said that it is best for you to stay in bed and rest in these days. Besides, it is cold outside. What should I do if it gets cold?"
Yingluo shook her head gently and said, "I know my body very well. Besides, I have been lying for half a month, and my bones are about to be soft. It's time to go out and walk around."
Seeing Yingluo so persistent, Qiaoer had to answer that, and quickly found a few of the thickest clothes from the box he brought to wear for Yingluo. Not only that, before leaving, she put the silver fox cloak on Yingluo's body with confidence.
Even though she was wrapped in this warm and thick fox flask, after sucking in a mouthful of cold air, Yingluo couldn't help but shivered. Yingluo couldn't help frowning slightly, wondering in her heart. Half a month has passed, why is this body so afraid of the cold? It seems that endless cold air is rising from the soles of her feet and gradually spreading to her entire body.
Yingluo gritted her teeth and endured the bone-filled cold and slowly walked under the several blooming white plum trees in the yard.
The white plums, which are as crystal clear as snow, bloom in clusters on the branches, the petals are lubricated and transparent, carved like a platinum or jade, like an elf without any trace of fireworks in the world. The fragrance floats on the tip of the nose. Yingluo looked at the white plums all over the trees and couldn't help but frown gently, with endless desolation and loneliness in her eyes.
I remember that there was also a large plum blossom forest in the back garden of the Prime Minister's Mansion, which was Yingluo's favorite garden.
One winter, the young Yingluo accompanied her father and mother to attend a banquet in the palace. At the palace banquet, the smart, well-behaved and lovely little Yingluo was very popular with the emperor. After the banquet, the emperor specially allowed Ruan Xiang to take Xiao Yingluo to visit the imperial garden. When everyone walked into a green and white green plum forest, the emperor saw that Yingluo liked the green plums very much, so he deliberately teased Yingluo and asked her to use this as a subtitle to listen to it.
Yingluo, who was young, was not afraid. After three rounds of a green plum tree, she started to recite crisply, "Look at it carefully, it's not that the snow is not fragrant, the wind blows the fragrance scatters."
After hearing this, the emperor laughed and said that she, a girl, had such literary talent at a young age, was very rare! The emperor was happy for a moment and ordered people to move a few green plum trees from the imperial garden and give them to the Prime Minister's Mansion.
Although green plums are not a rare treasure, it is a different matter to transplant them from the imperial garden. It is an extraordinary thing in the heavenly family. Whoever has such an honor should be a great grace. For a moment, the prime minister's daughter, who is smart and stunningly literary, was rumored to be a good talk in Kyoto City, and Prime Minister Ruan Quan also has a lot of shiny on his face, and he has placed infinite hope for his daughter's future...
I think I haven't seen those plum trees for a long time, and I haven't seen them for a few years. I guess they are blooming like layers of fragrant and lively at this moment...
When Yingluo quietly looked at the plum blossoms under the plum tree and fell into deep thought, on the other side of the courtyard, a young man wearing a green python-patterned narrow-sleeved robe wearing a brocade fur cloak was also looking at Yingluo thoughtfully.
The old man reacted quickly. The current strange man entered the inner courtyard. He was very vigilant and immediately blocked Yingluo, pointed to the direction of the man, shouting loudly, "Who are you? How dare you peep at my girl so unscrupulously in the daytime!"
The young man couldn't help but smile with a hearty smile, walked forward steadily, and saluted Yingluo, "Miss, don't blame me, I just wandered around the palace and walked here accidentally following Mei Xiang."
Yingluo turned around, her eyes fell on the young man, and immediately recognized his identity, Xiao Tianduo, the emperor's eighth son.
A few years ago, Yingluo had seen him at a palace banquet, but at that time he was still a young man with a clean and small body. After a few years, he grew taller and became darker and stronger.
Xiao Tianduo is the son of Concubine Ying and the grandson of Yin Yi, the general of the cavalry. Perhaps he has the blood of a general, so Xiao Tianduo especially liked to dance with swords and guns when he was young. When other brothers were reading saints' articles to learn how to save the world, he secretly hid and read various books on military tactics. It is also because of this that when Xiao Tianduo was a little older, the emperor simply asked him to follow Yin Yi to the army as a small deputy general to experience it, which was also considered to be a strong body and a greater experience.
Finally, he could go on the battlefield to kill the enemy and show his ambitions. This fulfilled Xiao Tianduo's long-cherished wish. Therefore, in the past two years in the army, Xiao Tianduo has eaten and lived with the soldiers, and never easily revealed his true identity to anyone. Not only that, Xiao Tianduo also won many military merits and rewards from the court in several battles of all sizes with his solid ability to defend against the enemy. If it weren't for the return of the army this time, I'm afraid everyone wouldn't know that this young and brave young general would be the prince!
Yingluo gave a gentle bow and smiled and said, "The folk girl has met Your Highness the Eighth Highness."
Xiao Tianduo was stunned and blurted out, "Do you know me?"
Yingluo lowered her eyes and smiled faintly, "The folk girl heard that the Eighth Highness and King Jinxi have always been intimate. She can walk around the palace at will without a follower's message. She is also a face that the folk girl has never seen before. I guess she must be the Eighth Highness who just returned to Beijing with the army a few days ago."
Xiao Tianduo laughed, his laughter was frank and cheerful, without any hint or twist. He looked at Yingluo seriously and said, "You are very smart."
His eyes were smiling, brighter than the stars in autumn, and his smile was cheerful and upright without any haze. He did not have the arrogance that people in the royal family were accustomed to, nor was he as lonely as Xiao Yuanhao. Instead, it made people feel that everything was so comfortable and natural. This was a bright smile that only people who had not been influenced by power and selfish desires all year round. It seemed that the emperor sent him to the military camp to experience and stay away from the whirlpool of court disputes, which was not a bad thing for Xiao Tianduo. However, since he was born in an imperial family, how could he avoid such a thing as fate?
Chapter completed!