The twenty-ninth chapter thousand miles old friend 8(1/2)
His Highness King Jin's excitement was really aroused by Taixuan, and the people in front of the door were stunned for a moment except Xie Yao.
Is this His Highness, King of Jin?
No one moves or speaks, even the horse is very obedient, and the gate of the King of Jin's mansion is as quiet as if no one is present.
The sudden hug surprised Bai Jinyu and was a little puzzled. Despite this, it did not prevent her from feeling Feng Chen's inner excitement at this moment.
As Su Lihua, and as well as Bai Jinyu did not push Feng Chen away because she could feel his mood.
Bai Jinyu's face was lightly against Feng Chen's shoulders. His clothes were stained with the tranquility of the thick night, and his breathing was filled with this comfortable coolness. The ups and downs in Feng Chen's chest were the opposite of the cold collar.
After a moment, Feng Chen calmed down and held Bai Jinyu's shoulder and pushed her away a little. As if he had met again after a long time, his eyes were on her face.
At the same time, Bai Jinyu also saw a dirty mark left by Feng Chen's shoulder.
On the silver silk satin, the light black gray was very disproportionate to Fengchen's Yiya. She quickly reached out to dust it, raised her head and apologized with embarrassment with her eyes.
Feng Chen stared at Bai Jinyu with concern. As he looked, he raised his hand and scraped her fingertips on her cheek. Bai Jinyu looked at her side and saw a pinch of powdery blood scabs between his fingers that were together.
Bai Jinyu was shocked and her eyes were free and dodged.
After a long time, without any questioning, she touched her face embarrassedly, shaved the dry areas on her face with her fingernails, and shaved the blood scabs on her hands.
Now she was really embarrassed. She had no way to avoid it, so she had to explain honestly: "This... Your Highness, don't worry, this is not my blood. Well..."
"I didn't ask anything." Feng Chen said.
Bai Jinyu looked up and saw Feng Chen looking at her quietly, closing his eyes to confirm.
Bai Jinyu suddenly felt relieved, as if she had been let go, and she had the experience of surviving the disaster. But at the same time, she seemed even more guilty.
"Get in." Feng Chen said softly.
"Okay." Bai Jinyu looked at him and smiled, skipping a lot of words.
Bai Jinyu was glad that Feng Chen and Su Lihua were both extremely transparent people. The tacit understanding of each other, which really allowed them to escape once.
Seeing that Fengchen and Bai Jinyu had returned to normal, Xie Yao, Zhang Meng and others seemed to suddenly relax. Xie Yao waved his hand and the two guards moved several stacks of tall books and document books from the car.
Feng Chen told them to move the things into the study, and Bai Jinyu couldn't help asking: "Is it because your highness wants to see these things tonight?"
Feng Chen said: "Yes."
Bai Jinyu watched everyone walk away and lowered her voice: "What kind of handle did Wang Chong capture for others? He was willing to accept the crime of buying the question?"
Fengchen looked at her.
Bai Jinyu hurriedly said, "Oh, I understand, I understand. Your Highness is not convenient to tell outsiders if you say something confidential!"
Feng Chen said: "Give away the tribute."
Bai Jinyu was stunned. It was not because of Wang Chong's crime, but because she was completely prepared for Feng Chen not to tell her, but Feng Chen spoke.
She coughed and said strangely: "No, the tributes presented from various places will be registered and recorded. How could he deduct them?"
Feng Chen said: "In our territory, some counties and counties with distant land often put the tributes in double portions at the beginning of departure to prevent damage to the tributes."
Bai Jinyu understood at a glance and immediately understood: "Oh! I understand, the Ministry of Revenue is in charge of tribute affairs, so once these tributes are not damaged, then this extra portion will be swallowed by Wang Chong."
Feng Chen nodded.
Bai Jinyu was shocked, and she was really eye-opening, and she was deeply moved by the many corruptions and abuses in this world.
"I also need to sort out the accounts before I can present them to the emperor." Feng Chen said.
Upon hearing this, Bai Jinyu opened her mouth to persuade him to do it tomorrow, but when she thought that this was not an ordinary little thing, she held back and didn't say it.
When she returned to the room, Bai Jinyu had just changed her clothes and heard the sound of holding the door twice. She asked and went forward to open the door, and then she saw that Xie Yao had brought some midnight snacks.
A cup of bird's nest soup and a few fancy desserts, sweetly, very much to Bai Jinyu's appetite. Xie Yao stood beside her and watched her eat some plates cleanly.
Bai Jinyu wiped her mouth with a veil and concluded: "The chef of the King of Jin's mansion is really outstanding. Everything is so delicious, but these are all desserts. I remember that Your Highness doesn't eat much sweets, and it probably doesn't suit his appetite."
Xie Yao heard this, silent for a while, and said, "Your Highness has no midnight snack."
Bai Jinyu was stunned and said, "Why? This is your negligence. It's so late. Even if Your Highness has used supper, he should be hungry at this time!"
Bai Jinyu looked at Xie Yao with some reproach, but saw him tucking his lips, as if he wanted to speak but stopped.
Bai Jinyu was curious when he looked like this. She simply raised her head with one hand and stared at Xie Yao for him to say it.
Under her scrupulous attitude, Xie Yao brewed for a while and said, "Your Highness never needs midnight snacks."
"Oh." Bai Jinyu nodded, it was possible. At the same time, she felt bored by the answer and thought it was something amazing!
"Actually," Xie Yao wanted to say something as if he was determined, but he hesitated after only saying two words.
Bai Jinyu, who had just gotten rid of the excitement, was caught by him again, and waited for him with his chin again, and asked, "What is it?"
Xie Yao's expression was calm, as if what he wanted to say made him struggle very much.
"Ah?" Bai Jinyu was waiting. If it were someone else, she would have pinched his neck and forced him, but now the other party was Xie Yao, and she really couldn't do anything about Xie Yao. First, the other person's usual style is just a little talkative, and second, because of the huge gap between her and him, she couldn't pinch Xie Yao.
After a long time, Xie Yao finally made up his mind and said, "Your Highness doesn't need supper."
In just a few short words, Bai Jinyu was so angry that he was about to ask a question, but Xie Yao added: "Have you forgotten the Empress?"
Oh, yes, she is Su Lihua, she can't act so surprised.
After sorting out his emotions, Bai Jinyu smiled awkwardly and said, "Oh, I have been back to Shangshu Mansion for too long and I almost forgot about this. It's really..."
"Your Highness has not had to eat for three or four years." Xie Yao seemed to be talking to himself.
"Ah?" Bai Jinyu was so shocked that she murmured softly. She hadn't eaten dinner for three or four years?! She was almost scared by this message.
"Then, that..." Bai Jinyu "that" for a long time, and she was incoherent. Suddenly, she thought that Huang Gu had told her that Feng Chen had made friends with several Taoist priests in the past few years, so she asked curiously: "Is this also a Taoist practice method similar to fasting?"
Xie Yao leaned over and packed up Bai Jinyu's used dishes and said straight: "Your Highness doesn't want to eat or drink."
"Don't think about tea and rice? Why doesn't he think about tea and rice? The chef in the house is so good." Bai Jinyu sat down, looking at Xie Yao holding things in an orderly manner, chasing him with his eyes, but Xie Yao just didn't look at her.
Finally, Xie Yao said, "Empress doesn't know, how can I know?" His face was extremely cold, as if it could freeze with water.
"You..." Bai Jinyu choked. It was so strange. She knew that Xie Yao had always spoken to people like this, but now she felt that she was choking by him.
She didn’t eat dinner for three or four years, and stayed up late and didn’t eat midnight snacks... Bai Jinyu seemed to understand a little why Fengchen had lost a lot of weight in a few years. It was incredible!
She suddenly thought of a picture. She was having a midnight snack in the palace that day. When Yan Luo packed Feng Chen's bowls and plates, his subordinates were stunned.
Now she finally understood why it was stagnant, because Feng Chen ate a piece of jujube paste that night!
"Empress really wants to know the reason?" Xie Yao's voice sounded, and Bai Jinyu realized that he had not left yet.
She nodded for granted: "I want to know!"
Xie Yao looked at Bai Jinyu and said, "Why didn't the Empress ask Your Highness yourself?" After that, he bowed humbly, but in fact he stepped out with nothing sincerely.
Hey!
Is Xie Yao's last look provoking?!
Why do you think she dare not ask?
Cut, Bai Jinyu sneered, what's the big deal that I dare not do!
Thinking of this, Bai Jinyu stood up and went straight out of the door.
The Jin Palace in the middle of the night is quiet and silent, and it also looks even wider. Flowers, shadows and trees are invisible in the night. The interlaced corridors are hung with lanterns of uniform shapes, which look almost the same in the dark.
Bai Jinyu walked around three times and two times more and more, and she stopped and grabbed her scalp, a little speechless, but she still had to accept the fact that she was lost.
Standing in the corridor to judge the situation, Bai Jinyu looked back and forth, and finally began to feel guilty about himself.
Why did she be so insensible that she ran out after being aroused by Xie Yao?
Isn’t it good for her to not eat supper for three or four years? Is it necessary for her to worry about it?
Besides, even if you ask, why do you have to ask at this time? You can ask tomorrow!
Well, in the middle of the night, she not only couldn't find Feng Chen's study, but she couldn't even go back to Su Lihua's bedroom.
After sitting alone for a while, Bai Jinyu felt a little stupid, so she stood up and threw a stone at will to decide the direction. She thought that at most she could just circle the palace and spend some time to find Su Lihua's house.
After passing through several arches, Bai Jinyu found a house with lights on without much time. Although it was a little far away, it made her very happy. She immediately accelerated two steps to walk towards the light.
When I got there, I found that this was a completely unfamiliar courtyard. Bai Jinyu confirmed that she had never been to this place in a few days. However, the palace was too big, and it was not uncommon to have a few places she hadn't been to.
Bai Jinyu thought, it doesn’t matter if she was on, it means that someone could just ask someone to get up and take her back to the house!
So she raised her hand to knock on the door, but no one answered after knocking several times. She was a little confused. She stretched out her hand and pushed the door gently open, but it was not locked from inside.
As soon as the door opened, facing the middle is a statue of Guanyin, the size of a person, with solemn and virtuous eyes. The air still has the clear smell of burning incense. The two rows of lit candles on the left and right illuminated the room brightly. The candle body is still long, so it should have been lit that night.
"It turned out to be a Buddhist temple." Bai Jinyu thought to himself.
She stepped into the door, and her eyes were roughly swept through the depths of the way, but she didn't see a single person. In front of the solemn Buddha statue, Bai Jinyu ignored the rest, knelt down on the cushion and kowtowed three times seriously.
After she stood up, she looked at the Buddhist temple carefully.
Although this Buddhist temple is not big, it is bright and righteous. The statues of manbu prayer flags are very exquisitely created. The flowers and fruits on the platform are also colorful, which shows that the believers are indeed caring for them.
Huang Gu had said before that Su Lihua had been piously worshipping Buddha for many years, and Bai Jinyu felt that this Buddhist temple should be the place where Su Lihua usually worships Buddha.
This time when she came to Chang'an, Bai Jinyu always felt that she had been knowing the brand new Su Lihua. She collected jewelry and furniture, cut clothes, and worshipped Buddha were all things she didn't know before. This made her feel that her impression of Su Lihua was very vague. She didn't know what she was like and what she thought in her heart before, and now she can't figure it out.
To be continued...