into the bosom

Chapter 427
A quarter of an hour later, Xu Jiao, Lingxue, and Wen Tao's master and servant stood under the corridor of the side hall, watching Emperor Xian being hurriedly ushered into the Empress Dowager's bedroom, Xu Jiao's eyes dimmed slightly, and he turned back to the hall.

After sitting there for a while, he remembered something and took out the object that had been in his hand all the time.It was a small gilt ball, Xu Jiao picked it up and looked at it under the candlelight.

Negative Xue turned her head to look, frowned and said, "This is something the princess liked when she was a child. Why did the princess think of giving this away, and she didn't hesitate to ask Princess Huiming to send it? Is it for the New Year? Yes, so the princess specially gave this princess a favorite thing when she was a child, so it counts as a gift for the princess?" Although Negative Snow is between the two sisters, she has already favored Xu Jiao, but it does not prevent her from wishing The two sisters made friends.Last time, although the two sisters had to break up happily, the atmosphere between them was also very weird. Both in and out of negative snow's words, there was a desire for the two to reconcile immediately.

Negative snow said that this thing was sent by Xu Wei as a gesture of goodwill.Xu Jiao's eyes flickered twice, but she didn't think so.

Thanks to Xue Xue, she suddenly remembered a plot in the book.Xu Yi once saw a delicate Kongming lock he put on the table in Li Huan's study, and it brought back memories, saying that she didn't like these things when she was young, but her younger sister liked them very much, and The younger sister is very smart, and she can untie the ordinary Kongming lock in a short while.In order to make her happy, her father specially invited a craftsman to make her an extremely exquisite gilt ball that looked like a gilt ball that could be worn anywhere.The gold-plated ball is beautiful, and you can take it off to pass the time when you are free. Her sister likes it very much, but it's a pity... The gold-plated ball naturally disappeared into the world along with her sister.

Later, when Li Huan saw that she was sad, he also invited skilled craftsmen to make a Kongming lock in the shape of a gilt ball.Whether it is exactly the same is naturally hard to say, but when Xu Yi received it, he was so moved that he cried, and the relationship between the two of them was naturally two points deeper.

Now, Xu Jiao is still alive and well, so it is impossible for him to have such a stubble, but it does not prevent Xu Wei from finding a skilled craftsman to make her the same Kong Ming lock.

It seems that Xu Wei is really suspicious of her, even suspecting that she is not Xu Jiao.

This body is really Xu Jiao, but it's not fleshy.Xu Yu happened to be Xu Jiao's biological sister, so we have to be more cautious about this matter, they don't need to be close, but this doubt must be dispelled.Some things can only be kept secret, otherwise she is really afraid that in this feudal and ignorant era, she will be regarded as a monster and burned to death alive on the fire.

For a moment Xu Jiao thought about the purpose of Xu Wei giving this to her, and casually placed the gilt ball in her palm to play with, her gaze went up and down inadvertently, and suddenly she fixed her gaze, and grabbed the gilt ball in her palm After a closer look, a bright light flashed across his eyes, and the corners of his mouth curled up into a smile.

This gilt ball is actually an improved exquisite Kong Ming lock, and it is still hollowed out. Although there are only a few places, you can just see a note inside it from those few places.

It seems that Xu Wei just wants to use this to test whether she is really Xu Jiao!
Opening Kong Mingsuo... It just so happened that she couldn't be bothered.When she was studying painting at the Academy of Fine Arts earlier, the professor who taught art appreciation liked these traditional Chinese gadgets the most. Once, she specially assigned them a homework, which was to appreciate this Kong Ming lock.Although, Xu Jiao didn't know what this Kong Mingsuo had to do with art appreciation at the beginning, but the grade of that homework was related to half of the credits for art appreciation in that semester, so naturally he had to work hard to prepare.She and a few classmates who had a good relationship bought a lot of Kongming locks and studied them carefully one by one. After the homework was completed, she had become a master at dismantling Kongming locks, which was an unexpected gain.

It's just that at that time, Xu Jiao didn't expect that this little skill he got would be useful in another world one day.

Xu Jiao took the gilt ball in his hand and observed it carefully. Although the mortise and tenon structure of the gilt ball has been changed to make it spherical, it remains the same.

Xu Jiao looked at it for a while, and he almost understood it, so he started to do it.

Negative Xue looked back and saw her pair of slender white hands that looked like onion tubes nimbly flipping over the gilt ball. After a while, the gilt ball opened with a "click", and Negative Xue Seeing this, he sighed and said, "The princess is still so powerful. If I want to let the maid understand this thing, I'm afraid I won't be able to do it for a whole day."

Xu Jiao thought it was true, but she said with a flat face, "I haven't done this for a long time, and it's a bit unfamiliar." As she spoke, she took out the small note and unfolded it by the candlelight. After reading it hastily, her eyebrows frowned slightly.There was only one line on the note, and Xu Wei asked her to go to Yuhu tonight at the beginning of Haishi. She asked someone to bring her some things and asked her to pick them up in person.

Xu Jiao twirled the piece of paper, thinking about it a few times, his eyes darkened, he pondered for a while before asking, "Lengxue, what time is it?"

Negative Xue turned her head to look at the window in the room, "It was just Xushi. What's the matter, Princess?"

Xu Jiao didn't speak, and wrapped the note around her fingertips.

At the end of Xu Dynasty, the queen mother said that she was a little hungry, and asked the eldest princess to go to the small kitchen to show her what to eat, and the eldest princess withdrew from the inner hall.Outside the hall, she breathed a long sigh of relief against the cold night wind.She knew that the queen mother said she was hungry and asked her to go to the small kitchen to see what to eat was just an excuse, the real reason was that the queen mother wanted to dismiss her.After talking with Emperor Xian for so long, he has no soft words at all, and he is not polite when speaking to the queen mother, and the eldest princess hates him the most, and she doesn't have a good face towards him, the siblings almost fell apart up.The queen mother was afraid that if she felt that she was there, she would remain frozen, so she pulled her out.Of course, it is also possible that there are some things that the Empress Dowager feels is inconvenient to say in her presence.

Aning just said that the emperor father and the queen mother are eccentric, so why doesn't she think so?In the hearts of the emperor father and the empress mother, the most important one has never been her.She was not flat when she was young, and she also secretly made up her mind that one day, when she becomes a mother, she must treat her children fairly and justly, and she must not hurt the children's hearts because of partiality.

Unexpectedly, she only got one Wuyang in her life, and before she had suffered enough, she fell at the age of a flower bone.Thinking of Wuyang, her heart twitched again, and after finally suppressing it for a while, she also thought of Xu Jiao.After telling Raiqiu to go to the kitchen, she stopped outside the hall for a while, looking at the side hall where she and Xu Jiao lived temporarily. After a while, she took a step and walked straight towards the side hall.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he walked to the entrance of the hall, he saw a servant girl serving in the hall coming from the inside. Seeing her, the servant girl quickly bowed her knees and saluted.

The eldest princess raised her hand, asking her to excuse her, looked behind her, and saw that the light in the hall was dim, she couldn't help raising her eyebrows and asked, "The princess has already rested?"

"Never. Just now, Princess Cai said that she was a little bored and wanted to go out to get some air, so she took Neg Xue and Wen Tao out almost a quarter of an hour ago."

The eldest princess frowned when she heard this, and suddenly turned her head to look at the thick night behind her.

On the other side of the night, Xu Jiao's master and servant walked all the way to the edge of Yuhu Lake. On such a night, the huge palace city seemed to be empty and silent, and it was extremely deserted.

The cold wind blows gently, and under the dim candlelight, the frozen lake emits a faint cold light.

"Princess." Negative Xue called out suddenly from behind, Xu Jiao raised his eyes, and saw a figure standing by the lake not far ahead, dressed in armor and holding a waist knife, it was actually a forbidden soldier.Xu Jiao muttered to himself, Xu Bu leaned over, the closer he got, the more familiar he was with that figure.

At this moment, the man probably heard the movement behind him, and suddenly turned his head to look over.

The horn lamp in Neg Xue's hand exuded a hazy yellow light, which could clearly illuminate the man's face, but the man had already cupped his hands and cupped his fists, and said to Xu Jiao, "Princess!"

Xu Jiao twitched the corners of his mouth, and smiled, showing just the right surprise, "Chen Duwei, why is it you? It's so late at night, Chen Duwei is still here, is he on duty?"

"The last general is here to wait for the princess." Unexpectedly, Chen Su's words shattered Xu Jiao's thoughts of chance encounter.

It never occurred to Xu Jiao that she hadn't found any results when she checked him here. His direct appearance here and now is equivalent to clearly putting his identity as Li's internal response in front of her.Xu Jiao looked at the man in front of him, and for a moment really didn't know what to say.

On the contrary, Chen Su felt a little uncomfortable with her sudden silence. After coughing twice, he lowered his head and handed the things in his hand to Xu Jiao, "This is what Mrs. Xu entrusted to the princess."

Mrs. Xu is naturally Xu Wei. She hates the Yang family so much, and they gave her the title of princess, and now she is dismissive.

Xu Jiao didn't reach out his hand, and the bear behind him hurriedly came forward, took the exquisite brocade box, and then offered it with both hands, and handed it to Xu Jiao.

Xu Jiao took it, opened the box and glanced at it, a faint light flashed in his eyes very quickly, and then closed the box again with a "click", raised his eyes, and looked at the solemn young man in front of him with an inexplicable expression. "Have Captain Chen opened this box?"

Chen Su's face became a little strange for a moment, and he said in a low voice, "The princess is serious. Although Chen is not talented, he also knows the truth of being entrusted by others and being loyal to others. Since this box was entrusted by Mrs. Xu, it must be brought For the princess, Chen naturally dare not make mistakes."

That is to say, it has not been opened, and looking at the young man's demeanor, Xu Jiao still believes it.However, what does it mean that Xu Yi entrusted such a person and brought such a thing to her?Naturally, it couldn't just be a test, because what was in the box was a golden hairpin.There is no other meaning for a man to give a woman a golden hairpin except to show his love.Although the golden hairpin was given by Xu Wei, it was entrusted to such a man to bring it to her, so she couldn't allow her to stop thinking about it.

Xu Jiao looked at the man in front of him, and a complicated look appeared in his eyes for a moment. Could it be that Xu Yi really had the idea she had in mind?She made this idea, does Princess Huiming know?Of course it is impossible, otherwise, Princess Huiming knows that her son is still alive and well, so how could she be carrying his son behind her back, so she can't wait to find a home for her daughter-in-law, even if she doesn't want to see her again, she dare not do this Mo Chuihe offended.Then it can only be what Xu Wei meant.

To be an older sister, to find a new marriage for her widowed younger sister. Xu Jiao really couldn't laugh or cry at this moment.

Seeing her inexplicable expression made Chen Su even more uncomfortable, but Xu Jiao suddenly raised his eyebrows, laughed and said, "Thank you to Captain Chen tonight, for causing you to blow the cold wind here at night." He looked as if nothing had happened, as if those strange expressions and eyes just now were just illusions.

Chen Su couldn't keep up with her changes, and said in a low voice, "The princess is serious, it's Chen who should do it."

Xu Jiao nodded lightly, she didn't want to have much interaction with the person in front of her, let alone guessed what Xu Wei was planning, and immediately smiled politely, "Since the things have been delivered, the night is getting late , then I will go back first, and thank Captain Chen again." For such a trivial matter, thank you again and again, it is a matter of etiquette, and it is even more out of the ordinary.

Chen Su's face showed two points of sadness, and said embarrassingly, "The princess really doesn't have to be like this."

"Of course I have to thank you." Xu Jiao insisted, then nodded towards Chen Su, and turned his heels to leave.

"Princess, wait!" Chen Su suddenly shouted.

Xu Jiao stopped and turned to look at him. Under the faint light of the sheep's horn lamp, the young man's straightforward face was flushed embarrassingly, and he didn't even dare to meet her eyes, dodging from time to time.

"What on earth is Captain Chen trying to say? If there is nothing wrong, then I'm leaving." Xu Jiao frowned slightly, seeing him like this, he had a bad premonition, and really wanted to turn around and leave like this.

When Chen Su heard that she was going to leave, he was in a hurry, and hurriedly said, "Princess, please listen to me." Xu Jiao looked over, and Chen Su almost subconsciously dodged again, but he gritted his teeth and held back. , plucked up the courage to look at her, took a deep breath and said, "Princess, I met you at the gate of the city that day, and Chen was impressed by the beauty of the princess. Chen knew that he was not worthy, but he still asked the princess to give it to me." Chen has a chance, I don't know when the princess will leave the palace, and Chen wants to treat the princess to a light meal." Chen Su said, he didn't dare to look at Xu Jiao again, and with a clasped fist, he bowed deeply to the end.

Not to mention how it felt in Xu Jiao's ears, Wen Tao and Lingxue's expressions changed at the same time, and they looked at Chen Su with indescribable resentment. dare?
Xu Jiao looked at the young man who kept bowing in front of him, and suddenly chuckled, "Looks like Captain Chen thinks that I'm a widow now, if I can be favored by someone with a bright future like you, I should be very grateful, right? "

Hearing this, Chen Su raised his head in shock and said urgently, "The princess misunderstood, Chen definitely didn't mean to underestimate the princess, Chen even knew that he was not worthy of the princess, that's why he did it."

(End of this chapter)