Acacia, don't be negative

Chapter 322 Testing or Showing off
Li Ruyi elongated her voice, and while looking at the slightly gloomy sky, she said, "In the future, I will have to rely on my father-in-law's care."

"Everywhere, the servants are all doing things for the emperor. As long as the emperor thinks it is good, the servants will feel good." As he spoke, he raised his whisk, and a court lady behind him stepped forward, holding a tray, on which the tray was placed firmly. A bowl of medicine was placed, causing Li Ru's expression to change dramatically.The father-in-law lowered his head and said, "Please forgive my sin, my servant also obeys the emperor's orders, and I dare not disobey the emperor's orders. Please drink this bowl of medicine."

Li Ruyi didn't move for a long time, Ruixiang shouted: "Presumptuous! Your wife has served the emperor all night, and she is tired. She wants to go back to the palace to rest, so hurry up and get out of the way!"

The father-in-law sighed: "The slave has said that this is the emperor's will. The empress should not make it difficult for the slave to do it. It is not easy for the slave to explain to the emperor. If the empress does not want to, the slave will have to offend and let someone forcefully pour it on the empress."

Li Ruyi's face turned pale, and the previous sweetness disappeared without a trace.She is not Ye Song after all, the emperor is so cruel to be so cruel to her.

In the end, Li Ruyi suppressed the tears in her eyes, gritted her teeth, reached out to pick up the bowl of medicine with trembling hands, raised her head and poured it down, and dropped the bowl, leaving porcelain slag all over the floor.

"Niangniang..." Ruixiang called out worriedly.

Li Ruyi wiped the medicine stain on the corner of her mouth casually, walked down the steps step by step, and said, "Go back to the palace."

In the afternoon, the sky was still gloomy. It seems that these days will not clear up all of a sudden, and there should be a few rains in the night.The weather was getting colder, Ruixiang took a thick cloak and put it on Li Ruyi.

Despite the careful cultivation and care of the nursery master, the crabapple flowers on the porch failed to bloom within a few days, and the petals were beaten red by the rain.Li Ruyi stood under the flowers, and Ruixiang said: "The servant girl will go to the nursery later and ask someone to send some more flowers. The empress doesn't have to be sad about these outdated broken branches and leaves."

"I'm not going to be sad, watching them from blooming to withering, it's a special feeling." Li Ruyi said so, but her eyes were red and swollen. She cried a lot in the bedroom, and now she looked up. Looking at the sky, and the high walls around the courtyard, "Once you enter the palace gate, it's as deep as the sea, and you can't help yourself in many things. You can no longer be the one you like. You have to fight and fight by yourself, in order to win back." What I want. But I have worked hard for so long..."

"Your Majesty, don't be sad," Ruixiang advised, "All this is only temporary. In time, the Emperor will definitely be moved by your empress' sincerity. Your empress only needs to manage well without haste."

Li Ruyi lowered her head and pondered for a while, then suddenly said: "Take care, I'm going out of the palace."

"Yes." Ruixiang stepped back hurriedly and got ready.

In the evening, a delicate invitation card was delivered to the general's mansion, Ye Song. She opened it and looked at it, raising her eyebrows in noncommittal.When it was dinner time, Ye Song didn't have dinner at home, he just said, "I have an appointment to go out, you don't have to wait for me." Then he was ready to go out.

Miss Ying was curious and gossipy, so she asked a lot: "Sister Ye, where are you going for the appointment?"

"Xiangxuelou." Ye Song said casually, and Miss Ying opened her mouth again and wanted to continue asking. Ye Song seemed to know what she wanted to ask, and looked back at her, saying, "I won't tell you who you have an appointment with, and I won't tell you who you have an appointment with." I won't take you with me."

Miss Ying sighed, and immediately looked downcast.

Speaking of Ye Song's luck, as soon as she arrived at the gate of Xiangxue Building, it started to rain again.The muddy ground became even more slippery. Pedestrians who came and went stepped up to go home or find a place to hide from the rain.

Because of the damp and cold weather, fewer people went out to eat than usual, and the business in Xiangxue Building was also sparse, but the lights inside were warm, giving it a special atmosphere.As soon as Ye Song entered the door, a handsome brother from the building came up to greet him and said, "Excuse me, is this Miss Ye?"

Ye Song nodded, the little brother led her upstairs and said, "Miss Ye, please follow me." On the second floor, he opened a private room, stood at the door and said respectfully, "The guests are already waiting. Second Miss, please come in."

Ye Song walked in, and the younger brother closed the door from the outside.

The room is not big, but the layout is extremely quiet and elegant, and it is prepared for distinguished guests at first glance.The table in front of him was full of delicacies, and there were two people in the room, one standing and one sitting.

Ye Song who was standing felt unfamiliar, but she was very familiar with the person sitting. She smiled and said, "Your Majesty is willing to come to the palace, and there is a table full of them. Is it specially for me?"

Li Ruyi made a gesture and said: "It is inevitable that you will be bored after staying in the palace for a long time, so I will come out for a walk, but I don't know many acquaintances outside the palace, so I invite you to have dinner together, the second lady will not dislike it If so, please sit down. It’s just that the second lady came here alone today, so I’m not afraid that I will do something to you?” The last sentence suddenly raised the atmosphere.

Ye Song squinted his eyes and looked at Li Ruyi. His eyes looked calm, but the momentum in his eyes was unstoppable. He smiled and said, "I also want to know what you can do with me." Then he sat down calmly.

Li Ruyi ordered: "Ruixiang, pour wine for Second Miss."

Ye Song drank the glass of wine generously, then took the chopsticks, looked at the table full of dishes, but didn't know where to start, and said: "Is your lady used to being extravagant in the palace? Taught me not to know what to eat first and then what to eat."

Li Ruyi said: "As long as you like it, you can eat whatever you want."

"Then I'm welcome."

Ye Song would not be restrained in front of men, let alone in front of this woman.Even if the person sitting in front of her is the Empress Dowager, she will not change her color, let alone her old acquaintance Li Ruyi sitting in front of her.

Li Ruyi ate slowly and gracefully, and said slowly as if it was commonplace: "You must have never thought that you tried so hard to frame Bengong and cause Bengong to be thrown into the cold palace, and now Bengong came out so quickly, just in time. Let's have this dinner with you."

"You have indeed made some progress." Ye Song nodded and said, "Otherwise, how could the empress eat here calmly? You must give me two mouths first."

"What happened in the past was my fault." Li Ruyi gave in, poured two glasses of wine, and said, "Come on, this glass is my apology for the second lady." After finishing speaking, she took her own glass and raised her head After drinking it, he took a closer look and saw that Ye Song was eating vegetables and didn't even touch the glass of wine. He didn't intend to drink it at all, so he asked, "Why doesn't Second Miss drink it? Is it because I'm afraid that I will poison you?"

"You don't have the guts to poison yourself," Ye Song said unhurriedly, "It's just that it's one thing for you to pay for the wine for apologizing, but it's another thing for me to accept it. My mother paid for it. , do I have to bear it?"

Li Ruyi's face changed slightly.Rui Xiang next to him took the lead and said: "It is a great honor for anyone to be entertained by the empress herself and make amends with wine. Second Miss, please be more polite to our empress."

Ye Song raised his eyes and smiled, glanced at Ruixiang, raised his glass to her, and said, "Since it is the highest honor, I give you this glass of wine, and you help me drink it."

"you!"

"Ruixiang, don't be rude." Li Ruyi pretended to reprimand Ruixiang, then looked at the closed window, there were two stoves for heating in the corner, and said, "This room is probably too small, so I don't know what to do. After sitting for a while, I feel a little hot."

Rui Xiang said: "Maybe it's because the lady drank two more glasses of wine, the lady should drink less."

At this time, Li Ruyi widened the cloak on her shoulders, and inside she wore a very luxurious but flimsy dress that showed her figure, making her as delicate as a flower.Ye Song's gaze fell on Li Ruyi's swollen chest. Her clothes couldn't hide the half-exposed spring light on her chest, and those ambiguous blue spots that spread from her neck down, making people daydream. Purple marks.

Ye Song paused, then suddenly put down his chopsticks.

Li Ruyi smiled nonchalantly and said: "Actually, I invited the second lady here today to thank you. The emperor is ill, and thank you for your willingness to enter the palace overnight to treat the emperor's illness. I heard that you brought a little girl with you. The genius doctor is really miraculous, in just a short while the emperor was cured of his illness and became alive and well. He was very energetic when he just woke up, and I couldn't stop tossing for a whole night."

Ye Song stood up suddenly, and Li Ruyi felt an extremely smooth joy in her heart, and said again: "Second Miss is leaving? I didn't eat much, such a big table."

Ye Song lazily said: "Isn't it a pity that I left such a big table like this?" She walked to the window, opened the curtains, and opened all the windows, so that the cold wind mixed with the damp Anger rushed in, but seeing the rain outside, he turned his head and said with a half-smile, "I see that your mother is really hot, so it would be disrespectful to say that you take it off, and it would be so shameful for people to see it." If the ministers in the court know about the traces of the window, what is the dignified and elegant demeanor of the empress? So I thought it would be better to open the window, does the empress still feel very hot now?"

Li Ruyi was not hot in the first place, but now she just felt the cold wind blowing her bones.Ruixiang quickly brought the cloak and put it on Li Ruyi.But Ye Song's words pierced into her heart like sharp thorns, which made her instantly feel ashamed and annoyed. She tried to calm down and said, "What do you think, your words sound like eating food?" Don't grapes think grapes are sour?"

"Where are you eating grapes?" Ye Song walked back slowly and sat down, and said leisurely, "It's clearly the grape seeds that others spit out."

"Ye Song, you don't want to toast and eat fine wine!" Li Ruyi patted the table, furious.

Ye Song continued to take a few mouthfuls calmly, but no matter how much he ate, he still felt like chewing sugar, and finally felt a kind of nausea.She simply stopped eating, threw away her chopsticks, raised her head and looked at Li Ruyi fixedly, and said, "Did you come to me today to test me or to show off to me?"

(End of this chapter)