night enchanting

Chapter 3 The Mysterious Princess (2)
Rumo didn't look at the girl again, and didn't say what kind of name she wanted to change. For her, as long as it wasn't that name, anything else was fine.

That afternoon, that girl was assigned to her room, and her name was changed to Yiyan. She was an innocent and lively girl.As soon as she entered the room, she kowtowed to thank her non-stop. The little girl was very innocent, thinking that she had caused a greater rift between the princess and the prince, and she was grateful and guilty towards the princess in her heart.

At night in Chaoxi Garden, a few dim candles were lit up sporadically, barely illuminating the outline of this cold courtyard.

Ru Mo sat in the courtyard and watched the moon, saying that he was watching the moon, but in fact, there was nothing to admire for this half-circle moon.

"Princess, my servant will go to the kitchen and bring you some snacks." After sitting for a long time, Shuiyue asked aloud.

Yiyan followed and shouted: "Servant, go fetch water."

The two went out the door one after the other, Rumo turned his head and glanced behind him, a black figure flashed from the corner of the low courtyard wall, looking at the figure, it was a woman.

"Miss, the guards around the Waiting Moon Pavilion are so strict that it is difficult for one subordinate to enter the pavilion." The woman in black knelt on one knee and bowed her head to report, with a very respectful expression.

Ru Mo hummed lightly, obviously this result was within her expectation.

"Go down." Rumo ordered expressionlessly, and the black shadow flashed and disappeared into the darkness, as if it had never appeared before.

When Shuiyue and Yiyan came back, she still looked up at the half-circle moon, her posture was the same as before.

Shuiyue filled the stone table with Linlang's dim sum, and was about to step aside, when Rumo asked, "I heard there are two masters in the mansion?"

Shuiyue paused, and replied: "Yes, my concubine. One is Qin Ji from Chaomu Garden, and the other is Mr. Qi from Chaohe Garden. Actually...the two of them can't be completely regarded as masters, they can only be regarded as masters." It's half master."

"Oh?" Rumo seemed to be interested, took a cup of tea and said with a smile, "Tell me about it."

Just as Shuiyue was about to speak, Yiyan suddenly shouted excitedly: "I'll tell you. I know Qin Ji!" As if afraid that someone would snatch her away, she quickly jumped in front of Rumo, and said with great interest: "Qin Ji Wang Shang brought her back to the capital from Jiangnan last year. She is not only good-looking, but also has the title of "the first piano in the south of the Yangtze River". Ji gave it to the prince, I heard that the king originally planned to make Qin Ji a concubine!"

"The first piano in the south of the Yangtze River?" Ru Mo curled her lips, it turns out that Nangong Ye likes to listen to people playing the piano!She smiled slightly mockingly: "Their brothers have such a deep bond that they can even give away the woman they like! Shuiyue, the Mr. Qi you mentioned just now...is Qi Che?"

Shuiyue replied: "Yes, my concubine. Mr. Qi has learned a lot and is proficient in medical skills. He ranks second among the three famous officials in the capital city. Because of his noble and arrogant temperament, he has offended many officials and was persecuted. The prince admired his talent and rescued him, so Mr. Qi entered the mansion as an aide."

I see!She was surprised that with Qi Che's temperament, if he hadn't been gracious to save him, he would never have been willing to be a staff member of the palace.Thinking of the young man that Elder Zhuo always mentioned to her, who was full of arrogance and always opposed Elder Zhuo, she couldn't help but bend the corners of her lips.

At this time, Yiyan asked with wide eyes: "Brilliant, proficient in medical skills... only ranked second! Who is the first?"

"This is number one, of course it is Leng Yixiao, the number one son of the capital who is known as 'going and staying casually, chic and unrestrained'!"

Hearing the name "Lengyixiao", Rumo's raised hand trembled slightly, and then paused in the air.I just heard Shuiyue continue to say: "He is the son of the Marquis of Jingguo, the number one scholar at the age of 12, both civil and military, with a peerless demeanor, and..."

"And what?" Yi Yan asked impatiently.

Shuiyue continued: "And he has resisted the decree three times, refused the king's official position, and has not been convicted and imprisoned once."

"Why?" Yi Yan asked in amazement: "Why did he resist the decree? Isn't the purpose of studying to become an official? He resisted the decree, why didn't the king punish him?"

Shuiyue shook her head and smiled, "I don't know about this, I just heard that the relationship between Mr. Yixiao and the prince is very unusual, but he has never stepped into our palace..." Shuiyue said here , paused, keenly aware of Ru Mo's strangeness, and couldn't help asking: "Princess, what's wrong with you?"

Ru Mo's eyes flashed, he put down his teacup, got up lightly and said, "It's nothing, it seems a little cold outside. Shuiyue, go to the kitchen and prepare a bowl of bird's nest porridge, and follow me to Chaoxiangyuan to visit the prince."

Chaoxiang Garden is located in the center of Prince Chen's mansion to the east, separated from Chaoxi Garden by two gardens.

At this time, in the study room of Chaoxiangyuan, apart from Nangong Ye, there was also an unbelievably handsome young man, dressed in a bright red brocade robe, with a lazy posture, leaning on the finely carved nanmu chair, Looking at Nangong Ye who was sitting opposite with a deep expression, he lazily said, "You took Nanny Xing to the imperial mausoleum? Why bother? Back then...she was all for you!"

Nangong Ye's complexion changed slightly, and a complex expression flashed in his eyes, but he said in a flat tone: "It's what she wants wholeheartedly, and I'm just fulfilling her."

"You... oh!" The man in red seemed helpless, and sighed, seeing Nangong Ye's expression that he didn't want to talk about this matter, he stopped talking, and seemed to think of something, hooked a pair of peach blossom eyes, and turned away He smiled at him and said, "How was the wedding night in the bridal chamber last night? How does your new princess compare to Qin Ji?"

Nangong Ye glanced at him coldly, "I won't touch your woman, and I won't touch the woman in the secret pavilion."

"No touch?" The man in red sat up abruptly, and asked suspiciously: "You haven't even touched Qin Ji? Hey, Ye, you... can't be..." The man stopped here , looking down at him, the suspicious eyes clearly said, you can't do it, can you?

Nangong Ye's face darkened suddenly, and his cold eyes shot straight at the man in red, and he stopped his eyes in mid-air, and said angrily, "Don't worry, there is nothing wrong with my body!"

The man in red laughed loudly when he heard the words, turned a blind eye to Nangong Ye's gloomy eyes, and said, "Since it's all right, why have you been so disinterested in all the women who came to your door these years? Could it be that you were complaining about Langyashan ten years ago? Is that little girl at the bottom guarding yourself? Tsk tsk... I can't see that you are so attached to Ye, even though that little girl is a beauty, she hasn't heard from her all these years, whether she is alive or dead is unknown."

"She won't die." Nangong Ye said with certainty, his eyes suddenly became misty, and a scene appeared in his mind. In a dark stone room, a girl covered in injuries gave a piece of food that had completely lost its temperature in an extremely indifferent manner. Gesture threw it into his hands, and then he roughly treated the wound on his body without saying a word. No matter how deep the wound was, he never saw her frown.Always cold, expressionless, as if that body is not hers.

With a slight pain in his heart, Nangong Ye sighed: "The reason why I can't find her is because she doesn't want me to find her."

"Why?"

Nangong Ye shook his head slowly, and suddenly a cold question came to his ears: "Your surname is Nangong? Are you a member of the royal family?"

A sharp sword with a cold light came straight to his throat. At that moment, he seemed to see the deepest resentment and pain from those indifferent eyes that never showed a trace of emotion...

"Who?" Outside the study, the guard's sudden question interrupted Nangong Ye's thoughts immersed in memories, and he heard someone respond: "The princess is worried that the prince is busy with work, and worried that the prince will not take care of his body, so I specially prepared the bird's nest. Congee came to visit, please tell the prince the guard brother."

is her?

Before Nangong Ye could respond, the man in red had already ordered, "Let her in."

Nangong Ye frowned, and Ru Mo outside the door also frowned, did he have guests?And he was a guest who could give orders in front of Nangong Ye at will!Her eyes sank a little, but she quickly returned to normal. Under the respectful request of the guards, she walked gracefully into this room that is difficult for ordinary people to enter.

Nangong Ye's study room, connected to the bedroom and the resting room, was just as she had imagined, with a grand and calm arrangement.

As soon as Ru Mo stepped into the room, two different eyes, one cold and one hot, stared at her at the same time. Today she was wearing a light yellow long dress with dark patterns, all over her body. The silver hairpin on the hair bun where she lives is exquisite, simple and noble. The head of the hairpin is inlaid with a piece of extremely transparent jasper, which makes her originally beautiful face even more fresh and refined, elegant and pleasant, Nangong Ye paused, and had to admit that this woman did have the capital to confuse people's hearts, and this capital not only came from that alluring face, but also that detached temperament.

Another man in the room was also looking at her fixedly, with an undisguised expression of astonishment.But the first thing Ru Mo saw when he entered the room was not them, but the two words hanging on the opposite wall.

One on the left, one on the right, and one on the right, the brush strokes are elegant and casual, and with long memories, they immediately caught her eyes.

Ru Mo paused, stared at the writing, was stunned, his expression suddenly became dazed, and he walked over involuntarily.As if forgetting the original intention of coming here, she slowly raised her hand, and lightly touched the blank space in the lower right corner of the word with her fingertips. There was no inscription or seal there.But she looked at that position, dazed in a daze, and her eyes, which rarely had any emotion, gradually overflowed with a sad breath, which was faint and undetectable.

"Do you know the person who wrote?" Nangong Ye said suddenly, his eyes were sharp, and he stared at her.

Ru Mo came back to her senses for a moment, all her emotions calmed down immediately, and when she turned her head, a smile flashed across her brows, she shook her head and said with a nonchalant smile, "I'm just curious, why didn't I sign such a good picture?" After finishing speaking , glanced slightly into the room, and seemed to have discovered that there were other people in the study besides the two of them. He gave a blessing and smiled apologetically: "I don't know that the lord has guests here, so I bother you, please lord." Forgive me!"

Nangong Ye looked at the completely different expression she had changed in an instant, his eyes fixed, but he didn't speak.

On the contrary, the man in red waved his hands first and said with a smile: "It's okay, the concubine came just in time, and I also want to see her beauty." The man smiled evilly, and his eyes were burning on her, without any intention of avoiding it.

Ru Mo greeted him boldly, and said with a faint smile, "I'm ugly, let the young master laugh at me!"

The man in red laughed and said, "My concubine is really too modest! If she is as beautiful as a concubine, I'm afraid it's hard to find another one in the entire feudal kingdom."

Such high praise, for an ordinary woman, I am afraid that her heart is already full of enthusiasm, and she can't restrain her joy. However, Ru Mo's eyes are calm, and her tone is still calm: "Master's praise." She turned back to pick up the bird's nest porridge in Shuiyue's hand, and ordered Said: "Go to the kitchen and prepare a bowl for this young master."

"No need!" This time it was Nangong Ye who spoke, and he glanced at Shuiyue expressionlessly, "You go down first."

Shuiyue withdrew, Rumo put the bowl of bird's nest porridge in front of Nangong Ye, and then slowly sat beside him, the movements were very natural, as if that was her seat.Nangong Ye was slightly taken aback, frowned and glanced at her, did not move, and did not touch the bowl of porridge.

The man in red looked at the woman sitting next to Nangong Ye with great interest. For the first time in so many years, he saw a woman who could ignore Nangong Ye's coldness and sit so calmly beside him. People, sitting side by side, look strangely harmonious.

"Just now, the princess said that is a good calligraphy, I don't know where is the advantage?" The man in red pointed at the calligraphy that Rumo stroked just now, and asked maliciously. After asking, he pointed to another calligraphy next to it. , and then asked: "Compared with this pair of characters, which one does the princess think is more worthy of appreciation?"

Rumo turned his head and read both words, but did not answer after reading.

The man in red asked, "Why doesn't the princess answer?"

Nangong Ye said with contempt: "A woman in the rivers and lakes, do you still expect her to tell you something famous?"

The man in red raised his eyebrows, obviously disapproving of Nangong Ye's words.This woman is different from ordinary Jianghu women. She does not have a trace of Jianghu aura on her body. On the contrary, she is more dignified and elegant than many ladies of the family, and she is more casual and natural. When people look at her, they think it is a landscape.

Facing Nangong Ye's ridicule, Rumo smiled nonchalantly. The bright light shone on the corner of her smiling mouth, making that smile like the brightest sunshine in spring. However, behind this sunny smile , her eyes were still clear and cold, without any warmth in them.It was the bone-piercing coldness that made Nangong Ye lose his mind for a moment.

At this time, Ru Mo got up and left the seat, came to the two words, turned his eyes to look at the man in red who had been waiting for her to answer, and said lightly: "Since the young master must say that the concubine is the one, then the concubine's I'm making a fool of myself, if my concubine is wrong, please correct me."

The man in red smiled and nodded, raising his hand as a gesture of invitation.

Only then did Ru Mo turn his eyes to those two characters again, looked at them twice, and said slowly: "These two characters, in terms of shape alone, are both excellent works. The one on the left has a smooth and vigorous style of writing." , the handwriting is vigorous and powerful, implying domineering, presumably from the hands of a calm and calm person who has been in a superior position for a long time."

The man in red's eyes lit up when he heard the words, and although he didn't make a sound, he already expressed his appreciation. He subconsciously looked at Nangong Ye, only to see Nangong Ye's phoenix eyes slowly narrowed.

Ru Mo didn't seem to realize it, and continued: "The one on the right, the brushwork is elegant, the style is casual, the whole picture is scrawled but not scribbled, chaotic and orderly, presumably the person who wrote this picture must be a person like a fairy , with a free and easy temperament, unwilling to be restrained by the world, and yearning for a free life..."

After hearing this, Nangong Ye's eyes sank, and he was able to express the essence of the style of the two calligraphy in one sentence, and clearly and unmistakably pointed out the temperament and characteristics of the person who wrote the calligraphy.This woman seemed to be different from what he had imagined.

Ru Mo said again: "It's a pity that although these two calligraphy are excellent works, they are not liked by my concubine."

"Why?" Nangong Ye asked subconsciously, he wanted to see what else she could say.

Ru Mo said: "Although these two calligraphy styles are very different, they have a common defect."

Nangong Ye narrowed his eyes and said, "Say."

Ru Mo said: "The person who writes is only for writing, and has no emotional investment. In the eyes of my concubine, these two words are just empty and have a shape!"

Nangong Ye was stunned, "How can you be sure that the writer is not emotional?"

This time, Ru Mo didn't answer immediately, but turned his eyes to look at Nangong Ye's eyes, raised his hand at the same time, pointed his index finger to the word on the left, and asked with a serious smile: "Dare to ask the prince, are you writing this picture?" When writing, is it full of passion, entering the realm of forgetting both things and me?"

Nangong Ye's complexion changed, and she also didn't sign the signature, but she actually saw that the words were written by him!
The man in red asked in surprise: "Ye, you princess... are you really a Jianghu girl?"

Hearing the words, Nangong Ye stood up abruptly, his figure flashed, and came to her at a speed like a ghost, his slender five fingers pinched her neck with lightning speed, his cold eyes seemed to surpass all sharp weapons in the world, He projected towards her mercilessly, and asked sharply, "Who are you? What is your purpose in coming to the palace?"

Ru Mo suffocated, his face flushed immediately, but he still looked at him, and said with a difficult smile: "My identity...doesn't the lord know?"

Nangong Ye frowned, tightened his five fingers suddenly, and said suspiciously: "How can a Jianghu woman know so much?"

"Why not?" Her eyes suddenly turned cold, and she asked with difficulty: "Could it be that women from the Jianghu...should only know how to fight and kill? Not everyone from the Jianghu...was born in the Jianghu!"

And she, living in the rivers and lakes, can't help herself, all thanks to their Nangong family!
Resentment suddenly arose in her heart, she stubbornly raised her head and stared at him coldly.

Seeing this stubborn, indifferent, resentful and struggling look, Nangong Ye's heart trembled, as if he had been hit by something suddenly, and he let go of his hand suddenly.

With the fresh air pouring in violently, she couldn't help coughing. After coughing for a long time, she gradually stopped. She raised her head, and met Shang Nangong Ye's uncertain and suspicious eyes. She frowned, and a smile slowly appeared on her face. With a sad and moving smile, she raised her hand and gently poked his heart, and said with a faint smile, "You ask my purpose? My purpose...is here with you!"

Nangong Ye's heart suddenly moved, and he wanted to grab her hand intuitively, but before he could move, she had retreated out of the reach of his raised hand, then turned and left with a smile.

That smile before she left made him feel extremely desolate.

(End of this chapter)