The little lady in the palace

Chapter 175

A few days passed, and Yu Jing found that she was not quite used to such days.

In the past, eight times out of ten out of ten times she could see the son-in-law approaching from the opposite side, she always felt very annoyed, and she didn't bother to talk to him when walking with him.

Yu Jing resisted this feeling, but couldn't help it.After several conflicts, I still couldn't help calling the maidservant and asked: "Is the son-in-law's cold still not healed?"

"No, it's easy to get back and forth when the weather is windy and cold, so it's inevitable that the recovery will be slow." The maid said to persuade her, "Princess, don't worry too much."

"Who said I was worried?" Yu Jing frowned slightly, and the maid fell silent.

But Yu Jing didn't admit that she was worried, and she really couldn't let go.In this cold weather, repeated wind and cold can kill people even if they are severe.

She had been conflicted all day, and she finally gritted her teeth and decided to wait until nightfall to see him after he fell asleep.She went to see what was going on with him before leaving, and if he mentioned it afterwards, she would not recognize him.

So at the end of Haishi, Yu Jing took a few people who were waiting nearby to the opposite street.

Knocking on the door of the son-in-law's residence, the people around her immediately explained everything about that side, and ordered them not to say that she had been there according to her intention.

Then a servant took her to the place where the son-in-law lived.The house is not big, and after crossing the two courtyard gates, there is a short walk. Yu Jing stepped into the door and took a look, only to find it surprisingly simple.

——Actually, it can't be called really "simple", but she originally thought that he had built a good house here, and he would pay attention to everything that should be paid attention to.Unexpectedly, this time it was very improvised, with only the necessary furniture and almost no decorations.There is almost nothing on the treasure shelves that are partitioned off, making the whole room look empty.

No one was left in the room, Yu Jing led someone into the bedroom on the east side, and saw the son-in-law sleeping at the desk.

At first she thought he had fallen asleep while reading, but when she got closer, she saw that he was still half holding the writing brush in his right hand, the tip of the pen fell on the rice paper under his arm, and the ink was blurred and continued to spread.

Yu Jing frowned.With him lying on his stomach like this, she couldn't see how he looked.For a moment, she hesitated to call him up directly?If he called, he knew she had come; but if he didn't call, she was in vain.

While hesitating, Yu Jing couldn't help shivering, and when she looked sideways, she found that the charcoal basin in the room was almost extinguished.

"Even if the son-in-law doesn't want to keep people in the room, you still remember to look at some charcoal basins." Yu Jing frowned and scolded the servants, "He has a cold in the first place, won't he heal more slowly if he freezes again? "

The eunuch didn't dare to say anything, he bowed and hurried to change the charcoal basin.Picking up the bottom of the pelvis and gently rubbing it against the ground, the son-in-law's body trembled with a soft sound.

"Why..." He woke up in a daze, first followed the sound to look over there, and then raised his eyes to see the person in front of him, he froze for a moment, "Princess...?"

Yu Jing also froze, but she quickly settled down, lowered her eyes and remained as cold as ever.

"When did the princess come..." The son-in-law was a little embarrassed, and when he got up and walked forward, he didn't care about the etiquette. Give a bow.

"You..." Yu Jing felt that his hands were hot at that moment, her mood fluctuated a few times, but her words softened, "Why are you sleeping like this. Since you are sick, you should rest well."

"Yes." His voice was steady, but obviously a little weak.After answering, seeing that she hadn't written anything for a long time, he hesitated, "Princess looking for my minister...what's the matter?"

"..." Yu Jing hesitated whether to give a reason, but finally told the truth, "I just came to see."

She clearly saw the joy in his eyes, so happy that she couldn't bear it.

"...Don't look at me like that." Yu Jing avoided his gaze, "I won't stay for too long, I'll leave soon."

After the voice fell, she didn't understand why she said "I'll leave in a while" instead of "I'll leave now".

The son-in-law is obviously not used to this kind of getting along with her now, he looked at her for a while, and asked uncertainly: "Then... the minister is going to rest?"

She nodded, he walked to the side of the couch and sat down, then he continued to look at her with uncertainty, she walked to the embroidered pier beside his couch and sat down without saying a word.

"Hmm..." The son-in-law thought for a while, "If the princess thinks that this place is boring... the case is a story that I just wrote."

"I don't like reading stories." She blurted out, and realized that she hadn't thought about this rejection at all, and she was just rejecting him habitually.

He was obviously a little surprised: "You don't like reading stories?"

She didn't understand why he was asking such a question, but she could only follow what she said just now, so she nodded: "Yeah, I don't like reading stories, never have."

He frowned, and asked her a step closer: "What about the ghost story?"

Yu Jing was stunned, a guess that she couldn't believe spread in her heart.

She stared at the son-in-law carefully for a while: "You..."

She frowned slightly: "What's your name?"

"..." The son-in-law's expression froze, and then he laughed out loud, "The minister and the princess have been married for less than half a year."

She doesn't know his name yet.

Yu Jing became embarrassed.This is really ridiculous, and it makes people laugh when it is said.However, she really didn't care about it. When she was choosing a son-in-law, she agreed carelessly. After the decree came down, she just listened to it and didn't care to remember his name.

The son-in-law laughed for a while, and then straightened his face: "The surname is An, and the single name is Liao."

She was taken aback by the answer: "Then... how do you know about ghost stories? Who is Yuanxi?"

He raised his eyebrows lightly: "That's the name of the minister."

In an instant, Yu Jing's heart trembled violently, and the deliberate alienation for several months completely collapsed in this instant.

It never occurred to her that they knew each other a long time ago. At that time, they were still young, and she was not a princess yet, but the lord of Prince Jin's Mansion.

Her brother would occasionally go to the Hanlin Academy to meet literati and read their newly edited books, and she often went with her, where she met a playmate.

That was seven or eight years ago, and many memories have been blurred.She only remembered that that person was the son of a Hanlin enshrined, about the same age as her brother, who wrote quite interesting ghost stories, and she always asked him for stories when she went to the Hanlin Academy.

But every time she asked his name, he refused to tell, saying that his father would beat him if he knew he wrote these things, so he wanted to keep it as secret as possible.

Therefore, it seems that Yujing only saw the word "Yuanxi" when she read more than a dozen fairy tales.It was probably his own waste paper, which he tried printing on one side, and saved it to write stories on the other side.

She also took this piece of paper and asked him if his name was Yuanxi?At that time, he immediately threatened her that if she dared to tell it, she would never see these stories again, and she was so scared that she didn't dare to mention it to anyone.

But later, she still couldn't see these stories soon.She didn't know where he went, and she never saw him again anyway.

"The family forced me to go back to study." An Liao explained the reason for his disappearance with a light smile, and sighed, "The father of the minister was enshrined in the Imperial Academy, and he never made it to the top in his life. He hoped that the minister would become a scholar of the Imperial Academy in the future, so I have been studying hard for many years under the pressure of the minister."

The members of the Hanlin Academy in the Great Yin Dynasty were roughly divided into two types: "worship" and "scholar".Enshrining has no real power. To put it bluntly, it is the imperial literati who write scripts and poems for entertainment in the palace. Hanlin bachelors can draft the edict of the emperor, which is much better than enshrining.

"Then you..." Yu Jing looked at him, "When did you return to the Imperial Academy?"

"When the first emperor passed away. He had no official position at that time, and he just used the name of helping his father to get seniority." He smiled a little helplessly, "Later, I met the princess several times in the Imperial Academy. I still like to read books about ghosts and ghosts as before, and I still like to sit on the floor by the bookshelf and read for an afternoon, and I look like I am getting older than before, but my temperament is not different."

At that time, he only felt that the only two changes in her were getting older and not remembering him.The more he looked at her, the more he liked her. When the emperor ordered to find a son-in-law for the princess, he felt that he should give it a try. He confidently thought that it didn't matter whether she remembered the childhood events or not.

And he did marry her, but only after getting married did he realize that her changes were not limited to those two.

The most important change should be that she already has someone else in her heart, and she is willing to keep others thousands of miles away for that person.

He knew it too late, but he still liked her.He felt that she was still the little girl who chased him for stories many years ago, and every time after reading a new story he wrote, she would solemnly agree on the time and place of the next meeting, asking him not to come.

"Why didn't you say it earlier..." Yu Jing felt a little dazed when she thought deeply, "For half a year, I have been..."

"What I wanted to say at the beginning. Later I found out...the princess thought that I married the princess because I wanted to be a dragon and a phoenix. I was afraid that if I talked about the old things, the princess would feel that the minister had other plans and was deliberately trying to get close." He said with a short smile, " Besides, I... I really didn't expect that the princess would marry me without knowing who I am."

He looked at her with a look of "really admiring".

He thought she knew who he was, but she still didn't want to talk to him.

Yu Jing's heart was very complicated, and this kind of complexity made her extremely uncomfortable.She regretted it secretly, and said in her heart that she really didn't know it was him, if she knew it and still thought of him and treated him like this, then she would be too bad.

But now she still felt that she was too bad.Yu Jing remained silent, twisting her sleeves with her fingers, and not long after she was so ashamed that tears came out.

"Princess...?" An Liao was dumbfounded for a moment, startled and immediately started looking for the handkerchief.But as a big man, he really didn't have the habit of keeping these things ready at all times, so in the end it was Yu Jing who sobbed and found the handkerchief by herself.

On the other side, Xie Xiyao couldn't sleep peacefully for several days in a row, and as soon as she closed her eyes, hazy thoughts rushed to her eyes, which she couldn't suppress.

Soon after the New Year's Eve passed, she heard that her uncle and aunt were going to Qingyuan again, and she felt a little tight in her heart, feeling that Qingyuan was so far away from the capital for the first time.

(End of this chapter)