The concubine is poisonous

Chapter 64 Meeting Ran Hai for the First Time
Snow, heavy snow like goose feathers, started to fall last night, and by morning, the entire capital city had been covered with the same thick white quilt.

When people open the windows or doors in the morning, they will be more or less amazed, because they have not seen such thick snow for a long time, and it has been nearly a year since the last snowfall.

After a long time, when I suddenly saw snow again, I was a little excited, especially the children, as soon as they heard the snow, they immediately jumped out of the warm blanket and hurriedly dressed , Then in groups of threes and fours in the yard, on the street, in the square or snowball fights, or make snowmen.The adults took shovels, brooms and other tools and began to clear the snow in front of the house, clearing the way for the family to come in and out.

Gu Xinning was alone in her room, staring at the white snow outside the window in a daze. The sudden heavy snow reminded her of Xue Yu, her master, and sister Mo, who hid herself in the vicinity of Xue Yu that day. In the snow pit, he let himself escape. Later, the master found himself in the snow pit in the snowy area and rescued himself, and brought himself back to the snowy area to raise and teach him.

Gu Xinning suddenly remembered that when she was in the snowy area, she always used snow water to make tea for herself. Before that, Gu Xinning didn't think there was any difference. It wasn't until she left the snowy area and started to use ordinary well water that she realized that the tea made with snow water was better. Feeling full-bodied, she shouted while turning her mind: "Nian Se, go find a big jar to hold some." Halfway through speaking, Gu Xinning suddenly stopped, Nian Se was gone, how could she forget it.

Suddenly, Gu Xinning saw an anxious eunuch walking through the yard with some red paper lanterns, and she was curious about what happened, so she asked everyone from the window, and then Gu Xinning realized that she was preparing for the New Year.

In addition to the surprise and excitement brought by this heavy snow, it seems to be reminding everyone that this year is coming to an end and a new year will soon begin.

The New Year is a tangled and emotional topic. Women feel that the years are ruthless and their faces are old. Men feel that life is in a hurry and ambitions are fading.The old people are entangled in how to arrange it so that their brothers and sisters can live in harmony after a hundred years, and the children are melancholy about how to keep the New Year's money received during the New Year from being taken away by their parents.

However, Gu Xinning couldn't tell how she was feeling. Ever since the accident happened in her family, Gu Xinning never celebrated the Spring Festival again. In Gu Xinning's world, the Chinese New Year has long been a distant memory of her childhood.

The corner of Gu Xinning's mouth suddenly smiled, and she thought in her heart: "This time, let's have a good year and make up for the gaps in these years. Life and death in the future are unpredictable. Next time we celebrate the New Year, it's hard to say whether we will have another chance."

At this moment, Ran Hai was visiting his daughter in Zhongcui Palace, discussing with Ran Yunmo what kind of gift to prepare for the Empress Dowager during the Chinese New Year.When Ye Junyan heard that Ran Hai had entered the palace, he asked the little eunuch beside him to go to Zhongcui Palace to pass the decree, and asked Ran Hai and Ran Yunmo to meet at Qinzheng Hall after they had finished talking.

After the little eunuch passed the decree and left, Ran Yunmo asked Ran Hai: "Today, the emperor specially summoned daddy. I don't know why, but the emperor rarely summons you in private." Hai is no longer a day, and usually only discusses matters in the court, and rarely takes the initiative to call Ran Hai to the Palace of Qinzheng.

On Ran Hai's face, there was no confusion and bewilderment like Ran Yunmo's, and he said, "It should be about preparing for the New Year's Eve dinner."

Ran Yunmo asked again: "New Year's Eve dinner? This shouldn't be something that Dad should take care of."

Ran Hai said: "Not long ago, there was a catastrophe. The emperor said that all the palace banquets this year should be kept simple. Maybe it is because of this that he wants to ask for the opinion of my father. I can't let the emperor wait. For my father, this is the way to go." past."

As Ran Hai said, he got up and walked out the door. When he came to the Palace of Qinzheng, he was as inexperienced as Ran Hai had predicted, and he wanted to discuss with Ran Hai about the expenses during the Chinese New Year.After the monarch and his ministers discussed for a while, Ran Hai bid farewell and left.

As soon as Ran Hai walked out of the gate of Qinzheng Hall, he saw a gorgeous and beautiful woman walking towards Qinzheng Hall.Although it was the first time for Ran Hai to see Gu Xinning, he had already guessed from her dress, appearance, temperament and the etiquette of the gatekeeper eunuch that this woman was the gnashing Gu Xinning that his daughter had spoken of.

After Ran Hai took a look at Gu Xinning, he quickly lowered his head, sighing inwardly, "Time really has such a beautiful woman." With his head down, he bowed to Gu Xinning and then passed by Gu Xinning.

When Gu Xinning returned to the Hall of Qinzheng, she saw an old man in official robes with white beard and hair coming out of the Hall of Qinzheng, her heart skipped a beat subconsciously, when the other party bowed to herself, Gu Xinning instinctively bowed , nodded in return.

After the other party left, Gu Xinning asked the little eunuch at the door, "Who was that lord just now?"

The little eunuch bowed and replied: "Returning to your mother's words, he is the current prime minister, Mr. Ran Hai."

"Ran Hai!" Upon hearing these two words, Gu Xinning's heart instantly turned to petrification, and she turned sharply to find that person, but the person had long since disappeared.

When she was young in the execution ground, Gu Xinning saw Ran Hai, and Sister Mo told herself to remember this person clearly, but at that time, Gu Xinning was only crying, her eyes were completely dazzled, and she couldn't see clearly, but Sister Mo He also said the person's name.Gu Xin falls asleep thinking of this name almost every day, 'Ran Hai! '

It was he who organized a group of dog officials to frame and falsely accuse Gu Jingzhou, which made Gu Jingzhou's family grow up early.Unexpectedly, this villain just walked in front of him.

Gu Xinning really wanted to chase her out immediately, find Ran Hai and take her life with a palm, but Gu Xinning tried her best to suppress the impulse in her heart, killing Ran Hai was easy, if she wanted to kill him, she could do it even if she didn't enter the palace, but death It's too easy, how can I let him know what regret is?What is fear?
nothing!Betrayal!Life is better than death!It was the retribution she wanted Ran Hai to suffer.

Suppressing the anger in her heart, Gu Xinning calmed down, turned around and walked into the Hall of Qinzheng calmly.As soon as he entered the Hall of Qinzheng, he saw Ye Junyan sorting out the memorial again.

Gu Xinning walked up to Ye Junyan and said, "Your Majesty, was Prime Minister Ran here just now?"

Ye Junyan nodded and said, "Well, he just left, did you meet?"

Gu Xinning also nodded and said: "Yes, I didn't know at first, but I only found out after asking the eunuch that he is Ran Hai."

Ye Junyan looked up at Gu Xinning and asked, "How does it feel to see someone who has been trying to kill you?"

Gu Xinning frowned and said, "Feeling? I don't feel anything, but I really want to go up and stab him in the chest with a knife." Gu Xin giggled as she spoke.

A smile appeared on the corner of Ye Junyan's mouth and said: "It seems that your hatred for him is really deeply rooted." Ye Junyan's words seemed to be unintentional, but in Gu Xinning's ears, it seemed to be intentional .Could it be that Ye Junyan already knew his identity?Or maybe Ye Junyan has seen that his hatred for Ran Hai is not just as simple as the fact that Ran Hai sent someone to assassinate him last time?
A sentence of Ye Junyan's words, whether intentional or unintentional, already caused Gu Xinning's mood to fluctuate, and when she was about to open her mouth to defend herself, she heard Ye Junyan ask again: "Why haven't you seen Nian Se in the past two days? You sent her out of the palace again Are you done?"

Seeing Ye Junyan asking about Nian Se, Gu Xinning hurriedly bypassed the previous topic, and replied with the excuse she had prepared before, "Yes, friends outside have collected some criminal evidence against Ran Hai, but the journey is quite far, I'm afraid It's not safe to send someone else, Nian Se is the person I can trust the most, so I sent her."

However, after Gu Xinning finished speaking these few words, Gu Xinning suddenly felt regretful. In front of Ye Junyan, Nian Se had always pretended not to understand martial arts. Ye Junyan said that Nianse is actually good at martial arts, and he should not be weak.Others may not think of it, but Gu Xinning knows that it is not difficult for Ye Junyan to think of it.

Gu Xinning has already started to curse herself in her heart, blaming herself for having too many emotions in the past few days, either worrying and bewildered, or being hurt by the scene, occupying too many thoughts, resulting in a lack of careful consideration of the problem, which is so critical error when.

Ye Junyan just nodded, then looked down at the memorial again, as if he didn't notice anything wrong, why?Gu Xinning asked herself in her heart.Is it because I think too much, Ye Junyan didn't doubt Nian Se at all?Or maybe Ye Junyan deliberately pretended not to care, but he had other plans in his heart.

Gu Xinning felt more and more that she could hardly continue acting in front of Ye Junyan, but Gu Xinning knew that she could only keep acting at this time, as long as Ye Junyan didn't expose her for a day, she would act for a day, even if It doesn't matter if you lie to yourself, at least if you can lie to yourself for one more day, you will have more hope for one more day.

Gu Xinning looked at Ye Junyan who was carefully flipping through the memorial, and said softly: "It will be the Spring Festival in a few days, this is the first time for this concubine to celebrate the Spring Festival in the palace, I don't know what to prepare, please the emperor give me some Opinion."

Ye Junyan put down the memorial, looked up and thought for a while, and said, "This year's Spring Festival, I have decided to keep everything simple, and the banquet will only use some simple dishes, so you don't need to prepare too much, but the Spring Festival coincides with the Empress Dowager. birthday, you just prepare a congratulatory gift for the Empress Dowager."

Gu Xinning did not expect that Ye Junyan would ask her to prepare a congratulatory gift for the empress dowager, so she couldn't help but asked in a daze, "For the empress dowager...?"

Ye Junyan nodded and said: "Well, it's the empress dowager. I know you don't like the empress dowager, and I don't like the empress dowager either, but the empress dowager is the lord of the harem after all, and she is also an elder. This gift is indispensable. You might as well give it to me by the way." Before Nian Se comes back, help you find a suitable gift to bring back."

Seeing that Ye Junyan mentioned Nian Se intentionally or unintentionally, Gu Xinning's heart settled down instead. Ye Junyan mentioned Nian Se intentionally and unintentionally just to see Gu Xinning's reaction. Ye Junyan did this for nothing more than It was to test Gu Xinning, the more he tried, the more Ye Junyan knew that Ye Junyan knew very little, so Gu Xinning's heart was at ease at this moment, even if he guessed that Nianse would be good at martial arts, it doesn't matter, he also pretended not to understand Martial arts, as long as Ye Junyan doesn't know his true identity, everything can be turned around.

So Gu Xinning took advantage of the situation and said: "Well, what the emperor said is that concubines should respect their elders. I will send a letter to Nianse in a while, telling her to come back later, and help me find some better gifts before coming back." .”

While Gu Xinning used an excuse to cover up Nian Se's affairs, she also took the opportunity to find an excuse for Nian Se not to come back temporarily.

(End of this chapter)