Chapter 18: The storm finally subsides

The stalemate between the two ended when the maid came in to report that Lan Ruofeng and Su Mu asked to see him outside the door. Xuanyuanchen led Lan Ruoyan to the hall. As soon as Lan Ruofeng saw them coming out, he quickly stepped forward and asked, "How's it going?"

"It's peaceful." Xuanyuan Chen replied in a low voice, looked at Lan Ruoyan beside him, and then looked at Lan Ruofeng, "Yaner will be fine. Those two maids, I have also figured out how to deal with them.

"How's Mrs. Chun's maidservant?" Lan Ruoyan heard the words and asked in surprise.

"Sister, don't worry about this! If things happen to outsiders, it will only cause more trouble!" Lan Ruofeng frowned and said in a slightly heavier tone.

"It's my fault." Su Mu lowered her eyebrows. If it hadn't been for his eagerness to express his love, she wouldn't have let Mrs. Chun listen, Lan Xiang would not have been eager to kill people.

"All right! The most important thing now is to protect cigarettes. If the emperor knows, maybe he will play on the topic! At that time, the smoke will definitely be implicated. Lan Ruofeng is most worried about his sister. Lan Xiang and Zhu Xin's life and death are incurable to him.

A non-toxic husband, this is the only thing Lan Ruoyan thought of at that time. Even if Xuanyuanchen and Lan Ruofeng's starting point was to protect her, they sacrificed their innocence and made it impossible for her to agree with their behavior.

Lan Ruoyan wanted to say something, but was stopped by Xuanyuanchen's eyes. Until the next day, Lan Ruoyan stayed by Lanxiang's bedside, afraid that Xuan Yuanchen would take action against this girl and take the little girl's life like bamboo heart. She was only 14 years old and her life had just begun.

"Mother..." Lan Xiang diled the heat and opened her eyes to see Lan Ruoyan looking haggard due to lack of sleep.

"Lanxiang! You're awake." Lan Ruoyan hurried forward to help her up. Are you thirsty?"

"Hmm." Lanxiang's lamp head, and after a while, there was a moist sweetness in her mouth. The princess actually fed her water herself.

"Drink it quickly." Lan Ruoyan looked at Lan Xiang with wide eyes and couldn't help smiling.

After drinking water obediently, Lan Xiang immediately asked Lan Ruoyan, "Mother, why are you in the maidservant's room?"

"Lan Xiang, have you forgotten what happened yesterday?" Lan Ruoyan asked carefully. If she can, she still hopes that Lan Xiang will not remember what happened yesterday. She still remembers that after she killed for the first time, she was fine on the surface, but she spent several days in nightmares. Later, when she killed more people, she became numb.

"Yesterday..." Lan Xiang recalled, and suddenly her face turned white. She looked at Lan Ruoyan, "Mother - maidservant, maidservant killed people!" As she spoke, two lines of tears gushed out.

"Don't be afraid, it's all over." Lan Ruoyan hugged her, stroked her back, and comforted her softly, "It's all over. It's all right."

"Mother, mother... The maidservant killed Mrs. Chun..." Lan Xiang's voice was hoarse, accompanied by sobbing, which made Lan Ruoyan's heart feel as uncomfortable as if she had been caught.

"The prince is here!" The eunuch's crisp announcement came, and Lan Ruoyan was shocked and quickly hugged Lan Xiang in his arms.

After Xuanyuan Chen came in, he saw the two of them hugging each other tightly, as if he were a ghost who came to ask for his life and desperately avoided her. He doesn't know what to say, but he must take Lan Xiang away today.

"Your Majesty, where do you want to take Lan Xiang?" Lan Ruoyan saw the old woman following Xuanyuan Chen and asked uneasily.

"Give her a way to live." Xuanyuan said without emotion.

"Where to go?" Hearing Xuanyuanchen say that he wanted to let her live, Lan Ruoyan was finally relieved.

"Royal Palace." Xuanyuanchen issued the syllables of these two words, and Lan Ruoyan was stunned on the spot. Palace!? Isn't this a sheep entering the tiger's mouth?!

She must go to the palace, but not as Lan Xiang. Don't ask too much. Don't you want her to live? Entering the palace will make her live longer. Xuanyuanchen slowly approached them and pulled away Lan Ruoyan.

"Lanxiang, after getting up and changing clothes, let's go with Aunt Cai." Xuanyuan Chen ordered the weak Lan Xiang. He didn't want her to die. After all, this girl was also carefully cultivated by him. Putting her beside Lan Ruoyan is just training. Now that she has killed people, it is enough to become a real detail!

"Yes." Looking at Lan Ruoyan, Lan Xiang replied softly, "I swear to be loyal to the princess!"

Xuanyuan Chen was slightly stunned and looked at Lan Ruoyeng. What kind of woman is she? Unexpectedly, in such a short time, he subdued the careful heart he cultivated since he was a child! If she is not his wife, he will remove her.

After Lan Xiang left, Lan Ruoyan felt that the whole Lanxin Pavilion was empty. I don't know if he still remembers the three-day appointment with Su Mu. She suddenly felt like a lonely old man, lonely and lonely. Even if there are servants all over the house, she still feels that she is alone.

At this time, among the spectators in the backyard, the most proud one should be Shaofei Liu Yujing, because she saw Lan Ruoyan's decline, even if this depression was not that Lan Ruoyan lost the position of the imperial concubine, but the loss of spiritual sustenance.

Lan Ruoyan suddenly felt that the most cruel person in the world was a man. NO.2 was one, and Xuanyuanchen was also one. Where should she go from now on? Promise Su Mu to leave the royal palace and fly away? Or continue to stay in the royal palace and be the puppet princess of Xuanyuanchen.

That day, Xuanyuanchen came to Lanxin Pavilion again. When he saw Lan Ruoyan's depressed appearance, he was also a little upset. I also thought of changing a girl as lively as Lan Xiang to serve, but that might repeat the original tragedy. What's more, he doesn't want to see the women in the backyard have too much power, which will only lead to a fire in the backyard.

"Is there any place you want to go?" Since the day Lanxiang's accident, Xuanyuanchen has called Lan Ruoyan.

"The ends of the earth." Lan Ruoyan whispered, where does she want to go? Where is she going? She didn't know that her life seemed to have been unchanged since her previous life.

"If there is such a place, I will definitely take you there." Xuanyuan Chen squatted down and hugged Lan Ruoyan from behind. "My concubine, as long as you want, I can give it to you."

"As long as it's what I want? Lord, don't make such a big promise to your concubine, because--" Lan Ruoyan hugged her by Xuanyuanchen, "You can't do it."

"Why do you think I can't do it?" Xuanyuanchen's body stiffened, but his hand holding Lan Ruoyan was tighter.

"You don't know me at all, but you think you can give me happiness. You can do whatever you want to win a high position. You don't deserve to make such a promise to me!" Lan Ruoyan clenched her fist, and her nails almost fell into flesh and blood. Only such pain could remind her that she was still a person who was not influenced by interests.

"Hmm!" Xuanyuanchen was angry, shook his hand and stood up, and said coldly to her, "Who is the self-righteous person? Lan Ruoyan, it's not good for you to be blessed!"

"Maybe my concubine is not a person who deserves to enjoy happiness, so the prince will allow me to suffer." Lan Ruoyan looked at the evergreen trees in the yard indifferently. On this cold winter day, green does not necessarily give a sense of life opportunity, but will only make people feel cooler.

"You--" Xuanyuan's anger disappeared after listening to Lan Ruoyan's words. Lan Ruoyan's sad look at the sky seemed to infect him and unconsciously reached out and pressed her shoulder.

"Your Majesty, I want to see Lan Xiang." Lan Ruoyan suddenly turned around and looked at Xuanyuanchen and said seriously.

"She is just a maidservant. As a princess, why do you care so much about her?" Xuanyuan asked.

"If you are a prince, can you treat human life like an ant?" Lan Ruoyan turned around and stared at Xuanyuanchen, "You regard them as tools. Are they tools?! Xuanyuanchen, what do you regard people as?

"Yan'er is also the eldest daughter of the general's family, and there must be many servants around her. Do I have to explain the relationship between master and servant to you now?" Xuanyuan Chen narrowed his eyes at the woman in front of him. What she said was too similar to that person.

"I don't understand, I don't understand why you can't understand these people!" Ruoyan looked at him and her eyes trembled slightly.

Xuanyuanchen looked into her eyes, as deep as a pool of lake water, "I don't understand." After that, he looked at her silently.

Yes! How can he understand? Maybe I really expect too much of him." I will see her anyway."

"Okay, I'll let you see her." Xuanyuanchen looked at her again and turned away.

That night, Xuanyuanchen took her into the palace. She leaned against the window of the car and listened to the sound of wheels run over the bluestone slab. She was as gloomy and dry as the cold day in December.

Since Mrs. Chun's murder, Lan Ruoyan's whole body has been decadent as if she had been beaten by frost. She really realized once what it means to be gloomy. She just wanted to try Lanxiang, but she lost two lives. If Xuanyuanchen hadn't dealt with it neatly, I'm afraid she would have been worried about her life. The royal intrigue and intrigue are really unbearable for ordinary people.

"At the decree of the Empress Dowager, you and I will stay in the palace from today until the end of the year." Xuanyuanchen looked at Lan Ruoyan's decadent back and said.

"With the prince here, I don't have to worry too much." Lan Ruoyan replied faintly, still looking at the sky outside the window. The winter sky is always unreachable... It seems that it has abandoned the gods of mortals, overlooking the whole world, and knows the pain of everyone, but it is still far away from high places. In this country with the imperial system, the royal family can calculate for its own people. What kind of fish should it be for the people?

She knew that she was not a person who worried about the country and the people, but as far as she could see, when the people displaced on the street gathered around to keep warm, they still hurt her. In those years, in the corner of the bustling city, she was also a wandering orphan...