Chapter 7: Misunderstood for gift-giving

Outside the house, the music lasted until late at night. After a rough dinner, Lan Ruoyan sat on the kang for a while. Seeing that there were lanterns in the oil lamp, he asked Xiaodie to bring scissors and cut them finely.

"The ancients had a poem: If you don't come for half a night, you can knock on the chess pieces and drop the lanterns. It is also said that why should we cut the candles in the west window together, but when it rains at night? This little lantern is actually the miss of the people under the lamp. Lan Ruoyan spoke softly, looking at the candlelight trembling, and the figure of Xuanyuanchen flashed in front of her eyes. Ah! Is she thinking about him?!

"Smoke." Xuanyuanchen's voice sounded behind her, and Lan Ruoyan couldn't help covering her ears. Did she still hear it?!

His hands were held and pulled down. Xuanyuan Chen leaned into Lan Ruoyan's ear and exclaimed again, "Yan'er, it's me."

Lan Ruoyan turned around and almost bumped into Xuanyuanchen's lips. She quickly shrank back and said, "Your Majesty! Why are you here!?

"I want to take you to a place." Xuanyuanchen simply picked up Lan Ruoyan and asked Xiaodie to take her shoes and go out quickly.

Sitting on the foot, Lan Ruoyan leaned in Xuanyuan's arms and wondered where he was going to stay. Xiaodie handed her shoes up. Xuanyuan Chen looked down at Lan Ruoyan's feet, worried that she would catch a cold, so he actually put on shoes for her with his own hands.

Is this a special honor? Lan Ruoyan enjoyed the preferential treatment of the prince wearing shoes for her with his own hands, but she wondered what it would be like if he washed his feet one day. I don't know how Xuanyuan Chen would feel if he knew she thought so.

After Buqi was carried to Xuan Yuanchen's study, although Lan Ruoyan had been to the royal palace for a long time, she had never been here. She looked up and saw the yellow cursive book "Huifang Garden". She asked Xuanyuanchen, "What are you doing here?"

"You will know later." Xuanyuanchen did not answer, but slowly put her on the ground after stepping down and pulling her in.

Walking to the crimson plum tree, Lan Ruoyan saw the small palace lamp hanging on the branch and couldn't help exclaiming. This lamp is so exquisite!"

Xuan Yuanchen took her hand and knelt under the tree together and said, "May the moon form an alliance, swear before the flowers, and wait for your heart forever." Lan Ruoyan was moved. She was not angry with Xuanyuanchen. After listening to Xuanyuanchen's numb love words, she smiled.

"If you really take 3,000 pieces of weak water to drink?" Lan Ruoyan asked him with a smile.

"Of course." Xuanyuan answered cheerfully.

"But--" Lan Ruoyan hesitated. She lowered her eyes and whispered, "Yan'er doesn't know if she is the only prince in her heart."

Xuanyuan Chen held Lan Ruoyan's hand tightly and said softly, "Then I'll wait."

Lan Ruoyan stopped talking. She didn't know what to say anymore. How long can she resist the man's tenderness?

However, the happy mother Nangong Jinzhi stayed alone in the empty room on the wedding night. She thought that she was demoted to a side concubine, and she was full of grievances, but now she is so unsicked by Xuanyuan Chen. There is hatred in my heart, and there is a layer of hatred for Lan Ruoyan. She knew that in the backyard of Chen Wangfu, except for the imperial concubine Lan Ruoyan, there was only Shaofei Liu Yuying who was pregnant and waiting to give birth.

The next day, it was still early, and Nangong Jinzhi went to visit Shaofei and deliberately provoked in front of her. How could Liu Yuting not see the jealousy of Ye Concubine Nangong Jinzhi? She knew that Ye Concubine was uneasy and kind this time. But he really hated Lan Ruoyan's forced Xuan Yuanchen to go to the backyard woman. He also saw that King Chen's love for Lan Ruoyan was getting stronger and stronger. He had been jealous for a long time, and he couldn't wait to frustrate her ashes and then!

But Shaofei is not so easy to be used as the master of the gun. She said, "If the spoiled woman gets the latter position and has nothing to do, she will have to make wedding clothes for others in the end. Sister, have you ever heard of red musk skewers?

"Can a woman slip a fetus, or even an infertile musk?" When Concubine Ye heard the words, she admired from the bottom of her heart that Shao Fei was cruel enough.

Shaofei smiled and did not answer, and asked Luo'er to take the mirror box and handed it to Ye Fei. "Sister, let's go and visit the Empress first. This red agate pearl can rarely be so smooth. Let it be regarded as a gift for my sister."

Red musk beads are red beads made of musk and other ingredients, and 18 beads are worn into strings. Generally, only a small amount of musk is put in this thing, which is harmless to the pregnant fetus. However, Shaofei's red musk string is fragrant, and its ingredients must be larger than the usual amount! Ye Fei just felt frightened in her hand.

As soon as she came out of Shaofei's cherry willow courtyard, Ye Fei quickly threw the brocade box to the maid Biyun.

Ye Fei knew that the red agate beads were 18 red musk skewers, so she naturally dared not send them in person. She sent someone to transfer it to King Chen several times. Xuan Yuanchen saw that the red beads were round and fragrant, and felt novel, so he asked the housekeeper Liu Ya to take them to Lan Ruoyan.

The red musk string was sent to Lanxin Pavilion. Xiaodie handed over the brocade box. Lan Ruoyan smelled the musk fragrance inside before she opened it. She frowned slightly between her eyebrows. She didn't like to apply incense and powder. Even in her previous life, the smell of perfume would bring unnecessary trouble. Moreover, this will remind her of NO.2, the strange fragrance of the night that killed her.

"Open it and have a look." Lan Ruoyan didn't answer.

"Yes. Mother, look, what a beautiful red agate pearl." Xiaodie opened the mirror box and happily sent it to Lan Ruoyan as soon as she saw the rosy beads. It still smells."

Looking up and taking a closer look, Lan Ruoyan said, "This is not an agate."

"Uh~ It's the maidservant's eyes misread." Xiaodie smiled shyly when she heard the words.

"The real agate is warm in winter and cool in summer, but it is cold to hold on it." Lan Ruoyan said faintly, "If it weren't for the red agate and fragrance, I could only think of musk red beads. But this musk is too strong..."

"If you don't like it, put it away." Xiaodie thought that Lan Ruoyan was so picky about this bead string. She should not like this thing, so she put the red bead string in and put it together.

In fact, Lan Ruoyan has studied medicine with the old urchin and is also familiar with medical science. After smelling the fragrance, I knew it was musk. I was puzzled and knew that this thing was very harmful to women. But when he met Xuanyuanchen the next day, he did not tell him, but asked Su Mu.

"Brother Su, why did the prince give me this?" Lan Ruoyan retreated Xiaodie and other maids. After the matter of Mrs. Chun last time, she was much more cautious. The lives of those servants were innocent, and she could not involve them.

"There are two possibilities. One is that the prince may not really know, and the other may be that he is afraid that you will give birth to a boy in the future and be crown prince. The Lan family is too powerful, so he will not be allowed to give birth." Su Mu said truthfully and found that Lan Ruoyan's whole face changed color after hearing the second speculation.

Lan Ruoyan thought of what Xuanyuanchen had done in the past, only he was a non-toxic husband. I think the reason why Xuanyuan gave her 18 red musk skewers was the latter! Angry and annoyed, he felt that what he had said to her in the past was to keep him to preserve his strength! Throwing down the red musk skewer, Lan Ruoyan slammed the door and left.

"Smoke! Where are you going?" Seeing that Lan Ruoyan reacted so much, Su Mu thought she was going to find Xuanyuanchen and quickly caught up with her and asked.

"I want to go out alone, Brother Su, don't follow me." Lan Ruoyan said calmly that she always wore simple civilian-style clothes, so she walked out of the royal palace without causing anything **. However, several prodigal sons tried to flirt. After being bitten by her, they only hummed on the ground in pain.

Lan Ruoyan rented a proud son all the way north and dropped a sedan chair in a place called Tianyun Villa. She knocked on the door six times, and soon a dwarf came to open the door.

"Which girl are you looking for?" The little man saw that Lan Ruoyan's temperament was noble. Although the style of his clothes was ordinary, the clothes were bright, and the clothes must be made of satin and good silk, so he was also polite when asking questions.

"I'm looking for Mrs. Nie Keren." Lan Ruoyan replied, "Please bother this eldest brother to report that Yan'er wants to see you."

"Please wait a moment." The young man nodded and closed the door quickly stepped in to pass through.

It wasn't long before he heard the sound of footsteps inside. Nie Keren shouted excitedly when he saw Lan Ruoyan, "Yan'er, you came so soon! My sister is thinking about you. Come in and sit down."

Lan Ruoyan took her in by Nie Keren, walked through the copy-hand corridor, and walked into a quiet room. After asking the maid to boil a pot of hot water, Nie Keren personally soaked a cup of Biluochun and handed it to Lan Ruoyan. "Warm your hands, it's very cold outside."

"Well, thank you. Sister." Lan Ruoyan nodded and thanked her.

"Why did you come alone today?" Nie Keren could see that Lan Ruoyan went out in a hurry, not even wearing a cloak, and the soles of the shoes were clean. She should have come in a sedan chair, but there was no sedan chair outside. She should have rented it herself.

Thinking of the matter of the royal palace, Lan Ruoyan angrily told Nie Keren about the red musk skewers. After hearing this, Nie Keren was very confused and felt that something was strange. She carefully analyzed, "Yi Chener's mental plan will never use such a means. What's more, you are the inner concubine. It's not easy for him to solve you in private. Moreover, he didn't have sex with you, so why did he get pregnant?"

Lan Ruoyan felt reasonable when she heard the words, so she said, "Well, in my sister's opinion, what should it be?"

"Well, I can't figure out anything about this. Why don't we go back to the royal palace to find out." Nie Keren pondered for a while and said to Lan Ruoyan.

"It's okay." Lan Ruoyan nodded and got up to leave.

"Smoke, you are so thin in this winter and you are not afraid of the cold. Let me get you a cape first." Nie Keren stopped her footsteps and walked into the inner room. Soon, she was covered with a brown fox fur, and the white fox fur in her hand seemed to be better than the one on her body.

Of course, Lan Ruoyan refused, but Nie Keren said, "You are several times more noble than me. If I dress better than you, if outsiders see it, I may chew my tongue in the back."

"Sister, we are all free people from the 21st century. Why do you and I have to care about Xia Qi's superiority and inferiority?" Lan Ruoyan listened to this reason, but refused to follow it.

"Oh! Since you call me sister, you should listen to me. Naturally, it makes sense for me to do this, and you just be obedient!" After several pushes down, Nie Ke's patience reached the limit, and she simply took out the strength of the past. Besides, you don't want your sister to change the warm fox's clothes for this cold one, do you?

"Sister..." Seeing Nie Keren insisting on doing so, Lan Ruoyan had no choice but to obey.

After the two were dressed up, they took a carriage to the vicinity of Chen's palace. When they sneaked into the palace from the back wall, Nie Keren was very surprised, "How do you know such a hidden place?"

"This... I'll tell my sister later." Lan Ruoyan smiled awkwardly. She climbed the wall for the third time. The first two times came out, but she didn't expect to go in this time.

After the two entered the interior, Yi Rong, the tea maidservant of the royal palace, entered the royal library. Lan Ruoyan went to Xuanyuanchen, who was looking at the paperwork, and carefully changed the tea cup in his hand. Unexpectedly, he was also about to use tea at this time, and each of them took it.

"Hmm?" Xuanyuan's eyes and slender hands are always familiar.

"Your Majesty, I will change the tea for you." Lan Ruoyan deliberately changed her voice and whispered.

Looking up at the maid beside him, Xuanyuanchen felt that it was different from usual and was about to ask questions. People outside spread the message, "Your Majesty, Lan Shao is coming."

"Please let him in." As soon as Xuanyuan Chen heard that Lan Ruofeng was coming, he didn't pay attention to this strange maid.

Lan Ruoyan quickly walked out and followed Lan Ruofeng by. Then she deliberately slowed down and wanted to hear what Xuanyuan Chen said to Lan Ruofeng. It turned out that she ran away from home, and her words were full of worries.

Out of the study, Lan Ruoyan quickly walked to the back garden and said this to Nie Keren. The latter nodded: "It seems that it should not be Chener. If he wants to hurt you, isn't it equivalent to being the enemy of General Lan?

However, Lan Ruoyan was still skeptical. When Nie Ke saw her like this, he said, "In addition to you, isn't there also Shaofei and Ye Fei in the royal palace? Your existence seems to be useless to both of them now.

Lan Ruoyan suddenly realized how she forgot Shaofei and Ye Fei when she heard the words. The two went to Shaofei's place and heard that the master and servant were talking. So he jumped to the roof and leaned over to listen carefully.

"Mother, I just heard that the master of Lanxin Pavilion is missing again." Luo'er stood respectfully beside Shaofei and said with a sarcastic smile on her face.

"Oh, I guess it's about the red musk skewers." Shaofei sneered. As a concubine, she is not at all restless. I really don't know where the prince likes her.

"What the Empress said, but the imperial concubine Ye was also not shallow in the city, and she actually wanted to use the prince's hand to harm the imperial concubine. If the prince knows, he won't punish her severely!" Luo'er said again, "Madam, do you want to tell the prince that the beads are from Concubine Ye?"

After hearing this, Shaofei looked sideways and said, "With the prince's wisdom, if you really want to investigate! That will definitely find the source. Won't I, who gave her the musk skewer at that time, be found?!"

Hearing this, Luo Er knew that he had said something wrong and hurriedly knelt down to plead guilty.

Seeing this, the people on the roof also understood what was going on. Lan Ruoyan's heart is cold. As long as there is a woman here, the backyard will never be safe. Conspiracy is also inevitable. Nie Keren heard the movement below, pulled Lan Ruoyan and jumped off the roof to hide.

After the matter was solved, Nie Keren said goodbye to Lan Ruoyeng, left the upper fox Qiu, and only said, "Next time I come, I'll bring it back."

"Hmm?" Lan Ruoyan is puzzled.

"Ha ha, I believe I will come to Chen Wangfu again." Nie Ke smiled like the warm spring sun, waved his hand and left.

At this time, Lan Ruoyan remembered the matter of the red musk string again, and she was angry at the moment. Unexpectedly, the age of Nangong Jinzhi 16 couldn't help but be deep, with a honey-bellied sword, with three knives on both sides!

With a shame in her heart, she returned to Lanxin Pavilion and ordered Xuanyuanchen to come over. The other party was very happy to see her come back. When asked about the reason for her departure, she hesitated to tell the beginning and end of the matter. After hearing this, Xuanyuanchen was a little angry and said, "It turns out that in Yan'er's heart, I'm just a treacherous villain!"

Lanxin Pavilion is shrouded in Xuanyuanchen's anger, and even the air looks particularly heavy. Lan Ruoyan's face was helpless. How could she offend Xia Qi's most difficult person? She just told the truth. If she had known, she would have just said that she was bored and went out for a walk. It seems that truth is really much more unpleasant than lies.

After adjusting his unstable breath as much as possible, Lan Ruoyan said patiently, "Your Majesty, Yan'er didn't mean to do so, just--"

"It's just that no matter what I think, they are all that kind of people, aren't they!" Xuanyuan Chen said without waiting for Lan Ruoyan to finish his words.

He did say what she thought, but can't blame her? Who asked him to show her the ferocious and cruel side? The person who achieves great things will do whatever she can, and she feels that he is cold-blooded and ruthless.

Seeing that Lan Ruoyan was silent, she bowed her head with a guilty heart. Xuanyuanchen knew that what he had just said was in her heart, so he thought more angrily, "Since you think so much about me, I should have killed the queen's mother and son at the beginning, and then tie you back. Do you think there are people in the world that I can't get rid of?"

"Even where the queen and the prince are now, I am also clear. I don't move them. I care about you and their feelings. I know that even if I only hurt them, you will be sad. They told me that it was the biggest threat, and I never did anything to them for you! But you only doubt me because of that string of musk red beads..."

When she heard Xuan Yuanchen talking about Murong Qingqing and Xuan Yuansheng, Lan Ruoyan was stunned. She thought that Murong Qingqing had lived in seclusion in the south of the Yangtze River with Xuan Yuansheng, but Xuan Yuanchen still found it. Listening to his tone, I really know where they are. And there was no news of their danger from the old naughty boy. It should be true that Xuanyuanchen let them go. In this comparison, she was really ashamed of Xuanyuanchen.

"It's my fault. If the prince wants to blame, it's okay. Even if he wants to punish, Yaner is willing to do it." Lan Ruoyan stepped forward and was about to kneel down. Xuanyuan Chen's eyes were quick and he helped her up first.

stared at Lan Ruoyan, and the two looked at each other. Xuanyuanchen saw only guilt and pleading in Lan Ruoyan's eyes, and his heart tightened, "Is it just them in Yaner's heart?" This seems to be asking Lan Ruoyan, and it seems to be asking herself.