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Chapter 421 Extra Welfare Chapter Deep Palace Empress & Beautiful Male Luthier (17)

Later, there was occasional news from the Northern Palace that Princess Chang Le was deeply favored by the current Holy One.

Year after year, and then there was no news.

Xu Xing grew up slowly, influenced by his grandfather's music theory, and slowly learned to play the piano.Seeing that he was particularly fond of the qin, Xu Wei took out the sandalwood qin that he had treasured for a long time and gave it to him.

At that time, Xu Xing was only seven years old.He stretched out his small hand to caress the lyre that was bestowed by the former emperor, and frowned suspiciously when he saw the three words "Sauvignon Blanc" engraved on the lyre.

"Grandpa, why is there Sauvignon Blanc on this piano?" He was still young, blinking his eyes and asked curiously.

After hearing this, the old man sitting in the sandalwood rocking chair basking in the sun slowly opened his eyes, and a few aftertaste and bitterness flashed through his eyes.

After a few seconds, he will hide his sadness.Smiling, he picked up the cup of tea on the tea table, looked at the sky with good weather, and said with emotion: "Because this piano is called Sauvignon Blanc."

"Why is it called Sauvignon Blanc?" Xu Xing stretched out his hand and plucked the strings, thinking hard while resting his chin.

"Long-term lovesickness, long-term lovesickness, short-term lovesickness, endlessness." Xu Wei sighed and said something, not sure if he was replying to him or muttering to himself.

Then, more than ten years.

The little bun who used to follow behind his grandfather asking questions every day has become a handsome young man.

Suave and suave, Wei Ai wore that spotless white dress, as gentle as jade, and became a well-known Jiangnan talent.

The appearance is like a crown of jade, better than a beautiful woman.If it wasn't for the fact that she wasn't too weak, she might be mistaken for a young lady from some family.

...

The young man often climbed to the second floor of the famous restaurant in Jiangnan to drink, he seemed to be thinking about something, and his expression was a little sad.

However, when he saw an acquaintance, he was smiling again, and immediately changed his face.

There are many people who gossip about him.It was long after Xu Ling left that Xu Wei knew that the Xu family had this child.

Everyone has different opinions.It is said that Xu Wei was unwilling to be lonely and adopted a child.Others said that it was the child of Xu Ling and Jing Yi.

After all, Xu Xing's temperament was very similar to that of Jing Yi's more than [-] years ago, as gentle as jade.However, if there is a comparison, Xu Xing's temperament and appearance are a little bit better.

The young man dressed in white, with a three-pointed sluggishness, seemed to be untouched by fireworks.But he was a bit of a monster, his affectionate eyes were half sparkling and half full of spring, and the cinnabar mole on the cheekbone under the corner of the eye was beyond beautiful.

Even so, when he is not smiling, he is cold and indifferent to strangers, as if looking down on all living beings, making people afraid of polluting the gods and only dare to look at them from a distance.Especially with a white dress.

But when he laughs, he is arrogant and unrestrained, just like a white horse entering a reed flower, unrestrained and unrestrained.

...

Xu Wei told him about Xu Ling since he was sensible.But Xu Xing didn't hear that, and every time he used a sloppy excuse to escape.

After coming and going again and again, Xu Wei didn't mention it anymore.Knowing that the child is older, he cannot be forced to do something he does not want to do.

Even if it was the wish of her daughter during her lifetime, Hongyan has aspirations and cannot be hindered.But the old man didn't know that Xu Xing's ambition was as high as the sky.

After the age of 20, Xu Xing traveled around with a piano and became famous all over the world.As everyone knows, how many ups and downs he has experienced in the past two years and how much he has prepared.

...

With a lot of thoughts and old dreams, the man sitting at the table let out a long breath and gently closed his eyes.

Tomorrow, just pass tomorrow.That's all.

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On the second day, An Xi went to deliver rose porridge to the emperor as usual.After leaving the palace, she subconsciously touched the white porcelain bottle hidden in her cuff, and lowered her eyes in a moment of distraction.

Xu Xing said, to deceive others, he had to deliver meals to Yun Qian all the time for the past few days.Wait until tomorrow to prescribe the medicine.

An Xi naturally would not doubt his words.Of course, I was too eager to go out of the palace for a while, because he led me out of the palace once, so I believed him.

...

On the second day,
The Princess Mansion was decorated with lanterns and festoons, making it extremely lively.Wearing a bright red wedding gown and holding on to the fiery red bronzing feather fan, Chang Le stepped onto the sedan chair step by step and headed for the west country in the early morning.

The once coquettish and flirtatious princess finally went on an envoy outside the Great Wall to make peace for the country.

Even if you don't want to, there is nothing you can do.

In the early morning of that day, outside the princess mansion, a person wrapped in a white robe watched the mighty send-off team leave, and then quietly embarked on another road that ran in the opposite direction.

The army of the Western Kingdom was coming through the small roads at night. When the sky was exposed and the dawn was dawning, they had quietly arrived at the outskirts of the small city in front of the kingdom.

They are waiting, waiting for the fireworks to fill the city, and the bustling end...

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Like the previous two days, An Xi woke up and had lunch, then went to the small kitchen to prepare rose cakes and rose porridge.

The freshly picked roses are still fragrant with the morning dew.She plucked the petals and kneaded them into flour.After thinking for a few seconds, he took out the small white jade porcelain bottle and lightly mixed some powder inside.

Just in time to meet Yuan Yuan who came in from the small kitchen with milk, An Xi hurriedly hid the small porcelain bottle in her sleeve and continued kneading her face pretending nothing happened.

Yuan Yuan saw that she looked a little panicked, and after putting down the milk, she put her head up and stared at her expression suspiciously: "What's wrong with you, Ma'am? Is there something wrong?"

"No...it's okay..." An Xi shook her head, bit her lower lip and continued rubbing her face.

"Okay." Yuan Yuan didn't continue to ask, and didn't seem too suspicious.

After a while, An Xi suddenly raised her eyes and asked, "Yuan Yuan, are you willing to leave the palace with me?"

"Ah?" Yuan Yuan scratched her hair a little confused when she asked her this question.

A few seconds later, she smiled and narrowed her eyes: "Wherever my mother is going, I will naturally go there."

"Speaking of which, I belong to the empress, so naturally I have to follow the empress. If there was no empress two years ago, I'm afraid I would have died a long time ago." Yuan Yuan said, lowering his eyes uncontrollably, as if a little sad.

An Xi didn't speak anymore, and the old events from two years ago suddenly appeared in her eyes.

It was winter, nearly half a year after she entered the palace.Because the palace is in the north, it often sees wind and snow.

At noon that day, when she was heading back to the palace with a fox fur hand warmer against the snow, she passed by the palace of a certain concubine who died of illness.

Looking from a distance, a court lady in thin clothes who looked childish was kneeling in the snow, dragging the hem of the consul eunuch's clothes and begging bitterly, crying heartbreakingly.

An Xi couldn't help approaching, stood not far behind the eunuch, and heard the court lady's pleading.

"Please, father-in-law, don't lock me up. I'm really not infected with the disease."

The imperial physician covered his mouth and nose with a veil in disgust, took a few steps back, and ruthlessly pulled the corner of his clothes out of the maid's hand.

"The imperial doctor has already said that your master's disease is contagious, how do you know that it is not contagious to you? Just stay obediently in the side yard of the cold palace."

The girl grabbed the eunuch's leg and begged bitterly: "Eunuch, Eunuch, please. If I stay in the side courtyard of the cold palace, I will die. Please."

"You don't want to go, you can say it. You just need to..." The eunuch looked aside with a guilty conscience, leaned over and made a gesture of counting money.

Yuan Yuan cried and wiped away the tears on her face, and raised her head pitifully: "I...I have no money, I gave you all my money before."

That too listened to her out of money, and immediately changed back to a bitter and mean face.Standing up, she taunted without looking back: "What can you do with that little money? If I didn't burn you directly, I would have counted it as a favor. I also wanted to send you to the side courtyard of the Lenggong Palace, so there is a chance of life. "

"Elder-in-law... Please... I will definitely find a way to honor you in the future." Yuan Yuan cried and kowtowed, humbled to the dust.

Kneeling in the snow, she, who was already wearing thin clothes, was already shivering from the cold, her lips were purple and her face was pale.

The eunuch snorted coldly and was about to leave, but when he stepped forward, he found someone hugged his leg.Angrily, he kicked the woman in front of him to the ground and spat hard.

"What, you ask someone to do something without money, do you think you are the master?! Despicable thing."

The eunuch scolded more and more vigorously.An Xi couldn't bear to listen, and handed the fox fur handbag to the accompanying maid, and walked up.

"What are you doing?" The woman's cold and dignified voice came, the eunuch stopped beating the court lady in front of him, turned around in fear, and looked at the graceful and elegant woman in front of him.

"Great...the imperial concubine..." He immediately knelt down, and then slapped his two big mouths fiercely: "This slave taught the servants a lesson and disturbed the imperial concubine, the slave deserves to die. The slave deserves to die."

I have to say that it is not unreasonable for this eunuch to be superior to others, he is smooth and has good eyesight.In this way, even if An Xi saw him beating the maid, she would listen to his side of the story and believe that the maid had made a mistake.

Masters, on the other hand, never pay too much attention to servants' affairs.

But what he didn't know was that An Xi had heard everything he said and done just now.But, she didn't turn a blind eye to this kind of thing like other masters, and dismissed it.

The woman's phoenix eyes slightly glanced at the girl who was kneeling on the ground tremblingly. Seeing her trembling, she didn't know whether it was because she was afraid of what happened just now, or because she was afraid of the cold, and frowned in distress.

"I've seen it all." She withdrew her eyes and looked coldly at the eunuch kneeling in front of her.

Before the eunuch came back to his senses, the woman followed what he just said and added, "You deserve to die."

"Your Majesty, my slave... my slave just now..." The eunuch was dumbfounded for a moment, and just as he was about to speak up, he heard a woman's voice ordering:
"Pull it down and deal with it as disturbing the harem and accepting bribes without permission."

As An Xi finished speaking, the eunuch behind him stepped forward and dragged him down.The sound of wailing and begging for mercy is getting farther and farther along with the falling snow...

An Xi approached and looked at the disheveled little palace lady with disheveled hair, bleeding from the corner of her mouth, and thin clothes.He took off his warm cloak and put it on her.

In fact, she is also afraid of the cold, even when the weather is cool and neither hot nor dry after the light rain in the dog days, she still wears a thin shirt over the light gauze.

However, the little girl in front of her seemed to be colder than herself.

An Xi, without the wool cloak, suddenly felt a chill.The maid next to her handed over the fox fur handpouch with great insight, she took it, and put her hand in to warm it.

Yuan Yuan cried and knelt on the ground, feeling the sudden warmth from her body, and was so moved.

"Thanks to the noble concubine and empress for saving me. From now on, slaves and maidservants will honor your empress as cows and horses."

Yuan Yuan felt the thick and exquisite wool cloak on his body, the warmth was mixed with a bit of cold fragrance.It seems to be rose fragrance, but not so strong.It smelled more like it was inadvertently contaminated with a bit of aromatherapy.

The cyan cloak embroidered with gold silk Qingluan is the witness of the two people's first meeting, and it is also the source of their companionship.

An Xi looked at the little girl with cold red faces in front of her, and gently helped her up, brushed the snow from her forehead, and helped her tidy up her cloak: "Come back to Fengxi Palace with me. , no one dares to bully you."

This sentence is still fresh in Yuan Yuan's memory to this day.It was also at that time that she decided to swear to serve the imperial concubine to the death.

At the end of the recollection, An Xi couldn't help but smiled, "What did you say about serving or not. I said that day, it was you who followed me back to the palace."

"Ah? Is there any difference?" Yuan Yuan blinked in doubt, recalling seriously.

An Xi looked at her and couldn't help but smile.She didn't care about the flour in her hands, and pinched her face: "Of course it's different, because when I saw you that day, I felt that you and I were destined. So, I asked you to go back to the palace to protect you."

Hearing what she said, Yuan Yuan blushed in embarrassment and rubbed the back of her head: "That's it... this servant is stupid, I never knew what your mother meant..."

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After making the rose cake, An Xi made rose lotus root powder. She added some nectar to the prepared lotus root powder, put it in the food box, and covered it.

After untiing the apron, An Xi stared at the food box and lowered her eyes and said softly, "Find someone to take it to, I won't go there in person today."

Yuan Yuan didn't ask why, and said yes in a daze, and walked out with the food box, handing it to the maid outside the door.

Then they went back to the palace with An Xi.

After working in the small kitchen all afternoon, An Xi soaked in the bathtub and closed the door to rest after returning to the palace.Beside her is a brand-new set of court lady's clothes prepared early, everything is ready, just waiting for something to happen to the Royal Palace.

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The maid of the Longevity Palace came to the front of the Imperial Palace with a food box, and when she saw the old eunuch outside the door, she bowed respectfully and handed over the food box.

"This is the rose lotus root powder prepared by the empress dowager herself, and the rose cakes she made are for the emperor to eat while it is hot, so as not to lose its taste when it gets cold."

The old eunuch responded with a smile, "Thank you for your hard work, the queen mother, I will definitely report the truth to you."

After the words fell, the little eunuch behind him stepped forward to take the food box.Before entering the palace, the old eunuch silently stretched out his arms to embrace him, and signaled him to stop with his eyes.

The little eunuch held the food box, drooping his head, not daring to move.The old eunuch opened the food box, took out the silver needle, wiped it clean with a handkerchief, and inserted it into the rose cake.

Seeing that the silver needle hadn't changed color, he wiped it clean and inserted it into the jade bowl containing lotus root powder.Seeing that his face had not changed, he felt relieved, and raised his hand to signal for the little eunuch to enter the hall.

(End of this chapter)