spring flowers

Chapter 23
In the early summer of Zhaoming 33, when the King of Jingbei used Yang Zexing, a veteran of the Tibetan Taoist Army, and Qingyan, the supervising army, to lead the Southwest Army to overwhelm Xiyan. Approaching, but suddenly disappeared in Anyang, avoiding the interception, and quietly appeared outside Zhaojing City, as if by divine help.

The strangest scene ever occurred in Zhaojing: the commander of the Beijing Guard Division and the nine admirals said they were sick and stayed behind closed doors. Rumors of being helped by gods and generals are rampant...

The king of Jingbei sat firmly in the tent of the Chinese army, neither invaded the capital, nor accepted any visits or invitations. Even Muye Luomei, who had not recovered from his serious injury, was refused to leave the camp until the imperial edict to pass on the throne was issued.

In the summer of the 33rd year of Zhaoming, on the ninth day of the sixth month, the new emperor ascended the throne. He rectified the imperial court with blood and iron means, changed the name of the reign to Jingping, amnesty the world, and was known as Emperor Yanwu in history.

In the autumn of the first year of Jingping, Emperor Wu refused Xiyan's request for peace, and the emperor personally conquered it.In the spring of the following year, Xiyan was pacified, and together with Nanyue was included in the territory of Dayan.Since then, there has been no war between the southwestern and southern sides of Yan Kingdom.

One breath of spring, one breath of autumn frost.

Meilin felt that she had slept for a long time, and when she opened her eyes, she saw the warm sun and dim yellow, and the window was full of spring flowers.She took a deep breath, feeling the fragrance, and her whole body was lazily and indescribably comfortable.

Just when she missed the softness of the bed, Wu Hanxiao's handsome face appeared in her sight, which reminded her of the past.

It turned out that on the day when Murong Jinghe rushed to South Vietnam, Wu talked about Meilin and Murong Jing's intimacy in front of Muye Luomei, but from the beginning to the end, Muye Luomei never questioned Murong Jinghe, or even showed any displeasure.At that time, Meilin knew that Makino Luomei was definitely planning to kill her, otherwise how could she tolerate it with her resolute temper.In addition, the vitality in Meilin's body was exhausted later, which made her feel the breath of death clearly for the first time. It was a feeling that she had told her countless times that she had not lived for a long time.What's more, Murong Jinghe is not here, and Qing Yan is not here, who can stop Muye Luomei from killing her who has no strength to resist.So, she really decided that she was going to die.

Since we're all going to die, why not do something good?She thinks that she has never done anything good in her life, and she doesn't quite know the definition of a so-called good thing.But maybe it was a flashback that made her think clearly, and she suddenly understood his thoughts about her, those thoughts that were covered by worldly disturbances, those thoughts that he had clearly abandoned her but still couldn't let go.She thought that if she died like this, he would still be sad, and maybe there would be a gap between him and the people who would help and accompany him in the future.

People are going to die, so what is there to care about? Do you want the living to continue to suffer?So, she did something she thought was a good thing.She stabbed his future princess, he must hate her.It's okay to hate her... It's better than being awkwardly sad all day long.

Until the moment when she lost consciousness, Mei Lin didn't understand why she was thinking of Murong Jing and that bastard so much?Afraid of his pain, afraid of his injury, afraid of his loneliness, afraid of his sadness...

Now that she woke up again, she still didn't understand.Of course, what she didn't understand was why she woke up again?
"Witch?" She stood up and found it a little difficult. The bones in her body were as stiff as rust, as if she hadn't used it for a long time.

Wu leaned over and took a soft pillow and placed it on the head of the bed, then helped her to sit up halfway.

"You slept for a year." Wu said.In one year, he has already become very proficient in speaking.In just a few sentences, Meilin was told the cause and effect.

At the beginning, he stimulated the anger of her body like that because he wanted to completely remove the Gentleman Gu, and give her the body that had been damaged by the poison a chance to be reborn. The body can't last long.Put it to death and then live, another way of saying is to break and then stand, no matter what it is, she has to "die" cleanly once, and then she can use Gentleman Gu to regenerate a new life for the ray of life that she has kept in her heart. vitality.So even if he saw the plan in her heart, he didn't stop him, but asked Yue Qin to quickly take her body away from the palace.

Of course Yue Qin didn't know, he only knew that Mei Lin had assassinated Mu Ye Luo Mei, he was afraid of Murong Jing and would be held accountable, so he stole the corpse of a young girl who died nearby and changed it into Mei Lin's clothes to make a fake grave.Unexpectedly, the hands and feet were not clean, and the family noticed it, so they searched everywhere.As a result, Murong Jinghe happened to pass by the town where the family was with the corpse on his back, and was immediately recognized by his family, which made the truth of the matter come to light.

After discovering that Meilin might not be dead, Murong Jinghe, who had experienced great sorrow and great joy, soon regained his senses.He returned to the palace in Jingbei calmly, and did not immediately ask Yue Qin about Mei Lin's whereabouts, but methodically deployed a plan to change the sky, and at the same time had people secretly monitor Yue Qin's whereabouts.

Yue Qin was still so stupid that he didn't know that the matter had been leaked. After he felt that Murong Jinghe had forgotten about it, he secretly went to see Mei Lin, thus revealing her whereabouts.

Murong Jinghe didn't try to scare the snakes, they didn't put Meilin and Wu in this garden full of spring flowers until they won the world.Mei Lin has been asleep, while he has been galloping on the battlefield.Now that the world is at peace, Mei Lin just woke up because of the vitality in her body.

Of course, Wu didn't tell Mei Lin about Murong Jing and Wu, he didn't think he needed to talk about those things.However, he told Meilin that spring flowers bloom all year round in this courtyard.

I didn't expect that I would come back from the dead. Although I couldn't move much, I did feel much more comfortable than before.No, it's not that I feel much more comfortable, but that there is no discomfort anywhere in my body.

"The gentleman Gu is still there?" Mei Lin asked.She really couldn't say what she thought about this thing that caused her to suffer a lot.

Wu Xiao said, "Of course not, the moment you wake up, it becomes a ray of life in your meridians."

Mei Lin breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that she had never been so relaxed before.Turning her head to look at the carved window, the warm wind blowing in from there, with the unique warmth and softness of spring, the corners of her lips slowly raised.

He has become an emperor...so he wanted to be an emperor.She thought, no wonder he must marry Makino Luomei, no wonder he couldn't make herself his wife.Probably no emperor would marry a woman with such a humble background and status as her.But, why did he keep her here?

Mei Lin suddenly felt a little annoyed, now that the world belongs to him, wouldn't he be more arrogant and unreasonable?
Murong Jinghe absolutely does not admit that he is cowardly, absolutely not.

In the early morning, he saw the guards of Meilin's Mianchun Garden waiting outside the Hall of Harmony, he was startled at first, and only thought what was wrong with Meilin, until he found the guards' faces full of smiles, he didn't feel relieved.Hearing that she had woken up, he didn't even have time to change into his court clothes, so he rushed to Mianchun Garden.

Mianchunyuan was not in the palace, so if he were to run all the way in this attire, I'm afraid many troubles would arise.Seeing that the Qing Yan could not stop, he had to ask someone to prepare a car.

However, when Murong Jing and he arrived at Mianchun Garden, they lingered in front of Meilin's room for a while, then turned around and left again.

Qing Yan who was following was dumbfounded, only to find out later that he was going to change clothes.

After Murong Jing and Ping Xiyan returned to Beijing, except for the early court, they mostly stayed in this Mianchun Garden, so there were still a few pieces of clothes for daily wear.

When Murong Jinghe put on a brocade blue robe and walked out of Meilin's room again, knowing that there was no longer any delay, he couldn't help letting out a sigh of relief, and finally walked in.

Meilin was the only one in the room, and she slept deeply with her eyes closed as usual.Murong Jing and Wei stunned, for an instant, the excitement, tension, joy, etc. that were surging before were all gone, replaced by great sadness.He walked over, sat lightly on the edge of the bed, stretched out his hand to touch Meilin's face, then bent down and kissed it delicately.

Mei Lin was awakened by the slight harassment and the wetness on her face, she opened her eyes in confusion, unexpectedly, she saw a scene she would never forget.

"Why are you crying?" She just thought it was weird. Even when this person was paralyzed and in pain, even when his life was at stake, she could speak mean words to her as if nothing had happened. She didn't even remember to look at him. There was a trace of sadness and helplessness.Then the grief-stricken face in front of her... She, is she still awake?
As soon as she made a sound, the man who was thinking about her by her face froze suddenly, then jumped away as if he had encountered something terrible, and turned his back hastily.

Mei Lin rubbed her eyes and sat up slowly.She just woke up not long ago, and she felt extremely tired after going down to the ground for a while, so she slept for a while, but she didn't expect to see him when she woke up again.Hmm... I've never seen him before.

In fact, in her feeling, they were only separated by Murong Jing and the twenty-odd days after they rushed to South Vietnam and before her fake death, and they didn't feel that they were unfamiliar or distant.

"You are dazzled." Turning around again, Murong Jing's face was calm again, the tears disappeared early, but his eyes were still a little red, and his voice was a little hoarse, revealing the fact that he tried his best to deny.

Meilin saw that there was unstoppable embarrassment and tension under his calm appearance, after thinking about it, she stopped getting entangled in this matter, but forgot another fact, and hurriedly wanted to get off the bed.

Although she felt that she was hurried and hasty, but that movement was extremely slow and stiff in the eyes of others.Murong Jing frowned slightly, stepped forward and hugged her.

"what are you going to do?"

Mei Lin was taken aback, she intended to go down to the ground to salute, after all he is now the emperor.But who would have thought that he would be hugged before the ground landed.Under such unexpected circumstances, she decisively decided to play dumb.

"I've been sleeping for too long, I want to go out for a walk."

Murong Jinghe glanced at her suspiciously, although he didn't really believe it, he took out a cloak from the closet next to her and wrapped it tightly around her, then walked out with her in his arms.

"Sigh... I can walk by myself." Mei Lin was a little helpless, she was not a disabled person who could not move her hands and feet.But before speaking, I don't know what to call, name?Prince?His Majesty?Your Majesty?The first two were not allowed to shout, but the latter two made her feel unspeakably awkward, and she couldn't say anything.

Murong Jing hummed, but she didn't let go of her, instead she held her tighter, so tight that she could almost feel his strong heartbeat.How did she know that what he was thinking in his heart was, I have been carrying the rotting corpse of a strange woman for several days, so I can't hug you more.Of course, he would never allow her to know such a shameful thing.

He didn't let go of his hands until he walked into the yard, under the rose trellis, and put her into the chaise longue that the servant had just set up.

Mei Lin couldn't lie still, so she sat up again, but suddenly found that she had no shoes, she couldn't help but froze for a while, and then silently stepped her bare feet on the fur blanket under the shelf.

After a while, someone brought the shoes over.Murong Jinghe took it, and wanted to put it on Meilin herself, which startled her, and quickly put her feet back on the chair.Looking up, he saw that it was Qing Yan who brought the shoes, he was still the same as before, nothing changed.So she smiled at him.

Qing Yan nodded slightly in response, with a joyful smile in his eyes.

"Qingyan, you go back to the palace and bring me the memorial." Murong Jing said in a low voice, with displeasure implied in his tone.

Mei Lin looked back and saw his gloomy expression.I have to admit that when he called himself Zhen, he naturally showed awe-inspiring power.The gap between him and her seemed to be getting farther and farther. Although it had never been close, this fact still made her a little depressed.

"You...you became the emperor?" She waited until Qing Yan left, she looked at the man who was still squatting in front of her, and asked with some hesitation what she already knew.

"En." Murong Jinghe responded lightly, stretched out his hand to grab her feet, and began to put on her shoes.

This time Mei Lin froze, wanting to refuse but dare not refuse.But looking at his usual expression, he didn't seem to think that being an emperor was such a big deal, let alone that it was such a big deal for an emperor to put shoes on a woman himself.After thinking about it, she felt that she could still treat him as the awkward and childish Prince of Jingbei for the time being, so she asked again: "Then you became the emperor, does what you said before still count?"

Murong Jing paused in the movements of his hands, as if thinking about what he had said, and said after a while: "The letter of divorce is in your room, from now on you have nothing to do with Qingyan." So, don't laugh when you see him It was so dazzling.

Mei Lin blinked, waiting for him to continue, but he didn't speak again until he put on her shoes and stood up.

"Then... what else? Can I leave here at any time?" She finally couldn't help asking, she never thought that he would marry her, just as she never thought that she would stay by his side forever who was no longer paralyzed Same.

Murong Jing and Wen Yan's expressions changed slightly, but they didn't attack.After a while, he turned around with his hands behind his back, looked up at the sky, and said nonchalantly, "I don't remember promising to allow you to leave."

"But...but you promised...promised..." Mei Lin got up in a hurry, and he stood up, but because he got up too fast and his body couldn't fully control himself, he couldn't help but tilted and was about to fall down.

Originally, Murong Jinghe, who had his back to her, turned around suddenly as if he had eyes behind his back, and took her firmly into his arms.

"If you can't stand firm, you can't stand firm. What a show of strength." The words were obviously reprimanded, but there was an indescribable tenderness in the tone, which made Meilin feel dazed for a moment, and then heard him continue, "I What did you promise, huh?"

Mei Lin came back to her senses, pondered over the past, and was suddenly speechless.

He really...has never promised anything.

Murong Jing looked at the woman who was almost dumbfounded with downcast eyes, a deep smile floated in his black eyes.He held the woman's waist tightly, lowered his head and buried his face between her neck, and complained softly: "You've slept for too long." It was so long that he began to wonder if he wanted to look at her sleeping face like this for the rest of his life.He was really afraid that when she woke up one day, he would be gray-haired and unable to take care of her anymore.

"Huh?" Meilin moved her body uncomfortably, she was not used to such a gentle and sad him.

"General Muye didn't like me being the emperor, so he resigned from his official position and went to travel around the world." Murong Jing and Gu tightened their hands to prevent her from moving, and continued.As soon as these words came out, the person in his arms really fell silent.

In fact, when expelling foreign enemies and mobilizing the Tibetan Taoist Army, Makino Luomei saw his ambition.Makino Luomei is extremely loyal to the imperial court, and she doesn't want him to bear the eternal infamy of usurping the throne and treason, so when she broke through the human gu formation in Nanyue, she quietly followed behind. save his name.It was only after she really defeated the Gu person that she suddenly regretted it, so she took the act of saving him with her own life.Only he and Shiqiqi knew about these things. To outsiders, he just said that she sacrificed her life to save him.

Probably since that time, or even earlier, when he returned to Beijing and did not marry her first and then go to the battlefield as he said before, she probably had a premonition that it was impossible for the two of them.

She has a decisive temperament, how willing to lose to a woman of low status, that's why she put all her eggs in one basket to kill Mei Lin, first to eliminate future troubles, and then slowly warm his heart.After all, the two have been entangled for more than ten years, and it is not impossible for the old relationship to rekindle.

The entanglement here, when he heard that Meilin assassinated Muye Luomei because of jealousy, but was shot dead instead, he could actually figure it out.It's just that a person who understands too much must endure heavier pain than ordinary people.

The matter was all caused by him, and Mei Lin was still alive, although Yu Muye Luomei's affection was long gone, he did not continue to pursue it after winning the throne.It is impossible to get married, and it is also impossible for her to continue to be an official.Fortunately, she has always had a strong and arrogant temper, and she was unwilling to bow her head in front of him, so she resigned and left on her own initiative.On the contrary, her father and brother are still serving as officials in court and doing their best.

"It's you who bullied people again." Mei Lin said slowly.She thought that Makino Luomei's departure might be related to her own death.This man... this man, why can't he treat the woman he likes better?

Murong Jinghe laughed out loud, nibbled on her ear, and said, "Besides you, I don't even bother to let anyone bully me."

When the itchy feeling came, Meilin couldn't help but trembled, feeling that he really couldn't regard such a bad person as the emperor.So he inhaled, raised his hand and pushed him away vigorously.

"My legs are sore, I have to walk." She said angrily.

Murong Jinghe knew that she should move around and didn't stop her, but he still held her waist carefully, for fear that she might make a mistake.

Mei Lin was helpless, feeling that he was really not a person who could bear such care, and was about to stab him a few words, but when he suddenly lowered his head, he saw the apricot red sachet hanging on his waist.

"This one looks familiar." She stretched out her hand to touch it, and when she saw the crooked concentric knot, she said doubtfully.How could he be wearing something so poorly made?
Murong Jing and Wei Zang turned their faces away to look at the flowers in the garden, but their ears were blushing uncontrollably.Even so, he still didn't slap her hand away, nor took off the sachet.Of course, he would never tell her that when he asked Qing Yan to write a letter of divorce, he wanted to come back together.

Mei Lin raised her head, and originally wanted to ask him where he got it, but seeing his increasingly reddened side face, she suddenly pursed her lips and smiled, no longer rejecting his tenderness.

Within a few days, Meilin was able to move freely.She discovered that Mianchun Garden was actually on Fushan Mountain where the original Jingbei Palace was located, and it was probably related to geothermal heat, so flowers bloomed all year round.

Murong Jinghe came here every day, and she couldn't bear to see him get up in the middle of the night to rush to the palace.But he had no position to persuade him, so he could only keep silent.He didn't forbid her to leave Mianchun Garden, but when she went out, there must be someone protecting her, so it was impossible to leave.She didn't know what he was thinking.Fortunately, she was always at ease, and the scenery here was nice, and she knew a lot of people, so she didn't mind too much.

When she has nothing to do, she likes to find something to do.That day, when she was sitting in the house with her shoes on, Murong Jing kicked open the door excitedly, and handed a snow-white long-haired puppy in her arms to her in front of her.

"See what I brought you?"

Meilin raised her eyelids and glanced, not interested, said indifferently: "Dog, what do I want a dog for?"

As if being splashed with cold water, Murong Jinghe froze for a moment, then lowered his face, "You don't want it?" He thought that women like these small animals, but Ah Dai was reluctant to hold the little red fox in his arms Let go, that's why I forced other countries to offer this little thing that is said to have the same noble blood as the royal family. I just wanted to make her happy, but I didn't expect that she would not want it.

Meilin shook her head, lowered her head and continued making shoes.

Looking forward to nothing, Murong Jinghe was a little annoyed, and stuffed the puppy into Meilin's arms, "I'll give it to you, and you have to take good care of it." The puppy was sleepy, curled up into a ball and fell asleep, not caring at all Does anyone want it.

Mei Lin was startled, and hastily put away the needle and thread so as not to prick anyone.She looked up at the headstrong man, helplessly: "I'm still being raised by others, how can I raise him?"

"Then I'll raise it with you." Murong Jinghe raised his chin and stared at her with a look of charity.

Meilin couldn't help laughing, "You like to raise yourself and take it away, why are you dragging me? I don't like these soft and precious little things." What she didn't say was that every day she would look at a fine An expensive and awkward him is enough, and she can't afford another one.

Murong Jing's face darkened, feeling that this woman really didn't know good from bad, but now she couldn't get angry with her, so she could only keep her depression in her stomach.Seeing what was in her hand in a blink of an eye, he grabbed it and asked, "What are you doing?"

Mei Lin sighed, she really didn't understand how a man who became an emperor would hang around here all day to disturb her, even if she could not sit quietly for a while.

"I saw that Wu's shoes were almost unwearable, so I planned to make a pair for him." She didn't really have much confidence in her needlework, but she knew that Wu was not picky, so she dared to do it.

When Murong Jinghe heard it, blood rushed to his head with a "boom", and he blurted out: "Why didn't you do it for me?" The only sachet was snatched from someone else.

Meilin was silent, she remembered the sachet she made for him for the first time, what he said, maybe he had forgotten, but she couldn't forget anyway.

"Ask you, why don't you do it for me?" Murong Jinghe asked unwillingly while tearing off the thread on the sole of the shoe.No matter how you say, you are her man, it doesn't make sense for her to do it for others and not for him.

Meilin sighed, pointed at his finely crafted and high-quality shoes, and said, "My girl is poor, so I can't make your shoes. Besides, you have so many shoes that you might not be able to wear them all. How can you wear them?" Can it be my turn to do it?" What she did, he couldn't wear it, so why waste his energy.

"What's the matter?" Murong Jinghe said unhappily, "Anyway, you are only allowed to make it for me, and I will let others prepare it for Wu." He looked at the shoes in his hand that were getting bigger and bigger, and he was a little satisfied. He gave up the idea of ​​throwing it back to her, took the shoe and left.

Mei Lin hugged the white puppy stuffed in his arms, and stared at his back as he strutted away in a daze, unable to recover for a while.

The direct result of this incident was that after that day, Wu, who had never cared about what to wear, immediately had high-quality shoes, socks and clothes that he could never wear out in a lifetime.

Of course Meilin would not make shoes for Murong Jinghe.In his capacity, if he wears the shoes he made to go to court or do something, it won't make people laugh.In order not to make him jealous, she no longer does needlework lightly, so she walks around the garden and up the mountain every day, thinking about what to do in the future.

From the beginning to the end, she never thought about what would happen between herself and him.It was not possible before, and it is naturally impossible now, although his thoughts are becoming more and more obvious.

He didn't seem to intend to let her go, and she naturally didn't care about her status or anything.It's just that in the future, are you really willing to stay by his side like this and watch him marry another woman?
Meilin was a little confused, she had been patient for the first half of her life, so would she continue to be patient in the future?Looking at the vast clouds and mist below the mountain, for the first time in her life, she felt that it was difficult to make a choice just because of his tenderness and sadness!
"Girl, there is an old friend who wants to see you." Ditang's voice came from behind her. Since she woke up, Ditang has been waiting by her side, probably because he had served her in Jingbei before.

Meilin was slightly stunned, she couldn't think of any old friends she had.Everyone has seen Yue Qin who was dispatched to Nanyue to practice because he cheated Murong Jinghe. With that kid's temper, how could he wait below.So, who would it be?

Waiting in the flower hall is a middle-aged woman. She has been well-dressed, her eyebrows and eyes have been carefully drawn, her hair is neatly combed, and although her clothes are not old, it can be seen that she has not worn them a few times. .

She sat for a while, stood for a while, and pulled her dress to adjust her hair from time to time, looking a little nervous and uneasy.

Mei Lin stood outside the hall and looked at her through the pane, at first she could force her composure, but after a while her heart beat faster and faster, until it was like thunder, and cold sweat broke out on her palms.

As if sensing someone's gaze, the woman looked towards the window.Mei Lin's heart twitched, and she hurriedly walked towards the door. Before entering the door, there was already a faint and calm smile on her face.However, her calm did not last long.

"Son...my poor son..." As soon as the woman saw her go in, she wiped her eyes with her hands and rushed up crying.

Meilin froze, looking at the woman who was crying so much that tears and snot were rubbing against her body, she smelled the smell of cheap makeup powder in her nose, her forehead couldn't help throbbing, and all the calmness she had worked so hard to maintain suddenly collapsed.She turned her head and wanted to ask Di Tang or someone else, but found that there was no one behind her.

What kind of situation is this?
Mostly because she felt that she didn't respond, the woman felt that it was boring to cry alone, so she stopped slowly, but still wiped her eyes with a handkerchief from time to time, and sobbed twice.

"May I ask who you are?" Meilin asked politely, ignoring the wetness on her chest, helping the woman to sit down on the chair.Although she had some hunch at first, she is not sure now.

"Nujiachun Swallow, it's you..." The woman wiped her eyes with a silk cloth, raised her eyelids and looked at her, and was about to say something when she suddenly froze, put down her handkerchief in a daze, and looked at her carefully .Then, she stood up, carefully lifted her left forehead, and gently touched the small red mole.

"Huahuaer...my child..." She touched Meilin's eyebrows, eyes, nose and lips with trembling hands, and then hugged her into her arms, her petite body trembling uncontrollably.

Spring flowers... Spring flowers...

Meilin vaguely recalled that a long, long time ago, there was a voice calling like this.It turned out that she likes spring flowers, and she especially likes spring flowers in Jingbei because of this reason.

Raising her hand hesitantly, she hugged Chun Yanzi's waist, her eyes were dry.

"I think back then, your mother and I were the oirans of Chunmanyuan. All the high-ranking officials and nobles did not worship under your mother's pomegranate skirt." Chun Yanzi was eating melon seeds, while showing off the glorious days to her daughter.

Mei Lin watched and listened with a smile, without any impatience or disgust.

"It's just that after having you, it's hard to live every day." Chun Yanzi sighed, and for the first time a look of vicissitudes appeared on his face, "It's not that I can't support you, it's just that in that kind of place, you can only grow up. It’s the same as me, so when I heard that a nobleman wanted to take children to train as his subordinates, I thought it’s up to you, so I’d better let you try it, no matter how bad it is, it’s not going to break the kiln.”

Meilin hummed, but still smiled.

"Don't blame me." Chun Yanzi said.

"Yeah." Meilin nodded.

"You really don't blame me?" Chun Yanzi straightened her waist, looking at the incomprehensible daughter in front of her in doubt.

"No wonder." Mei Lin shook her head, still smiling, looking at Chun Yanzi with yearning and admiration in her eyes.

Chun Yanzi breathed a sigh of relief, then became excited again, and said with a smile: "Look, if you have been following me, how could you meet such a good uncle?"

Mei Lin was about to nod her head, but suddenly felt something was wrong, said "Ah" and frowned, "What young master?"

Chun Yanzi glanced at her with a smile, and pointed at her forehead, "What is there to be embarrassed about, mother. If the young master hadn't found her as a mother this time, I'm afraid our mother and I would never see each other in this lifetime." Suddenly After a pause, a look of extreme satisfaction appeared in her eyes, and she praised: "Young master is very talented and treats you very well, my son, this is the blessing you have cultivated in eight lifetimes!"

"Have you seen him?" Mei Lin was surprised, a little surprised that Murong Jing and his mother would meet, but then he became sad, "I'm afraid we won't make it."

Chun Yanzi was stunned, confused, "Why?"

"He...he is not an ordinary person." Mei Lin said softly, her mother must not know that he is the current emperor, so she didn't reveal it.

"Not ordinary people..." Chun Yanzi repeated in confusion, then suddenly jumped up from the chair, with one hand on her hips, and the other poking Meilin's forehead. "Are you stupid? How could I give birth to such a stupid girl like you? What do you mean by not being an ordinary person? It's fine if he likes you and treats you well. Have you seen anyone who has nothing to do and spends so much effort to find a mother for an irrelevant person? No matter what ordinary person he is, just be an ordinary man, it will make you feel comfortable and comfortable, those men don’t understand anything, if you want to be knowledgeable or not, you have to have no vision, you think they won’t have three wives and four concubines Won't you despise your birth, won't you abandon you all the time? You stupid girl, you are so angry... so mad at my old lady..."

Mei Lin was thrown back repeatedly by the poke, but she was not annoyed. Instead, she burst out laughing with a "poof", and suddenly stretched out her arms to hug the woman's waist, buried her face in her arms, and the corners of her eyes became moist.

"Mother." Probably this is how a mother feels. Being scolded and loved, she thinks of you wholeheartedly.

Chun Yanzi suddenly stopped speaking, and tremblingly placed her hand on her daughter's head.

This is the first time she has called mother since we met.

After being scolded by her mother that day, Meilin suddenly became enlightened, without any anxiety or hesitation in her heart.It's just that when Murong Jinghe appeared, she didn't show gratitude or joy, her expression was the same as usual.Seeing the light of expectation in his eyes dimming gradually, and finally turned into disappointment, she suddenly felt her heart beating hard, wishing she could hug him tightly and never let go.

He pretended to fall, and was caught by him without accident, and then secretly took off the ugly sachet on his waist and hid it.It wasn't made for him. Seeing him cherish it so much, she felt distressed, so she made a new one carefully, and wanted to give it to him when she found a chance.

Murong Jinghe had already developed the habit of touching the sachet when he was free, so he soon found that the sachet was missing, and he was turned on his back for a while, almost turning the whole garden upside down.

Meilin didn't expect him to make such a big commotion, she was stunned at first, and then she came to her senses, hurriedly pulled him into the room, and stuffed the prepared sachet into his hand.

It was a stone-blue sachet, also tied with a concentric knot, and inside it was a tranquilizing herb. Whether it was embroidery or weaving, it was much better than the previous one.

Holding the sachet, Murong Jinghe was puzzled at first, and was about to say that this was not what he was looking for, but fortunately, he reacted quickly and swallowed the words that almost blurted out causing trouble.He held the sachet in his hand and looked at it over and over, and couldn't stop laughing while watching, and then suddenly found that the inside of the sachet was embroidered with a word of spring and a word of Jing.

His thumb lightly rubbed those two words, he felt his heart beating, his Adam's apple rolled down, and he raised his eyes, facing Shang Meilin's nervous and nervous smile, he could not help but smile back with a big smile like crying, and then He took her into his arms.

"I will never betray you." He raised his head slightly, his voice hoarse and authentic.

Mei Lin hummed, then took the sachet from his hand, and tied it around his waist.

"I took your sachet." She explained, a little embarrassed, in fact, it's good to say it, but she acted like a thief, "It was something I made for fun, and I soaked it again." Pass the water, or don’t want it.”

Seeing that he seemed a little reluctant, she said again: "If you like it, I will make it for you often in the future."

Murong Jing and Yu smiled and nodded repeatedly.

Mei Lin probed to look outside at the servants who were still looking for the sachet in a hurry, so he gave him a push.Murongjing and Huiyi called Qingyan and told him that there was no need to look for it.

Qing Yan had sharp eyes, saw the new sachet on his waist, and saw that the expressions of the two of them were different from usual, so he understood it in his heart, responded with a smile, and retreated.

After the Qing banquet was sent away, the courtyard quickly became quiet, and the servants all went to perform their duties.

Murong Jinghe looked back at Meilin, because Wu had completely restored her body.So since she woke up, she looked more energetic and prettier day by day, and she was no longer as frighteningly thin as a year ago.

Mei Lin felt embarrassed when he saw her, and turned her back to sort out the messed up sewing box, but he reached out and hugged her from behind.The scorching breath sprayed against the base of her ears, making her shudder involuntarily.

"I've already been prepared by someone. I will marry you in autumn." Murong Jinghe whispered in her ear, like an ordinary man, not in the tone of an emperor.

Mei Lin was slightly startled, she couldn't help but tilt her head, and wanted to ask, but he sealed her lips firmly.After tossing and turning for a long time, he moved away a little and said, "I will only marry you as a wife, and you will be the only woman in my harem."

Meilin involuntarily grasped the arm around his waist, lowered her eyes, her chest rose and fell sharply, and was speechless for a while.When she decided to let go of everything and follow him, she didn't think that he would marry her, let alone expect that he would have her as his only woman.Listening to him say it now, it feels like a dream, a bit unreal.

"But..." Murong Jinghe spoke again, waking her up from that trance, and was about to laugh at herself when he continued, "But I've been waiting for you for a year, and I don't want to wait any longer. "During the speech, his big hand secretly covered her chest, expressing the intention of his words nakedly.

Meilin's face was flushed red, and all the sweet and sour feelings of worrying about gain and loss that arose from his words flew out of the sky at once, and he grabbed his wolf claws bitterly, and was about to drive him out of the house, but he didn't want to. When I met a pair of eyes full of longing and nostalgia, my heart suddenly softened.

"Then...it must be night." She felt inexplicably coy, her eyes looked around, but she didn't look at those burning eyes that seemed to be swallowing people.

Murong Jinghe pursed his lips, seemingly reluctant, but still nodded, "You agree, and you are not allowed to go back on it." In fact, he was very happy in his heart, and his happiness was about to bloom. He originally thought that he would have to grind with her. It will take a while to get what you want.

Mei Lin hummed, thinking to herself that even if she repented, he might not agree.After recovering, he remembered another matter, and said: "Yue Qin... Yue Qin also wants to help me, so don't bother with him anymore."

As soon as he heard about Yue Qin, Murong Jinghe remembered the time when he was stupid, and couldn't help but feel a little headache.

"I didn't bother with him. I actually wanted him to practice outside. Someone will take care of him. Don't worry. After a few years, if he does something, I'll transfer him back to Beijing." He casually comforted Meilin , Seeing her showing a relieved smile, she was also relieved.

Mei Lin didn't know, after a few years, when Yue Qin grew up, Murong Jinghe would be even more unwilling to have Yue Qin approach her.

(End of this chapter)