Sun Caiyao had another dream.
This dream was exactly the same as the one she had before she got married.
The flickering candlelight, the angry prince, and Ming Jiuzhu fiddling with the incense burner, everything was a reappearance of the dream.
"Did the prince harm His Royal Highness Prince Chen?"
"Who killed King Chen?!"
"Is it you, or the Concubine Ning, or... the Prince Huai who has been demoted to a commoner?"
"You want to kill me?"
Waking up from her sleep, Sun Caiyao heard the sound of rain outside the window. She stood up with trembling hands, poured herself a cup of cold tea, and drank it down with her head tilted back.
Her hands were shaking so badly that half of the cup of tea spilled out.
"Princess, what's wrong with you?" The maidservant heard the noise and pushed the door open to see Sun Caiyao sitting at the table with a pale face. "Did you have a nightmare? I'll call His Highness."
"Stop." Sun Caiyao looked at her with burning eyes: "I'm fine. I can't disturb Your Highness."
"But……"
"What I say is useless?" Sun Caiyao's shoulders trembled slightly, but her eyes were particularly bright.
The maid was frightened by her appearance and took out her outer robe to put on her: "Princess, it's cold outside, go to bed and rest."
Sun Caiyao ignored her, opened the window, and listened to the sound of rain outside. Her mind was in a mess.
Was the incident at the Royal Stables really just the work of your mother, and your Highness was completely unaware of it?
"Princess, may I get you a pot of hot tea?"
"No need." Sun Caiyao turned her head and smiled at the palace maid: "I was just startled in a dream, nothing serious, just take a rest for a while."
After the palace maids left, she forced herself to cheer up and sat by the window listening to the rain all night until dawn.
"Princess." Bai Shao walked into Sun Caiyao's room and helped her wash up. She found that she was already dressed and sitting in the room. "I got up late. Please forgive me, Princess."
"You didn't get up late, I woke up too early." Sun Caiyao stood up: "It has been raining outside all night, there must be fallen flowers all over the ground, come with me for a walk."
"Please wait a moment, Princess Royal. I will go get an umbrella." Having been a servant for so many years, she had developed the habit of never asking questions when her master wanted to do something.
Sun Caiyao nodded.
She stood up, shaking her numb legs, and put some rouge on her face to make her complexion look more normal.
Bai Shao followed Sun Caiyao and walked slowly. The more she walked, the more suspicious she became. "Princess, this is the way to Qilin Palace."
"Really?" Sun Caiyao smiled and said, "I heard that there is a beautiful apricot blossom forest outside Qilin Palace. I wonder what the scenery looks like after the rain. You have served my mother for so many years, so you must be very familiar with the harem, right?"
Bai Shao knelt down and said, "Princess, I am only a palace maid. I cannot walk around in the harem without the master's order."
After passing through a rockery, Sun Caiyao stood outside the apricot forest and looked at the apricot blossoms that covered the ground like snow: "It's a pity that such beautiful flowers fell into the mud."
"That's great. In a few months, the trees will surely be full of apricots. I just wonder if the apricots in the palace are sour or sweet."
"Princess, I have tasted the apricots secretly. They are very sweet. When they are ripe, I will pick them for you to taste."
"Hush, keep your voice down, or the housekeeper won't hear you."
"It's okay. If you hear me, just tell me I want to eat it." Jiuzhu lifted her skirt and walked on the bluestone road, smelling the fragrance of apricot blossoms in the garden. She was in a particularly good mood.
The palace maids followed her with laughter, but they did not forget to hold up her umbrella and skirt, and then smiled secretly at the fallen flowers in her hair.
"Princess." Chunfen whispered in Jiuzhu's ear, "There seems to be someone in front."
Jiuzhu stopped, and the laughing palace maids stood obediently behind Jiuzhu, as if the laughter just now had never existed.
"Fifth brother's wife." Sun Caiyao walked through the sea of flowers and came in front of Jiuzhu: "It's me."
"Fourth sister-in-law." Jiuzhu bowed to Sun Caiyao, who held her hand and knelt down to return the greeting: "Fifth brother's sister-in-law, are you here to appreciate the flowers as well?"
"I heard from the sisters in the palace that the apricot blossoms in the garden were all over the ground, which was very beautiful, so I came to take a look." Jiuzhu noticed that Sun Caiyao looked a little haggard, "Fourth sister-in-law, you should pay more attention to rest on weekdays."
"Thank you for your concern, Fifth Sister-in-law." Sun Caiyao touched her cheek and said, "It's a rare chance for us to meet here. Sister-in-law, please walk with me."
Jiuzhu smiled: "Fourth sister-in-law, please."
The ground was covered with fallen flowers, and some tender green grass sprouts had already sprouted out of the mud, looking particularly green and lovely.
The two walked side by side for a while, neither of them spoke. Jiuzhu was a person who would not be embarrassed even if others were embarrassed, and halfway through the journey, she even picked up a flower branch that someone had thrown on the ground.
"Sister-in-law." Sun Caiyao stopped and looked at the withered flowers in Jiuzhu's hands: "You and His Royal Highness Prince Chen have a great relationship."
Jiuzhu looked at her in surprise: "Is it possible that you and the Fourth Prince have a bad relationship?"
Sun Caiyao smiled and said, "Of course that's good."
"Everyone is born with his or her own destiny. Instead of staring at others, it is better to care more about yourself." Jiuzhu finally understood why she thought Sun Caiyao was weird.
Because she was always staring at her, staring at her with a complicated look, as if she was expecting something to happen.
"Is fate destined by heaven?" Sun Caiyao couldn't help but ask, "Is there no accident?"
"Fourth sister-in-law, do you think that fate is predetermined?" Jiuzhu shook her head: "My understanding of fate is not a stone that stands still. No matter where you go, you will meet it."
"Fate is that if you walk east, you will come across a peach forest and be amazed by its beauty. If you walk west, you will come across a pear blossom garden and be conquered by its beauty. This fate is not the peach forest or the pear blossom forest, but the beauty." Jiuzhu smiled: "You come to the pear blossom forest and want peach blossoms. If you come to the peach blossom forest and want pear blossoms, it is not fate, but force."
Sun Caiyao stared at her in a daze: "To you, is Prince Chen a peach blossom or a pear blossom?"
"Your Highness, he is the beauty in my eyes." Jiuzhu smiled: "The peach blossoms can be him, the pear blossoms can be him, the beauty of the four seasons can be him."
Sun Caiyao suddenly realized that if the death of Prince Chen in the dream was really related to His Highness, Ming Jiuzhu would choose to kill him for revenge.
But she still didn't understand, Ming Jiuzhu in her dream had never seen Prince Chen, so why would she regard him as her life?
Would a woman fall in love with a man she has never met?
"Fourth sister-in-law." Jiuzhu looked at her and said, "I don't know what's hidden in your heart, but I'm going to give you a piece of advice in a simple way. There are many things in the world that you can try to let go of and reconcile with yourself."
"If there is a hairpin that only exists in the world and it originally belongs to you, but you don't know it exists, so someone else gets it first, would you blame that person?"
"If someone else got hold of something I didn't know about, it means it didn't belong to me in the first place. Why should I complain?" Jiuzhu laughed, "Besides, it's just a hairpin. Without this one, there will be other hairpins that are more suitable for me."
"What if it's a human?" Sun Caiyao continued to ask, her expression full of urgency to get an answer: "For example...for example, His Royal Highness Prince Chen?"
Jiuzhu was slightly stunned. She looked up at the apricot blossoms on the treetops and thought carefully for a moment: "If it was His Highness, if the person who got him treated him very well, and His Highness also liked her very much, I would not complain."
Because at the beginning, she never thought about getting His Highness.
"I understand." After a long while, Sun Caiyao sighed and said, "Ming Jiuzhu, I am not as good as you."
"What's wrong with Fourth Sister-in-law?" Jiuzhu felt more and more that something was wrong with Sun Caiyao: "Do you want me to ask someone to get a doctor for you?"
"It's okay." Sun Caiyao forced a smile: "I just envy the affection between you and my fifth brother."
Jiuzhu looked at her and added in a low voice: "The question you just asked is about the situation where Your Highness and someone else are in love with each other. If it is now, I definitely don't want others to take Your Highness away."
Different times, different situations.
Flowers bloom and branches out, so let's talk about it from two sides.
"Who would snatch me away?" Prince Chen walked in from outside the forest, bent down and took Jiuzhu's hand, and looked at Sun Caiyao with a smile: "If there is any conflict between the fourth sister-in-law and the fourth brother, please close the door and communicate slowly with your husband and wife, and don't ask my princess."
"Zhangliu Palace is quite far from Qilin Palace. It takes such a long time to walk. Be careful not to fall." Prince Chen raised his chin and said, "Yang Yiduo, send the Fourth Prince's wife back."
Sun Caiyao's face turned pale: "Fifth brother, why are you so aggressive? We are just sisters-in-law talking to each other. There is no need for you to be so defensive."
Jiuzhu noticed that Sun Caiyao looked a little guilty. She didn't want to talk to her anymore, so she pulled Prince Chen's sleeve and said, "Your Highness, let's go."
"Fifth brother's wife..."
"Fourth sister-in-law, husband and wife are one." Jiuzhu said without disguising, "You wouldn't expect me to speak for you in this situation, would you?"
The moment she looked over, Sun Caiyao thought of the look in her dream.
Calm, cold, leaving no room for error.
She took a step back silently and watched Prince Chen and Ming Jiuzhu walk away hand in hand.
"Princess." Bai Shao moved the umbrella over Sun Caiyao's head and said, "The rain is getting heavy. Let's go back."
"Bai Shao." Sun Caiyao asked, "What kind of person do you think Ming Jiuzhu is?"
Bai Shao lowered her head: "I dare not."
Sun Caiyao glanced at her and said, "I'm sorry, please speak."
"Princess Chen has a very kind personality. She must be... a very good person."
"A good person?" Sun Caiyao sneered in an ambiguous way: "I think that such a person should not be pushed into a corner."
People who are extremely pure are scary in themselves.
"Your Highness, why don't you bring an umbrella when you go out?" Jiuzhu moved half of her umbrella to the top of Prince Chen's head: "Your hair is soaked."
"Nothing." Prince Chen wiped it casually with his handkerchief: "My father asked me to bring back a bunch of gifts just now, saying that I should accompany my daughter-in-law to her parents' home. A son-in-law cannot go home empty-handed."
"Wait." Jiuzhu took the handkerchief from his hand and wiped his forehead and nose. "Are there so many rules for returning to your parents' home?"
"Of course." Prince Chen took the umbrella and held it firmly: "Tomorrow morning, we will get up early and return in the evening."
That way I can stay at Ming's house a little longer.
"Ah." Ming Jiyuan leaned on the wall just after dawn: "According to the usual rules of marriage, today should be the day for Jiuzhu to return home."
"Third brother." Ming Cunfu almost cried out: "You woke me up at dawn just to tell me this?"
Ming Jiyuan ignored him and continued to mutter: "How great would it be if someone told me at this moment that Jiuzhu is back?"
"Young Master!" The steward ran and shouted, "The young lady is back!"
"Sister is back?" Ming Cunfu's sleepiness suddenly disappeared. He raised his head and saw that his third cousin had run away.
He climbed over the wall with great difficulty, and jumped down from the wall tremblingly: "Third brother, wait for me!"
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