Sun Caiyao was dreaming again.
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 dream come true.
"Did the prince harm His Royal Highness Prince Chen?"
"Who harmed King Chen?!"
"Is it you, or the Concubine Ning, or... the Prince Huai who has been demoted to a commoner?"
"You want to kill the king?"
Waking up from her sleep, Sun Caiyao heard the sound of rain outside the window. She stood up with trembling hands, poured 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. She saw Sun Caiyao sitting at the table with a pale face. "Did you have a nightmare? I'll call you down right away."
"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 exceptionally bright.
The maid was frightened by her appearance and took out her outer robe and put it 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 go and get you a pot of hot tea?"
"No need." Sun Caiyao turned her head and smiled at the palace maid: "I just had a nightmare, it's nothing, 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'll go get an umbrella." As a servant for so many years, she had developed the habit of never asking any questions when her master wanted her to do something.
Sun Caiyao nodded.
She stood up, shaking her numb legs, and put a layer of rouge on her face to make her look more normal.
Bai Shao followed Sun Caiyao and walked slowly. The more she walked, the more doubts she felt. "Princess, this is the way to Qilin Palace."
"Really?" Sun Caiyao smiled. "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 in the harem without the master's order."
Passing through a rockery, Sun Caiyao stood outside the apricot forest, looking 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 don't know whether the apricots in the palace will be 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."
"Shh, keep your voice down. Don't let the housekeeper hear you."
"It's okay. When you hear me, just tell me I want to eat it." Jiuzhu lifted her skirt and walked on the bluestone road. She was in a particularly good mood as she smelled the fragrance of apricot blossoms in the garden.
The palace maids followed her with laughter, but they did not forget to hold an umbrella for her and lift her skirt, and then they 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 all 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 wife, are you here to appreciate the flowers too?"
"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 saw 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 to meet here. Sister-in-law, come walk with me."
Jiuzhu smiled: "Fourth sister-in-law, please."
The ground was covered with fallen flowers, and some tender green grass sprouts had sprouted out of the mud, looking particularly green and lovely.
The two walked side by side for a while, and no one spoke. Jiuzhu has always been a person who would not feel embarrassed even if others were embarrassed. On the way, 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 hand: "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 felt that 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, "Are there no accidents?"
"Fourth sister-in-law, do you think that fate is predetermined?" Jiuzhu shook her head: "The fate I understand is not a piece of stone that stands still. No matter where you go, you can meet it."
"Fate is that if you go east, you will come across a peach forest and be amazed by its beauty. If you go west, you will come across a pear blossom forest 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 coercion."
Sun Caiyao stared at her blankly: "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 understood 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 the dream had never seen King Chen, why would she regard him as her life?
Can 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. 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 is unique in the world and it originally belonged to you, but you didn't know it existed, so someone else got it first, would you blame that person?"
"If someone else gets to something I don't know about first, 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 is His Highness, if the person who gets him treats him very well, and His Highness also likes her very much, I will 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 that something was wrong with Sun Caiyao: "Do you want me to ask someone to invite an imperial physician for you?"
"It's okay." Sun Caiyao forced a smile: "I just envy the affection between you and your fifth brother."
Jiuzhu looked at her and added in a low voice: "The question you asked just now is when His Highness and someone else are in love. If it were now, I would definitely not want someone else to take His Highness away."
Different times, different circumstances.
Flowers bloom and branches out, and words are spoken in two different ways.
"Who would snatch me away?" Prince Chen walked in from outside the forest, bent down and took Jiuzhu's hand, and glanced 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 Yidu, 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 don't want me to speak for you in this situation, do you?"
The moment she looked over, Sun Caiyao thought of the look in her dream.
Calm, cold, leaving no room for maneuver.
She took a step back silently and watched Prince Chen and Ming Jiuzhu leave hand in hand.
"Princess." Bai Shao moved the umbrella over Sun Caiyao's head and said, "It's raining hard. 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 should be... a very good person."
"A nice person?" Sun Caiyao laughed sarcastically, "I think that such a person should not be pushed into a corner."
A person who is extremely pure is inherently terrifying.
"Your Highness, why don't you bring an umbrella when you go out?" Jiuzhu moved her umbrella halfway to the top of Prince Chen's head: "Your hair is soaked."
"It's okay." 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: "There are so many rules for returning 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 the Ming family longer.
"Ah." Ming Jiyuan leaned on the wall as soon as the sky brightened: "According to the rules of ordinary families getting married, today should be the day when Jiuzhu returns home."
"Third brother." Ming Cunfu almost cried out: "It was just dawn, and you woke me up just to say 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 looked up and saw his third cousin running away.
He climbed over the wall with difficulty and jumped down from the wall tremblingly: "Third brother, wait for me!"
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