Embrace
Guiyao staggered a step.
Indeed, she had some guesses since she entered the palace. Ren Beixi and the emperor grew up together, so naturally they trusted each other. In the 27th year of Yongchang, there was a mutiny in the capital. It was rumored that it was a black-clad general who pierced the prince's heart with a spear that day.
Guiyao just turned a deaf ear to the rumors spread by the neighbors.
Now she hesitated for half a second and decided to play dumb.
"What are you chirping about?"
Guiyao finally found the small cloth package in her arms, spread it out carefully, and found that there were several pieces of dried meat inside.
When she squatted down and spread out the cloth, the little green bird's claws left flower marks on the clean cloth. Seeing the snacks, she didn't say anything about losing her head. Shen Xiaoyuan licked her mouth and claws, and started chewing the dried meat.
Suddenly the whole bird tilted its head.
"Wow, my Yao, you must have other little animals already. You still keep snacks on hand just like in your previous life. It makes me, Shen Xiaoyuan, so miserable, trapped in the deep palace, worrying about food and drink."
Gui Yao heard this, and her smiling almond eyes also showed a little doubt: "Now that Shen Xiaoyuan has become Shen Xiaoju, does he eat bird food or human food?"
"If it's a bird, eating high-protein foods will cause diarrhea."
She pretended to pick at the dried meat.
Shen Yuan subconsciously flew into the sky while holding the small piece he was chewing, and only landed dejectedly after he reacted.
"You can eat them all."
"Birds that live for decades don't care about that."
After tasting the delicious food, the little bluebird returned to Guiyao's shoulder and pounded it, "But I was born in the palace, and I have a picky mouth. Don't feed me insects, Yaoyao."
She stood above Guiyao's head for a while.
After a break, he ran again and rubbed his palm against hers.
"Yaoyao, how did you come to this world?" The bird tilted its head slightly and asked seriously.
Guiyao stood there and looked into the distance. They should have walked back to the imperial garden, where flowers were in clusters and there was only a pavilion. She walked slowly towards that place.
As they walked, they talked about Xiaohe Village three years ago, and the young lady of the Gui family, who had been mentally retarded for many years, suddenly regained consciousness.
He also talked about the several side quests in Xianyu City that he and Ren Beixi had solved together in the past, and briefly explained the system replacement. Finally, before returning to Beijing from Xiaohe Village, he slowly stopped the story.
In Gui Yao's eyes were Ren Beixi's dark eyes.
Shen Yuan listened to her having a great time going up and down the mountains and rivers, and she was very happy that she had made more friends.
After listening, the bird chose to chirp and land on the only topic she had an opinion on.
"How was General Ren treating you just now?"
"Chen Xiaoyuan, I don't seem to want to leave this world anymore. If possible, I want to spend the rest of my life with Ren Beixi." Gui Yao said seriously.
She ignored the sweetness and jealousy in her mind and just looked at the round eyes of the little green bird.
Since modern secrets are so difficult to tell ancient lovers.
Then she would keep these ancient events secret from the bird she wanted to protect for the time being.
The bird flew towards the pavilion. Gui Yao looked at her reckless and chubby back and wanted to say something.
The system in my mind suddenly spoke: "Congratulations, host, the completion rate of the main task of raising birds has reached 10%."
"Oh, it turns out that the main quest also has a completion rate. That's great." Gui Yao blinked, her knuckles being pretended to be bitten by a bird, when she suddenly saw two little palace maids walking hand in hand in the distance.
Somehow, she squatted down subconsciously.
Chen Yuan: ...System, come out, what on earth have you done to our Yaoyao?
The little bird wants to show its head.
Guiyao pushed her down.
In the distance, the little palace maids were laughing and chatting. The huge imperial garden was so quiet that only the sounds of their playfulness could be heard.
The palace maid holding the lantern said: "After the Lady of the Gui family entered the palace, the Queen has smiled a lot more, as if she has always been in the palace. The Queen must have been happy all the time."
The maid holding a pot of flowers beside her whispered, "Don't talk nonsense about the masters. The queen didn't get punished last time because she was kind. If you make others talk about the queen's displeasure, it will be a shame."
"Ah, then I won't say anything."
Gui Yao looked at the palace maid through the bushes with her eyes. It was obvious that she was thinking bad things about the emperor. The second half of the sentence that she failed to say out loud meant that if the emperor knew, beheading would be the least of his punishment.
She suddenly asked.
“Shen Xiaoju, who do you like most in the harem?”
"The current coquettish queen!"
Yes, in such a huge palace, it seems that no one dislikes this beautiful and intelligent queen.
"Be cautious and prudent, be quiet and don't argue."
My aunt had said, "Jiaojiao is kind and innocent, don't get her involved."
So during the banquet, Gao Shun had a sword pointed at his neck, his right hand was empty, and when the imperial guards came to arrest Ren Beixi, he tightly grasped the wrist of the queen beside him.
It just so happened that he intended to scare Li Jiao.
The two little palace maids had already left. Gui Yao stood up and put Shen Xiaoju back on her head. She listened to how many fruits she had stolen to eat over the years, listened to her say that it was very uncomfortable without mobile phones in ancient times, but fortunately she was a bird and could not use a mobile phone, and listened to her say that she had made many friends after coming to this world.
It’s just that her bird and cat friends couldn’t understand what she said.
Later, I still liked to hang out with people.
Guiyao nodded and almost dropped the bird.
The system in her mind suddenly started talking a lot, and she couldn't process it all at once, so she sighed.
"Do you have any impression of the emperor?" Gui Yao asked seriously.
Shen Xiaochu cried out in surprise.
"Absolutely. The first emperor was an old man and didn't like it. As for the later one, I watched him grow old. The three thousand beauties in the harem were all super beautiful. At that time, the palace was not so deserted."
Gui Yao: "Is the palace deserted now?"
Shen Yuan also nodded: "Of course! This emperor has only been on the throne for a short time, I, I am a little afraid of him."
Gui Yao stared at the bird's slightly trembling feathers, and subconsciously stretched out her fingers to gently stroke it. What could have made Shen Yuan frightened? The moment their eyes met, the bird nuzzled Gui Yao and said, "I forgot you could read minds."
"so……"
Gui Yao swallowed the hoarseness in her throat, and Shen Yuan's heavy voice flashed through her mind.
After Gao Shun ascended the throne, he exiled dozens of surviving concubines in the previous emperor's harem, and even the official girl who was rewarded by the previous emperor before his death, to Lingnan. The queen Wang died before the prince.
Guiyao sighed.
Flying high and seeing far doesn't always seem to be a good thing.
She raised her eyes and was slightly startled. It was her aunt whom she hadn't seen for many days waving at her.
Gui Yao ran up to her with a smile on her face, protecting the little bird in her palm. Suddenly, she opened her palm as if offering a treasure, and a little bluebird shook the feather on its head shiningly.
My aunt cried out in pain.
"Where did Yaoyao find this little bird? It's so beautiful! Even in the palace, there's no bird with more beautiful feathers than this one."
Gui Yao curved her eyes and asked Shen Xiaoyuan to jump on her aunt's shoulders. Her aunt said her heart was about to soften. She waved her hand and let the bird go back. She asked Gui Yao seriously: "Have you seen General Ren?"
Hearing this, Gui Yao was unsure about her aunt's attitude and just nodded.
My aunt sighed, "Yesterday, the ban in the capital was just lifted. When I entered the palace, I saw many people kneeling in front of the palace gate. The rumors were going around that there were assassins in the palace, but I just saw Jiaojiao from a distance, and her expression didn't seem to change."
"If Your Majesty backstabs me, will the Queen be sad?"
My aunt seemed surprised that Guiyao would ask this. After a while, she nodded.
"As expected of a married couple, things are different now."
Gui Yao was helpless: "Aunt, you sound a lot like uncle now."
The dusk seemed to come early in the palace. A few days ago, Guiyao was temporarily staying in a side hall of the Pepper Palace. She had a good bed ready, and the gifts from the inn outside the palace were packed up and moved to her yard. Every day when she woke up, she would go to accompany the queen to read and practice calligraphy.
Your Majesty will come, and he will come today.
Then he sent her away to see Ren Beixi.
This is what Guiyao told her aunt. Not only did her aunt laugh, but Shen Xiaoyuan on her head was also laughing.
In short, when the sun set, Gui Yao suddenly became worried about Ren Beixi who was alone in the palace.
She almost forgot that she and he had never been separated like this since they met, as if all the separations they should have had were consumed before they met.
When her aunt saw the tears in her eyes, she smiled instead.
"I have never asked Yaoyao before, are you satisfied with this marriage, which is called an ancestral relationship but is actually a marriage that cannot be refused?" The aunt felt the beautiful little bird on her head jumping around, and she thought the bird was curious too.
Gui Yao had no time to cover her blushing face and just handed Shen Xiaoyuan to her aunt.
"This little bird is very human-like and seems to be from the Queen's palace. Talk to her and ask her if she wants to go back to the Queen's place. I'm going to take another look at Ren Beixi from a distance and will be back in the evening!"
She touched the bird.
He asked for a lamp from the palace maid who was accompanying him.
A young lady in a lilac jacket broke into the dark night inside the palace walls. She knew the way, so she walked to the end from the left, through the imperial garden, the crooked stone path with a small pavilion, and finally a long street.
Guiyao was running.
The oil in the lamp flickered, and the flame disappeared when she stumbled.
It was so dark that only a few candlelights could be seen at the distant temple gate.
arrive!
Gui Yao adjusted the hem of her skirt and when she looked up, she saw the candlelight in front of the door slowly moving towards her. She could vaguely see the man holding the candle in black clothes blending into the night, but he looked even more infatuated than the night.
The pair of large and powerful hands held Guiyao's wrist.
Guiyao didn't want the lamp anymore and just wanted to hug the man in his arms.
Ren Beixi chuckled softly, holding her tightly. With his other hand, he tapped her folded legs and said in a deep voice, "That's not proper."
The person in his arms shook his head gloomily. The only sounds in the silent night were her crying and his increasingly heavy breathing.
"Don't cry anymore."
"...Why are you crying even harder?"
Gui Yao's white neck shrank slightly from the heat all over her body from the man's body. When it calmed down and she felt embarrassed, her legs were clamped by his hands and she was held in his arms like a child.
The lights were left behind in the night.
Guiyao felt wronged.
"You haven't hugged me yet when we met today."
Ren Beixi kissed her until she whimpered and couldn't speak, then he loosened his grip on the back of her neck, feeling her gasping sobs in his arms, and said in a deep voice, "Well, it's my husband's fault."
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