When Guan Yi returned to Huanyifang with walnut cakes in his arms, Jiang Li was fetching water to wash clothes by the well. His face was haggard and his eyes were red and swollen. The wooden barrel was raised: "How do you feel?"

Jiangli lowered her head, her slender fingers trembled slightly in the cold water, and her tears scattered shallow ripples on the water surface.

"Why are you crying?"

"Director Cao asked my aunt to send me to his room tonight."

Guan Yi was stunned, he could hide from the first day of the junior high school but not the fifteenth day, Jiang Li was outstanding in appearance, weak and flamboyant, and he was in the clothes washing workshop, which was very easy to cause trouble. Looking at her thin and pale face, his heart was sore, such humiliation and abuse How could she bear it?

Jiang Li wiped away her tears, forced a smile, took out two lily-of-the-valley silk flowers from her sleeve, and put them in her palm: "I made you two more, if you don't give them to me today, I'm afraid I won't have a chance in the future. Actually...it's not that bad, don't you also accompany Manager Li every night?"

"It's different." Guan Yi held her cold hands and couldn't explain it clearly to her for a moment. Although Cao Shun would not play with dead palace maids, he was used to torturing people. If Jiang Li went...she didn't dare to think deeply, " You can't stand it."

"Guan Yi, my cousin is still waiting for me outside the palace, so I must come out of the palace to see him alive." Her dark eyes were clouded, and there was a bright smile on the corner of her mouth, "Even if you say goodbye to me And tell him yourself."

"I'm going to ask my father-in-law to do my best to obey the destiny." Guan Yi put the walnut cake in her arms and reached out to touch the top of her hair, "Jiang Li, you must wait for me to come back. .”

"Why would he help us?"

"I'm soft-spoken, and I can't protect myself yet. There's nothing I can do to help you, but as long as my father-in-law says something, you'll be fine."

"I don't want to trouble you anymore."

The scene of Guan Yi lying dying in her arms was vivid in her mind, her heart froze, and it would not be as simple as losing her life if she angered Li Chengchen.

"Always give it a try. What if he is in a good mood and willing to help? He... He is actually not what you imagined."

……

The sun was setting and the candlelight was dim. Li Chengchen sat on a huanghuali armchair and drank tea slowly: "Are you familiar?"

Cao Shun knelt on the ground and dodged his eyes: "I don't know what you are talking about, Mr. Li?"

He raised his eyebrows slightly, sneered, and threw a pack of incense ash on the bi-color jacket: "Smell it carefully, and answer after thinking about it."

The seductive gaze made people feel like a glow, he hesitated to pick up the incense ash and smell it, and there was a faint scent of camellia that had not dissipated: "What does Mr. Li mean?"

There was a crisp sound of the tea lid ding, his eyes were deep, cold and gloomy: "I hate others to lie in front of me the most in my life. I have already given you a chance, but you don't know how to cherish it."

Cao Shun lay paralyzed on the ground and kowtowed non-stop: "I'm just following orders, please forgive me..."

Before he finished speaking, half of the plum blossom branch was killed right between his eyebrows. The red plum blossoms on the branches were just blooming, dazzlingly gorgeous.

"Murdering the prince and using witchcraft without authorization, I have nothing to fear. It's because I indulged her too much because of my old love."

Li Chengchen fiddled with the floating leaves in the teacup with the tea lid and smiled sarcastically, and there was a knock on the door: "Eunuch, are you there?"

"By example."

"Yes!"

The two men in black quietly dragged Cao Shun out, and the secret passage was closed, so he rubbed his forehead and said lightly, "Come in."

Guan Yi closed the door and walked forward hesitantly, the atmosphere was cold, he stroked the lily of the valley silk flower in his hair and asked, "Elder-in-law, do you think it looks good?"

He glanced at her and remained silent. She carried the teapot and added some tea to the cup. In the mist, he couldn't see his expression clearly. He felt that the atmosphere was weird for no reason. He seemed to be in a bad mood. How did he feel? He wants to kill?She can't be so unlucky!

"Elder-in-law, can I ask you one thing?" Seeing the sky getting dark, Guan Yi could only bite the bullet and said, "Jiang Li was taken by Manager Cao, can you help her? I know you and I are not relatives , coming to beg you without authorization is a bit embarrassing for you, but I really don't know who can help us."

Li Chengchen paused while drinking tea, and remained indifferent. She pursed her lips and cried out to herself, what is going on?To help or not to help?It should be because he was too lazy to talk to her, but thinking about it, he didn't like her in the first place, and even though he was worried every day to save his life, he even had the cheek to ask him for help, why don't we try crying?

Immediately knelt on the ground and pulled the hem of his robe, blinked and shed a few tears: "Elder-in-law, Mr. Cao is in charge of torturing the maids in different ways. Jiang Li is weak in body and strong in temperament. I can't bear it. I beg you!" You help her!"

"not my business."

Guan Yi sobbed softly, then burst into tears and said in a crying voice: "Obviously you can help her with a single word, and obviously you can save her life or even change her life with a single word, father-in-law, for you, It's just a matter of words."

His eyes froze, and he gave her a cold look. She stopped her hand, which was about to wipe her tears with the corner of her robe, and tried her best to hold back her tears. She sobbed silently but did not dare to cry anymore: "I am selfish, I have no compassion. , and there is no intention of crossing people. You go! You don’t have to come here in the future.”

"Father-in-law's affairs are all done?" Hearing that he let her go for a moment, Guan Yi's heart twitched violently. Although it was expected, for some reason, his heart felt empty and unspeakably uncomfortable, and the tears stopped I couldn't help it anymore, "Eunuch, take care, I won't come here again, if you don't help me find a way."

"What? You still want to climb into Cao Shun's bed instead of her?"

"You..." Knowing what he meant and knowing what he said was true, she looked at his handsome and stern side face and suppressed all her anger, wiped away her tears, her eyes were stubborn, "I am alone No worries, humble background, hard life, I can do things that she can't bear."

Li Chengchen held the teacup tightly, his knuckles turned white, there was a crash, the tiles splashed, and all the warm tea was poured on the back of his hand. Guan Yi almost subconsciously walked over and wiped the back of his hand with a handkerchief, wanting to cry without tears : "Eunuch, please forgive me, did I make you angry again?"

What did she say wrong again?He said to let her go, just go, why did he contradict him?Stop when you see it, run away, how can you forget such a simple thing when you get nervous, how stupid.

"Not leaving yet?"

"Eunuch, then I'm leaving."

Guan Yi lowered his eyes, made a bow, and when he walked to the door, he suddenly heard him say calmly: "Cao Shun will never look for her again."

"Ah?" She turned her head to look at him with bright eyes in surprise, and grinned, "It's what the father-in-law says."

Xiao Songzi tidied up the tiles in the house, and tentatively said: "Cao Shun is dead, without her father-in-law's protection, Guan Yi will definitely be bullied when she goes back. This winter is very cold, and her hands are probably useless to wash clothes."

Li Chengchen went to the copper basin and washed his hands with warm water, Xiao Songzi continued: "She is covered with scars, and she was often beaten when she saw her in the clothing workshop, such a thin and small girl, I felt quite uncomfortable seeing her. "

"How do you know she has scars all over her body?"

"I saw it!" He blurted out and realized something was wrong, and added, "Her jacket is relatively short, and there are scars on her wrists."

"Bring the roster of the chief eunuchs in the palace."

"Yes." Xiao Songzi didn't know, so he took out a bunch of keys and opened the copper lock on a large wooden cabinet in the corner, and took out two booklets and presented them to the desk.

Li Chengchen flipped through it briefly, copied a roster on the rice paper with a pen and marked it with a cross with a red pen: "Leave it to the first day of the junior high school, and choose a day to sort out everyone's crimes and hand them over to me. If you don't keep your duty, you should die long ago." gone."

Xiao Songzi was dripping with cold sweat, respectfully folded the rice paper and put it in his arms, watching him stare at the neatly folded purple robe on the wooden tray and said: "Guan Yi mended the clothes and made a pair of socks for my father-in-law. I added a layer of thin cotton, saying that it was cold and my father-in-law was on duty for a long time, so it would be warmer."

He has never paid much attention to such trivial details as socks. The torn part of the purple robe is embroidered with a circle of curly grass patterns. The stitches are fine and simple, simple and elegant, which does not match her lively personality. For some reason, his heart feels like being stabbed by the tip of a needle After a while, it doesn't hurt, and I can't explain the subtle feeling.

Jiang Li was not sent to Cao Shun's room in the end, because he died, and Aunt Qianrong's strict control over them was not easy. In the next few days, because the second prince Xiao Luo was ill for a long time, the emperor ordered a strict inspection of the palace ban.

Li Chengchen supervised the internal servants, and cleaned up the palace rules one by one. I am used to bullying people by showing off my might, but I never thought that I would be trampled so badly that I should not respond to it every day, and the earth would not work."

"How can I change everything?" Jiang Li was puzzled by the silk thread in his hand, "It's said that one hair can affect the whole body, not to mention that the position of chief executive involves all the palaces."

"You don't understand this. Either you don't offend Mingzhe to protect yourself, or you offend all of them for following orders. If Director Li wants to find fault with one person, there will be thousands of crimes that will silence you." Lu Hai shook his head and sighed, "It's really satisfying."

"Let's just stick to our duty."

Guan Yi coughed a few times as he straightened the silk thread, Jiang Li worried Zhong Zhong said: "It doesn't work over and over again, what should I do?"

"She is used to being brave, and if one day she is really sick, the situation is usually worse than others." Lu Hai pulled out the silk thread in her hand and handed her a cup of hot water, "Eunuch Li may invite the medical girl to come and take a look on his old love, you Do you want to go for a walk in his yard?"

She shook her head quickly, swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said with a dry smile: "Well... Actually, I just served tea and poured water for two days and slept on the floor at night. Is this an old relationship?"

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