It was already past midnight when Qi Ning left the Qinhuai River.
He asked Wang Xiang to go to the Hou Mansion to call a carriage. Qi Feng brought someone to drive the carriage and asked Tang Nuo to take the carriage back to the Hou Mansion. Before Tang Nuo left, Zhuo Xianer specially found a suit that he had never worn before. Tang Nuo was asked to put on the new clothes he had received, and if the suit came close to the water, he left it on the boat to deal with it.
After midnight, the Qinhuai River became quiet, and the previous music of Yingge and Yan dance had also disappeared. The girls on each boat and the guests who should stay also stayed. A spring night is worth a thousand pieces of gold, and Feng Yue is naturally not an exception. Humane.
The pedestrians on the shore have also gone back to their homes. The moonlight is faint and cast on the river. Qinhuai has returned to tranquility for ten miles.
After Xian'er's house was tidied up a little, the maids also retreated. After Xian'er took a bath, she put on extremely soft light clothes and sat under the dressing table, looking at the beautiful face in the bronze mirror, in a daze.
Suddenly, a figure flashed across the bronze mirror. Xian'er frowned slightly, but did not look back. After the figure flashed, he sat on a chair behind Xian'er, his whole body shrouded in black. Under the robe.
Xian'er looked calm, opened the drawer of the dressing table, took out a silver hairpin from it, held her hair in a bun, and gently inserted the silver hairpin into the bun.
"You seem to be paying more and more attention to your appearance." Hei Pao said lightly: "Women only want to please their appearance, but I don't know who you care about your appearance for."
A smile appeared on Xian'er's lips, and she said softly: "It seems to be a natural thing for women to care about their appearance. Could it be that there are still women in this world who don't care about their appearance?"
"It's a pity that you know very well in your heart that this face does not belong to you." Black Robe sneered: "Even your body does not seem to belong to you."
Xian'er frowned slightly, but said nothing.
The black robe leaned on the chair, raised one hand and put it on the chair handle. On the back of his hand, there was a burning flame tattoo, "You seem to have forgotten who you are, do you have to remind me?" You can’t do it?”
Xian'er stood up slowly, without looking at the black robe, walked to the table, poured herself a cup of tea, sat down at the table, and said: "I seem to have reminded you several times that my affairs don't seem to be the same. You don’t need to ask.”
"Oh?" Hei Pao let out a strange laugh, raised his hand, and something flew straight to Xian'er's back. Xian'er didn't look back at all. She raised her jade arm and clamped the thing between her two jade fingers. Black jade plaque.
Xian'er frowned and glanced at the jade plaque, only to see that it was engraved with a strange beast, with a tiger's head, a unicorn, a dog's ears, a dragon's body, a lion's tail, and a unicorn's feet. It was very strange.
Xian'er's beautiful face changed color slightly, and the black robe snorted coldly: "But I don't know if I am qualified to ask about your affairs now?"
Xian'er raised her hand and threw the black jade card back into the black robe. The black robe took it with his hand and put the black jade card away. Xian'er said calmly: "What do you want to say?"
"You should know what I want to ask." The black robe said slowly: "I once reminded you to stay away from this person and don't get too close to avoid provoking the person behind him." He snorted coldly and said. : "But you don't seem to have listened."
"I naturally have my own way of doing things." Xian'er's voice was also very cold: "I don't want others to interfere with my work."
There was a hint of anger in the black robe's voice: "But the way you did things has brought us danger. You shouldn't have caused this trouble tonight, but you still let them get on the boat."
"Get on the boat?" Xian'er chuckled: "It seems they got on the boat themselves."
"Get on the boat by yourself?" Black Robe laughed strangely: "If your ship is far away, how can you let them come on board? It's just that you want to see him and deliberately let the ship get closer. You know that once he sees him, When he comes to your ship, he will surely come on board, so that you can be with him.”
Xian'er said "Oh", and the black robe said coldly: "I reminded you that Qin Ning is too dangerous and should never be approached easily. You insist on going your own way and tell me that you only want to use him to achieve your purpose. Your purpose Indeed, using Qining, you got closer to the emperor more smoothly than I expected, and you have even entered the palace several times...!" His voice turned cold: "But what you did later made me suspect that you had no intention of completing the task. "
Xian'er glanced at him but said nothing.
"With your methods, it should be effortless to confuse the little emperor." Hei Pao said slowly: "Even if you can't let him take you into the harem, but you can become a singer in the palace, then It should be an easy thing. Wasn't it just to use Qining to enter the palace through this road and get closer to the emperor? But you didn't do that. "
Xian'er said calmly: "Do you think the palace is so easy to enter? There are so many masters in the palace, it's not as simple as you think."
"This is just your excuse." The black-robed monster said with a smile: "With your methods, even if the situation in the palace is complicated, you are still able to handle it with ease." He snorted coldly and tightened his hand on the chair handle slightly: " You missed the opportunity to enter the palace because you just wanted to stay on the Qinhuai River so that you could have frequent trysts with the young marquis, right?"
Xian'er chuckled and said, "Yes or no, why should I tell you?"
"It seems that what I guessed is indeed correct." Hei Pao sighed: "You have indeed been moved by your true feelings. I have long suspected that you are interested in that boy, for the sake of personal love between a man and a woman, but regardless of the overall situation." He stood up and said: "Have you ever thought about the consequences if this thing goes wrong?"
Xian'er frowned slightly, but said nothing.
"You were extremely stupid when you gave the extremely precious black python scales to Qin Ning last time." Hei Pao sneered: "Do you think that boy is a fool? How can you, a singer on the Qinhuai River, get the black python? Scales? Do you really think he is not suspicious of you? "
Xian'er picked up the tea cup without saying a word, and the black robe snorted again: "How can it be easy to deal with people from the Jinyi Qi family? You think he is sincere to you, but have you ever thought that he has already seen it? There's something wrong with you, I'm trying to get close to you deliberately, but my purpose is to get something from you."
Xian'er smiled softly and took a sip of tea. Seeing her calm appearance, Hei Pao seemed even more annoyed: "If he sees through your identity, you know the consequences." He stood behind Xian'er with his hands behind his back, staring at Xian'er. Er's slender and beautiful jade back: "There is also Shui Qian Yi. He is the holy envoy of the Black Lotus Sect. This man has rich experience in the world and has come to your boat several times. What if he sees the flaw? Don’t forget that behind Qining is Beigong Liancheng, and behind Swing Yi is Ye Tiancang!”
"Why are you saying this?" Xian'er said softly: "Of course you have no leisure and elegance and are here just to complain to me."
"You are in a very bad situation." Heipao said, "I don't want to be involved in the whole plan because of you."
Xian'er turned around, with cold eyes, staring at Hei Pao's eyes. Hei Pao also stared at Xian'er's eyes: "You have also seen the jade sign, so I will make all the arrangements for the next plan."
"How are you going to arrange it?"
"Your face is already familiar to others." Black Robe's eyes were cold: "So starting from today, this face will completely disappear from this world. You will get another face, and next, you follow my instructions Order, assist me in completing the tasks you should complete."
"What if I refuse?" Xian'er said lightly: "If I want to keep this face, what will you do?"
The black robe laughed strangely and asked: "Are you willing to keep this face, or do you want to save your life to see him again? The jade card is in my hand. If you disobey, you know better than me what the consequences will be. ." He came close to Xian'er, stared at Xian'er's beautiful face, and sighed softly: "I know you like this face very much, but since this face has done something wrong, you will naturally have to pay the due price. "
Xian'er said nothing, walked slowly to the window, and gently opened the window.
The moonlight shone faintly on the river, and a gust of night wind blew by, making the waves sparkling. There was even a wisp of night wind blowing over, lifting up the green hair on Xianer's cheek.
"We should all be dead." Black Robe also walked lightly to the window and whispered: "Dead people should not have love and hate in the world." He glanced at Xian'er: "Hate will make people lose judgment, but love will not It makes people lose faith. Your existence in this world is not for the so-called love and hate."
A contemptuous smile appeared on Xian'er's lips, and she said lightly: "Actually, I have always been curious. If your face has never been loved, are you really qualified to exist in the world?"
A stern look flashed in the black robe's eyes, and Xian'er chuckled: "Maybe you will never love in this life, then you can always survive with this face. But if one day you really lie down unable to move, recalling While this face of yours is still alive, is there anything left that is unforgettable to you?"
"Do you think that the feelings you put into him will really make him remember you?" Heipao sneered: "If he can't see you, he may be curious about where you have been for ten days and a half, but three or five After a month, he will completely forget you, and there will not be a single trace of you in his heart." With his hands behind his back, he looked at the bright moon in the sky from the window, and said calmly: "No matter you are a prince or a common man, you will never be forgotten. It is because we like the new and dislike the old. A singer on the Qinhuai River suddenly disappears, just like an autumn leaf falling from a tree. No one cares about it, no one cares."
Xian'er smiled softly, unparalleled in beauty, and said softly: "Do you know that loving someone does not mean expecting him to remember you all the time, but that you always think about him no matter when and where. This feeling may be something you will never forget in this life. None."
The black robe raised a hand, with the hand facing up, and placed a dark green pill in his palm. Xian'er glanced at the dark green pill, sighed quietly, pinched it with slender jade fingers, and glanced back at the room. He looked at everything carefully, and after a moment, he finally put the pill into his mouth.
She closed her eyes and faced the window. The night wind blew by, her hair fluttering, but a drop of clear tears rolled out of the corner of her eyes and slid down her smooth cheeks.