By the time we reached Yangcheng, the weather had gotten better, and the light rain falling in Duan Tianya gradually turned into the sunshine that slanted into my heart.
The little donkey also became obedient, swaying all the way, and slowly humped the little deer into Yangcheng. On the way, Xiaolu met a man and a woman who were also rushing to Yangcheng.
They checked into the same inn.
The woman seemed to be about five months pregnant, and her belly was already somewhat pregnant. And the man took even better care of his pregnant wife.
After chatting with them, Xiaoluzi learned that the man was named He Xian and the woman was named Wan Qing. They have arrived in the imperial capital, no wonder it is even more prosperous and lively elsewhere.
After dinner, Wan Qing had gone back to his room to rest early, while Xiaoluzi and He Xian were sitting downstairs chatting. The shopkeeper was busy calculating today's profit, and the boy had already brought a pot of hot tea to the two of them.
While chatting and laughing with He Xian Wanqing, Xiaoluzi also asked him why he came all the way here. He Xian only answered, settling a worry and returning to a relationship.
When He Xian talked about it, there was a melancholy look in his eyes from time to time. In Xiaoluzi's opinion, this is another person with a story.
In order to ease the awkward atmosphere, Xiaoluzi suddenly remembered his own business, and asked He Xian about Chang Gusheng.
He Xian replied, Girl, Changgu Sheng should be in the Qin area and I have heard about it.
"Qin, you mean in the west. Under that brutal rule?" Xiaoluzi was startled when he heard He Xian talking about Qin. He thought of the believers and the ascetics when he passed through that forest. It seemed that the scene had not passed yet, and the sad and touching picture reappeared in his mind.
Then why does the master want to find Mr. Changgu? It is said that Qin is a place where bad people take root, so is Changgu Sheng good or bad? Why did the master go there this time
All the things lingering in Xiaoluzi's heart were finally broken by the sound of neat footsteps coming from his ears.
"Greetings to the Prince Consort." A group of imperial guards knelt down in front of He Xian. After they got up, they stood neatly on both sides of the inn door.
I saw a palace maid kneeling on the ground, slowly leaning down. The person in the sedan slowly stepped on the palace maid's back, and two palace ladies helped her get out of the carriage.
When entering the room, a palace maid carefully took Liu Zhen's coat, and the other two little palace ladies had their hands on their chests, ready for the expensive coats that were about to be placed in their hands. Their job was to hold it in their hands until their princess needed to put it on.
Today, Liu Zhen is dressed more beautifully than in the past. Persian designers have tailored clothes for him that are different from those of that dynasty. A red dress is like the color of a fairy. The red dress is dotted with large and small gems, one by one, which is dazzling even at night with the weak firelight.
She put on her most precious earrings, put on He Xian's favorite hairstyle, and put on his favorite makeup look.
After searching hard for many years, Zhong found it.
When she stepped closer to him step by step on her golden shoes, she felt extremely happy at the moment.
And he. At this moment, it seems that I can no longer be happy. From the moment he stepped into Yangcheng, it seemed that it was destined that a tragedy would happen. If Liu Ting hadn't been imprisoned in the palace, why would he have bothered to come back
But when he thought about the late Qing Dynasty, he felt tens of thousands of worries and worries, and she knew it clearly. Why do you insist on following him back and saying that we will live and die together to the end of the world? He also asked him how could he not feel distressed.
Xiaoluzi and He Xian stood up and looked in the direction Liu Zhen came from. What a grand display! Xiaoluzi couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart. Except for the two rows of people who knelt down when Chu Sheng and Bai Yang exchanged the Jade Blood Sword in Zidu City, this was the first time they had seen such an appearance. But if the man in front of me is a prince-in-law, and the person who comes is a princess, it will be that late Qing Dynasty. . .
Liu Zhen walked to He Xian with gentle steps.
"Brother Xian, I haven't seen you for many years, how are you?" Liu Zhen said with tears in her smile. She still called him Brother Xian, still so close and gentle.
Faced with Liu Zhen's affectionate and unchanging attachment to him, He Xian rehearsed what he wanted to say to her thousands of times in his heart but couldn't say it out loud. He couldn't do it. He Xian just stood there blankly, unable to say a word.
"Brother Xian, can you hug me again, like before?"
Seeing that He Xian didn't speak, Liu Zhen said to him in a voice that was almost pleading.
He Xian replied: "Sorry, I can't do it."
Some of them were emotions that had been suppressed for many years. He Xian could no longer control his tears and burst out the moment he said these words. How uncomfortable and painful he felt, everything was shown on his face.
Love or not love is just a matter of his thoughts. like? I have cruelly abandoned her for many years. do not love? Why are I so sad in my heart? How can I forget that I have been married for many years
"What's wrong with me?"
Liu Zhen couldn't control the tears anymore. Crystal clear tears fell from the corners of her eyes, across her skin as tender as a newborn baby, and fell on the cold stone floor. "Tell me, what's wrong with me? When did I stop looking for you in the past three years?"
When the maids saw their princess crying so sadly, they quietly walked to her side and presented her with her silk handkerchief.
After wiping away his tears, Liu Zhen continued: "You can hold the new person and laugh, but who can I, the old person, cry to?"
Xu was talking about his pain points, and Liu Zhen's tears couldn't stop falling again.
Seeing Liu Zhen crying and looking at He Xian who was hesitant to speak, Xiaoluzi thought of Shen Jianfeng again without realizing it. I remembered that I had fallen in love with my ex for no reason. When we met again, he was ready to get married, but I was still stubborn about it.
Xiaoluzi flew out of the door and went to the roof a few hundred meters away. Unlike Liu Zhen, she could stare at her lover silently and shed tears quietly. But she didn't want people to see her crying, so she just hid and cried alone. But if you want to cry, you have to be hysterical, and you have to be desperate.
She flew out too fast, perhaps because of her impulsiveness, but she actually looked a bit similar to her master. Before the imperial guards could chase her out, she was already gone.
This hysterical cry couldn't help but activate the extremely strong internal force in her body, which caused the airflow on both sides of her to flow to both sides. For a time, there was a lot of wind in the originally peaceful night, and many lamps were blown away. After it was extinguished, the people all got up and closed their doors and windows, thinking that heavy rain was coming.
In the inn here, the two people's moods have calmed down, and they sat quietly on both sides of the table.
Reason told He Xian not to be sad about what happened in the past. After all, he married Wan Qing and they had a child that was about to be born together.
The purpose of his return left him no time to feel sad. He wanted to save Liu Ting.
So he restored his mentality and said seriously to Liu Zhen: "Princess, listen to me. When I come back this time, I hope you can help me save Liu Ting."
"Do you want me to save him? Do you want me to tell my father that all this was just a design to frame me, Liu Ting." Liu Zhen replied calmly. "If I go to rescue him, then I will be the one who deceives the king. Can you bear to see the prime minister's palace and have your whole family destroyed?"
"Then I will save it myself." He Xian said very tragically, like a brave man on his deathbed.
Thinking that the princess would not help him, Liu Ting was in this situation because of himself. Back then, Liu Ting left his own way of life to himself, but his life was in danger. But being in danger and meeting the love of this life by chance is considered worthy of this life.
Liu Zhen said: "My father did not hesitate to send his most valued experts for the elixir. Now it is difficult for even a fly to fly into the second brother's house. What should I do if something unexpected happens to you."
Taking the teapot that the palace maid had brewed for him, Liu Zhen held the moonlight cup in his left hand and gently poured a cup for He Xian. Then he slowly put it in front of him and said, "Even if you abandon me now, I love you deeply too."
He Xian took the tea cup, put it in front of him, and said: "Liu Zhen, I, He Xian, did not marry a wife to eat the skin and flesh of a baby to preserve her beauty; I did not marry a fox skin to make a coat; I don't It is necessary to keep gold, silver and jade in my hands. Although I am the son of the prime minister, I have read poetry and books for ten years, and I know that my life of drunkenness and dreaming is not for you but not for me. In this case, we have long been strangers."
Hearing this, Liu Zhen smiled bitterly, feeling like a stranger, so much so that he felt like a stranger. She couldn't help but smile. She had an angelic face with a smile as bright as a flower, but this smile looked like a devil from hell.
"Hehe, hehe."
"Oh, because I have gone against your beliefs, you have betrayed the love between us. Those children from poor families and fox skins were sold to me. Of course I can dispose of them myself. I was born into the royal family, and wealth is God's will. Why has it become a life of drunkenness and dreams?"
Seeing Liu Zhen smiling and listening to what she said, He Xian couldn't say a word. Maybe I have no words for her, or maybe I have thousands of words but can't say them. As she said, two contradictory beliefs have long distanced the two people to different ends.
"Are killers bad in the world? Are generals bad? How much blood is on their hands? I naively thought that you would really love the house and the bird. No matter what I do to others, I will never be willing to hurt others. You, is it wrong to love you? We also spent time together, and you swore to the sky that you, He Xian, would be with me, Liu Zhen, for the rest of my life." Liu Zhen asked He Xian, but her heart was extremely painful. , every word spoken seemed to be dripping with blood.
He Xian still said nothing. She had her own reasons in her heart, and who could make sense with her
"I can hate anyone for the rest of my life, but not you." After talking to him, Liu Zhen saw that he still didn't respond to her, and despair slowly grew in his heart.
When he didn't return, she still hoped that one day he would come back, so she kept waiting, waiting for her hope.
Until I met him today, even though I heard a servant coming to report that there was a pregnant woman beside him. But she still has hope. After all, after many years of relationship, he should be nostalgic.
But this meeting is really better than never seeing her.
"Take the pregnant woman upstairs away from me, let's go." She ordered the imperial guards and stood up.
Seeing Liu Zhen acting like this, He Xian knew that she was angry and said hurriedly: "What are you going to do? Don't hurt her."
But at this time, how could she pay attention to him like this? When you were silent just now, did you consider other people's feelings? Therefore, when others ignore you, I hope you can understand what they mean.
"Get off." The palace man shouted.
After Liu Zhen got on the sedan, although it was windy outside, the mighty procession also formed a unique scenery.
Wan Qing walked among the four imperial guards, walking carefully. He Xian didn't dare to act rashly. After all, he was outnumbered. If he hurt Wan Qing and caused her to have fetal contractions, the gain would outweigh the loss.
He also concluded that if the princess still wanted to reconcile with him, she would treat Wan Qing well now. But how to save Wan Qing and Liu Ting still requires long-term planning.
The lights of thousands of houses gradually went out. The wind also stopped. Xiaoluzi looked at the sky, and saw a few scattered stars that were not asleep, emitting their faint light in the sky.
I don't know what's going on with He Xian and the others now. Xiaoluzi, who had only been crying just now, remembered. At first, I was chatting and laughing with Brother He Xian in the inn, but then a beautiful woman appeared and burst into tears.
The matter between the two of them should be settled by the two of them, and now it is time to go back.
The speed of flying back this time was obviously much slower. Xiao Luzi wondered if she would be very powerful if she got angry, sad, roared, and shouted more in the future. Based on the above emotions, she was probably crazy at that time even if she didn't die.
After returning to the inn, seeing He Xian still sitting there, Xiaoluzi quickly asked, "Brother He Xian, what's wrong with you? It's so late, it's time to rest."
He: Xiaolu, she was taken away in the late Qing Dynasty. I guess you also know that I am the emperor's consort.
Lu: Oh, Miss Wan Qing will be fine.
He: Probably not at the moment.
Lu: How can I help
He: We just met by chance, and besides, you can't be of much help.
Lu: No, I draw my sword to help when there is an injustice on the road. Look at my sword, it’s not bad. As he spoke, Xiaoluzi untied the green blood sword that was tightly wrapped on his back.
When Xiaoluzi pulled out the sword, He Xian didn't feel that there was anything valuable about the sword. It was just a faint green light under the candlelight. He had collected hundreds of them in the Prime Minister's Palace. There are thousands of famous swords in different shapes.
He: This is how you draw your sword to help. Sister Xiaolu, I accept your wishes. I plan to make long-term plans after returning to the Prime Minister's Mansion.
Lu: Brother He Xian, you have to believe me. Although I am not a hero, I am definitely a good man.
He: Sister, the world is dangerous. If you have such a personality, it would be really difficult not to encounter accidents if you set out to explore the world alone. I accept your wishes.
Lu: No, no, brother He Xian, believe me. I can help you.
He: If you’re not going to look for that Hasei, you’d better rest early and hit the road.
Xiaoluzi was going crazy, and she told him that it was all out of good intentions. Even if she was caught, what kind of cell would she not be able to escape from, and what kind of shackles would be able to lock her.
So, nothing to be afraid of.
But how powerful she is, she can't say it, let alone show it to others easily. It will be bad if she becomes the target of being hunted down by the world.
When he was anxious, Xiaoluzi suddenly thought that he couldn't insist on going to rescue people with him, he could only outwit the consequences.
She told He Xian, Brother He Xian, since you rejected my kindness, you don't want to sleep today. It's rare that there is moonlight tonight, and I have good wine here. It's okay for us to go to the roof to talk about the troubles.
He Xian nodded and agreed.
On the roof, the two drank and talked.
Xiaoluzi also learned that He Xian was Liu Zhen's consort. Naihe went to the front line to fight, and was rescued by a woman. After that, he married the woman and started farming in a village. Food, life is also very comfortable.
When I went to that town on market day, I accidentally heard that the second prince had been arrested and that he had hidden the elixir of the current emperor.
He Xian and Liu Ting have also been friends since childhood. How can someone who can give up his life to him be the kind of villain who covets the elixir of immortality? Besides, if there really is a medicine of immortality in this world, how could Liu Ting find so many talented people in the world
I have long heard that the princess and Liu Ting were not getting along. If I guessed correctly, it must be because he did not return alive and Liu Zhen was confused.
After searching all the way, I found out that he was indeed inextricably linked to Liu Zhen. It was obvious that this matter had something to do with him, but late Qing was already pregnant, so it might not be appropriate to travel such a long distance and face such danger. But this happened because of oneself, so how can one be ungrateful
On one side is his wife who was abandoned by him, on the other side is his good brother who has experienced life and death and fought together, and on the other side is his pregnant partner. On the edge of conflict and pain, he still chose to come back. After all, only by coming back would Liu Ting have a way out.
But where should we start the ideological work on the emperor's side? He was depressed. Without the princess's help during this period, he would definitely be in trouble. But if the princess is of use to him, where will he put the late Qing Dynasty
Hearing this, Xiao Luzi told him, Brother He Xian, you have played a game of chess for yourself, and you have also played a dead move for yourself. Your ideological baggage has surrounded you. To put it simply, it is You are fighting this trapped beast fight with yourself.
He Xian took a sip of wine and was puzzled.
He: Why do you mean this
Lu: I can't tell you your personal experience in detail, but think about it, if you can use external help to save Liu Ting and free that night, wouldn't you have the best of both worlds
He Xian still doesn't understand.
Xiaoluzi joked, of course, destroy the Liu regime.
He Xian shook his head and said, isn't this just a fantasy? Even if he dies one day, the people I care about will already be gone.
Xiaoluzi smiled and said, Haha, Brother He Xian, I'm just kidding, you see, you just have too much mental baggage. If the emperor wants the elixir, you can make it for him. He likes to think the fake is real. Then you can make him a fake and let him think it is real. That will be fine.
Hearing what Xiaoluzi said, He Xian was even less confident. Is this little girl joking with him seriously, or was she joking seriously
He: You can tell how simple it is to create an elixir that looks fake and real in a short period of time.
Deer: The mountain man has his own clever plan. Do you know where the Second Prince's Mansion is more hidden, where we can get in while it's dark
He: The soldiers outside the mansion are probably surrounded to a large extent, and the hiding place is probably no longer hidden.
Lu: Then we have to find a way to get in tonight, let’s go.
Xiaoluzi stood up suddenly. The night was already very dark. He was sitting here and blew the cold wind. It was probably the right time to go.
This He Xian's Qinggong is not too bad, but compared with his master and uncle, it is simply incomparable.
He led the way, and soon the two of them flew to a place fifteen meters away from Liu Ting's mansion. When Xiaoluzi saw this, he saw that there were indeed a lot of people here.
But having more people doesn’t necessarily mean good things.
Seeing that she had already arrived at the pavilion, there were many people outside and there was nothing to be afraid of. If she couldn't beat him, just run away. This was the advice of her master and uncle that didn't ring true to her ears, so she told He Xian, "Brother He Xian, we're here, you can go back." ”
"What?" He Xian looked at her blankly. He had just vowed to call him, but he was about to retreat when he saw so many soldiers in front of him.
Xiaoluzi asked: "Waiting for my good news, Brother He Xian, which house does he live in? Is he married? Do he sleep with his wife?"
Xiao Luzi thought to himself that he still needed to figure this out, so as not to break in and be embarrassed.
He Xian replied, "If you are married, you usually sleep in the study room. I remember it used to be. The study room is behind the main entrance facing the lobby when you enter. It is the middle one on the left. There is a martial arts training ground in front of it. That's it."
It turned out that she was planning to fight alone, but she seemed to be the protagonist of this story. Shouldn't she be the one who should see Liu Ting? Why was this girl planning to steal her show
"Okay, I already know. Brother He Xian, you go back and have a good rest first. I'll go into battle to investigate the situation first." After saying that, Xiaoluzi used his inner strength and suddenly flew away from He Xian. .
Maybe the stars in this city were not bright enough, so He Xian didn't see it too clearly, but when he turned around, there was no trace of Xiao Luzi beside him.
With curiosity and helplessness, He Xian had no choice but to return to the inn again, waiting for the good news from Xiaoluzi. Too many things have happened recently, and I haven't recovered yet. It's really time to take a good rest.