"How will you be here?"
Lu Jinxi almost couldn't believe his eyes, and stood up from his seat at once, with a look of horror on his face.
"Xue Kuang will enter the palace from Zhuozhou tomorrow, you are—"
"Madam, we secretly picked up His Highness the Seventh Prince from Zhuozhou." Seeing her so shocked, Meng Ji couldn't help but stand up and explain, "After you gave that book of Anti-Classics to His Highness, His Highness has already Shake it up, and then wait for the opportunity to get on our dark nails, so that we can come to the mansion without knowing it. At dawn tomorrow, I am afraid that there will be a tough battle to fight, and Your Highness will be safer in the Taishi mansion.”
"God doesn't know, ghost doesn't know?"
Lu Jinxi only felt that her body was a lot colder, there was an indescribable fear and concern in her eyes, and she only stared at Xiao Tingzhi.
"Meng Ji, does the eldest son know about this?"
When she heard the words "eldest son", Meng Ji also reacted. After all, she used "eldest son" to address Xiao Tingzhi before, and then realized that this time it was Gu Juefei.
So he replied, "I know."
"Yes, he actually knew..."
That strange uneasy premonition, more and more came up.
Lu Jinxi suddenly felt a little weak, and sat down again, just looking at Xiao Tingzhi, it was already complicated.
should not.
Xiao Tingzhi should not have come to the Taishi Mansion.
At such an important moment, he should have followed Xue Kuang and waited for the moment when Tianming departed from Zhuozhou. Xue Kuang is not a fool, and it is impossible not to send someone to watch Xiao Tingzhi. After all, if he really wants to come to the capital, he will definitely be optimistic about this bargaining chip in his hand.
However, Xiao Tingzhi appeared, so easily.
He raised his slightly cool fingers and pressed his forehead. Lu Jinxi couldn't understand Xue Kuang's intention for a while, and he didn't understand why Gu Juefei would so easily agree to Xiao Tingzhi's visit to the Taishi Mansion since he knew it. !
The expression on her face was not concealed, it was a little obvious.
Xiao Tingzhi saw it.
He was still wearing that dark cloak, with a dark blue brocade robe inside, a delicate and small jade pendant hanging around his waist, and his face was slightly stained with dust from the Tao. Look at her frown.
I haven't seen each other for many days.
In the past, he was still the son of a concubine Tingzhi that everyone in the General's Mansion would ridicule, but now he is the heir to the throne who can affect the overall situation of the world, the seventh prince aloof.
Only, she is the same.
A woman who doesn't show a little bit of joy when she sees him, a woman who doesn't seem to welcome him when she looks at him carefully.
They are very different.
He didn't even know what kind of mood he was in to rush back to the capital from Zhuozhou, step into the gate of the Taishi's mansion, which he had never stepped into before, and come to her again.
Perhaps out of the most rational and comprehensive consideration, he was afraid of Xue Kuang's wolf ambitions, and felt that Gu Juefei's faction had his teacher and was no better than Xue Kuang's side.
But maybe...
In this heart, there is still a bit of selfishness that even he himself does not want to admit.
because of her.
Because she is here.
Because she wants to come by herself.
Because I can see her again when I return to the capital.
But when he saw her again, he didn't see the slightest surprise in her eyes, only a sudden suspicion and fear.
Yes.
Doubt, fear.
This made Xiao Tingzhi's repressed and deeply buried emotions surge up again, but today he has gone through a lot of world events, and he is much more familiar than before, so he can cover up this emotion.
He stood in the hall and just smiled faintly.
"Isn't my lady welcome?"
"how come?"
Hearing this voice, Lu Jinxi suddenly had a headache, but remembering that his identity is different from the past, after all, he is the seventh prince, so he has to give face. So she put on her smile again and instructed Meng Ji who was on the side.
"The Seventh Prince's coming down to his honor will make the Grand Master's Mansion flourish. Mr. Meng, since His Highness has come, please take the time to arrange a suitable residence for His Highness, so that His Highness will be protected. ."
"Yes."
Meng Jilao felt that the atmosphere between his wife and the seventh prince was a bit strange, but after listening to her instructions, he didn't have time to think deeply, and only quickly led the way for Xiao Tingzhi.
"Your Highness, please."
Xiao Tingzhi took a deep look at Lu Jinxi and seemed to want to say something, but in the end he didn't say it.
Just follow Meng Ji and leave.
Lu Jinxi stood in the flower hall and watched, only to see his slightly swaying figure, walking through the light and shadow of the lanterns in the corridor, slowly disappearing.
But she didn't go back to the room.
Just sitting in this flower hall and waiting.
When the ugly bangzi just knocked, there were footsteps outside, and it was Gu Juefei who came back.
As he walked into the hall, he threw the cloak he was wearing outside to the entourage beside him, frowning tightly.
But when he walked in the door and saw Lu Jinxi, he laughed.
"It's so late and you're not going to bed, waiting for me here?"
"I was going to sleep, but just now Meng Ji brought Xiao Tingzhi." Lu Jinxi sat on the delicately carved rose chair and looked up at him quietly, but the fingers pressing on the armrest could not help but withdraw. Tension, "What are your plans, and what are Xue Kuang's plans?"
"He's the opposite."
Gu Juefei's eyes flashed, but he sighed, and there was a bit of surprise in his tone, and then he caught Lu Jinxi's eyes and added another sentence.
"This time it's really the opposite."
real
What is "really"
Lu Jinxi was dazed by these two words that didn't touch the sky or the ground. Just as he was about to ask clearly, when he thought of Xiao Tingzhi, he suddenly jolted: "What do you mean—"
"Tomorrow is a tough battle."
Gu Juefei knew that she wanted to understand, so she didn't explain much. Seeing how she waited in this flower hall for a long time, she only stretched out her hand to hold her hand, and felt a cool feeling at once.
"You too. In the early spring, when it's warm and cold, even if you want to wait for me, you should go back to the house and wait."
He blamed his mouth, but his heart was soft and slightly sweet, and regardless of the expression on her face, he just pulled her up from the seat, accompanied him, and walked along the corridor into the house.
Dao Zhong, Zi also explained the latest situation clearly.
"Today, we have set up defenses at all the gates of the capital, and even the palace is full of murderous intentions. Liu Jin is guarding the west of the city, and Fang Shaoxing is responsible for the deployment of the main roads in the capital and the transfer of the guards in the palace. I am a civil servant, Zuo is only one or two advisors for them. But tomorrow morning, we have to check everywhere to avoid any omissions. If there are no accidents, there should be results in these two days.”
This is really going to be a hard fight with Xue Kuang.
Lu Jinxi was walking on the road, listening to him detailing these trivial matters, only what he said just now was "really reversed".
So when he finished speaking, she only said: "I thought I had understood Xue Kuang. But Xiao Tingzhi easily arrived at the Grand Master's Mansion, and you told me that this time he really did the opposite. I can't understand more and more what he is thinking and what he wants..."
Gu Juefei didn't speak.
Lu Jinxi turned his head to look at him and remembered: "He let Xiao Tingzhi come so easily, and you have no doubt that someone will bring Xiao Tingzhi to the mansion, and you haven't seen Xue Kuang, and the news is impossible. So timely. That is to say, when Meng Ji told you that he could pick up Xiao Tingzhi to leave Zhuozhou and return to the capital, you already knew Xue Kuang's plan."
This is not bad at all.
Gu Juefei did not deny it.
Although his judgment has not been confirmed, he believes that he has guessed Xue Kuang's motive for doing this, that kind of unreasonable motive—
He was tired of using the banner of Xiao's royal family.
He was forced to this state, that is, to rebel in an open and honest way.
What was written in the rebuke letter back then was probably true: only when his general's mansion was really persecuted by the Xiao royal family would he be rebellious, and at this moment would he resolutely direct himself. Forget the original Seventh Prince Xiao Tingzhi!
Tomorrow at noon, the capital will usher in not a new emperor who is about to ascend the throne, but the iron hoof of the imperial palace under the leadership of Xue Kuang!
Gu Juefei stopped in front of the door, looked back at her, didn't explain much, and didn't want her to worry, only said: "After I leave in the morning, you will have the Grand Master's Mansion completely sealed. Don't go out for half a step. Anyone who comes, block outside. Unless the war is settled and the winner is decided..."
To put it a little bigger, this is a major event for the family, the country and the world.
To put it a little bit, this is a never-ending grievance between Gu Juefei and Xue Kuang that does not involve anyone else!
He wouldn't let her take risks with him.
Lu Jinxi also knew that she really couldn't help with the formation of troops, so she didn't refute any refutation, but just suppressed the surging emotions that were as strong as wine, revealing something that reassured him. smiled and said, "I listen to you."
Gu Juefei was relieved.
He was ugly when he returned to the house, and after entering the house, he had some supper with her, and then he lay down hastily and fell asleep.
The next morning, when Lu Jinxi opened his eyes, there was nothing beside him.
Only the sound of hooves and footsteps from the street passed through the huge Taishi Mansion and reached her ears.
It's been ten years.
After the battle of Hanshan Pass, the battle between Gu Juefei and Xue Kuang finally came to the end.