"ah!"
A female scream broke through the stagnant night, the cry was full of anger, despair, fear and madness, like a bloody knife, cutting the gloomy sky to pieces.
There was a loud bang, and in the gorgeous room with heavy curtains and burning agarwood, the exquisite bronze mirror carved with eight lotus was pushed heavily to the ground, and the mirror surface was torn apart.
The shattered mirror surface reflected the beautiful face with crescent eyebrows and sculpted nose, but there were two deep scars that crossed ferociously on the greasy skin.
The beauty of the face and the ugliness of the scars are intertwined, making people sigh that the world is incomplete.
A group of respectful maids came up like a tide, and then were forced to cross their hands and bowed down by the fierce and resentful eyes of the man in the mirror, and then retreated like a tide.
Pei Yuan leaned precariously in front of the dressing table, propping up the table with trembling hand, biting his lip desperately, but he couldn't stop himself from shaking like chaff.
It's over... It's all over...
The appearance she was so proud of, her preeminent figure that dominated the Taiyuan imperial family, was all over with the inexplicable flash of the knife that night.
From then on, she will become the laughing stock of the Taiyuan royal family, and from then on, those royal sisters who are not as beautiful as her and who have been faintly despised by her will comfort her with the most sympathetic eyes and the most tender words.
Thinking of such sympathy that seemed warm but actually cold, she felt as if she had fallen into an ice cellar and was about to go crazy!
"Get out! Get out of here!"
The room was soon empty, and the curtain that was drawn up by people walking away quietly fell down.
The sapphire lamp emits fluorescent light, reflecting on the gauze curtain, and seeing the shadow in the compartment, leaning on the dressing table and slowly falling to the ground, covering his face and weeping.
The shadow's thin shoulders couldn't help shrugging, its sobs were low, intermittent, and the crying was as low as a nightmare that could never be broken.
The cool wind in the middle of the night blows in from the half-open long window, and it winds around the room leisurely. In the sound of the wind, there is a very low murmur faintly.
Light and sharp, like a sharpened steel wire, or an ice pick on the top of a thousand-year-old glacier, it carries a cold and unquenchable hatred and murderous aura.
"If I know who you are... I will kill you... Immortal, endless..."
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That scream pierced the silence of the entire Xuanyuan Villa, everyone had heard it, and everyone had different reactions.
Qi Xunyi's eyes were deep, rummaging through calculations, situations, plans... all kinds of things, except for his cousin's tragedy.
Zong Yue stood in front of the window with his hands behind his back, facing the endless darkness, but his eyes looking at the void were not empty, as if he had fallen into reality, seeing some horrific fates in his life hidden behind the midnight mist.
Hearing the scream, he slowly stretched out his hand, making a gesture to cut through the mist.
Strangely, there was no pity in his eyes.
And on a mountaintop in the distance, a man in a wide robe and long sleeves was leisurely leaning on a rock, playing with a strangely shaped mirror, looking at the Xuanyuan Villa below.
On his lap, Mr. Yuan Bao with white hair fluttering in the wind was squatting, keeping in the same direction as his master, staring at the darkness ahead.
Its eyes are very solemn, its posture is very solemn, it has been watching with the master for half an hour.
It doesn't actually see anything.
Yuan Zhaoxu tilted his head, looked at his pretending pet with disgust, and stood up suddenly.
Master Yuan Bao rolled down immediately, his legs were on his back, his belly was pink.
Hearing the master smile, he said, "It's really stupid."
Master Yuan Bao slapped his paws on the ground, ready to cry.
Unexpectedly, the master answered indifferently, "I said, Qi Xunyi."
Master Yuan Bao's broken glass heart immediately healed completely.
Quick footsteps came from behind, like a gust of wind, as the leaves swayed, a woman's crisp voice sounded.
"Aha, the scream just now was really high in decibels, suitable for practicing high notes."
With a flash of a black figure, Meng Fuyao climbed up, pushed Yuan Zhaoxu away, sat down on his own buttocks, grinned and rubbed his knees and said resentfully, "That guy is so powerful, I tried my best to escape, I didn’t even feel my leg hit the tree, oops, now that I’ve rested, I feel pain.”
After a while, he said again, "What is the origin of this person? The identity of the Pei family seems to be very powerful."
Yuan Zhaoxu leaned on the rocks and fed fruit to Yuan Bao. Yuan Bao had forgotten the pain of being bullied just now, and opened his mouth contentedly waiting for the food to come. Hearing Meng Fuyao's question, Yuan Zhaoxu smiled and answered the wrong question, "You have been suffering for a long time, But you want me to rub your knees for you personally?" After this answer, the feeding movements of his subordinates were slightly slow, and Yuan Bao immediately glared at Meng Fuyao.
Meng Fuyao stared back contemptuously, glared at Yuan Zhaoxu again, and sneered, "You'd better rub that guy's stomach, I think it won't be able to digest it, it would be bad if it swollen to death."
Yuan Bao immediately bared his teeth at Meng Fuyao, this time Meng Fuyao simply ignored him, Yuan Zhaoxu smiled, took a cloth towel to wipe his hands, and said, "Royal family."
Meng Fuyao's eyes narrowed, and his tone sank, "Royal family?"
Yuan Zhaoxu's eyes turned bright, and he said with a smile, "Regret?"
Meng Fuyao raised her eyebrows, and the corners of her lips curled up slightly, "I only regret that I didn't stab her right that day."
Yuan Zhaoxu stared at the radiant Meng Fuyao, his eyes flickered, and he smiled slightly for a while and said, "Do you know who you went to attack at night just now?"
"who?"
"The three sons of Emperor Taiyuan, Qi Xunyi," Yuan Zhaoxu smiled mysteriously, "that is, the son Yi, one of the seven sons of the Wuzhou Continent."
"Young Master Yi? 'A song of apricot blossoms moistening mist and rain, three thousand beauties dancing in the stars', that Young Master Yi who is known as the world's number one literary talent, the number one romantic, and the number one absurdity?"
Meng Fuyao was stunned, thinking of the sword light that was lurking like a poisonous snake and bursting out like a storm.
Yuan Zhaoxu glanced at her, "It seems fortunate that I didn't tell you his identity in advance, otherwise you were listening to Feng Xiaoxie earlier, I'm afraid you wouldn't be able to run away."
"Nonsense." Meng Fuyao rolled his eyes at him, "Am I the one who can't run when I see beauty?"
Yuan Zhaoxu leaned over seriously, and patted Yuan Bao's head, "Master Yuan Bao, do you think she is?"
"Squeak!"
Yuan Bao's tone sounded like he really agreed.
Meng Fuyao was furious, and said viciously, "If I'm really a pervert, I'll be the first to throw you down..." Halfway through his words, he suddenly felt a slip of the tongue, and hurriedly stopped with an eh.
It's a pity that Yuan Zhaoxu, who is good at hearing, has already heard it, and looked over with a raised eyebrow and a smile, "Huh?"
Meng Fuyao jumped up and said loudly, "Let's go!"
She ran down the rock in three steps and two steps, she really moved like a rabbit, she vaguely heard a low laugh from the man behind her, which was close to her ear.
"Stick what you want, don't dare to ask for it."
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Just as Yuan Zhaoxu and Meng Fuyao expected, things changed the next day.
Ordinarily Qi Xunyi was assassinated in the Xuanyuan Sword Sect, so he should have notified Lin Xuanyuan immediately to discuss countermeasures. However, Qi Xunyi did not do so. Instead, he remained silent for a whole day. In the evening, he went to visit Lin Xuanyuan.
No one knows what the two of them discussed, but they could vaguely hear Lin Sect Master being furious, while Qi Xunyi just smiled and gave the order. Going to Yanjing for interrogation, the Xuanyuan Sword Sect sent heavy soldiers to guard them, and all the disciples were not allowed to go out of the mountain gate until the suspicion was gone.
The Xuanyuan Sword Sect is also one of the most famous martial arts sects in Taiyuan Kingdom, and most of the disciples in the sect are from wealthy and noble families. It is said that Qi Xunyi did not go through the inspection of the local government and did not ask for an order, so he decided to detain the entire sect on his own initiative. Somewhat reckless and willful, but it's a pity that this prince has always acted in this style. The whole world knows that he is indulgent and unruly, the most absurd, it is strange that he does not act out of line.
Qi Xunyi imprisoned the Xuanyuan Sword Sect, and then went to visit the Taifu of the Wuji Kingdom who was a guest here, apologized on behalf of the Taiyuan court, and ordered the Taifu and his party to be released immediately.
Now Meng Fuyao leisurely followed Taifu's team, walking out of the scope of Xuanyuan Sword Sect.
"I always feel a little strange." Meng Fuyao thought for a long time, and finally whispered in Yuan Zhaoxu's ear, "Although I wanted to frame him, I just wanted to confuse my eyes and escape because Qi Xun wanted to escape. You should know that this matter is a bit strange, and it is not so easy to be fooled, but now it seems that he must attack Lin Xuanyuan, don't tell me that it is because of his absurd reputation, just the deal I had with him that night It can be seen that this person's so-called indulgence is absurd, and it is probably a cover."
"It's not good for a woman to be too stupid, and it's not good to be too smart," Yuan Zhaoxu looked at her with a smile, "It's fine if you escape, don't worry about what to do."
"Say it!" Meng Fuyao was in a hurry, grabbed his rein and pretended to let the horse go.
"Martial arts forces from various countries are involved in political disputes. As you know, the Xuanyuan Sword Sect has always been neutral in the past, but in recent years, it has tended to approach Taiyuan Crown Prince, and Qi Xunyi, the third prince, has always been at odds with the Crown Prince. .” With a flick of a finger, Yuan Zhaoxu regained control of the reins.
Meng Fuyao suddenly realized, "That's why Qi Xunyi only needs an excuse, even if the excuse is full of mistakes, he can use it to attack. No wonder you told me to use the martial arts of the Xuanyuan Sword School when I assassinate, and Lin Xuanyuan Faced with Qi Xunyi's questioning, even if he thought that the assassin was me, he still couldn't explain the whereabouts of me, the 'dead disciple', let alone how I died, so naturally he couldn't argue with it."
She glanced out of the corner of her eyes, and her gaze fell on Yuan Zhaoxu's hand that had withdrawn the rein. There, a lotus flower in the palm of her hand was slightly white in color, lifelike. She couldn't help raising her eyebrows and asked with a smile, "What is that in your palm? A birthmark?"
Yuan Zhaoxu paused with his fingers, his sleeves fluttered down again, covering his palms, and said with a faint smile, "Probably."
He looked as usual, but Meng Fuyao felt that he seemed a little unhappy, knowing that he probably violated his taboo, he smiled and stopped talking.
Master Yuan Bao poked his head out of Yuan Zhaoxu's arms, stared at the lotus flower jealously, and ground his teeth, as if he wanted to chew off the mark.
At this time, the team came to a stream at the foot of Xuanyuan Mountain, and the group stopped to rest and drink water. Qi Xunyi's guard team was a step behind them, and they arrived after a while. The servant followed, the golden bells at the four corners of the car jingled, and the fragrant wind scattered all the way.
There was a low-pitched music coming from the carriage, beautiful and soft, mixed with a woman's charming smile, the tone sounded somewhat familiar, Meng Fuyao was still thinking hard, but saw the rest of the Tai Tuo's subordinates looking at each other with strange expressions Awkward.
After thinking about it for a long time, I realized that it was one of the top ten pornographic ditties "Nong Zizhu", and it was only the humblest prostitutes in the lowest-class prostitutes who would open their mouths to sing to please the lower-class benefactors. Disdain to sing.
The royal carriage, which was supposed to convey the dignified and precious royal music, came out with such profligate music that ordinary people would be embarrassed to listen to in public, it was really out of tune.
The Taifu's subordinates all showed "really ridiculous" expressions, Meng Fuyao watched coldly, thinking of the vicious man who was as vigilant as a leopard last night and as capable of swordsmanship as a dragon, a slight coldness flashed across his eyes.
For people like Qi Xunyi, it's better to stay away from him. Meng Fuyao avoided it far away, found a place upstream and was about to drink water, when suddenly someone came up behind him, and said sharply, "Get out of the way." Step aside!"
Meng Fuyao turned around, and saw a few servants, each holding a jade basin, wash towel, fragrant pancreas, and one of them had a piece of alum stone on a gold tray, they seemed to be preparing to wash Qi Xunyi's face with water.
The Tai Tuo's subordinates all showed "really extravagant" expressions.
Meng Fuyao looked at the spring water, it was clear and clean, this is the ancient times without pollution, the spring water can be drunk directly, Qi Xunyi also needs to use alum to wash his face, isn't it too pretentious
Seeing her standing still, a look of anger flashed across the boy's brows, and he stretched out his hand to push Meng Fuyao, "What are you doing standing here so stupidly? Be careful not to pollute the upstream water! Go downstream and drink it!"
Meng Fuyao was contemplating, when he suddenly pushed, the moss on the stone under his feet slipped, and immediately slanted into the water.