The water source was not far in front of them. After arguing with all their strength, they both felt exhausted and stopped arguing. Li Rong first descended the small slope and reached the flat ground near the water source, far away from the water source. There was still some lawn in the place. Li Rong was so tired that she sat down regardless of whether it was clean or not.
Pei Wenxuan came slowly. He picked up some dry wood in the woods and returned to the river. When he got to the river, he saw Li Rong sitting on the haystack. She seemed very tired, but she insisted on sitting. The arrogant and domineering person is quiet at the moment, wrapping his hands around his knees, bowing his head and burying his face in his knees without making a sound, he seems a bit pitiful.
Pei Wenxuan also felt that he was used to being used by her. Looking at her like this, he was not used to it. He put out the firewood, cleared a piece of mud from the haystack, and then lowered his head to build a small heap and took it. Huozhezi raises the fire.
After the fire lighted up, Li Rong raised her eyes and looked at the source of warmth.
She was tired and sleepy, but the grass soil contained water, and if she lay down, her clothes would get wet in a while. So she didn't want to lie down, but it was uncomfortable to endure like this.
She vaguely heard Pei Wenxuan returning to the forest again. After a while, he came back and wrapped a lot of things in his coat. Li Rong looked up and found that Pei Wenxuan seemed to have picked up a bunch of dead leaves.
He piled up the dead leaves thickly and covered them with clothes, and then greeted Li Rong: "Come here and press down, don't let the wind blow the leaves away."
After speaking, Pei Wenxuan turned around, lifted his trouser legs to his knees, bumped the hem of his clothes, and went to the water with the sword in his hand.
Li Rong was not ignorant. She got up and went to the edge of the clothes and lay down on the bottom. She felt a lot more comfortable immediately.
After lying down for a while, she listened to the sound of the water next to her, and felt a little sleepy again. She turned over, lay on her clothes, propped up her upper body, and looked at Pei Wenxuan not far away.
Pei Wenxuan stood in the river, holding the sword in his hand, motionless.
His patience is very good. Li Rong stared at him for a long time, but did not see him move except for his eyes. It looked like he was hunting enemies in the courtroom.
Li Rong propped her chin up, looked at the young man in the distance, and slowly saw a bit of taste.
If Pei Wenxuan doesn't speak, his face is indeed that of Shengjing Wushuang, gentle and elegant mixed with a bit of handsome, not too soft, with a bit of indescribable arrogance, and not annoying. Under the moonlight, the long sword in white clothes, standing quietly in the flowing water, really looks like an exiled immortal falling into the world, reflecting the brilliance of the moon.
Pei Wenxuan is not good anywhere, but with this face, Li Rong really has nothing to say. Especially when he was still in his twenties, it was his best years, and Li Rong liked it much more than the old man later.
Li Rong stared at Pei Wenxuan for a while, and saw that his eyes were fast and his hands were quick, and he dropped his sword into the water with a swipe, stringing a fish out.
He threw the fish on the bank, turned around and waited, and after a while he repeated the trick and stabbed another fish.
He got the fish, squatted on the ground, cleaned the fish quickly by the river, cleaned his hands, stuck it with the pre-cut tree trunk, grabbed it and walked back to the edge of the fire.
Knowing that Li Rong hadn't slept, he handed the fish to her and said impatiently, "Bake it yourself."
Originally, it was fine for Li Rong to grill fish by herself, but she couldn't listen to Pei Wenxuan's command to her, so she ignored it and said lazily, "Bengong doesn't know how to grill fish."
"Then don't eat it."
"But Ben Gong likes to eat fish," Li Rong said with a smile, "If you don't bake it for me, I'll grab the fish!"
Pei Wenxuan was speechless. He couldn't quarrel anymore, and he didn't want to quarrel with Li Rong, so he sat down, put the fish on a stone stand, and roasted it on the fire.
Surrounded by the sound of water and the "sizzling" sound of grilled fish, the two remained silent. After a long time, Li Rong asked, "When did you come back?"
"A little over a month ago."
Pei Wenxuan looked up at her: "How about you?"
"About the time."
After the two finished speaking, there was a moment of silence. After a while, Li Rong couldn't help but sighed, "I didn't expect that, you didn't hide it from me."
"What's there to hide?"
Pei Wenxuan said calmly, "Don't you hide it from me?"
"I'm not the same as you." Li Rong said lazily, "I'm used to doing things and being daring. What are you doing? You're different," Li Rong said, glaring at him, "Little one. people."
Hearing this "villain", Pei Wenxuan sneered: "How dare you call me a villain? I don't know who broke the covenant first and attacked me?"
"Ha," Li Rong straightened up and applauded after hearing his words, "Rong Qing really killed you anyway? Well done, well done!"
Li Rong squinted at him, and said with joy: "A perfidious and ungrateful person like you will always have to die."
"How dare you say that?!"
Hearing her words, Pei Wenxuan was completely angry, he was in a hurry, he squeezed the wood in his hand and fiddled with the fire, restrained his speed of speech, and stared at Li Rong: "Li Rong, I asked myself I'm sorry for you. Although you and I often quarrel and occasionally confront each other, I have not failed you for so many years, haven't I? In order to fight for the prince, you actually let Su Rongqing do it... "
"Then aren't you?" Li Rong said in a cold voice, "I forgot the oath of the covenant for the position of the prince. If you can kill me, shouldn't I do it?"
"Killing you is just to fulfill the promise between you and me."
Hearing this, Pei Wenxuan was stunned for a while. He noticed something was wrong, and said very quickly: "Who broke the oath and attacked the other party first?"
When Li Rong heard Pei Wenxuan's question, she also reacted, and her face changed immediately: "Didn't you poison me first?"
As she said that, she immediately described: "You came to me first and warned me that when you came, there was a strange smell on your body. Shortly after you left, I drank a bowl of medicine and got poisoned. Isn't it your poison?"
"No," Pei Wenxuan showed shock on his face, and immediately reacted, he immediately confronted Li Rong about his past life, and explained, "I did arrange a hidden stake in the princess' mansion, just in case something happens, I will let people poison it, Also after you sent someone to kill me."
"When did you die?"
Li Rong frowned, and Pei Wenxuan thought for a while: "On the way back from the Princess Mansion, Su Rongqing led someone to kill him."
"It's really mine."
Li Rong lowered her eyes, and after they were silent for a while, they cleared their thoughts, Pei Wenxuan thought about it, and then concluded: "So, in your last life, you didn't actually want to kill me, someone made you think I killed me. You, you killed me before you died, is that so?"
"It should be so."
Li Rong replied in a low voice, Pei Wenxuan looked at her quietly, he paused for a while, then let out a low laugh, he wanted to say something, but didn't say anything, raised his hand and patted his thigh, sighed: "The agency is too smart, and the smart is mistaken by the smart. Li Rong, you still don't believe me after all."
"Do you believe me again?"
Li Rong looked up at him with a calm expression.
If she believed it, she would not have identified him as the murderer immediately, and she would even be willing to hand over power to Su Rongqing and kill him.
And he wouldn't put a dark stake in her house early, always ready to fight back and kill her.
"You're right," Pei Wenxuan nodded. "It's rare for a real couple to have a heart-to-heart trust, let alone us? But I'm curious, how did you decide that the murderer was me?"
"I died from the poison of Xiangmeiren." Li Rong recalled the state before death, "When you came to see me, there was a strange fragrance on your body. You usually don't wear a sachet, but you brought it that day. Then you and I Talking about the matter of the prince, he also promised to kill me if I didn’t agree, and after you left, I drank the medicine and died of poison.”
Pei Wenxuan listened to Li Rong talking about the events before her death, and his expression became solemn. Li Rong continued: "The evidence is indeed not sufficient, but you have motives and abilities, and clues point to you one after another..."
"You think it's me."
Pei Wenxuan nodded and concluded, Li Rong remained silent, Pei Wenxuan seemed to be amused, and looked down at the fish, with a bit of self-mockery in his eyes.
Li Rong knew that she was wrong and did not dare to speak. After a while, she whispered, "Where did the scent on your body come from?"
"I said, I'm afraid you're going to be unhappy." Pei Wenxuan had a bit of schadenfreude in his eyes.
Li Rong thought for a while, then frowned: "Su Rongqing?"
"yes."
Pei Wenxuan picked up the fish from the fire and looked left and right. Seeing that the fish was almost cooked, he handed one to Li Rong. Li Rong took the fish in a trance and put it on the fire to roast it, listening to Pei Wenxuan slowly. Said: "When I went, Su Rongqing said that you were very ill. When entering from the outer room, you must wear a herbal sachet, or you will cough when you see someone. I let people see the ingredients of the sachet, and it was not poisonous. , I took it. And your servants all carry this sachet, but mine is relatively new, so it has a strong fragrance."
Li Rong froze in place, Pei Wenxuan stared at her for a while, thinking that she is not someone who trusts him so easily, and then added: "You don't have to believe me, it doesn't matter. Anyway, even if it's not Su Rongqing, It's not me, just don't put the blame on me."
Li Rong didn't speak, she stared blankly at the fire, Pei Wenxuan looked at her with a smile while frying the fish, and seemed quite happy.
Li Rong couldn't help but feel a little dazed when she heard his appearance of watching the fun and not afraid of big things.
She believed what Pei Wenxuan said.
Su Rongqing was rescued by her single-handedly.
Back then, when King Su rebelled, Su Rongqing's older brother spoke for King Su, and was then framed for having an affair with King Su, saying that the Su family and King Su rebelled together. Li Chuan was dizzy at the time, and without going through the tribunal of the three divisions, he directly imprisoned the entire Su clan, with the male executed and the female exiled.
She did not agree with this, and rushed to beg Li Chuan before the Su family was killed.
But the death penalty can be avoided, and the crime of living cannot escape. Even if the males of the Su family can survive, they will all be punished by the palace. The others cannot bear the humiliation and committed suicide in prison. A Su Rongqing who "stubbornly lives".
At that time, she told Su Rongqing that she rescued him, and without asking him anything in return, she could give him silver and give him an errand, so that he could live a good life outside in the future.
At that time, she didn't have too much special feelings for Su Rongqing, but she had been rescued by him, took care of him a little, and felt a little more grateful, and... a vague tenderness. She saves the Su family, and more just considers Li Chuan and her own conscience.
The Su family was rich and noble, and it was difficult for her to sit idly by when she died in such an unclear manner.
It's just that Su Rongqing didn't want to leave at that time.
He knelt down in front of her and begged him respectfully: "The slave body is not complete, this world will not tolerate it, but the princess' mansion can still live in peace, I would like to follow the princess's left and right sides, knot the grass and hold a ring, life and death to repay the princess's life-saving grace."
He said so, and she left him. The Su family had many enemies abroad. Su Rongqing could not enter the officialdom in her entire life, and it was difficult to get a position outside. She couldn't bear to see Su Rongqing being humiliated outside.
Because he was tortured by the palace, it was natural for him to stay in her mansion. Later, they developed a friendship. Although Pei Wenxuan noticed it, he couldn't say anything. Li Chuan and the courtiers didn't think much about it. Pei Wenxuan was not so obvious. .
She didn't think that Su Rongqing would take revenge. After all, it was Li Chuan who personally ordered to behead all the men of the Su family and exiled all the female relatives. So for so many years, she has never dared to hand over real power to him, while observing him, guarding against him, and trying to make him live better.
She couldn't overcome her conscience and really killed him, and she couldn't really rest assured to hand over power to him.
In the end, he made his move. He killed her first, and then successfully took over her power in the name of eradicating Pei Wenxuan. If she guessed correctly, he will not leave with her staff, but will use the name of revenge for her to reconcile people's hearts, join forces with the Queen, push Li Xin to the top, and fight against Pei Wenxuan's remaining party.
In this way, he can be tied to her people, and he has real power. Li Chuan has been cultivating immortals for many years, and his foundation in the court has long been unstable. In addition, his health has long since died. Su Rongqing may have I really have a chance to kill Li Chuan with my own hands.
She had anticipated this matter from the moment she took in Su Rongqing, but the moment it really came, she couldn't help but feel a little regretful.
If the Su family could not be killed, perhaps neither she nor Su Rongqing would have such an ending.
Li Rong took a deep breath. Seeing Pei Wenxuan's happy expression, she couldn't help but ask, "What are you happy about?"
Pei Wenxuan grilled the fish, and dragged his voice: "I said earlier that this person can't stay, you don't listen, it's better now," he said, he smiled and rolled his eyes, looked over, "Have you suffered a loss?"
"I'm at a loss, so you're so happy?" Li Rong said coldly.
"That's right." Pei Wenxuan said happily, "Our eldest princess suffers a loss. It's a once-in-a-lifetime event, such a spectacle." Pei Wenxuan raised a hand and put it on his chest, "I feel very relieved."
"Lord Pei is wrong about this," Li Rong laughed at him, and said, "Ben Gong still let him serve for twenty-five years, and I am willing to kill him, but you will bring disaster to Yuchi. That fish, what are you proud of?"
"He killed you, are you still willing?" Pei Wenxuan sneered, and Li Rong squinted at him, "Why, Master Pei still won't allow it?"
"Do I approve this round?" Pei Wenxuan laughed angrily, "Princess golden branches and jade leaves, what is your love, but I can remind the princess."
Pei Wenxuan turned his head to look at the jumping fire, and his voice became a little colder: "In your last life, you had to entangle with him, it was a matter of getting slapped, now you have to dare to entangle with Su Rongqing. Life can't be saved."