Qiu Yutong was hugged tightly by Lu Xiao's two strong arms. This kid is almost a head taller than him now, with a strong and broad chest. He had to raise his head with difficulty and put his chin on the opponent's shoulder to force his breath to a little air.
He wanted to push the villain away, and he wanted to reprimand the villain severely, but he clearly felt Lu Xiao's slight trembling of being extremely wronged.
It's as if if you just push it lightly, it will break.
Qiu Yutong hesitated for a long time, and finally raised her hand slowly, stroking Lu Xiao's hair lightly: "Xiao'er."
It was just a light touch, but Lu Xiao's tall and strong body shook violently.
He pursed his lips tightly, as if trying to control himself, not to do anything outrageous, but buried his face in Qiu Yutong's thick black and messy hair, and took a deep breath greedily: "Mr. Respect."
"Forget it this time." Qiu Yutong said sullenly, "In the future, you are not allowed to play tricks on me again, you know?"
Lu Xiao buried his face in his hair, and said in a hoarse voice: "No, never again."
At this moment, in the deep blue night sky, the incomparably gorgeous golden fireworks are still blooming, and there is a sound of jubilation from far and near.
Above Longmen Street, it was a mess.
The onlookers were crowded together, whispering curiously and pointing carefully, but they didn't dare to get too close. They just looked at the extremely handsome young man in the middle of the empty street, hugging him tightly. A blood-stained young man in white clothes rubbed his ears and temples together, as if there was no one else around.
After a while, there was only a sound of "da da da" horseshoes, which came from a distance from the end of the long street.
Qiu Yutong gently pushed Lu Xiao's arm: "Let go, people from the government are here."
Lu Xiao tightened his arms, and then he let go of Qiu Yutong slowly.
At one end of the long street, dozens of horses galloped towards them, and several Jinwu guards got off their horses: "Who is doing the murder here?!"
The crowd of onlookers pointed to Qiu Yutong one after another.
The head of a hundred households seemed a little disbelieving, and looked up and down Qiu Yutong: "You killed these people?"
"Uh, this..." Qiu Yutong blinked her eyes, then looked down at herself, her white clothes were dripping with blood, and the hem of her clothes was still dripping with blood.
The head of the hundred households glanced at the corpses of the eight big men on the ground, and then at Qiu Yutong, with a hesitant look on his face: "Is the murderer someone else? How can you kill these eight with your powerless hands?" Big man? If there is something hidden, you can speak boldly and don’t be afraid.”
Powerless? do not be afraid
Qiu Yutong immediately said: "I killed people, they are not my opponents."
Lu Xiao: "..."
The head of the hundred households was stunned for a moment, and then said in a low voice: "In that case, take it down for me!"
The four Jinwu guards immediately surrounded him and started to attack.
Lu Xiao stepped forward, blocked Qiu Yutong behind him, and said in a deep voice, "Stop."
The head of the hundred households frowned and said, "Bold! Who are you, how dare you resist arrest? This place is at the feet of the Son of Heaven!"
Qiu Yutong couldn't help but cast a sideways glance at Lu Xiao. It turned out that not only was he aggrieved as a master, but the emperor would also be so aggrieved, ha ha.
Lu Xiao glanced at Qiu Yutong and seemed to have guessed what he was thinking. He shook his head helplessly, took out another token from his waist, and handed it to the head of the hundred households: "Do you understand? If you don't understand, Show it to your commander, or give it to your commanding officer."
The head of the hundred households took the token, hesitated for a moment, then turned around and handed it to a person on the horse: "Luo Qianhu, take a look, what is this?"
"This is..." The head of the thousand households only took one look, then suddenly became hoarse, then got off his horse and stammered, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty..."
Lu Xiao raised his hand slightly to stop him from continuing: "There are too many people here, don't cause a commotion, you find a few people to clean up this street."
The head of a thousand households tremblingly said: "Yes."
…
When Qiu Yutong and Lu Xiao returned to the Jingxin Palace, it was already the end of the ugly time, and the Daning Palace was completely silent.
After tossing and tossing for a whole day, just now relying on only a little bit of spiritual power to barely kill eight assassins, Qiu Yutong was so tired that he couldn't even open his eyes.
He reluctantly walked to the bed, tore off the dirty robe casually, fell headfirst, and sighed comfortably: "Hmm."
Lu Xiao brought a basin of hot water, wiped his face, and wiped his hands and feet.
Qiu Yutong said in a daze: "Don't be busy, you can go to bed too."
Lu Xiao hesitated for a moment, took off his outer robe, sat on the bed, and stretched out his hand to embrace Qiu Yutong.
Qiu Yutong pushed him away and shook her head: "I'm already much better, you don't have to do this, go sleep next door."
Before Lu Xiao hugged him to sleep, he felt very awkward, but due to his status as a male favorite, he couldn't forcefully refuse. Now that his identity has been exposed, he refused without hesitation.
"Yeah." Lu Xiao was silent for a while, without forcing him, gently tucked the quilt for him, and quietly backed out.
…
The next day, Qiu Yutong was awakened by a burst of fragrance.
What is so fragrant... Well, it seems to be the smell of sweet-scented osmanthus
He sniffed, opened his eyes in a daze, and muttered sleepily: "Xiao'er?"
"Master." Lu Xiao opened the door and walked in, holding a food box in his hand.
Qiu Yutong's stomach happened to grunt, and he rolled over and got up, his eyes widened: "Osmanthus cake?"
So early in the morning, there is osmanthus cake to eat
That's great too.
Lu Xiao said with a smile: "Master, get up and have breakfast."
Qiu Yutong got out of bed, pulled a robe and put it on, and sat down at the table full of expectation.
Lu Xiao put a plate of sweet-scented osmanthus cake, a plate of five-willow shredded chicken, a plate of pine mushrooms and asparagus, and two bowls of white rice porridge on the table, and said with a smile: "When I woke up in the morning, I suddenly remembered those days before, and I couldn't help it. I made some meals by hand. Do you want to taste it, Master?"
Qiu Yutong secretly swallowed, and gave a dispensable "hmm", trying to maintain the image of the master.
Lu Xiao glanced at him, and frowned thoughtfully: "But this sweet-scented osmanthus cake, eaten early in the morning, isn't it too sweet? Why don't you withdraw it?"
What? !
Qiu Yutong became anxious immediately, barely resisting the urge to drag the plate over, and said lightly: "Since you have already made it, don't waste it."
The corners of Lu Xiao's mouth slightly turned up, and then he took a piece of sweet-scented osmanthus cake and put it on the small plate in front of Qiu Yutong: "That's right, the master once said that every piece of food on the plate is hard work."
"It's good that you understand." Qiu Yutong picked up the sweet-scented osmanthus cake as gracefully as possible, and took a small bite.
Today's sweet-scented osmanthus cake is the kind Lu Xiao most often made back then. It is steamed with fermented glutinous rice and pickled sweet-scented osmanthus. It is not only sweet and soft, but also has a faint aroma of wine.
Just after eating one piece, Lu Xiao took another piece for him: "Eat slowly."
Qiu Yutong ate in small mouthfuls, and was so moved that he almost burst into tears. It was not easy for him. After being reborn for so many months, he ate a piece just before, and almost got caught!
Lu Xiao quietly watched him eat with lowered eyes, the corners of his lips that had been tensed for many years finally relaxed a little.
The two were having breakfast when someone knocked lightly on the door suddenly. Zhang Defu whispered outside the door: "Your Majesty, Commander Xu is asking to see you."
Lu Xiao paused slightly: "Master, take your time, I'll take care of some things first."
"You go, don't worry about me." Qiu Yutong nodded, and didn't pay much attention to it, it was just some boring political affairs.
Lu Xiao took another piece of sweet-scented osmanthus cake for Qiu Yutong, then got up and went outside.
There was a soft knock on the outer door, as if someone had come in, his voice was low and hoarse, with a bit of murderous look unique to a general: "My minister Xu Changchun, see Your Majesty."
Xu Changchun? Isn't this the former commander of the guards in King Yan's mansion, and it seems that he has also been promoted.
Now that Qiu Yutong has opened his spiritual aperture, his ears and eyes are much more sensitive than before. He can vaguely hear Lu Xiao and Xu Changchun speaking in a low voice outside.
Xu Changchun said: "Your Majesty, the matter has been settled."
Lu Xiao whispered: "Are there any omissions?"
"Reporting to Your Majesty, there are a total of one hundred and thirty-five members of the Jin Palace, including the elderly, weak, women and children, and all of them have been imprisoned."
"How is Lu Yande?"
"He has been crying out for injustice, and he has said many disrespectful words. The minister has imprisoned him alone in the water prison."
"Crying for injustice?" Lu Xiao seemed to smile, "Last night, the eight assassins each had the words "Prince Jin's Mansion" engraved on their long swords. He still has the face to cry for injustice?"
Qiu Yutong ate the cake, and couldn't help but mutter in her heart.
Assassinating the emperor is a capital crime of beheading the whole family. King Jin is also a person who has gone through a lot of troubles. How could he be so negligent? The assassin's weapon was actually engraved with the words "Prince Jin's Mansion"
He thought about it again, Jin Wang, this old boy, knew that Lu Xiao hated him a little before, and even sent a "Mr. Xue Rong" like this into the palace as an undercover agent. It can be seen that he is not a smart person, and it is normal to be negligent. .
Tu Wuwei of the Beihai Sword Sect was also out of his mind, and actually found such an idiot as King Jin and asked him to find some turtle shells.
Alas, speaking of it, he still hasn't figured out what that tortoise shell is for... The senior brother who is in charge may know.
Thinking of the senior brother in charge, and thinking of Shuo Xuecheng, Qiu Yutong couldn't help feeling depressed again.
Although he has opened his spiritual aperture now, he has suffered from the cold poison again. The doctors in the human world can't do anything about it. He will have seizures every few days, which is really very difficult.
By the way, I heard from Xu Dongqing from Yaowangzhuang that his elder brother Xu Qiushi was going to hold a wedding banquet, and the third senior brother might go to Yaowangzhuang to congratulate him.
Yaowangzhuang is located at Jack Crow Ferry in Baizhou, only seven or eight hundred miles away from the capital. If you take a carriage, it only takes three or four days...
Qiu Yutong was pondering, Lu Xiao had already dismissed Xu Changchun, and walked into the bedroom.
"What's wrong? What are you thinking?"
Qiu Yutong came back to her senses, and asked casually, "You arrested King Jin? You did it very quickly."
"Yeah." Lu Xiao nodded, "Naturally, the sooner the better for this kind of thing, lest he run away."
Qiu Yutong was a little puzzled: "I just heard you talk, this Jin Wang is also strange, he actually engraved the words Jin Wangfu on the assassin sword, isn't this a self-inflicted gesture?"
Lu Xiao's expression was a little uncomfortable for a moment, and then he smiled and said, "Yes. Maybe he thinks that the assassination is very sure, that's why he is so arrogant."
Qiu Yutong thought for a while, and then said: "There are 135 people in the Prince Jin's Mansion, what are you going to do with it?"
"Lu Yande Lingchi, all the men over the age of twelve in the mansion will be executed. The rest of the women and children will be exiled to the Saibei quarry." Lu Xiao said lightly.
"I see." Qiu Yutong nodded.
Although it was indeed a bit cruel, assassinating the emperor was a capital crime of beheading the whole family. Lu Xiao's willingness to let women and children go, is already giving way.
Lu Xiao sat down at the table, and gave him another chopstick of shredded chicken: "Don't talk about these disappointing things, try this. By the way, I will take Master to go boating on Bihe Lake later, okay?" ?”
Qiu Yutong didn't answer, he pondered for a moment, then suddenly said: "Xiao'er, I want to see King Jin."
Lu Xiao frowned: "What did you see him for?"
Qiu Yutong sighed: "My body is stained with karma, so I must go and get it done."
Speaking of this, he was a little embarrassed: "Xiao'er, I haven't told you before. In fact, I don't know how I got back. I thought I had already ascended, but when I opened my eyes, I was in the palace again. Inside, and it's been five full years."
He paused for a moment, then murmured: "When I woke up, I was in...that cage."
Lu Xiao smiled faintly, but there was no smile in his eyes: "So that's the case. Master doesn't know, I will come back."
Qiu Yutong blinked his eyes. Although he was a little unreasonable, he could feel that Lu Xiao was very unhappy.
That's right, this little apprentice has been resenting himself before, hating himself for not keeping his promise and not being with him all the time.
Qiu Yutong thought for a while, and tried to explain: "Xiao'er, I promised to stay with you all the time. I broke my promise in this matter. You should have resented me before. It's just that I didn't expect that you would I ascended so quickly. After I came back, I kept hiding it from you and wanted to secretly take Ye Yu away because I had to go back to Shuoxue... "
"Stop it!" Lu Xiao interrupted him rudely.
Lu Xiao rarely interrupted him directly, so Qiu Yutong couldn't help being stunned.
Lu Xiao forced a smile, as if he didn't want to talk about this topic: "These are not important, it's good that Master comes back."
Seeing that Lu Xiao didn't delve into his pretentious embarrassment, Qiu Yutong secretly heaved a sigh of relief, and changed the subject: "I took Xuerong's body, and I carried his karma. Jin Wang Lu Yande is his biggest karma, So I have to go see Lu Yande."
"I understand." Lu Xiao nodded, "I'll make arrangements now."
He hesitated for a moment, and then said: "Lu Yande has been stimulated now, and he is a little crazy. If he says something, Master must not listen to him."
Qiu Yutong nodded and said, "I see."
The author has something to say: About Xiaoxiao’s spirit veins: In fact, many of them have a default law, that is, the spirit veins of Tianjue are generally the sons of the chosen ones...
ps: I took a look at the outline, it was 100,000 words, and I only wrote one-tenth of the outline...
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