The cooing of pigeons outside the window broke the romantic atmosphere in the small room.
Si Que opened the window and a carrier pigeon flew in from outside, fluttering its wings and landing on the dressing table under the window. Si Que took off the letter tube tied to the pigeon's leg, sat on the chair leaning next to the dressing table, took out the letter inside and read it.
You Yuji had no intention of reading Si Que's letter. She leaned against the corner of the dressing table, adjusted her hair, stood up, and walked out. However, just as she took a step, Si Que grabbed her wrist, and then she stumbled, and was pulled into his arms and sat on his lap.
You Yuji turned around and looked at Si Que.
He lowered his eyes, his gaze falling on the note between his long fingers. His eyebrows and eyes were as cold as usual. But this coldness seemed to be mixed with another emotion.
Before You Yuji could carefully distinguish it, Si Que raised his hand, and the note suddenly caught fire and gradually burned up.
You Yuji looked at the flame on the note and couldn't help asking, "Are you really poisoned?"
"Hmm?" Si Que turned his head casually.
You Yuji pursed her lips and frowned slightly.
She often thought of those rumors, saying that the owner of the Poison Tower was full of poison and that anyone who touched him would die. But his body...
Si Que chuckled and asked, "What do you think?"
His emotionless dark eyes gradually turned into a bright smile, as if he had found the mood to tease people.
"Just don't poison yourself." You Yuji pushed away his hand on her waist, stood up and went out.
Si Que watched You Yuji's back. After a long time, he turned his eyes away and looked at the burnt ashes of the note.
—It was another letter written to him by Si Lang.
In an inconspicuous house, Si Lang sat behind a desk with a military map spread out on the desk in front of him.
As a member of the royal family, even if they have no worries about food and clothing, no one wants to be a prisoner. Who wouldn't covet the seat on the jade steps
In order to gain a good reputation, Emperor Chen imprisoned many of the royal families of the surrendered countries. Si Lang believed that many of the imprisoned royal children must be as unwilling as he was.
The reason why he stayed in the capital after escaping from the other palace was to secretly contact the royal families of other countries.
Of course, he will leave Chen Jing soon.
Your Majesty is old and is afraid that he will not be able to accomplish his ambition of unifying the twelve kingdoms. He is eager to succeed and sends troops to attack Ningguo in the cold winter.
Si Lang had already contacted Ningguo.
When it comes to rebellion, the most important thing is military power.
He now has no troops, so he has to cooperate with Ningguo first. He needs to help Ningguo defeat the attack of Chenguo. In addition to military tactics, he also needs the poison of Si Que.
The poison is also the reason why Emperor Chen has eradicated the poison building in recent years. Eradicating it is fake, if the poison can be obtained, it will be better.
A strange poison that, when given to ordinary soldiers, can make each soldier the enemy of ten.
"Alas." Si Lang sighed.
He stood up, opened the window and looked out at the cool light of the moon shining under the window.
For this brother...
Si Lang closed his eyes and pressed the corners of his eyes with his thumb tiredly.
When did I realize that my twin brother wasn't as weak and incompetent as he seemed? Probably, it's been several years.
At first, he really thought that his younger brother had been sickly since childhood.
He and Si Que knew at the same time that the words of the national teacher were ridiculous. He had sighed, lamented, and been angry. But like Si Que, he was cold-hearted. Or perhaps, he had made up for his years of unwillingness. He was a favored child praised by everyone, but he knew that he was not as good as the brother behind him who was abandoned since childhood in many aspects.
Sometimes he couldn't help but wonder, if the one who was born a moment earlier was his younger brother, would he have become the one who was abandoned? If Si Que was born a moment earlier and became the crown prince, would he have done better than him
Later, he slowly discovered his brother's transformation.
The twins knew each other very well. He stood aside and watched coldly how the younger brother who had been abandoned since birth struggled.
The younger brother started to tinker with some strange things, making a mess of his palace. There were strange fumes and strange smells coming out.
He once watched the show, wondering what else his younger brother could do. While he was studying and practicing martial arts in a disciplined manner, he knew that his younger brother would often sneak out of the palace. He couldn't help but be curious about what his younger brother would do, just as he had been secretly observing his younger brother's actions over the years.
In other words, compare secretly.
He should be able to write the same articles and poems as his younger brother. He is also healthier than his younger brother and can do more things than his younger brother!
It was not until he saw his brother easily chopping off someone's head outside the palace that he realized his brother had been secretly learning martial arts.
Later, when he realized that his brother's poison skills had become very powerful, the notoriety of the Poison Building had become known throughout the world.
Yes, he had always known that his brother was the owner of the Poison House. He even knew how his brother built up the notoriety of the Poison House bit by bit.
He called his brother to his face with a smile, acting like a kind brother and pretending to be ignorant of what his brother was doing secretly.
But he also felt that his brother seemed to know that he knew everything.
Si Lang needed the poison in Si Que's hand. He wrote two letters to Si Que, but received no reply. Si Lang was reluctant to ask his brother for help, as it seemed that he would appear even more incompetent. He had no choice but to write the letter. He waited anxiously for the news, but felt that Si Que would not help him.
People around him said that Si Que still cared about their brotherly love, so he took the trouble to send him out of the palace. But Si Lang knew that his brother did not really help him by sending him out of the palace.
"He's watching a joke." Si Lang fiddled with the red plum blossoms on the windowsill. "He wants to see how my rebellion fails. He wants to see how disappointed my father will be after I fail."
Si Lang sighed again.
How can I get the poison from Si Que? If I can't get it, I can only force it.
In the past, Si Lang had always been helpless towards his younger brother, because he knew that his younger brother had no desires and did not care about life and death, otherwise he would not have tested the poison on himself in order to refine the medicine and turned his body into a rotten state.
But it's different now.
Now, my brother has a weakness.
Si Lang ripped off a bright red plum petal, pinched the petal and used the flower juice to write a word on the windowsill stroke by stroke -
especially.
"Someone come."
Si Lang expressionlessly used the bright red plum juice to erase the words he had just written on the windowsill and sneered.
Two days later, Chen Anzhi went to see his father again. This time, the King of Jinnan met him in the Queen's room.
Chen Anzhi's complexion was much better than before. He walked into the room and saw his mother sitting on the bed drinking medicine. He hurried over, but stopped in front of his mother. He was afraid that his presence would make his mother angry, which would be bad for her health.
"What are you doing here?" King Jinnan frowned and spoke in an unfriendly tone.
This was his own child, so he couldn't bring himself to punish him harshly. But he couldn't get rid of the anger in his heart.
Chen Anzhi lifted the front of his gown and knelt solemnly in front of his parents.
"My son was foolish and deceived, which made his father and mother angry and hurt his mother and sister. All the mistakes were made by my son."
"Hmph." Jinnan King snorted and turned away, not bothering to look at him. Obviously, he was not relieved by Chen Anzhi's confession.
"I have decided to listen to my father and go to war as a soldier this time to hone myself and get rid of my dandy ways."
King Jinnan then turned around and looked at him again.
The princess, who had never looked at him since he came in, also raised her eyes and looked over. The princess looked at Chen Anzhi, who had lost a lot of weight in the past few days, and she couldn't bear it. She said in a deep voice: "How can you go to the battle with such an injury?"
"It's a long journey to Ningguo. By the time we get there, my son's injury will be almost healed. Then he can serve the country."
"Ridiculous!" The princess raised her voice in anger, "You are really being kept in a golden nest. What do you think it's like to go to war? You can be allowed to recover on the road?"
Chen Anzhi lowered his head and whispered, "If he died on the road, it would be bad luck for my son."
The princess was stunned: "You..."
Chen Anzhi raised his head and looked at the princess, his lips moved: "Mother, don't be angry..."
"My son really knows that he was wrong." Chen Anzhi's tears fell one by one. He knelt down beside the bed, hugged his mother's hand, and said with a sob: "Mother, let me go. I don't have the face to stay in the capital..."
The princess turned her head away and held back the tears in her eyes.
"Okay!" King Jinnan agreed. "I didn't want you to go because you were so injured. But since you asked, I will naturally agree."
"Thank you, Father and Mother, for your help."
Chen Anzhi did not stay in the princess' room for long. After leaving the yard, he hesitated for a moment and went to Tanxiang Yingyue.
Tonight, the master and his servants had a hearty meal of roast suckling pig in Tan Xiang Ying Yue, and now everyone has washed up contentedly and is ready to go to bed.
You Yuji sat at the table, her chin resting on the back of her hand, staring blankly at Baisui who was licking her fur on the table.
The vague pain in her chest and the bloating in her waist and abdomen were so familiar, reminding her that her period was coming soon.
You Yuji couldn't help but frown.
This month, I didn’t get pregnant again.
After bathing, Si Que came out of the clean room and saw You Yuji sitting at the table in a daze. He walked towards You Yuji, leaned down naturally, and hugged her from behind.
You Yuji gently pushed away Si Que's hand that was in front of her and refused in a low voice: "No."
Si Que stood beside her and reached out to pinch the tip of her ear.
You Yuji turned her head to avoid it and refused softly again: "I feel uncomfortable, no more."
Si Que lowered his eyes and looked at her.
Why refuse? Because today is not the day circled in red
"Madam." Zhenxu knocked on the door gently. "The prince is here. He said he would leave the capital with the army in a few days, and he had a few words to say to you."
Chen Anzhi is leaving Beijing
You Yuji stood up and pushed the door open in confusion. Chen Anzhi stood three or four steps away from the door. When he saw You Yuji, he had no intention of moving forward.
"I came here to thank you for saving my mother that day. If you hadn't known that Fang Qingyi had demolished the back wall in advance, my mother would have been hurt even more seriously."
You Yuji nodded casually without saying anything.
She didn't speak, and Chen Anzhi also fell silent. You Yuji saw that Chen Anzhi still wanted to say something, but she naturally didn't ask any more questions, and just waited.
After a long while, Chen Anzhi spoke with difficulty: "I'm sorry for having troubled you during this period..."
You Yuzhi was surprised and couldn't believe that these words came out of Chen Anzhi's mouth.
"Since you married me, I have not only frequently taken concubines, embarrassing you and causing people in the capital to talk about you. I have also always been suspicious of you, suspecting this and that, wrongly accusing you, scolding you..." Chen Anzhi lowered his head without looking at You Yuji, and his voice was also very low.
He lived to be twenty years old, and except for occasionally apologizing to his parents, he had never spoken to others in such a humble tone. After rehearsing for several days, he finally said it out loud. Chen Anzhi didn't dare to look at anyone's expression, he felt his face burning.
Zhenxu and Baohe looked at each other in bewilderment. Baohe's expression was as if he had seen a ghost.
You Yuji looked at Chen Anzhi in front of her. It was rare for this man not to be hysterical and aggressive in front of her. As for his apology, You Yuji did not feel much when she heard it.
There was another long silence.
"Wait until I come back..."
"They've divorced." Si Que walked out with a cold face. He held You Yuji's wrist tightly and slammed the door shut.
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