At the Spring Festival banquet, Gu Hongjian was paying attention to the movements of the second prince and the third prince. The two really did not get along. He also bowed his head to eat with a bad expression, and occasionally said a few words to the people around him.
Logically, Gu Hongjian wanted to watch them all the way, but she still unconsciously turned her head to look at Zuo Ningyan.
Zuo Ningyan is indeed very beautiful. Even though the princesses are all dressed up like the swaying flowers in the new year, Zuo Ningyan is the most elegant in white clothes. Every frown and smile can be included in the painting.
Gu Hongjian happened to see Zuo Ningyan holding the chopsticks with a smile, revealing her fingers as white as onion.
And Gu Hong saw her fingers...
She looked down and saw that her fingers were very rough and ugly because they had to do work and practice martial arts.
Gu Hongjian shrank his hands into his sleeves in embarrassment.
Lin Size didn't know anything about this. After returning home, he discussed with Gu Hongjian when to do it as usual. In the end, the two decided that after two days, according to the second prince's habit, he would sneak out of the palace and come back, and return at night. When he was in the palace, there were very few guards around the second prince, because otherwise, it was an excellent time to start.
And the person who did it... was Gu Hongjian.
Lin Size was a little worried: "Can you do it?"
Gu Hong saw splitting a piece of firewood with her bare hands, tapped her toes, flew to the edge of the eaves, and said condescendingly, "What do you think?"
Lin Size: "... I'm not worried about your martial arts, but your mentality. After all, you've never really killed anyone before."
"..." Gu Hong saw that she was stunned for a while, then she said, "It's okay! This kind of thing always has to be done first, not just a knife! It shouldn't be a problem..."
Lin Size reached out to her: "Come down."
Seeing that An Ran landed smoothly, Gu Hong only patted her on the head lightly: "...Thank you for your hard work."
Only then did Gu Hongjian realize that Lin Size was almost as tall as her.
How does this guy grow so fast... Damn.
Gu Hongjian touched her head and thought.
Two days passed in the blink of an eye, and Gu Hong saw a person wandering around the Vermillion Bird Gate where he was preparing to assassinate the second prince many times.
The palace has a curfew, and you can no longer enter and exit the palace gate at night. Only the Suzaku gate is special. If you have a waist card, you can enter and exit at night, so the final action must be here.
That night, Gu Hongjian put on dark clothes early, covered his face with a black cloth, lurked on the eaves near the Vermillion Bird Gate, and looked coldly at the vehicles entering and leaving.
Lin Size was actually very worried, and even wanted to follow him, but Gu Hongjian drove him away on the grounds that "you will only make mistakes and expose yourself".
Then the second prince's carriage slowly drove in, and Gu Hongjian followed the second prince's carriage and jumped over the eaves.
The second prince was very negligent, probably because he was afraid that too many people would know about him going out to have fun. There were only four bearers and a guard beside him. When the carriage drove to an unoccupied corner, Gu Hongjian no longer hesitated and flew there. Next to the guard, the guard didn't react at all, and was slashed by Gu Hongjian on the neck with a scabbard, and immediately passed out, and then the few bearers who had no martial arts probably thought that the guard was dead, and immediately put down the sedan chair and panicked. He fled in all directions, but Gu Hongjian ignored it and simply lifted the curtain of the car.
It was the second prince sitting inside, and he was flustered, as if he didn't understand what happened.
Seeing the masked Gu Hongjian, he was stunned for a moment, then panicked and shouted: "Who are you?! Who sent you?! What are you trying to do?! Come on—ah..."
The second prince's voice stopped abruptly because Gu Hongjian's blade had ruthlessly slashed across his neck.
The blood splashed out, Gu Hongjian gently turned to the side to avoid the blood, and then took out a unique-looking waist pendant from his belt, wrapped it around the handle of the knife, and then performed light work, to the nearby place not far away. Next to Xia He Chi, she threw the knife into Xia He Chi, and she took off her black coat and mask, just like an ordinary little palace maid, Shi Shiran left - but she still tried her best to avoid guards who might be patrolling. In the end, he returned to the Baifu Hall safely.
In the Baifu Hall, Lin Size did not fall asleep either. He sat upright in the hall. Seeing Gu Hong coming back, he took two steps forward and said, "Are you alright?"
His first reaction was not "Did you succeed?" but "Are you alright?" Gu Hongjian was very surprised.
Originally, Gu Hongjian was very calm all the way. Whether it was lurking, actually attacking, or dealing with evidence afterwards, she was expressionless, and her heart was unusually calm, as if there was nothing else in the world other than what to do at the moment, but seeing Lin Size, hearing what he said, Gu Hongjian suddenly relaxed.
She pursed her lips and shook her head gently: "It's okay..."
However, as soon as the words came out, the tears stayed, and the whole person couldn't stop shaking.
Lin Si Ze was stunned for a while, then quickly walked over without saying anything, and directly hugged Gu Hongjian in his arms.
He was still young, and his embrace was not too broad, but it made Gu Hongjian feel a strange sense of security, as if Lin Size was just holding her so gently, and many problems were no longer a problem.
Gu Hong said: "I have a little blood on my clothes, you..."
Lin Size ignored her, still hugged her, even stronger: "This is blood stained for me, how could I care."
This is the first time that Gu Hongjian has shown weakness in front of Lin Size. She put her head on Lin Size's shoulder, tilted her head slightly, her eyes were pressed against Lin Size's neck, the tears could not stop, and Lin Size lightly patted her back. , Wen Yan comforted her.
The moonlight fell softly, and the warmth Lin Size gave Gu Hongjian gradually calmed her down. She said softly, "Second Prince... is dead."
Lin Size said, "Yes."
When Gu Hongjian was about to say something, suddenly there was a lot of movement outside, Gu Hongjian immediately got out of Lin Size's arms, and Lin Size looked at each other alertly, and then walked out slowly.
"Three princesses, I'm a little scared..." A girl's voice gradually became clear.
Gu Hongjian frowned—how did she feel that it sounded like Zuo Ningyan's voice
Then another female voice sounded: "What are you afraid of?"
"It feels so eerie here..."
"This used to be a cold palace, and later became the Baifu Palace of King Ping, but that guy from King Ping was not favored very much, so there is still no one..."
"Then why are we here?"
"Oh, I've long wanted to come here in the middle of the night to see it. Don't you think it's fun to be so gloomy? But I don't dare to do it alone... You're here tonight, so I'll pull you along!"
"Three princesses..."
A series of conversations stopped, Gu Hongjian understood everything, the feeling is that Zuo Ningyan stayed in the palace and slept with the third princess, and the third princess who loved to play and dragged Zuo Ningyan to the Baifu Palace with the intention of " Adventure".
Immediately after Lin Size saw Zuo Ningyan, his expression changed immediately.
He pulled Gu Hongjian back and whispered, "You still have blood on your clothes, don't be seen... Go back to the house and change your clothes first, or don't come out at all."
Gu Hongjian returned to her room ignorantly and changed her clothes, but she couldn't help it and slipped out quietly.
She saw that the third princess and Zuo Ningyan were already sitting in the hall that Gu Hongjian and Lin Size were holding. The third princess looked a little stiff and embarrassed, but Zuo Ningyan didn't know that Gu Hongjian went in to change clothes just now. What did the time say, at this moment, the two seem to be chatting happily.
It was rare for Lin Size to look a little shy. He sat upright, straighter than ever before, but looked at him with tenderness, a kind of tenderness that he had never shown to Gu Hongjian.
Although occasionally he would treat Gu Hongjian warmly, however, that was not the case.
Gu Hongjian can tell the difference very clearly.
His gentleness towards Gu Hongjian was due to what Gu Hongjian had done to make him agree. He treated her as gentle as a reward, just like when he hugged her and gently patted her on the back to comfort her.
And his tenderness towards Zuo Ningyan is that no matter what Zuo Ningyan does, he will always treat her like this.
Gu Hongjian still had a faint smell of blood on her body, and her hands were shaking because of fear. Although the spring had warmed up, the night was still cold and windy, blowing her thin body, and that could have comforted her. The man, the man for whom she had done everything, was in the house at the moment, chatting with another woman about something beyond the borders.
She listened to it for a long time, and even occasionally made a little noise on purpose to attract Lin Size's attention, so that Lin Size could turn around and notice her.
However, Lin Size did not notice Gu Hongjian outside the house from the beginning to the end.
Gu Hongjian gradually got tired of standing, sat down against the room, raised his head and watched the stars twinkling in the sky alone.
Then she cried.
This was the first time Gu Hongjian cried. She didn't cry when she was abandoned by her parents, she didn't cry when she was sold into the palace, and she didn't even cry when the old mother died.
However, she was not crying just because Lin Size left her and went to chat with Zuo Ningyan with a smile.
But she suddenly understood that as long as Zuo Ningyan was there, Lin Size's eyes would always be on Zuo Ningyan, forever, forever. Never look back and look at her.