Seeing that the hour is approaching the time of Shen, the civil and military officials will go to the Taihe Hall before going to the palace to greet the women of the outer palace who are fortunate to enter the palace for the queen mother's birthday, because the foreign ministers of the harem are not allowed to trespass, therefore, many adults are gathered in the outer hall of the harem, waiting for their wives to get out of the harem, and then join hands in the palace garden, according to the etiquette of respect and humility, each in its place, to open the banquet with the birthday of the queen.

This rare scene has become a unique scenery in the palace.

After temporarily taking care of the official business in hand, I changed back into the official clothes of the horse, and then hurried to the outer hall of the harem, thinking that I had to meet the princess quickly, and this time I would break the tangled cold war between the two of us no matter what.

It's a big deal to lose my cheekiness, and I have to rely on her to talk to me, as long as this is said, it can be regarded as opening this deadlock.

When I thought of this, I wanted to see the princess immediately, and my heart jumped. I am familiar with the road to the harem, busy copying the path, avoiding everyone's eyes and ears, and I just want to see the princess as much as possible.

Someone suddenly stopped me from behind.

"Tall, please stay. ”

The voice......

I chose to ignore it, and when I didn't hear it, I continued to walk briskly forward.

"Big pony, please stay!"

The man's hateful voice was in pursuit.

I sighed hatefully, depressed to the extreme. If I choose to continue to ignore it, then this person will definitely follow me all the way to the end.

See, as long as you turn this bay again, you will come to the avenue leading to the outer temple. As long as he deliberately walked into the crowd, no matter how entangled that person was, he should have some scruples when he thought about it.

But in the end, I still chose to stop, turned around expressionlessly, and saw the figure of the person I least wanted to see printed in my eyes, the corners of my mouth couldn't help twitching, and I sneered, but I didn't speak, and I didn't return the salute.

Whether I know or don't know people, I have always been humble and polite, but only for this person, I really can't be humble, this person is no one else, it is the eldest son of Xiangzhou Governor Dugu Xin, the most proud grandson Dugu Xin.

This person is still elegant and elegant, with bright eyes, full of confidence, and magnificent, all of which have not lost his old age!

Seeing that I didn't speak or salute, Dugu Xin was not angry, but said with a smile:

"Master Pony won't forget his old friend so quickly, right?"

I couldn't help but sneer.

Is my friendship with him so good?

Ah, no, it should be said that you can't even talk about friendship, if it's not a relationship, where does it come from?

The only advantage of talking to Duguxin is that you don't have to beat around the bush, and you don't have to worry about that set of false courtesies, I shrugged my shoulders slightly, and said bluntly:

"I shouldn't be that familiar with Your Excellency, right?"

"Hey, the master of the horse is now on the rise, and I don't remember the friends of the cloth back then, so it's understandable to think about it. ”

Dugu Xin leisurely waved the emerald jade wrench on his thumb, pretending to be touched between words, but the corners of his mouth on his mature and handsome face rose slightly.

Hehe, I've never seen such a brazen person.

Can the person who wanted to kill you back then be considered a friend?

It's really not speculation for more than half a sentence!

"If you want to come to catch up, please change the day, there is still an urgent matter in the future, and I am out of company. ”

With a wave of my hand, I flicked my sleeves and prepared to leave.

"Haha, you can be so hated by Lord Gao, I am so happy to believe in Dugu Xin!"

I stopped in a daze, and the fists in my sleeves had already been clenched into fists, and this Dugu Xin had the ability to anger me in just a few words.

"Why, don't be reconciled, I know that all the Yiqiē is planned by me, but I feel helpless......"

With the attitude of a winner, Dugu Xin unreservedly showed me his arrogance and invincibility.

I said coldly:

"I often walk by the river, how can I not get my shoes wet. I advise Your Excellency: Good and evil will be rewarded in the end, not that they will not be rewarded, and the time has not yet come. ”

Hearing my words, Dugu Xin smiled even more.

It seems that this champion is also about to run out of donkey skills, and he actually pins his hopes on this boring karma, waiting for God to clean up his Dugu letter, haha, it's ridiculous!

"The newspaper industry that Lord Gao said, if it refers to those abandoned pawns in the capital, if Lord Gao likes it, there is no need to use that wind and words to provoke the anger of the heavens, Dugu Xin presented the list with both hands, and if he wanted to kill or chop, he would dispose of it casually. For Dugu Xin, it's just a matter of spending more energy and money, hehe, what does Master Gao think?"

The Empress Dowager's intention to clean up the forces cultivated by the governor of Chaozhongzhou Town will definitely not escape Duguxin's eyes.

Dugu Xin is such a strategizing person, he dares to play this chess game, he has already calculated the pros and cons, even if the state and town forces in the capital are destroyed, and then re-establish it, after all, he has money power.

"Xiangzhou Mansion is really wealthy, extraordinary. If it is compared to power and wealth, Gao Chen is really beyond his reach. However, there is one thing, Gao Chen is still confident that he can compare to Your Excellency. ”

"Oh?"

I smiled and said:

"Your Excellency is a few degrees older than Chen, as the saying goes: blue is better than blue, and it is not known who will die in the end, so don't worry, the coming day will be long!"

In the end, I was not afraid to meet Dugu Xin's eagle-like gaze, I have time to accompany him slowly, I am afraid that when the time comes, he, the senior, will not be able to afford it!

Although I can't move them this time, it's okay to come and not be rude, and if I don't let them bleed and suffer some pain, it seems that I'm too rude, isn't it?

"Yes, my eyes are still as sharp as in the past, which proves that I didn't look at the wrong person back then. ”

Dugu Xin was not angry in the face of my provocation, and bluntly praised himself for his eyes like a torch, which was really shameless to the extreme.

Seeing my disdainful look, Duguxin didn't mind, and took the piece of magnolia flower that he had been wearing on his waist to me, smiled and said:

"This game is my small victory, now, can you accept this jade pendant?"

When I saw this jade pendant again, I remembered that when I watched juggling on the street with Wan'er that day, the white magnolia flower jade pendant tied to the waist of the man in the carriage was exactly the same as the one in front of me?

It turned out that the man in the carriage was Dugu Xin?!

Alas, I said, why did I think this jade pendant was so familiar at that time, isn't this the jade pendant that Dugu Xin wanted to give me a few years ago but was sternly rejected by me?

A man gives another man a jade pendant, what is this?

I couldn't help but show a look of disdain, although I am a woman, I still can't accept this, not to mention, the person who gave this jade pendant is still Dugu Xin!

Of course, he gave me this jade pendant, not to show his admiration, but to successfully recruit me. Back then, he was bent on recruiting me as a loyal dog by his side.

As for why he insisted on giving me a jade pendant, and the second time he gave it away, it was still this white magnolia flower pendant? That's because even after many years, Dugu Xin is still the arrogant and empty-eyed Dugu Xin, which has never changed.

It was a frivolous old age of youth.

Back then, in order to save Gao Wei who was trapped in the Yihong Pavilion, we had a holiday with Duguxin's subordinate Guan Xiaoye, who took advantage of my unpreparedness and kicked me so much that I almost fainted on the spot. When I was fighting with that Guan Xiaoye, the jade pendant of the accessories I carried with me was also broken by him.

Originally, I thought that after the entanglement of Yihong Pavilion, we would no longer have any intersection with this Dugu Xin, but what I didn't expect was that when the Emperor Bang Enke exam was selected for the civil and military champions, we met these people again.

And in the fierce battle of the Wu Zhuangyuan competition, the last person Gao Wei fought against was the Taibao of the state - Sima Jiong!

It was an unprecedented battle, and the memories left to me were bloody and terrifying, and even now when I think about it, I still have palpitations in my heart......

On that day, Dugu Xin suddenly handed me this piece of white magnolia flower jade pendant as he did today, saying that he wanted to replace my piece of jade that was unintentionally broken by Guan Xiaoye with this piece of rare jade pendant.

But what Dugu Xin revealed between his words after that was threats and intimidation, he said: As long as I take his jade pendant, then he can let Sima Jiong put Gao Wei on the martial arts field, you must know that his fists and feet have no eyes, life and death, and he can't guarantee any accidents......

At that time, I hesitated, if it wasn't for Gao Wei to stop me, I think I would have compromised.

Yan Ci rejected Dugu Xin, he said, I will regret it one day.

The first time we faced Dugu Xin, we narrowly won, but we also paid an extremely painful price.

And after that, Dugu Xin wore this piece of magnolia flower on his body all the time, so that he didn't want to forget the shame, what he Dugu Xin wanted, no matter how much it cost, he would definitely get it by all means.

......

According to the current situation, although Duguxin paid the price of the power of the capital, he gained the secret he wanted to know the most, which is indeed a small victory!

This secret is the secret that the Empress Dowager has always wanted to hide, and it is also the reason why the Empress Dowager wants to maintain the Hubu Shangshu - that is, the Yanyun Dragon Cavalry Guard stationed behind the Forbidden Garden!

Everyone only knew that the safety of the palace was guarded by the Imperial Forest Army, and the Yanyun Dragoon, the personal guard belonging to the emperor, had already been transferred to Huaishuo to guard the frontier and fight against the Turks in the north, but they didn't expect that there was still a Yanyun dragoon in the palace.

This is because the emperors of the Northern Wei Dynasty deliberately did it, because this dragoon guard is the most critical one related to the emperor's net worth, and it is an important bargaining chip used to balance the imperial forest army.

No one knows how many dragoons there are hidden in the forbidden garden, but to supply such a group of men and horses, the military expenses are also huge, in order not to attract the attention of the officials of the DPRK and China, it is necessary to take this expenditure when withdrawing the treasury and silver, and the post of the head of the household department in charge of money and grain needs a trustworthy person to take up the post.

Therefore, finding out the number of people and the number of guards and dragoons is the real purpose of Dugu Xin's operation.

Because if Sima Jiong really killed his uncle, and Na Hai Mao controlled the court, then Dugu Xin didn't need to let the general named Xu Yi in Wuchuan Town ambush on the outskirts of the capital with a thousand men and horses. He was in a hurry to bring in this team of men and horses, and his main role was to use it to balance the dragoons.

......

So far, whether it is a conspiracy or a conspiracy, Dugu Xin has been investigated by me clearly.

The more I knew, the more I hated and could not tolerate what he had done to him, how he used me to threaten the princess, how he hurt my beloved, I swear that one day, I will pay him back twice as much!

When this jade pendant appeared in front of him again, a sense of ridicule rose, he Dugu believed that I Gaochen was still the weak and slaughtered Bai Ding Shizi back then? Or did he think that this small jade pendant could subdue me?

It's ridiculous!

I laughed coldly, and then without hesitation, I took the jade pendant in my hand and raised my hand to the light, as if I was just appreciating this beautiful jade.

This is indeed a good jade, warm and transparent, and the tentacles are warm.

I couldn't help but say with some exclamation:

"Well, good jade, it is said that the jade is gentle and lustrous, similar to wisdom, sharp but not harmful, similar to benevolence, indomitable, similar to righteousness, flawed in the inside must be seen outside, similar to faith, hanging like a pendant, similar to courtesy. With such benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and faith, the sage said: The beauty of jade is like the virtue of a gentleman. ”

Seeing that I took the jade pendant, the smile on Dugu Xin's face became even stronger, as if he saw a fierce horse being conquered by himself, and he was about to say something but was interrupted by me.

Aren't you waiting for me to give a definite answer?

Just listen to my categorical words:

"It's a pity, you're obviously not such a gentleman, you don't deserve it, you don't deserve it!"

After speaking, I smashed this jade pendant to pieces.

Looking at Dugu Xin's iron-clad expression in my eyes, I smiled and said:

"Ah, I'm really sorry, I broke Lord Dugu's jade pendant by mistake for a while, but the adult is rich and rich, so I don't think I would mind such a small jade pendant. ”

With a slight bow, I turned around and prepared to leave.

Dugu Xin looked at the broken jade all over the ground, is this Gao Chen's answer to himself?

It is better to be broken than to be complete.

In that case, he swore that he would not use it for himself, would he?

After I had walked a few steps, as if I remembered something, I turned around, and with a very amused expression, I asked seriously:

"Huh~ Lord Dugu, you, are you ...... Is it a broken sleeve?"

You say, a man is so persistent in giving a piece of jade pendant to another man, this kind of perverted attachment, isn't it really a broken sleeve?

I shuddered at the thought of this, and then turned around and walked away without any nostalgia.

But Dugu Xin was stunned when he heard this, and after thinking for a while, he actually shook his head and smiled, but this smile was a little terrifying.

......

It's all because of this Dugu Xin, it took me a lot of time, I don't know if the princess moved out of the harem, don't let her wait for a long time!

As soon as I walked out of that corner, I saw the second princess Xiao Yue and the third princess Xiao Wen standing side by side, and who were standing behind them, who were not the second horse Mu Yan and the third horse Ji Sui?

How did they end up here?

Several of us looked at each other for a moment, and when I saw the strange expressions of their expressions, I couldn't help but feel a little uneasy in my heart, and glanced behind them, but I never saw the figure of my princess, and for some reason, the uneasiness was infinitely expanded, and I was a little stunned.

The second colt kindly came over and patted me on the shoulder, reminding me in general:

"Why are you here now?"

Realizing that I had lost my manners, I hurriedly bowed down and clasped my fists and saluted, saying:

"It's a gift to the two princesses!"

Out of courtesy, the two princesses replied with a slight blessing, but they didn't say much.

The third princess's face was obviously gloomy, but the second princess looked at me with a worried look on her face, and then looked at Mu Yan's hateful expression and Ji Kang's rare silence, and I realized that something big had happened.

I hurriedly asked:

"Where's my princess?"

Hearing that I still had the face to ask about the whereabouts of the eldest sister, the third princess Xiao Wen took a step forward angrily and wanted to find me a theory, as if I had committed some heinous crime, and was about to count my crimes, but was stopped by the second princess Xiao Yue.

Xu was unwilling in his heart, Xiao Wen said coldly, and said:

"The eldest sister went to the Taihe Hall with Yixian, is the big horse satisfied?"

In order to prevent the third sister from messing around on the spot and attracting unnecessary attention, the second princess Xiao Yue immediately pulled Xiao Wen and left first, casting a grateful look at the second concubine Ma Muyan, hoping that he would inform the eldest concubine of what had happened, so as not to make a rift between him and his wife.

The second colt knew Xiao Yue's worries, and nodded firmly, letting her rest assured that she would leave the matter to herself.

Before I could recover from Xiao Wen's words, I grabbed Mu Yan's collar and asked again in disbelief, saying:

"What did she just say, princess, princess, why did she ......?"

Suddenly, my heart was like a knife, and I couldn't continue to speak.

Why is this happening, why is it?

"How did you get so close to that Dugu Xin?"

Mu Yan originally wanted to teach me a lesson with hatred, but seeing my soulless appearance now, he suddenly couldn't bear it, and changed his words to relief.

My eyes were red, and I said angrily:

"When did I get close to him?"

To say that I have a lot to do with Duguxin is simply nonsense.

"Then you just had an intimate relationship with Dugu Xin, and you also accepted his jade pendant, how can this be explained?"

"Never ......"

Before I could utter the words, I realized what a fatal mistake I had made.

Could it be that the princess happened to see that scene? She thought I had accepted Dugu Xin's jade pendant?

Oh, what a terrible coincidence!

"Didn't you see the expression of the eldest princess......

Such a lovely person who is so independent of the world, showing such a painful expression, just looking at it makes people feel unbearable......

Mu Yan's desire to speak stopped, like a sharp sword piercing through my chest, my painful eyes continued to cry out of control, I grabbed my neckline, panting violently, my chest was jammed, as if I was about to lose my breath, and I was stunned to frighten Mu Yan and Ji Sui.

They hurriedly gathered around to see if I was in trouble, but I reached out to block it, and walked slowly past them as if I had lost my soul.

"Let me, alone, be ......"

With the last breath of strength, he slowly spit out these words, and finally his voice choked up.

In this life, after all, it was me who hurt her......