On the fifteenth day of January, the flower market is lit up like day.

The willow tops on the moon, people about after dusk.

The fire tree and silver flowers never sleep, the noisy crowd is endless, Mei Ziyan and the dumb slave walked hand in hand in the bustling crowd, she patronized a stall and a stall after another, the stuff in her mouth has not been finished, and there are other foods in her hands, the dumb slave smiled helplessly and shook her head, while paying the bill for her.

"Didn't you have dinner?" he said, gesturing at him as she slipped a piece of sesame cake into one hand, and grinned at him, "Is it delicious? I've eaten it, it's so sweet!"

It's very sweet. He smiled and swallowed the sesame cake and followed.

She smiled sweetly.

He found that he was in a demonic disorder, and often looked at her quietly and smiled, for example, now, watching her lower her head comparing the smell and color of the two sachets, and the gentle demeanor that she inadvertently revealed when she lowered her eyebrows reminded him of Youtan who bloomed at midnight, white and fragrant.

There were so many people who looked at the lanterns and guessed the riddles that she couldn't squeeze in, so the dumb slave asked her, "Do you really want a lantern?"

"No, it's just that I think of my mom and dad. She sat on the bluestone slab under the elm tree far away from the lantern riddle ring, and said with a smile: "There is an old tree in front of my mother's bedroom, and she said that she once went down the mountain to watch the lantern festival with the academy's Fa Xiao, and when she woke up the next day, she saw a marquee hanging on the old tree, and at that time she thought that the lamp was given by Uncle Xingyun." ”

"Who actually sent it?"

My mother smiled and said nothing. I couldn't think of a reason for it, so I carried a ladder up the tree to see it, and there was a picture of a woman on the lamp, but I couldn't see the reason for it after many years of wind and sun. But the handwriting with the date has not fallen off, and I can see it at a glance, it is clearly the handwriting of the old man Mei who loves his wife like his life!"

She smiled and continued: "My father suffered a lot for my mother, and my mother often said that if you like someone to say it, why hide it? Feelings are very simple things, love is love, and you can deceive others but never hide yourself." But do you know what my dad said?"

The dumb slave suppressed the waves in his black eyes without a trace, "What did he say?"

He said that what can be easily said is not love. ”

The dumb slave smiled, and the big stone that was pressed in his heart seemed to loosen a lot. He reached out and wiped a bit of white sesame from the corner of her mouth, and gestured:

"You wait for me, I'll go and win you a lamp back. ”

"How do you win?" she asked urgently, but he couldn't speak.

"I'll write the answer, don't worry, just wait for me!" he turned and disappeared into the crowd after a graceful gesture was made.

As soon as the dumb slave left, a trace of loneliness appeared on her face, and what she could easily say was not love, but at least she liked it, right?

In the past, she liked Suisheng so much, but she never said it, although she didn't want to break them up all the time, she still helped Lianya hide that Suisheng Lianya's body was not suitable for pregnancy, because there was a blood tumor in it. She really didn't want Lianya to die, she trusted her medical skills too much, and Lianya trusted her too much, thinking that she could at least save her and the child she had......

In exchange, it was just a slap in the face of hatred after knowing the truth.

So, she said to herself, the next time she meets someone she likes, she must be brave enough to say it.

However, it still hit a wall.

Her eyes drifted aimlessly to the riverbank where the lotus lanterns were placed, and unexpectedly touched a pair of fierce eyes, *naked killing intent made her subconsciously stand up and take two steps back, and the person with the judge's mask was about to come to the front......

There were several feasts in the Tiandu Imperial Palace, and there had never been a year when Mu Cheng's family banquet could make Mu Cheng so impatient. Coldly watching the relatives of the same clan talking happily, he only thought of Uncle Shou Wang who was far away in Yuzhou and Mu Yu who was sick in bed. Many of his peers also joked about him, saying:

"The third brother will soon marry the lord of Xuanyang in the East Court, I heard that it is a famous beauty in the capital, and the third brother is so blessed. ”

"Third brother, I heard that you have a big fight with Dongfang Hengqing recently?

......

Listening to it, he couldn't help but get upset. Mei Ziyan did not stay in the palace that day, and took her tanuki back to the Caoyue Flower House to see a doctor again. For a while, there were more people in the grass hut, and I heard that the road in front of the grass hut would be jammed from time to time. He also pretended to pass by the grass hut in the evening, wandering in the shadow of the old elm tree by the window, listening to her crisp voice shouting the name of the mute, listening to her complaining that the mute was not good at cooking, and listening to her telling the dumb man that if he pretended to be sick again tomorrow, he would grab a pair of laxatives called blood nourishment and go back......

Tonight's Lantern Festival, I don't know what she's doing at the moment?

Suddenly, a bird's cry like a thrush broke his fugue, he frowned and pretended to sit down and change his clothes, and walked out of the deep grass and trees outside the main hall, Bai Xuan came out of the shadow of the tree, whispered two words in his ear, his face changed greatly, and asked:

"Exactly the news?"

"Qianjintang has received a thousand taels of gold today, and the killer has been dispatched, given that it is an unarmed woman who is going to be killed, so only the tenth-ranked killer Qin Shang has been dispatched. ”

Mu Cheng hurriedly walked to the palace gate, "How did you know that it was her life that was bought?"

The secret whistle of Qianjintang said that he peeked at the portrait, and the woman's white dress was painted with a branch of ink plum. Shizi, my subordinates have secretly sent people to the Lantern Festival......"

Mu Cheng turned over and got on his horse, Tie Qing's face was cold, and he said angrily: "Who is the killer of Qianjintang!" you should have personally found her and brought her back to the house, if anything happened to her, if anything ......happened to her, he didn't dare to think about it anymore, and with a wave of his horsewhip, he rode his horse towards the Lantern Festival with brilliant lights and laughter in the distance.

The dumb slave guessed three riddles in a row, and when others saw that he was a dumb person again, they couldn't help but look at him with admiration. The ringmaster asked him what he wanted, and he looked at it carefully, and smiled at the lantern that saw a woman's dress flying forward.

The owner of the ring understood, generously handed him the lamp, and said, "Little brother has a good eye, and he picked a lamp for Chang'e to run to the moon." He saw the puzzled expression of the dumb slave when he received the lamp, and suddenly woke up: "The little brother is from Xirong, so naturally he doesn't know that Chang'e is a famous beauty in ancient times, and this beauty later became a fairy......

He smiled, his Yan'er, isn't that his fairy?

If the dumb slave knew the allusion of Chang'e running to the moon, he would not have chosen this lamp anyway.

He turned around and squeezed out of the crowd, and looked at the bluestone slab under the elm tree, and the figures in front of him were chaotic, and he couldn't see her; two steps further, he saw clearly, the bluestone slab was empty, and he suddenly had a very bad premonition in his heart, and then suddenly heard someone shouting in panic:

"Dead man, dead man, go to the official mansion-"

The lamp in his hand fell to the ground with a "snap", and was trampled by the chaotic crowd on the street, he was dazed for a short moment, and he opened his mouth wide to call her name with the greatest strength in his life.

However, no matter how much he longed in his heart, he still couldn't utter half a syllable. He pushed away the man in front of him and went to the elm tree, and then went to the most chaotic place of the crowd to look for her, but there was no sign of her.

The huge sorrow in his heart made his eyes hot and red, Yan'er, where are you? Are you on my left or right? Why don't you obediently wait for me in the same place?!

"Helian Yue. "Someone called him from behind.

He turned around, and although the woman behind him was dressed in black and wearing a gauze hat, he could still recognize Su Wen at a glance.

"What did you do to her?" he asked, staring at her.

Su Wen's figure disappeared into the crowd, and the dumb slave followed her black figure until she chased into a dark alley.

"What about her?" he stared at Su, a hint of cruelty in his eyes.

"I never said she was in our hands, and the man who was going to kill her had already done it. ”

The dumb slave's fist clenched his finger bones turned white, turned around and left, Su Wen dodged and stopped in front of him, "Helian Yue, do you have yourself in your heart besides her?"

"Get out of the way. His hand rested on the handle of the knife at his waist, "I don't want to do anything to you." ”

"I can let it go, but why do you think you should go to her? With your internal injuries and incomplete internal strength, or with your unspeakable defects?!"

The dumb slave stiffened, then walked past her, took out from her bosom a handscroll of old and old sheepskin, and said:

"I've found the true Secret Record of Returning to the Yuan, I'm afraid, you don't need it anymore?"

The mute slave stopped and turned her back to her, and she said:

"I helped her block the blow when the killer attacked her, and if her life was good enough, she should have found a place to hide. But it was the Empress Dowager of the East in the palace who wanted to kill her, do you think she could hide once and still be able to hide the next? And you are just an ordinary dumb servant beside her, unable to protect her life, at most you can only build a tomb and erect a monument for her. Helian Yue, the result of you forgetting this surname is that you can't keep anything!"

"A person who dares to walk away from the light at night is a brave person. What you are attached to is not necessarily yours. ”

"You come back, be yourself, a person without ego, unworthy to love others. ”

The mute slave walked forward, and Su Wen's voice gradually dissipated into the air. However, there was really something different in his heart, the hand holding the handle of the knife became tighter and tighter, and something that had been silent for a long time finally broke out of the ground in his heart, and it had the potential to burn the prairie fire.

"Mei Ziyan!" Mu Cheng, who was galloping towards on horseback, looked around anxiously, and in the scattered crowd, he vaguely saw the back of a woman in white, he hurriedly dismounted and stepped forward to hold her with one hand, "Ziyan?"

The woman turned her face, the strangeness disappointed him, and more worry and anxiety followed.

The lights are not in the dark, and the entire Lantern Festival has been imposed martial law by the soldiers brought by the Tiandu Mansion Yin.

The lotus lanterns on the Qiushui River flowed one after another, the cold on Mu Cheng's face condensed into frost, and a person beside him pulled a long-haired dog, Bai Xuan lowered his voice and reported:

"Someone saw Miss Mei jumping into the Qiushui River after being injured, and the small one had already asked the people of the Wuyi Group of Tingfeng Lou to look for it all the way along the river, because of the reeds on both sides of the river, the prince was a little restless, and there will be an echo later. ”

"You let me rest easy?!" Mu Cheng sneered, his eyes were a little red, and he pointed to a bloodstained bluestone raised in front of the reeds on the shore, "Have you seen it? That's blood! That's her blood!" You go and tell Du Pengyuan, the hall master of the Qianjin Hall, if anything happens to my people, I, Mu Cheng, will definitely destroy his Qianjin Hall!"

The searchers reported one after another, and the results were all the same, and they found nothing.

Mu Cheng stood on the bank of the Qiushui River, the river was cold to the bone, and the river was full of rocks, she jumped down for so long, even if she wasn't scratched by the rocks, the cold would go straight to her heart and lungs, right?

The night was getting deeper and deeper, and the river was gradually foggy, and a gust of wind blew, and he felt that his eyes were astringent and sour, and his heart seemed to be overwhelmed by something.

Well, he admitted, even if he was deceived by her, he was willing.

Well, he compromised, and even if she was still a child, he would continue with her until she got tired of it......

Because it's better to lose anything than to lose her like she is now......

She had been lying to him, but now he was more willing to trust his heart, and even if he was wrong, he followed his truest thoughts.

"Mei Ziyan—" He suddenly shouted loudly towards the lower reaches of the river, and the dark surface of the river was flickering with a few lights, which were countless beautiful hopes, but the distance was still quiet, and there was not even the slightest echo in the quiet night.

"Mei Ziyan—" His voice vibrated in the night sky, as if he had exhausted the strength of his chest and lungs, and shouted the name heartbreakingly.

His heart began to ache dullly, as if it was slowly worn away by something, and he remembered that today he obviously wanted to see her in the grass house, and obviously wanted to spend the Lantern Festival with her......

Mei Ziyan, I knew not to save you when you couldn't afford to sink, so that I wouldn't be so worried and afraid now...... There will be no such remorse and heartache......

At this time, his stiff body was suddenly hit hard from behind, and then he was hugged tightly by the man's arms, his heart skipped two beats, and the huge emotional ups and downs made him almost unable to stand, and the voice that seemed to have waited for a long time whispered with a hint of acidity:

"Persimmon, shouting the soul is not like this, if you continue to shout like this, if the soul does not shout back, you will be heartbroken first. ”

He did not move, let out a long breath, and said:

"Mei Ziyan, did I never say that to you?"

"Which word?"

"I like you. He said, "I'm hopefully incurably in love with you." ”

I didn't hear her answer, she still held him from behind willfully, and after a long time, she said:

"Persimmon, can you let me be a red bee too?"

He was a little stunned, and turned to look at her, her face was dirty, and the white robe on her body had a few marks of sharp blades, and he had never seen her look so grizzled and embarrassed, only those eyes were still burning bright like stars and moons.

She reached out very naturally and pulled his head around his neck, stood on tiptoe and kissed him on the lips, the words he didn't have time to say disappeared between the glued lips and kisses, for a while he didn't know how to react, after a dragonfly kiss ended, she didn't forget to bite his lip hard, licked the shallow smell of blood and snickered and wanted to leave, but he grabbed the back of her neck with one hand, and the anti-guest suddenly invaded her lips, entangled, a kiss that was so long that it seemed to swallow even her breath......

He didn't let go of her until she couldn't breathe, but he tightly strangled her waist and pressed her head on his chest with one hand, as if this could fill the huge hole in his heart, she fell into his arms and gasped slightly, he shouted softly:

"Ziyan?"

"I'm here. ”

It's good to be there, he thought, no matter where she comes from, no matter who she is, just be by his side.

He looked up, and saw that seven or eight feet away from them, the dumb slave stood there stiffly, his face was gray like a clay sculpture, but those black eyes were mixed with too much pain and disappointment, as well as a sense of sadness and powerlessness from the heart......

He was stunned for a moment and let go of her, "The dumb slave is also worried about you, you-" Before she finished speaking, she fell limply, and he quickly took her back into his arms, but the tentacles were warm and sticky liquid, and he suddenly woke up, damn that she was injured and didn't say a word!

Her wound was on her arm, a sword wound about an inch deep and as long as an index finger. After returning home, Lu Siqing helped her bandage and instructed the places that needed attention, and comforted Mu Cheng and said that she was just in a temporary coma due to excessive blood loss, and she was going to wake up soon, and he still didn't feel at ease to leave, until Mingshu said that someone came to the palace and said that the emperor had brought him a message.

The person who came was Fang Dehai, and the words that Emperor Xuancheng Mu Yao asked him to convey was: Don't act rashly, I will give you an explanation.

Mu Cheng's face was still not very good-looking, Fang Dehai didn't care, and put his arm on Mu Cheng's arm and whispered: "Lord Shizi shouldn't be dissatisfied with the emperor, you must know that the emperor let his shadow follow Miss Mei two days ago, but I didn't expect that the killer sent by Qianjintang used the Shadowless Thirteen Swords, and the protection was not effective, but fortunately, Miss Mei's life was safe, and the shadow learned that the prince was looking for her by the Qiushui River, so he sent her back." ”

"This prince hopes that his father-in-law will tell the truth that the queen mother really killed her just because of the sip of tea that stained her phoenix robe?"