Chapter 178: The Old Game
The people along the way looked at Xin Yi running by like the wind in amazement, and they couldn't understand how a woman dressed like an official lady could run so wildly without regard for her manners. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Xin Yi didn't have time to take care of it, a bubbling hot current in her mind was rampant, burning her blood and qi all over, and she ran out of the city and came to the bank of the moat in a short time.
After the Yushuigou out of the city, it converges with several tributaries, guides by the artificially dug canal, goes around Chang'an City, is the moat, on one side is the prosperous national capital, and on the other side is the Guanzhong Plain.
When Xin Yi was somewhere in the moat and saw the man standing by the river, her heart was instantly empty.
The man was dressed as a scholar in a plain shirt and scarf, and his messy hair brushed the newly grown green stubble on his chin. In just a few days, his whole body was emaciated, his cheeks were sunken, and his old clothes that his skeleton could not hold up were flying like a moth.
A moth returning from the wind and fighting the fire.
He stood with his hands in his hands, as gentle and simple as before, looking at the moat in front of him, as if he didn't pay attention to Xin Yi behind him.
Xin Yi was there in a daze, his lips opened and closed, closed and opened, but he trembled so much that he trembled for a long time before he called out a trembling voice-
"Little brother. ”
Three words as before. Bite one's tongue.
Xin Bai didn't turn around for a while, but seemed to chuckle: "I just came from the slums of Yushuigou, and I heard him call me son, and now I listen to you call me little brother, if the woman under the Yellow Spring calls me son again." In this life, it will be all together. ”
Xin Yi's eyes rose with desolation: "Is it really a little brother, is it the little brother of Xin Fu Xingsi, how should I call you, how should I face you?"
"Got it?" Xin Bai was silent for a moment, and his tone of voice was a little unsteady in response.
"What I didn't know now knows. No matter how much you guess, it's not far from ten now. Xin Yi held down his terrifyingly cold hand and walked towards Xin Bai.
She walked slowly, for every step was like a hammer, striking at the edge of the dream, and it hurt her heart.
The dream of more than ten years, the tenderness that accompanied me from childhood, step by step, hammer, was smashed to pieces.
Xin Bai turned around and walked towards Xin Yi, his tone was trance and calm: "I have lived for more than 20 years in the mask of others, and every day I am like a mouse in the ditch, I don't see the day, and the night is long. Everyone calls me Xin Bai, and others call me Xin Sigongzi, who knows how disgusted I am in my heart, so that I forget my original name, and I can't live a dream and reality. ”
Xin Bai walked in front of Xin Yi, looking at the woman with a pale face, he leaned over and waved his hand slightly, just like the ordinary etiquette that the folk saw for the first time, his eyebrows and eyes were crooked, and his smile was soft-
"Below, Lee Kyung-li. ”
The sky is the same as the clouds, the rain and snow are cloudy, and the benefit is misty. It's a good name.
The word Jing, the word rain, take all the people.
This is the prince of the Li family, a noble of the heavenly family. This is the royal bloodline that has been hidden for more than 20 years and is hidden in Xinfu.
Even if she already had a lot of guesses in her heart, hearing Xin Bai say it herself, Xin Yi's body was still unstable for a moment, this too unfamiliar name, like a whisper in a nightmare, made her tremble in her ears for a moment.
"Little brother...... No...... What do you say?"
Xin Bai smiled lightly without any abnormality, and waved his hand again: "Everyone in the world calls me the name of another person, and I have been used to it for more than 20 years. However, he only wanted to be his original self in front of Aqing. took the mask, the real relative, and always wanted Aqing to call my original name. On this day, the little brother has also waited too long. ”
The corners of Xin Yi's mouth trembled a few times, and he couldn't tell whether he wanted to laugh or cry, but said with a pale face: "Little brother...... is the fourth son of Xinfu, and his name is Xin Bai...... Isn't it anymore......"
It turns out that "Xin Bai" is simply a person who does not exist.
There is no name "Xin Bai" in the world, and there is no "Xin Bai's little brother". Everything is just a seamless game, just her self-inflicted amorous dream.
After the death of his eldest son Xin Huan, Xin Qi originally wanted to succeed his uncle's child. However, because the old lady Xin Zhou particularly appreciated "Xin Bai", Xin Qi changed his mind and succeeded a "Xin Bai" who was "sparse in blood, distant relatives in the branches, and could not even find a name on the family tree".
At that time, no one was aware of the oddity. With the participation of Xin Zhou's family, Xin Qi and even other people, a game of chess that concealed the world's Kyushu, the five surnames and seven wangs, and the civil and military officials was buried in the inconspicuous Hanmen Xin Mansion.
For more than 20 years, sneaking in the dark. For more than 20 years, the brother and sister have a deep relationship.
"Aqing. "Xin Bai called Xin Yi, and he still used the ordinary small characters of the year, which only belonged to the small characters between them," Aqing has never been Xin Bai's Aqing...... Always, all the time, it's Li Jingli's Aqing. ”
Li ...... Jing Li ......" Xin Yi raised his eyes in confusion and murmured out an unfamiliar name, and at that moment, more than ten years of time were like an upside-down mirror, shattered into powder.
"It's a little brother...... Always, all the time, it's Aqing's little brother......"
Xin Bai suddenly stretched out his hand and stroked the top of Xin Yi's head. The starlight at the bottom of the man's eyes, the temperature of the man's palm, and the generosity of the big hand as before all made Xin Yi's eyes red instantly.
Same as it was at the beginning. Whenever she had a little temper and made a little awkward, and deliberately called the man "Xin Bai", Xin Bai was always not angry or annoyed, and stretched out her hand to caress the top of her head, "It's a little brother".
Such a comfortable palm. It always makes her feel like a cat that has been in the sun all day.
"Little brother, is it really still a little brother?" Xin Yi looked at Xin Bai with red eyes, and the bottom of his eyes flashed with obscurity, "That little brother tried his best to override public opinion and teach me the Four Books and Five Classics, is it really just out of the pity of his brother and sister? Li Jingli's chess has been hidden from the world for more than 20 years, has the little brother's game also been hidden from Aqing for more than ten years?"
"Yes. Unexpectedly, Xin Bai answered very happily this time, with a bright smile on his face, and there was spring light rippling in his eyes.
He rubbed the top of Xin Yi's head, like a unique joke between brothers and sisters, and deliberately made the woman's hair bun like a chicken nest: "Li Jingli's identity, although it is hidden, people with a heart can always smell the wind." Open guns and hidden arrows, all kinds of temptations, you can't dodge, you can't prevent it. So the best thing to do is for me to take the initiative to push a shield out myself. After ten years of cultivation, the brother and sister have a deep affection, and they seem to be the most seamless shield. ”
Xin Yi sighed stupidly in a dream: "It turns out, it turns out." The chess game is treacherous, all parties are tentative, and the best way is not to blindly dodge, but simply set up a fake target there. ”
A lot of things are answered in an instant.
Xin Bai gave her the Four Books and Five Classics, not out of affection, but to set a target. The open guns and hidden arrows all take the target seriously, and no one dares to make a rash preliminary test, they will only shoot the arrow at the target.
As everyone knows, it is a trap that Xin Bai has already laid, and it took more than ten years to patiently design the trap.
Li Jingting's killing machine is not a family fight, but a test of Xin Bai. Because of the "deep love between brother and sister", "sister" has become the prey of the first step. Using the Lu family's royal marriage to kill the "younger sister", the reaction and movement of the "elder brother" can provide more clues, clues about the true identity of the "elder brother".
As everyone knows, "sister" is a chess piece of "brother". The thread is in the hands of the "elder brother", and life or death is blocked by the "elder brother".