42. Gas

Li Rui and I walked out hand in hand. My free hand kept pressing on the hilt of the knife, and I thought that as soon as I left the temple, I couldn't help but pull out the knife and stab it directly in Wu Minzhi's heart, but when I saw him at the door, this thought disappeared. On the contrary, Li Rui stopped when he passed by Wu Min, glanced at him, and tilted his head to look at me: "Son, I cut him for you." โ€

I shook my head slightly, let go of his hand, walked up to Wu Minzhi, and with a movement of my right hand, the sharp short knife given by my mother came out of its sheath. Wu Minzhi was so much taller than me that I could only raise the knife to his lower abdomen, and the tip of the knife stopped when it was less than half an inch away from his beard. My hand is still not used to using a knife, and when I hold the knife, I shake slightly, and the cold blue light on the blade also trembles slightly.

Wu Minzhi didn't laugh when he saw me draw his knife, the corners of his mouth were drawn very slowly, and the smile was like a piece of human skin spread on the table, squeezed together from both sides, piled up on the skin. He stared at me so straight that he couldn't even move his eyes. He stretched out his left hand, and with a slow stroke of his fingers on the blade of my knife, blood seeped from his fingertips, ran down the tip of the knife, and dripped to the ground where the blade bent.

He put the index finger of his left hand into his mouth, his chin slowly raised, and slowly retracted, licked his fingers as if he was licking a popsicle, the tip of his tongue turned, squeezed out of the two blood-colored lip flaps, rubbed on his fingertips, and the tip of his right finger flew a little faster on the tip of my knife, and said with a smile: "Erniang be careful, it doesn't matter if you poke anywhere else, if you poke it, what can you do?"

I heard a bang, thinking that Li Rui had hit Wu Minzhi, but when I looked closely, I found that Li Rui was afraid of hurting me, and now he just raised his fist and glared at him angrily. I turned my head slightly, only to see Wan'er standing at the door, the light north wind blowing the light-colored Luo skirt, and the embroidered Luo fabric clinging to her body, so that the thin girl's figure was undoubtedly revealed. There is a warm soup in the hall, it is very warm, she is wearing such clothes is just right, but outside the hall is cold and windy, even I feel a little cold when I wear a fur, but only wearing a Luo skirt Wan'er stands straight in the wind, as if the cold winter is warm and spring, and it has no effect on her.

Wu Minzhi hastily arched his hand and smiled at Wan'er: "Shangguan is only coming out, but His Majesty has something to say?"

Wan'er looked at the knife in my hand and said to Wu Min: "Your Majesty Xuan Zhou Guogong." โ€

I pursed my lips, took the knife back, inserted it twice before putting it into the sheath, Wei Huan waited in the courtyard, as early as when we came out, we walked up the steps, saw Wan'er come out, while lowering her head, jumped down in one step, the so-called movement like a rabbit, it was for her. When I was so nervous, I saw her move like this, but somehow, I couldn't help but smile, Wan'er glanced at me puzzled, and waited for Wu Minzhi to enter, and followed me in. Only then did I realize that Wan'er was not wearing a full suit, but only a pair of clogs barefoot.

The sound of Fang Cai must have come from her stepping on the floor with her footโ€”except for that sound, she walked without a sound, and the floor of the inner sanctum was all made of wood, and I don't know how she could walk so quietly and smoothly on the wooden floor in clogs.

Wei Huan waited for Wan'er to go in for a while, before trotting over, when Wang Yuanqi put on a cloak for Li Rui, she also opened the cloak and tied it for me - the little fourth mother of the Wei family was very dexterous when she rode a horse to play ball, but the craftsmanship of tying the cloak was really not very good, I saw at a glance that she was going to tie the knot for me, and when she hurriedly reached out to stop it, she had already pulled the knot with her left and right hands hard, and pulled the knot tightly.

I didn't say anything yet, Li Rui saw it, and said angrily: "Stupid, this cloak is tied like this?"

Originally, I was going to talk about Wei Huan, but when I saw Li Rui talking about her first, I didn't think about it anymore, so I just said: "It's not a big deal, if you can't untie it for a while, you can cut it with a knife." As he spoke, he dragged Wei Huan and walked out, lest Li Rui be upset and sprinkle fire on her.

When Wei Huan saw us like this, he knew that the matter of the complaint was not going well, and he also followed me out quickly with low eyebrows, got on the horse, and said: "It's still early, let's go to the forest again, in case you hit a hare and grouse, you can also show off with others." โ€

I knew that she was trying to persuade us, so I smiled at her and cast an inquiring glance at Li Rui. Li Rui nodded, and urged the horse out first, until he came out of the palace again, away from the crowd, he came over and said in a low voice: "I will ask someone to ask him to hunt tomorrow, and then..."

I hurriedly stopped him: "What will happen then? You are the prince of Zhengyipin, and he is the prince of Zhengyipin, what can you really do to him?"

Li Rui said: "What is the prince of the country? I am the prince, who is he?"

I saw that he didn't open his mind, and his voice became louder unconsciously: "He is the heir of his maternal grandfather, the Duke of Zhou Guogong." Li Rui snorted, waved his horsewhip, and rushed forward.

As soon as he left, Wei Huan came immediately and looked at me with two eyes, I actually understood what she meant, shook my head, sighed, and said, "A-Niang said that he will not be allowed to take those Hu people in and out of the palace in the future." โ€

Wei Huan nodded and looked at my knife again: "It was given by His Majesty?"

When I saw this knife, I remembered my mother's understatement, and my heart was very stuffy: "A-Niang allowed me to bring a knife in front of the emperor." โ€

Wei Huan said: "This is much better than I thought. After all, His Majesty still hurts you. She sighed for some reason, and smiled at me again: "With this knife, you will be able to deal with him in the future, just set up a game to provoke him to do it first, and you can stab him again." It's best to do this in front of the emperor, when you have a knife, and he doesn't..."She touched her chin with one hand and smiled slightly, obviously already thinking of a specific solution.

I couldn't get used to seeing her like this, so I turned sideways and slapped her on the shoulder, which made her startled, and she reined in her horse for a moment before catching up, and complained: "You have such poor riding skills, and you are embarrassed to twist around like this, see if you don't fall off! โ€

I said, "You are so young, why are you more verbose than Ah Yang? Don't think about it, I won't use those methods, I want to deal with him in a dignified manner." โ€

Wei Huan turned his head to look at me, and his eyes seemed to be a three-year-old idiot: "Tell me, how can you be upright?"

I said, "Naturally, I want to defeat him in the temple." โ€

Wei Huan's eyes added a little weirdness to my eyes: "On the temple, you tell me, you little girl, how did you get to the temple? If you become a relative, it will be okay to open the mansion, now are you going to go to the Xuanzheng Hall to roll around coquettishly and belittle him? According to me, you just listen to me, and stab him secretly, not only simply, but also not to embarrass His Majesty, even if he is killed, he will be buried according to the etiquette of Zhou Guogong, and then let his son inherit the titleโ€”โ€” This is a dispute between His Majesty's daughter and His Majesty's nephew, and it is the naughty younger daughter who has been spoiled, not that His Majesty's mother's family has any immorality, and His Majesty gave you a knife, isn't that what it means?"

"You're wrong. I stared at her and said, "A-Niang gave me the knife because she knew that I wouldn't kill Wu Minzhi, this knife was just to hit Wu Minzhi, if I really killed him, this life would be over." He is a member of the martial arts family, and if he wants to fight or kill, he can only be decided by A-Niang, and no one else, even if it is her own daughter. โ€

Wei Huan was stunned for a while, and then said, "Taiping, you... Are you angry with the diva?"

I reached out and shook the reins, but did not speak.