Chapter 364: At Any Cost!

cpa300_4(); "Young baby? Green Baby! ”

My name was eagerly thinking in my ear, but I didn't respond for a long time, and it took a while to come back to my senses, and I turned my head to see Pei Yuanfeng calling me anxiously, and I was a little confused: "Ah? What the? ”

He looked at me, sighed, and reached out to take my hand.

I looked down and realized that I had been holding on to the wall just now, but my nails had been cracked at some point, and a trace of blood oozed from the bright red wound, which looked so dazzling in the night.

I frowned slightly.

Ten fingers connected to the heart, it was originally so painful, but I never knew it.

I looked at my wound in a daze, the wound didn't hurt, but my heart was pulling up little by little, the chaos under the city tower was still expanding, and when I looked up, I saw another person who was completely extreme to the chaos under the city tower, he was as quiet as a piece of ice, but in that eye, it was the most blazing flame.

At this time, the commander of Yu Linwei stepped forward quickly from the side, leaned down and bowed down: "Your Majesty, it's too chaotic down there, I'm just afraidβ€”"

"At any cost!"

When he said this, he still gritted his teeth, and the voice like a blade sounded in the night, and in a trance, I seemed to see that day again, the morning after the battle for succession, he faced the empty Chengqian Palace, and the words he said were also such almost the deepest hatred.

The commander immediately said, "Command." ”

After finishing speaking, he got up to leave, and just after taking two steps, Pei Yuanhao said in a deep voice: "Don't hurt her in the slightest." ”

When the man heard this, there was a look of embarrassment on his face, and he finally said, "Yes." ”。

It was only at this time that the pain in my fingertips seemed to suddenly awaken, and waves rushed towards my heart like a tide. I bit my lower lip in pain, and my fingertips trembled slightly.

Feeling my trembling, Pei Yuanfeng held my hand and said softly: "Qingying? ”

I turned my head to look down again, and the chaos seemed to have fallen into a flood of desolation, and I stared blankly, but I didn't feel it at all, and after a while, I slowly turned around and was about to leave.

"Young Baby!"

Pei Yuanfeng hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed me: "Where are you going?" ”

I turned around and said softly, "I want to go back and rest." ”

"Go back?" Pei Yuanfeng seemed stunned, he couldn't believe that I would say this, and said suspiciously: "You want to go back, don't you look-" As he spoke, he looked down again.

I raised my head blankly, looked at the ice-like figure not far away, and somehow smiled.

"You don't have to look at it, whether you can catch it or not, the result is the same."

The difference is that if Nangong Lizhu comes back, the south can avoid a bloody storm, if she doesn't come back, how chaotic Yangzhou City will be this time, who may be just a small prologue tonight.

I gently pulled my hand out of his hand and said, "I'm tired, I'm going back." ”

"Then, I'll accompany youβ€”"

"No, you don't." I shook my head, and when I looked up at him, my voice was a little hoarse, almost pleading: "Don't follow me." ”

His hand, which he was about to reach, froze in mid-air, and then slowly lowered.

I turned around, and in a panic, I walked quietly down the tower......

The lights of the state capital have been extinguished, and the dark night slowly swallows up the place, although there is still a bright light behind me, but it does not illuminate this place, nor can it illuminate the road in front of me.

Step by step, but step by step is more difficult to walk, I gasped, but the feeling of tightness in my chest has always lingered, and it is even difficult to continue to take a step, I can only slowly hold on to the tree trunk on the side of the road, I want to sit on the ground like this, but I still can't sit down, I can only half lean on the tree trunk.

people, but already very tired.

When I was a child, someone once asked me what the only thing a person can decide in this life, and I answered my body, because I can walk if I want to, run if I want to, and only my body is completely obedient to myself.

Looking back on that time, the person who asked me just smiled faintly.

Now, I understand the meaning of that smile.

At this time, I wanted my body to get better, but it went bad; I want my heart not to hurt, but it hurts; I wanted to keep myself from thinking about it, but I couldn't forget it.

I thought I could do it, but I didn't.

It turns out that people can't be the masters of the body.

I don't know how long it took, a very light footstep slowly approached, I lowered my head, watched a pair of cloth shoes slowly come into view, and then a clean and simple long shirt, and finally stopped in front of me.

"Yue Qingying-girl?"

I raised my head slightly, and a handsome boy stood in front of me looking at me.

This son is very young, he looks no more than twenty years old, and his eyebrows are elegant, giving people a warm and easy to get close to.

I lowered my head and wiped my eyes in a panic: "What's the matter?" ”

Because of embarrassment, the other party took a step back and pretended not to see it, and said softly: "The adult sent the villain to ask the girl to go to the story." ”

"Your Excellency?" I frowned slightly: "Which adult?" ”

"Of course it's Liu Yi, Lord Liu."

Liu Yi? Liu Zhaoyi's brother? I have some doubts in my heart, I don't have much contact with Liu Zhaoyi, not to mention his brother, who has never met, how could he send someone to invite me?

Although I was puzzled, I still followed the man, Liu Yi was recuperating in a courtyard not far from the inner courtyard, and when I walked to the door, I smelled the strong smell of medicine inside, and I felt as soon as I entered the door, the heavy feeling in the room was really the breath of a patient who had stayed for a long time.

The man took me into the house, walked to the bedside, and said carefully, "My lord, Miss Yue is here." ”

The man on the bed moved slightly, and a pale hand gently lifted the curtain, revealing a pale and bloodless face, so thin that his cheeks were deeply sunken, and only those eyes still had a trace of unusual brilliance.

Although Liu Zhaoyi has a cold temperament, she is a cold beauty, and her brother is not bad. Although the patient in front of me was in shape, he could also see that he was a beautiful man in the past, but his body collapsed, and I saw him sitting at the head of the bed, with several bandages on his body, and even his throat was surrounded by layers of bandages.

Although it has been so long, looking at him like this, you can imagine how dangerous it was to be assassinated in the first place.

I hurriedly stepped forward and saluted him: "Meet Lord Liu." ”

Liu Yi smiled very weakly, and his voice seemed very weak when he spoke: "Girl, don't be polite, I invited you here, let's talk about it." ”

When he said this, I became more and more puzzled, I had never met him, what was there to talk about?

Liu Yi gently instructed the man who brought me here: "Ning Yuan, you are guarding the door, don't let irrelevant people get close, I want to talk to Miss Yue for a while." ”

"Yes."

The boy named Ning Yuan agreed, bowed his hand to us, and walked out, the door was half hidden.

"Girl, please be seated."

"Thank you."

I also realized that he must have something to say when he invited me over, and he didn't gossip so he walked to the stool next to the bed and sat down, looking at the person in front of him, he was not young, but he seemed wise and clean, and he was a little similar to Huang Tianba, but Pei Yuanfeng clearly said that he was better, but now he looked like this, but he really didn't look like "good".

I said softly: "The slave and the maid have never met the adult, I don't know if Lord Liu invites the slave and maid over, do you have any instructions?" ”

He looked at me with a pale face, smiled and said, "Although we have never met, we have been friends for a long time. In the past few days I have been in Yangzhou, I have heard a lot of things about the girl, and even the people in the state capital say that the girl is upright and tenacious, and even those assassins don't care about the punishment on weekdays, but when it comes to the girl, they are also very convinced. ”

My face changed slightly.

The Assassins had mentioned me, that is, the Assassins they had captured were-

He said again: "This time the emperor went south, it is unknown whether it will be a blessing or a curse for Jiangnan. But if there is a slight deviation, I am afraid that it will be another Yangzhou massacre, the girl has assisted the emperor to help the victims here, saved countless people, and is also a wise person, I hope the girl can advise the emperor more, the rebellion in the south is in the hearts of the people, not in the people's feelings; To govern the south, you need to be gentle, not sword-fighting. ”

I listened to his last two words, and my heart was shocked.

He spent his heart and soul on Yangzhou, really like his father, but unfortunately the people in the south couldn't understand that the swords and soldiers were added to his body, but they only hurt his body, not his heart.

I said softly: "I thought that my lord would be hurt by the assassin, and my heart would - I didn't expect that my lord would still think about the southerners wholeheartedly, but it was they who lost my lord." ”

"If the child is disobedient, he can't just throw him away, but he must be brought up well." Liu Yi glanced at me and said with a smile: "The girl may not know, in fact, in addition to me and my sister-in-law, there is also a third son, but when my father was poor, he took us to Beijing to catch the exam. ”

"Oh?" I didn't expect Lord Liu Shizhou to have such a past.

"My father had hoped to find his third brother again in the future, but when he returned, he learned that the couple had been forced to leave the place where they had lived because of excessive taxes."

"Then, Brother Ling didn't find it again?"

"How can you find it in a vast sea of people?" Liu Yi smiled bitterly and said: "But my father knows that this is caused by the injustice of the imperial court, so he tries his best to promote the abolition of untouchables in the south, tax reduction, and I inherit my father's will, sometimes I am thinking, even if I can't find the third brother, as long as I can do more for the people in the south, the third brother can always live a better life in a corner." ”

So that's it......

Therefore, both father and son have been helping people in the south because they have relatives in the south, so they really regard the people in the south as relatives.

Only with such emotions can we truly regard the people of the world as the people.

Liu Yi looked at me, his voice was originally very weak, and at this time it was lower: "So, please ask the girl in Xia, the sister was too young at the beginning, and she had no impression of the third brother, so she couldn't understand the mood of Zai Xia and her father, but she has always been haunted by the assassination of her father, and now I am also - if she says something in the emperor's ear, I hope the girl can advise more." ”

Hearing this, I smiled wryly.

I'm a little palace maid, wearing a guilty body, what qualifications do I have to speak in Pei Yuanhao's ear, besides, he's now-

But looking at Liu Yi's dying appearance, I still nodded: "The slave does her best." ”

When Liu Yi heard this, a little smile appeared on his face, and he said, "In this way, I can rest assured that I can sue Miss SΓΉ." ”

I frowned and turned to look at him: "My lord, what do you want to sue me?" ”