The two kingdoms of the north and south were destroyed, and the Great Zhou ruled the entire Central Plains for nearly a hundred years, and together with the Turks and Western Liang, they dominated the eastern territory, forming a delicate and tense relationship.

Taizu heavy martial arts, when he conquered the entire country with iron hooves, the two generals and their vassals who were auxiliary to the left and right became the unshakable power of the two major gates of the Great Zhou Dynasty in the future. In Mu Zong's later years, the two major lords controlled the two imperial forbidden armies of Yulin and Jinwu respectively, and stood at the peak of military power in the war-torn years - the Lanling Xiao clan, which is a famous family that has inherited for a hundred years. Today's prime minister Xiao Chongyan, who is in charge of Yulin, is in charge of Yulin, his uncle is Xiao Guangyuan, the southwest jiedu envoy who is in charge of the lifeblood of southern Yunnan and Shu, and his sister is Xiao Feiqiong, the concubine of the Celestial Dynasty who has received the holy favor and the sixth palace of the Yanguan. To this day, the Xiao family can be described as the same scenery;

The second is the Yuwen family who is in charge of the imperial court military aircraft and has outstanding military achievements. The Yuwen clan was originally of Xianbei blood, and at the beginning of the founding of the country, the Shence army was formed to the northwest fortress of the town, and it was an undefeated god of war family in the land of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Zhenguo Gongyu Wenlu is in charge of Jin Wuwei and governs the northwest, and its power is unknown in the government and the opposition and the military camp. The royal family members were a little jealous of him and the entire Yuwen family. Yuwen's children are all brave and warlike warriors. Yuwen Lu's third son, Yuwen Qiye, inherited the title of God of War, and in the sixteenth year of Jia Rui, he broke through Xiliang in one fell swoop, solving a major problem of the imperial court.

But I never imagined that such a legendary figure in the Yuwen clan would sit in front of me so casually, and his words would be quite shameless.

"Young Master Yuwen, in fact, you should know why I'm here, right?"

I picked up the blue and white bone china tea cup at hand and leaned in front of my nose, with a refreshing aroma of tea, and the entrance was dense and long.

He looked at me deeply and laughed unabashedly: "You came here because you met your aunt?"

I replied, "Exactly." Concubine Shu is currently confined in the Xuanji Tower, and the situation is still optimistic. He glanced back and forth, paused, lowered his voice and asked him, "Did the ** of the Thousand Lantern Society come here to discover some secrets, so that he was injured like that?"

He rubbed his left thumb and wrote lightly: "On that day, I received a secret report and was ordered to investigate secretly, but who knew that I was plotted before I could find a clue. This is the first time I have encountered someone in Chang'an City who dares to hunt down and kill me. ”

I was stunned by his words, and my heart skipped a beat as I looked at his handsome face.

After a while, I asked, "Then why do you dare to come here, aren't you afraid of death?"

Who knew that he said: "Last time I came in disguise, today I came here to drink tea openly, who else dares to come and kill me?"

I choked on saliva, and came to this kind of money-squandering place just to drink tea, which shows that he should have saved a lot of money over the years as a general.

"Last time, I was already scared. I listened to the meaning of the lady, and it seemed to imply that the person who pursued you and the person who framed her were in the same group. I want to use this clue to find out whether the crown prince and the concubine are innocent. ”

He tapped on the table, noncommittal.

As I sat on the sidelines, I somehow suddenly thought of that relatively silent night, and suddenly felt that the atmosphere was delicate again, and I was embarrassed to not know what to say.

Just when the two of them were silent, there was a sound of striking from downstairs, melodious and clear, like a mountain stream ringing and jingling, straight into the ears.

I gently lifted the corner of Shaman, and accidentally touched his right hand that was also lifting the curtain, and I encountered a chill.

I was stunned for a moment, he looked at me, didn't say anything, and focused on the dance pavilion downstairs.

I settled my mind and looked at the dancing pavilion in the water.

From my point of view, there are three or five more musicians on the edge of the glazed water pavilion, sitting on the edge of the pool outside the pavilion with their knees bent, with antique gonghou on their knees, and their fingertips gurgling out a moving melody.

The silver dust fell on the glass stage, and the flowers were graceful in the wind, and the silver dust fell more and more, like snow, floating in all corners of the hall, and a few traces floated to my and his side, faintly with a trace of inexplicable aroma, cold and sweet.

The noise in the hall gradually subsided, and only the sound of the gonghou was like a gurgling stream, and the music gradually weakened and suddenly stopped.

My eyes lit up, and a woman dressed in a glowing shadow dance dress slowly flew from the saman to the center of the stage.

The wide sleeves are in the wind, and the clothes are fluttering.

The thin waist is in a hand, the ribbon around the waist is flying in the wind, the black hair is scattered, dancing with the wind, messy and ethereal. From the moment when the toe of one foot touched the ground, it was like a world away, like a Nine Heavens Xuannu descending to earth, hooking up all the shining brilliance in this heaven and earth.

The emperor descended to Beizhu, and his eyes were sorrowful. On this day and here, all of a sudden it was plain white, and she was the only one who reflected the brilliance of seduction.

I can't tell her beauty, I just feel that she is graceful, moving like a fairy flying in the sky carved on the Dunhuang stone, so that everyone's eyes are motionless focused on her.

I glanced at him beside me with my eyes, his expression was as usual, and I turned around to see Sijiu and Changsheng sitting next to Pei Shao in the hall downstairs, and the two were talking and laughing. That Pei Shao hugged Lao Bai and looked listlessly at the beauty on the stage.

The music of the building soon sounded again, and she danced to the music, and the glittering stage reflected her beautiful face.

I saw that she suddenly slowly covered her face, and the lotus was born step by step under her feet, her posture was light, and the silver silk snowflakes floating out of the yarn were tactfully and finely broken, like the peach blossoms and beautiful snow in the spring in March;

The more I looked at it, the more I wondered, and I always felt that my heart was restless, and the vision in front of me was both real and illusory, but for some reason, I had to give up.

I noticed the look of amazement and admiration on the faces of others after seeing her dancing, and sighed that this beauty really lived up to her name and had a charming charm.

I grabbed a few pieces of silver out of thin air and put them between my nose, it was the cold and sweet aroma in the air, not like the fragrance of flowers and fruits, but more like the aromatherapy of the Western Regions.

"This is the seed of mandala, mixed with cloves, ambergris, fortunately the amount is not much, otherwise it will cause people to hallucinate and coma, and it will cause sudden death in the long run. His voice sounded slowly, and he was seen grinding a few handfuls of silver threads with his fingers, while staring with interest at the woman dancing on the stage downstairs.

"Mandala?" I had heard in my early years that the cursed flowers that grew in the desert were beautiful, enchanting, poisonous, and insolvable, also known as love flowers. Its fruit seeds have a peculiar fragrance, smell hallucination, such as in a fairyland, after a long time, addiction into disease, malaise, or sudden death.

He looked back at me, the expression on his face was still careless: "In the past, when I was in Xiliang, many soldiers in the barracks secretly traded the jewelry and silk of the Central Plains with the locals in exchange for poisonous weeds. This thing killed a lot of people. His expression remained the same, but his voice was noticeably heavier.

I heard it, and my heart was sad. The lonely and bitter cold years make people prefer to risk their lives to walk into a fantasy in exchange for a hint of imaginary warmth.

The dance downstairs has ended, and the beautiful woman has long disappeared in the interval between my conversation with him, only the thousand-colored flower tent is gently swaying, graceful. The sound of the building gradually weakened, and the silver snow in the air flew, fluttered, and fell......

It was like an ethereal dream, the woman in red came like a fairy, and then disappeared silently, if it weren't for the faint lingering fragrance of mandala in the air, even I wouldn't be sure if the peerless amazement really existed.

I asked him, "Have you stayed in Xiliang?"

He looked at me with unfathomable dark eyes. After a while, he lowered his head and poured the tea in my cup, and replied in a very gentle tone: "Yes." I stayed in Xiliang for five years. ”

I suddenly wanted to ask something, but when I saw his eyes, I couldn't say anything anymore.

After a long time, I said: "My former sweetheart, you should know the way, he died in the desert." After a pause, "Since then, I have known that the march of Ludao is extremely hard, and General Yuwen is indeed not easy, and he inadvertently offended Jin Wuwei that night and said some nonsense, and the general must not care." ”

His eyes were extremely complicated, and he stared at me motionlessly, which made me feel terrified.

I was so uncomfortable with his stare that I had to turn my back and say, "Why are you staring at me all the time......?"

Before my words fell, he raised his hand and touched my hair in the air, but he stayed for a moment.

I was stunned.

"Ahem...... I'm going wrong, I'm going wrong......" When there was silence, Sijiu's embarrassing voice suddenly sounded at the door, and seeing the ambiguous atmosphere between me and him, he hurriedly closed the curtain and retreated.

I moved unnaturally, and my expression was extremely awkward. Yu Guang peeked at him, but he didn't expect him to look as usual, with a frank face.

I secretly rolled my eyes and cursed "thick skin" in my heart.

"Say anything. He looked at me teasingly, with a light smile in his eyes, "This can reflect your 'manly nature'." ”

Me: "You ......" Before I could refute it, I saw the curtain at the door being lifted again, and I was about to turn around and ask why Sijiu was making such a fuss just now, but I found that it was a tall woman with a disheveled hair that broke in.

She looked up and met a pair of turquoise pupils.

I was immediately stunned - it was the exotic woman who was molested by Pei Shisan at the Thousand Lights Night Party.

She seemed to be frightened by something, and she was stunned when she saw me.

I was about to ask her, but she turned her gaze to me.

"You ......," I could say, and before she could speak, she turned away and wanted to leave. Before I could figure out what was going on, I looked at her worriedly.

Just as she climbed the curtain with one hand, she suddenly turned her head and smiled strangely at me.

There was a deep darkness in the blue eyes.