Because Chu Yunxi's words angered her, her originally kind and kind tone became stern: "By the way, what about your immortal lock?" I think you have to discipline the people in your hands well, and no one knows about such an important thing? ”

Her topic suddenly changed, which made Chu Yunxi a little overwhelmed, she was already a little jealous of this eldest sister, and she always dealt with it carefully, if it weren't for the sisterly affection in her words just now, she wouldn't have been excited, and said her private plan, this time the words changed, and she thought twice: "Sister, who is listening to this slander, the immortal lock is such a valuable thing, I naturally put it very properly, how can it be stolen." www.biquge.info If you don't believe it, I'll take it for you. ”

Chu Yunlian didn't believe it, Chu Yunxi insisted on going, but she looked like she was nine out of ten, waiting for Chu Yunxi to come back and give her the brocade box in her hand. She took it quickly in disbelief, opened it and saw that it was indeed red gold and jade, engraved with the family emblem of the Chu clan on both sides, she picked it up and looked at it carefully on both sides, and the more she looked at it, the more frightened she became. She gently pressed the South China Sea pearl inlaid on the front of the golden lock, and the longevity lock immediately turned into a small gold box, the upper half of which popped up like a box lid, and a small gold lock piece was lying quietly, on which Chu Yunxi's name and date of birth were engraved with cinnabar.

Since the child was born, he wore a longevity lock engraved with his birth date and name, which was a unique habit of the Chu clan and a symbol of their clan. This custom was passed down from the ancestors of the Chu family, when the ancestors of the Chu family helped the ancestors to fight everywhere, and some monks once calculated that he had a fateful catastrophe. In order to ask him to live a long and safe life, his mother under the guidance of the monk, specially created a long-life lock for him with his name and birthday, and personally wore it on his neck on his birthday. After that, the Chu clan regarded the longevity lock as a good luck, and they would be equipped with an exclusive longevity lock for their descendants before they came. Although they don't have to wear it every day, they must wear it in front of the Buddha on their birthday every year, and they must be kept by their side from birth to death and cannot be abandoned, otherwise they will be regarded as a great evil and a bad omen.

Chu Yunxi didn't understand why her sister showed such a surprised expression when she saw her longevity lock, she felt faintly uneasy, but she didn't know how to think about it. Fortunately, Chu Yunlian quickly ended the topic and changed the longevity lock to her, so she didn't care.

"I must have been mistaken. This lock of longevity is to keep you safe and seek eternal life, you must take it well, don't be careless. You are not in good spirits, you must be tired. You go back to rest, by the way, call the second sister over, I may not have seen her for a long time, say a few words to her. ”

Chu Yunxi saluted respectfully, turned around and walked out of the house. I was at a loss and worried.

After Chu Yunlian returned to the palace, she immediately went into the Jihua Hall, closed the door and rummaged over and over to study something she couldn't figure out, she was so attentive that when Shangguan Xueyu pushed the door in, she was startled, and subconsciously shrank her right hand into the sleeve, and the sleeve covered the thing in her hand.

But her panicked movements still did not escape Shangguan Xueyu's keen eyes, she hid a stack of papers in her hand behind her, and immediately put on a smile and quipped: "Sister, don't hide it, I've seen it, sister, what kind of good thing, can't you let me know?" ”

Chu Yunlian thought about it, didn't answer her, but turned the topic to her: "Then what good things have you hidden, bring them to me to see." ”

Shangguan Xue smiled and said, "Sister, it's really good eyesight." I didn't want to hide it from my sister, but I was afraid that my sister would get angry. ”

Chu Yunlian snorted coldly and said: "If I am angry about everything, I am afraid that I will be angry for more than eight hundred times, why don't you bring it to me to take a look, are you still behaving in front of me." ”

With her words, her hands naturally changed movements, her right hand hung down, and she put the things in her hands on her legs stretched out under the table, so that because of the blockage of the tablecloth, Shangguan Xueyu could not see the things on her legs.

Shangguan Xueyu smiled meaningfully, then held her face and handed a stack of crumpled papers in her hand to the table in front of her, and replied carefully: "This is the waste paper that Xiao Huang'er's little eunuchs picked up from the prince's study in recent days. ”

Chu Yunlian picked up one by one and looked at them, and immediately became furious, there were many poems written on them that conveyed the lovesickness of men and women, and the last few were even smeared with Chu Yunxi's name, which made her angry and almost crazy. She angrily tore up the paper with Chu Yunxi's name written on it, and said angrily with trembling: "I said earlier, he moved this thought, and you still don't believe it." It's a good thing that the prince writes these unsightly obscene things in his study all day long. ”

Shangguan Xueyu hurriedly stepped forward and persuaded with good words: "Sister, don't be angry, even if the prince has this thought, but after all, he still accepts Han Suozhi as a good person, after all, it's just for him to think about it." ”

Chu Yunlian angrily rebuked her and said, "How are you confused, marrying Han Suozhi is the idea of the concubine, and since Chu Yunxi is his beloved, the meaning is very different." It was only a matter of time before she was admitted to the palace. ”

Shangguan Xueyu hesitated for a moment, and said boldly: "Forgive my sister for being blunt, it may not be a good thing for the fourth sister to enter the palace, with the help of the fourth sister, won't my sister sit more firmly in the position of the queen of the East Palace in the future." ”

"You know what?" Chu Yunlian scolded loudly, "Don't say that the fourth sister and I are not of the same heart at all now, not to mention that the prince loves her with all his heart, which is another matter." ”

Shangguan Xueyu nodded, looking humbly taught: "It's still my sister who is thoughtful, but my sister is negligent, but how can I make the prince dispel this idea, it's difficult." ”

Chu Yunlian shook his head and said: "There are some things that are difficult to know if you are not in this palace, you don't see that the prince is kind to him on weekdays, in fact, his temper is the most unpredictable, if you want to shake his mind, I am afraid it is more difficult than ascending to the sky." ”

Shangguan Xueyu chuckled: "Since the prince's will is difficult to change, it may be easier to start with the fourth sister." I see that the fourth sister is not like those foxes who are greedy for wealth and nobility in the palace, but has some quiet and indifferent hermit style, and she may not be willing to enter the palace to serve the prince. ”

Chu Yunlian waved his hand irritably and said: "What you said is becoming more and more unreasonable, even if the fourth sister is unwilling, how can she disobey the prince's intentions." And the Chu family is in an eventful time, how can she stay out of it?! ”

Shangguan Xueyu smacked her lips as if she had nothing to do, and sat down elegantly, her crimson skirt spread out, like a huge camellia petal. Her mouth pursed, her head hung in thought.

Chu Yunlian stared at her thoughtfully for a moment, hesitated for a long time, and asked tentatively, "Xue Yu, have you ever seen our Chu Clan's Immortal Lock?" ”

"Naturally, I've seen it." Shangguan Xueyu said slowly: "Sister forgot, I participated in the birthdays of you and the second sister in previous years. ”

"That" Chu Yunlian thought for a moment, dragged out a red gold pearl lock from his lap hidden under the tablecloth, waved her hand and asked, "Do you see whose immortal lock this is?" ”

Shangguan Xueyu took it with a little puzzled curiosity, flipped through it and looked carefully, groped for the family emblem on the lock surface, and after making sure that it was correct, opened the mechanism above, took out the golden lock plate inside, and said with a smile: "Isn't this the fourth sister's immortal lock, how can it be in the hands of my sister." ”

"Are you sure this is the fourth sister's immortal lock?" Chu Yunlian asked again.

Shangguan Xueyu was a little weak by her question, and looked through it again, but she really didn't see anything wrong, and nodded yes.

Chu Yunlian took the golden lock, and suddenly said with a solemn face: "This is the weirdness. I thought it was something left behind by the fourth sister, but I didn't expect that the fourth sister had an identical immortal lock in her hand, and the name and birthday of the fourth sister were also engraved in it, which was really incomprehensible. ”

Shangguan Xue said strangely: "If it is said that there is a lock in the world that is similar to this lock style, how can there be two identical gold lock plates, could it be that there are two Chu Yunxi in the world?" Dare to ask the eldest sister, where did this lock come from? ”

Chu Yunlian thought for a while, but decided to tell the truth: "It's a little beggar pawning something in a pawnshop." This was originally our Lu family's industry, and the shopkeeper picked some gadgets to honor his mother. My mother felt sorry for me, so she sent it to me without even looking at it. Outsiders don't know the meaning of this immortal lock, but I was careful and found it in a mess. At first, I thought it was lost by the fourth sister, and I asked her about it, but she had another one in her hand, and the two were exactly the same. I had doubts in my heart, so I ordered the treasurer to be informed. I saw the beggar, washed and cleaned, a little girl, thin and thin, looking at the appearance, slightly smaller than the fourth sister. ”

Speaking of this, her eyes suddenly flashed, and she wondered: "Looking at the girl's appearance, I think she looks like a person." The appearance of the fourth sister when she grows up is also far from the appearance of Bai Buckwheat in my memory, and she does not look like her father like me and my second sister, and that little girl is five points similar to Bai Buckwheat. ”

Shangguan Xueyu smiled meaningfully: "Sister suspects that this fourth sister is fake?" ”

Chu Yunlian wandered and said: "The fourth sister was rescued by Bai Biao after the arson case, left Chang'an and went to Shunan, and Bai Qiao and Bai Biao died one after another. The fourth sister suddenly returned home when she died of illness with her father, and no one could prove the true identity of the fourth sister. But if she is fake, the little girl is real, and she can't stand scrutiny at all, that girl grew up on the southern seaside since she was a child, and she never came to Chang'an before she was ten years old, and she has never seen anyone from Chu Mansion, obviously she is not the fourth sister. ”

Shangguan Xueyu reminded: "Sister, don't forget, Lu Yan and Bi Yin are both girls in the house, if this fourth sister is fake, then where did these two girls come from?" If all three of them are fake, how can there be such a coincidence in the world? And with the fourth sister's understanding of the house, she won't be a fake. ”

Chu Yunlian frowned, and put the immortal lock heavily on the table, puzzled: "Then where did this immortal lock come from?" ”

Shangguan Xueyu chuckled and said, "Sister, it doesn't matter if this immortal lock is real or fake. It doesn't matter if the fourth sister is real or not, what matters is what you think. ”

Chu Yunlian looked at her thoughtfully, she walked in front of her, leaned into her ear and whispered, "Eldest sister, then do you want the identity of the fourth sister to be true or false?" If you think she's fake, you can look for evidence, or you can create evidence to make her fake. As for that little girl, if you are sure to pinch her in your hands, you can also turn her into real, and there is no need to rush to make it public, with the handle in your hand, wouldn't it be more interesting to listen to your command on both sides at that time. ”

The dead knot in Chu Yunlian's mind suddenly opened, and she patted her shoulder with a smile and said with a smile: "In the end, you are shrewd, what you said is exactly." The truth that has been painstakingly pursued is useless and wasteful, and it doesn't matter whether it's true or not, the key is to be useful. She touched the immortal lock on the table, her eyes lit up, and said, "This is really a godsend. ”

Shangguan Xueyu nodded, and a smug smile appeared on her face.

It snowed heavily in Chang'an City, and the temperature plummeted. The snowflakes swung in the air, quiet and deserted, and the white mist exhaled from people's mouths rose from time to time, and the howling north wind was like a cold worm that burrowed into the throat and into the flesh and blood.

The north is like a sword, and the cut on a person's body is a bloody wound. If it weren't for their livelihood, few people would go out on a snowy day.

Chu Yunxi slept very little every night, and woke up almost when it was still dark. She loved snow so much that she wore a thick fox fur cape, sat in front of the window, and watched the snow quietly. The bone-chilling wind poured in from the open window, carrying the moist and cold breath of ice and snow, and her two petals were pale like pear blossoms, and her lips trembled slightly. She didn't seem to perceive the cold, and the cold body temperature and the faded complexion of the blood seemed to merge with the snow.

She sat in front of the window, her head resting on her arm, her wind and mist sideburns covered with a thin layer of snow that had not yet melted, like a head full of splendid mountain flowers.

About an hour later, Lu Yan pushed the door in with her food, and saw her sitting in front of the window with her head resting on her arms, the window was wide open, and the snow kept fluttering in. She was startled, hurriedly closed the window, and hurried to see her again.

Chu Yunxi's eyes were closed as if she was asleep, her face was so white that it was difficult to distinguish the snow that fell on her cheeks. Lu Yan gently helped her up, her eyes half-open, like a person who was forcibly awakened from a deep dream, leaning on her weakly.

Lu Yan held a bowl of glutinous rice porridge mixed with rock sugar, plum petals, lotus seeds, and white fungus in front of her, and the warm glutinous rice porridge emitted bursts of sweet heat, smelling fresh and refreshing.

Chu Yunxi was unhappy and had no appetite. Lu Yan handed her the spoon, her hand holding the spoon trembled slightly, and a few drops of rice porridge splashed and landed on the table. She put the rice porridge in her mouth, swallowed it hard, and felt a wave of nausea and nausea in her chest and abdomen, she frowned in pain, the spoon stirred in the bowl a few times, only the tip of the spoon scooped up a little bit and put it in her mouth, the mouth did not echo with a sweet taste, only a sour and slightly bitter taste, which made it difficult to swallow.

She forced herself to eat half a bowl and couldn't swallow it anymore, urged by Lu Yan's joyful anticipation and concern. She waved her hand weakly, then trembling to the bed, and fell asleep on her side.

Lu Yan sighed heavily, cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, folded the quilt on her body neatly, and went out.

At noon, she ate two bites indiscriminately, and then fell asleep. When Lu Yan came to deliver food again in the evening, she found that Chu Yunxi had already gotten up.

She sat leaning against the head of the bed, holding a book of poems in white leather and a jade-colored brocade box with a ruby carved sycamore leaf in the center. She felt that the brocade box was quite familiar, but for a moment she could not remember where she had seen it. She gently beckoned her to eat, but she was deeply immersed in the words of the poem. Lu Yan shook her, but she ignored her, her eyes straight as if her soul had been sucked away.

Lu Yan was worried, so she sat at the table and quietly accompanied her. Time passed imperceptibly, she fell asleep unconsciously, until she woke up in the middle of the night, the candles on the table were still shining, she rubbed her eyes and stretched, and the half-covered quilt on her body fell to the ground. She picked up the quilt and turned to look at the bed, which was empty. She was startled and looked around, and it turned out that she was the only one left in the room.

She opened the door in a panic to look for it, and as soon as she opened the door, she was choked by the strong cold snap outside, and she stomped her feet and ran into the courtyard with a hot breath. Suddenly, she heard the sound of someone practicing swords in the plum forest in the courtyard, she thought that it must be Yan Qingshuang who came out to practice martial arts so late, but when she turned around, she saw Yan Qingshuang leaning on an old plum tree not far away, clasping her hands into fists, and concentrating on watching the sound come from.

Midori ran to her and was about to ask. She sighed, pointed her finger to the east, and Lu Yan fixed her eyes to see that the white figure flipping and moving in the plum tree was not Chu Yunxi.