Night.

On the ridge of the Chonghua Palace, the Shaohua girl sat on a ride.

The corners of her plain Wulong casual clothes fluttered slowly with the breeze, like a fledgling that had just learned to fly, wanting to break free from all the shackles of this world and soar between the blue sky and clear water, but no matter how hard it struggled, it couldn't break free from that bond.

Yu Wenrui raised his little face and stared at the full moon in the sky stupidly-

Bright and mellow, like the most beautiful person in her heart, and the most beautiful dream.

On the top of this Chonghua Palace, you can see it more clearly than elsewhere, but after all, there are many obstacles, real or virtual, hidden or explicit.

She is fifteen and a half years old, and the appearance of a childlike child is gradually leaving her, and the beautiful curves of the girl, from the face to the body, have begun to take shape. She was born very well, and her skin was not as pure and tender and fair as a deep girl, but a healthy light wheat color, which made her even more heroic than ordinary women.

The white ice wheel sprinkled a pure clear light, projected on her raised wrist, more like a layer of light gold plated on her whole person, looking from afar, not like the mortal world.

Yu Wenrui's slender fingers swept over the shaft of the arrow in his palm, and finally landed on the cluster of arrows-

Four-edged, shallow grooves, the sharpest of which faintly chilled in the moonlight.

This arrow is the one that Yang Min wore through the small inner servant's hat last night; From beginning to end, it was no different from the one she had seen when she was a child who killed her imperial brother Yu Wenzhe.

It's been seven years!

Yu Wenrui remembers clearly that seven years ago, he swore to his sister-in-law that he must catch the murderer who killed the emperor's brother! You must avenge your brother! I must not make my sister-in-law sad again!

However, at the moment, she has not done any of these three things.

She begged her sister-in-law to let Yang Min go. It is true that she has other plans in her heart, she also believes in Sister Min's character, and she knows that Sister Min feels guilty about her royal brother, and she can't wait to die at her own hands to be freed.

However, after all, in front of her sister-in-law, she let go of this "husband killer"!

At that time, my sister-in-law said: "Does the emperor really want to do this? ”

Sister-in-law said: "Does the emperor really have other plans? ”

Sister-in-law said: "Does the emperor know, what has this person done?" ”

The sister-in-law threw the arrow in front of her, but she didn't say anything, and she didn't have any expression.

Yu Wenrui understands.

She understands that her sister-in-law is questioning herself-

Don't worry, have you forgotten this arrow?

Don't worry, have you forgotten the revenge of killing your brother?

Don't you really know that this man once killed your royal brother with the same arrow?

She is the emperor, the most honorable person in the Great Zhou Empire, who has become pro-government.

Even if she was a sister-in-law who raised her with her own hands, she had to take care of her imperial dignity in front of her subjects.

Yu Wenrui knew that his sister-in-law was taking care of her own face, the emperor's and willful face; And what my sister-in-law paid for was a wounded heart.

Jing Yan didn't wait for her to answer at all, just threw down the sentence "It's good that the emperor knows what he's doing", and turned to leave.

At that moment, Yu Wenrui felt that the graceful figure and the waist that was not in a grip were extremely lonely and desolate.

Facing the moonlight, Yu Wenrui looked at the arrow in her palm, and she pondered what her sister-in-law was thinking.

Sister-in-law must think that she is selfish, right?

Not bad. It's selfishness.

However, what is this selfishness in the eyes of my sister-in-law?

Do you think that you are obsessed with Sister Min and can't bear to hurt her life? Or, will the sister-in-law think that on the condition that she will not kill her, she has made Sister Min the eyeliner in Beizheng for her own use?

Yuwen Rui clenched the shaft of the arrow.

Avenging my brother is a moral thing.

The word "morality" is a word she has longed for since she was a child and now respects.

However, when she grew up, she realized at this time that the entanglement of personnel and the mottled and chaotic human heart are much more complicated than the pure and almost colorless "morality".

She was only fifteen years old, and her heart was so mixed that she didn't dare to face it openly and honestly.

Ever since he was in the cave and listened to the story of "the royal brother becoming the imperial sister", Yu Wenrui really wanted to pull his sister-in-law and ask her: "Don't you have anything to say to me?" ”

She has been hidden for seven years, and the queen mother and sister-in-law plan to keep it from themselves. Yu Wenrui knew that where was he the second female emperor of the Great Zhou? Before her, her royal brother, no, the imperial sister, had already practiced it. It's just that it's a man.

The long-standing doubts were thus revealed.

Yu Wenrui's ecstasy at the beginning of determining that the imperial brother is a woman's body was gradually replaced by a deeper worry: the imperial brother is a woman, and the sister-in-law will like her as a woman? Could it be that because she is also the empress, her sister-in-law will turn her thoughts about the imperial brother to herself? Could it be that those who "once turned the sea into water" and "ten years of life and death" or something are all joked by old pedants?

The more Yu Wenrui thought about it, the more he felt that his future was bleak.

Shen Quan doesn't have her elegant thoughts of sighing for the moon, his heart is on fire!

This ancestor has been sitting on the ridge of the temple for more than an hour!

She is the emperor, all this country is hers, where is she going to sit, who dares to care about anything?

But Shen Quan has been in the palace for more than ten years, and he has heard of and seen it, but he has never seen anyone who is an emperor play like this!

If this is known to the officials and adults outside the palace, and then to the empress dowager, don't you blame yourself for not teaching the emperor to learn well? Didn't break your leg yet?

Shen Quan stared at the figure on the top of the hall, he didn't dare to shout loudly that he lost his physique, even if he shouted, he didn't know the slightest martial arts, how far could the voice travel?

There was no way, so he had to wait below with the emperor's guard of honor, but in fact, he was like an ant on a hot pot, and he couldn't wait to turn the mill on the spot.

Finally, he was looking forward to a savior, He Chong searched around the palace before finding the emperor here.

At first glance, when he saw the plain white robe on the top of the hall dancing with the breeze, He Chong trembled: Your Majesty is not looking for a short view, right?

He then rejoiced in his own unbounded thoughts.

"Father-in-law Shen, this is ......" He Chong was confused for a while.

Shen pretended to be calm on the whole, and he was an old god, "Oh, Lord He! You ask us, Your Majesty? Isn't this moon viewing! ”

Reward...... Moon!

The corners of He Chong's mouth twitched slightly: Okay, admiring the moon. 陛xià好雅兴......

He didn't have that patience, so he simply turned his face in the direction of Yu Wenrui, and said loudly: "Minister He Chong see Your Majesty!" ”

Say goodbye and bow down.

Yu Wenrui's thoughts were suddenly interrupted by him, and he frowned impatiently: "If there is something to say, I can hear it!" ”

He Chong simply ignored her childish complaints, and said, "Your Majesty, what do you think about the assassin last night?" ”

Yu Wenrui became more and more impatient: "Four died on the spot, and one died after you caught it, and you still disposed of a fart!" ”

Didn't you let one of them go? He Chong couldn't help but slander.

But the emperor was obviously in a bad mood, and he couldn't twist it, so he had to say again: "When the minister just entered the palace, he saw that the Shangshu of the Criminal Department, the commander of the Praetorian Guard, and Jing Zhaoyin were all kneeling outside the palace to plead guilty!" You see......"

When Yu Wenrui thought of last night's incident, his heart was even more annoyed, and he jumped off the ground from the spine of the temple with a leg and a flutter.

"It's not like they sent someone to assassinate me, don't kneel there and be an eyesore!" She took a few steps forward, stopped suddenly, thought for a while, and said, "There are loopholes in the Praetorian Guards and Jingzhao Yin Yamen guards, and they will be punished for half a year each, go home and think about it!" As for the Criminal Department, they will be fined for three months, and let them check the origins of those assassins for me, and come up with secret! ”

Shen Quan wrote them down one by one.

He Chong bent his legs, and he was about to bow down: "The crime of dereliction of duty of the minister's guards ......"

Yu Wenrui knew that what he was talking about was that, as the head of the inner court guard, he actually caused the assassin to shoot an arrow in front of the emperor's eyes. She picked up He Chong: "Don't talk to me here!" ”

As he spoke, he lowered his voice and asked, "What I told you outside the city, can you do it?" ”

He Chong knew that she was referring to the fact that the matter of "letting go of the assassins" during the day was not allowed to be publicized, and hurriedly responded: "Your Majesty, don't worry!" If this matter leaks out of the rumors, you are only asking! ”

Yuwen Rui was slightly relieved. In this way, as long as the details are not discovered, Yang Lie will not know that Sister Min has reported to her, and she has been temporarily let go. In this way, she and her mother have no worries about their lives for the time being.

Ay! Think about it one day in the future, I will have to do it to Sister Min with my own hands...... It's so sad!

"The Queen Mother is still in the Fengxian Palace?" Yu Wenrui called Shen Quan and asked.

Shen Quan finally looked forward to her coming down, and said busily: "Here!" ”

Since the queen mother returned to the palace during the day, she entered the Fengxian Palace, and even the accompanying Bingbi and Shimo, and Shen Cheng, who was in charge of the affairs of Kuntai Palace, were asked to "serve outside the palace".

Yu Wenrui was not at ease to visit, but he was also turned away.

Shen Quan didn't know what was going on, and he didn't dare to reveal the slightest hint of inquiring about the whereabouts of his masters, so he answered whatever Yu Wenrui asked.

When Yu Wenrui heard this, he was even more uneasy in his heart. She knew that her sister-in-law blamed herself, but she shouldn't torture her body no matter how much she complained! Lunch and dinner are all untouched, what kind of trouble is this?

She was apprehensive and distressed, and strode straight to the Fengxian Hall under her feet.

When the people waiting outside the door saw her appear, they were all relieved: the one in the temple had ordered no one to enter, and they didn't have the courage to stand up to the wind. But it's not a way to go on like this. In half an hour, if the emperor does not come, they will really have to ask the empress dowager and her old man to call the shots.

Yu Wenrui arrived outside the door of the main hall in a moment, and he was not verbose, pushing the door straight in.

The situation in front of her made her heart even more sour-

In the swarthy main hall of Fengxian Palace, there is no light, except for the miserable white moonlight projected through the window lattice, only there are two candles on the incense table in front of the god of the first emperor Yu Wenzhe, but it is also like a candle in the wind, as if it will be suddenly extinguished at any time.

On the futon in front of the incense case, there was a shadow kneeling alone, as if abandoned by the whole world.

Yu Wenrui mourned, ran quickly to Jing Yan's side, and said sadly: "Sister-in-law, what are you doing?" ”

Jing Yan suddenly heard her voice, and suddenly came back to her senses, her spine suddenly straightened because she had been kneeling for a long time, her pale cheeks were still cold with tears, and her voice was even colder: "What does the emperor do?" ”

"I ......," Yu Wenrui concluded.

She knew what her sister-in-law meant, but she couldn't say anything. Those thoughts that could be said and unspeakable flooded up, making her feel even more irritable.

"Sister-in-law thinks I'm having selfish intentions for not arresting the female assassin? Sister-in-law, actually I ......"

Jing Yan ruthlessly robbed her: "The emperor is the honor of the Ninety-Five, the golden mouth and jade words, and the mourning family does not dare to beak!" ”

Yu Wenrui held his breath in his chest, unable to come out or swallow.

She stared at Jing Yan's delicate body, distressed, and said in a soft voice: "No matter what, sister-in-law should also have some food!" Sister-in-law, rest assured, worry-free will definitely avenge the royal brother! ”

Jing Yan smiled suddenly, smiling desolately, with tears in his smile, "The body of the mourning family, the mourning family itself knows ...... It's late at night, so please move the emperor! ”

Do you know it's late at night? It's late at night, and you're still kneeling in this cold hall? Are you torturing me, or are you torturing yourself?

Yu Wenrui stood in place in a daze, she wanted to simply pick up her sister-in-law's body, forcibly take her away, make her eat, and let her rest in peace. However, this is the Bongxian Palace, not a place where she can do whatever she wants. What's more—

Her royal brother, no, the royal sister, was watching them from above her head!

She stared at Yu Wenzhe's portrait in a daze, and only after a while did she say mechanically, "Sister-in-law, about ...... Brother Huang, don't you have anything to sue me? ”

Jing Yan's body shook, and his voice was hoarse: "You go." Mourning family tired......"

Yu Wenrui's heart became more and more uncomfortable. She looked at Yu Wenzhe, and Yu Wenzhe seemed to be looking at her as well.

She fantasized that if the imperial brother could see her before he died, would he have something to ask herself? Will you entrust everything other than the country to yourself? Like what...... Sister-in-law?

Brother Huang, you also love your sister-in-law deeply, right? Does she also look forward to her sister-in-law living well in the world and enjoying the beauty she has not enjoyed?

The more Yu Wenrui thought about it, the more sad he became, "I will give the imperial brother an incense." ”

She said, approaching the incense case, wanting to take the incense on it, but was nailed to the spot by Jing Yan's cold words-

"When you avenge her, it's not too late!"

Suddenly, Yuwen Rui's sorrow came from it: he suddenly felt that the sky and the earth were vast, and there was no one to rely on. The dream she had been chasing was so far away from her at the moment.

And, between her and her sister-in-law, what separates her is not just a person and a relationship?