On this day and night, King Xiang did not sleep very well.

Tossing and turning and sleepless, always feeling that something was going to happen, the moonlight reflected on the tent, and he was about to fall asleep, but he heard the steward of the house calling in horror outside, "Lord, something is wrong!" ”

He was out of breath, got up and shouted outside, "What's the matter, did you hit a ghost?" ”

The steward mourned all over the place, his head knocked louder than the other, and he couldn't wait to grab the ground with his head, "The water is in prison!" ”

King Xiang rushed out of the door in a rage, he was extremely important, even if the fire burned his eyebrows, he had to keep himself tidy, and when he arrived at the Nanya cell, the fire had spread, and there were palace guards who were busy putting out the fire everywhere. He stared at the raging fire, grabbed the guard next to him and asked, "Where did it burn from?" ”

The guards escaped from the prison, still with Mars on their bodies, and looked desperate: "Lord Wang, the slave doesn't know." ”

"Rubbish!" King Xiang scolded secretly, where can this fire be so strange, the front foot just locked Mei Rui in, and the back foot went out of the water, whoever guessed that there were ghosts inside, he grinded his teeth, raised his foot and kicked towards the guard, "Don't go out to put out the fire." Then he saw Zhao Chun on the side, and ordered: "Guard the gates of each palace, and if anyone escapes from the chaos, they will all be taken!" ”

Zhao Chun was still losing his mind, and King Xiang shouted again: "Don't go quickly!" ”

He woke up at this time, and looked at the Shura fire again, his heart was not full of taste, since he recalled outside the Zichen Hall that the little eunuch who followed Sixi was Mei Rui, he was in a trance. In the past half a year, he really thought that she had gone to Longyou to find Lu Zhen, and it was not until that moment that he found some intriguing joints from this series of strange incidents. She may not have fled to Longyou without permission, it is more likely that King Xiang arrested her, why did she arrest her, probably because she threatened King Xiang.

The Zhao family has always supported King Xiang, if it weren't for King Xiang, Lu Zhi would have calculated the revenge of the Lu family for destroying the door early on the Zhao family. The hundred-year-old famous nobles are all towering giant trees, and people on the outside look at the lush and envious, but in fact, the inside has long been rotten from the roots, Zhao Chun smiled bitterly, no high-ranking official is innocent in his hands, he knows what the Lu family's rebellion case was in the past, and a person as transparent as Lu Zhi may not know.

On the way, he met Sui Yuan, the man was still lazy and lazy, but he looked a little vain, he smiled at Zhao Chun, "Which gate is this going to?" ”

Zhao Chun immediately straightened his face, "What do you have to do with Lang Jun?" ”

Sui Yuan shook his head, "This fire came suddenly, the prince is afraid that he will become suspicious and let the commander go to get people?" His eyes were very transparent, "The commander walks slowly, the Vermilion Bird Gate seems to be the right time and place today, the Commander might as well go to the Vermilion Bird Gate to take a look." ”

His words were inexplicable, Zhao Chun frowned and left, the more he thought about it, the more wrong he became, he turned his head and went straight to the Suzaku Gate, only to get there, he put the Wu hook knife on his waist, and asked calmly: "Can someone pass through this door?" ”

Zhao Chun pondered for a moment and said, "There is still a shortage of manpower over there to put out the fire, you can wait and help." ”

After sending the guards away, he was the only one left in the Suzaku Gate, and it was still cold in the spring night, he stood in front of the strict palace gate for I don't know how long, seeing that the fire on the Nan Ya side was smaller, he suddenly came back to his senses, and felt that he was funny, just because of Sui Yuan's plausible words and ran towards the Suzaku Gate, for the sake of the person who looked down on him.

He also asked himself what he liked about Mei Rui, probably because of the friendship of his youth, which made him feel precious. At that time, he saw her at a glance on the street, wearing a lotus-colored shirt, her cheeks were still stained with ash, she pinched a letter in her hand, and pulled the pedestrians to ask where the Zhao Mansion was one by one.

She is good-looking, a little girl raised in the water town in the south of the Yangtze River, the water is very cute, the best thing is her eyes, vivid like a spring in the mountains, but it makes him feel that there is a cold hidden inside, and he is used to those delicate boudoir daughters in Chang'an City, at first glance, she feels that she is different, different from brocade clothes and jade food, and there is a freshness all over her body, and later it does confirm his thoughts, she is indeed different.

I thought it was logical to be with her, my childhood sweetheart, wasn't she talking about him and her? Who knew that it was Lang Youqing's concubine who had no intention, and he thought that she wanted to climb the Zhao family to marry him, but who knew that she noticed it, and turned her head and said that she wanted to enter the palace.

As soon as he entered the palace gate, it was as deep as the sea, and he tried to persuade her, but she insisted on going in. He felt that it was because his aunt treated her more and more mean attitude that hurt her, who would have thought that she said to him, "Brother Yuanliang wants to marry me?" ”

He said yes, and she asked him again, "Does Brother Yuanliang want to marry the thirteenth mother of the Sun family?" ”

The thirteenth mother of the Sun family is his favorite daughter, and he has a baby kiss, and she looks round and jade, amiable and cute, but she is very arrogant, not more sensible than her, he was young and frivolous at the time, and he thought he was authentic, "They are all to marry, but you have to be more docile than her, I naturally prefer you more." ”

She only smiled back at him, "I can save it, Brother Yuanliang will go back." ”

Later, she resolutely entered the palace, and she didn't see her a few times throughout the year, and the thirteenth lady of the Sun family never married him in the end, I heard that it was the same scholar who eloped, so angry that Sun Shilang was bedridden for half a month, and he also felt shameless, as if he disliked him before he eloped with others, claiming that this was to break off relations with the Sun family, and in the end he persuaded him. He also understood, at the beginning he felt that she was different, and he shouldn't treat her with ordinary ideas, what to like her more, this was not what she wanted, and since then, he has been completely wrong.

Yu Guang caught a glimpse of a figure walking towards this side, he turned his head to look, Mingguang armor Wu hook knife, ordinary personal guard dress, Zhao Chun frowned, and shouted: "Didn't you let you go to Nanya's side to put out the fire?" What are you doing here? ”

The man didn't stop, and walked towards the Suzaku Gate with his head down, Zhao Chun was suspicious in his heart, his hand was on the handle of the Wu hook knife, and he shouted to the visitor, "Stop!" ”

In the blink of an eye, the distance was close, the man still refused to stop, Zhao Chun drew the knife without hesitation, and the knife was against the man's neck, the forest was cold and awe-inspiring, and his eyebrows and eyes were cold, "Who trespassed on the palace gate, raise your head!" ”

The man raised his face, combed his hair meticulously, his moon-like face, clean and clean, a pair of black eyes, like a clear spring in the mountains, and his ruddy lips opened and closed gently, which was the four words of Nong's softness: "Brother Yuanliang." ”

Zhao Chun stiffened, the person who was thinking about it was in front of him, he was in a trance, the Wu hook in his hand reflected her face with a bright light, but it was no brighter than her smile, he clenched the handle of the knife, and his voice seemed to pop out from between his teeth, "Why are you here?" ”

She smiled, "If I'm not here, then where am I?" Forced by the fire in the Nanya cell, there was nowhere to escape, and finally burned beyond recognition? ”

"No," he was a little dumbfounded, "I'm not ......"

"Then Brother Yuanliang is here to get me?" She tilted her head, a little playful, "I have already lived in Nanya's cell, where will I live next time, Dali Temple?" ”

Only then did Zhao Chun know that this matter had been planned from beginning to end, she escaped from prison by means of the fire, and let him meet her in this situation, not to teach him a dilemma, but because he would not hesitate to let her go. Sui Yuan deliberately let him come here, not hesitating to expose herself, just so that she could escape from the predicament.

He said awkwardly, "Where are you going, Longyou?" ”

She seems to have lost weight, she is already such a slender person, but now she is very smart, and I don't know where she found the Mingguang armor, it doesn't fit at all, it's empty, like a firewood stick in the big bell, Zhao Chun's brows are tightened, seeing that she nodded gently, her heart is infinitely bitter, and she asked, "Longyou is so far away, you go alone?" ”

She said, "Why don't the commanders go with me?" ”

He pulled the corners of his mouth helplessly, "At such a time, you can't be reconciled to me?" Sighed, "I didn't know it was like this before, the prince did such a thing, it was already equivalent to rebellion, if I knew,......"

When he said this, he suddenly paused, in fact, at the beginning, he may not have known the true intentions of King Xiang, but he just turned a blind eye. When Mei Rui first disappeared, he also suspected King Xiang, but in the end he couldn't do it, he thought that the person he had followed for so long was not an unscrupulous person who was blinded by power, and he just thought.

He held such a hope at this Suzaku Gate, and felt that he could see her, in order to let her go, the mountains are high and the sea is wide, and everywhere is better than this Miyagi, trapping her, so that this plum blossom will no longer bloom proudly.

It is not too difficult to make up this decision, but it is very difficult, Zhao Chun took back the Wu hook, put it into the scabbard, and finally asked: "Is there enough coil on the body?" ”

She nodded, there was a resolute look in her eyes, she saw that his heart was suffocated, he gritted his teeth, he finally took a step back, lowered his eyes, and covered up his reluctance, "Let's go." ”

Hearing her say thank you in a low voice, the sound of small footsteps stepping on the palace bricks became more and more brisk, Zhao Chun slowly raised his head and looked at the armor, the fire behind her, burning half of the sky of the imperial city.

It's more like she's going to the battlefield.