Nangong Xue Ruo replied with a strong spirit: "Yes." ”

Sun Xianjing thought about it and felt that it was redundant for her to ask. Thirteen felt so sorry for her, how could he be willing to leave her wandering alone. What's more, so many people are looking for her, it's really dangerous. She cautiously asked, "Did Thirteen tell you anything?" It's not that she's unhappy, but she's afraid that if she accidentally says something wrong, Thirteen will definitely blame her for a lot of things when she comes back.

Nangong Xueruo blinked: "Which aspect?" ”

Sun Xianjing raised her hand to herself. Her jet-black hair was tied up in the woman's hairstyle, coiled behind her head: "Change your hairstyle." She actually wondered why she wasn't married yet.

Nangong Xueruo remembered the old thing, and began to be stunned again: "No." Lan Lie asked someone to help me comb it once, but I was troublesome, so I removed it myself, and he still murdered me with a black face. I never combed it again. ”

When she mentioned Lan Lietian, her eyes lit up, and she saw that Sun Xian was secretly shocked, so she quickly put aside the topic and talked about the situation in the past two years: "Two years ago, when the thirteenth picked you up, I sneaked out, and Su Lihe begged a court official to recognize me as a righteous daughter, and then married into the Su family. Xiao Yuange came to me last year, and he didn't know what Su Lihe told him, but when he saw me, he didn't say anything, turned around and left. ”

Nangong Xueruo was a little embarrassed and didn't answer her. Seeing that she was not interested, Sun Xianjing paused for a moment and began to talk about interesting anecdotes in the capital: whose shop in the east was happy, which shop in the west made new snacks and pastries, and the skilled chefs in the south cut new styles of clothing...... Nangong Xue Ruo echoed two sentences at first, but then she began to be in a trance, and said in a low voice: "In the past, when Lan Lie was idle in the mansion, he often talked about this, and if he was interested, he would look at it one by one. ”

Sun Xian chuckled in her heart, and suddenly closed her voice: she was really still simple, because she was not on a mission, so she simply thought that there was no need to hide her feelings. If she is like this in front of Thirteen, how can she handle herself with Thirteen?

Nangong Xueruo stayed in Su Mansion for three days. When Thirteen came back, he happened to meet Su Wan and her husband to see her brother and sister-in-law. When she looked at the face, Su Wan subconsciously clenched the hand of her husband next to her, and her smile was calm and calm. Thirteen nodded at them as a greeting, and then thanked Sun Xianjing: "There is labor." ”

Sun Xianjing didn't know how to answer, and her tone was slightly astringent: "I owe you a lot, and I probably won't be able to pay it off in this life." But it's a little bit more. ”

Nangong Xueruo held the sleeve of Thirteen, and when she saw that everyone didn't have the meaning of explaining, she couldn't help but be confused. Thirteen rubbed her hair: "Take you to meet someone first, and then talk to him about the details." ”

"Will it take a long time?" She was unusually eager.

Thirteen glanced around as if unintentionally, and coaxed her patiently: "I'll talk about it when I see that person." ”

"Go now."

"Okay."

After meeting Nangong Xueruo, she realized that she was also an acquaintance: Qu Shaojie.

Qu Shaojie was not surprised to see Nangong Xueruo, handed her a black waist card, and ordered in an orderly manner: "Take this, you go to my house first, and Xia Haojun will arrange a place for you to live." In two more **** years, you will go to the imperial mausoleum to inspect in person, you pretend to be guards, and you can go in with me. ”

Nangong Xueruo's trance-like mind suddenly became extremely fine: "It's so easy to promise, didn't Lan Lietian say something to you?" ”

Qu Shaojie was surprised and did not deny it: "Two years ago, Master Hou instructed that no matter what you do in the future, if it doesn't affect others, don't stop it." Hou Ye's mausoleum was not sealed, and he expected this day early. As long as you don't kill people and steal corpses, it doesn't matter if you take a look. He paused for a moment and added: "The emperor was also there at that time, even if I let you in, I can't call it a bully." ”

But when she really stood in front of the noble and cold coffin, she didn't dare to open her eyes to verify it.

Qu Shaojie stood far away at the door and did not follow. Thirteen grabbed her shoulders, took her into his arms, and comforted her in a low voice: "If you don't want to see it, don't look at it, let's go back." ”

"No, you have to see it." She stood up straight, unusually determined.

After two years, the person lying there has already made a white skeleton, and under the reflection of the illuminating wind lamp, with a cold and gloomy appearance. Everyone knows that Lan Lie, the Marquis of Dingguo, died because of the recurrence of old diseases and ineffective treatment, but the bones in front of him obviously have a gray-black color, indicating the fact that he died of poisoning. What's even stranger is that this white bone does not have a right hand. Coming down from the shoulder, where it should have been the right arm, was empty.

"Why don't you have a right hand?" She saw the shallow mark on Bai Gu's left leg, and she was a little unsteady on her feet, still holding on to the last trace of hope to question Qu Shaojie. - Lan Lietian's left leg had been injured, and it was at the location of the white bone scar.

Qu Shaojie was calm as usual: "When I was buried, I was taken away." At that time, Xia Haojun, Mo Changkong, and Yao Shengping were all there, and they had already experienced the right body. ”

Nangong Xue Ruo still refused to believe it: "Confirm that it is the master of their family, and allow others to take his arm?" Lan Lietian had her unique mark on her right hand. Before seeing that mark, she refused to believe that the white bone in front of her was Lan Lieqing.

Qu Shaojie didn't bother to argue with her: "Master Hou ordered it before his death, not to mention that it was a master from outside the world, even if they wanted to, they couldn't stop it." ”

"Which master?"

"Xiao Yuange's master."

Nangong Xueruo fell silent: That person is indeed not something they can stop.

Qu Shaojie shook the wind lamp in his hand at her and urged, "It's not too early." ”

Thirteen waited for a moment and still didn't see Nangong Xueruo's movements, leaned over and hugged her cold body, only to find that her eyes were hazy with tears, and she couldn't help but feel sorry for herself, and persuaded in a low voice: "Let's go." ”

"He lied to me." She tugged at Thirteen's clothes and suddenly cried bitterly. For the first time in my life, I know what it means to be sad.

He said that people have seven emotions and six desires, joys, angers, sorrows, and joys, and taught her joy, anger, and fear step by step, and now she finally learned the last one: mourning, and finally became an ordinary girl. He did it.

Under normal circumstances, the rivers and lakes and the imperial court are two different things, each with its own track. But the lines between the two have always been blurred, after all, they have one thing in common: they are everywhere.

Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes. As long as you are an individual, you are in the middle of the rivers and lakes.

Under the whole world, it is not the king's land; On the shore of the land, it is not the king's minister. As long as you are in this country, whether you are dead or alive, you are under the jurisdiction of the imperial court.

Xian Ge is a Jianghu organization that does the business of killing people. It was officially known to people in the imperial court in the year 169 of the Great Apocalypse.

In the 169th year of the Great Apocalypse, in the early spring, the third prince Xia Jingze ascended the throne. The Hu people took advantage of the unstable foundation of the saint to try to bargain for some money, and they were menacing. One of the latest elites selected by the Idle Pavilion, the nineteenth, appeared in response to the situation.

The frontier war had little to do with the idle pavilion, and the owner of the idle pavilion decided to make a move after a lot of twists and turns, not to make money, but to win over a person. Of course, the content of the assigned task is not to kill people, but to save people. At that time, the closest to the battlefield was nineteen, so she went out naturally.

This year, she was only fifteen years old, and her face that had not yet grown up had already shown the potential to captivate the country and the city.

Nineteen has never been on a mission alone. There are many rules in the idle pavilion, including that members do not interact with each other. Nineteen is an exception, not only because of her outstanding appearance, but also because she is a recognized genius in martial arts. There were a large number of masters in the idle pavilion, but when she was twelve years old, no one dared to provoke her lightly.

Just as famous as her quick skills are her simple thinking, which is the most important thing in the idle court. "The wood is beautiful in the forest, and the wind will destroy it." No matter how outstanding his skills are, he can't stop the cold arrow behind him. She was the only exception, as she had thirteen. Thirteen is a child who grew up with her, knowing that there are many eyes staring at her behind her, and secretly working hard for her and not giving those people a chance. If nineteen is light, thirteen is her shadow.

Three years ago, Xian Ge selected the elite from their group of children. As is customary, the selection competition is not over until there are only five survivors left. Thirteen first ignored the rules set by the Pavilion Master and openly partnered with Nineteen, then acquiesced in Twelve to use them for survival, and finally even rescued others privately, and was ordered to be executed by the Pavilion Master. Nineteen is a single-celled creature, and has never been able to think, only knows how to meekly obey orders, but when Thirteen was tortured, he suddenly went berserk, injuring three elders and more than a dozen guards, and protecting Thirteen with all his life.

Neat skills, stunning faces, simple thinking. The Pavilion Master realizes that she will be the sharpest weapon of all. Plus, without Thirteen's protection, she would have struggled to survive. If the sword is too sharp, it will hurt the hand. The rarer the peerless sword, the more it needs scabbard protection. So he made an exception to keep Thirteen, along with all the others who were alive, and allowed Thirteen and Nineteen to be the only regular partners of the Idle Court.

At the time of the Hu invasion, Thirteen was on other missions. The border pass was urgent, and Nineteen didn't have time to wait for him to come back, so he went alone.

Cheng Ming is more than 40 years old this year and is a serious reader. Before the current saint ascended the throne, he supported the former crown prince Xia Jingde. After the fall of the crown prince, he fell with it. The person who sits on the dragon chair is not the person he supports, but he is also an orthodox royal family, and the means and courage are even better. He couldn't find anything wrong with him, and he didn't want to serve that person directly, so he simply fled to the border.

The pride of the self-proclaimed Swen people made him ashamed to be with the people of the rivers and lakes, and he was even more unwilling to abandon the country's righteousness and watch the mountains and rivers fall, so when the lord of the idle pavilion found him, he simply used the excuse of repelling Hu Bing. I didn't expect to see the people in the idle pavilion soon.

On this day, he was thinking about his heart alone, and suddenly heard a slightly immature, but very nice voice: "You are Cheng Ming?" ”

He famously looked up and saw a young girl, petite, standing in the door against the light, unable to see clearly, not knowing when she had entered.

Cheng Ming was puzzled: "Who are you?" ”

"I'm from the Idle Pavilion, you can call me Nineteen." She replied as she approached Cheng Ming, "My task is to ask you to go back." ”

See her appearance clearly, although she is still young, she is a real beauty. Is it the temptation of beauty? Cheng Ming couldn't help but sneer: "Go back and tell your pavilion master: the beauty trick is useless to me." ”

"Beauty tricks?" A string of question marks were put on her face, "Why do you want to use beauty tricks on you?" I'm here to protect you. ”

Cheng Ming was stunned: "Protect me?" Just you? ”

In the face of doubts, Nineteen was not angry at all, and nodded seriously: "I'm very good." ”

Cheng Ming obviously didn't take her words seriously, and asked disapprehantly: "Then you also know the conditions I offered?" ”

Nineteen seemed to want to take the curious baby to the end, and asked reluctantly: "What conditions?" When she set off, the pavilion master didn't mention it, she never knew how to ask, so she didn't know the conditions offered by Cheng Ming.

"Baosha City, retreat Hu soldiers."

Nineteen didn't show an expression of surprise or embarrassment, just blinked his clear eyes, thought about it, and confirmed to Cheng Ming: "Is it that they have withdrawn, you must go back with me?" She doesn't have the noble idea of defending her family and country, but if it's a necessary condition for the task to be accomplished, she's willing to think about it.

Cheng Ming nodded: "Yes." He didn't think Nineteen had the ability. Xiange may have the ability to make the Hu people retreat, but the cost of participating in the war is too great, not to mention the manpower that will be lost in the war, this force alone will attract the attention of the imperial court and bring them a catastrophe. The pavilion master is very shrewd and will definitely not participate. This condition, in his opinion, is simply impossible to fulfill.

Unexpectedly, Nineteen laughed when he heard his affirmative reply. She was already very beautiful, and this smile seemed to have a light blooming: "That's easy." I only kill people, I don't protect people, and I'm still worried about what to do. As long as I go and kill the commander of the Hu soldiers and force them to retreat, the war will be over, and then you will go back with me. Right? ”

Cheng Ming was stunned. This sounds, logically, is not problematic, but in fact ......

Assassinating the enemy commander, he didn't have such an idea, but the difficulty was too high, they discussed it for a long time, and finally gave up. Why does it seem like a very casual thing to say from this girl's mouth? Are the people in the idle pavilion as conceited as she is? - No, maybe I can't describe it as conceited, but I should call it ignorant of the sky.

It just so happened that Captain Ji Huaiyong sent someone to invite Cheng Ming to discuss the matter. Cheng Ming didn't plan to bring nineteen, she insisted on going together on the grounds of "searching for target information", Cheng Ming sneered twice, and did not stop her. He is not afraid that this girl will hear any military intelligence, anyway, the outside of the city is now the army of the Hu people, just waiting for the army to attack the city as soon as it arrives, and the purpose of their deliberations at this time is not to retreat from the enemy, but to delay. Wait until two days later for reinforcements to arrive. With her little girl, even if she hears terrible information, it will be no big problem to detain her in the city and not give her a chance to divulge the information.

"Sir!" As soon as Ji Huaiyong saw Cheng Ming, he hurriedly greeted him, his face full of anxiety, "I just joined the army and called us to discuss the matter, saying that the commander of the Hu people has arrived!" The city will be attacked tomorrow at the latest! ”

In contrast, Cheng Ming was much calmer: "Who is the coach and how many people did he bring?" ”

"Coach Darhan, known as the first warrior of the Hu people, led an army of 50,000. His younger brother Darch led an army of 30,000 troops, and he was still more than 100 miles away from this place, and he would arrive about tomorrow! There are only more than 10,000 defenders in Shacheng, and as of the eighth day today, nearly 4,000 people have been lost, and there are less than 7,000 people left who can participate in the battle. ”

Cheng Ming's heart sank: "When will the reinforcements arrive?" ”

"Two days at the earliest."

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