Chapter Ninety-Eight
"Si Shao, do you like him?" The baby squinted his eyes and stared straight at Akiba Bai, as if to see her soul
Go inside.
Qiu Yebai didn't avoid his eyes, but let him look at him like this, and only said lightly: "Baby, don't talk nonsense." ”
At that moment, she almost thought that it was really the beginning of a hundred miles standing in front of her, but the next moment, she knew that this was definitely not him, especially the eyes, people's eyes are the window of the heart.
And Bailichu's eyes are too special, and they can't be disguised.
The baby looked at her, and suddenly sneered, "I saw you holding his hand, and I also saw you hairpin for him." ”
Autumn leaves' white eyes flashed, and she smiled helplessly: "That's right, I'm a hairpin for him, baby, are you jealous?" ”
As soon as she saw the baby take flowers to sell, she knew that the baby must have been arranged around there and could take her away at any time, but she didn't want the baby to have a conflict with Bailichu, and also signaled them not to follow, so she chose the easiest way to leave Bailichu's side, and didn't want the baby to follow all the way.
The baby stared at her for a long time, and said coldly: "That regent princess, he is a man, he is not a girl, you know that no one in this world can hide his gender in front of me!" ”
As a master of disguise, he must have the most thorough understanding of the body shapes and bones of men, women and children, so when he first saw Baili Chu, he knew that the 'Princess Regent' was a man!
Akiba Bai nodded and said nonchalantly, "I know, I knew it the second time I saw him." ”
The baby was stunned, and his eyes flashed in disbelief: "You know, you know that he is a man, and you still say that you don't like him!" ”
Qiu Yebai raised his eyebrows, stretched out his hand and rubbed the back of his head disapprovingly: "Then, I also know that Tianshu and Tianhua are all men, don't you remember, is it possible that I like them, you and I sleep together, don't you remember?" ”
The baby tore off her hand: "You know that it is different, Tianshu is the person in your hands, and you also know that we are different, so we can be so close, you know that I am ...... I am......! ”
He was a little angry, and in the end he couldn't say the remaining half of the sentence, so he could only grit his teeth and say: "You dare to swear that you don't like him, do you dare to swear that you will never be with him!" ”
Qiu Yebai looked at the inexplicably angry young man in front of him, his eyes were cold, and he took a step back as if he was in his heart, and she said lightly: "I don't need to swear to anyone who I like, or who I don't like, even if I like Her Royal Highness the Princess, it's my own business." ”
With that, she turned and walked out the door.
But she hadn't taken two steps before she suddenly felt like she was being hugged from behind.
The baby's anxious voice sounded behind her: "Don't go, Si Shao, you know I didn't mean to ask you to question you anything, it's just ...... It's just that that man is too dangerous, he is a royal man, how can you be with him, I don't understand, I'm worried about you! ”
Akiba Bai frowned slightly, didn't speak, and only reached out to break his hand around his waist.
The baby looked at the person he was hugging, it was not as uncomfortable as he could not see him on weekdays, and he would come to gently persuade him, and suddenly panicked, hugged her waist tightly, refused to let go, and softened his voice: "White ...... Don't be angry. ”
Akiba Bai said coldly, "To be honest. ”
The baby bit her lip and hesitated for a moment, seeing that she was about to reach out to break her hand again, she suddenly buried her face in her shoulder and said in a muffled voice: "Sister Bai, I'm just afraid...... I'm afraid that one day you will have someone you like, and you won't want me anymore, a monster like me, if you don't want me anymore, what else can I do...... What can I do? ”
After a while, Qiu Yebai felt that her shoulders were dyed with tide, she sighed lightly, turned around, reached out to hug him, patted him lightly on the shoulder, and said in a warm tone: "Baby, from the day I brought you back to the master from the street, let the master recognize you under the door of the Hidden Sword Pavilion, I never thought that I would not want you one day, you are my relative, my little brother, not a monster, it was, it is, and it will be in the future." ”
The baby hugged the person in his arms, opened his lips and subconsciously said: "I never wanted to ......." ”
But the last half of the phrase 'be your little brother' stuck in my throat.
Why did he say such a thing, why did he?
A monster like him...... A monster who doesn't even have a face, lives forever in other people's faces, and never has the qualifications to be a man, let alone stand by her side openly.
Why did he say that?
In spite of...... Whether it's her brother or her most beloved pet, hasn't he already accepted his fate, as long as he can guard her for the rest of his life, see that she is well.
From the day he was about to die in the rubbish on the side of the street, but was brought back to the Hidden Sword Pavilion by her, he knew that some things can only be a hope forever.
There are some people who he will never reach the other side.
All those unspeakable feelings finally converged into a thorn in his throat, and the pain spread all the way down his throat to the bottom of his heart.
"I understand." Akiba Bai softly cut off the words he couldn't say, quietly hugged the young man in his arms, and gently stroked his back with his fingertips, soothing his unspeakable despair and sadness.
She knew what he wanted to say, but there were some things she couldn't give, and he couldn't afford it.
The young man gently reached out to wrap his arms around her waist, curled up his waist, and buried his face in her chest in pain, wet tears soaked the clothes on her chest: "Sister Bai, you don't know, I hate it so much...... I hate the man who gave me such a body, or the sin I created, so I have to pay it back with my life. ”
Autumn leaves stroked his hair, and a trace of sadness and helplessness flashed in his eyes.
To become the best master of disguise and have a kaleidoscopic face, the best foundation is to have no face, no nose, no lips, and the flattest canvas on which you can draw the most beautiful picture scroll at will.
And that's what the baby is like - a faceless master.
Not before entering the Hidden Sword Pavilion, but ten years ago, the day she picked up this bandaged child, he had lost his face forever, and there were many things he shouldn't have lost,
But what he lost was not born, but was forcibly cut off by someone.
When the master treated the baby, he asserted that the baby was originally equipped with martial arts, and the martial arts at a young age were not weak, so he thought that he must have come from some Jianghu sects, and it was clearly a fine scalpel technique to create such a wound that peeled off the flesh and did not hurt the blood.
It must be that some sects have made their disciples look like that in order to cultivate disguise masters.
The baby escaped at the risk of death.
How cruel a teacher must be to do such a thing that damages a disciple's body!
Under the master's best efforts, the baby finally woke up, only after waking up, he has completely lost the memory of the master he once was, but the body's instinct and martial arts are still there, after seeing the despair and pain of his face for the first time, he was depressed for a long time, just when she thought that he could only be an unknown member of the hidden sword, he told her that he decided to become the top master of disguise, he would not be a waste person.
She didn't know why, until one day, she played the piano with her confidantes for fun and turned around for a moment, and saw the admiration and timidity in his eyes.
She suddenly understood the child's mood.
At that moment, her own feelings were complicated, the baby was brought back by her, and she also took care of the teenager who grew up, and he had a different status in her heart.
Compared with Qiu Shanning, the baby is closer to her.
And not only did she not respond to his wishes, but he also understood that there was something between them that could never be possible.
"It's not your fault." Autumn leaves white hugged the boy who was curled up in his arms and cried silently, with a gentle expression.
The baby has always been forbearing, and his mind is always hidden under the mask of jumping out of liveliness, even if he has that mind, he has always been very well hidden, and he rarely calls her Sister Bai after he is fourteen years old, this is the first time he has lost his temper in front of her, so that Autumn Leaves White is pitiful, and a little melancholy and helpless.
She didn't expect that it was just a trip to the street with Baili Chu, which could stimulate the baby to lose such a state, and when she got along with Luzhulou Tianshu in the past, she didn't see the baby's reaction like this.
The two hugged each other quietly for a while, and the baby suddenly said sullenly: "You have to be careful of the 'princess' of the regent, he is a prince, and he actually pretends to be a woman, which means that he has given up the right to inherit the throne, but he has the power to lean towards the government and the opposition, and he is forbearant like this, and his heart is extraordinary, which is definitely not easy to get along with." ”
Qiu Yebai nodded, and said softly: "I know it in my heart, you can rest assured, it's just that I am dealing with him, so naturally I have a reason to do so." ”
She has long understood the 'extraordinary heart' and 'bad harmony' at the beginning of the hundred miles.
"Is it a last resort...... Does he already know who you really are? The baby instantly raised his head from Akiba Bai's arms and looked at Akiba Bai in disbelief.
If so, wouldn't the four young people be dangerous?
Qiu Yebai looked at the young man who was crying and red-eyed in his arms, and sighed in his heart that the baby's craftsmanship was excellent, and even such a fake skin could make this effect like crying red eyes, and at the same time he sneered a little self-deprecating and helpless: "Yes, he knows." ”
I still know it in that embarrassing way.
A strong killing intent flashed in the baby's eyes in an instant: "The royal people don't have a good thing, or let's give a kill order ......." ”
He reached out and made a hideous, murderous gesture around his neck.
Qiu Yebai shook his head and said lightly: "You haven't thought about it, but once I came to the beginning of a hundred miles, the martial arts cultivation was unfathomable and weird, and the crane guards around me were all first-class masters, so it was not easy to start; Second, we still have a place to use him, although my Tibetan Sword Pavilion has a lot of power in the rivers and lakes, but there is no foundation in the court; Thirdly, since we can think of killing people and killing people, is it possible that he doesn't know this truth, and he must have made preparations with another hand, just in case. ”
"Could it be that Si Shao is so subject to him, and even the entire Hidden Sword Pavilion is subject to the imperial court?" The baby's face tightened, and the murderous intent under his eyes did not decrease.
Whether it was out of consideration for the four young people, or out of his natural dislike for the government as a Jianghu person, he felt more and more disgusted with Baili Chu, and hated the entire Baili royal family and the imperial court.
Qiu Yebai looked at the face in front of him that looked like Zhang Bailichu, and said that he wanted to get rid of 'himself', which felt quite subtle.
Qiu Yebai smiled slightly and comforted the baby: "Although we can also feel that this person is elusive in getting along, first, the matter of the false phoenix and fake phoenix is not unique to me, and he also has the same secret in our hands, which is already a kind of containment, and second, if it is about cooperation, he is indeed a more qualified and trustworthy partner." ”
"Partner?"
The baby looked at Akiba Bai in disbelief, did Si Shao know what he was talking about?
Treat such a dangerous man as a 'partner'?
"If not, this is already the scope of the situation that I can control at the moment, could it be that you have a better way, baby?" Qiu Yebai looked at the baby's resistant look, and raised his eyebrows.
Seeing Akiba Bai kicking the ball to himself, the baby was speechless for a moment, yes, he couldn't refute Akiba Bai's words, he really didn't have a better way.
It's not easy to deal with that man, a man can use that identity to gain the power of the court, hold the Du family hostage, and deter hundreds of officials, and he will definitely not let people succeed in him at will, and the baby also knows that Qiu Yebai almost died in Baili Chu's hands when he fought with Baili Chu for the first time.
If Min Rui Ru Si Shao can only barely do this under him, what can these people do?
Suddenly, the baby began to hate his powerlessness again.
Looking at the baby's gloomy face, Qiu Yebai patted him on the shoulder: "Okay, I know all these things in my heart, we are now cooperating with His Royal Highness Regent, then my true identity will not be exposed for the time being, but if I want to minimize the danger of this matter, I must stand in a higher position in the court." ”
Even if someone else holds her handle, those in power must consider more and weigh whether they want to abandon her because of this matter.
The baby was stunned for a moment, and withdrew from Qiu Yebai's arms, a little suspicious of his ears: "What, Si Shao, what do you mean?" ”
The person who has always disliked the court the most, and the person who has always hated the royal family the most, originally entered the master of ceremonies as a last resort, but now he wants to further intervene in the court?
Qiu Yebai nodded, and after letting go of the baby, he stood with his hands in his hands and looked out of the window quietly: "Baby, do you know that there was a nine-thousand-year-old in the previous dynasty?" ”
Baby eyebrows, he is not as well-read as Si Shao, so after thinking for a while, he remembered: "Yes, the previous dynasty was this person, the history books recorded that he had an ugly appearance, bullying men and women, the position of power Qi Tian, rampant in the government and the opposition, slaughtering dissidents is not counted, I heard that the emperor of the previous dynasty is precisely because of the favor of this class of traitors Fang Daozhì people are not happy, the people are very angry, at that time was still the King of Xidi's Zhenwu Emperor under the conquest of the army, the former dynasty was full of smoke in the country, and the heroes revolted in response to the Zhenwu Emperor, but before the Xidi army invaded Shangjing, But the nine thousand years old had already died of illness. ”
Qiu Yebai said lightly: "This qiē is just a record in the history books, after the founding of the Zhenwu Emperor, it is said that because of his hatred of such traitors, he destroyed a qiē about the nine thousand years old historical materials, and only left that kind of infamy in the history books, but history is just written by the victors, I used to be very interested in this person, I have checked a lot of remnants of historical materials, this person is by no means an ordinary person, if the nine thousand years old is really a person who died in a disaster, then it is impossible to maintain that level of people's livelihood at that time in the previous dynasty." ”
She paused and continued: "As for the so-called eradication of dissidents, even if it is true, it is just an emperor's mental trick, and he will not comment on the nine thousand years old, just say that if the nine thousand years old is just a eunuch, it has already made the government and the opposition so jealous, I am afraid that even if he is found to be not a real eunuch, will anyone dare to expose this secret, I am afraid that he will not have to take action, and those who need to rely on him will first get rid of those who know these secrets, or let this secret become a 'ridiculous rumor'." ”
The baby suddenly understood what Qiu Yebai wanted to do, and his eyes widened slightly: "Is it difficult...... Four less you want ....... ”
"That's right, even if I can't be the next nine thousand, I'm going to let those who try to use my weakness to hold me hostage think carefully before they do anything or decide." Autumn leaves squinted slightly, looking out the window, their eyes cold and sharp.
After returning to the Qiu family for more than a year, she has experienced so many things, especially after meeting Bailichu and Mei Su, she clearly saw her powerlessness, for Bailichu, even if his true identity is revealed, don't say that the emperor will not give up his son, even the power in his own hands will definitely not make people dare to act rashly; And Mei Su, behind whom is the Du family, is the queen mother, he can cover the sky with one hand in the entire three places of Huainan, forcing her to almost fall into a desperate situation.
She didn't even know if there was a similar force elsewhere in Mesu.
The so-called people do not fight with officials.
She wanted to compare herself with these two people, if she was only in the wilderness, with the status and energy of the Hidden Sword Pavilion in the rivers and lakes, she didn't have to be afraid of anything.
But now, her secrets have been known by these two people, and she doesn't care about the Qiu family, but she is the only mother who cares for herself and takes such a big risk to survive...... She couldn't help but care.
A partial mother loves her irresponsible father and a sister who doesn't know what to do!
If her father is implicated and beheaded because her identity is revealed, I am afraid that my mother will live in painful tears and self-blame for the rest of her life.
So, now that she has come to this point, she can only give it a go!
"Four young ......." The baby's expression was very complicated, and he suddenly asked: "Has Si Shao already made a decision, what are you going to do?" ”
"Now that I've decided to continue, first I need a place of absolute allegiance to me, and a place of allegiance to my subordinates." Akiba Bai narrowed her eyes and reached out to pour herself a cup of tea, the curling heat steaming, making her face look like you had a strange sense of nothingness.
"You mean...... Look at the wind department? The baby also sat down on the chair across from her.
Qiu Yebai chuckled, his eyes sharp: "No, Master of Ceremonies, I want the entire Master of Ceremonies, which means that I want to be the next Governor of the Master of Ceremonies!" ”
At that time, the 9,000-year-old dynasty took control of the government and officially took the first step into power, and the first step was to fight against the ministers of the court and the central government, which was to become the governor of the ceremonial supervisor!
"Even during the reign of Emperor Zhenwu, the celebrant was still not canceled, but the power was cut and most of the power was taken back into the hands of the emperor, but after so many years, the ceremonial supervisor was retained, and the successive generations of Baili emperors came to the hands of the Du family, and they did not die, because it was irreplaceable."
Although the functions of supervision, espionage, and secret interrogation seem to represent the darkest and invisible side of the imperial court, whether in the past or in the future, the existence of such institutions has indeed consolidated the rule of the imperial court and won the trust of those in power.
Therefore, she understands very well how a eunuch who controls the secret service and can gain the trust of those in power can finally ride on the head of his master.
She doesn't have the ambition of nine thousand years old, but she can also follow his path to get the results she wants.
Autumn leaves Bai Senran's fierce look made the baby feel a slight chill in his heart, and a complicated look flashed in his eyes...... The Imperial Court...... It was one of his most hated beings, but ......
"Since it is something that Si Shao wants to do, the baby will definitely follow Si Shao forever until Si Shao gets the one you want." He said softly, holding Akibabai's hand.
Qiu Yebai looked at the baby, his originally fierce expression eased, and he also held the baby's hand with his backhand: "This road is difficult and dangerous, the risk is extremely high, I can't live with the master, so the Hidden Sword Pavilion must be temporarily hidden in the dark, I will train and select the right heir, baby, you have always been bold and careful, and you can be regarded as ...... resourceful." ”
"Four less." The baby suddenly interrupted her and said coldly: "The day I woke up in the Hidden Sword Pavilion, I said that I would only be loyal to one person in this life, and it was always you, not the Hidden Sword Pavilion. ”
Qiu Yebai was stunned for a moment, and then sighed lightly: "In that case, baby, you still call me Sister Bai from now on." ”
The baby looked at her, and the corners of her lips suddenly showed a shallow and charming arc: "Four less is four less, the baby only has four less, and there is no white sister anymore." ”
Qiu Yebai looked at him as if he was hiding in his mask again, and felt a little melancholy in his heart, but he didn't force it anymore, only nodded: "It's okay, just sleep with you." ”
The baby looked at her, and suddenly smiled toothily: "Then wait a while, let's go down together, when you are not there, the monkey cubs who watch the wind are trained by me to be a lot more well-behaved." ”
Qiu Yebai nodded, also quite interested: "Okay, I look at them very differently." ”
The baby's method of training people is extraordinary, and she has seen it.
Then, she looked at his face and hesitated: "Your face." ”
The baby touched his cheek and glanced at her with a smile: "Yes, my face, since Si Shao doesn't like it, then the baby will go and replace it, so that Si Shao will poke his heart when he thinks about it!" ”
Saying that, he got up and swayed towards the mirror, Qiu Yebai chuckled helplessly, this kid ......