Xiao Chu stared at me and whispered, "I don't want you to be a maid, what I ask you is just getting along with two people." ”

He closed his eyes tiredly and said softly:

"Whatever I say, I think you get the idea."

Although I had guessed countless times in my heart, the moment I sat down on this guess, I still stared at him blankly and could barely speak.

After a while, Xiao Chu opened his eyes and said, "I'm scared of you?" ”

"Nope." I lifted the curtain of the car and looked into the distance in the direction of the long street.

It is the tallest building in Yingtian City, and it is located in the center of the Imperial Palace.

"Xiao Chu, in the palace you are talking about, is that direction?" I muttered to myself, "I really don't want to believe it from your mouth." ”

Xiao Chu raised his hand and brushed the hair on my sideburns and said, "A face is so dirty, don't do anything in the medical hall." “

I pulled back my thoughts, looked at him carefully, raised my face and asked, "Can you sue me, is Xiao Chu your real name?" “

Such a simple question made him stunned, he lowered his head, thought for a while, and said, "I should tell you yes, but I don't want to lie to you." "So, no." I nodded, "Then you can sue me, what is your real name?" "Xiao Ning," he whispered, then looked up at me, "My name is Xiao Ning." ”

"Did you choose the name Xiao Chu at random?" I turned my face sideways, glanced at him, and asked in a low voice.

He hesitated for a moment before he slowly spoke: "Xiao Chu is my brother's name, but I am now called by this name, and there is no Xiao Ning in this world." “

My eyes widened and I froze, and suddenly a scene from the boat came to my mind.

At that time, he looked at my face carefully, put away his smile and said, "Hearing you say this, I have a hunch that I still have a reason to meet you." It's fate. “

He smiled: "I don't have a past either, your past is forgotten because you can't choose, and my past is forced to forget it all." ”

Forced to forget it all?

I looked at him suspiciously, my lips twitched a few times, and my heart moved, and I suddenly thought of a possibility, I grabbed his arm and said, "Do you mean that you borrowed his identity?" "What about your brother? What should he do? "Xiao Ling'er, when you first came to Yingtian, you have been living in the mountains before, and you don't know the situation here."

"Two years ago. The Four Princes entered the war. Attacked by ambushes. chased all the way to the uninhabited valley, and the final news came that he never came out again. ”

"That uninhabited valley, also known as the Valley of Death, is said to have never returned, and even the local herdsmen regard it as a forbidden land."

"But you know it. In Yingtian, what kind of status is my fourth brother, the rumors you heard in Guanlan are true, and he is like a god in the minds of the people of Yingtian. "He commands Ying Tian's strongest army, and once the news of his death comes out, Ying Tian is afraid that there will be chaos."

"General Liu, my fourth brother's subordinate ordered, in accordance with his instructions before the battle, ordered someone to pretend to rush back a carriage from the uninhabited valley, and only said that my fourth brother was seriously injured and needed to respond to the heavens for healing."

"Actually, in that carriage. Empty. ”

"You should be able to guess what's next."

I stared at him firmly and couldn't take my eyes off, so speaking of which, he pretended to be his brother, could it still be that Xiao Chu's own meaning?

But. No, doubts rose in my heart, and I said in confusion: "How can this work?" You are the prince in the palace, and your fourth brother asked you to pretend to be his identity, but what about yourself? ”

Xiao Ning's eyes suddenly flashed a trace of loneliness, he was laughing, laughing at me uncomfortable: "I have never had an identity, because I was born a dead person." ”

His expression caught my eyes, and I first turned my head, not wanting to see him smiling, and then turned back when I heard the words.

"You mean you're a bearer prince?" I was shocked and angry in my eyes, "How can there be such a ridiculous thing? "I've been lying in the palace all year round, and the places where I stay are in the deep palace, to be exact, it's just a small room, I don't know when I'm going to die, is such a prince in need of heaven?" "How can this be a question of whether it is necessary or not, you" I was in a state of confusion for a moment, and the words came to my mouth and swallowed again, but I couldn't find a suitable word to comfort him.

The atmosphere in the carriage was a little stagnant, and the wind blew in through the open windows of the carriage, raising its hair.

He sat silently in front of me, but on closer consideration, more doubts rose in my mind. "In place of your fourth brother's identity, you still need to go out of the palace gate and accept the title of his commander in the army, you always have to face the world, but your fourth brother has been an external identity for so many years, how do you take over?"

I turned my head and clenched my fists, and then I thought of something, and my heart fluttered and looked at him.

I finally mustered up the courage to lean closer to him, look left and right to take a closer look at his face, and even reached out to touch his delicate-looking face, because I wanted to see if he had the legendary human skin mask on his face!

Thinking of this, and the time I spent with him, I suddenly felt a chill in my back.

Xiao Chu's depressed feelings changed because of my careful action of approaching him and touching his face!

He couldn't help but move the corners of his mouth and said: "Xiao Ling'er, it's not what you think, my brother and I are twins, and I was only born half an hour later than him." “

He looked at me and said softly, "So I look almost like him." "Ahh

I was dumbfounded, I couldn't react to so many messages at once.

After staring at each other wordlessly for a few seconds, I subconsciously asked, "How similar are you to him?" "I said it, almost exactly the same." He tilted his head slightly, and raised his lips. "Originally, when I was lying in the deep palace, I looked much weaker than him."

He pursed his lips: "Fortunately, the silver has not been thrown into the water over the years, I survived, and my state is slowly improving." "In the period before my fourth brother's expedition, if it weren't for the people who were close to him on weekdays, the difference was not too big just by appearance." "It's always going to be different." I looked at him, my heart was surging, and the image of him in my mind instantly became two. "Nature is different." He whispered, "In this world, even if it is a leaf, it is impossible to find two identical pieces, let alone a person." “

"I think so too." I bowed my head and whispered.

"Xiao Ning." I called out to him suddenly, and he looked up sharply and looked at me a little distractedly.

"Xiao Ning." I repeated, "How can there be no Xiao Ning in the world, aren't you in front of me?" ”

"It's not easy for you to survive such a difficult day." I said with emotion.

"I'm afraid there aren't many people who know the inside story." I asked tentatively.

Xiao Ning bowed his head and said: "It's not much, and if you can't keep the secret, it's gone." ”

I was stunned, and my expression was moved: "Anyway, you are still me, it is a miracle that you can survive and talk here." ”

"You have to cherish it, and you can cherish it."

When Xiao Ning heard this, there was a faint sadness in his eyes, and he smiled a little self-deprecatingly. "Do you have any other siblings besides a twin brother?" I asked. "Yes." Xiao Ning's lips opened lightly and whispered, "My mother alone has given birth to several children, and in that accident last year, my other brother died. “

He was talking about the few words I had heard on and off on the street these days, and my face was solemn.

I remember the name of the protagonist, Xiao Rin, Xiao Rin, an accident last year killed him, it is said that he was an assassin, or he was assassinated on the way out, and he didn't even find a clue.

Because of that unsolved case, several officials were also dismissed.

What kind of astonishing strategy should it be to be able to use such a strategy under heavy protection? "My father still has a few concubines, but in the past few years, he has gone several."

I frowned and said: "The palace is clothed in fine clothes and food, there are also famous doctors in the world waiting, there are countless rare medicinal materials, plus the three layers of protection inside and three layers outside, how can there be so many people left one after another?" "That's too much to say, are there so many accidents? Or is it artificial? "For that dragon chair, they can't do anything, just the old case of murdering the fourth brother in the first place, it implicated several princes, the forbidden ones, and the unknown deaths." "Listening to you say that, could it be that your fourth brother was a cold-blooded and iron-fisted person when he was alive?"

After a word, it's really hard for me not to associate it so much, Xiao Chu, him

I looked out the window at the palace on the other side of the long street, and unconsciously clenched my palms again.

I think of Xiao Chu who carved words on the big tree in the courtyard of the Lost Valley Mansion, and Xiao Chu who carved the words of diamond on the intricate cave stones.

The same name, but completely different associations.

One is in the power of life and death, with an iron and bloody hand, and the other is affectionate, wanting to leave and stay. "Not really." Xiao Ning was fascinated by his eyes, he seemed to fall into the memory, and said with some yearning, "My fourth brother is the best person in this world." "He had no choice, and sometimes, it wasn't what he meant, it was my father's will." "My father originally liked my other elder brother Xiao Rin, but after watching them after several years of training, he still felt that the fourth brother was more suitable for that position." "But once my father revealed this meaning, the fourth brother was like standing on the tip of a knife." "It's not a human life," I sighed, "and even if you sit on it, what's the good of it." "Maybe it's not as good as ordinary people's homes, a little rich is safe, full of food and clothing, and life is happy and simple."

I had a few thoughts in my mind, and suddenly I thought of the strictest question, if I said that, wouldn't Xiao Ning be the next candidate for the country's lordship?

In place of his fourth brother, he stood in front of the world, which means