The bamboo garden where Ji Jiu lives is in the north of the east courtyard, and it is usually a quiet place, not to mention that the singing and dancing by the lake can't disturb him, even if the steward has something to report, he rarely has to enter the garden. 【Book by】

On the trail, I stopped, turned to look at him in a daze.

Just now, his sentence "What is the matter of Sealand, which one can be easily concealed from her" still echoed in my ears, but my mind became transparent and clear in an instant.

By the way, only the Empress of Sealand, only she can build this courtyard so generously, claiming to be the second in Sealand, in fact, I can think that there must be a last resort reason for her to let him stay away from the national capital and go here to recuperate.

I have no way of understanding the secrets of the battle in the palace, but Ji Jiu's lingering old wounds, the strange prescription, as well as his gray hair and hoarse voice, all remind me that he must have suffered indescribable pain before.

After the great shock, I looked into his eyes and couldn't help but express sentimentality and sympathy.

In my opinion, he has a gentle personality and a quiet life, and for what reason he has been forced to such a point.

I sighed silently, looking down at the fallen leaves on the ground after the rain, and it was a long time before I spoke, "Do you hate her?" ”

Without waiting for him to answer, I said to myself: "If you want to say that you don't hate, you won't come up with a stand-in method to get out of your current situation for yourself, being in the bamboo garden, although it is brocade clothes and jade food, but for you, it may not be a happy thing." ”

"What you yearn for is probably just to live the rest of your life quietly or lonely."

When Ji Jiu heard this, he actually laughed first.

"How can you speak in such an old-fashioned manner at your young age?"

My eyes froze, how did this sound familiar?

After thinking about it, I remembered that in the southwest, when I said that Xue Ying's stupid melon subordinates, the righteous and awe-inspiring Luo Junman, this word was commonly used.

I didn't think that after a few days, it was still used on my own body. I smiled self-deprecatingly.

Ji Jiu's voice was hoarse and unpleasant when I first heard it, but I got along with him and gradually got used to his voice, although it was very incompatible with his person.

With a hint of tiredness in his tone, he said, "You just said something wrong. I'm not hating her, I'm tired of it. "I know very well in my heart that this state is only going to get worse every year, and what she looks forward to is that when she can come once in a while, I still stay where I am and wait, but I am tired of waiting." "Do you think of a couple for the rest of your life?"

I asked in a tentative tone, although I regretted it as soon as I said it, what is the difference between the Empress Sealand and the emperor of the patriarchal world.

All of them are three palaces and six courtyards. The same can't be petted.

The most familiar sentence about harem life is that all parties are constrained, and it is best to balance.

Ji Jiu shook his head, reached out and brushed away a bamboo leaf on his robe and said, "I never thought that she would save me from that year." I just knew. "But I don't understand why you have to go?" "You know, you are here, you don't need to worry about your life, but when you are outside, you need to take care of the medicine you want to take yourself." "Although she has failed you, hasn't your life here been peaceful for a few years?" "Besides, it's not like you can break it if you say it's broken. Even if you are at the end of the cape, one day, if you think of her, it will be very painful, and when the time comes, what should you do? “

Ji Jiu was silent for a moment and said, "I have a plan." Xiaolin, the way you see me now, it's not the worst yet, it's only going to get worse and worse in the future, do I have to wait until that time. Forced to leave? ”

"If you go now, at least you have the initiative, and you can let her remember more benefits?"

"That's what it means, you know."

After adjusting my mood, I said, "Is it useful to say so many things that haven't happened, I don't know how to go through the level." "Come, tell me about her preferences, tell me about who she is."

The topic changed, and Ji Jiu's face showed a hint of a smile and said, "I just had this intention, I brought you to the bamboo forest, that's what I said, but I just diverted the topic." ”

"Have you ever wondered why I readily agreed to help you?" "You should have some certainty or chance of winning before you are happy to agree."

Ji Jiu got up, half-leaned on a stone pillar in the pavilion, his eyes fell on the distance and said, "On the way you came, have you heard rumors about her?" "That's, that's a lot." I snapped my fingers and began to tell all the rumors I had heard about the Empress of Sealand in the border between the territory of the Lake Kingdom and the southwest, one by one.

Ji Jiu listened patiently all the time, showing a knowing or surprised smile from time to time. "If she hears these words herself, she doesn't know how to feel?" Taking advantage of the pause in my speech, Ji Jiu muttered. "The next time I see her, just say no."

I looked at Ji Jiu with a smile: "I guess it's just about the same as you look like now." “

"Ninth Master, the outside world says that she is absurd, lewd, and shameless, that she is dictatorial and authoritarian, and that she has few good words, but I met a family near a border town, because there are members of the family who are officials in the Sealand court, so the evaluation of her is not low."

"Let me think, how should I describe her?"

General Ji Jiu's back once again leaned against the slightly cool stone pillar, and he said with melancholy in his voice: "That year, I fled from the chaos of the army and horses all the way to the south. ”

"When I met her, it was when I was most embarrassed."

"Although my life at home is not happy, but as you said, I have always been rich in clothes and food, my home is a home that does not need to be considered for firewood, rice, oil and salt, and the people in that family think about some intriguing things."

"But as I became an adult, I grew more and more tired of such days, and I was able to stay in that home for so long because of my brother."

My heart jumped, and the eyes that looked at him suddenly became very solemn, Ji Jiu didn't realize that on such an afternoon, once he opened the chatterbox, it would be difficult to close it lightly.

From his narration, it can be seen how much he has suppressed his feelings on weekdays that he can't be relieved, and he can also feel that he has been deeply lonely for a few years when he stays in this bamboo garden.

Taking advantage of the pause in his words, I suddenly interjected: "What does the Sealand Palace look like, can you describe it to me?" ”

"Actually, it's similar to the outside, as you said, the entire east courtyard is her handwriting, and she naturally follows the same style as the Sealand Palace."

"But Xiaolin, I don't have any feelings for this, because where I used to live, I can't find a better place in the world."

"Unlike Sealand, which is covered with ice and snow all year round, what you can't imagine is that in such a high and cold place, there are still flowers blooming and magnificent palaces."

"It's not surprising that people who first come there will think that it is Yaochi Wonderland, Qionglou Yuyu."

"It's not humanly at all."

"What you say, it sounds very desirable."

"I'm saying it's incredible, aren't you suspicious?"

I shook my head and said, "Not at all, I believe there is such a place, but since it is such a beautiful place, you have to flee, with such a gentle personality of yours can't stand it, it can be seen that you are not the only one who escaped." "No matter how big and beautiful the place is, if it is cold and inhumane, how many people can stand it."

There was a sense of desolation in my tone, Ji Jiu looked back at me, this time he caught the message in my eyes, and he asked with concern, "What's wrong with you?" “

"Ninth Master, I'm afraid Ji Jiu isn't your real name, right?"

"Well, I didn't change my name until I got to Sealand, but I was called by them when I arrived in the East Courtyard."

A smile appeared on the corner of Ji Jiu's mouth and said, "There is another name in the Sealand Palace, which she gave me a name." ”

"Would you like to tell me?"

"Chaohua."

My face turned pale, and a thought flashed in my heart, I haven't mentioned that chance encounter to Ji Jiu now.

That valuable jade pendant, that seemingly inexplicable encounter.

Suddenly, I understood something.

It seems that this so-called stand-in has no possibility of success in this life!

But Ji Jiu rarely showed such a happy expression, he had been entangled in things for several years, hoping to get out soon, if I broke him now, would he be discouraged?

Suppressing the panic in my heart, I thought about the possibility of what he said, but I didn't expect that there was such a layer of involvement.

Things in the world are really mysterious, and there seems to be a pusher in the dark

In the evening in the border town of Zealand, Jia Lao Liu sat on the stone steps by the river, bored and lazily fiddling with a hairpin he had just bought.

Two days earlier, he had met a young Peugeot woman in the town, who had been trafficked from Zealand to Huguo and wanted to go back to her family.

When he saw that the other party was good-looking, he had a bad idea for a while, and the last time he sold it, he heard that it was sent to Sealand's famous fireworks field.

In order to share the stolen money, his friendship with Lu Daduan for more than ten years is completely over.

To find out the other party's personality, he felt that he needed to figure it out slowly, most of the women in Sealand had strong personalities, and if she accidentally killed herself, that is, the chicken and the egg were empty, so he was ready, and slowly got along for a while, so that the other party relaxed his guard.

He enthusiastically found a place for the woman to live in, and informed her that the recent border control is not ordinary strict, and it is even more difficult for someone with an embarrassing status like her.

originally said that he would meet today, but he bought a hairpin and sent it, but the other party said goodbye without saying goodbye.

Could it be that the kid surnamed Lu got the news and made the first move?

He searched the whole town, but there was no sign of any man.

After staying by the river for an afternoon, seeing that it was getting dark, Jia Lao Liu got up and walked near the forest.

Turning a corner, a steel knife was placed on his neck