Chapter 17: The Shadow of the Moon

"I don't know the county lord, what is your impression of His Majesty?" Under the pretext of visiting the patient, Wei Chong has come to test my tone for the second time, I have recovered from that day of illness, but my body has not been very good, at first I was worried that Wei Chong would do something in my decoction, so it has always been Wei Chong's trustworthy subordinates who are doing this, but this almost half a month has passed, but it is not good, I have to accept it, this is the cause of heart disease.

"I heard him say that his queen is the daughter of the prince, has the prince ever taken her feelings into consideration?" I changed the subject.

"The little girl is not sensible, and she can't think of His Majesty. Even for the sake of my Xiyi's country, I have to wronged her. Wei Chong said it regretfully, but it was obviously pretended, and he didn't even bother to hide his eyes, "Could it be that the county lord is still thinking about the unfashionable prince of Beishao?" ”

"There are so many people in my heart. The younger brother in the family also has a fiancé. I deliberately accentuated my fiancé's tone, "This Huangfu Xuan Hao Lai is the number one person, will he bear to rob his fiancée?" I heard that even if a man doesn't love a woman, stepping on his bottom line and hurting his dignity will annoy him. ”

There was a moment of emotion in Wei Chong's eyes, and I knew that he cared.

"I don't know if Huangfu Xuan knows that his fiancée has been faking death for two years and has close contacts with the prince of Beishao, whether he will move Xiyi first or Beishao first."

I have to agree with Wei Xiao's judgment, he is indeed an old fox, I fight with him, the kung fu difference is not one or two points, he only said this, I saw the confidence in his eyes, indicating that he had already calculated, all the possibilities.

"I heard that Prince Yuwen returned to Beishao under the escort of General Qiao, and sat firmly on the throne of the crown prince, not only made a marriage contract with the eldest lady of the Gao family and was about to get married, but also did a lot of great things, and the people benefited from the grace of heaven, but he also won the heart of Emperor Yuwen, but only he seemed to have forgotten you."

Again and again, Wei Chong seems to be deliberately hitting me, perhaps in his opinion, women of my age are all love first, and a broken love is like the sky falling. "This deal, didn't it be explained from the beginning, will he come to pick me up this condition?"

Wei Chong smiled and left.

I was in a daze until sunset.

In fact, although it is not as good as the sky falling, but it is almost the same, I liked someone for the first time in my life, and in the end it turned out to be such an ending, not so much hate, but regret and anger, just because I thought he still had nostalgia for me, not that he didn't like me anymore, so he had to leave me.

But what can be done?

"County Lord, take the medicine." The little maid brought my medicine in, for fear of getting cold, "It's very cold outside today, Your Majesty ordered, let me add a brazier to your room, you see where it is appropriate." ”

"Whatever." I took the medicine bowl with one hand.

"It's all in the palace now," she lowered her voice, so small that I could barely hear it, but it was too obvious that she was stunned in place.

"What's being preached?" I don't care about being a good person and letting her finish the message.

"The regent intends to arrange for you to enter the palace and become the side concubine of His Majesty, and it is now rumored in the palace that His Majesty is so attentive to you, and you must be the only pet after entering the palace**, everyone wants to come to serve you and build a relationship." She replied timidly, but not a word sounded stumbling, probably after many practices.

"I heard that you are the person next to Wei Xiao, since he asked you to bring medicine to me, he is probably someone he can trust." I said to myself, blowing on the overheated decoction in the medicine bowl, and said unhurriedly, "Since you know what the regent is thinking, and you have the trust of Wei Xiao, and you know the rumors in the palace, who has received the benefits, come to find out my mouth." ”

"The slave is guilty." Her face changed drastically, and she knelt on the ground and pleaded guilty.

"If you don't say it, I can probably guess who it is. I just don't know, does the person who invited you want me to enter the palace, or doesn't want me to enter the palace? "It's been a little hard to deal with the regent for a few days, but I never thought that I didn't know it, and I provoked someone, and I didn't want her answer, seeing that she trembled for a while, I went on and said, "Today's matter, I won't tell sù Wei, and I ask you to help bring a message to that person, I have no intention of fighting with her, let alone being an enemy of her, and now I am trapped here, but I am helpless." ”

Although I don't know whether the queen of Wei is friend or foe, I really don't want to offend her, I didn't know before, but now I am caught in the whirlpool of interests in the palace struggle, so I understand the truth that it is difficult to advance and retreat.

If it is possible in this life, I really don't want to get involved in the struggle for royal power anymore, even if I can't go back, I just want to be free and be my ninth son.

"It would be nice to go back to where I was before I met these people." I couldn't help but sigh quietly.

"What did you say?" She didn't hear me.

I shook my head, "It's nothing, you go down, just tell Your Majesty, I've already drunk the medicine." ”

Ugly time.

I don't know why it was so hard to sleep that night, maybe it was because I slept too much during my illness, or maybe I had too much to worry about.

The moon outside the window hung eerily high, but there were not even a single star around.

Hearing something strange at the palace gate, I got up a little nervous and habitually guarded.

The door opened, and in the moonlight that filled the inner room, I vaguely saw someone standing in the doorway, and shook my head to think it would be him, and when he walked straight to me, I blurted out, "I thought you were really going to leave me." ”

When he approached me, he was slightly stunned when he heard this, and he didn't explain, but just pulled down the mask on his face.

It turned out to be Wei Xiao.

At that moment, there was a feeling that my heart was like ashes, and the hope that had just been ignited was instantly shattered to the point that I couldn't even see the ashes. A smile froze on his face.

"Let's go." Wei Xiao stretched out his hand but only grabbed my wrist, through the clothes, the strength also deliberately avoided something, pulled me out of the palace, along the way there were people in the same black clothes to come to explore the way for us, along the path, actually dodged all the way, and saw that it was to the back door of the palace.

"Who!" Someone shouted, and immediately there was a bright light.

"Kill." Wei Xiao, who was standing on the side, stretched out his hand to pull the black mask up, his eyes were extremely fierce at the moment, and he spit out a word through the black mask.

At his command, a dozen or so black-clothed people behind him swarmed up and killed the guards guarding the city.

In a trance, two guards saw me and him, and slashed straight at Wei Xiao with their knives, and I reached out to pull him back, and I was ready to dodge sideways.

Wei Xiao suddenly let go of my wrist.

He turned slightly sideways to avoid the direction of the blade, his left hand actually pinched the back of the knife, and reached out to choke the throat of the person who came, I only heard a crisp sound, the man's face was twisted, his neck was crooked, his eyes widened and he fell to the ground in a very uncomfortable-looking position, and died.

The other person turned around to dodge, but the knife in Wei Xiao's hand snapped off, and the blade flew out at an extremely fast speed, directly into the person's chest.

I used to think that Wei Liang was sick, and he shouldn't know kung fu.

"Let's go. A little later, my uncle's people came, you walked through this palace gate, and walked straight along the street for about two pillars of incense, which is the gate of Shulan City, the capital of Xiyi Kingdom, if you can get out, this trip to the muddy water has nothing to do with you. Wei Xiao said.

"I didn't expect you to send me out of your palace in Xiyi like this." I quipped, then clenched my fist and said, "Thank you, take care." ”

I strode forward.

"Fuyin." Wei Xiao called me, "Yu Wenzheng can be regarded as a rare good man in this troubled world, but you need to remember that the deep palace court does not allow emotions to be troubled, and what you think may just kill you." If you really can't think of where to go, go where you want to go the most. ”

I knew what he meant, nodded, and he raised his hand at me, and I left.

I walked straight out of the city as he wanted, and the road was very cold, and I wore only thin pajamas and a cloak, but I did not protect myself from the cold. I didn't know where I was going next.

"Have you heard, the county lord of Zhaohua is now in our Xiyi." There was a guard passing by, I dodged and hid in the alley on the side, and was just about to leave, but I heard the lord of Zhaohua, so I stopped again.

"Doesn't this mean that I, Xiyi, am going to sit as the overlord of the world. It's been so many years of war in the four countries, it's time to calm down, the county lord of Zhaohua has been missing for two years, and this is suddenly in our Xiyi country, maybe it's God's arrangement. ”

"I have heard that the regent has brought him back to the palace with shackles and shackles. Come" He seemed to want to say something, but he was worried, and whispered to his companion to lean over, and lowered his voice, "Our regent deliberately wants to arrange to send the county lord of Zhaohua to His Majesty." This seems to be to help His Majesty rule the world, but in fact, he doesn't want to borrow a knife to kill people. Tomorrow night, our prince is going to have a banquet in the palace, and I see that he is going to make a date for the wedding. ”

"Don't talk nonsense. Let people listen, and they won't kill you. ”

The two of them walked leisurely and chatting down the street.

The regent wants to feast Wei Xiao in the palace? Wei Xiao sent me out of the palace at this time, if it is really as I guessed, it seems that Xiyi is also going to have a storm.

I was a little undecided, and when I turned around, I saw a little girl standing next to me, about eleven or twelve years old, dressed in a turquoise dress, looking at me with wide eyes. Looking in the direction of the two of them, she looked me up and down, reached out and pulled my cloak, and the cloak that was tightly wrapped around me entered the cold wind, and I couldn't help but shiver. But she said, "Is it cold? Come with me. ”

I thought she was familiar, she must have seen her somewhere, but I couldn't remember it for a while. Now I have nowhere to go, this little girl looks familiar, she may not be able to sell me, maybe it is some young lady from a big family, sneaking out, at least for me now, it is good to have a place to hide from the cold, I don't care about anything else, she walks in front, and I follow behind.

Sure enough, as I had guessed, she led me to the back door of a house, pushed it open herself, and motioned for me to go in with her. Perhaps I should have been wary of her, and the little girl who suddenly appeared brought me to her house, but I thought she was very familiar.

She didn't shy away from it, and she didn't take it as carefully as she guessed, but she led me down the path into a wing room in the backyard, "This is one of my uncle's outhouses, you can live here." ”

Her uncle's outhouse? "So, do I need to go and say hello to your uncle?"

"No, no, no." Hearing me say this, she was a little flustered, and hurriedly waved her hand and said, "You can stay, my uncle will be very busy these days, and when he is done, I will take you to see him." ”

When you're done, referral? I reached out and rubbed her hair in a bun, she really thought, I'm going to live here? "Little girl, why are you helping me?"

"Do you really, don't you remember me?" She was a little disappointed, her eyes widened, and there was a crystal shaking, "Really, really, don't you remember Ah Ning?" ”

"Ah Ning?" I was still confused, but I couldn't think of anything. Will she be the person I met by chance in the past two years but just happened to forget? Or is it the old acquaintance of the former Zhaohua County Lord? Judging from her age, when the county lord of Zhaohua died, she should have been about ten years old, and the intersection between the two should not be very big. "What does your uncle do?"

She shook her head and walked out the door.

I was left alone and stunned.

If I have a child in the future, I will definitely educate her well, and I must not bring strangers into the house casually, especially when the parents are very busy and do not know.

However, having said that, this house is hidden, with an inconspicuous façade and a built-in hole, it seems that the whole house does not occupy a large area, with about six or seven rooms in the front yard and back yard. Who the hell is this little girl? How could it be so coincidental, as if the underworld was really designed.

It's only been two days, what should I do next? Wei Xiao sent me out of the Yi Palace, can I just leave without righteousness? Moreover, he always felt that when he said goodbye, he had something to say that he had not finished.

"This," the little girl knocked on the door and walked in with a stack of clothes, "see if there's anything you can wear." ”

"Thank you." I came back to my senses, "You said your name is Ah Ning, right?" Are these clothes your aunt's? ”

After hearing this, Ah Ning shook his head and nodded again, "Uncle asked me to give it to you, but I don't know if it fits you." ”

I took my clothes and flipped through them casually, "You sued your uncle?" Then I don't go to say hello, isn't it too rude? ”

"Uncle has been very busy lately, let's wait a few days. By the way, my uncle wants me to tell you a word. Ah Ning's turquoise body looked aura under the reflection of the candlelight, and it was very delicate, "Do what you want, do it, your choice now is right, and the truth will be revealed by yourself." ”

I can't help but feel a chill down my spine. Do whatever you want?

The choice now is right, and the truth is up to you to unveil?!

"Your uncle, is he a fortune teller?" This is also too much of a coincidence.

Ah Ning shook her head, turned around and went out.

"Do whatever you want." If the choice is right, then is it right that I want to go to the Regent's Mansion to help the guards? So what is the truth? Why do you say you have to reveal it yourself?

Maybe I was too tired, and I fell asleep not long after lying in bed with my head next to the pillow.

If I hadn't fallen asleep so early that day, I might have seen the person who stood in front of the window and stared at me for a long time, but because of carelessness, I missed the reunion.

That night, someone stood in the courtyard all night, the moonlight sprinkled on his body, and a long shadow fell on the bluestone path, the moon-white clothes reflected the moonlight with a little chill, and looked at the sleeping people in the room through the half-covered window.

"Is she an aunt?" Ah Ning walked up to him and pouted, "But she doesn't know Ah Ning anymore." ”

He didn't speak, and reached out to stroke Ah Ning's bun.

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