When Qin Nanxi returned to the General's Mansion, Situ Yi had already gone out.

She thought about it all the way, and when she looked at the empty Lixing Tower, she suddenly sprinkled like a spoonful of boiling water on the extremely cold ice field, and in just a moment, the boiling pain in her heart condensed into cold frost.

Weakly crooked on the couch, Qin Nan looked at the sycamore broadleaf outside the rhombic window. Fang found that another season of thin autumn was quietly coming. The palm-sized sycamore fat leaves, the leaf edge has been stained with a faint line of light gold. The autumn air is sluggish, the breeze is slightly rolling, and she also feels the coldness of her heart.

"Wen'er" Qin Nanxi lay down for a long time before he stood up and called.

Wen'er came up with small steps and listened respectfully: "Madame"

"Go and see, Mr. Liu can be in the garden? If so, please ask Mr. to go to the floating pavilion, and I will ask Mr. if I have something. ”

Wen'er took the order and quietly retreated. Qin Nanxi looked at the tall and elegant house, and his mind was extremely clear.

Thinking about it carefully, Situ Yi has experienced many differences from before since he experienced the darkness outside Ruoshui Nunnery. It's just that she has been deliberately ignoring it.

In the mountains of Tongguan, he led the elite cavalry, but he sat back and watched until the soldiers guarding the pass were defeated, and he did not send troops. The significance of seizing the right to guard the pass is far greater than that of guarding the pass. He handed over the "Begging for Thieves" written by Liu Qi to the then Prince of Changping, and launched a righteous teacher in the name of the prince, and handed over the great merit of retreating from the enemy to the former emperor's concubine, who had been suffering from no war exploits. Help it finally have the heaviest bargaining chip to fight for power.

He secretly called on the five major festivals to make it difficult to protect the lord, but on the grounds that the general was not ordered to do so, he completely eliminated the "Iron Thunderbolt" system of Wuda, and fought all the way to the north of Amiri Mountain. This move not only completely avenged his own revenge for extermination, but also tied several knots with heavy troops to the big ship of "Jing Nan Protector".

In Tongguan City, he skillfully forced Prince Changping to agree to his marriage to her. He knew that her father, Qin Zi'an, had the weight of the court. With this marriage, he could easily get the support and maintenance of the court's civil servants.

There are martial arts support, there are Wenchen support, as the great Sima general, Wu Dinggong, the first queen's brother, if you have the identity of the prince's uncle, try to ask the government and the opposition, who else can compete with Situ Yi?

Qin Nanxi thought about these carefully, thinking about Liu Qi's words, sister-in-law's words, and those cold history books with blood dripping every word, supporting the powerful ministers, and the regent of her relatives....... her mind was also like being immersed in a cold pool, getting colder and colder.

However, the strange thing is that her heart stubbornly insists on believing in Situ Yi. In her heart, she believed in his love for her and believed that he had no plans. Her heart, like that of a lonely child who resolutely defends her homeland, stands sadly outside the almost completely collapsed city wall, stubbornly resisting any powerful attack.

Stroking his heart, Qin Nanxi smiled bitterly. She didn't understand why she had always been like this to him, her heart couldn't help herself, or God didn't follow her will, when was the pain of this torn heart?

The "madam" squirming footsteps and deferential voice shattered Qin Nanxi's doubts.

Turning around and wiping the tears from the corners of her eyes, Qin Nanxi lifted the curtain and walked out of the inner room, just as she wanted to ask, she saw Wen'er holding a letter in both hands and respectfully handing it to her.

"What is this?"

"Mrs. Hui, Mr. Liu and Miss Aluo are not in the room. The attendants in the garden said that Mr. Liu and Miss Ah Luo went out at midnight this morning, and did not explain anything, and only this letter remained in the room. ”

Qin Nanxi took the thin envelope and said, "Yin is going out? So early, before the gates were opened, where could they go? After that, it suddenly occurred to him that Situ Yi had a token in his hand, even if there was a curfew, the people in his house, even Steward Ye and others, could enter and exit with a license, not to mention his friend Liu Qi.

Qin Nanxi hooked up the sharp gold armor and picked up the envelope printed with red mud seal. But I saw that in the envelope, there was only a thin plain note, and on the note, there was only one word "thanks" written on it.

"Thanks?" Qin Nanxi stared at the headless and tailless, vigorous and lonely words on the empty note, full of doubts. Liu Qi: What does this mean?

His mind flashed suddenly, and Qin Nanxi remembered Liu Qi's words when he was outside Tongguan Mountain: "You can learn with you, but you can't learn with the right way; It can be with the right way, but not with the right; It can be established, but not right. ”

Liu Qi knows Situ Yi, and knows a lot of things she doesn't know, his departure is just a choice after weighing, he believes that Situ Yi is "not suitable for the way" and "not for standing". Liu Qi and A Luo quietly parted, somewhat with Fan Li's wisdom. He and Situ Yi have been friends for many years, and only one of the lightest and most important words "thanks" ends with it... Since then, they have parted ways and settled in peace.

Even Liu Qi retired...... Qin Nanxi held a thin piece of paper, as if holding Qianjun's future, and his eyes were gray and cold.

"Madame, ma'am!" The housekeeper Ye Fu suddenly hurried upstairs, shouting and screaming without rules, obviously something was wrong.

Qin Nanxi was taken aback, and hurriedly asked, "Is there any bad news in the palace?" ”

Ye Fu's flushed face was covered with sweat drops the size of beans, but he shook his head desperately.

Qin Nanxi said hurriedly, "Say it quickly, why are you so frightened?" ”

"Yes, it's the Guogong Mansion, the Yasukuni Mansion, the obituary has just been sent in the mansion, the old lady, dead!"

Qin Nanxi's heartstrings, which were tense to the extreme, loosened when he heard this, and then suddenly pulled them up again.

Situ Chong went to Yelang to greet Situ Kun's body, and it was less than a month since he left, and he couldn't come back no matter how long he counted. Before leaving, he asked the couple to take care of his mother, but the old lady could not wait for her beloved young son to return to Beijing......

Qin Nanxi suppressed the regret in his heart, calmed down, and said to Ye Fu: "The general shouldn't know yet!" Immediately send someone to inform the general that he knows. The third prince in the Guogong Mansion is not in the capital at the moment, and the affairs of the Guogong Mansion are the affairs of the General's Mansion! You first select some people in the government who are diligent and duty-bound, and quickly send them to the house over there, and listen to the call of the housekeeper of the Guogong Mansion, and I will arrive later. ”

Ye Fu was slightly stunned, nodded hurriedly, and said, "The slave obeys!" The slave and maid brought their own people and hurried there. ”

Qin Nanxi nodded slightly and ordered him to retreat and prepare.

She knew very well that even if Situ Yi and the old lady did not agree, there was no need to let the people know about these things. Grievances should be resolved, and grievances have passed away. Such a major event, Situ Yi must take on it as the eldest son of the old prince. In this way, between the two brothers Situ Yi and Situ Chong, Yu Situ Yi's reputation should have some benefits.

Qin Nanxi thought about it, then turned inward, waited by Wen'er and changed into plain clothes and skirts, prepared a carriage and horses and hurried to the Yasukuni Mansion.

In the distance, I saw a pair of huge plain white lanterns hanging on the lamppost on the side of the door. Facing the wind, trembling and shaking.

Qin Nanxi was helped off the carriage by Wen'er, and as soon as she stepped up the steps, she saw a family member who was full of filial piety greeted her, bowed down and gave her a big salute, and did not speak, got up and only hung her head, and greeted Qin Nanxi all the way in.

On the long and winding road in the Guogong Mansion, at this time there are white curtains all over the place, and the eyes are full of neatness and solemnity. The people who were busy going back and forth at the base of the wall, all of them were filial and sad. Up and down the palace, the white shadows were crowded, but they were orderly, and there was no ownerless chaos at all.

I was full of doubts, I heard a whimpering cry in my ears, raised my eyes, and saw that on the west hall not far away, the mourning hall had been set up. The hall was full of people in white kneeling, all of whom were weeping bitterly.

"So soon to be buried?" Qin Nanxi looked at the dense white shadows in the hall and was not shocked.

"Miss!" A man in white suddenly walked to her feet, knelt down and prostrated without saying anything.

Qin Nanxi hurriedly leaned over to help, but the man insisted on not getting up, and only raised his head with two tears in his eyes.

saw that the person was a young woman, although her eyebrows and eyes were bland, but Qin Nanxi felt a sense of familiarity when she looked at it.

"Miss, the slave is worried about kowtowing to Miss from the bottom of her heart. But I haven't been able to get a chance, and today I finally met Miss. Let the slave kowtow to the young lady! Thank you, Miss, for saving my mother and son's lives! Great kindness, please Miss accept the slave and maid! The woman wept and bowed her head again.

"Save your mother and son?" Qin Nan was stunned, she couldn't remember when she had saved this woman, and it was even more strange that she would meet such a person in the Yasukuni Mansion to recognize her kindness, "Sister-in-law is afraid that she recognized the wrong person?" ”

The woman bowed, straightened up, shook her head, and said, "How can the slave admit her mistake for the grace of life?" If it weren't for the young lady, the slave mother and son would have starved to death outside the Ruoshui Nunnery in the west of the city, if it weren't for the young lady's instructions, how could the young master send me, a clumsy village woman, to the house as a servant? ”

Qin Nanxi suddenly remembered that the woman in front of her was the mother and son she saved when she lived in Ruoshui Nunnery. At that time, she asked Situ Chong to give their mother and son a way out. Situ Chong did promise her to find a way to survive for their mother and son. It's just that Qin Nanxi never thought that he would bring their mother and son to his house......

Situ Chong has always been like this, as long as it is her business, he will definitely make proper arrangements and do his best, and he will never ask for credit. Secretly grateful for Situ Chong's actions, Qin Nanxi was even more sad for him.

It's a pity that he didn't make it to see his mother for the last time.

"Your young master, he is already a good person, he will help without my entrustment!" Qin Nanxi said in a low voice, and his sad sigh was sincere and earnest.

The woman got up along Qin Nanxi's supporting arm, and while helping her to the mourning hall, she whispered: "What Miss said is that the young master is a good person!" It's just that he has suffered such a funeral repeatedly, and now he seems to have changed as a different person, and he doesn't say a word all day, which is the old lady's big thing, and the young master only ordered to follow the program, and he himself has been kneeling in front of the spirit since last night, and he has not gotten up yet! ”

"He, he's in the house?" Qin Nanxi exclaimed, "He's not going to ......"

"Yes, I don't know why, the young master came back alone, saying that he returned to the city the night before yesterday, and he opened the city gate early yesterday morning before returning to the mansion. Seeing the old lady, the mother and son hugged their heads and cried for most of the day, and in the second half of the night, the old lady was... It's gone! ”

Qin Nanxi was shocked when she heard this, and was stunned for a long time before she whispered to the woman: "Please ask your sister-in-law to spread the word on your behalf, just say, just say that Qin Nanxi came to condole." ”

"The slave obeys the order, the young lady waits, the slave and the maid will go to inform the young master!" The woman bowed down as she spoke. Qin Nanxi looked at her distant back, and her heart was uneasy.

After all, she still met him as Qin Nanxi, not as Situ Yi's wife and his sister-in-law.