As a last resort

The handsome young man turned his gaze to her, walked slowly to her and stared at her for a moment, without speaking.

Li Ximu looked at her for a while, and saw that he didn't speak, so he had to ask out loud, "What's the matter?" ”

Only then did the handsome young man retract his gaze and replied in an arrogant tone: "It's okay, I just want to see what the person who can bring Brother Yue into the Mingyue Pavilion looks like." ”

Li Ximu was even more puzzled.

I saw that the handsome young man giggled twice, with an innocent face, and continued: "But I don't look good, and I'm not much better than me?" ”

When the handsome young man said this, his face was full of doubts: "But why did Brother Yue let you live in?" ”

Xicui snorted coldly again, obviously disdainful: "I said that this person should still be a little self-aware, don't think about not being your own every day." ”

When Li Ximu heard this, the doubts in her heart deepened, and she just wanted to ask, but she heard Xicui say to her: "Miss Li, you are the one who lives in Mingyue Pavilion, and Xicui thinks that you are as noble as Gongzi!" Other people in this mansion naturally think the same way, and those who are indiscriminate are difficult to get close to Gongzi, let alone live in, and they are lying here every day without knowing it! I'm not ashamed! ”

When the handsome boy heard this, he immediately said angrily: "Miss Ben can't do things in your turn to call the maid to talk nonsense!" Brother Yue knows that he will not spare you! ”

"Yo yo yo, what about Brother Huanyue, I haven't even seen my son's face for so many days, who is your name?" Xicui naturally didn't let her.

Li Ximu was surprised, it turned out that this handsome young man was a girl, it was estimated that she was the lover sister of Yue Lu Xin, no wonder she came to her, but she was still young and choked by Xi Cui.

The little girl estimated that her anger was not clear, and when she heard Xicui's words, her eyes suddenly turned red, the water flickered, her red pink lips pursed, and she stomped on her feet and ran out.

Xicui ran to the door and looked around, covered her mouth and said with a smile, "Hey! I didn't even say a couple of sentences before I ran away! I haven't said enough yet! ”

Li Ximu put down the dishes and chopsticks in his hand and walked to the door, Xicui saw that Li Ximu came out, and hurriedly asked, "Is the pear girl eating?" Xicui is going to clean up. After saying that, he went back to the house and went to work.

Ri Ximu only caught a glimpse of the figure disappearing around the corner of the cloister.

"Xicui, who is that girl just now?" Li Ximu was a little curious after all, thinking that although the girl was dressed as a man, she was still gorgeously dressed, and her demeanor seemed to be trained by a big family.

Xicui quickly put the dishes and chopsticks on the table into the food box, and closed the lid before replying: "Miss Pear, how can she be our son-in-law, our son-in-law can't hide from her!" ”

Li Ximu was even more puzzled when she heard this, and pulled Xicui to sit down at the table nearby: "How do you say this?" Why did your son-in-law hide from her? ”

Xicui sighed and said, "After all, she is also a poor person, there is a small country near the northeast, I don't know if you know Miss Pear?" ”

Li Ximu nodded: "It seems that I have heard that it is called Suguo." ”

"That's right! It is the Su country, which is said to be divided into five major countries in the Jinqu continent today, in addition to our Zizhu country in the middle, there are also Longao country in the east, Hongxi country in the west, south country in the south and Fengdu country in the north, this Su country is sandwiched between this Longao country and Fengdu country. After Xicui finished speaking, she stretched out her hand and poured a glass of water for Li Ximu and herself.

Li Ximu picked it up and took a sip, motioning for her to continue.

Xicui didn't have any image, took a big sip and continued: "I heard Gongzi say that the current Longao Kingdom is experiencing civil strife, it seems that they are the rebellion initiated by King Xuanling, these years, it is naturally the people who have suffered from the war all their lives, but the fief of King Xuanling is close to Suguo, and the general of Long Aoguo's Zhenguo has been hit back again and again, and finally signed an agreement to ensure that there will be no rebellion again in his lifetime." Xicui paused and said, "But this King Xuanling is naturally unwilling to have only that small piece of fiefdom, and this civil strife cannot be achieved, so he naturally wants to expand his territory elsewhere, and when he finds a reason, he asks for a war against Suguo, and the monarch of Longao Kingdom is a faint monarch!" As soon as he heard that he could expand his territory, he immediately agreed and allocated 30,000 soldiers and horses to King Xuanling. ”

Li Ximu was very worried, it is still difficult for a small country to take care of itself, and once it encounters foreign invasion, it is almost in danger of destroying the country.

Li Ximu asked again: "That girl has something to do with the crisis in this country?" Xicui nodded: "She is the youngest princess of Suguo, Murong Yunxu." ”

Li Ximu was surprised, that girl was actually a princess, thinking of her constant wiping of tears when she left, thinking that Xicui's words were probably never dared to be said to her.

Xi Cui continued: "Although the emperor of Nasu Kingdom is not brutal, but he is cowardly and incompetent, as soon as he heard that Long Aoguo was going to attack them, he sent people to Fengdu Kingdom to ask for help, saying that he would marry this princess to Fengdu Kingdom. said that she was a princess, but she was just a princess of Suguo, who would still treat her as a princess when she came out of Suguo. ”

Sure enough, the world is hot and cold, and the princess of the former scenery has finally fallen victim to politics.

"But why is she here now?" Li Ximu was very puzzled, could it be that this month, Lu Xin still has any relationship with Su Guo?

Sympathy appeared in Xicui's eyes: "There is a legend in the Fengdu Kingdom, I don't know if the pear girl has ever heard of it?" ”

"What legend?"

"Everyone in the world knows that there is a very beautiful Jiuming Lake in the country of Fengdu, which is called a sacred lake by the people of the country of Fengdu, and that legend is about that lake." Xicui's tone of voice was mysterious, and Li Ximu was naturally very curious about the legend she said.

Xicui didn't sell Guanzi either, and said eloquently: "Legend has it that there were two major spirit beasts in the Fengdu Kingdom before, the dove and the phoenix. The dove and the phoenix are born with the same egg, the phoenix is extremely beautiful, and the dove is highly poisonous, one day the dove and the phoenix met the phoenix on the shore of this lake at the same time, at first sight, the phoenix was impressed by the beauty of the phoenix, but disgusted with the dove that is full of poison, the dove is very inferior, love but dare not speak, know that the phoenix and the phoenix Pannia are reborn as one, the dove can no longer suppress the pain in the heart, in the lake mournful chirp, according to legend, the mourning is tearful, break people's soft intestines, break people's hearts. ”

Li Ximu was moved by this story in his heart, but listened to Xicui continue: "Fengdu Kingdom uses doves as totems and is good at poisoning, and it is rumored that their emperor injured his face in a poison study. ”

"It doesn't matter if the man hurts his appearance, it's just his skin." Li Ximu disagreed.

Seeing that she didn't think so, Xicui hurriedly said, "He hurt his whole face!" Whoever marries such a man is miserable. ”

Li Ximu didn't dwell on this question anymore, and said her guess: "Is it that Princess Wanxu also heard about it and didn't want to marry her?" ”