Wu Lin saw that Xu Youshan wanted to be quiet, so after glancing at Liu's mother, they all got up and retired. It's just that before they withdrew, they all lit up the wicks in the room a little more before leaving.

And tonight is Chu Dai's vigil for Xu Youshan, although in the days when Xie Jing is not in the empty mountain residence, but returns to Bowei Houyun for the night, there is no need to keep vigil in the room to win people, but recently Xie Jing has spent the night in the empty mountain house, and Xie Jing has not come back yet, so Chu Dai is still by Xu Youshan's side at this time, quietly, did not speak again, just accompanied her, under the gilt flower lantern, waiting for the returnee to come back.

"Princess."

In the quiet of the night, any sound could not be clearer, let alone the sudden sound of an announcement outside the door? Xu Youshan's body trembled, and then she looked at Chu Dai, Chu Dai naturally understood what Xu Youshan meant, and immediately put down the rope in her hand, walked to the door, opened the door that had been covered, and let the people outside in, followed Chu Dai to the inner room, and respectfully saluted Xu Youshan.

"Mother Gu, is there a reply from the person guarding the gate, and His Highness has returned?" The person who came was Gu's mother, and the security of the door of the cloud courtyard in Bowei Houyun has always been the responsibility of Gu's mother, so who will report what news is also the first to know Gu's mother. Like today, Xu Youshan specially instructed her that if the person guarding the concierge came back to deliver the letter, then she had to be notified as soon as possible.

"Back to the princess, yes, there was a letter from the concierge just now, saying that His Royal Highness had returned home, but at this time, he had already gone directly to the empty mountain residence." Gu's mother didn't dare to delay, and replied directly to Xu Youshan.

In fact, Xu Youshan had always thought before. The next thing that will break out must be the matter of Xie Mintun's private soldiers, so she has always been highly concentrated. I've been secretly preparing, and the huge waves that will explode in the next moment. But after all calculations, the absolutely unforeseen came first—the news of the defeat in the Battle of Reef Valley came back, and once again the stealing of military supplies that people had gradually forgotten about was brought up.

And at this time, Xu Youshan didn't think it would be serious, but it wouldn't be so indifferent, but what she cared about was. Will this have an impact on Xie Jing's original plan? Or was this part of Xie Jing's plan? Anyway, Xu Youshan hopes for the latter.

The night is getting darker and darker, but the more it is in such a dark night. The bright lights are getting brighter and brighter, and the clouds behind the empty mountain dwelling and Bowei are like daylight, and at this time, it is the end of the hour. But Xu Youshan hasn't stopped yet. But she didn't go to the empty mountain residence to find Xie Jing, although she was very worried now.

"Princess, if you are so worried, why don't you go to the empty mountain residence and ask?" Chu Dai looked at Xu Youshan's increasingly restless appearance, and couldn't help asking.

"No, you don't." But Xu Youshan shook her head and said, "The current situation is special, Your Highness should be there urgently, and we can't make trouble at this time." Just wait. If the empty mountain dwells over there, if the Xun steward and they disperse. Let's go back to it. At this time, Xie Jing should be the busiest time, and Xu Youshan didn't want to bother him, so he just waited anxiously in the clouds behind Bowei. But this time, it was directly the next day, the moment when the sky turned white.

"See the prince!"

"Get up, Princess?" In the courtyard of Bowei Houyun, Xie Jing appeared here with a tired face, and was seen by Wu Lin, who happened to come out of the room, so Wu Lin hurriedly saluted Xie Jing. But after Xie Jing rubbed his frowning brows, he first asked what Xu Youshan was doing at this time.

"Lord Qi, the princess didn't sleep all night last night, and she fell asleep when she couldn't hold it at this time." Wu Lin remembered that this morning, she deliberately got up early to go to the main room to take a look at the situation. But when I went in, I saw Xu Youshan with a pair of slightly bloodshot eyes, and Chu Dai, who also hadn't slept all night, the two of them were silent on the side of the kang, one was reading, and the other was dozing off like a chicken pecking rice.

"Hmm." And after Xie Jing heard this, when Wu Lin lowered his head and didn't see it, the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, of course he knew that Xu Youshan hadn't slept all night because he was waiting for him and caring about him. So at this time, the corners of Xie Jing's mouth couldn't help but rise, and he turned around and walked straight towards the room.

In the summer morning, the brightness could not be faster, but after a while, the sun has already revealed its whole face, sprinkling a faint golden sun, making the room as dazzling and warm as a layer of gold. At this moment, in this warm goldenness, there was a petite figure curled up on the kang, allowing the sunlight to shine a thin layer of light on her face.

"Your Highness?" Xie Jing's stature is very high, among the people Xu Youshan has seen, Xie Jing's slender figure is also outstanding, so as soon as he got close to the edge of the kang, he just completely covered the sunlight projected on Xu Youshan's face, and Xu Youshan immediately noticed that someone was approaching, and opened his eyes to see Xie Jing.

But at this time, Xie Jing was standing with his backlight, and the sun behind him was too bright for Xu Youshan to see his face clearly, and Xu Youshan was still confused at this time, so he muttered a little uncertainly.

"Why woke up, I made a noise to you?" Xie Jing sat on the edge of the kang, reached out and gently touched Xu Youshan's slightly cool cheek, but the next moment he was subconsciously grabbed by Xu Youshan, and then hugged it and put it down to his face, all rubbing it like a pillow, but he completely ignored Xie Jing's question, and fell asleep again in an instant, which made Xie Jing a little stunned, so he couldn't help laughing, and even the eyebrows that had been frowning were completely loosened at this time.

"Fool." Xie Jing used his long fingers hard, and he didn't withdraw his hand, so he took Xu Youshan into his arms, and then leaned on the big pillow of the crow blue dough flower, and then moved his gaze from Xu Youshan's sleeping face with his eyes closed to the blue and cloudless sky outside the window.

But no matter what Xie Jing was thinking, as long as someone could see his eyes when he looked back at Xu Youshan, they would feel that it didn't matter. Because Xie Jing's gaze when he looked at Xu Youshan was too gentle.

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All day today, God was very lively. In the streets and alleys, there are many people who do not go home when night falls, still under the big trees or in front of the door, and seven or eight people sit there and talk about something in a whisper. It's just that although the things that people are talking about now are still the same as they were in the morning, they have become a little strangely cautious in their voices and faces when they talk about the theft of military supplies. Even in the end, someone in the crowd proposed: "Forget it." Don't mention this matter again, do you want to be like the two people in front of Mingyue Lane at noon today? ”

Everyone was talking about the exchange of military supplies. was inexplicably cautious and nervous, and now when he heard the man mention Mingyue Lane, his face suddenly changed, and then he suddenly got up. Excuse yourself from something at home or something. They're all gone.

And what is it that can make everyone so afraid? Naturally, at noon today, in front of Mingyue Lane, two people talked loudly about the stealing of military supplies, and the name of Xie Wen was mentioned without taboo in their words, and after a while, they were inexplicably beaten by the ruffians to serious injuries, and those ruffians should be people who often do this, and they are very particular about their hands. Although the two people who were beaten by them were seriously injured, they were not in danger of their lives in the slightest.

And those injuries were all avoided from the vital parts. All of them were called to the thick-skinned, or the most sensitive and weak places of the human body, such as the nose and the arch of the feet, and those ruffians and hooligans worked hard, all of them were beaten to the point that the two of them were in pain and begged for death, but they would not let them get into a life lawsuit. The means are precise and ruthless, and at a glance, you can tell that they will not be ordinary ruffians.

At first, people didn't know much about what was going on, but later the news came out of nowhere, saying that the reason why these two people were besieged by the ruffians was because they talked loudly about His Royal Highness the Third Prince, Xie Wen, so that they were annoyed by His Royal Highness the Third Prince's followers and the like, so they sent people to beat them.

This kind of gossip spread among people immediately, and the panic caused by it also spread rapidly, so that when people discussed the matter of munitions and Xie Wen, they all involuntarily whispered, and they were all cautiously looking around, as if something would suddenly pop out again.

Chu Wangfu, Po Wei Houyun.

"Princess, don't you know, today in front of Mingyue Lane, those two people were beaten beyond recognition, there is no good place on the body, as long as they pass through the place where they stretch, it is all blood, and it has not been broken along the way, it is really scary."

In the main room, Chu Dai said to Xu Youshan, who was sitting on the couch on the other side, saying that the servants in Bowei Houyun, who had just gone to Duanju Street to run errands this morning, relayed to Chu Dai what he saw with his own eyes after he came back, and Chu Dai was relaying all of them to Xu Youshan. In addition, it is indispensable that Chu Dai must have added a lot of her own feelings to it, and she also expressed them all to Xu Youshan.

But after Xu Youshan heard this, she didn't say much, just nodded slightly. After all, with Xie Jing's previous explanation, Xu Youshan already knew that this battle would be lost, and it would definitely be lost. Therefore, even with Xu Youshan's shallow understanding of the old lady of the Zhai family, she also knows that this old lady of the Zhai family will never let his soldiers and generals do any unnecessary sacrifices.

As for what happened in front of Mingyue Lane today, Xu Youshan is not very surprised, from the incident of secretly changing military supplies to the farce of proposing relatives at the Dragon Boat Palace banquet, Emperor Zhou Hui's love for Xie Wen has been declining, if it weren't for the fact that there is no better candidate than Xie Wen now, maybe it should be said that if Xie Yan is not married to Princess Dongji now, then it can't be said that the person who was rejected at this time has already been replaced by Xie Wen.

But because everything is a foregone conclusion, in Emperor Zhou Huidi's heart, there is only one best choice left for Coco Xie at this time, so Emperor Zhou Hui is so tolerant of Coco Xie. And Coco Xie will be so fearless, and he will dare to make this kind of countermeasure at this time, not afraid of being dealt with by the court at all.

And Xu Youshan knew these things very well, so she didn't have much reaction to what Chu Dai said in shock. But Xu Youshan didn't stop Chu Dai from talking, so Chu Dai kept muttering about the incident that happened in Mingyue Lane at noon.

"There were a lot of onlookers at that time, but no one dared to step forward to stop them, and when the officials arrived, the two people had already been beaten and covered in blood, and the world was really cold." Chu Dai said with some embarrassment, she was a little indignant at the fact that no one came forward to stop it at that time.

But unlike Chu Dai's indignation, Wu Lin and Mother Liu next to her looked very calm, obviously this kind of fact was just an ordinary thing in front of their eyes, and there was no need to marvel at all. On the contrary, the fuss reaction like Chu Dai is peculiar and abnormal. But in fact, in the face of these hot and cold worlds, more people are silent.

"Has Your Highness returned?"

And just when Chu Dai didn't care whether anyone responded to her or not, she was more and more excited to express her opinions, Xu Youshan suddenly raised her eyes, happened to look at the deep night outside the window, and found that it was almost time at this time, so Xu Youshan opened her mouth and asked softly, Xie Jing, who has not come back since she left the house in the morning. And this gentle sentence just interrupted Chu Dai's remarks that she wanted to say again.

"Back to the princess, not yet." Although being interrupted made Chu Dai feel a little uncomfortable, looking at Xu Youshan's faint eyes, Chu Dai closed her mouth very wisely, and muttered in her heart: Why is the young lady more and more similar to the prince.

"I haven't come back yet!" Xu Youshan repeated it gently, and then looked down at the book in his hand again, but if you have carefully observed Xu Youshan, you will definitely know that in fact, since a long time ago, the book in Xu Youshan's hand has never turned a page.

"Princess, it's so late, do you want to rest first?" Because of Xu Youshan's quietness, the room also became quiet, and just now because of Chu Dai's non-stop chatter, the excitement caused by Chu Dai's non-stop chatter, at this time, because of Xu Youshan's faint glance just now, Chu Dai didn't dare to say more, so now the room is getting quieter, so that Wu Lin had to open his mouth first to break the silence and ask.

"No, I'm not sleepy, I want to read a book for a while, Mother Wu, you go down and rest first." Xu Youshan shook her head lightly and rejected Wu Lin's proposal. (To be continued.) )