- Coming out of Ye's house, it was already dark outside, looking back at this quiet residential area, smoke rising from the roofs one after another, Mo Ye couldn't help but sigh in his heart, time flies so fast, and an afternoon passes in a blink of an eye. Ye Nuonuo originally planned to leave Mo Ye for dinner before leaving, but Mo Ye didn't dare to delay any longer, the days of getting together in the future are still long, if you don't leave at this moment, I'm afraid you will be trapped in the Ye family all day today.

After a whole day of leisurely in the Ye family, Mo Ye was actually faintly unpleasant, and always felt that something was waiting for her at home.

Sure enough, when she returned to the Lin Mansion, as soon as she entered the door, she saw Shi Yi sitting under the corner pavilion of the cloister in the front yard, eating melon seeds with Erlang's legs crossed. Looking at the thickness of the melon seed shells stacked at his feet, he had obviously been waiting for a while.

What can make Shi Yi spend half a day doing what he is waiting for is probably not a trivial matter.

Since he met Shi Yi four years ago, he was Mo Ye's first friend when he first entered Kyoto, and the two of them have been talking and traveling together with friendship for four years. It wasn't until the day before yesterday that Mo Ye and Shi Yi cooperated in interests for the first time. This cooperation allowed Mo Ye to further understand Shi Yi's means of making a living.

Although she had been mentally prepared, she expected that with Shi Yi's young qualifications, she could entrust the emperor with the important task of entrusting the deputy chairman of the Kyoto Chamber of Commerce and managing the business affairs of Jingbei Province, which must have her own merits, but only if she really cooperated in person, she could truly realize how big the gap between what she expected and what she saw with her own eyes.

In the first two days of cooperation, Shi Yi only verbally said that it was a trivial matter, but when Mo Ye participated in it, it was still a little thrilling. Today he came to the door again, and Mo Ye was really unpredictable. If it is something that he also thinks is "big", it will have immeasurable complexity and change.

In Mo Ye's opinion, the young man sitting indecently and with a casual expression not far in front of him at this moment seemed to be the same as usual, but it seemed that he was no longer the young man who was squatting in the shadow of the roof four years ago.

Shi Yi had indeed waited for Mo Ye in the Lin Mansion for a long time, and he had long expected that Mo Ye would have a few places to go in Kyoto, but he did not ask the servants of the Lin Mansion to confirm the matter. Later, when a servant saw that he had been waiting for a long time, he knew that he was a busy man. I'm afraid of delaying his business. took the initiative to tell him where Mo Ye was, but he still chose to wait where he was.

Mo Ye returned, and as soon as her front foot stepped into the threshold, Shi Yi saw her. But he still sat still. waited until Mo Ye approached. Shi Yicai smiled. said: "Ye Nuonuo's little sister is really annoying, you have spent a whole day there." ”

Mo Ye glanced at the melon seed shells piled up under his feet, and said with a smile: "You have already come?" Knowing that I am in the Ye family. Why don't you call someone to call me if you have something? ”

"You're not afraid of Ye Nuonuo pestering people, I'm terrible...... Anyway, I did come to you for something, and I had to talk to you face to face, and only with you. Shi Yi patted the melon seed crumbs on his hands, brushed the placket of his clothes, and then solemnly pushed a boxy pocket wrapped in oiled paper on the table to Mo Ye, and said: "Your store will open tomorrow, this is all the information in the store, you can browse it at least once tonight." ”

"Materials?" Mo Ye looked puzzled and reached out to open the paper bag.

Shi Yi pressed the mouth of the bag and explained: "In addition to the account book, there are some other things, you better go back to the house and look at it." ”

"So you're talking about these things." Mo Ye withdrew his hand, but there was still a puzzled look on his face. She regarded Shi Yi as a very good friend, and did not deliberately hide her thoughts, only paused for a moment and then asked: "Since it is just some accounts that I am familiar with, why do you stay here for an afternoon?" If you don't worry about the negligence of my servant, just give it to my master. I'm so embarrassed to delay you for an afternoon of waiting because I'm playful. ”

Shi Yi smiled, shook his head again, and then said, "You don't look at who I am, how can you act so carelessly?" Naturally, I had nothing to do in the afternoon, so I came to bother and wanted to find a half-day to spare. ”

Mo Ye suddenly said that he was now in front of Shi Yi, his mood seemed to be less leisurely than usual, his thoughts were tense, and the way he considered things seemed to be stiff, which was not a good thing.

At this time, she heard Shi Yi sigh lightly and said: "Now as long as my face appears in Kyoto, I will talk about business dealings, and there are only a few places where I can really be idle." But this is the future...... I'm afraid that when I meet you, I will inevitably talk about business. ”

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Under the dim light of the lantern in the corner, Xiaoxing, a thin woman with curled hair and a coarse cloth dress, did not say anything immediately, but raised her hand and put it on Wang Hong's shoulders and gently pressed him to sit down. Then she squatted down in front of him, first raised her palm to her mouth and sighed, then quickly rubbed it, and then held Wang Hong's bare feet on the ground and slowly rubbed them.

"Your Highness can't look like this, you'll get sick." Xiaoxing, a woman with a thin cloth skirt, finished rubbing Wang Hong's left foot and began to rub his right foot again, "It's still like this, my feet are always not hot at night, and now it's the warm spring season." ”

Feeling the familiar kneading of his fingers under his feet, Wang Hong became more and more sure that the figure of this woman in the dim light was not the phantom in the dream, but that his little star had really returned.

As for why she suddenly appeared in his dormitory, and the palace people inside and outside the dormitory were all unaware, according to what he knew about Xiaoxing's light and agile skills, it was not difficult for her to do this. There are several long-term palace people in Huayang Palace who know Xiaoxing's other identity, and they will inevitably help Xiaoxing to avoid Yu Linwei, who patrols the palace several ways.

At this moment of regain, Wang Hong was full of joy, and he only felt that nothing could be difficult to get him at this time. So when he heard Xiaoxing say that, he just smiled lightly: "If you walk around more during the day, it will naturally be warmer." Do you know? I have been practicing boxing for three years, and now I can lift 30 pounds with my left hand, and more with my right hand, I can lift 45 pounds, and I have learned to ride a horse, which is not like before......"

"Xiaoxing knows." The woman crouched in front of her feet stood up. Said slowly: "Your Highness rode out of the palace today, and Xiaoxing also saw it." I was really happy at that time. But seeing that you had a cloth belt wrapped around your hand, and it was beginning to ooze red stains, I was so worried that I finally couldn't help but sneak into the palace to see if you were doing well. ”

Wang Hong's mood fluctuated for a while, and she imagined her difficult life in the dry and sandy land to the north, and then asked, "When did you come back?" Listen to the meaning of your words, if it weren't for the fact that you saw me riding out of the palace today. Saw my wounded hand. You don't plan to come to the palace to see me? ”

"I arrived in Kyoto six days ago." Xiaoxing answered truthfully, but she listened to the second half of what Wang Hong said just now. It made her feel sour. After pursing his lips and enduring it for a moment. She finally spoke: "Xiaoxing was convicted and released from the palace three years ago. How can you come back at will? If someone finds out. Wouldn't it be another trouble for His Highness? Seeing that His Royal Highness was in better health than before, Xiaoxing was able to leave with peace of mind. Now His Highness has been able to take care of himself. Whether there is a small star around you or not is no longer a matter of how important. ”

"What do you mean by that?" The joy on Wang Hong's face gradually cooled, "Are you really planning not to come back?" ”

Xiaoxing lowered his head slightly. I can't bear to see the change in the eyes of the second prince from hot to cold. He replied slowly, "Of course Xiaoxing must come back once." What His Highness ordered three years ago, Xiaoxing must complete the last step. ”

"You know that's not what I'm asking now." From the moment he found out that Xiaoxing had appeared in his dormitory, Wang Hong's tone of voice was very gentle. However, at this time, his heart fluctuated, and he didn't care whether the palace people guarding outside the dormitory would hear the sound or not, and his voice unconsciously rose sharply, "The sin you received three years ago was originally my idea, and now that the things I ordered you have done are done, even if I don't reward you for anything, at least I will find a way to wash away your sins and take you back to me." But why do you say those things? You don't want to come back? ”

His voice reached this point, and finally attracted the attention of several palace people guarding the door of the dormitory, and one of them couldn't help but ask: "Your Highness, has something happened?" Do you want to be served? ”

The voice of the second prince Wang Hong immediately came out from the crack in the door, and there was obviously a trace of anger in his tone: "Everyone outside the door, take ten steps back from the palace!" ”

Several palace people trembled when they heard this, and they rarely saw His Second Highness angry, so his anger was also very weighty, and one sentence made the two palace maids and a eunuch outside the palace retreat in one breath. Retreating to the gate outside the main hall, only ten steps were counted, and the three palace people and the guards at the door looked at each other for a while, and only then did they come back to their senses The gold medal favorite concubine of the regent read the full text.

There are two walls between the entrance and the inner room of the dormitory, and the people inside cannot be heard from the outside, and the movement outside is the same to the people inside. After hesitating for a moment, the guard on the left side of the door couldn't help but ask with a puzzled expression, "Why did you all come out?" Don't have a vigil today? ”

The eunuch who had withdrawn from the dormitory only shook his head and said nothing.

And the palace maid, who was originally on duty to keep vigil in the inner room of the dormitory today, but was called out after inexplicably holding the lamp, said curiously: "I seemed to hear His Highness talking to someone just now, and then I suddenly looked very angry......

"Oh......" Before the words of the palace maid who held the lamp were finished, the guard who asked the question seemed to understand something and groaned.

Now it was the turn of the palace maid who held the lamp to be curious, and she couldn't help asking, "You say, what is going on?" Could it be that His Highness is talking in his dreams? But I have only been out of it for a short time, how can His Highness immediately fall asleep and dream......"

Before the palace maid finished speaking, she heard the guard and the eunuch say in unison: "What you don't know, just continue to treat it as if you don't know!" ”

The palace maid's pupils shrank, and she really didn't dare to say anything more, but just cowardly muttered a few words, and then closed her mouth tightly.

In the inner room of the dormitory, the silent gaze between the second prince Wang Hong and the cloth skirt woman Xiaoxing continued.

After being silent like this for a long time, Xiao Xing slowly raised his head, and did not give any explanation or explanation, but said in a rather sad tone: "Your Highness, don't be angry, it's not worth it...... Today's little star is for you, I ...... I can't do anything for you anymore......"

Wang Hong was slightly stunned when he heard this, and then he seemed to be able to foresee something extremely bad, his heart froze, he took a deep breath to strengthen his spirit, and then said, "What's wrong with you?" ”

Xiao Xing sighed faintly, didn't speak, just took out a fire fold from his sleeve. Blow it out in front of your eyes.

Although the light of the fire is not as bright as the triangular glass lamp, it is enough to illuminate a woman's face clearly.

And at the moment when the familiar face in front of him became clear, the second prince Wang Hong suddenly stood up from the couch, his face was shocked, and his habitual pursed lips trembled a few times, but he couldn't say a word.

The face of the woman in front of her is still so thin, so the pointed chin is very delicate; Her eyebrows are still not as graceful as those of ordinary women, but they show a strong temperament; She is still the little star with one eyelid, and she looks sincere when she smiles. When you're not smiling, you look serious. But...... Now she has a square scar on the left corner of her forehead!

The scar was about the size of a jade buckle, and it was distinctly colored......

"How so?" After being stunned for a moment, Wang Hong suddenly stretched out his hands and grabbed Xiaoxing's thin shoulders, which had begun to tremble slightly. A sentence just fell. Then he asked, "Who did it?!" ”

He didn't ask her what caused the scar on her forehead that broke her appearance. Instead, he asked directly who did it, and his tone was full of the meaning of settling accounts with the thief and avenging her for her.

Xiaoxing understood what he meant. A warm warmth of gratitude suddenly rose in her heart, but she could only sigh again and slowly tell her what happened to her in the north.

Listening to her account of the halfway point, the second prince Wang Hong was already out of breath, and by the time she finished telling all the experiences in the north since she left Beijing for three years, Wang Hong's standing body was already shaky. At this moment, the fire in Xiao Xing's hand had burned out and extinguished, and the room suddenly went dark, and Wang Hong's eyes were suddenly dark.

Xiaoxing is a person who practices martial arts, and her vision is sharper than ordinary people, and her eyesight quickly got rid of the false blindness symptoms caused by the sudden brightness of light, and she saw the figure of the man in front of her swaying, and then fell softly.

Xiao Xing was shocked in his heart, shook off the end of the fire fold pinched by his fingertips, and grabbed the perfect arc towards Wang Hong's arm.

She wanted to hold him, but unexpectedly, when he fainted, he was completely out of strength, and the weight of his body was so heavy that she couldn't support it, and dragged her to the couch together.

Xiaoxing wanted to hold Wang Hong, but she didn't expect that in the end, the situation turned into her own weight and pressed on Wang Hong's chest, and the two fell on the couch together, making a dull bang-

(To be continued.) )