(51) Mirror flowers
This night, Ah Mo stubbornly waited, but still did not see Jinghua.
Don't talk about Jinghua, even Miaoyuan and Qinglan didn't show up.
Xuanhua ordered two bowls of noodles, but Ah Mo couldn't eat at all, she seemed to be very tired, and she felt heavy when she lifted her chopsticks.
And Xuanhua obviously didn't have much appetite, looked at the noodles and drank half a pot of wine. When the wine was finished, the noodles were also swelled into a mush, and he poured them together in disgust.
Mo looked at the door on the other side again.
It was Xuanhua's other room, and Ah Mo had been in it a few times when he came to play before. Also in the same compound, but slightly smaller than the one they lived in. Xuanhua also cleaned up, and said that in the future, if Jinghua and Ah Mo came to play, they would talk late at night, or get drunk, they would spend the night temporarily.
Now the door was closed tightly all night, silently.
In the middle, Chenhua seemed to have been in an extremely dangerous situation several times, Qinglan called Xuanhua in, and Ah Mo wanted to follow up, but was still stopped.
"Chenhua still has a lot of external injuries and is disheveled, so it is not appropriate for you to go in. Qinglan had a calm face and no expression.
Ah Mo choked back tears and said, "Why didn't Jinghua come out and tell me, I just need to look at him and see that he is safe and sound!"
"Jinghua is using spiritual power to renew Chenhua's life, and he can't stop for a moment. Ah Mo, you are obedient, don't think about it, don't you believe Brother Qinglan's words?"
"Qinglan, come on!" Xuanhua urged him from behind the door.
Qinglan didn't talk to her anymore, and hurriedly ran towards another room.
In and out like this, she went in and out several times, and Xuanhua basically stayed outside to accompany her, except for going in to help her in case of danger. He has always been talkative, but he doesn't seem to want to talk tonight, and he barely said a few words without a match, Ah Mo is preoccupied, and Xuanhua is no longer reluctant.
In the middle of the night, Ah Mo couldn't sit still. After two rounds around the room, she assured Xuanhua, "I won't affect them! I just opened the crack in the door and looked at it, and I didn't make any sound!"
Xuanhua also immediately put away the smile on his face, and said in a deep voice: "It's Chenhua's life and death now, and you are still messing around here to see Jinghua's kind of thing! If I'm not polite, I can ask you out now!"
"But big brother, I really don't worry about Jinghua! you just let me see him through the crack in the door, okay?" Ah Mo begged.
Xuanhua said sharply: "Jinghua is casting a spell! If you disturb his mind, be careful that he will also be counterattacked!"
He sighed, turned to the hot tea, handed it to the tearful Ah Mo, and said in a slow tone: "Okay, have a cup of tea, maybe they will come out in a while." ”
The tea was a little sour, and a small sip made her dizzy, and it seemed that all the sleep she had owed these days had come to her door. She didn't even have time to struggle, she lay on the table and fell asleep.
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When Ah Mo woke up, it was already noon on the second day.
She woke up alone in Chen'an Palace, and the clouds on her body were still well covered. It's just that the futon next to her is still cold, which shows that Jinghua has not slept.
Everything is business as usual in Chen'an Palace. She even came with her, and smelled the crystal dumplings and lotus paste buns on the dining table, as well as a small cup of dried seafood and scallop porridge, which she often passed on for breakfast, and now it was there. As if she had calculated the time when she woke up, those snacks were not hot or cold, just enough to eat.
But she had no appetite at all, and the heavy feeling in her heart was not relieved at all.
She pulled on her shoes, and without even combing her head, she hurried to the outside of the dormitory, shouting all the way: "Jinghua! Jinghua, are you there?"
There was no one in Chen'an Palace, and she looked for it one by one, and she didn't even miss her own small kitchen.
Jinghua is not there.
The Shang Dynasty should have ended a long time ago! Is it in the Hanshu Pavilion? Or do you want to send it to those interrogators? According to the usual practice, they should have had a banquet before the public trial, but they have been put on hold because they are too busy, so is it time to make up for it?
Changning ran over and greeted her, "Niangniang woke up, did you have breakfast?"
Ah Mo shook his head and still asked, "Changning, where is Jinghua?"
"Your Majesty sent Niang Niang back last night, but she went out again early this morning. ”
"Out again?"
Ah Mo was very annoyed, it was like collusion! From yesterday to now! From my father, to Brother Qinglan, to Changning, to Brother Xuanhua! Everyone has seen Jinghua, and everyone knows where he is!
But just don't let yourself know, don't let yourself go to him!
Seeing her calm face, Changning was a little uneasy, and muttered: "Your Majesty went out again early this morning, and it seems that he has to go out for a while on some official business." He left a letter, do you want to read it?"
"Show me the letter!"
Changning took out a letter, shook it open, and handed it to her. The handwriting is very familiar, handsome and beautiful, and it is indeed Jinghua's handwriting.
The letter was very short, just a few words, and it was also an ordinary royal letter in the Han Pavilion, printed with a faint piece of gold, and it seemed that it was indeed written in a hurry, such as "I will return tonight, don't wait for me to eat" and the like.
Ah Mo finished reading it with just two eyes, and the content seemed to say that he met the Buddha yesterday, saying that the Golden-winged Dapeng family happened to have a calamity in the clan recently, and it took a true life dragon to resolve it.
What the Buddha means is that although according to the laws of the Heavenly Clan, Chenhua was severely sentenced, but the Liangzi of the Dapeng Clan and their Dragon Clan was concluded after all, the Canaan family has a deep relationship with the Buddhist family, and the Yinlong clan is the supreme of the Heavenly Realm.
If Jinghua is willing to use the body of a true dragon to resolve this calamity for Canaan, then the two families can be reconciled again, which is also a beautiful conversation.
In addition to these ins and outs, Jinghua also told her to be obedient, saying that he couldn't estimate how long the trip would take, so it was better to go back to Xihai first, and then pick her up when he came back from a business trip.
Ah Mo read it several times from beginning to end, and the letter was written to the wording, to the shade of the brushstrokes, all of which were properly pasted without the slightest loophole.
Ah Mo sighed and smiled bitterly.
If Jinghua wants to hide something from her, how can she be able to check for loopholes?
"Changning, I know. She took a breath and returned the letter to Changning.
His Majesty instructed that if Niangniang wants to leave, let Changning be sent off well, and ensure the safety of Niangniang. ”
Ah Mo smiled: "Did I say I was leaving? Your Majesty is just a trip to the Dapeng family to solve a catastrophe for him, isn't it just a matter of a month or two to go back and forth? I am waiting for him here! I can't wait for him, I won't go back to the West Sea!"
As if she suddenly understood, she swept away the gloom of the past two days, and ran towards the door in a hurry.
Changning hurriedly called behind his back: "Niangniang, where are you going? Aren't you going back to the West Sea?"
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Ah Mo didn't go back to Xihai, but she didn't plan to stay stupidly in Chen'an Palace.
After a good night's sleep, her head was clear, although it was not as fast as an abacus, but it was enough for her to calculate these things from yesterday to today.
First of all, Jinghua is definitely lying.
The letter was fake. No, even if the letter is really written correctly by Jinghua, the content is absolutely fake and deceitful. There was no way he could go to the West Heavenly Spirit Mountain!
I don't know if he is still in the Nine Heavens, but he is just hiding somewhere, refusing to see himself.
Secondly, yesterday's public trial definitely went wrong.
It sounded like everything was normal, Xuan Yao was exonerated and Chenhua was sentenced to nine thunderbolts. Then came the normal execution, Chen Hua was seriously injured and was carried back to Sister Yuan by Jinghua and Qinglan overnight for treatment.
This process, Ah Mo recalled it over and over again, and felt that there must be something wrong in the middle! But she couldn't say what was wrong.
Even if Jinghua had the ability to collude with Qinglan, Changning, and even collude with Canaan to deceive her, it was impossible for him to do anything under the noses of so many interrogators and observers on the day of the public trial.
In other words, if Jinghua wants to do tricks, he will never let people see the flaws.
So, the third doubt, where did Jinghua go?
Changning said that he sent himself back last night, so it seems that he should be in good health. Then why did he keep avoiding him? Whether he went to Xitian Dapeng's house or not, couldn't he wake himself up, say a word to himself, and then leave?
But what if Changning is already lying to himself? It wasn't Jinghua who sent him back yesterday, which means that he stayed at Sister Yuan's house yesterday and never came back!
Ah Mo suddenly froze, and an even more terrifying hypothesis arose in his mind!
What if even Brother Xuanhua is lying to himself?
Yesterday in that room, they said that Jinghua was casting spells for Chenhua to renew his life, but Jinghua himself never showed his face at all, let alone spoke!
Perhaps, he is not there at all! Is the real Jinghua no longer there since the end of the public trial yesterday?
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Ah Mo only felt that his heart was beating wildly.
She told herself to calm down, calm down! Jinghua is fine, the eldest brother is here, and the elder brother Qinglan is also there! If he has something, they won't care!
He should be doing something more dangerous or secretive temporarily, and it is inconvenient for him to know it for the time being. When it's over, he'll definitely come and explain it to himself.
Don't panic, don't panic! Ah Mo, use your mind! Think about who knows the inside story more now, and then let them know that they are trustworthy, and they don't have to hide it from themselves like a child, no matter what Jinghua does, they can accept it calmly.
That way, they will feel comfortable speaking out.
The conversation with Changning just now made Ah Mo feel that Changning didn't know much more than himself, and he was already suspicious, but Changning didn't even suspect it at all. She estimated that Jinghua was afraid that Changning would miss the horse's feet, so she even hid it from him.
She didn't intend to waste time with him, and turned around and walked out of the South Heavenly Gate.