The night is sultry and the breeze is constant.

Tu Duxue slipped back to Jingyang Palace in front of the palace gate, and entered the ear room in the dark.

Because of Gu Yunyao's care, she was treated in Jingyang Palace specially, and she could enjoy a separate room without living with other palace maids.

People who practice martial arts are accustomed to being alert, and the moment the door is closed, Tu Duxue clearly senses that there are people in the house.

"Who?!"

With a loud shout, his voice was as low as a man, and the other people waiting in the room were stunned for a moment.

"It's Hongu...... Yunxi, are you back? ”

In the darkness, Tu Duxue's eyes turned grim, and then she changed her tone, like a gentle young girl:

"Sister? It's me, I'm back, why don't you hold the lamp? ”

Tu Duxue walked quickly to the table and lit the candles. The orange light flickered, and the darkness of the hut was washed away in an instant.

Gu Yunyao sat on the edge of the bed on the shelf, with her hair scattered all over her head, and only a warm long coat was wrapped around her middle coat.

When her vision was bright, she saw the girl at the table.

Her delicate cheeks were lined with strings of tears, shining brightly under the flickering candle flames, dazzling and pitiful.

"Y-Why are you crying?"

The more Gu Yunyao looked at it, the more she felt that something was wrong.

My sister was dressed up beautifully before she left the palace, and when she came back regularly, she had messy hair and disheveled clothes.

Gu Yunyao had experienced too many things, and instinctively realized that the situation was not good, so she got up and rushed to the girl quickly.

"Yunxi, what's going on? Tell my sister what happened? ”

The girl suddenly cried even more bitterly, stepped back with her arms around her, and shook her head sadly:

"Sister, don't ask, I'm fine, I'm really fine......"

"Nonsense!"

Gu Yunyao chased after her, grabbing the girl's hand to calm her down.

The girl's "ah" screamed in pain.

Gu Yunyao was shocked, and couldn't help but lift her sleeves, and suddenly saw the bruises and scars on the snow-white slender forearm, which were different from light to shallow.

"Who did it? You tell your sister who bullied you! ”

Gu Yunyao roared hoarsely, resentful but distressed.

Originally, what Songqin had said to her before the placement, she took it to heart a little.

Seeing that Yunxi didn't return late at night, she was anxious and helpless, and she didn't feel sleepy at all, so she walked into the ear room where Yunxi was resting and waited for her to come back.

She just wants to see when her sister will return to the palace, and whether she is someone else's scheming and unstable person.

When the drum sounded too much, the door finally moved, and the unfamiliar voice that followed made Gu Yunyao extremely puzzled in his heart.

However, at this moment, facing the scars on the girl's body, Gu Yunyao suddenly completely left all her doubts and anger behind, and only had a heartache and repeatedly interrogated the girl about the truth of the matter.

The girl sobbed and threw herself into Gu Yunyao's arms, crying loudly:

"Sister, I don't have anything now, I feel so uncomfortable......"

——

Under the moon, Lu Qiange hugged South China Ji Yan and walked to the bank of the Reed River with one foot and one shallow foot.

After looking at the river for a long time, he gritted his eyebrows and teeth, hugged the girl tightly and jumped into the river.

Late at night, the river water in early spring was still extremely cold, Lu Qiange took South China Ji Yan into the water, and almost sank directly to the bottom with a fierce son.

His idea was simple.

He is the third prince of the Suo Luo clan of the Wudan Kingdom, and his other identity in Dayi is the proud disciple of the helmsman of Wandaotang, Wenren Junzheng, and a famous lone ranger in the rivers and lakes.

No matter what, you can't learn from those rooster and dog thieves who take advantage of people's danger and take advantage of the attack of the little girl.

Although there is nothing wrong with saving people, but when you find Yunxi in the future, will you still have the face to see her marry her?

At the moment, the fourth princess was hot from the drug, and the best way was to cool her down. In this way, it is best to use this reed swing.

The matter is urgent, as for the etiquette of whether men and women are intimate, let's put it aside for the time being.

In the river, Lu Qiange wrapped his arms around the girl's waist, and his legs gathered to kick the water slightly, so that the bodies of the two of them easily floated to the surface of the river.

The cold water temperature poured into every pore of Ji Yan in South China that was burned by the flames, making her slowly calm down.

Soaking in the water, the girl slowly retreated and flushed, and her knotted facial features soothed.

The cold temperature of the water seemed to make her feel comfortable, and her eyelashes moved slightly, and she actually lowered her head slightly, trying to get close to the man's solid chest.

However, the water was not shallow, and when she bowed her head in a coma, she was covered by water, and she choked on a mouthful of water and coughed one after another.

Lu Qiange's face turned pale, and the dantian gathered his strength to hold the girl high, and his legs struggled forward in the river.

The moonlight was cold overhead, and the water behind him was sparkling and flowing slowly, turning into ripples and sweeping away in circles.

After going ashore, Lu Qiange put the wet girl horizontally on the big bluestone.

At this time, the girl's dress was soaked, clinging to the graceful curves of youth, outlining a perfect figure. The skin that had been soaked in the river for a long time was white and flawless, and the air before dawn was shining.

The girl was not yet awake, her breathing was steady, her face was quiet, and countless droplets of water as thin as hairs could be seen in the loose places of the green silk.

In her deep sleep, her lips squirmed with cherry pink, and her eyelashes occasionally trembled twice, and her complexion was seductive.

Lu Qiange didn't seem to be interested in the temptation of sleeping, and after only a few glances, he itched his nose and sneezed extremely loudly when the wind passed.

Looking back at the girl, she was also slowly arching her body, and she was shaking.

Lu Qiange frowned and shook his head, muttering:

"It's a hassle to take you!"

didn't care too much, he picked up South China Ji Yan and put it in a straight posture, and the two sat cross-legged facing each other. The two palms stretched out of thin air and landed on the girl's shoulders, injecting internal force into the girl's body to dispel the cold.

When Lu Qiange was young, South China Ji Yan's body was weak and leaned on his chest.

The wind moved, and the reeds swayed. Lu Qiange quietly hugged the girl, savoring the last dark moment before dawn, with mixed feelings.

Suddenly, the girl opened her eyes faintly and coughed a few times.

"How are you?"

Lu Qiange's symbolic greetings.

South China Ji Yanmeng regained consciousness, looked at the man in shock, and then turned his eyes to look around.

In the wilderness, a field of reeds, green and white moonlight.

"Ah, what's going on? Y-Why are you soaking wet? ”

The girl screamed in surprise, and then stretched out her slender fingers to wring the water at the corner of his coat for him.

It was at this moment that Lu Qiange's heart suddenly became confused, and it was as if something was rampant in his heart, breaking his persistence and stubbornness.

When I looked up, I saw the man's expression was stunned, and the girl smiled shyly, her cheeks slightly hot.

Recalling the previous events, she was puzzled:

"By the way, what the hell is going on? Why did you do it with Xi'er? I didn't expect that palace maid to be able to do martial arts? Also, what is the matter with you calling her Gu Yunxi? ”

"You've just been poisoned......"

Lu Qiange looked at the rippling lake and sighed, but he couldn't tell her the nature of the "poisonous" nature.

"Huh?"

South China Ji Yan's eyes were stunned, her lips came and went, and a trace of fear flashed in her clear eyes. Subconsciously looked at herself, she looked excited, her small hand grabbed the man's slightly cool big hand, and her eyes turned into great admiration:

"So, it was Ah Ji who saved me? Thank you! How can I repay you for saving your life! ”

"Uh...... No thanks......"

Lu Qiange rolled his gaze embarrassedly, his face embarrassed.

"Ah Yan, you haven't told me what your relationship with Xi'er is? Why did she say she had a marriage contract with you? Why do you want to do it with a lady who hasn't passed through the door? ”

Lu Qiange twisted his eyebrows and said in a deep voice:

"Tell me first, why did you go to the teahouse with her?"

South China Ji Yan does not hide either:

"I couldn't see you when I came out of Jingyang Palace, and she chased after me in a hurry. She asked me about my relationship with you, and told me that you had known each other before she entered the palace, and that you had promised to marry her when she returned. Naturally, I was angry, and when I questioned her, she said that I would meet you at the teahouse, and I would come with you to see what was going on. ”

Lu Qiange stood up coldly, raised his eyebrows and said:

"Hey, you heard that I was going to marry her, what kind of madness did you have?"

"I ......"

South China Ji Yan blushed over her ears, and her words jumped straight up her throat, but she swallowed it back.

Her eyes rolled, and she immediately changed the subject:

"Don't talk about that, why did you do it with her?"

Lu Qiange pondered for a moment, his fingers stirring his eyebrows:

"You may not believe some of the things you say, that person is not an ordinary woman, she is not the real Gu Yunxi, she is completely a scourge to stay in the palace!"

South China Ji Yan's eyes were stunned, but she was convinced of Lu Qiange's words:

"In this way, if she stays in Jingyang Palace, I am afraid that it will be unfavorable to Yu Niangniang! Concubine Yu and Concubine Xu are both good people, Concubine Xu has already been killed, if Concubine Yu is ......"

Lu Qiange's face was as pale as iron, and he gritted his teeth:

"I have to go back to the palace and explain the truth to Concubine Yu in person."

"I'll go with you, I can help you!"

South China Ji Yan said resolutely and took his hand.

The feeling of the palm being as warm as jade made the man's heart warm, and he narrowed his cold eyebrows, and said embarrassedly:

"It was I who caused you to be affected and soaked in the river for no reason. Otherwise, let's find a place to change your clothes first. ”

"It's okay, it's important to go back to the palace, and the clothes are almost dry now."

South China Ji Yan stroked her hair and smiled stupidly.

——

In the morning, the palace is particularly busy, and the palace people put up lights everywhere to prepare for the evening spring banquet.

Recently, there have been frequent incidents in the palace, but it does not affect the mood of Emperor Jingxiao's holiday. He wants to hold a big banquet and rush the bad luck of the palace.

Leng Qingtang entered the palace early in the morning, and only brought his close attendant Gu Yunxi and four guards with him.

When he arrived at the celebrant and had no time to sit down to drink tea, Liu Bingbi handed a package to the overseer:

"You see, this was found by Luzi in the early morning when he went to the door to post a lottery, and it was stuffed in the mouth of the town beast on the right side."

Leng Qingtang was surprised and slowly opened the cloth bag.

Liu Bingbi's face was solemn, and he sighed slightly:

"Be careful, the pollen wrapped in iron reeds in that ball of paper, the letter was written to you by Mama Tong."

When he received the things, because the cloth bag was not signed, Liu Bingbi, as the second-in-command of the celebrant and Leng Qingtang's cronies, had the right to read it first according to the custom, and it was only then that he saw that there was a letter inside, which was written to his own overseer.

"Mama Tong?"

Leng Qingtang was extremely surprised, and he carefully thought about the characters he was familiar with, and none of them had the surname Tong.

Why did this man leave a letter, and he didn't send it to the celebrant very generously, but had to stuff it in the mouth of the beast at the door?

Gu Yunxi suddenly exclaimed:

"Overseer, Mama Tong is the upbringing Mama of the Seventh Prince, Hua Nanlin."

She had heard this name when she visited Yongning Palace before, and she only felt familiar at the time. Now, she finally remembered.

Leng Qingtang hurriedly unfolded the package completely, and took out a thick lump of things inside, a letter and an ingot of gold.

Leng Qingtang shook the letter first, beckoning Gu Yunxi to watch with him.

After that, both were shocked.

Gu Yunxi's eyes were wet and red, and his mood was difficult to recover for a long time.

She has always thought that the deep palace is treacherous, and most of them are people who climb high and step on the bottom and fall into the well.

And the words in this letter are sonorous, full of a servant's loyalty and courage, regardless of life and death, which is really touching.

After putting away the letter, Leng Qingtang asked:

"So where is Mama Tong now?"

Liu Bingbi sighed and shook his head:

"When the slave got the letter, he sent someone to check, and the upbringing of the Seven Princes had already changed. I'm afraid that this Mama Tong is already more than lucky. ”

When sighing, a little eunuch hurriedly ran in:

"Overseer, something has happened, little master of the Smoke Pavilion...... Dead! ”

ps: It's late in the text, and a large number of people are going to die, but the lethality should be much smaller than the previous one.