"Next time, if Your Highness comes to the Beijing Suburb Courtyard, I will talk to him." Su Qianli kindly proposed.

"Then thank you Sister Ali first! If I can't find my mother one day, I won't be at ease. An Yiran's eyes glowed with gratitude.

"My sister's concern for the safety of my relatives is the feeling I know best, because my family has suffered a lot, and my relatives are no longer in this world." Su Qianli said, gradually lowering her head, her expression became gloomy, and an uncontrollable melancholy arose in her heart.

"Sister, what have happened to your relatives?" An Yiran asked with a shocked expression, she looked at Su Qianli's face full of sadness, and suddenly felt a little overwhelmed.

"I am the daughter of a criminal minister of Beiluo Kingdom, when my father was executed, I was exiled to the Guxie City Water Moon Platform on the border of Beiluo and Nanyue as a singer, His Royal Highness met me when he traveled to Guxie City two years ago, and spent a lot of money to ransom me, but I was homeless, so I have been following His Highness, he brought me back to Beijing to settle here, if there is no His Highness's redemption grace back then, my current situation is afraid to be more difficult." Su Qianli said with deep emotion.

As long as she recalls those sad pasts, her heart aches faintly, and she still can't forget the sad scene of the day her father was executed.

"So sister, your family is gone?" An Yiran, who has been favored by her parents and brothers since she was a child, has never really seen such an unfortunate thing in the world.

"After my father was executed that year, my mother committed suicide, and I was still young, and I was sold to the water platform to be trained as a singer, and I laughed and sang there for many years, and then I was fortunate to have His Royal Highness's mercy."

"Then the Sixth Highness must be a kind-hearted person, right? Not only did he save my sister from fire and water, but he also saved me from the vicious bandits! ”

An Yiran was full of curiosity about the six princes in Su Qianli's mouth, and judging from various circumstances, she felt that this six princes must be an admirable prince.

"His Royal Highness is an excellent person, kind-hearted, warm-hearted, but unfortunately he himself is also a poor person, he has experienced too much helplessness since he was a child, and now he is not understood by his relatives, and there are rumors that are unfavorable to him among the people." Su Qianli said and said, and unconsciously became worried.

"Does that sister like His Highness?" An Yiran asked bluntly, she sensed a hint of joy in Su Qianli's eyes.

"Hehe, I like Your Highness, but so what?" Su Qianli smiled bitterly, feeling very helpless in her heart, she knew that her status was low and unworthy.

"Then presumably His Royal Highness and Sister are in love with each other, right?" An Yiran boldly guessed, analyzing the tiny details she had seen.

"Hehe, how dare I expect His Highness's love? I only want to be by his side for the rest of my life, even if I am forever nameless and pointless, and I only ask Your Majesty not to drive me away. Su Qianli bowed slightly, showing a humble posture.

"Sister Mo Ziqian, if you are happy with each other, I believe that Your Highness will overcome many obstacles to marry you!" An Yiran took the initiative to hold Su Qianli's hand and comforted her softly.

Qianli's face changed slightly, and she withdrew her hand held by An Yiran uneasily, and sighed: "Sister Mo Huyan, Your Highness will definitely marry a woman from an official family with a prominent family background as the imperial concubine in the future, and the daughter of a criminal minister of another country with a low status like me, if she can be a concubine, it will be the greatest blessing." ”

An Yiran didn't say anything more, just because of the different positions, she couldn't understand what she was feeling in her heart, she blinked, thinking about what Su Qianli said.

She didn't grow up in Beijing since she was a child, and those royal rules were all heard from her parents and brothers or the teahouse storyteller, so she didn't know much about the marriage customs of the royal family, and only felt that the two lovers must be the most beautiful marriage in the world.

Su Qianli became sad and melancholy at this time, seeing that An Yiran didn't speak again, she knew that she had talked a little too much because of her emotion, and accidentally infected her with negative emotions, she quickly put away her sad face, and then asked with a gentle smile: "It seems that my sister is entering Beijing for the first time, right?" ”

An Yiran was looking at eating noodles, and suddenly heard Su Qianli's inquiry, stopped eating noodles in her hand, raised her head and stared at Su Qianli tangledly, and then nodded in response: "That's right, I am the first time to enter Beijing, I don't know anything about the situation here, and I met a thief halfway, if it wasn't for the kindness of His Royal Highness Sixth to save me, I'm afraid I would have died in Huangquan!" ”

"That's dangerous! Now the world is not peaceful, there is chaos everywhere, bandits are frequent, my sister must be careful the next time she goes up the mountain. Su Qianli kindly advised.

"Thank you Sister Ali for your concern, I will be cautious in the future!" An Yiran nodded gratefully.

The two continued to eat noodles quietly, and at this time, An Yiran had a small idea in her heart, thinking that she might be able to go into the capital to take a look, find the route to the palace, and find out if there were any clues that could help her find her mother's whereabouts.

"By the way, Sister Ali, do you know how to get to the most prosperous street market in Beijing?" An Yiran asked tentatively, feeling that as long as there was a lively place, there must be more gossip to dig into, and it could also be used to find the route to the palace.

"Of course I know, otherwise, I need to go to the Jingzhong Market in a few days to buy ingredients, and I will bring you together!" Su Qianli thought about it carefully and enthusiastically proposed.

"That's great!" An Yiran was overjoyed at this time, it is much better to have someone lead the way than to be confused alone!

"When the time comes, I'll ask Chang Feng if he can give us a ride." Su Qianli and An Yiran agreed on the itinerary in a few days and began to plan.

An Yiran heard Su Qianli suddenly mention Chang Feng, and then she remembered the doubts that had just left in her heart, she thought about it for a while, and asked cautiously: "Sister Ali, are Chang Feng and Lin Shen both palace guards?" ”

"Chang Feng and Lin Shen are the personal guards of the Sixth Highness, and they follow the Sixth Highness on weekdays and do things for the Sixth Highness." Su Qianli explained casually, and suddenly she thought of something again, and continued to add a few words: "However, recently, the courtyard in the suburbs of Beijing has not been peaceful, and there are occasional black-clothed people at night, and His Royal Highness is worried about my safety, so he sent Chang Feng to temporarily garrison this courtyard." ”

"I see, no wonder I just met Chang Feng in the courtyard." An Yiran nodded as if she didn't understand, and muttered in a low voice.

"Alright! Eat the noodles quickly, otherwise it won't taste good after a while. Qianli chuckled and ended their small talk.

However, An Yiran was not in a calm mood at this time, she suddenly remembered that her mother entered Beijing on the second day after the two people visited the mansion and did not return, and the house suddenly visited two self-proclaimed palace guards that day, and her mother's face was a little wrong.

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In the middle of the night, An Yiran stayed alone in her room and pondered, she stood in front of the window, looking up at the bright full moon in the dark sky, and her heart was worried.

She is trying to think about the next step to find her mother, and now she entered Beijing alone, and almost lost her life, fortunately the six princes kindly rescued her, and she is no longer in serious trouble, and she should think about what to do next.

In fact, at the moment when she was in distress in the mountains, she already regretted her impulsiveness, and she did not expect any consequences, so she dared to leave home and enter Beijing without permission.

She now has to hurry to find a place to stay, this is someone else's mansion after all, and it is already a favor that people are willing to take her in for a few days, she can't leave her face to eat and live, she needs to find a place to live first.

She walked lightly to the clothes box, took out the beautiful jade pendant that her mother gave her before leaving home, looked at the jade pendant and fell into deep thought: "Mother, where are you?" I miss you so much! ”

Just as she was worried, a dark shadow suddenly flashed outside the window, and the sudden speed of the wind made the candle flame in front of the windowsill flutter.

An Yiran, who reacted keenly, instantly sensed that something was wrong, and immediately raised her eyes to look out of the window, and in the afterglow of her vision, she saw a black shadow passing by the window, so frightened that she hurriedly hid the jade pendant, and walked to the wooden door with curiosity to open the door, and stepped out of the house to check the situation, but found that there was no one outside.

An Yiran was instantly creepy, convinced that her intuition just now was correct, but at this moment, there was no trace of the figure in black outside the house.

She looked up at the dark sky of the night, the sparse stars looked desolate, the lonely full moon hung high in the middle of the stars, the cool breeze in the courtyard blew through, with a faint chill, and the shadows of the trees that kept shaking were terrifying.

An Yiran had practiced self-defense witchcraft, and with her current magic ability, she still trusted her instincts.

In order to ensure her own safety, she decided to investigate carefully, and then she closed her eyes tightly, clasped her hands tightly in front of her heart, and kept chanting a series of incantations that others did not understand, opening up her sense of smell that was unusual to ordinary people, and intently probing the route of the breath of the man in black.

After exploring the route of this breath, she was surprised to find that there were really traces of the man in black running outside the house just now, and what was even more frightening was that she couldn't find the route of the black-clothed departure.

That means that the man in black has not left at this time, and may still be staying in a dark corner of this courtyard.

What's even more terrifying is that the stronghold where the trail of the man in black last broke off was on the top of the eaves behind where she was standing at this time......

An Yiran was suddenly so frightened that her legs and feet became weak, and she didn't have the courage to look back, and she was so shocked in her heart that she didn't dare to imagine that the man in black was staring at her above her at the moment.

Although she loves to mess around on weekdays, as a habitual offender, she has the characteristics of a man's natural activity, although she knows some self-defense witchcraft, but she does not know martial arts, she still has the courage of an ordinary daughter in her bones, especially when she is in an unfamiliar place in life, when she is not aware of her own safety, she is really worried that she will die if she makes a rash move at this moment.

This is really dangerous all the way to Beijing! She has seen all kinds of fights and killings, and now she has personally experienced the dangerous situation of coexisting with the legendary man in black who kills people without blinking.

Just as she was still standing there with her eyes closed, her body not daring to move, and her heart was extremely entangled, someone behind her suddenly touched her shoulder.

She was so frightened that her body stiffened unconsciously, and she couldn't move, and she reflexively exclaimed: "Ahhh Don't kill me! I don't know anything! ”