I went to jail. I have no argument. I'm just waiting, this is the last wait.

Mu Zixiao, will you come?

In Fulanen, I waited for you for eight years, but you didn't come, but you rode a horse outside Kyoto to pick me up. This time, will you come to my rescue?

I know that in Kyoto's law, officials with official positions of six grades or higher and their family members can be exempted from first-class crimes. And Mu Zixiao and I are not married yet, I am not his anyone, but if he comes out and confesses that I am his concubine, even if it is only hers, I will be pardoned for capital crimes, or exiled, or imprisoned, I don't care.

My wait is full of hope and despair at the same time.

Mu Zixiao, I don't know when, my liking for you is so humble.

Late at night, I leaned against the cold wall of the prison with my knees crossed.

A shadow stood silently in front of me, and I slowly looked up. It's the Night Ghost King.

He stood and didn't speak, but I could feel his cold breath. He was angry, no, outraged.

I buried my head again, sniffed, and said in a muffled voice: "It's okay, you go back and tell King Ning Yuan that I chose it this way." It's none of your business! ”

Suddenly, he lifted me up from the wall: "You said it had nothing to do with me!" I told you not to go out on the streets! ”

I was a little uncomfortable with being so close to him all of a sudden, and his hot snort sprayed on my face, tickling.

"I'm sorry...... I am grateful to you. By the way, you tell Yuan Qing, Yuan Qing you know, my brother, King Ning Yuan asked you to protect me because he valued him. You tell him, don't be sad, King Ningyuan is affectionate, let him follow well, don't worry about me. Good...... ...... alive," I said, and my tears fell silently. Perhaps, I have seen my slim future, Mu Zixiao, he will not come.

The Night Shadow King's mood suddenly eased: "That's it, even if you stay in the mansion, you will still come." ”

He let me down, was silent for a long time, and suddenly said, "You, I like Mu Zixiao very much." ”

I nodded my head wildly, my head was a mess, is this the case with people who are dying?

"I liked him when I was nine years old. It's a pity that he doesn't seem to like me. I crouched down again and buried my head between my legs. I can't stop these damn tears, but I'm about to die, and it's okay to cry like this in front of others.

A pair of large hands rested on my head, and the warm feeling lasted for a long time.

Silence in the cell. At some point, I looked up and found that the Night King was gone, and there was a dagger studded with emerald gems beside me, which must have been left for me to defend myself. I felt a warm current in my heart. In this world, if someone treats me so far, I should be satisfied.

I was so tired that I just fell asleep.

I spent three days in prison. No one has ever interrogated me. I didn't take a bite of the food outside the prison door.

When a person is quiet, especially when he is desperate, he tends to figure out a lot of things.

In the past few days, I have been reminiscing about Hua Nian and Mu Zixiao since I arrived in Mu Mansion, and gradually I seem to know something. I wondered, who would come to see me first? Is it Mu Zixiao? Or is it a Chinese year?

But I didn't expect that I, an orphan girl with no power, no power and no support, would cause an uproar in Kyoto, and this turmoil gradually brought to light the conspiracy behind cholera eight years ago......

What I am waiting for is not Mu Zixiao, nor Hua Nian, but a person who wants to kill me.

It was the fourth day in prison, and I was leaning against the wall, and I was exhausted from the few days without a grain of rice. The sound of chains made me sit up.

The head of the cell let in a man dressed in black, who wore a veil and a black cloak, and could not distinguish between man and woman. The man waved his hand, and the cell leader withdrew.

I had a vague feeling that something was wrong. He clenched the dagger beside him.

Sure enough, without saying a word, the man took out a short rope, and he wanted to disguise me as if I had hanged myself!

Before he could put the rope around my neck, I quickly pulled out my dagger and stabbed him in the lower abdomen with all my strength. The man's kung fu was so good that he could flash over, and my stab was missed, but it also made him bleed.

The man probably didn't expect me to have a dagger, and after a moment's shock, he flew up and kicked me in the wrist, after all, I was exhausted, and my arm was numb, and I fell to the ground. The man took advantage of the situation and put the short rope around my neck, and the desire to survive made me burst with great strength, and I turned my head and bit the man's hand, and at that moment I saw what appeared to be a plum blossom mark on the inside of the man's wrist.

The bite used up all the strength of my body, and the man was in pain, and finally a slap hit me, and I was immediately dizzy. Trying not to let himself pass out, he stumbled towards the open cell door when he got up, and the wind hit behind him, I thought, I may not be able to hide this time, but I can't resist the hard work of the Night King and the King of Ning Yuan......

Just when I thought I was going to die, a pair of strong arms caught me, it was Ningyuan Wang Chenghao, he had just stood up from his wheelchair!

My eyes went dark and I lost consciousness.

The birds are tactful, the sound of running water is jumping, cheerful and calm. When I woke up, I was lying on a couch, not a cell. Looking around, the pale green cloth curtain on the couch, a group of simple tables and chairs on the right, and some pastries and water on the table in front of the window on the other side, simple but exquisite, this seems to be a private house.

I sat up slowly, and a feeling of dizziness hit me. I remembered that I hadn't eaten in a long time. The food in prison, I'm afraid of being poisonous, I'm always afraid that Hua Nian will kill me before Mu Zixiao has time to appear. After all, she is the daughter of a physician, and it is easy to poison people without knowing it.

However, in prison, when the man in black killed me, when I thought I was going to die, I didn't think of Mu Zixiao......

With that in mind, I drank some water from my room and had some snacks.

"Aren't you afraid of being toxic now?" A crisp voice rang out from the doorway.

It was Ningyuan Wang Chenghao, and Qinghe pushed him in. I subconsciously looked at his leg and remembered the scene when he caught me in prison. Well, it should be an illusion, maybe I'm falling, so I feel like he's tall and standing up.

The one who came in after him was Mu Zixiao.

He looked at me, his eyes were clear, and he didn't have the slightest evasion before, and he said, "Jinse, I have wronged you." ”

He seems to have become the Mu Zixiao of nine years ago, the Mu Zixiao who is open, protecting me everywhere and giving me hope.

However, something is different after all. When I saw him, my heart was no longer as turbulent as before, and I no longer had expectations, after all that I had been through.

I smiled at him and lowered my gaze to sweep the inside of his wrist, which was not really visible from the cover of his clothes.

I was shocked: Am I suspicious of him?

I paused, and asked, "Can you tell me?" What's going on here? If you want to kill me, is it really Hua Nian? ”

"Yes, but it's not." Mu Zixiao replied.

Seeing that I was puzzled, Mu Zixiao looked at King Ning Yuan, and Cheng Hao nodded at him.

This was the first time that Mu Zixiao looked into my eyes and said so many things to me. And then I realized that the world was a huge conspiracy, and I had been living in this huge conspiracy.

The chirping of birds outside the window and the murmuring of flowing water happened to be accompanied by Mu Zixiao's deep voice.

What a show.

It turned out that cholera eight years ago was not an accident.

At that time, the countries were in the midst of a melee, and compared with other countries, the lord of the country asked the various tribes for the way to win. The doctors led by Hua Zhiyan, who is Hua Nian's father, offered advice to the lord of the country, saying that a medicine could be developed, and the soldiers could drink it to be one enemy and ten enemies. Several formulations have been developed, but someone needs to test them. Hua Zhiyan also said that the more weak the medicine is, the more effective it is. Therefore, you can use the people to test the medicine.

The lord of the kingdom was furious and thought it was ridiculous.

A month later, a large number of villagers died in villages a little further from Kyoto, at first there were only five or six people in a village, which was a very common thing in the era of war and chaos and people did not have enough to eat, so it did not attract attention, until later, a large number of villagers died in the same way, first with high fever, phlegm, throat ulceration, like the symptoms of cholera, which attracted the attention of the state capitals, but it was too late.

This incident alarmed the lord of the country, and he immediately asked the various ministries to send people to deal with the follow-up matters and properly deal with the surviving villagers. But very few are alive. Yuan Qing and I were two of the survivors at that time.

I suddenly remembered that at that time, a few strangers had come to the village, and in the name of doing business, they gave the villagers some "health-invigorating" medicines, saying that after drinking, they could ensure that they would not be hungry for three days and would greatly increase their physical strength. In an age of starvation, who wouldn't give it a try when there is such an opportunity?

Yuan Qing and I often go to play in the stream outside the village, and sometimes we simply stay in the cave next to the stream at night, with little contact with the villagers, and of course we miss the "test medicine".

"So, this is the reason why Hua Nian wants to kill me, it turns out that it is her father who really wants to kill me, Hua Zhiyan? He's afraid that you'll follow the vine? I asked.

I still don't understand. We are just two surviving orphans, so what does my presence do to them?

Mu Zixiao looked at me deeply: "This matter is not so simple, Hua Zhiyan is just a doctor, if there is no bigger instigator behind them, they will never make such a big move." Since last year, the people who survived the cholera have died in various ways. ”

I was shocked. "Then, that day in Fulan Garden, you didn't choose at all, but deliberately found Yuan Qing!"

Cheng Hao looked at me and nodded slightly, and if I was not mistaken, there was appreciation in his eyes. He told me that Yuan Qing was not in the country of Li at this time.

"So, that's why you sent the Night Ghost King to follow me, it turned out that you were afraid that I would be killed!" I asked Cheng Hao.

"The Night King?" Mu Zixiao's face was a little weird, and he turned his head to look at Cheng Hao.

Cheng Hao looked a little unnatural, but he was only momentarily focused. He didn't look at him.

In just a moment, Mu Zixiao reorganized his expression and continued: "Few people knew about the poisoning incident at that time, but the prince found something strange from it and has been secretly tracking it down. Now that some officials in the DPRK and China have learned the truth, many people believe that the reason why Hua Zhiyan unscrupulously poisoned and killed the survivors was because of the order of King Ningyuan! ”