I saw Liu Yi dismount, whipped the wind with a leather whip, ran away from the wind, and disappeared from the field of vision of the two of them at once. Liu Yi picked up Xu Yanjun, jumped up with light skills, and climbed directly to the tree next to him. The tree was huge, with thick branches, and could hold the weight of two people.

The two of them were so close that they could feel each other's temperature.

Xu Yanjun looked up at Liu Yi's eyes, which was not as good as what she knew about Liu Yi before. The current Liu Yi does not look like a scoundrel farther away, but with a little gentleness. Liu Yi also looked down at Xu Yanjun, at this time, Xu Yanjun was not as heroic as when he asked to compete with him a year ago, but he was a little more shy.

At that moment, they looked at each other silently. The deer stomped under the trees and made a loud noise. And they don't seem to feel it. Everything seems to be frozen at that moment, maybe this is the happiest moment in Xu Yanjun's life.

After a while, the deer herd passed, and Liu Yi jumped off the tree with a slight jump.

Liu Yi put Xu Yanjun on the ground, and he also sat next to him, and the two of them did not speak. The empty plain was extremely quiet, except for the autumn wind whistling in my ears.

The two men did not speak for a long time, but sat quietly, watching the sky turn from blue to crimson, and the wind of the wilderness blew against them.

After being silent for a long time, Xu Yanjun said a little shyly: "That...... Thank you, Your Royal Highness, thanks to you, otherwise I might have died under the deer's hooves. ”

Liu Yi put away the look he usually pretended to be, and just said calmly: "Just call me Ah Yi." ”

It's been a long time since I've heard anyone call him like that, and the last time I heard it was ten years ago, when his mother was still there. And the last time he called him like this was his mother concubine, Hu Zhaorong, who had been dead for ten years.

When the sky was getting dark, the emperor saw that the two of them had not returned for a long time, so he sent his guards out to look for them, and they sat under the tree, quietly listening to the wind, and watching the sky gradually darken.

Later, Xu Yanjun was taken back to see it, there was nothing serious, but he was bruised, and there were some bruises on his body, so he was fine after applying the bone-setting ointment secretly made by the imperial pharmacy for a while.

After going back, Xu Yanjun continued to live in Chu Mansion, where the courtyard where she lived was only separated by a wall from the alley outside. The days were as peaceful as before, and I lived in Chu Mansion for more than a year before I knew it, until that day.

It was a summer day, and the cicadas in the trees in the yard were chirping, and the sound of frogs could be heard in the artificial pond of Chufu a little farther away.

Xu Yanjun picked the wick of the candle, hoping that the candle could burn brighter, this dim light is not suitable for embroidery. Xu Yanjun let her maid go to rest first, she didn't want anyone to disturb her. She sat alone in front of the embroidery stand and embroidered things, and she didn't embroider very well, because she was a person who was used to holding swords and swords, and suddenly she was asked to pick up an embroidery needle, and she really couldn't embroider anything, and she didn't like these things at all.

Her preferences are not the same as those of other girls. She doesn't like beautiful clothes, she doesn't like good-looking rouge, and she has no intention of asking about other sons. She only likes swords, likes knives, if it weren't for Xu Bangchang, she would take a sword, ride her clouds to the end of the world, and go to the rivers and lakes.

Xu Yanjun just put down the needle in his hand and muttered: "What is broken, I won't embroider yet!" ”

But as soon as she didn't want to finish speaking, the door was opened from the outside, she only felt a chill behind her, thinking that it wouldn't be Mother Li, who was in charge of her learning female workers and learning female commandments, right?

Xu Yanjun looked back and breathed a sigh of relief that it was not Mother Li, it was Liu Yi in night clothes. Looking at Liu Yi's outfit, at a glance, he knew that he didn't come in through the gate, but must have come in from the alley.

Xu Yanjun pulled Liu Yi to sit down, poured water, and asked, "Why are you here tonight?" No one saw it when you came in from the outside, right? ”

Liu Yi took the tea handed by Xu Yanjun and said, "Don't worry, no one will see it." He drank the tea handed by Xu Yanjun.

Liu Yi didn't know how to talk to Xu Yanjun about this matter, and he hesitated for a while before saying, "Yanjun, are you willing to marry me as Princess Yi?" ”

As soon as the words fell, Xu Yanjun was shocked and asked, "Ah? Why so suddenly? You and I have only met twice, and we are not familiar with it yet, so I am too anxious. ”

Now that he said that, Liu Yi didn't plan to hide it from Xu Yanjun.

Liu Yi held Xu Yanjun's hand, looked at Xu Yanjun's eyes with both eyes, and said affectionately: "I like you, the first time I saw you, I thought you were very interesting, the palace is all gentle and lovely, with excellent temperament, but in my opinion, they seem to be people carved from wood, they are all the same." But you are different, you are like a wild horse in the vast desert, free and unfettered. That's why I like you, and I want to see you, so I beg my sister Rui and Princess to invite you to the royal autumn hunt, hoping to see you again. ”

Speaking of which, Xu Yanjun finally understood why Princess Ruihe, who had never known him, invited him to participate in the royal autumn hunt.

Xu Yanjun just sat quietly, listening to Liu Yi's confession, she didn't know what she was thinking in her heart, and she didn't know if she liked the special emotion in Liu Yi's heart since Liu Yi saved her last time, she only remembered that when Liu Yi held herself, her heart was beating uncontrollably.

Liu Yi looked at Xu Yanjun sitting there silently, and he didn't know what Xu Yanjun was thinking, he just felt that Xu Yanjun should know about it, so he continued: "My second brother, that is, King Yue, sent someone to repair the book to General Xu, who was still on the northwest border, two days ago, saying that he would marry you as Princess Yue after you arrived. But my second brother doesn't like you, you know, I also know that he just wants the forces behind General Xu to be above the court in the future, and can help him win the crown prince in the future. You won't be happy if you marry him, the person he likes is the daughter of Li Yuan, the priest of the country. ”

Yue Wang Liu Jing, she knows. His Majesty's second son, since the first prince Liu Yan was deposed, he has great ambitions, thinking of ascending to the throne of the crown prince and becoming the next emperor of the Yan Kingdom.

The current situation in the court, except for the old stubbornness of Xu Bangchang, who is only loyal to the monarch, is almost all working for those princes who hope to become princes, not for King Yue Liu Jing, or for King Gong Liu Qi, or for King Cheng Liu Jun.

The undercurrent in the court is turbulent, as if it is a sultry afternoon before the heavy rain, not that it will not come, but the time has not come.

Liu Jing's power is not as good as that of Liu Jun, the king of Cheng, after all, Liu Jun is behind Liu Xie, the king of Pingyang. In the battle between the previous generation of princes, Liu Xie and the father of these princes, that is, the emperor Liu Si, were indistinguishable from each other, and even better than Liu Si in some places. But in the end, Liu Xie was defeated, but he was defeated because he was not the son-in-law, the queen's son-in-law. As for why Liu Xie is willing to stir up troubled waters again, it is because Liu Jun's mother is his cousin, and Liu Jun is not only his nephew, but also his cousin.

Liu Jing also knew that his current power above the court was not as good as his sixth brother Liu Jun, so he thought of a way to win over the ministers who had not yet stood in line.

Now, Liu Jing has set his sights on Xu Bangchang.

Xu Bangchang has only one daughter and one son. He values his daughter more than his son, because his daughter was born to his favorite wife, Mrs. Xu, and his son was born to a servant girl. If he hadn't been drunk that day and mistakenly recognized this servant girl Lu Shi as Mrs. Xu, otherwise he would never have been lucky with Lu Shi. Although the Lu family later gave birth to a son and was raised as Aunt Lu, Xu Bangchang still didn't want to see the maid. Except for the day his son was born, Xu Bangchang did not set foot in Aunt Lu's room until Aunt Lu died, and he was only hastily buried and sent some silver to Aunt Lu's mother's house.

Everyone in Yanjing knows these things, some people say that Xu Bangchang is affectionate, and some people say that Xu Bangchang is ruthless, but Xu Bangchang doesn't care.

Now, Liu Jing feels that the only way to win over Xu Bangchang is to marry Xu Bangchang's daughter Xu Yanjun. If Xu Yanjun marries himself and becomes the princess of Yue, Xu Bangchang has no reason not to support his son-in-law to become the crown prince, and the forces under Xu Bangchang's command will become his own forces, and there will be more possibilities for winning the prince.

Xu Yanjun knew that Liu Jing had bad intentions when he married her, what kind of relationship did two people who had never met? So she was unwilling to marry Liu Jing. But if he doesn't marry Liu Jing, Xu Bangchang will definitely offend Liu Jing and his gang. If Liu Jing really ascends to the throne in the future, then the life of the Xu family will not be easy.

Xu Yanjun knows that even if her father loves her again, she will not openly reject Liu Jing, so she is likely to marry a stranger who doesn't love her at all.

Xu Yanjun is also very entangled, she doesn't want to spend her life in the palace or palace for a person she doesn't love and doesn't love herself, she doesn't want to see her father embarrassed, and she doesn't want to see her clansmen implicated because of this.

She has some feelings for Liu Yi, but she can't be sure whether she loves Liu Yi or not, so she can't respond to Liu Yi. Liu Yi will offend Liu Jing because of this, once Liu Jing succeeds to the throne, not only the entire Xu family, but also Liu Yi's life will not be easy.

So Xu Yanjun turned his face sideways, avoiding Liu Yi's gaze, and also withdrew his hand from Liu Yi's hand, and said ruthlessly: "His Royal Highness King Yi, the matter of marriage is not something that a little girl can decide. ”

This is also the best way she thinks, not to involve her father, not to involve the Xu family, not to involve Liu Yi, but to pay for her life by mistake.

In this world, this is the case, how many blessings and blessings you have received will be returned in the future.

This is the way Xu Yanjun wants to use his life to repay the nurturing grace of the Xu family and his father's love for him.

Liu Yi was a little unwilling, he didn't want to watch Xu Yanjun marry the second brother who didn't love her like this, so he continued: "Think about it, don't refuse so quickly and so decisively. ”