Qingqi was so frightened that he covered his mouth, for fear that he would shout out, so he only knelt on the ground, and the firewood in the back basket fell all over the ground.

"Slaves and maids, see His Royal Highness."

Zhao Man, who was so painful that he almost lost consciousness, heard this, endured the pain, and knelt on the ground all of a sudden, "His Royal Highness the Prince spared the life of his subordinates, his subordinates are confused, but his subordinates and these women are innocent, nothing." ”

Ruan Lu tugged at the corners of his lips and said with a smile, "You are Lord Sun's cronies, what can you do with this son?" This son was practicing archery on the mountain, and accidentally shot you in the arm. ”

Zhao Mane was so painful that he couldn't wait to scold his mother, but he had to endure it, who didn't know that Ruan Lu was both civil and military, how could he miss his hand and fall on his body, and it had penetrated the bones, and it was obvious that he had used a lot of strength.

He gritted his teeth and returned that nothing happened, and immediately walked down the mountain with a rolling belt, and the blood was all over the ground, but he was afraid that the arm would be preserved, and it would be useless, and he would not even be able to pick up a bow and arrow.

"Thank you, Your Highness, for saving your life." Qingqi's face was flushed with a strange ruddyness, but it was clear that his obsession with him was getting stronger and stronger.

Ruan Lu's gaze never fell on her for half a minute, and only listened to her words. Only swept over with a faint breeze, but was about to turn and leave.

Na Fushuang wanted to say something to her, but Ruan Lu was by his side after all, so he naturally didn't dare to say anything, so he had to squeeze his eyes at her, and then hurriedly chased after her with an arrow.

However, Ruan Lu hadn't taken a few steps yet, but Qingqi's voice came from behind him, "Your Royal Highness, the slave wants to tell you about Lian Zhi'er." ”

Ruan Lu glanced at Fu Shuang. Fushuang hurried down the mountain.

Ruan Lu's footsteps slowly turned back, the whimpering cold wind blew the snow fox cloak on his shoulders, and at this time, the last trace of the sunset had disappeared into the white snow, and his eyes became more and more obscure in the dimness.

"Oh?"

His gaze inadvertently fell on Fushuang's body, and Fushuang immediately understood and left quietly.

"Your Royal Highness, Lian Zhi'er is a good sister of the slave, and she did such a thing that defied the rules that day, just to cling to you and leave here." Qingqi's nervous heart was about to burst out of his throat when he said this, and he was frightened by his momentum when he saw him, but he still sniffed and continued to speak.

"You know that we are only nine deaths here, she just wants to find a way to live for herself, and please don't blame her for His Royal Highness."

Ruan Lu said, "Sure enough, it's a good sister, and you actually excuse her like this." ”

"Actually, she already has a sweetheart, and that person gave her a piece of jade as a token of love, when we were exiled here. She was afraid of being searched, so she kept hiding the jade in her shoes and socks, but the jade on the road was still broken into a corner, and the broken corner pierced into her flesh, and even the shoes and socks were dyed, she still refused to give up the jade pendants, and never took them out, presumably she must have an unforgettable love for her sweetheart. ”

The cold wind was howling, and Qingqi felt that he was even colder than this cold night, but in an instant, he recovered as before.

"Then do you like this son?" He asked in a low voice.

Qingqi gritted his teeth and endured the apprehension in his heart, "The slave maid loves His Royal Highness the Prince with all her heart. ”

"Sure enough, it's a frank and intelligent girl, but I like it in this world." He smiled "sneering", the corners of his lips slightly hooked,

Qingqi only heard him say the word "like", and he was already overjoyed, his heart was in turmoil, and he couldn't help himself.

"This son likes bold girls the most, I guess you are." Ruan Lu's eyes flashed with a hint of calculation, "You won't disappoint this son, right?" ”

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Ruan Lu Chongguan was angry and became angry, and everyone soon knew about it, and everyone was jealous, especially Zhen Ying, who only gritted her teeth and said some sour words, but she didn't dare to offend Qingqi too much.

Grandma Sun, who has always climbed high and stepped low, also sent some food, and she was kind to Qingqi and Lianzhi'er.

Lian Zhi'er kept frowning, and finally waited until Qingqi was the only one left in the house, she grabbed Qingqi, and said thoughtfully, "Qingqi, you stay away from him, a high-minded and arrogant person like him will not look down on a lowly person like us at all, I just think it will insult his identity." Presumably he must be planning something behind his back, but I'm afraid that you won't even know how you died when the time comes. ”

"Enough!" Qingqi's face turned pale, and his voice became poignant and hideous, "I didn't expect you to be such a selfish and narrow-minded person, I was wrong about you, and I didn't want to show my true face today, you can rest assured, I died in the hands of His Royal Highness the Prince, and I am also willing, and I don't need you to talk nonsense here." ”

Lian Zhi'er stood up helplessly, she also had something to do, she only carried the basket, and couldn't say a word.

She could only watch her good sister fall into the abyss, everything she did was in vain, she couldn't fight Ruan Lu.

After Lian Zhi'er left, Qingqi couldn't help but shed a few tears of grievance.

After a while, her eyes turned red with tears, for fear of being seen by others, so she hurriedly walked to the mirror in the room, which could barely look at people, and wiped the tears on her cheeks with the placket of her clothes.

Her fingers rubbed her cheeks, and the woman in the mirror was not as beautiful as Lianzhi'er's delicate beauty. It's not as good as Zhenying charming, if you don't give it a go, I'm afraid that I won't have a day in my life.

Qingqi's eyes had a touch of determination, and finally seemed to have made a final decision.

And at this moment, I saw Zhenying coming from outside, stomping on the snow under her feet on the floor tiles, and snorted coldly, "I really think I am the master of the young lady, and if I have the ability, I will let His Royal Highness the Prince accept you as a concubine, otherwise I won't wait for the future to climb higher and fall worse?" ”

"Good sister, can you lend me some clothes and hairpin ring jewelry?" This is the first time Qingqi has spoken so gently.

Zhenying's maternal grandfather's family often sent some jewelry, hairpins, rings, clothes and other things, and now there is no one else to borrow except her.

"Why did this girl lend you her clothes to seduce men? Unless you are willing to pay tribute to this girl with rare treasures. After speaking, she snorted coldly and ignored Qingqi.

Qingqi gritted his teeth, but he still turned around and quietly took Lian Zhi'er's pillow out of the cabinet, only poked his fingers into the gap, and quickly took out the jade pendant from it.

seemed to hesitate for a moment, but he still handed it to Zhenying from the walk, and only said, "This treasure is rare, how about changing it for your set of hairpin skirt jewelry?" ”

Zhenying took it over and looked at it carefully, but it was a piece of beautiful jade that was as bright as the morning glow, and it was only hot like fire when she held it in her hand, and it was really something that was difficult to find in the world. For a while, I felt extremely surprised, although it was broken, but it was also priceless, "Where did you get this?" ”

"You don't care where you came from. Do you just call me back to me or not? Qingqi was a little weak-hearted, afraid that she would continue to ask questions.

Zhenying smiled and put the piece of jade in her arms, carefully picked it up, but only took out a set of gauze skirts as thin as cicada wings from her cabinet, and sneered, "I only give you this one, you dare to wear it."

Do you want to go out and show someone? ”

Since Ruan Lu came over as an overseer, he looked at the accounts, and felt shocked, the silver spent over the years was like flowing seawater, who knew that the people were still suffering from disasters year after year, and when the spring was warm and the ice melted, I was afraid that it would be the people of Li who would suffer again.

I knew that these people here had already colluded together, and it was very difficult to investigate thoroughly.

Besides, the strong dragon can't suppress the ground snake, and now he is under the control of others here, and he is trapped here.

In addition to Fushuang, there were only two guards who went with him, and although the guards were strong in martial arts, they were still useless in other people's realms after all.

However, it was dark and he returned to his lodgings.

On days when the dripping water turned into ice, the cold wind blew on people's faces like a knife, and it hurt to the bone.

He just entered the house, but he saw that the heat was blowing on his face, and the charcoal fire in the charcoal basin was burning, and there was a continuous beeping sound, which suddenly dissipated the heat in his body, and he felt even more dizzy. I was depressed.

Fu Shuang only followed behind him, and hurriedly persuaded, "Your Royal Highness, don't be too angry, these people are clearly not doing things well, and when you find out what they are greedy and perverting the law, you will write to the Queen Mother, and you will be punished." ”

Ruan Lu just frowned, and there seemed to be a bit of anger in his eyes.

At this moment, I saw a slight sound on the bed in the room, very light and faint, like the sound of clothes rubbing.

Ruan Lu's gaze slowly moved over, and a sneer suddenly appeared on his face, but he saw that the tent on the bed had fallen, and the quilt at the bottom of the green gauze tent was clearly and slightly raised.

This woman really didn't disappoint him, and it seems that she made the right move. only sneered, "Fighting with this son, she is also worthy?" It's still as stupid as three years ago, allowing others to play with it without knowing it. ”

Fushuang has always been honest. Where can I understand what he meant, but I focused on the bed, and then showed a frightened look, "Your Royal Highness, go quickly, there are assassins in the room, don't worry, your subordinates will protect you even if you don't have this life." ”

The person hiding in the green gauze tent also heard these words, and only coughed lightly, and then a coquettish voice came, "His Royal Highness, it's a slave family." ”

In an instant, Fushuang understood, and stood there almost dumbfounded, stunned, his eyes straight, and his cheeks flushed.

In his heart, he couldn't help but sigh that the women here were too violent, and such obscene things could be done. At the beginning in the princess's mansion, although those maids had the intention of climbing up, they didn't dare to show it, after all, if they had any thoughts about His Royal Highness, they would be executed, which was the rule set by the eldest princess.

Fushuang lowered his head and was about to retreat, but when he saw Ruan Lu's cold gaze sweeping towards him, he hurriedly said, "Your Royal Highness, please rest assured, the slave knows all the rules, and he will never tell today's matter." I will never tell the eldest princess, please ......"

After speaking, he knelt on the ground, looking like a catastrophe was coming.

Ruan Lu walked over slowly. Tearing the green gauze tent open, I saw that there was indeed a woman lying on her side on the bed, half-covering the quilt, but I saw that she was wearing a thin gauze dress, revealing a snow-white arm, but on the arm was a pair of shrimp bracelets, only supporting her head with her left hand, her eyes were like silk, but she was just pretending to be calm. But he only called in a low voice, "His Royal Highness." ”

It is Qingqi.

Ruan Lu looked at her condescendingly, his dark eyes seemed to be thinking about something, but she felt as if he had passed through her, she didn't know what he was looking at, she only felt creepy, the original thoughts were all gone, and all that was left was endless fear.

Qingqi only felt that he was afraid that his life would be difficult to protect today.

She crawled down from the bed and fell to her knees. "The prince spares his life, the slave and maid love you wholeheartedly, so he has such a crooked thought, and the slave and maid will never dare to ...... anymore"

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The cold wind whimpered, and there were snowflakes outside, but after half an hour, it was as if they had knocked over their pockets, and they were already past their ankles.

The women who had been sent out also came back piecemeal, exhausted, and only complained that they would have to clear the snow tomorrow.

There were only a few pieces of charcoal in the charcoal basin in the house, as if the fire was dissipating at any time, and someone hurriedly took the wire to stir the ashes, and added some firewood and grass that had just been picked up, and suddenly the billowing black smoke came out, choking everyone's tears came out.

Lian Zhi'er only covered her nose with her hands, and hurriedly walked over to ask the women, "Have you seen Qingqi?" ”

The more those women ignored her, they only hid in the quilt, talking and laughing together, just as there was no Lianzhi'er.

Shan Qiao was about to get up to pour the water for washing his feet, and when he passed by Lian Zhi'er, he said in a low voice, "I watched her go to the courtyard in the north, and I saw that she was dressed up, but I am afraid that there is something very important." ”

Lian Zhi'er suddenly understood. I felt a chill behind my back, and I didn't even have time to thank him, so I hurriedly ran outside.

As soon as she went out, she bumped into Zhenying who was coming towards her, and the two of them fell to the ground, and the snow was all over their heads, which poured into the necks of the two people.

Zhenying got up, patted the snow on her body, and glared angrily, "Blind your eyes, are you people in Beiliang so careless?" Is it in a hurry to be reincarnated? ”

Lian Zhi'er didn't have time to pay attention to her scolding, so she quickly got up and ran.

At this time, the wind and snow were dense and urgent, and the whining wind blew through the treetops like a ghost crying wolf. Her thin boots stomped on the snow, making a constant "squeaking" sound. In the white expanse of snow, there was only a row of her lonely footprints, but they were quickly buried, leaving nothing.

Lian Zhi'er ran to Ruan Lu's yard, and saw Fushuang who was anxiously circling around in the yard, and he seemed to have been waiting for Lian Zhi'er. Seeing her coming, he breathed a heavy sigh of relief.

"Girl, you can be regarded as coming, the little ancestor of your family dared to climb onto the bed of His Royal Highness the Prince, and now he was tied up and thrown into the firewood room, His Royal Highness the Prince only said that he would lock her up for ten days, and he would not even give her food and clothing, but he was afraid that her life would not be saved."

Lian Zhi'er was sweating anxiously, "Has His Royal Highness the Prince said anything else?" ”

Fushuang's face was a little embarrassed, and he thought for a while before he said, "His Royal Highness the Prince said, if you think clearly, go to the wing room to bathe and change clothes." Everything is ready there. ”

After hearing such words, Lian Zhi'er's feet seemed to be frozen there, and she just wanted to pull her legs and run, but she knew that if she went, Qingqi's life would not be saved, that was the person she guarded as her own sister, and it was also their Beiliang person.

The bathing water was cold, it was biting cold, and she plunged her whole body into it, and the feeling of suffocation swept over again.

She couldn't help but think of her brother Lian Shuo, who had choked her by the throat that day, and if she had followed her father and brother that day, she would not have had the torture and pain she has today.

The knife was there, and she had to stretch her neck over it anyway, and then she couldn't escape her fate.

When she went to the main house, the lights in the room were still on, and a wave of heat swept in, and the hair that had been frozen into ice gradually melted again, and the wet hair stuck to the miserable little face, covering the frightened eyes like a fawn, and it looked more and more pitiful.

But I saw Ruan Lu sitting at the desk in the room, a dark shirt looked a little deep under the lamplight, his long black hair was scattered, and he was loosely bound with only a golden hairpin.

"Come in." His voice was cold, and when he finished speaking, he turned his gaze back to his scroll, as if there was something bothering, his brows tightened, and after seeing her, he seemed to be even more upset.

Lian Zhi'er just stood there in a daze, and even the fear seemed to have been forgotten, just a lost soul.

The house was very quiet, so quiet that even the sound of snow outside the window could be heard clearly.

It took a stick of incense to pass through. Ruan Lucai seemed to think of her, only raised his head, and said coldly, "What are you doing there?" Come here yet! ”

Lian Zhi'er walked to his side with great difficulty, until he stood beside him, but saw that on the table were all the accounts of the repair of the river, several of which had been sketched out by him with cinnabar. And her eyes fell on one of the books.

Lian Zhi'er didn't recognize all the words, but she vaguely recognized the familiar handwriting and inscription, which was actually "On River Governance" written by Shi Ran.

She thought that she had been heartbroken enough in the past three years, but when she saw everything that belonged to him, she was still like a knife, and her eyes were sour.

Xu was so serious and careful that she didn't notice that Ruan Lu's gaze gradually became solemn. Finally, he grabbed her jaw and stared her straight at him, "What, still thinking about him?" It's really cheap! It's a pity that you are so affectionate, I'm afraid that he has already forgotten you out of the clouds. ”