Chapter III: Killed
Palace.
"Come on!" Butterfly Night Han struck the masked assassin in the heart with a sword, and blood splattered everywhere.
"Brother!" Butterfly was terrified as she watched the man in black fall to the ground, red blood spreading like a stream on the ground.
"Qihua! Stay back! Butterfly Yehan shouted loudly, no matter what, to protect his sister's safety.
Today, when Die Yehan heard that there were black-clothed assassins in the palace, his sister was threatened, so he replaced the wooden sword he had carried with an iron sword. Unexpectedly, this assassin is so short, and sure enough, the enemy has sent well-trained people?
"Today, today, the princess and princess are dressed up, this, this way, to play the game......" Diekihua stammered, choking back tears, and her eyes showed unconcealed fear.
"What did you say?" The boy was stunned, feeling bad, his face became bloodless, and a kind of uneasiness and despair that he had never felt before struck his spine and crawled all over his body, and the hand holding the iron sword trembled involuntarily.
"That's, that's ......" Dieki burst into tears and sobbed, "That's the princess, woo woo......"
The iron sword "clanged" to the ground, and in an instant, the young man knelt beside the man in black, and suddenly ripped off the black mask, and what caught his eye was actually a girl's face! Scarlet blood dripped from the corners of his mouth.
"Nope! That's impossible! Seeing the girl's faint pale countenance, the boy carefully propped her head up with his hands and whispered her name in agony, over and over again.
Butterfly Night Cold Brain is like being struck by lightning, heart is like ten thousand arrows piercing the heart, only to feel top-heavy, the oxygen in the lungs is instantly pumped out, and the whole world collapses at that moment.
All sensation was withdrawn from his body, and the blow was too great to leave his mind blank, unable to think, unable to perceive.
Someone is screaming, someone is crying, someone is fainting...... He turned a deaf ear to everything around him, and the whole person was in a state of numbness. Until Lu Qiu carried the princess back to the room, leaving him with a lost soul, staring gloomily at the blood on the ground, his eyes were empty, the air seemed to be drained away, and he was unable to breathe, as if a pair of sinful hands had choked his throat.
"No, it's not true, it's not true......" muttered to the foolishness, and the boy looked down at his trembling hands, lost in misery.
The Imperial Physician announced in a calm tone, but with an air of sadness that was difficult to hide. What he said, the boy did not hear clearly.
Snow Star Gong was unconscious due to excessive blood, but in fact, he did not die. She was secretly sent to Liuquan Yi's house by the elderly palace maid who used to serve the queen's mother, her own nurse Lu Qiu.
Liu Quanyi, the world's first qin master, is known as the "piano saint". On weekdays, it seems to be cynical, but once it is played, it is flowing and fascinating, and no one can help but feel that "this song should only be in heaven", as if there is a kind of divine power that can heal the soul.
Liu Quanyi lived a chic life, once came to a state of decline, and also lived a period of frustration and poverty. However, no matter how hard he struggles to get by, he can't change the elegance and handsomeness in his nature.
Growing up in a strong literary atmosphere, the princess will naturally become an elegant lady. It can be seen that the nurse Lu Qiu's good intentions.
Liu Quanyi is not unclear about the crime of hiding the princess without permission, but in view of the fact that he owes the Luqiu clan a favor and a large sum of silver, under the good words of the Luqiu clan, he is willing to make concessions, and let the little princess live in seclusion in the Liu family for the time being, and then make plans when the limelight subsides.
Except for the Lu Qiu clan, Liu Quanyi and Princess Xuexing herself, no one knows about this matter.
It is secretive and unspeakable.
Long Yan was furious, but he was reluctant to punish the two children of the Butterfly family. After all, the emperor watched them grow up and treated them as his own. And whenever he sees these two children, the emperor always thinks of his dearest Princess Snow Star. What's more, this was an accident, how could two children afford it.
The Luqiu clan claimed to have found an "unspeakable reincarnation holy place" to bury Princess Xuexing, and said that it was a secret and sacred Taoist forbidden place that no one should disturb. The saint believes in Taoism very much, taboos digging graves, even if he loves his daughter, he does not dare to offend Tianzun. In this way, in order for Princess Xuexing to enjoy tranquility, the emperor will no longer pursue it.
The Lu Qiu clan is convinced that there are people in the palace who want the life of Princess Snow Star. In order to protect Princess Snow Star, she even knowingly committed the crime of defrauding the king - even the emperor didn't know that her only daughter was still alive.
In order to take refuge, she could no longer be called "princess" in the Liu family, so Liu Quanyi gave her a name that was not unmistakable-Jing Qiushui. Because Liu Quanyi saw that she had a pair of clear and bright eyes, and the surname Jing was inherited from the surname of Princess Xuexing's grandmother.
Princess Xuexing was forced to stay in the Liu family and became Jing Qiushui.
Liu Quanyi provided her with a safe place to live, and the nurse made three meals for her and took care of her daily life.
But Qiushui was unwilling to accept Liu Quanyi's alms, her self-esteem was too high, and she wanted to earn her own accommodation through her own work, so after the nurse's persuasion was ineffective, and Liu Quanyi's consent, she began to do chores for Liu Quanyi's family, such as going out to make wine for Qin Sheng, removing weeds in the garden, etc., she would do it.
Being stabbed by the butterfly night cold was a near-fatal blow to her. Compared to physical pain, it is an incurable wound in the soul that can only be diluted by time.
The person who brought her warmth and trusted her the most when she was a child was Die Yehan - the naughty boy with a poetic temperament but full of evil spirits.
Sometimes, she wakes up from nightmares in the middle of the night, and the deeply buried forcibly suppressed emotions will surface, and she will feel her heart eroded, her soul split in two, as if another self has vaguely appeared, slowly forming a darker self.
Whenever Qiushui asked the nurse to tell the previous story, the nurse would burst into tears and feel sorry for the unfortunate fate of the little princess.
However, it is under the care of the nurse and Liu Quanyi that Qiushui can grow up healthily. Although it does not have the luxury of the palace, it also lacks the intrigue and depression in the deep palace. Qiushui didn't miss that kind of golden cage-like life at all, but here in Liu Quanyi, he felt the natural, simple, plain but very real happiness.
If the only thing she thought of was the boy who occasionally came to her mind in her dreams at night, or in daydreams during the day. Stupid butterfly night cold! He left a scar on her, and although the wound in her heart was healed, the wound in her heart did not heal for a long time.
Whenever she saw the scar in her heart, she couldn't help but feel a faint pain in her heart, and the innocent and happy days that would never go back were so broken, only memories remained.
Qiushui thinks that he is lucky. The slightest deviation of the sword would have killed her completely.
And Liu Quanyi seems to take his feelings lightly, but he still attaches great importance to the people he cares about, and Qiushui judged him to be an infatuated master at a young age.
In Qiushui's second year in the Liu family, the nurse died of illness and entrusted her to Liu Quanyi.
At this time, the subconscious has suppressed the memories of childhood, and I don't remember much.
The power of the new personality deepens step by step, strengthening her imperial backbone.
Qiushui named this newly formed self "Yanqi". Thin as smoke, gorgeous as jade.
Yanqi is the spirit of Qiushui and her strong support. If Princess Snow Star belongs to warm memories, then it was Yanqi who brought out one of the "kings" of Qiushui.