"This is the long bell tower in the Evergreen Palace!" the big treasurer's expression changed suddenly, and he counted the bells intently, one, two, three, four...... After the bell rang, he and Aunt Zong looked at each other, and for a moment, the corners of the big shopkeeper's raised mouth trembled slightly, "Emperor Wei...... He's finally dead. ”

"Finally, the young master is final," Aunt Zong wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, "The young master has finally taken revenge, and the mother of the Jade House can finally rest assured!"

Yao Jin listened to their conversation and stood up from the carriage in shock, but her head slammed into the roof of the carriage due to the limited height of the carriage. Ignoring the pain in her head, she grabbed the sleeve of the big shopkeeper and asked, "What did you say! Emperor Wei is dead? How do you know that he is dead!"

"The long bell tower rang nine bells, that is the royal death knell, usually does not ring, even if the queen mother dies, it can only ring seven times, the girl thinks, what does the nine rings represent?"

"He-is he still ......" Yao Jin thought of Murong Zihua's deep and proud eyes, maybe there was something added to those eyes at this moment, was it the pleasure after revenge, or the coldness of cutting off the last trace of blood and bones? Yao Jin subconsciously lifted the thick car curtain, and suddenly a piece of snowflakes hit her cheeks, the cold air came to her face, Aunt Zong hurriedly snatched the curtain in her hand and put it down, and Yao Jin's hand gently stroked her cold face, the snowflakes had melted into snow water, and some had even dripped into her collar, and the biting coolness slowly reached her heart, instantly calming her inner impulse.

What did she want to do? Go back? Go back to him, comfort or relieve him, who was he, and what was she?

Yao Jin sat down quietly, stretched out her hand, there was nothing in her palm, the snowflakes that seemed to be cool in her palm just now had disappeared, just like everything she had experienced in this Hedu and Evergreen Palace had disappeared without a trace. If coming to ancient times is a long dream that she can't wake up from, then the Evergreen Palace may be a fantasy in her dream, and when the illusion is shattered, she will return to Caiyun City, where the seasons are like spring, and the morning bell and dusk drum will be with those people she has been reading for a long time, and she will never come to this distant and cold country again, and she will never see the person who may have changed.

Suddenly there was some indescribable heartache, Yao Jin couldn't help but hold down her heart, Aunt Zong looked at her slightly pale cheeks, and said with concern: "Girl, what's wrong?"

"It's okay, I'm okay. Yao Jin gently held Aunt Zong's warm, chubby hand, took one last look at the vast space in the gap in the car curtain, and said softly: "When I get home, everything will be fine." ”

Li Chao, Youzhou.

A suburban mansion is not gorgeous, dilapidated, or conspicuous, and it looks like an idle place for a large family from the outside, but in this seemingly peaceful house, Lin Yuebai, who has been unable to be found by many forces, has lived here for more than a month.

said that she lived, but in fact, in the eyes of the dense forest army, who had disguised herself as civilians of the Li Dynasty inside and outside the courtyard, she was just a canary under house arrest. The only difference was that the canary neither sang nor danced, neither cried nor hanged, and silently but resolutely declared her attitude on a hunger strike, announcing to their leader, Lord Jin Liancheng, the general of a secret team of the Jungle Army, that she was leaving.

"Yuebai, your body is already much weaker than others, and you haven't been able to heal after being so seriously injured for so long, and it is not beneficial to torture yourself like this. ”

"If I had known about Yao Jin's affairs earlier, why would I torture myself, let alone recuperate from my injuries, I should have gone with her when you saved me, it's better than now, I can't live! I can't die!" Lin Yuebai almost gritted her teeth and said the last six words, her eyes were blood-red, and those watery eyes were full of pain and self-blame, staring at Jin Liancheng on the side, "Tell me, where Yao Jin is! Is she dead, isn't she!"

Jin Liancheng put down a bowl of warm bird's nest in his hand, still looked at Lin Yuebai gently, and said: "I have told you many times, Yao Jin was rescued when I rescued you, you were seriously injured at that time, and my identity was secret, so I really didn't have time to look for her, so I had to save you first." ”

"You're still lying to me," Lin Yuebai was furious, and flipped the bowl of bird's nest to the ground, "Your subordinate clearly said that day that you ordered him to throw the unconscious gray-shirted woman covered in blood into the valley, into the valley infested with wild wolves!"

"How can you be gullible. ”

Lin Yuebai sat on the edge of the bed with half propped up, she didn't eat a grain of rice for a few days, she only felt short of breath and dizzy, but she still stood up desperately, "If he talks nonsense, how can he know the color of Yao Jin's clothes! You call him over, call him to confront him face to face, I'll ask him clearly!"

"I have put him to death. ”

"What?" Lin Yuebai's heart sank, holding on to the edge of the bed next to her, and looked at the person in front of her in disbelief, this Jin Liancheng, who had always treated her so gently, and was still gentle but so terrifying, "You...... You killed him?"

Jin Liancheng got up to support Lin Yuebai's swaying body and sent her back to the bed, "He made you so unhappy, and even delayed recuperation, I don't kill him, and everyone below has learned from him, so what's good?"

Lin Yuebai suddenly shuddered as if she didn't know him, she instinctively pushed Jin Liancheng's hand away, curled up and returned to the bed with her back to him, and after a while, she finally asked sadly: "Chen Cheng, why?"

"What, why?"

"Everything, why?"

Jin Liancheng's infinitely gentle face, although it is no longer as white as before, but in the face of Lin Yuebai's every moment, he tries his best to convince himself that everything is the same as before, maybe he will kill people, deceive, and scheming when he leaves this room, but here, he feels that he is still Chen Cheng, he is still the same, and Yuebai is still the same. At this moment, although Lin Yuebai's question made him a little embarrassed, it was only a matter of a moment, and he replied calmly: "Because I want to be like before, you believe in me, I only have you." ”

"What about Yao Jin? Like before, what about Yao Jin? Without her, is it still ...... before?"

Jin Liancheng's hands were clenched into fists, and there was a snapping sound between his knuckles, he suppressed the anger in his heart, and said in a low voice: "She promised me to take good care of you, but how did she do it? She actually dragged you off the cliff - she is a madman!"

"No, it wasn't her who pulled me to jump, it was I who asked her to jump off the cliff with me!" Lin Yuebai turned around, tears falling straight down like threads, "You don't know how much Yao Jin has suffered, you don't know how much she has paid for us!"