After a long silence, he finally turned his gaze to me, his face was as usual, and said, "Thank you." ”

I thought, thank you, if it weren't for my more mouthful to arouse his sadness, he wouldn't be so low. But seeing that he recovered, I was relieved.

He was thinking about whether to say anything more to comfort him, when he suddenly heard him say, "Your earrings have fallen off." ”

I touched my ears, and they were gone, so I groped on the ground, picked up a light red tassel earring, and put it on my ear. But somehow, today's hands and feet are very inflexible, and I can't find the right ear piercing, and I can't try it many times. In the end, even Xiao Jianqing couldn't stand it anymore, took the initiative to take my earrings, and couldn't help laughing, "I'll help you put them on." ”

His warm fingers ran over my earlobe, causing me to shiver slightly, and I leaned closer, and I could smell the sparse scent of bamboo between his clothes, and my breath was intertwined, and my face didn't feel hot.

"Alright." He took a step back and said lightly.

I quickly turned my head to prevent him from seeing my face, stiffly said thank you, then turned my back to him and threw down a sentence, "I'm going back to rest." ”

After finishing speaking, he left as if nothing had happened, and when he was out of his sight, his steps were a little flustered.

Back in the room, Yu Wenyong didn't ask anything, just complained with a cold expression, as if he heard my ghost crying wolf in the yard. I wasn't in the mood to argue with him, so I just covered my head and fell into bed to calm my mind that wasn't quite normal tonight.

——

When I woke up the next morning, I found myself lying in Yu Wenyong's arms. Although we have always slept in the same bed, the middle has always been separated by a quilt, and the boundary between Chu and Han is clear. But today he actually crossed the line, and while I was asleep, I didn't know how to cross the line to hug me, and I pushed him out of bed directly in anger.

Afterwards, Yuwen Yong said that I was not sleeping properly and hugged him first, but he just replied to me slightly. I snorted coldly, since I was a child, my mother and my master have praised me for my quiet sleeping position, not noisy, not kicking my legs and kicking the quilt, where did I come from in an improper sleeping position?

The sunset is light and warm, the wind blows the smoke of a city, the twilight clouds over Chang'an City are colorful and flowing, and various colors of orange red, deep purple and sea blue are intertwined and reflected, like a dream.

Coming to Chang'an again, it feels as unreal as a dream.

The curtain of the car window was lifted, and Xiao Jianqing said outside the window: "Fourth son, you have returned to Chang'an safely, my mission is over, and I have left." So saying, he rode away.

I suddenly panicked and jumped out of the carriage, "Wait a minute! ”

Xiao Jianqing turned the horse's head and asked, "Is there anything wrong with Miss Xiao?" ”

"Where are you going?" As soon as I finished speaking, I felt that something was not appropriate, and changed my words, "I mean, we are also friends, ask where our friends are, and we will see each other in the future." ”

"We're not friends."

A faint sentence, like a cold water head, I was stunned, "What did you say?" ”

I distinctly heard him say, "We're not friends, we're just passers-by in each other's lives, and we're going to end up apart." ”

I curled the corners of my lips and smiled lightly, "I thought we were friends, but we were just passers-by, so I thought I was being amorous." ”

I lowered my eyes and couldn't see his expression clearly, so I just heard him say, "Miss Xiao, say goodbye." ”

In the slanting sun and breeze, a green shirt rode away. I wanted to laugh, but somehow there was a bitter taste in my laughter. I don't feel lost, I treat others as friends, but people only treat me as passers-by, I'm really sentimental. I didn't even know his real name, and I thought I would be friends after talking a few times, but people didn't think so. As he said, he was like a poor kitten and a puppy, didn't I know it a long time ago, what is there to be disappointed in.

Back in the carriage, Yu Wenyong glanced at me lightly, and there was an indescribable irony in his eyes, "I thought that you were different from other women, and you wouldn't think about some childlike feelings all day long." I didn't expect ——, to see you like this, tempted? ”

I said angrily, "What nonsense are you talking about! "How could I be tempted, I have not been tempted for three years by Chen Qian's side, how can I be tempted by a person who has just met and doesn't even know his name? What nonsense.

I was only disappointed because I treated him as a friend but didn't get a corresponding response, there was nothing at all, it was Yuwen Yong who said nonsense. Yes, it must be so, he wants to disturb my mood.

I tried to suppress the strange discomfort in my heart and calm my mind.

Yuwen Yong glanced at me, "It's good that you're not tempted, I just want to remind you not to expect too much from others." Otherwise, you'll be disappointed. ”

"Also, when you come back this time, you will inevitably have to fight with Yuwen Hu, if you are unwilling to be controlled by me and threaten me with the incident three years ago, I advise you not to think about it. The mountain jade pendant has returned to me, and I have burned the letter. ”

I listened to him slowly in surprise: "I checked the people in the Tsukazai Mansion who usually have a good relationship with you, and found that the old man who was not usually very rich in the courtyard where you lived suddenly became rich and often went in and out of the tavern. I thought it was strange, and after a check, I realized that you had put the letter and the jade pendant in a box and buried them somewhere in the courtyard, and paid the old man to keep them on his behalf, and as soon as I learned of your death, I immediately dug up the box and presented it to Yuwen Hu. The old man was also not frightened, and if he was scared, he would do anything. ”

I was annoyed and unwilling to be found out by him, only to see him say triumphantly: "Now, you have nothing to threaten me, and-"

"And what?" I keenly smelled something unusual.

"And-" Yu Wenyong smiled leisurely, "these days, I have put a colorless and tasteless poison in your food, and you have been eating it for a long time, and it is too late to induce vomiting and detoxification." ”

"What?" I was furious, "What did you poison me?" ”

"It's a kind of slowness

g poison, if there is no antidote from me within a year, you will die of poison. Yu Wenyong looked at him cautiously and said, "Don't blame me. Xiao Qingqiang, you are too smart, and you don't want to convince people easily, you will only pretend to submit, and you will run away once you aim at the opportunity, Chen Qian is an example. This is all I can do to prevent you from running away from me. ”

Tell me not to blame him, maybe, he really likes to use poison to control people just like Yu Wenyu.

In a fit of rage, I stopped the carriage and ran into a medical clinic, where the doctor confirmed that I had indeed fallen for a slow ride

As for what kind of poison it is, he can't diagnose it, so he can't prescribe the right medicine. I've been to several hospitals in a row and I've said so, and I don't have any hope anymore.

I squatted helplessly on the side of the street, looking at the sparse figures on the street, the sun was setting, the sky was getting darker, and the red sun was slowly falling in the west, and I felt a powerless desolation.

A hand reached out to me, I looked up at Yu Wenyong who looked uncertain in the light, ignored his outstretched hand, and stood up directly.

Yu Wenyong's lips squirmed, as if he wanted to explain something, "I don't mean to harm you, I'm just ......"

I raised my feet and left, Yuwen Yong caught up, but I saw a person slowly walking up in front of me, dark purple wide sleeves, dark eyes deep, and said with a smile: "I heard that Your Majesty brought back a beautiful woman from the south, and it was an old man." Your Majesty is really affectionate, and I still can't forget it after three years. ”

The person I hadn't seen for three years slowly walked towards me and asked, "Qingqiang, where have you been all these years, when you left without a word, the widow was very worried." ”

I said coldly, "I'm going to find Master." ”

"Did you find it?"

"Found it, he's dead."

After a moment of silence, he said, "You have to mourn." ”

Yu Wenyong wanted to come over and pull me, but I avoided him step by step. Seeing this scene, Yuwen Hu smiled knowingly, "Your Majesty, it seems that Qingqiang is not willing to go back to the palace with you." Otherwise, the minister will take her back to the house first and persuade her well. ”

Yuwen Yong hurriedly said: "No." ”

Yuwen said: "Your Majesty, rest assured, how can you say that the minister and Qingqiang also had the love of master and servant, and she will listen to the minister's words." Tomorrow, the minister will definitely give His Majesty a satisfactory answer. ”

Yuwen Yong looked at me, then at Yuwen Hu, and finally compromised, "Then this matter will be entrusted to the Duke of Jin." Qingqiang, you wait for me, I will pick you up. ”

Yuwen Yong handed me over to Yuwen Hu in this way.

The night is cool, the blue sky is floating in the moon and the clouds at night, a little wind is as clear as water, blowing a bright lamp in the hall of the Tsukasa Mansion is about to fall, and the fireworks are extinguished.

Yuwen Hu asked me with a kind face, "Qingqiang, have you been poisoned all these years?" ”

I had no intention of hypocritically with him, and I didn't look at him, but only said to a bright lamp that was blown by the wind like a butterfly flapping its wings: "It has been solved a long time ago." ”

"How?"

I said coldly: "How to solve it, don't worry about Otsuka, in short, my life is big, I can't die." ”

Yuwen Hu sighed, "It seems that you blame the widow for not helping you get the antidote, so you didn't say goodbye back then." Qingqiang, you don't trust widows after all. It's just that, if you don't have a poison, after all, the widow can't stand you. The widow knows that you are not greedy for vanity and love like other women, and you are not determined to marry and have children, and the widow will persuade Your Majesty to let you go free, and you can live in peace in the Tomb Mansion. ”

Yuwen Hu didn't mention my affairs in Chen Guo at all, it seems that he didn't know about it, maybe Qin Wanxi didn't think my matter was worth mentioning at all, and she didn't know that Yuwen Hu and I knew each other, so she didn't report it. I'm afraid that Yuwen Hu will know about me in Chen Guo, and I will find out that I have a plan for the world and the earth. This matter is already a headache for me if Yu Wenyong knows, and I don't want anyone else to know about it and threaten my personal safety.

Two days later, Yuwen Hu showed me Yuwen Yong's attitude.

"Your Majesty is determined to accept you into the palace as a concubine, and the widow tried every persuasion to make him relent, but he must keep you by his side, so he only changed his mind and named you a female official, and even issued an edict. It seems that you must enter the palace. "After Yuwen Hu came back from the palace, he said so.

Exegesis:

(1) The title comes from Su Shi's "Self-titled Portrait of Jinshan" in the Song Dynasty: "The heart is like a wood that has been ashed, and the body is like a boat that is not tied." ”