The cloak was handed over to the maid to take away.

After dinner, Zhang dragged his tired body through the long corridor full of lanterns, and returned to the bedroom, where the maid hurriedly closed the door and retreated.

Taking off the outer layer of clothes, the woman sat in front of the bronze mirror, took off the swaying steps on the bun, the beauty reflected in the bronze mirror, the once tender skin climbed into wrinkles, the bright eyes gradually lost their original luster, the forehead was mixed with a few gray hairs, for the Zhen family for ten years, she never complained, occasionally thinking of the deceased husband, there will be tears in the dream wet wooden pillow.

The concubine is already old...... She looked at herself in the bronze mirror and sighed.

At this time, the monotonous footsteps in the room sounded, and Zhang's frowned slightly over the good-looking silhouette, "Steward, you always like to sneak into a woman's room?" Aren't you afraid that your master will kill you with a knife? ”

"Mrs. Zhen laughed, you also know, the miscellaneous family is a castrated person, and they have been in the palace......" The footsteps approached, and a hoarse and sharp voice came slowly, "....... I have waited for the first emperor, and there are many, many harem concubines, and the first emperor may not have cut down my miserable person. ”

Zhang didn't know what he wanted to say, so he didn't take the conversation, and gently dissolved his bun, his long hair fell down softly, sprinkled on his slender shoulders, and at the same time continued to listen to what the other party said.

The sturdy figure stopped when he walked behind the woman, maintaining a smile on his face, a pair of slender eyes staring straight at the other party's back, as well as the face in the bronze mirror, and his voice was slightly joyful: "....... Although my master is easy to kill, he is by no means a person who kills indiscriminately, not to mention that it was the master who took in the homeless Jian Shuo, even if he cut it, the miscellaneous family is also happy to stretch his neck, this time he can successfully catch Yuan Xi, and the head of the miscellaneous family can be regarded as saved. ”

"Mi'er isn't hurt, is she?" Zhang frowned slightly.

"Ling Yuan is very filial, and she naturally obeys Mrs. Zhen's words." Jian Shuo reached out and took a pot of wine from the desk and poured it slowly: "Madame is so smart, and my daughter must be smart too." He took the wine over and put it next to the bronze mirror, "This is given by Li Junshi next to the master when the miscellaneous family came, but it is good wine." ”

The woman in front of the bronze mirror didn't move, looking at the rippling wine, she suddenly thought of something, suddenly wanted to get up and open her mouth to shout, the voice rolled in her mouth, swallowed it back, sat back down, her lips trembled slightly, and after half a sound, the corners of her mouth suddenly had a smile: "In fact, the smartest is Gongsun Zhi, others have always thought that he is a reckless man who is easy to kill, a guy who can only fight...... Everyone was deceived by him, right? ”

"A slave or a maidservant cannot speak of his master." Jian Shuo pushed the wine over with a smile, "Let's drink it, Ling Yuan won't be treated harshly in the future." ”

Zhang didn't look at the wine, and took a breath, "Gongsun Zhi is so interested in my Zhen family's property?" ”

"No, no, no......" The fire shone on the figure of the eunuch and stuck it on the window lattice, and shook his head: "Mrs. Zhen, don't get me wrong, my master is a person who doesn't like snakes and rats, your Zhen family has a big business in Jizhou, and the horses obtained from the north over the years were sold to Yuan Benchu, and he married his daughter, and at this moment he is willing to cooperate with my master inside and outside, and stab Yuan Shao, this kind of thing is done, my master is worried that in the future, will you treat him like today, so ...... Madame is so smart, she should have gone early. ”

"That's not what Gongsun Zhi coerced!"

The woman sitting in front of the bronze mirror suddenly became excited and looked at the eunuch, "How do you think my Zhen family got to this point?" It's okay to die of old age! But I hope that Gongsun Zhi can protect any of my Zhen family! ”

"That's okay, after all, Jizhou has removed the Zhen family, and there will be other Li families and Zhang families coming out, so it's safer to let a controlled Zhen family come."

Zhang looked at him for a while, his eyes moist and red.

“…… Actually, the old body is also afraid of death, I heard that people who drink poisonous wine are ugly and painful, and the old body doesn't want the children to see my death too ugly, you have been in the palace for a long time, is there a way to make the old body look better when he dies? ”

Jian Shuo watched with a smile as the woman sat back in front of the bronze mirror and dressed up, "The miscellaneous family naturally has other methods. He said with a smile, took out a piece of silk from his arms, and went there to wet it in the water in the copper basin, and his voice continued: "Back then, when the miscellaneous family was by the side of the first emperor, they always had to do some unclean things to clean up those women that His Majesty didn't like, but they couldn't let people know that His Majesty liked the new and hated the old...... The word violent death is good, and it can also gag everyone's mouth. ”

The penetrating silk took out of the water, did not wring it out, folded it back and forth a few times and spread it in the palm of his hand, and then walked towards Zhang, without waiting for the other party to react, he covered her mouth and nose, and pressed her chin and nose with both hands.

The woman's eyes widened, stimulated by death, after all, it was inevitable to struggle instinctively, and her hands rigidly restrained the eunuch's hand, trying to pull her arm away, breathe air, and her feet in embroidered shoes arched, rubbing the ground and kicking vigorously under the skirt, and the lights on the table fell to the ground and went out.

In the black, only a slight whine remains...... The sound came out in a subtle way.

In the sound that came out of his mouth, the torn fingers were clenched into fists and beat the strong body, and the body that kept swinging and struggling gradually became weaker, and the eyes rolled up in the sockets.

“.…… Rest assured that you will die without a trace, and others will not be able to see it......" Jian Shuo put his arms around the woman and whispered from behind, and after a while, the arched soles of his feet kicked open the shoes, revealing his white ankles, and shook twice on the ground before he stopped moving at all.

Jian Shuo probed his pulse, then picked up the corpse in his arms, put it on the bed, cleaned the dust on his feet, made the quilt messy, half fell to the ground, and made a sudden emergency and died suddenly before taking the silk into his arms.

Squeak.

Gently pushed the back window a little, poured out the liquid in the flask and put it back in place, and after doing everything, Jian Shuo took another look at the body that was gradually losing its temperature in the dark, and quietly went out of the window, and soon disappeared into the shadow in the corner.

The body, which gradually lost its temperature, crept out of the window, and soon disappeared into the shadows of the corner.

At night, the huge city, the lights are lit up like stars, maybe the good weather during the day, at this time, a large number of soldiers on horseback keep going out of the city with torches, along the official road to the nearby foothills, wilderness to search, occasionally see one or two carriages, ox carts, is a large group of people chased over to stop and check, the continuous swimming fire spread over the Zhen family's Zhuangzi, and then went to a farther direction, no one will notice that there is a life disappeared at this time.

The next day, the news of Zhang's violent death and the kidnapping of Yuan Xi and Zhen Mi spread to Wuruan Pass in the north, and it was already mid-May, but before that, the war finally burned fiercely.

One man and one rode through the vast foothills, and finally they were about to see the battle ahead.