Qing Ning walked down after the curtain call to everyone.

During the banquet, it was stipulated that no family member should bring a female family member to participate.

There are only two women, one is Lou Zhaoyi, who attended on behalf of the emperor, and the other is the pianist invited by His Royal Highness King Pingzhao, Qingning.

Therefore, Qing Ning did not come to Yan Yezhi's side, but walked towards Mu Ling and sat beside him.

"Hey" Mu Ling tilted his head slightly, and whispered to Qing Ning beside him: "Piano skills, sword practice, machine skills, and art of war, you have not fallen behind!" ”

Because although Mu Ling also learns the art of swordsmanship and is good at playing the flute, how can he lack a trick, is it because he is usually smart and too casual?

"Fifteen years, I've learned three tunes, and I still can't learn them well, aren't I an idiot?" Maybe it was Mu Ling's rescue just now, and Qing Ning didn't seem to be so wary of him.

"Better hands?" Mu Ling asked.

"You put pain-relieving medicine in your gloves!"

She's really smart.

The corners of Mu Ling's mouth rose and smiled slightly, but it startled everyone.

"The old man has something unknown," an adult got drunk and stood up, looked in the direction of Mu Ling and Qing Ning, and said, "His Royal Highness King Pingzhao has never taken a woman with him when he goes out, today, which girl is the woman standing side by side with His Royal Highness?" ”

"Sun Shangshu, this is lonely and unheard," an adult stood up, "This is Yan Shangshuling's cousin." ”

They started together, and there was a lot of discussion behind them, "No wonder, I said, only such a stunning beauty is worthy of our first beautiful man"

"Do you hear that?" Mu Ling tilted her head, turned to Qing Ning, and whispered in her ear, "They are talking about you and me."

Qing Ning's most sensitive point on her body is her ears, and his breath sprayed down in an orderly manner, coating her ears with a faint layer of red.

"They don't have much eyesight, don't mind Your Highness" Qing Ning moved to the side and continued: "Your Highness is still satisfied with today's piano skills?" ”

"Satisfied" Mu Ling moved with her body, and even stuck out her tongue and touched her ears, the roots of her ears were slightly red, and her face was also a little red.

Damn, he found out anyway.

"Your Highness wants to help me do something" Qing Ning moved to the side again, avoiding him for a distance and said, "Take me into the palace."

She raised her eyes and met his eyes, two pairs of equally deep eyes, which touched someone's heart between the collision......

"The bride and groom to ___"

This sound made the two of them come back to their senses at the same time, and looked at the couple who walked slowly together at the door, holding hands at the door, the red wedding dress, so exquisite.

Especially that woman, the red hijab still can't hide her extraordinary demeanor.

Such two people, under the gaze of a crowd, walked to the front, turned around, and began to bend down with the voice of the ceremonial official "worship heaven and earth", and set a lifelong marriage.

"Do you know who that bride is?"

Qing Ning turned his head and looked at Mu Ling, his dark eyes returned to such a deep coldness, just like the first time he saw it, and the glass-like eyes turned around, gilding this layer of coldness with a layer of beautiful camouflage.

"Ice Ripple"

Qing Ning raised her eyes, looked at the immortal woman again, and said lightly: "In the troubled times, it is just a matter of an instant for anyone to switch between the clouds and the quagmire. ”

"Maybe you never know how much background a little person hides"

"Her Highness knows her background"

Mu Ling shook her head and turned her head to look at her, a slightly serious look flashed in her eyes for the first time, "But I know that her purpose is the same as yours."

Qing Ning lowered her eyes, Bing Yi, and was also trying her best to enter the center of power, but even at this moment, she could still be so indifferent, this is the best way to really hide hatred.

"Tonight, think about it, if you come to me again tomorrow, I'll do it for you"

Tonight, after Mu Ling left this sentence for her, she got into the carriage, she did not sit in the sedan chair of the Yan family with Yan Yezhi, but walked on the street by herself.

The street was empty, only the bright moon in the sky was still lighting the way home for someone.

It's just that she may be the only one who is leaving!

Qing Ning lowered her eyes, looking at the moonlight cast on the ground, the shadow outlined, it turned out that there was only a shadow to accompany her at any time, she sighed to herself, and still slowly walked forward.

In the past fifteen years, she and her mother have endured a lot in the Daibei Palace*, everyone treats her like a pet raised and ready to be killed, mother, Luo Yu, are all because she gave her life, and she doesn't kill back now, I'm sorry for my mother, I'm sorry for Luo Yu, and I'm sorry for all the suffering she has suffered in the past fifteen years.

Qing Ning raised his eyes, and glanced at the lonely road paved in front of him, in the darkness, there was no end in sight, and the place leading to it might be an abyss.

This road, since you have chosen to go down, let's go all the way to the end! Even if there is no recovery, even if there is no light in front of us to light the way.

The weather has already entered autumn, and the evening breeze blowing from time to time brings a trace of coolness, quietly slipping into the wide sleeves, bringing a trace of cold breath, Qing Ning lowered his head and gathered his sleeves to warm himself up, and quietly spoke at that moment:

"I've followed all the way, come out!"

All around, there was silence, and the words that Qing Ning said seemed to have fallen into the wind, scattered everywhere, and there was no trace to be found, but he still called out the person behind him.

It was still the man in white who pretended to be Ah Yu that day, he took two steps, came to Qing Ning's side and stopped, and only left a light and shallow sentence: "I just want to remind you, be careful of those ministers in the court." ”

After finishing speaking, the white figure disappeared into the deep alley not far away with the wind, and who was he?

Qing Ning walked all the way forward, thinking that she would go one way to the dark, but the brightness in front of her suddenly melted into her eyes, and there were a few lights neatly hung on the wall, not very bright, but enough to illuminate the way forward for her.

Who is it? Will you light a lamp for her here?

Walking forward for a while, it is the brightly lit Shangshuling Mansion, which is different from the past, today, the mansion is not closed, and the middle-aged man waiting at the gate is holding a cloak in his hand, as if waiting for her return.

It turns out that this road is not so dark!

Qing Ning only knew that Shang Shu Ling Yan Yezhi was the first love of the queen mother, but she didn't know what kind of unforgettable love could make him leave his hometown for more than ten years, just to wait for her to escape from Daibei and have a place to live.

The man was over half a hundred years old, the breeze curled his hair, and the white stung her eyes, she hurriedly walked a few steps and ran to him to support him and said, "Uncle Yan, why don't you rest so late?" ”

"Oh, I'm waiting for you to come back." As he spoke, he put on the cloak for Qing Ning, and walked towards the house with Qing Ning's help.

"Child, if you can't see the emperor when you enter the palace, you must go to your second sister Yan Liuwan, she is a concubine in the palace and will definitely help you."

Listening to this slightly old voice, Qing Ning's heart was shocked: "Uncle Yan, why are you willing to help me so much?" ”

Yan Yezhi looked up at the woman who was holding him, that appearance was really the same as her mother, he was the prime minister of Daibei at the beginning, if it wasn't for Emperor Daibei to stop him, what a happy couple he and the child's mother should be.

Yan Yezhi smiled and said, "It's nothing, it's just for a promise." ”

He still remembers the last words he said when he left Daibei: "I would rather ruin my future and fight with my life to protect this child, just for the oath I owed you in the first place." ”