Lai Xing'er sat alone on the steps in front of the study of the Duke of Jin, and was also staring at the moon in the sky in a daze.

At this moment, he was preoccupied with thinking about one thing: how to be able to walk out of the gate of this Jin State Mansion one day earlier, even if it was to go back to the "Wild Fox Fall" to take care of the graves of the dead, he was willing.

Wu Bi sent him to guard the gate for Li Jinzhong, and he realized that he was unfortunate that he would once again become a tool in the hands of others. However, what he didn't expect was that on the first day he was on duty at the Jin State Mansion, he was given special "care" by Li Jinzhong, and was forcibly left in his study by almost detention as an errand boy.

It is not an exaggeration to say that it is detained. Lai Xing'er thought angrily. Although he had not been here for a long time, he found that dozens of Li Jinzhong's close guards were ambushed in the courtyard outside the study day and night. There were two occasions when he tried to sneak outside the door of the mansion without permission, and asked Lao Huang to return the remaining dozens of dollars to Tang Kuan for food, but before he could step out of the cross-courtyard where the study was located, a knife-wielding guard jumped out of the bushes and stopped him with shouting.

Without Li Jinzhong's permission, he can't get out, but this study where Li Jinzhong will come as soon as he returns home, and Lai Xing'er, an outsider, can enter if he doesn't want to. Only when Li Jinzhong was in the study, Lai Xing'er was allowed to stand outside the door and wait, and occasionally, Li Jinzhong would call him into the room and assign some minor messengers to him, which was the only chance for him to enter the study. And most of the day, Li Jinzhong is not in the house, he can only sit alone on the steps in front of the door in a daze, and often sit for most of the day, no one can talk to him and relieve his boredom. In Lai Xing'er's opinion, this kind of life is no different from being locked up in the forbidden army camp by Wu Bi some time ago.

What especially puzzled and uneasy Lai Xing'er was that he couldn't understand why Li Jinzhong wanted to keep him by his side. And he disappeared for so long, why did Wu Bi turn a blind eye and refuse to even send someone to the Jin State Mansion to inquire?

In these boring days, Lai Xing'er couldn't think of a good way to leave the Jin State Mansion for a while, but he was frustrated to discover a cruel fact for him:

Except for a few people such as Jing Xuan and Wu Xiaozhong, many people inside and outside the palace seem to regard themselves as tools that can be manipulated and used, almost casually taking them and using them and discarding them when they run out, and although he himself struggles and desperately tries to escape from their manipulation, he often has just got out of a pit with his left foot and stepped into another pit with his right foot, and he has never been able to get rid of the fate of being at the mercy of people as a tool.

This unpleasant unexpected discovery not only made Lai Xing'er depressed, but also invisibly made him feel a strong urge to leave Chang'an. In those days when he was on an errand in Yanying Palace, he often heard Liu Yi talk about the life of the family living in seclusion in Zhongnan Mountain, and he was envious of their life of "picking chrysanthemums under the east fence and leisurely seeing Nanshan", and remembered that two years ago, he was ordered by the prince to gallop to Zhongnan Mountain to invite Liu Yi to go out of the mountain and relieve the siege for the prince.

"In the past, Wang Xie Tang Qianyan flew into the homes of ordinary people." In order to protect herself, didn't the mother who did not hesitate to commit suicide convey her expectations for her future through these two poems of her predecessors before she died? Lai Xing'er really wanted to turn into a swift, spread her wings and fly over the constraints of this high-walled and deep house, looking for a simple but warm thatched hut to nest in.

However, whenever Lai Xing'er wakes up from a beautiful reverie and faces reality, there is always a figure of one person flashing in his mind: Guru Kampot. That's right, it's him.

The words of the Kampot master who came from Yangzong later made Lai Xing'er vague in his heart and gave birth to another kind of hope. The scene that took place on the road leading to Raksha in Nongge resurfaced again, and even the admiration that I had for Guru Kampot at that time was so clear.

As far away as the foreign master of Kampot and as close as Liu Yi beside him, after they have achieved some earth-shattering feats, they either escaped into Buddhism, or retreated to the mountains and forests, and they are still in the prime of youth, should they follow their example, stay away from all kinds of distractions in the world early, and only pursue their own peace and tranquility?

Lai Xing'er felt at a loss for her future life.

"Little White Dragon" is entrusted to Jinping to take care of, she is an ordinary palace person, she can't even get out of the palace gate easily on weekdays, "Little White Dragon" is in her hands, shouldn't she be hungry and thin these days?

What Lai Xing'er yearns for the most is still the first year of entering the palace as a eunuch, and the days spent with horses in the stable. As a result, he often worries about the "Little White Dragon", "Chasing the Wind" and even "Snow Green", these beloved mounts. Among them, the "Little White Dragon" is the most his favorite, and now it is also the most reassuring to him.

Thinking of the "Little White Dragon", Lai Xing'er naturally remembered Nayu, who had saved his life and traveled thousands of miles with him to return to Chang'an from Luo. Na Yu broke into the "Wild Fox Fall" to find him at night, and after being ambushed and caught by Wu Bi, the night he and she were locked up in the same camp, every word that was said between the two is still fresh in Lai Xing'er's memory.

Is she still being held in a dark cell by Wu Bi, or has she been released and gone to Puzhou to join King Jiangling?

Lai Xing'er couldn't have imagined that when he was looking at the moon and thinking about Na Yu, Na Yu was prostrate on the ridge of the roof less than three zhang away from him, coldly observing everything in the courtyard of this study, including Lai Xing'er.

Yu Linwei's cell was not as indestructible as Lai Xing'er thought, and Yu Linwei's sergeants didn't seem to disdain to do such a trivial thing as guarding prisoners.

Na Yu first sneaked back to the eldest princess's mansion that she was familiar with, and found a secluded place to rest for half a night. Ten days ago, she learned from Lai Xing'er that Li Shu, the king of Jiangling, had defected to the rebels in Puzhou, and she had dispelled the idea of defecting to him. These days, she was alone in the cell, thinking about it, and still decided that once she had the opportunity to escape, she would first find a way to kill Li Jinzhong, avenge the concubine and Changning's mother and daughter, and then leave Chang'an to find a beautiful place as her life home. (To be continued.) )