Wushirt took away the thin skin roll I was holding in my hand, and I secretly screamed to take it back, but fortunately he only glanced at it casually and put it down, leaned over and picked me up, and said, "Isn't it supposed that a woman will gain weight if she is pregnant?" How can you be so light, little woman? ”

I breathed a sigh of relief, grabbed his shirt and blamed: "I don't blame you, you still dare to hate me?" The courtiers need to serve the mourning of the king (1), and they do not eat grains of rice for three days. I have one in my stomach, and I have to go without eating or drinking for three days, kneeling and reciting witchcraft. If it weren't for Yu An's admonition that Xinjun would let Yin Gao serve as the funeral secretary, and secretly smuggled rice porridge for me, I am afraid you would not be able to see me at this moment. ”

"I am incompetent and deserve to be scolded by you. Scold, I'll listen well. ”

"Forget it, if you can come, you will come. If you don't come, you always can't help yourself. I wanted to come but couldn't come, and I didn't necessarily have a better time than me in the past few days. ”

"It's not that it's bad, it's that life is like a year." Shirtless pulled me in front of him with both hands, lowered his head and rubbed the tip of his cold nose against my forehead and slid it into my neck. I was afraid that he would be presumptuous, so I hurriedly stretched out my hand and pushed him: "Yu An, you have to thank him, he and Si'er think that you have lost me, but they are full of resentment towards you." ”

"I know, when the time comes, I will thank them well. But this time, in addition to thanking Xiaoshu, you have to thank one more person. The shirtless gasped against my face and bent over to place me on the couch in the corner of the stack.

"Who?"

"Your master."

"My master?"

"There is a big funeral, and everyone in the palace must fast. Even if Dong Shu is favored by the monarch again, he doesn't dare to let the dining room make a fire and cook for you. In those three days, in the entire palace, the monarch only allowed Taishi to have two bowls of porridge a day. But when he saw that you were unwell, he asked Dong Shu to leave all the porridge for you, and he starved. ”

"What?!" I was shocked that the image of Shi Mo fainting on the mourning hall immediately drilled into my head.

On that day, I saw the princess rushing into the palace after Ning, and when I saw a group of people wearing linen and filial piety, I remembered that three days before the funeral were to fast. But the person has already entered the palace, and I can only comfort myself, I don't eat for three days, grit my teeth and get through, it's no big deal. But with pregnancy, everything is different. Before noon, the pain of hunger had wrenched my bowels as if they were knotted, and the soul-sending witch words had no strength to sing, and when I was nauseous, it became extremely difficult to even open my mouth and make appearances.

Shi Mo didn't say a word to me at that time, but he saw all my pain in his eyes. That afternoon, I got a bowl of porridge from Yu An, but Shi Mo fainted in front of the bed of Jin Gongling in the early morning of the second day.

"Since you know that my master is doing something stupid, why didn't you tell me earlier? What age is he, if I had known, I would not have drunk his two bowls of porridge. Since you were able to enter the Qi Palace back then, why couldn't you enter the Jin Palace? You can't come in, you always have eyes and ears in the palace, just stuff me with a millet ball, you can kill me! I couldn't help but feel a pain in my heart when I thought of Shi Mo's eyes closed, I couldn't scream or roar out of this pain, so I had to catch Wuxian and get angry, but before the anger was finished, it made me think of a more ridiculous possibility, "Zhao Wuxian, if you don't enter the palace to bring me food, it won't be that you calculated my master from the beginning, right?" ”

"Taishi is arrogant, you are stubborn, the old cow is on top of the calf, I always have to pull it."

"Zhao Wuxian!"

"Don't be angry just yet." Wuxian squeezed my hand and said in a soft voice, "You and Taishi Gong have been arguing for so long, and you should be reconciled." In a few days, you will be leaving. After three years and two years, who can say for sure that when you come back, Taishi will still be there. This time I came up with a next step, but I understand you, and I don't want you to regret it in the future. Taishi fainted in the mourning hall, and the monarch asked someone to add another meal that day. Count it up, you are hungry for half a day, and Taishi is also hungry for half a day. If you complain about me, I will go back and starve for three days, shall I compensate you? ”

I didn't answer, just stared at the shirtless. Wuxian frowned and begged for mercy: "Okay? ”

"Okay, of course, it's better to starve you for ten days and a half months, so hungry that your stomach is empty and you can't come up with such a bad idea!"

"Ten days and a half months? My little bud, your aunt is pregnant and doesn't have a belly, she has a long temper, she is so ruthless, you can't learn from her in the future. Shameless wailed and pressed his face to my stomach.

I pushed his head away and said indignantly: "Don't learn from your father, the wicked are still poor." ”

"I'm not really trying to starve you and your children. Hundreds of pairs of eyes stared at me during the day, and I entered the palace, but I couldn't enter the main dormitory. On the night you entered the palace, I actually took your favorite food and climbed over the palace wall, but I couldn't find you. Where the hell do you sleep? ”

"I ......" After the death of Dinggong, the new monarch couldn't sleep at night, although I was a sorcerer who guarded the spirit, but I had to kneel on the couch of the living person every night to sleep with him. A pregnant wife goes to bed with the monarch? When this was to be explained to Wuxian, it became so strange.

"I'm in the chisel room. He was haunted by nightmares and couldn't sleep in fear. ”

"You keep vigil in the king's chambers? Haven't you slept well these days? Wuxian's face changed drastically, and he pulled the thin quilt over me and covered me firmly, "Hurry up and go to bed!" I'm still hiding here to see some kind of human skin trap map! ”

"How do you know it's a trap map?!"

"Sleep first." Ignoring me, he just pressed my head back on the couch.

"Did you steal my mechanism map, give it back to me!" I pulled my shirtless sleeve and sat up suddenly, he snorted coldly and avoided my hand and said: "I don't eat well, I don't sleep well, I don't come to see me when I leave the palace, I went to the pavilion, it seems that the strangeness is all in this mechanism map." Human skin picture scrolls, secret passages in the secret room, are all the mechanisms in the secret room of the Zhifu painted on this picture? Shirtless said as he pulled out a thin, yellowish roll of skin from his sleeve.

"Give it back to me! This picture has nothing to do with Ji's, and it has nothing to do with you. I hurriedly reached for it.

"Nothing to do with me? With such a sinister mechanism, who else in Xinjiang City can help you except me? What are you doing to save your brother? ”

Yes, there is no one in Xinjiang City who can help me except him. But if the key given by Gong Ning can't open the yin and yang lock, Wuxian and Ah Quinoa won't be able to live. I want to save Quinoa, but I don't dare to let Wuxian take the risk, what the hell should I do?

"What's wrong? It looks like it's going to cry. If this is really the mechanism diagram in the secret room of the Zhifu, you should be happy! ”

"On the first day of the funeral of the Marquis of Jin, Lu Guogong came to Taishi Mansion to find me." I sighed softly and said truthfully.

"Gong Yin? Lu Guogong loses Ning? ”

"Well, the human skin scroll in your hand is indeed the layout of the mechanism in the secret room of the Zhifu, and this 'black tiger' is the key to the door of the secret room." I took out the "Black Tiger" from my bosom and put it in my hands.

Wuxian turned from surprise to joy, and laughed: "Such a good thing, what are you hiding from me?" I was worried that you would not leave Jin because of your concern for the medicine man, but now that the key to this secret room is in hand, I can rescue my brother for you and send him to the state of Chu to reunite with you. ”

"It's not that simple. Gong Yining said that this key is a 'new tiger', and if the tiger stripes on its back are different from those of the past, the stone door in the secret passage will fall. When the time comes, the secret room will be flooded, and the people inside and outside will not be able to live. Yin and yang lock, separate yin and yang. Hongyun'er, it's not that I can't believe in Gong Yin, it's not that I don't want to save Quinoa, I'm just ......"

"You just don't dare let me take any risks, even if it's only one in ten thousand dangers." Shirtless sighed and brought me to his chest.

"One point of danger, if you hit it, you will never recover."

"You want to save him, but you don't want me to go. Could it be that you are hiding here in the middle of the night to study the secret art of the mechanism because you plan to take our children into the secret passage together? At that time, let Zhiyao get you and the child, and let your brother go with kindness? ”

"Of course not."

"Then you have someone else besides me?"

"Nope." Zhao Ji's gloomy face flashed through my mind, but then I shook my head and drove him out.

"That's good, you can let me take this plan back and study it for a few more days. I assure you, if Quinoa is still alive, he will have the opportunity to hear you call him brother, and hear me say thank you to him. You believe me, okay? ”

"I believe in you, but this key ......"

"My little woman, you are so stupid when you are pregnant, should I be happy or worried? There are 'new tigers' in this world, there must be 'old tigers', and when I find the 'old tiger' and replace it, it's okay. Would you rather tell you where the entrance to the secret room is, and who is the key? ”

"He didn't say it, he only said that he had forged a mechanism, and he didn't know where the secret room was built."

"I don't know? The stone gate was closed, and the big water irrigation room was what he told you? ”

"It's him, is there something else wrong with this?"

"I just have a guess." Shirtless squinted slightly, rubbing his fingertips gently against my cheek.

"What speculation?"

"If it's speculation, it's not necessarily right, and if it's not, why make you happy. Let's go to sleep first, you're so tired these days, I'm here with you. ”

"If you don't say, how can I sleep? Where the hell is the secret room? Bring me the mechanism diagram and I'll take a look at it! ”

"Sleep! Little Ya'er is tired, and Ya'er Niang is going to sleep. Wuxian pressed me back on the couch and forced me to close my eyes, "It's time for a lamp, you close your eyes and let me stay with you like this for a while." Don't think about anything, I'll tell you everything when the oil in this lamp tray burns up. ”

"Talking counts?" I opened my eyes and stole a glance at the little oil left in the bedside lamp tray.

"Count." Shirtless smiled and gently closed my eyes.

Shimen ...... Flood...... Flood...... I grabbed the corner of the quilt, and all I thought about was where the secret room was, but somehow, thinking about it, my head became more and more muddy, and after a while, I really fell asleep.

I fell asleep and woke up in the early morning of the second day. The people are gone, the shirtless is gone, and the mechanism map is gone. I tried to remember everything I had drawn on the map, but my proud good memory seemed to abandon me, and for a quarter of an hour my mind was blank with a voice shouting, "Hungry—hungry—hungry—"

God, pregnancy is a terrible thing. Not only was it changing my body in a completely alien way, but it was also trying little by little to control my mind. Xiao Ya'er, Xiao Ya'er, you're going to kill Auntie, in addition to eating, in addition to sleeping, we still have a lot of important things to remember!