After a moment of dizziness, the gray fog gradually receded, and only then did I realize that it was Lan Ji who was standing in front of me, dressed in a colorful brocade robe. She stared at me with angry eyes, her face flushed, her red lips and the right hand that had beaten me trembled slightly.

I chuckled in my heart, and a chill crept up my spine.

How could she be here?!

With roaring ears, hot cheeks, and a heart beating wildly, when I reacted and wanted to escape, Lan Ji had already grabbed my neck: "I was thinking about you, you actually sent it to the door!" ”

"You let go of me—" I kicked Rankie's side as she spun to avoid my attack, the strength of her hand increasing suddenly.

"Your life is really long, Prince Qin can't kill you, and the people of Tianshu can't kill you. Now, you actually climbed the Zhao family! Her mouth was full of wine, her tongue was knotted, and her blood-red eyes were filled with rage.

"Uh-" I leaned back desperately to follow her force, finally pulling out the dagger from my boot before I was about to suffocate.

I clenched my dagger and stabbed it forward, and Ranki let go of her hand and took a big step back to avoid my attack.

"You dare to do it with me?" She looked at me and sneered, and raised her hand to pull the hairpin from her head, which was more than a foot long.

The exposed part of the hair was embedded with turquoise, but hidden inside the hair was like a sharp knife cone.

I took a step back, and she lunged at me, her cold knife cone stabbing me in the throat. I used the Tianshui dagger to block the attack from her hand, but I couldn't dodge the sneak attack from her feet. Lan Ji instantly knocked me to the ground and kicked me hard a few times, until the smell of fish in my throat was gushing before I gave up.

She crouched down and pressed her knife awl against my chest, I thought she would stab me to death, but instead of doing it, she lowered her face and looked at my face: "You just used this face to confuse him?" Let him not only kill you, but also protect you everywhere? ”

"Who is he?"

"You know who I'm talking about!"

"Zhiyao?"

"Zhiyao?" Lan Ji raised her eyebrows, and a very bright smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, "Do you know how many good things you have ruined me along the way?" I was going to cut off your head to relieve my anger, but I've changed my mind now. Qin Nu, let's come to the comparison and see which of us will win in the end? ”

"Than what?" I looked her straight in the eye.

"Compared to us in the Jin Kingdom, who can survive to the end!" Lan Ji took the knife cone against my chest, stood up, pulled her hair in her hand, and inserted the hairpipe into the cloud-like black hair in a graceful manner, "You jumped into the chaos of the Jin Kingdom without seeing anything. Wait, there will be an ugly death for you! ”

"The person wearing the beast face is not Zhiyao?"

"It doesn't matter who the owner is, who is behind the owner is that matters." Lan Ji glanced at me, covered her lips and smiled, "Look, no matter how much I tell you, you're still a stupid woman." It would be pitiful for him to waste all his work with such a stupid woman as you! Lan Ji patted the corner of her clothes, chuckled and turned to walk towards the carriage.

"I'll let you die first—" I yelled at her departing figure.

"Put your dagger away, maybe it will make you die a better life!" Lan Ji jumped into the carriage, the sound of the horse's hooves and the ghostly laughter of the woman fading away and disappearing into the darkness.

By the time I returned to Zhao's Mansion, it was already dawning, the cold wind had been blowing all night, and I had been beaten by Lan Ji again, and my mind was swollen at the moment, and I didn't have time to say a word to the worried Si'er, so I fell asleep on the bed.

This sleep, waking up and sleeping, sleeping and waking up, whether awake or asleep, Lan Ji's words kept echoing in my head. This situation in the Jin Kingdom, is it talking about the battle between the Zhao family and the Zhi family? Who will be the person behind the beast-faced man? I was up and down in the fog, and when I woke up again, it was dusk the next day, and I opened my eyes slightly to find a man sitting next to the bed. The afterglow of the sun reflected on his face through the white veil of the window, and the misty light made the red cloud on his brow burn slowly like a cluster of flames. His eyes were closed, his expression solemn, and under the high bridge of his nose, a dark golden shadow deepened his facial features.

Why would anyone say he was ugly? Is it because of the red birthmark on his eyebrows, or is it the obvious foreign mark between his eyebrows? My mother left me a mystery of his origins, but his mother left a deep mark of humility on him.

Wuxian felt my gaze and opened his eyes: "You're awake, but what's wrong with you?" Si'er said that you came back yesterday morning and have been sleeping until now. ”

"I'm fine, I'm just a little tired these days, just get some sleep." I swallowed the pain and sat up with a smile.

"You went to see Taishi the night before?" No shirt asked.

"Well, you didn't tell me if you went there, and I ran away in the cold."

"Then you must already know that at the ceremony five days later, my father decided to take me to watch the ceremony." There was a deep sadness on his face when he spoke.

"What's wrong with you? I knew this, and I thought you would be happy. ”

"I thought I would be happy, but what Taishi Tongqing's father said was: 'Take you the son who is least likely to become the son of the prince, the more humble his status is, the less Zhi will do anything to him.'" Ah Shi, this is what I said to Taishi, but I hope that the person chosen by my father is not me, there are several other concubines in this mansion, why didn't he choose them? ”

"Red Cloud ......"

"I know what you want to say, the people outside this courtyard, even Xun Ji thought that the prince was dying. The father's sons who stayed in Xinjiang have all been secretly meeting with doctors and retainers these days. The people of the Zhi family, the Han family, and the Wei family are also staring, and they are all watching, who will be taken by the father to the ceremony, and who will be the next son of the Zhao family. Whether the father brings the eldest brother, the fourth brother, or the sixth brother, they may have intentions because of this, and then covet the position of the son. Only I won't, because even if the son of a foreign slave girl is up to the sky, he can't be Zhao Shizi! ”

"No, you're wrong." I gently put my hand on my shirtless hand, "What I want to say is that because the prime minister knows that you are a brother, and he knows that you will not harm Bolu for the position of the prince, he chose you." Hongyun'er, this is an opportunity, an opportunity to stand in front of the four secretaries of the Jin Kingdom. Doctor Qi Yan is short, and Doctor Qin Baili Xi is a fugitive slave, these two are extremely talented, and the world only praises them for their wisdom, and who despises their appearance and origin? This time, you go, so that they all know that among the arrogant men of the Jin Kingdom, there is also your Zhao family! ”

After I finished speaking in one breath, I just looked at me in a daze, and there were waves of waves in my eyes as deep as the sea. In the middle of the night, he suddenly stood up and walked towards the door without saying a word.

"Where are you going?" I asked.

"Do what I have to do. Ah Shi, no matter what happens in the future, I will never let you go again! He threw down a headless sentence and strode out.

"Hongyun'er, you're not like your mother, you're more like your father......" I muttered to myself as I looked at his departing back.

Wuxian disappeared after that day left, and I gave myself medicine without telling Si'er, but fortunately my ribs were not kicked off, and although the flesh wound was painful, there was always a good time. After two days, Bolu's injuries were already healed, but when he heard that Zhao Ying was going to take his shirtless to the ceremony, he was so happy to hide in his room and pretend to be sick. Si'er and Wuxian are already very familiar with Beru, and the snow monkey has been fed and eaten a lot by Beru and Childe in the past few days, and has been lying on the ground all day drying its round belly.

"After drinking it twice, the decoction can be stopped, but the external application of the medicinal mud can't be stopped, and it will be really good when the new meat grows." I took the soup that Si'er had boiled and handed it to Bolu, "I went to see Prime Minister Qing today, he asked you to take care of it, and he will handle your eldest brother's affairs." ”

"The person who hired the assassin to kill you the night before yesterday is really the big brother?" Beru took the medicine and frowned bitterly.

"When he saw me outside the hospital yesterday, it was like seeing a ghost, and his face turned white with fright. I only tried a few words, and he couldn't hide it. ”

"Then how dare you go out of the yard! What if he gets bad again? Si'er was very annoyed when she saw me looking indifferent, she pulled my sleeve heavily, and reproached, "You just rely on your own life, where do you jump into the pit, last time it was to save the noble daughter of Baili Mansion, and this time it was the Zhao family's ......" Si'er said this, only to remember that Bolu was still beside him, so he could only swallow his words stubbornly.

"Stalling the troublesome son of the Zhao family." Wuxian took Si'er's words and said to Berlu, "You are a person, raising fish, planting flowers is not bad, the position of the son of this world, whoever wants to sit down!" Otherwise, one day he will get angry again and hurt Ah Shi. Ah Shi, you're right? ”

"Don't scold him, he's right." Before I could open my mouth, Beru stopped me, "I've thought about it a lot in the past two days, and now I've finally figured it out." When the Zhi Clan's ritual is over, I will personally tell my father to let him choose another sage. The Zhao family needs a suzerain who can protect their clansmen, and I don't want to be a sinner of the Zhao family. ”

"Shizi......" I looked at Beru with a relieved expression, and suddenly I didn't know what to say.

"Don't frown. I'm almost better now, let's go to the backyard and see my fish! The cages are all released at your behest and I am left with this pool of fish. Boru smiled and motioned for Si'er to help him up.

Childe happened to take the hand of the snow monkey and stepped into the door, and when he heard that he was going to see the fish, he also came up with a smile.

"Okay, then let's watch the fish!" I nodded and stood up.

At this time, Chen Er, one of the four guards of the monster, suddenly appeared outside the door, lowered his head and said, "The matter that the wizard wants to investigate, I have already found out." ”

"What unusual behavior did the ladies of the Zhifu do?"