The Jin Kingdom was a large country in the Central Plains, and Xinjiang was its capital.

For me, Jin is not just Jin. Before the age of four, it lived in the delirious babbling of A-Niang; After the age of four, it lived in the secret reports of the General's Palace. Perhaps, my aunt is a Jin person; Perhaps, my unmasked father is also a Jin; Perhaps, Xinjiang City is a city that I should come to, but I shouldn't come.

Over the years, I have had many boundless imaginations about this strange and special city. This time, when our carriage slowly drove into the gate of Xinjiang City, I was immediately stunned by the scene inside the city.

At the end of the ten-mile long street, standing in front of me was a palace on the clouds. The majestic palace is built on a thousand-foot high platform, with green tiles and vermilion columns, and cornices and embroidered corners. Surrounded by clouds and mist, the occasional flock of birds passed by it, and fell into the eyes with only a little invisible blackness. In this situation, if someone takes the stage and looks at the railing, there must be a sense of soaring clouds and fog, fluttering like a fairy, overlooking the city of all living beings are ants.

"What, stunned?" Zhao Wuxian leaned over and glanced out of the car, "The market is about to come in front of you, and it's more lively there." ”

I nodded, covering half of my face with my sleeve and looking out.

Not far away, is the lively West Market of Xinjiang City. The market was so crowded with horses and cars that our carriage soon became unmoving. Men, women, old, young, dressed in all kinds of clothes, holding cloths, carrying clay pots, carrying grain bags, you squeeze me, I squeeze you, hugging around, the thin ones can drill a drill, and the big ones can't move. They all had a smile on their faces, and they had to come up and have a look at any stall they saw or a merchant from any country they met, and they had to open their eyes whether they bought it or not.

I was so impressed by the bustle in front of me that I was at first secretly watching with my face covered, and then I poked my whole head out.

"This car can't move anyway, why don't we go down and have a look?" Looking at the bustling market outside the car, I felt like a bird had broken into it, and I couldn't sit still.

"No, if you get off the bus now, we won't be able to go back until dark." Zhao Wuxian refused without even thinking about it.

I was unwilling, so I lifted the curtain and stuck my head out.

At this time, several strangely dressed rangers happened to pass by the carriage with swords on their shoulders, and when they saw me, they were stunned at first, and then several of them suddenly raised their faces, so frightened that I hurriedly shrank my head and covered the curtain tightly with my hands.

"What's wrong?" Zhao Wuxian asked.

Before I could answer, the curtain had been lifted.

"Oh, which beauty is this?" A ranger with braided hair poked his head and grinned and reached out to touch my face.

Zhao Wuxian raised his hand to block it, and his face turned cold.

When the ranger saw him, he seemed to be taken aback, and immediately retracted his head.

"Do you still want to get out of the car and go shopping?" Zhao Wuxian looked at me and said.

I pursed my lips and shook my head obediently.

The road to the market was blocked by the common people from the city. In the end, the convoy could only turn around and change a city gate to enter Xinjiang.

By the time we arrived at Zhao's Mansion, it was nearly dusk. Outside the house, there were already people waiting for them.

"The prince returns to the house-" The temple people with white faces and thin voices sang loudly outside the house, and immediately there were people who looked like the head of the house and led the servants out, leading the horses, making human stools, and holding the lamp, which was very lively.

I got out of the car with Zhao Wuxian and waited behind Boru. A beautiful woman led the maids and maids to meet him at the gate of the house, and after bowing respectfully to Berus, she stood sideways behind him.

Zhao Wuxian and I took a step back and followed the crowd into the house.

I have long heard that Zhao Bolu's wife, Xun Ji, is the daughter of the late Zhi Xuanzi and the sister of Zhi Yao, the sect leader of the Zhi clan, so I couldn't help but look at her a few more times just now. Dark crimson white edge curly deep clothes, flashy but not glamorous, bright white flower-shaped hosta, delicate but not charming, a round face and picturesque eyebrows, looking forward to life, is a rare beauty.

"Father can be in the house?" Beru asked Xun Ji.

"Father Qing led the guards on a hunting trip the day before yesterday, and he won't come back until two days later." Xun Ji replied softly.

"Hongyun'er, you go back to your house first, and when Father Qing comes back, we will go to see you together."

"No!" Zhao Wuxian bowed and retreated. I wanted to leave with him, but I was stopped by Bolu, and he said to Xun Ji beside him: "You arrange a room for this little boy in the house, and send two clever maids to serve him." ”

"It's ...... A new person for the son? Xun Ji looked at me with a slightly embarrassed expression.

"He's a smart kid, and he's going to find an opportunity to send it to Taishi. However, I still have to bother you to take care of it these days. After speaking, Beru smiled at me and said, "Actually, my yard is very interesting, not noisy or smelly, don't listen to Hongyun'er's nonsense." I'll show you around tomorrow. ”

"Xie Shizi!" I saluted and waited where I was. Xun Ji followed Bolu into the courtyard, and after a long time, he slowly paced out with the maid.

"Look up and I'll see." She didn't speak well.

I lifted my head slightly, still looking down in a deferential manner.

After a long time, she coughed lightly, and her voice was slightly tight: "How old are you?" Where are the people? How did you meet Shizi? ”

"Just turned fourteen, Qin people, I met in the mansion of the fourth son of Qin Bo."

"Take her to the mezzanine room in the west courtyard to settle down, have breakfast tomorrow, dress up and bring her to meet the son." Xun Ji instructed the servant behind him.

"No!"

The two maidservants took me around the Zhao Mansion for a long time, and finally stopped in front of a quiet room. The small house is built in the corner of the garden, which looks a little shabby, but it is a good place to stay with everything big and small.

I sent two of my maidservants, and took a reed mat and sat under the eaves.

In the distance, a flaming red remnant sun hung on the top of the mountain, and the red sunset surrounded it, as if a wildfire had burned on the top of the mountain. The last blink of blue in the spring sky vanished, and everything around was enveloped in dark red light and shadow. High walls, fake rocks, fences, looking at the completely unfamiliar courtyard in front of me, I suddenly felt an indescribable feeling in my heart. I actually arrived in the Jin Kingdom, and I actually lived in the mansion of Zhao Ying, the king of Jinqing......

A year ago, if someone had told me that I would leave the Qin State and leave the General's Mansion in the future, I would not have believed it. In fact, even today, I still feel that everything that has happened in the past few months is like a strange and confusing dream.

"What are you thinking?" Out of my mind, someone was already standing silently behind me.

I didn't look back, I just took a deep breath and said, "I didn't think about anything, I just wondered how I really went back to Jin with you in a circle." ”

"Then do you regret now that you didn't go directly with me in Prince Qin's mansion?" He smiled and sat down next to me, his face full of teasing.

I looked at the twilight in the courtyard and sighed softly, "If it weren't for those things that happened later, even if you put a sword around my neck, I wouldn't have returned to Jin with you." People always have to go through the pain before it is possible to let go. ”

"Can you put it down now?"

"The pain is completely painful, but I don't know when I can let it go." I laughed to myself, bowed my head and said nothing.

Zhao Wuxian glanced at me, and only sat quietly with me in the twilight.

Time flows like water, and the shadow of the setting sun slowly moves under the eaves. There was a wind, and a white petal with a slight tremor landed on the border between the light and the dark of the reed mat.

Wuxian leaned over and picked up the spoon-shaped petals and gently placed them in my hand: "This is the most famous white jade magnolia in Jindi, the flowers are blooming in mid-spring, and they can bloom again in late summer." Flowers have a different period, and so should people. There are hundreds of such magnolias planted in the west courtyard of this house, and they are all more than ten years old, and they are quite beautiful when they bloom. If you wish, I'll show you another day. ”

I looked down at the white jade petals in my hand, opened my lips and said, "Why would your Zhao family be willing to take such a useless person as me back to Jin?" ”

Zhao Wuxian was stunned when he heard this, but soon smiled again: "Useless? A beautiful medical woman like you will naturally not be useless. ...... you," he pinched my chin with two fingers and turned my face around, "what's going on in your mind?" You don't want the glory and wealth that the prince of Qin sent to his mouth, but why did he follow us to return to the Jin Kingdom with a group of irrelevant people? In my opinion, you are the strangest person here! ”

"I ......" I wanted to get something out of his mouth, but now he stopped me with a word.

Yes, no matter what the relationship between the Zhao clan of the Jin Kingdom and Tianshu is, no matter what the reason for them to bring me back to Jin, the person who decided to follow is still me after all.

Continue to double more today, praise me ~~~