The moonlight in the sky was cool, and the yard was quiet, in order to let the astragalus recuperate well, Gu Nian specially allocated a small courtyard for her to live in.

Jing Ning saw that the astragalus was already asleep, and when she came out of the house, the begonias were in full bloom in the yard, Jing Ning lifted her skirt and sat down on the steps under the porch.

The moonlight shone on her scarred face like the shadow of a twig.

The eyes that have become extraordinarily quiet over the years are like a pair of stars falling between the shadows of the trees.

"It's almost summer, but it's cool at night."

A thin cloak was draped over her shoulders, and a smiling Gu Nian stood beside her.

Jing Ning froze for a moment and stood up, "Why are you here?" ”

Probably thinking that such a question was too abrupt, she said, "It's late, why haven't you slept yet?" ”

"I can't sleep and go out for a walk, how is the astragalus?" Gu Nian smiled, put the two brocade cushions in his hand on the steps, and pulled her to sit down together.

She has been alone for many years, she prides herself on being alert, but she didn't even notice Gu Nian's arrival, and when she heard asking Astragalus, she said slowly, "The injury is too serious, and now I am slowly recovering." ”

She sat beside Gu Nian, watching Gu Nian hold her chin with her hands and her elbows on her knees looking at Mingyue.

Such a posture is no different from that of an ordinary girl.

Who would have thought that Xu'er was already seven years old?

Over the years, no matter how she has changed, it has not erased the aura on her body.

At this moment, Jing Ning felt that although she and her daughter were separated by many years, there was nothing incompatible.

She has never seen a woman who can be old or young, with the liveliness and agility of a girl, and the wisdom and open-mindedness of an adult woman.

But she saw it in her daughter.

From the first time they met in Zhuangzi, she could feel the tranquility and kindness in her heart.

When she saw her that time, she felt that they had never been separated.

Like, this is the relationship between blood and blood.

She rested her hands on her laps, looked at the moon, curled her lips slightly, and said, "It's a blessing that the prince can be with the princess." ”

"What's the matter, it's actually my blessing that we can be together." Gu Nian bent her eyes, looking very pleasant, she raised her lips and said,

"I have my grandmother and my father, their attitude towards marriage has made me not lose confidence in getting married, and it is also a blessing for me to meet the prince for several lifetimes."

But no, in the past few lives, I met the rotten man of the Four Princes, and he got rid of him in this life, so he lives the life he has now.

Jing Ning paused, "Then is your father good to you?" I heard that he was out for many years, and you don't hate him for leaving you to your grandmother? ”

She was very hesitant when she asked this, no matter what, she seemed to be an outsider, a commoner, it was not easy to say these words on an equal footing with Gu Nian, and it was obviously a bit out of place to inquire about Gu Shi'an's things again.

But she couldn't help asking.

Fortunately, Gu Nian didn't seem to care, she smiled and said, "Daddy is very good to me, and my grandmother is also very good to me. ”

Jing Ning's face was not surprised, her eyes were slightly confused, as if she had seen something long ago through the air in front of her.

Gu Nian suddenly turned his head, smiled, and said, "Daddy has never forgotten my mother, his feelings for my mother have made me have seen a lot of unhappy marriages, and I can still have a trace of expectation for my feelings."

I've forgotten what my mother looked like, and if she was alive, I would have lived a happier life. ”

Jing Ning's gaze suddenly froze, and she froze at the moonlight for a while before turning her eyes to look at Gu Nian.

Gu Nian suddenly put her hand lightly on the back of her hand, and her face slowly turned around,

"I don't know why, I always feel very kind when I see you, not only because you have my special rouge incense, but I feel very relieved when I see you."

Jing Ning looked at the smiling face in front of her, motionless, she suddenly remembered that the incense used on her body was given to her by Gu Shi'an.

She didn't want it at the time, but Gu Shi'an said that Gu Nian made it herself, so she accepted it.

She was annoyed in her heart, Gu Nian leaned her head slightly, and said softly, "My father is still young, I have my own home, it is inevitable that I will not be able to take care of him, I really hope that he will have a caring person around him to take care of."

It's rare that he is willing to let go of his heart and cheekily ask me for rouge, presumably, he values you very much.

Although I will be jealous too, Daddy's happiness is also very important, you ......"

Gu Nian's head tilted there, gently touching Jing Ning's shoulder, this small movement made Jing Ning almost collapse.

The words 'I'm your mother' almost burst out of my mouth.

It has been more than 20 years since she left the father and daughter, and she has been attached to her for more than 20 years, and there was also a small child who was attached to her back then, and the two also depended on each other for a period of time.

Gu Nian's sudden intimacy suddenly made her empty heart feel some warmth.

What's going on?

Gu Nian is not like the kind of person who is casually close to people, she seems to be lively and scheming, but in fact she knows everything.

For a woman like her, she is educated to be dignified and generous, and she will not have physical contact with people casually.

Jing Ning stiffened, and before she could say anything. Gu Nian had already withdrawn his hand and sat up straight.

Jing Ning seemed to have just floated up from under the water, took a long breath, and turned her face away.

She did not respond to Gu Nian's questioning.

When she first left the capital, she tried her best to think about how to return to the capital, and several times, she couldn't survive, but when she thought of her daughter, she gritted her teeth and persevered.

It's just that later...... She sighed deeply in her heart and lowered her eyes, how could she have the face to tell her daughter that she was her mother?

……

Although the courtyard of the astragalus is far behind, and the movement on the street cannot be heard, but his own movement is loud, and he can still hear it.

The two were sitting side by side, their minds were at odds with each other, and in the dark and silent distance, there was a sudden movement.

Gu Nian got up, wanting to go over and see what was going on.

Jing Ning took a step forward, grabbed her and stuffed her behind her, and said, "I'll take a look, you wait here, don't move." ”

The movement did not come from the gate of the courtyard, but from the courtyard wall on the side.

This made the two nervous.

Gu Nian was stunned by Jing Ning's actions in one go, which was clearly the appearance of an old hen protecting her chicks.

She bit her lip, thinking that she had just vaguely said a lot of things that her father couldn't forget her mother, and she felt a little hypocritical.

Before the two of them went to the courtyard wall, a figure turned in from the outside, and when they saw the person clearly, both of them were surprised, it turned out to be Gu Shi'an, who should still be on the border!

It was about the night, maybe it was a long journey, or maybe he finally saw his beloved, Gu Shi'an saw Jing Ning, and he was excited to speak.

Jing Ning didn't expect it to be Gu Shi'an, she was afraid that Gu Shi'an would be exposed, so she hurriedly blessed Gu Shi'an, "Lord, are you here to find Princess Jin?" ”

Gu Shi'an was full of joy, and before he could say anything, he was colded by Jing Ning's words, he paused in his footsteps, and when Jing Ning was blessed, he saw Gu Nian behind her.

His old face suddenly turned red, Lao Tzu secretly climbed over the wall, and was caught by his daughter, he coughed twice uncomfortably,

"Niannian, why are you here?"

Probably thinking that his question was too empty, he coughed twice more and said, "It's too late, so I didn't alarm the porter, I thought about finding a random place to sleep for one night, and I would talk about it tomorrow, but I didn't expect ......."

He was explaining to Gu Nian, and when he spoke, his eyes seemed to be glued to Jing Ning's body, and Jing Ning felt his fiery eyes and moved uncomfortably.

Gu Nian and Jing Ning's figures are about the same, standing behind Jing Ning and not being burdened at all, maybe because of the night, they are standing in the shadows again.

She slowly walked out from behind Jing Ning, and looked at Gu Shi'an with a smile, "Daddy, it's really nice to pick any place you can pick......"

If she hadn't been here, she probably wouldn't have made any movement.

There was a sound just now, and it was about to meet the secret guard arranged by Xiao Yue beside her.

Gu Shi'an is different from other people's fathers in front of Gu Nian, he will never put his father's shelf in front of Gu Nian, he loves Gu Nian, because of the lack of more than ten years, he will not be harsh on Gu Nian.

This will also not be able to pose as a father in front of Gu Nian, he coughed twice, and said seriously, "Father is testing whether Xiao Jiu's defense of the palace is good." ”

Gu Nian laughed teasingly, took Gu Shi'an's hand, and didn't care whether he was covered with wind and dust, "Dad, the prince said that you were going back to Beijing, and you really came back, it seems that you have been on the road for a long time, and people are tired, right?" I just saw that you coughed several times, go, my daughter asked the people in the small kitchen to stew some pear paste for you, and you won't cough after eating. ”

As she spoke, she dragged Gu Shi'an out of the courtyard, and at the same time looked back at Jing Ning, "Aunt Ji, I'm sorry, I'm scared, it's not early, you can rest early." ”

Jing Ning always looked at the father and daughter with a smile, "Astragalus still has one more medicine to take, and it will rest when it's over." ”

Gu Shi'an couldn't bear to refuse Gu Nian's care, he took a step, turned his head to look at Jing Ning, took a step, turned his head to look at Jing Ning.

Gu Nian snickered on the side, "Dad, doesn't your neck hurt?" ”

Gu Shi'an met Gu Nian's playful gaze, and couldn't help but have a few black lines on his forehead, he glared at Gu Nian helplessly, and knew that she was doing tricks, he had been running around for a few days, just to come back early to see Jing Ning and his daughter, but he didn't expect that as soon as he came back, both of them saw it.

When he entered the city, his subordinates reported to him that Gu Nian and Jing Ning were talking together, but he didn't believe it. He knew that Gu Nian had brought Jing Ning back to the Jin Palace, but he didn't expect the two to be able to talk.

He hoped in his heart that Gu Nian could let Jing Ning's heart guard be relieved, and then he would recognize his daughter and mother-in-law, so that the family would be reunited.

But Jing Ning's heart knot was not so easy to open, and he didn't want to force her, for a while, Gu Shi'an was extremely entangled.

Gu Nian did deliberately pull Gu Shi'an away, she didn't expect that Gu Shi'an, who couldn't be looked down on by the ladies in the capital, would fall in love with Aunt Ji.

When they met for the first time, she noticed that her father's eyes suddenly sparkled.

Although Daddy is the identity of the prince, and Aunt Ji is just a commoner, the identities of the two are a bit different together, and the identity is secondary, that is, her appearance......

However, none of this matters, Gu Shi'an is not a person who judges people by their appearance, and Aunt Ji has such a good heart, her preciousness can no longer be measured by her appearance at all.

They are of the right age, and it would be great if they could do it.

When she got to her current position, she naturally had to look forward to the people around her and Meimei.

But in the end, Jingning is her biological mother, and she really wants to happily bless her father to marry another, as if she can't stand her mother......

Gu Shi'an knocked on her forehead, and Gu Nian laughed more and more unscrupulously.

……

Jing Ning waited until the father and daughter walked away, and after she could no longer hear the sound of the two of them arguing, she slowly moved her steps, she slowly retracted the smile on her face, turned into forbearance and calm, and walked towards Astragalus's house, and her steps were slightly staggering when she crossed the threshold.

She sat on the couch opposite the bed, feeling the burden that had been placed in the corner, she rubbed it slowly, the speed of the fingers became slower and slower, more and more sluggish, and finally she had to stop, and raised her sleeve to print the eye socket.

After a long time, she gritted her teeth, opened the baggage, took out a small bag from it, put it on the small table, and then went to the wing room next door, quietly changed into night clothes, and then went out of the yard, turned a few corners, and went out of the house through a corner door.

She walked for a long time, and when she walked to the city gate, the sky was white, and the city gate had been opened, and the people coming and going at the city gate were lively.

She had already changed into the clothes of ordinary people in a secluded place, hired a donkey cart, passed through the city gates, and went out of the city.

It wasn't until the middle of the sun that she returned to Gu Nian's Zhuangzi in the suburbs, and when she arrived at the entrance of the village, Jing Ning paid for the car and went home along the trail.

The days in the village were peaceful and peaceful, the weather was hot, but it was the time to work in the fields, and along the way, she could meet acquaintances, this one said two words, and that one said two words.

When she returned home, because she had stopped the ashes for a long time, she rolled up her sleeves, cleaned up, and took the quilt to the yard to dry.

After the house was cleaned, she went to the vegetable field at the back to pick a handful of vegetables, and cleared the weeds in the field, so she carried the basket back to the front yard, put the vegetables by the well, and went into the house to get pots.

She hesitated, and was about to shrink back when she saw the door open, and a hand dragged her in, and a knife rested on the side of her neck.

"Who are you?" She didn't see who had put the knife on her neck, and she tried to slow down her emotions as it hadn't happened in years.

With her words, her right hand was raised, and a cold light flew out of her sleeve, and the person with the knife subconsciously moved, taking advantage of this moment, she leaned back and kicked the person behind her, and her body slid from the bottom of the knife at the same time.

When Jing Ning left, Gu Nian knew about it, and she sent Dark Thirteen to secretly follow Jing Ning to see where she was going.

Dark Thirteen followed Jingning all the way, saw her back to her home in the suburbs, and squatted on a roof not far away, watching her clean, laundry, drying quilts, picking vegetables, looking like she was going to live here for a long time.

He got up, jumped off the roof, and was about to go back to report to the prince, he walked a few steps, and heard the sound of a fight, and when he looked closely, it was the direction of Jingning's house, and suddenly he swept like an arrow to the outside of Jingning's courtyard.

In the house, Jing Ning fought with her bare hands with the person who had just held her hostage with a knife.

Her figure is like a frightening sky, Yuyan is light, agile and ruthless, so that people can only parry and have no power to fight back.

The person who held her hostage obviously underestimated her and did not bring a helper, and the two fought dozens of tricks without getting cheap.

Seeing that he couldn't beat people for a while, and was afraid of alarming the neighbors, Jing Ning's eyes suddenly turned cold, and he suddenly threw out two flying knives from his sleeves, and the flying knives touched the steel knives, and the castration was reduced by half, but it was still aimed directly at the chest.

The captors retreated in fear, knocking down the pot rack in the house and making a ping-pong sound.

When Dark Thirteen heard it, he immediately flew to the roof, lifted the tiles and looked at it, and was shocked.

I didn't expect this Aunt Ji to be able to do martial arts!

At the moment when he was stunned, there was another sound of weapons breaking through the air below, and another person came in outside, helping Jing Ning, and then he saw that the person who was fighting with Jing Ning immediately fled the scene with lightning speed.

The people who came to help Jingning chased them out of the door and saw that there was no sound everywhere.

Jing Ning looked at the man's back, didn't say a word, adjusted his weak heart and lifted up the upside-down basin stand.

I saw the helper walk in, glanced around, and said, "Who is it?" ”

Jing Ning paused, turned around and gave a slight salute, and the man hurriedly dodged, "Xu is a passing robber, thank you for saving me." ”

Dark Thirteen crouched on the roof, looking through the small hole, looking down, his eyes kept hovering on Jing Ning's body, he didn't expect it to be a hidden master, if he had just prepared, I'm afraid that the person who sneaked up on him wouldn't be cheap at all.

He used all the quiet skills he had learned in the secret guard camp, adjusted his breath, and remained motionless, for fear of being discovered by the two people below, and listened carefully to the conversation between the two.

The gang followed Jing Ning, who was silent, and cleaned up the house where the fight had passed.

"How did you end up alone?" After cleaning up, Jing Ning silently poured a glass of water for the helper.

"You don't care how I came, it's just who was that person just now? You tell me, I've got you covered. The helper paused and said.

Jing Ning glanced at him, "I'm a widow, I have to avoid suspicion in everything, my life has finally calmed down, you can go wherever you come from, I don't need your help." ”

As he spoke, he pulled the man out, and then closed the door.

She was sitting on a chair, and there was a knock outside the door, "Ye Niangzi, do you know that I have been looking for you?" Now, I can't find you, and I won't leave you alone in danger.

The people who just killed you are the same people who used to be? ”

Jing Ning was silent for a while, then stood up, picked up the unopened baggage, opened the door, and faced the man standing at the door, "Hodder, you were young in the past, because you are about the same age as my daughter, I can't bear it, so I saved you."

But now, you are the right king of the Northern Barbarians, and you have a deep hatred for Dongli, and I don't know why you are still in the capital.

However, I don't want to have anything to do with you anymore, for the sake of me saving you in the first place, please don't come to me again.

That Ye Niangzi is already dead. ”

Huo De stood in front of Jing Ning, "In the past, I didn't have the ability to protect you, so I watched you get hurt, but now it's different, I will solve the people who hurt you one by one."

I'm going to make them all pay a terrible price. ”

Jing Ning sneered, "Huode, you go back and be your king of the right sun, if you can convince the king of the Northern Barbarian Khan not to attack Dongli again, and not to join those people, this is your reward for me." ”

"You don't want to show up in front of me again, okay? It's hard for me to forget the past and live a good life, why did you appear in front of me and remind me of those humiliating days? ”

"Hodder, please, go, don't disturb my life. I'm not Ye Niangzi, Ye Niangzi is dead, do you know it? ”

Jing Ning said that in the end, she was already in tears, and she yelled hoarsely.

It seems to vent all the grievances, grievances, embarrassments, etc. in the chest.

Hodder stood there at a loss, her hands moving uneasily, wanting to step forward to comfort Jing Ning, but she kept backing and back, just wanting to stay away from him.

He didn't dare to step forward, he was a man from the Northern Barbarians who kidnapped and forcibly gave birth to a woman from Dongli.

When Jing Ning met him, his mother was already dead and was begging in Yanzhou City, because his appearance was different from Dongli's, those beggars joined forces to exclude him, and the begging things were also snatched away by those people, and after being snatched away, he would be severely beaten.

He thought he was going to die, but it was Ye Niangzi who saved him, just like the fairy that Dongli said, appeared in front of him, saved him, and took him back to the house where she lived to recuperate.

At that time, Ye Niangzi's face was not so scarred, and she looked about the same as Princess Jin, but she was more beautiful and kind than Princess Jin's evil woman.

She took good care of him, and when he was well, she refused to leave, and she didn't even drive him away, leaving him behind.

That time was the happiest day of his life, although Ye Niangzi often moved, sometimes moving after a few days, fortunately, they didn't have anything and left quickly.

At first, he didn't understand why he kept moving, but later, he found that Ye Niangzi asked him not to move in the house, so he quietly looked out of the window.

Outside, Ye Niangzi and people were entangled together, and soon, the person who came was beaten down by Ye Niangzi, only to see Ye Niangzi stepping on the back of the killer, and said, "I don't know who you are, you have been chasing me like this, but I hope you go back and tell your master, don't do this like hiding behind to make a trick."

Or, let him come out and fight with me with real guns, if I lose, I can deal with it casually, and if he loses, he will always fuck me out. ”

After that, their days were much calmer, he pestered Ye Niangzi to teach him kung fu, Ye Niangzi touched his head, "This is a family heirloom kung fu, I can't teach you, but I can teach you something to strengthen your body." ”

In this way, after a year, Ye Niangzi helped people sew and mend and make money to live, and he also wanted to make money, but Ye Niangzi said that he was too young, so he should play, and when he was older, he would send him to study.

She also said that when she found out the truth of the matter, she would take him to the capital, and he had a sister waiting for her to go back in the capital.

She looked at him with a gaze that seemed to penetrate him, looking far away, as if she was remembering something, missing something.

One day, Mrs. Ye sent the embroidered things back to the embroidery village, asked him not to run far before going out, and then went out.

That day, Ye Niangzi came back very late, very late, he sat on the bed, very scared.

When he didn't know what to do, Ye Niangzi came back, he had never seen Ye Niangzi so embarrassed.

Although she is not wearing good clothes, and even has patches, she has always been very optimistic, but the Ye Niangzi in front of her seems to have been drained of her whole life, just like a dried corpse walking.

Her hair was disheveled, her face was filthy, her clothes were torn, her hands were torn, her shoes were missing, her finely broken wounds were bleeding constantly, and every step she took was a bloody mark.