After the big man left, Chen Wei held the sword and slept at the door. I walked around twice in front of the half-transparent screen door and looked around the room again. It was simple and clean, with no windows to escape, no scissors or wooden strips that could be used as self-defense weapons, just a bedding and an unlit bean lamp.

When I was knocked unconscious by the big guy before, my stomach was already growling with hunger. Later, after being tossed by Ah Su again and again, he forgot that he was hungry, and when he quieted down, his stomach began to throb for a while. The right shoulder was already swollen all over, and the slightest movement caused a large area of the chest to be in excruciating pain. The skin on the wrist was also broken by the hemp rope, and the two circles of strangulation marks were hot. There was no food, no medicine, and I sat in the dark, crying in pain. When I turned around and saw Chen Reverse leaning on the back of the screen door, I didn't even dare to cry, so I had to wipe away my tears, hide in the quilt and grit my teeth and endure it.

"Sleep, the rooster is about to enter the palace." Chen Wei seemed to know that I hadn't slept, and tapped the wooden strip on the screen door twice with his finger.

"Hmm." I didn't dare to speak, so I put the quilt over my head again.

What about tomorrow? What should I do if I am found out by Chen Wei? What should I say when I see Qi Hou? How can I get rid of Asu? I held on to my swollen shoulder, couldn't sleep for a long time, and finally in a panic, I poked my head out of the covers again and took a long breath.

At this time, the figure on the screen door suddenly turned his head sideways and asked, "I'm curious, since you are a woman, how did you become the god son of the Jin Kingdom?" I heard that when the Duke of Jin asked you to receive a gift on behalf of the sky, there were nine luans rushing to the sky, and the golden mangs were overwhelming? ”

I closed my eyes tightly and pretended not to hear him.

"In fact, on the day of the Jin Gong's sacrifice, there were also golden carp thousand tails in the water outside Linzi City. Qi Taishi said that this is a blessing for the noble person. The old jailer said, "I may have the help of a noble person, so that I can avoid death." Chen Wei seemed to be talking to me, and seemed to be muttering to himself, "Are you asleep?" He opened the door and peeked in, then chuckled and closed the screen door again, "Du Ruo, is you the noble person that Taishi said?" That day, I only drank a pot of wine from you, and when I woke up, I was already down to the grass. ”

Hearing him call me Du Ruo, I began to cough wildly.

It turned out that he had already seen my face clearly.

"Do you want to tell Chen Heng that I saved you?" I rolled over, looked at the figure on the screen door with my left hand on my left hand, and asked softly.

"No, that's all in the past. What the Lord knows is what I can do for him now. Chen Wei's voice was as resolute and resolute as when we first met.

"What are you going to do for him?" Now that he had seen through it, I simply got up and opened the screen door.

The cool breeze of the summer night after the rain is blowing, and a hook-like last quarter moon has risen to the middle of the sky.

Chen Wei glanced up at me, silently drew out his long sword, and nailed it to the foot where I had just stepped out of the door: "Go in!" Close the door, answer my questions, and don't let me see your face. ”

I looked at the cold, silky sword, retracted my foot, and closed the door with a thud.

"You are the divine son of the Jin people, why do you want to save me?" Chen Wei put away his sword and leaned back against the screen door.

"What you want to know, I told you a long time ago, people like you don't deserve to die in the stinking execution ground, you have the right to be the mercy of the gods." I held on to the rhombic wooden strip on the door and sat down with my knees crossed, "You finally picked up a life this time, what are you going to do for Chen Heng in the future?" ”

"Why do you ask when you know my life?"

"Half of the world's life is determined by heaven and half by man, I know the half set by God, but I don't know the other half you want to do."

"Tomorrow, I will enter the palace with you, and you will know when the time comes." Chen Yi looked at me through a layer of semi-transparent thin side face, "I remember, Cui Liao does have a sister in the family, you are not her, so where is she now?" ”

Hearing him ask about Cui Liao's sister at this time, I couldn't help but feel a little more good about him in my heart: "The daughter of the Cui family was sold into the teaching workshop at the age of nine, but because she couldn't understand music and dance, she became the most inferior prostitute. Before you caught her here, I had already bought her and asked her to help out at the old pulp stall. The eldest lady has bad eyes, so she always has to have a helper. I gave another fifty gold, enough for them to live a good life. ”

"You ......" Chen Wei choked slightly, and said solemnly, "Thank you, I will return the money to you in the future." ”

"No need, I don't know if I can survive when I enter the palace, what's the use of asking for money." After I finished speaking, I put my left hand on the ground, rubbed the pu mat on the ground and turned around, "Chen Heng sent you into the palace not because he wanted to kill me after the thing was done, right?" ”

"It's not."

"That's the best, otherwise I'm afraid that if you are not careful, you will really become a great sinner of the Chen family, and you will have no shame to go to Huangquan to see your ancestors and ancestors. Sleep, I won't run away, if you're tired, close your eyes. ”

"Wait a minute!" Hearing this, Chen Yi raised his sword and stood up.

I curled the corners of my mouth as if I didn't hear it, yawned softly, and slipped into the futon.

"What do you mean by that?" A gust of night wind hit the room, and Chen Yi lifted the silk quilt on my body.

"You're not afraid of my eyes anymore?" I sat up and looked at him with a smile.

"I'm not afraid of your eyes, I'm afraid of your demagoguery." Chen Yi put the long sword on the ground and knelt down beside me, "If I kill you, why would I become a sinner of the Chen family?" ”

"Judging by your anxious look, I know that you have received the order to take my life. Chen Heng wants you to enter the palace to watch me, wait for Qi Hou to be sick, Kan Zhi is defeated, and then kill me with a sword, right? Hey, I didn't expect Chen Heng to even believe Ah Su. yes, I also saved the life of her father Fan Ji. You say, if Chen Heng knew that I had also saved your life, would he send a third person into the palace and kill you, me, and Ah Su? ”

"You answer my question first." Chen Wei's face sank, as if he had been poked in the sore spot by me.

I snorted, looked at the cold moonlight that came in through the door, and said slowly: "If I die in the hands of your Chen clan and die in the Qi country, within a hundred years, Linzi City will definitely be invaded by foreign captives, and 210,000 people will be damaged." This is a pre-date. Two hundred years ago, the hexagram that the gods gave to the ancestor of the Chen family, Gongzi Wan, may also be withdrawn. ”

"What?!" When Chen Wei heard this, he was shocked.

I saw Chen Wei's face showing surprise, and took the opportunity to say: "'Phoenix Yu Fei, and Ming Qiangqiang, after being a concubine, will be bred in Jiang, the fifth Qichang, and after Shangqing, the eighth, Mo Zhi in Beijing. 'If there was no auspicious hexagram given by the gods, how could the little prince of Chen Guo marry the daughter of the Marquis of Qi? After the fifth generation, how could Chen Heng respond to the hexagram and become the secretary of Qi? Chen Heng is now plotting the glory of the Chen clan to the top of the Qi Kingdom after the eighth generation. But if he wants my life, he will be guilty of the wrath of heaven. After the eighth generation, Chen's dream of winning Qi could not come true. Moreover, over the years, he Chen Hengdou borrowed grain, Xiaodou collected grain, and the little virtue accumulated by sympathizing with the people was scattered. ”

Chen Wei's two thick eyebrows became tighter and tighter, and in the end, even his usual calm breathing was a little messy: "In this way, no one in this world can kill you." ”

"You're wrong! Anyone can kill me, you can kill me now. I smiled and turned my head, my fingertips gently stroking his sword, "I'm not a god, I'm just a human being, and when my life comes, there will be a time when I die." But if anyone wants to break my life against the heavens, we must see if they can withstand the wrath of the heavens. Bear it, and it's not difficult to get up and down with a sword. I avoid trouble, I run for my life, and it is not I who saves myself, but the one who kills with a sword. ”

"Running for your life to save someone who kills with a sword?" Chen Yi looked into my eyes and muttered my words, his breath was completely chaotic.

"If you don't kill me now, then I'll go to sleep first." I pulled a smile at him and covered my face with the quilt.

"Du Ruo......" Chen Yi sat beside me for a long time, so long that I was about to fall asleep in a daze, when I heard him say, "No matter what you say is true or false, as long as you don't do anything unfavorable to Chen, I won't kill you." ”

Is this his promise?

It's a pity that he said it too late, and I would have done what was not good for Chen......

In the early morning, before dawn, the pale white crescent moon was still hanging in the sky, and the templemen and maidservants of the Chen Mansion came into my room with large and small dressers. Soon, the secretary of the Prime Minister's Mansion sent a set of brocade clothes embroidered with Hunan diamond patterns embroidered with Pegasus stepping on the clouds and a matching pearl and jade. The one who helped me comb my hair was a sixteen or seventeen-year-old beautiful maid, and the one who painted my makeup was a white-faced temple man who applied powdered thrush and smeared honey on his mouth.

"Oh, the slave is so big, I've never seen such a good face! Girl, the slave's name is Pi, the girl will be favored by the king in the future, but don't forget the slave! The temple man praised me twice, and smiled and took out a small box of pale pink incense powder from a double-layer black lacquer inlaid snail shell dressing room, "This is the incense powder made by the slaves, and the mussel powder, wax grease, and butterfly incense, there is no sale outside, and the slave has a copy here." This powder, pick people, if the bottom of the face is black, it will be black when you apply mussel powder. I met a girl today, and I can be regarded as someone who can use this incense powder! The temple man wrapped the ice powder in silk dumplings and carefully dipped the fragrant powder on my face, and he covered his lips while applying the powder to my ear and whispered, "Girl, there is a wonderful place in this fragrant powder, and the slave is made of corn flour as the base powder, and it does not fall on makeup." ”

The voice of the temple people is different from the sharp and thin of ordinary temple people, and it is very comfortable to listen to soft and glutinous. I looked at his complacent little appearance, and couldn't help but smile and nodded: "I remember you, the temple man who is good at making gouache." ”

"Thank you, girl!" Seeing that I praised him, the temple people smiled more and more happily, he put the silk dumplings aside, and took a palm-sized mussel shell from the little maid's hand, "Among the beauties sent to the palace today, there are several noble daughters of the doctor's family, so the best and purest rouge in the house are all taken by them." This is a paste boiled by mountain lotus, the color is a little lighter, but it is enough for the girl's face. ”

"Whose noble daughter are you?" I heard the temple people say this, and then I remembered that I forgot to ask Ah Su yesterday, what kind of identity did Chen Heng give me? If the daughters of several doctors' families can take away all the good rouge, then I think my background must be higher than theirs. At most, it's an inferior scholar or a merchant girl.

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