At this time, Zheng Guogong was in the courtyard.

Zhao Zhen and Li Qi were sitting in the pavilion, pretending to watch the scenery on the surface, and in private they were still discussing the confusion of the past few days in a low voice.

Zhao Zhen slapped his fan a few times: "What do you think about this matter?" ”

Li Qi also held a fan in his hand and thought for a moment.

"King An's accident was 20 years ago, and he has been in the court for many years 20 years ago, so it can be seen that the person is now at least 50 or even 60 years old."

Zhao Zhen nodded.

The civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, the ministers of power who look at it, are really not a few in their fifties and sixties, and even more if you count some princes and princesses who are leisurely.

Who could this person be? It is possible to hide so deeply in the court.

Li Qi slapped his head with a fan and said, "I want to know more about what is the use of him doing this?" Prince An has been dead for so many years, even if he can turn the government upside down, what can he do? ”

This is also something that Zhao Zhen can't guess.

Now that Dali Temple has taken over to investigate, to see their consistent urine, there may not be much progress.

In the end, it is estimated that they will have to rely on themselves.

As he was talking, Zhao Zhen's entourage trotted over from the garden and whispered a few words in Zhao Zhen's ear.

The expression on Zhao Zhen's face moved, and after listening, he glanced at Li Qi and said, "Li Lin has been pardoned and acquitted." ”

Li Qi was stunned for a moment when he heard him say this, and then his tone was excited: "Really! ”

He stood up instantly: "The emperor is wise, generous and merciful!" ”

"Come on!"

Zhao Zhen interrupted him.

"Do you know how hard I went to get the backyard manager to say good things......

Li Qi really wanted to hug Zhao Zhen and take a bite on his face.

He thanked him again and again.

But in the final analysis, Zhao Zhen felt guilty about Li Lin, and helping her was also helping herself.

Moreover, Li Lin established a great contribution this time and saved Yuanshu's life, and Yuanshu has to be grateful to her for the rest of his life.

"To be honest, the reason for pardoning the crime is that Li Lin relies on himself." Zhao Zhen said.

Li Qi knew what he meant, in other words, thanks to Yuan Biao, it was not an exaggeration.

At this time.

Li Lin regained his standing on the land of the capital.

Her thoughts were complicated, thinking about what her senior brother had said to her, thinking about the sentence "There are traitors in the court." ”

When such a major event happened, the atmosphere in the capital was a little depressing, and the various city gates were strictly searched and patrolled.

She walked back to Zheng Guofu, and Li Qi was very happy to see her sister come back.

Li Qi said: "Now it can be regarded as a catastrophe! Our family will be fine in the future! ”

Li Liang looked at his brother's expression and said calmly: "Actually, I came back to pack my things." ”

Li Qi didn't understand what she meant, and said puzzledly: "You have been exonerated and don't need to go back to the border." ”

Li Lin finally said what she had been thinking about all the way: "I want to ...... In the future, it would be better for me to stay in the teacher's mansion. ”

Teacher's Mansion?

Li Qi looked at her in surprise and said, "This is your home, what are you going to live there?" ”

Li Lin's face was firm and faintly revealed a wry smile. "Too many things have happened recently, and I've figured it out a lot, grandpa's health is not good, and I don't want him to have any more troubles, let's live farther away first." ”

"Grandpa, that's fine, besides, it's too dangerous for you to live alone as a girl."

"Teacher, I have lived there since I was a child, and I know each other very well."

Li Qi still wanted to say something, but thinking of what his family had done in recent days, he couldn't help but feel ashamed.

In dealing with Li Lin, they really failed to fulfill their due responsibilities.

He sighed in embarrassment, the house was already like this, so it was better to let her be quiet......

Li Lin took something from his room, and just as he walked out of the mansion to lead the horse away, Li Qi suddenly came out with a satin box and stopped her.

He handed the box to Li Lin, "I've always wanted to give it to you!" ”

The box is relatively large and needs to be supported with both hands, Li Lin has a little question: "What is this?" ”

Li Qi motioned for her to open it and look at herself.

When I opened the box, a bright aqua green color came into view, it was a finely embroidered dress, and the bright green satin was embroidered with white clouds, with a layer of tulle, and it was a beautiful girl's dress.

Li Lin looked at it and was stunned.

Li Qi said: "A few years ago, you wrote to me and said that you were wearing coarse linen clothes at the border gate, and you really wanted to have a bright skirt embroidered with blue sky and white clouds......

Li Lin looked at the dress in a daze.

Li Qi said: "I have already done it for you, but I haven't given it to you, and I don't even know if the size is suitable." ”

Li Lin was moved in her heart, this matter was so long ago that she had forgotten about herself.

Li Qi seemed to have become emotional in an instant. Then he said: "I'm sorry for you at home, but you will always be my sister, the granddaughter of Zheng Guogong, and the daughter of my parents." ”

Li Lin held back the sudden sadness and said with a smile: "I know, it has always been." ”

After speaking, he quickly closed the box, "It's just that I've been used to wearing cloth clothes and armor over the years...... Thank you brother. ”

Li Lin said, gently put the box on the horse's back, and was just about to leave.

Li Qi suddenly stopped her behind her: "Li Lin!"

Li Lin didn't look back, afraid that he would see his uncomfortable expression.

Li Qi asked behind her in an unusual tone, "You..... Do you always hold a grudge against us? ”

This is a question he has never dared to think about.

Li Lin was stunned for a long time, for a long time, turned around, with a little surprise in his eyes, and looked at his brother: "Why do you want to hold a grudge?" You've done a lot for it. ”

Li Qi knew that it was impossible for her to have no thoughts in her heart after so many things had happened.

He clenched the fan in his hand: "Actually, parents... There are difficulties with parents...."

Li Lin smiled generously and said to his brother, "I always knew. I never blamed my parents, nor did I blame my grandfather. ”

"Is it true?"

Li Qi stared into her eyes, trying to find something unusual in them.

However, Li Lin was extraordinarily calm in the face of this problem.

Li Lin walked all the way, thinking about the conversation with his brother just now, until he walked to the middle of North Street, and the guard in his heart was relaxed.

Her heart was like a block of snow pressing, not sinking, but uncomfortable.

Across the street from the intersection is the Rongwang Mansion.

Li Lin looked at the black guards at the door from afar.

Such a thrilling thing happened, and I don't know how Yuanshu is now.

Hearing that he had not eaten or drunk for many days due to fright, and that King Rong was very sad alone, thinking so, Li Lin's feet unconsciously walked to the gate of the palace.

She looked up at the big palace gate.

Never mind...... Or don't look at him.

Li Lin thought, after all, the relationship between the two is not what it used to be.

Even if the current Yuanshu is sick, he will inevitably hug each other, so what does it matter if he doesn't go or not?

She stood for a while and was about to turn around and leave, when she suddenly heard King Rong's voice.

"Isn't this Li Scale?"

King Rong's voice was kind, he was about to enter the palace, and when he came out, he saw Li Lin standing at the door, although King Rong was dressed in gorgeous clothes, he had no frame at all.

Li Lin turned his head and saluted King Rong respectfully.

In fact, King Rong's frown has not been stretched these days, he knows that Li Lin has been wronged, and his tone is very kind, like an elder:

"There's been a lot going on lately, and I've wronged you. You saved Yuanshu and are his benefactor. ”

Li Lin's head lowered and said, "Don't dare to be, I deserve to save him." ”

King Rong sighed and said, "Yuanshu is in the room, you can go and see him......"

"This ......"

Li Lin was a little embarrassed

King Rong said, "Go, he has always listened to you." ”

Seeing King Rong's worried son's eyes, Li Lin nodded.

She has always secretly envied Yuanshu for having a father who loves her so much.

The guards helped Li Lin lead the horse, and Li Lin walked into the mansion, where she had been here before, and she still remembered the general layout, but at this time, there were countless armored guards in the palace, and the atmosphere was serious.

She remembered the hallway, remembered Yuanshu's room.

I remember that I once secretly hid in the palace for several days, and I had a rash on my body, and Yuanshu helped her apply medicine.

However, the moment she walked into Yuanshu's room, Li Lin was still touched, she didn't expect the room to be so depressed.

All the servants stood aside and served, and they did not dare to come out.

There was a decoction on the ground, and everyone didn't dare to say a word.

Yuanshu has always had the habit of setting a desk in front of the bed, and he used to write and draw casually, but now he is also a mess of paper, pen and ink.

The servant packed up his things and quietly withdrew.

Li Lin stood at the door and saw Yuan Shu wrapping himself in a quilt and shrinking in the corner of the bed, it is conceivable that the blow of this incident is undoubtedly unprecedented for him!

Hearing the footsteps of someone coming in again, Yuan Shu reprimanded impatiently: "Get out!" ”

Li Lin walked all the way to his couch and stood for a while.

As soon as Yuan Shu raised his eyes, it was Li Lin, and the whole person was also stunned, his face was pale, his eyes were hollow, and the whole person lost his usual spirit, and wrapped himself tightly in the quilt.

Li Lin stood there condescendingly looking at Yuanshu on the bed, like looking at a careless child.

Her face was as calm as water, her eyes didn't even have any waves, and she asked, "Is this how you recuperate?" ”

Yuanshu curled up and didn't say a word.

Li Lin's arrival was something he didn't expect, although there was no emotion in her tone, but Yuan Shu's heart was inexplicably moved.

This feeling is indescribable, which makes his mood a little more strange.

But at this moment he didn't want to say anything, and kept his lips closed.

Li Lin said: "I saw King Rong just now, and he was very worried about you. ”

As she spoke, she sat down beside him.

"It's a thrilling thing, but you're okay after all."

When Yuan Shu heard this, he seemed to think of that moment of fear again, and suddenly shuddered.

Li Lin knew that he could not overcome his fear at this time, and his tone suddenly became extremely cold, like a general looking at a soldier who was afraid of death, and said majestically:

"Are you still a man? Aren't you determined to be a general?! ”

Since that happened, all the people in the house, including Yuanshu's father, have been resigned to Yuanshu's gentleness.

In order to take care of his emotions, not even a single person dared to speak out loud.

Now Li Lin's reprimand for him undoubtedly surprised all the servants and pinched a sweat.

Li Lin looked at him and said:

"Although your life hangs by a thread, but after all, you have escaped, and now you are lying in this mansion compound, there are people waiting for you in front and behind, and the elite soldiers are heavily guarded, how happy you are!

Now it's just a little thing like this, and you're languishing? What do you think of the men who are in danger day and night at the border gates? ”

Yuanshu still bit his lip and didn't say a word.

Li Lin looked at Yuanshu's expression, she knew that it would be too cruel for him to say this at this time.

In the event of a sudden change, how strong can a teenager be?

can't let this matter completely smooth out his mind, once it becomes a shadow in the future, he will never be able to get out of the fear of this matter in the future.

Yuan Shu's state at this time was very familiar to her.

Li Lin remembered himself many years ago, and remembered his reaction after seeing death and war for the first time.

How much better was he than him at that time......

The room was quiet, and Yuan Shu covered his head with a quilt.

Li Lin looked at the smoke curling from the incense burner in the corner of the table, and his thoughts went back to the past.

"Do you remember the Wu Min Shizi I once told you?"

Li Lin asked.

She knew that Yuanshu wouldn't answer, and she wasn't sure if he was listening to her at this point.

It's just that there is a big stone in my heart that doesn't vomit and is unhappy.

She said slowly:

"In that year's war, Wu Shizi and I were both on the battlefield for the first time, and it was also the first time I was close to death."

Li Lin reminisced about the pain of the past.

"It was a terrible feeling, countless tall horses roared by, blood everywhere, broken hands and feet were everywhere on the ground, and even the sky turned blood-red......

Even so, we have to rush forward desperately.

I know that taking a step back is a severe punishment that will be despised and ridiculed......

But there were sharp knives and arrows in front of me, and I didn't want to die or be a laughing stock. ”

Li Lin said to herself, at this moment she didn't care whether Yuan Shu was listening or not, she just wanted to say the words that were pressed in her heart.

"Then an arrow hit me in the foot. I thought: even if I crawl, I have to move forward, so that when the teacher sees my corpse, he will be proud of me.

When the war ended, I didn't even know how I got back to the barracks. That day I learned that the so-called war is not a strategy in the military tent, not a heroic poem in which a few poets talk and laugh, but the death and pain of black oppression! All the previously imagined scenes have turned into fear, survival, and the hope of victory......"

"The wound on my foot began to ache coldly when I returned to the barracks, and I had never been so frightened, I felt like I was going to become a cripple, and when I closed my eyes, it was full of flying blood...... I cried that night, just like you do now. ”

"I thought, why am I here? I'm a woman, why can't I go home and do what I'm supposed to do? I also want to learn embroidery, wear nice clothes, and don't go out of the door......"

"The teacher said, if you want to go back, go back, and at that time I wanted to flee home immediately, live happily with my family, and stay away from the cold battlefield forever."

"After I recovered from my wounds, I returned to Kyoto in a carriage. Kyoto is bustling, and the border pass is completely two worlds, I haven't been back for many years, and when I stand at the door of Zheng Guogong's Mansion, I can't believe that this gorgeous mansion is my home. ”

"I thought everyone would be happy that I was back, and even imagined a lot of sad scenes. However, they just asked me to sit there and go to the back hall to discuss.

I sat in the hall with my baggage in my arms, like a guest.

My parents were discussing it for a long time, and then my mother came out and she asked me, "What are you doing when you come back?" ”