The waning moon hovers slowly, and the stars are the lining. Ling Xiao, who was fluttering in her clothes, held the dagger bracelet that Zhongli Mu gave her at the beginning, and sat quietly on the silver roof and looked up at the vast brilliance of a galaxy, the flickering and scattered starlight at the end of the month has undoubtedly overwhelmed the moon that has not yet been in profit and loss. When she thought of those who had given her true heart had moved away from her, she felt a sense of melancholy. Zhong Limu is like this, so is Jiang Tingxue, just when the morning sun was rising today, Jiang Tingxue, who was with her reluctantly, drove away from the Lu Mansion with reluctance, and went to the bustling hometown of the smoke and willow painting bridge, and the boring mansion with the wind curtain and green curtain. In the past, Ling Xiao might not have thought that one day she would become so sentimental and become flesh and blood.

The handsome figure who had been silently watching Ling for a long time in the courtyard quietly jumped onto the roof, sat down beside her silently, and looked up at the deep and empty night sky with her. Ling Xiao turned her head to the side, just quietly looking at Lu Jingxing's handsome side face and the flowing hair on her shoulders, and did not speak, just because she couldn't bear to break the comfortable quiet silence of having him by her side.

Lu Jingxing, who was blown by the night breeze, seemed to feel the two soft gazes from Ling Xiao, so the corners of his mouth were warm, and he withdrew his gaze that was still exploring a certain star, and turned his head to Ling Xiao with a soft smile from the bottom of his heart: "Such a bright night sky, Xiao Xiao couldn't bear to appreciate it alone." ”

Ling Xiao pursed her lips, she could hear what Lu Jingxing meant, and couldn't help but say, "Didn't you come by yourself?" ”

"Yes, uninvited." Lu Jingxing lowered his head and said lightly.

Ling Xiao smiled lightly: "I'm glad that you can accompany me to look at the stars, but I can't delay your business, right?" ”

At this moment, Lu Jingxing looked more relaxed than in the daytime, looked at Ling Xiao's blurred figure gently, and said: "Everything that should be arranged has been arranged, now we just wait for the reactions of various sects, and then discuss the next step." ”

"It would be nice if there weren't so many disputes in the rivers and lakes." Ling Xiao's eyes wandered between the clusters of unblooming gardenias in the shadows of the courtyard, and their white and flawless figures flashed in his mind, watching them silently and silently in a corner, without desire or desire, and felt something in his heart for a while. After all, man is different from other living beings, although nature has endowed man with higher wisdom, but at the same time, it has also brought them greater desires, and the initiator of strife has always been the infinite desire of splendor and variety.

Lu Jingxing said abruptly: "The rivers and lakes without disputes are not considered rivers and lakes." I have the same state of mind as Xiao Xiao, and I don't like these so-called fights. But there are some things that I can't help myself, the Lu Mansion has been in the rivers and lakes for a hundred years, and it is impossible for me to retire. "Lu Jingxing was born in the rivers and lakes since he was a child, grew up in the rivers and lakes, and has shouldered the entire Lu Mansion on his shoulders since he was more than ten years old, although he is tired of these, but he can't go against his father's deathbed request for him to protect the Lu Mansion. More than 100 years ago, the Lu Mansion was only a simple business family based on musical instruments, only because of the turmoil in the rivers and lakes, weak businessmen were running around, and it was not uncommon for people to die unexpectedly, in order to prevent such a thing from happening, the Lu Mansion ordered the people in the house to start practicing martial arts, but never thought that it was gradually involved in the rivers and lakes, so that in less than 50 years, it has jumped to the martial arts faction, with many people and a forest until today. It's only since Lu Jingxing's great-grandfather that the Lu family has gradually thinned, so Lu Jingxing has to succeed to the position of the head of the mansion. But since Lu Jingxing became the master of the mansion, he no longer accepts disciples, and he does not seek to carry forward the Lu Mansion again, but only to not violate his promise to his father.

Ling Xiao empathized with Lu Jingxing's words, and sighed: "I understand you, once upon a time, I was the same, in a position I didn't like, surrounded by invisible disputes, except for scheming and calculating, there was not much left. In the world, the reason why there are so many meaningless disputes is because of people's evil greed. Businessmen quarrel for money, the name of the people in the rivers and lakes is the same, the people in the temple are for the power, even ordinary people, for the sake of life will inevitably have disputes and conflicts, these are just a 'desire' word after all, but it is better to fight openly than to fight. ”

"Xiao Xiao, do you blame me, innocently involved you in the troubled waters of the rivers and lakes again?" Lu Jingxing thought that Ling Xiao was talking about her involuntary body when she was in the imperial court, and thought that Ling Xiao had just gotten rid of the secret fight, and because he was deeply involved in the open dispute, he couldn't help but feel guilty and blamed himself.

Ling Xiao rubbed the bracelet in his hand, and shook his head slightly with starlight: "Maybe it's supposed to be like this, you have blocked too much for me, otherwise, how can I have a stable life." Ling Xiao felt that when she first left the Hou Mansion, she still thought about life too simple and naïve, she didn't know any martial arts in this world, she didn't have a few small money, and she could live a stable life alone by opening a small shop. After several kidnappings and trafficking, Ling Xiao already understood why Miao Ying was reluctant when she persuaded Miao Ying to leave the Drunken Shadow Building with her. It's just because the world decides everything, and Ling Xiao was a newborn calf who was not afraid of tigers at the time, and she thought she was enough to deal with everything, but she repeatedly hit a wall, and in the end she still had to rely on Lu Jingxing, which was also the reason why she practiced martial arts diligently every day.

"Are you scared?" Lu Jingxing's words were serious, although he was calm and calm on the surface, and he showed no waves about Kong Bozhi's affairs, but he was still faintly worried in his heart, afraid that he would not be able to protect Ling Xiao and the Lu Mansion. Although he did not witness the events of more than ten years ago in the history of the rivers and lakes, that catastrophe also brought a lot of trauma to the Lu Mansion.

Ling Xiao knew what Lu Jingxing was asking, Lu Jingxing asked seriously, and she replied equally seriously: "With you, don't be afraid." ”

"Is Xiao Xiao homesick? It's been a year, if you want to go back, when the matter is settled, I'll send you back, okay? When Lu Jingxing sat down, he had already seen Ling Xiao holding this bracelet-type dagger in his hand, and Ling Xiao had told him the origin of this thing, which easily made him think that Ling Xiao was homesick. He even felt that he was too selfish, after all, Ling Xiao was still a girl who had just turned sixteen, and generally such a girl should have been in the boudoir or had just become her own child, enjoying the pity and love of her parents and husband, but Ling Xiao was forcibly left by him. Although Ling Xiao did not reveal his inner thoughts, he realized his mistake and thought that it was Ling Xiao that he forcibly left, not what Ling Xiao wanted.

Ling Xiao pointed to his feet: "This is my home, you drove me away, where else can I go?" Could it be that you want me to be a beggar, this can't be Lu Ci's idea, right? ”

Lu Jingxing was amused by Ling Xiao's words, and he paused and said, "Lu Ci doesn't dare." If you miss your family, it's okay for me to accompany you back to Jundu to have a look. ”

"I haven't lived in Yunhou Mansion as long as I have lived in my father-in-law's house, so I don't want to be homesick. My feelings for the third brother are the same as those for Sister Xue, and now that Sister Xue is gone, I feel some emotion in my heart, so I think of the third brother. During that time in the Hou Mansion, although the third brother was very busy on weekdays, as long as he was free, the first thing he thought of was me, and he often accompanied me to read and write. At that time, I was lonely and cold, and I didn't like to talk to people, so he changed his way to make me happy, took me out to relieve my boredom, and over time, he became the closest person to me in the Hou Mansion. Ling Xiao stared at the hazy bracelet in his hand, recalling that scene, with a warm dawn in his eyes. Although she knew that Zhong Limu was good to her because of Zhong Liyuan, she still didn't forget it.

"What about your parents?" Lu Jingxing felt that Ling Xiao should also miss her parents or the emperor, after all, the emperor's favor for her was obvious to all in the world.

Ling Xiao glanced at the sky, seemed to think about it, and said, "I miss my mother, but she is not in this world. And my father, he's just a strange word in my head. I grew up under the care of my subordinates, and I rarely saw my mother a few times a year. As for the mother in the Hou Mansion, she always made me feel as if she was deliberately flattering me, not like true feelings. In fact, Ling Xiao didn't understand the He family, Zhong Liyuan was obviously her biological daughter, but every time she came into contact, Ling Xiao felt that the He family was a little overly concerned and overly cautious, for fear of doing something that would dissatisfy her, as if it was a host-object relationship, rather than a mother and daughter.

Lu Jingxing, who was looking at Ling Xiao, couldn't help but feel something, stretched out his hand and slowly took Ling Xiao into his arms, which were not warm by the night wind, and comforting words sounded above Ling Xiao's head: "Everyone in the Lu Mansion is Xiao Xiao's family, don't think about these unhappy things in the future." "People in the world only know that Zhong Liyi is Zhong Liyi's daughter, but they don't know who the biological mother is, and no one knows how many concubines Zhong Liyi has. At this time, Lu Jingxing only thought that Mrs. Yunhou was not Ling Xiao's biological mother, and her biological mother was dead.

The two who hugged each other and looked at the moon were silent for a long time, and Lu Jingxing finally broke the silence under the night sky, perhaps to find balance for Ling Xiao, or because of his own feelings, and told Ling Xiao about his experience: "When my mother died, I was not yet eight years old. My father loved to study medicine and medicine before his death, but his martial arts were not outstanding, and his mother was a weak woman who didn't know martial arts. In the winter of that year, he took his mother into the mountains to look for herbs, and the snow fell heavily for several days, which coincided with another rampant mountain banditry. The snow was covered in the mountains, and the group of mountain bandits besieged the father and mother in a dilapidated cabin, and the two of them who had been without food for several days were already exhausted, and the father and mother wanted to break out of the siege, but they couldn't do it, and the mother didn't want to see her father waiting there with her to die, so she took her father behind her back and ate an untreated raw aconite. Later, my father escaped from the siege of the mountain bandits, but my mother died in the gatehouse. ”

"And then?" Ling Xiao felt that the matter should not be over yet, she knew that aconite was aconite, a good medicine, and a highly poisonous poison. She wanted to come to Lu Jingxing's mother must have loved his father very much, otherwise who would want to do this.

This is the last chapter of this year's update, and the rest will be three months later, the ruthless Zhong Liyuan, the road of revenge has not yet begun, and this text will not be a eunuch. Zhong Liyuan went from indifference and ruthlessness to warmth and affection, and then to ruthlessness, this is a long process, and it is also a long time to write, although the outline is completed, but the pen power is not enough, so it was decided to put it first, and write a book with a small number of words first.