The girl opened the door, took the tray in her hand with a smile, and praised it without hesitation.

"It smells so good."

Her eyebrows and eyes are crooked, and she can't help but soften in her heart.

"It's a beautiful day, and I'd love to go for a walk."

"In this case, I will eat first. At this time, Kiyono will go and help me prepare my horse. ”

The girl's tone was gentle and shallow, teaching her not to resist at all. Kiyono nodded and turned to leave. About, the county lord is thinking about it.

She took the tray to the round table and sat down, holding a spoon in one hand and gently stirring the steaming porridge. Shiitake mushrooms are cut into cubes, which is very good for freshness and flavor, and the boiled soft beef melts in the mouth.

When Kiyono returned, the girl was lifting the lid of the cup and drinking the cup of Pu'er tea that had been eaten and melted after the meal. She looked at the table, there was not a grain of rice in the green glazed bowl, and she ate cleanly.

The girl put down the teacup and smiled at her, and there was an extra pear blossom wooden box in her hand.

This is?

"Just find someone at random and return these to the head of the Xie family."

After explaining, the girl got up and walked out. After a short pause at the door, he added.

"If my father asked, he said that I was going to pick up fabrics and wanted to make clothes."

It's thoughtful, but what exactly is she going to do? Qing Zhi was puzzled, but if the girl didn't want to say it, it would be useless to ask.

"County Lord, come back early."

Unapprehensively, she caught up with the maiden and shouted behind the trotting red and brown horse. The girl tugged at the reins, and the horse stopped, and the next second the front hooves were raised, and with a neigh, galloped away.

Duanmu Xihua traveled all the way through the ten-mile long street, which was prosperous. The hustle and bustle gradually subsided, and the people in the south of the city were scattered, so she went to worship Xie Yunrong first.

"Zhuzhu'er, you always have to go alone. Only one person can face all the wind and frost in order to be invincible and invincible. ”

It turned out that my mother had seen the ending early on, but she was too stubborn at that time and didn't want to think about it seriously. It turns out that once the arrow is off the string, there is no way back.

However, loss does not mean that we have reached the end. All kinds of life and death in this world begin after the end.

Mother, you choose to leave. Not because of the fear of being alone, but because the heart has long been empty. Because there is no expectation, I don't know how the future will continue, whether it is or not.

But, even if it is a moth to a fire and lives to die, it is to embrace the light.

So mother, please watch from heaven. Look at me, how to get justice for you and the Xie family.

She knelt down and kowtowed deeply. Then he got up, as if to say goodbye, and rode away without looking back.

In the past few years, she has been protected too well. Now, the people she can rely on are gone, and what she can rely on is up to herself.

Touching the half of the jade pendant of the Jiang family's power on his waist, he thought of a gentle and dignified woman.

Jiang Ruyu is also calculating, and she is sure that she will embark on this road. He didn't hesitate to bet that the Jiang family wanted to join forces with her, what was she for?

Now she has chosen this path, there is no way back, only to move forward bravely. Therefore, this meeting with Jiang Ruyu must be asked clearly.

Since she decided to cooperate, she always has to be sure of her heart.

Duanmu Xihua galloped all the way to Jiang's house, because Jiang Lanhe led her through Jiang's house. With her memory, she first came to the Mingdao Hall where the main courtyard was meeting.

The two maids stood at the door, and they were not surprised to see her, and leaned down to bow down.

"The county lord is here, and the head of the family is in Xiangxuewu."

It seems that Jiang Ruyu is sure that she will come, no matter when it is sooner or later. She nodded slightly, quickened her pace, and entered the inner courtyard.

The three rooms on the south side of the courtyard are Xiangxue Dock, and she calmed down and went around to the back of the house.

A woman in a purple dress stood by the lake, looking into the distance. As she did when she first saw her, she wore a cyan jade pendant around her waist, with the inscription Jiang on it. The black hair is like a cloud, and a cyan ribbon is wrapped around the hair.

"Auntie."

"Zhuzhu'er."

The woman turned her head, her eyebrows picturesque. She put some rouge on her face and a thin layer of vermilion on her lips, which was unique.

She smiled and beckoned to her. He was the first to sit down at the stone table and poured two cups of floating blue tea.

"Figured it out?"

"Well, it's just that I'm still confused, and I need my aunt's advice."

Jiang Ruyu pushed the teacup towards her a few more points, and she stretched out three fingers unhurriedly and shook it.

"Zhu Zhu'er can ask me three questions."

On the way here, she had already thought about it clearly, and immediately began to ask questions about the main customer.

"First question, auntie, why do you want to help me."

"I want to hear the truth."

Jiang Ruyu looked at the stubborn girl in front of her and smiled slightly. Now that she has decided to embark on this path, it is time for her to show some sincerity.

Those sealed truths, she will slowly guide her to discover.

"In order to find a way to live for the Jiang family, in order to atone for their sins."

To find a way to survive for the Jiang family, she can still understand a little. Now in the world of Beixiang, the imperial power is opposed to the family. This delicate balance will one day be upset.

But what is the atonement?

"Then auntie, what kind of sin is to atone for?"

"The innocent Lu family, and Ah Rong's death."

Is her mother's death related to her? Jiang Ruyu shook her head.

"I never wanted to kill Ah Rong, but her death has nothing to do with me. If Zhu Zhu'er hates me, she should be. It's just that you can't do anything to me until you find the real culprit. ”

Regarding her ending, Jiang Ruyu doesn't seem to have much of a good future. The information for these two questions was sufficient, and she needed a guarantee next.

"I don't have anything more to ask, I just want to ask my aunt to make an oath."

"With Ah He's gambling curse, in this process, before the truth comes out. No other innocent people are involved, nor can human life be involved. ”

Jiang Ruyu didn't swear immediately, she picked up the teacup and took a sip calmly, with an elegant posture.

"I thought that your relationship with Ah He was a little closer than that of blood brothers and sisters. How can you use him as a bargaining chip to blackmail me? ”

"If you teach Ah He to know, he has always regarded you as his own sister. would calculate him like this, what do you think he would think? ”

Jiang Ruyu looked at her for a long time, her eyes were as cold as frozen snow. The girl was not afraid at all, and still had a gentle and calm smile on her face.

"Auntie, if Ah He knew that I was calculating him because of you, he wouldn't care."

Jiang Ruyu's hand clutching the cup tightened, and a trace of panic slipped through her heart. No, Ah He is the person she must protect.

Unable to teach him all this, she looked up and met the girl's warm smile, like a round of bright spring sun.

"I'm a little curious about what made you here. I saw you a few months ago, and I was still a little girl who didn't know anything about the world, but now I can hold my life. ”

"My aunt misunderstood, it is precisely because I trust my aunt that I will ask my aunt to use Ah He as the object of her gambling curse."

"As for what I experienced, my aunt also experienced loss. Then you should know that once something withers, it can no longer be stretched out - such as love, such as life......"

"Since we all know it's not pleasant, we don't want to take it again. Besides, since my aunt said atonement, she didn't want others to suffer such pain because of herself. ”

Jiang Ruyu stared at the girl fiercely, trying to find some flaws, her long-term gentle and dignified disguise was shattered at this moment.

The girl is accusing her—look, all I have lost, my mother, my lover, and all the tastes I have experienced, all because of you. The maiden was asking her, "You have not yet atoned for your sins at this moment, so why should you not accept my request?"

The girl was always indifferent, with a gentle smile on the corner of her mouth. Jiang Ruyu suddenly realized that at least at this time, she lost.

After a stalemate for half an hour, Jiang Ruyu shook his head and let out a chuckle. It's rare, how many years have passed, and someone has made themselves deflated. Smiled and smiled, but the corners of his eyes were a little sour.

Siren has passed away, she is no longer the innocent and shy woman she used to be, how can she ask others to be the same as she was.

Jiang Ruyu calmly raised her palm to the sky.

"Okay, I'll curse with Ah He. Until we help you find out the truth, there are no innocent people involved, and no human life is involved. ”

"Now that I've agreed to all your requests, it's time to think about what we're going to do next."

Duanmu Yuhua nodded, this was the fundamental purpose of her trip.

"The Wei family's Jiaowei Harvest Banquet is a good time."

"Wait."

Jiang Ruyu interrupted the girl, she lost her temper for a while, although she tried her best to restrain herself, her heart was still messed up, she wanted to slow down.

"This tea is cold, I'll go change the pot first."

"Okay."

Half an hour later, she walked back with a teapot in her hand. Yiying's words and deeds have returned to the gentleness and dignity they were when they first met, and he looked at the girl in front of him with a smile.

"Zhuzhu'er, I can't show my face in front of the family. But you can, take this opportunity to make friends with the Wei family and the Marquis of Zhaocheng, they will be good helpers. ”

"Zhaocheng Xiaohou Cui Kongling, his mother Duanmu Qingyin is the sister of His Majesty today, and the former auxiliary princess. Long before the tragedy of the Xie family, there was another incident that buried her and her concubine Cui Deyin. ”

"The Battle of Jiangcheng."

"The Battle of Jiangcheng?"

"Well, it was the Battle of Jiangcheng that allowed Beixiang to take the Twelve Prefectures of Xiliang, although now it has been returned."

"In that war, Beixiang used 50,000 soldiers to fight against Xiliang's 100,000 army without grain and grass. Not only did they win, but they also won the twelve states of Xiliang. ”

No one knows how they did it, and Jiang Ruyu also covered up the truth. It was the emperor Lu Xingyun, who took the king's scepter and went alone. Dispatch grain and grass, strategize, and turn things around.

But how did Lu Xingyun do it? In addition to the Jiang family's promise to provide him with grain and grass, she had no way of knowing anything else. The clearest is only Cui Kongling.

The 50,000 soldiers of that year, everyone who knew about it, Cui Kongling, she, Lu Xingyun...... Everyone hid this truth from the emperor.

Because, this is a conspiracy. A conspiracy to kill two people and destroy a family, at the cost of 50,000 lives.

The emperor was suspicious and puzzled. In that situation, they not only survived, but also won the battle. However, everyone was silent, and he couldn't grasp the handle.

"In this seemingly less war, the only thing that is strange in front of the world is that it is revealed. Cui Kongling's father, Cui Deyin, he died. ”

"He died before the battle between the two armies, and there was a conspiracy in Beixiang, but the news was not spread."

Everyone thought he had died in battle, but the eldest princess didn't believe it. 50,000 soldiers survived, how could her husband die. ”

So she went to the palace and wanted to ask the emperor for the truth.

But the eldest princess couldn't get back the answer she wanted, and the news came out of the palace, and she followed Cui Deyin because of excessive grief. The emperor thanked them for their deep love as husband and wife, and because Cui Deyin had been dead for a long time. In the end, Cui Kongling was buried together without seeing Cui Kongling. ”