Chapter 53: The Woman in the Painting
After a few days of rain, the weather finally cleared today, there was no trace of white clouds in the blue sky early in the morning, the dewdrops on the lotus leaves were particularly dazzling in the early morning sunshine, Situ Youning held a broom in his hand, closed his eyes and leaned on a tree trunk by the lake, enjoying this short period of purity and freedom that had not been seen for a long time.
"If I knew that you were so diligent, this king would have hired one less subordinate."
Situ Youning's intuition is very accurate, freedom and purity can only be a moment for her current self, the moment she heard Feng Yumo's voice, she really wanted to pick up the broom in her hand and wave it behind her, but unfortunately she still didn't have the guts.
Suppressing the humiliation and unwillingness in her heart, she turned around and saluted the person behind her, but when she raised her head, she found that Ni Yan was also standing in front of her.
"The princess is early..."
Ni Yan held Feng Yumo's arm with both hands, and looked at Situ Youning with a smile on his face, "My sister is really virtuous, just leave these rough jobs to the maids to do." As he spoke, he took the broom in Situ Youning's hand.
Situ Youning stood in place and cooperated with the words of the two, and said casually, "It's nothing, I'm fine anyway, and it's boring to be idle." "She can't say that the reason she holds a broom is because she practices swords.
"That's not good, what is my sister's identity, this will attract gossip."
"The princess taught me a lesson, but I didn't think it through."
"It's nothing, everything you have to have more eyes in the future."
"Hearing Ni Yan say this, this king remembered something." Feng Yumo suddenly said loudly, the two women looked at her suspiciously, he looked at Situ Youning's smile, which made Situ Youning's vest sweat, "The place where you live does not match your identity, how can I, Feng Yumo's side concubine, live in such a humble place." ”
Situ Youning's eyes lit up in an instant, and he looked at Feng Yumo with gratitude, on the contrary, the smile that Ni Yan had been putting on his face just now suddenly disappeared, but he quickly recovered.
"The prince is right, I think so too, today I will arrange for my sister to live in Qinghe, what do you think, prince?"
Situ Youning smiled and nodded with satisfaction.
Feng Yumo suddenly took the broom in Ni Yan's hand and handed it to Situ Youning again, "How can we live up to Ning'er's wishes?" ”
Listening to Feng Yumo's 'Ning'er', Situ Youning felt inexplicable anger in her heart, and a bad premonition filled her brain.
"Since you're so diligent, just clean up the place where you live."
"What?" Situ Youning's mind flashed to the courtyard full of cobwebs and rat holes, and his life was short.
"Hehe..." Feng Yumo approached Situ Youning's ear and said with a smile, "Remember to pack it up into a place worthy of your temperament." As he spoke, he looked Situ Youning up and down, and at this time, Situ Youning was wearing a set of gray men's clothes for the convenience of practicing swords.
When night fell, the entire Jiwang Mansion was brilliantly lit, the courtyard and corridor were carefully decorated with lanterns and potted plants, Liu Che had already arrived in the mansion, Feng Yumo was receiving him in the living room, because Situ Youning had not appeared, so Ni Yan personally checked the situation, and after Feng Yumo ordered people to retreat, only the two of them were left in the living room.
"Is she alright?" Liu Che took a sip of tea and glanced at Feng Yumo.
"The emperor has nothing to worry about, as long as she is in the Ji Palace, the ministers will desperately protect her."
"That's good..." Liu Chen was silent thoughtfully for a few seconds, then looked at Feng Yumo with sharp eyes, "What did you promise me, you shouldn't have forgotten it, right?" ”
Feng Yumo paused and replied, "Don't dare to forget." ”
Liu Che nodded with satisfaction.
At this time, Situ Youning's screams came from outside the door, Liu Che hurriedly stood up and walked towards the door, only to find Situ Youning sitting at the bottom of the stairs with a miserable face, looking at Liu Sheng who was standing on the stairs with a surprised face.
"Sister, are you alright?" Ni Yan hurriedly helped Situ Youning up, and looked at Liu Sheng, who was standing in place without saying a word, "King Zhongshan, didn't Youning mean it just now, and ask the prince to forgive me." ”
After Liu Sheng's hand behind his back was clenched, he quickly let go, and said with a smile, "This king is also at fault." ”
Situ Youning then remembered the person standing on the steps, and the scene on the wooden bridge that day came to her mind, it turned out that she was Liu Che's brother and a prince? Thinking of this, Situ Youning felt a little unspeakably sad in his heart.
"See the Emperor."
"Brother Huang doesn't need to be polite." Liu Che's tone was very cold, because when he saw Situ Youning's haggard and embarrassed appearance, he had been wordlessly questioning Feng Yumo with angry eyes.
"This is the side concubine who King Ji married into the mansion before yesterday, and she is really a beautiful woman."
"No matter how much it can't compare to the group of beauties in the Zhongshan Palace."
Situ Youning glanced at Liu Che and quickly turned his face away, Situ Youning has always been very angry about Liu Er's death or not saving him, but he is no longer the Niu Er he saved at the beginning, under Ni Yan's reminder, she saluted him with a displeased face.
In the middle of the dinner, Situ Youning couldn't stand the three lying-filled and ruthless 'acquaintances' in front of her, and the more she thought about it, the more aggrieved she became, and finally she left on the grounds of physical discomfort.
"Damn! Every good thing in this world is a good-looking man. As she spoke, she kicked a stone on the side of the road into the lake, looking at the waves of water swinging in circles, she squatted on the edge of the lake, remembered her brothers, and said aggrievedly, "You are not good people, you don't care about me." ”
I don't know how long it took, Situ Youning stood up, during this period the tears overflowing in her eyes never flowed out, she picked up a fist-sized stone, and threw it towards the place in the lake where the faces of the brothers were 'projected' just now, but she tripped over the stones under her feet, half of her body was suspended in the air, and she struggled for a long time, and finally did not fall into the lake, but the stone in her hand just now 'flew' into the window not far behind her, and there was a sound from inside.
Just in case, Situ Youning cautiously opened the window and entered the room, if there was something important, she had to think of countermeasures in advance.
There was a table by the window of the room, and through the moonlight she could see that there was a candlestick on the table, and after fumbling for a few minutes and still not finding a stone, she boldly lit the lamp on the table, and the room instantly brightened.
When the light illuminated the room full of books, Situ Youning couldn't help but smile, and hurriedly began to flip through the books on the shelves, each cup made her very concerned, when she stood in front of the bookshelf and finished reading a third of a book, she remembered her current situation, so she quickly found a stone in the house, and finally found it in the corner.
She carefully observed the surroundings of the stone falling, and found the fallen pen holder not far from the ground, so she breathed a sigh of relief, but when she wanted to go forward and pick up the pen holder and quickly escape, she found a portrait of a woman hanging on the wall, the background of Huazhong seems to be a waterfall, there are three trees and a few bushes next to the waterfall, and there is a tiger standing next to the woman, and the woman's appearance is completely invisible, because the part of her cheek has been poked by something to make a hole.
Situ Youning raised his right hand and looked at the stone in his hand with mixed feelings.
"What are you doing?!"
With a loud bang, the door was kicked open by Feng Yumo, and when he saw the painting on the wall, Situ Youning didn't have time to turn around, and then he only heard the sound of the sword coming out of the sheath, and a blood mark appeared on Situ Youning's neck, but the blade of the sword had no intention of stopping, and continued to slash towards the depths of the neck.