"Peony." Xing Ruyi hurriedly took out a Jinpa and handed it to her: "Strictly speaking, it's not all your fault. ”

"It's my fault, it's my fault." Peony pushed away Xing Ruyi's hand and raised his eyes to look at Wei Chi: "Peony is right, I changed my master's medicine." I learned from Aunt Yingzhu that the third prince loves to watch dance, and may take the opportunity of a private visit to Weifu to come to our Liulifang. I think it's an opportunity. If I can dance to the Three Princes and get the praise of the Three Princes, then I can become the best dancer in Luoyang City in the future, just like my master. It's not that I didn't want to go over to ask the master, but as Ruyi said, I didn't dare. I didn't dare to go, I didn't dare to open my mouth, I didn't dare to take risks, I was afraid that the master would think too much, I was afraid that the master would think that I was trying to replace her. ”

"You just want to replace the master." Peony still has that aggressive look.

"I didn't, I really didn't, I just wanted to be as good as my master, I just wanted to prove that even if I didn't have a voice, I could still be the best dancer in Luoyang City. I want to tell my master that even if I don't have talent, I can work hard. I'm just imagining that the master proves that I'm no worse than you. In hindsight, I also wondered why I had to prove it. Probably because he was afraid that he was not good enough, he would not let the master treat him, and he was afraid that one day he would be kicked out of Liulifang and continue to live that kind of life without food and displacement.

Ruyi is right, there is a terrible thing living in my heart. That thing was like a shadow over me. In my midnight dream, the most I saw were dead bodies, dead bodies of all kinds. The most I hear are the crying of the elderly, the woman, the child. I'm scared, I'm really scared. ”

"Because you are afraid, you will harm us. Fang Yuqian, you are so selfish. ”

"Yes, I'm selfish, but I don't want to be so selfish." Peony said, and spit out a mouthful of blood: "We arrived at Liulifang almost at the same time, my name is Peony, and your name is Peony." We're obviously very similar flowers, but you're always better than me. The master likes you, the aunts and sisters in Liulifang also like you, and even the uncles and aunts who deliver vegetables outside like you. I'm jealous, I'm really jealous. I know this kind of thinking is not good, and I also know that you are the best for me in Liulifang except for the master, but-"

"But you've hurt me anyway." Peony sneered.

"I'm sorry!"

"Sorry, did it work? If you say I'm sorry, will my face be okay? Will I be able to make up for the days I lost? If you say I'm sorry, will the master be able to come back to life? ”

"I know, I know, but Peony, what do you want me to do? If my death can be made up, or it can make you hate me less, I am willing to die, I am willing to die now. ”

"Okay, then you can die now." Peony took out a dagger from her body and threw it in front of Peony.

Peony glanced at it and reached out to get the dagger, but was kicked away by Wei Chi first.

"Wei Chi ......"

"Alright, that's the end of it. I don't want anything bad to happen in the glass shop where the girl stayed. You and Peony are both the girl's apprentices, and I don't want to see you like this now. It's not too early, let's go back to our rooms and rest. ”

"Girl? Wei Chi, you are embarrassed to mention the master. Peony bent down and picked up the dagger: "If I remember correctly, you were picked up from the street by the master, right?" Oh no, no, no, it should have been brought back from the street. You are sick, very sick, and your biological father and mother think you are a burden, so they put you at the door of Yizhuang, hoping that you will fend for yourself. The master passed by and saw you lying on the ground. She was kind, and let the old servant who drove the car carry you back from the ground. In order to help you heal, the master spent almost all of her savings. ”

Wei Chi lowered his head and said nothing.

"All your savings, Wei Chi, do you know what that means to the master? The money for you to hire a doctor, see a doctor, and buy medicine for you is all danced out by the master one tune at a time. She takes you with her and takes care of you like a brother. But what about you? And how do you treat the master? ”

Peony pointed to the peony that was half-kneeling on the ground.

"She, the murderer, is the murderer who killed the master. You, Wei Chi, are going to let her go now. If the master has a spirit in the sky, do you say that she will be cold, will she be cold? ”

"She won't." Wei Chi opened his mouth coldly.

"Nope! How do you know that the master won't! You know how important those days are to the master, the people she likes will come to see her dance, and she wants to dance the best "Hu Xuan Dance" to the people she likes. But Peony ruined the master's hope because of his little bit of caution. That night, how sad and difficult it was for the master. It was you and Fang Yuqian who put the master down from above, is the master's appearance terrifying? Do you know how uncomfortable she was when she died? ”

"Peony!"

"Don't call me by my name, Wei Chi, you don't deserve to call me by my name." Peony held the dagger and rushed directly to Peony: "You don't help the master avenge, I'll help." Fang Yuqian, return your face to me, and return your life to the master. ”

Peony closed her eyes in resignation, but the dagger passed through Wei Chi's palm.

Blood, falling to the ground.

In the air, there was the smell of blood.

Xing Ruyi frowned, not knowing whether he should persuade him, or stand up and report to the official, or go back to the rouge shop to sleep pretending not to see anything.

"The master's death has nothing to do with peony." Wei Chi half-knelt on the ground, looking at his palm that had been pierced by a dagger.

"At this time, you are still protecting the peony." Peony gripped the tail end of the dagger fiercely: "Wei Chi, do you remember what you told me at the beginning?" You say, I'm still young, and when I grow up, you can marry me. Now, I'm grown, what about you? Will you still marry me? ”

"Fairy tales, how to take them seriously." Wei Chi didn't move: "You always pestered me at that time, and you always liked to ask me who I liked." I replied that I didn't like it, and you wouldn't give up. I replied that I liked them all, and you didn't give up. At that time, Liulifang had just moved to Luoyang, and there were a lot of things to deal with, and I didn't have the time or time to deal with your words. ”

"Cope? It turns out that you said that when I grow up, you will marry me to deal with me. Peony let go of her hand and stumbled back behind: "Wei Chi, do you know that you told me to take my words seriously." If it weren't for growing up, why would I have endured for so many years. You're reluctant to peony, right? It doesn't matter, I'll let her go, and I'll let you go. I'm going to accompany the master, I'm going underground to accompany the master. ”

"Peony!" Wei Chi stood up and threw down the peony: "Don't do stupid things.

Peony held Zhu Hai, but one end of Zhu Hai stabbed her throat. She looked at Wei Chi and asked lightly, "Do you like peonies?" Do you want to marry her? ”

"I take peonies as my sister's." Wei Chi looked at Peony's eyes: "Come, give me Zhu Hai." I remember, I gave you this hairpin. At that time, you had just arrived in Liulifang, and your long hair was black and shiny. You don't know how to comb your hair, and you don't bother to comb it, and you always use a rope to put your hair in a simple bunch and run around the yard. The girl said you were a little madman, and you didn't look like a girl. I bought this Zhu Hai and coaxed you to comb your hair. There's one more thing you don't know. The first time I met the girl, she tied her hair with a hairband casually. When you were a child, you looked very much like a girl when she was a child. ”

Wei Chi held Peony's wrist with his injured hand: "Don't you want to know who I like?" It's okay, I can tell you now. The person I like has never changed. What I like is girls. ”

"Is it the master?" Peony muttered, putting her hand down.

"You're right, I was rescued by the girl from the door of Yizhuang. That year, I was eight years old and the girl was fifteen years old, and she had just left the teaching department in Chang'an and had just started dancing on stage on her own. In order to save me, she spent all her savings, but she also told me with a smile that silver is of course more important than human life. She said, she saved me, and I will have to work hard to earn her money in the future. I like girls, and I have secretly thought that when I grow up, I will marry girls. But the girl thinks I'm small, and she treats me as a younger brother. So, I hid my mind and wholeheartedly helped the girl make money. liking doesn't mean that she has to be your own lady, as long as you can see her from time to time and guard her all the time. ”

"You said that what you like is the master, I admit it." Peony dropped the Zhu Hai: "The woman in this world is only the master, I won't rob her." ”

"The girl won't rob you." Wei Chi smiled, and smiled at Peony's childish words: "The girl has someone she likes, and that person was met when she was in the teaching department in Chang'an. But there was something between the girl and him that could never be crossed, and that thing was called Mendi. The girl did want to dance to show him, but he didn't come the night Peony took the stage. ”

"Time has passed, you can say whatever you want." Peony snorted coldly.

"The girl had an illness at an early age." Wei Chi took out a stack of papers from his arms: "Contracting the wind and cold will not make the girl give up dancing, what really makes the girl unable to go on stage is her illness." The girl's illness is brought from the womb, and after the age of twenty, it will become more and more serious. In the end, it will be extremely difficult not to say that you are dancing on stage, but even walking. Even if there is no peony, that night will be the last time the girl will take the stage. If that person comes, it is consummation. If you don't come, it's just a pity. ”

"You talk nonsense!" Peony threw away the papers: "I have been with the master for so many years, if she is sick, how can I not know." ”

"Because she doesn't want you to know!" Wei Chi pointed to the papers: "If it weren't for tonight...... If it hadn't happened tonight, I wouldn't have taken these things out, let alone told you about the girl's illness. I promised the girl that she would keep her mouth shut while she was alive and take her to the grave when she died. ”