I didn't feel that the sky was getting brighter.

Xia Ji only felt very tired, after all, he was bombarded by those hidden demons.

No matter how strong a person is, the demons in his heart are his weakest place after all.

What is needed to fight against it is will.

Breathing a sigh of relief and looking at the real world, Xia Ji only felt that he was alive.

Quickly return to your bedchamber.

As soon as she took her seat, the little palace maid in yellow came in with her head bowed with washing water, her face was very blurry, and her figure was not noticeable.

Xia Ji said: "Put it on the table, I'll come by myself." ”

He was still thinking about going to court in his mind, and this court seemed to be no different from going to class, right?

I really don't want to go.

splashed his face with water, and suddenly felt that the little palace maid next to him was still there, Xia Ji said: "Go down, wait for me to clean up when I go to court." ”

But the maid did not move.

There was a thin, playful laugh in the air.

Immediately, the girl's sly voice was heard: "Hey! Really?"

Xia Ji was stunned for a moment, suddenly raised his head, in his eyes, there was an elegant and hazy face, his eyes were gray, and there was an indescribable strangeness hidden in them, he blurted out: "Xiao Yuanwu?"

"It's me!" the little lady looked at him with a smile, "What, when you become a regent, you don't even recognize your fiancée?"

"How did you get in?"

Xiao Yuanwu rolled his eyes and was confident: "Walked in." ”

She casually took off the goose-yellow palace maid's clothes covered on the outside, revealing a white mink coat, and turned over the fluff that was folded inside, making her cheeks more and more snow-white as jade, "Last time you said we needed to understand, I came." ”

"You..."

"I'm homeless, you can't drive me away!" Xiao Yuanwu was pitiful.

"I..."

"It's time for you to go to the court, Lord Xia. Xiao Yuanwu's eyes smiled like a crescent moon.

She is like a spirit who has never had a second place, in Xiaoxue, in an abrupt time, she stepped into the world of Xia Ji, and then looked like she was familiar with herself, and refused to leave with a dead face.

After a short silence.

Xia Ji said loudly: "Xigong Leng, it's not too much for you to be more, I'll go and explain to the chief administrator of Ouchi." ”

In any case, she is always a very important existence to herself, and it can be said that her status is not much different from that of her sister.

Xiao Yuanwu waved his hand: "It's okay, it's okay, you go to the court first, when you come back, I have a lot to say to you." ”

"What?"

Xiao Yuanwu smiled mysteriously and whispered: "About dragon qi, about the underworld." ”

Xia Ji paused, walked straight to the door, and said to the little eunuch who was guarding in the distance: "It's not early today." ”

The little eunuch saluted respectfully, then retreated, and hurried to the main hall to announce his departure.

...

The news that the regent had recruited a woman into the palace soon spread.

The gossipy princesses and womb ladies were discussing.

But Xia Ji didn't care about these rumors, because the West Palace was originally his, and arranging Xiao Yuanwu in the Huaqing Palace, where the original West Palace Niangniang was located, was equivalent to allowing her to live here permanently.

And this fiancée is mysterious enough.

Her words were still echoing in her mind.

"Four dragons protect a country, and the underworld is about to start slaying dragons. ”

Time is running out!

You need to hurry up and ban the promotion to Tongxuan!

Xia Ji gave birth to a feeling of urgency!

Afternoon.

He let his mind go.

came to the cold palace again, put the ancient bronze mirror of the mandarin duck playing in the water, and then crossed his knees quietly to this bronze mirror.

Whoop!!

The surrounding area was still icy and cold, as if it didn't show any difference.

But in the bronze mirror, a strange burning ancient Buddha appeared again, and the eyes in the palm of the pinching hand narrowed slightly into a crimson line, staring straight at Xia Ji.

This kind of gaze can only be seen by Xia Ji, and even if others stand behind him, they will not be able to see any clues, unless Xia Ji changes his true goal.

Then the person who saw the burning of the ancient Buddha was afraid that he would die in an instant.

In the empty and cold palace, the light is bleak.

The Regent took a deep breath and immersed himself in the process of battling the demons in his heart.

This experience was in the middle of torment until late at night.

In the cold palace, the white curtain is like the sea, three layers inside and three layers outside, with the snowflakes in the deep winter, it seems that the house inside and outside, the sky and the ground are all a vast white.

In the dark, Xia Ji's eyes suddenly opened, his whole body was soaked with sweat, and his spirit was weak.

But the gains are also obvious.

Today, he has raised his fear to one and a half, and until now, his mood has improved a lot.

He took a loose white curtain at random, covered it with the bronze mirror, and turned around and walked out of the cold palace.

The path of the heavy snow showed footprints that were one step deeper and one step shallower, and Xia Ji walked slowly along the frozen river in the palace.

This long river can lead to the outside of the palace, and when the spring is warm, there have been palace maids who quietly write some ambiguous sentences, folded into small paper boats and want to harvest something, but they are usually intercepted and fished halfway, and then held accountable...

In short, this is a river with a story.

There are many lanterns in the palace and they are bright, and the white of the snow has more warmth, printing a lonely shadow.

It is a frozen palace with a sense of history.

Xia Ji walked through the dark halls, walked through the uninhabited path, and made a few turns in the scenic corridor, that is, he arrived at the entrance of an imperial study.

But Xia Ji stopped.

Because there was a girl sitting on the steps outside the door of the study, holding a peach blossom umbrella, wearing a small white jacket, and holding a mahogany carved lunch box in her arms.

The girl heard the footsteps, and raised her head in ignorance, as if she had fallen asleep before.

It's just that after it is lifted, it becomes clear again.

In this troubled world that is about to collapse, the two pairs of eyes look at each other quietly through the snowflakes.

Xia Ji asked softly, "How long have you waited?"

Xiao Yuanwu said gently: "The mutton soup is still hot, and the pepper is not put, I don't know if you can eat it or not." ”

The boy couldn't help but smile too, because he was tired for a day, and he had been fighting with his demons for a day, and he just wanted to take a sip of mutton soup.

He walked outside the study, stretched out his hand, and looked down at the girl.

Xiao Yuanwu took his hand and took advantage of the situation to stand up.

The movements of the two are very tacit.

Xia Ji asked, "Why don't you come into the house and wait for me?"

Xiao Yuanwu covered his mouth and smiled: "There will be anything in the man's room, so I won't go in, if you want to enter, I will wait for you to go in first, and hide the things." ”

When she kills, she has entered many houses in advance, usually carrying a crossbow and hiding it behind a bright screen, and after killing, it is necessary to quickly collect and find valuable things.

So, what kind of mess in the man's room, she hasn't seen it?

She didn't want to spoil anything, so she took care of it.

Turning around to collect the umbrella, the snowflakes slid down the slope and drowned the peach blossoms.

Xiao Yuanwu's side face was reflected in the warm light of the lantern.

This moment, this gentleness.

What man wouldn't want to have?

"We're just meeting for the second time, right?

You like me so much?

Or do you think I will definitely be the emperor, that's why you treat me like this?" Xia Ji asked as he lifted the lid of the box, and the rich umami of the mutton soup rose with the white mist, burrowing into the nose, making people appetite.

Xiao Yuanwu's eyes lit up, revealing a look of anticipation, as if a little wife was waiting for her husband to praise her craftsmanship.

That gaze makes people can't help but not drink the soup.

Xia Ji was extremely hungry, took a few sips, and had a talent, he could test for the presence of toxins at any time.

The stewed snow-white mutton soup flows down the throat and into the shriveled stomach, and the delicious taste makes you feel like you are about to take off.

"The craftsmanship is very good. ”

Xia Ji was sincerely admired.

If Ning Mengzhen's skills are unstable dark gastronomy apprentices, then this one must be a Michelin chef.

Can a hand that can concoct all kinds of poisons not be delicate?

But Xiao Yuanwu didn't answer his previous question, but his smiling eyes turned into a crooked moon, holding his cheeks, and quietly watching him drink soup in the candlelight.

The flame of the fireplace faded, and she stood up again, removed some black charcoal, and added some black charcoal to the furnace, and the study suddenly warmed up.

Xia Ji began to correct the folds, she sat on the chair on the side, accompanying, watching the young man wrapped in a python robe writing hard, sometimes frowning, sometimes stretching his expression.

Murder and arson, poisoning, conspiracy, girlfriends...

She was already familiar with all these things, but at this moment, it was her first time.

Yes, for the first time, learn to trust and like.

None of them.

Destiny is like that.

Just like back then, she cooperated with the other four to destroy the Little Tang Gate, but it was because the coin was reversed.

Now, too, she believes in her choice.

If you choose, you won't regret it.

She is such a gambler.

A pure, intuitive gambler who likes an all-in hand.

Such gamblers, throughout the ages, have never been like this.