"Niangniang is back, the young general has been waiting for you for a long time."

Concubine Xiang stayed in Lilan Hall last night, and it was inevitable that the two daughters would talk more when they stayed together, and this conversation lasted for nearly five watches before returning to sleep. On the second day or so, the two of them had nothing to do, so they slept until nearly noon, if it weren't for Qin Yun to pass the word to Lilan Palace, Concubine Xiang probably wouldn't have bothered to come back.

"Big brother, why are you free?"

Zhao Li had been running around with General Zhao a while ago, and two days ago, it was easy for the remnants of the Nanban to show up, and the father and son returned to Beijing to discuss matters.

"I haven't seen you for a long time, I'll come and see you if I miss you."

Concubine Xiang didn't believe Zhao Li's words, waved her hand and made people serve some snacks, and then sat opposite Zhao Li without any image and ate it.

"I don't believe your nonsense, I heard that the Nanban Yu Party showed up, it was when you and your father were busy, if there was something wrong, you would have to run to me."

Zhao Li slapped his thigh when he heard this, and couldn't help but admire: "Either my sister is smart!"

"If you have something, just say it."

Zhao Li became really serious now, his face became serious, and he looked around and saw that there was no one else, so he approached and spoke.

"I saw Gu Chip."

After a long time, Gu Chip's name appeared again, and Concubine Xiang's whole person froze on the ground, full of shock.

"Where!"

"Don't be anxious to listen to me, didn't I go with my father to chase the remnants of the Nanban Party a few days ago, but one of them fell into their trap carelessly, and your brother and I almost died in their ambush. There were arrows from the Southern Barbarians in all directions, and I was separated from my father at that time.

Just as the moment of the moment, a figure burst in, blindfolded, and I didn't recognize it at first. He grabbed me by the neck and lifted it up to me at once, you don't know if it was too late, a little arrow would hit my calf! ”

The more Zhao Li talked, the more excited he became, and for a while, he almost didn't swing his sword to play a paragraph for Concubine Xiang. At this time, Concubine Xiang was full of satisfaction and pounced on Gu Chip, and when she saw Zhao Li, the more she talked, the more she hurriedly stopped him.

"Okay, okay, let's get to the point!"

"Okay, you, you don't know how to care about your brother......" Zhao Li still wanted to complain about something, but he was swept over by Concubine Xiang's eyes, and he didn't know why he, as an elder brother, had been afraid that his sister would be angry. Seeing that Concubine Xiang's face was wrong, she hurriedly changed the words in her mouth:

"After saving me safely, I wanted to thank this great god for coming, but as soon as he opened his mouth, I felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity when I heard that voice. Take a step back and take a closer look, good fellow, isn't this him! ”

"What's going on with his eyes?"

"Eh, don't be in a hurry to listen to me, I'm just as curious as you. When he saw that I knew his identity, he simply reported himself to his house and no longer hid it, so I talked to him about knowing his eyes. ”

After Concubine Xiang was selected to enter the palace more than ten years ago, Gu Chip was called into the study by General Zhao, and in Zhao Li's words, the two stayed in the study for two hours.

"The old general knows Miss's feelings for me, and he can naturally see my feelings for Miss, but Miss has entered the palace and is carrying the entire Zhao clan behind her, and the old general does not dare to gamble with the lives of the clan. Moreover, the old general is the father of the young lady, so he naturally knows the young lady's thoughts and temper. If I am still a lieutenant general in the team in the future, with my qualifications, he will definitely be knighted one day, but he will live every day under the nose of the young lady.

It's not just the young lady who is so uncomfortable, it's also torturing myself.

I understood what the old general meant, so I didn't say goodbye back then, and I cut off the connection with Miss from the root, but I didn't expect Miss to keep looking for me......

As for my eyes, I was accidentally hit when I was fighting with people on the rivers and lakes, but fortunately, my eyes have become more sensitive without ears. ”

"Ah Luo, this is Gu Cai's original words, I tell you as it is, I hope you don't blame your father."

Concubine Xiang sat there as if she had been drained of her soul, and the so-called creation of people may have been providential from the beginning. His background is destined to enter the palace, and Gu Chip can only be his own regret.

"I don't blame my father, don't say that my father knows that I also know my own character, if Gu Chip hadn't left back then, I would definitely not stay in this palace honestly, and I wouldn't have accepted the emperor easily. If you don't get it right, it will be like the ending of the Lu family today, and the mother's family will be implicated at that time. ”

Concubine Xiang closed her eyes a little painfully when she said this, and the appearance of Gu Chip in her mind reappeared in front of her, but her originally bright and clean eyes were replaced by a strip of black cloth at the moment.

"I just didn't expect it...... His own feelings would ruin his life. ”

If he just regarded him as an elder brother back then, then Gu Chip would not have left, and with his good skills, he would definitely be able to be made an official and a half-post, and at that time, a classmate and friend of a young general's brother would marry one or two beautiful wives and concubines in a few years, and he would live a beautiful life like this. But just because of one of his feelings, he was forced to give up everything he had gained, how unfair it was.

Seeing that his sister's eyes were so red but she couldn't hold back her tears, Zhao Li couldn't bear it.

"This is not just your problem, if Gu Chip had no feelings for you at the beginning, maybe he would not have left."

Because of this, Concubine Xiang didn't know whether she should cry or laugh for a while, she had always thought that she was just unrequited love for so many years, but she didn't expect that Gu Chip also had feelings for herself. Just missing is missing, just like a person wakes up from a sleep, but the person in the dream is always continuing......

In fact, Zhao Li still had a sentence that he hadn't conveyed to Concubine Xiang. Gu Chip has no regrets, but he has always been silently concerned about her all these years, and when he met Zhao Li, he wanted to drag him to bring Concubine Xiang a sentence of "Okay", but Zhao Li thought that more things were better than less things, so the two of them were like this, so why bother asking a word of peace to poke the hearts of people in the game.

"Now that the person has been found and knows that everything is fine, don't worry about it anymore."

In other words, Zhao Li still hopes that his sister will put down the stone in her heart and continue to stay in this palace in the future.

"There are many remnants of the Nanban, you must be careful when you run errands with your father."

"I'm still not at ease, this time I went back to Beijing to discuss mainly for something. We followed some of the Southern Barbarian Army and found that they seemed to have some task on their hands, and Hakoye had been in the palace for a long time, and it was inconvenient to do a lot of things, which we can understand, but we don't know what will let them investigate in Beijing. ”

Except for a part of the soldiers who had been hidden outside the city for a long time, most of the rest were still in the headquarters of the Nanban. What could make them choose to stay in the capital at the risk of being exposed, which has always puzzled Zhao Li.

"Beijing has a lot of affairs and a large population, and this is the best place for the rebels to hide their affairs. You are not in Beijing all the year round, but you are afraid that you will not understand the distribution of the capital, so tell me and I will analyze it for you. ”

Zhao Li nodded and replied, it was not a mysterious place, it was said that the people sent by Hakoye to investigate the matter went to a cemetery on the outskirts of Beijing, and later went to various houses to take a look, and it was also because the Zhao family followed closely behind to see and found nothing that he was puzzled.

"Don't think too much about it, now that Hakoye has been put on death row by the emperor, I think that in a few days, the Southern Barbarian Army lurking everywhere will show its feet."

"That's right, I've brought my words to you, and your long-cherished wish for so many years has finally come to fruition, so I'll go back first."

Zhao Li was about to get up and leave after speaking, but he didn't want to be stopped by Concubine Xiang as soon as he was halfway through his body: "Big brother, please do something." ”

Zhao Li had a premonition in his heart that Concubine Xiang was going to say something, and he wanted to persuade her something, but when he looked up and saw his sister's two red eyes, the meaning changed the moment the words came out.

"You say, I'll promise whatever you want."

"Brother Lao gave me Gu Chip's address, and I always want to say something in person to be clear......"

Within two days of Lu Xin entering the cold palace, he bought off the eunuch and handed Li Shenlan a message, saying that he had to meet Li Shenlan no matter what, otherwise he would never stop there.

"This Lu family really doesn't know what to do, it is clear that she hurt her mother, but now she thinks every day about how her mother is sorry for her. Niangniang, let's not go, now that she is in the cold palace, she can't get out even if she wants to, and she can't turn the sky over. ”

Li Shenlan didn't speak, she sat quietly and looked at the handkerchief sent by Lu Xin, the handkerchief had an inexplicable sense of familiarity, especially the pattern on the handkerchief gave her the feeling of a kind of motherly warmth...... Wait, Mother? Li Shenlan suddenly thought of something, and suddenly stood up and walked to the wardrobe and threw something frantically.

"Niangniang, what slave do you want to find for you?" This frightened them, but Li Shenlan didn't speak, and they didn't dare to step forward to make a move, for fear that one of them would accidentally break it or find something.

After touching a stick of incense, Li Shenlan finally raised her head from a pile of clothes, and what she was holding in her hand was a child's clothes, to be precise, the clothes were very old, and the style looked like the style of twenty years ago. Others don't know, but Li Shenlan knows that this dress was made for herself by Song's mother back then. That year, after Li Mingyue killed the second elder, Li Shenlan went to the Song Mansion once, and packed up all the relics left by the second elder and brought them back. She still remembers the feeling of seeing this dress at that time, even if she has grown up, she will always be a child in the eyes of her parents. The clothes of his childhood have been collected by Song's mother, so he followed him into the palace.

And what made Li Shenlan crazy was that the embroidered patterns on this dress were exactly the same as the patterns on the handkerchief sent by Lu Xin!

When Li Shenlan arrived in the cold palace, Lu Xin was cooking things in a dilapidated iron pot, and there was meat and oil in the pot. Seeing Li Shenlan come in, Lu Xin's face showed a smile that only a winner would have. She tasted the soup in the pot unhurriedly, it seemed to taste good, and the smile on her face was a little bigger.

"Where did you get that veil?"

Li Shenlan was in no mood to talk nonsense with her, Song's mother's embroidery work was very unique, and Li Shenlan had never seen a few meetings since entering Beijing. Therefore, Lu Xin has such an embroiderer's handkerchief, which simply makes Li Shenlan alarm bells, she killed Li Mingyue and avenged the second elder of the Song family with her own hands, but now Lu Xin suddenly came to such a scene, Li Shenlan is afraid that she will not avenge the second elder, or there is another hidden secret.

"Why are you in a hurry, didn't you see me cooking?"

"Lu Xin, this palace doesn't have time to spend here with you, if you don't say that this palace can go and check it yourself."

"Then you go and check it, it's been almost two years since the matter happened, if you can really find out, you would have known it a long time ago, where would you be lured by me?"

"That's exactly what you said."

Counting the two elders of the Song family, there have been no more accidents, no less, exactly two years, and the interesting thing is that Li Mingyue's sacrifice day is also approaching.

Lu Xin knew that Li Shenlan was in a hurry, but the movements of her hands were unhurried, and after sitting down, she looked at her with a high-minded appearance, looking like a villain.

"I've always hated you, do you know why? Because you are always so lucky, you became the second lady of the Taiwei Mansion for no reason, and as soon as you entered the palace, you were loved by the emperor and became a nobleman. Sometimes I calm down and think, this is really unfair. I climbed so far behind the Queen Mother's buttocks, and in the end I was just a concubine, and you, even if the Queen Mother didn't like you, you gave birth to a child, even if everyone resented and jealous of you, you still became a concubine. But fortunately, fate likes to play tricks on people......

When I entered Wenxuan Garden, I was thinking about how to get out and bring down you slut. But I didn't expect you to treat me well, so I sent me an expensive person in a hurry.

What a fool that woman was, ridiculous enough to do what I had to say. It just so happened that Hakoye escaped from prison again, and how can you, as your sworn enemy, let me go of such a good opportunity, naturally I want to make a big fuss. It's just that a lot of things won't be smooth sailing, just like I wouldn't have expected him Hakoye to come to Wenxuan Garden......"

"These are all I know, what I am asking is what is going on with this handkerchief, is it not only Li Mingyue who died of my father, you also took a hand in it!"

Helplessly, the more anxious Li Shenlan was, the more Lu Xin laughed, she just wanted to look at Li Shenlan's anxious appearance, and the more painful Li Shenlan blamed herself, the happier she became.

"Shhhh Finally, you came, you let me talk about it and I'll tell you the truth of the matter. After Lu Xin finished speaking, he took another sip of soup, then smacked his mouth without any image, raised his chin and motioned for Li Shenlan to sit down, and then opened his mouth again.

"I knew about your background for a long time, and it was Li Mingyue's slut who told me, but I didn't care much about it at the beginning. Until Li Yunshan's rebellion failed, he was sentenced to be beheaded, and as a result, the entire Li family lost their lives, but you were not affected by half of it......"