Yuan Ziyou took Ying'e through a bush and went around the path by the stream to near the bamboo house. Yuan Ziyu grabbed her quickly, flashed behind a pine tree, saw her want to speak, motioned for her to be silent, and pointed behind the tree a hundred meters to the left. Only then did Ying'e notice a thin man wearing a soap robe, masked with a black scarf, hiding behind a tree and bending his waist, motionless to monitor the situation near the bamboo house, and from time to time he used a pen to record something.

Ying'e knew that it was a secret agent sent by the palace when she saw it, and she couldn't help but say angrily, "This Liu Teng is really a damn thing, he actually put his eyes and ears here, and he has done his job of guarding us." Ziyou, do you think there will be anyone else watching around here besides this? ”

Yuan Ziyou said softly, "At the beginning, in order to prevent Zheng Yan and Xu Su from coming, Liu Teng was full of eyeliner around here, and there were about twenty people, all of whom were top masters, and they were divided into two posts to monitor in turn. Now Zheng Yan is in prison after being defeated because of his participation in the uprising of Zhongshan Wang Yuanxi against Liu Teng and Yuan Yi. And Xu Su left after his wife was killed by Liu Teng, and there is no trace of him so far. Seeing that the queen mother had no hope, so this thief also relaxed his vigilance, I sent someone to observe for a long time, and only this little eunuch was kept here to monitor for half a month, and then passed on the secret letter flying pigeon. ”

Ying'e said in a low voice, "Speaking of my cousin, he was more than impulsive, lacked strategy, and sacrificed his life in vain, if my mother knew it, she would be sad to die." ”

Yuan Ziyou sighed, "He is also a real man, and the poem he wrote when he was about to be executed, 'Righteousness moves the gentleman, and the lord humiliates the loyal ministers.'" Why is it a festival? will untie the seven-foot body. Now that I think about it, it pains my heart. ”

Ying'e said, "You royal relatives, when you enter Luoyang, you have learned the sour rot of the Han people, and now you still have time to say those poems." I observed this little eunuch for a long time, and saw that he was not a person who was good at dancing and fisting, Liu Teng let him here, was he sure that I couldn't escape from this Yaoguang Temple, or did I think it was useless to find a meditation master? ”

Yuan Ziyou shook his head and smiled, "He doesn't look down on you Er Zhu Ying'e, nor is it that Master Jing is useless, but he believes too much in his ability to control the overall situation, and thinks that the emperor is young." People's weaknesses will always be exposed behind the blindly inflated heart, which also gives others an opportunity to take advantage of it and break it with one blow. ”

Ying'e tied her hair and said, "If you're too confident, someone should give him a wake-up call and look at me." ”

Yuan Ziyou didn't expect Ying'e to be so fast, it was too late to stop drinking, I saw her bent waist, pulled out a dagger from her arms, and tiptoed quickly around behind the little eunuch, and quickly raised the knife and fell.

Before the little eunuch could react, the blade slashed across his neck, he stared roundly, looked at Ying'e who sent him on the road, cooed from his trachea, and called vaguely, "Niangniang." He fell to the grass with a whimper, blood kept gushing out, soaking the grass red, and his eyes were still stunned to look at Ying'e.

Yuan Ziyou was stunned by this sudden scene, he arrived in a few steps, pointed to the corpse on the ground, and asked in surprise, "What are you doing here?" Why did you kill him? Just knock him unconscious, why bother with his life. ”

Ying'e looked at Yuan Ziyou puzzled, "I haven't learned to be despised since I was a child, since I was born, the people of my Erzhu family have watched their fathers kill and kill, and the blood tank is soaked, but I have never been afraid of killing a thief, especially killing a person who has no master in his eyes." Besides, if I knock him unconscious, I will definitely report to Liu Teng when he wakes up, and the Queen Mother will be in danger again. ”

Ying'e's fearless eyes made Yuan Ziyou's heart tremble, he squatted down and closed the eyes of the little eunuch, "Liu Teng found out that he lost someone, won't he pursue it?" Before he died, he fought hard and called you a mother in one last breath, he recognized you, these people are cheap people, but they never have to be, did you ask yourself before killing him, did he really deserve to die? Moreover, don't forget the intention of us to come to Mrs. Jing Si today, we originally hoped that she could go and talk to Liu Teng, so that the Queen Mother and the emperor could meet, whether he reported to Liu Teng or not, Liu Teng would know, but you impulsively asked for your life. ”

Ying'e was displeased, she looked at Yuan Ziyou's disappointed expression towards her, and she was a little confused. She still remembers a maroon pony that her father gave her when she was a child, the first horse in her life, its coat was smooth and shiny, and even the neighing sound was so loud. She rode it with joy to show her brothers, but she was frightened and threw her off, and when her cousin Erzhu Zhao saw it, he drew his sword and knocked the pony down. Ying'e was stunned, she didn't care about the pain in her body, she got up, hugged Erzhu Zhao tightly, and cried in confusion and asked him why he killed his pony.

Er Zhu Zhao pointed his sword at the dying and struggling pony and said to Ying'e, "Sister, what is the use of a disobedient horse, you will have countless obedient horses in the future." In this world, if people want to be afraid of you and will not despise you, don't be soft-hearted. ”

At that time, several of her younger brothers were there, and the five-year-old Erzhu Bodhi and the three-year-old Erzhu Chaluo were so frightened that they cried. Seeing that Ying'e didn't believe in him, Erzhu Zhao kept crying and beating his back, and rushed back to the camp in a rage, bringing in his uncle Erzhu Shilong to judge the right and wrong of his behavior.

Ying'e thought that her uncle would reprimand Er Zhu Zhao for his cruelty, but she didn't expect Er Zhu Shilong to laugh after hearing what happened, "My little Ying'e, you are still young, so you don't understand." In this world, don't say that you are a pony, even if it is a person, as long as it is not used by you, you can kill chickens and make an example of monkeys. Xiao Ying'e, the horse is not dead yet, it fell on you, whether you want to save it now, or give it another knife, you decide for yourself. ”

Seeing that his uncle was helping him speak, Er Zhu Zhao handed the sword that was still dripping with blood to Ying'e, "Oh, take it, whether to kill or stay, you think for yourself." You are a child raised in the sun, loved by your uncles and aunts since you were a child, how have you seen the slaughter under the dark clouds, you look at the fertility of this grassland, but have you ever thought about it, is it irrigated by the blood of how many warriors of our Qihu? My Erzhu Ying'e, you are the pearl of our Erzhu River, you need to see more, today my brother just let you see it in advance, lest you can't stand it in the future. ”

Ying'e listened to her uncle and brother's words, and seemed to feel that it made sense, she gradually stopped crying, slowly took the sword that Erzhu Zhaosai gave her, and looked at the pony on the ground spitting blood, trying to struggle and remember, she was a little unbearable, and hesitated.

Er Zhu Zhao shouted behind her, "What a woman, just killing a horse, grinding and chirping." ”

Ying'e, who has been strong since she was a child, saw that Er Zhuzhao looked down on her, and glared at him fiercely, "Why do you look down on me?" Women don't let the eyebrows, have you heard of it? ”

Er Zhuzhao replied, "Knowing that I don't know much literacy, and I still drag texts with me every day, if you don't do it for a long time, I'm going to be hungry." Whatever you want, I'll go back to dinner first. ”

Ying'e dragged the sword and rushed to Er Zhuzhao, who was leaving, "Don't go, I want you to watch it today, and the province laughs at me behind my back." But the sword was too heavy for her, she threw the sword to the ground with all her might, pulled out a knife directly from Erzhu Zhao's waist, walked to the pony step by step, stabbed at the horse's carotid artery, and quickly slashed open, and the horse neighed at the end and quickly died. The blood splattered and the undried tears on Ying'e's face slid down the delicate face, Ying'e turned her head with blood on her face and clapped her hands and praised her uncle, and her father, who heard the sound from afar, was also full of praise in her eyes, but the melancholy that flashed in her mother's eyes, she still didn't understand why her mother didn't praise her.

Now that she has killed a little eunuch who dares to spy on her master, Yuan Ziyou's questioning makes her unconvinced, is it wrong for so many years? What's wrong with her, she risked killing her head to confront Yuan Xu, burned the Xuanguang Temple, and left Qihua who was still recuperating from her injuries to escape from Yaoguang Temple, isn't all this for their Yuan clan's Great Wei Jiangshan not to be defeated by the hands of the eunuchs, and now she just killed a little eunuch to set an example, and she will be blamed by Yuan Ziyou, is he afraid? Ying'e suppressed her anger, and the forbearance and grievances in the palace for so long burst out at once, and she asked almost out of control, "Are you saying that I am ruthless and indiscriminately killing innocents?" A person who works for a traitor and a villain is unjust, a slave who dares to spy on his master is disloyal, and a person who aids and abuses, and is not a disloyal and unrighteous person to die? ”

Yuan Ziyou saw that the more she spoke, the more excited she became, he reached out and grabbed her arm, pulled her into his arms hard, touched her head with the other hand, and buried her face tightly in his heart, "Okay, okay, it's me who said something serious, don't be angry, if you make such a noise again, it won't be good if you attract someone." What you said is also reasonable, he aided the abuse, and he was innocent of death. As a matter of urgency, let's dispose of the corpse first, and hurry up to meet with the meditation master. Now I'm a little strange, it's been half a day, it is said that the whole belt is the elite to chase us, and I should have thought that we would come to Jing Si Shitai's place, but why the chasing soldiers have not been here for a long time, maybe I think too much. That's right, E'er. ”

Ying'e was hugged by him like this, and her anger instantly turned into grievances, and she sniffed the breath on Yuan Ziyou's body without resistance, which was a faint intoxicating male smell, and she began to attach to such a feeling, unwilling to separate. When he embraced, there was no other real existence except him, and it wasn't until Yuan Ziyu took her shoulders and stripped her from herself that she suddenly returned to reality from a realm out of time and space.

Yuan Ziyou looked at Ying'e's self-delirious eyes, gently wiped a piece of blood from her cheek with her sleeve, and said lovingly, "Go to the river and wash your face, leave it to me here, and come to me after it's cleaned." ”

"You're right, after all, it's a life, I'm a little impulsive, but when I think of the Queen Mother's suffering in the palace, looking at this group of eunuchs, I only have anger in my head. Ziyou, now that I have calmed down and thought about it, what you said is not unreasonable, since I was a child, I have been used to seeing the fights and killings of my father and uncles, which makes me think that the easiest way to solve the problem is to get a knife and fall with my hands, and it turns out that I should be forgiving and forgiving. I understand, you believe me, I'm really not a person who likes to kill, I, I don't know what's wrong today, I think I'm crazy, why kill him. I'm really killing someone for the first time, really, do you believe me, Ziyou. Ying'e began to feel a little sad about her recklessness, she was worried that her actions had frightened Yuan Ziyou, she was afraid of being considered a cruel person, and she tried to explain that she wanted to save her image in Yuan Ziyou's mind. She began to speak incoherently in a hurry, almost crying, she knew that she really cared about how this man felt, who wants to love a woman who kills sex?

Yuan Ziyou saw her efforts to please, "Okay, I believe you are holding grievances for the Queen Mother, it's okay, it's okay." You see it's not early, go wash up, I'll take you to see Master Jing Si, good, you can't delay any longer. ”

Ying'e nodded, obediently walking towards the river, she looked at her reflection in the water, the bloodstain on her face, began to make her frightened, at this time she realized that killing a horse is different from killing a person. She began to resent her father for letting her live in the war since she was a child, and the corpses she was used to seeing and smelling of blood now made her feel sick to her stomach. She looked back at Yuan Ziyou who closed the eyes of the little eunuch, and covered his face with her own square scarf, which was a kind of benevolence and respect for life. Ying'e began to worry faintly, Yuan Ziyou will not forget this matter, will it become their estrangement in the future? Ying'e didn't dare to think about it anymore, she didn't dare to look at Yuan Ziyou anymore, and quickly cleaned up the blood splashed on her makeup and clothes. After taking care of it, seeing that Yuan Ziyou had already disposed of the corpse, she handed him a silk handkerchief soaked in the river to wipe his hands, helped him tidy up his clothes, and the two walked to the door of the bamboo house one after the other.