Qingluan raised his eyes to look at the heroic young man in front of him, although he did not have the slightest resemblance to Xiao Boyan, he was equally handsome and extraordinary, and his expression and personality were very different.

Xiao Boyan's face was cold, he didn't smile, he never had a bright smile like Xiao Luo for her, now that he thought about it, where was that person who couldn't smile, but he just didn't disdain to smile at her.

When I think of the past, I still feel a dull pain in my chest, like the cold blade of the sword.

"Xiao Luo, has my father ever sent a letter?" Qingluan sat down on the mahogany chair and motioned for him to sit as well.

Although Xiao Luo was four years older than himself, Qingluan never called him Xiao Luo's brother or senior brother, and usually just called him by his first name. In the past, it was because she thought she would be his sister-in-law in the future, so she didn't want to shout, but now it's a habit.

Xiao Luo served in the military department for two years, and then worked as a free messenger for Qingluan for two years.

The military department has a special communication channel, and official letters are often delivered from the frontier express horse.

Through Xiao Luo's position, he sent the letter package to Wei Dehou and Xiao Boyan, which was not only fast, but also very safe, and would never lose a single bit.

"No, I, I heard that you were sick, so I came here to take a look." Xiao Luo bent the corner of his eyes and smiled: "Now it seems that you are all right." ”

Qingluan groaned, and had nothing to talk to him for a while.

In the past, she loved Xiao Boyan deeply, the so-called love for the house and Wu, and she was also close to Xiao Luo like her own family. Now he is determined to draw a line with Xiao Boyan, and he doesn't know what to say to Xiao Luo for a while.

Anyway, the things I remember in my dreams will not be told to outsiders.

Xiao Luo took a few sips of the teacup, took out a green leather box from his sleeve and handed it over, "This is ...... My brother asked me to hand it over to you. ”

Qingluan looked at the bamboo box lightly and didn't reach out to take it, but her heart was mixed.

Once, she really thought that the gadgets that Xiao Luo brought to her one after another were given by Xiao Boyan, but later she learned that the guy had never given her a single object, and those strange and interesting things were all given to her by Xiao Luo in the name of his eldest brother.

At the same time of pain in her heart, it was unspeakable shame, she blushed, endured it, and said coldly: "Your brother will never send me anything, Xiao Luo, don't bring these in the future." ”

Xiao Luo was stunned, retracted his arm, looked a little embarrassed, and tried to justify: "Senior sister......"

Qingluan stood up and looked at Xiao Luo coldly, "Xiao Luo, you don't have to do this for him, I already know that Xiao Boyan doesn't like me, I used to be young and didn't know what to do, but now I regret it, you tell him ......"

She paused, felt a little uneasy in her heart, and swallowed back the words asking Xiao Boyan to take the initiative to withdraw from her family.

Xiao Boyan's plan is quite big, and from the fact that he killed all the royal relatives surnamed Li one after another, he knew that he was ruthless and left no room for it.

For the sake of her father's mother and her own safety, she can't force him to jump off the wall in a hurry for the time being, so she has to think of a perfect solution.

It is better to let the emperor's uncle first issue a decree to dissolve the marriage contract, and by the way, strip him from the army, and then transfer him to Kyoto, and put it under the emperor's nose to see what else he can do.

Without the help of hundreds of thousands of troops, he would not be able to make big waves.

As for King Shou's side, she had to think about it and tell the emperor's uncle again, after all, she had empty lips and white teeth, and she couldn't slander a vassal king for rebellion for no reason.

Three years later, when she was eighteen years old, King Shou began to raise troops to rebel.

In her previous life, she had been married to the Xiao Mansion for two years.

At first, there was a little bit of outside the mansion, but soon after, the real nightmare struck.

Because the news of King Shou's rebellion was flying all over the sky, the states and counties around the capital were panicked, she was worried about the safety of her parents, and wanted to return to Beijing to visit, but was ordered by Xiao Boyan to be placed under house arrest, and this prison was nearly two years.

In those two years, there were hundreds of guards around her courtyard, and no news could penetrate her, her hunger strike and crying were useless, and Xiao Boyan did not meet her at all.

suddenly remembered the past, and the hatred in my heart was a little more.

"It's not early, you can go back first." Qingluan directly picks people up.

Xiao Luo is the half-brother of that guy, but he is also a member of the Xiao family, so she has to mind.

Xiao Luo stood up, was silent for a moment, bowed his hand to Qingluan, and said hesitantly: "Senior sister, it's me who is not thoughtful, don't be angry, I ......"

Qingluan lowered his eyes and didn't look at him.

I once remembered that in the years when she was in Xiao Mansion, Xiao Luo had always been kind to her and took good care of her, but later, for some reason, I didn't see him for more than a year, until that rainy night, he took dozens of dead soldiers into Xiao Boyan's fiefdom mansion to rescue her.

She still remembered that he said at the time: Aman, is it okay to go with me, leave here, let's go to southern Xinjiang, where there are lofty mountains and mountains, there are natural barriers, and the eldest brother can't find it......

However, she was going to find her father and mother at that time, because she had not heard from them for more than a year.

was tortured by her mother-in-law for a few years in Xiao's mansion, and knew that Xiao Boyan not only hated herself, but also secretly asked the servant woman to give her the medicine to kill her heir, so that she would lose her right to be a mother forever. At that time, she hated hard in her heart, and insisted on going to Beijing to see Xiao Boyan and question him face to face.

As a result, Xiao Luo died in the palace with her.

In this life, she didn't want to burden Xiao Luo with her life again.

Qingluan raised his eyes to look at Xiao Luo, with a sympathetic expression, "Xiao Luo, I don't blame you, you are my senior brother, that is...... In the future, I will break off with Xiao Boyan, and you will still be my senior brother. ”

Xiao Luo's eyes lit up, swept away the previous depression, and grinned: "Also, senior brother understands, don't worry, senior brother will always be your senior brother, someone dares to bully you, senior brother is the first to refuse." ”

Before Xiao Luo left, he still left the delicate little bamboo box.

Qingluan opened, just like in the previous life, it was a small bird made of bamboo strips with wings ready to fly, and as soon as he pulled the bamboo strip mechanism below, the two wings suddenly flapped up.

She smiled and placed the little bamboo bird in a sandalwood box.

Qingluan returned to her room and wrote a letter, sending the loyal servant of the family to personally send it to her father Wei Dehou in the Western Xinjiang military camp, and told the servant that he must hand it over to him in person.

The letter vaguely reminded his father that he must beware of anyone, and that anyone must include Xiao Boyan's wife.

On the second day, several carriages departed from the princess's mansion and went to Ling'an Temple outside the city, escorted by 100 guards.

The monk in Ling'an Temple arranged for the deacon monks in the temple to clear the inside and outside of the temple early, and greeted the eldest princess Luan in front of the mountain gate.

The Buddha statue of the Daxiong Treasure Hall is solemn, dozens of monks sit on the ground, knock on the golden chime wooden fish, and sing Buddhist scriptures and Zen songs in their mouths.

Qingluan knelt upright on the futon and kowtowed three times, took the burned sandalwood from Yuzhu's hand, inserted it in the copper incense burner, kowtowed three more times, put his palms together in front of his chest, and made a peace wish for his father.

The monk sent thirty-three Ping'an Emperor Signs, and asked the princess to shake the sign to ask about things.

Qingluan shook out a thirteen signatures of the palace, and the signature said: Like a crane out of the cage, the cage is empty everywhere; There is no obstacle between the north and the south, east and west, and Ren Jun goes straight to the Jiuxiao Palace.

"What does that mean?" The eldest princess handed over the signature to the great monk at the residence and asked him to unsign it.

The great monk took the sign, put it on the signing plate and turned around, and replied with his palms together: "The old man will release the sign according to the law, and please forgive the princess." ”

The eldest princess nodded, "It's okay for the master to do everything. ”

The great monk picked up the hairpin pen prepared on the side, dipped it in ink, and wrote on a piece of yellow silk: "There is no doubt that Ren Jun has a prosperous road; Feel free and proud; This sign is ten thousand in advance and then auspicious. ”

Afterwards, the great monk picked up the written yellow silk and respectfully handed it to the eldest princess.

The eldest princess took it and looked at it a few times, frowned, and asked the presiding monk: "Dare to ask the master, what is the murder as stated in this signature?" ”

The host clasped his hands and said: "Everything has good luck and evil, the princess doesn't have to talk about cause and effect with one word, the so-called boat to the bridge head is naturally ......"

Qingluan was confused by the old monk's words, and didn't understand the meaning of the old monk's Zen words for a long time. On the way back to the princess's mansion with her mother, her mother was also depressed.

"Mother, didn't the old monk say it, first the evil and then the auspicious, presumably no matter what danger there is, it will be auspicious in distress, and every evil will turn into auspiciousness."

Qingluan hugged her mother's arm and comforted.

The eldest princess sighed, touched her daughter's head, and said softly: "In a few days, it will be your cousin's birthday, and my mother will take you into the palace. ”

When she asked the emperor for marriage, she had already lost face in front of her cousin, and now she has to regret her marriage, and the temper of her cousin Anping County Lord, alas! I don't know how to hate myself.