Urn City, named because it is shaped like an urn.

It is a city built by the new moon to detain the royal nobles who violated the national law, the city is not big, it is not small, and it is located in the northeast of Chang'an. After the founding of the Great Rule, there were no prisoners for crimes, and it has been abandoned.

When Liu Yunqu Xiao was brought, the urn city looked like a ruin that had just been dug out of the mound, and it could raise ashes with a breath. The palace people who were temporarily sent reluctantly cleaned slowly, and they couldn't clean up a room for an hour.

Liu Yun stood under the exposed patio in the middle of the enclosed round building, looking up at the round blue sky that had been cut out, feeling deeply depressed. But Qu Xiao seemed to be in a good mood, and seemed to be more relaxed than when he was watching the river. She instructed everyone in Linjiang to clean up together, and first clean up the place where everyone lived.

Qu Xiao turned around and felt that this place was really good, there was a kitchen, a yard, sunshine and free movement, and no one was watching. It was as if she had been alive under the noses of others for so many years, and she finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"We're not going to stay here for long." Liu Yun said to Qu Xiao, who was busy drying the quilt, while drying the moldy bedding.

"Jiang Buwei won't let me out." Qu Xiao was obviously a little happy when she said this, and she didn't need to hide her emotions in front of her daughter.

"Why?" Liu Yun was puzzled and looked at Qu Xiao in a daze: "Will he kill us?" ”

"No," Qu Xiao smiled and shook his head: "Jiang Buwei will not provoke the incident between Xinyue and Dazhi." ”

"It's good here, my mother hasn't taken a good look at you for a long time, and I'm about to forget what you look like." Qu Xiao walked into Liu Yun, took Liu Yun's hand and sat on the stone bench in the courtyard.

Looking at the dust raised all over the city, it was as if time had suddenly turned back ten years ago.

Qu Xiao took his seven-year-old daughter to leave the palace and went to Yuezhao Mountain, and took over the Linjiang Temple from the hands of the former guard, and the mother and daughter raised their arms to clean the temple for ten days.

At that time, Qu Xiao seemed to be the same as now, not sad, sad and resentful, but full of longing for life. Planting vegetables and flowers, cooking and chopping wood, a pampered lady suddenly became like a village woman who worked quickly, and managed her life and her children without complaint.

In Liu Yun's memory, it was her happiest half a year, although she needed to do a lot of work every day, Qu Xiao slept in the same bed with her, fell asleep as soon as she lay down, and woke up at dawn.

It's just that one day Qu Xiao became sad, her temper became violent, and it didn't take long to bring back a lot of homeless little girls, and their lives have changed since then.

Liu Yun didn't dare to ask, only knew that Qu Xiao often cried in the dead of night, as if there was always a huge pressure on his head.

Liu Yun thought to himself that it was because of his father's death.

Thinking like this, she did everything Qu Xiao gave her in every detail, until one day, Qu Xiao asked her to run over the burning coals.

"Why? Mother, I'm afraid. ”

"If you want to defeat your enemy, you must first defeat yourself."

"Mother, what is the enemy? Can I not defeat it? ”

"Of course not! If you don't defeat it, he will defeat you, the law of the jungle, since ancient times. ”

"Mother, I can skip meat."

"Yes, you can not eat meat, you can not defeat others, but you are the lord of Yongning, the daughter of the king of Liu, even if you want to hide, you can't hide, this is your responsibility."

"I don't want that responsibility."

Liu Yun looked at Qu Xiao.

Qu Xiao was silent for a long time, and suddenly cried, she didn't hold Bei Yinyun, but hugged herself.

"Mother, don't cry." After Liu Yun finished speaking, he ran over from the charcoal fire, and the bottom of his skirt was instantly scorched.

"Does your foot hurt?" Qu Xiao put Liu Yun's feet into the cold water.

Liu Yun shook his head: "It doesn't hurt." She took Qu Xiao's hand and put it on her heart: "It hurts here." ”

"I'm sorry! Yun'er, is it okay for my mother to send you to a place where you don't have to take carbon? ”

Liu Yun shook his head: "Not good." ”

She stretched out her hand to wipe away Qu Xiao's tears: "Mother, did someone force you to do this?" ”

"How could it be, no one forced me, I volunteered."

"Is it true that you can fly like your mother if you really take carbon?"

"Yes."

"I want to be like my mother, fly with my mother, like a fairy descending to earth."

The night of the city seems to be more beautiful, and it also circles the moon, as if it refuses to let go of its beauty. After the lights went out, Liu Yun wore his hair and ran to Qu Xiao's room barefoot, Qu Xiao saw this, watched the woman's hand pat the bed, and moved her buttocks inward, making way for Liu Yun.

Liu Yun lay down, turned his head sideways to look at Qu Xiao, and asked the same thing ten years ago.

"Mother, my dad is still alive, isn't he?"

"Why do you suddenly ask that? Who told you that? ”

"It's true, he's still alive, he asked me to practice and go to Yao Boyang's mansion."

"It's not."

"Where is he?"

"He's dead, and even if you see someone who looks like him again, it won't be your father."

Liu Yun didn't know what Qu Xiao meant, whether this person was really dead, or if the former person had become something else. But she always knew that Qu Xiao had something to hide from her, she didn't know what it was, but it must have something to do with her father.

"Don't talk about it, my mother thinks it's good to stay here for the rest of my life. It's just that you're different, and your life hasn't started yet. ”

Qu Xiao said what Liu Yun was thinking in one sentence, yes, no matter how good it is here, it is not a prison, it is isolated from the outside world, and it does not interact with people, if you really want to live here, it is better to die immediately.

"That Shi Yi'an seems to be very attentive to you, and my mother can see that he likes you very much."

"Mother, do you love your father?"

"What to love and not to love? At our age, there is no love or love. ”

"No, you love your father, so you are willing to sacrifice yourself for him."

"It's Yao Bingqing, right?" Qu Xiao didn't answer Liu Yun's question, and suddenly smiled: "He's fine, but it's not suitable for you." ”

"Why?"

"You know that he is the Prince of the Crescent, my mother doesn't want you to have anything to do with the Crescent people, if you want to get married, my mother wants you to marry an ordinary family, this is in this world, the word ordinary is already rare."

"But didn't you send me to Yao's house just to promise me to Yao Bingqing?"

"How do you know? Who told you? ”

"Mother, I'm not a child anymore, I don't need anyone to tell me, I can know."

"What would you do if you couldn't marry him?"

"I'm going to cry."

"That's it?"

"That's all."

Liu Yun turned his back, opened his eyes, and suddenly wanted to know the news of Yao Bingqing. Early the next morning, she asked the guards outside the door to help her bring a letter to Yang Zigui.

"Zigui, seeing the words is like meeting, I am now in Wengcheng with the people of Linjiangguan, I don't know how long I will stay, and I don't know how it is going to be outside, can you help me bring a letter to Yao Bingqing?"

Yang Zigui shook the envelope again, and a sealed letterhead fell out of it again.