255 But a skin is meant
So it's all jealousy. γFengyun Reading Network. γ
How can there be such a perfect person in this world, she has everything, everything she wants, so she was not sensible at that time, so she always loved to bully Xia Yingxi.
Xia Xiaoxiao didn't know how long she had been in the courtyard, and occasionally she could remember those things when she was a child, her and her mother, her and Xia Yingxi, and her and Ji Xiaoer's, the sky had gradually darkened for some time, until Xia Xiaoxiao was a little numb from the cold, and then she thought that it was time to go back to the palace.
Xia Fu and the others have not come back yet, she didn't come to wait for him, so she was trying to let Lian Ying go over and tell Xia Yingxi, she went back to the palace first, over there, in the courtyard, Xia Yingxi in the corridor has come to this side, Xia Xiaoxiao turned around, waved her hand, and Lian Ying also saw Xia Yingxi at the same time that Xia Xiaoxiao saw it, took the cloak, jumped to the roof, and the person disappeared from view.
"I didn't expect that the emperor sent to my sister was a guard with such good martial arts." Xia Yingxi walked over, looked at the direction where the company camp disappeared and said.
"Sort of." Xia Xiaoxiao replied casually, she didn't know what level the company's martial arts were at, but she also knew that even if it was placed in Beigong Yu's one hundred and eighty iron cavalry, it was top-notch.
"It's windy in the courtyard, and your body is just right, so let's go back to the house and sit, so as not to catch the wind and cold again."
The company camp jumped out from the roof, it was snowing in the sky, Xia Yingxi came over, and her shoulders were also dyed a lot, Xia Xiaoxiao glanced at her, and said in a low voice, "It's not early, I'll go back today, if you want to stay a few more days, I'll tell the emperor when I go back." β
As she spoke, she patted the snow dust on her shoulder and turned to leave.
Xia Yingxi didn't seem to hear what she said, the cloak on her body had already faded when she entered the mansion, and when she arrived next to Xia Xiaoxiao, she also raised her head to look at the heavy snow in the sky, and suddenly said, "Sister believes that there are gods and Buddhas in this world?" β
The sudden topic made Xia Xiaoxiao a little confused, so Xia Xiaoxiao turned her head to look at her, Xia Yingxi's eyebrows fell a few snow, and then asked, "Then sister believes that there is reincarnation in this world?" β
The gods and Buddhas said that the matter of reincarnation, for some reason, Xia Xiaoxiao suddenly remembered the matter of the totem, and she wanted to resist such a question indescribably, but she still said categorically, "I don't believe it, if you live, you live, and if you die, you die, where can there be such a mysterious thing." β
"I heard that those immortals live in the heavens, do not care about the world, do not worry about birth, old age, sickness and death."
As if she could guess Xia Xiaoxiao's reaction, Xia Yingxi laughed softly, the snow outside the house was getting heavier and heavier, Xia Yingxi walked towards one of the rooms in front of her, Xia Xiaoxiao hesitated, and also went in, not a strange place, the room where she lived with her mother when she was a child.
It wasn't until he walked in that Xia Xiaoxiao found that after so many years, the outside had changed, and the things in this house had not changed at all, but they were all covered with a very thick layer of ash, and no one lived in them, let alone someone came to clean them.
"Sister, do you know, I don't believe those things."
Xia Yingxi walked to the table with extremely thick dust, took out a candle from the drawer and lit it, the sky outside had gradually darkened, and only the outline could be faintly seen in the room.
"Sister, do you remember those things when we were children?"
Xia Yingxi looked at her and laughed softly, raised her head and looked at the roof, because no one had taken care of it for a long time, the beams were covered with cobwebs everywhere, and the smile on her face gradually faded a little, "I think my sister should not remember." β
Xia Xiaoxiao twisted her eyebrows, when she was a child, she never mentioned those things to Xia Yingxi again, and Xia Yingxi never mentioned them again in front of her, Xia Xiaoxiao always thought that she was too young at that time, so she forgot a lot.
"My sister has been very close to General Ji since she was a child, and she should have been extremely disgusted with me at that time."
Xia Yingxi used the word disgust, Xia Xiaoxiao listened to some indescribable feelings, and lowered her voice, "In the past, I was too ignorant." β
From her six to thirteen years old, from Xia Yingxi's four to eleven years old, there were some things she thought Xia Yingxi had forgotten, but then she thought that she was the one who was hurt, Xia Xiaoxiao herself hadn't forgotten, how could Xia Yingxi forget?
Xia Yingxi just shook her head, "I remember my sister, you have liked to climb the wall since you were a child, and you always like to climb on the roof. β
Xia Yingxi's hand fell on the table, her fingertips stained with a layer of dust, and continued, "That time you were on the top of this room, and you said that I would go up to recognize my sister." β
Xia Xiaoxiao bit her lip, Xia Yingxi's tone was always light, but the more Xia Xiaoxiao listened, the more she felt that it was not a taste in her heart.
Since Xia Yingxi came to Xia Mansion, she has never given Xia Yingxi a good face, but only that time was when she learned that her mother's death was because of Mrs. Xia Er and Xia Fu, who was born from outside, she tricked Xia Yingxi to the roof, and then had an argument on the roof, and accidentally pushed Xia Yingxi off the roof.
What is the concept of a little girl who is less than four or five years old falling from the roof of these several feet high?
Xia Yingxi almost lost her life because of this, Xia Xiaoxiao was broken by Xia Fu and broke her legs, and Ben was almost killed by Xia Fu, but fortunately, Ji Xiaoer later knew that she ran over, and it took money to heal her leg, and Xia Yingxi was in a coma for three days.
"Haunting ...... Those things when I was a child, I couldn't stand you. β
Xia Xiaoxiao lowered her eyes, Xia Yingxi has been a cowardly character since she was a child, now think about it, at that time, Xia Yingxi wanted her to treat her as a sister, she was so afraid of heights, just for Xia Xiaoxiao's words, she really climbed to the roof.
So since he was sensible, although he still didn't have much affection for Xia Yingxi, that guilt has always been there.
Xia Yingxi just smiled, and looked out the window in a blink of an eye, in fact, the windows were closed, and there was only a thick smell of dust in the air, "What is there to apologize for, sister, now, my sister has too much to do with you." β
Xia Xiaoxiao didn't understand what this meant, Xia Yingxi had already turned her head, her eyes were slightly bent, as if there was still a smile in it, "What those people are looking for is just a totem, sister, do you know where that thing came from?" β
Xia Xiaoxiao's eyes widened violently, and she looked at Xia Yingxi in disbelief, "How do you know that totem ......?"
Xia Yingxi also expected Xia Xiaoxiao's reaction, and the expression on her face became calmer and calmer, "My sister doesn't believe in ghosts and gods, in fact, I don't believe it either, if it weren't for my sister who pushed me off the roof and lost my life." β
"It shouldn't be where I came, but I was here, who didn't meet well, why did I meet my sister again?"
Xia Yingxi's fingertips were still on the table, and then she walked towards Xia Xiaoxiao step by step, her fingertips scraped a harsh sound on the table, Xia Xiaoxiao couldn't help but want to step back, but she still held back.
The smile on the corner of Xia Yingxi's mouth was almost faint, "It's not something that this world should have, everyone wants it, it was like this seven hundred years ago, and it will be the same seven hundred years later, but why do you have to pull our sisters into it?" Anyway, you're still my sister......"
Xia Xiaoxiao was so shocked by Xia Yingxi's words that she couldn't speak, she only felt that the Xia Yingxi in front of her was terrifyingly strange, and she wanted to say something, there was a sudden noise outside the courtyard, Xia Xiaoxiao turned her head to look in the direction of the window, but the window was blocked by a layer of tulle, Xia Yingxi stopped in front of her, but a step away, she also looked in the same direction, and couldn't see anything, but she already had a clear look on her face.
"What's going on out there?"
Subconsciously feeling uneasy, Xia Xiaoxiao grabbed Xia Yingxi's hand and walked outside.
"Doesn't my sister want to know, what did I rely on to keep him?"
Xia Yingxi watched Xia Xiaoxiao grab her hand, said softly, raised her eyes, and sure enough, she saw that Xia Xiaoxiao had turned her head and looked at herself puzzled.
"At that time, the whole city said that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had taken a fancy to the second lady of Xia Fu and was sick with his thoughts," she unhurriedly withdrew her hand from Xia Xiaoxiao's hand and smiled lowly, but there was endless ridicule in that laugh, "Thinking about becoming sick, but people who have never even seen each other before, where can there be a longing for a person?" β
Yes, no one knows, everyone in the capital thinks that Beigong Yu likes her, including Xia Xiaoxiao, and even herself, if she didn't know, the moment she lifted her hijab, it was the first time Xia Yingxi saw Beigong Yu, and she would have indulged in that man's hypocritical tenderness.
"Men, they are all ambitious, they have found a totem, the world is one, immortal, and they have the glory and wealth of the world," Xia Yingxi said, and the pair of white hands fell in front of her, and then Xia Xiaoxiao saw her in this room little by little The clothes on her body faded, and then when the last layer of clothes faded to her waist, Xia Xiaoxiao's eyes widened violently, and when she fell on Xia Yingxi's white skin like jade, an incredible shock surged into her heart.
**, the upper body is not an inch, Xia Xiaoxiao's eyes fell on Xia Yingxi's body, there is light outside the house, there is a dim candlelight in the house, Xia Xiaoxiao looked at the things on Xia Yingxi's body in disbelief, it is white as jade skin, but it has been covered with cyan lines, from front to back, and even from the elbow of the arm all the way to the whole body, densely entangled, extremely ugly, but also very familiar, and then Xia Xiaoxiao heard Xia Yingxi's sarcastic laughter ringing in his ears, "I keep him, rely on, It's just the skin of this body. β
"How could it be...... How can you ...... on you?"
Xia Xiaoxiao's words were drowned in shock, just because she suddenly remembered that Helian Chi had kidnapped her to go to Yueguo, and what Helian Chi wanted was a skin on Xia Xiaoxiao's body!
But Xia Xiaoxiao doesn't have these things on her body at all!
"Sympathy? Or pitiful? Xia Yingxi looked at Xia Xiaoxiao's eyes and mocked disdainfully, "My sister is really lucky, she doesn't have to do anything to get his person, his heart, and me?" Even if he is willing to give this life, he is not uncommon. β
The jealousy that has never been there has always come from this sister in front of her, loved, and hated, Xia Yingxi suddenly remembered the scene when she first married Beigong Yu, he sat in front of her, she handed over the tea, at that time, in the eyes of everyone, they felt that Beigong Yu really liked her, but in the end, only she knew, from beginning to end, the only person who was tempted was herself.
Xia Yingxi slowly rearranged her messy clothes, Xia Xiaoxiao unconsciously took a step back, Xia Yingxi in her image, docile and cowardly, was the woman who once dared not speak loudly in front of her, and the ridicule in the laughter was like a thin needle piercing her heart, and the sting hurt.
"Your Majesty, he really loves his sister, he protects you too well, that's why he doesn't want to tell you anything," in that tone, Xia Xiaoxiao actually heard a trace of jealousy and envy, "So even if it is a little bit that will hurt you, he can't tolerate it." β
Xia Yingxi looked at Xia Xiaoxiao and smiled in a low voice as she looked puzzled, but she wrung her eyebrows, her eyebrows were full of distress and pity, "After so long, he finally noticed it, if it weren't for Yun Qingxiang, who had penetrated into your bone marrow now, he wouldn't have touched me." β
Beigong Yu had murderous intentions towards her, she knew it, and she didn't do it for a long time, firstly because of the totem on her body, and secondly, it should only be because she was Xia Xiaoxiao's sister, if it wasn't for her attacking Xia Xiaoxiao three times and twice.
"Sure enough, it's you?"
At this time, Xia Xiaoxiao also heard the meaning of Xia Yingxi's words, but she was not too surprised, Xia Yingxi raised her eyebrows, "So you know?" β
Immediately it was clear again, Xia Yingxi also knew that her sister was never really stupid, "Look, he is really reluctant to let you get hurt a little, while thinking about how to solve me, while thinking about how to make you not sad, sister, do you know, what day is it today?" β
The noise outside the courtyard became louder and louder, and it was even mixed with the cries and howls of people, Xia Xiaoxiao's eyebrows became tighter and tighter, and she didn't answer her question, but just asked lightly, "So, the assassin that day was also the person you sent?" β
"Not only an assassin, Shu Changhua was bent on how to deal with others, but he didn't expect that there would be a day when he would be calculated, without her, how could I have a chance?"
Xia Yingxi shook her head slightly, slowly walked to the window, opened the window with an arm-thick slit, and fresh air blew in from the outside, Xia Xiaoxiao heard those sounds clearly, as if they came from outside the main hall hall.
"You're here to kill me today?"
Xia Xiaoxiao stood there, and had no intention of escaping, Xia Yingxi was surprised for a moment, and only whispered, "Sister, if you die, I can't live either." β
"Why?" Xia Xiaoxiao's hands hanging down at her side were clenched, she couldn't tell how uncomfortable it was, she treated her like that when she was a child, Xia Yingxi hated her, but when she really knew, her heart couldn't help but feel a little cold.
Xia Yingxi seemed to see something from the window, heard Xia Xiaoxiao's words, smiled in a low voice, and quickly closed the window again, "It seems that my sister really doesn't know, what kind of person is Daddy?" β
Because it was still snowing heavily in the sky outside, the sky was overcast very quickly, and the dim candlelight in this gloomy room fell on Xia Yingxi's delicate face, casting a shadow, "Hasn't my sister always been curious about why Queen Yun chose her sister to enter the palace in the first place?" β
"That's all in the past."
Xia Xiaoxiao might as well think that Xia Fu seemed to have mentioned it before, and she once thought that as soon as Yun Cheng died, those were all in the past, but now it seems that they are not as she thought.
"Passed? It was clearly a conspiracy they had orchestrated, involving both you and me. β
Xia Yingxi did not allow Xia Xiaoxiao to subconsciously escape, her sleeves were rolled up to her arms, revealing her arms covered with hideous totems, Xia Xiaoxiao had occasionally swept a glance or two before, but she never cared, only listened to Xia Yingxi's indifferent words, "The totem of the world is divided into six, but except for so few people, no one knows, this is the last one on me." β
Rao is Xia Xiaoxiao had already guessed a point or two, but at this time, he couldn't help but gasp, "Why do you have this thing on you?" β
"Surprised?" Xia Yingxi raised her eyes and looked at her with a smile on her face, and said disdainfully, "Xia Fu, the man who can kill his wife with his own hands, where can his heart be kind?" β
She felt ridiculous, these people, all of them were smiling tigers, "Twenty years ago, the Duan family was destroyed in the hands of the former emperor Beigong Chengyan, for this totem, and later Queen Yun was also for this totem, but what no one expected was that when Beigong Chengyan exterminated more than 200 people of the Duan family twenty years ago, he forgot Nian Wanyue." β
When Xia Xiaoxiao heard this name, she subconsciously felt that she had heard it wrong, Nian Wanyue was her mother's maiden name!
"Bang!"
There was a loud bang outside the door, Xia Xiaoxiao's attention was suddenly completely distracted, the noise outside was getting louder and louder, she didn't have the heart to continue listening to Xia Yingxi, at this time, there was a faint fire flickering outside the gauzy window, "What the hell is going on outside!" β
Xia Xiaoxiao walked over, but just as he was about to open the door, he found that the door seemed to have been locked by someone and could not be opened at all.
"It seems that my sister really doesn't know what day it is." Xia Yingxi just glanced at it casually, only to see that Xia Xiaoxiao's eyes were really puzzled, and then he wrote lightly with a smile, "Today is the day when Beigong Yu ordered the secret copying of the Xia Mansion. β
Xia Xiaoxiao turned her head violently, her eyes fixed on Xia Yingxi's face, as if since she entered this room, she had always had that understated smile on her face, lukewarm, and indifferent from thousands of miles away.
"What, my sister doesn't believe it?" Xia Yingxi walked towards her step by step, "What is forming a party with local officials for personal gain, what is bullying the people, is just an excuse for Beigong Yu to get rid of Xia Fu." β
Yes, it wasn't until now that Xia Xiaoxiao understood why she always felt that something was wrong the moment Xia Yingxi invited her to Xiyi Palace today, Xia Yingxi used the excuse of longing for her family, but the concubines in the palace couldn't leave the palace, but Xia Fu and the second lady Xia were able to enter the palace to visit, but, "This is the purpose of you calling me out of the palace today?" β
Xia Xiaoxiao glanced at the locked wooden door on the side, no matter what happened outside, the company camp was not far away, she didn't believe that Xia Yingxi could do anything, but the next moment she saw Xia Yingxi walking straight to her side, watching Xia Xiaoxiao take a step back unconsciously due to defense, Xia Yingxi couldn't help laughing, "Xia Yu is a threat to him, so he has to get rid of him, Beigong Yu always has some secrets that he doesn't want people to know, so the entire Xia Mansion has become a thorn in his side, but he can't bear you." β
Xia Yingxi's hand fell on the door frame, and then, with a "click", Xia Xiaoxiao saw the door that she couldn't open even if she used her strength, and it was pushed open in Xia Yingxi's hand at this time, "Sister, he didn't want you to know, so he took the action to block the news, and wanted to get rid of Xia Fu quietly, and me, you said, if he saw you in Xia Mansion at this time, what would his expression be?" β
It was already late when they left the palace, it was close to night at this time, there shouldn't be much bright light, those lights suddenly shone in from the outside, Xia Xiaoxiao subconsciously blocked her eyes, and when she got used to it, she slowly opened her eyes, a bright one, it was firelight.
Beigong Yu's expression can't be described as ugly.
Those dense officers and soldiers all held torches in their hands, illuminating the entire courtyard as if it were day, and at this time the entire courtyard was surrounded, hundreds, no, maybe thousands of arrows were pointing at them, as long as the person standing at the front gave an order, Xia Xiaoxiao had no doubt that he and Xia Yingxi would be killed instantly.
"Xiao Xia'er!"
Xia Xiaoxiao wanted to escape again when she saw Xia Yingxi's movements on her side, and her neck was already held up by a slender silver needle, and Xia Yingxi's indifferent voice sounded in her ears, "Beigong Yu, let your people retreat." β
At this time, Xia Xiaoxiao saw clearly that there was a group of people kneeling behind Beigong Yu, all of them were servants and maidservants of Xia Mansion, and in the afternoon, they were still welcoming Xia Yingxi, the noble concubine, back to the house, and they were all crying there at this moment.
Beigong Yu's face turned pale, and he ordered in a deep voice, "Put down the arrow!" β
Even now Xia Xiaoxiao has too many doubts in her heart, and there are too many questions she wants to ask, such as why Xia Yingxi wants to kill her so much, such as what is between Yun Cheng and Xia Fu, and why is Beigong Yu here at this time, and why...... was going to raid the entire Xia Mansion, but she also knew that now was not the time to ask about it, Xia Yingxi's cold tip of the silver needle pierced her throat, as long as she used force, she could pierce into her flesh, Xia Yingxi's hand was so steady that she didn't tremble at all, and she didn't look like a person who took a murder weapon for the first time.
Xia Xiaoxiao is a person who is afraid of death, everyone knows it, Xia Xiaoxiao never denies it, and she has been threatened like this before, but for the first time, she can be so calm, so calm that even she can't believe it.
Beigong Yu stood there, standing with his hands on his back, Lian Yingtong Wuxi was standing beside him and didn't know what he was talking in a low voice, the light of those torches was gilded with a layer of dusk color on his body, and his face was covered in a haze.