When he arrived in the town, Beigong Yu sent someone to find an inn to arrange to live when it was dark, and it was not long before he rested, and he came to spy on him, because Wen Qiya died, the totem in his hand did not know who it was, and those people still thought that Wen Qiya died at the hands of Beigong Pheasant, and this matter has spread to Nanming Kingdom, and the wedding of Beigong Pheasant Li that day was not returned to the palace because of an assassination, and Beigong Pheasant Li still did not marry Chu Muruo worship heaven and earth.

Emperor Nanming lost his temper over this incident and ordered to find out the origin of a group of assassins that day, and Beigong Pheasant Li took on this heavy responsibility.

When the spy said this, he didn't forget to glance at Xia Xiaoxiao who was standing by the window.

Beigong Yu waved his hand, and the person retreated.

"Aren't you going to Yue to be a reinforcement? How can you still walk around town with such a swagger? Also come to the guest house. ”

It was as if she hadn't listened to what the spy had said before, but just looked at the street downstairs and said suddenly.

Beigong Yu walked over and looked down at her, "What kind of reinforcements have you ever seen, but there are only so many people?" ”

Xia Xiaoxiao pointed and counted, Beigong Yu's trip out was indeed low-key, the shadow guards and iron cavalry guards hidden in the crowd that she could see could count seven or eight, and there were also those she couldn't count or couldn't see, but there were only twenty or so of them, which was low-key, at least in terms of his identity as an emperor, not to mention that they were now in the territory of Nanming Kingdom.

Xia Xiaoxiao suddenly thought, if Beigong Yu's identity was accidentally leaked, would Chu Boyuan send an army of 100,000 to destroy him, she smiled, "You said that if I go to the official mansion now and say that you are the emperor of Yue Hua, do you say that Chu Boyuan will send someone to greet you or send someone to assassinate you?" ”

"With him? In the past ten years, if it weren't for Beigong Pheasant Li using the power of Gudumen to push him to the throne, how could Chu Boyuan sit on the throne? ”

Beigong Yu said disdainfully, he glanced at Xia Xiaoxiao's somewhat surprised appearance, grabbed her finger that was still probing by the window, and pulled her out, "Let's go, I finally arrived at a popular place in the town, and I will take you to have fun." ”

After speaking, his eyes seemed to inadvertently glance behind a tree outside the windowsill, and the corners of his mouth hooked up a trace of imperceptible cunning.

Beigong Yu said that he had to hurry up, and at the same time he had time to take her out for a walk, and he took people to follow him when he left the inn not far away, and the small things sold on the streets of Nanming were also different from Yue Hua, many of them were not seen by Xia Xiaoxiao, Beigong Yu pulled her along the way, and occasionally bought some interesting gadgets when he saw them, Xia Xiaoxiao was silent for a while and finally couldn't help asking, "The assassin that day, was it someone sent by Wen Qiheng?" ”

"It's not." Beigong Yutou didn't reply.

"Do you know who sent it?" Xia Xiaoxiao was taken aback.

"Hmm."

Beigong Yu dragged her to go to crowded places as much as possible, and he knew that she had always liked these lively night markets.

I don't know if tonight is a special day, it is very lively, they have not been so lively when they first entered the town, mainly because there are many interesting small shops.

Beigong Yu seemed to be interested, and took her to a small shop selling sugar gourds, and walked in Xia Xiaoxiao to know that the sugar gourds here were to pour sugar by themselves.

The shopkeeper found two stools for them, Beigong Yu was very serious when he was immersed in cooking, Xia Xiaoxiao stared at the small spoonful of sugar juice scooped up in his hand, red, and there were some small bubbles in the transparency, and she asked with some hesitation, "Who are those people?" Is their target that day Chu Muruo or"

Before Beigong Pheasant could say the name, he was choked by a look from Beigong Yu, and the hawthorn fruit was pierced by a bamboo stick, like a small lantern twisted in his hand, and he said slowly for a long time, "The person sent by Helian Chi." ”

Xia Xiaoxiao was shocked again, the name Helian Chi is not unfamiliar, the lord of the Yue country, the person sent by the Yue country?

"Two years ago, the princess of Yue Guo married to Nanming Kingdom, and the two countries reached a short-term marriage relationship, until some time ago, this princess discovered the location of one of the totems in Nanming Kingdom, Beigong Pheasant Li suddenly disbanded Gudumen It will not be so simple, he is preventing Nanming Kingdom and Beigong Pheasant from standing on the same front."

Beigong Yu handed her the prepared sugar gourd, "How about tasting it." ”

Xia Xiaoxiao took a bite, and hurriedly spit it out and stuffed the rest back into his hand, "Bitter, unpalatable!" ”

"Really?" Beigong Yu took it, took a bite of the next one she had just bitten, and stared at her with a smile, "I think it's okay." ”

"Weirdos!"

Xia Xiaoxiao wrinkled her eyebrows and glanced at him, and hurriedly walked out of the shop with a frowning face, Xia Xiaoxiao always thought that she was very smart, in fact, each of them was smarter than her, sometimes she felt that it was very simple things, but there were too many unsimple things hidden under the surface, she couldn't figure out this feeling, now think about it, maybe Beigong Pheasant married Chu Muruo maybe it wasn't his will? Maybe there was something else she didn't know about beneath that surface?

She always thought that Beigong Yu was following behind her, but when she turned around, she didn't see Beigong Yu everywhere, Xia Xiaoxiao knew that there was a temple fair here today, and now it was the time when there were the most people, the lights were bustling, and most of the men and women in this small town, old and young, walked on the street in a group, and went to the most lively place in front of them.

Xia Xiaoxiao took two steps slowly, this scene actually seemed a little familiar to her.

As she walked, people walked forward faster for some reason, and suddenly she was lightly bumped, and her first reaction was to reach out and grab her waist bag, only to find that she had no money on her body at this time.

Relieved and took two more steps, suddenly the figure appeared in front of her, not far away, the bustling crowd was in the middle, the dim light shone the silver mask on his face that covered the bridge of his nose, and his eyes were like a puddle of uncalm water, shining with sparkling waves.

How familiar is it? It's like when Xia Xiaoxiao was left by Beigong Yu in Ye City for the first time and chased after Beigong Pheasant.

He seemed to want to come over, but he seemed to be afraid to come over, he didn't follow anyone behind him, Beigong Yu was afraid that he would be led away by his people, after all, this place is also the territory of Nanming Kingdom, the strong dragon can't suppress the ground snake, no matter how powerful Beigong Yu is, he can't escape the power of Beigong Pheasant in this place.

Obviously, Beigong Pheasant Li is also Yue Hua's person.

Maybe she had cried hard that day, venting all her emotions cleanly, and now she doesn't feel so uncomfortable looking at him, she just wants to let herself feel a little relieved, a little generous, and wants to say a few words of greeting, but as soon as the words come to her mouth, it becomes, "If you are here to give me an explanation, you don't have to, a man's explanation is always just an excuse to remedy it afterwards." ”

Beigong Pheasant frowned, slowly took off the mask, looked at it from a distance, and could see that his fingertips were slightly white, and he walked over slowly, as if reminiscing, and as if reminding, "At the beginning, you mistook me for Beigong Yu in such a lively street market, and suddenly grabbed my hand in the crowd." ”

"It's the sleeves." Xia Xiaoxiao twisted her eyebrows to correct.

Beigong Pheasant suddenly smiled, "Actually, that was the first time I remembered you, but it wasn't the first time I saw you." ”

Xia Xiaoxiao happened to be a small shop selling masks next to her, she randomly chose a mask with a drama face from it to block the whole face, looked at Beigong Pheasant Li through the two small holes on the mask, and suddenly smiled, "Do you know, what did I want to tell you after I found you at that time?" ”

Beigong Pheasant's steps paused, Xia Xiaoxiao looked at his slowly approaching figure, and remembered their first meeting in her mind, no, it was also the second time they met, and now, in fact, she didn't know when they could really meet.

Whether it was before or after, the mask on Beigong Pheasant's face seemed to have never been taken off.

Beigong Pheasant finally stopped at a small shop away from her, looking at her through the mask shop, Xia Xiaoxiao continued, "I'm glad that the person I fell in love with at first sight three years ago was actually you. ”

She smiled, Beigong Pheasant was away from the lights at this time, she couldn't see the expression on her face clearly, and could only hear a somewhat depressed question to her, "You know?" ”

Xia Xiaoxiao suddenly laughed at herself, "Beigong Pheasant, when can you stop taking advantage of my feelings for you and my trust in you like this?" Do you think my Xia Xiaoxiao's feelings are so cheap? So cheap that you think a few random words will make me die for you? ”

Xia Xiaoxiao thought about it a lot, Xia Xiaoxiao thought that at least Beigong Pheasant left to give her an explanation, but he didn't expect him to come just to tell Xia Xiaoxiao that the person she liked at first sight was not Beigong Yu, just because he knew that Xia Xiaoxiao's love for Beigong Yu was only based on the first sight.

Xia Xiaoxiao was disappointed.

How could a wise man give up what he wanted for the sake of her little woman? Only now did Xia Xiaoxiao know that Beigong Pheasant's ambition was not as good as Beigong Yu's, but his way of being different from Beigong Yu was different, and he knew how to use it better, Xia Xiaoxiao thought, she was still too naïve, and she thought too simple about these men who had lived in strategic calculations since childhood.

Beigong Pheasant Li really didn't know that Xia Xiaoxiao already knew this, according to his understanding of Beigong Yu, it was impossible for Beigong Yu to tell Xia Xiaoxiao the truth three years ago, but she knew, he originally planned to coax her first, and then slowly explain to her, but at this time, Xia Xiaoxiao said it with a thick sarcasm, and he didn't know how to say the words that came to his mouth.

"Please go back and take care of your wife, my life is not worth a few dollars, and I can't do it to me myself as a princess."

Xia Xiaoxiao threw the mask back on the shop, and the guy threw a roll of his eyes at her, Xia Xiaoxiao didn't see it, and said coldly, if Beigong Yu hadn't suddenly appeared again that day, she would really be very likely to die under Chu Muruo's sword, and now she is terrified when she thinks about it.

"I just didn't expect her to be sudden," he stopped abruptly.

"So you're here to apologize?"

Xia Xiaoxiao didn't want to mention that day's events anymore, she turned around and wanted to leave, only then did she know the reason why he suddenly stopped, Beigong Yu was rushing over from a crowd not far away, and the people he sent still couldn't delay Beigong Yu for too long.

"Xiaoxiao, even if it's not me, Beigong Yu is not someone you should trust."

Beigong Pheasant took two steps forward, and his tone seemed to be a little tired, "Wen Qiya is not dead. ”

Xia Xiaoxiao stopped, Beigong Yu appeared in front of her with two small red lanterns in his hands, raised his eyebrows at her, and laughed lowly, "It's rare, I didn't even think about slipping away." ”

"Where can I slip away without money? Not to mention that your people are watching. ”

Beigong Pheasant left quietly without knowing when, Beigong Yu smiled and smiled, looked at the place where she was staring, and did not deny it, handed her one of the two small red lanterns in his hand, "Let's go, guess the lantern riddle in front." ”

Beigong Yu took her hand, Xia Xiaoxiao was distracted for a moment, the lantern emitted a faint light in her hand, a small top, which could only illuminate the road under her feet, but fortunately, there were big lanterns hanging everywhere around the bustle now, she suddenly said, "Hey, in fact, you were the one who helped me catch the thief in Jingzhou City last time, right?" ”

Beigong Yu held Xia Xiaoxiao's hand tightly, and he glanced back at her, "I said, if it weren't for me, how could you have come here all the way?" ”

Xia Xiaoxiao snorted coldly and pursed the corners of his mouth, "You're right, he may not have liked me at all, now that I think about it, he just said that he would take me from the beginning." ”

"If only you knew."

Beigong Yu snorted lightly and squeezed in from the crowd to the center.

It is a small square platform, there are all kinds of small lanterns on the stage, the temple fair in the small town of Nanming is the most brilliant is to guess the lantern riddle, Xia Xiaoxiao has always liked to play such games, because the person who guesses the most will get some gifts in the end, often it is silver or something, she can't dislike it, but forgive her for not being very proficient in these things that use her brain, often the first silver falls into someone else's pocket.

"You don't lack such a little silver, what are you squeezing here?"

The lantern riddle guessing had been going on for a while, and the man in the sackcloth on the stage chose to look at the people with lanterns in their hands, and then it was up to them to choose any of the lanterns on the stage, and there were puzzles on it.

Xia Xiaoxiao only then knew what the lantern in his hand was for, and those who wanted to answer the question had to have a numbered lantern in their hands, and this lantern also needed money to buy.

Xia Xiaoxiao secretly scolded a profiteer.

The previous puzzle happened to be unanswered, Beigong Yu raised the lantern in his hand, and the audience that had been quiet for a moment suddenly lit up abruptly with the lamp in his hand, "He." ”

The sudden voice made the man on the stage stunned, looked at the riddle, and nodded, "This boy is right." ”

Xia Xiaoxiao heard the voice of someone around him who suddenly realized, and the riddle title was a hook crescent moon hanging in the west building, typing a word, and there was "no word to go up to the west building, the moon is like a hook." Lonely Wutong Deep Courtyard Lock Qingqiu" sentence, "a hook crescent", with the similarity of the shape and buckle "丿", because the crescent moon such as "eyebrows", "West Building", with the direction of the font structure buckle "wood", for "wood" in the "building" west, is to refer to the shape clearly, the face of the text of the "hanging", the association is vivid, so that the rise and fall of "丿", meaning and scenery will be this word, the whole question is only a word attached to the word.

The person who had answered the question incorrectly before glanced at them a little unwillingly, and then prepared to answer the next question.

"As soon as you enter the Xichuan River, the water is flat, and you can type a word."

The person on the stage had a smile on his face, but everyone in the audience wrinkled their eyebrows, Xia Xiaoxiao saw Beigong Yu raise the lantern in her hand again, she leaned over and asked in a low voice, "Do you really know?" I'm afraid it's not easy for the man in the stands to laugh so proudly, right? ”

"It's really hard for you elm head." Beigong Yu also said proudly, and then said loudly, "Reward." ”

Another look looked at them, and then there was some surprise in their eyes, after all, these riddles are more brain-rounding, but they are not some talents who read a lot, so they were shocked for a moment, and started the third and fourth paths, over and over again, the simple Beigong Yu seemed to disdain to answer, and when he encountered some puzzles that several people in front of him couldn't answer, he raised the lantern very confidently, and Xia Xiaoxiao was shocked.

Even the people reading the question on the stage were a little surprised, and when he read the next question, Xia Xiaoxiao couldn't help but say, "Is there anything you don't know how to do?" ”

"No way, born excellent."

Successfully won the next question again, Beigong Yu's face was even more proud, Wuxi looked at the company camp in the crowd, and shook his head helplessly, this is the first time they have seen Beigong Yu come to play this kind of folk game, and at the same time, they must always pay attention to their surroundings, the more people in such a place, the more dangerous it is.

Xia Xiaoxiao was obviously unhappy to see Beigong Yu answer correctly all the time, not many of these little people had ever read books, even if they were some talented people who were full of wealth, but their brains might not be able to have a cunning person like Beigong Yu turn fast, the most important thing is that she can't see Beigong Yu is good at everything, and she can't see this feeling that as long as he opens his mouth and does things, others have become a foil.

Beigong Yu finished answering the last question, and slowly walked out of the crowd under the eyes of everyone, Xia Xiaoxiao followed behind and took the silver to catch up.

There is not much silver, but it is also a lot, you can get twenty taels of silver by answering some questions, which is enough to pick up a big bargain, Beigong Yu saw that she was carrying the pile of silver in her hand, and a moment ago he felt that he was invincible, and when he heard him say that he would reward her with silver, he immediately smiled, and his mood also relaxed, and he felt that it didn't matter if Beigong Pheasant came to her alone.

Xia Xiaoxiao is really a secular woman, it stands to reason that the daughter who was born in the official eunuch family should not teach a worldly character like Xia Xiaoxiao and an ordinary peddler, she loves money, loves glory and wealth, loves to bully the soft and afraid of the hard, and will also judge people by their appearance, like good-looking men, she will not be those elegant poems and songs, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but she doesn't love money, doesn't love glory and wealth, and is not even so bullying the soft and afraid of the hard, even if he uses her favorite silver to keep her, she can choose not to, When she meets someone like Duan Jinyun who wants her life, she will also go to pity, as she said, all she wants is her rivers and lakes and a person who is willing to accompany her.

But this is the only thing he can't give Xia Xiaoxiao in this world.

But so what? It's just that Xia Xiaoxiao's heart is still in Beigong Pheasant's body, and now the person next to her is him, Beigong Yu doesn't believe that Xia Xiaoxiao's hard and stubborn heart will not be worn out by him, not to mention that Xia Xiaoxiao has always been a soft-hearted person, which he knows better than anyone else.

Dividing line

In the following days, from leaving the town, it was an endless mountain road, reaching the country of Yue, without any stop.

Beigong Yu is really in a hurry.

Riding in a carriage with her during the day, occasionally taking her to ride a horse for half a day, but at night, he always can't see others, Xia Xiaoxiao knows that at that time, Beigong Yu came to give him information time.

Xia Xiaoxiao didn't have much interest in why Beigong Yu suddenly went to Yue Guo now, what Beigong Pheasant Li said was still in her heart, and Wen Qiya didn't die.

At that time, the news of Wen Qiya's death came out only because she was in Jiangyi City, she had never seen her in her life, and she had never seen her corpse in death, but when such a movement came out, it didn't look like a fake, could it be a fraudulent corpse?

I didn't think about it and didn't think there was anything, but now when I thought about it, I found that there were actually suspicious points everywhere, but these things didn't have much to do with her, so she simply followed Beigong Yu, and she should eat, drink, and sleep all day long, except for four or five shadow guards who would stop her once she left the carriage too far, everything else was fine.

Yue Hua's army arrived in a basin in the southwest of Yue, because of Wu's sudden rebellion, this time the expedition was all Beigong Yu's cronies, General Ji and General Ye, one was the founding general of Beigong Chengyan back then, and the other was Beigong Yu's father-in-law, all of whom he trusted extremely much.

But the garrison of Yue and Wu was even more resistant than he imagined, and for two whole months, according to Beigong Yu's prediction, even with the help of Wu Guo, he should have been taken down by him at most a month ago, but now it is a full month away from his expected time, which forced him An emperor to come to the military camp to personally command, he wants to see what Helian Chi Yan and Yan Xing can do to resist his Yue Hua's 300,000 army!

As soon as he arrived in the camp, Xia Xiaoxiao was stunned, and looked out densely through the tent camp where he was stationed, a beacon fire was in the sky, and the dazzling fire went straight to the sky like a long-lasting sun, and the sound of artillery fire and fighting could be heard from afar from such a distance.

General Ji and General Ye learned that Beigong Yu had arrived, and immediately greeted them from the tent, "Minister, see the emperor!" ”

Beigong Yu immediately excused himself and followed a few people into the main tent camp of the meeting, and Wuxi took Xia Xiaoxiao to a tent camp in the innermost, "Because I was tired from running all the way, the emperor told Niangniang to rest first, and the emperor would come over after discussing things later." ”

Xia Xiaoxiao watched Wuxi retreat, leaned to the window, and looked through the window at the tent where Beigong Yu was deliberating, Beigong Yu was standing in front of a long case full of three-dimensional maps, listening to their report with a focused expression, while the commander analyzed the current situation, occasionally raised his eyes, just bumped into Xia Xiaoxiao's eyes, and slightly hooked the corners of his lips towards her, Xia Xiaoxiao ripped off the curtain and turned his back to lie on the bed on the side.

Lying uncomfortable, he got up again, and gently lifted a corner, Beigong Yu continued to bury his head in the pile of maps, the soldiers beside him were all wrinkling their eyebrows, it seemed that the war that had dragged on for these days had also made them quite tired, Xia Xiaoxiao looked at some of the soldiers guarding the camp outside the tent, most of them had red eyes, because of this war, they had not closed their eyes for several days.