"Retreat."

As soon as the voice of the yellow-robed man sitting on the golden jade dragon chair in the court fell, he immediately knelt down with a large piece of black press: "Congratulations to the emperor." ”

As soon as the people left, the hall became noisy.

Beigong Yu was dressed in a purple python court uniform, and Beigong Langyan walked to his side, "Second brother, the defeat of Nanming Kingdom and my country twenty years ago has also stopped for a while, and since the new emperor was changed three years ago, he has become more and more restless, and I am afraid that this battle will be fought sooner or later." ”

Nanming and Yue Hua are the six countries of each of the hegemonic powers, the two sides have coveted each other for many years, since the war twenty years ago after the final defeat of the Nanming State to end, but at that time Yue Hua had just changed the new emperor, and experienced such a big war, but the loss was not as good as that of the Nanming State, so the two countries have been stable for so many years, after all, in Wu, Jin, Yue, Chaoyang, Nanming, Yue Hua, these six countries, the military strength of Nanming Yuehua is a strong country, once the two sides start a war, it is not as simple as one or two countries involved.

Beigong said that he didn't expect that there would be news of the marriage between Nanming and Yue Guo in the court today, so Nanming Guo is afraid that he has already made some moves.

"There has been no contact between our country and Nanming for a long time, and some time ago, someone in the northwest came to report that a salt merchant from Nanming was selling salt to some private individuals, and then you should have realized what kind of plans Nanming had prepared." Beigong Yu glanced at him, walked out of the main hall, just got down the stairs, and hurriedly stepped forward to hand a letter to Beigong Yu, "Your Highness, a letter from Lord Lu." ”

"He's done looking into everything?" Beigong Yu took the letter and glanced at Lu Wuji's handwriting on it.

"Lord Lu said that it was all in the letter." Ping Shun whispered.

Beigong Yu spread out the letter, and the handwriting on the letter was beautiful and steady, but only a few words: "Return to Beijing." Someone preempts! ”

Beigong Yu twisted his eyebrows, looked around smoothly, and saw that no one took out the fire fold and handed it to Beigong Yu, Beigong Yu approached the paper, and a pile of letterheads turned into ashes in an instant.

Beigong Yu glanced at the paper ashes that fell on the ground and looked pensive.

Could it be him?

Beigong Yu raised his eyes, and Beigong Ji was chatting with Beigong Tang in front of him. He passed by with Beigong to talk, but was stopped by Beigong Ji.

"Our Royal Highness the Crown Prince doesn't seem to have received much favor from his father recently, let this king guess why?" Beigong Ji smiled, thought about it carefully before he suddenly realized his expression, and walked to his side, "Oh, this king has recently heard that the king has returned to Beijing, after so many years, my father's favor for the king should still be the same as back then, right?" ”

Beigong Yu walked past him with a calm smile on his face.

Seeing that he was being ignored, Beigong Ji was so hard that his teeth itched, staring at Beigong Yu's back, and said in a voice that only he heard, "Beigong Yu, this king will take your crown prince position sooner or later!" ”

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Xia Xiaoxiao leaned in front of the mirror and looked at it, dressed in plain clothes, still in a simple bun, not even wearing light makeup, and still looked a little bit beautiful. She smiled with satisfaction, in fact, she didn't look so bad.

"Niangniang, why are you going out of the palace again? Let's take Kiyotsuki with you this time. Qingyue hugged the bun and winked at her.

"Nope." Xia Xiaoxiao took the sign and walked out of the Dusk Pavilion without looking at her.

She has something to do when she goes out today.

Beigong Yu did startle her that night, but fortunately it was just a false alarm, but she still felt that if she could get out of the palace early, she should leave the palace early, anyway, Beigong Yu's brand is better than anything else, her aunt refused to go with her, she was going to leave alone, she still didn't believe that she really couldn't go!

But she had to go somewhere else before she could go out.

Cherish the clouds.

Although it is much more comfortable to come to this place during the day than at night, Xia Xiaoxiao is still a little afraid to go in, the last time she came here scared her half to death, it still brought some blows to her fragile heart.

She stood at the entrance of the temple, from which she could also see the great plane tree planted inside, and her silver jewels were buried under the tree.

Thinking of this, Xia Xiaoxiao plucked up her courage and walked to the door of the hall, her hand just put on the door knocker, but she found that the door was open with a thin slit, she remembered that she had closed the door when she left last time, could it be that someone else came later? I wanted to rush in to check on her baby, but my eyes glanced inside, and it was still exactly the same as last time, but a bright yellow flashed in the corner of my eye.

Seeing that there was no one inside, Xia Xiaoxiao tiptoed in and covered the door. In fact, this place did not seem so terrifying during the day, but at night it was gloomy, and she looked around, and the big tree was still the same, and the soil under the tree had not changed much. She had just crouched down to dig something out to see if it was okay, and when her hand was halfway through, her face changed, as if she remembered something, and she withdrew her hand as if she had nothing to do, and looked at the dirt on the ground, as if she was looking at something interesting.

There were a few little ants crawling on the ground, she picked up the branches on the ground and began to tease, "Little ants, little ants, you really know how to find a place to settle down, this is the quietest place in the entire palace, usually no one comes, you don't have to worry about being trampled under your feet here." ”

She played for a while, her feet were numb, and then she got up and looked up at the plane tree beside her, and walked around the yard a few times, as a distraction, and after distracting her heart, she went out of the Xiyun Palace.

Xia Xiaoxiao's steps suddenly sped up when he came out of the Xiyun Palace, and he didn't dare to be too fast, and his hands were full of cold sweat.

She's stupid, she's stupid! It wasn't until the moment she squatted down that she remembered what was going on with the bright yellow in front of the entrance! In the entire palace, only the emperor can wear a yellow robe!

Xia Xiaoxiao never thought that the emperor would be in the Xiyun Palace, and I don't know if her actions were seen by the emperor just now, and I don't know if I was suspicious, but fortunately, Xia Xiaoxiao saw clearly when she was squatting, and the dirt on the ground had almost no traces of being overturned, and her treasures should be safe now.

But what is the emperor doing in the Xiyun Palace?

Thinking all the way to no avail, she hurriedly left the palace, and the things were not brought out, so there was no need to go to Fengyuan. Incidentally, he saw a hawker reselling some martial arts secrets on the roadside stall, Xia Xiaoxiao had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and hurriedly walked towards the market with more than one person.

The sword book that Luozhi "sent" her last time didn't find it after a fight with her father, and she had to find Luozhi and ask for another one.

With her impression of the capital, Xia Xiaoxiao soon found an inn with a plaque on the door of "Xijiangyue", and she only heard about Xijiangyue when she left last time, and the whole capital is called Xijiangyue, and the people who live in it are all rich boys, and she is not sure if Luozhi will really be in it.

The crowd of people coming in and out all around is the appearance of rich people.

"Hey, this little brother, do you know that there is a person named Luozhi living here?" Xia Xiaoxiao grabbed the man who was about to go in and asked.

The man looked her up and down, with a wary face, and asked for a long time, "What are you looking for my master?" ”

I walked behind before I stopped, and when I stepped forward to take a look, I realized that it was Xia Xiaoxiao. With a wave of his hand, the man entered the inn and looked at Xia Xiaoxiao, "Why are you here?" ”

"I'm looking for you." Xia Xiaoxiao looked at him stupidly, he still had the silver mask on his face, but now the more Xia Xiaoxiao looked at it, the better he looked.

Luo Zhi couldn't stand the shiny eyes in her eyes, looked away, looked at the inn and frowned inadvertently, took her hand and walked to the market and said casually, "Let's go for a walk on the street." ”

The market across the street is bustling with businessmen from other places as well as local traders doing small business. Xia Xiaoxiao was led by him all the way, didn't speak, just followed him, her eyes kept falling on the hand he was holding her, and the corners of her mouth smiled shallowly. Luo Zhi suddenly stopped next to a small jewelry shop, Xia Xiaoxiao looked at him, and pointed to the hands held by the two with the other hand, "Hero, your hand." ”

"I'm sorry." Luo Zhi followed and watched, and suddenly let go of her hand as if she was burned.

"It's actually quite warm." Xia Xiaoxiao smiled and muttered in a low voice, before Luo Zhi could hear clearly, she happily ran to the front of the shop again, there were all kinds of masks hanging on the side, all of them were wooden or paper, and there were also those that only covered half of her face like Luo Zhi's face, she took one and put it in front of her face, turned to Luo Zhi and smiled: "Luo Daxia, how is it?" Like you? ”

The silver bell laughter accompanied by the sound of the wind came into his ears, and the woman in front of him blocked the upper half of her face with a fox-like half-face mask, revealing only a pair of sly bright eyes looking at him, a lip under the mask smiled wantonly, and two small tiger teeth were exposed.

In this era of women's reserve, every woman is born to learn to walk without showing her feet, smiling without showing her teeth, and smiling at her posture, but the woman in front of her, he has never seen her do the same since he saw her, walking can be trotting, talking can be roaring, looking at people can be staring, even laughing is grinning.

Luo Zhi walked over, took the mask in her hand and put it back on the shop, and whispered, "This is not for you." ”

Xia Xiaoxiao was about to pull down her face, and saw that he chose a cat-like mask and placed it on her face:

"That's not bad." He looked at it carefully, and the corners of his mouth gradually raised a smile, with a little softness.

"I think it's pretty good, too." Xia Xiaoxiao took a small bronze mirror on the shop and looked at it, through the copper mirror, a pair of figures were reflected not far behind her, the smile on her face suddenly dissipated, she put down the mirror and turned to look at the pair of figures, and when she turned around, she had lost the previous happiness.

Luo Zhi noticed her sudden change, and also looked over there, a pair of beautiful women, handsome men and beautiful women, and women in pink looked overwhelming, holding a butterfly-shaped colored paper kite in their hands and chatting with the man in ink. The man had a faint smile on his face, and a pair of peach blossom eyes looked at the woman beside him, and the two of them stood quietly over there, which attracted the envy of countless people around them.

The two are Beigong Yu and Xia Yingxi.

Xia Xiaoxiao didn't expect Beigong Yu to take Xia Yingxi out of the palace today.

Several women passed by Xia Xiaoxiao's side, their eyes still stopped on Beigong Yu not far away, and said to another woman: "I don't know which family's son, born so handsome, I haven't heard of such a person in the whole capital, if you know it earlier, you should have asked my father to propose marriage for me earlier." ”