Shen Pearl saw Xue Hongxian in the western suburbs.

This is the first time Shen Pearl has left the palace after returning to Chang'an. The weather was very cold, sitting in the carriage on the soft couch warm fragrance, listening to the wind swishing, bursts, passing by the ear, teaching her to remember that year An Qingxu was imprisoned in Luoyang Ting, listening to the outdoors in the quiet night, it is also like this, in fact, Chang'an is far colder than Luoyang in winter, but there seems to be no time, longer than that winter.

"It's here, it's here!" Zhang Hanruo called the car to stop.

Shen Pearl got off the carriage, the tip of her nose was cool, and there were also things dripping between her eyelashes, looking up at the sky, the snowflakes had been flying colorfully at some point, thin and sparse, and the sky was like a good porcelain glaze spreading cicada patterns. Stretching out your hand, the stamens are extremely soft and soft, and they melt in an instant.

The guards retreated from afar.

Xue Hong is now just like a red plum in the snow, with a petite body and a red glow, no different from when he was separated two years ago, like an elf.

Back then, Xue Hongxian suddenly disappeared, although Shen Pearl knew that she was excellent in martial arts and should not have an accident, that heart was still hanging after all, especially when Xue Song didn't have any news from him, sometimes he couldn't help but feel uneasy when he thought about it. Today, Xue Hong is standing in front of him vividly, and it is really difficult to hide his joy.

"Sister Shen!" Xue Hong rushed towards her now, planted his head in Shen Zhuzhu's arms, raised his head, and was still smiling.

Shen Pearl hugged her, gently patted the snowflakes on the big red fur hat for her, and said, "Where is my sister, I miss you so much." ”

Xue Hongxian's eyes widened, and he looked at Shen Pearl carefully, and suddenly pursed his lips, his eyes were red, "Sister is so thin." I heard Sister Hanruo say, you suffered a lot after I left that year, I-" She lowered her head, a tear turned around in her eyes, and she looked very cute and cute.

Shen Pearl smiled, hugged her tightly into her arms, comforted her intentionally, and said that she was fine, Zhang Hanruo was also laughing and persuading, Xue Hongxian pouted and wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes embarrassedly. Shen Pearl secretly wondered, how could Zhang Hanruo know himself so well?

"Back then, it was the master who took me away." Xue Hongxian explained.

"Master? Your master is ——? ”

Xue Hong blinked, wondering whether he should answer the question. Shen Pearl hurriedly said: "If you have to avoid it, Sister Xue Xian, you don't have to be embarrassed, anyway, it's not a big deal." As long as you're okay. ”

Xue Hongxian shook his head, smiled slyly, and said, "It doesn't matter, anyway, this time the master asked me to go down the mountain, and didn't let me swear not to tell others." I only said that I was with my two sisters, and I didn't think the master would blame me. She has a "master" on the left and a "master" on the right, and she always smiles sweetly when she speaks, thinking that her master must be very fond of her.

Zhang Hanruo said: "That's still not good, be careful that your master beats your palm so that you can't serve a bowl to eat!" ”

Xue Hongxian said angrily: "Don't laugh at me!" That was when I was a child, and now the master never beats me. He went to twist Zhang Hanruo's mouth again: "Sister Zhang, how long is your brain, I said a sentence a few years ago, you still remember it!" ”

Zhang Hanruo pretended to be scared, and hid behind Shen Pearl with shouting and screaming, Xue Hongxian did not follow, and went around to arrest her, Shen Pearl had to protect Zhang Hanruo, but also to prevent Xue Hongxian from accidentally falling, and the three of them made a fuss, as if they had returned to the time when they lived in the Prince's Villa.

After a while, Shen Pearl felt flustered and tight, and her face was not good, Zhang Hanruo was careful, and hurriedly asked Xue Hongxian to stop playing, and the three of them got into the carriage and started again.

Xue Hongxian said: "I don't hide it from my two sisters, I don't know what the name of the master is, I have called her 'master' since I was a child, she is a bhikshuni (note: nun). I don't know who my biological parents are, but I have my own memories and I was with my master. The master treated me like a biological mother. However, when I was eight years old, she suddenly sent me to Xue ...... Xue Song's mansion said that he had a relationship with him, and he could only return to the mountain after five years. In the past five years, she came every time on Chinese New Year's Eve to teach me the midnight martial arts and sword technique. "This is simply a record of immortal news, Shen Pearl and Zhang Hanruo are fascinated: Xue Hongxian's master is such a master, teaching martial arts like this can make Xue Hongxian stand alone in the world! Compared with such immortals, ordinary people who have been practicing martial arts diligently for decades are really a waste of time.

"When I went to fetch water that day, I didn't expect to meet the master by the river! Without saying a word, she ordered me to go back to the mountain immediately. ”

"How does your master know you're there?" Zhang Hanruo was very shocked.

Xue Hongxian's eyes were full of admiration: "The master knows astronomy and geography, and he is everywhere." He added: "That day was the first time I disobeyed my master, crying and begging, saying that a sister wanted me to take care of it, and I couldn't leave my sister back to the mountain for the time being." Who knows, the master is not angry or laughing. She sighed, she has always been carefree, revealing sadness, although it is not in harmony with her delicate appearance, it is enough to make Shen Pearl and Zhang Hanruo sigh - since childhood, there is no father and no mother, although there is a loving master, it is difficult to calm down after all.

"I'd rather my master be angry, she will always forgive me when she gets angry and grant my request." Xue Hongxian continued: "But that time, she only told me that everyone in the world has their own cause and effect, and those of my generation who practice should not interfere. ”

"I didn't follow, knelt down and begged the master, and the master took my hand and pulled me away, I was too far away from the master's martial arts, and I couldn't break away, just like that, I was taken back to the mountain by the master——"

After she finished explaining, she raised her head again and said, "That's it, Sister Shen, don't you blame me-"

Shen Pearl was deeply worried about the words "cultivator", seeing that although Xue Hong was young in front of him, he couldn't hide his beauty like a flower and green sideburns like clouds, and he really wanted to be a "bhikshuni" one day, how unbearable. Xue Hongxian respects her master like a god, and she doesn't have to be at the mercy of the master, her fate is controlled and arranged by the master as soon as possible.

Xue Hongxian suddenly smiled again and said, "But I can atone for my sins today!" As he spoke, he took out an object from his bosom and handed it to Shen Zhu, saying, "Look, look, what is this!" ”

Shen Pearl took it and looked at it, and the palm of his hand was a light and thin thing, wrapped in cowhide. "What is it?" he asked. ”

Xue Hongxian said: "Don't be in a hurry to dismantle it first, guess?" ”

Shen Pearl weighed the severity and spoke out at the same time as Zhang Hanruo: "Is it a letter inside?" ”

Xue Hongxian pouted: "It's not fun at all, why are you so smart!" ”

Shen Pearl smiled and scratched Xue Hongxian's face with his fingers, and opened the cowhide package. Inside, as expected, were several pages of squarely folded letterheads. Unfolding the letterhead, Shen Pearl couldn't help but be stunned - it was full of twisted and twisted strange words!

"This is a letter from the Hui people?" She asked Xue Hongxian. Soon after the founding of the Hui Dynasty, he used the Turkic script and did not have his own script. Shen Pearl stayed for a while, and although he could see that this was Turkic, he didn't recognize a single word.

Xue Hong nodded triumphantly.

"I'll take a look." Zhang Hanruo stretched out his hand to take the letterhead and said with a smile: "I know some Turkic scripts. "Youzhou is surrounded by the sea on the left, Taihang on the right, Juyong in the north, Heji in the south, and Wuhu live together, Shen Pearl remembers that Zhang Hanruo mentioned that her mother is Turkic, and it is not surprising that she knows Turkic characters.

Zhang Hanruo lifted a corner of the car curtain, greeted the snowflakes, and looked carefully, the more he looked at it, the more dignified his face became. However, it took a moment to fold the letterhead.

"What to write?" Shen Pearl asked her.

Zhang Hanruo glanced at Shen Pearl meaningfully, sat down solemnly, and then said slowly: "This is really a secret letter written by the secret envoy to the Khan of Hui. Looking back and asking Xue Hongxian: "How did you get this letter?" ”

Xue Hongxian patted his sleeve nonchalantly and said, "Steal it!" ”

It turned out that when Xue Hongxian entered Chang'an City yesterday evening, he saw a foreigner dressed in Han costume going out of the city. Because of Pei Zhaoyi's assassination, Chang'an City's garrison was loose on the outside and tight on the inside, and people entering and leaving were strictly checked. The alien was so arrogant that he was determined to get out of the city in a hurry, and the officers and soldiers defending the city hindered the merits of the Hui soldiers, and dared to be angry but did not dare to speak, so they let the man out of the city after a hasty search. Xue Hong now saw this stubbornness, and was annoyed that he was also going to be carefully searched, and he had followed his master and his master's friends in the past two years, and learned some wonderful skills, and he had nowhere to show them on weekdays, so he didn't need it now, but when? So he gently and skillfully stole out the letterhead that the Hui man had hidden in his arms.

After stealing the letterhead, of course, she did not recognize the tadpole-like Turkic script, although she did not know much about human feelings, but she was very intelligent. After a little thought, he "drawn" the Chinese characters on the letterhead, disassembled them into several parts, found a few interpreters in the tea house, translated them into Chinese, and then pieced them together, knowing that Shen Pearl was related, and hurriedly asked Zhang Hanruo to call Shen Pearl out.

Zhang Hanruo said: "It turns out that Pei Zhaoyi was assassinated, no, it should be said that it was a plot to assassinate Concubine Zhang Shu, and the main envoy turned out to be Hui Khan!" While speaking, he glanced at Shen Zhu, Shen Pearl knew about this, and he had to make a surprised appearance at this time.

Most of the letter was a confession of guilt from the assassin. said that the assassination had failed, and Pei Zhaoyi became a substitute for the dead ghost. At that time, the scene was chaotic, they mistakenly thought that it had been done, and took advantage of the chaos to pull out the murder weapon and send it to Sister Shen's bedroom, and said that there were internal thieves among them, not only leaking the assassination, but even selling the brocade box to Shujing Hall to Concubine Zhang Shu. In the end, he said that they would assassinate Concubine Zhang Shu again, and set off the guilt, otherwise they would have no face to see the Khan. ”

After Zhang Hanruo finished speaking, he looked at Shen Pearl suspiciously: "Sister, I'm confused, then it's just a matter of assassinating Concubine Zhang Shu, why did you send the murder weapon to you?" ”

Shen Pearl sighed, she really didn't expect it wrong-Mo Yansi, he wouldn't do this to her. She was even quite moved, he said that the "gift" given to her was the assassination of Concubine Zhang Shu! She hated Concubine Zhang so much, but she was helpless for a while, he knew everything! Killing Concubine Zhang Shu is not the same as assassinating the emperor, it is not profitable for his "overall situation", he is actually willing to make this not a cost-effective deal, this intention is not the same.

Zhang Hanruo couldn't wait for her to answer, so he asked again.

Only then did Shen Pearl come back to her senses and said with a smile: "This ...... I don't know. ”

Zhang Hanruo realized something, and whispered with a smile: "It turns out that the rumors outside are true. ”

Shen Pearl was taken aback: "What! ”

Zhang Hanruo didn't say anything, but said: "Fortunately, this letterhead is available to Sister Hongxian, if you accidentally let others get it, it is inevitable that Sister Shen is the mastermind!" As he spoke, he took out the fire fold from his waist, lit it with a "hiss", and burned the letterhead along with the cowhide, which was scorched and smelly, and it took half an hour to burn it out. This letter is indeed very important, and if it is allowed to be obtained by others, it will certainly hinder the diplomatic relations between the two countries.

The carriage carried the three of them slowly back. Xue Hongxian is in a very good mood, constantly talking about things and things, Shen Pearl and Zhang Hanruo have their own thoughts, and only respond to her from time to time to make her happy.

There was a stick of incense in the line, and the carriage was moving more and more slowly, and finally stopped. Xue Hongxian shouted in surprise: "What's the matter!" Hearing the "click" of the horse's hooves approaching, someone called in a low voice outside the curtain: "Princess-" was Yan Ming's voice.

Shen Pearl lifted the curtain of the carriage, and a carriage and several attendants were already parked in front of her, Li Jiao brocade hat and mink Qiu, who came down from the carriage, followed her gaze and smiled slightly. Yan Ming said: "Please move the princess, Your Highness will pick you up." ”

As soon as Xue Hongxian heard the word "Your Highness", he hurriedly poked his head out and looked ahead, shouting: "Which one is the king of Guangping, let me see, let me see, I have never seen Sister Shen's husband!" And when he saw Li Jiao, he couldn't help but cry out "ah", his eyes were shining, he hugged Zhang Hanruo, and shouted loudly: "Oh my God, that's King Guangping, I've never seen such a personable man!" Zhang Hanruo just smiled stiffly, didn't look at Li Jiao casually, and didn't raise his eyes.

The carriage brought by Li Li was surrounded by charcoal fires, which were burning vigorously and the heating was very comfortable. With Zhang Hanruo and Xue Hongxian, the attendants drove the horse slowly.

Li Jiao held Shen Pearl's hand, feeling that it was not very warm, the smile on his face was a little tighter, and he couldn't bear to say anything, Shen Pearl hurriedly urged: "It's better to let the carriage go faster, if Shi'er doesn't see me at dinner, she will cry again." Li Jiao said: "It's okay." "Shut up and don't speak. Shen Pearl knew that he was unhappy, it was freezing today, so he reluctantly agreed to let her out of the city. Just wanted to say a few soft words, her whole body was excited, and she sneezed, Li Jiao casually pushed her back, but it was wet, it turned out that she had just been fighting with Zhang Xue and the others, and she might as well seep into the snow on her clothes, and she didn't pay attention to it.

Li Jiao's anger rose, and his shoulders warmed, but it was Shen Pearl who pillowed his head on his shoulder, closed his eyes slightly, and said softly: "Somehow in the past two days, it is very easy to get tired......" He was slightly sour in his heart, and forced himself to suppress the middle fire, holding her with one hand, and untying the ties of his coat with the other.

Shen Pearl was shocked and raised her head: "What to do?" ”

Li Jiao didn't smile, and kept a calm face: "What else can you do?" You really don't want to die! When she said the last sentence, she was quite angry, and when she spoke, she took off Shen Zhuzhu's robe and put on her own.

Hold her tightly, for a long time, finally let out a long breath, and said, "Let me tell you good news, Zhang Deyu is in my hands." ”

"Zhang Deyu?" Shen Pearl was stunned for a moment before remembering who it was - the head of the palace who betrayed himself to serve the rebels, the shrunken man! If Li Li hadn't mentioned it, he would have really forgotten that there was such a person in the world. She didn't hate this man, though she had been so badly wounded and had so much pain because of him. She just disdains it, such a villain, it really hasn't reached the level that makes her Shen Pearl hate, he doesn't deserve it! He asked, "Did he confess the Lord to others?" ”

Li Jiao's palm tightened slightly, and said, "It's called." Before he could force a confession, he recruited - it was Dugujing's slut who taught him to do it! His eyebrows became solemn and he said apologetically: "It's all my fault." If he hadn't mistakenly believed Dugujing, how could he let her know the secrets of the secret room, and if she hadn't secretly done it, how could Zhang Deyu have told the secret?

Shen Pearl suddenly had an idea: "Although the current Dugu Mirror is a concubine and a righteous daughter, it is not that she can't be moved!" ”

Li Jiao was so smart that he immediately understood: "You mean to deal with her secretly?" This is indeed not bad, but she has to wait a few more days, she usually does not leave Concubine Shu, and it is extremely difficult to start. Thinking about it, his expression was a little happy: "When the emperor returns to Beijing, it is the best time!" Solve her, it must be at this time, if the emperor returns to Beijing to officially canonize her as a princess, it will be even more difficult to deal with her. Shen Pearl nodded again and again, in addition to Dugu Jing, he can also remove Zhang Shufei's wings, and Dugu Jing had an accident before he was canonized, and he will not be particularly investigated.

He also asked Li Li how he would deal with Zhang Deyu.

Li Jiao said lightly: "The suffering you suffered that day must also be let him go through it all first, how can you allow him to die easily." ”

Li Jiao was originally a scholar of the Criminal Department, how to interrogate and deal with prisoners, he has his own method of interrogating and disposing of prisoners, Shen Pearl listened to him easily, and expected that Zhang Deyu must first be tossed in the Infernal Hell before he can fall into hell forever. It sounds pitiful at the moment, but this person is really not pitiful, and he smiled faintly, closed his eyes, and was silent for a long time.

Li Jiao only thought that she was asleep, but saw that although she closed her eyes, a strange smile slowly appeared on her face, and suddenly opened her beautiful eyes and laughed softly. Li Li was inexplicable and said, "What's so funny?" ”

"I'm laughing at you." Shen Pearl squinted at him, smiling rather than smiling, "Sister Hanruo is stunning in the world, civil and military all-rounder, I don't believe you don't know her thoughts." ”

Li Jiao was stunned for a moment, then raised his eyebrows and laughed: "You said that she, well, is indeed a rare figure among women." Seeing that although Shen Pearl had a smile on her face, she was still faintly depressed, raised her hand to pick up the ends of her sideburns, and then said softly: "It's a pity that in my eyes, all the beauty and intelligence of women in the world are added to one place, and they are not as good as you." He said so calmly and calmly, as if he was gossiping at home, and he came out casually, but like thunder, he taught her to touch her whole body, and suddenly raised her eyes to look at him.

He still smiled softly. The snow is getting heavier and heavier, the carriage walks steadily and silently, and there are only the two of them in this small carriage, and the space is so cramped that the joy in the heart has nowhere to release. The charm of this moment is far better than the moon before the flower and the oath in the sky.

"But I'm so useless that I can't help you with anything...... Teach you to be embarrassed everywhere, and become a burden to you......" she burst into tears.

He sighed, a little unbearable, and finally held her tightly in his arms, his voice firm and clear: "I don't want you to help me." I just want you to be nice and by my side. Forever like this, by my side......"

(Tianjin)