Inch by inch, groping towards the side of the body, the wood grain of the hand, dense and dense, repeatedly touched thousands of times, can only laugh at the ridicule: this cage is really exquisite.

"Bang", she heard the familiar sound of unlocking, "Eat!" The woman's official speech was extremely uneven, with a thick Northland accent. She frowned, and a water hyacinth was stuffed into her hand, and the water was stuffed into her hand, and the water was cold to the bone, she barely drank two sips, and finally ate the frozen and hard bun, her body was tight, and her hands and feet were tied; A handkerchief gagged her mouth. She knew she was going to get through it again.

It is commonly said that people's ears, nose and eyes are connected and complementary. If a person is deaf, his sense of smell and vision will be extraordinarily developed. If you are blind, your ears will be particularly sensitive. Shen Pearl is like that.

When she woke up from being knocked unconscious, she was shocked to find that she was blind! She couldn't see anything, the darkness around her was boundless, the cold swept in from all directions, and she was once extremely sad. She didn't know where she was, where she was going, in this delicate cage in a huge march, she could walk and move, she could hear the words of outsiders, but unfortunately, it was nonsense that she couldn't understand! She was thinly clothed, cowered in the corner of the cage, and the colder it became, and she even thought about death, and a more terrible future than death......

However, she was Shen Pearl after all, and she quickly came to her senses. She plucked her hairpin, and every time the woman with a northland accent fed her, she drew a stroke on the wooden wall with her frozen hand, and she counted the days soberly, paying attention to the bumps in the journey. She remembered that Murong Lin Zhi had mentioned to her that her blindness was usually only temporary caused by a blow to her head, and that it was not difficult to recover her sight in time, and that she had to find a way to escape from the group of people who had detained her. After being missing for a while, Li Jiao, her father, and her brother and sister-in-law were anxiously looking for her everywhere, and she had no chance of escaping.

Thinking of Murong Linzhi, she was even more worried, and Hongrui, was she escorted with her, or was she ......? She stared at her, not daring to think about the worst outcome, "extinguishing the mouth" is the best prevention measure for the conspirators, especially since this conspiracy is completely aimed at herself, Murong Lin Zhi and Hongrui, do you still have a way to live?

It's too late to regret it, that weird teahouse and the behind-the-scenes manipulator set up such a bureau, which affected Murong Linzhi, the purpose was just to lure himself into the bait, this matter was too reckless for himself, and it was not difficult to inquire whether An Qingxu was missing or not, but he insisted on visiting the teahouse, and finally came to the road. In the end, she is soft-hearted and soft-hearted, and if she comes again, she will not be like this.

She heard the faint sound of drums outside the cage, louder and closer, accompanied by the cacophony of talking, walking, and shouting. The world outside the cage was so exciting, she guessed that she was in a small city at this time. In the past few years, a total of ten obstacles have been passed, all of which seem to have been released without any checking, nor have they passed through any towns, thinking that this line of people must have deliberately bypassed the town and taken a shortcut, in this case, the small town entered today is very important, and it must be the only way that cannot be detoured, and it is necessary to cheer up and find out the situation.

She struggled to stand with her ears attached to the wooden wall, listening carefully to the movement outside the cage, but it was too noisy outside, and she couldn't hear anything clearly. Frustrated, he slowly slid down against the wall, and suddenly heard the sound of the gong opening the way, deafening, and his spirit was lifted, and he heard a male voice singing: "Lord Chen, the county guard, was promoted to interrogate Qiao's bloody case today, and the people of the county can go to the trial!" ——”

The county guard? Lord Chen? The strict and silent face brushed over his heart, and there was a little hope to be polished, here, it was Jincheng County! Yes, yes. I should have thought that this group of people obviously went to the northwest, and Jincheng County is the main road from the Tang Dynasty to the northwest. Detour to the north, over Helan Mountain, is the vast Mobei Huiwang Court of the Hanhai Sea.

Jincheng County is her only chance. As soon as he left Jincheng County, when he arrived at the mountains, glaciers and snow seas, and yellow sand deserts, Li Jiao had the ability to reach the sky, and it was difficult for him to return to the Central Plains.

She secretly calculated the distance, and sure enough, the prisoner car stopped after a while, thinking that it had arrived at the place where it was out of the city for inspection. She listened intently.

The soldier who spoke official was drinking a document that did not go out of the city: "If there is no Guan Wen, you can't be released, go to the county office to make up for it!" ”

"You, you, what are you doing, what are these two big carts loaded on?" She was stunned, it turned out that she was not the only one who was locked up in the prison car, who was the other person? Murong Linzhi? Red stamen? Or are both there? I secretly sweated in my heart, just hoping that the soldier would order me to open the car to check.

"Master Jun," the woman's voice with a northern accent sounded, thinking that she had taken out something to show the soldier, "We are envoys of the Xiliang Kingdom, and we will return to the country with a tribute to His Majesty the Son of Heaven of the Tang Dynasty." In these two cars, they are filled with gifts from His Majesty the Son of Heaven of the Tang Dynasty to our king and queen! ”

According to the Tang Dynasty law, the border fortress must carefully check the pedestrians and luggage passing by, even if it is a foreign envoy, it must also abide by this rule, not to mention that it is only a small Xiliang country, so this soldier does not sell it, and said solemnly: "Please tell the envoy, the pawn acts in accordance with the law, please open the cage and let me inspect!" ”

The woman thought it was a translator, and after listening to the words, the envoy's voice was pure and neutral, and after the words of the envoy, the interpreter replied: "Master Jun, our envoy said, it is not difficult to open the cage to inspect, but the two cages are the royal seal of His Majesty the Son of Heaven of your country, and he said that it will be dismantled by the king of my family himself. ”

Shen Pearl secretly stomped her feet.

Sure enough, the soldier was very embarrassed and did not dare to make his own decisions. The two sides were in a stalemate, and they heard a loud shout: "What is the delay and blockage?" The soldier said, "See General Du!" The next words were inaudible, and he must have been reporting the matter to General Nadu. Shen Pearl remembered that Du Ping, the general of Nadu, was the deputy guard of the city pass, with a big belly, and he was not with Chen Zhouyi all the way, and he took the position, and he was greedy for wine and glasses, just to not hinder Li Jiao and Chen Zhou's affairs, so he never replaced. The things of today will surely be broken on his head. It is conceivable that he shook his head at this time, and waved his hand casually: "Since it is the royal seal of His Majesty, then it is up to them!" ”

"But, King Guangping—" The soldier stopped talking. Shen Zhuzhu's heart was in an uproar, Li Li, Li Li, you are really a very smart person, you must have sent a message to the border city, and ordered the border city to strictly investigate in order to find out my traces, but unfortunately there are thousands of people in the world, each with its own calculation and proposition, how can it be as good as it should be.

The prisoner cart began to move slowly again, and her heart cooled inch by inch.

The lights of the Yuande Hall of the Guangping Royal Mansion have not been extinguished for half a decade.

Li Jiao's eyes were bloodshot, and he sat on the high golden chair, his eyes blazing at a round of giant candles in the hall, without saying a word. The servants waiting on his side bent their waists and hung their faces motionless, His Royal Highness rarely lost his temper, but he was not angry and arrogant, and the palace was silent about him, and the situation of the past ten days was even more unprecedented. In this self-evident word, there is a huge wave hidden in the sky, who dares to touch this moldy head.

"Your Highness, Dugu asks to see you." There was a tremor in the voice of the maid outside the porch.

"Tell her to." He didn't move his eyebrows for a moment, and spat out a faint sentence.

He took out the scroll of Huixuan in his arms, and the handwriting was beautiful, and since she lost her trace, it was obtained by her boudoir. The words reveal her gentle and moist atmosphere: "The moon is full of flowers, and the pity is deep in hatred; Whoever sent the wind to stir up this heart. "He looked at it word by word, as if he was reading a long book of poetry as a child, and it was full of tight words, and the teachings of the saints could never be finished." He should have known that she cared so much, and only relied on her forbearance and open-mindedness, injured her again and again, and forced her to retreat step by step. Yes, he relied on her love, and he gave her so little.

He put his hand on the intricately carved chair handle and slowly lowered the roll of paper. The Tang Dynasty is rich all over the world, with a territory of Andong in the east, Anxi in the west, Shan Yufu in the north, and Ninan in the south, which is his world, and the world he is bound to get. Only at this moment, the bustling flow of people in the world is all blocked by her, he only needs her, he only wants her!

"Your Royal Highness," Feng Shengyi came behind him at some point, "The maid in the Jianning Palace, whose name is Xuancao, has been found!" ”

"Well," he said, looking up, as he had expected, his eyes twinkling, "I guess it's the corpse." ”

"Yes." Feng Shengyi didn't even dare to say a word of flattery, and presented the shiny thing in his hand to Li Jiao: "This is what his subordinates picked up from her corpse." "A crystal clear jade hairpin, the light seems to be delicate, they were shocked, he recognized it, how could he not recognize it? Cui Caiping showed off to him, it was given to her by Shen Zhu, and she threw it coldly in the jewelry box, and she didn't care about it anymore.

He slapped the jade hairpin on several cases, silently breaking into several pieces, and the crumbs pierced his palm, slowly oozing blood. Feng Shengyi screamed, he didn't realize it, raised his hand and pulled the sword from the sword stand beside him, and said in a deep voice: "Go!" ”

Feng Shengyi is still unknown, but seeing Li Jiao's eyes like fire, although it is a cold winter, a heat wave hits the outside of the hall, for fear that he will mess up the square inch, and he can't avoid taboos at the moment, so he stepped forward and grabbed his sleeve, and said urgently: "Your Highness is cautious!" Your Highness is cautious! Only this dragged on a package, and in an instant, Li Jiao's footsteps slowed down slightly, and his dim state of mind passed a trace of clarity, he stopped his steps, Feng Shengyi saw that his side was as sharp as a glacier washing a sword, and a wisp of thought slowly condensed his eyebrows from bottom to top, and finally said word by word: "You are right, this matter is very suspicious!" ”

"Your Highness, Your Highness!" Zuo Wei led Yan Ming to break into the main hall, swallowed a long breath, took a long breath, and opened his mouth to report: "There is news of the princess!" ”

Li Jiao was stunned, walked forward, and asked with burning eyes, "What did you say?" ”

"Your Highness," Yan Ming took a breath, "I just received a secret report from Jincheng County, saying that when the envoy of Xiliang Kingdom passed through the county yesterday evening, he carried two vehicles loaded with His Majesty's gifts, and those two vehicles were very suspicious. ”

Xiliang Kingdom, Your Majesty's gift, a high-than-human vehicle, two ...... No, Your Majesty did not give so many gifts! Li Jiao turned around and shouted: "Pass the order, prepare the carriage and horses quickly, and set off for Jincheng County immediately!" Yan Ming ordered him to retreat in a hurry, Li Jiao flicked his sleeves and sword, his clothes were agitated, and he stepped out of the hall first.

In the shadows under the corridor of the hall, a slender figure flashed out, and gently called, "Your Highness." Li Jiao glanced back in a hurry, it turned out to be Dugu Jing, his slightly relieved face was slightly lowered, and asked, "What's the matter?" His voice was so cold, stabbing Dugujing with a chill, Liao Liao's three words, it turned out that he didn't even want to say one more word to her, and he refused to give "you", he desperately earned so much, and he couldn't change his blue eyes. However, she still holds on to hope, refuses to compromise, she lost her parents at a young age, wanders alone, everything today is fought for by her own hands, she does not believe in fate, does not believe in eternity, does not believe in tears, does not believe in anything, she only believes in herself. With a straight voice, she maintained the courtesy and seriousness of being a maidservant: "Your Highness can't go to Jincheng County, the New Year is approaching, if Your Majesty doesn't have His Royal Highness to accompany you to keep the New Year, I'm afraid that I will be very troubled." ”

New Year's Close, New Year's Guard? It turned out that the New Year was about to be, but his pearls, at this time, I don't know where to float, his heart, in addition to pain, is panic and resentment. He snorted coldly and took a step towards her, she involuntarily stepped back, forcing her to look at her: "This king has made you satisfied, I can't give you more." Depending on who you are, the matter between me and Pearl, don't even think about meddle! If I find out that you did it this time—" He unsheathed his sword, and the light of the sword flashed like thunder and lightning, and in an instant her lonely and beautiful face was reflected, and the sword body went straight into the pillars, only the jewels on the scabbard flickered.

Dugujing came back to his senses, and there was no longer him on the long corridor. In the Yuande Palace, the lights are still bright. She dragged her long skirt and walked step by step to the pillar, each step seemed to weigh a thousand pounds, so heavy that she couldn't lift her feet, so heavy that she didn't want to go any further. She'd been dreaming of wearing this garment, and she was wearing it. That wasn't enough, she could go further, she would stand tall in the majestic court, and see who dared to underestimate her, a servant girl from a humble background.

When she finally got closer, she raised her arm and pulled out the sword. This is the sword given to him by His Majesty when he was fifteen years old, the sword aura is like a frost and a rainbow, and the gems on it are dazzling, just like her, in this life, he is dazzled.