Shen Zhufang realized that she was really crying, and she choked up: "Mo Yansi, everyone thinks you are dead." ”

Mo Yan glanced at her and smiled unintentionally: "Yes, even if you know that I am dead, I will not go back and forth; But as soon as I heard that something had happened to your highness, I rushed here in such a hurry. After speaking, I saw that Shen Zhuzhu's tears were still in her eyelashes, and there was a crystal teardrop, which fluttered under her long eyelashes, and it seemed to be flashing with colorful light in the night. She was still a little worried about herself, her tone couldn't help but soften, and she frowned slightly: "How did your voice become like this." Okay, we can't talk about the old here. Without saying anything, he pulled Shen Zhuzhu's arm and said, "Follow me." ”

He walked faltered, he didn't walk fast, his palms were large, and his arms held her so firmly and powerfully, and there were bursts of warmth transmitted to her. She followed behind, following in the footsteps, he was no different from five or six years, he was really silent, he really didn't die. Only then did she dare to be completely convinced that it was not a dream. She muttered softly behind him, "I should have thought that you wouldn't die so easily!" ”

He couldn't help but laugh when he heard these words clearly, and by this time they had entered a stone house that seemed to be used for deliberation. Mo Yansi seemed a little tired, and after entering the room, he leaned on the stone chair in the center casually and motioned for Shen Pearl to sit down as well. He closed his eyes and took a nap, and then said, "You don't have to worry, Li Yu is in my hands, everything is fine." ”

Shen Pearl jumped up from the chair and asked Mo Yan in surprise, "Why?" You, what the hell are you doing! And why did you tell the world that you were dead? ”

Mo Yan sipped and beckoned her to calm down: "I knew you were in a hurry." I called you, of course, I have to tell you all of them, but this matter is a bit long, and we have to start with our ten surnames Hui Su and nine surnamed Wuhu, you have to be patient to listen. ”

Shen Pearl didn't know the origin of the Hui Hui, and today I heard Mo Yan say this, secretly wondering, could it be that this Hui civil strife was related to this? Bow your head slightly and listen carefully.

"Five hundred years ago, the Orkhon River moistened the north and south of the desert, and its tributaries spread all over the world. There are ten rivers in one place and nine rivers in the other, and my ancestors of Hui people lived, nomadic and cultivated along the rivers, which is the origin of the ten Hui surnames and the nine surnames Wuhu. Later, there was a great hero in the ten Hui surnames, who united the ten Hui and the nine Wu Hu, known as the Tiele tribe, all of us Hui people are united, and the tribe is becoming more and more prosperous. More than 100 years ago, during the great cause of the Great Sui, the Turkic Luo Khan bullied the weak and suddenly attacked my Hui tribes, and the leader at that time, Jian Qijin, led his people to resist the enemy in blood, defeated the Turks, and Jian Qijin was the first monarch of my Hui Hui. (Note) "Mo Yan was sipping on the half-chair and was talking about this, when he heard someone outside knocking and saying a few words of Huifu, and the voice was the leading Huifu. Mo Yan frowned and waved his hand, and said a few words back, and the outside was silent.

Shen Pearl said: "If you have something to deal with, I'll wait for you." ”

Mo Yan snorted and said, "You don't need to say this. Then he continued: "However, after this series of vicious battles, I have suffered heavy losses from the nineteen surnamed tribes, especially among the nine surnamed Wuhu, the Derick clan was originally the strongest, but after the war, the people were the most withered. After Jian Qijin became the ruler, in order to praise his people, he personally promised his own daughter, Toguz, the princess of our Yao Luo Ge clan, to marry to Derick in order to reproduce offspring and make the six animals prosperous. "Yao Luo Ge is the surname of Mo Yansi, and it is a family of Hui Khan. Hearing this, Shen Pearl secretly screamed in her heart, she had seen Hui girls like Jemiyi and Akina, and knew that they were fierce and loyal, if they were to marry someone they didn't like, even if the gods descended they couldn't prevent them from resisting the heavens.

Sure enough, Mo Yan sighed long and said, "Successfully defeating the foreign captives, and then the marriage of the eldest daughter of the king, this would have been a great joy, but who would have thought that it would become a disaster for today's Hui. Toguz insisted on refusing to marry Delik, and on the eve of his marriage, he ran away with a young man from the Gesa clan of the Hui Dynasty. Jian Qijin was furious, chased after him at night, and personally arrested the two of them. Toguz still refused to comply, and Jian Qijin had to burn the two at the stake according to the clan rules—"

"Burn at the stake!" Shen Zhuzhu's body trembled slightly, thinking back to a hundred years ago, the stubborn Hui girl burned herself to fire and did not regret it until she died, what kind of tragedy and tragedy it was.

Mo Yan sipped his face without changing his face, paused slightly, and continued: "Although the two of Toguz and the others were punished, the rift already exists. Derick felt a great loss of face, not only hated Gesa's deeply, but also complained deeply about our medicine Luo Ge's. In addition, in the next hundred years, the Derick clan has never been able to return to its former prosperity, and they believe even more in what the shaman said at the beginning, believing that it was the result of this incident. This time, Ye Hu, this kid-" snorted coldly in his nose, "Ye Hu, this kid, I really underestimated him." He even secretly gathered the Derick clan and several other tribes who had complained about my medicine Luo Ge clan for many years, and took advantage of the invasion of foreign enemies to try to take my throne! ”

Shen Zhuzhu's hands were slightly sweaty, and he said: "Ye Hu, how did it become like this, you have always been kind to him, and you treat him like a parent." I didn't expect him to have such ambitions! ”

Mo Yan sneered: "What he is obsessed with is that he is not my biological son. Over the years, I have deliberately cultivated him and established authority for him everywhere, hoping that he can assist in the construction of the land in the future. Where did you think that he harbored evil intentions and acted very viciously, you and I only raised a wolf back then. ”

"In that case, with your prestige, why don't you take the initiative immediately, why do you want to cheat to death?" Shen Pearl asked.

Mo Yansi stood up, turned his face sideways, turned his back to Shen Zhuzhu, and took a few steps: "Now is not the time." I'm going to wait—he has other incriminating evidence. ”

Shen Pearl felt that he couldn't figure it out, with Mo Yansi's usual arbitrary and domineering way of acting, if he knew about Ye Hu's conspiracy, he should go down with a knife and take his life immediately, where did he need any evidence; With the military strength and power that Mo Yan Si has in his hands, where do you need to cheat death to avoid this little oasis!

She frowned, and wanted to ask again, but she heard Mo Yan sob: "I took Li Yu because now that I am in the midst of life and death, I must not let him disturb the situation." Besides, if Ye Hu knew that the Tang Dynasty Prince was coming, it would be unfavorable to him. Turning his head, he said to Shen Pearl in a deep voice: "You are the same." ”

Shen Pearl suddenly realized: "It turns out that the method you used to deal with Li Yu was the same as the method of luring me here. She remembered that along the way, she would always find the discarded Gui and the remnants of the green canvas used to build the camp tent, and she was puzzled. Now she can only scold herself for being too stupid - because Li Yu and his party have also disappeared from time to time, and since they are missing, the cloth they used to build the camp is of course a burden, and it is natural that they will be discarded by the other attendants. It's just that why Mo Yansi wants to say that Hui Su is "in the midst of life and death", and the matter is so serious?

Mo Yan stared at her and smiled: "I thought of it, you said that it is almost the same, in fact, my treatment of your Highness is still far from treating you." You came here of your own free will, but I brought him here after I forcibly subdued him. ”

Shen Pearl said: "All this, why don't you tell us directly, you have to design a trap to lure us into the bait?" ”

Mo Yan shook his head: "Your Highness, he is conceited and arrogant, where will he listen to my persuasion and return to the Tang Dynasty; As for you, you've always been too smart, and as soon as you set out, I knew it. If you don't take Li Yu as a lure, will you come here to meet me? And—"

He smiled, "I don't want to force you here, and I don't have time to 'pick up' you personally." ”

Shen Pearl sighed: "You designed it so dangerously, just to let me know: this design is not to take my life, but to lead me in the direction." And I, knowing that it was a plan, but it was a matter of Li Yu's life and death, and I still couldn't help but be unwilling to enter the urn. ”

"I wonder how many people in the world are as smart as you; And in the world, there are a few people who are as smart as you, but for a man with little affection, they go to the soup like this. Mo Yansi sat back on the chair, looked at Shen Zhuzhu, and said slowly, word by word.

Shen Pearl lowered his head and said softly: "He is the prince of the world after all, and he is the father of Shi'er after all." ”

Mo Yan was silent. After a long time, he said, "Here he is." Shen Pearl looked up, and he continued: "Temporarily detained in the west house, along with the missing attendants he and you brought with them, they are all imprisoned alive. After a month or two of civil strife subsided, I would naturally send someone to escort him and you back. Do you - do you want to see him now? ”

Shen Pearl was slightly stunned, and then smiled indifferently: "Since everything is fine with him, why do I need to go to see him?" I have become strangers to him, and I am relieved to know that he is safe and sound. He sipped to Mo Yan, "You don't have to tell him I've been here. ”

Mo Yan sighed lightly and said, "Your current appearance is similar to the tenacity and resemblance of the first time you met, which is reassuring. ”

Shen Pearl suddenly thought of Li Wan, and said hurriedly: "How is Wan'er now?" You left her alone with Ye Hu, and you didn't let us save her, she was in a foreign land, isolated, how could you do this! ”

Mo Yan said solemnly: "She is no longer the princess of the Tang Dynasty and the county lord who can act arbitrarily in Chang'an, she is my Ke He Dun, the mother of a country." In this case, she must do everything that Hoedon should do, life and death, it is no longer up to her! Seeing that Shen Zhuzhu's face was a little pale, Fang added a sentence: "Ha Zhu Ba Thorn Hesun is a person who is loyal to me, although Ye Hu wants to take the throne, but he does not dare to live in the city for a long time, he detains the princess of Ningguo, and designed to murder my uncle Qi Si, who guards Fugui City, and is still entrenched in Fugui City." But you can rest assured for the time being, if there is no accident, Ning Guo's life will not be in danger. ”

Shen Pearl looked at him: "You say so, the situation is under your control?" Mo Yansi never said something that he was not sure of, since he said so, Li Wan should not be in much danger, and Shen Pearl was a little relieved.

Mo Yan thought for a moment and nodded, "You can say so." Although Ye Hu has been planning for a long time, he is still too young after all. I also need time, though. It's not safe for you to get out of the desert now. This place is the safest for you and Li Yu. You have to appease the group of attendants below, Hugh must act at will, and I will ensure that you return to Datang unharmed. Besides, in ten days, Jemiyi and Chengyin will also come, and you can get together. ”

Shen Pearl was a little surprised: "They are coming too?" Then he became a little puzzled, "What are they doing here?" ”

The corners of Mo Yan's lips turned, and he smiled a little treacherously: "Zhemiyi is also a Hui person, so naturally he is here for Hui Hui." ”

Shen Pearl felt that there were too many things she had to accept this night too suddenly: Mo Yansi's death, Li Yu's safety, Hui's civil strife, Ye Hu's ambition, Li Wan's safety, and Zhemiyi's coming...... It was so much that she couldn't figure it out for a while.

At that moment, a muffled knock on the door was heard. Mo Yan's eyes narrowed, as if he was angry, and reprimanded a few words in a reply, and when he finished speaking, the Hui people outside the room continued to speak in a low voice, and after finishing speaking, he couldn't hear Mo Yan's answer for a long time, so Fang dragged away with heavy steps. Shen Pearl secretly wondered, although she couldn't understand what they were saying, she could hear the voices of the Hui people outside the room full of pleading, as if they were persuading Mo Yan to sip something. Seeing that it was too late, she didn't want to hinder Mo Yansi's actions, so she got up and left.

Mo Yan stared at her for a long time, and Fang said, "Okay, I'll send you." ”

Shen Pearl walked slowly in the direction of the door, and heard Mo Yan sipping his leather boots on the ground of the stone slab behind him, making a heavy sound of pricking, and he was behind her, so close to her.

She reached out to push the door, and suddenly her left arm tightened, and the person was still in ignorance, and he had already pulled him back and embraced him.

It wasn't the bosom she was once familiar with. But snuggling in such an embrace, she had a long-lost, stable trust and serenity, and for some reason, she didn't struggle and resist for the first time. Is she too tired? She has traveled thousands of mountains and rivers to come, and has supported her weak body until now, is she too tired?

She heard Mo Yan sob, "Pearl, you should know—I ...... you Not inferior to anyone else in the world. ”

She looked up slowly, and met his eyes, perhaps because he was too tired from the long journey, his face was slightly dark. He said, "I said I would never disobey your will. But Li Yu can't understand you after all, he has a new love and leaves you behind...... For the past two years, your whereabouts have been uncertain, and I have not been able to catch you; When I say goodbye to you this time, I'm just afraid that I won't be able to see you again. Since you were able to leave Li Yu ruthlessly back then, I only hope that you can truly forget the past in the future and ask for nothing else. ”

When Shen Pearl heard Mo Yan sip the words "another new love", she felt that her heart and body were twitching and trembling vigorously, and there was an irrepressible pain rising from the depths of the heart, so that suddenly her emotions could no longer be controlled, she gently pushed Mo Yansip away, leaned on the stone chair, and slowly cried.

In the two years of Wuxing, she was in love with the landscape, and she never missed him, nor did she forget him. She thought that she could face everything about him calmly, and thought that he had become a distant relative to her, a reminiscence of the past years. She chose to leave, she chose to be fulfilled, he was angry and angry, he was the prince, he would inevitably empathize with her, he would definitely marry a newcomer, have children, and be in the shadow of his knees. It was she who traveled thousands of miles back to save him, and only because he was her relative, so she did not prevaricate or hesitate.

She thought she could turn a deaf ear, she could not think about it, she could not feel pain. However, when Chen Zhou said that Li Yu favored Zhang Hanruo, her heart was still inexplicably distressed and lost. There was already one side of her heart that was firmly occupied by him, and even if she didn't touch it, he was still there. Now, his heart has been taken away by her, and it no longer belongs to her...... This should have been the result she expected, and she tried her best to restrain and forbear all the way, not wanting to miss it, until this time, she couldn't suppress it after all.

Mo Yan looked at her with pity, let her cry and vent, and when she cried and settled, Fang stepped forward and clasped her wrist, and said in a deep and resolute voice: "Since you have cried for him so sadly, then be more resolute: forget him." ”

Forgot about him? Can she really forget him completely?

Mo Yan slurped and half-crouched in front of her, the sincerity and concern in his eyes were clearly visible. What he has done for her over the years is just too much. However, even if she repents at the moment, he is already Li Wan's husband.

She silently pulled out her wrist and smiled sadly: "Creation is so tricky, it makes me have no way out. He got up and sipped a blessing at Mo Yan and walked outside.

Mo Yan was slightly stunned, and then knew the meaning of Shen Pearl's words, a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes, and the surprise was mixed with a wisp of pain that was difficult to see, he simply staggered to take two steps forward, his arms were tightly together, and he hugged Shen Pearl's body tightly from behind.

Shen Zhuzhu's body stiffened and stopped.

She listened to Mo Yan sobbing and said: "If the sky is my time, Li Wan and I will not be husband and wife. After Yidi Jian succeeds to the throne smoothly, I will send her back to the Tang Dynasty, you and I-" He didn't continue, there was an unprecedented sadness and panic in his words, it shouldn't belong to the god-like sorrow and panic of Hui Khan's silent sip, she didn't understand, she was a little confused, but for some reason, she actually shed tears again. In the past two years, she rarely cried, but why did she cry so much when she saw him?

A tear fell, dripping on the back of Mo Yan's sipping hand, as warm as her heart; He still hugged her tightly, didn't let go, didn't move a bit.

I don't know how long it took, she slowly turned around and faced him, she raised her eyebrows lightly, as if she was infinitely confused, as if asking him, and asking herself: "Everything, is it still too late?" ”

The pain in Mo Yan's eyes was fleeting, and for the first time in his life, he felt his heart flutter uncontrollably. He couldn't speak, so he could only hold her tightly in his arms again.

After a long time, he muttered, "I wish it was okay—"

Note: This section refers to the records of the Old Tang Dynasty Book of Hui Hui, the Moyan Si Tablet and the Nine Uighur Khan Tablets. The Hui themselves are made up of nine clans. One of them, Luo Ge, is the surname of the hereditary Hui Khan family. The second is Hu Luge. The third is Drobe. Fourth, the song is over. The fifth is Abedi. Sixth, Gesa. Seventh, dysentery. Eighth, medicine Bege. Nine is Xi Yebe.

(Tianjin)