Changsun Yun went out of the palace, turned a corner and came to the street, it was almost dusk, the sky was getting darker a little, the crowd on the street began to collect their stalls one after another, Changsun Yun walked along the stone road on the bank of the river with his hands behind his back.

He thought of everything he had now, the title of the prince, the emperor's favor, and the immeasurable future in the eyes of others.

Each of these things is not what you care about the most, so what do you care about the most?

Changsun Yun walked to the bank of the river, picked up a stone and threw it into the lake, and the lake surface rippled in a circle, looking at this scene, Changsun Yun couldn't help but smile bitterly, he suddenly remembered that he had a feeling that was not mixed with desire.

It was dark, Xia Mengning had already finished eating, and was served by Zhulian to bathe and change clothes, so she sat in front of the window and read a book while drying her hair.

"Click!" An extremely small voice came, Xia Mengning's ears moved, the method of cultivating internal qi has been perfected, even if it is a movement hundreds of miles away, as long as he concentrates, he will hear a thing or two.

Quietly outside the house, Xia Mengning took a yellow silk coat and put it on, took a candle from the table on the couch, and walked out of the house lightly.

The early summer nights are quiet and mild, not as hot as during the day, but a little cooler.

Holding the candlestick in one hand, Xia Mengning pulled the hair from her ears, walked along the path to the bamboo forest behind the bamboo branch garden, walked a few steps, and sure enough, in the bamboo pavilion, she saw the eldest Sun Yun dressed in white.

"What a sensitive ear." Eldest Sun Yun sat on the bamboo chair in the pavilion, tilted his head, and said to Xia Meng with a smile.

Xia Mengning blew out the candle, picked up the corner of her skirt and walked to the bamboo pavilion, and said with a light smile: "You know that I cultivate internal strength, and naturally I also know that my ear power is much better than ordinary people, you deliberately didn't use light work, and you also stepped on the branches of the plane tree in front of my yard, such a big movement, it is difficult for me not to hear it." ”

Eldest Sun Yun smiled, and said these words to Xia Mengning could not be denied.

The two sat opposite each other for a while, and Changsun Yun spoke, "I went to the palace today." As he spoke, he told Xia Mengning all these things today.

Xia Mengning frowned, "In this way, things are not ordinarily bad. ”

Eldest Sun Yun let out an 'oh' and asked, "What is your opinion?" ”

Xia Mengning shook his head, "I can't talk about opinions, I just think that this matter may be deliberate, you think, if this snake beauty is a precious spice in the Western Regions, then the king and royal family of the Western Regions must use it all year round, but if it is used all year round, I am afraid that it will attack, then they must know the danger of this spice, if they know the danger of this spice and come to pay tribute, it can only explain two points." ”

As she spoke, Xia Mengning looked up at Changsun Yun, "Either the Western Regions deliberately provoked the Northern Kingdom with this spice, or someone did something halfway." ”

Eldest Sun Yun nodded, he had considered these ideas, but now the Western Regions State is average, it is not enough to fight against the Northern Kingdom, but it is not a big problem, as long as an army is sent to exert pressure in the past, it will soon suppress those forces that are ready to move.

Xia Mengning just said casually, in fact, she only remembered how to bring down the Fang clan in her heart, and Eldest Sun Yun raised his eyes and looked at her expression, and then said: "Uncle Huang attaches great importance to this matter, and he will issue a holy decree to deal with this matter in a few days, you don't have to worry." ”

Xia Mengning listened to this, and the stone in her heart was put down, Changsun Yun was not very close to her, but she could still see a strand of broken hair on her forehead sticking to her smooth forehead, the gentle wind blew, and a cool floral smell drifted to her nose along the breeze.

"You ......"

"You ......"

The two were silent for a while, and they actually raised their heads at the same time to speak, and the eldest grandson Yun smiled, his eyes as bright as stars narrowed slightly, "You say it first." Xia Mengning was slightly unnatural, and her fingers stirred the long hair on her chest, "You seem to be in a bad mood?" ”

Changsun Yun nodded, "I thought I covered it up thoroughly enough, but I didn't expect it to be seen by you." ”

Xia Meng stared, with a faint smile on the corner of her mouth, "I just think that if I was in a good mood, I wouldn't have such depressed eyes." ”

Changsun Yun's eyes darkened, looked at the bamboo forest in the distance, and said leisurely: "Everyone has secrets that no one knows, you see how glamorous he lives on weekdays, in fact, who can know the bitterness behind it?" ”

Xia Mengning was silent, her eyes darkened slightly, and she looked at a small grass at her feet in a daze.

The gentle wind blew in gusts, and the sound of 'brushing' in the bamboo forest was particularly terrifying in the quiet night, and Changsun Yun suddenly said, "You don't seem to be afraid?" ”

When Xia Mengning heard this, he shook his head and said: "What about being afraid, is it not afraid to say the word fear, many times, I would rather be calm, let people think that I am invincible, have no weaknesses, and I don't want people to know that I am afraid." ”

After Xia Mengning finished speaking, the memories of his previous life and the various experiences he had experienced in this life flashed in his mind, and he unconsciously sighed with a lot of emotion in his heart.

"That's the case at a young age, if it's a man, he will definitely make a big difference in the future." Eldest Sun Yun looked at her and spoke.

Xia Mengning laughed out loud, her smooth and flawless palms covered the corners of her mouth, and a pair of autumn pupils bent up and said, "What about men, as a daughter, I feel better than many men." ”

Changsun Yun was bewildered by her coquettish appearance, looked at her without blinking, and said, "Indeed, if we are men, where can you and I have such fate." ”

Xia Mengning stopped laughing, coughed slightly, her cheeks turned unnaturally red, her eyes slashed around, and she lost her center of gravity.

The eldest grandson Yun is eighteen, five years older than Xia Mengning, but now the eldest grandson Yun feels that the thirteen-year-old little girl in front of him has an indescribable attachment, he looked at Xia Mengning deeply a few times, and said lightly: "Do you know that I have loved a woman deeply before?" ”

Xia Mengning raised her head, a little puzzled, Changsun Yun smiled bitterly, and said slowly: "I and Ruoxin are childhood sweethearts, she is two years older than me, when we were young, we loved each other very much, her father was once the emperor's hand-picked martial champion, but later, when he led the army to war with the south, he became a prisoner, Ruoxin and her mother also went, and never came back, until a year later, the court sent a general to subdue the southern country, and finally won." ”

Xia Mengning listened blankly and did not speak.

"I went to look for her, but I didn't find it, and later, I accidentally learned that when Ruoxin's father was captured by the Southern Kingdom, it was her father who sent someone to tell her and her mother, and my father had always disliked me getting too close to Ruoxin, as soon as the news came out, the two of them were very worried, so they set off to look for it, and since then, it has never appeared again."

After Changsun Yun finished speaking, he looked at Xia Mengning, and saw that the other party was still listening, so he said again, "As time slowly passes, I have forgotten her, but my father is ...... Not only did I not feel that I had done anything wrong at that time, but I also said that Ruoxin was not worthy of me at all, so I let this heart die. ”

As he spoke, Eldest Sun Yun raised his head, Xia Mengning looked at him, his body was cold, and in the faint moonlight, it was like an epiphany that exuded a unique atmosphere.

It turns out that we are all hurt people, Xia Mengning thought to herself, slowly got up and walked over and reached out to touch his hand, Changsun Yun lowered her head to look, and finally slowly opened her palm and wrapped her hand in the palm of her hand.

In a soft tone, Xia Mengning said, "It's going to be okay, everything is going to be okay." ”

Eldest Sun Yun's chest shook, as if he was intimidated by this simple sentence, he nodded lightly, "In the future, I will only be good to you, only you." ”

Xia Mengning believes that because the eldest grandson Yun can confess these things in front of him, it is enough to see his heart, she is not not caring, but empathizing, a relationship that cannot be fruitful, there is no need to be jealous, let alone suspicious, after all, cherishing the person in front of you is the most important thing.