It's another day's journey, the second time I returned home, not as lively and festive as the first time, when I parted, the master handed me the jade flute on my waist, I looked at the master in surprise, in my impression, this jade flute stayed with the master for longer than me, the master said expressionlessly, this is the first to be deposited with you.

I nodded, took it tremblingly, I held the jade flute in my hand, and asked casually: "Master, what if I accidentally lose it?" ”

The master responded lightly: "Then boil all the medicine that the master has treasured over the years for you to drink." ”

I looked horrified, nodded again and again, and promised, "Even if you lose me, it will never lose it!" ”

I don't know how the master explained to my parents, and when I met again, he didn't ask me why I disappeared suddenly, so he told me to pay attention to my body in the future, and let me go back to the room to rest first, I stepped back with a respectful face, and couldn't help but sigh in my heart, the master is really powerful.

In the blink of an eye, a month has passed. I gradually got used to my life at home, the colder the weather, the snow silk fell like a veil, I brushed the silent piano, looking at the plum blossom trees outside the window, the stars were set off, very beautiful. During this month, the master came once or twice, but each time he was in a hurry, and it seemed that he had something to do, and I was too embarrassed to stay longer.

Of course, I was not idle, ten years in the mountains and isolated from the world, ignorant of the outside world, after a month of unremitting efforts, I basically understood some of the situation of the dynasty in this era.

The world is divided into five points, a total of five countries: Chenyou, Nanfeng, Luanling, Xuanjiang, and Duoqi, and Nanfeng is still the only country where a woman is the emperor, although I have a faint premonition, I don't know what is happening behind the scenes, but at least now on the surface, the five countries get along very harmoniously, and they will go to each other to communicate with each other if they have nothing to do, and they have done enough things in terms of diplomatic face, I think it is really not easy.

And the country where I am is - Luanling, Luanling's national strength is not weak among the five countries, the geographical environment is good, and the people live and work in peace and contentment.

In recent years, there is only one thing worth gossiping, that is, the old emperor died a year ago, which was nothing, but I don't know what medicine the old emperor took wrong before he died, and he actually left the throne to Xia Zihuang, the third prince who was not the prince, since it was the last will of the old emperor, the prince Xia Zicheng accepted it calmly and did not make any expression, and the story could have ended here.

And no one thought that two months later, Xia Zicheng disappeared for no reason, which couldn't help but make many people with bad minds have a lot of inexplicable associations.

Since Xia Zihuang has no heirs, the crown prince has been vacant since then, which is the death of the current queen mother, so he immediately asked the emperor to order the first batch of show girls to enter the palace this year.

And now there is only one month left before the first batch of drafts into the palace, the days are approaching, but the family is getting quieter and quieter, and no one usually mentions this matter when I meet my parents, you look at me and I look at you, if I don't see a few strange rays of light in that look inadvertently, otherwise I would really think that the things I heard that night did not exist, to be honest, under this discordant calm, I was a little uneasy.

As usual, when it was time to practice, I took the master's jade flute, held the Jingyu qin, and prepared to go to Changting Pavilion, Changting Pavilion This place is the first major harvest I came here, I didn't expect my family to be quite rich, Changting Pavilion is generally used to receive guests, so there is usually no one, surrounded by water, the environment is elegant, it is a good place to practice.

I didn't go far before I heard Qin Fan calling me from afar, and since this month, Qin Fan will take the initiative to come to me to play, so I will be closer to her.

I turned around and answered, Qin Fan ran to me panting, saw me holding the qin, looking like I was ready to practice, and hurriedly said: "Sister, you want to practice the piano, but just now my mother asked me to ask you to go to the pavilion, it's not good to take the piano." ”

I nodded, and asked Qin Fan to help me take Jingyu back, and I don't know why there was only one sentence in my mind: what should come is always coming.

On the way there, I still made fun of myself, how can I have a feeling that the strong man is gone, but who knows what will happen in the future?

Far away, I saw my parents sitting on the pavilion early, and I thought, if it really can't work, I'll run away again, entering the palace is such an unreliable thing in my eyes, it's better not to participate, but the master said he would help me.

"Qin Lin, you're here." My mother saw me coming up and smiled at me. I stepped forward and said hello, my mother asked me to sit down, my father didn't speak, and put on the majesty of the head of the family, my mother looked at me and said, "Qin Lin, you are 16 years old this year, and you are not small in Luanling, right?" ”

I nodded, my mother looked at my obedient expression, very satisfied, she continued: "At my age, I would have been married a long time ago, Qin Lin, a month later, but it will be ......."

Before my mother's words were finished, my father couldn't help beating around the bush and said directly: "Qin Lin, I want you to participate in the draft in a month and enter the palace as a concubine, are you willing?" ”

Look, it's this.

"Little girl, I don't want to!" I tried to make my tone sound firm, and I looked directly at my father, but I thought in my heart what I was going to do later, this month was not in vain, I can understand that my father's temper is not very good.

As expected, the father was furious, he slammed the table and shouted, "I'll let you go, and you can go!" ”

Listen, I really want to support my forehead, I have lived outside for ten years, and I have long not had the consciousness of the parents' order of the deep ladies, how can I accept it, I also stood up, bowed, and said, "I'm really sorry, Qin Lin really can't accept it." With that, I turned around and walked away.

At that time, I thought I was quite handsome.

My father roared behind my back, "Stop! ”

However, I didn't stop, anyway, I just thought about leaving here first, let's calm down for a few days, and then discuss it well, and was about to go down the pavilion, when I saw Luo Qinxin coming towards me from the other side, she and I were slightly stunned, and when we reacted, our hands were already grabbed by the mother who caught up.

I frowned, turned around, and wanted to look up and say something, when I saw my father's hand waving towards me, followed by a hot pain in the right side of my face, to be honest, I never thought he would make a move, I barely supported my body, did not fall to the ground, looked at him in disbelief, I could vaguely feel that Luo Qinxin seemed to shout something, I didn't seem to hear clearly, I could only feel an empty silence in my right ear.

The scene became a little chaotic, obviously, my parents didn't expect Luo Qinxin's appearance, which caught them off guard, I raised my hand and touched the right side of my face, a sharp pain couldn't help but make me gasp, Qinxin pounced, blocked in front of me, my mother stepped forward and wanted to pull her away, my father raised his hand, as if he was going to hit me again, Qinxin was shouting something, I didn't hear it very clearly, I only saw her break free from her mother's hand, and before the slap fell, she pushed me away.

However, she only thought about not letting my father hit me, but she forgot that I was standing on the side of the stairs at this time, and I happened to be pushed by her like this, and I was unstable, so I pushed down.

The moment I fell, I saw Qin Xin's panicked expression, even my father couldn't believe it, and I felt that the whole world was leaving me.

"Xiao Lin!" It seemed far away, and I heard a heart-rending roar, much like a master, but I had never heard him so panicked, probably hallucinations.

The last picture is that the plum blossoms in winter are flying on the branches, the petals are slowly falling, so beautiful that they don't seem to be so real, and then there is a violent stinging pain through my head, and my eyes seem to be filled with a layer of blood-colored mist that can't be dissolved, lying on the cold ground, I struggled with my last consciousness, trying to lift my hand, trying to touch the thing that worries me, I don't know if the master's jade flute was broken in this impact, it is something that the master gave me to keep, if it is broken, the master will be unhappy.

Unfortunately, I couldn't move anymore, and my consciousness was gradually detached. Suddenly, a familiar warmth surrounded me, a trembling hand touched the right side of my face, I felt that I could not feel the pain now, I used all my last strength, gritted my teeth and shouted: "Master......"

The hand froze.

The plum blossoms of the winter moon are in full bloom.

This fragrance is so sweet that the master definitely doesn't like it.