On the streets of the upper capital, two carriages were moving one after the other, not fast, and the horses were almost pacing slowly, as if they were afraid that if they ran fast, they would disturb the master sitting on the carriage.

The one in front is the car of the Ling'an County Lord's Mansion, and the one in the back is the car of the Yue Wang's Mansion.

Wenxiang sat in the car with Bai Yanyu, and when she saw Bai Yanyu leaning on the carriage with her eyes closed and not speaking, she didn't speak. But she knew that Bai Yanyu hadn't slept, and the car behind her had been following halfway from the palace gate, neither approaching nor far away, always maintaining a distance where she could see the car. She knew that it was the protection of her master by the Seven Princes.

Shangdu City warms up early, and even at night in this season, it doesn't make people feel cold, only the night breeze is cool and comfortable.

Wenxiang lifted the curtain of the car slightly, Bai Yanyu opened her eyes to look at her, and she said: "The county lord has drunk a lot of wine tonight, and the carriage is bumpy, so it will feel more comfortable to breathe." ”

Bai Yanyu didn't say anything, just tilted her head to look out the window, and at a glance saw the carriage not far away.

She frowned and called the coachman: "Stop." ”

When the carriage stopped, she got up and went out, and when she got up, her movements were more violent, and her body shook a little.

Wen Xiang hurriedly helped, but she waved her hand, "I'm fine, go down and walk, you don't have to follow me, just go back to the house by yourself." ”

Wen Xiang was not at ease, "The slave and maid can't leave the county lord, it's so late, how can the county lord walk outside alone." ”

She smiled, "How can it be a person, don't you see someone following you all the time?" Listen to me, go back. After speaking, he lifted the curtain and jumped out of the carriage directly. The coachman was so frightened that he hurried to help, so he didn't let her fall.

Wen Xiang saw that she was still walking and shaking, and wanted to follow, but Bai Yanyu said: "If you insist on following, don't wait by my side tomorrow, go back to Tianci Town." "I didn't dare to move when I smelled the incense. Thinking that there were seven princes in the back, I was also relieved.

The carriage of the county lord's mansion left, and Bai Yanyu walked back leisurely, facing the carriage of the Yue Wang's mansion.

The coachman of Yue Wang's Mansion was startled, and hurriedly stopped the horse, for fear that the county lord of Ling'an would sway and hit the carriage, so he quickly turned around and said to the master in the carriage: "Master, the county lord got off, and the carriage of the county lord's mansion also left, so she came to us alone!" ”

The curtain of the carriage was lifted at once, and the Seventh Prince walked out of it, and at a glance, he saw Bai Yanyu's feet stepping on her skirt, and the whole person was planting on the ground in a daze.

He was frightened, flew out, grabbed it, and said urgently: "Sit in the car, what are you doing down?" "Look again, sure enough, the carriage of the county lord's mansion is gone." Where's your carriage? ”

"I'm home." She stood up straight, shaking off his support, "I ask you, why are you following me?" ”

Jun Munan was helpless, "You drank too much, I will follow you, and I will leave after watching you return home safely." ”

She was a little angry, "I'm a county lord, what can happen to me in my own carriage?" ”

"It can't happen, but there's a chance in everything, and I can't let it happen." He told the truth.

Bai Yan's tone was not good: "His Royal Highness seems to be too concerned about the Ling'an County Lord's Mansion, is he afraid that I won't be able to defend that mansion?" Or are you afraid that I will lose all the property he left behind? Don't worry, it's my life, and unless I die, I'll keep it. ”

He shook his head, "I'm not worried about the mansion, I'm the one who is in charge of you." ”

"I have nothing to worry about, Your Highness the Seventh, please go back."

He sighed, "Your car is gone, if I go, how do you go back?" ”

Bai Yanyu looked back, and only then did she remember that she had just let the carriage go back, "Yes, my carriage is gone, then I will walk back on two legs." Anyway, it's not far, and it's half an hour at most. ”

He didn't argue, just nodded and said, "Okay, then you can go back!" ”

Bai Yanyu said that she would go, although she drank a little too much, but fortunately, she still remembered the way home. Even when he turned around, he was still shaking, and the Seventh Prince watched from behind, resisted the urge to help her, and waved his hand to let his carriage go back to the house first.

The carriage was gone, and there was no one else on the street, so he followed her quietly, and he was as fast as she was, and as slow as he was.

In this way, after following for a long time, Bai Yanyu finally stopped again, "The front is the Ling'an County Lord's Mansion, aren't you going back?" ”

Jun Munan shook his head, "There is another paragraph, you continue to walk, the door of the mansion is opened, you go in, and I will go back." ”

She turned around suddenly, I don't know when her eyes turned red, this time the movement was too big, and the tears in her eyes fell, Chu Chu was pitiful.

Jun Munan was a little panicked, walked two steps to her, and asked with concern, "What's wrong?" Okay, what are you crying about? ”

Bai Yanyu raised her hand and wiped it on her face, she didn't know what to cry about, but she wanted to cry when she thought of herself walking on the street in the middle of the night, and there was someone behind her because she was worried about her.

Once upon a time, she was the unpopular lady in the Wenguo Mansion, no one would look at her squarely, and no one took her seriously. Not to mention wandering on the road in the middle of the night, even if she dies outside, I'm afraid that her father won't care about her.

But now it's different, now someone is protecting her, this person is still a prince, just like the Fifth Highness at the beginning, fished her out of the ice lake, hugged her tightly to keep her warm, and told her over and over again that she held on and didn't die.

She wasn't dead, but he was.

"Why are you protecting me?" She asked, "I don't know you well, I haven't even been here before, I don't even know you." Why did you suddenly get close to me after I became the Lord of Ling'an, and you had to appear by my side from time to time? Seventh Highness, what exactly are your intentions? What can you draw from me? She tilted her head, trying to think, "Do you want the business he left behind?" Or do you want him to have some secrets in King Ling's mansion? There must be a reason why you are close to me, and it is not because you have fallen in love with me that you have to approach me. Seventh Highness, I didn't suddenly appear in Shangdu City, I have been here since I was a child, I am still a young lady in the Wenguo Mansion, you should have taken a fancy to me a long time ago, it is impossible to wait until I become the lord of Ling'an. ”

One by one, her questions were thrown at him, and he froze in place, not knowing how to answer.

I can't tell her that the reason why he protects her is because he feels guilty about the fifth brother in his heart.

I can't tell her that the reason why he protects her is because he wants to repay the debt to the fifth brother.

The fifth brother died, and some debts had nowhere to be repaid, so he paid her back in one go. But he never thought about whether she was willing or not, nor did he think about when she would pay it back, let alone think about paying it back like this, it was unfair to Bai Yanyu.

Seeing that he didn't squeak, Bai Yanyu smiled, "Your Highness the Seventh, if you want anything, you can just say it, you are the prince, although I am a county lord, but I am a foreign surname, in fact, it has nothing to do with the royal family." So you came to me as a prince to ask me for something, and I didn't dare not give it. But listen, whatever I can give, I will give you, in order to buy a good life, but if you want to touch him at all, I'm sorry, I can fight with you. After she finished speaking, she suddenly raised her hand and pulled out a hairpin from her head.

The tip of the hairpin stabbed straight at the throat of the Seventh Prince, he didn't hide, he just stood in place, and let the hairpin pierce the throat, all of which pierced the skin and blooded.

Bai Yanyu's hand covering the hairpin trembled, and her eyes widened. The piercing blood frightened her when it poured out of the punctured flesh, and she threw the hairpin and pulled his neck with both hands, trying to wipe it away.

The little hand touched his throat one by one, but the bleeding did not stop. Her tears crackled down her face, and she kept saying, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to, I thought you would definitely hide." Why don't you hide? Are you stupid? ”

Sobbing turned into crying, crying uncontrollably. Jun Munan pulled her around her neck, didn't say anything, just looked at her howling and crying, and suddenly felt distressed.

It's a long-lost distress, like when I was with that girl many years ago, I was also so distressed.

But he was wrong, and the fifth brother was also wrong, the consequence of the two princes falling in love with a woman at the same time was that the royal family would come forward to erase the woman, wipe it all out, and never exist in the world again.

That was the thing he regretted the most in his life, not only because he lost that girl, but also because he was sorry for the fifth brother. If he hadn't intervened back then, maybe the girl would have fallen in love with the fifth brother slowly, and there would have been a good marriage.

It's a pity that everything can't go back to the beginning, no matter how many danqing he paints in the mansion, the girl's appearance can only remain in the painting.

Even if he stayed in the painting, the pictures he painted again in the past two years were all exactly the same, because the years were so long that he couldn't remember what she looked like, and he couldn't remember what kind of clothes she liked to wear. Now the pictures are painted according to the previous paintings, he thought, maybe from now on there will never be a need to paint portraits again, the years have forgotten her, and only one image is left in his heart, which is the best ending.

It's just this little girl in front of me......

"Don't cry, I'm fine." He stretched out his arms and took her into his arms. She struggled, but he tightened his grip.

Finally, the person in his arms stopped moving, but he was still crying.

His chin rested on top of her head, and he didn't know what the little girl had washed her hair with, and it had a faint floral scent.

"It's not that you don't hide, it's that you know you won't stab hard. You see, sure enough, you only punctured a little skin, only shed a little blood, it's nothing. Don't cry anymore, you will go back to the house later, if your eyes cry like peaches, I am afraid that the people in the county lord's mansion will think that this king has bullied you. He stroked her back lightly, "Obedient, I just feel sorry for you and want to help you more, and I don't want to do anything." No matter what you have in your house, he left it to you, and no one can snatch it. If someone really wants to rob one day, tell me that although Brother Qi is not a motivated prince, there are few people who can bargain in front of me. Yan Yu, you're still so young, you shouldn't live like this......"