Among the envoys who came with Beiqiu, in addition to Helian Bai who went back early to restore his life, there should be people who stayed in the Kuanyun Pavilion to deal with the aftermath. I planned to come here early in the morning to find someone to bring a message home, but it was not implemented because Duobu obstructed it many times, and it was delayed until today, and I only slipped out of the loophole when Duobu was coaxed away. I also know that Duobu stopped me for my own good, after all, my identity is special, and I must be cautious in everything. But I was very close to my family, and I only came out for two months, and I secretly cried several times because I was homesick and wanted to make my uncle.

This is not my home, and I am afraid.

After preparing a belly, I wanted the envoy who was still in Nanzhan to bring it back to Tuoba Su, telling him that everything was fine and that there was no need to worry about it.

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When he arrived at the entrance of the mansion and saw that there were guards guarding him, he babbled about a non-stop plan, and in an instant, he died down, and retreated to the base of the wall to hide with a weak heart.

"Someone is guarding the door, I'm afraid it's hard to get out, forget it, go back."

I was going to give up going out, but I thought that I was a newcomer, and I was still a new face, and I shouldn't be recognized, so I greeted him with luck.

Trying to curb the panic, he said to the doorman: "I am the maid of Princess Beiqiu, and I want to go out to buy food for the princess, let me go out quickly."

The guards did not squint, and did not move.

I was stunned, and then showed the jade ornament I was wearing, "See, this is the princess's token, I can still trick you." ”

The two guards didn't even raise their eyelids, and scolded: "Everything in the house is procured by a special person, what kind of fun are you a servant girl." Even if the prince wants to go out, he must be allowed to go with the permission of the king of Yonghe. Go back, don't bother me standing guard here. ”

"I'm really going to buy something!"

The guards remained unmoved.

I moved my tongue, stopped talking, and turned away with my anger. As soon as he took a few steps, he turned his head and kicked the guard hard, and ran out of the door while the guard was holding his leg and exhaling pain.

Outside the Kuanrong Pavilion, a thick peach tree leaned against a thick, high wall, and its branches and leaves were manipulated by the east wind and stretched into the wall.

It was drizzling, still raining, I looked up at the high wall, closed the umbrella, picked up the hem of my skirt and climbed up the wall along the trunk, and before I could stand firm at the head of the wall, I suddenly heard an exclamation: "Catch the assassin!" Immediately panicked, looked down at the high city wall in the courtyard and felt dizzy, patted his chest and said calmly: "Why didn't it look very high just now, but look down from the wall so high!"

As soon as the words fell, there was a whoosh, and a sharp arrow grazed his hair and slashed through the air. I was stunned.

I was terrified, and a series of arrows came straight at me.

I opened my umbrella and closed my eyes and shouted, "Misunderstanding, misunderstanding, I'm not an assassin."

Even if I tore my throat, the arrows were still overwhelming, and the locust rain made it impossible for people to dodge. The arrows came from a distance, and I had to lean down and prostrate on the narrow wall, trying to narrow the target, but when I saw the bamboo arrows flying overhead, I panicked, so I stood up boldly, intending to open the umbrella and then jump into the courtyard.

I opened the umbrella before I knew it, and when I turned around, I twisted my foot. Before he could scream in pain, he fell straight from the high wall to the outside of the courtyard.

Listening to the whirring wind passing by my ears, I closed my eyes in resignation and cried in my heart - my face was almost on the ground.

The wind stopped suddenly in my ears, and I thought it would fall on the lawn, but it unexpectedly hung on the trunk of the peach blossom tree, and the red umbrella that was stretched out fell on the grass, like a red flower blooming in the rain.

The bun was scraped by the branches, the long green silk was scattered, the messy hair was all brushed on the face, and he struggled to pull the branches, forcibly turned around and rode on the main trunk, and looked down at the tree with a palpitation. Closed his eyes and patted his chest, muttered silently, and comforted himself: "If you don't die in a catastrophe, you must have a 'mouth' blessing, and when I go back, I have to let Duobu stew a chicken for me and drink some chicken soup to calm my nerves."

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"Why are you here?"

Hearing the sound and opening his eyes, Xiuqing's figure came into view.

He was wearing a dark blue round-necked narrow-sleeved shirt, holding a plain oil-paper umbrella painted with spider plants, standing tall in the rain, and a pair of eyes were looking intently at me sitting on the trunk of the tree, with a warm smile in his eyes.

"If I say, I'll pick the flowers, do you believe it~" I cried, looking aggrievedly at the lively people under the tree.

Hurried footsteps were heard in the courtyard, and archers were hurrying towards the outside of the courtyard.

"Have you picked the flowers of Her Royal Highness the Princess, if so, come down. Need my help? Changji raised his head and stared at me playfully.

"I don't need your help. This tree is not very tall, and it cannot trouble me. ”

As he spoke, he was about to turn over and get off the tree, but he stepped on the air and the whole person fell.

"Be careful!!"

Seeing this, Changji immediately threw the umbrella in his hand, and stepped forward to catch me with both hands.

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…… When my feet hit the ground, I was relieved.

Changji helped me and frowned, "Why are you so clumsy."

I came to my senses and looked at the person in front of me as if I had just woken up from a dream. Changji under the rain, his eyes are hidden in the sea of stars, his lips are red and his teeth are white, he is very good-looking, Xu has been staring at him for a long time, and he looks a little embarrassed at Changji.

At this time, Wu Pingjiao, the general of Lanyuan who was guarding the Kuan Rong Pavilion, rushed to hear the wind, bowed down and saluted Changji, and the arrows on all sides had already stopped. Chang Zhiwei bowed his head, gently put me on the ground, picked up the umbrella on the ground to cover me with the drizzle, and said softly: "Are you hurt?"

I nodded awkwardly, "My foot twisted." After speaking, the roots of his ears were hot, and he glanced at him shyly.

Changji was stunned, and crouched down to inspect my foot injury, and when my hand was on my ankle, I bared my teeth in pain and screamed, so I had to withdraw my hand.

"Say, what are you doing here?" Changji's voice was cold, and the words were clear.

I grinned and said bluntly: "I thought that the envoy of Beiqiu in the Kuanyun Pavilion should not have finished leaving, so I came here, planning to let them bring a few words back for me and give me Uncle Su." I didn't know that I would be treated like an assassin, and they would shoot me with arrows and sprain my foot. As he spoke, he glared at Wu Pingjiao.

Changji couldn't cry or laugh: "Then you really came for nothing, and the envoys from Beiqiu have all gone back."

"When?" I was amazed.

"They left a few days ago, and there is no one from Beiqiu in the Kuanyun Pavilion now, and the princess is late." Wu Pingjiao agreed.

I felt helpless and kicked the turf in frustration.

Changji turned around and solemnly instructed Wu Pingjiao: "Since there is nothing to do, retreat." I'm not very old, but my tone is old, and I can't help but laugh when I hear it.

Wu Pingjiao bowed his head respectfully, waved his hand, and led the forbidden troops with bows and knives to quickly retreat to the Kuan Rong Pavilion.

When the people were gone, I praised me humbly: "Changji, you are really majestic, like a little general who leads troops to fight."

Changji glanced at me coldly, and sneered: "It's not as majestic as the princess who climbed over the wall!"

I shook my head again and again, with a bleak scene, and said sadly: "Alas, I died before I got out of the school, and I was one step away; But although he is still honoring to die, his feet hurt badly, and he is afraid that he will lose his face. ”

Changji sneered: "What kind of messy idioms are you talking about, what do you want to express?"

I feigned anger and roared, "Where is the mess, this is called erudition." Duobu said, the idioms are all those who have poetry and books in their stomachs, uh, people who hate their wives cooking sweet potatoes will say elegant words. It took me a long time to learn, and what I didn't say was right. ”

Changji sighed bitterly and shook his head, crying and laughing again, "What you want to say is that you have poetry and books in your belly, and you are tired of cooking gourd leaves with old Confucianism?" ”

My old face turned red, and the corners of my mouth twitched: "So that's what I said."

Changji didn't say anything more, just handed me the umbrella.

"What are you giving me an umbrella for?"

Changji was silent, turned his back and bent down in resignation: "I'll carry you back."

I was stunned when I heard this, and instantly cheered up, leaned down without hesitation, lay on Changji's back and squinted and snickered, pretending to be polite: "Then there is Lao Xiaowangye."

Earlier, due to the weather, there were not many pedestrians on the streets, and only the vendors under the shelter of the rain cloth were still holding their ground. At that time, after the rain had passed, the doors were reopened, and the streets suddenly became noisy again, and the cries of selling came and went. Although the sky is clear, but the humidity is still strong, the cold has not subsided, and I hold an umbrella in one hand; One hand around Changji's neck, resting his head on his shoulder, looking at the crowded market with round eyes, finally locked his eyes on a small stall selling candy, swallowed his saliva, and muttered: "Changji, you can buy me a candy man, I haven't eaten it yet."

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A few begonias outside the window, blown by the wind, scattered one after another, a few flew into the dark ditch under the wall, and were carried away by the slow and silent current. I sat cross-legged on the couch by the window, comfortably eating the candy man I bought on the Changji Road.

The golden lion in the room spit out wisps of smoke, and the aroma curls into the nose and heart. In the silence of the night, you can hear the rustling rain under the eaves. There was a lamp in the corner, and the shadowy candlelight was dimly imprinted on the curtain, and Duobu knelt quietly on the bamboo mat to accompany me. It seemed that after a long time, he said: "In the future, don't go out alone." Duobu's eyebrows frowned slightly, and his tone was cold.

I didn't care much, I just focused on looking at the sugar man in my hand, and the scene when Changji carried me back flashed in my mind, and I smiled unconsciously, and suddenly turned my eyes to Duobu, and said seriously: "Duobu, do you say that this sugar man is sweet or the sugar lotus seed is sweet." ”

Duobu glanced at the sugar man in my hand boringly, she has always been indifferent to sweets, how can she know which one is sweeter, she only said: "It's all sweet."

"I think it's probably the sweetest sugar man." Take a bite, bite off the corner of the sugar man's clothes, and speak vaguely. The conversation changed sharply, and I talked about what I experienced today, from how to climb the tree and wall, to how to be shot by an arrow as an assassin, to hanging on the trunk of a tree without danger, everything was told to Duobu one by one, and then I couldn't stop mentioning Changji, and I talked about it for a long time.