Chapter Ninety-Three: Peeling Back the Thread
The last halo of light in the sky gradually drowned over the top of the mountain, and the night gradually covered the land.
Yun Zhen stood in front of the windowsill, looking at the bright moon from afar.
The moon was in the sky, scorching and cold, emitting a soft halo.
"Princess." Yun Zhen was wearing a simple plain robe, and when she heard Huan'er's low call, she couldn't help but turn her eyes to look over.
Huan'er stepped forward respectfully, and hesitantly took out a small bamboo tube from his arms, which was only the size of a little thumb.
Yun Zhen took it in her hand, poured out the letter inside, looked at it a few times, then pinched the small bamboo tube in her hand, and asked in a low voice. "Where did this come from?"
Huan'er pointed in the direction of the door, and subconsciously followed Yun Zhen to lower her voice. "I don't know who put it at the door."
Yun Zhen's long eyelashes blinked slightly, and she nodded, but she didn't say anything.
Although Huan'er had doubts in her heart, she didn't follow Yun Zhen for a day or two, and she didn't mean to ask, seeing Yun Zhen walking towards the coat rack, she whispered a call. "Glass."
In the next second, Liuli's figure appeared out of nowhere and stood not far from Yun Zhen.
Seeing that Yun Hao had taken a cloak and enveloped herself in it, she didn't even raise her eyebrows, and she immediately understood what Yun Zhen meant.
"Princess, where are you going at this time?"
I never expected Yun Zhen to go out in the middle of the night, Huan'er couldn't help but be a little worried, after all, this is close to the border, although she has never left Kyoto, but she also knows that the farther away from Kyoto, this is not as strict as the garrison of Kyoto, if something happens to the princess here, no one can afford it.
"This, this is not in order."
"Rules?" Yun Zhen glanced at Huan'er with a smile, and said with a low smile.
"Look, Huan'er, you've been with those old ladies in the palace for a long time."
Hearing the ridicule in the princess's words, Huan'er opened her mouth, and her face inevitably showed some anxiety.
Before a woman gets married, she is not allowed to see anyone else except for those brides and her own family members.
It's just that Yun Zhen's current situation is really special, and after all, she doesn't pay so much attention to it, and others can't say anything when they see it.
But now Yun Zhen is taking advantage of the night to go in and out wantonly, so the meaning is different.
Yun Zhen didn't know what Huan'er was thinking, she just corrected the cloak on her body, said that it was okay, turned around and stepped out of the room.
Liuli only shook her head slightly at Huan'er, and after a shake of her figure, she chased out.
Obviously, there is no way to act spontaneously because of Yun Zhen's love for this.
Huan'er walked restlessly around the room, wondering what was written on the letter.
Let the princess go out regardless of royal grooming?
Huan'er was so anxious now, Yun Hao didn't know in her heart, she just gathered the pure black robe on her body.
When Yun Zhen said hello, for a while, no one dared to stop her.
It's just that, in the end, the person who asked her out also knows some measure.
Know that she can't be too far away, otherwise it will inevitably lead to some panic.
After Yun Zhen came out of the room, she went straight up the stairs and went up to the top floor.
The night breeze was bleak, and the inky black robe on Yun Zhen's body strangely blended with the night.
There is an octagonal pavilion on the top floor, and the wind blows the hanging bead curtains, and the sound of Ding Ling is very abrupt and pleasant in this night.
After Yun Zhen came up, he could vaguely see that there seemed to be a person sitting in the pavilion.
When I got closer, I saw the outline of the man inside through the beaded curtain.
The man was holding a dark green tea bowl with flowers, looking up at the bright moon in the sky, and he never turned around when he heard the movement.
Just asked in a low voice. "Here we are."
Yun Zhen stretched out her hand to open the bead curtain and walked in, from her angle, she could clearly see the handsome outline of half of the man, submerged in the darkness, under the soft halo of the luminous pearls, the sharpness and oppression were perfectly concealed.
"Yes."
Hearing Yun Zhen's voice, the man let out a long sigh and whispered. "The moon is so full today."
Yun Zhen followed the man's gaze towards the sky, the bright moon that was almost full.
Then the man continued. "It's a rare good day when I think about it."
In the next moment, the man's gaze moved to Yun Zhen's face, and the eyes of the two collided, and the man's entire face was exposed to Yun Zhen's eyes.
"Princess, long time no see."
Yun Zhen's gaze wandered around Sikong Ao's face, but in just a few months, the man in front of him seemed to have been reborn, and the uneasiness that was originally covered by the arrogance between his eyebrows was completely eliminated.
The rest is just the arrogance of the world.
After all, the knife hanging above his head had been broken by the way he thought of it, and although it was said that the front was the beginning of the ordeal, in the end, he didn't have to walk on thin ice in the future, and he no longer had to rely on speculation about the minds of others to survive carefully.
Now the Sikong Proud sitting opposite actually gave Yun Zhen a faint overlap and blend with the Sikong Proud who insisted on joining the army alone more than ten years ago.
"The prince is so bold." Yun Zhen smiled slightly, shook her head, and said. "Aren't you afraid that this is from beginning to end, is it just a bureau set up by this palace?"
When Sikong Ao heard Yun Zhen's words, he didn't show any surprise on his face, but just smiled slightly, and stared at Yun Zhen fixedly, the light that kept flashing at the bottom of his eyes seemed to burn Yun Zhen's whole person, with a sense of oppression that was difficult to look at. "If that's the case, then this king can only be willing to enter the game."
Between the words, the confident color between Sikong Ao's words was undisguised.
Yun Zhen couldn't help but sigh slightly, sure enough, no matter how many years have passed, he is still the same him.
Sikong dared to come, naturally not relying on the word trust.
It's just self-confidence, although Sikong Ao was very surprised, why did the Huayun Sect back down, or even let him develop, this move can be said to be a troublesome thing to do.
Because of the doubts in his heart, Sikong Ao came at this moment.
Since he dared to come now, he naturally wanted to use Yun Zhen as a breakthrough.
Because he knew in his heart that Hua Yunzhen and Hua Yunxiu were one with Hua Yunxiu to a certain extent, since Hua Yunxiu could endure these silently, if there was no Hua Yunzhen's handwriting in it, he would never believe it.
Yun Zhen lowered her eyes, reached out and took the teapot, and shook it gently for a moment before she started to add a cup of tea to herself.
And the back end sniffed lightly on the wing of his nose, and raised his eyes to look at Sikong Ao thoughtfully.
"I want to come to the palace to let people deliver the letter to the prince, the prince has already read it, so, I don't know if the palace is careless and has not made His Majesty's meaning clear? Or does the general have any objections? ”
Hearing Yun Zhen take the initiative to mention the letter, Sikong Ao's eyes blinked slightly, and he took out the letter from his arms.
"The princess is serious." Sikong Ao paused before he said. "This king never thought that the emperor would love this king so much, which really made this king panic."
"Thinking that the princess is the emperor's sister-in-law, she must know the emperor's mind very well, and this time in her panic, she came to look for the princess, and I hope that the princess will give a little thin face and solve the king's doubts."
This letter was very well protected by him, and if he ignored the gap above, he was afraid that the new letter would be believed.
The five big characters written on the top of the Zhennan King are very eye-catching.
Yun Zhen's emotions were well concealed by her, she just glanced down and raised her head with a smile.
It's just that the smile didn't reach the bottom of his eyes, and he looked at Sikong Ao coldly. "If the general has something to say, he might as well say it directly."
If Sikong Ao was really suspicious, he would never risk his life and come here to ask her for an interview.
Speaking of which, Sikong Ao's words are just testing himself.
Yun Zhen knew it.
Sikong Ao thought about it clearly, he looked at Yun Hao's suddenly cold face in a daze, and his eyes were slightly misty, as if he had seen someone else through her.
That look was too explicit, and Yun Zhen naturally couldn't ignore the past.
She didn't react too much, she just pursed her lips and quietly stared at Sikong Ao, letting him look her up and down.
After a long time, Sikong Ao came back to his senses, looked down at the handwriting on the letter, blinked slightly at the bottom of his eyes, and opened his mouth, but it was really a little confusing.
"This king remembers that the county lord also sent such a letter to the king's hands."
What he said was very meaningful, and Yun Hao could naturally hear it, but she lowered her eyes and quietly listened to Sikong Ao's words.
It's just that in the end, what Sikong Ao wants is just an audience, and seeing that Yun Zhen didn't answer, he didn't get annoyed and just continued to speak.
"When I first heard about the reputation of the county lord in Kyoto, I was very hesitant."
"I never thought that the county lord would give this king such a huge surprise." Sikong smiled silently, but the smile exuded an indescribable meaning.
"At the beginning, the king had some doubts in his heart, and asked the county lord to solve the doubts for the king."
"Are the absurd deeds of the county lord to cover himself? What do you have to gain by covering it up? Sikong Ao pondered carefully for a moment. The king thought about it, but he never thought of why the county lord did that back then. ”
"After all, the county lord is a woman to be married, and doing these things recklessly is afraid that it will do more harm than good, and seeing that the county lord is a smart woman, he shouldn't make such a move, this is a puzzle."
"Second, even if this king is not in Kyoto all the year round, he has a lot of dealings with Princess Huasang, and he has grown up together since childhood, not to mention that he knows her very well, but he can more or less guess her preferences, and I heard that Princess Huasang and the county lord at that time were not close."
"The Zhao Mansion is a Huasang lineage, and the county lord can be said to be in order to prevent the Zhao Mansion from being framed, and then join forces with this king to save the Zhao Mansion."
"However, the county lord might as well tell this king, how did the county lord at that time get the order from Hua Sang? How did you find out the inside story? ”
Sikong Ao came today, thinking that he had made sufficient preparations.
In the past, Qinghuang's personality was very different from herself, and she had never concealed it since she was reborn, as long as she checked carefully, she would naturally be able to see it clearly.
I can detect a lot of joints, but there are not many like this.
A few people who were originally close to the Qinghuang County Lord and Princess Huasang, even if they didn't completely guess it, they should have more or less counted it in their hearts.
It's just that no one seems to be arrogant, and they urgently need an answer, so this matter is deliberately ignored by those people, covering up the past.
But Sikong Ao is different, since he is here tonight.
I'm afraid I already know something.
Seeing that Yun Zhen was silent, Sikong Ao couldn't help but feel a little anxious in his heart, his eyes were fixed on Yun Hao's face, and he only felt that he was getting closer and closer to the answer.
His throat grew dryer.
Sikong Ao subconsciously swallowed his saliva, looked at Yun Zhen fixedly, and a few vague words came out of his throat.
Yun Zhen, who was close, blinked her long eyelashes slightly, and naturally subconsciously looked up at Sikong Ao.