"Are you still coming with me?" His voice was so small that it seemed like a gust of wind would blow it away.

I shook my head, "No." ”

He pressed my shoulder like crazy, and the green tendons on his forehead almost burst out, "I don't believe it, is that prince threatening you with something?" ”

"No one threatened me, I volunteered. Even if there is a true love between us, it is based on deception, there are too many lives between us, as soon as I see you, I will think of those who died for me, they are already displaced spirits, can we pretend to be nothing? "My mood is like that lake, calm on the surface, but actually turbulent.

"Is that prince good to you?"

"He is much better than you, he will teach me to play the qin and teach me Yiqi, he brings me happiness and light, unlike when I was with you before, I only cried and felt guilty. What's more, he is the crown prince, the future lord of the country, if I marry him, I will be the imperial concubine, and I will be clothed and eaten all my life, and anyone will look down on me. But you are just an untainted prince, you are so far away from the throne, what can I rely on you, what promises can you give me, whether it is a life of exile or drowning in the stars with spittle behind your back. ”

At last he had nothing to say, and slowly returned to the mat, sleeping with his legs held as he had just done. He shivered against the wall, his former vigor had long since dissipated, and there seemed to be an indescribable desolation in the air.

"The prince said that he would not take your life, and he would release you in two days, and then I would inform Qianche to wait for you at the door." I paused, unconsciously looking up at the window that didn't see the light, "In the future, don't come back to Zixu." ”

That was the last word I left for him, I don't know what the expression on his face was, maybe it was hatred or unwillingness. I know he will be as sad as me at first, but I am a dying person, if I insist on being together but can't stay together for the rest of my life, how will he live alone at that time? The separation between heaven and man is the greatest sin.

I believe that one day in the future, there will be a better girl in his life than me, and she will definitely soothe the pain in his heart for me and bring him light. By that time I didn't know if I was a corpse or a pile of bones, or if I was already a lonely soul. The cheapest thing in this world is love, this life is too short, there is not much time waiting for us to make the best choice, leaving him is my best choice.

When I returned to the East Palace in the evening, I saw Mo'er squatting by the stove to help me decoct the medicine, and the surrounding black smoke was full of black smoke coming out of the stove, and Mo'er was coughing and fanning the fire with a fan.

"Mo'er."

I didn't really care, but when I called her, she turned her head away, and by the time I turned to look at her, tears were already on her cheeks.

"Mo'er, what's wrong with you, is it because of what Qian Che said today?"

Mo'er picked up the fan and fanned it a few times at the mouth of the slam, and said casually, "No, it's just that the smoke is too big, and it smoked me." ”

Anyone can see that she has obviously just cried, and her red eyes can't deceive people. She carefully hid her tears, and why did I have to pierce them?

"This is the herb that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince specially ordered someone to prepare for the young lady's body, I heard that the medicinal materials are expensive, maybe the young lady will drink too much poison and it will be solved?"

I smiled wryly, "yes, maybe one day." ”

Mo'er always has something in her heart like this but doesn't show it, but everyone knows that the puppet incense has no antidote at all, and the poison in my body has seeped into the bone marrow, His Majesty Nanyang has not been able to hold the queen's life for all his life, how can I hope to live if I am just a concubine? In fact, the more time passed, the more dizzy I felt, and I couldn't exert any strength in my hands, and my body was getting worse day by day. The moon is clear and clear tonight, but I don't know when the next time I will encounter such a beautiful moonlight......

I wrote a letter to the prince, asking him to be kind to Mo'er if I am not there one day, if Mo'er wants to go back to Tianyue, I will let her go back, and if she doesn't want to, I will find a good family for her to live well.

The prince put his hand behind him with a face, and said disdainfully, "Mo'er is your maid, and only you can arrange her life, I don't accept your entrustment." ”

I knelt in front of him, "Your Highness only knows that I have been deeply poisoned, I'm afraid that time is short, I don't have anything to worry about in this world, I'm afraid that I will be bullied if I am no longer in Mo'er, I am helpless, this is my last wish, I hope Your Highness can promise me." ”

"Okay, I promise you, I will definitely arrange Mo'er for you." When I begged him like this, he had no choice but to agree.

I secretly planned everything for Mo'er but never thought that she was at the door, she heard every word that came out of my mouth clearly, so she had to cover her mouth and cry, in fact, she knew about my illness, but she never thought that one day I would leave before her.

Two days passed quickly, and Qian Che didn't come to the East Palace to make trouble again, and I think they had already returned to Tianyue in frustration.

Mama said that there are too many things that have happened recently, and she said that she wants to burn incense in the temple, and Mama is really like Aunt Song, who are a little superstitious at this age, and always think that everything will be good to worship the Bodhisattva Buddha.

The guards brought a low stool, Mo'er helped me into the carriage, and I opened the curtain and saw the prince sitting on it without seeing my grandmother.

I still didn't put down the curtain, and wondered, "Why is Your Highness here, didn't Mama say ......?"

He smiled lightly and teased: "What, don't you want to go with Prince Ben?" ”

"Oh, no." I cautiously made it to the opposite side of him, and after a while Mo'er sat down with him.

The prince sat opposite me in a casual and free posture, the road surface in the mountains was full of stones, the carriage staggered very much, and when I walked halfway through a puddle, the body tilted slightly, I instinctively wanted to find something to grab, but a pair of large and stable hands helped me, I touched the prince's palm and only felt a little rough, maybe it was caused by too long a time to play the qin.

"Be careful."

I subconsciously quickly retracted my hand, bit my lip and whispered, "Thank you, prince." ”

Mo'er looked up from time to time to sneak a glance at the prince, and she thought that such a gentle, handsome and dashing man might be a good match for her young lady, and the young lady would be happy if she married him.

We walked farther and farther into the mountains and old forests, apparently deviating from the direction of the temple. I looked at the prince unintentionally, and he was still sitting across from me with a calm face, his heart was like a bottomless pit that I couldn't see through, and even though there was a hint of uneasiness in my heart, I always believed that the prince was a good man.

"Pilot!"

The carriage stopped on the outskirts of the southern city, and the prince and I dismounted in turn, and here was a wood, and the fog was so thick that it made people feel a chill behind them, and the trees in the sky covered the sun so badly that there was no light in the dungeon.

I don't know why there is a large earth pit that has been deliberately dug in front of me, "Why did Your Highness bring me here?" ”

The prince paced by the pit and said, "Do you think this pit can fill a single person?" ”

I was shocked, and I thought that there was something in the prince's words, "It's a human life, how can I decide it with a word." ”

"What if I want to bury alive a man who oppresses the people, takes bribes, and does all kinds of evil?"

"Then this pit is more than enough."

The prince waved his hand at the guards behind him, and several guards carried a sack over, and the people in the sack struggled desperately, protruding here and there almost to break the sack. Several guards slammed the sack to the ground, and the people inside were still struggling, looking extremely unwilling to die.

The prince's cold eyes flashed with a hint of determination, and he said sharply, "Come on, push this heinous person into the pit and bury the prince alive." ”

Before I could realize that the man had been pushed into the pit, the guards were holding shovels and covering him with handfuls of loess. Mo'er trembled but didn't dare to say a word, I squinted at the prince, his face was still as stable as ever, and even showed a hint of joy. No matter how sinful he was before, most people can't bear to watch such punishment now.

The loess covered the sack layer by layer, until the man stopped struggling, until I could no longer see the shadow of the sack standing in the loess. A fresh life ended in front of me in an instant, I don't know why the prince took me to see this scene, is it still haunted by Ling Yue's death in my heart?

The scene gradually quieted down, and one of the guards came with a horse and crawled on the ground, trembling and kneeling on the ground and unable to say a word for a long time.

The crown prince seemed to be disgusted with others facing him with this face, and said impatiently, "What's the alarm? ”

The guard didn't dare to get up yet, and stammered, "Back to the prince, the assassin, the assassin is gone." ”

How could Chu Muxiu be gone, the prince obviously promised me to let him go back to Tianyue in two days, and now it is the third day, is Chu Muxiu still unable to get out, but the prince is not like those who don't count. If Chu Muxiu hadn't escaped, then where would he be now?

The crown prince only brushed aside the guard who was kneeling on the ground and did not speak, and the guard behind him stood up and scolded the dismounted guard, "The assassin has already been secretly transferred elsewhere by His Highness, and it is you who have not figured out the situation yourself, so recklessly disturbing Your Highness Yaxing to be careful of your head." ”

"But the guards guarding our prison really don't know that His Highness has transferred the assassins, and such an offense is really deserving of death."

The prince still did not speak, and with a sharp look at him, the guard immediately set up his horse and left, and I think he should have quietly congratulated himself in his heart that he still had a life.

The guards were gone, leaving behind a trace of confusion and strangeness, and the layers of fog in the air showed no sign of dissipating. Even though I had all the doubts in my heart and didn't know where to start, I didn't know why my eyes shifted to the big dirt pit, and there was no struggle on it, and I think the man must have choked. I seemed to feel the prince's gaze sweeping over my face, but as soon as I turned my head to look at him, he immediately closed his gaze.

I'm afraid that the transfer of Chu Muxiu is fake, and it is true to lie to me! So where is Chu Muxiu now?

What was he afraid of, what was he running away from, an atmosphere of uneasiness spread through me. The prince did not release Chu Muxiu according to the original plan, but the guard hurriedly chased after him but said that he had not been notified to the prison, how could such a big matter as the transfer of prisoners not be handled by the prisoners? The Prince seemed a little caught off guard by the Assassin's arrival, and he was visibly pretending to be calm, and I wondered all the way why he was taking me to see such a thing, and asking me all those strange questions.

I looked at the dirt pit in front of me, and I couldn't help but take a few steps back in fright, my eyes almost popping out of my sockets, and my lips trembled, "Impossible, it can't be his ......"