The sound of the piano was nearing the end, and looking at the appearance of everyone enjoying it, I became more and more confident, and only listened to a few Wei envoys talking while drinking wine, and secretly said, "You said that this day is really not in your eyes, this banquet is more than half over, it is late." ”

"But isn't it, I heard that Zixu intends to make peace with Tianyue, and this princess actually let people assassinate her halfway, do you say this is a slap in the face of Tianyue or a slap in the face of Zixu?"

I could still hear every word they said clearly, even with the sound of the piano, but many people liked to pretend to be deaf and dumb, and these people were so bored that they couldn't stop eating a lot of food.

"Of course, Tianyue's escort is not good, this Tianyue people have ill intentions, and even the prime minister of Chaonan has created witches to try to rebel...... In the end, it wasn't all over the place, it's really sad...... Pathetic ......"

"Wow......" When I heard the remarks about my family, my heart tingled, and as soon as I pressed my fingers, one of the strings broke.

I immediately got up and knelt down in front of His Majesty, and said in a little panic, "The people should die, if you are not careful, let Your Majesty hear the sound of broken strings, please forgive Your Majesty." ”

His Majesty was happy, and there was an irrepressible smile on his face, "Miss Yuwan doesn't have to blame herself, how can this person who practices the piano not break the piano, the girl is worthy of being born in the land of Chongyang Yueqin, this piano is superb, the sound of the piano is tactful and listening, listening to your song is as refreshing as bathing in the spring breeze......"

"Your Majesty has won the award." I'm glad Your Majesty didn't blame it.

I got up and was about to return to my seat, when Chu Muxiu suddenly called me, "Girl, stay." ”

I was stunned, looked at him sideways, and took two steps back, and couldn't help but start to worry a little in my heart, could it be that he already recognized me?

Chu Muxiu took two steps forward, bent down and clasped his hands and said to His Majesty, "Your Majesty doesn't know, contemptible people have always loved the piano, I learned that the girl was born in Chongyang, and just now I appreciated the girl's outstanding piano skills, and I want to ask the girl for advice, I wonder if Your Majesty can do it?" ”

"Since Lord Yu likes to play the piano, then I naturally can't stop it, but if I am willing to give you some guidance, Lord Yu will ask Miss Yuwan!" His Majesty didn't stop him, but just threw the problem on me again.

I didn't speak, I just looked at my feet, consciously or unconsciously, thinking about what reason to shirk.

Chu Muxiu seemed to be unable to wait, walked over to me, bowed his head and asked defiantly, "Isn't the girl willing to teach?" ”

In front of everyone's eyes, he is so difficult, if I don't agree, it will seem a little stingy, I glanced at the prince in a daze, I can't see what he wants to express in his eyes, whether I hope I agree or hope I refuse, I don't want to ask for his opinion or ask him for help, I just simply feel that there is such a sustenance in this palace.

I can't escape what I should face, since he has the courage to come to Zixu, then what reason do I have to avoid it, he is so clever, what if I lie to him once.

So he smiled lightly and bowed his head and said, "Since the adults appreciate it, the little girl must not be stingy......"

As soon as I lowered my head without any defense, Chu Muxiu immediately drew his long sword from his waist without any warning, and violently lifted my veil. The veil fell lightly to the ground, and the wind from the unsheathed sword struck my long hair, which ran across my cheeks, and my face appeared unobstructed.

"Ah Candle? It's really you! You're really not dead! The sword lay on the ground with relief in his hand, and I felt a distinct ripple on the ground, and his eyes were fixed on my face, smiling like a fish in water, and there was an indescribable joy in his confusion.

The crown prince immediately stood up and shouted, "Yun Ning?"

The hall suddenly became noisy, and everyone whispered, "Yun Ning? What the prince said was Tianyue and Princess Qin, wasn't she assassinated by robbers on the way and lost her life? ”

"If she is not Princess Yunning, then who is the Ah Candle that Lord Tianyue Yu said?"

Countless questions, countless doubts, countless ill intentions poured towards me like a flood, they were like I could never escape the doom, they would always blame me, and they would always drown me little by little with their spittle.

"Who the hell is she? What is her relationship with the Tianyue envoy? Why did she approach the Prince? What is her purpose in coming to Zixu? ”

I looked at their fierce faces, one by one pointed at my fingers, at the moment I only felt dizzy, my brain did not listen to my own call, I looked at those people very vaguely, as if everyone looked exactly the same, the hall shook the mountains, the head was in severe pain, the whole body was burning like a fire, the throat was like being pinched hard, I couldn't breathe no matter how hard I was pinched, I held my head with my hands, what was wrong with me, why was my mind blank, I couldn't tell who I was, so I muttered, "Who am I?" Who the hell am I? ”

Chu Muxiu threw away the long sword in his hand, stepped forward and knelt on one knee, clasping my shoulders with both hands, "Ah Candle, what's wrong with you?" ”

My expression was undecided, why did my body, which was already in unbearable pain, suddenly tingle in my heart after seeing this person, I pulled Chu Muxiu's sleeve tightly as if grasping a life-saving straw, "Who am I?" ”

The prince got up and walked over, squatted down and asked me with concern, "Yunning, what's wrong with you?" ”

I turned to look at the unfamiliar face of the prince and asked him again, "Who are you?" ”

Chu Muxiu pressed my shoulder and turned my body around stiffly, and asked again in a hurried tone, "What's wrong with you?" ”

I shook my head, there were bursts of double images in front of me, I seemed to hear someone calling me, a candle and a candle screaming, I just wanted to answer him, and then I heard another voice, he was also calling me, Yun Ning, Yun Ning, how should I answer, who should I answer.

Seeing that I couldn't speak, Chu Muxiu was crying extremely bitterly, gradually moved his gaze to the prince, grabbed the prince's cuffs suddenly, and said viciously, "What did you do to her?" ”

Not to be outdone, the prince shook off Chu Muxiu's hand, and said with some mockery, "It's you who did something to her!" ”

The two of them didn't say a few words and started fighting, and the white sword qi scattered along with the dance, and under the halo of sword shadows, there were two figures who were flying up and down and fighting, and with a few spurs, Chu Muxiu cut off the pear blossom pillars in the hall, and the prince smashed a pair of glazed jade lamps with one hand. The two of them made a fatal move, as if they pinned their hostility towards each other on their swords, and the people around them were seriously injured if they got a little closer.

After dismantling a few moves, it was difficult to distinguish between the superior and the superior, and the two held their swords on the tip of each other's necks at the same time, neither of them wanted to bow their heads, and neither of them wanted to let go.

Above the court, the two of them openly held each other without anyone else, and the atmosphere in the hall dropped to the freezing point, and no one dared to say a word, or even exhale loudly, for fear that the two of them would spill their anger on their heads, and the hall was so silent that they could clearly hear the sound of the wind blowing in from outside. The crown prince had actually seen Chu Muxiu's identity a long time ago, and Chu Muxiu was not afraid of his identity as the prince.

When the two were facing each other, a soldier hurriedly ran in, deliberately glanced at the imposing Chu Muxiu in the hall, and stammered, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty Tianyue has just sent someone to send a hundred good horses, saying that this year's political affairs are busy, and I really can't get away from Zixu to attend the state banquet." ”

"Did His Majesty Yue say that day, did he send an envoy here?" His Majesty asked.

The soldier shook his head and said, "No." ”

After the soldier finished answering, everyone was even more panicked, "So who is the person in the hall who claims to be Lord Yu?" ”

Several ministers panicked and shouted to the other Yulin soldiers outside the door: "That person in the palace is an assassin, escort, escort!" ”

A group of Yulin troops immediately rushed into the hall to surround Chu Muxiu, and drew their long swords to face Chu Muxiu.

This is the Zixu Palace, there are Yulin guards inside, and there are heavy soldiers outside, and it is difficult to escape the wings of Chu Muxiu, Your Majesty is not afraid at all, and he has the demeanor of a general, and he said righteously, "Who are you?" What is the purpose of going to Zixu? If you truthfully explain the people behind the scenes, I will definitely save your life! ”

Chu Muxiu refused to put down the sword facing the prince in his hand, turned his head to His Majesty and said, "I am indeed not the envoy of Tianyue, Lord Yu, but I have no malice in Zixu this time, and I have no behind-the-scenes instigators, this trip is just to find someone." ”

"Oh, who are you looking for?"

Chu Muxiu looked in my direction, his tone was cold and hard, "She, as long as Your Majesty asks me to take her away, I promise not to hurt anyone here."

Your Majesty said, "You keep saying that you won't hurt anyone here, but the sword in your hand is pointing at me at the crown prince at this moment, how can you tell me to believe a person who speaks wildly and has a different heart?"

"I have made it clear, believe it or not, I will take people away today no matter what."

"How can this be reasonable, how can everyone break into this empty palace, come on, take him down to me!"

Before the words fell, Chu Muxiu immediately took back his sword and ran to my side, without waiting for me to wake up, whether I wanted to or not, he pulled me and walked briskly outside the main hall. Before we left the main hall, we were surrounded by the Yulin army, and they all held long swords in their hands, as if we would be cut by a thousand knives if we took another step forward.

He stood in front of me, shielding me with open arms, and it was inevitable that there would be another hard fight. He caught up, sword after sword, and there was physical support before, but how could these hundreds of Yulin troops say that they could be killed after killing, Chu Muxiu really didn't hurry to hide, he was stabbed in the left shoulder with a knife, the blood went down, and he was slashed down on the leg, and instantly knelt on the ground with a sword, he supported it bitterly, and glared at the Yulin army that surrounded him like a wolf, only to see the Yulin army in the front unconsciously take a step back.

The prince came up to me at some point, and he asked me, "Who is that man?" ”

I shook my head and said I didn't know.

Then the prince said, "That's the one who killed your whole family, that's the one you hate the most!" ”

I put my hands over my head and said to myself, "Kill my whole family? That's Chu Hanyuan, the dog emperor of Tianyue, the one who ordered to kill my father! ”

"Don't you hate him? Then pick up the sword on the ground to avenge your unjust death! ”

"Yes, yes, I want to avenge Daddy, I want to kill the dog emperor who doesn't distinguish between right and wrong!"

I picked up the sword dropped by the Yulin Army on the ground, looked at the back of the man and walked over step by step, at the moment I only had revenge in my heart, and I just wanted to kill the person in front of me who had committed the most heinous crime.

I walked into the encirclement of the Yulin Army, only to see that the man was still fighting desperately, I held the sword and walked over in a daze, Chu Muxiu saw me walk in and moved to my side, "What are you doing here, get out of ...... quickly"

Before he finished speaking, I thrust into his heart, a long sword shook my arm, the expression on his face was complex and changeable, his brows had been wrinkled into a line, he seemed surprised and seemed to be puzzled, but there was no trace of blame, a mouthful of blood flowed down from the corner of his mouth, he held my hand and slowly leaned towards me, and the sword on his heart pierced an inch with each step, I wanted to push him away but there was nothing I could do, he slowly reached out to hold me, leaned weakly on my ear and whispered, "Ah Candle, I, I'm Chu Muxiu. ”

I was already stunned, and my brain gradually regained a little clarity, but I heard Chu Muxiu's three words, "You...... It's Chu Muxiu......"

He didn't have the strength to answer me anymore, the hand that was holding my back gradually loosened, and landed in my other palm, and he just put his head on my shoulder and didn't move at all, exactly the same as Lu Huai at the beginning. My eyes were stunned, and I shuddered as I let go of the long sword that was still piercing his heart, his mouth was full of blood, his hands were bloody, his whole body was bloody, his eyes never opened again, and his whole body could not move.

Touching the delicate jade pendant on his waist, I finally came to my senses, tears hit his already cold and stiff cheeks like beads falling on a line, his body no longer had any temperature, he was really Chu Muxiu, the sword on his body was really pierced by me, why could I kill him? I sat on the ground and couldn't cry anymore, holding him up to the sky and shouting, "Chu, Mu, Xiu!" ”

Why did we meet again like this, I had exhausted my strength, and I fell into Chu Muxiu's arms.

Above the main hall, no one spoke.