Night at Aokien (Part I)

When they returned to their small courtyard, it was already dark, and after freshening up, Lian'er sat in front of the dressing table and quietly watched Yuqin and Cai'er clean up the house, and Xinjie sat behind the desk and looked at the various letters and newspapers sent by Baihuatang and Baicaotang today. After Yuling brought the tea, the housewife told them all to go to rest early. She walked slowly to the outer room, touching the silk huqin on the shelf, and her heart was indescribably desolate. When Yuling and the others went out, they had already closed the door, but there was still wind blowing in through the crack in the door, which made Lian'er feel extremely cold and needed a warm support. She quietly walked over to her husband, hoping for a feeling of warmth. He stretched out his hand to wrap his arms around his wife's waist, and in his other hand he held the newspaper sent by the prince today, "I'll be right away." She didn't speak, and although her husband's arm made her feel some warmth, her heart was still like a stone, and she couldn't breathe.

She copied the newspaper and placed it on the table, "Applejack, do you think we're funny?" "What did you say?" Surprised, he stood up and held her face and said, "What's wrong with you, Lian'er." ”

"I suddenly felt very bored, is what we're doing, really interesting? I spent the first half of my life in the palace, and most of my time was spent on those intrigues, the purpose was to protect Yiyi, to ensure that he could not be killed by those people in the palace, and that he could survive. Now we have to help him again, to keep this crown prince, to help him inherit the throne one day. For the position of this prince, how many people's youth, body, and heart have been devoured. For this status, husband and wife share different dreams, mutual suspicion and prevention, killing and duel between brothers, and the subordinates who are affected, one careless is the destruction of the family. Are you saying it's worth it? I really want to get away from all this, let's go back to Xianyang or you take me somewhere else, okay? I don't want anything, I just want to be safe with you, and I don't want any more annoying things. ”

"Lian'er, hold on for a while, and when these things are resolved, I'll take you out of here, and I'll take you wherever you want. But now we can't go. ”

"In fact, what is the difference between who is the prince and the common people? Can't the brothers stop for a moment? ”

"I don't think it matters how many of their brothers are, it's not because he has been treating me as a friend for so many years, nor because of you, but for those who have nothing to do with power like you and me. If you think about Yi Heng and Yi He's people, if one day people like them inherit the great treasure, how many people will die. They are still just ordinary princes, and they have done as many evil things as they have done. A Yihe can force Liu Yong, who is a county horse and a Hanlin Academy, to death. How can a person who regards the lives of others as if they were a waste of grass care about the common people in the world? If he were to become a great treasure, he might kill many people for his own selfish desires. If the country is in a state of fainting and causes turmoil, how much blood will be shed, orphans and widows. Our Baihuatang can save one person and one family, but it can't save the world, and the people need a monarch with good character and a benevolent heart. ”

Wan Ning narrowed her eyes: "So Yumen also needs to have a smooth transition, and it needs to have a capable and kind master to prevent possible internal strife and tragedy, right?" ”

He looked at his wife deeply, and after a long time said, "Yes." So Lian'er, give me time, accompany me through these difficult journeys with your kindness and love, and when the affairs of Jingli and Yumen are settled, I will leave here with you, and I will accompany you wherever you want to go when the time comes. She stopped talking, letting the tears flow, and she didn't know how long she could last. Since being with him, she has become more and more vulnerable, more and more dependent on him, and the more she does, the more afraid she is of losing him. How difficult the road ahead was, and she wondered if they would ever be able to be so honest with each other. Whether you can keep your current feelings.

"It's late, let's get some rest early." Xinjie gently put her on the bed, and went to turn off the lights in the study and the outer room by himself. When they were all lying quietly on the bed, Xinjie suddenly asked, "Did Yuwen Yunya tell you something today, which made you feel so emotional?" ”

So she told him about the conversation with the crown princess. "Applejack, I really think it's scary. Whether the prince loves her or not, they are husband and wife after all. I dare not tell the prince my conjecture, which would be tantamount to judging her. I only hope that she may be able to repent, that she will not go any further, and that there may be room for a turnaround. The emperor made her the crown prince and concubine, which was inevitably another temptation. Everyone seems to be a pawn in this chess game, and they are all used for profit. What is the value of life? ”

He patiently stroked her hair: "Do you remember what I told you when we came out of the Prince's Mansion that day?" I really feel like I'm a lot happier than Yude. Alas! ”

She leaned close to him, "Applejack, hug me." Although she knew what this sentence would cause, she was really afraid that when she woke up tomorrow, she would never be able to return to this embrace. She guessed he might have similar fears, so they were more engaged than ever. If they had calmed down in the past, they would wash themselves and fall asleep refreshed, but today, when her husband would not let her get up, he said that he would let them stay with each other longer, and this was a reason that she could no longer be justified, so that she could lie there quietly and let him sleep with him tightly held to herself. His breathing began to be even and heavy, and he slept peacefully, and the smell of his body was still so tempting to her. She quietly looked at this calming face and emptied herself.

After a long time, he suddenly opened his eyes, startling Lian'er. He made a silent gesture, apparently waking him up by some unusual movement outside. After a while, he began to speak: "There seems to be someone in the tree outside the fence just now, and now it's gone." Lian'er was surprised. For safety, they had deliberately rebuilt the area around the main house, and their house was in the middle of the courtyard in this room, and the nearest to the back wall was five zhang away, and it was not within the lethal range of being overheard and the short bow and strong crossbow of ordinary killers.

Lian'er was a little tired between her eyebrows: "Who could it be?" It's so late, and we don't need anyone to spy on it like this. ”

"I don't know, but it's not very skillful, otherwise I wouldn't be so easy to find." That is, when you fall asleep, you wake up.

In fact, it was the jade book on the tree just now, she really couldn't sleep peacefully today, she couldn't let that demon live peacefully by the young master's side. Since returning to the capital with the young master, her mood has been very depressed. Every time she saw the two of them making out, her blood vessels would dilute and her temples would be filled with gas. Since the first day when the young master arrived at the Yumen in Jiangnan, the old master asked him to wait for him with Yuping Yuqin and Yuling. Although Yuqin and Yuling were later sent to the capital to take care of this so-called young grandmother, she felt that the old master asked them to spy on this woman. That is, from that day on, she really felt that this man was hers, although her father arranged her to be a maidservant in Yumen since she was a child The purpose was to one day become the young lady of Yumen, but for many years for her who is ignorant, it is just an illusion, and there is no real object. She would rather associate with the powerful, or smart, clean-looking men around her, than spend her youth waiting. Until the real new outstanding now Yumen, tall, burly and handsome, outstanding martial arts and wisdom, there are not many unruly problems of Jianghu people, and it is clean and refreshing at all times. These conditions are already very attractive to ordinary people, not to mention the young master of Yumen, the future master of Yumen, and the power of the rivers and lakes.

Since the first day she saw him in Yumen, she fell in love with her master, he was very talented, he played the flute so well, every time she played the flute, she was fascinated by it, looking at his majestic figure, she felt as if the song was blowing to her, so tactful and gentle. When she was a child, she thought her father had arranged a chore for her, and now she knew that it was what she dreamed of the most, and she had to get it, which her father had promised. Since he arrived in Jiangnan, she has followed him gently, and even deliberately occasionally showed a little temptation in front of him, pretending to be weak, but he turned a blind eye. At first she thought he was too busy, or too upright, to pay attention to the women around him. But the very existence of this woman shows that this is not the case, but that she is blinded by the goblin.

As soon as they received the letter from Yuling, the young master immediately decided to rush back to the capital, and that day the old master went to Yangzhou to meet an old friend, and the young master could not wait for him to come back and hurried to the capital. She understood him very well along the way, no matter what the identity of that woman was, after all, it was his woman, even if she was allowed to stay alone in the capital for the rest of her life, she couldn't let other men dye her hands, that was the dignity of men, and it had nothing to do with love. Until that night, when he left them to stand guard outside the yard, she thought the man was hers before she entered the house. Soon there was a disgusted cry from the woman, who was convinced that it was a vixen who knew to seduce men. She's going to clean her up someday, let her know, let everyone know that the young master is her man.

The next morning, I thought that the demon girl would stay in the house and bathe by herself, and no one would take care of her, so that the young master would come back and think that she was and looked down on her, but I didn't think that I would help her and tempt the young master again. At that time, she wanted to chop up the woman and feed it to the dog.