"Did you hear it all?" His tone was indifferent, he looked at his tightly bandaged right arm, narrowed his narrow phoenix eyes self-deprecatingly, and snorted lightly: "Isn't it embarrassing." ”

She bowed her head and said nothing, and handed over the warm medicine bowl for a while, perhaps by this time she should have pretended not to hear anything.

Zhu Xuan closed his eyes and leaned back, not paying attention to her actions, more like a dream: "When I was very young, I only vaguely remembered that my mother was a very beautiful woman, but I never dared to mention her. Her name is forbidden in the palace, and my father never looks at me more because of her. In the eyes of others, I am the child of a demon girl, just a little demon, and everyone is far away from me. ”

Cao Ran held the medicine bowl and did not answer, these encounters should be his shadow since childhood, and she thought that all she could do was listen.

He suddenly sneered a few times, and said indifferently: "The more they avoid me, the more I want to catch them and let them see if I am a demon or not." I have taken all the princes and princesses in the palace who are younger than me and brought them to my lodgings, and let them eat and live with me, and I want them to see how different I am. But before it was dark, my small courtyard was crowded with people from all the palaces, who stood neatly outside the room waiting for my father who heard the sound and rushed to come. ”

Zhu Xuan slowly opened his eyes and looked sideways at Cao Ran, his eyes were rosy, and his voice was even colder: "After my mother left, it was the first time I saw my father. He is very majestic, and he is very lively. He stood outside the door and listened to the ladies of the palace tell me how I used the demon method to capture their children, hahaha" Speaking of this, he laughed absurdly, and his phoenix eyes were full of desolation, "At that time, I was only eight years old, and the people in the palace and courtyard were like they had discussed, and you cried and cried about how evil a child was, and they not only wanted to take away their own children, but also let my father get rid of me." My father was furious and sealed my courtyard, and I was locked up in a small courtyard for half a year, and for half a year I learned to forbearance and scheming. ”

He took the medicine bowl in Cao Ran's hand and drank it all, the bitterness left in his mouth made his thick eyebrows frown slightly.

His gaze turned to Cao Ran, who was staring at his eyebrows and listening to Cao Ran, whose face was heavy, "Do you think I should kill her!" Cao Ran didn't say a word for a long time, she didn't want to say anything, she just wanted to give him a hug, it was for the innocent child, for the poor mother and son.

Her thin body leaned over his shoulder, more like he was holding her, making him forget the anger that rose up and the desire to kill in an instant. In just a few seconds, she got up and realized that she was a little out of shape, and said in a chivalrous tone: "It is not a pity for such a woman to die naturally, but her powerful position cannot be easily shaken, so she must plan more carefully, and judge the situation without being too hasty." ”

Zhu Xuan's deep eyes flashed, and he snorted sarcastically: "Just you're smart!" He raised the corners of his mouth and asked, "Why are you still here?" ”

Cao Ran blinked his long and thick eyelashes, and reacted that he was asking why he was still in the Jade Yin Temple, "I am ......" Before he could say anything, he interrupted and said, "Waiting for me to come back?" The corners of his mouth raised even higher, and he didn't wait for her to answer, and then said: "I checked the inn by the way on the way down the mountain, and their upper home turned out to be Lanfeng Tower in the west of Qiongdu City. ”

"You mean Feng Laiying?"

Zhu Xuan nodded, looked at her and said, "You were almost sent to the Qinglou, and I burned down the inn." You owe me a favor again. ”

The name Lanfeng Lou sounded a little familiar, and when she heard the word Qinglou, she suddenly remembered, and the drunk man she met that day in the west of the city dragged her and said that she ran out of Lanfeng Lou.

"You killed all the people who came to meet Fenglai?"

"They were clever and ran away." He spread his hands and said with some regret: "It's more or less angry for you, how can you thank me." ”

Cao Ran straightened up and said inexplicably: "Fortunately, I didn't get angry with you that day." But this is fine, and it can be regarded as eliminating harm for the people. He put on a sweet smile, took the medicine bowl in his hand, and helped him fall off the bed curtain.

Cao Ran noticed his displeased look and ignored it: "Your Highness has a good rest, you will definitely have a good dream after doing so many good deeds." ”

"Don't call me Your Highness, you know such a shameful thing, what is Your Highness. You've been calling my name, and you're used to hearing it. ”

She nodded slightly and did not speak.

Three days later, Zhu Xuan's injuries began to recover, and the sun was very good, and Zhu Xuan accompanied Luo Ying to enjoy the huge moon flowers blooming in the courtyard.

The little nun at the gate of the courtyard ran over frantically, panting heavily, "Madame, go quickly, there is a group of people outside the door, and they are about to surround the temple, the abbot asked me to come over and report, the person who came is not good, let's leave quickly." ”

"Who is it? Is it directed at us? Zhu Xuan asked urgently.

The little nun took a breath and said, "It's a Taoist priest, with a group of officers and soldiers, who came up to search for people. Don't ask any more, the abbot told you to hurry up from the backyard into the North Mountain, where there is a cave where the Zen master practiced, very hidden, hide for a few days before going down the mountain. ”

Without further ado, he took his mother's hand and followed the little nun to the backyard. After taking two steps, he turned around and ran back to the room and picked up Cao Ran, who was decocting medicine, and left, "The queen's people are here, come with me." ”

The little nun led the way, and the three of them ran all the way and finally escaped from the temple, the road up the mountain was too steep, Zhu Xuan carried Luo Ying on his back, and Cao Ran was left far behind. He turned his head to wait for her, Cao Ran gasped and said loudly: "They are not looking for me, they won't do anything to me, I can't run, you guys leave me alone." ”

Zhu Xuan's figure paused, turned around and continued to move forward.

After a while, a group of officers and soldiers appeared behind her, and an old man in green clothes appeared in front of her lightly, Xu was too tired to notice which direction he was hitting.

Lao Dao glanced at her twice, and said to the officers and soldiers behind him: "This woman is suspicious, take her with you." ”

Reaching the top of the mountain, there is no road ahead. Lao Dao ordered the officers and soldiers to search for a while, and after no result, he dragged Cao Ran's neck and shouted loudly to the mountains and forests: "This girl is your person, it's not your style to leave her like this." If you don't come out again, let her take the lead for you, and I can have an explanation with the queen. ”

"I'll count to three, and if you don't come out, I'll cut off one of her hands first, so that you can hear how miserable her screams must be!" The old man's face was hideous and proud.

"One...... Two...... Three ......" Lao Dao grabbed her hand and shouted slowly and loudly.

"Stop!" Ignoring the obstruction of Zhu Xuan and the little nun, Luo Ying ran to the top of the mountain and was quickly surrounded. It's not that Zhu Xuan didn't want to save Cao Ran, if he hadn't taken care of his mother, he would have rushed out and killed the damned Taoist priest with his own hands.