In the early spring of Liang Datong's second year, a spring rain ushered in an inverted spring cold, the cold wind at night was steep, the moonlight entered the house, and the tide-like cool air poured into the room, freezing people all over the body.

Chunhua couldn't help but shudder, rolled up her sleeves, exhaled a breath of mist, and looked out the window at the grass shrouded in the dissolved moonlight, but when she saw a few flower stamens swaying and falling with the wind, there was a touch of grass-colored smoke in her heart.

As if remembering something, the corners of her lips couldn't help but raise a smile, turned around but saw her companion Qiu Shi still guarding a basin of clear water sitting in front of the girl's collapse, her face could not hide the thick tiredness, so she covered the doors and windows, approached and joked: "Look at you, you have already begun to fall asleep, and you are still holding on here, go and rest, I will serve Langjun tonight!" ”

Qiu Shi's sleepiness was diluted instantly, and he raised his head and shook his head: "No, I am more careful than you, Lang Jun has always liked my close service, you still have some luggage for Lang Jun, when Lang Jun wakes up, we will be on the road again, and in three days it will be the gift of the eldest lady, Lang Jun and the eldest lady have a deep love for the young lady, how can you miss it?" ”

"But Lang Jun has been sleeping for three days, and I don't know when I will wake up?" Chunhua muttered, and seeing that Qiu Shi didn't react at all, he warmed another cup of fruit wine and sent it, "The night is deep and heavy, if you have to hold on, drink a cup of wine to warm your body and refresh yourself." ”

Qiu Shi nodded, took the wine cup and drank it all.

Chunhua stood in place and took a look, and sure enough, within a moment, the maid couldn't hold on to sleepiness, and fell asleep, so she carefully moved Qiushi to the small ear room on the other side of the screen, and covered her with a quilt to sleep on.

After all this was done, Chunhua returned to the original room, sat down in front of the collapse, and called a few times: "Girl, wake up!" After shaking like this a few times, seeing that she didn't respond for a long time, she came to the desk, took out a purse from her sleeve, and poured something into the tea.

was about to pick up the tea bowl and shake it, but at this moment, the "boy" lying on the bed suddenly opened his eyes.

Xie Ling opened his eyes, his mind was still a little drowsy, and he saw the curtain embroidered with the fire-colored phoenix pattern in front of him swaying and flying, as if he felt that something was wrong, so he sat up and looked at the surrounding environment.

Only then did I realize that I was sitting on a Hu bed, and my body was covered with a silk quilt embroidered with delicate lotus patterns, and the night outside Xiaoxuan's window had fallen, but the moonlight was like snow, and the shadows of the trees could be vaguely seen in the haze, and the branches reported that the spring peaches were waiting to be released, and they were beautiful and fragrant.

The scene seemed familiar, but I couldn't remember where I was.

Xie Ling was in a trance, stretched out her hand and stroked her heart, and she still clearly remembered in her mind that when she gritted her teeth and repeated the words "I don't regret" over and over again, the pain of a sharp knife stirring in her heart, the taste of death was not pleasant, especially the pain of being stabbed again and again.

But she couldn't forget that when she swallowed her last breath, the man shook his body like crazy, roared in her ear, and said, "I will cut Murong Liancheng with a thousand knives and pay for your life!" words.

It's ridiculous! It was clear that he personally ordered her life, but he still had to impose this guilt on others.

It's a pity that she can't do anything for Liancheng anymore.

In the second year of the Taiqing Dynasty, Hou Jing raised troops in Shouyang, but in just one year, he had already taken only 2,000 soldiers and horses to attack Jiankang Taicheng, and it was smooth sailing along the way.

This is not because of how strong Hou Jing's combat power is, but because those princes of the Xiao family have created extremely favorable conditions for his rebellion.

Speaking of Hou Jing's judgment is extremely ironic and ridiculous, he was just a foreigner who was abandoned by Gao Cheng of the Eastern Wei Dynasty and fled to Southern Liang, and there was no soldier around him, but because of his past achievements, he won the trust of Emperor Wu of Liang, who not only gave Shouyang to him as a fief, but also repeatedly sent food and wealth to show his respect.

He probably thought that his fatherly care could get Hou Jing's loyalty and reward to Nanliang, but he never thought that Hou Jing was an insatiable wolf-hearted villain, and this villain had already saved the food and clothing he gave as military resources to realize his ambition of seizing Nanliang as emperor against the guest.

In her previous life, as Si Tianjian and the national teacher and servant of Southern Liang, she had hinted to Emperor Wu of Liang many times about Hou Jing's intentions, but she couldn't resist those little ones blowing in his ears, even if the evidence was in front of him, Emperor Wu of Liang still didn't believe that Hou Jing would bring 2,000 soldiers and horses to rebel, but added officials to Hou Jing, a villain, to show appeasement, to show his emperor's generous and benevolent heart.

In the end, this greedy villain even wanted to marry the daughter of their Xie family, not to mention that her grandfather would not agree, even if she Xie Ling would not let the daughter of the Xie family be ruined in the hands of such a villain who was ugly and morally corrupt.

So when Emperor Wu of Liang mentioned this matter, Xie Ling decisively refused, and it was the rejection of this marriage that laid the root of their Xie family, and aroused Hou Jing's resentment towards Emperor Wu of Liang.

After that, Hou Jing attacked Jiankang Taicheng under the joint efforts of Xiao Zhengde, the king of Linhe, and the first order he gave was to punish Wang Xie and his family.

She knew that Hou Jing Chaoliang's fate was irreversible, so she fled Jiankang with her clansmen long before Hou Jing attacked Taicheng.

But she didn't expect to meet the soldiers and horses sent by Chen Shuo on the way to escape, Chen Shuo took the holy decree of Emperor Xiao Yi of Liang Yuan, and wanted to persuade them to return to Jiangling, how could she be fooled, that man just wanted to use the prestige of their Xie family to do the thing of personally awarding the ribbon, but he just wanted to use her to invite merit.

She had already seen through the wolf ambition hidden by that humble gentleman.

In order to avoid Chen Shuo's pursuit, it was Liancheng who disguised herself as her and used herself as bait to lure away those pursuers, so as to buy her people the opportunity and time to escape.

However, Liancheng fell into his hands, and was humiliated and tied to the stone pillar for public display, and was tortured and painful by the scorching sun and the biting cold wind of the night.

How could she not know that Chen Shuo just wanted to use this method to lure her into the net, and how could she bear to watch Liancheng thank the family for them.

Therefore, when Chen Shuo said those words, she would only have contempt for this man in her heart.

Even if Liancheng is really the son of Murong Shaozong, what can he do?

Who can do this kindness of exchanging lives for lives?

It's a pity that she can't repay this kindness after all.

Just as her heart was aching, there was a sudden soft sound in her ears, but it was a floor-to-ceiling wine cup that crashed into her sight, and Xie Ling raised her eyes to look at another person in the room besides her.

A maid wearing a long skirt with a hanging hair stood in front of her, with a melon seed face and white skin, although a pair of wonderful eyes were full of astonishment and panic, but it was watery, especially bright and vivid, especially the eyebrow bones were slightly open, and her cheeks were dizzy, which added a bit of brightness to her pretty color.

Xie Ling was a little stunned, this person turned out to be Chunhua, one of the two personal maids who accompanied her when she was young, she is only fifteen or sixteen years old, and she is at the age when the young Mu Ai and Yi Chun's heart is budding.

Chunhua's complexion when he was young was extremely beautiful, even among the servants raised by nobles such as their Xie family, Chunhua's appearance was also superior.

Otherwise, she wouldn't be her Xie Ling's personal maid.

As the second daughter of the Xie family, or the "concubine", the family's education and training for them is not only strict, even a maid next to them is also strictly trained.

Chunhua and Qiushi were the handmaidens selected by her grandfather from a group of well-trained first-class maidservants, and before giving them to her, he also used their family members as a restraint, in order to make these two handmaidens loyal to her, but unfortunately even her grandfather probably did not expect that Chunhua, the cronies he left to her, Chunhua, who had accompanied her for nearly twenty years, would eventually almost put their people to death for a man.

How could she forget that it was this Chunhua who sprinkled acacia beans as a code on their way to escape, leaving clues for Chen Shuo, which attracted those pursuers.

After staring at this maid for a long time, Xie Ling's jade-like eyes were unconsciously stained with a layer of frost, and Chunhua couldn't help but shrink and take a step back.

Although she realized the coldness in Xie Ling's eyes, this servant was still able to recover her demeanor quickly, showed a pretty and gentle smile, and asked softly, "Girl, are you awake?" ”

Xie Ling got up and collapsed, looked in the room again for a week, walked to the window, looked out the window at the babbling moonlight and asked, "You just called me a girl?" ”

"Yes." Suddenly realizing something, Chunhua hurriedly changed her words, "No, the slave is wrong, the slave should call the girl Langjun." ”

Xie Ling smiled and asked again: "You also said that three days later will be my eldest sister's gift?" ”

"No, I didn't say it, it was Qiu Shi who said it." Chunhua corrected repeatedly, but when she saw that Qiu Shi was still asleep lying on the side of the screen, she hurriedly changed her words, "Yes, girl, I said that in three days, it will be your eldest sister's gift to the eldest lady." ”

Xie Ling looked at her quietly, and many memories of the past in her mind suddenly emerged, if it was really the eldest sister's gift after three days, then she was now back to fourteen years ago, this year she was only thirteen years old, it was the first year that she had learned and finished bidding farewell to her master and returning to the Xie family.

She was born in Wuyi Lane Chen County Xie family, her family is and Langya Wang clan known as the first-class gate lord clan, since the Jin Dynasty Nandu, after four dynasties and two hundred years, has been the crown of the scholar family, the head of the celebrity.

However, due to the tilt of imperial power in the past 200 years, the Xie family has been suspicious of those in power several times, and many elite children of the clan have died in prison or died young.

Xie Jiaxian's lineage has been passed to this vein is already not prosperous, she is in this branch, her grandfather has only four sons, she is the second daughter of the Xie family, her biological mother Shen is only the continuation of Xie Jingxiang, the son of the Xie family, Shen gave birth to her, she was born in childbirth, originally a pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses, but only one of her lived, her brother of the same mother was born not long ago, and died, not long after, Shen also collapsed due to excessive sadness in the confinement, and also followed.

Xie Jingxiang guarded for Shen for two years, and then married Zhu, a year later, Zhu gave birth to a daughter, although he did not have a child, but the mother and daughter were safe and happy, originally thought that Zhu would be able to have children after recuperating his body, but he never thought that Xie Jingxiang had a heart disease, and he died not long after,

She was only four years old that year, and her father was only a young man, and she had seen her grandfather's grief over the loss of his beloved son, and once lamented whether the Xie family had been cursed in any way, and that none of them would live to be forty years old, and that her father had died clearly at an early age.

Father had no children before his death, this time, the vein of the long house was broken, and the grandfather originally wanted to pass a son from the second room to the long room, but then he changed his mind for some reason, and simply recorded her as Lang Jun under the long room, and changed her name from the original Xie Hanlin to Xie Ling.

grandfather declared to the outside world that the pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses born by the Shen family were originally a son, and from then on, she was no longer the second daughter of the Xie family, but the eldest son of the Xie family.

Not many people know this secret except for her grandfather, grandmother and eldest sister, and Chunhua and Qiushi are the only people who know her identity besides her family.