The reception banquet ended in a happy mood.

In the evening, Xu Wanqing coaxed Xizong to sleep and was carried out by the nurse. Shen Dashao was still handling business in front of the case, she made a cup of tea and sent it over, and rubbed his shoulders for him.

Shen Dashao touched her hand with one hand, and wrote and drew with a pen in the other, "You're tired for a day, go rest first, don't wait for me." ”

Xu Wanqing sat on his lap. This is the newlywed husband and wife of Xiao Biesheng, and it was taught to her by her wet nurse. But she is a dignified and virtuous lady, and she really can't do these amorous behaviors

It was very handy, she grabbed his front shirt nervously, thinking of the nurse's words, there is no man in this world who does not like a woman to have a soul-seducing bed. I thought again

Although they have been married for many years, they have respected each other and loved each other, but in the end, they are not passionate enough, and they always feel that something is missing. If you don't do it, you can just sit on his lap

Let's put aside the deep court upbringing.

Wrapped around his neck like a snake, she lifted a flushed face and put her lips on bright water. She kissed him affectionately, and whispered back and forth about her thoughts these days

, he cooperated, but he didn't take the initiative or respond much.

She sensed the coldness in him, and left his lips, gasping lowly, her eyes confused and sad.

He suddenly picked her up, kicked out the chair, gently put her on the bed, undressed and leaned over.

He pressed the bedside switch, and the last light source in the room went out. Xu Wanqing could only see him slowly approaching a magnified face, the curtain moved, and a few wisps of plain silver moonlight came from time to time

Dotted with his side face, she couldn't see the joy of reunion in his eyes.

And he kissed her skin inch by inch, with great love and tenderness, but in such a high summer, his lips were cold.

For example, a cup of herbal tea after a person leaves is no longer fresh and pure.

In the middle of the night, he was already asleep, but Xu Wanqing couldn't sleep, so he got out of bed in his clothes. The cool breeze in the corridor hit people, and she looked out from the railing, preoccupied.

She saw the study not far from the left-hand side, and remembered that Li Yong had taken a lot of documents and files to send in the afternoon, and thought that it was his daily office. In fact, she rarely entered his special place

out of the work room, but at the moment somehow I really want to go in and have a look. She has not been by his side for the past five months, she does not know his food, clothing, housing and transportation, and she does not know who he has met

, Worrying about something, he forgot to sleep and eat at work, and most of the time he must stay in the study, where there is his residual breath, and she can feel it slowly in the middle of the night

Taste.

She wrung her hands into the door and turned on the light. I saw the bookshelves and bookcases, stacks of documents on the desk, ink incense paper, warm water incense, she could vaguely see him sitting in front of the bookcase, hard

The pen is sick, frowning and thinking.

She walked slowly, picked up the paper balls on the ground one by one, and unfolded them one by one, some of which were invalid approvals, and some of which were a few practice words

There is a few apricot blossoms, silk with thin petals, Ling Ran is in full bloom.

She felt strange in her heart. He is not an idle and elegant person who likes to play with the wind and the moon, and he has never paid attention to flowers and plants, and he has never planted plants with short flowering periods like apricot blossoms at home

Why, why did he suddenly draw apricot blossoms on paper? He has a thoughtful personality, and it is impossible to paint an apricot blossom on a whim, and there must be some reason for this.

She made up her mind, put the paper away, and casually flipped through the open book on the case, but saw a red thread woven into a chain lying between the pages, and it was not successful

A jade pendant with many good colors. She suddenly palpitated in her heart, picked it up and took a closer look, to see how worn out the chain body strands, presumably she had been holding it in her hand for a long time.

It's a woman's thing, and this woman isn't her! Her heart was pounding, and she only felt that the small piece of jade was like an ice hook, hooking her three souls and seven spirits.

It was cold to her limbs. She felt a thousand feelings in her heart for a while, but her consciousness was fading and leaving blank, she didn't know how to react, her legs were filled with lead, and she couldn't move. I don't know how long it took for her

Feeling the tears on his face, he hurriedly wiped them clean, trembled his hands, and clipped the chain back into the book.

She was about to go out, but when the door moved, he strode in a somewhat gloomy stride. She hurriedly turned her face away, sorting out her emotions before turning around.

Shen Da Shao frowned and glanced at her a few times, and then went to look at the table displays, and his face softened slightly, "Three watches in the middle of the night, what are you doing in the study?" ”

She chewed coptis like a mouthful, her mouth was full of bitterness, and she looked at him in a daze for a long time, and shook her head.

He said, "Can't you sleep?" He gathered the clothes she had draped over her for her.

She didn't respond. He took her hand and walked out, "Okay, go to bed." Tomorrow, you have to be the host and accompany the officials and their families. ”

He walked in front, tall as a towering mountain, holding her hand, as before, nothing changed, but she couldn't feel his heart anymore, maybe he had changed his heart, he didn't

I like her mute again.

Also, what man would like a stuffy gourd. But she always believed that he was different, that he was different from those men who valued the hue of the skin, that he could see her heart

can treat her as a treasure.

But now, who is the woman he can cherish as a treasure?

The music is melodious. Xu Wanqing took Shen Dashao's arm and walked among the guests. Today's banquet is all about leading troops and giving advice in this battle

of officers and their relatives. She shuttled through the crowd, nodding and toasting to the ladies and ladies. Everywhere she went in front of a crowd, she was always sneaked around and covered up

Observing the trial in disguise, those people seemed to be enthusiastic and lively on the surface, and they were like sisters, but as soon as she was gone, she could hear their chirping and biting ears

Broken words. It's a pity, it's a mute, alas, sighing, all living beings are in a variety of ways, but they are just laughing and talking about the snow on the tiles of his house and having fun for themselves.

Li Yong came quickly, said a few words to him, his face changed, and he said to her: "I have some things, you deal with them first." ”

Before she could say anything, he was already a few meters away.

She raised her lips and smiled in frustration, in fact, which banquet was not like this, she could arrange it for him in an orderly manner, and she could always hear the leisure of the guests' mouths that could always turn over the tricks

Long words. She had long been accustomed to hearing these words, and it would not hurt to listen to them for another day, and she knew that he was going to rely on today's banquet to win people's hearts, and she was willing to listen to it. The smile on her lips is as elegant as a lotus

She raised her eyes, calmly.

"Didn't find it!"

"Didn't find it!"

The guards who acted separately all returned empty, and Li Yong was silent on the side.

Shen Dashao said helplessly: "Run, run, anyway, you're already crazy, you don't have to blame yourself, send someone to find it, and if you find it, you don't need to bring it, just kill it." ”

Li Yong dismissed the guards and hesitated repeatedly: "There is one more thing"

"You say."

"I don't think he took advantage of the chaos to escape, but secretly someone helped him."

"What do you mean by that?"

"Tightly connected to the back kitchen, the lock is intact, and it can be seen that he climbed into the skylight and jumped into the chimney to escape. I noticed that there were finger scratches on the wall and chimney, but he had already been picked

If he broke his tendons, he wouldn't have scratched such a deep mark, he must have been rescued from the secret room. ”

Shen Dashao's eyes lit up, "You go to check, anyone who is in this courtyard within this hour must secretly check his whereabouts." ”

Li Yong said: "Yes! ”

The carved windows were pasted with blue cloud veil, filtered in the tender green goose yellow sunlight, like a soft mountain stream, quietly flowing on her delicate face. Half of the big red soft satin has been embroidered

Playing in the water, she was carefully threading and guiding one stitch at a time, when she suddenly heard a bang from the back window, and the black-robed man rushed in with a half-dead corpse.

When Ping Yan saw him carrying the man, she immediately panicked and said, "This is Xiao Ma?" ”

The black-robed man couldn't deny it, and said in a suppressed voice: "Save him!" ”

Ping Yan said: "Put him on the bed first!" ”

The black-robed man ran to the inner room, she peeked out of the window a few times, and saw that there was no one left and right, so she hurriedly closed the door and hurried over.

She picked her eyes and checked the pulse, and looked at the injuries everywhere, which was even heavier, "Whoever made such a ruthless hand, the tendons and ribs of the hands were cut off, and the phlegm was even more turbid and closed, and the heart and spleen were deficient, he was crazy."

”

He said, "Not bad! Is there a cure? ”

Ping Yan said worriedly: "Yes, yes, you can only adjust it slowly, thousands of people and thousands of medicinal effects, what kind of recovery it can be, it still depends on the individual." But his hands, I'm afraid they're gone

。 ”

He sighed angrily, and entrusted him as if he were burdened: "You must save him!" After saying that, he had to leave again.

Ping Yan hurriedly tugged at his sleeve, "Who are you?" Why did you come last time? Why did you leave without saying a word? ”

The black-robed man was stunned for a moment, as if he didn't understand where she was starting to say this. Taking advantage of the moment, she lifted the grimace mask from his face.