"This court has always been like this, once it gains power, once it loses power, it changes rapidly." He said.

"No wonder you didn't want to say it in the first place, if you did, I would have run away a long time ago. Qin Rui was afraid of you at first, which confused me, but now I understand. But she thinks highly of you...... And what about later? How did you get to the opposite side of Wei Guogong? ”

"Huarong was favored as soon as he entered the palace, and I was also stained with light because of this, and I was promoted very quickly. At that time, when I first entered the officialdom, I was ignorant, and it took me a lot of time to see the true face of Wei Guogong, so I withdrew my hands in time to get out of his control, and asked Huarong not to have anything to do with them anymore, but she didn't listen to my persuasion, and only told me to wait for her. ”

Later, he became friends with the second prince Yang Bai, who had been unknown. The second prince and concubine are not favored, Yang Bai has been weak since he was a child, and he is disliked by the saint, and he is always in an embarrassing and marginal situation for the royal family.

I learned that Yang Bai was generous, respected benevolence and righteousness, and was talented, but unfortunately he could not be used under the suppression. He decided to stand on the side of the second prince and assist him wholeheartedly.

"Officialdom is like a quagmire, once you set foot on it, you will be contaminated with mud, and no one can avoid it. If you want to be a clean and fair official, you must be a thousand times more cunning than those corrupt officials. I tried my best to climb up step by step, and the three princes and the Duke of Wei tried to eradicate me countless times, but I either hid or dissolved the past. Maybe they didn't know how much I could be in the first place, until they were in that position...... In the meantime, Hua Rong also helped me again and again, although she was from the third prince's side......"

"I am deceived by the people who hate officialdom, but Huarong has always refused to leave with me. There are many scheming disputes in the harem, and she was almost framed to death by the palace people several times, and I had to do my best to protect her. When she first entered the palace, she was so elegant and dignified, knowledgeable and courteous, kind-hearted, and simple as a glass lamp......"

As he spoke, his voice gradually became softer, as if he was afraid of waking up the beautiful woman in his memory who was not subject to a little dust.

Du Ruo was vaguely jealous and very sad in his heart.

She knew that Song Ju'an was in love with her now, but when she thought that he had fallen in love with a woman so deeply, almost got married, and had to separate for various reasons, experienced countless open guns and hidden arrows, struggled, and supported each other, her heart had to be blocked.

"It's just that she changed later, in order to compete for favor, she used a lot of tricks, killed many concubines, wanted to sit on the queen's throne, asked me to help her, every time she cried in front of me, I couldn't bear it......"

Until later, she still failed to leave with him, and even used her scheming on him, inserting a knife in his heart to achieve her own goals......

Listening to him tell the story of the past, listening without the slightest emotion, but painful, Du Ruo's heart fluctuated, and he didn't know what to say, just hugged him with his hand.

I'm afraid he will never forget these painful memories, and Du Ruo only hopes that he can gradually let go.

One spoke and one listened, and slowly she didn't know when she fell asleep.

When she woke up the next day, she was in a little poor spirits, and when she was dressed, she walked to the board of the boat and found that Song Ju'an was telling Lou Xi and Han Liang to do things.

Seeing her, Lou Xi and Han Liang hurriedly greeted each other, and Du Ruo smiled at them. After thinking about it, she said to Song Ju'an again: "It is also said that the Meng family did business in Suzhou in the name of the Jiang family, but when did they start doing business with the palace?" And to transport so much silk at once? Last year, when the Meng family's Wanhe Cloth Village purchased silk, I also participated, and I didn't think it was right, such a large amount of silk, is there a ghost in it? ”

She thought about this when she woke up in the morning.

Han Liang and Lou Xi looked nervous when they heard this, and looked at Song Ju'an.

Song Ju'an said to them: "She already knows everything. He turned to look at Du Ruo again: "It's not a business in the palace, it's just in the name of the palace, led by the Fifth Highness." ”

He turned around and glanced at the ship, there were only a few of them here, and Song Ju'an said to her again: "This ship not only has silk, but also gunpowder and weapons. The boats went separately so that they could be found out if something went wrong in the middle of the way, and they wouldn't be noticeable when they arrived in Kyoto. ”

Du Ruo looked at him in shock.

"The winner is the king, I went back to Kyoto this time, to help the five princes win the throne, if he becomes the emperor, I can naturally clear the charges, if he is defeated in the hands of the three princes, then I will have no room to turn over, most of the people who chased and killed me in the past were the people of the Three Princes Yang League."

Du Ruo didn't understand what he heard, but he still nodded, and asked him again: "The gunpowder and weapons belong to the Meng family?" ”

He nodded, "Not bad!" Meng family! ”

Du Ruoxin said, the sound of explosions coming from time to time in the chaotic mountains of Gunan Town should also be done by the Meng family, it is really far away from the emperor of the mountain, and he will do whatever he wants!

Meng Yuanzhou is really like a flag facing the wind, and the wind blows in which direction.

Song Ju'an looked at her and said earnestly: "No matter what I do in Kyoto, I hope you don't blame me." ”

Hearing this, she became more and more uneasy in her heart, "You only said that you would go for five or six days, I don't see it, how can you have this time?" ”

He smiled: "It can be as short as a month, or maybe two months, three months, or half a year." I didn't worry about leaving you behind, so I had to take it with me. ”

Du Ruo: "......"

What about her business......

After spending another seven or eight days on the ship, I finally arrived in Kyoto. It's just that the day before entering Beijing, Du Ruo and Du Ercheng took a boat and left separately with them under Song Ju'an's arrangement.

Someone in Beijing responded, and the people of Yang Shao, the Fifth Highness, arranged for them to live in a mansion, which was on the side of the Fifth Highness's Mansion. Two maidservants were also arranged, as well as a few guards.

Since entering Beijing, Song Ju'an has become busy, returning in a hurry, leaving in a hurry, and sometimes coming back after a few days.

Although Du Ruo was worried, he couldn't say anything, let alone help.

"The third prince has been planning for many years, and the foundation is very deep, and the fifth highness had no intention of taking the throne before, and I don't know why he suddenly figured it out two years ago and wanted to fight. Maybe...... The third prince has lost the Duke of Wei on his side, so he will be frantically suppressed, if he doesn't resist again, there will be no room for resistance. Song Ju'an said to Du Ruo.

"Are you very sure that you will help the Fifth Highness this time?" Du Ruo asked him.

"It is up to man to plan things, and it is up to heaven to make things happen. Do you still remember the convictions of the Meng family and Wei Guogong last year? General Gao He is a member of His Royal Highness the Fifth Highness, and I wrote to him at that time to ask him to come over, just to take credit for this meritorious service. Later, His Highness sent someone to protect me secretly. This is Kyoto, it's not that simple to kill someone, My Highness and I have been waiting for the opportunity, and we must be patient. ”

"Anyway, you have to remember that I'm worried about you." Du Ruo didn't say anything sensational on weekdays, he took his hand at the moment and looked at him very seriously, "If you lose, thirty-six plans will be the best plan, this world is so big, as long as your life is still there, you can always find a place to stay, I have been following you." ”

"Okay."

After a few days, Du Ruo was afraid that his family would be worried, so he urged Du Ercheng to take a boat back.

The clothes she made from the famous garment shops in Beijing and the embroideries she made in several embroidery workshops were all asked to be brought back by him, hoping that the Baodie girls would see and learn from them. asked him to pass a few words to Li Fangqing and asked him to take care of Baohua's clothes.

As the days passed, the weather became cooler.

Wild beasts gradually appeared in Kyoto, and as soon as it got dark, they came out to wreak havoc. At night, the roars of wild beasts came and went, and even when people hid in their homes and covered their heads under the quilts, they still heard the cold hairs standing on end and shivering.

The people who walked out of the streets of the city at night did not return all night, and after daybreak the corpses were found in the streets, and they were so badly bitten by wild beasts that some of them were only white bones.

The Jingzhong guards did catch and kill more than a dozen wild wolves. After such a strange incident, the security in Kyoto became more tense, and the number of guards patrolling more than doubled.

Kyoto is in complete chaos.

The hearts of the people are in fear all day long.

Du Ruo was forbidden to go out by Song Ju'an. She spends her days in that house, looking for all sorts of different things to do, trying to pass the time. Sometimes Song Ju'an didn't come back for two days in a row, and she had to think about it.

There are even times when self-doubt arises.

Is there something wrong with her? Does he dislike her?

Still can't forget the pure and flawless white moonlight in my heart and want to be with her?

Or is there countless beautiful women in Beijing, and he completely forgot about her?

Du Ruo felt that if she stayed any longer, she would become a full resentful woman, and she didn't want to be such a person. It can be seen that people can't be too idle, once they are idle, they feel that they are not useful.

So she went up to the second floor of the attic with a fan one morning after dinner, pretending to look into the distance to see the scenery. He threw away the maidservant and tried to climb outside from this side. It's a pity that there is no support on the other side of the high wall, and if you jump, you will fall to your death.

If you find a strong rope to tie to this pillar, maybe you can fall and fall on the side of the wall, Du Ruo wants to try it for a while.

After a moment on the stool, she heard the sound of the carriage rolling over the bluestone slabs coming from below.

Every morning or evening, there would be the sound of carriages passing by outside the wall, either going out or coming back, Du Ruo was used to it.

She only knew that this was the carriage that came and went from the Fifth Highness's mansion, but she didn't know who was sitting on it.

But as the carriage approached, the sound suddenly stopped.

Du Ruo stood up and leaned on the railing, silently looking down.

The carriage stopped a few battles away from her, and the coachman sat cross-legged on the wheels with a blank face, holding the reins. Nor could she hear anything in the carriage.

It's just that soon, a middle-aged man with eyebrows flying into his sideburns jumped down from the carriage, stood aside, and then knelt on the ground again, "This little thing, my subordinates are naturally willing to share worries for His Highness!" Even if you lose your life! ”

As soon as the words fell, the long sword in his hand was horizontal, and his right arm was cut off by a sharp blade and fell to the ground.

Du Ruo quickly covered his mouth with his hand.

"You have done a good job, and this palace will never treat you badly." Humanity in the carriage.