Chapter 127: Ulterior motives

"Me?" I raised my hand and pointed to myself, then looked left and right.

Yin Linxi's star-like eyes were a little sneering, and his slender fingers held the white jade wine glass, and said to me, "You dancing girl is ridiculous, who else is here besides you?" Aren't you calling yourself a slave? Shouldn't you do these things since you're a minion? ā€

"Me"

I was inexplicably panicked in my heart, because I was afraid of being revealed by him, and even the hand hidden in my sleeve was unconsciously clenched.

At this time, Alhatu, who was originally behind me, suddenly got up and said with a face full of indignation, "Your Royal Highness the Prince, this is just a weak woman, doesn't His Royal Highness the Crown Prince feel that his words are too much!" ā€

Hearing him say this, Yin Linxi couldn't help but raise his eyes and take a closer look at Alhatu, and then laughed, "Excessive? I would like to ask the envoy where he started with this, how did this prince go too far? Is it too much to send a subordinate? ā€

"Hmph," Alhatu snorted coldly, his tone full of contempt, "I think His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is probably drunk!" ā€

"What? Lord Alhatu, is this distressed? Or do I have to report to you if I want to use a subordinate? ā€

"Linxi, pay attention to your words, don't forget that you are my prince Xianyu!" Yin Linxi's father didn't speak well.

Yin Linxi didn't get up, just smiled lightly and waved his hand slightly, "Please Father Emperor Mingjian, the son just wants to send a subordinate, and he doesn't mean to offend, I don't know why the envoy stopped him." ā€

With that, his gaze was fixed on the rebellious Alhattu on the other side.

For a moment, I only felt that there seemed to be a tight invisible string in the temple that was involved in these people, and it looked precarious.

Seeing that the situation was not good, I hurriedly said in the direction of the golden lacquer carved dragon throne, "Please calm the anger of the emperor and the envoys, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is right, although the slave is a dancing queen, he is also a slave, and now His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is just a slave pouring a cup of wine, and the slave should obey!" ā€

After that, I took the hem of my skirt and walked to Yin Linxi's side and sat down, then raised my hand and raised the glass wine jug to add some wine to Yin Linxi's white jade cup.

"Humph!" Seeing this, Alhatu snorted coldly again, and finally sat down again.

"Hehe, let the envoy laugh!" Father Yin Linxi raised his glass to Alhatu with a smile, and his eyes as sharp as knives glanced at Yin Linxi secretly.

This can't help but make me a little worried, you must know that Yin Linxi's father is a monarch who will do anything for the country, and now Yin Linxi openly contradicts the envoys of Wu at the banquet, causing him to lose face, I am afraid he will not let Yin Linxi go so easily.

It's all my fault!

But why did Yin Linxi ask me to pour wine? Could it be that he already recognizes me?

Looking at Yin Linxi next to him holding a wine glass and drinking one cup after another, with a calm look on his face, I couldn't help but be a little puzzled.

His mind began to guess his thoughts.

At that time, the hand I was hiding in my sleeve suddenly tightened, and when I lowered my eyes, it was Yin Linxi who held my hand?

He must have recognized me!

I immediately confirmed this in my heart, and I didn't know where to put my eyes.

I was thinking about what to say to lighten the mood, but after a few moments, he simply put his arm on my shoulder.

Getting up, he leaned over in the direction of the golden lacquer carved dragon throne with a slightly drunk face and said, "Father, the son is not strong enough to drink, and I am afraid that I will retire first today!" I can't accompany the envoy anymore, and I hope you will forgive me."

Before the words were finished, Yin Linxi's body was even shorter, and he probably wanted to apologize to everyone, but he didn't expect that his feet suddenly slipped, and his body fell towards the table

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!" I hurriedly exhaled and grabbed his crumbling body.

Then he looked at Yin Linxi's father and asked for advice with his eyes.

He just waved his hand at me with a bad face, signaling to let him do as he pleased.

I helped Yin Linxi to withdraw from the Shangqing Palace.

"Okay, you dancing girl, you dare not listen to the words of the prince" On the way, I struggled to help Yin Linxi step by step to move to the palace gate.

And that guy was playing drunk and crazy and pressing me.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, please settle down!" I almost gritted my teeth.

He threw a few eye knives at the guards who were following us, and drank coldly, "Why don't you come over and help?" ā€

A few guards, you look at me, I look at you, and in the end they are indifferent!

"You guys!" I'm angry.

Just as I was thinking about how to get rid of this huge burden on my body, I heard the person who pressed on me whisper in my ear, "Don't make any extraneous branches, my father's people are still watching us!" ā€

"You're not drunk?" My eyes widened in surprise.

The guy simply wrapped his big hand around my waist, continued to walk forward, and pretended to be drunk, "You little dancing girl dare to disobey me!" ā€

"What's going on?" At the right time, I quietly glanced at him.

Only then did I hear his hoarse voice say, "Father has some doubts about your identity, so he sent someone to monitor it, and it is not appropriate to return to the prince's mansion at this time." ā€

"What then?"

Yin Linxi's slightly confused eyes glanced at the tall buildings in the east intentionally or unintentionally, and then said shallowly, "Go to Yilan Palace!" ā€

With that, the hand on my waist tightened, and my footsteps followed the tall building.

It's just that when I got to the Yilan Hall that Yin Linxi's mouth said, I knew that this was clearly a ruined hall, and it seemed that no one had stepped into it for a long time, and the three words "Yilan Palace" hanging obliquely on the door of the temple were corroded by rain and sunlight countless times, and its original color could not be distinguished.

Even the bluestones on the ground were covered with weeds.

Occasionally, a gust of wind blowing from nowhere stirred the grass and made a slight sound, accompanied by the strange sound of an old wooden door in the hall, which was particularly terrifying.

At night, the whole building is gloomy, as if it will jump out of the darkness at any moment.

"What is this place?" I swallowed hard, my fingers clutching the corners of Yin Linxi's clothes.

"Don't worry, it's secluded here, those people won't come with you anymore!" Yin Linxi said lightly.

And he didn't know when he stopped pretending to be drunk, and at the moment he was just staring thoughtfully in the direction of the temple gate.

The guards who had been following us were standing guard at the palace gate from afar.

In this way, the two of us didn't know how long we were silent in the wind before we heard Yin Linxi sigh lowly, "Yilan Palace, I haven't been here for a long time. ā€

"Yin Linxi..."I shook the corner of his clothes in fear.

At this time, out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a black figure crouching on the ground and staring at me in the darkness not far away?

"Ahh I screamed in fright, and instantly rushed in front of Yin Linxi.

"What's wrong?" Yin Linxi looked at me very puzzled.

I clutched my frightened chest, lifted my finger with difficulty, pointed in the direction of the corner of the wall, and trembled, "That... There's someone there! ā€

"People?"

Yin Linxi looked in the direction of my finger, but was stunned.

After a moment, he said with a little melancholy in his voice, "You misunderstood, it's not a person, it's a tombstone." ā€

"Tombstones?" I felt a chill down my spine.

When I looked closely, it was indeed a stone monument standing in the dark night, but the light was too dim, so it looked like a living person hiding in the dark.

"But why is there a monument here?"

At the mention of this, Yin Linxi's eyes dimmed even more, "Because, my father didn't allow her to enter the imperial mausoleum, so I helped her set up a mound here." ā€

"She?" Who is it?

I opened my mouth to ask.

But when the words came to his mouth, he saw that his dim eyes were mixed with a trace of hatred, so he had to swallow the words back raw.

"Yin Linxi, we... Don't you want to be here, right? I patted my chest with palpitations.

Yin Linxi chuckled, lowered his eyes and gently took my hand, and took two steps forward, "Don't be afraid, this is actually where my queen mother used to live." ā€

"Your queen mother." I was slightly stunned, and I remembered in my mind that the poor woman who was personally sent to the road of harmony by her husband was said by Uncle Yin Linxi's uncle Lian Zhancheng.

It turns out that this is where she used to live, so to speak... Is the well-dressed mound for her?

I raised my eyes and looked at the slightly lonely figure in front of me, and my heart instantly rippled.

By the time he could react, I had already raised my hand and hugged him from behind.

Yin Linxi's body shook suddenly, and his voice called me hoarsely, "Su'er! ā€

"Well, I'm here!" I readily agreed.

He turned around and hugged me tightly into his arms.

Long...

"Why didn't you ask me about today?" I smothered in his arms, greedily sniffing at his body.

"Fool!" Yin Linxi chuckled, and the hand on my waist gradually moved to my back, "I just want you to be fine!" As for the beginning and end of today's incident, I have already understood it roughly. ā€

"You got it?" I wondered.

Immediately, Yin Linxi let go of me, smiled and nodded the tip of my nose, "Are you being bewitched by people and wanting to kill Alhatu?" Do you have poison hidden in your body? ā€

"You know everything?"

Yin Linxi didn't speak for a while, just looked up at a crescent moon by the corner tower.

The moonlight sprinkled softly on his face, making the contours of his eyebrows and eyes like a layer of frost, so beautiful that it was unreal.

It took a long time for him to speak, "Su'er, I don't want to leave me even if you end up..."

Speaking of this, he slammed suddenly, then turned his eyes sideways and smiled bitterly, and the ink-stained ink behind him was as soft as silk under the moonlight, "Can you promise me not to do such a dangerous thing in the future?" ā€

"I—" My fingers twisted together unconsciously.

Then Zhengse said, "I'm sorry, the revenge has not been avenged, I'm afraid I can't easily promise you!" Otherwise, it will be irresponsible to me and to you. ā€

"Yes!" Yin Linxi smiled even more bitterly, "Then you promise me that you can discuss with me what you will do next time?" ā€

I don't know why, at this moment, I suddenly felt that Yin Linxi had changed somewhere, as if when he spoke to me, there was a faint pleading in his tone.

Why, as for crying?

I don't know, maybe it was his mother's affair that left too deep a shadow on his heart, which is why he was so afraid that I would end up leaving him like his mother.

"Hmm!" I nodded.

Yin Linxi's face gradually turned happy.

Then I thought of something and asked him, "By the way, you haven't made it clear what you just said, how did you know that the dancing girl in the temple today is mine?" Why did your father send someone to spy on us? ā€

"This..."Yin Linxi's face became serious, "Actually, I received a letter today before the Lin Nei servant came in, and the letter stated that you were eager for revenge, so you infiltrated the dancing girl with the intention of poisoning and killing Alhatu. ā€

"That is, you knew my purpose before I even appeared," I was shocked, "but who sent the letter to you?" ā€

Yin Linxi smiled and did not speak.

I was shocked into a cold sweat, just because only Shen Xiao and I knew about today's events, if Yin Linxi could receive the news so accurately, unless he arranged it on purpose!

"Is it really him? Shen Xiao instigated me to assassinate Alhatu, and at the same time secretly reported to you? Why is that? It doesn't make sense! "I was puzzled.

Yin Linxi smiled meaningfully, "Silly girl, I don't understand this, he can use such a clumsy trick, it's not because he admires you, so he deliberately designed this one, not so that you really want to kill Alhatu, but he expected that I would stop you from slashing the enemy, his real purpose is to make you hate me!" ā€

"Hate" my body couldn't help but stumble back two steps, "Then why did your father send someone to spy on me?" ā€

"This..."Yin Linxi hesitated a little, but still continued, "You may not know, Jiangdong's feather dance has always only been danced by six people, but today there are seven people in the palace, so he is naturally suspicious of you." ā€

Six people in a dance...

No wonder, when Shen Xiao was negotiating with the Lin Nei attendant, the Lin Nei attendant said that the number of dancing girls had been decided.

Shen Xiao: What exactly does he want to do?

I couldn't help but feel a little sad in my heart.

If it is really like what Yin Linxi said, then why did he become what he is now?

The Shen Xiao in my memory is obviously a shy and honest person, why did he become like this?

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