Yue Ning was summoned to his study a few days after Yan Ziqian returned home. Yan Ziqian was sitting on the chair with a tired face, that night King Ning came to the mansion, although there was no follow-up, but he had to guard against, King Ning had been dormant for a few years, although the surface did not show the slightest, but after all, Qiancheng Villa has a lot of status in the rivers and lakes, and the dark department has been operating for many years, it is inevitable to find some clues, and now the emperor has suddenly set out to fight, even if Yan Ziqian and Guo Chuanbai have been planning for many years, they have also somewhat disrupted their arrangement, and now they can only re-arrange, especially the sentence of King Ning that night: "In case there is any accident, the imperial brother will ...... if there is any accident" The appearance of wanting to speak and stopping made Yan Ziqian and Guo Chuanbai know that King Ning was afraid that there would be changes this time. After a few days of hard work, his eyes were already dark, and what Yue Ning saw when he came in was a tired face.

There was a small gap in the window of the study, and the wind blew in, and there was a hint of coldness in the room. Yue Ning didn't move, just stood in front and looked at Yan Ziqian, who was leaning back on the chair and falling asleep. The face is fairer than some women, the bridge of the nose is high, the sword eyebrows are starry, and the facial features are extremely beautiful, but there is no trace of femininity. Yan Ziqian fell asleep, his face was softer than when he was awake, Yue Ning suddenly remembered how he looked when he stood behind Yan Ziqian in the past, and always tried his best to hide his thoughts, there was no joy or anger on his face, and even some gloom, not so much that he was the grandson of a general, but that he was more like a scheming Wenchen above the court. She grew up with Yan Ziqian, and when she was young, because of the moon housekeeper, although the two were commensurate with each other on the surface, they treated each other like brothers and sisters in private, and even entrusted Yue Ning to Yan Ziqian's care before he died. But I don't know when he started, Yan Ziqian no longer saw the innocence of his childhood, perhaps because of the changes in his early years, he was more concerned about his identity, even a few concubines, also from the Jianghu sect, and there was a daughter of a big family.

When Yan Ziqian woke up, Yue Ning had been standing for a long time, and it was even a little dark outside the window. Yan Ziqian looked at Yue Ning, still looking supple, and couldn't help but say, "You ......" Hearing his hoarse voice because he had just woken up, he cleared his throat again, "When did you come?" ”

"When the slave came, she saw the owner asleep......"

Yan Ziqian stood up, splashed his face with the cold water on the side, and heard that Yue Ning called herself a "slave maid", so he turned back to look at her, "Your father entrusted you to me, I said a long time ago that you and I are commensurate with brother and sister." ”

Yue Ning still lowered her head and said, "The slave doesn't dare to exceed the rules." ”

Yan Ziqian looked at Yue Ning, ignoring the water droplets on his face, he reached out and grabbed Yue Ning's arm, "You ......" Yue Ning raised her head and looked at him in surprise. Yan Ziqian's breath stagnated and sighed, "You can play a tune and listen to it." Yue Ning retreated, Yan Ziqian picked up a face towel to wipe the water on his face, thinking of Yue Ning, although she was not yet in time, her bright appearance and the demeanor that Yan Ziqian had carefully cultivated over the years were better than those women he had ever seen. But Yue Ning is the housekeeper's adopted daughter after all, after the death of the housekeeper, Yan Ziqian looked for relatives for Yue Ning, almost all over the Yao country, there were a lot of abandoned babies during the war, and most of them were nobles from the family, they didn't know Yue Ning, Yan Ziqian expected that Yue Ning might be the daughter of a commoner, or even an orphan girl without a father and mother. He was Wang Wenchong's grandson, and his family education was quite strict since he was a child. Since then, he has also broken off his feelings for Yuening.

Yue Ning returned to the room in a moment, put the guqin on the small table on the side, didn't look at Yan Ziqian, gently slid her hand on the strings, and after trying the sound, she played it again. Yue Ning is different from Yan Ziqian's ladies, although she also plays the piano and listens to Yan Ziqian, but she does not play those lingering and mournful tunes, the music is sometimes brisk, sometimes slow, like flowing water soup, the crisp piano sound makes Yan Ziqian squint his eyes, lean on the back of the chair and unconsciously relax. "Ning'er's piano skills have improved again."

Yue Ning was still playing the piano, and the tune was changed again and again. As the twilight outside the house grew, the slave went into the house, took the lamp, and then retreated. Yue Ning still sat straight behind the piano case, although her fingers were a little red, the sound of the piano did not affect it in the slightest.

"Ning'er." Yan Ziqian stood up suddenly, walked to the piano case, and suddenly grabbed Yue Ning's hand, the strings made a "zheng" sound, Yue Ning raised her head and looked back at him, Yan Ziqian held Yue Ning's hand tightly, "Ning'er, I know your mind, I, I ...... You and I have grown up together since childhood, and I know your affection for me. I'm not hard-hearted, but my family has not been avenged, and you know that my royal family has been loyal and good for generations, but I have been crowned with treason...... Over the years, I have placed you in this capital courtyard, just because I don't want these mundane things to defile you. Yue Ning looked at the man in front of her, and said these words to her incoherently with a weak expression, but Yan Ziqian in her heart has always been resolute, and never despises these words to others, she looked at Yan Ziqian with some complexity, but she didn't know what to say, "I have collected all the puppets you sent, Ning'er, I remember that when you were a child, you liked to tease me very much, and you and I have never been like this." At that time, my Wang family had just been beheaded by the whole house, the moon steward took you and me all the way to the villa, you always gave me what you love to eat, after arriving at the villa, everyone regarded me as the master, only you played with me, you teased me to jump into the pond to catch fish for you, and I went to the back mountain to play regardless of the danger...... Ning'er, it wasn't my intention to send you to this courtyard...... But, if you stay with me, I'm afraid I'll be entrusted by the moon steward! ”

Yue Ning looked at Yan Ziqian and remembered the man who had always been called her father. He was originally the housekeeper of the palace, and because of his martial arts, he followed Wang Wenchong to the south and the north to fight, and he also saved some military merits in a few years. After learning of Chen Bozhan and Jiang Lin's ruse, he fled back to Jingshi, picked up Yuening on the way, and finally returned to the villa with two young children. Because Yan Ziqian was young, the moon housekeeper took care of the property of the villa in an orderly manner, and even raised many secret guards for Yan Ziqian. Yue Ning was personally taught by the Moon Steward when she was young, and Yue Ning sometimes remembered the appearance of a man who seriously taught her to read and count under the candlelight, and this man was probably the only person in her life who regarded her as a jewel. Yue Ning looked at Yan Ziqian, and suddenly felt a little ridiculous, she didn't understand what Yan Ziqian's so-called "entrusted by Steward Yue" meant, she only remembered that Steward Yue held Yan Ziqian's hand tightly before he died, and told Yan Ziqian to take care of his Ning when he was a child, she believed that Yan Ziqian's city government would not understand what the meaning of "care" in Steward Yue's mouth was.

Yue Ning slowly withdrew her hand, Yan Ziqian saw this, pulled Yue Ning's hand over, and pressed it to his heart, "Ning'er, can you help me again?" Yan Ziqian saw that Yue Ning didn't speak, so he continued: "Ning'er, my Wang family has been a general for generations, and now the emperor is in trouble, I can't ignore it." You go to the border with the dark, in the name of purchasing, you are a woman, the saint will definitely not doubt it, if, if you are valued by the saint, my Wang family can also be wronged Zhaoxue......" Yue Ning heard this, her face suddenly turned pale, she suddenly withdrew her hand, took a few steps back, and leaned against the wall, with a look of tears on her face, and then smiled sadly, "Thank you for the love, slave and maid...... Yes, sir. ”

Suddenly, the door of the study was knocked open, and three masked people broke in, Yan Ziqian heard the strange noise, and immediately flew up to pick up the dagger on his waist, and the three of them quickly attacked, Yan Ziqian pulled Yue Ning behind him, holding the dagger to resist the attack of the man in black. The three black-clothed men were all holding large knives, and the back of the knives was full of barbs, and the three of them had the same martial arts, obviously they were all in the same door. The black-clothed man led by Yan Ziqian saw that Yan Ziqian and the two were forced to the corner of the piano table, and hurriedly glanced at their companions, and the three of them went up at the same time and surrounded Yan Ziqian and Yue Ning. Yan Ziqian protected Yue Ning with one hand, and was busy dealing with the surging situation of the three with the other, and gradually lost the enemy, and the black-clothed man led by him stabbed Yan Ziqian's arm holding the dagger, Yan Ziqian saw this, and actually pushed Yue Ning over! The barb on the knife stabbed into Yue Ning's back, Yan Ziqian took advantage of the situation to stab the short knife into the arm of the man in black, the man in black was in pain, the three of them took a few steps back, Yue Ning fell softly on Yan Ziqian's body, Yan Ziqian was angry, and hurriedly took out the silver whistle in his arms and blew it.

"What is the so-called matter of your Qingdaomen entering my Qiancheng Villa?" Yan Ziqian tightened the short knife in his hand, and the blood on it dripped on the ground, Yue Ning held on to the piano table and held her body not to fall, but she said that she would no longer lean on Yan Ziqian, and the tender flesh brought out by the barbs could be seen behind her, her little face was full of cold sweat, Yan Ziqian saw Yue Ning like this, and her gaze at the three of them couldn't help but become colder.

The man in black who was hit by the knife snorted coldly, "I'm afraid that we disturbed the Yaxing of the owner, let's come to say hello to the owner this time." Before the man in black finished speaking, he raised his knife again, and Yan Ziqian hurriedly rushed forward, blocking Yue Ning behind him. Yan Ziqian's short knife blocked the long knife of the man in black, and the man in black said coldly: "What to do and what not to do in the future, the owner of the village should be clear." ”

At this time, a long sword flew in from outside the house, a sword pierced the heart of the last man in black from behind, and turned around and blocked the attack of another man in black. As soon as he lifted the long sword and turned over to resist the attack of the man in black, he hooked his sword on the knife of the man in black, lifted it hard, and the knife was inserted straight into the beam, and the dark one took advantage of the situation to smear the neck of the man in black, and in an instant blood flowed from the neck of the man in black, and he died. At this time, only one of the three men in black remained, and he stepped forward with a deception, and slashed at the right arm of the only man in black with a sword, and actually picked out the tesuji. The man in black was in pain, his arm weakened, and the knife fell to the ground. Dark One kicked hard with his foot, and the man in black fell directly to his knees. Dark One pressed his sword against the neck of the man in black, and ripped off the veil of the man in black, and it was a man with a beard on his face, and there was a scar on his face that slashed from his left eye to his lips!

Seeing that he was powerless to resist, Scarface laughed three times, "If you want to kill, you have to listen to the honorable people!" ”

Yan Ziqian looked at Scarface, and suddenly laughed, "Bring Aunt Nine here!" The secret guards who arrived later heard the words and hurriedly retreated. Say, how did King Ning know about the layout of my inner courtyard? Yan Ziqian's narrowed eyes revealed a dangerous light, and Scarface tilted his head to the side, not looking at Yan Ziqian.

The silence in the room was terrible, but Yue Ning couldn't resist the pain, and the hand holding the sword couldn't help shaking, Yan Ziqian saw this, and hurriedly ordered someone to take Yue Ning down for treatment. Scarface smiled mockingly, secretly angry, and stabbed him twice in the back.

At this time, a woman outside the house shouted delicately: "The owner." The woman walked in with a light veil on her shoulders, her waist was slender, and she walked a little charmingly, she smiled and walked into the inner room, but she was not surprised to see the dead bodies and blood all over the ground, but she walked softly to Yan Ziqian's side, and never looked at Scarface since then. Yan Ziqian looked at the woman and smiled at the woman, and the woman shyly pulled up Yan Ziqian's arm when she saw this. "I called you here today to let you catch up with your senior brother." Yan Ziqian raised her eyebrows at Scarface, and the woman looked at Scarface, the smile on her face froze suddenly, and she called "Senior Brother" in a low voice and stopped talking. Scarface heard this, turned around, and grinned at the woman. Yan Ziqian saw Scarface turn his head and kick Scarface's right arm, Scarface fell to the ground in pain, Yan Ziqian shouted again: "Say, how did you know about the deployment of my inner courtyard?" Don't you ......" Before Yan Ziqian finished speaking, he turned around and grabbed the woman's jaw. The woman looked at Yan Ziqian with wide eyes, and her body trembled uncontrollably.

"You ask me, why bother my junior sister!" Scarface leaned on the ground and shouted at the sight, his words filled with concern. Yan Ziqian turned around and suddenly smiled at the scar-faced man, and tore the woman's clothes, and the woman only had a belly pocket tied to her. The woman closed her eyes in shame and burst into tears.

"Don't be embarrassed for my junior sister! I...... I'm telling you, yes...... I bought it from Feng Cao Pavilion. The scar-faced man looked at Yan Ziqian with a hideous face, Yan Ziqian smiled "hehe", and said "It's good to say no earlier", and then pressed the woman on the couch, and there was a charming style on the bed, the woman gritted her teeth and wept angrily, and Yan Ziqian slapped the woman's face when she saw this. When Scarface heard the sound, he was about to slash at Yan Ziqian with a knife in his left hand, but he turned around one by one and cut off Scarface's left hand. Scarface shouted, "Senior sister! With a little guilt in his voice, he couldn't bear it and was a little nostalgic, and he slammed straight into the sword in his hand, his eyes widened, and he died. The woman muttered desolately, "Senior brother." He closed his eyes, and tears flowed from the corners of his eyes.

Yan Ziqian saw that Scarface was dead, and also got up from the bed, and the secret guard searched out a letterhead from Scarface, on which a big phoenix feather was drawn, Yan Ziqian opened the letter, and on the letter was a map of the deployment of the inner courtyard of Qiancheng Village. Yan Ziqian gritted his teeth, revealing a cold gaze, glanced at the woman on the bed who looked like a dead corpse, and said to the secret guard with hatred: "Throw her and her good senior brother to feed those animals!" I will fulfill your wish and let you and your senior brother be a pair of outlaw mandarin ducks! ”

Guo Chuanbai walked into the study, at this time, Dark Yi was ordering someone to drag the two corpses out, Guo Chuanbai didn't look at it, and walked in front of Yan Ziqian, Yan Ziqian saw Guo Chuanbai coming, "Uncle Guo, what's wrong with Ning'er?" ”

"But the skin is wounded, it's fine." Then he took out the medicinal powder, and said while bandaging Yan Ziqian: "This Qingdaomen master has already received the favor of the Queen Mother, and King Ning's actions are afraid that there is also the secret support of the Queen Mother." ”

Yan Ziqian looked at Guo Chuanbai with some doubts, "Today, Shengshang and King Ning are the same mother, why are they ......?"

But Guo Chuanbai smiled and said: "Even if it is an ordinary family, the son of a mother will fight to the death for the family property or title, not to mention that the current emperor was raised by the former queen, and the mother and son have little affection, and it is not surprising to help King Ning." ”

Yan Ziqian sighed and looked out the window, "I'm afraid it will be difficult for the emperor to return to Beijing." ”