The pruning hand stayed under the flower branch, did not move for a long time, and the pair of blazing eyes looked at the distant figure, staring intently until there was no one in sight, and the bottom of the eyes fell gloomily.

Chu Chaoyun leaned against the tree, tilted his head to look at him, and smiled lightly: "Why is this!" ”

Tang Lu turned his head, met her smart eyes, and smiled lightly: "Yes!" Why? ”

Do it knowing you can't do it! I think about it when I know it's unobtainable! Knowing that it is you who suffers, why are you clinging?

His eyes have always been good-looking, tenacious, brave, and full of unyielding momentum, every time she is with him, whether she is in danger or walking quietly, she will feel at ease.

However, I don't know when it began, such a pair of strong eyes dyed helpless, when looking at a person, I will be happy, I will be sad, I will not know when I will look for the figure of that person······

Just like her, trapped by her own heart, trapped in place and unable to extricate herself!

But to him, she was unattainable; To her, he was untouchable.

A person's feelings are not painful for others, but for themselves; It is not others who are tormented, but also themselves.

Knowing this, why is it so? I can't help myself, that's it!

Chu Chaoyun smiled, those helpless eyes burned her eyes, looked away, and said with a haha: "Auntie should come back soon, you can stay alone to help." I'll go steal it for a while, and I'll go over later, the princess. ”

How can we help here?

He doesn't know how to prune, it's all the same in his eyes, and he can't see the difference.

And she likes to mess with these, he doesn't understand them, but, in order to look at her occasionally, he can not know how to pretend to understand.

Ignoring Chaoyun who was leaving, Tang Lu thought to a branch that protruded from the sky, did he fly up and cut it too?

Chu Chaoyun came to the nearest pavilion, glanced at him silently, and walked over to sit next to him.

He supported his forehead with his elbows, looked at the flowers outside, and said, "How are you with your father?" ”

Yu Ziling poured a glass of water and put it in front of her, saying, "I met on the way." ”

I couldn't see her expression, and the hand against the corner of my forehead covered her eyebrows and eyes, hiding the emotions that were revealed.

However, from her weak voice, you can hear that she is very depressed.

"What did Father say to you?"

"It's nothing, just let me leave Tianyun."

Chu Chaoyun turned his head to look at him, shook his head and sighed: "Father Jun came forward in person, everyone wants you to leave, it can be seen that you are really not good!" ”

Yu Ziling didn't care much: "I never said that I was a good person. ”

"What about you, didn't you mean to do something? How did this come about? ”

"I'm going to see Xiao Qi and counting."

Lianying was trapped in the palace because of Xiao Qishu, so she should tell Yu Ziling what happened.

Chu Chaoyun clasped the table, didn't want to hide it from him, and said: "Xiao Qishu learned that the princess was in Tianyun and wanted to see the princess, so I came over to ask the princess if he wanted to see him." ”

As soon as she arrived at Shuxiang Garden, the palace people said that her father was also here, so she came to take a look, but she didn't expect to see the picture of her father and Yu Ziling sitting together chatting!

Xiao Qishu should be an outsider, what did he do when he saw the princess?

Although I haven't thought about asking the princess now, it doesn't matter if I wake up.

Yu Ziling said: "How many princesses does Xiao Qi see? They are all from the Xiao Dynasty, are you going to let them meet? ”

Chu Chaoyun looked at the calm face but pointed to something, and asked, "Do you think it's inappropriate?" ”

Yu Ziling came from the north to understand the situation over there, since he said so, there must be a reason in the middle.

"Don't you think it's too coincidental for them to come? The princess was ordered to come to Tianyun, so what about Xiao Qishu? Don't you think it's strange that you can still get to the sky and clouds in nine deaths? ”

Chu Chaoyun suddenly smiled: "Heh! Yu Yi, sometimes I really don't understand you? ”

"You make me think you're really helping, but it's impossible! Don't say I'm suspicious, it's really reassuring to be as deep as you. Yu Yi, what do you think you're talking about? ”

Yu Ziling looked at the autumn watery eyes and asked with a smile, "Do you really want to know?" ”

Touching his dark eyes with a bit of seriousness, Chu Chaoyun was slightly stunned: What's the matter, this meeting, how does she feel that his attitude towards her is completely different from before?

Chu Chaoyun avoided his eyes, looked away, and said, "Who knows if what you said is true or false, you better don't say it, what you say may not be the truth." ”

Hide from him?

Yu Ziling looked in the direction she was looking at, Tang Lu who was talking to Aunt Rongxue under the tree, he was the person she wanted to draw but couldn't draw in her heart!

After taking a sip of the cold tea, the cold feeling went straight to the bottom of his heart, Yu Ziling smiled, very light, very shallow, and very cold!

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After the princess Xi and Princess learned that Xiao Qishu was still alive and that others were in the palace, they were stunned.

The smile remained on Chu Chaoyun's departure, and for a long time after that, his thoughts were confused, and he couldn't return to his senses for a long time.

The only thought was 'Uncle Huang is not dead, he is in the palace', and his mind was a little exhausted, and he still couldn't control his thoughts.

Until Shang Yan came over and woke her up.

"Princess, what you asked the slave to do has already been arranged? Are there any other commands? ”

Xihe retracted his thoughts and asked her, "Did you send it out?" ”

Shang Yan lowered his head and said in a low voice: "Yes, the slave said that she was ordered by the princess to go out of the palace to do business, and the palace guards did not stop it, and things went well." ”

Xihe nodded: "That's fine, they should understand what to do next when they see the letter, and we just wait for the news in the palace." ”

Shang Yan hesitated for a while, but still expressed the worry in his heart: "Princess, if the matter is done, the palace is a den of wolves and tigers, and it is best for you to find a way to leave the palace." ”

"Why doesn't Hongu know about it?" Xi and the princess looked at the window and lost their minds again.

Before, she was the only one, without any scruples, and she could just go.

Now, she didn't expect that the imperial uncle was still alive, and even in the palace of the king of Chu, she abandoned him and left alone?

In this way, it is inevitably ruthless!

She thought about it a lot, and finally decided to meet Xiao Qishu first, and she was making a decision after meeting him.

Early the next morning, in order to endure and come to Shuxiang Garden, Chu Chaoyun asked her to come over and lead Xi and the princess to build a house.

Princess Xi and the princess understood his intention to send Wei to endure it, and Shaojun asked the palace maid to show her the way, which was not to snub her, but to show that Shaojun was as careful as a hair.

What they wanted to talk about, it was inconvenient to say it in the presence of Chu Chaoyun, Shaojun thought of this, so he didn't go with her.

Sometimes, Chu Chaoyun treats people well, at least, for the sake of others····· It's a pity that such a young talent!

Jian'an house, a special villa set up for guests in the palace, the envoys of the north left the day after entering the palace, so this guest house was very cold.

Xihe entered the house where Xiao Qishu lived, and the others stayed outside.

Xihe saw Xiao Qishu, who had recovered his spirits, and had mixed feelings for a while, and finally said with emotion: "Uncle Huang, it turns out that you are fine!" ”

Xiao Qishu raised his hand and asked her to sit down, Xihe sat down next to him, poured a glass of water for her, Xiao Qishu said, "Fang Ran, why did you come to Tianyun?" What does the emperor mean? ”

Xihe smiled bitterly: "The king's order cannot be violated, and the father's order must not be violated." ”

A few words, endless helplessness.

looked at Xiao Qishu with a smile, and said sincerely: "Uncle Huang, it's good that you're still alive!" ”

"Yes! Good! But, you don't know, your imperial uncle almost died, and he almost didn't see you anymore······"

Xiao Qi choked up, and his eyes flowed out of tears that he had not seen for a long time, this is the joy of the rest of his life after the catastrophe, and it is also the hatred of that disaster!

The disaster that fell from the sky almost killed him, and now that he is sparing his life, he will definitely live up to the opportunity God gave him.

Xiao Qishu suddenly said: "Fang Ran, you can't stay here, we must rush back to the north now, the prince is in danger, your father is likely to attack him, not to depose the prince, but to kill them all." ”

Princess Xihe shook her head and said softly: "Uncle Huang, Fang Ran has been out for more than a month, if something happens to Beili, we will rush back now, it will be too late." ”

Xihe behaved calmly, neither anxious nor curious, and did not even ask him why he said this.

He knew what he was going to say.

Xiao Qishu was shocked, looked at her, and asked, "Fang Ran, you know everything?" ”

The bitter taste spread to the heart, and Xi He smiled bitterly: "What does Uncle Huang mean?" The emperor told me that the reason why my father killed the emperor was because he misunderstood that you were the mastermind who hired a murderer to kill the king! Fang Ran didn't believe it, even if Uncle Huang was angry, he would never do anything to kill the king and kill his brother. However, now Xihe doubts that Uncle Huang was really wronged? ”

With the last question, Xiao Qishu's face became ugly.

Xihe looked at him, with persistence and longing for the truth in his eyes: "Uncle Huang, you told Fang Ran the truth, this matter is related to Brother Huang, right?" He used your death to stir up wrath for his own ends, didn't he? The instigator who hired a murderer to kill my father was not you, nor the emperor's brother, but one of you, right? ”

At this, her voice trembled, and even though she didn't believe it, after a night of deep thought, she was frightened by her own thoughts.

Before leaving, the court was unstable because of his father's indiscriminate killing of innocents again, and the situation in the court was turbulent.

She knew about it.

She inadvertently learns that her father's killing of her uncle was a secret operation, but the news spreads the next day, and it is obvious that someone did it on purpose.

And she knew who that person was, and the imperial brother said, 'Fang Ran, you can rest assured, the imperial brother will pick you up soon.' Because of these words, she abandoned her father.

She thought that the imperial brother had made an extreme choice for the death of the Fifth Emperor Uncle, but the Fifth Emperor Uncle was fine, and even came to Tianyun!

Thinking of the person who had been haunting her, Xi and suspicion that these things must have something to do with it.

If things are really as she thinks, then how should she deal with herself?

Xiao Qishu sighed: "Fang Ran, since you understand, why bother asking!" ”

Confirming her suspicions, Xihe couldn't understand: "I just want to know why you did this?" You are the siblings and sons of your father, why do you try to put him to death? ”

"Because of the fourth brother!" Xiao Qishu almost came out of his teeth, his emotions were still excited, and he was so hurt that his chest hurt and he broke out in cold sweat on his forehead.

"What did the fourth brother do wrong? Ignoring the king's law, greedy for ink taxes, and wanting to add to the crime, there is no excuse! ”

However, he didn't care, Xiao Qishu rose and fell his chest, he wanted to say all the things that he didn't dare to say in Beili, and vent all the unwillingness and hatred in his heart.

Xiao Qishu's face suddenly turned hideous, Xi He didn't feel afraid, only sadness, the always gentle imperial uncle also hissed when he was exhausted, and the death of the fourth imperial uncle hit him really hard!

"That's right, the fourth brother took the money, but do you know where the money went?"

Xiao Qishu asked her, and when she saw Xihe shaking her head, she was even more sad in her heart, no one knew about this matter, but she made the fourth brother bear a trumped-up charge.

"In the North, there are many disasters like Hakzhou. There is a village of 10,000 households near the capital, a village of only a few hundred people, self-sufficient, living and working in peace and contentment, just such a peaceful and peaceful village, it was slaughtered overnight! You know why? ”

When Xi He heard this for the first time, he shook his head and said, "Fang Ran has never heard of it, there is no wind outside, is Uncle Huang mistaken?" ”

"Of course, there is no rumor, it was not the mountain ** bandits who slaughtered Wanhu Village, but the good army who claimed to protect the family and the country! When the army does such a thing, of course the government tries to cover the truth and deceive the eyes of the people! ”

Hearing this, Xihe was shocked, but she quickly vetoed it categorically: "It is impossible for such a tragedy to happen near the imperial city, why did they do this?" My father is strict in governing the army, and he will not let them do anything wrong! ”

Xiao Qishu sneered: "What if those people did it with his tacit consent!" There were collisions between the North and the borders of other countries, and during that time, an epidemic broke out in Kezhou, and General Cheng on the border also asked the imperial court for military salaries. Difficulties on both sides are urgent and important matters, but the emperor does not let go of power, but asks the people below to find ways to prepare grain, grass and materials. The prince went to Hakzhou, and the materials he brought were limited, and those were only raised by hundreds of officials. Prepare military supplies, have no power and no money, where do they go? In the end, the soldier became a thief, and what he fancy was nothing more than the food in the village, and the emperor knew about it, and it was tacit to let it go! The fourth brother couldn't bear it, so he took a part of the silver taels from the treasury he was in charge of as military salary, and the matter came to an end. And his single-minded actions for the people aroused the emperor's suspicion, and during that time, for these two things, the fourth brother and the prince were very close, so he suspected that we would join forces to deceive him and seek his country. Forever rid of the trouble, he did not hesitate to kill his siblings, you know that with the emperor's suspicious nature, it is likely that it will be the turn of the prince to suffer soon. I didn't look for the assassin, I found it for the third brother, but I am the one who knows, and the prince is also the one who knows. Fang Ran, do you know, we are also forced, in order to save our lives, we have no choice! ”

These are the truths, and this is the reason why they are against the emperor!

Xi He was speechless for a long time, she didn't understand the government, but she understood right and wrong.

My father wanted the country, but he never took the foundation of the country to heart.

The royal brother has a benevolent heart, and it is precisely because of his benevolence that his father has set aside the power of the prince to govern the country, and he has the heart to serve the people, but he is unable to start, and the position of the prince for many years is in vain.

The royal brother chose to betray, he had his reasons, but, as a son of man, even though her father chilled people's hearts, she still didn't want anything to happen to him.

How did the North Leave come to this point of fratricide and father-son rivalry!

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