Chapter 198: Fear and Confusion
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"This king counts three times. Give you the opportunity to decide on your own, and if not, you'll know what life is better than death. ”
As soon as Li Tai's words fell, Zhou Rui's hands holding the dagger were no longer as steady as they were just now, and they left some of them from their necks, and the pear blossoms with rain had a little fear on their faces.
"One." Li Tai's gaze was still on the lantern under the eaves opposite, and the momentum of his whole body would be detonated at any time, making people dare not breathe more.
"Your Highness, Your Highness?" Zhou Rui held the dagger and hung his hand on the ground, calling in a trembling voice.
"Two." His deep voice, without any superfluous emotion, fell into Zhou Rui's ears, but it was as terrifying as a talisman.
"No, no, don't count, don't count..."Zhou Rui trembled and stammered, where is there still a trace of the resolute look just now.
"Three." Gently a syllable falls.
"Ahh Zhou Rui screamed, and suddenly fell to the ground, muttering incessantly: "The slave knows the mistake, the slave knows the mistake, the slave knows the mistake, ......"
Li Tai took a sip of wine, and Ah Sheng gestured to the dark corner of the wall not far away without his order, and immediately two swordsmen dressed in black trotted towards this side.
Yi Yu grabbed Lu Zhi's right hand tightly with both hands. Tensed his little face, looked at the kneeling on the ground and trembled like chaff, and kept pleading with Zhou Rui, his eyes suddenly felt stinging.
She didn't know what Li Tai's so-called life was worse than death, but she knew that he would definitely do what he said.
"Your Highness," she finally couldn't restrain herself, ignoring Lu Zhi's grip on her hand, turned her head to face the man sitting opposite, changed from sitting to kneeling, and whispered, "Please spare her." ”
A slave, one is the master, the high-ranking King of Wei, treats his slaves or sends people to be killed alive, it is just a matter of moving her mouth, she knows, she knows, but seeing that he only read three numbers, he forced a good person to a mental breakdown, she was a little afraid at the same time, but she couldn't help but plead.
Not because of pity or sympathy, but because of the sudden appearance of those sympathy that allowed to laugh, there was only something thinner than a hair between them, but it made her suddenly feel that the figure kneeling on the ground begging for mercy was replaced by her.
On that night in the village of Gushan, she was forcibly pressed into her arms by the family members who came to take the captive. Surrounded by villagers who were awakened in the middle of the night to see the excitement, her eyes asking for help, but in exchange for an evasive sight.
Chased in the grove outside Zhangzhen, she was cornered to stop the carriage coming from the darkness, and behind her was the noise of human voices and barking dogs, but she could only hear her own heartbeat crying for help.
Facing Gaoyang, Chengyang, the small black house, and the executioner with a knife in the night...... She is an insecure person, so she always likes to enjoy the feeling of home by Lu's side, she has never given up any hope of being rescued, she has never let herself despair, otherwise how could she have escaped again and again in crawling and groveling.
However, if one day she encounters a fate that she cannot escape, she will be like this girl who kneels on the ground and begs for mercy, despair, and then collapse.
So she resisted the feeling of depression that was shrouded by Li Tai, and pleaded for her, Li Tai's way of treating Zhou Rui accidentally tightened the most important string in her heart, if she didn't make a sound, she would be afraid, afraid, there would always be a despair, and then there would be no chance to escape!
A black-clothed swordsman who was recruited by Ah Sheng. Zhou Rui, who was already delirious, stood up, and after Yu Yu interceded for her, she raised her face and looked at Li Tai, who was slightly cold, not knowing that there was a little fear of despair in her eyes.
Lu Zhi felt the aura of danger from the man on the other side, and he knew that any inappropriate behavior at this time would be angered, no matter how harmonious they had been before.
But he felt her unusual stiffness from the hand he was holding with Yi Yu, and without hesitation, he knelt down on his knees in front of Li Tai with his legs together, and said:
"Your Highness, please spare her."
He was resourceful, but at this moment he knew that no matter how cunning his words were, he couldn't interfere with Li Tai's decision, he didn't understand why Yi Yu was so impulsive to save Zhou Rui, but he knew that she needed him right now, even if it was just to say the same thing and kneel in front of the same person.
The two of them also knelt in front of him, and Li Tai finally took his eyes off the lantern that was gently swaying in the wind, and landed on the taut little face of the relict jade, and his blue and blue eyes looked into the black whirlpool, and saw clearly the stubbornness, persistence, bravery, and even, a trace of fear inside.
Li Tai's eyes occupy the two extremes of clarity and chaos at the same time, most of the time he will not stare at a person, even if he looks, he only casts a faint look, but now he is staring at Yi Yu's eyes seriously. Perhaps, this should be called the first time that the two actually looked at each other.
There was only the sound of her own pounding heartbeat in her ears, and Yu Yu tightened her teeth, so she couldn't help but not let herself look away, and from the bewitching pupils, she could see indifference, calmness, confidence, and seemingly, and a little confused?
Yi Yu blinked her eyes lightly, and then went to look for the confusion in the cyan, but there was no trace, and sure enough, she was wrong.
The two looked at each other, but the people around them didn't even dare to breathe, Ah Sheng stood behind Li Tai and Shen Jiantang, looked at Yi Yu and sighed secretly, and then surprised that she was bold at the same time, but also a little worried, Li Tai rarely got angry, but as long as he was angry, he would definitely not hold back, Lu Zhi and Yu Yu, I was afraid that they would be affected by his anger.
The wine glass touched the edge of the table softly, as if to deny Ah Sheng's speculation, Li Tai stood up from the velvet blanket without saying a word, and the soles of his spotless boots rubbed against the white velvet. His back eventually disappeared inside the East House Gate.
Yi Yu sat down with no strength, exhaled a long breath of turbidity, and Zhou Rui's cry for help in her ears became clear again, she looked up at Ah Sheng, and after the other party looked at her in confusion, she waved her hand to let the black-clothed swordsman retreat, and said to the maid who was kneeling not far away:
"Help her back to her room and pack her things."
After explaining to his subordinates, Ah Sheng opened the door widely, but he could only see a black hole-colored room.
Shen Jiantang touched his chest, raised the whole pot of wine to his lips and poured it down. Wiping his mouth with his sleeve, he then stretched out his thumb to Yiyu and said in a somewhat urned voice:
"Sister Lu, you are bold, big!"
After speaking, he picked up the chopsticks and devoured the cold dishes on the table, but did not move the white soup dumplings that were still delicate and lovely in the cage.
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After the meal, Lu Zhi and Yiyu returned to the room, Shen Jiantang wiped his mouth casually with the handkerchief handed by the maid, ran to the door of the east house, stretched out his hand and knocked on the door panel, no one answered, knocked again, there was silence, knocked about thirty times in a row, and then directly pushed the door and walked in, still muttering to himself:
"It's rare to knock on the door before entering the house, and no one has taken care of it, so it's easy for me to go through the main door."
He walked around behind the newly renovated screen in the East House, moved an embroidery stool himself, sat down on the edge of the bed, and watched Li Tai leaning on the Luohan bed, holding a cup in one hand and pouring wine from a pot in the other.
"I said, what's wrong with you today?"
Shen Jiantang was greatly puzzled, one didn't understand why Li Tai suddenly lost such a big temper, and the other didn't understand why he put out the fire silently in the end, what's wrong with this sentence, he asked both Li Tai and himself.
At the end of September, Shen Jiantang, who was chasing Yao Buzhi, abandoned Yao Buzhi and went straight to Chang'an City because Li Tai sent someone to induce him, and half because he found the clues of the enemy's family.
When Zhou Rui threatened with death, Shen Jiantang knew that something bad was going to happen. Li Tai hates being threatened the most, even in the face of Honggu, he has never compromised, he is threatened by a little slave, especially a person who should not be killed, it is strange if he is not angry.
But you don't need to be so angry! Shen Jiantang sat beside him, he could feel the momentum that made him furious, and when he saw the change in Li Tai's eyes, some not very good memories came to his heart, so he closed his mouth at the moment, for fear of being affected.
But what he didn't expect was that Yu Yu would stand up for Zhou Rui so well, and even almost made Li Tai's anger soar for a quarter again, and what he didn't expect was that when he was mourning for the pair of unlucky brothers and sisters, Li Tai actually left without a sound, just like it wasn't him who was numb in his scalp just now.
If it is placed in an ordinary place, Shen Jiantang's five sentences, Li Tai can reason for the last sentence is good, but at this time, because of Shen Jiantang's self-talk, he frowned slightly, and said in a muffled voice:
"I don't know."
Shen Jiantang, who heard a little depression from his voice, suddenly widened his eyes in surprise, leaned on the side of the bed, leaned over his upper body, and touched his forehead with one hand, for fear of being twisted by him, he just took a beat, and then "swished" back.
"Hiss-no, you can't be drunk, right?"
According to Shen Jiantang's understanding of Li Tai for ten years, he has seen a total of three emotions, angry, happy, of course, he is most often immersed in a state without emotion.
Therefore, when I heard his words show a little bit of depression, how could I not be surprised, my intuition was that he drank too much.
Li Tai ignored him, handed him the wine glass in his hand, Shen Jiantang took it, it was quite heavy, and he didn't take a few sips, so he wasn't drunk.
Shen Jiantang held the wine jug, thinking in his heart, this person's mood will change, not because of things, but because of people, Li Tai is not drunk, it is not because of wine, that is people?
- People?
A smiling little face suddenly flashed in his mind, slowly fitting with something in his memory, which made him shudder, and his eyes flickered towards Li Tai's different-colored eyes, quickly dispersing the figure that had just condensed in his head.
"How?" Li Tai held the empty wine glass in his hand, and it was rare to take the initiative to ask Shen Jiantang once.
"No, no, nothing!" Shen Jiantang shook his head and waved his hand a few times, then stood up, and walked out quickly without looking back, "I'll leave tonight, Zhou Rui brought it, and someone went to Zuijiangnan to find me if there was something." ”
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