After getting along for half a year, Huaiyu has seen Jiang Xuanjin in various appearances, when her eyes are shining with joy, when she is so angry that she is nervous, and when she is so ashamed that her ears are red.

I thought I knew it thoroughly, but who would have thought ......

Raising his eyes and looking at the person standing in front of him, and then at the room where only the two of them were there, Huaiyu chuckled: "What advice does your lord have?" ”

In the past, I couldn't hear his breathing, after all, this person had good manners and stable internal strength, but now, two steps away from him, she could clearly hear his messy breath, like a dried carp, weakly inhaling air that did not belong to him, almost dying.

Jiang Xuanjin raised her eyes to look at her, and there was no light in her eyes, it was black and oppressive, like the sea in the middle of the night when a storm was coming.

He walked closer to her, his white fingertips as if he wanted to touch her bulging belly, but finally stopped an inch away. Slowly spoke, the voice was like a bucket of dry water falling from a dry well, astringent and empty: "I have been thinking about it for a long time......"

"I've thought about it for a long time and I haven't been able to figure it out, where is Lu Jingxing better than me?"

There was grievance in the tone, as well as trembling and choking brought out by anger. The Adam's apple rolls up and down as if it's been drinking. There was not much expression on his face, as if he was frozen by the cold wind outside.

He looks like this, if she can't guess what's going on, then she will have this head in vain.

How so...... Ben was still worried that he would come to snatch the child from her belly, but now she was a little crying and laughing. Huaiyu asked him, "Who told you the news?" ”

Jiang Xuanjin didn't answer, but asked her: "If others don't say it, do you plan to hide it from me for the rest of your life?" ”

Huaiyu chuckled: "What's the benefit of you knowing?" ”

With a dull pain in his heart, Jiang Xuanjin lowered his eyes and laughed hoarsely: "Can you lie to me again?" Just say that this child is mine, and that when you were with me, you did not take anyone else to heart. ”

"Wow." Huaiyu clapped his hands and said with a smile, "This child is yours." ”

Pinching her hand against her chest, Jiang Xuanjin's lips were white, her long eyelashes drooped down, and she trembled under her eyes, obviously not taking her words seriously.

Huaiyu tilted her head and reached out her other hand to touch him.

Ziyang Jun, who stood up to the sky, was trembling all over, his body was cold, and his clothes were cold.

Suddenly, I wanted to hug him, like a long time ago, interlocking my fingers, giving him all the warmth on my body, so that he could warm up.

But...... Looking down at his stomach, Huaiyu pulled the corners of his mouth self-deprecatingly.

It's impossible, if she is one step closer, she will be crushed, it is better to retreat, retreat far away, at least to save the little guy in her belly.

"Does the eldest princess still hate me?" The person in front of him spoke, his voice as light as catkins, "If you still hate, how do you plan to retaliate, can you tell me in advance, so that you can be prepared?" ”

Huaiyu wanted to talk to him in a relaxed and funny tone, but inexplicably, his voice tightened.

"I don't hate you anymore." She pursed her lips, "Xu Xian and the others are fine, and I am fine, if you escort me out of the palace and leave Kyoto and return to Danyang, you and I will already be together." ”

Counteracting, that is, it is no longer irrelevant, so I avoid him, I don't see him, and I don't want to be involved with him anymore.

Missing this kind of thing belongs to him alone.

Holding her hand and slowly closing it, Jiang Xuanjin sank his tone: "What if, I don't want to resist?" ”

"What if I still want to embarrass you?"

Huaiyu was stunned for a moment, and her body tightened: "What do you want?" ”

A sneer on his lips widened more and more, and Jiang Xuanjin said in a low voice: "Isn't the eldest princess used to do bad things?" How can you not guess what's going on right now? ”

When these words came out of his mouth, Li Huaiyu was very uncomfortable. Do you want to deal with her? Because he felt that the child in her womb was not his, he was so angry that he wanted to destroy her?

As soon as his back was cold, Huaiyu subconsciously took half a step back.

However, there was a soft couch behind her, and there was a two-inch-high pedal in front of the couch, and she didn't pay attention to it in a panic.

Ziyangjun, who was still full of ferocity just now, turned white, grabbed her hand and pulled it hard, which could stop her from falling, and the side of her body protected her back before she knocked on the edge of the soft couch.

There was a "bang", and the person behind her snorted, holding her waist with his hand, and slowly put her in his arms.

His pupils shrank, and Li Huaiyu looked at the furnishings in the room in front of him in a daze, and then turned his head and looked behind him after a while.

Jiang Xuanjin pursed her lips, her eyes were covered with a layer of mist, as if she was in shock, she stretched out her hand to cross her and hugged her whole person. His chin rested on her shoulder and he closed his eyes.

"You ......" Huaiyu opened his mouth, wanting to ask him if it hurts, but he felt that it was inappropriate, so he stopped talking abruptly.

The room was silent, and the aber-colored hem of her robe was scattered on the pedals, mixed with the corners of her peony-patterned robe, stained with some gray.

The house was full of people, and they wanted to go into the house several times to take a look, but they were all stopped by the Wu. Chengxu and Yufeng's faces were ugly, and although Lu Jingxing next to him still had a smile on his face, his eyes were not relaxed.

These two said that they wanted to talk about it themselves, but Huaiyu still had a body, what if something happened to them?

Jiang Shen stood in the distance and pounded the vermilion pillar next to him: "Why is he still here?" ”

Shuang Tian said helplessly: "The slave has already told the king the truth, but after the king heard it, he still insisted on entering the city." ”

"What does this stupid kid think?" Jiang Shen shook his head, "Do you have to come to find yourself happy?" ”

"The slave doesn't know, but the king is really angry." Frost Tian said worriedly, "The slave is afraid that he will do something in a hurry...... This is still in the first-tier city. ”

"Swallow your heart back into your stomach." Jiang Shen said angrily, "I bet a hundred taels of silver, no matter how angry he is, he won't do anything to Li Huaiyu." ”

It's just that he has to endure this heartache.

Being held a little out of breath, Huaiyu moved his body and frowned: "I remember." ”

The person behind her let go of her, stood up with the soft couch behind her, and brought her up straight.

Huaiyu glanced at him, scratched his head, really felt a little embarrassed, and wanted to leave after lifting his skirt.

"I'm going to be bothered for a while." Jiang Xuanjin said lightly, "Please prepare a few guest rooms for Your Highness." ”

After a pause, Li Huaiyu frowned: "What if I don't want to prepare?" ”

After packing up the broken emotions little by little, Jiang Xuanjin pursed his lips, pulled his cuffs and said, "The day before yesterday, there was a letter from the imperial pen in Kyoto, which was delivered to Benjun. The letter said that as long as Ziyang is willing to borrow the Tao, there will be a holy decree issued to give me the fiefdom of the three cities of Ziyang. ”

Behind Ziyang is Danyang, so it is self-evident what Ziyang intends to borrow.

Huaiyu's expression became serious: "Your Majesty, is this threatening me?" ”

Jiang Xuanjin nodded: "Yes." ”

He had chips that could threaten her, and they were heavy enough, so why not?

Li Huaiyu was silent, his eyes rolling slightly, as if he was wondering whether his words were true or false.

Jiang Xuanjin stretched out his hand and directly handed Li Huailin's handwritten letter in his sleeve to her.

The familiar handwriting, the meaning of the attack on Danyang between the lines, is far more serious than Jiang Xuanjin's two understatements.

"Don't you want any of the three cities?" Huaiyu frowned, "What good is staying in the first-tier city for you?" ”

Lowering his eyes indifferently, he said, "This gentleman needs to explain to the eldest princess when he does things?" ”

Well, it's really not, Huaiyu shrugged: "I don't lose money on this deal, there is no reason not to agree." But your Majesty, I'll put my words first, your life here may not be very comfortable, so don't get angry and break your promise again. ”

Reaching out and wrapping it in the fox fur cloak next to her, Jiang Xuanjin didn't look at her again, turned around and opened the door.

The wind swept in from outside, causing ripples in the soft fox fur. Jiang Xuanjin raised his eyes and faced Lu Jingxing, who was standing outside.

After so many years, this person seems to have never changed, he has always been the appearance of this hanger, standing or not standing, there is a cool and thin smell in the corners of his eyes and eyebrows, and he is not a person who lives at ease.

But there is such a person, who has been by her side for many years, knows more things than him, and has won her heart more than him. She didn't deceive Lu Jingxing, she treated him as good as she did for many years, but she was so cruel to him that she really didn't like a god.

"It's an honor to be able to look at you like this." Lu Jingxing's brows relaxed, the closed fan turned around on his fingertips, and he smiled heartily.

The jealousy and coldness in his eyes were as good as the emotions that were pressed in his heart.

A cloud suddenly opened on the gloomy heart of the shopkeeper of Lu Da, and bright sunlight fell.

Jiang Xuanjin didn't say anything, and walked towards Jiang Shen with the wind of riding the void.

"Aren't you looking for a friend to go sightseeing?" Standing in front of him, Jiang Xuanjin said coldly, "Are there half of your friends in this mansion?" ”

Jiang Shen choked and stood behind the vermilion pillar: "I said...... I know you're in a bad mood, but I'm innocent, what do I do? ”

If it doesn't hurt him, who else can it hurt? Jiang Xuanjin said: "You leave tomorrow and go back for me to report to Lu Qing and let him temporarily take charge of the main city of Ziyang." ”

Holding the pillar and shaking his head again and again, Jiang Shen's tone was very firm: "I don't!" ”

"I can't help you." Throwing down a sentence indifferently, Jiang Xuanjin passed him and left.

Jiang Shen's face darkened, and he laughed angrily: "Why is he becoming more and more unreasonable?" ”

The frost sky behind him whispered: "It makes sense, you should go back." ”

"Huh?"

“…… The slave said that the king is indeed very unreasonable! ”

With a cold snort, Jiang Shen flicked his sleeves and walked to his own house, and thought in pieces as he walked: "I won't go, how good this line of city is, the sky is dry and the corpses are all over the field, how suitable it is to write poems and lyrics!" ”

Shuang Tian was silent, he felt that the two sons of the Jiang family might have been a little delirious recently.

Li Huaiyu hugged the chicken soup and nested in the quilt, Lu Jingxing leaned on the head of the bed, played with the fan and asked her, "What are you going to do?" ”

Frowning in distress, Huaiyu said: "Now it's not about what I'm going to do, it's about what he wants to do." ”

"He took this kid as my own, what else could he do?" Lu Jingxing snorted, "Either take revenge on you or take revenge on me." ”

If there hadn't been that little accident just now, Huaiyu would have agreed with this sentence, but now, she shook her head: "I don't think so." ”

really wanted to take revenge, so he didn't pick her up, let her fall like that, the child couldn't be saved, in his opinion, it was to take revenge on both her and Lu Jingxing, killing multiple birds with one stone.

But he didn't.

"The most important thing right now is Kyoto." Huaiyu said, "I told the world about my identity before, just to give Huailin an excuse to let him do something to me, so that he could hold the handle and fight back justifiably, but I didn't wait for the movement." I thought that Huailin didn't dare to move, but who would have thought that he had been planning, if Jiang Xuanjin hadn't stopped him, he might have really caught us off guard. ”

Jiang Xuanjin has advantages and disadvantages in blocking it, the advantage is that Danyang is safe, and the disadvantage is that no matter what, Huailin can't justifiably fight to the first-line city, so he can only do it secretly. Once she resisted, it gave Huailin a reason to call for King Qin, and even if she stood up and said that she was unjustly killed by the emperor, no one would believe it.

What should I do?

Touching his chin, he was embarrassed, and saw Qingsi coming in from outside, and said with a strange expression: "Master, Ziyangjun has really settled down with us." They moved a lot of things and put them in the guest room. ”

Huaiyu pouted: "What's all the fuss?" When people say they want to live, they will definitely live. ”

"But ......," Qingsi pursed her lips, "He lives in a guest room in your courtyard." ”

Li Huaiyu: "......"

Turning her head to look at Lu Jingxing, she asked, "Does this person feel that life is not exciting enough, so he came to me?" ”

Lu Jingxing nodded approvingly: "Why don't we stimulate him again?" ”

"Okay." Huaiyu said, "You go and tell him that you are also pregnant, it must be exciting enough." ”

“……”

Lu Jingxing rolled his eyes, and gently knocked the fan on the table: "To be serious, he recognizes this child as mine, when do you plan to marry me?" ”

Huaiyu laughed, drank two sips of soup and said, "I don't spoil you, why are you rushing to let me spoil it?" With your skin and family wealth, who can't marry a serious girl, you have to be my child's stepfather? He thinks I'm pregnant with you, I didn't say that. ”

Lu Jingxing's phoenix eyes sank: "You have ruined me for five or six years, are you embarrassed to say this?" ”

"Let's be reasonable." After putting the soup cup, Huaiyu put his hand against the table on the soft couch, looked at him seriously and said, "After five or six years of friendship, you really become a husband and wife, don't you feel awkward?" ”

"You feel awkward?"

"Nonsense!" Huaiyu pointed at Qingsi, "I also have a friendship with her for ** years, so it stands to reason that the relationship is deeper, right?" But if you become a husband and wife, do you think it is awkward? ”

…… It seems to be quite awkward.

Lu Jingxing lowered his head, thought seriously for a while, and then felt that something was not right: "Can I be the same as Qingsi?" ”

"How is it different?" Huaiyu glared, "Aren't they all my closest people?" ”

Lu Jingxing understood that this bastard who killed a thousand knives didn't treat him as a man!

Rubbing his forehead angrily, he whispered, "Wrongdoer." ”

Huaiyu smiled heartlessly, laughed for a while, and said, "Your shops in the first-tier city have been arranged, why don't you go back to the main city of Danyang first?" Xu Xian, they don't know what happened over there, you can answer one or two in the past. ”

Lu Jingxing squinted: "Want to drive me away?" ”

"Look at what you said, where can I drive you?" Huaiyu waved his hand, "It's just that there's nothing going on here in the first-tier city, instead of accompanying me to spend time here, it's better to do something else." ”

Dozens of Lu Ji fell all over the first-tier city, solving the dilemma of extremely high prices in the city with affordable goods, although it offended many merchants, but also won back the unanimous support of the people. Nowadays, when the word "Lu Jingxing" is mentioned, few people will say that he is "Lang Jackal", and most people will say that he is a businessman with great courage and conscience.

A few days ago, there was also a matchmaker shàng mén who told him that he was in love with him, saying that the girl of whom's family missed him, and he didn't want to eat or drink, and it was already fate. Lu Jingxing went and came back to tell her that women were really liars, and it was not an exaggeration to say that the girl was going down the mountain with the fierceness of the girl.

Huaiyu felt that there should be someone by Lu Jingxing's side. Whether it's a hungry tiger or a sidekick, you can't call her a "female leopard" who keeps delaying him. It is impossible to get married, and she has to work hard to wash them off in the name of their faces, and it is impossible to pull Lu Jingxing into the quagmire.

Sensing her thoughts, Lu Jingxing lowered his eyes.

After a while, he spoke: "I'm joking with you, getting married is serious, I didn't plan to really come with you." The shop here in the first-tier city has just made a profit, and I can't leave for the time being. ”

"Huh?" Huaiyu raised her eyebrows, "I've made more than a month of snowflake silver, and it's still called just profitable?" ”

"You're not a businessman, what do you know?" The fan touched her forehead, and Lu Jingxing said, "I have my own measure." ”

This person looks very arrogant, but his mind is actually very careful, and he doesn't want to delay him, so the closer he gets, the farther she will retreat. She was right, after five or six years of friendship, it is not cost-effective to smash on this.

In that case, he had better take a step back.

Taking a deep breath, Lu Jingxing said goodbyely: "You only care about Jiang Xuanjin, but you neglect Changlin Jun." I've settled him in, and you'll talk to him when you have time. ”

"Okay." Huaiyu nodded, looking at his back as he walked out, thoughtfully.

Jiang Xuanjin went to the streets of the first-tier city, this place he had heard countless times in the song, and he wanted to come and see it early in the morning. His heart was in a mess, and he couldn't sit still in the room, so he simply came out and walked around.

The streets of the main city were few people, but they were not deserted, and many of the newly opened shops were filled with ragged people, and the passers-by, although they were sad, did not reach the point of despair.

Li Huaiyu saved this place, and in just two months, this line city was brought to life.

Passing by the tea shop, he sat down to listen to people, and changed a few tables of people next to him, some praised Wuwu, some praised Chijin, and even praised Lu Jingxing and Xu Chuzhuo, but in the end, he didn't hear anyone praise the eldest princess of Danyang.

These people don't seem to realize who is saving the dry city.

"Gong ...... Son? A girl who had been wandering for a long time on the side stepped forward with courage and gave him a soup woman with a red face, "Your face is frozen white, warm up." ”

After stuffing, he ran away, hid in the alley, and then stuck his head out to look at him.

Jiang Xuanjin frowned, put Tang Pozi back on the table, took out a handkerchief, wiped his fingers one by one, and didn't mean to appreciate it at all, and continued to walk forward with the void.

Chengxu glanced at the girl very sympathetically, there are many brave people in this world, but there are very few people who know that their masters have a habit of cleanliness, and the things they start with are stuffed like this, and the master will naturally not appreciate it.

What's more, the face of his own master is definitely not frozen white.

The excerpts of the feudal lords from all over the country asking for a reduction in tax collection were handed to Kyoto, and Li Huailin's face was ugly. Everyone else was subdued by Ziyangjun, and he didn't say anything, but what happened to Pinglingjun?

Now this Pingling Jun on the throne is Li Shan's concubine Li Fangwu, although he has not been liked by Li Shan since he was a child, and he has developed a cowardly temperament like a mouse, but he is also a brother, so if you don't help him, you will help Jiang Xuanjin instead?

Li Huailin sneered, and immediately issued an order to summon Li Fangwu to Beijing to report on his work.

Entering Beijing to report on work has to be done every year, and it is not a big deal, but Li Fangwu is afraid, just after the recital, the emperor does not call others, how can he call him alone? Is it that he wants to reduce too much, so the emperor plans to teach him a lesson, and knock on the mountain and shock the tiger by the way?

After holding the holy decree for two days, Li Fangwu pretended to be sick and hid in the Pingling Jun's Mansion, not daring to move.

There is no owner of the six gods, and there is a young man with red lips and white teeth at the door.

"In Xia Jiangyan, I have seen Pinglingjun."

Li Fangwu looked at him for a while, and suddenly said: "The little young master of the Jiang family, the left supervisor of the former Tingwei Mansion, what advice do you have?" ”

Jiang Yan arched his hand: "Ziyang Jun knew that Pingling Jun would have difficulties, so he was specially ordered to come down to relieve the siege." ”

Jiang Xuanjin already knew? Li Fangwu was stunned, and immediately asked, "What did the king say?" ”

"The monarch said that there is an old case in Pingling that has not been solved, which is a knot in His Majesty's heart. Coupled with the tax cut, it will definitely take Pingling Jun. Once you go to Kyoto, you may not be able to come back. ”

"......" was the same thing he was worried about, Li Fangwu sighed. His father has done too many evils, and he hasn't slept much since he took over as the king of Pingling, for fear that those who were killed by his father would come to him in his dreams to settle accounts.

He said that his father paid his debts to his son, but when his father was there, he didn't regard him as his own son, how innocent is he, and he still has to bear his sinful karma?

"But the holy decree has been accepted, how can I not go to Kyoto?" Li Fangwu said in embarrassment, "If Your Majesty says that I resist the will, I can't afford this crime." ”

"The king can't bear it, isn't there still Ziyang-jun behind?" Jiang Yan said, "You can be sick for a few more months, and the rest will be handed over to the king, and there will be no charges for safekeeping." ”

Li Fangwu was puzzled: "Why did Ziyang Jun help me?" ”

"The truth of cold lips and teeth, the king should understand." Jiang Yan smiled, "Everyone is a neighboring fiefdom, and Ziyangjun should help you." ”

Is it? Li Fangwu will be skeptical.

For the next few days, he really kept pretending to be sick, trembling and waiting for the reaction from Kyoto. As a result, for the past five days, there have been no documents or recitals in Kyoto. He pretended to be sick and lived a very comfortable life, and slowly believed Jiang Yan's words.

Someone reminded him: "Your Majesty, in three days will be the death day of your father, according to the rules of previous years, you are going to enter Beijing to kneel and worship the temple." ”

"I'm not going this year." Li Fangwu said, "Let's just say that I can't afford to be sick, and I am already on the line of life and death, and I believe Your Majesty will not blame." ”