"You, you ......" Yi Yu never thought that he would see someone who shouldn't have been here at this time.

The horse under her slowed down, and Li Tai raised a pair of eyes because of the smell of blood on her body, and said in a deep voice: "Where is the injury?" ”

This question made Yu Yu come back to his senses, and he didn't care about a lot, and even forgot about his fear of horses for the time being, so he sat sideways in front of him, grabbed the placket of his clothes, and the hand holding the mask compared the direction, and said in a panic:

"Hurry, hurry up and save people, it's the jailers of the Criminal Department who are arresting people over there"

Hearing this, Li Tai was on horseback, followed the direction of her finger, looked at the faint fire in the distance, and immediately stopped the horse, lowered his head and asked again:

"Where's the injury?"

"I'm not hurt, it's him, it's he's hurt, he went to lead those people away, but he's seriously injured, I beg you, save him, it's over there, please save him" Yu Yu's cry trembled, and his blood-stained hand pointed in the direction where the masked man led people away.

These few unclear explanations made Li Tai understand the meaning, and then he thought that he was looking for a voice to rush to this street, and saw her back from a distance, and it was in that direction that she was headed. Listening to her pleading voice at the moment, looking at the blood-stained black and white mask on her hand, Gu Jing Bubo's mood was actually trembling at this moment, and he had never felt like he was about to lose something, which made him have an inexplicable emotion similar to panic that he rarely had in his life.

"Master?" Li Tai's silence for a moment was exchanged for inquiries from people on both sides.

"Go and save people."

These two words were heard in Yi Yu's ears, which was tantamount to heavenly sounds, and she thanked Li Tai repeatedly, but he was tied to his chest with one hand, and his legs clamped the horse's belly, and several horses rushed towards the firelight.

Yi Yu did not resist, and after Li Tai promised to save people, the spirit of forcibly mentioning for a day and a night finally ran out. Riding on the horse, she was afraid, there were tears and blood stains on her smoky black face, coupled with the pale background, she was extremely embarrassed, but even she didn't notice it, at this time she was leaning on his arms, and her heart, which was almost driven crazy, was calming down a little bit.

Just when the man who took off his mask was surrounded by dozens of jailers on all sides of the street, and his physical strength was exhausted, he suddenly killed a few fast horses from the rear, and broke their encirclement with a few swings of his sword.

After rescuing the people, these black-clothed swordsmen stopped fighting, and rode their horses back to the southwest, and in the shadow of the other street corner, they successfully rescued the people, and Li Tai turned his horse's head and left in the opposite direction with the remaining jade.

"Your Highness?"

"My people will settle him properly, and you will go back with me."

As he spoke, he sped up again, and Yu Yu didn't ask any more questions, leaning quietly against him with his eyelids down. A quarter of an hour later, the horse stopped at the hidden back door of the Wei Palace, and after Li Tai turned over and dismounted, he picked her up with both hands and put her on the ground.

Ah Sheng, who had been waiting here for a long time, was startled when he saw the terrifying appearance of the jade in his hand with the lantern in his hand, and saw that Li Tai's face was not good, so he didn't say a word, just walked aside and led the way.

Li Tai strode ahead, Yi Yu held the mask in his arms and trembled and trotted behind him, and the three of them bypassed the pavilion and entered the Combing Pavilion directly.

Unlike the cold streets, the charcoal stove in the pavilion was burning, and Yi Yu shivered warmly as soon as she entered the door, and looked at the expensive velvet blanket under her feet being trampled with conspicuous dirt, and took two steps back to stand by the door again at a loss.

"Your Highness, Your Highness." After wearing a thin night suit all night, and riding a horse and being blown by the wind, she was already numb from the cold, and she couldn't speak.

Li Tai threw the cloak on the carpet, found a mahogany carved chair and turned around and sat down, looked up at her at the door, and said coldly with an expressionless face:

"Go wash it up."

Yi Yu heard the coldness in his words, and his already grief-stricken heart shrank even more, and he turned his head to look at Ah Sheng in confusion, and saw that he pulled the corners of his mouth at him, and said:

"Miss Lu, hot water has been prepared in the house, please go take a bath first."

"Hmm." She glanced at Li Tai again, and followed Ah Sheng through the hall to the east room of the back hall, where Ah Sheng briefly explained to her, and then withdrew and closed the door.

The light purple inner room was very elegantly furnished, Yi Yu lowered her head and took off her boots, revealing the only white little foot on her body, stepping on the camel hair carpet, walking behind the screen emitting white smoke, the black and white mask she had been holding in her hand was placed on the desk by her, and she shook her hand to untie the blood-stained black clothes on her body.

After a few moments, she stood naked on the edge of the tub, took a cloth towel and drenched it over the warm water in the bucket, and scrubbed the blood on her face and body before stepping into the tub.

After the cold body was surrounded by hot water, it gradually warmed up, and she brushed her hair and wiped her body as usual, and it took half an hour before she came out of the bathtub and wiped the water droplets off her body with a cloth towel.

There was a brand new middle coat on the screen, she reached for it, and put it on with a stagger, and when it was tied to the belt around her waist, her hand, which was still steady, shook again.

Once, twice... The strap that couldn't be tied was like her heart at the moment, and the suppressed scene came back to her mind, and she watched Lu Zhi's figure disappear into the raging fire cave and turn into a small black dot......

"Tick", "tick", she lowered her head, tears rolled down to the ground, but her trembling hands stubbornly grabbed the belt around her waist, choked her throat and did not make the slightest cry.

In the hall, changing into a comfortable cotton robe, Li Tai sat on a chair, listening to Ziyan, who was standing against the light, report what he saw in the prison, and the wine glass in his hand was sent to his lips.

"You say, Lu Zhi was taken into the fire?"

"Yes, my subordinates have seen it with their own eyes, and the subordinates of the dungeon of the Criminal Department have also been there, and there is indeed only one passage, just looking at the exposed fire, those two people will definitely die if they go in."

Ah Sheng listened on the sidelines, his face was stunned, and he asked out loud without thinking:

"Why don't you make a move?"

Ziyan glanced at him and said, "That woman is a madman, and the six people on the other side don't know where they came from, all of them are similar to you, I need to put Miss Lu's safety first, why should I risk saving him." ”

"You-" Ah Sheng frowned, remembering that he had seen Yu Yu in the back door beforehand, and said, "Then how do you protect people?" ”

Ziyan snorted coldly, "Is she injured?" The people of Hongzhuang may appear at any time, in case they startle the snake, I will only make a move at a critical time, and what qualifications do you have to question me, if it weren't for your deception and concealment, and did not report the recent movements in the capital to the master, otherwise the matter would not have come to this. ”

Ah Sheng was dumbfounded, he knew that he was wrong, but he never thought that it would come to this point, he always thought that Lu Zhi would not have the reputation of killing the eldest grandson in vain, but in the end, he died half a day earlier than the execution.

Li Tai listened to the argument between the two, frowned slightly, and said, "Go down." ”

"Yes." Ah Sheng and Ziyan glanced at each other, one dodged and disappeared, and the other retreated outside the house to close the door and guard.

At this time, it had been half an hour since the jade had entered, and Li Tai drank another glass of wine, then put down the glass and walked towards the back of the hall.

Stopping outside the door of the east room, his five senses were keenly aware that there was not even the slightest sound of water inside, pursed his lower lip, then reached out and pushed the door open, and after he walked in, he looked towards the screen, and his face sank.

She leaned sideways, her head bowed and tied the strap at her waist, her slender body trembling slightly, and the droplets of water that slipped from her wet hair soaked on her shoulders and back, wetting a piece.

"What are you doing?"

When Yi Yu heard the voice, he turned around, his red eyes were still rolling with tears, and he couldn't help but choke up and replied softly:

"Department... Not on ......"

As soon as the cat-like voice came out, he walked straight over, hooked a white silk ribbon from her trembling hand, tied it into a knot in two or three, reached down to the plain robe and the clean cloth towel on the screen, wrapped the caftan around her from behind, and put the cloth towel over her head, and said:

"Pack up and come out."

Then he turned around, but only after taking two steps, he stopped, because of a soft cry from behind him:

"Your Highness... I, my eldest brother is dead... My eldest brother is dead..."

Yi Yu didn't know what she was thinking at the moment, maybe what happened tonight made her unbearable, and she subconsciously wanted to find someone to talk to, even if it was only a little, as long as someone could help her share a little, she would not collapse.

"He's dead..."

Li Tai listened to her voice, his heart was slightly prickly, after a pause, he turned around again, his hands hesitantly stretched out, after touching her thin shoulders, but he did not hesitate to hook his hand and take her into his arms, feeling the trembling of her hot body through the fabric, her heart was close to her cry, and she was about to say something, but she instantly reached out her arms, wrapped around her waist and clasped tightly, and as soon as her heart moved, she heard a cry that was almost screaming from her chest:

"I watched him being taken to the fire with my own eyes, I watched him being swallowed by the flames Why is he, why is it my eldest brother, he didn't kill anyone, why should he pay for his life in this situation He is only eighteen years old, he has suffered so much since he was a child, just to make our lives better, but now we have money, we are well fed and clothed, and we are not afraid of being bullied, but he is dead, dead"

As if grabbing a piece of wood for a person who was about to drown, Yu Yu grabbed Li Tai's back with ten fingers, crying:

"It's all my fault, I'm useless, I wasn't there when he was bullied, he was wronged and I couldn't do anything at all, what use am I, I can't even protect my dearest people, what's the use of me"

Family affection, this is a too distant relationship for Li Tai, maybe he once had, maybe he never had, but at this time, he was feeling sorry for her grief, and that inexplicable tremor struck again.

After a moment of hysteria, Yi Yu suddenly lowered his tone and muttered:

"My mother was taken away, the second brother is gone, and the eldest brother is also dead...... Shouldn't we come to Chang'an... If we were still in that small village, all the people would be fine, and our family of four would live a good life, even if we didn't have enough food or warm clothes, they would still be there, instead of leaving me alone like now... Why should they leave me alone..."

In her previous life, she was lonely for twenty years, and she came to this dynasty by mistake, and her original possession was this family. Lu's is her warm harbor, after she was kidnapped by Han Li, Lu Jun disappeared again, she relied on Lu Zhi to support her, but now without Lu Zhi, she is alone again, the departure of her relatives is tantamount to a knife to cut her heart, piece by piece, until now, her heart is empty, she really doesn't know how to live in the future.

"What should I do?"

Yi Yu gradually stopped crying, slowly raised his head, and looked at Li Tai helplessly, under the white cloth toil, a pair of watery eyes did not shine in the past, only cowardice and pain.

"What should I do... What should I do..."

These five words knocked on Li Tai's ear drum one by one, his heart was turbulent, his ruthless facial features were also calm, the Qingbi became more and more transparent, looking at her miserable white face, her thin lips squirmed a few times, and she said in a low voice:

"Stay by my side, if you want revenge, I will help you, if someone oppresses you, I will protect you, no matter what happens, I will not leave you alone, you just need to promise, you will stay by my side."

Yu Yu was brought back to her senses by this whisper, her moist eyes blinked, and at this moment, hearing his proposal full of "temptation", she suddenly realized that the decisions she had made before were violently shaken in an instant.

Staring silently by his eyes, she opened her mouth but found that she couldn't say half a "no", and her empty heart seemed to be jumping and shouting at her, asking her to answer, so that she was no longer alone.

Li Tai saw her struggle and dodge, his eyes flickered slightly, and he had a hunch that once he missed this opportunity, no one could guarantee that others would not take advantage of it.

Thinking so, he lifted his right hand from behind her back and took off the white towel on top of her head, gently stroked half of her cheek, and said softly:

"If you agree, I will do what I say, if not, then refuse, you have to think well, because in the same way, I will only ask you this time in this life."

Yi Yu's hand behind his back subconsciously tightened, she bit her lip, closed her eyes, and tried to calm herself, but as soon as she closed her eyes, it was the smile that Lu Jun showed before he left home for the last time, and now he can only hear Lu's song in his sleep, and it is the back of Lu Zhi who disappeared into the sea of fire.

Just when her mind was in turmoil, an old voice suddenly sounded, it was the old lady Lu who comforted her—

You, a child, just think too much, and sometimes, this person just needs to do what he wants to do.

"I...."

"Huh?"

She shook her head bitterly and said softly, "I promise you." ”

Even she didn't expect that she didn't feel a little reluctant when she said this answer. What's even more strange is that when he heard his answer, he pressed her head on the front and back of his chest, this embrace was much warmer than just now, and even the impact of Lu Zhi's death on her was diluted.

And she, who was buried in his chest to absorb the warmth, did not see the natural curvature at the corners of his lips.

"You have to remember your promises." ()