Later, Ah Ping ordered to send people to search at the bottom of the mountain, but the news that he came back turned out to be nowhere to be found, and even the body of the horse was not found. I couldn't help but be hopeful again, and hesitated to go to the foot of the mountain to see, but Ah Ping listened to my request and did not say anything, but let the horse be brought and the carriage that had fallen to the ground to be tied up again.

After the carriage was repaired, he and I got into the carriage together, and Yan Qi drove in front. In the silent space, I stuffed the child who was still sobbing and crying into Ah Ping's arm, and whispered, "You can hold it for a while." ”

I retracted my hand and leaned back into the corner of the carriage when I was sure he had caught it. I don't know how to describe the mood at this time, he has already told me with his actions that the arrow was not ordered by him, but he does not explain when I complain. But even if the guard had taken the initiative to shoot the arrow, which led to the subsequent incident, the result did not make much difference.

The narrow space was quiet, and the child, who had been sobbing, finally fell asleep tired of crying.

Ah Ping suddenly asked, "Has the child been named?" ”

I thought about it and nodded, "It's up, it's called Yue'er." "Before this, I didn't agree with Zhu Di's name, even if I thought of the child in my heart, I didn't use that name, but at this moment, I decided to call it Yue'er.

Ah Ping touched Xia Yue'er's face with his fingertips, and asked, "What day was it born?" ”

"The day I was taken out of the palace, I felt pain in my stomach when I came out, and I didn't give birth until the night."

He came to grab my hand, a hint of pain in his eyes, and I shook my head before he could speak: "No need to apologize, no one would have thought that this would happen." After a slight pause, his eyes raised and stared at him: "Did you forget to tell me something?" ”

Ignoring the incident that just happened now, I will never believe that Zhu Di died like this until I found his body. But I haven't forgotten the last thing he said to me - Zhu Gaoxu has not returned to Peking so far! I can't think of a reason why Zhu Gaoxu didn't go back, at that time, he was stabbed in the waist but it wasn't enough to kill, and I also found herbs to heal the injury, even if he left alone, he should be able to take care of his injuries by himself.

The only possibility is that Zhu Gaoxu doesn't want to go back to Beiping, but he can't go back.

He stayed in the capital to check and balance Zhu Di as a proton, if Ah Ping never eliminated the proposal of withdrawing the feudal domain in his mind, then when this edict was issued by Concubine Lu's hand, how could he let go of the chips in his hand? So Yan Qi showed me the illusion that Zhu Gaoxu was leaving, but in fact he didn't let him go at all, but arrested him and put him under house arrest elsewhere, but I was kept in the dark from beginning to end.

Ah Ping looked back at me for a long time before asking, "What do you want to say?" ”

All of a sudden, my heart became very uncomfortable, I always wanted to have both, but the hardest thing in the world was to have both. If you get one, you must give up one, and you can't have both. From Ah Ping's point of view, there is nothing wrong with what he did, Zhu Yuanzhang set up a vassal king at the beginning, but the first thing any emperor did was to withdraw the vassal domain, because there were too many military powers that were divided up, and even the power of the vassal king was powerful to the imperial court, among which Zhu Di's Beiping was the most typical.

Zhu Gaoxu couldn't be released as a proton, and even Zhu Di's appearance in the capital this time was an excellent opportunity, and killing him could prevent future troubles forever. Any decision made by Ah Ping is for the way of the king, for the sake of stabilizing the regime, what is wrong?

But there's me in the middle.

Zhu Gaoxu didn't even care about his life in order to save me, if it weren't for him, I might have been killed by the killer sent by Concubine Lu first, and I became a prisoner behind my back without knowing it.

My response to Ah Ping was to lower his eyes and be silent, if he understood me, he would definitely understand what I meant, and he only needed to point to the point, there was no need to be too clear. When the carriage came to the foot of the mountain, I opened the curtain and looked out, and saw at least a hundred soldiers waiting there. Someone stepped forward to the carriage to report the search to Ah Ping, but there was still no trace, he frowned and wanted to get up and go out, but I pulled down his arm, "Give me the child." ”

He lowered his eyes and looked at my hand, and then his eyes fell, and suddenly turned around and put Yue'er into the baby basket, carefully folded the cover and lifted the basket to me and said, "Let's go, if you don't go down and take a look, you will be uncertain." ”

I didn't raise any further objections, and when he got out of the carriage with him, Yan Qi had already ordered the guards to lead the way. When I came to the vertical bottom of the mountain, I saw that many people were still searching in a carpet way.

After looking around, I looked up and saw that the trees were not as dense as those seen from the top of the mountain, and the image of the top of the mountain was faintly visible through the gaps between the branches.

"Childe." Yan Qi inquired from the side, "Something is wrong. ”

I was attracted to attention, turned my eyes to look, and saw Ah Ping raise his eyebrows and ask, "What's wrong?" ”

"If it is true that people and horses fall off the cliff, it is impossible that there is no trace of crushing around the area, but I have carefully examined the branches and leaves on the top of the tree, and there is no sign of breaking the branches, which is impossible."

Ah Ping also raised his head after hearing this, his eyes narrowed slightly, and the light inexplicably made my eyes startle when the light shone on his face through the crack in the tree. He had the illusion that when he first met him in Ginkgo Village, he stood in the courtyard and looked up at the sun, the warm light hit his face, and the lines of the whole person seemed to become very gentle.

But this illusion dissipated like a bubble when he turned his eyes, his eyes were not right, his eyes were no longer as clear as they had been, even if he didn't look at me with the coldness of others, but there were edges and corners in his eyes.

He asked, "Have you thought of it?" ”

After a moment of silence as I met him, I tapped my head and saw that the corners of his mouth hooked up a sarcastic arc, and I lifted the basket and turned around and walked back. I didn't move, and when he walked out of the distance, he realized that I hadn't followed and turned around, "What other questions do you have to stay here?" I shook my head slightly, "Ah Ping, let's talk." ”

"Now?" Did he deliberately lift the basket into the air, reminding me that I would be in such an environment for a long time? I had nothing to say, so I had to acquiesce and leave this place first. Yue'er was already crying with hunger before, and she definitely couldn't sleep long this night.

But I didn't expect that when I went back to the carriage, Ah Ping didn't sit in again after carrying the baby basket into the car, but asked Yan Qi to bring a horse to ride on, and took the lead. Looking at the figure that was getting out of sight, I knew that he was angry with me.

But what is he angry with me? Angry at my silent accusation against him, or angry at my half-talking? I wanted to laugh at myself, but I met Yan Qi's gaze in the blink of an eye, and he was still waiting for me to get into the carriage.

Silently got into the car, and as soon as he sat down in the carriage, it started. thought that Yan Qi would say something, but until the carriage entered the city and then drove into the palace, it was always silent. When the carriage stopped, Yan Qi's whisper came from outside: "It's here." ”

I picked Yue'er up from the baby basket and put it in my arms, paused when I got up and stepped out of the carriage, looked directly at the palace gate in front of me, and asked, "Yan Qi, do you think I'm wrong?" ”

Yan Qi was silent for a while before replying in a low voice: "I don't know what kind of conflict has arisen between you and Childe, I only know that Childe fell down the steps when he learned the news of your disappearance." You have had a hard time outside the palace in the past three days, and your son is not having a good time either, so if you can not be harsh, try not to be harsh. ”

I suddenly laughed, Yan Qi will always be the Yan Qi who defends his son, and all his positions will only be from Ah Ping's point of view, including me, and the friendship for several years will stop at Ah Ping.

Without saying anything more, he walked past his side towards the temple door, but when I stepped into the threshold, I suddenly heard a voice behind me: "Xu Lan, it is the greatest luck of the son that you can be safe, and we are all worried." ”

My heart softened, and I softened my attitude and whispered, "Let him come to me." ”

But when he saw Ah Ping, after dark, he walked into the door coldly, and walked to the cot without even giving me a look. I saw him take out a cloth bag from his arms, and when he opened it, he saw that it was a red rope, and he tied it to Yue'er's wrist, and noticed that a golden moon was worn on one part of the red rope.

This is Yuan'er has never enjoyed his father's treatment before, although Yuan'er was favored by the Quartet when he was born, and even Zhu Yuanzhang gave gifts, he has no shortage of these gold bracelets and necklaces, but he has never made Ah Ping so thoughtful.

Maybe he thinks that Yue'er was born outside and feels indebted, I thought so in my heart.

The room was silent, and neither of them had any intention of speaking. I sat down for a while and got up and walked out, and I asked him to talk to him when I was in the forest, and after returning to the palace, I also asked Yan Qi to convey it, but he didn't come back until this time, and he didn't even want to talk to me when he came back, so what's the point of being in the same room? It's better to give up the place as he wishes, and I'll go to the side hall to stay for a night.

But as soon as he walked out of the inner hall, he heard the footsteps coming behind him, and grabbed him and asked, "Where are you going?" ”

I didn't look back, "It's stuffy in the house, go out and breathe." ”

"Can't you stand it with me for a moment? Just for him? ”

"For whom?" I suddenly looked back, my eyes shining, "Who do you say I'm for?" ”

He looked at me silently, but he didn't let go of the hand that was holding my arm, and it was so tight that it hurt a little. I did know it, but he didn't mean to talk to me, and he played tricks on me, because he wasn't happy.

He didn't feel happy and left with a shake of his face, and went back to the palace to ignore it for most of the day, and didn't appear until the evening. Then who am I not going to go to vent to? Air? No matter how good his temper is, he has been annoyed by him.

"You let go!" I said in a cold tone.

But he didn't move or speak, and he was deadlocked. I couldn't bear it anymore, "Zhu Yunwen, didn't you hear me, I'll let you go!" This time he spoke, but he simply said: "Don't let go." ”

"And what do you want?"

"That should be the other way around, I ask you."

Listening to his righteousness, I was really angry, why did he still question me? "I don't want to do anything, I just feel tired and want to find a place to sleep."

But I heard him throw a sentence: "The dormitory is inside, if you want to sleep, go in." ”

"I don't want to sleep with a stuffy gourd, hold my breath!"

He raised his eyebrows, "Who is the stuffy gourd?" ”

"Whoever talks to you is."

A laugh came from the side, and I turned my eyes to see that it was a smile in the courtyard, and I don't know how long I had been listening. Seeing that we noticed her, she immediately curtsied in panic, and was coldly shouted back by Ah Ping.