When I went down the mountain, I deliberately walked at the end and asked Ah Ping how to arrange it, and he said that it depends on what I mean. If he wants Xiaotong to enter the palace, he will do it, and if he doesn't want to, then he can live in the original mansion of Yan Qi. I naturally want Xiaotong to be close to him and take care of it, but it is the inner courtyard of the palace, and there are no men, so let Xiaotong be a eunuch? I don't agree with anything.

Even if Xiaotong only has one arm left, I don't want him to be in that capacity. There is another reason hidden in my heart, I am a person who already knows my future fate, and my end is to be annihilated in that fire, how can I still let my only brother fall into such a situation?

So after careful consideration, I decided to let Xiaotong live in Yan Qi's house. When I got down the hill and saw two carriages and a few horses waiting there, and a few guards waiting, I glanced at Ah Ping, who was very thoughtful, and was sure that I would leave today. Xiaotong shared a car with Yuan'er and Yan Qi, and Ah Ping and I were in the same car, and the two of them breathed smoothly in the quiet space, without much ups and downs.

As the carriage started, the sky gradually darkened, and I broke the silence all the way to the city in silence: "You have been running out for two days in a row, are you not afraid of delaying political affairs?" ”

"I read and annotated the pieces at night, and with the emperor's grandfather here, it's not in the way."

It means that he also stayed up all night yesterday, so that he could come out and pick me up again today? He didn't want to say much about this, so he immediately changed the topic again, still focusing on Xiaotong: "Did you really decide to leave him outside the palace?" ”

"Hmm." I responded lightly.

"I have to warn you that this is going to make him bounce back," he said. ”

My heart sank, "I know." ”

In fact, when we arrived at the house where Yan Qi used to live, at first Xiao Tong would look around, but after he walked through the house, he stared at me and asked, "Why are there no traces of your life here?" ”

He was very sensitive, even observant, and when he looked at the house, he could already perceive that there was no breath of mine in the whole house.

I had to confess truthfully: "I don't live here." ”

"Hah!" He sneered and laughed, his face instantly dyed with anger, and said to me in an angry tone: "Xu Lan, you deceive people too much! My eyes were pantothenic, and I looked at those angry eyes and said, "Xu Tong, I will bully anyone, and it is impossible to bully you." If you stay here, I will come to see you often, and if you like Xiao Yuan'er, I will bring him too. ”

But Xiaotong couldn't listen to it at all, he was emotional and angry at me: "You tricked me down from the mountain and threw me away at random in a random place, thinking that this would make up for your guilt towards Daddy and Auntie?" Don't you think! Rather than this, I would rather live a life of starvation and cold in the mountains than be discarded by you again. ”

I was shocked, and subconsciously blurted out: "I have never abandoned you." ”

"Didn't you? Where were you when Daddy died? Where were you when A-Niang died? Where were you when I climbed mountains and waded to find you? Where were you when I broke my arm? Where were you when I almost died on the street? Isn't that called discarding? At last he roared so hard that his eyes turned red and tears welled up in his eyes.

This is the resentment he has been holding back for too long, and there is nowhere to vent, and it finally broke out at this moment.

The first person to react in the field was Yuan'er, who fell asleep on Yan Qi's shoulder, and was directly woken up by Xiao Tong's roar. Even if you get along with it happily during the day, at this time, after being woken up, your temper is still going to be released, and you will cry directly.

My emotions were surging, I had been restrained and restrained before, and as Yuan'er's crying became louder and louder, the string in my brain was broken, and an arrow stepped forward to clasp Xiaotong's shoulder, "Do you think I want to do this?" Come, let me tell you where I was then? I was caught by the thieves into the den of thieves, in order to survive exhausted thoughts, one side of the officers and soldiers came to sweep the thieves and was caught to the north, after a lot of hardships and trekking mountains and rivers to return to the homeland, first encountered the black shop, and then met the war, how many times I walked on the edge of death, watching the fresh life disappear in front of my eyes, and my hands have also been stained with other people's blood. Do you think I'm doing well like this? ”

Xiao Tong's eyes were incredulous, and he muttered "impossible" in his mouth. My hand strengthened the strength, "Xiaotong, you have to believe that if there is a slightest possibility, I don't want my father and mother to pass away, and I can't find you if I lose you." Do you know how it was like when I went back to see you, looking at the empty house and listening to the neighbors talk about those things? The four words of pain are engraved into my bones and blood. I put my forehead against him, closed my eyes and said bitterly: "Sister is guilty of you, but not to make amends, but because you are my brother." ”

The body of the ring began to tremble, and as my tears slid down, I heard a painful hiss spill out of his mouth, like a trapped beast, and finally, fell into my arms and cried bitterly, hugging me with one hand and crying: "Sister, sister-"

In the middle of the night, I took Xiao Yuan'er, who had already fallen asleep, into the carriage and left the deep alley house, full of exhaustion. Ah Ping didn't move when he took me into his arms, he was so tired that he didn't want to move at all.

He stroked the hair that fell on my face and said softly: "Now that your brother has been pacified, don't worry anymore, if you don't worry, I will find a way to put him in Orchid Garden, I still have this right." ”

I vetoed this proposal: "No need, Xiaotong's personality is not as good as Yan Qi, he is not deeply involved in the world, and he doesn't understand the simple principles of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages." Just let him stay there, but I want to ask you for the right to leave the palace often. ”

I didn't hear him speak, and raised my eyes from his arms to look at his expression, "What? Isn't it possible? ”

"No, I'll give you my token when I get back."

He didn't tell the truth, and his expression was obviously very embarrassed, but I didn't tell it, as long as he agreed. I can no longer break my trust in this matter, and as he said, if he is brought back and placed in that house, what is the difference between that and throwing him on the mountain? I have to plan for him what he wants to do from here.

It was already late at night when I returned to the palace, and Ah Ping sent me to Lanyuan to leave, and I called him: "There are always political affairs that can't be dealt with, you have stayed up all night last night, let it go tonight." ”

Surprise flashed in his eyes, obviously he didn't expect me to persuade him to rest, so he immediately walked up to me and took my hand, "Okay, listen to you, let's go back to the house and rest." I looked down at his palm for a moment, but I didn't pull out my hand, nor did I say anything to let him go to sleep in the East House.

But when I entered the inner room, I suddenly remembered something, Xiao Yuan'er slept together every night before, but when Yan Qi proposed that Yuan'er sleep in his room at night just now, I didn't object, so I was taken away by him. Mainly because Xiaotong's mood is relatively bad, and he doesn't want to bring bad emotions to Xiao Yuan'er, but at this time, it will become me and Ah Ping alone in the room.

"Lan, what are you thinking?" I don't know when he was so close that he even wrapped his arms around my waist. I looked at it left and right: "I don't know if Xiao Yuan'er is used to sleeping in Xiao Qi's house." ”

"He's asleep, and he's not used to it, and when he wakes up, it's just after dawn."

I was speechless.

After lying on the bed, without Yuan'er's space, Ah Ping leaned against me as a matter of course, and his breath was spit on his neck. There shouldn't be a sense of ambiguity, not to mention that the two are husband and wife, and even their son is more than a year old, and all the intimate things that husband and wife can do have been done, but at this moment, not only do they feel ambiguous, but they also feel nervous.

After a while, he whispered in my ear, "Relax, I won't do anything but sleep with you." ”

It turns out that even if you are an old husband and wife, there will be times when you blush, such as when the other party has insight into your own thoughts. I immediately closed my eyes and tried to fall asleep quickly, but sometimes I couldn't help myself, and the more I tried to fall asleep as soon as possible, the more I couldn't sleep, but the breathing around me gradually became even and shallow.

I opened my eyes and looked at the face that was close at hand, and the dim light hit the outer half of his face, and the inner half of his face sank into darkness, making the outline particularly vivid and three-dimensional.

I have to admit that he found Xiaotong for me to add points to him, which made the ice wall I originally erected for him gradually melt. In addition, I know that he took Xiao Yuan'er up the mountain not because of the reason why the child was crying to find me, but he also had the heart to let Yuan'er break the deadlock, which I didn't even expect before I met Yuan'er, in fact, it didn't escape from his estimate.

That's it, whether it's covering your ears and stealing the bell, or closing your eyes and listening, under the sky where the line has been drawn on this side and he is regarded as Ah Ping, and outside the line is Zhu Yunwen.

He closed his eyes, adjusted his frequency to the rhythm of his breathing, and gradually fell asleep. It was as if my hands were caressing my face, but I was so sleepy that I fell into a deep sleep.

A few days later, I retracted my previous evaluation of Ah Ping, and my anger was nowhere to go, he actually played missing for me, and I didn't see him all day long, and I couldn't find anyone even if I asked Yan Qi to look for it. And the token he promised to give me has not even seen a ghost shadow so far.

It can't be said that it is easy to enter the door of the palace compound, but at least it is to come in, but it is difficult to get out. Without him or his token, the guards didn't listen to me at all, and they resolutely refused to let me leave the palace.

I was very anxious, I didn't go to Xiaotong for so many days, I was afraid that he would be cranky again, thinking that I didn't care about him or not. This child has become very insecure after the great change, and it is not easy for him to vent and cry and release me, if I really don't visit once, I will inevitably turn against me again, then what I have done before is in vain.