Yan Qi saw that I had been silent, and couldn't help but persuade me again: "You really don't blame Gongzi, Gongzi is also bitter in his heart, the Lu family is Gongzi's mother after all, and it is his mother who seizes power with Gongzi, and he doesn't want you to be implicated in this arrangement." Moreover, Childe's health was very bad after detoxification, and I didn't encounter him head-on when I sneaked up from the secret passage in the first few days, so I could only find his instructions in the top secret place where he had explained me in advance. Then I put the outside situation including your message on paper and uploaded it to him, which is how we communicate. ”

Hearing this, I frowned, according to what Yan Qi said, he woke up five days later, but in fact, he could only wake up for a short time, and his physical strength could not be supplied. And Yan Qi is the one who disappeared into the palace, it is impossible to blatantly go to him, he can only go up from the tunnel quietly at the appointed time, but he may not be able to meet the time when Ah Ping wakes up.

Even this point has been calculated, and he actually came up with a way to secretly exchange messages with pen and ink to lay out.

I asked the ending point: "What about the Queen Mother now?" ”

"Ziling Mountain."

I looked at him suspiciously, where is Ziling Mountain?

"Ziling Mountain is twenty miles outside the capital, and there is a royal Buddhist temple on the mountain, which is dedicated to the royal family to worship the Buddha."

It's just so simple to dispose of the Queen Mother? She's tantamount to treason. And Yan Qi's judgment is understood to mean that after all, the Queen Mother is Ah Ping's mother, even if the Lu family tried to control the government and was dismissed and investigated by Ah Ping one by one, but he still had benevolence for Concubine Lu in the end.

But I didn't interpret Ah Ping's behavior in this way, I had a strong premonition that he should know something.

Suddenly, there was a movement behind him, and Yan Qi's gaze also swept away, "Childe is awake!" ”

I didn't need to be reminded that I saw it, the person who was lying quietly opened his eyes slowly, and his dark eyes turned and his gaze fell on my face flatly. It's not like a person who has just woken up from a coma, his eyes are clear, like waves of fresh water, without a trace of waves.

Without waiting for anyone to order, Yan Qi took the initiative to retreat and brought the door for us.

The two of them were silent for a while, neither of them speaking first, but I lowered my eyes to avoid his gaze. With the idea that if he doesn't speak, I won't speak, let's just mess with him before he makes an attitude.

However, in the blink of an eye, I heard him whisper, "I knew it when I was still in Ginkgo Village." ”

This sentence forced me to look up again, and the first thing that flashed through my mind was that possibility. He slowly rolled his eyes, and his gaze fell on the bed tent, "Do you remember that time when Aunt Qing fell in the Buddha hall?" She began to talk in her dreams at night, but she was terrified of dreams. Some things have been buried for too long, and they can't pass the threshold of the heart, and it will burst out at a certain time and point. I always thought that she prayed to the Buddha every day to pray for her father's blessing, but it turned out that she was ashamed in her heart. ”

What a guilty person! The word shame is to add a ghost word to her heart, Liu Qing actually has a ghost in her heart, and she can't let it go. She must have participated in and witnessed everything back then, so she tried to dilute her sins by chanting Buddha.

Inexplicably, his heart hurt, he learned the truth from Liu Qing's mouth so early, but he had to pretend that he didn't know at all, was it very hard to endure it? However, he said, "You don't have to feel sorry for me, because I wasn't too sad when I heard about it from Aunt Qing's whispers, but I just felt numb." There are a lot of things like this in the palace, intrigues, conspiracies, and calculations, and before I was named the emperor's grandson, I had several experiences of almost being poisoned, that is, you never know if the person next to you can be trusted, whether he will be loyal to you one moment, and poison your food the next. ”

I was shocked, he had never said this to me, and I never knew that he had experienced so much darkness when he was younger. Obviously, there were one or two people who were his trusted close friends, and finally became pawns in court battles, betrayed him, and even poisoned him. Therefore, his distrust of people was established from this time, and it also created his cold heart under the gentle surface.

I couldn't help but walk up to him, and when I sat down on the edge of the bed, he immediately came and grabbed my hand, looked at me urgently, and said, "Lan, it's not that I deliberately want to hide it from you, but ......" He paused, as if looking for words, and then said in a difficult tone: "I'm used to keeping the bottom line. ”

My nose was sour as soon as I heard this sentence, and he didn't explain it in too many flashy words, but just said to me dryly: he is used to keeping the bottom line. What a painful lesson this is?

He held my hand tightly, "I was shocked and saddened when I first saw the eunuch die by striking a pillar because he was found trying to kill me, but when something like this happened again and again, I gradually became numb. I've learned not to show my mind superficially, I've learned to keep a bottom line on anyone, and I've learned to be cruel. Because if you are not cruel in this environment, then others are cruel to you. So there is no need to feel sorry for me, I don't have the slightest impression of my biological mother in their mouths, and she has never raised me, so I can only say that I expected that outcome. ”

I listened to him say this in silence, and a sense of compassion arose in my heart. Maybe the real emperor's family is different from ordinary families, the environment has created a person's character, and warmth is superfluous in this palace, except for climbing to the top is a struggle for power.

I didn't know what to say, and he didn't need my comfort, so he only paused for a moment and then said lightly: "After returning to the palace, I maintained a superficial peace with the Lu family, and it is said that she taught me when I was young, especially after the eldest brother was gone, she put all her energy on me, and taught me to be inseparable from joy and anger, and not let others see through my heart." ”

Concubine Lu's son died young, and she must support Ah Ping to ensure her status, and in this process, she should pay for herself and play the role of a loving mother to the end. "Did you listen to Concubine Lu before?"

"She is a mother concubine, and filial piety should come first as a son of people."

Yes, the reason for Concubine Lu's backlash is probably that Ah Ping fought against her several times after I entered the palace, which made her feel the crisis, so she had this plan and then moved. But after thinking about it, I suddenly felt that this situation was not accidental, but intentionally advancing. I confirmed to him: "Did you deliberately contradict her several times later on my behalf? ”

The corners of his mouth pulled up an arc, as if he was smiling but not smiling, "Lan, in your heart, my image is already so bad?" Even the anger at your emotions makes you interpret it as acting? ”

I was speechless, the question just now did misread what he meant, I opened my mouth to say something, but I heard him suddenly say: "But maybe there is also this purpose, I didn't control my emotions in your incident, when I saw you wronged, I couldn't bear it, and I was even more emotionally broken when I saw you hurt, according to my previous temperament, even if I was angry, I wouldn't show it on my face, but I couldn't control it." When I first realized that my emotions were going to be like this, I thought instead of going with the flow, I would go with the flow and see if the change would have an effect. ”

It is equivalent to saying that after he learned the truth from Liu Qing, he began to test Concubine Lu, he wanted to see if the person who raised him was sincere, or only used him as a tool to obtain power. But I know that although he is ruthless, he is a person who misses his old love, even Liu Qing is thinking about him in his heart, let alone being regarded as a mother by him for more than ten years. It's just that he will be contradictory, if he doesn't know, it's just that, knowing is a thorn in his heart.

The real reason why he decided to do it was me.

"Is it because of what happened last time that you made up your mind?"

Obviously, he shook my hand tightly, did I hit his mind? After a while, I heard him admit frankly: "That's right, seeing that you are covered in blood and poured into my arms, and you are no longer willing to deal with it with benevolence, some people have some things that should be powerful." She thought I couldn't see that the bureau was set up by her, and the concubine was just the first bird she pushed out! After the fact, he pretended to be guilty and painful and asked the Buddha to repent, but a person who was blackened by power, how could he care about a little life? ”

The death of the concubine became the last straw that crushed the camel, which made Concubine Lu panic and fear, she was afraid that this "son" would use the same means to avenge me, forcing her to act in a hurry.

"Lan," he called back my attention, "you know what? When I held you covered in blood in the Orchid Garden, I swore to heaven in my heart: I will pay for the blood shed by all those who persecute you present. It's not that I'm cruel, it's that she forced me to be cruel, and she taught me that if I'm not cruel, I'm going to let someone put a knife on my neck. ”

At this time, Ah Ping and the people I know seem to have changed, he is dark and cruel, and there is a fierce anger between his eyebrows. couldn't help but reach over and caress his brow to stretch it, "Ah Ping, don't let the ugliness destroy your heart, you are not such a person, even if various factors have forced you to go to the extreme, but looking back, there are always points that can warm you, and you will not forget your original intention." ”

He then grabbed my hand again and stared into my eyes, "As long as you don't leave, I will listen to whatever you say." ”

I frowned, why is he so laid-skinned? First hard and then soft, and then tricky. Seeing that I was silent, he wanted to get up from the bed, but he only half lifted up and fell back, and dragged me to lie on his body, and immediately his waist was tightened and he was trapped.

"Lan, you're the only thing I have left, don't leave, okay?" His voice was soft, sounding like a pleading. What can I do with him, I can only be angry and helpless: "I want to be able to go, you tied me back like a bully." His gaze fell on my wrist, and when he saw the traces of being strangled by the rope, his face immediately changed, "Xiao Qi, that stinky boy, do you need to tie it so tightly for him?" ”

I was speechless about it, only allowed the governor to set fires and did not allow the people to light lamps, it was him. It was this kind of tasteless order he gave that Yan Qi carried out, and he turned around and pretended to be distressed.

I glanced at his hand that I had bitten, and the tooth marks on it were quite deep, but the skin was not broken, and the red tooth marks were just around the corner. I felt that my mouth was not hard enough just now, and I should have bitten him until it bleeds to know that it hurts.

But there was immediately a voice complaining in my heart: Are you willing?

Anyway, since I met this person, I planted it. He said that he was used to staying at the bottom line, and I was picked by him again and again to break the bottom line, and many times he violated my principles, but he was always softened by various means.

Needless to say, he captured my heart and penetrated my weakness.