Yuan Che's hoarse voice seemed to be a different kind of choking, but Wei Nong couldn't tell the difference, she looked back at him, and saw that the half of the silver mask reflected the faint candle flame, illuminating the right half of his handsome face. He seemed to be smiling, the corners of his lips slightly hooked, but the pain and emotion in his eyes were very obvious.

Wei Nong only glanced at it, and then didn't dare to look at it again, so he lowered his head and said softly: "I'm sorry." ”

"It's me who says I'm sorry, I'm the one who ruined your life." Yuan Che gradually stopped smiling, but he was reluctant to look away from her gaze, and said heavily: "I originally thought that I could compensate for your ...... with the rest of my life."

"Perhaps, there is only another way to compensate." In the last sentence, he said extremely sad and regretful.

Wei Nong smiled reluctantly when he heard this: "Build a new dynasty and treat the people of my Yan Kingdom well, this can be regarded as your compensation for me." ”

Yuan Che smiled again, but didn't promise anything, just stood up slowly, and said goodbye to her reluctantly: "It's not early, delay your dinner, right?" ”

Wei Nong glanced at the sky outside the window, took advantage of the situation and said, "You can leave after dinner." ”

"No, I still have something to do," Yuan Che paused for a moment and explained, "I have to go back to the Wei Hou Mansion, and the palace gate should be locked later." ”

Wei Nong didn't save it, stood up and said, "Then I'll send you out." ”

"Okay." Yuan Che didn't refuse again.

Wei Nong asked again persistently: "Do you really not let me see your injuries?" Or how about I find a cure for burns and write it to you? ”

Yuan Che still stubbornly shook his head: "If one day I want to open it, when I can face you calmly, I will definitely let you heal my injuries." ”

"But you should know that new wounds are better healed than old ones." Wei Nong reminded him.

Yuan Che bowed slightly: "Okay, I'll make a note." ”

Wei Nong didn't force it anymore, but persuaded with a deep meaning: "People will do wrong things, some wrong things, need to be repaid with the pain of hair and skin, but some look at action." ”

Hearing this, Yuan Che felt both moved and guilty, he paused slightly, and continued: "You are right, but there is another kind of wrongdoing, which requires both action and physical punishment to atone for sin. ”

After that, he continued to move forward, without giving Wei Nong another chance to persuade him.

The two walked out one after the other, as they did when they entered the door, and when they stepped out of the threshold of Penglai Pavilion, some memories came to their hearts without warning. Wei Hou Jingdi had different thoughts, mutual support on Peacock Mountain, and Maoyan River and Li Du's private house helped her escape twice...... Thinking about the bits and pieces since he met Yuan Che, grievances and grievances, Weinong sighed in his heart.

Who would have thought that they would become husband and wife in the first place? Although, God has long destined that this marriage will be in name only.

"Don't send it, go back!" Yuan Che waved his hand at her.

Wei Nong nodded and said yes, took a palace lamp and handed it over, watched him walk down the steps, and did not forget to advise: "Be careful on the road." ”

Yuan Che personally took the palace lantern and slowly buried his head in the front, under the reflection of the lamp, only the gradually elongated shadow has been accompanying him, ethereal, faint and faint, as if doomed to the illusion and loneliness of his life.

The past flashed across his eyes like floating clouds, he and Wei Nong used to have so many memories, but when it really came to this moment, he unexpectedly found that what impressed him the most was not getting along with her day and night on Peacock Mountain.

But on the banks of the Cat's Eye River, the night before he saw her off, they had said to each other:

"I may not marry my favorite girl, but I will definitely marry a reasonable young lady from a family, and take a few concubines, and have a full house of children and grandchildren...... If you're lucky, maybe you can still have three palaces and six courtyards, long live long live. ”

"On the day you get married, maybe I'll sneak over to drink a glass of wedding wine and make a fuss in the cave room to see if the bride is beautiful."

"It must be beautiful! I've always had the best eye, really. ”

"When the day comes, will you come?"

"Then if I miss you in the future, I will get married and take a concubine, and I must make the world know!"

……

The memories ended with her sincere tears and smiles, and on the night she left the Maoyan River, he watched her walk away, and saw her waving her hand vigorously at him, and silently saying in her mouth: Yuan Che, goodbye.

What a brilliant irony.

Thinking about it, Yuan Che woke up like a sleepwalker and stopped suddenly. He turned to look, but saw that under the porch of Penglai Pavilion, the lights were dim, and the Yiren was still standing in place watching him, his figure independent of the night wind, and never left.

Yuan Che's heart was surging for a moment, and he turned his head to look at the Lanyue Tower towering into the nebula next to him, and shouted in his hoarse voice with all his strength: "Slightly thick!" ”

However, he had gone too far, and his voice was too hoarse, and Rao shouted as best he could, but Wei Nong still did not hear it. She thought he wanted to say goodbye to her again, so she smiled and waved his hand again, just like that night on the bank of the Maoyan River, just saying goodbye, that's all.

Yuan Che suddenly felt that his throat was very painful, and his heart was very uncomfortable, and his whole body felt as if he had lost his strength. He sighed in disappointment, and muttered to himself in a small voice that only he could hear. In one word, six words:

"We'll get married later."

*****

Sent away Yuan Che, Weinong didn't have much appetite for dinner, and finally barely ate a few bites under the persuasion of the palace maids. As soon as she entered the palace today, she played a game with King Ning, and talked to Yuan Che for a long time in the evening, and gradually felt tired physically and mentally, so she washed and lay down early.

She still slept in the room she lived in last time, located on the second floor of Penglai Pavilion, slightly quieter than the first floor, and the window was facing the Lanyue Tower, which was also where Yunchen lived last time. Wei Nong couldn't help but push the window before going to bed to see, the ten-story building was dim, only the eight corner eaves of each floor were hung with lit palace lights, from this angle, there was really a kind of spirit to catch the sky and the moon.

Remembering the last time I broke up with Yunchen in Lanyue Tower, I sighed slightly, closed the window and lay down. However, just as she fell asleep, she suddenly heard a strange movement outside the window, very light, very small, but very rhythmic, "bones, bones", like the sound of wheels crushing the ground.

It's all this hour, who would dare to drive openly in King Ning's palace? Wei Nong thought so in his heart, but he didn't bother to get up and explore, so he turned over and continued to sleep.

But in the middle of the night, she woke up suddenly, because she heard the sound of "bones" again. She couldn't help but get up and open the window, only to see a group of Praetorian Guards patrolling back and forth, but the footsteps were as light as nothing.

Wei Nong had to close the window and lie down again. But this time, she couldn't sleep anymore, and her mind was full of the sound of "bones", like a spell, so that she couldn't tell whether she had really heard it or was hallucinating.

She was so disturbed that she couldn't sleep, so she got up in her clothes, walked down to the second floor with a candlestick, and woke up the palace maids and eunuchs who were on duty at night: "Did you hear any sounds at night?" ”

The palace maid and the eunuch were sleepy-eyed, and they didn't know why: "What voice does the county lord refer to?" ”

"The sound of wheels," Wei Min tried to imitate, "is the sound of 'bones, bones,' which is very soft. ”

The palace maids and eunuchs glanced at each other and shook their heads: "The servants (slaves) didn't hear it. ”

A palace maid asked curiously, "Is that voice ringing all the time?" ”

"No, it should be bursts, sometimes ringing, no pattern." Wei Nong said truthfully.

"Bones? Is the county lord hungry? Another palace maid asked with concern.

Wei Nong was amused by her: "Definitely not, it's really a sound, so noisy that I can't sleep." ”

Several palace people were confused and looked dazed. Only one eunuch opened his eyes and seemed to suddenly think of something.

Naturally, his subtle expression could not escape the slight thick gaze, and the latter immediately asked him, "Do you know what the sound is?" ”

The eunuch scratched his head in embarrassment: "No...... No, the minions don't know. ”

This is clearly an expression of weakness, slightly pretending to be majestic: "What? Do you have something to hide from Hongu? ”

She never called herself "Bengong" in front of the palace people, and this was the first time she had lived in Penglai Pavilion to call herself so. The eunuch was so frightened that he immediately knelt on the ground and said tremblingly: "No, no, the county lord forgives the sin...... The minion just suddenly thought that the voice could be ......"

"What is it?"

"It's a rat......"

Wei Nong was skeptical: "If it's just a mouse, why are you so weak-hearted?" ”

"County Lord, he's not weak-hearted, he's afraid." A palace maid spoke out at the right time to explain for him: "He is the sprinkler eunuch of our Penglai Pavilion, if there are rats in the attic, it means that he is not doing his errands well...... Especially woke you up, I'm afraid that he will be punished lightly, and it is possible to lose his life if he is punished. ”

After the palace maid said, the eunuch trembled even more, and kowtowed slightly: "The county lord spares his life, and the county lord forgives his sins!" ”

I see, Wei Min laughed that he became too suspicious, and couldn't help but rub his forehead, and said: "Listening to you say this, it may indeed be the sound of rats gnawing things, it's too late tonight, you can think about it early tomorrow morning." ”

"Yes." Several palace people spoke in unison.

Wei Nong yawned, went straight back to the second floor, and lay down for the third time. Unfortunately, the sky was already dark at this time, and although she was extremely tired, she never fell asleep again.

Early the next morning, her spirits were obviously weak, and the palace people were trembling. As early as the last time Wei Nong lived in Penglai Pavilion, there was a legend in King Ning's palace that this Yanlan County Lord from Yan Kingdom was short-tempered, fierce, and uneducated, and dared to slap the table with the king in the holy study and scold.

So when there was a faint rumor in the palace that Yanlan County was mainly married to the prince of Wei Hou, and these two were about to become the founding emperors of the new dynasty, everyone felt that the two of them were a perfect match, and they would definitely make the house restless and the palace chickens and dogs jumping.

Because this bad reputation has spread, the palace people in Penglai Pavilion are all frightened, and seeing that she didn't sleep well last night, everyone hurriedly launched a mouse catching operation. In the whole day, Penglai Pavilion tried countless ways up and down, tossing people on their backs, but they didn't even see the shadow of a mouse. Moreover, the crowd claimed not to have heard any strange sounds.