Chapter 61: Dripping Water Pierces Stones

"What?!" Xia Yujie looked at the few people who had already "set up camp" in the clearing, and said incredulously: "You actually let this palace sleep in such a place?" ”

"When you travel outside, you can't take care of it more than in the palace, and I hope that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will take care of it more." The second sentence was corresponding, and in the words, there was no disrespect.

"Are you sure? Only...... That's it? ”

Xia Yujie raised his hand from time to time and waved at the moths flying towards his face and the swarms of mosquitoes surrounding him, and said with great disgust: "This kind of broken place, let alone one night, the palace can't stay for a moment." ”

With that, he shook his sleeves and wanted to leave.

Seeing this, Xing Er said unhurriedly: "The front is not far from the Wumapo, if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince walks around, and encounters a group of bandits, I'm afraid the minions will not be able to arrive in time." ”

When Xia Yujie heard this, a sharp knife an inch away from his chest suddenly flashed in his mind, as well as a sharp sword that cut across the bandit's neck almost in an instant......

"I have wronged Your Highness here for one night, and we will leave early tomorrow morning." Xing Er pointed to a few people around the bonfire who were also wearing crowned robes, and made careful and thoughtful arrangements: "My subordinates are now going to find some food and come back, Your Highness can tell them if you have something." ”

"Ben...... Hongu knows, you can get busy. ”

Xia Yujie had palpitations, and suddenly, facing the person in front of him who was smiling and respectful to him, he actually had a creepy feeling.

"Yes, the subordinates retired."

Xiaoxiang Pavilion.

The fireflies outside the room were slightly bright, the candlelight in the room was slightly warm, and the wisps of light hit the bed tent, and the smile on the corners of the woman's eyebrows and eyes became more and more obvious.

“…… Miss? Miss! ”

"Huh?" As soon as Xiao Huang came back to her senses, she saw five fingers shaking in front of her.

No wonder Fang Cai felt that there were a few more dark shadows in front of her, and she pulled the corners of her lips a little helplessly, "It's so late, why haven't you gone to rest yet?" ”

"Huh?" Xiao Xiang withdrew her claws, tilted her head and said with an elegant face: "Shouldn't this sentence be asked to Miss?" ”

After she fed the chicken legs to Da Ash, as soon as she came back, she saw her young lady sitting on the bed in a daze, sometimes the corners of her mouth were crooked, sometimes her eyelids drooped, she couldn't say what the expression was, anyway, she thought it was weird.

"Ask me?" Xiao Huang was a little dazed.

"Hmm!" Xiaoxiang nodded without hesitation.

At this hour, the lights in the lady's room had long since gone out, and the lady's sleep was so light that she could easily wake up if anyone moved around the room.

But...... What was going on just now? She shouted several times, but the young lady didn't seem to hear at all, and Xiaoxiang couldn't help but be a little confused.

"Huh? It's ......"

When I turned my eyes, I saw a scarlet robe folded neatly and placed next to Xiao Huang's bed.

She took a closer look, and suddenly felt a little familiar, "Oh, I remember, it seems to be the ...... of the criminal and private overseer."

Before the words were finished, Xiao Xiang suddenly raised her hand to cover her mouth.

I remember that when the washing maid came to collect the dirty clothes, the young lady also deliberately hid this cloak, and then she ran to the well in the middle of the night to fetch water, and washed it silently for half an hour.

She thought that the young lady was worried that there would be some unpleasant words about the appearance of men's private belongings in her boudoir...... But at this moment, Xiaoxiang's idea actually fell apart.

"yes, I was going to return the ...... to him" stared at the lifelike diameter and leaf embroidery thread on the wind collar, and the snow-white fingertips couldn't help but caress it.

Little by little, his fingertips swept through the uneven but unusually smooth and cool lines, and Xiao Huang's mind couldn't help but recall those extremely cold eyes again.

She smiled, "Now...... I don't think there's any need for that. ”

"Miss?"

"Huh?"

"Are you ......?"

"What?"

“…… Got a liking for him? ”

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In the forest, the leaves shook the wind, and in an instant, a sword light broke through the air, and Xing Er quickly blocked the side, and threw a pheasant in his hand with a quick reaction.

For a while, the dark night was full of snow-like broken chicken feathers.

"Punishment one?" When he saw the person who came, Xing Er said with a sigh of relief again: "Why are you, this black light is blind, you wasted a meal of game in vain, it seems that I have to catch another one." ”

"Stop!" Xing Yi flew forward, and the tip of the sword pointed directly at the neck of Xing Er.

The latter spread his hands helplessly, "I don't have time to accompany you to practice martial arts at this time, and the prince is still waiting for dinner." ”

Xingyi was unmoved, and as soon as the hilt of the sword was raised, there was an instant blood mark on the blade, "You waited very easily." ”

"It is the lord's order to escort the prince to the city, can I still disobey the order and disrespect?" Xing Er still smiled gently.

"You're still refusing to tell me the truth?" The torturer was angry, and he asked, "How do you explain the attack on the prince?" Those people are not mountain bandits at all, and with your means, it is impossible not to detect them. ”

Hearing this, Xing Er suddenly came to his senses, and he hammered his head in annoyance, and said, "Look at my brain, I actually neglected this matter." ”

Xingyi sneered, "Negligence? Heh, you don't know who Mo Liyun is, the soldiers under him are still inferior to a group of rabble, do you think this is very reasonable? ”

The hilt of the sword turned, and he pressed forward step by step, asking, "Before you set off, it was the soldiers you personally selected to accompany you, right?" And today, if I hadn't happened to pass by Umapo, wouldn't you have shown up? ”

"You were there?" The second sentence's face stiffened slightly.

"Going south to the city, the lord and the prince are known to the world, where do you want to do this?"

Feeling the blade on his neck approaching, the rare smile lines on Xing Er's face faded.

"I can't argue with the crime I want to add, anyway, I have never won against you in terms of martial arts, I can die at the hands of my brother in this life, and my second sentence is not in vain."

As the words fell, he closed his eyes and opened his arms, looking like he was being slaughtered.

He was so easily restrained, but instead let Xing Yi say coldly, "Why, don't you dare to use your mind control technique when it comes to life and death?" Did you hide it for too long and forget it, or did you practice too little and not have enough skills? ”

"How would you know?!" Hearing this, Xing Er opened his eyes violently.

"Last time, you practiced with the maids around Jimo Xiaohuang, do you really think you can hide from the world?"

"That'...... The lord also knows? ”

Seeing that he asked cautiously, it was rare for the momentum of the sentence to disappear a little, and that was the only thing he concealed and did not report, "You didn't take your colleagues to test, aren't you afraid that the overseer will find out?" If the lord knows that you are practicing forbidden arts, you will have a life at this moment. ”

"yes, that's a blessing......" Xingji suddenly smiled slightly, and his hands hidden behind his back began to move their joints in an irregular manner.

"You should indeed feel glad that this time, the Lord has spared you." Xing Yi looked at him and said with a cold gaze: "Next time, I will kill you!" ”

Turning around, it was already the sound of a sharp sword in its sheath.

Xing Er looked at the back that melted into the night in a daze, and his writhing ten fingers gradually drooped.

After a long time, he raised his hand and touched the bloody scab on his neck, and his pupils seemed to be one with the darkness......

Next.

"Wow, that's beautiful, miss, is this the place where you were confined in the first place? I don't look like it. ”

Xiaoxiang looked around and touched it with a calm face, and after a while, the thighs of the Buddha statue had been patronized by her several times.

"Isn't it like that?" Xiao Huang smiled, turned around and continued to look at the paintings on the wall.

Xiao Xiang's surprise was not unreasonable, even at this moment, standing in this ancestral hall full of tributes and incense from the copper furnace, her thoughts couldn't help but fluctuate a little.

In just half a month, this ancestral hall is like a new building, and there is no trace of its previous dilapidated temple, and such a lot of trouble is only because of ......

"Didn't you say you're hungry?" Xiao Huang's headless words stopped a "devil's claw" stretching out to the wall painting in time.

Xiaoxiang rubbed her stomach, her mouth deflated, and said, "It's okay if Miss doesn't mention it, but if she mentions it, she will be even more hungry." ”

Hungry and still have such energy?!

Xiao Huang said helplessly: "Why don't you rest and eat something for a while." ”

This morning, she got up and bathed, shampooed her hair and burned incense, and before breakfast opened, she wore a plain crown dress and long hair that was half wet and not dry, and waited in the ancestral hall for the beginning of the ceremony.

Thinking about it now, several hours have passed, and Xiaoxiang has been accompanying her every step of the way, and it is not easy to stay up until now to cry out that she is hungry.

"These ......" Xiaoxiang pointed to the tribute fruit dim sum in front of the case, and asked uncertainly, "Can you eat it?" ”

Xiao Huang replied seriously: "As long as you have a way not to let your father and mother see it." ”

"Okay." Xiaoxiang said happily: "Miss is the best." ”

Before the laughter fell, a piece of pastry was left with a notch.

"Slow down, be careful of choking."

Xiao Xiang chewed something in her mouth and replied vaguely, "No, no...... Yes. ”

Seeing that she shook her head and ate satisfied, and the hairpin tassel on her head also swayed left and right with her movements, Xiao Huang walked straight to the side, his eyes just staring at the corner of the stone statue and scattered.

Originally, her mother also prepared a set of crown clothes for Xiaoxiang, but after getting up early, she refused to put it on anything, but just smiled and relied on her mother to give her a bun.

Xiao Huang didn't understand that Xiaoxiang did this just to give her a complete birthday gift, and her mother also understood, so she agreed to Xiaoxiang's "backsliding".

“…… Came in a hurry, didn't send a post, don't be surprised by my sister? ”

"You're welcome, Sister He can come, my sister is welcome......"

Hearing the intermittent sound of conversation outside the ancestral hall, Xiao Huang raised his feet and walked out, Xiao Xiang saw this, quickly wiped his mouth and followed.

In the courtyard, "Xiao Er has seen Mrs. Chai. ”

Holding up the person who saluted him with both hands, He said with a smile, "I haven't seen you for half a year, Xiao'er has grown a lot taller, and she has become more beautiful." ”

Xiao Huang smiled lightly and replied: "Xiao Er is at a changing age, but Mrs. Chai has not changed at all. ”

"Really? That...... Xiao Er said that this will not change, is it good or bad? He smiled and said, "I look at it every day, but I can't notice anything." ”

"It's good or bad, it's all on the face of Madame, why do you need Xiao Er to talk too much?"

Hearing this, the smile on He's face became brighter and brighter, "No wonder Liyu said, Xiao Er, this child, has a seven-trick exquisite heart, and I can be regarded as seeing it today." ”

Rites? What an unfamiliar name, Xiao Huang glanced slightly.

"Big brother's words have been exaggerated, where can Xiao'er afford it?" Lian Huaying said humbly: "Sister He has to talk about the eldest brother when she goes back." ”

The latter's smile froze, and then he reacted to something, took her hand, and said with a smile: "What my sister said is that I only mentioned it yesterday when I was ......."

Seeing that the two were talking happily, Xiao Huang walked behind silently with great interest, and said in his heart that "Liyao" turned out to be the small character of Chai Zige.

It's better to dare to be someone she doesn't know, and it's not a good thing to be always remembered by a smiling fox.

However, the words that He can call Uncle Chai so unabashedly outside are more enviable than ordinary couples who respect each other.

"Ma'am, is the hour coming?"

After hearing the voice, Lian Huaying turned around and saw Jimo Liyun wearing an official uniform, walking into the courtyard in a hurry, she nodded with a smile, "The husband came at the right time." ”

After the words fell, she turned to He Shi again and said, "I'm tired of my sister." ”

He pretended to be dissatisfied and patted her hand, "Even my sister is so polite, but she treats me as an outsider?" ”

"What did Sister He say? My sister won't welcome outsiders into this ancestral hall. As she spoke, Lian Huaying secretly held the fingertips of the person beside her who was hanging aside.

Jimo Liyun returned with tenderness, and also clenched the little hand that wrapped him.

Seeing the small movements between the husband and wife, He suddenly remembered that when Chai Zige asked her to arrange someone to come to the General's Mansion to clean up the dust, he also specially instructed that there was an ancestral hall in the courtyard here, no matter how rotten and old, don't let people go in to clean it up, although it is good to ignore it.

She still felt strange at the time, but her husband, who had always answered her questions, only muttered "That is the regret in Li Yun's heart, and it is also his eternal pain", and then kept silent and went to the study.

……

After glancing at the Buddha statue reshaped by the golden body in the main hall, He said thoughtfully: "Even my sister can rest assured that she will hand it over to me." ”

After that, she took the initiative to walk to the front of the hall and led Xiao Huang to kneel on the seat in front of the corridor.

Seeing this, Lian Huaying motioned to Mama Lian and Xiaoxiang, who were holding the tray, to step forward, and then she took Jimo Li Yunli to the east side of the hall.

The ritual process of the ritual is too complicated, but at the request of her daughter, the general and his wife have been streamlined a lot, and Xiao Huang has also been familiar with the part of the ritual in advance, so she can be regarded as practicing it at the moment.

On the other hand, He is calm and dignified, the subtleties are smooth, and the response is even more handy, appropriate, after the recitation of the congratulations, she is about to clean her hands to help Xiao Huang comb her hair.

"I'll do it."

The ceremony was suddenly interrupted, and several people looked at the east side of the ancestral hall for some reason.

"Ma'am?"

Reflecting what she had done, Lian Huaying couldn't help but be a little anxious, "That...... I ......"

Seeing that his expression was wrong, He hesitated for a moment, but still said, "Okay, let Sister Lian come." ”

Before the words were finished, Lian Huaying's feet involuntarily took a step forward.

"Mother?"

Seeing Xiao Huang's slightly worried eyes, she suddenly realized that her abnormality was too obvious, and then smiled embarrassedly, and said, "I'm fine, I just want to pull my daughter's hair once." ”

“…… Well. Xiao Huang nodded obediently, and his expression was stunned for a moment.

"Xiao'er always loved to let her mother comb her hair when she was a child, but at that time, the border affairs were very busy, and I couldn't comb it for her a few times."

"I remember one time, after Xiao Er saw her mother combing the hair of a little girl in the village, she became petty and ignored her mother for several days."

As if she remembered something, Lian Huaying suddenly laughed, she stroked Xiao Huang's waist-length hair, inch by inch, combing the hair to the end, and the strength was extremely gentle.

"Actually, Xiao Er didn't know that the little girl's father and mother died in order to protect the clan when the barbarians invaded, and finally left the grandparents and grandchildren to rely on each other, but the girl's grandmother had bad eyes, and she would always tear off her hair when she combed her hair, but the girl endured it every time, without crying or making trouble."

Speaking of this, her hands were inexplicably stunned, "At that time, I was thinking, Xiao Er is still a few years older than her, she should be more sensible, I was still thinking at that time, Xiao Er is still far from the day of marriage, I will have a lot of opportunities to comb her hair and pull her hair in the future......"

Quietly, Xiao Huang listened silently, her eyes drooped, and her hands held the corners of her clothes on both sides, as if she could suppress the trembling that gradually appeared in her heart with a little more force.

“…… I'm sorry. The voice was faint, not loud...... But it can be heard by those behind him.

"No, no!" Lian Huaying said excitedly: "It's my mother's fault, so I should say sorry to Xiao'er...... Xiao'er didn't protect me for my mother. ”

Tears instantly stained her face, and Mo Liyun walked over in two steps, half distressed and half serious: "Madam, what are you doing here?" Do I, who is both a husband and a father, have to say two words of 'I'm sorry' to be more appropriate? ”

"Husband, I ......"

Jimo Liyun interrupted jokingly: "At that time, Xiao'er was still young, so Madame should not talk about her troubles anymore." ”

Seeing her husband's disapproving eyes, Lian Huaying's mind turned around, and she was shocked by her gaffe, she quickly lowered her head to wipe her tears, and when she looked up, she was the generous and decent third princess.

Seeing the surprise of others, she said to Jimo Liyun remedied: "Didn't I see my daughter grow up, I couldn't help but be happy, and I felt it, now that Xiao'er has learned to dress up by herself, I don't have a chance to be a mother." ”

She put the sandalwood comb back on the tray, turned around and said, "Let Sister He smile." ”

"My sister is serious, the official family is rich and affectionate, and my sister can't envy the mother-daughter relationship between you and Xiao Er."

Seeing He shaking his head in a depressed mood, Lian Huaying opened his mouth and was about to say something, when a sentence suddenly sounded outside the door.

"Yo, Sister Qianyao, you said that I was not mistaken, and it was not a funeral, why did my sister-in-law still have red eyes?"