Chapter 15: Strangers
In the past two days, Wei Luo has been busy with the affairs of the hundred birds and the phoenix, and he has no time to accompany me, and he is really bored in the Yeyang Palace, so he encouraged Ni Meng to go out of the palace with me.
Ni Meng was very thoughtful to find two sets of casual clothes, we changed our clothes, brought some silver taels, and then led the wind and swaggered out of the palace gate, I have to say that the token given by Willow is still very useful.
After leaving the palace gate, I rode my horse and ran all the way out of the east city gate with Nimeng. This is the first time I have really appreciated the scenery here, the capital of Longcheng is built on a vast plain, although it is not as majestic as the mountains north of Xiaoshui, but it has a fresh and graceful water, wood and Qinghua.
It hadn't snowed for the first time this winter, the air was dry and cold, and the cold wind was blowing a little pain on my face. After chasing the wind for a while, he lazily stopped, understanding that it was difficult for him to run by himself, and it was not easy to run so far under the weight of me and Nimeng.
Jumping off the horse, leading the wind to stroll on a bleak ancient road, Ni Meng followed behind and asked curiously: "Sister Le, why don't you stay with you these days?" ”
I glanced at her and said, "It's not all because of your brilliant Princess Zhaowen, who is good at calligraphy and painting." The Queen Mother asked me to make a picture of a hundred birds and a phoenix, and I couldn't even write a few words, let alone paint. Willow is trying to figure out ways to do this, and the real works of your princess are really impossible for ordinary people to fake. ”
Ni Meng tilted her head and raised her hand to smooth the long hair on her chest, "What's so difficult about this?" Just let the princess draw a picture! ”
I stopped, patted myself on the head and said, "yes, why am I so stupid!" Anyway, there is still a month to go, as long as Princess Zhaowen is sent to the palace after the painting, isn't it okay! "But after thinking about it, Princess Zhaowen has already eloped with Tang Huan! Then he asked, "Do you know where Princess Zhaowen is now?" ”
Ni Meng nodded proudly, "The princess has already told me that if there is anything, you can go to Tongshan to find her." ”
They really went to Tongshan, but here to Tongshan back and forth, not to mention it takes half a month, and then counting the time for painting is really a bit rushed, "You don't know how to ride a horse, it seems that I have to run in person." Let's go, let's go back and pack our things first. ”
As soon as I finished speaking, three men with big shoulders and round waists and long knives suddenly appeared on both sides of the road.
"Good luck today! Even if you can't rob the silver, you can rob two little beauties back, hahahaha! A man with a beard in the lead looked up triumphantly. Because the smile was so exaggerated, I could even clearly see the uvula in his throat.
When people are nervous, they will really lose their standards, I carried a body of poison, and I was actually frightened by a few robbers. I didn't think about pulling Ni Meng and ran, I didn't have to take two steps, and the mud Meng figure behind me was stunned, and the robber leader had already held her arm tightly. I didn't feel good, so I turned around and kicked over, pulled back the mud and wanted to fly far away with light power, but I just felt a pain on the top of my head as soon as I took off, and I fell down......
When I looked up, it turned out that I had hit a branch, alas!
Ni Meng was so frightened that she hid behind me and whispered: "What should I do, what should I do now?" ”
I patted her wrist with my hand behind my back to signal her reassurance, and then pulled out a silver needle from my sleeve that was coated with boiling blood. The trick that Tang Huan taught me earlier was still very useful, I took a few steps back, and when the three of them came together, I raised my hand and threw out three silver needles, which were nailed to their bodies. The three fell to the ground one after another, howling like pigs.
Ni Meng looked at me with a look of adoration, "Sister Le, you are really amazing, can you teach me in the future?" ”
I nodded very proudly, and when I was about to return to the palace, there was a sound of slapping behind me.
"I was a little suspicious before, but now it seems that you are indeed a tassel." A man dressed in a lilac robe and wearing a silver mask in the shape of a half-winged wing came out from behind the tree, and it was none other than the Assassin he had seen a few days earlier, Xiao Ran.
"It's you! Why are you still in Long City? My grip on the reins loosened and froze in place.
Ni Meng bent down and pulled up the reins and said, "I'll lead the chasing wind to the intersection and wait for you." ”
Xiao Ran threw the three robbers into a dirt pit on the side of the road, and then led me to a secluded place and talked about the previous incident. But these have nothing to do with me, they are just stories about tassels.
Tassel was the first master of poison in Lou Guo Ji'an Hall, she was ordered by her mother to go to Xiao State to poison Xiao Wang Li Shao, on the way to meet Wei Luo, who was only the son of King Yi at the time, Wei Luo successfully got rid of King Xiao with the help of the tassel, and with the help of the Xiahou family, he successfully occupied the city of Xing. The matter of defeating Xiao Guo made Yiwang Longyan happy, and not only rewarded Wei Luo, but also named him the prince. And when King Xiao was dying, Tassel knew that she was King Xiao's daughter, and she was even poisoned by Wei Luo when she was desperate.
But this is just Xiao Ran's imagination, what happened after he fell off the cliff that day, I'm afraid only Willow and Tassel know. Thinking of what Willow is doing to me now, I don't think he killed Tassel, something unexpected must have happened at that time.
"Tassel, it's too dangerous for you to stay here now, is it okay to go back to Lou Country with me? Villo is good to you now, but he thinks that you have something to do with the Lou royal family, he just wants to use you, don't be deceived by him anymore! What a ruthless person he is, look at my face, and the wounds on this body......" Xiao Ran took off his silver mask, revealing a terrifying face. He was sunken from his brow bone to his nose, and the light-colored imprint of the scab had fallen off covered half of his face. I felt a pang in my heart, took two steps back, and put my hand on the trunk of the tree beside me. He then ripped open his shirt, revealing the entire left side of his chest, two shocking scars on his heart.
I snorted for a while, only to feel that my throat and eyes were dry, and said in a tight voice: "I can't go with you, if I leave here, Wei Luo will definitely attack Lou Kingdom, and then the entire eastern corner of the land will be the territory of Yiguo, where else can we go?" ”
Xiao Ran put on a mask and straightened out his clothes, and came over to take my hand, "You believe me, sooner or later, this world will belong to Lou Guo, and it won't be long before Wei Luo is proud." ”
I broke free of his hand and chuckled, "Lou Guo? Do you expect King Lou, who is more than half a hundred years old, to lead his troops south to conquer Wei Luo, or is it that Lou Shizi Muxian, who only knows how to indulge in women, suddenly becomes civil and martial overnight? ”
Don't say that I'm not a tassel, even if I'm a tassel, I can't go back to Lou with him, I want to keep the peace of Lou, and I want to keep Princess Zhaowen and Tang Huan. I am just an ordinary person who has no past, and I am so honored to be able to save all people.
Xiao Ran looked like he wanted to speak and stopped, and only after a long time did he say: "You used to trust me the most, and you will believe everything I say, but now you can't remember the past, so you don't believe me anymore, right?" ”
I felt that it was useless to talk to him more, so I simply turned my back and walked towards the place where Ni Meng was waiting for me, only leaving him with a cold sentence: "Now I am no longer the tassel I used to be, you are just a stranger to me, and you will be fine in the future, and you will be indefinite!" ”