His little movement did not hide from the eyes of some people, Pei Yuanhao looked at him and said softly: "Mr. Fu, what's wrong?" ”

"It's as if I heard a woman's voice."

"......" Pei Yuanhao didn't speak, he looked at him with burning eyes, my heart tightened all of a sudden, and I saw Fu Badai tilt his ears towards us again, and said, "Why is there a princess besides the prince?" ”

Pei Yuanhao frowned again, as if gritting his teeth, and said, "No." She's not the only woman here. ”

"Oh?"

Seeing that his face sank, Liu Li, who had been sitting silently next to him, stood up at this time and bowed slightly towards Fu Badai: "Mr. Fu, meet the junior Liu Li." ”

Fu Badai raised his eyebrows, as if he remembered something, and immediately smiled: "It must be the daughter of the old man." ”

"This time the worship post is the presumptuous of the younger generation, and I hope Mr. Fu will not be blamed."

"Where, the mother is polite."

After the two of them finished greetings, Pei Yuanhao's somewhat cold gaze finally fell on me, I bit my lower lip, stood up, and looked at Fu Badai on the opposite side with a deep look: "Mr. Fu, meet Yue Qingying in Jixian Palace." ”

Fu Badai's white eyebrows twitched: "Yue ...... Green...... Baby......? ”

My heart was also pounding, and I felt that Pei Yuanhao's gaze was almost about to see through my body, but his face still did not change, and he maintained a saluting posture and looked down at his toes.

"Yue Qingying?"

Fu Badai read it again, as if pondering these three words, those dark gray eyes revealed a little smile, and under Pei Yuanhao's gaze, he smiled and said, "It's rare that there are still women in Jixian Palace." Lord Yue, you will be troubled by old decay in the future. ”

"Don't dare."

I said respectfully, and then led Xiao Nianshen out from behind the desk, and walked in front of Fu Badai, although Nianshen was still a little confused about what had just happened, but he quickly stepped forward, dusted off his robe, and bowed respectfully to Fu Badai: "Student Pei Nianshen, meet the teacher." ”

What he did was the ancient rite that I specially handed over to his Xichuan apprentice, Fu Badai didn't see it, only nodded lightly, but Liu San'er walked over, held his arm and said a word softly, Fu Badai was slightly shocked, dressed solemnly, and when Nian Shen's ceremony was finished, he leaned down, groped and supported Nian Shen's thin arm, and said: "This one is His Royal Highness the Great Prince." ”

"Back to the teacher's words, yes."

"Today, you and I have a friendship between master and apprentice, and we have our own future. There is nothing else to be a teacher, there is a small gift for you. ”

As soon as he heard that there was a gift, Nian Shen was a spirit, and immediately looked at the old gentleman happily, Fu Badai seemed to be able to feel the child's expectant eyes, smiled slightly, and said to Liu San'er beside him: "Qinghan, you can take it out." ”

"Yes......"

He nodded, his right hand reaching into his left sleeve.

Now I am only a stone's throw away from him, and I can even distinguish his every breath from the sound of the water gurgling in the spring, and from the pounding of my own heartbeat.

I don't know if it's my delusion, his breathing, like my heartbeat, is chaotic.

He walked in front of us, and Nian Shen immediately leaned over him: "Meet Senior Brother Qinghan." ”

Liu San'er kept his head down and walked in front of us, a few strands of hair scattered, half-covering his eyes, but revealing red ears, but his voice was still very calm: "Senior brother, this gift is carefully prepared for you by the master, and I hope you can appreciate the master's good intentions." ”

I don't have the heart to see what gift I have prepared, he is in front of my eyes, although his voice, his expression is so calm, but I can clearly see that the pair of low-hanging eyes are all broken and trembling light, at this moment, I can only pinch myself hard, if it doesn't hurt a little, let yourself sober a little, I don't know what I will do.

Am I going to hold him hard? More hard than in that freezing rain, when you lost him?

But just as I was losing my mind, I heard a sudden riot around me.

"Be careful!"

"Assassins, there are assassins!"

"Liu Qinghan is an assassin!"

I was startled by the guards who suddenly rushed up around me, and when I looked closely, I saw Liu San'er holding a dagger in his hand!

At this time, I was also stunned.

Fu Badai is a Confucian who Pei Yuanhao has worked hard to invite into Beijing, and the emperor is so courteous, so the guards are not so strict with him and Liu San'er, and they didn't go through a body search, probably just checked their luggage and let them in, but they didn't expect that Liu San'er actually had a dagger on his body!

I opened my eyes slightly wide and looked up at him.

He also looked at me, and by this time the guards had all rushed in, drawing their swords and pointing at him, and the atmosphere became tense for a moment.

But he was still as calm as ever, but there were many things in his eyes that looked at me.

At this moment, Pei Yuanhao behind him stood up and waved his hand lightly: "Stand down!" ”

When the guards heard the emperor's order, they could only retreat, but they still looked at him vigilantly.

Pei Yuanhao said in a deep voice: "What does this mean? ”

Fu Badai, who was on the side, slowly stood up on the table, and said to Pei Yuanhao with a smile: "Your Majesty, this is the meeting gift that the old man wants to give to the eldest prince." ”

"A dagger?"

"Not bad."

Pei Yuanhao's eyebrows furrowed slightly, and at this time, Liu San'er held the dagger in his hand, slowly stepped forward, and said: "The emperor forgives the sin, this dagger is not an ordinary dagger, but is made of iron ore from Taihe, Xichang." ”

When Pei Yuanhao heard this, his face immediately became subtle.

Iron ore, this is a very delicate topic in the Celestial Empire, in fact, the royal family from the north into the customs, in addition to the resistance of the entire Central Plains has just begun, it has not always been so peaceful, there are still many people around the old dynasty, all the time do not want to overthrow the rule of the royal family, so at the beginning of the country, the imperial court issued a strict order, all iron ore nationalized, prohibiting private mining.

Iron ore is a necessary material for casting weapons, and all iron ore is nationalized, and civilian weapons cannot be manufactured in large quantities, which fundamentally eliminates the possibility of people violently confronting the imperial court.

But Nishikawa, still, is an exception.

It is precisely because the imperial army's army did not enter Xichuan at the beginning that Xichuan became a special independent region of the Celestial Empire, where the iron ore was not owned by the state, but by the large and small Tusi, as well as the large families who had the ability to mine, that is-

I looked down at the dagger, which shimmered with cold light.

The reason why the Yan family was able to provide armaments more than ten years ago and support the rebellion of the big and small toasts was because there were several huge iron mines in Xichuan that could forge weapons on their own.

And now, Fu Badai gave Pei Nianshen the dagger made of Xichang Taihe iron ore......

Pei Yuanhao also kept looking at the dagger, and was silent for a long time, until the atmosphere in the entire hall became a little strange, and those guards stared at Liu San'er more and more nervously, and then he suddenly hooked the corners of his lips and said to Nian Shen: "Thank you for your teacher." ”

When Nian Shen heard this, he hurriedly took the dagger with both hands, and said respectfully: "Thank you, teacher, thank you, brother." ”

At this time, Liu San'er said softly: "Your Highness, don't be afraid, although the knife is from Xichuan, but now the handle of the knife is in your hand." ”

……

It wasn't until this time that those guards finally breathed a sigh of relief, but Fu Badai, although he couldn't see anything, he had been sitting there with a faint smile, as if he had all this qiē in his eyes, and Gonggong Yu stood behind him, also in a cold sweat, waved his hand around, and those guards withdrew their troops and retreated.

I led Nian Shen and was about to turn around and walk back, when I heard Pei Yuanhao's voice and suddenly remembered: "Aren't you going to meet Mr. Qinghan?" ”

“……”

My footsteps stopped suddenly, and I turned my head a little stiffly, and saw that his face was looking at me coldly, and Liu San'er behind me was also breathing for a while, but neither I nor him said anything, I let go of Nian Shen's hand, slowly turned around, and leaned over towards him: "Mr. Qinghan." ”

“…… Lord Yue. ”

That was Liu Qinghan's first words to me.

It's not that I didn't think that he and I could see each other again; I've wondered countless times what it would be like for me to see him again. However, no matter how much I guessed, I never guessed correctly, it would be like this......

He is Mr. Qinghan; And I'm Lord Yue......

Between me and him, in addition to these years, there are also a lot of things, just like the door in front of me, obviously just push it open, but after I really have to push it open, what will I face?

I stood in front of the door and realized for the first time that I was so powerless.

That night, the holy driver did not return to the palace immediately, but would live in this hotel, and I took Nian Shen into the east chamber with the emperor, while Fu Badai and Liu Qinghan lived in the west chamber.

It's just—it's just a stone's throw away.

Since I returned to the room after the break, my heart has not been calm, the violent beating seems to boil the blood of the whole body, the flow of blood in the body seems to set off an overwhelming wave, breathing and heartbeat, is an uncontrollable roar. And in the midst of the whistling there was a voice, with an incomparably sweet temptation, that kept ringing in my ears—

"He's right next to you, just a few walls."

……

"As long as you push open this door and walk through the front corridor, you can see him and hear his voice."

……

"Do you want to see him?"

……

I really want to see him.

The hand had been raised, but it could touch the cold latch, but the ear was ghostly reminded of Chang Qing's voice-

You want to get out of the palace, and everyone knows that you want to get out of the palace......

I want to see him, and there is someone who knows that I want to see him.

As soon as I thought of this, my hand froze, but I couldn't take it back, I could only grasp the latch hard, trembling almost spasmodically, and my knuckles were white, as if all these years, no matter how difficult and dangerous, I finally wanted to leave this imperial city and find my own life.

But - really, not yet.

I don't know how long it took for me to finally calm down, I gently lowered my hand and turned away with a depressed heart.

Just as I was turning, there was a thud behind my back, and the door was pushed open.

I was taken aback for a moment, and looked back in amazement, only to see Pei Yuanhao standing coldly at the door, his dark eyes seemed to be burning with flames, looking at me burning.

For a moment, I froze.

He pushed the door open, as if he was a little surprised to see me standing in the doorway, but the next moment, his face sank.

"What, you want to go to the West Chamber?"