Zhao Lening fainted from crying.

When she woke up, her father and mother were standing next to her, and they looked at her with sad faces.

Zhao Lening's voice was hoarse: "Daddy...... Ann Ann ......"

"Le Ning, go and send off your brother."

She silently closed her eyes, pulled the quilt high to cover her face, and suppressed cries came from under the quilt.

Zhao Lening's mind has lived her daily life with An An over and over again in the past few years, and the more she thinks about it, the more she can't help it.

Mrs. Zhao sat on the edge of the bed and gently patted her shoulder: "Tang Tang, Zhao Jue has been exiled." ”

Zhao Tangtang lifted the quilt and threw herself into Mrs. Zhao's arms, crying silently.

"How can exile be enough, An An is so small, he is so small."

Huaixing stood at the door and listened to Zhao Lening's cry, and suddenly remembered Zhao Le'an's soft and glutinous voice in his ears.

"Brother Xingxing, this is delicious, you can eat it."

"Brother Xingxing, come and fly a kite with me."

"My sister likes my brother, An An also likes my brother, and my brother will protect my sister and An An."

"An An has grown up, and she has to protect her brothers and sisters."

Huaixing looked up at the sky and seemed to see Zhao Le'an's smiling face full of innocence, as if to say, I don't blame you, take care of my sister.

At this moment, Huaixing really felt Zhao Le'an's departure.

He has seen countless people come and go in the past ten years, but he has never felt so sad, even when he saw his mother and aunt leave, he was not as sad as now.

With Zhao Lening's cry in his ears and Zhao Le'an's innocent and immature face in front of him, Huaixing felt as if he had done something wrong for the first time in his life.

But he has come all the way, and there is no turning back.

"How is just exile enough? Doesn't the prince have to pay for his life if he kills someone? ”

Zhao Lening's questioning voice was full of anger, and Huaixing couldn't help but clench his fists.

Indeed, exile is not enough.

He clenched the sword in his hand that Zhao Jinglan had beaten for himself, the sword spike of the sword was the peace buckle that Zhao Lening and Zhao Le'an had woven for himself together, and he recalled the scene where Zhao Le'an secretly hung the peace buckle on his long sword under Zhao Lening's instructions.

In the past, he always liked to hug his thighs, and his round eyes stared at him like this, begging him to play a sword on him in a milky voice.

Huaixing reached out to catch Zhao Le'an, who was about to fall, but his hand was empty.

His eyes stared at the peace buckle for a long time, and finally moved his mouth: "I'm sorry." ”

Zhao Lening fainted and woke up, and finally forced herself to go to the mourning hall to send Zhao Le'an on her last journey, looking at the little Zhao Le'an in the coffin, she couldn't hold on anymore and pounced.

She took Zhao Le'an's cold hand, and tears remained.

"An An, you can open your eyes again and see if your sister is okay."

Zhao Le'an is the most well-behaved and sensible on weekdays, when he had an accident, there was no one in the whole house who was not really sad for him, everyone listened to Zhao Lening's crying, and also wiped their tears.

Mrs. Zhao leaned on Zhao Jinglan's arms and cried her liver and intestines.

It was dark, and in a moment it began to rain heavily.

Seeing his younger brother's coffin sealed and carried out, Zhao Lening took the umbrella in the maid's hand and propped it on the coffin, muttering: "An An doesn't like rainy days the most." ”

On a rainy day, An'an can't go out to play.

"Don't be afraid, my sister is here."

When the coffin was put into the soil, Zhao Lening broke free and jumped into the dirt pit with the maid who was pulling her and hugged the small coffin.

"Tang Tang, come back quickly."

"Daddy, An An is most afraid of the dark, can you not bury him in the ground?"

This is a rule left by the ancestors, and no one can break it.

Zhao Lening refused to let go, Zhao Jinglan really couldn't bear to knock her out and hold her in his arms.

The upper and lower palaces of Anding were shrouded in mist.

Zhao Lening didn't wake up until night, her heart was empty, her sad eyes were swollen when she hugged the quilt and cried, and she suddenly heard familiar footsteps outside.

Zhao Lening didn't care about putting on her shoes and ran out of bed directly, she opened the door, and when she saw Huaixing standing in the rain, she burst into tears.

"Where have you been, why are you only coming back now?"

She was about to rush into the rain when Huaixing suddenly took a step back.

He knelt down on one knee: "Tangtang, I have avenged An An." ”

"What did you say?"

Only then did Zhao Lening realize that the color of the rain on the ground was very wrong, it was that dark red, and there was a smell of blood wafting in the air.

The blood was washed down from Huaixing's body.

Her pupils shrank suddenly, and Huaixing looked at her: "I killed Zhao Jue, and I will pay for my life." ”

Zhao Lening didn't say anything, just looked at him quietly.

At that moment, Huaixing was thinking, if she wanted to hand herself over, it would be okay, so be it.

But his heart sank little by little as time passed.

He lowered his head, hiding the disappointment and sadness in his expression.

The next second, the sound of someone treading water sounded in his ears, and he looked over, Zhao Lening ran into the rain barefoot.

Huaixing immediately got up and caught her accurately.

"I'm dirty."

"Huaixing, don't leave me."

Huaixing reached out and hugged her tightly, placing his chin on her shoulder, as if two helpless people had found solace in their hearts.

At this moment, the guilt in Huaixing's heart reached its peak.

The next day, the news of Zhao Jue's death was transmitted back to the palace, and Zhao Jinglan was summoned by the palace early in the morning, and it was not only Zhao Jinglan who was summoned, but also Xue Shangshu, who had lost his beloved son before.

Zhao Jinglan's face was solemn when he came back in the afternoon, Zhao Lening took Huaixing to the front hall after his father came back, and when he went, he heard Zhao Jinglan tell his wife.

"Zhao Jue is dead, it is the killer called by Xue Shangshu, and all the Xue Shangshu family has been imprisoned."

"The people sent by His Majesty have found evidence of the conspiracy between His Royal Highness and Xue Shangshu in Xue Shangshu's mansion, and His Royal Highness is now also imprisoned in the palace."

Zhao Lening, who was listening outside, looked at Huaixing, she was a little suspicious but had no evidence.

Huaixing knew what she was thinking, he paused, and said, "It's not me." ”

"I believe in you."

Just like that incident, as long as he said it, she believed it.

"When I found Zhao Jue, there were still people, I wanted to kill Zhao Jue and avenge An An with my own hands, I thought those people were sent to protect Zhao Jue, so I ended it together."

It is indeed something that Huaixing can do, he has been practicing martial arts with Zhao Jinglan all these years, and his skills are no longer something that ordinary practitioners can resist.

He said part of it, and he didn't say the rest.

He actually went to Shangshu Mansion before leaving, stole Xue Ziyun's portable jade pendant and threw it next to Zhao Jue's corpse, not only that, he had already forged the letter of the conspiracy between His Royal Highness and Xue Shangshu.

Originally, I wanted to rely on Zhao Jue's Chinese medicine bullying Zhao Lening to kill two birds with one stone.

But he didn't expect to stumble into it by mistake, and it actually returned to the way he planned at the beginning.