At the small gate of Chonghua Palace, the palace people who hastily thanked Rong Concubine lightly walked towards the Heart Cultivation Palace, while pulling down the silk cloth covering their mouth and nose.

The cold wind of early spring was like a thin blade, blowing inch by inch across her cheeks, and she clenched her hands tightly, not daring to stop for a moment. The trees around her were already budding, and the green the size of her fingertips was lovely, but she had no intention of looking at it.

Two days ago, she was supposed to go to find the new emperor at the behest of Concubine Jin, but she didn't want to leave the palace, so she was sent to Cining Palace by several guards.

The first time she saw the henchman beside the Queen Mother, she knew that something was wrong.

But the Queen Mother obviously didn't intend to bypass her easily, and she was taken to a remote and lonely pond. She glanced at it, and the pool was full of algae, bottomless, like a monster with a bloody mouth, holding saliva and waiting for the palace people who twisted her to bring the delicacies into their mouths.

Qing Luo was only a teenager, and his eyes were already full of fear at this time.

The palace man behind her buckled a pair of iron bracelets on her wrists, the two bracelets were connected by thin iron chains, only a small circle larger than her wrists, and in the middle of the chains, with thicker iron chains, fell a boulder that could barely be embraced.

She panicked, and the palace people behind her pushed her violently, and someone worked together to roll the boulder into the water.

The weather is still slightly cool in early spring, let alone in the water. Cool water poured in from all directions, burrowed into her mouth and nose, and the stones carried her to the bottom of the pond.

She twitched her fingertips and hooked on a patch of algae. Cold water covered her ears, and she vaguely heard something said by the people above her, and walked away.

The panic numbed most of her body, and she looked up with her eyes open, her eyes scarlet from the water.

She didn't know where she got the courage - perhaps the master was too kind to attract the palace people to be willing to be loyal to her - Qingluo didn't care to break free her hand from the iron bracelet, she resisted the stone, and the sharp pain in her hand.

But the iron bracelet was around her wrist, and there was no key from the guard, so there was no room to pull it out, not to mention, the more panicked she became.

The feeling of suffocation came up overwhelmingly, and Qingluo's lips and teeth loosened, and he spit out a few bubbles.

She froze for a moment, then let herself sink down, and lowered her head close to her hand, but she actually bit off the flesh and skin of her hand. The blood spilled beneath the deep pool and quickly dissipated.

She forced her hand out of the small iron bracelet, and the wound was deep to the bone. When she held back her last strength and climbed to the shore, she lost consciousness.

When she woke up again, she was already hidden in the most unlikely place for the Queen Mother to find - Chonghua Palace, after all, the disease was rampant here, and no one was willing to set foot here.

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In the majestic imperial city, there is more than one person rushing to the Heart Cultivation Hall for Ruan Yuyi.

Ruan Hao Xin originally came with his bare hands, and when he broke into the palace all the way, he grabbed a long sword. Even now, he is in control, only lightly injuring the roadblocker, or intimidating one or two.

An ordinary long sword, played with ease under his hands, scared off a group of guards.

Guards are not dead soldiers, as long as they are concerned, they will inevitably cherish their lives. But the imperial city was heavily guarded, so naturally it was impossible to let him in like this, so the more he broke in, the more guards chased after him.

In the end, a group of black pressure was suppressed, and all the palace maids who passed by dodged and screamed.

Ruan Haoxin casually caught a palace maid and asked for directions.

The little maid didn't know what was going on, she was startled by the mask on his face, and said tremblingly, and the basin of water in her hand fell to the ground.

He kindly picked it up for her and stuffed it into her arms.

"Thank you, thank you." The little maid said. But the man had already run away.

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The strange thing is that when he approached the Heart Cultivation Palace, the guards behind him ran away. He knew that something was wrong, but he didn't care about it, and took a few steps up the long platform.

There was no one guarding the temple in front of him, and he slammed open the door of the temple, and what greeted him was a long sword, shining with the cold light of the forest, and only a superior sword soaked in real blood could have this luster.

This is the only sharp weapon allowed to be placed in the main hall, and it has accompanied the new emperor who is still a prince on his march to kill the enemy.

And the person holding the sword, with a pair of indifferent peach blossom eyes, if the nose is shaved into, if the lips are greased, and the side of the nose casts a thick shadow, it is a bluffing noble man's face. But Ruan Haoxin knows very well that this person's methods are ruthless.

Jiang Huaiyang seemed to be at ease with the situation in front of him, so he put down his long sword, stared at the mask he had been wearing with interest, and suddenly sneered, "I haven't been here for a long time.

"You're not dressed in a strange way." It's just that I don't know if he also has a three-point tattoo on his body like the previous assassins.

Ruan Haoxin gritted his teeth, slowed down, let go of his hand, and landed with the long sword that he held all the way, making a crisp sound.

Jiang Huaiyang subconsciously raised his eyebrows and quietly waited for the other party's next move.

His fingertips moved to the back of his head, and with a pull, a pick, he untied the string. He slowly took off his mask and knelt on the ground and saluted, "Your Majesty Jin'an." ”

He said "Long live" in his mouth, but under the surface of deference, he actually hated to pull the placket of the new emperor's clothes and question!

Ask him why he got entangled with his sister.

Asking him why he brought people to his side, but he didn't treat them well, made his sister cry.

That was the sister of his in-law who was too late to protect him, and if it weren't for Yi'er and A-Niang, he wouldn't have thought of joining the army.

Ruan Haoxin knelt against the light, Rao was like this, his face also fell clearly into Jiang Huaiyang's eyes, his lips were outward, his eyebrows were like ink paintings, especially the pair of amorous eyes under the eyebrows, which was the same as Ruan Yuyi.

This is a face that has been his nightmare countless times, but in the endless long dream, it gradually blurred.

He breathed slightly, and his lips opened and closed several times before he could find his voice, "...... Yu Huai? ”

A long-sealed name, involving the past that he deliberately forgot. At that time, I saw Ruan Haoxin, who was still a pawn in the barracks, holding a longbow in his hand and flying behind him on the training ground.

When he said goodbye, he was already a junior general. Jiang Huaiyang fell in love with the ruthlessness on his body and promoted him with his own hands. Vice Admiral Yuan really did not live up to his expectations, a sword and a bow made him more and more perfect in his hands.

Ruan Haoxin is a gentle person, and the subordinates under him can joke about it. The only time Jiang Huaiyang saw him get angry was when two soldiers with good deeds snatched the gold-inlaid jade wrench finger from his hand and threw it at each other.

It was just teasing, and he didn't want him to be red-eyed, so he scolded the two soldiers sharply. The two of them were startled, and no one dared to say anything.

Later, the Khitan frequently harassed the people in the border areas, and they led their troops westward, but they were surrounded and intercepted by a group of people. Because he and Jiang Huaiyang's soldiers divided into two roads, they each led their troops to meet at the front.

I don't know what kind of hardships he encountered on the road, so he would take the jade wrench finger against the chief.

Everything in the past has been hooked out inch by inch, affecting every inch of the meridians on Jiang Huaiyang's body, as if a net has been rolled down, and the overwhelming feeling of suffocation is overwhelming.

He remembered that Yuan Yuhuai had actually shown him a small statue of his sister, but he just glanced at it casually at the time and didn't take it to heart.

(End of chapter)