Xia Jingyan was still leaning on the bamboo boat, looking forward to Zhou Ranmiao's return, looking forward to falling asleep, Zhou Ranmiao didn't wait to come back, but ushered in an uninvited guest.

Xia Jingyan heard the sound of treading water outside, but he still sat firmly in the boat and remained silent.

The black figure cut through the silence and slashed towards Xia Jingyan's neck with a sharp blade in his hand.

Xia Jingyan opened her eyes lazily, slapped the hilt of the sword in her hand, the sword was out of the sheath, and pushed the boat pulp to the feet of the man in black, the man in black stepped on the pulp, slipped and fell to the ground, and before she could get up again, Xia Jingyan's long sword was already on her neck, and after doing all this, Xia Jingyan sat up slowly and looked at the man in black condescendingly.

"Aren't you all lost in martial arts!" The man on the ground roared.

Xia Jingyan removed the sword from her neck, leaned back and lay down leisurely.

"What can be lost is skill, not vigilance." Xia Jingyan put the sword at his side, without fear, "Nanxiang, don't say that I am serving the void, I am just dying, I only have one breath left, and killing you is as simple as crushing an ant." ”

Nan Xiang laughed out loud and ripped off the useless mask, "The grandmaster is worthy of being the grandmaster, and the concubine is ashamed." ”

"Dye Hao is no longer the emperor, and I am no longer the queen, you don't have to call yourself a concubine anymore."

Xia Jingyan closed his eyes and was lazy to talk nonsense with Nanxiang again, but unfortunately Nanxiang "didn't know what to do".

"Queen Mother, these things are not up to you."

Xia Jingyan's cold gaze returned to Nan Xiang, the person staring at her had a chill down her spine, she picked up the sword again, and approached Nan Xiang, the tip of the sword coldly slashed across Nan Xiang's cheek, and the bright red blood also slipped through it.

"Nanxiang, you framed Yun Wan so much, I haven't settled accounts with you yet, I advise you not to ask for hardship, leaving the palace is not a monk, my sword will eat people."

And Nan Xiang was not afraid, smiling like a ghost, "What's more, not only Zhou Yunwan, but also Princess Chuyi's death is related to me......"

Xia Jingyan was taken aback, and the hand holding the sword suddenly tightened, "What do you mean?!" ”

"Didn't you make it clear? Your daughter, Zhou Chuyi! Death by my hands! "Nanxiang is clear in every word, and every word digs people's hearts.

Xia Jingyan trembled and bit his lip, "You're tired of living, aren't you!" ”

"I'm tired of being alive for a long time!" Nan Xiang's roar was even worse than Xia Jingyan's, "I've been tired of being alive since Zhou Ranmao killed my father!" ”

"Don't you know better than everyone what the situation was in the first place! Your father and wolf are ambitious, and even one of your daughters will not mistakenly send you to follow him! Do you want him to put his own life at risk? Tell me why! Dye Mao is soft-hearted, for the sake of you, you are also the one who accompanied him to the battlefield, let your family go, and only send your father into exile, what does your father's death have to do with the mountain bandits! Xia Jingyan stabbed the tip of the sword into Nan Xiang's shoulder, but it was not a fatal injury, but it was not soft-hearted.

How could what Nanxiang identified be changed by Xia Jingyan's few words? Even if the blade is current, people who are not afraid of death will not care about these anymore, she sneered.

"Xia Jingyan, he is the king of Nanjiang! How could he not know which mountain is making trouble with bandits! He's just looking for a high-sounding reason to kill my father! Thanks to the loyalty of three generations of my Han family, my grandfather died in Yihe for his family, and my father worked hard for 30 years. When there was a shortage of soldiers and major generals, our Han family did not betray! Since my mother conceived me, she often said in her mouth, giving birth to a son to fight on the battlefield for the king, giving birth to a daughter for the king's heir, I am a daughter, but as soon as he needs me, I have done it in the war and as a concubine! What about him! ”

"If you want to take revenge, you kill me, my death will make him even more painful, why do you want to move an ignorant child!"

No one let anyone, one is a father, the other is a daughter, and the final result of this "war" is not right or wrong, only life and death.

"Xia Jingyan, I'm not a saint, I don't care who I kill, I just see who can make him sad, the more you kill, the better!"

The wound became deeper and deeper, Nan Xiang gradually lost his breath, and Xia Jingyan's revenge heart was like a fire on the original, which could not be extinguished.

"Xia Jingyan, I knew I couldn't kill you, I didn't want to kill you from the beginning, if I can let you and Zhou Ranmiao kill each other, wouldn't it be more interesting than killing you two?" Nan Xiang couldn't hold back the pain, but he still smiled proudly.

"But I won't, and I won't!" Xia Jingyan almost gritted his teeth and said this.

Nanxiang is still so relaxed, it seems that she is condescending.

"Really?" Nan Xiang suddenly grabbed Xia Jingyan's wrist, "Your little brother really raised you for nothing, it hurts you so much, and you die in a foreign country for nothing!" ”

Xia Jingyan's heart trembled, if Nanxiang was talking about someone else, she would never doubt it, but Xia Jingchen's death was a suspicion that she had not found out so far, even if the little brother told her that it was Chen's death, but at that time, it was clear that only Zhou Ranmao and Shu Yuanyu were there, where was Chen's death?

"What do you mean......" Xia Jingyan's hand holding the sword loosened a little.

It is true that Chen Gu deceived Xia Jingchen into the secret room, and it is true that Chen Gu admitted to harming Zhou Guo before he died, but Chen Gu did not admit to killing Xia Jingchen, and the whole process of Xia Jingchen's death, Zhou Ranmiao arrived early, he should have seen it clearly, why was he so surprised when Xia Jingyan said that Chen Gu was the murderer, and Shu Yuan was injured at that time, how could he have the ability to stab the little brother with a sword......

Why...... Who the hell is it......

"You know it in your heart, why don't you dare to admit it!" Every word of Nanxiang is like a murderous blade, even worse than the sword in Xia Jingyan's hand.

"Impossible...... No way! If it's really dyed, why doesn't the little brother say it! Xia Jingyan already had a certain number in his heart, but he didn't want to admit it yet.

"Do you dare to ask him? Ask Zhou Ranmao, how did Xia Jingchen die, do you dare! ”

Nan Xiang used her last bit of strength to roar, and soon, she couldn't hold it anymore, not only because Xia Jingyan pulled out the tip of her sword and let her pierce her heart with a sword, but also because she knew that she had laid the root of the bane, and death was enough!

Nan Xiang fell completely, the blood oozing from the corner of her mouth soaked Xiaozhou, but she smiled, as if she had returned to the heroic appearance when she was a general, I really wanted to go back to that time, at that time, she and Zhou Ranmao had no grudges, she suddenly thought of what she had said.

"I have nowhere to go except by His Majesty's side."

I really want to go back to that time......

Xia Jingyan also collapsed to the ground, and the hope that he had managed to put together seemed to be shattered in an instant.

……

Cuijiazhuang, Xia Jingxuan's people are rectified here, in the middle of the house, there are still candles and voices in the night, and Zhou Ranmao and Xia Jingxuan, who don't know that the catastrophe has been completed, are still talking around a map with candles and candles.

In the end, Zhou Ranmiao pondered for a long time, and finally pointed to the next place next to Jiangling on the map.

"Liuzhou?" Xia Jingxuan raised the candle flame closer.

"Hmm." Zhou Ranhao responded, and stretched out his hand to show Xia Jingxuan the way, "Although Yingdu and Jiangling Liuzhou are far away, it takes 20 days to walk on the big road and run quickly, but I have found a small road built by the people for the convenience of travel, along the river side, until the Yongcheng market, from the market to the west outside the city, along the Baihua Valley to the south, at most five days to Yingdu, if there is a wind and grass, you can hurry back as soon as possible." ”

"Liuzhou is on the Gangneung side, why don't I go to Gangneung directly? What if there are cronies of the imperial brother in the army who inform the imperial brother that I am not going to Gangneung? Xia Jingxuan asked again.

"You don't know, Jiangling and Liuzhou are separated by a hill, there is one on the map, but it is not detailed enough, although the mountain is small, but it is not easy to cross the line, the mountain road is difficult to travel, it is easy to delay, you don't have to worry about Xia Jingsheng knows, when I was in the Xia Wangfu before, I knew that you were a disguiser under your door, and the portrait was extremely human, and asked him to paint you back to the army, let him talk less and do things, and pretend to be sick and rest in the tent, if you don't worry, send two cronies to follow him, not leaving an inch, the most important military order is left in your hands, they can't turn the sky, don't worry."

Xia Jingxuan looked at the map carefully, thought about it for a moment, and then bowed his hand to Zhou Ranmiao, "That's the case, thank you sister-in-law." ”

"Come less, you and Xia Jingsheng are safe and stable, and Yan'er and I can live with peace of mind." Zhou Ranmiao raised his hand and slapped Xia Jingxuan's saluted hand back, and suddenly his expression was a little awkward, but he still said what he should say, "Don't blame Xia Jingsheng, every emperor's dragon chair is splashed with blood, no one can change it, Xia Jingsheng is the regent at the age of fourteen, and he has lived under the pressure of Xia Jingzhi for the first ten years, and he has tried his best to protect you until you are sixteen years old, and you are only seriously in contact with the government, so what you think will really be much less than him, as long as he doesn't harm you, his heart is still there, that's enough, life is not all as he wants, you understand him more." ”

"Do you listen to you speak for the imperial brother, okay, I remember." Xia Jingxuan smiled, "You should go back earlier, it's almost dawn, Yan'er should wake up in a while, and you shouldn't be in a hurry if you can't find you." ”

"Okay, we'll see you later." Zhou Ranmiao finished the last sentence, and after giving up his hands with Xia Jingxuan, he left the camp.

The eastern horizon is getting red, walking and walking, and turning into bright white, tomorrow gives the first ray of light in the world, in the blink of an eye, the spark of the day falls into the mortal world to light up the earth, the sun is wisps of light, through the dense forest, folded on the river, the fluttering boat turned a lot of places in one night, and returned to the middle of the river in the morning, Zhou Ranmao returned home when he saw the boat, and he happily stepped on the bamboo branch to return to the boat.

Landing on the boat made a small "bang" sound, he faced the last curtain before seeing Xia Jingyan, he couldn't wait to lift it, but the first step was very sticky, Zhou Ran was startled, and hurriedly looked at his feet.

Blood.

"Yan'er!"

Zhou Ranmiao hurriedly rushed into the curtain, it seemed to be covered with a layer of ash, dark, and incompatible with the outside world, Xia Jingyan was paralyzed on the ground, and there was a man in black next to him.

Zhou Ranmiao first stepped forward and pulled Xia Jingyan to look around from top to bottom, there was no wound, but her eyes were dim, as if her soul had been drained.

"Yan'er, what's wrong with you?" Zhou Ranmiao asked tentatively and softly.

Xia Jingyan didn't respond, his eyes just stared sleepily and sluggishly at one place—the paralyzed blood on the ground.

Zhou Ranhao paid attention to the man in black underground, and when he saw the face of the man in black, he was very surprised, "Nanxiang? ”

Nan Xiang's face was pale, and Zhou Ranmiao saw that the paralyzed blood on the ground was flowing from her body, and he reached out to probe her snort, but she was already out of breath.

"Nan Xiang said, she hates you." Xia Jingyan's sudden words made Zhou Ranmiao startled, but Xia Jingyan didn't pay attention to his fright, but continued: "Because you killed Lord Han." ”

Zhou Ranmiao sighed, "At that time, I just returned to Xunzhou, I really didn't know that there were mountain bandits on that mountain, otherwise I would not have asked for Lord Han's life with the old love of the Han family, I thought that in a few years, I would forgive Lord Han for returning to Beijing when the limelight passed, Nanxiang never said it before, I thought she didn't blame me, but now it seems to be weird." Zhou Ranmiao explained, and Xia Jingyan remembered the past for Nanxiang's death.

It's just a pity that it's not.

Xia Jingyan was pitiful, looking at Zhou Ranmiao with teary eyes, she thought, she can't be sorry for the little brother, she asked word by word:

"Ran, tell me, how did my little brother die?"

Zhou Ranmiao's hand around Xia Jingyan gradually loosened.