The little eunuch who kept vigil heard a faint cry in the middle of the night, and pushed the door in and asked, "Miss Chu, is that you?" He was about to take a step into the side hall, and with a sharp pain in the back of his neck, he fainted instantly.

Shen Zhou silently closed the door and carried the man behind the door to lean on.

Layers of golden gauze tents hung down on the bed, and Chu Zhixia was no longer crying. She curled up and hugged herself, her eyelashes wet and twisted together.

The cold moonlight poured in, like flowing silver. Shen Zhou stepped on the moonlight, walked to the window step by step and sat down, and then stretched out a hand into the gauze tent as he did just now, allowing Chu Zhixia to hold it.

"How did you get in?"

"It's not hard to hide under the carriage." Shen Zhou gestured lightly, "You just said, who are you going to kill?" ”

Chu Zhixia woke up from that suffocating, indistinguishable dream from true to false, and slowly sobered up. If it was fifteen-year-old Chu Shixia, I am afraid that he would really kill the emperor desperately. But she is already a person who has guarded the border and led the soldiers.

"Don't say it?"

In the silent moonlight, only Shen Zhou's fingers fluttered up and down, landing on the golden gauze curtain, like the shadow of a butterfly rising and falling.

"It's not hard to guess, there aren't many people in the palace who are difficult to kill. The Emperor, I guess. ”

Chu Zhixia grabbed his fingers violently.

"Don't you want me to kill?" Shen Zhou was calm, "But you didn't say that just now." ”

The imperial capital classifies people as three, six, nine and so on, and the royal family and the ministers below are all ants, and human life is like a mustard. In comparison, Shen Zhou felt that he was quite equal - whether it was a peddler or a pawn or an official eunuch, it was the same for him.

Above the blade of the sword, human life is the same light.

The neck of a nobleman is no harder than that of a commoner.

"We have been in the imperial capital for this time...... Have you sent a message to the clouds? Chu Zhixia's voice was hoarse, and he asked an irrelevant question.

Shen Zhou frowned, not understanding what she meant.

"Yes or no?" Chu Zhixia asked again.

Shen Zhou felt the pain and burning breath from his fingertips, so he nodded truthfully.

Chu Zhixia's heart ached, like countless swords, guns, swords, and halberds piercing her heart, leaving a handful of flesh and blood full of holes, leaking everywhere. Cold sweat broke out layer after layer on her back, and her eyes were blackened for a while.

So that's it...... I see. Chu Zhixia thought bitterly and bitterly.

In her previous life, she felt strange, no matter how far away the imperial capital was, no matter how far the regent was to the sky, Chu Mingyan was not a person who was willing to be blind, and it was impossible to let Chu Mingxiu leave it alone. At the beginning, Chu Mingyan knew Chu Mingxiu's situation and the cause of death, but he didn't say it.

The Chu family can't be a chaotic minister and thief, and the soldiers in the clouds can't go out to embrace the snow pass.

So Chu Mingyan just sat alone under the snowy eaves and silently burned the secret report with the cause of his brother's death. He was afraid that Chu Zhixia would hate him, that Chu Zhixia would assassinate the emperor regardless of it, and that there would be no one to guard the Snow Pass.

Instead of hating someone and being unable to do anything about it, it is better not to know who to hate.

Those who indulge in hatred will end up ruining themselves.

The king of Zhenbei weighed many ways, calculated all the organs, worried about the people of the world after the snow pass, worried about the century-old name of the Chu family, and worried about his sister's pain and hatred, and boiled himself until the oil ran out.

In the dead of night, did Chu Mingyan also see his younger brother's soul wandering and unable to find the door? Does he think that he killed his brother?

Why don't you tell me? Am I not yet what you want to be and what you can rely on? Aren't you tired carrying it alone?

Chu Zhixia opened her mouth to ask, but she couldn't spit out a word, and sweat blurred her vision. In a trance, she saw the back of the sick and broken bones, and reached out in vain to grab it, but rolled out of bed coldly.

The beads on his wrist were broken and scattered.

Shen Zhou was startled and hurriedly caught her. Chu Zhixia trembled in his arms, and his forehead hair was soaked with sweat. Chu Zhixia's face turned pale, as if she had drowned in another swamp, Shen Zhou had never seen her so crumbling.

Shen Zhou tried to wake her up, but couldn't make a sound anyway. Anxious, he finally grabbed her shoulder and bit her shoulder. The smell of blood sank into Shen Zhou's teeth, and he looked up at Chu Zhixia's gradually clear eyes.

The intense pain woke Chu Zhixia up briefly, and she looked at Shen Zhou's young face in a daze, as if she was in another world.

"Now it's ...... Four years of auspicious charms. Chu Zhixia muttered, "Right? ”

Shen Zhou had blood between his teeth, and nodded with a heavy expression.

She still has a chance, she won't be the second Chu Mingxiu.

——

In the clouds, Zhenbei Wangfu.

The lamp on the table "popped" and the light burst open. Chu Mingyan was drowsy on the table with his head propped up, but he was awakened at this moment.

The staff on duty at night intimately pulled the cloak up for him, "The prince should go back and rest, there will be no military report of the snow pass in a short time." Doesn't it mean that the Beidi people are retreating north? ”

Chu Mingyan pressed his eyebrows, and said with palpitations, "I suddenly felt a lot of pain in my heart...... Is there any news of the imperial capital? ”

It's thinking about the eldest lady. The staff sighed in their hearts and said truthfully, "Not yet, the eldest lady has always been smart, and there should be no big incident." ”

"I didn't know that she was smart, but she was too smart, and too smart children would live very hard." Chu Mingyan shook his head, got up and walked to the window, the snow outside the window was about to melt, "She has grown so big, the biggest shortcoming is that she is emotional, but she can't change it...... Isn't this sending the weakness to others and letting others take care of it? ”

"The magic is as clever as the prince, don't you also care about it?" The staff joked, "Where there is soft-heartedness, it is like a human." It shows that the prince raised the eldest lady very well. ”

"In that place in the imperial capital, where are people staying." Chu Mingyan smiled bitterly.

——

Early the next morning.

Chu Zhixia opened her eyes and touched a complete string of Buddhist beads on her wrist - fourteen, one no more and one no less, as if the nightmare last night was just her imagination. But the tooth marks on the shoulder are only scabbed, and they will bleed when they move.

She was the only one in the side hall.

"Miss Chu, are you awake?"

The eunuch pinched a sharp voice and shouted outside the door, "Your Majesty has sent you to breakfast." ”

"Wake up."

The door of the side hall was pushed open, and the palace maids rushed in. Chu Zhixia was surrounded by the palace maids to change clothes, wash and dress, and be at the mercy of others like rag dolls. Her eyebrows and eyes were a little angry under the description, like a sword stained with rouge.

"The daughters of the imperial capital are all equipped with jade bracelets, and the recently fashionable gold wire twisted flower bracelets are also very suitable for the girl's clothes." The palace maid touted, "Do you want to try it?" ”

Chu Shixia lowered his eyes and glanced at the lustrous Buddha beads on his wrist, and wrote lightly, "No need, I was born with a lot of anger, and my brother specially asked the Buddha beads to suppress it for me." If you take it off at will, you may hurt others. ”

The palace maid stopped her mouth stupidly.

The girl in the mirror is dressed in a bright brocade dress with a golden iris pattern on the hem. There were beads on her coiled bun, and a touch of red on her lips, reflecting her skin and snow.

It's a bit like a domineering imperial capital celebrity.

Chu Zhixia picked up the hem of his skirt and strode out of the side hall.

Before he reached the main hall, Chu Zhixia heard the sound of the emperor talking to someone.

"Recently, spring has been getting warmer, and it is the season of recovery. The queen mother means that it is better to set up sheds and give porridge in various parts of the city, and accumulate good virtues in order to achieve prosperity for the country this year. ”

The emperor had a total of six sons, but not many were qualified to face the saint in the morning.

Chu Zhixia hesitated slightly, but the emperor in the hall had already discovered her, "Mo Xue, come and do it." ”

Chu Zhixia turned the door, and what caught his eye was a python robe, and a plain and weak face, like a lilac wet by the rain.

"The courtiers have seen His Royal Highness the Prince." Chu Zhixia immediately reacted.

Bai Huan quietly looked at the girl in front of him, only to feel that his eyes were slightly illuminated by her face.

Yesterday, the third prince was beaten and cried wolf, and rolled all the way into the palace, but he saw that there was no piece of meat missing from his body, and the people who wanted to do it still knew it.

"You don't have to be formal." Bai Huan said coldly and detachedly, "If the father doesn't advise, the son will go back first." ”

"What's the hurry?" The emperor took out a pair of ivory baskets and clicked on the table, his expression was inexplicable, "Snow disasters in the clouds are frequent, Mo Xue should know better than you about disaster relief, you might as well ask her what she thinks." ”

Bai Huan slightly furrowed his eyebrows.

Although he didn't like the regent's mercy, he also knew that it would not be good for him to get too close to Chu Shixia. The Emperor was disgusted with him, and the tentative intention of this move was obvious.

Chu Zhixia sighed softly, as if he was embarrassed, "Does Your Majesty really want me to say it?" ”

The Emperor was interested," you say. ”

"Disaster relief is not the same as soup kitchen, I'm afraid I won't be able to help His Royal Highness the Prince." Chu Zhixia's expression was solemn, "One is to keep the people alive, and the other is to ask God to tell the Buddha, forgive Moxue for being powerless." ”

"It's easy to put the icing on the cake, but it's hard to send charcoal in the snow." The emperor sneered with a gun and a stick, waved his hand, and said, "Well, let your mother go." It's all about making a show for others, just don't make a joke for people to see. ”

Bai Huan nodded yes, and the corners of his lowered eyes caught an imperceptible smile on Chu Zhixia's lips.

——

When Chu Zhixia left the palace, he took away a carriage of rewards, as well as Yu Linwei's official seal. It was a brass seal, and on its back was an eagle flapping its wings. Chu Zhixia tossed this heavy official seal in his hand and played with it, but the carriage suddenly stopped.

Someone knocked on the wall of the carriage outside.

"Who?" Chu Zhixia pressed the hilt of the sword that drank the stream snow.

"Me." Bai Huan's voice sounded without warning, "Thank you, girl." ”

"There's nothing to thank, Your Highness doesn't blame me for speaking wildly." Chu Zhixia put down his sword lightly.

"So be it, it's good for me and the girl."

After saying this, the carriage began to move slowly again. Chu Zhixia couldn't help but lift the curtain and look out, Bai Huanqingjun's figure disappeared behind the red palace gates that were closed layer by layer.