Ye Hongyu said: "Snow can't keep people, so you want to keep people?"

Ning Que said, "I don't understand what you mean. ”

Ye Hongyu asked, "Why did you disperse all the housekeepers and maids at home last night?"

Ning Que smiled and said, "Doesn't this prove that I didn't keep anyone?"

Ye Hongyu said: "You know what I mean. ”

Ning Que said: "Today's winter solstice, the steward and Yahuan should also accompany the family more. ”

Ye Hongyu said: "Then why do you want me to leave? Don't sue me, you haven't given up assassinating Xiahou yet, you are going to do this at this time." ”

Ning Que asked, "Are you worried about my life or death?"

Ye Hongyu shook his head.

Ning Que said with a smile: "Although it does sound a little sad, but this is the real you, since you don't worry about my life or death, why bother me to do anything?"

"Xiahou is my Daomen Keqing, my brother came to Chang'an City for this matter, he will not allow you to destroy it, and I will not allow it, so if you want to make a move, I will leave you here." ”

Ye Hongyu looked at him and said calmly, his right hand was outside the sleeve of the Tsing Yi robe, and he was about to hold a virtual sword in the winter wind.

Ning Que looked at her right hand, and after being silent for a long time, he said, "It seems that everyone in the world, including my sect, does not agree with me to assassinate Xiahou. ”

He raised his head, looked at Ye Hongyu's eyes quietly, and said: "You know what kind of person I am, I can't beat Xiahou, so I won't think about killing him, I want you to leave, I just want to tell you that Ye Su's small Taoist temple is reopened today, since it is the winter solstice, you should go there." ”

Ye Hongyu said: "You haven't said whether you are going to assassinate Xiahou or not. ”

Ning Que said: "I swear to you in the personality of my master, I never thought of assassinating Xiahou. ”

Ye Hongyu's expression remained unchanged and said, "Change your name." ”

Ning Que said: "If I assassinate Xiahou, then Sangsang and I will never be together. ”

Ye Hongyu was stunned, as if he didn't expect him to really promise like this, frowned and asked, "Then why do you two attach so much importance to today?"

Ning Que said: "We're going to Red Sleeves to eat haggis soup." ”

Ye Hongyu was silent, his Tsing Yi robe fluttered slightly, and disappeared into the depths of the wolf plum tree gnawed by the big black horse.

The big black horse chewed the broken foam of plum blossoms, with the fragrance, left Yanming Lake, and ran out of the city, the officers and soldiers stationed at the south gate of Chang'an City had already been reminded by the Fish and Dragon Gang, and knew the origin of this black horse, where would it stop it, and watched it disappear into the cold winter official road outside the city.

It didn't take long for the big black horse to run back to the academy, drill the clouds and mist from the side gate slope, and appeared on the shore of the mirror lake on the cliff flat of the back mountain, kept wheezing, lowered his horse's head to kiss himself on the lake, and drank water greedily to moisten his throat and horse lungs that were about to burn.

The big black horse didn't know what Ning Que was going to do, and he didn't know why he had a feeling of anxiety, he just vaguely felt that he should return to the academy earlier, so that the people in the academy could guess what was going to happen on the shore of Yanming Lake, and it thought that it was the messenger.

Chen Pipi stood at the other end of the lake, looking at the big black horse on the opposite bank, a heavy melancholy appeared on his round cheeks, Tang Xiaotang looked up at him and asked, "Will something happen?"

"It stands to reason, according to the character of the junior brother, he knows that he will lose, so he won't make any decisions, so nothing should happen, but why did the big dark horse come back?"

Chen Pipi frowned slightly and said: "I now find that I don't seem to really understand what is going on in his heart all along, I always thought that he was a cold and unrealistic guy, so it is difficult for me to imagine that he would make some brave and vain moves." ”

Tang Xiaotang said: "Ning Que is a very shameless person, but my brother said before I asked me to come to the academy that some people can be extremely shameless, in fact, it takes a lot of courage. ”

Chen Pipi was silent for a moment and then said, "I'm going to Chang'an City." ”

Tang Xiaotang said: "I will go with you." ”

Chen Pipi shook his head and said, "The third senior sister will not agree. ”

"Early in the morning, when I had morning classes, my teacher gave me a vacation. ”

Tang Xiaotang looked at Chen Pipi and said seriously: "Xiahou is the biggest traitor of my Mingzong for thousands of years, my brother has always wanted to kill him, and I am the same, but it's a pity that I don't have this ability, today since Uncle Xiao wants to do something to him, at least I have to watch from the side." ”

The atmosphere in the palace was calm, with the sound of ceremonial music and warm incense.

The palace maids and eunuchs walked in the hall with a smile on their faces, and no one looked at the legendary cruel and cold-blooded general Xiahou, and no one noticed that there was something strange on the face of the emperor.

His Majesty the Emperor looked at Xiahou below, and said indifferently: "Since the matter has been resolved, don't make any more mistakes, I don't care about the relationship between Ning Que and General Xuanwei back then, and I don't want to know the murders in Chang'an City in recent years, after all, he is a student of the master, you leave Chang'an City today, it is difficult to meet him, since it is difficult to meet, don't embarrass each other." ”

Xiahou left the table and bowed down, calmly.

His Majesty the Emperor left the side hall silently, ending the king's feast for the returning courtiers in advance, and all the eunuchs and palace maids in the palace also left with him, leaving this side hall to the queen mother and General Xiahou who had been silent and quietly waiting beside him.

Letting the queen mother be alone with an imperial general is a very undesirable thing from the rules, but this is His Majesty's will, and no one dares to object.

The queen mother quietly looked at the brother below, sighed softly, and said, "It's going to be fine, right?"

Xia Hou looked at her, his usually dark and indifferent face, which was as cold as iron, showed a very rare warm and doting smile, and said: "I am going back to my hometown, where will there be anything, I feel more relaxed than ever before, but sister, you will be alone in Chang'an City in the future, you must be careful in everything, if there is any disharmony, please inform me." ”

The queen mother smiled and said, "Looking at the movement over there in the academy, it should be too peaceful." ”

"This was originally the agreement between Mr. Big and me, and I guess the master has the same attitude...... As for Ning Que, we all know very well what kind of person he is, and he is naturally peaceful. ”

Xia Hou frowned slightly, forcibly suppressed the increasingly annoying cough in his chest and abdomen, he didn't want to let his sister worry about him after leaving Chang'an.

The queen mother looked at his face silently, her gentle gaze seemed to be able to penetrate deep into his body, looking at the injury in his lungs, she said quietly: "In the wasteland, Tang let you suffer such a serious injury, I think he won't be too happy, why didn't you take advantage of the situation to kill him at that time?"

Xia Hou coughed lightly twice and said: "He can hurt me and I can hurt him, it's a matter of course, but if you want to kill him, you need to invest more lives, those iron horses in the wasteland are loyal subordinates who have followed me for many years, why let them exchange their lives?"

Hearing this, the queen mother's expression became more and more gentle, and she comforted and said, "Brother, you have changed a lot. ”

"Not as cold and violent as it used to be?"

Xiahou laughed at himself, thinking to himself that his brother and sister left the wasteland and went to the Tang Kingdom, without any background backing, His Majesty has not yet ascended the throne, you are not a queen The two outsiders want to gain a foothold in such an old empire, what other way is there except to make all enemies feel terrified and afraid?

It was a cold winter, and the snow fell from the sky like powder, coating the vermilion wall in the palace with a thin layer of powder, and the snow flew like a flocculent on the square in front of the side hall, which seemed to be unable to end.

Xiahou silently looked at the cold snow outside the hall and couldn't help but think of the snow-like ashes stained between his hands after snatching the iron box on Ning Que's body in the north of Hulan Haibei, and then he seemed to be in the deepest part of the wind and snow, and heard some whimpering sounds, not the north wind whistling, but the cold cicadas chirping.

He knew it was an auditory hallucination, but his face still turned a little ugly.

Decades ago, he left the Heavenly Abandoned Mountain, and went south to the Tang Dynasty, he was arrogant, but when he decided to betray Mingzong and kill Murong Linshuang with his own hands, his pride and anger had long disappeared, and for so many years, he was just covering up with violence and cruelty.

Because from that day on, he was a traitor to the Demon Sect.

Since that day, there have been two extremely cold black clouds in the depths of his heart, which have never been driven away.

A black cloud was his mentor, Guru Rinpoche.

A black cloud is the twenty-third year cicada of the current sect master of the Demon Sect.

Xia Hou was very strong and confident, but he knew very well that once these two black clouds really floated over, he had no other way out but death.

Back then, Ke Haoran single-handedly destroyed the Demon Sect Mountain Gate, he didn't watch the death of his teacher Lian with his own eyes, he never believed that a person like the teacher would pass away so quietly.

The current sect master of the Demon Sect has been practicing for twenty-three years, hidden in the world, known as the most mysterious figure in the cultivation world, although it is rumored that he has long since died, but how dare Xiahou believe it?

So all these years, he has been surviving in fear.

In Hulan Haibei, Xiahou snatched the iron box in Ning Que's hand, the box was not a scroll of heavenly books, but the ashes of his teacher Liansheng, he was a little disappointed, then sad, and then relieved, probably at that moment, he really had the idea of understanding Jia and returning to old age, and not asking about the world.

"I don't know what adventures Ning Que had after entering the mountain gate. ”

Xia Hou looked at the snowflakes fluttering outside the hall, and said with a complicated expression: "Since the teacher's ashes appeared in his hands, then maybe he inherited something, and the sect master ...... I don't know where he is hiding now, although he definitely doesn't dare to stay in Chang'an City, but where in the world he can't go?

The queen knew very well what the biggest fear in her brother's heart was, so she walked up to him and comforted him softly: "But Master Liansheng is dead after all, and the twenty-three years of the sect master's cultivation of the cicada is the world's first-class perverted and dangerous exercises, no trace of him has been found in the Daomen or the academy all these years, I am afraid that he is already dead, if he is still alive, how can he not come to you for trouble for so many years?"

"I hope so. ”

Xia Hou said: "Daomen Ye Su has come to Chang'an City, and the people of the Buddha Sect will also arrive, now that I think about it, only the Demon Sect of the three sects in the world is withered, and I can't help but feel a little stunned." ”

(To be continued)