Xie Zhao was in the deep alley behind a street outside the Yi Luo Clan's mansion, and finally met the "master" in the mouth of the man before.

Although she already had certain expectations and guesses in her heart, when the person in front of her was really standing in front of her, she was still shocked.

In the quiet alley in the dead of night, Xie Zhao was silent for a long time, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Seeing this person standing in front of her now, not only was he not sick or sick, but he was also traveling around the world under the escort of the Xie family's dead soldiers, and she finally let go of the heart that had been hanging secretly.

Xie Zhao shook her head helplessly, she was half angry, half laughed, half disagreed:

"Uncle, you're really. Nonsense. ”

Xie Huanzhang, the king of Xunyang County, was dressed in the robe of a local drunken man in Western Xinjiang, standing a few steps away from her as warm as jade, and at this time he was also smiling and seriously looking at his niece who had not seen him for nearly two years.

But in just a moment, the more carefully Xie Huanzhang looked, the deeper and more ugly his face became.

After half a pillar of incense, he frowned and shook his head slowly.

"Zhaozhao, you're really messing around. If your grandfather and mother saw you now, they wouldn't know how to feel distressed.

Are you sick? Why did you come to this point with your inner strength? Now that they are all so big, how can they not take care of themselves outside.

I remember when you were a child, when you were walking in the rivers and lakes, you would always carry your sword with you, why didn't you even take him with you this time? ”

Xie Huanzhang sighed.

Counting the days, the girl in front of her seems to have more than ten days to reach the crown.

In the Southern Dynasty Tianchen, a man can be regarded as an adult when he is twenty years old and crowned.

And when a woman is fifteen years old, she can also marry and become a housewife in her husband's house.

However, his niece, who had reached the pinnacle of martial arts at the age of Ji Lu and became the first sword immortal in the world, never seemed to have lived a life as an ordinary person.

Not only that, but now she even looks terminally ill and so thin that it is unbelievable to those who are familiar with her.

But even so, she is still a girl who makes people feel radiant even when she stands there.

Today, compared with the scorching sun in the past, she has a little more fresh air from ordinary people, which can be regarded as a blessing in misfortune.

When Xie Zhao heard Xie Huanzhang's words, it was hard not to think about his maternal grandfather and deceased mother, Empress Xiaochun.

Yes, if the queen mother is still here, she will definitely feel sorry for her and want to hit her a few times in anger.

She smiled so much that her eyebrows were crooked, and there was a faint moistness in her eyes, but this girl never forgave people on her lips.

Xie Zhao looked at him with a smile.

"Little uncle, if your grandfather and mother didn't even drag your weak body and went thousands of miles to the west of Xinjiang, and they didn't leave a word behind, I was afraid that they would scold you heavily."

Xie Huanzhang also smiled when he heard this.

But after laughing, he suddenly sighed and said helplessly:

"What? So now that you are making a fuss, why are you jumping to grab the golden sign of 'Xie's number one sick seedling' with your uncle? ”

Xie Zhao was amused by his self-deprecating tone, shook his head and teased him:

"Who's to say it isn't? This signboard was accidentally cut off by me. But this is an accident, and it is understandable, little uncle, this is what you should fight. ”

She didn't know how much Xie Huanzhang, the king of Xunyang County, knew about the incident in the first month of the third year of Jing'an.

But Xie Zhao made up his mind, he didn't want to implicate the Xunyang Xie family's only bloodline now, and inexplicably got involved in their Fu family's messy housework.

Back then, since Xie Zhaona's three uncles, who were known as the "Three Heroes of the Xie Family" by the world, and his maternal grandfather Xie Lin, who was the emperor of Shangzhu Kingdom, passed away one after another, in fact, the Xie family has been in the Tianchen Dynasty for many years, although the appearance is still glamorous, but in fact, the inside has long been empty.

More than 800 years ago, the founding emperor of the Tianchen Dynasty, Gaozu Jiuyi, gave the glory of "Hetu Swordsmanship" how dazzling it was, so now the situation of the Xie family with scattered doors and tigers and no one to support the lintel is so embarrassing and bitter.

Why has Xie Huanzhang, the king of Xunyang County, been so low-key all these years?

Why did he never intervene in the affairs of the temple even though he had become the only county prince with a different surname in Tianchen in the Southern Dynasty. Even in addition to repairing books and writing articles, he is only willing to bear some idle errands in the Ministry of Rites?

Is it that he doesn't want to?

No, it's he shouldn't!

Does Emperor Wei really want the people of the Xie family in Xunyang to have another "Xie Banchao" after the death of the old lady Xie of Shangzhu Kingdom?

The old emperor naturally didn't want to!

Xie Huanzhang's heart is also like a mirror, and he can see clearly.

For more than 800 years since the founding of Tianchen in the Southern Dynasty, the first county king with a different surname to be crowned is unprecedented, in addition to the tragedy of the first emperor who has mercy on the only one person left in the loyal martyrdom of the Xie family in Xunyang, why not to block the mouth of the Xie family, the mouth of the border gate in the army?

Xie Huanzhang quietly looked at the slender and tall figure of the woman in front of him.

Her appearance hadn't changed much from when she was sixteen or seventeen years old three years ago, but he vaguely felt that she was different from the past.

However, before he had time to preach and ask Xie Zhao, Xie Zhao had already frowned and asked:

"Uncle, I heard that you suddenly left Zhaoge City at the beginning of the third year of Jing'an, and you didn't even leave a message for Chaoshang.

I heard Lord Shen Qi say a few months ago that in order to find you, all the states and prefectures along the way have moved, and you can't do that. It not only worries relatives, but also does not benefit their own safety.

Have you ever thought that if you encounter any danger while traveling outside, and no one even in the Southern Dynasties knows where you are, even if you let someone around you send a message and a letter to Zhaoge City, how can you be silent and silent. ”

Xie Huanzhang laughed angrily and turned his head to look at her fixedly.

"Oh, is it? What about you? You left without saying a word, and the scout reported to me, the journey from the sleepless city to the suburbs of Lanling City on the fifth day of the first month of the third year of Jing'an was covered with blood. ”

Xie Zhao lowered his eyes and looked at his feet, and said with a natural and calm smile and pretending to be stupid:

"Me? How can I be the same as my uncle? What 'the journey from the city that never sleeps to the outskirts of Lanling City for a hundred miles is dripping with blood', I don't know this, I'm just used to go out to travel and forge sword intent.

Besides, I was a wild child who couldn't be tied when I was a child, and I was used to it in both Shentai Palace and Zhaoge City, even if I disappeared for a year and a half."

"-What?"

Xie Huanzhang interrupted her mouth full of nonsense in a cold voice:

"Do you want to say, even if you have been missing for a year and a half, no one will notice, or will no one worry?"

Xie Zhao laughed, his tone was not revealing at all, and he couldn't hear joy and sorrow in his words.

"It's all there. Hey, hey, uncle, what's your expression? ”

Facing Xie Huanzhang's look of pity, pain, surprise and anger, Xie Zhao hurriedly said:

"Uncle, what's this? This shows that I have been mature and reliable since I was a child, which is very reassuring. Why do you feel sorry for me now? I can't do it, I really can't do it!

- In the words of my senior brother Nanxu, that is, I am a small person, and I am the least worthy of distress and pity. Even if you don't believe me, the high priest of Nanxu, the iron mouth god, you should always believe it, right? ”

Xie Huanzhang raised his eyes coldly.

"Oh? Is it? ”

A flash of anger flashed in his eyes, and then he said word by word:

"Zhaozhao, how long do you want to hide it from me? Did you really leave Zhaoge voluntarily and travel in the rivers and lakes? Although your uncle and I faded out of the court and ignored political affairs, we are by no means blind!

——In the first month of the third year of Jing'an, I was ordered to send an envoy to the western frontier, and I was not in Zhaoge City, but don't think that this can completely hide from me.

Yes, now that you and Jing Yan have grown up and their wings are stiffened, they both use me as an elder, right? ”

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