CHAPTER XXIV

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Yuan Chong walked over with his hands behind his back, and Chu Yu looked at him: "Shizi, why are you here?" ”

"I'm coming to see you."

"Look at me? Shizi, how long have we known each other and the relationship has reached this point? ”

"Is it raw once and ripe twice?"

"I have something to give you," he took out a hairpin and gave it to her: "I picked this one myself, isn't it beautiful?" ”

"What are you doing with this when you have nothing to do with me?" She was a little displeased.

"It's not like seeing you in men's clothes all day long, and you don't even look like a girl's house, just thinking about giving you something, how can you say that you are also a woman."

"What's wrong with women, can't women have ideals and ambitions like men? Besides, what does it matter to you whether I wear men's clothes as a man or a woman? Has Shiko been idle lately? The management is so wide, if you don't ask the emperor to find something to do, you won't have nothing to do and run to me, which will hinder my military training. ”

Chu Yu's words pierced his heart like a needle.

"Ah Yu, my heart is dripping blood." He squeezed out a pitiful look.

"Hmph," she sneered, "Yuan Chong, do you know what the most regrettable thing I've ever done in my life?" ”

Yuan Chong asked, "What?" ”

"It's when I entered the Moon Candle Tower that I met you."

"You said you regretted knowing me."

"You go, don't come to me again." With that, she turned and left.

Xiao Ning stood aside for a long time, and finally stepped forward and said, "Shizi, please go back, it's useless, my general already has a heart." ”

"Someone you like? Who is it? He asked knowingly.

"His Royal Highness the Prince."

Yuan Chong stood in place and muttered the name silently in his heart: "Zhou Ci"

Chu Yu was wearing a blue dress, with a simple hairpin on her head, and she took a picture in the bronze mirror.

Xiao Ning couldn't help but praise: "The general's dress, the princess will be very happy to see it." ”

In the main hall, Yuan Ying raised his glass to everyone, "Thank you for coming to this princess's birthday banquet today, I respect you." Then he took a sip of the wine.

"A-Ying, I salute you for this glass of wine, thank you for your care for so many years." After saying that, she also drank the wine in the glass.

"We are friends, confidants, and we have nothing to thank for."

"Being able to become a confidant with the princess is a blessing that Chu Yu cultivated in his previous life."

The two looked at each other and smiled, Yuan Ying caught a glimpse of the figure outside the door, was looking at this side, and put down the wine glass in his hand: "Everyone, eat and drink, don't be polite." After saying that, he walked out, and the man was long gone.

She called out the man's name, "Mo Yan, I know you're back, why are you hiding from me and refusing to see me?!" She shouted heartbreakingly: "You come out, I know you're here, how much I miss you in those days when you weren't there, can you come out to see me?" I don't believe you don't care about me anymore, if you really didn't care, you wouldn't be here today, I will find you wherever you are! ”

Mo Yan hid in a corner, and when she heard what she said, she felt a pang in her heart.

Yuan Ying returned to the main hall in disappointment, and Chu Yu walked over and asked, "Is he back?" ”

She nodded and said nothing.

When the people in the hall dispersed, Yuan Ying sat on the steps outside the main hall, and Chu Yu also sat down, "He will always come out to see you, it is impossible to hide from you for a lifetime." ”

"When he was framed and put in prison by his father, I ran to plead with my father and let her go, but in the end I was forced to die, I didn't want the prison to suddenly catch fire, when the fire was extinguished, when I rushed in, there was only the pendant I had given him."

"He has come back alive now, but he has been hiding from me and refusing to see me."

"Today is your birthday, isn't he here too?"

"I don't believe he'll never come out to see me for the rest of his life."

There were a few dark clouds on the horizon of the obscene rain, and the rain fell down and smashed on the steps with a clear sound.

Mo Yan sat alone on the steps, his face under the silver mask without any expression.

The woman in black came with an umbrella, "You're going to see her?" Seeing that he didn't answer, he continued: "Can't you forget her?" To be a killer, you must break off love, and you can't have any feelings. ”

"I understand." He said, "What about you?" Have you put it down again? ”

The woman in black didn't speak, but chose to be silent.

"Today's birthday, I'm just sneaking a look at her." He said.

"It's good if you understand, don't let the master down, we killers all obey the love Gu given by the master, and the lives are the master's, the people in the killer camp are loyal to the master, and the master doesn't want anyone to betray him, I hope you don't betray him."

"Don't worry, I won't betray my master."

Chu Yu received a letter from Concubine Lan, which wrote the cause of the murder of the palace maid Xiaowei, as well as an arrow.

Concubine Lan is really reliable, I didn't expect to find out so quickly.

She thought that if Zhou He was a lotus flower in the pond that was not stained with dust, then Lan Xuan was a cold and beautiful single plum standing proudly in the snow.

In this world, she has seen two women who are so cold and beautiful, that is, her mother Bing Xuanyue and Lan Xuan.

Chu Yu sat on the bluestone steps, holding the arrow in her hand, recalling the destruction of the night house: at that time, she was sitting on the steps of Yefu, holding the flute left for her by her mother in her hand and fell into deep thought.

Mo Yan took the antidote and still didn't get better.

"His poison has invaded the internal organs, and I am afraid that his life will not be long in coming, alas!" The doctor sighed.

She held his hand: "Mo Yan don't want it, how can this be?" ”

"No matter how long I can live? You're going to be happy for the rest of the day, okay? Mo Yan didn't know when to wake up.

"Okay." She said to him, "Let's get married." ”

Mo Yan rolled his eyes and said in a panic: "A-Ying, I can't drag you down." ”

She clasped his hand and said, "We have missed too much, we have been separated for too long, and now we just hope that we will not have any regrets for each other." ”

He finally nodded in agreement.

Yuan Jian held the tree with one hand and covered the wound with the other: "Damn, I won't let you go." ”

"Father, Emperor and Son, I want to ask you to marry me and Mo Yan." She fell to her knees.

"He's not already ......"

"He's alive."

You like him.

"Erchen likes him, not the ordinary kind of like." She admitted.

"Okay, as long as you like your father, the emperor will promise you."

"Thank you, Father." She excitedly thanked her father.

Concubine Qi stroked Yuanying's head, took out the wedding dress she had sewn, opened the box and embroidered the red wedding dress and said to the golden phoenix: "Ying'er is getting married, my mother made a wedding dress for Ying'er, do you still like it?" ”

"I like it, thank you concubine."

"The concubine has prepared this wedding dress a long time ago, waiting for you to wear it when you get married in the future."

"Mother, you are so good to your daughter." Yuan Ying hugged his mother and said.

"I'm your mother, of course I'm going to be good to you."

"Mother, I love you so much."

"This is the antidote to the last love Gu."

Mo Yan didn't take the antidote she gave him, he lowered his head, and she couldn't see his expression.

"If you don't take the antidote, you'll die." She said.

"I'm satisfied to be with her more, and I don't expect anything else."

"The person you love has always been her, right? She asked suddenly.

"Yes." He lowered his head and didn't look at her, "Qingliu, you are a good girl, in fact, it's not that you are bad, it's that I don't deserve it, now that the killer battalion has been disbanded, leave the killer battalion and live the life you want." With that, he turned to leave.

She shouted from behind him, "What about her?!" ”

"You're not like her." He said with his head bowed.

His words stung her deeply, and she lowered her head and smiled sadly as she looked at his figure as he walked farther and farther away, standing there for a long time.

It turned out that she didn't deserve it after all......

He didn't ask her for the antidote because he didn't want to owe her anything, and he didn't want to be too involved with him, because many times there would be no disappointment without hope.

"You said that the emperor's health is not good, and he always works so hard in the palace."

"You care so much about him?"

"You won't even eat my imperial brother's vinegar, will you?" She asked him, tilting her head.

"Not really." He defended himself.

"I'm obviously jealous, and I don't admit it!" Won Young teased him.

The night before getting married, he came to her door: "Did A-Ying sleep?" ”

"Not yet." She was about to open the door.

"We weren't allowed to see each other the night before we got married."

There was a door between the two, and neither opened it.

"Do you regret A-Ying marrying me?"

"Marrying you is my life's long-cherished wish, and I don't regret it."

"It's a pity that I can't be by your side for the rest of my life."

"It's okay, you'll always be there in my heart."

"But how long can I stay with you......"

"If you promise to marry me, you will not go back."

"Before I get married, I'm going to tell you everything that happened that night."

He turned his back and leaned against the door and said: "At that time, I was framed and put in the prison, just the night before I was tortured, a woman in black appeared, rescued me from the prison who was injured, and set a fire before leaving, faking the illusion that I had died in the fire, in order to repay the favor, I joined the killer camp, and planted a love Gu according to the rules, all those who enter the killer camp must break off their love, and they can't have any feelings for anyone or anything. ”

"Do you know why I agreed to go with her? I didn't want to die, because I wanted to see you one last time, so I agreed to go with her, and now I'm a coward. ”

"I don't believe in this so-called fate, I only believe in myself, you will be fine." After listening to his words, she said.

He just smiled wryly and didn't say anything.

She slammed the door and pressed her face to it, "Ink Death...... I really don't want you dead. ”

"A-Ying... I'm sorry..."

In the early morning, the sunlight spilled into the dormitory, shining on Yuan Ying, who was sitting in front of the bronze mirror and combing her body, with her long hair tied up, and a phoenix wedding dress was very festive.

"Princess, you are so beautiful today, they all say that the day a woman gets married is the most beautiful moment in her life." The maidservant looked at the princess in the bronze mirror.

"Qin'er, do you think we're going to be in too much of a hurry?"

"Although the princess's marriage is a big event, Mo Gongzi's body is not as good as day by day, and he can't afford to wait."

Yuan Ying was wearing the wedding dress that her mother had sewn for her with her own hands, her face was full of smiles and her heart was full of happiness, she finally waited for this day, she could finally marry him, and the maidservant helped her to the groom, he took her hand and came to the emperor to kowtow.

Because time is running out, everything is simple.

The two sat in the marriage room, and the maidservants withdrew and closed the door for them.

Yuan Ying picked up the wine glass on the table, poured it full of wine, and drank the wine with Mo Yan.

The two held hands and sat down in front of the bed, he said: "A-Ying, if I am gone, you have to take care of yourself, you have to smile more, don't be sad because of me, if one day you meet someone you like and feel lonely, spend the rest of your life with him, you will definitely be happy." ”

"I have only one husband in my life, and I will not marry anyone else."

"A-Ying, you are the princess of Dawei, you can't bear the laughing stock of a newlywed and widowed husband for the rest of your life, so you will be criticized."

"I'm willing, I'll see who dares to criticize me behind my back."

"That's right, you are a princess on the top, who in this world dares to criticize you behind your back."

He couldn't help but start to miss her when she was young, "A-Ying still remembers that when you were a child, you always wanted the most beautiful plum blossom on the treetops, but you were short and couldn't reach it, at that time I climbed up to the tree and broke off the plum blossom for you, but I fell down in the air, you ran over to help me up and asked me if it hurts, knowing that you care about me, I was very happy at the time, and took out the plum blossom from my arms and put it in your hand and said that fortunately, the flower did not break, you just scolded me for being stupid and didn't care about this." ”

"Yes, of course I do, I remember all the memories about us."

"I still remember when my father brought you to me that year, you and I were just a child, we read and wrote together, practiced swords together, ate osmanthus cakes together, played together, no matter how many difficulties we encountered, you always took the lead in front of me."

"I never dare to hope for our future, I just wish we could be like the present."

"Mo Yan, you once said that life is my people, death is my ghost, no matter where I go, you will never leave me."

"I want to stay with you for the rest of my life, but unfortunately I can't wait......" His voice grew smaller and quieter, until he could no longer hear the man's voice.

He leaned on her shoulder and fell asleep forever, a few tears slipping through the corners of her eyes.

The candle flame kept jumping, and she was silent for a long time before she spoke.

"I don't know how long it will take you to wake up," she said. ”

As she spoke, she trembled and stroked her serene and quiet face, her beloved, sleeping quietly, she leaned her head gently and said, "I'm not afraid of loneliness, I'm just afraid that you will always fall asleep like this, and you will never wake up again." ”

When she was young, she was the most beautiful scene in her life, and the boy who taught her to practice swords with a long sword in her hand in ink kept appearing in front of her eyes, and she could never erase it, it was the most beautiful moonlight in her life, but now the young man in ink and sword can never wake up again.

People go to Huangquan, Yin and Yang are separated, I don't know what year it is, but I will see you again on the bridge. I hope that people will last a long time, and they will be together for thousands of miles.

"Let her be alone for a while, and let's go." Chu Yu said to Qin'er on the side.

Yuan Ying looked at a place in a daze with lost eyes, and suddenly said: "Ah Yu, I will live well, because I have a child of Mo Yan." ”

Chu Yu looked back at her and replied, "Okay." ”

After burying Mo Yan, Yuan Ying began to cheer up, but the smile on her face was missing, and she began to keep herself busy, so that she no longer thought about him.

Chu Yu understood that her cheers were all pretended.

"The minister wants to ask for an order to go to Yangzhou."

"Yangzhou?"

"The minister wants to go there to be a Qing official for a few months, help Lord Xing handle the case, catch the thief, and experience the joy of entertainment."

"It's time for you to relax after all these years, so I'm ready."

"Your Majesty."

Xiao Ning was busy packing his luggage, Chu Yu frowned and said, "We are just going to handle the case, and we are not moving, do we need to bring so many things?" ”

"The general's journey to Yangzhou must be very hard, we need to bring some things to prepare."

"Then you don't need to have so much."

"Then you have to have a little in case you need it."

"A-Ying, I'll make you porridge and drink some." Chu Yu walked in with porridge.

Yuan Ying took the porridge and put his hand on his stomach.

"He's been kicking me all these days." She said.

"What is the name of this child when he is born?" Chu Yu asked.

"Let's call it Mo Nian."

"Then let's say okay, when this child is born, recognize me as a godmother."

"Okay." Won Young looked at her with a smile.

"I will definitely love you as if you were my own child." She touched Yuan Ying's stomach and said with a smile.

"How is Ah Yu doing?"

Lan Xuan lazily leaned on the beauty couch, her skirt fell to the ground, her cold mask reflected the cold light, and she looked at the maid with clear eyebrows.

"Niangniang, General Chu, she asked for an order to go to Yangzhou to handle the case."

"The emperor sent Chu Yu to Yangzhou this time, and I am a little worried about her."

"It is said that the mother of the child is worried, but the mother doesn't have to worry, General Chu's martial arts are so high, she will definitely be fine."

"Yes, she grew up alone in the wind and rain, and she has experienced a lot, so this difficulty is nothing." She sighed lightly and said, "But no matter what, this palace can't ignore her, let Lingxue help her in secret." ”

"Yes."

She and Xiao Ning walked for a day, the sky slowly darkened, and Xiao Ning spent the night here, late at night she sat on the ground with a book in her hand, recently a new official came to Yangzhou, and the name of the new official was recorded on it.

She looked at it, but saw that there was a name with the same sound as Zhou Ci written on it, Zhou Shi, this person caught her attention, this person named Zhou Shi was a big man who had just come to Yangzhou, she was looking forward to meeting him, and wanted to understand him as a person, she drew a circle on it, closed the fold and lay down.

Near noon on the second day, as soon as Chu Yu entered the house, he saw Zhou Ci come out of the house, and saw a subordinate come to his side and say, "My lord, Lord Xing told you to have breakfast." ”

"Zhou Ci?" Chu Yu frowned and looked at him.

At this time, he looked up and saw her, "Ah Yu." ”

"I said, why did this little Yangzhou suddenly come to a Zhou adult one day, it turns out that this Zhou adult is you."

Chu Yu clasped his hands around his chest and looked at him without a good face: "I said how can Zhou Ci meet you anywhere?" ”

"I'm here to investigate the case of Seeing Wang."

"Coincidentally, I happened to be here to help Lord Xing handle the case, in this case, I will handle my case in the future, you investigate your people, and we will not interfere with each other." With that, she turned to leave.

Zhou Ci walked towards her step by step from behind, with all the tenderness in his eyes, and said to her word by word: "