The lights are dim.

The wooden window was empty, and the night breeze could be heard outside.

The young man walked towards her step by step under the light of the obscure lamp.

Lu Yu's heart was beating fast.

She had already guessed that her identity would be revealed sooner or later, there was no doubt about that, but she didn't expect it to come so quickly.

Afraid of being discovered by the Taishi Mansion, afraid of revealing her identity on the way to revenge, she has been hidden from the whole incident, she went to Ke Chengxing's Mansion to ask for a dowry, went to Wu Xiucai's mother for a doctor, and acupunctured the wife of the detailed judge, she never even directly confronted the people in the Taishi Mansion.

Qi Yutai, who was only seen once, didn't even see her face clearly that night.

In all the incidents, she pulled herself out without a trace, like an inconsequential passerby in a farce, a mediocre and insignificant ant in front of the big drama, unable to withstand anyone's attention.

was noticed by Pei Yunyi.

Even when he knew her earlier, before she made a move on Ke Chengxing, before she started her first revenge plan, the moment he helped Baoxiang downstairs, the two of them were doomed.

He crashed into the game at the beginning.

Pei Yunyao stood still in front of her.

Lu Yu's whole person was caged under him, and the young man even laughed, flicked the name scroll between his fingers, and asked, "Why did you write my name?" ”

Why was his name written?

Lu Yu's eyes fell on the roster.

There are many names written on the roster, the Ke family, the Liu family, and the Fan family...... This is crossed out.

There are also many new additions, such as Taishifu, Qi Yutai, and Hanlin Medical Hospital...... This is not crossed out.

The habits and daily life of those people concerned, anecdotes and trivialities, useful and useless are all carefully recorded in a whole sheet, and in this densely written list, Pei Yunyi's three words are impressively listed.

"Just curious." She heard her own voice.

"Curious about what?"

"I'm curious about which side Master Pei will stand on if I encounter today's situation."

Pei Yunyi was slightly stunned.

Lu Yu raised his head and looked at him calmly.

At the beginning, Pei Yunyi was suspicious of her in Wan'en Temple and his party, and later tried many times, before Wangchun Mountain framed him, Lu Yu thought about killing him altogether.

It's just that the other party is the commander of the front division of the palace, and he doesn't mention whether he can approach smoothly, and it is also very troublesome to deal with the official errand after the start.

Later, she saved Pei Yunshu's mother and daughter, and the relationship between the two eased somewhat, and even in the eyes of outsiders - for example, in the eyes of Du Changqing, she has a good relationship with Pei Yunyao and can be called friends.

But Lu Yu never really trusted him.

Powerful, she has a natural rejection and disgust for the powerful, whether it is prejudice or stubbornness, deep down, Lu Yu never believes that the high-ranking prince of Zhaoning can understand her determination to take revenge.

So she wrote down the name of the man, who didn't know if he was a friend or an enemy. Even though they could drink under the moon, as long as he stopped him, he would be her next enemy.

This piece of paper was supposed to be burned today, but Du Changqing and his party came too suddenly, and she didn't have time, so she had to hurriedly sandwich it in the pages of poetry on the table, but she didn't expect to be discovered by him.

He was always sharp.

The wick burned for too long, the candle flame flickered, and under the flickering dimness, Pei Yunyi looked at her with a smile: "You don't want to kill me too, do you?" ”

His eyes were beautiful, and when he looked down, her shadow was clearly reflected in the dark pupils.

Lu Yu smiled slightly, walked past Pei Yunyi's side to the window, and used scissors to cut the wick on the table shorter.

The lights froze.

She picked up the lamp again, lit the half-lit incense in the incense burner in the house, and then turned to look at the other man.

"It depends on which side you want to be on," she said. ”

He raised his eyebrows slightly: "What if I stand on the other side?" ”

There was a sudden silence in the room.

The warm candle flame spread inch by inch, and the woman stood in the shadow of the lamp without speaking, her weak shoulders like ice and snow, about to dissipate into the heavens and the earth under the ravages of winter.

After a long time, she spoke: "Expected." ”

Lu Yu sneered in his heart.

Not to expect.

No expectations should be placed on any of the powerful, the so-called superior.

He is the commander of the front division of the palace, the prince of Zhaoning, a family like the Taishi Mansion, Fan Zhenglian flatters in every way, and the Ke family is like a god. He was an official in the same dynasty as Qi Qing, and that day in the immortal building, Qi Yutai broke in and talked with Pei Yunyi, and the words were all about wooing.

Maybe they have already been in cahoots, and in the future he will be the son-in-law of the Taishi Mansion, they are a family.

The woman sighed, but a light smile bloomed on her face, and she slowly walked up to Pei Yunyi, and said softly: "Now the adults know my secret." ”

She raised her head, and her final note was soft and ambiguous: "Are you going to send me to see an official?" Like Liu Kun sent my brother? ”

Pei Yunyao paused.

The woman stood under the lamplight, her body was light and weak, her willow posture was thin, fragile and cold like a meandering stream after the snow melted in spring, and her beautiful eyes looked at him pleadingly, and her eyebrows were pity.

The scene of spring sorrow of the beauty made Pei Yunyi's heart flash a trace of strangeness immediately. It was as if something was speeding by. When his mind flickered, Pei Yunyan shot suddenly.

"Bang-"

Xueliang's dagger slashed a silver light in the air, and the woman's hand holding the knife was tightly clamped by Pei Yunyi and pushed away violently.

"Death does not change." Pei Yunyao withdrew his hand and looked at Lu Yu coldly.

She was pushed a few steps back, almost hitting the table behind her, the dagger that the slender, fair, little hand that looked like it could only play the piano and embroider at some point.

While she whispered softly to him, the killing was already on the horizon.

There was no pleading, no resignation, and her gaze was gloomy and cold, with a little jade-burning madness.

It wasn't a fragile stream at all, it was a whirlpool, a crazy and terrifying whirlpool that could tear people apart.

"Adults are so quick to respond." She mocked.

Pei Yunyi was about to speak, as soon as he opened his mouth, he suddenly felt that his body froze for a moment, and his heart tightened, and the next moment, the incense burner on the table was swept by the strong wind and rolled to the ground, and the half-burned incense stick was broken into several pieces, and a faint fragrance of lilies floated out from it, which was very clear, but it made people dizzy for a moment.

"Despicable." His face turned cold.

She hadn't thought about talking about it from the beginning, and since Lu Yu lit the incense, she had already killed him.

There was a moment of unsteadiness in her footsteps, and the woman had re-grasped the dagger and stabbed at him!

There was no expression in her eyes, as cold as if she were looking at a corpse.

Pei Yunyi's face sank, the silver long knife came out of the sheath, the numb and stiff feeling was forcibly broken by the internal force, and the long knife brought a strong wind and rushed towards the other party.

"I've warned adults before," the long knife was still unafraid, and even sneered, "The hospital is full of poison, and if you accidentally break into it and die, you can't complain about others." ”

He didn't laugh angrily: "You think I'm just as a waste like them? ”

With a slight swing of the silver sword, the dagger in Lu Yu's hand was cut in two.

Her heart sank.

It's too short.

The time for burning incense is too short.

This person is keen, and the vigilance is too fast, and the incense stick has not had time to exert its maximum strength, otherwise if it is more than half a pillar of incense, no matter how clever Pei Yunyi is, he can only be slaughtered here.

If you want to be someone else, you would have fallen by now.

"Adults are naturally different from those wastes. Don't worry, if you die, I will bury you under the plum tree, and the flesh of the adult is much more beautiful than the dead pork at the beginning. ”

Fang was pushed and hit, and the dagger was cut through his fingers by the knife wind brought by the silver knife, and the blood was like an infusion, but Lu Yu didn't care at all, he only held the dagger that was broken in two and rushed towards him, his eyes were terrifyingly bright.

She didn't hide at all.

Like a desperate fire, burning wildly.

"If you get in the way, you die—" she said.

The dagger was sharp, and the silver light rushed straight to the fragile atrium, and just at the last moment, he suddenly stopped, turned the tip of the knife suddenly, and faced the rushing person, clasped her arm fiercely, and pushed it backhand.

Lu Yu was pushed so that his back fell on the offering table, and the white-clothed Guanyin with kind eyebrows couldn't withstand such a strong impact, shook it, and fell down from the Buddha cupboard.

"Smack-"

"No—" The woman was startled.

In the cold night, there was the crisp sound of porcelain breaking, and in the next house, there seemed to be a faint sound of a drunken dream of a silver kite, and soon it was quiet again.

Dog's breakfast.

The incense ash on the altar of the offering table was sprinkled on the ground, probably in the early morning, and the orange persimmons were pasted with red letters, and they rolled to Pei Yunyi's feet.

The young man's eyes were shocked.

The white-clothed Guanyin that had been enshrined in the small Buddha cupboard was broken into several pieces on the ground, and there were several palm-sized porcelain jars hidden in them, four in total, which were also broken, and soil was poured out of them, and one jar was water and scattered all over the ground.

"It's ......," he stared.

Lu Tong was scooping up the soil in those porcelain jars.

She was flustered and anxious, as if she was afraid that she would not be able to catch it any later. She even tried to scoop up the spilled jar, which ran through her fingers and dripped into the dirt, making it impossible to tell which jar was which.

Blood flowed out of the wound of his fingers, Lu Yu didn't realize it, and he forgot about Pei Yunyi on his side, as if in this world, only the things in front of him are the most important.

Pei Yunyi saw her panic for the first time.

Even if he asked aggressively in Wan'en Temple, was patrolled to break into the hospital at night after the Gongju case, or even earlier, Baoxiang was held hostage by robbers downstairs, and when she was on the line of life and death, she never showed a panicked look.

But now, she is scooping up the broken soil, and she is lost and panicked.

Pei Yunyi narrowed his eyes.

A ridiculous thought rose from his mind.

Looking at the woman who was carefully picking up the dirt, the young man hesitated for a moment and said, "This is ...... Grave soil? ”

In the secret letter sent by Qingfeng, it was mentioned that all four members of the Lu family died, except for Lu Rou, who was buried in the ground, and the bones of the other three people were gone.

Mrs. Lu was destroyed in the fire, Master Lu was buried underwater, Lu Qian was tortured and abandoned to the grave, and the corpse was eaten by wild beasts.

Pei Yunyi's gaze swept over the four porcelain jars on the ground.

Four porcelain jars, four-sided spirit cards.

No wonder she wants to enshrine such a statue of Guanyin in the small Buddha cupboard in the house.

Obviously, her hands are stained with blood and she doesn't believe in gods and Buddhas, but she has to pretend to worship Guanyin, because what she worships is not Guanyin at all, it is the tablet of the Lu family.

Lu Yu did not answer.

She struggled to reach for the graves that were mixed together.

The graves she had searched for from all over the world, perhaps with the scent of family.

She brought back the embers of the fire from her old house in Changwu County, scooped up the boiling river water from the waterway boat in Shangjing, dug up the damp black mud soaked in the rain in the mass grave surrounded by wild dogs, and secretly went to her sister's unmemorial cemetery and took away a small piece of loess.

She couldn't find any other remnants of them, so she had to put the muddy water in a porcelain jar and put it in the house, as if she could be with her family.

And now, the mud and the river were mixed together, muddy and chaotic, like dirty tears, sliding from her fingers.

Nothing can be left.

The movement of holding back the mud slowed down until it finally froze. She sat on her knees, staring blankly at the mess.

A blurry picture suddenly passed in front of me.

It was a long, long time ago.

There are fathers, mothers, older brothers and sisters. In the small courtyard on a summer evening, she sat with her sister and brother and talked about a recent lawsuit in a neighboring county.

A wealthy gentleman seized the young and beautiful daughter of the Changgong family, and the magistrate of Yamen interrogated the case, and the lawsuit spread all over the county.

As a young girl, she bit the wild grapes that had been dried in the well water, and sighed: "It's so hateful, if one day, there are people like Hao Shen who want to harm our family, what should we do?" ”

"There won't be such a thing." My sister replied.

"What if there is?"

"Then go and report to the official!" Lu Qian disagreed, "You have your own law to call the shots." ”

Mother smiled: "Yes, we don't have enmity with others, for no reason, who will harm us?" ”

She was not very satisfied with this answer, thought about it, clenched her fists and said: "If someone really wants to harm our family, then I will go to take revenge!" ”

"Poof-" Lu Qian twisted her bulging face, "Little ghost, you don't look as tall as a table, and you still want revenge?" What revenge, revenge with the slingshot I bought for you? ”

The crowd burst into laughter.

The laughter faded away, blurred, and finally turned into the loess and mud in front of her, and the crystal of the broken jade on the back of her hand.

Pei Yunyi was stunned.

She sat silently on the ground, in the mud, like a flower about to wither.

He finally spoke: "You want to enter the Hanlin Medical Academy, in order to deal with the Taishi Mansion?" ”

"Haven't you already found out?"

"Qi Yutai is Qi Qing's son, and killing him is a fool's dream."

Fan Hong is just a judge of the trial court, and Qi Yutai is the son of the Taishi, and everyone who approaches him will be investigated repeatedly. With the same means, Lu Yu can get close to Fan Hong, but she may not be able to get close to Qi Yutai, even if she enters the Hanlin Medical Academy, it will be difficult to take revenge.

"So what?"

"Our family is an ordinary family, and how many lives are in vain? Why? ”

She laughed miserably, her voice was cold, "Only in the eyes of you noble children, there are three, six, nine and so on. In the eyes of Hades, there is only a distinction between the dead and the living. ”

"Murder pays for life, it is justified."

I really don't know how thick the sky is, Pei Yunyi frowned slightly: "Don't you want to be fair?" ”

"Fair?"

Lu Yu raised his head.

Her black and white eyes showed an astonishing transparency in the dim light, making her look resolute and stubborn. Just like being pushed down and injured just now, she didn't cry out for pain and immediately rushed up again, just like in the embarrassing predicament of being shackled now, she didn't show half of her weakness.

Just looked at the person in front of him coldly.

Lu Yu said: "My lord knows very well that even if this case is handed over to Dali Temple, it will not be any different. ”

She remembered the lawsuit that circulated in Changwu County many years ago, and that lawsuit was actually very simple, and anyone with a discerning eye could see what the truth was. But in the end, the magistrate of the county sentenced Hao Shen not guilty, and the defiled girl went to assassinate Hao Shen with a firewood knife and was beaten to death with a stick, and her elderly father was finally hanged on his daughter's grave.

Lu Yu clenched his fists, and his fingertips were fiercely embedded in his palms.

She will never be a lamb to the slaughter.

"He is the son of the Grand Master, and some are scapegoats to carry him forward. Even if you are really convicted, you will pick it up and drop it gently, and you will be your own person behind closed doors. ”

"He's not going to die."

"It doesn't matter what the truth is, and it doesn't matter if I clear my family's grievances. As long as they live, justice will never come. ”

"Fair?"

She sneered, and her tone was a kind of desperate paranoia, "I'll tell you what fairness is, Qi Yutai killed my sister, I killed Qi Yutai, one life is worth one life, this is called fairness." ”

"I don't need help, I can find fairness myself."

Pei Yunyao looked at her.

She sat on her knees, her voice calm, with a hint of crying that she was trying to hide. He knew very well that this cry was not for her secret to be discovered, nor for the helpless predicament at the moment, but for the people in this grave.

Lu Yu lowered his head.

There was still the rusty silver ring lying in her medical box, as long as she took it out, she might be able to gain Pei Yunyi's sympathy for a moment.

However, sympathy never lasts, he already knows all the secrets, and his identity is friend or foe, and the future is unknown.

Only the dead do not divulge secrets.

She could take advantage of the gap between taking out the silver ring to lower his guard, or poison his tea, or pierce his shoulder well with a poisonous needle...... There was poison hidden everywhere in the house, and she had a handful of poison powder in her sleeve that she could use to poison his eyes.

At the end of the distant streets, the sound of laughter and firecrackers sounded faintly, drifting into the small courtyard with the wind.

Lu Yu looked at the missing inscription on the table.

It's almost time, Ah Cheng said, in order to celebrate the festival, there will be fireworks in Dechun Tai tonight.

The curtain reflects the plum branches outside the window, and the bright moon quietly shines on the flowers. On the Chinese New Year's Eve of Shengjing, the ordinary nobles will share the prosperity of the world at this moment, regardless of the noble and the low.

"Tick-tick-tick-"

It is the sound of leakage dripping.

Soon, it's almost time to be in the sub-hour.

Her fingers had already touched the poison powder in her sleeve, and she was peeling off the medicine paper little by little, and her fingers were about to touch the fine, gray powder......

Suddenly, a handkerchief embroidered with a goshawk was handed to him.

Lu Yu's hand hidden in his sleeve stiffened.

"Boom-"

At this moment, on the distant Dechun platform, the smoke and flames exploded from the night sky of the entire Shengjing City, if ten thousand lights and candles were lit up from the sky, the splendors were stacked in an instant, and the five colors were intertwined.

The small courtyard is also illuminated by this moment.

Lu Yu's eyes narrowed slightly.

Zishi, Chinese New Year's Eve, Spring Taiwan fireworks.

It's a new year.

She looked up blankly.

Pei Yunyi stood in front of him, and the brilliance of the fireworks outside the courtyard illuminated his beautiful eyebrows and eyes, making the fierceness and coldness around him dissipate a little, making him look bright and soft.

The young man bent down, handed the handkerchief closer, and motioned for Lu Yu to bandage the finger that was still bleeding.

"Wipe it," he said, his voice flat, his face flat.

"I was convinced by you."

Six cylinders: Equally create and kill every stumbling block on the road to revenge (including the male protagonist)