The Golden Bough and the Dog Verse 87
Over the years, Yun Zhu has wanted to kill Yanxia several times, and has repeatedly let her go, just because she weighed it quite clearly and never violated the most basic principles.
Now there is one more.
No matter what her purpose was, when she was chased and killed by herself, she did not leave Tang Xian to flee alone, and in the difficult moments of the imperial tomb, she also protected Tang Xian, helped her trick the old eunuch out of anger, and followed her into the palace.
The extent of her loyalty to herself is debatable, but her heart for Tang Xian is commendable.
Yun Zhu had never forced confessions from Bai Xiangxiang and Meng Siqing under the criminal law, so naturally he would not treat her like this.
"You'd better stay loyal to her." Yun stopped warning her, and then said, "Go back, take care of her." β
"Yes, yes!" Yanxia humbly agreed, bent over, avoided the plague like a god, bypassed the clouds, and went to the Luoying Palace.
After taking two steps and turning back, she quickly glanced at Yun Zhu and asked quietly, "Then can I tell her, in fact, youβare you her eldest grandson?" β
"Get out." The face of the cloud stopped and suddenly turned black into the night sky overhead.
"Okay!" The smoke and haze responded, and the pace of walking back was much easier.
However, within a few steps, a stone arrow struck from behind, striking her severed arm with precision.
With a miserable howl, Yanxia squatted on the ground with her arms crossed.
In the hall, the two maids carefully checked it, and made sure that there were no insects on the bed, so they helped Tang Xian to let her lie down again.
Seeing that Yanxia was not there, they deliberately stayed with them for a while, and after Tang Xian fell asleep, they walked out of the room lightly.
Not long after, the door reopened, and two figures entered, one in front of the other.
After Yanxia entered the house with a sad face, she stood at the end of the bed, watching Yun Zhu put the cat in the bedside nest, and then watching him sit on the edge of the bed.
There were three people in the room, one asleep and two awake, all motionless.
Yanxia stood for a long time, her arm hurt and she didn't dare to shout, she was very tired, and she couldn't help complaining in her heart.
Trespassing on a woman's boudoir in the middle of the night, shameless!
After scolding a few words, Yun stopped and turned his head to look at her, startling Yanxia.
"Has she ever called me in a dream lately?" Afraid of alarming Tang Xian, Yun Zhu's voice was very soft.
Yanxia's eyes moved, and she replied in a breath voice: "I don't know, I've always slept very deeply." β
Yun stopped and said: "Then don't sleep at night in the future, listen carefully." β
Smoke: "......"
Is it too late to change the tune?
With remorse, Tang Xian on the bed seemed to be sleeping unsteadily, turned over, and let out a vague dream from her mouth, like a person's name.
Yanxia had an idea, and hurriedly whispered: "Shouting, shouting, isn't this it!" β
Yun stopped glancing at her, and the impatience and ferocity in her eyes were surging, and it was so likely that if she dared to talk nonsense, she would cut off her tongue.
Enjoying Yanxia's threatening look, Yun Zhu looked at Tang Xian's sleepy eyes again, moved down from her reddish eyes, and down her fair cheeks, saw a strand of hair curled up on her neck.
Yun Zhu stretched out his hand to smooth out the tuft of hair, and when he withdrew his hand, he inadvertently glanced at it and saw that as Tang Xian turned over, a familiar thing appeared under the pillow.
As soon as she moved her half-collected hand, Tang Xian suddenly turned outward and pressed the dagger that had been half taken out.
Yun Zhu's hand was quickly retracted, and she was not allowed to touch it.
"Who?" Tang Xian opened her eyes in vain, sat up in fright, and held the dagger tightly in front of her.
Yanxia was swept by Yun Zhi and said, "It's me, I'm in the way and want to take it out." β
Tang Xian breathed a sigh of relief, patted her chest, tucked the dagger back into the pillow, and said, "I put it inside, I can't touch you." β
"If a bad guy breaks in at night, you can't use ten daggers, so you have to sleep with it? It's like this every day, I don't know, I think you're going to give me a knife at any time! β
Tang Xian was speechless, biting her lip and bowing her head for a moment, she replied, "Why do you talk so much?" I don't look at the hour anymore, and if I don't sleep anymore, the sky will be bright. By the way, has the military advisor been recovered? β
"It's backβ" Yanxia replied with a wuffled voice, looking at Yun Zhu.
Yun stopped his head, bent down to approach Tang Xian, stroked the void on her cheek from an inch away, and turned out of the room.
The dagger he sent out was taken with him, and he had to sleep under the pillow and no one was allowed to touch it.
Isn't this always thinking about him and thinking about him? I'm ashamed to export.
This time, Yun stopped believing it, and Tang Xian's dream was calling his name.
Chapter 71: Shock
The next day, after dawn, Tang Xian found that Yanxia's arm had been broken and she had roughly tied a splint by herself.
Tang Xian was frightened, "Why is it hurt?" Did you run into a guard? I said I had to change my face at night......
"It's not." Yanxia said indignantly, "When I was looking for a military advisor last night, I was chased by a wild dog and accidentally fell!"
Tang Xian was suspicious and wanted to ask her grandmother to ask the doctor to come and see, Yanxia said that there was no need, Tang Xian couldn't resist her, so she only carefully tied the splint for her again.
The question now is, if you can't move your hands, how can you still make them easy?
"I'm so skilled that I can do it with one hand." Yanxia said, asking Tang Xian to sit down in front of the dresser, "Close your eyes." β
Tang Xian trusted Yanxia's disguise technique very much, closed her eyes and did not move, allowing her to fiddle with her face.
In the past, it would take half an hour to say less, but today is good, Tang Xian only felt that it was cold right now, and Yanxia withdrew her hand, "Okay!"
It's the blink of an eye.
Tang Xian leaned over and looked in the bronze mirror, and saw her unchanged face in the mirror.
No, it was changed a little, and there was a red mole under the left eye that was dotted with rouge.
She wrinkled her brows, looking at Yanxia suspiciously, and the latter stiffened her neck and promised, "I said that Yi Rong is good, and it is good!"
What is this called disguise, covering one's ears and stealing bells?
Yanxia didn't give Tang Xian a good look, and she only washed her face by herself, which frightened Tang Xian and the two maids, and they all suspected that she was being ghosted.
couldn't say that she could do things well, and the three of them were as anxious as ants on a hot pot.
That's when the messenger guards came.
"Your Majesty has an order, Concubine Xuanqiao will go to the imperial study to meet you!"
Tang Xian lowered her head and stiffly didn't dare to move!
After the guard said it a second time, the old lady who led the guard in also gave a stern reminder.
Tang Xian's mind was booming, she didn't have the slightest idea, and when she was desperate, she could only raise her head in resignation.
At that moment, the two maids closed their eyes in despair, the old lady looked surprised, and Yanxia rolled her eyes in boredom.
"Who are you? How is it here? What about Concubine Qiao? The old lady asked repeatedly.
Sure enough, Tang Xian's thoughts were blank and she lost the ability to think about the consequences.
Yanxia drooped her face and said, "This is our family's overseas Chinese concubine." β
The old lady turned to her and was shocked again, "Who are you?" β
She was ordered to guard and teach the concubines and maids, and was adept at recognizing people, and was sure that she had never seen them.
"These two are not the overseas Chinese concubines and ...... who were brought back from the imperial tomb."
"Your Majesty wants to invite this girl who lives here." The guard interrupted Mama's words, "Concubine, please." β
Tang Xian: ...... What's going on?
She couldn't react, she looked at the cold guard, looked at the shocked grandmother, and followed the guard out blankly under the dumb gaze of the maid like a stone sculpture.
Outside the hall, when he saw a lame military advisor chasing butterflies, the guards lifted it by the back of the neck and said, "Bring the cat with you." β
Tang Xian seemed to be in the morning fog of late autumn in the imperial mausoleum, her head was confused, she couldn't distinguish between east and west, north and south, and subconsciously took the tanuki and hugged it, and followed the guards around.
On the way, I met some palace maids, and they avoided the guards and quietly looked at Tang Xian.
Tang Xian is like sitting on pins and needles.
When she first returned to the palace as an overseas Chinese concubine, Tang Xian was not treated specially, nor was she summoned.
The emperor did not summon her, she could understand that the concubines of the old emperor, who had been dead for many years, and the grandsons who had been separated from the old emperor for several generations, were indeed nothing to be seen.
What is the purpose of seeing her now?
It was the imperial study, and Tang Xian hadn't been there when she was still the queen......
At this time, in the imperial study, Yun Zhu read a notebook, threw it on the table, and glanced out of the hall.
Yun An picked up the folds and stacked them, and said strangely: "Brother, do you have something on your mind?" Why are you so impatient today than the other day? β
Yun stopped and said: "If you are not sure whether people are dead or alive, you can bury people." No matter how impatient I am, can I be impatient with you? β
Yun An couldn't understand his words, but he felt kind to the squeeze in his words, guessing that Yun should be in a good mood when he stopped here, and took the opportunity to say: "What the eldest brother said makes sense, eldest brother, you stayed in the palace yesterday, right?" Why don't you stay in the palace these days? You're here, I'll go to your ......."
Yun Zhu was indeed staying in the palace yesterday, and he wrote a new letter overnight and ordered someone to send it to Nanling as soon as possible.
And early this morning, the plan to trap the twins began.
Send all the people she cares about the most to come to her and solve all the problems, what else can she worry about?
There was a figure shaking outside the hall, Yun stopped raising his eyes, and saw the palace maid holding melons, fruits, and pastries in turn, neatly arranged.
After the chief eunuch carefully examined it, he stepped forward and said with a smile: "Childe, everything is ready according to your orders." β
"Hmm." When the words of letting the palace maid go down came to his lips, Yun stopped seeing the chief eunuch and remembered the eunuchs in the imperial tomb.
I have suffered a lot.
She must have been very afraid of these eunuchs.
Yun stopped and said, "You go down first, and leave the maid to serve." β
The chief eunuch was thrown out in this way.
Soon after, the footsteps outside the hall became heavier, and the guard said, "Your Majesty, Concubine Qiao has brought it." β
"Come in." Yun An sat back behind the bookcase in a decent manner.