Xie Mingyi blocked her hand.

After only a moment's touch, he immediately took his hand back and walked straight past her.

He walked over to the desk, pulled out his chair, took a brand new wolf pen from the pen stand, and slowly lit the city fortress on the drawing.

The sound of the collision of the chair legs when they were dragged out shocked Wei Shuyao's eyebrows.

She didn't want to get close to Xie Mingyi, lowered her eyes, and deliberately went around half a circle before carefully putting the pen in her hand on the inkstone.

Xie Mingyi looked down at the table for a moment.

The gray-black gradient tip of the pen falls on the white paper and black painting, and it is lit one by one.

Wei Shuyao only felt like a point on the tip of her heart, which made her palpitate. Whenever his fingers paused, she was so frightened that she held her breath.

It's like going back to when I was a child when I was checked by my master and son, and I was nervous.

She pursed her lips and stiffened herself at the table. After waiting for a long time, he couldn't help but quietly raise his eyes, and his eyes fell on Xie Mingyi's delicate side face.

He was already good-looking, dressed in ink-dyed white, with an extraordinary bearing, like a natural nobleman, and because of the majesty of his high position, he became more and more noble and proud. Only when he frowned and lowered his eyes, the eyes he showed made her feel a little familiar.

Wei Shuyao had an inexplicable illusion, and always felt that he was not the same as the silent young man in his memory.

Is he really the same Shen Yi in the past?

The ridiculous thought was fleeting, and she shook her head, feeling that the strings in her head were probably too tight.

That face, how could she admit it wrong.

"Go open the door."

A faint voice dragged Wei Shuyao back from her wandering thoughts.

Only then did she hear someone knock on the door, Wei Shuyao hurriedly put down the pen in her hand, trotted out of the door, and took the hand stove handed over by Changshun.

"Your Highness, what's wrong with him, what's wrong?" She moved her lips and asked softly.

Changshun was still carrying a food box in his hand, and he also stuffed it into her, and then whispered: "Your Highness's dinner in the Qianyuan Palace, when you come back, you won't be very happy." ”

"Miss Wei, look, if you don't persuade Your Highness, what else can you use?" Changshun sighed, "Recently, the government has been busy, and His Royal Highness has to keep an eye on the side of the edict, and he has to appease the ministers, and he has to worry about this and that......"

Chang Shun glanced at her pointedly.

Wei Shuyao's hand holding the food box tightened.

I'm worried that she's fake, and I'm worried that the map in her hand is real.

"I know, but I can only persuade casually......" Wei Shuyao's face showed embarrassment.

Changshun's eyes lit up suddenly, and he said with a smile: "Hey, as long as you persuade, even if you talk to Your Highness." ”

Wei Shuyao sighed and returned to the house with the food box. I saw Xie Mingyi taking a blank piece of paper and drawing something with a pen.

The hall was quiet, and only the sound of him being heard as he exchanged books and papers.

He sat at the table, his body straight, and a thin layer of candlelight fell on his shoulders, like a waning sun.

Wei Shuyao looked at Xie Mingyi in a daze, her eyes fell on Xie Mingyi's knees, and then slowly moved to his thin waist, broad shoulders, and finally stopped on his slender fingers holding the pen, which were as smooth as jade in the candlelight.

Indeed, when he writes, he is very beautiful.

In a trance, Wei Shuyao suddenly thought about when she first saw Xie Mingyi.

At that time, she was only seven years old, and she was very tired of doing her homework, no matter how her father coerced and seduced, she was still unmoved, relying on the love of her father and brother, and playing all day long.

One day, Wei Ming took her to the Shen Mansion, and when she passed by the backyard, she accidentally got lost and broke into the small courtyard in the corner.

She carefully crossed the rocks, pushed aside the green bamboos that stood in the way, and saw people in the depths of the bamboo forest.

Under the shadow of the verdant bamboo, a thin and straight young man sat at the stone table, practicing calligraphy upright. The breeze blows, the bamboo leaves rattle, he holds the pen quietly, and the halo falls on his well-defined side face, like a clear crane shadow.

She thought it was the son of a certain family, and stepped forward to talk, but the young man left in a hurry as if he was frightened.

Later, she learned that he was a little mute adopted by a man in the army, and General Shen saw him pitiful and allowed him to go to Shen's mansion to study.

Since then, she has been curious about this young man named Shen Yi.

When Wei Ming heard about it, he deliberately teased her and said: "People are dumb, they can still concentrate on practicing calligraphy, you are a dignified princess, how can you not even compare with him." ”

Wei Shuyao was not convinced, and ran to her father angrily, saying that she was going to study in the private school of the Shen Mansion. Wei Meng couldn't ask for it, but he was happy to see it happen, and finalized the matter with Shen Xingliang overnight.

Therefore, Wei Shuyao studied in the Shen Mansion until she was thirteen years old, a full six years.

Every time she entered the school, she would glance at the young man in the corner, intentionally or unintentionally.

He always bowed his eyes down the table, his expression was extremely flat, and he never looked at anyone. Even if he occasionally raised his eyes, there was no emotion in those cold black eyes.

At that time, Wei Shuyao felt that although he was a mute, he seemed to look down on any child of the family in the hall.

is clearly separated from those children of prominent families, but he gives her a condescending illusion.

But that kind of person, in the end, because of her pranks, was shattered by her and rarely glimpsed a bit of sincerity.

Since the reunion, Wei Shuyao has been worried about how he will retaliate against him.

But he didn't act excessively, so much so that she was suspicious—

The young man who was teased by her in the past, did he lose his memory?

Or, there was no need for him to remember the past, and he didn't want to take revenge on her at all.

Wei Shuyao felt a little bitter in her heart inexplicably.

She should have been the person he hated the most, a depressed past he couldn't talk about.

However, he didn't care at all.

In the past, Xie Mingyi said before leaving the border that he would rather never meet her.

Now he did, judging from his detached and unfamiliar attitude for the past two days, he ignored her, as if the relationship in his youth had never existed, so there was not a trace of emotion in front of her.

If there are no mood swings, how can we get revenge?

Such...... It's good.

"Come here." The man's deep voice pulled Wei Shuyao back from her chaotic thoughts.

She carried the food box, moved stiffly, and slowly leaned over.

Xu was disgusted that she was walking too slowly, Xie Mingyi suddenly got up and walked over from behind the desk.

The cold wind was blowing, the candlelight flickered twice, and his figure was distorted, and more heavily than his face were those lacquer-colored eyes, like a bottomless abyss.

The man's voice was hoarse, "I have something to ask you." ”

Wei Shuyao just wanted to speak, but the cold was intense, and she couldn't help coughing a few times, and then she took a breath before she said softly: "What does Your Highness want to ask?" ”

Xie Mingyi stood under the corner lamp in front of the desk, looking down at the food box she was holding tightly in her hand.

"Haven't eaten yet?" He asked suddenly.

Wei Shuyao struggled to discern the emotion in his eyes. But there was no ripple in those eyes except the pitch-black abyss.

Until this time, Wei Shuyao seemed to let go of the entanglement. She thought to herself that she was probably a pitiful little who couldn't make compromises, so she could only follow his attitude and treat each other as if nothing had happened.

After thinking about it like this, the tone of his voice unconsciously relaxed a little.

"I was very sick before, and my appetite was not very good, so I ......" Wei Shuyao raised the food box a little higher, "Does Your Highness want to eat something?" ”

Her long eyelashes were thick and curly, and when she lowered her eyes slightly, the light spots fell lightly on her pale skin through her eyelashes, making her look even more pitiful.

Xie Mingyi didn't reply, turned sideways slightly, and raised his chin towards Yutu on the desk.

"Eat first." Xie Mingyi stood in front of the table and suddenly raised his eyes, "But, you have to answer at any time." ”

Wei Shuyao walked to the desk and put down the food box. She pursed her lips and bowed her head, "Your Highness, just ask." ”

Xie Mingyi unfolded the map, but his eyes subconsciously glanced at her.

I saw her take out the contents of the food box, and watched her take a spoon and put it on the bowl, and then carefully picked up a piece of pine nut candy with chopsticks, and handed it into her mouth.

Xie Mingyi snorted, "Sugar for dinner? ”

Wei Shuyao's eyes widened, she immediately covered her mouth, and replied: "No, my mouth is bitter, I specially asked Changshun for ......"

Her cheeks bulged out on both sides, and she spoke in an urn like a child who couldn't speak clearly.

Xie Mingyi's thumb and index finger slowly pinched the map, twisted it a few times, and finally couldn't help but let go of his hand.

"Sugar, bring it all." He hooked his fingers.

Wei Shuyao looked at him in surprise.

But she quickly restrained her look, handed over the small plate of pine nut candy, and said seriously: "I heard that His Highness hasn't eaten much, so let's pad first." ”

Xie Mingyi laughed angrily, and his cold face finally cracked a little crack.

"No need."

Wei Shuyao saw that he wanted to speak and stopped, his eyes wandered, and he muttered for a long time before he said, "It's quite sweet, do you want to taste it, Your Highness?" ”

Xie Mingyi raised his eyes and saw that the weak and boneless little hand clenched the chopsticks, picked up a small piece of pine nut candy, and slowly handed it over.

His gaze slowed down and landed on her fingers, and he saw that the slender thin fingers clamped the chopsticks, but the wrist was shaking slightly, and the piece of pine nut candy was about to fall, crumbling.

Like the pretense of composure in her eyes.

After a while, he put down his pen and said in a deep voice: "Hezhou Chaotianque, the painting is wrong." ”

Wei Shuyao was stunned for a moment, and the piece of candy fell down and landed on the plate, making a crispy sound.

Xie Mingyi put down the pen, leaned slightly, took the jade chopstick from her hand, threw it on the plate, wiped some water on his fingertips, and then pressed it on her forehead.

The cold water soaked into the wound on her forehead, Wei Shuyao twisted her eyebrows in pain, let out a low exclamation, covered her forehead and took a half step back.

"Are you awake?" Xie Mingyi looked at her, his eyes were heavy, and the corners of his lips were slightly pressed, "If you have been absent-minded all night, why don't you go to the Imperial Prison to reunite with your father now?" ”

The moist coldness penetrated into the wound little by little, provoking Wei Shuyao to be unprecedentedly awake.

She finally threw away all the chaos in her mind, returned her gaze to the map on the table, and responded, "What did Your Highness say?" I've been to Chaotianque, how could I draw it wrong? ”

The terrain of the three states in the north is dangerous, the mountain range is continuous and winding for tens of thousands of miles, among them, the Chaotianque of the junction of Yongzhou in Hezhou, is a mountain canyon opened by the cliff hole, high as the gate of heaven, the majestic and beautiful and dangerous, the clouds and fog surge all the year round, it is very spectacular.

When Wei Shuyao went to explore the army, her brother deliberately took her to Chaotianque, pointed to the towering cave door in the mountain wall, and said:

"There is the most important frontier fortress in the north of the Great Wei Dynasty, and there is a tendency that a husband will not be opened. If this place is lost, the Beidi Iron Cavalry will cross the Qilan River and drive straight in, like a steel knife pointing straight at the capital. ”

Wei Shuyao, who was only a few years old at that time, was ignorant, and only remembered that between the cliffs, the cave door that could not be seen at a glance seemed to be towering between heaven and earth, and the fierce beast opened its bloody mouth.

"Three months ago, Chaotianque had been razed to the ground, and this road was impassable."

Xie Mingyi glanced at Wei Shuyao lightly, knocked on the edge of the desk with a wolf pen, and said, "After the loss of Hezhou, when the Suyi army retreated to Chaotianque, it blew up this road. The rocks were cracked and piled up, and it was impossible to march. ”

didn't hear a response for a long time, and when Xie Mingyi looked up, he saw Wei Shuyao pinching the hem of her clothes and was stunned.

Wei Shuyao only glanced at it lightly, and then hurriedly moved her eyes. She lowered her head, her fingers hanging at her side curled into her palms, and her face turned slightly pale.

The commander of the Su Yi Army is none other than her brother Wei Ming.

It turned out that my brother died in Chaotianque.

He risked his own life to block Beidi's way south.

Wei Shuyao endured and endured, and the corners of her eyes finally turned red. She pinched herself and stepped forward.

In the upper right corner of the long case, there is a square inkstone, on which the ink strip rests, and the ink in the pool is rich.

Wei Shuyao picked up the pen, dipped it in ink, and then dropped a heavy stroke on the drawing. The three characters on the painting were immediately covered by the ink ball, and the surrounding areas were blurred, and finally turned into a small cloud of ink, and even the twists and turns of the path could not be seen.

She stared at the blurred mass on the paper in a daze, and the tears on her long eyelashes suddenly trembled, and a few drops fell.

"That's right." Her voice was low, as if as long as she bit the words for half a minute, she would shake all the tears in her eyes, "Is there anything else Your Highness has to ask?" ”

Xie Mingyi's thin lips pursed, obviously remembering the reason.

His voice softened two points unconsciously, "If you want to recover Hezhou, you need to choose another way, so ...... You need a map to find out the steep routes in the mountains, and you can think about it again tomorrow. ”

Wei Shuyao let out a low "um", but saw Xie Mingyi suddenly take out a snow kerchief from his sleeve and throw it over.

"Wipe your hands clean and go to dinner."

Wei Shuyao was stunned and didn't know how to react, Xie Mingyi walked up to her, broke her clasped palm, and then slowly wiped her fingers, wiping the ink between her fingers little by little.

His fingertips were wrapped in hot warmth, and his dry fingertips and soft silk rubbed back and forth on hers.

Wei Shuyao wanted to break free, but she couldn't struggle. I saw him suddenly raise his wrist and pinch her chin.

Before she could retreat, the hot fingers had touched her lips.

The clean and slender index finger broke her teeth strongly, and the heat that suddenly entered the tip of her tongue made Wei Shuyao stiff.

She pressed her hand on the edge of the table and jerked back in shock, and with a "snap", the jade chopstick fell to the ground.

The crispy sweetness on the tip of the tongue spreads instantly, dispelling the bitterness between the lips and teeth.

He seems to ...... Stuffed her with a piece of pine nut candy.