Changshun led the two into the mansion, personally sent them into the house, and told Baozhi a few words before leaving.

Although this mansion has not been inhabited for a long time, it has already made preparations in advance because of the travel of the Son of Heaven, and a charcoal stove has been lit inside to isolate the cold outside.

took off her shoes and went to the bed, and Wei Shuyao felt alive. After a bumpy day, although the body was warm, the toes were numb from the cold, and the wood seemed to be unconscious.

She has been pampered since she was a child, and only when she went to Hezhou to explore the army when she was a child, she suffered from a long journey. This time, it was freezing cold, and a pair of soft little feet were itching to scratch their hearts and lungs, and they couldn't wait to rub their skin.

"Ouch my girl, if you rub it again, the skin will break." Baozhi carried the soup woman into the house, stuffed it into the quilt, and hurriedly stepped forward to take a look.

Seeing that the snow-white and slippery instep was already rubbed red, Baozhi thought about it, turned around and went out again.

Since Wei Shuyao was grounded, Xie Mingyi has not appeared in front of her in the past few days, and even Chang Shun has rarely come, that is, the important matter of resettlement of the residence today has only appeared.

"Father-in-law Cui has more important matters, if the girl has something to find His Royal Highness in the future, the villain will transfer it."

Replacing Changshun is a young eunuch with clear eyebrows, named Liang Jin, who is about sixteen or seventeen years old, but his stature is not short, half a head taller than Changshun.

Although this person is young, although he is wearing a green shirt of an eunuch, he can faintly see strong arm strength, not as pleasant as Changshun, a little arrogant, indifferent to Wei Shuyao, and ignores him.

"The villain also advises the girl, if it is not an important matter of life, don't disturb Your Highness at will."

Wei Shuyao later learned that this person was Xie Mingyi's henchman brought back from the border pass, and he was originally a eunuch because of a congenital stubborn disease, but he was one of Xie Mingyi's close-quarters secret guards, especially good at short-bladed grabbing, obviously to take care of her.

Baozhi bypassed Liang Jin, who was leaning against Liang Jin in front of the door, and did not dare to show his dissatisfaction, his face was still amiable, and he quietly rolled his eyes when he entered the house.

"He is such a character, you don't have to worry about him, after all, he is a close confidant of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince." Wei Shuyao took the soup woman handed over by Baozhi and comforted her.

The heat of the soup woman under her feet came, Wei Shuyao gradually felt sleepy, couldn't help but take off her clothes, and shrank directly into the warm quilt, her eyelids became heavier and heavier, and her eyes were half-open and half-closed.

Wei Shuyao was sleepy and fell asleep after a while.

At night, when the wind and snow were coming, the wind slammed open the windows, causing the window lattices to "crackle".

Wei Shuyao woke up in the cold, and saw that the pen holder and inkstone on the case had been swept to the ground, and the ground was in a mess.

She frowned, pulled her coat casually, pulled her shoes, and went down to pick them up.

As soon as he squatted down, he suddenly smelled a faint smell of rust wafting into the room. Immediately after that, an extremely domineering force kicked open the door, and the cold wind carried a strong bloody breath and came straight towards her.

Wei Shuyao's hand holding the inkstone stiffened, and she couldn't help but tremble.

She raised her eyes stiffly, and saw more than a dozen corpses lying on the ground in the courtyard, their bloody heads rolling to the ground.

One of them, a young woman, who had not yet taken her breath, was looking at her, her apricot eyes full of fear and unwillingness, and her pale lips opening and closing, as if she wanted to say something to her.

The inkstone in Wei Shuyao's hand fell to the ground with a "bang".

That's the treasure branch.

She was covered in a pool of blood, her pale face splattered with scarlet blood, and her body was in a strange twisted posture as she struggled to crawl towards the room, as if she was reaching out to grab something.

"Girl...... Run...... Run...... her voice was thin and unusually clear.

Wei Shuyao couldn't move, her pupils shrank, but it was because of the person who walked slowly behind Baozhi-

It's Xie Mingyi.

He indifferently picked up the long sword in his hand, crossed the treasure branch that was paralyzed on the ground, and his eyes fell on Wei Shuyao. The clear and handsome face was covered with blood, and a pair of angry black eyes looked at her deadly.

With a "poof", Xie Mingyi pierced Baozhi's chest expressionlessly, dragging the long sword and approaching step by step.

The blade of the blade, which was still dripping with blood, scraped the ground, and the sound was sharp and piercing.

He walked up to Wei Shuyao, stretched out his blood-stained long fingers, and slowly stroked her cheek, the force was neither light nor heavy, as if he was wiping his beloved porcelain.

"A-Yao...... My mother was killed by the faint king, my father was hanged to death, and none of the 483 members of the family survived, and I got up from the sea of corpses and blood, and I wanted to avenge them...... Now the great cause has been accomplished, and all those who have harmed them have gone to hell. Now, you're the only one left. ”

"Oh, don't worry, I'm very light, it won't hurt very much."

With a very soft sigh, the sword slashed through her snowy neck, and she suddenly collapsed before noticing a tear of blood fall on her face......

"Girl! Girl! ”

Wei Shuyao was awakened by the violent pushing.

Like a person who has been saved from drowning, she gasped for breath and sat up, only to find that she was sweating like pulp.

"The girl just had a nightmare, and she couldn't wake up, but she frightened the slave."

Baozhi came forward to change her clothes, and said worriedly: "Don't be a recurrence of the old disease, the slave went to Liang Jin and asked him to find a doctor to take a look?" ”

Wei Shuyao's lips were pale, she raised her hand and touched her forehead, and her cold fingers pressed the wound that had scabbed and fallen.

The cone pain brought her to her senses, she took a deep breath and shook her head, "I'm fine, don't bother him." ”

Liang Jin didn't want to see her, she didn't want to be angry with a lot of fanfare.

Because Fang Cai's nightmare was too terrifying, Wei Shuyao lost her sleepiness, clutched the quilt tightly, and looked at the beams of the room.

Baozhi lay on another couch and looked at the petite figure that was huddled.

I saw that her pale cheeks were like jade and snow, and her frightened eyes were filled with tears, a little less ordinary and more delicate.

She couldn't help but sigh silently in her heart. The girl was born so beautiful, how could His Royal Highness the Crown Prince bear not to see her for so many days......

After a while, Wei Shuyao heard Baozhi speak in a low voice, "The girl just had a terrible nightmare, so she really doesn't need a slave to find a doctor?" His Royal Highness has always taken care of the girl, and he doesn't expect to ignore it. ”

Wei Shuyao was silent for a long time before she whispered: "Actually, he took care of me for another reason, not out of his original intention. Don't talk about it again. ”

Baozhi didn't know what to do, but he still answered softly, turned over and quieted down. In the darkness of the night, the sound of her well-proportioned breathing was gradually heard.

Wei Shuyao still pursed her lips tightly, and the figures of Xie Mingyi in the dream and Xie Mingyi in reality were intertwined and overlapped in her mind, and they were quickly separated.

The realistic feeling of the blade slicing through her neck was eerie, and she bit her lower lip deeply, curling herself up.

How could you have such strange dreams?

Maybe it was he who pressed her on the couch a few days ago, and for the first time he leaked his murderous intent to her, which made her have a shadow. Or maybe she has been worried about his revenge on her, and she has been depressed to this point?

If it was for the past, Xie Mingyi should hate her, but if she didn't sin like this, how could she fantasize about him who was so crazy and paranoid?

Wei Shuyao couldn't help but fall into memories, remembering when she broke off with Shen Yien three years ago......

It all started when she was 14 years old.

At that time, Xie Mingyi followed Shen Xingliang and was ordered by the imperial court to go to Fuzhou to quell the coastal bandit rebellion.

Fuzhou is near the sea, and the rogue has disturbed the sea line for decades, making the people miserable. The sea pirates are cunning, especially good at water warfare, and often when victory is in sight, they pretend to retreat to the sea, lure the army deep into the sea, and finally form a situation of encirclement and suppression.

The Great Wei sailors were weak in pursuit, and Shen Xingliang had no choice but to order Xie Mingyi to lurk in the pirates, and finally won a complete victory, and all the pirates were caught in one fell swoop.

never thought that when he was supposed to return to Beijing to receive the reward, someone falsely accused Shen Xingliang, saying that he was arrogant and embezzled the seized property. King Ning even speculated that Shen Xingliang deliberately delayed the battle in order to win military merits, and indulged the Haikou to loot the people's fat, so as to catch the cicada and the mantis behind.

Shen Xingliang was originally upright, and when he heard this, he was furious, refused to admit it, and almost lost half his life in the edict. In the end, with the protection of Yao Xiangli, Shen Xingliang was able to save his life, and was belittled by the Son of Heaven to Suzhou in the north, and ordered him to garrison the border pass and not return to Beijing.

In this case, the British public health guard, who had always been good friends with Shen Xingliang, instead of pleading and watching coldly, advised the saint to strictly investigate Shen Xingliang's cronies in the account, and several generals were demoted together, and Xie Mingyi was also among them.

Even Wei Meng personally came to apologize to Shen Xingliang afterwards, saying that he was also deceived by slander, and sent generous gifts to make up for his mistakes. But Shen Xingliang should not close the door, which can be regarded as a complete cut from Wei Meng.

It was not until Xie Mingyi was restored to the status of the crown prince that Shen Xingliang was able to wash away his grievances and return to Beijing to be crowned. The person who was falsely accused in the past was personally beheaded by Xie Mingyi under the sword and thrown to the mastiff dog to eat.

Not long after, on the night of the palace change, Xie Mingyi shot King Ning with an arrow through his heart, his eyes were solemn, and he said: "Evil accumulates disasters, and it is not a pity to die." ”

It can be seen that he is haunted by the events of that year.

And it was during the tension three years ago that Wei Shuyao accidentally punctured her prank again-

At that time, Shen Xingliang had just been taken into prison, Xie Mingyi was anxious, and in a hurry, he found Wei Shuyao and wanted to ask her to ask the British public to ask for a few words.

Wei Shuyao tried her best to coax Xie Mingyi to go back, asking him to wait first, don't act rashly, and wait for her to intercede with her father.

Clinker, she had just eaten from her father's closed-door soup, and she met Mrs. Lu's daughter, and her handkerchief was handed over to Lu Qingwan to come to look for her.

"What's the matter, seeing your sad face, that little mute came to you to intercede?"

Lu Qingwan asked two sentences in surprise, and said in surprise: "It's strange to say, we didn't say yes, it's just a gambling contract, I see how you are getting more and more interested, and you are really obsessed with that kid?" ”

Wei Shuyao was upset, she didn't want to listen to her jokes, raised her eyebrows and said coldly: "Where am I serious, it's just a gesture to pass on a word for him!" Even if it weren't for him, with me studying in the Shen Mansion for so many years, I should have interceded with my father. ”

Lu Qingwan saw that she was annoyed and angry, and wanted to tease her more and more, and sighed: "It's true, our delicate daughter, if she marries a poor boy in the future, Grandpa Guo is afraid that she will vomit blood." ”

"How could I please him!" Wei Shuyao was anxious and depressed, and couldn't help but say angrily: "How long is there left in our gambling contract, I don't want to see him again, when this matter is over, you don't have to talk nonsense!" ”

Lu Qingwan saw that she was really angry, so she hurriedly suppressed her look, shook her hand and whispered: "Okay, okay, don't be angry, I know that you two are innocent." ”

The sun was scorching, and the two little girls held hands and whispered a whisper, unaware of the clear figure in the shadows under the eaves of the corridor in the distance.

His eyes were deep, and he looked at the bright little girl for a long time.

At the end, he finally lowered his eyes, clenched the hosta he had forgotten to give her in his hand, and almost wanted to break his palm.

……

Outside the window, the sky is getting brighter.

Wei Shuyao opened her eyes, numbly moved her stiff arm, and tilted her head slightly.

A ray of warm sunlight poured in through the panes, and fine dust danced in the light.

She was stunned for a while, and then slowly got up, put on her own clothes, and walked to the front of the desk with her groggy head on her head.

Wei Shuyao dipped her pen in ink and began to write letters.

The mistake of the past has been cast, and she doesn't want to defend herself, except for sincerely apologizing to him, it seems that she can't make up for anything.

It's just that......

Wei Shu Yaofu began to be stunned again.

She remembered that later she begged her father for a long time, and her father clearly promised her, saying that she would go to the saint to plead for mercy, but how did she get to Shen Xingliang's words, but it was her father who admonished her to punish her?

Something must have gone wrong.

But she didn't have time to think deeply, and she was exhausted by many things lately.

She had to concentrate on thinking, Chun Yu might be the only chance she could seize right now, she had to escape the Imperial City and save her life.

Wei Shuyao quickly finished writing the letter, carefully folded the letterhead a few times, and put it into a newly made bag.

She got up and pounded her sore waist after sitting for a long time, and went out carefully while everyone was sleeping.

This courtyard is exquisitely arranged, and the scenery is cleverly winding through the path, and Wei Shuyao quickly followed the path to Xie Mingyi's residence.

Because Xie Mingyi was happy, there were no attendants around. She stood under the porch and was silent for a long time. A ray of sunlight fell, and the faint light spots made her eyes a little misty.

She bit her lip, stepped forward, and knocked on the door.

Soon, Changshun opened the door and came out, and when he saw her, he couldn't help but be stunned, and hurriedly closed the door with his backhand, and asked softly: "The girl has something to find His Highness?" ”

Wei Shuyao bowed, "I have something I want to hand over to you to your Highness." ”

As he spoke, he took out the bag he had embroidered from his sleeve and handed it over.

Wei Shuyao paused, lowered her eyes, and said, "If something happens to me one day, you will hand it over to him." ”

Changshun was slightly stunned, then put away the bag and said with a smile: "The girl is worrying about the sky, with His Royal Highness protecting you, you will definitely be safe and sound." ”

Wei Shuyao smiled lightly, and was about to turn back, but heard a clear voice outside.

"The imperial brother hasn't gotten up yet, I'm just waiting here, just waiting for him to go with him to say goodbye."

Wei Shuyao raised her eyes at the sound and saw a young man in his early twenties stepping into the courtyard, dressed in a plain attire, raising his hands and feet with a graceful and casual manner.

That person has an outstanding appearance, although it is not as impressive as Xie Mingyi, but it is also impressive and unforgettable.

It's just that he looked at her from a distance and glanced at her casually, and that look made her feel uneasy.

Wei Shuyao hurriedly lowered her eyes and left in a hurry.

Changshun hurriedly greeted him and said with a smile: "The prince wanted a longbow last night, His Royal Highness has prepared it for you, and our family is about to send it to you, so why bother you to go in person?" ”

Xie Mingjin smiled, but did not reply.

He raised his eyes, saw the back of Wei Shuyao leaving, and couldn't help but be surprised when he saw her turn and go to the inner courtyard.

Xie Mingjin squinted his eyes slightly, rubbed his chin with his fingertips, and carefully recalled the posture of the little palace maid he had just seen, and a ray of surprise flashed in his expression.

It turned out that what my cousin said that the prince had a palace maid to sleep in was true.