A thunderclap broke the blockade of ice and snow.

Fu Guiyi woke up from her dream, she stared at the curtain above her head with wide eyes, her breathing was sluggish, and her heart was beating abnormally.

Outside the window, the wind was blowing, the rain was pouring down, crackling on the window frame, and the whirring of the wind through the cracks formed an eerie melody.

She dreamed of her brother again.

It was also raining heavily on the day Fu Guiyi disappeared, and she watched her brother be forced by the Northern Barbarians to jump into the turbulent river and disappear in an instant.

He touched her head before leaving: "Ah Yi hide and wait for my brother to come back to you, don't make a sound, you know?" ”

Fu Guiyi remembered that she was still sick at the time, and she pulled the corners of her brother's soaked sleeves with all her might, begging him not to leave.

Fu Guiyi gently broke off her five fingers, which already had little strength, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, you know that my brother is very watery, and they can't catch me." ”

Fu Guiyi tore off the jade pendant he was carrying and stuffed it into Fu Guiyi's palm, and then took her favorite bracelet from her wrist.

"Stay good, I'll give it back to you when I get back, and if you don't obey, I'll throw it away."

Fu Guiyi held the jade pendant tightly, and she didn't let go until her father found her unconscious.

She was very obedient, but her brother, who knew how to be watery, never returned.

In this dream, she also failed to catch Fu Guiyi.

Fu Guiyi's five fingers rubbed the jade pendant, and after years of playing, she could trace every line of it with her eyes closed.

The corners of her eyes gradually moistened, and she closed her eyes and put the jade pendant under her lips, feeling its cold chill.

When I opened my eyes again, my eyes burst with a resolute light.

After coming to Nanling Palace for half a year, she finally found a chance to find clues to her brother.

Tomorrow afternoon is another seven-day break as usual, and this time the prince specially asked the prince for instructions, allowing them to go to the first floor of the palace library to select a few miscellaneous books of the general history of Nanling and take them back to study.

Fu Guiyi's heart moved when he heard the news.

Pei Jing had only summoned her once since the last poisoning incident, and the questions asked were all related to her proposed crossbow concept, and there was no other transgression.

Pei Jing looked at her as she wished, her eyes were no longer as dark and uncertain as before, and her tone became businesslike.

The unspeakable deal between the two disappeared tacitly, as if part of the memory of the night of the star-picking feast was gone.

Pei Jing is probably a whim for her, this burst of freshness has passed, where is it more important than his ambition.

Fu Guiyi didn't bother to delve into Pei Jing's thoughts, she had been thinking about more important things these days.

The reason was that when he left the East Palace that day, he happened to bump into the steward of the Library Pavilion who came to report to Pei Jing about important matters.

Fu Guiyi's ear power is very good, she heard the steward say that the copy of the household registration in the capital this year has been copied as usual, and asked Pei Jing if he wanted to see it.

Pei Jing casually instructed him to put things directly into the third floor of the library building.

Fu Guiyi secretly thought, it turned out that in addition to the household registration register, there was also a copy on the third floor of the library. If you can check the registers of the capital over the years, you can peel back the cocoon and narrow down the scope of looking for your brother.

Fu Guiyi walked out of the East Palace as usual, but he was thinking about how to sneak into the library pavilion.

There are not only precious classics, but also extremely private things such as the living notes of the successive emperors of Nanling, which are heavily guarded and difficult to break through from the outside.

Just as she was racking her brains, a few days later, Taifu suddenly announced the news that she had entered the library to pick up books.

It feels like a bit of a coincidence, but Fu Guiyi can't care about it so much, this is her only chance at the moment.

The next morning was a sunny day, and after the spring rains, the thick snow began to melt, making it colder than in winter.

In the upper study, Ural wrapped his little padded jacket tightly, and whispered very unmanly: "Why is the spring in Nanling colder than the winter, this wind drills straight into my bones, it doesn't matter how thick it is, it's so cold that I can't sleep at night." ”

He leaned next to Fu Guiyi and said awkwardly: "Ah Yi, can you sleep at night, or let's sleep together." ”

The pen in Fu Guiyi's hand almost fell, she grabbed the pen hard, and said lightly: "I'm okay, you can find Chi Qiuhong if you are cold." ”

Ural snorted from his nostrils after being refused, noncommittal.

He was at the age of his blood, and this bit of freezing was nothing to him, but he was afraid that something would happen to this premature twin, so he took the initiative to propose.

Looking at the young man's thin face, his skin had been pale since the beginning of winter, and his lips were even more bloody. Especially after the star-picking banquet, I had a serious illness, and my eyes often stared at a certain place in a daze, and I was in a trance as if I could fall down at any time.

It's all to blame Nanling Prince Pei Jing for being too stingy, on such a cold day, where they live, they don't even use the earth dragon, just a few pots of charcoal, and the dosage is also stipulated.

The more Ural thought about it, the more angry he became, he was here to study, not to suffer, and he couldn't help but have a trace of resentment towards Pei Jing.

Chi Qiuhong came up at this time and chatted about some and nothing, and finally led the topic to Xiu Mu this afternoon.

He looked at Fu Guiyi timidly, "I don't want to go to the Library Pavilion, I want to go archery, Fu Shizi together?" ”

Ural glanced at him disdainfully, "You want to ask Ah Yi to teach you." ”

Chi Qiuhong lowered his head in embarrassment.

Fu Guiyi covered his lips with his hand and yawned at the right time, "No, I've been a little tired lately, so I'd better stay in the house and rest." ”

Chi Qiuhong saw that her eyes were slightly blue and black, and her eyebrows were tired, although she was disappointed, she no longer mentioned archery, and when she left, she left a bottle of qi-replenishing pills and a few words of concern.

Fu Guiyi picked up the medicine bottle with a solemn expression, and sighed in his heart that the Chi family was really rich, and the small bottle was delicate and extraordinary, and the blue and white patterns of turtles and cranes were burned on it. I'm afraid that Pei Jing is also like a cavalryman who covets the Fu family, eyeing the Chi family's property.

She glanced at Chi Qiuhong's stunned appearance, I hope that this sister-in-law of the Chi family is wise and foolish, and she must not have a hard time with Pei Jing.

Fu Guiyi was absent-minded all morning, anxiously waiting for the hall to be released.

As soon as Taifu said that it was over, she avoided the crowd and hurried back to Changding Palace to change into dark clothes, and tied her sleeve arrows to her arms.

After everything was ready, let Deng Yi guard outside, and no one was allowed to come in.

Then he hurried to the library without stopping, and there was no one on the way, only two eunuchs with a long breath guarding the door.

Fu Guiyi showed off the waist card of the prince and entered the first floor smoothly.

As soon as she entered, the scent of ink filled her face. The bookshelves that could not be seen at a glance were neatly arranged in four rows, and each bookshelf was divided into twelve layers, and Fu Guiyi's head was just stuck between the seventh and eighth layers.

The huge library is very quiet, with the occasional sound of books flipping and a few people who can't see the whole picture, or shuttling in search of books, or leaning on to flip through them.

Fu Guiyi pretended to be looking for a book, but in fact he quietly approached the entrance on the second floor and saw a closed copper lock hanging on the door.

She cautiously looked around, and when she noticed that no one was looking, she pulled out a slender wire from her sleeve, flicked it twice, and successfully opened the lock and entered the second floor.

The second floor is similar in layout to the first floor, except that it is empty and somewhat eeriely quiet.

Fu Guiyi didn't stop long, went straight to the entrance of the third floor, and used the same method to enter the third floor.

There are more shelves on the third floor than on the first and second floors, densely packed together, and a wall of books completely obscures the view from behind, dim and cramped, and the daylight cast by the windows pulls a long shadow on the ground.

There are few people on the third floor, and there is no care on weekdays, and the air is filled with the smell of rotten books, which makes Fu Guiyi unprovoked to connect with the abandoned palace after waking up after the star-picking banquet that night.

She coughed lightly from the dust, her index finger curled slightly into the tip of her nose.

Fu Guiyi frowned all the way to look for it, and finally saw the words "Beijing Household Registration Record" on the right shelf in the penultimate row.

At a glance, she found that there really was a register of the past years, and she suppressed her excitement and carefully searched through the records of the past thirteen years one by one.

Her brother was lost at the age of five, and no matter when he arrived in the capital, he must have been registered.

There are three full floors, and it is roughly estimated that there are about a hundred volumes. Fu Guiyi had a headache and wondered if he had been looking forward in the past year, or from thirteen years ago.

She didn't have much time, and the library was not open to the public all the time, and it was already a risky move to break into the third floor this time. Since my brother's news came back recently, let's start looking forward this year.

After deciding, Fu Guiyi picked up the most front-end book and began to flip through it, her goal is very clear, according to her brother's age to find men in Beijing, for example, this year's booklet is looking for an eighteen-year-old man, and last year's one is looking for a seventeen-year-old man...... By analogy, those who act alone have priority over those who drag their families, but it is not excluded that the elder brother was rescued by others and brought into the capital.

Therefore, the foreign population takes precedence over the local population.

I don't know how long it took, Fu Guiyi's neck was a little sore after reading a volume, she put the book back untouched, hammered her right shoulder and picked up the one next to her and continued to read.

Nothing.

Fu Guiyi gradually felt that the air around her was a little suffocating, which made her chest thuffy and painful, and she frowned and turned the last few pages, but there was still nothing.

She couldn't even notice that someone was sneaking up on her.

The man was tall, and the shadow cast on the ground was stretched long. His steps were fast and light, ghostly as he moved between the higher bookshelves, and it was extremely difficult to detect.

His gaze was deep, staring straight at the person in front of him who was concentrating on reading, like watching a prey that had fallen into a trap and was still ignorant.

In order to save time, Fu Guiyi's gaze was still on the last few lines, and her hand had already gone to find the third book next to her.

As soon as I touched something, I noticed that something was wrong, how could it be hot?

Fu Guiyi was stunned for a moment, looked up, and the skin color on the back of her slightly brown hand made her tremble in horror, and her fingertips suddenly retracted like an electric shock.

Her back was eroded by the heat, and the hot breath hit the back of her ear, but her whole body was cold and stiff.

She froze in place, and didn't dare to look back to confirm the identity of the person who came for a while.

However, the oppressive and dull sandalwood incense has clearly demonstrated the identity of this person.

Fu Guiyi's whole body stiffened, and the blood in his whole body flowed back to his heart, and he shivered with cold for a while. It was as if the heart was being clenched by a hand, and it was difficult to breathe.

"Fu Shizi, if Gu remembers correctly, the third floor should not be open to the public?"

Pei Jing's deep voice exploded above Fu Guiyi's head.