He paused slightly, raised his eyes, and looked at her again.

He had never seen her eyes open so wide, and once again they met his.

What kind of look was in these round eyes, panic, horror, despair, mixed with endless pleading, even humble pleading, even lowly pleading, that perhaps even she herself was not aware of.

The time that flowed in the bell leak also stopped.

Yin Niang was suffering from stepping barefoot on a red-hot soldering iron at this time.

In this long and painful torment, suddenly, she saw a glimmer of life.

The young man slowly straightened up again, raised his arm, reached for Su Yu's hand holding the pen, straightened the pen shaft that was slightly crooked in the air because her fingers were so tightly pinched, and said, "Remember to rest early, don't overwork." Tomorrow I will enter the palace for a value. ”

In the pen, his fingers brushed her fingers, cold as ice water.

He turned around and walked out, nodding to Liu Bo, who was still waiting on the side of the screen: "Let's go!" There really is no problem here. ”

The sound of seven or eight people stepping down the attic and the chaotic group of boots gradually faded away, and completely disappeared from the ears.

Su Yu couldn't hold it anymore, only felt that his breathing was suffocated, his limbs were soft, his hands began to tremble uncontrollably, he couldn't grasp the pen, he slipped between his fingers, and fell on the drawing paper.

She also grabbed the edge of the painting, and she didn't sit on the ground on the spot.

At this time, Li Yan under the panel of the painting also fell.

Yin Niang, who came back to her soul, cried with joy because of great joy, rushed to close the latch, and came back to help Li Yan get up.

The wound on his leg was caused by the exertion of the force, and at this moment it was oozing blood, staining a piece of fabric red.

He leaned back on one of the legs of the painting case, and kept his eyes closed tightly and motionless while Yin Niang treated his wounds, until a moment later, Yin Niang turned to Su Yu and knelt down to her again with gratitude.

"Fortunately, the princess was quick and wise, and finally escaped! The sky has eyes, and he also hid that Pei Zhonglang! ”

Su Yu suddenly did not react.

Li Yan slowly opened his eyes at this time and turned to her.

"Thank you so much, sister."

He stared at the silent Suyu, smiled on his pale face, and whispered.

It was night, and this improvised night-long blackout lasted until dawn.

When the morning drum sounded and the door opened, a message spread in the workshop.

It is said that last night, in a green building next to the Jinfeng Building in Zhongqu, a fake vendor who had only recently moved in was arrested. This man was supposed to be the snitch, because he then resisted arrest, he actually flew up the wall, was chased by Jin Wuwei for several streets, and finally when he tried to escape over the wall, a row of bows and arrows were shot at the opposite side, and then he fell to the ground and was arrested.

Not only this person, but also in a dark alley in Beiqu, two hidden people were caught, who should be accomplices of the snitch. After dawn, the bustard and related □□ who heard that the snitch had been found last night were severely interrogated. Not only that, Na Qiu Niang cried and hanged herself, and the entire Qinglou was forced to close for a day, unable to welcome guests.

This news made many green houses and brothels in Pingkang Fang also follow the commotion for a day, and the rest of the fake mothers and autumn girls gloated, and even went over to see the excitement together, and the angry and unlucky old bustard took his daughters out to splash water and drive people, and the laughter at the intersection continued, which was very lively. It wasn't until nearly dusk that the high-rise buildings in Pingkang Square lit up the lamps one after another, and gradually the singing and dancing resumed, and the laughter and laughter from last night completely subsided.

The day is over. At the last moment when the palace was about to close, Su Yu walked out of the courtyard of Jixian Palace.

For the whole day today, she was sleepwalking, losing everything, and even making a few mistakes that only a novice can have. Even Song Bokang noticed it, thinking that she was unwell and told her to leave the palace early.

But she didn't want to go.

She had a hunch that, for her, the incident of last night was far from over.

This evening, almost step by step, under the impatient urging of the palace guard, she was forced out of this place that had provided her with temporary shelter for a day, and returned to the place where she still lived temporarily.

At this time, it was already dark, and she entered the small door of the autobiographical house, absent-mindedly, looking at the stairs leading to the top in front of her feet, and walked with her vain feet to the small building where she lived. When she was halfway up, she suddenly stopped, only to feel that the whole mass of internal organs in her abdomen was violently stirred together, and she trembled.

Pei Xiaoyuan stopped quietly at the end of this staircase, if he had been waiting for her for some time.

"You come with me. Something to ask. ”

His voice was condensed and cold, and without any pause, he quickly passed past her and went downstairs, and walked out of the door of the house first.

Chapter 37

Su Yu was taken to Lu Wusi's yafu.

He did not go through the main entrance, but led her through the secret door, through a narrow passage with high walls on both sides of the sky, and entered a house in the corner of the yafu.

There was an entrance to the basement, the door was cast iron, and the back of the door was pitch black, like a way down into the abyss.

He took the torch from a cronie who he had brought with him to the door, shone it out of the stone steps that went down the door, led her into the door.

Behind him, there was a dull sound of the iron door slowly closing.

Su Yu subconsciously turned his head and looked back. The light behind him was gone.

At this moment, if it weren't for the light from the fire in his hand in front of her, it almost made her feel like she was a little girl running away alone in the dark night when she couldn't see her fingers.

She tried her best to dispel the uncomfortable association, and followed closely the shadow of the man walking in front of her, not daring to lag half a step behind.

He held a torch and led her on.

In the dark underground chamber where you could smell faint musty, there was no movement in her ears except for the monotonous sound of her and his footsteps.

Finally she followed him to a square stone house.

He raised his torch and leaned against a bowl of lamps that hung from the top of the chain like a basin. The fire oil in the huge bowl ignited, and the flames licked and rolled up from the bottom of the bowl along the wall of the bowl, gathered in one place, and with a bang, a huge tongue of fire jumped up, whirring and burning, illuminating the stone room, and the figures of the two of them also intertwined together, casting a black shape on the four walls and above their heads.

He threw the rod into the bowl and turned to face her.

"Who was the person hiding under your case last night?"

He opened his mouth and said the first words since he brought her.

She was silent.

The enclosed space full of oppression made her feel stuffy and unable to breathe smoothly.

If he noticed something about her, he looked around, his tone softened, and he said, "It's convenient to talk here, so I brought you here." You can say anything you can't say anywhere else. I'll take you out early. The words seemed to contain a bit of inducement.

Su Yu tried his best to hold his mind.

He would ask the question, which she had expected.

That's why she couldn't give up for a whole day.

Last night, he had clearly discovered the secret behind the painting. It's just that it didn't go on and uncover the case that side was covering up the secret.

No one knows this better than her.

Her cousin, Li Yan, did not die as she thought back then.

At the moment when Chang'an Palace changed, others were outside, and on behalf of his father, Prince Jingsheng, he went to meet the army that was expected to arrive a long time ago. But he couldn't wait.

It was the subordinates loyal to the East Palace who rushed to kill him in front of the people who rushed to kill him and sent the news of the palace change.

From then on, he began an endless life of living in the dark world, until today, at this moment.

"If you don't say it, I won't do anything to you. But last night's Qiu Niang, I'm afraid she won't have as good luck as you. ”

His voice rang in my ears again.

"The place where you are is is just Lu Wusi's secret room, which is convenient for inviting people to talk, without any malicious intent."

"Keep walking, right under your feet, there's another place. What is going on there, I don't think you want to know. I can't bear to see that beautiful lady last night being invited down and suffering unnecessarily. ”

His expression was as calm as ever, but the words that came out of his mouth at this moment made Su Yu can't help but shiver.

She looked at him as if she had never known him.

He didn't avoid her gaze in the slightest, and let her look at him.

"You should understand that even for the sake of your grandfather and my uncle, I would never want this to happen. Last night, I was thinking that you would also be involved, and I let go of the man who was hiding under the painting. So, all the more so tell me everything you've been hiding. You also have to tell me that only then can I help you. Not only that, but if I incur guilt because of last night's events in the future, knowing everything will give me room to plan ahead. ”

Su Yu understood that every word that came out of his mouth was right.

She should also be grateful to him for opening up last night.

However, regardless of Li Yan's identity, what the outcome would be if she fell into the hands of her Aya minions like Pei Xiaoyuan, she was only in a dilemma at the moment.

She followed his advice and said that the person she wanted to protect last night was Li Yan, would it be like this?

No, it won't. He must have asked her next why she did this, and what kind of relationship she had with Li Yan.

So at that time, how should she answer in order to satisfy the person in front of her?

Her mind was so confused that she felt that her chest was getting more and more sullen, as if the air in the chamber below was so thin that it could no longer support her breathing.

Pei Xiaoyuan waited for her quietly, without any impatient expression on his face.

"Since you don't want to talk to me about this, let's change the subject." He said suddenly.

"Tell me, who are you?"

Su Yu's heart, which was falling into infinite chaos, twitched with his unintentional question.

She looked up at him warily.

A subtle instinct told her at the moment that this should be just the beginning for him.

Sure enough, his next words made her even more frightened.

"Even if you don't say it, I can guess it."

"I didn't go to you during the day today because I was interrogating the people I captured last night. They are naturally dead soldiers, loyal men worthy of respect, and no matter how inhuman torture they may endure, they will not utter even the slightest word against their master. But I recognized one. In order to conceal his identity, the first thing the man did after he was arrested last night was to shave his face with a knife, so that he would be unrecognizable and would not let me see his true face even if he died. But he couldn't hide his form, and his voice. I had seen him before, and he was the person of the imperial grandson of the Jingsheng Dynasty. ”

"So it's not difficult to speculate that the person you hid last night was Li Yan, the former imperial grandson."

"Then the question is, why do you want to shield Li Yan?"

He pressed one question after another, not giving her any chance to think at all, and his voice resounded in this closed stone room, echoing and buzzing, hitting Su Yu's ear drums.

"I also checked by the way today, last night's Qiu Niang named Yumian, she should have been the daughter of Wei Minghui, the general of the Forbidden Army, named Wei Yinniang. In the last years of Jingsheng, she had a close relationship with Li Yan, the grandson of the imperial grandson. After the failure of Jingshengtai's uterine change, she suffered a family change, entered the teaching workshop, and then transferred to Jinfeng Building. ”

"And!" He spoke up next. Another short echo rushed from the stone wall into the ears of the rain. Not only that, but his eyes were also staring at her without blinking, chasing her gaze tightly, not allowing her to dodge for the halfest.

"You are clearly a lady, but you don't listen to dissuasion, and you are willing to risk the world's disapproval to enter the palace to be a painter. If you don't have some ulterior motives, I'm afraid it's hard to be convincing. ”

He began to stride and walked up to hers. The two were so close that he could reach her face with a lift of his hand.

Su Yu saw his gaze stop in front of her forehead again, as if he was looking at something. Then, in the midst of her thunderous heartbeat, he actually raised his arm towards her, and pressed his finger without hesitation on the skin she had not forgotten to trace in the mirror this morning, and slowly wiped away the foreign object from the fingertips, so that the old scar like a remnant star was no longer hidden, and completely exposed to his sight.

"When I met you in Ganliang, I noticed the wound on your forehead. Why do you take great pains to cover it up after entering the palace? ”

He withdrew his hand and took a step back.

"I heard that there is a princess today, but I regret that I was separated in my early years."