This palace eunuch should be the old rough envoy guarding the mausoleum here, and he obviously repeats this kind of work every day. After carefully cleaning up a stone statue and not leaving any dust on it, he came to another stone hedgehog nearby.

The beast was kneeling on its front feet, but it was huge. After dusting his back, the old palace eunuch thumped the injured leg that had become more and more swollen and painful due to rheumatism, and then, continuing to tiptoe hard, leaning forward, reaching a fallen leaf attached to the top of the beast's head, suddenly, as if sensing something, he stopped, slowly turned his head, and looked behind him.

Behind him, where the dawn fog was thinning, at the end of the straight Shinto, there was an extra young man.

The boy didn't know when he came, staring quietly, and at this time he walked forward, and his boots landed on the smooth and clean Shinto bluestone pavement, making a slight sound of clarity.

The old palace eunuch watched the young man get closer and closer with a blank expression, and stopped in front of him.

He narrowed his dimly glazed eyes, and his cloudy gaze paused for a moment on the young man's body, and then he turned his head indifferently and continued his business, reaching for the fallen leaf on the beast's head that had not been brushed away.

Although on the way here, Su Yu was ready for Zhao Bandang to be no longer the person she remembered. But at this moment, when she really saw the appearance of the person in front of her, her heart, which had not completely recovered from the impact of Aya's old and sick appearance that day, trembled again.

She moved her lips to make a call, but found that the voice was choked in her throat, and she could not make a sound for a while, until the old palace eunuch dusted off the fallen leaves, stepped forward, and left her to limp away with her stump leg again, and she finally made that call.

"It's me!"

She looked at the stiff back of the man who had hobbled on the Shinto path, and said softly, as if she was afraid that the voice would be too loud and would frighten him.

"It's me!"

"Zhao Bandang, don't you recognize me?"

The old palace eunuch suddenly stopped, as if his vest had been hit by some heavy hammer, and froze in place.

Slowly, he turned his head hesitantly, and two cloudy gazes fell on her face again, and his eyelids kept jumping.

"It's me, Li Yan'er."

"I'm back, Zhao Bandang!"

The corners of Su Yu's eyes turned red, and a smile appeared on her lips, standing in the center of Shinto, looking at the old palace eunuch who was stopped by her.

The old palace eunuch twisted his head, looked at her for a moment, and suddenly, as if he caught the unique light in her eyes that only belonged to her among the thousands of people in the world.

In that instant, his dim eyes seemed to have been stripped of their gloom, radiating a light of disbelief and ecstasy, and his wrinkled silent face burst out with astonishing brilliance. Then the person began to tremble, as if he was seriously ill, and could barely stand, and the dust fell to the ground with his hands.

"Little Lord...... The Lesser Princess...... It's really a small county lord......"

The old palace eunuch trembled his lips and muttered a few times, suddenly as if he had completely come back to his senses, turned around, and walked towards the rain, walking faster and faster, and in the end, the stump leg could not keep up with the pace at all, and could only be dragged behind him in a strange posture, and then, losing his balance, the person knelt on the Shinto.

"Heavens!"

The old eunuch raised his arms high, raised his arms to the sky, and screamed in ecstasy with a trembling voice, and then he fell to his knees and bowed to the young man in front of him with tears.

"Old slave Zhao Zhongfang, knock to see the princess!"

For a moment, he choked up and could barely speak.

At this time, two clear finches chirped nearby. This is a reminder from Pei Xiaoyuan, who is guarding her. It was dawn, and the mausoleum guards began to come out.

Su Yu walked up to her childhood companion, helped him down from the Shinto, carried him to a secluded place where no one was, let him sit on a flat stone, and told him how he had fled for his life and was adopted and grew up safely, without mentioning the name of Ah Gong.

"Zhao Bandang, how did you escape later?" She asked Zhao Zhongfang.

Zhao Zhongfang told her that after she was driven away by him, he was ready to die, but he did not expect that at that time, there was still a ragged young beggar hiding on the side of the road.

The beggar had a rare shrewdness and alertness, and then he successfully evaded the search, and he was lucky to survive the catastrophe.

Su Yu looked at the old eunuch's deformed stump leg that had just been dragged away, and his eyes turned red again.

"Your leg is broken. It's to save me from being like this. ”

Zhao Zhongfang smiled with satisfaction and shook his head: "The old slave is still alive to see the princess return safely, and he is already satisfied!" Don't say a leg, God is taking away the old slave's life at this moment, and the old slave is also willing! ”

Regardless of the inconvenience of his stump leg, he got down from his seat, knelt down and kowtowed again, and solemnly bowed to heaven and earth, in order to save the little county lord in his heart. Then, as if he remembered something, he looked in the direction of Chang'an City, wiped away his old tears, looked at the rain over and over again, and stopped talking.

Su Yu knew what he was thinking.

"Aya didn't know I had returned." She said.

Zhao Zhongfang's joy faded, and there was a faint look of melancholy in his eyes as if he had already known everything in his heart.

"Princess, why are you ......?"

Finally, he didn't dare to ask questions, and fell silent.

"Zhao Bandang, there is something I want to ask you, on the night of the accident, my aunt was summoned to the palace, she never returned, only Guo Dianjun came back, and he called you to talk. What the hell did he say to you? ”

Su Yu asked softly.

Zhao Zhongfang was still silent, and after a while, he replied in a low voice: "The princess asked the old slave, and if the old slave remembers, he will tell the princess." It's just that it's been a long time, and the old slave really can't remember this clearly......"

"It's okay if you don't say it, I'll say it again, you can tell me if it's right." Rain Road.

That night, the old saint had quietly escaped from the palace. Today's queen, she took advantage of her identity to know about this earlier than everyone, so she took advantage of the opportunity that there was no one in the palace, pretending to be the queen mother of the day, and wanted to trick A-Niang and me into the palace to murder her. The court painter Ding Baiya learned the news and risked his life to come to tell him, but Empress Liu found that the people she sent chased after him. In order to get more opportunities for me to escape, A-Niang ordered Guo Zong to come back and take me to escape. As for her and Ding Baiya, after Guo Zong left, they should have tried their best to attract those people to chase and kill, and finally died in the hands of Queen Liu. ”

Su Yu's tone was calm, as if talking about something that had nothing to do with her.

"Guo Zong came back that night, and he was talking about the conspiracy of Queen Liu, and told me to take me and run away quickly, so you panicked to the point where you almost tripped when you came in. Yes and no? ”

As Su Yu spoke, Zhao Zhongfang's face showed a sad look, and he slowly slid down from his sitting, and finally slipped and knelt in front of Su Yu.

"Princess! Princess, don't be cranky—" he pleaded in a trembling voice.

"Really?" Su Yu smiled.

"But when you forced me to flee for my life, and when I turned my head, I saw a face I knew. That person was the guard of the Liu family, and just a few days before the accident, he also came to the door to pick up Li Mao. ”

Zhao Zhongfang closed his eyes, and his body was even more rickety, but he could only kneel on the ground.

Su Yu paused, took a deep breath, and stared at the old eunuch in front of him.

"I'll ask you one more thing, just one word. You have to answer me. ”

The old eunuch still didn't react, just knelt on the ground like that, unable to move.

"You tell me, my Ayah, does he know what happened that night?"

Just when she asked this sentence, she saw Zhao Zhongfang as if she had been pierced through the heart by a sharp needle, stood up suddenly, opened her eyes, and her face was as gray as a dead person.

He shook his head: "Your Majesty doesn't know!" He had no idea! ”

"It's all the sins of the old slave! The old slave can't stand the queen and the princess, and the old slave will go to hell after he dies! It was the old slave who returned to the palace, lost his mind, received the benefits of the Liu family, and was even more afraid that he would die if he did not obey, so he has been hiding it from His Majesty and hiding it until now. Your Majesty, he—doesn't know anything! ”

Su Yu looked at Zhao Zhongfang, who was shaking his head.

"Zhao Bandang, I'm no longer your former little county lord, and you're no longer my Zhao Bandang, aren't you?"

Zhao Zhongfang paused, looked at Su Yu fixedly, and his lips trembled slightly.

"Once upon a time when I was naughty and you tried to trick me into being obedient and lie to me, you would blink. You don't even know about it, do you? ”

She smiled wryly, "I saw you just talking to me, and you kept blinking. ”

Zhao Zhongfang shuddered, and then he slapped himself fiercely: "The princess wants to go wrong!" Your Majesty, Your Majesty, he really doesn't know! ”

Su Yu turned his head and looked at the towering seal at the end of the Divine Dao, and after a while, he said: "Zhao Bandang, although I don't know why you were later driven out of the palace by Aya and sent here to suffer, I guess it should be inseparable from this matter. ”

"My aunt, not only has her name been slandered by sinister men, but if I guess correctly, she should not have been buried so far. She's not under this dungeon at all! I don't know where her bones are now, and how they are being gnawed and gnawed by insects. If she can't be found, she won't be able to receive incense sacrifices from the world, and when her soul reaches the underworld, she is also a lonely ghost who can't cross the bridge and never get rest and reincarnation. ”

She turned her head and looked at the old eunuch who slowly stopped sobbing his face.

"You don't hesitate to defile yourself in front of me, but I know you're not that kind of person. Even if you are more loyal to my Aya, you will not always bear to watch my A-Niang, your former princess, suffer so much. ”

"Just now you are afraid that I will hate my Aya, and in order to protect your master, you have taken all the blame on you, right? But how can you hold it? ”

Zhao Zhongfang's arms hung weakly, and he sat on the ground softly, his face was gloomy, and he closed his eyes and said nothing.

Su Yu nodded slowly: "I understand." Actually, I shouldn't have come this time. It makes no difference between what you say and what you don't say. I just ......"

She paused.

"Zhao Bandang, take care of your health, I will always remember your goodness. It's time for me to go. ”

"Also, if you remember that I was your little lord, you should know my wishes. Lose any loyalty to your master, and do not tell him what I am coming today. ”

After Su Yu finished speaking, he turned around and left.

Zhao Zhongfang opened her eyes suddenly, chased her a few steps with difficulty, and kowtowed vigorously: "Princess! I beg the princess not to resent Your Majesty! He has a hard time! Beg the princess to come back! Your Majesty is now the only one left! ”

Su Yu stopped and turned his head, looking at the old eunuch's eyes full of pleading.

"Aya has his world, what are A-Niang and I."

She said softly, and after speaking, she did not linger any longer, and turned to leave.

The old eunuch's pleading and solemn Shinto were left behind her, farther and farther away from her. She walked on the way down the mountain, thinking about the advice of not returning in her dreams, thinking about the scene last night, the saint, the hand he stretched out but slowly dropped without touching A-Niang's skirt, and his old face full of pain and torture......

Suddenly, she saw Pei Xiaoyuan like an agile leopard, his figure flashed out silently from behind a cluster of thick branches beside the road, and his face, which had always been clear and not much expression, was now showing a little worry, and the two clear eyes looked at her, and her eyes intersected.

She stopped and watched as he continued in front of her. She tried her best to endure the great emotions that were rolling in her chest at the moment, afraid that he would open her mouth to ask, so she nodded at him first, and intercepted: "I'm fine." ”

Pei Xiaoyuan paused, glanced at her again, didn't speak, and nodded, and then, he turned around and walked forward first, leading her down the mountain.

Su Yu looked at the back of him who left him, and the two tears that he had just endured couldn't hold back anymore and rolled down from his eyes.

Pei Xiaoyuan walked out a few steps, but he didn't realize that she followed behind him, turned his face and glanced again, and saw that she was looking at him in tears, and when he was stunned, he immediately returned and asked lightly: "Why are you crying again?" ”

When he asked, he hooked up the infinite sadness of the rain.

From the first moment when she regained her memory and recalled the past, the thing she feared most and wanted to see the most in her heart was finally confirmed.

From now on, she can no longer deceive herself.

Her Aya had already known everything, however, he didn't do anything, except to build such a big mausoleum for A-Niang that was useless.

If this is the king's love, then the mother who has received this love is too humble and pitiful.

Tears flowed down like beads.

In front of this young man, who had been her fiancé and brother-in-law, and was now her most trusted and had no secrets, she could no longer suppress the sadness and disappointment in her heart, and pounced on him, grabbed his sleeve, and cried uncontrollably as if she had grasped a life-saving straw.

"Aye, Aye, I'm Aye...... He knows everything......" She wept and whimpered, and finally, with difficulty, said the word.

Pei Xiaoyuan stared at her tearful face, slowly, raised his arm, wrapped one of his palms around the back of her head, and made her forehead gently lean against his shoulder and chest, and after a while, half dragging and half hugging, he led her behind the dense tree that he had just come out of.

All of a sudden, the light dimmed. Damp leaves were draped down, dripping with the dew that had condensed last night. The insects were full of sleep, and they were busy spinning silk and weaving nets among the branches above their heads. The blades of grass that grew below his feet slowly wet the hems of his and hers' quietly falling clothes. In the direction of Shinto, through the forest and through the trees, there was a faint sound of morning bells.

In this way, he gently embraced her in his arms, and led her to stand in the secret darkness behind the trees, creating a mustard seed world for her to cry and cry as much as she wanted.

I don't know how long it had been, but a rising morning sun shone on the top of the tree, and through the gaps in the branches and leaves, sparse or dense, the golden sunlight shone down on a strand of hair on the top of her head that was still buried in his chest.

"I don't want to go back to that place today."

She closed her eyes, her forehead still pressed against him, and said in a muffled voice with a thick nasal voice.