His mind was still the moment before when she gently lulled the child to sleep. She had been like that for many nights he hadn't seen before.

He suppressed the sudden churning emotion in his chest and said slowly.

She was silent for a moment, smiled, and said, "I'm not hard. Xiaohu'er is very well-behaved, not to mention that He Amu and them help me. It's you, who fought the borderlands, and almost ......"

She paused, "You don't have to feel guilty about this. Besides, I'm not for you. Little Tiger is also my own child. ”

"The night you just returned, Yang Jae-en said you wanted to see me." She continued, "I guess you wanted to see Little Hu'er, but you couldn't say it yourself, so you asked Eminem to take him home the next day. After he was born, your father and son were separated, and now that you are back, you should have called you two more places to be right. However, he was noisy at night, so he could only hurriedly bring me here again. But it doesn't matter, in the future, whenever you want to see him, just come and visit, don't ask me. ”

Her tone was calm, and she couldn't hear the slightest sense of disobedience.

But she was wrong. He wanted to see her, how could it be just because of Xiaohu'er.

After a period of silent silence between them, she spoke again: "By the way, thank you for the matter of Zhenguo Mansion during the day." Fortunately, you dealt with it in time, and later reported that you stepped on more than a dozen people, and the injuries were not serious. If it weren't for you, I don't know how many innocent people would have suffered today. ”

"It's a blessing that nothing big happened. I'm just doing my part. ”

She smiled slightly: "Gong is Gong." When the army is triumphant, the imperial court will also record the merits and reward them. ”

"Thank you, princess." He had no choice but to do so.

"You're here tonight, but what else is there to do?" She asked again.

"Yes." Pei Xiaoyuan raised his eyes intently and looked at her who was looking at him on the couch opposite.

"During the day, I went to arrest a few beggars who caused the accident, and interrogated them one by one, saying that there was a rich man who didn't know who, thinking that Zhenguolou was blocking his own feng shui, gave them money, and instructed them to make trouble. What the beggar said should be the truth they know, and they dare not hide it anymore, but the identity and intention of the real instigator may not be so simple. Today may be for you, the princess. Please pay attention to this matter and do not let public opinion disturb people's hearts. ”

She was silent for a moment, "The words that the beggar reads are not new words, they have been spread in Chang'an before, and I have heard about it." I made a note of it. ”

"One more thing."

He continued, "On the night I led the people out of the siege, Li Hu recognized the fire and thunder that I planned to use to cause an avalanche to bury the passage, and in fear, he turned around and fled. Those dozen or so fire thunderbolts were made by the abolished prince at the beginning, and not many people should know about them. How could he, a man who was far away from the court and could not see the light, recognize this thing. After thinking about it, I felt strange, but it was inconvenient to pass it on by letter, and now when I came back, I told the princess. ”

She said softly: "In other words, Li Hu and Li Yan have colluded with some people in the court. ”

"The princess should know better than I know who to hook up with. This may be a corroborative evidence. ”

She looked at him, and suddenly said, "You just came back, first take care of your body thoroughly." Rest for a few more days, and I'll talk to you about it. ”

Her words were extremely vague, but Pei Xiaoyuan immediately understood.

"I'm in good health, and if anything happens, the princess can call me at any time, and I don't have to worry about anything else." He said immediately.

She didn't answer, only turned her two crystal eyes, and finally her gaze fell on him, and she glanced up and down a few times.

Pei Xiao Yuan felt uncomfortable, only to feel that the skin hidden under his clothes seemed to be gently swept by fine feathers, and he felt that her gaze seemed to stop at his chest wound first, and then fell on his hand.

The wound on the severed finger had long since healed, but it still looked horrible. He subconsciously didn't want her to see it, raised his arm slightly, and turned his hand back a little without a trace.

She paused for a moment, closed her eyes, fell back on his face, and asked, "Is there anything else you need?" ”

Her question came a little suddenly, and he was stunned, and he couldn't come out for a while.

She nodded: "It's okay, then go back to rest early." It's unfortunate that you're here tonight, Xiaohu'er has to sleep, so it's not good to wake him up. Next time you want to see him, just come early. ”

Pei Xiaoyuan realized that she was leaving, and with a little eagerness, he said, "I'm really fine!" The princess doesn't have to worry about that. ”

"I asked the military doctor, Ashina was so injured that you were not lightly injured, and in a few days it was the battle of Guangming City, and you came back in such a hurry, and it didn't stop repeatedly, either fighting or running on the road. Are you an iron-clad man? ”

She got up from the couch, walked over and put on her embroidered shoes, turned her eyes, and smiled at him next to her.

"Go back and rest for a few days. Just wait for my message. ”

"I'm not sending it. You're at your own convenience. ”

A light breeze with a faint fragrance blew across Pei Xiaoyuan's face. She had walked past him.

His breath froze, and he turned to follow, seeing that she had walked to the screen, about to leave.

"Princess!" His heart suddenly became hot, and he blurted out.

She stopped, her back paused, and slowly turned to face him, but she didn't ask a question, only looked at him quietly with a pair of bright eyes.

"Whatever you do, you can leave it to me. I will do my best to plan for you, even if you are broken. ”

Looking into these eyes, he tried his best to suppress the infinite tide of emotion that was surging violently in his chest again, and said word by word in a restrained voice that was almost transposed.

She listened, stood still for a moment, did not answer, only continued to walk forward a few more slowly, and suddenly, in the eyes of the two fire-like and almost burning gazes from behind her, she stopped again and turned back.

"You've lost something, here's me. Give it back to you. ”

Clueless, she said this lightly, she left the dazed person, turned out of the screen, walked out of the small pavilion, called Yang Zaien, and whispered a few words.

Pei Xiaoyuan chased her out, and saw that she had gone to the inner hall, and without looking back, her figure disappeared behind the curtain again.

"Ask the horses to come with the slaves." Yang Jae-eun said, and then led the way.

Pei Xiaoyuan was confused, followed Yang Zaien on the road, and couldn't help but ask what it was, but the palace eunuch refused to speak, only smiled and prevaricated, and knew what he said.

Pei Xiaoyuan gave up, followed him out of the dormitory, walked through the corridor and wall in the palace, and gradually approached the Imperial Horse Garden.

There is a dragon stable in the forbidden garden, and there are many horses. In the palace, in order to facilitate the emperor's access, there is another imperial horse garden.

When Pei Xiaoyuan realized where he came, he suddenly realized, but the next moment, he felt unbelievable, and he couldn't believe the idea that came to him just now.

He stopped outside the Imperial Horse Garden. Yang Zaien finally stopped selling Guanzi, and said with a smile: "Congratulations to the colt, it's a great good thing!" The golden black horse is really a divine horse, and it has not been lost, but it is raised in it. Fang Cainu didn't say it, he wanted to surprise the horse. Horses, please come with the slaves! ”

Pei Xiaoyuan's heart beat faster, and he was in ecstasy, and he walked inside. When he was brought to a very clean stable, he saw the shadow of a horse he knew in the distance, and he galloped to the stable.

Before he could open the stable door, he held the top of a fence log in the palm of one hand, and leaped forward, landing his feet on the haystack that smelled of grass.

"Golden Crow!" He called out and rushed forward, wrapping his arms around the horse's neck.

Jin Wuqi also immediately recognized the owner who had been absent for months, and hissed with joy.

Yang Zaien and Yuan Cheng here finally arrived breathlessly, and smiled when they saw this, saying that Jin Wuqi suddenly appeared in the field outside the Tianlong Stable half a month ago and was discovered. At that time, he was thin and dirty, with all kinds of abrasions on his body, and one of his hoofs had fallen, so he was very vigilant and ran away when he saw people. When the people over there recognized it, they were very surprised, and they didn't know how the horse's mount could return to Chang'an from Hexi alone, and seeing it like this, they had suffered a lot on the road, and they couldn't get close, so they immediately reported to the princess. When the princess heard the news, she rushed over in person, and called out repeatedly, but it should have recognized her, so she stopped and followed the princess back to the palace. Subsequently, the princess sent someone to treat its wounds and carefully maintain it.

"What a miracle! It has been wandering on the road for almost two months! I don't know how much hardship I suffered, how many bad people I escaped, and then I got it back! ”

When Yang Zaien talked about this, he was still amazed and sighed.

Pei Xiaoyuan was distressed, and made love with Jin Wuqi for a while, and stroked his palm over its bare back, which was so thin that it had not yet fully grown back into flesh, and suddenly, the person was excited.

"When it comes back that day, will it have a saddle bag on it?" He jerked his head and asked.

"In!" Na Yuancheng nodded hurriedly.

"I've been wandering for two months, and I'm still in the saddlebag on my back, so I'm called a god horse!"

"Where's the bag?" He had a vague premonition.

"The princess took it." Yang Zaien said with a smile, "Don't worry, the princess will keep the things in the bag for you." ”

Pei Xiaoyuan's heart was beating wildly, and the blood in his whole body, at this moment, seemed to be all pressed to the chest place.

He could barely breathe, his eyes closed, and he was motionless.

"What's wrong with you, colt? Could it be something of value? If there is, then go here, and ask the princess to know that as long as the golden crow is not lost on the road, it will not be lost. ”

Yang Jae-eun finally felt that his face was strange, as if something was wrong, and he was worried about asking.

Pei Xiaoyuan opened his eyes and saw that the two people on the other side were looking at him suspiciously, and soon, he returned to his original state and smiled: "I'm fine." There are no important items in the bag. It's just that I suddenly learned that Jin Crow was still there, and I lost my temper for a while. ”

Yang Zaien and Na Yuan Cheng breathed a sigh of relief and echoed with a smile: "Indeed! Who wouldn't be surprised to hear this? No wonder people say that old horses know their way! It's really a god horse! At that time, the princess hugged it, and she also shed tears! ”

Pei Xiaoyuan was silent.

The golden crow had miraculously returned, but what about the fish talisman he had hidden in the saddlebag at the time?

The bag was made of animal skins, and he pierced it tightly before handing it over to the green head, so that it would not be broken unless he cut it with a sword.

According to Yang Zaien, the pocket seems to be fine.

In other words, as long as Jin Wuqi hadn't accidentally thrown things out on the road and lost them, then there was a good chance that his hidden fish talisman would be with her, and she would have seen the words he left for her before he decided to die that night.

What did she think, how did she see him?

If the fish talisman was lost halfway, it would be okay, and she clearly saw it, without mentioning a word, and tonight, she suddenly told herself the news of the return of the golden crow.

What exactly did she think of him?

Pei Xiaoyuan's mood was like a mess, and it was extremely chaotic. Every word, every look, every look she said when she met him appeared in front of his eyes, and he couldn't help but become more and more confused, and in the end, he couldn't even figure out himself. Did he want her to see the fish talisman, and would rather the fish talisman be lost halfway through, and never let her see it?

"Thank you two, you can do it yourself, don't worry about me."

Realizing that there was someone next to him, he smiled steadily.

Yang Zaien and Na Yuan Cheng knew that he liked Jin Wuqiu, and thought that the missing foal was suddenly by his side, and it was normal to want to be alone, so they each retreated.

Sending the two away, he led Jin Wuqi out of the palace and walked on the way back to Yongning's house, but the joy of his beloved horse's recovery could not offset the shadow that ensued his heart.

His mood became more and more depressed, and not only that, but there was a faint sense of unwillingness.

He was really unwilling, so he went back in a daze, as if nothing had happened.

He stopped, and his heart kink again when the scene he had seen last night with her and Lantai came to mind.

Obviously, the two of them have a very good relationship. They looked more like familiar friends than regents and ordinary courtiers.

He needed to go back.

Even if it's late, even if he disturbs her, he must figure it out.

He no longer hesitated, turned around, returned to the palace gate where he had left, and temporarily entrusted the golden crow to the palace guard, and then he walked quickly towards her bedroom.

When he returned, the whole dormitory was quiet, everything had fallen asleep, only a few clusters of frangipani planted next to the palace road had not yet fallen asleep, and the delicate yellow flowers on the branches were crowded one after another, spitting wisps of fresh fragrance, and the fragrance was more refreshing than during the day. However, Pei Xiaoyuan had no intention of appreciating the beauty of the night, he hurriedly walked by, hooked the branches at the corners of his clothes, and followed his steps, dragging a few clusters of petals to the ground, and he didn't notice it.

A few palace lamps swayed gently in the night breeze, and in the corridor outside the dormitory, there were a few palace eunuchs, who suddenly saw him go and return, hurriedly came to greet him, and whispered: "The princess should have fallen asleep." ”

They didn't seem to be trying to get in the way, just to inform. It is true that he is nothing in front of her, but in the eyes of others, he is still a colt.

He silently walked up the steps of the palace into the same place where he had been tonight. The door of her dormitory was bolted. He knocks at the door and summons the candles for the night. Candle rubbed her sleepy eyes, and when she saw that it was him outside the door, she couldn't help but be surprised again.

"Go and talk to the princess, I have something to do, I want to see you." He said.

Candle nodded in a daze and hurried in. After a while, she came out and said, "The princess said, "You can come in yourself, donkey." ”

He continued to go inside, and finally came to the door of the inner sanctum.

Inside the door was a quiet glow of light. He lifted his hand and gently tapped the door.

The door is open.

Slowly, he pushed the door, relaxed his steps, and slowly entered.

Little Tiger slept soundly on a small bed. On the ground in front of the bed, there is a pair of cloud-headed embroidered shoes. She leaned on the head of the bed, her temples fluffy, falling on her chest like a dark cloud, and she covered her body with a silk quilt at random, and quietly looked at him who walked in.