Chapter 43: Deception
"Yuluo, how long have you been with me?"
In the study late at night, Shen Li stood on the windowsill, just like the night in Xuanyou Town a long time ago. Yuluo knelt behind him, his head down, and he couldn't see the expression on his face.
"Ten years. ”
"Ten years?"
Shen Li muttered softly, looked up at the bright moon in mid-air, and narrowed his eyes slightly.
"Is it because you're tired of the past ten years, or do you think that my master is no longer worthy of your loyalty?"
The sharp turn in the topic made Yu Luo's heart startled, he clenched his hand slightly, and said calmly: "The subordinates don't understand what the master's words mean? The subordinates' lives are saved by the master, and they have long sworn to the sky that they will be loyal to the master in this life." I never got tired of it, and I didn't dare to have a rebellious heart!"
"Heh~ Don't you dare?"
Shen Li smiled and turned to look at him. "Then I'll ask you again, in the sedan chair that came from the White City with the Snow Country army, except for the little princess of the Night Country and a servant girl. Who the rest of the people are?"
Earlier, a spy came to report that three women had come with the army. Two of them have been identified, and only one woman is unknown. The Snow Country Monarch Su Moxie was tightly protected, and it was difficult to get close to investigate. In order to prevent fraud, Shen Li specially sent his personal secret guard Yu Luo to investigate.
"The subordinates have already told the master that the three women are well protected, and the subordinates have no way to get close. In order not to startle the snake, I didn't dare to catch someone and ask him. ”
"Nonsense!"
Shen Li waved his long sleeves, and a vase placed near the windowsill was shattered to the ground. In this silent night, there was a particularly harsh and crisp sound.
"The subordinates don't dare!"
"Don't you dare? I think you dare very much!"
Shen Li's eyes showed a cold light, if it weren't for the feather falling who was kneeling in front of him at this moment, it was Yuluo who had followed him for ten years, he was afraid that he would have already moved to kill people.
"You've been with me for ten years and know my mind. In the same way, I know you very well. Leave nothing else aside, just talk about your kung fu. Looking at the entire rivers and lakes, there are definitely no more than five people who can beat you. Of course, I also understand the truth that two fists are invincible to four hands, but I don't want you to assassinate anyone, I just ask you to investigate a result. You are alone in the world, if I didn't lift you up, there should be no place in this world where you can't sneak in, right?"
Shen Li frowned, his expression quite serious. is already cold, but since losing someone, he has become even more indifferent. He lived in the border city with Shen Yan, and he got along with the soldiers every day. But the soldiers easily got into trouble with Shen Yan, but they were always respectful to him, and they didn't dare to be presumptuous.
"You and I have been together for ten years, although we are masters and servants, but we are also friends in private. You can occasionally guess that I'm mindful, and I only have to look at your eyebrows to know if you're lying. ”
Intrigue and looking at people's eyes are such things as intrigue and looking at people's eyes, for Shen Li, who grew up in the palace since he was a child, it is simply a compulsory course for growth. In addition, Yuluo is a person who has a intestine to the end, so he doesn't need to spend much effort to know whether everything he says is true or false.
"You've lied to me three times over the years. The first time was to help the summer queen hide from me and want to prepare for me to celebrate my birthday in the house. The second time, it was a letter sent by the seventh brother, which mentioned that he went to the snow country, and you were afraid that I would think of my deceased mother because of this, so I secretly tore up the letter. In both cases, because you were thinking about me, I treated it as if I didn't know about it, and I didn't pursue it. But this time, I really don't understand why. ”
Yuluo has been kneeling on the ground for a long time, and Shen Li has been kneeling before he gets up, and Shen Li's words just now surprised his heart, because everything was right. He thought he was hiding it well, although it was just a well-intentioned deception, but the reciting of the word loyalty still made him feel a little guilty. But who would have thought that Shen Li had always known about it......
"Master......"
"Yuluo, I believe in your loyalty, and I also believe that you will not rebel against me. If this is in the palace, you will hide from me and lie to me, and I will not pursue it with you. But the timing is not right now, the enemy is right in front of you, I sent you to investigate, and you came back without saying a word, how can I believe you? How can I not question you?"
Shen Li seemed to be a little angry, and the atmosphere in the entire room tensed. There aren't many people around him who can be trusted. Although Shen Yan knew her, he was a younger brother after all, and he still needed him to protect him. Empress Xia also knew his thoughts, whether she was true or false. But at this time, she is in the imperial city, and there is no way to tell.
And right now, the only thing he can trust is the feather that has followed him for many years. Helplessly, at this critical moment, Yuluo came with him like this.
Yuluo gritted his teeth, and finally looked up at Shen Li. Since returning from the Land of Dragon Veins, the Three Princes have not had a good rest for a day. After dealing with the affairs of the house, he rushed to the border city. Later, he was beaten by the angry Seventh Prince, and when he was injured, he went to the city wall to blow the cold wind and drink. The third prince has practiced martial arts, but it does not mean that he is an iron fighter. He tortured himself like this day and day, and no one noticed it, and no one comforted him.
These feathers are all in his eyes, he knows all the reasons, and knows the pain in the heart of the third prince. But he was helpless, he couldn't do anything. He never regretted doing things, but seeing that the third prince was getting haggard day by day, his heart began to regret deeply.
If he could do it all over again, if everything went back to the beginning, he would rather die himself than save the bright woman who could make the prince laugh.
It's a pity that there is no regret medicine in this world, and what happened cannot be repeated. So when he was instructed to go to the front to investigate the enemy's situation. When he saw the familiar side face of one of the three women, for the first time in his life, he panicked in surprise and was almost discovered.
He thought he was dazzled, so he took a closer look. He heard a lovely little girl call her sister, and he heard another call her a forgetful girl. Forget your worries, forget your worries? Forget your worries, isn't it Mu Yan? Is he looking at the wrong person, or just looking like him, right?
He left the Snow Country camp in a bit of a distraction, and he didn't intend to hide it. But the moment he saw Shen Li, somehow, he subconsciously lied.
He's not rebellious, he's not disloyal, he's just panicking. He was afraid that if the third master found out, would he try his best to keep it? He was afraid of karma, would it be the third master's turn this time? He was afraid that the vicissitudes of the sea would be difficult to recover. If that person is unwilling to stay, if he leaves again, will the third master not be able to hold on anymore?
"Master, in fact, I ......"