Yu Wenqiu looked intently as if he had crossed a layer of ice, and the willow bud who was smiling and not smiling, had become the sharpest dagger for a few days, and stabbed his heart into a hornet's nest, and the explanation that he wanted to rush out of his mouth was like a fish in his throat, and he approached her step by step, "You expected this matter and didn't stop it, it was Chengxin who embarrassed me, right?"

His cool and melodious voice was so smooth that it did not contain a trace of emotion, and Liu Ya's expression remained unchanged, "I gave you a chance, when you were in White Horse Town." She asked him if he wanted to go with her, but he didn't respond, and then he asked him what his purpose was, and she thought that she might be able to help him, and it was he who talked about him left and right, and revealed it as a joke, so what else could he do if he repeatedly ruined his mind, "Do you remember that after the corpses poured down, I asked Ah Qing and Ah Xiu to go up the mountain with Shi Ba?"

Liu Ya desperately hid the bitterness in her heart, "I just want them to find traces of man-made by looking for medicine." ”

"From Peach Blossom Land to White Horse Town, you calculated all the way, I cooperated all the way, it's enough, I'm tired, I don't want to live in the calculation anymore, you let me go-" Her clear and calm eyes met his turbulent and turbulent gaze like a flickering spark, "It's still the same sentence, I really don't want to guess what happened in front of me every moment or even every minute every day, whether it was made by you, and what its purpose was in the open and in the dark." ”

"I admit that I did take advantage of you at first, but since then, I thought you had forgiven me-"

"Well, I forgive you, but it doesn't mean that I like to live the life you are used to. Liu Ya said calmly, "Just because you like me, it doesn't mean that I will like you." ”

Yuwen Qiuye seemed to be plunged into a pool of stagnant water, and suddenly panicked, "Even if I tell you that the ultimate goal of my script is to marry you as a concubine, don't you want to stay by my side?"

Willow Bud slammed her jaw, "Hmm-"

He looked at her silently for a while, "King Qing can put his own people in King Jie, and I can also place my people in King Qing, Xingbu Shilang - Liang Sheng is my person." ”

Liu Ya's heart trembled violently, "What do you mean by this?" The corpse of the second brother was examined by Liang Sheng.

"The people you care about are in my hands. He said, "It's alive." ”

Not only Liu Ya, but also Hu Qingqing and Ming Gengxiu on the side were suffocated.

I only heard Yuwen Qiuye's cool voice and said, "If you settle the holy decree before tomorrow, I will let you see him-"

At this time, Liu Ya suddenly felt a figure rushing out from behind her, standing in front of her with the sound of a sharp sword unsheathed, pointing straight at Yuwen Qiu with a sword and saying, "Give him back to me!" The words were cold.

"Brother Shizi. When Liu Ya saw Du Xinchen, she felt full of grievances as if she was rushing to rush out, and choked up.

Yuwen Qiuye's deep eyes darkly watched her tightly grasp the hem of Du Xinchen's clothes, and sneered lowly, "Don't forget, it was Hui Guogong who pushed him to death as a chess piece, and I saved him." He glanced at Du Xinchen slowly and methodically, "I don't owe you the Huiguo Mansion, where did I pay it back?"

Sensing Du Xinchen's killing intent, Liu Ya said, "Yuwen Qiupage, what do you want?!"

"Let this decree of marriage be nullified before tomorrow. He turned and walked away.

Liu Ya walked into the pavilion and sat down dejectedly, put down the holy decree casually, picked up the wine jug on the table and poured a few sips.

The atmosphere became more and more solemn, and Jiang Zhiyu had no choice but to say, "Yaya, what does King Ye mean by 'you expected this matter and didn't stop it'?

Liu Ya poured a few more sips of wine before slowly saying under their gaze, "It's my plan not to stop it. I just wanted to take this opportunity to have a showdown with Yuwen Qiupage, but I didn't expect him to take out Du Xingyuan's matter and smash her abacus, even though her heart was complicated, but Du Xingyuan was still there, which made her very happy.

"Are you crazy! Joking about the Holy Decree—" Jiang Zhiyu is not angry, nor is he angry.

When Hu was about to speak, Du Xinchen said, "Little Ya'er, why did you expect my father to ask the Holy Lord for marriage?"

"The urgent report of the Western Desert's attack on Jianmen Pass, Ming'er will also be able to go to Beijing, Zhenguo Gong went with Fan Datong, the queen is like being cut off an arm, she wants to stop bleeding and stop pain, she must cultivate new strength, but unfortunately General Huaiyang is old, the adopted daughter of Zhenguo Mansion Yihe and the husband of the county lord, General Yunlu, died early, although his brother is good, but it has not yet reached the point where he can lead the troops to fight, and General Huaiyang will not allow this son to make any more mistakes, looking at the most suitable for him, it is the brother of the prince who has just left his post. ”

Liu Ya said, "Hui Guogong will not refuse this opportunity to go to the next level, but he is also worried about the only remaining bloodline, so he will definitely think of me, who is good at medicine, and let me go on the expedition with Brother Shizi, first, to protect Brother Shizi, and secondly, I can no longer 'help' Yuwen Qiupage to ruin their good deeds." ”

Although Yuwen Qiuye hid in her shadow, temporarily making it impossible for others to notice that he was the mastermind, so that they only thought that she was simple and smart, but if she crossed the line more, she would become a threat, once she married Du Xinchen, the threat would naturally disappear, so that there was no need to worry that the threat would continue to grow, and it could also attract forces that seemed to be available - from the perspective of Huiguo Gong, anyway, Du Xinchen had already let go, and she couldn't harm her, so it would be good to take her into Huiguo Mansion and ease the relationship between father and son.

Jiang Zhiyu frowned and said, "How do you know about this urgent report?" According to the past, they should be able to get the news tonight, but how can she know it first than those of them who have planted eyeliner, and Hui Guogong is too.

"Those of us who do business, what we are most afraid of is war, so there are secret posts on every line of defense at the border to prevent and control a certain degree of loss. Liu Ya signaled that they should sit, eat, and drink, and after sipping the wine at the corner of their lower lips, they looked at Du Xinchen and said, "Brother Shizi must be curious about how Hui Guogong learned about this war in advance, right?"

She slowed down and then said, "As we all know, the Western Desert has passed on the virtuous and not the descendants since ancient times, as long as they have the ability, even if they are from the palace maid, they can succeed to the throne and become the emperor, and since eleven years ago, Zhenguo Gong personally led the troops to crusade and signed a peace agreement with them, they have not come to invade our border again, but now that Zhenguo Gong has died, how can they not take the opportunity to come out and regain their lost face?"

"It just so happened that the king of the Western Desert was bedridden with a strange disease, and those who had individual motives wanted to benefit from it, so they joined forces to create this war, intending to take what they needed. ”

They looked at Liu Ya in disbelief, as if what she said was not a word, but some strange ghost story, and they couldn't speak for a long time, only listening to Du Xinchen squeeze the words out of his teeth with difficulty, "My father, he-"

Liu Ya thoughtfully bowed his head and blocked the words he didn't want to mention, "The one who joins forces with them is Hui Guogong." ”

The solemn atmosphere seemed to be frozen, they digested the unbelievable things they heard, they didn't know how to speak, only Liu Ya's calm voice and the gentle night breeze swirled, "The reason why I talked about this with Brother Shizi is not for anything else, I just want to ask you, do you want to inherit the Huiguo Mansion that has been favored like this?"

"No!" Du Xinchen's hand under his sleeve clenched into a fist.

"Grandpa Guo wants to make the Guogong Mansion prosperous for all generations, but his unscrupulous means will only make the Guogong Mansion fall into a place of no return. Liu Ya looked at Du Xinchen for a moment, "Brother Shizi will inherit the Guogong Mansion sooner or later, since it is a matter of time or time, it is better to inherit it earlier." ”

Everyone looked at Liu Ya in disbelief again.

Liu Ya continued indifferently, "Not counting the other means that he has used in the past, if this matter is used, the Guogong Mansion will be a felony of the Nine Clans, and the prince and brother will watch all the relatives and friends bury the ambition of the grandfather of the country? After finishing speaking, she summoned Yuzhu, who had been waiting at the door of the pavilion, took the wooden box she held in her hand, and handed it to Du Xinchen.

Du Xinchen opened it suspiciously, and there were stacks of new letters in it, and a white thumb-sized medicine bottle, which was all too familiar with his father's handwriting, and he was shocked again, "These are—"

"Evidence taken back from someone else. Liu Ya swept the white medicine bottle in the box lightly, "Even if you confront Grandpa Guo, he will definitely not give up the position of Grandpa Guo as we wish, you need to find a way to ask him to take the medicine, this is my own medicine, but it is temporarily dizzy, I can't speak, I can't write, but there is no other harm to the body, only by trapping him, he can't stop our plan, after all, we need a lot of time." ”

"After that, the elder brother of the prince took the holy decree of marriage into the palace and knelt down to beg His Majesty to take back his fate, but the holy decree is not child's play, His Majesty will not pay attention to it, and the elder brother of the prince will wait until the urgent report enters the palace, and when His Majesty announces that the courtiers discuss the ceremony together, he will ask his uncle to take me into the palace, and try to negotiate with His Majesty with the letter of my brother asking me to go to the West Desert for treatment. ”

Then Liu Ya sincerely asked Hu Qingqing and Ming Gengxiu to help in the name of their mansion, and after they all agreed and acted according to her plan, she calmly met Jiang Zhiyu's inquiring gaze and listened to him: "Our family Yaya, when did you go from a soft girl to such a commanding character?"

"If I could, I'd rather be in a corner. ”

Jiang Zhiyu was pricked by her gloomy look, "It seems that King Ye is more serious about you, you-"

"I don't know, it's a matter of feelings, let's wait for the second brother to come back, and then think about it!"

**

The moon is bright and the stars are thin, Liu Ya is full of wine and carries the wine bottle straight to the Ye Palace, but no one in the mansion stepped forward to stop her, and pulled a maid to ask for directions, and led the way, and then she pushed open the thick pear wood door, walked into the inner room in the dark, stood by the bed and looked at him sleeping soundly and peacefully, when the cherry red lips hooked a weird smile, the wine in her hand splashed on his face!

Yuwen Qiuye's sleepless eyes suddenly opened, and he pulled her into his arms suddenly, and pressed her to the bed with skill, and the fragrant wine dripped unscrupulously down her tight jaw, and the cool voice had not yet overflowed from her throat, she actually reached out to hug his neck, and then put her lips up, swallowing all his words into her stomach!

When he wanted to seize the initiative to deepen the kiss, he saw her crying, a little tear like a bead of broken thread, rolling down rapidly, burning his heart, as if being roughly gnawed by a beast, tearing and tearing pain, he wanted to push her away, but she didn't know where the strength came from, instead of holding him, her slender legs were rubbing against him intentionally or unintentionally, and her kiss was down her jaw, licking his Adam's apple, full of desire.

"Bud-" He called to her in a mute voice.

"Don't you want me?" she slowly lowered her hand against him.

"I really want to. Just as her hand was about to touch the source of the heat, he grabbed her hand and stopped, "But not now, I like you, I want to marry you, I want this scene to happen in the night of the candles after the marriage in the chapel, Bud, believe me, okay? I don't just have a fresh possession of you, I want to stay with you for a long time-"

"Trust is mutual, you don't believe me, how can I believe you?

Looking at her stubborn appearance with red eyes, Yuwen Qiuye completely surrendered, wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, and sat up with her in her arms, "There are some things to hide from you, because I don't want you to be in danger, but Ya'er wants to enter my heart like this, how can I refuse again? But remember that I told you that my mother was poisoned and died before she fell off the cliff? I have been planning to avenge her, and I am deliberately putting all the credit on you, one is to hide myself, but the other is to promote you, so that you are enough to marry the royal family." ”

"Then you chose me because although I am from a businessman, I also have noble forces behind me?"

"I admit that I did have this calculation in the beginning of using you, but then we got along only because you were you. Yuwen Qiuye gently rested his chin on her head, "I used you to hurt you, and I also exchanged my life for an antidote, repeatedly deviated from the calculated script to get close to you, and even changed the ending of the script, just to spend this life with you." He smiled wryly, "Don't deny me any more, it's going to hurt here—" He grabbed her hand and placed it on her heart.

"Second brother, what's going on?" Liu Ya seemed to be sleepy, yawning into his arms.

"After Hui Guogong took action, the news from Liang Sheng, but I didn't expect Hui Guogong to be so cruel, he actually buried explosives in Du Xingyuan's baggage, my subordinate took the risk of pulling out the clothes filled with things, but he was still affected when he was saving King Yuan, and after another subordinate dragged him out, his arm was gone. ”

Liu Ya's sleepiness ran away in an instant, she stiffened in shock, and looked up at Yuwen Qiupage.

"One of the reasons why I promised Zhao to take you to the Peach Blossom Land to treat Murong Jin is to see if you can create a miracle. He said slowly, "Murong Jin's leg is equal to nothing, if you can even cure him, presumably Du Xingyuan's predicament is not difficult for you, how can you think that Murong Master has made such a lot of trouble, they need to keep filial piety for him for three months, and this matter will be postponed." ”

"Second brother, where is he, is he okay?" Liu Ya choked up as she choked up her cry that was about to rush out.

"It's placed in Chang'an City, and everything else is fine. Yuwen Qiuye patted her back gently, "Hiding it from you is also what he means, he doesn't want you to worry about him, and he doesn't want Du Xinchen to feel guilty about it, and he doesn't know how to face Hui Guogong, the father, when he comes back." "It's one thing to die for one's purpose, it's another to live without resentment.

After his mood stabilized, Liu Ya asked some things that he had always been curious about or couldn't figure out.

Yuwen Qiuye had to be surprised by her subtle observations, but also answered her doubts one by one, such as the Peach Blossom Spring incident, whether Murong Zhao more or less led (secretly) led (helped) the pomegranate to commit the murder, the landslide in White Horse Town was a natural disaster, but the re-pouring of corpses was man-made, the only survivor of Feng Tao's basement was not the eyeliner he inserted, speaking of this, he couldn't help but say: "Why do you think Xu Miao is my eyeliner?"

Liu Ya said, "When Chi Qingqiao asked her how to deal with the child in her womb, she asked to kill the child without hesitation or even hatred, I can understand the child, but her emotional turn is not what ordinary girls will have after encountering such a situation, giving people a sense of relief similar to finally completing the task." ”

"Ya'er is so smart. He stroked her back again and again, "Xu Miao's sister was originally a maid in Feng Tao's mansion, but because of a joke, she was given Kong Mao and Weilu Shi by Feng Tao to spoil it, she wanted to enter the yamen as an errand for revenge, but she was better than her sister, and finally fell into the basement situation, witnessing more tragic situations, my subordinates also persuaded her to give up, but she chose to sacrifice her own happiness, and she also had to expose them, which is why there is evidence of this." ”

After all the doubts in his heart were resolved, Liu Ya secretly hooked his lips, broke away from his embrace, jumped out of bed and squinted at him proudly, "Thank you King Ye for your cooperation, I don't deny your heart for me, but I seem to have the right not to accept it." After speaking, he straightened his messy clothes and turned away.

"......" Yuwen Qiuye watched her turn her face mercilessly and messily faster than she turned the book, daring to love just now was all her calculations! What kind of powerful woman did he fall in love with, and he actually used his own pure (body) and white (son) to punish (seduc) his heart! But he still had nothing to do with her!

**

Liu Ya carried a bottle of wine into the Yewang Mansion, but when she came out, she took two bottles and entered the Mansion of the Servant of the Ministry of Officials.

Although the Jiang family has not yet returned to Beijing, Liu Ya still lives in Xueyuan temporarily, and Jiang Zhiyu asked Pearl Hou to wait for her here early.

After soaking in the medicated bath with only a warm degree, she washed away the wine and exhaustion all over her body, but even the sleepiness was washed away, and she thought of blowing the wind in the pavilion, and when she opened the door, she saw a maid at the gate of the courtyard sneakily looking inside, and when she saw her, she left in a panic, and Pearl frowned and said, "At such a time, what is Cuiqiong's girl doing here?"

"Who is she?" asked Liu Ya casually.

"It's the maid next to Miss Table. ”

Liu Ya heard from the Jiang family that her uncle's sister Jiang Song was bullied by her brothers and sisters-in-law after her husband's death, so she moved back with her daughter to live, if she remembers correctly, Jiang Song's daughter is called Song Caini, and she has never met, but she often comes to the Shilang Mansion to disturb, and the etiquette on the façade is still required, after all, her words and deeds still represent her aunt, and she can't be embarrassed, "Those medicinal materials for bathing, you pack a few copies, and give them to my younger brothers and sisters tomorrow, I came in a hurry, but I didn't bring anything good." ”

"Yes. ”

**

The black-like sky had just turned a touch of blue-gray white, and a little eunuch hurriedly invited Jiang Shilang into the palace to discuss matters.

Liu Ya and Jiang Shilang, who had prepared early, went with the eunuch under the eyes of Jiang Zhiyu.

After entering the palace to the imperial study, Liu Ya saw Du Xinchen kneeling next to the door of the imperial study with a straight waist, and the guards in charge of the guards around him looked at him with admiration who had been kneeling all night with the holy decree, but his posture remained unchanged, and in the face of the side eyes of the ministers passing by, he still did not change his face and did not move, until King Qing walked to him from the passage on the other side and accosted him, but he ignored it, she felt that King Qing raised his eyes and looked at her, and then entered the imperial study with a courtier who came in a hurry.

Liu Ya, who was not summoned, could only wait for His Royal Highness, across the long stairs, looking at Du Xinchen's side face - in fact, since Du Xingyuan's accident, she had the idea that the Huiguo Mansion could no longer be placed in the hands of Huiguo Gong, she was afraid that Du Xinchen would fill in his life for Huiguo Gong's ambition sooner or later, and after returning to Beijing, he had been planning and looking for an opportunity to let Du Xinchen inherit the title earlier, the routine was still those, but this kneeling should not have been suffered by him.

After all the important ministers summoned by Emperor Jiayi arrived, as soon as the little eunuch who went to the Huiguo Mansion to ask Huiguo Gong to whisper to the big eunuch, the old eunuch who had been waiting by Emperor Jiayi's side cautiously bowed his head to Emperor Jiayi's ear and relayed, "It seems that because Du Shizi entered the palace privately to ask His Majesty to take back his life, Huiguo Gong is sick and can't get up today." ”

Hearing this, Emperor Jiayi's face that had been tense after reading the emergency report, swept a touch of impatience, waved his hand to signal the old eunuch to retreat, and informed the important ministers who stood in two rows with Wen and Wu in the hall of the content of the emergency report, and formally discussed important matters, several arguments, and several prevarications, when Emperor Jiayi was almost about to point to their noses and scold a sentence of 'pure nonsense', Du Xinchen's solemn voice suddenly sounded outside the door: "Your Majesty, the courtiers are willing to lead these 30,000 soldiers and horses to the Jianmen Pass and defeat the 50,000 heavy cavalry of the Western Desert!"

The imperial study, where the generals were pushing each other, was instantly quiet, and Emperor Jiayi just raised his lips, and then said, "You come in." ”

So Du Xinchen finally saw Emperor Jiayi, who had been hiding from him all night, he walked into the hall and knelt down again and kowtowed, "The courtiers are willing to lead these 30,000 soldiers and horses, go out to the Sword Gate Pass, and defeat the 50,000 heavy cavalry of the Western Desert!" and then held up the marriage decree he was holding, "I just ask Your Majesty to retract this will, and the courtiers will use the Huiguo Mansion as a guarantee, if they can't win this battle within two months, they will bring the heads of the Manchu Mansion to see them!"

Everyone in the hall looked at him in disbelief, especially the generals, they looked at Du Xinchen like a monster, and the 30,000 stragglers who were barely assembled, even if they contained 3,000 elites, it was a dream to fight against the 50,000 heavy cavalry of the Western Desert, and he actually responded to it so conclusively, he was not afraid of death, not to mention that he was pulling the entire Guogong Mansion into the water, this will to give marriage, did it really make him reluctant!

Emperor Jiayi waved them away in their unconcealed suspicious gazes, motioned for Du Xinchen to stand up, looked at him inquiringly, and said, "As far as I know, you and Liu Ya are childhood sweethearts, she is both talented and beautiful, capable of medicine and good at testing, your relationship has always been good, and Hui Guogong also likes her as a daughter-in-law very much, why don't you want to marry her as a wife?"

The implication is that it is your Huiguo Mansion that asks for marriage, and it is your Huiguo Mansion that refuses to give marriage, I really think that the holy decree is playful, Du Xinchen bowed his head apologetically and said, "It was my father who misunderstood our feelings, the courtier treats Liu Ya like a sister, how can there be a reason for a brother to marry a sister in the world, and the courtier can't selfishly trap her in the Guogong Mansion because she is excellent and suitable for being the wife of the prince." ”

Emperor Jiayi looked at him, "Huiguo Gong is a military general, I know that you are also a virtuous person, but of the 30,000 soldiers and horses gathered, there are only 3,000 elites, and you want to use this to fight against the 50,000 heavy cavalry of the Western Desert or even defeat them, but they are all rejected by those veterans one by one, have you already thought of any way to dare to bet on the Huiguo Mansion?"

"In the forty-first year of Gaozu, General Hua Xu repelled the 30,000 heavy armor of the Xiongnu who was still standing in one country at that time with 5,000 elites, and in the forty-eighth year of Gaozu, he defeated the 50,000 heavy armor of the Xiongnu king with 3,000 elites; Du Xinchen said word by word, neither humble nor arrogant, "The courtiers dare not compare themselves with the legend, but the blue is better than the blue, it is the father's lesson to the courtiers, if the courtiers who inherit the lord cannot surpass the father, then why should the Guogong Mansion exist anymore, this is the reason why the courtiers dare to bet on the Guogong Mansion!"

"I can take back the will of marriage, but—"