Since the news came back from the Sword Gate Pass, Liu Ya's worried heart finally let go.

On this day, the queen and Mo Qiutong invited her to go to Lanruo Temple to pray for blessings, Liu Ya readily responded, she set up a monument for the regent in accordance with the customs of the Western Desert, and personally hung the curly sandalwood on the Buddha Hall, and set a peace card for Mo Kai Zen, and then Mo Qiutong took her to visit the regent who died early.

The queen saw everything in her eyes, and sincerely felt that she had not mistaken this righteous daughter, and gave the best honor to be named a princess, "You child really have a heart, the regent entrusted the prince to you on his deathbed, and now I see that you are so for them, and you are resting under the nine springs." ”

Liu Ya, who was finally busy, sat down next to Mo Qiutong and took the tea she handed over, "I'm afraid that I will always be entrusted by the regent." Although she can choose to stay in the West Desert all the time, and this choice is too good to look at horizontally and vertically, Nanhan has too many worries that she can't let go, and when things are done, she still has to go back.

The queen took out the words she had said in the previous casual conversation and said, "Your Majesty gave you the meaning of the mansion, but also wants you to stay, if you can't rest assured of your relatives and friends, you can invite them all to settle in the West Desert, I believe that the prosperity of our Jinfu City will never disappoint them, I also want to see how good the parents who taught you such a delicate and clear child are, and Qiu Tong also likes you very much, if she can learn from a good sister like you, I will no longer have to worry about her without our protection, she will be bullied." ”

"I won't be so easily bullied by anyone!" Mo Qiutong pouted dissatisfiedly, and then smiled expectantly, "But I agree with the previous words of the queen mother, Liu Gui is also often in the Western Desert, and it is not difficult to invite your relatives and friends, and I will definitely help settle it with my heart at that time." ”

Liu Ya thanked them again and again for their kind invitations, and looked at the old wooden waterway in the pond in the pavilion with a smile, "Before, I invited a person to come to the West Desert with me to settle down, but he refused. ”

Mo Qiutong only felt that there was a shallow sadness quietly flowing out of her face covered by the faint sunlight, thinking of what she was hiding in her heart, her chest seemed to be blocked by something, and she said tentatively, "Yes...... Do you like someone?"

"It's someone I hate. Liu Ya's eyes bent, grinding her teeth and smiling.

Mo Qiutong blinked blankly, but the queen understood, she reluctantly took Liu Ya's hand, patted it gently and said with a smile, "I turned out to be more than a warm-hearted daughter of Qiutong, maybe it is a blessing, one child will have time to take a good look at the world in the future, and it will be gone, and the other child will not be born for a long time, as if she is not satisfied with the world she sees, it will not be long gone." ”

"As soon as I look at you, I feel that I am in love, the more I get along, the more I like it, although I am reluctant to let you go back to the Southern Han Dynasty after all, but I respect your choice, but in any case, you are the daughter of me and Your Majesty, and you are the Mo Evil Princess of our Western Desert, if there is any one in the Southern Han who does not have long eyes and bullies you, you must tell the queen mother, and the queen mother will let the Southern Han know that the princess of our Western Desert is not so easy to bully. ”

Liu Ya looked at the enthusiasm and sincerity in the queen's eyes that seemed to be overflowing, and her heart was warm, no matter whether she compensated her for the loss of her daughter's thoughts by means of her, this was also a kind of fate, and she bowed her head and said, "Thank you, Queen Mother." ”

Afterwards, Liu Ya went to the palace with them for dinner.

In the imperial garden, the King of the West Desert was also there, he looked at Liu Ya and the queen in disbelief as if they were really their own mother and daughter, the two of them either you gave me vegetables or I gave you vegetables, even Mo Qiutong repeatedly gave Liu Ya the vegetables he liked to eat, and couldn't help but taste it, "Mo Xie, why do you call the queen the queen your mother, but you call the widow Your Majesty, do you look down on the widow?"

Liu Ya almost got stuck in her throat with a mouthful of powdery lotus root, and the queen covered her mouth funny and said, "Your Majesty, don't scare her." ”

"Now the widow is like an outsider, looking at your mother and daughter's filial piety, and no one even gives the food to the widow. "The King of the Western Desert looked at his empty bowl pitifully, and then looked at Liu Ya's bowl full of food that was about to fall, with a contrived expression of 'According to the current situation, I should have fallen out of favor'.

How could Liu Ya not know that the emperor was acting, and when she was so embarrassed that she didn't know how to handle the proportions of her reply, the queen winked at her and smiled and signaled, "Your father and emperor like to eat scallion oil chicken the most." Even Mo Qiutong looked at her with burning eyes, and seemed to let her inherit this hospitality.

In this way, Liu Ya had no choice but to pick up a piece of scallion oil chicken and send it into the bowl of the King of the Western Desert, and then stumbled and called, "Father." ”

The King of the Western Desert immediately laughed happily, "Good daughter!"

The atmosphere became more and more harmonious, and the cultures of the Western Desert and the Southern Han Dynasty collided with each other in open arms, and a palace maid ran to him in a panic and said, "Your Majesty, the concubine's chest hurts again, and she can't stop taking the medicine this time, she almost killed herself by cutting her wrists with a knife just now, and the slaves and maids finally persuaded her to come down, you, go and see her!"

The King of the Western Desert, who was interrupted and full of interest, tied a big knot in his brows, as if he was dissatisfied and worried, but the queen on the side laughed unannoyedly and anxiously, "Your Majesty, my sister's body has never been very good, and it has been even worse recently, you should go and see her, this family fun will be enjoyed another day." An understatement, showing the decency and generosity of the main room.

The King of the Western Desert couldn't see the joy and sorrow, and walked away with his face and his head.

Seeing the figure of the King of the West Desert disappear, the smile on Mo Qiutong's face turned cold, "Father is not a panacea, he shouldn't have hurt in the past, it's better to ask the imperial doctor to be more practical, I can't get used to seeing us and Le Rongrong actually play such a trick!"

The harem competes for favor, it has always been like this, the queen said calmly, "For her, Your Majesty is her best panacea, taking one post, it is better than thousands, but let her use all means, the second prince's crime of deceiving the people, I will never ask Your Majesty to easily expose it, now let her toss." ”

The second prince who led the army to attack Jianmen Pass was the treasure of the concubine, since he learned that the second prince took the general's life for personal gain, he kept thinking about asking His Majesty for forgiveness, but if the second prince forgave this matter lightly and spread it, it would only chill the hearts of the people, cold the blood of the soldiers, and shake the foundation of the country in disguise, she was confused, but His Majesty was still sober, one or two sons were gone, and there were other sons, but the foundation of the country was shaken, and his dragon chair could not sit steadily.

After the banquet, although the queen and Mo Qiutong repeatedly wanted to keep Liu Ya in the palace for the night, she politely refused on the grounds that she still needed to sort out the business books, but before leaving, she took some incense from the palace, and Mo Qiutong also ordered the palace maid to send several copies of the royal rouge gouache to make up for the mess that was made by Bian Shaojuan that day.

**

Liu Ya stepped out of the palace gate, and saw a dazzling crescent white, standing lazily against the palace wall, "Why are you here?"

"Waiting for you. He couldn't take it for granted, "I'm leaving tomorrow, in order to repay your food and shelter, take you to a good place." He came to her in an instant, picked up the petite her, and flew over the eaves.

Liu Ya subconsciously retracted into his wide and firm embrace, only to feel that the scenery kept receding, the evening breeze mischievously stroked her cheeks, and then landed on a tall building, the prosperity of Shangjing in the West Desert suddenly scrambled into her surprised eyes, and the sound of the noise was like music, slowly with the gentle night, drilled into her ears, but itched into her heart.

She looked up happily, and the white mandalas like small windmills were facing the wind, as if flying from the stars in the sky.

"Is it pretty?" he asked.

"Hmm!" Liu Ya nodded without hesitation.

"Do you like it?"

"Like. Liu Ya turned his face and looked at the smiling man next to him, the ebony hairpin inserted in his hair, glowing with a mysterious and chic luster in the night, "Thank you, Feng Zhiyang." ”

"Remember, you've only asked me to wash pots and pans once in the past few days, and you're allowed to call me by my name!"

A shiny sly sly look flashed in Liu Ya's eyes, "Is it better to call you a sheep? or a little lamb?"

"Why do you think that Ah Yang and Xiao Yang in your mouth are weird?"

"I can't call you Xiaofeng, like a girl, but if you like it, I don't mind calling you Xiaofeng. ”

"That's still 'Xiaoyang'. "She is either Ah Xiu or Ah Teng, or Xiaoyang, who looks 'different'.

Liu Ya smiled like a fishy kitten, "Well, lamb." ”

In the rain, he suddenly pulled her into his arms, and before she could react and want to break away, he lowered his head and whispered in her ear, "You may not know that there is not only a man in black hidden by your side, in addition to the masked man who appeared on the night of the Thousand Lantern Festival, there are also four unidentified mysterious people, I have tried several times, but they have cleverly avoided them, but there seems to be no malicious intent." ”

A scorching and ambiguous breath wandered against her ear porch, "Are you being watched by someone, do you need my help before you leave, and 'settle' them all?"

Liu Ya was stunned at the beginning to understand the meaning of his words, but in a few thoughts, the action that wanted to break away was not in a hurry, she raised her hand to rub her itchy ears, but felt that something was stuffed into her palm, and it was carried to her eyes suspiciously, it was a crystal clear white jade unicorn, although it was small and tight, but the cool and warm touch proved its heavy value:

"It's-"

Feng Zhiyang pointed to the red tassel beads on the hem of the jade unicorn, "If there is danger, light the tassels, the beads will burst into the sky and explode red smoke, no matter day or night, there will be people desperately rushing to help you." ”

"Something so valuable, I can't-"

"It's not that you have nothing to do, just blow up a bead and play with them, keep it. Feng Zhiyang closed her outstretched hand, "I just sold my favor in advance, maybe I will find you to eat and drink some silver flowers in the future." ”

"Okay, it's not too early, I'll send you back. I don't know when the flower rain stopped, and Feng Zhiyang picked her up and flew off the wall again.

**

Liu Ya waved goodbye to Feng Zhiyang at the door of the inn and went upstairs to the room, but saw a familiar brocade box on the dresser, opened it and lay quietly in an impressive ebony hairpin, when he was puzzled, the shopkeeper Chu knocked on the door:

"Miss, the young master has sent a letter. ”

As soon as Liu Ya got the long-awaited reply, he casually left the doubts rising in his heart behind, and not long after reading it, Ming Gengxiu, who went to Liu's mansion for a banquet tonight, came back depressed and depressed, and couldn't help but wonder:

"What's wrong with you?"

Ming Gengxiu's handsome face, which was always bright on weekdays, wrinkled in confusion, and only after a silent half a voice did he seem to organize the complicated language in his heart, "After the banquet, Miss Liu invited me to go to the market for a walk, and I thought I would agree when I came back anyway." ”

"But walking and walking, the sky somehow rained white flowers, in the starlight full of prosperity is very beautiful, I still saw the first time like a waterwheel like flowers, she told me, that is the West Desert unique 'intoxicating flowers', because it grows on the top of the mountain, so there is also a 'flower in the sky' meaning, and the ordinary is very rare to see, I am really lucky. ”

"I was complacent and happy when I heard this, but at this moment, she suddenly took off the veil that she had just put on when she went out, and I saw that her face was still full of bright red pimples at the banquet, and in the rain of flowers, it became clean and white and tender, her eyebrows were like willow leaves, her eyes were like apricots, she looked at me with a smile, and said word by word, 'Now even God has made it clear that you are my destiny'. ”

Liu Ya repeatedly opened her mouth in shock, "Then that, do you want to leave Beijing alone and return to Beijing with two people?"

Ming Gengxiu's face, who seemed to be trapped in a long trance, turned red, "Of course I'm not, marriage is the order of my parents, how can I-" Before the panicked words were finished, he lowered his eyes in disappointment, "Besides, a son like me has no freedom to marry." ”

"If you don't fight for it, how do you know-" Although he understood the reason for the twists and turns, Liu Ya from modern times still subconsciously said.

"Bud Bud doesn't know anything. Ming Gengxiu smiled bitterly, "My grandfather and father both died early because of illness, and the title passed on to the eldest was coveted by the uncles, and so far I have almost lost my life in their calculations several times, it was Xingyuan who saved me, taught me to pretend to be stupid and stupid to hide my strength, and turned the situation of my enemy and darkness around, my mother is bent on marrying with the noble family to stabilize my strength, she knows that I have a close relationship with Aqing, so she belongs to his sister." ”

The prince of Bofu married Miss Houfu, how others look at it is an excellent marriage, not to mention that the relationship between the prince of Bofu and the prince of Houfu is quite good, so close to each other, everyone raises their hands and feet in favor, and in the family of the noble eunuchs, interests are the most important, and most of the in-laws in Shangjing are also promoted in this way.

"So, does A-Qing's sister like you?" Liu Ya said, grasping the point.

"When he was old, he got married. ”

"What about you, do you like A-Qing's sister?" Liu Ya said again.

"I never dared to think about it. ”

Liu Ya twisted her eyebrows and said, "Blind marriage and dumb marriage may be normal for you, but in my opinion, it is extremely terrible, people's lives are very short, and it is also terrible to be trapped by men who don't like them all your life, if you really don't like Ah Qing's sister, then for Ah Qing's sake, it's better to tell me frankly!"

"Ah Qing knows that I have no intention of his sister. The bitterness on Ming Gengxiu's lips deepened, "The problem is my mother, if I dare to break off my relationship with Xian'er, my mother will definitely dare to hang her neck on the white silk." ”

"...... "The older generation has always liked to hurt their children under the banner of 'good for you', and it is even worse in this era, Liu Ya has a headache and doesn't know how to take it, and he can't make Ming Gengxiu ignore his mother, so he has to pat him on the shoulder as comfort.

**

Following.

Liu Ya visits Mo Zihe.

Mo Zihe received her warmly, and in the pavilion facing the lotus pond, she tasted the sweet lotus wine.

"This morning, please enter the palace and listen to the queen mother, the palace bureau has made palace clothes for you, and the patterns are personally selected by the queen mother, it can be seen that the queen mother really likes you, when she suggested that the queen mother accept you as a righteous daughter, I didn't expect you to be so close to her, Liu Gui is not wrong, you are indeed a caring girl. ”

"Don't you think I'm deliberately pleasing Niangniang?" Liu Ya put down the green jade wine glass that still had half of the fine wine left in his hand.

"Whether it's sincere or not, no matter how clumsy I am, I can still see it. ”

"I was born in an ordinary merchant family, I have no interest in any royal family, I am good to Niangniang and Qiutong, and only because they are good to me, people give me one point, I give people one point, if people give me three points, I will give people six points. Liu Ya slowly cast his gaze on the lotus pond to the gentle Mo Zihe, "Like Kaizen, he still took the time to come to visit me who was attacked during his father's funeral, so I also want to plan more for him before leaving." ”

"Don't worry, Zen'er is my cousin, and now that he has no father and no support, I should do my best to protect him. ”

"I also believe that with your ability, you can protect him, but what he needs most at this moment-" Liu Ya looked at the panic that flashed in Mo Zihe's eyes, "It is broken, trust in the surroundings." ”

"What do you mean by this, I-"

"I was born with a special sensitivity to the people and things around me, and my mind always likes to have strange thoughts when I don't have to worry about food and clothing. Liu Ya smiled indifferently, "So I can always find something that ordinary people can't find, so I was still held by a hateful prince of the Southern Han Dynasty, and I was forced by him day and night, and I was trapped in all kinds of cases, my brother felt sorry for me, so when you wanted me to come to Ximo to treat Your Majesty, he put forward the condition that you seek the greatest benefit for me."

It's just that no one thought that I had just cured Your Majesty, and the fourth prince had an accident again, involving Kaizen, and I couldn't let him have an accident because of my feelings, so I solved the case as quickly as possible, which made people impress again, so you persuaded Niangniang, and then Niangniang blew the wind in His Majesty's ear, so as to seek the greatest benefit for me.

Indeed, this gift, so that I was also surprised, at first I thought there was some conspiracy, let me worry for a while, and then gradually learned from getting along, His Majesty does want me to stay in the West Desert, for the West Desert, at that time the seal also has this meaning, now I am willing to respect my stay, they treat me very well, I should be grateful to you for your hard work, but some words, buried in the heart is really uncomfortable. ”

Liu Ya exhaled deeply, "When I first stepped into His Majesty's bedroom that day, I sneezed, and then you told me that it was the ordinary incense of the palace, I was not familiar with the royal family of the Western Desert, and I never doubted you at the beginning, so after your words, I didn't take it to heart, and it wasn't until I smelled a similar smell on the day of the regent's funeral, that I reorganized everything." ”

"At first, what made me wonder was that the regent, who was an important member of the royal family of the Western Desert, entrusted Kaichan to me before he died, and told him not to trust anyone in the Western Desert. ”

"He fell in danger, but he didn't entrust his son to you, no matter how you want to explore it, it's suspicious, right?" Liu Ya said, "Before supporting you, the regent is Your Majesty's own brother, and he is of the same heart with Your Majesty, so Your Majesty handed over 400,000 military talismans to him, and he can't do anything harmful to Your Majesty, otherwise the Regent's Mansion will no longer be the Regent's Mansion in the Western Desert, but a rebel and thief who is plotting to usurp the throne, so you deliberately hide some things from him, but you can't hide it." ”

"He didn't know that you were still not the one he was familiar with, and he didn't know if you could be trusted, so before he died, he entrusted Kaizen to me, deliberately made me suspicious, and turned a big corner to ask me to help him verify, I learned from my brother that when he invited me to come to the Western Desert with you, he took my portrait from my brother's hand, which was supposed to be given to Kaizen, and he wanted Kaizen to identify me, so if I didn't happen to appear at that time, Kaizen would have tried his best to come to me later, and I would also look at my brother's face and keep him by his side, so as to find out what was wrong。 ”

Liu Gui said that the regent had made a detailed inquiry about her, and it was so on his deathbed that he pinned his hopes on her, Liu Ya looked at Mo Zihe with a heavy expression intently, "The crack in the regent's heart, I want to prevent it from spreading to Kaichan's heart." ”

The deathly silence spread depressedly in the small pavilion, and finally Mo Zihe met Liu Ya's waiting gaze, and said faintly: "Yes, there are some things that I deliberately concealed from the regent, because of these things, he can't participate and can't participate, and because he knows that after he knows, he won't participate or even stop it." ”

Liu Ya waited for him to continue, "I accidentally discovered that the fifth prince was trying to murder his father, although he tried his best to persuade but to no avail, so he secretly replaced the life-killing Gu poison that he found with great difficulty in finding people, and secretly replaced it with a Gu poison that only made people fall asleep, which was taken by the Duke of Fuguo from his old subordinates from the Western Regions, as long as it is used with special incense, it can reduce the damage to the father's body." ”

"It turns out that we should report this kind of thing to our father as soon as possible, but I never bear to let this younger brother of the same mother fall into a different place, so I calculated so much, and wanted to teach him to turn back, but he saw that his father was not killed, thinking that the weight of the four princes was less, and he killed the four princes in the dispute, and I realized that this younger brother is no longer the younger brother he used to be. ”

That night in the palace, the five princes gave her and Ah Xiu and Ah Teng Gu poison, but she didn't drink water or even smelled the clues, the Gu poison was similar to but different from the Gu poison in His Majesty, because the Gu worm did not have enough time to form in the body, so it was easily solved by her as poison, and the fifth prince also found that there was a problem with his own Gu poison, so he went to the four princes to hold him accountable, he was afraid that the four princes would plot against him, and after His Majesty investigated it, he would put the blame on him, so he struck first.

"I found out that the five princes tried to murder their father but didn't know about it, it was a crime of defrauding the king, I hid it from the regent to gamble with my father's dragon body, it was a big rebellion, if Liu Ya wants to report this matter to your father, I won't stop you, and I won't blame you-"

Liu Ya knew very well that Mo Zihe was not as high-sounding as he said and said, but since ancient times, the battle for the throne has been like this, and she is not good at going too deep into other people's family affairs, and she doesn't plan to go deeper, so she raised her eyes and interrupted, "I always want to leave the Western Desert, and I am not interested in the open and secret battles above the court of any country, I just advise you, the paper is wet, maybe it can be dried, but it is no longer the original clean paper." ”

"What you have to do is not to convince me that you are not a bad person, but to convince Kaizen that you are a future worthy of support. Liu Ya got up and walked towards the outside of the pavilion.

And Mo Zihe raised his eyes, and saw that Mo Kaichan didn't know how when, standing next to the flowers at the corner of the corridor, a young man who was only thirteen years old, his white face was still full of immaturity, but those eyes that were the same as those of the regent were like a cold pool in the depths of winter, looking at him coldly, strange and majestic.

He and Liu Ya left.

The cool breeze blew through the lotus flowers that had gradually revealed the withered in the pool, and when he kissed Mo Zihe's face mischievously, he came back to his senses and muttered to himself, "Autumn is coming." ”

**

The carriage was once very silent in the carriage.

When he was about to arrive at the Regent's Palace, Liu Ya broke the silence and said, "I also have a younger brother of your age in my family, but our Shangjia family doesn't have as many ideas as your royal family, he only thinks about what to play and eat every day, and he thinks that the house is not lively enough, so he runs to his grandmother's house to play, I haven't seen him for a long time, I know that I am in Beijing, but I have written to ask me if it is fun to go to Beijing." ”

"You are still young, it doesn't matter if you don't take on a lot of things, if you feel that the talisman in your hand is too heavy, then go back, which is not more interesting than conspiracy and calculation, if the West Desert is boring, you can come to the Southern Han Dynasty to see different scenery." She chuckled, "Now you are like an unpolished gem, what shape do you think you will be in the future, while you can be willful at a young age, you can be willful to your heart's content, there is no need to hurry to grow and mature, I think the Regent must want you to be like this." ”

Mo Kaichan, who had been looking at the scenery of the car window constantly receding, said after a long while, "When will you leave for Nanhan?"

"If there is no accident, half a month later. ”

The king of the Western Desert has drawn up a holy decree to appoint her as a messenger of peace, and after the greetings between the Western Desert and the Southern Han Dynasty have turned around, she will take the envoys of the Western Desert to visit the Southern Han Dynasty in the name of the princess of the Western Desert and swagger back!