In early summer, the weather is clear and the wind is warm, and the morning glow gradually dissipates to reveal the sunny and blue sky. Looking up at the blue and thin clouds, overlooking the stream and green garden, the fragrance of grass. The willows are still on the green waterfront, and the ripples are dotted with the river pavilion, which is just a good scenery in the morning of Lin'an.

Liu Xunyi stood in the Wangjiang Pavilion and looked into the distance, feeling the intoxicating natural fragrance in his mouth and nose, the exhaustion of the trip to the Western Regions had long since disappeared, and now he only felt refreshed, his eyes were bright and his heart was bright. Looking from afar, Liu Xunyi is dressed in a white shirt moving with the wind, with a tall posture and a handsome face, but he is also graceful and extraordinary.

"Looking for clothes!"

Suddenly, a weak voice sounded from not far away, but I saw a graceful woman slowly entering the pavilion, and the cardamom years were the best time for women. Although this woman's body is delicate and slender, she does not hide her delicate and graceful, her hands are like soft wattles, her skin is like clotted fat, her collar is like a grub, her teeth are like a rhinoceros, her head is like a moth eyebrow, and her lips are like cherry blossoms. The green silk bundle looks casual but not messy, and the hair accessories worn are extremely chic, especially a red gemstone dotted on the white forehead, which is unusual at a glance. A moon-white long skirt is not noble, lined with a pale yellow gauze without losing a trace of agility, and the Luanfeng satin shoes are spotless and the pair of slender jade feet are wrapped in small and exquisite, and the dress is meticulous and exquisite from top to bottom. The elegance exuded by gestures is even more incomparable to that of ordinary women, and it is difficult to train such a beautiful woman without being rich and noble.

Her appearance made the beautiful scenery around Wangjiang Pavilion suddenly lose color, and the soft and crisp sound of heaven made Liu Xunyi's heart tremble, and then a very gentle smile appeared on his face. Liu Xunyi turned his eyes when he heard this, but saw that behind the woman, there were still four maidservants with swords in their hands at this moment.

"Liu Xunyi knocks on the county lord!" Liu Xunyi looked upright, and hurriedly knelt down to the woman and saluted.

This woman is the lord of the Great Song Xinde County that Liu Xunyi vowed to marry as Qin Wei said in Qin Wei's joke yesterday, Zhao Xin.

Zhao Xin is the daughter of Prince Yu of the Great Song Dynasty, his father was injured in the war and unfortunately died, the emperor in order to praise his military exploits, he crowned his daughter Zhao Xin as the lord of Xinde, in order to show the emperor's grace.

Seeing Liu Xunyi, Zhao Xin's eyes were happy, but she quickly realized the entourage behind her, so she coughed lightly and said, "Lord Liu doesn't need to be polite." ”

"Lord Xie!" Liu Xunyi didn't dare to make a mistake, and stood aside in a proper manner. But his eyes as bright as stars could not hide their lovesickness at the moment, watching Zhao Xin's every move without blinking, and it was difficult to move half a minute. Zhao Xin's cheeks were slightly red, and she retreated left and right, and only Liu Xunyi and Zhao Xin were left in the Wangjiang Pavilion.

"Looking for clothes. Without the maid by her side, the cold color on Zhao Xin's face dissipated in a blink of an eye, and she took two steps forward and threw herself into Liu Xunyi's arms, and whispered softly, "I haven't seen you for two months, I almost can't sleep at night, and pray for you in front of the Buddha all day long, but fortunately, with the blessing of the Buddha, you finally came back safe and sound." ”

Feeling the intoxicating fragrance on Zhao Xin's body, Liu Xunyi was also embarrassed, his strong and powerful arms tightly wrapped Zhao Xin's soft and boneless delicate body, he couldn't wait to rub the beauty into his body, his fingers caressed Zhao Xin's hair, and said softly: "Xin'er, I'm worried about you!"

"Xunyi" and "Xin'er" are what the two of them call each other in private. Liu Xunyi and Zhao Xin's identities are very different, it should be impossible to fall in love, but it is just a matter of making people, Liu Xunyi, who was only ten years old at the time, was sent to Rongwang's Mansion by Zhao Yuan, and accompanied the frail and sickly little prince Zhao Yu to practice martial arts, and Zhao Xin, who lost his father at an early age, also happened to be fostered in Rongwang's Mansion at that time, so the six-year-old Zhao Xin saw Liu Xunyi for the first time in Rongwang's Mansion.

Since then, Liu Xunyi has often been in and out of the Rongwang Mansion as a little prince to accompany him, and over time, the three people of the same age have become friends who have nothing to say, Liu Xunyi and Zhao Xin are childhood sweethearts, the former "Brother Liu" and "Little County Lord" gradually began to fall in love with the growth of age, and evolved into today's "Xunyi" and "Xin'er".

The so-called world has no impermeable wall, this matter was soon learned by Rong Wang Ye and Zhao Yuan, Zhao Yuan imposed a heavy penalty on Liu Xunyi, almost killed him, this matter was in the Tianji Pavilion at that time, and the secret between Liu Xunyi and Zhao Xin was also spread at that time.

The ending of beating the mandarin duck with a stick often makes them more affectionate. Due to the overall situation, Liu Xunyi and Zhao Xin can no longer meet at will as they once did, but fortunately, the little prince Zhao Yu sympathized with the pair of hard-working mandarin ducks, and instead of listening to the orders of Prince Rong to monitor them, he also deceived and secretly completed the tryst between the two, and covered them up in front of Prince Rong.

"The little prince often sends people to Tianji Pavilion to inquire about your news for me, in the past two years, Tianji Hou has asked you to do more and more things, this time you have not heard from you for two months, I thought that Tianji Hou knew that we were disconnected, so it was difficult for you again. Zhao Xin's personality dictates that she is gentle and subtle by nature, even if she is excited in her heart, she still speaks softly, and her affection is hidden in her heart.

"No, it won't. Liu Xunyi smiled and said, "Lord Hou treats me like a son, even when Prince Rong was angry and wanted to kill me, he was willing to intercede for me, and replaced the death penalty with a living crime, now that the matter has been a long time, how can he embarrass me again? What's more, I know your intentions Lord Hou and his old man know very well." Now he has given me more and more errands, just to give me more opportunities to make meritorious contributions and get the emperor's reuse as soon as possible, in fact, these are enough to show his old man's good intentions. ”

Zhao Xin said softly: "I am the lord of the Great Song Dynasty, if you want to marry me justifiably, then you have to propose to the emperor." The marriage partners of our royal sons and daughters are all not the powerful people in the court, or the meritorious ministers who have done their best for the Great Song Dynasty. If you are not a powerful person, then you must have immortal merits. Every time I think about it, I will cry out for you. If I wasn't the county lord and you weren't Lord Liu, how nice would it be?"

For Zhao Xin's pessimism, Liu Xunyi was quite free, he gently took Zhao Xin's jade hand and walked slowly to the riverside, and said in high spirits: "How can I Liu Xunyi be a person who is afraid of tribulations? Xin'er, don't say that you are the county lord, even if you are a princess, I Liu Xunyi is also married." Nine times out of ten what I have done in the Tianji Pavilion over the years is a trivial matter, even if I go to Yanmen Pass this time to rescue the Zhongshu Shilang, it is far from being an immortal achievement. In fact, on the way back, I had already thought that now the Mongolian army is waiting for an opportunity to invade my Great Song Dynasty in the south, which is a good opportunity to make contributions. ”

Liu Xunyi's words shocked Zhao Xin's heart, and hurriedly said, "Do you want to go to the front of the battle to serve?"

"The battlefield is a dangerous place, but it's also the easiest place to make great achievements. Liu Xunyi nodded and said, "There is a saying in the rivers and lakes called seeking wealth and danger, and I think this sentence is the same in the court." ”

"No, no!" Zhao Xin shook his head again and again, "I heard that the battlefield is like a sea of blood, no matter how good your martial arts are, once you are involved in the battle of tens of thousands of people, you will become a lamb to be slaughtered." I don't want you to put yourself in danger, and I don't want to see you slip up the cracks. What's more, you are a person from the Tianji Pavilion of the Eastern Mansion, arranging troops and dispatching troops are the affairs of the West Mansion and the Sanya, and the East and West Mansions have always been like fire and water, so even if you want to go, I expect that the Marquis of Tianji will definitely not agree!" The Xifu in Zhao Xin's mouth is the Privy Council that holds the power of the soldiers and horses of the Great Song Dynasty.

"How can the foreign enemy divide you and me into the East and West Mansions at present?" Liu Xunyi said with a straight face, "It is the duty of my Great Song Dynasty boy to protect the family and defend the country, and Hou Ye and his old man are also concerned about the safety of the Great Song Dynasty, if I propose to Hou Ye to go to the front of the battle to serve, he will not only not stop him, but will definitely try his best to fulfill me." As for my life and death...... I can guarantee that I will never die on the battlefield, and I will definitely come back alive after making a war exploit, because I said that I must marry you!"

Listening to Liu Xunyi's words, Zhao Xin was moved in her heart, but the more she moved, the more hesitant she became. The two were silent, and after a long time, Zhao Xin looked at Liu Xunyi affectionately, and said, "Xunyi, I want to listen to your heart, do you really want to leave Tianji Pavilion to serve in front of the battle?"

Liu Xunyi was stunned for a moment, he wanted to agree without hesitation, but under Zhao Xin's beautiful eyes, the words that had already reached his lips were swallowed back unconsciously. Faced with such a pair of affectionate eyes, how could he bear to lie to her? After hesitating again and again, Liu Xunyi said faintly: "Xin'er, if I stay in Tianji Pavilion all the time, I'm afraid that I won't have the opportunity to make a contribution in this life." Liu Xunyi's words are beady, sonorous and powerful, "Now that you have reached the age of leaving the cabinet, I am a little more anxious if I delay one more day, and now I am just a young guard in the Wuge of Dongfu, who is soft-spoken, what qualifications do I have to propose to the emperor? What qualifications do I have to marry the lord of the Great Song Dynasty?"

Liu Xunyi's words pierced into Zhao Xin's heart like a sharp sword, in fact, how could she not understand what Liu Xunyi said? Zhao Xinfeng reads poetry and books and knows the past and the present, so she naturally knows that a man should serve the country with his body is the right way to start a career, but she knows more deeply the cruelty of "drunk and lying on the battlefield, how many people have returned to fight in ancient times?"

Zhao Xin has known Liu Xunyi since he was a child, and knows that although Liu Xunyi is in the temple, his heart has always longed for the rivers and lakes. The real reason why Liu Xunyi has stayed in Tianji Pavilion for so many years and refuses to leave is actually nothing more than two, one is to repay Zhao Yuan for his nurturing and cultivation, and the other is the county lord of Xinde.

Liu Xunyi's statement that he served before the battle was not his intention, and the root cause of his idea was actually the disparity between his status and Zhao Xin. Everything is as Zhao Xin said, if she is not the lord of the Great Song Dynasty, and Liu Xunyi is not an orphan adopted and raised by Zhao Yuan, then the two of them will definitely not stay in the intriguing Lin'an City, I am afraid that they would have wandered the rivers and lakes a long time ago and went freely.

"Xunyi, I can't let you go against your will for me. Zhao Xin cried silently, and said silently, "Do you remember that three years ago, you killed a thief who stole official silver by mistake, and after that incident, you didn't eat or drink for three days, just locked yourself in the room and repented, you said that although the thief was guilty, he didn't die for his crime." You are so merciful in doing things for the Tianji Pavilion, how can you be willing to go to a place like the battlefield and fight with thousands of strangers to your life? You can't be indifferent to killing people like hemp, even if it's a foreigner, when you kill them, you will still think of their wives and children, you can't treat human life like a mustard, this is your benevolence, and it is also your weakness. So once a person like you arrives on the battlefield, there is only one way to get out, and that is to be killed. ”

"Xin'er, I'm ......"

"Let's get out of here, the farther we go, the better!"

Without waiting for Liu Xunyi to open his mouth to defend himself, Zhao Xin suddenly looked bold, and said a bold idea. Liu Xunyi was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly looked around, and only after confirming that there was no one around, did he whisper: "Xin'er, aren't you crazy?

"I'm not crazy, this is the only way to stop you from going to the battlefield to die!" Zhao Xin said stubbornly, "Xunyi, I know very well that your wish is to live an unrestrained life, even the cruel environment of Tianji Pavilion has not changed your nature, I have seen more than once in your eyes the desire and yearning for the rivers and lakes, once upon a time, when you mentioned the Central Plains martial arts and the knights of the rivers and lakes, your eyes were bright, and the big and small things that happened in the rivers and lakes were like a treasure, and they talked about it endlessly. Since your heart does not belong to the Tianji Pavilion and does not belong to the imperial court, then I am willing to give up the identity of the Great Song County Lord and everything you have for you, and you take me away! Let's go where you want to go and live the life you want, okay?"

Liu Xunyi frowned and looked at Zhao Xin, who was full of solemn eyes, and said to himself: "Of course I am willing to take you away, but this matter is very involved, if we leave like this, what should I do if I secretly arrange for you to come out to see my little prince?

Zhao Xin looked at the hesitant Liu Xunyi, took a step forward and grabbed Liu Xunyi's hand, and said, "Xunyi, have you thought about it?"

"We ...... Has it come to the point where it has to be like this?" Liu Xunyi didn't dare to answer Zhao Xin directly, so he had to change the topic and said, "No one has forced you to marry now, let's ...... Do you really have to go?"

Hearing this, the look in Zhao Xin's eyes became a little strange, and gradually the solemn color on her face faded, and a faint smile welled up at the corner of her mouth. I believe that Heaven will be moved by our sincerity and will surely fulfill us in the end. Therefore, none of us should act rashly, let alone be presumptuous, I believe that everything has already been determined in the dark. ”

After that, Zhao Xin leaned forward and gently snuggled into Liu Xunyi's arms, although Liu Xunyi didn't say anything more, but deep in his heart it was like pressing a big stone, becoming heavier and heavier.

"Hope...... It's just as we want it to be. ”

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