When Song Jiyue woke up, the house was empty. She vaguely remembered that before she went to bed, Dong Junqin and Ah Lu were there.

She called the little finch in, and when she heard that the morning sun was coming, she rushed in when everyone was facing the saint.

Song Jiyue has a vague impression of what happened when she fell asleep. She thought it should be Aru.

So she got up and wanted to ask Ah Lu, but Xiao Que said: "Ah Lu girl is tired and resting, why don't you go to the young master and ask, he and the master are in the ancestral hall." ”

"Ancestral Hall?" Song Jiyue's heart tightened, why did she go to the ancestral hall, could it be that something terrible had really happened?

Song Jiyu was nervous, and saw Dong Junqin kneeling in front of the tablet arguing with Dong's father from a distance, and seemed to mention himself.

Dong Junqin has never been a man and a woman for Song Jiyue.

When he first met Song Jiyue, everything he showed was out of politeness and sympathy.

Although he hadn't experienced that incident and had no waves in his heart, he could pretend to be deeply sympathetic with "human nature".

Song Jiyue was in poor health at that time, and she had no energy. My father really had no choice, so he broke his prejudice against Xianmen and asked the master to go down the mountain.

After the master finished casting the spell, Song Jiyue's body recovered, but there was still a hopelessness in her eyes. There is no despair or resentment, no joy or sorrow, only deathly peace.

Recalling that scene, Dong Junqin had to admit that Ah Lu was right, even after countless injuries, he still couldn't see life and death. Not to mention when I was a kid. So Dong Junqin was bored, so he told Song Jiyue the story of him in Tianqingshan, wanting to make her happy.

At first, Song Jiyue just smiled and listened to him, without any other reaction. It wasn't until the end of that provincial visit and before he left that Song Jiyue suddenly grabbed him and asked, "Ah Jun, then when you go back this time, will you go to find that strange bird?"

Dong Junqin was stunned, and soon understood that Song Jiyue was really listening.

After that, every time he went down the mountain to go home and stay, he would tell Song Jiyue all kinds of stories, and even snatched the storyteller's book to show her secretly.

Gradually, Dong Junqin changed from sympathizing with her and losing her family to sympathizing with her for losing her freedom.

He remembered that after the news of Song Jiyue's survival reached the palace, his father and mother took her out of the Dong family for the first time. Everyone in the carriage was grim-faced, but Song Jiyue looked at the street scene outside the window curiously, and from time to time showed a novel expression on the gadgets she had never seen before.

Dong Junqin thought that Song Jiyue liked to listen to him tell stories, and eighty percent was because he couldn't experience it himself.

The master is free-range to Dong Junqin, and he knows very well what freedom tastes, so in the face of Song Jiyue, who is not free, Dong Junqin wants to help her as much as possible.

"Father, after I respected her as a martyr, I am also grateful to my mother for being by her side when she was alive. But that doesn't mean I'm in love with her. What's more, you think that marrying her is responsible for her and good for her, but I think marrying her is the wrong thing for her life. Dong Junqin couldn't care about his father's trembling anger, and said all the words that had been hidden in his heart for many years: "Let's not talk about feelings first, I will marry her as the main family, and the first important position of the main family is to inherit the lineage." But Ji Yue's body, even if it heals immediately now, it will be difficult to give birth in the future. ”

Dong's father was not convinced: "I didn't want her to give birth." ”

Dong Junqin smiled bitterly: "Haven't you thought about it? Then who do you want to come? Take a concubine or take a righteous son? Father, we all know in our hearts what you expect from me and the entire Dong family." Don't say that you don't care about the heir, if you don't care, why are you so concerned about the official position of the emperor and businessman? If you can get the Sacred Heart or not, you can care so much? Since I understand, Ji Yue naturally understands it too. Whether it is a concubine or a righteous son, for Ji Yue, these things are to remind her all the time that she can't give birth and raise her, and she owes the Dong family. And that's not even counting the gossip out there. Can you bear to let her live under this pressure forever for the rest of her life!"

Father Dong: "That's what you think, Ji Yue knows how to be knowledgeable, and she won't look at the problem like this! The rumors outside, they like to say what they want, we don't care!"

Dong Junqin: "Then why does she never go out?"

Father Dong: "How does her body go out?"

Dong Junqin: "Why can't she? In the early years, she couldn't be in poor health, but if she still can't now, wouldn't I be a quack?"

Dong's father was silent, Dong Junqin meant to tell him not to deceive himself. Song Jiyue was reluctant to go out, just because she didn't want to face the sympathy of outsiders, sympathize with her life experience, sympathize with her body, as if her existence itself was a tragedy.

Father Dong: "Okay, I don't deny what you said, but Ji Yue likes you very much, and marrying you is also her wish emotionally." ”

Dong Junqin: "Have you asked her about her wishes? Moreover, does she know a second marriageable man besides me?"

It's okay to take care of her, even if it's for the rest of your life. But marriage is different. A woman marries, and after she marries, she follows her husband, the Dong family is an imperial businessman, and she is a loyal martyr, once we get married, the court will inevitably give officials. The official is big, I don't take care of it, and when the official is small, Jiyue will worry that you will not accept it. The key is that no matter whether her body is healed or not, it is impossible for her to meet outsiders at will, whether male or female, in order to guard the way of women.

This paper marriage contract seems to promise her a lifelong dependence, but the son thinks that it is a cage that breaks her off so there are other possibilities. Even Ah Lu, the first time she came here, would ask: We are cautious and cautious to Ji Yue every day, Ji Yue herself is not at a loss except for gratitude? Father ......

"Enough. Father Dong interrupted Dong Junqin, he had said enough today, "I know what you mean." But, honestly, are you interested in that girl Aru?"

Dong Junqin: "Father, what I do to Ah Lu has nothing to do with this matter. ”

Father Dong: "It's irrelevant, right, that's good, since you all hope that Ji Yue will recover, then before she recovers, you don't want to marry home." ”

Dong Junqin took a deep breath and spit out a good word.

When Dong's father left the ancestral hall, he did not allow Dong Junqin to get up. has not knelt in the ancestral hall for so many years, Dong Junqin has mixed feelings.

Dong's father walked to the study, and the more he thought about it along the way, the more angry he became. Uncle Zhao persuaded beside him: "Master, it's normal for young people to think differently from us, not to mention that what the young master said is not unreasonable." ”

Father Dong: "What do you mean, am I unreasonable?

Uncle Zhao couldn't cry or laugh: "I didn't mean that." What you think about is family responsibility, but the young master has been used to freedom since he was a child, and he thinks about Miss Ji Yue's heart. ”

Father Dong just wanted to arrange Dong Junqin's presumptuousness, but his brain turned and he heard something in Uncle Zhao's words: "You also think it is difficult for me to be a strong man?"

Uncle Zhao: "It's not difficult for a strong man, but we really didn't ask Miss Jiyue about this Zhuang marriage." No, we asked, but Miss Ji Yue only said that she would listen to your arrangement, and did not say whether she really wanted to be with the young master.

I think that the young master has said so much, and everything else can be ignored, but he is justified in the matter of the heir. It is impossible for the Dong family to be extinct, if Miss Ji Yue marries and has a correct reputation, at least one concubine must be allowed to come in and inherit the lineage. She is not in good health, and it is impossible for her to take care of the affairs of the family, so the real sovereignty of the backyard is likely to be in the hands of the concubine.

Miss Ji Yue thinks about it again and again, in this kind of human situation, it is difficult to guarantee that others have no ideas, and it is difficult for her to deal with herself. Even if we focus on her everywhere, you also know the old saying: kindness is too troublesome. ”

After all, Uncle Zhao has been by Dong's father's side for many years, and the words come out of his mouth, which is much more pleasing to the ear.

After Ah Lu woke up, he was told that Song Jiyue was about to go to the ancestral hall. But when she found the ancestral hall, she didn't see Song Jiyue, only Dong Junqin knelt on the ground with her waist straight.

After making sure that there was no one around, Ah Lu slipped into the ancestral hall and squatted next to him: "Are you being punished?"

Dong Junqin listened to the voice, and suddenly felt tired in his heart.

"Because I was rude in front of the emperor?" Ah Lu was weak, "I'm sorry, I really didn't mean to. I don't think you even gave me a heartbeat, and I thought it didn't matter. ”

Dong Junqin: "Did you see the two sword-carrying guards beside Your Highness? If I were a voice from my heart, they wouldn't hear what we were saying, but they would see that I was casting a spell and be suspicious. ”

Ah Lu sighed and whispered, "Your emperor is really troublesome. ”

Dong Junqin: "Okay, don't accompany me." Let's go back. ”

Arunu mouthed: "I'm not here to accompany you, I'm here to find Miss Song." She doesn't seem to be here, though. ”

Dong Junqin then looked sideways at Ah Lu: "Is something wrong?"

Alu: "That's what I said before, the night of the destruction." I saw a killer's eye the second time I possessed it!"

Dong Junqin was shocked: "Be specific!"

Alu: "That night, Miss Song was hiding in the cabinet, and a killer actually found her. He opened the cabinet door, and he and Miss Song looked at each other through this crack! It was only from this glance that Miss Song seemed to be frozen! Didn't you say that the emperor was a cultivator of evil arts? Do those killers also use evil arts? For example, let Miss Song lose her soul and lose her memory like this?

Dong Junqin pondered for a while: "No wonder ......"

Alu: "What's the wonder?"

Dong Junqin: "Ji Yue has a vague memory of the events of that night. I used to think it was because I was young. But over the years, when she mentioned this matter countless times in front of her, she had no reaction, no hatred and sorrow, only a faint helplessness. The reaction was too calm. Now to hear you, she may have been spelled by that person at that time, and there was a lack of emotion. ”

Ah Lu didn't understand: "Why can't she be calm? Wasn't she still young at that time and couldn't figure out the situation?"

Dong Junqin shook his head: "No matter how young you are, you will have hatred when you know about it when you grow up." That's why even children won't let go of the door. It's just that I'm afraid that someone will come to take revenge in the future. This is human nature. ”

Alu: "Yes? I'm not human, I don't understand. By the way, have you ever been to the Song Mansion later, and have you found any clues in it?"

Dong Junqin shook his head: "I went there once a long time ago, but before that, the Emperor Taishang asked the Immortal Terrace to overspend the souls of the undead, so it is very clean now." Moreover, there are people guarding it, and visiting for no reason will lead to suspicion. ”

"Excess?" Ah Lu was puzzled, "What is the excess? I just checked it for me, this Song family was killed by evil magic, and they were directly wiped out, and they had no soul at all." Is the Immortal Terrace okay?"

Dong Junqin: "Oh, I thought the clue you said was to ask if there were any remnants left there. Transcendence, it is just a little psychological comfort for the living, and no one cares if there are really dead souls. However, other than that, there are no clues to stay in the Song Mansion. ”

Ah Lu: "Then what does this killer mean by leaving the Song girl alive, didn't you say that all human feelings should be killed?"

Dong Junqin: "Maybe it...... Deliberate ......"

Ah Lu covered his face: "Dong Junqin, are you kneeling stupidly? Of course it is deliberate, could it be that he is blind?"

But then, both of them fell into deep thought, deliberately leaving a living mouth?