"So...... You've come to me after all. ”

Tea mist fills.

Zhu Hou, who was dressed in a big red robe, sat in the tea room, after the people and horses of Tiandu arrived in the north, they went their own way and did not leave in a hurry, as an "escort" Zhu Hou, even more so after the separation of Xu Qingyan from the Great Wall in the north, he fulfilled the will of the "Red Breeze River", but traveling outside did not mean that the royal family restricted all his freedom.

So these days, Zhu Hou met with the protégé of Ying Tianfu Academy, and also drank tea with his favorite disciple Qingjun Lianqing, and discussed the Tao together.

There are still remnants of the porcelain of the one in front of you in the tea room.

Qingjun had just left.

"Lian Qing is really a great person, he knows very well what he wants and what he needs to pay for it......" Zhu Hou looked at the figure who opened the side door of the tearoom and was still standing in the dark, and slowly spoke: "It's much stronger than I was back then, when I was young, I only knew how to enjoy everything in the moment, but I didn't know that all this had been marked by fate in advance...... So I paid the price. ”

Xu Qingyan slowly walked out of the darkness and came to Zhu Hou's face.

She sat opposite Zhu Hou, still wearing a hat, but her gaze never left the eyes of the former mansion lord for a moment.

When you look at people, you can know your thoughts and know lies.

Zhu Hou has been laughing, after he was punished into the Red Breeze River, there are few emotions such as "anger" and "unwillingness" on his body, until these years of tempering, he has been like a round stone, no edges and corners, but there are no loopholes, his eyes smile like two silver moons, and he can't see the meaning of the depths of his pupils at all.

It was in the northern city.

Xu Qingyan was very sure of what she said, and she unilaterally cut off the connection with Zhu Hou.

And now take the initiative to get it back...... The smile in Zhu Hou's eyes seemed to have a faint mockery of this matter.

But if you look closely, it is not just ridicule, the meaning of banter only accounts for a very minority, more sympathy, and sighs.

"In the days of the Red Breeze River, did you only learn to tell the Zen principles?" Xu Qingyan sat opposite Zhu Hou, and she said calmly: "I don't want to listen to you teach me how to be a person." ”

Zhu Hou leaned back with the teacup in both hands, his face was hidden in the mist, he blew the tea without a mouthful, and said softly: "Because you understand these truths...... But after all, there are still things you don't understand, and that's why you're coming to me. ”

Xu Qingyan frowned, took out the White Dragon Order, pressed it on the table, slowly pushed it over, and said three words at the same time: "Pei Lingsu." ”

Zhu Hou grinned.

This smile is different from the previous one.

He smiled heartily and said with emotion: "Look, look...... Am I right? You still need Tiandu. ”

"You weren't that kind of person before. Xu Qingyan looked directly into Zhu Hou's eyes, "Before the Qingshan Mansion incident, you regarded your own interests as the highest place, although you had the royal family in your eyes, but you were by no means a slave before and after the crown prince's saddle, but now you have changed...... What is the secret in the Red Breeze River that can make you obediently meditate for a few years, and then be so desperate to draw 'yourself' and 'Tiandu' into the same relationship?"

Zhu Hou sighed: "I thought you completely understood what I said at the beginning...... But now it seems, you don't seem to understand. The things I did in my early years are why I'm sitting here now, as for what's in the Red Whisk River...... All I can say is that there, I saw the price of fate, and I tried to hold on to my destiny. ”

Xu Qingyan sighed in his heart.

Some words in this sentence...... In the conversation in the East Chamber that night, she also heard the prince mention it.

Did the crown prince change Zhu Hou?

The former mansion lord of Ying Tianfu smiled and lightly tapped the White Dragon Order with his fingers, and did not take it back, but once again pushed the token in front of Xu Qingyan, "Before all the negotiations begin...... I hope Miss Xu, you understand that not just one thing, but everything, you can trust Tiandu and the prince...... So this token, you take it well, and after today, it will be useful when you get it. ”

"Not anymore. ”

Xu Qingyan spoke again, she looked at Zhu Hou calmly, and said, "I'll only use this once." ”

"Then this time you are for Ning Yi......"

"What about next time?"

Zhu Hou blew away the tea mist, leaned forward slowly, knocked his face through the mist, looked at the beautiful face hidden behind the soap veil of the hat with a smile, and asked very lightly: "There will be a first time, there will be a second time, and there will be countless times...... What's more, that's not a bad thing, is it?"

"Miss Xu, or should I call you 'Lord Xu'?" Zhu Hou mocked and mocked: "Everything...... Don't say it too absolutely. ”

The white dragon order lay quietly on the table.

Xu Qingyan didn't reach for it.

She took off her hat and no longer wore that layer of black veil, but directly showed her true face, Xu Qingyan looked at Zhu Hou's eyes, and after seeing her true face with her own eyes, the mansion master's eyes narrowed even harder.

She sneered.

Come straight to the point.

"I want her to live. ”

There was silence on the table.

Zhu Hou looked at Xu Qingyan, looking at the woman who the prince had instructed to fulfill his wish no matter what, his eyebrows were raised, and he looked at Xu Qingyan in confusion.

"Did I say a word when I was in the northern city...... In this world, no one can guarantee the absolute life and death of another person. Zhu Hou's voice was vaguely depressed, "Even the crown prince can't." ”

In his opinion.

Xu Qingyan is a person who does not know how to grasp opportunities.

Too capricious.

The white dragon order of the crown prince can do a lot of things...... And Xu Qingyan always proposes something that the prince can't do.

"I thought that when you came here, you would make some other requests, such as repairing Ning Yi's injuries and helping him reunite the ...... of the Divine Pool" Zhu Hou gritted his teeth and said word by word: "You want Pei Lingsu to live, why?"

Xu Qingyan looked at Zhu Hou's eyes.

"There is no why. ”

"I just want her to live, she doesn't deserve to die. ”

"There are many people in this world who don't deserve to die!" Zhu Hou pressed his hands on the table, and he said loudly: "The beggars who froze to death on the side of the road, the orphans abandoned by their parents, these people don't deserve to die, but Pei Lingsu is an orphan of the General's Mansion, and the old case has not been turned over because of Taizong's mercy, according to the law of the Great Sui, she is the one who should die!"

Earlier.

Zhu Hou has experienced many suppressions, including the suppression of "Pei Min".

The general of the northern realm, came to Tiandu for a trip, and killed the predecessors of Ying Tianfu cleanly, and Zhu Hou's master was also among them, and he wished that all the old people in the General's Mansion would die, in order to repay the hatred of the bloody night.

After venting his emotional speech, Zhu Hou's forehead suddenly overflowed with a circle of extremely golden light, like a circle of golden hoops, the moment it appeared, it was compressed from the outside to the inside, and a scarlet blood mark was instantly strangled, and the hair around him burned out dry and scorched traces-

He let out a low cry of pain, his hands were raised suddenly, and he clutched the golden hoop, but it was only in vain, this great cultivator of the Star Monarch realm was instantly drained of his spirit, and his standing body suddenly knelt down, smashing his knees on the ground, smashing out a cobweb.

Zhu Hou kept smashing the ground with his forehead.

All of a sudden.

Inside the quiet room, earth and rocks are splashed.

Xu Qingyan looked at this scene in horror, and hurriedly stretched out a hand to pick up the hood, protect it on his chest, and retreated.

She was a little worried that this unprovoked and irascible great cultivator would hurt people.

But in fact...... The effect of the circle of golden hoops is very powerful, in the process of tightening the golden light, Zhu Hou, who has almost reached the realm of cultivation, is no different from a wasted person, he roared in pain, but his voice became more and more low, the more he resisted, the more powerful this oppression became, the red clothes were blown apart by the energy, and finally Zhu Hou leaned against the stone wall, and a circle of golden hoops strangled the forehead about to explode, and the whole person was as pale as paper.

Resistance was abandoned.

The cry of pain was also abandoned.

Intake sound.

Exhalation.

There was also a low, extremely mocking laugh.

All the sounds were gone...... The dissipation of the golden hoop was actually just a matter of dozens of breaths, but Zhu Hou seemed to have gone through decades of suffering, his eyes were gray, without the slightest color, in a trance, he raised his head, and looked at Xu Qingyan blankly.

Like a dead man.

He reached out a hand, slowly covering his cheek, and chuckled.

"You asked before...... What's in the Red Whisk River......"

Zhu Hou's pupils looked at the girl's pale cheeks through the gap in the palm of one hand, his laughter became painful and distorted, and the other hand held the hair on his forehead, trembling, "See? What is this...... Reward, punishment, this is the 'thing' in the Red Whisk River. ”

Zhu Hou's two palms, as if washing his face, wiped his cheeks fiercely.

All the look on his face was gone.

In the past few years, he has done this action many times.

Restrained expression.

Convergence of emotions.

The gray in Zhu Hou's eyes also dissipated.

His voice was still a little shaky: "I am not angry because I am not angry." But whoever gives birth to the slightest resentment...... The previous scene will appear. ”

Zhu Hou looked at the beautiful woman, the trembling in his voice was not afraid, not just afraid, not just scared, but also some crazy, he said softly: "So you can rest assured...... Even if I personally hate Pei Min and the General's Mansion, I will not make a mistake. ”

He stretched out his curled body, the big red robe swept over the tea cup on the ground, the painful struggle before, the porcelain sat on the pit of the wooden floor, "very lucky" escaped, at this moment he raised his sleeves and swept it up, drank it all on his back, and then crushed it "bang".

Fine beads of sweat oozed from Zhu Hou's forehead.

His emotions slowly calmed down.

He looked at Xu Qingyan and said, "Actually, I said something wrong...... In this world, no one can decide a person's absolute life and death...... Actually, there is. ”

"In the territory of the Great Sui, Heaven can help you kill anyone. Zhu Hou said with a smile: "The prince can decide the absolute death of a person...... But no one can do this. ”