The princess is killing like crazy again

A delicate "meow" came from below.

Xiao Yurong tilted his head and looked down, meeting a pair of clear cat eyes.

Xiao Yurong was stunned for a moment, then suddenly sat up.

Isn’t this the kitten that she picked up at the Yujing Taifu Mansion, gave to Xie Deshu, and then got lost?

Why are you here?

Looking at Liu Pinjue again, he was standing next to him, looking down at the kitten lying at his feet with a calm expression.

Liu Pinjue found the cat in the Taifu Mansion.

When the funeral procession took place, all members of the Liu family turned back to Yunzhou from Liangjie Mountain, including Liu Pinjue.

But on the day of Xiao Yurong's burial, Liu Pinjue still secretly went to Yujing.

Everyone's attention was drawn to Xiao Yurong's death and they relaxed their vigilance.

Liu Pinjue did not go to the imperial mausoleum, but instead went to the Taifu Mansion where no one was there except for the housekeeper and servants.

He stayed in the library for a while.

In the yard, Liu Pinjue saw the lame kitten.

He had gotten lost in the princess's mansion before, and no one knew where he had gone. Xiao Yurong searched for him for a while but couldn't find him.

Unexpectedly, he ended up running back to this Taifu Mansion which seemed to have been abandoned for a long time.

Liu Pinjue was silent for a long time, and asked Abei to get some food to feed the kitten.

Abei brought a fish over, and the kitten pounced on the fish and started eating.

Liu Pinjue looked at the limping kitten and the loud mournful music outside the yard, all of which reminded him of something.

Memories are deafening, and so is death.

Liu Pinjue reached out to touch the kitten's head, but it arched its body with its teeth bared and scratched him with its claws.

"Master!" Abei suddenly became nervous.

Liu Pinjue was caught off guard and was tickled, and was stunned.

He looked at the clearly visible scratches on his hands, lowered his eyelids, and tapped the kitten's head, "You little heartless one."

Although he said that, Liu Pinjue still took the cat back to Yunzhou.

"Which nobleman raised this cat?" Xiao Yurong smiled.

Liu Pinjue lowered his eyes, "My apprentice's cat."

Xiao Yurong smiled and said, "Teacher, you are well-known and have many students all over the world. Whose student's cat is this? Why is it here? It can't be the handsome young master of the Li family, right?"

"No." Liu Pinjue shook his head.

Xiao Yurong pretended to guess, "Isn't it from the Yujing Li family? I haven't seen this cat in any noble family in Chengchuan. It can't be from the Chuyuan Wang family, right?"

"Who is left? The master is not that close to the people of Cui family in Yinzhou. It seems that no one in Cui family is the master's student." She pinched her chin.

"The Xiao family of Yujing." Liu Pinjue spoke.

He looked directly into Xiao Yurong's eyes, "Miss Zhaoyang, Xiao Qingqing."

Xiao Yurong looked into Liu Pinjue's eyes, with a smile on her lips but no emotion in her eyes. "Oh, it turns out to be the famous Princess Yurong."

This sounds a lot like entrusting an orphan to someone else, where someone dies and leaves behind a cat so that the living can see the cat and remember him.

If Xiao Yurong was not herself, she wouldn't have known that the cat had been lost long ago, and would have thought how much Liu Pinjue missed her.

"This is just a lame little cat. People entrusted the cat to you, but you didn't take good care of it. It really makes me sad." Xiao Yurong bent down, picked up the kitten, and joked half-seriously.

"I found someone to treat it, but it's been too long and it can't be cured." Liu Pinjue said, "It has been incurable since the beginning."

He said, "It got lost a long time ago, and was later found in the Taifu Mansion."

Xiao Yurong was stunned. Has Liu Pinjue ever returned to Yujing?

"It looks petite, but it's actually not young." Xiao Yurong scratched the kitten's chin.

When she found the kitten in the library of Taifu Mansion, it was still a kitten. Now, time flies, and even the kitten is already quite old.

Xiao Yurong raised his eyes, "What is it called?"

Xiao Yurong had never given the kitten a name before, and she deliberately left it with Liu Pinjue.

But Liu Pinjue didn't take the baby seriously and didn't give it a name, so Xiao Yurong took the baby back and gave it to Xie Deshu.

Xie Deshu didn’t give it a name, so he just called it Kitten.

Later the kitten ran away, let alone a name.

"No name." Liu Pinjue replied.

Xiao Yurong smiled mockingly, and Liu Pinjue was indeed as indifferent as ever.

"Sir, you are so cruel that you don't even give me a name." Xiao Yurong scolded in Fu Guang's tone.

"Because... she didn't give it a name." Liu Pinjue said softly.

Xiao Yurong asked: "Princess, why don't you give it a name?"

Liu Pinjue lowered his eyes, "Because she doesn't want to leave it with me anymore."

"Then this is all your fault, sir. If you had treated it well, the princess wouldn't have been unwilling to keep the kitten here." Xiao Yurong seemed to be teasing.

There was a knock on the door.

The outsider said, "Master, Miss, snacks and blood bird's nests have been delivered."

Xiao Yurong retracted his gaze and said, "Bring it in."

This conversation ended without any result.

When Abei was on guard that night, he found Liu Pinjue pushing the door and walking out in the middle of the night.

Ah Bei was stunned. Liu Pinjue had a shallow sleep and always woke up in the middle of the night after Xiao Yurong's death, feeling uneasy.

But after that annoying Fu Guang showed up, things got much better.

Why did it start again today?

Ah Bei suspected that Liu Pinjue had something important to say, so he asked, "What do you want, my lord?"

It was still a long night, and Liu Pinjue looked at the flowers and trees under the night lights in the courtyard, seeming to be distracted for a moment.

"The nights are getting longer. Let's go to the West Wing and ask you, how many times do you cough and wake up at night?" he said.

"Master?" Abei was stunned.

Liu Pinjue forgot again...

After being called out by Ah Bei, Liu Pinjue came back to his senses. After a moment of silence, he said, "Go next door and ask Fu Guang."

Ah Bei muttered quietly: "Fu Guang is not like her."

He turned around and went to ask Xiao Yurong's maid next door, but halfway there he turned back and glanced at Liu Pinjue.

Liu Pinjue lowered his eyes.

"That's why I hate Fu Guang. She's like her shadow, and this shadow is getting more and more solid." He murmured.

Abei walked out and ran into Anan.

They took turns guarding the place each day, while the other one handled foreign affairs.

That is to say, some time ago, the two of them made a serious mistake because Xiao Yurong knew about the matter but did not report it, and they were severely punished by Liu Pinjue.

Anan also returned to Yunzhou to garrison, leaving only Abei to keep watch.

Later, Liu Pinjue returned to Yunzhou, and the two began to take turns again.

Abei was on guard tonight. Anan had just finished his work and was quite surprised to see Abei coming out. "Why are you out?"

Ah Bei asked at the same time: "How did you just finish it?"

"Li's troops are in Chengchuan, and with the addition of the imperial army led by Xie Deshu and Xie's private soldiers, the deployment has to be changed, so we are busy a little late." Anan said.

"What is Li Yaozhi doing?" Abei frowned.

Anan shook his head, "It's always a good idea to make plans early."

"I think they are teaming up and waiting for Fu Guang to find out something so that they can target our Yunzhou." Abei snorted coldly.

"Let's not talk about this anymore. Why did you come out? Why aren't you staying inside?" Anan asked.

Ah Bei got even angrier when this was mentioned. "The master asked me to go to the next door and ask Fu Guang's maid, how many times did Fu Guang cough and wake up during the night?"

Anan was silent for a moment, then suddenly said, "I miss her."

As a result, Abei also fell silent.

"It's all our Lord's fault. He asked us to look after her, take care of her, and protect her." Anan smiled bitterly, "It's all right now."

He looked at Ah Bei, "Do you miss her?"

Abei opened his mouth and finally nodded slightly.

"Do you think the master misses her?" Anan asked.

"The master's affairs are not something you and I can interfere with." Ah Bei walked out, "I still have to ask someone."

Anan looked at Abei's back and said softly, "If the master didn't miss her, he wouldn't have asked you to ask."

*

The one-month deadline was approaching, and Yi Yan's disguise was gradually fading, so the fact that he could not obtain the information he wanted was enough to make Xiao Yurong anxious.

Seeing that Anan treated her better and better, Abei looked at her with more and more strange eyes.

All these behaviors were telling Xiao Yurong that time was running out and he had to take a gamble.

The secret letter sent by Li Yaozhi urged Xiao Yurong to retreat as quickly as possible and not to take any more risks.

After all, the intelligence that Xiao Yurong had stolen before also had traces and risks, and he was afraid that Xiao Yurong's identity would be exposed when the one-month deadline was up.

At that time, Liu would definitely not let Xiao Yurong leave safely.

Tonight is the night.

Xiao Yurong looked out the window at the long night.

Tonight, Li Yaozhi will wait for support outside Yunzhou. Fuyang Guards will operate inside Yunzhou, and Xiao Yurong will secretly escape from Yunzhou.

Before leaving, Xiao Yurong planned to go to Liu Pinjue's study to test the waters again.

During these days, she also found out that there was a secret room in Liu Pinjue's study, which probably stored a lot of confidential information and files.

In addition, she had found out that Liu Pinjue had been out on official business in recent days and would be back very late and not in the study.

So the possibility of success this time is 90% to 90%.

He groped his way to Liu Pinjue's study without making any noise, and after passing through layers of guards and defenses, he found the switch of the dark room and finally found the way out.

After entering the dark room, Xiao Yurong just made a rough exploration and then began to look for information and files purposefully.

Capture the unusual atmosphere from the clues.

Xiao Yurong extracted the keyword - Pingnan.

With the faint light of the candle, Xiao Yurong half-squinted his eyes and barely made out the few words. Suddenly, there was a sound of unusual movement of a mechanism behind him.

Xiao Yurong shuddered all over, immediately blew out the candle, and put the paper in his hand back to its place.

She only took the last one that she hadn't finished reading, hurriedly stuffed it into her chest, and hid in the dark.

Judging from the voice above, it should be Liu Pinjue who has returned.

Damn it, why did Liu Pinjue come back now?

Xiao Yurong was in a hurry and only had time to hurried back to the study, where he ran into Liu Pinjue who was walking into the study.

Xiao Yurong's breathing was slightly hasty. He clenched his sweaty palms and forced a smile: "Sir, why are you back so early?"

If Liu Pinjue found out, not only would most of her hard work be wasted, but she wouldn't be able to leave.

"I have finished my official business and came back naturally." Liu Pinjue just looked at Xiao Yurong and said in a deep voice.

Looking at Liu Pinjue, Xiao Yurong still felt guilty and pressured.

Liu Pinjue's gaze is inherently oppressive and controlling, as if he can see through everything.

"Sir, you really made me wait for a long time." Xiao Yurong glanced at the moving torches outside.

Liu Pinjue sent all the patrolling guards away, but Xiao Yurong knew that Anan and Abei must still be outside.

"Are you waiting for me to come back?" Liu Pinjue asked.

"Yes." Xiao Yurong said confidently, "I want to see you, sir, so I am here to wait for you."

Liu Pinjue narrowed his eyes, looking at her with scrutiny, "Waiting in the study room?"

Could it be that Liu Pinjue discovered something?

His fingertips were pinched until they turned white, but Xiao Yurong didn't show any emotion on his face. "Of course, the master plays with diamonds in the study all day long. If I want to see the master, of course I have to come to the study."

"I heard from people that they saw Miss Fu Guang sneaking towards the study room and they suspected she was a spy." Liu Pinjue said indifferently.

Xiao Yurong's face darkened, "Sir, you are doubting me."

She quickly reviewed all the fragments of what had just happened in her mind. She had clearly avoided everyone just now, so how could anyone have seen her?

Could it be that what Liu Pinjue said just now was a trick to deceive her?

Liu Pinjue said: "How can this be called suspicion? I am trying to prove your innocence."

"Innocent?" Xiao Yurong sneered and opened his arms. "Sir, if you suspect me, I have nothing to say. So search me."

In Xiao Yurong's opinion, although Liu Pinjue is not a gentleman, he should not investigate.

But unexpectedly, Liu Pinjue went up the stairs instead, "Well, this is best."

Liu Pinjue placed his palm on Xiao Yurong's waist and groped it, moving up along the waist, abdomen and back, searching upwards little by little.

The body temperature spread to every part of the body.

The extremely ambiguous action and Liu Pinjue's breath whispered in Xiao Yurong's ears, but made her inexplicably feel as if she was being stared at by a wild beast and confined in its territory.

Xiao Yurong was horrified.

If you search further up, you will find that page of paper.

After a lot of thoughts in his mind, Xiao Yurong stretched out his arms, hooked them around Liu Pinjue's neck, and took a step forward to get closer.

She smiled and said, "Sir, you have searched everywhere, so you should believe me, right?"

Liu Pinjue looked at Xiao Yurong with a dark gaze.

Her smile was bright, like the rising clouds and the bright moon, a beautiful moment that was suddenly revealed.

She tilted her head slightly, her hair was thick and black, falling to her shoulders, making her look beautiful and graceful.

During the long silence, Xiao Yurong felt more and more unsure and subconsciously wanted to touch Ye Xing.

"Yeah." Liu Pinjue's deep eyes were quieter than the night, like ripples in stagnant water, wrapped in too many incomprehensible emotions.

Xiao Yurong took a step back, left Liu Pinjue's arms, and smiled: "It's getting late, I'll go back to bed first. Sir, don't deal with official business in the middle of the night, go to bed early."

After saying that, she yawned lazily and was about to walk out the door.

One step, two steps.

She raised her hand to touch the door, and just before she was about to push it open, a hand suddenly stopped her from behind.

The hand wrapped around her waist and pulled her back. The world spun around and Xiao Yurong was thrown on the small couch behind the screen in the study.

"Sir!" Xiao Yurong exclaimed in surprise.

Liu Pinjue stretched out his hand directly to her waist and continued to grope upwards very quickly, along her collar, and pulled the piece of paper out from in front of her chest.

Xiao Yurong opened his mouth and was suddenly speechless.