After wearing the book, the regent quit.

But at that time, Shen Mu arrived in the medicine city.

The small town was similar to what he had expected, but it was a place with all kinds of internal organs. It was sparsely populated but not rich. To put it bluntly, it was a poor mountain with a lot of people.

The wooden wheels of the carriage creaked and rolled over the potholed gravel road, Shen Mu was in the carriage, and could hear whispers from all around through the roller blind.

The owner of the hairpin was an old woman, surnamed Tian, ​​who now lived in a remote and poor alley. Rao Shen Mu and others found the approximate location early in the morning, and the tangled alley made them detour for a long time. lock up.

The alley became narrower and narrower, and the carriage couldn't pass through at the end. Seeing that there were only a few steps left, Shen Mu planned to find it on foot; as soon as he got out of the carriage, he caught a glimpse of Ninth Prince Xiao Huan who was tying the horse rope from the corner of his eye.

Relying on his youth and thick skin, the teenagers of seventeen or eighteen followed up with Shen Mu clearly not wanting to go with him; He quietly and dutifully did not speak, and simply let him go.

Anyway, Xiao Fan will know about this sooner or later, and keeping a low profile is nothing more than his character.

Compared with Xiao Huan's uninvited visit, what surprised Shen Mu even more was that the old woman's residence and Xiao Fan's childhood residence seemed to be in the same alley.

This alley has obviously been forgotten by the world long ago. Not to mention the dilapidated and narrow alley, it was lunch time at noon, and there were not a few wisps of cooking smoke along the way.

After wasting nearly two sticks of incense in the maze-like alley, Xiao Huan, who followed silently behind him, finally couldn't stand it any longer. thatched cottage.

There was a black-clothed man standing guard in front of the thatched cottage, and when he saw Shen Mu approaching, he immediately bowed and saluted, and after respectfully shouting "Your Regent", he waved his hands to invite Shen Mu and his party to enter the house.

From Shen Mu's point of view, this place is not even worthy of being called a "house": the thatch above the head is black and messy, and it is randomly hung on the broken abandoned rocks, so fragile that it can be easily blown away by a gust of wind.

The backlit room has no windows or doors, and the only furniture is a simple wooden bed and an earthen kang covered with cobwebs.

A short, skinny old lady sat quietly by the bed, with white hair and a sickly face, her skinny hands covered with age spots, clutching the bed frame uneasily.

As if hearing the intrusion of Shen Mu and his party, the old man turned around blankly following the voice, his voice was trembling with nervousness, but his tone was still gentle and peaceful, "...You are what Mr. Zhang said. Someone who buys hairpins with money?"

The musty stench in the house was disgusting. Shen Mu resisted the stomach discomfort and came to the old man. Seeing that her cloudy eyes were not bright, he squatted down to look at her, and slowed down his voice to try to give her a sense of security.

"Yes, this hairpin is very important to me, please make it happen."

"You can set the price as you like." From the corner of the eye, he glanced at the black-clothed man "Mr. Zhang" who was standing quietly with his hands down. Shen Mu promised again, "If you have other wishes, you can tell me directly, and I will keep Mr. Zhang." it's here."

"Old lady, I'm already dying. I can't take this much money with me, and I don't have any wishes."

Seeing Shen Mu's gentle attitude, the old man's tense body relaxed slightly, his right hand released the bed frame and stretched towards the soft pillow, and after a while, he took out a silver hairpin with a camellia pendant.

"It's just that a boy once begged me, saying that this hairpin is the only relic left by his mother, and he will definitely redeem it from the old woman when he grows up."

Shen Mu was taken aback when he heard the words, then heard the old woman smile weakly, her face was wrinkled but extremely kind, "You may want to laugh at the old woman for being stupid and easy to deceive, but I watched this child grow up, I believe he will not lie .”

In Granny Tian's intermittent statement, Shen Mu understood the story of this hairpin and the "boy" he said.

This alley used to be full of people. Although everyone lived in poverty, they still had basic food and clothing. Only a mother and son lived in a shabby hut at the end of the alley, but they were hungry and cold. No rest days.

It is said that the woman was originally a lady of a great family, but she never thought she was pregnant with a child; the family felt ashamed that they could not find the father of the child, so when the woman was pregnant and showed her belly, they kicked her out with sticks.

No one in the alley knew how the woman gave birth to the child. What they saw was a pale woman who came to the alley with a baby in her arms. After buying the thatched cottage that thieves would despise, she lived there for nearly ten years. .

As a mother, she is strong, and the frail and sick woman insisted on supporting the child; fortunately, the child was sensible early, and when he was as tall as the stove, he consciously carried a small bamboo basket on his back, woke up before dawn, and took a small bamboo basket Sickle and the men went to the back mountain together, trying to dig some wild vegetables and pay back the money for her mother's medical treatment.

Speaking of this, the old woman couldn't help sobbing, "The old woman has lived for so many years, and she has never seen such a sensible child; who came home with injuries all day long, and could still lie to his mother with a smile, saying that he accidentally fell outside. "

The weather is not beautiful, and the long-term overwork quickly wiped out the fragile life of the woman; she began to get sick and coughed up blood all day long, and the child no longer had the heart to mow the grass on the mountain, and died before dawn. He ran to the medical clinic in the town, bought the medicine, and then ran back to give his mother a drink.

The family was originally poor, and later when the medicines could not be afforded, the children could only pawn off the valuables at home.

"This hairpin is his mother's only jewelry." The old woman put the silver hairpin in her palm. "The old woman couldn't bear it back then, so she secretly bought this hairpin and wanted to give it to the child directly."

"But he just refused to take it for free. He insisted that he would redeem it from me after earning the money. He just asked the old lady to keep it safe and never sell it."

Fast forward nearly ten years, the boy never came back, but the old man never left.

What the old woman didn't know was that the boy had pawned a jade pendant with a dragon pattern at the same time as he pawned his hairpin. What's more, a courtier in the capital found the jade pendant and soon confirmed that it was a jade pendant. The boy was the lost pearl that the late emperor had been looking for and was left among the people, and he was quickly brought back to the palace.

After listening to the old lady's statement, several people in the room were silent; after a while, I saw Xiao Huan leaning against the door and asked, "Does that boy's name... A 'traditional' character?"

The mother-in-law opened her mouth in surprise, "...how do you know?"

The young man turned his head away and looked out the door without saying a word, his eyes were a little red.

Taking a deep breath, Shen Mu managed to calm down, and smiled gently at the person, "Grandma Tian is dissatisfied with you, saying that I came to redeem the hairpin for that boy...that person, and he has something to do now. He thanked you."

Granny Tian didn't say a word, she was still holding the hairpin tightly in her hand, her suspicion was self-evident.

"Since you watched him grow up," Shen Mu's brain was running fast, trying to recall what was special about Xiao Fan, and he said with a flash of inspiration, "Then he has a black mole behind his right ear, did you know that? "

The location behind the ears is private enough, and it is basically impossible for people who are not close to know; sure enough, Granny Tian's face turned red, her eyes turned red, and she choked up again.

"The child said that this hairpin was left by his mother as a bride price for his daughter-in-law. The old woman thought he would bring his daughter-in-law over in person, so she suspected that you were a liar."

"My old lady has little knowledge, sir, don't take offense." The old man raised his hand to wipe away his tears, and put the hairpin in Shen Mu's hand with sobs, "You can take this hairpin directly, half of my body is buried in the ground, and there is no need for money. You two keep it well." Live your life and don't leave that child alone again."

Shen Mu: "..."

Everyone in the house who dare not breathe: "..."

Facing the expectant look of the old man, Shen Mu really couldn't bear to tell her the truth, so he could only comfort himself that it was not the first time he had been misunderstood, so let's just assume that he has a good heart and good deeds.

"Don't worry, mother-in-law, I will...help him well," Shen Mu said with difficulty; when he suddenly remembered something, he held mother-in-law's hand instead, and said seriously, "There is just one more thing I want to ask for your help. "

"If possible, can you take me to the place where he lived when he was a child?"

"Your Majesty, the city gate is about to close in half an hour. The admiral of the Nine Gates asked if we should postpone the closing of the city gate."

The night was getting thicker, and the bloody sunset finally couldn't bear the time to refine it, and fell obliquely into the sky; the dark silver evening mist climbed up from the corner, covering the sky silently.

In Mingcheng Palace, Xiao Fan put down the memorial in his hand, looked sideways at the side door, and looked at the sky, his long eyelashes drooping down to cover his deep black eyes, and whispered to Jing, "Tell him no need, you also back down."

Standing up and walking to the long wooden platform behind the side door, Xiao Fan suddenly felt a little tired; he sat down with his back against the door frame, his left hand resting on his bent left knee, his long and straight right leg stretched freely, his slender figure slanted Falling on the wooden floor.

The empty palace was deserted and deserted, except for the sound of his breathing, there were only green leaves rustling in the night wind.

Maybe it's just his illusion, the starry river seems to be extraordinarily bright tonight, each twinkling and connecting into a line, illuminating the endless sky.

The cool breeze picked up a strand of hair, Xiao Fan looked at the gazebo not far away for a while, slowly closed his eyes, and silently recited a name in his heart.

He seemed to be asleep, with a calm complexion and long breaths, and the drooping eyelashes were distinct, casting a gray shadow under the eyelids.

There was no sound in the hall, and after a long time, there was a self-deprecating chuckle; Xiao Fan still didn't open his eyes, but leaned his head on the door frame weakly, making a muffled sound.

What are you waiting for.

It's not the first time I've been alone through the night, either.

After a while, he finally felt a vengeful headache.

"My lord regent, it's time to close the palace gate." The soldier guarding the palace gate looked bitter, confused, "If you go in now, the little ones won't dare to let you out later ..."

Shen Mu's indifferent face couldn't hide the tiredness on his face, he flicked a cold eye knife without hesitation, and the piercing aura made the two soldiers in front of him tremble unconsciously.

"Say it again, my king, get out of the way."

Uneasiness grew wildly in his heart, Shen Mu's palm holding the hairpin was full of sweat, and there was a layer of anxiety in his eyes that he didn't even notice.

When leaving Yaozhen, the hot sun hanging high in the sky had already slanted towards the west, and on the premise that the hairpin could be presented to Xiao Fan tomorrow, there was no need to rush back to the capital overnight.

But every time he glimpsed the hairpin in his hand from the corner of the eye, Granny Tian's weak but firm voice would always sound from the bottom of Shen Mu's heart:

Don't leave him alone anymore.

The soldiers did not dare to stop them and had to let them go. As soon as Shen Mu entered the palace gate, he saw Jing Fan from a distance; his eyes flashed with surprise, he stepped forward to stop him, and when he spoke, his speech speed was obviously faster than usual .

"Where is His Majesty at the moment?"

Turning around and ordering people to prepare the chariot, Jing Fan looked at him quietly for a few seconds, then said in a deep voice, "Your Majesty is alone in Ming Cheng Palace."

Unlike in the past when the candles were brightly lit, the Ming Cheng Palace was uncharacteristically dark tonight; Shen Mu outside the door looked into the palace from afar and saw Xiao Fan sitting leaning against the door, feeling inexplicably sour in his heart.

Jing Fan didn't open his mouth to inform, but stood outside the door, and calmly made a "please" gesture to Shen Mu.

A few rays of bright moonlight slanted down through the window, Shen Mu held his breath and walked forward in the dark hall, his heartbeat beat his ear bones in the silent space, and his head was a little swollen from the shock.

"Isn't it said that you can see the person you miss when you close your eyes?"

"Yafu turned out to be deceiving Gu."

Hearing this, Shen Mu paused, looked at Xiao Fan who was half a step away with his eyes lightly closed, and the panic that had been stuck in his chest for the whole afternoon suddenly dissipated most of it.

Just as he was about to explain, the young man suddenly opened his eyes, his black pupils were filled with icy coldness; without giving anyone any time to respond, Xiao Fan stretched out his long arm and grabbed Shen Mu's wrist, and pulled him to the ground with force from his wrist. Also fell aside.

There was a dull pain in his wrist, and Shen Mu fell directly into Xiao Fan's arms; when he looked up and saw the bloodshot eyes of the young man and the faintly bulging veins at the corners of his eyes, he couldn't help frowning, and the word "head disease" instantly came to mind.

"Shen Zinian, Gu warned me," hot breath fell on his neck, Shen Mu heard the delirious Xiao Fan calling his name in a low voice, gnashing his teeth in his ear,

"If you lie to Gu again, Gu will not let you go."

The young man's ruthless gaze landed on his face like a sharp arrow, Shen Mu couldn't struggle, and instinctively tensed up and leaned back, "Your Majesty listened to the minister's explanation—"

The big hand landed on Shen Mu's waist at some point, almost effortlessly, Xiao Fan hugged him suddenly, and lifted his chin with the other hand, his eyes sank, and then he lowered his head without hesitation leaned over.

As if taking revenge, he bit Shen Mu's lower lip fiercely.

At the same time, in the hall that had been silent for a long time, an indistinct light/gasp finally sounded.

"...I don't want to hear it."

The author has something to say: Today’s thick and long will be presented (this time I can’t say I’m short, right?)

This article should be v tomorrow. If there is no accident, it will be updated at [-] o'clock in the evening. If there is no manuscript, I will try my best (guilty). I hope everyone can support the original version qwq

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感谢在2020-08-1615:51:44~2020-08-1716:36:08期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel who threw the mine: 1 A Si Li;

Thanks to the little angels of the irrigation nutrient solution: 2 bottles of Jiang Tian; 1 bottle of Tang Wanwan's surname Ye and SYH;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!