Bird Reimu Dance · Returning Night

I finally bite the bullet and turned around, and when I saw the pale Queen Mother Leng with tightly pursed lips, my throat tightened.

I didn't know what to do or what to say, I looked at the Queen Mother and then at Xinyue, so my knees softened and I knelt beside Xinyue silently.

The Empress Dowager Leng stared at us fixedly, her eyes flickered and the corners of her lips trembled slightly, obviously she was hesitant to speak.

"I implore the Queen Mother to complete Xinyue and King Rui." Wei Xinyue raised her eyes, breaking the uncomfortable silence.

And I, as if I heard a thunderbolt in my ear.

Countless confusion and surprise aroused in my heart, I don't know why she said that, is she crazy?No matter how much she doesn't want to marry the emperor, she knows my true identity...how can I make such a request to the queen mother...but when I met her eyes, I suddenly thought of what she just said The phrase "No matter what happens later, you can't refuse me", I had no choice but to swallow back the countless questions accumulated in my throat.

"Are you serious?"

Unexpectedly, the Queen Mother Leng was not furious, but stared at her and asked quietly.

"Yes." She didn't hesitate.

The Queen Mother Leng slowly shifted her gaze to me, "Are you serious too?"

"I..."

I wanted to shake my head, but I caught a glimpse of Dao Xinyue staring at me for a moment, and finally bit the bullet and nodded, "Yes..." As soon as I finished speaking, I lowered my head guiltily, not daring to Go see the Queen Mother and Xinyue again.

I don't know how long it took before I heard a slight sigh from the Queen Mother Leng, and then she turned around and left quietly.

Before night fell, everyone in the palace knew that the Queen Mother had issued a decree to marry King Rui and the daughter of the Wei family, and the wedding was on the same day as Princess Changle and General Yang Zhong, ten days later, on the seventh day of the next month.

I heard that this date was actually chosen by the emperor, and the emperor also approved the marriage.

Everything came so unexpectedly.

After I accepted Yi's order in a daze, I was stunned.

Liang Jiuze wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and patted his chest in shock and said to me, "It's okay, it's okay, luckily, the emperor doesn't like the daughter of the Wei family... Otherwise, the emperor and his highness are afraid that they will repeat the mistakes of the two emperors Jing Ling. It's..." At this moment, Luo Mei gave him a hard look, and he quickly shut up.

"Your Highness...what the hell is going on...how did you and the daughter of the Wei family..." Luomei looked at me eagerly, her eyes full of disbelief, "is there a misunderstanding somewhere... .?"

I shook my head blankly, waved at them, and said wearily, "Let's all step back, I want to be alone for a while."

That night, I lay flat on the bed with my eyes open and my clothes closed, without any sleepiness at all, blankly thinking about the last words Xinyue said to me——

She said to me, "Xiao Mu'er, I'm not crazy. It's just that only by doing this can you get out."

She said to me, "This place is dangerous, you don't belong here at all. Do you know why the master only teaches you how to escape? It's just to let you escape faster in critical moments."

She said to me, "After we get married, we can go back to Jizhou."

"Besides, I actually..." She seemed to want to say something to me, but she shook her head with a smile at me, and didn't say anything further.

The reason she said seems to be really for my own good.

I also know in my heart that a small person like myself cannot belong to the palace, but why even though I understand it in my heart, there still seems to be some knot that has not been untied?It makes me feel that even though Xinyue's reason is very good...but I still can't accept it...

I turned over uneasily, looked at the gorgeous curtains stupidly, suddenly my pupils shrank, and I saw a black figure standing on the head of my bed at some point.

"What..." Before I could utter the word 'person', a sharp short blade pierced the curtain and stabbed straight at the door in front of me.

With a sound of 'chi la', I rolled on the huge couch in a panic to avoid the knife, but my sleeve was still cut open.

I took a closer look, and it was another black-clothed and masked assassin!

The black-clothed assassin missed a single blow, and then stabbed fiercely at me. In my wits, I hurriedly pulled up the rather heavy quilt and threw it on the man's head.

Taking advantage of this momentary gap, I hurriedly rolled and scrambled to escape from the bed, but before I could take two steps, someone grabbed my heel. When I looked back, the assassin swung his knife at me with red eyes. .I felt a chill in my heart, because these eyes seemed familiar, but I didn't have time to think about it, because I was about to end up in a different place!I hurriedly tried my best to kick it, but the boots remained in the man's hand, and I turned over and fell on the cold floor tiles.

not good!

I didn't care about the pain in my head and back, and I didn't care about getting up. I just felt a chill in my heart, and watched the unparalleled sword that Master gave me fell out of my boots.

The man in black slowly picked up the sword, stared at it for a moment, then pulled the blade out of its sheath suddenly, and approached me step by step.

I sat on the ground and retreated to the pillars. There was nowhere to retreat, so I asked desperately and unwillingly, "Who the hell are you? Why do you have to kill me?"

The man in black stood still in front of me, without any intention of answering me, he just raised his sword towards me coldly.

I was so frightened that I almost subconsciously raised my arms to cover my head and face.

But after waiting with my eyes closed for a long time, I didn't wait for the pain caused by death.

I secretly opened my fingers and glanced out, only to see that the blade stopped only an inch or two away from me.

The man in black was staring at the two red wounds on my wrist that I had left for saving Murong Ying a few days ago, and there were many twists and turns, entanglements, and entanglements that I couldn't describe flashed in his eyes.

Staring at the beautiful eyes of the man in black who was close at hand, filled with water vapor, I was suddenly stunned.

As if being hit hard in my heart, I finally recognized these eyes and said in disbelief, "You...you are..."

Before I finished speaking, she suddenly turned her eyes hard, raised the hilt of the knife and thumped my forehead vigorously.

"why why...?"

I covered my forehead, curled up on the ground and hummed, my consciousness gradually blurred.

"Anyone who will hurt her...I can't let go...no one can let go.."

In a daze, the corners of the man in black's clothes were trembling faintly, and she seemed to be crying hoarsely and repressedly.

"Because... I only have her... Do you understand... I only have her..."

I knew who the 'she' she was talking about, so I was even more puzzled, "How could I... and how could I hurt her..."

"You will... You will eventually." The corner of the black clothes froze, and her heart seemed to harden again, "I'm sorry, but I still have to kill you to avoid future troubles."

I don't understand what kind of trouble I am?

I'm really not reconciled...or I will die here tonight for no reason...

I didn't have the strength to escape anymore, so I suddenly smiled bitterly and murmured in my heart: If only the '□□' a few days ago was real... At least I can die meaningfully... At least for she...

When I was about to die, I finally suddenly understood what the knot in my heart was—it turned out to be the cool light red under the moonlight, but at some point it had turned into an unforgettable cinnabar mole in my heart.

Even though I dare not and cannot say a word of liking to her, but I am unwilling and unwilling to say a good farewell to her.

I'm really not reconciled...

I just want to see her again and say goodbye...

I finally understood my heart completely.

It's a pity that it's too late... It's too late... Now even the simplest goodbye has become a luxury...

I finally closed my heavy eyes and let the darkness in front of me swallow me up.

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It was just dawn, and Shen Xu stepped out of the mansion and walked towards the most prosperous imperial street in the city.

He was wearing an inconspicuous navy blue gown, and he walked slowly with his hands behind his back.

After walking a few steps, he noticed two children who looked like beggars stood up from the ground under the tall sycamore tree opposite the mansion, and followed him from a distance.

He secretly hooked his lips and smiled, and continued to walk unhurriedly with his usual expression.The closer to the Royal Street, the pedestrians and vendors gradually increased.The two little beggars followed behind at a distance.Every time he turned his head, the two little beggars began to look around at other shops.

Hmph, the two little mice in Yanliu Lane only have this clumsy little trick.

Shen Xu sneered secretly, feeling a little impatient in his heart, and decided to get rid of these two 'little mice'.

So he stopped for a while in front of a ready-to-wear shop that was about to open, pretending to stop and watch with great interest, and when the store just set up the banner, suddenly his figure flashed and turned into a narrow alley.This sudden change surprised the two little ghosts who were following them, and they hurriedly pushed away the pedestrians and chased after them.

He quickly walked through the two-day alley and came to an inland river ferry called Pingchang.

There are eight inland rivers in Yanjing City, but there are only a few pontoon bridges above the waterways, so most civilians still rely on ferries to shuttle between the two sides of the river.

When Shen Xu walked to the ferry, more than a dozen people boarded the boat. Most of them were small vendors waiting to go to the other side to do business.Shen Xu glanced at the back from the corner of his eye, and found that the two nimble little beggars had caught up and dodged into the increasingly crowded crowd.

The sampan staggered to the shore, and there was a lot of people's voices, chickens flying and ducks screaming.The two boatmen stood at one end of the boat and quickly used bamboo poles to support the hull of the boat to prevent people from being squeezed into the water.Shen Xu boarded the boat first, and the two little mice followed, with seven or eight people separated from him.

Seeing that the people were almost on board, the boatman gave a yell, supported the penny with his big hand, and the sampan slowly left the shore and sailed towards the opposite side.The two little beggars were so exhausted that they were out of breath. They were finally relieved when they saw the boat sailing. They planned to take a short rest and continue to follow after they landed.

Unexpectedly, when the sampan was four or five feet away from the ferry, Shen Xu, who had been sitting calmly by the side of the boat, suddenly stood up and jumped back to the shore.

The two little beggars were stunned for a moment, and it was too late when they realized that they were going to chase again, because the hull of the boat was already nearly two feet away from the shore, and it was impossible for them to imitate a grown man and jump to the other side anyway. I can only watch Shen Xu's figure slowly go away...

It took Shen Xu about half an hour to get rid of these two little mice completely, and when he arrived at the western suburbs of Yanjing, the sun was in the sky, and it was already so bright that people couldn't keep their eyes open.

Today there is also a big market here, and it is full of specialty groceries from all over the place, as well as entertainers from all over the place.Shen Xu walked slowly to a thriving stall selling glutinous rice balls, pulled a bed and sat down, and ordered a serving of glutinous rice balls in sugar water from the store.

After a while, a man dressed as a young farmer with a bamboo hat whose face could not be seen clearly sat down with his back to him, holding a large porcelain bowl, and said in a low voice, "Why are you late this time?"

"I met two little mice." Shen Xu blew air into the boiling bowl as if nothing had happened.

The man was startled and lowered his voice, "What's going on? Who suspected you?"

"It's that person." Shen Xu's eyes darkened.

"What?!" The man's hand trembled, almost unable to hold the bowl in his hand.Subconsciously turning his head to him, Shen Xu hurriedly shouted, "Don't turn around!"

The man paused, quickly took a spoonful of glutinous rice balls, and said nervously, "Could it be that person...has discovered your secret?"

Shen Xu sneered, "No, it shouldn't be that far yet. If that person knows everything, it's impossible to send only two little mice out." He paused and said quietly, "It seems that This is the last time we will meet in private."

"But father..." the man's voice was hoarse.

"Don't call me father!" Shen Xu sternly said, "It's not yet time. You must always remember that only those who hide in the shadows can live to the end."

"yes..."

"Tell me, see me this time, what's the matter?"

The man asked, "I want to know, why did you send someone to assassinate King Rui?"

Shen Xu took a mouthful of glutinous rice balls, but did not answer.

"When I arrived at Prince Xiang's Mansion, I checked the two men in black. They have no tongues and are from Wan Chong Lou."

Shen Xu smiled, "Because it's very interesting to hire murderers."

"who is it?"

"The real King Rui."