Ning Gu

Early the next morning, when the sky was about to light up, the crescent moon that was about to set was hidden behind dark clouds, and the wind was also much stronger than in the past few days, the soft curtains fluttered, and the brocade beat the window lattices.

Xie Ling woke up from his sleep, gently removed Zhao Zuo's hand that was locked around his waist, settled it properly, and then got up.Fang wanted to leave the edge of the bed to get the green shirt, but he asked Zhao Zuo to hook the corner of the clothes and get stuck.

He looked back at Zhao Zuo, saw that Zhao Zuo was still closing his eyes, angrily took the corner of his clothes away from his hand, and heard Zhao Zuo mumble in a daze, "Pingzhi."

Xie Ling was amused by his soft and intimate voice.He held the quilt for Zhao Zuo again, leaned over and kissed Zhao Zuo, and whispered in his ear: "The mountain will be flat, I remember it. Sleep a little longer, and I will go and see Xianzhi."

The tone is intimate, like sleeping in Juheng before. At midnight, Xie Wuling would always get up to see Xianzhi and Lu Qi. Because Zhao Zuo had never been conscious of being a father, he gave Zhao Zuo an extra job Heart.

Xie Ling took the blue blouse and put it on outside, then turned around and closed the door.But Zhao Zuo, who was lying on the couch, opened his eyes at this moment, his eyes were not sleepy, but seemed to be awake for a long time.

He lay on the couch for a while, then got up, opened the door of the sleeping hall, called the old eunuch to wash up, and then walked out of the Changming Hall.

The old eunuch held the lamp and followed Zhao Zuo all the way to the verandah behind Lanchi.

And Xie Ling, who was the first to leave the Changming Hall, was supposed to take the corridor on the right to find Xianzhi in the east palace, but was stopped by a maid on the corridor.

"Mr. Xie, the master welcomes you."

Xie Ling looked at the eunuch who was holding the lamp beside him, and the eunuch immediately knelt down and kowtowed several times, Nuonuo said that he didn't see anything, and didn't know anything.But at the moment when he raised his head, the lower part of the back of the neck was slashed with a hand knife, and he fainted temporarily.

Xie Ling squatted down, and listened to the servant girl who had just withdrawn her hand say: "He has fainted, sir."

"Well, I know." Xie Ling took off the handle of the lantern in his hand, along with a small note that was hidden in the eunuch's palm and would not be put away in the future.Xie Ling put the note back into his sleeve, held the lantern in his hand, and then looked at the servant girl, "Lead the way."

The little maid raised her foot and led Xie Ling to the central palace.

Due to the vacancy of the harem, the surrounding area is still silent at dawn. In the dark half of the city, the middle palace is brightly lit. All the candles seem to be lit up, as if to illuminate the alleyways of the East and West Second Palaces .

Xie Ling entered the courtyard, and saw the person who wanted to see him standing under the flower tree in the courtyard.The hairpin on the temples is a new fragrance, the lead flower is painted with hibiscus, and the gorgeous clothes drag the floor, and Zhuang Yong is forbidden to walk.It's obviously the empress dowager she met in the old days, but she doesn't look like the queen in the old days.

Xie Ling stepped up, bowed and said, "After drinking, don't come, you're fine."

"Little Mister, please make me wait." After drinking, I cut it with the palm of my hand, and in front of the three pots of old chrysanthemums placed flat under the flower tree, due to the weather, the chrysanthemums in Fufeng bloomed earlier than those next to them, and gradually bloomed in midsummer. A small bud was born.After drinking, I talked to Li Zhi'er: "I will still be a little gentleman in my next life before I can repay my appointment with Liang Zhuo."

"It's a joke after drinking." Xie Ling took two steps forward, "Whether you have a date with Liang, whether you have an appointment or not, I'm afraid you will have to wait until the next life, and Ping Zhi still dare not delay it until the next life. "

After appreciating, he turned back, raised his hand to greet the maidservant who was standing far away by the door, waited for the maidservant to approach, then handed her the scissors, and took a handkerchief from the maidservant.

"I heard earlier that my husband has lost his old memories, but now it seems..." After drinking, he lowered his head and wiped off the stains on his hands bit by bit, "Is it a rumor again?"

"Rumors are not enough," Xie Ling shook his head and smiled, "Zhaoxing's things have always been believed, and there is no belief. Do you believe it after drinking?"

After drinking, he let out a long sigh: "Oh, if I believe it today, then the gentleman said in a blink of an eye that he forgot about the deal with me, wouldn't the gain outweigh the loss?"

Xie Ling's gesture of picking up flowers paused, and he suddenly remembered that the deal he said after drinking was on the small note back then, and he personally agreed to it.It's just that Xie Ling couldn't remember where he put the piece of paper casually.

"After drinking, this flower is suitable for the occasion, and the fragrance soaring to the sky penetrates Chang'an." He tilted his head, swallowed the second half of the sentence, and said, "Then what do you want to ask Pingzhi after drinking?"

"I beg that after today, no matter whether you win or lose, let me go."

"Then you shouldn't ask for peace after drinking. If you tell the sage about this matter, he will definitely not stop you. Why do you waste a request?"

"The Holy Majesty can only comply with Ben Gong's request to let me go, but he cannot guarantee the future of Ben Gong."

"Then how can you think of peace after drinking?"

"You can't, but the Zhaoxing behind you can. Sir," Liang Zhuo threw the handkerchief to the side of the stone case, "I want a Zhaoxing seal letter, it's not too much. People with different surnames for more than ten years safe..."

What she knows best is to recognize people's colors, and so far, Xie Ling also appreciates her very much, and it's not in vain for Lao Zhenfei to guide her all those years.

And he, Xie Ling, did make a deal with Zhuohou. When he was making arrangements, he thought about letting the game go. In the intervening years, he had to first ensure that Lu Qi would not know his life experience in advance.Except for Zhao Zuo, the only one who can suppress the news in Chongque is Liang Zhuo.

If he wanted Lu Qi to survive Chongque safely in the years before the game he set up, he would have to deal with Liang Ce and Chongque after discretion.

"Not too much." Xie Ling blinked at the beam top of the low wall, and gestured with the hand behind his back, "But I don't have the mark of Zhaoxing on me. Later, I will have someone send it to you .What do you think in hindsight?"

Xie Ling asked, but a silver knife was slowly placed on the back of the neck.

"Xie Wuling?" After drinking, he suddenly felt the coldness on his neck, and he froze for a moment, and the expression that was beaming with excitement just now also subsided immediately.

Xie Ling said without any objection: "Please use your discretion not to leave the palace today."

"You..." After drinking, Qing Frowns tightly frowned, her expression tense, for fear that the person holding the dagger would accidentally draw a knife on her neck.

"Being a person after drinking, Ping Zhixin." Xie Ling turned around, no longer facing the drinking, but said more leisurely, "But Liang Ce, that old fox, Ping Zhi has to guard against. I can't put me and Zhao Zuo's relationship together." Handed a cold knife to the back, and said after discretion, right."

As he spoke, Xie Ling took out the crumpled piece of paper that he had just taken out from the eunuch's hand from his sleeve.Carefully unfolding it, Xie Ling's gaze paused for a moment on the slightly changed face before returning to the note.

"Pingzhi doesn't know how many internal responses are left in this heavy queue, and now I don't have time to find out one by one. That's the only way." Xie Ling sighed for Liang Zhuo at the right time, "Oh , the people in Chongque are the most able to adapt to the wind. So after being wronged, I was put on the knife by Zhaoxing for a day."

"Xie Pingzhi, don't go back on what you say." After drinking, he gritted his teeth and said.

"Pingzhi didn't say he wouldn't give Zhaoxing a seal, so why did he go back on his word? Besides, between Pingzhi and Pingzhi, it should be that Pingzhi broke the rules first." Xie Ling stuffed the note into Pingzhi's pocket In his hand, he kept the monk Zhaoxing beside him before leaving the middle palace.

The sun passed over the tops of the willow trees, leaving a patch of mottled ground, Xie Ling took the shortcut of Lanchi and walked towards Xianzhi.It's just that the pace was not fast, and before half of the orchid pool was passed, the sound of horns was heard faintly in the distance.

It is the signal before the frontier army sieges the city. When there is a horn in the corner, there are horns on all sides, echoing each other.

When Xie Ling realized it, he started to walk in a hurry, but someone suddenly grabbed his wrist from behind.He looked back, but the man put all his strength into pulling him into his arms.

"Why are you here?" Xie Ling asked.

"Waiting for you." Zhao Zuo replied.

Zhao Zuo leaned over and pecked Xie Ling's lips, then asked again: "Is it over?"

"Yeah." Xie Ling wanted to pretend to be confused. After all, he said to Zhao Zuo to see Xianzhi before, but now he came from the small path in the middle palace, but the moment he met Zhao Zuo's eyes, his guilt Still gaining the upper hand, he subconsciously nodded and responded.

"Okay. Changle and the others are already waiting in front, you... take care of yourself."

"I will. Didn't I promise you last night that I want to interrogate that old fox with you."

Before going to bed last night, Xie Ling and Zhao Zuo finalized the final decision, but they did not ward off other people.One was that it was already late at night, and the other was that Zhao Zuo told Xie Ling that Chongqueli's ears were not clean.

Zhao Zuo nodded, kissed Xie Ling on the forehead, patted Xie Ling's buttocks, and said, "Go. You have to bring these two little bastards back safe and sound."

Xie Ling nodded, and when he heard the horn sound again, he glanced at Zhao Zuo and smiled, as if a peach blossomed in his eyes, which made Zhao Zuo unwilling to let go.

Xie Ling pushed Zhao Zuo, waited for the sound of the horn to stop, and went to the bright hall in front of the Changming Palace where he was celibate.

The sound of the horns died down in Chongque, and the sound of the horns outside the city also gradually stopped before.

The [-] troops of the Shanlu Battalion were all outside Fufeng City, and the armored troops lined up outside the city, and the crowd was overwhelming the ground, which was very scary.

The flag bearers of Chongque's order arrived at the four city gates, and the guarding generals of the imperial forest army saw the flags and gave orders one after another to open the gates and let people go.

The west city and the south city are Song Xing and his lieutenant general. Both of them have fought in the pastures of the fortress. They can be regarded as generals who have experienced such a big scene of siege once or twice. It is indeed the first time they have seen each other. The National People's Congress opened the city gate.

It was the first time he saw the soldiers under him, and there were one or two new recruits who wanted to find out, but were stopped by the veterans on the left and right.Shanluying is famous for its strict rule, whether it is under the old general Lu or Lu Shencheng, it has not changed, and later under Ye Qiaoyu, it is even more strict and strict.

Song Xing marched without saying a word, and these soldiers dared not even move.

And what Xianzhi wanted was this hesitation, he stood on the tower, showed his half jade antlers, and then asked Song Xing to ride into the city.

Lu Qi in the east of the city on the other side had never experienced such a thing, nor hesitated, because the city gate was wide open, and with the spirit of a newborn calf not afraid of tigers, he led his team of soldiers and horses, shaking the reins and fighting. The horse enters the city.

Xuancheng and Changle were already waiting for Lu Qi inside the outer palace gate.

Lu Qi's soldiers and horses held the banner of the Mountain Deer Camp and knocked on the gate of the outer palace. When the iron hooves were about to step into the outer palace, the first wave of cavalry was stopped by the first obstacle inside the outer palace gate. Later, Lu Qi and the other cavalrymen immediately rode up.

Only then did Lu Qi see that Xuancheng and Changle were guarding the first gate of the outer palace.The two sat on tall horses that were not even considered war horses.When Lu Qi's attention was still on Changle and Xuancheng, the attention of the cavalry was attracted by the guns erected in twos and threes on the roof of the outer palace.

"Look! There are archers." On the cavalry, there was a young general assigned by Song Xing to Lu Qi as a lieutenant general. The young general pointed to the roof and raised his head.

Lu Qi also raised his head when he heard the sound, and those lying on the roofs around him were indeed archers, who had been silently trained by Zhao Zuo a long time ago in the back mountain valley of Lingjian Temple.But there were not many of them, and they were originally trained as secret guards.

But for Lu Qi, although they can win because of the small number of archers guarding the outer palace, they can also lose because of the small number of archers.The Tian family's secret guards are few but skilled, and these archers should be able to hit the target with every shot.As long as there were enough arrows on the beam, it wouldn't be a problem for the pair of soldiers he brought to be shot to death.

Lu Qi frowned, turned over and got off the horse.The lieutenant didn't know why Lu Qi acted like this, but seeing the master dismounted, all the cavalry also dismounted one after another.

Lu Qi jumped over the first barrier made of long ropes, looked at the two people on the horse, put the silver halberd in his hand in the field, and said in a familiar voice: "Uncle Shi, Aunt Changle .”

Seeing this, the archers raised their guns one after another, and their arrows crashed.

But Xuancheng hit the horse, walked a few steps in front of Lu Qi, turned over and got off the horse, and pulled out the long sword beside the saddle by the way. The blade of the sword passed Lu Qi's eyes with a cold light.

He raised his hand and patted the horse's butt, let the horse return to its place, then glanced at Lu Qi, turned his wrist to hold the sword flower

"Lu Qi, it's still too late for you to let your soldiers retreat." Chang Le was still sitting on the horse not far away, guarding his horse that was going back for Xuan Cheng, and raised his voice.

"It's too late, Auntie." Lu Qi pulled out his halberd, which he learned from Xian Zhi, but he doesn't remember who Xian Zhi learned from.When they set off just now, they asked Lu Qi to pick a weapon, and Lu Qi chose this halberd without thinking.

Lu Qi turned around and glanced at the dismounted cavalry, raised the halberd and cut the first long rope at the waist, delaying the time for the cavalry to get on the horse, ignored Xuancheng, and challenged Changle instead, asking: "Auntie You also know what happened back then, but you didn't mention a word to Lu Qi?"

At the same time, Xuancheng noticed Lu Qi's intentions, put his hand behind his back, and gestured to the archer on the roof behind him.

Changle naturally also saw Xuancheng's gesture. She looked at Lu Qi, shook her head and said, "Lu Qi, how can you be envious of you like this?"

"Xianzhi?" Lu Qi's anger suddenly rose. He still remembered the person he saw with his own eyes next to Ye Piuyu's body in the south of the city, and he still remembered the Fang note he saw with his own eyes in Liang Ce's study.

The person he was looking forward to with all his heart, wishing he could be with him for the rest of his life, was always smiling at him on the face, but gouging blood from his heart behind his back.

"Don't mention him to me." Lu Qi whistled to call his horse, let the silver halberd touch the ground again, picked it up one by one, covered by flying sand, and got on the horse.

Xuan Cheng clenched his hands tightly behind him.Arrows flew from the roof behind, and they all shot at Lu Qi.

Chang Le's hand holding the rein subconsciously exerted force, causing the entangled rein to draw a few red marks on his hand.

"Be careful."

The author has something to say: It should probably be possible tomorrow... End