Zhu Lan is dead

"what is this?"

Zhou Xinqu looked down at the black mud altar dug out under the peach tree, and he already guessed what it was, but he didn't expect that it would be buried by Zhou Lixiao himself.

He leaned over and patted the mud seal open, without hesitation anymore, sat down on the ground in black clothes, hugged the wine jar and smiled, "Peach Blossom Wine, I made it myself with him back then."

This "he" was self-evident, and Zhou Xinqu naturally knew who it was in his heart, so he also walked over and sat down beside Zhou Lixiao.

He just waited for a while, but his father didn't see him open it to drink. He turned his head with some doubts, but just saw the tears falling down that side face.

"..."

I was taken aback, feeling that I had watched too many things that I shouldn't have seen tonight.

"Compared to your elder brother, how do you think I treat you?" He suddenly spoke out calmly, his brows and eyes were calm, much more vacant than the tears that fell down.

Zhou Xinqu was stunned, and realized that this question could not be for no reason, so he became nervous for no reason, so he could only tell the truth: "My son thinks that the emperor treats me unfairly."

Zhou Lixiao raised his eyebrows, which seemed to be the expected answer, "Why do you think so?"

"Because I'm envious, I envy my elder brother and sister for their constant care and attention." He lowered his head, his tone a little disappointed, "But I have nothing. Ever since I grew up, my father has had the opportunity to visit me." It’s also very rare…”

"Then do you hate?" Zhou Lixiao said lightly, "Hate me or your brother."

"Naturally... I hated it."

"Do you know?" He suddenly stretched out his hand to hold the hand of the person beside him, "I was the same as you back then, and was asked the same question by your grandfather. Heart, if it’s not yours, you can’t force it, otherwise you’ll only feel guilty for the rest of your life…”

"..."

"But I was naturally dissatisfied, so I forced the palace to seize the throne and forced him to a dead end."

There seemed to be a big fire in his eyes, and the sound of fighting in that big fire was almost loud in half the sky. He vaguely remembered the look in his condescending eyes looking at that person. Then he drove the man out like a stray dog.

"Father..." He suddenly realized that his heartbeat had accelerated for no reason, and his back was wet with cold sweat.

"My grandfather was steady in doing things, but he was easy to trust others. However, he told me that everything happens for a reason, and there is a reason why he didn't choose me to be the heir apparent." He paused for a moment, then turned to ask him , "Do you know what I was thinking at the time?"

Zhou Xinqu looked at the chapped corners of his mouth and shook his head.

A smile flashed across his eyes, and the smile was still the same as back then, "I scolded him in my heart at the time, calling him an old bastard and talking nonsense, and when I make a comeback one day, I want them all to surrender under me!"

"..."

"So I came back." He smiled and let go of his hand, "It's just that the idea at that time has not been fulfilled, so your grandfather followed."

"Brothers are like siblings, wives are like clothes. Clothes are torn and can be sewed, but if limbs are broken, can it be continued?" He said, "Your elder brother's bones are not cold yet..."

"..."

"I'm not blaming you, I just want to tell you that if you want to do it, you should do it absolutely and leave no room for it, so that you can stand on a higher place more stably."

"Father, son..."

But he stood up abruptly, threw the wine jar in his hands into his arms, his eyes were as cold as ice, "After I die, you will sprinkle this wine in front of my grave..."

There was a sudden shock in my heart, as if waking up from a dream for half a lifetime, when I looked up again, the figure had already gone away.

When I raised my eyes a little, I saw the peach petals falling in the courtyard, and before I knew it, it was the time of the peach blossom fan.

Thinking in his heart that in a few days he might be able to see the wild rhododendrons all over the mountains and fields, he felt a little uncomfortable, but the person behind him suddenly got up from him, grabbed his long hair with one hand and forced him to roll to the ground.

He didn't know where his knee hit, and suddenly there was a sharp pain, and he couldn't get up for a long time due to the pain.

Liang Ke looked at his naked body with cold eyes and gave a light snort, took the robe aside with one hand and threw it on him, just covering his abrupt spot.

The person next to him squatted down, his fancy clothes fell to the ground, and he smiled softly in his ear, "Don't blame me, it's just what you asked for."

As he spoke, he grabbed his long hair again and forced him to look up, "Besides, aren't you used to me being nice to you? Is this satisfactory?"

Then he ignored him, and went out the door with a chuckle.

Supporting the ground with one hand, he sat up slowly, and couldn't help but smile in his eyes. He always felt that this scene seemed familiar, just like when he just came here back then.

He has always been aware of Du Ming's unpredictable temperament. After all, he has personally experienced it so many times back then. It's just that it's okay. It's better to lose your temper with an open heart than to put on a face and smile. However, it's just a little early now.

It was only when He Yi was about to get up that he found it difficult. No matter how hard he tried to support his arms, he still felt that his lower body was not in control. At this time, the door was suddenly opened by someone. He rushed in front of him, holding his wrist unsteadily.

"How did you come?"

Ye Fan lowered his head and saw the cracked wound on his leg bone, and the tip of his nose couldn't help sore, "Since you know you can't defeat him, why don't you bear it first? What good do you gain by arguing with him like this?"

But he lowered his head and chuckled, "Wouldn't it be better, at least he won't guard me anytime and anywhere now."

Without saying a word, Ye Fan stretched out his hand to cover his robe for him and put him on the bed, then searched through the room to find medicine for wounds, and wrapped bandages around his wounds.

"How's it going outside now?"

"No way." Ye Fan said in a muffled voice, "Once the obituary is released, it's time for the whole country to mourn..."

As he spoke, he suddenly raised his head, "Why don't I take you away tonight?"

"...tonight?" He seemed to be lost in thought when he heard the words, but Ye Fanji suddenly got up and looked at him and said, "It's natural to be able to leave sooner, what's the use of you procrastinating like this?"

He raised his eyes and caught a glimpse of the anxiety in Ye Fan's eyes, his heart suddenly felt bad, and he tentatively asked, "What's wrong?"

"..."

Ye Fanji gritted his teeth and refused to say a word. He was anxious, but felt more and more uneasy, and tugged at his sleeve and said, "Tell me, what happened?"

"Now that you can't protect yourself, you still have time to worry about other things?"

Suddenly there was a familiar voice behind him, and he was startled suddenly, only to see that the door was kicked open suddenly, and the person who had been going back and forth walked in, looking at him with chills in his eyes.

Liang Ke glanced at Ye Fanji with a smile, but his eyes fell on him, "You're so determined to leave, have you ever thought about me?"

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand to touch Zhou Huaiqi, but Ye Fanji suddenly stepped forward and stopped him.

He paused, with a smile on his brows and eyes, which was different from the uncertainty just now, "Okay, I will take care of my people. If you don't care about your lord, what are you messing around with me?"

"He's injured." Ye Fan looked at him a few times but refused to budge.

"So?" Liang Ke raised his eyebrows, and said with a helpless smile, "My fault, can you step aside?"

"you……"

Zhou Huaiqi was caught off guard by this sudden reversal, she couldn't reach Liang Ke with her hand, but raised her eyes and frowned at Ye Fan, "What are you hiding from me?"

Ye Fan turned around several times, but he was unwilling to say a word.

"I didn't hide it from you, why don't you be obedient?" Just as she stretched out her hand to pull him over to see the injury on her body, Zhou Huaiqi suddenly pushed him away, "What trick are you trying to play?"

However, Liang Ke lowered her eyebrows, her eyes touched the wound on his leg, and privately concealed that she was too heavy-handed and lost her sense of restraint for a while, and said kindly: "I was wrong just now. If you are really angry, you can treat the wound well first."

"..."

After finally settling down, the stone in his heart finally fell to the ground. After leaving the door, he lowered his eyes to the ground for a while, then turned to look at Ye Fanji, sighed and said, "You can take him away tonight." .”

"Are you willing to let go?"

He lowered his eyes and smiled, obviously looking helpless, but he spoke arrogantly, "Of course I don't want to, I will bring him back after it's done, and don't even think about where you can escape with him!"

Ye Fan looked at him and sneered, "You can find it later."

"Hmph." He walked up to him and said, "Haven't you guys left yet? Don't talk so early."

"..."

He found a stone step and sat down, he propped his forehead, "I'm always reluctant..." As he said that, there was finally a trace of sadness in his eyes, blood was dripping between his fingers, but he didn't seem to notice, "Sooner or later, those who can't be kept I can’t keep it, even so I want to try, I can’t just watch him die.”

His eyes fell on the smashed nails on his hand, Ye Fan frowned, and couldn't help but said: "What did you do just now?"

But he lowered his head and said indifferently: "It's nothing, it just broke the stone lion's head."

I couldn't help but rolled my eyes, I really wanted to say that I deserved it, but I still held back and didn't say it.

"You have to promise me to protect him and not let him get hurt."

Thinking of Zhou Huaiqi's injuries just now, resisting the urge to scold back, he said: "Don't worry, he will be fine even if you die..."

Liang Ke suddenly stepped forward and grabbed his skirt, "You said that. If he dies, I will ask you to be buried with him!"

At night, when the moon was setting in the atrium, the door was suddenly pushed open, as if realizing that the person on the bed was not asleep, Ye Fan walked over cautiously.

"My lord, get up, we should go."

Zhou Huaiqi opened her eyes when she heard the words, and she couldn't see each other's expressions clearly in the dark night, so she just said: "Where is Liang Ke? He didn't make things difficult for you?"

Ye Fan smiled a little, "No, let's leave earlier."

Speaking of taking the robe at the side to put on him, Zhou Huaiqi froze and let him move, but the doubts in her heart gradually deepened, and she couldn't help but said: "Are we going to the capital?"

His subordinates paused and looked up at him, "Go somewhere else."

He said he wanted to help him up, and after he finished cleaning up, he pushed open the door, the courtyard was cold, the moon was shining, the shadows of trees on the stone bricks rustled, a gust of night wind swept by, and the skirts of his clothes fluttered .

All the way out along the stone steps of the corridor, the villa where there are attendants patrolling at night on weekdays is eerily quiet at this time, the whole body is quiet and no one is there, a tree of fragrant grass and flowers pass by, stained with rain and dew, and the wet clothes are half naked.

Probably because of the injury on the leg, even after holding the bamboo stick for a while, the traces of blood soaked through the inner lining.

He resisted not speaking, but let Ye Fanji pull his sleeves and walk forward, looking back at the farther and farther places, feeling inexplicably lonely, but suddenly stopped in his tracks.

"What's the matter?" Ye Fan held him still, turned around to look at him, under the faint light and shadow, the sweat oozed from Zhou Huaiqi's forehead, he realized something in his heart, and when he was about to bend down to check, he stretched out his hand and held it down. his shoulders.

"Someone." As soon as he finished speaking, Ye Fan felt something was wrong with the breath around him.

Suddenly, a flying blade flew out of the night, piercing through layers of flower waves towards them.

Ye Fan quickly reached out to stop the flying blade, the silver thread in his hand snapped off the sharp blade, and as it fell to the ground, there was a chill in his eyes, he looked around vigilantly, "Come out! "

After a moment of silence, a series of footsteps stepped on the grass and came out slowly. A graceful figure appeared in front of them, dressed in a red dress, and it was the little red girl.

Zhou Huaiqi couldn't help squinting her eyes to look at her, but she felt vaguely familiar.

"Is it really selfish for you to just leave like this?" The little red girl's eyes fell on him, and she smiled charmingly.

Ye Fan stretched out his hand to stop him behind him, looked at the little red girl and said, "What do you want to do?"

The little red girl still smiled, showing the imposing manner of a thwart, and she said to herself: "Think that this villa will be trampled by His Majesty's iron hooves soon, and you leave the owner here alone to face it, you really have no conscience."

He frowned upon hearing this, "What do you mean by that?"

But Ye Fanji didn't hesitate any longer, he just pulled him to leave, Xiaohong girl took the opportunity to step forward, and slashed with her palm, he stretched out his hand to resist, and kicked her lower abdomen.

The little red girl chuckled and stepped back three feet, "It's just a literal meaning. Now that you're gone, it's really unfair that others should bear the burden of the rest of your sins?!"

"..."

"Don't listen to her nonsense..." Ye Fan couldn't help frowning, but Zhou Huaiqi reached out to grab him and asked, "Is what she said true?"

"Whether it's true or not, we'll know tomorrow?" Before Ye Fan could say a few words, Miss Hong continued: "Your Majesty has already issued a conscript order to nominate you for arrest. If you escape now, what will the owner do?"

As he said that, he suddenly flew forward and threw a flying knife. Ye Fan pulled him away from the side, but the injury on his leg began to crack due to the action.

He gritted his teeth and did not make a sound, but in his mind he was thinking about Liang Ke's abnormal treatment of him in the past few days, and the scene where the two of them worked together to hide him today.

Suddenly he stretched out his hand to break away from Ye Fanji, the latter was startled, and was about to drag him, but the little red girl flew up again, entangled Ye Fanji and wouldn't let him go.

If Zhou Lixiao really wanted to catch him...

Then why would he endanger other people's lives?It was originally a matter between him and that person. Since there will be such a day sooner or later, it is better for him to solve it himself.

After so many years of living in secret, the blessings given to him by God are enough.

"Stop!" He suddenly said, looking at the two wrestling on the side, "I'm not leaving, you stop."

The little red girl smiled in satisfaction, and a black shadow suddenly appeared behind Zhou Huaiqi, but Ye Fanji was startled, and immediately went to stop him.

A cold light flashed in his eyes, and the black shadow suddenly raised the big knife in his hand and slashed at his neck desperately.

"My lord, be careful!" Ye Fan hastily slashed the little red girl with his palm, and just wanted to save him with his own body, but the little red girl quarreled endlessly again.

Zhou Huaiqi had already sensed the danger behind him, and hurriedly backed away to avoid it, but the black shadow was chasing after him, and he had no weapon at his side. The bamboo stick in his hand was cut into several pieces by the cold light, and he was about to die When he got down, a figure rushed out from nowhere, and kicked towards the black shadow fiercely, his chest was shaken, and flew away, but before he got up, there was already a blade on his neck.

"You are so courageous, you dare to run wild on my territory, don't you want to live?" Liang Ke followed with a low laugh, and supported his body with one hand. As soon as the words fell, the black shadow's head was cut off in an instant Falling.

And the little red girl on the side had already been subdued, knelt on the spot but didn't beg for mercy, just looked at Zhou Huaiqi with fierce eyes, "Why do you do this, you will kill everyone in this villa sooner or later."

"I need you to tell me what to do?" Liang Ke looked at her and sneered, "I don't know whether the third prince sent you here because he wanted you to be an eyeliner to get news, or to play this role for me. How about a play of faithful remonstrance?"

Miss Xiaohong's expression froze suddenly, she looked at him and said nothing.

Liang Ke was too lazy to talk nonsense with her, so she winked, and someone immediately stepped forward and chopped her head off.

The surroundings returned to silence in an instant, and the blood dripped on the ground, seeping into the soil little by little.

Liang Ke embraced him with one hand, but with the other she pushed under his clothes, "Let me see if the wound is open."

Zhou Huaiqi froze but pushed him away with one hand. The cold fog condensed in the air, and the night wind poured into his neck. After a moment of silence, he waved and led everyone back to the villa.

"You mean you're ready to rely on me?" Liang Ke looked at him in a good mood with the corners of his lips curled up, one hand resting on the armrest, with a relaxed and fearless look.

Zhou Huaiqi sat on the spot without moving, but pondered for a while before saying, "Why don't you tell me the truth?"

Liang Ke looked at him amusedly and said, "Can't you see it? Of course I don't want to watch you foolishly die."

He looked back at him, "Do you think I'm really going to die?"

"Then don't go."

"..."

The air was quiet again for a while, and he finally stood up helplessly, "Look, you will still go, I know what you are thinking now, you want to make a deal with Zhou Lixiao, and now he is coming to your door like this, you Wouldn't it be a pity if I refused to see you?"

As he spoke, he seemed to be too lazy to talk to him any more, so he opened the door and walked out directly.

The smile hanging from the corner of his mouth disappeared, and turned into a cold and solemn killing, his finger bones cracked, but he still couldn't stop it, now it's useless to say more, someone is determined to rush to die, can he have any solution?

After taking so long, what little patience he had had long since run out.

"Wouldn't it be better, at least he won't guard me anytime and anywhere now..."

But recalling what he heard today in his mind, he couldn't help but look down at the moon shadow under his feet, but his heart felt cold.

After all, he still thinks that he is meddling in his own business, and he should have realized that if this entanglement continues, there will be no good results. It is better for each to live in peace and let each have a way out...

"Is this okay?" He couldn't help murmuring, with tears welling up in the corners of his eyes, suddenly feeling more confused than ever.

For the first time, he met such a person who made him helpless. If he didn't let go in time, he would only sink deeper and deeper in the future.