Brother is a heartless thing [Rebirth]

On the clear surface of the lake, there is a pavilion with golden and green glazed tiles, veils hanging down, and crystal bead curtains swaying slightly, as if reflected in the waves of the lake through illusory misty clouds.

Wen Xuan was sitting inside listening to the music at this time. In front of her was a court lady playing the piano, plucking the strings with slender hands, and the melodious and low-pitched melody flowed out, like an empty valley, uninterrupted.

After the song ended, the woman gently pressed the strings with her hands like catkins.

With a soft and cool face, Wen Xuanqing asked the woman in charge, "The piece you played just now is Dongjing's piece, right?"

"Exactly." The woman replied softly, "I heard that His Highness came from Dongjing, so I chose this song."

Wen Xuan put the patterned teacup back on the table, "No wonder it sounds familiar, so let's change to Yu Yang's tune this time." After thinking for a while, he asked again, "What do your lords like to listen to on weekdays? "

The woman answered truthfully: "I don't know about this. Your Majesty doesn't often listen to music on weekdays."

As expected, Wen Xuan let out a faint "Oh", and asked again: "Then what does he like to do on weekdays?"

The woman hesitated and said: "...It seems that apart from practicing exercises, it is also dealing with government affairs. The servants are not serving in the front hall, and the details are not very clear."

Wen Xuan thought for a while, and then said: "Then in your Yuyang Palace, is there any man who is very close to your lord? Especially the kind who is good-looking and possesses special skills... For example, what kind of man can dance?" of?"

The woman was stunned for a moment, "It seems...not, not at all." After a pause, she hesitated and said, "But...does the Second Highness count?"

"Second Highness?" Wen Xuan was slightly startled, "What will he do?"

"Sword dance."

"..."

Just as he was talking, Min Shao had already walked along the lakeside from a distance, and as soon as he entered the waterside pavilion, he saw Wen Xuan sitting leisurely in front of the table, with a maid playing the piano in front of him, so he couldn't help but pause slightly.

Min Shao scanned the waterside pavilion with his eyes, his expression was a bit complicated.

Yesterday he was so angry that he spoke so seriously, but Wen Xuan seemed... as if he didn't take it seriously at all?

Seeing Min Shao coming in, the maids all retreated holding the qin.

Wen Xuan stood up and said calmly, "Your Majesty is here? Just right, I have something to say about yesterday's incident."

Min Shao looked up at him.

"But before I say that, can I make a request to your majesty?" Wen Xuan was dressed in a white robe, tall and tall.

"What request."

Wen Xuan said indifferently: "I did this all by myself. I didn't get orders from anyone, and I don't intend to involve Yu Yang, so I just ask you to listen to it and don't interfere."

Min Shao's eyes were cold, "Are you afraid that I will harm Dong Jing?"

"It's about state affairs, so you should be cautious."

Min Shao was quiet for a moment, then stood with his hands behind his back, as if he had agreed to him, and said coldly, "Speak."

Wen Xuan said: "Actually, the one I wanted to assassinate yesterday...was Feng Tai, Marquis of Jinbei in Yao Kingdom."

Min Shao looked at him calmly, "The reason."

"He wants to harm Dong Jing. But it's just my guess, so there is no evidence." Wen Xuan still looked at him calmly on the surface, and secretly clenched her hands in her sleeves.

Min Shao's eyes darkened slightly, "It's because of this..." He didn't say "to take such a big risk" in the second half of the sentence, his Adam's apple moved slightly, he endured it, and finally swallowed the words back, "... That's all."

He raised his eyes and said again: "But how can you be sure that the one who bought the dancer girl must be Jin Beihou?"

Wen Xuan paused, and said: "I have inquired before, he likes masculinity, and he is lazy in cultivation, as long as someone blows in his ear, he will definitely move his mind...Before this, I thought this You can at least be [-]% sure, but I never thought you would..."

He didn't say anything after that.

Min Shao nodded, and said coldly: "Very well, it's a clever plan, I'm the one who delayed you."

Wen Xuan didn't make a sound.

Min Shao's voice was cold, "Indeed, whether this person lives or dies has nothing to do with me, Yu Yang. But do you really think that if you got your hands last night and the situation escalated, my Yu Yang wouldn't be involved?"

He looked at Wen Xuan coldly, and said: "If Jin Beihou was really killed in my Yuyang capital, you might as well guess, according to the style of the king of Yao, how much compensation he would ask for from Yuyang, or what? What shameless and unreasonable conditions are proposed?"

"If that's the case, do you want me to pay for your Dongjing's safety?" Min Shao added the word "I" in a cold voice, and looked at him indifferently.

Wen Xuan paused for a moment, and then said: "This matter... I didn't think carefully."

"It's good to know." Min Shao turned around with a flick of his sleeves, he didn't intend to talk to him any more, his eyes were calm and he looked at the sparkling light in the distance, and said coldly, "Let's go."

Wen Xuan's eyes moved, as if he hesitated to speak, but he didn't say anything, and stood still.

The breeze is thin, and the curtains are stacked.

Min Shao stood for a while, but there was still no movement behind him. He couldn't help frowning and turned his head, "Why don't you leave?"

Wen Xuan was hesitating for some reason, pursed her lips slightly, struggled for a moment, and then sat down by the table again.When he raised his eyes again, his expression had returned to calm, and he seemed to be looking at him calmly again:

"I do not have money."

"..."

Min Shao couldn't help being stunned, almost thinking that he heard it wrong.

After a while, he couldn't believe it: "...What are you doing? I let you go back, do you still want to extort money from me?"

Wen Xuan paused and explained: "No. I mean, you spent 1 taels to 'redeem' me out of the Wanxiang Building. Although it was just a coincidence, I can't just walk away like this, let Are you out of money?"

"..." Min Shao looked at him with a complicated expression, "So?"

"I can't owe you this money anyway. I have to give it or keep someone else. So I will send people back to prepare the money now, and once I get it all together, I will send it immediately. During this time, I have to pay I'm betting on you for the time being." Wen Xuan's face was calm, but he stuttered accidentally when he spoke, and hurriedly coughed to cover it up.

"..."

Min Shao was silent for a long time.

He never expected that the person he forcibly detained in his anger would not only not run away...but instead go into the pit instead of being stupid.

He couldn't help but want to ask, is it because Dong Jing has bad Feng Shui, or has he treated you harshly?Or is there something worth admiring in his Yuyang Palace that is not available in Dongjing?

A thought suddenly flashed in Min Shao's mind.

By the way, there are some crabapple trees planted in Guan Wenxuan's palace today.

It just so happened that Wen Xuan liked crabapple, and those few were of a special variety.

It seems that he has to find a time and order people to pull up those trees.

But of course he knew that it was impossible for Wen Xuan to stay for such an absurd reason, but he couldn't think of a more powerful reason, so he looked at him deeply and said, "If you don't leave now, you can wait until I regret it." It's late. Besides, if you haven't returned all night, aren't you afraid that Xiao Chengjian, who is walking with you, will be impatient?"

Wen Xuan couldn't help but pause.

He knew that Min Shao didn't like Xiao Chengjian very much a long time ago, but for some reason he always mentioned it in front of him, so he could only say: "No... I didn't give him the signal at that time, he will leave after a certain time , and the people in Wanxiang Building saw it clearly yesterday, and they will definitely tell him."

Min Shao didn't say anything else, just glanced at him lightly, "Very well, then you can do what you want."

Then, with a flick of his sleeves, he left without paying attention.

Wen Xuan let out a little breath, and Yubai's face couldn't help being slightly hot.

...In fact, he didn't think about what he could do by staying here, but he just found an excuse to stay here, and he didn't even know whether to send the "ransom" earlier, or to wait until later One drag.

But Min Shao really ignored him, and for five days in a row, he never showed up.

On the contrary, Min Yan has nothing to do these days, and after practicing swords, he would go around to Guanghan Hall to chat with him.

Min Yan has just reached the weak crown this year, and his heart is straightforward. Although he often thinks that he has expressed it very euphemistically, his intentions are still very obvious—it is nothing more than still curious about what happened in Wanxianglou that day, and he wants to find out something on the sidelines. Come.

Wen Xuan pretended to be deaf and dumb, pretending not to know.

It's not that Min Yan didn't ask his brother at first, but his brother was cold-tempered and strict-mouthed. After asking many questions, he finally found out that he brought him back that day and arranged it in a certain courtyard in the harem. More He was not allowed to inquire any more.

When he got to the back, Min Yan saw that he couldn't speak, and couldn't hold back any longer, so he simply spoke bluntly——

"Do you know where that dancer is? What's her name? Does she look good?"

Wen Xuan hesitated, "...you ask me?"

"Yes, my brother said that you met that day and asked me to ask you."

Wen Xuan's temples twitched, this Min Yinghan...

He had no choice but to bite the bullet and said: "I don't know where he is, what's his name..." He made up a random one on the spot, "It's called Narcissus, and he looks okay."

But in fact, no one would have guessed that the "Dancing Girl" was himself, and he had also invented the name blindly according to the style of the Qin Lou Chu Pavilion.

As a result, he just said it casually, but Min Yan took it seriously.

So from this day on, Yu Yang's harem—at least according to the rumors—has added such a mysterious male dancer named "Narcissus" who looks good and can only hear his voice but not see him. Ji, was still causing quite a stir in the palace for a while, causing many speculations from the palace people.

The harem of Yuyang, which has been clean and spotless for many years, was given a superficial "flower name" by Wen Xuan inexplicably.

It's hard to imagine what Min Shao's expression will be when he hears the news.

But it's not his fault... Wen Xuan thought embarrassingly, it was clearly Min Shao himself who wanted to throw the blame over.

……

When he saw Min Shao again, it was on the night of the sixth day.

At that time, the moonlight was like frost, and Min Shao was wiping his sword in the hexagonal pavilion near Guanghan Hall. When Wen Xuan came back, he must pass by here, as if he was deliberately waiting for him. It was hard not to meet him, so it was taken for granted. Went up to say hello.

"Your Majesty is still up this late?"

Wen Xuan put his hands behind his back, and on his fingers, he picked up the wine from the jar that he didn't know where.

There were no palace guards in the pavilion, only a lotus hanging lamp was lit, the candlelight was a bit dim, Min Shao's eyebrows were deep and sharp, he didn't raise his eyes, he just fiddled with the long sword on his knee, and asked:

"When and what month do you plan to collect your 1 taels of silver?"

"Well...tomorrow." Wen Xuan replied in a flat tone, not sure if it was true or not, her slender peach blossom pupils swept across the sword in his hand.

That sword has been by Min Shao's side for more than ten years, the blade is sharp and slender, the surface of the sword is engraved with complex curse patterns in flame color, as long as it is activated by spiritual power, it will be like flying fire, A frenzied crimson glows.

Wen Xuan is very familiar with it, because he has fought against this sword before, whether it is in cultivation, in competitions, or in confrontation.

However, he remembered that this sword did not yet have a name for it.

"Jun Shang's sword, it would be great if it could be matched with a Wuhun Lingzhi." Wen Xuan said casually.

Min Shao paused, and looked up at him with dark eyes.

"how do I say this."

Martial souls are not scarce in this world, there is almost one child from a wealthy family, but the most rare thing is the purest "martial soul wisdom" among martial souls, which can be called the best among martial souls, which can be encountered but not sought after.

In the previous life, Min Shao did get one by chance, and it was a coincidence that it had the fire attribute that matched him. Naturally, needless to say, the effect of refining it into a sword.

In this life, he really intends to get that martial soul back.but……

"Do you know where there is martial soul wisdom?" Min Shao stared at him.

"...Naturally I don't know, I just think that it would be even better if a person like Junshang, who is one of the few people with a cultivation level, has a martial soul and spiritual wisdom. It's a pity that there are very few spiritual wisdom in this world. I've never seen it before." Wen Xuan's words did not leak any flaws.

Min Shao looked at him for a while, then turned the long sword back into the void, "I do have this plan, but..."

He was about to say something, but at this moment, he saw a streak of bright color like a shooting star flashing across the dark sky, and it came quickly, short and fast, and the star-like light spot was very eye-catching, almost instantaneous like a spirit snake Like rushing into the hexagonal pavilion.

A "click" landed on the ground, interrupting his words.

A bright silver object about the size of half a palm fell to the ground, right at Wen Xuan's feet.

Without waiting for anyone to react, this thing immediately began to flop on the spot like a fish jumping ashore.

Click, click, click...

The hard texture of the object keeps bouncing to the ground, making annoying noises in the empty environment, as if no one cares about it, it will keep jumping and jumping on its own until someone pays attention to it.

Seeing this thing, Min Shao's eyes suddenly changed.

stream fish.

This was the first thing Taixuan Patriarch gave them when they first became a teacher in Tianyin Mountain.

The Liuyu was made by the ancestor Taixuan himself. At the beginning, they were given three pieces for each of them, one was the main one, and the other two were the second ones. They could be used for emergency communication and had a certain amount of storage space.

Although this magic weapon can be reused, it also has certain limitations.Liuyu only recognizes spiritual power. Once it is activated by one person's spiritual power, it can no longer be used by others, and although the communication speed is extremely fast, the other party must have a "time" that has been activated by the same spiritual power. Only fish can be used.

Therefore, those who can use Liuyu with each other must be people who have a good relationship with themselves.

At that time, each of them only had three drifting fish, and the main fish had to be kept by themselves, while the other two secondary fish had to be given to those close to them.

Wen Xuan, who was only nine years old at the time, gave him one with a smile, and in this way, there was a relationship between the two of them.

Min Shao thought for a while, and gave one to his younger brother Min Yan, and the other to his master Taixuan Patriarch.

Wen Xuan held the other one, thought and thought, and said to him: "I think... since you have already given Master one, then I don't need to give it again."

Min Shao said: "Why?"

"Because when I want to find Master, I can use your one."

Wen Xuan said in a milky voice.

"We'll always be together anyway."

After that, Wen Xuan took the fish that he had been thinking about for a long time to the foot of the mountain, and gave it to Xiao Chengjian back then.

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