Huaigui

Luoyang, the residence of the Grand Master.

A gust of wind blew by, and the red lotus in full bloom trembled slightly, and before it stopped, a brisk figure ran past, passing by the lotus in the pool with a powdery air, and it was even more delicate and beautiful under the hot sun.

Yuan Yuxin held a box in both hands, and stopped nervously outside the east courtyard wing.

She got a new piece of rare jewelry. She looked at the special shape and didn't know the origin, so she took it to Yuan Zhuoer. Discover.Yuan Yuxin had strong mobility, and before Yuan Zhuo'er finished speaking, he hurried over with it.

She was stopped by the guards outside the door, but she didn't hear what she said, she frowned and waved away the man and went straight in.At this moment Yuan Yuxin was about to knock on the door, when she heard two men talking suddenly, she seemed to be too reckless in hindsight.

The voice that was speaking...was clearly Gao Jing.

Since Nan Chu's son went back to Jiangning, the domineering princess's sister-in-law has restrained a lot, and the chaos in the East Courtyard of Yuan Mansion has decreased, but she still loves to ignore Yuan Ying.On the contrary, Gao Jing trusted Yuanying very much as before, and drank tea with him outside the palace many times, and even asked him to stay in the East Palace once or twice.

The two had a close relationship, and the emperor was happy to see it succeed.

When Gao Jing's canonization edict was officially issued, Yuan Ying was also granted the crown prince Zhan Shi.The official position of the third grade in the East Palace, if Gao Jing takes the throne in the future, he will be an important minister, which makes Yuan Zhuoer, who has a relatively high starting point, look inferior.

Yuan Yuxin didn't understand government affairs, and only vaguely noticed that something was wrong with the elder brother and second brother who had been harmonious in the past.At this time, she was standing outside the door, hesitating, and heard the voices inside.

"...Gu took care of you everywhere, never for the sake of asking for something in return. It's rare to speak up this time, and you don't want to do anything for Gu." Gao Jing's tone was a little angry, "Sure enough, even you look down on Gu. "

Yuan Ying hurriedly said: "Your Highness, I definitely don't mean that!"

Gao Jingdao: "I've been begging you for so long, and I still have a talk in the mansion today. I'm afraid Mr. Yuan is proud of his humbleness? If Miss Huang sees you, Gu will come here to be scolded just for you!"

"Your Highness, calm down!" Yuan Ying seemed to start to tremble in the voice of kneeling, and said timidly, "I don't dare to think so, and I know you don't mean it... But according to the princess's temper, I want my minister to persuade her, Is it a three-day effort? Your Highness, I beg you to give me more time, and I will do my best."

Gao Jing was silent for a moment: "You agreed?"

Yuanying remained silent, and Gao Jing softened his tone again: "I don't know how to speak, I just spoke a little harshly...Brother-in-law, you know that my father, queen, and queen have always been strict with me, and I don't even have peers, so I don't know how to get along with others." I understand. You treat me so well...how can I be angry with you before I can please you? "

Hearing this, Yuan Yu's heart felt hot for no reason, and he thought in surprise: How could he chat with his eldest brother like this?To say that they are monarchs and ministers is obviously more intimate, and to say that they are friends, the former clearly looks more like coercion...

No matter how you look at it, it's too ambiguous.

Yuan Ying said: "Your Highness... I know, I understand."

"Then don't kneel." Gao Jing's voice was softer, as if coquettish, "Brother Ying, I brought you a gift, come and see if you like it?"

The conversation between the two fell down. Yuan Yuxin listened for a while, but there was no movement. Her beating heart gradually calmed down, and then she raised her hand and knocked on the door: "Brother, it's me."

Not long after, Yuan Ying came to open the door.

He dressed casually in the mansion. In the hot summer, he was dressed in a light-colored crepe gauze dress, which was cool and opaque, and his hair was simply tied.She usually looked the same, but Yuan Yuxin always felt something was different. She stared at Yuanying for a while, and joked, "Brother, what's wrong with you today? You look so pretty."

"Don't talk nonsense." Yuan Ying blushed and said in a low voice, "The prince is here too, it's not convenient, you can talk here if you have anything to do."

Just as Yuan Yuxin was about to speak, Gao Jing's laughter came from within: "It's Miss Yuan? It's not inconvenient. It's not good to ask my daughter to sit outside in the sun on a hot day. It's okay to come in and sit together."

After speaking, Yuan Ying turned sideways to let Yuan Yuxin in, and pulled her to warn her not to talk nonsense.

Yuan Yuxin knew that the crown prince was always uncertain, so he made up his mind to find an excuse to slip away after talking about the matter.She glanced quietly at Gao Jing, who was drinking tea a little farther away, and had no one with her, let alone He Lan Mingyue.A little disappointed, Yuan Yuxin said to himself: I haven't seen He Lan for a long time, and I don't know if he is doing well.

"What's the matter running here in such a hurry?"

"Hey, big brother, I got a treasure today." She covered the top of the brocade box with her hands, her eyes lit up, and said the name of the pawn shop, "You know I often go there, as long as it's not a vulgar thing, shopkeeper Wu They will be kept for me to have a look... When I wake up in the morning, I will go and have a look, and it turns out that there is really an orphan!"

Yuanying is also interested in those wonderful things in the pawn shop: "What is it?"

Yuan Yuxin opened the box and showed it in front of him: "Look!"

An earring inlaid with gold silk and jade lay quietly in it.

Craftsmanship is not a rare style, but pure gold and moist jade are rare, let alone a rare smoky purple jade in the middle.I don't know if the shape of the jade is natural or has been carved, like water droplets, the color is moist and translucent, although there are no complicated pendants and other foils around it, it is more refined.

"Is this... an earring?" Yuan Ying picked it up and gestured to the sky, not noticing that the expression of the person sitting behind her raised his eyes and his face changed instantly.

Yuan Yuxin excitedly said: "Exactly, the shopkeeper said that it was collected a few days ago. I don't know the origin, so I asked my elder brother about it. Because there is only one, and it is the only one among the orphans! I fell in love with it the first time I saw it." -"

"Show me." Gao Jing who hadn't spoken all this time suddenly said, a little bit out of his mind.

Gao Jing still saw it somehow.

He thought it was hard to get out of his knot, and pretended that he had never met He Lanmingyue. Even though he still didn't know why he was injured so badly, Gao Jing forced himself not to think about it.

The past is irreversible, the only way is to keep going forward, he can't turn back anyway.From winter to summer, more than 100 days and nights of tossing and turning, and now I have convinced my heart that those are just nightmares, but I was caught off guard and saw the ornaments that belonged to him and also belonged to Helan Mingyue in an unexpected place.

Gao Jing clenched the earring tightly, pursed his lips, forced back the soreness in his eyes, and looked around in a panic for a while.

Seeing that his expression was wrong, Yuan Yu wanted to ask, but Yuan Ying grabbed his arm.She looked puzzled, Yuan Ying shook her head lightly at her, and said to Gao Jing: "If Your Highness likes it, I will offer it to you."

Yuan Yu was taken aback for a moment, and then came to his senses: "Yes, yes, it's an honor for your majesty to look up to you."

Gao Jingshen took a deep breath, and when he let go of his hand, he saw a bloodstain on his palm by the sharp edge of the earring.He hid his hands in the wide sleeves of his robe without any trace, and smiled: "I'm just curious, how did Miss Yuan get it?"

"Huh? I already said that." Yuan Yuxin blinked, and was dragged by his brother again, and said hastily, "I bought it from a pawnshop. Smoked purple jade is rare, and shopkeepers are rare."

Gao Jing asked anxiously: "Have you ever found out who is going to be the one?"

Yuan Yu thought to himself: "This... the minister and the shopkeeper chatted for a while. He said that he was a poor scholar with a thin, tall, fair face. He was afraid at first that it was a fake, but he was really afraid that if he missed it, he would reveal it. I bought ten gold beads and bought them. The shopkeeper said that the man looked like he was in a hurry to get rid of it, and his speech was vague. He might have stolen it from somewhere, and what if some official lady gave it to his sweetheart... "

Every time she said a word, Gao Jing's heart sank a little.

Not Helan Mingyue.

Could that explain that he was... not likely to be there?

steal?grab it?Someone sent it?

No matter what kind of high scene, it is impossible to imagine him.

While staring at the earring, Gao Jingqing couldn't help recalling the tenderness between the two of them, which became even more unpleasant.There was remorse, regret, and other kinds of sadness. He always felt that some words were not clear, thinking that he would never have a chance to reflect on himself, and sealed up those emotions in place.

Now that the earrings are lying on the palm of his hand as warm as before, Gao Jing thought, is this the chance God gave him?

He stood up and said to Yuan Yu, "Can Miss Yuan really cut love?"

The girl in front of him made Gao Jing angry not long ago, those bold remarks of "I want to marry a guard" made him extremely uncomfortable, but now he bowed his head to Yuan Yuxin.

"The orphan is not greedy. The reason for wanting to win people's love is..." Gao Jing thought for a while and said frankly, "To tell the truth, this ornament was originally lonely."

"Huh?" Yuan Yu was taken aback.

Gao Jingdao: "This is...Gu sent someone to make it in the past. This piece of jade is a tribute."

Yuan Yu thought for a moment, then murmured: "No wonder... Shopkeeper Wu told me that smoked purple jade is extremely difficult for the folks to get. I thought it was some dignitary... It's really in the palace."

She was outspoken, and Yuan Ying couldn't hold back her face, so she nodded slightly to Gao Jing to express her apology.

Instead, Gao Jing relaxed a lot, and said bluntly, "Let Miss Yuan see the joke."

Yuan Yu thought to himself: "Since it belongs to His Highness, it is good to return it to its original owner. But this ornament seems to have never been worn by His Highness, and it was lost for no reason. Was it... given to someone else?"

Gao Jing shook his head after a long time: "Sorry for the inconvenience of revealing."

Fortunately, Yuan Yuxin didn't struggle for too long. He let out an "hey" and scratched his hair: "Then, that courtier is fine, brother and His Highness can continue chatting!"

She ran out, but Gao Jing didn't sit down anymore, Chao Yuanying apologized: "I'm sorry, brother-in-law, there are still things to deal with in the palace, I can't accompany you today, I have to go first."

Yuan Ying waved his hands again and again: "Where is it, my minister... If there is something that can be used by the minister, you can pass it on to others."

Gao Jing smiled at him before leaving.

As soon as he walked out of Yuan Mansion, his smile suddenly turned cold.Aman and the car were waiting outside, Gao Jing boarded the car, before he could sit down, he waved the earring to Aman: "Go and check."

Amon was taken aback: "What?"

"To find out who sent this thing to the pawnshop and how he got it, I have to be clear." Gao Jing lowered his eyes, touched the scratch on his palm, and his eyes became more and more complicated, "I just want to know, the other party is playing what a trick..."

And Helan Mingyue, are you dead or alive?

When the spies of the East Palace finally found Xie Bi, he was already thousands of miles away.

Going north out of Luoyang, the population gradually became less and less populated. From time to time, I met some faces of Hu people. Some came from Rouran, and some came to do business from a small country in the Western Regions, but they were stranded in Daning because of the war and could not return home. Some came from the north. Gao Che waited for the place to come, and was prepared not to return to his hometown for the rest of his life.

The northern border returned to peace after years of war, but the trade routes were still broken and extremely desolate.

Cross the grassland, and then go west along the border.In July and August, the Central Plains is still midsummer, but the frontier fortress is already chilly.

As the sky was getting darker, a driveway opened in the Gobi border, and two horses walked slowly forward one after the other.The man in front had a straight back and was able to steer the horse with ease, while the man in the back was lying on his stomach half dead—if there was not a rope tied between the two horses, he might not be able to control it by himself.

It was Helan Mingyue and Xie Bi who came from Luoyang.

"Don't you say you can arrive today!" Xie Bi flicked the water bag hanging beside the saddle, muttering and complaining, "It's getting dark, and if we don't, we have to... live in the desert..."

Helan Mingyue wore a veiled hat, and the hanging thin silk covered the wind and sand and blurred her face.He turned his face to the side and said calmly: "You can walk faster if you don't say a few words."

Xie Bi was choked, and almost hit him with a water bag after a while: "Earlier, I thought you had a good temper, and I was really blind!"

He Lan Mingyue said helplessly: "If you didn't follow me, I would have arrived earlier."

Xie Bi: "...Get out!"

He cursed a few more words, but Helan Mingyue was used to it, so she pretended she didn't hear it.Anyway, Xie Bi only had a mouth addiction every time, and if he really wanted to do something, he would be the first to coax him. No matter how hard he scolded him, he urged him to take medicine and change his medicine all day long. Never dropped the chain.

With such a person by her side, Helan Mingyue actually feels a little bit sweet.

Just as he was about to say something to comfort Xie Bi, there was a rush of hoofbeats in front of him.Frowning, Helan Mingyue saw a group of people galloping forward, and suddenly grabbed the rope connecting the two horses and ordered them to stop.

"What are you doing!" Xie Bi exclaimed, hugging the horse's neck.

There were a dozen or so people in the dark area, each of them had a bad complexion. The leader was a strong man with one eye and a sword with nine rings in his hand.

"It seems that we are indeed approaching Yinzhou City, and a mess of people has also appeared." He Lanmingyue looked at the group in front of him, his eyes were sharp, but his tone was as ordinary as talking about the weather, "We are unlucky, and we ran into a group of people." Bandits."

Xie Bi almost fell down: "Then, what should I do then!"

The sun is westward, and it is almost night.

He Lan Mingyue glanced at the group of people: "Just take care of yourself."

Xie Bi: "Then you—"

"What should I do?" Before she could say it, He Lan Mingyue pulled out a protective short dagger at her waist, cut the connecting rope with one knife, yanked the horse's rear buttocks, and rushed directly towards the group of people!

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In the ongoing deposit, see on the 16th