Those years when I was Princess Yan

"No need to review, I remember the events of those two nights very clearly."

Xu Qingqing shrank her neck again and turned into a quail, covering her ears with her hands.Now not only the ears were flushed by him, but also the face was flushed, the flush extended to the neck, and the whole head was like a ripe apple.

"It's been a long time, but the princess remembers it so clearly, and often thinks about it?" Zhu Di lifted Xu Qingqing's long hair from her neck and shoulders, then moved to Xu Qingqing's ear, and lightly bit her mouth.

Xu Qingqing: "..."

Why did you say everything! ?

But I have to say that although Yan Wang is usually indifferent, he is very provocative at this time.Knowing that her ears are sensitive, he leaned in there and mesmerized her with a low, magnetic voice.Even though she doesn't suffer from color sickness now, she has the same heart as thousands of ordinary girls, and she also has seven emotions and six desires. Being seduced by such a handsome man, even talking about concentration has long since ceased to exist.

They were originally legal couples and had relevant experience before.When the love is strong, it will stop abruptly, what a disappointment, it is not as good as your love, I would like to be happy.Looking back, King Yan was happy, and she might be able to restore the previously negotiated treaty.So Xu Qingqing was very obedient and cooperative throughout the whole process, which directly led to the extension of the time.

When Xu Qingqing took a bath, the sky outside was already getting bright.When she climbed onto the bed again, she felt much refreshed. She lay comfortably in the bed and was ready to sleep, but she didn't feel sleepy after lying down for a while.

The person beside her suddenly moved, apparently tending to approach her, Xu Qingqing was so frightened that she didn't even dare to open her eyes, for fear that King Yan would come again.Surely he wouldn't attack a sleeping 'half-dead man', would he?Xu Qingqing gradually relaxed and fell asleep drowsily until she felt that the other party stretched out her hand and just hugged her without moving.

When he woke up again, it was almost noon, and King Yan beside him was already gone.Xu Qingqing stretched comfortably and went down to wash her face.

Biluo has been guarding the door, and after hearing the sound, she immediately went to arrange meals.When Xu Qingqing finished packing, the hot porridge, cakes, steamed stuffed buns and four kinds of dishes were all served.

Since you come to the Taoist temple to endure hardship, everyone is the same, and the meals cannot exceed the limit, and there are at most four dishes for one person.But Xu Qingqing's eating these four dishes today is not ordinary. The cabbage looks like cabbage, but it tastes like chicken soup, smooth and delicious.Mushrooms look like mushrooms, but they are chewy and very fresh.

"Who did it?" Xu Qingqing asked.

"I heard that the prince brought the cook from the capital. He was not in the temple at first. He just rushed over from Fengyang an hour ago. The prince also ordered the maid to stand guard at the door. When the princess wakes up, she must be attentive." Biluo was especially happy for her young lady, "It can be seen that the prince is very concerned about the princess, the prince must have the princess in his heart."

"It's just a moment of joy and a moment of pleasure."

"What?" Biluo didn't understand what he meant.

"It's nothing, you don't need to praise the lord in front of me from now on." After Xu Qingqing finished speaking, seeing Biluo looked at herself with strange eyes, she immediately added an explanation, "What I mean, I naturally remember the lord's kindness clearly, and I don't need you to remind me. "

"Yes." Biluo obeyed obediently.

Xu Qingqing emptied the four dishes, ate a full stomach, rubbed her belly, and went for a walk behind the Taoist temple to digest food.Because after viewing, two radish fields have been harvested, and the fields have been leveled by the way. The surface soil is relatively fluffy just after turning over, so as long as someone steps on it, the shoe prints will be more obvious.

When Xu Qingqing walked around here, she found that there was something wrong with a row of shoe prints in the vegetable field.

The shoe print is more than eight inches long, and a foot of this size can only be a man's. Judging from the traces of the shoe print, it should belong to the sole of a hemp shoe, and there are obvious traces formed by the weaving of hemp material.Apart from the three princes, the men living in the Taoist temple are all military guards. They all wear leather boots with wooden soles, and they will not leave such footprints.

There are construction carpenters in the temple who can wear hemp shoes, but since the prince lived in Ping'an Temple, they are not allowed to approach the back mountain and the residence of the prince, and even the Taoist nuns in the temple are not allowed to come here without her permission.

The footprints are still very clear, as if they were freshly left last night.In short, no matter what time it is, this means that there must be a man with eight inches in length sneaking into the aisle.

Xu Qingqing sent Biluo to inform Qiu Fu to come, and she followed the direction of the footprints to the back mountain.There are traces of trampled and broken weeds and branches in many places on the back mountain.Judging from the traces of broken branches, some have just been broken, and the leaves are still fresh; others have been broken for several days, and the leaves on the branches have withered.

It seems that since the three princes moved into the Peaceful Temple, the back mountain of the Peaceful Temple has been bustling, and many people have been here.And instead of taking the already treaded mountain roads, instead of going to those places overgrown with wild grass, there are almost no other possibilities except guessing that they are thieves.

When Xu Qingqing turned back, she suddenly heard a sound behind her.When she turned around, a gust of wind rushed towards her along with a figure, and then a cold knife was pressed against her neck.

Xu Qingqing took a look at the iron knife. The forging technique of this knife seemed to be made by Blacksmith Wang.Then she looked at the man who threatened her with a knife. He was about 27 or [-] years old, with a square face, mustache, bloodshot eyes, murderous looks when he glared at him, and he was dressed in night clothes.Xu Qingqing took a special look at his feet. He was wearing a pair of hemp shoes, and his feet were more than eight inches long.It seemed that he was the one who made a row of footprints in the carrot field.

"Hero, spare your life!" Xu Qingqing showed fear, but her body was steady and she didn't shake at all. She didn't want to accidentally die under this big iron knife.But if you act too scared, it will make the other party look down on you, so it's good to be moderate.

The man with the mustache saw that the Taoist nun was honest and interesting, and her hostility had eased a lot. He looked at her very young and asked, "What's your name?"

"Yu Xin, the poor Taoist name Yu Xin." Xu Qingqing said.With one mind and one heart, one character is "foolish".

"Yu Xin, this Taoist name sounds good. Do you know who I am?" When Bazihu ​​asked, he brought the big knife closer to Xu Qingqing's neck.

"I don't know, it would be strange if Pindao knew the benefactor." Xu Qingqing didn't forget to complain while answering.

"Stop talking nonsense, let me ask you, does King Yan live in this temple of peace?"

"Here I am."

"Where does he live?"

"Tongda Court." Xu Qingqing answered truthfully.

"You're lying! I went to Tongda Garden last night, and there was clearly no one there!" The man with the mustache instantly became irritable, even murderous, insisting that Xu Qingqing was lying to him.

"Pindao is not lying. King Yan usually lives in Tongda Court. If you don't believe me, you can ask anyone in the temple. If you weren't there last night, you must have gone to see our abbot senior sister. The abbot senior sister is kind, beautiful and good-looking. Really. She is very, very beautiful, like a fairy in the sky. Prince Yan probably couldn't bear it anymore, so he quietly went to find her." Xu Qingqing explained vividly.

"Sister abbot?" Bazihu ​​frowned displeasedly, "Are you talking about Princess Yan? The Xu family who was originally the host in your Taoist temple?"

"Yes." Xu Qingqing agreed.

"Hmph, is she beautiful? No matter how beautiful she is, don't let me meet her. If I meet her, I will be the first to chop off her head!" The mustache said viciously, the fierce light in those eyes was not covered , really intends to kill.

Xu Qingqing is very glad that she did not immediately reveal the identity of Princess Yan. At first, she thought that she could be regarded as a person, but at the critical moment, if she revealed her identity to save her life, at least she could be used to threaten King Yan or something. Now it seems that she is She thinks too much.

But she doesn't know the mustache in front of her at all, and the other party doesn't seem to know her, so why do she have such hatred for her and insist on killing her?

Starting from this point, Xu Qingqing probably had a guess.When she looked at the mustache again, her eyes were different.

"Senior sister abbot is actually quite nice..."

"Shut up! I think you're pretty good. When I kill your senior sister later, you will be the abbot of this Taoist temple." Bazihu ​​said bluntly.

Xu Qingqing shut up resentfully.

"I'm hungry!" the mustache suddenly said.

Xu Qingqing immediately said: "The poor way to get some food for the benefactor?"

"Would you be stupid if I let you go and you'll come back?" Mustache ordered Xu Qingqing to take him to the Taoist temple quietly, and then find an ordinary man's clothes for him to wear. He wanted to leave the temple of peace among the pilgrims.

When he came in last night, he didn't feel anything, but when he was about to leave this morning, he found that there were many guards ambushing around the back of the mountain, making it impossible for him to break through.This nocturnal attire is eye-catching, and there are still many guards in the Taoist temple, and it is even more impossible to walk from the front.

After he hid in the tree for an hour, he was about to find a Taoist nun who knew the Taoist temple to take him out, when he saw a Taoist nun come to his door, it was God's will to help her.

"I know there is a small path that can be bypassed to avoid the guards in the backyard." Xu Qingqing took a mustache and detoured to the back wall of the hut, and asked him to climb over the wall, and walk along the east wall of the hut to the front hall where incense is offered , and then casually stun a pilgrim to change clothes and leave.

Bazihu ​​was a little surprised when he heard Xu Qingqing's 'plan', and looked her up again, "Unexpectedly, you know a lot at such a young age."

"I'm playful, and I used to sneak out a lot." Xu Qingqing raised her hand to signal the mustache to climb over the wall and leave.

"Think I'm stupid again, don't you? Who knows if you're lying to me!" After the nonsense, he grabbed Xu Qingqing's arm and easily led her to jump up the wall, and then took her down.

It was the first time Xu Qingqing felt the power of lightness kung fu, and she blinked in surprise after landing.Seeing Xu Qingqing's appearance that has never seen the world, the horoscope was greatly satisfied psychologically.

"Do you think this hero's martial arts are very powerful?"

Xu Qingqing nodded cooperatively, and asked like a curious baby: "It's too powerful. I don't know where the donor's level of martial arts can be ranked in the Jianghu?"

"My martial arts, Hu Baitian, is naturally the best in the world!" Hu Baitian snorted triumphantly, and patted his chest. He was not afraid of accidentally revealing his name, so he looked at Xu Qingqing and laughed wildly, "That's right, I can change my name if I can." If you don't change your surname, you are Hu Baitian who is widely rumored outside!"

Ever since Xu Qingqing heard that Bazihu ​​wanted to find King Yan and kill her, she suspected that he might be Hu Baitian.Now that he finally heard him admit it himself, he wasn't too surprised.

Hu Baitian waited for a while, and found that the nun was not as afraid of him as he imagined, so he asked her, "Aren't you afraid of me?"

"The rumored Hu Baitian?" Xu Qingqing repeated slowly.

"Yes, I am Hu Baitian!" Hu Baitian said sonorously again, seeing that Xu Qingqing's eyes were full of domineering arrogance.

Xu Qingqing tentatively asked again: "Then what do you do? Are you so famous outside?"

Hu Baitian's domineering spirit, which was so easily raised, was immediately vented by Xu Qingqing's question.

Hu Baitian looked at Xu Qingqing wonderingly: "You don't know who I am? Don't you know what I do?"

"Hu Baitian, the benefactor just told me my name. What are you doing, the benefactor hasn't said yet." Xu Qingqing looked at Hu Baitian in a daze.

Hu Baitian sighed, and suddenly felt that he was playing the piano to a cow. Which woman in this world didn't tremble with fright when she heard his name, Hu Baitian?But it's not surprising that the little nun doesn't know him, she's just been bored in this Taoist temple and hasn't seen the world.

"Okay, hurry up and lead the way." Hu Baitian was not even in the mood to threaten or scare the little Taoist nun because he was so discouraged.Originally, he wanted to say that if she was not obedient, he would threaten her, throw her to his brothers to play with, and then sell her into a brothel.

Xu Qingqing walked ahead and led the way, and indeed perfectly avoided the guards, and brought Hu Baitian to her bedroom.Then let Hu Baitian wait a while, then ran into the house, took the clothes she had lent to the scholar, and gave it to Hu Baitian.

Hu Baitian was worried when he saw Xu Qingqing running into the house by himself, but for some reason, he somehow felt that the little Taoist nun was too innocent, and probably didn't dare to play tricks.Sure enough, this silly nun really went to steal clothes for herself, and then came back obediently.

Hu Baitian: "Whose house is this?"

"The carpenter's, the Taoist temple has been expanded recently, and many carpenters live here."

Hu Baitian saw that the material of the clothes was really not that good, and there were traces of being worn by others, so he didn't doubt it, so he found a secluded place to change clothes.

Xu Qingqing just stood there and waited silently, not escaping while Hu Baitian was changing clothes.

When Hu Baitian was changing clothes, he actually kept his keen ears of a martial arts practitioner pricked up, keeping a vigilant eye on Xu Qingqing. When he saw that she was really calm after changing clothes, he felt more and more that this Taoist nun was really stupid and innocent.After all, people in Jianghu still have to show loyalty. Since she had no intention of running away and sincerely helped him find clothes, it was considered credit for helping him escape. He had no reason to kill her or hurt her.

Xu Qingqing took Hu Baitian to the main hall of the main entrance of the Taoist temple, "A hundred and eighty steps forward is the temple for offering incense. It is easy to get in among the pilgrims. I will not take the benefactor there. If the senior sisters see me take Let the outsider walk around and eat the board."

After Xu Qingqing finished speaking, she timidly shrank her neck, looking very worried.

When Hu Baitian asked Xu Qingqing to leave on his own two times before, he didn't agree.But this time he believed her words, she was just a simple silly nun, she really had no heart at all.

"Out of the Taoist temple, there may be soldiers and horses guarded by princes on the road. If you want to avoid those people, you should be more careful." Xu Qingqing instructed again.

"There will be a period later."

Hu Baitian couldn't help laughing when he heard this order, bid farewell to Xu Qingqing, and then strode away towards the direction Xu Qingqing pointed.

Xu Qingqing stood where she was, sure that Hu Baitian had really left, and quickly turned around and ran to look for King Yan's guards. Qiu Fu was notified by Biluo and had already rushed back.

Xu Qingqing ordered them to hurry to get him: "You can all recognize him wearing the clothes I gave to the prince. I specially told him to take the official road carefully after he leaves the Taoist temple. If he wants to take the path, he has to One, you have to go along the bank of the river first, it is the river where the princes release their geese. There are many relatives and palace guards accompanying the princes, so there are many people who are easy to arrest."

Qiu Fu immediately agreed, he never expected that the princess would be so bold and careful, not only able to protect herself properly, but also provide convenience for their arrest.

After Qiu Fu led the people away in a hurry, Zhu Di rushed back.

Xu Qingqing was still thinking about resuming the treaty, so it was not good to mention it directly this morning, lest the purpose be too direct.Now is a good opportunity to ask for credit, Xu Qingqing deliberately took Zhu Di to see the footprints left in the radish and vegetable field, and told him about her own analysis and her heroic deeds.

"How about it, am I smart?" Xu Qingqing looked at him.

Zhu Di glanced at Xu Qingqing, "He grabbed you, which hand?"

"Right, right hand." Xu Qingqing suddenly felt a little cold on her back, but then she thought about it, if King Yan didn't touch her again because of her taboo, it seemed to be a good thing.

Zhu Di tapped her forehead with his finger, turned around and left.

Huh?Touched her so soon?

Since he didn't care about this, Xu Qingqing couldn't understand why he was poked in the head instead of being praised for being so clever.

She hurried to catch up with Zhu Di, not wanting to miss the moment when Zhu Di praised herself.After all, the dog man has a long reflex arc, he may not have reacted yet, so wait.

After Zhu Di returned to his room, he sat down and looked in the direction of the teapot.

Xu Qingqing went to pour tea immediately, and brought it to Zhu Di with a smile.

"Don't be stupid again next time." Zhu Di said coldly after drinking tea.

"Am I being stupid?" Xu Qingqing felt that she was very smart, and she was simply a clever little ghost.

"When the king didn't see the footprints?"

Zhu Di's rhetorical question immediately changed Xu Qingqing's five-star self-feeling to a one-star negative review.

Xu Qingqing immediately collapsed, but she forgot that every morning King Yan would go to the back mountain to practice martial arts, and he must pass through the vegetable field.It turned out that King Yan had already noticed it. No wonder Hu Baitian was trapped in the back mountain and could not escape. King Yan must have arranged for guards to surround the mountain.

"Then why didn't the prince send people to search the mountain?" Xu Qingqing asked.

"fishing."

Put a long line to catch big fish?Hu Baitian couldn't escape, he held back for a long time, either he tried to find a way to notify his accomplices, or his accomplices came to him, no matter which one, more people could be caught.

So, she messed up King Yan's plan and held him back?

Xu Qingqing felt that her IQ was absolutely crushed, and she was ruthlessly pressed and rubbed on the ground.

Xu Qingqing didn't know what to say for a while, as for the mention of the treaty, there was no shame in mentioning it, let's wait until later.

Seeing that Zhu Di had finished drinking the tea, Xu Qingqing immediately poured another cup to refill it, and then she took the opportunity to run away with the half-empty teapot in her hand.

"The Song brothers are settled." Zhu Di said suddenly.

Xu Qingqing's steps outside stopped abruptly, and she walked up to Zhu Di again and asked him how to arrange it.

Zhu Di took out a booklet of land deed registration from his sleeve and threw it on the table.

Xu Qingqing put down the teapot and flicked through it. When she found the page that recorded herself, she tore it off immediately and burned it with fire.This feeling of destroying corpses by going through the back door is so cool.

Xu Qingqing was in a good mood after burning the things, and wanted to leave again with the teapot in her arms.

"Don't care about their lives?" Zhu Di suddenly said.

"My lord doesn't want to talk about it, so why do I ask so many questions. I will follow my lord's orders when I marry and follow my husband, and my lord's decision will never be wrong."

Xu Qingqing smiled sweetly at Zhu Di, she had just pulled King Yan's hind legs, so she had to be more obedient now.Besides, Xu Qingqing believed that King Yan would not kill the Song brothers after hearing her theory of "luck" last night.Everyone wants to look auspicious, and would rather believe what they have or not, not to mention that in the ancient environment, everyone was quite superstitious.

Zhu Di raised one corner of his mouth slightly and smiled lightly.What she said sounded nice, she listened to him in everything, if she really listened to him, how could she have asked him back then, and repeatedly threatened him with 'luck' in a subtle way.

This girl is used to being good-looking when she gets cheap.

Xu Qingqing glanced at Zhu Di's expression, a little unpredictable, so she decided not to provoke him.She held the teapot and continued to retreat towards the door.

"I have something to do tomorrow, you follow me to herd cattle." Zhu Di said again.

Xu Qingqing immediately understood that the lord wanted her to fill the tank, and he wanted to take the opportunity to do something.She can definitely do this little thing well, and she immediately agrees, promising not to show any flaws.

An hour later, Qiu Fu reported that he failed to catch Hu Baitian, and Xu Qingqing didn't know if he followed him secretly for long-line fishing or if he really lost him after chasing him.

The next day, Yan Wang and his wife led the cattle up the mountain together under the watchful eye of the pro-army.The pro-soldiers all wisely only guarded at the foot of the mountain. Before dusk, they saw the husband and wife coming out together, and they went back to watch. The ordinary day of "sunrise and sunset" has passed.

Xu Qingqing spent a whole day herding cattle on the mountain by herself, picked a basket of herbs by the way, and lived a fairly fulfilling life.After King Yan came back, he didn't say anything, and Xu Qingqing couldn't ask too many questions because of his hind legs.

Today Chu Qiu went to Fengyang City to help Xu Qingqing sell the house in Luogu Lane. When she went, Brother Song Ming and Song Yu were no longer in the house, but there were a lot of furniture and other things they bought themselves. .

"Where are the clothes?" Xu Qingqing asked.

"The clothes are all packed away, but it looks like they left in a hurry." Chu Qiu said.

Xu Qingqing felt relieved and wanted to get clothes to wear, at least it showed that they were still alive.

"I also heard a piece of news." Chu Qiu whispered to Xu Qingqing, "Hu Baitian traded iron with someone privately, and was arrested by the people of the government on the spot. I heard that he chopped off half of his arm when he was arrested. Now he I can no longer use a knife to hurt people."

Xu Qingqing shivered and asked Chu Qiu which arm was chopped off.

"I'm not sure about this, but since I can't hold the knife, it should be the right arm."

"..."

Xu Qingqing couldn't help tugging at her collar, always feeling cold and panicked.

She shouldn't have been with King Yan for a long time, and she felt that King Yan was not as cruel as in the legend, and that King Yan was still the fierce King Yan in the legend.

"Junior sister, what's wrong with you?"

"Too brutal."

"What is this cruel? When he led those gangsters to run amok, he killed countless people. Not to mention cutting off one of his arms, even cutting him into five horses and putting him to death, it is not enough to appease the hatred of everyone." Chu Qiu hated. road.

Xu Qingqing agreed: "That's true." But that's not what she said.

"At least he's still alive. There was a blacksmith who traded with him. He heard that his mouth was chopped off. He killed it with one knife." Chu Qiu compared it.

Blacksmith Wang's mouth was chopped off?

Coincidentally, Blacksmith Wang used his mouth to attack her at the beginning.

The more Xu Qingqing heard it, the more panicked she became, "How do you know so clearly?"

"When the corpse was transported into the city, many people saw it. This kind of news has always spread the fastest. Hu Baitian was arrested, and everyone applauded. Now, he is finally not afraid of making a comeback and causing another gang of bandits to harm people. "Chu Qiu said happily.

She still remembered that when she and her junior sister entered the city, they were almost targeted by those gangsters. Fortunately, the junior sister reacted cleverly and went to the government office, otherwise she really didn't know what happened to them now.

"I heard that among the girls who were rescued from the bandits, two of them couldn't think about it and committed suicide."

Xu Qingqing frowned. These girls were taken into captivity and suffered inhuman torture. After returning home, their innocence would most likely be ruined, and they would be judged by others.There is no way, this is the current situation of the surrounding environment, and it cannot be resisted by one person alone.

"Our Taoist temple has always been understaffed, and after the expansion, we need to recruit more people. You go to the city tomorrow to talk about it, no matter what, it is a way out." Xu Qingqing said.

Chu Qiu immediately nodded and praised Xu Qingqing's idea.

Undoubtedly, King Yan went out today to deal with Hu Baitian and Blacksmith Wang.Xu Qingqing wondered if Liu Lingxiu was also among those arrested.She boiled jujube and yam juice and sent it to King Yan, and it was only when she arrived at Tongda Garden that she was completely empty before she realized that King Yan had said that she would live there in the future.

Xu Qingqing took it back to her room silently, and she saw Zhu Di standing by the east window playing with the jade pendant.

Xu Qingqing gently put the bowl on the table, then sat down, holding his hand and looking at Zhu Di's back.With a straight back, broad shoulders and a narrow waist, with one hand behind his back, he just stands there, but he is already imposing.Xu Qingqing couldn't help thinking of what happened to Hu Baitian and Tiejiang Wang, and felt a chill down her spine.

She pinched her fingers nervously. If King Yan treated Hu Baitian and Blacksmith Wang like that because of her, what would it mean?For the prince's sake, he doesn't allow others to bully his concubine, or because of other...

"What?"

Xu Qingqing looked up and found that Zhu Di had come over, looking at the contents in the bowl, Xu Qingqing immediately told him that it was jujube yam juice and asked him to taste it.

"Yam has a dense taste, and red dates are sweet. The two are combined to make a soup, which is both healthy and delicious. It can be drunk as a kind of tea." Xu Qingqing explained.

After Zhu Di took a sip, he sighed, "You have always had a lot of evil ideas."

"My lord went out to do errands today, but Hu Baitian was arrested?" Xu Qingqing told Zhu Di calmly that her source of information came from Chu Qiu.

"Yeah." Zhu Di didn't show any special expression.

"I heard that his right arm was cut off, and Blacksmith Wang's mouth was chopped off..." Xu Qingqing glanced at Zhu Di.

Zhu Di swallowed what was in his mouth, and looked at Xu Qingqing coldly.

"Distressed?" Zhu Di put down the soup cup in his hand.

"How is it possible! They all deserve what they deserve, they deserve it!" Xu Qingqing immediately changed his tone and argued in a spineless way, "I just want to praise the prince for obeying the will of the sky, knowing the needs of the people, and doing it beautifully! The chopping is really good, very good !"

Zhu Di wiped his mouth with a handkerchief, glanced at Xu Qingqing, and got up to go.

In the evening, Xu Qingqing didn't wait for Zhu Di to come. He probably didn't plan to sleep with her. Although Xu Qingqing didn't understand the reason why Zhu Di left suddenly before, the ending was still satisfying. Knowing is not blessing'.

Xu Qingqing fell asleep peacefully, the autumn night was getting colder, she was a little cold, and her hands and feet were prone to cold.When I feel cold, my body instinctively approaches the heat source next to it, and I feel satisfied only by hugging it tightly.

When waking up in the morning, Xu Qingqing vaguely felt that someone had slept on her side, but when she turned her head to look at the empty space over there, she felt that habit was a terrible thing. King Yan only slept with her for two days, and she had The illusion of persistence.

In the next two days, Xu Qingqing returned to the previous state of sleeping alone, without an ancestor to suppress the atmosphere in the house, Xu Qingqing lived very easily.

She goes up the mountain with a pickaxe every morning and goes down the mountain in the evening.On the third day, she invited two guards to help her carry some bricks and a stone tablet up the mountain.After tossing for two more days, I went up the mountain with a hammer and chisel.

In a blink of an eye, it was the fourth day of September, and Xu Qingqing woke up early in the morning, waiting for Zhu Di at the vegetable field in the back mountain.Sure enough, it didn't take long to see Zhu Di coming with the red glow of the east on his back, bathed in the golden morning glow in an ivory white robe, like a god who is not stained by the filth of the world.

Zhu Di walked up to Xu Qingqing, and she was here unexpectedly.This is strange, the lazy cat who always sleeps late got up early today.

Xu Qingqing led the way, "Follow me!"

Just as Zhu Di was about to ask what was the matter, Xu Qingqing dragged him along a newly opened path. It could be seen that the weeds and branches on this path had been specially pruned with a machete.Halfway up the mountain on the south slope, Zhu Di saw a well-organized field in the middle of a circle of trees. There was a grave in the center, and a tombstone without words stood in front of the grave.Tributes, an incense burner and two futons have been placed in front of the tombstone.

Thinking about today's day, it is not difficult to think of her purpose in doing so.

Zhu Di's eyes were dim, he turned around and was about to leave, but Xu Qingqing took his arm firmly.

"If the prince wants to cure his illness, he must first face the person he misses the most in his heart." Xu Qingqing said quickly, then let go of her hand, then knelt down in front of the tombstone, turned to look at Zhu Di, and waited for him to come.

Zhu Di remained silent for a moment with a dark face, then lifted up his robe, and knelt down beside Xu Qingqing.

"I used the tassels that Concubine Yu left for the prince. This is also considered a tomb. In order to avoid taboo, I engraved my name under the stone tablet." Xu Qingqing explained, "This is what our husband and wife set up for Concubine Jing. Following the concept of peace, from now on, burning incense and chanting scriptures in the temple every day will be an offering to Concubine Qi."

"Thank you Concubine Yu for raising the prince so carefully, teaching him to be so smart and far-sighted, aware of the subtleties, and decisive in killing, it is hard to compare." After Xu Qingqing finished speaking, he took the lead in kowtow and gave three sticks of fragrance to Concubine Yu .

Decisive to kill?Zhu Di looked at Xu Qingqing with cool eyes, and said with a cold snort, "You are telling the truth."

"You can't lie in front of the respected dead." Xu Qingqing said seriously.

Zhu Di then took three sticks of incense, and after silently paying respects to Concubine Yu, he asked Xu Qingqing, "Afraid of me?"

Xu Qingqing laughed awkwardly, and asked to change the subject: "Why should I be afraid of the prince?"

"Answer question."

"Scared." Xu Qingqing said honestly.

"If you could choose, you would definitely not want to be Princess Yan." This sentence is no longer a question, but an affirmative sentence.

Zhu Di immediately got up and was about to leave.

Xu Qingqing didn't understand this development, but she understood that if she didn't hold King Yan back, not only would King Yan's illness be cured, but her own quality of life would also decline.

"Why are you saying all of this all of a sudden?" Xu Qingqing grabbed Zhu Di's sleeve, complaining that the dog's personality is too twisted, "Today is the death day of Concubine Yu, we should pay homage to her."

"Eyes." Zhu Di looked at Xu Qingqing sharply, "When you mention the fate of Blacksmith Wang and Hu Baitian, you look at my eyes as if you are afraid of a monster."

"No no!"

Xu Qingqing's heart skipped a beat, and she was even more afraid that the situation would get out of hand if Zhu Di ran away, so she grabbed Zhu Di's sleeve with more force.

"They should be damned, I know. What I'm afraid of is not their end, but what I am afraid of is that one day I will be rejected by the prince, and I will end up like this. After all, I have so many shortcomings, and I have so many flaws. Too many, eating and ugly... In short, there are not many advantages that the prince likes. I am afraid of death, and I am even more afraid of dying with a broken arm."

Xu Qingqing drooped her head, blinking her eyes vigorously to build up her emotions. It would be real to shed a few tears at such a time, but she couldn't cry anyway.

Xu Qingqing sighed helplessly in her heart, she could only hug Zhu Di, and rubbed her eyes against him fiercely, unable to cry, rubbing her eyes red was also an atmosphere.

Zhu Di remained motionless and stared at the person in his arms indifferently, until after she rubbed him ten times back and forth, Zhu Difang raised his arms to embrace her and put him in his arms.

"Xu Qingqing, your life is your own."

Is this a promise?King Yan promised that he would not kill her in the future?

"What if I betrayed you." Luckily, Xu Qingqing breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time tried to test the bottom line of King Yan.

"My king keeps his word, you will live." Zhu Di heard Xu Qingqing's hypothesis, and knew that this clever ghost would always make progress, "Life is better than death, it is also a way of living."

Xu Qingqing: "..."

She knew that it was impossible to expect King Yan to act as a selfless and affectionate man.

It wasn't until she descended the mountain that Xu Qingqing belatedly realized that she had been tricked.Today she brought King Yan to pay homage to Concubine Yu's tomb, originally to let King Yan open his heart, but how did it end up being her confession, her own confession?

This dog man routinely tricks her every day!

When the two went down the mountain to the vicinity of the vegetable field, they saw from afar that Jin Wang Zhu Yan was walking this way with a maidservant, and Jin Wang's smile was as bright as ever.

When he got closer, Xu Qingqing was surprised to find that the maid who followed King Jin was clearly Liu Lingxiu.

"Hey, it's such a coincidence that we met here." Zhu Yan smiled, and pushed the maid behind him out with a flick of his sleeve, "Let me introduce to you, a maid I just bought, Yaxin."

The maidservant named 'Ya Xin' knelt down in panic, as if she really didn't know Xu Qingqing and Zhu Di, and hurriedly kowtowed to them: "My maidservant, Ya Xin, pay my respects to Lord Yan and Princess Yan."