"marry" to your nemesis

Tang Xiao felt a little surprised, but he didn't refuse. He saluted respectfully and agreed.

Later, when returning to Lingxi Palace, Tang Xiao felt a little annoyed when she thought about facing A Yao again, so she walked around the street for a while.

The scenery around the road still maintains the original appearance, but the people around have changed more or less.

The old man who sold candied haws back then is no longer around, and the mother-in-law who sold candy seems to have passed away.

Things change and people change, the most melancholy.

Tang Xiao felt a little depressed.

And at this moment, she caught a glimpse of a black figure in the crowd by chance, like...like Feng Ling!

Tang Xiao couldn't help but quicken her pace, but there were too many people in front of her, and between pushing and shoving, that figure had gone away and disappeared from Tang Xiao's sight.

Tang Xiao felt lonely for a while.

I don't know if it's because I miss Fengling too much, or if Fengling really came back.

She sighed alone, finally turned helplessly, and walked towards the Lingxi Palace.

As a result, he was approaching Lingxi Palace, and before entering the door, Tang Xiao saw a little girl bouncing into Lingxi Palace carrying a basket from a distance.

The man's back looked a little familiar.

When did Lingxi Palace have a child?

Although Tang Xiao knew that Lingxi Palace had the habit of recruiting children to be dead warriors, this girl didn't look like a dead warrior no matter what.

Lotus root pink shoes, apricot pink blouse, water red headband.

No matter how you look at it, they are all young ladies from a certain family.

"A new girl has been recruited in the palace?" Tang Xiao randomly grabbed a guard guarding the gate.

The guard guarding the gate didn't feel the same awe as when Tang Xiao was facing Feng Ling, so he just shook his head and replied lightly, "I haven't heard of it."

Tang Xiao didn't mind the guard's attitude at all.

She just looked into the depths of Lingxi Palace with some doubts, "Who is that little girl who just came back?"

After being reminded by Tang Xiao, the guard finally recalled something, "The girl was picked up by Miss A Yao outside, and I don't know the specifics."

It turned out that A Yao brought it back!

Could it be that A Yao, like the old man, likes to come back from seeing people outside?

Tang Xiao frowned, and then strode towards A Yao's yard.

Before entering the courtyard, Tang Xiao heard a series of silver bell-like laughter.

It seems that during the period of her absence, A Yao's life is quite happy.

Tang Xiao smiled lightly.Walked slowly into the yard.

Under the ginkgo tree, A Yao was sitting quietly in the yard paved with yellow fallen leaves, so peaceful and peaceful that she actually had a Buddha statue.

Everything in front of him made Tang Xiao feel dazed, as if he had returned to the bamboo house again.

At that time, they had the purest happiness.

"You're back." Seeing Tang Xiao, A Yao didn't show any excitement, she just smiled lightly, and then waved to the little girl beside her, "Come here."

The little girl was very obedient, and walked two steps directly to A Yao's side.

At this moment, Tang Xiao realized that this little girl looked familiar, as if she had seen it somewhere before...

"When I went to the street a few days ago, I saw this little girl being sold into a brothel. I felt distressed, so I brought her back." A Yao explained simply.

Tang Xiao came back to his senses and nodded, "As long as you like it."

But Ayao's eyes darkened, and a trace of melancholy flashed across her eyes, and the loneliness that she had hidden so well suddenly filled her heart.

She raised her head to look at Tang Xiao, and then smiled very warmly, "Is this journey going well?"

"Well, everything is fine." Tang Xiao couldn't help but glance at the girl next to A Yao.

At this moment, the shadow of the little girl froze in Tang Xiao's mind.

"You are...you are the cousin of the prince's family." Tang Xiao said with certainty, "Prince Pinghe is your uncle, right?"

Hearing this, the little girl suddenly trembled all over, and her expression became a little strange.

Tang Xiao's expression froze immediately.

And at this moment, the little girl knelt down on the ground without saying a word, hugged A Yao's leg and cried, "Don't... don't throw me out, okay?"

"..."

Tang Xiao was full of doubts, and so was A Yao.

"Get up first, and speak clearly." A Yao said softly, then raised her hand to help the little girl up.

The little girl was already in tears at this moment, she squeezed A Yao's sleeve tightly with her hands, and then whispered, "I...I will be very obedient. Don't throw me out, I have no place at all You can go."

Hearing the little girl's pitiful tone, Tang Xiao couldn't tell whether to laugh or cry, "No one will send you away."

Hearing this, the little girl glanced timidly at Tang Xiao, and then at A Yao.

A Yao patiently patted the little girl's hand, "Tell me first, what happened?"

This little girl is Jiang Youyu's cousin, named Jiang Siyue.Tang Xiao met this girl on his wedding day before.

Jiang Sixue said that his parents had died young, and they had been with Prince Ping He all the time.

On the day of Prince Pinghe's accident, she was not in the palace because she went to the temple in the mountain to pray for blessings, so she escaped the catastrophe.

Afterwards, she was afraid and wanted to spend all her money to send her back to the fief of Prince Ping He, but she didn't expect to meet a scammer on the way, who cheated her of all her belongings and sold her to a human trafficker.

After listening to Jiang Sixyue's cry, Tang Xiao fell into a long silence.

"I don't know what's wrong. Before I came to Yuyang City, everything was fine. My brother is alive, and my uncle is alive, but now there is nothing..."

While talking, Jiang Sixyue began to sob again.

After Tang Xiao comforted her a few words, she asked Jiang Sixue to rest.

She pushed A Yao into the room, "That girl, what are you going to do with it?"

"Now you have the final say on the entire Lingxi Palace, what do you want to do with it?" A Yao said indifferently, shifting the responsibility to Tang Xiao again.

Tang Xiao glanced at A Yao with some embarrassment, and then said "um", "Then keep it for now and let her be your company."

Hearing this, A Yao raised her head and looked at Tang Xiao.

Tang Xiao froze there, she always felt that A Yao had a thousand words to say, but in the end A Yao didn't say anything, just smiled and nodded, "Okay."

"And..." Tang Xiao felt that she was looking for something to talk about, so it took a long time for her to remember something, "The eldest princess is going to take me into the palace to meet the emperor."

"When?" A Yao's expression suddenly changed.

Tang Xiao was a little puzzled, but still calmly replied, "In a few days."

"Then... can I go with you?"

"..." Tang Xiao's heart sank slightly, "What are you going to do?"

"I'm a cripple, what do you think I'll do?" A Yao smiled helplessly, "Don't worry, I won't be impulsive, and I won't hurt you."

Tang Xiao didn't believe this.

But with A Yao's own strength, it is really not a good thing, so Tang Xiao finally brought A Yao into the palace together.

The palace is much more splendid than Tang Xiao imagined. After all, it has been less than ten years since everything in the palace was rebuilt, so everything is brand new.

"It's time to turn the corner." Facing Tang Xiao who had been walking for a long time, A Yao couldn't help shaking her head.

Tang Xiao scratched his head in embarrassment, then walked along the path pointed by A Yao, and arrived at the banquet place as expected.

"How do you know the way?" Tang Xiao sat down and finally had time to eat something.

A Yao smiled wryly, "If you have gone around the same place three times, then you have misremembered the direction."

"..." Having said that, Tang Xiao became even more embarrassed.

Meeting the Holy Majesty is a very boring thing. The little emperor is still young, so the eldest princess said a few words on his behalf during the whole process, and then gave Tang Xiao a reward, and then went straight to dinner.

Halfway through eating, A Yao said that the room was too stuffy, so the two of them went out together to blow some air.

A Yao sat there, looking at the autumn scenery in the garden and couldn't help but ask, "You said, those people who live in the palace, see the same scenery every day, boring and boring, what is it for?"

For what?

Tang Xiao might not be able to answer it before, but now——

"For power." Tang Xiao curled his lips, smiling helplessly.

If there is no power, how can the eldest princess act like a domineering and amassing money wantonly.

If there is no power, how can the eldest princess kill and silence people, and ignore human lives.

Everything, in the final analysis, is the word power.

A Yao smiled, "Power is so important?"

Isn't power important?

If power is not important, why did the first emperor rebel ten years ago and overthrow the previous rule in one fell swoop?

After all, money and power are the most attractive thing.

"Let me tell you a story, okay?" On the way back, A Yao was always preoccupied, so Tang Xiao didn't bother her.But when she was about to reach Lingxi Palace, A Yao turned her head and looked at Tang Xiao with burning eyes.

Tang Xiao was taken aback for a moment, then nodded.

"Do you know about the rebellion of the Li clan back then?" A Yao said softly.

"Yes, I know." Although Tang Xiao grew up in Denning Country, he still heard a lot about the Li Clan's rebellion.

And it was precisely because of that rebellion that the Li clan annihilated the previous dynasty and ascended to the throne.

"The Li family was the general of the Rao country back then. The emperor liked them very much and even married the youngest daughter of their patriarch as his queen. But those people were ambitious and cooperated with foreign enemies, and they broke into the palace on the day of the emperor's birthday banquet. . " As A Yao spoke, her eyes suddenly became far-reaching.

Tang Xiao frowned.

A Yao continued, "Do you know what it means to kill red eyes? That is when blood splattered all over the body, even the eyes were red, but they still couldn't stop. That day, those people slaughtered the entire palace like wild beasts." Why do you think they spent so much money to renovate the palace? It's because those people's blood spilled all over the walls and houses, and it can't be wiped off, so they can only continue to renovate the palace as an excuse to cover up their past. of those evils."

"Are these people really as righteous as they say?" A Yao suddenly raised her head and looked at Tang Xiao, "Everyone said that the Emperor Rao was incompetent at that time, that's why the Li clan wanted to be on the side of the Qing emperor. But what is the truth? What is it actually like, have they paid attention to it?"

Tang Xiao pursed his lips, "A Yao, you..."

"Do you know what happened to me after I got out of the palace? In order to save my life, I watched with my own eyes that the guard team that escorted me gradually changed from ten people to five people. Then it gradually became three people, and finally there was only one person left." A Yao smiled, a little creepy, "In the end, not only the guards died, but also the people who took me in. We Nothing but one life."

"I ran away in panic, but finally fell into the hands of the group of people in Huya Mountain. I suffered so much and thought I was going to die. But Lao Ding came to find me in a hurry. At that time, my leg was broken and I was injured all over. I took a breath. But Lao Ding insisted on saving me."

"When I woke up, I didn't have the joy of the rest of my life. On the contrary, I never understood why I'm still alive! Why, I'm not dead yet!" A Yao's hand was clenched suddenly, her eyes full of tears. Desperation, "My existence is a disaster, and even if I have peace, it is only a moment."

As she said that, A Yao looked at Tang Xiao and smiled slightly, "The plan to go back to Yuyang City was not initiated by you from the beginning to the end. Revenge, I... lied to you."

Looking at A Yao, Tang Xiao really didn't know how much heartache was hidden under those gentle eyes.

She really wanted to say something to comfort her, but the words were in her mouth, but she couldn't say anything vaguely.

In his mouth, Tang Xiao lowered his eyebrows and sighed, "So, what are you going to do next?"

As soon as the words fell, Tang Xiao heard a loud noise.

She looked out of the carriage window, and saw that the palace they had just left was full of flames, which made it hard to keep one's eyes open.

"At this time..." Tang Xiao's heart tightened.

A Yao smiled lightly behind her, "Everything will come to an end."

The author has something to say: November will end, update depends on fate