Shadow guard is an unlucky profession

"I'm very selfish. If you can't get it, no one can be happy."

Leaning her head on the emperor's shoulder, Xiao Jiu thought of her childhood.When he was very young, when he couldn't sleep at night, Bai Di would hold him here, let him lean his head on his shoulder and rock gently, and then he slowly fell asleep.Close your eyes, maybe one day in the future, he will be able to slowly fall asleep leaning on Baidi's shoulder like this, and then never wake up again.

"Never betray the prince, but I promise you that you will never leave."

"A good love, don't leave regrets."

The two leaned on each other, tightly clenched their hands, and stood quietly in the deserted courtyard.No one spoke again, feeling the passage of time together.

"Why did the poisonous wine that was promised at the beginning turn into real poison?"

The sun had already disappeared at the end of the sky, and the sky was already a little purple, slowly approaching the night.Xiao Jiu's voice was like a needle falling in the silence, even if it was very small, it was deafening.The interlocking hands slowly loosened, the emperor slowly let go of the person in his arms, and looked at Xiao Jiu with eyes that you know better than me.

"Because I didn't achieve the effect you wanted, so I settled for the next best thing, let me die in his hands, and made him regret it for the rest of his life. Or are you jealous, jealous that he is really tempted?"

The emperor's eyes were wide open, and he pushed the man onto the rockery. The anger on his face seemed to be discovered by someone who had discovered the deepest secret in his heart. The murderous aura slowly gathered in his eyes, and the hand on Xiao Jiu's shoulder made a rattling sound.

"In the end, either you die at his hands, or he dies at your hands. Remember, only one of you will live alone." The emperor left a word, turned around and walked out.

Xiao Jiu looked at his back and smiled, "Actually, there is only one person living alone between you and him, right?" She leaned sideways on the rockery, no longer looking at the person who left, no longer thinking about the past.Just looking at the courtyard quietly, I suddenly understood why the emperor was so familiar with the General's Mansion, and I also felt familiar with it. It turned out that this was the former Qinxuan Palace.

No wonder that person showed up...

The night slowly enveloped the General's Mansion, like the prologue on the stage is slowly lowered, indicating that there will be a big show to start.

Xiao Jiu was still standing in the deserted courtyard, staring blankly at the stars in the sky.The sharp cold wind hung on his face like a sharp knife.There was someone approaching gently behind him, obviously he could walk more quietly, so lightly that he couldn't find it, but that person still made noise on purpose.Xiao Jiu didn't look back, but still stared at the sky.

The person who came didn't respond, just stood behind him for a while, and maybe looked up at the sky to see what Xiao Jiu was looking at.But these Xiaojiu didn't want to know, he just felt a cloak on his shoulders, and then someone turned and left.

After all, he turned back, and there was no one behind him, only the cloak on his shoulders and the red whip on the ground.

Red snake whip.

After dismissing the brothers and sisters of the Yue family, King Yanqin was still thinking about what Xiaojiu said just now.He raised his hand unconsciously and stroked his lips. It didn't feel real, but the temperature and touch on his lips told him that everything was true.Ye Lingyun sat at the side and watched Yan Qin King's every move quietly, his clenched fists loosened and then clenched, and then slowly let go.Finally got up and walked out, heavy steps like his heart.

After a long time, King Yanqin suddenly found out that Xiao Jiu had been away for a long time and hadn't come back. Xiao Hua, who was dragged away by him, didn't come back either.He stood up and walked out, moved two steps and then stopped immediately, standing on the spot hesitantly.

When the emperor entered the room, he saw King Yanqin standing there in a daze, coughing lightly with his fists clenched, "What's wrong?"

"Brother Huang!" His face couldn't hide his joy, King Yan Qin wanted to tell everyone, but seeing the emperor's expressionless face, all the words were stuck in his throat, should he say it or not?The original warning is still in my ears. "Why is the emperor here?"

"I came to see Xiaojiu's injury, did you find out who it was?" The emperor walked past King Yanqin, sat on the main seat, looked around the hall, and found that there was no one else here except King Yanqin up.

King Yanqin saw his doubts, and explained: "I asked Ye Lingyun to send everyone away, and there are only my people here."

The emperor closed his eyes, the fingers of one hand curled up and tapped on the table, and the other hand slowly raised and waved.Soon, a black figure put hot tea in his hand.When King Yanqin saw it, he raised his hand and waved it slowly, which was a secret signal.Remove King Yan Qin's shadow guard and replace it with the emperor's shadow guard.

"Do you still remember Princess Pingyang?" The emperor picked up the tea on the table, holding the lid of the cup and slowly brushing off the tea foam floating on the tea, "Do you still remember what happened after she went crazy?"

"She seems to be married." King Yanqin turned around and sat next to the emperor, reached out to serve tea, and found that there was nothing on the table.The emperor didn't ask someone to prepare his tea, and he left it uncomfortably in his empty hand.He reached into his sleeve to grab something, but only got half of the black bone fan.The body stopped, and the hands were hidden in the sleeves.

"At that time she was crazy, and the queen mother was so worried about her affairs that she didn't think about eating and drinking. A man came to ask for her. The queen mother married her off. After all, it's not bad for someone who looks like her to want her." The emperor The voice spoke slowly, but there was a hint of disdain in his tone.

Who doesn't know that when Princess Pingyang was in the harem, and she gave birth to a bastard, the queen who was in charge of the harem back then, their queen mother was naturally worried, but the worry was her status in the harem, and whether her opponent would take this matter Said she mismanaged.If the man who appeared suddenly did not solve this problem, it would be difficult for their mother to sit in the rear seat.

King Yanqin lowered his eyes and didn't express his thoughts. He didn't understand why the emperor suddenly mentioned this matter.

"Do you know who that man is?"

Who will remember?

"Do you know the Imperial Merchant Lujiabao?"

Lifting his lowered eyes, King Yan Qin remembered Yue Ling's words just now.

The palm in Xiaojiu's chest is Nether Palm, the Lu family's unique palm technique, which no one except the direct descendants of the Lu family can master, and to leave such an obvious palm print, at least you have to learn it at least five levels above.

"The one who hurt Xiaojiu is also from Lujiabao."

"Because the master of Lujiabao solved the matter of Princess Pingyang for his mother, he has since become an imperial merchant, holding half of the world's financial lifeline in his hands. I don't want to know what they want to do, who they want to be with, I just want the result." Put down your hands The emperor took out a black bone fan from his sleeve, which was exactly the same as the one that King Yanqin had broken.Holding the fan, he knocked heavily on the table, his eyes sharp like a sharp sword, "King Yanqin, I order you and General Ye Lingyun to solve this matter together, and give me a perfect answer when Erlong raises his head in February."

Standing up and lifting the hem of his clothes, King Yanqin knelt heavily on the ground, "Your brother obeys the order."

The entire General's Mansion was immersed in the night, and the attendants dutifully lit up the lights, turning the originally dark place into daylight.Xiao Jiu carefully looked at this place that was completely changed but seemed familiar, and finally walked to the place full of silver bells.

Putting the red snake whip on the ground, Xiao Jiu squatted down and looked at the silver bells.That person liked it very much, but in the end he couldn't live it.That person often said, if you can't ask for it, don't force it.But I don't know that as long as I have the heart, I can still plant flowers.

There was a rustling sound next to him, and he saw a horse's face when he turned his head.A dark horse with a petal-like birthmark on its forehead, wide-open eyes, and long eyelashes like two big brushes.Xiao Jiu stood up in surprise, touched the horse's neck with trembling hands, and slowly stroked along the mane, not daring to use force, for fear that the horse would disappear if he did.His eyes scanned the horse's body, and finally fell on the horse's hoof.

Black horse and white hooves, petal birthmarks, isn't it just...

"Tread the snow."

"So you still remember it."

28

帝心

Turning around, he saw Ye Lingyun standing not far away, holding a whip in his hand.A snow-white riding whip, a riding whip with a white leopard tail wrapped around it.

"Do you still remember this whip?" Ye Lingyun raised his hand, staring at Xiao Jiu's face, as if he wanted to see through him.

After taking the whip, Xiao Jiu looked at it carefully, and kept rubbing his fingers on the whip. "Why is it in yours?"

Ye Lingyun ignored his question, stretched out his hand to stroke the horse's mane, and said in a low voice: "The Ye family has been a general for generations. I was sent to practice martial arts with my master since I was a child. Later, when I came back, my father gave me a horse." War horse. It is this wild and untamable wild horse king. It took me three days and three nights to tame it. When I rode it and galloped, I was so happy. I remember that year, that year One year I just passed my 23rd birthday."

"After riding the horse back, I led it on the way back home. The sky was snowing, and the thin snowflakes were like the feathers of dandelions in the frontier. There were no people on the road, and there were few vendors. I saw you from a distance. , you stood in the middle of the road. At that time, you were only thirteen or fourteen years old, wearing white clothes, wearing a sable scarf, standing in the middle of the road with your head up, as if everything around you had nothing to do with you, you just watched quietly. Looking at the sky, let the snowflakes fall on your face. I also looked up to see what attracted you. In the end, I only saw the gray sky and the falling snow."

Xiao Jiu turned her head to look at Ye Lingyun's face, that person was once in her memory.

"But soon you turned your head and looked at me. To be precise, it was the dark horse beside me. I saw splendor in your dim eyes, like fireworks blooming in the night sky of the Lantern Festival. It was so beautiful! You saw the horse I, who was beside me, immediately shouted to the people in the restaurant on the side of the road, and then I saw King Qin Xuan came out of the restaurant holding an umbrella. He held an umbrella for you, bent over