I am neither beautiful nor crazy

"What?" Jiang Yu replied.

"You are too harsh on yourself." Xiao Xiangling said, "You will feel pain, loneliness, and despair. These are all normal emotions. What's more, what you encounter is not a trivial matter that can be laughed off. You don't have to put all The emotions are all hidden in the heart, and you don’t say it, and you dare not show it. Maybe no one has listened to you before, so you are used to it, but now I can listen. I can listen to whatever you say.”

Jiang Yu tried to digest the information in this sentence, and tried his best to ignore the obvious personal emotions mixed in this sentence.

It is to presume without fear, but it seems to be tolerant without principle.

He raised his head in a daze, trying to twitch the corners of his mouth a little, trying to hide the truth like he did countless perfunctory trips to Xia.

But the other party approached suddenly, and with one hand lightly pressed on the back of his shoulder, and moved forward a few inches, his chin landed on the other's shoulder just right.

His heartbeat stopped suddenly.

This half-hugging movement has obvious tentative meaning, but there is not much physical contact, and the initiative is completely handed over to Jiang Yu.

"I said before that if you don't trust me, I can teach you. Now that you don't know how to take care of yourself, I can teach you too." Xiao Xiangling said softly, breathing heat into his ears, and Jiang Yu felt that heat coming from here again. The position between square inches has risen vigorously.

"Cry out if you feel bad, pouring out your emotions is not a shameful thing."

"Whatever you want, I can teach you."

The room was very hot, and Xiao Xiangling's voice was very pleasant.

Jiang Yu suddenly felt very tired, even willing to surrender in this brief warmth.

Xiao Xiangling maintained the posture of embracing the opponent without moving, but after a long time, he suddenly felt a weight on his shoulders.

Jiang Yu completely relaxed and put the weight of his head on him.

After a while, he felt a bit of moisture on his shoulders seeping through the fabric, but it was as hot as hot oil.

The surrounding area was still silent.

He just hugged the person in his arms tighter.

This sleep was solid and steady, Jiang Yu opened his eyes again, it was already the next day.He just wanted to get up, but suddenly felt his waist sink.

Memories of last night flooded into his mind in an instant. He was leaning on Xiao Xiangling's shoulder, and seemed to fall asleep in a short while amidst extreme exhaustion.

He squeezed the space between his brows, turned his head slightly and looked behind him, only to see that the other party's hand was still on his waist, and they slept together on the same bed in such an intimate position.

Jiang Yu's complexion turned dark, and he wanted to get up calmly, but unexpectedly, the other party's clear and slightly hoarse voice came from behind, obviously he had been awake for a long time.

"woke up?"

"Wake up." Jiang Yu woke up completely, got out of bed and straightened his clothes with a dull expression.

Xiao Xiangling looked at his slightly flustered expression and the red marks on his cheeks from his sleeping position, and the thoughts that had been suppressed all night gradually surged up again.

"You fell asleep last night, and you hugged me tightly and didn't let go. I don't dare to disappoint His Highness's kindness." Xiao Xiangling said seriously, "Anyway, you have to wear a quilt when you sleep, and if you sleep next to me, I will cover you with the quilt Much more convenient."

Jiang Yu glared at him and told him to shut up.

Both of them tacitly shut up about Jiang Yu's brief fragility last night.

"I'll take care of His Highness's haircut." Xiao Xiangling got up, looked at Jiang Yu's slightly clumsy movements and smiled.

Jiang Yu sat down in front of the bronze mirror, and Xiao Xiangling's callused fingers ran down his hair, and the intimate and seductive conversation last night came into his mind inappropriately.

The sudden strange emotion frightened him, and he tried gradually, but he still didn't dare to get close.

He tried to use some other things to divert attention, but he didn't know what the relationship between the two was, and whether they could be trusted enough to talk about it.

"What do you want to say?" Xiao Xiangling noticed that he hesitated to speak.

"...Do you remember that a few months ago, the first emperor asked you to investigate the case of Ruo Yang's missing scroll, and then the scroll appeared on the royal case in his palace for no reason."

"Of course I remember." Xiao Xiangling replied, "I wanted to sneak into your palace at night to investigate, but you stopped me and we had a fight."

Jiang Yu hooked his fingertips unnaturally, and changed the topic back, "Then you should have thought a long time ago that the real file is with me, and the one that was deliberately placed on the imperial case was faked."

"Of course I have doubts." Xiao Xiangling confessed, "But ever since I found out that you are the Seventh Prince, I haven't pursued this matter any further." He paused, "I don't want to investigate you in secret."

"On the real letter paper, there are plum blossoms." Jiang Yu's voice was extremely soft, as if he breathed in the air and it would be scattered, "So apart from... I don't have enough evidence to be sure. The only abnormality is that the letter The plum blossom color of the letter is slightly darker."

Xiao Xiangling paused for a moment, then asked as if thinking of something, "Do you remember the difference between that letter paper?"

Jiang Yu was taken aback, "How to judge from the letter paper?"

"Generally speaking, the commonly used paper in northern Xinjiang is different from that in the central plains. The paper in northern Xinjiang is thicker, rougher, and does not absorb ink; but the rice paper in Beijing is softer, so you should not add too much water when mixing ink, otherwise it will easily faint. open."

Xiao Xiangling continued, "The letter paper in He Louqing yesterday was made in the capital. If you want to draw detailed plum blossoms, you can't make the ink bleed. There is very little water in the vermilion color, so the color is thicker. The color you just mentioned It's slightly deeper, maybe that's why."

Jiang Yu stood up suddenly, hastily and subconsciously grabbed the other's wrist, and said, "Go to He Louqing again, I have something to ask."

He Louqing guessed that Jiang Yu would come again, but he didn't expect it to be so fast, and he seemed a little eager.

Before a few people entered and sat down, Jiang Yu asked directly, "Senior He Lou, do you still remember what kind of letter paper my mother and concubine always use when communicating with you?"

"It's this kind." He Louqing randomly took a piece of paper from the table, "If Yang has been used to this kind of letter paper since he was a child, what's the matter?"

Jiang Yu took the letter paper, only to see that its color was darker and the material was thicker, as if it was not the soft rice paper commonly used in the imperial palace in the capital!

Those people forged the letter seamlessly, but they never thought of the difference in the letter paper between the two places. If Xiao Xiangling hadn't reminded him today, he would have no idea that the most convincing clue was actually on the letter paper.

"There is one more thing I want to ask Senior." Jiang Yu raised his eyes and looked directly into the other's eyes, "Do you know why my mother and concubine were harmed by others?"

"There are many reasons. It may be that the concubines in the palace are fighting for favor. After all, Ruoyang was very favored at the beginning, and he was almost a thorn in everyone's eyes..."

When he said these words, his eyes were steady and his tone was firm, and ordinary people could not see the flaws at all.But Jiang Yu felt that these words were so proficient that he seemed to have memorized them by heart.

But at this moment, he saw the guilt and panic flashing in the other party's eyes.

"The main reason is definitely not the case. If senior also wants to find out the truth, he must be honest with me." Jiang Yu stared at the change in the other party's eyes, "I came today mainly to ask senior, can I Do you know about ice tongue grass?"

At the moment when these three words were uttered, Jiang Yu saw a strange plant appearing in the bottom of He Lou's green eyes, but the specific appearance was very vague, and he could only roughly see that it was emerald green.

"Senior may not know what it looks like." Jiang Yu responded, "But why did this thing appear in the letter between my mother and concubine?"

He Louqing narrowed his eyes slightly, examined Jiang Yu for a long time, and then slowly guessed, "You have read the file of this case."

After a moment of stalemate, He Louqing finally let out a long sigh and admitted, "At the beginning of Ruoyang's case, we did guess that it was related to the ice tongue grass, but it was extremely difficult to verify. Ruoyang has always been cautious about this matter. To put it tactfully and implicitly, how would others know that Ruoyang got the ice tongue grass."

"You mean, the ice tongue grass was with her at the time?"

"From the letter, it probably means this, but she should have just found the two swords, but didn't take them out."

"One sword goes to Yin, one sword goes to Yang." Jiang Yu said, "What does she mean when she wrote in her letter 'My heart is so happy'?"

"It's about where the two swords are kept." He Louqing was a little surprised by what Jiang Yu knew, "One is in her own possession, and the other is in the person she likes."

Jiang Yu was taken aback for a moment, never expecting this sentence to have such a meaning.

Just thinking about it, a soldier suddenly came in outside the tent to report in a panic.

"Your Highness, General Xiao, something... happened in the barracks."

Inside the palace, Jiang Qi was sitting on a chair in the bedroom, with an extremely thin man standing beside him.The doors and windows were tightly closed, and only two candles were deliberately lit in the hall, which made it look even colder and colder.

If you look closely, it's not difficult to find that Jiang Qi has tightly surrounded himself with long clothes, his eyes are frantically looking around, trembling uncontrollably.

"Great...Master." He said tremblingly, "Did you hear that voice?"

"Your Highness, that's the wind." The voice of the "Master" on the side was still slightly sharp.

"No...look!" Jiang Qi's eyes widened suddenly, and he pointed at the light on the window, "What is that? It's a ghost."

"Your Highness, that is candlelight."

After a long delay, Jiang Qi calmed down slightly.

Ever since he became the emperor, he has been restless day and night, especially after several murders occurred in the palace, he is more prone to shocks, and he does not even dare to sleep alone at night, and the whole person becomes more and more insane.

It's normal to go to court during the day, but every night, he always yells that he can see messy things.

He asked the Taoist priest who had followed him for many years to give him a sedative medicine to take every day.But even though the murders stopped abruptly that night, his paranoid symptoms did not abate.

"Your Majesty, take the medicine first. You need to rest more." The Taoist handed him the medicine bowl on the side, watching him frown and drank it down.

I don't know if it was a psychological effect, but after drinking the decoction, Jiang Qi felt that his mind was much calmer, so he calmed down a little.

"Master, tell me." Jiang Qi turned his head, "Deliberately faked the illusion of the northern invaders' light soldiers, and asked Jiang Yu to bring a few times as many troops and horses to the expedition, but he is still alive and well."

"Do you still remember?" His voice was stiff, "at the palace banquet, the prime minister and he were both poisoned, but he didn't die; when the fire broke out in the empress's uterus, he rushed in to save people, but he still didn't die ; Now, in such a narrow valley, he is still unscathed after fighting with several times the enemy. Master, tell me, is there someone protecting him in the dark? What should we do now?"

"How to do it? Jiangyu must die." The Taoist seemed a little annoyed, "I watch the stars at night, if Jiangyu doesn't die, there will be future troubles in the future, and even threaten your throne. No matter what method you use, this person Never stay."

"Then what should we do." Jiang Qi leaned back in his chair a little slumped, "Now that he is in the northern border and armed with a military horse, it is even more difficult to deal with than before."

"What's so difficult about this." The Taoist whispered, "The first method is to make Jiang Yu and Xiao Xiangling turn against each other and sow discord; the second method is to force them to return to Beijing."

"How to force..." Jiang Qi looked at the other party's expression and suddenly understood, "Master meant to use Xia Zhixing..."

The other party nodded.

"Then tell him to come in." Jiang Qi leaned on the back of the chair, staring blankly at the dark place, and said softly.

The Taoist priest lit a few more candles, walked to the door, and slowly opened the door.

The cold wind directly penetrated from outside, and extinguished a few candles facing the door, and Jiang Qi saw the person standing at the door the whole time.

His face was already a little pale from the cold, but his whole body was stiff and motionless, and his eyes were a little confused and empty, as if he didn't know what he was doing.

Seeing the door opened, Xia Zhixing walked in slowly.

Looking at Xia Zhixing's expressionless face, Jiang Qi couldn't help feeling a bit chilly in his tailbone, and cast a tentative look at the Taoist priest beside him.

The latter walked up to Xia Zhixing very naturally, brushed his hair aside and looked behind his ears.

"Your Majesty, don't worry." He said, with a hint of fascination in his eyes, "This Gu worm likes him very much, he is alive inside."

Jiang Qi regained some strength because of his words, and tried hard to keep his voice from trembling, "Xia Zhixing, now let Jiang Yu return to the capital immediately, and don't lead troops. In addition, Gu Yuan has to keep a close eye on it. We can't let him exchange news with Jiangyu."

Hearing the word Jiangyu, Xia Zhixing's whole body froze, a trace of clarity flashed across his eyes, and he suddenly raised his head as if he wanted to ask something.

However, the next moment, the Taoist priest on the side applied the ointment in his hand behind his ear.

A strange feeling rose from the bottom of his heart, he seemed to no longer have his own mind, he had an instinct to obey the person in front of him, whenever he tried to get out of this state, he would feel a deep pain inside his skull.

"Your Majesty, the reason." The Taoist reminded from the side.

"Yes, the reason." Jiang Qi murmured, "When you go to court tomorrow, you will advise me on this matter. The reason is...Jiang Yu has been in and out of the camp of the Northern Bandits many times and made friends with the leader. After that, he took refuge in the suspicion of defecting from the Northern Bandits."

He turned his eyes to the Taoist priest again, "If he disobeys orders, he will be arrested for the crime of treason, regardless of life or death."

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