I am neither beautiful nor crazy

The path from northern Xinjiang to the capital is narrow, surrounded by endless forests and mountain snow.The two set off from northern Xinjiang on horseback at noon, and the horseshoes stretched along the narrow mountain road without stopping.

Now that it was past midnight, the cold moonlight was reflected on the snow, and the road ahead could be vaguely seen.

Traveling at night was not safe, so the two started a fire on the side of the road, planning to start again tomorrow morning.

Xiao Xiangling leaned back against the tree trunk, and Jiang Yu leaned against him, a black fur coat tightly wrapped his body, and a fire was burning in front of the two of them.

"Is it still cold?"

Xiao Xiangling wrapped his arms around the person tightly, but felt the extremely fine and chaotic tremors in Jiang Yu's waist.He suddenly moved his hand to the forehead of the other party, and as expected, he felt a cold sweat.

"What's the matter? What's wrong, tell me." Xiao Xiangling whispered in his ear, and took those cold fingertips into his hands.

Jiang Yu shook his head slowly, squeezed out a pale smile, and lied, "I didn't eat well this morning, and my stomach hurts."

During the day, the speculation about the meaning of Shen Chen's words seemed to be true.He found that the pain in his heart was intermittent from the moment he began to confirm his feelings. Usually, it might be just a numb and dull pain that can be almost ignored, but when the two of them have close physical contact, the pain becomes very obvious.

For example, now, the other party wraps himself up in a tight posture, and hits his ear with his warm breath.

"Persist a little longer, and you can go to the town to find a doctor tomorrow." Xiao Xiangling persuaded softly.He put his hand on the opponent's abdomen and squeezed his strength, "Or if you really can't bear it... just come and bite me."

Jiang Yu was suddenly moved by this suggestion.

He turned his head and bit the opponent's shoulder, but the instant needle-like pain made it almost difficult for him to clench his teeth, so that he almost just bit the thick clothing on the opponent's shoulder lightly.

"Why are you so polite now?" Xiao Xiangling still put his hands around his abdomen, and laughed in a low voice, "A few days ago, His Highness was much more enthusiastic than this."

Jiang Yu didn't have the strength to quarrel with him, she just turned her head to cover his lips, and before parting, she bit her lips relentlessly until the subtle smell of blood slowly permeated between her lips and tongue.

"I borrowed this kiss from you." Jiang Yu licked off the blood red on his lips, and said softly, "Remember to pay it back in the future."

"...Remember it." Xiao Xiangling stared at the tip of the other's tongue that was still on his lips for a moment, and took a light breath, "Your Highness also owes me something, remember to pay it back."

"What do you owe?" Jiang Yu asked in surprise.

Xiao Xiangling smiled, only hugged him tighter, and said in a very low voice, temptingly, "The square handkerchief that wiped the blood for His Highness is still in your hand."

"..."

"I don't want Fang Pa anymore, so I will give you back to me."

"Ningchen." Jiang Yu felt both angry and funny, and even the suffocation in his chest seemed to have eased a lot, "Is this king worth a square handkerchief?"

Xiao Xiangling lowered his eyes to look at him, his deep eyes were indulgent and helpless.

"No." He chuckled softly, "My Highness will never change a thousand pieces of gold."

The two whispered something, Jiang Yu was very tired, but couldn't fall asleep.

Xiao Xiangling touched his forehead again, and found that the cold sweat was much less than before, "Is it better?"

Jiang Yu nodded unconsciously, and then said, "If you're not sleepy, talk to me, everything is fine."

"Okay, try to sleep for a while." Xiao Xiangling tucked the corner of his clothes tightly, lowered his head and touched the cold eyelids lightly.

After a while, his voice sounded softly in the silent night.

"When I saw you for the first time, I saw the blood jade on your chest, and I thought of my old friend, but after all, I have seen too many similar people over the years, so I can't be sure. Hope, I want to have more contact with you, so I said in front of the emperor that I would be the seventh prince's companion."

"For a short time afterwards, I was even a little disappointed, because your personality was so different from his, which made me subconsciously unable to believe it, and even had the idea of ​​giving up."

He gently ran down Jiang Yu's long hair, and continued to whisper, "I've been thinking about why I like you these days. If it's because of my 'old friend', for you who can't remember the past Said, it is a bit too cruel. But then I found out that it is not..."

Jiang Yu's breathing gradually stabilized, and he had fallen asleep at some point.

"If it's just because of the emotions in my memory, then I will only care about you, but I won't have emotions that are so emotional that I can't control it. I want to kiss you, want...to want you. From the day I told you, you are my loyal highness." In the beginning, everything I said was just for 'you'."

"Jiangyu, you don't need to think about the past, I like you not only because of your past, but also because of your present."

Jiang Yu had a very strange dream.In the dream, he seemed to be floating in mid-air, looking down at all the things that happened from top to bottom.

He saw Ruoyang dressing up in her mansion, but after the maid left, she took out two swords from under the bed.

One of the swords was dark copper in color, with some traces of rust on it, and the other was light and short. Jiang Yu recognized at a glance that it was the dagger he was wearing with him!

She stared at the two swords for a long time, but did not move.On the other hand, Jiang Yu stared at her hands with her eyes wide open slightly, for fear of missing a tiny clue.

At this moment, a maid's voice suddenly came from outside the door, "Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager is here."

Ruoyang heard this sentence, hurriedly put the two swords back to their original places, got up and went out to meet them at the same time.

The two sat at the table and talked, and they seemed to get along very well.

At this moment, an assassin in black rushed in, drew his knife at an extremely fast speed and stabbed Ruoyang.The latter turned pale with fright, and even forgot how to move hastily.

Just when the knife was about to stab her, the queen at the side immediately pushed the table towards him, and she blocked the stabbed knife without any deviation, and was even so beautiful that the assassin's body was stabbed. The shape also blocked a lot backwards.

The reaction was uncharacteristically fast.

The soldiers outside the door rushed in when they heard the voice, and the assassin ran out quickly when he saw this, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

And under the overturned table case, there is a small roll of map stuck to it.

Jiang Yu ran out after the assassin almost at the moment he rushed out.However, the scene outside changed suddenly, the weather that was still clear and bright just now turned dark in an instant, and a crescent moon floated on the gap between the clouds.

The man in black stood with his back to him, holding a long sword in his hand. He turned around slowly and said to him, "Draw the sword."

These are the two words Shen Chen would say every time before teaching him swordsmanship.

A fire suddenly ignited in the distance, accompanied by the hustle and bustle of people, it was the direction of the prince's palace.

Jiang Yu didn't rush towards the fire scene, but turned around after just a glance, and said softly to the person in front of him, "Is that you, the assassin that day?"

Shen Chen looked at him with extremely complicated eyes, as if he didn't know what he was talking about, then he took out the small piece of spice from the front of his clothes and handed it to him, "I'm going to be away for a long time, if there is something urgent, I will use it Find me, you can only use it once."

Jiang Yu stepped forward in a strange way, and the moment he took the spice, he heard the other party's voice that he tried to suppress sounded in his head.

"wake up."

His hand that took the spice gave a jerk.

"Wake up."

The voice echoed in his mind over and over in a low voice, making Jiang Yu feel a little dazed for a moment.He felt a hand covering his mouth, but his body became heavier and heavier, as if gradually sinking from midair to the ground.

He woke up from the dream, his eyes suddenly opened wide, and he gasped for breath very slightly.

"Don't talk yet." Xiao Xiangling whispered in his ear, and at the same time removed the hand covering his mouth, motioning him to look at the side of the road.

I saw a carriage approaching in the distance, heading for the capital.The two people sat in front and waved their horsewhips, while behind them they were pulling the carriage carrying grain and grass. A large bundle of grain and grass was piled on it, leaving two deep ruts on the snow wherever they went.

The fire in front of the two had already been extinguished, and they leaned against the trees, covering their figures with the surrounding branches and weeds.

"This horse is almost exhausted, it's so fucking unreasonable!" said one of the drivers.

"It's fine if I get the money in the end." The other person yawned and said, "If it's not like this, how can I make that old-fashioned Xia Zhixing obedient."

"Keep your voice down, you will die if you are heard."

"There is no one in the middle of the night in this dark sky, ghosts don't bother to come out." Another person complained.

Jiang Yu frowned silently, turned around and gestured to Xiao Xiangling with his eyes.

"The things loaded are wrong." Xiao Xiangling said in a low voice, "Look at the ruts, if there were only grain and grass, the ruts would not be so deep."

Jiang Yu raised his eyebrows slightly, and winked in the direction of the carriages and horses.The original intention was to ask him to go up quietly together to have a look, but under such a close gaze, it was more like an invitation with unknown meaning.

"Okay." Xiao Xiangling lowered his eyes, and once again cast his eyes on the horse and horse that was about to pass in front of the two of them.

The moment the carriage passed by them, the two rushed out from the side of the road, and then lightly put their bodies on the narrow gap left behind the carriage.

The two people driving in front were still talking, taking advantage of a slightly ear-piercing bird song from the woods, Xiao Xiangling pierced the end of the long sword into the grain and grass, and then slammed downwards, a narrow gap appeared on the side on the wall.

Sure enough, what was loaded on the cart was not solid grain and grass, but hollow inside, and something else.

The two looked at each other, and Xiao Xiangling first leaned half of his body in. It was pitch black and he couldn't see clearly, but he didn't notice the danger, so he stretched out his hand to pull the Jiangyu that was still on the edge.

"It's not like I said, it's really scary to walk on this road in a black light."

"Talk more." The other person was obviously so cold that his teeth were shaking, "Hey, why did I feel that the car shook."

The two looked at each other, and quickly got off their horses to look.

And just before the two of them dismounted and walked behind the car, Jiang Yu managed to get into the grain and grass along the narrow gap, and quickly filled the gap with the surrounding grain and grass.

Xiao Xiangling got in before him, and the two leaned against each other in the narrow space, still panting slightly.

He held the epee tightly in his hand, and his whole body was tense, ready to draw the sword at any time.But the two people outside the car didn't seem to notice any abnormalities. They also thought that the horses and horses had stepped on stones.

It wasn't until the vehicle moved again that Jiang Yu breathed a sigh of relief. He raised his head in the dark, but suddenly opened his eyes wide after seeing the scene behind Xiao Xiangling.

"Xiao Xiangling." He said softly, "There is someone here."