twilight endless

Inside Shen Wang's mansion.

Rui'er knelt in the middle of the yard, enduring the whipping again and again.

Xi Yuan hid in the maid's arms, distressed but did not dare to look, peeking at more and more bloodstains on Rui'er's back, Xi Yuan finally couldn't help it, broke away from the maid, threw herself at Zhou Chu's feet, cried and said: "I beg my father to let Rui'er go, it's all Feng Chuan's fault!"

"It doesn't matter, Weng Lord's matter." Rui'er gritted his teeth and said, "It was Rui'er, Chong, who bumped into King Xun."

"No!" Xiyuan tugged on Zhou Chuan's clothes, and said while crying, "Feng Chuan was ignorant and offended Uncle. Rui'er was afraid that Uncle would punish Feng Chuan, so he offended Uncle."

"My lord..."

"Okay!" Zhou Yu motioned to stop, stretched out his hand to hold Xiyuan, and said softly but still dignifiedly, "The state has state laws, and the family has family rules. No matter what the cause of the matter, if you do something wrong, you will be punished. This is the rule. Since Rui'er was punished because of you, if you feel sorry for him, don't make mistakes next time, understand?"

"What the father taught me is that Fengchuan knows."

"Ruier." Zhou Yu ordered Ruier again, "Tomorrow you go to the mansion of King Xun to plead guilty. If King Xun forgives you for the sake of punishing you, you have to thank King Xun for his generosity. If you don't forgive you, This king can't do it either, do you understand?"

"Understood." Rui'er leaned on the ground, "Rui'er thanked King Shen for his sympathy."

"Today's matter should be taken as a warning." Zhou Yu said to the people on the left and right, "No matter who dares to break the rules of my Shen Wangfu, you must not be lightly forgiven."

A stack of promises sounded from all over the courtyard.Zhou Yu looked around and walked away with his hands behind his back, and everyone scattered.

Liu Ya, the maidservant who was also an old servant of Prince Yi's Mansion, ran over to help Rui'er up, and asked worriedly: "Can you still bear it?"

"Nothing, it will be fine in three days." Rui'er picked up her coat and put it on her body, walking towards Xi Yuan who was still standing there crying.

"Rui'er." Xi Yuan looked up at Rui'er and cried, "It's all my fault, it's all my uselessness!"

"Don't blame the Lord Weng." Rui'er stretched out her hand to appease Xi Yuan, but stopped when she was about to touch the top of Xi Yuan's head, looking at Xi Yuan's childish face, Rui'er withdrew her hand, half-kneeling on the ground, Coaxed softly, "The Master did nothing wrong today, although Rui'er doesn't know why King Xun is angry, but Rui'er can be sure that it has nothing to do with the Lord."

"Really?" Xi Yuan wiped the tears from her face and asked, "Then why did uncle say that my father was imprisoned unjustly? Ruier, didn't you say that my father died of illness?"

"King Xun was also a child at that time, he remembered wrongly." Rui'er still smiled and said, "Ke Ruier will not remember wrongly, does the Lord not believe in Rui'er?"

"I believe, I only believe in Rui'er." Xi Yuan reached out to touch Rui'er's face, hesitated, and whispered, "Tomorrow I will accompany you to plead guilty to uncle."

Never thought that Xi Yuan would say such a thing, Rui Er wondered: "Isn't Lord Weng afraid of King Xun?"

"Scared!" Xi Yuan still touched Rui'er's face, and after a while, buried her face on Rui'er's shoulder, and said in a softer voice, "But I'm even more afraid that my uncle will make things difficult for Rui'er. If Rui'er is punished, I will will be sad."

Rui'er suddenly felt that the whip wound on his back no longer hurt.

After tossing for a day, being frightened and crying a few times, Xi Yuan fell asleep early.Rui'er waited for her to fall asleep, and told Liu Ya to take care of her, before tiptoeing out.

All the way to Zhou Yu's study, Rui'er bowed and saluted: "I don't know why King Shen called Rui'er?"

"What happened in Prince Xun's mansion today that made you so impulsive." Zhou Yu looked at Rui'er coldly, and added in a quiet but strong tone, "This king wants you to be thorough, say truth."

"Yes." With the spirit of speech, Rui'er repeated Zhou's words verbatim.

"Recognize the enemy as your father?" Zhou Chu sneered, and asked, "Does he think the elder brother's case is related to this king?" Seeing that Rui'er didn't answer, Zhou Chu asked again, "You think so too?"

"Rui'er doesn't know." Rui'er is telling the truth, although he has doubts but no evidence, and guesses are not known.

"It's ridiculous. If this king had the ability to turn his hands into clouds and his hands into rain at that time." Zhou Yu's tone was somewhat helpless, "Would you still care about the existence of your elder brother?"

This is the truth, Rui Er thinks it makes sense after thinking about it, and nods.

"This king really wants to know who the one calling the wind and rain is." Zhou Chu chuckled and asked Rui'er, "Could it be Liang Situ?"

Liang Situ was Zhou Chu's grandfather, if he did this, a fool would know it was for Zhou Chu's sake, but now that Zhou Chu had such a thorny suspicion, Rui'er was so shocked that Rui'er had nothing to say.

"What's wrong?" Zhou Chu noticed the change in Rui'er's expression, "Scared you?"

"Yeah." Rui'er said truthfully, "It's really unexpected."

"I don't blame you for being surprised. It's not just you. The whole court thinks that the king and the Liang party are bound together." Zhou Yu said with a wry smile, "But the Liang party is not the only prince who is only the king, the eighth brother has always been more obedient than the king. much closer, and closer to my mother."

It turned out that there was such competition within the same party, Rui'er didn't know how to answer the conversation, so he could only lower his head and listen carefully.

"Forget it, let them go." Zhou Yu waved his hand indifferently, and then told Rui'er, "The case of King Yi's conspiracy, this king also thinks it's very strange, you can secretly investigate for this king, don't worry , but don’t startle the snake, understand?”

"Rui'er understands." For the first time, Zhou Chu's order collided with Rui'er's wish, and Rui'er agreed solemnly.

"You go, don't forget to go to Prince Xun's mansion tomorrow to plead guilty."

"Yes." Rui'er agreed and left the study.

Early the next morning, Rui'er comforted Xi Yuan, and went to Prince Xun's mansion alone. As expected, Zhou Ji didn't see him at all, but Twilight happily pulled him into the house.

"I'm here to plead guilty to King Xun." Rui'er said helplessly, "It's beating or punishment. If he doesn't give a letter, I can't explain it when I go back."

"What's the crime?" Twilight said with a smile, "Your Highness won't blame you."

"Can you count on what you say?" Rui'er asked suspiciously.

"Don't worry, it's fine." Twilight approached Rui'er, and said Zhou Yu's self-blame after Xi Yuan left yesterday.

After hearing this, Rui'er sighed for a while, and then said after a while: "Actually, King Xun doesn't have to be like this. He was still a child at that time, so what can he do?"

The birds were chirping outside the window, and the warm autumn sun leaked in through the window lattice, shining on Twilight. Twilight was peeling nuts with a concentrated expression. After peeling one, she gave it to Rui'er, and then peeled another and put it in her mouth.

Rui'er saw that he could never forget how good-for-nothing he was eating, and couldn't help but recall the day and night in the Forest of God, and her heart softened a little.

"Hello." Rui'er asked, "How does King Xun treat you?"

"It's pretty good." Twilight didn't stop her hands as she spoke, she peeled off another one, and put it into the small dish in front of her.

"And..." Rui'er hesitated, but still asked, "Same as when I was a child?"

"Yeah." Twilight handed Rui'er a nut kernel, took another nut, and said while peeling, "It's still a little different."

"What's the difference?" Rui'er didn't eat, and put the nuts into the small dish in front of Twilight.

"I'm not as talkative and laughing as I was when I was a child." Twilight's words didn't affect the speed in her hands, she still gave one to Rui'er, put one in her own mouth, and put another in a small dish, "I always feel that there are many things in my heart." .”

"When a person grows up, he will have worries." Rui'er still put the nuts given to him by Dusk into a small dish, "It's not like you, you don't grow up when you are old."

"Why haven't I grown up?" Twilight asked back, handed Rui'er a nut, shook her head proudly and said, "I'm older than you now."

"Yo, that's amazing." Rui'er echoed perfunctorily, still putting the nuts that Twilight gave him into the small dish.

"What about you?" Twilight asked, "How does King Shen treat you?"

"It's okay, I always follow Lord Weng, and Bainai is his first-class regular follower."

"How does King Shen treat Bainai?"

"do not know."

"I don't know?" Twilight was a little surprised, and after thinking for a while, he asked, "What kind of person is King Shen?"

One sentence stopped Rui'er, and after a while, Rui'er shook his head and said, "I don't know."

"Why don't you know?" Twilight reached out and touched Rui'er's forehead, and asked worriedly, "Aren't you stupid?"

"Tch! Take it away!" Rui'er waved away Twilight's hand, pushed the small plate with nuts towards Twilight's eyes, stood up and said, "I'm leaving, go and send it to your Highness!"

"Huh? Why are there so many?" Twilight wondered at the nuts on the plate, then chased out of the room, and shouted behind Ruier, "Come and play with me when you're free!"

"I can't be free!" Rui'er shouted angrily, "I'm very busy!"

"Why are you angry?" Twilight wondered, "Did I say the wrong thing again?" Turning around, he found Zhou Yu was standing at the end of the corridor looking at him.

"Your Highness." Twilight happily ran over with a small plate, and held it up to Zhou Yu as if offering a treasure, "Eat."

Zhou Yu didn't move, his arms were still crossed, and he asked coldly, "What are you doing hiding in the house with him?"

"It's nothing, just chatting." Twilight realized something was wrong after finishing speaking, coughed lightly, raised the nuts in his hand, and changed his words, "Peel the nuts for Your Highness."

"Have you eaten?" Zhou Ji asked with a cold face.

"Eat." Twilight replied honestly.

"Has he eaten?"

"have eaten."

"You peeled all of them?"

"Yes."

Zhou Ji didn't speak any more, just stood there with his arms folded and stared at Twilight, who was so stared at Twilight, made a face of embarrassment, and asked aggrievedly: "Your Highness... Did Twilight do something wrong again?"

"Ah."

"Ah..." Twilight panicked, "What did Twilight do wrong?"

"Too idle."

"Then..." Mu Hui guessed Zhou Yu's expression, and said cautiously, "Your Highness, arrange some tasks for Mu Hui."

"Okay." Zhou Ji picked up a nut from the plate and stuffed it into Twilight's mouth, saying without any emotion, "Crush the remaining nuts and feed them to the birds."

"Uh... yes."