twilight endless

A green bird stands on a treetop branch and chirps, and restlessly pecks the leaves next to it, and pecks its own feathers for a while, which is quite clever and cute.

Xiyuan stood under the tree, looked up at the bird with a face full of novelty, and couldn't help reaching out to touch it, but the bird flapped its wings in panic to avoid, and flew to the eaves of the corridor.

"Oh! Run away!" Xi Yuan chased to the corridor, and jumped anxiously to Rui'er, "Rui'er catch it quickly!"

"Don't worry, I won't run away." Rui'er stood behind Xi Yuan and whistled softly. After hearing this, the bird tilted its head to look at Rui'er, then spread its beautiful wings and landed on Rui'er's shoulder.

"It's amazing!" Xi Yuan looked at Ruier's eyes sparkling, "How did you do it?"

"It's very simple." Rui'er put the bird on Xiyuan's shoulder gently with his hand, stroked the bird's head with his fingers, and said softly, "It's enough for the Lord to be good friends with it."

"Really?" Xi Yuan followed Rui'er's example and gently stroked Quiniao's small head with her fingers. Quiniao didn't avoid it, but squinted her eyes in enjoyment.

"Does Master Weng like it?" Rui'er asked.

"I like it!" Xi Yuan smiled happily, "I like it so much!"

"Then Lord, give it a name."

"Hmm..." Xiyuan looked at the bird's green feathers and bright eyes that were more transparent under the sunlight, and said, "Its feathers are so bright green, like crystals at the bottom of a clear lake, and its eyes are even brighter." Glittering, how about..." Xi Yuan thought for a while, and said happily, "Why don't you call me Xiao Che."

"Eh..." Rui'er was startled by the name. She had mixed feelings for a while, and didn't even know where to start her complaints. It took a long time before she asked dumbfoundedly, "Why not Xiao Lin?"

"Huh?" Xi Yuan obviously didn't think about this question, but was stunned by Rui'er's question.

Bainai walked over at some point, and hearing the name, couldn't help laughing out loud, and echoed, "The Lord Weng is a very good name." Seeing Rui'er's speechless expression, he smirked and persuaded, " Let's call it this."

"Okay!" Xi Yuan was recognized by Bainai, and also thought the name was very good, and happily called the bird "Xiao Che Xiao Che".

Rui'er looked at Xi Yuan's happy appearance, smiled wryly, and muttered in a low voice: "Forget it, as long as you are happy."

Bainai also watched Xiyuan playing with the bird, and saw Ruier's inadvertent doting look, chuckled lightly, and said, "I never thought that you would be so rebellious and unrestrained so easily. Time to compromise."

"Children, someone has to pamper and pet them."

"It's rare that you have such a good temper now."

"No way, time is a whetstone." Rui'er laughed at himself, "Now I can raise a bird to coax children."

"I don't know how to coax children, but you are really good at raising birds." Bai Nai couldn't help but wonder, hesitated for a while and asked, "Then why don't you raise a sparrowhawk, which is much smarter and more interesting than birds. "

"Sparrowhawk?" Rui'er smiled wryly, and said, "Forget it, it's too eye-catching."

Bainai seemed to understand Ruier's implication, nodded in agreement and said, "It's really eye-catching."

Rui'er looked at Bainai's expression, thinking that she was blaming Sparrowhawk for being used by someone with ulterior motives as evidence to frame King Yi's rebellion. Say, I didn't mean to blame you."

"Blame me?" Bainai asked puzzled, "What am I to blame?"

"The sparrow hawk from back then was evidence that the emperor believed His Highness was treasonous." Rui'er sensed Bainai's unkind expression, and hurriedly said, "I know you didn't give it to the emperor, I believe you."

"What are you talking about?" Bai Nai was even more puzzled, with annoyance mixed in his expression, "Isn't Sparrowhawk always in your hands?"

"No." Chang Rui'er was puzzled this time, "It should be in your hands."

Just as Bainai was about to refute, she saw Princess Shen's maidservant come to ask Xiyuan to attend the female virtue class, so she hurriedly shut her mouth.Rui'er suddenly thought of what Su Cheng said - "People always focus on the big and let go of the small when they are looking for the truth of a matter. They like to focus on the weirdest places, but they don't see the most ordinary ones. You might as well start from the subtleties." , look for those inconspicuous places, maybe you can get something.” ——In an instant, I discovered the most common but most important subtlety of the whole thing, and hurriedly said with Lingxi and Bainai, “Tonight, Yiwang’s Mansion See you." Then they chased Xi Yuan and left together.

Bai Nai also had many doubts in his heart, and nodded invisibly to Shang Rui'er's dignified eyes.

There is no wind or cloud tonight, the sky is clear and the moon hangs high, Ruier stands in front of the study of the master of Prince Yi's mansion, recalling the gentleman Qianqian who used to paint here, and the light girl with flying silver hair and elegant skirt in his painting , have been disillusioned and disappeared like the bright galaxy in the reincarnation lake.The moonlight suddenly dimmed slightly, and then a faint fragrance of flowers diffused itself.

"I'm here." Seeing that Rui'er didn't move, Bai Nai called out, "Rui'er?"

"I heard." Rui'er turned around and said straight to the point, "Shall we start?"

"Okay." Bainai had no objection.

Rui'er thought over all the details again, and said, "In March of the 15th year of Wuxing, His Highness ordered the Seven Killers to go to Fengchuan, arrived in Fengzhou in May, and wrote you the first letter."

"Yes, I have also written a reply."

"Yes, there have been correspondence almost every month since then."

"Yes." Bainai confirmed, "Until February 17 in Wuxing, it was a monthly letter without interruption. After that, it was not so frequent." There was undetectable resentment, "The contents of the letter are all ordinary greetings, without those cares."

"That's because His Highness was injured." An invisible flame suddenly ignited in Rui'er's heart. Seeing Bainai's surprised expression, he said coldly, "In February of the 17th year of Wuxing, the enemy barbarians attacked us, and we lost North Korea." Liang, more than half of the Seven Killers suffered casualties, and His Highness was also injured."

"Is it serious?" Bai Nai asked subconsciously.

Ke Rui'er didn't know why he didn't want to answer all of a sudden, he was overwhelmed by inexplicable emotions.But reason told me that in order to understand the whole incident without missing any details, I had to check it with Bainai without reservation.Rui'er stood there, suppressing the entanglement in his heart, holding back the unprovoked anger, and said calmly: "Your Highness was hit hard, but the letter you sent is like a good medicine, and it will save His Highness from the quagmire of self-blame." pulled out."

"and then?"

"Then His Highness ignited a fighting spirit that was even stronger than before. Although he lost one after another and suffered natural disasters, His Highness was no longer timid. won the battle of Fengchuan."

"Then according to what you said, the first contribution to Fengchuan's great victory should be attributed to King Yi."

"Yes." Rui'er recalled the cold and difficult western Sichuan pass, and all the emotions in his heart were distressed. "In October of the 17th year of Wuxing, His Highness led the Seven Killing Army to surround the enemy through the western Sichuan pass. Throughout the cold winter, His Highness In the last few days, in order not to expose his whereabouts, the entire army was strictly ordered not to light fire." Although more than ten years have passed, Rui'er still feels distressed when thinking of the injuries and hardships that Zhou Ji has endured. He took a breath, "That was the severe winter in the northern cold land. Can you imagine what His Highness has experienced? He is just an ordinary person."

Listening to Rui'er's memories, Bai Nai felt the northern cold wind blowing around him, and he couldn't help but hugged his arms tightly, and asked in a low voice, "Why didn't he tell me about these hardships?"

"So what?" Rui'er asked, "Will you feel bad?"

The heart that has been hardened for a long time, and the heart that has accumulated cold into a mirror suddenly has ripples, Bainai's voice is almost inaudible: "Yes."

"Because he would, His Highness didn't say anything." Rui'er suppressed the anger in his heart again, and said reluctantly, "Because His Highness loves you too."

The ripples turned into huge waves and rushed straight out of the water. Bai Nai sneered and said, "I can't be honest with you because I'm afraid I feel bad. What does he think I am?"

"He thinks you are the most precious treasure in his heart!" Rui'er could no longer restrain his anger, "Don't you really know? The reason why His Highness asked for an order to go to war is to gain military merits so that he can ask the emperor to reward you. He All the suffering in northern Xinjiang is for you."

"But he didn't want me." Bainai's resentment could no longer be restrained, "He married Mrs. Zhao."

"That's the emperor's will. Do you want His Highness to resist the decree? At that time, you were already a half-demon follower of King Shen. What do you want Your Highness to do?" Rui'er tightly grasped the saber at his waist, "Your Highness enters!" Didn’t Chuanxi Aiqian send you a letter telling you to wait for him?”

"I didn't wait for his letter!" Bai Nai said angrily, "What I waited for was the ceremony to reincarnate me."

"Impossible!" Rui'er didn't believe it, "Yangming Yushen knew about you and His Highness, how could he choose you?"

"I was chosen by the emperor." Bai Nai said with a sneer, "Ever since the emperor chose me to be King Shen's half-demon regular, King Yi's sparrow eagle has never been here again. Su Sheng told me that between me and Emperor Quan In between, he finally chose the imperial power."

"Why is Su Sheng still there?" Rui'er was completely confused, "Your Highness didn't know that King Shen's half-demon Chang chose you at will, and he couldn't send messages anymore because he entered the western Sichuan pass to prevent his whereabouts from being leaked, but he entered the pass. I wrote to you before, telling you to wait for him to return to court after a great victory."

"As I said, I didn't wait for his letter."

Bai Nai and Rui'er were silent together.

Clouds gathered at unknown time silently covered the high moon and starlight in the sky. A wild cat was spying in the darkness, but it was frightened by the murderous atmosphere in the abandoned garden and ran away in a hurry.

"He." Bai Nai seemed to be whispering, "I was afraid that I would be worried, so I didn't tell me anything, and I was afraid that I would be implicated, so I pretended not to know me. But he doesn't know, but I'm actually not afraid of anything."

"By chance." Rui'er also said softly, "After the Fengchuan Great Victory, His Highness's old injuries relapsed, and then he was ill for several months. I kept thinking that you were waiting for him in the Forest of God, and never cared about it." More than others, if I found out earlier..."

"So what?" Baina interrupted Rui'er, "In the end he will still commit himself to the imperial power." Baina chuckled lightly, "Now that I know this, I can't even hate him."

"You hated him?" Rui'er asked.

Baina looked at Rui'er, shook his head after a long time, and said, "I don't know either."

There was another silence, Rui'er rethought the matter in her heart, some clues gradually converged on one person, and Bainai also had someone in her heart that she wanted to ask.

"Let's go back." Rui'er opened the mouth first, "If there are other discoveries, I will ask you again."

"Yeah." Bainai nodded, "If I know other inside information, I will tell you."

"Thank you."

"Why do you still say thank you?" Bainai finally had warmth in his smile, "You and I are all for one person."