Shuangjiao

"So, do you want to stay with me too?" Wen Xueqing was surprised.

She deliberately kept Lingrou cold for so long, yet Lingrou was still willing to show her understanding, compared to herself, she seemed heartless...

Wen Xueqing rarely blushed.

Lingrou stared at her for a moment, then suddenly reached out to hug her: "Thank you for remembering me, for being willing to stay."

Wen Xueqing stood still and let her embrace her. Even though she had secretly made up her mind to kill her, she couldn't help but feel her heart beat faster for Ling Rou's movements.

...Is it because of this that so many people like Ling Rou?

Carefully controlling her breathing, for fear of destroying the atmosphere with too much force, Wen Xueqing turned her head slightly, and the tip of her nose was filled with the faint fragrance of Lingrou's hair.

"What I have said, I will surely do."

Lingrou lowered her eyelashes and smiled faintly: "Yes, we are going back to Linzhou together."

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As soon as Liu Xiancong left, Luoyang panicked even more.Many aristocratic families fled overnight, and Luoyang City became more and more desolate day by day, and it no longer had the aura of the imperial city in the past.

Morale declined, and many cities opened their doors and surrendered automatically before the Huns arrived.

The emperor's condition was also aggravated by the precarious war situation.

"The great-grandson fled to the south, it is difficult to take on the big responsibility, and the heavy responsibility of the country is handed over to King Li." After learning that Liu Xiancong and King Zhao left Luoyang ahead of schedule, the emperor braced himself and put his hopeful eyes on King Li, whom he had never paid attention to before. body.

He knew very well that his days were numbered, and even if he could hold on, if the Huns broke through Luoyang, he would not be able to survive, so he might as well just let go.

On the same day, the emperor announced his abdication.

King Li hurriedly took over the edict and took office immediately.

The first thing to do is to send people to strengthen the city wall and strengthen guards and patrols.

However, it was still too late, and the Huns' army arrived at the city of Luoyang sooner than expected.

The city of Luoyang was in chaos, and the Hun soldiers were just outside the city, and the people who had no time to escape ran around crying and shouting.

The gates of the city had already been locked and closed, the Huns outside could not enter, and the people inside could not get out.

All the courtiers who stayed in Luoyang gathered in the palace.

Wen Wulang had already arranged everything before entering the palace.

"Zhenzhen, I have already prepared the boat, and those who follow you are also loyal. Before the city is about to break, those high gates will definitely find a way to open a small gate and escape. Then you and the young lady of the Ling family will go out with you."

The high-ranking gentry are more afraid of death than ordinary people, and they are more worthy of nostalgia than poor people who have nothing to lose.

So they value their lives more.

"how about you?"

Wen Xueqing stared at him, afraid that he would say no.

"I'll go with you." Wen Wulang stroked Wen Xueqing's hair, "Zhenzhen, let's make an agreement this time, regardless of whether you can wait for me in the end, when the time is up, you go, don't wait for me—— promise me!"

Wen Xueqing blinked, and her eye sockets turned red instantly.

"Don't cry," Wen Wulang smiled, "I seem to see you cry a lot these days, it's not like the Zhenzhen I know."

"I didn't cry." Wen Xueqing opened her eyes wide, trying not to let tears fall down.

Wen Wulang said: "This is a bet on life. I have already allowed you to take a risk. This time, I will not let you do anything wrong again."

Wen Xueqing lowered her head, a small black dot flashed in front of her eyes.

Blinking again, a small puddle was already filled under his feet.

—This is really not like her.

Wen Xueqing breathed in softly, raised her sleeves and wiped her tears slightly.

It's just that before she could move, it was dark in front of her eyes.

The eyes were suddenly covered by soft fabric.

Just as Wen Xueqing was about to raise her head, she was gently pressed down by someone's hand.

She heard Ling Rou's voice: "Mr. Lang should know Zhen Zhen's character, we won't leave until we wait for you."

Wen Wulang's eyes swept over Ling Rou's hand covering Wen Xueqing indiscriminately: "So, when the time comes, I will trouble the little lady."

Lingrou didn't answer, and looked at Wen Wulang calmly.

Both sides see it clearly in each other's eyes.

"Hello!" Wen Xueqing choked up, her voice was muffled, "I'm still here, so you just say this in front of me!"

Lingrou held Wen Xueqing's hand comfortingly, patted it, and then slowly saluted Wen Wulang: "Young gentleman is loyal and righteous, worthy of admiration, not only for Zhenzhen, I will also wait for him."

Wen Wulang was stunned for a moment, and then his face darkened: "It's useless for you to please me now, I don't care about Zhenzhen's matter." He didn't even know if he could survive, how could he easily deal with Wen Xueqing's matter? Open your mouth to assert?

Being aware of her intentions, Lingrou remained calm and composed: "Be prepared, it's always right to be prepared first."

The line of sight was blocked, although her ears could still hear, Wen Xueqing still didn't understand what the two of them were playing riddles: "What are you talking behind my back?"

Looking at Wen Xueqing's ignorant appearance, Wen Wulang gritted his teeth: "Isn't this all in front of you? Why are you behind your back, Wen Zhenzhen, the more you live, the more stupid you are!"

"Huh?" Wen Xueqing couldn't believe it, the fifth brother still talked about her at this time.

Ling Rou suppressed her smile, and tightened her hand with Wen Xueqing.

Fingers clasped.

Wen Xueqing packed up and rushed to meet Ling Rou at the agreed place as promised.

But no Ling Rou came.

At this time, the Huns had already begun to attack the city, the ladder was elevated, and the catapults swung boulders one after another and smashed them against the solid city wall.

There were screams and cries one after another, and fear spread everywhere, and some even died of fright on the spot.

Wen Xueqing led her servants and looked at this scene, suddenly feeling fearful.She once again realized that she was so close to death. Unlike the night of the lunar eclipse last year, this time the point of the knife was pointed at the neck brightly.

Waiting patiently, Wen Xueqing watched the people coming and going running around in a panic, running towards the direction she thought was going to happen. In the chaos, there were countless tramples and falls.

There are even those who take advantage of the chaos, and if they touch it, they will find a heavy purse.

When the owner found out, the panic that had no place to vent immediately found an outlet. He greeted the people around him, and a family of relatives and friends rushed forward. After a while, the thief was bleeding from all seven orifices, only the breath was coming out but not coming in.

Wen Xueqing was startled.

Although there are not many people involved, in fact, everyone around is involved, fists have no eyes, and innocent passers-by will be accidentally injured.

She waited for a long time but did not wait for Ling Rou.

... Did something happen to Lingrou?Was it delayed by being drawn into a fray like this?

Before she had time to think about it, she ran to Ling's mansion.

The Ling Mansion was close to civilian residences, and when the Xiongnu army was approaching the city, some civilians tried to smash the doors and rush in, either to take refuge or to take advantage of the chaos to amass wealth.

After finally finding a servant who stayed behind in Ling's mansion, and asking that Ling Rou had already left, Wen Xueqing looked at the crazy people and became more worried.

The Ling family's servants left in Luoyang seem unreliable, and Ling Rou is not very strong...

My heart throbbed in my chest, and I felt like I couldn't breathe.

She squatted down unbearably.

Wen Xueqing is not a person who is afraid of pain, but she never felt such pain.

Growing up, it was the first time for her to face a life-and-death crisis, but when she thought that Ling Rou was more dangerous than her, she couldn't even care about herself.

Wen Xueqing couldn't imagine what it would be like if she returned to Linzhou alone.

She will probably regret it for the rest of her life.

"Little lady? The time is coming soon, should we go to the ferry?" The servants around her nervously surrounded her, fearing that she would be trampled on.

"I'm fine," Wen Xueqing gasped, "We, we..."

Wen Xueqing was in so much pain that she couldn't say a word.

What she cared about, what she worried about, from now on, was only one person.

"The door is open!"

Suddenly someone in the crowd shouted.

The little door is open!

Wen Xueqing's face was pale.

This small door can not only allow the people inside to go out, but also become a breakthrough for the Xiongnu army, leaving less time for her!

"Go to Prince Li's Mansion! No, the imperial palace!"

Wen Xueqing grabbed the hands of the servants and made them turn around.

Ling Rou once said that they were the same kind of people, so she would care about relatives as much as she did.

——Princess Li, or rather, the current queen.

"Lingrou, Lingrou..."

Wen Xueqing's lips trembled, her teeth chattered, and she wished she could grow a pair of long legs and cross the vast crowd to find Ling Rou.

The inside of the palace was also in chaos, the guards were absent-minded, and some even ran away.

Wen Xueqing entered the palace without too much effort, and went straight to the queen's palace.

"Little lady, are we going to find Mr. Lang?"

the servant girl asked.

For convenience, Wen Xueqing only brought one person into the palace, and the rest met outside.

"You go to find Mr. Lang, and I will go to the harem." Wen Xueqing ordered, "We will meet at the gate of the palace."

"Where is the little lady going?" The servant girl was worried.

"I'm going to find Qiniang of the Ling family." Wen Xueqing took a breath and rested, "Don't worry, she is the queen's own sister, and I will be fine. Find someone as soon as possible."

The servant girl hesitated to speak.

As early as a few days ago, Wen Wulang asked them to put Wen Xueqing's safety in the first place.

"Go!"

Seeing the hesitation in the servant girl's eyes, Wen Xueqing yelled: "What time is it?"

The servant girl had no choice but to turn around to find Wen Wulang.

Wen Xueqing stepped into the queen's palace alone, there was no palace guard on duty, and many valuable items were removed by the brave palace guards.

Compared with the past, the loneliness is much empty.

"Miss Wen?" A palace official saw Wen Xueqing, "Why are you here?" It's such a time, and this little lady even came into the palace?

This is the ultimate goal of the Huns.

"Where's Ling Qiniang?" Wen Xueqing didn't talk nonsense.

"It's... inside." The palace man replied, she was also in a hurry to escape, and left in a hurry after speaking.

Ling Rou was indeed with Queen Ling.She was persuading her elder sister to leave with her and return to Linzhou.

The Xiongnu went straight to Luoyang all the way, but Linzhou was still safe.

"I won't go," Linghou directly refused, "Where Your Majesty is, I will be there."

Ling Rou stubbornly asked her to go with her, and even moved out her mother who was at home.

Ling Hou paused, just about to say something when she saw Wen Xueqing barging in.

"Miss Wen?" Linghou was very surprised, what is Wen Xueqing going to the palace at this time?

"Are you looking for Wen Langjun? He is in the previous court." Ling Hou reminded Wen Xueqing that she had gone to the wrong place.

"I'm looking for Qiniang." Wen Xueqing looked at Ling Rou.

Ling Rou nodded: "Sister, come with us, we'll go back with Mrs. Wen's young lady, and everything will be fine."

Surprised, Ling Rou immediately stood up, took Liu Qiong over, and grabbed Wen Xueqing's hand suddenly: "Miss Wen, I want to ask you one thing."

After one country, this is too humble.

Wen Xueqing hurriedly pulled away: "Your Highness, please speak, you are welcome."

"I want to beg you, take my son to Linzhou, as long as you go to Linzhou!" Linghou looked forward to it, "The Ling family will take care of him in the future, don't bother you, I... I..."

She thought about it for a while, and found that she couldn't promise anything at all.

And Wen Xueqing brought Liu Qiong, but it would cause more risks in vain.

"I promise you, Your Highness doesn't have to do this." Wen Xueqing agreed immediately without any hesitation.

After agreeing, she remembered to ask her companion Ling Rou's wishes.

Lingrou didn't say it before, was it because she was afraid of bothering her?

"Thank you, little lady." Empress Ling thanked solemnly.

Ling Hou resolutely stayed, presumably because of Liu Qiong, Ling Rou turned away, feeling a sense of powerlessness.

"My son," Ling Hou hugged Liu Qiong with tears in his eyes, "follow your aunt well, she will take you to a safe place, you have to be obedient..."

Before she could finish speaking, she had choked up sobbing hoarsely.

Liu Qiong hugged her, crying and persuading her to go together.

"Let's go," entrusting a few trusted guards to escort them, Ling Hou stood at the gate of the palace, watching them leave, "We must return to Linzhou!"

The three looked back at her one last time.In the dim twilight, the gorgeous phoenix robe on Ling Hou's body was also grayed out, the palace gate behind her was wide open, and the inside was deep and dark, like a big mouth trying to swallow her.

After walking a few steps, they encountered several inner eunuchs.The Golden Falcon Crowns are all Zhongchang attendants who hold power.They recognized Liu Qiong at a glance.

"Where are you going, my lord?"

Liu Qiong stared at them nervously, pursed his lips and said nothing.

The inner eunuch looked at the attire of several people and suspected that they were going out of the palace to escape.

Although many palace people would escape, these few people don't want to, firstly they have done too many evil things, no matter where they are, it is difficult to accommodate them; secondly, whether they can escape safely or not is another matter!

It's better to stay in the palace and enjoy the last prosperity. If the Huns really come in, they will directly take the emperor's family out and continue to change their glory and wealth; if the Huns fail to capture Luoyang, that's even better. They will share the troubles with the emperor The courtiers who have passed, do you still worry about the benefits in the future?

Several eunuchs surrounded them, blocked their way, and questioned them where they were going.

"Can you control where you go?" Ling Rou scolded them to get out of the way with a cold face.

"Miss Ling, that's a mistake." The Zhongchang servant in the lead smiled, "Which of the big and small things in this palace don't go through my hands?"

They refused to say where they were going, and now the eunuchs were even more sure that they were going to run away.

"Your Highness, please be calm and don't be impatient, stay in the palace and don't go out, the Huns outside—" They smiled, the skin at the corners of their eyes was folded into complicated crow's feet, coupled with the white hair on the temples and the soft voice, it suddenly made people feel cold , "But they kill without blinking an eye."

The guards sent by Queen Ling have been oppressed for a long time, and they are afraid of attracting more people, so they dare not do anything casually.

The inner eunuchs became more and more daring, and directly pulled Liu Qiong, trying to take him away by force.

"Chong-"

A white light flashed in the gray sky.

"Dare you dare!"

Wen Xueqing suddenly pulled out the saber of the guard beside her, pointing the tip at the head Zhongchang Attendant.