[Tiansheng Long Song] Cinnabar

Ning Yao was depressed when he came back from the prison, and there was no movement after returning to the mansion, and he didn't even intervene in the affairs of the palace anymore.

She was waiting for Gu Nanyi to come back.

"Your Highness." Zhe Liu opened the curtain and walked into the hall. Seeing Ning Yao reading a book on the soft couch, she walked up to her and leaned over, "Feng Xun is back."

Ning Yao's eyes were deep and quiet, "Is she alone?"

"Yes, His Royal Highness the King of Chu is still in Minhai, but it is estimated that it will be over soon."

Ning Yao put down the book, picked up an orange on the table and lowered his head to play with it, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, without saying a word.

"it is good."

Zheliu's reaction to Ning Yao was a little strange, "Your Highness won't go into the palace to have a look?"

"It's not Bengong's turn to intervene in the grievances of the previous court. What's the use of me going?" Ning Yao stuffed a piece of orange into his mouth, "Didn't you not let Bengong intervene? Why are you more anxious than Bengong?"

Zhe Liu pouted, "His Royal Highness was anxious about this matter before, but now he let go of it. It's just strange for the servant."

Ning Yao glanced at the folded willow, and only looked at the red narcissus outside the window and sighed.

"Forget it, let's go into the palace and have a look."

When Ning Yao entered the palace, he could see from a distance the palace lights of Chengming Palace shining brightly at night, and the candles were brightly lit.She tightened her cloak, carried the willow and walked up the stone steps, only to see a small inner eunuch bowing her head to pay her respects.

"What's going on inside?" Ning Yao asked cautiously.

The inner eunuch looked at Ning Yao's expression, and said respectfully: "His Royal Highness the King of Chu has returned, and he brought Chang Zhongxin's Xiangshang head with him."

"What about others?" Ning Yao asked with concern.

"In the back hall." The eunuch replied, "Feng Xunyan and Qiu Mingying are also in the hall."

Ning Yao was taken aback, then turned around and flicked her sleeves to look at the back hall and ran. Her heart sank, and she lay on the door of the hall and listened, but she couldn't hear clearly at all.

"Your Highness, why don't we go back and wait for news?" Zhe Liu approached to speak.

Ning Yao's heart was flustered, her slender eyebrows were tightly frowned, she lowered her hands discouragedly, and hurried away with her skirt lifted.She walked along the palace road to the city gate, and when she was thinking about the affairs in the Chengming Palace, she looked up and saw a blue figure standing with her hands behind her back at the gate. She hadn't seen him for a long time, with a handsome face Covered with a layer of weather and haggard.

Suddenly, her heart became more chaotic, and she couldn't move it no matter how she stroked it. Ning Yao pinched Zhe Zheliu's wrist desperately, wishing to turn her head and walk away, so she had to hold all her emotions in her arms, armed Taking up the airs of a princess, she walked towards him.

Ning Yao stood in front of him, stunned, not knowing what to say, but it was Gu Nanyi who took the initiative to greet him first, "I have seen Your Highness."

Ning Yao lowered her head and tugged at her sleeves, not daring to look directly into his eyes, only then did she realize that she still cared about what Qiu Mingying said, it was impossible to turn a blind eye to the gap between them, but she couldn't control her feelings for Gu Nanyi , she didn't know how to face it.

"What a coincidence, did you accompany Brother Liu Wang back to the Imperial Capital?"

Gu Nanyi slightly raised his head and glanced at her face, only said: "Yes, I returned to Beijing with His Highness Helian."

Ning Yao nodded indifferently, "I think you all know what happened in the Imperial Capital as far away as Minhai." She looked at Gu Nanyi silently, and proudly nodded, "Don't you have anything to explain?"

"I..." Gu Nanyi lowered his head listlessly, and glanced at her with the corner of his eyes, "Your Highness..."

"You hide everything from me and make me worry about you for nothing. I don't blame you for all of this." Ning Yao was annoyed and helpless. Tears, "But you, should you tell me? What do you think of me? An enemy? Or an opponent?"

Gu Nanyi arched his hands and bowed to her, "It's hard to say, please forgive me, Your Highness..."

"Everyone knows about the Feng family and Dacheng's orphan, what do you have to hide from me?" She pointed in the direction of Chengming Hall, and said arrogantly, "If I was the one who was arrested and questioned in the hall today, would you Are you desperate for me?"

Gu Nanyi was stunned, the hand holding the long sword became tighter and tighter, the veins on his wrist popped up, he muttered a few times, and finally swallowed all the words.

The two faced each other and stood in a stalemate for a while, only to see an inner eunuch rushing over, bowed to Ning Yao and said back: "Your Highness, Qiu Mingying and Feng Hao are dead."

"You won't...you won't!" Ning Yao smiled frustratedly, and walked out of the city gate with a flick of his sleeves.Walked straight ahead, turned into the lane, and didn't look back.

Zhe Liu followed her step by step, "Your Highness, why are you angry with him?"

"It's not enough for me to reprimand him a few words? What's the reason?" Ning Yao supported Zheliu's arm and got into the carriage, "Go home."

After returning to the mansion, Ning Yao was turned over and rested, forgetting all the affairs in the palace.It was raining patter outside the window, and the rain gathered into streams and fell down the eaves, tick-tock, she lay on the bed tossing and turning, unable to sleep, turned over and sat up, lifted the curtain and called Zhe Liu.

"What orders does Your Highness have?" Zhe Liu asked earnestly.

"Mrs. Qiu and the younger brother of the Feng family have passed away. You can send some things to the Wei Mansion for me to express your affection." Ning Yao sighed and sighed with a sad face, and looked out the window at the gloomy sky, "Go."

Zhe Liu responded, and when he turned to leave, he bumped into a female envoy, and Zhe Liu scolded: "What's the matter with the frizz?"

The maid bowed her head to plead guilty, Ning Yao put on her cloak, walked out with her shoes on, and asked, "What happened?"

"Your Highness, Guard Gu is kneeling in front of the Princess Mansion!"

Ning Yao couldn't help being startled, but her face was cold, she gave Zhe Liu a wink and asked her to take a look.Ning Yao tightly cloaked, pretending to be calm, and snorted: "If he likes to kneel, he can kneel."

After a while, Zhe Liu put away his umbrella and came back to report, "I asked the servant, and he said that he has been kneeling for two hours, and he has been kneeling since His Highness returned home to rest."

She was not very happy in her heart, and was even more depressed, "It seems that Bengong made a mistake, his kneeling made his own guilty heart feel better, and Bengong has become an unsatisfactory resentful woman!" She said in a loud voice. Raised, Zhe Liu was really taken aback, Ning Yao shook off the cloak on his shoulders angrily, "He kneels as much as he likes, I can't go against his wish."

"Your Highness, calm down." Ning Yao poured a cup of tea for her and coaxed patiently, "It's not worth it to be angry."

"I don't want to drink." Ning Yao kept her hand away, muttering in his mouth, "What a Gu Nanyi, he knew that Bengong liked him, so he acted recklessly, thinking that Bengong would not dare to punish him!"

Zhe Liu caressed Ning Yao's back, and said: "It's just that the guard Gu is kneeling outside the mansion, the scene is really not good."

"He can kneel where he likes." Ning Yao refused to listen to anything, and waved his hands at Zhe Liu, "Go and do things, I'll rest for a while."

After finishing speaking, Ning Yao picked up the cloak and went back to rest on the bed. Suddenly, he heard the rustling of the leaves being blown by the wind and rain outside. The sound became more and more crisp.Ning Yao turned over and sat up, looking back at the rain-soaked window, she suddenly felt compassion, she leaned against the bed, hesitating for a moment, like a cat's paw scratching lightly.

She was annoyed at Gu Nanyi's concealment and avoidance of her, annoyed that she had paid so much but could not get Gu Nanyi's response, and even more annoyed at herself for not being able to live up to Gu Nanyi, annoyed at herself for not being able to control her thoughts.

In the end, Ning Yao's heart relented, and he raised the curtain irritably, got up, wrapped himself in a cloak, and went out, asking someone to bring an umbrella.

The female envoy was very anxious, she helped Ning Yao and said: "Your Highness, be careful, your feet are slipping."

Ning Yao shook his head compassionately, took the umbrella in her hand, opened it, and hurriedly ran to the gate of the house.The guard slowly opened the vermilion gate, and a thin figure knelt straight at the bottom of the steps, his azure clothes lined with the bluestone floor, looking haggard.The rain wetted his hair and clothes. A few strands of hair on his forehead were stuck to his face, and his clothes were tightly stuck to his body. He gritted his teeth and knelt, his body trembling uncontrollably.

She looked at Gu Nanyi from a distance, her chest was burning hot, no matter how hard she could suppress her impulsive emotions, she threw down her umbrella and rushed into the rain in two or three steps, and beat Gu Nanyi without saying a word, punch after punch , but did not dare to gather strength to land on him softly.

Gu Nanyi let her vent, straightened up after being beaten up and down, until Ning Yao could no longer toss and sit slumped in front of him, then he slowly said: "Have you vented enough, Your Highness?"

Ning Yao raised his eyes and gave him a hard look, then pushed him hard, and shouted at him: "Gu Nanyi, you bastard!"

Gu Nanyi fell down and sat in the rain, but he didn't resist at all, he said: "Your Highness, listen to my explanation!"

"You lied to me again and again, what do you think of me!" She cried out, pitifully, "It's my fault that I'm willing to be manipulated by you like this. I shouldn't have gone smoothly in the first place." Wei Wei's trick, let you enter the princess mansion!"

Ning Yao frowned, shook his head, and became more and more emotional, "Gu Nanyi, I like you, do you know how I lived when you were not in the capital? Min Hai is so dangerous, I'm afraid you won't come back to see me I, I'm so afraid that you won't come back!"

Her words were like fists, hammering Gu Nanyi's heart, and the dull pain spread from the bottom of his heart to his whole body. He frowned and looked at Ning Yao who was devastated. He no longer had the arrogance and self-control of an emperor, but now he is like a little girl Spoiled in front of her.Gu Nanyi's heart ached like it was being pulled, and he raised his hand to hug her into his arms. He only felt his eyes were wet, and he couldn't tell whether it was tears or rain.

"It's my fault, it's my fault..."

"It's your fault!"

Ning Yao's head rested on his chest, sobbing again and again, she raised her arms around Gu Nanyi's waist, and the two pressed closer.Gu Nanyi didn't dodge either, and quietly stroked Ning Yao's back, "I'll take you back, be careful if you get cold."

"You are sick, what should I do..."

Gu Nanyi sent Ning Yao back to his bedroom, and hurriedly asked someone to serve him with hot soup for a bath. He stood on the porch and waited, watching the rainwater dripping from the eaves. After a while, a female envoy led him to change his clothes.

Afterwards, Gu Nanyi stood on the porch waiting for Ning Yao's call, standing with his sword in his arms, motionless.When he saw a female envoy hurrying over with hot ginger soup, he raised his arm to stop her: "I'll deliver it."

He pushed the door open and entered, and Ning Yao's exquisite silhouette could be vaguely seen through the landscape embroidery screen. She changed into a hibiscus-colored butterfly skirt with folded branches, her long hair was tied up with a hairpin, and she was dressed in a simple boudoir.She walked out from behind the screen, told the maid to go to work first, then walked to the soft couch in front of the windowsill and sat down.

Gu Nanyi carried the ginger soup and walked to the side, put the bowl on the table, stood aside and said: "Your Highness, drink some ginger soup to warm your body."

Ning Yao picked up the hidden pouch on the couch and threw it at Gu Nanyi, "You elm head, I haven't calmed down yet, you don't know how to talk to coax me."

Gu Nanyi smiled and said nothing, pulled a stool and sat in front of her, looked at the bowl of ginger soup and said, "You finish it first, and I'll tell you later."

Reluctantly, she nuzzled her mouth, picked up the bowl and scooped up two mouthfuls to deal with him, she put down the bowl, twisted the handkerchief to wipe the corners of her mouth, "Go ahead."

Gu Nanyi smiled leisurely, put the long sword on the table, put his hands on his knees, and looked serious. "I didn't hide it intentionally. I only follow my teacher's order to protect Zhiwei. My master never mentioned the matter of the previous dynasty in front of me, and I don't have any evil intentions to restore Dacheng. Your Highness can rest assured."

"I've heard a lot about Qiu Mingying and Dacheng's involvement these days. I believe Feng Zhiwei doesn't know about it, and I believe you too." Ning Yao nodded slowly. She looked at Gu Nanyi in rapt attention, but Qiu Mingying lingered in her mind There was no way for her not to mind what she said, because these were real problems, and she couldn't avoid them.

Ning Yao lowered his head, smiled slightly, and said, "Then what will you do in the future, will you stay or go with Feng Zhiwei?"

"I can't bear to part with you." Gu Nanyi said without thinking, and slowly curled up his fingers on his knees, grabbing a wrinkle.

Ning Yao bent down to look at Gu Nanyi's face, and smiled: "Are you still Gu Nanyi, this is the first time you said that."

Gu Nanyi suddenly raised his head, met Ning Yao's scorching eyes, his dimples turned red, and turned his head to look away: "This is my truth..."

"But you'll still go."