The dripping sound.
Zheng Bao was on duty tonight, and he always felt uneasy, and he quietly withdrew after the ministers and the emperor closed their doors to discuss matters.
Back in the side hall, a young **** shook his head at him in the corner of the door.
Zheng Bao's heart suddenly turned cold.
On the palace road that must pass through the Shunzhen Gate, there are many guards stacked under the palace wall, and it is dark and dark.
Xiao Shu was a little impatient for waiting.
Zhang Kai has been caught in the net for so long, but no prey comes to cast him, even the most patient hunter will probably make a few murmurs.
She was about to find someone to visit again, to ask clearly, but she saw the clever **** sent out earlier running towards this side quickly.
Xiao Shu immediately asked, "Where are people?"
The **** was panting from running, out of breath and said: "Here, but, it seems that something is wrong..."
Xiao Shu frowned, and wanted to ask what was wrong, but there was a sudden whisper among the originally quiet guards in front.
She turned her gaze away.
This time, without the eunuch's explanation, she had already seen clearly——
Who is Jiang Xuening who walked over from the direction of the imperial garden, if not she who had set up a net and waited to vote?
It's just very different from usual.
Completely without the agility and cunning that people are familiar with, even though a person walks over, he is like a log, his hands and feet are wooden, his heart and soul are wooden, and even the expression on that delicate face is also wooden. A pair of soft and white hands held tightly a handful of dirty soil, and gradually approached as if no one could see or care about it, as if someone had taken away their body and soul, leaving only this walking body!
At this moment, seeing her terrifying appearance, even Xiao Shu couldn't help being startled for a moment, shocked, and then her brows were tightened fiercely.
She looked behind her.
No one else.
She just felt that things didn't seem to be developing in the direction she expected, so she gave the **** next to her a wink, and asked someone to stop Jiang Xuening, and then told the nearest guard: "Go and see at the Shunzhen Gate."
The **** went over to stop him.
Jiang Xuening's footsteps stopped.
She didn't know how she came out of the imperial garden, and she was in a daze. She raised her head and saw the eunuch, only to see the **** opened his mouth, and a voice came into her ears, but she couldn't tell what the **** said.
Until Xiao Shu walked into her field of vision.
In fact, at this time, Xiao Shu already had a vague premonition that the thing she was most looking forward to tonight would not happen, but the more so, the more she hated the overly beautiful face in front of her.
She asked straightforwardly: "Is it you who secretly pushed the marriage proposal and asked me to replace Shen Zhiyi?"
Jiang Xuening replied more directly: "The one who framed me with bad words in the case of Yu Ruyi, was it you?"
Xiao Shu said: "If you say yes, then it is."
Jiang Xuening also said: "You say yes, so it is."
The two stood facing each other, with their eyes facing each other, neither of them would give in to each other.
It's just that Xiao Shu is vicious and Jiang Xuening is cold and silent.
One has regarded the other party as his enemy in this life, while the other has suddenly detached from it and doesn't care much about it.
Xiao Shu easily noticed her contempt for her, her pupils narrowed slightly, and said: "Everyone has their own destiny to go, you are not as good as me in birth, not as good at planning as I am, I didn't know that you also have the courage to look down on me. "
Jiang Xuening just found it ridiculous.
Even in her last life, she didn't think Xiao Shu was so ridiculous: "In the past, I also thought that with such a good background and high ability, you are no worse than Her Royal Highness. But today, her words and deeds, she It’s the bright moon in the sky, but with three parts of the clear light falling on my body, I feel happy; you are nothing more than dust on the ground, and if you step on it, I feel that the soles of my shoes are dirty.”
Xiao Shu lowered her face and said nothing.
The rustling wind whimpered faintly.
Jiang Xuening held the soil, as if she was holding something she loves, and only looked at her and said slowly: "I didn't intend to harm you, but you framed me first because of fear. Xiao Shu, I was like you a long time ago , to achieve the goal by any means. But if you persist in your obsession, the retribution will come eventually, just wait for it sooner or later."
Xiao Shu sneered, not believing it at all.
However, Jiang Xuening knew that this was her last respect for this old enemy in her previous life, and that was all she said, and she stopped talking, whether she believed it or not, and was about to leave.
"stop!"
Xiao Shu's eyes flickered, and she stopped her directly by saying something.
"In the deep palace, you look neither human nor ghost. Even though you are my former classmate, at this critical time, I don't know what you have done, so I have to be cautious. Come here , please ask the Second Miss Jiang to sit down for a while, and ask her to understand before sending her out of the palace!"
The left and right guards approached immediately.
After listening to her words, Jiang Xuening understood: no matter whether she really brought the princess out of the palace today, the other party has an excuse to stop her, even if no evidence can be found, keeping her overnight is enough to make her suffer, saying Don't allow anything extraordinary to happen...
Just like Yu Ruyi's trick in the case.
What's more, with her present appearance, who can not doubt it?
But just when those guards were about to surround her and subdue her, there was an urgent sound from the other side of the palace road: "His concubine, wait a minute!"
Xiao Shu frowned again.
Jiang Xuening looked up and saw that it was Zheng Bao who was walking quickly. When he got close to him, he saluted neither humble nor overbearing, and said calmly: "Madam, the meeting at the Holy Majesty's side is just over. Master Xie heard that the second girl Jiang has not left the palace yet. Come, please. I am waiting outside the palace right now, do you see?"
Xie Wei?
Xiao Shu's body froze for a moment, and her sharp eyes fixed on Zheng Bao.
Zheng Bao always stands respectfully.
Who in the palace doesn't know Xie Ju'an?
Although Xiao Shu has not been a concubine for a long time, she knows just how important this person is based on her understanding of the court when she was a girl in the Xiao family. This person's reliance.
After all, Shen Lang didn't really love her.
She was trying to survive between the cracks, so how could she dare to take the risk of adding another terrible enemy to herself in such a situation? Despite all the reluctance in her heart, Jiang Xuening can only let go today.
Xiao Shu clenched her palms hanging in her sleeves quietly, but she smiled flawlessly, and said, "Since Master Xie asked for someone, I naturally don't want to stay. But I only hope that after the second girl Jiang goes back, she can restrain herself. Don’t do anything you regret.”
Zheng Bao bowed his head and saluted before retreating.
Jiang Xuening stared at Xiao Shu for a moment, then turned around and left with Zheng Bao.
After walking far away, the guards disappeared, and the palace servants disappeared, so she suddenly smiled.
Zheng Bao didn't know what she was laughing at.
Jiang Xuening looked at the approaching palace gate ahead, but her expression was full of sadness, she said: "You don't know that Mr. Xie has avoided seeing me for more than a month, and he dared to use his name to save me in times of crisis. Xiao Shu doesn't know. But if Mr. finds out, you won't be able to afford it."
Zheng Bao glanced at her and opened his mouth to speak, but he still didn't explain.
Guided by him, he left the palace smoothly.
Just walked out of the huge palace gate, when she looked up and saw the lighted carriage under the city wall outside, and the people standing quietly waiting on the shaft, Jiang Xuening was finally stunned.
Zheng Bao said softly, "Young lady, be careful all the way back home."
Jiang Xuening looked at the man, holding the handful of soil, but couldn't move a step.
Xie Wei flew like snow in Taoist robes, looked at her from a height, his eyes fell on her numb face, and also landed on the soil in her hands, he only called out: "Sword book."
The sword book on the side saw the opportunity very quickly, and found an empty box from the back of the car.
He opened it and handed it to Jiang Xuening.
Jiang Xuening stood there in a daze and did not move.
Xie Wei's eyes gradually turned cold, and his voice lost its warmth: "How long are you going to hold me?"
A tear rolled down from the corner of Jiang Xuening's eyes, submerged into the soil, moistened a small spot, and the trace disappeared in the blink of an eye.
She slowly let go of her hand, letting the dirt slip through her fingers.
It fell into the box and filled half of it.
Jianshu closed the wooden box and turned around.
Jiang Xuening said, "Give it to me."
Jianshu looked at Xie Wei.
Xie Wei remained expressionless: "Give it to her."
The closed wooden box was handed to Jiang Xuening again, and she hugged it tightly in her arms.
Xie Wei seemed to feel that she was useless, so he stood on the shaft of the chariot without moving, and only said to her, "Get in the chariot."
Jiang Xuening walked over.
Jianshu dared not help her.
She held the wooden box in one hand and supported the edge of the carriage with the other, and failed to board the carriage after several steps, only then did she realize that her hands and legs were shaking violently, and her whole body seemed to be soaked in ice water. trembling.
Xie Wei saw that she was so useless, the corners of his eyes and brows seemed to be condensed with ice and snow, he couldn't bear it anymore, he leaned over, grabbed her arm with one hand, held her waist with the other, and fished her up with half his arms.
The curtain of the car was lifted and the person was pushed in.
Jiang Xuening was still in a daze.
Seeing her poor posture, Xie Wei knew that the matter didn't work without asking the first half of the sentence, and everything was well arranged, and Ning Er was neither trapped in the palace nor the matter was exposed, so there is only one possibility——
The Eldest Princess of Leyang, Shen Zhiyi, did not intend to run away.
Only in this way can she lose her soul and make herself into this disgusting ghost!
The sword book outside asked: "Sir, where are you going?"
Xie Wei was silent for a moment, then said, "Jiang Mansion."
Jiang Xuening held the soil with both hands, and it was dirty, but she didn't realize it.
Xie Wei didn't find Jinpa, so he frowned, pulled his loose sleeves, pulled her hand over, wiped it off bit by bit, but said mercilessly, "If she doesn't want to, It's also her own choice, you are such a waste, why are you sad for her?"
It was dark in the carriage, and there was no one else.
Jiang Xuening held back the tears all the way, and they all fell down, surprisingly, she didn't argue with Xie Wei again, she just murmured: "Mr. is right, it's all my fault. I don't learn well. First, I have no ability, and second, I have a temper. No one can save anyone, no one can protect anyone, he thinks he can change the fate of people, but he is just a clown. I am really incompetent, I am a waste..."
Xie Wei was speaking out of anger, how could he expect that she, who is naturally rebellious, would not refute at all?
When he noticed her crying, he realized that he had spoken too seriously.
There was a moment of silence, and I was a little at a loss.
After a long while, he slowly said: "Silly Ninger, you have done a lot, and you have done a good job. It's just that some things can't be stopped overnight. The little girl is so young that she is so self-pitying. You put Bring out some of your old temperament, and the master won't scold you."
I don't know whether Jiang Xuening heard it or not, and sat motionless.
There were cheers from outside the car.
It was the eldest princess and her relative's car that finally drove out of the palace gate and headed out of the city along the straight Chang'an Avenue.
Jiang Xuening remembered this voice.
She had heard it in her previous life.
It’s just that when I heard it in the previous life, I was indifferent and indifferent, and I was even happy to leave a royal sister who would trip her up in the future; when I heard about it now, I felt that the mountains and rivers were far away, and once the Yanmen went, or never returned, my heart was broken. , Only endured for a moment, then cried out.
Heartbreaking.
As if to vent something, if you don't let go and cry like this, you will be buried in the abyss of endless depression and despair.
Xie Wei had never felt that the journey from the imperial palace to Jiang's mansion was so long and tormented, every sound that came to his ears was like a blunt knife piercing the heart. Later, when she was tired of crying while holding the box, she closed her eyes and gradually fell asleep, and the world returned to silence.
But his heart was noisier than when she was crying just now.
He sat stiffly in his position for a long time, as if he had fallen into a trance.
He didn't come back to his senses until the carriage stopped and Jianshu called him outside.
Xie Wei responded.
Then she leaned over and wanted to call Jiang Xuening, but when she got closer, that little face with wet tears came into view, she seemed unhappy in her dream, and her slender eyebrows frowned like smoke. He lowered his eyelids, his eyes flickered, and finally he slowly stretched out his hand to stroke her soft black hair. His two thin lips were lowered, but they only touched her wet eyelashes jerky and carefully.
At this moment, Jianshu just opened the curtain of the car.
Xie Wei calmly turned his head to look.
The sword book was immediately creepy.
However, he suddenly found that after the husband's gaze stayed on his face for a moment, he passed him and looked behind him, so he turned his gaze to look—
Jiang Boyou stood on the steps at the gate of the Jiang Mansion at some point, his originally upright and peaceful face sank, with shock and anger in his eyes, he looked straight at Xie Wei in the car.
Xie Wei's figure froze for a moment, and then he relaxed again.
He backed away a little, opened the distance between himself and Jiang Xuening, as if nothing happened just now, he patted her cheek lightly to wake her up: "I'm home."
Jiang Xuening opened her eyes, was in a daze for a while, and then said, "Mr. Thank you."
She got out of the car with the box in her arms.
I staggered.
Xie Wei stretched out his hand to help her, but she didn't realize she wasn't in her mind, but after walking two steps, she turned around as if remembering something, and looked at him with a pair of reddish eyes: "Your Majesty , when will the iron hooves of the Central Plains break through the Yanmen Gate and bring His Highness back?"
Xie Wei's dirty and wrinkled sleeve robe fluttered in the night wind. He covered it with one hand, but clenched it quietly, slowly bent his lips, and said seriously: "Soon, very soon."
Jiang Xuening looked at him for a while before turning around.
Seeing Jiang Boyou at the door, he just called "Father" dumbly, and walked straight in.
However, Jiang Boxou stood outside the door for a long time. It was the first time he saw that this colleague did not walk up to greet him with a smile, but walked away with a cold face.
Jian Shu knew that he had caused a catastrophe, so he knelt down in front of Xie Wei: "It was my subordinate who was reckless—"
Xie Wei said plainly: "It's nothing wrong."
He withdrew his gaze, glanced at his sleeve, and then turned back to the car.
Jianshu was stunned, unable to recover for a while.