Don't ask where people go

Chapter 11 Talking Hearts
"Since the concubine personally invited me, I'd rather be obedient than respectful." After Fang Zilan finished speaking, she followed Fang Ziqin into the inner courtyard, thinking to herself all the way, maybe her sister's tea drinking is a lie, and what she has to say is the truth.

But what would you say to her?Is it to expose her true identity or to test her purpose of following King Xiang?After thinking about it, she didn't have a clue.

The original owner of Fang Zilan's body had the deepest impression on her elder sister Fang Ziqin, probably because she was called by her second sister Fang Zitong to look at flowers in the garden when she was 12 years old.

Fang Zitong said that the tribute peony was precious, and she was required to take care of her around the clock, clearly bullying her.

She originally thought that Fang Ziqin would help Fang Zitong bully her, the unfavored Fang Mansion's doormat, or simply pretend that she hadn't seen it.Unexpectedly, Fang Ziqin reprimanded Fang Zitong in a few words, and even made a fuss in front of his father Fang Chongzheng afterwards, but still told the truth without any concealment.

Thinking about it today, Fang Zilan can't figure out whether Fang Ziqin did it out of good intentions or on purpose. If it was in the past, she would not think so much and think it was the former, but now...

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but sighed.

"Miss Xiu sighed, but felt that I was punished too severely just now?" Fang Ziqin's voice rang in her ears, pulling back her wandering thoughts, "This is the princess's housework, I dare not say more. "

"You haven't changed at all." Fang Ziqin smiled faintly, "If you say it well, you are indifferent, but if you say it badly, you don't know what it means. Sometimes I also wonder what you care about?"

"I don't quite understand what the princess said, but I know that there are very few people in this world who are truly indifferent, at least I am not." Fang Zilan said, took the teacup Fang Ziqin handed over, looked at Wisps of white smoke rose from it, and he continued involuntarily, "It's just that some people are struggling to protect themselves, let alone care."

"If you really want to be wise and protect yourself, you wouldn't hesitate to talk just now." Fang Ziqin put the teacup in his hand on the table, staring at the person in front of him, "You are just overthinking your abilities." I want to protect others, but I don't even have the ability to protect myself."

"Protecting yourself is not only possible by hurting others." Fang Zilan's expression was a little cold, "The princess is high above, and she doesn't know the difficulty of ants stealing life."

"Since you know it's difficult, you should keep to yourself." The smile on Fang Ziqin's face faded, "Do you know what would happen if I let go of those two girls just now? People's words are terrible, maybe tomorrow the capital will spread the word His Royal Highness has lost the news of the Sacred Heart, and who knows what will happen when the current situation is unstable and people’s hearts are changing? If you want to keep the aloofness you say about me, you can’t do it with just a few beautiful words."

"Wangfei is a good means, I admire it very much." Fang Zilan's mouth curled up slightly, and she smiled coldly, "It's just a pity for those two little girls."

"I know you are not convinced. Anyway, you have such a temper anyway." Fang Ziqin said, took the teacup on the table, and took a sip, "But let me remind you, be careful when doing things around His Highness, don't Trouble Your Highness."

Fang Zilan was a bit puzzled. She knew from the first sentence of Fang Ziqin that she was sure that she was Fang Zilan from the Fang family—her third sister. Telling her not to cause trouble to King Xiang, this made her a little impatient, and she couldn't help asking: "The princess cares so much about His Royal Highness, why doesn't she want to know why I am with His Highness?"

"Your Highness has his own reasons for doing things. I just need to do my job well. What do other people do?" Fang Ziqin answered happily, but Fang Zilan was stunned for a moment.

Ignoring her blankness, Fang Ziqin said to himself: "It's getting late, Miss Xiu must be hungry too, I ordered the kitchen to cook some good dishes, and we will start the banquet when His Highness comes back."

After Fang Ziqin finished speaking, she got up and was about to leave, but at the next moment she heard Fang Zilan's voice, "Actually, it's not that I didn't understand what the princess did just now, but I just couldn't accept it."

After all, those two girls are real people, not commodities at the mercy of others.

"Can't accept it?" Hearing the words, Fang Ziqin turned around and glanced at the person in front of her, "Miss Xiu is indeed too young, and she hasn't suffered much. It's okay, the road is long and difficult, you will always accept it."

"Really?" Fang Zilan sighed softly as if muttering to herself, but she didn't say the sentence that the princess and I are not fellow travelers after all.Up until now, she didn't know what path she was on, but she was forced to die and couldn't turn back.

King Xiang didn't come back until the evening. For a while, people in Prince Xiang's mansion were panicked, but Fang Ziqin didn't respond. He just ordered that Miss Xiu should not be neglected when His Highness was not here, and they had a banquet with Fang Zilan.

During the banquet, Fang Zilan hesitated to speak several times, but Fang Ziqin didn't seem to notice it. Fang Zilan couldn't help but muttered in his heart because of his calm appearance. King Xiang only brought Xia Houzhang into the palace. It's not that easy to get out.

She didn't eat or sleep, and Fang Zilan managed to get the two of them almost finished eating. Just as she was about to say something, she heard Fang Ziqin's voice, "If Miss Xiu can trust His Highness, she can stay at home with peace of mind."

"Is the princess really not worried about His Royal Highness Xiang?" Fang Zilan blurted out almost without thinking, but felt a little regretful the moment he said the words.

Hearing this, Fang Ziqin was not annoyed, and said calmly, "What's the use of worrying? Instead of causing trouble to Your Highness with trepidation, it's better to guard Prince Xiang's mansion safely, which can be regarded as sharing your worries for His Highness."

"The princess is as powerful as the rumors said, I offended her, and I hope the princess will forgive me." Fang Zilan saluted frankly, and was about to leave the table.

"Miss Xiu, if His Highness hasn't come back tomorrow morning, I'm afraid I'll bother you." Fang Ziqin's voice reached Fang Zilan's ears like this, and she couldn't help but startled, "What's the meaning of the princess? "

"I don't want your Highness to have something to do, and the girl doesn't even want to, don't you?" Fang Ziqin smiled faintly, but she only felt a chill behind her back.

In the past, she only thought that Fang Ziqin was a gentle and virtuous lady, but now it seems that her scheming and methods are even more unfathomable.Did Fang Ziqin guess that she didn't want anything to happen to King Xiang, or did she already know that there was someone else standing behind her?

When she thought about it this way, she only felt it was even more frightening.If Fang Ziqin knows, it means that Fang Chongzheng also knows, so besides her, is everyone else in the Fang Mansion also pawns in the young master's hands?
But if it's what she thinks, why does the young master keep hiding her identity as a killer from everyone and let her pretend to be a weak and harmless concubine?

She only felt that she was deeply trapped in the situation, and she couldn't see the truth at all through the thick fog.

"Miss Xiu?" Fang Ziqin stretched out her hand and shook it in front of Fang Zilan's eyes, and then she came back to her senses, "What exactly is the princess trying to say?"

"You know it very well, don't you? Why pretend that you don't know anything." Fang Ziqin said, holding up the teacup at hand, watching the wisps of tea smoke dissipate, and said indifferently: "Sometimes I wonder what you are thinking What, you obviously know everything, but you choose the most difficult path. Just like this tea smoke, you can see it but can't fight it, why bother?"

"You can't turn back until you die." Fang Zilan heard her own voice as if she was out of control, "I have something to do no matter what. God knows if I can get it until the last moment."

"Then I'll wait and see." Fang Ziqin got up and left after leaving these words.

The maid guarding outside the door came in and out to clean up a table of dishes, but Fang Zilan sat there in a daze, unconsciously, repeating what she had just said in her mind, and it was no longer clear whether those words were from ancient times. Fang Zilan's heart is still her own heart.

What Fang Zilan knew in ancient times, she has not fully sorted out until now.The memory of this body is like shattered glass, complete but fragmented, and the light of the so-called truth refracted is only one-sided.

She didn't know what this ancient Fang Zilan was fighting for. There was only one fact she knew, and she was the one who was alive now.All she wants to fight for is to survive indestructibly in this era, have her own place, and then go home.

Fang Zilan didn't know how long she sat in the living room until it was completely dark, but she didn't care that it was pitch black in front of her eyes.During this period, a little maid came over and wanted to light the lamp for her, but she didn't agree, and sat quietly in the dark alone.

Suddenly she heard a servant calling for His Royal Highness King Xiang to come back, so she stumbled and wanted to stand up, her legs were already numb after sitting for too long, and the injury from the army stick hadn't healed yet, so she actually leaned on the table Only barely stood still.

She finally dragged her body and moved to the door step by step, but saw King Xiang walking in a hurry, with a gloomy expression on his face that she had never seen before.

Xia Houzhang, who was chasing after King Xiang, kept shouting His Highness, but he walked straight to the study as if he didn't hear it.

Hearing a bang, King Xiang actually slammed the door?This is truly unprecedented.

Regardless of the injury on his body and his almost numb legs, Fang Zilan supported the pillars on the corridor, walked to the door of the study in a hop, looked at Xia Houzhang who was at a loss, and asked involuntarily: "His Royal Highness, what is this?" What's wrong?"

Hearing the sound, Xia Houzhang looked back at the bouncing people behind him, and couldn't help frowning, "What's going on with you?"

"I'm fine, I've been sitting for too long, and my legs are numb." Fang Zilan replied lightly, deliberately ignoring the disgusted look on Xia Houzhang's face, and asked again, "What happened to His Highness King Xiang? "

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