Qingchuan History

Chapter 867
Gu Xinglei couldn't think of how she, a woman, could find a solution when she went to meet her enemy alone.The counselor opened his mouth?

"I'll accompany you."

Ruan Xueyin identified the source of the music again, "Alright, third brother will drive me there, but stop in advance and don't show up."

The carriage followed the strings and went away.

Before he had traveled more than two miles, he tripped suddenly on a rope running through the darkness, and he fell on his back.

Gu Xinglei supported the tilted body at the fastest speed, "Are you all right?!"

Ruan Xueyin agreed, and got out of the car after a while, looked up, to the northwest, outside the forest, there were hidden lights.

She turned around and wanted to clean up the mess on the ground with him, Gu Xinglei waved his hand, "Go yourself, I'll take my time here." After a short pause, he asked again:
"Really go?"

Ruan Xueyin indicated to him the situation in front of him, "Otherwise, I will be arrested."

"Preemptively attack others, and then attack others." Gu Xinglei nodded, "Be careful."

"Third Brother, don't move any more, just move, don't go too far away from here." She was about to turn around, and then said after thinking for a while: "It's time for dawn. I haven't come back at dawn, and Third Brother will go look for me again. Or directly leave."

Gu Xinglei didn't understand why there was an option to leave directly.And this sentence is very vague, should he go back to Dafengbao's home, or go east to Jidu?

Of course he wouldn't leave her alone, but he also felt that there was no need to express his heart - he would look for her if she didn't return at dawn.

So he agreed and watched her go to the light place.

It doesn't look far away, but it actually took some walking.Ruan Xueyin stepped on the scattered green grass in early summer, and for some reason remembered the wooden building outside Yunshui City, where she confronted Duan Xirun that year.

This is also a wooden building.The regulations are smaller and rougher, the shrubs are overgrown in front of the building, and the night is dark and gloomy.She walked in along the pebble path, the sound of the pipa became more and more sonorous, and finally outside the threshold, she saw the person who plucked the string sitting in the middle of the room, looking at her calmly.

That rhythm is not very peaceful.

Pian Shangguan's face was unusually calm.

This "Liang Fu Yin" also reached its end at this time.

The other party stood up, hugging the pipa and bowing gracefully, "Your Highness Empress Qi."

The last time we met was at the northern border, we were far away, we had no contact, and Ruan Xueyin didn't expect her to be so polite to her after years of separation.

"Long time no see." But I don't know how to address her now, so I just nodded and smiled, "Your skill in playing the pipa is much better than in the past."

The origin of Shangguan Concubine is a master of musical instruments, among which the pipa is the best. The years of Qi Gong can be traced back even though it is far away.

"Your Highness is still astonishing, and each time is more admirable." She put down her pipa and made a gesture of invitation.

Ruan Xueyin sat down and happily drank the hot tea prepared in front of her.

"Knowing that there are tigers on the mountain, I prefer to go to the mountain." Shangguan Concubine sat opposite her, "But no matter how many people your Highness secretly brought, there is no chance of winning today. Why don't you run away?"

"No matter how many people you bring, there is no chance of winning. Is there any use in escaping?"

Shangguan concubine nodded, "If I still had the chance, I wanted to learn from His Highness for a few years. For example, at this time, are you really confident that you can pass the test, or are you just pretending? I really want to know."

Ruan Xueyin heard the key point in the whole passage, the word "originally" in the first sentence.

If there is still a chance.It seemed she was convinced she was going to die here.

"Half and half." But he didn't intend to follow up on this question, instead he caught her and asked, "I have predicted some possible situations and thought about the available countermeasures, so I have five points of confidence. The other five points are commonly known as destiny is hard to break." , no one dares to say that he can hold the destiny, so, "

"It's just pretending?" Shangguan concubine answered with a smile.

Ruan Xueyin smiled and shook her head, "I don't feel like I'm pretending either. Do I look very confident?"

Shangguan contemplated, "Yes, you never seem to show confidence in anything, but we all feel that you are very confident. Probably because of the result, we keep losing, and only you win."

"It's not good to always win." Ruan Xueyin was fascinated by these two sentences, "When things are extreme, they will be reversed, and when the moon is full, you will lose."

"Your Highness, there is one thing I should learn, that is knowing the world and knowing oneself." Shangguan concubine showed approval, and looked at the cup in her hand, "I don't know how to tamper with tea, but I don't know if others have. Your Highness Still very confident."

Ruan Xueyin lowered her head and weighed the half cup of tea in the cup, "If everyone is here, everyone will be there, I think neither of them will."

Shangguan concubine was even more interested, "I would like to hear the details."

"One won't, she has other choices; the other resents me to the bone, and she has a cup of tea. It's too cheap for me. At least she has to show up and scold her back when I scold her, so that I don't have to wait hard."

Then I heard crisp clapping sounds from the right back of the hall, and then the skirt scraping the floor, and ring pendants tinkling. In the dark night, it was actually more sonorous than the earlier pipa strings.

"You see, she is not only very confident, she is defiant at all. I want her to miscalculate, but it won't happen again. But it doesn't matter, what His Royal Highness Empress Qi taught all of us: the result is the biggest. The gains and losses in the process are not as good as the result Satisfied."

Ruan Xueyin didn't turn her head back immediately, because she didn't know what kind of expression to face Duan Xirun.She thought that she would always come to the front, so she should not turn her head, but the other party stopped while talking, and just stood behind her.

A short distance away.There is no obvious breath.

Shangguan looked at the strange situation of the two of them and felt helpless, "Her Majesty once regarded you as a close friend, so she hates you more than we do, and I can't let it go. The so-called deep responsibility of love. Her son in white She died in an accident the year before last, and she is struggling to govern the country by herself. Your Highness, I understand her."

The feng shui turns, and one day, the one who calmly and peacefully watched the old grievances turned out to be Shangguan's concubine.

Ruan Xueyin finally turned her head back, "The national war has not ended, and the female ruler has been running thousands of miles for personal grievances, so she can't govern the country even more."

Duan Xirun's delicate and naive face is gone forever.The elongated face due to getting thinner is very similar to his mother, and the sharp eyebrows and eyes are also very similar to the White Queen in Ruan Xueyin's impression.

"You finally guessed wrong again." Duan Xirun felt relieved, "It's not a personal grudge, I'm saving the country. What's the use of sitting on rhyme water? Qi Jun and Wei Jun are capable people to deal with it. Jidu Cangwu is on the line of life and death. I I will deal with you, and I am afraid that the last king left on this land of Qingchuan will be me."

Ruan Xueyin thought for a while, and felt that it was not unreasonable, so she turned to Shangguan, "But this is not what you want. She solves me, and you solve her, so it makes sense." Returning to Duan Xirun,

"Your Majesty knows that Qi Jun and Wei Jun are capable people to deal with, and the Duan family has rumors about the four seasons, so there must be a lot of things that the Shangguan family and even more families are planning. They will not leave any king behind. "

"They won't leave any king who can compete with them." Duan Xirun laughed, "And I'm a fool, not worth killing. You see, there are advantages to being weak, and being too powerful will inevitably become the target of public criticism."

Two people are not enough to mess up the situation, not enough for Ruan Xueyin to identify the most useful loophole to break through the predicament.Is Ji Wanling still on stage?She listened with all her ears, it really didn't look like there was a fourth person, but just now she tested the Shangguan's concubine, and the answer she got was clearly that there was a fourth person.

"How do you want me to die?" Then he asked Duan Xirun.

The other party was taken aback, exaggerated, and went to the official concubine, "You see, she is like this. Even asking such a question is very defiant, and I am sure we will not be able to kill her."

Shangguan concubine sighed, and stood up, "She knows you want to torture her. That's why I asked this question. Your Highness," and then approached Ruan Xueyin step by step, "I am really responsible for the family, and my parents died. You are too powerful, so I have to get rid of you. Offended, please."

Anyway, it wasn't the last moment, Ruan Xueyin really wanted to see what method they were planning to kill her and torture her, so she got up as she said, and followed to the back of the hall.

That's another entrance to the courtyard.

There is no open space at all, and at first glance it looks very dark and looks like the front yard.

If you look closely, you will know the difference. It is not a shrub, but a medicinal plant.At the beginning of June, at the right time, the green leaves are blooming with fine stamens, and there are many varieties, very similar to Pengxi Yam Garden.

It should be said that it is like Donggong Medicine Garden.

"When was this planted? I've seen it for at least two or three years." Ruan Xueyin asked Shangguan, watching carefully with the lantern in her hand.

"Your Highness forgot, before I was taken into the palace by Jun Wei, I lived in the suburbs of Mianzhou."【1】

This place is close to Mianzhou, so there is no coincidence. "You have been in Wei Palace for two years. Is there someone to help take care of it?"

"His Royal Highness Empress Wei made careful arrangements. Oh, this time she wanted to come with her and send you off as a sister too, but the situation in Cangwu waits for no one, so I have to take care of the other end first."

"Has she left for Cangwu?"

"When Jing Tingge left Mianzhou, she said that she would go back that day, but she didn't return. We guessed that she went back to Cangwu, and it was probably because of your persuasion—to ease the crisis of Qi State. Because of this guess, We are certain that you are not far from here, and since His Majesty Qi Jun is to the west, since you leave Suoning, you will probably go west to meet him. The road that was set up to block the horse just now is a must."

Ruan Xueyin nodded, "You should also go back to Cangwu to help elder brother. If Jingtingge returns in time, the Shangguan Banquet will be in big trouble."

Shangguan concubine tilted her head, "Your Highness, the friendship between you and your brother is said to be very good."

Ruan Xueyin showed a frank confession.

"Jing Tingge and my brother, I heard that it is even more so: the heart is like a double silk net, with thousands of knots in it."

Ruan Xueyin didn't know if she was entangled to this extent, but it was generally good.She showed a clear look again.

"That's why." Shangguan concubine relaxed, "The worst thing he can do is lose. If Jing Tingge wins him, he will be saved."

Ruan Xueyin also had this consideration in returning A Yan.I hope that girl can use it.

Duan Xirun had already walked to the other side of the medicine garden, turned around and saw that Shangguan concubine was still talking nonsense while holding the lamp, and said impatiently:

"Aren't you bringing people here?"

Ruan Xueyin looked around, and saw that there was someone sitting beside Duan Xirun, at the north edge of the medicine garden.Because I was sitting, it was about the same height as some flowers and plants, and the courtyard was dark, so I didn't see it when I came in.

"Mrs. Yu just arrived tonight, half an hour earlier than you." Shangguan concubine saw that she had noticed Ji Wanling, explained quickly, and led the way to the west edge of the medicine garden.

The so-called "road" on the west edge is impossible to walk.It is covered with a kind of scattered shrub, which is a variety of thorns. If Ruan Xueyin admits it correctly, it is called snake teeth, and it is found in Pengxi Shan Medicine Garden.

The thorns are small but sharp, and the inside is hollow but contains venom.Apparently these are cut out so that they can be spread flat, and they will lose their vitality when they leave the water and soil. The toxicity will gradually weaken, but it will take time.

"It's been less than half an hour since I cut it, so it's still fresh." Shangguan seemed to know what she was thinking, and answered kindly.

Duan Xirun has stood at the end of the thorny road. "Sister Pei, please."

She suddenly called out like this, dreaming back to Jinghong for six years.And three of the four people in the room have woken up from their dreams, but she is still haunted by nightmares for many years.

Ji Wanling was still sitting in the shadow of the northern edge, looking at Ruan Xueyin with eyes like dry wells, she didn't throw trouble, and she didn't help.

Ruan Xueyin also looked at her.

"Sister, don't think about it. Although Madam Yu doesn't hate you as much as I do, for the sake of the family, she can't be merciful. The situation in Jidu has already started and there is no turning back. And I invited her because the four of us are too close to each other. Deep, start well and end well."

It started well and ended well, so ironic.Ruan Xueyin was gratified that Duan Xirun had made great efforts to deal with the past year, looking back at the ground full of thorns,
"What if I don't go?"

There were only two gauze lanterns under the eaves in the entire courtyard, and a lantern in Shangguan's concubine's hand, so that Ruan Xueyin couldn't see Duan Xirun's face clearly across a thorny path.

But she probably thought it was ridiculous, so she chuckled for a moment and said:
"Why does sister think that I want you to come over?" The smile seemed to dissipate with these words, her voice became cold,

"Kneel here. I am the king, and you are just the queen, so you are not wronged."

Although the snake thorns are sharp, they are short. If you walk over with shoes and socks on, you may not be able to pierce the skin on the bottom of your feet.

Kneeling over is different.In spring and summer, the skirt is thin, and it will suffer from the knee to the outside of the calf.

"I asked Auntie, this poison just makes people's body red, swollen and itchy, and it will kill you. My sister is smart and courageous, and she sets an example for women in the world. There is nothing you dare not to go through this difficulty."

Ruan Xueyin could no longer remember what Duan Xirun looked like in Jinghong's sixth year.

In the shadow of the lamp, her appearance at this moment is also very vague, but very eye-catching.

"What if I don't kneel?"

"My sister knew she couldn't escape, so she chose to come. Why can't she escape?" Duan Xirun looked around.

In the endless darkness, there are endless breaths and human heads, who are countless accomplices.

"So if my sister doesn't kneel, someone will kneel for you. My sister will take the initiative to cooperate now, and everyone will be more decent."

"If I kneel down, you will spare my life?"

Duan Xirun ran out of patience. "Procrastination will only make people feel bad. Once the mood is bad, it is impossible to regenerate compassion."

The whole sentence was very fast, like urging Ruan Xueyin, and also like giving orders to the hands in the dark: If she doesn't kneel again, two people will come out and hold her kneeling.

"It was recorded that in the seventh year of Jinghong, on the night of early spring by the Hulan Lake, Her Majesty started with a hundred birds facing the phoenix, and led us to light the magic lamp." Ruan Xueyin said this very abruptly.

It was a rare and impressive past where the four wives were all present and there was no conflict.

So much so that Duan Xirun was stunned, allowing Ruan Xueyin to continue:

"At that time, Mrs. Yu's old kite ignited spontaneously in the sky and turned into ashes. The lady told us that according to the old man Bai, it was because the people who put the lanterns on their heads failed to receive gratitude."【2】

[1] 617 Reminiscence and Hidden Bureau
[2] 309 The night is coming, the city is full of brocade (five)

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