Aijia Kefu: Your Majesty, please avoid

Chapter 62 The Third Little Thief

This night, as usual, it was Shuxing's turn to sleep outside.

Fanghua Palace has been very tightly guarded recently. There are guards patrolling outside the walls from time to time, and eunuchs are also assigned to take turns in the courtyard. There are several times more lanterns in the corridor than usual, almost as bright as day.

Even so, Shuxing was still worried, so he insisted on lighting two more gauze lanterns in front of the window of the inner hall, and removed half of the screen between the inner and outer halls, leaving only the bead curtain to block the view.

In this way, the hall immediately opened up a lot, and even if there was an accident, it shouldn't be so easy to be blocked in the hall.

Until the latter part of the night, all was well.

Su Qingyuan has been sleeping very lightly recently, waking up every half an hour.If there is a slight movement in the middle, she will be alert immediately.

Therefore, when the light in the hall suddenly dimmed, she immediately woke up from her sleep, and her whole body tensed up.

She held her breath and concentrated, but did not hear any unusual sounds.

Only the cold night air poured in through the window, carrying the chill of late autumn, making her scalp numb.

wind? !

Su Qingyuan immediately realized that the window was opened!
But at this moment, the outside porch was still brightly lit, and no one realized that something had happened in the hall for a while.

Su Qingyuan quietly stretched her hand under the pillow.

In the next instant, a black shadow appeared before her eyes like a ghost.

"Ah!" A suppressed exclamation came from far away in the cold night.

It was a man's voice.

The Palace of Youth was in chaos.The eunuchs on duty in the yard yelled "No!", broke open the door and broke in.

All the things happened in a short moment, and at this moment, Su Qingyuan's bedside has returned to calm.

Shuxing, who just woke up, only had time to see a faint green light flash, and when he rushed in, only the window at the head of the bed was still shaking.

"The man ran away, go after him!" Su Qingyuan shouted.

Several eunuchs rushed out of the window when they heard the words.

"Your Majesty!" Shu Xing rushed to Su Qingyuan's bedside, speechless incoherently in fright: "My Lady, are you hurt?"

Su Qingyuan patted her chest, as if she had lingering fears: "Fortunately, fortunately, I was prepared. Go and pour me a cup of tea to calm my shock."

Shu Xing walked to the table as he said, took out the flint and lit it, but the candle couldn't light no matter what.

Shuxing was about to tell Su Qingyuan about this strange incident, but when he turned around, he saw another figure in front of the window.

So, what she blurted out became: "Your Majesty... be careful—"

Before the end of the exclamation came out, there was a loud bang suddenly in front of the bed, followed by a man's violent scream.

"Shu Xing, kill this bastard!" Su Qingyuan shouted sharply.

Hearing this, Shuxing picked up a stool and rushed over without hesitation, aiming at the black shadow and smashing it down heavily.

There was one cry after another, and after four or five blows, the little eunuch in the corridor finally broke in with his guards, picked up the man with all his might, and restrained him.

Su Qingyuan took out a night pearl from the quilt, looked at the assassin's face twice, and clapped her hands with a smile: "Okay, everyone, tonight's done, everyone should be able to sleep soundly!"

"Mother, this assassin..." The leader of the guards was terrified.

Su Qingyuan smiled and said: "Well, take care of it, leave it to the emperor tomorrow!"

The guards agreed to retreat, and Su Qingyuan smiled at the eunuchs: "You have worked hard tonight, remember to go to Luoxia to receive the reward tomorrow! Get up early to clean up the things here!"

All the eunuchs thanked and retreated, and Shu Xing patted his chest and said: "It's so dangerous! They actually have two people here tonight—this is determined to put the empress to death!"

Su Qingyuan played with the Ye Mingzhu in her hand, and said with a smile: "The first assassin set up a suspicious formation and led the tiger away from the mountain. After we relax our vigilance, the second one kills - it's indeed a good idea, but it's a pity that their methods are too Be cautious, but be betrayed by this 'cautious'!"

"Careful?" Shuxing was a little puzzled.

Su Qingyuan smiled and said: "Should they only be allowed to be cautious, and I should not be allowed to be cautious? This morning Luoxia said that she saw a suspicious figure, and I felt that something was wrong—assassins always come at night, if they come during the day Poisoning, then it must have tampered with something of ours! Now go and take the candle over and have a look to see if there is any cotton wick in it?"

Shu Xing walked to the table according to his words, took the previously unlit candle in front of Ye Mingzhu and illuminated it, his face sank: "There is a cotton wick, but it is a bit shorter than the wax tube, and it seems to have shrunk in. No wonder just now It can't be lighted at all!"

Su Qingyuan sneered and said: "That's it. The person who came during the day tampered with the candles we used in the temple and broke all the wicks! That person's technique was very cautious, it should be with a very small sharp blade It pierced in and cut off the candle wick, and all of them were cut on the longest stroke of the word 'yi', if you didn't pay attention deliberately, you wouldn't be able to see it at all!"

Shu Xing took the rest of the candles and looked at them, and sure enough, each of them was burnt to the position of the word "Yi", and the wick was retracted, so it couldn't be lit.

It was cold in late autumn, and the doors and windows in this hall were tightly closed, not a single breath of wind could come in.It is precisely for this reason that the candles in the temple should be extinguished within a short period of time, possibly even at the same time.

For the first Assassin, the extinguishing of the candle was the signal to strike.

But for the second assassin, the darkness in the temple was his best cover during the period when the candle was not lit.

It's a pity that Su Qingyuan was already prepared.

Shu Xing went under the screen and took out two oil lamps, lit them, poured tea and brought it to Su Qingyuan's bedside: "This ground..."

Su Qingyuan took a sip of water, picked up the luminous pearl and shook it in front of Shuxing, pursed her lips and smiled.

It turned out that when the first assassin saw that Su Qingyuan was "sleeping", he took out a drugged handkerchief to cover her mouth.Unexpectedly, suddenly at this moment, Su Qingyuan turned over to avoid his hand, and at the same time, she quickly shook the Ye Mingzhu in front of his eyes.

In the darkness, the assassin only felt a flash of green light in front of his eyes, and his vision became blurred.He lost the opportunity and had to flee in a hurry, leaving the task to a second person.

The second is even simpler.

Su Qingyuan ordered Shuxing to pour tea, but she held her breath and waited for something to happen!
That person should have been hiding under the bed before, but when Su Qingyuan saw the black shadow appear, she immediately pulled the rope at hand.

Several wooden pillows and porcelain pillows on the top of the bed fell together, knocking the assassin dizzy immediately!

That's not all, when the poor assassin was about to cover his head and run away, a few stools on the top of the bed happened to fall down, and he just took a leg, when he was tripped and staggered!

What happened later, Shu Xing already knew.

After sorting things out, Shu Xing stood beside the bed for a while with lingering fear, picked up a handkerchief from the pile of messy things beside the bed, and said solemnly, "The general took great pains to kill you!"

"This is my dear father." Su Qingyuan smiled casually.

Shu Xing stretched out his hand to lower the tent for Su Qingyuan, and said softly: "The matter of the assassin can only be dealt with after dawn, so please rest."

"Shu Xing." Su Qingyuan called out to stop her.

"Is there any other orders from your empress?" Shu Xing hurriedly turned back.

Su Qingyuan raised the curtain and looked at her quietly: "Shu Xing, I have exhausted my means. If you cover my mouth with the veil in your hand right now, then you will You can do whatever you want.”

Shu Xing stood there for a long while, then smiled stiffly: "Your Majesty's words, the slaves don't understand—does your Majesty suspect that I am from the General's side?"

"It's because I don't know who you are, that's why I'm worried and have trouble sleeping and eating." Su Qingyuan said lightly.

Shuxing looked at Su Qingyuan in a daze, with tears in his eyes: "It turns out...you are really suspicious of me! Miss, Shuxing has been with you for eight years! In your eyes..."

"In my eyes, you and Danyue are the people I can trust the most, so if I die now, others will only think that I have been tricked by an assassin, and no one will suspect you. "Su Qingyuan was expressionless.

Shu Xing blushed, and knelt down slowly: "Shu Xing serves the empress with no other intentions. If the empress doesn't believe it, Shu Xing will do whatever she wants."

Su Qingyuan narrowed her eyes and stared at her for a long time.

Shuxing raised his head: "Your Majesty..."

Su Qingyuan raised the corners of her lips and smiled coldly, "You should be able to guess why I suspect you. Now, I will give you a chance to explain."

"I don't know..." Shu Xing hesitated, and argued without confidence.

Su Qingyuan's face darkened.

Shu Xing suddenly straightened up on his knees, and kowtowed heavily on the ground a few times: "If what the empress wants to ask is about the servant going out these few days... I'm sorry that the servant can't explain."

"Huh?" Su Qingyuan was a little surprised.

Shu Xing gritted his teeth and said, "May I ask you to forgive me. This servant has indeed often seen a person recently...but that person has absolutely no malice towards Madam, and this servant does not allow anyone to hurt Madam, so..."

"So you sneaked out to meet outsiders without telling me, I should pretend not to see it, and trust you unreservedly as before?" Su Qingyuan asked coldly.

Shu Xing knelt in silence for a long time, and suddenly burst into tears: "I really can't say... Your Majesty, Shu Xing is willing to be punished, please don't ask any more questions!"

Su Qingyuan frowned, and looked at her coldly: "You should know that these days, I just need to find someone to stare at you, and I can easily know who you are going to see, but I am not so Do."

Shu Xing kowtowed and said "yes", wiped his tears and said: "This servant knows that my mother has kept her face because of her affection for these years. It's just... this servant promised that person, and I will never say anything about it!"

"Because you promised that person, you can ignore my feelings?" Su Qingyuan pressed her every step of the way.

Shu Xing gritted his teeth and said: "Yes. The servant dares to swear with his life that the person has no malice towards the empress. He (she) cares more about the safety of the empress than anyone else—it's just that the servant cannot tell him (her) right now. identity."

Su Qingyuan slowly closed her eyes and let out a long sigh.

"Your Majesty..." Shu Xing hesitated to speak.

Su Qingyuan lay back on the pillow, and asked coldly, "Is it Qingluan?"

This time, Shuxing answered simply: "No!"

Su Qingyuan thought about it quietly for a long time, and when she spoke again, her voice was unexpectedly calm: "When I was locked in the firewood room by my father, who did you give that blood letter that I told you to give to Lu Li?"

Shuxing slowly bent down, touched the ground with his head, and did not speak again.

"Okay, you go down." Su Qingyuan didn't continue to ask, and waved her hand calmly.

Shuxing stood up slowly, without moving a step.

Su Qingyuan covered her head with the quilt, and said in a muffled voice: "From now on, if I didn't call you, you don't have to come to the palace to serve."

Shuxing covered his face with his hands and wept silently.

Su Qingyuan's fingertips touched the "Legend of Heroes in the Wind and Dust" under the pillow, and her heart shivered.

She couldn't believe what Shuxing said.

Can't believe a word.

The blood book, that girl might have given it to Qingluan, or it might have been given to someone else, and of course it was more likely to be destroyed quietly.

The letter that forged her handwriting and angered Lu Li might have been written by Qingluan, or it might be the person behind Shuxing, and of course it was more likely Shuxing himself.

Shu Xing's abnormalities these days may be conveying news for Qingluan, or he may be running for the person behind her, or of course it may be just playing tricks.

There is only one thing Su Qingyuan can be sure of: Shu Xing's master is no longer her.

She may have wrongly blamed Qingluan for the previous incidents, or she may not have.But in any case, Shuxing must be at least an insider.

How the situation will develop in the future, Su Qingyuan cannot predict.All she knew was that until today, Shu Xing still had no regrets.

Shuxing who grew up with her since she was a child!
After replacing her letters, destroying her hopes, and watching her collapse in despair, she can continue to act as a docile and caring sister in front of her as if nothing had happened; With such an attitude, the mentality of trying to protect the master behind her who doesn't know whether she exists--Miss Shuxing is far beyond human reach!

Su Qingyuan didn't know when Shuxing retired.The hall has been very quiet, and when she opened her eyes again, Shuxing had disappeared.

The empty Fanghua Palace was frighteningly cold.

Su Qingyuan opened her eyes wide and stared at the window.

Tonight she escaped from two assassins and managed to capture one.He should have been very happy and proud, but a deeper fear grew crazily in his heart.

An assassin is not scary, what is scary is the people around her.

A black shadow flashed in front of the window, Su Qingyuan clearly saw it, but she didn't think of how she should react at all.

By the time she realized the danger, the black shadow had already rushed to the bed.

Su Qingyuan's heart tightened, and instinctively took out a pair of scissors from under the pillow with her backhand, and swung them out with all her strength.

"A Yuan, it's me!" The black shadow grabbed her scissors and growled in a low voice.

Su Qingyuan was stunned for a moment, then froze.

On the small bedside table, the soft twilight of the luminous pearl reflected the profile of the man, and it seemed that it was indeed a familiar outline to her.

"Lu Li?" She leaned forward with all her strength, reaching out her hand towards that face.

Lu Li casually threw the scissors on the ground, and smiled wryly, "A Yuan, do you still like to use scissors to deal with me?"

Su Qingyuan shook her hand angrily, and said in a muffled voice: "I've run out of other things! I didn't know there would be a third thief coming tonight!"

Lu Li took off his boots and threw himself onto the bed, hugging Su Qingyuan's body tightly: "Ayuan, don't be afraid..."

"I'm not afraid!" Su Qingyuan said with a relaxed tone.

Lu Li was stunned for a moment, then hugged her even tighter: "Yes, you're not afraid, it's me! I thought the Fanghua Palace's defenses were tight enough, but I didn't expect that there were people who could come and go freely...Ah Yuan, what should I do if you make a mistake?"

Su Qingyuan shrank into his arms habitually, and said after a long time: "I clearly told them to tell you after dawn."

"But I told them to report back immediately if something happens." Lu Li said in a deep voice.

"So..." Su Qingyuan poked her head out of his arms.

Lu Li stood up and looked at her face: "So, you kept it from me the previous few accidents, and I haven't settled with you yet."

When mentioning "settling accounts", Su Qingyuan instinctively felt that something was wrong, and immediately decided to act first: "So you know all about it? You knew that I was frightened, but you still spoke so sarcasticly to me in the imperial study the day before yesterday?"

"Okay, count me as wrong - how do you want me to compensate you?" Lu Li actually admitted his mistake very consciously.

Su Qingyuan looked at him suspiciously.

Su Qingyuan turned pale with shock: "Hey, when will you..."

Lu Li lowered his head and kissed her from the cheek to the neck: "You didn't realize it."

Su Qingyuan pushed him away angrily: "Aren't you here to be a thief tonight? How can a thief go to bed!"

"Yes! This 'Little Thief' doesn't seek money or kill, but only steals sex. It's also known as 'Flower Picker'." Lu Li entangled him with a smile.

While dodging, Su Qingyuan frowned and said, "It turns out that you stayed on the right path and didn't go through the window in order to experience the fun of being a thief?"

"Of course. In the dead of night, the moon is dark and the wind is high, it's a special feeling to step into the empress dowager's couch through the window." Lu Li laughed hoarsely, and stripped off his clothes.

Su Qingyuan narrowed her eyes and looked at him: "Be careful, I'll call out 'catch the thief' and ask someone to come and tie you up!"

Lu Li smiled softly, and whispered softly in her ear, "As long as you are willing."

Su Qingyuan grabbed his shoulder subconsciously, her body gradually softened.

"Lu Li." She murmured.

"I'm here." Lu Li sighed softly.

"It's really you..." Su Qingyuan's eyes suddenly turned red.

Lu Li didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Otherwise...who do you think you are these days?
Lu Li lovingly kissed the corners of her teary eyes and sighed.

This woman kept saying "not afraid", but it was clear that she had been out of her mind all the time, and she did not know how much suffering she had suffered before!
It was also thanks to her being frightened, otherwise it would be no wonder that the cub, who had been hungry for several days, would not have swallowed him alive if she hadn't been able to get close for several days!

How could she be as obedient as she is now, like a docile kitten...

"You are not paying attention!" The kitten opened its eyes and complained aggrievedly.

Lu Li suddenly smiled.

Oops!The kitten is turning into a lioness again!

Sure enough, her arms gradually tightened, and her cool fingers jumped on his back.

"Ayuan..."

"Hehe..." The little lioness turned against the guest, kissed his hot ears, and smiled triumphantly.

"Ma'am, are you awake? Is there anything unusual in the palace?" A little eunuch knocked on the door and asked in a low voice.

Just as Su Qingyuan frowned, Lu Li immediately whispered in her ear, "Shut up! Don't let those people know about our business!"

Su Qingyuan held her breath in fright and closed her mouth tightly.

At this time, Lu Li moved a few times maliciously.

Su Qingyuan got angry and bit his shoulder.

The little eunuch outside the door asked twice, but retreated without hearing an answer.

Su Qingyuan let go, and stared at the tooth marks angrily: "You did it on purpose!"

"I know you like it." Lu Li whispered in her ear.

Su Qingyuan was exasperated.

The little lioness showing off her power is no small matter.

Both of them were exhausted, and they still looked at each other, neither of them convinced the other.

When the confrontation lasted until five o'clock, Lu Li sighed, "I should go."

"Little thief, when will you come next time?" Su Qingyuan put her arms around his neck and asked softly.

Lu Li touched her stomach and sighed, "There are countless people staring at her openly and secretly, so we'd better be careful."

"So, you haven't come here recently?" Su Qingyuan's face collapsed.

Lu Li sighed and said helplessly, "If there is a chance, I will come."

"What's the situation in the court?" Su Qingyuan couldn't help asking after holding back all night.

Lu Li stroked her hair reassuringly, and said with a smile, "We won't lose."

Su Qingyuan always felt a little uneasy.

Lu Li smiled lightly, "This matter will get cold soon, trust me."

Su Qingyuan smiled wryly: "My father is not a person who will give up lightly. As long as I don't die, he will not stop..."

"I'll send a few more hidden guards over tomorrow, and this kind of thing won't happen again tonight," Lu Li said in a deep voice.

Su Qingyuan frowned: "Are the people you sent over later reliable?"

"Of course." Lu Li was very sure.

"In this case, why do you still sneak in through the window, and prevent the outside from hearing..." Su Qingyuan obviously didn't believe it.

Lu Li sat up, found his clothes from the foot of the bed, and smiled, "Their loyalty is fine, but I'm afraid their mouths are not reliable. Besides, it's an eventful time, so it's not good to scare them!"

Su Qingyuan suddenly sat up and said, "Why weren't you afraid that Luoxia Tongyun Xiaolinzi's mouth would be unreliable? At that time, you... But you didn't consider whether you would scare them or not!"

"Them?" Lu Li smiled, "Everyone of them is carefully selected by me, so naturally I have no doubts about hiring them."

Su Qingyuan's eyes widened: "You choose carefully? Fanghua Palace wasn't your territory at that time! When did you start thinking about it..."

Lu Li lowered his head and cupped her face with both hands: "When? Since the day that old man decided to let you live in Fanghua Palace, I started to put people here. The day you moved in, just happened All placements are complete."

Su Qingyuan looked at him in horror.

Lu Li smiled slightly, and added: "If you want to go back even earlier - from the first day I saw you, I want to do what I just did with you [-] times."

"I was still young at that time!" Su Qingyuan roared angrily.

Lu Li gritted his teeth and said angrily, "I know you are young, so I have been holding back! Seeing my green apple grow up day by day, before I have time to be happy, you were almost picked by someone else! Do you know , How much I wanted to kill you at that time!"

"So, even though you didn't go to Su's house to save me at that time, you never planned to let go, did you?" Su Qingyuan had mixed feelings in her heart.

Lu Li said bitterly: "The old man who dared to touch me should be prepared to die!"

Su Qingyuan looked up at him: "Suppose you missed it at the beginning, and if I really followed the late emperor—what would you do?"

Lu Li stared at her for a while, then bit out two words with a dark face: "Going crazy."

(End of this chapter)