slave like jade

Chapter 181
Yu Ruyan went to find Mu Lingzhi and asked him to let her go out of the Bieyuan.

She thought he would disagree, and she really didn't have much confidence in persuading him to let her go, because she had always known that Mu Lingzhi was not only scary when angry, but also scary when he was stubborn.

So, on the way here, she had already thought of a thousand and ten thousand reasons to persuade him to let her go.

However, before he could say anything, he told her directly——

"Accompany me for the last night, I will let you go!"

It was said that Yu Ruyan had countless accidents, but also unbearable heartache!

She couldn't remember how long it had been since he called himself 'Ben Gong' in front of her, and suddenly hearing him call himself like this in front of her, Yu Ruyan was absent-minded for a moment, and her heart sank to the bottom...

Although she couldn't see the expression on Mu Lingzhi's face clearly at the moment, she could tell from his tone that he had returned to the cold-blooded and ruthless look he had a year ago when he was sent to his military camp as a military prostitute. ...

And at this time, in his eyes, he has become a poor person who can be played and discarded...

Gritting her teeth to suppress the trembling in her heart, Yu Ruyan suppressed all the words in her heart, closed her eyes without saying a word, let him hug her, and walked to the dining room together.

In the dining room, a large round table was filled with all kinds of Qi national dishes, and Yu Ruyan's favorite hot pot was tumbling in the middle.

Although she couldn't see it, she could clearly smell the aroma of the hot pot in her nose, and she also smelled the smell of braised pork that she likes...

She has mixed feelings in her heart, she doesn't understand, what is he going to do with these things now?
"Come on, open your mouth, this is your favorite braised pork!"

Feeling the slightest heat from her mouth, she knew that he had passed the braised pork to her mouth.

With her head parted involuntarily, Yu Ruyan looked calm, but her tone was icy cold.

She said coldly: "I'm not hungry, please help yourself, Your Highness!"

"...This is the beef and mutton that I just had someone slaughtered. This tripe is also the freshest and most delicious."

Mu Lingzhi handed the hot hairy belly to her mouth to feed her again, but Yu Ruyan still didn't open her mouth, and said coldly: "Thank you for your kindness, from now on, I won't eat these things again ……give up!"

The hand outstretched in the air froze, and Mu Lingzhi's hand holding the chopsticks trembled slightly, but finally couldn't hold the thin hairy belly, and let it fall on the table...

After a long time, his deep voice sounded slowly, and he said coldly: "I hope you will do what you say, and forget all the people and things that should not be remembered in your mind, and forget them completely."

"Similarly, from today onwards, I will also forget everything before..."

When he said this, there was no warmth in his voice, but a bone-chilling chill.

Hearing this, Yu Ruyan's whole body was icy cold, and her heart was in a tearing pain, she gritted her teeth to suppress the coldness all over her body, tried her best to raise a smile and said: "Thank you for your earnest instructions, if there is nothing else, I will go down and rest first. We have to hurry tomorrow morning!"

After all, Yu Ruyan didn't care whether he agreed or not, she left with Chunhua Qiuyue, leaving Mu Lingzhi and the table of food that was carefully prepared but had no time to move a chopstick...

The cold wind whizzed past, and the heavy snow swayed wantonly between the sky and the earth.

This night's snowstorm was the biggest and most violent snowstorm since the beginning of winter...

Thinking about leaving Bieyuan and Daliang completely tomorrow, Yu Ruyan could not sleep all night listening to the terrifying sound of wind and snow outside...

But outside the window, in the freezing weather, a lonely figure stood outside the window for the whole night...

The biggest snowfall after winter has passed, the sky that had been hazy for a long time finally cleared up, and the sun, which has not shown its face for a long time, finally came out.

After the heavy snowfall last night, the snow on the road was knee-high.But even so, it can't stop Ruyan's determination to leave, and it can't stop the people of the entire Eastern Capital from guarding the vegetable market again early in the morning, waiting to see the third prince cut off the head of the blind fifth princess of Daqi with his own hands. , pay homage to Empress Xie...

And the eldest prince Mu Yunzhi, Mu Peng and his party have been waiting here early, waiting for noon to kill Yu Ruyan!
Mu Ziyue stared at Caishikou anxiously and flustered, waiting for Mu Lingzhi to personally bring Yu Ruyan over.

However, her heart was even more flustered than the last time Mu Ling's blood washed the execution ground. She always felt that there must be another sudden change here today...

Everyone in the entire Eastern Capital is waiting for the five princesses of Daqi to pay for Queen Xie's life, but the person involved doesn't know anything about it.

Early in the morning, Yu Ruyan quietly left from Bieyuan in an ordinary Qingyuan carriage...

Mu Lingzhi did what he said, after yesterday night, he never made things difficult for her again, and let her leave with Chunhua and Qiuyue.

Listening to the 'creaking' sound of the wheels crushing the snow outside, when Chunhua told Yu Ruyan that they were about to arrive at the city gate, Yu Ruyan was both happy and sad. She was happy that she could finally escape from Dongdu. Escape from all that is terrible in Daliang...

However, the grief in her heart far exceeded this joy. Although she already resented Mu Lingzhi's unfeeling towards her, at the thought of parting forever, the buried deepest part of her heart slowly tore apart. It split open, revealing a bloody wound...

After Mu Lingzhi silently followed the carriage until he watched her exit the city gate smoothly, his heart was finally relieved!
Seeing the carriage disappearing from sight, even though he felt a lot of reluctance and pain in his heart, compared to letting her live well, he would rather hide all the truth and let her have hatred for him in her heart leave.Only in this way, will she gradually forget herself and live a brand new life...

In the next moment, he turned his horse's head and headed for the execution platform resolutely!

At three o'clock at three o'clock, one of Mu Ling appeared on the execution ground at Caishikou. He was usually dressed in plain onyx, and he got off his horse. Regardless of the discussions of the surrounding people, he went straight to the high platform and faced the supervisor. Xie Anhou, the beheading officer appointed by the King of Liang, knelt down and pleaded guilty: "The guilty minister, Mu Lingzhi, accepted the punishment of beheading on behalf of Princess Yu Ruyan, in order to apologize to the Queen Mother!"

After all, kowtow to Xie Anhou, who is the younger brother of Empress Xie, his own uncle to plead guilty!
As soon as this remark came out, Xie Anhou couldn't help being stunned, even the onlookers were stunned, and Mu Ziyue, who was standing by the side, felt a chill in her heart when she saw him go to the execution ground alone. Hearing that he still called Yu Ruyan a 'Princess', and now that he was going to die for Yu Ruyan, I was filled with grief and resentment to the extreme——

She knew how he was reluctant to kill that bitch, but she never expected that he would trade his life for hers because of that bitch!

On that day, he personally went out of the palace to Caishikou to stop his brothers from killing each other. King Liang was hit by a snowstorm, and his health has not recovered in the past two days, so he had to appoint Xie Anhou to supervise and kill Yu Ruyan today.

Because Xie Anhou is the uncle of the country and Mu Lingzhi's biological uncle, I believe that in Daliang today, besides the King of Liang, Mu Lingzhi is the only one who can listen to his words.

Xie Anhou's temperament is similar to that of Empress Xie, otherwise he would not have taught a daughter with a hot temper like Xie Yuhan, let alone because he was afraid that he would beat him, the chief of Yuhan County would secretly go to Daqi to marry Chen Yiqing with a dowry up!

Therefore, Xie Anhou with such a fiery temper couldn't accept the sudden death of his sister who had just become empress a few days ago, and at the same time hated Yu Ruyan who killed his sister.

So, today he came here with the intention of avenging his own sister. He waited here early in the morning, hoping that Mu Lingzhi would bring Yu Ruyan to him, and he would immediately send someone to kill her, cut off her head, and pay homage to her. own sister!
Unexpectedly, after waiting all morning, she didn't see half of the princess Da Qi, but instead, her nephew came and wanted to die for the witch!
The anger in Xie Anhou's heart immediately rose, he stood up with a 'hoo', and rushed in front of Mu Lingzhi. He could no longer hold back the anger in his heart. This nephew, whom he valued and liked the most, began to curse——

"You fool, did that witch give you the ecstasy soup, and let you protect her like this, not only did not avenge your mother, but now you want to die instead of that witch?! It's simply unreasonable , Incredible!"

Xie Anhou usually likes his young, promising, brave and invincible nephew the most. Whenever he mentions Mu Lingzhi, he always looks proud and joyful, happier than talking about his own son.

But now, seeing him sinking into such a quagmire because of a mother-killing enemy, unwilling to extricate himself, Xie Anhou was furious, and couldn't help raising his hands high, wishing he could slap him awake!
But in front of the entire Dongdu people, he finally refused to touch Mu Lingxia, and withdrew his palm as big as a palm fan angrily.

The next moment, he glared at Mu Lingzhi and said sharply: "The state owns the state law, and the family has family rules. You are the third prince of the great beam, and you can't tell the difference between the country and the family for personal reasons. Not only do you not kill enemies for your mother To take revenge, and to cover up the enemy again and again, and now let the murderer go without permission! In terms of emotion and reason, you are already intolerable by the laws of the country, and the laws of your family are not allowed!"

"If you repent now and turn around and hand over that demon girl, uncle is willing to personally plead with your father and let you go. If you insist on this..."

"No need, I've made up my mind, uncle doesn't need to say more!"

No matter how much anger is in his heart, Xie Anhou still wants to find a step for him to walk down, thinking that he is his own nephew, but before he finished speaking, Mu Lingzhi interrupted him without hesitation , he actually wasted all his painstaking efforts, resolutely refusing to hand over Yu Ruyan!
Mu Lingzhi looked at the furious Xie Anhou with a firm expression, and said calmly, "The time has come, please Xie Anhou to issue the beheading order!"

Xie Anhou was completely disappointed in him, and the last trace of pity for him was gone in his heart, and he said in a cold voice: "Okay, since you insist on dying, uncle will help you."

"However, you are my sister's biological son after all. Before you die, I will take you to your mother's coffin to plead guilty. After that, I will personally chop off your head in front of the queen's coffin with a knife in honor of my sister."

"Heaven and earth are witnesses, I thank Anhou for doing what I say!"

Xie Anhou was originally a first-rank official in the imperial court, a noble uncle, and a general who strictly enforced the law. Therefore, in front of the people of the city, what he said would definitely be followed by what he said. !
Hearing this, the onlookers were in an uproar, but Mu Ziyue's legs softened, and she was so anxious that she couldn't stand still.

The person involved, Mu Lingzhi, was not only not sad, but calmly kowtowed and said, "Thank you, Uncle, for your success!"

Xie Anhou was so disappointed in him that he didn't even want to look at him again, he snatched the steel knife from the executioner, stepped off the stage and walked towards the mourning hall of Empress Xie in the palace.

Mu Lingzhi got up calmly, followed behind him, and walked towards the palace together...

Seeing this, Mu Ziyue was completely panicked——

Xie Anhou is famous for being a man of one word and one word for what he says, and he still said it in front of everyone in Dongdu, and he brought the steel knife for beheading. This time I really will die in front of Empress Xie's coffin...

Thinking of this, Mu Ziyue was flustered and confused, and was about to follow him to the palace.At this moment, Die Xiang ran over from a distance, and whispered a few words in her ear with a panicked expression.

Hearing this, Mu Ziyue's face turned pale, and her eyes shone coldly. The next moment, she was on her horse, raised high the exquisite riding whip inlaid with various gemstones in her hand, lashed hard on the horse's back, and galloped towards the gate of the city. and go...

The road was blocked by snow, and after leaving the city, the snow on the official road was even thicker, directly buried half the height of the wheel, but even so, Chunhua and Qiuyue kept urging the driver to drive faster, for fear that there would be pursuers behind. of.

In the carriage, Chunhua poured a cup of hot tea for Yu Ruyan to drink, and asked, "Master, where are we going after leaving the city? Are we going back to the Daqi Palace?"

Hearing this, Yu Ruyan was stunned while holding the water glass——

I still remember that half a year ago, when she left Daliang with Brother An and the knife, Brother An asked her this way. At that time, she thought that she would never return to Daliang.

At that time, she was sad and desperate, thinking that she would never come back again, but unexpectedly, after going around in circles, she returned to Daliang, but within half a year, she left in pain and despair...

At that time, she was accompanied by Xiao Dao and An Ge. Although Chunhua Qiuyue was by her side now, she still felt sad and lonely in her heart, and she didn't know where she was going to live in this state.

She definitely doesn't want to go back to the Daqi Palace, one is because she doesn't want her concubine to see her so pitiful, and she doesn't want to be a burden to her because she is blind.

The imperial palace is a place where human bones are buried. Now that she can't see, how can she survive?
Thinking of this, she silently thought about all the places she could go, and finally said helplessly: "Go back to Putuo Temple in Daqi!"

After hearing her words, Chunhua nodded in response, took the brocade quilt and covered her body, Qiuyue helped her put a soft pillow, and said: "Master didn't rest well last night, let's take a nap while it's still early!"

Yu Ruyan didn't sleep all night, Yiyan leaned on the soft cushion, half asleep and half awake.

Suddenly, the well-moving carriage stopped suddenly. Chunhua and Qiuyue thought that the wheels were stuck in the pile again, and hurried out to help the driver push the cart together. However, when they opened the curtain and went out, they were stunned. up.

In front of the carriage, Mu Ziyue was riding on the horse with a frosty face, her pretty face was flushed by the cold wind, but she didn't feel the cold at all, the anger and jealousy in her heart had completely burned her...

Seeing her murderous look, Chunhua and Qiuyue were already stunned, and blocked the carriage with their bodies by coincidence, but before they could speak to remind Yu Ruyan to be careful, Mu Ziyue swung the horsewhip in her hand, throwing them off the shaft down...

Another blow of the whip, with a sound of 'swish', the whip rolled away the curtain of the car, and the cold sound instantly 'huh' poured into the carriage, waking up Yu Ruyan who was in a daze.

She suddenly felt the fierce murderous aura rushing towards her face, before she could react, Mu Ziyue wrapped her hand with a whip, dragged her out of the carriage, and fell into the snow as well.

"Bitch!" Mu Ziyue vomited blood with hatred in her heart, looked at Yu Ruyan who was rolling in the snow and scolded fiercely: "I thought you at least still loved Ling Zhi, but I didn't expect that you would kill yourself to escape. As soon as he left, leaving him to go to the guillotine for you and pay for your life, you are simply hateful!"

Upon hearing Mu Ziyue's voice, Yu Ruyan's whole body shook, and after hearing her words, she was so shocked that she couldn't believe it.

Climbing up from the snow in a panic, she opened her empty eyes and lost her voice: "What are you talking about? Why go to the guillotine? Why pay for my life?"

Seeing her ignorant and astonished description, Mu Ziyue already understood in her heart that Mu Lingzhi must have done all this without telling Yu Ruyan, and the jealousy in her heart suddenly became stronger, and she gritted her teeth: "Three days ago, Your Majesty He wanted your dog's life to be the queen's life, but Ling Zhi blinded you and promised to offer your head in three days as a memorial to the queen. However, the three-day period came, and today he went to the execution ground alone , and even asked to pay for your life, now... now I have been brought to the coffin of Queen Xie to confess my guilt, and then I will chop off my head to apologize..."

Hearing this, Yu Ruyan's heart brightened, and she immediately understood why he didn't allow her to leave the other garden before, but today she promised to let her go.

Moreover, the journey since leaving the city just now has been extremely smooth. It turned out that he sacrificed his life to cover up all this for her...

Her heart ached, and it was only at this moment that she suddenly thought that Liang Wang had clearly ordered her to be killed, why he didn't pursue her later, it turned out that he was the one who tried his best to protect her...

Thinking of the unfeeling words I said to him last night, and the meals he cooked for me before leaving, tears rolled down my eyes instantly.

She begged Mu Ziyue: "Miss Mu, please, take me back quickly, what King Liang wants is my life, as long as I go back, King Liang will definitely forgive Ling Zhi..."

"It's unnecessary!"

Before he finished speaking, Mu Ziyue coldly interrupted him.The deepest hatred flashed in her eyes, and in the next second, she jumped off the horse, took a sharp dagger from the horse, walked up to Yu Ruyan step by step, gritted her teeth and said: " As long as Ling Zhi is around, you will never die. Therefore, I might as well cut off your head and bring it back here, as long as you see your head, His Majesty will naturally forgive Ling Zhi!"

After saying that, he stepped forward and grabbed Yu Ruyan's hair, forcing her to raise her neck, aiming at her slender neck with a sharp blade and severing it...

Yu Ruyan's whole body was icy cold, and at this moment, in this vast snow field, the two maids and the coachman beside her were all injured by Mu Ziyue's horsewhip. Even if she wanted to save her, it was too late...

But when she thought that she could save Mu Lingzhi as long as she died, Yu Ruyan felt no trace of fear in her heart, and closed her eyes in resignation...

"what……"

But the next moment, before the dagger in Mu Ziyue's hand could be swung down, a thin silver needle pierced into Mu Ziyue's left eye with a 'poof' sound, causing her whole body to twitch in pain. , the dagger in his hand could no longer be held, and fell into the snow with a bang...

Mu Ziyue covered her left eye, which was blinded by the silver needle, with both hands, and screamed in the snow.And the blood flowing from her eyes dyed the white snow around her red as she rolled...

In the next moment, the two superb riders approached quickly, and before the galloping bloody BMW stopped, the young man in white on the horse flew down from the horse like lightning.

He picked up Yu Ruyan in the snow, and when he saw her pair of eyes that were empty but full of tears, the young man in white trembled all over his body. Yu Ruyan hugged her into her arms, and said sadly and guiltily: "I'm sorry, I'm late! I'm sorry..."

The expected pain didn't come, but Mu Ziyue's painful cry came from next to her ear.

When she heard a familiar yet somewhat unfamiliar voice, she recovered from her daze and said in disbelief, "Who are you? Big Brother!"

Yue Yu's eyes never left Yu Ruyan's pair of empty and lifeless pupils, the more he looked at him, the more heartbroken he was.

He held back the pain in his heart and choked up: "It's me, I'm back, I'm back to protect you, I won't let anyone hurt you again, I will... and heal your eyes too!"

"Brother Yue Yue." She hadn't heard this warm voice for a long time, and Yu Ruyan felt endless sadness in her heart, she suddenly grabbed Yue Yu's hand, and said in a trembling voice: "Hurry up, take me back to the Eastern Capital, Ling Zhi He went to the guillotine for me, I want to go back and save him, I can't let him die..."

Hearing this, Yue Yu's expression was startled, the next moment he understood something, without further ado, he quickly hugged her up and put her on the horse's back.

Just as she was about to ride away, Mu Ziyue, who had been crying and howling, suddenly saw Yue Yu's face clearly.Her whole body was shaken, as if she had seen a ghost, she was so frightened that she even forgot the pain of blindness in her left eye, she pointed at Yue Yu in disbelief and said, "You are...you are?!!"

Looking at the familiar yet unfamiliar face in front of her, Mu Ziyue was so shocked that she couldn't say the word 'Prince Yi'!

This time, Yue Yu was originally in the south for Mu Lingzhi to collect evidence that Mu Xiang and the eldest prince corrupted the law, but when the news came that Yu Ruyan had killed Empress Xie, he was anxious and couldn't care about anything else, so he hurried to The east is rushing.

And when he arrived halfway, he had already heard the news that Mu Lingzhi had stabbed Yu Ruyan blind with his own hands.

At that time, he felt pain and anger in his heart, resenting how Mu Lingzhi could put such a heavy hand on Yu Ruyan.

But now, when he heard Yu Ruyan's words, his quick-witted mind instantly understood everything, knowing that what Mu Lingzhi did before was just to save Yu Ruyan's life...

And he, in order to save Yu Ruyan, came to Beijing this time, but he showed the face of Prince Yi, so Mu Ziyue was shocked beyond measure!
On the horse's back, Yue Yu wrapped Yu Ruyan in his cloak, looked at Mu Ziyue who was blind in the snow with his cold eyes, deep disgust flashed in his eyes!

He didn't answer her words, but said coldly: "Although the eyes of the fifth princess were stabbed blind by the third highness, it was all caused by your conspiracy behind it."

"So, today I took your left eye first, and temporarily left your other one. I want you to see what will happen to you and those despicable and vicious people who have harmed Xiaoyu in the end."

After all, he never bothered Mu Ziyue who was in pain anymore, raised his whip to urge his mount, and brought Yu Ruyan back to Dongdu to save Mu Lingzhi!
(End of this chapter)