cut love silk

Chapter 70

Chapter 61 Chapter 57

The cold wind burst into the Great Phoenix Palace with ice and snow, and several palace lanterns were extinguished. The bright hall suddenly became darker. Li Zihe's originally expressionless face became even more gloomy. Yun Jinyan's words did not appear on her face. There was the slightest wave on the ground, eyes lowered, dense long eyelashes casting a shadow, trembling slightly, suddenly raised his eyes, looked straight at Yun Jinyan, and smiled lightly from the corner of his mouth: "You want to tell me, is Shen Mo 'forced' you to destroy the Jifu? Including the Nine Clans?"

The sharp light in Li Zihe's eyes made Yun Jinyan tighten his grip on her. He didn't expect Li Zihe to retort so calmly. He was a little dazed, but he came back to his senses in a moment, and pulled her hand away with a smile. Clutching her hand firmly, ignoring the courtiers kneeling on the ground and the concubine behind her, she dragged her away quickly on the carpet.

Li Zihe didn't want to make himself too embarrassed, so he almost trotted to keep up with him. He didn't need to raise his eyes to know that he was walking towards the Dragon Xuan Palace. He twitched his wrist hard, but he clasped it tighter and tighter.

"Ji's family? Infiltrate the palace incognito for revenge?"

After entering the Dragon Xuan Palace, Yun Jinyan flicked his left hand and waved his long sleeve, Li Zihe was thrown on the ground hard, his hands were tingled, and spots of redness were wiped on the ground, enduring the pain and trying to get up, his legs moved, Stretched tendons and fractured bones, unable to move after half propped up, just looked at Yun Jinyan with a disdainful smile and said: "I really want to see what you can come up with, but the result is to steal your house The ashes of Miss Ji's queen? Stealing Ji's maid? It's ridiculous!"

Li Zihe lowered his eyes and remained silent.

"I've thought of everything for you. If you stay by my side every day in the future, you'll have more chances to seek revenge from me. Do you think what I said is reasonable?" Yun Jinyan stood, looking down at Li Zihe condescendingly.

Li Zihe smiled, wiped his hands, and nodded lightly: "It's true."

Yun Jinyan raised his eyebrows, and looked at Li Zihe's face carefully with his hands behind his back: "Aren't you curious how I know your identity and see through your plan?"

"It doesn't matter, defeat is defeat, I admit it." Li Zihe replied calmly without changing his face.

"Haha..." Yun Jinyan laughed, but the smile didn't melt into his eyes: "It's really Shen Mo's apprentice, with such similar temperaments!
No wonder he treats you as a treasure, but... tell me, what expression will he have when he hears that you have been named concubine? "

Li Zihe's eyes flickered, he turned his eyes away, propped himself up and moved his legs, still in severe pain, frowned, and didn't move at all, but Yun Jinyan suddenly approached her, bent down, and hugged her with both hands , smiled and said: "Such a weak body is really pitiful, no wonder Shen Mo will be tempted by you..."

Yun Jinyan was still looking at Li Zihe's expression, her body was a little stiff, but she didn't dodge or dodge, she didn't resist or struggle, and let him hug her to the side of the couch.

"Actually, I'm very curious, which branch of Ji's family would give birth to such a persistent and bold daughter like you?" Yun Jinyan put down Li Zihe, and gently slid his fingertips across her face, with a warm breath, along the way. Follow the facial lines, slide over the neck, wrap around the collarbone...

"Does the emperor want Zihe to go to bed now?" Li Zihe opened his eyes and looked at the bright yellow curtain above his head. He was lying flat on the couch, his hands hidden in his sleeves clenched into fists, and he tried his best to restrain his trembling. Inadvertently indifferent, with a little mocking smile.

Yun Jinyan's hand stopped, his deep eyes met Li Zihe's, and he chuckled suddenly: "Zihe? Li Zihe...Ji Li? With this name, you want to tell me that you are here for Ji Li ? Giving you the name of Concubine Li is not in vain for your painstaking efforts to use this name..."

Li Zihe didn't seem to hear it, so he turned his eyes away and remained silent.

"It doesn't matter if you don't say it now." Yun Jinyan stood up, bent down, pinched Li Zihe's chin, and forced her to meet his eyes: "From now on, I will have plenty of time to find out about you!"

After finishing speaking, he shook off Li Zihe, put his hands behind his back, and walked away.

Li Zihe's body that forced himself to relax finally slowed down completely, his stiff fingers loosened one by one, squinting at the occasional crackling candles, his eyes gradually became colder, and then there was a faint sadness, but it was about to overflow his eyes She closed her eyes for a moment, turned her face away, and buried her deeply in the pillow.

Three days later, Yun Jinyan, regardless of the objections of the ministers, insisted on conferring the imperial physician Li Zihe as a concubine, and bestowing it on the Chenlu Palace. A female doctor disguised herself as a man and lurked in the Imperial Hospital, and she was named a concubine overnight. As a medical official, he recuperates in the mansion of Prince Pingxi in Yundu.

The Qinzheng Hall was filled with smoke, and the two sat cross-legged on the low couch, holding a piece in hand, looking at the chessboard in front of them without saying a word.

"I said, why do you have to keep that Li Zihe? You just named her a concubine? Knowing that she is from Ji's family, wouldn't it be easier to kill her!" Yun Huan stroked his beard, looked at Yun Jinyan with a smile, his eyes glistening.

Yun Jinyan seemed to be scrutinizing the chess game carefully, and did not raise his eyes: "Uncle Huang is afraid that I will be hurt by her? Haha, she is just a little girl, what can I do? As for Nafei, uncle knows the reason, and asked me for what?"

"Ahem..." Yun Huan pretended to cough twice, and then said puzzled, "Then why did you have trouble with Shen Mo? He also has no intention of competing with you for power. What's the benefit of provoking him like this?"

Yun Jinyan's eyes darkened, but he remained silent.

Yun Huan sighed heavily: "It's true that words of love hurt people... Shen Mo is in vain as a genius doctor. He is seriously ill, but he is helpless. I heard that the coughing sound lasted all night. Everyone in Pingxi Palace..."

"Why did the uncle talk about him to me? I hate him, that's all." Yun Jinyan put down the word, raised his eyes and said in displeasure.

Yun Huan looked at Yun Jinyan's expression, shook his head and chuckled: "Just to remind you, don't touch 'love' lightly."

Yun Jinyan laughed at himself: "Uncle Huang thinks, who else can tempt me now?"

"That's right...haha, I was worrying too much!" Yun Huan laughed, looked at the chess game again, he had already lost more than half of it, and simply shook his hands and said, "I can't play anymore, I'm old, I can't play against you."

"Uncle Huang is too modest." Yun Jinyan didn't force it, and started to accept the chess.

"By the way, didn't you say that you can catch King Pingxi this time?" Yun Huan wanted to get up, but suddenly thought of something, and sat back to ask.

Yun Jinyan's face froze, he pondered for a while and said: "That day, they planned to let King Pingxi get drunk and bring that important thing out of the palace, but the people who sent to stop them didn't find anything from him. , the group of assassins in the cold palace also went in the completely opposite direction to King Pingxi. According to the previous assumption, if something in the palace was found on him, of course he could be used. I didn't find it, but I was wrong..."

"That is to say, the whole plan missed a fortune?"

Yun Jinyan shook his head, and thoughtfully said: "The Taoyao Palace was on fire, the assassin hijacked it, King Pingxi was drunk, Shen Mo sent him back to the mansion, someone broke into the Leng Palace, why did Li Zi want to leave the palace through the south gate... everything is right It's normal for them to have some time errors, maybe if I have more patience and search Ping Xiwang's body later, I can find that jar of ashes..."

"Then why are you still searching for the cold palace these days?"

"I always feel that something is wrong..." Yun Jinyan frowned slightly: "We sent people to guard the Leng Palace before, and the Yulin Army discovered the strange movement, but failed to catch the person. If it is Shen Mo's person..."

"Wait!" Yun Huan stretched out his hand to stop Yun Jinyan's words: "You said that Shen Mo, is it okay? If it is said that he wants to grab the ashes, he loves Ji Li, so it is reasonable to come to grab someone, but now it is a The jar of ashes, why did he grab the ashes? If it was Li Zi, why would he want to grab the ashes? No matter how you say it, he has a blood feud with Ji's family, so he can help her so unscrupulously?"

"Hehe, Uncle Huang forgot what he said just now?"

"The word love hurts people?" Yun Huan suddenly realized, and shook his head again and again: "Hey, the word love, I didn't understand it when it was used by the emperor, and I still don't understand it now..."

"Uncle Huang, Jin Yan has something to ask, would Uncle Huang want to hear it?" Speaking of the first emperor, Yun Jinyan seemed reluctant to mention it, interrupting the handshake.

Yun Huan laughed and said: "You and my uncle and nephew, what are you paying attention to in private, let's just say it."

"The matter of the Leng Palace, I always feel that something has been overlooked by me... But the Imperial Forest Army has searched vigorously for so many days, but they haven't found anything. I'm afraid it will still be fruitless if I continue. Can the emperor go to the Leng Palace to investigate secretly in his free time? Fan?"

"Haha, no problem! Maybe I will discover some shocking secret! Haha..." Yun Huan laughed heartily, his face flushed.

"One more thing, the old department of the Gu family that Uncle Huang took over, is it safe?"

"It's okay!" Yun Huan waved his big hand and said cheerfully, "I've led troops for so many years anyway, who dares to disobey me? In a few days, I'll go out of the cloud and go to various military camps to inspect, and the morale of the soldiers will be stable!"

"That's good." Yun Jinyan smiled and nodded.

"Zheng Ying, what are you going to do with it?" Yun Huan stopped laughing and asked seriously.

Yun Jinyan raised his eyebrows, and suddenly thought of Li Zihe's female attire this morning, with sleeves and skirt, black hair on the temples, slender figure, light makeup, reminiscent of plum blossoms blooming quietly in the snow, it is eye-catching.

He lowered his eyelids to hide his smile: "How to deal with him? Of course, it will be decided by those who help me get rid of him."

Li Zi He Qing was dressed in casual clothes, with only a wooden hairpin in his hair, and looked indifferent, followed by a group of court ladies and eunuchs, marching to the punishment department.

"Back when Zheng Ying took away a group of Ji Xiang's disciples and turned against Ji's family, he was one of your enemies. Don't you want revenge? How about giving you a chance to get rid of him yourself?"

Early this morning, Yun Jinyan went to the Chenlu Hall in the next court. After saying such a sentence, why did Li Zi chuckle, he thought she would refuse?Think she dare not kill with her own hands?As everyone knows, killing people is not the first time...

She nodded without hesitation, and she saw a flash of surprise in Yun Jinyan's eyes.

How could she refuse to personally get rid of those who had harmed the Ji family, something that she has been dreaming about day and night for six years?

Everyone in the Department of Punishments must have received the order. When they saw Li Zihe coming, they knelt down to pay respects. Li Zihe was in a daze for a moment. How many years ago, she was in the palace. Time is a symbol of what kind of honor and favor?Now it seems that everything has returned to the starting point, she has entered Yun Jinyan's harem again, she used to be the only one, but now she is one of them, she loved him before, but now she hates him.

Zheng Ying was locked on the torture rack, her whole body was dirty, but she obviously hadn't been tortured yet, she hurriedly raised her head when she heard voices, her lips were dry, her complexion was pale, her face was haggard, her eyes were still shining with hope, why did she turn dark when she saw Li Zi? After going down, seeing Li Zihe dressed in women's clothes again, his eyes widened instantly, his lips trembling and he couldn't speak.

What attracted Li Zihe's eyes was not the embarrassed Zheng Ying, but a gleam of light in the room, the man in white clothes who seemed to be the only clean existence, and the man in the wheelchair still looked at her with a faint smile.

Li Zihe lowered his eyelids, glanced at the whip next to the torture rack, walked over quickly, held it in his hand, summoned up his strength, and raised his hand to whip the whip.

"Ah! You..." Zheng Ying screamed, her face was flushed red from the pain, and there was a long bloodstain on her upper body from the left shoulder to the right. , Another whip.

Li Zihe raised his arm, put it down, raised it, and put it down again, causing dust to rise in the room, screaming endlessly, arm soreness, breath clogging his heart, tears filling the air...

Not for Ji Li, not for Ji's family, but for Mu Pianwu.

In the haze, he saw the dark face again, grinning at himself, and seeing the bottom of the golden sycamore tree, he took his hand and put it in the palm of his hand: "From now on, I will protect you."

But he said that people change.

The white clothes fluttering in the cold wind, the frail back, the bleak smile on the corner of the mouth, the gloomy glint in the eyes, have changed. They have changed a long time ago. They are no longer that Xiaowu who runs freely in the rain, no longer that kind and clean The little Wu in front of her is no longer the Xiao Wu who only protects Xiao Yu, all of this is because of this person in front of her!
His hand tightened suddenly, and the hand that was about to shake the whip was stopped by someone, and he saw Mu Pianwu in a blur, his dark eyes were bottomless, the smile on his face disappeared, and he said lightly: "Enough is enough." , he fainted."

Only then did Li Zihe come back to his senses, blinked, and the tears in his eyes fell. Seeing the bloody Zheng Ying, he shook his hand, and the whip fell to the ground, leaving a bloodstain.

Withdrew his hand in a daze, turned around and wanted to leave, Mu Pianwu stopped and shouted: "You, do you want to ask me anything?"

Li Zihe turned his back to Mu Pianwu, but he couldn't stop his tears. He restrained his sobs, took a deep breath, couldn't hold back the doubts in his heart, and asked softly, "Why?"

Mu Pianwu drooped her eyes, lowered her head, as if in deep thought, and remained silent.

Li Zihe turned around suddenly, wiped away his tears, and looked straight at Mu Pianwu: "The phoenix rains, perches under the tree, abandons my parents, and Wu protects you... Wutong rains, perches under the tree, abandons my parents, I protect you, Have you ever remembered the promise under the plane tree?"

Mu Pianwu trembled all over, raised her head, her complexion became even paler, with no trace of blood on her lips, she suddenly laughed: "Back then? The promise under the plane tree? Haha, do you know how many times I have regretted it over the years? Blame yourself, regret that you were so stupid, regret that you were so naive and ridiculous, I will fulfill your life, who will pay back my life?"

The disappointment in Li Zihe's eyes turned into desperation, rippling in circles, mixed with pain, filled with mist, and lowered his eyes: "I said I would help you...why, you don't believe me?"

"Why?" Mu Pianwu chuckled, turned the wheelchair, avoiding Li Zihe's eyes: "Who do you think you are? A medical boy? An imperial doctor? Why get rid of the prime minister and save me from the house?"

"So you choose Yun Jinyan?"

"A good bird chooses a tree to live in." Mu Pianwu replied without hesitation.

Li Zihe choked, what Mu Pianwu said, she had no position to refute, it was she who caused Mu Pianwu to be tortured with a cane and crippled his leg, it was she who caused him to be abandoned outside the city, but she couldn't find him back, if it wasn't for Zheng Ying , he was already dead, she ruined a clean child, what position is there to blame?
There was a wry smile on the corner of her mouth, rather than saying that Zheng Ying ruined Xiao Wu, it is better to say that it was herself...

Blinking his sore eyes, Li Zihe said softly: "If I said... I could really save you, would you... choose this way?"

"What if? There is no what if in this world." Mu Pianwu always turned his back to Li Zihe, his voice was flat, even with a hint of coldness, the dim light outlined his weakened shoulders.

Li Zihe laughed at himself, his steps seemed extremely heavy, when he saw Mu Pianwu for the second time, he had already made a choice, didn't he?No wonder that night Yun Jinyan specially announced her pulse diagnosis, no wonder he deliberately held her hand, saying that she was comparable to a woman, no wonder he kept probing again and again... It turned out that he had known her from Mu Pianwu's mouth a long time ago. It's a woman!

"Don't you think you are ridiculous?" Mu Pianwu's voice came again: "A woman, single-handed and alone, why should she take revenge?"

Li Zihe stopped in his tracks, turned around, and resolutely said: "What about a woman? What about being alone? What about being ridiculous? Maybe I have no power, no power, no wisdom, no plan, what I have is just one life, and I can't get rid of it. The hatred is not settled, even if you fight to the death, you will die physically and mentally, and I will ask him to pay for it with blood!"

(End of this chapter)