away from the heart

Chapter 5
In the middle of the night, Bai Liqi was still guarding the door, waiting anxiously.Where did the general go tonight, and why hasn't he returned home?Hearing someone tap on the door knocker, he hastily opened the door. Xue Yao, dressed in night clothes, came in with his hands on his shoulders, and went straight to the study.

Bai Liqi took out the arrowhead, skillfully stopped the bleeding and bandaged the wound.Xue Yao's face remained unchanged, as if he couldn't feel the pain, but there was a dense layer of sweat on his forehead.Bai Liqi glanced at the bloody arrow that was taken out, and seeing the royal mark imprinted on it, he said in amazement: "The general has entered the palace? Since Xizhao's triumphant return, the people have supported you, and the emperor is already very afraid of the Xue family. Why do you do this?" Hastily entered the palace to investigate?"

Xue Yao handed him a piece of letterhead: "I found this unfinished letter when I was packing up my brother's belongings during the day."

"On the [-]th night of extreme heat, we need to send heavy troops to guard the brook pavilion..." Bai Liqi's expression suddenly changed, "Isn't that just tonight? The general rushed into the palace because of this?"

After hearing what Xue Yao had just seen and heard in the palace, Bai Liqi thought for a while: "There are not many princesses under the emperor's knees... You said that the name is Chuyue, and it should be the orphan of the former great master, who was adopted by the emperor as a foster daughter. The one in the palace has never been favored, and he only made good friends with Xu Xingchen, the king of Shun. The emperor is afraid that he will thoroughly investigate the assassination. If the princess wakes up, can she recognize the general? In order to avoid future troubles, or arrange People took her..."

Xue Yao shook his head: "Don't move her for now. Brother already knew that there would be an assassin tonight, and this assassin even recognized him. Now that he came to assassinate her again, I don't know what the relationship is."

Xu Chuyue...Xue Yao stared at the familiar handwriting on the letter paper, thinking.He has carefully checked all the belongings of his brother, and there is no mention of this princess in a single word, and he has never heard of the two getting acquainted. He will still look for opportunities to visit her in the future, and he does not know when she will wake up. come over.

He thought of the scene where Chuyue received a poisoned dart for him, a woman who had no strength to restrain her, dared to stand up.After being poisoned and fainted, she was lying in her arms, her bloodless and pale face was really like the rising moon.

"The tomb of the virtuous brother Xue Mu".

Xue Yao caressed the inscription on the tombstone with his fingertips.These words were engraved by him with his own hands, and the weight of each stroke still weighs heavily on the bottom of his heart.At that time, he fought in Xizhao for several years and finally won the triumphant return. The people in the capital were decorated with lanterns and festoons, and shouted the name of Xue Jiajun.The emperor took care of him in the palace, and piles of rewards were waiting for him, but he didn't care about it.What he cared about was that he could see his elder brother after entering the palace, and told his elder brother that he had won the battle. He did not disappoint his elder brother and his parents.

But the elder brother is not in the palace.The emperor sat high on the dragon chair, showing regret: "A few days ago, the Yinghua Palace caught fire at night. Commander Xue died in the sea of ​​fire in order to save the royal ancestral tablet. It is a pity. But Consul Xue is extremely loyal, It can be regarded as a worthy death, the general must not be too sad."

The emperor was suspicious, and it was impossible to let both Xue brothers be in the army.It was for his future that the elder brother gave up his ambitions and invited himself into the palace to be a commander of the guards, staying under the emperor's eyes all the time.He knows better than anyone else his elder brother's character and skills.In order to save the royal ancestral tablets, he was burned to death in Yinghua Hall?He doesn't believe it.But now that the emperor has made a conclusion, he can only accept it obediently, and secretly search for clues.

(End of this chapter)