There was a rustling sound from behind the screen, and Luo Kui actually came out from behind the screen wrapped in brocade quilt, with a gloomy face as if she was holding back a violent storm: "Yun, are you crazy? You broke in in the middle of the night. My boudoir ruins my reputation."

Yun Liangjiang knew that he was in the wrong, but his reputation was not as important as his life. If you are shameless, you should be shameless. He simply smashed the jar and carried forward his shamelessness to the end: "Your reputation is not as important as my life. There are so many shops outside your door. , I can’t hide my eyes and ears and come back in the middle of the night.”

"Okay, okay, you are right no matter what." Luokui rolled up her long hair loosely, tied an ebony plum blossom hairpin, glanced sideways at Yun Liangjiang, and said unfavorably: "Has your tail been stepped on? So panicked."

Yun Liangjiang poured several cups of cold tea in succession and made up her mind: "The sky is about to fall, how can I not panic?"

Luokui raised her eyes and smiled softly: "If the sky falls, tall people will be able to hold it up. You are so short, why are you panicking?"

"This time only the sky above my head collapsed, and no one else could be hit. Well, I have no choice but to come to you to help with the collapse." Yun Liangjiang pondered for a while, and then said something astonishing: "Concubine Xu summoned me to the palace today. , said that thirty-three years ago, her father was ordered to kill all the princes of Nanqi Kingdom, but he showed mercy and let his youngest son go privately. She said that if I became her son-in-law today, she would naturally want to protect her family. She also said My whole Yun family can be filled with just a thought of mine."

Luo Kui's heart sank. Although Liehou was involved in this old incident, he was not the mastermind and was an enemy rather than a friend. There were not many people who knew the inside story in detail back then, let alone most of them dead. The few remaining ones have been lost in recent years. She couldn't hide, so it was really strange that the news leaked out. She lowered her head and cooked a pot of soothing fragrant tea. She watched the lilies slowly spread out, rising and falling slowly, and said attentively: "Besides these, did Concubine Xu say anything else? important matter."

Yun Liangjiang carefully recalled the situation when he met with Concubine Xu today, and recounted everything at that time to Luokui word for word: "Concubine Xu showed me a confession, saying that she had recently caught the prince's personal bodyguard who had slipped through the net. , the confession was that he conspired with my father to let go of the crown prince’s youngest son.”

That huge scandal that year was caused by the prince of Nanqi Kingdom who was held hostage in Qingzhou, but it implicated many royal relatives and nobles. Countless people were exiled and beheaded, and the entire palace of the prince of Nanqi Kingdom was even more devastated. Completely destroyed.

With warm tea in hand, Luokui's heart was clear: "Liangjiang, you don't know what happened more than thirty years ago, but I heard it from my father. At that time, the youngest son of the prince was only three years old. Even if he was a prince, He was released privately, but if there was no one inside to pick him up and no one to escort him outside, the child would definitely not survive. At that time, because of the disappearance of the young son, the four gates of Qingzhou were closed, and the officers and soldiers searched every house and searched everything in the city. The land was searched inch by inch, but the whereabouts of the youngest son could not be found. Now Concubine Xu has caught the prince's personal bodyguard. Could it be that the bodyguard only recruited one prince, but did not recruit who was responsible for escorting and escorting him? Hidden in Where did he escape the search, how was he sent to the city, and where did the young son find shelter in the past thirty years?"

Yun Liangjiang knew nothing about what happened back then. He just shook his head with a blank look on his face and said, "No, I read the confession carefully. Except for my father, he didn't bite anyone else."

Luokui lowered his head and slowly shook the long-mouthed chiseled copper pot. Wisps of hot white smoke escaped from the spout and swirled up into the sky. The shadow of doubt kept lingering in his heart. Thirty A few years ago, the Xu family was far away in Liangzhou, and Concubine Xu was just a ten-year-old virgin in the boudoir. It was twenty-five years ago that she entered the palace as a concubine, while the Xu family only returned to Beijing ten years ago. They had neither personally experienced nor witnessed the events of more than thirty years ago, so they knew little from hearsay. Everyone around the prince had died in that melee, so how could a confidant appear out of thin air now? The guard testified against the princes, and the evidence was confusing and inconsistent with old events. This matter must not be true. It was really strange for this person to appear. She stared at Yun Liangjiang up and down. How could such an ordinary person like him? In order to lure the emperor into the trap, Concubine Xu was really willing to spend a lot of money and fabricated a person and a confession out of thin air, without fear of scaring him out.

After thinking about this clearly, she looked at Du Gui and said slowly: "Du Gui, what do you think?"

Du Gui pondered: "In my opinion, it doesn't matter whether what Concubine Xu said is true or false. What matters is that Concubine Xu said it is true, and your Majesty will believe it is true."

Luokui nodded and looked at Yun Liangjiang: "Liangjiang, do you have any plans for this matter?"

Yun Liangjiang's eyes were firm, and he completely lost the panic and panic just now. He slammed a pastel bean green tea bowl, and his heart felt like it had been scratched by sharp broken porcelain, and it hurt: "I think, life is not as good as it is. Nine times out of ten, the only thing in this world that I can fulfill my wishes is whoever I marry and whoever I spend my life with." He looked at Luokui steadily and said firmly: "I would rather die if I don't marry Jin He. Marry."

Although many things are not fulfilled by nature, and cannot be changed by human power. There are too many things that must be done according to fate, but it is not impossible to go against nature. If you don’t give it a try, how will you know where your birth gate is? Kui knew that Yun Liangjiang was depressed, so she didn't care about the fact that he smashed her precious cup, but she felt a lot of pain in her heart.

Occasionally, the wind blew by, so Luokui wrapped herself tightly in the quilt. Seeing this, Du Gui hurriedly closed the doors and windows tightly, and went over with a cup of hot tea: "Master, drink some more soothing tea to warm yourself up."

Yun Liangjiang's eyes dimmed: "You are still so weak that you can't stand even a little bit of wind in the summer."

Luo Kui rolled her eyes at him and said unhappily: "I was frightened by you. You banged on the door in the middle of the night. I didn't frighten me to death. I was frightened and got chills all over. It's considered a big deal."

Yun Liangjiang seemed to have lost his mind. He didn't hear what Luokui said at all. He only said to himself with a sad face: "If the marriage proposal between you and me had come true, you wouldn't have to worry about it for me. I wouldn't have to worry about it either." I can legitimately take care of you."

Luokui felt sad for a moment. What happened back then was like a thorn in her heart. She was both resentful and painful. She didn't dare to think about it any more, for fear that she would beat Yun Liangjiang violently because of her heartache, so she quickly changed the subject. : "Liang Jiang, the matter between you and Jin He is quite difficult. We are risking the lives of your entire Yun family. Do you dare?"

Yun Liangjiang slowly took a sip of tea. The tea contained lily to soothe the nerves, Ophiopogon japonicus to nourish yin, and wolfberry to improve eyesight. It was sweet in the mouth and bitter in the aftertaste, soothing the mind. He was silent for a long time. In order to refuse a marriage, he had to sacrifice the entire Yun family. He didn't have that much courage, let alone such a cruel heart, about his family. He thought of Luo Kui's words about how to do something. Reputation is nothing. Living a good life is the real deal. He gritted his teeth and said: "Otherwise, otherwise I will Use the same dirty trick you mentioned last time."

Luokui shook his head and smiled bitterly: "If you took the medicine and used it immediately without caring about your face, it would be considered that the medicine has been used to its full potential. But now that Xu Guifei has made it clear, don't say you are pretending to be sick, you are If you pretend to be dead, she will dig you out of your grave, and no matter who you marry in the future, it will not be easy for you."

Yun Liangjiang's face turned pale and he tried a question: "Then, it's okay to ask the Queen Mother overnight to cancel your marriage to Prince Jing San Bo, and then draw up a marriage contract for you and me."

Du Gui's hand while pouring tea tilted, and the tea poured into Yun Liangjiang's hand. It was so hot that he screamed. Du Gui pursed his lips and continued to pour the tea regardless, while cursing: "Master Mo has come to Beijing, right?" I came here with a marriage contract. Could it be that Mr. Yun is sizing up that my master has no one else to marry besides you? If you say yes, I will marry you. If you say no, my master will have to wait. Mr. Yun is not sizing himself up either. , are you three-headed and six-armed, or are you a phoenix and a grandson? If Mr. Yun is really capable, we have already negotiated a hundred and eighty kisses. How come all the boudoirs and virgins in the capital don't look down on you? My master But it's different. If we let the word go to discuss marriage today, I'm afraid that all the nobles from Tianhuang in the capital will line up outside the door."

Every word is like a knife, and the knife taps into the heart. Yun Liangjiang lowered his eyes in silence, watching the slight ripple of tea reflecting his sad eyebrows.

"If the old man in Jing was here and the Jing family was still prosperous, he could have broken off the engagement. But now that the Jing family has declined and the old man has passed away, only Jingmo, a single seedling, has come to Qingzhou to join me in spite of all the difficulties. The marriage is

There is no way to retreat." Luokui added a handful of firewood at the right time, her eyes were cold and her smile was cold: "I said that day that with our status, it is impossible for you and me to make the decision on our own marriage, but if you don't listen or believe it, you must

I have tried hard, but the result is so unbearable. Now I still say the same thing, only if the personal relationship between you and me has nothing to do with our children can we be safe for a long time. Don't make any more useless thoughts." She said.

I feel a little sad in my heart. I couldn't control the beginning of the storm that year, and I couldn't control the end of it. I was not the initiator, but I became the one who was hurt the most.

Yun Liangjiang was scolded so much that he could not speak. The night wind blew by, making the branches tangled. The wind passed through Yun Liangjiang's heart. The summer night wind was warm, but it made his heart cool.

At the end of the day, the old story about how the two of them proposed to get married seems like a joke now, and they can still talk about it peacefully. But back then, it caused a storm in the whole city and everyone knew about it. In the end, the proposal of getting married failed, and the order fell.

Kui has become the biggest joke inside and outside the imperial city. It is not that he has not regretted it for so many years. He regretted that he was the first to be cowardly and he was the first to leave. After all these years, he is also glad that he and her were not so romantic back then.

The meaning is deep, and when you let go, you won't be so sad and sorrowful, let alone the determination that we will never see each other again until we die.

Suddenly it occurred to him that the only way to relieve his worries was Du Kang's words. The green plum wine here in Luokui has always been delicious. Yun Liangjiang silently looked out the window and suddenly said: "Du Gui, bring me the green plums. I will keep you drunk today."

Du Gui glared at Yun Liangjiang angrily, placed the white porcelain lotus petal cup heavily on the red sandalwood square table, and sneered: "The green plum gold brewed by the master is precious, and it is not wasted by Mr. Yun. You, you have a mouth."
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