"Qing Ying? Qing Ying!"

I was thinking my name eagerly in my ears, but I didn't respond for a long time. It took me a while to come back to my senses. I turned around and saw Pei Yuanfeng calling me anxiously, still a little confused: "Ah? What?"

?"

He looked at me, sighed, and reached out to take my hand.

I looked down and realized that I had been holding on to the wall just now, but my nails had been sharply scratched and cracked at some point. A trace of blood oozed from the bright red wound, which looked so dazzling in the night.
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I frowned slightly.

It was so painful to connect our fingers to our hearts, but I never knew it.

I looked at my wound in a daze. The wound didn't hurt, but my heart began to tighten little by little. The chaos below the city tower was still expanding. When I looked up, I saw another person who was completely opposite to the chaos below the city tower.

Man, he is as calm as a piece of ice, but in his eyes is the blazing flame.

At this time, the leader of the Yulin Guards quickly stepped forward from the side and bowed down: "Your Majesty, there is really too much chaos down there. I'm afraid——"

"At any cost!"

When he said this, he was still gritting his teeth, and the sound like a blade sounded in the night. In a daze, I seemed to see that day again, the morning after the battle to seize the inheritance, when he faced the empty Chengqian Hall,

The words he spoke were also filled with the most profound hatred.

The commander immediately said: "Accept the decree."

After saying that, he stood up to leave. Just after taking two steps, Pei Yuanhao said solemnly: "Don't hurt her at all."

After hearing this, the man had a clearly embarrassed look on his face, but he finally said: "Yes."

It was only then that the pain in my fingertips seemed to wake up suddenly, and it rushed towards my heart like a wave. I bit my lower lip in pain, and my fingertips trembled slightly.

Feeling my trembling, Pei Yuanfeng held my hand and said softly: "Qingying?"

I turned my head and looked down again. The chaos seemed to have descended into the wilderness. I stared blankly, but I didn't feel anything at all. After an unknown amount of time, I slowly turned around and left.

"Qingying!"

Pei Yuanfeng quickly stepped forward and grabbed me: "Where are you going?"

I turned around and said softly: "I want to go back and rest."

"Go back?" Pei Yuanfeng seemed to be stunned. He couldn't believe what I said, and said doubtfully: "You want to go back, and you don't want to look at-" As he said that, he looked down again.

I raised my head numbly, looked at the ice sculpture-like person not far away, and somehow smiled.

"Don't worry, whether you can catch it or not, the result is the same."

The difference is that if Nangong Lizhu comes back, the south can avoid a bloody storm. If she doesn't come back, how chaotic Yangzhou City will be this time. Maybe tonight's scene is just a small prelude.
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I gently took my hand out of his and said, "I'm tired, I'm going back."

"Then, I'll accompany you——"

"No need." I shook my head, and when I looked up at him, my voice was hoarse, almost pleading: "Don't follow me."

The hand he was about to stretch out froze in mid-air, and then slowly lowered it.

I turned around, and in the panic, I quietly walked down the tower alone.

The lights in the state capital have been extinguished, and the gloomy night is slowly swallowing up this place. Although there are still bright lights behind me, they cannot illuminate this place, nor can they illuminate the road in front of me.

I walked step by step, but each step became harder and harder. I was panting, but the feeling of tightness in my chest still lingered. It was difficult to even take another step, so I could only slowly hold on to the roadside.

The tree trunk, I want to sit on the ground like this, but I still can't sit down, I can only half-lean on the tree trunk.

People, but already very tired.

I recall that when I was a child, someone once asked me what is the only thing that a person can decide in life. I answered my own body, because you can walk when you want and run when you want. Only your body is completely obedient to you.
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Looking back on that time, the person who asked me just smiled faintly.

Now, I understand the meaning of that smile.

At this time, I want my body to get better, but it gets worse; I want my heart not to hurt, but it hurts; I want to stop thinking about it, but I can’t forget it.

I thought I could do it, but I didn’t.

It turns out that people cannot be the masters of their bodies.

I don't know how long it took, but a burst of light footsteps slowly approached. I lowered my head and watched a pair of cloth shoes slowly come into view, then a clean and simple gown, and finally stopped in front of me.

"Yue Qingying—girl?"

I gently raised my head, and a handsome young man stood in front of me and looked at me.

This young man is very young, he looks no more than 20 years old, and his eyebrows are elegant, giving people a gentle and approachable feeling.

I lowered my head and wiped my eyes in panic: "What's the matter?"

Because of the embarrassment, the other party took a step back and pretended not to see it, and said softly: "The master has sent a little man here to ask the girl to come and talk."

"My lord?" I frowned slightly: "Which lord?"

"Of course it's Mr. Liu Yi Liu."

Liu Yi? Liu Zhaoyi's brother? I have some doubts in my heart. Liu Zhaoyi and I have no contact, let alone his brother, who has never met, why would he send someone to invite me?

Although I was puzzled, I still followed the man. Liu Yi was recuperating in a courtyard not far from the inner courtyard. When I walked to the door, I smelled the strong smell of medicine inside. As soon as I entered the door, I felt,

The heavy feeling in the room is really the aura of serious illness that pervades a patient after staying there for a long time.

The man took me into the room, walked to the bed, and said carefully: "Sir, Miss Yue is here."

The person on the bed moved slightly, and a pale hand gently opened the curtain, revealing a pale and bloodless face. The face was so thin that the cheeks were deeply sunken. Only the eyes were a little unusual.

brilliance.

Although Liu Zhaoyi has a cold temperament, she is a cold beauty, and her brother is not bad either. Although the patient in front of me is shabby, it can be seen that he used to be a handsome man, but his body is broken. I saw him sitting on his back

On the head of the bed, several areas on his body were bandaged, and even his throat was surrounded by layers of bandages.

Although it has been so long, looking at him like this, one can still imagine how dangerous it was when he was assassinated.

I hurriedly walked forward and saluted him: "Meet Mr. Liu."

Liu Yi smiled weakly, and his voice seemed weak when he spoke: "Girl, there is no need to be polite. I invited you here, so let's talk about it."

When he said this, I became more and more confused. I have never met him, so what can I say?

Liu Yi gently ordered the man who brought me here: "Ning Yuan, you stay at the door and don't let irrelevant people get close. I want to have a good chat with Miss Yue."

"Yes."

The young master named Ning Yuan agreed, bowed his hands to us, and walked out, leaving the door ajar.

"Girl, please sit down."

"Thank you."

I also realized that he must have something to say when he invited me over, so I walked to the stool beside the bed and sat down without saying anything. I looked at the man in front of me. He was not young yet, but he seemed wise and clean.

He is somewhat similar to Huang Tianba, but - Pei Yuanfeng clearly said that he was better, but looking at him now, he really doesn't look "good".

I said softly: "I have never met you, sir. I don't know if Master Liu has invited me here. Do you have any instructions?"

He looked at me with a pale face and said with a smile: "Although we have never met, we have been friends for a long time. In the days since I came to Yangzhou, I have heard a lot about the girl. Even people in the state said that the girl is a good person.

He is upright and has a tenacious temperament. Even those assassins don't care about the punishments they face, but when it comes to girls, they are also very convinced."

My face changed slightly.

The assassin mentioned me, which means that the assassin they caught is——

He added: "This time the emperor goes south, whether it is a blessing or a disaster for Jiangnan is unknown. But if there is a slight deviation, I am afraid there will be another massacre in Yangzhou. The girl once assisted the emperor in relieving the victims here and saved countless people. It is also

I am a wise man, and I hope that the girl can advise the emperor more. The chaos in the south is caused by the people's hearts, not the sentiments of the people. To govern the south, one needs to be gentle and not use weapons."

I was shocked when I heard his last two sentences.

Like his father, he really put a lot of effort into Yangzhou. It's a pity that people in the south can't understand it. The swords and weapons were used on him, but they only hurt his body, not his heart.

I said softly: "I thought that when your Excellency was injured by an assassin, you would feel... I didn't expect that Your Excellency still thought of the Southerners wholeheartedly, but it was them who failed you."

"If a child is disobedient, you can't just throw him away. You must educate him well." Liu Yi glanced at me and said with a smile: "Young lady may not know, in fact, in addition to me and my sister-in-law, there is a third son in the family, but back then

My father was very poor and took us to Beijing to take the exam. When we were in Yangzhou, because we couldn’t survive, we entrusted our third brother to an old couple here.”

"Oh?" I didn't expect Mr. Liu Shizhou to have such past events.

"My father originally hoped to find his third brother back in the future, but when he came back, he found out that the couple had been forced to leave the place where they originally lived because of excessive taxes."

"Then, your brother didn't come back again?"

"How can we find it in such a huge crowd?" Liu Yi smiled bitterly and said, "But my father knew that this was caused by the injustice of the court, so he tried his best to promote the abolition of untouchable status in the south and reduce taxes. I will inherit my father's last wish.

When I was there, I was thinking that even if I couldn't find my third brother, as long as I could do more for the people in the south, my third brother would always be somewhere in a corner and live a better life."

So that’s it…

Therefore, both father and son have been helping people in the south because they have relatives in the south, so they truly regard people in the south as relatives.

Only with this kind of emotion can we truly regard the world as our subjects.

Liu Yi looked at me. His voice, which was already very weak, became even lower this time: "So, I'd like to ask you, girl. My sister-in-law was too young at the time and had no impression of my third brother, so she couldn't understand the relationship between me and my father."

However, I have always been brooding over my father's assassination. Now I am also - if she says anything in the emperor's ears, I hope the girl can give more advice."

Hearing this, I smiled bitterly.

How can I, a little palace maid with a sinful body, have the right to speak in Pei Yuanhao's ears? Besides, he is now——

But looking at Liu Yi's dying appearance, I still nodded: "I will do my best, slave."

When Liu Yi heard this, he smiled a little and said, "In this way, I can tell the girl with confidence."
Chapter completed!