Fire Captain

Naturally, what Liu Xiyin did was not flawless. Moreover, even if Zhao Yujin was a fool, Ye Zhao was not a useless person. He did not discover it before only because he trusted his cousin. Zhao Yujin's fall into the water this time triggered Ye Zhao's vigilance. After analyzing the situation with Hu Qing and reading Hu Qing's previous investigation on Liu Xiyin, he decided on a plan to test Liu Xiyin based on their tacit understanding.

Afterwards, everyone in the Prince's Mansion watched a big fight between the Prince and the general. It was said that it was because the Prince wanted to take Liu Xiyin as a concubine, but the general disagreed because of jealousy. This made everyone very anxious, and they immediately invited Liu Xiyin to come.

Liu Xiyin thought the plan was successful, but she didn't know that Ye Zhao and Zhao Yujin had discussed it all. Naturally, she fell into the trap. Unfortunately, what Ye Zhao didn't expect was that his cousin came to Bianjing to stir up trouble, and the final result was just to marry Zhao Yujin as a concubine! This made her very confused!

Seeing Liu Xiyin's contemptuous and merciless words towards Zhao Yujin, and seeing that Liu Xiyin didn't look very happy about marrying Zhao Yujin, Ye Zhao asked in confusion: "What's wrong with you, cousin?"

Liu Xiyin said with tears in her eyes: "You clearly said...you would marry me!"

It was just a joke that Ye Zhao said casually at the time... He never thought that his cousin still remembered it. Looking at his cousin crying in his arms, Ye Zhao felt both distressed and guilty.

It's really a joke that ruins your life...

Zhao Yujin looked at the two people hugging each other so "tenderly and affectionately" and couldn't help but feel so angry that his head, liver and heart ached. Anyway, his whole body ached. He thought to himself: "It's like hunting geese every day, but getting pecked in the eye by a goose. Only I, Zhao Yujin, cheat others, how could others cheat me? It's so embarrassing, I'm so angry..." He stood up, limped away angrily, and when he went out, he didn't pay attention to his feet and fell to the ground, yelling "ouch".

Ye Zhao, who was inside the house, heard Zhao Yujin's cry and immediately left Liu Xiyin behind to chase out the door. Seeing Zhao Yujin injured, he couldn't help but stepped forward and asked with concern: "Husband, husband...what's wrong with you..."

Liu Xiyin, who was left behind, couldn't help but laugh, but unfortunately, she couldn't wipe away her tears...

Even though the matter was talked about, it was not over. Liu Xiyin and Zhao Yujin disliked each other, and the three of them knew it very well. Ye Zhao was caught in a dilemma between the two. As a wife, she could not let Zhao Yujin accept her cousin, and as Liu Xiyin's "cousin", she could not be responsible for her cousin. Unfortunately, she was the one who said she wanted to marry her cousin... No matter what choice she made, she would hurt another person. She would have to pay for the sins she had committed.

That night, Ye Zhao came to Liu Xiyin's courtyard. When Liu Xiyin saw him, she asked happily, "A Zhao, why are you here?"

Ye Zhao looked at Liu Xiyin and said, "Cousin, pack up and let's go!"

Liu Xiyin looked at Ye Zhao's expression and had a bad feeling in her heart, but she still forced a smile and said, "Leaving? Where to?"

Ye Zhao said: "Go to the beautiful mountains and the deep and winding rivers..."

Liu Xiyin asked: "Then you won't go to court?"

Ye Zhao said: "I asked for leave from the emperor and came here to accompany you!"

Liu Xiyin asked: "But it's neither too early nor too late...why do we have to go now?"

Ye Zhaoyu said softly with deep meaning: "Now is the most appropriate time... My cousin won't blame me, right?"

Liu Xiyin seemed to understand Ye Zhao's meaning immediately. She opened her mouth and finally said, "A Zhao, what do you mean?"

Ye Zhao lowered his eyes, looked to the side and said: "After we have been to the famous mountains and beautiful waters, I will send you directly back to Yongguan City. You can rest there for a while, and when the rumors are over, I will find another man for you..." As he said that, he took out the handkerchief in his arms and handed it to Liu Xiyin.

Liu Xiyin took it and saw that it was the handkerchief that she had asked Bai Ziyang to pass on to Ye Zhao when she rejected him. She took a deep breath and said in a trembling voice, "Isn't it all I want for a small position?"

Ye Zhao said excitedly: "No... I can't let you live in this courtyard like a slave. My cousin is a phoenix soaring in the sky. She has a strong and proud character. She is not a little woman who lives in the backyard and fights for favors and schemes! You can't lower your status and compromise..."

Liu Xiyin watched Ye Zhao express his feelings for Zhao Yujin, and she became furious and slapped her hard in the face. Ye Zhao did not dodge, and finally said with an unchanging mind: "The decision has been made, and I will bear any result!" After saying that, he turned around and left resolutely.

Liu Xiyin looked at Ye Zhao's back and laughed wildly, then tore the handkerchief that Ye Zhao returned to her into pieces, as if she wanted to let all her obsessions and grievances go with the wind like this handkerchief that she had embroidered herself.

The next day, Liu Xiyin stood beside the carriage, looked at Ye Zhao and said, "Let's go back..."

Ye Zhao said worriedly: "Cousin, I will take you to Yongguan City!"

Liu Xiyin said disheartenedly: "No need..."

Ye Zhao said: "I will feel relieved only after I send you to Yongguan City."

Liu Xiyin said, "No need..." Before she finished speaking, the two heard the sound of horse hooves coming...

"Oh..." Bai Ziyang reined in his horse and smiled at the two of them, "I'm not too late..."

Ye Zhao asked in confusion: "Monkey? Why are you here?"

Bai Ziyang jumped off his horse, walked to Liu Xiyin and said, "I'll take Xiyin back, Ye Zhao, you won't have anything to do in the future... Don't worry, leave Xiyin to me..."

Ye Zhao said: "Cousin?"

Liu Xiyin looked at Bai Ziyang for a moment, then turned to Ye Zhao and said, "Okay, let Brother Bai take me there, Ah Zhao... don't worry, I won't bother you again..." After saying that, she turned around and got on the carriage.

Ye Zhao felt very uncomfortable when he heard Liu Xiyin say this. He looked at Liu Xiyin's back and said nothing in the end.

Bai Ziyang jumped on the horse, shook the reins and followed the carriage.

In fact, Bai Ziyang's thoughts on Liu Xiyin are very simple. If you like Ye Zhao, then go ahead and like him. Who hasn't loved a few scumbags when they were young? People who are in love will not listen to anything others say at this time. Moreover, the more others persuade her, the more she will get stuck in a dead end, thinking that others are blind, but she has unique insights, and everyone is drunk but she is sober...

Moreover, in this era, Bai Ziyang rarely sees such a bold girl, and the lover this bold girl is pursuing is also a woman? As a result, some of the nonsense she did was a little funny. Fortunately, she still had a sense of propriety and did not go for human life... If youth can love someone wantonly... He thought, even if it fails, it is still beautiful...

In the car, Hongying looked at Liu Xiyin who was sitting quietly in a daze. She couldn't help but feel a little uneasy and said, "Miss, have a cup of tea..." Liu Xiyin shook her head. Hongying took out a bag of snacks and said, "Miss, you haven't eaten since last night. Why don't you have some snacks?"

Liu Xiyin finally came back to her senses, but asked in surprise: "Ah Zhao prepared all this? When did she become so meticulous?"

Hongying said indignantly after hearing this: "How could the general have imagined this? These were sent by Mr. Bai this morning. He was afraid that the young lady would feel bored on the journey, so he also sent some music scores and storybooks, saying that the young lady could use them to kill time..."

Liu Xiyin was stunned, and pondered for a moment, not knowing what she thought of. She gently lifted the curtain and looked at the figure sitting on the horse, slightly absent-minded.

When she was young, the Liu family had many brothers and sisters, not to mention some cousins ​​from in-laws... Ye Zhao was just one of them, but this devil always liked to provoke her. Later, when she was worried that she would not be able to get married because of the scar on her back, he said firmly that he wanted to marry her. When she was a child playing house, she didn't know how many people had said it. Somehow, the seven or eight-year-old child remembered it from then on, and gradually she only saw him...

Unfortunately, before she grew up, a war left only the two of them among the many children of the two families. Later, she met Bai Ziyang... A fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl, who was just beginning to fall in love, thought that her heart and eyes should be full of thoughts about Ah Zhao, but unfortunately, the only person around him was Bai Ziyang. Ah Zhao was a man who picked up a pen more than a sword, she knew this since she was a child, so eight out of ten letters were to Bai Ziyang. They started with some common topics, and gradually exchanged poems, songs, chess, calligraphy, and painting, and even medicine, divination, and astrology. It seemed that there was nothing that this man didn't know. From his letters, she gradually got to know him better and better. Gradually, she thought of Ye Zhao less and less, but thought of him more and more... This made Liu Xiyin suddenly wake up one day.

No, this is not her. She and A Zhao have been "decided to spend their lives together" since they were young. Now in Yongguan City, there are only the two of them who can know and accompany each other. What if she leaves A Zhao again? No! She can only remind herself again and again, A Zhao, A Zhao, A Zhao! She added two leaves under the handkerchief she embroidered and asked him to give it to A Zhao. Looking at his understanding and disappointed eyes, Liu Xiyin couldn't help feeling a little uncomfortable.

The war was over. Was Ah Zhao going to marry her? She had been looking forward to this for many years. This day was finally coming. For some reason, she felt as if something was missing in her heart. Suddenly, she heard her aunt say that she wanted to marry herself to Brother Bai? How could this be possible? …How could this be possible? Liu Xiyin felt as if she had suddenly lost her mind. She almost agreed. She could only take advantage of her "consciousness" to hurriedly say that she would not marry anyone except Ah Zhao, and then left in a hurry…

Hearing him say that he was leaving, Liu Xiyin unconsciously clenched her hands. Although he sounded very carefree and said that the world was vast, why did she always feel lonely? It must be an illusion... Early the next morning, she hurried to the Shili Pavilion outside the city with Hongying to wait for him, fearing that she would not be able to see him off...

Humph, what's the good-bye day? There's no news after two years of separation. You had to wait until she came to the capital before secretly following her. If she came, she could have come, but she just kept wandering around nearby and didn't show up. She had to wait for a whole night, and she had to use some tricks before she came out... Humph, if you have the guts, just watch me drown... What a fool...

Suddenly, the carriage shook, awakening Liu Xiyin from her memories. She opened all the curtains and suddenly asked, "Zi Yang... where are we going?"

Bai Ziyang sat on his horse, came back to his senses and grinned, "Let's go to the beautiful mountains and the deep and winding rivers..."

Liu Xiyin's eyes widened slightly, and she suddenly lowered the curtain angrily. Hongying asked in confusion, "Miss, what's wrong with you?"

Liu Xiyin didn't say anything. What did she say? Did everyone who was lost last night see them?