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Lu Mansion.bedroom.

The moonlight enters the house, and the shadows of the branches are slanting.

These few days were around Mid-Autumn Festival, Lu Jue rested at home, and Xie Qiao naturally stayed in Lu's residence.

He pillowed on Lu Jue's lap, playing with Lu Jue's white jade hands, but his eyes were a little empty.Seeing his appearance, Lu Jue pulled her hand away, leaned down and pecked his lips, and then gently covered Xie Qiao's eyebrows with her warm hands.He said: "You entered the palace today? What did your majesty say?"

Xie Qiao blinked, and his eyelashes touched Lu Jue's palm. His lips lined slightly downward, and said, "My brother looked for him. My brother even said that he would force him to stay." Because his brother knew how bad the King of Beiliang was. with people.

"However, he still insists on leaving." After a moment of silence, Xie Qiao said.If the other party really wanted to leave so decisively, he and his elder brother would not be able to keep anyone at all.

"Brother Huaiyu, tell me," Xie Qiao said, "If my mother and concubine saw it in the sky, would she blame me?"

His mother and concubine clearly wanted him to stand upright, to be the persevering green pine on the mountain, and to protect his younger brother, but he just couldn't do it. What's more, in the past twenty years, he didn't even know his existence.

After hearing this, Lu Jue paused, then bent down again, pressed his lips on Xie Qiao's forehead, and said leisurely: "Qiao Er, you can blame yourself, but you have to understand that this is not your fault."

Everything is just a trick of good fortune.

Xie Qiao suddenly took away Lu Jue's hand covering her eyebrows, then turned around and hugged Lu Jue's waist tightly like a child, and buried her face deeply in the other's arms, leaving only her black head With a pair of white ears outside, it is the gesture of a little beast licking its wounds.Lu Jue laughed, and then gently placed a hand on his hair, but his whole body was in a protective posture.

He said, "Joe, no matter what happens, I will be here."

The tip of Xie Qiao's nose was filled with the clear and warm fragrance of the other party's body. Slowly, his restless heart calmed down miraculously.

"He's leaving tomorrow, I'll see him off." After a long while, Xie Qiao said these words in Lu Jue's arms.The voice was muffled, hardly childish.

Lu Jue said, "Do you want me to go with you?"

Xie Qiao hugged Lu Jue tighter and said, "No, I'll see him off myself."

Lu Jue rubbed Xie Qiao's head and said, "Okay, I'll wait for you to come back at home."

……

the second day.Folding Willow Pavilion outside Jinling City.cherry

Xie Qiao quietly looked at the young man wearing a mask in front of him, and then he said the truth, "I should have hated you when you wanted to kill my brother. But I... can't hate you, but I can't blame you at all. I hate you. Elder brother is affectionate, and he never thought of blaming you." In this life, his elder brother did not die, but in the last life, although there was no evidence, seven out of ten died at the hands of the young man in front of him.

As she spoke, Xie Qiao's voice became low and hoarse: "The concubine mother hopes that we can be reunited. She is looking at us in the sky. She wants me—" Xie Qiao gritted her teeth: "Protect you, take care of you. "

"Today, do you really want to leave?"

The young man under the mask shrank his pupils when he heard Xie Qiao say "mother concubine". See you, don't want to see me."

He looked directly into Xie Qiao's eyes and said, "You and your elder brother don't think of me as any brother anymore." He paused every word: "Because, in the future, we will never die. enemy."

Xie Qiao's pupils shrank.

Dan Qi gave him a salute, took away a osmanthus from Xie Qiao's hand, and said meaningfully: "I like Jinling City very much. The green mountains will not change, and the green water will flow forever. Let's continue in the future. , sin, fate."

After saying that, he turned and left. Xie Qiao pinched the wicker left in his hand because it was full of yellow and green leaves in autumn. He pursed his lips and could only watch the young man's back getting farther and farther away until he was completely Disappear.

Xie Qiao closed his eyes and opened them again, then turned and left.

……

in the city.

There is still the last day of Lu Jue's rest, Xie Qiao has something on his mind, so he doesn't want to go shopping anymore, and plans to go back to Lu's residence directly.Unexpectedly, he had just turned a corner when he ran straight into Ling Daoyuan. Ling Daoyuan was serious at this moment, and when he saw him, he no longer said harsh words, just nodded to him, and wanted to leave.

Xie Qiao's heart trembled, and he called to him, "What happened?"

Ling Daoyuan paused for a while, and then his face became a little angry, and he said: "That bastard is dead!"

Xie Qiao frowned even tighter, and said, "Be clear, who is dead?"

Ling Daoyuan sighed, and said, "Who else is there except that bastard Juquhun! It made me go to Dali Temple!" God knows, the place he hates and resists most now is Dali Temple.

Xie Qiao's pupils shrank: "What did you say? Juqu is dead?"

Ling Daoyuan frowned, "tsk", and said, "Too dead! It doesn't matter if he dies, he deserves to die too, but that bastard is the prince of Beiliang!" After finishing speaking, he waved his hand at Xie Qiao and strode forward After walking, he said: "Stop talking, I'll go to Dali Temple first!" After all, Dali Temple was taken from them, and now that the person is dead, he will naturally go.

Xie Qiao looked at Ling Daoyuan's back, and quickly ruled out something in his heart. In the end, he forced himself to think of the possibility he least wanted to think about.Xie Qiao closed her eyes and clenched her fists tightly: Xie Fu...that person died on the day Xie Fu left, and there would be no one else but Xie Fu.But Xie Fu only met that person two days ago, how could he kill him two days later...

"Your Highness!" Xu Lai suddenly trotted towards him from one direction, panting.Xie Qiao supported him and said, "What's the matter?"

"Your Highness," Xu Lai said, "Lord Lu has already gone to Dali Temple, he wants me to tell you that you should go too!"

Xie Qiao nodded, with a dignified expression, and said, "Okay."

After that, he strode in one direction.

……

Dali Temple.

When Xie Qiao arrived, not only Lu Jue, but Li Mingbei was also there.Xie Qiao walked up to Lu Jue and asked, "Brother Huaiyu, how did he die?"

Lu Jue glanced at him and said, "Poisoned."

Xie Qiao frowned: He was bound on weekdays, and in order to prevent him from committing suicide, he would also be put on the shackles. Only when he was eating, would the jailer take it off, and he would be strictly guarded after he was taken off.He originally thought that the other party had found an opportunity to bite his tongue and commit suicide, but he didn't expect it to be poison—how could he be exposed to poison in the strictest prison in Dali Temple...Even if it was Xie Fu, it was absolutely impossible——

Xie Qiao's pupils shrank: Xie Fu helped Juquhun tidy up his collar that day. If he had put poison on his collar then, as long as Juquhun wanted to, he could take advantage of the meal while eating. Opportunity, to eat the poison on his clothes... He can control the day when he dies...

But he used to have a strong desire to survive, and never had the idea of ​​whispering, why would he——

Lu Jue's face was a little dignified, and he said: "No matter how he died - I checked Beiliang, Juqu Jinque was restrained by veterans in Beiliang, and did not have full military power. If Juquhun died, he would But I can persuade those veterans to send troops to fight me Dasheng. We must be prepared." After all, if a prince dies in a foreign country, which is related to the dignity of the country, those veterans will agree even if they don't want to.

Something flashed through Xie Qiao's mind, and he closed his eyes: It turns out that it is like this... It turns out that this is the reason why Xie Fu traveled thousands of miles to come to Dasheng.

Li Ming said sadly: "We will have a battle with Beiliang sooner or later. For this day, I have made some preparations in the past few years. Now, it is up to His Majesty to make a decision."

After finishing speaking, he looked at Gu Wang, with a smile on his face, and said, "Master Gu, Yan Ying has been with you for more than half a year, and now he should go back to where he should go."