Xiao Qinghuan

Jiang Xiaohan didn't dare to go back home until the next day when the sky was bright.

The damaged lotus pond in the courtyard has not yet had time to find someone to repair it. The delicate red carps in it have swallowed the muddy water and are already floating on the water in twos and threes, turning pale.

He entered the inner courtyard along the nine-curved corridor in the courtyard. The door of the main hall of the Xieyu Tower was closed, and it looked the same as before.

Jiang Xiaohan stood at the door for a while, not knowing what he was thinking about. After a full cup of tea, he hesitated and stretched out his hand to close the door, using a little force.

The door creaked and opened inward, and the room was empty without anyone.

Jiang Xiaohan withdrew his hand, and couldn't help laughing at what he was expecting at that moment just now.

Everything in Jiang's mansion remained the same, except that there were two people missing, Jiang Xiaohan felt deserted in an instant, and his popularity was completely wiped out.

Jiang Xiaohan walked slowly into the room. The couch inside was clean and the mattresses were neatly folded, but the clothes on the hanger at the side were gone. When he opened the closet, he also found that half of the things inside were missing. .

Jiang Xiaohan flipped through it a bit, but found that the jade pendant he had handed over to Yan Qing earlier was not in the room.

Maybe he forgot, Jiang Xiaohan thought.

He didn't dare to ask for anything extravagantly, and he didn't dare to follow this possibility to think that Yan Qing might not be completely disappointed in him.After all, he was prepared for his unrequited love for Yan Qing from the very beginning, but thanks to the mercy of the heavens, he stole these warm days spent together.

Right now it's just zero and nothing to complain about.

Jiang Xiaohan closed the wardrobe door, trying his best to ignore the loneliness that had just flashed in his heart.

"Father--!"

Before Jiang Xiaohan could get out of the room, Jiang Ling stumbled and ran in crying from outside.

The little girl was crying miserably, Jiang Xiaohan half knelt down, and was just picking her up.The little maid who accompanied her and Jiang Ying followed behind her. Seeing Jiang Xiaohan in the room, she was a little at a loss for a while.

Jiang Xiaohan waved his hand, signaling them to leave first.Seeing Jiang Ying take out the door, Jiang Xiaohan reached out to wipe Jiang Ling's tears, and asked softly, "What's wrong? Who made Ah Ling unhappy."

"I... When I woke up, my father and my brother were gone." Jiang Ling was crying, holding Jiang Xiaohan's clothes corner with one hand, and asked aggrievedly, "Where is my brother?"

Jiang Xiaohan felt a pain in his heart, forced the corners of his mouth to twitch, and said softly, "Brother and Daddy are gone."

Jiang Ling clutched the corners of his clothes with both hands helplessly, rubbing the small piece of fabric until it crumpled.She hesitated like making herself look like a willful bad boy, but she couldn't hold back after holding back for a long time, and asked cautiously: "Then will they come back?"

"Maybe not coming back." Jiang Xiaohan said patiently.

Jiang Ling pursed his mouth and was about to cry again: "Then I won't see my father and brother in the future?"

"No." Jiang Xiaohan tucked her crying wet hair behind her ears, and said softly: "When this matter is over, father will take you to find father."

He spoke seriously, and he didn't know whether he was telling Jiang Ling or himself.

After a while, Jiang Mo came in from outside.He went out to check the tax and food matters last night, and he didn't return home until dawn to listen to Jiang Ying's account of what happened last night.

"My lord." Jiang Mo said cautiously: "This year's taxes and grains have been counted, and they have been handed over to the government office."

"That's just right." Jiang Xiaohan wiped Jiang Ling's tears away, straightened her crumpled clothes, then squeezed the little girl's face, and hugged her in this position.

"Pack up your things, let's go back to the capital."

When He Liuyun came to Pingjiang City, Jiang Xiaohan already had a premonition, so these days he has been intentionally or unintentionally handing over the affairs of Pingjiang City to several officials under him, so when he said that he would leave at this time, it was just a matter of packing up. .

Shenwei Ying followed him out of Beijing, so naturally he also escorted him back to Beijing.Wei Shen had received Ning Zongyuan's oral order before, so even if Jiang Xiaohan decided to leave early, he didn't think there was any surprise.

Xie Jue seemed to be much more silent than before, the young man's eyes were black and blue, and he stopped clamoring to go back to the capital to intercede with his father and brother.When meeting Jiang Xiaohan, he behaved well, standing behind Wei Shen most of the time without saying a word.

Xie Yao found an opportunity to return the imperial decree and Xie Yao's handwritten letter to Jiang Xiaohan. Jiang Xiaohan thought it was Xie Yao's relic and would be kept by him, but he still couldn't believe it when he received the letter.

"Since sister believes in you, then I will give you this thing." Xie Jue said at the time: "I can't do anything, but at least I can not make trouble for sister."

Xie Jue's self-knowledge came quickly, but it was also logical.Jiang Xiaohan held the imperial decree tightly wrapped in oiled paper, and could only say "yes".

The 200 people in Anqing Mansion were not allowed to move without permission. Wei Shen sent a letter telling them to camp where they were, guard the ruins of the Shengci Temple and wait for the liquidation in the future. He also organized the existing 300 people in Pingjiang Mansion, and followed Jiang Xiaohan I went back to Beijing.

Counting the days, Xie Yongming's side will soon reach the capital, Jiang Xiaohan is anxious, but [-] soldiers are not a small number, even if they stay around day and night, they may be one step behind Xie Yongming.

What's more, he also brought Jiang Ling with him.

Jiang Xiaohan went into the battle lightly this time, and it was a bit difficult to bring Jiang Ling along, so he left all the maids who served Jiang Ling in Pingjiang Mansion, and only carried the girls into his carriage, and he and Jiang Mo took turns That's it for nursing.

Fortunately, Jiang Ling is also well-behaved, even if he sits in the carriage all the time, he does not appear restless. When he is not thirsty or hungry, he either sleeps on the couch in the carriage, or plays with the Jiulianhuan that Jiang Xiaohan bought for her. Occasionally poking his head out of the car window to talk to Jiang Mo.

The carriage was unavoidably bumpy, Jiang Xiaohan stayed up all night last night, and fell asleep within a short time.

In the dream, he was in a continuous sea of ​​flames, and the flames around him drained all the air around him. Jiang Xiaohan stepped back two steps, and the scorching air waves almost threw him into the flames.

He turned sideways to avoid the heavy wooden beams falling from his head, and managed to find a place to stay after changing three light footworks.

Jiang Xiaohan covered his mouth and nose with his cuffs, not knowing why he was here, he glanced around, and was about to move to a corner not occupied by the sea of ​​fire, when something grabbed him suddenly.

Jiang Xiaohan looked down, only to realize that it was a scorched black hand.

The hand was twisted, and the carbonized black skin fell down with Jiang Xiaohan's movement of raising his foot, revealing the deep red and bleeding wound inside.The hand gripped his ankle tightly, fingers convulsively sinking into his flesh.There were small whimpers coming from his ears, there were male and female voices, it sounded small and sharp and continuous, it seemed as if it had entered his brain along his ears, and he wanted to stir it up a few times .

Jiang Xiaohan bent down in pain, the beam in front of him suddenly broke and fell, throwing up a large cloud of sparks.

Before Jiang Xiaohan could escape in the future, he saw a figure in brocade pressing under the beam.The pattern of the clothes was very familiar, Jiang Xiaohan's heart skipped a beat, and he rushed forward in a hurry, ignoring the burning of the beam, he overturned the heavy top beam.

Underneath was a sad-faced woman.

The woman's eyes were wide open, she had already been smothered by the fire, and the deep strangle marks on her neck were tinged with a frightening purple color.

"……mother?"

Jiang Xiaohan reached out to touch the woman's breath, his voice became green and hoarse unconsciously.

The woman stared blankly at the flame above her head, her body was stiff, her originally beautiful clothes were mottled and blackened by the fire, and she was in a very distressed state.

Jiang Xiaohan touched her face with trembling hands, the temperature on the woman's body was abnormally hot.

"...Who did it." Jiang Xiaohan murmured, "Who did this."

A pair of heavy metallic boots stopped beside him, and the man's voice was condescending.

"—isn't it you?"

Jiang Xiaohan raised his head blankly, the armor on the man's body was shining with silver light, reflecting a beautiful orange-red light in the sea of ​​fire.

The other person's face was distorted by the high temperature of the flames. At first glance, Jiang Xiaohan thought he saw Xie Jue, but when he looked closely, he felt that the other person was more like Xie Liuyi.

"...Master?"

The other party turned a deaf ear, his eyes fell on his feet, and said indifferently: "Isn't this a good thing you did?"

Jiang Xiaohan followed his gaze, only to suddenly realize that the woman next to her had changed her appearance at some point and turned into a... No, it was a few charred corpses, their hands and feet were twisted and intertwined, and their necks were struggling Elongated, the eye sockets are empty, and the eyeballs don't know where to go.

The ghostly cry just now suddenly intensified, Jiang Xiaohan covered his head and gasped for breath.

He remembered.

These people were killed by him. He personally ordered the explosives to be planted and the fire to be lit.At dawn, all these people were buried here.

"...These people are destined to die." Jiang Xiaohan gritted his teeth, and squeezed out words word by word from the gap between his teeth: "If I don't do this, their death will be wronged! Even if they die, they will die quietly. The sound...their life has shocked the capital now, and the rest of them have a way out."

"Is this your reason?" Xie Liuyi asked.

"The book only talks about crossing people benevolently and kindly, but it never tells people how many gates there are between the Anqing mansion and the capital—the city gate, the mansion gate, the cabinet, the palace gate, and the common people to the emperor's bed." Jiang Xiaohan said every word. Said: "One by one, if the blood is not used to temper the blade bit by bit, this light grievance will not be able to go away even ten steps away, let alone clearing up the injustice!"

"The Yangtze River's embankment burst, if the scholar hadn't bumped his head to death at the gate of Jingzhaoyin, and the blood splashed more than ten steps, how many more people would have died." Jiang Xiaohan said with hatred: "Under the high platform and golden tiles, who can hear what the people say? , if not, more people will die in the future!"

Xie Liuyi revealed a little pity between his brows, and he sighed softly: "Ming Yuan, it's easy to break when you pass too hard. You always walk on the tip of the knife like this, and if you slack off once, the knife will hurt you." Step on the side of the abyss, sooner or later, you will fall into the abyss without knowing it."

Jiang Xiaohan rolled his eyes: "I don't regret it."

"Really?" Xie Liuyi said, "Then look back, who is that?"

Jiang Xiaohan turned around in a daze, but he didn't find anyone behind him. He took a few steps back, only to feel that something hard was under his feet.He bent down and saw a scorched corpse beside him, and he happened to step on the wrist of that scorched corpse.

Jiao Corpse's hands were tightly clenched, and a few threads of invisible color were exposed between the fingers.Jiang Xiaohan stretched out his hand and opened the hand, only to find that there was a scorched Meirui sword tassel in the palm of his hand.

Jiang Xiaohan's pupils shrank, and he immediately fell to the ground.

The author says:

Today’s small tips: The two swords about Ah Qing and Lord Jiang are from the top ten famous swords~ A certain shape has been set up privately on the legend of Chixiao Sword. Here, the allusion of Liu Bang cutting the white snake is cut off, and only the blade of the sword is kept. The setting of Rushuangxue~Master Jiang’s Chunjun sword has also been changed to a certain extent~So friends, don’t be misled by me XD~ Finally, thank you for waiting for time, mackerel_04rlazd1p2y, diyan, Gu Changan, nino It is a big baby and a few small partners feeding fish food~Thank you very much~