Nine-Tailed Fox

"En? Hey, you're awake. Are you feeling uncomfortable?" Xuanyuan Jin propped his head up, and as soon as he saw Yun Xiaohuo woke up, he immediately sobered up.

"Why am I here with you?" Yun Xiaohuo continued to play dumb.

"You were drunk last night. I met you on the street, but I didn't know where you lived, so I had to take you back to the inn where I stayed for the night. Are you feeling better now? Have a headache? Still want to vomit Is it?"

"It's okay, it's much better." Yun Xiaohuo pulled the quilt and stood up, glanced around the ground and asked again: "Where's my clothes?"

"Yesterday you vomited and your clothes were dirty. I asked Little Quezi to buy you new clothes this morning. Wait a minute, he will be back soon."

"I'm causing you trouble." Yun Xiaohuo said this from the bottom of his heart.

"It's okay. By the way, are you hungry? I'll get you something to eat. It's not advisable to eat something too greasy when you're just drunk. Let's have some porridge and side dishes. Wait, I'll get Xiao Er to prepare it." .”

As soon as Xuanyuan Jin left, suddenly there was another person in the room, if it wasn't Bai Suling, who else?

"This prince really treats you very well."

"You followed all night? No wonder I smell snakes all the time." Yun Xiaohuo asked him.

"I can still smell foxes!"

"Be careful I tear your mouth off!"

"Hmph, don't mess with me! I'm not afraid to tell you, this prince has watched you all night, the affection in those eyes, tsk tsk, it's incredible!"

"Go, go, stay. He'll be back soon."

After breakfast, Yun Xiaohuo thanked him and left.

Another day later, I received a letter from Xuanyuan Jin, saying that he had asked him to check last year's champion of the new subject, and he had clearly described his official position and the situation in the past year. specific address.

Yun Xiaohuo handed the letter to Bai Suling.

Bai Suling looked at the sentence "Last year I married a wife, now I have a son" on the letter, and kept silent.Looking at it, Yun Xiaohuo felt sour, and asked him, "Do you still want to bring the letter?"

"No need." Bai Suling folded the letter into several folds and put it into his sleeves, before saying, "You have to go and thank Mr. Wang, the investigation is so detailed, it's hard to help him."

"Well, then I'll go back." Yun Xiaohuo knew that Bai Suling, who was as proud as Bai Suling, needed time to heal his wounds, so he walked away tactfully and headed for Luyuan Inn.

"The shopkeeper, where is the prince who lives in the Tianzihao room?" Yun Xiaohuo knocked on the door for a long time but no one came to open it, so he ran downstairs to ask the shopkeeper again.

"My lord, the customers of Tianzihao have checked out and left."

"leave?"

"Yeah, I heard from his servants that there was an emergency at home, and Mr. Wang was in a hurry when he left. By the way, your surname is Yun, Mr. Yun?"

"Exactly."

"That's good. When the prince leaves, leave this jar of fruit wine with me, and say that if you come to him, I will give you this wine."

After receiving a jar of heavy fruit wine, Yun Xiaohuo suddenly heard Xuanyuan Jin's clear and bright voice that night: [Because your hair is red, I think you should be from the Western Regions, or have the blood of the Western Regions.Then you must like this fruit wine. ]

You idiot, you are from the Western Regions!

"Shopkeeper, I leave the red knotted rope for protection with you. If the prince comes back next time, you can give it to him for me. I will thank you for this ingot."

Putting down the red knotted rope, Yun Xiaohuo, who was holding the wine jar, raised her head and stepped out of the inn happily.

Second time

From summer to autumn, from autumn to winter, the days go on non-stop, year after year.

At the beginning of Jiaqing's 46th year, Emperor Jiaqing passed away, Prince Xuanyuan Jin succeeded to the throne, changed his reign name to Jialong, concubine Lu Xiaowan was concubine Shu, and concubine Wang Fengling was concubine Liang.

In the spring of the first year of Jialong, draft girls entered the palace to prepare for the harem.It's just that the queen, who has been waiting for a while, has become the target of the harem's open and secret struggle for a while.

Jialong four years, autumn.

The wind was blowing, and the golden ginkgo leaves were blown all over the place. Someone crunched and stepped on the leaves, with his arms folded and his brows tightly locked. face.

"Little sparrow!"

"The slave is here."

"Smooth this stone for me, if you catch my clothes next time, be careful with your head!"

"The slave obeys the order!"

Little Quezi shook his shoulders and quietly backed away. Someone came slowly from the other side and said to him, "Who made the emperor angry? My brother killed him for you." The person who came was the current emperor's compatriots The second younger brother—the second prince Xuanyuan Che.

"You came just in time, let's go, accompany me to the racecourse, I'm almost tired of staying in the palace."

"Which palace's concubine offended you again?" When no one was around, the brothers still called around casually like they did when they were young, which shows that the brothers are really close.

"What's more! One by one is fighting to the death, and I won't stop. I have to listen to them chirping endlessly when I come back from my work. It's more annoying than sparrows!"

"Isn't Concubine Shu in charge of this harem? Just let her make trouble."

"What's more, a while ago, a Shuyi won my favor several times, but she made a mistake later and demoted her. With such a small mind, how dare I make her queen?"

"However, it's not a problem to hang on to the empress. The dynasty cannot be without a king for a day, and the harem cannot be without a king for a day."

"Hey, isn't it just that I can't find someone to worry about? I really want to marry a virtuous and virtuous queen immediately, and then drive them all out of the palace!"

"You can't bear it. If Concubine Shu makes trouble again, she will be with the emperor the longest. As for the other concubines, you also like them. I don't believe you can 'weak water for three thousand, just take one scoop'?"

"Your brother, what do you mean, I am self-inflicted and cannot live?"

"Haha, this is not what I said, the emperor can decide for himself."

"You! If you don't help me find a way to solve the problem, are you here to anger me?"

"Your brother dare not!" Xuanyuan Che suppressed a smile and made a bow, and then he said in a good voice: "Let me tell you, the emperor might as well take advantage of the stability of the nearest border to visit the folks, one is to travel and relax, and the other is Knowing the life of the common people, maybe San can bring a beauty back, right?"

"I think so too, but who will approve this pile of memorials?"

"Only my younger brother can do it for me." Xuanyuan Che shook his head pretending to sigh.

"Hey, that's what I've been waiting for."

"You are the emperor, how dare you disobey the holy will?"

"So, I love your little brother the most."

"Come on, when you meet the third brother, you still say the same thing."

"Isn't the third brother stationed outside?" Xuanyuan Jin embraced Xuanyuan Che's shoulders brazenly, "My dear brother, during the time I'm away, you obediently watch over those ministers for me, and bring a beauty when I come back I give you!"

So, Xuanyuan Jin took Xiaoquezi and Yingwei all the way down to the south of the Yangtze River.

Passing through Hangzhou, he thought of Yun Xiaohuo whom he first met five years ago, but unfortunately the world is too big, even if he wanted to find it, he couldn't find it.

Unexpectedly, when he stayed in the Luyuan Inn again, the shopkeeper recognized him and gave him the red knotted rope left by Yun Xiaohuo back then.

"After the young master left back then, that young master Yun really came to look for you, and left this, so that if I see you again, I will give it to you. This wait has been going on for many years, I didn't expect the young master to really come again." The shopkeeper's chubby round face is smiling, a bit like Maitreya Buddha's blessing. No wonder after so many years, the business has grown bigger and bigger, and he opened a semicolon, "Is it still a Tianzihao room?"

"Yes." Xuanyuan Jin took the red knotted rope, he was really happy, and rewarded the shopkeeper with an ingot of gold.

Gold!Not only was the shopkeeper dumbfounded, even the little sparrow next to him turned blue, and while pulling on his master's clothes, he muttered: "Don't show your money! Don't show your money!"

Wearing the red knotted rope that Yun Xiaohuo gave him on his wrist, Xuanyuan Jin looked left and right and it looked more and more pleasing to the eye. Nothing like emerald and night pearls can compare to this simple and worthless red rope.

"Master, isn't it just a red string, what's so good about it?" Little Quezi said while arranging her clothes.

"What do you know? This is Mr. Yun's wish, it's hard to buy!"

"So what if you have intentions? He is not a girl's family, and the young master can't bring him into the palace! Besides, speaking of intentions, how many concubines gave you the sachets embroidered by their own hands, didn't you all pay attention to them? Is it?"

"Tsk, can this be compared? They all want to gain favor and power, but this is different."

"Master, you are partial to Mr. Yun!"

"You think I'm your second master? If you talk too much, go back to the capital!" The second master was naturally referring to Xuanyuan Che, who has been a man and woman since he was a child.

Little Quezi stuck out her tongue and continued to pack her things in silence.

"I heard from the shopkeeper that he went to the south that year, and we will continue to go south." Xuanyuan Jin immediately decided on the itinerary.

"Yes, yes, listen to the young master."

The south, that's just a direction, but how big is the south, how can it be possible to find a person?Knowing that there was no hope, Xuanyuan Jin boarded the boat cheerfully and went all the way down the river, gradually forgetting about looking for Yun Xiaohuo.However, the red knotted rope has always been firmly tied to the wrist, occasionally waking up in the middle of the night, touching it, thinking of the scene with Yun Xiaohuo, and soon falling asleep again.

On this day, the sky was gloomy, with the appearance of a storm.Xuanyuan Jin stood at the bow of the boat and looked at the river that was no longer calm, with an ominous premonition in his heart, "Little bird, send a signal to tell the shadow guards to follow."

The shadow guard's boat has been following Xuanyuan Jin's boat, about 50 meters away.When the little sparrow shot a beam of yellow smoke into the sky, the boat quickly approached.

at this very moment