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An Mingxi was walking on the road from Huamanlou, accompanied by two guards, and several plainclothes mingled among the passers-by, checking for threats and guarding against assassination.

An Qingfeng encountered an assassin half a month ago, which forced the guards to be more cautious.

After the Wang Meng case happened, many civil servants and military generals were investigated one by one. General Huang Yuan, who was in charge of the imperial guards, was accused of colluding with Wang Meng. Although the evidence was there, An Qingxuan thought it was not sufficient to conclude the rebellion, so Huang Yuan was taken into custody. Official prison, waiting to be released.

The day before An Qingfeng's assassination happened to be the day when Huang Yuan entered the official prison, and An Qingfeng was ordered to temporarily take over the position of general.From the point of view of this coincidence, An Mingxi has three purposes for wanting to be an assassin, one is to take revenge on the royal family, the other is to get rid of An Qingfeng to take advantage of this position, and the third is to be dissatisfied with An Qingfeng's acceptance of such a heavy responsibility.These three purposes seem reasonable, but they are also weak. Looking at it from another angle, it is very likely that it has nothing to do with Huang Yuan, but involves other personal grievances.

After he stepped into the Chonghua Hall, the guards with him stopped outside the hall, standing on both sides of the gate.Ah Jiu ran to him and told him that the queen mother wanted to see him.An Mingxi asked: "Now?" Ah Jiu nodded.

In An Mingxi's memory, the Empress Dowager never had a good expression on him, so An Mingxi didn't think that the old man wanted to enjoy family happiness, and he didn't have a good premonition about this rare meeting - all goodness and filial piety come first , Grandma wanted to see him, but he didn't say no.

Although he had made a bad prediction early, the situation was worse than he expected.

"Do you think a bastard like you can become a real dragon?" Yan Huizhi said the most stinging words with the most flat expression.

An Mingxi had heard words like "wild species" a lot in An Ming's heart, and it was not as lethal as the first time he heard it, but when these words were spoken from his own grandmother's mouth, it was enough to make him tremble.

After waiting for a long time, An Mingxi didn't reply, Yan Huizhi said again: "People are valuable to know themselves."

No matter how she provoked her, An Mingxi was not angry, but asked, "Why do you call me a wild species?"

"I don't think you are ignorant of the dirty things your biological mother did, even though you were young."

"Dirty thing? What dirty thing?"

Yan Huizhi sneered: "Climbing the dragon and the phoenix, relying on the status of concubine to enjoy the glory but still get entangled with other men, isn't this dirty?"

"Where's the evidence?" An Mingxi thought Yan Huizhi's words were not credible, but he also tried to find clues related to the truth from her.

"Evidence?" Yan Huizhi sneered, "Her existence is the evidence itself."

"The empress dowager's so-called dirty is just because she can't get into the empress dowager's eyes, isn't it?"

"you!"

"I don't believe it - it seems that Father doesn't believe it either." He said neither humble nor overbearing.

Yan Huizhi, who originally wanted to annoy him, got angry because of his calmness. She got up and slapped An Mingxi in the face, saying: "He is my son!"

An Mingxi did not evade or block, Ren Yanhuizhi got a red mark on his face, then looked directly into her eyes, and replied: "It's also my father."

"You do not deserve!"

An Mingxi watched her quietly for a while, seeing that she didn't have much to say, so he asked to leave, but before Yan Huizhi allowed him to leave, he turned and went out.

"This is a warning," Yan Huizhi's voice came from behind, "It is also my last affection for you."

An Mingxi turned his head and said, "Come on anyway." He turned his head back, put his hands behind his back, stepped across the threshold calmly and fearlessly, his eyes became cold.

What happened back then may have something to do with the Queen Mother, An Mingxi suddenly thought.

Regarding the threat of the queen mother, before leaving the queen mother's bedroom, he was worried that someone would stab him in the back, but after leaving the palace, he just ignored her threat.

——An old lady with no real power can only say a few vicious words and lose her temper.

He persuaded himself not to care about this old man who repeatedly insulted his mother.

……

Hua Qianshu understood the feeling of longing in An Mingxi's mouth. In order to stop the endless sorrow, he came to Zhuge Mansion for the third time to see Zhuge Xingyun, and told himself that this was the last time. See him, he won't bother you again.However, the guard regretfully told him that Zhuge Xingyun was not in the mansion.Hua Qianshu didn't know whether Zhuge Xingyun was really absent or just trying to avoid him. He asked the guards where Zhuge Xingyun was now, and they told him that Zhuge Xingyun was probably still in Dali Temple.

Hua Qianshu left, walked to the avenue, and sat down under a tea shed - Hua Qianshu thought that Zhuge Xingyun would pass by here when he returned to his residence.He ordered a pot of tea and patiently waited for Zhuge Xingyun to come back.

He might be able to go directly to Dali Temple to ask for evidence, but because Zhuge Xingyun would think him scary if he appeared in the official office, he still chose to wait near Zhuge's mansion.

During the long wait, it was late at night and there were fewer pedestrians. The waiter in the tea shed reminded him that it was time for the curfew.Hua Qianshu nodded, and laughed at himself in his heart: Why pretend to be infatuated?

He got up, and before leaving, he left a piece of silver for Xiao Er who had been kind to him all night.He thought it was time for him to go back, so he didn't take a few steps in the direction of home, and he thought, when Zhuge Xingyun came back, he didn't necessarily take this road.So he went to the closed Zhuge mansion again, and asked the guard if Zhuge Xingyun had returned, the guard looked at each other and shook his head.Seeing this, Hua Qianshu decided that it was not that Zhuge Xingyun was absent, but that he was just using his absence as an excuse.So he asked the guard to tell him: "Tell him, in the future, I won't bother you again."

After taking his leave, he turned and left.

He didn't go back to the mansion, but drank pot after pot of wine in Huamanlou, fell asleep after getting drunk, woke up with a headache when the sun was high, and almost threw up on the bed when he sat up.

Hua Qianshu tidied herself up, drank the hangover soup brought by the girl, endured the discomfort and returned to the mansion.After bathing, he came to Hua Qianmo's yard, greeted Shen Shuyun, knelt down, hugged the two children at the same time, patted their backs, rubbed their foreheads and said, "Daddy, go take a nap again."

After a series of movements, she was not sleepy even if she said she was sleepy. Most of the discomfort in her body had already disappeared, but Hua Qianshu felt that her spirit was sluggish. Anyway, she had nothing to do afterwards, so she might as well sleep to kill the long time.

……

"Are you awake?" Zhuge Xingyun on the drum stool asked Hua Qianshu who had sat up.

Hua Qianshu, whose mind was in chaos due to sleeping for too long, glanced at him, yawned, lay down again, closed his eyes, and turned his back on the way.

Zhuge Xingyun frowned slightly, approached Hua Qianshu, and asked, "Didn't you need me for something?"

Hua Qianshu ignored him, and Zhuge leaned against the sideboard of the bed, waiting for him to speak.

After a moment of silence, Hua Qianshu said, "You don't want to see me."

"If I don't want to see you, why am I here?"

Hua Qianshu replied: "I know it's a dream."

Zhuge Xingyun thought it was funny, so he sat down on the edge of the bed, patted his arm lightly, and told him: "It's not a dream."

The realistic force on his arm made Hua Qianshu wake up instantly, stood up, faced him, and asked in surprise, "How did you get in?"

"That... should be your sister-in-law."

"Sister-in-law?"

If it was Shen Shuyun, it would not be impossible for him to enter here easily - but this is not what should be discussed now.

Realizing that the person in front of him is real, something seems to be being pulled in his heart, Hua Qianshu is at a loss for words.

Zhuge Xingyun got up, stood a little farther away, separated the distance, and explained what happened yesterday: "Last night, I was really not in the mansion. I was still in Dali Temple until today at Shenshi. I only got the news of your visit yesterday from my family when I returned to the mansion. .”

Since the servants knew that Hua Qianshu was Zhuge Xingyun's sweetheart, every slight movement of Hua Qianshu had more meanings in front of them.With their embellishment, Zhuge Xingyun learned how Hua Qianshu begged to see him affectionately, how reluctantly he left when he left, how heartbroken he thought the guard was when he lied, and how he finally said sadly, "I don't want to die." I will bother you again."

Although Zhuge Xingyun suspected that their descriptions were adulterated, these words really made him so happy that it was difficult to maintain his demeanor, as if he was ascending to a fairy.Looking at his calm appearance now, who would have thought that he came all the way quickly with a smile that couldn't be hidden?It also nearly knocked down several innocent passers-by.

"Why are you looking for me?" Zhuge Xingyun asked, he was no longer in the mood to smile, and he couldn't help being nervous, for fear that Hua Qianshu was looking for him to let him be a messenger again.

Hua Qianshu lowered her eyes and said slowly: "I should apologize to you."

Just to apologize?

Zhuge Xingyun's heart "thumped".

Hua Qianshu continued: "That day, I... I had two children."

"I know." Zhuge Xingyun replied.

"I promised to take them to see their mother. If she is not doing well, maybe... I will take her back to Beijing and bring her to the two children." Hua Qianshu looked up at Zhuge Xingyun , "I don't know how to face you... face the children."

"You want to marry her?" Zhuge Xingyun seemed to be hanging from a cliff, and the thin vines he was holding showed signs of breaking.

Hua Qianshu stepped on the floor, stood up, and said, "It was originally decided... I owe her. As the mother of the child, she should have a status."

Zhuge Xingyun looked at the wooden floor and raised the corner of his mouth with difficulty: "Ha, you are right, then I should wish you all—"

"But I like you." Hua Qianshu interrupted him.

Zhuge Xingyun was stunned, he didn't even dare to be happy at this moment, lest things would turn around again.

"So I won't marry her." After Hua Qianshu finished speaking, she waited for Zhuge Xingyun's reply.He still can't confirm Zhuge Xingyun's current intentions.

Looking at Zhuge Xingyun whose expression didn't fluctuate much, Hua Qianshu felt that he had to increase his bargaining chip, so he slightly opened his arms and said, "You can dispose of... this body as you like." It was already obvious seduction|seduction, and Qianshu would blush as thick-skinned as a flower. He looked at Zhuge Xingyun who seemed indifferent, and hated that time could not be turned back.

Hua Qianshu tried to take back the words: "If you don't want to, just pretend I didn't say anything." Hua Qianshu, who was in distress, was about to bypass Zhuge Xingyun and leave the room when Zhuge Xingyun suddenly stood in front of him. , Hua Qianshu has been forced to bed.

"What?" Hua Qianshu asked.

Zhuge Xingyun pushed his shoulders, pressed him down on the bed, and said: "I can't let you go free again." He could no longer pretend to be magnanimous when Hua Qianshu shuttled through the flowers.

Hua Qianshu didn't understand what he wanted to express.

"You will never be allowed to fall in love with anyone but me."

Before meeting Luo Ling, Zhuge Xingyun didn't take Hua Qianshu's so-called numerous lovers to heart. He even thought that Hua Qianshu's love heart was just superficial as before, or that he was confident that Hua Qianshu The tree will be dedicated to him alone.

"Whether it is mind or body, you are never allowed to be possessed by others-can you?"

Hua Qianshu raised the corners of her lips, hooked his neck, raised her head and kissed his lips, narrowed her fox-like eyes slightly, and gave the answer——

"I am yours."