When Xie Muyun stepped out, although Shen Zhixi's face was expressionless, his mind was in chaos.
My mind reminds me to calm down, but my heart is so messed up that I can't calm down no matter what.
Xie Muyun didn't stop and strode out of the yard.
It stands to reason that Yuejing City is extremely prosperous, and it is still lively even at night. But in this place, even if the courtyard door is opened, no sound can be heard from outside. This shows that at least the whole area is owned by Xie Muyun. In control. Even if you leave this courtyard, you can't leave the alley.
The courtyard was quite large. There were several small courtyards in the big courtyard. When she was carried in, she raised her eyelids and glanced at them.
Not to mention the courtyard door outside, it’s...
While I was thinking about it, I heard the sound of someone coming outside the courtyard.
From time to time, two people dressed like servants dragged a young woman past outside. She lowered her head, and her long hair covered her face so that her face could not be seen, but there was blood on her clothes, especially on the cuffs and sleeves. Dye into patches of red.
If I guessed correctly, she was also captured by Xie Muyun to obtain blood to refine medicine.
Just now Xie Muyun said that his disease requires children with his bloodline to collect blood and make medicine.
So, this woman outside is also his child?
Judging from the sound, she was locked up in the yard next door.
Shen Zhixi slowly calmed down. She didn't want to be treated as a living blood bank like the woman in the next courtyard.
The most important thing is that Wan Ying is still in Xie Muyun's hands, and she must find a way to get it back.
So she can't collapse, she has to find an opportunity.
*
royal palace.
Amidst the voices of "Farewell to the Emperor", Emperor Zhao Yanchen came out of the Queen's Changning Palace and sat on the dragon chariot.
Inside the palace gate, Queen Song Qingyu watched the dragon chariot leave with Matsushita holding it. She turned sideways and took Song Lianzhou's wrist to go into the palace, "Come on, let's go eat some more. The emperor couldn't even enjoy eating here just now." . You haven’t been back for several months. I asked the kitchen to make some meals, and we, brother and sister, can have a nice talk."
"Empress..."
Song Lianzhou frowned and withdrew his hand. This was in the palace. Even if he and the queen were siblings, they couldn't be too close. It was not in line with the rules. After all, he was still a foreigner, so he had to leave the palace earlier.
"Zhu Yang." The queen ignored him and called to the serving maid and said, "Go and get the peach wine that I have saved."
Turning around, he grabbed Song Lianzhou again.
"I specially left it for you, just waiting for you to come back and have a drink with you." She smiled at Song Lianzhou, without any airs at all, only the kindness of her sister to her brother.
Song Lianzhou frowned, pulled back his hand again and took two steps back.
After many years, he, the queen's sister's child, is almost thirteen years old, but her temperament has not changed at all. She pretends to be dignified in front of others, but she is still as casual as when she was a young lady in her boudoir.
"The Queen, please forgive me, I have important matters outside the palace..."
"You have something important. What important matter can you have?" The queen glared at Song Lianzhou with a dark face and her hands on her hips.
Song Lianzhou's words were interrupted repeatedly, and he felt a little unhappy.
But he did not have an attack, and only stared at the queen with a cold face.
"Okay, okay, okay." In the end, the queen was defeated. Her younger brother was older and no longer listened to her sister's words. "I was so stressed out in the palace all day long. Only in front of you and my father can I relax. I have been looking forward to your return for a long time, and wanted to have a good talk with you, but you... well, I know what you are thinking, you are afraid that other people's gossip will be detrimental to me, saying that I am the queen... forget it."
She turned around, no longer looking at Song Lianzhou and said, "Let's go."
Even without looking, you can hear the disappointment in her tone.
Song Lianzhou lowered his eyes. He naturally understood his sister's sadness, but he understood that he had to abide by the rules. For so many years, there were always voices saying that his sister was not qualified and could not be a good queen. He did not want to see her suffer more. Defamation and abuse.
"My lord, please retire."
He bowed and bowed, then retreated out.
When he reached the palace gate, he suddenly stopped.
The hand holding it in his arms paused, the contents inside disappeared, and his expression immediately changed.
He raised his eyelids and turned back decisively.
When he was in the palace just now, the third prince jumped on him excitedly because he hadn't seen him for a long time. He must have dropped something in his arms at that time.
"Why are you back? You still want to have a drink, right?"
The queen had just stepped across the threshold and turned around to see him returning, smiling happily.
But Song Lianzhou's face was serious, and he wasn't coming for her at all.
After entering the door, he ran towards the inner hall.
The queen followed him in with a confused look on her face, thinking that something big had happened, but she hadn't seen him look so nervous for a long time, and she was both shocked.
After entering, he saw Song Lianzhou squatting on the ground as if looking for something.
"Did you leave something behind? I'll send someone to help you find it."
As soon as he finished speaking, Song Lianzhou had already stood up. No matter how fast he moved, the queen still noticed what he had hidden in his arms, which was a blue cloth bag.
She had seen it once before.
I don't know if the bag was damaged or not, but half of it was re-sewn with cloth. The stitching was very ugly. It didn't look like the workmanship of an embroiderer, but more like he had sewn it with his own needle and thread.
"Song Lianzhou, do you know that your father has fallen in love with Xie Jing'an, the legitimate daughter of the Ning Chenghou family, and is planning to marry you."
"Know."
Song Lianzhou was carrying the good stuff, trying to get out, and he seemed to be careless in answering.
"and you……"
"So what if you know, I said I would never marry in this life."
"How can you not marry a wife? You..."
"Why should I marry a wife?" Song Lianzhou kept walking and continued to walk out. "What is the meaning of marrying a wife, just to carry on the family line? It's boring. It's better to go to the battlefield and kill two more enemies."
After stepping out of the palace gate, he turned around and bowed to the queen.
"Your Majesty, stay here while I leave the palace."
After saying that, he stood up and walked out again.
The queen couldn't help but chased him two steps and said, "If you really can't let go of that woman, then..."
"I can't let her go!" Song Lianzhou turned around suddenly, his face looking cold and scary.
"You're lying!" The queen came closer to him, her expression full of concern, "Why are you so nervous about this bag if you can't let it go? Although you didn't tell me, I know that this thing must be related to her. At the beginning, Wei Hong put it You told me what happened to that woman. You punished her half to death. Yes, I can’t ask anything now, but that doesn’t mean I don’t know clearly. You..."
"I keep this bag because I can't put her in it!"
Song Lianzhou raised his voice, his tone filled with unspeakable hatred.
"I keep this thing to remind myself all the time what kind of deception and humiliation I have suffered, so that I can always remember that feeling and never make the same mistake again."
"It's not her that I can't let go of, it's myself who was once deceived."
*
Inside Tsukikyo Castle.
At the end of the long street, someone glanced at Xizhou secretly, and then took out a small bamboo tube from his arms.
Opening the lid of the bamboo tube, a jade bee with crystal clear wings flew out.
"Jade Bee, Jade Bee, it's up to you whether you can find A Xi."
It was Fang Rou.
She looked at the Jade Bee in the sky and saw it hovering for a while and then flying away. She made a move to chase after it. As soon as she came out of the alley, she glanced at the man riding a white horse coming from the opposite side.
yes……
She covered her mouth in shock and backed away.
It was the blind man I saw in the bamboo house back then!
