auspicious time has come

"Oh? The cat is here—" just after drinking the medicine, Princess Yongyang, who leaned on the couch with her eyes closed, opened a pair of smiling eyes, sat up straight, and said, "It's raining outside, hurry up!" She comes in."

The gray-blue night is beginning to dye, and the sky and the earth are misty and rainy.

On the porch outside the house, the maid from the Princess's Mansion, who was holding an umbrella for Heng Yu beside her, took a strange look at the figure of the girl who was walking towards the room when she put away the umbrella.

Mrs. Heng, who always loves to talk and laugh, never said a word on the way into the mansion... What's wrong?
The girl with a foggy blue apricot flower skirt wrapped in a layer of rain and moisture walked into the inner room, and there seemed to be a bit of coolness between her brows and eyes.

She came in and stood still beside the screen of ladies picture which was five steps away from Princess Yongyang.

"Let's all step back, I'll have a chat with my cat, whom I haven't seen for a long time." Princess Yongyang's tone was as affectionate and intimate as ever.

Qi Zhen replied "Yes", glanced at Heng Yu, and retreated out with the maid in the room.

"Why have you lost so much weight?" Looking at the girl standing there, Princess Yongyang's eyes were full of distress: "Your complexion is so bad, it seems like a different person... In vain you used to talk about me all day long Do you not care about your body like this now?"

Saying that, he waved to Heng Yu as usual: "Come here and let me take a closer look."

Heng Yu didn't move, looked at the man quietly, and asked: "Are you still going to act?"

Seeing her like this, Princess Yongyang slowly withdrew her hand, looked at Hengyu, and said in a weak and slow voice, "Of course I kept some things from you in the past, but my love for you has always been from the bottom of my heart... Could it be that in your eyes? , are these all fake?"

"Beloved." The corner of Hengyu's mouth curled up slightly, and he stretched out his right hand and spread it out, showing the jade token in his palm: "Is this what His Highness means to love you?"

"I went to the Northland before, and His Highness gave me a jade order—" Hengyu looked at Princess Yongyang, and said, "Your hands and eyes are open to the sky, you must have known that the old enemy Yanlu led the old tribe of the Xi clan in the Northland Activities in the area, right?"

Princess Yongyang didn't answer, nor did she deny it, her expression remained calm.

"Besides, you have been fighting in the north for many years, and your marching methods have always been ruthless. I am afraid that the people who have offended you are not just those who are mocking people." The coldness in Hengyu's eyes was extremely calm, like a frozen lake in winter: "This Yuling , it is like a reminder to me. It is really a great blessing that I was able to return to Beijing alive."

Before that, she almost lost her life at the hands of those Xi people. The reason why she was able to save her life was that she had long since realized that she wanted to lure the snake out of the hole, and the other was because Xiao Mu appeared in time to save her——

And there are still countless dangers that have passed her by.

"I have no intention of harming you, how could I harm you?" Princess Yongyang shook her head: "If I wanted to kill you, why would I bother to keep you by my side to take care of everything all these years?"

She looked at the jade order in the girl's hand and smiled: "It's just a small test... Sure enough, you are smart and vigilant, bold and careful, and never let me down."

Heng Yu also smiled, but the smile didn't reach his eyes, and he felt it was ridiculous: "If I die under your so-called test, I will be stupid and damn it, and I will die, right?"

Princess Yongyang looked at her with a smile, as if looking at a wayward child, her eyes were helpless and tolerant.

"How many times have such temptations and tests happened at times and places that I don't know over the years?" Heng Yu's eyes were slightly red: "You are like the Creator God who controls my life and death, and give me the test of staring. , is it also based on the so-called love?"

"Aheng." Princess Yongyang sighed softly: "You shouldn't look at this matter with such a superficial and mediocre view... The love I give you is to train you and enable you to take on great responsibilities in the future. stand together on high.”

Heng Yu only felt that he heard an extremely absurd and crazy joke: "So, should I be grateful for your love?"

"I liked you very much when you were young." Princess Yongyang sighed and talked about the past: "I was surprised and pleased when you came home at the age of 13. Such a small girl, who has been living outside for many years, He was able to protect himself, and returned home with his own ability, and he didn't feel shy and depressed at all, but became more open and extraordinary... How can I not like such a child. "

"In my life, what I hate the most are stupid and cowardly people, and I only appreciate people with strong minds." She looked at Hengyu, as if she was looking at the most satisfying work in her life: "I pity you and love you, You stayed by my side to educate and sharpen you carefully, so that you would not be buried by this unfair world... and you have never disappointed me."

Heng Yu looked at her with red eyes: "But you, I am very disappointed——"

Princess Yongyang couldn't help laughing after being taken aback.

Heng Yu said: "So, what Xiren Yanlu said is true—they had drawn up the proposals and documents at the beginning. It was the people under your command who provoked them first, and they resisted later. You used this as an excuse to send troops again. Kill them all."

"He is stupid and doesn't know what to say. He dared to put forward conditions on the peace agreement to let me marry." Princess Yongyang sneered: "Such a trash with a dirty mind, shouldn't he die."

"You think about yourself, it's not my turn to judge right or wrong." Heng Yu looked at the almost stranger in front of him, and said clearly, "I just think I'm stupid. An evil ghost who can see himself, regards everything in the world as an ant's plaything, and lives only in his own wishes and delusions."

"Evil ghost, it should be." Princess Yongyang leaned back on the couch, half-turned her body, and supported half of her chin with her hand. Following her movements, the sleeves of the thin spring shirt slipped off, revealing half of her body. On the white arm that has not seen the sun for a long time, there are several old scars of different colors on the arm——

"Ever since I was a child, I have found that I am different from ordinary people." She said in a chatty tone: "When I was young, in the garden of my mother's harem, a wild cat scratched my hand. I brought food to feed the cat every day, and as time went by, it became close to me. One day I tried to pick it up, but it rubbed against my hand intimately... So, I took it I was smothered to death on a soft pillow, and I chopped off the claw that caught me, and threw it into the brazier."

"There was a little palace woman who saw it, and screamed in fright. She looked at me like she was looking at an evil spirit. I didn't understand what she was afraid of, and I didn't feel that I was wrong. It was clearly a cat. My son arrested me first, and I was just retaliating with fire... But from then on, I vaguely understood that I shouldn't be like this in front of people in the future."

"Later, I was able to study together with Brother Huang and sometimes eldest brother. Father really chose a good teacher for Brother Huang with all his heart. The teacher never treated me and Brother Huang unfairly, never because of male and female differences. So I ignored it and perfunctorily. With the teacher, I learned to distinguish right from wrong, good from evil in the eyes of the world, and slowly, I felt that the evil spirit in my heart had been killed by me."

Princess Yongyang recalled the past with distant eyes: "I was taught by the teacher carefully and accompanied by my best friends. The days of studying in Chongwen Museum are really nostalgic..."

Hearing her mentioning A Weng in such a tone, Heng Yu's eyes were no longer calm: "But you killed him—"

She asked word by word: "Nine years ago, the private letter sent back by A Weng was addressed to you, right?"

"Yes." Princess Yongyang nodded, her eyes darkened: "I used to think that the teacher was not someone who despised women. It was the letter that made me see clearly that the teacher still looked down on girls..."

She said, smiling sarcastically: "He sensed that someone wanted to attack Brother Shi, and he was afraid that the letter would not be delivered to Brother Shi... He should pass it on to Brother Jiang's family, but the teacher is very cautious and sensitive, he is afraid that Jiang Brother Jia has nothing to do with this matter, so he can only send a letter to this girl..."

"If the teacher suspects me one or two times, I will be gratified. I will not bear it and will not bear to kill him..." Princess Yongyang sighed in great disappointment: "It's a pity that the teacher is good everywhere, but he is still pedantic and old-fashioned... Why is it that in him In my heart, a girl can't have means, what about ambition?"

"Why didn't you ever think that he sent the letter to you because he trusted you!" Heng Yu's red eyes were about to fall, and she felt both sad and angry: "I am also a girl, when have I ever looked down on a girl?" I was deceived by you before, is it because you are a girl? You regard other people's sincere trust as contempt for you, and use such narrow and ridiculous reasons to kill him, and in the end you have to make all the mistakes Blame it on him!"

She slowly approached Princess Yongyang two steps, and asked in a fixed voice: "You deceive yourself so much, do you really have no shame in your heart?"

Princess Yongyang didn't answer, she just looked at the girl in front of her quietly, and asked after a while: "Aren't you curious why I think this way, and why did I change like this... When I was in the Chongwen Hall, I also Believe those so-called good and evil, right and wrong."

"Why should I be curious?" The girl's stubborn eyes were full of cold hatred: "No matter what you have experienced, it is not the reason for you to attack me, Aunt, the Shi family, and countless innocent people-what did they do wrong? Yes! There is a deep blood feud between you and me, why should I listen to my enemy tell about my past and so-called difficulties?"

Princess Yongyang smiled: "Yes, there is nothing to talk about... I don't love the world, and I don't need the world to understand."

"But Ah Heng, to me, you are always different from the world." She looked at Hengyu who looked like this, with pity in her eyes: "It's very uncomfortable, isn't it? You don't need to know this...why? Do you have to investigate further?"

"Jingzhi's child is also disobedient. I paved the way for him so well. He could have stood beside Bengong and got back the things that belonged to their family...but he refused to go to Bengong because The road he had arranged was delayed, but in the end he had to come to the capital to ask for peace... He was unwilling to help me accomplish anything, so I could only do it myself and end all this in advance. "

"When I saw the two of you come together that day, I knew that there were some things that I couldn't wait for, otherwise you would definitely make trouble for me..."

Princess Yongyang looked regretful: "As for those old things, you will know as soon as you know it, and it is not a big hindrance to me, but you children... insist on finding those so-called truths that are meaningless and cannot be changed long ago. Knowing the truth, but unable to see through the barriers between people in the world, and instead being trapped, why bother?"

She is like a high god, looking at those poor people who are trapped by the world, and with a little hope: "Aheng, I believe that one day, you will figure it out. The so-called deep hatred is meaningless, only yourself Powerful is the most practical."

Seeing that the girl's demeanor gradually calmed down, she went on to say: "Over the years, you should have understood that you want to find a way out for the women of the world, but you often encounter obstacles everywhere and are misunderstood by others. Even if it's just for a For a trivial matter, it is often necessary to exploit the loopholes in the law in the courtroom and do our best to barely win some so-called justice—”

"But if you are standing at the highest place, why do you have to work so hard?" Princess Yongyang smiled and said: "Whoever doubts, whoever hinders you, just kill him, so why bother talking with those disgusting stupid faces?" ?”

"There is nothing wrong with wanting to stand at the highest place, what is wrong is the means." Heng Yu looked at her and said slowly: "A person who is prone to bloodthirsty is never worthy of sitting in that position."

"Whether you deserve it or not, why don't I sit first?" Princess Yongyang smiled: "If you think what I do is inappropriate, why don't you do it yourself? Stand with me, and you can do it." What I think is right, I have set up a study room for you in the Palace of Manna, military affairs, if you want, you can participate in them in the future."

"You're right, of course I'll do it myself—"

"Aheng, I have never been stingy with giving you everything. Whatever you want, I will do it for you."

Heng Yu looked at her: "Is this statement true?"

"Naturally." Princess Yongyang stretched out a hand towards her with a smile.

Heng Yu walked over slowly.

then--

Without hesitation, she raised the dagger hidden in her sleeve and stabbed at the heart of Princess Yongyang.

The moment the dagger was about to touch the skin under the spring shirt, Princess Yongyang's complexion changed. The instinct to fight the enemy on the battlefield has already been carved into her bones. She dodged the fatal blow very quickly, and the dagger barely scratched her shoulders.

At this time, a female guard in black suddenly appeared from the shadows, she grabbed the unsheathed sword and attacked Heng Yu, and then slapped her on the heart——

"Bang!" With a loud noise, Heng Yu fell to the ground and hit the screen heavily, with bloodshot eyes spilling from the corner of his mouth.

"bass--"

The female dark guard drew out her sharp sword and pointed at the girl lying in front of the screen.

"Presumptuous! Who allowed you to hurt her!" Princess Yongyang scolded coldly.

The dark guard's complexion changed, and he immediately retracted his sword and knelt down to plead guilty: "This subordinate sees that he intends to hurt His Highness's life, so--"

Princess Yongyang walked towards Hengyu step by step, and said slowly: "Everything I said can be fulfilled for you, but this is not included."