Chitose words

Xie Zhao finally met the "master" mentioned by the man before in a deep alley behind a street outside the Yida Luo Family Mansion.

Although she had certain expectations and guesses in her mind just now, when the person in front of her actually stood in front of her, she was still greatly shocked.

In the quiet and deserted alley in the dead of night, Xie Zhao finally breathed a sigh of relief after being silent for a long time.

Seeing that this person was standing in front of her in good condition, not only free from illness and disaster, but also traveling freely around the world under the protection of Xie's dead soldiers, she finally let go of the worries she had been secretly hanging on before. heart.

Xie Zhao shook her head helplessly. She smiled half angrily, half in disapproval and said:

"Uncle, you are really making a fool of yourself."

Xie Huanzhang, Prince of Xunyang County, was wearing a long gown worn by a handsome man from Western Xinjiang. He was standing a few steps away from her as gentle as jade. At this time, he was seriously looking at his niece, whom he had not seen for nearly two years, with a smile.

But within a moment, Xie Huanzhang's face became darker and uglier the more he looked at it.

After half a stick of incense, he frowned and slowly shook his head.

"Zhaozhao, you are really fooling around. If your grandfather and mother-in-law saw what you are like now, they would not know how to feel sorry for you.

Are you sick?Why have you reached this point with your inner strength?Now that you are so old, why can't you take care of yourself outside?

I remember when you were walking around the world when you were a child, you would always bring your sword attendant Lu Shangque with you. Why didn't you bring him with you this time? "

Xie Huanzhang sighed.

Counting the days, it seems that the girl in front of me will be pregnant in ten days.

In Nanchao Tianchen, a man can be considered an adult when he reaches the age of 20.

When a woman reaches the age of 15, she can get engaged and marry and become the head of her husband's family.

But his niece, who had reached the pinnacle of martial arts and became the world's number one swordsman at a young age, seemed to have never lived an ordinary life.

Not only that, she even looks extremely sick now, and is so thin that people who know her can hardly believe it.

But even so, she is still a girl who makes people feel radiant even when she stands there.

Today, compared to her past, who was as hot as the scorching sun, she has a bit more vitality like ordinary people. This can be regarded as a blessing in misfortune.

When Xie Zhao heard Xie Huanzhang's words, it was difficult not to think of his grandfather and his late mother, Queen Xiaochun.

Yes, if the queen mother were still here, she would definitely feel sorry for her and be so angry that she would want to beat her a few times.

She smiled so hard that there was a touch of moisture in her eyes, but her mouth was never forgiving.

Xie Zhao looked at him with a smile.

"Little uncle, if my grandfather and mother dragged their frail bodies to the Western Xinjiang and didn't even leave a single word to anyone, I'm afraid they would have scolded you heavily."

Xie Huanzhang also laughed when he heard this.

But after laughing, he suddenly sighed and said helplessly:
"What? So what kind of trouble are you causing now? Why are you so eager to compete with your uncle for the golden signboard of 'Xie's No. [-] Sick Rice'?"

Xie Zhao was amused by his self-deprecating tone and shook his head to tease him:
"Who says it's not the case? I accidentally cut off this sign. But it was an accident and it's excusable. Uncle, you are the one who should hit it."

She didn't know how much Xie Huanzhang, the king of Xunyang County, knew about the incident in January of the third year of Jing'an.

However, Xie Zhao made up his mind and did not want to involve the only bloodline of the Xie family in Xunyang, inexplicably getting involved in their Fu family's countless household affairs that were not cleaned up and messed up.

At that time, since Xie Zhao's three uncles, who were respected by the world as the "Three Masters of the Xie Family", and his grandfather Xie Lin, who was the emperor's master of the Shangzhu Kingdom, passed away one after another, in fact, the Xie family in the Tianchen Dynasty has remained glamorous despite their appearance over the years. , in fact, it has already become somewhat empty inside.

As dazzling as the legacy of the "Hetu Swordsmanship" was given by Fu Jiuyi, the founding emperor of the Tianchen Dynasty more than 800 years ago, how embarrassing and bitter is the current situation in which the Xie family's generals are scattered and have no one to support them.Why has Xie Huanzhang, the king of Xunyang County, been so low-key these years?
Why even though he has become the only county prince with a different surname in Tianchen of the Southern Dynasty, he has never intervened in the affairs of the temple.In addition to editing books and writing articles, are you only willing to take on some casual tasks in the Ministry of Etiquette?

Did he not want to?
No, he shouldn't!
Did the late Emperor Wei really want the people of the Xie family in Xunyang to give birth to another "Xie Banchao" after the death of the old master Xie of Shangzhu Kingdom?

The old emperor naturally didn’t want to think about it!

Xie Huanzhang's heart is like a bright mirror, and he can see everything clearly.

In the 800 years since the founding of the Southern Dynasty Tianchen, he was the first county king with a different surname to be granted the title for the first time. In addition to pity for the tragic fact that only one loyal leader of the Xie family in Xunyang was left, the late emperor also wanted to block the Xie family. mouth, blocking the mouth that faces upward and downward, at the border of the army?
Xie Huanzhang quietly looked at the slender and tall figure of the woman in front of him.

Her appearance actually didn't change much from when she was sixteen or seventeen three years ago, but he vaguely felt that nothing about her was the same as before.

However, before he had time to lecture and ask Xie Zhao, Xie Zhao had already turned his back on guests and frowned and asked seriously:

"Uncle, I heard that you suddenly left Zhaoge City at the beginning of the third year of Jing'an, but you didn't even leave any news to the emperor.

I heard Mr. Shen Qi say a few months ago that all the people in Zhaoge City were mobilized in search of you, and all the states and prefectures along the way were moving. You can't do this.It not only makes your loved ones worried, but also does not contribute to your own safety.

Have you ever thought that if you encounter any danger while traveling outside, no one even in the Southern Dynasties knows where you are. It would be good to ask people around you to send a message to Zhaoge City. How can you be silent? Silent and traceless. "

Xie Huanzhang laughed angrily and turned to look at her intently.

"Oh, really? What about you? You left without leaving a word. The scouts reported to me that on the fifth day of the first lunar month of the third year of Jingan, there was blood all over the hundred-mile journey from Night City to the outskirts of Lanling City. All kinds of things happened in the process. Why?"

Xie Zhao lowered his eyes and looked at his feet, smiled naturally and calmly and pretended to be stupid:
"Me? How can I be the same as my uncle? What about 'spreading blood all over the hundred-mile journey from Sleepless City to the outskirts of Lanling City'? I don't know about that. I just go out to travel and forge the sword as a rule.

Furthermore, I have been a wild child who cannot be restrained since I was a child. Whether it is Shentai Palace or Zhaoge City, I have long been accustomed to it, even if I have been missing for a year and a half."

"——What?"

Xie Huanzhang interrupted her nonsense with a cold voice:
"Do you want to say that even if you were missing for a year and a half, no one would notice you, or no one would be worried?"

Xie Zhao laughed, his tone not revealing at all, and there was no sadness or joy in his words.

"That's all. Hey, hey, uncle, what's your expression?"

Faced with Xie Huanzhang's expression of pity, pain, shock, and anger, Xie Zhao quickly apologized:

"Little uncle, what does this mean? This shows that I have been mature and reliable since I was a child, which makes people feel particularly reassured.

Why do you feel sorry for me now that you know it later?It’s impossible to commit a crime, it’s really impossible to commit a crime!

——In the words of my senior brother Nan Xu, I am a petty person who is most unworthy of pity and pity.

Even if you don’t believe me, you should believe the Nanxu High Priest’s iron-mouthed calculations, right? "

Xie Huanzhang raised his eyes coolly.

"Really?"

A flash of anger suddenly flashed in his eyes, and then he said word by word:

"Zhaozhao, how long do you want to keep this secret from me? Did you really leave Zhaoge voluntarily and travel around the world?

Although your uncle and I have faded away from the court and ignored political affairs, we are by no means blind!
——In the first month of the third year of Jingan, I was sent as an envoy to Fenglan in Western Xinjiang. I was not in Zhaoge City, but don’t think that you can completely hide this from me.

Yes, you and Jing Yan are now grown up and have strong wings, so you both use me as an elder as a decoration, right? "

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