The first-level Zhaohua Thousand-level Hall

Chapter 133 His Eyes Are Gentle
The assassination at the Heaven Sacrifice Ceremony made the emperor completely furious. Not only did he search for suspicious persons in Wuzhou City, but even the crown prince who brought up the idea of ​​the Heaven Sacrifice Ceremony was severely reprimanded.

The prince's face was greatly lost. On the contrary, because the nine princes had experienced life and death assassinations like the emperor, the emperor loved him so much. The Japanese Empress and the Prince looked at the Ninth Prince with poisoned eyes.

"Ninth Brother was frightened a lot, and didn't want to rest. Where are we going this early in the morning?"

The Ninth Prince was stopped by the Crown Prince. Although the Crown Prince was smiling at him, the Ninth Prince felt that those eyes were not friendly at all. He couldn't tell the malice in the Prince's eyes, but he was able to tell who was sincere and who It's false.

"Brother Prince, Jiu'er is tired of lying on the bed, and wants to go to the garden to pick some beautiful flowers for the father, so that the father can feel better. Do you want to go with the prince?"

The Ninth Prince tilted his head, smiling innocently.

He still remembered that after he was abandoned by his mother and concubine, during the chaos, he once asked for help to the prince who led the people to retreat. At that time, he and the prince were only five steps apart, but the prince didn't hear it and was by his side When the man stopped, he said, go quickly.

The innocent and almost stupid Ninth Prince was strangled by his relatives bit by bit in that assassination,
The prince was furious from the bottom of his heart, what did the Ninth Prince mean by this, he clearly knew that the emperor didn't like him very much now, it would not be good to get along, was he showing off to him?
Sure enough, he is the little bitch of a bitch, extremely hateful!
The smile on the prince's face was a bit stiff, but his words still had to be gentle. He shook his head and rejected the proposal of the nine princes together: "The ninth brother has a heart, so it's no wonder that the father loves you the most, but I still want to remind Jiu'er, what do you spend?" Yes, it is suitable for women, such as Jiu'er's mother concubine Xian Guifei, the emperor doesn't necessarily like unfilial people, Jiu'er should take care of himself."

After the words fell, the prince turned around and left, not feeling that there was anything wrong with arguing with a child.

The Ninth Prince bit his lip with his teeth.

"Your Highness, should we go see the imperial concubine? I heard that the empress is still feeling unwell, after all, she was frightened."

The palace people around him asked cautiously.

The Ninth Prince sneered, almost like the sarcasm of a seven-year-old child: "Firstly, the concubine mother did not face the chaotic stampede of the people, and secondly, she did not face the murderous intent of the sharp sword. Tell me, what kind of surprise did she get?"

Ignoring the terrified and frightened faces of the palace servants, the Ninth Prince walked towards the garden with a cold face.

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"The corner of the robe is exposed."

Xu Qingluo's injuries were not serious, and he was able to get out of bed and walk around after lying down for two days. With this walk, he grabbed the dodgy child from the corner.

The little boots were tucked in, and then exposed again hesitantly.

Xu Qingluo didn't move.

For a while, half of her small body was exposed from under the tree, and for a while, she hid, not as if she wanted to hide, but instead wanted her to pay attention to her.

Xu Qingluo couldn't help but want to laugh.

"Since you don't want to come out, I'll go back first."

Xu Qingluo turned around, the sound of hasty footsteps came from behind, and a scent of flowers accompanied the boy's hoarse voice: "Don't go!"

The little hand held Xu Qingluo's hand, the boy lowered his head, and with the other hand, he handed a flower that seemed to be dying after rubbing several times to Xu Qingluo's hand: "For you .”

He may have just noticed that the flower was dying, and his face flushed for a moment. Holding the flower in his hand, he didn't know whether to continue passing it to Xu Qingluo or take it back, anyway, it was very difficult.

Although Xu Qingluo has some plans for the Ninth Prince, it is also a matter of making the best use of the situation in the future. Compared with feelings, she feels that it is more enjoyable for her to use interests to connect. She has no intention of cheating a child's feelings, but at the moment she is looking down at the boy's Spinning, looking at the boy's toes that kept grinding the ground and drawing circles nervously.

"This is Begonia, it's very beautiful."

Xu Qingluo took the flowers from the boy's hand, with a smile on his lips: "Thank you for the flowers."

No matter how noble the Ninth Prince's status is, he is actually just a lonely child in essence, a child who wants to be loved by his mother but is deeply hurt by his mother.

The corner of the Ninth Prince's lips twitched into a shallow, pretty smile, and secretly raised his eyes to glance at Xu Qingluo, with a little complacency in his eyes: "I knew you liked it, and the queen mother never forgot to let people pick begonias when she held a garden party. , but these ordinary flowers are easy to wither, I will ask someone to make you a gemstone begonia that will not wither later, the craftsmanship of the craftsmen in the palace is amazing."

It is natural for a young child to get close to Xu Qingluo.

At first he was a little afraid to come because of Xu Qingluo's sarcastic remarks, but now because of Xu Qingluo's smile and two kind words, all the grievances and worries before were forgotten.

She wholeheartedly wanted to get close to Xu Qingluo.

"Okay, I have received your flowers, you should go back, and you should be looking for a palace man who wants to come by your side."

It is absolutely abnormal that a palace servant beside the Ninth Prince did not follow.

In order to prevent more uninvited guests from his yard later, there are some things that Xu Qingluo still wants to say.

"Both the queen mother and the prince hate me, and the concubine mother doesn't like me either. Aunt Xu, do you hate me too? Am I really disgusting?"

The Ninth Prince suddenly made a sound, even though he held it back, the red eyes still expressed all the grievances in his heart, as if Xu Qingluo would cry out as long as he gave him an affirmative answer, as long as he said he hated him .

Xu Qingluo frowned, because of this child's excessive desire for emotion, it became a weakness instead.

Now is actually a very good opportunity, with the grace of saving lives and the comparison with Concubine Xian, as long as she is gentler to this child, even if the Ninth Prince does not treat her as a mother, he will regard her as a very important relative.

No doubt it was to her great advantage.

"Your Highness Ninth Prince, those who care about you are naturally worthy of your concern. Why should you be sad for those who are not worth caring about? You are the prince of the royal family. Your status is destined to be far more than family love in your life. In the future, there are many possibilities. , there are many beautiful things waiting for you in the future.”

Xu Qingluo felt that she didn't look like herself anymore, so she gave up such a good opportunity to sneak in, but facing a seven-year-old child like the Ninth Prince, Xu Qingluo couldn't say anything about certain things. .

"Since you saved me, you must care about me. I don't care. If you take my flowers, you will be my Aunt Xu. You must treat me well. This is my prince's order!"

As soon as the Ninth Prince changed his posture of crying like a little white rabbit, he suddenly yelled domineeringly, and before Xu Qingluo opened his mouth to answer, the little boy turned and ran away.

"I'm only 15 years old"

Xu Qingluo's voice finally came out, but it was a bit dumbfounding.

There is only eight years between her and the Ninth Prince, so it's not as old as being called an aunt.

"15 years old is not too young, and many 15-year-olds now have children."

Mrs. Xu didn't know that the Ninth Prince had been here, but she happened to hear Xu Qingluo's self-talk, and sighed out with a medicine bowl in her hand: "You said that you and General Lang should have settled down a long time ago, how come now? There is no certainty? On the contrary, it was because of this, either you were injured or he was injured, I just feel uneasy in my heart."

Xu Qingluo hurriedly comforted him: "Mother, don't worry, we have a number of marriages with the general, but he just didn't find the right opportunity. After all, His Majesty was in a bad mood after an assassination, so it's not easy to mention the marriage. There is always a chance to make meritorious service, and there is a suitable time for His Majesty to bestow marriage."

Speaking of this matter, Xu Qingluo wanted to tell the emperor hehe, although many people had to be held accountable for the accident at the altar ceremony, but Lang Sheng did not make any mistakes in it, and in order to protect him, he suffered serious injuries In the end, there was no reward at all, and it would be a reward if he didn't pursue it. Besides, Xu Qingluo didn't believe that the emperor didn't see that the most suspicious and most worthy of investigation in the ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven were the prince who raised this matter and the concubine Xian who hid early.

He pursued other people's responsibilities to his heart's content, but treated the prince and concubine Xian coldly. This emperor is really wise.

The Crown Prince and Concubine Xian feel that they have been neglected and wronged, but they don't know that they are really treated as asylum now, and they are not imprisoned or sent to a place like the Punishment Department.

"Hey, Your Majesty is really, Ah Cheng was injured so badly in order to protect him."

Mother Xu mumbled, but she didn't dare to speak too loudly, but her eyes were mostly disapproving after all.

"You should also go and see Ah Cheng. He has been guarding you all night for the past two days, but his own injury was delayed. Your father is not very proficient in external injuries. It would be bad if he missed his injury."

Mrs. Xu was talking about the marriage between Lang Sheng and Xu Qingluo, and she remembered this matter again, and told Xu Qingluo.

Xu Qingluo naturally nodded in agreement.

To be honest, she was worried about Lang Sheng's injury. She just woke up two days ago and couldn't move her own injury. She didn't check the man's injury carefully. The man took it away, and Xu Liang was still there. At this moment, Xu Qingluo was still worried.

As soon as he arrived outside Langsheng's courtyard, he saw several imperial guards guarding outside. Xu Qingluo was familiar with them, and they all knew each other. After saying hello, Xu Qingluo was let in directly.

As soon as she entered, before she even entered the house, the girl smelled a strong smell of medicine, and her complexion immediately turned bad.

He quickened his pace and pushed open the door, just in time to see the man covering himself with his clothes.

Lang Sheng's face was a little embarrassed, and he looked at Xu Qingluo's probing eyes: "Those bastards, they were clearly told not to let people in at will, and they didn't even inform them."

"I still need to report my relationship with you? Those subordinates of yours let me in and drive straight in. They are the ones who understand better than you."

With a sarcasm, Xu Qingluo took two steps forward, and under the helpless eyes of the man, he pulled the man's skirt wide open with a swipe.

The atmosphere was stagnant for a while.

After a while, Xu Qingluo gritted his teeth: "I shouldn't believe that the little wound on your mouth is fine!"

The little bullshit wound was fine, there was only a bloody hole on Langcheng's chest near his shoulder, and there were obvious signs of decay around it, which made him look hideous.

If such an injury is okay, it would be a big joke: "Take off your clothes!"

Xu Qingluo looked at Langsheng coldly, gritted his teeth and read out these three words.

That vicious smell seemed to bite off a piece of the man's flesh and blood.

"Luo'er, Your Majesty still wants me to report the incident as a guard."

Afterwards, Lang Sheng, who had been treated for his wounds and suffered a serious crime by scraping his flesh to heal his wounds, was pressed on the bed by Xu Qingluo, and he didn't dare to get up when he thought about it, looking a little pitiful.

"The arrow wound on your body is similar to the wound on your leg when you first met me. The poison is the same. Fortunately, I fed you those antidote pills all day long. Invasion, but it is also able to resist most of the poison, otherwise, do you think you can still lie here and talk to me? Do you think you can still be loyal to your emperor?"

Xu Qingluo's complexion became colder, and he reached out his hand to touch the man's chest, and amidst the man's hissing in pain, he sneered: "The poison spreads a little faster, and you are not rotten flesh and blood, but rotten to the core. This is not poisoning on the legs, at most it will become a cripple, this is fatal!"

Xu Qingluo's eyes turned red quietly: "Did you miss me when you blocked the emperor's arrow?"

This kind of poison was too vicious, the Ninth Prince didn't fish it out, they all went to the emperor, but there was a fool like Lang Cheng.

"Feel sorry."

Lang Sheng smiled wryly. When he was facing her, these two words seemed to have become common words. God knows, before he met Xu Qingluo, he rarely said sorry.

"You didn't apologize to me."

Xu Qingluo lowered his eyes: "It is you who you are sorry for, and it is the northern Xinjiang soldiers and border people who entrusted all hopes to you behind you."

After saying this, Xu Qingluo dropped the medicine bottle, turned around and left.

Behind her, the man was in a daze.

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"Miss, did you quarrel with General Lang?"

Baicao met Xu Qingluo, and saw the indifference on her face at a glance.

"Why am I arguing with him? We're fine."

Xu Qingluo curled his lips into a smile, but the smile didn't reach his eyes.

I hope that Lang Sheng doesn't really want to try the feeling of not being able to move his whole body. If the man continues to be loyal to the emperor regardless of his physical injury, she doesn't mind giving him another way to deal with him.

Baicao shook her body, feeling a little cold.

Seeing the back of his young lady striding away, after a moment of stupefaction, he hurriedly chased after her: "Miss, walk slowly, and be careful of tearing the wound."

The few imperial guards guarding the door looked at the two girls who hurriedly left one after the other, and looked at each other, wondering how General Lang had offended him, but he seemed to be in a good mood when he came.

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On February [-]th, the weather was clear and cloudless, which was considered a good day. The emperor's driver finally came out from the Xu mansion. The emperor's driver was accompanied by countless palace attendants, as well as the carriages of the empress, concubines and princes. It can be said that there is a huge momentum, and it is impossible to see that many of them have left their lives in Wuzhou City forever.

Lang Sheng and Xu Qingluo knelt on the ground respectfully and sent the holy car away. Behind them were the officials and gentry from the Xu mansion and Wuzhou City. As for those common people, no one wanted to come to pay their respects to the holy face after experiencing the death and injury of the ceremony. up.

The emperor looked at the slightly empty streets on both sides, with a worried expression on his face: "General Lang, I am waiting for you to return to Beijing as soon as possible to recover from your injuries."

After saying this, the emperor lowered the curtain, never wanting to take another look at Wuzhou City.

The holy car parked outside Xu's mansion began to move.

One of the cars stopped suddenly, and a small figure ran down from it. The prince's robe was particularly conspicuous.

The boy stuffed a crumpled flower into Xu Qingluo's hand, just like when they met a few days ago.

"Aunt Xu, you must come to the capital to find me. If you don't come, His Highness will arrest you and bring you to the capital!" The tone was still threatening, but at the end, the voice gradually became choked up again: "Anyway, you are not allowed Leave me alone."

"You must come to me"

Concubine Xian lowered the curtain heavily, gnashing her teeth angrily, her chest heaving up and down: "Nizi, really Nizi!"

"My own mother and concubine don't care about it, but go to curry favor with a poor and lowly medical girl. It's really unfilial!"

Concubine Xian's eyes were full of hatred.

The maid next to her took a careful look at her, did not dare to say anything, and lowered her head. To be honest, the reaction of Concubine Xian abandoning the Ninth Prince during the assassination was incomprehensible even to those around her.

One is a person who intentionally abandons himself when he is in danger, and the other is a person who sacrificed his life to protect each other at a critical moment, that is, his own mother. Under such a comparison, it is impossible for the relationship not to be indelible.

Unless the Ninth Prince is really mentally ill, he will continue to admire and love Concubine Xian as always.

Until the frame of the emperor and his party got farther and farther away, and only the horses and horses at the rear could be seen, Xu Qingluo felt relieved.

"The matter of picking up the driver is really not something that everyone can do."

Xu Qingluo seemed to be complaining to Lang Cheng beside him, and seemed to be talking to himself.

The man reached out and touched the girl's head, with a helpless smile on his face: "Your Majesty's people haven't left Wuzhou City yet."

Being heard by someone with a heart and spreading to the emperor's ears, Xu Qingluo committed a crime of disrespect.

"Are you going to report it?"

Xu Qingluo tilted his head.

"My whole life is in your hands."

Lang Sheng only had one answer.

After all, the altar assassination was nothing. After the officialdom of Wuzhou City was shaken, once the emperor left, everyone should do what they should do. Except for those who lost their relatives, Wuzhou City returned to its former appearance.

Did the emperor not like to stay in this place any longer? Originally, Lang Sheng was in charge of searching for assassins for him. After Xu Qingluo walked into Lang Sheng's yard, the man took care of the emperor's wounds, and the emperor sent several The imperial physicians went there, and they said it was related, but they didn't believe it. How could they know that when those imperial physicians looked at Lang Sheng's wounds, they all said that he was deeply poisoned and seriously injured, and it was not easy to save his life It is absolutely impossible to do labor bombs anymore, otherwise if the injury and toxin intensify, it will inevitably be a dead end.

It was also because of this that the emperor mercifully allowed Lang Sheng to recuperate for a period of time in the Xu Mansion of Wuzhou City, otherwise, according to the man's original patience, he insisted on following the emperor's long journey back to Beijing with his sick body.

Xu Qingluo was quite satisfied with Lang Sheng's choice, otherwise, he wouldn't want to get a good look from her today.

"Okay, go back and take off your clothes and lie on the bed and wait. The big hole in your chest needs a lot of thought and good medicine. General Lang, I saved your life again. Do you remember what you owe me?" .”

Xu Qingluo snorted and replied to the man.

Lang Sheng's cheeks were flushed, and he glanced around uncomfortably: "You are really, there are some things that cannot be said outside, and what it looks like to be heard."

"What can't be said outside?"

Xu Qingluo seemed puzzled: "Why can't I say that I healed your wounds and saved your life? Why is it wrong that you owe me more than one life?"

"You can say that, it's all right."

Lang Sheng replied these four words in a muffled voice, opened his mouth to say something he couldn't say, saw Xu Qingluo's half-smile look in his eyes, and realized that he was deliberately played by the girl again, so he sighed and didn't say anything again. sounded.

Forget it, as long as Xu Qingluo is happy.

During the few days when she kept him cold, he felt uncomfortable all over, couldn't sleep well, couldn't eat well, and couldn't find energy anywhere.

Xu Qingluo felt that the breath in his heart had completely dissipated.

"Luo'er and Ah Cheng have reconciled, and I feel at ease in my heart."

Mother Xu and Xu Liang stood together, looking at the backs of Lang Sheng and Xu Qingluo leaving side by side, with a gentle and peaceful smile on her face, the fine lines at the corners of her eyes did not look old, but more gentle.

Xu Liang patted Xu's mother's hand: "Luo'er has grown up and has her own ideas. Since she has identified Ah Cheng, I believe there will always be a happiness. It's you, you have suffered a lot these days." .”

Xu Liang had some apology and pity on his face.

Although Xu Qingluo was taking care of most of the affairs of Xu's mansion during this period of time, Xu's mother didn't have time to spare. She took care of Mrs. Xu's side and was very troublesome, but she was still found by Mrs. Xu a lot. matter.

Xu Liang saw it in his eyes and felt pain in his heart.

On the contrary, Xu's mother didn't care much: "It's right for a daughter-in-law to serve her mother-in-law. After we've been away for so many years, we really haven't fulfilled my filial piety. Now my mother treats me much better than in the past, and even prepares for Luo'er. I bought some jewelry as a dowry, I am not tired at all."

Xu Liang looked at Xu's mother with tender eyes.

He has always known what his mother is like, especially when he returned to Wuzhou City this time, Xu Liang actually felt the tricks Mrs. Xu did after each incident.

"Didn't Luo'er say that we would go to the capital after a while? A few sisters from Wuzhou City wrote to say that they would come back and settle down. They just happened to be with their mother, and they would get better and better in the future."

The sun shone between the pillars on the roof of Xu's mansion, and the couple who were leaning on each other cast a layer of golden light, with a taste of happiness. Just looking at it made people feel happy from the bottom of their hearts.

(End of this chapter)