The world's ambitions are unparalleled

Chapter 19 Falling red flakes are like fog (1)
Jinse didn't go back to the palace, but went to the Hou's mansion. Unexpectedly, Song Heng didn't come back yet.Jinse just felt strange, why would it take two or three hours to deliver something?
It wasn't until dark that Song Heng finally returned to Hou's mansion, walked into the courtyard where he lived, and saw Jinse sitting on the porch, waiting for him with frowning.

Song Heng was slightly surprised, stepped forward and said - why are you still here?

Jinse moved her stiff body before standing up: "Why did you come back? Did he take the things?"

Song Heng nodded.

"Then did he say anything?" Jinse stepped forward and asked.

As soon as she approached Song Heng, she suddenly smelled a faint smell of alcohol on Song Heng's body, and she couldn't help frowning: "Did you drink with him?"

Song Heng slowly laughed—how can I refuse when the majestic prince invites me to have a drink together?
"Then what did he tell you?" Jinse asked hurriedly, feeling uneasy for some reason.

Said a lot.Song Heng gestured, but seemed to understand the intention of Jinse's question, and said again - but none of it was about you.

Jinse's heart sank suddenly, as if it was sadness, or something else, she couldn't tell the difference, but in the blink of an eye, her eyes were already red.

When had Song Heng seen her like this before, he quickly stroked her head—what's wrong?
In the end still no tears.Jinse looked up at him, smiled and shook her head: "I'm fine, you don't have to worry about me."

Song Heng seemed to hesitate for a moment before saying——you told him?
Jinse was stunned, and suddenly smiled wryly: "I'm so stupid. Obviously everyone has seen it, but I thought—" She didn't continue, but suddenly changed her tone, and said resolutely: "I'm fine, I'll go first gone."

After saying that, she quickly broke away from Song Heng and fled in a hurry.

After leaving the Hou's Mansion, she still did not walk in the direction of the Wang's Mansion, but left the city and came to the eastern suburbs.

It was late at night, a few torches were lit in front of Jin Yan's tomb, and the guards still stood there upright, motionless.

Jinse gradually approached, and those people saluted lightly: "Kowtow to Princess Ning."

Jinse smiled: "I came here alone without any tools on me, can you let me come over and talk to my sister?"

The headed guard was silent for a moment, then Fang nodded: "Princess Ning, please."

Jin Se raised her skirt and stepped forward, then sat down in front of Jin Yan's stele.

The ground was very cold, and the wind was strong here. As soon as she sat down, she shrank her body and remained motionless without making a sound. The guards behind were a little surprised when they saw this.

The leading guard frowned slightly, but still didn't say anything, and still led everyone to stand there loyally.

No one would have thought that Jin Se would sit in front of the stele for two nights and one day.In the meantime, the guards would always send some food to her when they ate, but she didn't look at it or touch it.The guards changed every six hours, and when the first guards came back in the daytime of the second day, she was still sitting there in the original posture, like a stone statue, but she hadn't eaten for two days.

Finally, someone came to persuade her to leave, but Jinse seemed not to hear her, and still sat quietly hugging her body.Due to her status, none of the guards dared to ask her to leave.

In the evening of this day, Su Mo finally appeared at the cemetery.

From a distance, he could see Jin Se huddled in front of the stele, with an unprecedentedly stern expression.

"My lord." The head of the guard hurriedly stepped forward to meet him, and said in a low voice, "Prince Ning has been sitting here for two days and two nights, not eating or drinking, the slave really has nothing to do, that's why I alarmed my lord."

Su Mo waved his hand lightly, and a group of guards retreated quietly, but after a while, only he and Jinse were left in front of the tomb.

Jinse still didn't move, as if she didn't know he was coming.

Su Mo stepped forward slowly, looked down at her from above, and his usual lazy voice was colder than ever before: "Don't you die?"

Jinse's mind was buzzing, and the voice felt strange.After a long time, she finally raised her stiff neck and looked up at the person who came. After being slightly startled, she also said coldly, "What are you doing here?"

Su Mo squatted down slowly, at eye level with her, and dragged the black cloak casually on the ground: "Aren't you just waiting for me to come?"

ridicule.His cold tone was full of sarcasm.

Jinse's face suddenly became as pale as paper.

Holding her hand hard, every knuckle turned white, Jinse felt very painful, her face was pale, but there was still no expression: "I'm not waiting for you, I'm waiting, the truth about my sister's death."

Su Mo raised the corners of his lips coldly.

At this moment, every expression on his face, every sound of every word he said was unfamiliar to Jinse.She never knew that this person was so terrifying.

"If you really want to know, I'll tell you." He said coldly, "Jin Yan was indeed poisoned to death. And the poison she was poisoned was the poison hidden by the royal family of Zhongli Kingdom——Hongyan."

The poison hidden by the royal family of Zhongli Kingdom?
Jinse was shocked.Although she was sure that her sister must have been poisoned to death when she was in Nanshan, and she wanted to find out who killed her through the poison of her sister, but she never thought that Su Mo would tell her that the poison her sister was poisoned by was poisoned. What is the poison of Zhongli's imperial family's secret treasure!
Since it is the royal family's secret treasure, how could my sister die from the poison?

"It's you?" She could hardly utter a sound, she could only mouth to him in vain, "You poisoned my sister?"

"No." Su Mo replied coldly, and then stood up, "You want to dig Jinyan's tomb, and all you want is this answer. Now that I've told you, you can go too."

"If it wasn't you, then why did you rush to cremate her body as soon as my sister died?" Jinse didn't know where the strength came from, she stood up suddenly from the ground, threw herself in front of him, and grabbed his cuff tightly, "You don't have ghosts in your heart, why are you rushing to cremate her?"

Su Mo brushed Jinse's hand away effortlessly, and Jinse lost his balance and fell heavily to the ground.

"Don't think about Jinyan's mausoleum anymore." Su Mo ignored the embarrassment of her falling to the ground, coldly dropped these words, turned around and left without looking back.

With Su Mo's departure, the guards who had been guarding this place no longer needed to be stationed here, and left one by one.The surroundings became quiet again, only the mountain wind whistling past.

Jinse was still lying there, motionless for a long time.

Until there were footsteps coming from far and near again, and they stopped in the direction above her head.

Jinse still didn't look up, the man stretched out his hand and lifted her face from the layers of fallen leaves.

She cried for nothing, and through the misty tears, she could vaguely see Su Li's face.

How did he come?She thought in a daze, letting the tears wash away the dust on her cheeks, even if it was dirty and ugly, she didn't care.

Su Li lowered his eyes, stretched out his hand to remove the leaves that were blown to her head by the wind, wiped her face with a silk cloth, then picked up Jinse, wrapped her in his cloak, and led her without saying a word Back to the palace.

Jinse slept for a long time and had nightmares again and again.

In the dream, the gentle and handsome man in her memory suddenly transformed into the coldest and evil devil, gnawed her mercilessly, and finally left her with no bones left.

When she woke up, Lu He prepared a large table of delicious food for her.

Jinse was hungry for two days and two nights, so she almost gobbled down a lot, but she didn't expect that just halfway through the meal, her stomach suddenly turned upside down.

When Su Li came, she was throwing up in the dark.Su Li stood by with his hands behind his back and watched coldly, as if he didn't dislike it either.

Jinse finally finished vomiting, rinsed her mouth and wiped her mouth, then raised her head and looked at him with a weak smile: "My lord, you are here. Have you spent the night? Luhe has prepared a lot of food, and I can't eat enough I can't take it anymore."

Seeing her weak appearance, Su Li suddenly said: "My king is staying here tonight."

"Ah?" Jinse jumped up suddenly, staring at him with wide eyes, "What did you say?"

Seeing her panic-stricken face, Su Li slightly hooked the corners of his lips: "You are my concubine, and it is such a surprise that this king stays with you?"

"Impossible!" Jinse turned around abruptly, her back was facing him, she didn't know if she was angry or ashamed, her ears turned red.

"Really?" He asked indifferently, then suddenly said, "That's all."

Jinse was shocked again, only thought that this person was crazy today, and turned to look at him again: "Really?"

Su Li looked at her, and suddenly took a step forward, stretching out his thumb to press her forehead.

It was as if she wanted to keep the flash of light flowing between her brows and eyes.

"It's Song Jinse who must have such a spirit." His voice sounded low above Jinse's head.

Jinse was stunned.So, was he teasing her?
But the person in front of him is Su Li.Su Li, who always spoke coldly to her and frowned; Su Li, who was always self-respecting and proud, hated her.

But he was the one who said this - Song Jinse must always have such a spirit.

After all, Jinse was young, so she couldn't hold her breath in the end. Tears of grievance rolled down from her eyes, gathered on her cheeks one by one, and fell straight to the ground.

Su Li was stunned, and even stretched out his hand, hugged her into his arms, at the same time raised his other hand, gently wiped away the tears on her cheek.

Such sudden tenderness is really shocking.

The whole world seemed to be turned upside down in an instant, and everything was in chaos.Her mind was in chaos, as if all her thoughts were mixed together, but she couldn't figure out why.

That night, Su Li did not stay.Seeing him and Jinse embracing each other in the courtyard for a long time, Lvhe felt very sad: "Why did you just leave like this?"

Jinse was very annoyed: "Lvhe!"

"Hey hey." Lu He quickly agreed a few times, "Why are you getting angry at me again?"

Jinse was stunned, silent for a long time, and said in a low voice: "I want to leave the capital for a while."

Lu He naturally knew that she was confused, but said: "It's Chinese New Year, where are you going? When you go outside, you don't know the place well, and every family gathers to celebrate the New Year. Then you just wait to cry miserably. Don't expect me to accompany you!"

"It's fine if you don't accompany me." Jinse whispered, "I'll go by myself, it's no big deal."

Only then did Lu He realize that Jin Se was not talking nonsense, and hurriedly asked seriously: "Do you really want to leave? Where are you going?"

"Go to Zhongli." In Jinse's low voice, there was a hint of determination, "I must go."

Seeing that the end of the year was approaching, Su Li was still as busy as ever, and Jinse finally felt that she should not tell him that she was leaving, otherwise, she didn't know if there would be troubles.

The weather was fine that day, Su Li had just left the mansion, and Jinse also left the palace afterward.

There was a carriage waiting for her one street away from Wangfu.

Jinse hid in the carriage and changed into men's clothes. She felt the carriage staggering towards the outskirts of the city, causing her thoughts to become confused.

"Go to Linglong Pavilion." Before Jinse recovered what she was thinking, she had already told the coachman.

Naturally, the coachman obeyed his orders, and immediately turned around and rushed to Linglong Pavilion.

It was still early, and the front of Linglong Pavilion was still quiet, but there were already a few bearers and some soft sedan chairs parked there, and there were a few guards around, who seemed to be waiting for their master to come out.

Jinse ordered the driver to park the carriage not far away, and she got off the carriage, walked to a small food shop opposite Linglong Garden, and lowered her head to pick up her favorite pastries.

After a while, the door of Linglong Court suddenly opened, and when Jinse turned her head with a piece of steamed bun in her mouth, she saw Su Mo coming out of it.

A guard came forward with a bag in his hand, revealing a corner of his court uniform: "My lord, are you entering the palace?"

Su Mo frowned slightly, as if he had some headaches, rubbed the center of his brows with his hand, then shook his head and said, "Go back to the house."

The guard responded and turned around to make way for the sedan chair.

Su Mo walked towards the sedan chair, and was about to bend down to sit in it when he suddenly noticed something and looked in the direction of the snack shop.

Jinse was still standing there, staring at him in a daze.

Su Mo looked at her, his eyebrows furrowed again.

Where did the person who used to always look at her and smile go?Jinse suddenly raised the corners of her mouth and smiled at him, then picked up a large pile of pastries she had bought, and hurried into the carriage.

"Let's get out of the city." Panting slightly, she ordered the driver.

The carriage quickly started bumping again, and sped past on the less-traveled street, before leaving Su Mo's sight.

"My lord." Seeing that he had been looking at the direction where the carriage disappeared, the guard asked in a low voice, "Is the carriage suspicious? The slave will follow and have a look?"

"No need." Su Mo's eyes narrowed slightly, and he lowered himself into the soft sedan chair, "Enter the palace."

Going to Zhongli here, the mountains are long and the water is far away, and the weather is cold. Jinse was afraid that she would not be able to hold on several times, but she didn't want to go south and get warmer. When she got out of the Qingyue border, her hands and feet were no longer cold. When I no longer had to shiver in the carriage, I breathed a sigh of relief.

But I didn't expect that she had resisted the severe cold for many days and never knocked her down. Instead, she relaxed her vigilance to welcome the warmth, and her body collapsed.

I don't know whether it was because of the exhaustion of the long journey or the acclimatization of the environment. As soon as Jinse entered the territory of Zhongli, she suffered from dysentery, and what was even more miserable was that her mouth was full of blisters. Hurry up.

As soon as he stayed, he responded to what Lu He had said.It was already the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, and there were very few people living in the inn. Occasionally, there were returnees who hurried on their way and only stayed for one night.And the innkeeper's family is bustling with shopping for New Year's goods every day, and posting Spring Festival couplets and New Year's pictures.Jinse was so ill that she was weak all over, but seeing such a situation every day, she really suffered from homesickness, which made her feel even more unbearable day and night.

On this day, she managed to gain some strength. She saw two tables of guests in the lobby, which was rare. No matter how sick she was, she still struggled to go downstairs to have a meal, so she could gain some popularity.

There are two tables at the bottom. On one table are three burly men, while on the other table are just the opposite, two delicate and delicate scholars.Jinse chose a seat between the two tables and sat down, suffering from the blisters in her mouth, she could only ask for a bowl of clear porridge to drink slowly.

Unexpectedly, from the moment she sat down to drink the porridge, the three big men would look here frequently, but the expressions on their faces alternately excited and annoyed, Jinse really couldn't understand.

Just when he sat up straight and wanted to ask them what's the matter, one of the big men suddenly slammed the bowl in his hand, stood up cursingly and walked towards Jinse: "Boy, sit aside for me, don't block the uncle from admiring the beauties! "

Zither was taken aback, beauty?She turned her head and took a closer look at the table behind her, only to realize that the two frail scholars had red lips and white teeth, and one of them was even more handsome, who was clearly disguised as a man like her!

Hearing what the big man said to Jinse, one of the women's complexion changed drastically, but the one who looked very handsome was still very calm, and only raised his eyes lightly, and glanced at the big men.

Although Jinse was also worried about them, but in her current situation, she really didn't have the ability to meddle in other people's affairs, so she lowered her head and held her porridge bowl before getting up and moving to the table next to her.

Pong!
Suddenly there was a loud noise in front of her, and a long object fell on the table in front of Jinse's eyes, causing her to drop the bowl in her hand in fright.

The big man was also surprised, and looked up behind Jinse: "Who are you?"

Just as Jin Se was about to turn her head to see who it was, a pair of hands suddenly pressed her shoulders, accompanied by her familiar male voice: "Sit still."

As expected, Jinse didn't move, she just stared blankly at the long sword in front of her, not because she was obedient, but because she was shocked - why is he here?

Su Li slightly raised his eyes, glanced coldly at the big man, but didn't speak, instead sat down on Jinse's right hand and stared at her quietly.

The big man was obviously not being looked down upon by others, and his mouth suddenly became unclean again. He rolled up his sleeves and was about to call the other two to come forward, but suddenly the door of the inn was dark, and after that, a group of more than ten guards came one by one They all stood behind the young man, bowed and said, "My lord."

The faces of the three of them suddenly changed drastically, and the expressions of the two women sitting in the corner also changed slightly, and they looked at each other.

Su Li responded lightly, and ordered without looking back: "Send these three people to the local yamen, because—" He looked up at Jinse, and then continued: "You are disrespectful to my Princess Qingyue Ning. "

Although Jinse no longer has to pretend to be crazy, and is no longer afraid of him, but this time she left Beijing without authorization and was caught by him again, she has no confidence in her heart.Seeing the three big men being taken away by Su Li's people, the hall fell silent instantly, and had no choice but to bite the bullet and say, "My lord, why are you here?"

Su Li's expression was not good, and he glanced at her coldly: "Business."

"Oh." Jinse responded, biting her lower lip involuntarily, but forgot about the blisters in her mouth, tears fell from the pain immediately.

Su Li looked at her with a deep frown, a hint of impatience clearly flashed in his eyes, but he still reached out and clasped Jinse's head: "Open your mouth."

Jinse hesitated for a moment, then opened her mouth obediently.

When Su Li saw what she was saying, his expression suddenly became more serious, and he let go of her for a long time before he summoned the guards: "Look for a doctor."

After another moment of silence, Jin Se finally couldn't help asking him again: "My lord, what is the purpose of this trip?"

It's the end of the new year, what kind of official business is so urgent that he, the dignified prince, needs to run in person?

Su Li didn't seem to want to mention it, but when she heard her question, he paused and said calmly: "Brother Huang intends to get along well with Zhongli and plans to marry."

Jinse suddenly understood the reason why he didn't want to mention it.How can a person who wants to unify the five countries be willing to do this job?However, he really can't afford to come in person, unless——

Jinse's ears quickly warmed up, she lowered her head and drank the porridge in silence.

Su Li looked at her coldly, but a shadow suddenly fell in front of him.

It was the two women at the table in the corner, although they had exposed their daughters, they still bowed to Su Li according to the etiquette of men, and said: "Thank you, Wang Ye, Wang Fei for helping us both."

Without raising his head, Su Li said coldly: "There is no need to be too polite. This king is not for you."

What an incomprehensible man.Jinse looked at Su Li in surprise, stopped the funny in her heart, and raised her head to smile at the beautiful woman.

Unexpectedly, the woman heard Su Li's answer, but she was still not at all embarrassed, she smiled and said: "Although the lord has no intention of doing it for me, I also indirectly received favors, so I still want to say thank you to the lord."

Hearing this, Su Li just looked up at her and nodded slightly.

This is probably a compliment.Jinse thought to herself, a woman who is so knowledgeable about etiquette really deserves Su Li's appreciation.

(End of this chapter)