"The person that the prince worried about the most during his lifetime was you. Now that you are safe and sound, I think he can feel a little relieved even under Jiuquan." Ah Lian said in a low voice.
"But the person I am most worried about is my father. He is gone like this. How can I feel at ease?" Huan Ci looked at him calmly, "I don't ask for anything else. At least I want to give him justice. He has not rebelled at all.
, I can’t let him bear such a charge in vain. What’s more, he just won the battle, and he is our great hero.”
"Ah Ci." Ah Lian whispered, "Modi has been stationed in Yunzhou with troops to assist the Jin army. It was not until recently that he followed the prince to Beijing. But in fact, the emperor did not call him to Beijing. They used
This serves as evidence that the prince is planning to rebel, and Modi—"
Ah Lian hesitated to speak, but Huan Ci already understood what he meant. Modi is Zong Zhengche's man, so naturally he listens to Zong Zhengche's command.
"It's all my fault. It's me who harmed my father, and it's me who doesn't recognize people well." Huan Ci shed tears unconsciously.
Ah Lian raised his arm to appease her, but after much hesitation, he finally put down his hand and said: "Actually, I have been discouraging the prince from coming to Beijing this time. I thought that since the emperor took the initiative, we cannot be passive. But the prince said that it is too big
Rong just fought a battle. The army needs to rest and recuperate, and the people need to rest, so they are unwilling to listen to me. A Ci, Your Majesty, he lost because of his soft heart and luck, but his defeat was shameful."
The man sighed deeply and continued: "Now that Modi is imprisoned, the prince has taken over the 100,000 Jin army——"
"The prince took over the Jin army?" Huan Ci suddenly said, "But my father gave me the right half of the tiger talisman before entering the palace."
"You mean the right half of the Tiger Talisman is in the hands of the prince? Where did the left half of the Tiger Talisman go?"
Huan Ci shook his head. Logically, the right half of the tiger talisman should be in Modi's hand, while the left half of the tiger talisman belongs to his father. But why is the right half of the tiger talisman in his father's hand?
"Does father have other plans? Is there something he is hiding from me?"
Huan Ci and Ah Lian both looked at each other, but they had no clue.
"Where are you staying now?" Huan Ci asked.
Ah Lian scratched his head: "I came here with Fu Shen, and now I live in the residence arranged by him."
"Aren't you afraid that he will deal with you? Or hand you over?" Huan Ci was furious for a moment.
"He is not that kind of person." Ah Lian said with certainty.
However, he knew very well in his heart what kind of deal he had made with Fu Shen. The enemy of his enemy is his ally, not to mention that Huan Ci would be safer if he stayed with him.
"Did he do anything to you?" He looked at Huan Ci and asked.
Under his sincere gaze, Huan Ci couldn't help but blink: "What can he do to me?"
Her expression was a little strange, but Ah Lian couldn't tell what was wrong. He stared at her for a long time and said, "It's okay. Just stay here and I'll come see you later."
After he said this carelessly, he was about to leave. Huan Ci quickly chased him out.
Neither of these people can explain clearly, so what's the point of letting her stay here?
"Where are you going?" she ran out and asked.
But Ah Lian suddenly stopped for some reason and stared at Lan Fu who was washing vegetables for a moment.
"What's wrong?" Huan Ci's eyes moved back and forth between the two of them.
Lan Fu noticed the man's gaze and raised his eyelids to glance at him lightly.
The man shook his head and said to Huan Ci, "Nothing."
He just felt that this person looked familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen him before.
"I'm just doing some things in Puzhou, and I'll come see you in a few days." He turned to Huan Ci and said.
"What do you want to do?" Huan Ci looked at him with a frown.
"It's not an important matter, it's my private matter." Ah Lian said.
"Do you have any news about A Yao?" Huan Ci suddenly thought of A Yao. She had been feeling guilty for not being able to take A Yao and the others who followed her to Bingzhou when she ran out that day. If A Yao fell into the trap of Zong Zhengche,
I don't know how it will be dealt with.
The man's silence said everything. He looked at Huan Ci's extremely guilty look and whispered: "You don't have to take everything on yourself. It's a blessing for the two of us to escape. Besides, she is my sister, I will
Find a way to save her."
At this moment, Fu Shen suddenly appeared outside the gate.
"It's time for you to go." The man said solemnly.
Ah Lian glanced at Huan Ci with nostalgia, walked out quickly with lowered eyes, and nodded towards Fu Shen when he passed him.
Huan Ci stood there and watched Fu Shen approach step by step.
"Thank you." When the man came to her side, she said softly.
The people who saved her that day were arranged by Fu Shen, and they must have saved Ah Lian.
Fu Shen glanced at her lightly and entered the house without saying a word.
Neither of them noticed the lost expression of the other person in the yard.
Lan Fu was overjoyed to see him again after so many years.
But she recognized the man at a glance, but he didn't recognize her, which shocked her greatly.
After so many years, Lan Fu still clearly remembers everything that happened that night.
She was only nine years old at that time, and she still lived with her mother in a brothel to kill time.
A Niang's status in the brothel was low, and even her illegitimate child was despised. She grew up in a brothel since she was a child, and she was a girl who lacked discipline.
In her memory, Aniang was always accompanied by various men, and they would beat and scold her severely after being drunk.
After A Niang got drunk several times, she pieced together her father's identity intermittently. Her father was a man with a family, but when he was caught stealing, he abandoned her and moved away from Bingzhou completely.
Grandma always calls her a disaster and the most unnecessary person in the world.
But she was still young at that time, and her knowledge was limited to the small world of a brothel. She only knew that her mother-in-law hated her, but she didn't know how deep that disgust really was.
Until that day, she and her mother-in-law were kicked out completely and their belongings were thrown into the street.
To this day, when she dreams, she will always dream of A Niang's eyes at that time, calm and terrifying, like a walking corpse.
"My life has been so ridiculous." Auntie smiled miserably and shed two lines of tears.
A-Niang had only her family in this world, and they had no one to turn to. She followed A-Niang on the boat and followed the waves on the water.
But at night, there was a big hole in the bottom of the boat for no apparent reason, and she and her mother-in-law fell off the boat.
When the cold river water overflowed her head and gradually submerged her, she finally had the consciousness to survive. But she couldn't swim and kept flopping in the water.
She had always heard people talk about death in the past, and she knew how terrible death was. When the boy slowly swam toward her, she had almost lost consciousness, but the feeling of being reborn at that moment was still imprinted in her heart after all these years.
When she woke up on the shore, she finally saw the boy's face clearly. A man of fourteen or fifteen years old, wearing clothes that looked very valuable at first glance, finally breathed a sigh of relief after seeing her wake up, picked up the book on the ground and hurriedly
gone.
From then on, the boy's appearance remained in her heart.
A Niang left, and she lost her only relative. But there is always a path. By chance, she entered the Fu Mansion and worked as a maid in Fu Shen's courtyard.
Because she couldn't speak, everyone in the courtyard paid little attention to her. What's more, at that time, everyone in Fu Shen's courtyard had already abandoned her, and no one wanted to serve this taciturn master.
One night, Fu Shen suddenly wanted to read on a whim. Everyone wanted to rest, and no one wanted to wait for the pen and ink. She suddenly thought of the young man carrying a bundle of books. He must be a scholar.
Just because of this idea, she actually volunteered to go to the study room. Perhaps her gaze was too intense, Fu Shen put down the pen in his hand and looked at the little girl in front of him doubtfully: "Do you want to read?"
She nodded vigorously. She had seen all kinds of people in the brothel and heard all kinds of things. Most of those who could tell great truths had read books. Maybe after reading books, she would not be like A Niang.
, ended up in such a tragic end.
But she didn't expect that after that day, Fu Shen actually started to teach her how to read and even hired someone to teach her martial arts.
Gradually, she became Fu Shen's confidant in the inner courtyard. She began to see all kinds of overt and covert attacks, and she developed a sophisticated mind at a young age in the deep courtyard.
Later, after Fu Shen passed the exam, she followed him and worked beside him all the time. When she heard that she was looking at an important person this time, she was a little surprised. In fact, Fu Shen was a withdrawn person, and he didn't like his peers.
Dealing with other people, even women, is no exception.
There is only one woman around Fu Shen, Liu Rao, who moved into the mansion more than two years ago. But Liu Rao is the spy sent by Zong Zhenglu, and she is a chess piece he uses to test Fu Shen.
When she saw Huan Ci, she understood everything.
In fact, she had met Huan Ci before when she was in Fu Mansion. Fu Shen was ill and did not go to school that day, so this man sneaked into the mansion to look for him.
At that time, she was taking care of Fu Shen in the house, when suddenly a carefree woman jumped in from the window.
"You are sick, no wonder you didn't come to school."
The woman looked at her in surprise, then ignored her and sat directly on the bed.
That day she saw Fu Shen acting coquettishly for the first time, and it was also the only time in so many years.
The man put his forehead to the woman's hand and said softly: "It's really hot. If you don't believe me, just touch it and see."
The woman blushed instantly, looked back at her who was standing nearby holding the medicine, stretched out her hand and pinched the man, and said with a smile: "You deserve it, who told you to run away to get wet in the rain?"
"Why don't you go to school?" Fu Shen coughed slightly and asked, holding her hand.
The woman muttered dissatisfiedly: "Don't you know who I go to school for? You should have informed me when you took leave. I don't want to go to school and listen to them chanting scriptures."
Fu Shen chuckled: "Who swore that women should also study and be sensible?"
These words attracted her attention. She secretly looked at the woman a few times, guessing that she must not be an ordinary daughter.
Sure enough, she had a good eye. Later, she saw her from a distance on the street and found out that she was Huan Yuan's only daughter, Princess Ding'an. However, the woman had already made a marriage agreement with Li Jinxiu at that time, and Fu Shen always seemed
