When Nalan Minghui left Liuli Courtyard, the sky was already white. Mu Liang watched him walk out of the courtyard, and when he turned around, Bai Xiaolou was already standing in the courtyard.
"This may be the last time you two meet. Why don't you say a little more?" Bai Xiaolou always has an insight into the world, but he doesn't stop at it.
Mu Liang looked away and said calmly, "Everything that needs to be said has been made clear. Just like you are doing to me now, stopping at the end is the best ending."
Compared with Bai Xiaolou's insightful but never exhaustive explanation, Mu Liang's sharp tone is obviously better.
Bai Xiaolou shook his head with a smile, and opened the paper fan gently in his hand. Since the jade bone fan was destroyed, he was used to holding fans and the like in his hands. He temporarily found a blank fan to hold in his hand, but he never expected that
Write something and draw something on the fan.
"When will my internal strength be fully restored?" Mu Liang changed the topic seemingly casually.
During the three days at Sanqi Peak, Bai Xiaolou opened acupuncture points for her, but it would take a few more days of observation to determine the recovery of her internal strength.
Bai Xiaolou walked up to Mu Liang, raised her wrist naturally, and placed his fingers on her pulse. After a moment, he frowned slightly and said in a deep voice,
"Now you can exercise and adjust your breathing according to the method I told you before, and try again."
"Okay." Mu Liang nodded and sat cross-legged in the yard to meditate. After a cup of tea, she stood up, rode up on her horse, tapped her toes, and easily jumped over Bai Xiaolou in one rise and fall.
Top of head.
"Follow the second mental method I told you! Continue!" Seeing this, Bai Xiaolou reminded Mu Liang in a deep voice. Although he was surprised by her rapid recovery, there was also a strange emotion surging in his heart.
Mu Liang followed the previous communication with Bai Xiaolou, there were seven levels in total, and the coefficient passed smoothly!
There are two final levels, and you must wait for a month before continuing to practice.
"These seven levels of internal strength and mental skills are enough for you to deal with the world's top masters!" Bai Xiaolou clapped his hands, not surprised at her rapid recovery and progress. After all, nothing is impossible for her.
"Does the top master you are talking about include you?" Mu Liang raised his eyebrows. Bai Xiaolou's internal strength has always been unfathomable. Just look at his ability to control the jade bone fan. Not just anyone can control the ancient artifact.
of.
Bai Xiaolou opened the blank folding fan with a smile, thought for a while, and said, "If you beat me, currently, you have a 30% chance of winning!"
"Then what if I passed the eighth level of inner strength and mental skills?" Mu Liang looked at him and asked clearly, but there was no excessive expression on his face.
"Ha...50%." Bai Xiaolou looked at Mu Liang with a smile. In front of her, he was used to being frank, and it seemed that the best way to get along was to tell her everything. Her eyes alone were so charming.
It makes people unable to tell any lies in front of her, she is cold, clear and pure, and penetrates the netherworld.
"What about Jiuzhong?" Mu Liang asked Bai Xiaolou curiously.
Bai Xiaolou was silent for a while, then said with a smile, "I will tell you after you pass the eighth level."
"Okay." Mu Liang didn't force him, and Bai Xiaolou's personality wasn't one to be mysterious. Maybe he had his reasons for arranging it this way.
"Let's spar?" Mu Liang's eyes sparkled with excitement. After waiting for so long, she could finally experience the feeling of flying over the roof and walking over the wall. It was worth her time to come here.
"Okay." Naturally, Bai Xiaolou would not refuse her request.
Two figures, one the color of clouds and lotuses, the other the color of sparkling white, one tall and one short, were fighting each other in the courtyard. But after two or three moves, Bai Xiaolou showed an expression of incredible surprise on his face. He just said
Thirty percent of them underestimated her! They did not take into account her advantage in close combat. After a discussion, Bai Xiaolou took the lead to stop, looked at Mu Liang, and spoke sincerely,
"I take back what I just said! If you want to win against me now, you have a 50% chance of winning. After the eighth level, you have a 70% chance of defeating me!"
"Really? But I haven't fully exerted myself just now! It should be 70% or 90%!" Mu Liang's words made Bai Xiaolou twitch the corner of his mouth helplessly. This little woman is the only one who speaks so directly, but is so
Funny and candid.
"Indeed." Bai Xiaolou nodded, their eyes intertwined. What flashed before Bai Xiaolou's eyes were everything he experienced in the three days at Sanqi Peak. That was the most intimate relationship between him and Mu Liang.
Contacted.
It is said that there is no distraction, like Bai Xiaolou, so deeply in love, but actually on the third day, at the last moment, it was still...
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Because of the competition with Bai Xiaolou early in the morning, Mu Liang slept until noon. Nalan Minghui went to the palace to see the Queen Mother. After Mu Liang washed up and just had a bite of lunch, he saw Feifeng coming in to report
, Yelvsong is here. And he’s alone.
"Let him come in." After Mu Liang finished speaking, he continued to eat his food with his head down.
After Yelvsong came in, he was carrying a cold wind. He took a deep breath and sat opposite the curtain, reaching out to grab the candied dates on the middle plate.
Bang! Mu Liang hit the back of his hand with a chopstick and gave him a cold look.
"Feifeng, add a pair of chopsticks." What Mu Liang said made Yelvsong smile. He took the clean cloth handed over by Bao'er to wipe his hands, took the chopsticks and started eating deliciously.
Muliang's lunch was very light, consisting of two plates of side dishes, a bowl of soup, and a bowl of rice. But Yelvsong ate along with it happily.
When Mu Liang was full, he put down his chopsticks and asked Feifeng to add another bowl of rice to Yelvsong. She didn't know what she ate in the palace. When she came here, she was like a hungry ghost reincarnated. She almost drank the vegetable soup.
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"You can do what you want when you're done." Mu Liang stood up and was about to walk out of the room. Yelu Song hurriedly put the rice in the bowl into his mouth, chewed it and followed Mu Liang out of the room.
"Mu Liang, I'm here to give you something." Yelvsong said, wiping his oily hands on his sleeves and taking out a brocade box. The surface of the brocade box was woven with the finest silk.
It was so delicate that even though Yelu Song had wiped his hand, it still left a big oil mark on it.
He looked guilty on the surface, but actually there was a mischievous and cunning light hidden in his eyes.
"What is this?" Mu Liang frowned and spoke softly without taking the brocade box.
"This is given to you by the Queen Mother. Bai Xiaolou proposed marriage, and the Queen Mother has agreed. According to the rules, you are the eldest princess, and the Queen Mother should give you this legendary phoenix. Anyway, I have nothing to do, so I asked you to come over and give it to you.
It's here." Yelvsong said it with ease on his face, but the back of his hand holding the brocade box was extremely pale, with veins popping out, which was enough to show his excitement but forcibly suppressed mood at the moment.
"Okay, give it to Feifeng." Mu Liang pointed at Feifeng, Yelvsong smiled and shrugged, and threw the brocade box to Feifeng. Feifeng was a little too strong, and Feifeng almost let go and dropped the brocade box to the ground, but caught it firmly.
Afterwards, Feifeng broke into a cold sweat.
This is the phoenix of Chuan Guo, and its status is second only to Chuan Guo's Jade Seal. If it falls into her hands, she can't afford to lose her life.
Mu Liang watched Yelvsong's series of small movements and remained silent. He turned around and walked to the pavilion in the courtyard to sit down. Yelvsong walked to the outside of the pavilion and stood still, not coming in. His innocent green eyes stared intently. The curtain is cold, it looks like a smile but not a smile, and it is unclear whether one is happy or angry.
"Mu Liang, I heard that Bai Xiaolou will take you back to the Bai family of the Snowfield Tribe in three days, so will we never see each other again?" His voice was light, completely different from the crisp and unruly feeling in the past. people.
Mu Liang thought for a while and whispered, "To tell you the truth, I don't know either."
"Oh." Yelvsong nodded, then grinned.
"Are you okay?" Mu Liang's tone was always calm and cold, and Yelvsong couldn't keep the expression on his face. He turned his back to Mu Liang and sat on the steps outside the pavilion.
He lowered his eyes and looked at the ground. In the cold winter, the ground was freezing, and the cold wind penetrated into his body. The coldness in his body was not as good as the biting coldness in his heart.
"I'm reluctant to let you go... I dislike Bai Xiaolou even more than Tuo Bo Kun! Tuo Bo Kun is my emperor's uncle. In the early years, I saw his strategizing and responding to everything. Even if I don't say it on the face, the emperor Uncle has always been the person I admire the most and the person I fear the most. Mu Liang, actually I have never told you... I know why the emperor abandoned me in the Royal Academy. In fact, the emperor wanted to protect me. If you let me I stay in the palace, and as I grow up, even if I am a worthless waste, the queen will not tolerate me in her eyes.
But in the Royal Academy, the queen would not dare to attack me! The vice-academician of the academy is Yelu Zongxiao. The emperor's uncle has entrusted the safety of the students to the third brother. If anything goes wrong with me, the third brother will not be able to escape the blame. The queen did not dare to attack my eldest brother and me. On the first day I entered the Royal Academy, the emperor only told me four words...keep a low profile and bide your time! What I thought at the time was to muddle along and just live one day at a time. Since I was in the Royal Academy It’s so safe, so what should I worry about?”
When Yelvsong said this, he turned to look at Muliang. Seeing that her face was always cold, Yelvsong frowned slightly and continued,
"Mu Liang..."
"I don't want to hear the word Tuo Bo Kun." Mu Liang interrupted him softly.
Yelvsong was startled and nodded obediently. "Can I see you off in three days?" He couldn't tell what he was feeling. He could no longer describe the feeling in his heart. Was it pain, torture, entanglement, unwillingness, or jealousy? .
"No need. In three days, Nalan Minghui will return to the border. And Nalan Minghui's deputy who is guarding the border will also return to the palace. By then, your life will not be peaceful. Yelv Zongxiao has not had such a long life. No movement is of any benefit to you. On the contrary, it is when he takes action that you have a chance to win. You should stay in the palace with peace of mind. If Emperor Liao wakes up, your life will be equally difficult. In the meantime, Whether you can find a solution that has the best of both worlds is entirely up to you."
Mu Liang's tone was calm, but he analyzed the crisis Yelvsong was facing at this moment one by one.
Yelvsong was still sitting on the ground, listening quietly, like an obedient and sensible good student.
"I am least familiar with this power struggle. Even if I make the right move, I will definitely be shocked every step of the way. If I make the right move, maybe the other party despises me, or maybe it is my luck. It is the spirit of my mother and concubine in heaven who protects me. But I I know very well that I cannot win step by step, so I will take a gamble..."
"Betting? Such a small chance of winning..." Mu Liang vaguely guessed what he meant by gambling. Since fighting alone cannot defeat Yelv Zongxiao and the courtiers who support Yelv Zongxiao in both the government and the public, then Yelvsong's last straw The life-saving straw is...
Yelvsong raised a green smile at Mu Liang and stood up immediately, with a relaxed and casual look on his face.
"If you like me, then I won't bet. I'm not afraid of death. I'm worried that you will be sad after I die. On the contrary, if you don't like me, it makes me feel a lot more relaxed, which makes me truly helpless. Fear. Because falling in love with you is my own business. Even if I die, I will always be the only one who is sad. Maybe after I die, I can really let you remember me. I have never hoped that you will not do it like this moment. like me!
Never fall in love with me one day in the future..."
"Ha...fool." Mu Liang blurted out uncontrollably. It was like a sister blaming her brother. Yelvsong smiled and touched his chin, but his eyes instantly became filled with a thin layer of moisture, as if The fine crystal fragments, although eye-catching, are also misty and moist.
"The fool is leaving. Auntie... take care of yourself."
This aunt has to speak even if her heart is broken. Otherwise, with his young and energetic temperament, he won't be willing to give in even if it comes to the end!
Mu Liang said nothing, lowered his eyes, and did not look at Yelvsong's leaving figure. The last thing she left for him was peace and silence.
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Yelvsong left the Liuli Courtyard and got on the carriage parked outside. The blue brocade curtain of the carriage had just been lowered, Yelvsong leaned heavily on the back of the chair, closed his eyes, and shed tears.
The carriage rushed all the way towards the palace. In the bumpy carriage, he finally couldn't control his sad and desperate mood and cried bitterly.
At this moment, there was no embrace that could hold him and let him cry loudly and vent to his heart's content. He could only cover his face with his hands and let the tears fall down sadly between his fingers, splashing drop by drop on the ground of the carriage. He What he said goodbye to was not his past self, but the only thing that could fill his heart...
They all say that you don't blame the past, but at this moment, he doesn't want to be entangled in the past scenes all the time.
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Three days later, Mu Liang was about to leave with Bai Xiaolou to return to the Bai family of the Snowfield Tribe. For her, there was nothing special that needed to be prepared and sorted. It was just a few pieces of clothing. Lao Li, Feifeng and Baoer left Next, she took care of things in the General's Mansion. She took away the four brothers Wan Shishengyi. Now that she had recovered most of her internal strength, she naturally wanted to have a good discussion with the four Wan Shishengyi brothers.
Because they were leaving early in the morning, Feifeng and Baoer didn't sleep last night. Although they didn't have much, they worked hard all night, for fear of missing this or that, and they couldn't stop complaining that everything was going well. I personally don't know how to take care of Mu Liang, but in short... Mu Liang just needs to take the two of them with him.
At dawn, Mu Liang was dressed and ready to go. In Beiliao in winter, although there was no cold wind whistling by this early in the morning, it was hazy weather. He couldn't see anything clearly within three meters. Mu Liang narrowed his eyes slightly. , he could clearly feel that not far ahead, a person with profound inner strength was running towards him, but unfortunately the fog was too thick, blocking the incoming person.
But Mu Liang still felt that the person coming was not Bai Xiaolou. As the somewhat messy aura gradually approached, the person almost rushed to his eyes, and Mu Liang finally saw who it was.
"Yelu Zongxiao?" Mu Liang looked at the visitor coldly. This early in the morning, Yelu Zongxiao was not looking for bad luck again!
Mu Liang naturally didn't have a good look towards him, but after Yelu Zongxiao stood in front of Mu Liang and clearly saw her face, he forcibly stabilized his previously messy body and mind, lowered his face, and said coldly,
"The Queen Mother is not feeling well today, so I am here to take you out of the city."
"Whatever." Mu Liang's nonchalant tone made Yelv Zongxiao's face darken instantly. The quadruplets, who were ready to win everything, were already standing behind Mu Liang and looking at Yelv Zongxiao warily. As long as Mu Liang gave an order, no matter what
Whoever he is, Yelv Zongxiao, they all follow him exactly.
Seeing that Mu Liang was being protected by four young and spirited teenagers, Yelu Zongxiao's face couldn't help but darken a little more. He immediately turned his head and walked in front. However, his departure steps were extremely heavy and slow.
This time out of the city, Mu Liang and Wenshuo left the capital at the same time. However, Mu Liang went to the Bai family as an envoy, while Wenshuo went to the Eighteen Tribe Alliance as a marriage princess.
Bai Xiaolou is waiting outside the city at this moment. The fog is filled with fog. It has not subsided in any way. On the contrary, it has become more and more dense. There is a pungent and choking smell in the air. Mu Liang knows that this kind of weather is commonly known in modern terms.
In hazy weather, there is a large amount of dust suspended in the air. People will naturally feel uncomfortable after breathing it.
There were two teams of people, with Mu Liang's team walking in front. The long team, all covered in elegant clouds and mist, was shrouded in mist, adding to a dreamy and confusing feeling.