The cold light was withdrawn.
But that sword was still pointed at Luo Qingzhou's throat, and the cold air stung his skin!
Luo Qingzhou stabilized the internal energy and blood surging in his body.
He raised his sleeves and wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth. Just as he was thinking about whether to return to the underground again, Yue Wu's voice suddenly came from outside: "Your Highness, Yuan Zhong, the leader of the Royal Forest Army, came over and said there was an assassin in the palace. , I don’t know if he has escaped here. For the safety of His Highness, he hopes that His Highness can allow him to bring people in to search. Also, he hopes that His Highness can temporarily put away the underground formation. Their people are already underground, and they also want to go Search the ground here."
Nangong Huoyue's eyes were always fixed on the masked figure in front of him. Hearing this, he said calmly: "Let him go."
"yes!"
Yue Wu immediately turned around and went out.
Not long after, she came back and replied: "They have retreated to a distance and are guarding outside, saying they are to protect the safety of His Highness."
Nangong Huoyue didn't speak anymore, her eyes still stared at the motionless figure kneeling on one knee in front of her with her head lowered. Then she reached out and pulled off the red belt from the screen next to her, and slowly tied it around Yingying's hand. slender waist.
After doing this, she glanced at the figure again, then turned around, stepped on the velvet carpet with her bare feet, and walked to the table next to her and sat down.
Then he picked up the flask, poured a glass of wine, and tasted it slowly.
In the room, there was silence.
Luo Qingzhou knelt on the ground with one knee, his throat was pressed against the tip of the sword, and there was no expression on his masked face. He didn't know what he was thinking in his heart, and he was also silent.
a long time.
Nangong Huo Yuefang put down the wine glass, looked at him again, and said in a calm tone: "Have you seen my body?"
Luo Qingzhou lowered his head and remained silent.
The tip of the sword that was at his throat suddenly pierced his skin with force.
A drop of blood spilled out along the tip of the sword.
Luo Qingzhou still didn't speak.
Nangong Huoyue picked up the wine pot, poured another glass of wine, and said, "Tell me why you appear here."
Luo Qingzhou was silent for a moment and said: "I was wandering around the ground at will and broke in here accidentally. I didn't mean to offend, nor did I have any intention."
Nangong Huoyue looked at him and said, "But people outside say you are an assassin."
Luo Qingzhou lowered his head and said, "I will never dare to assassinate you..."
Nangong Huoyue said: "Oh? Do you know me?"
Luo Qingzhou said respectfully: "As a Great Yan person, who doesn't know about me, the Great Yan Heavenly Girl?"
Nangong Huoyue stared at the mask on his face for a while and ordered: "Take off the mask on your face."
Before Luo Qingzhou could take action, a hand suddenly stretched out from beside him and took off the black tiger mask on his face.
After being injured by the old eunuch, his disguise technique had become ineffective.
Now, he has returned to his original body shape and Chu Feiyang's appearance.
He still lowered his head, looking intently, with a look of respect on his face.
Nangong Huoyue ordered again with a majestic look: "Raise your head and look at me."
Luo Qingzhou slowly raised his head and looked at her.
The two looked at each other.
Nangong Huoyue's face was majestic and cold, and she said calmly: "Chu Feiyang, you came into the palace late at night, not for an assassination, so why did you do it?"
Luo Qingzhou was silent for a moment and said: "It has nothing to do with Your Highness."
"Uh-huh!"
The tip of the sword at his neck touched his throat again.
Nangong Huoyue raised her eyebrows and said: "Oh? Does it really have nothing to do with me? I thought you came to me specifically. After all, that day, you defended me in the palace and made such an impassioned speech if."
Luo Qingzhou lowered his head and remained silent.
Nangong Huoyue ordered again in a cold voice: "Raise your head and look at me. You are not allowed to lower your head until I ask you to do so."
Luo Qingzhou had no choice but to raise his head again and look at her.
Nangong Huoyue's eyes were majestic and indifferent. She stared at him for a while, then Fang picked up the wine glass and drank it all in one gulp.
A wisp of wine flowed down the corner of her red lips, then slid down her snow-white and slender neck, landed on her white and perfect collarbone, and continued downward...
Luo Qingzhou lowered his eyes.
Nangong Huoyue put down the wine glass, looked at him and said, "Let me ask you again, did you see my body when you came out of the ground just now?"
Luo Qingzhou was silent for a moment, then lowered his gaze and said, "There was fog beside the pool. I did see His Highness getting up from the bath, but I didn't see it clearly."
Nangong Huoyue said calmly: "That's what I saw."
Luo Qingzhou said no more.
Nangong Huoyue said calmly: "Tell me, how are you going to explain to me?"
Luo Qingzhou looked at her and said, "What does Your Highness want to explain?"
Nangong Huoyue stared into his eyes and said coldly: "Gouge out your eyes or cut off your tongue, you choose one."
Luo Qingzhou frowned slightly and slowly tightened the jade rat in his hand.
Just as he was about to accumulate strength and drill into the ground, Nangong Huoyue suddenly said coldly: "You can't run away. No one will catch you underground? Only here in this palace can you survive. Only this palace can. Make sure you get out safe and sound."
Luo Qingzhou looked at her and said, "Your Highness, I don't want to harm myself. If Your Highness needs help with anything else, I will definitely agree."
Nangong Huoyue seemed to think for a moment and said, "Anything else?"
After a pause, she looked at him again and said: "I haven't thought of it yet. After you look at my body, what do you think can make me stop pursuing it? In my capacity, what can I need? Do you help?"
When Luo Qingzhou didn't know how to answer, she said calmly: "Chu Feiyang, for the sake of protecting me in the main hall, I can give you another choice without hurting yourself. However, for the time being, I I haven’t thought of anything yet, but you need to promise me now, no matter what I ask you to do in the future, you can’t refuse.”
"Of course, I will never let you harm innocent people, let alone do heinous things."
Luo Qingzhou thought about it carefully, then cupped his hands and said, "Thank you, Your Highness. I am willing to serve Your Highness."
Nangong Huoyue's eyes flashed with light, and he said: "There is no proof in words, but there is no proof in words!"
As soon as she finished speaking, Yue Wu had already brought pen, ink, paper and inkstone, spread out the rice paper on the table, and studied the ink herself.
Nangong Huoyue picked up the pen and wrote a paragraph on the rice paper, saying: "Come here, copy it, sign your name, press your fingerprints, and drop your blood."
Luo Qingzhou paused, got up from the ground, walked to the table, and carefully stared at the words on it several times. Fang took the pen, copied it in another handwriting, and signed his name.
Immediately, he pressed his fingerprints, wiped blood on his neck, and pressed it on it.
Nangong Huoyue picked up the rice paper, looked at it carefully for a while, then put it back on the table, looked at him and said: "In that case, I will let you go today. However, Chu Feiyang, if you don't care about what happened tonight, If word gets out, you should know what the consequences will be."
Luo Qingzhou immediately bowed and lowered his head and said: "Your Highness, don't worry, I will never dare to tell anyone about today's incident. If there is any news, God damn... I will not die!"
Nangong Huoyue raised her eyebrows and said, "Why don't you dare to say that the sky is thundering?"
Luo Qingzhou glanced at her and said again: "If there are rumors, there will be thunder and lightning!"
Nangong Huoyue said again: "One more sentence: I will cut off my descendants."
The corner of Luo Qingzhou's mouth twitched, and he could only say again: "If there is any rumor, the sky will strike with lightning, and the descendants will be cut off!"
Nangong Huoyue nodded with satisfaction. Just as he was about to speak, a voice suddenly came from outside: "Your Highness, the Queen Mother is here, and Eunuch Li Zhong is following behind."
As soon as these words came out, Nangong Huoyue's eyes narrowed, he pondered for a moment, then looked at the young man in front of him and said: "Li Zhong is a master master. It's too late for you to go out at this time. As for the underground, you can't go even more."
After saying that, she turned her head and glanced at the bath, hesitated, and said: "Hide in the water, remember, don't let out any breath, don't make any movement."
Luo Qingzhou did not dare to hesitate, immediately entered the bathtub, sank to the bottom of the water, held his breath, used the breath-holding technique, and stayed motionless at the bottom of the water.
Nangong Huoyue looked at the petals on the water gradually returning to calm, then put away the things on the table, and then said calmly: "Tell the queen that I am taking a bath and let her come in alone."
"yes."
Yueying and Yuewu both retreated.
Not long after, a rush of footsteps came from outside. As soon as he entered the door, he said with a panicked face: "Huo Yue, are you okay? There was an assassin in the palace just now. The assassin suddenly appeared in your emperor's brother's palace. If not Eunuch Li happened to come out of seclusion and found out. I'm afraid that your imperial brother... Well, I don't know how the assassin sneaked in there, but he was only separated from your imperial brother by a wall. Even now, the queen mother is still frightened. "
The Queen Mother was wearing a purple dress and had not even had time to put on her headdress. She obviously got up in a hurry and had a frightened expression on her face.
Nangong Huoyue was still sitting at the table, looking at her with a calm expression and said: "Don't worry, Queen Mother, there are so many masters in the palace, the assassin will definitely be caught."
The Queen Mother walked up to her, held her hand and said: "Huoyue, you don't know, that assassin is very scary. There are so many guards outside and many formations underground, but he actually sneaked in quietly. . Now the Royal Forest Army and the Royal Guards are dispatched, but they can't find him, and they don't know where he is hiding. The Queen Mother is worried about you, fearing that the assassin is coming here."
Nangong Huoyue still looked at her with cold eyes and said, "Did the Queen Mother care about me and come here specifically to accompany me, or did she suspect that the assassin was hiding in my place, so she brought Eunuch Li here to search?"
As soon as these words came out, the expression on the Queen Mother's face suddenly stiffened, and then she quickly said: "Huoyue, what did you say? How could the Queen Mother doubt you? The Queen Mother was just worried about you, so she came to take a look. That assassin is very scary. , if you accidentally sneak in and your guards don't notice it, it will be dangerous. So Queen Mother brought Eunuch Li over to have a look and help you search. Huoyue, you can't break Mother's heart. "
Nangong Huoyue lowered her head slightly and stroked the wine glass in her hand. There was no emotion on her face, but there was a hint of self-deprecation and desolation in her tone: "Mother, you can doubt me about anything, but... he is my younger brother and the same father. My brother from the same mother, no matter how cold-blooded I am, Nangong Huoyue, I will never do anything to hurt him. Do you think I no longer have any humanity? "
The Queen Mother held her hand tightly, looked at her lovingly and said: "Huoyue, Queen Mother really does not doubt you, but... the assassin is very dangerous, Queen Mother is just worried about you. You obey and let them stay in your palace. Let’s search the ground, so that the queen can feel at ease, okay?”
Then he hurriedly said: "Huo Yue, don't worry, except for Eunuch Li, the ones who searched are all female guards, and they will never dare to touch anything of yours. As for your boudoir, no one will dare to enter."
Nangong Huoyue was silent for a while, and then said: "Since the queen mother has spoken, let them search."
Then he ordered outside: "Yueying, the underground formations are temporarily put away."
"Yes, Your Highness."
There was a promise from outside.
Upon hearing this, the Queen Mother immediately ordered outside: "Go."
There were no footsteps outside, but a few unfamiliar scents left quickly.
The Queen Mother looked towards this bathroom.
Nangong Huoyue picked up the flask and poured a glass of wine, tasting it slowly with a calm expression.
"Huo Yue, did you just take a shower? What kind of flower petals did you use? It smells so good."
The Queen Mother stood up, and while talking, she walked towards the bath and looked inside.
Nangong Huoyue sat at the table and said calmly: "My mother sent it last time."
The Queen Mother stood by the bath and stared at the pool for a while. Then she raised her head and glanced at other places in the room. Then she returned to the table and said with a smile: "The Queen Mother has some fresh ones there. If you want If you like it, my mother will send it to you tomorrow."
Nangong Huoyue drank wine and said calmly: "I don't like it."
The Queen Mother paused, then smiled and said: "By the way Huo Yue, the Queen Mother has already told your uncles and uncles about your selection of the Prince Consort, and they all have no objections. We discussed it carefully and decided to do it on the first day of the Lunar New Year. When the time comes, go and propose marriage. Your uncles and uncles will go there in person, and your sisters and sisters will go together. You can just wait in the palace and don’t have to worry about anything. As for the prince-in-law you selected... …”
"Mother."
Nangong Huoyue suddenly interrupted her and said, "It's getting late. You should go back and rest quickly. I'm tired too."
The Queen Mother was about to speak when Changsun Wan'er's voice suddenly came from outside: "The Queen Mother, they have searched the eldest princess's place, both underground and on the ground, but the assassin was not found."
Hearing this, the Queen Mother stroked her chest and said with a smile: "Huoyue, fortunately, the assassin did not sneak in here, so the Queen Mother is relieved. Since you are tired, go to rest early. There are guards outside, you Don’t worry too much. The Queen Mother will go back first.”
Nangong Huoyue lowered her head slightly, looked at the wine in the glass, and said nothing.
The Queen Mother glanced at her again, then left with her long skirt in tow.
At this time, the voice of an old eunuch suddenly came from outside the door: "Your Majesty, my servant has not seen your highness for a long time. When the late emperor asked me to teach your highness to practice kung fu, those days were my happiest days... Please allow me to stay here for a while, so that I can talk to His Highness."
The Queen Mother paused and said, "You can be considered Huo Yue's master, so you should meet her."
After saying that, she left surrounded by the palace maids and guards.
The old eunuch bowed his head and stood outside the door. After the Queen Mother left the door, he said: "Your Highness, this old slave wishes you well."
Nangong Huoyue sat at the table, with a wave of confusion in her eyes, and said calmly: "Eunuch Li, do you want to come into the room to talk?"
The old eunuch lowered his head outside the door and said: "I don't dare. The old slave stays here and just wants to chat with His Highness. Although it may be a bit verbose, the old slave doesn't want to see His Highness go further and further away. The late Emperor is disappointed."
Nangong Huoyue remained silent and did not speak again.
(End of chapter)
