Thin Mei·Love Fragrance Quilt

Chapter 189

As she spoke, she stared at him for a moment, then walked towards their courtyard.

Zhuo Rui slowly clenched his fists, exhaled suddenly, and said hastily: "That's right, it has something to do with me."

But Qianmei stopped in her tracks.

Zhuo Rui lowered his head and said: "The emperor never told me to save you, but I know he is not at ease. So not long after arriving in Jingshan, I quietly sent a secret letter through the dark guard to return to the palace to report safety, but There is no mention of where we are."

Ke Qianmei nodded and said: "He knows that the exit of the secret road to the imperial palace is in Jingshan, and the war is raging near Gyeonggi, and you are sending messages from near Jingshan, so he has already known that we are hiding in Jingshan. The queen mother wants to kill me, and I want to kill him too. Even if he wants to save my life, it’s fine if he knows I’m safe. There’s no reason to search for my whereabouts. But why did he kill Hengyi? How did he find it here? of?"

This time, Zhuo Rui was silent for a longer period of time before he answered with difficulty: "I think... for such a big event as killing the dragon fetus, it is better to say hello to the emperor. Therefore... I sent another secret letter through the secret guard , tell him... Concubine Shu wanted to break the fate, abolished the dragon fetus and became a monk. I wrote very concisely, and I was very careful when looking for the hidden guards. I didn't expose my traces. I don't know...how did he send someone to look for it? come over."

But Qian Mei lowered her head and thought about it, and then she understood.

Zhuo Rui has high martial arts skills, is cautious in his actions, and is also very familiar with the style of the hidden guards. Although he often goes in and out of the mountains, it is difficult for the dark guards to track him, so these days are very peaceful.

But Zhuo Rui's second secret letter mentioned Heng Yi.

Tang Tianxiao had met Heng Yi before, and hated his "nonsense" that could change people's temperament. He had murderous intentions at that time; He never thought that he would be noticed by the people of the court again, but he was followed all the way to his residence.

The reason for killing him was that he hated him so much that he teased Ke Qianmei to become a monk, and wanted to kill his child.

In Tang Tianxiao's view, such a crime cannot be redeemed by death, and it is extremely kind to shoot him to death with an arrow.

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The sparse forest is rustling, the setting sun is desolate, and the jackdaws are croaking hoarsely, flying over the slope with their wings folded, seeming to be bleak with cold.

But Qianmei's blood seemed to be frozen into ice, she looked at the dense pine forest in front of her and the green mountains in the distance, suddenly hugged her shoulders in horror, rushed into their small courtyard, rushed into her own room, and began to tidy up. A few coarse clothes.

Zhuo Rui hurriedly followed and asked, "Qian'er, you...where are you going?"

"Of course I want to go, far away."

But Qianmei looked at the simple but warm furnishings in the house with nostalgia, "I thought I could live here for three to fifty years in peace and contentment, but it turns out...even three to five months is a luxury!"

Zhuo Rui stood helplessly, when she was about to run out, he stopped her with his arms, "If you want to go, I will go with you."

Ke Qianmei sighed: "Zhuo Rui, you have your loyalty, and I also have my scruples. It was so easy for me to come out, so easy to be far away from those people and those things, so easy... I started to forget him, I don't want to Go in. I'm still young, even if I can't be happy again in this life, I also want to live in peace."

Zhuo Rui replied: "I have my loyalty to the emperor as well as to you. I didn't think carefully about Heng Yichang's matter. I am sorry for him, and I am sorry for you. Please give me a chance to make amends. okay?"

But Qian Mei stared at him closely, her thin lips turned white.

Zhuo Rui said again: "Seeing that your body is getting heavier and heavier, it is very inconvenient to move. If no one takes care of you, I will not worry."

But Qian Mei touched her protruding belly, and her eyes began to turn red.

She originally wanted to abandon this child, so as to abandon the last ties with Tang Tianxiao.

But Tang Tianxiao had already told her with actions that her abandonment was just deception.

She may not have completely left his sight at all, and the bond between them is far from over.

After Hengyi died, there was a pile of medicines in the house. They couldn't tell whether they were abortion medicines or conditioning medicines, so they didn't dare to use them indiscriminately. Of course, they couldn't deceive themselves and others to become a monk, thinking that the mysterious Taoist theory could really help them get out of this situation. The predicament that made her physically and mentally exhausted.

What's more, without Heng Yi's encouragement, would she really be willing to abort the fetus?
She had also longed for Tang Tianxiao's arrival because of his wish. Now that the placenta has stabilized, she can even feel the fetal movement as he thrives in the womb.

She couldn't tell whether it was a kind of suffering or a kind of happiness, but she could clearly realize that this was not only Tang Tianxiao's child, but also her child.

She sniffed and said in a low voice: "Okay, you help me. Help me first... escape the pursuit of those hidden guards!"

"Well, try to... try it!"

Zhuo Rui's answer was not sure.

Even though there was such a deep hatred between the two of them, he still knew how important she was in Tang Tianxiao's heart.

If Tang Tianxiao didn't know that she was pregnant, he might be willing to let go reluctantly and tolerate her running away when he and she had nowhere to go; if he found out that she was pregnant with his child, and deliberately killed the child to forget him, he would definitely do everything possible to find her , never let her out of his sight.

Now, in the dark and dense forest, there are no more eyes of hidden guards hidden in the dark.

Perhaps, they hid, just waiting for the big man to deal with the chaotic situation so that they could take the time to come, to take her back full of surprise and resentment, or force her to go back.

To face each other who don't want to face but have to face each other, as well as each other's grievances and hatreds.

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After night fell, smoke came from above the westernmost house with a stove. It seemed that the host had finished mourning for his dead friends and began to cook for his own survival.

But the smoke seemed to be getting bigger, and it was getting bigger and bigger, and gradually the whole kitchen roof was filled with smoke, and then the fire.

And, it keeps spreading...

When the small wooden house became a burning fire in the night wind, but no figure floated out, the forest finally became chaotic. Dozens of men in black rushed out, hurriedly looking for tools to put out the water, and tried to rush into the forest. Look for traces of Ke Qianmei in the house.

But of course Qianmei and Zhuo Rui are no longer in the room.

Both of them are good at skills, and when the hidden guards were engrossed in the fireworks on the kitchen roof, they had already sneaked out of the dark room where Hengyi lived in the east, and sneaked into the grass behind the house;

The hidden guards all turned from the dark place to the bright place, and when they rushed to the burning wooden house to fight the fire, Zhuo Rui had already pulled Ke Qianmei to the hillside behind the house, and fled quickly while no one was guarding them.

When the hidden guards found that there were no bones under the ashes of the wooden house, they had already rushed to other hills, like water drops entering the sea, merging into the vast darkness.

But Qian Mei only wanted to escape from Tang Tianxiao's sight as soon as possible, and escape from that sweet but unbearable relationship, but she didn't decide where to go.

Tang Tianxiao has a persevering temperament. After being caught off guard at first, he quickly recovered and rearranged his troops. At this time, he has regained control of the political situation in the Gyeonggi area. However, many places in the southwest and west have been ruled by King Xin and the Zhuang family. Although some state capitals in the southeast rebelled, they were divided and surrounded by imperial soldiers and could not communicate with King Xin.

Because it was Yu Wenqi who allowed the enemy soldiers to enter the pass, the surrender of Southern Chu suggested moving the capital back to the northern capital, first to stabilize the situation in the north, and then to quell the rebels in the south of the Yangtze River.Tang Tianxiao categorically refused, and believed that this person was an instigator, intending to hand over half of the world in the south of the Yangtze River to King Xin, and behead him immediately.

Seeing that Tang Tianxiao was determined to quell the rebellion, everyone was terrified, and they only concentrated on making plans to destroy King Xin and regain the lost land.

Ke Qianmei recalled that the Hualiu where Ning Qingwu and Tang Tianzhong lived was peaceful and peaceful, and they wanted to go there to defect, but now most of the state capitals in the south of the Yangtze River have been involved in the war, and several fortresses or ferries are heavily guarded by both sides. Even crossing the river is not easy, let alone going to Hualiu, which is separated by mountains and seas.

Because she wanted to avoid Tang Tianxiao wholeheartedly, Zhuo Rui might not be willing to go back to King Xin to fight against Tang Tianxiao, so she decided to take her west first, find an unobtrusive small town or village to settle down, and talk about it after giving birth to the child.

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They stayed in the mountains for a long time, and their clothes had long lost their original splendor.

Zhuo Rui was dressed in the attire of a lumberjack, looking ordinary; but Qian Mei was wearing a gray sermon robe she made herself, with her unkempt hair tied up in a loose bun, and her face was covered in black dust when she went out, caught between deserters and Walking among the refugees, except for their overly plump waist, they looked no different from the little Taoist priests begging along the road, and they were not eye-catching.

It's just that Qian Mei grew up in the rich and noble, and has never experienced much suffering. Now she drags her heavy body to work, and even eats mostly cold water and dry food. Walking forward in his arms, he couldn't stand the days of eating and sleeping in the open air, and he started to have a fever two days later.

Zhuo Rui was anxious, so he had to borrow a farmhouse in a nearby village to stay temporarily, and invited a doctor to treat him.

They are only called husband and wife, and no one is suspicious when they fled their hometown due to the military chaos.

An old man in the village sees that Ke Qianmei is pregnant and running around, but he sighs to Zhuo Rui about the troubled times: "It was a peaceful and prosperous life, but it has only been a few years, why are they fighting again? The Tang family is in the mountains and rivers, Li It doesn’t matter if the family sits in the country, what does it have to do with us ordinary people? Look, how many ordinary people have suffered in this fight! Even those who were sent to the battlefield to beat you to death were the children of our ordinary people! Alas, you are still husband and wife In one place, I don’t know how many families were ruined! Those people only cared about becoming emperors and high officials, and pitied the ordinary people who were dragged down. Their bones piled up in piles. This life is really worth less than an ant’s life. !"

Zhuo Rui responded indiscriminately, and when he went back to the room to see Ke Qianmei, she was hugging the old coarse quilt in a daze.

Seeing him coming in, she sighed: "Until now, there is no bone beside the river, and I am still the person in the dream of a spring girl. Brother Zhuo, it seems that I have committed a serious crime. Even after I die, I deserve to go to the [-]th hell of the underworld."

Zhuo Rui softly persuaded: "Don't think too much, it was Da Zhou who took the world of Nanchu first, and now Nanchu is going to take it back again, if you don't want to intervene, they will still take it."

Ke Qianmei shook her head and said, "If it wasn't for me, it would be very difficult for Seventh Uncle to have the chance to take back the world of Nanchu. My father was loyal to Nanchu until death, but I just thought, if he is still alive , Will it subvert this peaceful and prosperous world in order to rebuild Southern Chu?"

Zhuo Rui thought for a while and said, "It should be possible!"

"meeting?"

"Yes. A loyal and upright general like your father will not serve two masters. Even if he compromises for a while because of survival, he will only recognize one homeland in his heart. Suppression rarely changes their original intentions and abandons their roots."

"Look at Jiaowang Zhuangyao again. He was forced to rebel by the last emperor of Southern Chu, but he just thought that the last emperor had no way, and Southern Chu is still the orthodox in the world. When he joined the army, he also recovered the big Chu in his heart. I saw Zhuang Shizi as a sensible person, but unfortunately he is the only son of the Zhuang family. He has always been famous for his filial piety. I have to choose, I can only follow his father to help Xinwang."

"how about you?"

"Me? I was born in the army, and I have been deeply favored by the emperor until now..."

(End of this chapter)