Nightfall Chapter 190: The lamp in Fuzhong is like a bean, and a cloak with a crutches and laughter

This place is not far from Suzaku Avenue. Some houses were seriously damaged by the fighting that day. Some people were still being repaired in the snowy night.

Ning Que seemed to have not heard Chao Xiaoshu’s words, and looked there quietly. After watching for a long time, he suddenly said, “Many people died on the street that day.”

Chao Xiaoshu didn’t say anything any more, and started to pick up the offal from the soup pot.

Ning Que filled his bowl with wine and said, “What do you think about the negotiation?”

Chao Xiaoshu said: “I am inconvenient to speak about the big event in the court.”

Ning Que said: “The battle situation is getting stable, but it is not beneficial to Datang, and too much blood has been shed, which needs to be delayed for a while, but since we have not lost, we naturally can’t suffer when we talk.”

Chao Xiaoshu said: “Eat first.”

The soup pot is full of scent, but the aroma of the wine appears to be much weaker. After all, it was the double steamed steam that Chao Xiaoshu and Ning Que liked during the war. There was no way to bring it from the north.

This meal was a little silent, and didn’t drink too much, until the lamb in the pot was exhausted, the dipping sauce bottomed out, and the little tree spoke again.

“This war involves too much, and all the people in Tang Dynasty are contributing to it. Only Li Yu seems to have been forgotten, but you should be very clear that there are still many people who have not forgotten her, both the ruling and opposition parties.”

He looked at Ning Que and said, “The academy’s prestige is too high, and the Queen Empress’s methods are so good. The most important thing is because of the invasion of foreign enemies, so the ruling and the opposition can be united, and she is her most loyal subordinate, and she also chose to stay calm. But if the war is over or temporarily terminated, the conflict will eventually break out again.”

Ning Que said: “The adults in the court are not really idiots. The Empress Empress has shown her means and ability to govern the country. They have no reason to continue to support Li Yu.”

Chao Xiaoshu said: “You seem to have forgotten one thing. Now everyone in the world knows that the queen is the remnant of the Demon Sect. Although the Tang people have never served the Xiling Temple, their belief in Haotian has been for a while. It is impossible to clean up, people still have a natural aversion to Demon Sect.”

Ning Que said, “What are you trying to say?”

Chao Xiaoshu said: “It depends on how the academy and the court prepare to deal with her.”

“If everything is calm, she will be imprisoned forever in the princess mansion.”

Ning Que looked at Chao Xiaoshu’s eyes and said, “If there are only such inconspicuous signs of disturbance, then I will kill her in the shortest time.”

Chao Xiaoshu looked at him and said: “You were very close to her before. People in Chang’an City know that, I didn’t expect you to be so indifferent to her.”

Ning Que said: “I said that many people died on this street.”

Chao Xiaoshu said: “I want to meet her.”

Ning Que raised his eyebrows slightly and said, “What do you see her for?”

Chao Xiaoshu said: “Look, or talk about it.”

“Although I don’t think there is any need to talk about it, but…”

Ning Que said: “I haven’t seen Xiao Man for a long time, so let’s go.”

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The night street is quiet and silent, and the princess mansion, which used to be like a cloud of guests, looks particularly deserted and lonely. Even the people who pass by occasionally, no one wants to take a look at the tense door.

Ning Que knows that there are many guards hidden in the surrounding square city covered by night. He always thought that Li Yu was an idiot, but this did not mean that the mother and son in the palace would relax their vigilance a little bit.

He and Chao Xiaoshu walked towards the princess mansion. Weixue fell on the tense gate, and the courtyard wall was silent and without lights, looking like a tomb.

General Xuanwei’s mansion was also like a tomb after it was cut across the gates. When he first entered Chang’an, Ning Que went to mourn a few times. Knowing that this is what a ruined mansion should look like, it is not surprising.

He stopped suddenly, and the crutches under his arm fell in the snow.

Chao Xiaoshu also stopped.

In the seemingly normal night, they felt abnormal at the same time, because they heard the sound of breathing faintly from the ancient trees behind the wall. Judging from the frequency of breathing, the few people were a little nervous.

Ning Que raised his head and looked at the snow falling in the night sky. The snowflakes were falling slowly. It looked beautiful, but he was not actually looking at the snow. His eyes flicked between the branches on the wall.

He saw clusters of sharp and cold arrows among the branches.

“It’s a crossbow arrow.”

He looked at Chao Xiaoshu and said with a smile: “It seems that it is still a Shenhou crossbow.”

Listening to the three characters Shen Hou Nu, Chao Xiaoshu also laughed. A few years ago, he and Ning Que walked into the Chunfeng Pavilion and killed countless people in the night rain. When they opened the gate of the court house, they saw Shenhou Crossbow.

There is no rain tonight, but there is snow.

After many years, they were aimed at by Shenhou crossbow again. The expressions of the two people were not as solemn as they were in the past, but they laughed, because they are no longer in the past.

Chao Xiaoshu is no longer the king of the rivers and lakes. He has already become a master at the lakeside of the imperial palace. He can also escape from the sky under the Liu Baijian. He already has his place in the ranks of the strong practitioners in the world.

Ning Que has changed the most. Although Lao Bi Zhai is still his, he has long ceased to sell his calligraphy for a living. The once desolate boy in the border town is now a member of the academy.

Don’t say a few Shenhou crossbows, even if there are hundreds of heavy riders rushing from the other side of the street at this time, no matter whether it is towards Xiaoshu or Ning Que, it will not be moved by it.

They are very strong, and they are stronger when they stand together. I have seen the night rain at Chunfeng Pavilion a few years ago, or the night snow in front of the princess mansion a few years later, and I will be lucky to see it with my own eyes.

“I just want to know where the person is now.” Ning Que said.

Chao Xiaoshu said: “It should be the blood cloak of Gushan County, the most elite subordinate of the Hua family in the army. You may not know that Huashan Mountain has returned to Chang’an City from the front.”

Ning Que said: “If you ask what love is in the world, people who teach directly will become idiots.”

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Walking into the princess mansion, it was still pitch black, only the light from the other house outside the wall, with the reflection of the light snow, fell in the garden, barely able to see the old path between the remaining flowers.

Ning Que had been to Princess Mansion many times, walked directly inward with the little tree, passed through the stone gate, passed the frozen lake, and saw the bean-like light on the lakeside terrace.

There are a lot of heavy curtains on the terrace, and the lights are very dim. The woman sitting there looks very lonely. It’s winter. No one can understand why she should sit there and be blown by the cold wind.

Ning Que lifted the veil and looked at Li Yu and said: “It seems that you are in a good mood recently, and you want to, as long as you have a thought in your heart, you can always survive the hard days.”

Li Yu is obviously a little depressed, but her face is still beautiful. She didn’t care about Ning Que. She saluted the little tree beside him and said, “Thank you, Uncle Chao, for remembering me.”

Shook his head at Xiaoshu, without speaking.

Ning Que walked up to her on the crutches, rubbing the wick lightly with his fingers to make the oil lamp brighter.

He looked at Li Yu and said, “I used to call you an idiot behind my back. It was because I demanded too much of you. In fact, you are not that idiot. Then you should be very clear that in this situation, you Either stay in the house or die, Datang does not give you the right to choose the third way.”

Li Yu didn’t say a word, but looked at him quietly.

Ning Que said: “Why do you do such a stupid thing?”

Listening to these words, Li Yu laughed, a little sad.

“To die in confinement, or to be killed directly, does not make much difference to me now. I would rather choose the latter, and I can’t let Xiaoman live with me all his life in this tomb .”

“All excuses.”

Ning Que’s tone was calm, and this calmness revealed a temperature lower than the snow on the lake.

“If you are worried about Xiaoman, you can directly send someone to tell me that it is for the sake of old days. In any case, I will not watch him spend his years here, but you did not say it because you still want I want to go out, and you know, I will not let you leave this princess mansion anyway.”

The cold night wind blew the curtain and fell on Li Yu’s body, making her a bit cold.

Towards Xiaoshu stood aside in silence.

Li Yu looked at Ning Que and suddenly said, “You hate me so?”

Ning Que said: “It has nothing to do with love and hatred. You know I only consider the issue of interests.”

After saying this, he looked around the terrace and said: “Come out.”

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It was quiet.

After a while, sounds came from all around the terrace, including below, and more than a dozen men in cloaks came out, Hua Shanyue walked in the forefront, holding Xiaoman in his hands.

These people have a weathered face and a solemn temperament. They are obviously soldiers. To Ning Que’s surprise, the cloaks on these people are all white, unlike the blood cloaks Chao Xiaoshu said.

Until a gust of wind blew up, the soldiers’ cloaks were rolled up, revealing the blood-red color.

Of course Xiaoman knew Ning Que, and when he saw him standing in front of his mother, he subconsciously called out, but suddenly realized that the atmosphere on the terrace was a little weird, so he forcibly tightened his mouth.

Ning Que looked at him and smiled.

Then he looked towards Huashan Mountain, his smile gradually converging.

He didn’t know what method this person and these Tang Jun elite blood cloaks used to enter the princess mansion, but he knew what these people wanted to do, and that was definitely something he couldn’t allow.

“To believe that an idiot who has been dazzled by emotions can take you out of Chang’an City. I really don’t know if I should be disappointed in you or proud of my judgment.”

Ning Que looked at Huashan Mountain, but said this to Li Yu.

Li Yu said: “I don’t believe he can take me out of Chang’an, but since he is here, I can’t drive him away. You must know that he is the first visitor to the mansion these days.”

Ning Que said to Hua Shanyue: “Your current military position is the commander of the three states, and you are only three poles away from the general. I heard that you have made a lot of military exploits on the northern line, but tonight you have to become a cloud of smoke. Regret?”

Hua Shanyue looked at the crutches under his armpit and said, “There are some things that you have to try once before you know if you will regret it. I heard that you have suffered a serious injury. You met me at this time, or regretted it. The person is you.”

Ning Que pointed towards the little tree.

Hua Shanyue said: “I heard that the gang leader was also seriously injured. You practitioners were injured, and ordinary people can’t see it. But according to the military, you are as weak as rabbits at this time.”

Ning Que looked at him and a dozen blood cloaks, and said: “There are too many wishful thinking, and it is really easy to become frantic.”

Hua Shanyue said: “There are thirty gods and crossbows facing you in the night, of course I can think about it.”

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