Chapter 518 The rumbling wind
Chapter 518 The rumbling wind
The next day.
When Xu Zhi woke up, what was hanging on the ceiling was not the crimson gauze of Zhilan Palace, but a bamboo-green curtain with milky white gauze floating. The lingering fragrance had burned out, but there was still a hint of agarwood lingering around.
This is a strange place.
She subconsciously looked for something and found her dagger placed next to her pillow.
She had ordered Lu Heng to take action before coming to Fufeng. She only needed to show the result of asking for help in vain, and Zhang Han's people would immediately appear with the charge of disrespect. Then, Chen Ping would come forward at the right time to persuade Zhang Liang.
However, she didn't expect that she would faint! How could she faint unconsciously at such a critical moment!
She moved, and her neck felt like it was being pecked by ants... She remembered Zhang Liang's last words, "He Hua".
Xu Zhi suddenly became more sober, but then she realized that it was impossible. In such a chaotic situation, a secret guess was brewing in her mind...
At this moment, soft footsteps were heard outside the door.
"Hey, what's wrong with you? Why do you have to stay here like this?" It was the voice of a little girl.
The person at the door didn't say much, but left quickly.
The woman ignored Xu Zhi's vigilance. Her voice was clear and crisp, with a Sichuan accent in her words. She walked straight into the screen.
What a beautiful and charming little girl, about fourteen years old, wearing a light red dress, but with a small bag slung across her body, her outfit looked a little out of place.
Xu Zhi had lived in fear in the palace for so many years. No matter how innocent she looked, she held the dagger in front of her with caution, "Who are you? How dare you enter my room without permission?"
She tilted her head, stopped walking, looked at Xu Zhi, and muttered to herself, "Sister, why is it like this? I'm here to help you."
Xu Zhi was unable to dispel his doubts, so he had time to observe the layout of the room. It was elegant and yet very new, with no signs of having been lived in.
She looked at the amount of incense ash on the table and realized that it had been burning for more than a day. She was probably carried into the house. Could it be that her people thought the plan had changed and did not come out to look for her?
Xu Zhi raised his eyes and looked at her, "What do I need? As for why you came here so suddenly, I will help you."
The girl in pink walked around the table and didn't speak directly. Instead, she noticed the wound on her neck. After confirming that it had been treated, she looked away with relief.
She put the medicine bottle back in her hand and said with a smile, "It seems that someone has taken care of my sister's new injury first. The situation is urgent, so I won't worry about it anymore."
"Don't you know how I got injured? Aren't you a maid in this house?" Xu Zhi asked. She lowered her head again, and then she realized that her inner clothes had been changed... She paused, some scenes flashed by, and complicated emotions came to her mind.
The girl was actually A-yu, Taoyao's daughter.
She came to Xianyang this time to solve the urgent problem of Qin Palace.
Originally, before Ying Hehua went to Hanzhong to find Li Xian, she should have arrived in Xianyang.
But on the way here, she met a letter from Zheng Guo, saying that his daughter Zheng Chou was having difficulty giving birth, so she wrote the recipe for the antidote to Li Xian... She didn't know that Li Xian's eye injury had not healed yet, and the prescription was stolen by Zhao Gao's men. The twists and turns in the story are another story.
Ayu stayed in Shu for two days, waiting for Zheng Chou and her son to be safe, and named him Pijiang. Soon, she rushed to Xianyang without stopping.
Unexpectedly, her cousin worked so quickly that she found another way and returned to Xianyang from Hanzhong within one day. She was really decisive enough to injure herself in exchange for Zhang Liang's serum.
A Yu smiled and said, "Sister, you may think so." She thought for a moment, "However, it was indeed Mr. Zhang Liang who asked me to come here to change the medicine for you. Mr. Zhang said that he has given your strategist what you want. If you wake up and the snow stops, you can leave."
Xu Zhi paused. "Zhang Liang knows what I want?"
A-Yu nodded, "Sister, please give the antidote to the Queen."
After hearing this, Xu Zhi could not wait any longer. She needed to immediately confirm whether Chen Ping had obtained the things and returned to the palace safely.
This concerns whether her mother can wake up, whether Zhang Han can be released from prison... and whether she can have the confidence to fight Zhao Gao on her own in the future.
It was snowing outside. When I opened the door, I saw that although it was not as white as in deep winter, there was already a thin layer of snow on the ground.
If Zhang Liang was really stimulated by some scene and remembered what happened before... he would only hate her more than the strange and vicious Princess Qin at the moment.
If this is the case, then we simply cannot stay here any longer.
She said to the girl in red, "Miss, please tell the owner of this house that I will agree to whatever he asks. I will leave immediately and never come back again."
After she finished speaking, her eyes met someone else's. Just by looking at him, he almost blended into the snowy background.
She didn't want to see him.
She never wanted to.
Uncertainty, confusion, and complicated thoughts are more chaotic than the snowflakes flying in the sky.
Ah Yu was sitting in the house. She didn't realize that it was a "narrow road encounter" situation. She was still talking, "...I saw a man who called himself Chen Ping outside the door with a head of snow. Sir, you should give the things to him. Sister, don't worry."
Zhang Liang had already stepped onto the steps. He withdrew his foot as he opened the umbrella. "Since the princess has gotten what she wanted, I will have someone escort Princess Yong'an away."
His voice was calm and his movements were calm.
It seemed that she had always been domineering and shameless.
Since he had already used him and asked for everything he wanted from him...any memories of her were just delusions to him.
She felt so ashamed that she tried to avoid Zhang Liang completely. She didn't want to answer him and walked away from him.
"Ayu." He suddenly called the girl.
This name really made Xu Zhi pause.
She frowned and stopped immediately. The fluffy snow fell on her hair. She turned around and said, "Are you A-yu? The A-yu who is good at medicine in Shu?"
A Yu glanced at Zhang Liang at this time.
Zhang Liang is an important official of Han An, and this cannot be changed in any way.
Taoyao was absolutely unwilling to let her daughter be bound by the shackles of the Han royal family.
"Don't look at him. Why did you come to Xianyang?"
"Cousin." A Yu called her, "I'm here to help you. When I left, my mother told me not to stay in Xianyang for long. I don't want to get involved in any disputes, but cousin, your identity is too eye-catching... I'm also worried about your dilemma, so I didn't want to reveal my identity to you just now. Mr. no longer asks about many things, this is none of your business."
A Yu felt that Zhang Liang was a very strange person. He even remembered what her mother had asked him to do ten years ago, but he claimed that he didn't know her cousin.
After all, she was young and didn't quite understand what was going on between them.
She tilted her head, "Sir, cousin, you are so surprised. How come you don't know each other? When my cousin was trapped in the palace of King Han, the story of how she escaped from the jaws of death is well known to the world. I also heard about it in Shu."
Xu Zhi looked at her, "I was just a young child at that time. If it weren't for General Ying Teng, I would have died at the hands of Han Chen."
These words made Zhang Liang suddenly nervous, as if she had brought it up on purpose.
"Mr. Zhang Liang, you mentioned this before..." Her next words were suddenly interrupted by someone's voice.
"Your Highness, I have something to report to you."
Inside the house, at the end of the road, Chen Ping appeared in a dignified manner, wearing official uniform and waving his hands exaggeratedly.
If it weren't for his good looks, his lack of attention to manners would have been really outrageous.
In Zhang Liang's opinion, this was mostly due to the influence of Ying Hehua's eccentric behavior. Ying Hehua has restrained herself over the years, but Chen Ping has learned all the bad habits instead.
No one suffered amnesia.
Everyone remembers the past, except Ayu, no one dares to mention it.
"I remember that you had an old illness in Handan. Sister Wang Yan wrote to me that your cousin's health has been poor in recent years. You should not stand in the snow for nothing."
He suffered from a lifelong cough because of her.
She became ill because of him.
Isn't this also a kind of cause and effect retribution?
Xu Zhi couldn't find any clues from Zhang Liang's expression. She couldn't tell whether he was regretful or happy...
The oath I made is still ringing in my ears.
When the snowflakes fell on his hair, it seemed as if his hair had turned white.
But Chen Ping bowed slightly to one side, reminding her that she should return to Xianyang Palace.
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