Seeing the tip of the sword across her neck, Jiang Shanshan suddenly said: "Your Highness, so what if I saw it? Aren't our goals the same?"
"Huh?" Xiao Xuanyi raised his eyebrows.
"Your Highness has his own plans, and so do I, but it is undeniable that our goals are the same."
"How do you know we have the same purpose?"
"The outside world has said that Your Highness is weak and helpless. Even the imperial doctor said that you live one day at a time. However, His Seventh Highness, who is so sick and frail, has good martial arts skills. Isn't it obvious enough what you want to hide and why?"
"Ha, I underestimated you." Xiao Xuanyi raised the corners of his thin lips.
The long sword was lowered and Jiang Shanshan's neck was freed.
She breathed a long sigh of relief and saw Xiao Xuanyi turned around and walked to the long desk and sat down, not caring about the two corpses on the ground.
And at some point, a person appeared in the room. After carrying them away, the ground was wiped clean.
The incense was rekindled in the stove, and it was refreshing and cool, quickly covering up the remaining smell of blood.
Jiang Shanshan didn't make a sound, just silently thinking about something. After a while, he also had an answer.
She slightly glanced at Xiao Xuanyi, who looked like a weak young master again, and secretly bit her lip.
Now that we're here, there's nothing we still don't understand. This is clearly a deliberate attempt to lure her here.
Thinking of this, she glanced around, sat down on a soft cushion, and said, "Isn't Gu Yuan here?"
Xiao Xuanyi raised his eyebrows and did not deny it.
"Then I wonder what your Highness wants to do with this incident?"
Xiao Xuanyi raised his eyes to look at her, stroking the green-glazed Panlong tea bowl in his hand, and said, "I heard that Ling Ci is a master of making utensils."
Jiang Shanshan pursed his lips and understood what he meant.
It is true that her identity cannot withstand in-depth investigation, and she also knows that sooner or later, she will no longer be able to hide her identity.
only……
"Don't think too much, your life experience was not revealed by the Duke's government."
"oh?"
"As long as you want to investigate, who do you think you can hide from?"
"Then do I still ask for your protection, Your Highness? Otherwise, I will be in trouble if my identity is exposed."
"It's easy to say, since she is my future cousin-in-law, she is naturally one of my own."
Humph, hypocrisy!
Jiang Shanshan was very angry, but he couldn't kill him.
"Tell me! What does Your Highness want me to do? I prefer to be more relaxed, so you don't have to go to such trouble to trick me."
Xiao Xuanyi curled his lips, took out a book from the secret compartment of the desk and threw it to her.
After Jiang Shanshan caught it, he turned it over and his eyes narrowed slightly.
Above were pictures of some incomplete weapon samples, which were familiar to her.
Some of them are even familiar, and the ones with complete records were painted by her.
She was not surprised that she would fall into the hands of Xiao Xuanyi, but just from this point of her identity, it seemed that His Highness the Seventh Prince, who had been ill for a long time, was not as indifferent as he appeared.
"It's not difficult for you to complete the weapons above." Xiao Xuanyi's voice came.
Jiang Shanshan heard the words and had an idea in his mind, "Your Highness is so sure that I can make up for it. You know, there are many weapons on it that I have never seen before."
"If you can't do it, then no one can do it."
"Your Highness believes in me too much."
In response, Xiao Xuanyi just smiled, looked at the broken book in her hand, and said: "It's time for him to arrive, let's go out!"
he?
When Jiang Shanshan came back to her senses, before she could say anything, someone had already come in to invite her.
After thinking about it, she still put the broken book into her arms.
After going out, I saw a figure striding not far away, walking through the long corridor, with fluttering clothes, and their eyes met, as if they were relieved.
Gu Yuan's originally slightly hurried pace also slowed down until he came to the other party. After making sure that she was fine, he silently held her in his arms.
"I've already received the person, so I won't go in to visit him."
The chief behind him hurriedly bowed in response.
Immediately, Gu Yuan took Jiang Shanshan and left without looking back.
Chang Sui watched for a while, then went in to report to his master. Upon hearing this, Xiao Xuanyi just smiled faintly.
"She has a bad temper. It seems that girl is really quite capable. In just a short time, she has become so obsessed that she doesn't even care about business." Xiao Xuanyi's smile did not reach the bottom of his eyes.
On the contrary, it became cooler and thinner.
Chang Sui only glanced quickly and then lowered his head, "Your Highness, please calm down. The Third Young Master is young and energetic, and he has a girl he likes for a while, so he will inevitably be distracted."
When mentioning this, Xiao Xuanyi stopped smiling and looked as cold as frost.
"He is distracted, and my aunt is also distracted?" If this continues, how can we achieve great things?
Chang Sui didn't dare to say anything anymore.
On the other side, the two people who had already left the palace were sitting on the carriage and were preparing to return to the palace.
Gu Yuan had a sullen face all the way. He didn't expect that Xiao Xuanyi would do such a thing behind his back.
It was clearly agreed long ago that Jiang Shanshan could not be dragged into the situation no matter what.
"Are you angry?" A soft voice came from his ear. Gu Yuan came back to his senses and pursed his lips.
"Did he give you any trouble?"
"It's so embarrassing..." Jiang Shanshan thought of the scene when he was frightened at first and said angrily: "He threatened me and killed someone and insisted on letting me catch him. He also pretended to want to silence him."
Of course, considering their relationship, Jiang Shanshan would not say so absolutely.
After all, he really planned to kill her or something, who knows if Xiao Xuanyi has thought about it!
But even if she didn't say anything, Gu Yuan seemed to understand. He was silent for a long time and then said: "I will talk to him about this matter and give you an explanation."
"He is the prince, what explanation can you give me? Besides, I am just an orphan. Can you still expect him to admit his mistakes to me?"
Jiang Shanshan is confident but not arrogant, and he also knows how much he weighs. Perhaps Xiao Xuanyi took what happened today for the sake of the Duke of Jingguo.
If she had nothing to do with Gu Yuan and no Duke Jingguo was around, then for an orphan like her with such a secret of her life experience, her fate would probably not be worse than that of Lin Zhilan.
Thinking of this, she remembered what the old Taoist priest said again, and sat closer to Gu Yuan, actively leaning into his arms for the first time.
Gu Yuan was also stunned, then he closed his arms and hugged her.
"Scared?" he asked in a low voice.
Jiang Shanshan shook his head, "Can you not go to the border in the past few years?"
"Why?"
"I'm worried that Yelu'er will take revenge on you. You know, he's not dead, and he will retaliate. He will definitely not let you go." The most important thing is that he may really die at the border.
Gu Yuan chuckled, knowing that she was worried about him, but he didn't respond.
He just said: "As a man, the first thing you have to do is to protect your wife at home, and the second thing you have to protect is your family and country. If there is ever going to be a war between the two countries, if you want to protect your family, you have to protect your home and country first."
Jiang Shanshan's heart sank, and she naturally understood what he meant.
But……
"What if you die? Don't you regret it? Die young or something."
Gu Yuan was surprised for a moment and looked down at her.
"Death..." It's not like you haven't thought about it!
But looking at Jiang Shanshan's appearance, he raised his hand to touch her cheek and rubbed it for a while.
He thought that if he could, he would marry her alive.
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