"I...was entrusted by Ling Zun to take you back...Yanran, this is the end, why bother..."

Zhao Yanran narrowed her eyebrows when she heard the words, and she asked in a low voice, "Isn't brother... can't escape death?"

I didn't want to deceive her, so I was silent for a moment and nodded.

There was a look of pain on her silent face, and she couldn't help grabbing my sleeve, "Can you save him?"

I shook my head slightly.

"But you clearly promised me..."

"This moment, that moment," I interrupted her, "Nie Ran is the heir of the previous dynasty, and he has the intention of rebelling. The matter is imminent, no one can save him."

Zhao Yanran trembled slightly, "If my brother dies, I can't live alone..."

I couldn't bear to say: "This matter is related to the safety of the country and the peace of the people. Even your father can't change it. How can you make these children grow up to be shaken? If you commit suicide like this, you can only make your father's hair gray. People send black-haired people, and regret the past years, how can you bear it?"

"The safety of the country...the peace of the people..." Zhao Yanran knelt down on the bed and curled her lips, but her eyes were full of tears, "I heard that your concubine was also accused of being a traitorous heir of the previous dynasty, But you would rather die to save him and lead him to escape, why didn't you think about the safety of the country and the peace of the people at that time?"

"Because I believe that the concubine will not do such a thing..."

"Then why don't you want to believe Brother Ran!" Zhao Yanran complained in a hoarse voice, "You have already sentenced him to death in your heart, and you have never given him a chance!"

I said: "The facts are in front of you, and all his actions are..."

"What did he do? What did you see? He did so much for you, did you see it?" Zhao Yanran cut me off, "Who did he get his cartilage loose for? Who would rather be in danger without taking the antidote? Oh, you still don't know how he was caught, right? It was your good concubine who released the news that you were murdered by a traitor in the capital, and he had already I was about to rendezvous with Marquis Xiayang, but I couldn't let go, saying that I would look back to confirm your safety. Who would have known that I was trapped in layers of arrows! I wanted him to take me as a hostage and take me away, but he pushed me away, No more resistance, you say that he is all about treason, but what I see is that he regards you as more important than his great cause of restoring the country!"

I stood up suddenly, "You don't need to say anymore..."

"If your Highness Princess has no guilt in her heart, what would you not dare to listen to?" Zhao Yanran looked at me and smiled sadly, "Anyway, for today's sake, what should I say and what should not be said, why not say it? You are not I've always wanted to know, what happened when he lost his memory of you overnight a year ago?"

I shook my head and looked at her blankly.

"Or... I should start talking about it two years ago..." She said, "Princess, have you ever thought about who gave Brother Ran the Forgetful Soul Powder and let him live among the people?"

"It's the current emperor, your father emperor." She said word by word: "He ordered my father to inflict this strange poison on the son of Xia Yanghou. My father could not find a chance, so he faked his hand on me, and he did it for my brother Ran. The pastry was poisoned, do you know? But my brother's poison... I fed it with my own hands..."

Zhao Yanran saw me with a shocked face, but smiled instead, "These are what my father told me just a few days ago. He said that the emperor wanted Xia Yanghou to run around for this purpose and had no intention of increasing his troops, and my father even sent a killer to covertly. Brother Bī was in a desperate situation, and finally the killer was killed, but the elder brother was nowhere to be seen, and since then, there has been no news, and his life and death are unknown..."

I opened my lips slightly, and the voice was so soft that I could barely hear myself, "Royal Father..."

Zhao Yanran's eyes gradually lost focus, she raised her hand and wiped her tears, "While all of us were trying to find him, Brother Ran was left in a small village, he had no memory and became a sunrise. And the little fisherman who made a living, until he rescued a girl from a natural disaster..."

I looked at Zhao Yanran in disbelief, "You... how are you..."

She didn't answer my words, and said quietly: "The girl had a serious leg injury. In order to save her life, he and Qing Gu reached an agreement to test the medicine. But the girl was leaving, and before she left, she gave him a name, Xu Fang."

"After the girl left, Xu Fang sat on the beach for a day, until the sky lanterns rose at night, and he saw a rainbow-colored lamp in the distance. For no reason, he followed the direction of the sky lantern. Running all the way, I saw the girl and her sweetheart hugged and cried..."

"He knew that the girl turned out to be the current princess, and that the graceful man was her consort."

"It didn't take long for Xia Yanghou to find him and tell him all about his life experience. I hope he can go back with him and slowly recover his body. But he had no intention of knowing that Xia Yanghou was going to harm the princess, so he quietly rushed to In the capital, jump off the cliff with the princess, and lead the princess to escape."

A certain boulder in my heart was pressed down, my eyes widened, and I couldn't believe what I heard for a long time, "These...why do you know these things?"

"Why would I know?" She smiled suddenly, and tears rolled down her cheeks when she raised her eyes again, "Can you answer me a question before I answer your question?"

I froze all over, and before I could react, I heard her voice fall, "At that time, you liked Xu Fang so much, if he hadn't changed back, hadn't forgotten you and left you, and finally you've recovered all your memories, Will you leave him?"

I have been asked this question again and again, but I never want to think about it. Every time I think about it, I just feel like something is blocking my chest, but today Zhao Yanran said a few words, but for some reason it seemed After opening the answer that had been buried in my heart, I closed my eyes, "What exactly are you trying to say?"

"You dare not answer because you are afraid that you will not be able to face your concubine if you answer," Zhao Yanran said, "But I know that if Xu Fang never leaves you, you will definitely go with him... "

"Yan Ran!"

"Princess... Do you know that at that time Xu Fang, no, it was Xu Fang who already remembered all the memories of Nie Ran, and how hard he tried to be with you... For you, he could leave him behind. All..." Zhao Yanran's eyes were red, "The night you arrived in Suiyang, at Nie's house, everyone knelt down to him, even the old marquis kowtowed and begged him..."

All the people of the Nie family, all the elders, clansmen, and loyal servants who supported him and protected him from childhood to adulthood, are using their lives to beg him to stay.

It was a responsibility and kindness that was as heavy as Mount Tai, but at that moment he was devastated.

"Even so, he still has to leave—for you, you have no idea what he gave up for you!" Zhao Yanran's face paled, "Did you know... Qing Gu has already eliminated the most deadly poison from him, even if If you don't take the antidote, you won't have any worries about your life for the time being, if it wasn't for the sudden antidote, you would never have been separated!"

Hearing this, I finally couldn't hold back the shock in my heart, and unconsciously took two steps back, "An antidote?"

"Yes, the antidote, in order to win the trust of Marquis Xiayang, your good concubine ordered someone to send the antidote to the emperor's poison," Zhao Yanran sneered, "It was the antidote that rekindled the hopes of the Nie family. , they let countless guards block the way, and they forced him to restrain Brother Ran and give him the antidote..."

"Princess, the person who made Xu Fang disappear into this world is none other than Song Langsheng." She took a long breath, "This is what my father said, if you don't believe it, you can ask your concubine, if not He delivered the antidote, will there still be Nie Ran who intends to rebel?!"

I couldn't help grabbing the front of my clothes and felt that my whole body was trembling slightly, "My concubine... he doesn't know about these inner feelings.

"Fortune tricks people?" Zhao Yanran raised her head, and she was at a loss for a moment, "Could it be that one sentence of fortune tricks people can easily ruin a person's life?!"

I shook my head and clenched the fists buried in my sleeves tightly, "But Xu Fang has disappeared, no matter what the reason is, the current Nie Ran steals military talismans, recruits old troops, and disrupts the capital, all of which are harmful. Chao Gang, the move to shake the country! What he did is what he did, it's not that you can change the current fact by telling me one sentence..."

"No..." Zhao Yanran bit her lower lip, tears flickering, "You thought he disappeared, but he didn't, he didn't disappear..."

I was shocked, "You, what did you say?"

Her eyes fell silently on a burden at the end of the bed, "This is the end, why do I need to continue to hide it?" After saying that, she turned around, spread the burden, and put the burden on the bottom layer. He took out the thing wrapped in silk cloth and opened it, revealing a thick envelope, "This is... a letter from Xu Fang to Nie Ran, and I have always kept it for me..."

She handed the letter to me slowly, "I think, the one who really needs to read this letter... is the princess..."

It turned out that Zhao Yanran never burned the letter.

After hesitating for a moment, I took it slowly, but I felt that the letter was so burning that I didn't even have the courage to unpack it for a while.

Zhao Yanran said solemnly: "On that day, after taking the antidote, he was trapped in the Nie Mansion, and the guards were heavily guarded, and he was unable to escape from the inn to find you. Going down, he will forget all the memories of Xu Fang... So, he took a dagger, and whenever he was too sleepy to support, he stabbed a hole in his leg to force himself to stay awake, and then... wrote this A thick stack of letters..."

I pulled out the letter with trembling hands, and when the familiar handwriting came into view, my vision suddenly became hazy, and tears poured out, drowning everything.

Zhao Yanran's voice was like cotton wool, "He was lying in front of the desk, suffering from the pain in his heart, so he wrote a letter for a whole day, and wrote all the bits and pieces of being with you on the table. On paper...he doesn't know what else he can do, but he doesn't want to forget you, no matter what happened in the past or what happens in the future, his only wish...just wants to remember you, that's all..."

The wind whimpered like weeping, the clouds covered the full moon, and everything around him was mottled and dim.

But the braille ink that the fingertips touch is so clear.

I used to think often, what was Xu Fang doing before he changed back to Nie Ran, what was he thinking about, would he miss me?

The answer was on the letter paper in front of me, I looked at it, and tears suddenly fell.

He said: Hefeng is still waiting for me at the inn, I can't go back, will she come to me, but I'm gone, where can she go to find me.

He said: I thought she would be a new beginning to end my wasting time, but I didn't wake up until I recovered all my memories. Those short days were a dream out of Nie Ran's reach. gone.

He said: I have been responsible since I was a child, and everyone around me has high expectations for me. Someone always tells me where I came from, and how many people exchanged my life with blood and bones. They hope that I will not forget National hatred, I want to keep it in my heart day and night, but no one has ever asked me if I want to live in hatred. Later, when I became Xu Fang, I realized that if Nie Ran grew up in an ordinary family and didn't have to shoulder the responsibility of restoring the country, he would be such a person, a completely different person from Nie Ran.