Xiao Qinghuan

Jiangfu is a typical northern courtyard. The courtyard garden is not as cumbersome as Jiangnan courtyards, and most of the courtyard can be seen clearly at a glance.

Jiang Xiaohan's house has been decorated with flowers, carved beams and painted buildings, but the owner likes to be quiet.The main courtyard doubled in size, and wing rooms were built on the left and right sides of the moon gate, most of which were for close guests.

In order to avoid people's eyes and ears, Xie Jue should have climbed over the outer wall and left by the path.When he reached the wall, he turned around in a strange way and went out of the courtyard.

Zhuang Yi has another hospital in Beijing, after coming to help, he naturally wants to go back to Zhuang Yixian to prepare for the interview.But Cheng Yuan was different. Yan Qing was worried about Jiang Xiaohan, so he decided to ask Cheng Yuan to stay in the Jiang Manor, and put him in the East Wing.

The east wing is usually a bedroom, and the other half is a small hall for receiving guests. Now it has been converted into a medicine room, and you can smell the strong fragrance of herbs within ten steps away.

I also smelled this smell in Jiang Xiaohan's bedroom just now. It is probably some herbal medicine for trauma.

Xie Jue hesitated for a moment, but still took a step towards the east wing.It's true that he doesn't want to meet Cheng Yuan, but it doesn't prevent him from wanting to see him.

The lights in the east wing had already been turned off, Xie Jue stepped very lightly, and the thick layer of snow was trampled firmly under his feet, making an almost inaudible creaking sound.

Just take a look and leave, Xie Jue thought.

He thought simply, Cheng Yuan didn't know martial arts, he just opened the window to take a look lightly, so no one would be alarmed.

It's a pity that people are not as good as heaven is. Before Xiao General Xie had time to reach the bedroom door of the east wing, the door on the side was pushed open from the inside. Cheng Yuan was wearing a thick coat and was coming out of the medicine room. .

Xie Jue was taken aback for a moment, it was too late to turn around and think about leaving.

"Xie Jue?" Cheng Yuan called him from behind hesitantly.

Xie Jue paused.He can avoid seeing Cheng Yuan, but he can't take the initiative to provoke him, then turn around and leave indifferently.His feet were nailed to death in the snow immediately, and he couldn't take a step forward.

There was the sound of flint rubbing lightly behind him, and the lantern beside the porch was lit, casting a small warm halo behind him.

Cheng Yuan naturally saw him retreating, and was afraid that he would scare him away if he couldn't say a word.Holding the bamboo handle of the lantern, he hesitated for a moment before saying cautiously, "...you've lost weight."

Xie Jue felt sour in his heart, he bit the corner of his lips, forcefully suppressed the tears, then hastily wiped the corners of his eyes, turned around and looked at Cheng Yuan.

Cheng Yuan hasn't changed at all.

Those days of being coquettish and obedient are still vivid in my memory, but it seems so far away.

"You..." Cheng Yuan walked up hesitantly with a lantern in his hand. Seeing that Xie Jue had no intention of leaving, he said, "You've become much thinner, why don't you smile anymore? Are you unhappy seeing me?"

"...Happy." Xie Jue said.

No matter how deep the young man's palace is, he can't show his emotions and anger-he is really happy, and his eyes can't deceive anyone.It's just that he is also worried, the little general's eyes are no longer as clean and clear as the clear sour plum soup, the originally sour and sweet young man has been whipped by life to know what is bitter and what is astringent.When he looked at the old man again, the affection in his eyes had been buried deeper and deeper in his mind.

When I was in Pingjiang before, Xie Jue was mostly chattering with his mouth open, and Cheng Yuan only needed to find time to laugh and listen.Cheng Yuan is still not used to Xie Jue talking less now.

The lights in the main courtyard not far away were turned off, and for a while there was only a paper lantern beside the two of them in the courtyard, still shining faithfully.Cheng Yuan didn't want to look at him face to face like this, wasting the time of finally seeing each other, he took a step forward, boldly reaching out to touch his face.

Unexpectedly, Xie Jue subconsciously turned his head slightly and avoided it.Xie Jue practiced martial arts these days, and his stature was stretched very quickly, Cheng Yuan's hand was empty, and he couldn't help being startled.

"Xie Jue." Cheng Yuan didn't expect it to be like this when they met again, so he couldn't help but asked, "What's wrong with you?"

"I..." Xie Jue opened his mouth: "My heart is still the same as before."

"Is that because I'm afraid of hurting me?" Cheng Yuan didn't know what was going on in his mind for a while, so he could only rely on his guesses: "Master Jiang is such a smart person... he even changed his mind and stopped asking Mr. Yan to go back to Kunlun." Why can't you turn the corner?"

Cheng Yuan didn't understand, Xie Jue thought.

Jiang Xiaohan just didn't want to ask Yan Qing to come to this muddy water, he himself didn't like these days of intrigue, so he didn't want Yan Qing to get involved.

But Xie Jue was not, he was afraid.

To this day, he still occasionally has nightmares—in the dream, Xie Yao washes his hands and makes soup for him, and his upright brother-in-law wanders around the door of the small kitchen three times without getting a mouthful of sweet soup.Xie Yu was looking at the map with Xie Yongming in the gazebo in the courtyard, and watched him practice the gun by the way.If Young Master Xie wandered off, he would be kicked by Song Zi in the next second.Poor that plate of pine nuts, most of the few pine nuts in the stomach were used to harm General Xie.

This dream is indeed a sweet dream when it is dreaming, but most of the time it cannot be completed. Every time Xie Jue wakes up in the middle of the night, it feels like he has suffered a bone erosion all over again.

"Cheng Yuan." Xie Jue's voice was erratic, and he suddenly said, "Do you know... why Jiang Xiaohan's mother disappeared?"

Cheng Yuan didn't know why he suddenly mentioned Jiang Xiaohan, and responded with a puzzled face, "Huh?"

"In the second year after he became Prime Minister of the Left, His Majesty wanted to abolish the family. At that time, His Majesty secretly entrusted Jiang Xiaohan to handle this matter." Xie Jue said, "But the family is deeply intertwined, and the family has a big business. Jiang Xiaohan was naive at the time. , it is inevitable to miss the whereabouts, the aristocratic family doesn't say anything, but they already have plans in their hearts."

Cheng Yuan faintly felt that the ending of this story would not be very good, but he still asked: "And then."

"Then?" Xie Jue finally smiled. His eyes were cool, but the smile on his lips was extremely helpless: "Then the old lady of Jiang's mansion was kidnapped on the way out of the city to offer incense. When Jiang Xiaohan arrived, he found that all that was left for him was the corpse... The other party obviously didn't take him seriously, and didn't even want to talk about it."

Counting the years, Xie Jue was only ten years old when this happened.Although he was still young at that time, he had vaguely heard rumors of accidents in the aristocratic family in Beijing.

He didn't know until a few days ago that Mr. Jiang served seven days of filial piety at home, and when he went to court again, he was very different from before.It took him two years to eradicate all the families on the list, confiscate those who ransacked their homes, and exile those who were exiled.He also went to the day when children under the age of 15 from various families were enslaved collectively—Xie Jue still doesn't know whether Jiang Xiaohan really knew who the murderer was, but only knew that he copied the list of slaves that day.

Although Xie Jue had never personally experienced these things, it did not prevent him from empathizing with them.

Cheng Yuan is different from Yan Qing. Yan Qing grew up listening to the affairs of the world. Cheng Yuan and Ren Ping walked the rivers and lakes to help the world. Most of them are simple people. Even if there are dirty things occasionally, they can only be regarded as orders Among the angry people, they were speechless when they first heard about these court methods.

"This knife belongs to my brother." Xie Jue stroked the slightly old saber at his waist, and asked again, "Do you know how my father and brother died?"

Cheng Yuan shook his head.

"It was my father himself who strangled my elder brother to death." The sorrow in Xie Jue's eyes was so intense that it almost condensed into tears of blood, and his voice trembled slightly: "It was to keep me alive."

"I'm fine, and Jiang Xiaohan is fine. Those of us are not as good as those poor students who study hard. We have been in court since birth." Xie Jue looked directly into Cheng Yuan's eyes and said seriously: "I It is only now that I understand that Your Majesty is like cultivating Gu. If you develop it, you will become a world-renowned talent for governing the world; if you fail to cultivate it, it will be quietly annihilated in the history books."

Cheng Yuan's back felt cold, and he said in disbelief, "So... you and Mr. Jiang are the Gu that His Majesty wants?"

"Mingyuan is worse than me." Xie Jue didn't answer, but said: "I only hurt once, he has been in pain for ten years."

"A Yuan." Xie Jue said, "Are you afraid?"

There was hope in Xie Jue's eyes. He looked at Cheng Yuan. He was waiting for the other party to tell him that he was not afraid. It seemed that as long as he had these words, he would be able to move forward without hesitation.

It's a pity that Cheng Yuan seemed a little frightened, so he didn't say anything in a daze.

Xie Jue waited for quite a while, the light in his eyes gradually went out, he turned his gaze away from Cheng Yuan first, as if he didn't want to hear the answer as if he was evading.

"The Shenwei Camp still has something to do, so it's inconvenient for me to stay in Jiangfu for a long time." Xie Jue took a step back as he said, "Let's go first."

Before Cheng Yuan could call him to stop, Xie Jue had already turned his head and entered the inner courtyard. When Cheng Yuan hurriedly picked up the lantern and chased after him, Xie Jue had already climbed over the wall and disappeared.

It doesn't matter if it's a step too late, but Xie Jue seems to have disappeared in this huge capital city, and never came to Jiangfu again.

Just as Jiang Xiaohan expected, on the thirteenth day of the winter moon, Ning Zongyuan, who was relieved from the sick bed, finally thought of Jiang Xiaohan, bluntly saying that after so many years, Jiang Xiaohan dedicated himself to the country, not to mention losing his eldest daughter this time. It turned out that he was only fined for one year's salary.

When the imperial decree came, Jiang Xiaohan couldn't get out of bed.Jiang Mo knelt down to accept the imperial edict for him, and then took an empty carriage to Yushitai for a cutscene.

Since Jiang Xiaohan was released before the birthday banquet, he would definitely not be able to escape this father-son fight.

Three days before Dongyue [-]th, princes and relatives from all over the world have already entered Beijing one after another to meet His Majesty.Along with the decree of forgiveness came, there was also a post for the birthday banquet.

Jiang Xiaohan stroked the word Ning Yan on the banquet sticker above, and after a while he put it away as if nothing had happened, and politely asked Cheng Yuan who brought the medicine to the door: "On the [-]th day of the winter moon, can I act as usual with this injury?"

"No." Cheng Yuan said seriously: "You have injured your bones this time, and you will have to take care of it for three to two months. If you don't believe me, try raising your hand yourself. It probably won't take much strength."

"But on the day of the birthday party, I must go." Jiang Xiaohan put the party stickers beside his pillow, and asked again: "Since there is no cure, is there any medicine that can make people lose the pain temporarily... It just looks like It's okay."

"That's true." Cheng Yuan turned around and took out a medicine bottle from the medicine box, poured out one of the medicines in it, and handed it to Jiang Xiaohan to show him: "This medicine is somewhat similar to Mafeisan, but it won't make people feel uncomfortable." People are drowsy. It takes about half an hour after taking it to take effect, and it can make people lose consciousness, which is just right for pain relief.”

It was a pitch-black pill that smelled astringent and bitter. Jiang Xiaohan didn't understand medicine, so he couldn't smell what medicine was made of for a while.

"But the medicine also has disadvantages. If you don't have a feeling, you don't know your own situation. After the medicine is over, you will be very tired." Cheng Yuan poured three pills from the medicine bottle while talking: "One pill is about It can last for an hour, you just have to attend a palace banquet, three pills are enough."

Cheng Yuan handed the pills to Jiang Xiaohan while Cheng Yuan was talking. Master Jiang pursed his lips and didn't take it. He said bluntly, "Things in the palace are uncertain. If something else happens, these three pills may not be enough."

"But..." Cheng Yuan hesitated, "Should we wait for Mr. Yan to come back and ask him?"

Yan Qing was sent into the palace by an imperial decree from Ning Zongyuan earlier, so he probably won't be able to return until dark.

"I'm afraid it's too late to discuss it." Jiang Xiaohan's attitude was very firm: "Mr. Cheng, I can't say more about the government. It's just that this is a big matter. Xie Jue must not be able to do it alone. I must help him."

Speaking of Xie Jue, Cheng Yuan remembered the answer that he had not had time to tell him that night, and felt anxious, so he stuffed the entire medicine bottle into Jiang Xiaohan's hands.

"Master Jiang." Cheng Yuan said, "Can I go with you on the day of the palace banquet?"

"No." Jiang Xiaohan shook his head principledly: "The forbidden area of ​​the royal family, don't mess around."

Seeing Cheng Yuan's expression drop instantly, Jiang Xiaohan seemed to have been prepared, and picked out a famous post from the pile of messages under his pillow and handed it to him.

"I can't make decisions in the imperial city, but I can still say a few words outside." Jiang Xiaohan said: "This is my Jiangfu's name card. With this, you can enter and leave the inner city at will."

The author says:

Regarding Master Jiang being injured and driving, he coaxed Ah Qing into the pool, which was actually taking advantage of his body position XD, and he drove for a while, but then jumped the next day~ and two chapters away from poisoning and revealing his stuff Countdown 2333 [Thanks to Fat Ci Junye, Zhen Xinghai, and Juhan Bochuan for feeding the fish food~Thanks to Chen Ye for feeding the catnip~