In a dark and gloomy secret room, a man wearing a bronze mask sits behind a screen, his eyes are slightly closed, and his right hand is slowly caressing a purse with a begonia red background and an apricot-colored border. Some inexplicable sadness.

There was a cluster of bright white peonies embroidered on the purse, and beside it was a lively white cat with round eyes, tilting its head to look at the peony flowers, with a naive expression on its face.

It's just that although this pouch is exquisite from color matching to embroidery, the style is a bit outdated, and the peony in the middle is particularly faded, which seems to be caused by being held in the palm of the hand for a long time.

Five night walkers dressed in black night suits and scimitars at their waists walked in silently like ghosts, kneeling in front of the man, lined up in a row, with a humble and fearful attitude.

The man withdrew from his memories and asked lightly, "How's the situation?"

The man in black kneeling in the middle whispered: "Everything is just as the master expected. Since Mr. Bai left the palace, although Jiang Hongduan was rescued by the imperial physician, his spirit has not been very good. .”

The man raised his hand and stroked the corner of his lips, showing a faint smile, "It's made of white sandalwood?"

The man in black said: "Yes."

It's really surprising. I thought the other party was a beautiful and cute cat, but now I realized it was a fox who was good at disguising. In vain, he had always been conceited that he could see through people's hearts, but he didn't expect to miss this boy twice in a row.

The man became interested, "What did he do?"

The man in black said: "Mr. Bai took advantage of Jiang Hongduan's coma that day, and intentionally smelled a kind of incense for him."

"What scent?"

"Drunk life and dream death."

As the name suggests, Zuishengmengde is a high-concentration ecstasy, just a little bit can make people feel listless and weak for several days in a row. What's more, ordinary doctors can't diagnose it at all.

The man narrowed his eyes slightly, and said slowly: "It seems that the cooperation between Yanzilou and Liufangge is just around the corner."

This morning, Bai Tan went to Liufang Pavilion for inspection as usual, and the steward personally brought over several account books, "Here are all the account books for this quarter, my lord, please take a look, if there is nothing wrong, the villain will retire first."

Bai Tan said: "Wait a minute, Manager Wu, when I came in just now, I seemed to see the oriole in the cage at the door listless, but is it sick?"

Wu Guanshi said: "That's right. It's hot these days and there are a lot of guests. The boys are lazy and can't take care of them for a while, so they get sick. Otherwise, if the young master came to Liufang Pavilion, the oriole would be so happy. "

Bai Tan said: "No problem, you take it off and send it to me."

Steward Wu took the order to go, and after a while he came up with the birdcage made of thin bamboo strips himself.

The oriole was lying sickly in the cage, nestled into a small ball, the water and food next to it hadn't moved at all, after feeling the breath of white sandalwood, it struggled to open its eyes, looked at him, and chirped aggrievedly. He let out a cry, and then slowly closed his eyes again.

"What a poor boy..." Bai Tan immediately softened his heart, he opened the cage, held the oriole in his palm, and coaxed softly: "Don't worry, I'll treat your illness right away."

Bai Tan looked around and saw that there was no sharp weapon in the room, so he simply pulled out the hairpin on his head, poked his white porcelain-like fingertips hard, and squeezed out pea-sized, bright red blood beads.

At this moment, the dying oriole bird suddenly flapped its wings vigorously, moved towards Bai Tan's finger with difficulty, and made a series of chirping sounds from its pointed beak, looking very excited.

Bai Tan's heart moved, and he took the initiative to move his fingers towards him. The oriole's eyes lit up, and he quickly pecked away the dripping blood.

Bai Tan caressed the oriole's feathers thoughtfully, and waited for the little guy to calm down completely and fell asleep soundly before putting it back in the cage, and took the account book and looked at it slowly.

After an incense stick of time passed, Bai Tan was suddenly interrupted by the clear and melodious bird call. He raised his head, and met a pair of bright mung bean eyes. The other party was even happier when he saw him looking over. Affection.

This lively appearance is completely different from the limp oriole before.

Bai Tan was stunned: "Aren't you talking about logic..."

The morning rooster crowed once with its neck raised, and the east gradually revealed a fish belly, but there was still a crescent moon hanging slantingly on the treetops.

Brushing away the tender green willow branches, Bai Tan walked through the noisy market and came to the gate of the Swallow Tower.

A gleam flashed quickly in the eyes of the steward with a goatee, "Mr. Bai is here, please come upstairs."

Bai Tan went up to the third floor with ease, raised his wrist and knocked on the door.

A hoarse and extremely magnetic voice sounded, "Enter."

Bai Tan came in, closed the door behind him, and asked half tentatively: "You seem to be very afraid of the sun?"

The man behind the screen pondered for a moment, and said inexplicably, "What I fear is not the sun, but the human heart."

Bai Tan shook his head: "This is not very good, I will soon become your partner, but the landlord seems to have been lacking due sincerity."

The man in black hidden in the dark whispered, "What kind of sincerity do you want?"

Bai Tan approached the screen, and through the elegant ink painting, said softly: "Tell me what is your purpose?"

Seeking to usurp the throne is not a trivial matter, if not, the whole family will be implicated, so even though Bai Tan has actually moved to kill Jiang Hongduan, he still has a relaxed look on his face. He not only has to find out the bottom line of the other party, but also You need to be clear about this person's bargaining chips, so that you can accurately judge whether the other party is worthy of his allegiance.

"My purpose is very simple." The man in black was silent for a while, and said firmly: "Kill Jiang Hongduan and replace him!"

Oh, what a big tone, not to mention that Jiang Hongduan had already established the crown prince three years ago. Even if he didn't, according to Jiang Hongduan's romantic nature, I don't know how many sons he has in the open and in the dark. Who wouldn't be jealous? The supreme throne, once Jiang Hongduan died, wouldn't they fight like hungry wolves?

Bai Tan said: "The teacher is unknown, this matter may not be feasible, not to mention, why do you replace Jiang Hongduan?"

Although Jiang Hongduan is fatuous and incompetent, the Jiang Dynasty has accumulated a lot of power. Therefore, even though the common people hope that Jiang Hongduan will die soon, if they say that they want to change the dynasty, there are absolutely very few people who agree with it.

After all, the Jiang family has ruled this continent for more than 1000 years, and some concepts have long been ingrained.

The man in black said coldly: "Just because I am the eldest son of Pingxi King Jiang Hongyi, the orthodox bloodline of the Jiang Dynasty!"

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