Jian An Kee

Seeing that I was still looking around, Cao Bin stretched out his hand and held down my finger playing with the chess pieces: "After all, your cousin is still white (Note 1), and it is difficult to introduce which scribe you meet later. Don't worry, I will Let Yunlu take him around, it won't bore him."

I retracted my hand, my eyes became a little cold, "Thank you, my lord."

"Don't always call it an adult, you have more birth points. Didn't you call Uncle Ping 'Mr. He?'"

"No, Mr. Cao."

He chuckled: "Very well, I will lead you to meet a few people. If you live in Yecheng for a long time, it is very necessary to know them."

The two passed the long bridge one after the other. He led me to a grass pavilion, beckoned to two fourteen or fifteen-year-old maids, and said to me: "The poetry meeting hasn't started for a while, I'll go first." Look outside, sit down for a while."

I nodded yes, saluted him obediently, and watched him turn around the path and disappear among the green bamboos.

This hypocritical "snake" is too cunning and annoying, I really want to hold him by the neck and push him into the Zhangshui for a while.

Thinking of this in my mind, I really stood up and walked to the water's edge, and began to examine the terrain.

Not long after, a small boat came up upstream, and a man in blue clothes stood on the prow, with bright eyebrows and eyes, and sang in his mouth:

"The beauty gave me a golden knife, how can I repay it to Ying Qiongyao.

The beauty gave me a piano, how can I repay it with a pair of jade plates?

The beauty gave me a mink, how can I repay it with the moon pearl.

The beauty gave me the brocade section, why should I repay the sapphire case..."

I clapped my hands and laughed, this place really suits my heart.

Hearing the laughter, the man looked ashore and said to the boatman at the end of the boat, "Stop."

The boatman deftly brought the boat to the shore, and the man in blue jumped out of the boat with the corner of his robe in his hands, looking at me up and down: "Who are you?"

I held down the hem of my skirt and saluted him: "Young Master, I'm invited by Mr. Weiwei."

"Oh, it's Cao Bin?"

"promise."

"Just now I sang "Poem of Four Sorrows" (Note 2), why are you laughing on the shore?"

"My lord, you choose the rough and discard the fine in your poems. This is so ingenious and eye-catching."

A slight smile appeared on the corner of the man's mouth: "Which family are you from?"

"My uncle, the prefect of Jincheng."

"So it's Miss Su." He showed a dazed expression, and then smiled: "Recently, I've often heard Miss Su's name, and I don't want to meet you today. Miss really has something extraordinary."

I also smiled in agreement: "Young master, you are polite."

"Ziwen invited you to the West Garden, where did the others go?"

I squinted at the maid behind me, and replied slowly: "Just now Mr. Cao said that he wants to go out and have a look."

"This guy is usually lazy and slippery, but today he is diligent." He paused, then said solemnly: "If Miss Su doesn't mind, can I condescend to have a drink with Zhi?"

I was really looking forward to it, and on the surface I said politely: "It's a great honor to be invited by Young Master."

The two walked into the grass pavilion one after the other, and the maid nearby brought sake and sifted it with me.Cao Zhi made a toast and said, "I wish you happiness."

I also wish back: "I wish you gentle and respectful day and night, and deacons with integrity."

He laughed.A young man with bright eyebrows, but at the age of 20, he is elegant and elegant, and it is the best time of his life.

He is his father's favorite son, a genius recognized by the world, and a gentleman who is dressed in Zhufu in a girl's dream. A piece of "Ode to Stage" surprised many people.I love his "Beauty Chapter" very much:

The beauties and demons are idle, picking mulberry and crossing the road.The soft strips are running slowly, and the fallen leaves are dancing.Get rid of the sleeves and see the plain hands, and the bright wrists are about golden rings.Gold hairpin on the head, emerald jade on the waist.A pearl is intertwined with a jade body, but a tree is difficult among corals.Luo Yi is fluttering, and the light car is returned with the wind.Gu Pan loses his brilliance, howls like an orchid?

He lowered his head, his eyes suddenly became moist, alas, such a beautiful person, why didn't God give him a smooth and accessible life?There are too many beautiful women, loess and white bones.

"Miss Su?"

A call interrupted my thoughts. I looked up and saw Cao Zhi on the opposite side with a little surprise: "What's the matter, Ms. Su, are you feeling unwell? Your face is a little pale."

"Xu knew that he was going to come to the West Garden today, so he didn't sleep well last night!"

The two chatted very excitedly, Cao Zhi didn't notice Cao Bin's arrival at all.As for me, the moment Cao Bin walked out of the corner, I sat upright with my mouth shut and took a small sip from the wine cup.

"You two are so excited." Cao Bin walked into the grass pavilion with strides, and the wind in his robes made the pearl tassel pendant on my head flutter.

Cao Zhi put down the wine bar, tapped his finger on the table in front of him, and said with a smile: "You just came. Ziwen just neglected the beauty, come and punish me."

Cao Bin sat down beside Cao Zhi carelessly, drank the wine in one gulp, and then talked with him about entertaining guests.Unexpectedly, Cao Bin is not a good character, but he is a set of things.

"...Even Mr. Liu (Note 3) is coming too." I heard Cao Zhi over there, frowning: "He is on good terms with elder brother, I never liked that person."

Cao Bin had no excuses, looked at me, and smiled kindly: "Miss Su is probably tired of our mundane affairs, Yunbi Yunlan, take the lady around."

I wisely stood up to say goodbye to them, and walked downstream along the Zhangshui River.

After another half an hour, a servant came to inform us that the poetry meeting had started, and Lord Wei Wei invited me to go immediately.

If I had known that time had dragged on for such a long time, I should have slept late at the posthouse before coming back.I bulged my cheeks, rubbed my swollen eyes, and walked back with sour steps.

At this moment, the small grass pavilion was full of people, and there were many people who were not qualified enough to sit outside the grass pavilion covered by servants.Seeing me passing by, Cao Bin stood up first and hurried over, and said with some strange hospitality: "My lady is a bit naughty, what are you doing so far away?"

I saw a few scholars staring directly at this side, and laughed awkwardly: "Ha, the scenery here is beautiful, and I walked a few more steps without knowing it. Uh, where am I sitting?"

"You sit with Madam Hou."

I was just wondering who "Mrs. Hou" was, when I saw a graceful woman sitting in the northeast corner of the pavilion, her eyes were shining, her face was as jade-like, and she was talking with the woman next to her in a low voice, but there was no one around her. That kind of aura unconsciously served as a foil for this woman.

Cao Bin followed my gaze, raised his eyebrows and smiled, "What, do you need me to point out who Madam Hou is?"

I forced a smile on my face, walked towards Mrs. Nahou, bowed prostratingly: "I've seen Mrs."

Her face is as beautiful as the moon, somehow, it seems... like Cui Lin.In the blink of an eye, I was eighty percent sure of her identity.

The woman helped me up and said softly, "My lady, please take a seat."

The women nearby are all elegant and looking at me curiously.

A girl who looked very familiar shook her round fan and said with a smile: "Hey, isn't this the queen of Su Taishou's family? I'm here to have fun today too."

It turned out that this girl was the one I met once, and she gave me a pomegranate at the Mulanfang banquet.

I said: "'The pomegranate is first dyed, the fruit is painted with red', the pomegranate given by the lady is still on my dressing box."

She got a plausible flattery from me, she smiled a little more, and continued to shake the snow-white round fan to talk to me: "The weather is hot, we ordinary people who don't care about rhetoric, just come to this West Garden to enjoy the cool air in the name of the Poetry Association." That's all. Ms. Su is new here, and she will get used to it in the future."

I nodded and said yes, and a few girls of similar age quickly became acquainted.Fortunately, I still have a few crooked poems hidden in my belly, otherwise these ladies who keep saying "don't care about rhetoric" have an allusion in three sentences, which is really too much for people.

The girl I spoke to was Cui Yaoguang.From her mouth, I learned that her grandfather was Cui Lieutenant Cui Lin who gave me a big and cold door. Her grandfather was Cui Shangshu Cui Yan, who was well-known in the dynasty, and her aunt was the wife of Cao Zhi, Marquis of Pingyuan, which is what Cao Bin said. "Mrs. Hou."

Such a prominent status is really enviable!No wonder she couldn't hide the proud look on her face.

I turned my attention to her aunt again.The woman sat quietly all the time, softly pointing out the inappropriateness of the girls' speech from time to time, or exchanging opinions with Cui Yaoguang, and commenting on the poems passed by the scholars.

The poetry meeting lasted until night, and people sat or stood. Sometimes a large group of people walked for more than half an hour, just to see the new traces of hanging willows on the curved bank of Zhangshui River, and then praised them.

Before I knew it, it was nearly midnight, and the unimportant guests were sent away after being drunk. I kept smiling nervously, and saw the number of people around me gradually decrease.

Seeing that my face turned pale, Cui Yaoguang thought I had drunk too much, and comforted me: "Aunt just told you to go to Qinglian Garden to rest, and return to the city tomorrow."

I said awkwardly: "I don't know where Wei Wei has gone? Can I ask him a word?"

Cui Yaoguang was about to speak, when a hearty laugh came from a distance: "Bin has been waiting here for a long time, what can Miss Su ask me?"

Cao Bin smelled of alcohol, and Cui Yaoguang put his sleeve on his nose when he smelled it, ignored me, and left through the bamboo forest.

Seeing Cao Bin approaching, I couldn't wait to ask, "Where's Zhao Xu?"

"Zhao Xu? You are talking about your cousin." Before I could speak, he said again: "A few days ago, I just sent someone to Jingzhou to do some work, so I went to check it. Your Su family doesn't have a Zhao surname. Brother, this family."

"What do you want to say?"

"Hehe, Miss Su, is that your cousin or your lover?"

His Luoyang dialect has a northern accent, and his pronunciation is heavy and accurate. This sentence is so vicious that it drives Yunying's unmarried girl crazy... Unfortunately, I am not.

I bowed my head: "He saved my life."

"So what? Does Miss Su have to promise her body to repay this kindness." Cao Bin said hoarsely, "Besides, I also saved you, Miss Su, in the palace."

"The assassin seems to be solved by myself."

Cao Bin smiled, feeling very unsatisfied: "I would like to ask, why did the assassin focus on you, a powerless little girl."

"I have no power or power, but...Your Excellency also knows why the assassin is targeting me, right?"

He didn't expect me to be so unrestrained, so he changed his tactics and said, "No matter what you think, I sent cousin Ling back to the city just now, but he didn't refuse the beauty accompanying him in the carriage."

I laughed hehehe: "Men are always like this when they are outside. If I get angry with him about everything, I won't have a peaceful life."

"Miss Su is so generous."

I saluted him and bid farewell, but Cao Bin called me to stop after walking three steps away.

"What else is there, my lord?"

"I've already found out the identity of the assassin. Miss Su, you'd better be safe and nothing will happen to you."

I turned around, holding back a little smirk: "Hehe, how could it be. Don't worry, my lord."

The moon above the garden casts a silvery light on the woods outside the window, like the frost in autumn.It was late at night.

The maid on the other side of the screen breathed up and down, as if she hadn't moved for a long time, she turned out to be dozing off while leaning on the pillar.On this side of the screen, my breathing was long and steady, and it sounded like I was falling asleep.

Something flew past outside the window, making a slight hissing sound, and then everything fell into silence again.The night owl's cry sounded far away, but it was so weak that it could hardly be heard.There was a sound of an hourglass outside the house. It was almost midnight, and someone opened the half-stayed window and slipped into the room.

"The watchers outside the window have already withdrawn, give the two girls something to sleep on, and keep them awake until dawn." Zhao Xu sat on the head of the couch, wiping the dew dripping from his cheeks.

I sighed: "Cao Bin's vigilance is too high...how did you deal with that little beauty?"

He laughed: "Cao Bin told you too?"

I nodded, and he replied: "This guy is so exquisite that he can't speak from anywhere."

I smiled maliciously: "Oh, what are you going to say to him?"

Zhao Xu ignored me and said, "All the rooms on the east side belong to me, you go to the west side."

"Why?"

"There is He Xiaolang with a great reputation there."

"..."

For an hour, the two of us shuttled through all the residential places in Xiyuan like ghosts, especially the residence of Gongzi Zhi. We scoured it twice like a comb, but we didn't even find any fleas.

After the two met, they parted again. I went back to the room and lit the spices I brought with me. I brought the maids out of their nightmares and ran to the large and luxurious bed to sleep in a cage.

Note 1: White body refers to civilians, without official position or title

Note 2: "Poetry of Four Sorrows" written by Zhang Heng, Zhang Heng wrote this poem "According to Qu Yuan, he regards beauty as a gentleman, treasures as benevolence and righteousness, and deep water and snowy atmosphere as a villain. Evil cannot be understood.” However, Cao Zhi only took four lines of reciting the beauty, so Su Xiuxi pointed out that he took the rough and discarded the fine.

Note 3: Liu Gonggan refers to Liu Zhen, one of the seven sons of Jian'an

☆、Chapter One Hundred and One Threat

The sky is bright and the surroundings are quiet.A maid wearing embroidered shoes stepped on the dense carpet, causing a slight rustle in the air.

I open my eyes.

"Can the lady sleep peacefully yesterday?"

The maid brought the wooden basin and willow branches for teeth cleaning, and asked me with a smile.I pressed my temple and slowly rubbed it a few times, and said, "Excellent."

The maid serving Xisu thought she had been taken care of by Cao Bin long ago, so she only brought a basin of clean water, and there were no traces of the petals beside it.

I was a little amused, and said: "It's okay to add some petals, as long as you don't put that strong agarwood."

"Slaves, please remember."

I bit open a freshly folded willow branch, wiped my teeth with the fine fiber, and rinsed my mouth with warm salt water and scented tea.

After taking a bath, the maid combed my long hair from behind, and asked in a low voice, "What kind of hairstyle does the lady like, and this servant will take care of it for you."

"It's up to you." I smiled at her in the bright as new bronze mirror, and curled my fingers around my long bangs.

A few maids behind brought a brand new light-colored Yuehua skirt with ten pleats, slowly unfolded it for me to observe, and said softly all the way: "It was given to the queen by Mrs. Hou."

Next to me, a hairdresser with drooping hair and red lip makeup carefully opened an ebony jewelry box, raised her eyebrows and said to me: "Please choose." It was a test of my taste.

I was dumbfounded... These people really regarded me as the daughter of a merchant family who had never seen the market before. This trick of blatantly praising and stomping on is too low-level, even our family Zhu'er doesn't bother to use it.

I smiled softly, and pointed to the smallest "Dian Cui Juan He" (Note 1): "Use this."

The hair-combing lady glanced at me, then suddenly fell silent, and did not make any tentative moves after that.

After tidying up, stepping out of the room, the morning wind brings a scent of jasmine flowers, the real fragrance overflows far, the soul is condensed into a bun, and the smile is charming.

Yesterday by the pond, beside the chess table, there was a man standing alone, his son Zhi.I walked towards him, Cao Zhi turned around and smiled lightly: "Miss Su, did you sleep well last night?"

You slept really well... Haha, your sleeping appearance is very cute.I secretly recalled the scene I saw in his bedroom last night, and I laughed in my stomach, and replied with a straight face: "Very good. I feel at home."

"yes."

Cao Zhi sat down beside the chess table, and slowly cleaned up the mess left by someone yesterday.

"Slow!" A person on the other side of the bridge shouted, and the two of us couldn't help looking up: He Yan, who was dressed in purple and as gorgeous as a demon, was walking slowly while holding on to the white jade bridge railing. It looked like jade, and the extremely long silk ribbon under the hair tie almost hung down to the ground, and the two purple shells at the end of the ribbon collided with each other with his steps, making a rattling sound.

"Did you keep it?" Cao Zhi raised the corners of his mouth, with a playful look in his eyes, "A game that is doomed to lose, what are you keeping it for? Uncle Ping."

He Yan turned a deaf ear, walked to the side of the chessboard, raised his sleeve and brushed away a fallen leaf in the middle of the chessboard, "This is my business, don't worry about it." After speaking, he looked at me and frowned, "Why are you again? I almost didn't recognize it."

"Hello Mr. He." I bowed my head to say hello.

Cao Zhi was startled, "Miss Su, what did you call Uncle Ping just now?"

I was a little puzzled, but I felt something faintly in my heart: "I called Mr. He, what's wrong?"

He couldn't help but smile, and regardless of He Yan's face turning dark over there, he said: "It's strange that when Ziwen talked about you yesterday, we He Xiaolang didn't have a good voice. Miss Su don't call him Mr. He, he despises you." The title of 'Gongzi' is too vulgar, and we were forbidden to call it that way long ago."

I suddenly realized: It turns out that He Yan dislikes the title of son as too vulgar, so I should have said it earlier.Then he grinned and made a bow to him: "It was Xiuxi who offended me, so why would Xiuxi call you a beauty in the future?"

"Don't be rude, beauty." Cao Zhi chimed in.

He Yan coughed, and said somewhat uncomfortably, "What are you two still standing here for? Do you really want to drink the wind and drink the dew to become a god? Go eat."

"Okay, okay." I felt his veins, and I promised in my mouth, and left with Cao Zhi with a smile on my face and eyes.

After breakfast, Xiyuan arranged a carriage to take me back to the city. Cao Bin escorted me to the gate with a stern expression on his face: "After some communication yesterday, Ms. Su has finally gained a foothold in Yecheng, so she should be more careful."

"Thank you for your repeated 'reminders'."

When I returned to the post office, I saw Zhao Xu standing in front of the door, his face turned blue.I took off my robe and handed it to him: "What's wrong?"

He came to hold the corner of the skirt for me, and replied: "Strange phenomenon-I was not in the room last night, and someone pressed a message under the mirror."

My heart tightened: "Where is it?"

He took out a small letter from his sleeve and handed it to me, shook off his robe and hung it on the screen.

I couldn't wait to break off the sealant and unfold the Zhawen, and then heaved a sigh of relief: "Don't worry, it's sir."

Zhao Xu blinked: "What did he say?"

I sighed very depressed: "What else can I say? Tell us to act quickly."

He and I sat down face to face, and the two of them held their chins together. I first asked: "Why did you say that you could get news about 'Bundle' from He Yan a few days ago? You know that we took great risks last night but did nothing. did not find."

"It's just a trip to the West Garden. How can it be considered a great risk? The real danger is in the forbidden palace..."

I swallowed, and said weakly: "Is there really no choice? You didn't see how strict the guards in the palace were that day."

Zhao Xu said "Oh" and smiled: "Even if the security is strict, haven't you been attacked by an assassin?"

I came back that day to inform Zhao Xu of the assassination incident, but refused to elaborate on the details.I heard him bring this up again, and I felt a little unhappy, so I said, "That's different. She went there with the determination to die. Not only are we going, but we also need to grab a bright and colorful object to get back safely." Going back, the difficulty is different."

He suddenly stood up, looking down at me with beautiful eyes: "If you insist on doing this, then you need to meet a few people."

In the north, Mr.'s ability is more restrained, so when I saw a mysterious person who was covered with a mask comparable to a Saudi beauty in the suburb of Yedu Bridge, I consciously restrained myself a lot, and said politely: "My honored guest, we will meet at night. , I don't know what's the matter?"

The man squeezed his throat and said: "The honored guest has traveled thousands of miles, and it has been a long journey. I think the honored guest is so busy that he has no time to see me waiting for a few little people."

This man's words really hurt his mother.I snorted: "There are priorities, and it is reasonable for a distinguished guest to come."

There is no moon tonight, and the wind and waves are raging along the Zhangshui River, blowing the large swathes of asteria in Lidi rustling.The man was silent for a moment, and said: "Our master asks for your assistance."

"speak."

"You should rescue Song Guiren and the second princess from trouble."

I was stunned: "Could it be that the Second Highness was kidnapped for the first time, and it was your rescue?"

The man shook his head: "No. People from Xudu wanted His Highness's life, so they made up a prophecy to lure the rebels to hijack the princess. Otherwise, with the power of the Tiger and Leopard Camp, why would the princess be hijacked."

"I have suspected this matter for a long time. The dragon spirit of the Han family cannot be controlled by a little princess."

The man didn't answer, I leaned on the bridge railing and said, "If that's the case, why bother us to rescue the princess?"

"Guests just do it, don't worry about the rest."

Asking me to do something but refusing to tell me the reason, he had a good idea.I sneered and lifted my veil: "Call your master to come out to see me, otherwise we won't talk about it."

"You are so bold, dare to disobey the master's order."

"Don't dare. But don't forget, your master's order can't reach Zhongnan Mountain. I was born in the south of the Yangtze River, so I can't experience the severe winter in the north."

The man looked up at me, and suddenly a shadow appeared beside him, in a white robe, with wide sleeves, exuding hair, like a ghost.The red bird mask covered most of his face, and in this dark night, the light in his eyes shone like fragments of an hourglass of time.

Just being glanced at by him, the blood all over my body boiled up, and I couldn't help stretching out my hand towards that person, and then I knelt down on the ground with my throat clenched as if I was suffocating.The tattoo spread quickly like a plague, and even the fingertips turned into a solid dark blue.

The man walked up to me, put his hand on my chin, and said softly, "Look at you."

I was forced to look out into the black water.On the surface of the water, a woman with long hair brushing her shoulders and wrapped in black veil, with a snake-shaped heraldry curled up on her forehead, outlining gorgeous flowers around her eyes.

"It's...beautiful." I said with difficulty, looking up at the man.

Under the mask, the corners of his mouth raised: "Southern women are also very resilient... Or, the people trained by Zhong Boning are so impressive."

I stepped back suddenly to break free from his hand, grabbed the bridge railing and stood up, threw off the damned black veil, and said out of breath: "This is the master of the 'beam' of the Northern Taihang, what an eye-opening scene! "

"how"

I swallowed my saliva a few times, intending to suppress the old wound caused by him, but the undercurrent in my body was surging, the tip of my nose became hot all of a sudden, and a few drops of blood splashed on the back of my hand.

"Bastard!" I trembled angrily, wiped away the line of nosebleeds and said angrily, "Dark 'chees' hurt people."

He stood leisurely only two steps away from me with his hands behind his back, his body was so radiant that people couldn't look directly at him.And the Saudi beauty from before also took off her veil at this time, revealing a sluggish, bluish-white face with no stubble, probably a eunuch, no wonder she has a male duck voice.

I took a few steps back, thinking that I would slap Zhao Xu a few times when I went back—these two acquaintances were too difficult to resist.

The man stood still, waving his hands and laying a thick black barrier on the bridge.This trick is so cool, why didn't I learn it when I was in office?

I continued to retreat, stepped back from the bridge and drew out my sword: "It's not speculative, just half a sentence... Cough cough, what exactly do you want?"

"Your guest has done things for me, so I naturally won't do anything to you."

"You..." I was about to say something, the guy who pretended to be a ghost stretched out his hand and grabbed it in the void, and my butcher immediately flew out of his hand.The man next to him, although he was limping, ran over unbelievably quickly, picked up my "bundle" and sent it back to the master of the north.

My angry eyes were burning, and I have never been robbed of anything in the many years I have been in this bird place.He totally pissed me off.

Note 1: A kind of jade jewelry

☆、Chapter [-] Collusion

The man in the bird mask turned his head slightly like a preying owl, and his blue eyes looked straight into mine.I can feel his control over me, as if he is tearing my soul out of my body.

I shook my hands fiercely, suppressing the trembling all over my body: "I promise you."

He twisted his neck unnaturally, straightened his head, and smiled slowly: "Within ten days."

"it is good."

His servant handed the Exorcism Sword back into my hand, his amber eyes were dull and cold as if he had lost his soul.

I tried my best to get back to the residence, and I almost lost my strength.

A lamp was burning under the window, probably Zhao Xu was waiting for me.

I put my fingers against the door panel and pushed it open as silently as possible.Someone was sitting in front of the hall, with his back to the candlelight, his head bowed, his shoulders slumped, his hands unnaturally placed on his knees.

The situation in front of me was indescribably weird, so I pulled myself together and asked, "Who's there?"

The man looked up abruptly.The shadow caused by the candlelight slid from his forehead, and a pair of star-like eyes were facing me.

"Zhao Xu?" I called him uncertainly.This person has a salty and fishy smell, like a skinny catfish in the mud.

He said as if waking up from a dream: "You are back."

I ignored the uncomfortable feeling, took off my shoes and came to the hall, opened the small box under the desk, took out a pen and paper, and wrote quickly: Where did the two you want me to meet come from? If there is any disagreement, shoot them , beat me to the ground looking for teeth.

He saw me spread out such words, and took the brush: You are too much to beat.They were very friendly when I approached them.

I wrote: How is it possible, I have already restrained a lot.

He asked: What is the gain?

I wrote: They did not give any clues about the whereabouts of the object, but threatened me to help them steal Song Guiren.

Zhao Xu's face was filled with consternation, it seemed that the situation was not just an act.He asked, "Really?"

I coughed intermittently, swallowed bloody saliva, and replied, "Of course, do you think I'm telling a joke when I look embarrassed?"

Zhao Xu fell silent again.I threw him in the hall, and went into the house to look for some miscellaneous medicines sent by my husband.

A few jellyfish-like things that looked like stomach pills hadn’t passed my stomach yet, and a feeling of nausea rushed into my throat. I pushed open the bedroom window and vomited a few times, blood mixed with gastric juice And the bad-smelling elixir flowed down the river.

Zhao Xu, who came over after hearing the sound, stroked my back: "Is the old injury tormenting you again?"

I said "hmm", rinsed my mouth with the teacup in one hand, and wiped my mouth with a handkerchief in the other: "It's okay. We go to work in other people's territory, and it really doesn't make sense if we don't pay a little price."

After a short break, I pulled my hair back and went back to the hall to continue writing: Where did He Yan find that thing, where did you get the news?

Zhao Xu handed me a cup of warm water, rolled up his cuffs and took the pen: Acquaintance.

I shook my hand and wrote crookedly: Who.

He didn't look at me, the muscles on his face bulged strangely, and he replied in a low voice: "This is someone who can't explain to you."

"Oh, I know that," I said.According to Mr.'s rules, there are always some people who deliver the message only contact with one person. This is the usual routine of being a spy. Single-line contact is the best way to prevent betrayal.

I put on my shoes and walked to the door, knelt down halfway, reached out and pulled out a package from under the wooden boards in the veranda, and said triumphantly: "Money can turn a ghost, I don't believe that yellow wheat can't buy a few court anecdotes." .”

Time has changed and things have changed, and the ten-day period will come in a blink of an eye. I also moved out of the post house and temporarily lived in the dark and narrow mansion in the west of the city.

In this small room on the second floor, all the furnishings are only a small table and a bed.The unpainted walls showed wainscoting and brick plaster, making them look mean and shabby.On the bed no more than one meter wide, there was a messy floor plan of the royal palace.

Zhao Xu leaned against the arm-wide window with his arms folded, his stubbled face was full of worry.

"Take a break," he said.

My head was a little swollen, and my hands were not idle, poking at the paper viciously, marking out the last few windows.

"It's done!" I threw the writing brush away, wiped my face with my ink-stained palm, and said excitedly, "With this map, I should be able to rescue Song Guiren. The Taiyi God blesses the operation tonight..."

"you sure?"

I suppressed my dissatisfaction, turned around and washed my hands in the tub, and said, "Otherwise, what can I do? I'm under the control of others now."

The door was knocked suddenly, I subconsciously grabbed the evil sword in my hand, and walked slowly to the door: "Who is it?"

Peeping out from the crack of the door as wide as a cockroach, it was the clerk of the mansion holding a large basin of hot water and saying politely: "Bring hot water to the guests."

I winked at Zhao Xu, he nodded, walked to the other side of the door without a sound, stood still, slapped the scabbard and took out the sword.

I pulled the latch and opened the door. Almost at the same time, Zhao Xu stepped forward, grabbed the clerk by his collar and dragged him in, and pressed the tip of his sword against the man's throat. I caught the pot of hot water and moved it aside, kicked He went to the door and put down the latch, picked up several maps on the bed and hid them in his arms, saying, "Who are you?"

The guy was so frightened that he knelt on the ground with his legs straight, and his acting skills were really good.

I smiled: "Zhao Xu, cut off his ears to see if he is still telling the truth?"

The man raised his head and made a stop gesture.I signaled Zhao Xu to let go of him: "Speak."

He doesn't look too malicious, at least not for the time being.The guy took off the scarf and shook his hair, I glanced at his ears, and then laughed: "Where is Mr. He?"

Over there, Zhao Xu also seemed to recognize this guy's identity, put his sword back into its sheath, and sat down on the low window sill again.If you look closely at this guy, you will find that his body is thinner than ordinary men, and his skin is fairer. Especially for me and Zhao Xu, the two professionals, the dewy charm that cannot be concealed between his eyebrows and eyes is too much obvious features.

The guy grinned, raised his sleeves to smear his face, and in the blink of an eye, he turned into a slim beauty, and saluted me: "I've seen Miss Su."

The door was knocked again, and this time when the door was opened, there stood a girl with exactly the same face as the one in the room, they were the two beauties who accompanied He Yan outside the Zhongyang Gate that day.

He Yan, who was dressed in white like snow, stood behind her, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised: "Yan is rude."

"He beauty is polite." I strode to the bed and sat down, and asked calmly, "What are you doing?"

He walked into the house slowly with his sleeves wrapped around his sleeves. Unlike the outside rumors of paranoid cleanliness, this gentleman ignored the spider kid walking slowly on the wall and the bedbug brother in the 400-meter relay race on the bed frame, and spoke calmly. Tell his two beauties: "He Wei, He Pian, take Mr. Zhao to have a rest."

"This is my guest room!" I was angry and funny.

He brushed up his clothes and sat down on the mat, looking at Zhao Xu calmly.Zhao Xu looked at me, I pointed out the window, he leaned back and fell down.The bastard!I snickered.

He Yan didn't move his eyebrows, his two beauties walked out with lotus steps, and quietly covered the door.I looked at him and said sullenly: "Say it, what's the matter."

He Yan looked at me softly, with his eyes filled with mercury, and then said, "Alan."

I was startled, and my fingers moved unconsciously on my knee.He waved his hands: "There is no one else but you and me within a mile radius, Miss Zhou, don't panic."

"What's your deal with me?"

"We are all on the same boat, for the safety of His Majesty the Emperor, why talk about a deal?"

I smiled: "There are a lot of people traveling all over the world, and I also met a lot of people who keep saying they are thinking about His Majesty's safety, but they are just using this banner to make profits for themselves."

"Yan is not a villain who says what he says and what he means."

"He Yan, who ignored the common affairs of the court, turned out to be a loyal minister under the emperor's robe. Oh, I'm a little...surprised."

He looked sideways out of the window, and from my perspective, I could see the slender eyelashes like a fan. His dull voice seemed to be buried by the collapsed palace in Luoyang, and it seemed to come from decades of fermentation. : "I'm afraid, Ms. Zhou, what you said is not true. Who is the current owner of Taixingzhi's bundle, maybe your master doesn't know yet, but who is his previous owner, your master has always been clear, he I know—the master of this term should be He Yan."

"Why?" I felt absurd for no reason, "Life has passed by for decades, and you have never been a greedy person. Do you want to get involved in these bastard things of changing the dynasty?"

"This is destiny." He raised his eyes, and there was the same madness and persistence in those eyes as Mr. Zhong's, which was an almost fanatical to calm obsession with destiny.

I was infected by the fiery emotion in his eyes, and I couldn't help stretching out my hands eagerly, wanting to feel his burning temperature...

"How can you