Mikago

"If I tell you now, will you believe me?" Tang Ruilang looked directly into Lu You's eyes, "Or, will you take my truth as another lie?"

Lu You was taken aback by this question.

I trust you--

The short four words seem to be easily uttered by moving the lips.But it seemed like a heavy weight was being pressed on the tongue, and there was no way to move it.

When he was hesitating, he only heard Tang Ruilang chuckle again.

"At least until you can really trust me, I won't tell you the answer. Because you can make up thousands of lies, but there is only one truth. If you don't believe it, you will ruin it. If you If you're really curious, you can ask Qi Yunchu. The only thing I can guarantee is that I will never take advantage of or belittle my feelings for you. Or maybe it's destiny... It's not an exaggeration."

Lu You heard Tang Ruilang say such a long speech, although he didn't touch the answer, but for some reason, his heart has settled down a bit, and he is no longer eager to seek the only truth.

Unknowingly, the food was half full, and Lu You remembered that he had more important things to do.

"I'll accompany you." Tang Ruilang volunteered, "Let me accompany you for a while longer."

"No need."

Lu You still refused coldly, then took out some broken silver and put it on the table, got up and left.

He walked downstairs in one breath, but he kept listening carefully to the movement behind him. He only heard the creaking of the stairs, and Tang Ruilang followed him again.

"I've decided to follow you, you can't escape me."

When I was in the Imperial College, why didn't I know that he had such a clingy personality? !

Lu You complained in his heart, but he didn't stop him.

So the two of them went out one after the other, got on the horse and led the donkey, and still walked slowly towards the south of the city.

After walking a few steps, Tang Ruilang said: "Yesterday, I told the emperor that your archery was taught by Qi Yunchu. It is true that King Anle used to learn martial arts in Tianwu Palace, but at that time he had been with Qi Yunchu for a long time. Many. Therefore, it is impossible for Qi Yunchu to learn archery from King Anle and pass it on to you... So, do you have a master from Tianwu Palace?"

Did he mean Li Hongzhi?

Lu You didn't respond on the surface, but he had already started deliberating in his heart.

Li Hongqu never mentioned her own sect, nor did she reveal her past experience, but with Qi Yunchu's acquiescence, she was able to freely enter and leave the inner palace. Could it be that... is she really a member of Tianwu Palace?

Thinking of this, he asked Lu You, "You just said that I was wearing a Tianwu Palace mask?"

"That's right. There is a Department of Rewards and Punishments in Tianwu Palace, which is similar to the Ministry of Punishment in the imperial court. But it only rewards and punishes the good and evil in the Jianghu. The disciples who punish the evil walk on the Jianghu all day long, and are often secretly described by the wicked. One is not conducive to the safety of property, and the other is that the whereabouts and behavior are exposed to the public, which is not conducive to arrest. Therefore, there is a rule in Tianwu Palace that all disciples who punish the evil division must take their Wearing a human skin mask."

It turns out that there is such a particularity.

Lu You didn't know anything about Jianghu, and immediately asked: "Then everyone in Tianwu Palace can make masks?"

"Of course not. The medicinal materials needed to make the mask are planted in the Vanilla Valley on the mountainside of Tianwu Mountain. The method of making the mask is only mastered by the seniors of the Medicine Stone Division..."

Speaking of this, Tang Ruilang started talking to himself again: "That's not right...how did the senior of Yaoshi Division come to Zhaojing?"

Lu You said indifferently: "I stay in the palace all day, how could I know those masters outside the palace you mentioned."

Tang Ruilang thought and thought, and suddenly said: "There is Tianyi Temple next to the north gate of Zichen Palace, and there are many female disciples of Tianwu Palace living in it. One is to pray for the royal family, and at the same time, it also protects the female family members of the harem. For... Could it be that your master is a woman?"

This is somewhat worthy.

However, Lu You recalled Li Honghe's bright red dress, where there was no trace of the pure and elegant appearance of a female Taoist priest, and felt that things were definitely not that simple.

However, Tang Ruilang knew a lot of things in the palace, so he just asked him some things that he didn't understand on weekdays.

"Then do you know where Nongyu Building is?"

"Ok?"

Tang Ruilang raised his hand to block the light and froze in mid-air, suddenly became nervous: "What? Did someone ask you to go there?!"

"...No, just ask."

Lu You immediately denied his guess, Tang Ruilang seemed relieved, and then gave the answer.

"The Nongyu Building should be built in the East Sea Pool of the Harem, a small building on a small island in the middle of the lake. It is isolated from the world, quiet and lonely. Its history can be traced back to the era of the founding emperor of the Daning Dynasty, Taizu Zhao Huachun. Although we don't know the original intention of the Taizu to build the Nongyu Tower, the subsequent emperors have selected those young and beautiful teenagers from among the eunuchs and sent them to the Nongyu Tower, which is the same as those concubines and maids. "

The Nongyu Building is actually the place where the emperor raises male pets? !

Lu You never expected such an answer, he breathed a sigh of relief, recalling that Liu'er and those little eunuchs who were taken away by the envoy of Nongyu Tower were indeed handsome.

Could it be that the emperor whose hair has turned white still has this interest?

The more he thought about it, the more weird he felt, only Tang Ruilang was still talking.

"It's not easy for the emperor to do this, but there are still envoys in the Nongyu Tower. I heard that those male pets are often begged by the clan's children, or used as medicine testers in front of the alchemy furnace. Anyway, I heard people say ...Once you enter the Nongyu Building, almost no one comes out."

"Almost?" Lu You asked, "In other words, someone escaped from the Nongyu Building once."

"Indeed there is. And you and I both know this person, so it's easy to guess."

"Qi Yunchu?!"

Indeed, with such a handsome appearance, Qi Yunchu must have been even more indisputable when he was a teenager, maybe he was selected into the Nongyu Tower as soon as he entered the palace.

But how did Qi Yunchu escape?

"It was King An Le who saved him...or rather, they saved each other."

Tang Ruilang really seemed to know everything.

"Nine-year-old King Anle rowed a boat secretly, wanting to visit his mother in the Foguang Temple on the other side of Donghai Pool. Halfway through, the boat was pushed to the shoal of Nongyu Building. It was Qi Yunchu who waded into the water and rescued King Anle. After that, King Anle begged Qi Yunchu out of the Nongyu Tower and made it his exclusive property."

It turns out that there is such a layer of history.

Seeing Lu You groaning silently.Tang Ruilang thought he was hiding something on his mind, so he warned: "If someone asks you to go to the Yulou, even if it's just to send a letter or do business, never agree. In case you feel that someone is trying to trick you...just Come and find me. I study in Zuoxing’s Hongwen Library every day, it’s not a big place, you can definitely find it.”

"I'm not coming to you."

Lu You retorted without thinking, then tightened the rein in his hand, let the horse go two steps faster, and left Tang Ruilang behind.

But this time, he didn't hear the sound of Tang Ruilang chasing him.

After walking a few steps forward, Lu You finally couldn't hold back.He turned his head and saw Tang Ruilang reined in his horse and parked under a tung tree by the roadside.

"I'll take you here." He whispered.

"Thinking about it carefully, I still shouldn't go to the grave with you, it will make you speechless. But on the way back, you'd better go back along the route you just walked. A few days ago , A group of villains have sneaked into Zhaoguofang area, and now the people from the Ministry of Criminal Justice are searching for it. I am worried that you are going there just now, the sword has no eyes, and it will be bad if you get hurt. "

After that, he sighed to himself again.

"Zoran, you have chosen the most difficult path. But no matter what, I will accompany you."

After saying this, Tang Ruilang finally reined in, turned around and left.

Lu You silently watched Tang Ruilang go away, and it took a while before he came back to his senses and continued to move forward.

This place has passed Zhaoguofang, and a few steps to the south is the boundary of Dayefang.

It is still a dilapidated place, and people go to the empty East City where the weeds are knee-high. When you get close, you can occasionally hear snakes swimming away quickly, and grasshoppers and mice flee one after another.

Passing through Dongshi is Lu Yinger's house. Before Lu You went to call the door, he heard a series of familiar shouts and curses.

Just after the cold food today, and it was still the day of Ching Ming, Lu Ying'er took advantage of his wife's opportunity to visit the old man's grave, and slipped away to Ming Kequ to have fun by himself.It's no wonder that Zhu Zhu'er wants to show off her masculinity.

It was thundering and raining over there, while Lu You here calmly walked into the gate.

Wal, who was working in the yard, hurried to the backyard to report.But after a while, the roaring stopped abruptly, and the fat and thin couple ran out excitedly.

In the past few months after entering the palace, the correspondence between Lu You and Ye Yueshan has always relied on Lu Yinger's transit.Therefore, Lu You often asked people to bring some gifts over, and they never missed a single one during the holidays.When going out of the palace this time, Lu You naturally brought generous gifts, coaxing Lu Ying'er, his wife and Wa'er into a proper place.

Coincidentally, there was also a letter from Ye Yueshan from Liuquan City, so Lu You took it together and prepared to take it to his parents' grave to read it.

Time is limited and cannot be squandered, so Lu You and his husband and wife got up to say goodbye after exchanging a few pleasantries, and went out to Gaogang in the west.

There are few people on Gaogang, and weeds grow vigorously after spring, and the road to the tomb in memory becomes more and more confusing.

Several times, Lu You almost lost his way. Fortunately, there were paper money scattered by Zhu Zhuer on the ground.It took him a while, but he still found the simple tomb with no inscription left.

Perhaps it was because Lu Ying'er and his wife helped each other take care of it, the grave was cleaner and fresher than Lu You imagined.He did it himself again, pulled out a few buckwheat seeds that had sprouted in the spring rain, and then began to place the tribute sacrificial vessels on the donkey's back in front of the grave one by one.

"Father, mother..."

As he moved his hands, he muttered to himself in a low voice.

"My child is not filial. I haven't come to say hello to you for so long. Although I rushed here today, I still have to leave in a while. I'm not polite. Please don't be angry."

As he spoke, he took out a jug of fine amber wine and poured it on the ground in front of the tomb.

The aroma of the wine was diffuse, but unfortunately the soil had already been soaked in the drizzle of the past few days, so the fine wine could only be allowed to flow freely on the surface.

After the wine was poured, Lu You squatted down again and spoke softly.

"Today is the first day of the Ching Ming Festival. A new fire was lit in the palace and distributed to the court's favorite ministers. My child remembers that Dad has been talking about when our family will get a new fire from the emperor. Look—"

As he said that, he took out a fire pocket from his pocket, opened the sleeve at one end, put it near his mouth and blew it lightly twice, and sure enough, sparks danced faintly.

"Look, this is the fire in the palace, and our house has a new fire in the palace. I'll light it for you now."

Lu You held the fire folder in one hand, reached into the bamboo basket with the other, and took out a few pieces of silk paper printed with the "Dharani Sutra" to light the fire.

But he didn't know why, he tried several times, but the fire couldn't be ignited no matter what.

"What's going on... I obviously bought the best ones, and the paper hasn't been damp. What's going on..."

Shocked, Lu You repeated the same words, his voice gradually trembling.

"Father, mother, are you angry?"

He seemed to be tired, with his hands resting on the muddy ground filled with the smell of wine, his shoulders trembling slightly.

"Are you angry that I stole something from the palace, or are you angry that I entered the palace and became an eunuch without telling you...?"

The grave was silent, of course it was impossible to give him the answer he wanted, but this dead silence became a silent condemnation in Lu You's eyes.

He lowered his head, like a child kneeling in front of the family law and making a mistake.

"Yes... I dare not argue in front of my parents. It is true that no one forced me to take this step. Everything is because I can't let go of fame and wealth, and I can't let go of the fame and family I dreamed of since I was a child... until now, I can't let go. Dare to extravagantly ask parents for forgiveness, you just treat me as a sounding board, and occasionally listen to the news of Sister Yueshan..."

His hands were stained with dirt, so he wiped away the tears on his cheeks with his sleeves, wiped his hands clean on his body, and then took out Ye Yueshan's letter.

Ye Yueshan's handwriting is delicate and beautiful, one can think of her gentleness and elegance at a glance.There are three sheets of letter paper, and the beginning is still some greetings and concerns, and then began to explain some trivial things in life and what I have seen and heard in Liuquan City.

The mother's second brother, Qin Yizhao, was doing a rare goods business in Liuquan City.Among them are the exotic treasures collected by the horse team from all over the world; there are also rare treasures that were specially sent to find them at the request of the gold master.

Among all the rare treasures, various precious medicinal materials are the most, and they even have business contacts with the Jujing Garden of the Imperial Medical Office.Therefore, the Qin family can be regarded as rich and well-off in Liuquan City, at least much richer than the Ye family in the past.

The Qin family also has a son and a daughter, both of whom are still young, and they get along well with Ye Yueshan as if they were older sisters.In Ye Yueshan's letters, interesting things about these two little guys are always mentioned every time.

The purpose of her writing these is nothing more than to hope that Lu You will temporarily forget her troubles.But Lu You thought of something else.

Now, Ye Yueshan has a new brother and sister, but what about him?Where should I go to find my new family?

The box containing the amber beads was heavy in his bosom, Lu You sighed and continued to read the letter.