last night suddenly dreamed of mountains and rivers

Lan Jiansu planned to set off for the Northwest Pass tomorrow, and before leaving, he handed over a bag of gold, the blueprint of the Five Elements Peach Blossom Formation, and where he could secretly purchase peach blossom seedlings, and how could he find reliable and cost-effective blind, deaf, and mute laborers. Tell Jing Xianxue.

Lan Jiansu was going on a long trip, but he had a knot in his heart that he couldn't solve.

Su Yinyou brought a plate of peaches into the room, and sat beside Lan Jiansu, lying lazily on the desk, peeling the peach skin skillfully with chopsticks.He always thinks the peach skin is rough, so he has to peel it and eat it every time.

The point was dotted on the gold watch paper, Lan Jiansu didn't draw a pattern on the left and right, and was distracted.Su Yinyou peeled the peaches, cut them into evenly sized pieces with a knife, and handed one piece to Lan Jiansu.

Lan Jiansu didn't take his peach: "I don't like peaches."

Su Yin said "oh", threw the peach pieces into the wine, straightened up, and drank the peach fruit mixed with the wine.

"What are you thinking?" Su Yinyou couldn't leave Lan Jiansu's eyes, his face and the subtle expressions on his face.

"A small thing." Lan Jiansu tore off the unpainted gold watch paper, raised his spirits, and concentrated on drawing a long series of talismans.

He got up and came to the cabinet, took out a few small paper figurines that he had made before, handed them to Su Yinyou, and told him how to control these thin paper figurines to become puppets if someone invaded.After use, how to destroy them so as not to cause harm to the world.

Su Yinyou grasped the paper figurine in her hand, her fingers tightened tightly, her expression was solemn for a moment, then she asked, "Where are you going?"

Lan Jiansu didn't say where she was going, but said, "Come back soon. I'll take you away in September."

Su Yinyou didn't say whether she believed it or not, and asked repeatedly: "Where are you going?"

Lan Jian Su was silent for a while, and told him, "Northwest Pass."

"Oh." Su Yinyou put the paper figurine into her arms, leaned over the desk, and continued to peel and eat peaches.

This time Lan Jiansu looked at him suspiciously, a little puzzled that Su Yinyou was so plain.

Su Yinyou lowered her head and cut his peaches quietly, and said in a low voice, "I just need to know where you are and where I should go to find you if you don't come back." She was so sad, her eyes were a little red.

Lan Jiansu looked at him quietly, sat back beside him, took the peach and the knife in his hand, and said, "Let me cut it for you."

After explaining to Jing Xianxue and Su Yin's worries, Lan Jian and Su Fang feel that they can walk with peace of mind.

But that knot was like a knot left in his heart.

He still doesn't know who the other murderer who killed the Shunde empress is.

In the middle of the night, he couldn't sleep because of this lump, Lan Jiansu reached into his bosom and found nothing.The kit with the dove green beads was gone.

Immediately without any sleepiness, Lan Jiansu got up from the bed, got up and searched back and forth in the room, but couldn't find it.He stopped and thought about where he had been today and where the beads would fall.

Putting on a coat and carrying a not-so-bright lantern, Lan Jiansu walked through the dark corridor after leaving the house and came to the lawn he had visited during the day.

Lan Jiansu lowered his head to search for the lantern near the grass, not missing any cracks.He believed that the bag of beads must have fallen here.

The oil-paper yellow lantern shuttled through the short grass, and suddenly bumped into a big butt.

Lan Jiansu frowned, the big butt in front of her moved left and right, and the golden python on her clothes was stretched into a weird and funny shape.He recognized the clothes as those of King Zhenxian.

"Father?"

King Zhen Xian, who was lying on the grass, raised his head slowly, his messy hair was covered with weeds.

"I found it! I found it!" He danced happily.Holding the brocade pouch in one hand, with the other hand grabbing the beads taken out of the brocade pouch, raising it up, looking up, laughing foolishly.

Lan Jiansu breathed a sigh of relief and went to get the beads back.King Zhen Xian immediately took away his hand, put the beads in his arms, and refused to give them to him.

Lan Jiansu froze for a moment, and said, "Father, give me that bead."

"Why did you give it to you? This bead... this bead belongs to me." King Zhenxian held the bead tightly, with an expression like a dog guarding food, so fierce that no one would approach him.

Lan Jiansu said helplessly, "Father, stop making trouble. What do you want? I'll change it with you."

King Zhenxian said, "I won't change anything you give me."

"Why don't you change it?" Lan Jiansu fooled him, "It's just an ordinary stone, not a treasure. Can I exchange it with you for a better treasure?"

"Hmph." King Zhenxian sneered, "You are ignorant, this is a rare treasure in the world. What can you have more precious than it?"

It is said that people are crazy and stupid, but their brains are very clear, which is not easy to fool.

Lan Jiansu laughed angrily, crossed his waist and asked him, "How do you know it's a treasure? I just said it's a stone. If you don't believe me, give it to me, and I'll show you."

King Zhenxian couldn't be fooled by him, he laughed and said: "You want to lie to me? You can't fool me. It is a treasure, I know it. Because I brought it back from the Dafang Islands as a gift for Roushu. I brought a total of two back, one... I used up one, and this one is for Roushu."

Then the wind swirled in the grass.The wind at night, no matter what season it is, penetrates the coldness of the skin and bones.

The upturned corners of the mouth fell down in an instant, and the smile on his face disappeared in an instant.Lan Jiansu seemed to be stunned, and asked in a deep voice, "What did you say?"

King Zhen Xian seemed to ignore him, holding the bead and talking to himself: "It's a pity, I haven't had time to give it to Rou Shu. Rou Shu just... she ran away. She ran so fast, the queen She was afraid that she would tell what she had discovered, so the queen ordered someone to chase her. But after chasing her, she jumped into the river and died like this... just died like this..." Weeping while talking, two lines of tears flowed down his face.In a blink of an eye, he babbled nonsense, saying that he saw the princess and Su Qianqian, and wanted to find them and follow them.

Lan Jiansu half-opened her mouth, what she saw in front of her was incredible astonishment and horror, her eyes could hardly contain the overwhelming shock.

"You...you..." He faltered for a long time, all kinds of complicated emotions were tangled in his chest.After a long time, he asked in a half-hoarse voice, "Where did the one you used go?"

Even though the truth was clearly out there, Lan Jiansu still held on to his last hope, thinking that he might be able to hear other answers.

"Where did it go?" King Zhenxian thought very seriously, scratching his head with his fingers, "Where did it go..."

"Oh, I remembered." Zhenxian said kingly, "The empress killed the empress of Shunde. I said that the empress of Shunde will be good for Roushu. I put this bead into her mouth and give it to her. I want her to go to hell. Qiancai clears up the little devil. But...but the empress was afraid that her ghost would get revenge, so she sewed her mouth shut, and dragged her...to Mount Panxi to suppress her spirit. My bead, In the end it didn’t come out.”

Lan Jiansu's sweaty face, which melted into the moonlight, was completely white.What flashed in my mind was Princess Minwen's words "far away in the sky, but close in front of my eyes".With these words, he doubted many people, but he did not suspect King Zhenxian.

But this man, he is crazy and stupid.No matter what is asked, what is condemned, he will not know.He would only tell the truth foolishly, as if talking about an ordinary incident.

Lan Jiansu accepted this reality with difficulty, and looked at the mad and stupid King Zhenxian with complicated eyes: "The other person who killed the Shunde empress was you?"

"Why, vixen, are you scared?" King Zhen Xian let out a giggling laugh like a child after he has succeeded. Seeing that Lan Jiansu's face was getting paler, he waved his hand, clarifying a joke and denying a trivial matter. , "Hey, I didn't kill her, it was the queen who killed her, I didn't do it!"

Lan Jiansu asked again, "Why did you kill her?"

Lan Jiansu didn't realize until now that he might have completely underestimated the nature of the whole matter.

The queen killed her, he could understand it as the harem's intrigue and jealousy.But what is Zhen Xian Wang for?Is it really just because Empress Shunde is a woman from Lou Sang?Even so, even if they really couldn't tolerate this Lou Sang woman and really wanted her to die, then a glass of poisoned wine, a white silk, what method is not more convenient than such a cruel method?And the princess.Since King Zhen Xian also participated in this matter, as long as the princess is willing to keep the secret, there is absolutely no need for the queen to put her to death.There are many bloody murders in the harem, and the princess will not find out that the queen has killed the Shunde empress, so afraid that she jumps into the river and commits suicide.

Unless, from the beginning to the end, they are all for another thing.The secret discovered by the princess, the two words Gong Yijin said to the emperor before his death, and the death of his mother concubine Shuhui.Inextricably linked, as if unrelated, but also as if they are closely connected.

Zhenxian Wang's hippie smiling face gradually became serious.

He looked straight at Lan Jiansu seriously, his voice returned to normal, but he said as if to induce Lan Jiansu: "Because there is a big secret in her heart. If you know this secret, you will kill her too."

Lan Jiansu asked, "What secret?"

King Zhen Xian shook his head, and made a sealing motion in front of his mouth with his fingers.He shook his head and turned around, and walked forward clumsily: "Don't you want to go to the Northwest Pass? You go there to find the secret, go there to find it."

That night, Lan Jiansu didn't sleep.I can't sleep.

At daybreak, he stepped on the snow-white horse and left under Jing Xianxue.

He only carried a roll of maps, a jug of water, a few taels of silver, and two pieces of clothing.Nothing more.

"Go and come back quickly", these four words were in Lan Jiansu's mind, and they were also murmured in a low voice by Su Yinyou, who watched Lan Jiansu off in the attic this morning.

Before Lan Jiansu set off, his eyelids twitched violently. He always felt that this journey was not easy.When I think about it, I am going to the northwest thousands of miles away, and the travel expenses are not easy.

What is not simple, can be compared to the simple toll?

After realizing this, Lan Jiansu's eyelids twitched less.

He galloped on to Tongbei Avenue, and when he reached Qingshan Road, he stopped his horse.Looking back at the ringing tree: "Who?"

The wind is still, the trees are still, and there is no movement.

Lan Jiansu said coldly, "Come out."

After a long time, a person flew down from the tree.

Li Xingxi, who was wearing an embroidered spring snow suit, walked towards him with a smile on his face: "I was discovered by you when I got here, and I was thinking that I could follow him secretly for a longer time."

"Li Xingxi?" Lan Jiansu said.

This kid is full of criminal elements.From the first day I met him, he said that he was going to tie him to Goulan, then broke into the house privately, and then followed him.In modern times, this kid would have been scolded miserably.

Lan Jiansu smiled helplessly, "Why did you follow?"

Li Xingxi said: "I've heard about you, Big Brother Lan. For the past few days, I've been following Zilangwei and the spies in the city out of Beijing, thinking that if they find you, you will be in danger. Help you. But today I was lazy and lost Zilangwei, but unexpectedly followed you." Li Xingxi smiled with his little tiger teeth, and said in his heart that God treated him very well.

Lan Jiansu didn't know whether to lament their wonderful fate, or lament Zilangwei's stupidity.

"Okay, you saw me, go back now." Lan Jiansu pulled the rein and held the horse that was going forward.

Li Xingxi put on a child's unhappy face: "I don't want to go back. If I go back this time, my father will definitely lock me up. Brother Lan, where are you going? I'll go with you, okay?"

Lan Jiansu said, "I'm going far away, so don't follow me."

Li Xingxi said: "I will follow no matter how far."

"I'm going to the Northwest Pass." Lan Jiansu wanted to use this place to make Li Xingxi retreat.

"Who cares about the Northwest Pass and Northeast Pass, anyway, I just want to follow." Li Xingxi came up to take the reins from Lan Jiansu's hand, and led them ahead.He teased the horse with his hands, as if he became familiar with the horse naturally.The strange thing is that this horse has a bad temper towards strangers, but obediently rubbed its mouth against Li Xingxi's hand.

Li Xingxi squeezed out a waxy voice that teased animals and said to the horse: "Ma'er, let's take Big Brother Lan and go~ let's go~"

Lan Jiansu sat on the horse and let him lead him away, and said with a low smile, "I won't grow up."

The author says:

Next, I don’t need to mention the characters to be unlocked in the Northwest Pass~ And friends who focus on watching the plot, 90.00% of the puzzles and character relationships in this article will be clarified during the trip to the Northwest Pass, please take notes! !

Digression~

Prime Minister: I made supper for everyone at the old place tonight.