last night suddenly dreamed of mountains and rivers

Lan Jiansu hadn't heard the emperor speak anymore, only the third prince couldn't control his mouth, his words fell to the ground and rolled like broken strings.

"Look at the elder brother, he has come all the way to pretend to make himself feel pitiful. I don't know, I thought he was the one who was almost assassinated. Pretend to be pitiful to win sympathy. These methods were used by empresses in the past. Is it too little?" His tone changed from disgust to childish coquettish, and he called "Father" to those who ignored him, and said, "I feel that among the many princes, I am the most similar to you, Father. That one. The second brother has been insane since he was a child, and now he betrays you for a king of Zhen Xian! You said, isn’t this a white-eyed wolf? You have worked so hard to raise him, but he eats inside and outside, helping outsiders to deal with his father Your Majesty. As for Eldest Brother, I would say something bad, Eldest Brother does not have the ability to be a crown prince at all! He can't afford the court, he doesn't have the heart!"

"Enough!" the emperor snapped.

It was quiet over there for a while, Lan Jiansu guessed that the Third Prince was "disconnected" by surprise.After a long time, he said in a low voice: "Okay... If you don't like to hear it, my father, I just don't want to talk about it."

Lan Jiansu finally understood why Shen Pinglu said that the third prince looked stupid.

Private interview with the emperor alone, such a rare opportunity, the third prince didn't want to think about how to behave well, but kept showing the appearance of "I am very ambitious, I am very scheming", as if he wanted everyone to know that he is such an ambitious and ambitious man. "Scheming" people.

What's even more stupid is that he didn't expect that "a wall has ears" to speak so loudly and reveal his identity so thoroughly.

Fortunately, Lan Jiansu lived next door, not a real traitor.Although it is impossible for the emperor to visit privately without the covert protection of experts, it is also a tricky matter to expose his whereabouts in case of an assassination.

In the afternoon, when Li Xingxi bought two bunches of candied haws outside, Lan Jiansu hissed him to be quiet.After dipping his fingers in the tea, he wrote on the desktop, "The emperor and the third prince next door" to inform Li Xingxi.

The two quietly listened to their conversation next door.The third prince had learned his lesson, he stopped talking about the other princes, he just listened to the emperor's orders, and racked his brains to answer the emperor's questions about governing officials.Afterwards, they talked about the arrangements for worshiping ancestors in Tianyin Mountain, when to go up the mountain, when to enter the temple, and when to hold the sacrifice. They chatted for about an hour and a half before they left.

At night, Liu Qingyan came back.Lan Jiansu pretended to be gossiping and asked, "Brother Liu, where have you been today?"

Liu Qingyan may have been doing coolies outside recently, but every time he came back he was sweating profusely and embarrassed.

He said with a smile on his sweaty face, "I've gone to blacksmithing, and I don't have any entanglements left on my body. I'll make some money by striking some iron. Feel free to order some good food and wine tonight. I'll treat you to my brother." He clapped his hands. Lan Jiansu's chest was about to go upstairs and back to her room.

Lan Jiansu stepped up the steps in two steps, stopped him in front of him and said, "Hey, Brother Liu."

Liu Qingyan stopped: "Huh?"

"As long as I take you to meet the emperor, you will tell me the origin of Ghost Saber Sect and me?"

Liu Qingyan's eyes changed abruptly, and he quickly suppressed the cold look, and asked in surprise, "Do you know where the emperor is now?"

The emperor is now in Guanzhou.He and the third prince mentioned the famous shop Thyme in Guanzhou in the afternoon, maybe they are drinking tea and drinking in Thyme now.If you take Liu Qingyan to see the emperor, you can know how he is the descendant of the Ghost Saber Sect, Lan Jiansu feels that this deal is not a loss.But in case Liuqing Yan is really the young master of Ghost Saber Sect, he really wants to seek revenge from the emperor...

Damn the emperor, damn it.But he was his father after all, no matter how much Lan Jiansu hated him, he couldn't take someone to kill him.

"No." Lan Jiansu swallowed back his original words and said, "I was just thinking, Tianyin Mountain is heavily guarded. How would you get in the day the emperor came?"

The solemn expression on Liu Qingyan's face quickly relaxed, and he patted Lan Jiansu on the shoulder and said, "You don't have to worry about that, I will find my own solution on that day. Oh, by the way, Brother Wei is watching at the gate of the city today. I found a little thing, thought it was interesting, so I bought it, and I'll give it to you to play with." He took out something from his pocket with his left hand, and threw it to Lan Jiansu.All ten fingers of his left hand were wrapped with cloth strips.Lan Jiansu had seen people who were blacksmithing for the first time, but they couldn't hold the hammer, and they would wrap their hands with cloths soaked in water.All ten of Liu Qingyan's fingers were wrapped in black cloth strips, he might have really gone to hell.

Taking the things thrown by Liu Qingyan in his hand, Lan Jiansu saw that the thing in his hand was a puppet soldier with a shield in his left hand and a spear in his right hand, and his limbs could be stretched and retracted at will.

Lan Jiansu felt it was funny, how could he play this at his age?

Liu Qingyan didn't ask him if he liked it, and after throwing the things to him, he quickly went upstairs and went back to the room, a corner of the wet clothes brushed against the back of Lan Jiansu's fingers.

Lan Jiansu looked up, but saw a smear of red cinnabar on the back of her finger.And this cinnabar seal was stained from Liu Qingyan's clothes.He guessed that Liu Qingyan might have gone to a place like a Taoist temple.

Could it be that Liu Qingyan wanted to use witchcraft to take revenge on the emperor?Unless Liu Qingyan himself is willing to admit this idea, there is no way to confirm it.

Back in the room, Lan Jiansu wanted to wash off the cinnabar on the back of her fingers.The cinnabar was strange, sticking tenaciously to the back of Lan Jiansu's finger, no matter how much he washed it, he couldn't get it off.

Lan Jiansu cursed, the world is sinister, what kind of bullshit temple did Liu Qingyan go to, even the cinnabar used inferior Xibei products.If it weren't for the saying "Small intolerance can lead to big plans", he has already gone to the temple to kick the hall.

After this night, Lan Jiansu was always restless.He tried to follow Liu Qingyan during the day, but lost track of him repeatedly. Liu Qingyan's strange whereabouts made him more suspicious.

His original plan was to let Liu Qingyan see the emperor from a distance on the day when the emperor went to Tianyin Mountain to worship his ancestors, and then asked Liu Qingyan to keep his promise and tell all the secrets he knew.It has nothing to do with him whether Liu Qingyan will seek death or touch porcelain next.

But in the past few days, he felt more and more uneasy.It's good to say that he has some friendship with Liu Qingyan, or that he is afraid that Liu Qingyan will die before telling the truth, he doesn't want Liu Qingyan to take this risk now.

In case Liuqing Yanzhen went to assassinate the emperor, and the assassination was successful, he would die.If the assassination failed, he killed his friend.No matter what, he was at a disadvantage.

Being a person can't always be at a disadvantage.Lan Jiansu secretly decided that on the day when the emperor came to Guanzhou to worship his ancestors, he would give Liu Qingyan a heavy dose of Mongolian sweat medicine so that he could fall asleep and miss the opportunity to meet the emperor.Then send a secret letter to the emperor, informing him that someone is going to assassinate him, telling him not to stay after worshiping the ancestors, and hurry back to the palace.

When Liu Qingyan woke up, he showed affection and reasoned again, so that Liu Qingyan had no choice but to reveal his relationship with Ghost Saber Sect.Lan Jiansu firmly believed that he could convince Liu Qingyan.After all, in the previous life, he had never suffered a disadvantage in negotiating.

Afterwards, he will tell the world what the emperor has done. The evil deeds done by the emperor will be punished by heaven and condemned by the world.

Ten days passed, and after the private visit, the emperor returned to the large team, and led some ministers and princes in the palace to Guanzhou.

On this day, the streets in the city were deserted, not even a dog or a cat was to be seen, and the people were not allowed to go out to greet the emperor, and all closed their doors tightly.Only officers and soldiers stood in the city and guarded the door of every house.At the foot of Tianyin Mountain, which extends several miles away, there are heavy guards, not a single mosquito is allowed to fly in.

On the big tree with twisted roots in Tianyin Mountain, Lan Jiansu covered his face with a cloth and hid in the bushes, waiting for the emperor's arrival.

Early this morning, he had given Liu Qingyan the sweat medicine, and saw Liu Qingyan collapsed on the table and passed out.He asked Li Xingxi to keep an eye on Liu Qingyan.The weight of Mongolian sweat medicine is heavy, if Liu Qingyan drinks this bowl, he will sleep for three days and three nights.

However, Lan Jiansu's eyelids still twitched violently.Every time he jumps, it seems to tell him that the rain is coming, and a big event is about to happen.

Rubbing his eyelids, his tired eyes looked at Qianye Hill, fifty miles away.It is a mountain that is about as high as Tianyin Mountain, and it is also known as the two famous rivers of Guanzhou along with Tianyin Mountain. The two mountains face each other in the north and the south, guarding this beautiful land of Guanzhou.There was a drizzle in the early morning, and Qianye Hill was hidden in the thick fog, and the majestic and majestic details could not be seen clearly.

The hour has come.

Did not wait for the emperor.

The bell on Tianyin Mountain rang.

Did not wait for the emperor.

Soldiers and guards were still like wooden stakes, one by one, standing straight and motionless.

Lan Jiansu waited until his thighs felt numb, then quietly flew down the tree, shuttled through the dark forest, avoiding the patrols, and wanted to go to the front of the road to find out what was going on.

At the entrance of Tianyin Mountain, several luxurious sedan chairs were parked in the middle of the road. Eunuchs, palace servants, and officials stood behind the sedan chairs in rows, as if waiting for someone collectively.The officials waited impatiently, tugging at each other's sleeves and whispering.

It can be heard from their whispers that the person they are waiting for is the emperor.The emperor went to the latrine halfway on the way here, and ordered everyone to go first for fear of delaying the sacrifice to the ancestors.Now that the auspicious time is approaching, he is still nowhere to be seen.The emperor was capricious, he didn't know whether he disappeared due to an accident, or he went to play secretly.Officials have had heated discussions about this.

Standing beside the sedan chair was a handsome man in yellow clothes, with a thin face, his head slightly lowered, and he remained silent.Lan Jiansu took a closer look before he recognized that the man was the prince.The person standing behind the prince was the third prince. The third prince frowned, smacked his lips, rubbed his hands and stamped his feet, and the word "impatient" was written all over his body.

Riding on the sedan chair was the third prince's biological mother, Qinghe Empress.Qinghe Niangniang opened the gauze curtain, and whispered to someone: "Go again and see if the emperor is here."

The emperor is not here yet.Not only did he, Lan Jiansu, wait, but also all the officials, concubines and princes waited.

Lan Jiansu frowned, her eyelids twitching more and more vigorously.

Where is the emperor?Why hasn't the emperor come yet?

His lowered gaze accidentally landed on the small cinnabar seal on the back of his finger.Although it can't be washed off, it has faded a lot.

Suddenly, a thought that had never occurred to Lan Jiansu rushed into Lan Jiansu's mind.Lan Jiansu raised her finger and licked the red mark on the back of her finger with the tip of her tongue.

A special light rust smell diffuses on the tip of the tongue.

It's not cinnabar, it's blood.

He looked up at Qianye Hill fifty miles away, and said to himself, "Oops."