Si Tian Guan

"Chongming."

Qu Chenzhou sat on the steps, lowered his head, and watched his trousers rolled up, his knees were red, there was no blood, but the abrasions were serious.

He was so sad just now that he was in a trance for a while, and fell down the steps inadvertently.

"Chongming, I'm so stupid." He looked at the half-kneeling man applying the medicine in front of him, and asked nazily, "I can't do anything well, why do you still like me?"

Liu Chongming raised his head, he hurriedly looked away guiltily, and his voice became softer: "Is it... because my eyes... are useful..."

Someone flicked his forehead, and Liu Chongming's sigh made him even more uneasy.

"The little bastard is promising, and he knows how to doubt others, so it's not in vain for me to teach you so long."

"It's not...it's not that I suspect you..." His face flushed, "Because I...can't do anything well..."

After patiently applying the medicine, Liu Chongming straightened his trousers before getting up and sitting next to him.

"Shen Zhou'er, you will go back to live in the palace tomorrow, so you should be more cautious in doing things in the future."

"I will go to the palace to see you, but I can't stay by your side all the time. People in the palace are unpredictable. You must be cautious in your words and deeds."

"You always remember that you are smarter than ordinary people, and you are the most reliable official of the emperor. With the emperor as your backer, you don't have to pay attention to heretics."

"Look up and remember what I taught you. As long as you want, anyone is a pawn in your hands. You have to believe in yourself."

"Just one thing, you are not allowed to do divination for others privately in the palace. You can only do divination for the same person once every five days. If the emperor asks you, if you can't answer, what awaits you is bound to be a catastrophe."

"You should know that being with you is like being with a tiger. The more the emperor trusts you, the less he can tolerate your disobedience and betrayal."

"Don't divination for others, including me." Liu Chongming touched his head and wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes for him: "Shen Zhouer, protect yourself, and don't take risks for anyone."

He received a soft kiss on the forehead.

"Shen Zhouer, you are the best in the world, it is my honor, Liu Chongming, to be favored by you."

Actually... lucky me.

Qu Chenzhou wanted to open his mouth to respond, but he felt like a heavy burden was on his body, he had difficulty breathing, he couldn't speak, and he couldn't even move his body.

Before he fully regained consciousness, he remembered.

After getting rid of the dark guards sent by Chongming to protect him, he walked back through the streets and alleys, and before he got close to Mu Jingchen's mansion, he sensed that someone was following him, and the distance was getting closer and closer.

He who is alone is the most delicious prey, and the predator who has been eyeing him for a long time must wait and see.

He started running in the darkened sky, panicked, the road ahead became more and more remote, and suddenly he heard Liu Chongming's familiar voice in his ear - this way, he almost didn't even think about it, he just went straight into the alley, hurriedly Followed by a pain in the back of the neck.

I don't know how long it has been since he woke up here.

There was no dazzling light in front of his eyes, and his eyes were covered by a black cloth. It seemed that the other party was also a little afraid of him.

The fingers tied behind him could touch the soft bed, and the treatment was better than he imagined, and he was not thrown directly on the ground.

Noticing that his breathing became heavy, someone soon pushed the door in, and the soft mattress sank down. The person sat by the bed, as if looking at him, but did not speak.

Instead, Qu Chenzhou took the initiative to speak: "This is a rare opportunity, don't you want to talk about something?"

The man didn't respond to his temptation.

"Could it be that Jiang Changshi wants to torture me with just this method?" He sighed: "Why bother, I'm very hungry right now, can you let me have something to eat?"

"How do you know it's me?" Jiang Xingzhi was finally willing to speak, looked at him for a moment, and said with certainty: "You are not Qu Shenzhou."

"Have you caught the wrong person? It's a pity, let me go then."

Jiang Xingzhi hesitated instead.

He had imagined Qu Chenzhou's various reactions when he woke up, but he never thought that the other party would be so calm.

It shouldn't be like this, the person he met on the street and later in the Qisheng Building, shouldn't be this kind of person.

But he is also more aware that in the whole world, there is no other person who has such a pair of eyes.

As if impatient with his silence, Qu Chenzhou turned over with difficulty and faced Jiang Xingzhi: "Did Jiang Changshi meet your nobleman when he was fifteen miles south from Changshui Town?"

Jiang Xingzhi didn't hesitate anymore, except for him and Qu Chenzhou, no third person knew the hexagram so clearly.

"Qu Chenzhou, I haven't seen you for so long, you seem to be a different person. Liu Chongming is a good teacher."

"People will always change. Jiang Changshi was desolate and desolate back then, but now he looks like a human being?" Qu Chenzhou struggled to turn over and sit up, but was pushed down on the bed again, and couldn't help laughing: "Jiang Chang Shi Su is always smart, why does he still regard me as an enemy?"

Jiang Xingzhi heard something in his words: "How to say?"

"Of course I have an explanation, but I never want to be forced to tell others. If Jiang Changshi kneels down and begs me..."

As soon as Qu Chenzhou finished speaking, he felt a chill fall on his face, the sharp spikes were the flying spikes he had pinned on his waist, and now they fell into someone else's hands.

"What's the explanation? Let's listen to it?" Jiang Xingzhi dragged the flying thorn on his face, looked at a red mark, smiled and praised: "Du Quan is really reckless, and he is willing to do something on this face. Qu Shen Zhou, are you afraid of being ruined again?"

"Guess?" Qu Chenzhou suddenly raised his chin, noticing that the flying thorn on his face was leaving quickly, he also smiled: "I only think you are a smart person, knowing that my most valuable thing is not this face—you have the guts to Blind my eyes?"

Jiang Xingzhi raised the flying stab in time, still in shock.

He realized that something was wrong, Qu Chenzhou shouldn't have such an aggressive look, but he didn't know what went wrong.

"Jiang Xingzhi, if you want my statement, it's fine, but you have fallen into the Taishi Bureau, and you can't do what I ask, so ask Fang Wuyang to come out."

Jiang Xingzhi remained calm and asked, "What did you say?"

"Don't talk nonsense with me, Fang Wuhai!" Qu Chenzhou said it again, but also restrained his smile: "Would you like to guess, I was at Mu Jingchen's place today... What kind of hexagram did I see?"

The wooden door was almost pushed open in response, and before Jiang Xingzhi could make a sound to stop him, someone had strode into the door.

Qu Chenzhou only heard Jiang Xingzhi curse, and the bed creaked, and someone sat up heavily, grabbed his ankle, and bent down to him.

"Brother Xiaoqu," the voice of Liu Chongming still came out of that person's mouth, with a frivolous smile: "Is that why you miss me?"

"Fang Shaoxia came so fast." Qu Chenzhou's knees were pressed to his chest, he couldn't breathe, and he still struggled to ask with a smile: "Fang Wuyang, how about courtesy first and then soldiers?"

Jiang Xingzhi was shoved aside and shouted angrily, "Fang Wuyang! What are you doing?"

"What are you doing?" It was still Liu Chongming's voice who answered him: "Jiang Xingzhi, put away your plan, can't you see that you can't get him at all? Why don't you use my method to convince him."

Qu Chenzhou sneered: "Fang Wuyang, I didn't expect that you would be so courageous that you only dared to use your status as the prince to play with me."

Rubbing his lips with a hand, Fang Wuyang's voice changed, and he sneered: "Chongming taught you well."

Jiang Xingzhi finally couldn't bear it anymore: "Fang Wuyang! What time is it! You still want to play!"

"Yeah, what time is it?" Qu Chenzhou interjected: "You captured me, thinking that if you hide me, you'll be fine? Is your son a wooden man?"

Fang Wuyang raised his chin: "Don't interrupt, finish what you just said, where is Mu Jingchen's hexagram?"

"Guayan..." Qu Chenzhou replied slowly: "Guayan is easy to say, but... please trouble Fang Shaoxia to find the son and get my antidote."

The last two words surprised the two of them. Jiang Xingzhi narrowed his eyes: "The antidote? You don't mean to say that Liu Chongming poisoned you?"

Qu Chenzhou's ankle was put down, he finally let out a breath, and sighed: "If there is no antidote, Suo Ye will attack. If you really want to use me, you can't watch me die, right? interested?"

"Suo Ye?"

"Yes, there is not much time left, maybe three days or..."

Fang Wuyang glanced at the sun that was already rising above his head outside the window, looked at Jiang Xingzhi calmly, and put his hand on Qu Chenzhou's neck.

"I only tell the truth, believe it or not." Qu Chenzhou sighed: "If I knew that you are so afraid of the prince, why would I bother to gamble on the danger of being poisoned?"

Jiang Xingzhi carefully observed his expression, stroked the front and back carefully, raised his eyebrows and asked, "Did you do it on purpose?"

They felt that something was wrong before. When arresting people last night, Qu Shenzhou seemed like a chicken without a head. Not only did he not call for help, but he ran further and further away.

"You want to use us to get rid of the prince's control?" Fang Wuyang withdrew his hand and said with a sneer, "But he treats you well, and even teaches you the method of breathing."

"Who wants to be a slave for life? If it were you, which one would you choose, the law of breathing and the body of freedom?" Qu Shenzhou asked him back: "Your Highness's hexagram is my amulet, and I can't say it yet, but for Sincerely, I can tell you another news."

The weird fog that had been lingering in his mind from just now suddenly became clear, and Jiang Xingzhi whispered: "Not good."

Fang Wuyang looked at him: "What?"

"He... knew you were here from the beginning!"

"As expected of Jiang Changshi," Fang Wuyang was about to ask again, but Qu Chenzhou laughed, "Then guess what, where did I know that?"

Fang Wuyang immediately understood, how could Liu Chongming not know what even Qu Shenzhou knew?

"Jiang Changshi is willing to give up the position of the Taishi Bureau. Where is Fang Shaoxia? The prince has already figured out Fang Shaoxia's secret hall in Beijing. Guess what the prince will do after he finds out that I am missing?"

Fang Wuyang's face turned pale, and he left quickly without a word, and the room became quiet again.

After a long time, Jiang Xingzhi slowly opened his mouth: "Are you really Qu Shenzhou?"

"It's true." Qu Shenzhou turned around and showed him his hands that were still tied together: "Since we want to cooperate, shouldn't we be a little sincere? I'm really hungry."

Jiang Xingzhi hesitated for a moment, and stepped forward to untie the rope.

Qu Chenzhou turned over and sat up, opened his blindfold, looked at the sunlight outside and the open space outside the window, and probably understood the location.

With his cooperative attitude, Jiang Xingzhi didn't need to torture him anymore, and soon he ordered simple meals to be served, watching him sit down at the table generously as if he was at home.

"Taught by Liu Chongming?" Jiang Xingzhi sat opposite him and asked calmly.

The situation has come to this point, so let it be as long as it comes, he is already alone, as long as this person can be arranged by Jing Chen's side, everything else doesn't matter.

Qu Chenzhou didn't deny it: "What did Jiang Changshi want to say? Do you think I'm like a white-eyed wolf who turned his head to bite the master?"

"You do have self-knowledge," Jiang Xingzhi saw that he was holding chopsticks upright and eating in a dignified manner, and asked, "I'm just curious, how did Liu Chongming teach you, why does it seem like a different person?"

"Want to know? Jiang Changshi can sell himself under the name of his son, will you know if you try it?"

Jiang Xingzhi didn't believe it at this time. Even Liu Chongming himself might not be so troublesome.

He didn't speak, but Qu Chenzhou took the initiative to ask: "I'm curious, how did Jiang Changshi and His Highness meet back then? How did you dispel your desire to die?"

That was the catastrophe of his life, and he still remembered every bit of it.Maybe it was because of seeing the down-and-out young man in the wind and snow that he panicked like a stray dog, that made him feel sympathetic.

"Don't meddle in your business!"

Qu Chenzhou knew the current affairs and stopped talking too much, the most important thing was to keep his head down and fill his stomach steadily.After he was full of food and drink, he just walked around the room twice to digest food, when he heard the sound of footsteps coming outside the door.

"After dark, change places!"

Fang Wuyang's face was ashen, Qu Chenzhou was stared at him fiercely, and he pursed his lips innocently: "I reminded you, the prince is not so easy to mess with."

It seems that Liu Chongming's action speed is still so vigorous and decisive, and the most important thing is that Chongming found the clues left by him in the first time.

Their cooperation...is still as tacit as before.

"I'm asking you!" Fang Wuyang ignored the schadenfreude in his words, stepped forward a few steps, and grabbed his front lapel: "Is Liu Chongming really going to attack Jing Chen! Isn't it!"

Qu Chenzhou's eyes sparkled, and he suddenly clicked his tongue: "Oh..."

Fang Wuyang only felt that those glazed eyes were mocking his impatience, and couldn't help being furious, and slapped him down.

Qu Chenzhou turned his face and licked the corner of his mouth.

It was the first time seeing Fang Wuyang these days, and it was such a surprise.

He moved his lips and said silently: "Bing Tilian..."