Si Tian Guan

Qu Chenzhou took a nap in the evening, and when he arrived at the anteroom, Ling He was already standing outside the door, and he didn't know how long he had been waiting.

The two of them were not congenial, and Ling He didn't even want to gossip about trying to settle accounts with him, and got straight to the point.

"Can you divination today?"

Ling He remembered that it was less than five days since the last time.

"No."

"Then what are you doing?"

"Overseer."

To be honest, Ling He has never bothered anyone so much in his life, except Qu Shenzhou.

It's not like he hasn't seen someone who is more arrogant, but Qu Shenzhou always hovers on the edge of his restraint and irritability just right, making him feel that there is no need to be angry, and he will panic if he bears it.

Before he had time to protest, Qu Shenzhou had already entered the door by himself, so he could only follow and go down the stone steps together.

Although the stone room was ventilated, it couldn't hold back the strong stench, and the smell in the air was not very pleasant.

Pan He was tied up like a zongzi, lying sideways on the ground with iron shackles on his feet, and he was still awake.

After several months of torture in prison, his body, which was as fat as glutinous rice balls, shriveled up like a piece of dried bacon.

The position of the eyes was bloody and bloody, sinking into two terrifying deep holes, one could imagine what kind of torture this person had suffered in Jinxiu Camp without looking at other places.

"So it's so ugly." Qu Chenzhou frowned and said to himself.

"what?"

Qu Chenzhou didn't answer Ling He, but poked Pan He's face with his toes, but there was no response. Although he was given nourishing decoction, Pan He was still injured too badly.

I also knew that Liao Guangming would not be so kind and give them good people.

Seeing that he was silent all the time, Ling He couldn't bear the words that had been held back in his heart for a few days.

"Qu Chenzhou, what the prince told me...is it true that sin begets children...?"

"It's also the first time I've heard of it." Qu Chenzhou inspected Pan He's torture carefully by candlelight without raising his head: "But I believe Liuhou and Shizi's words."

Ling He didn't answer immediately, feeling upset.

Although in Dali Temple, I saw many kinds of people with ulterior motives, but people are different after all-if the person sitting in the supreme seat has any secret and secret thoughts, it will affect the whole body.

I don't know how many people will be involved.

In fact, he believed it, which made people even more anxious.

"The eyes were dug out recently, just to disgust us." Qu Chenzhou turned to look at him and asked his opinion: "What do you think of Ling Shaoqing?"

"Call me Ling He." Ling He didn't mind the smell, and fiddled with his hands wrapped in an oilcloth: "I have many old wounds on my body, which should have been tortured when it first fell into Liao Guangming's hands. There are few new wounds. Something has come out, and it has been given up."

Liu Chongming and the others have told him all the ins and outs that they can think of, and they are not afraid of him spreading the word, after all, they are both grasshoppers on the same rope.

He counted in detail: "Based on my past experience, there are two possibilities for not speaking up. First, if Pan He is doing something dark for the emperor..."

"If this is the case, he knows in his heart that if he is recruited, he will be worthless. It's better to keep his mouth shut and save his life."

"Second, Pan He didn't handle things well, or he couldn't get what Liao Guangming wanted at all."

Qu Shenzhou agrees: "Maybe there are both."

"What do you think, is it a matter?" Ling He asked.

"Pan He is working," Qu Shenzhou replied decisively: "Liao Guangming used Bi Hongzi to torture him. If he just wanted to know what it was or where it was put, the answer was simple, and Pan He couldn't stand it."

But Bihongzi's medicinal properties are so strong that it is impossible for the torturer to fully tell the ins and outs of one incident.

Both of them fell silent - now it seems that this matter is very likely to have a great relationship with "children born of sin".

The question has come to a head. What exactly is Pan He going to do?Regardless of whether it can really cure the emperor's illness, in short, if the emperor believes it, it must exist.

There must be some difficulties, otherwise, how could Liao Guangming return home without success.

Although he was not in a hurry, but the emperor looked at Liu Chongming from above, maybe a little progress could bring about a bright future.

Ling He looked at Qu Chenzhou thoughtfully, and suddenly asked, "Who are you?"

Qu Chenzhou looked away from Pan He, looked at him, and replied simply: "My name is Qu Shenzhou."

"You are not!" Ling He denied it.

Qu Chenzhou chuckled lightly: "Then it's difficult, who am I?"

Not to mention Ling He, even Madam Bai, what they said was that he was good at divination. Whether it was resurrection from the dead or resurrection from a dead body, it was too horrifying to tell outsiders.

Even if Ling He's eyes are as bright as a torch, it is impossible to see through.

"Qu Chenzhou, I want to know, what exactly do you want to do?" Ling He seemed to want to see through him: "Why would a powerful person like you want to seize the heir and help the son?"

"I'm willing," Qu Chenzhou raised his chin slightly, and asked, "What about you? Are you willing to take this muddy water because of the one on your shoulder, or because of Rong Jiu'an?"

Ling He himself couldn't tell.

He only knew that Jiu'an had experienced ups and downs several times, but he was helpless. This time, he didn't want to see himself being left behind. He wanted to spend his whole life protecting someone, even if that person didn't intend to look back at him.

He suddenly had a thought, as if he wanted to understand something.

"Qu Chenzhou, could it be that you..."

Qu Chenzhou lowered his head to touch Pan He, disliked the stench of blood, so he only picked it with his toes. When Ling He asked this question, he happened to step on Pan He's lower abdomen.

It was just a little effort on the feet, and water stains were seeped from between Pan He's legs, and with the sound of splashing water, the ground was also wet, with several blood clots floating on it.

The peculiar stench of the incomplete person escaped, mixing with the stench of blood in the air.

Qu Shenzhou: "..."

Ling He: "..."

The faces of the two of them suddenly turned ashen, and at the same time they rushed to the stone steps at the same time, and at the same time they were stuck in the narrow corridor.

Ling He pushed Qu Chenzhou up first with a broken face, and the two stumbled up from the ground, lying on the railing outside the house, panting heavily.

In the middle of the night, Ling He didn't want to yell, so he could only grind his teeth.

"Are you sick! He's so good, what are you doing stepping on him!"

Qu Chenzhou was not to be outdone: "I just saw him move a little bit, thinking he was going to wake up, who knew he could make yellow soup?"

"You..." Ling He said angrily, "Did you do it on purpose!"

Qu Shenzhou spread his hands innocently.

Almost in unison, they looked in the same direction.

Liu Chongming was originally guarding in the study, so it was not surprising to see the two arguing at this moment.

"Stop arguing." He rarely acted as a peacemaker, and asked the servant behind him to bring a tray: "Come and drink some tea, calm down."

Ling He lifted the lid, saw the goji berries inside floating in the yellow-brown ginseng soup, and put down the tea bowl again.

"Wolf is a traitor." He pointed at Liu Chongming.

Liu Chongming was puzzled, and looked to Qu Chenzhou for the answer with his eyes, Qu Shenzhou was noncommittal, and took a sip of tea leisurely.

Ling He vomited.

It was still impossible to gain anything tonight. He was about to leave and turned back.

"Before you mentioned twins, I have the impression that there was such a case. Originally, I looked back, thinking that talking is better than nothing, but I found something strange."

"What?" Liu Chongming was more and more grateful for Qu Shenzhou's decision to drag Ling He into the water.

"What I just said is not accurate. In fact, it is not twins, but a pregnant woman with twins."

Ling He looked solemn: "Someone sued the officials, saying that the wife who was about to give birth at home was missing, and the woman was pregnant with twins."

"The dossiers in the temple are carefully classified. I looked around and found more than one similar case."

"In 15 years, there were eight incidents in total. Eight women who were pregnant with Liujia disappeared, but four of them did not mention whether they were pregnant with twins."

"How did you close the case?"

"Most of them are left alone. Although the prisoners were dealt with in two cases, in my opinion, there are many doubts in the middle, and the understanding is hasty. It seems that someone managed it and found a scapegoat."

Liu Chongming and Qu Shenzhou looked at each other.

If there are no accidents, the disappearance of the woman is not something to make a fuss about, let alone the time span of 15 years.

But now that there are previous clues, all the missing are pregnant women, including four pairs of twins. The probability is high enough to make them vigilant.

What's more, there was no result at all.

"Who are they?"

Ling He took out a few pieces of paper from his sleeve: "It's been too long, and the last time was five years ago. These people may not still be there. You can send someone to investigate."

Liu Chongming ordered Ling He to be sent back, glanced briefly at the corridor, and handed the paper to Qu Shenzhou.

"May I be a little more optimistic."

Seeing Qu Shenzhou raised his eyebrows, motioning him to continue, Liu Chongming couldn't help but smile, he couldn't hide anything from the little fox.

"It's true that I'm not just talking about Ling He's discovery—Fang Wuyang just sent the news that he found the Jinping Village my sister mentioned."

"It's not far or near from Chengfeng paddock, and there isn't even a plaque on Zhuangzi. Fang Wuyang had a hard time finding it. He followed a group of soldiers in the paddock and heard it by chance."

Qu Chenzhou frowned: "Zhuangzi who doesn't even have a plaque, why would the paddock patrol know?"

"Yes, that's the problem. After Fang Wuyang guarded for a few days, he found that the Zhuangzi seemed to be an ordinary residence, but it was a bit remote, but the patrol route of the paddock would enclose the Zhuangzi, but not would get too close."

"Perhaps in order not to attract attention, the patrol will pass by there once every two days."

"Who are the people in Zhuangzi?" Qu Chenzhou also agreed with Liu Chongming's previous words, they can indeed be more optimistic: "What do those people eat?"

"Zhuangzi is not young. Apart from the servants, there are thirty or forty people living there. They don't go out and live well."

"Among the servants, they didn't say a word all day long. Fang Wuyang guessed that these people are most likely to be dumb. Not only the servants, but also the guards didn't say a word."

"On weekdays, there are people who have a fixed amount of food and clothing to send there. Later, I will let people pay attention there to see where the things are sent from. It's just... I don't know who the people live there."

"I'll go and have a look." Qu Chenzhou was obliged to do this, and it happened that he had nothing to do recently.

Liu Chongming's current hope is only this one.

Although Fang Wuyang lurked in Zhuangzi for a few days, he didn't hear any valuable conversations. Apart from not going out, the people living in it only talked about their parents' gossip, lyrics and poems, as if they were living in a paradise.

"Take a good rest tomorrow, and let Fang Wuyang take you there the day after tomorrow." He stretched out his hand: "It's late at night, go to sleep."

Qu Chenzhou stretched out his hand for him to hold, but he couldn't help pursing his lips into a smile, which made him feel like a glow on his back.

"what happened?"

Qu Chenzhou just laughed and didn't speak.

When he entered the bedroom, Liu Chongming saw that he had rolled out the quilt. He was about to sleep, but he still stood in front of the sarong, and whispered: "Shen Zhou, I have something to tell you."

Qu Chenzhou sat on the bed, took off his shoes and socks, sat cross-legged on the bed and looked up.

Liu Chongming knew, the reason why the little fox was laughing just now is that he already knew something and was waiting for him to confess.

"My mother told me to come over today." He sighed, sat down on the edge of the bed, spread out his palms, and put one hand over, the youthful roundness had gradually faded away.

He stroked the hand lightly.

"Because of what happened before, as you know, my mother has been really sick for a while, and she has gradually recovered recently. When she asked someone to call me, I also thought, I haven't seen you for a long time, my son , you should go see her anyway."

"It turned out that people from the Tang family were the ones who went to see her."

As soon as he saw that aunt, he already knew what his mother was thinking.

His mother had always been proud of being born in the Tang family. Ever since he inherited the heir apparent, she had been nagging him to marry a girl from the Tang family.

He never wanted to stand by the queen, let alone let the Bailiu family follow him and bow down at King Ning's feet.

The most important thing is that he already has a loved one now, and he can no longer tolerate other people around him.

Qu Shenzhou only smiled, and stretched out his hand to untie the red rope on his head.

"On the queen's side, if the prince can't offend you or don't offend, you still have to talk about the scene. If you go crazy, you can't go crazy to the queen."

"I know this, you don't have to worry," Liu Chongming comforted him: "I didn't give them a chance to say that."

"Chongming, if another day the queen..."

"No if," Liu Chongming took his hand off, helped him untie the red string in circles, folded it and stuffed it under the pillow: "Who dares to force me, I'll just marry you right away, in this other courtyard , with your bridal chamber. Anyone who wants to put someone in my place will only serve as your maidservant."

"They're all famous ladies."

"So what about ladies from famous families, if they can shamelessly enter my Liu's house, they have to listen to me."

"What about me?" Qu Chenzhou asked.

Liu Chongming was serious and answered quickly: "Of course I listen to you."

Qu Chenzhou sneered, got into the quilt, and pulled the quilt up to the tip of his nose.

"Is the son trying to avoid the marriage? Or is he in a hurry to marry me?"

"Little vixen," Liu Chongming tore off the quilt angrily, "hooked me again, believe it or not, I'll kill you right now!"

His hand opened the skirt of his coat, and a jade bell rang.

Qu Shenzhou pressed down reflexively, and hid it back in his skirt.

"My son, although the emperor has little affection for the empress, he often supports the empress, and he will not even let any empress assist the sixth palace. Sometimes, I even wonder if the emperor has something to hold in the empress's hands."

Liu Chongming watched the frivolous smile gradually fade in front of him, this bluntly changed topic always made him unable to find a place to drift away.

The author has something to say: PS: Don’t be in a hurry to understand what Shen Zhou is going to do, watch the development of the following things, and you will know soon