Si Tian Guan

Stormy night.

Qiu Yu was like a knife cutting the temperature, collaborating with Ye Feng, and had already swept pedestrians away from the street.

Before the curfew time, only the lanterns swaying in the wind under the eaves were left on the street, flickering on and off.

The very slight sound of footsteps landing was mixed in the wind and rain, and no one could hear it.

The man first tentatively dropped one foot from under the carriage, then quickly crawled down, rolled on the muddy ground, got out of the bottom of the carriage, and rushed towards the narrow alley not far away.

It wasn't until his back was stuck in the alley that he wiped the rainwater off his face, gave a savage pooh, touched the wound on his body, and couldn't help but gasp.

The journey back to Beijing from Los Angeles seemed like a turn at the gate of hell.

He regretted it countless times, he shouldn't have accepted that bet, he shouldn't have listened to people's advice, he should have only thought about winning, and he shouldn't have honestly thought about military training.

Going forward, you shouldn't let your bastards go against Nan Ya.

But he regretted so many joints, and still couldn't figure out how he got to this point step by step.

It seems that someone has paved the way to the abyss for him, and he has no choice but to step on it.

Right now there is no time to think about so much, the most important thing is to get in touch with his own people as soon as possible, and see the emperor as soon as possible before the enemy finds out that he has returned to Beijing, even if he uses some means.

This injury just happened to cry out to the emperor.

——Is it Liao Guangming who those people want to kill?no!What they want to get rid of is the most loyal person to the emperor!

As long as he is allowed to meet the emperor, those who stand on a high place and see him in a mess will have to pay the price!

He identified the direction and walked through the alley with ease.

The outside of the palace is the territory of the Bai family. Although he can't tell who the people who robbed and killed him on the road, he knows that the Bai family is indispensable!

Since he is already a hunted underdog, what face do he need?

Liao Guangming walked under the darkened eaves, stepped on some kind of filthy mud, and spat soundlessly in the rain.

As long as he can pass this hurdle, whoever will cry and who will laugh in the future is uncertain!

He didn't know whether it was the wound that made his will weak, or the filth hidden in the night seemed familiar. He suddenly remembered that a long time ago, he used to run like this in a rainy night.

At that time, he was still a hunter.

"It's not that you want to kill him!" The queen's shrill voice was resonant and forceful: "He is a soldier who respects himself, the emperor cannot tolerate him!"

"At the spring feast in a few days, you go bet with him!"

"The emperor and this palace have arrangements, he can't beat you!"

Liao Guangming leaned his back against the wall, panting heavily.

Yes, no wonder the previous scene was so familiar, it turned out that he was also the winner at the spring feast.

He never thought that one day he would be able to defeat his master, and his master was forced to hang his seal and leave as he wished.

It was also pouring rain that night, and he led people to ambush Master on the way away from Beijing, but in the end he failed to keep people behind.

Although he and Bo Yan couldn't see each other clearly through the night, they were so familiar with each other that they both knew that the other must be there.

If it wasn't for Bo Yan, if it wasn't for Bo Yan's benevolence and righteousness, how could he let Master escape!

Liao Guangming shivered, realizing that he wanted to miss something.

It was the emperor's intention that Pei Xiao lost in the past, so what about this time?

He was startled and trembling, not daring to think about it, his footsteps involuntarily changed direction, and then stopped quickly.

Although there were no lights in the alley, his beast-like intuition made him aware that there was someone ahead.

Like a patient hunter, he followed him neither far nor near, and finally drove him to a dead end.

"Who!"

He flipped out his knife and shouted angrily.

The figure stepped forward slowly, holding an umbrella in one hand, and the silver gun behind the other arm, with the sharp point facing the ground.

"Pei Xiao..." The man opened his mouth slowly, and asked, "The person who forced Pei Xiao away...was you..."

Liao Guangming's mind tensed up, just hearing the voice, he knew who it was, and immediately got goosebumps all over his body.

"You dare to kill me?!"

"I……"

As soon as the man opened his mouth, he suddenly rose to the ground, and the knife in his hand stirred up a wave of rain.

Almost at the same time as he took the first step, Liao Guangming saw the knife flying out of his hand, his chest sank, and he flew backwards involuntarily, the world turned upside down in his eyes.

What fell into his eyes, except for the dense raindrops under the lamplight, was only a straight silver gun standing on his chest, the tail of the gun was still shaking.

The man lowered the umbrella to block the splashing blood, and then turned around, the blood on the umbrella mixed with the rain and dripped in all directions.

Liao Guangming opened his eyes that were about to protrude from their sockets, and a mouthful of blood gushed out, choking his words in his throat again and again.

When the gun was drawn, it took away the last bit of anger in him, and what fell into his ear was a murmured sigh.

"Pei Xiao..."

The heavy rain splashed in all directions calmly, and there was only the endless sound of falling rain hitting in my ears.

Liu Qingchi hugged the book and stood under the eaves, watching the raindrops fall in clusters, break apart on the steps, and flow all the way down again.

Finally, someone passed through the hanging flower gate, and took an umbrella in the porch unhurriedly.

"Father, I finished my homework." Liu Qingchi hastily stepped forward to take the umbrella, followed the others into the study, and looked back at the dark sky: "It's so late, what are you doing?"

"It's nothing." Liu Weizheng took over the homework from the youngest son, unfolding it under the lamp: "Send something to your brother."

Qu Chenzhou woke up groggy, feeling pain all over his body, not the pain caused by a broken tendon or bone, but rather as if he had been dismantled alive and re-stitched with clumsy techniques.

I can't control my hands and feet.

He curled up in the blanket, motionless.

Before losing consciousness in the carriage, I still remember, and I have already realized what happened.

Although I didn't know who got into the carriage afterwards, but now I can lie on my bed, it is reasonable to say that I shouldn't be flustered.

But he couldn't help being afraid.

Dreaming that he was still in the star gaze pavilion, the most unbearable night, the unbearable dose of medicine completely burned his mind, and he shamelessly courted others.

The dream was too real, he felt in a trance that that person was still pressing on him, torturing him in every possible way, forcing him to beg for mercy.

Qu Shenzhou covered his head under the quilt, and after a long time, he moved his legs slightly. After the numbness from a night's sleep faded away, he didn't feel any unbearable soreness.

Only then slowly rolled up his sleeves and put his hands in front of his face.

Clean and smooth arms, only a slight red mark on the wrist, but not as dirty and bruised as before.

Slowly exhaling the breath trapped in his chest, he took away the hand that was blocking his eyes, and saw the sunny autumn sun outside, and returned to reality from the nightmare.

There were hurried footsteps outside the door, and the servants stood up one by one, trying to figure out who it was.

"Lazy fox, it's a beautiful sunny day, come out to dry your fur."

The food boxes were laid out one by one on the table, and Liu Chongming personally brought the water basin by the bed, and was about to help him up.

He shrank back reflexively.

Liu Chongming's gaze paused for a moment, and he didn't say anything. He just went to sit by the bed and handed him the sweat towel.

"What's there to be shy? I've seen it and touched it, not once or twice. It's too late to be shy now."

Qu Chenzhou covered half of his face with a sweat towel, as if he wanted to tease as usual, but his lips moved a few times, and he couldn't utter a single word of those pretending casual words.

"Don't worry," Liu Chongming smiled as if he didn't see anything, "I said I'll wait for the bridal chamber, so I'll keep my word and just help you."

"In the carriage... I seem to have fainted. Did you carry me back?"

"Who else but me? Who else do you want to hug you?" Liu Chongming wiped him carelessly: "You looked so greedy yesterday, several times. The medicine that Fang Wuyang brought contains Qianghuo. Do you really dare to eat anything?"

Qu Chenzhou blushed, touched his forehead, and replied in a muffled voice behind the sweat towel: "I was a bit confused by the cold in Jinpingzhuang. I drank what he gave me."

"It's fine if you're in a daze." Liu Chongming scratched his chin and teased, "You can see but you can't eat, it's so hard for me."

"The lively and fragrant beauty dragged me around and begged me to give you rain and dew. I didn't skin you to pieces. Don't tell outsiders about this, otherwise people will really think I can't do it."

Qu Chenzhou bit his lip, and threw the sweat towel into the basin.

Liu Chongming let out a muffled laugh, stopped teasing him, and led him to sit down at the table: "It's all what you like, eat slowly, the bedding on my side was wet yesterday, you should mend it."

Qu Chenzhou kicked under the table, it was limp, and he was caught in his hand, so he could only grit his teeth and scream: "Liu Chongming!"

"Are you annoyed? What happened to hooking me before?" Liu Chongming pinched his feet, rubbed his fingertips around his round toes, and suddenly asked, "How much do you remember about yesterday? "

Qu Chenzhou failed to pull his foot out several times, thinking that Liu Chongming would come back as he was to tease him, forcing him to say something embarrassing and embarrassing.

"I only remember when I was in the carriage, I don't remember later..."

Liu Chongming saw that he was hesitant to speak, and let him go with a smile: "Want to know what I did to you? Let's wait another day, wait for you to wake up, and watch me do it for you."

The untimely sound of hunger came out to relieve the siege, and Qu Chenzhou silently stuffed his mouth with food, and stopped arguing with others.

Liu Chongming didn't take advantage of the victory to pursue him. He looked at him for a while, raised his hand to pin his drooping temple hair behind his ears, and sighed inaudibly.

Qu Chenzhou raised his eyes keenly: "What's wrong?"

"It's okay, you take your time." Liu Chongming leaned on the armrest and looked away: "Shi Yan has a message saying that Liao Guangming fled all the way and was found dead in the city this morning."

Qu Chenzhou chewed the fish fillet, nodded and said: "He still has some skills, after several attacks, he was able to enter the city quietly."

"Fortunately, he died." Liu Chongming also had lingering fears: "Fortunately, he died. In this way, the seat in the Jinxiu Camp will be released. This is a piece of fat. Before I bite into my mouth, I can't guarantee that the emperor can Point it at me."

"The emperor has often stayed in the Lijing Palace recently, so he didn't send you Bizi Tang?" Qu Chenzhou asked.

"Yes. Is there any movement?" Liu Chongming asked him naturally with hexagrams.

"Not yet." He stared at it for a moment, then shook his head: "Since I can't see the imperial concubine now, let me go to the Hou Mansion and Bai's house these days, maybe I can gain something."

Liu Chongming's eyes withdrew from his face and landed on his slightly retracted fingers.

"Forget it, you can rest well. If I can't see any hexagrams here, let alone others."

The chopsticks in Qu Chenzhou's hand paused for a moment, and he quickly responded clearly.

"I see. No matter what other people think, judging from the emperor's previous reaction to Pan He's incident, he is still very optimistic about the son. If there is no accident, the time for the imperial concubine to conceive is probably earlier than expected. The son will Say hello to Liu Hou and General Bai, once there is news, I am afraid there will be no peace for a while."

"I've already said it all, don't worry, my sister has also cleaned up the people in the palace to ensure nothing goes wrong."

"Faithless..." Qu Chenzhou frowned, and sighed: "There is nothing foolproof in the palace. How many people does the prince have in the palace?"

"There are some, but it's definitely not possible to do what King Huai did before." Liu Chongming answered quickly, but he didn't clearly say where the manpower was deployed.

Qu Chenzhou tapped his chopsticks on the plate, couldn't help but look up again, and was silent for a while before opening his mouth.

"My son, I'm just some palace servants, I'm afraid they won't be of much use... It's better to have more reliable and talkative people around the emperor."

"Of course, but the people around the emperor who can talk are not so easy to win over."

Qu Chenzhou closed his eyes and said softly: "My lord, if I become a Sitian official..."

"No!" The bowl in Liu Chongming's hand fell on the table with a bang, and he immediately interrupted him, vetoing sharply: "No!"

Qu Chenzhou patiently persuaded: "The son now has many allies, and Liu Hou and General Bai are also giving their full support. Everything will be on the right track. If I don't see many high-ranking people, what role can I play? It will become more and more limited, why not let me..."

"No!" Liu Chongming didn't give him any leeway: "Do you know how many heads have been lost in that position! Have you lived enough! You persuaded me not to think about it there before, why are you backtracking now?"

Qu Chenzhou said earnestly: "I have been in the palace for many years, so I will be cautious, and with the backing of my son, I will be fine."

"Break this idea! Absolutely not!"

After a loud drink, the room seemed extraordinarily quiet. Liu Chongming glanced at him quickly, aware of his gaffe, and relieved his breath.

"Shen Zhou, listen to me, don't make fun of your life. Accompanying the king is like accompanying a tiger. It is a matter of walking on the tip of a knife. I will never agree with you. In a few days, Shi Yan and I will accompany the emperor. Qiu Hunting Ground, you stay at home, don't go anywhere, we will make plans when we come back."

"Understood..." Qu Chenzhou lowered his eyes, and when he spoke again, he hesitated: "I think it might be suitable to do something in the paddock and make some noise. What do you think?"

Liu Chongming knew that he had refuted his request several times, and made the little fox, who had put down his guard for a while, have to go out and retreat into the cave again, which made him feel uncomfortable.

"This is necessary. Shi Yan will also bring the Longwu Army there. I will take you to have a look in the next few days. Do your best, don't force yourself."

"Yes."

Qu Chenzhou ate this meal very slowly, and Liu Chongming patiently accompanied him all the time.

After the servants packed up his things, he went to lie down in the sarong again, Liu Chongming didn't force him, told him to rest more, and then closed the door and went out.

The figure reflected on the window paper flashed by, but he opened his eyes and stared blankly for a long time.