Si Tian Guan

The carriage was still some distance away from Nianhua Lane, Liu Chongming got out of the carriage, and walked towards Nianhua shop by himself without anyone following him.

He knew that place. When he was a child, his elder brother brought them here to buy candied fruit. He liked the ice and snow plums inside very much.

The shopkeeper is a kind old man. Seeing that he always buys a lot at one go, he also jokingly said that this ice and snow plum is not something to eat casually, and asked him if he wanted to buy it to share with the little girl he likes.

He took it seriously, and secretly saved a lot, thinking that one day he would meet a girl he liked, and he could take it out for employment.After his brother passed away, he threw away many old things, including those few packages of moldy plums.

Since then, he hasn't been here for several years.

The shopkeeper was replaced by a middle-aged man, whose appearance was somewhat similar to that of the old man. He carefully wrapped the ice and snow plums in a paper bag, and respectfully sent him out.

He stood outside the shop, the inside and outside of the door became strange, suddenly there was a kind of sadness of right and wrong.

There is nothing unusual about this place, although it is not a prosperous place in the south of the city, with people coming and going, it is not deserted, but it is a bit far away from the other courtyard.

He turned around, joking in his heart that he was so idle, those dreams were all fragmented, and he couldn't even see how many people appeared in the dream, but he actually ran over in a serious manner.

Just because in the dream, the words "Nianhua Xiaopu" could be heard clearly.

I randomly found a place at the base of the wall and sat down. Moss grew on the slightly damp wall due to the rain a few days ago, allowing moisture to seep through from the back.

The long-lost taste of sweet plum spreads in the mouth, which is too strong for some discomfort.

Thinking about it this way, not only have I not eaten ice and snow sweet plums for too long, but even sweets have been stopped in the inner courtyard, and the ones on the table are all things that I have intentionally ordered the kitchen to change the recipe.

Is he too used to that person?

But the snacks were placed there, every time Qu Chenzhou would sneak over to the wall, read a book in one hand, and pick up the snacks in the other.

When he turned back to look, there was only a table scrap left, and he felt that it was not a big deal to miss two bites of sweets.

In a daze, a sweet plum fell to the ground, making a very light noise.

A dexterous and light cat jumped down from the wall, watching him as an unexpected visitor vigilantly. It was an extremely beautiful little creature with rare abnormal eyes, amber on the left and blue on the right.

A bit like.

He took a second look and laughed out loud, really like it.

After looking at those kind-looking pupils for a moment, he threw Ganmei over.

The cat was purring in its throat like a demonstration. After a while, it tried to lick the ganmei, let out a scream of fried hair, picked up the ganmei in one mouthful, rushed up the wall and disappeared.

Liu Chongming laughed dumbfounded, the appearance of this stranger was more like that person.

But when he thought about one of the things the man said came true one after another, he couldn't help laughing.

Five or six days have passed since the queen fell ill, and he handed over the sign to the palace again yesterday.

Firstly, since the emperor is responsible, he must not stay out of this matter, and secondly, seeing his sister, knowing that her sister was not involved, he can feel at ease.

I heard that King Huai entered the palace on the day of the accident, and the emperor was calling Si Tian officials to divination good or bad luck, anyone can guess, if Chen Sitian really waited until Chen Sitian said something important, the trip of King Huai and Concubine Yu would not be so pleasant of.

Competing for merit and favor in front of the emperor is a lively event. If you spend your mind on harming others, let alone the empress who fell ill, what will be the embarrassment of the emperor?

It is said that there was some commotion at that time, the emperor finally summoned King Huai directly and ordered Eunuch Yu to stop Chen Sitian outside the hall.

This reminded him of Qu Shenzhou's cold words

——If King Huai can still treat himself like a saint without defending himself, I will never trouble him again in the future.

——The prince can open his eyes to see how far King Huai can do it.

After the Chaoyang Palace was closed, the account book was in the hands of King Huai, and what he swore to do was transferred to King Huai. King Huai's resolute actions exceeded his imagination.

Nan Ya was in charge of guarding the palace city, so it was bound to be troublesome. King Qi avoided suspicion in this matter, and King Huai took the emperor's handbook and went directly to Bo Yan, the deputy commander of Nan Ya.

When they met by chance a few days ago, he invited Bo Yan to drink some wine. Although the other party complained vaguely, he could understand the details.

The little palace lady died within a short period of time, and with no evidence to prove her death, King Huai was even more unwilling and unable to admit defeat easily.

With the permission of the emperor, it is understandable for Bo Yan to cooperate with the investigation, but some people have repeatedly interfered in it.

Bo Yan didn't dare to offend anyone, and he didn't dare to tell King Huai that someone would obstruct him secretly, like a mouse in a bellows.

Liu Chongming could figure out that it must be King Ning, or someone from the queen's side, who was obstructing it, but he didn't know if Tang Shuxin, the queen's elder brother, who was a servant, knew about it.

Fortunately, Bo Yan didn't bother him for too long, and soon a pile of facts surfaced, and everyone was brought before Emperor Yu.

First, the Jinwu Guard guarding the Xiping Gate confirmed that when Prince Ning entered the palace, he had a tangy aroma on his body, but that man was a man after all, and he didn't dare to nod easily when he smelled the smell of lip balm in the porcelain box.

Then I met Prince Ning's court lady in the Chaoshou corridor, and this time I was sure that the smell on the prince's body was the same as that of mouth fat.

Afterwards, the eunuch guarding the corner gate between Chaoyang Palace and Kunning Palace said that Prince Ning wore different clothes when he left the palace than when he entered the palace, and he lost the scent of fragrance when he entered the palace.

Emperor Yu didn't mind watching tigers fight on the wall, but he couldn't be happy to be fooled by people as a fool, so he went to Kunning Palace in person, ignoring the empress getting up from the sick bed, kneeling down on the ground crying and begging, so that people found the clean clothes gown.

The court clothes worn by King Ning in Kunning Palace.

When Liu Chongming came out of the palace yesterday, he saw Zuo Xiaowei was ordered to go to Xuanning King to enter the palace.

He hadn't had time to inquire about what happened afterwards, so it must have been another vigorous farce, but the aftershocks of the previous turmoil have not passed.

He was not interested in guessing what King Ning would say later, but he could think of what would happen in the palace afterwards.

Jin Wuwei and the two palace servants seemed to be telling the truth based on facts, so as to save Queen Huai's mother and son from unjust injustice, but there were two things that Emperor Yu hated most in his life.

One is that he is not filial to others, and the other is that the people around him are not loyal to him.

No matter how the matter of King Ning ended, these three people dared to blatantly stand by King Huai's side, they would surely die.

But within a few days, King Huai was able to pick up three people to die for him from the place where King Ning walked all the way, it's horrifying to think about it.

Even if he is like this, it is not difficult to imagine what the emperor thinks in his heart.

But King Huai had to do this, whether it was Yu Dexi searching the palace, or Bo Yan changing the Jinwu guard, it was better than being bitten by the queen.

What's more, if he didn't strike first, Chen Sitian on King Ning's side would probably tilt the balance in Emperor Yu's heart.

The lesser of two evils, that's all.

Now Liu Chongming understood why Qu Chenzhou said that he could not touch King Huai this time, but he just dragged the person hiding in the shadows to the sun to bask in the sun.

With such a "exposure", King Huai might be left out in the cold for a long time.

However, King Huai may not be the only one who will be left out in the cold, King Ning is not a tough one, even if there is a threat from the Queen, if he is frightened a few times, he will definitely be recruited.

It's just that I don't know what King Ning will say. If Dan Lang is recruited, what will happen afterwards?

Although it is clear that it will not have any effect on him no matter what - after all, Qu Shenzhou told him not to spend money, so everyone present that day could clearly see that Dan Lang was not what he wanted to buy, but Cao Shilang insisted on giving it to him. His, the person who saved the game was Jiang Xingzhi, and it had nothing to do with him-but this feeling was very bad.

He is just a pawn in Qu Shenzhou's hand, he can't help himself step by step.

The chess player does not intend to tell him where the next move is, nor does he consider his mood or willingness to make this move.

Even if he repeatedly warned him that he didn't like being calculated by others.

No one wants to be a pawn.

But Qu Shenzhou was as cold and hard as a stone, with only his own goals in his eyes, walking forward silently and firmly, never turning his head to look around.

He was just in a daze for a while, and the initiative fell into Qu Chenzhou's hands unconsciously. The other party didn't intend to discuss with him at all, so he took the burden that should belong to the two of them and left first.

He, Liu Chongming, was just a fancy-looking shell.

It is a ignorant and ignorant shell that is held up and attacked from all directions. Its only function is to protect the person inside, so that that person will not be easily ruined by Pan He, Du Quan and others.

Qu Chenzhou used him with ease.

Sometimes he thought, if the new owner of Qisheng Tower was not him, it might not make much difference to Qu Chenzhou.

As long as Qu Chenzhou is willing to stand out, he can take advantage of anyone's weaknesses and use them for his own use, it's not up to him.

And he, whether it's for the Liu family or his elder brother, has to rely on each other.

Every time he thought of this, he would be depressed for a long time. The pride and self-confidence that he used to rely on in the past was smashed to pieces and trampled under his feet with disdain.

He didn't know where the road ahead was, and he didn't know how to melt a heart made of iron and stone, and even had doubts about their cooperation.

If one day he was shattered to pieces, would Qu Shenzhou leave him without hesitation and leave without looking back?

What is the difference between him and the emperor now?

But sometimes he couldn't help thinking, what has this person experienced, why did he develop such a cold and withdrawn character?Is the palace really that scary?

Liu Chongming put his hands in his hair, and was very troubled when something fell by his feet, which startled him.

It was a dead mouse.

He looked up in astonishment, and saw the cold and arrogant cat looking down at him disdainfully on the top of the wall, then arched its back, jumped to the other side of the wall, and disappeared.

"Thank you?"

He didn't know whether to laugh or cry, picked up a tree stick, intending to pull the mouse away, but unexpectedly, the mouse just faked death, was poked by the grass stick, and ran across the street with a squeak, causing the crowd to scream.

Following the scream, Liu Chongming inadvertently saw a wine shop not far from the opposite side, with two words written on the plaque - "Nursing Clumsy".

These two characters are written vigorously and powerfully, as if they are not the pen and ink of ordinary literati.

He looked at it for a while before he remembered, no wonder these two words sound familiar - the liquor store that Qu Chenzhou bought for him for a few thousand taels without authorization is here.

He only sent someone to take care of it, and he didn't bother to come over to see it himself.

It's actually in Nianhua Lane, is it a coincidence?

From the moment he sat here eating sweet plums, he thought about going to the Nianhua shop before going back. He remembered that there should be some salty snacks in it, so he planned to take some back.

Now I saw the Yangzhuo Liquor Store again, and when I was thinking about which one to go to first, I saw the servants who stayed by the carriage came hurriedly with the stewards of the other courtyard.

"My lord," the steward saluted, and invited him to the carriage: "Something happened, please go back and have a look."

"Is it Shen Zhou?" He remembered the situation when his mother went to another hospital before, and the dissatisfaction and complaints just disappeared, and he panicked: "What happened to him? Did my mother go again?!"

"It's not Brother Xiaoqu, something happened to Danlang." The housekeeper trotted after him, and continued without stopping: "After you went out today, Brother Xiaoqu and Danlang also went out together."

Liu Chongming's heart sank.

After letting Dan Lang get the false account, he followed Qu Shenzhou's words and temporarily confiscated Dan Lang's badge in order to stabilize Jiang Xingzhi.

Dan Lang was able to go out today, he must have been invited by Qu Shenzhou to go out.

"Dan Lang will die." This is what Qu Chenzhou told him a long time ago, is it today?And why die?What is Qu Shenzhou's purpose?

The unhappiness that had just been suppressed, of being fooled came back.

"As a result, Brother Xiaoqu came back by himself in the afternoon, saying that after they went out, they parted ways and walked not far before he saw Dan Lang meeting his wife."

"Danlang has never been to the mansion, so he doesn't know Madam, maybe he is not polite to Madam. Brother Xiaoqu said that he only saw Madam getting angry from a distance, and ordered someone to take Danlang away. Looking at the direction, it should be Back to the Hou Mansion."

"Butler She heard what he said, and immediately sent someone to the mansion to inquire about the news. He said that Madam closed the door and did not let anyone in. Hearing the voice inside, Danlang might be in danger."

"So I was sent to find you immediately. Do you think you should go to the mansion right now, or..."

Liu Chongming's face was livid, as if he had been thrown from the cliff into the abyss, the worry about Qu Chenzhou just now turned into a great mockery of him.

The people he worries about play with him like marionettes.

"Go back to the other courtyard!" He stepped into the carriage and pinched himself fiercely in his sleeve: "I'll go ask him!"

The author has something to say: I have considered whether to bring this cat back, or just pass by and let it go. I have never raised a cat before, and I have no experience. The glass shards in front of me are so big that there is a rainstorm warning. I will only update at 9 o'clock starting tomorrow.