Si Tian Guan

Bloody smell.

There were two torture racks standing against the wall, and the torture tools whose shape could not be seen clearly were thrown in a pile below, red and rusty.There are long and short iron chains hanging from the top of the head, and through the candlelight, one can see that the manacles above are full of dark red.

Qu Shenzhou was familiar with this kind of environment.

After Liu Chongming finished lighting the candlesticks, he stopped by his side and asked, "What do you want to say?"

Qu Chenzhou stood with his hands down, looked up at the iron chain above, his tone seemed to be intimidating but he had no killing intent, and he responded casually: "The place is not bad."

"Just good?"

Although he only answered these four words, Liu Chongming noticed that the other party didn't seem to be angry with him any more. This tone was the same as usual, as if nothing had happened during the day.

It made him feel relieved.

"Why aren't you angry?" He joked and asked curiously.

Qu Chenzhou looked at this place calmly, and there was something standing beside the other wall, which was covered by a cloth: "There are too many enemies, and I always think about it. It's not worth getting angry at yourself."

"He has a wide heart." Liu Chongming praised him.

"Thank you," he twitched the corners of his mouth, saying that he picked people who didn't like to hear him, "Counting the past, I'm already in my thirties, and I don't care about children."

Liu Chongming walked around in front of him to block his sight, the height difference between the two was nearly a head, and the shadow cast by Liu Chongming almost enveloped his whole body.

"Little fox," Liu Chongming threatened kindly: "Has no one taught you that a person who knows the current affairs is a hero? You have come here, and you are still stubborn? Don't you know that life is easy to break?"

Qu Chenzhou stared at the skirt in front of his nose, and slowly moved his eyes up to his Adam's apple—how long ago was the last time he licked and bit there?

Too rigid and easy to break...

It was the first time he heard Liu Chongming say that about himself.

In his memory, Chongming often hated his cowardice and cowardice, reminding him from time to time: look up!You are the Sitian official appointed by the emperor!Don't let people underestimate you!

At that time, Chongming always told me that when I was not around, be strong, don't let people bully you, and wait for me to come back.

Both he and Chongming broke a lot of promises to each other, "Wait for me to come back", maybe it is a rare promise for them to keep.

"Thank you, my son, I've been taught," he smiled with the corners of his mouth pulled, and looked around again: "Your elder brought me here, do you think you want to torture me?"

Liu Chongming was noncommittal, and only asked: "Are you afraid?"

"My son is merciful," Qu Chenzhou replied honestly, "I am very afraid of pain, and I am willing to recruit if I don't fight."

"Are you willing to recruit anything?"

"Your Majesty, feel free to ask, it depends on my mood whether to answer or not."

"Hmm..." Liu Chongming dragged his voice forward step by step, pushing his chest against the person and retreating step by step until Qu Shenzhou's back was against the wall.

The narrow space was a little stuffy, and Qu Shenzhou couldn't stand being squeezed by him. He pushed Liu Chongming's waist with his hands, and looked up to find air: "My lord, there is no such method of torture."

"Really?" Liu Chongming couldn't find a place to strike on his face, stroked his loose temple hair for him, pinched the tips of his ears and said, "Then invite it truthfully."

"I used to have quite a friendship with the Bai family." Qu Chenzhou sighed and confessed.

"Have you practiced for more than a year?"

"Well, it's not easy for people to know. It's not a big deal to hide and hide intermittently."

Liu Chongming held on to his pulse, checked for a moment, and then let go: "It's not a big deal, but if you really want to check, you can still find out. This mental method is very beneficial to your body. If you want to practice, continue." Practice well, from now on, you don't have to hide it."

He took a few steps back, without pressing Qu Shenzhou any more, walked around the room, and finally stopped in front of the torture rack, and touched it.

"Five years ago, my brother died in Dingling Hill, and none of the accompanying guards came back alive."

Qu Chenzhou's eyes flickered, and he said softly: "I know, sorry."

"Bandits have been rampant in Dingling Hill for a long time. Because of this incident, the emperor later sent heavy troops to encircle and arrest fifteen bandit leaders. Four of them admitted that they were the ones who attacked my brother."

"For the sake of the Liu family, the emperor agreed to my father and I participating in the trial of the case. I dropped those four people and brought them here."

Liu Chongming didn't say anything about what happened next, and Qu Shenzhou also knew about it.

Until those four people died, they didn't find any valuable clues. They only knew that the robbers attacked Liu Shizi's car. There were no mistakes in the decorations, clothes, and number of people, and the time and place matched perfectly.

But Liu Chongming didn't believe it, nor was he reconciled.

"Qu Chenzhou," Liu Chongming looked back at him: "If I get a seat in Jinxiu Camp, can you tell me who the murderer is?"

Qu Chenzhou looked at the hand stretched out in front of him, and touched it like a superficial touch, which was their promise.

"it is good."

Liu Chongming stared at him for a moment, took a step back, knelt down on both knees, and solemnly bowed to him: "This kindness and virtue, Liu Chongming will never forget it."

"My son..." Qu Chenzhou's chest froze, and he almost spat out the name, but he swallowed it reluctantly, and replied deeply: "My son's words are serious."

Liu Chongming got up, strode to the other side, and tore off the covering cloth. On the weapon rack as tall as a person, there were dazzling arrays of sharp weapons.

"It's always wrong for you to walk with me outside in the future, especially for people like Liao Guangming. I'll ask my uncle some ways to train and restrain my energy, and then I'll teach you."

"Just practicing qi, when the critical moment comes, you can't protect yourself."

He fumbled for everything, and finally opened a box in the corner, and took out a pair of short swords that were more than a foot long. The blades were slender, only two fingers wide.

"You are growing your body, and the weapon is too heavy, it will change your body shape, it does not match your identity, so use this."

"Later, I will find a way to help you hide in the slave ring and carry it with you."

Qu Chenzhou was stunned for a moment, stepped forward to take the short sword, and stroked the bright sword, a little embarrassed: "My son, I..."

He has tens of thousands of life debts, but none of them was personally done by him. In terms of seeing blood, at most he killed a chicken in the back kitchen of Qisheng Building.

"I won't use this..."

"If you know how, what do you want me to do?" Liu Chongming thought about it, and confessed to him: "I learned long swords from my uncle, and I am not good at it, so I will learn from my uncle first. You set aside two swords every day. Time of hour, come here."

Qu Chenzhou finally understood: "Your Majesty wants to teach me martial arts?"

"Don't want to learn?" Liu Chongming didn't give him a chance to refuse, and immediately dismissed it: "It's okay if you don't want to learn. Even if there are guards accompanying you at ordinary times, you still have to rely on yourself at critical times."

Qu Chenzhou was wronged: "I didn't say not to learn..."

"Then it's settled," Liu Chongming put the short sword back again: "Every three days, I have to check it. You'd better not think about being lazy. When I make a move, I will not show mercy."

"From now on, you have to learn more than this. In the past three months, I will watch you get rid of those habits in the palace little by little."

"I will find someone to teach you the things they play in the banquet. You don't have to be so flirtatious like those who came from the academy. Now this temper is fine. I don't mind, and others can't say anything."

"The doctor said that depending on your condition, your voice is about to change. Don't catch a cold recently. When the time comes, your voice will change. Don't blame me for despising you."

"Ask Steward Lin to make some more clothes for you. If you expose too much, you can't do it. Cover it tightly for me."

"My lord," Qu Chenzhou had to interrupt him: "If my face can't be cured, we should consider other methods..."

In his last life, he suffered more than once or twice before he was cured.

"Is there anything to consider, who do I like to bring, can others control?" Liu Chongming interrupted impatiently: "Even if it is really necessary to have sex with you, it doesn't matter if it is cured or not."

Qu Chenzhou smiled wryly, watching the lights on the wall go out one by one, and the surroundings gradually darkened again.

"Your Majesty...we live in the same room now, a person of unknown origin like me..." He asked softly, "Teach me martial arts, can you sleep?"

Liu Chongming scoffed at his provocative question and answered him in the dark.

"Qu Chenzhou, I have received your sincerity, this is my sincerity."

Before going in with his father-in-law, Liu Chongming suddenly remembered something - a few days ago, Qu Chenzhou missed a word.

"Counting the past, I have also reached my thirties."

If this "year of standing" is considered vague, the ten years in his 30s are counted, plus the previous "death in more than ten years" to speculate, Qu Chenzhou's real body is now at least ten years old, and at most he is in his early twenties.

In fact, this result is not much different from not saying anything. After all, Qu Chenzhou's virtue of opening his mouth to death is not like a mature and stable middle-aged man.

He found it interesting that Qu Shenzhou would also have such negligent moments when he let down his vigilance.

It has only just entered September, and the Zhaochun Palace has already ignited charcoal, and the cotton curtain is lifted, and the heat blows in.

Emperor Yu leaned on the warm bed, accompanied by Concubine Yu, the mother of King Huai.

Liu Chongming heard that Concubine Yu spent a lot of time with the emperor recently.

In addition to the fact that King Ning made the mother and son wronged before, this year's salt and iron taxes filled the national treasury around autumn, and Longyan was very happy, so Emperor Yu often went to Chaoyang Palace to rest recently.

After he saluted, Yu Dexi helped the chair to come over, he looked at the other side and nodded very lightly to him, so he knew what he was going to say when he was announced today.

"Chongming," Emperor Yu took a sip of tea and said slowly, "I heard from Yu Dexi that your fleet came back a few days ago?"

Liu Chongming hurriedly got up and knelt down, but when he saw Emperor Yu's gesture, he stood where he was again.

"Your Majesty, I have prepared all the account booklets, and handed them over to my father-in-law. I carried 10 taels of silver when I boarded the ship, and 12 taels of silver when I disembarked, as well as a number of items. I dare not take what I entrusted. I went all the way. The transaction flow is recorded in the book, and the emperor clearly observes it."

He could see clearly that what the emperor had at hand was the account books he had handed over to Eunuch Yu.

Emperor Yu sneered: "10 taels."

On the side, Yu Dexi knelt down on the ground and kowtowed: "Your Majesty, I am a slave who has not been strictly supervised and disciplined properly. I beg the Emperor to forgive me."

Liu Chongming also knelt down: "Your Majesty, I have not reported my knowledge, please forgive me."

"Okay..." Emperor Yu frowned and said in a low voice, took a sip of cheese from Concubine Yu's hand, calmed his breathing, and then looked at them: "Get up."

The two stopped for a moment, looked at each other, and then slowly stood up.

"Yu Dexi." Emperor Yu seemed to be so weak all year round, and called out.

Yu Dexi hurriedly stepped forward: "Your Majesty."

"The Ministry of Internal Affairs has been working step by step for many years, and there are many old people, so they are too slack."

Yu Dexi understood: "Yes."

Liu Chongming probably guessed in his heart, because it is one thing to clean up the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Pan He's case, this digging will inevitably unearth a lot of private treasures, but the old fried dough sticks in the palace have their own reliance, and this thunderstorm is still unknown. It's small.

It's not his turn to worry about these.

"Chongming." Emperor Yu called him again: "Come and sit."

He had no choice but to sit down under the soft steps, with Concubine Yu separated from Emperor Yu, and when he leaned forward to sit down, he caught a glimpse of Concubine Yu turning her face sideways from the corner of his eye.

This profile was not for meeting him, but as if to avoid the emperor, when he glanced past, the panic in Concubine Yu's eyes had not completely disappeared.

Liu Chongming quickly thought back, what they said just now did not seem to have anything to do with King Huai, what is Concubine Yu worried about?

Before he could think too much, Emperor Yu coughed lightly and asked, "Are you still playing with Jing Zhao recently?"

He hurriedly replied: "Back to the emperor, Lord Ning was taught by the emperor, and recently he studied hard. I haven't seen you for a while, and only the minister has nothing to do all day long."

"Is there nothing to do? Why don't you ask your father for advice while it's in front of you," Emperor Yu scolded him with a straight face, "If you come to Dali Temple in the next year, if you do something stupid for me, don't blame me for not looking at your father." feelings."

"I don't dare, I must do my best to live up to the grace of the saints," Liu Chongming heard this again in the tone of admonishing the younger generation in the past, and he also took advantage of the slope to roll around and act coquettishly: "Your Majesty, the truth of the matter is borrowed." In this spare time, I went to Dali Temple to get acquainted first, but was taught a lesson by my father."

"My father said, Dali Temple is a fortified place, and I don't have a sign now, so how can I go and see it casually."

"It's Mr. Cui who is sympathetic to me. He said that he would let me meet with my colleagues in a few days, so I can be regarded as acquainted."

Emperor Yu closed his eyes to listen, and nodded slowly: "Cui Xuan is good, but unfortunately he is old."

"It's not just Cui Xuan, I see my generation is going to be old." He looked at Liu Chongming and said with a smile, "Chongming, I have high hopes for you, and I'm waiting for you to prop up the Dali Temple for me."

Liu Chongming stood up in panic: "The emperor is young and vigorous, why do you say he is old. I am young and ignorant, so I dare not take on this important task."

Emperor Yu chuckled, and waved his hand to him: "What kind of youth will make me happy, I see that you are really free, why don't I hand Pan He over to you, how about it? Dare you agree?"

Liu Chongming's heart skipped a beat, but he didn't dare to say no, he quickly knelt down to thank him, but he kowtowed, and before he could ask anything, he saw Emperor Yu wave his hand.

"When the Empress Dowager met Qingru a few days ago, she specifically mentioned you, saying that she hadn't seen you for a long time, you clever ghost, you go and meet her, and talk to the Empress Dowager."

His words were blocked back, and Emperor Yu had already turned to talk and laugh with Concubine Yu in a low voice, so he had to leave with Yu Dexi.

In front of the gate of Zhaochun Palace, Yu Dexi asked the palace servants to lead the way to the Palace of Compassion. Before leaving, he smiled to Liu Chongming and said, "Thank you for today's matter, son. If it wasn't for the son, the emperor blamed me, and our family might suffer Can't live."

With this silver credit, the emperor not only didn't blame him, but reminded him to take good care of the Ministry of Internal Affairs so as not to cause any more trouble.

Liu Chongming returned the gift: "It's just a matter of my duty to be polite to my father-in-law. It was also my negligence. When the money was handed over to me, I should report it truthfully, and I am ashamed."

"Your Majesty's family is rich, so how could he take this money seriously, and he doesn't serve in the court, so it's normal to not care about it." Yu Dexi bowed and smiled, but instead excused him: "The emperor doesn't blame, and the son doesn't have to blame Own."

"Eunuch Yu!" Seeing that Yu Dexi was about to turn around and go back, Liu Chongming yelled, with worry on his brows: "What the emperor meant just now, forgive me for being blunt, please give me some advice from Eunuch Yu."

The emperor only said to hand over Pan He to him, but didn't say what to interrogate, and didn't say how to hand it over. There wasn't even a written order or an explicit order. How could Liao Guangming agree to let him pick someone up from the Jinxiu Camp with empty words?

Could it be that he should grab it outright?

"My lord, our family is only serving the emperor, and I don't understand the affairs of the court." Yu Dexi bowed apologetically, and when he was about to leave, he added: "Does your lord know what Bingdilian is?"

"Bindilian..."

Liu Chongming looked at Yu Dexi and left with a smile.

At this time, he was muttering to himself, unaware that he had not yet stepped into the officialdom, and one foot was already hanging in the abyss of endless darkness.

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