Zhong Lixuan was still a little dizzy when he woke up,? He heard the rustling sound of dressing beside him and subconsciously raised his hand to grab the corner of the brushed clothes, and called out in a little panic: "Chu Ci!"

Seeing the fine layer of beads of sweat on Zhong Lixuan's forehead, Chu Ci lowered his head and kissed the young man's forehead with some distress: "Well,? I'm here. It's still early,? Sleep for a while? You can go to warm up after the teacher wakes up." Book."

"Okay." When he found that Chu Ci was by his side, Zhong Lixuan was relieved. Ever since Chu Ci left him for ten days, he always woke up like this when he slept alone, but now he woke up and remembered that Chu Ci talked with him last night , said that he would be with him, Zhong Lixuan felt elated.

Chu Ci lowered his head and tidied up Zhong Lixuan's loose clothes: "Yesterday, I found Yelusu. I want to do some business with him. After a while, he will often come and go to Chu Bingxuan. Don't be surprised to see him."

"Yelusu?" Zhong Lixuan didn't understand, so he rubbed his eyes and got up, and saw that Chu Ci had finished washing, opened the door and walked out.

It was not yet clear, and Chu Ci was about to go to the glass kiln to continue the unfinished work. Zhong Lixuan still remembered what equipment Chu Ci said he needed to do,? In the past few days, Chu Ci has consulted a lot of anecdotes and anecdotes, and seriously consulted Zhou Zhi Chuan, Zhou Yinji, and Zhong Lixuan remembered what Chu Ci was going to make, and muttered: "Corundum and stainless steel... are things I have never heard of. I should really ask Chu Ci,? There is something he doesn't know how to do."

Chu Ci commanded the craftsmen to build a small steelmaking plant. The iron smelting technology in this era has matured, but no one has discovered steelmaking due to limited conditions. The smelting temperature cannot be reached, and the oxygen supply is insufficient. The carbon oxidizes, so the steel cannot be refined.

Chu Ci has already made a plan. He wants to make the best use of the existing conditions. First, he will build a blast furnace for steelmaking, and then build other facilities step by step. Starting from raw materials, he will produce all the equipment. This will take several years to complete. Purpose.

Chu Ci collected a lot of stones before, and after inspection, he found that there were agates and rare metals that could be used to make precision instruments in the depths of the barren hills in the capital. The content was not much, but it was enough for Chu Ci to mine and smelt them to produce the needed instrument.

Despite intensive preparations, it took more than half a month for the blast furnace to be completed, and Chu Ci experimented for a few more days, and finally succeeded in smelting the first batch of steel.

At this time, Yelusu came as promised.

It was the end of summer, and the heat was still hot. I saw a carriage driving to the door of Chu Bingxuan. The curtain was raised, and a man jumped out of the carriage with a huqin in his arms. The man was wearing a goose yellow dress and a veil. Tingting came to the door of Chu Bingxuan gracefully.

When the woman got out of the car, Wang Daren was stunned. He saw that the woman was a head taller than most of the men and women on the street, and the appearance of striding forward was really fairy-like. Wang Daren thought he saw a fairy in a daze, As for Mi Meng, she saw that fairy raised her hand and slapped the table, frowned and said in a rough voice like a man: "Hey, boy, where is shopkeeper Chu, let him come out to see me."

Wang Daren: "..."

Such a good fairy girl, why did she grow up and open her mouth?

"Hey, I'm talking to you!" The beauty became more and more impatient.

The little guy was shocked, seeing the displeasure written all over the face of the Donghu beauty in front of him, he couldn't help but wondered, he thought that he must be the shopkeeper's enemy, he asked cautiously: "May I ask why the girl is looking for our shopkeeper? "

Yelusu, who came to look for Chu Ci, paused, and then smiled meaningfully: "I asked him for the money for the wine, he called me to play around with him in the Qinlou for so long, I was exhausted, but Chu Ci's hard-working money Haven't given it to me yet!"

"Brothel? Nonsense, tossing?" Wang Daren was stunned and stuttered. The word "tossing" was like thunder in his ears. He thought of Chu Ci's dignified and upright appearance, and suddenly felt that people could not be judged by appearances. It turned out that their shopkeeper It turned out to be such a romantic shopkeeper Chu!

Wang Daren saw that Yelusu's expression was not good, so he hurriedly said with a smile on his face, "Miss, wait a moment, I'll call the shopkeeper right away."

After finishing speaking, he summoned another new job, asked the other party to take care of him for a while, and then went to the back hall to look for Chuci.

In the back hall, I didn't see Chu Ci, but saw Zhong Lixuan practicing calligraphy under the tree. Wang Daren stepped forward and said, "Master Zhongli, have you seen the shopkeeper? If you do, let him hide quickly, he has provoked you." Peach Blossom is coming, hey, hey, that figure, that temperament, only shopkeeper Chu can control it!"

Zhong Lixuan shook his hands, and the written words were stained with ink marks. He raised his face and said, "What romantic debt?"

"It's a romantic debt. There is a beautiful woman outside. She looks like the top card of the brothel. I look like a gentleman. I don't have a good temper. I don't talk shyly at all. I said that shopkeeper Chu is messing around with her. Tossing or something..." Wang Daren blushed.

Zhong Lixuan's complexion changed, he subtly thought of what Chu Ci said earlier about having experience, it could be possible...

Zhong Lixuan put down the pen in his hand, raised his hand to tidy up his clothes, and walked to the front hall: "Chuci went out to discuss business, I'll go and have a look."

Zhong Lixuan's complexion was heavy, and the breath around his body became cold in an instant. Wang Daren, who was following behind him, felt a chill surrounding him. He rubbed his arms and muttered: "The young master is not in a good mood these few days. So, why are you angry again today?"

Zhong Lixuan came to the front hall with a sullen face, lifted the curtain and saw a man standing with arms folded by the door, the man looked familiar, with long blond hair tied into a bun, dotted with strings of thumb-sized pearls, and a star between his eyebrows. The sapphire, matched with those blue eyes, is indeed beautiful.

Hearing the sound, Yelusu frowned and looked back, seeing Zhong Lixuan in red clothes paused.

The two looked at each other, Zhong Lixuan nodded coldly, Yelusu was also taken aback, and glanced up and down Zhong Lixuan, feeling that the Zhonglixuan in front of him must be different from before.

This person vaguely had an aura similar to that of Chu Ci, if he hadn't known that Zhong Lixuan was a beggar, he would have definitely thought that this was a noble young man raised by a family in the capital.

Yelusu chuckled: "It seems that Chu Ci has raised you well."

"Miss Hua is doing well." Zhong Lixuan felt ridiculous when he saw Yelusu's attire. He straightened his sleeves and pointed to the huqin on the table, "Are you learning to sing?"

When Yelusu heard the words, the veins on his forehead twitched. He wanted to stab Zhong Lixuan, but his eyes swept away. The strangers in the shop were strong and strong, and they were obviously Lianjiazi. Looking at him secretly, Yelusu immediately understood that these people were sent by the crown prince to monitor Chu Ci, he raised his hand to brush his hair, gritted his teeth and said, "Why don't I just go into the room and sing a song for you, young master?" Qu'er?"

"Okay." Zhong Lixuan nodded, and under Wang Daren's shocked gaze, he made a gesture of invitation, and Yelusu followed Zhonglixuan to the inner room with Huqin in his arms.

As soon as the door of the room was closed, Yelusu threw the huqin on the table: "This is an instrument made by a craftsman that Chu Ci asked me to find. I will show it to him. Where has Chu Ci gone now?"

Zhong Lixuan poured him a cup of tea: "I'm making money for the crown prince, you've seen it too, a few Buddha statues have been invited in the outer hall, and there are many officials in the glass kiln, all from Huangfurui's people, many eyes staring at him. , you'd better be careful."

"Tsk, if it wasn't for them, do you think I'd be happy to dress like this?" Yelusu sneered, didn't drink tea, just sat on a chair with a big horse and golden knife, looked around, this room was like Zhong Lixuan's bedroom, There were two pillows and a brocade quilt on the bed, Yelusu was taken aback, and subconsciously looked at Zhonglixuan.

Zhong Lixuan didn't really want to exchange feelings with Yelusu, he said casually: "The ears in the hall are all sticking out, and they have to do a full set of plays, you came in to sing a little song, Miss Hua, you can start singing now. "

Yelusu: "...Does anyone speak?"

However, what Zhong Lixuan said was really correct, now that Yelusu and Chuci are planning things under Huangfurui's nose, they need to be very careful, Yelusu raised his eyebrows for a while, and finally had to hold his breath and play the huqin.

The sound of the music was sonorous and powerful, and it seemed to contain endless grief and anger. It spread from the inner room to the hall a few feet away. Wang Daren said in his heart that it seems that the shopkeeper Chu has owed a lot of money, and the beauty who collected the debt is a violent one. The shopkeeper is afraid that he will suffer.

Just as he was thinking, Wang Daren saw that the newly recruited men all stretched their necks to look inside, and one wanted to lift the curtain to go to the back, so Wang Daren hurried over and slapped them hard on the back of the head.

"You son of a bitch, the one who plays the piano is the good friend of shopkeeper Chu, and the one who listens to the music is the young master. I don't think you can tear your neck into a big goose. You still have to work hard!"

The face of the guard who was slapped sank, and he looked at Wang Daren fiercely. Wang Daren thought that these boys were too wild, and snorted coldly: "What do you look at? If you don't work well, you know how to stand upright." Listening to the corner, I have done all the work, are you going to be exhausted? Are you all fools? You don’t know how to greet people when you see them, so you all come to work!"

These guards were ordered to monitor Chu Ci, and they couldn't reveal their identities. They heard the words and said that Wang Daren was not willing to let go. It seemed that he would lift up and slap them twice in the next second. They looked at each other and had to Follow Wang Daren's command to greet guests.

When Chuci came back, Yelusu had already played half of the song. Hearing the sound of the door opening, Yelusu breathed a sigh of relief, threw the huqin away, and directly explained the purpose of coming: "My spies got the news that Huangfu Zhengzheng has set off and returned from the palace. I will return to Beijing in less than half a month. Chu Ci, did you show some flaws? Huangfu Rui suddenly ordered people to search West Street in the past two days. When they found the piano building, I tried to fool them. It is inevitable that there are many dreams in the night, you have to think There is a way to stabilize Huangfu Rui."

Chu Ci sat down and said: "This matter has nothing to do with us. It is Tong Yubai who disappeared from the Prince's Mansion mysteriously. The people in the Prince's Mansion only said that he was taken away by thieves, and the Crown Princess was also raped and put under house arrest by Huangfurui." Now the residence of Princess Qingwu and He Shoufu has also been searched. Huangfu Rui is looking for someone all over the city. He not only checked the Qinlou, but also searched everywhere else, but he hasn't found anyone yet."

"Missing?" Zhong Lixuan was taken aback when he heard the words, Tong Yubai's front foot was castrated, and his back foot disappeared right under Huangfurui's nose.

Yelusu didn't know Tong Yubai well, so he didn't have any idea, he just taunted: "The male concubine in the prince's mansion disappeared as soon as he said he was missing, and the emperor of Yuanxu country is like this, how funny! Turning the imperial city upside down for a fugitive slave Chaotian, it seems that Huangfu Rui is just a womanizer."

Chu Ci glanced at Yelusu, and he subtly remembered how Yelusu went crazy for Tong Yubai before he was reborn.The few men around Tong Yubai, except for Zhong Lixuan who was unlucky enough to be drugged and forced to become a shadow guard, the others counted as one, but they were all a bit crazy.

Thinking about it, this is another unusual ability of Tong Yubai.

At this time, there were Huangfu Rui's spies outside, and after discussing the important matters concisely, Yelusu was holding Huqin and was about to leave. Chu Ci and Zhong Lixuan went to see him off together, and Yelusu saw those Huangfurui when he went out With the eyes of the spies looking over, he turned his head to look at the two people behind him, and then turned back and smiled slightly at Chu Ci.

"My friend, since you have already slept in the same bed with him, why are you still teasing me? You men all look alike, you like both, you want both, but I can't let you go, you don't come to see me I can only come to find you, Chu Lang, just be yourself!"

Chu Ci: "..."

In order to say the last sentence, he made up a long list of things, Yelusu is also amazing.

The customers and staff in Chu Bingxuan's shop were all shocked when they heard such explosive news. Wang Daren looked at Chu Ci as if he was looking at a peerless scumbag. Zhong Lixuan blushed and said angrily, "Don't talk nonsense. !"

"I'm talking nonsense, is it because you didn't sleep in the same bed or didn't forget me? It's just that I'm a hard-working person!" Yelusu said so, but stared at the two people in front of him, seeing Zhong Lixuan's ear tip It turned red, but Chu Ci's expression remained unchanged. After taking a look at him, he put his arms around Zhong Lixuan's waist, leaned over and whispered something to Zhong Lixuan.

Yelusu's eyes darkened, he glanced at Chu Ci, smiled shortly, like a sneer, turned around, boarded the carriage and drove away.

Chu Ci ignored the shocked eyes of everyone in the store, and returned to the inner room with the ashamed Zhong Lixuan. He took a sip of tea, comforted Zhong Lixuan and said: "Yelusu loves to find people's weaknesses. This is testing me. Don't worry about it." Care about him."

Zhong Lixuan held Chu Ci's hand, with an aggrieved expression on his face: "I haven't slept yet, but others think I have slept with you, so I feel panicked!"

"Cough cough cough-"

The tea that Chu Ci had just taken was stuck in his throat. He looked at Zhong Lixuan who said this with a pure face, seeing that Zhong Lixuan didn't think there was anything wrong with the words, Chu Ci raised his forehead: "You are actually Angry about this?"

Zhong Lixuan shook his head. Of course he was not angry about this, but because of Yelusu’s expression when he spoke. It’s not right to say it’s a joke, and it’s almost tasteless to say it’s a test. And those words that were said on purpose, I always feel weird and uncomfortable in my heart."

Chu Ci didn't think much about it. He and Yelusu used each other in their past and present lives. They can't even talk about friends, and Chu Ci didn't think about Yelusu's thoughts. If you don't like it, then I won't gossip with him in the future, just talk about business."

"Okay." Zhong Lixuan frowned and smiled, raised his arms around Chu Ci's neck and leaned over to touch it lightly. Before Chu Ci could react, he let go of his hand with a blushing face and lowered his eyes. Said: "I'll practice calligraphy for a while, after reading the book, I'll see the teacher tomorrow."

"Go." Chu Ci stood with his hands behind his back, watching Zhong Lixuan reading a book in the courtyard, he only raised his head to look at Chu Ci at first, and soon he gathered his mind to practice calligraphy carefully, his brows and eyes were calm with a trace of solemnity, faintly Already had the temperament of the youth of the previous life.

In summer, the sky gets late, and at the beginning of the month, the new moon is hidden by dark clouds, and the sky is gloomy. Zhong Lixuan is sleeping deeply, and vaguely hears the window being knocked, people around him get up and leave, and the heat dissipates.

Zhong Lixuan woke up from his drowsiness, rubbed his eyes and looked over, and saw Chu Ci stood up and stood by the window, Zhong Lixuan looked over with his head propped up, and felt that there was nothing unsightly about Chu Ci. Ting, there was some sense of mystery for no reason, which attracted him more than the day.

Zhong Lixuan was tracing the silhouette by the window with his eyes, when he saw Chu Ci raise his hand, and a dark shadow landed on Chu Ci's arm.

"Gah——" The shadow touched Chu Ci's palm, turned its head and yelled, and yelled at Chu Ci vaguely for a while. Zhong Lixuan recognized that it was the starling that Chu Ci had trained to release, and put on a coat. Clothes rubbed his eyes and walked over, squinting his eyes for a while, and it was indeed the starling that was taken away by Zhu Shiyan and the two big parrots.

This starling will fly back at night every few days, and it will whisper something to Chu Ci as it does now. It just imitates the people around it. Seriously, and recorded the news of mynah learning tongue in detail.

Zhong Lixuan also understood that Chu Ci spent all his time training parrots and starlings, but actually used these clever birds to inquire about news. Tong Yubai liked fancy birds, so Chu Ci used those two gorgeous parrots as bait, The starling was delivered to him.

The mynah was babbling, and only Chu Ci could understand it. After the mynah finished reporting, Chu Ci opened the window, and mynah flapped its wings and flew away. It quickly turned into a small black spot in the night.

Chu Ci closed the window and lit the candles. Zhong Lixuan noticed that there was a smile on the corner of his mouth, and he stretched out his hand by the candle, showing something in his palm.

"This is what I got back from training my starlings, and now it can be counted."

Under the candlelight, a jade pendant lay on the palm of Chu Ci. The jade pendant was only the size of two copper coins and was exquisitely carved. On one side was a coiling dragon, turned around, and on the other side were engraved with two small characters.

Zhong Lixuan felt puzzled when he saw the dragon shape on the jade pendant. When the jade pendant was turned over and two words appeared, Zhong Lixuan felt a buzzing in his head, and he was horrified: "Yu Bai...is this Tong Yubai? The jade pendant? Only dragon sons can wear dragon-shaped jade ornaments. Could it be that Tong Yubai is the prince?"

Chu Ci put away the jade pendant that could prove Tong Yubai's identity, and planned to throw it into the iron smelting device to grind it into powder early the next morning, and then explained to the bewildered Zhong Lixuan: "Tong Yubai is exactly Huangfu Zhengze. A son who was left behind among the people. It is wrong to say that he was left behind, in fact, he was abandoned by Huangfu Zhengze on his own initiative."

Zhong Lixuan had also heard about these pasts from Yelusu and Zhou Zhichuan, but none of them knew the inside story, Zhong Lixuan had only a half-knowledge about it, and asked in amazement, "Give up?"

Chu Ci nodded: "Well, Tong Yubai's biological mother is the former princess Dongfang Ya, who has the blood of the Dongfang family. Huangfu Zheng will never let such a child become the crown prince. After Dongfang Ya gave birth to Tong Yubai, Huangfu Zhengzheng secretly A member of the Guangna Palace, he wanted to leave his mother and keep his son, but before the prince was born, he encountered a disturbance from the party members of the previous dynasty. Huangfu Zheng wanted to abandon Dongfang Ya's mother and son in order to stabilize the court. However, the irony is that he was injured in that turmoil. For many years, no prince was born, only a few princesses were added, the courtiers were afraid of the instability of the country, and repeatedly put pressure on Huangfu Zhengze, Huangfu Zhengze had no choice but to adopt the clan's nephew and nephew as the crown prince."

When Huangfu Zhengzheng was being restrained everywhere, Dongfang Ya died for her country, paving the way for her son to return to Huangfu Zhengze's side in the future.

To some extent, Dongfang Ya may have gone crazy long ago.

Zhong Lixuan thought for a while after hearing the words, and felt that the matter still didn't make sense: "In this case, how did Tong Yubai become the young master of the Tong family?"

Chu Ci raised his hand and touched Zhong Lixuan's cheek, sighing softly: "The Tong family was originally the personal guard of the Dongfang clan back then, and they became the tyrants of Shanyangling when they fell into the grass. Then use the medicine to control the royal guards, so even if there is only one Dongfang Ya left in the Dongfang family, those guards will still guard her loyally until all the blood of the Dongfang family disappears."

In the last life, the medicine that Tong Yubai used to control Zhong Lixuan was the secret medicine specially used by the Eastern royal family.Chu Ci originally thought it was something made by the Huangfu family, but after talking with Zhou Zhichuan in detail, Chu Ci learned the true origin of the medicine.

In this way, the secrets of Tong Yubai were exposed to Chu Ci—the only one who had been hiding in the Tong family to teach Tong Yubai could only be Dongfang Ya herself.Tong Yubai is familiar with the instinct to tease men, which is the result of Dongfang Ya's precepts and deeds.

The ridiculous thing is that in this life, because of Dongfang Ya's teachings, Tong Yubai has become a useless person who cannot appear as a prince.Everything carefully planned was destroyed, and Chu Ci was very curious about what Dongfang Ya would do to restore everything.

The fingertips that landed on his face were cold and lifeless. Zhong Lixuan was taken aback for a moment, and raised his hand to cover Chu Ci's. He sensed something was wrong, and after being silent for a while, he asked nervously, "Chu Ci, you don't look good. Happy, does this have something to do with us?"

Chu Ci touched Zhong Lixuan's head: "It's hard to say now. Now that Tong Yubai has returned to the place where he should go, Dongfang Ya will show up soon. If you encounter any unexpected things these days, Don't be afraid, just wait and see."

"Okay." Zhong Lixuan nodded, and put his arms around Chu Ci's waist, "As long as Chu Ci is with me, I won't be afraid of anything. I still have to wait for Chu Ci to marry me, and I don't want Chu Ci either. Just forget it."

"I won't forget it." Chu Ci's calculations were all gone at this moment. He lowered his head and kissed the top of the boy's hair, his face finally calmed down, "It's getting late, let's go to bed first."

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