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"Don't dare, it's better than a playboy like you." Chu Jiangqiu rolled his eyes at Chu Yu.

"So that's how it happened, I made a big oolong." Chu Yu smiled, and said lightly: "Xiao Jiu, it's getting late, it's time to enter the palace, Brother Huang has to wait."

The imperial palace is bigger and more fortified than Duanwang's mansion. Chu Jiangqiu looked at this place where he had lived for nine years, it was familiar yet strange, and he hadn't set foot there for five years.

When stepping into the Taiji Palace, Chu Jiangqiu's feet trembled unconsciously. The winner and the loser, as it is said, the blood of the predecessors is like a river, and the history of the descendants is only a word.

"Your Majesty, my Majesty, long live, long live, long live, long live, long live, long live, long live, long live, long live, long live, long live, long live, long live Your Majesty." Chu Jiang Qiu fell to the ground. The bricks and tiles here are very familiar. When I was a child, I used to pester my father and emperor here to play, but things are different. It happened years ago, and my memory is a little fuzzy.

"Get up, Ninth Brother," came a deep and deep voice.

Chu Jiangqiu got up slowly, and looked up at Chu Jing who was sitting on the dragon chair. He was only thirty, and his temples were already slightly gray.

"Thank you, Your Majesty" Chu Jiangqiu thanked loudly.

"I have already ordered the imperial dining room to cook a few more dishes, and I will have a meal with me later, we brothers have not seen each other for a long time." Chu Jing did not give Chu Jiangqiu room to refuse.

"Yes, Your Majesty" Chu Jiangqiu thanked him.

"Ninth Brother, how have you been on the mountain all these years?" Chu Jing said slowly.

The dishes cooked in the imperial dining room were all Chu Jiangqiu's favorite food when he was a child. Chu Jiangqiu was busy grilling rice, and when asked by Chu Jing, he wanted to open his mouth to answer immediately, but a mouthful of rice stuck in his throat and he coughed violently.

Chu Jing hurriedly served a cup of tea, "It's still the same as when I was a child, reckless."

Chu Jiangqiu nodded awkwardly, and said after a while: "The mountain is very good, master and wife take good care of me."

"That's good. There is music in the mountains in the mountains. If there is anything you need to tell me, you and I come from the same mother, so naturally we are a little closer than other princes." Chu Jing put chopsticks in the Chu Jiangqiu bowl.

Chu Jiangqiu lowered his head to eat and remained silent.It's different, among so many princes, you spared my life.

When the autumn wind came, the golden chrysanthemums in the imperial garden fluttered in the wind, competing for splendor. "The queen mother liked chrysanthemums the most. She planted a few chrysanthemums in her Liuyue Palace. The flowers bloomed brightly but were uprooted. Now this The big piece of chrysanthemum, the queen mother can't see it." Chu Jing sighed a few times in the wind.

When Chu Jiangqiu's mother passed away, he was only four years old, and he only had a vague impression in his mind, that is, his mother called him Xiaoqiu's appearance, but the late emperor undoubtedly loved this beauty who was the most beautiful in the world, and let her live in a helpless world. Relying on the deep palace, he lived peacefully for 16 years, and finally died of heart disease.

For a long time after his mother died, the first emperor often came to visit him, playing with him on his lap. Only when he grew up did he realize that the first emperor did not come to see him, but to see his dead mother, because he looked very much like his mother.

"My condolences to Your Majesty, I also miss my mother very much." Chu Jiangqiu stopped his chopsticks.

Chu Jing smiled lightly, did not bring up this topic again, and changed to a sharper topic, "I heard that Duanwang's mansion was robbed last night? The Chimu tree was lost. Is it the one that came as a tribute from the Western Regions a while ago?"

It only took half a day for such detailed news to reach the palace, I have to remind the third brother that it is necessary to check the details of the people in the mansion.

"Yes, Your Majesty," Chu Jiangqiu replied.

"Do you have a clue?" Chu Jing took a sip of his wine.

"Nothing for the time being." Chu Jiangqiu looked up at Chu Jing's expression, and there was nothing unusual. If it was true that Hu Ji Hongrui took the zhimu tree, and Hu Ji belonged to the emperor's brother, the emperor definitely did not take a zhimu tree. Mother's motives, if you want it, wouldn't it be more convenient to go back, but if this Hu Ji is not the emperor's brother... Chu Jiangqiu fell into deep thought.

"Ninth Brother, Ninth Brother" Chu Jing called Chu Jiangqiu a few times before returning to his senses, "Are you going back to the mountain immediately?".

"That's what I planned, but I can't leave now, I have to find Mother Zhi." Chu Jiangqiu frowned.

"What's the use of this mother Zhi?" Chu Jing froze for a moment.

"My little junior sister is ill and needs this medicine urgently." Chu Jiangqiu sighed inadvertently.

"Ninth Brother, does this mean you have a sweetheart?" Chu Jing pursed her lips and smiled slightly.

Chu Jiangqiu's face was flushed red. Is his little thought so obvious? Anyone can see it, it's almost transparent.

Chu Jing seemed to know what Chu Jiangqiu was thinking, and said, "Ninth brother, you haven't left the mountain for five years. This time, you made an exception for a very important person. This person is a woman, so you must be your sweetheart."

Chu Jiangqiu nodded helplessly.

"This is a good thing. Ninth Brother has someone he likes, so I won't have to worry about your marriage. When will the wedding be held?" Chu Jing kept showing a hint of a smile amidst his majesty.

"This matter has to be discussed in the long run, so don't worry about it just now." Chu Jiangqiu lowered his head, this is a matter that has not been written down, and he hasn't asked his junior sister yet, so why did he get married?Do you want to marry by force?He is really big headed.

Hearing this, Chu Jing lowered her head and smiled.

Chu Jiangqiu thought that all his little secrets had been seen.

"Where can I find it?" Chu Jing said.

"The thief left a word and asked me to buy it on the black market." Chu Jiangqiu gritted his teeth when he thought of spending hundreds of gold to buy his own things.

"I'm going to prepare money for you." Chu Jing waved, and a father-in-law came forward.

"No need, the third brother gave it to me." As soon as the words came out, Chu Jiangqiu regretted it.

"Okay, let's go early, and go back to the mountain as soon as possible." Chu Jing put down his wine glass and got up.

"Chen Zunzhi" Chu Jiangqiu looked at Chu Jing's leaving figure, did he want to go back to the mountain so much? In the past five years, he didn't even write a letter to himself. Is this still the brother Jing who once loved him?Since the change of Lin'anmen, it is doomed that the monarch and his ministers are different.

In the evening, inside the Tai Chi Palace.

"It's time for you to leave, he's leaving," Chu Jing said to the yellow curtain behind him.

"No hurry, let him be a headless chicken for a while." A voice came from behind the yellow curtain.

"You will always listen to me." Chu Jing looked at the memorials piled up on the desk.

"I'm His Majesty's servant, so I'll do my best for His Majesty, and I'll do whatever I want." The voice behind the yellow curtain was firm and decisive.

After hearing this, Chu Jing smiled slightly and said, "Go down."

There was a rustling sound coming from behind the yellow curtain, and after a while, there was no sound, and the whole hall was silent.

"Your Majesty, the empress is here" After a long while, a eunuch's announcement came.

"Quick, please come in." Chu Jing hurriedly raised her head.

"My concubine made four-flavored soup for His Majesty. I heard that His Majesty's appetite has not been good for the past two days, so I brought it here to appetize Your Majesty." Li Yujiao brought the soup on the table.

"It's Jiao'er who is thoughtful. I really have a treasure in the house. I want you to feed me." Chu Jing took Li Yujiao's hand and let Li Yujiao sit next to her.

"There are so many people watching, but I don't dare to mess around." Li Yujiao gave Chu Jing a reproachful look.

"Just let them back down," Chu Jing said with a smile.

Today, the emperor has only favored the empress for ten years, and has not accepted concubines and concubines. The three palaces and six courtyards are all empty.The two are like glue, with a son and a daughter under their knees, what people call it at the time, three thousand dotes on one body.

4. White Clothes Win Snow

◎The black market, located in the Wubenfang West Market in Wannian County, opens every fifth day, gathers in the middle of the night, and disperses as soon as the cock crows, with mixed fish and dragons inside, up to high-ranking officials and nobles...◎

The black market, located in Wubenfang West Market in Wannian County, is held every five days. It gathers in the middle of the night and disperses as soon as the cock crows. Inside, fish and dragons are mixed, ranging from high-ranking officials and nobles, relatives of the emperor, down to ordinary people, street beggars, have it all.

The two servants accompanied Chu Jiangqiu to Wannian County on August [-]th, and settled down in the Ruyi Inn in Wubenfang. The two servants Chu Yu assigned to Chu Jiangqiu were two brothers. Song and Qiao Mu said they were young servants, but Chu Jiangqiu saw that these two were by no means ordinary people, they still had a certain level of martial arts skills, and they should be the people sent by the third brother to help him.

The three of them were sitting in a restaurant drinking, this restaurant is strange, there is only a proprietress but no boss, when asked where the boss is going, the proprietress just smiled and did not answer.

"Lord Nine, I just went to inquire about it, and the market will open on time at midnight on the [-]th." Qiao Song lowered his voice.

"Call me son from now on, don't call me prince anymore, the situation outside is complicated, I'm sure no thief will listen to it." Chu Jiangqiu glanced at the two of them.

"Yes, sir," the two said in unison.

"Boss, bring me the sweet-scented osmanthus brew that I put in your place last year."

"But wait for Mr. Liu. This is your wine. This wine has been 20 years old today. It can be called a fine wine with a fragrance of ten miles."

The three of them moved their eyes along the smell of wine and turned to the counter.I saw a young man in white, standing tall, with a bun on his head, the rest of his long hair falling like ink on his back shoulders, with a silver and black long sword on his waist, his whole body has the color of mountains and rivers.

But what attracts Chu Jiangqiu is definitely not this pair of skins, but the pot of wine in the hands of the white-clothed man, 20 years of sweet-scented osmanthus brewing, that is a rare thing, and the bottle of sweet-scented osmanthus brewing in the master's hand is held like a treasure all day long I was afraid to move myself.

"My lord, are you going to enter the ghost market this time?" Although the proprietress's voice was very low, it still reached Chu Jiangqiu's ears. The hearing of martial arts practitioners is indeed a little better than that of ordinary people.

"That's exactly what I mean." The man in white said in a gentle voice, unhurried.

"Recently, Wannian County has come to a lot of idlers, and there must be something good in the ghost market this time," the proprietress asked.

"Boss, you shouldn't ask anything else." Although the man in white turned his back to Chu Jiangqiu, he still heard a slight smile from the man in white.

After all, the man in white turned around with the wine in his hand, and Chu Jiangqiu finally saw that face clearly, it was an extremely beautiful face, if it were to be placed on a woman, it was also stunningly beautiful, but this face was too much. Familiar, as if I've seen it somewhere, Chu Jiangqiu was stunned for a moment.

Qiao Song and Qiao Mu also stared at the man in white. When the man in white turned his head, he saw