Man Xilan
Chapter 2 Accident
"You are such a lonely ghost, why are you so stubborn?"
"I don't know." Su Qizhi shook his head and said in a low voice, "If you insist on finding a reason, it might be because I'm still alive."
"Innocent child." Seeing Su Qizhi's immature and stubborn face, Su Xuan suddenly smiled.
"If there is nothing else? Can I go?" Su Qizhi said, turning around to leave.
"Qizhi," Su Xuan stretched out his hand to grab Su Qizhi, and brought him into his arms, his tone became extremely gentle: "You still like father, don't you? You are in the new fourth prince's mansion, I miss my father very much, don't you?"
Closing her eyes, Su Qizhi nodded lightly without denying it.
"When Qizhi started to have conflicts with the father, the father waited for Qizhi to come and apologize to the father, but it's a pity that you didn't come anyway." Su Xuan stretched out his hand to stroke Su Qizhi's hair lovingly, and then said : "So, Father will give Qizhi another chance, as long as Qizhi asks Father for mercy, Father will forgive you, how about it?"
"How to forgive?" Su Qizhi couldn't hear any emotion in his voice.
"I can give you a chance to love me." Because I found that being loved by someone so proud of you is not bad, and when you are not around, I will miss you a little, and even my emotions will be because of hearing you news ups and downs.I found Su Huai as a substitute, but obviously it didn't help, it would only make me more irritable.
Gently pushing Su Xuan away again, Su Qizhi took two steps back, looked straight into Su Xuan's eyes, and said: "The opportunity to love others is my own, not given by anyone. If there is nothing, I really have to go."
"The feeling of holding on is not good." Su Xuan looked at Su Qizhi, like looking at a disobedient pet. Weeping silently in the bedroom. Presumably Qizhi's life in the fourth prince's mansion is not easy. As long as you ask, I will let you live in Qingyun Palace again."
"Why do you ask me to ask?" Su Qizhi pondered for a long time before asking this question.
"Because I am the ruler of the Qing Kingdom!" Su Xuan said firmly, "Since I am the ruler, I will not allow other proud people to exist."
Su Qizhi suddenly felt a little funny.
I am used to hearing the deep affection my father has for Concubine Liu, but today I heard some different inside stories.There is no romantic romance, only compromise under the power of the emperor.
It's really disappointing, as if a good thing is shattered in front of your eyes.
Yeliu, that woman as bright as the bright moon, if she knew that the loyalty she demanded was belittled by her father's adverbs, and her compromise was regarded as the spoils of the emperor's power, how would she feel under the nine springs?
Will you regret losing your life to give birth to this man's child?Or will you love to the depths and don't regret it?
If Li Luowei could really summon Concubine Liu's soul, Su Qizhi would definitely ask her such a question.
But now, not when he was thinking wildly, Su Qizhi looked at Su Xuan who was waiting for him to speak, and saluted again, intending to leave.
"You still have to go?" Su Xuan looked at Su Qizhi in astonishment.
"I still have something to do, I'm going back to the Fourth Prince's Mansion first." Su Qizhi turned around and left without hesitation this time.
Quickly shuttling through the palace, Su Qizhi couldn't wait to leave this place.
The buildings that were very familiar and nostalgic to me, now look a little dark. How many unbearable things are buried in these cold buildings?Even the relationship between Father Huang and Concubine Liu, which has been passed down throughout the continent, has such a gloomy place.
When Su Qizhi came to the gate of the palace, he unexpectedly found that the carriage with the logo of Liu's House was also parked there. Liu Lan was squatting in front of the carriage, drawing circles on the ground with a branch boredly. Seeing Su Qizhi's figure, Liu Lan Raising his head, the voice said with a trace of grievance: "Fourth prince, why did you come out? I have been waiting for you for a long time."
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Time to Return Man Xilan Volume 15 Shocking Changes Chapter [-] Suspect Qiao Kang
"Why are you here?" Su Qizhi asked.
"I'm here to pick you up." Liu Lan got up, threw away the branch in her hand, pointed to the gorgeous carriage next to her, bowed in a gesture of invitation, and said with a smile, "Fourth Prince, get in the carriage."
The smile is as gentle as ever, and there is no trace of the previous depression and discouragement.
Seeing such a smile, Su Qizhi remembered the sarcastic remarks before leaving, and couldn't help but feel a little guilty, moved his lips, wanted to say something, but didn't know how to speak, finally he could only smile at Liu Lan, and went directly to Go in his direction.
Lifting the curtain of the car, Su Qizhi's expression changed suddenly, and he shouted unkindly: "Liu Lan!"
What is the matter with this person?The whole body is bloody and bloody, isn't it the suspect just now?How did he get into Liu Lan's carriage?
Liu Lan came over, looked into the car and looked at the comatose man who was still groaning because of the pain, and said, "Isn't this man the Fourth Prince wants to take away?"
"When did I say I would take him away?"
"After this man was dragged and thrown out of the palace by a group of guards, he kept calling the fourth prince, the fourth prince~~ I thought he had something to do with you~~ If it wasn't for the sake of the fourth prince , how could it be possible for such a dirty person to enter my carriage~~"
"He is a suspect arrested by the minister of punishment." Su Qizhi explained with a sigh: "Father let me enter the palace today to identify whether he was the assassin that day."
"Since everyone has let him in, we can't kick him down again."
Liu Lan got into the carriage while speaking, turned around and stretched out her hand to pull Su Qizhi up, and the two of them sat opposite the unconscious suspect, and looked closely at the so-called suspect, Liu Lan said: "It looks like a hand How can a person who has no power to restrain a chicken be an assassin? And he can go to the palace to assassinate the prince? How do the officials of the Ministry of Punishment investigate the case?"
Su Qizhi said helplessly: "Of course he is not an assassin."
"The people in the criminal department are miserable," Liu Lan smiled, "I made a mistake on such an important case, but since this person is not an assassin, do you have any other clues to the real assassin?"
"No. The clue is broken, and the real assassin may never be found." Su Qizhi's voice sounded a bit dull.
Liu Lan thought that Su Qizhi was in a bad mood because he couldn't catch the assassin, so she hurriedly approached him again, reached out and patted Su Qizhi's shoulder, and said firmly: "It doesn't matter, although this time The assassin may never be found, but in the future, the fourth prince will definitely not encounter this kind of thing again." Because I will protect you.
"I hope." Su Qizhi turned his head to look out of the window, a trace of bewilderment flashed across his expression.
While the two were talking, the unlucky suspect woke up startled by the swaying of the carriage, his red and swollen eyes barely opened a small slit, and he muttered, "Why, am I dead? Where is this?"
"That's right, you're dead." Liu Lan leaned over and said to the suspect, "Now this is the underworld. I'm black and white, tell me the truth, did you assassinate the fourth prince?"
Exhausting all his strength to look at Liu Lan carefully, the suspect pulled out a very weak smile regardless of the tearing of the corner of his mouth, and said intermittently: "...how can there be... such a beautiful... black and white..." After speaking, he tilted his head and fainted again past.
Liu Lan was a little angry and made a big grimace at the suspect.
Su Qizhi watched the scene in front of him with a faint smile on his lips.But my heart is turning a thousand times.
Why was he chosen as a scapegoat?What is the origin of this so-called assassin?
The ill-fated suspect was taken to the Fourth Prince's Mansion and received good care. Fortunately, he suffered all flesh injuries. Although he looked scary, he didn't move his muscles and bones. After more than a month, his body basically recovered , all that is left is to rest slowly.
When Su Qizhi saw the suspect for the first time, what he saw was the most embarrassing face of a pig in his life. Now after the doctor's treatment, he slowly revealed Lushan's true face.
With a fair face and a standard scholarly appearance, his body also exudes a strong bookish atmosphere.
This person looks gentle and harmless, even a little weak and bully.It belongs to the kind of person who buys vegetables in the vegetable market, and the aunts will randomly ask for prices.
But it was such a weak scholar who resisted the torture and torture of the officials of the Ministry of Punishment, without bowing his head at all, and finally managed to call the fourth prince to prove his innocence.
Soft on the outside and hard on the inside, this so-called assassin is not an ordinary character.
The suspect's surname is Qiao and his name is Kang. He is from Mulin City, Qingguo. He has only one son in his family. His father died early, and his mother worked hard to raise him.Since he was a child, his family was poor, and he was often embarrassed.But Qiao Kang's mother is a very knowledgeable woman, no matter how difficult it is, she asks Qiao Kang to go to school to study.I wholeheartedly hope that Qiao Kang will gain fame and honor his ancestors.
That's how Qiao Kang introduced his background to Su Qizhi, and the news that Chi secretly helped Su Qizhi find out also said the same, there was no discrepancy.
Qiao Kang's life experience currently looks like a clean blank sheet of paper, without any suspiciousness.
According to Qiao Kang himself, the so-called assassin incident was a sudden accident.
Because of his poor family, Qiao Kang has been in Mulin City since he was a child, and has no chance to go out to play.Every time he hears the interesting stories about those little friends going out to play, Qiao Kang is envious. Traveling around is Qiao Kang's dream since he was a child.
After Qiao Kang grew up and could teach and earn money, Mother Qiao's body was very weak and she couldn't leave her for a moment.Qiao Kang can only stay in Mulin to serve his mother.
A year ago, Mother Qiao died of illness.After the heartbroken Qiao Kang took care of his mother's funeral, he came up with the idea of wandering around, firstly to avoid staying at home and thinking about others, and secondly, to fulfill the wish he made when he was a child to travel around.
Qiao Kang sold all his belongings and started on the road, stopping and stopping in the territory of Qingguo, living a very happy life.
Six months ago, Qiao Kang, who had had enough walking, came to the capital and bought a house here, hoping to take this opportunity to prepare for the imperial examination next year.
Even on His Majesty's birthday, the whole country was so lively, Qiao Kang was unmoved, and devoted himself to studying at home, trying to fulfill his mother's wish and strive to be a blockbuster in the exam.
"I was really studying at home that day, and I wrote an article analyzing the situation in the whole mainland." Qiao Kang said to Su Qizhi: "Who knows, just a few days ago, a group of officers and soldiers broke into my house suddenly. , took me away indiscriminately, if you insist that I am the assassin who assassinated the fourth prince, I don't understand, how can I become an assassin as a law-abiding commoner?"
"So I persisted in the prison. Even if they threatened and lured me to plead guilty, I would not plead guilty. If I pleaded guilty, I would die. If I persisted, there might be a day when my injustice will be punished." Fortunately, the fourth prince proved my innocence at the last moment." At this point, Qiao Kang picked up the wine glass and saluted Su Qizhi: "This glass of wine is for me to respect the fourth prince. For the great kindness of the fourth prince, Qiao Kang Kang will never forget." After finishing speaking, he drank the glass of wine in one gulp.
Su Qizhi also drank the wine in his hand in one gulp, and said with a smile: "You didn't do it in the first place, I'm just telling the truth. It's too heavy to say it's a great kindness."
"The fourth prince's words are wrong~~ Although I am just a grassroots person, I have heard a lot about the intertwined affairs between the court. In that atmosphere that day, it is really rare for the fourth prince to firmly deny it." Even if The emperor and several princes were not present that day, and those court ministers alone had enough weight to make people feel taboo.
Su Qi was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said: "All the messy things in the court have nothing to do with me."
"Oh? The fourth prince said that, is he planning to~~-" Qiao Kang looked at the prince who left the palace to build a mansion before he was sixteen, and only half of what he said meaningfully.
"I really won't fight for that position." Compared to Qiao Kang's mystification, Su Qizhi said generously: "And I won't interfere with the affairs between the government and the government." Thinking of his father's day That cold sentence, "It's not suitable for you to intervene in the affairs of the court." Su Qizhi couldn't help adding another sentence: "I won't interfere in a single bit."
Looking at Su Qizhi like this, Qiao Kang couldn't help feeling in his heart, seeing is worth seeing, if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, who would have expected that the rumored arrogant fourth prince would have such simple thoughts?
Instructing the maid next to him to bring embroidery threads of various colors, Qiao Kang demonstrated to Su Qizhi with those threads: "If the red thread is me, the white thread is the Fourth Prince, the blue thread is Young Master Liu Lan, and the yellow thread represents Your Majesty.... The green line is the officials of the Criminal Department..."
"The fourth prince and His Majesty are father and son." Qiao Kang said and entangled the white thread and the yellow thread together.
"The fourth prince and Master Liu Lan are neighbors and friends." Twist the blue thread and the white thread again.
"Someone slandered me for assassinating the fourth prince." The red line was also mixed in.
…Then there are lines of various colors added, and various relationships are handed over together...
When Qiao Kang stopped his movements, Su Qizhi looked at the finished product in Qiao Kang's hands.
It's a complex, unrecognizable, messy knot.
Qiao Kang said: "The things in this world are that you pester me and I pester you. All of them are knots. The fourth prince is a member of the royal family himself, and has a special status in the palace. Many things, how can you make up your mind? If you want to retreat, you can retreat." Got it?"
Man Xi Lan at the Return Time Volume 16 Shocking Changes No.[-] Chapter Moon Night Talk
Seeing Su Qizhi's pensive look, Qiao Kang stretched out his hand and handed the messy knot in front of him, and said, "Why don't the fourth prince try to untie it?"
Su Qizhi took it with both hands, and observed for a long time before starting to do it, but this colorful knot was too complicated and cumbersome, one link after another, it took a lot of effort to untie a little bit , to unravel it all, this project seems to be nowhere in sight.
Calling the maid next to him to bring over a pair of scissors, Su Qizhi wanted to cut off the messy thread with the scissors.
"Why is the fourth prince in such a hurry?" Qiao Kang hurriedly grabbed Su Qizhi's arm to save the unlucky ball of thread from bad luck, "If such a ball of thread is really cut, the one representing the fourth prince will be cut off. Maybe it's broken too."
"But if you don't cut it off, how can you untie it?"
"It's not necessarily a bad thing if you can't untie it." Qiao Kang smiled and took the knot back into his hand. This place was tight, and that place was loose. It looks a lot better.Colorful colors and irregular knotting methods can also present an unexpected beauty.
"Brother Qiao is really clever." Su Qizhi looked at it for a while, then raised his wine glass and said to Qiao Kang, "I would like to respect Brother Qiao."
Qiao Kang picked up the wine glass with a smile and drank it down.
As soon as the two glasses were put down, they heard rustling sounds from the bamboo forest.
Qiao Kang glanced at Su Qizhi, his eyes were full of panic, the prison where he was mistaken for an assassin really made Qiao Kang, an honest scholar like him, feel lingering fear, and he became frightened when he was a bit abnormal.
Su Qizhi patted Qiao Kang's shoulder reassuringly, and said, "Brother Qiao, don't worry, there will be no one else who can climb over the wall at this time, except Liu Lan."
As soon as he finished speaking, Qiao Kang saw Liu Lan's figure walking out of the bamboo forest.
The moonlight shone coldly on Liu Lan's body, making him even more beautiful and extraordinary.
Qiao Kang suddenly had an illusion that the Liu Lan in front of him didn't come over the wall from the house next door, but descended from the sky under the moonlight.
"The fourth prince and brother Qiao are very interested." Liu Lan walked to the stone table and sat down unceremoniously. When the colored talisman standing next to him saw Liu Lan coming, he immediately bought tableware for him and poured wine glasses for him with a smile on his face. Man, "Why didn't you call me on this matter of watching the moon and drinking wine?"
"I didn't call you, so you came too." Seeing Liu Lan's behavior of treating his mansion as his own backyard, Su Qizhi became a little annoyed, and when he looked at the courteous talisman, he felt even more frustrated In just over a month, why were all the servants in the mansion bought by Liu Lan?
"Come here uninvited, and accompany the fourth prince to enjoy the moon, and the fourth prince owes me again." After finishing speaking, Liu Lan picked up the wine glass in front of her, took a sip, and praised: "Good wine, the wine in the fourth prince's house is so different Fantastic."
"This is the tribute wine brought out from the palace. If Master Liu Lan likes it, he can take a jar back." Caifu hurriedly answered from the side.
"Then it's better to be respectful than to obey."
Liu Lan and Caifu looked at each other and smiled. There was an indescribable tacit understanding. People who didn't know would think that these two were serious masters and servants.
Su Qizhi sighed in his heart, five jars of this tribute wine were brought out in total, and one jar was given away with such a generosity of colored charms, it really makes people... melancholy.
"Master Liu Lan and the fourth prince are really close." Qiao Kang said after observing for a long time.
"It's easy to say, the fourth prince and I are good neighbors." Liu Lan laughed. "Fourth prince, do you think so?"
"...Yes." Su Qizhi replied with some reluctance.
"What were you talking about just now?" Liu Lan asked Qiao Kang without dwelling on this issue.
"We're playing with this." Qiao Kang held up the knot that looked much better and shook it in front of Liu Lan's eyes: "Master Liu Lan, do you want to try to untie it?"
Liu Lan took the knot and smiled: "It's so complicated, how to solve it?"
"Don't look so complicated, it's not a casual tie." Qiao Kang explained the meaning of those nodes to Liu Lan.
"So this is the 'knot' representing the fourth prince?" Liu Lan asked after hearing Qiao Kang's words.
Qiao Kang nodded.
"Why are there so many uninterrupted and chaotic relationships?" Liu Lan muttered in a low voice, and then said to Qiao Kang: "This solution is impossible to solve, but if I were the fourth prince, I wouldn't have such a complicated knot. .”
"Oh? What can Master Liu Lan do?"
"It's very simple." Liu Lan asked the maid next to him for a line again, and started to demonstrate by herself.
"This is me and the fourth prince." The white thread and the blue thread were entangled.
"Your Majesty and the Fourth Prince are father and son." A yellow line was added.
Then a few more important people joined in.
"These maids of Qingyun Palace no longer serve the fourth prince, so they can be removed." The thread representing the maids of Qingyun Palace was pulled out by Liu Lan and thrown aside.
"These officials of the Ministry of Criminal Justice are only helping the Fourth Prince solve the case. After the case is solved, there is no connection." The line representing the officials of the Ministry of Criminal Justice was also drawn by Liu Lan.
After picking and picking like this, the final product is really much simpler.
"Master Liu Lan is also Miaosi's person, so he is really generous." Qiao Kang said with a smile.
"Those messy side branches and leaves should not be put on the table to disturb people's thoughts." Liu Lan raised his glass to Qiao Kang and said, "This knot is really interesting. Come, let me toast Brother Qiao. I also toast four." A cup for the prince."
So the three of them raised their wine glasses and drank in one gulp.
The three people are not very old, and they have a common language with each other. After a few glasses of wine, their chatterboxes start to open up. They made fun of each other, raised their wine glasses, and clinked glasses with each other. For a while, the bamboo forest, which seemed very quiet on a moonlit night, was also full of laughter.
After three rounds of drinking, everyone was a little drunk.The topic became more unscrupulous.
Qiao Kang propped one hand on the edge of the table and put the other on Liu Lan's shoulder, and said with some inarticulate words: "Guess what I don't believe in the most in this world?" Su Qizhi responded, and Qiao Kang continued: "The thing I don't believe in the most is love!! Looking at the gifted men and beautiful women written in the book, they fall in love with each other, and promise each other for life and death, it's all empty talk~~-"
"It's all lies!" Qiao Kang raised one arm and swiped in the air a few times, as if to add weight to his words: "It's all lies. The thing I don't believe in in my life is love~~"
"Brother Qiao said so, do you have a story to tell us?" Su Qizhi asked maliciously.
"That's right, could it be that brother Qiao fell in love with a young lady and was rejected?" Liu Lan also followed Su Qizhi to make a fuss.
"Nothing! I don't have any chance to fall in love with a lady." Qiao Kang raised his voice and denied it flatly. "I haven't experienced it. I have heard and seen enough. I have never eaten pork. Ever seen a pig run?"
"Then brother Qiao, which pig run did he see that made him feel so emotional?"
"Which pig ran away? Seriously!"
Su Qizhi was fanning the flames, and Liu Lan followed behind to light the fire.
"Let me tell you a story." Qiao Kang said: "Once upon a time, the jewel in the palm of a large family met a poor scholar when he went to the temple to fulfill his vows. This lady fell in love with the scholar at first sight, and the scholar was also moved by her beauty. , the two secretly dated for a long time, until this incident was unintentionally broken, and the young lady's father was told. In order not to be separated by the father, the young lady and the scholar eloped and settled down in a small mountain village. People built a small house on the back hill of the village. After eloping, the lady suffered a lot. How could the lady who was spoiled and spoiled since childhood be able to bear it? She always wanted to find a balance with the poor scholar. They have a sour air and are not very good at coaxing people, so the two started to quarrel, and each time they quarreled very fiercely. They quarreled from dawn to dusk. After the quarrel, the lady realized that she was mostly wrong, and Cooking dinner for the scholar in their small kitchen, every time the light of the setting sun shines on the young lady washing her hands and making soup, the scholar will feel that this scene is particularly touching. The love in his heart will be filled again. The two of them Stumbling like this, until for a while, it rained continuously for half a month on this mountain, and there was no sunshine every day. After the lady and the scholar had quarreled, the scholar couldn't see the picture that made him full of love, so he became more and more excited. Getting more and more fidgety. Finally, guess what?"
"How is it?" Su Qizhi and Liu Lan asked together.
"The scholar actually got engaged to the daughter of another family in the village, and completely abandoned that young lady..."
"How could this be?"
"Just throw it away,"
Two exclamations came.
"That's right~~~ completely abandoned~~-" Qiao Kang poured another glass of wine into his mouth, and continued, "So love is not as good as the light of the sunset~~ You say it is trustworthy ?"
Ignoring Qiao Kang's question, Liu Lan asked back, "Then where did you hear this story?"
"My mother told me well~-" After saying this, Qiao Kang passed out drunk on the stone table.
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Man Xi Lan at the Return Time Volume 17 Shocking Change No.[-] Chapter Elegy under the Moon
It was already very late at night, those maids had already dispersed, and only three people were left in the yard watching the moon and drinking.
The three of them drank together, Qiao Kang was drunk now, only Liu Lan and Su Qizhi remained.
Su Qizhi's face was flushed from drinking, and his head was a little dazed. Seeing Qiao Kang collapsed on the table, he raised his glass and smiled at Liu Lan: "Come on, Brother Qiao is down, the two of us Go ahead and drink, I offer you a toast."
Liu Lan held Su Qizhi's hand and said, "Fourth Prince, you are drunk."
In this world, drunk people will never admit that they are drunk.
Su Qizhi shook his head, and murmured: "I'm not drunk~~ Who said I was drunk~~ I want to drink another three hundred cups~~~-"
Su Qizhi in this appearance looks very cute.
Liu Lan looked at him with a smile all over her face, and a crooked thought began to stir in her mind.
The fourth prince is already drunk, so it's not too much to take advantage of it.
Anyway, when the Fourth Prince wakes up, he probably won't remember this matter.
Even if he remembered, he would probably be embarrassed to ask for confirmation.
Even if he asks for proof, then he...resolutely denies it.
After making up her mind, Liu Lan held Su Qizhi's hand, brought the glass of wine to her mouth, and drank it all in one gulp.
"Hey, why did you steal my wine?" Su Qizhi turned his head and glared at Liu Lan, his eyes sparkling.
"Drinking, how can it be called stealing." Liu Lan said with a smile: "Does the fourth prince want to have another drink?"
Su Qizhi nodded, looking at the flagon in Liu Lan's hand, full of longing.
"The moonlight is so beautiful, this is the right way to drink." Liu Lan said slowly, lifted the jug and poured a big gulp into her mouth, then leaned forward, covered Su Qizhi's lips, and directly He swallowed the sip of wine with his mouth, and then rubbed the corner of his mouth for a while before reluctantly leaving.
This is really a close relationship between lips and teeth, and the aroma of wine is overflowing.
Su Qizhi dazedly touched the corner of his mouth, feeling a little itchy, his mind was even more confused by the kiss, and had a vague impression that the last time this happened was...Father's birthday banquet...Then….
Su Qizhi raised his head, and softly called out to Liu Lan: "Father?"
"What?" The once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Liu Lan succeeded in stealing, her heart beat like a drum, before she had time to recollect it, she was startled by Su Qizhi's cry.
"Father~~ Father doesn't know Qizhi?" Su Qizhi moved closer to Liu Lan, raised his head, and said aggrievedly: "Even if Father doesn't like Qizhi, doesn't he even know Qizhi?" ?”
"Fourth Prince, I'm not Your Majesty, I'm Liu Lan." Liu Lan pulled Su Qizhi back, "You're drunk, I'll help you go to your room to rest."
"So you are Liu Lan..." Su Qizhi knocked off Liu Lan's hand willfully, and yelled, "Don't rest, what's the use of rest, anyway, after waking up, father will definitely not be there... Father The emperor... completely abandoned me..."
Speaking of the last sentence, Su Qizhi's voice became infinitely sad.
"Why would Your Majesty abandon the Fourth Prince? Your Majesty will definitely send someone to take the Fourth Prince back in a few days." Liu Lan looked at Su Qizhi, who was having a temper after drinking, with some headaches, coaxing him while calmly leading him to the room Pull over there.
"Even if my father picks me up, I won't go back, and I won't go back again!"
"Okay, even if His Majesty comes to pick him up in person, the fourth prince will not go back." Liu Lan tried her best to make Su Qizhi move forward three steps.
"Who said I won't go back? Why didn't Father send someone to pick him up?" Hearing the voice next to him reminding him not to go back, Su Qizhi immediately refuted.
Liu Lan smiled helplessly, the mentality of the fourth prince was really contradictory, he wanted to ask His Majesty to look for him, but he also wanted to be angry with His Majesty, but he didn't know what happened between the Fourth Prince and His Majesty, which made him so close The two fathers and sons are so divided?One was in the fourth prince's mansion in the suburbs, and the other was in the palace - seeing His Majesty's performance that day - probably had a hard time.
Drunk people are surprisingly strong, Liu Lan was only slightly distracted, Su Qizhi broke away from Liu Lan's arm, and sat by the small river alone.
Liu Lan sighed, and had no choice but to follow, squatting in front of Su Qi, and said in a low voice: "In the middle of the night, the river is humid and easy to catch cold. The Fourth Prince should go inside and rest."
Hearing this, Su Qizhi raised his head, looked straight into Liu Lan's eyes, and asked softly: "Liu Lan, why do you think Father doesn't want me?"
"Fourth prince, you..." Liu Lan opened her eyes wide, surprised to see a line of water dripping down the corners of Su Qizhi's eyes.
Under the moonlight, there seemed to be ripples in the teardrops.
Su Qizhi at this moment is just like seeing that child who was drawing on the snow for the first time, so fragile that makes people feel distressed.
Liu Lan reached out and took Su Qizhi into her arms, caressing Su Qizhi's back with her palm, silently accompanying Su Qizhi through this difficult time without saying a word.
"Liu Lan, why do you think the father is so unfeeling? Even if I am not his biological son, I can only be regarded as a strand of soul that occupies the real fourth prince. We have a relationship that has been together for more than ten years. Father How come the emperor... If you don't want it, don't you want it?"
"Even if he doesn't love me, how can he trample on my heart like this..."
"You still want to strangle me..."
"I want to cut off all ties with him...but why are you still expecting..."
Since Su Xuan's birthday party, the grievances, heartaches, anxiety, and doubts gathered in Su Qi's psychology, all poured out uncontrollably through the strength of alcohol.
Su Qizhi kept talking, but Liu Lan listened without saying a word.
Although Su Qizhi, who was drunk, was a little slurred, Liu Lan heard all those words clearly and didn't miss a single word.
The heart, which was originally extremely happy, kept falling, becoming more and more frightened and cold.
Until the end, Liu Lan felt that her heart was colder than the moonlight.
But those hands were still patting Su Qizhi's back lightly, in order to give him some comfort.
On the second day, when Su Qizhi opened his eyes, he felt that the corners of his eyes were astringent, and he had an unbearable headache.
Knowing that he was hungover, fortunately he lay on the bed, and when his head cleared up, he called Caifu to come in and serve him.
Caifu came to the door with a bowl of hangover soup, and said, "Why isn't the Fourth Prince getting up? Young Master Qiao has already woken up and is eating breakfast in the bamboo forest."
Su Qizhi thought about it carefully, last night everyone was drunk, Qiao Kang was the first to fall down, afterward, he seemed to have another glass of wine with Liu Lan, and then...Then what happened, why can't I remember it at all?
After knocking on the head, Su Qizhi also came to the bamboo forest after washing.
The messy stone table last night had already been tidied up and an exquisite breakfast was placed on it.
Qiao Kang sat alone at the table, eating slowly.
Qiao Kang, a weak scholar, even eats his meals slowly, which is extremely elegant.
Su Qizhi sat across from Qiao Kang and said with a smile, "Morning, Brother Qiao."
"Morning, fourth prince."
"How did Brother Qiao sleep last night?"
Qiao Kang rubbed his temples and said helplessly, "My head is about to explode."
"Me too. It's like someone is knocking with a wooden stick in my head. I really can't be greedy for too much of what's in the cup."
The two looked at each other and smiled, then Qiao Kang looked around and said in surprise, "Why didn't you see Master Liu Lan this morning?"
Su Qizhi also looked around, Liu Lan, who had long regarded the Fourth Prince's Mansion as his backyard, unexpectedly did not show up this morning.
"It must be drunk and can't get up!" Su Qizhi said: "He drank the most last night."
"Let's go and make trouble at his place in a while." Qiao Kang said, "I just want to see what the mansion of Qingguo's richest man looks like."
The two quickly finished their meal, walked through the bamboo forest, climbed over the wall and came to Liu Lan's yard.
The courtyard was still quiet, and there was no servant in sight. Qiao Kang looked at the scenery in the courtyard and kept sighing.Liu Jiyun's financial resources are astonishing indeed.
The two came to Liu Lan's door slowly, reached out and knocked on the door.
"Who?" Liu Lan's hoarse voice came from the room.
"It's me and Brother Qiao!" Su Qizhi shouted from outside the door.
After a while, the door opened, and Liu Lan stood at the door, feeling weak and haggard.
"What's the matter? Are you feeling unwell?" Qiao Kang couldn't help asking when he saw Liu Lan's state.The three of them drank together yesterday, and he and the fourth prince were fine. Why did Liu Lan suddenly become so haggard?
"Hehe, I just slept late last night, please come in, both of you." Liu Lan welcomed them into the room with a smile.
Entering Liu Lan's bedroom, Qiao Kang sighed again at those decorations, saying that he had opened his eyes.
Liu Lan sat on the chair, watching Qiao Kang's actions, just smiled and didn't say much.
In the eyes of others, Liu Lan's smile is still perfect.
But Su Qizhi couldn't help frowning when she saw it, such a smile was too forced, it didn't belong to
"I don't know." Su Qizhi shook his head and said in a low voice, "If you insist on finding a reason, it might be because I'm still alive."
"Innocent child." Seeing Su Qizhi's immature and stubborn face, Su Xuan suddenly smiled.
"If there is nothing else? Can I go?" Su Qizhi said, turning around to leave.
"Qizhi," Su Xuan stretched out his hand to grab Su Qizhi, and brought him into his arms, his tone became extremely gentle: "You still like father, don't you? You are in the new fourth prince's mansion, I miss my father very much, don't you?"
Closing her eyes, Su Qizhi nodded lightly without denying it.
"When Qizhi started to have conflicts with the father, the father waited for Qizhi to come and apologize to the father, but it's a pity that you didn't come anyway." Su Xuan stretched out his hand to stroke Su Qizhi's hair lovingly, and then said : "So, Father will give Qizhi another chance, as long as Qizhi asks Father for mercy, Father will forgive you, how about it?"
"How to forgive?" Su Qizhi couldn't hear any emotion in his voice.
"I can give you a chance to love me." Because I found that being loved by someone so proud of you is not bad, and when you are not around, I will miss you a little, and even my emotions will be because of hearing you news ups and downs.I found Su Huai as a substitute, but obviously it didn't help, it would only make me more irritable.
Gently pushing Su Xuan away again, Su Qizhi took two steps back, looked straight into Su Xuan's eyes, and said: "The opportunity to love others is my own, not given by anyone. If there is nothing, I really have to go."
"The feeling of holding on is not good." Su Xuan looked at Su Qizhi, like looking at a disobedient pet. Weeping silently in the bedroom. Presumably Qizhi's life in the fourth prince's mansion is not easy. As long as you ask, I will let you live in Qingyun Palace again."
"Why do you ask me to ask?" Su Qizhi pondered for a long time before asking this question.
"Because I am the ruler of the Qing Kingdom!" Su Xuan said firmly, "Since I am the ruler, I will not allow other proud people to exist."
Su Qizhi suddenly felt a little funny.
I am used to hearing the deep affection my father has for Concubine Liu, but today I heard some different inside stories.There is no romantic romance, only compromise under the power of the emperor.
It's really disappointing, as if a good thing is shattered in front of your eyes.
Yeliu, that woman as bright as the bright moon, if she knew that the loyalty she demanded was belittled by her father's adverbs, and her compromise was regarded as the spoils of the emperor's power, how would she feel under the nine springs?
Will you regret losing your life to give birth to this man's child?Or will you love to the depths and don't regret it?
If Li Luowei could really summon Concubine Liu's soul, Su Qizhi would definitely ask her such a question.
But now, not when he was thinking wildly, Su Qizhi looked at Su Xuan who was waiting for him to speak, and saluted again, intending to leave.
"You still have to go?" Su Xuan looked at Su Qizhi in astonishment.
"I still have something to do, I'm going back to the Fourth Prince's Mansion first." Su Qizhi turned around and left without hesitation this time.
Quickly shuttling through the palace, Su Qizhi couldn't wait to leave this place.
The buildings that were very familiar and nostalgic to me, now look a little dark. How many unbearable things are buried in these cold buildings?Even the relationship between Father Huang and Concubine Liu, which has been passed down throughout the continent, has such a gloomy place.
When Su Qizhi came to the gate of the palace, he unexpectedly found that the carriage with the logo of Liu's House was also parked there. Liu Lan was squatting in front of the carriage, drawing circles on the ground with a branch boredly. Seeing Su Qizhi's figure, Liu Lan Raising his head, the voice said with a trace of grievance: "Fourth prince, why did you come out? I have been waiting for you for a long time."
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Time to Return Man Xilan Volume 15 Shocking Changes Chapter [-] Suspect Qiao Kang
"Why are you here?" Su Qizhi asked.
"I'm here to pick you up." Liu Lan got up, threw away the branch in her hand, pointed to the gorgeous carriage next to her, bowed in a gesture of invitation, and said with a smile, "Fourth Prince, get in the carriage."
The smile is as gentle as ever, and there is no trace of the previous depression and discouragement.
Seeing such a smile, Su Qizhi remembered the sarcastic remarks before leaving, and couldn't help but feel a little guilty, moved his lips, wanted to say something, but didn't know how to speak, finally he could only smile at Liu Lan, and went directly to Go in his direction.
Lifting the curtain of the car, Su Qizhi's expression changed suddenly, and he shouted unkindly: "Liu Lan!"
What is the matter with this person?The whole body is bloody and bloody, isn't it the suspect just now?How did he get into Liu Lan's carriage?
Liu Lan came over, looked into the car and looked at the comatose man who was still groaning because of the pain, and said, "Isn't this man the Fourth Prince wants to take away?"
"When did I say I would take him away?"
"After this man was dragged and thrown out of the palace by a group of guards, he kept calling the fourth prince, the fourth prince~~ I thought he had something to do with you~~ If it wasn't for the sake of the fourth prince , how could it be possible for such a dirty person to enter my carriage~~"
"He is a suspect arrested by the minister of punishment." Su Qizhi explained with a sigh: "Father let me enter the palace today to identify whether he was the assassin that day."
"Since everyone has let him in, we can't kick him down again."
Liu Lan got into the carriage while speaking, turned around and stretched out her hand to pull Su Qizhi up, and the two of them sat opposite the unconscious suspect, and looked closely at the so-called suspect, Liu Lan said: "It looks like a hand How can a person who has no power to restrain a chicken be an assassin? And he can go to the palace to assassinate the prince? How do the officials of the Ministry of Punishment investigate the case?"
Su Qizhi said helplessly: "Of course he is not an assassin."
"The people in the criminal department are miserable," Liu Lan smiled, "I made a mistake on such an important case, but since this person is not an assassin, do you have any other clues to the real assassin?"
"No. The clue is broken, and the real assassin may never be found." Su Qizhi's voice sounded a bit dull.
Liu Lan thought that Su Qizhi was in a bad mood because he couldn't catch the assassin, so she hurriedly approached him again, reached out and patted Su Qizhi's shoulder, and said firmly: "It doesn't matter, although this time The assassin may never be found, but in the future, the fourth prince will definitely not encounter this kind of thing again." Because I will protect you.
"I hope." Su Qizhi turned his head to look out of the window, a trace of bewilderment flashed across his expression.
While the two were talking, the unlucky suspect woke up startled by the swaying of the carriage, his red and swollen eyes barely opened a small slit, and he muttered, "Why, am I dead? Where is this?"
"That's right, you're dead." Liu Lan leaned over and said to the suspect, "Now this is the underworld. I'm black and white, tell me the truth, did you assassinate the fourth prince?"
Exhausting all his strength to look at Liu Lan carefully, the suspect pulled out a very weak smile regardless of the tearing of the corner of his mouth, and said intermittently: "...how can there be... such a beautiful... black and white..." After speaking, he tilted his head and fainted again past.
Liu Lan was a little angry and made a big grimace at the suspect.
Su Qizhi watched the scene in front of him with a faint smile on his lips.But my heart is turning a thousand times.
Why was he chosen as a scapegoat?What is the origin of this so-called assassin?
The ill-fated suspect was taken to the Fourth Prince's Mansion and received good care. Fortunately, he suffered all flesh injuries. Although he looked scary, he didn't move his muscles and bones. After more than a month, his body basically recovered , all that is left is to rest slowly.
When Su Qizhi saw the suspect for the first time, what he saw was the most embarrassing face of a pig in his life. Now after the doctor's treatment, he slowly revealed Lushan's true face.
With a fair face and a standard scholarly appearance, his body also exudes a strong bookish atmosphere.
This person looks gentle and harmless, even a little weak and bully.It belongs to the kind of person who buys vegetables in the vegetable market, and the aunts will randomly ask for prices.
But it was such a weak scholar who resisted the torture and torture of the officials of the Ministry of Punishment, without bowing his head at all, and finally managed to call the fourth prince to prove his innocence.
Soft on the outside and hard on the inside, this so-called assassin is not an ordinary character.
The suspect's surname is Qiao and his name is Kang. He is from Mulin City, Qingguo. He has only one son in his family. His father died early, and his mother worked hard to raise him.Since he was a child, his family was poor, and he was often embarrassed.But Qiao Kang's mother is a very knowledgeable woman, no matter how difficult it is, she asks Qiao Kang to go to school to study.I wholeheartedly hope that Qiao Kang will gain fame and honor his ancestors.
That's how Qiao Kang introduced his background to Su Qizhi, and the news that Chi secretly helped Su Qizhi find out also said the same, there was no discrepancy.
Qiao Kang's life experience currently looks like a clean blank sheet of paper, without any suspiciousness.
According to Qiao Kang himself, the so-called assassin incident was a sudden accident.
Because of his poor family, Qiao Kang has been in Mulin City since he was a child, and has no chance to go out to play.Every time he hears the interesting stories about those little friends going out to play, Qiao Kang is envious. Traveling around is Qiao Kang's dream since he was a child.
After Qiao Kang grew up and could teach and earn money, Mother Qiao's body was very weak and she couldn't leave her for a moment.Qiao Kang can only stay in Mulin to serve his mother.
A year ago, Mother Qiao died of illness.After the heartbroken Qiao Kang took care of his mother's funeral, he came up with the idea of wandering around, firstly to avoid staying at home and thinking about others, and secondly, to fulfill the wish he made when he was a child to travel around.
Qiao Kang sold all his belongings and started on the road, stopping and stopping in the territory of Qingguo, living a very happy life.
Six months ago, Qiao Kang, who had had enough walking, came to the capital and bought a house here, hoping to take this opportunity to prepare for the imperial examination next year.
Even on His Majesty's birthday, the whole country was so lively, Qiao Kang was unmoved, and devoted himself to studying at home, trying to fulfill his mother's wish and strive to be a blockbuster in the exam.
"I was really studying at home that day, and I wrote an article analyzing the situation in the whole mainland." Qiao Kang said to Su Qizhi: "Who knows, just a few days ago, a group of officers and soldiers broke into my house suddenly. , took me away indiscriminately, if you insist that I am the assassin who assassinated the fourth prince, I don't understand, how can I become an assassin as a law-abiding commoner?"
"So I persisted in the prison. Even if they threatened and lured me to plead guilty, I would not plead guilty. If I pleaded guilty, I would die. If I persisted, there might be a day when my injustice will be punished." Fortunately, the fourth prince proved my innocence at the last moment." At this point, Qiao Kang picked up the wine glass and saluted Su Qizhi: "This glass of wine is for me to respect the fourth prince. For the great kindness of the fourth prince, Qiao Kang Kang will never forget." After finishing speaking, he drank the glass of wine in one gulp.
Su Qizhi also drank the wine in his hand in one gulp, and said with a smile: "You didn't do it in the first place, I'm just telling the truth. It's too heavy to say it's a great kindness."
"The fourth prince's words are wrong~~ Although I am just a grassroots person, I have heard a lot about the intertwined affairs between the court. In that atmosphere that day, it is really rare for the fourth prince to firmly deny it." Even if The emperor and several princes were not present that day, and those court ministers alone had enough weight to make people feel taboo.
Su Qi was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said: "All the messy things in the court have nothing to do with me."
"Oh? The fourth prince said that, is he planning to~~-" Qiao Kang looked at the prince who left the palace to build a mansion before he was sixteen, and only half of what he said meaningfully.
"I really won't fight for that position." Compared to Qiao Kang's mystification, Su Qizhi said generously: "And I won't interfere with the affairs between the government and the government." Thinking of his father's day That cold sentence, "It's not suitable for you to intervene in the affairs of the court." Su Qizhi couldn't help adding another sentence: "I won't interfere in a single bit."
Looking at Su Qizhi like this, Qiao Kang couldn't help feeling in his heart, seeing is worth seeing, if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, who would have expected that the rumored arrogant fourth prince would have such simple thoughts?
Instructing the maid next to him to bring embroidery threads of various colors, Qiao Kang demonstrated to Su Qizhi with those threads: "If the red thread is me, the white thread is the Fourth Prince, the blue thread is Young Master Liu Lan, and the yellow thread represents Your Majesty.... The green line is the officials of the Criminal Department..."
"The fourth prince and His Majesty are father and son." Qiao Kang said and entangled the white thread and the yellow thread together.
"The fourth prince and Master Liu Lan are neighbors and friends." Twist the blue thread and the white thread again.
"Someone slandered me for assassinating the fourth prince." The red line was also mixed in.
…Then there are lines of various colors added, and various relationships are handed over together...
When Qiao Kang stopped his movements, Su Qizhi looked at the finished product in Qiao Kang's hands.
It's a complex, unrecognizable, messy knot.
Qiao Kang said: "The things in this world are that you pester me and I pester you. All of them are knots. The fourth prince is a member of the royal family himself, and has a special status in the palace. Many things, how can you make up your mind? If you want to retreat, you can retreat." Got it?"
Man Xi Lan at the Return Time Volume 16 Shocking Changes No.[-] Chapter Moon Night Talk
Seeing Su Qizhi's pensive look, Qiao Kang stretched out his hand and handed the messy knot in front of him, and said, "Why don't the fourth prince try to untie it?"
Su Qizhi took it with both hands, and observed for a long time before starting to do it, but this colorful knot was too complicated and cumbersome, one link after another, it took a lot of effort to untie a little bit , to unravel it all, this project seems to be nowhere in sight.
Calling the maid next to him to bring over a pair of scissors, Su Qizhi wanted to cut off the messy thread with the scissors.
"Why is the fourth prince in such a hurry?" Qiao Kang hurriedly grabbed Su Qizhi's arm to save the unlucky ball of thread from bad luck, "If such a ball of thread is really cut, the one representing the fourth prince will be cut off. Maybe it's broken too."
"But if you don't cut it off, how can you untie it?"
"It's not necessarily a bad thing if you can't untie it." Qiao Kang smiled and took the knot back into his hand. This place was tight, and that place was loose. It looks a lot better.Colorful colors and irregular knotting methods can also present an unexpected beauty.
"Brother Qiao is really clever." Su Qizhi looked at it for a while, then raised his wine glass and said to Qiao Kang, "I would like to respect Brother Qiao."
Qiao Kang picked up the wine glass with a smile and drank it down.
As soon as the two glasses were put down, they heard rustling sounds from the bamboo forest.
Qiao Kang glanced at Su Qizhi, his eyes were full of panic, the prison where he was mistaken for an assassin really made Qiao Kang, an honest scholar like him, feel lingering fear, and he became frightened when he was a bit abnormal.
Su Qizhi patted Qiao Kang's shoulder reassuringly, and said, "Brother Qiao, don't worry, there will be no one else who can climb over the wall at this time, except Liu Lan."
As soon as he finished speaking, Qiao Kang saw Liu Lan's figure walking out of the bamboo forest.
The moonlight shone coldly on Liu Lan's body, making him even more beautiful and extraordinary.
Qiao Kang suddenly had an illusion that the Liu Lan in front of him didn't come over the wall from the house next door, but descended from the sky under the moonlight.
"The fourth prince and brother Qiao are very interested." Liu Lan walked to the stone table and sat down unceremoniously. When the colored talisman standing next to him saw Liu Lan coming, he immediately bought tableware for him and poured wine glasses for him with a smile on his face. Man, "Why didn't you call me on this matter of watching the moon and drinking wine?"
"I didn't call you, so you came too." Seeing Liu Lan's behavior of treating his mansion as his own backyard, Su Qizhi became a little annoyed, and when he looked at the courteous talisman, he felt even more frustrated In just over a month, why were all the servants in the mansion bought by Liu Lan?
"Come here uninvited, and accompany the fourth prince to enjoy the moon, and the fourth prince owes me again." After finishing speaking, Liu Lan picked up the wine glass in front of her, took a sip, and praised: "Good wine, the wine in the fourth prince's house is so different Fantastic."
"This is the tribute wine brought out from the palace. If Master Liu Lan likes it, he can take a jar back." Caifu hurriedly answered from the side.
"Then it's better to be respectful than to obey."
Liu Lan and Caifu looked at each other and smiled. There was an indescribable tacit understanding. People who didn't know would think that these two were serious masters and servants.
Su Qizhi sighed in his heart, five jars of this tribute wine were brought out in total, and one jar was given away with such a generosity of colored charms, it really makes people... melancholy.
"Master Liu Lan and the fourth prince are really close." Qiao Kang said after observing for a long time.
"It's easy to say, the fourth prince and I are good neighbors." Liu Lan laughed. "Fourth prince, do you think so?"
"...Yes." Su Qizhi replied with some reluctance.
"What were you talking about just now?" Liu Lan asked Qiao Kang without dwelling on this issue.
"We're playing with this." Qiao Kang held up the knot that looked much better and shook it in front of Liu Lan's eyes: "Master Liu Lan, do you want to try to untie it?"
Liu Lan took the knot and smiled: "It's so complicated, how to solve it?"
"Don't look so complicated, it's not a casual tie." Qiao Kang explained the meaning of those nodes to Liu Lan.
"So this is the 'knot' representing the fourth prince?" Liu Lan asked after hearing Qiao Kang's words.
Qiao Kang nodded.
"Why are there so many uninterrupted and chaotic relationships?" Liu Lan muttered in a low voice, and then said to Qiao Kang: "This solution is impossible to solve, but if I were the fourth prince, I wouldn't have such a complicated knot. .”
"Oh? What can Master Liu Lan do?"
"It's very simple." Liu Lan asked the maid next to him for a line again, and started to demonstrate by herself.
"This is me and the fourth prince." The white thread and the blue thread were entangled.
"Your Majesty and the Fourth Prince are father and son." A yellow line was added.
Then a few more important people joined in.
"These maids of Qingyun Palace no longer serve the fourth prince, so they can be removed." The thread representing the maids of Qingyun Palace was pulled out by Liu Lan and thrown aside.
"These officials of the Ministry of Criminal Justice are only helping the Fourth Prince solve the case. After the case is solved, there is no connection." The line representing the officials of the Ministry of Criminal Justice was also drawn by Liu Lan.
After picking and picking like this, the final product is really much simpler.
"Master Liu Lan is also Miaosi's person, so he is really generous." Qiao Kang said with a smile.
"Those messy side branches and leaves should not be put on the table to disturb people's thoughts." Liu Lan raised his glass to Qiao Kang and said, "This knot is really interesting. Come, let me toast Brother Qiao. I also toast four." A cup for the prince."
So the three of them raised their wine glasses and drank in one gulp.
The three people are not very old, and they have a common language with each other. After a few glasses of wine, their chatterboxes start to open up. They made fun of each other, raised their wine glasses, and clinked glasses with each other. For a while, the bamboo forest, which seemed very quiet on a moonlit night, was also full of laughter.
After three rounds of drinking, everyone was a little drunk.The topic became more unscrupulous.
Qiao Kang propped one hand on the edge of the table and put the other on Liu Lan's shoulder, and said with some inarticulate words: "Guess what I don't believe in the most in this world?" Su Qizhi responded, and Qiao Kang continued: "The thing I don't believe in the most is love!! Looking at the gifted men and beautiful women written in the book, they fall in love with each other, and promise each other for life and death, it's all empty talk~~-"
"It's all lies!" Qiao Kang raised one arm and swiped in the air a few times, as if to add weight to his words: "It's all lies. The thing I don't believe in in my life is love~~"
"Brother Qiao said so, do you have a story to tell us?" Su Qizhi asked maliciously.
"That's right, could it be that brother Qiao fell in love with a young lady and was rejected?" Liu Lan also followed Su Qizhi to make a fuss.
"Nothing! I don't have any chance to fall in love with a lady." Qiao Kang raised his voice and denied it flatly. "I haven't experienced it. I have heard and seen enough. I have never eaten pork. Ever seen a pig run?"
"Then brother Qiao, which pig run did he see that made him feel so emotional?"
"Which pig ran away? Seriously!"
Su Qizhi was fanning the flames, and Liu Lan followed behind to light the fire.
"Let me tell you a story." Qiao Kang said: "Once upon a time, the jewel in the palm of a large family met a poor scholar when he went to the temple to fulfill his vows. This lady fell in love with the scholar at first sight, and the scholar was also moved by her beauty. , the two secretly dated for a long time, until this incident was unintentionally broken, and the young lady's father was told. In order not to be separated by the father, the young lady and the scholar eloped and settled down in a small mountain village. People built a small house on the back hill of the village. After eloping, the lady suffered a lot. How could the lady who was spoiled and spoiled since childhood be able to bear it? She always wanted to find a balance with the poor scholar. They have a sour air and are not very good at coaxing people, so the two started to quarrel, and each time they quarreled very fiercely. They quarreled from dawn to dusk. After the quarrel, the lady realized that she was mostly wrong, and Cooking dinner for the scholar in their small kitchen, every time the light of the setting sun shines on the young lady washing her hands and making soup, the scholar will feel that this scene is particularly touching. The love in his heart will be filled again. The two of them Stumbling like this, until for a while, it rained continuously for half a month on this mountain, and there was no sunshine every day. After the lady and the scholar had quarreled, the scholar couldn't see the picture that made him full of love, so he became more and more excited. Getting more and more fidgety. Finally, guess what?"
"How is it?" Su Qizhi and Liu Lan asked together.
"The scholar actually got engaged to the daughter of another family in the village, and completely abandoned that young lady..."
"How could this be?"
"Just throw it away,"
Two exclamations came.
"That's right~~~ completely abandoned~~-" Qiao Kang poured another glass of wine into his mouth, and continued, "So love is not as good as the light of the sunset~~ You say it is trustworthy ?"
Ignoring Qiao Kang's question, Liu Lan asked back, "Then where did you hear this story?"
"My mother told me well~-" After saying this, Qiao Kang passed out drunk on the stone table.
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Man Xi Lan at the Return Time Volume 17 Shocking Change No.[-] Chapter Elegy under the Moon
It was already very late at night, those maids had already dispersed, and only three people were left in the yard watching the moon and drinking.
The three of them drank together, Qiao Kang was drunk now, only Liu Lan and Su Qizhi remained.
Su Qizhi's face was flushed from drinking, and his head was a little dazed. Seeing Qiao Kang collapsed on the table, he raised his glass and smiled at Liu Lan: "Come on, Brother Qiao is down, the two of us Go ahead and drink, I offer you a toast."
Liu Lan held Su Qizhi's hand and said, "Fourth Prince, you are drunk."
In this world, drunk people will never admit that they are drunk.
Su Qizhi shook his head, and murmured: "I'm not drunk~~ Who said I was drunk~~ I want to drink another three hundred cups~~~-"
Su Qizhi in this appearance looks very cute.
Liu Lan looked at him with a smile all over her face, and a crooked thought began to stir in her mind.
The fourth prince is already drunk, so it's not too much to take advantage of it.
Anyway, when the Fourth Prince wakes up, he probably won't remember this matter.
Even if he remembered, he would probably be embarrassed to ask for confirmation.
Even if he asks for proof, then he...resolutely denies it.
After making up her mind, Liu Lan held Su Qizhi's hand, brought the glass of wine to her mouth, and drank it all in one gulp.
"Hey, why did you steal my wine?" Su Qizhi turned his head and glared at Liu Lan, his eyes sparkling.
"Drinking, how can it be called stealing." Liu Lan said with a smile: "Does the fourth prince want to have another drink?"
Su Qizhi nodded, looking at the flagon in Liu Lan's hand, full of longing.
"The moonlight is so beautiful, this is the right way to drink." Liu Lan said slowly, lifted the jug and poured a big gulp into her mouth, then leaned forward, covered Su Qizhi's lips, and directly He swallowed the sip of wine with his mouth, and then rubbed the corner of his mouth for a while before reluctantly leaving.
This is really a close relationship between lips and teeth, and the aroma of wine is overflowing.
Su Qizhi dazedly touched the corner of his mouth, feeling a little itchy, his mind was even more confused by the kiss, and had a vague impression that the last time this happened was...Father's birthday banquet...Then….
Su Qizhi raised his head, and softly called out to Liu Lan: "Father?"
"What?" The once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Liu Lan succeeded in stealing, her heart beat like a drum, before she had time to recollect it, she was startled by Su Qizhi's cry.
"Father~~ Father doesn't know Qizhi?" Su Qizhi moved closer to Liu Lan, raised his head, and said aggrievedly: "Even if Father doesn't like Qizhi, doesn't he even know Qizhi?" ?”
"Fourth Prince, I'm not Your Majesty, I'm Liu Lan." Liu Lan pulled Su Qizhi back, "You're drunk, I'll help you go to your room to rest."
"So you are Liu Lan..." Su Qizhi knocked off Liu Lan's hand willfully, and yelled, "Don't rest, what's the use of rest, anyway, after waking up, father will definitely not be there... Father The emperor... completely abandoned me..."
Speaking of the last sentence, Su Qizhi's voice became infinitely sad.
"Why would Your Majesty abandon the Fourth Prince? Your Majesty will definitely send someone to take the Fourth Prince back in a few days." Liu Lan looked at Su Qizhi, who was having a temper after drinking, with some headaches, coaxing him while calmly leading him to the room Pull over there.
"Even if my father picks me up, I won't go back, and I won't go back again!"
"Okay, even if His Majesty comes to pick him up in person, the fourth prince will not go back." Liu Lan tried her best to make Su Qizhi move forward three steps.
"Who said I won't go back? Why didn't Father send someone to pick him up?" Hearing the voice next to him reminding him not to go back, Su Qizhi immediately refuted.
Liu Lan smiled helplessly, the mentality of the fourth prince was really contradictory, he wanted to ask His Majesty to look for him, but he also wanted to be angry with His Majesty, but he didn't know what happened between the Fourth Prince and His Majesty, which made him so close The two fathers and sons are so divided?One was in the fourth prince's mansion in the suburbs, and the other was in the palace - seeing His Majesty's performance that day - probably had a hard time.
Drunk people are surprisingly strong, Liu Lan was only slightly distracted, Su Qizhi broke away from Liu Lan's arm, and sat by the small river alone.
Liu Lan sighed, and had no choice but to follow, squatting in front of Su Qi, and said in a low voice: "In the middle of the night, the river is humid and easy to catch cold. The Fourth Prince should go inside and rest."
Hearing this, Su Qizhi raised his head, looked straight into Liu Lan's eyes, and asked softly: "Liu Lan, why do you think Father doesn't want me?"
"Fourth prince, you..." Liu Lan opened her eyes wide, surprised to see a line of water dripping down the corners of Su Qizhi's eyes.
Under the moonlight, there seemed to be ripples in the teardrops.
Su Qizhi at this moment is just like seeing that child who was drawing on the snow for the first time, so fragile that makes people feel distressed.
Liu Lan reached out and took Su Qizhi into her arms, caressing Su Qizhi's back with her palm, silently accompanying Su Qizhi through this difficult time without saying a word.
"Liu Lan, why do you think the father is so unfeeling? Even if I am not his biological son, I can only be regarded as a strand of soul that occupies the real fourth prince. We have a relationship that has been together for more than ten years. Father How come the emperor... If you don't want it, don't you want it?"
"Even if he doesn't love me, how can he trample on my heart like this..."
"You still want to strangle me..."
"I want to cut off all ties with him...but why are you still expecting..."
Since Su Xuan's birthday party, the grievances, heartaches, anxiety, and doubts gathered in Su Qi's psychology, all poured out uncontrollably through the strength of alcohol.
Su Qizhi kept talking, but Liu Lan listened without saying a word.
Although Su Qizhi, who was drunk, was a little slurred, Liu Lan heard all those words clearly and didn't miss a single word.
The heart, which was originally extremely happy, kept falling, becoming more and more frightened and cold.
Until the end, Liu Lan felt that her heart was colder than the moonlight.
But those hands were still patting Su Qizhi's back lightly, in order to give him some comfort.
On the second day, when Su Qizhi opened his eyes, he felt that the corners of his eyes were astringent, and he had an unbearable headache.
Knowing that he was hungover, fortunately he lay on the bed, and when his head cleared up, he called Caifu to come in and serve him.
Caifu came to the door with a bowl of hangover soup, and said, "Why isn't the Fourth Prince getting up? Young Master Qiao has already woken up and is eating breakfast in the bamboo forest."
Su Qizhi thought about it carefully, last night everyone was drunk, Qiao Kang was the first to fall down, afterward, he seemed to have another glass of wine with Liu Lan, and then...Then what happened, why can't I remember it at all?
After knocking on the head, Su Qizhi also came to the bamboo forest after washing.
The messy stone table last night had already been tidied up and an exquisite breakfast was placed on it.
Qiao Kang sat alone at the table, eating slowly.
Qiao Kang, a weak scholar, even eats his meals slowly, which is extremely elegant.
Su Qizhi sat across from Qiao Kang and said with a smile, "Morning, Brother Qiao."
"Morning, fourth prince."
"How did Brother Qiao sleep last night?"
Qiao Kang rubbed his temples and said helplessly, "My head is about to explode."
"Me too. It's like someone is knocking with a wooden stick in my head. I really can't be greedy for too much of what's in the cup."
The two looked at each other and smiled, then Qiao Kang looked around and said in surprise, "Why didn't you see Master Liu Lan this morning?"
Su Qizhi also looked around, Liu Lan, who had long regarded the Fourth Prince's Mansion as his backyard, unexpectedly did not show up this morning.
"It must be drunk and can't get up!" Su Qizhi said: "He drank the most last night."
"Let's go and make trouble at his place in a while." Qiao Kang said, "I just want to see what the mansion of Qingguo's richest man looks like."
The two quickly finished their meal, walked through the bamboo forest, climbed over the wall and came to Liu Lan's yard.
The courtyard was still quiet, and there was no servant in sight. Qiao Kang looked at the scenery in the courtyard and kept sighing.Liu Jiyun's financial resources are astonishing indeed.
The two came to Liu Lan's door slowly, reached out and knocked on the door.
"Who?" Liu Lan's hoarse voice came from the room.
"It's me and Brother Qiao!" Su Qizhi shouted from outside the door.
After a while, the door opened, and Liu Lan stood at the door, feeling weak and haggard.
"What's the matter? Are you feeling unwell?" Qiao Kang couldn't help asking when he saw Liu Lan's state.The three of them drank together yesterday, and he and the fourth prince were fine. Why did Liu Lan suddenly become so haggard?
"Hehe, I just slept late last night, please come in, both of you." Liu Lan welcomed them into the room with a smile.
Entering Liu Lan's bedroom, Qiao Kang sighed again at those decorations, saying that he had opened his eyes.
Liu Lan sat on the chair, watching Qiao Kang's actions, just smiled and didn't say much.
In the eyes of others, Liu Lan's smile is still perfect.
But Su Qizhi couldn't help frowning when she saw it, such a smile was too forced, it didn't belong to
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