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As expected, Jingzhong is no different from before, the Qihuangshan faction headed by Wu Ya is still working in Beijing as usual.

And not long ago, Huo Xiao, who took back the military power of the three armies, reported to the Holy Master about the flooding of Ning'an Prince Duan's Mansion. With the imperial decree, the craftsmen are ready to go and repair the Prince Duan's Mansion within a month. Now King Duan lives in the capital where the old general used to be. General's Mansion.

For a moment, all the women's families in the capital went crazy and sent someone to break through the threshold of the General's Mansion.

King Duan lived in Ning'an all the year round, most of the dignitaries in Beijing could not please him, now that they returned to the capital, they naturally tried every means to build a relationship with King Duan.

"My lord, Mr. Ruan, Minister of the Ministry of War, please see me." Huo Ting came back and forth, and had already reported to several people in one morning.

Huo Xiao was playing chess with Wen Renhuang in the garden, he frowned.

"But Ruan Zhengze?"

Huo Ting, who thought he was dismissed casually again, stopped and replied: "Exactly, he and Ruan Zhengqing, the teacher of the former prince, are brothers."

"Ruan Zhengqing?" Wen Renhuang raised his head and said the name suspiciously.

"Do you have an impression?" Huo Xiao asked.

He nodded and thought about it: "I heard about him on Qihuang Mountain back then, he was considered to be the best of his generation, and his Danqing skill is at its peak."

Huo Ting sneered: "What's the use of painting? This old slave thought that Phoenix is ​​a person who can control spiritual power and call the wind and rain. If it is about music, chess, calligraphy and painting, who can compare with the eldest son."

Wen Renhuang frowned, and continued: "What Ruan Zhengqing draws...if it is stained with his blood, it will come true."

The three were silent for a while.

"Take Ruan Shilang to the front hall, the king will be there later." Huo Xiao said concisely.

After the butler left, Huo Xiao frowned and asked, "How can his paintings become real?"

"It is said that he has superb drawing skills, and then dripping his own blood on the drawing paper can make it come true. He once used this method to conjure a butterfly on Qihuang Mountain..."

Huo Xiao was silent.

In the front hall, a man with mischievous eyebrows had already sat down to drink tea and looked around.

In his heart, he heard that most of the people who came to visit King Duan were turned away, but he didn't expect that Ruan Zhengze was invited into the palace as soon as he came, so he couldn't help but brow.

If Duan Wang fell in love with his younger sister, then it would not be a problem for him to go from servant to minister and then up, and he couldn't help but think about it.

As soon as Wen Renhuang came, he saw the extremely obscene man smiling, and he couldn't calm down immediately. Although he was not familiar with Ruan Zhengqing, he had seen the detached and independent demeanor from afar. This obscene man in front of him really Is it his brother?

When Ruan Zhengze saw Huo Xiao arrived, he immediately bowed to meet him: "My subject Ruan Zhengze pays respects to King Duan!"

Huo Xiao let people kneel on the ground with a blank expression, and didn't say to let him get up, just passed in embarrassment for a while.

"You are Ruan Zhengze?" Huo Xiao asked.

Ruan Zhengze, who couldn't kneel for a long time, also noticed the indifference in Huo Xiao's voice, and tremblingly said: "The minister is the Minister of the Ministry of War...Ruan Zhengze."

"You really don't look like your brother." Huo Xiao held the hot tea, thought for a while, and handed it to Wen Renhuang beside him.

He froze for a moment, then took the warm teacup.

Standing aside, Huo Ting glanced into the distance as if he hadn't seen it.

Ruan Zhengze, who was still kneeling on the ground, tremblingly said, "Zhengqing was brought up by his parents since he was a child, so he doesn't look like this minister..."

No wonder, Wen Renhuang felt relieved.

"Okay, get up," Huo Xiao said casually, "What do you want from me?"

Ruan Zhengze, who had already prepared a long speech, did not expect the other party to be so direct, almost unceremonious.

Seeing the aggrieved expression on the other side's face, Wen Renhuang thought it was funny, but in a blink of an eye it was Huo Ting staring at him again.

"..." He put away his smiling face and lowered his head to drink tea.

Ruan Zhengze got up resentfully, and Huo Xiao casually said "sit down", which made him so grateful that he almost wanted to bow down again.

"So, you came to see me just to pay homage to me?" Huo Xiao frowned.

Just as Ruan Zhengze was about to sit down, he was so frightened that he almost knelt down when he heard it. He quickly stabilized himself and said, "Your Majesty, forgive me! It's my fault!"

"What's the crime?"

"Shouldn't...be kneeling all the time..." He himself was a little uncertain.

Huo Xiao's eyes twitched: "No problem."

Ruan Zhengze breathed a sigh of relief, and said: "The prince is busy with business on weekdays, and the ministers dare not disturb him. Only when the prince is in court today do he dare to come to pay his respects to the prince."

Wen Renhuang said in his heart, I'm afraid Huo Xiao is surrounded by important ministers and you can't get in the way.

"Master Ruan, please forget about it." Huo Xiao said lightly.

"Where is it!" Ruan Zhengze hurriedly said, with a sad face, "The prince is my great inspiration. I heard that the palace was flooded a few days ago. I am really worried about the safety of the prince!"

Huo Xiao glanced at him: "Thank you, Lord Ruan, for your concern."

Then the topic stopped again, Wen Renhuang thought to himself, Huo Xiao is really a topic stopper.

Huo Ting suddenly said: "Master Ruan, didn't you tell the old slave about your sister?"

Wen Renhuang blinked, and looked at Ruan Zhengze, only to see that the other party seemed to be inspired by the moment he was encouraged.

"..."

It turned out that the old butler had been looking forward to this all along.

I have been by Huo Xiao's side for the past few days, and the old butler is probably dreaming of some terrible things again, so now he desperately hopes that his master will marry a woman, Wen Renhuang thought silently.

"Oh, look at my memory, I forgot such a big thing!" Ruan Zhengze's small eyes rolled up and he said with a smile, "I don't know if the prince will stay in Beijing for a long time this time. A few months will be the end of the year, when..."

"Is Lord Ruan overly concerned?"

"Aha?"

Ruan Zhengze was startled, and found that Huo Xiao was staring at him coldly.

"My lord, forgive me!" He was so shocked that he knelt down on the ground again, "I just think that the end of the year is approaching, and the lord will have a long way to go back to the palace, the capital is more lively after all!"

Huo Xiao narrowed his eyes: "Oh? Lord Ruan is really thoughtful."

"...Don't dare!"

He must not know why Huo Xiao was suddenly unhappy, so he immediately wanted to use his trump card, "My sister is only twenty-eight years old, and my fellow ministers are usually very concerned about the prince's comfort. This time, she specially asked Chen to visit the prince. !"

Huo Xiao frowned even deeper: "How is this king, and what is the relationship with Master Ruan's sister?"

The topic terminator, the terminator! ! !

Wen Renhuang was about to burst into laughter, and hurriedly said, "Master Ruan, you have brought a portrait of your younger sister!"

Old Butler Huo has worked so hard, so naturally he can't just watch!

And Huo Xiao glanced at him lightly, pursed his lips and remained silent.

When Ruan Zhengze was told this, he immediately looked at Wen Renhuang, who had been silent at the beginning, and said gratefully, "Thank you for reminding me, my lord, the portrait of sister-in-law is indeed brought!"

Look, how high his awareness is, Wen Renhuang glanced at him happily, and in a blink of an eye, he found Huo Xiao staring at his dead face...

Did I say something wrong again?

Ruan Zhengze hastily took out a painting from behind the seat in front of him, and unfolded it in front of several people, without any hesitation that it was a portrait of a girl who had not left the court.

Jinghong glanced at the big bottom and said that he saw such a woman.

In the painting, the woman is sitting peacefully by the calm lake and smiling, wearing a light pink chest-length skirt to add a bit of innocence.The face is peachy and the plums are bright and beautiful, so even a hard-hearted person like Huo Xiao can't help but feel a little moved when he sees it.

"what is her name?"

Huo Xiao asked suddenly.

The old housekeeper showed joy, and glanced at Wen Renhuang with a little complacency, seeing Wen Renhuang's complexion, he was even more overjoyed.

"Sister's single name is Lian!" Ruan Zhengze replied excitedly.

"Isn't it your own sister?" The tone was affirmative.

Ruan Zhengze said in embarrassment: "My lord, this girl was picked up by my younger brother on the way back from Qihuang Mountain, and brought home to raise."

"The child that Ruan Zhengqing brought back?" Huo Xiao narrowed his eyes and asked.

Hearing Huo Xiao mention Ruan Zhengqing, Ruan Zhengze was stunned, and immediately put on a sad face and said: "Yes, Zhengqing is kind by nature, but he doesn't want to be killed by the rebels because of his special status."

"It's really interesting..."

Huo Xiao stared at the girl in the painting and said in a low voice.

Wen Renhuang looked at the painting, then turned his head to look at Ruan Zhengze, thinking in his heart: You are such a fool.

Huo Xiao kept the painting and looked at it again and again.

"My lord, what did you see?" Wen Renhuang who lingered for a long time finally couldn't help but said.

Huo Xiao nodded: "Although this king is not familiar with Ruan Zhengqing, he is from Qihuang Mountain after all, so I still have some impressions."

"This woman is almost printed in the same mold as Ruan Zhengqing!" He caressed the face in the painting, "I saw Ruan Zhengqing from a distance when I was young. It looks so good, I even suspect that Qihuang Mountain picks people up the mountain based on their faces."

Huo Xiao raised his eyebrows: "Are you raising yourself up?"

"Let's get down to business!" Wen Renhuang shyly said, "The peacock and crow are not handsome, I'm just discussing the matter!"

"Beautiful or not, it's just a skin," Huo Xiao said, his eyes resting on Wen Renhuang's pouty lips, and he said slowly, "If you like someone, no matter what he is, you are willing to accept him. "

Wen Renhuang nodded, didn't notice the fiery gaze around him, and still looked at the human being in the painting: "Since Ruan Zhengze said that his younger brother was brought back when he was young, it is too likely that he will bring back his own sister when he grows up." Small."

Huo Xiao glanced at it: "Indeed, how could a family lose two children at the same time more than ten years apart."

Wen Renhuang gritted his teeth: "My lord, I want to know, is Ruan Zhengqing dead?" After arriving in the capital, the amount of information he received was obviously much more than that on Qihuang Mountain, and the gossip he heard was also Too much.

Huo Xiao shook his head: "I don't know, the crow came to Prince Duan's mansion to inform me of his disappearance that day. I haven't seen Ruan Zhengqing since I arrived in the capital."

"If my guess is right... This girl is not some wild child brought back." He looked up at Huo Xiao, "Maybe, it was drawn by him and dripped with his blood."

Huo Xiao frowned: "How did you know?"

"Since he is a phoenix, he is in the court, and the crows he comes into contact with on weekdays will naturally talk to him about Qihuang Mountain. His disappearance can be said to kill two birds with one stone, making the court point the finger at Heiluan who is on the cusp of the storm. , and was able to save the powerful general on Qihuang Mountain," he moved his eyes, "if Qihuang Mountain is in trouble in the future, he will change his identity to catch the enemy by surprise, no one can think of it."

"You mean, this girl might be him?" Huo Xiao couldn't believe it.

Wen Renhuang nodded, then shook his head: "I'm not sure, after all, I'm not familiar with Ruan Zhengqing, so I don't know if he can do this, but this is the only explanation I can think of."

Huo Xiao glanced at the sweet smiling face of the girl in the painting, and said in a low voice, "I never imagined that the Phoenix in Qihuang Mountain would be so shrewd."

"Naturally," Wen Renhuang nodded, "They all worked very hard."

He had secretly watched other phoenixes, studied hard, practiced martial arts, and used spiritual power, much harder than himself.

"What about you?" Huo Xiao stared at him.

He pursed his lips: "I'm just a person who has lost his spiritual power... I have tried hard but there is no result." He felt that Huo Xiao had always cared about his identity as a phoenix.

Huo Xiao's eyes loosened slightly: "It's just spiritual power. When I find a way, I will definitely turn you into a complete phoenix."

"But, lord, don't you... hate Qihuang Mountain?" Wen Renhuang asked with difficulty.

Huo Xiao's face remained the same: "This king hates Qihuang Mountain very much, but he never thought of killing anyone." Without any feelings.

"As long as you obediently stay by this king's side and don't want to go back, this king will naturally not treat you badly."

Huo Xiao emphasized it again, so domineering that Wen Renhuang unconsciously raised his head to watch, the straight nose bridge and the handsome silhouette like a knife...

The heartbeat suddenly lost its rhythm.

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