Linque

All the maids in the palace watched, Chu Heng blushed, he said "hmm" twice, and looked away embarrassedly.

Ling Ye let go of him, took advantage of the situation and sat down beside him, and ordered the waitress to deliver a supper, and ate a bowl of porridge with Chu Heng before letting him wash up and go to bed.

Chu Heng blew the cold wind outside Jingcheng Hall in the afternoon, and drank a bowl of ginger soup in Mingcheng Hall and sweated, but he still had some headaches. In addition, after this day, chaos happened one after another, and his mind was tense. I couldn't keep my eyes open, and fell asleep in a daze.

He likes to stick to Ling Ye's body when he sleeps, and he is not honest when he is asleep, he will not give up until he hugs Ling Ye.

Ling Ye hugged Chu Heng and gently stroked his hair, but he still didn't feel sleepy.

In the middle of the hour, there was a sound of knocking on the cloud board, and the cold rain began to fall outside, the patter was not loud.As soon as the cold wind blows at night, the rain suddenly becomes dense, occasionally knocking on the window lattice, crackling.

In the rainy night, the room is quieter, those thoughts that are constantly being cut and confused are gradually calmed by the sound of the rain, and people's hearts are gradually calmed down.

Ling Ye stared at the sleeping eyes of the person in his arms. After a good while, he sighed softly, stretched out his hand to smooth the slightly furrowed furrow between Chu Heng's eyebrows, kissed him lightly, and pulled him into his arms. , closed his eyes.

It rained all night and didn't stop until the next morning.

When they arrived at the Hall of Respect and Sincerity, Ling Qi and several shadow guards of the Son of Heaven were already waiting in the study.

Chu Heng came in after Ling Ye, walked to the desk under the window sill as soon as he entered the door, and finished the suet white jade seal with a seal knife and a brush, looking innocent and harmless.

Ling Qi glanced at him from the corner of his eye, and looked at the emperor with some hesitation.

Chu Heng was there when there was trouble in the street yesterday, and he looked at the second floor of the backstreet in the carriage with a cold look in his eyes, and after finishing his meal in Mingcheng Hall this morning, he followed him every step of the way. Ling Ye, just by looking at it, Ling Ye knew that even if he was not allowed to listen now, he would have to pester him later.

So he signaled to Ling Qi that it's okay.

"Yesterday, I sent people to hunt down the people who committed crimes in the inner city. Except for the crossbowman, all the others have been brought to justice. The original swordsman was a loner in the rivers and lakes; The masked men all came from Qiannuolou and were hired by others."

Qian Nuo Lou.

Chu Heng looked down at the seal in his palm, the hand holding the seal knife didn't stop for a moment, and the expression on his face had faded.

Qiannuolou is located in the west of Zhongzhou, adjacent to Gyeongju. It is a very prestigious organization in Jianghu. The building has a large number of top masters. The nine building owners are even master-level warriors. As long as they give enough chips, they can do anything. Therefore, he called himself "a thousand gold and one promise".

Although Qiannuolou is doing secret assassinations, it does not involve the power of the court, nor is it attached to any family in Dayin Kyushu, and treats everyone equally.Because the people in the building have been walking on the edge for many years, they have gradually mastered many secrets of the major families in Kyushu. Its development, until now.

The emperor nodded and said: "Last night you asked someone to pass in a note, 'Qiannuolou', I saw it."

"Yes." Ling Qi continued: "After the trial, the original swordsman was also hired. He had a feud with Qiannuolou. And the person who hired him behind the scenes was the same as the person who hired Qiannuolou. People are the same."

Ling Qi paused when he said this, and looked up at the emperor's expression.

The emperor gave a faint "hmm", without any surprise.

Ling Qi knew that the emperor had already guessed it, so he said: "The last minister who shoots arrows in the dark also checked, but he didn't get His Majesty's order, so I can't directly arrest him."

The emperor nodded and said: "Since Xiang Xiang worked so hard to do it, his people don't have to worry about it."

As soon as the words fell, Chu Heng's movements stopped suddenly, and the center of his eyebrows jumped.

However, Ling Qi was not surprised, and should claim that it was true. He knelt down half a step forward, cupped his hands and said solemnly: "Your Majesty, I ask you to punish Qian Nuo Lou."

There are many masters in Qiannuolou, and most of them are desperadoes who are good at assassination. Especially those landlords are not simple characters. It is not easy to destroy the building. Qi personally took people there.

But Jing Xueli was still in the imperial capital, and besides, during the New Year's Eve, when princes from all walks of life in Kyushu gathered, Ling Qi and Rong Shan both left Beijing at this time, and took away a large number of emperor shadow guards, which was actually not a good thing.

Behind him, Chu Heng's hand holding the seal knife tightened.

The study was quiet for a while, the emperor considered it for a moment, and finally nodded his head and said in a deep voice: "I don't force you to keep alive, just suppress it, and everything is done carefully. You have enough people to set off today, and I will give you the order talisman of the Zhongzhou garrison. Then it’s cheap.”

"Tomorrow's court meeting, I will issue a decree to kill Qiannuolou, charges..." The emperor paused, and said coldly, "Four months ago, the people in Qiannuolou disguised themselves as Xiao Mao. The thief saw that this big account of despising the majesty of the emperor and trespassing in the forbidden area of ​​the imperial tomb has to be settled, but it cannot be put on the face of it."

"Anyway, the riots on the streets of the inner city yesterday have spread all over the world, and the charges were created for them based on their looks - assassinating the holy car, which is regarded as treason. You turn around and ask someone to present the confessions of those people in Qiannuolou, Will use it tomorrow."

"The minister obeys the order."

After Ling Qi left, another half an hour later, Chu Heng put down the seal knife, took the engraved seal, and walked to Ling Ye's side to offer him a treasure.

This suet white jade seal was engraved from the thirteenth day of the twelfth lunar month until the nineteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, and it is finally considered a great success.Although Chu Heng is a novice in seal cutting, he is a master of martial arts after all. His hands holding the seal knife are as light as they are, and the seals he carved are decent, not inferior to the old jade craftsmen.

The seal was written by Chu Heng himself, and the strokes were full of style. Ling Ye rubbed the jade seal a few times, raised his hand and dipped some cinnabar for reviewing the memorial into the inkstone. The words "Master of Mountains and Rivers" fell on the paper, and the iron picture The silver hook is dark and meaningful.

Chu Heng watched beside Ling Ye, very satisfied. Just as he wanted His Majesty to praise him, Ling Ye suddenly took his hand, pushed up his sleeve, and put a jade seal dipped in cinnabar on his face. on the wrist.

Before Chu Heng could speak, Ling Ye stared into his eyes and said firmly, "If you stamp my seal, you will be mine for the rest of your life."

Chu Heng's heart skipped a beat. He lowered his head and stared blankly at the four red characters on his wrist. He gently stroked the edge with his fingertips, raised his head and said, "But Your Majesty used my engraved seal. ..."

Ling Ye looked at him, and said seriously: "So I am yours too, for the rest of my life. No joke."

I won't want you.

The "Master of Mountains and Rivers" on his wrist seemed to become hot in an instant, and the scorching temperature penetrated into the blood and flowed to the atrium, miraculously pacifying the hesitation and anxiety in Chu Heng's heart.

His eyes were hot, and he almost shed tears. After a while, he nodded and said: "Okay."

Ling Ye leaned over and kissed him gently, from lips to cheeks, the lingering kiss extended all the way to eyes and forehead, kissing away the tears oozed from the corners of his eyes one by one.

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