Dressed as the teacher of the Black Lotus Emperor

Early the next morning, Li Zongbing led an army from Shengjing to Suzhou to suppress the rebellion.

The marching team was winding and winding, covered with flags and majestic. No one noticed one of the carriages, which was the most respected emperor on the pilgrimage.

Xiang Chen was dressed in black clothes with a long sword at his waist, and he was riding a black horse closely following the right side of the carriage.

While walking, the carriage suddenly bumped violently, and there was a muffled hum from inside the carriage, Xiang Chen immediately tightened the reins and dismounted, "Master?"

He opened the curtain, and saw the snow-white owner nestled on the bench with his reddish fingertips tightly clasped on the armrest, and opened his long and dense eyelashes to look at him, "No problem."

Xiang Chen was startled, but soon came back to his senses, opened the package and took out the fox fur, which he carefully placed behind his master's waist.

Shen Qingzhuo laughed: "I can't tell, Xiang Chen, you are quite caring."

Xiang Chen didn't say a word, her eyes were lowered, and she accidentally caught a glimpse of layers of red marks through the slightly open neckline, covered with snow-white skin, looking strange and beautiful.

In an instant, the sound from the room last night echoed in his ears, and his normally expressionless face turned red.

"What's wrong?" Shen Qingzhuo glanced at him, suddenly realized something, and quickly raised his hands to wrap his neckline.

Xiang Chen stepped back abruptly, his head hit the roof of the carriage with a "bang", and quickly backed out without crying out, "Master, call me if you have something to do."

Seeing his reaction like this, Shen Qingzhuo couldn't laugh or cry, but the scene of last night involuntarily appeared in his mind.

When he woke up, he thought he had fallen into a ridiculous dream again, until he found traces all over his body from the bronze mirror.

The wolf cub kissed him from head to toe as if he wanted to imprint something on him——

No, from bottom to top...

"Ah!" Sir Shen whispered in his heart, raised his hand to cover his hot cheeks, and tried hard to drive those images out of his mind.

It's terrible, where did the little apprentice learn it from?

***

Traveling day and night, eating and sleeping in the open air, as the weather gradually warmed up, the marching team finally approached the border of Suzhou.

Along the way, they encountered several waves of rogues, but they dared not act rashly in the face of the well-trained elite army.

After entering Suzhou, Shen Qingzhuo opened the curtain of the car, and the first thing he saw was a large number of victims.

After two consecutive years of severe drought, the crops failed, and the people were already starved to death. Both the elderly and children could only lie on the side of the road waiting to die.

Facing the army from Shengjing, the victims didn't even look at it. They couldn't even save their lives. What's the use of more soldiers?

At this time, a loud cry caught Mr. Shen's attention.

"Aniang! Auntie, wake up! Auntie, wow..." A sallow and thin little girl was kneeling on the side of the road, shaking the scrawny woman on the ground with her small black hands, and crying like hell.

Shen Qingzhuo's heart sank, as if he couldn't bear to watch it any longer, he put down the curtain and sat back.

The carriage continued to move forward, but the immature cries behind him kept lingering, and even the iron-blooded soldiers couldn't help but turn their heads.

After a while, Shen Qingzhuo opened the curtain again, "Xiang Chen."

Xiang Chen tightened the reins, "What is the master's order?"

"Bring that little girl here." Shen Qingzhuo sighed, and then urged, "Bring some food to coax her, don't hug her hard."

Xiang Chen responded, "Yes, Master."

Xue Shihang stopped nearby on his horse, "My lord, the number of victims is extremely large, and you cannot save them."

"Of course I understand." Shen Qingzhuo replied lightly, "It's just that when a person is in front of you, if you can save one, it must be one."

The army set up camp, while Shen Qingzhuo followed Li Zongbing into the Yamen of Suzhou Zhizhou.

Zhizhou yamen is very grand, completely incompatible with the tragic scene of starvation and death outside the city.Mr. Shen's complexion was slightly gloomy, but he held back and didn't say anything.

After the guard informed, Luo Cheng, the prefect of Suzhou, immediately came forward, "Lord Li has been waiting for a long time! Your lord is really a timely help!"

Li Xinwu glanced at him sharply, and went straight to the point: "No need to greet, what's the situation in Suzhou now?"

The fat-headed and big-eared Luo Zhizhou smiled awkwardly, "Master Chief Soldier is right! Sit first!"

Luo Cheng led Mr. Li to his seat, at this moment he noticed a frail and handsome man beside him, he couldn't help asking curiously: "Who is this?"

Shen Qingzhuo smiled slightly: "My surname is Shen, and I am the accompanying supervisor."

Luo Cheng suddenly realized, and quickly said: "Master Shen, sit too, sit too!"

Afterwards, the magistrate of the prefecture told Mr. Li about the current battle situation, and the rebel army captured Tianmen Mountain, the pass of Suzhou, all the way.

The terrain of Tianmen Mountain is dangerous, the water source is abundant, and the formation is set up across the river. The rebels fought back completely.

Shen Qingzhuo asked: "There is a severe drought in Suzhou, where do the rebels get their food and grass?"

"This..." Tong Juan glanced at Mr. Shen, and replied cautiously, "The rebel army's food is all stolen."

Shen Qingzhuo didn't ask any more questions, as he agreed with him.

It was getting late, and General Li decided to rest for the night, and then lead his army to join the commander of Suzhou City tomorrow.

Soon someone arranged a place for them. Shen Qingzhuo sat on a chair and sipped hot tea, and suddenly asked, "Xiang Chen, where is that little girl?"

Xiang Chen frowned imperceptibly, "It's still outside."

"How does Lord Shen plan to deal with her?" Xue Shihang asked, "I can't keep her with me all the time, can I?"

"Come in and have a hot meal first, and make plans later." Shen Qingzhuo sighed, "There are so many of us, there is no shortage of children to eat."

Xiang Chen could only respond: "Yes, master."

The little girl changed into clean clothes, and when she came in, she was holding a piece of dry cake in her hand, and her lips were covered with crumbs.

Shen Qingzhuo beckoned and lowered his voice as much as possible: "Come here."

Maybe it was Master Shen's good looks, or the gentle aura exuding from his body, the little girl hesitated for a moment, then ran towards him.

Shen Qingzhuo looked at the little girl who was a little older, and stretched out his hand to hug her to the chair, "What's your name?"

"Full." The little girl looked at him with a pair of thin, big and round eyes, and patted her shriveled stomach innocently, "I'm full."

Shen Qingzhuo felt sour, and touched his messy braid, "From today onwards, I will be full every meal when I am full."

Fullness was visibly happy to the naked eye, but then he hesitated a bit, and called softly, "Aniang..."

Her stomach was always very hungry, and Madam would occasionally feed her something to eat, but she was never full.

The young girl still can't understand what real death is, and she stays in the pile of dead people every day, and no one collects the corpses. She only knows that the aunt who was still talking to her yesterday will be motionless the next day.

"Your mother went to a far away place, a place where you can eat enough." Shen Qingzhuo forced a smile, and told a white lie, "Don't worry about being full."

Nodding vigorously, "Mother is looking for Father!"

With a thought in his mind, Shen Qingzhuo tentatively asked, "Where did Dad, who is full, go?"

"Fight the bad guys!" Baofeng raised his little hand, "Daddy beat the bad guys!"

Shen Qingzhuo raised his eyes and looked at Xue Shihang, "Outside the city today, most of the victims we saw were old, weak, sick and disabled, not a single young man."

"That's right." Xue Shihang sat up straight, and said in a serious tone, "This also means that the young and middle-aged men were either captured by the garrison army and sent to the army, or they voluntarily joined the rebel army."

Shen Qingzhuo was thoughtful, and slowly stroked his full head, "There are seniors and juniors, if it is not forced, who would be willing to be a traitor?"

***

After eating a rare hot meal, Shen Qingzhuo put his stomach full and put him to sleep, and then returned to his room.

After several days of long journey, he was already physically and mentally exhausted, and now he just wanted to lie down on the soft bed and have a deep sleep.

But he endured the episodes of cleanliness all the way, now that there is finally hot water, he still insists on taking a bath first.

Xiang Chen brought a large bucket of hot water, and poured cold water into the tub, caught off guard and said, "Master, you like to pick people up."

"What?" Shen Qingzhuo came to his senses and jokingly said, "I didn't pick you up, you came to the door by yourself, relying on me not to leave."

A quick smile flashed across his face, and Xiang Chen continued to add water without saying a word, "Master, it's ready."

"Okay, you go out." Master Shen lazily got up, "I'll call you again if necessary."

The door closed, and Shen Qingzhuo took off his clothes, shoes and socks.

When his ankle was exposed, his movements suddenly stopped.

After waking up that night, a gleaming golden anklet was tied on the protruding ankle. The workmanship was exquisite and exquisite. The hanging gold leaves were decorated with small water jade, and the surface was embossed with elegant and mysterious dark lines.

He had to admit that this gold chain was extremely beautiful, and it would have been more pleasing to the eye if it hadn't been on his foot.

Shen Qingzhuo leaned over and fiddled with the gold leaf with his fingertips.

The little apprentice used some method to fasten this anklet firmly on his ankle, no matter how hard he searched, he couldn't find the connection, so he could only gradually get used to its existence.

When he returns to Beijing, he has to teach the traitor a lesson.

Shen Qingzhuo stepped into the bathtub, immersed his body in the warm water, and couldn't help but let out a comfortable sigh.

The tiredness of running around for days was relieved, his beautiful peach eyes were slightly closed, he thought casually, when did the little apprentice secretly put on the chain that night?

After a while, for some reason, the scene under the night light appeared in front of his eyes, the young man's muscular back muscles bulged, his phoenix eyes raised slightly to look at him, and he asked vaguely...

A gradually familiar heat surged up from the ankle, Shen Qingzhuo took a low breath, the red fingers in the water moved slightly, unconsciously followed the water to the collarbone.

The snow-white skin was as smooth as before, but the hot touch remained, and the fingertips lightly brushed the white and rosy shoulders and neck, but what I remembered was the temperature of the other pair of big hands.

In a daze, the deep and hoarse voice sounded in his ears, as if Shen Qingzhuo had been bewitched, he dipped his trembling fingers into the warm water...

wrong!

He woke up suddenly, realized what he had just done, he was breathless, and then the violent heartbeat sounded so shocking that he almost couldn't breathe.

Wet fingers grasped the edge of the barrel, until the knuckles turned slightly white, Shen Qingzhuo kept taking deep breaths, trying to calm down the heartbeat and the heat.

The next moment, he let go of his fingers as if discouraged, and let himself slowly sink into the warm water.

Before leaving, what kind of poison did the little apprentice put on him...

The author has something to say:

Mr.: It seems a little bad...

Wolf Cub: It is better to be absent than to be present, and this effect is what we want!

How can our pure-hearted Mr. Pure Love survive, right?

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