The mountains and rivers are quiet and broad

Chen Ke came and went in the night, and Chen Mao was still standing in the night.

Zhou Zhou turned out from the hall, took a thin cardigan in his hand, and wrapped it around Chen Mao: "The night is cool."

Holding him in his arms, Zhou Zhou walked into the hall with him in his arms: "Go in..."

Letting Zhou Zhou push him away, Chen Mao was a little distracted.

"You guys have a tacit understanding, and I'm all over it." Zhou Zhou rubbed his neck and sniffed his body. There was a faint fragrance, just like his own.

"What tacit understanding?" Chen Mao only heard half of it, "Ah, they are brothers after all."

Zhou Zhou laughed lightly when he heard the words, Chen Mao's words sounded a bit ironic.

Chen Mao's mother, Concubine Duan, is virtuous and virtuous, and she is a cousin of the eldest prince's mother, the Empress Dowager, and has a close relationship.

And Chen Ke's mother was the daughter of a great family in the north. She was very bright and favored, and had a good relationship with other women in the palace. She died after giving birth to Chen Ke, and Emperor Xuanwu was very sad for a long time.However, it was rumored that King Ren and King Cheng were at odds.

Knowing what Zhou Zhou was thinking, Chen Mao took a look at him, and it was rare that he took the initiative to explain.

"Chen Ke was sent to Xiangguo Temple as soon as he was born. I have never seen him before. The eldest brother is the elder brother, and he is more like the father than the father. He taught me games and checked my homework. The other princes and princesses are far behind us in age." A lot, so I have a good relationship with my elder brother, and I am alienated from Chen Ke, but because we get along less..."

——In the beginning, the two were on their own side, and it was understandable that they were not familiar with each other. Later, they were still so estranged because of the King Jin case.

"There was also a time when he was intimate, when he just came back from Xiangguo Temple..."

They are clearly brothers, but they have only met for the first time in so many years. Even the New Year's Eve reunion in more than ten years has never seen this second brother come out of the temple. It seems that he has become a monk, and he seems to be suppressed in Xiangguo Temple.

He told his analogy to his elder brother, and the elder brother pretended to twist his mouth: "Talk nonsense. What about suppression, let me deal with you."

He smiled and avoided, "Isn't it? He's a bad star."

Chen Shen immediately lowered his face, "Stop talking nonsense."

Hearing that the eldest brother was really angry, Chen Mao hurriedly begged for forgiveness and smiled, and his curiosity towards Chen Ke increased instead of diminishing.

The first time I saw Chen Ke was outside the Hall of Harmony.Chen Ke stood outside the hall and didn't go in. The winter wind was blowing hard, but he stood motionless, and there was no one holding an umbrella around him. He just stood in the cold wind, with a thin layer of snow on his shoulders, and his face was covered with snow. The face is still expressionless, looking ahead, indifferent to everything.

Emperor Xuanwu declared Chen Mao to pass, but Chen Mao didn't dare to delay, so he hurriedly skipped Chen Ke and walked in.

When they passed by Chen Ke, their eyes met, and Chen Mao shuddered. At that time, he felt that these dark eyes were scary, not at all like the eyes of a teenager, as if he wanted to devour someone.

Later, I heard from Chen Shen that Emperor Xuanwu took Chen Ke back to the palace, but Chen Ke refused, and wanted to go back to Xiangguo Temple, and Emperor Xuanwu was furious by his rude words.

Chen Mao had some opinions on Chen Ke, and silently called him in his heart: fierce god.It didn't take long for the Chinese New Year to come. There were more people at the family banquet this year, but the atmosphere was a lot more tense. Only Chen Ke seemed so at ease, he didn't care about anyone, he didn't care about anything.

Seven years later, Chen Ke was still not close to them, but Emperor Xuanwu suddenly asked Chen Ke to help with political affairs.

I heard people around me say that Emperor Xuanwu wanted to compare the two princes and establish a prince.Of course Chen Mao supported Chen Shen, and whenever he was free, he would go to Prince Jin's Mansion. After going there a lot, he inevitably met Chen Ke and got along with him a lot, but he found that this man was not as scary as he appeared on the surface.

Chen Mao was still fond of laughing at that time, so he smiled and persuaded Chen Ke: "Your expression is too fierce, you should smile more."

Chen Ke said stiffly, "I'm used to it." Then he nodded again, saying he got it.

In the spring of that year, the relationship between the three brothers was also as warm as the sun, until the nightmare struck in early April.

Seeing that Chen Mao kept frowning and remembering, and when he talked about the time when the relationship between the three was the best, Zhou Zhou couldn't help but hug him tightly and hold his hand, feeling sorry for his youth at that time.

"That day was the same as every other day." Leaning in Zhou Zhou's arms, Chen Mao thought about what happened that day.

Memories are a little fuzzy, eight years ago, the surface was covered with dripping blood, Chen Mao usually would never touch it, but today he wiped off the blood on it, and peeked at the erosive wound underneath.

It was the same day as usual, or something was different, but Chen Mao didn't notice.

He is very familiar with the flowers and trees in Prince Jin's Mansion, so he doesn't think there is anything unusual about it, and the day before his elder brother said that he would study his homework, Chen Mao walked all the way, all his mind was reviewing the books he read last night.

On the way to Zixiu Zhai, I didn't meet anyone. Although Chen Mao came and went freely in Prince Jin's Mansion, it was hard not to inform him, but he couldn't see Eunuch Ren outside the small courtyard.And no one else.

"Is there no one?" Zhou Zhou asked him.

Chen Mao thought about it again, and affirmed: "No..."

There are no maids, servants, servants, guards, father-in-law, nothing, if it is not for the wind to blow the branches, the small courtyard is as quiet as if it is still - this should be the first unusual thing.How is the yard empty?Who can spend them all?Could it be Chen Shen?

Chen Mao stood at the door for a while, then went in by himself.

"Eunuch Ren?"

No one responded to him, Chen Mao was inexplicably flustered, "Brother! Brother?"

The courtyard was so quiet that there was an echo, and the echo was empty, knocking into Chen Mao's heart.There was a faint stench in the air, and Eunuch Kang also felt that something was wrong, so he quietly approached Chen Mao and looked around subconsciously.

"Your Highness, look." The door of the study room was wide open, and Chen Mao approached the study step by step, and the thick smell of blood became stronger and stronger.

Chen Mao couldn't see clearly what was going on in the study for a moment, but his eyes were staring, and his brain couldn't react.

Chen Shenmu fell to the ground in blood. Standing beside him was a man with blood on his body. He was holding a bright sword in his hand. Beads of blood were still sliding down the sword, as if they could merge into a winding river.

As soon as he loosened his hand, the things he was holding fell to the ground, and the fresh fruits and vegetables he wanted to give to his elder brother hit the ground, making a painful muffled sound.

The sword also fell to the ground, and there was a "ding lang" so frightened that his heart would burst, the man turned around in shock, Chen Mao couldn't believe it, it was Chen Ke.

Eunuch Kang gasped and rushed out to find the imperial physician.Chen Mao froze in place, his calves trembling, and Chen Ke's eyes were empty, which was already penetrating, but now his face was stained with blood, more like a monster.

"I was terrified. I don't know when Eunuch Kang disappeared. I saw him looking at me and turned around and ran. He came to chase him, but he only chased him a few steps."

"King Ni didn't catch up with you?"

"No, he didn't even leave the courtyard."

Zhou Zhou was thoughtful, this is also unusual.

"Have you testified against each other?"

"No..." Not because he was young at the time, but because Emperor Xuanwu quickly closed the case, and even hinted in words that he should not reveal anything about that day.

"Emperor Xuanwu?"

Chen Mao couldn't figure it out, "I didn't talk to Chen Ke much after that, and he became more and more cold. Everyone called him Yan Luo with a cold face, but I was entangled every day about how my elder brother died, and even I doubted my father, but my father has always loved eldest brother."

"There must be a motive for suspicion. What is Emperor Xuanwu's motive?"

Chen Ke shook his head.

"If Nioh wanted to fight for the reserve, he wouldn't do such a direct thing."

"But other than that, what other motives did you have to kill brother?"

"If it's not a matter of fighting for the crown prince, could it be a case that King Jin handled at that time?"

This is a direction, Chen Mao thinks along, "It is possible, this can also explain why Chen Ke was blamed. At that time, the two of them were often in contact with various government affairs..."

But what kind of things will force the other party to kill King Jin and blame King Ren?Such secretive political affairs might not be handed over to the eldest brother and second brother at the time, right?

Zhou Zhou's mind turned quickly, "No, I suddenly feel that this is a plan to kill three birds with one stone."

"Three eagles with one arrow?" Who is the third eagle?Chen Mao raised his eyebrows, "You mean me?"

"The means of setting the blame on is very obvious, and it turns out that No.1 at the scene is not someone else, it's you."

Perhaps the object of Chen Ke's suspicion for many years is Chen Mao, and Chen Mao has always been annoyed that Chen Ke killed King Jin.

If the murderer is neither Chen Ke nor Chen Mao, then the murderer killed King Jin, blamed King Ren and attacked King Cheng, and at the same time provoked the relationship between them. "Three birds with one stone" is not enough to describe the murderer's strategy .

But Chen Mao retorted without hesitation: "No, I went to Prince Jin's Mansion that day on a whim." If it was agreed in advance, then the servants around the three of them would be suspicious, but this is not the case.

"Important? You?"

Chen Mao pinched his brows with some headaches, Zhou Zhou advised him to rest first and think about it tomorrow.

"En." Chen Mao was indeed tired.

Changed his clothes and fell on the bed, feeling Zhou Zhou pushing him in, Chen Maofu opened his eyes again: "Go sleep outside."

"Why?"

why?Because you shamelessly hugged me outside once and Chen Ke saw it.Chen Mao couldn't say that.Glaring, put on the posture that I just don't want you to go out to sleep.

Zhou Zhou had no choice but to get out of bed, put down the bed curtain for him and turn off the lights before going out.

In the dark, Chen Mao opened his eyes, suddenly feeling sleepy.That day was originally the day when he went to see the Taifu, in order to perform better when his father studied his homework next month, but the Taifu suddenly caught a cold, so he decided to go to the Prince Jin's Mansion temporarily.

Since it was a temporary decision, how did the murderer know that he had changed his whereabouts?If the murderer knows, then the scope of finding the murderer will be reduced to the people around Chen Mao.What if the murderer doesn't know?

Chen Mao had a lot of thoughts in his head, and he was very troubled, and felt that someone lifted the bed curtain, got into the bed gently, and hugged him from behind.

Smelling Zhou Zhou's familiar smell, Chen Mao slowly calmed down, closed his eyes and remained motionless, acquiescing Zhou Zhou's behavior of coming back to sleep.Zhou Zhou found Chen Mao's hand, unfolded it, clasped his fingers tightly, and pulled him into his arms contentedly.

"No." Chen Mao opened his eyes suddenly, turned over and supported Zhou Zhou's chest, "We were wrong."

"what?"

"The murderer didn't know that I would go there. If he knew, there must be no servants in the yard."

There was not a single servant, which only increased Chen Mao's suspicion.Maybe it wasn't because of him, Chen Mao, who screened everyone away, but because it wasn't him who was going to witness King Ni's murder in the first place.

"The murderer arranged for another person, or the murderer himself will be the No. 1 person who discovers Nioh's murder, and you are an accident he didn't expect? What do you mean?"

"Yes." Chen Mao's eyes lit up, "Do you know how the father closed the case so quickly?"

Zhou Zhou listened attentively.

"The Dali Temple caught the murderer in just two days. An assassin of a foreign race, because it involved the restoration of the Jin Dynasty, the father used the reason of "sudden death".you guess……"

Chen Mao shook Zhou Zhou, "Guess who caught the murderer."

"I can't guess it." Zhou Zhou held Chen Mao's hand on his chest, and subconsciously rubbed his skin with his thumb.

Chen Mao stared at Zhou Zhou, "It's Yan Keqing."