Rise in the glory of the king system

Chapter 669 Attitude
Di Renjie was slightly startled, there was a strong wind outside the house, the wind blowing in swept away the case file on the table, and it flew around the room, making the whole room into a mess.As the figure walked in, the door slammed shut, and everything returned to calm.

The visitor took off his bamboo hat and placed it at the door. The rainwater flowed down the bamboo hat, and the dim candlelight in the room swayed. The shadow of the man was reflected on the wall, and the shaking made him look more sinister.

"Go, light up the oil lamp on the wall." Di Renjie ordered.

The person came closer, and the oil lamp on the wall also turned on. The warm-colored light fell on the person, and Di Renjie couldn't help but frown.

This man was dressed in a dark green straight-legged dark dress with an official sash around his waist, just like a man's attire, his hair was also tied into a man's bun, but his face was clear and indifferent, with stubbornness and arrogance in his eyes.

Di Renjie looked at her, a little startled, "You are Shangguan Wan'er?"

She nodded, "Yes."

Di Renjie said to Li Yuanfang, "Go get some tea."

Shangguan Wan'er said softly: "I'm really sorry for disturbing you at night, but I can only visit you at night because of my inconvenience."

Di Renjie sized her up and led her to a seat beside her. Li Yuanfang just arrived with tea.

"Thank you." Shangguan Wan'er took the tea bowl in his hand.

Li Yuanfang squinted his eyes, but the tea in the tea bowl did not move at all. It seemed that this person had great skill.

Di Renjie found her letter from the scattered desk, and said, "I've read this letter, um, tell me first."

Shangguan Wan'er's eyes were full of ruthlessness, she said: "My grandfather did not participate in the conspiracy, he was wronged."

Di Renjie said: "This is Dali Temple, everything must be based on evidence."

Shangguan Wan'er raised her eyelids, her expression dull, "Do you still remember the Shangsi Festival on March [-]rd, when the peonies were in full bloom, and everyone performed on the banks of the Qujiang River, this grand event attracted the attention of the whole Chang'an, including Talented scholars dedicate poems to peonies, and I am fortunate to be able to comment on them. When I stood on the tower, I saw a person who terrified me. The person is exactly the same, with a coquettish peony in full bloom, and wants to take my life and the lives of my relatives."

Di Renjie faintly felt that something was wrong, he looked at Li Yuanfang, and Li Yuanfang also frowned slightly, looking at him uncertainly.

Di Renjie handed her pen, ink and a piece of paper, "Can you draw his appearance?"

Shangguan Wan'er shook her head, "I can only play with writing and ink, and I am not proficient in painting, but you may know him. Do you two still remember the story of the former emperor who would be passed down by the former prince? The expert disappeared with one blow." Now, only divination and a peony are left, it will be just a legend, and the peony alchemist who lives in the Fengya courtyard in Chang'an city is the same expert back then."

Di Renjie frowned, "What do you mean by that?"

Shangguan Wan'er looked at him indifferently, "What I said is clear enough."

Di Renjie was silent, and after a while, he said: "No one knows how long he has lived, and no one knows what he wants to do. There is no definite evidence in your case. Even if you think he was the one who framed your grandfather, there is no evidence." purpose."

Shangguan Wan'er raised the tea bowl and said: "I know, but please believe me, I will cooperate, as long as it can clear the injustice and restore my grandfather's innocence, it will take as long as it takes."

After she finished speaking, she drank it all in one gulp, and Di Renjie looked at her complicatedly.

After she left, Di Renjie sighed and said to Li Yuanfang, "Where can we start investigating this?"

Li Yuanfang sighed, "At present, she is on the same line as us. Her grandfather, the former prince, the first emperor, and Ming Shiyin, we are not from that era. It will be very difficult to find out."

Di Renjie looked at him and scratched his hair, "Now there's another incident about Lu Ling that's disturbing Chang'an, that's all, look for Lu Ling and let him go first, someone will always look for it, just send someone to keep an eye on it, we'll pick someone It's cheap, and you don't need to stare at Ming Shiyin, because staring at it will get in the way, so you can check the origin of that door, so that you may know what Ming Shiyin wants to do. Remember, our opponent is only he."

"Yes."

Di Renjie suddenly thought of something, "By the way, was the first prince executed or something?"

Li Yuanfang thought for a while and said, "Exile."

Di Renjie frowned and thought for a while, "Exile? Bad thing, hurry up and find out if there is anything wrong with him after his exile, I always feel like I missed something."

Because Yun Zhongjun promised to take Yao to the market in a few days, Yao stayed in the mansion obediently and did not run around, which made the guards heave a sigh of relief.

The weather in early autumn was still very hot, Yao clicked her tongue impatiently when she heard the disturbing cicadas, got out of bed and ran to the yard.

In the study, Yun Zhongjun was listening to his subordinates report on the matter, when suddenly, a furtive head poked out from the window, the subordinate stared at the head by the window with wide eyes and read wrongly.

Yun Zhongjun frowned, "You just read this passage."

The subordinate quickly came to his senses and said, "Ah, I'm sorry."

Yun Zhongjun asked: "What's wrong? Are you absent-minded?"

Suddenly, the sound of cicadas came from somewhere in the room, Yun Zhongjun was stunned for a moment, "Where is the sound of cicadas coming from?"

Yao desperately gestured to the subordinate to silence her. The subordinate looked from side to side in embarrassment, and finally closed his mouth.

Yun Zhongjun was very puzzled, he stood up, and suddenly felt a strong wind blowing, he subconsciously raised his hand and stretched his leg to trip.

"Ouch! It hurts! My waist! Ah!" Yao shouted.

The subordinate said embarrassingly: "Resign, little one."

Yun Zhongjun asked strangely: "Yao?"

Yao was tripped by him, and her whole body was almost hanging in the air, only relying on Yun Zhongjun to support her, she couldn't move and was extremely tired.

Yun Zhongjun pulled her up and let her go, "You are so silent, I thought someone broke into my place."

Yao rubbed her waist aggrievedly, and said: "I just want to scare you. I caught a lot of cicadas for you to play with."

Yun Zhongjun smiled, "Now is the time when the cicadas are singing the loudest, do you think it's too noisy to grab them?"

Yao pouted and nodded fiercely, "It's noisy, I want to sleep for a while, but I can't fall asleep, now it's all right, all I can see is in this bottle."

The smile on Yun Zhongjun's lips grew bigger and bigger, "Then where are you going to put them after you catch them?"

Yao thought for a while and said, "Burn?"

Yun Zhongjun was a little surprised, "Burn?"

Yao said: "Just put it in the kitchen stove."

For a moment, Yun Zhongjun didn't know what to say, because it would be noisy if it was released, and it would be cruel to burn it. It's not cruel, but it just feels weird.

Suddenly, Yao asked again, "Do you eat cicada pupae?"

Yun Zhongjun was puzzled, "Is that edible?"

"Yes, why don't you try it? You can choose deep-fried and dry-stir-fried, and you can eat it with some chili powder and salt." Yao's eyes are very clear, with a little bit of galaxy, and the fragrance and rhyme between her words are unique to her. her taste.

Yun Zhongjun politely refused: "No, I want to live a few more years."

Yao looked at him angrily, "Do you not believe me? I really want to cook for you because I treat you as a friend. Are you sure you want to reject me?"

Yun Zhongjun smiled and said, "It's because you made it that I dare not eat it."

Yao said angrily: "Wait, I'll catch it now."

Hearing her rushing out, Yun Zhongjun sighed helplessly. He called his servant and asked, "Do you think cicada pupae can be eaten?"

The servant was stopped by his strange question, "Cicada? Cicada chrysalis?"

Yao threw the bottle of cicadas into the kitchen stove and ran to the yard to catch the cicada pupae. Her eyes were very firm, and she was bound to let Yun Zhongjun have a taste of her craft.

"By the way, is Master Xuanwei in the house all the time?" Yun Zhongjun asked.

The waiter nodded, "Yes, he doesn't eat, the younger ones just need to give him bath water every day."

Yun Zhongjun said: "He has practiced for many years, you can't be negligent. Speaking of which, he and Yao haven't met yet."

The servant asked, "Then, have you told Master Yao about the existence of Miss Yao?"

Yun Zhongjun nodded, "I said it, it's just that Yao doesn't have a surname. When I asked her, she said her surname was Lu, Lu Yao. I don't see her, but I always feel that people are talking about her as the name suggests."

Yao was squatting in the yard, holding a bamboo basket in one hand, grabbing cicada pupae when she saw them, chanting something.

Not far away, the sound of crutches falling to the ground, Yao turned her head strangely, and her innocent smiling face immediately fell.

Yao looked at the visitor with an expression on her face that was as wonderful as fireworks. After a while, she showed a strange smile and said, "Okay, you're not dead after all."

When Guiguzi saw her, he was stunned for a moment, and then his crutches shook violently, and he shouted coldly: "You villain, you actually let this old man see you again!"

"You wolfish ambition, you killed him once, how dare you appear by his side?!" Guiguzi yelled angrily.

Yao stood up and took a moment to say: "He's blind, he can't recognize me."

Guiguzi walked over step by step with a cane, and said sentence by sentence: "Yes, he is blind, so who is he blind for?!"

Every sentence is sonorous and every word is pearly.

Yao showed a cold and disdainful expression, "Tsk, it's been so long, I can't even remember."

Guiguzi laughed back angrily, "Too long? It's only been three years. You really forget things a lot, so should I remind you that you tricked him into going to the cliff and pushed him down!"

Yao seemed to be thinking about that time, her bright and clear eyes seemed to be shining with green light, her expression was extremely weird, she smiled sullenly and said: "Ah, so, master, you have been missing for so long , do you know that I have been looking for you?"

Guiguzi couldn't bear it anymore, "You are looking for me? You just want to get the technique of reincarnation from me! I can tell you clearly, I will not pass it on to you!"

Yao laughed loudly, "Hahahahahahaha, master, you really don't care about our former friendship at all! Master, you should know that besides Lord Yunzhong, I am the only disciple of yours now."

After hearing this, Guiguzi raised his crutches and hit her on the leg hard, and said angrily in disbelief: "Did you kill all my apprentices?!"

Being swung up by his crutches, Yao's legs softened, and she couldn't stand up straight. She grinned in pain, but her expression now was more similar to that of madness, "Yeah, after you escaped, they didn't know where to go. I'll just kill them, can't I?? Huh?"

Guiguzi looked at her almost perverted expression and said coldly: "What is your purpose for approaching him?"

Yao thought about his words seriously for a moment, and said: "The purpose? Where is the purpose? He saved me, he brought me to him, and he asked me to stay."

Guiguzi was furious, "Leave him for me! He can be said to beg for rebirth from the gods, why can't he avoid you, you bastard! Can you please let him go in this life?!"

Yao listened, her heart was completely cold, she said in a low voice: "In the eyes of the master, is this the kind of person I am?"

Guiguzi asked back: "Isn't it?"

Before Yao could speak, he only heard his warning: "It's best if you don't have a purpose now! If you still have a little conscience, you will atone for him in this life! He has no memory and can't see now. If you still have any malicious intentions towards him Don't blame me for being rude!" Guiguzi warned her.

Yao smirked and compromised: "Okay, I won't mess with him, but you can tell him the truth, tell him how he died in the previous life, tell him that I killed him, you can go, you can now You can go and see what happens to him."

Hearing her intentionally provoking and irritating him, Guiguzi gave her a cold gouged look, "I'm warning you, don't give me a hippie smile!"

Yao took a step closer, and said again: "Then you can kill me, huh? Right now, quick! Do it!"

Guiguzi's crutch shook the ground, and Yao's leg suddenly ached. She looked at his crutch with palpitations.

Guiguzi looked at her with his neck tilted, and hit her hard with another cane, "Be quiet! Don't force me to do anything to you!"

Yao smiled sweetly, "Oh? That's fine, let's wait and see."

Guiguzi shook his head while snorting coldly, turned and left.

Yao looked at Guiguzi who left on crutches, relaxed the muscles on his face, and returned to his harmless smile.

She returned to the yard and continued to pick up her cicada chrysalis, as if nothing had happened. Soon, a bamboo basket was full, and she carried the bamboo basket to the kitchen.

The fireman in the kitchen looked at her basket and asked curiously, "Miss Yao, what's in your basket?"

Yao covered the basket mysteriously, rolled her eyes and asked, "Do you want to use this kitchen now?"

The fireman thought for a while, "Yes, we also need to prepare tea and snacks."

"How long?" Yao asked.

Fireman: "A stick of incense."

Yao counted the time and waved her hands, "Then you guys prepare it, just lend me the oil pan."

The waiter who followed the stoker stared at her with big eyes, Yao turned her head and stared back, "Go out! I'm going to make food! Don't come in! You are not allowed to look at it! Go out when you are done, do you hear me?"

The servant backed out tactfully.

Yao rolled up her sleeves and fetched a basin of water, poured the cicada chrysalis in the bamboo basket into it, washed them carefully, then soaked them in salt, and put the lid on to prevent the fireman from peeping.

She put onions, ginger, star anise, cinnamon, cloves, leaves and cloves into the oil pan and stir-fried. Seeing that it was almost soaked, she took it out and threw it into the oil pan to start frying.

The stoker was dumbfounded. He only saw a pot of black things and the sound of oil exploding throughout the whole process.

Soon, a bowl of fragrant cicada chrysalis was ready, and Yao left the kitchen with the bowl.

In the study, Yun Zhongjun seemed to be wiping his sword. Suddenly, there was a knock on the door, and he said, "Come in."

As soon as the door opened, a scent wafted in, and Yun Zhongjun was stunned.

Yao smiled and said, "Guess what I did for you?"

A bad premonition arose spontaneously, Yun Zhongjun twitched the corner of his mouth, "You won't really catch the cicada pupae, will you?"

"That's right! I'm still ready! Come and taste it!" Yao came up to him with a bowl.

Yun Zhongjun took a step back in resistance, still smiling, "I can't get used to this."

Yao cut it and put it heavily on the table, "It's really delicious!"

Before Yun Zhongjun had time to organize his words, something was stuffed into his mouth suddenly, and he stayed where he was, his good self-cultivation prevented him from spitting it out directly.

Yao watched his expression change from stiff to distorted, feeling a little guilty.

Yun Zhongjun didn't know how he forced himself to eat it little by little, but after swallowing it, he found that it wasn't that difficult to swallow.

Yao quickly poured him a cup of tea, "Slow down, slow down, it's like this for the first time."

Yun Zhongjun sat down, calmed down his sense of taste, and tried his best to ask: "What do you eat on weekdays?"

Yao said: "It's the same as in your world."

Yun Zhongjun frowned, "Is it the same as in our world?"

Yao choked, and quickly said: "I mean the place where I used to live, because I always feel that your place is different from my place."

Yun Zhongjun asked: "What's the difference?"

"No, it's okay, it's almost the same. By the way, when will you take me to the market?" Yao changed the subject.

Yun Zhongjun couldn't resist her, he sighed and said: "Then tomorrow."

Yao nodded quickly, "Yes, yes! Do you still eat this?"

Yun Zhongjun refused: "No, since you like to eat, then you can eat more."

Yao picked up the bowl, "Then I'm going back to my room, what else do you want to eat next time, I'll make it for you, hehehe."

Yun Zhongjun smiled and said, "As long as it's not Qili's weirdness."

Yao rolled her eyes and promised: "Okay, then I'll go and study."

(End of this chapter)