The beauty is delicate and soft, and he madly criticizes the powerful officials for taking her as th

Yuan Qi leaned over and took a closer look at the chessboard trend, and laughed dumbly: "That piece a dozen moves ago actually came in handy now."

"That's the end of today's game." Pei Zhi left the remaining pieces of the game where he stood and left.

Yuan Qi said hurriedly: "My lord, I will leave the palace with you."

"I'm going to Yilan Hall, are you going too?" Pei Zhi turned to look at him, half-smiling.

Yuan Qi was stunned and whispered: "In that case, I won't disturb you anymore. My lord, you...enjoy yourself."

"Enjoy yourself?" Pei Zhi said. He finally understood why Yuan Ziyu was so rude. He only gave a few things, but both of them thought that he and the imperial concubine had a secret affair.

"The imperial concubine treats the orphan no differently than the courtiers around her." Pei Zhi said in a calm voice, "The orphan has no interest in taking advantage of the concubine."

Although he could force her to surrender, it would be too humiliating. Since childhood, Pei Zhi had always warned himself that love was like a cloud, and it was not worth losing his composure and suffering unnecessary infamy.

Yuan Qi broke into a cold sweat and continued: "I am just making assumptions on my own."

Pei Zhi remained silent and raised his hand to signal Yuan Qi to leave. He stared at the water of Cangchi and the white jade railings on the shore. Beyond that, there were three hills, built in imitation of Penglai, Fangzhang and Yingzhou. .

He remembered that when he was a child, his mother often took him by boat across Cangchi. Not far from the shore was Yilan Hall, so there was no need to take a detour.

There happened to be a small boat nearby. Pei Zhi called Chi Ying out and asked, "Can you row a boat?"

Chi Ying was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said, "Yes."

Until the boat reached the middle of the lake, Chiying didn't realize that he, a secret guard, was actually working as a boatman in Cangchi.

"Is there any news from Zheng Dan?"

A few days ago, as soon as Zheng Dan arrived in Chang'an, he went to Prince Wei's Mansion to report to Pei Zhi about the general affairs of Liangzhou in recent years. He has not been seen since.

"He has been busy with the matter of breaking off the engagement recently, and he seems to have some differences with Miss Zheng." Chi Ying said in a subtle tone, "The Dragon Slaying Guard sent to keep an eye on them said that Zheng Dan wanted to marry the Liangzhou nobles, and Miss Zheng wanted to... marry To my lord."

Pei Zhi paused and said, "I have never met her before."

"My lord, you have met her before. She met you in the backyard during the last flower viewing party at the Yuan Mansion."

Pei Zhi said expressionlessly: "Really? I can't remember clearly."

Chi Ying was speechless. Zheng Sui even saluted his lord at that time. Perhaps he was walking in a hurry and didn't see clearly.

"Zheng Dan is quite sensible."

Pei Zhi was very satisfied with the Zheng family's ability to understand current affairs, and it was not in vain for him to write a book to Zhang Yushu in Liangzhou to give some advice to the Zheng family.

When the boat arrived at the shore, I saw someone passing by in a sedan chair from a distance, followed by more than a dozen followers.

"Mother, we meet by chance." Pei Zhi took a few steps forward with a smile on his lips.

In the evening, with a cool breeze blowing, Yu Tingwan was sitting on the sedan chair. He was a little sleepy when he suddenly heard the voice of King Wei and woke up.

"Why is Your Highness here?"

"When I'm here, I'll take a boat ride in Cangchi. If you have time, you can try it. The scenery of the three mountains is very good."

Yu Tingwan nodded and said: "The King of Wei Yaxing, it's just that I have been afraid of water since I was a child, so I can't appreciate the fun of it."

After she finished speaking, she turned her head away uncomfortably, deliberately not looking into his eyes.

Pei Zhi looked regretful, suddenly looked at Yu Tingwan's bun, and asked softly: "Why doesn't the empress have the hairpin given by Dai Chen?"

Yu Tingwan's eyelids twitched. She felt that something was getting more and more wrong with King Wei, and her intuition told her that she shouldn't tell the truth.

That day, the thin petals on the hairpin were bent by Yuan Ziyu, and the sharp hairpin pierced his palm. How could she wear it?

Pei Zhi naturally knew what was going on, but he decided to ask her.

"Your Highness, that hairpin is precious, I..." Yu Tingwan chose to lie, but when she saw those dark eyes, her heart trembled and she stopped.

"I understand." Pei Zhi's smile weakened a lot.

Looking at his expression, Yu Tingwan felt that he was angry, and became even more flustered. He gave a vague reason and left.

After returning to Yilan Palace, Yu Tingwan told Jiaoyue Ting about today's worries. Jiaoyue thought for a moment and said, "I may be overthinking, and King Wei has no reason to be angry with you."

Yu Tingwan nodded, breathed a sigh of relief and said, "That's right, it's just a gold hairpin."

Seven days later, people from the Wei Palace sent six identical lotus hairpins. They only said that they were sent by Pei Zhi and said, "Since the hairpins are precious, don't break them easily."

Yu Tingwan was not sure what King Wei meant, so he thanked him and left the maid in King Wei's house to have a cup of tea without saying a word.

"Mother, what is this?" The bright moon saw the six identical hairpins. She didn't know what she thought of, and her face turned ugly. For the first time, she ran to the inner hall to polish ink and write.

Yu Tingwan stood behind the bright moon, joking: "You are quite studious now." But when he saw what was written on the paper, he frowned seriously.

In the whole world, only Yu Tingwan, the master, could recognize the ghost-drawing talisman in Jiaoyue's hand.

It says "Someone, come into bed and say something".

Yu Tingwan never expected in her life that the first person to pull up the curtains on the bed with her and sit face to face on the couch would be Jiao Yue.

When Jiao Yue went to bed, she still had a pen in her mouth and continued to write on the paper: "The King of Wei has placed more than one Dragon-Slaying Guard in the palace."

Yu Tingwan nodded. When she saw the six identical golden hairpins, she realized what happened when Yuan Ziyu came that day. Someone probably told King Wei.

It's just... there are more than one. Isn't it too exaggerated? Is she worth spending so much effort to monitor?

Jiaoyue seemed to understand her thoughts and continued to write: "With a precedent like mine, he won't send just one person."

Several Dragon-Slaying Guards are on a mission and if they find signs of rebellion among their companions, they can kill them on the spot.

Yu Tingwan suddenly remembered the missing letter, and her face turned a little pale. After asking Jiaoyue, she wrote: "You were by the bedside at the time, no one else was around, and the letter was burned, so they couldn't see it."

After all, Dragon Slayer Guard is also a human being. The palace beams are high, and it is impossible to read the words on the letter clearly even if he is hiding on them.

The tip of the bright moon's pen tapped on the paper, not knowing whether to say anything or not, but finally wrote: "The attention King Wei pays to you is beyond common sense."

Judging from her experience in the Dragon Slaying Guard for so many years, Pei Zhi should not have invested so many people in the imperial concubine.

What's more, multiple Dragon-Slaying Guards were performing tasks, and most of them were in the same light and shade. Maybe there was a Dragon-Slaying Guard sneaking in among the maids outside the palace.

The footsteps and breathing of martial arts practitioners are different, but Jiaoyue has never noticed it, which means that the level of the person sent to Yilan Palace is more than a star and a half higher than her.

Yu Tingwan fell silent, unwilling to admit Jiao Yue's statement.

In her heart, she did not regard Pei Zhi as a normal man. When she thought of him, she thought of him more in terms of titles such as King of Wei, Prime Minister, and Powerful Minister, which were always a bit insubstantial and untainted by dust.

No matter how much I think about it, I can't put him and myself together.

After she finally calmed down, she thought that no matter what, she would be able to leave Chang'an within a year at most, and the King of Wei's slaying of the Dragon Guard would have nothing to do with her.