Ning Gu

The shady birds lying in front of the window lattice were startled by the sudden rise in the room, and they all flapped their wings and headed for the forest.Seeing this, two or three forest birds on the treetops in the forest chirped together, breaking the tranquility of the apricot forest in a blink of an eye.

Zhao Zuolingyan raised his eyebrows and looked at the woman in front of him, his eyes were deep but without any affection.

Ye Qiaoyu met Zhao Zuo's eyes, and her eyes were neither humble nor overbearing, as if it was the female general holding the gun in Guzang Mo at this moment, as if Zhao Zuo was the thief she wanted to hunt down, and her gaze It also gradually resembled the tasseled gun she once held in her hand.And the softness of a woman in this body can't strip her of her sassy color.

Peeping Yu looked coldly at Zhao Zuo, and repeated the question just now.

Unexpectedly, it was not Zhao Zuo who really answered her, but the person who opened the door.

"Squeak-"

The slightly covered door was pushed open, Zhao Zuo turned his head to look, but heard someone answer.

"That's right. The Ye family only kept a few bags of gold leaves with their lives. The wine cellar that Old General Ye was thinking of when he left was just a few bags of gold leaves from Xie Ning." Xian Zhi held his hand, Entering under the last glow of the sky, "General Peeping Fish, don't you think it's worth it?"

"Xinling." Zhao Zuo couldn't help frowning, and called Xianzhi in a cold voice, as if he didn't want him to get involved, but Xianzhi shouldn't.

Zhao Zuo didn't have the patience of Xie Wuling, let alone be persuasive and persuasive, only one sword strike would make people irreversible.I have a deep understanding of such things, especially in recent years.

So he was afraid that if he didn't answer the words, Zhao Zuo would directly let Ye Qiaoyu come and go.

Xianzhi bowed to Zhao Zuo, but turned a blind eye to the warning in Zhao Zuo's eyes.Even if Zhao Zuo didn't want Xianzhi to get involved, he could only compromise, just like him to Xie Wuling.But in the end, the blue comes from the blue, and is better than the blue. Xianzhi took half a step confidently, turned around and closed the door, blocking the last ray of sunlight from outside the room.

Then he walked up to the two of them, took a cup of tea for himself, and took a sip.With both hands resting on the edge of the table, he bent down and whispered softly: "But if I say, the few bags of gold leaves hidden in the wine cellar are enough to replace my head, and the throne that my father sits on is easy." Lord, what does Peeping Fish General think?"

Peeping Fish's gaze was cast on Xianzhi from the very beginning, until the man walked up to her and asked like this.She still couldn't believe it, and asked tentatively, "Xianzhi?"

Probably because she has never seen Xianzhi like this, or that Xianzhi has never been like this in her memory, Xianzhi in her memory is always gentle, but now he is more like the elder brother Pingzhi in her memory .

Like a fox hiding in the clouds, it hides its cunning behind the clouds, making people aware of the danger, but unable to see where the danger lies.

This kind of thinking made Ye Jianyu's eyes lose a lot of arrogance, and it also made her heart tighten.

"Huh?" Xianzhi raised his eyebrows, then looked back at Zhao Zuo, seeing that Zhao Zuo didn't intend to stop him.It seemed that he was no longer surprised by his presumptuousness, so Xianzhi continued to follow his own ideas more confidently: "Master left five pictures at the beginning, and everyone in the world has seen four pictures. Yes, General Fish Peeping knows that there is a person behind the first picture, named Sang Luo."

Xianzhi was not surprised to see Ye Peepyu's eyebrows move slightly, as if about to frown, but then forced to open.

But Ye Jianyu felt that Xianzhi's words were aimed at her on purpose, like a hidden arrow outside Guzang City, every sentence took her life.

But the name of Sang Luo was indeed what Xianzhi wanted to tell Peeping Fish. Obviously Ye Peeping Yu gave him a good reaction, at least she knew about Sang Luo.

Xianzhi began to think about it, and continued: "I think General Peeping Yu probably doesn't know him, so let alone. After the second picture...is Zhao Xing in the hands of City Lord Xuan."

"Behind the third picture is the golden leaf of the half cellar, which can be regarded as a 'wealthy country'. As for the fourth picture, it shows the old tree in the mansion of Princess Qi, I think General Peeping Fish should have heard from Lu Erlang." Xianzhi pursed his lips, and added firmly, "Mr. Lu Erlang has said about Xiao Qi'er's life experience, otherwise the general would not come to the garden. "

In the end, Xianzhi's understatement hit Ye Qiaoyu's heart heavily, and a trace of panic flashed in her eyes.

Xianzhi lowered his head again, and forced Peoyu to look directly at him, which was more piercing than the cold wind in the desert, and asked: "General Peepyu, you... really don't understand Lu Weiming's mind?"

"No," Peeping Fish couldn't help shaking his hand holding the teacup, and refuted Xianzhi, "No, no. The Zhaoxing in Xuancheng's hand is for viewing, and Xie Wuling doesn't like it." There will be so much gold leaf."

She cast her eyes on Zhao Zuo, but obviously Zhao Zuo would not be the one who helped her deceive her ears.She was discouraged when she met Zhao Zuo's calm eyes.It was like a drowning person who thought he had grasped the branch beside him, but in a blink of an eye the tree was broken by the surging water, telling her that her current struggle was futile.

"How did the general determine that Master won't have so many gold leaves?" Xianzhi left Zhaoxing in Xuancheng's hands undiscussed. After all, Xie Wuling left Zhaoxing to him in the end, and he mentioned Xuancheng just now. It's just a pretense.

And his gaze followed the peeping fish past him, and turned his head to look at Zhao Zuo, trying to find what the peeping fish was looking for in Zhao Zuo's eyes.

"One piece every month, all sent to Lingjian Temple and Yage." Zhao Zuo suddenly answered in a cold voice, with an irrefutable meaning in his words, "He has."

Xian Zhi suppressed his curiosity, he always felt that there might be something hidden in it that he didn't know.About Xie Wuling, about Zhao Zuo, about Ye Qiaoyu.

"Each of these pictures is of great value. Although General Peeping Fish is far away in Guzang, he should know about it after thinking about it." Xian Zhi twitched his hand on the edge of the table and knocked on the table, and continued to bring the topic back Come back, "And these gold leaves are all hidden in the wine cellar of Ye Jiashou. What does General Peeping Fish think?"

In fact, Zhao Zuo didn't want Ye Qiaoyu to know, or Xie Wuling didn't want the Ye family to know.Just like the note that Xie Wuling sent at that time.

Everyone is innocent, but pregnant is guilty.If Zhao Zuo still wanted to make a living in Fufeng back then, it would be impossible to bring the token of Shanluying back to Fufeng.

But Xie Wuling sent the golden leaf to Moshang at that time.Everyone in Moshang knows that anything can be hidden in Moshang, but things like gold leaves cannot be hidden.

In addition to the Hu thief, there are many refugees who cannot be guarded.So he sent the golden leaves to mention Zhao Zuo.

Zhao Zuo made a bolder decision.When he was carrying wine for Xie Wuling, he left the gold leaves in the wine cellar in the desert, but after returning to Fufeng, he said that the token with the Lu family was left in the desert.The real token has always been in his hands.

And what Xianzhi knows better is that this Fufeng has been spread a few years ago, that Master Miaofa guarded thousands of gold and silver for Xie Ning, but it has become an excuse.

The Zhaoxing Bamboo Forest, which was supposed to hide thousands of gold, had only one shabby room.And guarding this shabby room, guarding this rumor that Master Huixuan, the real master of the wonderful law who has a treasure of ten thousand gold, died for this.

"Why did you leave the gold leaves in the northwest?" Ye Jianyu refused to admit it, but didn't know how to struggle.

"It's all about keeping the Lu family safe," Zhao Zuo said.

However, Zhao Zuo didn't say anything, and he will prove it one by one in the future, so he didn't intend to spend too much time, but just explained one more sentence: "After all, it is Lu Qi's father's family."

Zhao Zuo got up, left the jade antlers on the table, said "Yourself", and walked out.

Xianzhi saw that his father left the jade antlers there generously, so he didn't ask any further questions, and followed him out of the house.

But it is obvious that Zhao Zuo who is out of Xinglin is not as easy to talk to as he was in the room just now.Just now he was envious of him without any fear, but he accepted his perverse appearance just now, and lowered his eyebrows to be pleasing to the eye.

"Didn't the widow tell the little boy not to enter Xinglin today?" Paused for a moment, then suddenly remembered that he had forgotten to include Xianzhi in the order, so he changed the topic and said, "The matter with Shen Changxie is settled?"

"It's solved. The bait for Lu Zuodi is also ready." Xianzhi followed Zhao Zuo out of Xinling, "Just now someone came to report that people from the Liang family went to pick up Lu Weiming. Presumably..."

"The fish are about to smell the bait." Zhao Zuo couldn't wait to laugh.But when his eyes suddenly touched the floating light window, his expression changed, as if he remembered something, and said: "It's a pity that the Lu family is in Lu Weiming's hands. If Lu Shencheng is still here..." Zhao Zuo suddenly walked around Looking into the woods from behind the floating window, the conversation suddenly stopped, and after a while he said again, "Forget it. I can't blame..." Zhao Zuo hesitated for a long time before he seemed to be able to find the words, "Don't blame him, The widow should be blamed."

Xian Zhi followed Zhao Zuo's gaze, and all he saw was the lonely house besides the defeated Hong Qiong.

Xianzhi is used to understanding Zhao Zuo's "he" as Xie Wuling. Perhaps in the past few years, when Zhao Zuo mentioned Xie Wuling, he would pause and replace it with "he", so when he answered the words, he was even more blunt. Candidly: "Actually, Master..."

"Huh?" Zhao Zuo turned his head when he heard the words, and looked at Xin Ling beside him, and sized him up, but there was a lot of emotion in his eyes.The little person next to him didn't know when it was time to outgrow him.And now Xianzhi has passed the age when he and Xie Wuling first met. Back then, he was still talking and laughing happily with Xie Wuling in Zhaoxing, but the person in front of him silently took over the burden on his and Xie Wuling's shoulders.

If this chess game that has been played for several years can end this time, it will always be good for Xianzhi.At least it can lighten the burden on his shoulders, Zhao Zuo hoped so.

"Nothing." Zhao Zuo responded.

Xianzhi heard the words, nodded, and continued: "Tomorrow's people have been arranged. It's windy tonight, father and emperor should return to Chongque early."

"Taking advantage of the strong wind, I happened to burn Fufeng. How they gave it to the widow back then, it should be returned as it is now." Zhao Zuo clenched his hand under his sleeve into a fist. He kept all the volumes for Mr. Xie Wuling.

It's been five years, and it's time to settle the accounts.

Zhao Zuoli walked through the corridor, but stopped in front of the pavilion, looked back at Xianzhi who followed him, and asked, "Don't you want to see how Lu Qi chooses?"

Xianzhi glanced at Zhao Zuo, then looked away after a while, and shook his head.He can imitate Xie Wuling's carelessness, but he is still afraid, afraid that Lu Qi will choose a path that he will not be able to save, and even more afraid that Lu Qi wants his life, afraid that he will really give it to him. The ghost snake sent Lu Qi to eat all the dregs left.

In fact, he was the most fearful one in the whole bureau.

Zhao Zuo also moved his eyes away: "But I want to see it."

I want to see if the person Xie Wuling raised with all his heart and blood can do what he wants, and I want to see if the child Xie Wuling is willing to drink poison himself and keep the child protected by grace is worth it.

Zhao Zuo looked longingly at the eaves of the back chamber hidden behind the main hall of Yunqi, and then turned around and left the garden to return to Chongque.

But today's Chongque has lost the peace of the past.Undercurrents slowly emerged from the indifference of people in Chongque.

The people in Luzuo moved out of their original place, which made Liang Ce's old fox smell a little dangerous.He turned around and sent someone to Chongque to deliver a message to his daughter in the middle palace, Liang Zhuo.

After Liang Zhuo received the news, others led Lu Qi to an ancestral hall in the outer palace.The ancestral hall that was erected in the early dynasties was originally unstoppable.

After Zhao Zuo came to the throne, the ancestral hall was banned. At first, it was rumored in the palace that this ancestral hall was dedicated to the people that Emperor Zuo remembered, so others were not allowed to enter.

Counting up to now, there are only three or four people who can enter this ancestral hall, and Liang Zhuo is one of them.

"Where is this?" Lu Qi didn't expect that he would be led here after leaving the red wall that trapped him.He looked up at the middle palace lady who led him out.

Liang Zhuo had already arranged this place, and the two guards guarding the forbidden area walked to the corridor of the outer palace early, pretending not to see Liang Zhuo's movements.

And the little boy serving in the ancestral hall was nowhere to be seen, only a bluestone road lay in front of Lu Qi.

"Go in and have a look." Liang Zhuo raised his chin to signal, and coaxed, "I don't want to see Xinling."

Lu Qi's eyes lit up when he heard the word "Xinling". He lifted his robe slightly, stepped over the threshold, and walked along the bluestone road that Xie Ling walked not long ago, leading to the hall.

Liang Hou followed in unhurriedly, and Lu Qi pushed open the door of the ancestral hall. There were still bright lights in the hall, and those wooden plaques were all in sight, and the ones on them were all Lu Qi stranger.

His gaze finally wandered a few times on a wooden sign.It was an inexplicably familiar name, and he whispered, "Wang Shuo."

But what surprised him even more was that not far from the wooden sign with "Wang Shuo" engraved on it, there was a wooden sign with no words, and he didn't know who prepared it first.

Liang Hou didn't give him a chance to think about who the wooden sign was prepared for, so he lifted the curtain to the inner hall and led Lu Qi inside.

Lu Qi waved to him when he saw Liang Hou, but he glanced at the sword from the corner of his eye, and his footsteps stopped suddenly. The tip of the sword was still stained with blood, which should have been inconspicuous, but the blood went into Lu Qi's eyes surprised him.

Lu Qi's heart suddenly kept beating in his chest, and he shivered suddenly. He didn't know whether it was the sword frightening him, or something in this hall, which always gave him a bad feeling and forced him to shudder. He quickened his pace and followed.

The inner room is not like the hall, there are not so many long-burning lamps around, there is only one candlestick, and behind the candlestick is a Buddhist altar.There is a painting hanging behind the altar, which Lu Qi saw in the secret room in Zhaoxing Bamboo Forest.

He subconsciously touched the ring that Xianzhi gave him, and held the ring tightly, as if this way Xianzhi could feel his tension.

But the little boy who was originally offering lamps in the ancestral hall was lazy in the inner room.He never expected that someone would come at this time, so he immediately fell asleep and knelt down in front of them.

Hearing it was a female voice, he secretly raised the thrower, and found that it was Empress Liang, then frowned, followed Empress Liang's order to go out, and then quietly walked to the outer palace.

Empress Liang didn't know that the boy went to another place in the outer palace after retiring, if she knew, she probably wouldn't let the boy go.But that's all for later.

Liang Hou heard that the door of the outer hall was closed, so he led Lu Qi straight to the shelf.

She raised her finger to a row of books on the shelf, and said in a low voice: "This shelf is Huidi's daily life after 27 years."

"Life note? Why put it here?"

Historically, the emperor's daily life notes were written by Ji Julang every day, and finally all of them were sealed in the Sutra Pavilion and handed over to special personnel.

Since it is something that is in charge of someone, how can it be hidden elsewhere.In any case, Lu Qi thought it was the Empress Liang who was cheating on him.

"Because there are some shady things in it. It's about your adoptive father." Liang Hou approached the bookshelf, flipped a book from the shelf, and asked again, "Don't you want to look through it?"

Lu Qi turned the pages of the book after seeing Liang, and couldn't help but roll his eyes.But Empress Liang was not angry. After all, she had gotten used to Lu Qi's appearance in the past few years, so she said angrily, "Do you not want to, or dare not?"

"I don't dare, my father can really have something shady. You have long been like them, and you have long believed that my father is a bad person and a courtier."

"They? It's not just them, it's the whole Fufeng that thinks so," Empress Liang deliberately emphasized, "Even Xianzhi."

"You're talking nonsense!" Lu Qi was a little anxious, "I won't listen! You can't even listen to what Xianzhi said about the people in this Chongque."

"Isn't it? That's why I brought the young master to this place." She handed the page she turned in her hand to Lu Qi, "The words in black and white can never deceive anyone."

Lu Qi gave her a hateful look, and then reluctantly glanced at the page, which reads:

On the twenty-fourth day, the emperor called Xie Wuling in to talk about the marriage of Princess Qi.The emperor was angry and turned the lamp.

On the twenty-fifth day, the princess of the Qi Kingdom expired, and the emperor refused to invite her out of the palace.Summon the general Lu Shencheng to enter the palace, and retreat to the left and right. At night, the princess of Qi Kingdom came to intercede, and Fang sent the general back.

"Young Lord, you can talk nonsense about me after you finish reading it, but I think you will not be able to say such things by then." Liang Hou watched Lu Qi continue to turn the page down, and said something , and left him here.

Xie Ling's medicine wore off at night, and when he woke up from the back compartment, there was no one around, only the moonlight shining on the bamboo curtain.

Xie Ling got up and went outside, he saw a woman walking through the corridor, about to leave through the gate, she stood in front of the gate and looked around before stepping out of the garden.

But she never noticed the figure on the path beside the Xie Pavilion.Xie Ling stood on the path, and only entered the pavilion when he saw her leave the garden.

Unexpectedly, Xian Zhi, who had watched the woman leave at the corner of the corridor earlier, was walking from the corridor.

Xianshang went to Xieting, and when he saw Xie Ling, he asked the hidden guards beside him to fetch Xie Ling's windbreaker, while he shielded him from the wind first.

"It was the cat who took the things just now?" Seeing him sitting down, Xie Ling asked

"Well, I took it, the antlers from the Mountain Deer Camp."

Xie Ling laughed when he heard the words, and shook his head: "That's not counted, it should be returned to the original owner." The smile on Xie Ling's face didn't last long, he looked at Xianzhi, and suddenly asked Said, "That's it, let her go?"

"That's right." Xianzhi paused, and then said, "Seeking skins from tigers hurts others and hurts oneself. Master taught me this."

"That's right. It would be good if she can wake up Lu Weiming when she goes back this time. This Lu family... shouldn't fall into his hands."

The dark guard who held the wind robe brought the wind robe, and also brought the wine that Xianzhi ordered earlier.

This happened to be seen by Xie Ling, and it was neither good nor wrong to make him envious.

But Xie Ling suddenly looked around and said, "Brother Zuo is not in the garden today."

Hearing the words, Xianzhi raised his eyes and met Xie Ling's eyes.The two looked at each other and smiled tacitly.