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Time flies quickly, and the New Year is over in a blink of an eye, and it is early spring.

The joy of the New Year seems to have not yet dissipated. The city of Jinling is still full of lights and festoons, and occasionally there will be a few firecrackers.It's not the first lunar month yet, the smell of food is wafting everywhere in the Lu residence, even the lanterns and gauze lanterns hanging in the yard have not been removed.

Xie Qiao was squatting on the ground, studying a few firecrackers tied into the shape of ground lotuses, which were sent by Xie Zheng the day before yesterday.

As soon as Lu Jue came back from the outside, he leaned on a pillar with folded arms and looked at Xie Qiao with a smile.This was Xie Qiao's first New Year's Eve after returning to Jinling, and the emperor fell in love with it.He saw that his younger brother was very interested in the fireworks in the palace when he entered the palace on New Year's Eve and Lantern Festival. Even though the fireworks season had passed, he still sent a few big fireworks into Lu's mansion for his younger brother to play with.

Xie Qiao really likes watching fireworks. After he took over the throne from his elder brother in his last life, the only good memory he had with Lu Jue was about fireworks.It was when he was 20, a year after his brother died.

He hadn't gained a firm foothold in the court that year, he was young and had just taken over the burden, and everyone in Jinling City knew his background, so most of the court officials didn't accept him.At that time, Lu Jue was standing behind him, and he and Lu Jue hadn't had those rifts yet.

It was the Lantern Festival that day, and there was a lively lantern festival in Jinling City. The whole city was decorated with lights and festoons, and the banks of the Qinhuai River were brightly lit and resplendent. He was pinching his brows, critiquing papers by the lamplight in the imperial study room, and was devastated.Many of those notes were full of the ministers' long-winded nonsense, interspersed with disgusting temptations, as if they were designed to make him unhappy.

When the sound of firecrackers came from outside, he became even more upset when criticizing the papers, but no matter how upset he was, he still had to criticize, and he couldn't even lose his temper when commenting to those ministers—his elder brother had just passed away, and he sat on the throne very suffocatingly. Bend.

At that time, a pair of cold hands suddenly covered his eyes, and the person behind said to him: "Qiaoer, that's enough. The lanterns outside are very beautiful today, do you want to go see them with me?"

He was a little dazed at that time, thinking he was dreaming, because since his brother died and he became the king, the man never called him "Joe", and never smiled at him again.

"What about Zhezi?"

"Never mind them, those stubborn old men just picked today to make things difficult for you. Why do you care about them, Qiao Er, you are the emperor and their ruler. There is no reason for a ruler to accommodate his ministers." These words seemed to have taken his youth away. The spirit and pride of the time.

Everything after that was like a dream.Lu Jue put a mask on his face, and pulled his wrist out of the palace.Fire trees and silver flowers, bright lights, Lu Jue took his wrist to walk through the noisy crowd - there were so many people, people were so happy, the joy of the people and the warmth of the crowd dispelled his discomfort, Lu Jue held him The hand on the wrist feels so clear.

At that time, he felt that it was a happy thing to walk on this road with Lu Jue all the time.

It's a pity that no matter how long the road is, it will eventually come to an end, and no matter how good a dream is, it will be broken.Lu Jue said that he is their king and should not be manipulated by his courtiers, but he is an emperor who has not yet established a firm foothold, so he can only be embarrassed by his courtiers.The embarrassment of not approving the memorial that day was resisted by Lu Jue.Later, Lu Jue resisted countless difficulties for him.

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Lu Jue folded his arms and looked at Xie Qiao, seeing him laughing at the pile of fireworks, he couldn't help laughing, but the smile on Xie Qiao's face gradually became cold, just like the fireworks that Xie Qiao likes to watch , After letting it go, it will be cold.Lu Jue subconsciously felt uncomfortable, he didn't want to see that smile on Xie Qiao's face.

"Do you like watching fireworks so much?" Lu Jue stood behind him and touched Xie Qiao's head.

"I like it." Xie Qiao put down the fireworks in his hand, looked up at the other party, his eyes were black and white, with a little bit of light shining: "Brother Huaiyu, how about we go to watch the fireworks and lantern festivals together every year from now on?"

Lu Jue's eyes were bent, he rubbed Xie Qiao's head, his tone seemed to be making some important promise: "Okay."

……

Li Mingbei also came this afternoon, this time in a carriage.He was also dressed in white in the first lunar month, and walked around the ground lotus piled up in the yard, and said: "Your Majesty really loves you." It was quite sour.

Xie Qiao glared at him and ignored him—his elder brother loved him, but his elder brother has always been affectionate, and he also regarded Li Mingbei as a relative, so he and Li Mingbei were called to the palace even on New Year's Eve live together.

Xie Qiao counted the days, and it will soon be the end of the first month.In his previous life, Li Mingbei died on the last day of the first lunar month, so his elder brother had to accept the fact that his relative died just after the new year.

So he said: "It is the last day of the first lunar month."

Li Mingbei didn't realize Xie Qiao's meaning for a while: "What?"

Xie Qiao looked at his face and said seriously: "They will do it on the last day of the first lunar month. On that day, you have to ask soldiers to pretend to be coachmen and drive an empty cart to Lu's mansion, and just lure them out. I have seen the terrain around Lu's mansion. Youyu will definitely be at Pingyue Building opposite the alley of Lu Mansion that day, and the carriage will be handed over to Brother Huaiyu here, and you can just bring people to the building and arrest them directly."

Because that building is the most suitable place for sniping arrows.

Li Mingbei died of cold arrows in his last life.

There must be an empty carriage, and you can't go directly to that building to arrest people, because Qian Youyu has always been suspicious, and if you don't have an empty carriage, you can't catch him.

Li Mingbei was always ruthless, he was ruthless to others, and he was even more ruthless to himself.Qian Youyu is the youngest son of the Qian family. He has been weak since he was a child, but he is very smart and has the reputation of a child prodigy.Concubine Qian Gui put the idea of ​​a puppet on him, but he was not without ambitions, so the two of them, aunt and nephew, used each other to get what they needed.

Qian Youyu's reputation is not in vain. In Xie Qiao's eyes, among the three younger generations of the Qian family, he is the only one who resembles Concubine Qian the most.He has always thought highly of himself, but he has been broken again and again by Li Mingbei, so he has always had a deep hatred for Li Mingbei—hate is an obsession, and hatred is the most painful obsession.That day the situation in the paddock was broken again, Qian Youyu fell into a nightmare like that court lady, his nightmare was to kill Li Mingbei at all costs.

The so-called counselor seeks the heart.Li Mingbei understood him, his madness and obsession, and what he wanted to do most, so he used his own life as a bait to lure out the last nail of the Qian family, and completely wiped out the roots.

In his last life, he really gambled his life to get the opponent to take the bait. He didn't know martial arts, and he never brought guards with him when he went out in those few months.Qian Youyu knew that maybe this was a trap, and he didn't mind falling into the trap, as long as he could get Li Mingbei's life, Li Mingbei also knew exactly what the other party was thinking, so he decided that the other party would jump off even though he knew it was a trap, He also wanted the other party's life.

In his previous life, Li Mingbei had both success and failure. He successfully lured out all the nails buried in the city by the Qian family, and also captured Qian Youyu, but he himself died.Died by a cold arrow shot by Qian Youyu himself.

On that day, Qian Youyu asked everyone to intercept and kill Li Mingbei, Li Mingbei sent the signal, and Lu Jue led his troops to capture those nails, but Qian Youyu himself was not among those nails.At that time, Li Mingbei seemed to have already calculated it, he smiled slightly, and went out of the alley, and a cold arrow shot straight down from the second floor of a restaurant, piercing his chest.Only then was Qian Youyu captured.

The two of them conspired against each other, and Li Mingbei had conspired to the extreme. He did everything he could, but he still lost his life.

And in this life, as long as he gives Li Mingbei a chance—tell him when Qian Youyu will act and where Qian Youyu himself might be, then he will be able to plan more thoroughly without risking his own life. superior.

After hearing this, Li Mingbei was stunned and smiled, "Xie Qiao, who are you?"

Xie Qiao raised his eyebrows: "You don't care who I am, just say you believe me or not?"

Li Mingbei looked at Xie Qiao, his eyes flickering, and finally he said, "I believe it."

"Don't you tell me not to tell His Majesty and Lu Huaiyu about this?" Li Ming asked with a sad smile.

"Because I didn't say you would too."

"No wonder the two of us hate each other." Li Mingbei shook his fan, and said with rare emotion.

Xie Qiao showed his white teeth to him: "You know that we two hate each other." So after this fate is over, don't come to Lu's house again.He had long wanted Brother Huaiyu to teach him how to write and read like in the last life.

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After Xie Qiao said those words to Li Mingbei, it was obvious that Lu Jue started to get busy, and sometimes he didn't go home until midnight.He knew what they were arranging, so he was very obedient in those few days and didn't bother Lu Jue.

Thinking it was almost time, Xie ordered the small kitchen to make sea bass soup one night—it is the first lunar month, and it is the most suitable season to eat sea bass. Jinling is along the Yangtze River, and the Spring Festival has just passed. Very delicious.It was warm and cold at this time, and it was very suitable to eat some hot food when coming back at night - Lu Jue was not in the mood to eat a few days ago, but now that the matter is completely resolved, he can finally have a down-to-earth meal.

Lu Jue finally settled that matter that day—Qian Youyu was captured, all the remnants of the Qian family in Jinling were pulled out, and Jinling City was finally cleaned up, so he could come back and sleep well.

As soon as he entered the courtyard, he saw that the lights in Xie Qiao's room were on. He frowned subconsciously, worried about what happened to Xie Qiao, so he hurriedly strode towards his room. As soon as he reached the door, a warm scent rushed into his nose.

He froze for a moment and entered the house.There is a lamp in the room like a bean, and the light is small but extraordinarily warm.I saw Xie Qiao's small body lying on the table, already asleep.There was a cup of something on the table, and it was slowly warmed by the stove, emitting a few wisps of warm smoke.

Lu Jue lightened his steps all of a sudden, and he walked gently to Xie Qiao's side. Looking at Xie Qiao's sleeping face, he unconsciously frowned, with a gentle smile on his face, reflected by the candlelight. The bottom seems to be glowing.

He lightly brushed Xie Qiao's forehead hair, then picked her up, put him gently on the bed, covered her with the quilt, and tucked in the corners of the quilt.

Only then did he sit at the table, and with Xie Qiao's reassuring breathing, he savored the warm sea bass soup.