Zhu Lan is dead

There was a quarrel in the front hall, and the maidservants surrounded behind the curtain saw Lin Jiangzhuo approaching, they were so frightened that they wanted to run away.

"Wait!" He yelled and stopped, the maid had to stop and saluted him cautiously.

"Father, what are they arguing about?"

"About the matter discussed by the King the day before yesterday, this... slaves don't know..."

"Wang Lang?" After thinking about it in his heart, he waved his hand and let the maid go away, and walked back to the courtyard alone, before half of his body went in, there was a chuckle from beside him.

"I thought you were out." Lin Jiangzhuo glanced at him, and walked in with his usual indifferent style.

Ji Fengzhu followed behind him, "Did you hear what happened just now?"

After a pause, he turned around, "What do you want to say?"

Without hiding anything, Ji Fengzhu pulled him into the room, sat down and said, "Didn't you hear that Zhou Lixiao lost his temper because of the unclear account books of the household department last month?" His eyebrows turned, "If this matter is not handled properly, it will implicate on your heads."

Knowing in his heart that his father and Wang Lang used to have contacts, Wang Lang, as an official of the household department, is his own business if the account books are not clear, how can he involve them?

"It's none of my business?"

As if expecting him to say that, Ji Fengzhu smiled and said, "It's really none of your business, but do you know what framing is?"

"..."

Seeing Lin Jiangzhuo's expression froze, he said again: "In the same way, you can blame Wang Lu, but this time you won't be blamed? What's more, the person who wants you to lose this time is Zhou Lixiao himself .”

"...how do you know?" Lin Jiangzhuo looked at him suspiciously.

"My guess."

again this sentence...

To be honest, he didn't want to believe in Ji Fengzhu. After knowing him for so long, he didn't even know what Ji Fengzhu's identity was and what he wanted to do.If he is just an ordinary general, why does he know so much.

On the contrary, this person always looks like he is in control, which makes him even more uneasy.

"Suspicion attack again?" Ji Fengzhu got up and pulled him, sighed helplessly, "What are you afraid of, I won't hurt you, no matter how much trouble this time, it won't involve you, but I can take the opportunity to rescue him." Yijun, isn't it a blessing that you took him back to the Western Regions and stayed away from the capital?"

"Have you figured out a way?"

Ji Fengzhu smiled sincerely: "No."

"..."

Lin Jiangzhuo didn't bother to look at him again, got up and waved him away, and walked out the door.

Without stopping him, Ji Fengzhu closed his fan and supported himself, "Where are you going?"

Lin Jiang didn't turn his head back and said: "I'll go to my father to discuss it."

"Why don't you understand..." Looking at the figure of that person who has gone away, for a long while, his eyes dimmed, and he sighed faintly.

"How are you with him these days?"

By the clear water lake, as soon as Du Xi was pushed away by the front foot, Zhou Keyin spoke bluntly on the back foot.

The flowers are red, emerald and bright, eyes slightly opened, Zhou Liandi looked at him, "Who?"

Zhou Keyin looked at him and smiled for a moment, "Du Xi."

"..." Reaching out to take a sip of tea, Zhou Liandi said, "What does it matter to him?"

"You don't need to hide it. If you like it, I will be a matchmaker for you and the queen."

Zhou Liandi said indifferently: "I don't like him, you are worrying too much."

"Really?" He lowered his eyelashes and said calmly: "Then don't worry, I will go to Sheji Mountain to pray for blessings in a few days, and I just want to reserve my cronies to stay on the defensive in Sheji Mountain for a term of three years. Du Xi is just right..."

"Wait!" Before he finished speaking, Zhou Liandi's face suddenly changed, "Are you willing to let him go?!"

"Why are you reluctant? This is a good thing, it's a good thing to be promoted."

"..."

"He has spent a lot more time with Gu, and I always have to find some opportunities for him to stand out."

Zhou Liandi fell silent, her brows frowning, she couldn't tell what she was thinking, just at that moment Du Xi came over, seeing the stagnation in the atmosphere, she couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong, Your Highness?"

Zhou Keyin smiled slightly, and put down his teacup, "I just said that you should go to Sheji Mountain to defend. I wonder if you would like it?"

Du Xi was taken aback when he heard the words, and nodded after a while, "Okay, I..."

With a sound of "bang", the porcelain cup was almost cracked on the stone table, and in a blink of an eye, Zhou Liandi glared at him, "You're so tall!"

After all, he turned around and ran out directly.

Du Xi obviously didn't react, pointing at Zhou Liandi's leaving figure, he was a little surprised.

Zhou Keyin looked away, but smiled and said nothing.

"You mean to refuse?"

Yu Changqi nodded, and continued: "I'm feeling unwell, I'm afraid it will be delayed."

The clenched palms could not help but sweat, and the worry in his heart grew stronger, not because he was afraid that Zhou Lixiao would reject him, but because he was worried that this person would get to the bottom of it.

It's just that the expected rhetorical question didn't come in advance, but a reply came instead, "It's up to you."

"..." Yu Changqi looked up in astonishment, but saw Zhou Lixiao waved his hand, leaving only a back view, "Aren't you feeling unwell, so why not rest for a few days?"

Although he doubted that Zhou Lixiao would be so straightforward, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, bowed his head in thanks, turned around and left the imperial study.

At night, the cool breeze blows wildly, and the long lanterns are spread out, illuminating the dim light inside and outside the palace. When you leave the palace gate, you can see a person standing in the corner of the street.

He quickened his pace and walked over, the figure in his sight was tall and straight.

Ye Fan saw his figure, put down his folded arms and smiled at him, "Seeing that the prince is so happy, it must be the end of the matter?"

Yu Changqi also smiled and nodded.

As if he had expected it in his heart, the cool breeze passed by, his eyebrows and eyes were tender under the lights, and he secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but when he was about to move his body, there was a sudden sharp pain in his back, and he couldn't help frowning, Yu Changqi Sensing something different, she couldn't help but stepped forward to support him, "What's wrong?"

He forced a smile and stood up straight as much as possible, but the tingling pain on his back became more and more intense, as if countless cotton needles were desperately piercing into his muscles, trying to pierce him. After all, he knew he was hopeless.

The spine-sealing needle looks really simple and not as powerful as those unique secret weapons, but it is better than torturing people. If you can’t take it out, you will never be able to take it out. Although it has improved a lot before, and the occasional pain can be tolerated, but he has long There is no time to rest and recuperate, I'm afraid that when it gets worse, I will not be able to bear it.

Yu Changqi seemed to know something, his voice was a little unsteady, "Have those needles not been taken out yet?"

Ye Fan smiled indifferently, and stretched out his hand to push him, "How is it possible, do you just not trust my second uncle? Actually, he was cured a long time ago."

"..."

Seeing that Yu Changqi still had doubts on his face, he pretended to be impatient, "If the prince doesn't believe it, let's try to fight?"

"... Are you really all right?"

"Don't believe it, what about the promised trust?" Originally, he tried his best to hold back, but the stinging pain became more and more tricky, which almost made him unable to stand. In order to prevent Yu Changqi from seeing it, he turned around, Hugged him directly, whispered in the ear, and smiled a little rascally, "Why don't you carry me, my lord? Do you remember?"

He stretched out his hand and pointed at this street, "Last time you were unconscious and caused me to carry you all the way, this time it's your turn to carry me, please pay back, we don't owe each other!"

Yu Changqi was a little helpless, stretched out his hand slightly to pull some distance away, his eyes were like the gentleness of stars scattered, "Where do we owe each other? If you want, I will give it to you."

After finishing speaking, he bent his knees and squatted down. Ye Fan stood there and looked at him, his expression was dimmed in the light.

She wrapped her hands around his neck and pressed them tightly behind his ears, and her breath was flowing freely between her neck.

Only the cold sweat broke out from his forehead, but Ye Fanji still laughed heartlessly, "Does this make us clean?"

"It doesn't count." Looking forward, he felt the beating of the heart behind him, and the corners of his lips curled up slightly, "I haven't agreed to what I want to give you, how can it be clear?"

The moonlight is flowing and frosty, dragging out a pool of clear light, but the light is shallow, and once a stone is thrown in, the rest is fragmented.

A figure turned slightly behind the red pillar, dressed in black as if melting into the night.

The palace maid holding the lanterns in the distance has gone away, leaving a few octagonal palace lanterns dangling between the corridors.

His fingers slid across, causing a circle of ripples, and he said slowly, "I've granted you what you want, should Aiqing fulfill your promise?"

The black clothes on the porch came out, pulled down the cover on his face, revealing a clear and handsome face, but his complexion was pale and tired from the world.

"I have to watch the matter end before I can feel at ease."

"Hmph." Zhou Lixiao raised his brows, "You are still the same, what kind of virtues were you in life, and what kind of virtues are you in death? How did you ever listen to what I said?" He stood up and looked at it in a blink of an eye, " Could it be that relying on my generosity for you, you have nothing to fear."

The man smiled slightly, and the loveliness in his eyes had faded away, "If your majesty is willing to think so, I will obey you once."

The smile in his eyes faded, Zhou Lixiao said quietly: "You begged me this time to fulfill the love between the two of them, how do you know that I won't turn back and kill them next time?"

The man still smiled, he had never been so confident, "I believe in Your Majesty."

Zhou Lixiao snorted coldly.

"I have wasted half my life, I have not been able to act filially and kindly, and I have mistaken myself and others. Now I am lucky to come back, I hope my long-cherished wish will be fulfilled. That child blames my debt, and I also want to fulfill my responsibility once."

Zhou Lixiao looked at him, "There are three types of unfilial piety, the greatest is having no offspring. Are you harming him or helping him? You don't know what to do?"

"There are a few." The man smiled, "I just respect his wishes."

Sighing silently, Zhou Lixiao said: "After all, you are still blaming me. If Elder Ci hadn't been stubborn with me back then, and had handed over your brothers for my use as soon as possible, I wouldn't have to go to all lengths to deceive you."

There were some criticisms in his words, the man naturally felt uncomfortable in his heart, but he didn't want to presume.

"Now one person is retiring, and the other..." Zhou Lixiao glanced at him, "He died young, and he looks like a half-human, half-ghost...tsk."

As if hearing his disgust, the man said in a good mood: "The world is impermanent, and fate is like this."

At the beginning, the Nanling incident should have subsided long ago, he should have returned to the imperial court as a teacher, and resigned after fulfilling the promise of this man, but it is a pity that the world is really impermanent, a secret decree was released that caused riots among the people, and he left with the army Almost all of them were killed in Nanling, but his luck was good, he escaped with all his might, and has lived as a half-human, half-ghost ever since.

Now that the Ci family is in decline, the past has vanished, and since then a handful of loess buried his life and ruined everything he had.

With anger in his eyes, Zhou Lixiao sneered, "Ciqingfang, even now, you still refuse to tell who saved you?"

Ci Qingfang looked at him and shook his head as usual, "Your kindness is as heavy as a mountain, and I have nothing to repay you now, so how can you easily say that your benefactor's life has caused him disaster?"

"Don't you forget who is the ruler and who is the subject?"

"Your Majesty doesn't like this." He said bluntly, "Your Majesty is a half-dead man, why should Your Majesty restrict me to these ordinary rituals?"

"Being loyal to the emperor is not the subject's long-cherished wish. If Your Majesty cares about it." His eyes moved slightly, showing a sense of ease and ease, "You can kill the subject again."