master and bear

The afterglow of the evening sprinkled on the window lattice, and the closed doors and windows made the room look very dark.

Meng Qing's dark face made Chi Guan startled, and he recovered from his weakness immediately. He stood up and looked at the tall man with trepidation: "What, what's the matter?" ?”

"Did you just say 'Tingfeng Pavilion'?" Meng Qing turned around and walked back step by step. His aura was so strong that Chi Guan suddenly felt as if the air in the room had been squeezed out, and he suddenly couldn't help it. breathed out.

"Listen, what happened to Tingfeng Pavilion?" Chi Guan looked at the man standing in the shadows. For some reason, Mo Ming remembered the night when his parents died. Everything was wiped out, and he fled hurriedly under the moonlight with a few injured guards, but was stopped by several people on the mountain road not long after he left the city.

They were dressed in black, held long swords, and stood with their backs to the moonlight. Their figures were tall and cold, and their suffocating sense of oppression almost overlapped with that of Meng Qing in front of them.

The blood on Chi Guan's face faded immediately, and his shoulders trembled slightly. Meng Qing put his hands on his sides, trapped him in sight, and asked word by word: "How do you know 'Ting Feng'? Court'?"

"Listen, listen to what people said." Chi Guan's eyes turned red, such a dull bear is so scary, he doesn't like it!

"Who said that?"

"In the teahouse, there was a man wearing a bamboo hat and holding a sword." Chi Guan spoke very quickly, "He, he told me."

"It's fine, why would he tell you about Tingfeng Pavilion?" Meng Qing's eyes were dark, and she looked at Chi Guan's expression without blinking, "What did you talk about? Tell me everything."

For the first time, Chi was afraid of this man from the bottom of his heart. He had been with Meng Qing for so long, and he always felt steadfast, reassuring, and reliable in a man, but at this moment, he suddenly smelled danger.

Chiguan, Chiguan, you just missed your point, what kind of simple and honest bear is this, it's obviously a ferocious man-eating bear.

Chi closed his eyes, not looking at Meng Qing's expression, and explained the conversation with the hero in black verbatim.

It took a while before Meng Qing let him go and sat down, the afterglow outside the window completely disappeared, and at night, lanterns lit up under the eaves outside the courtyard.

It was very quiet all around, and I could vaguely hear the waiter downstairs greeting the guests.

"You want revenge?" Meng Qing's voice slowed down a lot, "Avenge who?"

"...My parents." Chi Guan closed his eyes all the time, shrank himself into the bed, and leaned against the corner.

Meng Qing lowered her eyes: "Sorry, I was in a hurry just now."

Chi closed for a long time before pinching the corner of the quilt and saying: "Who the hell are you?"

"what?"

"You are not from the village, nor are you an ordinary hunter. You are so good at fisting and kicking..." Chi Guan said, "What is the relationship between Tingfeng Pavilion and you?"

Meng Qing smiled helplessly, Chi Guan is actually not stupid, he can still see the situation clearly at critical moments.

Meng Qing sighed: "You tell me what's going on with you first, and then I'll tell you about mine."

He originally thought that Chi Guan was a son who ran away from home or was hunted down. Although he didn't know the reason, he didn't care much. If one day Chi Guan was willing to talk about it, he would listen to it. If Chi Guan wanted to go home He will accompany him home—on the premise that he will keep him firmly by his side, and going back to Chi's house can only be regarded as visiting relatives.

But now he finally realizes that things might be a little different from what he first thought.

Chi Guan was silent for a long time before he said: "The Chi family... is not considered a big family in Sixian City. It is just an ordinary businessman. My father likes to read books and play chess. He is a Confucian businessman. We saved a person on the way to Sixian City, after that, our family's status in Sixian City is different from before."

Chi Guan paused, and said with a complicated expression: "That person is the current crown prince."

Meng Qing frowned.

"At that time he was not a prince," Chi Guan said, "just an ordinary prince. The former prince had been trying to plot against him, and finally managed to trick him out of Sixian City, intending to secretly create the illusion of an accidental death, but it was a pity that my father I didn't intend to mix it up. My father didn't know his identity, so he rescued him back to the Chi Mansion, and after he recovered from his injuries, he gave him some money and dry food, saying that he would send him home."

The prince did not agree, and returned to the palace by himself after leaving the Chi mansion.

Not long after, the prince came out of the palace again and came to Chi's mansion. This time he confessed his identity. Master Chi was naturally surprised, but he also admired the prince's personality. The prince is very friendly and thoughtful. Master Chi appreciates him very much. After knowing what happened to him, he began to help him secretly.

Chi's mother persuaded them several times that they were businessmen and they must not meddle in the affairs of the royal family.But my father loves to read books, and he has a common yearning for the great affairs of the world. He thinks that a prince who means despicable and cruel to his brothers is not worthy of being the king of a country, so he has been secretly helping the prince, and even finally became a prince of the prince. Great help.

As the prince began to show his prowess, the Chi family also rose with the tide. In the end, the prince was deposed and the prince succeeded in ascending the throne.

During that time, the Chi family's status in Sixian City was stronger than other noble families, but Master Chi was still diligent in doing business and never had any disobedience to the prince.

But ordinary people like them have never been able to understand the thoughts of those in high positions.

Meng Qing understood: "Has your family been framed? Or have you become a thorn in the prince's eye?"

"You have both." Chi Guan said weakly, "Father likes to make friends. After the status of Chi's family changed, more people came to make friends with him. Among them were many relatives of the royal family, children of nobles... Father didn't have many people. Thinking about it, but he didn't know that all these things were finally passed into the palace by the eyeliner, and the prince knew everything about it."

"The prince suspects that his father has plots, and some people take this opportunity to make trouble, and finally frame his father for supporting other princes to compete for the crown prince, so..." Chi Guan gritted his teeth, "I didn't go home for dinner that night as usual. , I went out to play with my friends until very late before returning home, and when I got to the door, I realized that something was wrong."

Pushing open the door, what came into sight was bright red blood. The servants in the house were bleeding like a river, and his parents were lying in front of the bedroom door. He was still breathing his last breath when he rushed away.

"Father and mother told me not to take revenge, go as far away as possible, and never go back." Chi Guan smiled wryly, "I also know that I am a commoner, how can I fight... the high prince."

Meng Qing was silent, and after a while he sighed, pulling him over and hugging him into his arms.

He has always felt that Chiguan lacks a heart, just a spoiled flower in a greenhouse, who knows nothing and doesn't take anything to heart.

These days, Chi Guan pretended to be crazy and foolish, passing by, as if he never thought about family affairs, nor did he see any pain or longing on Chi Guan's face.

So he never thought that such a person would bear such blood and deep hatred.

Chiguan really didn't intend to take revenge, he promised his parents that he would run far away and save his life, he was already disappointed and sad enough for his parents, he didn't want to be unable to even fulfill this last wish.

"You are very strong." Meng Qing kissed Chi Guan's brow and eyes, "You surprised me."

Chi Guan didn't speak, he just walked away for a while, and then said: "What about you?"

Meng Qing was silent for a while, and said: "I... used to be a member of Tingfeng Pavilion."

Chi Guan was surprised, and sat up: "Tingfeng Pavilion? What is that place?"

"It's the same as what the man in black told you. It's a place where you get money to do things. As long as you have enough money, there's nothing we can't do."

Killing people and setting them on fire, hiding corpses and planting them, framing them for stealing...

They do everything.

Meng Qing said: "But that is not a place that ordinary people can find. Sometimes even if you have money, you may not be able to find us."

Tingfeng Pavilion hides in the Valley of the Medicine King, and the valley is full of poisonous gas. Only those who are knowledgeable can know what kind of herbs can be picked in it to detoxify, or if they are brought in by the people of Tingfeng Pavilion, nothing will happen.

Therefore, people who can really meet Tingfeng Pavilion are often not ordinary people, and what Tingfeng Pavilion does is often extraordinary.

"I don't want to do it anymore." Meng Qing said, "So I ran away, and the people in Tingfeng Pavilion had to die. They either died in the mission or committed suicide by taking poison before they could be completely removed from Tingfeng Pavilion. Because we know too much What a secret, and a dead man can keep a secret."

Chi Guanguan raised it abruptly: "That's why you live in the village and never go out..."

"Actually, I move every once in a while." Meng Qing said, "I won't be able to stay in this village for long."

He said with a gloomy face: "The man in black you mentioned is most likely the person who came to look for me from Tingfeng Pavilion. Since they have found it nearby, we can't stay for long."