Chasing my wife every day [Rebirth]
Chapter 30 Ah Nan (into v3 in 1)
It was already afternoon two days later when we arrived in Guangze, the carriage was driving on the mountain road, leaving a shallow indentation on the snow.
Guangze is located in Gongzhou. Gongzhou is nominally the fiefdom of Prince Gong Lu Xun, but in fact Lu Xun does not live in the fiefdom for a long time, but often lives in the palace with Concubine Wen.
The carriage stopped everywhere, and Lu Sui couldn't wait to get out of the carriage. Looking at the scene in front of him, he froze his figure.
"This is a place where birds don't shit."
It's no wonder that Lu Sui was so rude, personally, he couldn't imagine that the second prince's subordinates would have such a miserable place.
The city gate has been in disrepair for a long time, and it is covered with spots of rust. The weeds under the city wall are lush and lush, and it has reached the height of a human calf.When Lu Sui looked up, he could only see the word "Guangze" that was badly eroded by the wind and could barely be made out.
Wen Tingyi followed Lu Sui out of the carriage, scanned for a week before saying calmly: "Guangze County is closed and hard to get through, and few caravans come here, but fortunately there are good fields in the city, and it won't be too sad if you work hard .”
Lu Sui looked at the impoverished Guangze County everywhere, and clicked his tongue twice: "Lu Xun thinks he is the most favored, and Concubine Wen loves her son very much, how could he choose such a place for Lu Xun?"
"Gongzhou has 32 counties, 120 eight counties, and countless villages. Except for Guangze, all other places are prosperous."
Wen Tingyi paused, then turned around and asked Lu Fu who was walking behind him: "Does Fu'er know the reason?"
Lu Fu nodded his head and pondered for a moment, then slowly said: "After the crowning ceremony, the prince can be entrusted to go to the fief, and the birth mother will move with him. He is not allowed to enter Beijing unless he is ordered. It can also be said that he will be locked in the fief for the rest of his life. Lord, almost all the princes will try their best to find a piece of rich land for themselves."
"However, this is not absolute." Lu Fu hesitated to speak, as if doubting whether his guess was correct, looked up at Wen Tingyi, saw the other party smiled at him, and nodded for him to continue. Go down, suddenly taken aback.
"Second Emperor's Uncle has Concubine Wen in the palace planning for him, so naturally he won't stay in the fief for a long time, so he doesn't need any wealth, treasures, or outstanding people. What he needs is fame and the heart of the emperor."
Wen Tingyi was very satisfied with being able to understand this. He smiled slightly, and nodded in satisfaction: "Fu'er is right."
Before he finished speaking, Lu Fu seemed to have opened his eyes in an instant, and put his hand on his chin thoughtfully: "Guangze's defeat is miserable, and everyone knows that there are frequent floods and plagues here. It is necessary for the imperial court to fiddle with a large amount of silver for disaster relief."
The rest of the words are a bit presumptuous, but even if he can't say it, Wen Tingyi knows that his heart is clear.
The prince stays in the fief, and it sounds good to guard the Quartet for the country. To put it bluntly, the division of the princes is just a way to favor the powerful to seek things for themselves.
Once you leave the capital, it is equivalent to leaving the emperor's sight, and the favor will inevitably decline over time.Furthermore, far away from the imperial city, the imperial palace is square and square. If something happens one day, the people inside can't get out, and the people outside can't get in. Doesn't everything just depend on the people in the palace to do whatever they want?
Wen Tingyi's eyes changed slightly, and his emotions were unpredictable.
Guangze has such troubles every year, Lu Xun "has a kind heart", whenever Guangze encounters a disaster, he does everything by himself, wins the hearts of the people, and wins the hearts of the emperor, but how should Guangze lose or how to lose? Defeated, little improvement.
Xun Lu has learned the art of the emperor's mind to the extreme.
Wen Tingyi turned his head to look at his elder son, still worried in his heart.Although he also understood that Lu Sui was not as brazen as he appeared, he was still worried that the royal family's schemes and schemes would eventually affect the Ruyang Palace.
There were no soldiers patrolling the gates of the city, and everyone entered the city unimpeded, only to realize the so-called desolation.There was no one on the street, the cold wind rolled up the dead leaves, swirled and fell, and the snow between the sky and the earth was the only color on this land.
Wen Tingyi followed behind Lu Sui, and said, "Master Weishengyu, the governor of Guangze County, had a classmate with me back then. He was loyal and pure, with lofty aspirations. Maybe we can turn to him for help in this journey. "
Lu Sui walked unhurriedly, stepping on the thin snow under his feet, and made a slight sound: "We still need to be careful in this trip, after all, Guangze is the territory of Lu Xun, and the county guards here are friends or enemies. If it’s still not clear, we can’t scare the snake away.”
Walking along the street, there are several courtyards on the street closest to the city gate that should be newly built, and they are particularly conspicuous among a pile of houses that have been in disrepair.
Lu Sui rubbed his chin, glanced at the eaves not far away, and saw a black shadow leaving quickly. He turned his head, took Wen Tingyi's hand and said, "I'll ask Lu Miao to investigate first. Come on, let's take a break first."
After all, it was getting late, and everyone walked into an empty courtyard and tidied up a little.
Lu Sui wiped the stone bench in the courtyard, helped Wen Tingyi to sit on it, and the rest of the people found an open space at random, sat directly on the ground in a big way, and started talking about it. .
Before everyone could settle down completely, a scream came from not far away. Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay. Before they could react, they saw a soldier stumbling out from one side with his trousers in his hands. He fell to the ground, trembling.
"There are ghosts! There are ghosts!"
Wen Tingyi frowned slightly, then turned around.
The corners of Lu Sui's mouth twitched wildly, and he said coldly after the man put on his pants, "What happened?"
The man seemed to be in a panic, pointing to a haystack in the corner, and said vaguely: "There are ghosts, behind that haystack... there are ghosts! Female ghosts!"
Following the direction of his fingers, Lu Sui walked to the back of the haystack. He was obviously taken aback at first glance, but after looking at it for a while, he slowly squatted down and stretched out a hand towards the back of the haystack.
It turned out that there was a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl hiding behind the haystack, her eyes were big and lively, black and white were distinct, but her eyes were black and blue, her face was disheveled, her body was tattered, and she still held a A dead man's skull looks really scary.
It was almost dusk at this time, and the sky was getting darker and earlier in winter, only the blue-gray sky in the distance reflected the dark and light colors in this small courtyard.
The little girl glanced up at Lu Sui, handed him the skull in her hand, and then giggled non-stop. The smile was so weird and unpredictable that even Lu Sui couldn't help but feel chills on his back and hairs on his hairs. Upside down.
The little girl stared at Lu Sui motionlessly with a pair of copper bell-like eyes, as if she wanted to stare at him in place. After a long while, she took a few steps towards Lu Sui with a crazy expression.
"Hey hey, outside..." The little girl, with dead leaves on her head and muddy face, walked up to Lu Sui staggeringly, and spoke in a low voice, like a ghost.
"There's Tangtang outside... Ah Nan wants to eat candy."
Hearing the sound, Wen Tingyi also walked to Lu Sui's side, and exchanged a glance with Lu Sui: "Your Highness, where did this kid come from?"
"I do not know either."
Wen Tingyi squatted down slowly, walked up to the little girl, and said softly, "Ah Nan?"
The little girl nodded with a smile, and when she got closer, Wen Tingyi realized that the little girl was as thin as skinny bones, with a palm-sized face, and only a pair of eyes that were as bright as brilliant stars, and she looked terrified.
Wen Tingyi reached out and patted the little girl's shoulder, and took out a white handkerchief from his sleeve, just about to wipe her face clean, when he put his hand in, the little girl's pupils shrank suddenly, and she dodged behind her.
"Don't be afraid, I won't hurt you." Wen Tingyi froze and softened his voice: "Ah Nan, where is your family?"
This time, no matter how Wen Tingyi opened his mouth, the little girl stopped talking. Wen Tingyi slowly hugged the little girl into his arms, feeling the little girl's thin body shaking like chaff.
The tentacles were wet and cold, and when he lowered his head, he found that big tears were overflowing from the little girl's eyes.
"Heng Xiao, what happened to this child?" Lu Sui frowned slightly as he looked at the neurotic child who appeared for no reason.
Wen Tingyi shook his head, just as he was about to speak, he heard the little girl's ghostly voice: "Ah Nan is going...to go."
The little girl rubbed against Wen Tingyi's arms, then suddenly broke free from his arms and ran out of the yard.
Wen Tingyi followed her, worried that she would hide again, but saw that the little girl just ran along the street for a while, and finally stopped at the gate of the city, staring at the gate steadily.
Wen Tingyi stood behind her, and it took a while to see Ah Nan turn around and smile at her foolishly.
"Ah Nan, come here." Wen Tingyi stretched out his hand towards her, this time the little girl seemed to express what she wanted to say clearly, and smiled foolishly for a long time.
"Outside... there's sugar."
When Wen Tingyi led the little girl back to the small courtyard, Lu Miao and Hua Xiaolou had already returned and were reporting the situation to Lu Sui.
Hua Xiaolou saw that Wen Tingyi had picked up a child from somewhere, and became interested, and joked: "Lu Sui can do it, the child is already this old."
Lu Sui was too lazy to pay attention to him, so he turned his head and ignored him.
Hua Xiaolou looked at Ah Nan carefully, and suddenly his face became serious: "Where did you find this child?"
After finishing speaking, without waiting for everyone's reaction, Hua Xiaolou suddenly flew up to the child, pinched Ah Nan's chin with one hand, opened one of her eyes with the other, and shook his head.
"This child has been drugged stupid."
As soon as this remark came out, Wen Tingyi was slightly taken aback, looked down and noticed that Ah Nan's eyes were indeed dull, and he was smiling silly with a finger in his mouth.
He touched Ah Nan's dirty hair, and said softly: "It's getting late, let's find someone else."
Lu Sui nodded, and then everyone found a family, planning to stay overnight and check it out tomorrow.
There is only one old woman in the hostel, about 60 years old, with silver hair combed carefully and carefully, and wrinkles carved on her face.
"Come into the house, everyone. It's freezing outside. I'll make a pot of ginger soup for you to warm up."
The old man was uncomfortable and walked slowly and with difficulty. Wen Tingyi hurriedly stopped the old woman, helped her to sit on the rattan chair, and said softly: "Don't bother the old man, I'm the one waiting to bother you."
The old man squinted his eyes and smiled, and poured Wen Tingyi a cup of tea with trembling hands. Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of Ah Nan in Wen Tingyi's arms, and rubbed his eyes with confusion.
Anan huddled in Wen Tingyi's arms and fell asleep pouting her mouth. Wen Tingyi wiped off the dirt on her face a little, revealing her fair and pink face.
"Young master, where did you find this little girl?"
"Does the old man know which family's lost child this is?" Wen Tingyi asked hurriedly.
The old man stared at Ah Nan with a pair of cloudy old eyes for a long time, his pupils flickered, and he sighed after a long while: "What a crime, poor child."
"The little girl's name is Wei Ruonan, and she is the flesh and blood of the governor. She was cute and cute when she was young, and she was very smart. It's a pity that the good girl is so stupid, and she always gets lost every now and then. She is also very anxious. Lord Sheriff and Madam."
Wen Tingyi looked down at the cute child with pouting lips in his arms, and asked, "Does the old man know what happened?"
"This..." The old woman hesitated to speak, and finally sighed.
"This is also a crime."
It turned out that Wei Shengyu, the sheriff, was transferred to Guangze five years ago to be the sheriff of this poor place.As soon as he came to Guangze, Wei Shengyu took the young man to seek a way out for Guangze.
For the past five years, Suye has lamented and worked hard, even though he is clearly in his prime and should have a bright future, he is unwilling to give up everyone in Guangze, and he and his wife will never leave to protect Guangze.
It's just that the weather was unpredictable, and the accident happened three years ago.
On the day of Ah Nan's birthday, Wei Shengyu and his wife were not in Guangze because of some important business, so the little girl ran out of the mansion to look for them, but was targeted by several drunk men on that rainy night.
When the old woman spoke up to this point, her tears could not stop streaming down. She took a breath and said tremblingly, "Those people are beasts. How much did your lord and madam sacrifice for Guangze? How could they bear it...how could they?"
Ah Nan in his arms seemed to have heard their conversation and became a little uneasy. Wen Tingyi slowly tightened his arms and hugged her even tighter.
"After that, the little girl became crazy, and she was afraid of anyone she saw." The old woman looked at Ah Nan, and wiped the corners of her eyes with her coarse cloth sleeve.
Wen Tingyi was slightly puzzled. Hua Xiaolou clearly said that Ah Nan was drugged to be stupid, which means that he didn't become stupid after being hit after that incident.
So who is it that drugged Ah Nan.
"Perhaps their actions angered God, and even God didn't want the little girl to see a man heartbroken again, so since then, there have been fewer and fewer men in the county... This is all retribution."
"You said all the men of Guangze's generation have left? Then do you know where they went?" Lu Sui grasped the key point in the old woman's words and asked.
The old woman shook her head: "I don't know, there was no more news overnight. The young men in the county are gone, and the younger women and children are gone, leaving only us old people here to redeem our sins."
All the strong men disappeared, so where did those people in Qianjinfang come from?
Wen Tingyi suppressed the doubts in his heart, and intuited that the two things might be related.
Young men and young men from Guangze County disappeared without knowing where they were going, but Qianjinfang suddenly rose up within three years, with such momentum that even Ye Baozhang had to worry about it.
Lu Sui rested his chin and thought for a while before saying, "Then old man, is Master Weishengyu still in Guangze?"
"Yes, my lord is a good person. Even if it happened——that kind of thing happened, my lord never hated us."
After the old woman finished speaking, she probably thought of something sad, and she didn't want to continue talking, so she slowly got up from the chair.
"It's getting late, you guys should go to bed early." The old lady returned to her room after finishing speaking.
Lu Sui and Wen Tingyi drank a few cups of tea, then carried Ah Nan to the next room.Then he went back to his room, entered the room, Wen Tingyi sat by the bed and sighed softly.
"Heng Xiao." Lu Sui walked up to him, hugged him gently, let him rest his head on his waist, and said softly: "Rest early, let's go to the sheriff's mansion tomorrow, The first is to send Ah Nan back, and the second is that there is something strange in Guangze, we need to find out."
Wen Tingyi hummed lightly, and then said: "It's the same for Fuer, and it's the same for Ah Nan."
"Heng Xiao, the world has always been unfair." He knelt down, took Wen Tingyi's cold hands, brought them to his lips and kissed them; "Even me, I have a lot of feelings that I can't express, and I don't like them."
"However, all kinds of hard work and all kinds of helplessness are not worth having a sweetheart by my side."
Lu Sui took out a jade pendant from his waist, solemnly handed it to Wen Tingyi, and then covered his hands with his own.
Wen Tingyi lowered his head to look, and saw that it was a piece of high-quality white jade, with a warm color and warm tentacles, carved into the shape of a wandering dragon. The dragon god was mixed with blood. From a distance, it looked like flying through the clouds, extremely ethereal.
"The old man asked me to give this piece of jade to you. Zeshi Lingxi, a gift from the Ruyang Palace to his daughter-in-law. It has been enshrined in front of my concubine's coffin. Now and in the future, it will only be yours."
Wen Tingyi froze, feeling that the jade pendant in his hand seemed heavy, before he could react, he was pulled into Lu Sui's arms, only the sound of Lu Sui's heartbeat was in his ears, heavy and slow.
With a sound of "cracking", the lanterns were overwhelmed and extinguished in the cold and windy winter night, and the house fell into darkness for a while.
Lu Sui approached slowly, and slowly lowered the curtain with one hand. For a moment, only the two of them were left in the already cramped space, and the only sound in the air was the sound of each other's breathing.
Wen Tingyi slowly curled his lips into a smile, and slowly approached him, lowering his eyelids and trembling his eyelashes.
The cold wind outside the house was wrapped in crushed snow, Lu Miao vacated a snow-free place for himself, and sat on the roof alone, holding a small jug of spirits in his hand, drinking one sip at a time.
Suddenly, he felt warmth behind him, and the snow falling on his head seemed to have stopped. Lu Miao looked back and saw Hua Xiaolou wrapped in a thick quilt brought from the house, hugging him.
The winter night was so dark that Hua Xiaolou almost fell when he was on the roof, and he was a little embarrassed.All of a sudden, he rolled behind Lu Miao and hugged him without saying a word.
The cold fingertips touched his skin, Lu Miao suddenly frowned, turned around and hugged him: "Don't make trouble."
Hua Xiaolou refused to let go, hugged the person and rubbed against them, and said with satisfaction: "There are not enough rooms, I don't want to be in the same room with them."
Hua Xiaolou stretched out his hand and pulled Lu Miao's hand clasped around his waist to force him to hug him more tightly, saying: "If you want to hug her, hug her tighter, be careful that I will fall with you in a moment. "
Lu Miao hugged him tightly by accident, and the two of them were wrapped in a quilt like this.Lu Miao was expressionless, but Hua Xiaolou was happy in his heart.
Hua Xiaolou raised his head to look at him, seeing that he still had a face of ice cubes, he was not discouraged: "Fourth brother, if I remember correctly, King Ruyang only wanted you to work hard for ten years?"
Lu Miao was expressionless and hummed lightly.
"Then have you ever thought about what you are going to do after you leave Ruyang Palace?"
Lu Miao really didn't think about this question, he answered honestly: "I never thought of leaving Ruyang Palace."
Hua Xiaolou was stunned, and asked in disbelief, "You want to stay in Ruyang Palace for the rest of your life?"
Lu Miao did not say yes, nor did he say no.
He had a pitiful background and almost died in the ice and snow. If he hadn't happened to be unconscious in the Ruyang Palace and was picked up by the Ruyang King who was out on errands, he would have died long ago.
In order to repay his kindness and to survive, he turned himself into a knife without emotion, a knife that only knows to be loyal to the palace, the prince, and the prince.
"Do you know that it is impossible to be a secret guard for a lifetime. Your body is not suitable for being a secret guard. If you insist on squeezing yourself, it will kill you."
Lu Miao didn't let him finish talking, and directly picked up the cup and covered their heads together.Everything happened in a blink of an eye, and suddenly there was no light in front of her eyes, Hua Xiaolou was so shocked that she didn't know what to say.
"Shh, go to bed earlier."
Hua Xiaolou didn't intend to let it go, but when he thought of Lu Miao who hadn't rested for a long time, he suddenly felt a pain in his heart.
He touched Lu Miao's icy face, and pulled the corner of his mouth in the dark to make a smiling face: "Then just smile, okay, just smile, and I will sleep with you."
Unknowingly, there was a hint of pleading in his tone, Lu Miao was startled suddenly, slowly raised the corner of his mouth, and curled the corner of his lower lip in the darkness.
In fact, in this darkness, Hua Xiaolou couldn't see, but he could feel that Lu Miao had followed him. He touched Lu Miao's cheek and whispered softly: "Fourth brother, I'm really afraid that one day you will , forget everything."
Lu Miao didn't hear what he said clearly, and asked, "Huh? What did you say?"
"No, it's nothing." Hua Xiaolou said, "Fourth brother can think about where he wants to go if he leaves the palace in the future."
"There is Humayin Mountain in the north, there are Liuqiao alleys in the south of the river, there is Mobei, and there is also the wild smoke of the desert... Forget about Mobei."
Lu Sui suddenly reached out to embrace him, and Hua Xiaolou immediately shrank into a quail, his mind went blank, and he forgot everything he wanted to say.
"Wherever you want to go, I will accompany you."
Hua Xiaolou's heart began to beat wildly, and he felt that his face, which had been blown cool by the wind, was getting hotter and hotter.
How can I be so dishonest!He was fooled by one word!
Hua Xiaolou scratched the back of his head, hesitatingly said: "Okay, then... agree, come with me later."
Lu Miao hummed: "I gave everything to the palace..."
Hua Xiaolou continued to shrink into a quail, but she listened very carefully with just a pair of ears.
"But my life is yours."
Following the sound, there were Lu Miao's cold lips, until Lu Miao's steady breathing sound came into his ears gently, Hua Xiaolou still touched his brow in disbelief.
Did the fourth brother kiss him just now?
Hua Xiaolou turned over, feeling very annoyed at how his head was covered by the quilt at that time, and he couldn't see anything in the pitch black.
Hua Xiaolou looked at Lu Miao beside him, his smiling face suddenly cracked, and a deep sense of fatigue suddenly appeared between his brows and eyes.
The training level of the hidden guards is not acceptable to ordinary people, so every hidden guard is extremely cherished.Not to mention whether Lu Miao is willing to leave the palace, whether the palace is willing to let people go is his concern.
Lu Miao's body can no longer continue like this. The older the dark guard is, the more various ailments will show up. Lu Miao has been a dark guard for nearly ten years. Not to mention psychological problems, there are a lot of problems on his body , can't even count.
Could it be that he can only take Lu Miao away when the Ruyang Palace is no longer in danger?
Midnight is quiet, the world is silent.
In the early morning of the next day, Lu Sui woke up everyone who was still asleep, and when everyone was eating steamed buns and drinking porridge, he tiptoed back to the room and gently woke up his sleeping daughter in law.
Wen Tingyi was covered tightly with the quilt, leaving no gaps at the corners, and couldn't help laughing: "Your Highness has wrapped me up like this, how can I get up and change clothes?"
Lu Sui held down his rising body, and tucked back his two arms that were exposed under the quilt: "Don't move, I will serve you for my husband today."
After he finished speaking, he turned around and picked up the small bowl on the table, scooped up a spoonful of glutinous rice porridge with a small spoon, and handed it over after gently testing the temperature.Wen Tingyi obediently opened his mouth to eat, and then heard him ask: "How is it, is it delicious?"
"It's delicious, the glutinous rice is soft and delicious, and the porridge is cooked just right."
Hearing his wife's praise, Lu Sui's brows were filled with joy, and the corners of his mouth almost reached the back of his ears: "If you like it, I will cook it for you every day in the future."
"Your Highness, did you do this yourself?" Wen Tingyi said.
"Well, it's my first time." Lu Sui nodded, continued to feed him a spoonful, and said, "Just as long as you like it."
Wen Tingyi curled his lips into a smile, and said with a faint smile: "I like what your Highness did. Your Highness has a heart."
At this moment, the door suddenly opened with a "squeak", and Hua Xiaolou pushed the door directly to enter. He happened to see Lu Sui feeding Wen Tingyi porridge, froze for a second, and immediately covered his eyes: "Go ahead."
After speaking, he covered his eyes and planned to slip away, but was stopped by Lu Sui: "Stop pretending, when have you ever cared about these things. What's the matter?"
He pulled up the quilt and lowered the curtains on the bed, this time he was careful and didn't leave marks on any obvious parts of Heng Xiao.He got up and walked to the low wooden table in the room and sat down.
Hua Xiaolou didn't say anything, just threw him a bag, the things inside were hard.Lu Sui lowered his head and opened the cloth bag, and saw that it was a small seal, but unfortunately, the lettering on the seal was blurred and unrecognizable for some reason.
As Lu Sui stroked the seal, a thought became clearer in his mind.
"Where did you find this thing?"
"Where else can I find it? It's in the belly of the good buddy you asked me to take care of. He is a real man, and he swallowed it alive." Hua Xiaolou replied.
The good buddy he was talking about was the owner of Qianjinfang who committed suicide by taking poison in the secret room at that time. Thanks to Wen Tingyi's care, he asked Lu Miao to take the body back to Hua Xiaolou for inspection.
Lu Sui frowned: "Then how did you get it?"
Hua Xiaolou looked at the expression of an idiot, and glanced at him: "Of course it was laparotomy, it was taken from the stomach."
Hua Xiaolou, nicknamed "Ghost Hairpin Flower", was sent by the people of Jianghu. He was also called "Ghost Doctor" because he practiced medicine and didn't follow the usual path.It was also because of this that the Tai Hospital couldn't keep him, so he went to Taoyuan to learn from his teacher.
According to legend, ghost hairpin flowers rob a tomb in January. If they find a corpse they are satisfied with, they will take it away and leave gold and silver. flower.
This seal was cut out from someone else's stomach...
Even though the content of the seal can no longer be seen, it is made of Akita Warm Jade just like the finger puller. It doesn't take Lu Sui to know that this is Lu Xun's seal of King Gong.
With this seal, it can be shown that those letters are indeed evidence of Lu Xun's secret collusion with Wen's Bank.No wonder, that person tried his best to hide this seal.
The corner of Lu Sui's mouth twitched, and he suddenly had a headache.In the next second, he threw the seal on the table, his hands didn't know where to put it...
"Hua Xiaolou!" Lu Sui was angry.
"Hey! I'm here, I'm here." Hua Xiaolou giggled twice, picked up the seal he left behind, and wiped it on his chest: "You dare to throw away such a precious thing. You can cry if you find a way to bring down Lu Xun."
Lu Sui suddenly turned his head to look at him, and said, "What did you say?"
Hua Xiaolou shrugged: "Forget it if you didn't hear it, I'll just say it again."
"Hua Xiaolou, this matter is not a joke, nor is it like when we were young, allowing us to mess around." Lu Sui's voice suddenly became higher, "You'd better pretend that nothing happened."
"Lu Sui, you know better than me that the emperor has long been afraid of Ruyang Palace. It's not that you don't know his methods. If you don't make plans early, Ruyang Palace will be the next Shu Palace."
"Shut up." Lu Sui interrupted him coldly.A letter from Lu Ji a few days ago suddenly appeared in his mind. The letter mentioned that the emperor intends to move the military power of the Ruyang Palace, and he suddenly felt agitated.
Hua Xiaolou panted, and couldn't understand Lu Sui: "Lu Sui, I, General Huwei, are willing to help you. Why are you so crazy to drive me away?"
He is the mansion of General Huwei?
Lu Sui snorted disdainfully: "You are so loud, what qualifications do you have to help us instead of General Huwei's mansion? You have been yearning for the Jianghu since you were a child, but have you ever paid attention to the movements in the court?"
"You want to pull General Huwei's mansion now, does your father agree? Does your mother agree? Hua Xiaolou, how old are you, can you stop being like a child."
Seeing that the two were about to fight, Wen Tingyi got up from the bed in a loose robe, and quickly stopped Lu Sui: "Your Highness, stop talking."
Hua Xiaolou panted heavily, looked at Lu Sui in disbelief, turned her head and rushed out the door suddenly: "Lu Sui, who the hell is going to help you, don't take yourself too seriously!" Before he could finish his sentence, the person had already disappeared around the corner.
Lu Sui's chest heaved and heaved, so he heard Wen Tingyi's consolation: "The small building is just a child's heart, why should your Highness be serious with him?"
"It's his own idea, thinking that he has seen through my plan and wants to help me without authorization." Lu Sui panted heavily, and drank a cup of tea, "What does he know? The emperor has begun to fear the palace. Unable to protect himself, he wished to get rid of the relationship with others as soon as possible, so as not to hurt them, but he wished to pounce on him."
"What is your Highness's plan? The eldest princess has not replied yet." Wen Tingyi asked.
Lu Sui squinted his eyes and snorted: "The king asked the ministers to ask for military power, how dare the Ruyang Palace refuse to obey the order, but if I dare to give it, someone needs to be matched."
Lu Sui said this not because his eyes were higher than the top, and he was arrogant, but because in the current situation in the court, no one could be worthy of the Sky Eagle Order.Lu Xun is hypocritical, and Lu Zheng is doing nothing, unaware that his status as a son-in-law has long been threatened.
It was also at this time in his previous life that the emperor withdrew his military power in the northwest on a whim, and as a result that battle was disastrously defeated. Even the barbarian Tartars claimed that the big Chu had already started fighting, and there was nothing to be afraid of.
"My Ruyang Palace has held the Sky Eagle Order for more than 20 years. It is not so easy to take back the military power."
Lu Sui came back to his senses, patted his wife's hand lightly, only to realize later that his daughter-in-law came out in a thin robe, and hurriedly said: "Heng Xiao, why are you up. "
Wen Tingyi lowered his eyebrows and smiled softly: "I'm fine."
"Heng Xiao, life may not be so easy in the future, I'm sorry for making you so worried when you come here." Lu Sui said.
"What are you talking about, Your Highness? Your Highness is the husband of the subject, and the Ruyang Palace is the home of the subject. Neither of them can make mistakes."
After they packed up, they planned to go to the Sheriff's Mansion in Guangze County. Before leaving, Lu Sui glanced at Hua Xiaolou, but saw that Hua Xiaolou turned his head away awkwardly, and ignored him.
After walking for a short while, they arrived at the gate of the Sheriff's Mansion.In order to conceal their whereabouts, the group of them changed into the most ordinary clothes, and they took out the token of Ruyang Prince's Mansion when they arrived at the gate of the Sheriff's Mansion, and the servant at the gate hurried in to pass it on.
Guangze County was defeated, so naturally the sheriff would not be as good as the officials in other places, and even the sheriff's mansion was full of poverty.
Wen Tingyi held Ah Nan by his hand, and he could feel Ah Nan's body trembling constantly, and his lips were bitten by him to the point of being bloodless.
Wen Tingyi squatted down and said softly, "Ah Nan, I'll be home soon, don't sneak out again in the future."
The boy ran out in a hurry, and quickly invited everyone in, but Ah Nan suddenly started to struggle, and was held tightly by Wen Tingyi, unable to hold him, and even bit him with one bite. Wen Tingyi frowned slightly in pain, and let out a cry muffled.
"Heng Xiao!" Lu Sui hurried forward, but Wen Tingyi waved his hand at him, signaling him not to move.
Ah Nan bit it for a moment, with the smell of blood in his mouth, he suddenly calmed down, then slowly let go of his mouth, covered Wen Tingyi's hand with his small hand and rubbed it, his eyes were filled with tears flower.
Wen Tingyi's heart hurt for a while, and he hugged him: "Don't cry, it doesn't hurt, Ah Nan, come with me."
This time, Ah Nan obediently followed Wen Tingyi and led her into her home.
Weishengyu and his wife were waiting for them in the hall at the moment. Wen Tingyi led Ah Nan into the hall, and heard Weishengyu cry out in pain: "Ah Nan..." Seeing that her daughter was safe and sound, she noticed Wen beside her. Ting Yi, with a puzzled look on his face: "This young master looks familiar."
Wen Tingyi handed Ah Nan to one of his subordinates, and then bowed: "Heng Xiao has met Brother Wei."
Wei Shengyu was ten years older than Wen Tingyi, and the two of them were classmates, so it was reasonable for Wen Tingyi to call him Brother Wei.
Guangze is located in Gongzhou. Gongzhou is nominally the fiefdom of Prince Gong Lu Xun, but in fact Lu Xun does not live in the fiefdom for a long time, but often lives in the palace with Concubine Wen.
The carriage stopped everywhere, and Lu Sui couldn't wait to get out of the carriage. Looking at the scene in front of him, he froze his figure.
"This is a place where birds don't shit."
It's no wonder that Lu Sui was so rude, personally, he couldn't imagine that the second prince's subordinates would have such a miserable place.
The city gate has been in disrepair for a long time, and it is covered with spots of rust. The weeds under the city wall are lush and lush, and it has reached the height of a human calf.When Lu Sui looked up, he could only see the word "Guangze" that was badly eroded by the wind and could barely be made out.
Wen Tingyi followed Lu Sui out of the carriage, scanned for a week before saying calmly: "Guangze County is closed and hard to get through, and few caravans come here, but fortunately there are good fields in the city, and it won't be too sad if you work hard .”
Lu Sui looked at the impoverished Guangze County everywhere, and clicked his tongue twice: "Lu Xun thinks he is the most favored, and Concubine Wen loves her son very much, how could he choose such a place for Lu Xun?"
"Gongzhou has 32 counties, 120 eight counties, and countless villages. Except for Guangze, all other places are prosperous."
Wen Tingyi paused, then turned around and asked Lu Fu who was walking behind him: "Does Fu'er know the reason?"
Lu Fu nodded his head and pondered for a moment, then slowly said: "After the crowning ceremony, the prince can be entrusted to go to the fief, and the birth mother will move with him. He is not allowed to enter Beijing unless he is ordered. It can also be said that he will be locked in the fief for the rest of his life. Lord, almost all the princes will try their best to find a piece of rich land for themselves."
"However, this is not absolute." Lu Fu hesitated to speak, as if doubting whether his guess was correct, looked up at Wen Tingyi, saw the other party smiled at him, and nodded for him to continue. Go down, suddenly taken aback.
"Second Emperor's Uncle has Concubine Wen in the palace planning for him, so naturally he won't stay in the fief for a long time, so he doesn't need any wealth, treasures, or outstanding people. What he needs is fame and the heart of the emperor."
Wen Tingyi was very satisfied with being able to understand this. He smiled slightly, and nodded in satisfaction: "Fu'er is right."
Before he finished speaking, Lu Fu seemed to have opened his eyes in an instant, and put his hand on his chin thoughtfully: "Guangze's defeat is miserable, and everyone knows that there are frequent floods and plagues here. It is necessary for the imperial court to fiddle with a large amount of silver for disaster relief."
The rest of the words are a bit presumptuous, but even if he can't say it, Wen Tingyi knows that his heart is clear.
The prince stays in the fief, and it sounds good to guard the Quartet for the country. To put it bluntly, the division of the princes is just a way to favor the powerful to seek things for themselves.
Once you leave the capital, it is equivalent to leaving the emperor's sight, and the favor will inevitably decline over time.Furthermore, far away from the imperial city, the imperial palace is square and square. If something happens one day, the people inside can't get out, and the people outside can't get in. Doesn't everything just depend on the people in the palace to do whatever they want?
Wen Tingyi's eyes changed slightly, and his emotions were unpredictable.
Guangze has such troubles every year, Lu Xun "has a kind heart", whenever Guangze encounters a disaster, he does everything by himself, wins the hearts of the people, and wins the hearts of the emperor, but how should Guangze lose or how to lose? Defeated, little improvement.
Xun Lu has learned the art of the emperor's mind to the extreme.
Wen Tingyi turned his head to look at his elder son, still worried in his heart.Although he also understood that Lu Sui was not as brazen as he appeared, he was still worried that the royal family's schemes and schemes would eventually affect the Ruyang Palace.
There were no soldiers patrolling the gates of the city, and everyone entered the city unimpeded, only to realize the so-called desolation.There was no one on the street, the cold wind rolled up the dead leaves, swirled and fell, and the snow between the sky and the earth was the only color on this land.
Wen Tingyi followed behind Lu Sui, and said, "Master Weishengyu, the governor of Guangze County, had a classmate with me back then. He was loyal and pure, with lofty aspirations. Maybe we can turn to him for help in this journey. "
Lu Sui walked unhurriedly, stepping on the thin snow under his feet, and made a slight sound: "We still need to be careful in this trip, after all, Guangze is the territory of Lu Xun, and the county guards here are friends or enemies. If it’s still not clear, we can’t scare the snake away.”
Walking along the street, there are several courtyards on the street closest to the city gate that should be newly built, and they are particularly conspicuous among a pile of houses that have been in disrepair.
Lu Sui rubbed his chin, glanced at the eaves not far away, and saw a black shadow leaving quickly. He turned his head, took Wen Tingyi's hand and said, "I'll ask Lu Miao to investigate first. Come on, let's take a break first."
After all, it was getting late, and everyone walked into an empty courtyard and tidied up a little.
Lu Sui wiped the stone bench in the courtyard, helped Wen Tingyi to sit on it, and the rest of the people found an open space at random, sat directly on the ground in a big way, and started talking about it. .
Before everyone could settle down completely, a scream came from not far away. Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay. Before they could react, they saw a soldier stumbling out from one side with his trousers in his hands. He fell to the ground, trembling.
"There are ghosts! There are ghosts!"
Wen Tingyi frowned slightly, then turned around.
The corners of Lu Sui's mouth twitched wildly, and he said coldly after the man put on his pants, "What happened?"
The man seemed to be in a panic, pointing to a haystack in the corner, and said vaguely: "There are ghosts, behind that haystack... there are ghosts! Female ghosts!"
Following the direction of his fingers, Lu Sui walked to the back of the haystack. He was obviously taken aback at first glance, but after looking at it for a while, he slowly squatted down and stretched out a hand towards the back of the haystack.
It turned out that there was a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl hiding behind the haystack, her eyes were big and lively, black and white were distinct, but her eyes were black and blue, her face was disheveled, her body was tattered, and she still held a A dead man's skull looks really scary.
It was almost dusk at this time, and the sky was getting darker and earlier in winter, only the blue-gray sky in the distance reflected the dark and light colors in this small courtyard.
The little girl glanced up at Lu Sui, handed him the skull in her hand, and then giggled non-stop. The smile was so weird and unpredictable that even Lu Sui couldn't help but feel chills on his back and hairs on his hairs. Upside down.
The little girl stared at Lu Sui motionlessly with a pair of copper bell-like eyes, as if she wanted to stare at him in place. After a long while, she took a few steps towards Lu Sui with a crazy expression.
"Hey hey, outside..." The little girl, with dead leaves on her head and muddy face, walked up to Lu Sui staggeringly, and spoke in a low voice, like a ghost.
"There's Tangtang outside... Ah Nan wants to eat candy."
Hearing the sound, Wen Tingyi also walked to Lu Sui's side, and exchanged a glance with Lu Sui: "Your Highness, where did this kid come from?"
"I do not know either."
Wen Tingyi squatted down slowly, walked up to the little girl, and said softly, "Ah Nan?"
The little girl nodded with a smile, and when she got closer, Wen Tingyi realized that the little girl was as thin as skinny bones, with a palm-sized face, and only a pair of eyes that were as bright as brilliant stars, and she looked terrified.
Wen Tingyi reached out and patted the little girl's shoulder, and took out a white handkerchief from his sleeve, just about to wipe her face clean, when he put his hand in, the little girl's pupils shrank suddenly, and she dodged behind her.
"Don't be afraid, I won't hurt you." Wen Tingyi froze and softened his voice: "Ah Nan, where is your family?"
This time, no matter how Wen Tingyi opened his mouth, the little girl stopped talking. Wen Tingyi slowly hugged the little girl into his arms, feeling the little girl's thin body shaking like chaff.
The tentacles were wet and cold, and when he lowered his head, he found that big tears were overflowing from the little girl's eyes.
"Heng Xiao, what happened to this child?" Lu Sui frowned slightly as he looked at the neurotic child who appeared for no reason.
Wen Tingyi shook his head, just as he was about to speak, he heard the little girl's ghostly voice: "Ah Nan is going...to go."
The little girl rubbed against Wen Tingyi's arms, then suddenly broke free from his arms and ran out of the yard.
Wen Tingyi followed her, worried that she would hide again, but saw that the little girl just ran along the street for a while, and finally stopped at the gate of the city, staring at the gate steadily.
Wen Tingyi stood behind her, and it took a while to see Ah Nan turn around and smile at her foolishly.
"Ah Nan, come here." Wen Tingyi stretched out his hand towards her, this time the little girl seemed to express what she wanted to say clearly, and smiled foolishly for a long time.
"Outside... there's sugar."
When Wen Tingyi led the little girl back to the small courtyard, Lu Miao and Hua Xiaolou had already returned and were reporting the situation to Lu Sui.
Hua Xiaolou saw that Wen Tingyi had picked up a child from somewhere, and became interested, and joked: "Lu Sui can do it, the child is already this old."
Lu Sui was too lazy to pay attention to him, so he turned his head and ignored him.
Hua Xiaolou looked at Ah Nan carefully, and suddenly his face became serious: "Where did you find this child?"
After finishing speaking, without waiting for everyone's reaction, Hua Xiaolou suddenly flew up to the child, pinched Ah Nan's chin with one hand, opened one of her eyes with the other, and shook his head.
"This child has been drugged stupid."
As soon as this remark came out, Wen Tingyi was slightly taken aback, looked down and noticed that Ah Nan's eyes were indeed dull, and he was smiling silly with a finger in his mouth.
He touched Ah Nan's dirty hair, and said softly: "It's getting late, let's find someone else."
Lu Sui nodded, and then everyone found a family, planning to stay overnight and check it out tomorrow.
There is only one old woman in the hostel, about 60 years old, with silver hair combed carefully and carefully, and wrinkles carved on her face.
"Come into the house, everyone. It's freezing outside. I'll make a pot of ginger soup for you to warm up."
The old man was uncomfortable and walked slowly and with difficulty. Wen Tingyi hurriedly stopped the old woman, helped her to sit on the rattan chair, and said softly: "Don't bother the old man, I'm the one waiting to bother you."
The old man squinted his eyes and smiled, and poured Wen Tingyi a cup of tea with trembling hands. Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of Ah Nan in Wen Tingyi's arms, and rubbed his eyes with confusion.
Anan huddled in Wen Tingyi's arms and fell asleep pouting her mouth. Wen Tingyi wiped off the dirt on her face a little, revealing her fair and pink face.
"Young master, where did you find this little girl?"
"Does the old man know which family's lost child this is?" Wen Tingyi asked hurriedly.
The old man stared at Ah Nan with a pair of cloudy old eyes for a long time, his pupils flickered, and he sighed after a long while: "What a crime, poor child."
"The little girl's name is Wei Ruonan, and she is the flesh and blood of the governor. She was cute and cute when she was young, and she was very smart. It's a pity that the good girl is so stupid, and she always gets lost every now and then. She is also very anxious. Lord Sheriff and Madam."
Wen Tingyi looked down at the cute child with pouting lips in his arms, and asked, "Does the old man know what happened?"
"This..." The old woman hesitated to speak, and finally sighed.
"This is also a crime."
It turned out that Wei Shengyu, the sheriff, was transferred to Guangze five years ago to be the sheriff of this poor place.As soon as he came to Guangze, Wei Shengyu took the young man to seek a way out for Guangze.
For the past five years, Suye has lamented and worked hard, even though he is clearly in his prime and should have a bright future, he is unwilling to give up everyone in Guangze, and he and his wife will never leave to protect Guangze.
It's just that the weather was unpredictable, and the accident happened three years ago.
On the day of Ah Nan's birthday, Wei Shengyu and his wife were not in Guangze because of some important business, so the little girl ran out of the mansion to look for them, but was targeted by several drunk men on that rainy night.
When the old woman spoke up to this point, her tears could not stop streaming down. She took a breath and said tremblingly, "Those people are beasts. How much did your lord and madam sacrifice for Guangze? How could they bear it...how could they?"
Ah Nan in his arms seemed to have heard their conversation and became a little uneasy. Wen Tingyi slowly tightened his arms and hugged her even tighter.
"After that, the little girl became crazy, and she was afraid of anyone she saw." The old woman looked at Ah Nan, and wiped the corners of her eyes with her coarse cloth sleeve.
Wen Tingyi was slightly puzzled. Hua Xiaolou clearly said that Ah Nan was drugged to be stupid, which means that he didn't become stupid after being hit after that incident.
So who is it that drugged Ah Nan.
"Perhaps their actions angered God, and even God didn't want the little girl to see a man heartbroken again, so since then, there have been fewer and fewer men in the county... This is all retribution."
"You said all the men of Guangze's generation have left? Then do you know where they went?" Lu Sui grasped the key point in the old woman's words and asked.
The old woman shook her head: "I don't know, there was no more news overnight. The young men in the county are gone, and the younger women and children are gone, leaving only us old people here to redeem our sins."
All the strong men disappeared, so where did those people in Qianjinfang come from?
Wen Tingyi suppressed the doubts in his heart, and intuited that the two things might be related.
Young men and young men from Guangze County disappeared without knowing where they were going, but Qianjinfang suddenly rose up within three years, with such momentum that even Ye Baozhang had to worry about it.
Lu Sui rested his chin and thought for a while before saying, "Then old man, is Master Weishengyu still in Guangze?"
"Yes, my lord is a good person. Even if it happened——that kind of thing happened, my lord never hated us."
After the old woman finished speaking, she probably thought of something sad, and she didn't want to continue talking, so she slowly got up from the chair.
"It's getting late, you guys should go to bed early." The old lady returned to her room after finishing speaking.
Lu Sui and Wen Tingyi drank a few cups of tea, then carried Ah Nan to the next room.Then he went back to his room, entered the room, Wen Tingyi sat by the bed and sighed softly.
"Heng Xiao." Lu Sui walked up to him, hugged him gently, let him rest his head on his waist, and said softly: "Rest early, let's go to the sheriff's mansion tomorrow, The first is to send Ah Nan back, and the second is that there is something strange in Guangze, we need to find out."
Wen Tingyi hummed lightly, and then said: "It's the same for Fuer, and it's the same for Ah Nan."
"Heng Xiao, the world has always been unfair." He knelt down, took Wen Tingyi's cold hands, brought them to his lips and kissed them; "Even me, I have a lot of feelings that I can't express, and I don't like them."
"However, all kinds of hard work and all kinds of helplessness are not worth having a sweetheart by my side."
Lu Sui took out a jade pendant from his waist, solemnly handed it to Wen Tingyi, and then covered his hands with his own.
Wen Tingyi lowered his head to look, and saw that it was a piece of high-quality white jade, with a warm color and warm tentacles, carved into the shape of a wandering dragon. The dragon god was mixed with blood. From a distance, it looked like flying through the clouds, extremely ethereal.
"The old man asked me to give this piece of jade to you. Zeshi Lingxi, a gift from the Ruyang Palace to his daughter-in-law. It has been enshrined in front of my concubine's coffin. Now and in the future, it will only be yours."
Wen Tingyi froze, feeling that the jade pendant in his hand seemed heavy, before he could react, he was pulled into Lu Sui's arms, only the sound of Lu Sui's heartbeat was in his ears, heavy and slow.
With a sound of "cracking", the lanterns were overwhelmed and extinguished in the cold and windy winter night, and the house fell into darkness for a while.
Lu Sui approached slowly, and slowly lowered the curtain with one hand. For a moment, only the two of them were left in the already cramped space, and the only sound in the air was the sound of each other's breathing.
Wen Tingyi slowly curled his lips into a smile, and slowly approached him, lowering his eyelids and trembling his eyelashes.
The cold wind outside the house was wrapped in crushed snow, Lu Miao vacated a snow-free place for himself, and sat on the roof alone, holding a small jug of spirits in his hand, drinking one sip at a time.
Suddenly, he felt warmth behind him, and the snow falling on his head seemed to have stopped. Lu Miao looked back and saw Hua Xiaolou wrapped in a thick quilt brought from the house, hugging him.
The winter night was so dark that Hua Xiaolou almost fell when he was on the roof, and he was a little embarrassed.All of a sudden, he rolled behind Lu Miao and hugged him without saying a word.
The cold fingertips touched his skin, Lu Miao suddenly frowned, turned around and hugged him: "Don't make trouble."
Hua Xiaolou refused to let go, hugged the person and rubbed against them, and said with satisfaction: "There are not enough rooms, I don't want to be in the same room with them."
Hua Xiaolou stretched out his hand and pulled Lu Miao's hand clasped around his waist to force him to hug him more tightly, saying: "If you want to hug her, hug her tighter, be careful that I will fall with you in a moment. "
Lu Miao hugged him tightly by accident, and the two of them were wrapped in a quilt like this.Lu Miao was expressionless, but Hua Xiaolou was happy in his heart.
Hua Xiaolou raised his head to look at him, seeing that he still had a face of ice cubes, he was not discouraged: "Fourth brother, if I remember correctly, King Ruyang only wanted you to work hard for ten years?"
Lu Miao was expressionless and hummed lightly.
"Then have you ever thought about what you are going to do after you leave Ruyang Palace?"
Lu Miao really didn't think about this question, he answered honestly: "I never thought of leaving Ruyang Palace."
Hua Xiaolou was stunned, and asked in disbelief, "You want to stay in Ruyang Palace for the rest of your life?"
Lu Miao did not say yes, nor did he say no.
He had a pitiful background and almost died in the ice and snow. If he hadn't happened to be unconscious in the Ruyang Palace and was picked up by the Ruyang King who was out on errands, he would have died long ago.
In order to repay his kindness and to survive, he turned himself into a knife without emotion, a knife that only knows to be loyal to the palace, the prince, and the prince.
"Do you know that it is impossible to be a secret guard for a lifetime. Your body is not suitable for being a secret guard. If you insist on squeezing yourself, it will kill you."
Lu Miao didn't let him finish talking, and directly picked up the cup and covered their heads together.Everything happened in a blink of an eye, and suddenly there was no light in front of her eyes, Hua Xiaolou was so shocked that she didn't know what to say.
"Shh, go to bed earlier."
Hua Xiaolou didn't intend to let it go, but when he thought of Lu Miao who hadn't rested for a long time, he suddenly felt a pain in his heart.
He touched Lu Miao's icy face, and pulled the corner of his mouth in the dark to make a smiling face: "Then just smile, okay, just smile, and I will sleep with you."
Unknowingly, there was a hint of pleading in his tone, Lu Miao was startled suddenly, slowly raised the corner of his mouth, and curled the corner of his lower lip in the darkness.
In fact, in this darkness, Hua Xiaolou couldn't see, but he could feel that Lu Miao had followed him. He touched Lu Miao's cheek and whispered softly: "Fourth brother, I'm really afraid that one day you will , forget everything."
Lu Miao didn't hear what he said clearly, and asked, "Huh? What did you say?"
"No, it's nothing." Hua Xiaolou said, "Fourth brother can think about where he wants to go if he leaves the palace in the future."
"There is Humayin Mountain in the north, there are Liuqiao alleys in the south of the river, there is Mobei, and there is also the wild smoke of the desert... Forget about Mobei."
Lu Sui suddenly reached out to embrace him, and Hua Xiaolou immediately shrank into a quail, his mind went blank, and he forgot everything he wanted to say.
"Wherever you want to go, I will accompany you."
Hua Xiaolou's heart began to beat wildly, and he felt that his face, which had been blown cool by the wind, was getting hotter and hotter.
How can I be so dishonest!He was fooled by one word!
Hua Xiaolou scratched the back of his head, hesitatingly said: "Okay, then... agree, come with me later."
Lu Miao hummed: "I gave everything to the palace..."
Hua Xiaolou continued to shrink into a quail, but she listened very carefully with just a pair of ears.
"But my life is yours."
Following the sound, there were Lu Miao's cold lips, until Lu Miao's steady breathing sound came into his ears gently, Hua Xiaolou still touched his brow in disbelief.
Did the fourth brother kiss him just now?
Hua Xiaolou turned over, feeling very annoyed at how his head was covered by the quilt at that time, and he couldn't see anything in the pitch black.
Hua Xiaolou looked at Lu Miao beside him, his smiling face suddenly cracked, and a deep sense of fatigue suddenly appeared between his brows and eyes.
The training level of the hidden guards is not acceptable to ordinary people, so every hidden guard is extremely cherished.Not to mention whether Lu Miao is willing to leave the palace, whether the palace is willing to let people go is his concern.
Lu Miao's body can no longer continue like this. The older the dark guard is, the more various ailments will show up. Lu Miao has been a dark guard for nearly ten years. Not to mention psychological problems, there are a lot of problems on his body , can't even count.
Could it be that he can only take Lu Miao away when the Ruyang Palace is no longer in danger?
Midnight is quiet, the world is silent.
In the early morning of the next day, Lu Sui woke up everyone who was still asleep, and when everyone was eating steamed buns and drinking porridge, he tiptoed back to the room and gently woke up his sleeping daughter in law.
Wen Tingyi was covered tightly with the quilt, leaving no gaps at the corners, and couldn't help laughing: "Your Highness has wrapped me up like this, how can I get up and change clothes?"
Lu Sui held down his rising body, and tucked back his two arms that were exposed under the quilt: "Don't move, I will serve you for my husband today."
After he finished speaking, he turned around and picked up the small bowl on the table, scooped up a spoonful of glutinous rice porridge with a small spoon, and handed it over after gently testing the temperature.Wen Tingyi obediently opened his mouth to eat, and then heard him ask: "How is it, is it delicious?"
"It's delicious, the glutinous rice is soft and delicious, and the porridge is cooked just right."
Hearing his wife's praise, Lu Sui's brows were filled with joy, and the corners of his mouth almost reached the back of his ears: "If you like it, I will cook it for you every day in the future."
"Your Highness, did you do this yourself?" Wen Tingyi said.
"Well, it's my first time." Lu Sui nodded, continued to feed him a spoonful, and said, "Just as long as you like it."
Wen Tingyi curled his lips into a smile, and said with a faint smile: "I like what your Highness did. Your Highness has a heart."
At this moment, the door suddenly opened with a "squeak", and Hua Xiaolou pushed the door directly to enter. He happened to see Lu Sui feeding Wen Tingyi porridge, froze for a second, and immediately covered his eyes: "Go ahead."
After speaking, he covered his eyes and planned to slip away, but was stopped by Lu Sui: "Stop pretending, when have you ever cared about these things. What's the matter?"
He pulled up the quilt and lowered the curtains on the bed, this time he was careful and didn't leave marks on any obvious parts of Heng Xiao.He got up and walked to the low wooden table in the room and sat down.
Hua Xiaolou didn't say anything, just threw him a bag, the things inside were hard.Lu Sui lowered his head and opened the cloth bag, and saw that it was a small seal, but unfortunately, the lettering on the seal was blurred and unrecognizable for some reason.
As Lu Sui stroked the seal, a thought became clearer in his mind.
"Where did you find this thing?"
"Where else can I find it? It's in the belly of the good buddy you asked me to take care of. He is a real man, and he swallowed it alive." Hua Xiaolou replied.
The good buddy he was talking about was the owner of Qianjinfang who committed suicide by taking poison in the secret room at that time. Thanks to Wen Tingyi's care, he asked Lu Miao to take the body back to Hua Xiaolou for inspection.
Lu Sui frowned: "Then how did you get it?"
Hua Xiaolou looked at the expression of an idiot, and glanced at him: "Of course it was laparotomy, it was taken from the stomach."
Hua Xiaolou, nicknamed "Ghost Hairpin Flower", was sent by the people of Jianghu. He was also called "Ghost Doctor" because he practiced medicine and didn't follow the usual path.It was also because of this that the Tai Hospital couldn't keep him, so he went to Taoyuan to learn from his teacher.
According to legend, ghost hairpin flowers rob a tomb in January. If they find a corpse they are satisfied with, they will take it away and leave gold and silver. flower.
This seal was cut out from someone else's stomach...
Even though the content of the seal can no longer be seen, it is made of Akita Warm Jade just like the finger puller. It doesn't take Lu Sui to know that this is Lu Xun's seal of King Gong.
With this seal, it can be shown that those letters are indeed evidence of Lu Xun's secret collusion with Wen's Bank.No wonder, that person tried his best to hide this seal.
The corner of Lu Sui's mouth twitched, and he suddenly had a headache.In the next second, he threw the seal on the table, his hands didn't know where to put it...
"Hua Xiaolou!" Lu Sui was angry.
"Hey! I'm here, I'm here." Hua Xiaolou giggled twice, picked up the seal he left behind, and wiped it on his chest: "You dare to throw away such a precious thing. You can cry if you find a way to bring down Lu Xun."
Lu Sui suddenly turned his head to look at him, and said, "What did you say?"
Hua Xiaolou shrugged: "Forget it if you didn't hear it, I'll just say it again."
"Hua Xiaolou, this matter is not a joke, nor is it like when we were young, allowing us to mess around." Lu Sui's voice suddenly became higher, "You'd better pretend that nothing happened."
"Lu Sui, you know better than me that the emperor has long been afraid of Ruyang Palace. It's not that you don't know his methods. If you don't make plans early, Ruyang Palace will be the next Shu Palace."
"Shut up." Lu Sui interrupted him coldly.A letter from Lu Ji a few days ago suddenly appeared in his mind. The letter mentioned that the emperor intends to move the military power of the Ruyang Palace, and he suddenly felt agitated.
Hua Xiaolou panted, and couldn't understand Lu Sui: "Lu Sui, I, General Huwei, are willing to help you. Why are you so crazy to drive me away?"
He is the mansion of General Huwei?
Lu Sui snorted disdainfully: "You are so loud, what qualifications do you have to help us instead of General Huwei's mansion? You have been yearning for the Jianghu since you were a child, but have you ever paid attention to the movements in the court?"
"You want to pull General Huwei's mansion now, does your father agree? Does your mother agree? Hua Xiaolou, how old are you, can you stop being like a child."
Seeing that the two were about to fight, Wen Tingyi got up from the bed in a loose robe, and quickly stopped Lu Sui: "Your Highness, stop talking."
Hua Xiaolou panted heavily, looked at Lu Sui in disbelief, turned her head and rushed out the door suddenly: "Lu Sui, who the hell is going to help you, don't take yourself too seriously!" Before he could finish his sentence, the person had already disappeared around the corner.
Lu Sui's chest heaved and heaved, so he heard Wen Tingyi's consolation: "The small building is just a child's heart, why should your Highness be serious with him?"
"It's his own idea, thinking that he has seen through my plan and wants to help me without authorization." Lu Sui panted heavily, and drank a cup of tea, "What does he know? The emperor has begun to fear the palace. Unable to protect himself, he wished to get rid of the relationship with others as soon as possible, so as not to hurt them, but he wished to pounce on him."
"What is your Highness's plan? The eldest princess has not replied yet." Wen Tingyi asked.
Lu Sui squinted his eyes and snorted: "The king asked the ministers to ask for military power, how dare the Ruyang Palace refuse to obey the order, but if I dare to give it, someone needs to be matched."
Lu Sui said this not because his eyes were higher than the top, and he was arrogant, but because in the current situation in the court, no one could be worthy of the Sky Eagle Order.Lu Xun is hypocritical, and Lu Zheng is doing nothing, unaware that his status as a son-in-law has long been threatened.
It was also at this time in his previous life that the emperor withdrew his military power in the northwest on a whim, and as a result that battle was disastrously defeated. Even the barbarian Tartars claimed that the big Chu had already started fighting, and there was nothing to be afraid of.
"My Ruyang Palace has held the Sky Eagle Order for more than 20 years. It is not so easy to take back the military power."
Lu Sui came back to his senses, patted his wife's hand lightly, only to realize later that his daughter-in-law came out in a thin robe, and hurriedly said: "Heng Xiao, why are you up. "
Wen Tingyi lowered his eyebrows and smiled softly: "I'm fine."
"Heng Xiao, life may not be so easy in the future, I'm sorry for making you so worried when you come here." Lu Sui said.
"What are you talking about, Your Highness? Your Highness is the husband of the subject, and the Ruyang Palace is the home of the subject. Neither of them can make mistakes."
After they packed up, they planned to go to the Sheriff's Mansion in Guangze County. Before leaving, Lu Sui glanced at Hua Xiaolou, but saw that Hua Xiaolou turned his head away awkwardly, and ignored him.
After walking for a short while, they arrived at the gate of the Sheriff's Mansion.In order to conceal their whereabouts, the group of them changed into the most ordinary clothes, and they took out the token of Ruyang Prince's Mansion when they arrived at the gate of the Sheriff's Mansion, and the servant at the gate hurried in to pass it on.
Guangze County was defeated, so naturally the sheriff would not be as good as the officials in other places, and even the sheriff's mansion was full of poverty.
Wen Tingyi held Ah Nan by his hand, and he could feel Ah Nan's body trembling constantly, and his lips were bitten by him to the point of being bloodless.
Wen Tingyi squatted down and said softly, "Ah Nan, I'll be home soon, don't sneak out again in the future."
The boy ran out in a hurry, and quickly invited everyone in, but Ah Nan suddenly started to struggle, and was held tightly by Wen Tingyi, unable to hold him, and even bit him with one bite. Wen Tingyi frowned slightly in pain, and let out a cry muffled.
"Heng Xiao!" Lu Sui hurried forward, but Wen Tingyi waved his hand at him, signaling him not to move.
Ah Nan bit it for a moment, with the smell of blood in his mouth, he suddenly calmed down, then slowly let go of his mouth, covered Wen Tingyi's hand with his small hand and rubbed it, his eyes were filled with tears flower.
Wen Tingyi's heart hurt for a while, and he hugged him: "Don't cry, it doesn't hurt, Ah Nan, come with me."
This time, Ah Nan obediently followed Wen Tingyi and led her into her home.
Weishengyu and his wife were waiting for them in the hall at the moment. Wen Tingyi led Ah Nan into the hall, and heard Weishengyu cry out in pain: "Ah Nan..." Seeing that her daughter was safe and sound, she noticed Wen beside her. Ting Yi, with a puzzled look on his face: "This young master looks familiar."
Wen Tingyi handed Ah Nan to one of his subordinates, and then bowed: "Heng Xiao has met Brother Wei."
Wei Shengyu was ten years older than Wen Tingyi, and the two of them were classmates, so it was reasonable for Wen Tingyi to call him Brother Wei.
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