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I don't know if someone deliberately leaked the news, but in a few days, Jin Mingjing killed his wife, father-in-law, and even slaughtered innocent soldiers, causing a lot of trouble.

Qi Lang had no choice but to send Jin Mingjing to the prison of Dianxing Temple, and replaced Shen Amber to take over the parrot guard, so he suppressed the matter a little.

While people were still discussing this matter with gusto, another decree from the inner palace was promulgated——Zhou Lanmu, the fourth son of the Zhou family, returned to the court from the border. waiter.

Zhou's family has already been copied and executed. Where did the fourth son come from?

As a result, people were even more surprised, and they became more interested in this fourth young master who had never met before.

The Zhou family's prosperity was just in front of our eyes. Can this fourth son who lost the family's shadow really be able to secure his official position and save his life?

Chu Shao had no intention of knowing this, he carried the snacks he just bought on the street, and walked briskly towards his back garden, and as expected, he saw Zhou Lanmu bowing down to water the flowers in the garden.

"I have something strange to tell you," Chu Shao put the cake in his hand on the stone table beside him, and said in a drawn-out voice, "Do you know that Jin Mingjing died in Dian Xing Temple yesterday? gone."

He bit the word "death" very hard, Zhou Lanmu put the pot in his hand, and seemed to reply with great regret: "Oh?"

"According to the jailer, it was made by a man in red." Chu Shao looked at his expression and said, "General Jin died really badly. I heard that the flesh on both hands was cut off piece by piece. The body was bloody and bloody, and it didn't look like a human being. Tsk tsk tsk, Dian Xing Temple is heavily guarded, and I don't know who is so capable and dares to do it under the emperor's nose."

Zhou Lanmu looked at him with a smile, stretched out his hand and rubbed his shoulders: "That's naturally... the peerless knight I met that day, I just don't want him to die too happily."

Chu Shao knew that he wasn't telling the truth, but he couldn't ask anything. He reached out and unwrapped the snack at hand, picked up a piece of crabapple crisps, and said in a gloating tone while eating, "Master Zhou... now After the imperial decree was issued, the noble children of Zhongyang knew that you were coming back, so I asked me to bring you something."

Zhou Lanmu raised his eyebrows: "What?"

He said that he took the invitation card that Chu Shao took out from his arms, opened it, frowned and read softly: "I am very happy to hear that the fourth young master is returning to court. The Zhongyang family is of the same spirit, regardless of each other, We specially held a banquet for the Fourth Young Master in Lianghuan Building, and I hope that the Fourth Young Master will honor your face today."

He said "uh": "The signature is, Qi, Wei and..."

"The dude in Zhongyang, I've gathered together this time, and they all want to see how divine the Fourth Young Master is." Chu Shao ate the pastry in his hand, and said with a smile, "Should the Fourth Young Master go or not?"

Zhou Lanmu looked down at his invitation card, thought for a while, then smiled and said, "Go, of course."

Chu Shao didn't expect him to agree so happily, and was afraid that he would not think clearly, so he reminded him kindly: "These gangsters don't have any good intentions, it doesn't matter if you don't go to this kind of banquet... Of course, if the fourth son asks me to say more A few words, probably nothing will happen."

The two have gotten closer since they worked together on the Chaozhongjing case. He meant it well, but Zhou Lanmu gracefully accepted the invitation in his hand, and showed him a smile on his face: "General Xiao Chu, this is ridiculous!" , Speaking of dandies, aren’t you the biggest dandy? I’ve heard gossip about you in Zongzhou back then, saying that you beat up all the dandies in Zhongyang—since I’m not even afraid of you, what would they do?”

Chu Shao's smile immediately froze on his face.

But he was secretly annoyed in his heart—why this person’s temper is soft and hard. .

Zhou Lanmu laughed happily behind him.

That night.

When the lanterns first come on, Rongyin Square is the busiest. The street along the Linjiang River is covered with lanterns, and there is an endless stream of peddlers coming and going, singing joyously.

Lianghuan Tower is just opposite to "Linjiang Immortal", and it is the favorite place for the noble children of Zhongyang to visit.

When the servants drew the curtain for Zhou Lanmu and entered, the circle around the second floor was almost full.

Chu Shao was stabbed by his two words, so angry that he didn't go with him, but he arrived earlier than him, and he was sitting at the top right now, chatting intimately with a girl in red, and didn't say anything when he came in , only blinked frivolously as a greeting.

The person sitting closest to the place where he entered the door was a child from an unknown family. His face was flushed at the moment, and he was already a little drunk before the banquet: "I just said...how did the remnants of the Zhou family let the eldest son sit?" Look, what kind of Minister of the Fourth Court has been appointed? I heard General Xiao Chu... After listening to Yuan Jia, I realized that Mr. Zhou is a rare beauty in Zhongyang this week! Lord!"

Shijun was originally the title given by the emperor to a man into the harem, but this time he said it like this, it was a naked insult.

A few people next to him patted their legs and laughed. There was only one person left in the Zhou family, and he was not welcomed by Duke Wei. Even if he was insulted, the helpless Mr. Zhou could only accept it and dared not say anything. .

In the final analysis, they held this banquet today for the purpose of insulting—all the children of the Zhou family were upright and upright, and they never bothered to join forces with them.They couldn't say anything when the Zhou family was in power. Could it be that this person is the only one left and dare not say anything?

Chu Shao was stunned, subconsciously looked at Zhou Lanmu who had just entered the door, opened his mouth to explain that he didn't say this, but saw Zhou Lanmu looked at him with a smile, suddenly raised his voice, and turned slightly towards Zhongyang in the lobby. He bowed his body, cupped his hands and said, "Zhou Lanmu, a disciple of the Zhou family, has met you all."

No one had noticed him just now, but when he said these words, people all cast their gazes over, some were looking forward to it, some were watching the excitement, some were joking, some were smiling, but the moment these eyes fell on this man , but suddenly all condensed into a strange silence.

If an ordinary man is so beautiful to such an extent, he will definitely have a sense of goblin, which will make people feel contemptuous and obscene for no reason.And although these four young masters look like the dawn of spring, they have a fresh air.

He raised his thin eyelids, and glanced at the crowd casually. The cinnabar mole under the eyelids was dazzlingly red, reflecting the redness of the collar, and there was also a trace of undetectable temptation under the cleanliness.

Really... a touching existence.

Sitting next to Chu Shao was Wei Qiange, the former leader of the "Six Great Harms of Zhongyang". Today's banquet was also organized under his control.

Seeing that everyone was stupefied for a while, Wei Qiange quickly looked away, coughed pretendingly, got up in person, walked up to Zhou Lanmu with a smile on his face, and said: "We have waited for the fourth son for a long time, and finally we have you here. Fourth Young Master is late, you have to punish yourself with three cups!"

As he spoke, he reached out to hold Zhou Lanmu's arm affectionately, and even touched the back of his hand.Although the people around knew that he had bad intentions, no one stopped him. They just sat there with a smile on their faces, waiting to see today's good show.

Chu Shao's eyes tightened, and he suddenly felt a little uncomfortable.

Zhou Lan couldn't see anything on his face, he waved his hand calmly, put some distance away from Wei Qiange, and said gently: "Young Master Wei, you are welcome."

"How can this be polite?" Wei Qiange noticed that he was resisting intentionally, but was more interested. He put him on the seat and said enthusiastically, "Come on, give the fourth son full! Today we We met for the first time, and we will take care of each other in the future, the Fourth Young Master will not lose face, right?"

Zhou Lan's smile remained unchanged: "I have been injured recently, and I am unwell, so I am not suitable for drinking."

"Everyone in our banquet can drink, if the fourth young master doesn't drink, it's against the rules!" Xie Ran, one of the "Six Great Harms of Zhongyang" next to him, bluffed and said, "If you don't drink... I see The Fourth Young Master hangs a jade flute on his waist, how about playing a tune for everyone? Since it is hanging on the body, you can't refuse to say that the skill is not good!"

When meeting Zhou Lanmu for the first time, Chu Shao saw a spotless tassel on his waist, but now he realized that it was not just a tassel, there was also a jade flute attached to the tassel.

Everyone present roared with laughter, some whistled, some slapped the table, and some shouted "Okay". As the guest of honor at the banquet, it is an unbearable insult to cheer everyone up in the hall.

And the humiliation of a beauty happens to be the favorite drama of these dandies.

Chu Shao felt his forehead twitching "jumping", obviously he hadn't had a few glasses of wine, but his face was uncomfortably hot.Seeing that Zhou Lanmu sighed helplessly, he actually stretched out his hand to untie the jade flute from his waist, and without thinking about it for a while, he raised his hand and threw the wine barter in front of him viciously from the hall.

The jade just hit the ground carved out of basalt, and with a "clang" sound, it was smashed to pieces.

Wei Qiange had only drank a few glasses of wine just now, but at this moment, excited by the voice, he broke out in a cold sweat.

He thought for a while, and repeatedly complained that it was not good.

Too negligent, too negligent, to forget about it.Chu Shao has always been used to flirtatious, and the girl who glanced at the side of the road can generously donate her money and redeem her body from Ren Yazi—not to mention that such a beauty has lived in his mansion for so many days, I am afraid that she can't think of it. Life is difficult.

And he actually brought someone here to humiliate Chu Shao's new love, no wonder Chu Shao's expression was not right when he posted the post, but now that he thinks about it, it's all because he didn't think carefully enough to do such a stupid thing.

After all, he didn't want to offend Chu Shao at all—this person was fearless when he was young, and he was the little King of Hades that the dudes in Zhongyang were most afraid of encountering.When he grows up, he has made outstanding military exploits, won praises from people, and is also a stingy bastard. Sometimes even Wei Gong is ignored, and if he offends this person, he doesn't even know when he will be unlucky.

So he immediately took a step back, stretched out his hand and pulled Xie Ran up, and said with an apologetic smile: "What are you talking about, what is his status as the son of Zhou, can you say such a thing! Hurry up and apologize to the fourth son!"

Then he turned to Chu Shao: "Yuan Jia, they are all my brothers, what kind of anger are you, Xie Ran, this bastard drank too much, and you know that when he drinks too much, he talks nonsense. In this way, I will punish myself three times with him." Cup, how about apologizing for the Fourth Young Master?"

Chu Shao didn't listen to his words at all, staring at Zhou Lanmu with bottomless black pupils, and said in a low voice after a long time: "Come here, sit beside me."

Zhou Lanmu smiled, but didn't listen to him, and stretched out his hand to brush the jade flute lightly, with a lazy tone: "You don't have to be like this, General—Young Master Wei San hosted a banquet for me, I am very grateful, play a song for him , can be regarded as thanking him for his kindness.”

Wei Qiange stared at his smiling face, feeling a chill slowly creeping up his body.

But the young master in white put the jade flute under his mouth, and he didn't know whether he was smiling brightly at him or at Xie Ran.

"Young Master Wei, listen carefully."