Second minister and thief

"What do you think?" Xiao Cen hurriedly went to feel the temperature on his forehead, put his arms around his shoulders, and wanted to take him to a chair beside him to rest, but for some reason, Chu Linqiu remained motionless, his eyes tightly closed. He stared at the door, wondering what he was looking at.

Xiao Cen was anxious and puzzled, but before he could ask anything, a cyan figure suddenly appeared within his gaze.

The bells are made.

This person's face was ashen, with a ferocious expression, and he only stared at Chu Linqiu with cannibalistic eyes, and after a long while, he slowly uttered a sentence, "Chu Jiushang, you can be proud of yourself for these two days."

"Has the clock made him crazy? It seems to have been hit by something." Xiao Cen saw the man shake his sleeves and leave after saying a word, he couldn't help being speechless, and secretly knew something.

"More than blows? He probably doesn't like me always pushing him down."

It was only then that Xiao Cen realized that Chu Linqiu's gray lips moved, but what he said was only breathless, and he was completely drained of energy.Xiao Cen thought it was bad, quickly put his hands under his armpits, pushed him down on the solid wooden chair without any explanation, and ordered the people who gathered around to bring a cup of hot tea and feed him carefully. .In order to prevent someone from coming in suddenly, the door of the Xuanwuwei public office was closed at the next moment, and visitors were not allowed.

"Have you recovered yet? Why are you sweating so much?"

Chu Linqiu leaned on Xiao Cen's shoulder reassuringly, his eyes slightly closed, thinking that he was suffering so badly that he was still unable to speak, but suddenly squeezed Xiao Cen's hand to comfort him.

"Master Hou, help your lord in first. There is a couch at the back of the hall, you can rest here. Later, I will take the badge of Xuanwuwei and go to the imperial hospital to arrest someone and show me to your lord!"

"Idiot! You swaggered into the Tai Hospital, wouldn't the saint know about it?"

"It's nothing. You go, just say that you were ordered by the Marquis."

"Then, Lord Hou... If those people from the Imperial Hospital ask what kind of disease your lord has, what will they say?"

"You need me to teach you?" Xiao Cen glared at him, causing the group of bosses to look at each other in dismay for a moment, "It seems that this Marquis needs to blow pillows to you adults. There is more than enough bravery, but not enough strategy. You should read more sage books."

"Holy, sage books? There are teachings in the sage books..."

"Shut up!" The man was about to say something, but he was pulled away by his companions by the shoulders, and only a helpless voice was sent to the wind, "Didn't you see that my lord was angry today? Naturally, he was angry. , the old disease relapsed."

People from aristocratic families are used to bossing around, so naturally they don't understand the mind of a saint. They only wanted to tear Chu Linqiu off his horse, but they didn't expect that from the beginning to the end, this man was always in the heart of a saint. The perfect person to oversee the case.

And they suddenly came to Xuanwuwei Public Office to make a fuss, and their behavior, which became known to everyone, was tantamount to throwing a loud slap in the face of a saint.

From this, Chu Linqiu calmed down and said lightly, "Let them make trouble."

At that time, Xiao Cen was kneeling and sitting beside the couch, holding a spoon and earnestly persuading the half-lying people to eat more. Hearing this, he curled his lips in dissatisfaction, "It's been a few days, so there should be some clues. When the case comes to light, Then hit them in the mouth again."

But how can it be so easy?

The people sent by Chu Linqiu were like nothing, and no news came back, and Yu Younian, who has been locked in the prison until now, seemed to have suddenly changed his sex, and refused to confide a word.

This naturally made the investigation of this major case seem to be at a dead end. If there is no opportunity to break the deadlock in time, I am afraid that when the deadline is up, what is waiting for Chu Linqiu will be the civil and military accountability of the Manchu Dynasty.At that time, even if the emperor wants to protect him again, he can't openly become an enemy of all officials.

"You... in your body..." As soon as the emperor was mentioned, Xiao Cen immediately lost the strength to feed. He put the bowl aside, sighed heavily, and looked worried, "Don't be afraid... Jiu Shang Don't be afraid...Mr. Liu said that your body is not incurable, and I have sent people to the south to find..."

"Xiao Cen."

"..." Xiao Cen was stunned, because this was the first time Chu Linqiu called him by his name, it wasn't Marquis, General, or a nickname, it was a real name.Except for elders, people of the same generation will call each other by their first names only when they are very close.

Chu Linqiu, this is...

"Don't worry, I won't die."

"I..." For a moment, Xiao Cen felt that his heart was poured full of water, it was extremely warm, and he couldn't tell what it felt like. He "saw" his hand covering Chu Linqiu's icy back in a daze. , Clenched it tightly, almost exhausted his life's strength, and then he heard himself say, "I won't let you die either."

One word at a time, speaking very slowly and clearly.

And after saying the first sentence, the next words are particularly easy to export.He said, "Listen, Chu Jiushang, without Benhou's permission, you are not allowed to die, even if you are half dead. You have to support Benhou until the day when the genius doctor secretly enters Beijing."

"Chu Jiushang, Benhou, Benhou has never felt this way." He grabbed Chu Linqiu's hand and placed it on his chest.

"What do you feel?"

"Naturally, it feels like a girl in a boudoir meeting a lover at night. Chu Jiushang, this Marquis thinks that you are much more difficult to deal with than those ghosts and monsters in Nanrong. If you and I split into two factions one day, then I will definitely not be able to compete with you."

"..." Xiao Cen would never have imagined that one of his unintentional words would actually make Chu Linqiu's heart skip a beat, and then sink down hard.Since then, his expression has become particularly dazed, a look of lost soul, but he will still answer when talking to him, but his voice is very low and hoarse.Not long after, he reasoned that he was tired, and he lay down on his own and closed his eyes, but while he was breathing, he really fell asleep.

His behavior caused Xiao Cen to worry again, and asked Mr. Liu to take his pulse overnight, but the result he got was nothing more than depression and not optimistic.

"Sir, let me ask you again today, if the poison in his body is not clear, how long will he have?"

"Master Hou..."

"Let's think it through. You still stick to the previous..." Xiao Cen couldn't continue. He lowered his head and stared at Chu Linqiu's frowning face even when he was asleep. Once again, he was in endless panic and didn't know the way forward. where.This feeling has appeared twice in his 20 years of life. The first time was when Yu Chunjun was forced to take command of the army, and the second time was when he fell on the ground tremblingly, watching the heroic soul of his grandfather return to Beijing. .

The third time is today.

"Lord Hou," Mr. Liu finally couldn't hold back under Xiao Cen's tremendous pressure, he said with trembling lips, "since this poison was placed by the emperor, there must be an antidote hidden in the palace ban."