After being mistaken for a fellow by Long Aotian

Zhou Xun held an umbrella and walked on the palace road where the rain was flowing.The rain in June hit the oil-paper umbrella surface, which was painted with blue peach blossoms.

"It often rains in the palace in June," the maid led the way in front of him, "Be careful, don't get your shoes and socks wet."

Zhou Xun nodded.

When he passed a palace gate, there happened to be two maids hiding from the rain under the eaves of the palace gate.Zhou Xun heard their voices from afar.

"Another spring has passed, will the next spring be far behind?"

"Why is sister so happy?"

"My sweetheart will take the spring exam next spring, and he said that he will marry me when he wins the exam. I will be 25 next year, and I can leave the palace..."

Chun Wei...

Before he knew it, it had been two years since he last participated in the examination...

Two years ago, he originally thought that he could pass the imperial examination, but...

Zhou Xun was taken aback suddenly.

An incredible idea came to his mind.

The voices of the maids and the sound of the summer rain gradually faded away behind them.While passing a palace gate, Zhou Xun saw a person in the distance.The man seemed to have dropped something and was walking in a hurry.

From a distance, Zhou Xun felt that he looked familiar.Before he could speak, he kicked something under his feet.

Zhou Xun bowed his head.

It was a piece of emerald green jade pendant.

He leaned over to pick up the jade pendant, but the man walked in a hurry and bumped into him.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." The man said hurriedly, looking at him.

At that moment, both of them were stunned.

Zhou Xun said: "Lu Cheng..."

"Lin..." The man was stunned when he saw him through the rain, and then he cupped his hands and said, "Young Master Zhou."

It was Prime Minister Lu who came.Prime Minister Lu apologized to him, saying that he just came out of the imperial study and found that his beloved was lost, so he was looking for it all the way.It was slippery on a rainy day, and he was walking in a hurry, so he accidentally bumped into him.

Zhou Xun smiled, and said politely, "It's okay. May I ask what your lord is looking for? You may have seen this thing in the next step."

Prime Minister Lu wiped his hair, and his usually calm and dignified face was a little embarrassed: "It's... a jade pendant."

"Your Excellency is looking for this jade pendant?"

Zhou Xun handed him the jade pendant in his hand, Prime Minister Lu was overjoyed, and the face of the middle-aged man glowed with brilliance: "Yes, it is this jade pendant!"

He carefully put the jade pendant into his arms.Zhou Xun is not a nosy person, but for some reason, his heart suddenly moved, and he said, "Master Lu cherishes this jade pendant so much. Is this jade pendant an old family item?"

Prime Minister Lu smiled: "It's just an old friend."

The two nodded to each other, and each went in their own direction.After such a delay in the rain, Zhou Xun's shoes were also soaked by the accumulated water.There was a wet feeling from the soles of his feet, it should be that the socks were wet.

His shoes and socks were already soaked when he entered the Imperial Study Room.Through the screen, Zhou Xun could see the emperor lying on the table from a distance, studying a booklet with a full face.

blue cover.

That's his brochure.

"Huh? Brother Xun, are you here?" Seeing him coming, the emperor closed the booklet and put it aside, and ordered Xiao Li to fetch the "sofa" again, "It's raining so hard, why did you come here? Is it cold? Have some hot water?"

Zhou Xun was sitting on the sofa, and the emperor saw him staring at the booklet, and smiled a little embarrassedly: "Hey, I'm still a little slow at the beginning, but I've made a lot of progress these days! I can do it soon ..."

"The emperor hasn't asked me to come to the study these few days." Zhou Xun said.

He saw that the paper on the emperor's desk was still the same as the secret letter he had seen that day, with light-colored handwriting floating on it.When the emperor saw him coming, he just spread out the letter there, not afraid of him seeing the contents clearly.

He then reaffirmed his thoughts.

"I, as you said, I will one day have to look at things by myself." The emperor touched his head, and said a little embarrassedly, "I've come here, so I should learn more... "

Amidst the sound of wind and rain outside the window, and the flickering candlelight in the imperial study, Zhou Xun looked at him with unwavering eyes and said:

"Does the emperor not want to involve me in the dark side?"

The emperor was stunned.

"The documents of the Black Clothes Envoy finally made the emperor decide to study by himself...is it because of this?"

When facing the things he cares about, Zhou Xun's character is always so straightforward and unpretentious.He continued: "The emperor was hesitant to speak before, and I also noticed that I am the most suitable person for handling the intelligence documents of the black envoy."

"For one thing, it is different from the people who are available in the court today. There is no entangled family or power behind me. I am an absolutely 'innocent' lonely family. The old friends of the past have long since cut off contact with me. The family members of the past, I also I have fallen out. I have no friends, old acquaintances, relatives and children, and no property of my own, so it is difficult to have any selfishness. It can be said that I am a'

Naked' people. "Zhou Xun said, he was clearly talking about the cruel and painful past, but his tone was calm and rational, just an absolutely objective statement and analysis, "This is one of them. "

"Secondly, the emperor can easily control my life and death. The place where I live is in the palace. I have no relatives, friends, or teachers. I am loyal to the emperor. If the emperor wants to get rid of me, he can—"

"Hey!" The emperor was shocked at first, but he was a little angry when he heard this sentence, "What nonsense are you talking about! How could I—"

"Your Majesty, listen to me." Zhou Xun said calmly, "If your Majesty wants to get rid of me, you can do it at any time, and you don't have to worry about counterattacks later. For a person like me, life and death are at the discretion of the Emperor." , what I prefer is the corner bestowed by the emperor. I can't have any resentment, and I dare not have any resentment. At the same time, even if the enemy's spies want to get close to me, it is difficult to find a chance to get along with me, let alone It is able to seduce and drive me. The most important thing in spy work is to keep secret, and I am a person without a past..."

He was still talking, but the emperor had already stood up and walked towards him.His face has never been ugly: "Stop talking!"

"Third..." Zhou Xun bowed his head, then raised his head and smiled at the emperor, "The emperor must have trusted my talents, and as for the dark things, I can do it too."

He was talented and learned, and he was so ruthless that he dared to assassinate the emperor at the risk of the world. He could identify Xie Zhengqing's identity at a glance, and he could predict the worst that would happen to her when he heard about Zhang Lingsu.

—he would be fit for such a thing.

"If the emperor is worried about entrusting me with important tasks, you can keep me first and let me train as a little boss first..."

"I told you to shut up!!"

The emperor roared angrily, and Xiao Lizi, who was about to enter the imperial study with the health water, trembled in fright.

Knowing how to read the air, he took the health water and retreated tremblingly.The maids at the door also heard the emperor's angry roar, and their necks shrank like quails in fright.

"Li, Eunuch Li..."

"Quiet, the emperor is angry." Xiao Lizi quickly moved his fingers to his mouth, "Keep your voice down, lest you offend the emperor."

A burst of thunder exploded in the sky, and then, there was more rain.The emperor grabbed Zhou Xun's hand, but Zhou Xun didn't speak.The emperor gritted his teeth and said, "Are you willing to be quiet now? Huh?"

Zhou Xun: ...

There was a pattering rain outside the imperial study room. The emperor seemed to be really angry. He took two breaths in succession, as if trying to calm down his excitement and anger.It took him a long time before his face sank.

"Do you think I haven't thought of that?" he said. "Do you think I don't know that you're the best choice? You think I don't know that . . . you're the best choice?"

Zhou Xun said, "I know the emperor knows."

"You know this, you know it, and I know it too." The emperor's hand hurt Zhou Xun's wrist, and he seemed really angry, "Then do you know what you are to me?"

The wrist hurts, Zhou Xun's wrist is very thin, and the emperor's strength is too great.He knew that there would be heavy bruises on it the next day, but he didn't try to pull his hand away.Zhou Xun said: "The emperor regards me as...a friend."

He bowed his head when he said this, and he sat on the "sofa" with the emperor standing in front of him.The emperor looked down and could see the swirl of hair on the top of his head, the neat tip of the nose under the black hair, and the thick eyelashes.

It was a little unconscious, like "beautiful" in it.He didn't realize it, and neither did the emperor.

"Since you know, you shouldn't say such things." The emperor said, "I don't know what you said! I also know that you are the most suitable candidate. Of course I have considered you, but..."

"But how can I let you do this kind of thing? I promised you, I promised you that I would let you go to the light. This is my promise to my friends. If this is the case, I can't break my promise for a little profit. Just thinking that I once included you in such a consideration, I already feel very guilty, and I can't accept myself who thinks this way." The emperor said, "Yes, when doing certain things, you need to think carefully. It needs to maximize the benefits. But when my friends and my promises are in this position of consideration, it is different..."

Zhou Xun: ...

"Hmm." He said softly.

He knew from the bottom of his heart that the emperor's current behavior was a little emotional.If there is still no good solution in this regard, he will still put forward "self" as a solution.

Even now, he does not fully agree with the emperor's idea.The emperor is a romantic idealist, but he is more realistic.In this matter, he didn't think about what would happen to "himself". He just thought that if the emperor did this... I'm afraid there will be troubles in the future.

But he also knew, and could feel, that at this moment, he had better stop saying "against the emperor".

The emperor is a very lovely person, a very romantic and innocent person.But he was also very stubborn.Zhou Xun vaguely knew that in the emperor's mood, he had better not say anything.

It's not that he doesn't trust him, but that he feels that it would be better if he faintly felt this way.

Seeing Zhou Xun's soft "hmm", the emperor was relieved.Only then did he notice that he had been holding Zhou Xun's wrist.

"You... your wrist...Little Lizi! Call the imperial doctor!"

"Don't call the imperial doctor," Zhou Xun grabbed his cuff as he was about to jump out, and said in a low voice, "A little bruise will heal soon."

"Oh..." the emperor said awkwardly, "I was not careful just now, alas, I was too excited, I..."

Zhou Xun shook his head and said, "It's not about the emperor, it's about my physique."

His skin has been very sensitive since he was a child, and it is easy to leave marks between collisions.

The emperor seemed to be very guilty about the fact that he had scratched his wrist, and still scratched his head and said, "Um... let me rub it for you? Wait, are your shoes wet?"

Zhou Xun then looked down at his feet.The shoes and socks that were wet in the rain before have now been soaked, and the coldness of the wetness penetrates deep into the texture and bone marrow.

"I'll ask Xiao Lizi to bring a pair of new shoes." The emperor rubbed his nose and passed the order to Xiao Lizi. Then, he squatted down and said, "Take off your shoes. Wearing wet shoes and socks is easy to catch cold."

Zhou Xun nodded.He sat on the sofa, bowed his body, and went to untie his shoes and socks.

His black hair was originally combed behind his head, but when he bent down, two strands fell down and hung on both sides of his cheeks.When the back is arched, the snow-white neck appears in the hair, and the spine arches along the neck to the back, arching a cat-like curve.

"Your shoes are soaked, let Xiao Dengzi come in and wipe them for you later." The emperor squatted down and looked at him, who was still muttering, "You..."

Zhou Xun's right foot finally emerged from the wet shoe and sock.

His toes are stretched out, the arches of his feet are white, hanging in the air, and his ankles are slightly pink with blood.The line from calf to toe is slender and beautiful.

At this moment, the shoes and socks also "slapped" and fell to the ground next to them.