After being mistaken for a fellow by Long Aotian

The emperor hesitated to speak, stopped to speak and then wanted to, it took him a long time to say dryly: "Then... you won't be coming back tonight?"

Zhou Xun thought for a moment, then shook his head and said, "Cao Min is not sure either."

emperor:…………

"That person and you are old acquaintances?" He asked cautiously.

Zhou Xun said: "It's not old acquaintance, but it's just a meeting two years ago."

emperor:…………

"What is this...!" The emperor jumped up against the case, and he was exhausted. Finally, he said, "Then, be careful on the road and pay attention to safety. If you don't come back at night, where will you stay?"

Zhou Xun said, "It's probably an inn."

The emperor breathed a sigh of relief, and heard Zhou Xun say again: "If the talk turns out to be speculative, maybe we will stay at his house."

emperor:…………

"Your Majesty, this is..." The emperor's abnormal behavior finally caught Zhou Xun's attention.

This is not because he is too slow in the matter of the emperor, but because the emperor's thoughts are often beyond his cognition, like a powerful and unconstrained style, which often catches him by surprise.Therefore, Zhou Xun simply gave up his plan to speculate on the emperor's mind.And the idea of ​​the emperor, a happy little fairy... is not something ordinary people like them can guess.

"I, I..." The emperor scratched his head and broke out in sweat. It took him a long time to say, "I'm worried that it's not safe for you to go out alone. It's late at night, just in case you meet someone bad..."

Zhou Xun smiled: "There is a guard sent by the emperor to follow, and that person can't do it."

emperor:……

"You trust him so much!!" The emperor jumped up from the table, and caught Zhou Xun's confused eyes.

emperor:……

The emperor finally gave Zhou Xun freedom and went too far. He no longer asked Zhou Xun's whereabouts and reasons, but only asked him to pay attention to safety when he was out alone.

After dinner, Zhou Xun left the palace in a car.Standing in front of the Hall of Mental Cultivation, the emperor watched Zhou Xun's receding figure, and suddenly waved his hand to call for the hidden guards hiding in the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

The man in black with an ordinary face is like a bit of ink in the twilight, which naturally and inconspicuously melts away in front of him.The emperor squinted at him and said, "I have a task for you to do."

The secret guard commanded: "Subordinates, send the most capable subordinates to follow Young Master Zhou secretly."

"No," said the emperor, "not the most capable subordinate."

Dark guard:?

Emperor: "Is there any way you can make me follow silently without attracting attention?"

Dark guard:? ?

The carriage drove out of the palace gate, Zhou Xun was sitting in the carriage with those books on his lap.After leaving the palace gate and entering an alley, the coachman asked Zhou Xun, "Young Master Zhou, where are we going now?"

"Red Plum Square."

"Hongmei—Fang?!"

The coachman was dumbfounded, but since Zhou Xun asked so, he just went there.

But along the way, he was still feeling apprehensive—this Hongmeifang is famous in the entire capital, and it is the most remote... haunted place in the capital!Mr. Zhou is very good, what are you doing there in the middle of the night?

The coachman's wheels drove silently through the streets and alleys of the capital. Behind the small car with a blue hood, another small car with a black hood quietly followed behind them.

"Master Zhou seems to be going to the south of the city." The dark guard whispered in the emperor's ear.

"South of the city?" The emperor thought for a while, "Is there anything in the south of the city?"

"South of the city...the people living in the south of the capital are mostly merchants from other places, if you go a little further to the west..." the head of the dark guard hesitated to speak.

Emperor: "You say."

The head of the dark guard: "It is a famous place for fireworks in the capital."

emperor:……

The coachman drove halfway, but Zhou Xun opened the curtain from the inside.As soon as he turned his head, he heard Zhou Xun's voice: "Next, follow my command."

Under Zhou Xun's command, the carriage turned east and west, making a big circle around the capital.Before the coachman understood what he meant, Zhou Xun had already put down the curtain and said, "Let's go in your direction from now on."

"Young Master Zhou, this..."

"When we were on the road just now, I noticed someone secretly following us." Zhou Xun said.

The coachman was shocked, he grabbed the reins tightly, and said nervously: "Then, shall we get rid of them now?"

Zhou Xun said, "No."

Coachman:? !

"But you can drive with confidence. Just now, if it was the carriage of my evil enemy, I'm afraid it would have been thrown away." Zhou Xun said helplessly, "After so many circles, that person can Following closely behind means that the city is already full of his eyeliner. Only the emperor can do this in the capital."

Coachman: ...

"It doesn't matter if the emperor wants to follow." Zhou Xun smiled, "Don't cause trouble for the brothers in the dark guards."

"Yes..." the coachman said, and asked curiously, "How did Mr. Zhou find out that someone was following us?"

"Because of the tree."

"Tree?"

"When I passed that street just now, I looked back at the poplar trees on the side of the road. There was no wind in the capital, but the leaves were shaking. I guessed that someone was following us." Zhou Xun said, " But knowing that the emperor is following, I feel relieved."

At the same time, the emperor was sitting on the carriage. He saw that Zhou Xun's carriage finally stopped detouring in the distance, so he wondered: "Is the coachman's salary paid on a monthly basis, or according to the distance? Do you like detours like taxi drivers?"

Head of the Dark Guard: ...

"If you go back to the emperor, Mr. Zhou may have discovered us."

Saying this on his mouth, he also wiped his cold sweat.He really didn't know how Zhou Xun discovered their existence.

It's just that he doesn't know that after two years of living to death, Zhou Xun's temperament, mind and ability have undergone qualitative changes and improvements, and his sensitivity to other people's gaze is even better than before, so he can find them , is not surprising.

"Oh..." the emperor nodded.

The dark guard was frightened, he was a little afraid that the emperor would scold him for this.However, the emperor just pondered for a moment, and said as if he had suddenly realized:

"Since he has already discovered us, it doesn't make sense to follow us secretly, right?" the emperor said enthusiastically, "Why don't we hurry up and follow closely?"

Dark Guard:  …

In the distance, a plaque with the words "Hongmeifang" finally appeared in Zhou Xun's eyes.

He got out of the carriage.

Hongmeifang is a plum grove in the southernmost part of the capital, and there is a small temple inside.

Years ago, when Emperor Gaozong, the late Emperor's father, was there, his loyal general who guarded the northern frontier was falsely accused of rebellion.The general grew up with Gaozong, and supported him wholeheartedly when Gaozong was still an unfavored prince.He was originally fighting in southern Xinjiang, but Emperor Gaozong became suspicious of him and ordered him to return to Beijing three times in a row.

He led the army into the city from the south, and the army stayed outside the city, and he entered the city alone.It was the middle of winter that day, and there was a lot of snow in the sky, and the big flakes looked like goose feathers. Beijing had never seen such a heavy snow in a hundred years.

The general led the horse in such heavy snow, and walked to Hongmeifang in the eyes of all the court envoys.The envoys who came were afraid that he would lead the rebellion, and looked at the sword in his waist.As expected, the general pulled out the dagger from his waist at this moment.

Then, in full view of everyone, he inserted the dagger into his chest.

Many years later, the emissary, who was already very old, still remembered that tragic scene.The young general with black hair was kneeling in the snow.He held the dagger that had pierced deeply into his chest, the blood gushing into the air stained the snowflakes, and the sky was full of red snow in Hongmeifang.

"Iron Blood Loyalty...Iron Blood Loyalty..." The general finally said the last sentence with his mouth full of blood, "Your Majesty wants to cut open the minister's chest to see this piece of loyalty?" '

It is said that when the general stabbed the dagger into his heart, Gaozong was sitting in the hall.He didn't intend to take the general's life, but only intended to take over the military power and put him under house arrest.When the general was lying on the snow covered with blood, no one dared to approach him, and when the envoy rushed back to the palace, he was still waiting for the general to come back... The acquaintance and companionship in his youth, in the end, could not overcome the king's suspicion.

Since then, Hongmeifang has become the most taboo ominous place.Zhou Xun was a little surprised that the old man would choose this place as the meeting place for the two of them.

Unexpected, but it seems reasonable.

Candles were burning in the small temple in Hongmeifang. Zhou Xun walked in, and as expected, he saw the old man he had seen in Youhuang Alley during the day.

He sat on one side of the stone table, on which there was a chessboard.He was twisting a chess piece, as if thinking about playing chess.Hearing Zhou Xun's footsteps, he didn't raise his eyelids: "Come and sit down, and show me how to move this chess."

So Zhou Xun sat down, he held the white stones, and the old man held the black stones.Between the black and white chess pieces, the old man raised his head and grinned at him, "Old man, I'm not mistaken, you really came here."

"The four books that the seniors gave to the juniors are exactly the time and place where we meet today." Zhou Xun dropped a white piece in one of the places, and the dead end came to life.

"How do you know?" The old man dropped a son.

""Yingzhou Dream Talk" means full when it is full. The other three books are large format, only "Yingzhou Dream Talk" is a small format, which means "small full". Xiaoman."

"The page folded in "Zheng Feng" is "The Girl Says Chicken Crowing", which is the meeting when the cock crows. And "Jiang Xue Ji" is the location. Jiangxue, snow is white, and crimson is red, the world How can there be red snow? The red in the snow is red plum, so the meeting place is Hongmeifang."

The old man chuckled: "Then what is the meaning of "Wei Zhenggong Collection"?"

""Wei Zhenggong Collection"..." Zhou Xun smiled a little more helplessly, "Wei Zhenggong is Wei Zheng, his most famous allusion is based on people as a lesson, and the same pronunciation as seeing. The predecessor means... "Jiangxue Collection" See you on 'see'."

"I was in a hurry at the time, so I could only throw you these few books." The old man snorted, the chess game had come to an end.He took the chess piece and said: "You are a bit smart, and it suits my appetite. How old are you now? Who taught you before?"

Zhou Xun was taken aback for a moment, he really didn't expect the old man to speak so simply.

He said helplessly: "Senior and I still don't know each other's true identity, so we accept disciples like this, are you afraid that I am a villain?"

"You?" The old man looked him up and down, with suspicion in his eyes.

Zhou Xun said again: "Even if senior is not afraid of what kind of villain I am..."

The old man laughed.

Zhou Xun: "I'm also afraid that senior is some kind of villain."

Old man:  …