Placid Chang'an

Everyone raised their eyes and looked at the past, Qi Qi forgot what they were doing, and saw a person coming slowly with his hands behind his back, his eyes swept away as if he was real, and he smiled softly, "Oh, it's so lively."

Those who were standing, kneeling, and preparing to make a move just now fell to their knees again in a split second.

Su Cen stared blankly at the person who came, and the moment he bowed his head and knelt down, his nose felt sore for no reason.

He thought that he was already able to stand on his own, and he could avenge the wronged person with one action. Facing the Empress Dowager Chu and the supreme imperial power, he thought he had nothing to fear.It wasn't until Li Shi came that he suddenly realized that he was actually not that powerful.

He would also be afraid and wronged, and his fingertips were still shaking at the moment.

Li Shi walked up to Su Cen and patted him on the shoulder, "Get up."

Su Cen stood up silently, and followed Li Shi closely. Looking at the broad back in front of him, he suddenly felt relieved.

Li Shi lowered his eyes to look at the blood on the ground and the pale young eunuch, and he had a general idea in his heart, so he turned around and asked Su Cen, "What's wrong with this man?"

Su Cen replied: "According to Liu Jue and Zhang He's confession, this person may be related to Tian Pingzhi's murder."

Li Shi nodded lightly, and wrote lightly: "Then why are you still standing there, why didn't you take it back for interrogation?"

Su Cen took the order immediately.

"Wait a minute," said the Empress Dowager Chu, whose complexion had already turned black after being left alone, and said coldly, "He's from Dali Temple, and it's against the rules to interrogate my royal family members."

Li Shi finally gave him a look, raised his brows lightly, with a bit of contempt and majesty, "Is Tian Pingzhi a member of your royal family?"

Empress Dowager Chu was so angry that she trembled all over, she gritted her teeth and said, "This eunuch belongs to me!"

"People can't be mistaken. If someone is really murdered, be careful not to burn yourself."

Empress Dowager Chu stomped her feet: "You!"

Li Shi averted his gaze and turned around indifferently, strolling in the courtyard and said, "Since Tian Pingzhi is not yours, and he is suspected of murdering innocent civilians, Dali Temple has the right to take him back for questioning. The emperor broke the law." Even if you are guilty of the same crime as the common people, let alone a slave."

Li Shi slightly raised his hand, "Take it away."

Su Cen was overjoyed, and immediately called the people who had been waiting outside the gate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to take away the little eunuch who had been exhausted for a long time.

But the Empress Dowager Chu couldn't refute a word other than standing aside and staring blankly.

The uproar was finally over, Li Shi frowned looking at the mess in the yard, he might also feel the bloody smell, and said to Su Cen, "Go back."

Su Cen had already stayed here long enough, and immediately followed her. Just as she stepped out of the gate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, she heard the Empress Dowager Chu sneer strangely behind her, "Don't think that no one knows about your relationship. As the Prince Regent, blatantly disobeying Emperor Taizong's edict, you will lose the face of Da Zhou!"

Su Cen's footsteps faltered, and a chill swept over her.He took all precautions and was careful again and again, but in the end he couldn't make any omissions.He knew that Li Shi was upright, and never bothered to conceal their relationship. Li Shi didn't care, but he had to care for him. If people found out that the Prince Regent himself violated the ancestral precepts, how could he assist the government?How to convince the public?What would the civil and military society of the Manchu Dynasty think?What will the people of the world think?

Li Shi seemed to be aware of Su Cen's strangeness, he paused quietly, tilted his head back, and said to the Empress Dowager Chu, "Hasn't the last imperial edict left by your father been ruined by you?"

The Empress Dowager Chu was stunned for a moment, and suddenly felt shuddering.

The Empress Dowager Chu came back to her senses when Li Shi completely disappeared. Li Shi forced him to take him away in public. Empress Dowager Chu couldn't help herself. Her phoenix eyes glanced at the onlookers, and she flicked her sleeves, "Let's go!" !"

The eunuch behind him immediately yelled loudly: "The queen mother gets up and drives back to the palace!"

When Feng drove out of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Empress Dowager Chu's expression suddenly turned serious, and she glanced at the eunuch beside her.The eunuch immediately understood, dismissed the idlers, and went forward by himself.

"Why is Little Six here?" Empress Dowager Chu frowned slightly, "Didn't he guard the spirit of the late Emperor in Zhaoling?"

"Yeah," the eunuch was also puzzled, "I was shocked when I first saw him, and it wasn't until I saw his finger that I was sure I didn't recognize the wrong person."

"Where's his finger?"

The eunuch looked back and forth, and quietly took out a small severed finger from his sleeve.

The Empress Dowager Chu moved away in disgust, and waved her hand, "Find a place to deal with it, don't be seen by others."

The eunuch immediately took the order to carry it back, and said: "Now that the little six is ​​taken away by Su Cen, will he tell all about the past?"

Empress Dowager Chu leaned on Feng Luan and shook her head lightly, "As long as he has some brains, he should know that he will definitely die if he tells what happened back then. If he wants to survive, he has to bite his mouth like today."

The eunuch thought about it carefully, and it was indeed such a rationale, and immediately complimented: "What the queen mother said is true."

After walking a few more steps, the Empress Dowager Chu suddenly said, "Little Six will not come back by himself, unless...someone asks him to come back."

The eunuch was surprised: "Then this person..."

"Where's Lu Xun?" The Empress Dowager Chu lowered her eyes and asked, "Let him come to see me."

The eunuch showed a somewhat troubled expression, "Lord Lu...he is out of the palace. I don't know what's going on. He hasn't been in Beijing for the past few days."

"Lu Xun..." The Empress Dowager Chu narrowed her phoenix eyes and said softly, "What exactly do you want?"

After following Li Shi all the way out of the palace gate, Su Cen breathed a sigh of relief. He turned around and told the people of Dali Temple to take Little Six back to the temple for safekeeping, and then find a doctor to treat the wound properly.

Turning around after explaining, I saw that Li Shi had already got into the carriage, turned around, and was about to leave.

Su Cen immediately chased after him in three steps and two steps, and got into the carriage before it started, and the person sitting in the carriage complained, "Why didn't you wait for me?"

Li Shi smiled coldly, "It's rare that Mr. Su still remembers me."

Su Cen was taken aback for a moment, and suddenly wanted to laugh, but she couldn't hold back her laughter in the end.He has been busy with Tian Pingzhi's case for the past two days, Xingqing Palace has not passed for some days, Li Shi's tone seems to be blaming him for neglecting people.

"There is still a smile." Li Shi glanced coldly, Su Cen immediately suppressed his smile, leaned over and sat down next to Li Shi, served tea and water obediently, and delivered a cup of tea with a suitable temperature to the person.

Li Shi took it over, skimmed off the tea foam and asked, "Aren't you going to handle the case today?"

"It's over," Su Cen immediately shook his head, then knelt down on the couch to help someone gently rub his shoulders and neck.

"The person who was finally caught will not be interrogated?"

Su Cen shook his head lightly, leaned into his ear and said, "I've sent him back to be imprisoned. He will be tried again tomorrow. Family matters are the state's and the world's. Family matters come first. I won't go anywhere today, just follow the prince."

The scorching and thin air current tickled slightly beside his ears, but Su Cen kept a distance intentionally or unintentionally, but he was always close at hand, but it was still not so meaningful, bit by bit, he hooked out the emotion that had been suppressed for several days.

Li Shi slapped the man's butt with his backhand, "Little brat."

It's getting more and more seductive.

Su Cen was just trying to see if the old fox was really angry. Naturally, he didn't really want to be dealt with in the carriage. After teasing Li Shi a few times, he stopped, leaning his chin lightly on the man's shoulder, "I'm so angry today. Scared."

"Heh, do you still know how to be afraid?"

Although he said, he still felt distressed. He put down the teacup and pulled the man back into his arms to hold him, not letting him move.

Su Cen was lying on Li Shi's chest, and before he knew what Li Shi was going to do, he suddenly felt a hand lightly placed on his back, moving it from top to bottom.

Su Cen suddenly understood that Li Shi was stroking him.

When he was a child, he studied early, and the children in the private school were bullying and often teased him.At that time, the eldest brother would smooth his hair even if he was scared, and he still said something in his mouth, "Snoring and snoring, don't scare him".Those children who were older would not dare to bully him, and his clever teeth made his master smile, and it was easy to tell the truth, and the children who had bullied him in the past suffered a lot.

It's just that he is no longer bullied, and naturally he will lose the care of his elder brother, and in retrospect, it is the only shortcoming in the ointment.

Li Shi's palms were scorching hot, his fingers were slightly cool, and he stroked gently down his spine, his rare majesty was gone, revealing a little tenderness.

Su Cen was slowly fascinated by Li Shi's movements, and couldn't help thinking, what is the relationship between him and Li Shi?

Is it a monarch and minister, an elder, or... a pair of married couple who can't see the light?The convenience of power, the repeated blessings, he can feel all these, but the little love seems almost meaningless, invisible, intangible, he can't measure it in a real way, and he always feels uneasy.

So in the end, he simply raised his head and asked, "Are you really not afraid of what the Empress Dowager Chu said today?"

Li Shi slightly lowered his eyes, as if the sky was full of stars falling down, "What are you afraid of?"

"Afraid... that one day the power will be dissipated, the reputation will be ruined, and the reputation will be eternal?"

Li Shi paused in his hands, and asked back: "If one day, my power is dissipated, my reputation is ruined, and I bear an eternal infamy, what will you do?"

Su Cen said firmly, "I'll be with you."

"That's it." Li Shi smiled lightly, like a pot of fine wine that was gently dizzy, Su Cen suddenly felt as if he was drunk, drunk in a dream that he couldn't wake up from, and he was willing to fall, sinking to death.

I don't know if it's the sandalwood on Li Shi's body that has the effect of calming the nerves and helping sleep, or that the reassuring power comes from Li Shi himself. Su Cen finally fell asleep unconsciously in his arms after unloading all his burdens. past.

It was a sweet dream for a long time. When Su Cen opened his eyes again, it was already dark. He opened his eyes and let go for a while, until a voice came from his head, "Are you awake?"

Su Cen woke up suddenly and sat up hastily: "Where is this?"

After looking around for a week, I realized that it was still the carriage.

Lifting the curtain of the car and looking, the car had already parked in front of Xingqing Palace, but Li Shi didn't get out of the car because he was afraid of waking him up, and just waited for him to wake up naturally.

He has been busy handling cases for the past few days, so he didn't get a good night's sleep. He finally came to Xingqing Palace to get a haircut, but he unexpectedly came here to catch up on sleep.

Su Cen scratched her head embarrassedly: "What time is it?"

As soon as the words fell, the sound of clappers in Chang'an City fell to the ground, and came across Lifang.Su Cen counted the past, and couldn't help but turn pale with shock, it was already the time of day.

Li Shi guarded him for two full hours in the carriage like this!

"Why didn't you wake me up?" Su Cen felt so guilty, Prince Ning was busy with everything, and he didn't know how many things Li Shi was delayed by sleeping.Looking again, there are still a few stacks of papers on the table on the carriage, and the vermilion inside can be seen faintly, which has been reviewed.

Li Shi stretched his muscles that were numb from Su Cen's pressure, "I fell asleep too."

Su Cen didn't break it, thinking that although Li Shi's carriage is big, he would probably be suffocated if he stayed in it for a few hours. He was about to get up, but was pulled back by Li Shi: "Enough to eat and sleep. want to leave?"

Su Cen was still awake, and said casually, "I haven't eaten yet."

Li Shi pressed the person under his body, first tasted it on his lips, tasted it, and suddenly smiled: "No hurry, I will feed you."

Before Su Cen could protest, his lips were sealed. Li Shi couldn't wait to undress him, but in the end he felt slow, so he simply waved his hand, and the sound of tearing was crisp.

Just now when he was reviewing the memorial, he kept his head down in that quiet and peaceful manner, his eyelashes trembled slightly with his breath, his lips were red and his teeth were white. He endured and endured so that he did not directly pull people up to rectify the Fa on the spot.

The carriage outside the gate of Xingqing Palace creaked until midnight, and finally the person was wrapped in a brocade quilt and sent back to the bedroom.

When asked what he wanted to eat, Su Cen bit the man's shoulder hard, and he was full of what else to eat.