Placid Chang'an

Li Shi and others rushed back to Yangzhou City early in the morning.

Prince Ning, who was supposed to be staying in the capital, suddenly appeared in Yangzhou City with the fleeing criminals, scaring the governor Xue Zhi and others to the point of losing their souls. Jia Wangchun, who should have died in the fire, and Yangzhou Su Cen, the official of Dali Temple, has been flaunting the name of Li Xu for a long time.

Anyone with a discerning eye could tell that Prince Ning was about to turn upside down in Yangzhou City, but when he came, he just showed his face and didn't even live in Yangzhou's palace, but plunged into the Su family's mansion, Stay for two days.

This is like an unresolved sword. Everyone in the middle is panicked, and those with a heart are ready to move. No one is sure what Prince Ning means.

Little did he know that Prince Ning was leisurely fishing in the back garden of the Su family.

Su Lan woke up in a side house on the second day after her disappearance. There was nothing special about entering and leaving this house, except that three boxes of gold were left in the middle of the yard.

Su Lan naturally knew how the gold came from, and there was nowhere to put it. It just so happened that Prince Ning moved into his house, so Su Lan just took it out, and it was considered a handover.

Li Shi held the two gold ingots and couldn't help laughing, this Su family is really generous, the dowry is 3000 taels of gold, this is to force the Xingqing Palace to spend money to prepare the dowry.

Qi Lin and Qu Ling'er came back with Su Lan.

The two of them were covered in blood, Qu Ling'er's complexion was as white as paper, Qi Lin covered a bloody hole in her chest, but the blood still couldn't stop oozing out.Su Cen ordered his servants to take Qu Ling'er from Qi Lin's hand, and met Qi Lin's eyes, almost frightened.

Those eyes seemed to have been stained with blood, scarlet and terrifying, but the eyes were frighteningly cold, as if covered with a layer of ice that would never see the light of day.

But Su Cen could clearly see that the Qinghong sword that Qi Lin was carrying with him, from the hilt to the scabbard and even a small part of the exposed blade, was stained with blood, which had dried up in the lines, like an indelible layer rust.

Su Cen recruited the best doctor in Yangzhou City, worked all day and night, and provided all kinds of panacea, and finally took his life from Lord Yan.

Qi Lin remained the same as when he came back, wearing a bloody coat and guarding the door for a day and a night.

When Su Cen saw him again the next day, he turned back to the previous Guard Qi.

It's just that his eyes became colder, and he followed Li Shi every step of the way, and never set foot in the courtyard where Qu Ling'er was.

After waiting for two days, Li Shi was still unmoved, and Su Cen couldn't help wondering what the old fox meant. He spent an afternoon on crutches trying to find out the holy meaning, but when he arrived at the door, he found that someone had already stepped in first.

There were people talking and laughing happily inside, through the open door, Su Cen saw that the person standing was Feng Yiming.

After waiting for three years, Feng Yiming didn't come to the door until now, which was beyond his expectation.Su Cen was not interested in this kind of story of reunion after a long absence, and he didn't bother to be that person in the hallway. He was about to leave, but he heard Feng Yiming's voice suddenly said in a hoarse voice, "Master, I want to go back to Chang'an."

Su Cen frowned and stopped.

Li Shi was not in a hurry to answer, he said after a while: "Yangzhou is very good, it is more suitable for you."

"Why?!" Feng Yiming asked aloud, and there was a tear in his difficult voice.

Su Cen had never seen Feng Yiming like this.

The Feng Yiming in his impression was arrogant, sharp, and even made him a little bit envious of the talent. He stayed in Yangzhou for three years, tried many ways to survive, and even betrayed the secret door for Li Shi.

Ask yourself, he may not be able to do this.

But such a person who is so proud that people look up to him is so humble in the dust in front of Li Shi.

Feng Yiming asked why several times, but did not wait for Li Shi's response. Finally, Feng Yiming stopped asking and muttered to himself: "Because of him, isn't it?"

"I knew that if I hurt him, there would be no room for him to pay back," Feng Yiming smiled wryly, "But people are so cheap, they always want to take a gamble, what if, what if you lose him? What are you thinking of replacing it with?"

Li Shi sighed, raised his hand to wipe away his tears, Feng Yiming grabbed that hand, nestled in his chest, his shoulders twitched slightly.

Li Shi withdrew his hand calmly: "You already know, why bother to ask again."

Su Cen walked down the steps silently on crutches.

He hadn't figured out why Feng Yiming let him go when he was in Chuzhou. If he was really afraid of Li Shi not approving his request as he said, then he wouldn't have been arrested in the first place.

Feng Yiming must also be aware that in that match, there was him without me, and there was me without him. He gambled with the will to die. Since Su Cen didn't die that night, he had already lost.

Before leaving the hospital, Su Cen heard a hoarse growl in the room, why him?

Why?He knew what Feng Yiming was asking, they were so similar, why him?

He also asked himself why, perhaps he appeared at the right time, Li Shi needed someone to sleep with, and he happened to be delivered to his door, or maybe it was because the grace had not yet passed, the newcomer laughed and the old one was silent, and now he is the newcomer , and one day become that old man.

But they are different after all.

At least he won't tear his face and make himself so embarrassed after knowing that it's impossible.

After Feng Yiming left, Su Cen came back again, pretending to be indifferent, as if I didn't know anything.

Li Shi asked directly, how much have you heard?

Su Cen was dumbfounded, how could this man know everything.

Li Shi laughed, and said: "Next time you eavesdrop, don't use crutches."

Su Cen looked at the crutch standing beside the table, silently picked it up and wrapped it around the crutch.

Li Shi patted Su Cen's head and said with a smile, "Zixu is really smart."

Knowing that Li Shi was teasing him, Su Cen gave him a serious look, then turned around and asked about the business, what should He Xiao do?How to explain the salt affairs?How to clean up the officialdom?

Li Shi asked without answering, "How's your leg?"

Su Cen was slightly taken aback, only to hear Li Shi continue: "Your case will be entrusted to you, dare you?"

Su Cen thought about it and smiled.

"dare."

He suddenly understood what Li Shi was waiting for these days.

Li Shidao: "A newborn calf is not afraid of a tiger."

Su Cen smiled back: "I will not die if I don't hit the south wall."

Li Shidao: "Aren't you afraid that someone in the court will deliberately embarrass you? The abolition of the salt decree will bring huge resistance, and salt merchants from all over the country may oppose your Su family. This matter involves a wide range of things, forcing some people to jump over the wall, and they will definitely use the ancestors to suppress you. .”

Su Cen's eyes were clear and frightening, "With you, I'm not afraid."

Li Shi laughed, "My Zixu is really smart."

He only said that the road ahead was unpredictable, but he didn't say clearly that there was him behind him.

Li Shi knocked on the table, "Su Cen accepts the order."

Just as Su Cen was about to stand up, he suddenly thought that with his current legs, he might not be able to kneel down.

When he was in a dilemma, he saw Li Shi's hand on the table and couldn't help laughing.

With two fingers slightly bent, Su Cen knelt down on the table.

Li Shi smiled slightly, and said: "I ordered Su Cen, the director of Dali Temple, to temporarily act as Zuo Shaoqing of Dali, and thoroughly investigate the salt affairs in Yangzhou. Wherever he went, he was like the king himself."

Su Cen was taken aback for a moment, and said seriously, "I accept the order, thank you."