I'm watching the gate in the jail

When Wanda and Yang Xiuxian held Alan's hand,

When they stepped into the box on the third floor of Xinghaihui, what they saw was Qiu Zijin holding Mei Qianzhang's face, and the two looked at each other.

"Hey? Dad, what are you doing?"

Wan Lan hasn't seen how many people are in the room yet.

He felt his eyes go dark, it turned out that Wanda had blindfolded his eyes.

Hearing little Alan's childish words, the two people in the room woke up like a dream.

Mei Qianzhang turned her head to the side in a panic,

put on a mask,

Then he jumped on the beam.

When Wan Lan forcefully pulled his father's palms off his eyelids, he saw Uncle Qiu, whose face was full of tears, with one hand covering his chest and the other resting on the table. He raised his head and closed his eyes, as if he couldn't even breathe. Difficult look.

"you saw it?"

Handing the child to Yang Xiuxian, Wanda turned around and closed the door, walked to Qiu Zijin's side, looked at him pale,

Under the illumination of the side light, the skin color is almost transparent.

"Why, why are you hiding it from me?"

Qiu Zijin wiped away the tears on his face with the back of his hand,

Turning his head in pain,

Complained to Wanda.

"It was hidden from me before,

Makes me think he's fucked.Later, I found out that he was not dead, but he still didn't come to meet me for a long time.I thought he was doing this because of his status as a 'Shadow Guard'.It turned out that it was more than that, his face... his face..."

"I, I... sorry..."

Wanda was left speechless by the question, and lowered her head dejectedly.

Wang Zhi sighed, took out a clean silk handkerchief from his pocket and put it on the table in front of Qiu Zijin, then walked to Yang Xiuxian, took Alan's little hand, and led him out.

"Speak slowly, I will take the children out to eat. The children will not be hungry."

Walking out of the room, Wang Zhi took the child downstairs and looked at Alan who was still full of doubts just now, like a bird out of the cage, happily circling around in the hotel lobby, couldn't help but feel funny.

Compared with entangled adults, children's happiness is so simple.

"Brother Ah Zhi, let's go out to eat. I'm tired of Xinghaihui's dishes."

Alan came back after a round of fun, took Wang Zhi's arm and shook it, "I heard that the night market over the archway is very lively, and there are all kinds of snacks. There are lamb soup, rabbit heads, fried quail, and I heard there are other kinds of snacks. Raw meat! Let's go eat. After eating, go to the river to see the river lanterns. It's still in July, and some people still release water lanterns to worship ancestors. I heard from the servants of the Baron's Mansion that the river in the capital is full of colorful lights these days The lamp is more beautiful than the galaxy in the sky. Brother, please take me to see it."

Wang Zhi looked at him helplessly, "That's not okay, the empress won't allow you to eat these. Besides, the river is so dark, if you accidentally slip and fall into the river, how can I explain to the empress and Lord Wan."

"Good brother, please, take me to play."

Wan Lan hugged Wang Zhi's waist and began to act coquettishly, "My old Wan keeps me in check every day, and I'm bored. Today it's so easy for their adults to talk and ignore us, so let's go and have fun."

"Is that okay? I beg you, Lan."

Wan Lan said resolutely, those light-colored eyes that were exactly the same as His Majesty showed a delicate expression, Wang Zhi immediately got goosebumps all over his body when he saw it.

"Go to the night market, not to the river."

"Okay! That's it!"

Wan Lan nodded immediately.

It was so refreshing that Wang Zhi almost thought that this guy had calculated it from the beginning.

"Alan."

Standing in front of the old man's booth selling sugar paintings, Wang Zhi looked down at Wan Lan.

He was concentrating on watching the old performer, drawing a lifelike flying dragon on the marble with a spoon, and asked in a low voice, "Have you... ever thought that you have a brother in this world?"

Wang Zhi also learned from Susu seven or eight years ago that the shadow guard "Brother Xiaoqian" who had been following him before was actually his half-brother.

At first he was very uncomfortable, feeling that he had been cheated.

But when I think that in this world, I am not alone, besides Susu who is the same as my relatives, there is also a brother who is connected by blood, I feel inexplicably moved.

It turned out to be such a warm thing for someone to know where he came from.

The brothers quickly recognized each other.Now brother Xiaoqian is accompanying the eldest son of the emperor, although they have fewer chances to meet each other than before in the palace day and night, but their relationship has grown deeper.

Seeing Brother Xiaoqian willing to let go of his guard just now, and being frank with Mr. Qiu whom he has silently liked for many years, even he was happy for it.

As for why Brother Xiaoqian likes Mr. Qiu, who is also a man, and not any woman... Wang Zhi, who has long seen through the ambiguous relationship between his own Susu and Mr. Yang, said that this is not a problem.

The sons and daughters of the rivers and lakes do not stick to trifles.Wherever the love comes, why not.

Looking at Alan, he couldn't help but think of the prince in Zhaode Palace, and before he could think about it, he blurted out the question.

"Ah, it's not impossible."

A Lan happily took the flying dragon candy that his grandfather handed him, and carefully took a bite of the "dragon tail".

so sweet!The kid laughed.

"There's nothing wrong with that."

Alan said openly.

"You... don't you find it strange and unacceptable?"

Wang Zhi followed two steps and asked, startled.

Could it be that this child is already smart enough to perceive his own desire?

"Ah Zhi, you are so stupid."

Wan Lan bit off the "leading head", and the caramel was chewed until it was crunchy in his mouth, as if he was eating beans.

"I am a child adopted by my father from the Tzu Chi Church. Isn't it normal for me to have brothers?"

He said, giving Wang Zhi a white look, "I don't know why my biological parents abandoned me. But it is also because of this that my father adopted me."

As he spoke, he ate the remaining "dragon body" in two bites, and finally clapped his hands.

"Although my father has no education, he often beats me. But I know that he is the best person in the world. My father, Lao Wan, is the best father in the world."

He slowly licked off the icing sugar sticking to his mouth, and raised his head to look at Wang Zhi who had nothing to say.

"It doesn't matter how many children my original father and mother had, and how many brothers and sisters I have, it doesn't matter. They are children from other families. Lao Wan only has one son, and I only have one father. In the future, Lao Wan will When he is old, I will give him a pension. If he dies... Bah, no."

"Anyway, what kind of brothers, what kind of original parents. They lived their lives, and Lao Wan and I passed ours. The two have nothing to do with each other."

After he finished speaking, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he pointed to the stall behind Wang Zhi and shouted, "They sell fried fish! My father doesn't give me fried food on weekdays except for holidays. I want to die for this fried fish!" Little fish."

As he said that, he took a big step and rushed towards the stall.

Wang Zhi smiled helplessly, and strode up to follow.

The lady was right.

Putting the eldest son of the emperor by Susu's side was the most correct decision she had ever made in her life. Apart from promising the Queen Mother Sun to take care of His Majesty for the rest of her life, it was the most correct decision.

"That's punishment."

After confirming that the two children had gone far away, Wanda sat down, and pulled Qiu Zijin, who had gradually calmed down, to the side to sit down.

The fact that Wan Lan was not in the room meant that Mei Qianzhang also went out with her, and she could speak to Qiu Zijin about things that were inconvenient to say in front of the parties involved.

"Punishment, what do you mean?"

Qiu Zijin bit his lip and asked in disbelief.

Just now, more than ten years after returning from Guangxi, he finally saw Mei Qianzhang's face again.

If what I saw just now can be regarded as a "human face".

"Back then, he not only violated the military law, but also betrayed Jin Yiwei, and was taken away by the Fusi of Nanzhen, do you remember?"

On the day of Ah Zhi's birthday, Mei Qianzhang, who had joined Jinyiwei, broke away from Wanda and the others in order to save his mother and younger brother, and sneaked into Wang's house to report the news, almost causing their plan to fall by the wayside.

Although he was successful in saving Wanda, he was still taken back to Beijing and interrogated according to the military law and Jin Yiwei's "family rules".

"Remember, you tell me that he is an asshole."

Qiu Zijin lowered his head in disappointment.

Knowing the news of the death of such a fresh young man made him very uncomfortable at first.

Not only because they were short-lived partners, they spent a period of vigorous life in the exotic southern border.

It is because he once envied him very much, envied his freedom; envied his ethics and morals that are self-contained and completely unfettered by the outside world.

This is something that Qiu Zijin, who has lived under the shadow of his mother since he was a child and is restrained and out of breath every day, can't wait for it.

Mei Qianzhang is the former window in his study.

There are warm spring scenery, sparkling lake water, winding plum trees, and egrets that catch a glimpse.

Acting chivalrously, fighting against injustice, helping the common people, being filial to his godmother, is like a legend in the storybook... Although what he did, it is undeniable that he violated the law, and almost missed a major event.

But it seems that it is precisely because of this that Qiu Zijin, who is always bound by rules and regulations, feels dazzled.

He is such a candid boy who does bad things, and he is a sinister villain who deliberately gets close to Lord Wan in order to achieve his own goals...

Then, this boy who is more dazzling than the sun, **.

On the day when he learned of Mei Qianzhang's death, Qiu Zijin felt that he had experienced two sunsets.

The sun in the sky goes down today, and it will rise again tomorrow.

When the sun in his heart sets, he has sunk into the deep sea of ​​Beiming, and no one will illuminate his narrow and despicable heart anymore.

"He should have died. But I pleaded with my mother and asked her to show mercy and leave Ah Zhi's only blood relative behind."

Thinking of the past more than ten years ago, Wanda is also very sad.

"However, capital crimes can be avoided, but living crimes cannot be escaped. According to Jin Yiwei's family law... Nanzhen Fusi executed the sentence and stripped half of his face."

"Shengsheng?"

Qiu Zijin's pupils constricted.

"Shengsheng..."

Wanda lowered her head, and the hand hanging by her side unconsciously clenched into a fist.

Even though he has been in and out of the imperial prison for more than ten years and has seen countless cruel punishments, Wanda can hardly imagine what kind of pain it is.

That's why there is a saying in Jinyiwei - it is better to go straight to the Hall of Yama than to go to Nanfu Division.

Nanzhen Fusi is the "prison" of Jinyiwei.

After finishing his sentence, it took more than a month before he saw Mei Qianzhang wearing a mask again in Beizhen Fusi.

He knelt down, kowtowed to him, thanked him for saving his life, and then walked away.

If it weren't for those eyes that were still clear and agile, he wouldn't be able to connect the silent man in front of him with that young man who was always chattering and looking for trouble.

"It wasn't that he didn't want to come to see you before, but that he was really 'ashamed' to come to see you."

Yang Xiuxian said in a low voice.

He stepped forward and patted Qiu Zijin on the shoulder.

"Don't blame him. Over the years, he has been used to being a shadow. He doesn't want to scare you. If possible, I think Mei Qianzhang likes to be in everyone's mind, and he will always be the appearance of 'one cut plum' ... If you really can't accept him, then just be friends again."

Yang Xiuxian paused, "Or, you just pretend that he doesn't exist. He also doesn't exist."

"do not talk!"

Qiu Zijin opened Yang Xiuxian's hand and shouted angrily, his voice was shrill, almost howling.

Maybe he couldn't tell whether he was crying for Mei Qianzhang or himself.

Seeing that the conversation could not continue, Wanda and Yang Xiuxian walked out of the box tactfully, leaving Qiu Zijin alone in the room secretly sad.

"You just said that on purpose."

While walking down the stairs, Wanda poked Yang Xiuxian's arm with his arm.

What "you treat him as if he doesn't exist, and he really doesn't exist" is simply slanderous.

If he could really achieve this level, then he would not be Qiu Zijin who would rather abandon his family and move forward wholeheartedly and walk his own path.

"I'm just adding fire to them."

Yang Xiuxian smiled, "Otherwise, if you give them another ten years, they won't be able to get together."

After all, these two people are really too slow.

If there is no one to push behind, maybe walking, it may really be like a stranger.

Fortunately we don't.

Wanda raised her head, just in time to meet Yang Xiuxian's gaze, and the two looked at each other and smiled.

After going down the stairs, not long after the two walked out of Xinghaihui, they saw Wan Lan who had "returned with a full load".

He wears a fox mask on his head, holds a windmill in one hand and candied haws in the other.I didn't know when I had an extra satchel on my body, and it was stuffed full of unknown things, screaming and jumping excitedly.

Ah Zhi followed behind him, also holding a bunch of snack toys in his hands, with a doting and helpless expression on his face.

"Damn boy, it doesn't count if you eat snacks indiscriminately, and you trick Ah Zhi into buying him something. Very good!"

Wanda clenched her fists with a "click" sound, showing a ferocious expression.

"Face the blast, two boys!"

Counting it, he hasn't beaten his son for three full days, and the time is almost up.

Before he jumped in front of these two people to catch them, he heard a loud explosion sound from the top of his head and covered his head, which shocked people all over.

Earth-shattering, hills and crests collapsed, and the entire sky seemed to be torn apart.

For a moment, everyone showed dull expressions.

Wanda only felt a "buzz", as if the nerves in his ears were broken, and there was a sharp tinnitus in his head.

Not only the ears, but also the eyes seem to be affected. I can only see pieces of snowflakes changing from small to large, and then from large to small, and there is a short-term hallucination.

At the same time, as if the ground was shaking and the mountains were shaking under his feet, everything around him became wavy.

Wanda only felt her body shaking uncontrollably, and the lights in front of her eyes turned into colorful strips of light.He subconsciously wanted to grab something, but he didn't grab anything.

After finally regaining some vision and hearing, the next moment, he felt a blur in front of his eyes, and the surrounding sheds began to shake violently, and the lanterns of various colors hanging on the sheds fell down.

"careful!"

Seeing that a burning lantern was about to hit Wanda, Yang Xiuxian flew up, opened the lantern with a punch, and turned around to protect Wanda under him.

The two staggered to the ground, and Yang Xiuxian simply took advantage of the momentum and rolled on the ground. The two embraced and rolled to the grass by the roadside, and stopped after a while.

"Are you OK?"

Yang Xiuxian patted Wanda on the cheek and asked loudly.

Wanda turned her head as if waking up from a dream, and looked at the two children.

"Alan!"

Wanda half propped herself up, raised her head, and watched the tall colorful shed on the side of the road being shaken apart, and a dozen scattered bamboos fell towards A Zhi and A Lan.

The people standing under the canopy just now were all children and women, and there were sharp cries one after another.

In a panic, a woman unconsciously pushed aside Wan Lan who was holding a cloth bag, who was a little dazed, picked up her child and rushed out.

Although Alan is tall compared to his peers, he is a child after all. He staggered when he was pushed by the woman, and all the things he held in his hand fell to the ground. Head under the shed.

Wang Zhidiu yanked away the snacks and sundries in his hands, rushed forward, and pulled him to his side at the last moment.

The colorful shed fell completely, and several cracked bamboos bloomed at Wang Zhi's feet, and the sharp bamboo pieces almost poked the two of them.

Before Wanda could catch her breath, Wang Zhi slipped, and Alan in his arms was about to fall down again.

It turned out that they were standing next to the food stall selling fried food just now.

The ground shook just now, overturned the stall, splashed oil all over the floor, and the boss had long since disappeared.

In order to avoid the fallen shed, Wang Zhi took Ah Lan's shoulders and backed up again and again, but he didn't care about his feet.

At this moment when he stepped on the hot oil, his feet felt so painful that his feet went limp. The greasy hot oil made him lose his balance. Seeing that the two most beautiful children both fell down, they were about to fall onto the pool of hot oil.

Yang Xiuxian let go of Wanda and flew over, but it was already too late.

"Ah Zhi! No!"

Yang Xiuxian's open hands only caught Wang Zhi's falling clothes.

At this critical moment, Wang Zhi held his breath, closed his eyes, and turned himself over with his last strength, preparing to use his back to meet the still smoking hot oil.

Empress!His Majesty!Susu!

Ah Zhi will protect the empress's son!

"Ah Zhi! No!"

Wanda screamed heartbreakingly.

In the blink of an eye, a black figure floated down from the sky.

Mei Qianzhang kicked the lantern that had fallen on the side of the road and was burned to the bone.

Sooner or later, the bamboo bones of the lantern were lubricated by oil and quickly rushed to Wang Zhi's back, which had almost fallen to the ground.

The whole person fell down completely, and Wang Zhi only felt that something was cushioning his back. Although there was some shock, there was no severe pain as imagined.

Seeing this, Yang Xiuxian hastily pulled out the candles in the lantern beside him that fell on the ground, and threw the lantern skeletons with only a little paper skin one by one on the hot oil.

Yes!

In this world, perhaps only Mei Qianzhang's peerless lightness kung fu can step on such a light lantern shell and use his strength.

Sure enough, Mei Qianzhang lightly tapped her toes, and started to step on several lanterns in a row, stepping on the thin, arched bamboo strips, and came to the two children lightly.

Standing on a shelf with a red lantern, he grabbed Wan Lan's clothes by the back of his neck and threw the child towards Yang Xiuxian before he could yell.

Alan opened his eyes wide, watching the broken colorful building and the collapsed light pole pass in front of him one by one.

Finally, he fell into Yang Xiuxian's arms, and met Uncle Yang's concerned eyes.

"Alan!"

Wanda hugged him from the side.

"father!"

Alan cried "Wow" and got into Wanda's arms.

"Mei Qianzhang, hurry up!"

Yang Xiuxian saw that the red lantern couldn't stand being trampled on and had already melted into the hot oil, so he hurriedly kicked another yellow lantern shell over.

Mei Qianzhang stepped on the yellow lantern, turned over and pulled Wang Zhi's body again.

After all, Wang Zhi is already a 17-year-old boy, and his weight is not on the same level as Wan Lan's.

The most important thing was that the lantern skeleton supporting him could not bear the weight of the two of them falling to the ground in an instant, and the bamboo strips were stretching apart little by little.

Wang Zhi subconsciously wanted to support his body with his hands, but when the palm of his right hand touched the hot oil, he shrank back in pain. Under the struggle, his whole body sank further and further.

"Mei Qianzhang, come!"

Yang Xiuxian jumped up, tore down the wine flag pole of Xinghaihui, and threw it at Mei Qianzhang.

Mei Qianzhang caught the wooden pole thrown from behind with one hand, stretched out the wooden pole and hung it on Wang Zhi's belt.

Wang Zhi, whose clothes on his back had been burned by the hot oil, felt a blur in front of his eyes, and then unconsciously flew to a high place.

"I come!"

Stepping on the bamboo pole of the collapsed colorful shed, Yang Xiuxian leaped high, caught Wang Zhi who flew into the air, held him in his arms, and landed gently.

"it is good!"

All this happened in a blink of an eye, and the passers-by who were watching saw that the two beautiful children were safe and sound, and couldn't help but applaud and applaud like thunder.

"Susu! Alan!"

As soon as Wang Zhi landed on his front foot, his back foot ran towards Wanda and Wan Lan who were hugging each other.

The three hugged each other.

"Mei Qianzhang!"

Just when everyone thought the crisis was over, Qiu Zijin's terrified cry sounded behind everyone.

Wanda, Yang Xiuxian and the two children turned their heads suddenly, only to realize that Mei Qianzhang, who had exhausted all her strength just now, rose up feebly for the last time, like a bird with a broken wing, and went to the place where Yang Xiu was just now. Xian stepped on it, and the bamboo that rebounded at this moment fell down.

How could the bamboo withstand the two impacts, only to hear a "crack", the pole was cut into two pieces, the section was cut like a knife, and it just pierced into the back of Mei Qianzhang who was lying on his back.

"Mei Qianzhang!"

Qiu Zijin wailed sharply.

Mei Qianzhang lowered her head, looked at the bamboo tip piercing her waist, and at Qiu Zijin who was running towards him from a distance.

"You want to act privately? Lynching is illegal!"

12 years ago, in that small port in Guangxi.

He thought that when he was about to be silenced by Master Wan and Master Yang, it was the little scholar who stood between them and saved him who had hurt Master Wan at that time.

On the night of the godmother's "birthday banquet", he and the two of them got drunk, and the little scholar fell asleep on top of him.He woke up in the middle of the night, smelling the smell of the scholar, and felt for the first time that the body of a stinky man might also smell good.

Later, he couldn't help bullying him, stealing his candied fruit, seeing how angry he was to death and helpless...

Later, he did something wrong to these partners, not only failed to save his mother, but also almost ruined their event of suppressing bandits, so he was taken back to Beizhen Fusi to enforce the "family law".

Eleven years ago, in the hometown of the young scholar in Jiangxi, he stood outside the study and listened to the conversation between the young scholar and his mother.

For the first time, I know that there are mothers in this world who can completely abandon their children, such as Mei Niang.There are also mothers who can almost hang their children with their own love, such as Mrs. Qiu.

It's amazing that he and him are actually "sick and sympathetic" in another sense.

"I'm sorry, little scholar..."

I'm afraid that in the future, I will no longer be able to send you newly released candied fruits and those notes full of nonsense.

He smiled weakly and let go of his tightly clenched fist.

Red blood flowed down his fingertips and dripped on the yellow bamboo pole.

Just like the plum blossom petals he once loved to paint.

Zhaode Palace, Forbidden City

A loud noise made Zhu Jianshen put down the half-painted carnival map.

Wan Zhen'er, who was dozing on the imperial concubine's couch, opened her eyes suddenly, then took off the Longquan sword hanging beside the bed, and came to Zhu Jianshen's side to guard in a few steps.

Even though she was over [-] years old, even though she was already a noble concubine, she never forgot the responsibilities she was given.

And Zhu Jianshen, who had grown into a man, put his arm around Wan Zhen'er's shoulders and looked out of the palace gate vigilantly.

There was a commotion inside and outside the palace, and the palace servants and concubines were all frightened, and ran out of their respective palaces one after another to find out what happened.

Others thought it was the earth dragon turning over and screaming in terror.

"Your Majesty, something happened."

At this moment, Wynn ran in quickly with a look of fear on his face.

"What's the matter? What happened just now?"

Zhu Jianshen stepped forward, grabbed his sleeve, and asked nervously.

"The Royal Forest Army from the turret came to report, it's gone..."

Wynn gasped, "Imperial College, it's the direction of the Imperial College!"

Something happened to the Imperial College?

Zhu Jian took two steps away in shock.

Alan!

Uncle Lang!

The author has something to say: Alan: I swear, I did not blow up the Imperial College