Si Tian Guan

"What about that weird kid here, the one with the different pupils, why didn't you see him come out?"

Steward Lin knew who the other party was talking about, so he hurriedly replied: "It's really unfortunate, I'm sick."

Bai Shilei asked bluntly: "Did you get sick so soon? Didn't you still run around in the street yesterday?"

"This..." Manager Lin was embarrassed: "Little General Bai..."

"Why are you hesitating? My second brother is just curious and wants to take a look. Do you want money?"

Seeing his expression, Bai Shilei knew that he was fooling them, so he looked around in the courtyard and glanced at the door he just came out of.

"Don't dare not dare," Steward Lin looked back at the firewood room together, knowing that he couldn't hide, so he had to bite the bullet and tell the truth: "He was disobedient yesterday and was beaten up, and now he doesn't look good. I'm afraid I'll offend you. Two noblemen."

"Where the person is, I will take a look."

Having said so much, Steward Lin had no choice but to take a few quick steps, and gently pushed open the wooden door of the firewood room.

Liu Chongming followed closely behind, stepped over the threshold, frowned at the smell of damp blood in the woodshed, and then saw someone near the wall with their backs turned to them, curled up into a ball, lying on their side watching He seemed to be asleep on the dirty quilt of unclear color.

Perhaps it was because of a bad life, that person looked small, more like a child than a teenager.

There were welts all over the bare and thin shoulders, and some places still had fresh blood, which hadn't healed, and there was hardly a piece of intact skin.

Bai Shilei also entered the door: "What kind of place is this? Why is it smelling so bad?"

"The two nobles are laughing at you. Usually no one comes here, and only when the servants are disobedient, they bring them here." While smiling, Manager Lin stepped forward to push Qu Shenzhou's shoulder: "Xiao Qu, wake up, hurry up!" stand up."

Qu Shenzhou groaned in his heart.

He pretended to be asleep before the door opened, just hoping that Liu Chongming could leave here.

So what if he has more lovesickness?

I have already harmed Chong Ming, so I dare not face him again. Naturally, the farther away from an ominous person like him, the better.

What's more, their identities are so different now, why should he have unnecessary thoughts and worry all his life?

But Guanshi Lin was shaking violently, and Liu Chongming didn't move, he had no intention of leaving at all, obviously he couldn't fool around like this, and the wound hurt so much that he couldn't help shivering, and couldn't pretend to sleep anymore.

"Brother Xiaoqu, get up quickly, I've seen Master Shi and Little General Bai!"

"Lin... Steward Lin..."

Qu Chenzhou could only pretend that he had just woken up from a coma, turned over and sat up with difficulty, propped up his arms, moved his knees, and slowly crawled towards the two with his head down.

There were footsteps approaching him, and in his lowered vision, a pair of brocade boots with rusty plum blossoms appeared soon.

"I have seen the son of the world..."

Before he finished speaking, a fishy sweetness suddenly rushed to his throat. After being beaten last night, the blood stasis has been stagnating in his throat all night.

Before he could hold it in time, he suddenly coughed up a blood clot, and the white shoes were instantly sprayed with bloody red.

Steward Lin turned pale with fright, before the nobleman could get angry, he slapped him on the face: "You bastard, let's see what you've done!"

Qu Chenzhou fell to the side after being beaten, he didn't care about the pain on his face, he even vomited two mouthfuls of blood, and then gasped for breath, he heard Manager Lin repeatedly begging for his mercy, while urging him to get up and make amends.

He reached out tremblingly to wipe the blood on the shoes.

"You don't need to wipe it," a familiar young voice came from above his head, asking him, "What's your name?"

He curled up his ten fingers on the ground slightly, knelt back again, and answered softly with his head down: "My servant... called Qu Shenzhou."

One hand supported the crook of his arm to stabilize his body, and the other hand supported his chin, allowing him to raise his head.

Looking at each other, the time of more than ten years went back in the snap of fingers.

If he hadn't been used to a calm appearance during his years in the palace, Qu Chenzhou's eyes would have turned red when he saw this pair of eyes.

This face, this shallow smile is so familiar.

It seemed that he was still in Jinxi Academy, and the son of Yao Shilang's family led people to block him in a remote corner, and pressed him to the ground as a horse to ride.

Even though he is a Sitian official personally appointed by the emperor, his timid appearance is exactly the appearance that some villainous family members in the academy like to bully most, and he dare not speak out if he is sure.

He couldn't figure out what he did wrong, so he could only kneel down on the ground and curl up into a ball hard.

The young man who walked out from the corner of the corridor chased away those family members, stood not far away with such a smile, and asked softly, "Qu Sitian?"

He raised his head and looked at the shadow in the backlight with tears in his eyes.

At that time, none of them thought that this meeting would be the beginning of chaos in the world.

Liu Chongming was also looking at the person in front of him.

Although he glanced at Qu Chenzhou who had escaped in the street a while ago, he didn't see it clearly at the time.Now being stared at so closely by this pair of bewitching eyes, it seems to be pierced through.

The tails of these eyes are slender and upward, the corners of the eyes are deep, and the eyes seem drunk but not drunk when they are raised, full of deep affection that makes people's heart sway.

And the different-colored pupils, which are quite different from ordinary people, are like fine pearls under the sun, shining brightly, with a trace of calmness that doesn't match their age.

Those eyes only met him for a moment, then lowered their eyes to look at the ground, like a treasure that is not easy to show to others, it disappeared in a flash.

The small pointed chin was held in his hands, like a piece of warm nephrite -- he was still such a small child.

What is disturbing is that a high and horrific scar ran from the left cheek across the bridge of the nose and climbed to the right eye. Apart from this most obvious scar, there were more than a dozen criss-crossing and deep and shallow scars on the face, completely ruined. this face.

Liu Chongming could even imagine how the whip-wielding man pumped wildly back then, and even fell on his face on purpose.

Because of Lin Guanshi's slap just now, there was still dark red blood on his thin lips, against this pale little face, there was a strange allure in the childishness, magnificent and fragile.

"Second brother," Bai Shilei urged, seeing him squatting motionless, pinching his nose, "Do you want to go? The smell is too bad here. My brother won't be able to find us in a while, so we should be in a hurry."

"En." Liu Chongming took out a handkerchief from his arms, and stained Qu Chenzhou with the blood from the corner of his mouth before standing up.

Looking at the person in front of him bowing his head and kneeling at his feet, for some reason, he always felt uncomfortable.

Or it should be said that this person just looked at him calmly and calmly, but kneeling here so humbly, it seems that there is always a sense of disobedience.

He glanced over and looked at the porcelain bowl on the ground, which contained half a bowl of mixed vegetables and rice.

"Is this what he eats?"

Steward Lin rubbed his fingers in his sleeve uneasily: "Master, don't tell the shopkeeper. The shopkeeper only said to let him down and gave him some wine, but he didn't let him eat. This is something I brought over secretly. ..."

Liu Chongming frowned: "What does 'put him down' mean?"

Only then did Steward Lin realize that he had made a slip of the tongue, but he didn't dare to speak nonsense when asked by Shizi, so he could only answer: "After being caught yesterday, he has been hanging here, and he just laid down and lay down."

"This injury was also done yesterday?"

"Yes..." Steward Lin didn't dare to meet Liu Chongming's gaze, and Ai Ai Qiqi replied, "Slapped... 64 lashes."

Hearing what he said, Bai Shilei couldn't help but click his tongue: "This Du Quan is too mean, isn't he afraid of killing people?"

Steward Lin responded, not daring to speak too much.

Liu Chongming stood still for a while, took out a small silver coin from the purse at his waist, stuffed it together with the handkerchief in Qu Chenzhou's hand, turned and left.

It wasn't until the wooden door was closed again that Qu Chenzhou slowly straightened up, moved back to lie down on the mattress with difficulty, and stroked the silver handle in his palm.

Although it was a cold thing, wrapped in the familiar smell of the veil, he seemed to be able to touch some warmth, put the handkerchief to the tip of his nose, and bit his lips lightly.

After living a new life, he no longer dared to ask for too much, let alone get too close to Liu Chongming. He only wanted to die quietly, and he only wanted to have a thin coffin after death.

When Liu Chongming walked quickly to the front hall, Bai Shilei was still rambling: "This Du Quan is too ruthless, how can he play like this, he looks younger than me."

"It's nothing special," Liu Chongming said calmly, "I'm just a slave. Since I've sold myself, no one will ask me even if I'm beaten to death. With a straw mat, there are many such dead people on the mass graves in the north of the city." .”

Bai Shilei shrank his neck.

Their family would never buy domestic slaves, even if his father won the battle and brought the captives back to become slaves, he would never keep a few in the mansion.

"It also……"

"This is too cruel, isn't it?" Liu Chongming looked into the distance silently, and sighed softly as if talking to himself: "It's ridiculous to beg God's blessing while not cultivating virtue and treating people like livestock and cattle. .”

Bai Shilei didn't know what he was talking about, it was difficult to answer, so he could only follow him.

Before he reached the front yard, Bai Shiyan came to meet him in a hurry: "Where did you two go?"

Liu Chongming sent Bai Shilei to play elsewhere, and he and Bai Shiyan stood in the courtyard.

"I just went to the back with Shi Lei and took a look at that child."

"No wonder you are willing to give Du Quan some face today, and come to join in the fun." Bai Shiyan understood who he was talking about: "What? Want to buy him back? Don't think about it, I heard that little monster can't divination anymore .”

"Why do you buy it? Are you trying to cheat? I don't do business that loses money." Liu Chongming didn't say much about what he saw in the woodshed: "There is no purpose, it's just a whim, come and have a look."

Bai Shiyan knew him well, and knew that he was definitely not someone who liked to watch new and lively things: "Chongming, what's the matter? Why are you so interested in him all of a sudden?"

Liu Chongming knew that he couldn't hide it, so he didn't intend to hide it.

"Shi Yan, last night...that dream was a little bit more." He looked at the crabapple tree with bones in the courtyard: "The man under the corridor raised his head."