Si Tian Guan

"Auntie! Is Shen Zhou here..."

Liu Chongming shouted at the top of his voice, just as he hurriedly crossed the threshold of the flower hall, he ducked vigilantly and dodged the oncoming tea bowl.

Bai Shilei, who was following closely behind, couldn't dodge, hit the door, and fell down with a scream.

"What the hell are you calling! You are so rash! Why are you panicking! I just told your mother that you are prudent!" Mrs. Bai scolded angrily, "You chased me after you came here, and you were afraid that I would eat you!" He can't do it!"

Liu Chongming lay on the door frame, looking back at his cousin who got up holding his nose, with lingering fear in his heart.

"Auntie...you're still pregnant, why are you trying so hard..."

"What's the matter with it, it doesn't prevent you from beating you bastards, if you don't get out."

When Liu Chongming entered the door, Qu Shenzhou put down his chopsticks and stood up, and Madam Bai involuntarily pulled him to sit down, and put a lotus root box on the plate.

"Leave him alone, eat your meal." Mrs. Bai stuffed the chopsticks into his hand and squeezed his wrist: "Eat more, why are you so thin, does it mean that Chongming doesn't give you enough to eat? I will live in Auntie here, auntie will feed you fatter."

Liu Chongming died unjustly, it is obvious that Qu Chenzhou is growing up, no matter how much he feeds, he will not gain weight.

Among other things, the Chunjiang crucian carp that was sent from the south after the year was cooked one every day.Qu Chenzhou likes to eat this, but he doesn't know how to spit out fish bones. He is a dignified son, picking fish bones so much that his eyes are almost blinded.

Bai Shilei entered the door covering his face, put his hands down to look, his nose was not bleeding, and sat down at the table with Liu Chongming, and glanced at the dishes.

"Mom, why are you cooking again? Didn't my father tell you to stay still?"

"What does your father know, he has never been born, don't listen to him," Mrs. Bai ordered to prepare cups, plates and chopsticks for the two of them, and turned around to pick up another chopsticks for the two of them.

"The doctor said that you should move more at this time, and then you will have a good life-Shen Zhou, do you like this? Eat more, and bring some back later."

Being stared at by the three people on the table together, Qu Chenzhou couldn't eat anymore: "Ma'am... I'm full."

Madam Bai only thought that he was afraid, and raised her chin to signal: "Chongming, you go home first, at least let someone finish the meal. I will ask Shi Lei to send him back later."

Liu Chongming didn't know whether to laugh or cry, he believed the complaints of the Bai family brothers, the little fox really caught his aunt's eyes, her aunt didn't regard Shen Zhou as an outsider at all, and the status of the whole family in her heart was downgraded one by one.

"Madam, I'm really full..." Qu Chenzhou could only stand up again.

Mrs. Bai was too enthusiastic, he was fed more than usual every time, and knowing that Liu Chongming was going to call on Mu Jingchen today, so he came here in such a hurry, he must have something to discuss with him.

"I'm going back first, and I'll come to talk to my wife some other day."

Qu Shenzhou bowed and was about to back out, Liu Chongming was anxious and got up too.

"Presumptuous! Sit down!"

Madam Bai scolded, and both of them sat down obediently with their heads down.

"Chongming, Shenzhou has been staying with me for the past two days. I'm bored and bored. This child is obedient and clever. People like him. He just happens to accompany me to relieve boredom."

Liu Chongming didn't want to wait for a moment, how could he wait for two days, so he immediately thickened his skin: "Auntie, I happen to be repairing the bedroom over there, so please take me in for two days."

Madam Bai laughed angrily, "Go back to the Hou Mansion."

Turning his head and thinking about his sister-in-law's appearance just now, his heart softened again, and he changed his order: "Shi Lei, go get someone to clean the two rooms and come out."

"Wait!" Liu Chongming hurriedly grabbed Bai Shilei: "One...one room!"

"..." Madam Bai glanced at Qu Chenzhou beside her, and asked softly, "Shen Zhou, are you really full?"

Qu Chenzhou nodded lightly: "Go back to Madam, I'm full."

"Shi Lei, let someone clean the two rooms, first take Shen Zhou to rest for a while, how to arrange for the evening is another matter. Chongming, you stay, I have something to tell you."

Liu Chongming knew that his aunt said one thing at home, so he didn't dare to disobey him, so he could only watch Qu Chenzhou disappear at the door, and then asked, "What's the matter, aunt?"

"Chongming, you should also perform the coronation ceremony next year."

"Yes." Seeing his aunt's serious expression, Liu Chongming thought that it was impossible for his aunt not to remember his age. There must be a reason for asking this question, and he had some bad premonitions in his heart.

"After that, you should start a family. When you marry the concubine and come into the mansion, how do you plan to arrange Shen Zhou?"

"I..." Liu Chongming seemed to be struck by lightning. He has been living a happy life recently, and never thought about this issue: "But... I haven't planned to get married yet!"

"Even if you don't plan, getting married is a matter of time," Mrs. Bai gently stroked her stomach, perhaps because she was pregnant with a new life, her heart softened even more.

"Your mother came to see me today just to mention your marriage, and said that in a few days it will be the spring banquet, when the ladies from all families will be there, let me help you take a closer look at each other. With the status of the Liu family, the emperor Maybe it will refer to marriage."

"Have you ever thought about what Shen Zhou will do by that time?"

"Not to mention that the concubine will tolerate him in the future, you know your mother's attitude best, if Shen Zhou stays with you, I'm afraid he will die."

"He can't go home, he has no one to rely on, and he looks like this. Even if you let him out, I'm afraid he won't be able to live a peaceful life for a few days."

"I really like this child. If you want him to be good, then you will get him out of slavery and send him here, how about it?"

"My Bai family doesn't want him to open his mouth to eat. He will be raised as a distant relative with a foreign surname. When he becomes an adult, we will find a good girl for him. If you miss your old love, you can come to see him if you want. It doesn't matter if you don't want to, as long as Just ask your mother not to embarrass him."

Liu Chongming listened in a daze, he didn't even have the strength to interject, his nose was full of soreness.

Just hearing my aunt speak in such an unhurried manner, it seemed that Qu Chenzhou was no longer by his side, and that the person who entered and exited with him was another person, a girl he was completely unfamiliar with.

He can't stand such a life.

"Auntie! I don't agree!" He held back his stagnation: "I won't let him out either!"

Madam Bai pulled him to her side and sighed.

"Chongming, you are still young, and you are greedy for his good looks, so naturally you don't want to part with him. Don't say it's you, even if it were me, I wouldn't part with it."

"But he will always have a day of old age and fading. You dragged him in the best days, have you thought about what he should do in the future?"

"He became a lowly citizen, but he couldn't help himself. He still has a long life in the second half of his life, so he shouldn't behave like this."

Liu Chongming bit his lip and refused to answer.

"I'm not in a hurry to let you make a decision now." Mrs. Bai patted his head: "Since your mother has already started arranging for your marriage, it will be next year or the year after, just think about it."

After sitting for half a day, she was also a little tired, and was about to call the maid to help her to rest, but Liu Chongming caught up with her a few steps.

"Auntie!" Liu Chongming grabbed her and blurted out a word.

When the words came out of his mouth, even he himself was taken aback - since when did he have such thoughts?

"Can I marry... Shen Zhou and be my concubine..."

Qu Chenzhou sat in the room for a while, but failed to wait for the person to come, guessing that Mrs. Bai would not let him go for a while, so he went to the bed and squinted for a while.

In fact, it was not only Liu Chongming who wanted to find him for something, he had just met Mrs. Liu, and he also had doubts and worries, so he wanted to discuss it with Chongming.

I didn't know how long I had been asleep in a daze, when I heard the door outside the screen slam, and someone walked in slowly, shuffling.

It was already dark, and there were no lights in the house, and only the outline could be vaguely seen.

He sat up and called out, "Shizi?"

"En." Liu Chongming muffled a reply, and sat down beside the bed: "Go inside."

Qu Chenzhou hesitated.

Except for a few accidents, they have not slept in the same bed.

"My lord, this is the White Mansion...wouldn't it be too good?"

"My aunt agreed." Liu Chongming didn't go to light the lamp, and stretched out his hand to push him: "I have something to say, you go inside."

Qu Chenzhou had no choice but to move in. Fortunately, the bed was wide enough and the pillows were long enough. He leaned on one side, and Liu Chongming leaned on the other, pulling the brocade quilt to cover both of them.

But after waiting for a while, he didn't hear anything, so he asked in confusion, "Is there something wrong with Jing Chen? He refuses?"

"No, you're right. It's actually easier to open the skylight to speak honestly with Jing Chen. Jing Chen looks more excited than he imagined. It seems that he has known Fang Wuyang for a long time and has never seen him face to face."

"But he didn't say much about Fang Wuyang, he just asked me, so I don't know why Fang Wuyang favored him."

If you can't ask anything, you can only talk about it after the two meet.

Liu Chongming put his hands behind his head and looked at the top of the curtain: "Shen Zhou, I saw a picture in the flower hall of Jing Chen's house."

"What word?"

He read softly: "Those who go don't remonstrate, those who come can be chased."

"It's an elder."

"Yes, it was sent to Jing Chen by an elder. At first, I thought the characters looked familiar, but I couldn't remember where I saw them before," Liu Chongming said in a low voice, "until I went out and passed by a street shop. It was only when I remembered that it was 'yangzhuo'."

Qu Chenzhou immediately understood what he meant: "The person who sent Jingchen's inscription was the one who wrote the inscription for that wine shop!"

"Who could it be?" Liu Chongming murmured to himself: "This person persuaded Jing Chen as an elder, and brought wine to my father every year, and left behind the people who kept the clumsy wine shop to help the Liu family in times of crisis. Who could it be?"

"Have you asked Jing Chen yet?"

"I asked, and I rushed back to ask, but Jing Chen said that my father took this calligraphy to him."

All the clues are focused on one person.

Before Qu Shenzhou could ask, Liu Chongming smiled wryly: "My father won't say anything, is there anything you can do?"

Qu Chenzhou is helpless, he can divination for the future, but it is impossible to know the past.

"But no matter what it is," he comforted, "this person is obviously on good terms with the Liu family. He has no intention of harming others and is a trustworthy person. Even if he can't be found for a while, it doesn't matter."

He was right, Liu Chongming wasn't worried, but he was too shocked for a moment, and he couldn't calm down if he didn't talk to him.

"Shen Zhou, I never thought before that even the close people around me have so many secrets."

Qu Chenzhou smiled. When it comes to secrets, who else has more secrets than him, and who can't tell them?

"My lord, when I came here with Shi Lei today, I met Mrs. Liu."

"I know," Liu Chongming replied in a muffled voice, "We met on the street, if Shi Lei hadn't interrupted, we would have quarreled again."

That's why he rushed in the door in a hurry, fearing that Shen Zhou would suffer a big loss if he met him.

"I heard from Shi Lei that she slapped you... I'm sorry."

"I hid, but it didn't hurt very much." Qu Chenzhou turned over and faced him: "It's just... there is a bad hexagram on Mrs. Liu - aconitum in sweet snow noodles. "

Liu Chongming's heart skipped a beat.

Sweet Snow Noodles are sweet cakes baked with honey. It tastes like snow and melts in the mouth. Not only his mother, but almost everyone does not like it.

And aconit|alkali...it will kill people.

"Someone wants to kill my mother?" He spoke softly in the dark, as if he was afraid of being heard, and quickly denied: "Impossible."

His mother was indeed not a likable person, but she was born in the empress's natal family and married to Marquis Anding, so no one would dare to touch her easily.What's more, he couldn't think of a reason.

Inside, there are no concubines and aunts in the Hou's mansion, and there is no jealousy at all.

Outside, his mother can't influence anyone, killing her life has no benefit except burning herself.

"Is there any chance you could be mistaken?"

"It's absolutely impossible." Hearing the tension in his voice, Qu Chenzhou comforted softly: "My lord, no matter what, I recently quietly told people to keep a close eye on Mrs. Liu, no matter where she got the sweet snow noodles from."

It took Liu Chongming a long time before he let out a "huh".

In fact, there are some other bad guesses vaguely in his heart. Maybe even his mother would not take that flash-by and narrow fragment into his heart—when the Danlang incident happened, his mother so naturally took out the poisonous drug. ...

If his malicious guess is true, who is Aconitine prepared for this time?

His mind was a little confused, but since he had Qu Shenzhou's hexagrams, this kind of thing can always be prevented, and it was his aunt's words that upset him in the afternoon.

"Chongming, the distance between you is too far."

Actually he knows.

He knew that apart from the gender and life experience that the world valued, there was also the boundary between life and death between them. On the other side of the boundary, there was someone Qu Shenzhou would never forget.

"Shen Zhou," he suddenly asked softly, "In the past...were you married?"

Qu Chenzhou's shoulders trembled slightly.

The author has something to say: Don’t urge, don’t urge, I’m writing and I’m writing, I’m writing every day, it’s not that the plot progresses slowly, it’s because I have to write too much, write less in the front, and there will be abrupt things in the back, write every day Foaming at the mouth, I swear that if I write another novel, I will be a dog, woof!