Lei Yue Longmen

"Master Cen, what kind of person does His Highness think?"

Cen Zhu came back to his senses, and replied without thinking: "Of course he is a very good person."

Zhu Mulan chuckled, and Cen Zhu realized that the roots of his ears were burning.

"Miss Zhu, is there anything else?"

Zhu Mulan nodded, "Yes." Suddenly, with a serious face, she lowered her head and took out a letter from her cuff, "This is what His Highness asked me to hand over to you before leaving."

Cen Zhu accepted the letter in surprise, wondering why Li Jingzhu didn't hand it to her himself.

"Would you like me to unpack it for you?"

Although he was eager to know the contents of the letter, but it was inconvenient to hand at the moment, and there were outsiders present, so Cen Zhu was not going to open it to read it.Tuck the letter into his shirt, "No, I'll read it when I go back."

Zhu Mulan followed her, looking at the other party with interest, "Master Cen, shall we have a chat?"

Cen Zhu was puzzled, could it be? Aren't they chatting now?I feel that this Miss Zhu is showing weirdness everywhere.

However, she still flattered her and asked, "What does Ms. Zhu want to talk about?"

"Talk about Your Highness." She blinked a pair of Danfeng eyes, "I know? You are definitely not interested in talking about anything else."

Cen Zhu laughed, but did not deny it.

She put her small arms on the table and leaned forward slightly, "Master Cen, to be honest, you are different from those men I have seen. If His Highness hadn't said it himself, I would never have thought of you." The two of you will be together." Cen Zhu raised his eyebrows, and he remembered hearing this more than once.

"It gives me the feeling? It's like, the old man in Peking Opera and the Huadan in Huangmei Opera are together. Of course, the gender needs to be changed, female old man and male Huadan."

Cen Zhu was speechless, and Zhu Mulan hurriedly explained: "Don't get me wrong, I don't mean that you are like Hua Dan, but His Highness is more like an old student than Hua Dan, with a strict eye."

Cen Zhu curled the corners of his lips with a half-smile, actually agreeing with her description from the bottom of his heart.There is a method in everything, but isn't he just an old student?

"Strangely though, when the two of you stand? together, I feel like a surprisingly good fit. To what extent? It's like... like the cogs of a winch, designed to fit together. "She made a gesture of crossing her fingers, and her ten fingers were tightly interlocked like gears.

She didn't know the inside story, so naturally she didn't? She felt something, but Cen Zhuangyuan, who had a dark heart, looked at her gesture, his face turned red, and he rolled his eyes at her countless times.

Still don't know? Zhu Mulan, who was despised by herself, continued to chat enthusiastically, "Before...you, I was...thinking, which man can fall into the eyes of my righteous sister. Your appearance can be regarded as an answer to a part of my life. Great confusion. In view of this, I feel compelled to offer you a toast."

Cen Zhu was about to say that I don't drink alcohol.I saw her enthusiastically pouring tea, "I'll replace the wine with tea. I'll do it first. This is the authentic Tieguanyin. It smells like orchids after brewing. My righteous sister likes it the most. You can try it."

Cen Zhu was speechless again, wondering if she was really? You're welcome.However, I heard that Li Jingchen liked it, so I became interested, and took a sip? Really? The taste is strong and pure, with a strong orchid fragrance.

"Really? Not bad, very fragrant."

I didn't know before? Li Jingchen liked Tieguanyin the most. Every time she came to visit, she made and drank what she made herself. I thought she was never picky about tastes!

Generally speaking, she likes Zhu Mulan's straightforward personality, she can say whatever she wants, and she won't alienate others.She has been flattering in officialdom for a long time, but in life, she prefers to be friends with straightforward people, without having to think twice.Of course, there is only one exception.

Seeing that the sun was about to set, Cen Zhu thought that he and Ji Wenkui would have to meet again at night, so he decided to leave.Seeing her intention to go, Zhu Mulan raised her teacup, and happily concluded the "chat", "I had a very happy conversation with Mr. Cen this time. I hope that next time, our two family members will have the opportunity to meet together. In order to give Our future grandson plans a peaceful and prosperous world? I believe it will not be too long!"

"Puff—bah!" Cen Zhu is real this time? Choking, he put down his teacup, "cough, cough, cough" non-stop, "You, stop, what grandson?"

Zhu Mulan squeezed her phoenix eyes, which were so radiant that day, "Are you surprised? Of course it is the grandson born after the marriage between our two families? Parent-in-law?"

Cen Zhu shrank his neck, shocked by the sound of "father-in-law".

"Isn't this too far away?"

"Is it far away? If the empress dowager ascends the throne in the future, our two families will definitely get married. My son will marry your daughter, which means it will be a matter of 20 years. When they give birth to my grandson, they will naturally be married." The next generation? Lord of Yurui!"

Cen Zhu was dumbfounded. Didn't you think that there would be someone more powerful than Sister Chuan? Senior Sister only focused on the "next generation", but she had already started to focus on the next generation.

"Cough, Miss Zhu, be careful." Cen Zhu pretended to be serious with a straight face.

Zhu Mulan smiled, "Isn't it something I said carefully? It was written in the constitution early in the morning. The empress succeeded to the throne, and the next generation will return to the ancestors. This time it's the turn of the Yue dynasty. Unless, Lord Cen doesn't want to be His Highness's son-in-law, so naturally my grandson has nothing to do with you."

Cen Zhu almost ran away, and after falling in love with Jiaozi, she realized a very serious problem.It is impossible for her and Li Jingchen to have children of their own in this life.Then the heirs of Li Jingzhu will be a big problem in the future.Can it be done well? It will turn the sky upside down.

With Li Jingzhu's personality, it's impossible not to miss this level.So what is her plan?Cen Zhu was very nervous. Her nervousness was not because the sky would be turned upside down, but because she was worried that she would leave her.Whenever this time, she would be annoyed why she is not a man, or Li Jing is a man, the obstacles between them will be much less.She doesn't have to work so hard either.However, this is unsolvable. You can't ask God to give you a lover who suits your heart, and at the same time ask others to pretend their gender? This is beyond the scope of its duties.

She believes that Li Jing is a trustworthy person, she said that she will marry her in five years, and she will definitely keep her word.So this also means that she chose herself between her blood inheritance and her lover.At that time, Cen Zhu's eyes were wet, and his heart was full of emotion. He felt that she had made an incredible "sacrifice" for himself. Later, when he asked about it, Li Jingzhu rolled his eyes at her. He didn't think about it at all. The problem.She's just a freak of cleanliness and can't stand a dirty little kid with shit, urine and snot in a close-fitting swaddle.Moreover, her emotional world has already been filled by one person, and there is no need for anything else to fill it.As for inheritance, she has always believed that good things? Someone will pass them on for you, but bad things? Even descendants who are connected by blood will be the first to be cut off.Even so, Mr. Cen still expressed a position of nothing to repay.Of course, they were all slapped in the face later.

But now, Cen Zhu has indeed fallen into a vicious circle of self-movement, and even waited for a long time after the sedan chair left, before he remembered to read the letter Li Jingzhu wrote to her.I couldn't wait to take it out, bit the envelope with my teeth, squeezed out the letter paper with my left hand, shook it away and started to read.

Zhu Mulan's sedan chair was called from behind when he was about to enter the mansion. Cen Zhu came running wildly, trying to get close to the sedan chair: "Miss Zhu, Miss Zhu, stay here."

Zhu Mulan seems to know? She will come after her, she lifts a corner of the curtain, and motions everyone to stop, "What else is there for Mr. Cen?"

Cen Zhu held up the letter, "Where is the person you want to send out to sea today?"

"Oh? It has already been sent out."

"When did this happen??"

"Before I came to the appointment, the boat just left the sea."

Cen Zhu lowered his shoulders, turned around and left.

"Hey, Mr. Cen... is in Yueliu Port."

Zhu Mulan wanted to say something else, but? That figure had already run away.Out of breath, Cen Zhu came to Yueliu Port and asked about the ships going out to sea, but everyone said they had never seen them.I went to ask the sea officials again, and learned that in order to avoid further losses, the county guard issued a ban on the sea overnight, so all ships were not allowed to go to sea for a short period of time, and they were docked for repairs.So, indeed, there are no ships out to sea.

"Even if there's a boat out to sea, you won't be able to catch up with it. The boat in the morning is westerly again, so it's already fifty miles away by now."

Cen Zhu stood blankly by the seaside, slowly accepting the fact that his senior brother would never come back, his eyes gradually turned red, and the letter paper in his hand was unknowingly twisted into a ball.

"How could she do this?" In a rage, she threw it into the sea, turned around and walked back.

Zhu Mulan knew that she was here to settle accounts with Qiu Hou, so she avoided the door and disappeared.When Cen Zhu knocked on the door, he gritted his teeth angrily, and secretly cursed in his heart that if something happened to Qin Liang, he would never forgive them.

Half a month later, when Cen Zhu was on his way back to Beijing, Zhu Mulan sent someone to deliver the second letter to her.At first, she was also indignant about the arrangement of the righteous sister throwing the ball like this, and felt that she was completely bullying.But now? It seems that he has also experienced the mood of "I would rather be a turtle than face the bleakness".Li Jingchen was afraid of being unable to control and change her mind, so what was she afraid of?Zhu Mulan held her forehead helplessly, as if she had unconsciously regarded the other party as a friend.Afraid of losing control and trying to persuade Li Jingchen to change his mind?

Cen Zhu returned to Beijing with a pale face, and soon announced the news of Gu Qing's "death".Many people came to Cen's mansion to express their condolences, even the emperor made an exception and granted Gu Qing the second rank.Many political opponents who want to make a fuss about Gu Qing's life experience, can't they hate it too much? There is no way, people are already dead, and the public opinion will never benefit from the entanglement. They can only turn from the public to the private Secretly hard.Before Cen Zhu's left deputy, the censor, was firmly established, the imperial court experienced a major personnel change. People from the royal family of Dun were demoted from the imperial court one after another, beginning with the Pei family.The fact that Pei's house and Gu Rentu secretly communicated with each other was revealed, and they were sentenced to confiscate their nobles and confiscate their homes. Brother Pei Yan was beheaded in the market as the culprit. Pei Ju was spared from execution because of his age and stature, but the family? Exile in Lingnan.In the palace, although Concubine Pei was implicated, she was not thrown into the cold palace, but she was also demoted to concubine. King Dun descended to the county king, withdrew the Nine Dragon Umbrella and all the prince's books, and Concubine Pei's mother and son completely fell out of favor in front of the imperial court.

On the contrary, the Eastern Palace forces, which were still in jeopardy a few months ago, regained their momentum in the court hall and gained a firm foothold.They are the main force in suppressing King Dun this time, and of course they are relentless. They will return all the suppression and resentment they have suffered over the years, making it difficult for the opponent to stand up again.Those subordinates who originally followed the former prince Li Jingzhi have long been fed up with the birdishness of the bastards like King Dun.Chang laments that Donggong is a weak girl after all, facing the enemy's bullying, she will only retreat and endure without limit.But now, the means of defeating the enemy displayed by Li Jingzhu made people see what it means to just take a shot? One blow is sure to win, and the opponent is not left with the slightest chance.The impatient King Dun came to the East Palace in person to show weakness and beg for mercy. Before?, the prince was soft-hearted, and might be lenient to his brothers.But the Crown Princess is different, she knows exactly when to endure and when not to endure.Having gone through countless setbacks, big or small, the East Palace has long since lost its morale and lost its mind. It needs a meaningful move to regain its prestige.So she chose to operate on the Nathan royal family at this time, because she was determined to win.And beyond everyone's expectations, even Imakami, who has always favored King Dun, didn't speak up for security, and kept silent and watched the whole process.This made things go very smoothly in the Donggong tribe, who were a little dazed and in a daze.

Until His Highness appeared on the right seat in the Eastern Palace with a straight face, and solemnly reminded them like an old man that they were still far away from the ultimate goal and victory, and they each went back to stick to their posts, what to do, don't get carried away and cause trouble, everyone Only then did I regain a little down-to-earth feeling, and felt that this was normal.But when they looked at each other when they were parting, they still couldn't help but smile, really elated.

Liao Shi Shen, who was left alone, was about to bury his head in his crotch in the face of the incomprehensible inquiries and suspicions of his colleagues.It wasn't until the person above reminded him, "Lord Liao, the tea is getting cold", that he wiped the cold sweat off his forehead, held up the tea bowl respectfully, and took a sip indiscriminately.

"Lord Liao, what happened? This is the end, Gu will give you another chance to choose, whether to seek refuge with King Dun or with this palace."

Liao Shichen hurriedly stood up, "Thanks to Your Highness for not giving up, I am so grateful, I dare not wait and see, and I am willing to do my best for the East Palace. To repay Your Highness for not killing me."

"Very good? As long as you are willing to be loyal to me, I can? Let go of the past? But how to win back my trust depends on your next performance. Otherwise, what I said earlier will not matter. Will make it happen, do you understand?"

"I understand."

"Okay? Next, I asked you to do something for me?"

After Liao Shishen left, Gu Mian worriedly reminded: "Forgive me for speaking bluntly, those who betray the Lord cannot be trusted."

Li Jingchen: "I know? But this matter? It's up to him."

Gu Mian was very emotional, compared to the excessive uprightness and untimely soft-heartedness of the former prince, the current East Palace knows how to endure and seize the opportunity.He always regretted that if he and his teacher had persuaded Li Jingzhi not to continue to investigate the cause of the queen's death, maybe he would not have caused the murder.But the emotional crown prince obviously didn't expect that in order to maintain his authority, His Majesty the Emperor would be so cruel that he would kill his own son.What is the current king of Dun? On the way to seize power, either you die or I die. Flesh and blood can only count as farts.

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