Jiang Qing

The Anshen incense was lit again in the study, Bai Bingchen cleaned his face, looked at his own reflection in the basin, and smiled mockingly at him.As if he didn't know himself, he stretched out his hand and looked at it carefully.

This is a pair of hands that have never practiced weapons. They only have thin calluses left by holding a pen, but they wear a finger that is only used when drawing a bow.

Such contradictory and fragmented traits were not discordant in him, and it was these hands that were accustomed to holding pens that sent Zhou Yue on the road.

"I have already asked Ning Kuan to deal with it in the secret room. He has just been transferred from the hermitage. He is young and unstable, and sometimes he can't react. We were a little anxious when interrogating Zhou Yue and didn't search carefully. , let him get close to the Patriarch's body, it is the fault of the subordinate, and the subordinate will go to receive the punishment later." Jiang Yan accepted the fault and received the punishment for Ning Kuan, and saw the Patriarch staring at the basin of blood, silently Take it away.

Over the years, in the eyes of outsiders, Bai Bingchen has never changed. He is still the calm Patriarch of the Bai family, the right minister of Li Guo with great power in his hands.

But Bai Bingchen knew that at first he didn't want to see himself in the mirror, and at the beginning it was difficult to fall asleep when there was a little light. He even changed subtly when others didn't notice it.

He doesn't care about these subtle changes in himself, and he doesn't ask others to follow his changes to do something.But Jiang Yan, who has always been careful, saw it all.I don't know when it started. There was no mirror in Bai Bingchen's living place, and the bedroom became airtight. He knew that Jiang Yan did it in private.

"Don't make an example." Bai Bingchen heard that he took the blame on himself again, swallowed the words that he wanted to transfer Ning Kuan away, and after thinking about it, he added another sentence: "You know, being by my side is better than being in the hidden guard." It's much more dangerous, if he doesn't have the ability, don't keep him to harm others and yourself."

Glancing at Bai Bingchen's expression secretly, Jiang Yan secretly considered whether to return the family letter from Jingzhou now, and he said after deliberating: "Actually, the Patriarch doesn't have to be so ruthless, leaving Zhou Yue's life as a filial piety to Mrs. It's good too."

His temples throbbed, Bai Bingchen frowned, put one hand on his forehead, and pressed his thumbs lightly on his temples to relieve some of the headache.There have been too many things happening in the past few days, he hardly closed his eyes, and his words were tired: "Is it the mother who sent the message again?"

"The letter concerned Zhou Yue's current situation in Pingdu, and sent some fashionable clothes along with the book." Jiang Yan thought about it, and said something emphatically.

"Is there anything else?" Bai Bingchen paused for a moment before speaking.

Jiang Yan didn't dare to answer.

There was not a single word of Bai Bingchen mentioned in that family book.

For more than ten years, Wu Chufu sent letters to Pingdu, and her words were all about concern for Zhou Yue. There was no mention of Bai Bingchen's son in a single word, as if the relationship between mother and child was severed after he was sent to Pingdu .

"Since I am so reluctant to part with this youngest son, why do you want him to come to Pingdu with me? Do you think I have a father who is an official in Pingdu, so I can have a good future?" Bai Bingchen laughed at himself, "Then I What is it? Is it just a result of the marriage between the Bai family and the Wu family? It turns out that neither Jingzhou nor Pingdu has a place for me."

If you have to count the little and pitiful family affection Bai Bingchen got, it was when he was still in Jingzhou.

As long as he can remember, he remarried with his mother to a merchant named Zhou in Jingzhou.At that time, Wu Chufu treated him very tenderly. Considering his mood, she even carefully asked his opinion on remarrying.

But later, when my mother had Zhou Yue, everything changed subtly.She poured all her love into that child, and paid little attention to Bai Bingchen.

The inferiority complex of being dependent on others has cultivated his sensitive self-esteem. He hates this younger brother who robbed his mother's love, but he longs to restore his relationship with his mother through him.In this way, he grew up to the age of 14 amidst conflicts, until Wu Chufu received a letter from the Bai family.

Bai Bingchen's father, whom he had never met, wanted to admit him back and let him inherit the Bai family business.

His silent resistance collapsed in Wu Chufu's indifferent eyes. He has always been stubborn, thinking that as long as he is humbled and flattered by being a transparent person in the Zhou family and paving the way for his younger brother's future, then he can also be in the Zhou family. Find a square inch of land, curl up and live this life.

But it was just a letter, so his mother didn't want him anymore.

It turned out that I was just a superfluous person, an eyesore in the Zhou family, and just a candidate to inherit the family business in the Bai family.

Bai Jianzhong and Wu Chufu had no other sons after they divorced, only a daughter born in the concubine earlier.

At this time, Bai Jianzhong remembered that he still had a son in Jingzhou, and wrote a letter to ask Wu Chufu for it, as if he was a decoration that could be taken away at will, and he could be used to add to the lintel when he thought of it.

Originally, he was still comforting himself. His mother sent him to his biological father because he was afraid that he would have a hard time living under the fence.

But when she earnestly asked herself to bring Zhou Yue into Pingdu to seek a better future, he realized that the mother who read the "Book of Songs" to him with a scroll in his hand when he was a child has already wasted the calculations at the merchant's house. In the process, she has become accustomed to calculating the pros and cons of each event.

Now that he killed Zhou Yue with his own hands, the meager love between mother and child was also ruined by him.

"Should Jingzhou hide it first or..." Jiang Yan vaguely knew something about Bai Bingchen's past. He knew that it was not a good time to ask about it, but the situation in Pingdu was complicated. , the left prime minister has been staring at the White House.

This time they chased him eagerly and made a lot of noise, almost letting Zhang Jiudai's men catch Zhou Yue first.

Even so, Bai Bingchen was confined by His Majesty to stay in the mansion for a period of time to think about it, and he has only recently lifted the restraint. If someone from Zhang Xiang finds out something, go to Jingzhou to tell Wu Chufu the cause of Zhou Yue's death, and make a fuss back to Pingdu Come on, the situation will be even worse.

After thinking about it again and again, although asking Bai Bingchen to tell Wu Chufu personally that he killed his half-brother would hurt the relationship between mother and child, it is the best plan at the moment.

The indifferent temperament cultivated over the years did not make Bai Bingchen hesitate for long. He restrained his emotions and replied: "Send his body back to Jingzhou. It is said that he encountered bandits on the road and encountered an accident. I told my mother privately." , tell her the truth."

Anyway, everything that is hidden and wants to be buried will come to the surface.Bai Bingchen pinched his unconscious leg fiercely. He was already a useless person, so it didn't matter whether it hurt or not.

"The owner asked me to bring back what I was looking for. According to your instructions, after several years and many transfers, I pretended to be a passing merchant and bought it."

"Ding—" There was a crisp sound.

It was Jiang Yan who put a thin silver ring on the table in front of him.

Bai Bingchen looked down at the silver ring, silently took out a box from the hidden compartment and opened it, and there was another identical silver ring lying inside.

This pair of silver rings is Mei Shao's personal belongings. When they went to the scientific research together, Mei Shao gave him one as a gift.After Mei Shao was imprisoned, some offended family members came to trouble him from time to time, and gradually, even the other silver ring in his hand disappeared.

It took Bai Bingchen a lot of effort to find out the whereabouts of this silver ring, and he went back and forth several times. After several years, he struggled several times before he dared to get it back.

He didn't know why he was so obsessed with an old thing, he just remembered the time when he was wearing a silver ring, he was so at ease.

Bai Bingchen stretched out his hands to cover a pair of silver rings, only to feel that the tentacles were cold, and then slowly warmed by his hands.

After a few years, going around and going around, the old friend said goodbye, and the double rings were in his hands, which calmed down his impetuous mind just now, and even the endless struggle for power and profit these years has become a little warmer.

He thought of the boy lying on the pear tree in the yard with grass in his mouth, smiling brightly at him.

The man said: "What are you afraid of? The old monk of Qianfo Temple told me my fortune, saying that I have been rich and powerful in my life, and I am the most blessed person. Now, I will share half of this Buddha's light with you. This year's scientific examination, you Definitely high school."

Mei Shao jumped down from the tree, wiped a silver ring from his right wrist and put it on his wrist.

He heard the self in his memory say to the young man: "He will stand side by side in the court, and he is willing to share the spring with the king."

It was the first time since I entered Pingdu that I was so determined that I didn't want to be a foil for others, and I didn't want to shrink back and escape, but wanted to enjoy the beauty of my life with him without any difference.

If he can't settle down in a corner of Jingzhou, and insists on making a name for himself in the official circles of Pingdu, then he also hopes that he can stand by this young man's side and not be inferior in the slightest.

But things in the world are always disturbing people's minds, he has monopolized the beauty of spring for six years, and no one can separate him.

Bai Bingchen took Yinhuan away, but also hid his thoughts.

"How are you keeping an eye on the arena?" He vaguely felt that the deal between Mei Shao and His Majesty had something to do with Jing and Princess Jing's matchmaking, so he sent someone to keep an eye on the movements in the arena.

"The list for the final test is out. Judging from the duel, these people deserve their names to enter the final test. However, the process of entering the final test is a bit strange."

Bai Bingchen frowned slightly: "Is it possible that there are still people who dare to cheat?"

"It's not really cheating, it's just a little deliberate. There is a black-clothed swordsman named Jian Shiliu among the ten armors. What's so strange is that he seems to be opening the way for Ling Che." Jiang Yan apparently did a secret investigation and found that there was no connection between the two, so he denied the "fraud".

"His contests were mixed, and the finalists were silent. If it weren't for the fact that there were fewer and fewer people fighting, it would be really difficult to find out. He can basically win those strange moves, but when he meets When it comes to some orthodox martial arts, he loses."

According to Jiang Yan's description, Jian Shiliu was originally good at weird and weird body skills. He could win against the weird and weird, but completely lost against the upright one. This also fits his martial arts style.

According to this point, it is absolutely impossible to judge him for cheating, but martial arts in the world are mutually reinforcing and restraining each other. He was born like a sieve, filtering out all the martial arts that are compatible with Ling Che, leaving only those that are compatible with Ling Che. Who is tougher.

It wasn't until the final test that people realized that the rest of the people, except Jian Shiliu, were all hard skills.

"Do you think this is not a coincidence?" Bai Bingchen turned his fingers and thought deeply, "Whether it is true or not, we will see the final test tomorrow."

If Jian Shiliu was really deliberately arranged by someone on the competition stage, then the battle for the position of son-in-law must be the two of them in the end, and the winner must be Ling Che.

The entry of the Jinxi army into peace means that the original situation of the four major armies occupying one side is about to be broken, and the remaining three army officers can no longer sit on the fence, and either become kings on their own or submit to the court.

Bai Bingchen knew that Zhao Zhen was eager to reorganize the army, but he didn't expect that he would use an in-law relationship to quietly lay down the military structure of Li Guo for the next ten years.