Jiang Qing

The smell of blood in the room has not completely dissipated, Mei Shao's bloody clothes have been replaced, he is lying on the bed under the quilt, his face is pale, even his lips have no blood.

"I've already ordered you to go on. With this excuse, I can stay in Jianzhou for about half a month."

Li An closed the door, walked to the bed, and restrained his usual nonchalant expression, "What are you going to do? Others will treat you as if you were imprisoned, and you will lose all your internal strength. sword."

"I just want to test whether Zhou Yue's martial arts has improved over the years." Mei Shao started talking nonsense.

"It's Bai Bingchen who wants to kill you." Li An ignored his words, and directly pointed out the person behind the scenes. Bai Bingchen, who is now the most popular right minister in Pingdu City, also disregarded the feelings of his former classmates, and climbed into the official career through the conspiracy of the Mei family. generation of power ministers.

"I did it on purpose." Mei Shao smiled at the void, with a trace of madness in his eyes, "I just want to see if he really expresses his feelings so freely after killing me."

After being silent for a while, Li An gritted his teeth and said, "You are a lunatic! If you really die here, you will fulfill him!"

"That means my fate is bad." Mei Shao lightly twirled the beads on his wrist, "But now God supports me to go to Pingdu to fight for it."

"You don't take your own life seriously, and it's a good idea to let me take care of you for nothing."

Mei Shao laughed when she heard the words, and teased: "You have no power and no power, what is worth my planning. I don't know, but you have been carrying such a good thing, and it was the old prince who gave it to you. of?"

Seeing him glance at the token in his hand, Li An put it into his arms uncomfortably, and changed the subject: "I have already sent someone to arrest Zhou Yue, but it is strange that he disappeared after he left the border of Jianzhou." It’s gone. Judging from the direction where he disappeared, it’s not the way back to Pingdu.”

"Didn't you go back to Pingdu?" Mei Shao's eyes flickered slightly: "It would be convenient for me to borrow his skin. You stay here for the time being, and when I recover, go north on your own. After two days, you come again .”

Seeing that Li An didn't understand, Mei Shao didn't explain clearly, but said: "I'll go to the White Mansion first to explore the way."

Li An knew that although Mei Shao didn't look like he was crazy and silly in the first two years when he first entered Hancheng, he just covered up that craziness, and it appeared from time to time, which caught people off guard.

This time, I am going to go to the dragon's pool and tiger's den alone.

In a blink of an eye, it was already half a month, and the flowers of late spring fell in the south, but in the north it was the time when the flowers were in full bloom.

From the south gate of Pingdu, there are many inns scattered along the way.

Although there are many inns, they all pay attention to doorways.These inns don't even need to hang plaques, only a wine flag is planted outside the door, and it is only after entering that they find that there is a big difference.

Some geniuses are in the dark, and there are few people in the inn. There is only one young man who is watching the night in front of the stage. Most of the people who live there are literati who come to Pingdu to seek official positions. ;

Some of them gradually become lively near dusk, and most of the people living in them are businessmen traveling from south to north, rushing to the night market in Pingdu to enter the city;

Most of them are the ones that smell of wine from far away. As soon as you get close, you can hear the noise. Most of them are quacks resting there. In this kind of inn, the tea and rice are very rough, and the wine is better than a few cups. Distressed stomach, happy and forgetful.

Chen Yuanqing pushed open the door and looked at the four empty wine jars on the table, knowing that he was late.

"Sit." The person at the table didn't blame him, just casually nodded towards him and asked, "Would you like a glass of good peach blossom drunk?"

Chen Yuanqing sat on the other side, seeing that the person in front of him was not drunk at all, he couldn't help sighing: "I haven't seen you for a few years, but your drinking capacity has grown a lot."

Mei Shao drank boldly, and the wine that he had no time to swallow snaked down his chin and neck, submerged into his red skirt, and smeared secretly.

He didn't answer when he heard the words, but just gave Chen Yuanqing a sideways glance, his eyes seemed to be smiling but not smiling, but Chen Yuanqing's heart was a little terrified.

He was different from the person in his memory. Although it was just a glance, Chen Yuanqing could deeply feel that the same pair of eyes, the flying and jumping, wanton laughter that used to be there are gone, replaced by a kind of floating The superficial fascination, and the chill and hostility deeply hidden under the fascination.

"Can this person's appearance be imitated?" Mei Shao put down the wine bowl, took a scroll from his waist, and pushed it in front of Chen Yuanqing.

He withdrew his gaze from looking at Mei Shao, and still teased, "You sent me a letter, I rushed here from Lanzhou non-stop, just for this?"

Unfolding the picture scroll and looking it over carefully, Chen Yuanqing said again: "This painter is very good at drawing people. I can imitate them to seventy-eight percent. If you have seen the people in the painting, please add some. It will definitely be fake."

"Do it carefully, that person likes this face the most." Mei Shao brushed the face on the portrait and sneered.

"Huh?" Chen Yuanqing lowered his head and squinted his eyes for a while, feeling a little surprised: "Oh, the person you are going to see has eye disease? This face is still childish, at best it is pretty. How can you have outstanding looks? .”

"A scheming fox likes a weak and harmless rabbit. Like me, hatred is engraved on my face. How can I get close to him without changing the skin?" His slender fingers stroked the side of the wine bowl. On the edge, lowered his eyes, and his eyes flashed past, as if there was nostalgia and hatred.

After a stick of incense.

"My hands, one painting is worth a hundred taels of gold. It's cheap for you. Look, where do you need to add?" Chen Yuanqing pushed the bronze mirror in front of him, "Do you want to cover up the ends of the eyes again?"

Looking at the face in the mirror, Mei Shao felt a strange feeling in his heart. He turned his face uncomfortably, raised his hand to caress the corner of his eye, and touched his earlobe when he put it down. He was taken aback, and suddenly realized something , a smile of unknown meaning appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"What's wrong? Is there a flaw?"

"You can't hide your flaws." Mei Shao paused: "Go home when you're done, and let your father find out that you sneaked out and order to break your legs."

"It's really heartless." Chen Yuanqing sighed, "It's already at the foot of Pingdu, why don't you invite me in for a swim?"

"Yes." Mei Shao lazily replied, "As long as the people who follow you all the way from Lanzhou can allow you to enter the city."

Chen Yuanqing cursed secretly in his heart. He thought that his ability to run away from home had improved, but he didn't expect that there was always a tail behind him.

Six years ago, Mei Shao lived in Lanzhou for a while, and before the summer was over, news came from Pingdu.

The Mei family joined forces with Qian, Liu, and Feng to march to the foot of Cangshan Mountain to force His Majesty, intending to rebel.Then the Chen family received a letter from Mei Shao's father, Mei Zhou, asking the Patriarch of the Chen family to keep Mei Shao a secret and not let him return to Pingdu.

During those few days, Chen Yuanqing had a very uneasy life. He peeked at the letters between his father and Meizhou, and learned that Meizhou secretly sent the news when the rebellion was revealed, just to keep his youngest son.

But paper cannot contain fire, once the crime of treason is convicted, the imperial court will definitely issue an imperial edict to all states, and when Mei Shao knows all this, will she blame herself for not telling him.Chen Yuanqing deeply discovered that curiosity sometimes really drives people to a dead end.He began to regret his cheapness back then.

After pondering for a few days, Chen Yuanqing finally felt that his good brother's life was more important. Just when he made up his mind to hide Mei Shao to the end, he found out that someone had asked Mei Shao out. .

He made an appointment with Mei Shao outside the Chen residence, and the one who told him the news was the person in the painting.

At that time, Pingdu had already set up a net to wait for Mei Shao, but he avoided everyone in the Chen family and left that night.

Chen Yuanqing, who didn't keep an eye on him, blamed himself very much, and wanted to follow him to Pingdu, but was stopped by Mr. Chen. He was not reconciled, and privately checked the person who sent the message to Mei Shao, and found out that he was the only son of the Bai family Bai Bingchen's younger brother.

"Looking at the person in the portrait just now, I feel familiar. Although six years have passed, his appearance has not changed much. He was the one who told you about the Cangshan Incident back then, and he is the one who assassinated you in Jianzhou now. You are the younger brother of the right prime minister, and it is Bai Bingchen who has been trying to kill you, right?"

Chen Yuanqing was a little confused, he even lowered his voice, as if he was afraid of disturbing the emotions of the person in front of him: "But when you were in Lanzhou, the person you told me was also Bai Bingchen?"

"The piece of red sandalwood that you cheated from me back then, you said you would carve it yourself and give it to the person you like. It was only halfway through when the news of the Cangshan Incident came. You hurried back to Pingdu, Just never contacted me again." Chen Yuanqing glanced at Mei Shao's face, and found that his hand holding the wine jar was gently tapping the outside of the wine jar, as if he was listening to someone else's story, and even raised his eyebrows at him , signaling him to continue.

"The semi-finished product is still in my room until now. I know your temperament. The people and things you have identified will not be changed easily. If there is not something between you, the piece of rosewood will not wait in vain. So many years. Although I haven't seen him, since he ascended to the position of Prime Minister, the person who gave the gift has already guessed his preferences. Who doesn't know that he prefers wood carvings. Now you want to go back again, don't you Haven't given up yet?"

"What are you talking about?" Mei Shao chuckled, "When I was young, I didn't know people well. I was impulsive and mistook a little friendship for admiration. Just this idea of ​​Chen Zhima rotten millet is worth your attention , specifically to laugh at me."

The more casually he spoke, the more flustered Chen Yuanqing became.

Mei Shao's ancestral home was in Lanzhou, and he was a family friend with the Chen family. One of the two families was a court official and the other a quack, and their temperaments were very similar. It wasn't until the Mei family was transferred to Pingdu that the contact between the two families gradually decreased.

Chen Yuanqing often heard from his father that Ping is a prosperous place where nobles gather in the world, and it is also the most treacherous place that destroys people's hearts.He didn't believe it at first, but it wasn't until the Mei family suffered an accident, the building suddenly collapsed, and his childhood playmate became unrecognizable. Only then did he realize that people in Pingdu are more treacherous than swords and swords.

Six years ago, Mei Shao stepped into Pingdu, and escaped from that city with scars and madness.Now, when he enters Pingdu again, what kind of situation awaits him.Faced with the same situation as six years ago, due to the obstacles at home, I still can't accompany him to face it, but at least this time, I can send him to this city.

"Let's go!" Mei Shao knocked on the head of Chen Yuanqing who was in a daze, "Remember to give me the money for the drink."

"Chongjin!" Chen Yuanqing suddenly yelled Mei Shao's words, the words choked in his throat for a while, but he couldn't utter them. It took a long time before he spit them out: "If one day, when you feel disheartened, remember your old friend from Lanzhou , still waiting for warm wine."

Mei Shao's eyes flickered slightly, and she smiled: "Pear blossoms are in full bloom in Pingdu, it's a good time, it's time to go to the city quickly, and the pear blossoms will go for nothing."