Sheping's body in front of her stiffened slightly: "What do you mean by the girl's words?" ”

Zhao Ran said: "It's so dark in the Alley without lights, even if Lu Jia is close in front of you, you can't see him splashed wet, let alone that he is so far away......"

Sheping said: "He committed suicide in fear of sin, didn't he?"

"So there is only one answer, there are two people who assassinated me, you and Lu Jia!" Zhao Ran pointed with a straight finger, "The person who shouted in front to protect the horse master and attracted the guards over is you, and the one who did it is Lu Jia." ”

The two of them were still walking one after the other, and after a few days of haze, tonight finally there was a light snow, and the wind blew people's cheeks like knives.

"It's just that I haven't been able to figure out why you're killing me?" Zhao Ran frowned, "You know I'm a fake princess......"

She Ping half-turned her face and said, "So if the girl is too careful, the person who assassinated you should naturally be the one who doesn't know that the girl is the one who replaces the princess." ”

"The person who assassinated you should naturally be the one who doesn't know that Ru Girl is the one who replaces the princess......" Zhaoran repeated her words word for word in a flat tone.

"What do you mean, girl?"

Zhaoran touched his chin and said: "The normal statement should usually be arranged like this: Lu Jia doesn't know that the sedan chair is a girl who replaces the princess. ”

"So what's the difference?"

"In the wrong order. ”

No matter how good Sheping's concentration is, he can't help but be apprehensive: "What's wrong?"

"The focus of my question is Lu Jia, so the order of your answer should be Lu Jia, the princess, and then me, the victim such as the girl, but the order of your answer is: the assassin, such as the girl, the princess, and finally Lu Jia. ”

"What does that mean?" said Sheping, who couldn't help but half-turn.

Zhaoran said: "This proves that the order of focus in your heart is that the assassin is the person who killed first, such as the girl, the princess and then Lu Jia, people who deny something often like to say that I did not steal, I did not kill, I did not do anything bad...... If you replace this sentence, it means that I didn't kill you!"

Sheping breathed a sigh of relief: "It's okay if the girl says that." ”

"You admit it!"

"I, what do I confess?"

Zhao Ran said: "You just admitted that the "assassin" is equal to "me", that is, the assassin is equal to you shooting, right? The reason why a lie is a lie is because the first person who cannot be deceived is himself. ”

Sheping's face changed drastically, and her hand involuntarily touched the saber, but she heard Zhaoran raise her head and say, "Hey, isn't this the princess's courtyard?"

She Ping quietly withdrew her hand, bowed her head and said, "If you are a girl, please come in, the princess and the princess have been waiting for you for a long time." ”

Zhao Ran said with a sad face: "I'll tell the princess now, is it too late for the master of the horse to force me to be a concubine?"

Sheping lowered her head and said, "Like a girl, you are laughing." ”

"Then I will tell the princess that I will ask you to be my first-class maid. Zhaoran grinned and said, "If you serve you well, I will guarantee you to be the master of the horse and make the room." ”

She Ping couldn't help but raise her head, and smiled at her with a toothy smile: "This is a joke." ”

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He strode into the hall door, and saw that it was still as decorated as when he first came, but the sandalwood burned in the room was replaced by Su Hexiang, and the princess sat on the main seat in a long red dress, and next to her stood a forsythia like pear blossoms and snow.

Zhaoran bent down towards them: "I've seen the princess, I've seen the concubine." ”

"I can't even salute!" Wang Zeng sat on the side seat, his sword eyebrows were slightly restrained, and he turned his head to the princess and said, "I want you to □□ more in the future, she is very smart, but she lacks some rules." ”

The princess said in a straight voice: "I will turn around and let the grandmother in the palace guide her." ”

Forsythia spoke: "The princess's grandmother can't ask for the young ladies of many big families. ”

Wang Zeng said to Zhaoran: "Don't thank you yet, princess." ”

Zhao Ran hesitated for a long time and said: "Master Ma doesn't have to make a little credit for the little girl to reward the little girl, in fact, this is what the little girl should do, the so-called cannibalism, loyalty and loyalty." If the horse master really wants to reward something, it is better to break the gold. ”

Forsythia was angry when he heard his words, the grace of the princess and the attached horse can still be broken, and it can be broken into gold, where does the horse master fancy this woman?

She rebuked, "Daring, where is the place for you to bargain for the grace of the princess and the concubine?"

Zhao Ran said in surprise: "The princess and the princess are here, where is there a place where one of your servants intervenes, could it be that your face is bigger than the princess and the princess?"

Forsythia has won the trust of the princess, but there is no one who knows a little about Princess Jiashan who does not know her forsythia status, and now she is being taught a lesson by a woman with a humble status in front of her, and she can't help but blush with anger.

She was just about to open her mouth, but Jiashan had already spoken: "Okay, go and give her what I prepared for Miss Ru." ”

Forsythia saw that instead of reprimanding Zhaoran, Jiashan was a little unhappy, and he was slightly shocked, afraid that Jiashan would also think that he had transgressed, so he suddenly lost a little bit of anger, bowed his head and took a box and handed it to Zhaoran.

Jiashan seemed to be a little tired, so he said: "If there is nothing to do, then retreat." ”

Zhaoran bowed and asked, "Princess, can the little girl come to listen to the princess's guidance in the future?"

Jiashan was slightly stunned and then said, "Naturally." ”

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Zhaoran went out and found that Wang Zeng was following behind, so he turned around and said, "It's so cold, do you want to go back to sleep?"

Wang Zeng glared at him: "Mouthy." He stretched out his hand and dragged Zhaoran all the way to the outside of the corridor before he asked angrily, "What do you mean?"

Zhao Ran looked ignorant: "What does the horse mean?"

Wang Zeng stretched out his hand and pressed him against the wall and said, "It's still pretending." ”

The distance between the two was a little close, Wang Zeng's lips looked like they were going to kiss down, and he shouted, "Godfather!"

"What godfather?!" Wang Zeng said with a thick frown.

Zhao Ran said: "Master Ma told Lord Wen that the little girl is your money, and he must have recognized me as your daughter, and of course the master of the horse is the godfather of the little girl." ”

As he spoke, he shamelessly and crisply shouted, "Godfather!"

Wang Zeng was angry and funny: "I want to take you as a concubine, but you are not happy." ”

Zhao Ran made a shocked expression: "Master Ma, you want to accept the little girl as a concubine, of course the little girl is willing to do it, but I look at Lord Wen's mouth is not very reliable, this human nature is a mad dog, and he has to bite twice when he sees someone...... The little girl is afraid that her godfather's reputation is not good. ”

At this moment, he still hasn't forgotten to mend Wen Zhigeng's knife.

Wang Zeng knew that Zhao Ran was talking about it, but the godfather who listened to him, no matter how good his interest was, he turned his head and saw that he was frightened and shy for a moment, and suddenly had an inexplicable feeling in his heart, and snorted: "You don't want to do it now, I will let you want it sooner or later." ”

He paused and added: "If the sentence you just said about Wen Zhigeng spreads, it will be enough for you to have no place in the world." ”

"I'm not afraid of him. He said with a toothy smile, his original appearance was just delicate, and it was okay to say that his posture was mediocre, but this smile was like a flower on the ground, squeezing into people's hearts.

"Sit down!" Wang Zeng suddenly patted the railing on the side of the corridor.

At this time, there was a light snow in the sky, and the cold wind through the corridor was really a little frozen, but Zhao Ran replied cheerfully: "Okay!" As soon as he sat down, he anxiously checked the newly acquired things.

Wang Zeng was originally touched, but when he saw Zhao Ran's appearance, he suddenly understood that even if he didn't have his own invitation, he was afraid that Zhao Ran would sit down and see what good things he got first.

Everyone is greedy for money, and everyone is delicious, but it is not annoying to be so frank and unrestrained.

Wang Zeng turned two or three thoughts, and Zhao Ran had already opened the box, and saw that it was empty, and there was no gold, silver, and jewelry hidden in it, and he couldn't help but be a little disappointed.

"That's a good thing. Wang Zeng saw that he didn't know the goods, so he pointed to the top of the box and said, "This is the Yingye Pearl from a foreign country, also known as the Peacock Warm Stone, but it is a tribute in the palace." ”

Zhao Ran buried his head in it with his hands around and took a look, and sure enough, he saw that the beads embedded in the jewelry box emitted a glowing and soft light, he couldn't help but feel good, thought about it carefully and said with a little regret: "This box looks precious, and it is not of much use, and it can't be put down with a ham elbow." ”

The implication is that it is no better than gold and silver to exchange ham for elbows.

Wang Zeng glared at him: "Such a box naturally has to be worthy of something." ”

"Okay. Zhaoran took a step back, "In the future, I want to think of what to ask the master to do, so I will write a note and put it in this box, and the master will take this note when the time comes, even if we are clear." ”

Wang Zeng was angry: "You are simply pampered and arrogant, dare to send me to do things, and you have cleared the two, how can you clear the law?"

Zhao Ran thought that there was no pet, and he didn't have a piece of gold so far, so he said flatteringly: "Of course it's not to send the horse master to do things, isn't this to get something worthy of such a noble box?"

Wang Zeng sighed, no longer bothered with Zhaoran, intuitively he felt that he was scheming with Zhaoran, but he was afraid that in the end, he would not be able to pinch the shortcomings of this little slippery head, and he would be half angry.

He turned his mind a little, turned around and saw Zhao Ran puffing out his mouth, with a packet of gas in his mouth, he couldn't help frowning Before he could speak, Zhao Ran had already spewed out all the qi in his mouth.

In the cold night, the air turned into fog, and a string of white mist spread, mixed with snowflakes flying slowly, which was very beautiful under the corridor lamp.

Wang Zeng looked at it like this, and Zhaoran's face was in the fog.

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Zhao Ran ordered the kitchen to make more ham elbows early in the morning, and then slipped out again, and not long after he went out, he saw Sheping following behind him.

He turned around and opened a curtain and walked in, Sheping also hurriedly followed, only to find that it was a man's bathhouse, even if she had practiced martial arts since she was a child, she had never seen a man naked**, especially these many men were naked**, she simply screamed and covered her face and ran out.

Wait for her to calm down for a while, and then turn her head, where is there still a clear shadow.

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In winter, the sun sets quickly, and it is almost dusk when it is almost dusk.

Forsythia hurriedly walked through the courtyard and whispered a few words in Princess Jiashan's ear: "Princess, this person has a strange origin, what did you say she suddenly disappeared for a day, in case she ......"

Jiashan slowly put down the tea bowl in his hand and said, "Go and pick up the cloak, and then call Zhuyue over." ”

"Now?" Forsythia hesitated.

Jiashan said: "I can't wait any longer. ”

Forsythia answered, and then said, "Call a few more people." ”

Jiashan nodded and said, but after a while, she put on her cloak, got into the carriage, walked to the door and lifted the curtain and said, "On the order of the princess, go to the Niangniang Temple to incense." ”

The guards at the gate immediately got out of the way, who didn't know that Princess Jiashan would come to Rong'an Town as soon as the winter solstice arrived, and she would definitely give a few more incense sticks to the nearby Niangniang Temple to ask for children.

The carriage stopped in front of an empty house, and Forsythia lifted the curtain, glanced outside, and said, "Why is it still dark here?" ”

One of the guards whispered to him, "Princess, there is no suspicious person in the house." ”

Jiashan nodded slightly, and when she walked to the door, she hesitated slightly, then got up and got out of the carriage supported by Forsythia.

"Stand down, all of you. Jiashan walked to the door of the inner room and said.

Forsythia answered "yes", and Jiashan walked into the house alone, lit the two oil lamps on the table, and then pushed open the bookshelves in the house, revealing a corridor inside.

Jiashan took a lamp on the table, and then walked along the road, and when she reached the end of the road, she pulled an iron ring, and the stone wall in front of the door turned away, revealing another door, and she got out of the door, and it was the clock tower of the Li Mansion.

Looking around at the quiet environment around her, Jiashan's straight back relaxed slightly, she looked up at the stairs and took a deep breath, put the lamp down on the ground, lifted her skirt and touched the wall, and walked along the stairs step by step until she reached the tower.

As soon as she stepped on the bell tower, she saw Zhaoran sitting on the edge of the wall and waved at her, Jiashan was startled, and involuntarily took a step back, Zhaoran smiled and said: "Be careful, if you fall down from here, you will have to meet Master Li again." ”

Jiashan held on to the wall and said in a deep voice, "What nonsense are you talking about?"

Zhao Ran sat on the edge of the wall and said with a grin: "From the first time we met, at that time, you were looking for a substitute ghost who had a little bit of imagination like you, but when I saw Tsukizuki, I thought it was very strange, because Tsukitsuki looked far more like a princess than me. ”

Jiashan said coldly: "Even if it is a substitute for the dead ghost, of course, it is best to use useless people." ”

"I thought so too, but when I found out that Master Li was Mrs. Li, I was thinking, how did Mrs. Li get out of the princess's sedan chair after taking off her skin?" The second is simple, I am a simple person, so I chose to believe in two. ”

"What's in it for Princess Ben?"

Zhaoran said: "This is also something I have not been able to figure out, but when I entered the city, I met a woodcutter uncle who likes to tell stories, he told me that a few years ago, a strange sky fell in the mountains near Rong'an Town, and there was a thing falling from the sky, and in the middle of the night it emitted a green and faint demonic light, which provoked the spirits in the mountains to dispatch, and a few bold mountain people went to see the excitement at night and also called bite to death." ”

Jiashan pursed his lower lip and didn't say a word.

"I didn't know what it was, but thanks to the princess giving me a wooden box yesterday, I was reminded of a poem that was lit by the night light, adorned with beads as candles. This thing is called suspense, also called with the pearl, of course, when the foreign country is offered, it is also called the peacock warm jade, in fact, this thing can attract mosquitoes, insects, rats and ants in the middle of the night, so it often attracts poisonous snakes to entrench on the four sides, saying that it is a monster, and it is not an exaggeration at all. ”

"What exactly do you want to say?" said Jiashan, with an angry face.

"A mouthful of incense picking is before the early morning, the tea pickers naturally go in the middle of the night, the reason why the unlit alley is called the no-lamp alley, it is not all because the people here are poor, but the whole unlit alley is for the tea pickers of the Li Mansion, made at night, and the sun rises, so the tea pickers of the Li Mansion found the stone and carried it back. As a Hanlin, Lord Li is erudite and talented, and the tea pickers carried the stone back, and when it came to the dawn, they found that it was just an ordinary stone, and they must have been disappointed, but Lord Li would not be confused about it. ”

Zhao Ran said: "The sky is auspicious, such a large piece of night pearl stone, if Lord Li can dedicate this stone to the current emperor, it must be able to restore the throne, but first, he has no such way, second, he may not be able to trust the person who handles it, and third, his plan is not so small, it just so happened that at this time, the princess, you followed the Buddha to Rong'an Town, and Lord Li immediately thought of the princess." ”

"It's not convenient for Lord Li to know the princess, but Mrs. Li is long-sleeved and good at dancing, and she is funny and kind, but it is not difficult to get to know the princess. The purpose of the Li Mansion was originally very simple, to polish the night stone into a few night pearls, part of which was counted as a reward for the princess, and the other part was successively entrusted to the princess to be handed over to the adults in the capital, in order to seek a future. Therefore, the peacock warm jade box that the princess carried with her was actually originally used to hold the night pearl, in order to hide the characteristics of the night pearl shining at night. It's just that it won't be needed in the future, so the princess took it and rewarded it to the little girl. Zhao Ran said this, "tsk" twice.

Zhao Ran continued, "I initially thought that the person who traded was a colt, until I later figured out what to do with the clock tower. The bell tower was originally used to store and process the night pearl stone, and among the towers, the night pearl will not be leaked unless it is full of treasure. When I remembered the laborious appearance of Mrs. Li going up the stone stairs, I realized the purpose of the other layer of the bell tower, which was a sliding cable, with the hanging bell as the axis, and put down the hanging basket, and the princess usually sat on the hanging basket to go up, right? Therefore, the people who traded could not be two women, but a man and a woman, so it was Lord Li and the princess!"

Jiashan said coldly: "Although the Night Pearl is a royal forbidden, there are many hidden things among the people, even if it is as you said, it is reasonable for the Li Mansion to hand over the Night Pearl to the palace." Why should I hide it like that?"

Zhao Ran said: "The Night Pearl is already a forbidden object in the palace, but it is not rare, but if it is a Night Pearl that can make people's corpses incorruptible, it is priceless, precious enough to make the emperor's heart move, precious enough for someone to start a war for it, the more powerful people will be moved by it." ”

Jiashan's tone began to be a little unsteady: "I don't know what you're talking about?"

"I don't know how I first found it, maybe Lord Li felt that it was difficult for ordinary Night Pearls to have a great future, so he took someone and tried it, but I didn't expect that there would be an unexpected joy...... "It's a pity that not all of the Night Pearls taken out of that big stone can keep the corpse from rotting, so the transaction between the princess and Lord Li is from the trading pearl...... to trade corpses. ”