Yang Rongan lay on the bed, unable to sleep late at night, always half-asleep, trying to grope Jiang Xiange's hand in the quilt, even though he knew that she was still in a coma, he was still afraid that she would be awakened by herself, or refuse his touch.

He took her hand, put it in his heart, turned sideways to face her, and through the dim light, looked at her quiet and stable face, and made a low voice, repeating what he had said countless times in the past day and night: "Xian Ge, I was wrong...... Let's just think it's just a nightmare, and we'll forget about it when we wake up...... I'll always be good to you, will you forgive me?"

"She won't forgive you, and even if she did, I won't. ”

For the first time in the darkness of the night, he responded to what she said, but not to her.

It's Gu Qinghuan's voice!

Yang Rongan was shocked, his eyes widened, and he saw the silhouette of Gu Qinghuan trapped in the darkness.

"Qinghuan!"

He sat on the edge of their bed, and there was no light in the room, so that people could not see his expression, and there was no emotion in his voice: "Yes, it's me." ”

Yang Rongan had already begun to break out in a cold sweat, he was so frightened that his soul was not possessed, and he asked in a trembling voice, "...... Why are you here? When did you get here?"

He replied calmly: "I came a long time ago, but I didn't inform you, just when you were having dinner with your two beautiful concubines, I asked Tang Huan to help me in, I want to pay a good visit to Xiange, I heard that she was injured...... Very badly injured......"

"But...... But......" Yang Rongan couldn't tell whether to be angry or scared at this time, "Then why don't you leave? Why do you stay until now?",

Gu Qinghuan didn't answer him again, but shifted his gaze from Jiang Xiange's sleeping face to Yang Rongan's face, and looked at him in the half-light and half-darkness.

In this room where only moonlight entered the house, he looked at Yang Rong'an, put his hands in his sleeves, and sighed, "Rong'an, do you know that I love her?"

Yang Rongan gritted his teeth and struggled: "I know ......"

He finally asked, "Do you know that I killed someone for her?"

Yang Rong'an's cold hair stood erect, his back was stiff, he still couldn't believe what Gu Qinghuan dared to do to him, and he dragged on for a long time before answering, "I know ......"

In a blink of an eye, a white light flashed in front of Yang Rongan, and it was he who pulled out the dagger in his sleeve!

Yang Rongan was just about to shout for help, but the dagger had already pierced through the flesh and bones and inserted into his heart!

Blood gushed out, but the bright red color of the three people splashed on them was not really visible in the darkness.

Gu Qinghuan pushed the last inch of the blade deep into his body, and kept looking at him the whole time, Yang Rongan was still whimpering and moaning, as if he was about to struggle, so he covered Yang Rongan's mouth and nose with his other wide hand, suffocating him, and watching him bleed to death......

"Don't be afraid, we'll pick you up tomorrow. ”

He picked up his light fur in the corner of the wall, put on the blood that covered his body, and then looked at Jiang Xiange on the bed, she was already sleeping in Yang Rongan's pool of blood, but she was still so quiet, so stable, with a circle of gauze on her head, and there was also an unhealed blood hole underneath, and she felt distressed when she thought about it.

At this time, he blamed himself for being so impulsive tonight, and he really regretted it.

He thought, he shouldn't have killed Yang Rongan like this, obviously he could arrange 10,000 other ways, but he chose to kill him by Jiang Xiange's side, leaving such a terrifying scene, if Xian Ge woke up and saw it, wouldn't he be frightened?

It was useless to regret it, he could only leave first.

He left the Yang Mansion alone and walked home under the moon, not directly back to his small home, but to the Gu Mansion.

I never thought that Gu Qingxuan hadn't gone to bed yet, and Gu Qingning was also there.

They were playing chess in the study and discussing things, Uncle Tang informed him that he was back, Gu Qingning came out of the study, greeted him, and said with a smile: "Qinghuan, why are you home so late......?

Saying that, he was pulled closer to the study by Gu Qingning, and before the door was closed, Gu Qingning suddenly felt the tide in his hand, and looked down to see that it was a hand of blood, she was stunned, and then looked, the blood seeped out from under his light fur when she held Gu Qinghuan's arm, she was frightened, and suddenly changed her face, and hurriedly lifted the light fur on his body, covered in blood......

"Qinghuan, what's wrong with you?"

Gu Qingxuan, who was sitting next to the chessboard, also saw this scene, and immediately got up and ran towards him in shock.

Gu Qinghuan was still very calm, turned around and closed the door, turned back to them and said, "Just now, father, sister, I also have something to tell you." ”

……

The blood-spattered clothes were burned in the study of the Gu Mansion, and Sangu talked all night beside the brazier where the clothes were burned. It was nearly dawn before he returned to his Shangshu Mansion, had changed into clean clothes, and had come up with an excuse to explain to his wife why he had not returned overnight.

The lights are still lit in the bedrooms of the main house.

He began to panic.

Gu Qinghuan gently pushed open the door and saw He Luoke sitting at the table with the back door.

He tried to pull out a smile, and with a hippie smile on his face, he walked up to her from behind, put his hands on her shoulders, and said to her, "Madame!"

He Luoke was not frightened by him, but her face was really cold, Gu Qinghuan saw it, and he was at a loss in his heart.

"What's wrong with you? Have you been waiting for me to come back? Why are you so stupid?" he wrapped his arms around her, trying to take her into his arms.

She didn't speak, she sat on a stool, looking up at him with a strange gaze.

He began to explain weakly: "Madame, I was wrong, I shouldn't have stayed all night and forgot to say hello to you...... Don't worry, I'm not fooling around outside, I'm going to see my father, and my sister, something happened to the court, they came to me to discuss, and we talked all night...... If you don't believe me, you can ask your father and sister to ...... Alright, don't be mad at me......"

She stopped looking at him, her hand slid down from the collar of his robe, and as she slid it, she said, "Where's your official robe? Is your robe burned or buried?"

Gu Qinghuan was stunned and speechless.

She looked a little sluggish, as if she was saying something very ordinary: "It's better to burn it...... If it is buried, it may be dug up, and that is the evidence of homicide...... But that's the official uniform, what if you don't have the official uniform? Oh...... No, you can declare that your official uniform has been accidentally burned and make a new one, anyway, you are now in a high position, who will question you and blame you......? Even if someone suspects you, your sister, who is a waiter in the criminal department, will help you clear everything......"

Gu Qinghuan seemed to have suddenly lost all his strength, sat down on the ground and lay on her lap: "How do you know?"

She closed her eyes and cried, her shoulders trembled, and she whimpered: "You haven't been going home, I went to the official office to look for you, and when I saw you going to Yang Shilang's mansion, I followed you...... You got out of the car halfway through, and I followed behind, and you hid in someone's bedroom...... I'm on the roof of someone's bedroom...... I thought you just wanted to visit Jiang Xiange...... I didn't expect ...... Thou hast slain someone...... I see ...... in the cracks in the window Also heard...... You killed someone for her second time...... And then I went home......"

Gu Qinghuan got up and hugged her, hugged her tightly, showed his sorrow and fear in front of her, and inhaled deeply, "Luoke...... No matter what happens, I'm not going to change to you...... You are my wife, and I will not hurt you...... I killed Yang Rongan just to help Xian Ge get angry, he did very bad things to Xian Ge, I was mad enough to be like that! It's not because of anything else! Xian Ge is my relative, I can't tolerate others doing things like that to her...... Can you forgive me? Luoke, I just want to grow old with you now, can you trust me?"

This night, where he was plotting and plotting, she was here struggling alone, freed from her horror, grief, and sadness, and there was no need for his plea......

She couldn't say that she had thought about a lot of things since Gu Qinghuan proposed to her family.

She knows that the three Gu are not good, she understands that the Gu family is a wolf's den, she understands that officialdom is sinister and complicated, and she understands what she has chosen......

It's just that she didn't expect that she would have to face such a thing so soon, and it was such a fierce thing......

She was silent for a long time, pushed him away, looked at him, had no hatred or anger, and only asked the question she was most concerned about: "Will you leave me for Jiang Xiange?"

He was completely stunned, he didn't think that He Luoke's heart would be like this, he immediately shook his head firmly: "No! I definitely won't! You are my wife, you are the most important." ”

This time, she took the initiative to throw herself into his arms, "Gu Qinghuan, I believe you." ”

……

The day after Gu Qinghuan killed Yang Rongan, the Criminal Department began to investigate Yang Rongan's case, and Jiang Xiange and Tang Huan were taken back to Jiang's house.

After the dispersal value, Gu Qingxuan made an appointment to meet Du Wanwei.

Because in the past two years, the power of King Jin has spread to all corners of the court, imperceptibly affecting the movement of the court, and it has reached the point where it cannot be left alone. Recently, the King of Jin has completely let go of his hands and feet and began to win over the core ministers of the imperial court.

At the same time, due to the initial success of Gu Qingxuan's new policy, the emperor wanted to give him credit, and many ministers began to participate in the performance, and recommended him to go one step further - to enter the political affairs hall, the emperor also asked him what he meant, and he refused several times.

The time has not yet come, he doesn't want to be in a hurry, he thinks that he Gu Qingxuan will not be the second Lu Yuanzhi, nor will he be the second Yin Jiheng.

He wants to take every step of the way and never aggressively force anything.

However, some people can't stand the loneliness of waiting alone, and are tempted to swing between several camps with unknown boundaries, looking around, or greedy for small profits, which is annoying.

For example, Du fades.

Gu Qingxuan's eyes stared at all corners of the court, he quietly mastered a lot of secrets, and would rather bear the notoriety of hiding filth and dirt than easily leak out those secrets that could be sharp weapons.

Sake and side dishes, shallow drinking, when the imperial doctor and Zuo Sicheng were dressed in civilian clothes, they had a small gathering in the leisure time after the dispersion.

For most officials, perhaps after the dispersal is the time of the day when they get down to business.

Even if there is a feast of fine wine to accompany them, it cannot change the fact that there is no good banquet and no good banquet, and every glass of wine that officials drink together is made with interests, and if the interests are compatible, the wine is delicious and mellow, and there is a conflict of interests, that is a cup of bad wine.

“…… Shouldn't the imperial court put the people first?Isn't everything we do for the benefit of the people?" Du Wanwei leaned back in his chair and complained to Gu Qingxuan about the selfishness of his colleagues, who were engaged in corruption in the political reform for his own benefit.

Gu Qingxuan saw that he was really drunk, so he withdrew his hand that was pouring wine for him, shook his head and smiled: "Du Sicheng, are you really drunk, right? Don't tell jokes...... The imperial court has never put the people first......"

Du Weiwei didn't expect him to say such a thing, although he knew that this was the truth, and was surprised: "Ah?

"Your Majesty comes first. Gu Qingxuan said as a matter of course.

Du gradually realized and patted his head: "Actually, it's all the same thing......

Gu Qingxuan suddenly laughed, almost choking on wine: "It's not the same thing." It is true that the interests of the people are the interests of His Majesty, but the interests of His Majesty are not the same as the interests of the people. This is like a father and son, most fathers will raise their sons to earn the family business for their sons, but sons rarely do their filial piety to the end to dedicate their life savings to their fathers, but they need to be reversed, to put it disrespectfully, they all say that the Son of Heaven is the 'Son of Heaven', in fact, it is more like 'the Son of the World', the people of the world have to raise him and love him, otherwise he will be disobedient and punished. And the Son of Heaven does not necessarily care about the people, he just needs to raise a bunch of officials, give them power, and then push the fault on their heads. ”

Du was slightly stunned, and began to look left and right, looking nervous.

Gu Qingxuan asked him, "Du Sicheng, what are you looking at?"

He shook his head: "It's nothing...... I'm just looking to see if I'm in a dream...... Doctor Gu, how dare you say such a thing...... Aren't you afraid of killing your head?"

Gu Qingxuan still poured him a small glass of wine, which meant to make him frightened: "I'm afraid." Unless Du Sicheng leaks out...... Could it be that Du Sicheng will betray Gu?"

Du Wanwei's hand shook slightly, and he smiled awkwardly: "How is it possible?" Doctor Gu, I, Du Wanwei, can have today thanks to your appreciation and promotion of the doctor, I am loyal and sincere to the doctor, and I have no second heart......

Gu Qingxuan didn't answer, but said: "Du Sicheng, do you know why the famous Ming Monarch and Holy Lord in history are very concerned about the people's livelihood and welfare, and whether the people have enough to eat?"

This topic turned to Du Weiwei by surprise, "...... Well, because the people take food as their heaven, of course a holy monarch should care about the things that the people are most concerned about......"

He said: "No, in the final analysis, I am afraid that they will rebel, and I want to sit firmly in the country." ”

"Huh?"

"The people are actually very coaxing, unlike their colleagues who are officials, who ask for power and money from the court, and when they ask for money, they want more...... Most of the people are very simple, they know that it is good if the court does not exploit them ruthlessly, so as long as they are well fed and clothed, and create a 'peaceful and prosperous world' for them, they will farm with peace of mind, pay taxes according to the rules, and sing praises for the emperor, and they will not care who the emperor is, and naturally they will not oppose who is the emperor, nor will they inquire about who is in power in the court, and they don't even know who the prime minister is. If they don't care and don't understand, we will be able to make mistakes, and there will be no scholars who write sour poems to scold the court, even if someone scolds, it is a sober minority, we can define these few as 'thieves', accusing them of not being grateful and having a wrong mind, and there will be people who will help us accuse them of ......"

"Help us accuse them? Do we need to induce them?"

"No, the people are something we can't induce, they know that what the 'few' said is right, they don't blame those people for scolding the court, but blame them for telling the facts—facts that have nothing to do with themselves. Everybody is dreaming, can the person who wakes up first be able to make a loud noise to wake up others? That's very rude. In the 'peaceful and prosperous times', most of the people are very fragile, like children who are asleep, they cannot hear sharp voices. ”

"So we have to feed them. This is why I advocate commercial reform and political reform? These are all measures to rescue in a hurry, and His Majesty understands it, so he will still approve of it even though he knows that the sacrifice is great. He wants to be the Holy Lord of the Ming Dynasty. ”

"What about you, Doctor Gu? Why are you?

"A lot, a lot, a lot, a lot of sacrifices. He raised his glass, "Master Du, you must not want to be something that Gu 'sacrificed' out, right?"

Du was slightly stunned for a long time, "Doctor Gu...... Got it all?"

"Doctor Gu, you must protect me! I was bewitched by Yang Longxing!

Gu Qingxuan touched the wine glass he put on the case, looked at Du Wanwei, who was lying on the ground in a panic and begging for mercy, and said: "Don't be afraid of Master Du, Gu has already grasped the truth, whoever has the most crimes, just know it in your heart." I just wanted to have a drink with you tonight and talk to you about the truth by the way, that's all. ”

On the second day, Du gradually folded the report and impeached Yang Longxing.