The moon was falling, the huge house was quiet, and there was a snoring sound from the bushes from time to time.

It's a black cat.

The river drum guard sat on the beam of the room, snorted melon seeds at a silver hook, shook his wrist and threw out a small pebble, which hit the cat's tail.

"Just sweep it clean, don't let the brutes trample on it. ”

The black cat let out a terrible scream, and immediately arched its back, its green eyes glared fiercely at the eaves, but its pointed ears suddenly stood up, and it slipped back into the grass with its tail down.

Inch-tall weeds rustle.

The river drum guard stuffed the remaining melon seeds into his pocket, took out a small wine bag, and slowly leaned on the owl kiss, ready to watch the play.

A silver light suddenly appeared on the wall, and the five black-clothed men stepped forward, without even covering their face scarves, and pulled out their short swords and entangled with the flashing Liang Guo's secret guards, and the scene was very intense.

"Tsk, we may have seen a fake Secret Guard. There was one more person on the beam, "In these years, my brothers are unreliable, and even a guard is infighting. ”

Liang Guo's guards were three against five, but they did not fall behind, and the tricks of the two sides were very different, and they were obviously taught by one family. The five people didn't want to spend it for a long time, so they spilled the medicine powder tacitly, and Xiao Xiao's moonlight instantly dimmed a little. The guards on the defensive retreated, but at this time, two more uninvited guests jumped out from behind the locust tree, and their sharp daggers pierced the back of the three of them.

"Zheng!"

The river drum guard on the beam threw out a silver dart, shook the blade by half an inch, and said with a smile: "Your Excellency might as well take us, seven people fight three people, how boring." ”

The few people who broke into the palace turned a deaf ear, and tried their best to put three unlucky colleagues to death, ignoring the Qi people who were watching from the wall.

The river drum guard who spoke was a little dissatisfied, and reluctantly jumped out of the room to help, provoking another person watching the play to wonder: "Are you drinking fake wine? ”

"Don't be idle, if these three are killed, how will Lord Su tell the Empress Dowager!"

"Fake wine hurts people......" he muttered, kicked down, and joined the group.

There are three courtyards in the palace, and the house has long been empty, and only an elderly teahouse with a gatekeeper still lives in it, and his ears are dazzled, and no matter how loud the sound of the battle is, he can't wake him up. The second courtyard is the main house, originally lived the king and princess of Jingbei, the east and west wings are empty, one of them is where they lived when the adults were young, the furnishings are the same, when the queen mother sent someone to clean up the mansion, there was no room in the room.

The dowry of the State of Qi was scheduled to be sent to the Ming capital before the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the county lord was nominally taken from Yuxiao Mountain to the palace to be married, so it was very necessary to go north to Beijing to hide people's eyes. My parents have been dead for many years, and it is inevitable that I will be lonely when I live alone, but the whole street is deserted, and as long as I am busy when I get married, it can be said. The princess of Qi Guojun did not want to put a righteous princess, but instead asked for an embarrassing county lord with a big gift, which was tantamount to giving Yuwen a slap in the face. When it comes to royal blood, there is no shortage of the two highnesses, but now it is the Zuo Xiang family who is hot to cover the sky with one hand.

They can't even tolerate the secret guards assigned by the Empress Dowager to her little granddaughter.

The alliance is a major event to announce the entire Central Plains, and the road from Fanjing to Mingdu went exceptionally smoothly, without encountering any danger, just because Zhuyi County returned to the country, and the Yuwen clan could not ask for it. It's easy to get in, but it's a thousand times more difficult to get out, and the river drum guards all understand this truth, and on the first night they came to Mingdu, the other party gave a dismount.

Not for the people of Qi, but only for the own people who protect the county lord.

"Longevity, this Liang Guo clan is actually doing such evil, it's an ancestor. ”

"It's still more wise for the three generations of single transmission on our side. ”

"Hey, do you guess Your Majesty wants to pass ...... alone?"

Ji Wei floated over with a gloomy face, "Don't you want to do it, you should cut your tongue!"

*

The body that had taken the medicine began to misalign again, and the cool air crept up from the tiptoes. She moved the copper soup woman inward, and the soles of her feet were burned, and she was awake in an instant.

The head of the bed is still covered with clear moonlight, and it may not be long before dawn. The sound of fighting floated outside the open bamboo curtain, and Su Hui listened to it for a while, then sat up with sleepy eyes wrapped in the quilt.

"Xinqi. She called.

The young female guard appeared outside the tent like a ghost, as if she knew what she was going to ask: "Don't worry, my lord, there are a few Xiaoxiao outside, and the commander has already brought people over." ”

"Hmm......" Su warmed his eyes and buried half of his face in the quilt, "...... Are you alright?"

"The three men suffered only minor injuries, and there was no fear for their lives. ”

Su Hui replied, planted it and continued to sleep.

On the second day, the autumn was crisp and sunny, and the flowers and plants in the house were bright and verdant. When Tongyue came to the garden for breakfast, a group of servants came from outside the provincial government, saying that they wanted to settle the belongings for the county lord.

Xu Buyang drank a big bowl of goat's milk and burped: "Who called them here, the river drum guard cleaned and cooked, and saved my junior sister money." ”

When I arrived at the residence yesterday evening, there was only an old man who stayed behind, and three guards who did not get along with each other, and I didn't see any servants, this group was probably the same people who cleaned the house before, and for some reason they only came here now.

That Ji Wei was negotiating with the injured Liang Guoren.

"Your Majesty and the Empress Dowager were sympathetic to the distinguished guests, so they asked these twenty attendants to appear after His Highness had checked in, and showed them to the people one by one, so that you and others could inspect the various rooms. ”

Ji Wei listened to this condescending tone and the heavy word "Qi people", and almost broke his efforts, but when he thought of his own king's advice, he swallowed his anger and said with a pleasant face:

"Let's take them into the front yard and recuperate from their wounds. Everyone is a guard, how can they serve their master when they are injured?"

Liang Guoren's hand was pressed on the scabbard, and his eyes were cold.

Ji Wei immediately beckoned to a few subordinates: "If you want to learn, twelve, nineteen, these three people dislike the food cooked by our Xinqi girl, accompany them to practice, pay attention to proportion." ”

The two river drum guards scolded Shangfeng for a long time, and finally waited for this moment, very excited:

"Come on, come on, brothers, go to the backyard, in case the adults are investigated, the commander can still help us carry it. ”

The Commander is already getting annoyed.

Twenty maids lined up in the courtyard, standing in a well-trained position, and the river drum guards led them into the wing room to search their bodies. The room has been carefully turned over, there is nothing unusual, in the days to come, in addition to paying attention to the every move of the judge, you also have to keep an eye on these people, who knows if there will be a queen mother mixed in inside.

Xu Buyang put his arm on Ji Wei's shoulder: "It's definitely not enough to be such a little person, how can I say that it is also a national gift to marry the daughter of the clan, and the palace will definitely send someone over in two days." The residents next door were empty, just in time for them to keep an eye on. ”

Ji Wei had a splitting headache, "Doctor Xu, don't you feel particularly excited when you return to Mingdu?"

Xu Buyang excitedly ran out of the house with the medicine box to tell fortunes.

Su Huihui did not meet the new servants in the house, and returned to the room from the garden to wait obediently, bored thinking about the prescription. The Empress Dowager and Sheng Yunyi must have negotiated a few times, but neither party revealed much to her, which made her dissatisfied. She can only wait for the people above to pass the word down, when she will enter the palace, and what she will do next, all of which are determined by others.

The curtain clanged, and Xin Ji said behind the screen: "My lord, there is an inner eunuch in the palace, saying that he wants to see you." ”

The inner eunuch entered from the main entrance, it should not have been sent by the Queen Mother or the princess.

Su Huihui changed her clothes, and Tongyue skillfully pulled up the popular bun of the Mingdu woman for her, and confirmed that the tidying was in order, and then someone came in layer by layer.

The scene was cumbersome, but she went back to this place and had to take advantage of the situation to put on a shelf.

Su Huihui sat upright in the main hall, with a full set of Ugin tea sets in front of him, steaming hot. Jia Ming was still warm, and a rickety old eunuch stepped into the threshold, with gray eyebrows, and approached from the newly laid carpet tremblingly.

Everyone retreated, leaving Kiritsu standing behind the chair with her head down.

The inner prison is old, bowing down, the bones are creaking, but the gaze that falls on the tea set is extremely sharp. The golden honeysuckle flowers surround the midnight-like black glaze, which is the unique elegance and luxury of the Southern Qi royal family.

Su Huihui was a little weak-hearted, thinking that Sheng Yunyi specially greeted the river drum guard, and even prepared the things that were displayed.

"The old minister is the palace man of Mingxin Palace, and the empress dowager learned yesterday that the county lord has returned to Beijing, and the special minister came here to help take care of the affairs of the palace until the county lord came out of the cabinet. ”

Su warmed his head and said gently: "There is labor." Do you know what to call it?"

"The surname is Song, and the county lord probably can't remember. The old man raised his eyebrows, and tears glistened in his smiling eyes.

Su Hui was stunned for a moment, and walked down from the chair quickly, "Song Duzhi, when I was studying in the garden, it was Ah Gong who took me to and from school?"

For a while, she didn't know how to speak, so she asked Tongyue to help the old man into a seat, and only after a while did she say in a low voice: "Mother-in-law's body...... It's okay. ”

The old eunuch wiped away his tears with his sleeve, "The little county lord still thinks about the past, no wonder His Highness thinks about you every day." Since the beginning of the summer, His Highness's illness has improved somewhat, but when the weather is cold, he coughs again at night, and he always has trouble sleeping. ”

Su Huihui couldn't help but feel sad in her heart, "When can my mother-in-law take the time to see me?"

Song Duke: "The Mid-Autumn Festival Palace Banquet on August 15, the county lord will also attend, and His Royal Highness will let the county lord stay in Mingxin Palace." The old minister doesn't know what His Highness's plans are, but even if you let the county lord go, it won't make you embarrassed. There are still some troubles in the palace that need to be solved by His Royal Highness personally, and the county lord will wait patiently for half a month. ”

I want to talk to her about Xun Muhua and Bodhi Xue, she came to Mingdu mainly for these two medicinal materials, the time can't be delayed too long, tomorrow is the first day of the new year, wait for fifteen days, and then make plans. She always felt that it was not so simple, the Queen Mother and An Yang were unwilling, and it was not necessary to reach out to the Queen Mother who lived alone.

Su warmed up and said: "When I first returned to the Ming capital, I was not familiar with the things inside and outside the palace, and it was inconvenient to go out of the house before the Mid-Autumn Festival. ”

The old man used to be the right class of the inner service province before the emperor of Chengzu, although time has passed, he is now idle, and he still has three points of prestige in the palace. At that time, her grandmother looked at her very strictly, and only assured that Liang and Song would accompany her to dinner, and it is still the same team to this day. There are only a few people who can be trusted for so many years, and she doesn't know that her grandmother assigned Song Duzhi to her, and who she will take care of.

"Liang Duzhi is still in Mingxin Palace?"

"How old is his minister, he went a few years ago. His Royal Highness is now only resting in the dormitory, and does not leave the hospital, and the warm pavilion is served by the grandmother brought from the Shen family. ”

Su Huihui pursed her lips and said: "I should have visited my mother-in-law a long time ago, I have been back to Mingdu twice in more than ten years, but I haven't been with her well." ”

"The county lord doesn't need to blame himself, Your Highness is happier than anything else to see you grow up safely. Song Duzhi sighed with emotion, "The county lord has the bearing of His Royal Highness when he was young, and when he entered the house, the old minister thought that he had seen Her Royal Highness the queen back then." He glanced meaningfully at the teacup on the table.

Do all the elders like to say this? She remembered clearly, and the Qian Bo in the Lu Jiajun was very excited to say that she was like a grandmother.

"When I see the county lord, I talk a lot, alas...... It's really old. His Royal Highness also instructed that if this house was really unlivable, someone would come and ask the county lord to move elsewhere, but he would have to grieve the county lord for a few days before entering the palace. He thought for a while and said euphemistically: "The county lord returned to Beijing to go out of the cabinet, and it is inconvenient to see outsiders, but ......"

Su Huihui understood a little in his heart, and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter, grandmother's arrangements have always been reliable." At most, I was allowed to stay at my father's best friend's house as I had done at the beginning. ”

Song Duzhi looked at her bright smile, put down the teacup and nodded, "Then the old minister will go to see the prince first." ”

Su Hui's eyes paused invisibly in his cup for a moment.

I just heard him say slowly: "This is a tea bar in the south, the old minister is not used to drinking, the county lord is so willing, the minister is really a capital crime." ”

Su Hui warmed up and said that he had nothing to do.

After the old eunuch left, she called Xin Qi with an expressionless face, and just as she was about to clear her throat and say a few words, a group of river drum guards rushed into the main house and knelt on the ground.

"My lord forgives me, I really didn't expect the old man to be unaccustomed to drinking Fanjing's tribute tea......"

"Adults are aware that they really don't want to go out to run errands and buy things......"

"My lord, I really didn't do anything excessive to those three guards, everyone is a colleague......

"Don't be angry, don't be angry, next time you will definitely let the Liang people sent by the Empress Dowager entertain the Liang people's distinguished guests......"

"Don't be angry with Your Majesty, it's Your Majesty who told you not to lose his face......"

Su Hui's hands trembled angrily, he dropped the curtain and went in, and scolded from afar: "The upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked!"

*

As soon as Shen Zheng passed, hundreds of officials went home one after another from the official office.

Helanjin came out of the Hanlin Courtyard and walked lazily to the ox cart, and the car wafted with a fragrant aroma.

The editor of his peers couldn't help but turn his head and asked jokingly: "The third prince dares to hide some peerless beauty in the car, so he is on duty so early?"

Helanjin narrowed his peach blossom eyes and lifted half of the car curtain, "Yes, the first-class beauty of Mingdu City, why don't you accompany me to watch it?"

The editor waved his hand again and again, and teased: "The person you fancy is a princess, and I can't look at it, how can I have the guts." ”

Helanjin sighed: "What I said is true, there is indeed a beauty from the Western Regions in the car, with a strange fragrance, you don't believe it." ”

The editor only laughed when he said, "If there is a beauty, can the third prince put her in front of the official office? ”

After that, he quickly covered his mouth, looked around, and relieved himself when he saw that no one was paying attention, "Childe, enjoy it, see you tomorrow." ”

Helan Jin suddenly stopped him: "You stop, there is the car of the officials in front of you, beware of their ears and eyes." ”

The editor looked at it, but it was the squire and the monk who were riding together, and immediately sweated: "Thank you son, the younger brother should wait for them to leave before going out." ”

Helan Jin casually pulled off the overly tightly tied hair crown, leaned against the corner of the wall and said, "Recently, the six departments have been busy, I think it is to prepare for the wedding of the county lord." ”

"Otherwise, no," the editor said mysteriously, "My eldest brother is in the military department, so he knows a little bit - this has nothing to do with Zhuyi County." ”

Helanjin glanced at him, "Don't talk about it, be careful of getting into trouble." ”

The editor couldn't stop anymore, "Look, it's the car of the military department, and it's about to go to the Prime Minister's Mansion." This year, the dynasty is going to help the Eastern Turks fight the Western Turks...... Hey, you've got so nice hair. ”

Seeing that he was about to touch the hair on his shoulder, Helanjin dodged, pursed his lips and smiled: "Thank you, I didn't expect the virtuous brother to break his sleeves." ”

The editor blushed, "No, no! I've had this problem since I was a child, and when I see that people's hair is good, I can't help but touch it." He pointed to the top of his head, "I'm bald, this copying position." ”

"I have an old man, and I have a problem with you. He ignored his embarrassed colleague and slid into his car.

It was getting dark, and the officials around him walked away.

Incense filled the cramped carriages, so strong that no one could smell blood.

The coachman whipped the oxen, and the brown hair scattered on the seat curled up like water waves, trembling slightly as the wheels turned.

It was an unconscious orchid, the blood on her arms stained red with cotton strips, her bloodless face was deep, her lips were full, and the tip of her pretty nose was cold and cold.

Helan Jin fed her a pill, leaned over and whispered in her ear, "I'll take you to the doctor." ”

The beautiful eyebrows of the Western Regions frowned, as if she had regained consciousness, and spit out a few words indistinctly.

He expertly pulled out the cotton from under the seat to stop her bleeding, "Patamu, let's go find your sister." ”

Helan Jin stretched out his voice, with a hint of romance in his eyes, "-It's my sister you haven't seen." ”

The girl named Patamu opened her eyes in a daze, "Is it getting dark, Atsune...... only to come back. ”

Helan Jin extinguished the candle in the glass lampshade, and there was an amber light in the darkness, which printed on his face, sparkling and flashing.

"Well, it's getting dark, and Patamu is going to sleep. ”