She was like soaking in a hot spring, and before she sank to the bottom of the water, before she lost consciousness, she asked in a vague voice, "How do you know?" ”

Shi Jiaheng wrapped his sleeve around her cold hand and said with a smile: "I learned from a guard of the Prime Minister's Mansion who has a good personal relationship that you got close to Miss Shangguan some time ago, and you have been in and out of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and you always ask me about patrolling the city, and I am suspicious. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoLast time, I also reminded you openly and secretly, I see that you are absent-minded, obviously not to your heart. You said that you wanted to stay in the painting academy to repaint, so I stayed at the gate of the palace when I left the palace, so as to escort you secretly, but I didn't see you for two days. This evening, in the name of my inspection, I made a detour to the Picture Academy, which was long gone, and I knew that you had lied. I wanted to ask you in person, but I couldn't get out of the banquet because of Lord Cao, so I took a bottle of wine from the table and pretended to be drunk and left privately. I went to your house first, and you had already walked by at that time, I asked Lu Yan, and I saw the map you left in the study, so I chased after you closely, for fear that you would meet Gu Chaomin, who rushed home from the July Building after the banquet. ”

She was even more ashamed of her emotion, and unconsciously walked to the door. He let go of her hand and said, "It's so late, I won't go in to bother Lu Yan and them, you should rest early and recuperate." He bent down to pick a blue iris from the side of the road and put it in her palm: "Then it's decided, tomorrow night we will use this flower as a number, see you at the back door of the Chu Mansion." ”

He walked backwards into the alley facing her, still smiling on his face. The silver embroidery on the gray-black robe shimmered beautifully in the soft moonlight, like countless points of hope flashing before her eyes. Chu Yunxi's hand had already been covered warmly, she opened her palm, and the iris seemed to have a temperature, stretching its deep and mysterious blue body like a late night.

Her mind was clouded in the moonlight, as if she had inhaled a deadly drug. She raised her hand and knocked on the door, and Lu Yan and Qing Chun cautiously asked in unison, "Who?" ”

She said softly and weakly, "It's me, open the door." ”

Qing Chun opened the door, Lu Yan rushed out of the door and hugged her, Qing Chun saw the robe on her body and knew that Shi Jiaheng sent her back, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

In a panic, Lu Yan still held her hands, wiping her tears, and frequently asked her if she was hurt.

The door panel was vigorously pulled open and there was a screeching sound, and Bi Yin ran out of the house with her shoes on, grabbed her arm, and exclaimed in surprise, "The master is back." ”

Lu Yan was stunned and asked, "Didn't you sleep?" ”

Biyin hurriedly said: "How can I sleep if the master hasn't come back yet, you are worried about the master, and I am also worried." ”

The three of them hugged her back to the house like a hero, and Lu Yan and Bi Yin asked questions one after another. But once the spirit is relaxed, people will feel tired. Chu Yunxi yawned, and Qing Chun interrupted their questioning, signaling that the two masters were tired.

Closing the door and walking past the desk, the robe was hooked by the corner of the table and fell to the floor. She picked up her clothes and remembered that she had forgotten to give them back to him. She put her clothes on the pillow on the bed. She washed up cursoryly and hurried to sleep, but when she actually lay down in the soft, warm bed, she was completely sleepy. She picked up the clothes placed on her head, the room was very dark, she couldn't see the ornaments on the clothes, the temperature on them had long since subsided, but she could still smell a faint orchid fragrance under her nose, which was a special smell on Shi Jiaheng's body.

She hugged her clothes to her chest, never wanting such a humble gentleman to be burdened by her. She regretted that she really shouldn't have relented again and again and promised him friendly help. Regardless of the danger, he repeatedly jumped to her side, who had fallen into the abyss. What can this fool, a person who may be swallowed up by the torrent under the abyss at any time, give him back?

Her eyes burned, and the spicy sour smell of tears filled her nose.

During the day, the action of drawing is repeated, and it is so boring that it makes people drowsy. The closer it was to night, the more energetic Chu Yunxi became.

The moon is dark and the wind is high, and the day of murder and arson.

Tonight's night was far less quiet than yesterday's, the heavy black smeared in the sky, covering the jade wheel, covering the stars, and there was no wind in the air, like the mud and sand waiting in the cup, weighing heavily on people's hearts. Looking at today's celestial phenomena, it is indeed suitable for covering people's ears and eyes.

Chu Yunxi dressed up like yesterday, and came to the backyard of the Prime Minister's Mansion safely according to yesterday's time. Sure enough, there was no one around, and the guard at the door was not there, so it should have been a shift change, and a conspicuous blue iris was pressed against the stone slab at the door by a stone in the wind. She took out the irises, tied the stones and flowers together with a rope, and vigorously brushed them over the two-person high powder wall, and soon after the sound of the stones falling to the ground, a thick hemp rope hung down from the wall, and two black cloths were tied at one end of the hemp rope.

She grabbed the bottom end of the rope, looked at the black cloth hanging from the bottom of the rope, and then looked at the pink wall as white as frost and snow, and suddenly realized. She took off the black cloth and wrapped it around her shoes, and then pulled the end of the rope a few times, and the person on the other end understood, and the two of them worked together, and she stepped lightly on the wall, and easily climbed over the high wall.

Shi Jiaheng was also dressed as a night walker, and he put away the rope and hung it back on his waist. Chu Yunxi looked down at the upper of his shoes, which were also wrapped in two pieces of black cloth, and couldn't help but admire his sophistication, so that he would not leave footprints on the wall.

The two of them removed the black cloth from their feet. Shi Jiaheng naturally took her hand, and the two of them walked softly along the stone road to the north.

Four gatekeepers with long swords at their waists passed in front of the moon cave gate in the garden, and the two of them hid on the other side of the wall with their waists bent, and when the four of them were far away, the two of them ran out of the garden quickly.

Turning over the garden gate, the west side is the residence of the female dependents, the east side is the prime minister's bedroom, study and living room, and then go further is the prime minister's hall.

The living room is a place with many people, and it is inconvenient to hide things, so the places they focus on finding are mainly concentrated in the prime minister's bedroom and study, if not, the prime minister either brought all the evidence with him or handed it over to his wife, that is, the eldest lady or the second lady for safekeeping.

The study was on the east side of the bedroom, and they walked east, passing the prime minister's bedroom first.

Coming to the door of the bedroom, Shi Jiaheng took out the black cloth from his arms and put it on his shoes again, Chu Yunxi also learned from him when he saw this, and by the way, he took out the thin stick he used to pick the lock from the boots, and for this long-planned action, she spent ten days visiting the locksmith in Chang'an City to learn the new skill of unlocking.

When she stood up, Shi Jiaheng was already one step ahead of her, took out a silver hairpin from her sleeve, inserted it into the big yellow copper lock on the door, turned it a few times, poked it in, and slapped it hard. The brass lock made a crunch and spread out in his hand.

Chu Yunxi was surprised again, he actually knew these Jianghu skills. Later, she learned from a casual conversation that when he used to lead troops in Mobei, he often mingled with the soldiers, and these soldiers mixed with local dialects came from all over the motherland, and they were also engaged in a variety of different occupations before becoming soldiers, some were engaged in family farming, some were doing business and running rivers and lakes, and of course some craftsmen were indispensable, some of them were carpenters, some were tailors, some were lacquer workers, and naturally there were locksmiths. The life of the border garrison was hard and boring. In order to relieve the depression, Shi Jiaheng will put down the general's shelf, take the initiative to chat with them, understand their past lives, and occasionally see some interesting crafts, he will also follow the learning, one to increase the fun of life, the second is to enhance the friendship of soldiers, and the third is to make the best use of their talents, for people with special talents, he can provide them with more opportunities to display. In this way, he learned a lot of miscellaneous studies that could not be learned in books and battlefields, and silently surpassed many of his peers.

He took the lock into his arms, and the two of them flashed into the house. Chu Yunxi closed the door, blew the fire fold in his hand, and when he turned to look, he found that he was not in a hurry to rummage, but stood against the wall, and quickly swept the corners and cracks in the room with his eyes by the light of the fire, and then quickly memorized the location of the furnishings in the house, which was conducive to the restoration of the original state after rummaging.

Chu Yunxi quickly understood his intentions, and cautiously looked around the bedroom. The two of them glanced at each other, one east and one west, running to the sides of the bedroom.

The prime minister's bedroom was very large, there were a lot of things, and most of them were placed in a disorderly manner, I don't know whether it was a deliberate attempt to confuse the enemy, or the usual living habits were very poor, and the two of them took a lot of effort to turn the house over on the basis of basically not moving or destroying the original things in the house. Unfortunately, nothing was found, and more than half of the time was spent.

Time is pressing, no effort to disappoint. The highly functioning brains of the two can only be used to think. The bedroom is excluded, and the next target is the study.

Shi Jiaheng fastened the copper lock and leaned over to remove the black cloth from his shoes for the second time. This time, Chu Yunxi completed this action before him. The two of them continued east, the study was far from the bedroom, and they had to cross a bamboo forest, cross a stone bridge, and walk through a corridor. Only then can you see two tall carved red pavilion wooden doors standing in front of you.

The work of unlocking the lock was still completed by Shi Jiaheng, and the two put on the cloth and entered the door and lit the fire. The scene in front of me was also somewhat unexpected, with the bedroom being unexpectedly chaotic and the study being unexpectedly tidy.

In the middle of the roof hangs a large palace lamp painted with the picture of Fushou and the words "Longevity", and a row of ebony bookshelves leans against the whitewashed white walls. The bookshelves are towering, but there are not many books on them, and there are rows of treasure cabinets with various bottles, saucers, gold and jade. A desk almost spans half of the room, there are pen, ink, paper and inkstones on the table in turn, a stack of thread-bound books is neatly placed in the center of the desk, under the book are several blank rice papers, the upper right foot of the rice paper is pressed with a white jade tiger paperweight, two carved lifelike tiger eyes, under the reflection of the red shimmer of the fire fold, there is a faint white light, as if to deter the two of them from the outsider who intruded for no reason.

Behind the bookshelf is the inner room, in which there is only a soft couch covered with Hunan embroidery, and a bed of apricot red cotton quilt is stacked on one corner of the soft couch.

These are all commonly used items in the study, and although the prime minister's study utensils are more expensive and luxurious than those elsewhere, they are not as surprising as they are. But when the two approached the couch through the bookshelf, they saw a huge jade carving on the wall on the right side of the couch.

The painting, which occupies almost half of the wall, is carved from a single piece of reddish-brown Hetian jade, whose carving is delicate and vivid, and its jade is so large that it is rare in the world.

The two of them had never seen such a huge Hetian jade carving, so they all stepped forward with a fire fold in their hands. Chu Yunxi, who loves art, is even more excited, whenever she encounters those exquisite works of art, she is always sincerely amazed and can't stop appreciating.

The jade painting depicts a wide river flowing from north to south in the deep stream of the mountains in the north, with two continuous peach blossom forests on both sides, a fishing boat in the water, a fisherman on the boat is casting a net to catch fish, a child with a horn is fishing on the shore, and a dragonfly is staying on the fishing rod. But if you look closely, there is a paradox in this painting, I don't know why, in the river not far from the fishing children stands a lotus flower that has not yet opened, and there is a dragonfly on the lotus.

One lotus and one peach blossom blooms in summer, the other blooms in spring, and it is absurd that two flowers of different seasons appear in a painting at the same time.

Chu Yunxi had no time to appreciate the meaning of the painting, but one thing was certain, the two of them reached out and touched the jade painting, there should be nothing in the painting, the jade plate is solid, the jade is very hard, and it is unlikely that there is a mechanism on it.

Shi Jiaheng has checked, and the soft couch and quilt are no problem.

In that case, all that's left is a bookshelf and a desk.