Shen Ruyu didn't really have much expectations at first, saying "I want this capital to have no secrets for me", probably just a joke, I watched too many novels and anime in my previous life, and I mentioned it casually, but no one thought that Song Jin had an extremely strong personality, Shen Ruyu said so, he would do it anyway.

He was originally sensitive and a little impatient, but he forced himself to be patient, and sent those bought orphans into various places in the capital silently, and his subordinates were extremely strict, with strong wrists, careful thoughts, and layers of webs.

However, Shen Ruyu knew that when he first started, he had fallen into a predicament, although he had grown a lot in the music shop, but it was even more difficult to transform a slightly famous Qinglou and start over than to start from scratch. If you just need to collect information, it is more convenient and easier to keep Qinglou to continue to make profits, and then re-order another store, or directly use Qinglou to find out the news.

But if that was the case, Shen Ruyu wouldn't trust him as much as he did now.

If this young man who suffered a lot in the Qinglou could change his face from the victim to the perpetrator without changing his face after growing up, Shen Ruyu would begin to wonder whether it was right or wrong to save him in the first place.

Could it be that she rescued him so that he could inflict on others what he had resisted in the future?

No matter how many times he has seen people in the traversal text turn the Qinglou into a base for collecting information, Shen Ruyu feels very uncomfortable. In terms of information circulation, taverns and inns are no worse than those from Qinglou, not to mention, they all come to Qinglou to have fun, who will talk to a prostitute about major affairs in the DPRK and China? Talk about your plans to be above the court? A little red lips and ten thousand tastes, the description of a pair of jade arms and ten thousand pillows is common no matter what time and space, even if it is your affectionate pillow person today, maybe the next day will lie next to someone else.

Trust a prostitute?

What's more, Shen Ruyu doesn't need to inquire about any major events in the DPRK and China, she just wants to quietly inquire about the existence of other traversers, all she wants to know is whether there is any special storage around these people, this kind of thing does not need to use such a "high-end" way as □□, even if it is to inquire about confidential information, let others sell their bodies and entertain their dignity, this is also a very inferior means.

Shen Ruyu had seen many time-travelers in her own time and space who were ashamed to say that those Qinglou prostitutes could choose their own guests from now on, as if they were no longer prostitutes.

And...... If you can choose your own customers, even if you are a prostitute, you want to be young and beautiful! That's also collecting information about a ghost!

So after discovering that Song Jin had never had such an idea, and in order not to embarrass this stubborn man who would rather die on his own than ask her for help, she quietly helped him in secret, and finally opened the teahouse.

From the extremely gaudy green house to the extremely elegant tea house, this difference is more than one or two points, and it can be regarded as a kind of advertising attraction that arouses curiosity? Unconsciously, this "teahouse" with a chic and interesting name quickly became a popular gathering place for ladies after the next dynasty, and then within a few years, Song Jin opened a paper ink shop - Shanshui Building.

Whether it is a teahouse or a good water building, Shen Ruyu and Cui Wenjun have come together several times, and even followed the trend to hold a few parties in a teahouse, Shen Ruyu did not deliberately avoid suspicion, because it seemed extremely unnatural, among her friends, many people knew that she liked the decoration of a teahouse, and also had a soft spot for the peach blossom raft in Shanshui Building.

No one ever suspected that she was the boss behind these two elegant places.

And over the years, Shen Ruyu has basically determined that there are only three traversers in the capital, Cui Wenjun and Wang Zizhi, so later, instead of collecting intelligence, she came to Song Jin because of another skill he learned to play the piano and sing as the adopted son of the pianist.

Ancient songs also have Shen Ruyu's great favorite, but occasionally she also wants to listen to those songs she has heard in modern times - unlike the lyrics with deep ancient heritage and frequent allusions, modern lyrics seem straightforward and explicit even if they are gentle and subtle, and they are not a hobby that can be elegant at all, Shen Ruyu had to sneak to Song Jin, and then hum a short melody with his memory, and slowly compose the whole score with him, and then try to recall those lyrics and fill them in.

After the broken lyrics and melody were completed, it was unexpectedly a little more ancient, the original familiar melody poured out from Song Jin's fingertips again and again, like flowing water, the young man's voice was low and gentle, and he was good at the art of changing his voice, vulgar and elegant, so that Shen Ruyu couldn't help but feel that the three days around the beam that the ancients admired were nothing more than that.

This time was no exception.

In addition to accepting the report of "did Wang Zizhi's poem lead to suspicious characters", Shen Ruyu stayed more because of Song Jin's singing.

She lay on the soft couch, closed her eyes, listened to the young man's low singing, faced with the exhaustion that the male emperor had to tense every nerve to deal with carefully, the weakness of facing her best friend but couldn't put her heart into her heart, the pressure of being blindly relied on by the prince, the tiredness of being used as a bargaining chip by her mother, all kinds of bad things seemed to disappear at this moment.

She let out a long sigh of relief, then opened her eyes and sat up. Song Jin, who was about to continue playing and singing the next song, gently raised his hand and pressed the slightly trembling strings, raised his eyes, and seriously prepared to listen to the command.

"I'm almost tired of hearing these again," Shen Ruyu raised her hand to support the already loose bun, but it seemed that she couldn't restore it to its original state, she raised her eyebrows, and simply pulled out the hairpin neatly, and her long hair suddenly fell down her shoulders, and Song Jin, who was about to give up her position, was slightly stunned when she saw this, and then looked away in a little panic. "—let's learn a new tune."

Shen Ruyu unceremoniously stuffed the hairpin in her hand into Song Jin's hand, sat behind the piano, she muttered for a while, and then lowered her eyes and stirred the strings.

Song Jin sat beside her, clenched the warm hosta in her hand, as if it still had the temperature of Shen Ruyu on it, and her eyes showed a nostalgic look.

Then as if teaching elementary school students to sing, Shen Ruyu sang a sentence, and then looked at Song Jin on the side with a smile, and had to listen to him sing along.

However, even though he has learned a lot of songs like this, those straightforward lyrics still make Song Jin blush slightly with some embarrassment.

He grew up in the Qinglou since he was a child, and even if he never sang the so-called obscene songs because of disgust, he knew a lot about them, but he knew a lot, however, the lyrics sung by Shen Ruyu, although there were often some words and phrases that revealed love explicitly, and it seemed vulgar to the eyes of the ladies who advocated elegance and subtlety, but Song Jin did not hate it.

Because, the feelings expressed in those straightforward lyrics are not the same as the obscene obscenity of obscene lyrics and songs-

It's just that in the form of such a person and one sentence, it is like two people singing in duet, and every time they sing a sentence, they seem to be analyzing their own minds towards each other, which is really shy.

He tried his best to be solemn, but his fair face still couldn't help but slowly turn red.

Especially when Shen Ruyu was smiling and plucking the strings to accompany him, occasionally his eyes were rolling and his eyes were cast, which made his panicked eyes flicker.

He is extremely talented, and soon he has memorized this new song, Shen Ruyu let go of her hand from the piano, she stood aside and watched Song Jin finish the whole song with a good note, but the familiar and somewhat unfamiliar melody made her can't help but turn her head to look out the window, where the bright sun shines in, and a high sky.

The sun has been burning for thousands of years, the sky is high, and it looks no different from thousands of years later, Shen Ruyu always has the illusion of standing up straight, and he can see the wide road full of cars outside the window.

This kind of melancholy made her couldn't help but soften her expression, but a trace of melancholy oozed between her eyebrows, Shen Ruyu looked out the window and gently leaned on Song Jin on the side.

The young man's hands froze on the strings.

Shen Ruyu ignored him, and only asked softly to herself: "Ah Jin, you say, what I am doing now is right or wrong?" ”

Song Jin was silent for a while before he replied cautiously, "The landlord is saying...... The matter of including the Cui family in surveillance, the use of the young master of the Wang family, or the matter of meeting the fiancé of the Cui family's lady in private, turned out to be a negative thing? ”

Shen Ruyu: "......"

The girl suddenly sat up straight with some embarrassment and coughed, "...... When I say that, I feel like a scumbag. ”

"Nope." Song Jin ignored her joking self-deprecating tone, and replied seriously, "The landlord is a person with great ambitions, so you don't have to care about these details, and you don't have to be bound by all kinds of rules, just do what you want." ”

"No, I think I still have to explain, that-Wen Jun's fiancé, it is said that he has been amazingly smart since he was a child, known as 'Little Ruyu', I just went to see it out of curiosity...... Who knows...... Belch...... He has rarely seen Wen Jun since he was a child, and I am probably the only woman he has come into contact with over the years, so I ...... I just can't think about it. ”

But her explanation didn't seem to have any effect, Song Jin raised her eyes and glanced at her and nodded seriously. "What the landlord says, it's what it is."

- There is no understanding at all.

"Okay...... It's been so long, why are you still haunted by this? Shen Ruyu lowered her eyebrows helplessly, "I'm talking about me and Your Majesty." ”

Song Jin's body suddenly stiffened imperceptibly, "-Your Majesty?" You and Majesty xià...... What's wrong? ”

"Alas," Shen Ruyu tilted her head and sighed, "We ...... You can say that they are together, right? Although it is not what I want, it is really forced by the form. But now, it's hard to turn back...... I always feel like walking on thin ice, walking on a tightrope in the air, and if I am not careful, I will be crushed. ”

Hearing her say this, Song Jin thought for a while before slowly replying, "But Your Majesty is right to the landlord...... It should be genuine. ”

However, Shen Ruyu replied very coldly, "I can naturally feel it...... It's just the emperor's true feelings, who can afford to gamble for how long? Not to mention...... As an emperor, for ordinary people, all his efforts may be nothing more than a gesture for him. Emotionally, if you talk about giving, the weight of 3,000 gold of a rich family may sometimes be less than a piece of steamed bread from a poor family. ”

As she spoke, she seemed to feel that her words were a little excessive, so she sighed lowly, "In short, it's a loss-making deal." I could have married a husband who was as gentle as jade, and then lived a plain and warm life, it was better to have a few more children, not more, preferably just a daughter was enough, and then I would guard her with my husband to grow up slowly, and then grow old peacefully in the plain days...... But if you follow the emperor, you don't want to obey him without thinking about anything, of course, there is a lot less trouble, but from then on, it is inevitable that you will be reduced to a person who can only rely on him, if you don't have the confidence to talk on an equal footing, then there is no so-called love, it's just a careful pleasing of one party, not to mention others, even I myself have to look down on myself. What's more, after the emperor's affection faded, it was easy to get out of the way, but what about me as a courtier? ”

She confided her troubles in distress to the only person she could trust, but Song Jin, who had always had a good attitude, was slightly distracted for the first time.

He looked at her beautiful side face with some daze, her appearance, birth and experience, it seems that she has never had anything to do with the ordinary, sometimes it always makes people feel that she is destined to bloom vigorously, like fireworks, and like a meteor, blooming brightly, and then destined to disappear decisively.

Therefore, listening to her say such an ordinary and warm wish, Song Jin felt painful because she was brought into such a beautiful imagination.

Because no matter what, the person who can be by her side and accompany her for the rest of her life will never be him.

So...... It doesn't matter if he is entangled by the emperor, at least that person's identity is so different from him that he almost can't even get jealous, and besides, Ruyu doesn't love that majesty.

- In this case, Ruyu will not belong to anyone.

However, with such a thought in his heart, Song Jin's tone on the surface was still flat, "I thought it would ...... The landlord still has some affection for His Majesty? ”

"Affection?" Shen Ruyu laughed in some surprise, "Hmm...... Love. ”

She held her chin and thought about it, and said with a smile, "To be honest, if it weren't for the fact that the emperor's identity is too tricky, if he was just a prince, I would take the initiative to chase him, maybe I would have taken the initiative to chase him, my appearance and personality, in fact, are the types I like." ”

Song Jin's expression was stunned.

"But, it's still impossible. When he was the prince, I did have a good impression of him, but the queen was alive, I couldn't do anything, not to mention me, even my mother was probably difficult to disobey one or two, and the current majesty xià is different, at that time the queen can indeed be said to be the power of the government and the opposition, covering the sky with one hand, sometimes I really feel that the whole world is not the king's land, there is almost no place for me to hide. ”

Shen Ruyu is not a real child after all, she has long been aware of the secret thoughts that the queen has about her at that time, and she feels disgusted - she is not because of the age difference, but because of the other party's captivity behavior like raising a canary, completely ignoring her personal wishes, and wanting to keep her in captivity to play and cultivate.

"Later...... And the queen died. ”

"When he came to me, I just thought, if his sister comes back to the throne, what will he do with himself? It's not a great position, but it's better to sit on it than not to sit on it. She looked out the window indifferently, as if her mood at that time had nothing to do with herself at this time, "It's even more impossible to become an emperor." ”

"It's probably ......," she tilted her head, "there's no fate." ”