The candlelight jumps, flickering and dimming.

The swaying warm light was reflected on Lexi's fair face, and the glow of molten gold also flowed slowly on that face.

There was silence in the room.

Agarwood looked at the master who took the hairpin and asked the candlestick to be moved over and directly roasted the hairpin, I don't know why.

Ke Lexi was concentrated, and she didn't dare to ask, for fear of disturbing the cautious-looking girl.

Le Xi stared at the ruby in the golden kite's mouth, and the candle flame baked the red into a strange and beautiful glow.

fell in Lexi's eyes, dyeing her pain with that treacherous color.

After a long time, the agarwood saw that the ruby surface was almost permeable, and the caution on Le Xi's face slowly turned into excitement, surprise, and the agarwood finally couldn't help but speak.

"This ...... This hides the word?! ”

To say that Agarwood was surprised, Le Xi was even more surprised.

She could say that she knew all about the gems, but she didn't see that any of them had been tampered with.

The golden hairpin in her hand was made of the gem that Lingxi had brought in her hand, and it was similar to the box in her dowry, and the color was the same. She just had a flash of inspiration and wanted to try it, but she really tried out a secret!

It's just that Lingxi came from the Protector's Mansion, and her dowry is well sealed......

Thinking about it, Le Xi asked Agarwood to carry the spirit rhino from the tree.

It was the time of good sleep, the spirit rhino was suddenly strangled by the neck, and it was indispensable to struggle, but the strength of the agarwood hand made it struggle.

"Lingxi, do you remember this gem?" Lexi dangled the hairpin in front of his eyes.

The spirit rhino came back to his senses from the pain of being pinched. Dazedly, he glanced at the hairpin with a pair of small eyes, and then at Lexi.

Looking at the little head that kept turning, Le Xi also knew that he had asked in vain. I'm afraid this little guy has forgotten about this and gone to the country of Guawa.

Smile helplessly, the memory of animals is short, and what they do from time to time should be forgotten quickly.

couldn't get an answer, Le Xi was not in a hurry, so he asked Agarwood to take the pen and ink again and send a letter to the protector. Rauta will bring a few colored gems to the Hou Mansion tomorrow. There is something important to discuss.

The gem was hidden by Lu Yu, and she didn't even tell her where it was, and Lu Yu was not there. I'm afraid that only the Protector will know.

After taking the melon seeds to reward the lingxi, Le Xi let it send the message.

At this time, it was already after the third watch, and although Le Xi was full of things, he still couldn't withstand the sleepiness. Confused in Hu Si and worried Lu Yu.

Open your eyes again. It was dawn.

Lingxi was very energetic and jumped on the dressing table.

Lexi rubbed her eyes, still a little confused.

She seemed to have dreamed of Lu Yu last night, as if she had dreamed of her brother again. Time and space are staggered, one moment is a modern family having a reunion dinner, and the other is jumping to this time and space, and the picture is fragmented and incoherent.

"Tweet ......"

Lingxi saw that Le Xi's eyes fell on it, but he ignored it, and couldn't let out a few clear cries to express his dissatisfaction.

I was pulled back to that small thought by the crisp voice. Le Xi's gaze on Lingxi was focused, and he found that there was a note tied to its pink paws. It was also constantly lifting that leg at this time. As if to ask her to quickly remove this obstructive thing.

Le Xi smiled and took down the note written in soft cloth, and there was only a vigorous and powerful word on it.

Seeing the note, Le Xi felt a sense of relief in her heart, folded the note and put it into the makeup, and she called someone to come in and serve.

It was Qiu Ju and Shen Zhi who came, and Mother Li and Dong Tao were still staying in the Protectorate Mansion and guarding the courtyard.

casually pulled a fallen horse bun and brought a white hosta, and Le Xi went to Ronghui Courtyard. When I stepped into the courtyard, I saw the little maid and the rough envoy carrying a large vat that is usually used to plant lotus flowers.

Le Xi couldn't help but stop and watch, and a clever mother-in-law stepped forward and pointed out to Le Xi that those big vat roads were given by Hou Ye, saying that Hou Ye wanted to use the vat to hold things, and he wanted to move them all to the back cover room.

Le Xi was stunned when she heard this, and bowed her head to the mother-in-law, and Qiu Ju took a broken silver and rewarded her. The woman saluted and thanked her with joy.

When I came to the house, the smell of rice was overflowing, although they were all widowed, but they were accompanied by green side dishes and colorful pickles. Just looking at it makes your fingers flutter.

"It's only March, how can there be side dishes, so fresh." Le Xi was not polite, regardless of whether Le Shaoyuan was seated or not, he sat down at the round table first, took the chopsticks and put them in his mouth. Eat with squinting eyes.

A green sparse vegetable seems to be a great delicacy.

Le Shaoyuan also smiled when he saw it, moved to his seat, pointed to those things and said: "Yu'er ordered people to send it before, it is a dozen acres of land planted in the Zhuangzi of the Hot Spring in the Huguo Mansion, I know that you like to eat fresh vegetables." ”

Careful to such an extent, Le Xi felt that the dishes in his mouth were chewed out of sweetness, and he happily took another chopstick and drank it with porridge. Although there are fresh fruits and vegetables since the beginning of winter, they are not available every day. I usually eat more dried vegetables and pickled vegetables, which really doesn't taste good.

Seeing that Lexi was happy to eat, Le Yu also helped her clip a few chopsticks, and asked her to eat slowly without anyone grabbing it. Le Xi puffed out her mouth and muttered a few words, causing the father and son to laugh again, looking at her like a greedy cat.

After being satisfied, Le Xi drank the red dates and wolfberry tea that Qiu Ju served her a few sips before telling Le Shaoyuan that she had found out.

Hearing that the Protector Guild came to the door with something, Le Shaoyuan sneered: "I want to see what he can bring to the door for you to verify." ”

Hearing this, Le Xi was a little confused, and looked at Le Shaoyuan suspiciously. Le Yu smiled and said: "Your box of dowry, but it was secretly transported back to the Hou Mansion, and my brother-in-law asked people to send it back." The Tao is the safest place where it is most dangerous, and it is now under the bed in your house. ”

Lexi: .........

Dare to know everything, but she doesn't know it?

She slept with that thing all night!!

"But this is too risky, what's the matter with Lu Yu, if the news leaks, how about someone sneaking into the Hou Mansion!!" Le Xi was speechless for a while, frowning.

Le Shaoyuan shook his head: "Since someone bears this pot, it will be safe." When that group of people came to their senses, they were afraid that they would be transferred back to the Protector's Mansion again. ”

Lexi was speechless again. Lu Yu knew that he was going to go on the expedition early on, and if he wanted to let out a loud voice to make others afraid and not dare to move, the only one was the protector. He's a cheat!!

She understood what he meant by the sentence that Agarwood had already been arranged, and Le Xi silently lit a wax for her father-in-law.

The speed with which the Protector came was somewhat unexpected. It wasn't even the time after the next dynasty, but less than half an hour after Lexi and the others finished eating.

greeted her father-in-law, who was dressed in regular clothes, and personally served tea, and Le Xi told her discovery in detail.

In the process of speaking, Le Xi found that the Protector Guild showed an angry expression from time to time, and looked at Le Shaoyuan, but Le Shaoyuan smiled silently. After the Lord Protector moved a little bigger, he looked at the sleeve of his robe, near the collar, there was a small hole. Le Xi came to his senses.

Her father-in-law was a little miserable, and the small hole in the rules of the sleeve robe should be the flow of dark arrows. I was stared at even in broad daylight......

"Father. You've had a good trip along the way. Le Xi really couldn't bear to protect the appearance of the country's grudge, and asked with concern.

The Protector raised his eyebrows, smiled at Le Xi, and then snorted coldly with a frosty face: "Little one." What can I do? ”

Look at the domineering father-in-law. Le Xi raised his sleeves to block the corners of his mouth that blocked the twitches, and his sleeves were shot through, so he must have been ambushed.

The smile on Le Shaoyuan's lips deepened again, he watched the Protector take hold, he was happy, he was happy! The sourness in his heart that occupied his children also dissipated most of them.

After saying what happened, Le Xi went back to the room by himself and took a few colored gems. Back to the outer study.

A lamp had been lit in the study, and Lexi was holding the tongs with the charcoal fire. Start roasting the gems one by one on the fire.

After a few in a row, it was roasted for half a quarter of an hour without any change, and Lexi became a little strange. Suddenly, I remembered something.

"Father, Lingxi gave me a ruby, but this one on this golden hairpin, Lu... The prince later told me that he was from the house. Are there any other gems of this kind in Fuchu? ”

Le Xi's words made the Protector frown, and then shook his head and said: "That one was also given by the old marquis, and it was said that it was a token of kinship, and this flat-haired little beast can really turn it over." That's what Yu'er should have taken away, and he actually came to please you. ”

Listening, Le Xi was speechless for a while, and suddenly suspected that this might not be Lingxi's own initiative.

After derailing his thoughts for a while, Lexi returned to the topic and asked people to simply move the entire cage. Then three more candles were lit, and each of them had a charcoal tong, and began to sit in the study and bake the gems. In the meantime, Lexi was bored with roasting, so people raised charcoal and went to the kitchen to ask for sweet potatoes.

The guards guarding the door for unknown reasons still thought about what the masters had come to, and they actually roasted sweet potatoes in the study!! They all looked at each other speechlessly.

The gems are all from the Hou Mansion, and Le Xi also made up his mind and tried one after another.

After this attempt, I found that only a few stones would show characters, and they were all rubies.

Lexi asked everyone to take rubies as the first consideration, went through all thirty or forty rubies, and then tried the others, but they didn't find anything else and gave up.

After recording the eight rubies that were only found in the end, everyone began to worry about the eight big characters.

Ji, Dou, Xin, Yu, Nan, Shi, VIII, Hou.

What is this?

Le Xi looked at this completely unrelated figure of eight and was confused.

Le Shaoyuan and Le Yu also showed confused expressions, and only the Duke of Protector looked at these eight words thoughtfully.

"Lu Xin, come in!" The Lord Protector suddenly raised his head and shouted out of the door.

As the protector of the country, Lu Xin pushed the door very quickly and entered, and there were some gems piled on the left side of the room and a few scattered on the right, which was dazzling and messy and filled the house with the fragrance of sweet potatoes. makes this fearless man a little messy.

Hurriedly shifted his gaze and reasoned with everyone, and the rough palm of the Protector fell in front of Lu Xin.

Lu Xin couldn't turn around, and said suspiciously: "Grandpa Guo, this is ......"

The Protector glared, "What do you have, what can you have, is it possible that this Principality is reaching out to you to ask for silver?!" ”

was reprimanded, Lu Xincai realized it later, thinking that he had the habit of carrying the map of Beijing with him, and only then did he know that it was that thing that protected the country.

Taking out the map from his arms, the Protector waved his hand to him, and Lu Xin took a few steps back and walked out of the room a little depressed. The moment I closed the door, my stomach gurgled. The sweet potatoes were so fragrant that he didn't eat breakfast.

Xu Da heard that sound and smiled, knowing that being a personal guard was sometimes unreasonable, so he thoughtfully asked Qiu Ju to get some good pastries. Lu Xin was in tears when he took the pastry, and he only said that Xu Da's brother had made up his mind, which made Xu Da cry and laugh at this sudden brotherhood.

The Protector asked for a map, and the three of Le Xi also vaguely understood, and quietly watched the Protector spread out the map.

From the eight places he silently clicked above, he really understood completely.

Those eight characters represent the eight alleys in the capital, and the eight alleys are very close to the imperial city, in addition to the alleys where the ministers concentrate around the imperial city, these eight alleys are also surrounded by the imperial city in all directions.

There is something hidden in this alley!

As for what it was, the four of them all thought of it in unison - people!

In these alleys, people live in ordinary people, and they are innocent people for generations.

Of course, it is such a nonsense that makes them realize this way, and it will definitely not be the people.

It's just that how many people can really be hidden in these alleys?!

According to the thousands of people in the household, it is considered to be dead......

What Le Xi thought of, the rest of the people naturally thought of as well.

According to the current analysis, these eight gems should be stepping stones, or it can also be said to be a troop transfer order similar to the tiger talisman. If not, how can the emperor be taboo.

The emperor was afraid that one day it would threaten the imperial power, and the old marquis's mansion repeatedly affirmed that this was a life talisman that could ensure the safety of the two mansions in troubled times...... Then the number of this army should be at least 100,000. Even if you count the troops stationed in Beijing, there are only 200,000 now!

It is inevitable and impossible for 100,000 people to be hidden in the alleys, so they are scattered in the corners of the entire capital!!

Thinking of the greatest possible guess, the four of them glanced at each other, and their eyes were shocked.

I can't complain that the old marquis is so indifferent and handed over the 200,000 troops in his hand, and there are 100,000 hidden in private! These 100,000 are all the same as the Prince's Mansion, they belong to private soldiers!

Even the private soldiers of the Prince's Mansion are only 10,000!!

Le Xi only felt that his mouth was dry, and his heart was beating hard.

In the end, she thought of another thing, and asked the protector to go back to the powder used by Lu Yu to paint, and participated in the ink. In the confusion of everyone, they slowly tinkered with things.

The Protector left after lunch, and when he left, Lu Xinxin had an inconspicuous cloth bag on his hand.

And the protector also took over the matter of going to those alleys to explore, wanting to see how to use these stepping stones.

The fog that entangled everyone's hearts was finally removed, revealing the truth, but this did not make everyone feel relaxed, but there was a different kind of heaviness.

According to what Le Yan said before, these 100,000 soldiers did not appear, and the one who ascended the throne at that time was also the King of Qi, does it mean that the Hou Mansion of the previous generation has not solved this mystery at all? Moreover, the wolf son of the king of Jin knows that after he ascends the throne, the king of Jin is still a prince?! Le Yan said that he was extremely beautiful......

Which link is wrong in this?! (To be continued......)