Cen Chi stopped.

Looking at Xi Xin, who turned to look at him, his eyes were slightly condensed, he sighed lightly and said, "You are wearing a white shirt like this, and it is easy to scare people." ”

Xi Xin shook his head in disagreement and said: "The arrival of a real ghost can't scare you, but you, don't forget to entertain me at all times." ”

Cen Chi raised his eyebrows and said nothing, and then he lowered his eyes and straightened his sleeves, but a fool could see how redundant his action was. He just used this move to escape Xixin's gaze and not admit that he was entertaining the other party.

Xi Xin didn't say anything more about this matter, not only because he understood Cen Chi's temperament and didn't care about him, but also because he had more things in his heart at the moment.

The fingers of his left hand seemed to unintentionally brush over the long string of Buddhist beads around the wrist of his right hand, and when he slowly spoke, the words were already expressed in a different meaning: "She... It doesn't seem like I'm here to spy on you. ”

"Who knows?" Cen Chifu opened his lips and said this sentence, as if he was talking to himself.

After many years of separation, the tacit understanding with the same door does not seem to have diminished at all. It didn't take more to know who his senior brother was talking about in his indifferent words.

With his hanging hands behind his back, he glanced at the sky, which looked blue and high because of the clear weather, but the temperature in his tone suddenly plummeted: "I also know, she... Always a person from the Prime Minister's House. ”

Yes, as one of the members of the Prime Minister's Mansion, even if it is just a subordinate, this woman named Qingqiang has the obligation to convey everything she sees and hears to the Prime Minister's Mansion. Whether it's an active cause or a passive result.

Xi Xin looked at Cen Chi's slightly lonely face, and suddenly said with a slight change of meaning: "If she doesn't have that intention, then she has true feelings for you." I can see it, but I don't know what you're going to do. ”

"The Shi family has kept her by my side for several years." Cen Chi exhaled a little annoyed as he spoke, as if it was because he wasn't ready to face this aspect of the matter head-on.

After a long silence, he slowly continued: "Just the donkey I took from you last year. After raising it for less than a year, it can get acquainted with me, let alone a person who has been by my side for a few years. ”

"I can still tell that you're not bad to her." Xi Xin didn't continue to talk about what she said just now, but picked another one, smiled and said: "Since it's been a few years, you can still treat her like this, it seems that you haven't seen any heresy." ”

"But if there is a day when there is a need to choose, the prime minister and me, what will she choose?" Cen Chi paused slightly when he said this. After taking a deep breath, he continued, "Maybe she doesn't know anything at all now, and the Prime Minister didn't give her any hints. In order to make her choice unprepared. For her, Xiangfu and I may be the result of life and death after all, and her best choice is actually no choice. ”

"Since she has been put in such a position by her family master early, she will definitely not be able to escape the choice in the future, and she must cut something up." Xi Xin shook his head slightly. "Xiao Chi, it's not your habit to say such idealistic things."

Today was the first time Xi Xin, who was Cen Chi's former senior brother in the same sect, saw Qingqiang, the maid of the Prime Minister's Mansion, but he soon noticed that there were some problems between her and the senior brother in front of him. And as long as it involves the development of the relationship between the junior brother and a certain figure in the court in the future, as well as thinking of a certain rule in the sect. Such a question is almost impossible to exist.

Cen Chi had already sniffed out a hint of reminder from Xi Xin's words.

Of course, he would not forget the rules of the jì sect, even if he hadn't been back once in many years. He also knew very well what kind of road he had decided to take in the future, and on this road. It's best to be able to have no extraneous concerns.

But at the same time, he also felt a strange emotion sprouting in his heart at some point, which made him occasionally lose control. And the thought of his inability to control this change in mood makes him feel extremely depressed.

After being silent for a while, Cen Chi said slowly: "The best possibility is that there is no problem with the Prime Minister's Mansion. ”

"This assumption. We've talked about it before, and since then. We have already deduced a result that you and I are very convinced of, but it is very different from the assumption you said today. Xi Xin spoke calmly, and while he spoke, his eyes seemed to be indifferent and cold as ice, "You should know very well what you are angry about in your heart these days. With this matter as a demarcation, you should not hesitate to judge in this regard at this moment. ”

"Maybe I'm still a little hesitant, but it's not all hesitant in my heart. The power vines of the Prime Minister's Mansion are widely implicated, if Shi Jing has something, it is not just to implicate the fate of a maid in the mansion ...... life and death" Cen Chi said this, suddenly closed his mouth, and did not continue.

If Shi Jing really has that kind of thought, there will always be a time when it will be exposed and anger Long Yan in the future, and then the emperor will bring him to justice, but it will not be as straightforward as the whole government is imprisoned... It's not as simple as extermination......

Xi Xin seemed to have thought of something else at this time, and hesitated slightly: "If you can really find Senior Brother Lin in the west, then what are you going to do next?" ”

Cen Chi's gaze suddenly fluctuated, and he was a little surprised by Xi Xin's sharp mind. After pondering for a moment, he said, "If that's the case, that's the best outcome." After meeting him, if he doesn't need my help, I'll go back to the prime minister's house, and the two of them will be fine. ”

Xi Xin looked into Cen Chi's eyes and asked, "Because of this plan, you don't want to directly cut off the relationship with the Prime Minister's side for the time being?" ”

"I don't want to target anyone, I just want to maximize the benefits of my country." After Cen Chi finished saying this, he took a deep breath. After calming his breath, he continued: "If Senior Brother is here, and the Prime Minister's Mansion has ruled out that suspicion - maybe only temporarily - then I can continue to stay in the Prime Minister's Mansion, ignoring the past and focusing on the future. ”

Xi Xin shook his head lightly when he heard this. There was disbelief on his face, but no one knew what he was shaking his head to deny, and he didn't say anything more.

Maybe it's because of the tacit understanding cultivated in those days with the same door many years ago, maybe it's just that Cen Chi himself doesn't want to think more about this matter, and in the face of Xi Xin's silence, he didn't open his mouth again.

After a while, Xi Xin spoke first, but he had already moved away from the topic just now, just raised his hand and said, "Come with me to the house." ”

He led Cen Chi into the simple meditation room where he had just discussed Zen with Cen Chi, but turned around and walked into a room in this unnamed courtyard.

Although Cen Chi still felt very unfamiliar with this courtyard, he did not hesitate, and only followed Xixin's steps in silence. And just as he stepped over the threshold, Xixin, who had led the way into the house one step ahead of him, took a step behind at this time, turned around and closed the door.

The indoor light is slightly dimmer than when the door was opened, but it does not affect people's vision when standing indoors. Cen Chi condensed slightly, and he could clearly see the three wooden shelves placed on the left and right sides of this house and on the opposite side. Stacks of books were neatly placed on the shelves, and many of them had uneven covers and showed signs of warping. It seems that the books in this room are being read quite diligently.

Cen Chi casually picked up a book on the wooden shelf and opened it, and after scanning it a few times, he suddenly smiled and said, "Senior brother, you don't really want to be a monk in this place for the rest of your life, do you?" ”

However, as soon as he finished saying this, the expression on his face suddenly changed. This was because he heard something strange when his voice spread out in the room and then came back to his ears. After he pondered for a moment, he immediately understood that the reason for this strangeness was that he could discern that his voice could bounce back after it had been swept out of this room! Because one's own hearing is so familiar with one's own voice, one can discern the difference in this familiarity.

This kind of voice turned around, and it was strange that something that should have only happened when shouting in the face of the mountains was happening in a small room.

However, Cen Chi felt more than just surprise.

This way of voice transmission quickly aroused a thought in Cen Chi's mind. After sorting out the various ideas in his mind, he suddenly understood one thing, and the corners of his mouth curled slightly, revealing a smile.

Xi Xin, who closed the door and turned around, happened to see the smile on the corner of his mouth, and he quickly smiled, and said with a warm voice in his voice: "I think you should have guessed." That's right, this is a work specially given to me by Senior Brother Lin, and it is indeed very easy to use. ”

Cen Chi looked around again at the neat stacks of scriptures in the room, and said casually: "This should be your study." ”

"Almost." Xi Xin nodded and said, and added at the end: "It is also a special living room, used to meet special people and say special things." ”

Cen Chi withdrew his gaze from the scroll, looked back at Xi Xin, and asked seriously, "But will this attract the attention and suspicion of others?" ”

"Don't forget, this is not a place to talk and eat. The monks who entered this room were all here to read the scriptures and pay attention to other mundane things. When Xi Xin said this, he seemed to remember something, and his words paused slightly.

When he spoke again, he raised his hand and pointed to the window of the room that opened in an inconspicuous place, and said with a smile: "This question you are worried about, in fact, Senior Brother Lin has also considered it in advance, and there is indeed no shortage of monks in this temple who are still lay or newly crossed. The mystery of the control is in these windows, which are usually open, and when they are opened and closed, the situation in the house is very different. Today, I saw you coming, and I had something to discuss with you, so I closed all these windows for the time being. ”