- "I live in the palace and have never been involved with the courtiers, how did she 'evil' me?" Concubine De smiled without any warmth, "I didn't touch her, she was going to chant the Buddha in her heart." Qingxia, you must not be confused about the difference between the positions of identity and interests. ”

"Yes, the servant remembers." Qing Xia responded respectfully.

Concubine De didn't say anything more, she thought of the worried words that Qing Xia said just now, her eyes fell on the thing wrapped in Jinpa on the table, and she scooped it over. When she was about to untie her handkerchief, the maid Cuichun, who had been retreating in the Xiaohuai Palace and waiting for the summons of her master, suddenly walked out.

Cui Chun walked to a position three steps away from Concubine De and stood still, deeply blessed, and then said, "Niangniang, the old man is here." ”

Concubine De's hand froze with the Jinpa Xiaobao for a moment, and asked softly, "When did it arrive?" ”

"Just arrived."

"Oh." Concubine De hesitated for a moment, then stood up, without being accompanied, she ordered: "You two are here to guard." ”

For that old man, Cuichun and Qingxia, who are the close maids of Concubine De, are very familiar. So whenever Concubine De wants to meet with her, she doesn't need to say anything, the two of them know what to do and what to pay attention to.

went up the steps, walked through the main hall of Xiaohuai Palace, and came to the left hand room, and Concubine De saw a long figure. Even if the person had his back to her, she could instantly outline his face with the back of his head.

From outside the palace to inside the palace, if you are about to leave your peers for more than ten years, you are really familiar with it!

Therefore, for this person, even on such an occasion, holding each other's identities, Concubine De will feel a little more relaxed. When he spoke, he directly ignored a lot of reserve.

"When we met, you turned your back to me more and more times, can't you change your appearance?"

As soon as Concubine De's words fell, the long back figure turned around, and at the same time he opened his mouth, his voice revealing a little roughness in the depression, which was a sign that the body was beginning to age.

"I don't know when it started. I'm in the face of you. I'm starting to feel a little confused. ”

"Are you still afraid that I won't succeed?" Concubine De slowly stepped up and took a step closer to the middle-aged man who looked to be nearly fifty years old, but she only took a step closer. He didn't keep moving.

The middle-aged man seems to usually attach great importance to health, and he looks like he is in his fifties, and his eyebrows are still as black as ink, revealing his relatively strong physique. However, no one can resist the blade of time. On closer inspection, the skin on his face already showed a fine web of wrinkles. Nevertheless. From the contours of his face, it can also be seen that when he was young, he should have been a handsome man.

The middle-aged man saw Concubine De take a step closer to him, but he stood still. He also raised his feet and took a step closer to Concubine De. In this way, the distance between the two is only one step, and the two people who are so close to each other. Again, there was no gap between the eyes, even though they were nearly half the age difference. But the atmosphere between the two was still a little subtle.

For a moment, the air seemed to freeze, but this atmosphere soon became shattered by the middle-aged man's sudden lifting of his hand, like transparent ice crystals being hit hard by a hammer.

The middle-aged man's broad hand grasped Concubine De's slender and still soft right hand, but the middle-aged man did not want to be intimate with her, but raised the hand he held to his eyes, and then he said calmly: "You can't wait so much?" ”

"I didn't expect you to find out so soon."

Concubine De shook her right arm vigorously and withdrew her hand from the iron slap. It's just that although her hand was out of the clamp, the small Jinpa bag in her hand was left in the middle-aged man's hand.

The middle-aged man's hand stopped in mid-air, and he subconsciously shook the lump in his palm, and said at the same time: "I'm not as fast as you." ”

Concubine De glanced at her empty right hand, and began to say a little impatiently: "Don't be dumb, let's just open up, you suddenly came here, what's the matter with me?" ”

"I don't want to talk to you too much." The middle-aged man said in a cold tone, "Remove your people from that house." ”

"I knew that as soon as Wanjia's case came out, after you knew that he had returned, the first one would come to me." When Concubine De said this, Dai Mei didn't pick it very kindly, "But, I didn't expect that today, you would be facing him!" ”

"Even if I don't want to help you, I won't help him." In the face of Concubine De's fluctuation, the middle-aged man's face was still calm, "Your judgment has been affected by your affection, don't do stupid things." ”

Concubine De opened her lips when she heard this, but she quickly closed them. She stopped talking, hesitated for a moment before putting on a disapproving demeanor, and said lightly: "Why do you think I'm just doing something stupid? ”

"You ......" The middle-aged man seemed to have a lot to say, but in the end he was blocked by the word 'you'. He was silent for a moment, and when he spoke again, he only repeated what he had said before: "You can't wait? ”

"Of course." Concubine De sneered, and said without hesitation: "Finally, when I waited for this opportunity, my hand was able to hold him, and if I didn't do it, would I let him leave Kyoto and be free for ten years?" ”

The middle-aged man said sarcastically: "Have you ever thought that where you can get your hands, the emperor will have short hands?" ”

Concubine De endured it, and finally couldn't help but shout: "He's a demon." The thought that he was in Kyoto at the moment, so close to me, made it difficult for me to sleep. If he doesn't die, I'm going to die! ”

"Ten years of life in the palace, haven't you learned to endure invisibility?" As Concubine De's usual demure love began to crumble, a little annoyance rose in the middle-aged man's tone, and he scolded: "As far as your current endurance is not as good as thirty percent of his endurance, even if he doesn't make a move, he can kill you!" ”

The middle-aged man's reprimanding words made Concubine De's mind calm down a little, but at the same time, a sense of frustration emerged in her heart. Casually found a chair to sit down, she bowed her shoulders slightly, and did not speak for a long time.

The middle-aged man sighed when he saw this. He first walked to the door and glanced outside, then walked back and said in a softened tone: "The emperor handed over the matter of secretly taking care of the house to me, and the people below found out about your people. I blocked it once with two puppets. However, if there is a second time, I am afraid that I will have to scoop myself to block it. ”

Concubine De glanced up at him, but still didn't speak.

"You might be tempted to say, why don't I continue to use puppets and send myself up. Then I'll tell you that I have always been an iron plate with cracks in the emperor's heart. Even if the rift could be sealed with molten iron. As long as someone scoops a hammer and strikes. The rift will still widen. The middle-aged man paused slightly as he said this. He looked at Concubine De's eyes for a moment before he continued: "Lin Shan is this hammer, do you understand?" ”

Concubine De's eyes froze, and she suddenly spoke, "What do you mean?" Could it be that you want to refuse to touch him all the time for your own sake? ”

"Although you and I have slightly different motivations, the common goal has never changed." The middle-aged man sneered, "He doesn't die." You may just continue to hold your breath. And I'm going to die sooner than you do. I don't think he's going to die, I'm no less than you. It's just that he can't die now. ”

"Why?" Concubine De, who calmed down, finally realized that something was wrong.

"The first reason is that he is now weaving a big net with the emperor, and the Lord Shangshu of the Ministry of Officials is the fish that this net wants to catch, but it may not be the only big fish in the net. Six Divisions of the DPRK and the Central Committee. The network of officials is the most extensive and complex, and it is necessary to really scoop down the person surnamed Wan. I'm afraid that his protégés and friends will also be pulled out a lot. At this time, if there is a bastard who is not afraid of death, he takes the initiative to hit the net. The emperor didn't mind catching a few more small ones and stripping the one surnamed Wan clean. He saves trouble, so that he can put a group of new people he has cultivated into it. ”

The middle-aged man looked at Concubine De. After smiling slightly, he said: "Lin Shan is willing to use himself as bait and muddy a pool of water, not because the emperor wants to touch one of the fish. You want to take advantage of the chaos to kill people, so that the emperor can't find the real murderer, and you know that the emperor also wants to take advantage of the chaos to catch them all. Maybe there are more people sent by the emperor to protect Lin Shan, than there are people who are lying in ambush there and want to use knives, do you want to be this stupid person who hits the knife edge in place? ”

Concubine De shook her head, she wanted to speak, but after thinking about it for a while. I don't know what to say.

The middle-aged man continued: "The one I just said. In fact, it is secondary, and the most critical problem at present is that Lin Shan will take on an important task for Emperor Yu. So, if something happens to him now. And when the emperor saw that someone did it deliberately, but it was not from the revenge of the Wan family, I was very worried, and the emperor didn't mind turning over the harb/palace in order to investigate thoroughly. ”

It was only then that Concubine De realized that things had become a little scary. It's not a good deal to overturn your nest in order to kill an old enemy.

Concubine De regretted her idea a little, and when facing the middle-aged man, her cold attitude slowly eased. After thinking about it, she couldn't help but ask, "What's so important?" I don't even know it? ”

"The emperor can tell you the news that Lin Shan has come back so early, it can be seen that his trust in you has improved a lot in the past few years, but this matter has nothing to do with the trust between husband and wife. For an important matter like this, even if he sues you, you can't share his worries, but let you bear the pressure in vain. The middle-aged man hesitated for a moment when he said this, and then continued: "In short, you just need to know that in the past two or three years, Lin Shan has not been able to die. When the emperor wants to do the thing, I will come to sue you and draw up a list of the murderous steps for you. When the time comes, you will also be relieved, and he will die completely. ”

Concubine De lowered her eyes, and after being silent for a long time, she slowly spoke: "Can you sue me, what is that heavy matter?" ”

"There is going to be a war, but it is not an invasion from another country, but the emperor has been itching for a place to the west for a long time, and he is finally going to do it." The middle-aged man didn't continue when he said this, and changed his head and said, "I can only sue you so much, these have nothing to do with you, and your quiet and good days are still long." ”

Concubine De snorted lightly and said coldly: "Okay, I'll listen to your persuasion this time, and I'll call everyone back later." ”

The middle-aged man nodded, then threw the thing wrapped in the brocade in his palm onto the table, and said in a deep voice: "When you want to use something, the first thing to measure is not how much it can help you, but how much harm it may bring you. ”

Concubine De's gaze paused on the brocade bag, and then asked the middle-aged man, "Do you also think this thing is fake?" ”

"I rarely do things by feeling." The middle-aged man replied calmly: "If you can't give up the guidance of intuition, it's not bad to add another empirical reference." Although your status is noble, it is a gift from one person. Sometimes the chances you can choose may not be as good as a civilian, so you have to be more careful every step of the way. ”

Concubine De reached out with her long hand, held the small bag of Jinpa that the middle-aged man threw on the table, and subconsciously tightened her palms without speaking.

"I'm leaving." The middle-aged man said three words abruptly, and then walked quickly towards a wall beside him.

He felt like he was going to hit the wall, but when the bridge of his nose was about to hit the wall. Suddenly a long and narrow strip of the wall was vacant. The middle-aged man was slightly sideways, like a wisp of smoke being sucked into the gap between the walls, and disappeared. The hollow wall was quickly restored. Tiny traces are barely noticeable in the brightly coloured wall paintings.

Concubine De looked at the wall where the middle-aged man had not entered, and was slightly stunned for a moment, and then she got up and walked out of the room.

Next to the stone table in the courtyard. Qingxia and Cuichun are still standing there. Seeing Concubine De coming out, they hurriedly greeted her. And at the same time, he gave Concubine De a short body.

Concubine De was silent for a moment, and after a final hesitation, she finally decided to leave Cuichun elsewhere first. Then he gave Qing Xia the order to recall.

Qing Xia was a little surprised and stunned, but she didn't say anything, and prepared to leave the palace immediately to carry out the order.

It's just that. When she had just turned around, she had only taken a few steps. Concubine De stopped her again.

"What else does the mother command?" Qing Xia turned around and gave a shallow blessing.

Concubine De hesitated for a moment, and said lightly: "You took the recalled people and scattered around the city gates, remember to lay an ambush outside the city gates, avoiding the sight of the city guards." After that, if you see the old man named Liao Shi, immediately catch him and hide him, and wait for my instructions. ”

"Yes." Qing Xia answered the order, but she quickly questioned again: "Niangniang, why don't you set up an ambush in the inner city?" The outer city is too vast. ”

"In the inner city, even if you do it yourself, I'm afraid you won't have a chance to catch him. It is likely that there are already emperors waiting to meet him in the inner city. Concubine De raised her head slightly, looked at the gradually darkening sky after the sun sank into the mountains, and sighed softly: "Actually, I don't want to just stop like this, it seems that God is not all for that person, so let's rely on the will of heaven next!" ”

……

The north courtyard of Huayang Palace is a place where the second prince likes to stay when he reads and plays chess. There is a large area of evergreen camphor trees in the yard, and the air is often filled with a fresh smell, and books and wooden utensils are not easily eaten by insects in this yard.

After lunch, after Concubine De came to visit, the second prince, who was ill, came here after resting in the dormitory for a while, and the close guards were followed by Chi Chong.

In the afternoon, when the sun was in the west, the second prince suddenly talked to Chi Zhong about practicing martial arts. After chatting for a while, Chi Zhong tried to practice a set of boxing techniques for the second prince of Jianyi, but he didn't expect that this matter would become true just by saying it, but it startled the palace maids and eunuchs in Huayang Palace. However, until the sun sank in the west, the second prince finished a set of punches, and there was no problem with his body, but his usually slightly pale face showed a faint layer of healthy red, which made the group of worried people just now breathe a sigh of relief, and at the same time there was some hope in their hearts.

Facing a row of camphor trees, Chi Zhong and the second prince both maintained the action of just closing their fists and did not move away.

Chi Zhong took a deep breath, then exhaled a long breath, and then spoke: "Your Highness's memory is so strong, I am amazed and indescribable. Although this set of boxing methods is only used as a warm-up and activation, there is no aggression, but the composition of the human body muscles and bones is very complex, and every musculoskeletal movement must be moved, which makes the changes in the moves of this set of boxing methods also much more complicated, but His Highness only learned it in less than an afternoon to master it. ”

The second prince smiled and said, "The apprentice learns quickly, it must be taught well by the master!" ”

As soon as the words of the second prince came out, the two palace maids standing not far away couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Under the auspices of the second prince, the palace rules of Huayang Palace are not so harsh, and the words and deeds of the maids are relatively relaxed, which makes the overall atmosphere of Huayang Palace more active.

However, Chi Zhong is a person who has been trained in military regulations and is very strict with himself. Although he had understood the atmosphere and characteristics of this second prince's residence, it was difficult to fully integrate into it for a while. Listening to the words of the second prince and the strong laughter of the two palace maids, Chi Chong's expression was slightly embarrassed, and he turned to the second prince who was standing aside and still maintained the last kind of posture of closing his fist and said, "Your Highness is joking, and Weichen is terrified. ”

"Okay. I don't laugh anymore. The second prince also eased down the momentum of his fist, relaxed his shoulders, turned to look at Chi Chong and said, "Let's talk about this set of boxing techniques." At noon, you said that this set of boxing techniques was created by Li Qing himself. As far as I know, the commander of the Kyoto garrison, Li Gai, is a god in the martial arts, but he created this non-offensive boxing technique, so it must have its wonderful use. What exactly? ”

"Judging from His Highness's practice of this boxing technique. It is indeed mysterious. Chi Zhong eased the embarrassment just now, and Wen Yan said: "Your Highness should know that there are a group of people in Yulin Wei who were brought out by Chief Li. I'm one of them, and anyone who's ever taught me this style of boxing. Master Li told us when he taught us this boxing method, and this boxing method is practiced twice in the morning and evening. You can adjust the speed according to your own situation, and the purpose of the practice. In the morning, it is used to stretch the body after a long night's sleep, and in the evening, it is used as the last activity to relax and recuperate. ”

The second prince asked curiously: "Is it possible to adjust the fist speed?" ”

Chi nodded and said slowly: "There will be differences in people's body elements, and they will choose the right one according to the length of their breath." The length of the breath changes in line with the stretching of the punch moves. In order to achieve the effect of fitness. ”

When the second prince heard this, he exclaimed: "Sure enough, there is a mystery." ”

Chi Chong thought for a moment and then said, "Your Highness, Weichen Jianyì, you give up the morning exercise, and the evening practice is advanced to before sunset. ”

"Why?" The second prince's eyes showed a look of incomprehension.

"Morning exercise...... It's so hard. Chi Zhong lowered his eyebrows slightly. Said slowly: "A round of practice in the afternoon can help you sleep at night." ”

"It seems to be exactly what you say." The second prince smiled slightly. said: "After the round of practice just now, I unconsciously sweated on my body, and I felt that every inch of skin on my body seemed to have breathed. It's more comfortable than lying on the couch for a day of rest. ”

"Your Highness." Chi Zhong suddenly raised his eyebrows, "You have to change into dry clothes first, be careful that the cold sweat attracts the wind cold." ”

"Okay." The second prince nodded, and after being silent for a while, he said, "That's all for today, you can also go back and rest." ”

"Yes." Chi Chong arched his hand and saw the second prince go back to the dormitory accompanied by two palace maids, and then he chose to leave.

……

The wide bath barrel in the bathroom is controlled by the palace maids who add a basin of hot water every once in a while, and the water temperature has been peaceful. While washing away the wet and thin sweat on the second prince's body, it also brought him a little lazy fatigue.

After bathing, wrapped in a dry and soft bathrobe, he returned to the dormitory, and the second prince sat cross-legged on the soft couch, letting Xiaoyi, the palace maid he trusted and close to the most, sit behind him, wiping the wetness from his dissolved hair with a dry thick cloth. Xiaoyi's movements are very gentle. The second prince felt as if his body was being poured into a lullaby by petty, and the fatigue in his mind was even heavier, but he knew that he still needed to do something to sleep.

His eyes suddenly opened, and at the door of the dormitory, a young man dressed in black had just stepped in. As soon as the two looked at each other, the man knelt down on one knee and said respectfully: "Meet His Royal Highness." ”

Xiao Yi scooped the hand of the second prince to wipe his hair, and at the same time heard him ask the young man in black: "Is that person awake?" ”

The man in black moved his lips, but did not make a sound. It's just that his eyes flickered on the petite palace maid behind the second prince.

"It doesn't matter." The second prince spoke coldly. Only two words were spoken.

The young man in black immediately spoke: "That person has woken up, but his spirit is not very good, and he has been demented since he woke up. ”

The second prince asked, "Is it really due to dementia or weakness?" ”

The young man in black realized that what he had just said was a little inappropriate, and hurriedly explained, "It's caused by weakness after taking medicine. He eats, drinks, and excretes normally, but he doesn't talk much. ”

"That's good." The second prince nodded, "What I want is for him to be able to speak, see and listen, and don't want anything else." If he is in peace, it will be easier for you to guard, but you should also be more careful in normal times, and don't let him take the initiative to seek death. ”

The young man in black bowed down and said, "Your subordinates must fulfill their duties. ”

"Hmm." The second prince raised his hand, "Go back!" ”

Hearing this, the young man in black straightened up, and when he was about to walk away, he couldn't help but say, "Your Highness, there is one more thing ......"

"Say." The second prince opened his mouth, but slowly closed his eyes.

The black-clothed young man said in a deep voice: "Lin Shan is back, and the charges he took a few years ago have been settled in just one afternoon, although he has not yet been reinstated. But now he is innocent. However, the official Shangshu was convicted and imprisoned, but the charges still need to be reviewed, and I don't know if the sentence can be commuted. ”

"Do you want him to have his sentence reduced?" The second prince opened his eyes again, and after a pause, he continued in a somewhat indifferent tone: "The official department is insatiable, and this behavior is like a greedy person, wearing loose clothes. A bulging belly will also be revealed. Such a person, even if today's crime is really passed on by others. That's not a pity to die. disrupting the order of the promotion of the officials and shaking the super-outline; How is it different from accepting a large amount of money and property from lower-level officials and looting people's ointment? It's not like he can't do dirty things. It's that it hasn't come that far, and it's useless to keep such people. ”

"It's a subordinate who is redundant." The young man in black shrank his gaze slightly, "The subordinates retreat." ”

"Slow." When the young man in black was about to leave, he heard the voice of the second prince calling him again.

The young man in black had just stopped and turned around. I saw the second prince say slowly: "In the past few days, pay attention to the movements of the Lin family's old mansion. Lin Shan is a talent. If you can, you can help, but don't go into the house, do it secretively. ”

"Yes." The young man in black gave up his orders and finally left.

The second prince suddenly took a deep breath. Reaching out and tugging on a long soft pillow, he leaned sideways.

The palace maid Xiaoyi, who had been sitting on the couch beside him, saw this scene, and was slightly stunned and said in surprise: "Your Highness." What happened to you? ”

"I'm tired." Two words came out of the mouth of the second prince, light as a feather.

Xiaoyi said with some worry: "But His Highness's hair is still wet." Just fall asleep like this, and tomorrow you're bound to have a headache. ”

The second prince said a little weakly: "Let me rest for a while, and I'll get up later." ”

Xiaoyi heard the tiredness in his business, and was a little worried, but also a little unbearable, so he followed his wishes. But when she wrapped his wet hair with a dry cloth, she couldn't help but say, "Your Highness, you won't practice that punch tomorrow." ”

After being quiet for a moment, the second prince said vaguely: "Let's talk about it." ”

Xiaoyi didn't say anything, after he wrapped his hair, he pulled the brocade quilt folded on the inside of the bed and carefully covered him, and then climbed out of bed. Squatting on the edge of the bed, he looked at the thin cheeks of the second prince lying on his side, and whispered: "Your Highness, dinner will be served later, and when the servant comes to call you, you are not allowed to lie in bed." ”

The second prince, who looked quiet and seemed to have fallen asleep, quietly half-opened one eye, smiled barely in sleepiness, and then quickly closed it again.

……

In the southern city of Kyoto, in the old housing area where the poor lived, Tieda, who had been in a coma from last night until this afternoon, sat in a single courtyard, looking at the rising moon in the sky in a daze.

He didn't want to look at the moon, but he didn't want to stay in that windowless house because it was more like a prison cell.

Last night, he was awakened by the young man with a cruel drug, and before he fell into a coma again, Tie Da saw something very interesting on the young man's body.

To this day, from the group of people who take care of him, Tie Da can vaguely confirm one of his conjectures.

The few caretakers scattered outside this single courtyard, all of them were well-trained, and when they were not killed and their kung fu was still eighty or ninety, they could only fight a tie with one of them. However, although this group of people was doing the work of jailers, they did not have the slightest ruffianism on their bodies, and their style was tough and upright.

However, they are also too tough and upright, except for being responsible for their own food and daily life, they don't say a word more. This made Tie Da quickly feel that sitting in the small courtyard was just a change to a larger cell with better air circulation.

In the extremely quiet environment, Tie Da, who had been sitting for a while, seemed to be able to hear the sound of children being scolded by their fathers for picky eating in the houses a few courtyards away, the sound of men gathering together to talk after a busy day, and the sound of two families living next to each other arguing over trivial matters...... The breath of ordinary people's life is scattered around the courtyard, which seems to be very close, but in fact it is far away.

What can't be touched is the farthest, and what can't be reached is the most beautiful.

The medicine that the Gao family sent him on the road, plus the cruel medicine that the young man gave him last night, all frantically hurt the true yuan of his body. At this time, although the strength of the medicine is gone, the body of the iron is like a sugarcane that has sucked up the juice, leaving a light and soft slag body.

He struggled for a moment before he raised a hand with difficulty and touched his face, and when he touched the scabbed left eye, he couldn't help but sneer in his heart: the eye burned blind. The ears are a little more sensitive than usual, but my God, do you think it's fun?

The muscles of the arms lacked strength, and the big iron hands soon fell and drooped on the knees.

Tie Da's eyes drooped, looking at his hands that had once made a name for themselves in the harbor with a light lift of a hundred catties and as steady as iron and stone, but at this time, he couldn't even control his fingers, and sighed silently. Then I asked myself: Iron is great. What do you live for? Is this how you are pushed around by others? The Gao family gave you a chance to live and a chance to suffer, should you hate? Now you've been resurrected from death by another man. If you want to repay, but you have to do things that harm the Gao family, do you have the right to choose?

After a long silence, a low, hoarse voice suddenly came out of his throat. However, it is impossible to discern what is being expressed.

Only his heart was flooding with huge waves, crying out in a cracked struggle:

"Maybe death is the easiest. But I've already died once, so I'm suddenly very afraid of death, of the pain, of the feeling of suffocation...... So. I want to live! ”

……

To live.

Live well.

These are the basic demands of man. However, in order to achieve this goal, many times, it is necessary to use other people's shoulders as a stepping stone.

But not all people are willing to show their shoulders on their own initiative. Let you step on it.

In the south of the city at night, the old housing area where the poor live. A group of guests suddenly came to Old Man Luo's small broken courtyard. They didn't come together, but they were very happy, so when Old Man Luo was carrying three taels of silver, and was forced out of the courtyard by the guards with the group of people with sharp eyes, although he was a little scared and apprehensive in his heart, but more of the joy of making a sum of money out of thin air.

This dilapidated yard is usually rented for the warblers for fun, forbidden parking, and when some market gangsters gather to gamble, even if it is rented out for more than ten days in a row. I didn't make much money tonight.

Old man Luo has no queen, and the only industry is this courtyard, and since he found out that this broken courtyard can be used to make such money, all he usually has to do is to tell the neighbors that he is a lonely old man, and this house is also extremely poor.

Because it is too broken, normal people will not come to knock on the door to rent a house; Because there is nothing of value in the yard, even rats are reluctant to steal food over the wall; There lived a lonely old man in the courtyard. The root is simple, what to ask, as long as the old man pretends to be demented and closes his mouth, although his teeth are no longer neat, the mouth seal is very tight.

When the fifth guest, who had only one young man with him, arrived, a man in the form of a guard in the courtyard closed the courtyard door and stood behind the side of the wall.

The fifth guest entered the only room in the courtyard and saw the four guests who had arrived first. The five of them just met with their eyes, and they said hello and didn't say anything.

The five main guests gathered and sat upright. There was no polished table in front of them, no refreshments prepared by the servants—though they could feel a suppressed dryness in their throats before they could speak.

The crowd was silent for a moment. The middle-aged man sitting on the main seat coughed dryly, and finally started to talk, and directly picked out what he wanted to discuss tonight.

……

After a moment, the low voice of dialogue brought the topic to the middle of the conversation.

At this time, a young man sitting on the left hand side of the main seat couldn't help but say something that went out of his way: "Yi Gong, isn't it a little inappropriate for us to do this?" Wan Daren is still in prison, if he does something to the surname Lin at this time, wouldn't it make Wan Daren's suspicion even heavier? ”

The middle-aged man sitting on the main seat said slowly with no expression on his face: "Lin Shan's will not be removed. Practices like him. If you continue, you will only have endless troubles. We must take advantage of the fact that his power has not fully recovered, and cut the gold quickly to ensure our peace. ”

He was after a long deep breath. He also said: "It should be regarded as a sacrifice for ten thousand people!" If you lose one of him and help five of us, you can't tell which is more important? Don't be as indecisive as a woman, a few of us are hundreds of people with a family, how can we have so much mental strength and morality? ”

The young man who had spoken before did not speak again, he lowered his gaze with a look of struggle in his eyes, but quickly calmed down. At the same time, the young man who accompanied the last guest to enter the courtyard also lowered his gaze, and there was a similar look in his eyes that was hidden and suppressed.

One or two of the five people at the banquet couldn't help but sigh softly, and then returned to calm, only one of them was extremely thin and had sunken cheeks, but his eyes were as bright as a mouse, and he said: "If you can do this, Wan Daren will not be sacrificed in vain." If the surname Lin is gone, I can at least be free for a few more years. In the matter of supporting the family members of the Wan family, as long as Mrs. Wan is willing, I Qian Mou is willing to pay half of the alimony alone. ”

"Brother Qian, aren't you underestimating us when you say that?"

"The foolish brother thinks that even if Master Wan is gone, Mrs. Wan will not accept the help of others, and Mrs. Wan's maiden family is a big family." ——

(To be continued)