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Xue Rui woke up, he was on the patio, the blanket on his body slipped to his feet at some point, a wine jug was poured on the side of the pillow, and the wine jar on the ground was wide open, reminding him how much he drank last night.

With a low groan, he rubbed his forehead and sat up, combed his long hair that was scattered twice, squinted at the dazzling sunlight outside the patio, and called "Someone", and Guiba, who was guarding outside a curtain, bent in with a basin of water and a white cotton towel.

Xue Rui wiped his face with cold water, refreshed himself, sniffed the strong smell of wine on his body, and thought that Yu Shu would come later, so he frowned and said:

"Prepare warm soup."

Gui Badao: "Childe, it's better to eat breakfast first, the kitchen is ready, and the small one will be served to you." ”

Xue Rui waved his hand, "What time is it, let's keep lunch." ”

Guiba looked at his face, took the handkerchief, and reported: "Half an hour ago, the prince of Xiang sent someone to book a wine table, saying that the young lord Rui and the second prince of Qi are coming at noon, son, you see?" ”

Xue Rui raised his eyebrows, put on his coat, and asked him, "How many do you want?" ”

Liu Jiong and they are going to come to the banquet, they must put on a first-class banquet, the plate of the dishes, the cup of wine, are very particular, must be said first, so as not to mess up.

"I said that I would prepare eight pairs of dishes and chopsticks."

As soon as Xue Rui calculated, they probably had to bring a few female guests over, so Xi Wen was indispensable, and she suddenly had a headache.

It's not that he doesn't know what this cousin thinks about him, he only thought she was young and ignorant, and he didn't care, but the last time she heard the news that her grandfather was interested in marrying the Rui family, she came to the Wangji Building, and it was difficult not to mind him about the words she said.

What's more, he almost ran into Yu Shu that time, and he really couldn't be relieved.

Fortunately, Yu Shu came over in the afternoon, and he sent this group of people away early. So as not to be tricky. When I met her, I targeted her again.

Xue Rui was not afraid that Yu Shu would suffer, but he was afraid that Xi Wen would be open-mouthed and cause misunderstanding

Xue Rui washed off the smell of wine, smoked a furnace of sandalwood, sat neatly in the study, looked through an account book that Yu Shu had changed a while ago, and waited for Liu Jiong and them to come.

It was a quarter before noon. The front building was full of customers, and the back of the building was still quiet, Gui Qi trotted from the hanging flower door leading to the backyard to Xue Rui's door to report.

Xue Rui put away the account book and walked outside the door, and Liu Jiong and his party entered the backyard with a smile.

"Brother Rui!" Feng Zhaomiao snorted first, and jumped in front of Xue Rui in two steps. "Do you think you can't get out of Dali Temple, and you're done with business?"

Xue Rui nodded, patted him on the shoulder, looked at the few people over there, glanced over, and noticed Liu Jiongruilin and the three or four little girls in men's clothes and oily hair and powder followed by them, and then looked at them. I noticed the person Xi Wen was holding affectionately. His eyes paused, and the smile on the corner of his mouth faded.

"Brother Rui. Today's meal can ask you, Rui Lin got the main position of the Criminal Department yesterday, and now, like you, is also the official of the five grades," Liu Jiong smiled and pushed the young lord Rui, who had a proud face, and said:

"In the future, one of you will investigate the case in Dali Temple, and the other will handle the case in the Criminal Department, Zhao Miao will no longer have to worry about being arrested and taken to the official if he gets into trouble, Ha Luha!"

"I'm not so noisy, didn't the prince ask me if I also received a mission in the army, and now we are also people who do big things." Feng Zhaomiao argued in annoyance, causing everyone to laugh.

Xue Rui said hello to Ruilin and led everyone upstairs, leaving behind a few young ladies dressed as men.

Xi Wen was wearing a fiery red riding suit, with her hair tied high, holding a delicate person dressed as a scholar, biting her ear and saying:

"Sister Zhu'er, I just said I wanted you to come, are you happy to see someone?"

Rui Zizhu listened to her words, and then looked at the long back in front of her, her face was flushed, she lowered her head helplessly, and said:

"Don't make fun of me, I, I'm here with my brother."

"Hehe," Xi Wen hooked the corners of her mouth, a mockery crossed her eyes, but her hands hooked her upstairs affectionately

On the wine table, a table of people was hearty, full of delicacies, did not move a few dishes, but the wine went back and forth to the two altars, Feng Zhaomiao stepped on the stool, and talked about the strange things he encountered in the barracks.

Speaking of a centurion who got up in the middle of the night to meet a ghost and was choked by the neck, he frightened a few girls present, although they were afraid, but they still listened to him with trepidation.

Xi Wen drank all the wine in the cup in front of her in one gulp, stood up, and said, "I'll go outside to breathe, and you continue to listen to his nonsense." ”

Feng Zhaomiao smiled sheepishly and scared her: "If you don't believe it, be careful and let you bump into it later." ”

Xi Wen "spitted" him and said, "It's a sunny day, where there are any ghosts, I'm not afraid." ”

After that, she glanced at Xue Rui quickly, and then turned around and walked out.

Xue Rui was quietly pouring the wine in his hand into the spittoon under the table, so he didn't pay attention to her glance.

After Xi Wen left the table, she didn't go far, she stood in the corridor for a while, and when she saw a guy passing by with food, she stopped the person, handed over a rolled-up note in her hand, and connected a golden bean, and explained in a low voice:

"Quietly give it to the eldest prince, don't let others see it."

That guy is not another person, it is Guiba, he looked at the things in Xi Wen's hand, then took it, promised it, and entered the front room with the food.

In the private room, Xue Rui just blocked Liu Jiong's glass of wine, put down the wine jug, and saw the guy send the food to his side, and in a flash, he had a small paper ball in his hand, and whispered in his ear:

"Childe, it's the county lord."

Xue Rui casually held the note, hid it in his palm and opened it, looked down, and his face turned cold the next moment.

'Three years ago, Guanhai Tower, I saw it. ’

With a hard grip on the palm of his hand, Xue Rui straightened the corners of his mouth, a faint storm appeared in his eyes, and when he raised his head again, he smiled gently, picked up chopsticks, grabbed a piece of lung, shook his hand, and fell on his clothes, attracting the attention of several people.

"I'll wash it, and you drink it first."

He put down his chopsticks, got up and walked out, no one on the table noticed his strange appearance just now, only a glance, shyly and timidly peeking at his back.

Xue Rui went outside, glanced at the empty corridor, took a few steps forward, and went straight up to the third floor. Turn around the corner of the stairs. I saw Xi Wen's fiery red clothes, wandering outside the patio, and when I saw him coming, I smiled sweetly at him.

Xue Ruibiao expressionlessly pushed open a nearby door and walked in, Xi Wen followed closely, not forgetting to close the door. As soon as she turned around, she met a pair of dark and compelling eyes, which made her heartbeat half a knot, and she was obviously aware of the danger of the man in front of her at this time, but she didn't turn back when she opened the bow, and she couldn't take half a step back.

"Brother Rui. You read the note, let me tell you, three years ago in the palace, the tenth princess was not killed by Jinxun's cousin, I saw with my own eyes what was going on, don't you want to know the truth of Lu Dao? ”

Xue Rui stared at her face and asked in a deep voice, "What did you see?" ”

Three years ago, the ten princesses born by the queen were favored in the palace. The emperor is interested in the young and promising prince of Shangshufu. Who would have thought that the tenth princess would fall from the Guanhai Tower before the marriage was issued. Fell into the lake, and then died of typhoid fever. At that time, a little eunuch in the palace identified that it was Miss Xue who entered the palace to accompany the princess, and because she had a quarrel with the tenth princess, she accidentally pushed the princess downstairs.

The emperor was furious, and without finding out, he asked the seven members of the Xue family, including Xue Guifei, to kneel in front of Suliu Palace all night, confess the death of the ten princesses, and almost raided them.

Later, the emperor's anger subsided, so that Dali Temple intervened, but the little eunuch committed suicide by throwing himself into a well, after all, he died without proof, and it became a headless public case.

Xue Lingnan is the minister of humerus in the court, and has served three generations of monarchs, after the emperor was angry, he only treated the tenth princess as a stumbling and fell from the building, and did not hold the Xue family responsible.

The Xue family did not fall from then on and kept the glory of Manchuria. However, Mrs. Xue, who was already blind, became seriously ill because of this and almost died. Xue Jinxun was overly frightened, his temperament changed greatly, and he was submissive all day long, hiding in the room and not daring to go out, becoming half mute

As soon as Xue Rui recalled the events of that year, a cold cold began to rise from the soles of his feet, and slowly climbed up his neck along his spine, as if a pair of invisible palms were pinching his neck, making him breathless.

When he opened his eyes and closed his eyes, he was like a gentle and kind mother slapping him madly, biting his arm, eager to eat his bones and eat his flesh.

"What do I see, you ask? I can tell you, not only to tell you, but I can also help you testify and find out your cousin's innocence, but you have to promise me one thing. ”

Xi Wen's eyes flickered, she was thinking about how to take this opportunity to talk to Xue Rui about conditions, but she didn't notice that his whole person was gradually becoming cloudy, with dark eyes, and deep and terrifying.

"If you saw it, why didn't you open your mouth back then?"

Xi Wen's face stiffened, and she lowered her head in a sneer, "I was still young at the time, and I was frightened when I saw the tenth princess fall from the upper floor, and then I told my father about it, and he asked me to keep my mouth shut and not allow me to mention it to anyone. ”

"What do you want me to promise you?"

Xi Wen wrapped ten fingers around her chest, bit her lip, and couldn't help but not tell him her plan, but said:

"I can't tell you yet, but I'll tell you when I think about it."

Xue Rui was silent for a moment before he said in a low voice: "Then wait until you think about it, and then tell me." ”

Hearing his words, Xi Wen secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and unconsciously, a layer of sweat appeared on her forehead, and she felt that the stuffiness in this room was uncomfortable.

"Then, I'll go down first."

Afraid that Xue Rui would regret it, Xi Wen opened the door, walked out quickly, breathed in the fresh air outside, and suddenly relaxed, so he took a brisk step, and when he went down to the second floor, he happened to meet Yu Shu who came up from the first floor.

The two bumped into each other, they were both stunned, Xi Wen was the first to react, with a sneer on the corner of her mouth, "hum", without even saying hello, she went to the end of the corridor with her hands behind her back.

Yu Shu heard Lin Fu say that this person came to drink, and it was not strange to see Xi Wen appear here, but-

She looked upstairs and was suspicious, so she didn't go back to the room to wait for Xue Rui as originally planned, but leaned on the handrail and went up to the third floor.

She easily found the second half-open private room, pushed the door in, and when she saw Xue Rui sitting on the chair in the hall, she felt that something was wrong with him, thinking about Xi Wen who she met downstairs just now, she frowned, guessed what happened to the two of them just now, and stepped forward.

"Big brother, why are you sitting here?"

Xue Rui heard Yu Shu's voice, slowly raised his head, and watched her approach.

When Yu Shu walked two steps in front of him, he could clearly see the red silk in his eyes, his chin was stretched in a straight line, as if he was trying to endure something, his tall body was trembling slightly, his lips were purple and blue, and there was no blood.

She was startled, and couldn't think much of it, and stepped forward to hold his face.

"What's wrong? Don't scare me, hey! ”

While talking, he patted him on the shoulder, gave him a smooth breath in the chest, and was in a hurry for a long time, in a hurry, he was about to go out to call someone for help, and his hands just left him, and before he turned around, he was hugged violently.

Xue Rui wrapped his arms around Yu Shu's back, his arm almost strangled her, he just hugged her, felt the body temperature coming from her, and finally lifted it up from his chest in one breath, just like a survivor struggling to surface.

"Shu, don't go."

Yu Shuhe had seen Xue Rui so fragile, listening to his hoarse pleading, his heart ached, so he raised his hand and fell, stroked the back of his stiff neck, and said softly with his head like coaxing a child:

"Big brother, I'm not leaving." (To be continued.) )

PS: (Why are you so powerful these days, and you have put the fruit on the pink list again!) Ha Luha, okay, Weibo said that June 1st will be added, and the pigeons will never be released. ）