Hearing Ji Tongying say this, Xie Shuning couldn't help but be speechless.

Of course, she understood that Emperor Su Fang would never be willing to replace a talent like Wang Ren. In the inner court of Xiyue, how many years has it taken for a Wang Ren to come out, and there is no one in the past, and I am afraid that there will be no one in the future. Such a person, but by whomever it is, I am afraid that they both love and hate, and they are not willing to give up easily.

Especially Emperor Sufang, who ascended to the throne of God in such a situation.

But these words, how can they be explained to Ji Tongying? Xie Shuning is running out of words.

Fortunately, Ji Tongying just pulled her to talk, and after a while, she changed her head again and talked about the side. Since she met Xie Shuning, her complaints have not stopped.

Xie Shuning listened honestly and occasionally echoed a few words. When the rain was lighter, he followed her to see her aunt and learn some rules in the palace. Time flies, but Xie Shuning's heart has been falling heavily, and as time goes by, it becomes heavier and heavier, and the moment of relief when he wakes up in the morning disappears like this.

As noon approached, it was dark outside.

The sky in the rain curtain is like an inkstone, glowing with a rich and dense ink, and it seems that it will fall heavily in the next moment.

In this large area of darkness, the thick palace walls also became ethereal. The rain "roared" down, and the stirring water droplets faintly contained the earthy fragrance of spring, slightly astringent but fragrant, and sometimes mixed with the freshness of green buds.

Candles were lit in all parts of the palace.

In the imperial study of Emperor Su Fang, the four walls are inlaid with huge night pearls, emitting a brilliant white light, illuminating it as if the sun is in full bloom in the afternoon. The light was soft, not dazzling.

After the leniency of the bookcase. Emperor Su Fang rubbed his eyebrows and leaned back on the chair, holding a fold in his other hand and flipping through it.

"The treasury is empty. There's a lack of silver everywhere, and the old thing really left me a mess......" He took a deep breath. Huo Ran threw the fold back on the bookcase, making a heavy muffled sound.

Outside the imperial study, Wang Ren waited at the door, staring at the falling rain, and rarely became a little absent-minded.

Suddenly, his eyes froze.

In the heavy rain, a little eunuch held an umbrella and hurriedly approached.

As soon as he got up the stone steps of white marble, the little eunuch bent down respectfully and said, "Yin Gong." Things are coming. ”

When Wang Ren heard this, his expression remained unchanged, and he only bowed his head slightly to indicate that he already knew.

He has a lot of shadows under him, and it can be seen that he has not slept last night. But this blue and black, falling on his white jade-like face, did not seem to be in harmony at all. It was as if there should be such a sickly death in him......

Soon, the little eunuch retreated again.

Stay until the afternoon, Emperor Su Fang rests. Wang Ren left the imperial study.

The aroma of incense sticks slowly spreads in the moist air, hovering and lingering.

"Yin Gong, the matter has been clarified." Runzi knelt in front of him with her knees together. He lowered his head and said, "Miss Xie Ba's name is Shuning, and her name is Aman." His father, Xie Yuanmao, was revised for the Hanlin Academy, which was produced by the Xie family's house in Beicheng. Ranked sixth, he passed the third room when he was a child. His mother is from Yanling. The surname is Song Furou, and there is no table word. Five years ago, in the middle of winter, Miss Xie Ba, who was only four years old, entered Beijing with her mother with her twin brother. Because his mother was an old acquaintance with the imperial concubine, he was familiar with Hui and the princess. ”

Wang Ren listened, his bony fingers bent slightly, and gently tapped the back of the chair.

Xie Shuning is only nine years old this year, so she is young and has experienced few things. In just a few words, she told her life and parents all.

"Does the Song family have brothers and sisters?" Wang Ren said.

"I have only one brother, and if I look down, I can't find any traces." Xiao Runzi swallowed a mouthful of saliva quietly, still lying down, not daring to raise his head, "If you want to dig deeper, I'm afraid that you will have to use the manpower of the West Factory." ”

After Wang Ren became the overseer, he reorganized the two factories. Since then, the West Factory has been in charge of intelligence, and every day countless secrets have been sent to the small black room of the West Factory, which has been recorded word by word, sealed in an iron box, and placed layer by layer. Therefore, if you really want to investigate, no matter how secret things are, they will still be unearthed.

But just to check a little girl with an innocent family background, it seems a bit wasteful to use the top power of the West Factory.

Xiao Runzi thought so, but she didn't dare to speak.

After a while, Wang Ren spoke: "Go down." ”

"Yes." Xiao Runzi got up, bowed and stepped out of the door.

The room was dark and unlit, and it seemed even more silent, so quiet that one could hear one's own breathing.

A very shallow smile appeared at the corner of Wang Ren's mouth, which was fleeting.

-- Yanling Song clan.

Just these four words were enough to make his heart fluctuate.

In the past, when he was leaving, he went to the front door of the house to see.

How can he forget such a big "Song" character?

Besides, he is a man with a very good memory. So even after so many years...... He still remembers those memories vividly...... The dust is sealed in the bottom of my heart, but I have never really forgotten it for a day.

He knows that there is no person in this world who is similar for no reason, and tracing back to the source, people can always find the connected parts. It's like, through Xie Shuning, he found someone he had never deliberately looked for. But what if you find it?

He couldn't help but sigh lowly.

Emperor Su Fang was not in good spirits, and he always had to sleep for a while before waking up after reading the excerpts. Count the hours, and I'm afraid it will be the end of the hour.

Wang Ren thought about it, so he got up and walked outside.

He knows everything in the palace. At this hour, he knew who should be where and what he should do. He walked straight along the promenade, walking as fast as he could.

When he arrived at the gate of Chu Xi Palace, his pace gradually slowed down. The door of the main hall was open, and as he approached, someone hurriedly saluted, and said with three points of surprise: "Yin Gong! ”

Wang Ren swept over and glanced at it lightly, and said, "Miss Xie Ba and Her Royal Highness the Princess, but in there?" ”

"Yes, Her Royal Highness the princess will just leave the class."

After the class is dismissed, but the person remains inside, that is, the person is in the main hall at the back.

Chu Xi Hall is the place where Princess Lihui and Princess Li attend classes on weekdays, and it is a good place for the palace to have one of the best landscapes. It is not common to have a large white plum blossom at the back. Only this time, the flowers are gone, and I am afraid that there will only be a few bare branches left, and there is nothing worth seeing.

Wang Ren raised his feet and walked inside.

didn't go far, and saw Ji Tongying pestering Xie Shuning to speak.

"Hey, why is Grandpa Wang here?" Ji Tongying looked up when she heard the footsteps, and looked surprised.

Wang Ren is a confidant eunuch beside the emperor, in a high position, although he is a minion, but not everyone can support him. is the emperor, and he will never let a person like him do the errand work that a little eunuch should do. Therefore, when Ji Tongying saw him, he just thought he had seen a ghost, which was very strange.

Xie Shuning suddenly felt a bad feeling in her heart.

In this kind of place, she thinks everyone is dangerous, not to mention that the other party is Wang Ren.

"The emperor recently got a rare thing, and when he saw the princess, he was overjoyed, so he asked the servant to invite the princess." Wang Ren didn't blink, and the lies came easily.

Ji Tongying was overjoyed when she heard this, and thought that since she could ask Wang Ren to invite her in person, it must be a really rare thing, so she said to Xie Shuning: "Aman, you wait for me, I'll go and go back." ”

Although she also wanted to take Xie Shuning with her from time to time, after all, there were big rules in the palace, and it was not easy to walk around at will as Xie Shuning. Although Ji Tongying doesn't like to pay attention to rules, she has to follow them when she is in the palace. Of course, Xie Shuning also understood, and when she saw her excited, she smiled and asked her to go quickly.

Ji Tongying walked away without looking back.

Wang Ren didn't immediately follow along.

At this hour, Emperor Su Fang was still asleep, and Ji Tongying went, but he couldn't see anyone. But she would never have thought that she had lied and broke her away, and she would only fall asleep as Emperor Su Fang. As a daughter, she is far less aware of his work and rest habits than the inner prison who serves every day.

"Miss Xie Ba." Wang Ren stood tall and shouted.

Xie Shuning originally looked out the window, the plague god was stunned, his brows furrowed slightly, and then he let go, and looked over quietly, puzzled.

Wang Ren smiled, a pair of peach blossom eyes were gorgeous, but there was a small and cold meaning in the bottom of his eyes, "Miss Eight's mother, how are you doing?" The ghost sent the gods, and he inexplicably asked such a sentence that even surprised him.

Xu is heart was weak, and his voice was so soft that Xie Shuning didn't hear it clearly, and there was a hint of real doubt in his eyes when he looked at him.

At this moment, Wang Ren suddenly approached and stretched out his hand, and his slender and white hand fell on the top of her hair with a slight coolness, and he touched it lightly, and muttered in his mouth: "I am not mistaken, it is really higher......"

"Presumptuous!" Xie Shuning was struck by this touch as if she had been struck by lightning, and she retreated again and again, and subconsciously blurted out the words of reprimand, and her voice was full of emotion.

Wang Ren's hand fell into the air, and it was still before it was withdrawn after a while.

His brow furrowed.

Pretty weird.

The girl in front of her just felt really weird at that moment.

When he said the word presumptuous, he clearly saw in her eyes the complicated look of a child who should not be at this age.

Outside the window, there was a sudden flapping sound of wings, and a solitary bird perched under the eaves was startled and rushed out with difficulty in the heavy rain. In late winter and early spring, the petals and jade chips on the plum tree outside the hall were shattered by the rain and fell into the mud.

Half loud, no one spoke.

Xie Shuning's breathing gradually stabilized, but her heart was still "pounding", and one voice was heavier.

Although she had never seen it with her own eyes, she had also heard about the tragic situation when Wang Ren died. He was killed by Yan Huai, the former Duke of Chengguo, with an arrow, which penetrated his heart, but he fell to the ground for half an hour and kept breathing, until the dark red blood meandered to the ground, and then gradually died silent.

At this moment, Xie Shuning never felt that she was a coward, but she told her again and again that she had been a coward from beginning to end.

She was so shocked that she felt dizzy and unsteady on her feet.

Leaning back, she leaned against the pillars, her hand hidden in her sleeve trembling slightly. (To be continued......)