The night breeze with the warmth of early summer swept through the panes, sending the murmurs of the secluded room clearly and stubbornly to the ears of the stout man on the front wall of the couch.

"Brother Mu Ying!" , Xiao Rui, who was sitting on the chair on the side of the couch, slumped her broad shoulders helplessly, and said in a dumb voice: "In the eyes of outsiders, this king has come to visit you again and again, risking his life. But this king just believes that you, who were once pointed at by my sister and asked me to call my brother, will not really hurt me. I understand your heart for your sister! ”

It is not the first time that he has condescended to persuade Jian Huai, who is under house arrest. King Jing Xiao Rui also wondered if it was because of the nervousness of the Son of Heaven that he was nostalgic for the absurd years of the young Jing Guogong in the past, and had more nostalgic mother-in-law.

But Jian Huai, who was lying on the low couch, stiffened and tensed, and did not make a sound of response, as ignorant as a stone clay sculpture.

He couldn't say either. From the first day of being secretly confined, in order to prevent Jian Huai from communicating with outsiders, he fed him medicine to make him lose his voice temporarily, and the drug erosion for nearly a month was suppressing his skills.

Right next to Xiao Rui's hand, there was also a bowl of medicinal soup, dark as ink, with a faint sour and bitter atmosphere.

"During the Dragon Boat Festival, many ministers were secretly surprised why Huaienhou, who had always been as healthy as an ox, disappeared for a month. So, Mu Ying, you should go out and take a walk, this king is still waiting for you to participate in the enthronement ceremony! Xiao Rui stretched out his fingers and tapped lightly on the edge of the bowl, calmly playing with the flower work of pointing to the deer as a horse.

Jian Huaiteng sat up straight, his eyes wide with anger, and his eyes were about to burst.

"To poison you, this king doesn't have to come himself! I just think it's time for you to come out and make a showman! Xiao Rui saw that the people who persuaded him had a reaction, and smiled lightly: "Just like you." With the miracle of the white-clothed degree in front of the Emperor's Gate, you can't die when the Jing Dynasty is about to stand. If you want to die, you have to wait for the end of three or five years of beautiful life. Or maybe it's better to have another miracle of your ascension. ”

Jian Huai angrily stretched out his hand to the edge of the bowl, but when his fingertips were near, the bowl was moved farther away by Xiao Rui.

"Jian Muying! In two or three days, the child you've been thinking about will return to Luojing City again. I know you won't listen to my explanations. Then take a step back and say that his origin is as you say. But he only knew me as a father. Father and son! If I wanted his life, he would have given it with both hands!

I won't poison you, and I dare to let you go, because I have already given him poison Gu!" Presumably you've also seen the kind of Zhenyi who controls the apostasy of the dead in Qinglongwei? He now has a Gu ...... that is ten thousand times more vicious than that one."

Jian Huai tried to open his mouth wide and wanted to shout, but he didn't make a sound at all, and his thick lips kept opening like a river fish being thrown on the shore to die.

He angrily smashed a pair of giant fists on the table, the wooden table cracked, the soup bowl on the table exploded, and the medicinal soup splashed everywhere. 、

And then on. Jian Huai handed his fist to the tip of Xiao Rui's nose, opened his mouth dumbly, and announced that even if his body was poisoned and soft, if he fought to the death, his muscles and bones that had been hard for many years would still be able to kill him.

"I'll have someone bring me medicine again! The king will allow you to stay with him and protect him, but you had better keep silent from now on. Xiao Rui smiled coldly without being surprised. Slowly standing up, "You remember." If you talk too much, he'll die! ”

Trade-off! Looking at Jian Huai, who suddenly softened and sat back on the couch, Xiao Rui secretly sighed ashamed in his heart.

As the person who gave him advice said, the most poisonous thing in the world is not the grass, trees, gold and stones, but feelings. No matter how strong the warrior is, he is poked in the soft spot he cares about, and he is trapped by love. As fragile as a newborn baby.

Jian Huai, who was sitting still, was stunned for a while, and then waved his arms excitedly again, constantly beating his chest, accompanied by a whining mouth, and his big face was distorted to be inhuman.

"You lie to you when I do? Lao Tzu wants to be the emperor, how can he keep the hearts of the people? There is not much else to this king. There are many sons! One less of him will not be too little! If he is not born to this king, it is even more justified to destroy him! ”

Jian Huai's face turned purple in Xiao Rui's contemptuous laughter, and the big palm that slapped his chest was raised to the side of his head, slamming desperately one after another, and from time to time he pointed his finger at his mouth.

"Woe comes from the mouth, and it is too late to regret! You think that the sincerity of doing good things for others is actually just a superfluous move that forces him to a dead end! ”

Xiao Rui snorted coldly, turned around and walked out the front door.

There was a loud bang behind him, and the giant man who fell to the ground kept knocking on his head with a painful look.

Xiao Rui, who had already stepped out of the threshold with half a foot, turned pale, turned over and squatted beside Jian Huai again, stared at him with a round eye, and said in a deep voice: "You mean you tell that thing?" ”

Jian Huai, who was crawling on the ground, shook his head, but nodded again after a while, and then shook his big face painfully with his facial features again......

On the second day, the big man who had come to his senses after detoxification knelt in front of King Jing again, sweating profusely and looking demented.

Xiao Rui tightened his eyebrows, closed his lips and sank, and a mouthful of fishy blood in his heart went straight to his throat.

Jian Huai confessed that he felt as if he had been secretly interrogated during house arrest and told the secret hidden in his heart, but he did not remember when or where, and he was a little unable to distinguish between illusion and reality.

King Jing invited a master to check his body, and he was able to determine that Jian Huai had used the hallucinant to lure him. It was only because Jian Huai's body was strong and different from ordinary people, and the dose of the attractant was lower, so he retained some residual impressions.

And when inspecting the guards on duty during Jian Huai's house arrest one by one, there was indeed one night, and two guards had brief memory loss.

At that time, they dozed off as if they were guarding the prisoners.

Who is it?

The more superior the person is, the more intolerable it is for outsiders to probe the secrets they want to keep. Xiao Rui's heart was full of anger at being deceived and humiliated for a while.

After a few days of forbearance, Xiao Rui gradually drew up a list full of suspects, including important ministers of the Chen Dynasty, cronies of the old department, and Xiao Zhan, the fourth son who has been extremely dishonest and always likes to make small moves recently.

If there is one person who is most suspicious!

Lu Shou, who was the old man of Chen Palace, came to vote for Xiao Hong, but Xiao Liu sincerely handed him over to the eldest brother. Later, in order to prove his trust in his son, he did not control Lu Shou, who had mentioned that he wanted to find Jian Huai, in his hands. Instead, he generously let go and let their brothers manage each other.

The warm sunlight of early summer shone obliquely through the large bookcase, and the side face of the young man behind the desk was hooked with a layer of pale gold, and the pen was inked, and the unusual concentration and seriousness increased the charm of the gradual maturity.

"Ze'er!" , Xiao Rui, who was tired of leaning on the Luohan couch, closed the book in his hand and smiled at the eldest son who was sharing his worries. whispered: "According to the letter, Xiaoliu should have arrived in Luojing today, right?" ”

"Yes! Father remembers well, Mingyun will arrive today. Presumably, it is now approaching the western suburbs. Xiao Ze put down the cone, quickly stood up, and turned to his father to answer respectfully.

"I thought you'd pick him up with Wan'er this morning!" , Xiao Rui's sigh was a little regretful, "I haven't seen that stinky boy for a long time." ”

"The sixth brother has a light car all the way. I don't want to be public. Moreover, when the other younger brothers came to Beijing, they were all stationed outside the city first, and then reported to His Majesty to enter the city the next day, so they couldn't let Ming Yun break the rules. ”

"It's okay to live with him in the Golden Spike Garden!" , Xiao Rui said lightly between his lips without allegation, I don't know if the person who said that he wanted to accompany Xiao Hong was Xiao Ze or the eldest daughter Xiao Wan.

Then, his gaze followed Xiao Ze's slightly apologetic eyes to the table, shook his head and smiled: "Our master is too busy, so he can only take care of himself." ”

Xiao Ze was very grateful for his father's thoughtful understanding. The corners of his mouth curled with a soft smile.

casually said a few more big and small things in the court, Xiao Rui raised his hand sleepily and yawned. threw a few folds in his hand into Xiao Ze's arms at will.

"I'm old! Dim eyesight! His Royal Highness King Jing, who seemed to be tired, simply lay on the couch on his side facing the window, closed his eyes with a porcelain pillow, and whispered in a dumb voice, "Xiao Jimin, you can only work hard to keep you busy!" ”

"Father...... King! ”。 Xiao Ze stood stunned for a moment, and then said, "Erchen obeys!" ”

The young man sitting back in his chair took a deep breath, and in a moment the stillroom resounded with the rustle of the album turning.

How do you want it? Let him kneel and speak directly. Have you ever spied on your father's intention to be jealous of your brother? Or is he simply too suspicious, innocently angry with his eldest son, who has always been trusting?

The faint light through the pane silk stubbornly left a blurry spot on his eyes that could not be dispelled, Xiao Rui raised his hand and rubbed his astringent eyes, intuition that he might really be a little old.

So when I saw the sunset, I began to feel sad......

"A stinky boy who only knows how to be foolish!" , The ceremonial car with the pearl cover jade cui was parked in the Shili Zheliu Pavilion in the western suburbs of Luojing, and Xiao Wan, who was sitting in the car, twisted her fingers and scolded the eldest brother who did not give face.

Sitting in the stuffy car around does not match Xiao Wan's personality. Going deeper, she came to Beijing to aggrieved herself.

First, it would be better for a pair of children to follow their grandfather's family and get more benefits in Luojing. Moreover, Xiao Wan, who has always thought that she is extremely strong, consciously wants to come to Beijing to support her younger sister Zhou Manyun, who has also suffered innocent victims, and she is upset.

The younger brother Xiao Hong has been used to protecting him since he was a child, and now, Xiao Wan naturally wants to take Zhou Manyun under his actual and dense wings.

Zhou Manyun, who followed Xiao Hong to Beijing, was bound to live in Jinsui Garden with a bunch of women from the Xiao family, but Xiao Wan, who thought that her mother and brother-in-law really had a holiday, wanted to strike first and take people to Meiwu to live with her.

It would be best if the eldest brother Xiao Ze could stand on his side and find an explanation for Xiao Hong and his wife, but obviously, the current situation inevitably made Xiao Wan secretly think that Xiao Ze had been influenced by his mother and did not talk about friendship at all.

After getting rich and rich, he forgot that the fundamental complaint was still in his heart, and Xiao Wan heard the maid outside the car leaning out of the window to report, saying that there was a Taoist priest approaching by the pavilion and asking if someone wanted to drive him away.

The curtain of the car was secretly raised, and Xiao Wan saw a Taoist priest riding a horse not far away through the crack in the window, looking at him about thirty years old, the cyan Taoist robe fluttered in the wind, the ox heart Dao hairpin with a piece of boxwood, the eyebrows were handsome, and the meaning of the dust of the fairy wind bones was faintly revealed.

I am also determined to be a female crown, and I may have to make a few more Taoist friends who practice if I want to become a monk smoothly. What's more, he just secretly scolded Xiao Ze for forgetting his wealth and family, how could he bully others!

Xiao Wan sighed lightly, rarely pinched her throat and said gently: "Presumably, that immortal chief is also here to pick up people, and our convoy will give him a place where he can tie horses!" (To be continued......)