After thinking about it, Zhao Lingshu decided to change this only clear man in the struggle for imperial power.

Zhao Lingshu picked up a piece of paper from the table again, grabbed the brush that was set aside and drew it, and it was finished in a short time.

Zhao Lingshu picked up the painted painting and showed it to Xiao Qiyun, Xiao Qiyun saw the painting painted by Zhao Lingshu, and was immediately speechless by the person in the painting.

The painting depicts a five-year-old girl with a red pendant around her neck.

"How do you know about this?" Xiao Qiyun stared at Zhao Lingshu, his eyes full of disbelief.

The first time Xiao Qiyun saw Chu Lanxi was in the palace, when he was only eight years old, and five-year-old Chu Lanxi gave him a red pendant. But since then, he has never seen Chu Lanxi again.

A hurried and beautiful encounter at a young age became his thoughts every moment after that, and his obsession with marrying Chu Lanxi also started at that time, but it was a pity that creation made people, and since then, he and Chu Lanxi have no intersection. Occasionally, when they met again, Chu Lanxi had already failed to recognize him, and would only salute him respectfully. Later, she married the third brother.

Xiao Qiyun recalled the past, sighed, and took out the red pendant from the mezzanine of his clothes: "This is what she gave me when I first met a girl back then. ”

Xiao Qiyun didn't dare to say Chu Lanxi's name, according to the queen mother's request, he could only ascend to the throne if he married Zhao Lingshu, if he said Chu Lanxi's name now, I was afraid that Zhao Lingshu would think more.

Seeing the red pendant, the brush held by Zhao Lingshu was so shocked that he didn't hold it firmly and fell directly to the ground.

It turned out that this pendant was when she was playing in the palace and saw a little brother. That little brother was bullied, Zhao Lingshu in order to comfort him, and also to let others stop bullying him. He took off the pendant around his neck and gave it to her. Anyway, everyone in the family dotes on her, and a small pendant will not blame her. Why has the little brother become the fifth prince of the Great Liang Kingdom now?

Zhao Lingshu looked at Xiao Qiyun in front of him, and only felt that there were many things that he couldn't understand. Could it be that after being born again, many things have fundamentally changed? Will what happens after that be the same as in the previous life? Or is this a whole new world?

After thinking about it, I couldn't come up with a satisfactory answer at all. Zhao Lingshu put down the brush in his hand and said to Xiao Qiyun in a panic: "Fifth Highness, I still have something to do, so I will retire first." After speaking, he didn't look at Xiao Qiyun's reaction, turned around and left, and went out of the palace directly to get into the carriage and go home.

Zhao Lingshu, who was sitting in the carriage, thought of the red pendant, and his heart was full of thoughts.

After Zhao Lingshu returned home, he went directly to find Mrs. Zhao.

"Grandma, I have something I want to ask you." Zhao Lingshu hurriedly walked into the hall, and Mrs. Zhao was sitting and slowly sipping tea.

Mrs. Zhao looked up and saw that Zhao Lingshu's face was full of panic and anxiety, and she also panicked: "Is something wrong?" Hurry up, sit down and talk. After speaking, he put down the teacup and looked at the people in the hall, "You all stand down." ”

When all the people in the house retreated, and only the two of them were left in the house, Zhao Lingshu spoke: "Grandma, tell me everything that happened when I was a child, I found that I can't remember many things seriously since I got sick that day." ”

Mrs. Zhao looked at her suspiciously, although she felt that her question was a little incredible, but looking at her serious expression, she still decided to answer in detail.

Mrs. Zhao held Zhao Lingshu's hand while telling everything she had done when she was a child.

From Mrs. Zhao's narration, Zhao Lingshu knew that the little brother who fainted in the palace garden was Xiao Qiyun, but at that time, Xiao Qiyun concealed his identity and said that he was a little scholar.

It turned out that Xiao Qiyun was forced by Cui Guifei to learn the way of being a gentleman at that time, but he only loved poetry, books, etiquette and music, and in a fit of anger, he decided to escape from the palace by pretending to be a little scholar. Later, when the palace people were anxiously looking for him, they found that Xiao Qiyun was still in the palace, so they took him back.

After listening to the ins and outs, Zhao Lingshu returned to the room, but he was still puzzled. According to the memories of his previous life, Xiao Qiyun never forgot Chu Lanxi because Chu Lanxi gave him a pendant when he was a child. Why did the pendant become a gift from me now? No wonder Xiao Qiyun has been so interested in her recently, could it be that he recognized her? So what's going on with his obsession with Chu Lanxi?

After thinking about it, Zhao Lingshu planned to find an opportunity to trap Xiao Qiming's words.

It was getting late, and Zhao Lingshu came to the Flower Pavilion alone again according to the previous agreement, ready to meet the owner of the medicine building.

The man in red was still lazily sitting on the chair in the middle of the curtain, and Zhao Lingshu took out ten taels of silver: "I have already brought the ten taels of silver that Your Excellency wanted, can Your Excellency fulfill your promise and give me the identity token?" ”

The man in red didn't stretch out his hand to pick it up, just didn't move, and the man in red ignored her when Zhao Lingshu spoke.

Zhao Lingshu waited outside the curtain for a long time and didn't see a response from the man in red, thinking that he was playing himself, so he directly opened the curtain and went in, but found that the person sitting inside was actually just a puppet in red, but he couldn't see it from the outside.

Zhao Lingshu looked at the puppeteer and couldn't see any clues after observing it for a long time. Suddenly, he saw an abrupt emerald green hosta on the puppeteer's head, and felt strange, so he reached out and pulled the hosta off.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he pulled out the hosta, the puppeteer's head fell directly and rolled to Zhao Lingshu's feet. The puppet's face was flipped over, and all the facial features were complete, but all of them were dripping with terrifying blood, and their faces were hideous, which made people really feel terrible to look at.

Zhao Lingshu was frightened by the sudden appearance of the puppet head, and she hurriedly took a step back. Looking around, the empty room exuded a terrible aura everywhere.

"Why is this place so horrible?" Zhao Lingshu clenched her arms in fear, raised her feet and prepared to go out, but she didn't expect that when she just walked to the door, the door suddenly closed by itself.

The wooden staircase squeaked, and Zhao Lingshu looked up and saw a man in red with a golden mask walking out of the attic.

"The concubine of the Weiguo family, Zhao Lingshu, such a noble lady of the family, it is a little inappropriate to come to this unbearable place."

Seeing that this man directly reported all his identity information, Zhao Lingshu was a little uneasy.

But she took a deep breath, stood up straight, and quickly pretended to be calm: "Since Your Excellency has investigated my identity, then you will also introduce yourself?" ”

"Where do we get any courtesies and exchanges like us? Miss Zhao, why don't you stay in the Weiguo Mansion to be an innocent aristocratic lady, what are you doing in the Flower Pavilion? The man didn't answer Zhao Lingshu's question, walked straight to the chair in front of Zhao Lingshu, reached out and picked up the headless puppet on it, threw it on the ground, lifted his robe and sat down directly, and began to ask about the purpose of Zhao Lingshu's visit.

Zhao Lingshu couldn't see this person's expression clearly, but seeing that he had accurately reported all his information, he was sure that he was not a person who was easy to coax, so he told the truth: "I heard that the master of the medicine building in the Flower Pavilion is both poisonous and poisonous, and his martial arts are world-famous. The corpse wants to meet the landlord and asks him to take me as an apprentice. ”

When the man in red heard this, he waved his hand directly, and the door automatically opened again: "Miss Zhao, let's leave early." As far as I know, the owner of the pharmacy never accepts apprentices, let alone the eldest lady of a family like Miss Zhao. After saying that, he ignored her, got up from his chair, turned around and went up the wooden staircase back to the attic.

Zhao Lingshu, who was rejected and snubbed, was a little lost and angry. But she didn't plan to give up the idea of apprenticeship to the owner of the medicine building, after all, if she wanted revenge, it was completely not enough to rely on herself.

Zhao Lingshu stood in place and thought about countermeasures, and suddenly remembered that in his previous life, there was a woman who visited the Flower Pavilion every day, but was rejected countless times, and was finally accepted as a disciple by the owner of the medicine building.

"No matter what, sincerity is spirit. As long as I follow this woman's example and wear a stone with a drop of water, I will succeed in the future. Zhao Lingshu made up his mind, and then left the medicine building.

When Zhao Lingshu returned home, the time was almost up, the gate of the mansion was closed, no one walked on the road, and they were probably asleep.

Zhao Lingshu quietly entered through the back door of the house, and before he could close the door as soon as he came in, he heard movement behind him, and Zhao Lingshu's heart was raised.

"Lingshu, where have you been so late? Why are you only coming back now? Zhao Yechen's voice sounded.

Zhao Lingshu breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately it was his brother and not his grandfather and grandmother. She turned around with a smile and saw Zhao Yechen standing behind her with his hands behind his back and expressionless.

Zhao Lingshu stepped forward with a smile and grabbed Zhao Yechen's hand, and leaned his head up: "Why didn't my brother sleep?" The corpse couldn't sleep, so he went outside for a stroll. ”

Zhao Yechen looked at his sister who was leaning on him and coquettish, and his heart suddenly softened, where did he still have the heart to get angry?

"Oh? I thought you'd go outside and have a little lover, and you're still standing here guarding the door for you. Zhao Yechen reached out and knocked on his sister's head, and watched her look funny as she covered her knocked head and raised her head, frowning and pouting and looking at him with a dissatisfied expression.

"Where do I have a little lover? My brother thought too much, and the corpse really just went out for a walk. Zhao Lingshu continued to be coquettish, she knew that her brother ate herself the most.

Then Zhao Lingshu yawned loudly, covered his mouth and said, "Brother, I'm a little sleepy, go back to the room and sleep first." Brother, you should rest early, don't guard the back door. ”

After speaking, Zhao Lingshu slipped back to the room directly.

After returning to the room, Zhao Lingshu washed up briefly, then took off his coat and lay on the bed to prepare for sleep. When Zhao Lingshu was about to fall asleep, a dark shadow flashed outside the window.

Zhao Lingshu was directly awakened by the black shadow. She quietly got out of bed, opened the door softly, and followed behind the shadow.

The dark shadow ended up going to her aunt Zhao Susu's room. Zhao Lingshu looked around, and after making sure that there was no one outside the house, he lay at the door of the room and listened to the sounds in the room. After listening to it for a long time, I only heard a few words.

Suddenly, he heard footsteps coming towards the door, Zhao Lingshu immediately left the door, found a hidden corner to hide, held his breath and concentrated, not daring to make a sound.

The dark shadow opened the window and quickly turned away, hiding in the darkness. Zhao Lingshu saw her aunt Zhao Susu open the door and wrap her cloak tightly. After carefully checking her surroundings, she also quietly walked in the direction of the outside of the house.

Zhao Lingshu immediately followed not far behind her, not daring to approach and afraid of losing it, so he concentrated all the way.

When the moon turned overhead, Zhao Lingshu saw Zhao Susu enter the Qin Xiang Pavilion.

"What is my aunt doing here so late?" Zhao Lingshu just wanted to follow up, but suddenly remembered what happened here that day, and Xiao Qisheng's words of reprimanding her for being incompetent came to mind, but in the end she didn't follow, and returned to the Weiguo Mansion along the same road.

Zhao Susu came to Qin Xiang Tower, and the door was closed. She knocked lightly on the door, and it was immediately opened for him.

"Your Royal Highness has been waiting for you in the Tianzi Room for a long time." The man who opened the door said in a low voice.

When Zhao Susu heard this, he immediately climbed the stairs and came to the Tianzi room, and when he opened the door, he saw Xiao Qiming leaning on the side of the bed and reading a book.

Zhao Susu walked to Xiao Qiming's side and knelt down: "Your Highness, your subordinates are late, please punish Your Highness." ”

After Zhao Susu finished speaking, she didn't get a reply, and she didn't dare to get up, so she could only continue to kneel.

After a long time, Xiao Qiming put down the book and said slowly: "Is there any recent movement in the Zhao family?" ”

Zhao Susu bowed his head and replied: "It's no different from the past." It's just that Zhao Lingshu was summoned into the palace by Cui Guifei the day before yesterday, and it didn't take long for him to hurry back to the house, go directly to talk to Mrs. Zhao, and retreat. ”

"Oh?" Xiao Qiming's face was expressionless, Zhao Susu couldn't see his joys, sorrows, and sorrows, and he didn't dare to speak casually.

Xiao Qiming didn't ask anything more, and gave Zhao Susu a pill.

"Your Highness." Zhao Susu hurriedly took the pill and kowtowed to thank him, got up and couldn't wait to eat it.

"Go back, don't make them suspicious." When Zhao Susu heard this, he got up and left to go home.