There was also a faint smell of blood in the air, like a fox's tail that couldn't be hidden, and it was embarrassing.

Hanazuki stuck to the door, not even daring to breathe, like a gecko targeted by a natural predator, stiff and motionless.

Why is Li Jingyun here, the chains in the prison are not good-looking? Or is she dreaming, and the person in front of her is just an illusion that she is too weak to imagine?

Eyelashes fluttered, Hua Yue glanced at him uneasily, and seeing that he didn't speak or move, he hesitantly reached out and wanted to poke and proke.

However, as soon as his index finger reached the hem of his shirt, the man moved.

Li Jingyun pinched her hand, his eyelids drooped, his expression was slightly disgusted, he wiped the blood between her fingers with his cuffs, and his eyebrows furrowed: "The first time you did it to someone?" ”

This came thoughtlessly, and she didn't know if she was too nervous, so she replied casually: "Yes." ”

"I have time to worship a master with you, and my master will teach you how to do it without blood on your body."

"Oh good."

"Is the person dead?"

"Nope."

"Then you don't have to run away too quickly." He wiped her hands clean, pinched and looked at them, and put them into his palms with satisfaction, "Let's go slowly with Ye." ”

The body was pulled into the sunlight outside by him, and the light was dazzling, so that she subconsciously raised her sleeves to cover her face. The person walking in front of her seemed to notice it, and on the side of her body, the tall figure directly covered her in the shade.

Kazuki was dumbfounded.

Isn't he surprised to see such a scene? Not curious? Why don't you even ask.

Looking down, she saw his boots. This man must have arrived on horseback, and the side of the official boots had fine marks from the stirrups, and he was in a hurry, so he didn't care about rubbing a smear of black wall ash on his shoulder.

These traces of haste and anxiety did not match his current calm and calm appearance at all.

Kazuki pursed her lips and looked up at the back of his head.

"Childe." She asked, "How did you get out?" ”

Li Jingyun replied without looking back: "Over the wall." ”

Kazuki: "......"

The two had already walked out of the post station, she gritted her teeth and grabbed him, and said with a slight annoyance: "The case has not yet been tried, how can you escape from prison casually?" If this is caught, it will be regarded as absconding in fear of crime, and then the way of life will become a dead end, how can Childe be so confused! ”

Li Jingyun turned her head, her ink pupils stared at her, and smiled slightly: "You are allowed to kill the prince's guest, and I am not allowed to escape from prison?" ”

"Can that be the same?" She stomped her foot, "I cut off one of Situ Feng's arms, no one will know." You are already on the cusp of the storm, and the eldest princess knows about it, so why don't you go directly to the guillotine? ”

The Infernal Yama, who was still full of anger before, suddenly turned into a little white rabbit with eyebrows and glaring, Li Jingyun was full of relief, and reached out to stroke her sideburns.

The little rabbit slapped his paws away angrily: "I don't want my life to come, why don't you ask me why I can't get along with Situ Feng?" ”

"You have always been reluctant to tell the truth to the master, and the master asked in vain." He looked into her eyes and said half-seriously and half-jokingly, "When you are willing to speak, you will listen to it." ”

It is clear that she knows everything, but what kind of gentleness is she playing here, Hua Yue grinded her teeth in annoyance, and wanted to shake off his hand, but she couldn't shake him off several times.

Staring at the hands held by the two, she suddenly deflated, drooped her head and said, "I have an old grudge against Situ Feng, and I know that he was exiled, so I was ready at this post station in advance." I thought about it, he didn't know my face, and the official who escorted him saw that his life was still there, and he wouldn't trace him down, and I wouldn't implicate the general's mansion anyway. ”

After she finished speaking, she raised her eyes and glared at him: "You already knew that I wanted to do it." ”

Li Jingyun chuckled and said in a very good mood: "I'm just afraid that you won't handle it well, so people will keep an eye on it in advance, so that I can clean up the mess for you when you make a mistake." Unexpectedly, you did a pretty clean job. ”

He touched her head and said proudly, "It is worthy of being a person from the East Courtyard." ”

Is this something to be celebrated? Hua Yue couldn't cry or laugh, she thought that Li Jingyun would reproach her, or that she was ruthless and vigilant to expel her from the General's Mansion. But this person didn't, and he was even worried about whether she could do it neatly.

Thinking of his confession to her about Qifenglou that day, Hua Yue's expression was complicated.

He seemed to be gradually opening up to her, and such an arrogant bastard also calculated and threatened her, but he sincerely admitted his mistakes, and really told her what she wanted to know, and even became her accomplice without hesitation when he found out that she was going to kill someone.

What does this man want to do?

Seeing the doubts in her eyes, Li Jingyun flicked her head: "Let's go, if you don't go back, you really will abscond." ”

With a pain in her eyebrows, she frowned and asked, "Isn't this absconding in fear of crime now?" ”

"When you came to save the master, you knew how to use a wooden board to block arrows, can you be so stupid that you really give the handle to someone else?" He snorted, "When I came out, no one found out, and there were still people in the prison guarding my grandfather." ”

As soon as her heart relaxed, Hanazuki let out a long breath.

The two got on the horse, Li Jingyun pulled the reins, and shook his head in disgust: "You just don't have eyesight, if you give up your body to pounce on the lord at that time, the lord must be moved to cry bitterly, and immediately swore that you are the only one in this life, and you will never marry again." ”

Grasping the saddle, Hua Yue rolled her eyes: "That's really going to plant a loquat tree for the concubine." ”

"What do you mean by loquat tree?" He wondered.

"There is a loquat tree in the garden, which was planted by my wife when she died, and now it is like a pavilion." Hua Yue's expression was complicated, "Childe lies on the couch every day, what books do you read?" ”

Someone pinched his waist, and the voice of the man behind him was quite gritted teeth: "The master is reading the book of soldiers, who has time to read these words of condolence." Also, this thing is unlucky, and then Nian Ye will break your legs. ”

Fang was still gentle and gentle, but in a blink of an eye, he changed back to this evil obstacle, Hua Yue sighed melancholy, but the corners of her mouth rose inexplicably.

It's a good day, it's better to take revenge, it's better to ride with others.

Duplicity is appropriate.

I don't know who pressed the murder case of Long Rin, and he has not been promoted to the court for interrogation, Hua Yue thought that Li Jingyun would be locked up for a long time, but something suddenly came out.

The reason was that Li Jingyun asked her to go to Qifeng Tower to help settle the accounts.

Hua Yue didn't know why this lord's heart was so big, it didn't matter if he told her the secret, and let her meddle in the accounts, on the grounds that the accounts of the General's Mansion were doing very well, and Qi Fenglou was too busy recently, so let her go and help.

As the head and aunt of the General's Mansion, she has done enough work, and she wanted to resist, but this person gave her a monthly fee three times higher than that of the General's Mansion.

Is this a problem with monthly money? Kazuki thought angrily-

She just likes to clean up the accounts, just one more share, how can it be said that it is because of the monthly money.

So on this day, she sat in the dark room of Qifeng Tower and read the account book.

"There have been a lot of accounts in the past few months, and I have reviewed them once, and there are no major mistakes." The shopkeeper said to her, "It's just that there is a bad debt that is too big, please tell the owner." ”

Hua Yue took a closer look at the account, hey, distinguished guest: Long Rin, the amount of arrears: three thousand taels.

Pressing her fingertips on this number, Hua Yue turned her head sideways and asked, "What is this three thousand taels on?" ”

"Banquet, silver bounty for the girl." The shopkeeper said, "This guest officer doesn't owe money on weekdays, and it doesn't seem convenient to entertain guests on that day, so let it all be recorded in the account." ”

What kind of guests can spend 3,000 taels on the pomp and circumstance of the banquet? Hua Yue thought for a moment and asked, "The shopkeeper is well-informed in this place, can he recognize who the guest of the day is?" ”

The person in front of him remembered for a moment, dipped his hand in tea, and wrote a name on the table.

Kazuki narrowed her eyes.

***

The weather in Jinghua has been getting hotter recently, and all the courtyards have begun to take a nap, and no one will be busy for half an hour after dinner.

Except for Huo Geng in the East Palace.

Huo Geng is just a servant of the prince, and there will be nothing to do on weekdays, but I don't know why, Da Si Ming suddenly began to trouble him, asked him to tidy up the altar, and asked him to scoop up the water in the fish pond and replace it with a new one.

He felt as if he wasn't doing this job, but when the big priest said so, Huo Geng didn't dare to ask more, so he could only scoop up the water bitterly.

"Eh, what about Shen Zhiluo?" Someone came from afar and asked him.

Huo Geng raised his head with a sad face, saw the face of the person who came, and his eyes lit up slightly: "Miss Su." ”

Su Miao looked left and right and smiled at him: "Didn't you say that Lord Shen was here at the altar?" I didn't see anyone. ”

"He's in the wing over there." Huo Geng pointed and reminded softly, "Adults have been in a bad mood for a few days, you should be careful." ”

Su Miao nodded at him gratefully, and glanced at the gourd scoop in his hand again: "What are you doing here?" ”

Scratching his head embarrassedly, Huo Geng said, "My lord, let me scoop up the water in this pool." ”

“……”

Glancing to the side, Su Miao said in a low voice, "Wait a minute." ”

She ripped off the lotus leaf stalk in the pool, put it in the water and blew it, and saw a string of bubbles rising on the surface of the water, so she soaked the whole stem in the water, soaked it with her thumb at one end of the stem, took out the water surface and crossed the edge of the pool, and placed it on the ground lower than the pool.

Suddenly, the water in the pool flowed out of the lotus leaf stem.

Huo Geng was dumbfounded: "This, what's going on?" ”

Su Miao smiled while wiping the water on her hands: "That's it, let it flow on its own, don't scoop it." ”

After speaking, he pulled the flower moon behind him and walked to the side room.

Hua Yue glanced at her, then looked back at the adult with reddish cheeks, and couldn't help but think that she wanted a fiancée like Su Miao, and she also wanted to send all the people she favored to scoop the fish pond.

This girl is so likable.

"Little sister-in-law." Su Miao turned her head and asked her, "You guys will talk about things later, can I just walk around this place?" ”

Hua Yue came back to her senses and wondered a little: "What are you shopping?" It's about the third son, and Miss Cousin has to listen to it together. ”

"I don't really want to see him." Su Miao said sullenly, "I was in a good mood before, and I was messing around with him, but this time the old lady felt uncomfortable and didn't want to get used to him." ”

Hua Yue laughed when she heard this: "Miss Biao will have a day when she doesn't like Lord Shen." ”

"It's not that I don't like it." Su Miao wrinkled the tip of her nose and said, "It's just annoying, it's annoying for a few days." ”

"Today's matter is a bit powerful, I need Miss Biao's help, I'm afraid I'm going to be wronged." Hua Yue shook her hand, "When I return home, I'll make snacks for Miss Cousin." ”

Her face was slightly pale, Su Miao nodded reluctantly, and entered the wing room with her.

Shen Zhiluo closed the open window without a trace, and turned to meet the two of them expressionlessly.

"Looking for something?"

Su Miao pointed behind her and stepped out of the way. Hua Yue stepped forward, saluted angrily, and then said, "I want to ask the big secretary to help sue him." ”

"Sue what?" He wondered.

Hua Yue put a stack of things in his hand, raised his eyes and said, "Hubu Shangshu Luo Zhong, accept bribes." ”

Nine times out of ten, the people in the court were contaminated with bribery, and Shen Zhiluo was not interested, but since she said it, he still took it and took a look.

As a result, I saw something that Donggong would be very interested in.

"Conceal the accounts of the Lord's House." He muttered, "How did you get this?" ”

Hua Yue shrugged: "Others exposed it and took the initiative to send it." ”

Who would expose something so deep? Shen Zhiluo's eyebrows furrowed, but looking at the expression of the person in front of her, she obviously didn't plan to tell him.

Inexplicably helpless, Shen Zhiluo said in a low voice: "Since you have a lot of precautions against me, why did you come to me for help?" ”

"Mutual benefit." Hua Yue said bluntly, "You let the people from the East Palace go to sue for this complaint, it will be beneficial to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince." ”

At the same time, if Luo Zhong was convicted, then Long Rin would not be innocent.

Looking at her steadily, Shen Zhiluo smiled.

Yin Huayue is really a rebellious character, saying that she can't do anything, she has to do something. told her that there was no good end to mixing with Li Jingyun, and she rushed to save people.

He can not agree to this matter, it has nothing to do with him anyway, but after thinking about it, Shen Zhiluo still nodded.

is like a withered petal that can't be stopped, since some things can't be changed, then instead of being an empty hand, it is better to be a gust of wind.

"But anything else?" Shen Zhiluo asked.

Hua Yue shook her head, glanced at the silent Miss Biao next to her, thought for a while, and said, "It's all here, can you let me go and see the old palace people in this altar?" ”

Shen Zhiluo was stunned when he heard this, and subconsciously wanted to say that the old palace person she knew was long gone, but when he met her eyes, he saw her frowning.

Don't contradict me—said the little ancestor's eyes.

Swallowing the words back for some reason, Shen Zhiluo nodded and said, "Yes." ”

So Hua Yue turned her head to Su Miao and said, "Miss Cousin, wait a minute, I'll go and go back." ”

Su Miao nodded, sat in a chair and yawned to see her out, and then she and Shen Zhiluo were left in the room.

She could have gotten up and gone out to wait for Kazuki, but she didn't move.

After a moment of silence, Su Miao spoke: "Why are you embarrassed that Master Huo is here." ”

Shen Zhiluo's face sank, turned his back to open the flower window, and looked coldly at the lotus leaf stalk that was constantly gushing out with water at the root.

"It was the prince's order, and I didn't embarrass him."

Su Miao nodded pretendically, and then said with a smile: "I thought you were eating again." ”

Shen Zhiluo pinched the edge of the window and didn't say a word.

Su Miao stretched her waist, got up casually and said, "There is a happy event in the Lin family's mansion next month, and you sent me an invitation, do you want to follow and see the excitement?" ”

The Lin family? Shen Zhiluo raised his eyelids: "Is it the son of the Lin family that you said you wanted to consider last time?" ”

Su Miao paused, and then smiled: "It's the one I said last time, but it's not the son, it's Miss Lin." ”

The man by the window turned his head to look at him with puzzled eyes.

Licking her lips, Su Miao's eyes had two more points of pleasure in teasing success: "Miss Lin is beautiful and virtuous, gentle and considerate to me, and that small waist is thin and soft, very comfortable to hold." It would be great if she married me. ”

“……”

I've never seen such a daughter's family, even if she flirts with men, she loves to flirt with women. Shen Zhiluo turned his head in disgust, but his expression was two points more relaxed.

Su Miao laughed and drank the tea.

Shen Zhiluo investigated Luo Zhong for a few days, and handed over the things that Hua Yue had brought to the prince along with the evidence he had found.

It was found out that the eldest princess had bribed the household secretary with a lot of money, tampered with the accounts, and hid a large amount of unknown expenses every year in the head of the house behind the numerous civil constructions, encroaching on the treasury and filling her pockets.

Where did this large amount of money go, if you really want to find out, the eldest princess is naturally inseparable.

Zhou Heshuo wanted to ask the emperor to decide, but for some reason, the saint did not want to check the eldest princess, but only convicted Long Rin of bribing important ministers and embezzling the treasury and silver, and sentenced him to beheading.

Poor Long Rin, when he died, he still had to be a substitute for the dead ghost, and his body was dragged out, and he didn't know where he was buried in a mess.

As soon as he was convicted, Li Jingyun's charges were light, even if the people on the eldest princess's side racked their brains to add some charges to him, Li Jingyun was still easily released from prison.

Hua Yue thought that he would be exiled, or assigned to the border pass, but no, Li Jingyun was sent back to the General's Mansion by Xu Changyi and others in a sedan chair, and he did not bear the slightest responsibility.

"I knew that the third master had an idea." Xu Changyi patted the armrest of the Taishi chair and smiled, "Then Miss Han really pinched your life, and came to be majestic in front of a few brothers, but the little sister-in-law didn't see it, the third master was released from prison today, Han Shuang was standing at the door, and her face was ugly." ”

"But isn't it, she still wants to ask the eldest princess to be the master, the eldest princess is now unable to protect herself, where can she take care of her." Yoo Sung-ho also laughed.

Li Jingyun sat on the main seat, as if listening to them, but his eyes were only staring at Hua Yue.

It's only been a long time since I saw him, how does this person feel thinner again, the light green belt is about to circle the third time, and now there is black green again.

Without him, he really wouldn't have slept enough.

He pursed his lips in displeasure.

"Eh, do you have any tea?" Xu Changyi said dryly, pinched the teacup and stretched out his hand to the side.

Hua Yue came over with a smile and wanted to add him tea.

Su Miao glanced at it, snatched the teapot and threw it to Xu Changyi, and said, "Do you have eyesight, you are newlywed after a long time here, and you dare to bother your sister-in-law to do it?" ”

"Don't dare, don't dare." Xu Changyi took the teapot and poured it himself, teasing as he poured, "If the third master has something, go to the inner room, we are not outsiders, and we should only be inaudible if there is any noise." ”

A few of them made a commotion, squeezing their eyebrows at the man on the throne. Li Jingyun snorted slightly, and then smiled.

Hua Yue also smiled, who is the third son? In the prison, above the decisive court, so many people are watching, what does he want to love for his children?

As a result, her wrist tightened, and she was really dragged into the inner room.

As soon as the curtain at the partition fell, the laughter outside was louder, and Hua Yue stared at the person in front of him with wide eyes: "You ......"

Li Jingyun pressed her against the partition, and her half-closed eyes were full of smiles: "I heard that you haven't eaten and slept well lately?" ”

Hua Yue frowned, and craned her neck to open her face: "The weather is getting hotter and hotter." ”

"I also went to ask for a peace charm for my master?"

"That's for Madame." The roots of her ears turned red, and she heard the sound of clapping the table outside, and she was even more annoyed, "Don't get so close." ”

Li Jingyun didn't listen, lowered her head, and gently rubbed the tip of her nose on the side of her face: "Su Miao came to pick me up, I know that I miss me, why don't you refuse to spit out half a good word?" ”

What kind of words do you spit out, this person knows that if she goes to Qifeng Tower to get something to sue Luo Zhong, she must have thought of a way out a long time ago, and she, a fool, is sincerely worried about his life.

Hua Yue was angry when he thought about it, he only said that she should go to Qifeng Tower to check the accounts, but how could she find that Long Rin owed the debt? He wasn't afraid that something would go wrong halfway, or did she not care about him so much that she didn't hand over things to Shen Zhiluo?

opened his mouth to question, but felt stupid, didn't he go around the bend and say that he really cared about him as he thought.

Kazuki closed her mouth and pursed the corners of her lips.

Outside, Su Miao and the others had already begun to talk about Han Shuang, and also said that Li Jingyun had saved her once. When Hua Yue heard the sentence "I have to save", she was slightly stunned, and just wanted to turn her head sideways to listen carefully, but her jaw was pinched.

Li Jingyun's palm is very wide and his fingers are long, saying that he is pinching his chin, but in fact, he is already holding half of her face with one hand. He stubbornly turned her to himself, and said with a smile: "Say something nice, and the master will spare you." ”

Hua Yue wrinkled the tip of her nose and asked in a muffled voice, "What will happen if you don't say it?" ”

The man in front of him suddenly straightened his face, his sword eyebrows were upside down, and he complained very dissatisfiedly: "I just came back from a catastrophe, there is no hot tea, there is no hot rice, if you still refuse to say anything nice, then the master will-"

He raised his hand high, and Hua Yue subconsciously shrank and closed his eyes.

With a smile in his eyes, Li Jingyun dropped his hand, clasped the back of her head, pulled her into his arms, and said against her ear: "Then the master will tell you." ”

The warm breath with some suppressed longing grinded hoarsely on her ears and temples, like something falling into warm water, rippling round and round ripples.

Hua Yue was shocked and wanted to look up at him, but her eyelids suddenly warmed.

Li Jingyun stretched out his hand to cover her, just like when he was on Luohua Street, his palm was like fire. But the difference was that there was no blood and corpses at the moment, only his close voice.

"I miss you very much." He also seemed a little embarrassed, and the hand covering her eyes rubbed unconsciously, but he still pressed into her ear and continued, "There is actually no difference between inside and outside the prison, but with you outside the prison, then the master should come out." ”