"What happened?"

Ye Shuqiu's hand was still in a posture of holding forward. And he himself noticed that at some point, he was lying on the ground, and those teacups and teapots were scattered on the table, and some of them had been thrown to the ground, becoming a broken body.

He slowly propped up his tired body and rubbed his aching forehead. I still feel incredible about the scene I saw before.

Was it a dream before? If it's a dream, why is it so real? What does that dream mean?

Ye Shuqiu slowly sat back on the chair, adjusted his breathing, and looked around.

The book house is still the same book house, and the windows are still closed. There was no red mandala outside the house, and there were no specks of blood.

The door of his study was wide open, and several people were looking at him worriedly.

"Lord Ye... You—" Yuhong twitched the corners of her mouth. It was the first time he had seen the Prime Minister so embarrassed. What had he been through before this?

"Xiangye." Meng Huang asked uncertainly, "You... How do you feel now? ”

"Whew... I was scared to death, I really thought something had happened to Lord Ye! Xiaohuan patted his heart lightly as if he had just experienced something dangerous. Then she knocked Meng Huang unhappily, "I told you not to make a fuss!" You had to do that, you almost scared me out! ”

"However, Xiangye's study has not been opened for seven days, and if I don't come in to have a look, I'm really afraid that something will happen. There is still a long way to go, and Xiang Ye has to take care of everything, if Xiang Ye collapses..."Meng Huang looked worried.

"Phew! Say something unlucky! What is the collapse of Lord Ye! Lord Ye is young! I'm still waiting to drink his wine, don't be so unlucky! "Xiaohuan is really unhappy.

Meng Huang hurriedly surrendered: "Okay, good, wife, I was wrong, I was wrong, I shouldn't panic." ”

"Hey, you two, there are two more people here who haven't got married! Is it really good for you guys to do this? Youhong pursed the corners of her lips, looking helpless.

"Uh..."

At a time when everyone is embarrassed.

"Meng Huang, you say... The study of the original picture has been closed for seven days? Ye Shuqiu raised his head and asked uncertainly.

"It's... Well? Xiangye, where's your mask? Meng Huang asked suspiciously.

Ye Shuqiu was also stunned, and he gently stroked his face. Indeed, the mask was not on his face. Fortunately, there are familiar people in this room, and their faces are really exposed, and they are exposed.

Xiaohuan noticed Ye Shuqiu's face at this time. She slowly half-squatted down and took a closer look, "Lord Ye's face... It's beautiful..."

Isn't it? An evil and enchanting face is engraved on the face of the somewhat pale melon seeds.

"Hey, men should be handsome and handsome

容, not pretty. Meng Huang patted her shoulder awkwardly and looked at Ye Shuqiu apologetically, "That... I'm sorry, Xiangye, I'm not sensible, you have a lot..."He knew the reason why Ye Shuqiu covered his face. Being too feminine is one of the reasons.

"It doesn't matter." Ye Shuqiu waved his hand casually, "If you see it, you can see it." I was too cautious at first. However, Xiaohuan is right, it is indeed beautiful. He smiled self-deprecatingly.

"You see, even the adults agree with me." Xiaohuan proudly tilted his chin to Meng Huang.

"Uh..."

"Mask..."Ye Shuqiu pondered for a while, and said to Youhong, who was standing aside and doing nothing, "General You." ”

"The last general!" Youhong immediately stood up straight.

"You go look in the corner of that window and see if I've thrown the mask there." Ye Shuqiu clenched his hands into fists, put them to his lips and whispered.

"Windows? Which window? Youhong was puzzled by this sentence of the second zhang monk. To put it bluntly, I just didn't react.

Ye Shuqiu looked at his stunned appearance and sighed helplessly.

Meng Huang couldn't stand it anymore, so he went to the window, took a closer look, and easily found the dusty silver mask.

He bent down to pick it up and patted it back and forth a few times, feeling strange in his heart. How did Xiangye know where his mask fell?

"Did you find it?" Ye Shuqiu's voice came from not far away. Actually, he himself is not sure. All he remembered was that at the time... Quan Dang was in a dream, when Xi Yao said that she wanted to see her true face, she happened to be standing by the window, and then took off her mask and threw it aside, and then forgot to put the mask on.

If that thing was real, then that mask should be there... If it's just an illusory dream, then the mask should be lying on the desk.

Ye Shuqiu was looking forward to it in his heart, and he was also afraid. For the first time, he realized that he was also afraid...

"Xiangye, is this what you are looking for?" Meng Huang was still unsure in his heart. After all, in his impression, Xiangye never had the memory of taking off the mask when they came. And there's... The place where Xiangye is and the place where the mask is are at least fifteen steps away. Why are they so far apart?

Ye Shuqiu slowly raised his head, looked at the thing in Meng Huang's hand, nodded lightly and said, "Yes, this is it." ”

"Xiangye, here you go." Meng Huang originally wanted to hand the mask to Xiaohuan and ask her to help him pass it over. After thinking about it, he still held the mask with both hands and respectfully brought it to Ye Shuqiu's side.

Ye Shuqiu just squinted his eyes slightly and glanced at the mask stained with ashes, and waved his hand indifferently: "Throw it away, it's useless anyway." ”

Meng Huang was stunned. This... Could it be that Xiangye let himself find a face for other purposes, but... This mask has been with Xiangye for almost fifteen years, just throw it away?

"Didn't you hear what the prime minister said?" Ye Shuqiu's voice was a little low and lonely, but it was full of majesty.

"Phase... Please forgive me! As soon as Meng Huang heard this, he knew that Ye Shuqiu's heart was slightly angry, and he quickly knelt down to plead guilty.

"What are you guilty of?" Ye Shuqiu rubbed his aching temples, he was still recalling what had happened in the past seven days. However, I was not impressed at all. Except for that bleak back, and that brightly colored mandala.

"So-and-so..." Meng Huang choked for a while. yes, what is his sin? He seemed to be without sin, and as if he were sinful. Every time Xiang Ye makes such a sound, everyone knows that he is angry and wants to ask people for their crimes, but how is it today...

Xiaohuan and Youhong stood on one side, neither persuading nor leaving, so they could only stand aside and be anxious.

"Alright, thank you for still caring about what you are." Ye Shuqiu smiled slightly, "It's okay, you can go." ”

The two people standing on the side, the stone in their hearts fell to the ground.

"Whew..."Youhong wiped the cold sweat that was absent, and said in a low voice: "Before, I said why those old masters in the court didn't dare to move when they saw Xiangye's direct fright, and I laughed at them in private. That's good, the world. Xiang Ye started his temper, and the momentum was so strong that the gods couldn't hold it. ”

Xiaohuan just helped Meng Huang, who was still kneeling on the ground and half unconscious, a little distressed, and knocked him on the shoulder angrily: "Pig!" Let's go! What a daze! ”

"Are you alright?" Meng Huang was puzzled like that child, and scratched the back of his head. What's going on?

"You pig! Lord Ye agreed with us to go! ”

"Oooh!" If this Meng Huang is stupid, he can't see that he is a prime minister at all.

They bowed and said goodbye to Ye Shuqiu, and turned around and were about to step out of the house.

"Wait."

"Also... What else do you have to say, Xiangye? ”

"Am I that scary? It is not the big white-fronted worm that will eat you. Unprecedentedly, Ye Shuqiu even made a joke.

Xiaohuan pursed his lips and muttered, "If Lord Ye gets angry, it will be even more terrifying than that big worm." Then it's not a matter of eating one or two people, it's a matter of killing hundreds of people..."After speaking, he quietly glanced at Ye Shuqiu and stuck out the tip of his tongue.

"How do you talk, it's not big or small!" Who would have thought that Meng Huang would hear this.

Ye Shuqiu also laughed: "If it weren't for touching my reverse scales, I wouldn't want to kill!" The Buddha said that there is a cause and its own effect, what cause is planted, what fruit is produced! There are many sins in this life, and it is natural to pay back in the next life! ”

"Lord Ye still reads the Buddhist Sutra?" Xiaohuan blinked, a little curious, "I can't read that book,

What kind of melons and fruits are all there, can you eat them? ”

Ye Shuqiu was a little speechless. He glanced at Meng Huang and Youhong, and all three of them laughed.

"Daughter-in-law, that's the fruit of the fruit, not the fruit of the melon," Meng Huang didn't want to laugh for the sake of his daughter-in-law, but the smile was too exaggerated, and he couldn't hold it back.

"Isn't that all fruit?" Xiaohuan was puzzled. What the hell are they laughing at?

"Uh..."

"Alright, let's get down to business." Ye Shuqiu rolled on the ground with laughter when he saw Youhong, and could only pull the topic back, "In the past seven days, have any letters come back?" Feed! General You, if you laugh again, you will lose your position as a general. ”

"Hahaha, haha, it's not... Lord Ye... When you suddenly laugh, I can't hold back... Uh, no, I'm watching Meng Huang's guy make a fool of himself, and I'm... No... Phew! I can't speak! Youhong slapped her face hard, and then she stopped laughing.

But isn't it, looking at the three people who are holding back their anger, he is also invincible with two fists and four hands.

"I'll settle accounts with you later!" Meng Huang can be regarded as burying this hatred in his heart. This guy laughs completely when he sees his family making a fool of himself, maybe he doesn't even know what the Buddhist scriptures are!

"Uhhhh

"Meng Huang, recently, has there been a letter from Bashu?" Ye Shuqiu asked again.

"Returning to Xiangye." Meng Huang bowed slightly, and took out a letter from the wide sleeve, "This is the urgent report of Bashu before, I read it roughly, it is about the death of Miss Mu Shuang, the destruction of Liu Quande's family of seventy-eight people, and the tragedy of dozens of officers and soldiers killed and injured." But when I saw that the door of your study was closed, I didn't come to disturb you. I just asked the people below to check the ins and outs of the matter. ”

Ye Shuqiu sat up straight, with a serious expression. He raised his eyebrows slightly, and there was a hint of murder in his tone: "Who is it... At a time when my girders were in need of stability, such a tragic thing was created! Check it out no! ”

"It's been found out." Meng Huang's face was embarrassed, "Xiangye... It's a bit complicated... You see..."

"You need to know it now! Say! ”

"Some... Never mind... Xiangye, please take a look. Meng Huang had no choice but to hand the letter to Ye Shuqiu.

Ye Shuqiu took the letter and frowned slightly. What's going on? Lao Meng is not like this on weekdays, if there is really something big, he will not say it so much. Don't... Is it an acquaintance who committed the crime?

He spread out the neatly folded letterhead. On the letter, there are also stains of blood.

Ye Shuqiu saw it quickly. But his brow furrowed more and more.

Mushuang is dead?

Who Mu Shuang is, he naturally knows. Mu Shuang is the maid who used to be by Xi Yao's side. The real identity is the eldest lady of the former Chaomu Mansion.

It turned out that the seventy-eight people were killed by Xiao Ning... The deaths and injuries of dozens of officers and soldiers were also caused by Xiao Ning... But why did he do it? Liu Quande has been pierced by him, and it stands to reason that there is a debtor who is wronged, and this matter should be over. Then why did he kill those seventy-eight people? What happened to the deaths and injuries of dozens of officers and soldiers? Where did he go with Mushuang's body? And most importantly, how is Mu Xiyao doing now?

Does this series of things have anything to do with that dream of yourself...

"Xiangye... Look, this..."Meng Huang also looked embarrassed. He knew that according to the relationship, Xiao Shaoxia should be regarded as Xiangye's in-laws. He has done such a heinous thing, and it cannot be justified without severe punishment. But if it is severely punished, the in-laws of more than ten years will be emotionally unreasonable.

Call...

Ye Shuqiu's just good headache started again. He settled down and said in a deep voice: "First of all, the pensions of those dozens of officers and soldiers will be issued." By the way, does Liu Quande still have immediate family members in this world? ”

"It's gone..."Meng Huang smiled bitterly, "Xiao Shaoxia has done a particularly perfect job in this regard. It fully embodies the meaning of the phrase cutting grass without removing roots, and the spring breeze blows and grows. Not to mention the direct line, even the side line was killed by him. ”

"Who should the compensation that the prime minister wants to compensate Liu Quande's family to?" Ye Shuqiu continued to rub his temples with a headache.

He didn't know that the things in the letter did not finish the cause and effect, but only extracted the most serious things to report. Therefore, Ye Shuqiu and the others are all half-dreaming and half-awake about this matter.

"This..."Meng Huang was also very embarrassed. Say no, it's hard to be popular. Let's send it... Everyone is dead, who will send it to!? Doesn't this toss people?

Ye Shuqiu finally thought of a compromise solution: "In this way, the prime minister will first send the compensation of Liu Quande's family to Wu De's illness in Bashu, and let him keep it for the time being." At that time, someone really came to receive it, whether it was Liu Quande's relatives or not, they all gave it to him. This kind of gives an explanation for this. ”

Meng Huang nodded. "These days, the guy with Wu De's disease has been submitting to us the idea of coming to Kyoto. This can be regarded as a test for him. He swallowed it privately, and the black gauze hat was not guaranteed. If he does well, Xiangye can also consider it. After all, now there is a lot of waste to be rebuilt, and new blood needs to be replenished into the imperial court. ”

"Okay, since you have a plan, then do it, and Benxiang will support you in the back." Ye Shuqiu nodded.

"That's gone." After speaking, Meng Huang saluted Ye Shuqiu and went back with Xiaohuan.

Youhong was still standing to the side, not moving, as if thinking about something.

"General You, do you have anything to say?" Ye Shuqiu looked at him with some doubts.

"Lord Ye, the last general saw the National Teacher when he was guarding the city, and he came back with the National Teacher's wife. The last general didn't know where they went, and looked like they were going in the south. Youhong pondered for a moment and continued, "Both of them don't seem to be in a good mood, I don't know what they've been through. ”

South? What went through? Ye Shuqiu also fell silent. Didn't he take his brother-in-law out to play? Why do you hear that Youhong is sullen when she comes back? Maybe... It's time for me to take a look.

(End of chapter)