The original name of the capital of the Li Dynasty was Lingjing, because of its long history and superior geographical location, it has always been the largest and most prosperous capital in this continent and even the surrounding countries, aside from the fact that the Li Dynasty was originally a great country, but also because of the Chongwen in recent years, several emperors of the Li Dynasty are all outstanding in literature, so there are many literati and writers gathered here, the society makes poems, sings about the rivers, lakes and seas, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, and there have been several poets; It is a necessary transit place for the jungle in the south, and merchants from all over the world are proud to be able to open a branch here. Although it is not possible to talk about the six countries coming to the court, it is no matter which country's capital is compared with it, there is a significant gap. This can be described as a place where every inch of land is valuable, which naturally makes countless people have a lot of desires, and Jin Liancheng, who returned to the capital this time, was turned over because of the past of the Jin family, and in the past year, I have seen too many people who want to cling to the imperial power and want to seek fame and try to obtain personal interests in the turmoil of the court. And he is calm, he seems to have never been affected in the slightest, he is so calm that he seems to be a visitor from another world, he seems to disdain all this, and he seems to have long understood what kind of hands and some people are secretly pushing behind all this.

Since he was summoned to the palace a year ago, he lived in a side hall of the Emperor's Zichen Palace, the New Year's banquet, the Spring Festival, the Lantern Festival, the Lantern Festival and then the opening of the court, until the March Valley Rain, although he did not have to participate in any of the palace events, but he was not allowed to leave the palace and return home. Although the palace people have always been very polite to him, and they are also very dedicated to serving and taking care of him, and Jin Liancheng has also responded to them politely, he can still see the curiosity in their eyes, those gossips that are behind closed doors and hiding in the corner, Jin Liancheng, the Jin family, these names and surnames that have never been cared about before, now seem to be mentioned again and again, and have become a hot topic of private discussion in the palace.

He had been one of the most ordinary, even lowly guards in this palace, without a glorious lintel, without the luck of being looked down upon by any nobleman, and even in order to save himself from this fate, he had no choice but to frame his friends, and almost took one of his own cheap lives. But when he went through all kinds of hardships, all kinds of past that he didn't want to recall, when he returned to this place again, he realized that all this once unattainable, like mountains and seas, made him small and humble in this world, turned out to be not indestructible, the so-called high-ranking big houses have iron walls, and if you look closely at the past, they are just full of holes, and those rotten wood that seem to be carved beams and paintings may be destroyed by his hand-

Jin Liancheng pushed open half of the window, the sky was raining slightly, the grass was a new green color, in the rain and fog looked particularly lovely, in the corridor in front of the door, the original gray masonry pavement seemed to be a little damp, turning into a thick ink color, occasionally birds fluttered by, making a few crisp calls, melodious. This is the beautiful tranquility of early spring, but underneath this beautiful tranquility is the restless, calculating, and lustful hearts of the people. Seeing someone walking quickly in the corridor from a distance, it seemed that it was coming towards him, Jin Liancheng unconsciously hid one side of his body into the dark, and then looked carefully, only to realize that the person was Si Qing who came in disguise.

"Childe, Niangniang said that everything outside the palace has been done. Si Qing put away the umbrella, turned around and looked outside the hidden door again, and said in a low voice: "According to Niangniang's guess, Your Majesty will find you a showdown in the next day or two, but you must be stable." ”

"Okay, I got it. Please also tell your young lady that Liancheng will live up to her trust. ”

Si Qing paused for a moment, looked at the damp rain trails under the umbrella next to him, and said softly: "Si Qing has followed Niangniang since she was a child, and I have never seen her do her best to do something for a person and a person like this. Niangniang is arrogant, she has never swallowed any pain into her stomach and said it to no one, but she is really not easy, for the boss, for the Wei family, and even for Yan Gongzi, Niangniang is cautious and cautious every step of the way, be careful and careful, but this time, she took the life of the whole clan out!

"Is this what your young lady wants you to say, or do you want to say it yourself?"

"The young lady has a heart-to-heart trust in the adults, how can she say this. Si Qing shook his head, "It's the slave herself, and she dares to ask her son, if something big happens in the future, where will my young lady go?"

"She doesn't have to go, she doesn't have to go. After Jin Liancheng finished speaking, he saw that Si Qing was still looking at him and seemed to be looking forward to it, so he picked up the umbrella and handed it to Si Qing, and said in a deep voice: "Go back and tell your young lady, if you believe it, you won't lose it." ”

Looking at the back of Si Qing leaving, Jin Liancheng calmly stepped on the water stain just now, and casually took a clean hand towel to wipe his slightly damp hands, but he couldn't wipe them dry, just like he deliberately stirred up Wei Nanyan's heart, from the moment Wei Nanyan pulled his cuffs in the Beijing Racecourse and said save me, from the Daci'an Temple, he put the incense in Wei Nanyan's hand, from the time he said the secret of the Jin family and the name of Mo Dongling, from the first time Si Qing quietly came to see him- Jin Liancheng knew that he couldn't stop, whether it was him or Wei Nanyan, he had to go on resolutely, even if it was an abyss, there would never be any turning back. He has been back in Beijing for a year, and there are still two-thirds of the three years he promised Lin Yuebai. In this year, he never wasted every minute or second, he used all kinds of secrets in Beijing that he learned from Lin Yuebai and Yao Jin, the relationship between the Lin family, the Jiao family, and even Mo Dongling and the Wei family, contacted Xuanjitang to plan in many ways, rescued Lin Yuebai's two personal maids A Yuan and A Meng in the prison, and even planned the plague in Beijing- When Li Daoran angrily refused and didn't want to help him anymore, he didn't panic, because he had long expected that he didn't need Xuanjitang's help, because he had successfully approached Wei Nanyan, the person he found the most useful.

"It's been a year, Yuebai ......" Jin Liancheng read Lin Yuebai's name in his heart, so precious, so close and far away, he didn't send a letter to Caiyun City, he didn't pass on a word, he even forced himself not to think about her. He just wanted to hurry, hurry, hurry to that day, let him take her hand and walk to the highest place in the palace, how good would it be...... Jin Liancheng smiled, and inadvertently looked down to see a damp circle on the carpet under his feet, but his smile was stagnant, and he opened his mouth and slowly spit out three words, "Wei, Nan, Yan." ”