In the next two days, Meng Tianchu refined the box of opium into heroin, took a month's supply and sent it to the hot spring, and the hot spring of course smiled and gave Meng Tianchu a lot of gold, silver and jewelry.

On the morning of the third day, it was a good day, Meng Tianchu sat at the head of the bed, waited for Zuo Jiayin to wake up, and regularly measured her main vital signs. Slowly, Zuo Jiayin's heartbeat accelerated, her body temperature gradually recovered, and by noon, her breathing could already be detected from the rise and fall of her chest.

In the afternoon, Zuo Jiayin sighed and woke up slowly.

Meng Tianchu was overjoyed, leaned over and called, "Yin'er! Are you awake? How does it feel? ”

Zuo Jiayin didn't seem to hear it, his eyes looked at the roof vacantly, and after a while, his eyes gradually recovered his aura, and asked in a weak voice: "I... This is in... Where? ”

Meng Tianchu gently stroked her hair: "Yin'er, I'm Tianchu, don't worry, we're fine!" ”

"Tianchu?" Zuo Jiayin slowly turned her face, as if trying to focus her eyes on Meng Tianchu's face, and after another half an hour, she finally called out happily: "Brother Chu~!" ”

Meng Tianchu sat at the head of the bed and helped her up to lie in his arms.

Zuo Jiayin snuggled up to Meng Tianchu and asked, "Brother Chu, you... You killed..."Meng Tianchu knew what she was going to ask, and immediately leaned over and kissed her red lips, and after a moment, he let go, and said in a low voice: "Don't talk, don't ask anything first, anyway, we are very safe now, and when you are well cultivated, then talk slowly, okay?" ”

Zuo Jiayin nodded. Meng Tianchu instructed the maids and eunuchs outside to prepare some nutritious liquid food, then closed the door, returned to the bedside, and used a pillow behind Zuo Jiayin. Let her lie down on the head of the bed.

Zuo Jiayin looked around, and then asked, "Xianggong, where are we?" ”

"Grandpa Wen's mansion."

"Ahh

"Don't worry, don't talk, we'll go out and talk after you get some rest."

After a while, the kitchen brought lean porridge porridge and ginseng bird's nest soup. Meng Tianchu personally fed Zuo Jiayin to eat. After eating, I lay quietly for a while, and then my spirit recovered. In this kung fu, Meng Tianchu also casually ate a bowl of snacks to cushion his stomach.

Meng Tianchu helped her out of bed. Walking slowly around the room a few times, Zuo Jiayin was anxious to know what was going on. Several times I wanted to ask, but Meng Tianchu blocked him.

About an hour later. Meng Tianchu saw that Zuo Jiayin had returned to normal, so he helped her out of the courtyard.

At this time, it was already afternoon, and in the past few days, Meng Tianchu was already very familiar with the back garden of the hot spring, and since he couldn't leave the house, he had already thought of a place to talk—there was a lake in the back garden of the hot spring mansion, the size of several football fields. Except after some lotus flowers by the lake. The entire surface of the lake is rippling with blue waves, which is very refreshing.

Meng Tianchu did not let the eunuchs and maids follow. Zuo Jiayin came to the lake alone, got on a small wooden boat, and asked the maids in charge of supporting the boat to go ashore. paddled by himself, rocked the boat and Zuo Jiayin and the two came to the middle of the lake.

There is a quiet lake on all sides, and the figures on the shore can't really be seen, talking here, there is no need to worry about someone eavesdropping, and the hot spring has regarded Meng Tianchu as a confidant, and he can walk around the mansion freely, and no one else will disturb him.

Zuo Jiayin asked, "Xianggong, what's going on?" How could we be in the mansion of the spa? ”

Meng Tianchu said: "It was Gonggong Wen's people who kidnapped us to protect us. They asked me to kill Grandpa Wen on purpose to test me. After I arrived at Wen's mansion, after thinking about it, I didn't poison and kill Wen's father-in-law, but took the initiative to report the incident, and then I learned the truth of the matter. ”

Zuo Jiayin's body trembled slightly, it was obvious that this result was very unexpected to her. She bit her lip lightly and whispered, "That's... Have you thought about being a concubine? ”

The meaning of Zuo Jiayin's words is obvious, before Meng Tianchu didn't know the truth, he didn't kill the hot springs but told the truth, if he was really a robber, then Zuo Jiayin, as a hostage, of course, had only a dead end. She was asking Meng Tianchu if she had taken this consequence into account by doing so.

Of course, Meng Tianchu thought of this consequence, Meng Tianchu had already deduced that the people who kidnapped them were sent by Hot Spring, in order to test him, as long as he acted well and made Hot Spring believe in his loyalty, then he and Zuo Jiayin would not be in any danger, so in the villa, Meng Tianchu would be so calmly entangled with Zuo Jiayin. It's just that this can't be told to Zuo Jiayin.

Therefore, Meng Tianchu smiled and said, "I thought about it, and it was because I thought about it that I fed you the Turtle Breath Pill and let you sleep for three days." ”

Zuo Jiayin looked at Meng Tianchu suspiciously, she didn't understand the meaning of Meng Tianchu's words.

Meng Tianchu said: "You took the Turtle Breath Pill and entered a state of suspended animation, even if the robbers tore up the ticket because I didn't stab Gonggong Wen according to their request, but found that you were already dead, they generally won't continue to harm you." Besides, aren't you ready to die for martyrdom? And why should I care if I'm thinking about you? ”

Zuo Jiayin's face flushed, turned sideways, lifted his sleeves with one hand, stretched one arm into the water, gently stirred up a string of splashes, turned his face sideways and said coquettishly: "Why should I be martyred for you?" ”

"It's very simple, if these robbers are really the enemies of Gonggong Wen, it must involve a political struggle for power in the palace, and this kind of thing must not be known to others, so no matter whether we succeed in assassinating Gonggong Wen or not, these kidnappers will kill us, and I am afraid they will insult you before killing you. You are so smart, how could you not think of this, that's why you had to be a real husband and wife with me that night, especially the last time, you kept your eyes open and watched me have sex with you, and those eyes were full of the pain of life and death, so I am sure that as soon as I leave, you will kill yourself so as not to be humiliated in the future. Right? ”

Zuo Jiayin's face flushed even more: "How do you know everything?" ”

"Hehe, I know so much more than that." Meng Tianchu stared at Zuo Jiayin, and the smile on his face slowly disappeared, "It turns out that I always thought that you were just a Heavenly Master. After I was kidnapped to the villa that day, I realized that you have another identity! ”

The shy smile on Zuo Jiayin's face froze, and the blush slowly turned pale: "Xianggong... The concubine doesn't know what you're talking about... What does it mean..."

"The biggest flaw you exposed was that you persuaded me to assassinate Grandpa Wen."

"Flaws? … Didn't Xianggong always want to kill the hot springs? ”

"Yes, but if you want to die for martyrdom, you know that no matter whether I kill the hot springs or not, I will not escape death, which is very abnormal, you have a deep affection for me, and I already know from the fact that you are ready to die for martyrdom. People who love someone so deeply must think of the safety of the other person at the first time. Instead, it should help me find a way to use this opportunity to escape, as long as this goal is achieved. It doesn't matter if I do the stab or not, but you have repeatedly persuaded me to agree to go to the stabbing hot springs, which makes me suspicious. ”

"Suspect what?" Zuo Jiayin's smile was a little bitter.

Meng Tianchu said in his heart: I suspect that you are the people of the hot springs, and you helped tempt me to come, wanting to see if I can maintain my loyalty to the hot springs in the gentle township of women, but this is said. Zuo Jiayin knew that at that time, Meng Tianchu had already speculated that this hijacking was a tentative scene directed by Hot Springs. In the midst of complicated political struggles, Meng Tianchu decided not to trust anyone. Even the people closest to themselves, after all, these people may inadvertently expose their own affairs. Thus leading to a catastrophe of annihilation.

So Meng Tianchu changed his words and said: "I suspect that you are the one who kidnapped my place, and help them persuade me to assassinate Father-in-law Wen." ”

Zuo Jiayin showed a sarcastic wry smile on his lips: "Do you suspect that I am actually using you when I fall in love with you?" Use the pillow wind to persuade you to go to the stinging hot springs? ”

"That's what I thought at first, but then I realized that I didn't think it was right, you weren't kidnapping, you were supposed to be a political enemy of Hot Springs."

A hint of imperceptible shock flashed in Zuo Jiayin's eyes, and he smiled reluctantly: "You... How do you have that thought? ”

"Because of the way you behaved after you slept with me later, there is no way to pretend to be that kind of life and death, only people who really face this situation will have such emotions, I am sure, as soon as I leave, you will commit suicide, and those people will not tell me the news. So, I know you're not one of the kidnappers, otherwise you wouldn't have killed yourself. ”

Meng Tianchu did suspect that Zuo Jiayin was the hot spring gang at first, so he not only expressed his loyalty to the hot spring in front of the white-robed old man, but also acted in such a scene when he was with Zuo Jiayin, but later, Meng Tianchu found that this speculation was wrong, and from Zuo Jiayin's initiative to be a real husband and wife with him, and decided to commit suicide, it was inferred that Zuo Jiayin was not actually a member of the hot spring gang.

Zuo Jiayin turned sideways and looked at Meng Tianchu: "Xianggong has good eyesight!" So how did the prime minister know that I was a political enemy of the hot springs? ”

Meng Tianchu leaned over, lowered his voice and said: "This is very easy to speculate, since you were not acting at the time, but you repeatedly persuaded me to go to Xing Ting, which means that you really want to kill Grandpa Wen, I seriously recalled the experience of the two of us in contact with Grandpa Wen together several times before, and I did not find any traces of your hatred for the hot springs, and at that time, you even persuaded me not to blindly assassinate Grandpa Wen for my safety." Therefore, you should have no personal grudge with Hot Springs, not because of personal grudges that asked me to assassinate Hot Springs, and as far as I know, the one who is going to assassinate Hot Springs now is his sworn enemy, the first eunuch of the ceremonial eunuch, Dongchang is in charge of the execution of thousands of households Tang Zhicone, but now I can be sure that you are by no means Tang Zhicone's person. ”

"Meng Ye seems to know a lot of things! How do you know this? Zuo Jiayin's face slowly regained his calmness, and his address to Meng Tianchu was changed to "Meng Ye." ”

A trace of sourness flashed in Meng Tianchu's heart: "You are not Gonggong Wen's person, so you don't know that this kidnapping was Gonggong Wen's temptation to test me, thinking that it was really planned by Gonggong Wen's political enemy, and if this political enemy is Tang Zhicone, and you happen to be Tang Zhicone's person, then you don't have to think about committing suicide after I leave, so you are neither Gonggong Wen's person nor Tang Zhicone's person, I don't know what politicians Gonggong Wen has, so I don't know which faction you are." But I know you mean it to me. Although you have somehow used my feelings to try to achieve your political ends. ”

"Oh..., then why didn't Meng Ye hand me over to the hot springs to receive merit?"

Meng Tianchu's voice was bitter: "You don't have to be so mean when you speak, if I were that kind of person, I would have handed you over a long time ago, what are you doing with so much nonsense?" ”

Zuo Jiayin lowered his head apologetically. Said softly: "I'm sorry... I know you're genuine to me, too—what are you going to do? ”

"I wonder who sent you? What is the purpose of this? Since we are going to be husband and wife, we must figure out these things, and if we don't know whether it's a sheep or a tiger sleeping next to us, then no one will sleep soundly. ”

Zuo Jiayin thought for a while and said in a low voice: "I can tell you everything, but after I tell you, I'm afraid we won't be able to be husband and wife..."

Meng Tianchu's heart was shocked, and a thought flashed in his mind, and he immediately figured out the reason for Zuo Jiayin's words. Nodding with a wry smile: "You're right, you and Gonggong Wen are political enemies." It seems that you are also very loyal to the faction you belong to. It is impossible to betray, however, I am sure that Gonggong Wen does not know that you are a person on the side of his political enemies at the moment, but your side must already know that I am Gonggong Wen's person, and Gonggong Wen directly promoted such an unknown boy as me to an important position as the foreman of Dongchang Hangzhou, and it is impossible for you not to know this news. If that's the case. Unless I promise to be your eyeliner. Otherwise, they won't let you follow me. In case I rebelled, your organization might kill you for this reason. ”

Zuo Jiayin nodded and said, "Yes, since that's the case." Do you still want to hear it? ”

"I don't want to hear it." Meng Tianchu shook his head, "Since we are mortal enemies, I'm afraid this couple won't be able to do it." ”

Zuo Jiayin lowered her eyes, her expression was gloomy, a string of tears flowed down her cheeks, she sobbed softly a few times, and said in a low voice: "It's come to this, I'll tell you, I... I'm actually... The person who commanded Tian Yan in Jinyiwei, the position of my Heavenly Master, was ostensibly reported by my master to the emperor's order, but in fact, the emperor placed me next to the Heavenly Masters as an eyeliner according to the suggestion of Tian Yan's command of the envoys, in order to prevent the Heavenly Masters from practicing the immortal golden pill but not paying tribute to the emperor, or poisoning the golden pill or something like that. I was directly under the command of the Jinyi Guard, and the envoy Tian Yantian was under the command of Lord Tian. ”

Jin Yiwei? Of course, Meng Tianchu is very familiar with this term, and he has seen it in many modern movies and TV series, and it is called Factory Guard together with Dongchang, which is a well-known spy agency in the Ming Dynasty.

Meng Tianchu now knows a little bit about the relationship between some factory guards, the two are integrated with each other and intrigue with each other, fighting openly and secretly in order to compete for power. If he and Zuo Jiayin fall into such a political struggle, the future of the two of them is really bleak.

Meng Tianchu smiled bitterly and asked, "Do you have any position in the Jinyi Guard?" ”

"Jinyi Wei Fujian Thousand Households Suppressed."

"Hehe, from the fifth grade, the official is not small, he is bigger than me."

Zuo Jiayin's eyes flashed when he lowered his eyes and didn't speak.

Meng Tianchu also felt that it didn't seem appropriate to ridicule him at this time, so he coughed lightly and asked in a low voice, "In addition to monitoring the Heavenly Master's alchemy, you are also responsible for dividing the East Factory and weakening the power of the East Factory, right?" ”

"Yes..., after I learned in Hangzhou that Master Meng was very good at solving the case, I reported the matter to the commander Tian Yantian, and Tian instructed me to continue to investigate you, and if it is appropriate, recruit you into Jinyiwei. At this time, the Zuoshunmen incident occurred, and then the hot springs preemptively admitted you to the East Factory. Lord Tian also instructed me to get close to you, to gain your trust, so as to find out the inside information of the East Factory..."

"Hehe, it turned out that there was a spy in ambush next to me, but I didn't know it, and I was really stupid."

Zuo Jiayin raised his head, tears flashing in his eyes: "I... I mean it to you! ”

Meng Tianchu was just laughing at herself just now, hearing this, she remembered that she took the initiative to be a real husband and wife with herself before she died, and then prepared to commit suicide and martyrdom, her feelings were tested by life and death, and she was trustworthy, so she took her in her arms and kissed her lightly on the forehead: "I know, so I didn't hand you over to Gonggong Wen." ”

"Then you were just now..."Zuo Jiayin whimpered aggrievedly.

Meng Tianchu turned her body over and kissed her red lips, Zuo Jiayin hugged his neck, and put his fragrant tongue into Meng Tianchu's mouth mercilessly, allowing him to suck and intertwine with his tongue.

This deep kiss dissolved the alienation between the two just now and regained the feeling of deep love.