In Lingbao Village, Rao Di, who was sitting on the bed eating sour jujube paste after bathing and changing clothes, suddenly jumped a few times, she put down the spoon and rubbed her eyebrows, "Who is scolding me behind my back?" It won't be Xiao Yanning. ”

The mountain ghost grinned and said, "Maybe the fifth prince is enjoying the service of that red-clothed aunt now." ”

Rao Tu laughed, "The five kings have been cheapened, so they should thank me for a few words." ”

Shen Zhu came in from outside with the curtain, and Rao Di immediately straightened his face, "I'm sleepy, I want to rest." ”

He saw her holding half a bowl of sour jujube paste in her hand, and said lightly: "Eat this at night, and have a toothache carefully." As she spoke, she took the bowl in her hand, took a spoon and took a half-puff and tasted it, "Sour." ”

Rao Di waved her hand to the mountain ghost and ordered her to go out, while saying to Shen Zhu: "I like to eat, can you manage it?" ”

"What kind of fire is this?" He smiled softly, obviously with excellent patience.

Rao Di dug up a big spoonful of sour jujube paste and put it in her mouth, and said vaguely while eating: "Why do I have to wear a hat, am I so unable to see people?" ”

"You are beautiful, I am afraid that you will harm this little house."

Rao Di was choked by Shen Zhu's words, "Then if you say that, the maids in this courtyard will look at you straight one by one, and you have to cover your face so that no one can look at it." ”

"I'm better than you, and I won't flirt with people casually."

Shen Zhu smashed another sentence, and she was so speechless for a while, after thinking about it, she said angrily: "Don't you know that there is a saying in Jinling City, when you see Shen Lang, you will be mistaken for life." ”

Seeing her puffing appearance, Shen Zhu didn't explain, took away the sour jujube paste in her hand, and personally poured a cup of hot tea for her to rinse her mouth.

Rao Tu rinsed his mouth with the tea in his hand, and then drove him away. Shen Zhu was surprised: "Is there such a thing as you unloading and killing donkeys?" ”

"Lord Shen, you go back to your room to rest, I'm going to sleep."

"This is my house, where else should I go?"

"It's not yours, it's mine. If you don't have a place to live, go and squeeze with Mr. Lu, he won't mind. ”

"I don't live with you, but I go to squeeze a bed with Lu Zhiming, others will want to be crooked."

Rao was sullen, "You are messing around." ”

"yes, it's nonsense." He climbed into bed very safely and hugged Rao Di, "When I was bathing just now, Lu Zhiming's talisman ashes were scattered in the water?" ”

"Hmm."

"Do you feel anything?"

"How can you feel, it's fine, you're lying to me."

She obediently buried herself in his arms, her fingers dotting on his chest. Shen Zhu suddenly discovered that a smart woman also has a delicate side.

At this moment, he felt very full in his heart.

After a day's drive, Rao Di lay on the bed and felt that she was in the carriage, so tired that she quickly fell asleep with her eyes closed.

Shen Zhu gently stroked her cheek, but what he thought of was the words behind the book "Visiting the Deed": "Qingzhou Xu's weak daughter, young phoenix is very precious, and she is lonely and life-like." Bizarre. ”

He lowered his eyes and looked at her sleeping, and thought to himself: "Father, did you miscalculate, where did a woman like her come from?" Or did you ask me to marry her back then just to break her life...... It was me Shen Zhu who mistook her. ”

At this moment, on the outer wall of the elegant courtyard, there is a small figure squatting. The child's little face was red from the cold, and her tiny fingers were drawing on the ground, not knowing what she was writing.

Lu Zhiming walked out of the yard, saw the child he smiled slightly, sat casually on the side, and couldn't help but look stunned when he caught a glimpse of what the child drew on the ground.

"What are you drawing?"

May turned her head to look at Lu Zhiming and blurted out, "It's the star change that Mr. Murong often calculates." ”

"Mr. Murong?" Lu Zhiming's heart moved slightly, "Who is Mr. Murong?" ”

May hurriedly covered his mouth, knowing that he had too much to say, he couldn't help but blush.

Lu Zhiming was silent for a moment, rubbed his head, and said warmly: "It's late at night, go to sleep." ”

May shook her head, "I'm going to wait for her here." ”

"Go first, I'll show you tomorrow."

May hesitated for a moment, a little unconvinced.

Lu Zhiming smiled and said, "Have I ever lied to you?" ”

May grinned, staggered to her feet, thumped her numb legs, and slowly left.

In the early morning of the second day, Shen Zhu got up early, saw that Rao Di was asleep, and did not wake her up, and had breakfast with Lu Zhiming, who also got up very early, and the two walked to a pavilion, but saw a pair of broken chess on the stone table in the pavilion.

Shen Zhu looked at it intently, and it turned out to be a thousand-layer treasure pavilion chess game with five calamities and six calamities. The white and black twins are all fixed on the chessboard, and there are two black and white chess boxes on the table, which contain black and white pieces.

Shen Zhu asked the little servant in the village who followed behind him, "Old Master Zhao often studies this pair of Zhenlong chess?" ”

The little guy was puzzled: "The villain doesn't remember that there was a chess game here. Possible...... Maybe it was just put on yesterday? ”

Shen Zhu looked at the maid in light purple clothes outside the pavilion and asked the little maid, "This maid is from the house?" ”

The little guy scratched his head and said ashamedly: "The villain has never seen it, Xu just came, and he doesn't know the rules very well." This is to let her go down. ”

Shen Zhu shook his head and said lightly, "No need." As he spoke, he sat on the side of the sunspot, and pointed to the opposite side and motioned for Lu Zhiming to sit. Lu Zhiming smiled and said: "The chess skills I am playing are really bad, and I can't even discuss it with Lord Shen." ”

Shen Zhu laughed, stared at the chess game and said: "Heizi originally wanted to perform the technique of Huang Ying's butterfly fluttering, but Baizi counterattacked, and he was very anxious. I don't see how I understand. ”

Lu Zhiming smiled and said: "I heard that Lord Shen was a saint before serving as Huangmenlang, and even you can't see the way to break the game?" ”

"Chess is waiting for the edict, although the chess skills must be refined, but if the word "saint" is added, the first thing to bear the brunt is the mental skill. After all, the emperor is the emperor, and his chess skills are not very good, but if you want to make him happy to lose and win peace of mind, it will be difficult. ”

Lu Zhiming smiled, "So I heard that Lord Shen, you only served as a chess edict for ten days, and you were sent to the Guozijian by the emperor, and you were promoted from chess to Huangmenlang." ”

Shen Zhu looked at the pond on the side of the pavilion and said softly: "Shen Zhu's mental trick is to let the emperor play chess with me, and he is not willing to win or win if he loses, he is angry and unhappy, but he is reluctant to belittle him. ”

He looked at the little girl in purple who had been standing outside the pavilion, and asked loudly, "Are you a chess attendant?" ”

The purple-clothed maid gave a gentle salute, "Hui Gongzi, yes." ”

"Come forward and explain to me."

The servant stepped forward, and her face was very delicate, but when she looked closely, she could see that her eyes were blank, and she was actually a blind girl.

Lu Zhiming got up and gave up his seat to the purple-clothed servant, who thanked him, but did not sit down, but groped for a white piece and threw it into the chessboard.

Shen Zhu squinted and took a look, and when he saw this, he surprisingly gave up the circular robbery of dozens of chess pieces strangled together, and killed a small boat in the stormy waves, and suddenly turned the situation over to give Bai Zi the advantage.

He looked at the purple-clothed blind maid and said with a smile: "What a wonderful hand, you laid out this game?" ”

"Hui Gongzi is a slave."

"Who is your master?"

"The previous master of the slave is the Murong family, and the future master is the son."

"Oh?" Shen Zhu listened to her abrupt words, but he was not surprised, and said indifferently: "The girl can arrange such a chess game, not to mention that the skill of hand talk is unparalleled in the world, and she can also enter the top three, and it is inevitable to follow Shen." ”

"The slave doesn't feel condescending, but begs the son to accept me, a blind man."

Shen Zhu didn't say a word, but got up and walked to the edge of the pavilion, looked at the lotus flower in the pond under the pavilion, and said with a smile: "On a cold winter day, how can the lotus bloom?" ”

Lu Zhiming said: "Inside this pond is hot spring water. ”

The purple-clothed maid said: "In troubled times, create talents." ”

Shen Zhu said coldly: "It's a monster, but I think it's beautiful!" ”

Rao's voice came slowly: "Shen Lang, even if you want to refuse, don't be so direct." ”

Shen Zhu turned his head to look at Rao Di, "What are you doing here?" ”

Rao Tu came over, went to the side of the purple-clothed maid and asked, "What's your name?" ”

"Slave Zhenlong."

"My husband doesn't want you, that's because he has no eyes, why don't you follow me?"

Zhenlong didn't answer, and Shen Zhu reprimanded: "Don't mess around! ”

Rao Di glanced at him, "You want to find someone to play chess with me, can't you?" ”

Shen Zhu didn't talk nonsense with her, and held her hand to take her away, but saw a group of people coming in the distance, and it turned out to be a Janissary in armor.

Lu Zhiming frowned slightly, and a crack opened on the stone fence supported by his palms.

The chief butler Wang Quan greeted him, and smiled at the leader of the Praetorian Guard: "I don't know how many officials ......."

The leader of the forbidden army interrupted his questioning and said loudly: "Arrest the imperial court criminals!" ”

Wang Quan was shocked: "We didn't harbor the fugitives, and asked the official to make a clear decision." ”

"Whether there is harboring or not, after the search, there will be a conclusion."

Wang Quan frowned, and said unhappily: "Lingbaozhuang is not a small family that can be bullied, since the official wants to investigate, can there be an approval of the government's inspection order?" ”

The guard smiled when he heard this: "I was ordered by the Holy Lord, and now I have come to receive the Holy Lord's commandment, why, do you still dare to ask for approval?" ”

Shen Zhu's expression was complicated, and Rao Di whispered in his ear: "Can the forbidden army directly raid people's houses without approval?" ”

He shook his head slightly, "Even if you give an order, you have to show the emperor's token." ”

"Oh, so these people are falsely proclaiming the Holy Decree?"

Lu Zhiming said slowly: "Even if Prince Yu cuts first and then plays, what about it? ”

Rao Di knew in her heart that those who dared to use the forbidden army to falsely spread the emperor's oracle so openly and honestly could not find a second person except Prince Yu, who was in the limelight. It's just that I don't know what kind of Qin offender is that there is such a big battle.

After thinking about it, she felt that the fifth king, Xiao Yanning, was worthy of Prince Yu's big fight.

Wang Quan heard the leader of the guards say the Holy Commandment, his expression changed slightly, and he asked: "I don't know who to look for, there are many people in the house, and the owner of the village is hospitable, so it is possible to inadvertently mix in the traitor." I also asked the official to give a hint, allowing the villain to introspect, maybe he could provide some clues to the official. ”

Rao Di said in a low voice: "Is this housekeeper suspicious of us? Let's do it first. ”

Shen Zhu's face was calm and light, and it was understandable for the housekeeper to be like this, if these people were really the so-called Qin criminals that the guards were looking for, what was wrong with clearing up the relationship in time?

A person walked out of the group of guards, and after Shen Zhu saw it, he furrowed his eyebrows slightly. Rao Tu looked from afar and saw that the man was a middle-aged Taoist priest in his fifties, wearing a strange Taoist robe, squinting his eyes, and holding a blind cane, and he was also a blind person.

Lu Zhiming stepped forward, there was anger between his eyebrows, and he said in a deep voice: "Huang Fangweng! ”

Rao Di grabbed Lu Zhiming's sleeve and said in a low voice: "Sir, don't act rashly!" ”

Shen Zhu got up and disconnected the pull of Rao Tu intentionally or unintentionally, and whispered beside Lu Zhiming: "Qin Tianjian's old loaches have jumped out, it must be a good show, even if Mr. Lu wants to do the right thing for the sky, he will wait until this play is over." ”

Lu Zhiming let go of his clenched fists and let out a long breath of depression, "Lord Shen, don't worry, you know how to measure it." ”

Huang Fangweng whispered a few words in the ear of the head of the guard, and the guard nodded frequently, and then said to Wang Quan: "Lead the way to Bailu Courtyard." ”

Rao Di was shocked when she heard this, Bailu Courtyard was not the courtyard where they stayed.

Wang Quan nodded after hearing this: "Bailu Courtyard is a place to entertain guests in the village, and there happened to be a few guests yesterday, please come with the villain." ”

Saying that, Wang Quan led the way and led the group of guards to Bailu Courtyard.

Rao said: "Really came to us?" ”

Shen Zhu frowned and was silent, he was a little suspicious in his heart. Lu Zhiming suddenly said: "It's not good! "Take a step and walk in the direction of Hakuroin.

"Is the emperor coming to get me?" Rao Tu looked at Shen Zhu, inexplicable.

Shen Zhu shook his head and said, "No." It's someone else, go see it. ”

Rao Di was pulled away by him, and she didn't forget to turn her head to Zhenlong, the purple-clothed maidservant, and said, "You wait here first, if it's not my business, I'll come to you again." ”

Zhenlong replied respectfully.

Walking outside the Bailu Courtyard, Rao Di's face changed greatly when she saw the person who was handcuffed by the guards with heavy iron chains.

Even Shen Zhu was shocked, the guard was actually the child named May!

Rao was anxious: "Why is May here?" Didn't you send him to the East China Sea? ”

Shen Zhu covered her mouth, "Don't make noise." ”

The leader of the guards was confronting Lu Zhiming, and Lu Zhiming said coldly: "Could it be that the imperial court prisoner is a child less than ten years old?" ”

The guard shouted, "Where did you come from, get out!" ”

Lu Zhiming stood there as steady as Mount Tai, "Lu wants to ask today, what mistake did this kid make?" ”

The guard's expression was hideous, and he took out his steel knife and pointed at Lu Zhiming, "Hugh doesn't know what to do, and he doesn't care about his life!" ”

Lu Zhiming laughed, and suddenly flicked his fingers and hit the blade of the knife, but everyone didn't hear the sound, but they were surprised to find that the blade of the steel knife was broken inch by inch.

He faced a person and said in a deep voice: "Huang Fangweng! Tell me, what is this child's sin? ”

The blind old Taoist said compassionately in the crowd: "The little Taoist surnamed Lu, you can't wade through the muddy waters that your master couldn't wade through back then, and it's not easy to practice, so I advise you not to hit the stone with an egg, and it will ruin the Tao." ”

Lu Zhiming shook off the dust, took a heavy step, grabbed the iron chain around May's neck with both hands and struggled hard, and broke the chain. Protecting the child behind him, he said to Huang Fangweng: "It's orthodox, but go to the side door!" You have been a watchdog for the Xiao family for 20 years, and you have done too much to tamper with your luck! ”

Before he finished speaking, the whole person flew towards Huang Fangweng, the speed was so fast that only a shadow could be seen flying by, and then people saw the old Taoist priest being carried by the collar to the eaves. Lu Zhiming held May in one hand and Lu Fangweng in the other, and he shouted: "Die!" ”

"Sir, stop!"

"Wait!"

"Mr. Lu, don't!"

Three voices sounded at the same time, from Shen Zhu, Rao Di, and May.

Lu Zhiming looked at May alone and asked, "This person wants to kill you, but you want to save him?" ”

May hugged his fists and said: "I don't want to save him, but I can't bear to bury the people of Lingbaozhuang with me." A few days ago, Lingbaozhuang took me in from hunger and cold, and I didn't want to take revenge. ”

Lu Zhiming's expression eased slightly, jumped off the eaves lightly, stretched out his hand to push, pushed Huang Fangweng to the ground, and said coldly: "One day, I will take your dog's life." ”

Huang Fangweng snorted coldly, got up from the ground and dusted off his clothes, "I'll wait, don't die first!" ”

He turned to the guards and shouted, "What are you doing in a daze? Take people away! ”

Seeing that May was protected by the young Taoist, the leader of the guards didn't dare to step forward for a while, waved his hand, and the guards behind him lined up, encircling Lu Zhiming and May in a situation of encirclement and suppression.

"Little Taoist, if you want to protect this child, I naturally can't help you for a while. However, do you want to ignore the lives of more than 100 people in Lingbao Village? Huang Fangweng coldly threatened.

Lu Zhiming was furious: "The court kills innocents indiscriminately, how different is it from traitorous villains!" ”

"If this kid is allowed to escape, Lingbaozhuang is shielding the Qin criminal, and he should be questioned!"

May tugged at Lu Zhiming's sleeve, "Mr. Lu, thank you for defending me...... Let me go with these people. ”

Hearing this, Rao Di's heart moved slightly, and she smiled: "It's so lively, adults bully children, and more people bully fewer people." ”

Shen Zhu had a headache, and when the guards looked back at her who was covering her face with a light veil, he said loudly: "Since you have received the Holy Commandment, show the token." ”

Huang Fangweng pondered for a moment, "Which noble person is this, forgive me for being blind and deaf, and I can't tell it." ”

Shen Zhu said: "It doesn't matter who I am, it just so happens that I know some rules, so I'll tell you." The Holy One is still there, and you people are too anxious to serve the new Lord. Moreover, Lingbaozhuang has stood in the rivers and lakes for decades, and it is not something that you can eradicate if you say that it can be eradicated. Huang Lao Tianshi is well versed in Qimen mathematics, and he has only done arithmetic deduction at the bottom of the well for decades, thinking that the rivers and lakes temples are too simple. ”

Huang Fangweng's fingers tapped regularly on the blind cane a few times, "Shen Zhu? ”

"It's just that."

"You're going to stop me? Think clearly. ”

"I won't stop Huang Lao Tianshi, you want to take this child away, even if you take it. I don't care what this kid is involved in, or what you're calculating or calculating. It has nothing to do with me anyway. It's just that if you want to do anything wrong in Lingbaozhuang, you asked me first. ”

Although Shen Zhu's words were clear from May, they were for Lu Zhiming's worries.

Lu Zhiming said: "With me today, you can't take this child away!" ”

Huang Fangweng waved his hand, and the guards raised their knives to slash at Lu Zhiming from all directions.

Shen Zhu watched coldly, expressionless. Rao Di said in a low voice: "Seeing that these people are not serious, they are going to kill May on the spot." ”

Shen Zhu held her hand, "Don't mix it up." ”

"Hmph, you coward, you are all gone. If you hurt the slightest bit in May tonight, I'm not done with you! ”

Shen Zhu didn't say a word, and pulled away the woman who was still coquettish at this time, "Be careful of these people's blood splashing on you." ”

Hearing this, Rao Di said angrily, "Shen Zhu, you are a cold dead man!" Lu Zhi's fate is our friend, you don't call the dead man to come out to help him! ”

Shen Zhu held her in his arms and covered her mouth, and scolded, "You shut up for me!" Said that the person who deliberately called the surname Huang so loudly heard? ”

He was provoked.

Rao Di hadn't seen him speak so sharply for a long time, so she couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and suddenly fell silent, staring at him with two bright eyes.

Shen Zhu knew that he was talking heavily, rubbed her face, and comforted: "Lu Zhiming can't afford to lose. ”

On the field, Lu Zhiming had already snatched more than ten white blades empty-handed, those guards were well-trained, and they were not depressed when they were robbed of weapons, dozens of people retreated in unison, giving up hand-to-hand combat, and took out the bow and crossbow behind him to besiege the city, and the crossbow arrows pointed directly at Lu Zhiming.

Shen Zhu glanced at Yang Qian, Yang Qian understood, and was about to spread the news of the dead man lurking in the dark.

A burst of music suddenly floated in, Shen Zhu stopped Yang Qian, followed the prestige, the music was ethereal, and the cold wind carried a faint fragrance to his face. I saw a cloud of purple clouds, and seven maidservants in the same costume carried a bamboo chair and flew in the air, with purple clothes fluttering, like fairies in the sky.

There was a man sitting in the sedan chair, wearing a lilac bright brocade, holding a bamboo flute of Xiangfei in his hand, gloomy, his face was blue and white, his lips were pale and almost colorless, his eyes were hollow, if he didn't keep covering his mouth and coughing, he would be no different from a dead man.

The purple-clothed maidservant put the bamboo chair steadily, and the man in the chair waved his hand, "The black smoke is miasma, it's really unlucky." "The voice is surprisingly warm and beautiful.

Rao Tu blinked, and Shen Zhulang asked, "Who is Your Excellency?" ”

"Liulishan Murong Clan, come to the official."

Guanzi refers to the end of Go.

Shen Zhu said: "It's too early. ”

The Murong clan didn't see any movement, the whole person pulled out of the bamboo chair, and a purple qi approached Lu Zhiming, everyone saw Lu Zhiming spurt out a mouthful of blood, and the whole person fell out ten zhang away, but that Murong clan had already fallen back to the bamboo chair steadily, holding May's hand.

May was shocked and called out "Mr. Lu!" Pulled into the chair by the Murong clan and sat down, the purple-clothed maid lifted the chair up, like a cloud of purple smoke, coming and going in a hurry.

Huang Fangweng shouted: "Shoot with arrows!" ”

The bows and crossbows all shot at the purple smoke, but not a single arrow fell.

Huang Fangweng faced Shen Zhu with two cloudy eyes, and Shen Zhu smiled at him, "Hurry up, I guess I can catch up." ”

Huang Fangweng snorted heavily and left in a hurry with the guards.

Rao Di ran to Lu Zhiming's side, held him up and asked, "How is Mr." ”

Lu Zhiming wiped the blood stains from the corners of his mouth with his sleeve and shook his head slowly. Zhenlong, the chess attendant waiting in the pavilion, came over at some point, took out a red gold elixir and said to Lu Zhiming: "Master Murong gave it to Mr. ”

Lu Zhiming covered his chest, took the pill and swallowed it, his breath no longer floating so much.

Shen Zhu looked at the direction where the purple clothes floated away, and sneered: "What a vote." ”

The two carriages left Lingbaozhuang and traveled up the vast wilderness, Rao Tu and Shen Zhu sat in the same car, and Lu Zhiming lay in the cart, taken care of by the mountain ghost and Liu Xing'er.

Seeing that Shen Zhu had not spoken, Rao Tu asked, "What does that person want to do?" ”

"I don't know."

"What kind of vote?"

"He injured Lu Zhiming and took May away, which was done for Huang Fangweng to see, so as not to involve me and Lu Zhiming. It's obviously a means to offer me a good thing, but isn't it a letter of nomination? ”

"Will there be anything going on in May? Can your dead men detect it? ”

Shen Zhu glanced at Rao Di, he didn't want Rao Tu to be involved in these things, but now it seemed that he had fallen into a quagmire. "I think the Murong clan will come to me."

As soon as the words fell, I heard a voice come slowly: "I have been waiting here for a long time." ”

Rao Di was startled, and hurriedly lifted the curtain to look out, but saw that on the road ahead, Murong was sitting alone on a bamboo chair blocking the road.

Shen Zhu got out of the car and walked towards him.

Not far away, a man dressed in black rode a horse, and when he got close, he stopped suddenly, and he smiled: "Did this king miss something good?" ”

Five kings Xiao Yanning.