"What's the difficulty? I'll cut it. ”

The gentle man's voice sounded behind Rao's ears, and she was startled, and looked back at his gentle eyes.

She immediately sank her face and said coldly: "My lord, when you are your colt, it is the spring breeze that is proud, what are you doing here?" ”

Shen Zhu grabbed a strand of green silk from her and wiped it carefully with a cotton towel, "The princess hasn't entered the mansion yet, so it's not good for me to go to the princess's mansion." ”

Seeing that he looked casual, Rao Tu was immediately furious in her heart, and sneered: "It turns out that I am just a person who relieves Lord Shen's boredom, and when the princess comes, where is my foothold?" ”

Shen Zhu said "um", still noncommittal.

stood up in a daze, regardless of the lack of clothes on his body and the wet green hair, he pushed Shen Zhu outside vigorously.

Shen Zhu was pushed away a few steps, then stood still, letting her punch and kick him, and the smile on the corner of his mouth became more and more intense.

The mountain ghost withdrew from the room with great vision, and the little girl couldn't help sighing, secretly thinking that Lord Shen has been really good-tempered recently, and a waiter of the Ministry of Rites was manipulated like this, and he could still laugh!

Rao Di was panting, and after dozens of beatings, he was hugged by Shen Zhu, and listened to his soft persuasion: "Rest and fight again." ”

Rao Tu pouted, turned around to the couch angrily, and cursed in her mouth: "Who rarely beats you, where do you come from." Don't let me see you, a ruthless and short-lived, bad luck for the New Year! ”

Lord Shen's face is as thick as the city wall, and he doesn't care about it now, and he enjoys being scolded after Rao Di.

Seeing that she wanted to lie in the quilt with wet hair, he scooped her up in his arms, half-leaned on the quilt, and said to her: "Wet hair, careful headache." ”

Rao Tu twisted a few times in his arms, didn't break free, and said hatefully: "Can you handle it?" Put me down! Let go! ”

Shen Zhu just didn't let go, and said with a calm smile: "Don't you want to cut one out for me?" ”

Rao Tu reached out and grabbed a pair of scissors on the kang table, pressed it against his chest and said angrily, "Do you want to let it go?" ”

Instead, his hand tightened, "Don't let go." ”

Rao Tu pushed the scissors down, and he looked at her with a smile, but there was some relief in his eyes.

This kind of empty relief made Rao Di's heart hurt fiercely, she fell the scissors in despair, only to feel that her whole heart was pinched together, and she couldn't help crying: "What do you mean, tell me to kill you with scissors, you are so peaceful?" ”

Shen Zhu stretched out his hand to wipe her tears, but the tears were wiped more and more, and Rao Di pushed his hand away, "I don't want to call you wishful!" I don't want you to have peace of mind! ”

Shen Zhu's long eyebrows were tightly locked, seeing that she was crying and crying endlessly, he couldn't help but get up in a hurry, hugged her in his arms and coaxed her, and even said a lot of soft words that made people laugh and lose their big teeth, she still cried non-stop.

He was in a hurry, and put his lips up to suck the teardrops that made people's hearts and intestines break, "I, Shen Zhu, am not a thing, and now I am not alive or dead, it is better for a gust of wind to blow, and a gust of smoke will disperse and be clean!" ”

Hearing this, Rao Di gradually stopped crying, stopped talking, and bit her lip out of blood.

Shen Zhu held her face, forcibly came up and choked her lips, licked all the blood beads clean, and said in a dumb voice: "Ah Zhu, whatever you want, say it, if you want me to cut it with a thousand knives or five horses, it's up to you." ”

Rao Tu said angrily: "I'm not a ...... Ayu"

Before he could finish speaking, he pressed up and kissed her fiercely, as if to punish her for not admitting her death.

After a long time, the two finally parted breathlessly, and Rao Di said intermittently: "Mr. Lu...... Said it...... You can't ......."

Shen Zhu withdrew his hand from her clothes and held her in his arms, he didn't care what poison he had in his body, he hated to die in her arms. But Lu Zhiming also said that she is now cutting blood and turning poison every day, and her body is very weak.

He was reluctant to give her up.

Rao Tu lowered her eyes and said: "I know that you are afraid of death, this is the punishment God gives you, so that you can't eat it to your mouth, it is worse than a eunuch." ”

Shen Zhu was a little helpless, "Don't say these meat words in the future." ”

Rao Tu nodded and said, "If you die in the future, how can you manage so much?" Just keep it so you can't hear it. ”

"I'm dead, and my soul haunts you."

Rao Di stopped talking, and looked down to ponder the meaning of his words, she didn't know how much he knew now, whether he really recognized her by calling her Ah Yu, or if he was just taking her as a substitute.

Seeing that she was quiet, Shen Zhu bent down to pick up the scissors from the ground, pulled out a piece of red paper from the table, folded it a few times, and cut out the outline of a small person.

Seeing that although the villain had no eyebrows, his figure was clearly similar to herself, so she said sullenly: "Didn't you cut one?" Who told you to cut me? ”

Shen Zhu then took out another piece of paper and cut out the outline of a scholar, Rao Tu took it in his hand and looked at it carefully, and muttered: "Not quite like it." ”

"Not like?"

Rao Tu took the scissors, cut out the shape of a book on his sleeve, and nodded: "This is you, walking and holding a book, you know how to pretend!" ”

Seeing that Shen Zhu didn't speak, she took out another piece of red paper and cut out a little donkey, and glutinous rice paste was glutinous and glued to the back of the little man holding the book, implicated by a thin piece of red paper, "This is, leading the donkey, holding the book, and stealing." ”

Shen Zhu said "um", "It's me." ”

Rao's face did not change, but her heart was like a stormy wave, when Xu Yu and Shen Zhu first met, he was holding a donkey. Now that she deliberately cut out the scene of that year, he was not surprised.

Rao Di understood that he was not treating her as a substitute, and with his careful thinking, it was impossible to be so confused. The only possibility is that he already knows who she is.

She panicked slightly, she didn't know when Shen Zhu knew, and after thinking about it, it seemed that Pei Qingwei had a flaw when she died. But since he knew that she was Xu Yu, if there was something else hidden in the matter back then, why didn't he explain?

Bitter smile, hidden? It turned out that she was still fantasizing about what would be hidden at this time. He snubbed her for five years, killed her children, and hated her deeply, what is there to explain the past?

She couldn't help but clench her fists, her nails digging deep into the flesh of her palms.

"What are you thinking?"

She looked up at her, stunned, and subconsciously shook her head: "No...... What are we going to eat for the Chinese New Year today? ”

Shen Zhu looked at the sky outside, "It's almost dark, do you remember?" ”

"Well, I'm hungry."

The mountain ghost spoke out at the right time outside: "Girl, I hope that the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner sent by Yuelou will also be rewarded with various pastries in the palace." ”

Shen Zhu said: "The dim sum in the palace, let the mountain ghost send it to you to taste?" ”

Rao Di shook her head: "I don't eat the things in the palace, I heard that the cheese in the north is sweet, I want to eat it." ”

He nodded and instructed the outside: "Mountain ghost, take my jade plate to the post house and ask the cook from the north to come and make cheese." ”

The mountain ghost came in and took the jade card, rode out of the house and ran to the post house, showing the jade card, and the northern envoy hurriedly asked the cook who could make cheese to follow the mountain ghost, and specially ordered to make good cheese.

In the warm pavilion, Rao Di looked bored, and Shen Zhu was afraid that he would say the wrong thing again and make her cry, so he didn't say much, and took an old Tang book to read.

Seeing that he ignored people, Rao Tu felt awkward again, and pulled his sleeve, full of unpleasant expressions.

"How?" He asked.

"Have you posted all the peach talismans?"

"The butler posted the door."

"What about the rest of the house?"

"My library is called Yang Qian, and the rooms of the people in the kitchen account room are in charge of whom's work, so you don't have to worry about it."

"Why doesn't this warm pavilion have it?"

"I didn't tell it before, and the subordinates did as usual. You want to post it now, and I told Yang Qian to clean it up. ”

Rao Tu smiled: "Isn't there red paper, pen and ink, and paste?" ”

Shen Zhu looked at the red paper on the table, nodded and said, "It's okay, it's just that I haven't written a pen for many years." ”

Shen Zhu saw her like this, so he picked up the pen and wrote two lines of words on a piece of red rice paper: "Three springs add splendor, four seasons of strong rivers and mountains", the pen walks the dragon and snake, and the momentum is magnificent.

It's obviously a wonderful couplet, and it's hard to buy, but Rao Di just twisted her eyebrows and picked up the thorns: "It's not good, it's not good, where is it like a couplet?" There's no human touch. ”

Shen Zhu said modestly: "Then you write it, and I will grind it for you." ”

Rao Tu rolled up her sleeves, pondered for a moment, and wrote on the rice paper: "Qin Se spring is always moist, and people are full of heaven and moon."

Shen Zhu looked at her "Mobao" and was speechless for a long time.

Rao Tu coughed, raised her eyebrows, and said, "How?" With an expression of never being teachable.

Shen Zhu carefully admired the two crooked words with a clear conscience, nodded and said solemnly: "It's good, it's a kind of ...... Innocent and lovely style. ”

Rao Di rolled her eyes, "It's not good, it's not good, change the way to scold me for writing like a child?" ”

Shen Zhu put away the paper, "Sticking it in the inner hall can ward off evil spirits." "I got out of bed and went to post it myself.

Rao Di hurriedly jumped out of bed, followed with a paste jar, tiptoed under the door of the inner hall, and used a small brush to brush the paste on the high-grade Nanmu door, and Shen Zhu pasted the "Spring Festival couplets" on it.

Rao Tu looked up under the door and nodded, "It's a little interesting." ”

Shen Zhu wanted to ask what it meant, but he still didn't ask. He stared at the strokes between the horizontal and vertical, Ah Yu wrote, there was never a transition between the horizontal and vertical, and now even if the font was deliberately changed, this habit has not changed.

Ah, yes.

Soon, the mountain ghost brought the cheese over, with a strong fresh milk flavor, Rao Di had never seen it, and couldn't help laughing: "Why does this taste so fragrant?" I just don't know if I will get dizzy after smelling it for a long time. ”

Shen Zhu personally dug a spoonful of cheese to her lips, she didn't want him to feed it, but when she saw the white and soft stuff lying in the spoon, it was so cute, she couldn't hold back for a while, and opened her mouth to take the cheese in her mouth.

Sweet and fragrant, obviously delicious, but because Shen Zhu fed it, she said duplicityly: "That's it, it's not a big deal." ”

Shen Zhu nodded, "yes, it's not a big deal." As he spoke, he put the jade bowl on the table and said to the mountain ghost: "Then the chef in the northern realm is not good, and he still doesn't ask someone to beat him out?" ”

Rao Tu frowned, grabbed his clothes and said, "New Year's Day, why are you like this?" I like to find others unhappy, no matter whether it is delicious or not, it is also time-consuming and laborious to make, and if there is no reward, I have to beat people out, do you have a conscience? ”

Shen Zhu thought for a while, nodded and said, "Madam is right, what do you think?" ”

Rao Tu said: "Give me another taste, I didn't taste it just now." ”

So Shen Zhu fed her a whole bowl, and she commented: "It's okay." ”

Shen Zhu said to the mountain ghost: "Did you hear it, reward!" ”

The mountain ghost smiled: "Then the cook from the north is waiting outside, the envoy just said that if the adults like it, they will leave the cook." ”

Rao Di shook her head: "Don't stay." ”

Shen Zhu said: "If you like it, it's okay to stay." ”

"What is left for him to do? He has come all the way from the north, and he must have a wife and children in his house, so that the flesh and blood of the family will be separated? ”

The mountain ghost retreated, and Shen Zhu silently recited the sentence "There must be wives and children at home" in his heart, only to feel that his liver and intestines were broken.

When night falls, fireworks rise into the sky in the direction of the palace. Rao Tu pushed the window to look, her eyes reflected brilliant fireworks, she sighed: "Jinling City, Jinling City ......"

Under the brilliance, it is cold.

Shen Zhu used tongs to play in the charcoal basin, and sprinkled a layer of white ash on the hot scarlet charcoal fire, so that it would not be too scorching and hot.

He said softly: "That imperial city is full of fireworks, but the people who live in it have their own thoughts, under the imperial power, how can there be any family happiness?" ”

Rao Tu turned to look at him: "Since this is the case, why are those people still in the camp and refuse to let go?" ”

"Because they have either tasted the taste of power, or they have seen the majesty of power."

"Rights?" I was puzzled.

"Rights, people who have not experienced it, will never know how fascinating these two words are."

"What about you? Are you here for rights? ”

Shen Zhu's hand holding the fire tongs paused slightly, and then smiled: "Yes." ”

Rao Tu twisted her eyebrows, she felt that he was lying, he was not a person who would be crazy about power.

She suddenly remembered another person, and she felt that that person stayed in this dangerous Jinling City not for power. He may be an ambitious man, but his ambition comes from his hatred.

Chinese New Year's Eve, Five Kings Mansion. Firecrackers rang out in unison, laughter and laughter. Three hugging buildings, the eaves of the inner and outer corridors, changing the door god, the post couplet, the new nectarine charm, everywhere is new, and the flowers are splendid.

On the top of the hall, the musicians drummed and played the sheng, and the beauties sang and danced, and the world was prosperous and peaceful.

Under the seclusion of fine music, in the midst of fragrant fragrance, Xiao Yanning, the fifth prince, wore a light purple robe, reclining on the old sandalwood carved couch, and embraced the warm fragrant nephrite, which was leisurely.

When he was approaching, he turned over and sat up, rubbed his temples, drunk deeply, waved his hand to the left and right: "Let's all disperse, this king will keep the New Year alone." ”

The vocal music on the main hall dissipated, and everyone got the gold and silver silver to press the New Year's money, and they retreated one after another.

Soon, Xiao Yanning was the only one in the palace. A cool breeze came to my face, and I don't know when, it was already snowing outside the hall. He smiled slightly, put on his hair, and walked out of the hall.

The most down-and-out prince of the dynasty, dressed in a red flamingo, held a lone lamp. Walking barefoot in the palace, the footsteps are elegant, and it seems to be a leisurely stroll.

The lanterns hanging in the corridor were lit by him, and the snow fell on his shirt and hair, and he didn't know it.

The courtyard was empty, but Xiao Yanning seemed to be talking to someone, and said softly: "In the past, when I was very young, whenever I was celebrating the New Year, I always came to post the couplet, and the concubine went to light the red light. Now the wind is scattered, and people are not things. I realized that life is lonely, but I am not accompanied by anyone during the New Year, and I light the lamp alone. ”

Desolate and lonely, muttering to himself.

"Mother, after you die, I will no longer be a high-spirited young man. Intrigues, intrigues, intrigues, these more than ten years of hard work, although the son has nothing, at least, he is not dead. ”

"If you don't die, there are many possibilities."

He looked at the south side of the courtyard and smiled, "That woman, she can't sing Bodhisattva Man, but she makes me very excited. I will take her with me when I leave the capital this time. If you have a spirit in heaven, you must also think that she is a very good woman. Jiangshan, I want it. Beauty, I want it too. ”

The silent main road of Jinling City was empty, and the families with solid backgrounds hung red lanterns at the gate of the courtyard, reflecting the brand-new couplets on the door, and the ground in front of the door was covered with a layer of fine and bright red firecracker debris.

The snow fell on the ground, reflecting the city, and it was a little cold.

Outside the city gate, a small figure shook on the post road. The child was wrapped in a heavy cotton jacket and wore a tattered mink hat on his head, a boy of seven or eight years old, his face was black, and he could no longer see his original appearance, except for two eyes that shone brightly.

Lu Zhiming stood not far from the city gate, and after seeing the boy's figure, he slowly stepped forward and walked in front of him to stand still.

A boy with a strange name "May" looked up at the Taoist priest, and the child was not surprised or frightened, and asked, "Is it Mr. Lu?" ”

Lu Zhiming nodded: "Who rescued you from Wuji Island in the East China Sea?" ”

"The man who saved me has spoken, but he must not speak."

"If you escaped death, why did you want to enter Jinling? You know, there are a lot of people in this city who don't want you to live. ”

"Please send me to Qingzhou Xu Yu."

Lu Zhiming looked at the child and asked, "What are you looking for her for?" ”

"She can save me."

"You are on Wuji Island in the East China Sea, and you have no worries about your life."

The child shook his head, didn't explain anything, and looked at Lu Zhiming stubbornly with bright eyes.

Lu Zhiming's hand hidden in his sleeve quickly pinched the trick, knowing that the child was instructed by a master, so he insisted on coming to Xu Yu, maybe the child didn't know what to do to find Xu Yu, but he was suffering and wanted to seek a refuge.

Lu Zhiming said gently: "Now is not the time, let's be later." ”

May didn't dwell on it, and nodded obediently: "The person who saved me said, but it's up to Mr. Lu to decide." ”

Lu Zhiming wiped the child's cheeks with his cuffs, took his hand and said, "There is a Lingbao Village nearby, go there for a few days first." ”

In the Qintian Prison in the capital, an old eunuch who had been blind for more than ten years was suddenly pushing the door out, looking at the sky with the cloudy old eyes that had been blind for more than ten years, and he muttered: "Purple Qi comes from the east for 30,000 miles, and the purple gas comes from the east for 30,000 miles...... Shen Changlin, is this also your backhand? ”

Shen Changlin, the father of Shen Zhu.

The snow fell overnight in the plum blossom dock, and when Rao Tu pushed open the window on the second day, she saw two snowmen under the attic, and the mountain ghost smiled at the bottom: "Girl, how do you see what I have piled up?" ”

"Which one did you push?"

The mountain ghost pointed at the big one, beaming with pride.

"Oh? sighed, deliberately lengthened the epilogue, and asked with a smile: "Who piled up that little one?" ”

The mountain ghost glanced at Yang Qian, who was standing straight aside, and became even more proud.

Rao Tu pursed her lips and smiled, "Why are you so rude?" Build a snowman and don't know how to converge, and if you go on like this, you will still have something to eat after thirty boards. ”

The mountain ghost couldn't help touching his butt when he heard this, the big trouble in the hot pot restaurant a few days ago, and he was scolded with thirty canes when he came back, but he didn't know what was going on, the board fell on the butt very loudly, but it didn't hurt very much. Is she used to it?

The mountain ghost sighed, she didn't kill anyone with the girl, but she practiced a skill of taking a board, and she, a dead soldier, was too low-level.

Hey? Why hasn't the master been summoned recently? Do you feel that you are too useless and an abandoned child? Thinking like this, the mountain ghost became more and more melancholy.

Rao Tu ignored the little girl's thoughts and asked, "What about Shen Zhu?" ”

"Mrs. Hui, Lord Shen has gone to the library." Yang Qian replied on the side.

Rao Tu narrowed her eyes, then smiled indifferently, "He's really busy." ”

Shen Zhu was opening a copy of "Approach Deed" in the study, flipped through the book several times, gently brushed his fingers over the shabby yellowed pages, and muttered: "It's my father's pen, why is it here with Mr.?" ”

Lu Zhiming drank tea slowly on the side, "This book was handed over to me by Zhang Yufu, the Taoist master of Wudang Mountain, and Ling Zun had some opportunities with Wudang Mountain in the past. ”

"What does Mr. Lu want to say?"

"I am a cultivator below, and I should have stayed out of it, but now things are a little complicated. I think it's better to go back and look at those old things, Ling Zun's "Approach Deed" has actually been foreshadowed for a long time, perhaps, he has long expected that he will die under the conspiracy planned by the Xu family in Qingzhou. ”

Shen Zhu frowned slightly.

"Ling Zun did die at the hands of Xu Maochun, the head of the Xu family in Qingzhou, but he thought that he resigned and returned to his hometown, not to return to his roots, but to die. He knew that if he disobeyed the emperor, he would die. ”

Shen Zhu slapped it heavily on the table, "Sir, don't talk nonsense!" ”

Lu Zhiming said calmly: "I don't dare to say anything biased. Back then, Lord Shen resigned because he didn't want to be a lackey of the royal family, and he didn't want to tamper with the fortune of the dynasty against the sky. And Xu Maochun, the head of the Xu family in Qingzhou, who sold his reputation and reputation, secretly planned the conspiracy to get rid of Lord Shen in order to flatter the royal family. ”

Shen Zhu clenched the "Approach Deed" in his hand, and said hatefully: "If it's flattering, it's too ugly to eat!" They secretly manipulated and instructed people to frame my father as a demon and burn him alive in the street. said that my mother was blinded by witchcraft, and asked the sorcerer to exorcise evil spirits for my mother, what kind of exorcism? Was...... Let her be humiliated to death by the mad sorcerer......"

He coughed violently, blood oozing from the corners of his mouth.

Lu Zhiming got up and pressed the back of his heart, and said slowly: "Calm down." ”

Shen Zhu punched the case, "If you are not fair, you will scream, the blood feud tragedy, how to calm down!" ”

Lu Zhiming said: "Xu Maochun secretly killed your father, the court actually knew it in his heart, but he didn't buy it, and the emperor issued an edict to posthumously seal your father as a green word order." The Xu clan in Qingzhou withered rapidly in just a few years, and only one vein survived. Xu Maochun died violently, his descendants withered, and the third generation only had one granddaughter, and there was no male in the family. Qingzhou Xu's family has received the retribution they deserve. ”

Shen Zhu closed his eyes, and the tragic situation of his father and mother before his death was still in front of him......

Lu Zhiming continued: "Xu Yu's father may have also participated in that conspiracy back then, but at that time, she was a girl who was less than ten years old, and she lived with her grandmother in a rural farm before she was ten years old, and she didn't know anything about the conspiracy planned in secret. She didn't know that it was her family who had conspired to kill Ling Zun Lingtang. She has borne enough of her father's sins over the years. You...... It's time to let her go. ”

Shen Zhu opened his eyes, and he looked at his hands, full of bitterness.

"You said that my father was begging for his own death, so why did he borrow the hand of the Xu family in Qingzhou?"

"I guessed that at that time, Mr. Shen calculated that the Xu family in Qingzhou would produce a strange woman, who was extremely noble and noble, but she was a lonely person, and she might subvert the two worlds of temples and rivers and lakes in the future. Poop"