Seeing Jianye City from afar, I was really excited, finally came back, thirty miles away from the city, the lord of the country came to greet the triumphant heroes with cultural relics, we all got off the horse to pay homage to the lord, the lord of the country was overjoyed, and took the hand of Prince De and said: "Uncle Wang is in Sheji, and Lone has prepared a banquet to celebrate Uncle Wang." "When I entered the city with the army, I accidentally sensed someone watching me from a small restaurant on the left side of the royal road, but I didn't feel any malice.

After the celebration banquet, I took Chen Zhi to hurry back to the residence, this attack on Shu, I got a lot of rewards, so I have already decided to buy another house in the suburbs, anyway, Prince De also promised to help me be accommodating, allow me to recuperate at home, I don't have to live in the city so restricted, before I come back, Xiao Shunzi has followed Wang Hai back first, he has already chosen a house for me, paid, and got the deed. Last night, he met me at the inn and told me the location of the house. Chen Zhi and I searched according to the map, and it didn't take long to find the house. It was an elegant and quiet little farmstead, with all the pavilions and pavilions, and Xiao Shunzi had hired a few servants to keep the top and bottom spotless.

After I bathed and changed, I went to the study, where Xiao Shunzi had already put my books in, I picked up a historical record and read it, at this time, Chen Zhi walked in, and reported: "My lord, someone is asking to see outside, I was stunned, I just moved here, and I haven't registered with the Ministry of Officials, how can anyone come to visit me." ”

Seeing that I was confused, Chen Zhi explained: "When the adult came back, it was a hired carriage, and after the coachman returned, someone asked the adult's residence. I thought to myself, the car and boat shop teeth, if you catch it, you should be killed, and sure enough, I said while thinking: "What about the post? ”

Chen Zhi sent the post with both hands, and frankly speaking, although Chen Zhi was obedient, I always felt that he didn't think much of me, but since I forced the King of Shu to death with one word, his expression has changed, and he will be respectful to me. I took the post and opened it, there were three words written on it, and I hurriedly asked, "Is that person still there?" ”

Chen Zhi replied, "The villain has already asked them to wait in the gatehouse. I hurriedly said, "Let them come in, no, I'll go and meet them myself." With that, I hurriedly rushed out, and when I arrived at the gatehouse, I saw a scholar in Tsing Yi, wearing a dark cloak covering his whole body, wearing a black gauze hat, and he couldn't see her appearance clearly, but just looking at her figure and demeanor, I ignored the two maids disguised as scholars beside him, rushed over and held his hands, and shouted: "You are here, are you watching me upstairs today?" ”

A maid said coldly: "Since the champion prince went on the expedition, my young lady has been restless in sleep, and she won't even go to the painting boat. ”

I held back the joy in my heart, held Liu Piaoxiang's slender hand, and said, "I know, I know, you also like me." ”

Liu Piaoxiang took off the hat, revealing a pale and haggard face, I stayed for a while, stepped forward to hug her, and said: "Qing treats me like this, and I can't repay the beauty for my kindness." ”

Liu Piaoxiang said lightly: "After you set out on the expedition, I was restless at night, always worried about your safety, and now I was relieved to see you come back triumphantly, I shouldn't have come to see you, but I always wanted to ask you in person how you were." ”

I said gratefully, "Actually, I want to see you, but I always think that you may not want to see me." ”

The maid smiled and said, "Okay, don't be sour, the slave is going to die of exhaustion." ”

Liu Piaoxiang and I looked at each other and smiled, I helped Piaoxiang and walked in, those two maids, naturally someone took care of them.

Late at night, I looked at Liu Piaoxiang's lazy sleeping posture, got up and took a pen and paper, and the pen was like flowing water, at this time, Liu Piaoxiang woke up, walked over, hugged me from behind, and said with a smile: "Champion is writing poetry again." ”

I glanced at her affectionately, wrapped my arms around her waist, and held her in my lap so that she could see my new work.

She pulled up her hair and picked up the manuscript of the poem, but it was a poem "Queqiao Immortal", and she read in a low voice: "The clouds are clever, the flying stars spread hatred, and the silver man is dark." As soon as Jinfeng Yulu meets, it will win and there are countless people in the world. Tenderness is like water, the best period is like a dream, and you can endure the return of the Magpie Bridge. If the two love for a long time, how can they be there, morning and twilight? ”

"Ahh She whispered, and then looked at me with fiery eyes, how could I withstand such temptation, and carried her to the bed, and pestered Mian all night. When I got up the next day, the beautiful woman was gone, and I thought bitterly, is she still not going to marry me, but she is no longer taking customers, doesn't she want to marry me? Then I saw a small poem on the desk that was particularly freshly inked.

"Spring is a tour, apricot blossoms are blowing all over the head, and the young man is full of wind. The concubine plans to marry her, even if she is ruthlessly abandoned, she can't be ashamed. ”

I knelt on the ground with great gratitude and prayed, "God willing, Piaoxiang is really willing to marry me." ”

What innocence, what a name, if a strange woman like Piaoxiang can marry me, it is my luck, think about it, Piaoxiang will not be a woman who likes fame, fortune and power, and will not like a stable life too much, and when I find a way to leave Nanchu, I will take her to travel the world, let her see the scenery of the four seas, accompanied by beauties, travel the world, such a child is just a fairy, and when we are both tired, we will stay in a place with charming scenery for the rest of our lives, what a beautiful prospect it should be.

I hurried to the ministry, and learned that the lord of the country had issued an edict to promote me to a first-class official position, I was already a Hanlin servant, and the lord of the country had agreed that I was temporarily recuperating at home, after completing all kinds of paperwork, I happily ran to a jewelry store, looked at it for a long time, did not like the jewelry, the fragrance is used to all kinds of jewelry, how can I like these vulgar things, and then I designed the appearance myself, let them create a gold hairpin for me, a gold bracelet, they looked at my design drawing, asked to use this style, But I refused, this is what I want to give to Piaoxiang, how can they be imitated. But I promised to give them the other two blueprints, and it doesn't matter if you make money anyway, as long as you don't get it out. They were very happy and said that although my design needs to be made by a famous artist, it will definitely not miss my deadline.

No wonder they are so solemn, my golden hairpin is not an ordinary crested hairpin, but a real phoenix hairpin, the upper end of the tassel hanging down by the phoenix, there must be three three-point diameter crystal round pearls, the real South China Sea pearls full of treasure. Gold hairpin, silver beads, emerald green tassels, eye-catching degree is conceivable, the most amazing thing is that I require each bead to be carved by a famous craftsman a phoenix, small as millet, lifelike, located on the side of the bead hole, if not carefully observed, not easy to find. The golden hairpin itself, the hanging ring of the phoenix mouth is the so-called ring bead spinning ball type, which can rotate in any eight directions, such a beautiful golden hairpin, it is hard to find a thousand gold, if it were not for Zhao Jue privately gave me a large reward, how could I have this financial resources.

As for the bracelet, my design is that the main body of the bracelet is wound by more than a dozen delicate gold wires in a spiral way, the gold wire is irregularly cast with bells, and the place of the interface is a lotus flower, and each bell is also carved with a lotus pattern, which is my praise for the fragrance, telling her that in my heart, she is still a lotus flower that comes out of the mud and is not stained.

I was busy for most of the day, and it was almost at night that I took Chen Zhi home proudly, and when I arrived at the door, I saw the fragrant maid crying in front of me, I was stunned, and somehow a cold chill came out of my heart, and after a long time, I heard me ask in a stiff voice: "What happened?" ”

The maid cried: "Miss is very happy to go back this morning, ready to dismiss the slave maid, marry someone from Liang, who knows that Yan Niang sent someone to say, there are distinguished guests to see Miss, Miss does not follow, saying that she will never see a guest again, but Yan Niang said, the person who came is too big, please Miss help, Miss wants to take care of us very much over the years, just see it, perfunctory it, wait until Miss is good, you can justifiably refuse." Who knows, who knows, the young lady will never come back. At dusk today, someone suddenly sent the body of the young lady back, saying that the young lady died of a sudden illness......"

Hearing this, I screamed and fell to the ground, and immediately fainted. When I woke up and saw Xiao Shunzi's anxious face, I pulled him and asked, "How can this be, how can Piaoxiang die?" ”

Xiao Shunzi said gloomily: "I brought back Miss Liu's body, carefully examined the body, Miss Liu was raped, with feminine internal force to break the heart and die, although it was cleaned and covered up, but the scars of the lower body and the traces of internal force can't hide from me." ”

I closed my eyes in pain, if Piaoxiang wasn't there to keep a festival for me, why bother, and I continued to ask, "Who killed her?" ”

Xiao Shunzi said: "I have already checked, Yan Niang said that Liang Wan sent someone to say that there was a distinguished guest who wanted to see Miss Liu, Yan Niang thought that Liang Wan would not embarrass Miss Liu, and Dayong's distinguished guest did not dare to offend, so she forced Miss Liu to go." I have already visited Mingyue Tower, and I didn't see any distinguished guests, but I arrested one of their subordinates and tortured them, knowing that Miss Liu was indeed killed in Mingyue Tower, if I am not mistaken, it may be Liang Wan's hand, I tried to sneak attack her, and her internal strength is consistent with Miss Liu's injury. ”

I said miserably: "Liang Wan, good, good." Xiao Shunzi, help me to meet Piaoxiang. ”

I went to a side room, and in the coffin there was a fragrant corpse, and I looked at her lifelike face, with a look of anger and regret, and began to cry, she was really dead, and my beloved woman, the woman I was going to marry, was killed like this.

"Liang Wan!" I cried out in pain.

The next day, I was numb like a walking corpse, after burying the fragrance, and then, I was really sick, this disease was half a year, and the root of the disease left in Shu recurred, and later, I began to re-practice the qigong of health preservation, and gradually the sick body improved, and the appearance recovered, but it was always with a little sadness.

Soon after my illness, I heard that Prince De Zhao Jue was given by the lord of the country, and he was allowed to go to the palace with a sword, and he was undefeated, no wonder, Prince De was originally Uncle Wang, and he was the governor of the capital, and at this moment it was really unsealable, I insisted on writing a letter, let Chen Zhi send it to Zhao Jue, not long after, Zhao Jue resigned, saying that he was originally Uncle Wang, and his status was already very honorable, and there was no need to continue to reward, if the lord felt that it would be unfortunate to lose the dignity of the country, he asked the lord to reward more land and gold silk, and the lord of the country was really happy, and the reward was very generous. After a while, Prince De invited himself to guard Jingxiang, and the lord of the country was gladly granted.

Before Zhao Jue, the prince of De, came to Jingxiang to guard the town, he once came to see me, saw that I was seriously ill, and specially told the Tai Hospital to treat me, and later he also sent medicines and supplements many times in Xiangyang. However, Xiao Shunzi said that Zhao Jue sent someone to pay attention to my actions, don't worry about him, anyway, I am recuperating in bed every day, he will not pay attention to the movements of other people around me, as for Xiao Shunzi's whereabouts, not everyone can find out now.

One thing is very worrying to me, the lord of the country originally wanted to restore the emperor's name, but the ministers all admonished that now just Pingshu, the loss of troops is very large, or wait for a while, the lord of the country was very unhappy, and then received a letter from the king of Qi before giving up, since then the lord of the country said that the night is obsessed with wine, especially infatuated with a group of female music from Shu, accompanied by a group of literati and ink writers, drinking and having fun, composing poems and lyrics, and also from Shu to get the famous calligraphy and painting classics into the Chongwen Palace, in addition to this point is more appreciative of me, The others are all done by the faint king, and he also handed over the government affairs to the prime minister Shang Weijun to deal with, saying that there is an uncle Wang outside, and there is a prime minister Shang inside, and he can feast and drink alone, driven by the lord of the country, many courtiers are also more and more indulgent, I sent someone to collect their poems, all of which are glamorous, which is really miserable.

Nanchu is so drunk and dreaming of death, Dayong is not happy, the news of King Yong's intention to stand on his own reached the ears of the prince Li An, Li An personally went to Emperor Yongdi Li Yuan to cry, Li Yuan Zhao back to King Yong, put him idle, the king of Yong stayed in Chang'an for half a year, restless, and was assassinated several times. Soon after I heard the news, a mysterious person visited my residence, he was in the dust, claiming to be the guard of King Yong, I took the letter of King Yong, which said that he is now carrying slander, and there is a ** related to my strategy, I promised to serve him at the beginning, this matter has nothing to do with Nanchu, please ask me how to protect myself. I smiled slightly bitterly, His Royal Highness King Yong will really use all his strength, after thinking about it, I replied to a letter to him, for safety, I wrote a line with my left hand, without looking up and paying off

"If you want to take the first, there is a strong enemy outside, and you don't have to worry about trouble inside."

King Yong is really smart, and then I heard that when Emperor Yongdi summoned a banquet, King Yong's Li Zhen's wine was poisoned, Li Zhen vomited blood after drinking, if it weren't for the doctor Saint Sanchen happened to be in Chang'an, I was afraid that Li Zhen was dead, because at this time Emperor Yongdi was furious, implicated in a wide range, Li An only relented, and soon after, I heard that the Northern Han Koubian, Li Zhen immediately wrote a letter to ask to resist the Northern Han, and sure enough, it was approved, and Emperor Yongdi also wanted to temporarily separate their brothers, so that they could calm down. I know this news, smiled faintly, this is a double win for me, King Yong and the Northern Han Dynasty must have several years of confrontation, the prince Li An has mastered the military needs, and he will inevitably embarrass Li Zhen in every possible way, so that he can contain Dayong, so that he has no time to look south, if I take revenge in the future, I have King Yong as a backer, as long as I am clever, no one will come to embarrass me.

When I was sick, Xiao Shunzi personally investigated, and finally told me that if you want to kill Liang Wan, he can take advantage of the gap to assassinate, but I refused, although Liang Wan's crime is unforgivable, but there is another person who killed Piaoxiang, let Liang Wan pimp for it, in addition to the troubles, this person's identity must be very special, Liang Wan absolutely refuses to reveal, I know that this woman is as beautiful as a peach and plum, but poisonous as a snake and scorpion, I just caught her, and I can't let her obediently say who the murderer is, I must put her in a situation where she can't be blind to death, to force her to tell the truth, so you can't kill her now.

Liang Wan is indeed vicious, after Piaoxiang's death, in order to hide people's eyes, I didn't make a noise, just let Yanniang quietly bury her, and then signaled Chen Zhi to give her part of Piaoxiang's savings, and the rest were distributed to Piaoxiang's maids, and arranged for them to leave Jianye and live elsewhere, these I secretly contacted Yanniang through Chen Zhi, Yanniang knew that Piaoxiang had a lover, but she didn't know that it was me, but she was naturally happy to see me so generous, and after she dealt with everything, Liang Wan's killer really arrived, and Liang Wan sent someone to spy on Yanniang, Seeing that she handled it in an orderly manner, she didn't rush to start, and when the matter was over, she sent someone to kill Yanniang, I don't think she sent someone to deal with Chen Zhen, and I made sure that Piaoxiang didn't reveal that she was about to get married. Xiao Shunzi secretly followed Liang Wan's killer, and saw him report to Liang Wan with his own eyes that all clues had been cut off, and those fragrant maids had already gone away, which was a better way for Liang Wan to deal with it.

When I heard Xiao Shunzi say this, I took a deep breath, Liang Wan, you really deserve to die, no matter what your identity background is, I must have no place for you to die.

After a while, my condition gradually improved, and one night, I set up an incense table in the back garden to worship incense. Thinking of the two loves, I couldn't help but be broken, and silently prayed: "Qing and I fell in love at first sight, knew each other and loved each other, who knew that there were unforeseen circumstances in the sky, Qing suffered and fell, the jade beads sank, the shadow was not left, and the residual incense was hard to find. ”

After praying, I picked up a brocade box on the incense case, which was the gold hairpin and bracelet that I originally wanted to give to Piaoxiang, seeing things and thinking about people, more melancholy, there was a jade ring in the brocade box, which was specially found out by Piaoxiang who was killed, saying that it was to be given to me, Piaoxiang other jewelry, I gave it to her maid, only this ring I kept, this ring was originally bought by Piaoxiang herself, I liked its turquoise color and clear texture at the time, but it was a little bigger, and it couldn't be worn, so it has been left in the dressing box. I wear the ring on my middle finger, it is a relic of my beloved. There were also two poems in the brocade box, I took them out and read "The concubine intends to marry her, even if she is ruthlessly abandoned, she can't be ashamed." Finally, I burst into tears.

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