Zhang Mengtan bowed and sat down in front of him, and the little maid knelt down and put five painted long-necked pots on the table: "This is the five kinds of wine brewed by the Qingge girl in the workshop, 'Bailu', 'Apricot Period', 'Drunken Xi', 'Fuyao', 'Pear Blossom Spring', and all guests can taste it." Today's day is hot, this bowl is a fruit drink to relieve the heat, and the berry juice is mixed with sake. ”

"I'll do it." Zhang Mengtan knew that Zhao Wuxian never touched sweet wine, so he brought the fruit drink in the little maid's hand to him. Unexpectedly, Zhao Wuxian took the big bowl of sweet drinks away again for the first time.

"It's a little hot today, so it's okay to taste it, it's not intoxicating, it's quite thirst-quenching." Zhang Mengtan was a little surprised.

Zhao Wuxian took the wine bowl but didn't drink it, only lowered his head and sniffed the smell and put it down: "Forget it, I just miss it." If you really drink it, it won't taste like that. He pushed the lilac wine bowl to Zhang Mengtan's hand, turned his head to the little maid and said, "Is your Qingge girl in a good mood today?" ”

The little maid smiled: "It's really a coincidence that the guest asked, even if Miss Qingge is in a good mood today, she won't go on stage to play the piano." ”

"Why? Can I tell her that I am looking for her? Zhang Mengtan glanced at Zhao Wuxian and asked in a low voice.

"Naturally, I told the girl. It's just that the girl has a regular customer, and every year she only comes to listen to the piano on the two days when the hibiscus flowers bloom best in the early summer garden, as long as he comes, the girl will not see any outsiders, and please forgive Gao Dongjia. ”

"Oh? There is such a gentleman in this world. It's no wonder that Miss Qingge doesn't look down on ordinary people like you and me. Zhao Wuxian raised his left eyebrow lightly, lowered his head and smiled.

Zhang Mengtan coughed lightly and said to the little maid: "It's okay, retreat." ”

"No." The little maid bowed her head and withdrew.

Zhang Mengtan straightened his face and saluted Zhao Wuxian respectfully: "Congratulations to the master of the family, it's about today." Just wait for the sound of the piano in the piano building to be together, and everything will be clear. ”

"Well, if I can kill Handan Jun Zhao Ji, my trip to Linzi will not be in vain. Meng Tan, the person my father has been looking for for ten years, and you found it in two months, and you really have a long face for me. Wuxian smiled and poured Zhang Mengtan a glass of wine.

Zhang Mengtan took a sip and replied with a smile: "Don't make fun of Meng Tan, the head of the family doesn't know if that person is Handan Jun Zhao Ji." But if so, is the head of the house planning to do something with him here? ”

"What? Afraid that I'll hurt your Qingge girl? ”

"Naturally not. It's just that Handan Jun and the Fan family and the Bank of China clan are in-laws, and in the Liuqing Rebellion, they were defeated and fled into the Qi State, and they hid for more than ten years. Now, if we can find a Handan Jun, maybe we can lead him to Fan Jiju, Zhong Xingyin and their descendants. Killing one is breaking branches, and killing a group is cutting roots. If the head of the family can settle this old grudge for Qing Xiang this time, why worry about the position of the son of the world. ”

"Killing a group is cutting roots? You're only so ruthless for me. Thinking that sixteen years ago, Handan rebelled, leading to the chaos of the six secretaries of the Jin State, Zhao Ji, Fan Ji, and Zhong Xingyin called me the Zhao clan to almost wipe out, and this revenge cannot be avenged. As for the descendants, let them be! I'm afraid that if my hands get too much blood, she will think my hands are dirty and won't hold my hands. Thinking of the person in his heart, he couldn't help but smile and touched a faded knot on his waist.

"What the head of the family said, but the girl we met in Qin Kingdom?"

"She will also come to Linzi in a few days. I want to do everything I need to do before she comes. Is the wedding dress I ordered in your rainbow weaving workshop this spring ready? ”

Zhang Mengtan shook off his uneasy mood and replied: "It's done, only the hundred pearls on the belt are missing." Mussels produce pearls, beads and beads are different, but the head of the family has to find exactly the same. I don't know how the head of the family found the eighty-four pearls, and asked me to find sixteen to catch up, Meng Tan only felt that it was more difficult than climbing to the sky and picking up the stars. In fact, a casual temperament like Sister Zhao really can't see the good intentions of the head of the family. ”

"Who told you that my wedding dress was for my eldest sister?" Zhao Wuxian poured himself a cup of "Apricot Period".

"It's not for Sister Zhao?" Zhang Mengtan was taken aback, and the sense of ominousness in his heart became more and more intense, "The head of the family prepared this wedding dress, did he want to marry that Qin girl as his wife?" How can this work? ”

"If she is willing to marry, why not?" Zhao Wuxian asked with a smile.

"I'm afraid the prime minister won't allow it."

"I wonder what you say. You and I met when we were young, what I really wanted, how have you ever seen me give up. The prince and her, I am bound to win. I'll never let go unless she refuses. Alright, the beads you can't make up are empty first, and I'll give them to you when I find them. ”

"No." Zhang Mengtan lowered his head, his face full of worry. Qin Nu, this weird Qin Nu.

The willows on the moon, but the sound of the piano on the piano tower has not yet risen. The endless sound of cicadas outside the window made Zhang Mengtan a little unable to sit still.

"Head of the family, could it be that Zhao Ji knows that we are here, so he doesn't come?"

"Hibiscus sunset, he's probably not coming today. Go and ask the people who are guarding the outside, and see what they find. ”

"No." Zhang Mengtan frowned and opened the door and left.

Zhao Wuxian glanced at the early moon hanging on the treetops, poured himself a cup of fuyao, and walked to the window.

Zhao Ji, Handan, the rebellion of Liuqing...... Sixteen years ago, he was a small slave who raised horses in the Zhao Mansion, but he almost died in that disaster. A beautiful Handan city caused chaos in the Jin Kingdom, and countless people died. Among them, it is no longer clear which is right and which is wrong. But Qing's father has hatred in his heart, and Handan Jun Zhao Ji also has hatred in his heart. It was no accident that Zhao Ji fled into the Qi State back then, the Qi people had long had the intention of seeking Jin, as long as the Jin Kingdom was in turmoil, they would take the opportunity to enter and raise the flames. If the Jin Kingdom is to be peaceful, the Qi State has to resist, and the Chen family has to defend against it.

"The master is so Yaxing, when he arrived in Linzi, he hid alone in this nephrite warm and fragrant place to taste wine and admire the moon, and he didn't call the slave family to accompany him." Lan Ji walked over to Wuxian with a small green bamboo fan and leaned her head on his shoulder softly.

"How did you know I was here?"

"Lord Xun told me."

"Oh? He's also in Linzi? I didn't see him, he found me first. Shirtless turned sideways indifferently, distancing himself from the glamorous and charming woman beside him without a trace.

Lan Ji covered her lips with a fan, and twisted her body and pressed it tightly: "Since the master has come to Linzi, why don't you send someone to tell me, if I know......"

"What are you going to do?" Wuxian looked at the delicate and angry face in front of him, and said coldly, "You are now the concubine of Chen Shizi of Qi State, and I have long had nothing to do with you." I don't want to see you here, and your husband doesn't want you to come here to see me. ”

"Master, are you still mad at me?" Lan Ji held the shirtless arm, she hadn't touched the temperature that made her heart palpitate and itch for too long, she leaned herself up, eager to immediately turn into a puddle of spring water and seep into his thin summer clothes, and stick it to his chest, so that he could no longer push himself away, "That night in Zhifu, I was confused, I did something wrong, and said angry words. I just hate her for ruining our good deeds in the Qin State and killing the Yao girl. But if the master really likes the girl, I won't embarrass her in the future. Don't be so cold to me like that, please. ”

"I've set you free."

"But I don't want to be free!"

"Lan Ji, when will you see me Zhao Wuxian to pick up the things he has discarded?" Shirtless looked down at the woman on his chest who was sobbing, he took a step back, and Lan Ji hurriedly followed with his arm.

"Let go." His pitch is neither high nor low, but it is frightening enough.

Lan Ji's face with a hard smile froze, and pain and struggle crept up the corners of her mouth little by little: "Why, I have been with you for so many years, why did you abandon me for a little girl who pretended to be a ghost?" I've done so many things for you, I've killed so many people, what has she done for you? What can she do, and what can't I do? In the past, you always said that you didn't have the heart to give, so what are you giving her now! She is only a few years younger than me, she used to have a deep affection with that Wu Feng in the Qin Kingdom, day and night, and her body is not necessarily cleaner than me! ”

"Presumptuous! Just because I put up with you doesn't mean you can be rude. Shirtless instantly pulled out his arm and pushed the door open with his big hand.

Lan Ji looked at the open door, bit her carefully traced red lips and smiled miserably, lowered her head and took out an object from the pouch on her waist and threw it at Wuxian: "This is for you." ”

"What?"

"The finger of the retainer of the Bank of China."

"What do you mean?" Shirtless opened the wooden box, which was bloodily filled with two amputated fingers, and the thin white tendons at the cut of the severed fingers were still freshly warped.

"I chopped off two fingers of Zhongxinglin, and he told me that Zhongxingyin, the sect leader of the Zhongxing clan, was hiding in Guangrao City. If the master wants to kill the Zhongxing clan, it is best to set off tonight. ”

"Zhong Xingyin is in Guangrao?"

"Yes, the old and young of the Bank of China Lin family were locked in the grass hut where the master lived when he used to practice swords, if the master doesn't believe it, he will ask in person."

"You have left Tianshu and married into the Chen Mansion, why do you still do this?" Zhao Wuxian closed the wooden box and stared thoughtfully at the strange-looking woman in the room.

"Because I want to wait for you, for you to change your mind one day."

"Then you don't have to wait."

Lan Ji stood in the cold moonlight and watched Zhao Wuxian's back disappear into the orange halo of Tingliao, she ate and laughed twice, and cried twice in a sullen manner, and then she couldn't make a sound anymore.

She was defeated, and she knew that even if she lost her life tonight, she would not be able to keep the person in front of her.

"Beauty, it's a good thing to figure it out, why be sad?" An emerald silk handkerchief was handed up from behind her back, Lan Ji turned around, and the owner of the silk handkerchief shook his head lightly, while carefully wiping the lipstick from the corner of her mouth, and said softly: "Don't worry, my people in Guangling City will not kill him." When my Chen's great cause is decided, I will definitely lock him up and give him to you. When the time comes, the man will be yours, and you will love him as you like. ”

"Chen Shizi is true to his word?"

"I never lie to women." Chen Pan smiled and gently removed the hibiscus flower that was pinched into mud in Lan Ji's hand, and then held her hand and looked at Zhongtian and Liang Yue and said, "What did you tell me before about the girl with blue eyes under the moon?" ”

"Ahh Lan Ji gritted a mouthful of silver teeth and snapped out two words like ice slag.

"Ah Shi-" Chen Pan tasted these two words carefully on his lips, and then turned back to the dark night with a smile and said, "Handan Jun, her name is Ah Shi." ”

No one responded in the darkness, and the man who had been a shadow was gone. In the cool night breeze, only a faint wisp of Jiangli incense still hung on the hibiscus branches.

Suddenly, a sad piano sound sounded in the dark piano building, and the piano sound wrapped in the wind and went straight to the clouds.

The wind is up, it's going to be windy.