"Ahh Bruch suddenly called me out of the blue, while I was in a daze.

I came back to my senses and smiled when I saw Si'er's crooked bandage tied on Boru's chest: "This girl's hands are dexterous only when cooking, and other times they are not as good as a man." I'll do the wound bandage! ”

"No, she's pretty well tied." Boru looked at Si'er and said apologetically.

Si'er covered his mouth and smiled down, leaned into my ear and whispered, "He's really a good old man." After speaking, he got up and walked to Wuxie's side and kicked, "Little wolf cub, go, roast meat for you to eat!" ”

The two of them, together with Childe and the snow monkey, walked out in a hurry. I bandaged Berlu's wounds, put on my clothes, got up and said, "It's cold, you rest for a while, and I'll let the guards come in with two stoves." ”

"Ahh

"What's wrong? What else do you need? ”

Bolu glanced at me and said, "Don't tell my father about the eldest brother!" ”

I know! I knew he would say that! What Zhao Mengli's idea is, he may know it in his heart!

I threw my head back and let out a long sullen breath, and returned to Berlu's bed: "Do you want to tell me that if he wants your throne, you will give it to him?" ”

"He is very good at writing and martial arts, and he is very good at everything. He...... Afford the future of the Zhao family. ”

"But there's something wrong with him!" I pointed to Berlu's chest, "His heart is black, he wants to kill you today, and tomorrow he will not tolerate you as the son of the world." Besides, this matter is not so simple, if I don't tell the minister now, maybe in ten days, the secretary of the Jin Kingdom will have to be replaced! ”

"How so?" Beru was surprised.

"How not! My good son, you should listen to Hongyun'er more in the future, he will never harm you. I helped Bolu lie down and pulled the quilt for him, and said earnestly, "Don't say that you can't make the decision on this matter, even if it's up to you to decide, think about it, if he becomes the son of the world and the sect master, the first one will definitely kill you first, and then Hongyun'er, as well as your eldest son Zhou'er, and maybe Bo Huan, are you willing to let them all die with you?" ”

Boru's face was red, his breath was short, and he spit out a sentence that surprised me in the middle of the night: "But I don't want my eldest brother to die, when I fell into the water when I was six years old, he saved me, and I owe him a life!" ”

Zhao Mengli saved Bolu?! What kind of thing is this?

"My eldest brother is two years older than me, his mother died early, and he has been with me and Bo Ying since he was a child. When I was six years old, I fell into a pond in my backyard in the winter, and it was he who jumped in and saved me, almost killing myself. ”

I reached out and pressed my forehead with emotion. When I was a child, I didn't know the difference between my concubines and my sisters, and I was not tempted by power, so I loved each other, and when I saw my younger brother fall into the water, my brother jumped into the ice water to save people. When I grew up, I learned etiquette, and I knew that there was a difference between my concubines and my concubines, and I was humble and orderly, but I had to do everything possible to plot in secret, plotting how to kill this younger brother who took everything.

"He's not going to die, I don't have any evidence in my hands, it's all just my guess. This time you gave him back your life, next time think about the people you care about, and stop doing such reckless things! ”

There are some things in this world that you know but can't say, because you are too timid and afraid of getting caught on fire.

I haven't figured out Zhao Ying's temperament yet, if I run to him now: "Hey, Prime Minister Qing, your eldest son wants to kill your eldest son!" "This is undoubtedly self-defeating, he is trying to kill me, and I can't blame him. But this poisoning incident involves the Jin Guozhi clan, and the matter is very serious, and I can't help but tell him. The only option left is to let someone else do the talking. This person couldn't be Zhao Wuxian, because Zhao Ying would doubt his intentions. This person must be someone who convinces Zhao Ying, and he has no direct stake in the sons of the Zhao family. Thinking about it, there is no second suitable candidate other than Shi Mo.

That night, I carried a yarn lantern and marched into Shi Mo's courtyard at night.

In the small courtyard, the yellow wooden paste yarn pushed the door wide open, and Shi Mo was sitting under the eaves with his eyes closed. As if he had expected me to come, he specially laid out a long pile of white felt beside him, and placed a small table beside the table, on which was a small stove with a charcoal fire and a pot of fragrant nine brews that had just been hot.

"How did Master know that I would come tonight?" I rubbed my frozen hands, took off my moccasin boots, and sat down beside him.

Shi Mo slowly opened his eyes and poured me a glass of hot wine: "If you come to me for the matter of the eldest son of the Zhao family, drink this glass of wine and go back!" Earlier, Wuxian had already come to me, and I had already told the prime minister about it. ”

"He's already here? What did he say? "I took a big sip of wine from my ears, and the hot nine cups burned my tongue in my mouth, but it was extremely warm to my stomach, and I only took a sip to dissipate most of the cold air around me.

"What he wants me to say is naturally the same as what you are going to say. This time, Zhao Mengli couldn't go. ”

This red cloud is also too fast!

"And what is the reason for him?" I stretched out my hands reddened from the cold and asked as I roasted the fire.

Shi Mo frowned and looked me up and down, and said with a deep face: "Go into the house and bring the deer fur that is the teacher!" ”

"No!" I was anxious to listen to the reason why Wuxian suppressed Zhao Mengli, so I got up and rushed into the house, took the deer fur, and hurriedly rushed out again, and put it on Shi Mo's back. Shi Mo glared back at me, pulled off his coat and stuffed it into my arms: "Put it on!" Don't freeze out and make a mess! ”

"Huh?" I hugged the deer fur and looked down at myself, I was in a hurry to come out tonight, and I forgot to wear a jacket robe, no wonder it was so cold all the way.

I wrapped my coat and sat down again, and Shi Mo said slowly: "Wuxian told the old man that he had verified that the guard beside Gongzi who apologized for his crimes had received the favor of the Zhi family in his early years, and the little maid who delivered the water also had his own sister as a maid in the Zhi Mansion, although he could not confirm that the Zhi family was directly involved, but the eldest son Meng Li was very likely to become the handle of the Zhi family's attack on the Zhao family. Therefore, Zhao Mengli can't go to this sacrifice. ”

"What did the prime minister say?"

"The prime minister has decided to bring Wu Xi with him for this ceremony."

"Really?!"

"You're happy for him?"

"That's nature, Hong Yun'er is kind, intelligent, affectionate and righteous, more than a hundred times stronger than the eldest son Zhao Mengli. The prime minister should have seen his goodness a long time ago. "I don't hide my joy in the slightest.

"Kind and intelligent, affectionate and righteous? Little girl, the Zhao Wuxian you know, and I know it, I'm afraid it's not a person! Shi Mo took the long-handled jade shell-shaped spoon on the desk and poured himself a cup of hot wine, and then spread out his hand, "Can you bring what I want?" ”

I looked stunned, and hurriedly took out the two-headed finch from my arms and handed it to Shi Mo: "This is what the master wants, and I also ask the master to keep the promise he made to the disciple that day." ”

On the second day of studying astrology with Yin Gao, Shi Mo knew the vision of my eyes. He came to see me in Yin Gao's courtyard that night, and his tone and expression were quite strange. After that, he took me as an apprentice, and I took the opportunity to ask him about my background. But he asked me to find a two-headed bird that he had given to his master, and to exchange it for everything he knew about me.

Shi Mo took the bird and held it tightly in his palm, his expression was nervous and hesitant, and his originally calm and calm eyes began to become a little chaotic. I was about to open my mouth to reassure him, but he suddenly put the pottery bird on the desk and smashed the bird that had haunted him for thirty years.

"Master! You ......"

Shi Mo's right hand was covered with broken pottery shards, but he couldn't hear me, his eyelids drooped, and there were two bones on his emaciated, sunken cheeks that bulged high from his clenched teeth. In the pile of broken pottery shards was a slender white silk cloth, on which the ink seemed to be written. Shi Mo picked up the strip of cloth with his old and withered hand and glanced at it, and with just one glance, there was an indescribable bitterness in the shadow under his eyes. The miserable color was like a layer of black mist that instantly crawled all over his depressed face, engulfing the last bit of his pride.

Whose handwriting is on the strip of white silk? What really happened between the three of them more than thirty years ago? I can't guess the story of the master, and now that the deceased has passed away, the secret behind this is only known to Shi Mo.

"Master......" I wanted to reach out to check Shi Mo's injured right hand, he clenched his five fingers and squeezed the white cloth into his palm: "Zi Di, can you promise to do something for the teacher?" Shi Mo supported the case with his hands, barely supporting his back.

"Listen to me, disciple."

"After I am a hundred years old, let people bury me in the bamboo forest! Next to your master's tomb is under the carved bamboo...... Don't let them bury me next to the cemetery, I don't want to serve anyone anymore when I die. Shi Mo's voice was hoarse due to choking, my throat tightened, and I straightened my body and kowtowed: "Disciple respectfully!" ”

"Well, since you gave me what I want, what do you want to know, you can ask!"

A light snow fell in the sad middle of the night, and the sparse snowflakes flew obliquely into the eaves of the house in the cold wind of the winter night, and landed in front of the steps, in the cold liquor. Shi Mo and Yi sat upright, I took off the close-fitting jade ring from my neck and put it in front of him, he glanced at it slightly and said: "This is the jade pendant of the fox clan, according to legend, it is the fox of the prince of Zhou, it was originally a group wearing yin and yang double rings, this is one of the rings." ”

"Does the fox clan have a legend of blue eyes under the moon?" I asked lightly.

Shi Mo looked at a bamboo cultivation with ice flowers in the courtyard, and said slowly: "More than a hundred years ago, the fief of the fox clan was in the dog Rong, and the sect leader Hu Tu once married a foreign woman with blue eyes. Ji Ji was born with heavy ears and double pupils, and was the Duke of Jin State. In the next hundred years, there were two more women with different eye colors in the fox family, but they both died early. This line has moved to the north of Xianyu since 70 years ago, and there are no descendants in the Jin Kingdom. ”