Hundreds of thousands of houses are distributed like a game of Go, and twelve avenues run through them. At sunrise, people came and went at the city gate, and the major government offices outside the palace on Zhengfu Street gradually became angry because of the successive appointments of officials.

At three o'clock, there was a banquet of laughter and laughter in the small Qing Pavilion in the red column. It has become an unwritten rule that the people who can be called Qing are generally male waiters and only serve male guests.

"That Zhu family boy, said that he was preparing for the next year's scientific examination, haha, he must be painting spring flowers with a pen!" The man drank a glass of wine with others, "Just that little hobby, we don't know him yet?" ”

"Hey, Brother Guo said carefully." Yun Yang, who was sitting on the side, reminded.

When the queen mother of the dynasty is surnamed Zhu, and Zhu Chang, the sister-in-law of the third room of the Zhu family mentioned by the two, comes from the same clan, for Zhu Chang, he can be called the queen mother Zhu Qian's aunt.

Originally, there was nothing to quit mentioning the Zhu family in the chat, but in the past few days, there has been a lot of uproar in the palace and outside the palace for the health of the queen mother, and too much attention has been paid to the imperial city.

But the general trend has not gone, and even the Feng family has only been released, and Feng Bingwen's status as a medical officer has not yet been fully expressed.

On the cusp of such storms, it is better to be cautious.

Today's friends gossip with each other, and tomorrow in the eyes of others, it is easy to call it "the Queen Mother's mother's house." ”

The man who spoke first didn't seem to care much, but he still casually threw a silver ingot into the arms of a guy next to him, and the corners of the guy's mouth that poured the wine flew up, "Childe is really happy to make a move, the little one just came over, and he didn't pay attention to anything." ”

"Yesterday, a girl was robbed on the street!" A few people in the hall shouted loudly

"Why is this being said everywhere, and this trend is popular in Shengjing City now?" A man said.

A strong man with strong limbs slapped the table and said indignantly in an impassioned tone, "The prince of Sa Guogong has his back pillowing mountains and rivers, how dare he Zhou Xucheng fall into wine!" ”

"Black second, you're drunk! Don't die! ”

"What! I just can't get used to seeing this kind of brocade-clothed and high-crowned boy brother in the capital, well-dressed beasts! ”

In a word, the heroic young men present all subconsciously glanced at themselves, and many of them suddenly lost their demeanor, and their indignant scolding was mixed with a lot of gentle and polite reasoning

……

"It's been clarified outside, he is arresting people for questioning, the officials of Dali Temple, Your Majesty hasn't expressed his position yet, it's not our turn to speak."

"But, this arrest will catch people, hehe, why did you catch yourself in your own house."

"I heard that it was yesterday when Zhou Shizi happened to get out of the government, and he was in a hurry, so he just brought it back to the house......

"Who's that girl?"

"Song Zhixi, the girl of the Song Imperial Historian, has long been spread outside, and you don't even know it." The man chuckled and said, "But it's really funny, my own girl was robbed, and no one in the Song Mansion came forward to ask for anyone, and no one made trouble, what happened to Song Yushi, who has always been high-spirited?" ”

"Could it be that Miss Song really made a big mistake, and there was a handle in the hands of Zhou Shizi, so the people of the Song family swallowed their anger?"

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"Haha, what are you thinking about, maybe Song Yushi is planning to be ruthless, and he is writing a long speech in the mansion, planning to personally enter the court this morning to impeach Dali Siqing!"

"Hahaha, let's just watch the excitement and it's not a big deal!"

……

Song Zhixi took the carriage of Dingyuan Mansion early in the morning and returned home in a low-key manner.

Although she never recognizes the bed when she sleeps, it is the first time that she has rashly stayed overnight in a man's house.

She wishes a Ming banquet, she is knowledgeable in her bones, and the family's strict upbringing has been integrated into her blood, but in her temperament, she is still a girl as big as Song Zhixi.

After a whole night, she was in turmoil, and she had to think about how to give her father a proper explanation when she went home, and her brain hurt more and more.

When she saw him again in the morning, she would inevitably think of all the contacts she had done yesterday, and that feeling of helplessness came back to her heart, making her a little unable to face it.

Fortunately, after returning home, she found that her father Song Yuan was not in the house, and he had already prepared the wording, which was useless at the moment.

It's just that, instead of seeing the panicked and suspicious looks of the servants as expected, when she just went back to her room and sat down, she gathered around and asked her with interest how she felt.

What kind of ecstasy soup did Zhou Xucheng's guards pour into them? And these hands have reached out to the house!

"Girl, tell me to the servants, what was the situation at that time, what kind of feeling was it?!" Panzhu pulled the silent Panjin, delicate and authentic.

"At that time...... It was quite sudden. Song Zhixi replied nonchalantly.

Pan Jin glanced at the maids who came up, "Didn't I describe it to you, the girl didn't call at the time, if it was you who were taken captive, Zhun Bao would be so frightened that he cried and called his mother!" ”

Song Zhixi shook his head slightly, smiled and did not interrupt her words.

She was also panicked at the time, but because she had already expected to be questioned, and now that she understood what he was doing, she had some confidence.

However, it should be done safely by hiding people's eyes and ears...... Kidnapping people in broad daylight, she never expected it.

In the afternoon of this day, she slept for a while, not like the trance in a dream, but the memory was instantly clear.

As a banquet for Zhu Ming, she seemed to have returned to the past again, without the joy of going back to her roots and seeing her loved ones again, but with long tears wetting the pillow towel.

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Eighteen years of Jinkang.

That night, the Xianqi Gate was in flames.

I don't know where the fire came, but it was lit in the middle of the night, and no one was spared, and the crying and screaming were all over the sky, and the places that touched the eyes were either dead or wounded.

"Skyfire." The sound of vicissitudes sounded.

At the end of the word, the crowd ceased to cry, and their faces were resolute and confused.

It's here after all.

In a small courtyard, a female lady choked on ash and sat against the wall in embarrassment, the burning sensation on her body tormented her, and she couldn't move. In the light of the fire, her face was gray and bruised, and her tears and dust were mixed together, making it almost impossible to see her face.

Crying came from the side, "Miss, don't be afraid. ”

Tan Zhi trembled and spread out a small piece of paper packet and put a lactose into Nu'e's mouth, saying that she was persuaded not to cry, but she was already crying depressed and desperate.

Zhu Mingyan held her lips and smiled, she thought it was another grandmother's joke, but when she came back to her senses and found that something was wrong, her father and grandmother were gone. She burst into tears in an instant, holding the sugar cubes melted by the warmth, and the taste of such a discordant sweetness stimulated the painful nerves.

She closed her eyes and remembered her father's blessing.

"Ah Yan, what a coincidence, it's the turn of our generation." Zhu Ming once said to her, "For hundreds of years, nature has been unbalanced, the way of heaven is slight, and resentment has been excessive. ”

"This is a warning, we wish our family too comfort, it's time to make a decision. This is a good thing, according to the rules that have been passed down from generation to generation, we only need to wish one person in the family to be able to adjust the balance. ”

"This is what everyone expects and what thousands of living beings expect."

"At that time, the heavens hit me." Zhu Ming said, as if recalling the prayer ceremony presided over by the Zhu family back then, and still sighing at the grand occasion.

As soon as the sound of music surged up, all of a sudden the officials worshipped, the royal family came to show their reverence for heaven and earth, all the people set up feasts and worship, and the incense ashes fell all over the altar.

I wish the children and grandchildren of the family a good day.

"Coincidentally, that was the day of your birth," he smiled, "but you must remember that it is our mission, the root of our family's prosperity, and the morality of our ancestors." ”

The screams pierced the pretense of happiness.

"Zhu Ming, don't go! I don't allow, I don't have a father, what else do I want these unrelated people to do! ”

The man in front of him suddenly had tears in his eyes, and rebuked her with hatred, "Evil animal! What are you saying that is very rebellious! Have you learned the truth and education in vain for more than ten years! Is it worthy of the cultivation of the Zhu family? ”

She couldn't cry, she naturally understood that great love and great kindness create all living beings, and the foundation of a hundred blessings is only in one thought.

But she didn't want to.

It was a few days later when I fainted and woke up in the firelight.

"There has been a change, this heavenly fire has disappeared strangely, and it is not a process like the ancestors recorded."

"Any instructions left?"

"According to the records in our dossier, there should be something, but after inspection, we didn't find any changes after the heavenly fire."

The patriarchs of the clan elders deliberated on the discontinued appearance in the ancestral hall.

And she just sat at the dresser in the boudoir, looking at the person in the mirror.

She tried to close her eyes, and as soon as she opened them again, a half-lotus-shaped spirit seal appeared in front of her full forehead, glowing slightly.

She was a little surprised.

That's it, maybe the fire was another farce of the Zhu family, but the defeat didn't deceive her halfway and had to end in disgrace.

After she persuaded herself, she smiled, stretched out her plain hand to catch the light, and a half-drawn talisman in her hand turned to ashes in an instant.