The bamboo forest on a summer night is quiet and peaceful, even if the occasional wind rustles, it also makes people feel comfortable and comfortable.

Chen Luo's eager footsteps slowly stopped.

I like begonia flowers, so how beautiful it looks is also a part of it?

Chen Luo returned home and stood in front of the mirror for the first time in his life to carefully examine his appearance.

The eyes are indeed bright, the bridge of the nose is also high, and the corners of the mouth are tightly pursed, which looks a little serious. If there is any difference, it is that he looks more symmetrical than others, the left and right sides are exactly the same, like a seal.

Isn't that pretty?

Chen Luo is not a person who will carefully look at his appearance, and the more he looks, the more he feels that the appearance in the mirror is a little strange, not what he remembers.

In his memory, he was good-looking, often praised by his elders and the ladies around him, white and fat, immature and lovely, innocent and lively, but now, there is only indifference and tiredness between his eyebrows, indifference and faintly suppressed violence.

When did he become like this?

Chen Luo didn't want to see the self in the mirror again.

He turned to lie down on the bed, and what caught his eye was the big red woven gold auspicious cloud flower sachet hanging in the corner of the top of the shelf bed.

On the long tassel fell an emerald green bead, like a flower bead nailed on Wang Xi's horse-faced skirt.

Does Wang Xi also think he looks good?

He remembered that she was holding a clairvoyant mirror, lying on the rockery top pavilion to watch him dance the sword.

Chen Luo could even imagine the look of admiration on her face as he took to the air.

He sat up sharply.

Wrong!

Wang Xi: She lied.

The pavilion on the top of the rockery in the back garden of the Yongcheng Marquis Mansion, even if he is holding a clairvoyant mirror, it is impossible to see clearly how he is dancing with a sword in the bamboo forest.

Otherwise, the back garden of the Yongcheng Marquis Mansion would not be so simple and uninhabitable.

He still remembered that when he was a child, those girls liked to play in the back garden of the Yongcheng Hou Mansion the most, just thinking that he could see Lu Mingxuan, where he lived.

Later, everyone found that they could only see the gray roof of the eaves covered by a jungle, and then they slowly stopped thinking about the back garden of the Yongcheng Marquis Mansion.

Is Wang Xi lying to him and comforting him?

Chen Luo walked around the house, feeling like a cat was scratching, and he couldn't calm down for a moment.

That Wang Xi said that he looked good, but he was also lying to him!

A voice in his head was saying that Wang Xi was not that kind of person, she was so reckless and didn't tease him, there was no need to do this; Another voice was saying that she was like that. The mouth of a merchant, a deceitful ghost. Although she is not a businessman, she is influenced by her family, and she comes with nonsense, which is completely family style. When they were together, she coaxed him a lot.

Don't think he doesn't know.

I don't know how nice it sounds, but my eyes are bright, and I am not at all confused.

Chen Luo thought about it and began to feel irritated.

Did Wang Xi secretly watch him practice swords?

Chen Luo pushed open the window.

The moon is like a silver plate, hanging high in the sky, illuminating the courtyard bright and open, hosta flowers are clustered, the petals are more white, blocking the bluestone next to the flower bowl.

Chen Luo's heart was shocked.

How could he forget that if Wang Xi was lying on the wall under the willow tree where he often met him, he could not only see him dancing his sword, but even what color clothes he was wearing.

If there was another clairvoyant......

"It's stupid!" Chen Luo paced back and forth in the house, muttering and scolding himself, "I know that she doesn't have a word of truth in her mouth, how can I still believe that she saw herself in the pavilion on the rockery top of the back garden of the Yongcheng Marquis Mansion!" She clearly found it in the yard where she lived. Maybe I found it when I was leaning on the wall and peeking......"

Thinking of this, Chen Luo's body stiffened and stopped.

If this is the case, then, the person who peeped at him in the Yongcheng Marquis's Mansion, was shot by him with an arrow, and also inserted a knife to warn, is Wang Xi!

"It's so stupid!" Chen Luo muttered and scolded himself, and sat down on the Luohan bed without any image.

That's why Wang Xi appeared at his mother's birthday banquet, so the nine-ring big knife disappeared inexplicably, so they met in the grove.

They all felt that they owed her a favor.

She clearly did bad things and got good!

This Wang Xi!

Chen Luo gritted his teeth.

Dare to draw his knife and demonstrate to him!

See how he cleans her up.

Chen Luo thought about it, thinking that it should be a very simple matter to clean up Wang Xi. But when he thought about it, his mind was blank, and he didn't know how to clean her up.

Beat must not be beaten, little girl's house, what kind of skill is he, not to mention the stone lock that can carry thirty stones in one hand, even if he pushes her gently, it is estimated that she can't stand it. When a man beats a woman, he is too cowardly, and he is not a character.

scolded, said that the friendship between the two was going to be broken. It's a shallow one...... He thought about her little mouth, and when she was fine, she could talk to herself, let alone when something happened.

He may not be able to speak of her.

Chen Luo remembered Wang Xi's mouth.

Ruddy and shiny, the corners of the mouth are always gently upturned, like a water chestnut, and as soon as he speaks, he reveals neat and white glutinous rice teeth.

That's really beautiful!

Chen Luo thought about it, his face was hot inexplicably, and he panicked in his heart.

I actually dreamed at night.

The dream was bizarre, and when I woke up, I didn't know what I dreamed of, only the feeling of warm fragrance and jade, the ambiguous and ambiguous atmosphere and a sticky and fishy body at the bottom of my pants.

He hasn't been like this in years?

Chen Luo got up with a cold face, and it wasn't until he had breakfast and sat down in front of the bookcase in the yamen duty room that he remembered that yesterday he handed over a sign and was about to enter the palace to see the emperor.

But until now, he hasn't thought about what to say when he sees the emperor? What to say? Which ones must be asked? Which ones can't be touched at all.

Moreover, he hadn't figured out how to deal with Wang Xi yet.

Chen Luo felt that his face was slightly hot.

Wang Xi, Wang Xi, morning dew is not shi. Xi means dawn and dawn. Does her family want her to have a bright future like the dawn? Or, she just happened to be born at dawn.

Probably not!

Her eldest brother's name is "Chen", what is her second brother's name? "Dawn"? She can rank words like the boys in the family, and the elders in the family not only have high hopes for her, but also definitely like her and dote on her. Otherwise, she wouldn't have developed a character that seems to be cautious, but in fact she is not afraid of anything......

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When Ma San walked into the duty room of Tengxiang Zuowei, he saw Chen Luo wearing a bright red woven gold troll, sitting upright on the Taishi chair, staring at the pen holder with different lengths of brushes on the table in a daze.

He was stunned.

The emperor's nephew was still a little brilliant in his early years, but in recent years, he has become more and more shrewd and introverted, and his seven emotions and six desires are not on his face, which makes people unable to see through what they are thinking. When such emotions were exposed, he hadn't seen them for a long time.

It's a little nostalgic when you think about it.

Ma San sighed in his heart, thinking about the emperor's intention to let him come back, he suddenly felt that these children were also quite pitiful, enjoying the wealth of the sky, and he didn't know when he would have to suffer from what no one else had ever seen.

He straightened his clothes, coughed softly, and showed a kind, deferential, and humble smile that had become his physical instinct, and shouted "My Excellency" in a voice that was neither high nor low.

Chen Luo raised his eyelids and saw Ma San.

His heart rolled like thunder.

Ma San was the emperor's real confidant, and he was supposed to be supervising the army in southern Fujian at this time, but he suddenly appeared in his yamen.

Still when he had already sent someone to watch the emperor's every move, Ma San didn't know when he would return to the capital, and suddenly appeared in the palace.

What is the emperor going to do?

His eyes shrank, but his face showed just the right amount of surprise at the right time, and said, "Third father-in-law, when will you return to the capital?" Why didn't I hear the wind at all? You're so elusive! ”

Ma San squinted his eyes and smiled, but did not answer.

Can he say that this is the emperor's arrangement?

Chen Luo knew it, of course he didn't have to answer, but got up and walked over with a bit of intimacy and enthusiasm, and said, "Sit down!" A few days ago, I blackmailed some good West Lake Longjing from Master Su, and you can try my tea-making skills today. ”

At critical times, he had already learned to be patient. Ma San didn't say anything, he could pretend not to know.

It was Ma San who took the initiative to find him, and it was not he who took the initiative to find Ma San.

Ma San really didn't go around in circles with him, and quickly explained his intention: "Ouch, this can't be helped, how can you make me tea in person?" Our family is still under the emperor's order - the emperor asked you to go to the imperial study to speak. When you come out of the emperor's place, we will find another time to have a good cup of tea. ”

The emperor's mandate is supreme.

Chen Luo smiled and went to the imperial study with Ma San, but he quickly thought about what he should say when he saw the emperor? Should he behave like a straightforward kid? Or should you behave like a steady courtier?

It is impossible for the emperor to really want to make the eldest prince the crown prince.

Although the biological mother of the eldest prince is the emperor's wife, after the emperor ascended the throne, he posthumously crowned the biological mother of the eldest prince as a concubine instead of the queen of the Yuan.

Since ancient times, the inheritance of the family business has been particular about the "elder", and the elder is before the elder.

This is also the reason why the identity of the eldest prince is controversial, and he cannot justifiably fight for his status.

The emperor now directly pushed the eldest prince out, instead of posthumously sealing his biological mother first, not like he wanted to correct his name, but as if he wanted to block the knife.

I don't know what the eldest prince thinks in his heart?

Chen Luo thought, his footsteps sluggish.

How did he forget this stubble.

To say that the emperor cheated him, but the eldest prince was cheated even worse.

As the saying goes, the enemy of the enemy is the friend, did he forget the eldest prince, should he ask the eldest prince what he means first?

Chen Luo smiled slightly, and followed Ma San into the imperial study.

The emperor is about fifty years old, well-maintained, he used to look no more than thirty years, in the past six months, heart diseases have been frequent, and he looks twenty years old all of a sudden, showing the decadence and twilight of a man of this age.

Chen Luo saluted him, he nodded, said "You are here", and asked the eunuch serving beside him to bring a chair to Chen Luo, and said, "Sit down and talk!" ”

The emperor is still the same as usual, and he treats Chen Ya casually with a bit of intimacy.