Taiqing Pond is the soup pool of the East Palace bathing, the hot spring water from Yuquan Mountain, all year round is bubbling and bubbling, and the eight veins of the strange meridian can be opened up after a few days of soaking.

Zhao Xixing, who came back from Jixiangpu, sat in this pool, leaned against the white jade wall, and stared at the painting on the shore with an easel to be edicted: "Okay?" ”

"Back to Your Highness, it's coming, it's coming!" Although the hot spring pool was warm, the painter wiped a cold sweat, and the hand holding the pen was trembling.

The East Palace is tired of false tricks, especially the kind of face-mounting, so it rarely imitates the ancestors of the Heavenly Family to paint portraits of themselves. Sometimes I have to do it for the needs of the scene, and my face can be like the king of Hades, and I am so unhappy.

Now it is the first time that the East Palace has taken the initiative to summon portraits, and the Hanlin Academy has exploded after receiving the order, and has selected the most top-notch painter.

According to the servant Douxi in the East Palace, how wise and martial arts came. Although I don't understand why the place of the portrait is in the soup pool, but reading that it is estimated to be the test of the East Palace, I am naturally full of energy, and I tried my best to draw the East Palace in the water vapor into a god under the clouds.

"Your Highness, paint, paint." The painting was carefully presented to the edict, looking forward to the reaction of the East Palace.

The hot spring pool was steaming, and behind the white fog curtain, the jade-colored man frowned, just a small arc, but he was so frightened that he knelt on the ground.

Bang, a clear sound. The scroll was thrown on the shore of the white jade pond.

Zhao Xixing's faint voice floated from the vapor: "...... Have you ever seen someone bathing and dressing? ”

Of course not. The painting waited for the edict to muttered in his heart.

But he didn't dare to answer like this, raised his eyes and glanced at the man in the soup pool, the jade color exposed on the water surface was really a white jade chiseled like a ghostly axe, and the lines were all compared with a ruler.

Pretty.

It's just a pity that it hasn't been lit yet.

The painting waiter hurriedly retracted his gaze, settled his mind, and tentatively said: "If you paint truthfully, Your Highness is bathing...... I'm afraid, I'm afraid it will damage your dignity...... If it is preached, it will lose the prestige of heaven......"

"You just draw as it is." Zhao Xixing answered, the sound of the water moved slightly, and it seemed that he had gone up a few inches of water.

Painting the edict with a bitter face, holding back a sweat, painting truthfully? It is not allowed to draw some palace pictures in Hualiu Lane. Not to mention what the saint is planning, as a court painter, he will not die.

"The main hall is for one person only. So it doesn't matter...... Despite the truthful drawing. Zhao Xixing coughed lightly twice, and after the water vapor, it seemed that the roots of his ears were also a little red.

The painting was not resistant, so I had to re-polish the ink, and painted the most "thrilling" painting in half my life.

"You come, this temple has something for you to do." Zhao Xixing turned his head sideways to call Douxi, half covered his mouth, and his voice was very low, for fear that someone would hear it, "After the painting is finished, find a reliable person and send it to Jiangnan urgently for eight hundred miles." Don't make a noise, if you let others know, you will have your head! ”

"Send ...... To whom? "Douxi was steamed in the hot spring pool.

Whoosh, Zhao Xixing glanced at him, as cold as ice slag.

Douxi shuddered and came back to his senses. He hurriedly responded, but his heart exploded, is the mind contained in this painting too obvious? It's really teaching people to blush and convincing.

I don't know what I learned from that book, and the tricks are getting more and more clever.

In October, the frost is frozen, the north wind is yellow and the leaves are Xiaoxiao, and the chrysanthemums in the flower and tree garden are blooming lively, and the courtyard is full of golden armor.

Somewhere in a cellar. Xiao Zhan played with a small golden stone hammer and smiled faintly: "Chen Su, Fox Shangshu, give the hall a quasi-word." ”

Chen Su knelt in front of him, glanced at Yun Fu behind Xiao Zhan, who was pierced by iron chains, and his tone was a little unstable: "What do the lords want?" Foolish ...... Lord! ”

The conversation turned into an exclamation. Xiao Zhan turned around suddenly, and the small golden stone hammer in his hand hit Yun Fu's calf bone hard, with a tooth-sore muffled sound, Yun Fu shuddered, and he didn't even squeak out his voice.

Yunfu had passed out. His hands were hung in chains, he sat in the thatched haystack with his back against the wall, his legs were bloody from the knee down, the scars were smashed, and the broken bones were poked horizontally under the skin, and even the skin was pushed down, which was unbearable to look at.

"I heard that you have a high regard for this woman. Yes, it is not easy to find a woman with a similar body shape to her. It's called Yunfu, right? It's a good chess piece. Xiao Zhan looked at the blood dripping down the tip of the little hammer expressionlessly, and said, "It's just that if you still want to continue to use this chess piece, and don't want her to die here today, it's best not to pretend to be confused." ”

Chen Su looked at the woman whose face was like gold paper, her lips were blue, and she had only breathed out but not in, and cold sweat broke out on her forehead: "Lord...... She will be a stand-in for Empress Mingde, and she has been cultivated with great difficulty...... If it is ruined, it will be ...... to your great cause."

"The teacher is famous, a crown prince of the former dynasty is enough, the queen of the former dynasty is just the icing on the cake, there is the best, and it doesn't hurt if you don't have it." Xiao Zhan shrugged, it didn't matter.

Chen Su gritted his teeth and rattled, thousands of thoughts passed in his mind, although the gaze that fell on the woman was a little unbearable, but he chose to be silent in the end.

"It's not enough, right, okay, add another one." Xiao Zhan sneered, "Your background is very clear in this hall. There is a five-tomb society in the front of the main hall, and the sons and sons of various official families at that time are gathered, and there are a lot of anecdotes between famous families...... Including Chen Yougui. ”

Chen Su's pupils shrank.

Xiao Zhan looked at his reaction, this treacherous and cunning fox Shangshu was finally held seven inches, and he smiled with satisfaction: "Your real name is Yao Su, in order to have enough to eat, you were tricked into Chen's mansion by Chen Yougui and became Chen Yougui's gadget...... Ten years, ten years in the dead of night, a child was crushed by the devil and dragged to hell...... If you don't comply, the whip will break the skin and flesh......"

"Don't talk about it!!"

Chen Su let out a sharp shout, frightened, out of shape, helpless, and in a hurry.

is no longer the scheming and scheming fox in front of the world, but a wandering spirit of the world who has been unsheathed, returning from hell in the wind and rain, stained with blood and resentment.

Xiao Zhan's smile became stronger, and he didn't plan to let him go, and continued: "Just to eat a full meal, a bowl of white rice, and live a life like ten years...... Later, you killed Chen Yougui with your own hands, and was appreciated by Li Zhong, the head of the inner chamberlain, and rose step by step, and the official was still a scholar, and this kind of filthy background was covered up......"

"Say no more! I told you to stop talking!! Shut up!!! ”

Chen Su screamed frantically, rushed up and grabbed Xiao Zhan's clothes, his eyes were red and his face was pale, as if every word he heard was tearing his eardrums, alive.

Xiao Zhan looked directly at him and smiled like a ghost: "You say, if I spread these things to the world and spread them vividly, especially among the party members in the south...... Soon, everyone will know that Fox Shangshu Chen Su was once the ...... of the Chen Mansion."

"I promise you! Anything goes!! Please don't, don't spread it......"

The piercing screams turned into feeble pleas, and it was hard to imagine that the word "please" would come out of the mouth of Chen Su, a traitor who was powerful in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.

Tick. It was blood, pouring out of his ears, desperately trying to forget, like a knife, that cut his eardrums.

Xiao Zhan brushed away the hand that grabbed his broken thread, tidied up his clothes, and said lightly: "Very good, everyone take a step back, everyone is happy." The requirements of this hall are very simple: a showdown with Xue Gaoyan as soon as possible. ”

Chen Su slumped down softly, sat on the thatch, and muttered in a daze: "You know all ......"

"You seem to be following Xue Gaoyan, but in fact, you are secretly rebellious, your own little abacus has been played for a few years, and Xue Gaoyan is still in the dark." Xiao Zhan nodded, and shook his head again, "Is it because of Xue Gaoyan's kindness to you?" has kept you hidden it for so many years, and you still maintain superficial work with him. ”

After a pause, Xiao Zhan smiled again and added: "If this is part of your plan, this is impossible." As the date of the incident approaches, all directions converge, and Xue Gaoyan's prestige rises, and the more you get to the back, the worse you will have a showdown. You, Chen Su, are not that stupid. ”

This time, Chen Su was silent, and he himself despised the subconscious answer in his heart.

Because it's the same kind of people. It seems absurd, but it is the reason for every hesitation.

Chen Su raised his head in a trance and looked at Xiao Zhan's abyss-like eyes: "If the minister and Xue Gaoyan have a showdown, who will His Highness choose?" ”

"Nature is the winner."

Xiao Zhan smiled and left a word, then brushed the door away, and his back was instantly obliterated by the night.

The division is famous, the name is justified, the blood in his bones is the strongest hole card, he never came to join the southern party, but them, to follow him.

He will not allow the people below to have their own abacus, he will only allow the snipe and the clam to compete, and he is a fisherman.

History took away the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the Xiao family, and his father, but it left him an instinct that he didn't need to learn: power, which even he didn't know about, a gift from a dynasty.