"Is it that the people don't need it? Or is it not needed by the imperial court? Su Zhen turned his back and walked backwards, looking at his eyes seriously, "Lord Yu, you have also beheaded corrupt officials and killed evil officials, you are dedicated to the people, and you are praised as a clean official by the people." But you have decided so many cases, there should be times when you are weak. ”

"What about you? You don't like the court either, so why do you have to rush in? ”

"Huh? What do adults say? Su Zhen's movements paused slightly.

"When the emperor appointed you as the young secretary of the Captain's Mansion, why did you agree?"

"Because the old man promised me not to kneel to anyone! also sealed me a six-grade Shaoqing! If you have a cheap advantage, you don't take advantage of the bastard, and I'm not a fool, why don't you agree? ”

Listening to her tone of course, Jin Lian laughed, and Yu Changqing chose to be silent, "Since you have chosen this path, it will be difficult to turn back." ”

"Look back on this kind of thing...... It's not on my radar. ”

Su Zhen wanted to laugh in her heart, and the two stubborn donkeys were actually discussing in the palace how to survive in the court where dragons and snakes were mixed.

......

After leaving the palace, they parted ways.

When Su Tingye returned home, she left a carriage, and Mo Sheng was sitting in front of the carriage with a sword in his arms and waiting, and the two were relatively speechless.

She lifted the curtain of the carriage and sat on the carriage with neat movements, and Mo Sheng raised the whip rope in her hand, and fell on the horse's back with a 'snap', and the carriage moved forward, and the sound of the wheels rolling gradually faded away.

After returning to Taifu's Mansion, Su Zhen went to the study to explain Li Jieyu's affairs to Su Tingye, and then went back to Jinsexuan.

Along the way, she kept thinking about what Yu Changqing said, and considered whether she should be more low-key and restrained.

Su Zhen shook her head in disbelief and said to Mo Sheng, "I'll go out, you go and send someone to check Li Jieyu's background to see if she has any secrets." ”

"Okay."

Su Zhen looked around, waited for the guards patrolling the mansion to leave, and went directly over the wall.

A dark shadow flew by under the moonlight, and when Su Hao came to the General's Mansion, she found many spies. She thought she had a good heart, so she knocked them all out and threw them in the back alley.

The familiar ones walked around the general's mansion a few times, but they didn't find Xiao Chuhong, so they remembered something and came to the Xiao family ancestral hall.

Su Hao hid in a tree, crossed her fingers together in front of her eyes, and used perspective to look inside the door, where everything was in full view.

The ancestral hall of the Xiao family is about four or five stories high, and as far as the eye can see, the brown and black tablets are densely placed, and the people who look at them are dazzled.

There are twelve caves directly below, and the first seven are placed in a stone statue of a two-person tall general, with a strong body and different shapes.

The Xiao family has been loyal and good generals for generations, but only those with extraordinary military achievements can set up stone statues for them.

In the wide Ming Hall, Xiao Chuhong straightened his waist and knelt on the futon, looking at the seventh general statue, tears flashing in his eyes.

The ancestral hall was silent, and only the slight sound of his breathing could be heard.

Xiao Chuhong suddenly lowered his head, the jade pendant on his waist was slightly hot, and he immediately jumped back and sat back on the wooden wheelchair behind him.

As soon as he left the ancestral hall, the guards immediately closed the gate.

After a few words of instruction to the close guard, he glanced at the tree where Su Hao was, and pushed the wheelchair in a certain direction alone.

Su Zhen, who had been discovered, pulled down the branch in her hand and looked at his back through the gap between the branches and leaves.

Inside Shu Yaxuan, the leaves rustled, and Xiao Chuhong smiled and threw the fruit in a certain direction, but this time there was no sound of landing.

Su Zhen leaned her back against the branch, drooping her legs, and smiled lazily.

I caught the bright red fruit and wiped it with my sleeve, and took a bite directly, it was crisp and delicious, and it was not bad.

Xiao Chuhong picked up the wine jug, poured the two silver wine glasses until they were eight points full, and said straight to the point, "Here we are." ”

Su Hao jumped down from the tree and flew to him, "Well, here it is. ”

They obviously don't have much intersection, and even the number of times they meet is only a handful, but when they meet face to face, they are very familiar with each other and don't have any strangeness.

Su Zhen was not polite to him, and sat down on the stone bench.

Suddenly, the tip of the nose sniffed, so familiar with the fragrance of peach blossoms, picked up the wine glass and smelled it, it turned out to be peach blossom brew.

"Yo? Peach blossom stuffing? General, you didn't think you had this for me, did you? ”

Su Zhen asked with a casual smile, but Xiao Chuhong replied very seriously, "Yes." ”

"And what if I don't come tonight?"

"Listening to the housekeeper, there has been less fruit in Shu Yaxuan recently. Whenever you're in a bad mood, you'll come here. ”

"Huh? How do you know? ”

Xiao Chuhong chuckled, "After three years of filial piety for my father, I returned to Kyoto, and I was just a stand-in on the Tianshan Mountains." ”

In other words, he knows everything Su Zhen has done over the years, including Ji Yuefang's things related to Su Zhen and Yu Ziye.

It's just that he was selfish and didn't inform the prince, and even sent someone to relieve Su Zhen of a lot of troubles and hidden dangers.

"So you were the one who saved me that night?"

"Hmm."

Su Zhen's eyes were clear, and it turned out that the person who had been secretly guarding her all these years was Xiao Chuhong. She silently accepted his affection, but somehow, she didn't want to make it clear.

"You are hiding and refusing to show your true face, but you are actually doing things for the prince? Did you find any clues about Marshal Xiao's case? ”

"It's coming."

Xiao Chuhong wanted to raise a glass to drink again, but Su Hao gently pulled his sleeve, "Don't drink, you should have drunk a lot at the palace banquet today." ”

He stared at her, and suddenly reached out his bony hand and reached for the top of her head.

Su Zhen was stunned, and looked back, those eyes were like a cold pool, washing away the dark night, and she clearly heard her own violent heartbeat.

However, seeing that he pinched a green leaf from between her hair with his two fingers, Su Zhen touched the tip of her nose, smiled awkwardly and staggered her gaze, and drank the peach blossom brew in the cup to avoid embarrassment.

"By the way, although my ability to hide my tracks is not top-notch, it is not easy to be discovered. But you were in the ancestral hall just now, how did you know that I was here? ”

"Maybe it's me and Zhen Zhen."

Su Zhen let out a disgusted 'pout' and rubbed her arms numbly.

Xiao Chuhong took out a black slender wooden box from his sleeve and put it on the stone table, Su Zhen wondered, "What is this?" ”

"Thank you."

"Huh?! What thanksgiving? ”

"The prince of the trick trial has already told me the details, if you don't intervene, Yun Shu is afraid that it will be difficult to escape."

"So the three of you are really in this group." Su Zhen sneered, "But you don't have to thank me for Dong Lijun, his crush is my sister, and it is natural for me to fulfill my sister's wish." ”

"Sister? Hi is born with the hairpin spirit with heaven and earth, and your generation seems to be a little different? ”

Su Hao ate the fruit and changed the topic, "The prince's mouth is really not reliable. ”

"The prince was too reckless at the palace banquet today, I thought you would go to the Hou Mansion to see him first."

Su Hao's smile disappeared, "He's not in the Hou Mansion." ”