Chapter 66: The New Overseer
Chen Tongsheng slowly approached the fire scene in a panicked shout, because he smelled a familiar smell, he subconsciously twitched his nose and sniffed. But when she smelled this, she didn't smell anything, and Fan Rui came over to stop her: "Miss Chen! ”
Chen Tongsheng suddenly turned his head as if he was awakened, glanced at Fan Rui who was worried, and then turned his gaze to the restaurant.
Song Chuanbai just stood at the window and looked down, because of the backlight, his face was obscure, and he could only see the tall figure wrapped in a circle by the light. He was not moved by the flames, nor was he moved by the corpse in the fire, as if he had completely forgotten his gentle words when facing Zhou Mingze.
Chen Tongsheng turned around and rushed upstairs, stepped on it loudly, and said, "You left Fan Rui here, just to let him prepare for this fire!" ”
Song Chuan propped himself up on the window with his white hands, and when he heard the words, he said, "It makes sense." ”
"Since you have been ready to let him die a long time ago, why do you still lie to him?" Chen Tongsheng asked, "Why do you still talk like that?" ”
"Which one?"
Chen Tongsheng couldn't understand: "Since you wanted him to die a long time ago, why didn't you let me do it directly?" Why pick up, pick up paper lamps? Why did he show a relieved expression when he knew that the person who hanged himself was not Zhou Mingze?! ”
Song Chuanbai said unexpectedly: "It turns out that tonight's attention is not on the corpse, not on the person with strange whereabouts, not on the search for the crown prince, but on me?" ”
Obviously, he didn't have any thoughts, but when he said it like this, Chen Tongsheng actually had an embarrassing feeling of being broken, and he immediately shut up, and all his doubts and resentment were blocked.
Song Chuanbai chased after him, showed a knowing smile, and said, "Go and rest, don't think so much." ”
He left the window, but heard Chen Tongsheng stammer, and whispered, "You, why...... To tell that, that story......"
He stopped suddenly, his face pale even in the warm yellow light. Song Chuanbai looked ahead, not looking at her, but he could already hear his displeasure: "Are you trying to question me why do you have to make a move?" Forcing you to kill a child-like monster makes you feel bad? ”
Chen Tongsheng couldn't argue: "I ......"
Song Chuanbai waited for her to speak, but when it happened, she couldn't tell anything. Both of them knew, so Chen Tongsheng simply stopped.
"Zhou Mingze is dead," Song Chuanbai said, "Aren't you very clear?" You know in your heart, but you just can't accept it. You can punish the guilty, and you will be blamed for the guilt clearly, and you will not hesitate to do so. But you don't want to think about the disasters caused by innocent people, and you don't want to think deeply about the interlocking events. How many incidents has the name of the crown prince caused and how many innocent people have been involved...... It hasn't stopped until now. ”
Fang Ming's motives are strange from beginning to end, it is difficult to distinguish between truth and falsehood, what she wants to leave is not what she can leave her. When the corpse is handed over to him, and there is another accident, you can find out what is true and what is false, figure out why it is true and false, and then explain it? Who will listen to you? Your Majesty? Song Chuanbai said slowly: "You don't need to do anything wrong at all, just a little slack, and you will lose the opportunity." ”
Chen Tongsheng's throat seemed to be clogged with something, she swallowed hard, and said in a dry voice: "I want to know...... I want to know, why does Master Hou want to tell that, that story? ”
"I'll talk about it when I think about it, what?"
"Hou Ye said, I also told the crown prince, I talked about it......"
Song Chuan turned his head away and said: "I also talked to Song Zhilan, Yansha, and Hualou's top brand, after all, this is a secret story back then, and the rumor that the dragon was the murderer killed the queen is very interesting." What's wrong with this? ”
Chen Tongsheng didn't let himself follow his words, and continued: "That's why it triggered the desire of the emperor, the crown prince, to go to the northwest. ”
He finally frowned and looked at Chen Tongsheng, and heard her say, "Maybe you are here, scared......"
"Your Majesty, I doubt Lord Hou, maybe it's because Lord Hou didn't gain complete trust back then." Chen Tongsheng said: "So Zhou Ming is dead, so, wrong." Will Hou Ye think that it is because he mentioned it himself and provided bad guidance? Queen Fang's story, it doesn't matter who you tell it, it's just that when Hou Ye tells it, will he think of Zhou Mingze? ”
"Perhaps, just, nostalgia," she said. ”
After all, Song Chuanbai was dead when he died.
The candlelight jumped, and there was no dust cover, so a gust of wind blew the candle flame crookedly, pulling up Song Chuanbai's shadow and swaying, left and right things, left and right things.
"What do you want to do with all this?" After half a ring, Song Chuanbai finally said: "Instead of thinking about these shadowless things, it's better to think about what to do after returning to Beijing." Fang Heming was reluctant to expose you to partisan rivalry in Kyoto, but Fang Ming reminded me that many people should already know about you by now. ”
Chen Tongsheng showed a hint of confusion, and Song Chuanbai continued: "It is also possible that the empress will summon you directly. ”
"Why, see me?"
She is not a person with status and status, at best, she is a disciple of the master, how can He De be summoned by the emperor, is it just because she follows Song Chuanbai to do things? She didn't do anything, did she?
Song Chuanbai said: "Do you know who the current overseer is?" ”
She didn't know anything about that.
"Your senior brother, Ruan Cheng."
Chen Tongsheng raised his eyes in surprise, and Song Chuanbai said slowly: "Your Majesty personally appointed the new governor, and when he was summoned, he asked about personal matters, saying that most of the secret guards could not start a family, and could only watch others marry their own children, and dedicate themselves to protecting the safety of Kyoto and even the Great Zhou, which is really amazing. So His Majesty suddenly felt pity for his courtier, and asked him if he had a favorite candidate, if so, even if he could marry him, it could be described as double happiness. Guess who he said. ”
Chen Tongsheng's heart tightened: "It's not me." ”
"It's you."
"Ruan Du said, I have a childhood sweetheart and a junior sister from the same dark department, the two have a deep friendship, and they can be described as the best candidate for a good person, so I told you about it."
Chen Tongsheng's eyes almost went dark.
Where does she have a deep friendship with Ruan Cheng? No, the two of them are still competent, and Ruan Cheng is not wrong in this regard, but what is the connection between friendship and marriage?
What's more, Ruan Cheng's move was completely against Fang Heming's wishes!
"So ......" Song Chuanbai said: "Your Majesty is very considerate of your favorite courtier, and immediately ordered a marriage, but was persuaded by Ruan Cheng and did not make a written document. But Ruan Cheng was able to run to propose marriage openly because of this. ”
Chen Tongsheng listened and found a little doubt about time, Song Chuanbai said: "So they found my Hou Mansion from the Chen family, and I refused." ”
"Then, I came to Licheng."
"Yes," Song Chuanbai was not ashamed to conceal that when he was still in Kyoto, Ruan Cheng had been appointed as the governor and asked for marriage, and reverted to his appearance of not entering, "Your Majesty is very interested in you, and I must meet your junior sister." ”
Chen Tongsheng's inexplicable touching and lamentation were torn apart by Song Chuanbai's words, and the calculated surprise emerged: "You, why are you ......?"
Why are you cheating me so much?
Why do you have to push me in front of the empress?
What's going on with Ruan Cheng?
Song Chuanbai is also quite a hooligan, and if he didn't succeed in changing the topic, he used this kind of news to smash people's heads and faces, and successfully smashed Chen Tongsheng into a daze, and he took the opportunity to get out.
After Chen Tongsheng realized that he had been distracted, he would not chase him out again.
Song Chuanbai was naturally in one place like Fan Ruiche, and she lived alone in this room with a couch. After all, Song Chuanbai left her in the room at the beginning, just to "kill" Zhou Mingze with her skills.
Chen Tongsheng was a little frustrated, and she felt that she couldn't see clearly again.
Her intuition has always been very accurate, without Song Chuanbai's logical and meticulous inferences, she can guess many things by feeling.
Chen Tongsheng really felt abnormal emotions when Song Chuanbai faced Zhou Mingze, and she slowly weaved a truth from those words that could explain the cause and effect, but Song Chuanbai said that she was thinking messily.
And she didn't believe that Song Chuan Bai Zhen told this story to Song Zhilan, and even the top brand of Hualou. On the contrary, it was Zhou Ming who reminded him of this story, the rumors of the Fang family's dragon, and the arrogant Empress Fang Ling.
Chen Tongsheng didn't know what kind of mood Song Chuanbai was in to talk about this matter with the crown prince back then, but Zhou Ming must have liked it very much. If I like this story and like him, I will tell him my child's wishes, and I will say that "the lotus lantern will float to the heavenly river and float to my father's hands". And Song Chuanbai gave the promise of asylum. At that time, Song Chuanbai was soft-hearted to the crown prince Zhou Mingze, and later Zhou Ming died without intention, but the body could not be found in the mausoleum, and it was impossible for the empress to say that she did not suspect him and avoided him.
But what she didn't understand was why Song Chuanbai was still coaxing Zhou Mingze one moment, and the next moment he gave a categorical order to kill him.
Weighing the pros and cons seems to him to be just a matter of blink of an eye, and he doesn't even need the slightest hesitation, and he can immediately do things that are contrary to his emotions and take the best interests of it.
When Chen Tongsheng was in Puyang, he silently classified Song Chuanbai as a "good" column, and now he found that his thoughts seemed to be a little different from reality.
Song Chuanbai is in Puyang, no, it can be said that since he took Chen Tongsheng to his side, his performance has been generally mild. was very tolerant and patient with Chen Tongsheng, which caused her to ignore Song Chuanbai's original side.
He is a person who can put innocent people in prison, help the stubborn gentleman overturn the case to prove his innocence, and acquiesce to Lin Feng and the Jiajin Sect to die together. He is a person who deviated from the norm back then, disdained Gangchang, and supported women's ranking in the Ninth Five.
Song Chuanbai said that she didn't want to think about the interlocking connections behind the incident, but she was actually accusing her of being emotional and short-sighted.
In order to make waves with his intentions, sacrificing a few lives for it is a very common thing for Yang and Hou.
It turns out that even if he clearly understands right and wrong, good and evil, and can clearly perceive wrong, it will not stop him from continuing to do it.
Even if it is the sacrifice of innocent people's lives, even if it is against their own wishes and feelings.
Song Chuanbai is not "good" to her, his habitual tolerance and patience with the people in front of him have become his invincible mask, and it does not prevent Song Chuanbai from being the same as Ruan Cheng, going against Fang Heming's wishes, and directly pushing her in front of the empress.
That's not a good thing.
Chen Tongsheng sat on the couch and couldn't think of a reason at all. No one told her why, no one revealed even the slightest bit of conjecture about her, she was in the Yang and Hou Mansion, Ruan Cheng came to visit, she didn't know it, and thought she was not imprisoned.
The reason why she was wary of Song Chuanbai at the beginning finally slowly returned to her head at this time.
That was what Fang Heming had said a long time ago, and it was invisibly revealed, keeping a distance towards Song Chuanbai.
And it only took a few months for Song Chuanbai to let her lose all her defenses, thinking that he was a person like the second master.