Qiu Xiyin dressed up properly and took Xiujin to look for Liansheng, but Liansheng was talking to the old lady Qiu in the viewing pavilion in the front garden.

Old lady Qiu is good at feng shui gossip, often consult with Liansheng, and when he saw Qiu Xiyin coming, he smiled and said, "Yinyin is here, I am talking to Master Liansheng to go out for a walk, this kind of panic is the best time to learn to figure out the various states of human feelings."

Old lady Qiu ordered to call Qiu Bu to delay again, and a group of four people went out with the maid guards.

As soon as he went out, Qiu Xiyin found that the iron hat alley was full of people who couldn't sit still at home, and ran to the door of Qiu's mansion to shake around.

Qiu Xiyin waited for a while, and saw that the encirclement was getting bigger and bigger, so he secretly pulled Qiu Buyan's sleeve, "Brother, let's go."

Qiu Bu hesitated, Qiu Xiyin winked at him, ordered Xiu Jin to say two words, and left without delay.

Qiu Bu was inconvenient to pull and pull with her on the street, so he had to be dragged away by her.

Qiu Xiyin had no purpose, just walked forward with the wind, the wind blew more and more fiercely, but there were more and more people on the street, and all of them had the same tension and expectation on their faces, hoping that the high monk and Buddha in their hearts could make the prophecy come true, and could guide them away from calamity and out of the sea of suffering.

A drop of rain fell on his eyelashes, Qiu Xiyin looked up at the light gray sky, the dark clouds, the wind and rain were coming-

Qiu Buda said, "It's raining, let's go to the teahouse to hide."

The teahouse was full of people sheltering from the rain, and the private room had already been asked to go down, so Qiu Bu didn't delay looking at the bustling crowd in the teahouse, and then looked at the raindrops outside that were the size of soybeans and crackling on the ground, and he was in a dilemma for a while.

At this moment, a young man with a big smile on his face pushed aside the crowd and walked in front of the two, leaned over and saluted, "Uncle Qiu, the third girl Qiu, our county king is in the private room above, if the uncle and the third girl don't dislike it, please go up and take shelter from the rain."

But it was Yunhe, Qiu Buyan looked at Qiu Xiyin and nodded.

In the private room, Ning Shenzhi sat on the brocade bench next to the square table by the window, and there was a chessboard on the square table, and when he saw the two of them come in, he stood up and took two steps.

Qiu Butan and Qiu Xiyin bowed down and saluted, "I've seen King Ningjun."

Ning Shenzhi returned the salute with his fists, and Qiu Buyan said, "Disturb the county king."

"Qiu Gongzi is polite, I'm bored by myself, please take a seat."

Ning Shenzhi said and moved the two to the round table in the center of the room, and the three of them sat down separately.

Qiu is not good at words, Ning Shenzhi is even more silent, and the house suddenly fell silent, and the hustle and bustle outside and downstairs became more and more obvious.

Qiu Xiyin only felt extremely embarrassed, took a sip of tea, and said, "I don't want to meet the king of the county here, it's a coincidence."

Ning Shen said, "Unfortunately, I am uneasy, I came out for a walk, came here to shelter from the rain, presumably most of the people in this teahouse are the same as me."

Qiu Xiyin didn't expect him to say such a thing calmly, and asked tentatively, "Uneasy? Does the king of the county believe in Master Lotus Sheng? ”

"People have missed," Ning Shenzhi turned his eyes to look out the window, "This time it's not like three years ago, it's the entire Hejian Mansion that is involved, if Master Liansheng says something wrong, it's fine, but if he says the wrong time-"

Qiu stood up and saluted without hesitation, "The king of the county, I heard my father say that it was the king of the county who overrode the public opinion above the court, and advocated the relocation of the people of the entire Hejian Mansion, and now the king of the county has gathered thousands of criticisms, but what he is worried about is that Master Liansheng said the wrong time——"

He said excitedly and leaned over again, "Qiu has always had no ambitions, but he really admires the heart of the county king for the country and the people this time!" Please bow down to the king of the county."

Ning Shenzhi, "......"

Wait, why didn't he know that Yinyin's brother was still such a hot-blooded young man?

Ning Shenzhi glanced at Qiu Xiyin, who was also shocked, coughed embarrassedly, and got up to help Qiu without delay, "Master Qiu is too famous, Ning is just doing what he should do."

Qiu Butan was even more excited, "Doing what you should do, it's easy to say, in today's status as the king of the county, it must be difficult to do!"

The king of the county can rest assured, although there are people in this world who are only for their own selfish interests, but there will definitely be more people who know the sincerity of the king of the county, no matter whether what Master Liansheng said can be fulfilled or not, no one in the world will blame the king of the county, let alone the people of the river! ”

Ning Shenzhi, "......"

Can you really represent Hejian, and even the people of the world don't blame me?

Ning Shenzhi didn't dare to say anything, and he didn't hesitate to take a deep seat before he sat down.

Qiu Xiyin coughed embarrassedly, Qiu Buyan seemed to have come back to his senses a little, his face was slightly red, and he said, "I saw that the king of the county was playing chess, and I was not good at chess, but the third sister was quite good at this, why don't you let the third sister accompany the king of the county to play a few games?" ”

Qiu Xiyin couldn't help but look at him sideways, could it be that Qiu Bu Tan was Qiu Bu Tan's nature, he was just deceived by his indifferent appearance, and he didn't see the essence of his good luck with the horse?

Ning Shenzhi looked at Qiu Xiyin, "I don't know what the third girl thinks?" ”

Qiu Xiyin had no choice but to get up and salute, "The king of the county raises love, how fortunate is it?" ”

Ning Shenzhi got up and returned the salute, and Yunhe went to get the chessboard and chess pieces.

Ning Shenzhi played chess with Qiu Xiyin for the first time, and she was afraid that she would lose too badly, she would never be interested in playing with him next time, and she played extremely slowly and carefully, not wanting to find out soon that Qiu Xiyin was not good at Qi Dao, at most it was at the upper middle level.

No wonder Xie Tanwei, who is eager to praise Qiu Xiyin as a rainbow flower, has never praised her chess skills!

As a result, Ning Shenzhi's entanglement became how not to let her lose too badly, lest she never want to play with him next time.

Half an hour passed, and the chessboard was already full of chess pieces, but the two were still in a state of stalemate, and Qiu Bu dozed off.

Qiu Xiyin saw that although she had never played chess with Ning Shen, when he played against Xie Tanwei, she always found a reason to avoid it and avoid being in the same room with him for a long time, but she had also heard Xie Tanwei evaluate his chess skills, which was not the same as her level of pure "beginner" in Xie Tanwei's mouth.

Qiu Xiyin looked up at him unexpectedly, she never knew that he would be so meticulous that she was afraid that she would lose too ugly and deliberately let her.

Ning Shenzhi noticed her gaze, coughed weakly, Qiu Xiyin hesitated whether to ask him not to give in, at this moment, the ground shook slightly, although it was not obvious, the chess pieces on the chessboard clicked.

Qiu Xiyin looked up sharply at the octagonal palace lamp hanging from the roof, and Xiujin took two steps forward and walked to her side.

Qiu Buyan also subconsciously looked at the roof, but Ning Shenzhi's eyes fell on Qiu Xiyin, his body tensed, as if he was ready to pick up Qiu Xiyin and escape at any time.

At this time, the ground shook again, the silk silk hanging down from the octagonal palace lamp shook, the chess pieces clicked, and Qiu stood up without delay, "Let's go out first."

Ning Shenzhi got up and walked to the window, "No, it's even more chaotic outside."

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a noise outside, all shouting and scolding and running, but after a while, many intertwined voices outside shouted, "King Ningjun has an order, everyone stays where they are, don't move!" So as not to trample on and hurt people! Master Liansheng said that the earth movement is in Hejian Mansion, and it will definitely not shake the capital! Definitely not to shake the capital! "Goshoya

The shouts came from far and near, shouting again and again, Qiu Xiyin got up and walked to the window, and saw fifty percent of the soldiers of the Soldiers and Horses Division lined up in two columns, walking neatly and quickly, shouting in unison and running over, and when they saw the commotion, they left one or two people to stop them.

After a while, the drum noise outside gradually calmed down, Qiu Xiyin heard many people chanting Buddha, and some people were shouting Master Liansheng, and subconsciously turned his head to look at Ning Shenzhi.

Ning Shenzhi, who was originally looking at the movement outside the window, immediately noticed it, turned his eyes to her, pulled the corners of his mouth, and said in a low voice, "Don't be afraid, you won't be able to shake the capital."

The movement of pulling the corners of his mouth was stiff and unnatural, not as good as Xie Tanwei's smile and breeze, not as good as Xie Jiashu's smile and breeze, and it couldn't even be called a laugh, Qiu Xiyin somehow saw the ultimate gentleness in it.

She remembered in a trance, in her previous life, Ning Shenzhi had also smiled at her like this, at that time, she was still living in Ronghetang, one afternoon, she saw that the sun was fine, so she ordered to set up a table and chairs under the Bodhi tree in Ronghetang to paint, seven-year-old Ning Huai didn't know when to come over.

Ning Huai was very quiet, so he watched her paint by her side all afternoon, without making a trace of superfluous sound.

She was only fifteen years old at the time, and she didn't know how to get along with this stepson at all, so she only adhered to Qiu Zhengshen's "respect and stay away", and saw that he just stayed on the sidelines and watched, so she went with him.

She has always been involved in painting, and gradually forgot that there was a Ning Huai by her side, and when she put down the pen, the sun was already setting in the west.

Xiujin reminded in a low voice, "Princess, the eldest prince is still there."

Qiu Xiyin turned her eyes to look at Ning Huai, Ning Huai looked back silently, and after a while, she spoke, "It's not early, is the eldest prince going back?" ”

Ning Huai was silent for a while and asked, "Have you seen my mother?" ”

Qiu Xiyin looked at him cautiously, nodded, and said Ning Huai, "You have seen my mother, and you can paint, can you help me paint a portrait of my mother?" ”

She thought for a moment and said, "I've only seen your mother a few times, and they're all far apart, so I can't necessarily draw them very similarly."

Ning Huai pointed at Hanyun and said, "She remembers, if you don't paint like it, she will tell you."

She agreed, she has always had a good memory, not to mention how many times she has seen, she has only seen once, she can also draw eight or nine without leaving ten, and after about an hour, the painting will be finished.

Hanyun choked up and said very similarly, Ning Huai looked down for a long time, looked up at her and smiled, and she also subconsciously smiled back.

At this moment, she felt an extremely hot gaze fall on her, and when she looked up, she saw Ning Shenzhi standing not far away, looking at her with the corners of her mouth pulled.

She was startled, subconsciously blocked Ning Huai behind her, and looked at him vigilantly, "What are you laughing at?" I just helped him draw a picture and didn't do anything."

In her opinion at that time, Ning Shenzhi, who had not smiled all year round, suddenly smiled, and he still looked like this with a smile and no smile, he must have bad intentions, and he suspected that she was approaching Ning Huai with bad intentions.

It seemed that since then, she had never seen him smile at herself, and now that he was smiling at her again, she saw the tenderness under the cramped stiffness.

Perhaps, at the beginning, he also tried hard to reconcile with her husband and wife-

As soon as such a thought crossed her mind, she subconsciously showed a smile, and the grievances and grievances of the previous life let it stay in the previous life, but it was not necessary to keep reminiscing and ruminating.

Ning Shenzhi's eyes widened suddenly, and he retreated again and again, until his back hit the windowsill, he couldn't retreat, his arms propped up on the windowsill, his lips trembled, but he didn't speak.

Although he didn't say anything, Qiu Xiyin had already seen a few big words from his rarely seen fluctuations in his complexion, "What are you laughing at?" ”

She couldn't help laughing, sure enough, the cycle of cause and effect, the retribution was unhappy, in the previous life, he may not contain any malicious laughter was misinterpreted by her into that, in this life, she smiled at him for the first time, and it scared him like this.

Ning Shenzhi obviously came back to his senses, his pale face flushed with a little blood, he stood up straight and lowered his head to cover his lips and coughed for a while, Fang said dryly, "You haven't smiled at me before-"

Qiu Xiyin didn't answer the topic, leaned over and saluted, "The land must have moved over there in Hejian Mansion, and the county king must have a lot of affairs to deal with, so we will leave."

Ning Shen subconsciously said, "The chess game is not finished yet."

Qiu Xiyin saluted again, "Next time, farewell."

Qiu Bu followed the salute and "farewell".

Until Qiu Xiyin's backs disappeared outside the door, Ning Shenfang muttered in disbelief, "Next time—"

Yunhe secretly rolled his eyes, barely controlled the contemptuous expression on his face, and bowed, "The king of the county, Miss Qiu is right, at this time, the inside and outside of the capital are not stable, and the king of the county is invited to enter the palace as soon as possible."

"Yes, yes, Yinyin is right—"

Yun He hurriedly lowered his head and rolled his eyes fiercely, so he said for a long time, and the king of his family only heard a "Qiu San girl"?

He was rolling his eyes when he saw his own county king jumping from the window with an upside down onion.

Yoon-ho, "......"

King Jun, have you forgotten that you are going to disguise yourself as a sick and weak beautiful boy?

Yun He hurriedly jumped down, and then saw his own county king standing at the door of the teahouse and glaring at Qiu Xiyin.

Yoon-ho, "......"

Evil!

Ning Shenzhi's pale cheeks were already red from the inside to the outside, but fortunately, his facial expression was tense, and he was not so nervous that he was going to say some nonsense that wanted to cover up, leaned over and waved his hand, turned around and left, looking at it with a somewhat noble and cold feeling, but the pace of leaving was slightly faster, how to look at it There was a kind of embarrassment of running away.

Yunhe followed closely and waved his hand, keeping up with Ning Shenzhi's footsteps.

Qiu Bu asked suspiciously, "King Ning Jun deliberately jumped out of the window to come down because he didn't return the salute just now, so he must make up for it?" ”

Qiu Xiyin, "......"

Don't want to know why at all!

At night, the news of the Hejian Mansion ground movement reached the capital, and the next morning, Liansheng was announced into the palace, and the abbot of the Great Xiangguo Temple was sealed, and the reward was innumerable.

For a time, Master Liansheng's name directly overshadowed Ning Shenzhi and spread all over the Great Depression.

When Qiu Zhengshen went to Hejian Mansion to evacuate the people, by virtue of Ning Shen's authority, there were still many officials and people who were unwilling to leave and even resisted fiercely.

However, it is estimated that the errand of going to Nanning to evacuate the people will be much easier to handle through the river.