Xie Zheng and his entourage returned to the Hou Mansion, got down from the ox cart, and only then stepped into the door of the Hou Mansion, they saw Huan Ling walking out head-on, his steps were hurried, and his expression was quite uneasy.

"Huh, Deyin?" Huan Ling looked up and saw Xie Zheng coming back, he seemed a little surprised, and he said, "Where have you been?" I heard that something happened to you, and I was about to go out and find you. ”

Xie Zheng was exhausted at this time, and replied listlessly: "I didn't have an accident, it was Xie Wei who had an accident." ”

Huan Ling thought about it, and indeed hadn't seen Xie Wei for most of the day, he asked, "What happened to him?" ”

"He killed someone," Xie Zheng rolled his eyes slightly, sighed softly, and then said: "He killed your cousin-in-law's brother, Gu Jiulang......"

Hearing this, Huan Ling was already stunned, and Xie Zheng then explained: "The two of them had a big fight in the Qinglou, and Xie Wei missed and pushed him downstairs by mistake. ”

Huan Ling paused, and immediately asked, "Is it because the Gu family is embarrassed by you?" ”

Xie Zheng was silent for a long time before he said, "Your cousin-in-law and I are polite, but his mother is making a fuss in Jingzhao Yin's Mansion and threatening to ask me to accompany her son to the funeral." ”

Grudge with the Gu family of Wu County, although it is not a big matter, but it should not be taken lightly, after all, the Gu family is a prestigious clan, Huan Ling listened, tightened his eyebrows, and said: "It was Xie Wei who killed Gu Jiulang, not you, why should she not get along with you!" ”

Xie Zheng crossed Huan Ling and walked to the house, Huan Ling also followed, only to hear her say: "She said that I connived at Xie Wei, and also made trouble with the holy driver, but fortunately, I entered the palace one step ahead of her, and asked His Majesty to ask for guilt, so that I was exempt from punishment, and only asked me to copy the "Death Mantra" by hand a hundred times and send it to the Gu family. ”

"Since Mrs. Gu is entangled with you, she will definitely not give up...... Huan Ling couldn't help but be worried, thought about it carefully, and said: "No, I'll go find her!" ”

As soon as he finished saying this, he immediately turned around to go out, but Xie Zheng hurriedly grabbed him and said, "Don't go!" I don't want you to get involved in this matter. ”

"But ......" Huan Ling was about to say something, but Xie Zheng interrupted again, comforting like a coquettish: "Okay, I have always met gods and killed gods, and Buddha killed Buddhas, just a Mrs. Gu, are you still afraid that I won't be able to deal with it?" County marquis, you may be underestimating me too much. ”

Huan Ling couldn't help her, so he had to follow her temperament, so he only sighed lightly and didn't say anything more.

Xie Zheng let go of his hand and said, "I'm tired, I'll go back to the room first." ”

Huan Ling nodded in response, Xie Zhengcai took Yuzhi and You Xiao back to Yazhu Garden, she entered the main courtyard and stopped, looked back at You Xiao and said: "You Xiao, you will live in the West Courtyard in the future, although Xie Wei has left, but you live in the house, everything is more convenient, you have to be empty and ask your brother to move over, Zhuque Street and Hou Mansion are a little far away after all." ”

You Xiao and his brother You Zhen, this is Xie Zheng ordered Yuzhi to send out the eyes and ears, the two brothers rented a small courtyard in Zhuque Street in the south of the city, wandering around in Jiankang City during the day, snare for Xie Zheng to collect secrets, recently You Xiao was ordered by Xie Zheng, in order to stare at Xie Wei, only to move into the Hou Mansion to live temporarily for a while, now Xie Wei has left, he should move out of the Hou Mansion, Xie Zheng asked him to stay, he was naturally happy, and nodded at Xie Zheng with a smirk, and responded: "Eh! ”

"Then you go back and rest," Xie Zheng smiled with You Xiao, and went straight back to the room, but she walked to the bookcase and sat down, and called, "Yuzhi, study ink." ”

"The lady wants to copy the "Curse of the Past"?" Yuzhi also walked to the bookcase, picked up the ink ingot, and grinded it in the inkstone, Xie Zheng took out the silver paper and spread it on the bookcase, pressed the paperweight, and replied absentmindedly: "I finished copying it earlier." ”

As he spoke, he picked up Mao Ying and dipped some ink, and wrote "The Mantra of the Past" on the paper, "The Mantra of the Past" is only fifty-nine words, and it is not difficult to copy it a hundred times.

Holding Mao Ying and writing freely, the handwriting is also a dragon flying and phoenix dancing, more and more sloppy, not tired and tired, but really confused.

Xie Zheng suddenly stopped writing, leaned on Mao Ying, raised his eyes and looked out the window, seemingly meditating, but in fact, his mind was full of thinking about the words that Gu Lu said to her, and then he came back to his senses, looked down and saw that there was already a drop of ink on the paper.

She couldn't help but be upset, put down Mao Ying heavily, and immediately picked up the paper in front of her that had been copied more than half, folded it into a ball randomly, and abandoned the place, Yuzhi stood aside to study the ink, knowing that she was irritable, and didn't dare to say more, so she quietly picked up the pile that had been copied next to her, and properly placed it on the bookshelf behind the bookcase, for fear that she would be angry and take these copied ones to open the knife.

Xie Zheng took out a blank piece of silver paper from the side, spread it in front of him, picked up Mao Ying and was about to put down the pen, but she was dizzy for a while, and she forgot to write again, she became more and more annoyed, and she was so angry that she overturned the bookcase when she left Mao Ying.

Yuzhi hurriedly dodged and took two steps back, and when she saw that the bookcase had been overturned, she went to help her up again, picking up the calligraphy, painting, pen, ink, paper, and inkstone on the ground, while peeking at Xie Zheng's face from time to time.

"Don't worry about the lady, this "Curse of Death" was originally asked by His Majesty to copy it to deal with the Gu family, if you don't want to copy it, then we won't copy it, and the Gu family won't dare to do anything with you, as for that Mrs. Gu, we don't have to put her in our eyes, with the means of a lady, to deal with her, isn't it just a matter of moving your mouth?"

"I'm angry, this bastard thing, it's really hurting me! Speaking of which, King Wuling and Huan Erlang are to blame for all this, if they hadn't brought Xie Wei to Jiankang, how would I be in an embarrassment now! ”

Xie Zheng said this, propped up on the bookcase with one arm, closed her eyes and supported her forehead, looking particularly tired, she only said: "I also blame me for being careless and not keeping an eye on Xie Wei, Yuzhi, you say, I am not asking for hardship......

At that time, Yuzhi had already packed up the bookcase, she walked behind Xie Zheng, pinched her shoulders for her, and said: "Lady, you also said, all this is to blame for King Wuling and Erlang Jun, they found Xie Wei, those hands and feet are on Xie Wei's body, we can't look at him all the time, not to mention today's matter, it is the King of Linchuan and Lu Ji who deliberately designed you, we can't prevent it." ”

Xie Zheng didn't say anything, and Huan Ling was also alone at that time, he entered the house and saw a puddle of ink on the ground that had not dried, and saw Xie Zheng closing his eyes and holding his forehead, guessing that she must be restless.

Yuzhi was pinching Xie Zheng's shoulders, looking sideways at Huan Ling entering the house, and was about to open his mouth to call him, but Huan Ling signaled her to silence, he came over quietly, waved his hand at Yuzhi, and stepped aside, and he walked behind Xie Zheng and knelt down, pinching her shoulders for her.

The strength of the two is different, and there is a gap in the middle, Xie Zheng has already noticed it, and only bent the corners of his lips, but pretended not to know, and Huan Ling quietly pinched her shoulders, and asked for a long time: "With such strength, is the county lord still comfortable?" ”

Xie Zheng opened his eyes, lowered his arms, sat up straight, and said, "The strength is acceptable, and I like people." ”

Somehow, even if Xie Zheng was angry and annoyed, annoyed and irritated, as long as he saw Huan Ling, all the depression disappeared.

When Huan Ling heard this, he slowly stopped his hand, stretched out one hand to Xie Zheng, and smiled lightly: "Ask the county lord to give some reward." ”

"There is no reward, but you can remember it first, and settle it in the future," Xie Zheng said, so he hugged Huan Ling's hand, leaned back, and lay down in his arms, Huan Ling took her and said with a smile: "Okay, then we will settle it in the future." ”

Xie Zheng lay in his arms, rested his head on his shoulder, stared at him sideways, and whispered: "I'm tired." ”

Huan Ling said softly: "Sleep, I will guard you." ”

Yuzhi stood aside, it was rare to see the two of them so intimate, but her heart was happy, so she couldn't help but smile, and quietly took the door and walked out.

At that time, in the palace, Xiao Ying, the king of Linchuan, was hurrying to the harem, and the new palace master Zhu Jian followed, and the two walked to the front of Baohua Gate, Xiao Ying stopped, turned around and said to Zhu Lian: "Yuxian, you are waiting here, and this king will come out later." ”

Zhu Lian responded, Xiao Ying immediately entered the Baohua Gate, all the way to Hanzhang Palace, the palace maid in front of the palace was sweeping the courtyard, I saw him coming from a distance, and hurriedly entered the hall to pass the word, Xie Guifei was lying on the side of the beauty couch in the side hall eating tea, and the palace maid said: "Niangniang, Your Highness is down." ”

Before the words fell, Xiao Ying had already entered, and when she entered the door, she called out impatiently: "Mother! Wedding! What a happy event! ”

When he had finished speaking, the people had entered the side hall.

When Concubine Xie heard the happy event, she unhurriedly covered the teacup in her hand, and wanted to put it down, but He Nushi waited aside, quickly took the teacup in her hand and put it on the coffee table next to her.

"What a happy event? I'm happy that you're like this, let's hear it," Concubine Xie was careless when she spoke, obviously not interested in Xiao Ying's unspoken happy event.

Xiao Ying casually waved her hand at the irrelevant palace maids in the hall, and when she retreated, she said to Xie Guifei: "Xie Zheng has an accident over there......

Before Xiao Ying could explain, when Concubine Xie heard that Xie Zheng had an accident, she was immediately interested, and actually robbed him of his words, "What happened to her?" ”

While speaking, he sat up slightly, and it seemed that he was really happy!

Xiao Ying walked to the side and sat down, and said unhurriedly: "Didn't the child tell her mother, she has an elder brother, who was invited to Jiankang by the fifth child a while ago, and her brother fought with Jiulang of the Gu family of Wujun in a green building on Flower Street this morning, and pushed people downstairs and fell to death." ”

"Oh? There is such a good thing! Concubine Xie Guifei's beautiful eyes widened between her words, and she was very happy, Xiao Ying then said: "I don't know who reported to Jingzhao Yin's Mansion, her brother has now been detained, and he will be beheaded in Xishi three days later, but the Gu family is not satisfied with the result, and threatened to let Xie Zheng accompany the funeral as soon as possible, and now he is still making trouble." ”

"Is this serious?" Concubine Xie smiled with her eyebrows, but she still instinctively asked more, Xiao Ying said confidently: "This is the case of Lu Ji's old man's trial, he ran to the palace to tell the child in person, can this matter be fake?" ”

Concubine Xie Guifei was already convinced, she sat up, laughed out loud, and thought: "No wonder the palace is just in Hualin Garden, listening to those little girls, I saw Xie Zheng running to the Shiqian Hall early in the morning, kneeling outside and crying, it turned out that it was for this matter." ”

Xiao Ying said: "Mother, she offended us by offending the Shi clan, and now she has formed a bond with the Gu family of Wujun, is this karma?" ”

Concubine Xie smiled coldly, paced on the ground, thought about it, and said: "She has a grudge against the Gu family, this palace can't manage it, and she has no intention of taking care of it, this palace just wants to help her do something good in three days on the execution ground where her brother beheaded her." ”

"What does the mother mean......" Xiao Ying's elm head, as if she understood it, Xie Guifei looked at him proudly, and waved at him again, Xiao Ying walked up to her, and she told him the plan.

"Good strategy! The mother concubine is really amazing! Xiao Ying praised for a while, and Concubine Xie was also complacent, as if she was already smiling from ear to ear, she didn't forget to order: "You go quickly and tell Lu Ji to know, and when you get to the execution ground, you will make arrangements as soon as possible." ”

"Yes, Erchen will go now," Xiao Ying said goodbye to Concubine Xie, and immediately walked outside the palace, on the way to Baohua Gate, Zhu Jian greeted him, and asked, "Your Highness, is there any arrangement over there?" ”

Xiao Ying was still smiling, Xu is happy event, so he did not shy away from putting his hand on Zhu Lian's shoulder, hooking his shoulders with him and walking out, and said: "The mother said that she would make some movement on the execution ground in three days." ”

Zhu Jian is a smart person, as soon as he heard this, he guessed what Xiao Ying meant, he said: "Niangniang wants to ......"

He didn't say anything further, Xiao Ying continued: "Do you think, this brother is going to be beheaded, she is a sister, can she not save people?" ”

"Humble duty understands," Zhu Jian nodded, Xiao Ying also withdrew his hand at this time, no longer "like glue" with him, he patted Zhu Lian's back, and said solemnly: "You are also familiar with the Lu family, and when you leave the palace in a while, you will go to the Lu family, and inform the old man of the Lu family, telling him to prepare early, but don't mess up." ”

Zhu Jian was stunned for a moment at first, and then received the order: "Yes......"

Presumably he still holds a grudge against Lu Zhiwei.

The two of them left the palace and went to Xuanyang Gate, Xiao Ying left Zhu Jian behind, and went to Lu's house to deliver a message, and outside Xuanyang Gate, it was a street of Baiguan's mansion, and Lu's house was in the center of the street.

Zhu Jian didn't have to walk for a long time, he arrived at Lu's house, and the porter made a sound inside, and then led Zhu Jian to Lu Ji's study.

The Lu family and the Zhu family were originally world friends, and Zhu Jian also called "Uncle Lu Shi" when he saw Lu Huilin, Lu Ji treated Zhu Jian as his own grandchildren, and although Zhu Jian complained about the Lu family, he was always polite on the surface.

"Yuxian is here," Lu Ji saw Zhu Lian come in, and called him quite kindly, Zhu Lian also gave a salute, calling: "Daddy Lu, Yuxian is here today on the order of His Royal Highness the King of Linchuan, and he has something important to inform." ”

Lu Ji was very cautious, and when he heard this, he hurriedly walked to the door, quickly closed the door, and then asked reassuringly: "Did your concubine Niangniang reply from there?" ”

Zhu Jian said bluntly: "Your concubine Niangniang said that in three days, she will send someone to rob the law field to rescue Xie Wei and blame the lord of Hengyang, and His Royal Highness will send Yuxian to tell you to prepare early." ”

"Got it, you go and reply to Your Highness, I will make arrangements early!"

"Then Yuxian will leave first, Daddy Lu, Yuxian will come to see you another day," Zhu Lian bowed and retired, hurriedly walked out of the study, and left without looking back, but he didn't know that in the corner of the corridor behind him, Lu Qiwei was holding a tray for refreshments, standing close to the outer wall of the study, cowering and hiding in a no-man's land, looking at his back from a distance, with a frightened face, and retreated step by step.

She'd heard everything!