Xie Ze stood at the door of the post house, looking at Jian Mingrui who was slowly coming.

Four or five steps away, Xie Ze bowed his hand.

"Let's go in and talk." Jian Mingrui raised his hand and motioned to Xie Ze.

Xie Ze turned around, half a step behind, and entered the post house with Jian Mingrui.

"How's the princess's injuries?"

Entering the post house, Jian Mingrui's footsteps paused slightly, looked back at Xie Ze and asked.

"It's fine."

"Dr. Hong said, it's very swollen?"

"Ah Ran said it was okay." After a pause, Xie Ze continued: "Mrs. An of the Prime Minister's Mansion once said that Ah Ran should be surnamed An. ”

"Li Mingshui can rush out of the market, he must be extremely tenacious and ruthless."

The concise and sharp voice is flat, and the emotions cannot be heard.

Xie Ze glanced at him and didn't answer.

Entering the second gate of the post house, Jian Mingrui gestured to a small pavilion between the green trees and flowers: "Let's talk here." ”

"Okay."

The two entered the pavilion one after the other.

"At noon tomorrow, Huang Canman's mansion, a total of 231 people, will be executed on Qingcheng Mountain to comfort those who died in vain."

Jian Mingrui watched Shi Nan put the tea and withdrew, and said slowly.

Xie Ze's eyebrows raised.

"Ruzhang has no plan and no courage, he dares to rob and kill you, one is Huang Can's instigation, and the second is that the Jianmen guard sent Han Zhushi forty elites in the army to him.

I have already sent someone to Jianmen Pass, take over Jianmen Pass, and bring a cup of poisonous wine to Han Zhushi by the way. ”

Xie Ze looked at Jian Mingrui and waited for him to continue.

"Ruzhang is ignorant and fearless, but he dares to charge forward, and before the fire starts, he has already died with a knife through his chest.

The fire was set by Ruzhang's younger brother Ruqi, and Huang Can bet the treasure on Ruqi. ”

Jian Mingrui paused, revealing a hint of whether he was sneering or smiling.

"Ruzhang still has the guts, Ruqi, he doesn't even have the guts, Huang Can probably just takes a fancy to his ignorance, incompetence and guts, for example, Zhang is better controlled, and he took Ruqi and put the fire, probably wanting to make a game where Ruzhang and your jade are burned."

Xie Ze sighed lowly.

"Ruqi left last night, and early this morning, he has already asked people to send their brothers out of the city and into the ground for peace."

"I asked Huo Wencan and his wife to watch and do a few rituals and send them off."

Xie Ze looked at Jian Mingrui and said.

"Hmm." Jian Mingrui hummed casually, "People are going to die, a few days earlier and a few days later, there is no difference."

Their brother is gone at this time, which is also a blessing, in the past ten years, when he was alive, he lived arbitrarily, and when he died, he also died by his temperament, which is very good. ”

Xie Ze looked at Jian Mingrui and didn't speak.

"My father is very sick and his days are numbered.

I have already sent a letter to Qi Yi, let the An family brothers come over, Yang Rui is now in Jingnan? ”

"Yes." Xie Ze's eyes sparkled.

"If you can, it would be safer to let Yang Rui accompany the An family brothers.

Yang Rui admires even his father in terms of people's hearts.

Qi Yi's temper is eccentric and arrogant, although he is a weak scholar, he is extremely talented in the art of war, and he commanded several major battles in Shuzhong and Dali.

Qi Yi's talent, if it is annihilated in the countryside, it is a pity, but if he is used to lead the troops, I am worried about his temper, I hope you can take care of it. ”

"Okay." Xie Ze agreed extremely simply.

"Shuzhong, this way, the officials and the people, I think you have also seen it, the people's desire, but they are suspicious and frightened, it is the blessing of Shu to invite the king to enter Shu and take care of him for a few years."

"Okay." Xie Ze simply agreed again.

"Then it's nothing." Jian Mingrui was silent for a moment and sighed lowly.

Xie Ze looked at him silently.

"The princess's injuries are fine." Jian Mingrui looked at the moon cave door.

"No problem." Xie Ze replied, raised his hand to summon Shi Nan and ordered, "Please come out to meet the eldest prince." ”

Shi Nan answered, and hurriedly went in to report.

Li Ran was raising the broken leg, looking sideways at Zi Qi and a few people around the wheelchair that had just been brought in, disgusted that it was too bumpy to sit on it, and got the pass on, and hurriedly motioned for Zi Qi to help her sit on the wheelchair.

"Let's use a chair to carry it out, this thing is bumpy, this way out, the threshold and steps are everywhere, it's very inconvenient." Wang hurriedly suggested.

Li Ran thought about it, Zi Qi hurriedly went out and called four or five sturdy women, picked a light mountain rattan chair, Li Ran sat on it, and several women gently lifted it and went to the pavilion outside.

Li Ran sat on the chair and walked out of the moon cave door, Xie Ze stood up and greeted her, Li Ran looked at Jian Mingrui who was sitting upright and looking at her, only to feel that he was more gloomy than last time.

"Are you alright?" Xie Ze approached Li Ran, bent down, lifted Li Ran's skirt a little, and looked at her injured leg.

"It's fine."

"It's decided, and he probably wants to gossip with you." Xie Ze then confessed in a low voice.

"Hmm." Li Ran looked at Jian Mingrui, who was so quiet that it was silent, and an indescribable feeling surged in her heart.

Jian Mingrui looked at Li Ran, who was sitting next to him, his eyes fell on her swollen feet wrapped in fine white cloth, and he moved away for a moment, looked at Li Ran, and bowed slightly and said, "I'm tired of you." ”

"The eldest prince is polite." Li Ran returned the courtesy.

Jian Mingrui lowered his eyelids, and for a moment, he picked up the cup and sipped tea.

Li Ran looked at him silently, and Xie Ze looked at Li Ran.

All three of them were taciturn, and the wind could be heard in the pavilion for a while.

"Tao Zhong has been detaining you in Shanxian County?" After a long time, Jian Mingrui asked.

"Hmm."

"Tao Zhong was seriously ill, he knew that he was incurable, he went to the capital to find the Marquis of Chang'an, and after entrusting him, Tao Zhong was handed over to me until he died, only a few days."

Xie Ze took over.

She didn't know anything about Tao Zhong and Shanxian's past.

Jian Mingrui looked at Xie Ze.

"Tao Zhong's funeral is also taken care of by me, and it is his entrustment that after I cremate him, I will scatter ash in the mountains or into the river, and I will scatter his ashes into the river outside the city.

In the last few days, he spoke very little, occasionally answering a sentence or two.

The day after Princess Leping gave birth to Ah Ran, he returned to the west, and he obeyed the princess's wishes, cremated her, and raised the ashes in the wind. ”

Jian Mingrui's lips trembled, and for a moment, he pursed his lips vigorously and reached out to pick up the cup.

"I asked Tao Zhong if he was worthy of Princess Leping if he detained Princess Leping's daughter like a prisoner.

He said that Princess Leping gave birth to Ah Ran, and once looked at it, saying that Ah Ran should not be born but was born, saying that she deserved to die but secretly lived, and life was better than death.

Tao Zhong said that Leping told him: If Aran can live, let her live.

After Leping died, he sent Leping away and returned to his residence, Ah Ran was still alive, and he couldn't help but let Ah Ran live.

As for the rest, he didn't say a word. ”

Xie Ze was silent for a moment, glanced at Li Ran, lowered his eyes and said, "Tao Zhong has never let Ah Ran see him, he said that he would occasionally look at Ah Ran, and he always felt that Ah Ran would die in front of him." ”

"Do you know Tao Zhong?" Li Ran looked at Jian Mingrui, who was pale, and asked.

"I know Tao Zhong from the past."

Jian Mingrui moved, speaking slowly.

"Tao Zhong has been in the palace since he was a child, he went to school in the palace, he is very smart, very learned, gentle and elegant, careful and patient, when Leping was two or three years old, he went to Leping to be the head of the internal service, Leping trusted him very much.

He was very indulgent to Leping.

Once upon a time, Leping secretly came out to see me, and it was Tao Zhong who took her out of the palace.

Once, it rained just after leaving the palace gate, Leping refused to go back, he had to see me, and after the rain, he fell ill with a fever when he went back.

Niangniang was very angry and punished Tao Zhong for kneeling for half the night, but when Leping was well and wanted to come out again, Tao Zhong still took her out.

Leping has been delicate since she was a child, when she was a child, her mother was often worried that she couldn't become an adult, and for this, she once sent her name to the name of the village woman......"

Jian Mingrui's words stopped abruptly, and he was stunned for a while, and then exhaled slowly.

He had a gaffe.

"Don't talk about that." Jian Mingrui straightened his body and looked at Xie Ze, "Once upon a time, there was a Taoist priest surnamed Bai in Rong'an City, who was swaggering and cheating.

The Shaw Brothers had approached him in order to make her marriage to your father.

Knowing that he was incompetent, the white Taoist priest uttered wild words in order to scare off the Shaw Brothers. Bai Daoist said that the price of the practice is the entire family surnamed Shao and the children of the Shao family.

Shaw answers: Only if you can keep the eldest son. ”

Jian Mingrui's words paused slightly, looked at Xie Ze, whose face was pale, and for a moment, glanced at Li Ran, and continued:

"Qi Yi and I just arrived in Licheng, and the apprentice of Bai Daoist came from Xiangyang to deliver a letter.

The Shaw family sent a mother-in-law to Xiangyang and begged him to bless Ah Ran, saying that if Ah Ran has a good job, you will not be able to live. ”

Jian Mingrui stood up as he spoke:

"My father is seriously ill, and I want to spend more time with him. From tomorrow, I will ask people to send some tax and household registration lists, and there will be some government affairs, and in the future, I will bother you. ”

"Okay." Xie Ze then stood up, pressed Li Ran, motioned for her not to move, followed Jian Mingrui by himself, and sent him out.

Xie Ze sent Jian Mingrui away, returned to the pavilion, and sat opposite Li Ran.

Li Ran reached out and held Xie Ze's hand.

"Qi Yi besieged Jin County, and I was confused at the time......"

"Don't think about it." Li Ran interrupted Xie Ze's words.

"This is a military matter, not a family matter." Xie Ze was silent for a long time.

Li Ran looked at Xie Ze and didn't speak again.

……………………

The golden autumn in the capital seems to be more beautiful than in previous years.

In the evening, Mrs. Shao stood under the flower stand, using a long silver needle, slowly picking up the dozen or so petals in the middle of the white chrysanthemum, and put them in the glass plate held by the girl.

"The master is back." The little girl standing next to the flower stand saw Xie Shangshu turning from the path between the flowers, and hurriedly reported to Mrs. Shao.

Mrs. Shao was concentrating on the chrysanthemum petals, and when she heard the footsteps coming to her side, she smiled sideways: "Why did you come back so early today?" Look at this chrysanthemum, this year's color is considered to be in full bloom, and such petals are used to make chrysanthemum cakes, which can be regarded as the true taste of chrysanthemum cakes. ”

Xie Shangshu, who looked at Mrs. Shao, was a little stunned, and when he saw Mrs. Shao stop talking and look at him, he subconsciously took a step back and motioned to the lake next to him, "Go over there and sit and talk." ”

"Well, autumn is the best time to be near the water." Mrs. Shao glanced at Xie Shangshu, who looked at him a few more times, and walked side by side with him to the water pavilion in the lake.

The little girl brought in a pot of wine and two white jade cups, met Mrs. Shao's slightly raised eyebrows, and hurriedly bent her knees to explain: "It is the wine that the master brought back, and it is the master's order, so I will send it over." ”

"I got it back." Xie Shangshu's face showed a layer of exhaustion, "The prince rewarded me with a bottle of good wine, I'm a little tired, you can have a few drinks with me." ”

"What wine? Let the kitchen cook a few suitable appetizers and bring them over. Mrs. Shao frowned slightly and looked at Xie Shangshu.

There's something wrong with him today.

"Homemade wine in the palace, take a few plates of preserves." Xie Shangshu motioned for the girl to put the flask in front of him.

"The best candied fruit to go with wine is nothing more than honey-soaked plums, and nothing else is suitable at this time.

Take a plate of honey-soaked plums, a plate of bad duck letters, and a plate of jade lotus root stained in the morning, that's all. ”

Mrs. Shao instructed the little girl.

Xie Shangshu lowered his eyes and looked at the wine jug in his hand, stunned, as if he hadn't heard Mrs. Shao's words.

"What's wrong with you? Since he came back, he has been unable to give up, what happened to Aze? Mrs. Shao looked sideways at Xie Shangshu and said with concern.

"No, Aze is good, Aze is fine, Shuzhong,"

Xie Shangshu's words paused suddenly, and after a moment, he continued: "The prince said that Aze has entered Chengdu City safely, and the eldest prince Jian has handed over all the affairs of Shuzhong to Aze. ”

Mrs. Shao couldn't say anything on her face, and only after a while did she ask, "Why is it so fast?" Didn't you still say that Aze's trip was very difficult, why did he start to take over Shuzhong?

Aze is fine, right? Are you hiding it from me? ”

"We've been together for decades, and I've never hidden anything from you." Xie Shangshu looked at Mrs. Shao.

Mrs. Shao frowned, "Look at what you said, you are a little wrong today." ”

"Have a drink with me." Xie Shangshu was silent for a moment, watched the little girl put on the three appetizers such as honey-pickled plums, slowly raised her hand from the wine jug, and poured herself a glass first, and then a glass for Mrs. Shao.

Mrs. Shao picked up the cup, looked at it sideways, touched the cup raised by Xie Shangshu, and said with a smile: "You are very strange today." ”

"I'm going to hide it from you." Xie Shangshu raised it again at Mrs. Shao.

"Me too." Mrs. Shao smiled and drank a glass of wine.

Xie Shangshu watched Mrs. Shao drink the wine, and also raised his head and drank it all.

"Amin, you never trusted me, did you?" Xie Shangshu looked at Mrs. Shao, who frowned slightly.

Mrs. Shao was stunned, "Where do you start with this?" ”

"I said that unless I die, I will definitely marry you, but you still go to Bai Daochang, bet on the Shao family, and our children, Amin, you can't trust me like that?"

Mrs. Shao was instantly blue, and her back was straight.

"Because of Ran, Aze has come back to life, why can't you tolerate Ara? You know that Ah Ran is dead, and Aze can't live, why? I've already married you, and in the past few decades, I only have you, why can't you tolerate Aze?

Why? ”

Xie Shangshu asked why, and the pain of asking was unbearable.

"It's not that I can't tolerate Aze, how can I not tolerate Aze?

Where do you want to go?

Not at all what you think! ”

Mrs. Shao's words were quick and urgent.

"I just want Aze to know how helpless and painful you were back then, and when he knows that helplessness and pain, he can understand it, and he won't blame you or me anymore!

What's wrong with us? What can be done back then?

I'm just letting him know how helpless you were back then! ”

"Just to show Aze that you are not wrong, I am not wrong, you will not hesitate to take Aze's life?

Aren't you really wrong? Am I really not wrong?

You're wrong, I'm wrong, is it more important than Aze's life? ”

Xie Shangshu looked at Mrs. Shao tiredly.

"How can you talk like that? It's not a bad thing, how can I not feel sorry for Aze, that's our only child, isn't it?

I told you everything, I just let him know that people have difficulties, and there are times when they have no choice but to choose one.

Where do you want to go? ”

Mrs. Shao spoke very quickly.

"Amin, if you marry me, will you marry me, or will you marry the eldest son of the Xie family?" Xie Shangshu ignored Mrs. Shao's strong argument, looked at her and asked.

"What are you talking about? You and I have been together for decades, how can you ask me this? Naturally, I'm marrying you! ”

Mrs. Shao's face turned pale.

"What's wrong with you? Bumped into a guest? Crazy? ”

"The Jian family has handed over Shuzhong to Aze, Bai Daochang and his apprentices are all in Chengdu City, and Mama Ping is now in Licheng." Xie Shangshu looked at Mrs. Shao with a blank expression.

"You used to say that Bai Dao Chang is used to talking nonsense, and you know that he is used to talking nonsense, but you still listen to him? A charlatan, you actually listen to the words of a charlatan, suspicious of someone who has been with you for decades and depends on each other for life and death?

How can you do that? ”

Mrs. Shao reacted very quickly, tears welling up in her eyes.

"Aze handed these to the prince. You ask Mama Ping to go to Xiangyang, deliver a letter to the Shu army, and ask them to arrest Ah Ran and threaten Ah Ze.

Amin, this is not a private matter, it is not a family matter, this is a military and political matter.

The prince gave you this bottle of poisoned wine. ”

Xie Shangshu pointed to the wine jug on the table.

Mrs. Shao stared at Xie Shangshu directly.

"I accompany you, I promised you, this life is only with you, you and I live and die, you will be there in me.

Amin, you see, I promised you, I can do it, I have done it.

But you've never believed me, have you? ”

Mrs. Shao glared at Xie Shangshu, and slowly raised one hand, clutching her chest tightly.

"Amin, tell me the truth, if you marry me, will you marry me, or will you marry the eldest son of the Xie family?"

A wisp of blood flowed down from the corner of Xie Shangshu's mouth.

Mrs. Shao stood up sharply, and fell forward without waiting to turn around.

Xie Shangshu slowly leaned back in his chair, his eyes slowly lifted from Mrs. Shao, who was struggling on the ground, to look at the sunset outside the Water Pavilion.

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