"Get up. In front of the mourning family, there is no need to be polite, you are all good children of the mourning family. Leng Qingjian's face showed a kind smile.

said that it was a flower viewing banquet, where did the flowers come from in the early spring, but Xiao He listened to their mother and daughter chatting on the side, if his mother was still alive......

Listening to Leng Qingchen and Mu Qingwan's intimate mother-daughter conversation, Xiao He's fists gradually clenched.

"Xiao He, why don't you speak, the mourning family doesn't know you very well." The topic of Leng Qingzhen suddenly turned to Xiao He, which caught her off guard. "The mourning family remembers, you were admitted to the champion and only entered the court as an official, it seems that my daughter's future concubine is still a talented man."

Facing the happy scene of their mother and daughter, Xiao He really couldn't say anything, so he could only reluctantly raise the corners of his mouth and smile awkwardly.

For half an hour, Xiao He barely said anything, only when he asked him, he would say a word or two, and Leng Qingchen naturally saw that the young man in front of him had an inexplicable alienation from himself and his daughter.

"Qingwan, the queen mother is a little cold, can you go to the dormitory and help me get a cloak?" Leng Qingzhen took Mu Qingjuan, she had some things that she needed to talk to this young man about alone.

"That'...... Brother Xiao He, you wait for me, I'll be back right away. Mu Qingwan walked away.

"I've been sitting for a long time, Xiao He, it's better to accompany the mourning family to the bridge over there."

"The grass people obey." Xiao He got up and followed behind Leng Qingjian.

"You should know that the mourning family only has such a precious daughter, the dignified princess of the Yin Kingdom, and you should feel honored to be able to look at you." Leng Qingzhen turned his head, and his eyes completely lost the gentleness when Mu Qingwan was there just now, replaced by threat and coldness.

"The grass people can be favored by the princess, and they can't help but be grateful, but the grass people can't afford the princess's wrong love...... If possible, I hope that the queen mother and the emperor can cancel the marriage contract between the grass people and the princess. ”

"I don't know how to lift," Leng Qingzhen obviously expected this result, "Unless Qingwan wants to cancel the marriage, otherwise, you don't want to escape." She turned her head and looked at the flowers in the pool.

"Look, how do these flowers in the mourning pond look?" Leng Qingjian's words turned sharply, and suddenly turned to the flowers in the pool.

Xiao He noticed the aquatic flowers in the pool, these aquatic flowers could bloom so fully in early spring, the color of the petals was so gorgeous, and it looked a little weird.

"Queen Mother!" Mu Qingwan hurriedly ran over with her cloak in her hand.

"Poof!" Xiao He clearly saw that Leng Qingchen took off the ring on his hand and threw it into the flower pond.

"Oops! The mourner's ring fell into the pool. ”

"I'm going to call the guards to get it! Wait a minute, Queen Mother. ”

"Wait, it's too late," Leng Qingzhen's eyes stared straight at Xiao He, "The bottom of the pool is full of silt, and it will sink in a while, and it is estimated that it will never be found." ”

Xiao He looked at her eyes and immediately understood what she meant, "Queen Mother, let the grass people go into the water to fish." Without waiting for the two to reply, they went directly down the bridge and went into the water from the shore, the pool in early spring, the biting cold, the flowers on the pool covered the water surface, she could only use her hands to pull away little by little, Xiao He's legs trembled twice, and he almost didn't stand.

Her eyes weren't fully restored, and the mud that had been raised from the bottom of the water between her walks had made the surface of the water cloudy, and she had to fumble around to find the ring.

The cold touch came, and in the mud, there was something hard.

Is it a stone? How could there be such a stone in the flower pond, Xiao He carefully rubbed the outline of the stone, wanting to move the stone away.

Xiao He abruptly let go of the thing in her hand, because she really felt the thing in her hand.

Touching it down, the neck bone, collarbone, ribs, this underwater sinking, turned out to be a complete pair of human bones!

Xiao He subconsciously retreated, his movements were too violent, and the injury on his leg had not yet healed, so he was restrained by the mud under his feet, and fell straight into the water, the water in the flower pond was not deep, and it only passed Xiao He's shoulders.

She tried to stand up with her hands, and the touch was similar - there was still a skull in her hand.

No wonder the flowers in this pond bloom so beautifully at such a season, and they are nourished by human flesh and blood!

Mu Qingwan on the bridge was a little worried when he saw Xiao He falling, "Queen Mother, if the ring is not so important, can you let the guards come to fish it another day?" Brother Xiao He still has injuries on his body......"

Leng Qingchen put on the cloak that Mu Qingwan brought, and when he saw Xiao He falling in the pool, he also made a worried expression, "It's too cold in the pool, you better come out quickly, it's just a ring, you don't have to be so serious." ”

The maid on the side hurriedly brought a dry cotton cloth and wrapped it around Xiao He. At this time, Xiao He was so shocked that he couldn't say a word......

After all, Xiao He was only an 18-year-old girl, and she had never faced such a scene, and she suddenly discovered such a thing, which made her unable to stay calm for a while, and her mind was full of the dry bones she was holding in her hand just now.

She had never killed anyone with her own hands, and almost all the incidents were handled by the Iron Heart Gang herself, how could she have ever experienced such a scene......

"You kid is really, before the words of the mourning family are finished, you hurriedly went into the water, it's just a ring, the pool feeds so many flowers, there must be a deep silt, what if something happens to this......

The mud is very deep, there is an accident, the hint of cold marks is already very obvious, I don't know how many corpses are under this pool, if I insist on rejecting Mu Qingjuan, I am afraid that there will be one more corpse at the bottom of this pool......

Xiao He wrapped the cotton cloth and returned to Mu Churan's study, with the strange smell of silt at the bottom of the pool, Mu Churan's brows twitched twice quickly, "The queen mother is asking you to enjoy the flowers, is it possible that you enjoy the flowers in the pool?" ”

Xiao He hurriedly knelt in front of Mu Churan, "The emperor atoned for his sins, it was the grass people who were stupid and fell into the pool for a while, and I want to ask the emperor to allow the grass people to go back and change their clothes, so as not to disturb the emperor's mood of reviewing and reading." ”

Mu Churan waved his hand impatiently, looking at the mountains of twists and turns in front of him, and felt inexplicably irritable in his heart.

In just two days, Mu Churan felt that without Xiao He by his side, his heart couldn't calm down.

The little eunuch on the side grinded the ink clumsily, and the ink was splashed on the table, Mu Churan put down the brush in his hand heavily, and the little eunuch next to him knelt down in fright, "Your Majesty, the slave knows that he is wrong, and begs the emperor to spare his life." ”

"Get out!" Mu Churan was already irritable, afraid that he would not be able to control his emotions, so he drove away the little eunuch directly.

Xiao He took off all the clothes on his body, threw them into the corner of the wall from the inside out, and poured the water from the bucket at the door directly over his head.

Xiao He didn't know what she was supposed to do, she changed her clothes, wrapped herself in the quilt, and didn't move.

"Xiao He?" Duan Heng had just arrived at the door of Xiao He's room, and originally wanted to stay in his room and wait for him to come back, but found that the door of the room was locked from the inside, Duan Heng knocked on the door, and did not hear the response of the people inside, and opened the window directly.

"Xiao He?" The person in front of her was tightly wrapped in the quilt, looking motionless ahead, unlike that day in prison, this time, her eyes were full of despair and fear.

Duan Heng turned over directly from the window and entered, "Xiao He, Xiao He?" Duan Heng gently patted the person wrapped in the quilt, Xiao He seemed to be hiding something, and stepped back a few times.

"Xiao He, Xiao He!" Duan Heng noticed that something was wrong with Xiao He, and held her tightly in his arms with his hand, "Don't be afraid, tell me, what happened?" ”

The person in his arms seemed to see something, and he kept trembling, and his lips had completely lost their blood, and his face was pale.

Duan Heng grabbed her hand, cold to the touch, hardly any temperature.

Duan Heng hugged Xiao He tighter, and the person in his arms gradually calmed down.

"What's wrong, can you tell me?" Duan Heng's voice was quiet and gentle, which made Xiao He's heart feel at ease.

"I didn't ...... It's okay......" Xiao He gradually calmed down. Nothing to say for a long time.

"Your Royal Highness King An, do you have any instructions for coming to the grass people? The grass people still have to go to polish the ink for the emperor, I'm afraid it can't be delayed for a long time. Xiao He gradually regained his state. Returned to its usual coldness.

"Then you go first, I'll wait for you in your room." Duan Heng has also heard about the things in the palace, Mu Churan arranged Xiao He in the study to help him polish his ink, just to observe him more closely, if he delays too much time, just by virtue of Xiao He's identity now, if Mu Churan is dissatisfied, he can even kill Xiao He directly.

Xiao He put on his coat and walked to the study in a distraught.

"It's been so long to change clothes."

"Please atone for the emperor's sins, the sins of the grass people."

In Mu Churan's eyes, Xiao He was once in a high position, an official in the position of Shangshu, even if he was not good, he was also a champion, and it was already a great shame to be a scholar who washed his pen and polished ink, but the person in front of him could face everything in front of him indifferently, and he was really honest and did not squint.

But now Xiao He is just an ordinary scholar with no official position and no rank, the huge industry of the underground casino is powerless to take care of, and the great cause of revenge cannot move forward, so he can only survive and leave his life, delusional that one day, there will be a chance to take revenge.

Xiao He was still grinding ink silently, but Mu Churan's mood was inexplicably better, Xiao He really had such a magical effect, which made him feel an impulse to keep Xiao He by his side.