Chapter 5: Playing with Fire*

The white clouds outside the window are still flowing gently, and everything that seems to be calm in Chang'an Street has become turbulent because of a pair of peeping eyes.

"Who is it?" Liu Ning and Tang Changyu asked in unison.

Zhao Nan was not in a hurry to answer, but quipped: "Two, when is this, I don't forget to show sweetness all the time." ”

Tang Changyu looked at Zhao Nan's gaze tightly, just like a sharp knife, thrown into Zhao Nan's ear, as a warning, Zhao Nan obediently closed his mouth and replied: "You should still remember the scholar you rescued back then, and then we saw him in that place where there was a lot of information, and we also fought him head-on, maybe it's been a long time, you have forgotten." ”

Liu Ning and Tang Changyu suddenly realized, it turned out that this was the case, that person seemed to have achieved a good ranking in the imperial examination that year, and the future was limitless, but I didn't expect to be arranged to be on duty in such a small place, and now in retrospect, it seems that something is wrong.

Is it really because they saw uneven roads that he offended the powerful?

But in that case, he should have stayed in that small place honestly, why did he appear by the emperor's side now?

These unsolvable questions are the mysteries that should be solved the most, and if you make sense of these unsolvable places, you can explain the truth clearly one by one.

Liu Ning, Tang Changyu and Zhao Nan went separately to investigate this matter, but the place to start was at the same point, that is, in this person they had not seen for a long time, Su Pingqi.

When Liuning asked the old lady in the queen mother's bedroom that day about Su Ping's name, the old lady thought about it, but told her very firmly that there was no such person in the palace, Liuning felt incredible, and repeated it many times, but the old lady still told her very surely: "I have been in this palace for most of my life, and there can't be people I don't know." ”

Liu Ning thought, could this Su Ping be so strong that he changed himself into a different person and erased all his past things. Liuning had no choice but to ask the father-in-law who had been following the emperor directly, and the old lady suddenly realized that she said to Liuning: "You are talking about the emperor's personal father-in-law, Father-in-law Lin, his name is Ruilin." ”

It turns out that this is really the case, Liu Ning thought to himself, it seems that they underestimated Su Pingqi's strength before, or the strength behind him, "Can you tell me about Father-in-law Lin?" Ryuning asked rather cautiously.

The old lady nodded very friendly, and said to Liuning: "Father-in-law Lin, he is not very old, he is about the same age as you, but he is an extremely stable and caring person, although he has only recently served by the emperor's side, but he is extremely safe, and it is also very strange to say, this person seems to have suddenly appeared beside the emperor, I don't know much about him, it should be that no one knows him clearly except for the emperor." ”

These words immediately aroused Liuning's curiosity, and Liuning asked, "Oh, why do you say that?" ”

The old lady continued patiently, telling Liu Ning everything she knew: "This father-in-law Lin is known as the righteous son of the old husband and father-in-law who has been following the emperor before, although this is said, but this is not in line with the convention, no one has seen this so-called righteous son in the palace before." ”

A few months ago, he suddenly said to the emperor that he was going to return to his hometown, and the emperor was reluctant, but Ma Gonggong insisted, and the emperor didn't say anything, so he gave him a pension money and let him go back to his hometown."

"Before leaving, Gonggong Ma told the emperor that he had been raising a righteous son named Ruilin, an orphan he picked up many years ago, and he didn't want him to enter the palace, he just wanted him to grow up simply and normally, but what did this child say in order to repay his father's nurturing grace, he must take over his position."

"Father-in-law Ma worked hard to raise this child, naturally it was not allowed, but I didn't expect this child to secretly go out by himself to clean himself, Father-in-law Ma couldn't, grateful for the child's heart, so he sent him to the emperor, the emperor was also quite moved when he heard this story, so he allowed Ruilin to stay by his side."

"This Ruilin does things quickly and simply, which is very reassuring, and the emperor is quite satisfied with him. But unexpectedly, Grandpa Ma died as soon as he returned to his hometown, and the emperor was very sad, but the imperial doctor told the emperor that in fact, Grandpa Ma had known that he was seriously ill and had been serving the emperor until he was about to die. ”

The emperor was quite moved after hearing this, and he paid more attention to and trusted Ruilin. This is also the reason why Ruilin can always follow the emperor inseparably. ”

After hearing this, Liu Ning was also quite moved, if this is true, then this sincere loyalty is really a lesson from heaven and earth. After Liu Ning thanked the old woman, he went home by himself. Walking on the road by himself, he was so distracted by things that he didn't care about the situation on the street.

What Zhao Nan went to find was another victim of this matter, and it was also the person who pushed the blame onto them, Wanyan. In fact, Tang Changyu and Liu Ning knew Zhao Nan's thoughts, but when arranging this matter, they obviously didn't think of so much, just thinking that Zhao Nan was the imperial guard in the palace, and he was more familiar with the people in the palace than them.

But Zhao Nan's heart was quite apprehensive, Wanyan was like a poison to him, he wanted to get closer, but he was afraid, he was about to quit, but he couldn't help but want to be contaminated.

This time for the sake of the overall situation, Zhao Nan reminded himself over and over again in his heart that he must not be emotional, no.

But in fact, when Zhao Nan saw Wanyan, he realized that it was the first time that he was so surprisingly calm.

Wan Yanping retreated from everyone around her, smiled at Zhao Nan and said, "You are here, you have nothing to do now, you have nothing to do with the Three Treasures Palace, let's say, come to me at the cusp of this kind of storm, what is the matter?" ”

Zhao Nan didn't follow Wanyan's ink, so he asked straightforwardly: "Tell me, how much did you participate in this incident, are you the victim or the person who framed us, what are your thoughts?" ”

Wanyan smiled incomprehensibly and replied, "So guess which one I am?" ”

The corners of Zhao Nan's mouth twitched, revealing a sneer, Wanyan was stunned, Zhao Nan had never shown such a look in front of her, and she didn't even know how to describe it. Zhao Nan lowered his face coldly and said coldly to Wanyan: "Do you know, you are playing with fire." ”