Tong Yuqing was stunned for a long time, and suddenly pulled an extremely ugly smile.

"I'm afraid that you can't take out the two thousand taels, so you lie to me with this kind of nonsense?"

Yu Chong replied with silence, his dark eyes so deep that he couldn't detect a hint of joke. Tong Yuqing was stupid there, and he was also stunned for a long time before finding his voice.

"Is there someone in the building making trouble? Enke accidentally injured her in a fight? ”

He shook his head, "No one is making trouble, she was killed." In the entire Qinglou, she alone died. ”

Tong Yuqing was confused by this sudden news. She touched her heart, sad for Lan Chu's death, and glad that no one would doubt her identity after Lan Chu's death.

"If you don't believe me, I can show you around."

She subconsciously shook her head, "Why did she die?" ”

"Half an hour after we left, someone found her dead in the house."

Suddenly remembering what the Qi Lord said in his mind, Tong Yuqing's fingertips turned white, and he told Yu Chong everything he had heard. Yu Chong frowned after hearing this, "Did you really bump into Cheng Zirui yesterday?" ”

"Do you think I'm joking with you?"

Yu Chong's eyes were cold, Cheng Zirui's city was not ordinarily deep, even the people in front of him might not be able to understand his thoughts. Cheng Zirui was already more attentive to Tong Yuqing, and according to his usual style of acting, it was impossible to let her go so lightly.

"After hearing such a big thing, how can he still let you go?"

"I slipped away on my own."

Hearing this, Yu Chong's frowning brows deepened twice, "In the future, you have to have such an awareness before Cheng Zirui notices you, don't wait until he sees you before you can afford to run away." He's already let you get away once, and you're not so lucky the next time. ”

"Didn't you say you had you to protect me?"

Yu Chong smiled helplessly, reached out and stroked her plain face. "Naturally, nothing like that will happen to me if I'm by your side, but...... There will always be times when there is negligence. ”

Tong Yuqing could hear the pity in his tone, and his heart was complicated and indescribable. After pondering and pondering, hesitating and hesitating, she finally opened her mouth.

"I'm ...... Lan Chu," she paused for a long time, but still hid those things. Lan Chu saved my life. ”

Slur over.

Yu Chong hugged her into his arms and gently patted her smooth back.

"I shouldn't have made a fuss last night, if I had asked you for money to ransom someone, she wouldn't have died." Tong Yuqing left his embrace, covered her face with her two hands, and said in a muffled voice: "Her family is in the middle of the road, and she was sold into the Qinglou by her father." After a few tosses, the good girl doesn't know how many times she has been ruined. met someone unladylike, and deceived a relationship in vain. Believe it or not, she used to be a good girl, otherwise she wouldn't have risked her life to save me......"

Speaking of this, Tong Yuqing was already crying. After the death of her family, she never showed these vulnerabilities in front of anyone, and the happiness that was cold and hard just now turned into heavy remorse and apology, weighing on her like a mountain.

Lan Chu is the real Tong Yuqing, who should have married into the Yu Mansion as a young lady, and should have lived a life of being served by others. And her appearance disturbed Lan Chu's fate, and she was the culprit who killed Lan Chu.

Yu Chong's heart was pricked twice, and he pulled her two hands down, and wiped away the tears that blurred her face with her own hands. "Silly girl, she doesn't blame you for her death."

Tong Yuqing pushed his hand away, "I gave her money to redeem herself, urging her to follow that man back to her hometown to live a married life, but I didn't expect that man to sell her again!" It was I who pushed her into the wolf's den, I hid my selfishness, I hurt her. ”

Yu Chong buckled her head back to her chest, and all she could hear in her ears was the pounding heartbeat. The seemingly thin body seemed so strong and safe, that her rotten heart suddenly became stable.

"What now?"

"Don't think about it."

Tong Yuqing said in a sullen voice: "Lan Chu died after hearing those words, and I also heard those words, are they going to kill me too?" ”

Yu Chong's eyes lit up, "No, I'm here." ”

After eating something simply, Tong Yuqing lay back down. After a while, I heard Qing'an enter the house, and said directly to Yu Chong in front of her: "After Lan Chu died last night, Lord Qi also died this morning. ”

Qing'an paused, "Is it the prime minister's hand?" The prime minister has always been towards the crown prince, and Lord Qi is the person of the seventh prince. The two sides have been fighting openly and secretly for so long, will they work this matter? ”

"No, it won't." Yu Chong replied very simply. "With Cheng Zirui's eyeliner and ability, can he not know that the prime minister is greedy for military salaries? But the whole court is connected, and it affects the whole body. Regarding the military salary, probably Cheng Zirui also ate a lot of it. Even if he doesn't eat it himself, his men will always eat it. If he tracks it down, he can't hide from it at all. Since you can't hide from it, what's the fuss? ”

Yu Chong only answered whether there would be trouble between the two sides of Qing'an, but he didn't say who killed Lan Chu. Although he didn't say it explicitly, Tong Yuqing already had the answer in his heart.

Lan Chu died in the middle of the night, and Lord Qi died early, if it was the same group, they would not have killed people at all. At that time, Lord Qi's voice was extremely soft, and no one else knew about it except the four of them. Lord Qi is Cheng Zirui's person, and Lan Chu was killed shortly after they left, so it is conceivable that the person who killed Lan Chu was the Seventh Prince, Cheng Zirui.

How can a person who can achieve the position of prime minister not have some means? Lord Qi was only targeted by the prime minister when he showed his feet, and he simply killed him if he didn't do anything.

Tong Yuqing's eyes flashed with pain and hatred. Power is a good thing, it can easily take a human life, and it can erase all the marks of existence in a plain way. She hated in her heart, hated the powers, and hated her own incompetence.

Her cold hand was suddenly clenched tightly, and she looked up, just in time to crash into the depth. Yu Chong probably thought that the coldness of her hands was afraid that Cheng Zirui would kill her, and the corners of her lips pulled a reassuring smile.

"Don't be afraid, with me, no one can hurt you."

She looked dazed, "You also said that there will be times when you are negligent." ”

Yu Chong tightened the hand that was holding her. "If that's the case, I'll die with you."

Qing'an shuddered, snorted coldly and left. As soon as he walked on his front foot, Yu Chong increased the strength in his hands. Tong Yuqing was in pain and wanted to withdraw her hand, but Yu Chong took the opportunity to pull her to him, "Promise me, you will be as far away from him as you can next time." ”

On the Seven Princes' Mansion.

Cheng Zirui came back from the court, and walked to the study with a few adults dressed in official mansions behind him. Seeing that Ziyue was still kneeling in place, she didn't have the slightest pity for the jade, but just sneered.

Hearing that disdain, Ziyue's heart throbbed a few more times. Ziyue has been following Cheng Zirui for so long, and his footsteps are all too familiar. She knelt there with her head bowed and behaved, and only when the familiar footsteps came to her side did she kowtow and shouted in a respectful voice: "Lord Wang, you are back." ”

An adult behind recognized Ziyue and said in a slurp: "Isn't this Ziyue girl, why are you kneeling here?" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, someone around him pulled him. The adult realized that he had an extra mouth, and quickly looked up at the face of the Seventh Prince, Cheng Zirui. Cheng Zirui glanced at him coldly, and said in a cold voice: "Naturally, I knelt when I did something wrong." Master Li is so curious, he can also kneel down and ask her. ”

Speaking this, Lord Li's face instantly turned ugly, and he apologized repeatedly. Cheng Zirui pursed his lips tightly, and entered the study directly without looking at Ziyue.

The meaning of that sentence just now is obvious, whoever says a word to Ziyue again, or wonders why Ziyue is kneeling here, the next person who needs to kneel and ask for guilt may be him.

In this way, no one dares to say a word.

After more than an hour, Cheng Zirui finished discussing things with several adults, Ziyue breathed a sigh of relief, and straightened her back with the last strength. But when those adults left, Cheng Zirui still didn't mean to ask her to go in and lecture.

Ziyue chuckled in her heart, the Seventh Prince was really angry.

After another half an hour, when Ziyue's whole person was about to be unable to hold on, Cheng Zirui finally stepped out of the study.

"Lord Wang."

Ziyue shouted so weakly, if it weren't for the silence in the house, I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to hear this sound.

After not seeing Cheng Zirui's response for a long time, Ziyue lowered her head, gritted her teeth and said, "Ziyue knows it's wrong." ”

"Huh? What are you doing wrong? ”

Ziyue clenched her two fists unwillingly, "I was supposed to go to change the medicine for Second Mrs. Yu in three days, but Ziyue didn't go." ”

"Why don't you go?"

Ziyue bit her lower lip, and her strength was so great that she bit that lip turned pale. When she opened her mouth, she could see a row of deep tooth marks on her lips. Ziyue wanted to see if her injury would heal if she didn't give medicine to Second Lady Yu. Being able to heal the injury so well in such a short period of time, Ziyue suspected that her injury was made of jade skin cream from the royal family of the Li Kingdom. ”

She paused suddenly, looked up at Cheng Zirui and said, "Lord Wang, Ziyue suspects that there are people from the Li Kingdom in the Yu Mansion. ”

Cheng Zirui's eyes were as cold as ever, and there was no trace of waves in his deep eyes. "Old Man Yu was rich enough to rival the country, and in the first few years before his death, he frequently went to Li to do business. At that time, the country of Li was in turmoil, and the things in the palace were stolen, and the jade skin cream was just that, what was unusual. ”

Ziyue was like a fish in her throat, and swallowed back the words that were in her mouth. Cheng Zirui walked up to her step by step, and suddenly lowered his body, but with a compelling aura.

"You dare to be so lazy about what this king has told you...... If there is a next time, how this king saved you in the first place, you will give this king how to die back. ”

Ziyue hurriedly kowtowed. "Thank you, Lord Wang."

When she got up, there was no shadow of Cheng Zirui around her. Listening to the footsteps that were getting farther away, her body that had been holding on finally relaxed, and her eyes went black and she fell.

When she woke up again, it was already dark, but she was still lying alone in front of the study.