Xie Ling's words were very naïve, as if he was completely ignorant of the world, Shen Shishilang's face was pale and quite embarrassed, so he hurriedly approached, specially pulled her sleeve, and reminded in a low voice: "Ah Ling, this Chen Langjun He saved you, and he is now also justifying your innocence!" You don't even understand this basic life-saving grace, do you? ”

Saving? Yes! In her previous life, she was also because of this premeditated life-saving grace, so she lured the wolf into the house and almost destroyed the entire Chen Jun Xie clan.

Seeing Xie Ling's eyes flickering, Shen Shishilang thought that he was moving, and said with a smile: "Ah Ling, let me tell you, this Chen Langjun is a wonderful person, not only outstanding in literature, extraordinary intelligence, but also quite insightful in metaphysics, we will argue today on the topic of 'worldliness and virtue are contradictory or not', and he refuted us speechless, guess what he said?" ”

Xie Ling didn't think about it, so he continued: "Can An be covered with the dust of the world with the whiteness of the bright? ”

Shen Qilang was stunned for a moment, probably because he didn't expect that the sentence that Xie Ling just blurted out coincided with Chen Shuo, and he was stunned for a long time and couldn't speak.

At this time, Xie Ling looked at Chen Shuo, who was also stunned, and said with a smile: "Since Chen Langjun is such a high-spirited person, he won't ask for retribution, right?" ”

Chen Shuo seemed to have just woken up from a dream, and said: "This is natural, Chen Mouyuan is also uneven, and he doesn't ask for anything in return." ”

Xie Ling smiled, and said solemnly: "But I, Xie Ling, don't want to owe favors. Qiu Shi, take my Xie family's treasure and jade exquisitely and give it to this Chen Langjun. ”

As soon as he heard the words "Jade Linglong", Shen Shishilang's eyes lit up, their Shen family already had a lot of wealth, and they had long lost interest in some gold and jade treasures, but there were some ancient books, celebrity scriptures and some rare things that their Shen family couldn't even buy with money, and the Xie family's unique treasure "Jade Linglong" was one of them, it is said that the person who wears this thing can make the skin as beautiful as carved jade, white as clotted fat, and I don't know if it's true or not.

In this era, men also attach great importance to their skin color, and white skin is a symbol of nobility, the Jin Dynasty famous man Wang Yanqing often holds jade Ruyi, and is described as the beauty of its skin color by "the same color as jade", so some people are called beautiful jade, and later generations are more effective imitations, and some people make their skin look white as jade, and even apply powder to cover up defects, and over time, men have become fashionable to apply powder.

Seeing Qiu Shi take out such a treasure as "Jade Linglong" from his baggage, Shen Shishilang's eyes could be described as shining, but Chen Shuo frowned almost imperceptibly, and seemed unmoved.

So when Qiu Shi held a piece of exquisite jade in front of him, he almost blurted out and refused: "No need, since Chen Mou said that he would not ask for retribution, he would naturally not accept this treasure." ”

Qiu Shi was slightly stunned, he was originally a little reluctant to Xie Ling's behavior of sending out the treasure so hastily, but when he heard him say this, he was a little surprised.

Xie Ling was not surprised, she was already surprised by Chen Shuo's disguised Yun Danfeng and indifferent fame and fortune, and she was no longer reluctant, but smiled: "That's good, Chen Langjun's life-saving grace, I'll report it another day, it's just ......" She changed her words, "I also hope that Chen Langjun really deserves this so-called life-saving grace......"

"Akishi, let's go!"

After that, the two were about to step away, when Shen Qilang called again: "Ah Ling-"

Xie Ling turned around, looked at Shen Qilang and said: "Oh yes, cousin of the Shen family, Ah Ling also happens to have something I want to give to you, Mousheng Guiguzi once said: The gentleman chooses carefully, Hugh is with poison, close to Zhu is red, close to ink is black, and I hope that the cousin of the Shen family will do it himself." ”

"Eh, Ah Ling, what do you mean by that? Do you think Brother Chen ......?"

Halfway through his words, he saw that Xie Ling had already taken Qiu Shi and left without looking back.

"Brother Chen, I'm really sorry, I thank my family for being kind and polite, I really didn't know that this Xie Ling was such a strange temper." Shen Qilang said to Chen Shuo very apologetically.

Chen Shuo's eyes flashed with a hint of imperceptible anger, but he quickly stretched his eyebrows, revealing a very modest smile and said: "It doesn't matter, the Xie family is a high-ranking scholar, and my generation is vulgar, so I can't get into the eyes of the Xie family." ”

"Brother Chen, don't be discouraged, there is more than one Xie Ling in the Xie family, besides, with your intelligence, it is a matter of time before you enter the office, and now it is not as good as the Jin Dynasty, and there are not a few people who are high-ranking officials in the court."

During the Wei and Jin dynasties, because the gate lord clan controlled the choice of officials, it has always been "the upper grade has no cold family, and the lower grade has no scholar clan", but after entering the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Gaomen scholar clan has gradually declined to the imperial power, and the poor scholar has more opportunities to enter the court and be reused.

Chen Shuo smiled and didn't answer, but there was a little haze in his eyes.

……

At this time, Xie Ling had already left the Drunken Moon Inn with Qiu Shi, found a carriage and came to a tree-shaded and grassy path, and stopped.

But seeing that there was no one in Siye, Qiu Shi couldn't help but sigh: "Lang Jun, that Chen Langjun does have some intelligence, and he can still refuse the treasure given by Lang Jun, it can be seen that this person is not a greedy person, is he really as Lang Jun said, is he intentionally close to Lang Jun?" But the slave saw that he ...... Chunhua"

Speaking of Chunhua's death, Qiu Shi was still a little gloomy, but Xie Ling continued: "Chunhua may not have been killed by him, but it must be related to him." After that, the whistle summoned Ling Ye and asked, "Ling Ye, didn't you notice what happened in Chunhua's room last night?" ”

Because he had already expected that Chunhua would be killed after the defeat, Xie Ling had already arranged for Ling Ye to keep an eye on Chunhua's room, but the whole night was calm, and Ling Ye did not inform her of anything abnormal.

At this time, Ling Ye also shook his head and replied: "No, all night, Chunhua didn't leave the room, and the slave didn't hear any sound......" At this point, he seemed to think of something, "Oh yes, about before the rooster crowed, the slave saw that a black shadow seemed to flash on Langjun's roof, so he chased after it and took a look, but in just a moment, the slave rushed back, could it be that the murderer ......"

"A moment is enough." Xie Ling continued.

"Then who will kill Chunhua?" Qiu Shi couldn't help but ask, "Why did he kill Chunhua?" ”

"There's only one reason, and that's that he's already guessed that I suspect his identity."

"His identity? Did Lang Jun guess who the murderer was? Qiu Shi couldn't wait to ask, and was puzzled, "But why did this person ask Chunhua to give Lang Jun a Gu, what did he want to get by designing Lang Jun like this?" ”

Xie Ling groaned and didn't answer, but raised his right hand to his eyes, and by the rays of the sun, Qiu Shi could see a slender strand of hair wrapping around her white fingertips.

"Twist your fingers, cut your hair, and I wonder why he designed me like this?"

……

At the same time, in a secret room with a low veil and a stone wall covered by brocade forging, Chen Shuo was standing in front of a huge carved screen of rosewood, looking at the other side of the screen, a man wearing a jade crown and a dark green brocade robe was hugging a woman with a beautiful complexion and laughing and playing.

In a Ruijin incense burner next to it, the rising mist spread out like an umbrella spring, and poured down like a waterfall, turning into wisps of refreshing fragrance overflowing.

Chen Shuo inhaled the aroma unconsciously, and felt indescribably light and comfortable, and after standing for a long time, he smelled the lazy man's voice behind the screen and asked, "In this way, your plan has also failed, and you have not won Xie Ling's trust." ”

"Yes."

"Did that leave any clues?"

There are fist marks on her back, bloodshot between her fingers, and even on her palm, there are marks left by the exquisite jade pendant worn by His Royal Highness, and ...... There was also a broken strand of hair. ”

The man sneered: "Heh, what kind of clue should I have made Mr. Chen, who is famous for his intelligence in Wukang County, so frightened." ”

Hearing the disdain in the man's tone, Chen Shuo replied: "Your Highness, it's not that the slave is terrified, but that Xie Ling is an extraordinary ordinary person, not to be underestimated, because the Xie family has no children, she has been cultivated by the Xie family since she was a child.

When Xie Ling was eight years old, he was able to convince the children of his peers in the clan, and after the age of eight, he apprenticed under Ge Tianshi in Luofu Mountain, and Ge Tianshi was a famous doctor in the Jin Dynasty after Ge Zhichuan, and he was proficient in the art of Xuandao and Qimen Dunjia, we don't know what she has learned in the past five years in Luofu Mountain.

Otherwise, His Royal Highness thinks that how can she be able to see through the Gu that Chunhua gave her so quickly and refuse to use it? ”

At this time, the man seemed to realize the seriousness of the problem, pushed away Mei Ji who was prostrate in front of him, stood up, and asked, "With just the mark of a delicate jade pendant and a strand of hair, she can know who I am?" ”

Chen Shuo said: "His Royal Highness's exquisite jade pendant is engraved with a dragon pattern and a beast's head, which is a symbol of the prince, and His Royal Highness's words already have a public character. ”

"What does a common word mean?" The man asked urgently.

"The handpalm of the maid has written an eight-character with blood, although there is a difference between an eight-character and a public character, but Xie Ling may not have imagined it, and there is a broken hair......"

"What does a strand of hair mean?" The man frowned, a little impatiently asked.

……

"Lang Jun, what's wrong with this hair?" When he saw Xie Ling staring intently at this strand of hair, Qiu Shi also asked curiously.

Xie Ling said: "I took this hair from Chunhua's fingers, this may be what she got from that man when she had a private meeting with that man, but she never thought that this man would eventually kill her."

The hair is wrapped around the fingertips, implying that it is a skein, and the eight sons of Emperor Liang, Xiao Tong, Xiao Zong, Xiao Gang, Xiao Ji, Xiao Xu, Xiao Lun, Xiao Yi, and Xiao Ji all have this radical in their names.

If this is Chunhua's intentional hint, it is to tell me that this man is a member of the Xiao royal family, but his hair has been broken, is it another hint that this prince has already broken off the father-son relationship with Emperor Liang? ”

Qiu Shi continued: "The slave remembers that among the eight sons of Emperor Liang, only Wu Shuyuan's son Xiao Zong was conceived in July, and because of this July Gate incident, the second prince Xiao Zong has always been suspected by the world that he was not born to Emperor Liang, but after Emperor Liang killed the former Qi Dong and waited for Xiao Baojuan. But the second prince Xiao Zong had already betrayed the Liang State and fled to the Wei State! ”

Xie Ling smiled and continued: "Naturally, it's not Xiao Zong. "In his previous life, after Xiao Zong fled to Wei, he did not return to Liang until he died, and he was only thirty-one years old when he died.

Speaking of this, Xiao Zong is also extremely ridiculous, just because of a rumor without any evidence, he decided that he must be the son of Xiao Baojuan, who was killed by Xiao Yan, and alienated his father Xiao Yan, who had raised him for more than 20 years, and finally even defected to Wei, and also held a funeral for his so-called "biological father" in Wei, served the funeral for three years, and recognized Xiao Baojuan's brother Xiao Baokui, who was also in Wei, as his uncle, and changed his name to Xiao Zan, in order to show his determination to break with Xiao Yan's father and son.

"That's not the second prince Xiao Zong, who will it be?" Qiu Shi asked again.

"In Chunhua's palm, there is also an eight-character character written in blood."

"Eight characters? What does this mean? Could it be the eighth prince Xiao Ji? ”

Xie Ling shook his head: "No, it can't be the Eighth Prince Xiao Ji." It is impossible for Xiao Ji to use such dirty means. And Xiao Ji is very favored by the emperor. ”

"Then who else has anything to do with these eight characters?"

Xie Ling pondered for a moment and said: "There is still a point in the middle of the eight characters, which means that this character has not been written, and among the words of the princes, there is only one person's character that is close to this eight characters, and that is Gong." ”

"Gonghe?" Qiu Shi suddenly spoke, "Could it be Xiao ......, the eldest son who once passed on to Emperor Liang" Speaking of this, he couldn't help but be so frightened by his own speculation that he quickly covered his mouth, "Lang Jun, King Linhe, why is this?" Lang Jun has been staying in Luofu Mountain for the past five years, and he has never offended anyone, how could he ......?"