Chapter Seventy-Eight: Playing Chess
Qin Zixuan put away the expression on his face, and walked up the corridor with a quick turn, Yan Bai's footsteps faltered, "Little prince, this is not the way to your study, where are you going?" ”
Qin Zixuan raised his head and glanced at Yan Bai, "Let's go see my aunt first~"
When the two arrived at Qingxi Hall, they found that the entire courtyard was full of people.
The maid and the maid were quietly drying the quilt in the courtyard.
Lu'er found Qin Zixuan and hurriedly stepped forward to salute.
Qin Zixuan saw that Lu Yue seemed to be lying on the rocking chair and pretending to sleep, the breeze slightly brushed her face, and she lay comfortably asleep in the rocking chair.
"Is my aunt asleep?" Qin Zixuan asked Lu'er in a low voice.
Lu'er nodded, wanting to invite the little prince into the house to sit for a while, but Qin Zixuan shook his head, "I'll wait here for my aunt to wake up." ”
When Lu Yue woke up, she caught a glimpse of Qin Zixuan holding a book in his hand and reading it seriously.
"Xuan'er~" Lu Yue snorted lightly.
He put down the book in surprise with his eyes, "Auntie is awake?" ”
Lu Yue looked at Qin Zixuan's slightly red face, and motioned for Qin Zixuan to step forward, "Huh? Qin Zixuan only felt that his nose was gently wiped, and his aunt's handkerchief brushed from the tip of his nose.
Qin Zixuan raised his eyes and saw Lu Yue looking at him with concern, "You, you won't wake up your aunt when you come, you see, your face is red." ”
The bottom of Qin Zixuan's nose was full of Lu Yue's fragrant gardenia, he only felt that this fragrance smelled good, where could he still think of it to see if his face hurt.
Lu Yue nodded Qin Zixuan's nose distressedly, "You have to pay attention in the future." ”
"Lu'er, come and help me." Lu Yue turned her head and shouted Lu'er.
Lu'er heard the sound and helped Lu Yue into the house.
Lu Yue pulled Qin Zixuan and the two of them to sit on the bed, she gently pinched Qin Zixuan's small chin and looked at it for a while, "Lu'er, quickly bring the ointment to treat sunburn~"
"Yes, Miss~"
Lu Yue took the ointment from Lu'er's hand, but Qin Zixuan took it, "Auntie, your hands are inconvenient, let them come." ”
Lu Yue squinted at the wound on her shoulder, so she had no choice but to nod and motioned for Lu'er to come up and apply ointment to the little prince Qin Zixuan.
Qin Zixuan only felt the coldness on his face, and after a while, the hot feeling on his face finally subsided, and he blinked his bright eyes, "Thank you, aunt~"
Lu Yue looked at Qin Zixuan's obedient appearance, and felt happy, "Lu'er, get Xuan'er some ice porridge." ”
"Yes, the slave obeys the order~" Lu'er retreated.
She said and reached out and touched Qin Zixuan's face, "When my aunt is ready, I will cook you a lot of delicious food~"
Qin Zixuan nodded, the corners of his mouth curled slightly, and his eyes kept aiming at the book next to him.
Lu Yue also saw it, huh? She rolled her eyes, "Xuan'er, is there anything interesting happening in the school today?" ”
Hearing this, Qin Zixuan lowered his head shyly, "Xuan'er finished reciting this Analects today." Qin Zixuan looked rather proud and pointed to a book next to the table.
"Really?" Lu Yue took Qin Zixuan's hand with a happy expression, "Then Mr. Fu must have praised you, right?"
"Uh-huh~" Qin Zixuan's eyes brightly nodded.
"Our Xuan'er is awesome!" As soon as Lu Yue's words fell, he couldn't help but step forward and kiss Qin Zixuan's forehead, Qin Zixuan's expression was stunned, and it took a long time to come back to his senses on Lu Yue's smiling face, his face was slightly red, and his expression was shy, not daring to look at Lu Yue.
Yan Bai, who was waiting in the room, was stunned for a while, and then he suddenly understood, this... This little prince came to tell the princess about being praised by his master? The happiness in his eyes couldn't be hidden, this little prince used to be the same as the prince, he was not interested in anything, he was cold to people, he was old-fashioned, and he didn't have the fun of a child.
But since the new princess came, he found that the expression on the little prince's face became more and more, and he really looked like a child.
"Okay~ Okay, how about Xuan'er come and play with my aunt for a while?" Lu Yue pulled Qin Zixuan up, and the two sat on chairs around the table.
Lu Yue motioned to Lu'er to bring over the backgammon that the housekeeper sent her a few days ago, but she spent a lot of effort on this backgammon, and she personally drew the chessboard and instructed the old craftsman to make it for herself.
Qin Zixuan watched curiously as Lu Yue opened a box, which contained white and black pieces, only to see Lu Yue dismantle the chess box and put it together into a complete chess game.
Seeing that Qin Zixuan's eyes widened, Lu Yue asked funny: "Isn't it amazing?" ”
Qin Zixuan nodded, but he had never seen this kind of chess game, "Auntie, what kind of chess is this?" ”
Lu Yue glanced at her brows proudly, "This is backgammon, come, aunt will teach you." ”
When Lu'er came in, she saw Lu Yue and Qin Zixuan having fun, "Miss, the porridge is ready." ”
Lu Yue stopped the sunspot in his hand and looked at Qin Zixuan with a serious thinking expression, "Xuan'er, go drink porridge first~"
Qin Zixuan looked at the flag in his hand and said, "Auntie, wait for a while, let Xuan'er play this chess piece well." Lu'er was curious in her eyes, and she also stepped forward to watch.
I saw Qin Zixuan thinking for a few seconds, the chess pieces were placed in the front of Lu Yue's black chess pieces, Lu Yue smiled: "Xuan'er is optimistic?" ”
Qin Zixuan nodded, and Lu Yue reached out and picked up a black chess piece from the side, which landed in the lower left corner, and it happened that the six black chess pieces on the chess game were all connected into a line.
"My aunt won~" Qin Zixuan's eyes lit up, and he was not unhappy at all.
Lu Yue nodded at Qin Zixuan, she thought that Qin Zixuan was a child after all, and she would be a little childish and unhappy, but she didn't expect to be so sensible.
It's really distressing to see this child, "Okay, Xuan'er go drink porridge, wait a while, my aunt will play with you again!" ”
Qin Zixuan stretched out his hand and took Lu Yue's hand, "That aunt will also accompany Xuan'er to use a little~"
The two ate the porridge, Qin Zixuan pulled Lu Yue with his eyes and sat down again, Lu Yue looked at Qin Zixuan with a smile and said, "Then Xuan'er has to work hard this time to win the aunt." ”
Qin Zixuan's eyes were dark, and he said with a serious face: "Okay, auntie, I will definitely win you in this game." ”
"Good!"
The two started another game, Lu Yue picked up the black son quickly and accurately, and Qin Zixuan's white son was already slightly at a disadvantage after a few rounds, but Lu Yue looked at Qin Zixuan's face, and did not see the slightest panic, and was still thinking seriously, sure enough, it was not a child taught by the old lady Qin.
Lu Yue was a little distracted when she thought about it, and when she reacted again, the current situation had changed.
Lu Yue looked at Qin Zixuan in slight surprise, only to see Qin Zixuan drop a son extremely calmly. Lu Yue touched her chin and looked at her sunspots, and the way to her sunspots was blocked by Qin Zixuan.
"Aunt~" Qin Zixuan blinked.
Lu Yue looked at the chess surface again and found that his sunspots had fallen into layers of encirclement.
"Oh, you little clever ghost~"
Qin Zixuan's expression was slightly proud, "Auntie~ Let's have another game." ”
"Good!" Lu Yue agreed.
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When night falls, thousands of lights are lit.
At the mouth of the alley in the north of the city, several masked black-clothed people gathered together.
"Boss, the villain has inquired clearly, and it was Princess Qin who was wounded by the arrow that day." The man in black said respectfully.
One-eyed snorted and touched the corners of his mouth, "It doesn't matter what kind of emperor Lao Tzu she is, you have to catch her!" ”
"A few of you, you've been staring at the Qin Wangfu in the past few days~" One-eyed waved his hand and pointed at a few people in black.
"Yes~Boss"
In an instant, the black-clothed people at the mouth of the alley were all scattered, as if they had never appeared.
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The next day, Qin Mufeng went to the Yamen.
As soon as he got off the horse, the little servant hurriedly greeted him, led Qin Mufeng up into the backyard, and sure enough, he saw the fifth prince sitting on the stone chair in the courtyard drinking, seeing Qin Mufeng sitting down, he reached out and poured a glass for Qin Mufeng, "Drink!" ”
The two of them touched each other with their wine glasses, and after drinking a glass Gu Changheng wanted to drink it again, but Qin Mufeng stretched out his hand to stop him, and shook his head slightly, this is the yamen of the office, not the back garden of a mansion.
"There's a new step forward." Gu Changheng put down his wine glass heavily.
"What's new?" Qin Mufeng stared at Gu Changheng.
"The last time I was chasing the clues of the floating corpse case, when I sent people to search for evidence outside the city, they bumped into a team of very strange businessmen, I don't know why the two sides fought, but those people were even more strange, they threw down the goods and ran away." Speaking of this, Gu Changheng paused and took another drink.
"What cargo?" Qin Mufeng's eyes changed, and his intuition told him that the goods in this were definitely not simple.
"At first, it turned out to be ordinary goods, but then I found something in a roll of cloth." Gu Changheng's voice was low.
Qin Mufeng's eyes flashed with doubts, something? Gu Changheng stretched out his hand and dipped it in the tea and wrote two words on the table.
Tobacco?! Qin Mufeng frowned slightly, he didn't expect that someone would really dare to do such a thing as a person who would dare to do such a thing of the Nine Clans?
The imprint of the two words on the table became lighter and lighter, slowly disappearing.
"The murderer of the floating corpse case is likely to be the person behind this." Gu Changheng clicked on the water stains on the table.
Qin Mufeng's lips pursed slightly, and he pondered for a moment, "It's possible." ”
"Then it's simple, those who are killed are either traitors or smokers." Gu Changheng said.
Qin Mufeng thought for a moment, "Your Highness can call him and ask for it." ”
Gu Changheng called someone and ordered him to come over.
The man didn't know when the five princes asked him to do something, and the whole person suddenly trembled.
"Let me ask you, can you determine the identities of the three victims of the two recent murders?" The fifth prince opened his mouth and said.
The servant thought for a moment and said, "If you go back to the adult, those three people have a thick layer of cocoons on their hands and back feet, and the villain deduces that these three people should do shoe rough work for a long time. ”
"What else?" Gu Changheng took a sip of a cup of tea.
"Their teeth are yellow, and they look like old smoking guns."
Gu Changheng nodded, waved his hand to signal him to step back, his eyes looked at Qin Mufeng: "What do you think about this?" ”
The corners of Qin Mufeng's mouth hooked slightly, "They are together." ”
"That's right." Gu Changheng nodded his finger on the table, the deaths of these three people must be related to the underground tobacco shop they want to track, either the farmers who helped them grow tobacco, or the smokers.
"Your Highness can continue to search that area." Qin Mufeng said.