Shen Du nodded, invited Chu Nian to sit down on the other side of the stone table, and then personally made a pot of tea for Chu Nian, his eyes swept over Chu Nian's face, and his eyes flashed with an inexplicable regret.

Chu Nian was full of shyness, and at the dinner, she was able to speak eloquently so that the Wang family couldn't speak, and the Queen Mother readily agreed to her dealings with Shen Dui, but at this time she was silent, and even her breathing was cautious.

The atmosphere was silent for a while, and then Shen Dui put down the teacup and said abruptly: "Didn't the county lord come to ask me for the art of war?" Why don't you talk now? ”

Shen Du had a strange feeling in his heart, originally he didn't have much affection for this Chu family lady, when the Queen Mother said that he wanted him to have more dealings with Chu Nian, he also had doubts, but now seeing the girl's shameful image, he felt a throbbing in his heart, her red face didn't look like a fake, but it reminded him of his memories, at this moment he met her, wasn't it like when he met Su Nian for the first time?

It's a pity, if Su Nian wasn't Su Nian, if Su Nian was Chu Nian in front of him, the two of them would have spent the rest of their lives together a long time ago...... But after all, there are not so many ifs in the world, Su Nian is dead, and under his conspiracy, he finally won her once, but it was also the last time.

Chu Nian looked at Shen Duan's uncertain complexion, and smiled lightly: "Lord Shen still calls me Sanniang, since I inherited the holy grace of the Queen Mother, everyone calls me the county lord and county lord, and I am very divided." And when we met for the first time, it was really because of Erniang...... offended, I still hope that Lord Shen. ”

At the end, Chu Nian opened his mouth again with shyness, his red lips pursed slightly, and he swallowed the second half of the sentence back, this look looked in Shen Dui's eyes, like those young girls who were pregnant with spring when he passed by the market.

Shen Dui's gaze darkened, and his chest gradually became stained with a hint of loss. When he first saw him, he had doubted whether Chu Nian was resurrected by Su Nian using some secret technique, and there was a faint expectation in his heart, but she was not Su Nian after all, and that proud Su Nian would never look at him with such a gaze.

After a while, he remembered the Queen Mother's words, sorted out his mood, moved his eyes to Chu Nian, and said with a smile: "Okay, listen to Sanniang." ”

Chu Nian seemed to be even more shy, and in order to liven up the atmosphere, Shen Dui turned the topic to Ming Xiu, "I heard that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was injured, but are you okay now?" ”

What happened only two days before and after, the prince's injury also made the queen mother make a fuss for a while, it was not difficult for Shen Duan to know, but he only mentioned it at this moment, obviously a little suspicious of changing the topic. Chu Nian lowered his eyes and said, "With Elder Xu taking care of him, His Highness is naturally fine." ”

Shen Du nodded, and Chu Nian on the side seemed to be looking for a topic, and after a while, she said "in a hurry": "Lord Shen, do you know the gunpowder that those wandering warlocks inadvertently created some time ago?" ”

Shen Dui's face froze obviously, how could he not remember, but it was the thing that Su Nian used to hurt him three years ago? The power of that thing is really not small, he has been guarding against Su Nian's movements, as soon as he saw her waving her hand and hid behind the guard beside him, he heard a deafening loud noise, and then, when he woke up from his coma, only a pair of crippled legs remained.

I heard that the soldier and the people around him who were pulled by him as a shield were all blown to shreds, and he only lost a pair of legs, which is already a great luck.

After a moment, Shen Du nodded as if he didn't care, the tremor in his voice betraying his fear, "Well, I've seen it with my own eyes once. ”

Speaking of that thing, Shen Duan seemed to be able to see Su Nian's beautiful and arrogant face that day, she had a little regret, she must have hated him.

Chu Nian didn't seem to see the slightest hint that he didn't want to continue this topic, she put down the teacup and said excitedly: "Lord Shen is really well-informed, the little girl has just heard that that thing is hugely powerful, just a little bit is enough to kill a dozen people gathered in a group, if it is put into the battlefield, it will definitely be invincible." As she spoke, she frowned again, "It's just that this thing is really put into the battlefield, and I'm afraid that other countries will follow suit and make it miserable." ”

Shen Dui was excited, drank tea lightly, and replied casually: "Sanniang doesn't need to worry, if the imperial court really wants to put that thing on the battlefield, it will also prohibit the promotion of this thing in the civil order." ”

"Then Lord Shen thinks that this thing is more convenient to use?"

Shen Du lowered his eyes, "This is for Brother Liu, now he is in charge of the military department, but I heard that he wants to make that thing into a projectile, and then put it into something and launch it into the enemy camp." ”

Chu Nian's eyes were as bright as ever, "I think that if the amount of that thing is smaller and hidden in the cuffs, you can also wait for the enemy to approach and make unexpected uses, but if you handle it properly, it will always be more convenient to carry, otherwise if the big guy wants to move to the battlefield, it will waste a lot of time." ”

Shen Du looked at Chu Nian's happy face with a stunned expression, and the scene before Su Nian's death flashed in front of her eyes, didn't she just hide that thing in her cuffs and trick him out, so she injured him?

Seeing that Shen Duan didn't reply, Chu Nian restrained a little, lowered his eyes and said, "Lord Shen doesn't want to talk to me?" If that were the case, I would never be such an annoying person, and I would just leave. ”

As she spoke, her eyes turned red, and Shen Du felt distraught for a while, frowning and said, "How could it be, I just thought of something, so I ......"

"Lord Shen remembered that his legs were injured?" Unexpectedly, as soon as Shen Dui's words were halfway through, he met a pair of flickering watery eyes, he frowned, and then saw Chu Nian burst into tears and smiled: "Lord Shen doesn't have to worry about this matter, no matter how inconvenient Lord Shen's body is, there are still so many women in the capital who admire Lord Shen's talent, right?" Adults and relax, you must have the courage to look directly at your past scars, and the injuries you have suffered are not in vain, right? ”

"You have to have the courage to look directly at your past scars, otherwise you will always be a weakling, a coward."

When the master of the Shen family died, Shen Dui was still young, but because of the marriage contract with the Su family, he accepted the help of Su's father, so he was able to support hard, Shen Dui supported the entire Shen family at a young age, and the huge pressure made Shen Dui breathless for a while, and was once excluded by the officials in the court, when he was young and vigorous, he stood by the broken bridge and blew the wind in an attempt to wake himself up, Su Nian thought that he was because he couldn't think about it for a while, and scolded him angrily, so he woke up, and finally learned to respond to all changes with an attitude of not changing.

At that time, Su Nian woke him up with this sentence, and he still remembered that the wind on the broken bridge was very strong that day, the corners of Su Nian's skirt, and the deep eyes with whirlpools.

Chu Nian was only a little gentler than Su Nian, but now her attitude as a human being is already the same as Su Nian.

Seeing that Shen Dui fell into his own thoughts, Chu Nian hooked the corners of her lips, she was too stupid back then, she couldn't see clearly, how could Shen Dui be such a selfish person, how could she be willing to die? However, that day was not a superfluous move, at least now it seems that his words still left a deep impression on Shen Dui, otherwise, how could he show such a frightened and painful expression now? There's also a hint of ...... Miss?

Chu Nian smiled, it seemed that Shen Ruan's words a few days ago had taken effect.

After a while, Shen Dui came back to his senses, but his gaze at Chu Nian was no longer sparse, like an old friend who had not been seen for a long time, and it was not entirely appropriate to say that it was an old friend, just like looking at himself, a lover who had died.

Although this lover was pushed into the abyss by his own hands.

Seeing that Chu Nian's teacup was low, Shen Duan hurriedly stretched out his hand to help Chu Nian refill the cup, and said with a smile: "Sanniang is really wise, I can't figure out such a thing, but Sanniang made sense in one word, I drilled the horns." ”

Chu Nian smiled and took the tea cup in his hand, his eyes unconsciously swept over his motionless legs on the chair, and nodded: "I am happy that Lord Shen can figure it out." ”

"That's right." This time, Shen Duan desperately searched for a topic, "I heard that the prince was injured this time because of an assassin on the literary test, what is going on?" ”

Chu Nian's face was embarrassed, but he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and he didn't know how to get the words out of Shen Du's mouth, but now he brought up this topic himself, but he said: "I was next to me at the time, that person was going for Lord Chen, but the prince quickly blocked in front of Lord Chen, Lord Chen survived, His Royal Highness was strong, although the knife was inserted deeply, it did not hurt the vital point, but what is surprising is that the assassin just stabbed His Highness, and his body turned into a piece of iron and stone, which is very weird." ”

Hearing this, Shen Duan frowned, looked at Chu Nian tentatively, and said, "Illusion? ”

Chu Nian nodded, "If it's not a ghost, then it's an illusion." ”

Shen Du pondered for a while, and then listened to Chu Nian continue: "From what I know about Lord Chen, although Lord Chen is a little stubborn, he is definitely not a person who causes trouble, let alone provokes people who can do illusions, I am afraid that someone else wants Lord Chen's life." ”

Hearing this, Shen Duan raised his head, a hint of discoloration flashed in his eyes, but he frowned and said, "Maybe it's Xichu's spy?" ”

Chu Nian looked at Shen Duan shyly, but he refused to let go of a strange expression on Shen Dui's face, "If it is a spy of Western Chu, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is next to him, why don't you go directly to His Royal Highness the Prince?" ”

Seeing that he couldn't divert Chu Nian's attention, Shen Duan pursed his lips before saying, "That...... I have no way of knowing, who does Sanniang think it is? ”

Chu Nian saw a flicker in his eyes, with Chu Nian's understanding of Shen Dui's two lives, there was no doubt that he was deliberately hiding something from this appearance.

"Even if my grandfather really did something wrong and annoyed the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother would at least look at my face and would not worry about my grandfather, and now my grandfather has made an internal response for me on the side of King Huainan, King Huainan believes in Grandpa, at least temporarily, and will not easily abandon Grandpa's useful chess piece, now ...... I really can't figure out who wants to hurt my grandfather. ”

She has always suspected that there are people from Qinghe in the Wang family, and if Shen Duan acquiesces to her statement today, it means that there are people from Qinghe in both the Huainan Royal Mansion and the Wang family, and if the Wang family does not, Shen Duan will at least question Chu Nian's statement.

But Shen Duan just lowered his head and pondered, but he kept silent, and Chu Nian already knew it in his heart.

Wang Zixuan asked her to investigate Qinghe, she investigated for a long time without success, it seems that the people of Qinghe have already sent them to the door by themselves, and it is thanks to the king of Huainan that two people from Qinghe will show off here, but the Wang family has long hidden the treasure.

After a while, Shen Du sighed and said, "For the sake of today's plan, we still have to protect Lord Chen, and there are still many forces eyeing Lord Chen. ”

He knew everything.

Chu Nian's gaze at Shen Dui changed from shy to inquiring for a moment, and Shen Dui was shocked to realize that he had missed his mouth, but his face did not change, "Don't mention this, Sanniang, do you know, you are very much like an old man of mine?" ”

Seeing this, Chu Nian withdrew his gaze, lowered his eyes and said with a light smile: "What Lord Shen wants to say is Su Nian, the sixth mother of the Su family?" ”

Seeing that she knew, Shen Duan was a little surprised, and saw that she lowered her head, unable to see her emotions, "General Liu also said the same, but I have some old friends with Su Liuniang, I have always longed for Su Liuniang, and our names are the same 'reading' word, and it is natural for others to think that we are similar." ”

Shen Du frowned without a trace, and a trace of doubt came to his heart, he had known Su Nian for so many years, how could he not know that Su Nian was still related to the lady of the Zhenning Hou Mansion?