Shen Hanxi walked on the road to the Musk Lan Palace, he had walked this road countless times, and the scene inside the palace walls, except for the change of seasons, had not changed any other way. Everywhere there are lowly-faced palace people, with different hearts, toiling for wealth and power, chasing after those things that will eventually turn to dust.

Under the guidance of his chamberlain, he walked through the layers of palace curtains and came to the deepest part of the Musk Lan Palace.

Behind the curtain sat a graceful and luxurious woman. Young and being favored. But so what? There are still many concubines who are as favored as her, and there are even more people waiting in line behind her to replace her. They are prettier than her, younger than her, and know how to capture a man's heart better than she does.

He greeted him and waited for the palace people to retreat, but before she could explain her intentions, she couldn't hold her breath and opened her mouth: "Lord Shen has caught someone?" ”

Shen Hanxi's tone was cool: "Concubine Yi cares about him so much, but it makes the minister even more suspicious of the relationship between Niangniang and him." ”

After hanging the curtain, he was silent for a while, and said pretendedly: "This palace also cares about Lord Shen. If you can't catch someone, it will affect Lord Shen's career, and this palace will not be happy. ”

He took a few steps forward, and the shadow that fell on the curtain was much larger, giving people an invisible oppression: "Whether Niangniang really doesn't want to go, the minister knows it." Don't forget, you and your ministers are grasshoppers tied to a rope, and if something goes wrong, you and your ministers will suffer together. Moreover, the mother will only fall worse than the minister. ”

She clenched her fingertips: "Shen Hanxi, you are threatening me." When did you become such a person? ...... when I was younger."

He interrupted her nostalgia and said impatiently, "When you were young? It's okay if the mother doesn't mention it, but when she mentions it, the minister gets angry. At that time, the minister was under the fence and was bullied, and because of this, the minister became the person he is today. Isn't Niang Niang better than anyone else? ”

She frowned at his words, but her heart was determined, he was so irritable, he would not react as he wished.

He escaped...... bar.

The man seemed to be able to read minds, and sneered: "Niang Niang is relieved? ”

Her tone hardened: "Lord Shen is here to quarrel with the palace today." The palace is just concerned about the situation of the fugitives, and Lord Shen reacted so violently, why, did he come to the palace to get angry because he couldn't catch someone? ”

She's full of confidence. It's just a Shen Hanxi, and I'm not afraid.

He lifted the curtain: "The portrait of the minister that day was deliberately disturbing the audio-visual, right?" ”

She was shocked: "Shen Hanxi, this is the Musk Lan Palace, you are not in accordance with the rules like this!" ”

"What's even more unruly, hasn't a lot been done? What is Niangniang still afraid of, when the events of that night reach the ears of the saint, it will not be too late for Niangniang to be afraid. ”

He really came to get angry.

Since this person became this commander, he has become more and more unwilling to restrain this bad temper, and in front of his father-in-law in the past, that obedient appearance is really a disguise. However, this was her territory, and she could not be afraid of him.

She sat upright: "The body of this palace is not afraid of shadows, no matter how the world judges." But you should take it properly, and stop killing innocents indiscriminately. ”

His gaze was condescending: "Indiscriminate killing of innocents? It seems that Niangniang still doesn't have a long lesson, and if she softens her heart, I'm afraid that Niangniang will be the next Wang Zhaoyi. ”

Her skin was already white, and when she heard this, she suddenly lost her blood, and the layers of fat powder could not hide the impact she received because of this name. He has really changed, he has become so cold-blooded, he can poke at the sad places of others without changing his face, and he is very at ease.

"You know what the relationship between Wang Zhaoyi and me is." Her fingertips tightened, her face was expressionless, and her tone was colder than Shicai, "Lord Shen, you only know that there is a Wang Zhaoyi in the palace, but do you know what Wang Zhaoyi's name is and whose daughter it is?" Without waiting for him to answer, he said, "Yes, you don't know, and you won't care, all these years you have been obsessed with monstrous power, addicted to the pleasure of life and death, how can you care, how can a little concubine in the harem live, and how did she die quietly." ”

There was more desolation in her tone, and she was ruthless, and said with a vengeance: "She is called Wang Shuyan, she is the distant sister of her wife, her father-in-law was frustrated in officialdom at that time and was demoted to Yaozhou, and her father was still the county magistrate of Yaozhou at that time, because of this relationship, she often came to the house to walk around." You were not socially at that time, you were often bullied in the house, and you were often beaten with a blue nose and swollen face, and she asked me to send you medicine. Why did I get close to you later, and it wasn't her credit? ”

Shen Hanxi didn't speak, he stood upright, his eyes looking at the sandalwood screen not far away, his expression indifferent, as if her words had not touched him in any way.

"The next year, because of her father's promotion, she left Yaozhou with her, and asked me to send you a letter before leaving. I always thought at that time, she likes you so much, it's really your blessing, I look forward to the day when you can come out of the way and propose to her. Unexpectedly, after her father entered Beijing, he had prosperous official fortunes all the way, and she, who was not qualified, also followed into the list of show girls. ”

Her tone was gradually occupied by regret and sorrow, and the words were more forceful: "She has a pure heart, she knows my origin, but she has hidden it ......for me until now" Speaking of this, her emotions finally couldn't be suppressed, and her voice trembled, "In the harem, she doesn't fight, she doesn't show her edge, like a flower on the side of the road, blooming silently." Why did she have to die, and whose path was she in her way? ”

Speaking of this, her heart was like a knife, but suddenly an answer was about to come out.

Looking at the man in front of her who was silently listening to her, she felt a dizzying despair. She was frozen in place by the indescribable despair, and a small shiver crept up her spine.

Perhaps, Wang Shuyan knows too much.

Perhaps, he didn't know anything about Wang Zhaoyi's three words as she thought.

Could it be that in order to hide her identity, Wang Zhaoyi must die?

He said that they were grasshoppers on a rope, but over the years, how many human lives in his hands did she know, and how many human lives did she not know?

He was silent for a moment, looked up at her, and still said in an understated tone: "Niangniang has been worrying too much recently, she should rest for a few days, so as not to talk nonsense all the time, and even remember the matter of Chen Sesame and rotten grain." The minister left first, and there were still people in the court guard to be tried. He took two steps and turned back, "The court guard has arrested a girl, and she is as bold as her mother, and she dares to harbor a fugitive, and the minister needs to be interrogated, but I don't know if she is so ignorant as her mother." ”

He observed her reaction, judged that the surprise on her face did not seem to be fake, and knew in his heart, so he strode away from the hall.

It seems that the timid little girl is not Su Long's person.

When passing by Guihe Palace, he suddenly remembered what she said about Wang Zhaoyi.

In fact, he had seen her in the palace, and he still had some vague impressions of her deferential appearance, and when he heard Su Long mention it today, he connected her with the girl who blushed when she saw him when she was young.

But it was too late, and that day he heard that a concubine had died in the harem, and before he could think about her, when he was invited to the scene, her body had already been rolled up in a straw mat, revealing only a pair of slender feet. Those feet were his last impression of her. He was riddled with trivial matters, so he naturally had no time to investigate carefully, and the case was closed on the same day that he fell into the lake and died.

It's only to blame her for being too non-existent, and it's also to blame her for her bad luck, and she looked away when she was young.

He glanced back at the gate of Guihe Palace again, as if he saw a woman standing under the red wall and green tiles, looking at him quietly, and calling him: "Brother Shen." ”

But when you look closely, there is nothing.

Su Long sat in place for a long time, until his body stiffened, and then he returned to his usual demeanor. sent someone to summon the ministers who were trusted on weekdays and instructed him: "The Imperial Health Division arrested a suspect today and inquired about it for the palace." After that, he pulled the phoenix hairpin off his head, and rummaged through the cabinets to find a bunch of jewelry, "Take these, it's easy to do things." ”

The little eunuch cried with a sad face: "Niangniang, you are almost poor and nosy, and the family money you have saved over the years will be ruined by your mother sooner or later." ”

She sat upright, picked up the majesty of the lord of the first house, and pointed out the door: "Give it to me." ”

Xia Xiaoqiu sat at the dinner table and feasted on it, but only according to the specifications of the prison rice, he threw Song Ran a piece of wowotou, a bowl of millet porridge and a small plate of pickles, even He Lanjue couldn't look at it. Unexpectedly, this girl seemed to be pampered, but she was not embarrassed at all, she ate most of the nest head by dividing it by two, and asked him with an empty porridge bowl: "My lord, can you add another bowl?" ”

Helan Jue really couldn't bear to look at her pitiful look, so she made a gesture to the person behind her and added a bowl to her.

Xia Xiaoqiu nibbled on the duck leg: "I also ate the rice, and I told my grandfather what I should say." If you say it well, I'll reward you with a leg, and if you can't say it, grandpa, I'll make you unable to eat duck in the next life. ”

Helan Jue supported his forehead. This threat is also enough, do you think that everyone is as hungry as a duck like him, a native of Ling'an?

Song Ran swallowed a mouthful of millet porridge and said, "Two adults, the person who has been tracking down with great fanfare in the past few days is not Lord Xiao Yanxiao. ”

Xia Xiaoqiu's action of gnawing on the duck's leg paused, and after exchanging a look with He Lanjue, he looked at her sharply, and before he could speak, he was preempted by He Lanjue: "Why do you say this?" ”

She didn't seem to notice the change in the atmosphere, and while eating, she said: "Lord Xiao's case is deeply concerned by the saint, and if you escape from prison, your lord will definitely order a strict investigation." The contradiction between Lord Xiao and your Lord Shen, who doesn't know about Ling'an City, who doesn't know? There are even many people who don't know the truth who speculate that Lord Xiao was caught in the case of rebellion, and it was Lord Shen who created an unjust prison and wanted to get rid of it as soon as possible. There is a lot of gossip, and it is inevitable that three words or two will fall into the ears of the saint. If Lord Xiao dies in the process of searching, won't you, Lord Shen, be even more truthful? ”

She said, took another sip of porridge, and then said: "However, in the name of searching, the Ting Wei Division is actually chasing and killing. Isn't that right? ”