Song Ran followed Xie Qi to the verandah, and after listening to his words, he coaxed Shaoyuan away on the grounds that he had obtained some rare objects in the house.

In the courtyard outside the corridor, there are miscellaneous flowers, looking at it like embroidery.

The son with jade belt hair led the way in front, and his clothes were fluttering, like a scattered immortal in the world.

Xie Qi led the guests to a secluded tea room, retired from the people, and made tea for her by himself.

She just sat there silently, not speaking.

In her body, he seemed to find it difficult to find anything intense, her body seemed to have a river that would not freeze, and even the cold gaze looking at him at this time seemed to flow, making people feel no aggression.

He carried the teapot and poured hot water into the teacup in front of her: "Where do you start?" After a moment of silence, his eyes fell on the bridge of her delicate and straight nose, and said, "Let's start with when you entered Beijing." ”

"I sent you to Beijing, and I worked hard to let you enter Shen Hanxi's sight, just to divert his attention so that he could make arrangements for today's affairs. The carriage you sent out of the city was stopped by the Ting Wei Division, and it was I who asked Jiang Lili to tell the secret, I shouldn't be blamed for this, if you want to blame it, you have to blame yourself for many things. He looked at her with a smile, "But without this, I have other means." ”

In her increasingly cold gaze, the smile on the corner of his lips deepened: "Don't look at me with such eyes, I just borrowed some east wind to make the fire burn more vigorously, and I was not deeply involved in many things." ”

He stood beside her, with a smile on his eyebrows, and what he said made it impossible to distinguish between true and false: "Zhejiang's extermination case was not done by me, I only did one thing, that is, to kill Liu Mingxian in advance." Although he was framed, in Zhejiang for a few years, he occupied land and killed people, and raped people's daughters, which is not a good thing. Wasn't that Liuniang beside you also destroyed at his hands? Eliminate harm for the people and seek some benefits for yourself, why not? ”

Listening to his strong words, Song Ran couldn't help but say: "You killed Liu Ming successively, and lost a jade talisman belonging to the Mo family at the scene, is it also convenient?" ”

He smiled and didn't answer, and looked at her for a long time. She snorted softly, picked up the teacup, and said, "You go on." ”

Only then did he open his mouth again: "After I got the order of the cabinet master of the Relief Pavilion from the second son, I found the secret stake that was placed in the Imperial Guard, and after learning about Shen Hanxi's whereabouts to Zhejiang, I spread the news, but I did only that. With Shen Hanxi's ability, it should be more than enough to deal with those little minions on the rivers and lakes, and I just hope to be more lively and convenient for me to do things. ”

Song Ran's forehead jumped, and he cast a sharp gaze at him: "Do you dare to say that you and Wang Zhuo are not all the way?" The case of the explosion of the building ship has nothing to do with you? ”

He raised his eyebrows: "We really didn't go all the way. However, what he planned was the same as mine, so why should I watch him finish this play so that I can sit back and enjoy it? ”

The roots of Song Ran's teeth ached.

She asked coldly, "Lord Shen's assassination outside the Chengqi Gate was also arranged by you." What do you have to do to give up? ”

Xie Qi, who had been talking eloquently, paused slightly when he heard the words, and in her scrutinizing gaze, the smile on his face gradually converged: "I tell you this because I don't want you to misunderstand me, but I don't want you to have undue expectations for me." ”

His voice was gentle, but his words were cruel: "Shaowei, you are a used chess piece to me, and all my explanations to you will end today." He gestured to the teacup and reminded, "Drink the tea." It's cold, but it's tasteless. ”

Seeing that she took a sip casually, he asked, "How does it taste?" ”

She said, "Tea is good tea. "People are not good people.

His gaze lingered on her delicate eyebrows for a moment, knowing what the other half of what she hadn't said was, but he didn't bother with her, and said, "I have one last thing to tell you." He added, "It's kind of compensation for you." ”

His voice sounded faintly, and for some reason, it seemed a little distant.

"This matter is related to an elder of the Xie family, and it is also a secret of my Xie family. And this secret is all hidden in the drama of a play that once moved the world. ”

Song Ran couldn't help but raise his head when he heard this, and there was a surprise in his expression that he couldn't hide: "Guimengyuan Liu Erlang's "Splendid Story"? ”

Xie Qi was noncommittal and continued: "Back then, this elder of the Xie family was still a young girl, and she followed her brother to Hangzhou Mansion to play. Her elder brother was a well-known gentleman in the clan, and he liked to look for flowers and willows, and ...... "he added," he added, "both men and women eat it." ”

"At that time, Liu Erlang of Hangzhou Mansion Guimengyuan was famous all over the world because of his outstanding appearance, and many people came here, and this Gongzi Xie was also one of them."

However, Xie Gongzi fell into the flowers intentionally, the other party was ruthless, one was stalking, entangled, and the other was desperately resisting and swearing to the death. So much so that Gongzi Xie did not hesitate to use the power of the family to detain Liu Erlang in the Xie family's other villages.

The infatuated Xie Gongzi never thought that Liu Erlang would look at his sister correctly. After he learned of their adultery, he was so angry that he wanted to break up the two, one was to hate them for betraying both, and the other was because the girl of the Xie family would never be with a lowly servant.

Even when his beloved sister pleaded in front of him, he was unmoved. As an elder brother, why didn't he want to fulfill them? However, his thin paper can't hold their deviant love. If you let it go, something will happen sooner or later. Sure enough, it didn't take long for a will to enter the palace and choose a concubine fell on the head of Miss Xie.

However, Miss Xie made up her mind to break her bones for love, and on a dark and windy night, she decided to elope with her lover.

Their elopement naturally failed, how could the Xie family tolerate the family's future being ruined? They carried out all kinds of cruel suppression and persecution of Liu Erlang, and Miss Xie gave up her love after all in order to save her lover's life.

As sung in the play, in the face of cruel reality, this pair of lovers with very different identities will be separated for life.

Hearing this, Song Ran couldn't help but frown deeply, even if Miss Xie obediently broke off her thoughts and married into the court, how could the Xie family allow Liu Erlang's stain to live in the world?

Xie Qi seemed to be able to read minds, and lightly told her that under the vigorous maintenance of Gongzi Xie, the Xie family let Liu Erlang go, but ...... Cut off the root of his life.

For the sake of the reputation of his beloved, Liu Erlang will never mention this past again, out of shame, he is no longer a man, and he will never appear in front of Miss Xie again.

Song Ran only felt that his throat was tight, and said in a deep voice: "The Xie family is so cruel, aren't you afraid of Liu Erlang's revenge?" ”

His biggest revenge was to write "Splendid Story", which made him and his Miss Xie martyred in the play. Since then, Liu Erlang has only lived in this drama. He didn't know that his Miss Xie was stepping onto the throne of the queen step by step, and her glory would benefit the entire Xie family. ”

Liu Erlang saw Miss Xie again in the spring of that year, when the emperor and queen toured Jiangnan and summoned him to perform in front of the palace. Because his biological mother was born in a servant and has never liked to listen to the play, in order to meet the queen's wishes, he took the initiative to summon him for this play, which shows that he attaches great importance to the queen.

The dream that Liu Erlang weaved for himself was also shattered after that singing.

The woman who once swore an alliance with him was high up at that time, smiling at another man, while he himself was still in place......

After that scene, he ordered all the scripts to be burned and announced that he would never sing this play again, a decision that he insisted on until the end of his life.

Miss Xie in the play has been martyred with Liu Erlang, and the woman who remained in the world has now experienced three emperors. Although she has never given birth to a son and a half daughter for Taizu, she has always been respected by Taizu, whether it is Emperor Yongrui or the saint who has just died, they all have the same respect for her, and dare not make any mistakes.

After listening to Xie Qi's story, Song Ran tried her best to steady her breathing, but the voice in her throat was a little different from herself: "The case of private salt at the beginning of the year, no wonder it can only be found on the body of Wu Anhou, Yan Shining Lord Yan is jealous and hateful all his life, but he can only be pushed to become the murderer of Zhou Zicheng, there is no way to resist, and the hands that manipulate Wang Zhuo behind his back...... It turned out that they were all the queen mothers of the dynasty. ”

Suddenly, a great sense of powerlessness came over her, and she didn't know until today that she was facing such a terrible truth.

Xie Qi looked at her and said: "Taizu once left a precept, called 'power is not specialized in one division', when the Holy Father established the Imperial Health Division, the Queen Mother strongly opposed it, and it was also under the pressure of the Niangniang that the Holy Lord set up the Beijing Guardian Division, and sent me to secretly run the Divine Supervision Camp. The saint has been reigning for more than ten years, and their 'mother and son' have been playing a game, and the Ting Wei Si is the sword in the hand of the saint, but the saint has never dared to determine where the blade of this sword will go after his death. Therefore, on his deathbed, he carried Shen Hanxi on his back and handed me a 'Decree of Establishing a Prince'. ”

Xie Qi's eyes flashed with a dark light, his pale red lips opened and closed, and he spit out a sentence:

"Sister Shaowei, the era of Ting Weisi is over."

His words were like a heavy hammer hitting Song Ran's chest. Barely breathing, she turned her head slowly and looked out the door, only to find the sunlight dazzling, making it difficult to open her eyes. She wanted to get up, but it was as if she was fixed in her seat, unable to leave.

Xie Qi looked at the girl in front of him, and suddenly felt a little sorry for her. He remembered the first time he saw her, the little body curled up in the firewood room that did not see the light of day, obviously terminally ill, but always hanging a faint breath. Even the divine doctor Chu Qianyang said that he had never seen a little girl who was so sick that she still refused to swallow her breath.

Obviously, if you swallow your breath, it will be more relaxed.

He reached out to her, but slowly withdrew it before touching her face.

He is more romantic than anyone else, but he is also more rational than anyone else.

There are some people that he can't touch.

He narrowed his gaze and said, "After drinking this tea, I'll send you back." ”