CHAPTER XVI

Zhou Qingzhi still stayed in the study as always, his ink-colored hair was tied up by the jade crown she gave him, and when he saw her come in, he raised his head and said with a smile, "You can count it over, make tea quickly." "Accustomed to Zhou Yunxue's tea, he would rather drink boiled water than tea made by others now.

Zhou Yunxue looked at the smiling face that was as beautiful as a demon, blinked her eyes fiercely, and then sat down at the coffee table, a pot of tea was brewed, Zhou Qingzhi picked up a cup with satisfaction, took a sip, and said, "What are you busy with today?" "Usually she came early, but today she is half an hour late.

"I went to my grandmother."

"How?"

"My dad is going to renew the strings."

"You don't want to?" Zhou Qing's way

Zhou Yunxue picked up the book on the table and said, "I'm going to my grandmother's place today, and I don't know which one I will choose." ”

Zhou Qingzhi smiled: "Didn't you choose for your father?" ”

Zhou Yunxue glanced at him faintly and said, "I'm afraid there are not only hawthorns and pomegranates in my yard." ”

Zhou Qingzhi nodded generously and said, "No less than five people." ”

Zhou Yunxue couldn't figure out that there were so many people from his place, and not seeing the secret guard didn't mean that she didn't know that there were a few people in the big family, but he was a child picked up by the Hou Mansion, how could there be so many such people around him, and it would take a lot of effort to raise two people like hawthorn and pomegranate, and there were no less than five in her yard.

Zhou Yunxue narrowed her eyes, "Who are you?" ”

Zhou Qingzhi snorted and said with a smile: "You only ask now if it will be too late." ”

Zhou Yunxue also smiled, it was indeed late, but she knew that he had no ill will towards her, so it didn't matter, no matter which way he was a cow ghost and snake god.

At this time, a servant's voice came from outside the door, "Master, Du Gongzi is visiting." ”

Zhou Qingzhi glanced at her, Zhou Yunxue got up from the soft couch and sat on the chair next to her, it was impossible for her to lie on the soft couch to see a foreign man, except for Zhou Qingzhi.

"Ask him to come in."

Du Haoming entered the house and saw that Zhou Yunxue was also there, and he, Zhou Qingzhi, didn't wear a mask, and said with some surprise, "The county lord is also there." ”

Zhou Yunxue nodded at him and greeted him with a smile: "Du Gongzi." ”

Zhou Qingzhi, who was on the soft couch, said loudly: "What are you doing here." ”

"I'm looking for you."

Zhou Yunxue saw that Du Haoming was not surprised by Zhou Qingzhi's face, he must have seen it, and when he saw that the two had something to discuss, he got up and said, "Second uncle, then I'll go back first." ”

"No, sit down." Zhou Qingzhi and Zhou Yunxue just sat down, Zhou Qingzhi knew everything she was going to do, but she didn't know anything about him, so she was inevitably a little curious, since he wanted her to listen to what he was polite about.

Du Haoming looked back and forth between the two of them in surprise, and then sat down on the chair next to him, and said, "I didn't find what you asked me to look for, but I did find something else." ”

The two looked at Du Haoming, and between he took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Zhou Qingzhi, Zhou Qingzhi took it and opened it to look at it, then looked at Zhou Yunxue and handed over the letterhead, and said with a somewhat strange expression, "You are probably more interested in this than me." ”

Zhou Yunxue frowned, took the letter and took a cursory look, and her little face was suddenly as cold as frost, this is a letter passed by a staff member next to General Yongsheng to the third prince, the letter wrote that the general Liu Xian and the general of the Xiliang Kingdom drank and talked happily, and shielded the spies of the Xiliang Kingdom, as well as various things about collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country, and each of them has sufficient evidence.

Zhou Qingzhi looked at Zhou Yunxue, whose little face was white, motioned for Du Haoming to go out, took him out, turned around and closed the door before he spoke, "What are you going to do?" ”

Zhou Yunxue looked up at him, pursed her lips, and said, "I still have to trouble the second uncle's people to help me deliver a letter." ”

"Well said." Zhou Qingzhi nodded

Zhou Yunxue took the letter just now, walked to the desk, studied the pen and ink, copied a new one, wrote another one in her own name, and went out to call the grapes, and asked her to go back and get a coral-colored hosta from the dark grid on the top layer of the dresser, this is the hairpin that the mother often brought when she was not married, and when the grape sent the hairpin, she put it into the letter she wrote, handed it to Zhou Qingzhi with a solemn face, and said, "Trouble the second uncle." ”

Zhou Qingzhi took it and said, "Dark one, find someone to send to General Liu." ”

The door was pushed open by a man who looked handsome and dressed in black about twenty or so, walked towards Zhou Qingzhi, knelt down on one knee and respectfully took the envelope in his hand, then got up and exited to close the door, there was no word from beginning to end, but there was a twelve-point respect for Zhou Qingzhi between his actions.

Zhou Yunxue lay back on the soft couch again, but the words in her hand really couldn't stand it anymore, Zhou Qingzhi smiled at her and said, "Don't worry, since this letter has been stopped by Hao Ming, then your General Liu is still safe now, not to mention that you have already written a letter." ”

Zhou Yunxue nodded, hummed, turned his head sideways and asked him, "What are you looking for?" ”

"A piece of jade pendant." Zhou Qing's way

"What kind?"

"Rectangular with a white crane carved on it."

Zhou Yunxue was stunned for a moment and said, "Is it important to you?" ”

"Hmm..."Zhou Qingzhi thought for a while and said, "If you can find the imperial power, it is not impossible. ”

Zhou Yunxue stared wide-eyed, and said with some horror, "You want to be a master?" ”

Zhou Qingzhi looked at her and said funny, "What, you want to accompany me?" ”

"Don't." Zhou Yunxue shook her head decisively

"You're already in the same boat as me now, and you want to get off the boat, no way." Zhou Qingzhi's bad way

Zhou Yunxue knew that he was joking again: "You can tell you clearly what that jade pendant is for." ”

"The purpose of collecting intelligence is like Jin Wei, who is next to the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, but he is just a spy spread across three countries."

"This is too exaggerated, isn't it just a jade pendant, and a good carver may be able to imitate it." Zhou Yunxue didn't believe it

"Although this jade pendant is called a jade pendant, it is not carved from jade, but a meteorite stone, and the only piece that fell a hundred years ago was polished and carved into this jade pendant, so it can't be imitated."

Zhou Yunxue said suspiciously, "What's the use of you looking for that jade pendant?" ”

"I'm just looking for the guy with the jade pendant."

"What are you looking for him?"

Zhou Qingzhi glanced at her and said, "Little girl, you ask too much." ”

Of course she has to ask, it is very important to her, "Second uncle, you say it quickly, I will give it to you below." ”

Zhou Qingzhi tilted his head and looked at her for a while, before he said, "This jade pendant is my family's thing, but we have a rule that anyone who holds a jade pendant is the person we want to protect, whether good or evil." ”

Zhou Yunxue looked at him for a long time, and said in disbelief: "Second uncle, you didn't lie to me?" ”

Zhou Qingzhi got up angrily, lifted the book, tapped her head, and said, "What's the use of me lying to you a little girl." He had never deceived her since she appeared in his field of vision, and now he came to question him, and the little girl was bold.

Zhou Yunxue thought about it, and it was right, it seemed that he had never deceived her, and since she came to this study, he had not avoided her in what he had done.

"You can give me the following now." The bowl of noodles on her birthday was quite delicious, and the little girl's craftsmanship was good.

"I'll show you something first."

Saying that, Zhou Yunxue untied the string around her neck, took out a cyan square jade, and said, "Second uncle, see if you are looking for this piece." ”

Zhou Qingzhi glanced at the jade color and said, "No." "That meteorite stone is snow-white all over, that's why it is called a jade pendant

Zhou Yunxue took the jade pendant and threw it on the coffee table, Zhou Qingzhi looked at her in shock, and said, "Don't fall if it's not you." "It's your mother who left it to you, and I don't know how distressed I am.

Zhou Yunxue didn't care about him for a while, picked up the jade pendant that had already cracked, handed it to him, and said, "Second uncle, take a look at it again." ”

Zhou Qingzhi slightly, seeing her serious expression, he also took the jade pendant, only to see that the cyan jade had cracked, the crack revealed white, he took out the dagger from his sleeve, and gently scraped the layer of cyan on it, and after a while, a piece of snow-white jade pendant without a trace of variegated color appeared in front of him, but the jade is not jade, it is not the transparency of jade, it is a meteorite stone, the white crane carved on the top is lifelike, and the frame of the jade pendant is carved with words in gold, just as he saw it when he was three years old, no wonder he has not been able to find it, It turned out that this jade pendant was wrapped in a layer of green jade.

Zhou Qingzhi raised her eyes to look at Zhou Yunxue, no wonder she was getting to the bottom just now

"This is what your mother left you?"

Zhou Yunxue nodded, when she was a child, her mother hung this jade around her neck, and often reminded her not to let people see it, until her mother was about to die, she didn't know that there was a piece of jade in this jade, and at this time, what her mother left her, she was reluctant to break, so she also saw it for the first time, in her previous life, Wu Changjun was looking for this piece of jade, but unfortunately he couldn't find it until he died.

Zhou Qingzhi put the jade pendant back on her neck and said, "Don't let the second person know about this thing except me." ”

Zhou Yunxue nodded, she wasn't really twelve years old, she just trusted this second uncle, because he would take care of the aftermath for her in everything she did, such as Mo Tao, who was also saved by him from Aunt Shen, and for example, what happened in Zhou Yunxia's courtyard, it was also his people who watched from the outside, and he made her feel safe like never before during this time.

Zhou Yunxue stuffed the jade pendant into her underwear and said, "I just saw that you were looking too hard, so I said it." ”

"If I lied to you just now, what would you do if you say this, I'm going to kill you?" Zhou Qingzhi scared her

"Second uncle won't."

Seeing that she said so simply without hesitation, Zhou Qingzhi smiled and said, "Then now that the jade pendant has been found, should we really turn a dynasty upside down?" ”

Zhou Yunxue glanced at him, lay back on the soft couch and said, "Are you too idle?" ”

Zhou Qingzhi also smiled and lay in place, he didn't have this kind of leisure, he was born to protect the person who held the jade pendant, now that he has found it, as long as he protects her well, hehe, he now has a legitimate reason to eat alone.

The two of them returned to their usual days, Zhou Yunxue held the book, but thought about the affairs of the General's Mansion in his mind, his grandfather and several cousins were in the border city all the year round, and only his grandmother lived in Kyoto, except for the emperor's banquet, he would not go to the usual banquet, in his previous life, at the end of the year, the emperor recruited his grandfather and them back, and then stayed in Beijing, only the eldest cousin and the fourth cousin returned to the border city, and this year I am afraid that I will come back before the end of the year, but I must receive his letter.