He was silent for a long time, and found that the wine in the jade pot was empty, so he sighed: "It's time to go back." ”

At the foot of the hill, the direction of the Chu family's compound was suddenly illuminated by the firelight, and there were faint bursts of crying.

Chu Nantang and I glanced at each other, collected our emotions, got up from the grass, and immediately rushed back to Chu's house.

I saw a large group of people in the courtyard surrounding the Chu family's compound, Shen Qiushui was wearing a military coat, sitting on a high-headed horse, wearing a black leather glove hand pulling the reins, at this time his subordinates had almost rummaged through the entire Chu family's mansion.

I stared at Shen Qiushui hatefully, and he looked at me calmly and smiled.

"Zen Heart, meet again so soon. I didn't find you under the cliff, so I was relieved to know that you had come to the Chu family. ”

Chu Nantang said quietly: "Song Overseer is so aggressive, I don't know what happened to our Chu family?" ”

Shen Qiushui snorted coldly: "The killer sent by the Beiyang Army actually wanted to assassinate the Overseer, and I got the news from the spies, saying that this murderer is in your house." Shielding the murderer is also a big crime! ”

I couldn't help but retort: "If you want to add sin, why don't you say anything?!" It's a trumped-up sin. ”

"Did I make something out of nothing, I only found out after searching."

Old Man Chu was so angry that Tie Qing's face turned blue, and he said in a trembling voice: "Let him search, if he can't find anything, our Chu family will not stop there!" ”

"Report ——! Overseer, caught! ”

As soon as the words fell, there was a shout from behind: "Hurry up!" ”

We subconsciously looked back and saw that there were two people who had been arrested, and their faces were covered in blood. was escorted to Shen Qiushui.

One of them had a beard and looked back at Master Chu, who had a twitching eye and turned his face away.

Shen Qiushui asked with a smile: "Master Chu, do you know these two people?" ”

"Joke, how could the old man know him?" Old Man Chu snorted coldly, but he didn't have a trace of courage.

"Don't recognize?" Shen Qiushui looked helpless: "This person was still found in your Chu family's mansion, I don't know a word, but I can't get away with the charge." ”

The man with the beard suddenly said: "I fled here by myself, if you want to kill it, you must listen to it, don't take innocent people." If I blink for a moment, I'm not a man! ”

This person is also a tough guy, not like Shen Qiushui was specially sent to act and framed.

"Master Chu, you can figure it out, you admit it alone, it's better than dragging down the entire Chu family!" Shen Qiushui jumped off the horse, walked up to Master Chu with his hands, and smiled playfully.

"One person does things and one person does! The surname is Shen, and I am the one who stabbed you! You have what it takes to execute me right now! ”

As soon as the words fell, Shen Qiushui raised the gun in his hand and gave the man a shot in the forehead. Watch your companions die. The other fell to his knees in fright.

There was a loud bang, and the screams accompanied by bright red blood splashed in the courtyard, dyeing the large area of land red, and it was terrifying.

"I hate it when people provoke me with their lives, and I am usually very merciful to fulfill them!" His cold eyes swept towards the people on the Chu family's side, and the subordinates lowered their heads and took a few steps back.

"If any of you want to come to death, just come here." Shen Qiushui pressed forward step by step, and stood still in front of Master Chu: "Master Chu, please come with me." ”

Chu Nantang stepped forward and protected his father behind him: "My father is old, if you want to take one person away, then take me away." ”

"Nantang!!" Master Chu pulled him back: "Don't mess around." ”

"Dad, I'm not messing around, you take your mother back to rest first."

Chu Nantang pulled down his father's hand, and his mind was decided. Usually Mrs. Chu loves him the most, how could she let him suffer such grievances?

Crying, he stepped forward and grabbed Shen Qiushui's shirt and said, "Nantang has always only asked about the world, and it has nothing to do with him!" You catch me, you catch me!! ”

"Mrs. Chu, don't get excited." Shen Qiushui said coldly: "It's just to bring it back for interrogation, if it really has nothing to do with your Chu family." I'll let him out. ”

Mrs. Chu sneered: "Just take it back for interrogation?" Then you can take me away! You deliberately mobilized everyone to come to our Chu family to arrest people, how could I not know your wolf ambitions? Will you be so good at catching Nantang and putting it back?! ”

"Mother." Chu Nantang protected Mrs. Chu and said to Shen Qiushui: "Before I go with you, I have something to say to my father and mother alone." ”

Shen Qiushui said after a while: "I don't have much time for you to talk about homely things." ”

"Don't worry, it won't take up too much time, say a few thoughtful words, and I'll go with you."

I looked back at them and walked away, until they disappeared around the corner, and then I looked up at Shen Qiushui: "Shen Qiushui, what do you want to do to give up?" ”

"Zen heart, have you ever seen an arrow off the string and can you turn back?"

"What about Ji Lianqiu? Don't you want to think about Ji Lianqiu? I said in a deep voice: "Since the day you came back, you have been ignoring her as if you were a stranger, will it be too heartless?" ”

"She was meant to be ...... A chess piece, useless and insignificant. ”

At this time, the Chu family had finished talking and walked over to this side. Shen Qiushui said: "Young Master Chu, can you go with me?" ”

Chu Nantang looked back at his reluctant parents and said, "Daddy doesn't need to worry, it'll be fine." ”

"Nantang ......" Mrs. Chu took her son's hand and was reluctant to let go: "You insist on insisting, your father and I will never let Shen Qiushui hurt you." ”

"Hmm." Chu Nantang nodded, stepped forward and said, "You can go." ”

"Wait a minute!" I stepped forward and clasped Chu Nantang's hand: "I want to go with you." ”

"No way!" He solemnly and decisively rejected my request, but how could I compromise so easily?

"Wherever you go, I will go with you, heaven and earth, blue and yellow springs, I will not leave. It's useless for you to persuade me! ”

Shen Qiushui sneered: "The cell is not a guest room. ”

"Maybe I'm also suspicious, after all, I've been inseparable from Nantang all day long." I clasped Chu Nantang's hand tightly, but I didn't let go.

Shen Qiushui glanced at me indifferently, walked forward silently and stopped talking.

Chu Nantang and I were imprisoned in the cell together, but not in the same room. He was across from me, and we leaned against the cell door, looking at each other helplessly.

"Nantang, are you okay?" I clung to the iron bars of my cell, and my heart was pantothenic.

He couldn't help coughing twice: "It's okay, why are you so stupid, you have to be locked in with me." ”

"How can I feel comfortable letting you go alone?" I was silent for a moment before asking, "What did you tell your father and mother at that time?" ”

Chu Nantang said in a deep voice: "I said, let me be locked in, my father can still find a way to find an old friend of the Beiyang warlord for help, if my father is locked in, this old bone will be gone." Before I could get help, I ......"

"I don't know how long it will take to find rescuers."

"In about half a month at most, we will be able to get out." Chu Nantang paused and sighed: "Shen Qiushui probably won't really lock you up for half a month, if he wants to take you out, you just go with him, don't worry about me." ”

"Don't think about me anymore, I'm measured." After tossing for a night, I was a little hungry, I thought about it and said, "Nantang, have you never suspected Jiang Rongwen?" ”

"What did you say about her and Shen Qiushui?"

"It's not. It's your illness that hasn't been getting better......"

"Don't talk about these unhappy things."

"Nantang?"

"I don't know if I was poisoned or not, but I did diagnose an incurable disease a few years ago."

He once said that he would not live to be twenty-three years old, so it turned out to be like this. It's only now that I have made it clear, and I just don't want the people around me to worry.

"Well, don't talk about these disappointing things." I smiled at him, "I'm a little hungry." ”

Chu Nantang looked at the front of him and said, "There will probably be breakfast sent over, you can bear with it." ”

"What if you're so hungry that you can't help it?"

Chu Nantang smiled, rolled up his sleeves, and stretched out his hand: "It's a pity that you can't bite it." Otherwise, you will be allowed to take a bite of the meat and eat it. ”

I reached just enough to reach his fingertips, and luckily, I could still touch his hand.

"When you get to the cell, you can still entertain yourself, but I also admire it." I saw Shen Qiushui with his hands behind his back and brought someone breakfast.

I snorted and lowered my eyes to him.

The steamed bun is hot, and it seems that he has not completely lost his humanity. I took a big bite of the steamed bun and stopped talking.

Shen Qiushui ordered someone to open Chu Nantang's prison door and walked in with his head bowed.

I stared at him nervously, afraid of what he would do. On the other hand, Chu Nantang. Leaned aside leisurely, slowly ate the steamed bun in his hand, and lowered his eyebrows.

"Young Master Chu, you are really bold, you can come here so leisurely."

Chu Nantang continued to eat the steamed bun in his hand and ignored him.

Shen Qiushui gasped hard, wanting to be angry, but he endured it, forced a smile on his face, and squatted down in front of Chu Nantang: "Don't think that I can't do anything about you." ”

"I'm already your prisoner now, what do you want, Shen Overseer has used thousands of means, and I can't stop it."

"Young Master Chu is really eloquent." Shen Qiushui got up and paced back and forth, looking at his own territory like a king.

Finally, he went around to the point: "Your grandfather Bi Wansong is rich enough to rival the country, and he must have left a lot of belongings, right?" ”

"What does it matter to you how many belongings my grandfather has left?"

He sneered and nodded: "Your grandfather's wealth is very important to us now, as long as you are willing to hand it over, not only will we not trouble the Chu family, but we will also protect your Chu family to enjoy glory forever!" ”

Chu Nantang looked at him for a long time: "Shen Dujun, a gentleman loves money, and he takes it in a good way." This ill-gotten gain. It comes and goes as fast as you go, and the way you get it, one day, your money will be gone. I advise you, people live in the world, and do less things that lack virtue. ”

Shen Qiushui gasped fiercely, and stared at Chu Nantang with cold eyes: "Really?" I really don't believe in this evil! What merit, what destiny? Joke! I want to go against the sky, I see what God can do to me!! ”

"If you can't harvest it, someone will collect it. If you want to kill or chop, listen to it. ”

Shen Qiushui's eyes fell on me. walked out of the prison and said: "Bring her out for me, even if Gongzi Chu doesn't care about the suffering of his beloved at all, then I will no longer pity the jade." ”

Chu Nantang frowned, and asked angrily: "Shen Qiushui, what do you want to do?!" ”

"What do I want to do, won't you find out later? In the eyes of your Chu Gongzi, the Zen mind is not as important as your gold, silver and jewelry. Zen mind, is it worth it for you to be born and die for this kind of person? ”

"Whether it's worth it or not is not what Shen Dujun said, Nantang is always more affectionate and righteous than you." I measured him, and Shen Qiushui was just intimidating.

"Okay. Take it down, I have to think about how to torture you slowly. Shen Qiushui smiled and glanced back at Chu Nantang.

Chu Nantang's eyes were full of unprecedented anger, and I said to Chu Nantang: "Nantang, don't worry, he won't do anything to me." ”

"Not necessarily." Shen Qiushui took me out and waved his men back, before Shen Qiushui smiled at me: "Zen heart, I really don't want to hurt you, but you want to embarrass me, which really makes me not know what to do." ”

"You have to have a little affection for me in your heart. He let Chu Nantang leave with me. Now that we can't pose a threat to you, why don't you let us go? ”

Shen Qiushui sighed: "You still don't understand? In this troubled world, the Chu family is really eye-catching, even if I don't trouble them, sooner or later, one day, they will become the prey of others, I just started earlier than them, and I will be more merciful to you. ”

I subconsciously thought of the Chu family's wealth he mentioned: "You...... Is it for the Chu family's property? ”

"Hehehe, yes, family property! With the Chu family's strong family property, I can continue to recruit troops. Grow your power! Shen Qiushui stepped forward and grabbed my shoulder, and said earnestly: "Zen heart, what kind of good thing can the Chu family be?" Do they think I don't know, does the Chu family have people from Beiyang warlords as backers? ”

"If that is the case, why do you want to set yourself on fire? The Beiyang Army now regards you as a thorn in its side, and is eager to find all kinds of excuses and reasons to get rid of you. ”

Shen Qiushui sneered: "These foreign dogs, come one, I'll kill one!" Zen heart, the rise and fall of the country, the husband is responsible. Only by overthrowing the Beiyang warlords can we gain true freedom! I'm expanding my power now. Wait for me to get the Chu family's property, recruit troops, and drive foreign devils out of our territory! ”

I stared at him worriedly and asked, "Are you really, for the peace of the world?" And not their own selfish desires? ”

He let go of my shoulders and took a deep breath: "It's true for the peace of the world, of course, I also have selfish desires. In life, there are trade-offs, or as heavy as Mount Tai, or as light as a feather. Righteousness and personal selfishness go hand in hand. What's so bad? ”

I smiled: "Shen Qiushui, don't say that you are so great, in the end, you are just for your own ambitions." ”

"Without ambition, how can you achieve great things? The big husband is informal, and you understand. Shen Qiushui said with his hand: "Go and persuade Young Master Chu to hand over the family property as soon as possible, everyone is fine." ”

"It's someone else's thing, what's the use of me persuading? You have the ability, you can take it yourself. ”

Shen Qiushui closed his eyes and took a deep breath: "Then there is no way, I will torture Young Master Chu when the time comes." Don't feel sorry. ”

"You put me in there." When I saw that he was leaving, I stopped in front of him.

"How can I bear to lock you up again? Oh, don't worry, you just stay in this house, and I will let people take good care of you." This house is newly bought by me, it has been renovated, you should like it, you can look around. ”

"I'm not in the mood." I put my face aside and stopped talking to him.

Seeing me like this, Shen Qiushui turned around and strode out of the room, not knowing what to do.

I was pacing back and forth in the house, and I didn't know if Shen Qiushui would really kill Nantang?

In the evening, a maid brought food, and I was upset and said, "I don't eat, I want to see Shen Qiushui." ”

"Inspector Shen has something to do."

"Really? Where did it go? I went to him personally. ”

The maid was so frightened that she knelt on her knees: "Zen girl, don't embarrass us to be maids, the overseer said that if you let you go out without permission this time, it will cost us our lives." ”

Seeing this little girl trembling, I felt compassion again.

She added, "The two sisters have been shot last time, Zen girl, you can do it." ”

A layer of cold sweat oozed from his back: "What did you say?" Shot? ”

"yes." The maid sobbed and cried: "Please be merciful to the Zen girl." ”

I swallowed the bitterness in my throat. I don't kill Beren, but Beren dies because of me.

"You get up, I just don't leave, I just want to be alone for a while."

"That Dinner ......"

I thought for a moment and said, "You put it first, when I want to eat, I will naturally eat it." ”

After the maid went down, I took two bites of rice, but I couldn't eat it anymore, so I didn't eat it again.

There were a few books in the room, Shen Qiushui was probably afraid that I would be bored, so I lit a candle, took the book and flipped through it, but I couldn't calm down.

At that moment, there was a commotion outside.

I put down the book in my hand and walked out to take a look, that person was none other than Jiang Rongwen.

When he saw me, he lowered his eyes and thought about it, and called tentatively: "Mo Xiang? ”

I stepped forward and said, "I'm not Muxiang. ”

Suddenly, her eyes were extremely bright, and she stared at me for a moment: "Aren't you supposed to be in prison?" How did you end up here? ”

"What about you? Isn't it because it's in the Chu family? How did you come to Shen Qiushui's other courtyard? ”

"It's none of your business."

"My business has nothing to do with you."

The four eyes collided in the icy air, and the lightning was slight. Then she sneered: "Your good sister Mo Xiang, she thinks she can win the true heart of Qiushui, and she is still trying to do what kind of dream of the Overseer's wife, in the end, she was kicked away?" To be a man, you have to be self-aware, and if you are a lowly maid, don't do anything to marry into a wealthy family! You say, don't you? ”

I stared at the pathetic and hateful woman in front of me and didn't speak.

Then she turned her head and looked at me for a long time: "What? My sister can't hook up, and now I've changed my sister? Zen heart, you are really cheap! thought that if she stayed by Chu Nantang's side, she could marry into the Chu family as a young grandmother, but what was the result? How could Mrs. Chu let a woman of unknown origin marry into the Chu family? ”

"So what?"

"So, history is always strikingly similar, I advise you not to waste your efforts, Qiushui won't like you."

I laughed: "Why should I let Shen Qiushui like me?" Who he likes has nothing to do with me. ”

"I'll see how long you can fit."

"Instead of worrying about others, worry about yourself." I didn't want to pay any more attention to her, wasted my lips and tongue, and was turning away, but she angrily pulled my hand.

"Shall I allow you to go?" She finally showed her flamboyant appearance.

I let him drag me, to see what else she could do.

"What else does Miss Jiang have to teach you?"

"What I just said, did you turn a deaf ear? Don't seduce Shen Qiushui again. With your appearance, you can't even enter the door of the Chu family, and you are still trying to be the wife of the Overseer, it's ridiculous!! ”

I shook off her hand: "It's not that I want to stay here, it's Shen Qiushui who grounded me here, if you can persuade Shen Qiushui to let me go, I still have to thank you." ”

Jiang Rongwen categorically didn't believe it, and sneered: "What are you?" If you are a lowly maid, I will strangle you, and he will not blink an eye. ”

With that, she rushed forward and grabbed my neck, and I let her hold my neck and force me into a corner, and the familiar figure walked in slowly through the doorway.

"Jiang Rongwan, let go." Shen Qiushui's voice was suffocatingly cold, although his tone was slow, it was full of majesty and courage.

Jiang Rongwan's body trembled, let go of me, and turned to look at Shen Qiushui sharply.

Lifting the hem of the skirt, he took three steps and took Shen Qiushui's hand: "Qiushui, this has been provoking me and insulting me just now, you help me kill her!" ”

Shen Qiushui crossed Jiang Rongwan and fixed his gaze on me, I stroked my neck, gasped for a few breaths, and stared at them hatefully.

He walked slowly towards me step by step, and Jiang Rongwan smiled smugly at me, victory in sight.

Shen Qiushui stretched out his hand, and his slightly cold fingertips touched the skin on my neck, and I subconsciously avoided it.

He sighed lightly, "Are you alright?" ”

"Won't Shen Overseer himself watch it?"

Jiang Rongwan's little face instantly turned pale and bloodless, and she stared at me with wide eyes: "Qiushui, what are you doing?" Kill her! ”

Shen Qiushui turned to look at Jiang Rongwu with a cold face: "I didn't say it. I'll look for you if there's something, it's okay, you just stay in the Chu family obediently! ”

She walked to Shen Qiushui's side and took his hand: "Now the Chu family has nothing to go back to, Qiushui, I will follow you in the future, and I don't want to go back to the Chu family again." ”

"Follow me?" Shen Qiushui raised his tone: "You are the young lady of the Chu family, it is not appropriate to follow me." ”

As he spoke, he ruthlessly shook off Jiang Rongwan's hand.

Jiang Rongwen staggered back two steps, and smiled embarrassedly at the corner of her mouth: "You understand, it's just in name." Chu Nantang and I have never had a skin-to-skin relationship. Qiushui, I love you wholeheartedly, you believe me. ”

"Of course I believe you."

Jiang Rongwan burst into tears and laughed: "Hmm! Then, you take me away, I can't stay in the Chu family for a moment! ”

"Rong Wan, did you misunderstand something?"

Jiang Rongwan's smile that she had worked so hard to maintain could no longer continue: "What? I don't understand, Qiushui, what are you talking about......"

"I said, Mrs. Chu, there should be a misunderstanding. I've never had any promises with you! ”

Jiang Rongwen shook her head unacceptably: "That's not right! That's not true! How could we not be committed? I...... I was also pregnant with your child, and I was killed by this slut's sister, Qiushui, you have to avenge our child! ”