Chu Ji and Lin Qingyu sat in the private room where Zhao Xunyan rested last time, and the situation in Dali Temple was the clearest from here.

Xu Minzhong thought of Zhao Xunyan's plan, and always felt that something was wrong. He let himself wait outside the prison, and then faked the fire, and when Zhao You died without a body, he blamed the fault on the little steward inside, and he was at most charged with lax supervision. In addition, his daughter Xu Yuncai died in a miscarriage, even if the emperor blames him, at most he will cut officials for the people.

But the plan seemed foolproof. He always felt that it seemed too simple.

At this moment, the little steward came out, looked at him and said, "My lord, why did you come so late?" ”

As soon as Xu Minzhong saw him, he laughed: "I can't sleep at night, and I'm worried about what will happen here, so I came to see it in person." ”

The little steward stepped aside: "Then you can go in and have a look?" ”

"No, no, no." Xu Minzhong waved his hand: "With you watching, can I still feel at ease." Xu Minzhong said, pointing to the hall where he was resting: "Let's go, go and sit inside, and you can talk to me too." ”

The little steward felt that Xu Minzhong was a little strange, but he thought that he was afraid that the assassination would happen again, so he didn't think much about it and nodded in response.

Xu Minzhong asked as he walked, "Do you have a wife and children at home?" ”

The little steward looked rough, but when he heard this, he smiled shyly: "Yes, my mother is over seventy years old this year, and my father is seriously ill in bed, but my daughter-in-law has recently become pregnant again, and I heard that she is a big fat boy." Hehe, when I send the monthly money this time, I will make clothes for their mothers, after all, I also want to be a father and endure it. ”

Xu Minzhong glanced at him, but only sighed in the end: "Don't worry, if something happens to you, I will definitely settle your wife and children properly." ”

The little steward thought that what he said was strange, just to keep a prison. What could happen?

He didn't ask much, and Xu Minzhong didn't say much.

Chu Xi looked at the black-clothed people on the second floor, but none of them had knives, and couldn't help but be a little strange: "What does Zhao Xunyan want to do?" ”

Lin Qingyu looked at it: "He doesn't plan to kill Zhao You with his own hands." ”

Chu Ji frowned, looked at Xu Minzhong, and then at Lin Qingyu, his face was slightly gloomy: "He wants others to be substitutes for the dead?" ”

Lin Qingyu bowed: "It's not just someone else, that person will definitely be Xu Minzhong." ”

Chu Ji was surprised: "How can a small steward afford the murder of the prince, and Xu Minzhong and Zhao You just happened to have a feud, he is the best candidate." ”

Lin Qingyu saw that she had thought of everything, raised the corners of her mouth slightly, and held her clenched hand in her hand: "Xu Minzhong doesn't know how many bribes he has received over the years, he used to do it when he was in the local county office, and the absurd thing of acquitting the wicked person who killed his friend and snatching his wife, and sending the woman's family to the guillotine, is now like this, it can be regarded as karma." ”

Chu Xi looked outside and didn't speak, the night seemed to be getting heavier and heavier, and the wind and snow had stopped, but the cold had penetrated the bone marrow.

Xu Minzhong waited anxiously in the living room. As soon as the little steward was about to ask, he heard a noise of gongs and drums outside, and then someone began to shout: "Oh no, it's on fire!" ”

When the little steward heard this, his legs went limp. When he woke up, he pulled his legs and rushed into the fire.

Xu Minzhong grabbed him: "What are you doing!" ”

"The eldest prince is still inside!" The little steward cried: "If I can't save the eldest prince, I will die in it, so as not to affect my family!" After he finished speaking, he ignored Xu Minzhong's dissuasion. Dive headlong into it.

Xu Minzhong's face darkened, and while shouting to put out the fire, he asked people to find out the little steward. Without this little steward to take the blame, he would not be able to deal with him.

But the raging fire seemed to be crazy, rushing from the inside to the outside. It burned like a giant stove, and no one could get into it.

Lin Qingyu looked at Chu You, who looked indifferent as if she had lost her soul, and stepped forward to hug her in his arms: "It's none of your business, I have secretly transferred the other prisoners in the prison, and only one Zhao You will die." And if Zhao You is immortal. He will only kill more people when he comes out. ”

Chu Xi lowered her eyebrows: "Hmm." Chu Ji said sullenly, Lin Qing was foolish: "I have seen a girl with a beautiful face kill people without blinking, I have also seen honest and honest people put people to death because of a little profit, and I have also seen a vicious murderer who will secretly help beggars who are about to starve to death on the street, there are thousands of people in the world, there is no absolute good and bad, no one is truly unselfish, so you don't need to feel burdened in front of me, and you don't need to hide your insecurities and fears, because I like you because of the goodness in your bones, and because you are you." ”

Chu Xi only felt that her eyes were hot, as if something crystal had fallen.

"I can tell you that I must kill Zhao Xunyan, and I will kill a lot of people, I will tear them off from the sky, and then be trampled into the dust step by step. Do you still think I'm good? Chu Xi looked at him, with both expectation and determination. If it is said that in the previous life, every thing they did was a glass of poisoned wine. Now her bones and blood should have been soaked in this poisonous wine.

Lin Qingyu noticed her caution as if she was standing on tiptoe and stepping on a sharp knife, and she was willing to take care of this caution: "The you I see have never changed. ”

Chu Xi only felt that his nose was slightly sour, and he turned his head, but the next second he withdrew into his arms and hugged him tightly. It's like crushing her bones and embedding her in her body.

"It would be nice if I grew up with you, so that I could block it for you at any time in the wind and rain"

Chu Xi's eyes were slightly wet, and the corners of her mouth raised a smile: "You buy me more umbrellas, you can also shelter me from the wind and rain." ”

Lin Qingyu looked at the smile on her lips. also laughed with satisfaction: "Cold and emotionless umbrella, where is it good for me." ”

Chu Xi was dumbfounded: "Did you often coax others like this before?" ”

Lin Qingyu frowned: "When my father wanted to beat me, I often coaxed my mother like this. ”

Chu Xi laughed out loud, and Lin Qingyu also bent his eyes.

Outside the Chu Mansion, Chu Bingsong got up in the middle of the night. Looking at the people from the Xiaoyao Mansion who were in a hurry outside, he asked strangely, "You want me to go to Chu Xi?" ”

"The prince ordered, Lord Chu should go quickly." The guard said.

"Why don't you go?" Chu Bingsong looked at them lightly: "If you want to use the skills of the guards around the prince, it should be easy to enter and exit my Prime Minister's Mansion quietly." ”

The guard sank his face: "There are people around her to protect her." We can't get any close. ”

"Who?" Chu Bingsong asked as he got dressed.

"Lord Chu doesn't know?" The attendant was suspicious.

Chu Bingsong snorted: "Could it be that this official will still tease you?" ”

The man's face darkened: "Lord Chu doesn't need to know. "The matter of Wuji Pavilion is confidential, since he doesn't know, Zhao Xunyan hasn't told a few people that he is staring at Wuji Pavilion at all, if Chu Bingsong, the old fox, knows, it is inevitable that he will not have other ideas.

Chu Bingsong got dressed and went to the Pavilion of Chasing Pavilion. As soon as Xiao Fu'er heard the movement, she was so frightened that she jumped up directly, but fortunately, Aunt Fu was an experienced person, so she hurriedly stepped forward and saluted.

"Why did the master come in the middle of the night? The young lady has rested. Aunt Fu stopped in front of Chu Bingsong.

Chu Bingsong also felt a little embarrassed to break into his daughter's boudoir at night: "You go and say that I have something urgent to find her." ”

"What kind of urgent matter can't be said tomorrow?" Aunt Fu asked.

Steward Zhu, who came with him, had slender eyes: "If you want to go, you will go." Where is there so much nonsense, isn't Miss not in the room? ”

"Where did Steward Zhu say, where is the young lady not in the room at night?" Aunt Fu hurriedly smiled, and looked back at Chunzhi and Xiao Fu'er, who were very frightened: "Don't go in and call Miss yet." ”

"Yes." The two answered and hurried in.

Aunt Fu looked at Chu Bingsong: "Master." Let's go to the flower hall and sit down first, even if the young lady gets up, she still has to wear clothes. ”

Chu Bingsong bowed slightly, and went to the flower hall to wait, but he thought about the words of the attendant. Chu Xi has someone around her secretly to protect her, is what she is doing now also because of someone behind her, who will it be?

It didn't take long for Xiao Fu'er and Chunzhi to come back in a panic, and Steward Zhu sneered when he saw them like this: "What, the eldest lady is really not in the room?" ”

"Steward Zhu seems to miss that I'm not in the room." A lazy voice came, and Steward Zhu went to look at Xiao Fu'er, who was still trembling with her head down, but now she was standing straight, her little face was also raised, and she was smiling.

Steward Zhu knew that he had been tricked, and hurriedly said: "Where does the slave dare to think like this, the eldest lady has misunderstood." ”

"Oh, yes, I see Steward Zhu smiling happily." Chu Xi walked in, her hair all spread out behind her, and her eyes were hazy. Looks like he's just woken up.

Chu Bingsong saw that she was really there, and sighed heavily.

Chu Xi looked at him and stepped forward to salute: "I don't know if my father came in the middle of the night, but what's the urgency?" ”

Chu Bingsong's face tightened slightly: "I came here this time, mainly because I dreamed of your mother." Your mother says you're in danger, so I have to come and see you. ”

A hint of sarcasm crossed Chu Xi's eyes: "Yes, I don't know which mother my father is talking about, is it Ji'er's biological mother, or the current main mother?" ”

Chu Bingsong was slightly annoyed in his heart. But it's not easy to get angry: "Naturally, it's your biological mother." Since you're fine, I won't disturb your rest. Chu Bingsong was about to leave after speaking, Chu Xi glanced at Steward Zhu behind him, winked at Xiao Fu'er, and Xiao Fu'er pointed at Steward Zhu and said, "Oh, Steward Zhu." What's under your feet? ”

Steward Zhu looked down suspiciously, but saw nothing, and sneered: "Don't scare me with anything weird."

Before Steward Zhu finished speaking, Chu Bingsong's face sank, he had just said Yang Peituo's dream. Steward Zhu opened his mouth to be strangely confused.

"Father, I want Steward Zhu to do me a favor, I don't know if I can leave him behind, Ji'er Ming'er will let him out early in the morning." Chu Xi looked at Chu Bingsong and said.

Chu Bingsong glanced at Chu Xi suspiciously: "What do you want him to do for you?" ”

Chu Xiwaner: "The door of the flower hall was bumped by Steward Zhu before, but now it is broken, I see that Steward Zhu is stocky, and standing at the door may be able to block the cold wind." ”

Steward Zhu gritted his teeth angrily, and Chu Bingsong saw that Chu Ji was just a little daughter's temper and temperament, so he nodded: "Okay, but Steward Zhu is old."

"Steward Zhu is only one or two years older than his father, and he is young and strong, if he can't even hold on to this, my father is afraid that he will have to change to a housekeeper with a stronger body." Chu Xi said with a smile.

Chu Bingsong glanced at her, said no more, and left.

Steward Zhu still wanted to follow, Xiao Fu'er stood at the door and looked at him with a smile: "Steward Zhu, where are you going?" The broken door is over there, and the slave will lead you there? ”

Steward Zhu gritted his teeth in anger, but he didn't expect that Chu Xi didn't just want to punish him with this.

(Battlefield Literature)