Chapter 36: The Gambling House
Lan Fangyuan, who has no outsiders in and out, came in a small house today, and the person who came was well-dressed, with exquisite posture and speech, and it seemed that he came from the palace. He only handed over a letter respectfully and left.
On the envelope, it was written "The princess opened it herself", and the handwriting was beautiful, and I had never seen it. I opened it right then, and when I saw the end of the letter, my blood rushed to my brow. The sun shone brightly on my face, and I felt dizzy in front of my eyes.
This is a letter from Qi Yucheng, but it was ghostwritten by someone else, and judging by the handwriting, it should have been written by a woman.
There was nothing written in the letter, but it was just that he knew that he had made a wedding ceremony, and then a few words of congratulations on the wedding. But I just couldn't do it, I slowly squatted down with a large vat next to me, and then couldn't stop vomiting.
At noon, the kitchen of the palace sent fish, which is said to be a kind of fish that is a specialty of Yunjiang, unfortunately I love to eat and eat too much.
The letter in my hand was taken away from behind me, I turned around and snatched it, and as soon as I got together, I felt nauseous, and I vomited right in front of me.
"Why do you love to vomit so much?"
Chu Zhilan frowned, I vomited so badly, I had to vomit clean to be comfortable, so I hid in the grass on the side and vomited wildly, until my throat and eyes were sour, and I couldn't spit out anything anymore.
Chu Zhilan came over to take my pulse, "I vomited like this, I thought you were pregnant." I took the letter from his hand, tore it in pieces, and said to him, "Don't look, long needle eye." ”
Chu Zhilan's face did not change, "I'll go and prescribe a recipe for you to eliminate food, let Bai Tingyu send someone to grab the medicine, take it every day before meals, I still have the pickled plums I sent a few days ago, I don't like to eat them, I still keep them, do you want to eat them?" ”
I was too embarrassed to talk more after throwing up, so I just kept nodding my head.
"Since this thing looks at the eye of a long needle, don't look at it next time, and burn it if you send it again." Saying that, Chu Zhilan stepped on the piece of paper on the ground, like an angry child.
I thought it was funny for him to do this, so I learned to stomp my feet, and then jumped on his back, and said, "Let's go, go eat pickled plums." ”
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“…… There is a personal guard beside the princess, strong martial arts, often accompanied by her side, once with His Royal Highness the Minister Dao during the fall of the body of the black Mingzhi strange poison, this poison is extraordinary, so far there is no solution. His Royal Highness's life is in danger, and if the king wants to succeed, this poison must be solved first......"
Liao Xuan was silent as she read it, Qi Yucheng pulled out a long sword on the side, and pointed it at her throat: "Who poisoned her?" ”
Liao Xuan didn't even blink his eyes: "The foreign minister doesn't know." ”
Qi Yucheng didn't believe her answer at all, and said very firmly: "It's King Min." ”
An attendant knelt outside the hall and kowtowed to the ground, Qi Yucheng signaled that he could speak, and then he spoke: "The slave sent the letter to His Highness according to the king's instructions. ”
Qi Yucheng put away the sword in his hand, turned his back to Liao Xuan, and suppressed the emotion in his eyes: "What did she say?" ”
"I don't know if His Highness is not feeling well, His Highness vomited after reading the letter, and then tore the letter."
Qi Yucheng smiled secretly in her heart, it was her style. The chamberlain continued: "There is also a man next to His Highness who is very close to His Highness, and the slave saw that man carrying His Highness on his back and playing with His Highness, as if he was ......."
"Seems like what?"
"It seems that I still live in the same room as His Highness...... "The chamberlain hesitated for a moment, but still said truthfully.
Qi Yucheng took the letter from Liao Xuan's hand and read it again from beginning to end.
"Bodyguards?" Qi Yucheng suddenly sneered, Qin Huaiyu's letters are sent every day, and almost all of them are written in detail. Such a letter used the words "personal guard" to hide the matter alone.
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I found Chu Zhilan angrily, pulled him to the main gate of the palace, pointed to Qin Zhun's nose at the door and said, "He won't let me go out, I'm going to go out from here now!" I'll see who dares to stop me! ”
As soon as my waist tightened, I opened my eyes again, and I was already outside the door.
"Let's go, where do you want to go?"
"Casino!"
Chu Zhilan looked at me condescendingly, and my pressure increased suddenly. "Oh, it's said that the casino is closed, I want to go and see the excitement." He put his hands behind his back and hooked the corners of his mouth to signal, "Let's go, I'll take you there." I was secretly happy in my heart, and I smiled as if I was holding his arm, and I didn't forget to stick out my tongue to Qin Zhun who had a black face behind me.
"Still trying to trap me? Sample. I took Chu Zhilan in my arms and swaggered out, and after walking away, Chu Zhilan pulled me and hid in the alley on the side of the street.
"Why are we hiding?" I looked confused.
"I'll just put a score on you." Chu Zhilan tied up her sleeves and said with a smile: "Let's go from somewhere else." ”
Somewhere else? What else? Chu Zhilan didn't speak, just took me to walk around the intricate alleyway, and stopped at the door of a thatched house when I was about to faint.
I can only be glad that it's winter.
"Qingyi, here."
I looked towards the place Chu Zhilan pointed, it was a well, Chu Zhilan walked to the well and patted me on the back, "I'll jump first, and then you jump again." Before I could react, he jumped off laughing.
I was frightened for a moment, subconsciously reached out to grab him, and pounced, so I had to shout his name into the well: "Chu Wen!" You're crazy! ”
There was an empty echo in the well, and after a while, I heard Chu Zhilan's voice.
"Don't be afraid, you will jump off as soon as you close your eyes."
Oh, to put it lightly. I looked around to make sure there was no one, lifted my skirt and stepped over the edge of the well with one foot, sat on the edge of the well, closed my eyes, and jumped.
I felt a quick fall and was caught by someone, I held Chu Zhilan's head and held it down.
He laughed, "Look, I said I came down as soon as I closed my eyes." ”
"Shut up!" I found his ear and pinched it hard. Thinking back to when I almost died under a cliff, God knows how afraid I was to jump from a great height.
I opened my eyes and patted Chu Zhilan to signal that he could put me down, the light in the well was dim, and it took me a while to gradually get used to it. Unlike the narrow wellhead, there is a large space underneath, and there is no wet silt under the feet, which shows that there is drainage. Wells with drainage are naturally not real wells.
Chu Zhilan took me to the depths of the well and extended a secret passage, which was basically without light, and I couldn't see the road clearly. I poked Chu Zhilan, who was walking in front of me, and then groped for his outstretched hand.
I felt like I had walked for a long, long time, and there was a little light in front of me, and it was a wide secret room.
"Who?"
A man's rough voice sounded, Chu Zhilan hid me behind him, and replied calmly: "Cao Duwei." "I hid quietly behind Chu Zhilan, not daring to make a sound.
"It turned out to be Mr. Chu in the Mansion of King Min. I can't thank you for saving my life last time. This Cao Duwei's voice was from far and near, and I didn't know if I could see him, so I couldn't help but retreat.
"Why is there a woman hiding behind you?"
Well, no need to hide.
I tidied up my dress, walked out from behind Chu Zhilan, and when I saw Captain Cao in front of me, I blurted out: "Bearded general!" "Maybe it's too dark in the secret room, this lieutenant is too much like the bearded general who liked to rub my face with his beard when I was a child.
This Cao Duwei looked at me blankly, and then said to Chu Zhilan, "What did she mean by what she said?" ”
As soon as I wanted to explain, Chu Zhilan took over, "She said that you look like the old man she saw when she was a child. I don't know if he meant it, Chu Zhilan paused for a moment, and then added with a smile: "She often misidentifies this old person, especially with a lot of ...... Beard. ”
"Hahaha, it's okay to do this, since it is the person brought by Mr. Chu, then there is no taboo, just call me where you need me Cao Fangde." After saying that, he turned around and was about to leave.
I grabbed him quickly, "Bearded Lieutenant, can you take us to see the treasures seized in the gambling house?" ”
He didn't seem to expect me to be so enthusiastic, he looked at me holding his arm, and then at Chu Zhilan behind me, I seemed to see a red face under his beard.
"Hey, that's naturally okay, go, girl, I'll show you something." Obviously, this Cao Duwei didn't recognize who I was.
"All kinds of jade, jewelry, jewelry, and exotic treasures." Cao Fangde opened boxes of gold and silver, and I was stunned.
I pointed to a pigeon-egg-sized Dongzhu placed on the side alone, and said to Chu Zhilan: "I have never seen such a big one." ”
Chu Zhilan didn't even glance at those gold and silver jewelry, "Didn't you say that there was a night pearl as big as a human head?" ”
I shook my head again and again, "I'm kidding you, do you really believe it?" ”
Chu Zhilan smiled, I know, he is teasing me again.
"That's a lot of money!"
"Rich rivals the country." Cao Fangde closed the boxes of gold and silver, "Of course, it's not that a little bit here is rich and rivals the country." ”
"You mean there's somewhere else?"
"Huh."
Cao Fangde sneered and did not answer me directly.
"Qingyi, have you had a good time? We're going back. Chu Zhilan didn't make any comments on the things in front of her from beginning to end, as if she didn't care about these things at all.
After I went back, I told Chu Zhilan the doubts that I had hidden in my heart for a long time, "Chu Zhilan, there was once a person who said a word to me. ”
"What?"
"If you die, it is the building that will fall, and he will die, but it is just the death of ants."
Chu Zhilan couldn't see emotion in his eyes, "The person who said this must not agree with this sentence in his heart." ”
"Yes."
"He is a man who has the righteousness of the world in his heart."
I took a deep breath and nodded, "Yes." ”
"But he did one thing wrong."
I looked up in surprise, Chu Zhilan didn't avoid my gaze at all, "He's lustful." ”
"Ahh I was stunned for a moment, and when I thought about it carefully, although Qi Yucheng was muddy, he was lustful. It's better to say that Qin Huaiyue's weak son who looks personable is more lascivious.
"If he wasn't too lustful, how could such a person not know the truth of giving and taking, he was lustful and dizzy," Chu Zhilan suddenly showed a playful smile, "My brain is broken." ”
I didn't expect at all that after saying something that made my heart feel heavy, I came to the conclusion that Qi Yucheng was "brainbroken" here in Chu Zhilan.
I grabbed Chu Zhilan's hand, "Then you also have a bad brain?" ”
"I'm not."
What is the rationale for this?
"Because I am not him, I have always understood that what I give up should not be obtained in vain, and what I want to get should not be easily given up."
He suddenly took me into his arms and kissed me sideways on the sideburns, "I hope you can understand this truth." ”