The shopkeeper saw that Shen Yanbai was sad alone, and it was rare to put down his abacus and open his mouth to comfort him.

"Lang Jun is going to be sad, it's just a worthless thing."

Shen Yanbai said aggrievedly: "Am I sad?" ”

The shopkeeper nodded solemnly at him.

Shen Yanbai's face was even worse, and his face was full of bitterness.

"So obvious?"

"It's obvious."

After receiving this affirmation, Shen Yanbai was so angry that he threw the bells into the pile of bells and ran away in a huff.

The shopkeeper looked at him stunned, and was about to sigh and shake his head, but when he raised his eyes, he saw Shen Yanbai walking back with his neck buried in his head, and took the bell back.

Not long after, the woman who had been following Shen Yan'a walked in through the back door of the pawnshop. When the shopkeeper saw her, he immediately stepped forward respectfully and bowed to her.

"Landlord, why did you come here in person?"

"Sent away?"

"Yes, he has been sent away as you wish."

"Well done."

Zhou Zhenzhen said, casually throwing him a big bag of gold.

"Landlord, this is too much! I can't run out. ”

"There are a lot of places to spend money these days, and you have a group of brothers under your command to feed, and this money is nothing. If it's not enough, just go to the Splendid Pavilion, and someone will arrange it for you. ”

"Thank you, landlord!" The shopkeeper was grateful, but then the conversation changed again, "Landlord, I don't know something." ”

"Say."

"Why do you go to great lengths to make so many fake bells, why don't you tell the four princes directly? I see that he is looking for people, and if I can't find you, I'm afraid I won't be able to live easily. ”

"Don't worry, it's not the time yet." Zhou Zhenzhen replied calmly.

She turned her head, looked at him, and asked, "How did you do the things you were told to do?" ”

"It went very well. Landlord, please rest assured, everything is ready only to owe the east wind! It can be implemented after the Spring Festival temple fair tomorrow. ”

"The stakes are too big for us to make the slightest mistake. You can't let Shen Yanbai make a mistake, if you arrange more people to protect him secretly, Shen Yanbai must live. This man is of great use to us. ”

"Yes, landlord!"

After Zhou Zhenzhen explained these things, she lowered her veil and strode towards the door.

……

Black Fog Mountain, official road.

Two horses galloped on the melodious official road, and the two horses were equal. Eleven and Half String walked side by side, and it wasn't until Half String was getting slower and slower that Eleven finally realized that something was wrong.

She turned around, but saw that Banxian had fallen from his horse due to his injuries and physical exhaustion. He rolled on the ground a few times before stopping.

Eleven was shocked, and immediately tightened the reins and turned the horse's head again.

"Half strings! Half chord! ”

Eleven jumped off his horse and ran towards Half String, scooping up the unconscious Half String from the ground and holding him in his arms.

"Half strings! Can you hear me? Eleven asked nervously.

Half String only hummed a few times, but he couldn't say half a word, and his whole body was even hotter and scary.

I think that after escaping from the cottage, I have been in a hurry to hurry without stopping for a moment, and the injuries on my body have recurred.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Eleven couldn't care about continuing to hurry, so he could only pick up the half-string with difficulty and lead the horse forward on foot.

The situation of Eleven and Banxian was very bad, but Zhou Zhenzhen, who was far away in Shangjing, did not receive any news, but was just concentrating on preparing for the Spring Festival temple fair.

- Early the next morning.

The General's Mansion was in a bustle.

There were two gorgeous carriages parked at the door, Zhou Lingshen helped his wife Fang Shi to walk out slowly, and Zhou Zhenzhen and Zhou Yuwan followed behind unhurriedly.

Zhou Lingshen stopped and looked back at Zhou Zhenzhen. She also stopped, and the two of them met their eyes directly.

"Lingli, the first time you entered the palace, you followed Changjing. Don't run around anywhere, do you remember the rules that taught you? ”

"Father, rest assured, those rules are well understood, and they are already familiar with it."

"Well, that's fine."

Fang Shi saw that Zhou Lingshen was still the same as he was admonishing soldiers in the barracks, and he spoke out to stop him, for fear that he would scare Zhou Zhenzhen.

"Alright, don't be so fierce. Lingli is a clever girl, don't teach her about your barracks rules. ”

"Okay, well, Madame is what she says. I won't say it, I won't say it. Zhou Lingshen coaxed the Fang clan.

"Father, it's not too early, let's go into the palace quickly." Zhou Yuwan reminded softly.

Zhou Yuwan stretched out her hand to take Zhou Zhenzhen's hand, smiled gently, and said, "Sister Lingli, let's take a carriage, and let my father and mother sit in the same car?" ”

Zhou Zhenzhen replied: "Everything is arranged by the eldest sister. ”

Zhou Zhenzhen didn't say anything superfluous, just smiled. Soon, the four of them got into the carriage one after the other and headed to the palace.

At the gate of the house, a pair of eyes stared at the carriage like a poisonous snake. The pair of double-line hibiscus soft-soled shoes hurriedly skimmed in front of me again.

……

At ten o'clock at noon, the carriage of the Zhou family creaked and stopped at the gate of the palace. The four of them stepped on the footstool and stepped out of the carriage, and not far away there were already attendants walking towards them with small steps.

"The slave has seen the general. General, the palace banquet has begun, and His Majesty has specially come to welcome the general to the table. ”

"Okay, lead the way."

The chamberlain immediately led the Zhou family into the palace gate.

Fang went to the palace banquet, and the waiter retreated very well.

Zhou Lingshen still supported the Fang clan and solemnly bowed to His Majesty under the gaze of the ministers.

- "Minister Zhou Lingshen to see my emperor!" ”

"The courtiers see my emperor."

"Courtiers see my emperor."

The three members of the Zhou family immediately bowed to the Son of Heaven, and only Zhou Zhenzhen was obviously half a beat slower. She didn't even say hello, she just knelt down straight and kowtowed. The movements are regular, but they are still awkward and stiff when they look at it.

The little county lord of the Pingyang Hou Mansion grew up in Jinling City since he was a child, and he has never met the Son of Heaven. This time it was the first time to enter the palace, but she never thought that the monarch that Ah Weng said back then would now be like this.

Time is really unforgiving.

Zhou Zhenzhen was distracted, and she was a step late when she got up. This made the man on top of the throne curious.

"Zhou Aiqing, who is the girl behind you? I remember that you only had two daughters, could it be that this is the youngest in the family? ”

Zhou Zhenzhen listened, she knew that Emperor Jing'an had misunderstood.

Zhou Lingshen opened his mouth to explain, "Your Majesty misunderstood, the youngest daughter of the minister's family did not come today. It's a shame to say that these are all romantic debts caused by the minister when he was young. The minister is not afraid of His Majesty's jokes, my daughter was only found from Jiangnan last month. She and her mother have been living a hard life all these years, so the minister took their mother and daughter into the house, just wanting to make up for their mother and daughter. ”

After listening to Zhou Lingshen's absurd and barbaric explanation, Emperor Jing'an didn't doubt it at all, but laughed out loud, pointed at Zhou Lingshen and shook his head.

"You are a good person at leading soldiers to fight, but emotional things are still so unclear!"

"Yes, Your Majesty taught you."

Emperor Jing'an raised his hand and waved, "Okay, Zhou Aiqing, take a seat." ”

Hearing this, Zhou Lingshen bowed again and then walked to the banquet. The four of them sat down in turn.

After taking the seat, Zhou Zhenzhen began to peek around eagerly. But these small actions of hers have long been seen by Zhou Lingshen.

He coughed lightly twice as a reminder, and Zhou Zhenzhen immediately understood what he meant and relented.

Seeing Zhou Zhenzhen lowering her eyes, Zhou Lingshen picked up the wine cup and drank it all.

Who she is looking for Zhou Lingshen doesn't know, he is just afraid that Zhou Zhenzhen will be young and vigorous, and it will be difficult to end up in trouble at that time.

Zhou Zhenzhen lowered her head and took a sip of the spirit, the smell of wine spreading between her lips and teeth, stimulating her taste buds. She was a little unaccustomed to this kind of liquor, and immediately frowned, and put the cup down again.

Zhou Yuwan, who was sitting next to her, was also keenly aware of her uneasiness, so she gently beckoned the palace people who came to serve behind her to replace the liquor in front of Zhou Zhenzhen and replaced it with a mellow and intoxicating fruit wine.

"Aren't you a little uncomfortable when you first come back to the palace?" Zhou Yuwan asked gently.

Zhou Zhenzhen smiled and nodded, which was a tacit acquiescence.

"It's okay, that's what the palace banquet is. The first time I entered the palace with my father, I was in a similar state to you, so it's good to get used to it, so don't worry too much. Let's just bury our heads in eating, just ignore the rest of the things, and go to Qinglong Temple to worship our ancestors after noon. Then we'll be able to move around. ”

"The eldest sister is very knowledgeable, and I really have never heard of these things."

"Why, I'm just a few years older than you. These things were originally Song ......"

Zhou Yuwan wanted to speak and stopped.

Zhou Zhenzhen snorted and looked at her. But Zhou Yuwan just smiled in the end, and didn't seem to plan to continue.

"Forget it, it was all a long time ago. Today, let's just eat and drink well, and ignore our father. ”

"Okay, then I'll follow the eldest sister and don't go anywhere today."

The two sisters whispered a few words, and after a while, they only heard a voice from an attendant outside the main hall—

"Complement each other!"

This shout directly made Zhou Zhenzhen's nerves tense so much that she forgot to put down the fruit wine she was holding in her hand. A pair of eyes followed his footsteps and stared at him, as if he was going to see through Li Anhuai in the next second.

The wine cup in Zhou Zhenzhen's hand was trembling, and the fruit wine in the cup shook slightly. Zhou Yuwan saw that Zhou Zhenzhen was a little abnormal, so she followed her line of sight and also saw Li Anhuai.

She didn't know why Zhou Zhenzhen stared at Li Anhuai with such a strange expression, she didn't think deeply, she just felt that Zhou Zhenzhen was entering the palace for the first time, and she was a little nervous.

She stretched out her hand and took the wine cup in Zhou Zhenzhen's hand and put it on the table.

"That is the current Lord Shoufu Li Anhuai, who is a person that His Majesty trusts and is close to."

"Eldest sister, what did you say? Your Majesty trusts him? ”

"yes." Zhou Yuwan put a handful of vegetables on the plate in front of her for her, and continued: "You just came to Beijing and don't know. Li Shoufu is the one who fought the world with His Majesty. Saved His Majesty from danger several times, expanded the territory and defended the country in his prime, and now retreats into the background and becomes the first assistant. ”

After listening to Zhou Yuwan's short introduction, Zhou Zhenzhen once again refreshed her perception of Li Anhuai

——The so-called loyal ministers and good generals are just relying on the glory of fighting the world with the king when they were young, and now they have become wolf ambitions and ill-intentioned ministers.

No man is content.

This is true!

Zhou Zhenzhen stared at Li Anhuai coldly, unconsciously revealing a sneer.

Zhou Yuwan was even more confused when she saw Zhou Zhenzhen showing this smile, but as a beautiful girl, she still reminded Zhou Zhenzhen in friendship.

"Sister Lingli, this is the palace, we are just the courtiers, and we can't look at any minister with the kind of eyes you just have. If people find out, it will cause trouble for my father. ”

Hearing Zhou Yuwan's reminder, Zhou Zhenzhen retracted her gaze again and lowered her head to admit her mistake.

"The lesson of the eldest sister is that the first time I entered the palace was also the first time I saw Lord Shousuke, so I lost my demeanor and almost caused a big disaster."

Zhou Zhenzhen said this, but her eyes still couldn't stop glancing at Li Anhuai, and the hatred was really hard to dissipate.

At this moment, if Zhou Zhenzhen's eyes would kill people, I am afraid that Li Anhuai would have been dismantled a long time ago.