Cheng's father is a seven-grade official, and he is quite familiar with slapping horses, quoting scriptures and generous statements, and making people comfortable all over. This person has no ability to meet the source left and right, and he has to be exquisite, he has climbed the first assistant, and he has also flattered the regent, but people look down on his virtue more and more.

"Your sister is an official dependent, and it is impossible to be a concubine from the Ming Road." Chu Zhixia poured a bowl of sobering soup, and his mind was a lot clearer, "Otherwise, it will take a lot of time for the official documents to fall down one by one, and you can't react until today when you find that the person is gone." ”

Cheng Yuan was anxious, how the dignitaries played with the Yangzhou thin horse that was offered by the people below, he knew better than anyone else. Although the concubine room is a slave and a maidservant, it is a cheap status, but there are official documents on the register, which is always better than the outer room that no one cares about when it dies.

"What else did your father say, say it again word for word."

Cheng Yuan held his temper and repeated it word by word.

There are very few people who are trusted by the emperor, and most of them are Qingliu corrupt Confucians who have no power and status, and they should not be able to enter the eyes of Cheng's father. Even if these sour rotten scholars are different, they always have a righteous advantage, so that they will not accept the daughters of their colleagues as concubines without knowing it.

Chu Zhixia's heart was racing, and he frowned, "Maybe it's ...... Eunuch. ”

Only eunuchs, who are not only close ministers of the Son of Heaven, but also taboo meat and vegetarians - and bold enough to dare to accept official dependents as concubines.

Cheng Yuan was struck by lightning, so he knelt down for her on the spot, "Miss, please save my sister!" ”

"The habit of kneeling every time I ask someone to be changed, I don't have the preference to be an ancestor." Chu Zhixia put the porcelain bowl on the table and said lightly.

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Too learned.

The third prince was bored fiddling with the amber lion paperweight, and the sound of the gentleman's reading was so long and protracted that he was drowsy to hear it. A shadow came, obscuring the swaying magnolia shadow in the window, and the third prince subconsciously turned his head to look, almost falling down in fright.

Chu Zhixia held the magnolia flowers, and smiled so much that the spring light in the courtyard was dim, "Your Royal Highness is good." ”

"You don't go to Yulin Weihu fake Huwei, what are you doing in Taixue?" The third prince asked viciously.

Since the last time he was beaten by Shen Zhou on the table, the prince suspected that the third prince was causing trouble, and locked him in the East Palace for a long time to copy Buddhist scriptures, which made him dizzy and wanted to vomit when he saw the words.

"Your Royal Highness, let's see what you're talking about," Chu Zhixia pretended to be disgusted, "We've been classmates for a while, don't we even have the affection for this conversation?" ”

The third prince was so disgusted by her that he had goosebumps, and his baby face was wrinkled, "What the hell are you trying to do again?" I don't have a relationship with you, get out of here. ”

"Third brother...... a voice shouted weakly.

"Don't call me, who is your third brother, and you are also worthy of being my younger brother?" The third prince said impatiently, didn't even look back, pointed to Chu Shixia's nose and said, "I won't provoke you, and you don't go against me, otherwise my grandfather will pinch you to death like pinching an ant." ”

Chu Zhixia raised his eyebrows noncommittally.

"Ah Yu." A clear and faint voice came, piercing the nerves of the third prince like a needle.

"Brother......" The third prince turned back tremblingly.

Bai Huan, the prince of the East Palace, didn't know when he was going to study too much, and the gentlemen and students in the school all withdrew, leaving only three or two princes and princesses. Although they were both children of the emperor, the children except for the three princes were so frightened that they knelt on the ground and did not dare to raise their heads.

"This is the feeling you copied from the Buddhist scriptures?" Bai Huan was dressed in plain clothes and stood at the door of the school with an expressionless face, "Despising courtiers and insulting brothers, that article shouldn't have been written by someone else for you, right?" ”

Chu Zhixia added oil and vinegar and said, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is insightful, presumably the words were written by His Royal Highness himself." ”

The third prince turned to glare at her, gritted his teeth and said, "What the hell are you here for?" ”

Chu Zhixia lay on the window lattice, supported his cheek with one hand, and said in distress, "I am a newcomer, and I am not familiar with life in the imperial capital, and I want to take advantage of the good spring to play in the Zhuangzi outside the city." I don't know if the Third Highness has a Zhuangzi outside the city? ”

The third prince was surprised by Chu Zhixia's cheekiness, and deeply doubted whether she was infected with some evil disease. Otherwise, the two of them are incompatible, how dare she make such a request to go to his Zhuangzi outside the city to play?

"It's not difficult," Bai Huan replied before his younger brother choked, "What kind of Zhuangzi does Miss Chu like?" ”

Chu Zhixia showed a little embarrassed look, "The minister doesn't know much about the scenery of the imperial capital, if His Royal Highness explains it for me, is it too much?" ”

"Of course it's overstepping!" The third prince slapped the table and shouted, "Chu Zhixia, you are so daring, you dare to call my brother!" ”

"Ah Yu!"

"Don't dare, don't dare," Chu Zhixia confessed again and again, "The minister has thanked His Highness for his kindness, if His Highness has leisure, can he send someone to introduce the minister?" ”

Bai Huan said in a gentle tone, "Of course." He took a few steps closer and said in a low voice, "Actually, if Miss Chu really wants to go out to play, why don't you find her father?" ”

Chu Zhixia naturally said, "Things like eating, drinking, having fun, and abandoning schoolwork are all done without the elders in the family. The third prince went to Qunyufang to drink flower wine, didn't he also hide from His Royal Highness the Prince? ”

The fire at the city gate affected the pond fish, and the innocent pond fish and the three princes were about to pop out their eyes.

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Cheng Yuan returned home late at night, but he didn't have time to put away the dowry gift, indicating that he took advantage of the darkness to leave. This is also in line with Chu Zhixia's speculation, the eunuchs go in and out of the homes of the officials of the DPRK and China day and day, and no one has good fruits to eat.

But it is very difficult to hide people in a house in the city.

On the one hand, the eunuch's private property is very easy to be discovered, and it is not as chic and comfortable as Zhuangzi lying down and counting money outside the city; On the other hand, most of the eunuchs have thin eyebrows and white faces, which are different from ordinary men, and they are eye-catching.

After sending away the people sent by Bai Huan, Chu Zhixia immediately spread out the paper on the table and quickly recorded it.

"There are more than 30 Huangzhuang, six Huangzhuang near the imperial capital, four Chenjia, and three Songbai in Shoufuzhuang." Chu Zhixia wrote very quickly, and densely wrote down a string of Zhuangzi's locations and names.

It is a capital crime for eunuchs to give and accept and embezzle good land privately, but those who dare to accept official dependents as concubines must have their ambitions swelled to a certain extent. Therefore, this unknown eunuch must be one of the emperor's closest chamberlains, and his uncontrollable greed will prompt him to encroach on more land.

"Eliminate these Zhuangzi, and secretly investigate the Zhuangzi with a large area and few main families." Chu Zhixia dried the ink and handed the paper to Cheng Yuan, "Come in the spring warmth, but it's not the day to go to Zhuangzi to hunt and enjoy the coolness, and there are not many people coming and going." If your sister is really sent over, no one will go unnoticed. ”

"Yes!"

Cheng Yuan was about to leave with the paper in his hand, but was stopped by Chu Shixia again.

"Tell Shen Zhou to come with you."

Chu Zhixia touched the red marks on the back of his neck and said with some annoyance. When Yuzhu combed her hair this morning, she saw the cruel red marks on her neck, and she was furious, and picked up a broom and searched the yard to find the sinking boat.

The hidden and ambiguous wound on the lip naturally came out.

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Shen Zhou's face is really eye-catching, but fortunately, the weather is hot, and the hat chatting is not too ostentatious. Cheng Yuan sat on the roadside tea stall, like sitting on pins and needles, and kept rubbing the handkerchief in his sleeve.

Shenzhou Cave looked at the fire, and saw the handkerchief embroidered with golden osmanthus at a glance. He was in a happy mood and tapped on the table with rare curiosity.

Cheng Yuan looked at him inexplicably.

Shen Zhou dipped the tea and wrote on the table, "Is it your sister's?" ”

"My sister embroidered it for me." Cheng Yuan said bitterly, "She was looking forward to my Toad Palace, and in the future, she could not rely on the shadow of her ancestors to seek a future, and she didn't have to ...... It's a pity that I didn't get in. ”

Shen Zhou thought about the relationship between Chu Mingyan and Chu Shixia for a while, understood a little, and continued to write, "Your sister raised you? ”

"Sort of."

Shen Zhou had an epiphany.

He was raised to be a monster who didn't know the joys and sorrows of human feelings, and he didn't know where his blood relatives were, and his understanding of "love" and "love" all came from observation and imitation. If you compare the brothers and sisters of the Chu family, then Shen Zhou understands the importance of the person he wants to save to Cheng Yuan.

Save this person, Cheng Yuan will definitely smear Chu Zhixia's liver and brain.

Shen Zhou didn't feel that his idea was despicable at all, he had never been ashamed and trembling by the eyes of people.

"Do you think that it is because of Mo Xue that your sister suffered this misfortune?" Shen Zhou wrote down the last question.

Cheng Yuan was stunned, he didn't expect Shen Zhou to ask so bluntly.

After a long time, he shook his head and said, "It's not this one, it will be the next one." The eldest lady will run for my sister and come to the rescue. If it's the people I used to follow...... Not falling into the well is their greatest gift. ”

Swapping hands for the women they had played with was a great hobby for these nasty aristocratic children. I can't say whether Cheng Yuan's sister will fall under those people, and Cheng Yuan will kneel down and kiss their uppers.

Thinking of this, Cheng Yuan clenched his handkerchief, and the green tendons on the back of his hand jumped violently.

"It's hot and dead, come and have a bowl of herbal tea to relax and relax!"

A shrill male voice.

Shen Zhou and Cheng Yuan were all staring - what a surprise.

Chu Zhixia's personal guards were all fierce men, and he could see at a glance that he was not a master to be messed with, so he didn't send them out. There are too few of them, so they chose to start with the largest Zhuangzi, but I didn't expect this eunuch to bump into it like this!

The eunuch was not dressed in palace clothes, but only a small robe cut from blue brocade and a hat inlaid with a small piece of pigeon's blood. He didn't look very old, and he was holding on to an old-fashioned attitude, but he still unconsciously cocked his tail finger when serving the tea bowl.

"Phew!" The little eunuch squirted out herbal tea in one gulp, and smashed the tea bowl on the face of the elderly shopkeeper, "What kind of tea is this, and you dare to use it to fool your grandfather?" ”

The old man was smashed and bleeding two lines of nosebleeds, and he lay on the ground in panic and kowtowed repeatedly. The little eunuch did not relent, and the forbidden army behind him also coaxed, asking the old man to kowtow a few more times.

Shen Zhou's patience was worn out little by little.

If he did it at this time, he would have been able to get out, but he was afraid that these people would come back and make trouble with the shop; If they were all killed, the store would inevitably not confess them afterwards.

Shen Zhou sighed in his heart, Mo Xue was right, killing people can't solve all problems.

Cheng Yuan couldn't stand it anymore, he was in a hurry, he suddenly thought of something, and he had the audacity to take down the hat of the sinking boat. Shen Zhou's eyebrows furrowed, and he forced his wrist to press the hat back.

In just an instant, Shen Zhou's jade-colored jaw and crow-blue eyelashes flickered in the sunlight, and then they were covered by the black hat.

It is like the legend that the king of Chu saw the goddess on the water, and the thrilling and non-blasphemous beauty pierced everyone's hearts.

Those who caught a glimpse by chance held their breath for fear of disturbing the dreamlike beauty of the moment.