There is a ditch next to the blacksmith alley, leading to the drunken jade workshop and down to the imperial capital city wall. Blacksmith Alley is also called "Ghost Cry Alley", only because there are many dilapidated houses here, and the wind whirring through the crack in the evening is like a ghost crying.

"It's very cloudy at night, and there are drunkards who wander around from time to time, but there's a benefit—" Zhuang Zhaiya turned around and looked at the guest with a sinister look, "It's appallingly cheap." There is no cheaper house in the imperial capital than here, and Childe really has a good vision. ”

Bai Ziche lowered his head and smiled, he was wearing a plain robe, holding a box with painting tools in his arms, how did he look like a poor painter.

He took out two pieces of silver and handed them to the tooth man, took the key, and sent the man away carelessly.

Behind the courtyard gate, the grass was overgrown, and the roof with more than a dozen holes, large and small, was dripping with water.

A set of stone tables and chairs are placed in front of the house, which can still be settled.

Chu Zhixia carried a pot of good wine and a few taels of pork head meat and preserved cherries, and beckoned to him with a smile.

"You're going to pick a place." Bai Ziche smiled.

This courtyard was picked by Chu Shixia and asked him to pay for rent, without explaining the reason, but Bai Ziche understood it as soon as he heard the location.

Down this ditch is the entrance to the ghost market.

"It's also a good place to buy a deaf and dumb old servant another day and take care of the house." Chu Zhixia said, "The minister can't always go to the painting academy, and His Royal Highness can't often run to the Autumn Leaves Mountain Residence." ”

Bai Ziche nodded in agreement, and asked her again: "I just left the palace under the pretense of taking the name of the school painter, and you are in a hurry to call me, is the case of Yuanjue Temple eyebrows?" ”

Chu Zhixia poured two glasses of wine before saying, "Yesterday, Yu Linwei investigated the place where the ceramic statue of King Ming was fired, but we went one step too late, and the craftsman was killed. The assassin didn't even want to let me go, and I was caught. ”

"The interrogation came out?"

"There is no need to interrogate, this person is a dead man, and he will not recruit anything." Chu Shixia shook his head, "What is certain is that he is not the regent's person. ”

The regent has already figured out the level of Shen Zhou's skills, and if he wants to take her life, he will not send such a second-rate goods. Moreover, the assassination of Yuanjue Temple seems to be menacing, but in fact it is full of flaws, and it is not a faint move made by the regent.

"Let's be straight, who do you suspect?" Bai Ziche asked bluntly.

Chu Zhixia groaned slightly, exchanged a look with him, picked up the wine glass and touched Bai Ziche's cup, and said secretly: "Your Highness is alone in the palace, so be careful with the second prince." ”

——

The moon is in the middle of the sky.

Chu Zhixia led the horse into the Yulin Guard, and before he saw the gate of the guard, he was stopped by someone in front of a gorgeous carriage. The carriage curtain fluttered lightly, and the people inside seemed to be pickled in the herbs, and a bitter medicinal fragrance rushed to their faces.

Wearing the jade wrench, the hand opened the curtain, and Chu Zhixia saw a face with deep eye sockets and gloomy eyes.

The son of the daughter of the Li family in Longxi, the second son of the emperor with a leg disease, Bai Yi.

"Chen Chu knows Xia, and I have seen the Second Highness." Chu Zhixia arched his hand.

"Miss Chu San is polite." Bai Yi bowed his head slightly and said, "When the Yuanjue Temple was assassinated that day, the third girl was seriously injured, why did she work so hard and diligently, and returned to Yulin Wei to be on duty again?" ”

"Your Highness was frightened, didn't you also diligently come to Yulinwei to block me?" Chu Zhixia didn't seem to be in oil and salt, and said with a smile, "Your Highness has something important?" If not, the minister will be on duty, and dereliction of duty is a big crime. ”

"Yulin Wei is not what it used to be, you should talk about the first merit, your father loves the Chu family, who dares to condemn your crimes?" Bai Yi said coldly, "What's the hurry, come with me somewhere." ”

"Your Highness, this is not in order. How about Rong Chen go to the guard house first to take leave? "Chu Zhixia has a discussion and a measure.

The curtain fluttered, and a stack of directories was thrown into Chu Shixia's arms.

"You're in a hurry to go to Yulinwei, don't you just want to see this? It doesn't matter if you don't go with me, it's hard to say if your good dog still has a life. Bai Yi smiled coldly, "Little Yu Linwei, how dare he slander the children of the family, the emperor's relatives, do you say that he died a hundred times enough?" ”

"Your Highness said with a smile, just Yu Linwei, why do you need Your Highness to do it." Chu Zhixia's eyes were slightly gloomy, and he said in a good voice, "Your Highness is tired of leading the way." ”

The guard stood in front of Chu Zhixia with a horizontal sword, "Miss, don't blame, Your Highness's golden body cannot be lost, and Miss should not approach His Highness with a blade." ”

Chu Zhixia Yiyan handed over the drinking stream snow to the guards.

"Let's go." Bai Yi finally gave the order with peace of mind.

——

Painting Academy.

When Bai Ziche returned to the academy, he saw that the lights inside were as bright as day, and it was silent, and the tip of the needle could be heard on the ground. At this time, the painters in the academy had already gone home, and the students had left school early, so there shouldn't have been so many of them.

But Bai Ziche did not hesitate and calmly pushed open the door.

There was a crowd of people standing in the main hall, and the painter and the chamberlain knelt down in fear. The emperor was surrounded by eunuchs on the left and right, and a bright lamp behind him was like a rising sun, illuminating his majestic expression.

"Ziche, where have you been?" The Emperor asked calmly.

"Back to my father, my son went out of the palace to take the school folk painter." Bai Ziche said calmly, "What happened to the painting academy?" ”

The emperor turned his head sideways, and the great eunuch beside him held up a stack of letters, and the envelope read, "Master Qingxuan personally opened".

The most deadly thing is that there is Bai Ziche's handwriting on it.

"Forgive Erchen for being stupid, what is this?"

"Scoured from your room." The emperor suppressed his anger and said, "In order not to wronged you, I have deliberately looked at all the calligraphy and paintings you left in the painting academy, which is indeed your handwriting, and it is also the green cotton paper you are accustomed to." What do you have to say? ”

Bai Ziche didn't look shocked or angry, as if he had expected this for a long time.

"There is no doubt that this is Erchen's handwriting, but there are many authors who are good at tracing paintings in the academy, and it is really easy to imitate a few words." Bai Ziche saw what the emperor was going to say, and said coldly, "The people behind the scenes obviously know this, so in order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, they also deliberately picked out green cotton paper." ”

"My father has been sitting here for a long time, and someone must have said that the painting academy uses more familiar Xuansheng Xuan, and the green cotton paper is not suitable for painting and practicing calligraphy, but it is cheap, and only one of the sons and daughters can use it to copy the post."

Bai Ziche slowly walked up to a little eunuch who bowed his head and knelt down, and said, "But Master Qingxuan went to Tianzhu to learn scriptures for two years, is the ink on this envelope too distinct?" ”

"It's cheating, and it's full of loopholes. It's stupid. ”

The little eunuch Feibai raised his head and looked at Bai Ziche in a panic.

"A few days ago, Erchen accidentally sprinkled fluorite powder on the cotton paper. Fluorite powder has a delicate texture, once contaminated, it is not easy to remove, it is difficult to detect during the day, but it is visible to the light at night and flashes like a star. The murals of the Buddha caves are mostly painted with this ink, which is immortal for thousands of years. ”

Bai Ziche leaned over and grabbed Feibai's hand and stretched it out to the bright light.

Feibai suddenly withdrew his hand and stepped back in a panic, "The slave maid just accidentally touched His Highness's paper when he was cleaning the house for His Highness a few days ago!" ”

"Really?"

Bai Ziche stood in place and looked down at Feibai, his back to the emperor's gaze, the starry lights, and his whole face was covered in faint shadows, making it impossible to see his eyes clearly.

"How did you 'accidentally come across' of these paper bundles?"

Feibai's mind spun quickly, as if he had grasped a life-saving straw, and said loudly: "You are talking nonsense, these papers are obviously the ...... I took on the table"

His shouting stopped abruptly, and finally reacted, looking down at his palm in horror, it was clearly fine white flesh, and there was no glittering fluorite powder.

Bai Ziche rolled up his sleeves and looked at him lightly, without sadness or joy.

"Come on, take this dog slave who framed the prince to Dali Temple!" The emperor was empowered, slammed the table, and said angrily.

"Fourth Highness, Fourth Highness, save the slave!" Feibai crawled and broke free from the hands of the waiter, grabbed the corner of Bai Ziche's robe and didn't let go, and begged, "I grew up with you, and I was bullied and suffered with you, have you forgotten?" Just spare me this time, I won't dare again! ”

Bai Ziche's eyes drooped, and the bright lights danced in his dark pupils, like tears flickering.

Feibai thought that Bai Ziche was soft-hearted, after all, Bai Ziche has always been a soft-hearted and passable character.

Everyone in this palace is greedy for profit, and they desperately want to climb up, only Bai Ziche doesn't fight for anything, doesn't want anything, and is as light as a glass of water. Even if Bai Ziche himself had many ups and downs, he never spilled his anger on anyone.

"I'm blinded by lard, I'm obsessed!" Feibai kowtowed vigorously at Bai Ziche's feet, hitting his head and blurring his flesh and blood, "I still have my parents, brothers and sisters to support, I ask Your Highness to be merciful!" ”

"Yes, you grew up with me, and I still took your name." Bai Ziche said softly but coldly, "But you want to put me to death and exchange me for your glory and wealth, why do you say this, Feibai?" ”

Feibai was dragged down by the chamberlain, and his ten fingers ploughed deep blood marks on the ground.

Bai Ziche's expression was faint, as if he hadn't seen anything.

——

It is a well-groomed house where more than a dozen widows tend to hundreds of orphans.

It was evening, and several children were napping on the woman's lap, and the woman was humming a song and gently shaking the fan.

"The children that Yuanjue Temple can't contain are all sent here." Bai Yi sat in a chair, his wide white robe covering his weakness and shrinking legs, and holding a string of Bodhi beads in his hand, "Most of them were separated from their families when they fled from the north, and some were physically disabled and abandoned. ”

Chu Zhixia didn't raise his eyelids, and praised when he opened his mouth: "Your Highness is kind-hearted." ”

She didn't believe that Bai Yi was really a cold-faced living bodhisattva.

"I wasn't born with a leg disease, do you know how my leg was broken?" Bai Yi suddenly turned his head to look at her, his eyes as sharp as a needle.

"The minister doesn't dare to know." Chu Shixia said frankly.

Royal secrets, who knows more, who dies quickly.

What's more, Bai Yi has a gloomy personality, and he is most taboo for others to talk about his legs and feet, and there are quite a few twists and turns in it.

"My eldest Bai Yu's little cub is three years old, the prince is arrogant to him, even if he bullies his brother like a pig and a dog, the prince is not willing to criticize him."

The Li family in Longxi has been a wealthy family for generations, Li Guifei has a virtuous temperament and tenacity, and Bai Yi must have no reason to suffer when he was a child.

Chu Zhixia knew that the person Bai Yi was talking about was Bai Ziche.

Bai Yi laughed sadly, and everyone felt cold all over his body, "I know that some people are born princes, and I didn't want to compete with him for anything. Bai Yu thought that the whole world belonged to his own brother, and he secretly sharpened the rope of my swing. ”

The corners of Chu Zhixia's eyes jumped.

"Since then, there have been no swings in the palace." Bai Yi let out a long breath.

"If it weren't for that little brute, if it weren't for these legs!" Bai Yi thumped his unconscious legs hatefully, "Is he really sitting so firmly in Bai Huan's East Palace?!" When I was young, I was also quick to think, and I was praised by my teachers and favored by my father. ”

"Mo Xue: I'll just watch you play quietly."