Chen.

The Prince Regent sat at his desk and sipped his tea, and the dead branches outside the window were crushed by the snow and fell to the ground with a soft sound. Behind the curtain after curtain of wind and snow, there was the sound of hurried footsteps, and then the door was pushed open, and the cold air drove straight in.

"Father, the crown prince sent a message to the third prince, saying that as long as he dares to mess with the children of our Chen family again, he will break his legs, do you know?" The eldest son clutched a secret message, gritted his teeth with hatred, and asked almost aggressively.

"Didn't I ask you to remove all of Donggong's eyeliner?" The Regent's eyes fluttered over the eldest son's body.

"The prince already has two hearts, and if he removes his eyeliner, what should he do if he goes behind your back?" The eldest son was angry and anxious, and he didn't choose what to say.

"Your nephew is not a fool, can he not know if Donggong has eyeliner? This sentence is not for the three princes, but for you. ”

The regent said coldly: "Everything is too much, your good sons can't stick to the prince's side, so they go to hook up with the three princes, come and go to provoke such things, how long do you think the prince can put up with you?" Withdraw all the people. ”

This is a strategy of retreat.

With the character of the crown prince, if he retreats appropriately at this time, after a hundred years of the regent, the prince will still keep the Chen family rich and safe.

But the eldest son didn't understand and didn't want to.

He watched his father step by step from his uncle to the present, a very popular minister, with power leaning towards the government and the opposition, and seeing that most of the Bai family was about to change his surname to Chen, his inflated ambition had already made him unable to see himself clearly. What he wants to do is not to be a stable and stable head of the family, but the next regent, and the honor and glory of the Chen family will continue from generation to generation.

Maybe one day, this Jiangshan is really surnamed Chen?

"Prince, he doesn't want to think about why he can be this prince!"

With a "dang bang", the regent smashed a cup of hot tea on the eldest son, along with the tea cup. The eldest son was splashed with hot tea, and the cold wind hit his head, sobered up a little, and fell to his knees at the feet of the regent in fear.

"Take care of your tongue and your son," said the regent, slowly pouring another cup of tea, "and withdraw all the people you have placed in the East Palace." ”

"Otherwise, you know the consequences - the last thing I lack is my son."

The eldest son nodded, but did not dare to raise his head.

"Father, the little girl of the Chu family......"

"Get out." The regent said lightly.

——

Chu Zhixia heard the wind chimes ringing under the eaves, and when he opened the window, he saw a dark shadow passing by.

She subconsciously touched the sword, but the Akiba Mountain dwelling was quiet, and no guards seemed to notice the abnormality. Chu Zhixia was a little puzzled, she thought that the most expensive thing in the Autumn Leaf Mountain Curie was her own life, and an assassin sneaked in and didn't kill her - that was to kill Pei Zhang?

Chu Zhixia chased out through the window, and soon found that something was wrong.

The entire Autumn Leaves Mountain House seemed to be gone, the sound of snow flakes falling on the corrugated was clearly audible, and Chu Zhixia's footsteps echoed in the winding corridor. The red lanterns swaying in the wind are as bright as blood.

Chu Zhixia was vigilant and pushed Yuzhu's door first. The bedding in the room was neat, the floor was dry, and there was no sign of a break-in. The jade beads also disappeared without a trace, like snow water evaporated by the sun.

It's just weird.

Chu Zhixia ran to Pei Zhang's yard again, passing by the pool on the way.

The lotus flowers in the pond were poisoned again and again, and it was finally cleaned up, and it was winter again. Countless black flower stalks stood on the surface of the water, shattering the reflected sky.

There was a man lying in the pool.

The man was slender and face down at the shallow edge of the water, and blood was oozing from under him, almost staining half of the pool red. With such a large amount of bleeding, was it a throat cut or a heart pierced - how could someone die silently in the Akiba Mountain House?

The blame and assassination failed, and all kinds of conspiracies flew through Chu Zhixia's mind. She didn't come up with a reason, so she went to the water's edge and arrested this person first.

The man's face was covered in mud, revealing only a jade-white neck that had been cut open.

Chu Zhixia calmly judged, the person who made the move was very fast, the blade was two fingers wide, and he cut it with a knife and directly saw Bai Sensen's throat bone. Such a deep wound must not be attacked from behind, but when the confrontation was head-on, it was cut down with a knife, and it was not directly beheaded as an ancestral virtue, so a whole corpse was left.

Could it be that the black shadow just now was just to throw this corpse to the Akiba Mountain Residence? Is this a great character? Where did the rest of the Akibayama Curie go?

Chu Zhixia confirmed that she hadn't heard any movement, and it was impossible for someone to dispose of the entire Autumn Leaves Mountain Residence without alarming her.

Chu Zhixia raised his hand to wipe the mud off the corpse's face.

The closed eyes were exposed, and Chu Zhixia was stunned for a moment. Chu Zhixia wiped the mud off her entire face in disbelief, and her clear and powerful eyebrows, straight nose bridge, and blue and purple lips made her tremble with familiarity.

This is a sunken boat.

Sinking Boat...... He's dead?

Chu Zhixia trembled and reached out to buckle his pulse, only to feel a piece of stiff and cold flesh.

"Miss...... Miss?! ”

Someone called her.

——

The bright and warm candlelight splashed down, stabbing Chu Zhixia's eyes painfully. She stiffened and struggled to raise her hand in front of her. There was neither pool water nor silt on her hands, only a cold sweat that shivered incessantly.

Yuzhu sat on the edge of her bed with her robe draped, looking at her worriedly.

"Miss, are you caught in a nightmare? You keep shouting in your dreams, and you can't wake up. Yuzhu reached out and touched her forehead, a little hot.

Chu Zhixia's eyes rolled astringently, and it took a while for him to come back to his senses, lift the quilt and run out. Yuzhu was taken aback, and chased after her with her shoes and Da Yu, but she couldn't catch up. Yuzhu panted and ran after Chu Shixia to the edge of the pool, and saw her standing in the shallow water by the pool.

The moon is bright tonight.

Chu Zhixia wore long hair like thick ink, and his underwear was as white as snow, as if he was about to be affected by this heavy snow, and as if he was about to melt in the clear moonlight, so thin that it could not bear the wind blowing. Chu Zhixia stepped barefoot in the cold pool water, staring blankly at the pool water under his feet.

There was no blood.

And no one either.

Shen Zhou did not die in the Akiba Mountain House.

Chu Zhixia stood in the cold that was thick enough to crush her, and breathed a heavy sigh of relief.

Yuzhu pounced on her and wrapped her in a big coat, and anxiously urged her to come up, "Miss, you'll get sick like this, it's winter now, come up and put on your shoes!" ”

Chu Zhixia grabbed the big puff and slowly stepped on the shore, saying, "Find a craftsman tomorrow and fill this pool." ”

"What?" Yuzhu was confused.

In the entire Autumn Leaf Mountain Curie, Chu Zhixia's favorite is this water pavilion. In summer, rain or shine, I always make tea and play chess here, and occasionally take a nap with the sound of rain.

"Fill this pool." Chu Zhixia left a series of wet footprints on the corridor, and said without looking back.

Her hair is still covered with clear white snow.

It seems like in an instant, the old man is gone.

——

Gangnam.

As the footsteps approached the door, Shen Zhou immediately woke up from his drowsy sleep and opened his eyes. The visitor cautiously knocked on the door, and Shen Zhou threw two copper coins at the door, which fell to the ground and made a loud noise, which meant "get out".

The people outside not only didn't roll, but also pushed the door open without fear of death.

The white-robed old man put the medicine bowl on the table and beckoned to him, "Come and drink the medicine." ”

Shen Zhou leaned against the corner of the bed, holding his sword, and did not move.

"If you want to be a real mute in the future, I can leave you alone." The old man said.

Shen Zhou's fingertips brushed the layers of white cloth wrapped around his neck, and a little light blood leaked out from under the white cloth. He had been wounded in an assassination attempt two days earlier, and was only a little way away from being completely cut off his trachea.

"Really don't drink? I've heard you're having a hard time talking again. The old man asked slowly.

Shen Zhou suddenly got up, walked to the table, and looked at the bowl of medicinal soup.

The old man was also observing Shen Zhou, who was responsible for cleaning up the forces of the Mountain Ghost Clan that had invaded Jiangnan with five of the ten ghosts and one Shen Zhou. Most of the assassins of the Nine Shadows were made of wood, and they had no joys or sorrows of their own, but Shen Zhou could clearly express his impatience and disgust.

Compared to other assassins, there is finally a little bit of fresh breath.

Although thin, it is better than nothing.

According to the old man's observation, Shen Zhou was not such a picky eater, and he didn't know why he was so resistant to taking medicine.

Shen Zhou took out a piece of candy from his arms.

The old man raised his eyebrows, he remembered that when Shen Zhou left the imperial capital, he brought a treasure box full of sparkling sugar. Every time he came back from killing someone, Shen Zhou had to eat a piece of candy, like some strange ritual.

The treasure box was empty, so Shen Zhou took out the rest of the sugar and took it with him.

Shen Zhou held the candy as if he were looking into someone's eyes.

The old man had never seen so many emotions in those beautiful eyes, and a thousand words that could not be spoken. After a long time, Shen Zhou seemed to have coaxed himself in an imaginary way, so he picked up the medicine bowl and drank it all, and then quickly put the sugar into his mouth.

"You, do you really want to go back to the imperial capital?" The old man frowned and looked at the sinking boat.

Shen Zhou looked back with straight eyebrows and didn't say a word.

"Even if all the people in the Mountain Ghost Clan are dead, you won't be able to go back, understand?" The old man patiently said to him, "People and ghosts have different paths. If you keep trying to escape, you'll only kill you and your eldest lady. Your hands can't be washed cleanly, and the people you kill, your enemies, these are all cut off. ”

Shen Zhou ignored him, turned back to the bed, pulled the quilt over and pretended to sleep.

Oil and salt do not enter.

——

Imperial capital.

Chu Zhixia sat in the Taishi chair under the eaves, with a charcoal basin at his feet. She hugged the soup woman and watched motionlessly as the craftsman filled the pool. Yuzhu worriedly pressed a white fox fur on her knee, trying to persuade her to go back, but she couldn't open her mouth.

"Miss Chu, are you getting better?" Pei Zhang walked over with an umbrella and shook off his edelweiss.

"I can't die yet." Chu Zhixia said weakly.

Chu Zhixia had three days of heat, and Yuzhu was so anxious that he almost hit the wall.

Chu Zhixia also maintained an amazing sobriety during his illness, did not let anyone leak any news, and arranged everything in an orderly manner - the most told was to fill the pool. Yuzhu saw that her cheeks were burning crimson and she was still thinking about the pool, so she didn't dare to slack off, and immediately set out to find someone.

"It doesn't look like it's hot." Pei Zhang smiled and said, "Soon it will be Chinese New Year's Eve, and the ministers and officials will all take a break, and no one will hand you a fold to scold you for the time being." As soon as the year is over, the new policy will be implemented throughout the country - happy? ”

Chu Shixia said lightly: "I'm happy." ”

"I still don't feel very happy." Pei Zhang smiled helplessly and said, "However, next year will be a good year." ”