Su Qingluan followed Songbo home all the way, and seeing his rare gaze cold and silent, Su Qingluan felt worried in his heart. I don't know why, she always has a feeling that the mountain rain is about to come and the wind is full of buildings.

It's still a hot summer, everyone's clothes are relatively light, and Su Qingluan also understands that light-colored clothes will be cooler to wear in summer, so today I wore a goose-yellow trimmed skirt.

But as soon as she got home, Su Qingluan found that Mu Xingzhi had changed into plain clothes - it was not as pure black and white as a mourning dress, but before leaving home in the morning, she still looked at the other party wearing a moon-white straight coat, which has now been changed to a much more low-key light gray.

And now he was no longer sick and disheveled, and it was clear that he was going out.

"Qingluan should also change into a plain dress." Mu Xingzhi looked at her.

Su Qingluan's heart moved, a subtle touch appeared in his heart, and he nodded quickly, doing what Mu Xingzhi said, and his intuition seemed to have something terrible about to happen.

When the change of clothes came out, sure enough, Mu Xingzhi was gone, and this time was different from the past, except for Mu Xingzhi, even Songbo was gone.

Su Qingluan lowered his eyes and thought for a moment, let the rest of the people in the mansion gather in the courtyard, and ordered: "From today onwards, if it is not necessary, the gate is locked, do not go out." Then he said to Yaoguang, "Please inform Su Ji's guys, pay them a month's salary in advance, let them close the door and lock it, and go home to rest." ”

Then, she took out the silver ticket and handed it to Yaoguang: "Let's just say that I am not feeling well, and I don't know when I will get better." ”

Yaoguang nodded and turned to leave.

Sure enough, the day was peaceful, but late at night, bells rang in the night sky, which should have been very quiet.

The bell was thick and long, as if conveying something, one after another, and woke everyone from their sleep.

Su Qingluan didn't know how long the bell had been ringing, it had already sounded a few times, and went out to ask Yaoguang, who had also come out to check the situation, about the situation.

And Zi Su and Bai Zhi, who were originally sleeping in the servant's room outside, were far apart, and the two arrived after Su Qingluan and Yaoguang converged.

"What time is it?" Su Qingluan looked at the night, it was still pitch black, and it didn't look like it was about to dawn.

What's more, it's summer, and although it's not the summer solstice, it's dawning early, and it's probably midnight now.

Sure enough, Shisu, who had been keeping vigil outside tonight, said: "Back to the lady, it's just past the time of the child."

Although Su Qingluan has been crossing over for two or three years, it is the first time he has encountered this kind of bell ringing in the middle of the night, and it seems that the matter is not small - after all, the bell has not stopped ringing in this gap.

So she hurriedly asked Shiso to help count it, and how many times did she ring the bell.

After a while, the bell finally stopped, and Shisu said, "Lady, the bell has struck eighty-one times." ”

Su Qingluan's heart moved: eighty-one, although she had never seen the bell ringing in the middle of the night, but she had read it in the book, in the customs of the Sheng Dynasty, there was a situation where the bell was ringed at an unlimited time - the death knell.

And the number of times the death knell is sounded differently for people of different statuses. As for the number of eighty-one is ninety-nine, only one person in the world can have the right to use the death knell of this specification, that is, the emperor known as the "Ninety-Five".

This is the death knell of the old emperor's death!

Su Qingluan understood that this was the true meaning of Songbo's so-called "changing the sky" during the day - I am afraid that they had already understood at that time that if the old emperor was going to die, I was afraid that he would die soon.

It's just that Su Qingluan has the impression that whether it is the TV series he watched in his previous life, or the many books he watched in this book, "the emperor's death" is also a big deal. Especially for the prince who "has great ambitions", shouldn't he "serve the emperor" at this time?

Why does Mu Xingzhi seem to be unhurried, and even as if the position of the entire emperor has nothing to do with him?

With this doubt, Su Qingluan instructed everyone to go to sleep normally.

A few days later, her doubts were answered - because of Mu Xingzhi's other "identity", "Xiao Huan", as the prince, was "praying" for the emperor in a temple on the outskirts of the city.

The old emperor is a person who desperately wants to control power, such a character Su Qingluan does not believe that he will make an edict to inherit the throne, because this is equivalent to giving up his rights to others in advance, which is absolutely intolerable to a person who is consumed by power and can't even tolerate his own flesh and blood.

And the subsequent development also seems to confirm Su Qingluan's speculation - the princes who were originally just petty fights have officially kicked off.

In fact, as a person outside the whirlpool of power, Su Qingluan could not really face those cruel bloody battles, but the troops wearing various colors of clothes and holding various order flags running through the streets from time to time, as well as the city gate that is said to have been closed, all show that the situation in the city is not peaceful.

Even Su Qingluan was dreaming more than once in the middle of the night, and he could hear the earth-shattering shouts of killing in his ears.

Under such circumstances, Su Qingluan began to feel that staying away from the center of power and "praying" might be another way to avoid disaster.

And the Su family is because of Su Qingluan, the owner who always likes to tinker with all kinds of food, so there is no shortage of food that can satisfy the stomach at home - even if the variety is not rich, but in this kind of situation where you may encounter death when you go out to buy vegetables casually, when you are closed, with these foods, you will not starve to death.

But......

Su Qingluan unconsciously thought of Mu Xingzhi: he was not willing to be a mountain village man, otherwise why would he risk his life to restore his true identity to play Jingfen?

So, is the current state of Mu Xingzhi's "no quarrel with the world" really just a coincidence arranged by the old emperor?

Su Qingluan suddenly thought of a possibility: Could it be that this was Mu Xingzhi's intentional arrangement, so as to avoid the princes falling into each other during this period of time?

Moreover, in addition to avoiding disasters, there is another advantage of "praying for blessings" by yourself, which is to create an impression of "no dispute with the world, undoubtedly a great position", at least so far from the news, almost everyone is busy grabbing the throne, and no one seems to notice this prince who recognized it halfway, but was thrown into the temple to pray for blessings.

Xiao Huan, the seventh prince, seems to have been forgotten by everyone......

If this is just to be able to have a "praying mantis catching cicadas, yellow finches behind"......

Su Qingluan felt a chill on her back: If all her speculations were correct, when did this guy Mu Xingzhi start calculating, and even calculated the reactions of the old emperor and all the princes to him!