"The man stood leaning against the bamboo under the window, it was the first time I saw such a hall master who did not look like a person in the rivers and lakes, but like a scholar, smiling and waving to me, and not caring that I was young and didn't understand anything, and talked with me for a long time, and introduced me as a bosom friend. But ......"

Lin Jianlan had tears in his eyes, and for some reason he couldn't hide it in front of this strange woman, and he didn't want to hide it: "I don't want to see him again." ”

The woman suddenly showed an extremely uncomfortable look, and gently stretched out her hand to wipe away the tears on Lin Jianlan's face, Lin Jianlan dodged her fingers, and said with a smile: "Don't talk about this, I left suddenly yesterday, I'm sorry." ”

The woman nodded, then smiled and shook her head, "Are you going to leave again?"

Lin Jianlan raised his eyes to look at the sky, got up and said, "I'm going out." ”

The woman said, "When will you come back?"

Lin Jianlan said secretly: "She didn't say when she would come again, but said that she would treat me as the master here, but what is the relationship between her and the predecessors of Ransong?" Although I wondered in my heart, since I saw this woman for the first time, I couldn't rest assured, if I didn't come to see it, I felt uncomfortable, so I had to nod and say: "As long as I am free, I will come to see you." Fang turned around and jumped out of the wall, leaving only the woman standing in the courtyard, looking at his figure as fast as a crane, his expression was both confused and confused.

As soon as Lin Jianlan left the small courtyard, he flew into the right way, and saw that Yiqingke was sending people away, so he hurriedly said: "I have something to ask Wei Huawang, I don't know where I should go to find him?"

The man looked up and down for a moment, and said with a smile: "But Lin Gongzi? Wei Huawang has confessed that he will treat Lin Gongzi well, if there are any requests, but Wei Huawang is not here for the time being, and I am afraid it will take a long time to come back." ”

Lin Jianlan didn't know if what he said was true or not, but he was so polite that he couldn't question it, so he had to clench his fists and say: "Thank you, if King Wei comes back, can you tell me that I have something urgent to find him?"

The man said, "That's fine. ”

Lin Jianlan walked back to the courtyard sullenly, but saw that it was empty, Bai Zongping and Lu Man were not inside, thinking that Lu Man had seen herself in the past two days, she often looked like she wanted to speak and stopped, knowing that she really cared about herself in her heart, and she also had many questions, but she turned a blind eye because of her bad mood, and a sense of apology arose, and she looked around again, and secretly sighed that it was really boring to sit in the house, and was discharged from the hospital again and walked to the West Road Flower Corridor.

However, in the past two days, there are many peonies on both sides that have bloomed in the past withered, replaced by new bright colors, or blooming, or budding, remembering that day to the halfway point turned back, Lin Jianlan couldn't help but have the idea of seeing how far this corridor is, slowly along the stone path to enjoy the flowers, next to the stone table did not see pink or plain white peony, I couldn't help but feel a little regretful.

After turning a corner, and looking up again, there was still a long corridor winding straight forward, Lin Jianlan "tsk" twice, and said secretly: "This is too exaggerated, a flower palace, and not a royal residence, is so luxurious and extravagant." Perhaps the predecessors of Ransong wanted to cover up their true purpose with this appearance of greed for wealth. Thinking of this, Lin Jianlan stopped abruptly, he never thought about the purpose of his predecessors, he only knew that he "still cherished the ambition of the year", so he still wanted to restore Li Tang's world, although the royal family surnamed Li was greatly harmed, but there were not a few left, who did he want to assist?

Thinking that these had nothing to do with him after all, Lin Jianlan smiled secretly and walked forward again.

After some twists and turns, the corridor in front of me finally came to an end, but it was a moon door, from the outside, the inside is facing the round hole door is a peony that seems to be not small, the flowers are luxuriant, the upper barrier is full of pure white peonies, but it is different from what you saw in the bottle that day, the flowers are as big as a jade plate, the petals overlap and overlap and want to fly, the bright yellow stamens are more gorgeous in the petals, there is not a kind of arrogant momentum, at first sight, even Lin Jianlan is not familiar with flowers and trees, and this peony must be the best, and is located in the middle of the moon gate, is reflecting the meaning of the full moon of flowers, and secretly said in his heart: "It turns out that it is not considered the best in the inner side of the corridor, and I am afraid that the plant in this courtyard is the treasure of the town in the Kao Mansion. ”

Lin Jianlan glanced left and right again, there was no one guarding this precious thing next to him, and the precautions were even more lax than the small courtyard, and he was quite puzzled in his heart, and was about to go in, but he heard the voice of someone coming from afar, and it seemed to be very far away from the door here, Lin Jianlan said secretly: "I didn't expect that this inner garden covers a huge area, I don't know how many famous species are in it, it's a pity not to go in and take a look, but I don't know what the identity of the person who spoke in it is, if you meet rashly, I'm afraid it's not appropriate." ”

I was thinking outside the door, but I heard the footsteps near, it seemed that it was not one person, but three people walking together, not far from these three people, there were still two people following behind. One of the three said: "Why did you remove all the guards here?" Although there are few people here in the Weihua Palace, it is better to send someone to guard it just in case. ”

Another said: "I have to deal with some things with you today, and it is inconvenient for someone to be around, so I temporarily withdraw, only for this moment, who else dares to turn the sky with you?"

The man said proudly, "With me here, I will be sure that nothing will go wrong." ”

But I heard a female voice say: "This flower is really good today, Ning Luo, go and cut a branch, I want a hairpin on my head." The voice was cold, there was a sense that no one could refute, as soon as the words fell, one of the two women who followed behind responded lightly, and walked over quickly, getting closer and closer to the moon gate, Lin Jianlan hurriedly flashed aside, and said secretly: "Isn't it a pity to cut this big white peony?" ”

The man said, "This ...... Why do you want to cut this plant? You used to be so fond of it that you never pruned a branch. ”

The woman smiled and said, "What, don't you want me to cut it?" Her smile made people feel very charming and mature, and the man hurriedly said: "It's not unwilling, firstly, the white hairpin is not very auspicious on the head, and secondly, the name of this flower is the same as my title for many years. ”

The woman laughed again, and there was a hearty meaning in her voice, and said, "Why do you bother, I want to cut it on my head, because I love it very much." This last sentence changed again, although her voice was originally low, but with a rustling feeling, soft and beautiful.

Lin Jianlan wanted to step in to see what kind of woman this was, but he changed several tones for a while, but he didn't feel weird, just thinking about it, he heard a "click" inside, presumably the woman called "Ning Luo" had cut off the flower, and gently walked back a few steps and said: "The flower has been cut." ”

There was a fiddling sound inside, and after a while, the woman named "Ning Luo" said: "The hairpin is ready, do you want to ask Jiao'er to take a look at the mirror?"

After a while, the other person who followed also approached lightly, presumably another woman who was with him brought a mirror, and the woman who ordered someone to cut the flowers seemed to look at it for a while, and said, "It's old." Jiao'er, are you ready?"

Na Jiao'er said: "It has already been prepared at the small pavilion next to it." A few people moved away again, Lin Jianlan Fang breathed a sigh of relief, silently turned out from the moon gate, looked in, and saw a woman in the distance with two men accompanying her, followed by two maid-like girls, just the back, unable to see the face clearly, and said secretly: "This must be a very distinguished guest, otherwise it will not be cut by the best in this courtyard." ”

But I felt that the voices of the two men were a little familiar, but because the two of them had few words, they really couldn't think about it, thinking that this curiosity could not be suppressed, and they couldn't openly follow, so they walked quietly along the courtyard wall, listened carefully, walked dozens of steps, and finally could hear the subtle human voice, presumably this place is quite close to the "small pavilion" in the mouth of the Jiao'er.

Turning around and looking around, he was lucky to go up, a row of sycamores behind him were flourishing, the shadows of the trees were building, covering his body Lin Jianlan looked intently, and saw that the small pavilion was indeed not far from the courtyard wall here, and the pavilion cover was covered, although it was incomplete to see the people sitting inside, but it could also be speculated that the woman and a plain-clothed man were sitting in it, drinking wine, and the two small mustaches were standing far away, which seemed to have the intention of evasion.

The other man was dressed in a bamboo-blue shirt, without a crown, with long hair tied up with a cloth belt at random, and standing outside the pavilion with his back hand. The pavilion whispered for a long time, and laughter was heard from time to time, but the man was like a wood carving, and he didn't move, and he heard the woman say for a while: "Go and call Jiao'er over." ”

The man took a few steps forward and beckoned to the two little mustaches, "Jiao'er, come here!"

The Jiao'er hurriedly approached and said, "But do you want to pour wine?"

The man shook his head, pointed to the pavilion and said, "Let you in." With that, he stepped aside.

Lin Jianlan looked carefully and saw that the woman called "Jiao'er" was wearing a double bun, she seemed to be only sixteen or seventeen years old, her face was delicate and lovely, and she had a lively look, but when she approached the pavilion, she looked respectful and even a little scared.

The woman beckoned in the pavilion and said, "Jiao'er, come here." She cowered and walked in, and the woman raised her hand to pick off the peony on her head, and said, "I just felt that I was so old, I really shouldn't have such a good flower, Jiao'er, can I reward it to you?"

That Jiao'er trembled all over, and knelt on the ground with a "plop" and just kowtowed again and again, without saying a word, and the man sitting there also hurriedly stood up at this moment and said, "What does this mean? What's wrong with you today?"

The woman giggled and said: "Look at Jiao'er's appearance, what kind of play are you playing with me, I guess you are already impatient with me, what is wrong with me simply being generous, everyone is ruthless to me, in fact, I can't be reasonable, today is just the beauty of adults." ”

The man knew that the matter was revealed, and said in a trembling voice: "This doesn't know who instructed me to slander me, I have always been the same for you, how do you want me to show my heart? Yes, wait for me to kill this!"

Lin Jianlan stood on the tree, quite feeling that this person was too sinister and ruthless, but saw the woman say in a dignified voice: "You stop me!" The end was majestic and inviolable, the man stopped in mid-air with one palm, and did not dare to go down another half an inch, but the woman turned around and mixed up the woman called "Jiao'er", the woman was already trembling like chaff, and she was even more frightened, and avoided it again and again, just crying and kowtowing.

The woman sighed and said softly, "Jiao'er, do you understand? Men are like this, they covet you young and beautiful, but they can't give him power and wealth, and they covet me to give him power and wealth, but they think I'm too old." ”

The man forced a smile and said: "Why do you distort me like this, I have followed you for so many years, even if I have made small mistakes, so what, no one is perfect, it was this little slut who seduced me first, and I couldn't control it for a while...... Besides, aren't you the same yourself?" said that the vinegar grew stronger, and it seemed to be quite resentful.

Lin Jianlan only shook his head when he heard this, and said secretly: "I don't want this rich and powerful family to hide such filth. ”

The woman was silent for a moment, and Fang smiled coldly: "I really hope that you are jealous to do such a thing, after so many years of reuse and offerings, you can't get back a true heart." Since you became the chief director, I have been kind to you, and I have allocated countless taels of silver for you to build a Taoist temple, but it is not for you to engage in seven twists and three nonsense in it! Think about it yourself, what have you done in the past few years that can make me satisfied? A small gang of rivers and lakes can't be wiped out, but they have suffered heavy losses, and let them unite to deal with the court, not to mention the matter of King Luo Bin, and I am embarrassed to say that I found Fengzhu's son to cover up the crime of dereliction of duty, if I were you, I would be ashamed to death, no wonder your master picked Yun Mengxu, but he didn't look down on you!"

The voice of this reprimand was particularly distinct in silence, Lin Jianlan was dumbfounded when he heard it, no wonder the plain-clothed man's voice was familiar, it turned out to be Yun Mengzhi, he was the number one person in the Imperial Kou Division, and he was directly sent by the Empress Wu, who in the whole world could reprimand him like this, that woman was ......

At this time, Lin Jianlan could not be allowed to think about it, these words were very harsh, and they hit the most sensitive place in Yun Mengzhi's heart, he was arrogant, conceited, talented and understanding were several times higher than Yun Mengxu, but he did not become the leader, so he went down the mountain angrily and determined to make some achievements in the world, although he did not embark on the right path, but in just a few years, he did climb to a very high position, which made the big gangs in the rivers and lakes resentful, and the small gangs were afraid, but it was not easy.

Being ridiculed and reprimanded like this at this moment, Yun Mengzhi couldn't help but laugh wildly and said: "Since I said it, I simply tore all my faces, and I am not the only one in the mess, Gong Yu ** is told as a joke by people all over the world, you yourself have not raised such a large group of little white faces, you go and ask how many sincerity there are......?