There were a crowd of people in front of Bao Zheng's mansion, crying and hanging Bao Zheng, his eyes were white.

King Huan hesitated outside the door, waved his hand and signaled the guards to wait outside the mansion first, and he went to fetch an incense stick, lit it and inserted it into the incense burner, and stood for a while without speaking.

"The thirteenth brother is already here. ”

King Huan turned around and saw a middle-aged man in civilian clothes standing with his hands in his hands, and hurriedly said, "When did Brother Jiu come?"

King Xin smiled: "After all, the palace is close and it comes faster, but it is still a little slower than the thirteenth brother." ”

King Huan looked at the people coming and said, "These people are coming quickly. After a pause, he added: "It's abnormally fast." ”

King Xin frowned: "But ask, I'm afraid I can't ask anything." ”

King Huan walked to the side a little and made way of opening the incense burner: "Ouyang Xiu applied for the position of secretary of the criminal department some time ago on the grounds that he was weak and could not hold the position of privy deputy envoy. It dragged on for a few days, and the imperial brother agreed three days ago. I'm afraid that he didn't even have two hours, and he 'died' in the mansion again. ”

"Who would believe that there is no problem, two privy deputies?"

King Xin asked, "Have you asked Ouyang Xiu about this matter?"

"What if you don't ask?" King Huan sighed softly, "With his position, it is impossible to say anything. ”

King Xin Moran: "Bao Zheng is sick and has not left the house." And in the end, only Mo'er and Ouyang Xiu came here. And the medicine Bao Zheng took before he died was given by Mo'er. At such times, he was not there. ”

King Huan turned his head to look at him, and then nodded: "Yes." After a while, he asked, "Does Brother Jiu believe it?"

King Xin's smile was a little bitter: "I'm completely convinced that this matter was not done by Mo'er, but there is no evidence. ”

King Huan was noncommittal: "Brother Jiu, to be honest, I'm a little scared. If all this was done by the puppet palace, then what kind of scene would this Bianliang City be like in a place I can't see?"

King Xin did not answer immediately, but quietly looked into the distance: "Which is more terrible to kill one Bao Zheng or kill a few maids of the prince of Qi?"

King Huan was dumbfounded, and after a while, he suddenly said, "Bao Zheng is easier to kill." ”

King Xin said: "After Ouyang Xiu requested to be transferred from the Privy Council, the maid of the Qi Palace's mansion was killed. ”

King Huan's heart stopped beating a beat, and his pupils contracted: "What does Brother Jiu mean by this?"

King Xin glanced around and hesitated slightly: "I think Ouyang Xiu is afraid of something, but what he is afraid of is definitely not the puppet palace." ”

King Huan opened his mouth, swallowed back the words, closed his eyes and carefully digested King Xin's words, and smiled bitterly: "I have no clue." ”

King Xin glanced at him with a smile: "Let's do this first, and wait for Mo'er to come back." ”

"How much does Brother Jiu think Mo'er knows?"

King Xin pondered for a moment: "If I only talk about my own thoughts, at least he will guess some of what the puppet palace wants to do. ”

"Puppet Palace?" King Huan subconsciously glanced at the mourners and frowned, "Won't you?" Brother Jiu, you also said it, you firmly believe that he will not kill Bao Zheng. ”

King Xin smiled: "Yes, I firmly believe that it is impossible for him to kill Bao Zheng, and I am sure that he definitely did not interfere in Bao Zheng's death." However, this does not mean that he is unwilling to save his life. ”

King Huan's face changed slightly, obviously understanding what he meant.

King Xin slowly spit out the second half of the sentence: "I suspect that he guessed that Bao Zheng would die, so he deliberately left Bianliang." ”

King Huan said: "But as soon as Bao Zheng dies, there is a chance that this crime will fall on his head." ”

King Xin said quietly: "If I were Mo'er, on the premise of knowing that the puppet palace would definitely do it, I would be willing to die the one who had an old enmity with me, Bao Zheng, not another innocent person." ”

King Huan nodded silently, and after a long time, he suddenly laughed: "Actually, the fourth brother came to me that day and said that when Mo'er was scared out of control, I felt weird. Before I could figure it out, he ran away. When Brother Jiu said this, that's really the case. It's just that the fourth brother and sister-in-law are so frightened by him. ”

King Xin couldn't help laughing: "The hearts of parents in the world, the fourth brother cares about Mo'er very much. ”

King Huan touched his chin: "I only remember that Bai Yi was beaten by Brother Jiu and didn't dare to go back, so he climbed over the wall in the middle of the night and went to spend the night in the firewood room in my house." ”

King Xin said: "There is always a time when you are angry, and it is natural to hit a few times that do not hurt your muscles and bones." When the thirteenth brother has a son, he will probably understand. ”

"I'm early. King Huan didn't seem to care, "One person is also happy." ”

King Xin said: "You are not too old, sooner or later you will have to have a home, otherwise who will live in such an empty Huanwang Mansion?"

King Huan said perfunctorily: "Forget it, let's do this first." I'll go first, I'm the only one left in Ouchi lately, and I don't have much to spare. If Brother Jiu hears that Mo'er is back, remember to ask him to come to me. ”

King Xin nodded: "You keep an eye on Ouchi, I'll help you watch it in Bao Zheng's mansion, and you can leave a few guards to help spread the news." ”

King Huan smiled: "Then thank you Brother Jiu." He pulled a guard and whispered an explanation, and then left the house and galloped away.

King Xin watched him leave, and after a long time, he looked away and muttered, "Puppet Palace...... Who else?"

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"Yunmo, news from Fengyunxuan. Lu Wei took off the paper scroll, let the bird that sent the message stand on his shoulder, and glanced at it before handing it to Zhao Qingyan.

Zhao Qingyan's eyes flickered slightly, crumpled the paper into a ball, and lowered his eyes to look at his feet: "I miscalculated." ”

Lu Wei smiled: "It seems that Luo Changxiu's ability is a few points greater than he imagined. ”

Zhao Qingyan glanced at him: "What's the matter? It looks like you're happy when I lose?"

Lu Wei raised his eyebrows: "You borrowed a knife to kill someone, although you were cut by a knife, you can't say that you lost, right?"

"Maybe. Zhao Qingyan exhaled lightly and looked at the sky in the distance, his eyes darkened a little. The long hair that was scattered over the waist was slightly blown by the breeze, and a few strands were raised and hung by the crown, and after a while, it was blown up again.

It was approaching dusk, and even the gentle summer breeze seemed a little restless. The hot wind is far less cool than it should be at this hour.

Lu Wei took off the burden from the horse, took out a piece of dry food, rubbed some dregs and put it in the palm of his hand, let the yellow finch on his shoulder jump down and peck at it, and touched the fluff on its chest.

"Lu ......"

As soon as Zhao Qingyan spoke, Lu Wei interrupted him: "Don't regret it if it's already started." ”

After being stunned for a moment, Zhao Qingyan smiled helplessly: "You know what I'm thinking without saying anything?"

Lu Wei smiled slightly: "After all, you have been in the Privy Council for many years, even if you hate him, you don't necessarily have some admiration and sympathy." After enduring it for so many years, the pleasure of revenge will not be very strong. ”

"Yes, if there is something mixed in the hatred, the hatred will change its taste. ”

Lu Wei tilted his head to look at the bird combing his feathers, and laughed for some reason: "So, revenge is a very interesting and painful thing." There is no absolute evil, and if the avenger has a good heart, he may not bear to take revenge again. If the heart is not good, it may be that for him, the matter of revenge is not a pleasure at all, it is just a desire to kill. ”

"So, after a long time, and you know more about the person you want to kill, you won't be able to do it. It's not good to kill, and if you don't kill, you can't let go of hatred...... Therefore, the human heart is the most complex and interesting. ”

Zhao Qingyan smiled lightly: "So I killed him with the help of the puppet palace to escape self-blame, so the pain is not as serious as you say?"

Lu Wei tilted his head: "It shouldn't be, right? After all, revenge is mostly for the dead, so it will be 'for the sake of the dead, and then let more people who are still alive grow up with hatred like me." Is that okay?' But to avenge the living, as far as I personally feel, it's worth it anyway. ”

A hint of self-deprecation flashed in Zhao Qingyan's eyes: "But we have grown up with hatred." ”

Lu Wei suddenly laughed, reached out and touched Zhao Qingyan's head, and quickly ran away a few steps: "You are still a child, you are too early to grow up." ”

Zhao Qingyan was stunned for a moment, and then raised his eyebrows: "Lu Wai!"

Lu Wei spread his hands innocently: "What did you call me for?"

Zhao Qingyan was angry and funny: "Forget it, I don't care about you." ”

Lu Wei blinked: "Are you in a better mood?"

Zhao Qingyan pouted: "I want to beat people a little." ”

Lu Wei looked left and right and pointed to his nose: "I'm the only one here besides you, but there are still two horses." ”

The cyan horse beside Zhao Qingyan raised his grazing head to look at Lu Wei, and snorted heavily.

Lu Wei smiled, and hurriedly reached out and patted its head comfortingly: "I stumbled, I was wrong, don't be angry, don't be angry." Look, here's a piece of dry food, I'll give it to you, and I'll make amends, okay?"

Stumbler looked at him silently for a moment, then turned his head and continued to fight against the grass under his hooves.

"Is this disliking me?" Lu Wei shrugged, tilted his head and glanced at the bird again, and muttered in a low voice, "Look, it is worthy of being a horse from the palace, that is, wealth." He doesn't eat us, ignore him. Yunmo, you come to ...... half" broke half of the cake and handed it out, but when he saw Zhao Qingyan's expressionless face, he couldn't help but be stunned: "Why are you doing?"

Zhao Qingyan said: "You are indeed the only one here besides me. ”

"Wha Lu Wei did not restrain himself, and laughed extremely exaggeratedly, and even the bird on his shoulder was so frightened that he flew up, "Can you beat me?"

Zhao Qingyan got up from the stone, walked up to Lu Xi, looked at him directly, and said word by word: "Lu Wei, you listen." ”

Lu Wei was stunned: "Why are you so serious? ”

Zhao Qingyan snatched two and a half pieces of pancake from his hand, and said very seriously: "This is your only dry food left, and the nearest town is an hour away from here." With that, he threw the pancake out.

"Hey! I said little prince, the whole big cake! What about the five copper plates! Just throw it away?" Lu Wei looked at his empty hands, and felt hungry under Zhao Qingyan's reminder, and immediately made a bitter face: "That's food, it's a waste of money, you know?"

Zhao Qingyan learned Lu Wei's laughter and laughed exaggeratedly more than a dozen times, and reached out to hug the stumbling hoof: "Half of mine, half of the stumbling hoof, you sent it." Seeing that you are so reluctant, even if I buy it, I will put it away for one or two silvers. He took out a small silver ingot from his bosom and threw it to him.

Lu Wei looked at the cake lying on the ground in the distance for a while, touched his belly, and couldn't help but sigh: "Why didn't I know when you were so small-bellied and ......" Before he finished speaking, he saw Zhao Qingyan smiling at the fiery sunset in the distance, and his voice slowly became softer, and then stopped.

"Lu Wei, I'll go back first. When you return to Bianliang, I will compensate you. When the sunset dissipated most of the time, and the sky was almost dark, Zhao Qingyan turned around.

Lu Wei smiled: "Okay." ”