Clouds cover the moon, ghosts are looming. The rubbing sound of the blade unsheathed in the wind was like cracking silk, tearing out the urgency. The bamboo fan in the main room knocked three times, Shen Zechuan calmly took the pot and poured himself another glass of wine.
"You're right," Shen Zechuan picked up the glass, "it's really time to settle the bill tonight."
Xi Hongxuan put down his arms, watched everyone flock to the main room with cold eyes, and said, "You are so smart, if you are willing to obey the arrangements, you will suffer less."
"As soon as you entered the capital, you were like a swallow in a hall. I said it was a pity for you, and I said that you were not a pity. You fought back in the waves back then, and I respect you." Shen Zechuan said, pouring the wine slowly on the ground, "You and I both understand a truth, that is, those who fall into difficult situations will learn to be the least obedient-because in all likelihood, those who follow through will not survive until God opens their eyes."
"I'm fighting the waves, you're fighting the waves, and the world is the cheapest, Shen Zechuan, I respect you too! You survived all the tortures you were tortured back then, but you were born in the gutter tonight and capsized, haha!" Xi Hongxuan mocked. Laughing, and suddenly indifferent, "There can only be one living between you and me."
"You took a bath and ate the wine," Shen Zechuan gently threw away the wine glass, got up and faced the door, raised his hand to hold Yang Shanxue's knife handle, his thumb pressed against the white pearl, and smiled slowly, "Before setting out on the road, You really don't plan to tell me Qi Huilian's whereabouts?"
The fire in the courtyard suddenly flourished, and Xi Hongxuan turned his head and saw that the house was already on fire. He shouted: "Hugh, you have to deal with him, whoever can take his head, I will reward whoever has one hundred taels of gold and silver!"
The doors and windows were broken, and several black shadow wolves rushed up. Shen Zechuan's sword had been unsheathed, but he took two steps forward, and the blood had splashed with the sword. Yang Shanxue's blade pierced a person's throat, and the long blade was like ice forging snow, because it was too fast, so that when blood beads were sprayed on the window paper, the blade of the blade did not touch the blood.
Yangshanxue, like the wolf scabbard, was silently accumulating dust in this capital, and was bound by the scabbard to become the waist ornaments of the elegant sons, but as long as they were given the opportunity to draw the scabbard, they would be able to escape from the cold light. I can see the hideous blood of the blade and the master.
The tongue of fire licked in anger, and half of Xi's house fell into a sea of flames in the blink of an eye. Qiao Tianya jumped over the ridge of the house, kicked over the oncoming killer, flipped over to the main room, and stood on the roof showing Shen Zechuan's lacquered gold waist badge.
"Jin Yiwei was ordered to investigate the case, and the Xi family gathered more than a hundred heroes from all over the world and gathered at the foot of the world privately. After a thorough investigation by us, there are also desperadoes at large. Xi Hongxuan's intentions are not small, and his heart can be punished!" Qiao Tianya said loudly Said, "This case is related to the emperor's distress. Anyone involved will be taken to prison! Tiqi has surrounded Xi's house, and you will be captured before you can!"
"Don't listen to his nonsense!" Xi Hongxuan shouted loudly, "I and the emperor are friends by fate. Jin Yiwei intends to murder loyal ministers and cover up crimes. Those who help me tonight are all benevolent and righteous warriors! Tomorrow morning, they will all follow my palace. The door is rewarded!"
The attic was burned to the ground and collapsed. Xi Hongxuan did not retreat in the heat wave, staring closely at the figure in the main room.
"The eunuchs have been eliminated. The emperor has opened up his ways. What he hates most is Shen Zechuan, who wants to cover the sky with one hand! Everyone, whoever kills him will be a man who has made a great contribution to history and is famous all over the world!"
Qiao Tianya snorted secretly, this Fatty Xi is very eloquent, if he can't keep his mouth shut, he can also call black people white! Qiao Tianya immediately closed his cards and jumped down, drawing his sword to fight.
The fire in the courtyard was lined with blood, and the front was already in chaos. There were shouts everywhere, and the shopkeeper, the accountant, and the servants were running around indiscriminately. The outside cavalry lined up fast, blocking all the gates.
The main room suddenly stood up to a majestic figure, Xi Hongxuan looked at it indifferently, the body straightened back, fell on the steps, and the blood flowed from the neck. Shen Zechuan put the knife back into its sheath, stepped over the arm of the corpse, and walked down step by step.
Xi Hongxuan burst into laughter, trembling all over, and said, "It's still you who are powerful. For killing me for this reason, the emperor does not dare to blame."
Shen Zechuan tilted his head to look at the fire and said, "You shouldn't have died so early."
Xi Hongxuan sighed in the sky, very calm, all the laughter and scolding turned into yesterday's past, he said: "Early death, late death, you are playing with your hands, so fucking aggrieved! But I lost. It's not a loss for you. Shen Zechuan, I'm convinced, but I'm not convinced. Do you think you've already become a steel? I die tonight because I underestimate the enemy. However, there are people in this world who take you as a thorn in their side, and they will kill you. Waiting for you in the queue, you kill one, kill another, you will never finish. But God…”
He stared silently at the night sky.
"Neither you nor I have a life of pearls and jade, but you and I have to snatch the things that they can easily get. The view of the descendant goes deep into the bone marrow, but it's ridiculous that I am obviously a descendant, but my life is not as good as that of another family's descendant. My life is cheap. , your life is cheaper than mine, you have to rush, fight, and seize, in the future who will lose and who will win?" Xi Hongxuan opened his arms, as if asking the sky, but also like asking Shen Zechuan, "The disputes are endless, in the future. Who wins and who loses? If I leave, will you be able to win? You kill people, and people kill you, haha!"
Xi Hongxuan laughed wildly, squatted down suddenly, pulled out the knife of the corpse on the ground, and stumbled towards Shen Zechuan.
"I'm the man of the Xi family, I have three wins in my life, Xi Gu'an, and I'm not even worse than him! It's my parents who are blind! I made a mistake in my heart, but I love and hate it, I—" Xi Hongxuan swung his knife to kill himself, the blood splattered on Shen Zechuan On his body, he slurred his words, the knife fell to the ground, and the man pulled Shen Zechuan's sleeve, and then he slid down to his knees, and forced his last sentence with a smile, "... on the road to Huangquan... wait, wait for you..."
Shen Zechuan watched Xi Hongxuan planted at his feet, the blood dripping down his fingers, he stood silently for a long time, against the background of the fire, then raised his hand to shake off the blood.
* * *
The Xi's house was burned to ashes, and Jin Yiwei put all the remaining people in the Xi's house into prison. Shen Zechuan met with Li Jianheng in person, and wrote an excerpt about Xi Hongxuan's refusal to submit to the gathering of manpower.
Li Jianheng was shocked, but the evidence of Xi Hongxuan's gathering of manpower was conclusive. This matter was done so cleanly and neatly that even the narrator could not make a mistake.
Wei Huaigu was the most tactful, and immediately hinted to his disciples that he first attacked Xi Hongxuan as a traitorous villain who bewitched Sheng Ting, and then attacked Xi Hongxuan to take the king in danger, and the fact that the Ouhualou collapsed was his own act. The Wei family did everything they could to get rid of all the censure, and it was just that when people took tea to cool them.
However, Ge Qingqing led people to search the streets and alleys of Qedu, and checked the documents in and out, but still did not find Qi Huilian and Ji Gang.
"The person is definitely still in Yedu," Shen Zechuan closed the official business on the table, "He has the intention to threaten me with Mr., if the person is sent out, it will be difficult to control."
"Mr. is a scholar, but Master is hard to find an opponent." Qiao Tianya said, "In the past few days, people have been sent to investigate secretly, and they will definitely find something."
Shen Zechuan didn't speak.
Qiao Tianya saw that Shen Zechuan seemed to be thinking, so he wanted to retreat, but Shen Zechuan stopped him and said, "I have nothing to do tonight, I am going to the Mei's house, and many things have to be discussed carefully, you go there first and wait for me, ask me Gujin, who are the people that Xiangyunfang sold to Xue Xiuzhuo?"
Qiao Tianya withdrew in response. When he went out, he saw a few people resting in the courtyard. They were all old men of Jinyiwei, and they were from the fourth rank and above. Some of them were also rewarded by their ancestors and could wear python robes and embroidered spring knives. Ge Qingqing took people to rest on the other side, everyone was Jin Yiwei, but Qiao Tianya saw the subtle division of camps.
Shen Zechuan has risen too fast in the past six months, which inevitably attracts jealousy. He was next to the forces of all parties, and took the position of Beizhen Fu, which was truly at the top of Jinyiwei. The relationship here is intricate and complicated, and anyone can be picked at will, and they all have heads and faces. There is bound to be a discussion between the old and the new, but Shen Zechuan has been involved in official business recently, and he has not gotten too close to them, but when the busy spring time is over, everyone will inevitably meet for the follow-up tasks.
Qiao Tianya's heart sank slightly, he put down the curtain and left first.
Xiao Chiye hadn't come back from the Fengshan campus, only Gujin was still in Mei's house. Qiao Tianya ate half a cup of wine with him and inquired about Xiangyunfang.
"There are sixteen people in total, all of the same age. They are all boys and girls in their twenties." Gu Jin and Qiao Tianya were sitting on the railing under the porch. The weather was fine today and the eyes were full of green shoots. Taozi wrote it and handed it over to the young master, and your master will be able to see it later. But it is difficult to investigate this matter, these people are like grass and messy, except for their age, there is no other similarities. "
"Doesn't this already explain the problem?" Qiao Tianya picked up the half-sized small porcelain cup and drank the wine, frowning and aftertaste, "The harder it is to investigate this group of people, the more important it is. This wine is delicious. But how did it match such a cup? It's not as big as my finger."
"It's a mistake to drink, the masters will come back later, and they will definitely be scolded with alcohol." Gujin was reprimanded by Xiao Chiye last time, and he has not dared to let go of drinking for the past few days. He sat for a while, and the guards at Mei's house were under his control. After a while, he left, leaving Qiao Tianya to play by himself.
Qiao Tianya sat alone under the porch, drinking and watching the spring. No one was there. He also enjoyed himself. Remembering that his qin was still here, he thought of taking it out to play. He got up and took a detour around the tray, walking through the green mist-like branches, and suddenly heard the sound of the piano. Qiao Tianya looked for the sound and left, instead of rushing out hastily, he pushed aside the green fog and peeped sideways.
The promenade faces the sunlight, and the hall below is bright, and a person sits cross-legged. This man had black hair with an ancient wooden hairpin, and was not wearing a crown. He was wearing a large-sleeved robe of azure, with a letter bag hanging from his waist.
Qiao Tianya couldn't see his face clearly, he could only see him plucking the strings, up and down the tune, and while he was thinking about it, a gray-white milk cat suddenly jumped out from his back, and got into the middle of it. He played with the hair around his neck.
The man took the cat down and put it in his sleeve, his mind still on the piano. Qiao Tianya recognized that Qin was his, he stepped forward slowly, and gradually saw the man's face as the angle moved.
The catkins in spring and April float, and the fine buds of green velvet hang in the bright sunlight. This life is white, different from Shen Zechuan's drenched white, he is like a warm white jade placed in the spring, not as sharp as Shen Zechuan, nor as strong and amazing as Shen Zechuan, but he is different, Unforgettable.
Qiao Tianya used to be the son of an official family, and at this moment, he remembered the poem that his elder sister-in-law had memorized.
The accumulated stones have jade, and the columns are like green. Lang Yan is unique and unique in the world [1].
Before the two of them talked, Qiao Tianya already knew who he was.
"It's very leisurely," Qiao Tianya stepped on the railing and put the tray on the ground, "You don't need to watch this song again, if you want to learn it, I'll teach you."
The man looked up at him, laughed, and said, "If you want a drink, you will come, and if you ask for it, come here, Xiongtai, Fuxing."
"This house is beautiful in spring, but unfortunately no one rewarded me. It was fate that I met you in Chunchun, and it was fate that I listened to this song again. It's hard to know the guest in the world, I can't do anything else, only play the piano well, you missed me, Then no one can teach you." Qiao Tianya stood and poured his own drink. After drinking a cup, he raised his chin at him, "Do you want to learn or not?"
"Serving a teacher is like serving a father [2]," the man said calmly, putting down his qin and teasing the cat with his jade pendant.
Qiao Tianya touched his slightly green chin and said, "I, Qiao Tianya, don't tell lies. If you want to believe it, you can worship, if you don't believe it, just worship."
The man loosened his finger holding the jade pendant, looked at Qiao Tianya again, smiled for a while, and said, "I believe you."
* * *
It was already dark when Xiao Chiye returned to Mei's house. When he got off his horse, Chen Yang remembered it and said as he led the horse, "Master, it was said a few days ago that Young Master Yao was back. Although he avoided the banquet, he would come to visit. ."
"He's hard to find, and I don't know when he'll be interested." Xiao Chiye took off his gray and sweaty robe and stepped in, "If he comes, you can ask the kitchen to prepare some light food. He's used to staying with Haige, and he doesn't touch the meat very much."
Gu Jin came out and followed Xiao Chiye inward. Xiao Chiye rubbed his shoulder and said, "Bring in some white meat and water, I'm tired today too - are my people here?"
Gu Jin nodded and said, "It's been half an hour, and I'm handling official business in the study."
Xiao Chiye said, "Have you eaten?"
Gu Jin said: "No, the lord specially instructed the kitchen to have dinner when the young master comes back."
Xiao Chiye twitched his bone wrench and glanced at him. Gujin looked away knowingly, not daring to stare at Xiao Chiye again. But Xiao Chiye was in a really good mood. Before entering the house, he took the wolf's sword and threw it to Gujin.
"Wipe the sheath," Xiao Chiye pulled up the front and smelled his own body, "I'll bring the knives in after a while. Let people watch the dishes, there are a lot of things to do tonight, but the water I want to burn enough. Where's Qiao Tianya? Let him also give his master's python robe to the clean room, and incense the incense up front. That's all for now, let's go."
Gu Jin stepped back, and Xiao Chiye opened the door.
Shen Zechuan listened inside for a long time, then dipped in the ink and didn't look up, only said, "Xianhui, Second Young Master is a kind person."
The author has something to say: [1]: From "Baishi Lang Song" Guo Maoqian
[2]: Taken from "Lv's Spring and Autumn Period, Persuading Learning"