Si Tian Guan

Although the winter of this year was extremely cold, spring arrived unexpectedly early.

But it was mid-February, and at noon it was so warm that you could smell the breath of spring.

Liu Chongming took off his padded coat, tied his hair up high, and held a leather ball in his hand. Five or six people surrounded him, playing for nothing.

The ball went up and down, bouncing on the knees and toes, or undulating on the body, and the surrounding players also tried their best, or shooting stars to catch the moon, or turning flowery branches, or pointing out the size.

The people around who were not playing were also busy cheering, which was very lively.

Playing until the sun was high, this cuju game was enjoyable, everyone dispersed, and the other courtyard gradually became quiet.

Holding the water basin, Zhiwei saw that Liu Chongming had wiped it a few times, but the redness on his face had not dissipated, so he couldn't help talking softly: "Your Majesty seems to be in a good mood today."

"Really?" Liu Chongming threw the sweat towel into the basin with a smile on his face.

It's true that I'm in a good mood.

With King Huai acting as a hindrance, the Ministry of Household Affairs could not keep Dong Chengyu in a fair manner. Not long after the Ghost Festival, Dong Chengyu left Beijing and went south.

As they expected, the waterway.

Mu Jingyan really had great vigilance and suspicion towards Qu Shenzhou.

If it was said that he might have hesitated between the waterway and the dry road before, after Qu Shenzhou and Dong Chengyu met by chance, he decisively chose the waterway for the return journey.

He could even imagine the sleepless nights after King Huai.

Dong Chengyu's life and death are related to their confrontation, as well as Mu Jingyan's consideration of Qu Shenzhou.

"I'm in a good mood," he repeated, beckoning Zhiwei to fetch the leather ball, weighed it in his hand, and asked, "Have you played?"

Zhiwei shakes his head timidly.

"It doesn't matter if you haven't played before, I will teach you."

Liu Chongming couldn't help but pull Zhiwei to stand opposite him. The ball fell from his hand to his calf, rolled to his instep, and was thrown up.

"This is called truncation, just kick it with your legs and feet, let's try one?"

The ball picked up on his toes, and went straight to Zhiwei, who was frightened by a flash of conditioned reflex, and the ball that had gathered strength hit the tree trunk behind, bounced crookedly, and hit the ground impartially. On the wellbore, there was no trace.

The steward at the side was busy calling for someone to pick it up, but he waved his hand back and only signaled to Zhiwei: "Go and pick it up."

Seeing that Zhiwei's face turned pale in an instant, the confidence in his heart went from [-]% to [-]%.

well.

This is Qu Shenzhou's hexagram for knowing the taste.

If Zhiwei is really the person they are looking for, maybe years of vigilance can keep people calm in the face of the three words Shimao County, and maybe they can’t remember what they used to look like, but the fear they have experienced...

Impossible to forget.

Zhiwei is kind and simple, compared with other methods he and Shen Zhou can think of, this may be the most gentle and effective method.

"Go, get the ball back," he urged.

Zhiwei's footsteps moved over slowly, only glanced at the well water, then his legs softened, he sat down by the well, and replied tremblingly: "Is there something in Shizi?"

"It's just right that there is water, so climb down by the rope." Liu Chongming also went over, waved his hand to disperse the others in the other courtyard, sat down on the edge of the well, and asked: "Do you want me to go down in person?"

Zhiwei watched everyone retreating one by one, no matter how dull he was, he understood that Shizi was not causing trouble for nothing, when he knelt down by the well, his arms on the ground were trembling.

"My lord, please forgive me..."

"What did you do wrong?" Liu Chongming looked at him without blinking: "You really refuse to go down the well? Why?"

Zhiwei was completely flustered under such pressure: "I...I dare not..."

"Why not?" Liu Chongming's voice softened: "Are you afraid? Qin Siyuan?"

Zhiwei raised his head abruptly, with more panic and panic in disbelief, and couldn't help but lose his voice: "Why do you..."

"How do you know your name is it?" Seeing him turning over and about to run, Liu Chongming quickly grabbed the skirt of his clothes, pressed him against the edge of the well, and went straight in: "Calm down! I'm not the one who wants to kill you!"

These words are like a ladle of cold water, instantly extinguishing the boiling fear of knowing and trembling in the voice: "My son, I don't know anything! Please let me go!"

"Don't know anything?" The questioning got on the right track earlier than expected, Liu Chongming asked: "You mean you don't know who broke into your house, who killed your brothers, parents, right?"

Zhiwei's tears rolled down quickly, and she nodded hurriedly.

"What if I'm willing to help you?"

"My son! Will you help me?" Zhiwei straightened up: "Do you know who it is! Who is it?"

After all, luck favored them—a heavy stone in Liu Chongming's heart finally fell, pulling him up.

"I promise you that I will take you to meet that person with my own eyes, but before that, you have to tell me what happened that night? How did you survive?"

Zhiwei's feet were weak, and he was led into the study with tears in his eyes. When he saw the two portraits again, the string that had been tensed for many years finally broke.

"They...are killing people..."

"Who are they?" Liu Chongming saw that he was on the verge of collapse, and comforted him softly: "Don't be afraid, I will keep you safe, no one will know that you are here, and no one will be able to hurt you."

Never thought that this secret would be revealed again, Zhiwei still didn't dare to cry out loud, drank a few glasses of water, and gradually stopped choking.

"I didn't know they were they burst into the yard. Hearing mother's tragic

Afraid of frightening him, Liu Chongming asked patiently, "Did you hide in the well at that time?"

Zhiwei nodded tremblingly: "At that time, I was fetching water in the backyard and heard the voices of people in front, and my mother told us to run quickly. I was afraid for a moment, so I hid in the well..."

Liu Chongming let out a sigh of relief—they guessed right, but fortunately Qu Shenzhou was as careful as a hair and noticed the strangeness of the rope in the well.

"Do you have four brothers?" He remembered that it was clearly recorded in the household registration yellow book of Shimao County: "I found the bones of your four brothers in a ravine. Why are you in a well?"

Zhiwei nodded, and after thinking about it slowly for a moment, he realized what he was asking.

"My son, at noon that day, a beggar came to our door. My mother saw that he was pitiful, so she let him in to rest. We were similar in age, so my mother took out my clothes and gave him a set. I thought maybe yes……"

Liu Chongming wiped his face slowly, hesitated for a long time, but still didn't tell Zhou Huaishan's news.

Zhou Huaishan lived under Mu Jingyan's eyes. They wanted to impress Zhou Huaishan and at the same time keep Zhiwei, but not disturb King Huai.

In this case, it is better not to make people happy from the beginning.

Seeing that he was silent for a long time, Zhiwei sobbed softly for a while, and asked softly, "My lord, who exactly did our family offend?"

"He's a person with a higher status and power than me." Jian Zhiwei's gaze dimmed instantly, and Liu Chongming put his hand on his shoulder: "You can stay at ease and don't mention it to anyone. I will do what I say, and I will do it." I will avenge you."

Zhiwei wiped his eyes with his cuff, nodded vigorously, as if he was afraid of missing something, and hurriedly asked: "Is there anything else you want to know? If there is anything I can help..."

"What else do you remember?"

That memory was so terrifying that he didn't dare to forget it, but he didn't dare to think about it on weekdays. He only recalled it tremblingly when he heard Liu Chongming's question.

"I was in the well at the time, and the echo was very loud. They didn't speak much, and most of the words sounded vague. But there were a few words, which may have been too unexpected at the time, and the person said a few more words."

As if he had a premonition, Liu Chongming pressed his beating heart, heard Zhiwei imitating "that person", and said sharply: "Are you sure it's him? Let me catch up! No one will be left behind!"

This tone was completely different from Mu Jingyan's soft words in the past, but he was so sure that the person who spoke was King Huai, and the "he" mentioned in the words could only be his elder brother.

"well……"

He tried to calm himself down. In the past few years, he has been calm enough to face any reality.

"Thank you, trust me," he comforted Zhiwei, which was also an encouragement to himself: "I will definitely do what I say."

The future is bumpy and the road is long and difficult.

Liu Chongming sent someone to send Zhiwei away, and he didn't even have time to be sad, now the capital is calmer, he and Mu Jingyan are fighting fiercely in the dark outside the capital.

He has no skills at all, and Mu Jingyan has embezzled the official bank of the salt and iron transport envoy, if it takes longer, it will not be of any benefit to him

The most important thing right now is to completely separate the Song family from Mu Jingyan by relying on Shen Zhou's arrangements for Zhiwei.

But before he could read a few pages of the volume on the desk, someone seemed to be completely ignorant of the rules in the other courtyard, and ran all the way from the vertical flower gate, even rushing in with a gust of wind without even making a notification at the gate.

"My son! The big thing is not good!"

This is Housekeeper She who has been in the other courtyard for many years, Liu Chongming's heart tightened suddenly for being able to panic like this.

After he scanned the information on the paper, he felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave—even though Dong Chengyu's death was caused by King Huai's misjudgment, Mu Jingyan still cast doubtful eyes on Shen Zhou.

And every time Mu Jingyan makes a move, he will stab at the most unbearable Achilles' heel.

Shen Zhou can face death calmly, but he will not compromise on this matter.

"Where is Shen Zhou now?"

No one needed to answer, he knew Qu Shenzhou's arrangement better than anyone else, at this moment, Shen Zhou should be on his way to the palace.

That's too late.

"Send someone to call Fang Wuyang! Quick!"

***

The sound outside the carriage turned from trivial to noisy, this is a familiar road, from here to the palace every day, even if he doesn't look outside, Qu Chenzhou can know where he is going.

The bustling city that he once longed for has no longer interested him, or it should be said that he has no time to be distracted.

I had imagined many ways to deal with Mu Jingyan, but when I faced it, I realized that the other party was much more difficult than I imagined.

He has Zhang Liang's plan, and Mu Jingyan has a wall ladder.

In the past, they always thought that the royal blood was unbearable for any emperor, and the matter of piercing Zhou Huaishan was their last trump card, which would definitely kill them with one blow.

Unexpectedly, when Mu Jingyan came, a villain would file a complaint first, and bite Jing Chen back.

Although Liu Weixian escaped by Liu Weixian's foresight and foresight, but in this way, if they sued back with the same charges, it would only make the emperor feel that he was being fooled.

In this contest, no matter whether Jing Chen has a complete countermeasure or not, Mu Jingyan has already won.

This method is no longer feasible, and we need to make another plan.

who! "The soldier who opened the way in front suddenly shouted sharply: "How dare you block the way! "

The general who was following the car immediately rode forward, turned back after a while, and said in a low voice: "Hui Qu Sitian, there are people blocking the way ahead and calling for grievances."

Qu Chenzhou was amused in his heart, he did not expect that someone would come to him and complain about his grievances.

"Go and see."

According to the usual practice, let alone this is a busy market, even if it is not, the officials in the court cannot sit idly by when they encounter people who block the way and call for injustice.

Among the soldiers on both sides who moved away, there were indeed four people prostrating to the ground, a middle-aged man knelt in front of him, a middle-aged woman was on the left, and two young men were on the right.

A family of four.

Qu Chenzhou didn't know him, but for some reason, just looking at their prostrating backs, there was a chill creeping through the cracks in their bones.

As if to make him have nowhere to escape in his nightmare, the middle-aged woman raised her head cautiously when she heard the footsteps, and let him see a face that was extremely similar to his.

The man spoke first, but his timid voice was like thunder from nine heavens.

"Shen Zhou...do you still know your parents?"

Qu Chenzhou opened his mouth, and a fishy and sweet taste came out suddenly.