has become a demon

It was almost time for the curfew, Xie Taichu heard the watchman knock on the clapper outside, so he put down the file in his hand.

"Since it's getting late at night, I should take my leave." He got up and stood up straight, "Beizhen Fusi is not a place to drink and study after all."

Shu Liang smiled lightly: "Is the Taoist chief going back to Wangfu Street in a hurry? Could it be that he is really thinking about the King of Le'an?"

"The Prince of Le'an County is my husband, so I should naturally go back to the Prince's Mansion." Xie Taichu said.

"Why does Taoist pretend to be affectionate, small love and little love can't enter your heart." Shu Liang said.

"People in Qingxing Pavilion practice Ruthless Dao, and everyone knows it."

"Scheming for power and power, for the sake of power." Shu Liang smiled, "The Taoist priest is a person who cultivates immortals. Isn't it just to turn the court and strive for wealth and glory? Why are you pretending to be noble? Let me say, the prince thinks It was the king of the county who tied you up, Xie Taichu... but I didn't know that the king of Le'an was just an excuse for you to hide from the world. If you marry him, you will no longer be feared by the prince, so you can survive in this treacherous court situation Look at me vertically and horizontally without getting burned."

Shu Liang pressed hard at every step, no matter how good Xie Taichu cultivated, he finally couldn't bear it anymore.

"I don't know what King Ning and Bingbi want?" he asked.

"I want Qingxing Pavilion to say a word." Shu Liang said.

"What?"

"Prince Ning Zhao Ji bears the mandate of heaven, and he is the future emperor." Shu Liang said outrageous words without changing his face.

But this can't scare Xie Taichu.

With a calm face, he looked at Shu Liang: "Xie Taichu's Taoism is still shallow, and he can't get a glimpse of the destiny."

"The words of the Qingxing Pavilion are the destiny." Shu Liang said, "If the Taoist priest speaks, it will be worth ten thousand gold, ten thousand riches and honors, all of which will be paid to you."

Xie Taichu's face was calm, his eyelids were dark, he tucked his sleeves and bowed: "It's getting late, I'm taking my leave."

He turned and pushed the door aside.

Shu Liang laughed loudly behind him: "The Taoist priest is like this, it really makes people think that you have friendship with Zhao Yuan."

Xie Taichu paused for a moment, and then stepped out of Beizhen Fusi.

Pushing the door open, he looked up and saw Prince Le'an under the moon.

The king of the county is sitting on the return nest at this time.

It was made by himself, and the king of the county regarded it as a treasure. If he bought pastries when he went out, he would hide them in a secret compartment. When he met him, he would take them out and hand them over as if they were offering treasures.

"In the beginning, I have something good for you."

When Zhao Yuan first said this, he always thought that there were some jewelry, gold and silver to offer.

But in Zhao Yuan's open palm, sometimes there is nothing more than an apple, a piece of pastry, even a sachet and a grasshopper cage.

For example, when he made friends, he never only made friends with nobles and officials, he made friends with whoever he liked, and he was very reckless with him.

It's not like the style of clan and nobles at all.

After many times, Xie Taichu realized that the so-called good things are things that make Zhao Yuan happy, and he shared the joy in his heart with himself.

It's like giving my heart to you.

It's true...sincere, unstained.

When Zhao Yuan rushed to the gate of Beizhen Fusi, Shen Zhu was helping the limping Tang Haolan out of the gate.

"Brother Shen, Rui Miao!" Zhao Yuan sat back on the nest and asked Feng An to push him to the side of the two of them. He carefully looked at Tang Haolan's whole body. Except for some scratches, there was no other trauma.

"It's just some minor trauma. His left foot was sprained when he was arrested. It's nothing serious." Shen Zhu said, "I'll send him home right now."

Tang Haolan turned his head away and refused to look at him, but now he heard his words and pushed him away, staggered two steps on tiptoe, his eyes widened: "Shen Zhu, you are helping evildoers!"

Shen Zhu raised his eyes to look at him: "When I work in Beizhen Fusi, I have to be controlled by the yamen. The boss has an order, so I have to accept it."

"Boss? Shuliang, an eunuch who disrespects orthodoxy and acts against the law, and was scolded by the scholar-bureaucrats of the Manchu Dynasty, but you are rushing to please obedience. Shameless." Tang Haolan said angrily.

Shen Zhuzheng said: "Although I, Shen Zhu, are the son of Jia Renzi [Note 1], I can enter Jinyiwei first, and then Beizhen Fusi, and serve the emperor loyally. I have no regrets. Today, I am arresting you by following orders, but you Tang Rui Isn't it wrong for Miao to talk about the Tian family's private affairs in the market and wine?"

Tang Haolan interrupted him: "Since ancient times, the Tian family has no personal affairs!"

"If it weren't for me, your legs and feet would not be sprained now. Those who want to please Shuliang will cut off your feet and make you suffer a lot on the way to Fusi in Beizhen." After Shen Zhu finished speaking, he eased slightly. In a calm tone, "Stop arguing, it's because I did something wrong and lost brotherhood. I'll send you back—"

He reached out to help Tang Haolan again, but Tang Haolan was so angry that his eyes were red, he waved his hand away, staggered back a few steps, and scolded him loudly.

"I don't need you to worry about it! It's better to have a broken leg than to watch you sink into the struggle for power!"

Shen Zhu froze on the spot, slowly withdrew his outstretched hand, habitually held it on the Xiuchun knife at his waist, and then held it tightly.

He took a step back and stopped looking at Tang Haolan.

"Rui Miao, Big Brother Shen is also in trouble. Don't be angry." Zhao Yuan said hastily.

Tang Haolan laughed angrily and said, "It's not out of anger, I don't have a brother like him!"

After saying this, he limped towards the intersection of Zhenfusi Street. Zhao Yuan had no choice but to say to Feng An: "He is injured, Feng An, you drive him back."

"How is this good? The chariot is gone, how will you go home later?" Feng An asked him, "It's getting dark."

"Rui Miao's house is not too far from here. After you send him home, just come and meet me later. Go!"

Seeing that he persisted, Feng An couldn't say anything more, let the coachman drive the carriage and had already caught up, dragged Tang Haolan into the carriage, no matter how angry Tang Haolan was, he didn't let go, stuffed him into the carriage and left.

Only then did Zhao Yuan heave a sigh of relief, and turned to look at Shen Zhu: "Brother Shen, don't take it to heart. Rui Miao has always been upright and impulsive, and he will be fine once he figures out where the joints are."

"Why are you here?" Shen Zhu asked.

Zhao Yuan breathed a sigh of relief: "Yu Shu went to Wangfu Street to stop my car. I was afraid that something serious would happen, so I hurried over here."

Shen Zhu was silent for a moment and said: "If he hadn't revealed the content of the memorial without any restraint, how could the factory owner find a reason to arrest him and go to prison. After he goes to prison, according to the rules, he will be executed. If he really wants to go to prison, Duan Baozhai , Lord Duan, and the group of officials who submitted the memorial to the central government will all go to prison... I am afraid that there will be another bloody storm."

"Yes, that's why I'm anxious." Zhao Yuan said, "Fortunately, elder brother has rescued him from the imperial prison."

"not me."

"what?"

"I'm just a Beizhen Fusi Tiqi, so I can't move Master Shu." Shen Zhu said, "It's Xie Taichu. Master Shu hosted a banquet at Yuheng Building today, just to wait for him. After arresting Tang Haolan , he came to Beizhen Fusi together, and when the torture was about to be executed, he told Shu Chang that he didn't like blood, so Shu Chang let Tang Haolan go."

"...So that's the case." Zhao Yuan was stunned for a while, "What about him, others?"

"When we first came out, he was saying goodbye to the factory owner in the yamen, and he must be coming out soon."

Shen Zhu looked up at the street leading to Beizhen Fusi behind him, the gate of Beizhen Fusi in the depths of the alley had been opened, and Xie Taichu came out in a black Taoist uniform.

"Shen Tiqi." Xie Taichu cupped his fists.

Shen Zhu seemed unwilling to have more contact with him, and stepped back slightly, revealing Zhao Yuan beside him.

Xie Taichu was surprised: "It's cold and dew heavy, why is the county king here? Where are the Feng'an people?"

While speaking, he had already walked to Zhao Yuan's side, took off his black cloak, and put it on Zhao Yuan's shoulders.Zhao Yuan moved closer, lowered his head and sniffed the breath on the cloak... The cloak still had some warmth from Xie Taichu, but it quickly dissipated in the cold night.

"At the beginning." Zhao Yuan looked at him, "I heard about Tang Haolan from my eldest brother. Shu Liang is not a good person... You, you are willing to do such things for someone who has nothing to do with you... Thank you."

Xie Taichu raised his head to see him, although he was a little surprised at first, he seemed to understand the ins and outs soon, and replied: "Master Tang is worried about cutting down the feudal clan, it can be regarded as serving the country and the people, but he acted too impulsively. There will definitely be growth afterwards...not to mention Master Tang is a friend of His Highness, and I should do something according to the situation and reason. Therefore, there is no need to thank me."

Zhao Yuan looked at him: "At the beginning, if you weren't so compassionate..."

"Ok?"

If it weren't for being so soft and compassionate, how could he be reluctant to part?

Zhao Yuan smiled: "It's nothing. Let's... go home."

go home……

Xie Taichu was quiet for a moment, stepped forward and pushed back to the nest: "Okay, let's go home."

Zhao Yuan was finally a little bit happy this time, he turned his head and asked Shen Zhu: "Brother Shen, would you like to go to the county palace with me?"

"Don't bother me anymore." Shen Zhu cupped his fists and said, "I just have a question and I want to ask the king to explain it."

"Brother, please speak."

"Duan Baozhai is the son of Shangshu, Tang Haolan is from a family of historians, and you are a nobleman from Tianhuang." Shen Zhu said, "Why do you like me? I am just a son of Jia. I just joined Jinyiwei when we swore, and I have no background."

Zhao Yuan smiled.

"The Qingming Festival of the year before last, we also drank upstairs in Yuheng Building. A flower girl was selling apricot flowers downstairs. A nobleman came up to molested him. Brother Shen passed by and beat him up, begging for mercy and escorting him to the Yamen of Shuntian Mansion. We were idle The prodigal son saw it upstairs, and he wanted to make friends." Zhao Yuan said, "No matter how unattainable the status, family background, and honor seem, they are actually shackles and drags. How can they be compared with a pure heart?"

Shen Zhu was silent for a while.

After a long time in the dark, the damp chilliness slowly infiltrated his shoulders and skirts, he raised his head and looked at Xie Taichu for a moment, then looked away, and then said in a low voice: "I have taken orders, and I will leave Beijing for business tomorrow morning .We won't see each other until frost."

"There are still two or three days left, brother, take care on the road." Zhao Yuan said, "I have to go to Tianshou Mountain with Grandpa Huang, and I will come back after Frost's Fall. Then I will invite you, Yushu, and Ruimiao to drink together. About that time After a while, Rui Miao will figure it out."

"Okay." Shen Zhu leaned over and cupped his fists, "You... take care."

After saying this, he said nothing, turned around and strode away.

Zhao Yuan frowned and thought carefully for a while and asked, "At the beginning, do you think Brother Shen is a little strange today?"

"His expression is sluggish, there is an evil wind lingering between his brows, he is worried and exhausted, and his luck is low." Xie Taichu withdrew his gaze, "He seems to have a catastrophe and a great merit."

Zhao Yuan didn't really believe in the theory of Feng Shui and luck, but Xie Taichu said seriously, so he was a little worried and said: "He is under Shu Liang, and he was promoted to be the governor of Si Tiqi, I'm afraid it will be too late. He suffered a lot of grievances... When he finishes his errands and returns to the capital, can Tai Chu help him?"

"Okay." Xie Taichu said.

Helping people change their lives and distributing their qi is an act against the sky, and if it is said, it is also harmful to oneself.But Xie Taichu agreed very quickly, without even thinking about it.

So much so that Zhao Yuan was stunned for a moment.

"...Thinking about it carefully, no matter what I say, it seems that I never refused at the beginning."

"Since you agree to marry the county king, you are married. Since your Highness wants something, I should seek it for His Highness." Xie Taichu said lightly.

"Is it because of marriage?"

"Yes."

"... What if it's not husband and wife?" Zhao Yuan asked again, looking into Xie Taichu's eyes, seeking an answer diligently.

How could Taoist Master Ningshan, who can practice the ruthless way, understand the thoughts of King Le'an, who has turned back and forth.

"If you are not husband and wife, you will have no fate." Xie Taichu said, "If you are a stranger, you will not be bound by fate. How can a cultivator intervene in such a matter at will?"

Beizhen Fusi is adjacent to the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, and it is also adjacent to Daming Gate.

You can only detour to Xijiang Mi Lane.The sky was getting dark, and the shops and houses in Zhengyangmen were all closed to the gates, and there were no pedestrians in the quiet.

A round of bright moon is bright and clear, reflecting the earth, and even people have shadows.

Zhao Yuan looked down, the shadows of the two were woven together by the moonlight, very intimate.

no fate...

Stranger...

Zhao Yuan smiled, and said vigorously, "Go back, Feng An is coming, don't let him not find us."

"it is good."

After walking for a while, the moon became brighter, illuminating the long distance clearly.

Xie Taichu has already squatted down, rolled up his sleeves, looked at his wrists by the moonlight.

"What's going on here?" Xie Taichu asked him.

Zhao Yuan went to see that his wrist was swollen, which was not obvious in the night, but when Xie Taichu asked about it, he felt some swelling pain.Zhao Yuan thought about it carefully: "It seems that when I heard about Rui Miao's accident from Duan Baozhai just now, when I almost fell off the carriage in a hurry, I sprained my hand."

"It's not painful, it will be fine in a while."

He tugged his wrist, which was motionless in Xie Taichu's palm.At this time, Daoist Ningshan was focused on checking his wrist, and his eyes seemed to have warmth, which made Zhao Yuan's wrist feel faintly hot.

"The wrist is contused, and it needs to be dealt with carefully, so as not to cause the root cause of the disease, and it will cause dull pain in the rainy day. Is there any discomfort for the king of the county?"

"I hit my waist too."

After Zhao Yuan finished speaking, Xie Taiyuan got up, as if he wanted to lift his clothes, he quickly pressed the lapel of his clothes and added, "Go back, go back and look again. Feng An is here, look at Tai Chu...Feng An and Che Nian are back."

Sure enough, the chariot of the county prince's mansion came.

Xie Taichu finally stopped entanglement, before the chariot arrived, he picked up Zhao Yuan, walked up to him with a few steps, entered the car, and put him on the couch.

Zhao Yuan felt that it must be his own illusion, Xie Taichu was so careful.

After Feng'an and others fixed the return nest behind the car, the group headed for the county palace.

When he arrived at the Prince's Mansion, Xie Taichu didn't let anyone come to take over Zhao Yuan, he picked him up and walked into the main courtyard.

"At the beginning, I can go in by myself." Zhao Yuan put his arm around his shoulders, and said in embarrassment.

"His Royal Highness's legs have improved, and in time he can walk with a stick. The waist is where the upper and lower connect. If you really hit a key meridian, I'm afraid all previous efforts will be wasted."

As Xie Taichu said, he pushed the door and put him on the soft couch, and put a few more soft pillows around his waist, raised his hand, and split Zhao Yuan's horse-faced skirt into two, and then removed him a few times. pants.

When Zhao Yuan realized his situation, he was immediately embarrassed.

King Le'an's jade legs stretched across the bed, stretched out on the couch limply, quite amorous, but Taoist Ningshan didn't seem to see half of it, and only focused on examining the lump in his waist.

He fiddled with Zhao Yuan like this, fiddled with that, pressed the sore spot on his waist, finally pushed the lump away, and then said to Zhao Yuan: "Your Highness, fortunately there is no serious problem."

"...Okay, thank you."

Zhao Yuan's voice was somewhat suppressed, Xie Taichu raised his eyes to look, and saw that his face was already red, and his lower body was also moving.The nobleman who was originally as warm and moist as jade has become even more charming now.

Daoist Ningshan was stunned for a moment.

Zhao Yuan quickly pulled his clothes over to cover up.

"You, don't look at it." Le'an County King stumbled.

His voice is extremely low.

The face is ashamed.

But when it was heard in Xie Taichu's ears, it was buzzing like spring thunder, countless echoes resounded through the wilderness in his heart, like falling sparks.

Instantly set him on fire.

[Note 1] Jia Renzi: The son of a merchant