South Xinjiang

The winter night was very cold, Su Yunshu was afraid that he would catch a cold, so she covered him with a quilt and tucked in the corners of the quilt, but suddenly stared at Shen Mo's deep and resolute face and started to be dazed, by accident, he really wanted to kiss Shen Mo's eyes.He slowly moved his face closer, like a thief doing bad things, feeling uneasy and inexplicably excited and excited. When the two faces were close at hand, Shen Mo suddenly opened his eyes, his shallow eyes Dan's eyes were exceptionally clear, without any hint of drunkenness.He just looked into Su Yunshu's eyes and asked hoarsely, "What are you doing?"

Su Yunshu felt Shen Mo's breath caressing her chin, it was itchy and smelled of wine.With a sudden surge of energy and blood, he jumped up quickly and took two steps back, his face was flushed, his heart was pounding and flustered, he felt as if he had been cooked, red and hot.He stammered and asked, "Are you not drunk?"

Shen Mo sat up, with a sullen face and a low voice, "I'll take a rest, I'm not drunk."

Su Yunshu felt that she was too embarrassed, covered her face with one hand and ran back to her bed, covering herself with a quilt.He had never been drunk before, but this time, for some reason, he was as light as if he was slightly drunk, and the alcohol began to react, and he went up.He fell asleep in a daze, and before he fell asleep, he thought over and over again: probably, I was drunk.

When she woke up the next day, Su Yunshu planned that if Shen Mo asked, she would say that she didn't remember anything!But Shen Mo acted as if nothing had happened, his attitude was as natural as usual, and he was not curious about what happened last night.On the contrary, Su Yunshu was still a little disappointed.

Today, they were leaving. Before leaving, Shen Mo took him to an inconspicuous bamboo house, and dug out two boxes from the ground of the bamboo house. One was Shen Mo's magic weapon, which was A short stick, with a pure black stone embedded in the top, that stone has no luster, as if it can absorb light.The body of the staff is engraved with complicated and strange patterns, which are densely spread and entangled, revealing a gloomy coldness.

Shen Mo carried the magic weapon on his back, and it complemented the cold Hanjiang sword, and there was a strange harmony.Shen Mo opened another box, which contained a folding fan with a white handle, and Shen Mo handed the fan to Su Yunshu.

Su Yunshu asked in surprise, "For me?"

Shen Mo nodded, "Didn't yours be destroyed in Wuming City before?"

Su Yunshu was overjoyed, picked up the folding fan, and couldn't put it down.The white jade handle is not cold to the touch like ordinary white jade, but has a gentle warmth, and the color is not so white, a little gray, giving people a kind of restrained coercion.

Seeing his curiosity, Shen Mo explained: "This is not jade, but a jade bone."

Jade bone is a kind of material that can only be obtained by chance and coincidence. It is so precious that it can be encountered but not sought.Su Yunshu didn't expect to get a glimpse of such a treasure in his lifetime, so he opened the folding fan a little excitedly.

The fan is not made of silk cloth, but a kind of extremely tough and extremely sharp paper.The painting on the paper is a sub-landscape map, with only a few strokes of ink, but it creates an extraordinarily deep artistic conception, which makes it difficult for people to remove it at a glance.Su Yunshu searched for a long time but couldn't find the signature, so he asked curiously, "Who drew this? It's so profound!"

Shen Mo said lightly, "I drew it."

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Su Yunshu had nothing to say, Shen Mo seemed to be omnipotent, he asked, "Which landscape are you painting?"

Shen Mo was silent, and after a short while, he finally spoke: "This is not a landscape painting, but a mechanism technique, which can make people hallucinate."

······Su Yunshu said in his heart, yes, it's because he is ignorant and has no knowledge.

But this did not prevent Su Yunshu from cherishing this folding fan. He put the folding fan properly into the inner lining of his coat, and patted it a few more times, feeling satisfied.

Seeing that he liked it, Shen Mo's lips curled slightly inaudibly.

They left southern Xinjiang and went to the Central Plains again. When they passed Shenmu City, they found that officials had already started to distribute grain and porridge. Without delay, they rushed directly to Kyoto. Send the second prince and a group of officials to respond to the news of disaster relief in the lake area.

Su Yunshu then analyzed his thoughts to Shen Mo, "Do you think the emperor knows the plan of the fourth prince to force the palace? Is he sending the second prince because of the success of the fourth prince's scheme, or is he protecting the second prince?"

Shen Mo suddenly asked a question, "How did the second prince know about the plan of the fourth prince to force the palace?"

Su Yunshu frowned, "Are you suspecting that the second prince has been used?"

Shen Mo glanced at the horse that was grazing and resting, and said in a deep voice, "It might be the Fourth Prince."

Su Yunshu felt that the whole thing was not right when he met the members of Yeya in Yizhuang, but he didn't want to understand it. Hearing this now, he asked curiously: "How do you say it?"

Shen Mo shook his head and asked him: "Have you met the Fourth Prince?"

Su Yunshu thought about it carefully, and nodded slightly, "I met once in the Sixth Prince's residence before, and I was quite impressed. I feel very sinister. The evil spirit is very heavy."

Shen Mo stopped talking, Su Yunshu couldn't figure out what he was thinking, and suddenly asked: "Do you still remember that you said in my family's ancestral hall that I was a chess player? But I am not, sometimes I feel that I am just a chess player. A pawn."

Shen Mo pulled the rein back of the horse, got on the horse, and said coldly: "Then jump out and ruin the whole game of chess."

Su Yunshu raised his eyebrows, raised the corners of his mouth, and narrowed his eyes, forming a beautiful arc.

After arriving in Kyoto, the first thing they did was to find the sixth prince.

They stayed in the Sixth Prince's mansion for a long time, until the afternoon when the Sixth Prince rushed back with a tired face.When he saw Shen and Su, the boredom on his face disappeared, and he blew a loud whistle to them with vigor.

Shen Mo's eyes turned cold, but Su Yunshu smiled with crooked eyebrows, "Why haven't you got rid of your bad habits?"

The sixth prince chuckled, "I couldn't hold back when I saw you. Do you know him?"

Su Yunshu chuckled and nodded.

The sixth prince moved to Su Yunshu's side, and whispered in his ear: "Is it prettier than you?"

Su Yunshu looked at Shen Mo, blinked, and put it in the ear of the sixth prince, "I look better."

"Tsk." The sixth prince glanced at Su Yunshu in disgust, "I don't have any self-knowledge."

Su Yunshu laughed for a long time, then calmed down a little, "Did the Second Prince leave any news for you?"

The sixth prince asked them to sit down, looked around, and wrote on the table with herbal tea: Second brother didn't leave.

Shen Mo and Su Yunshu looked at each other, Su Yunshu dipped his fingertips in water and wrote "?" on the table

The water marks disappeared quickly, and the sixth prince took out a letter from his pocket, and said in a low voice, "I always keep it close to my body."

Su Yunshu took it, read it with Shen Mo, and said in the letter:

The fourth brother colluded with the Rong people and wanted to rebel against power.The emperor pretended to send me to cure the disaster, but in fact he stood still and caught the turtle in the urn.If there is something urgent, tell the sixth brother.The situation is volatile, so be careful.

Shen Mo suddenly got up and went to the desk beside him, Su Yunshu and the sixth prince walked over seeing the situation, Shen Mo took a pen and wrote on the paper: How many soldiers do you have under your command?

The sixth prince took over the pen, and the garrison was 1000, and [-] troops had already returned to Kyoto.

Shen Mo wrote again: Where is General Lou?

The sixth prince did some calculations in his mind and wrote: Eight hundred imperial guards.

Shen Mo wrote again: How about the fourth prince?How about the Rong people?

The sixth prince sighed, with a bad complexion, and wrote: The total is no less than five thousand.Eighteen to five thousand, hopeless?

Shen Mo shook his head, and wrote the word "Huang" stroke by stroke on the paper.

He didn't explain, he picked up the paper and put it in the wax cauldron and burned it, then leaned over to Su Yunshu's ear, "Write to Qin Qi, the food and gunpowder will be delivered immediately."

The situation was critical, and Su Yunshu no longer had any charming thoughts in his heart, so he nodded in agreement.

Shen Mo suddenly asked the sixth prince: "Is there any ceremony in the palace recently?"

The sixth prince nodded, "Yes! Five days later there will be a marriage banquet with the Rong people."

Su Yunshu frowned and asked doubtfully, "Didn't Da Qi have no princesses?"

The sixth prince scratched his head and smiled, "She was originally a princess, but the emperor gave her a new title and became a princess."

A cold light flashed in Su Yunshu's eyes, and he asked, "Which princess is that?"

The sixth prince thought for a long time before saying, "It seems to be called Xue Ruxia."

Su Yunshu thought in his mind that two years ago, the emperor reopened the old case, restored the reputation of the Xue family, who had committed a felony, and appointed the criminal daughter of the Xue family, who was supposed to be dead, as the princess. No matter how Chengyuan Pavilion checked, there was no news at all.It seems that Xue Ruxia hides many secrets.

He turned his head to look at Shen Mo, but he didn't expect that Shen Mo also had a serious expression on his face, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

The sixth prince was enthusiastic and kept them for dinner, and then tidied up the guest room for them to stay.

At night, Su Yunshu went to look for Shen Mo, but found that he was not in the house.Feeling flustered for no reason, he walked out of Shen Mo's room with a gloomy expression, and was about to leave when he heard a steady voice, "Come up."

Su Yunshu's eyes lit up, turned around and looked up, only to find that Shen Mo was sitting on the roof looking at the sky, the moonlight swayed on his face, like a layer of gentle silver light, making him radiant, holy and noble.

Su Yunshu breathed a sigh of relief, flew up with lightness, and sat next to Shen Mo.

Shen Mo glanced at him, took off his cotton cloak and put it on Su Yunshu who was wearing thin clothes.Surrounded by the sudden warmth, Su Yunshu shivered subconsciously.Shen Mo asked: "Is the injury better?"

Su Yunshu touched his lower abdomen, and said with a light smile, "It's healed. In the past two years, I really made up for all the injuries I didn't have before."

Shen Mo didn't answer, and continued to look up at the sky.

Su Yunshu followed his gaze and looked up, and found that apart from the clear moonlight, there was nothing to see, and there were only a few stars here and there, all of which were too hazy to see clearly, and she didn't know what Shen Mo was observing.

Suddenly, Shen Mo said: "Qinglong Wusu, it's on."

Su Yunshu answered subconsciously, "Is your heart bright? It indicates a change of dynasty? Then this battle will be lost?"

Shen Mo said in a deep voice, "Not necessarily."

Su Yunshu thought, that's right, it might not be the fourth prince succeeding to the throne, maybe it's the second prince.

Shen Mo suddenly asked: "Do you know how to watch the stars?"

Su Yunshu recovered, "Huh? No way. But I know a little about the meaning of astrology."

Shen Mo nodded, "I want to meet the Fourth Prince."

On the second day, Su Yunshu relayed Shen Mo's thoughts to the sixth prince and asked him to make arrangements as appropriate.Shen Mo went to General Lou's mansion to visit the little prince of Southern Xinjiang, while Su Yunshu collected the tasks arranged before leaving.

Before, he wanted to lure the snake out of the hole, find out the evidence that the fourth prince had meddled with Xing Tianjian, and let him and the emperor bite the dog, but now that the information was in hand, Su Yunshu hesitated.The second prince is still dormant near the capital, and the emperor's resourcefulness is far less simple than imagined. The fourth prince's target is exposed, which makes people feel extremely uneasy.

Su Yunshu didn't move, but went to General Lou's mansion to find Shen Mo.