Ning Gu

Chapter 115 Morning Talk

There is a high wall in front of the garden, and the high wall encloses a garden. It really fulfills the wish of the owner of the garden. Living in a vertical and horizontal place, but it is separated from the hustle and bustle and hides the dirty.

The nights in summer are short, and the dark night suddenly reveals some light from the sky.When Xie Ling woke up, there was only a small opening in the sky.

He got up and gathered his blue shirt, picked up a small pot on a whim, walked to the depths of the apricot forest alone, and found a piece of bluestone, the cold air was still dripping from the bluestone.He leaned on the bluestone, took a pot of clear and somewhat cool mountain stream water, and then took the pot back to the garden very leisurely.

Before he stepped into the apricot forest, he was stopped by someone, and the cuckoo's song that became a song in spring rang a few times in the forest.

Xie Ling hooked the corners of his lips, stopped walking, turned around and looked back at the forest, saw the black figure coming out from the trail behind the mountain, and asked, "What did you bring back?"

As the black figure got closer, it was clear that it was a small child, probably smaller than the little boy who followed Xie Ling.That child was extremely handsome, with big watery eyes, Qi Zhisheng would like it at first sight.That's why Qi Zhisheng bought him from a human trafficker, and he usually feeds him with good food and drink, and let him run errands when he is really idle.

This child has always been seldom talkative, but because of his well-behaved appearance, he is even more popular because of his shy temper.He stepped forward, took out a letter from his pocket, and held it in front of Xie Ling's eyes.

Xie Ling led him to the garden, met the children who had woken up, and specially ordered exquisite pastries for the children to serve.

Even so, the child frowned before swallowing.

"It's early, did you feel wronged?" Xie Ling raised his hand and tapped his forehead, and he shook his head hastily.

"How many days have you been away?" Xie Ling asked him while opening the letter.

"Three days." The child chewed slowly.

"Return trip, can we arrive in two days?"

The child lowered his head and put the piece of cloud cake in his hand: "Leave in a while, it's fine."

"That's good." From Xie Lingzhanxin's point of view, before the child finished eating the cloud cake in Xin's hand, he finished reading what Qi Zhisheng wrote in three pieces of letter paper.

Speaking of Qi Zhisheng's three eloquent articles, in Xie Ling's eyes, they are inseparable from chattering, and they only talk about two things. His soldiers were secretly transferred. He and Ye Fuzhou took advantage of the time when Ye Fuzhou was missing to investigate and found that they were moved to the mountains of Gyeonggi-do.

Xie Ling folded the letter paper properly, put it in the big sleeve, and then said: "You just take a message and tell your master that the fish is dead, let Fuzhou go back to the northwest to Anzhong, and after a while, I will let you When Zhaoxing's people came looking for him, he would make things difficult for Yan Ran." After Xie Ling finished speaking, he deliberately waited for the child to nod his head before asking, "Do you remember clearly?"

The child nodded and repeated the words again, Xie Ling sighed, got up and waved to the little boy outside the house, who took the child to the kitchen to store food,

The morning light is faint, and the sunlight that has crossed the mountain top slantly shines into the Changming Hall.

"Royal father." Xianzhi bowed his head.

He still continued the old rules, and came to the Changming Hall to pay his respects in the early morning, which is called the morning and evening peace.In fact, his father and son were just discussing matters.

"Is your master okay?"

"Well, but I heard from Ju Heng's boy that he has seen Zhaoxing's people these few days. I'm afraid..."

Zhao Zuo suddenly looked up at him: "What are you afraid of? If he really avoids you, you should be afraid."

After Zhao Zuo finished speaking, he smiled helplessly. All the incidents back then were intertwined. Unexpectedly, in the end, it was no longer they wanted Xie Wuling's life, but Xie Wuling was just asking for his life.

"Yes." Xian Zhi replied.

"The widow called you here today because of the matter of observation, and I want to hear your opinion."

"My son's opinion? Master is waiting for Guanzhi to admit his mistake. Since this is the case, it must not be Zhao Xing's hand."

"That's not necessarily the case." Zhao Zuo took two steps towards the case and handed over the two long scrolls, "Let's take a look at this confession."

There was a hint of doubt in Xianzhi's eyebrows, and he raised his hand to take it.He glanced through the two long scrolls at a glance, and said with some uncertainty: "This..."

Zhao Zuo raised his hand and pointed to the long scroll on Xianzhi's left palm first, then pointed to the long scroll on his right hand, and said: "This is from the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, and this one is from Yushi Zhongcheng."

Xian Zhi heard the words and read the two long scrolls again. Although the confession on the Ministry of Punishment Minister's scroll was fingerprinted, there was no mention of Xie Ling in the article.However, in the secret scroll submitted by Yushi Zhongcheng, it is clearly written that when the three of them mentioned Xie Ning's private rumors in Chongque, they confirmed it again and again when they were drawing After seeing the confession statement with his own eyes, he pressed his fingerprints.

"Censor Zhongcheng is a veteran of the two dynasties. He asked Chongque about his attitude towards Guanzhi, so now he will not meddle in this matter and spread rumors. The Ministry of Justice has always been a secret left by the master. Zhuang, since I can hand over this confession, I think I understand what you and the master mean. There is only one possibility." Xianzhi looked up at Zhao Zuo, and said firmly, "Dali Siqing."

"Exactly. When the news of Guanzhi's death came, the widow sent people to investigate the Dali Temple. He was selected by the imperial examination and he was the most easily broken one. Unexpectedly, he still failed to live up to the expectations of the widow."

"Then the real confession letter should also be in the hands of the person behind Dali Siqing?"

"The person behind it," Zhao Zuo snorted coldly, "I'm afraid your good grandpa will add his name to the booklet that Huixuan left for us again."

Xianzhi nodded, and said again: "By the way, father, the bones of the secret guards who were placed next to Mrs. Peeping Fish that day were found, and they are all in the mass burial mound on the barren mountain in the west of the city. You said..."

"No news from Ye Fuzhou yet? Didn't Qi Zhisheng go to find him for medicine?"

"Oh yes, Master told me that the news about Ye Fuzhou will soon arrive in Beijing, let me remember to remind you today. He also said that the matter of Ye Fuzhou is a matter of observation..."

"It's about watching?" Zhao Zuo looked at Xianzhi's eyes and suddenly lit up, "That's really only him who can do it."

"What?" Xianzhi was even more confused by Zhao Zuo's words.

"It's what your master said. It's a matter of observation. If Ye Qiaoyu dies in Fufeng, the Ye family will point the finger at the court. Then Prime Minister Liang can not only watch this matter from the sidelines, but even Take advantage of this to provoke Lu Qi."

"If Guanzhi is lost, then the hidden stake that grandpa left in the third division will surface, making it impossible for Prime Minister Liang to stand on the sidelines."

"No, it should be that the blind cat met a dead mouse. He dared to make such a move and told you that he must be prepared."

"Ready?" Xianzhi frowned.

Zhao Zuo didn't intend to say it himself, he even had a little bit of luck, he hoped that it was just his overthinking, he sighed, and perfunctoryly said: "It's nothing. He should have received it." Other news. Other things we don't know, and Zhaoxing doesn't know either.

"Then someone must have sent him a letter." Xianzhi paused, his brows lit up, "You mean, Mr. Qi?"

Zhao Zuo looked at Xianzhi, pursed his lips tacitly, and ordered: "After a while, someone will send the peeping fish home to appease the Ye family. You have to help the spirit go. As for Guanzhi , after you leave, bring it up again and let the Ministry of Rites take care of his funeral."

"Where is the master..." Before Xianzhi finished speaking, he was interrupted by the old eunuch knocking on the door. Zhao Zuo responded and said to Xianzhi: "The widow will send someone to pick him up at night, you don't have to worry about it." .”

Xianzhi nodded when he heard the words, but he didn't have the idea of ​​leaving for a long time. Some words came to his lips, but he hesitated to speak.

Zhao Zuo asked the old eunuch who raised the time outside the door to come in and wear the crown. After putting on the crown, he found that the envy was still there. His complexion became extremely serious: "What's wrong?"

Rao's kind words made Xianzhi feel a chill, he lowered his head, gritted his teeth and said, "Lu Qi, please take care of me, Father."

After finishing speaking, Xianzhi didn't dare to look at the expression on Zhao Zuo's face, he hurriedly made a bow, and then said his resignation, and left the Changming Hall ahead of time.

Seeing Xianzhi leave, Zhao Zuo asked the old eunuch, "Did Lu Qi do anything yesterday?"

"Yesterday, I heard that I went to a wine shop in the city to drink two or two small wines, and then stayed in Lu Langjun's yard. But today, I just heard someone report that I got up early and left the yard, as if to go In the direction of the Liang Mansion."

"Liang Mansion?"

"Yes." The old eunuch nodded and bowed for a while, straightened his ribbon, and said, "Your Majesty, there is one more thing. I just passed the word that Mr. Liang said he was ill today and couldn't enter the court. I hope you forgive me."

"Then Lu Qi is more filial than Xianzhi." Zhao Zuo smiled with his lips curled up, and went up to the court without stopping.

And Prime Minister Liang, who said he was sick at home, also got up early in the morning, took a history book and sat in the courtyard waiting for Lu Qi who had delivered the message to come.

Since Lu Qi returned from the city yesterday, he faced another night of tossing and turning.Lu Weiming didn't return to the yard for a day or two because of Ye Qianyu's incident. Lu Qi asked all the people in the yard, but they couldn't find out where Lu Weiming went.

This gave him a chance to walk around, but he didn't want to see Xianzhi, so he skipped the east side of the city.But this skip caused a steady stream of troubles later on.

His hands held the ring pei tightly through the material of the clothes, but the ring pei hidden in his arms could not make him feel at ease.On the contrary, it made him feel that the ring was also defiled by Xianzhi, and it was flawed, so he wanted to take it out and discard it.But when he really pulled Huan Pei out of his arms, and wanted to throw it away, he really couldn't bear it.

Eyes blinked a few times in the dark night, mouth pursed unconsciously, tears were illuminated by the moonlight, hitting the thin quilt one by one.At that time, Liang Xiang's sound of analysis in the car spread again in Lu Qi's mind.At that time, Liang Xiang said that Xian's next step was to truly solve Guanzhi, but he didn't believe it.

But the matter of not wanting to spy on the fish is still choked in his heart, before he can convince himself that this is Fufeng Land, this happened again yesterday.This widened the gap between him and Xianzhi.He originally just wanted to go to the wine shop in the city to hear the news that Lu Weiming didn't want to tell him, but he didn't expect to hear the news of Shuo Guanzhi's death instead of hearing what he wanted to hear.

But those people were obviously more interested in the content of Guanzhi's confession, and they continued to read and talk, but Lu Qi didn't have the heart anymore.Guanzhi's death is undoubtedly a reflection of Liang Ce's words, no doubt once again forced Lu Qi to pull Xianzhi from his heart to the place where he will never recover, and bury him deeply until he can no longer see him. , Unexpected, unbelievable.

So he woke up early in the morning, and while Lu Weiming hadn't recovered from what happened to Ye Kuiyu, he sent someone to send a message to Liang's mansion, and when the carriages and horses from Liang's mansion came, he went out here. Small courtyard, standing outside the door, always felt that the courtyard was a bit dilapidated, he looked away, and accidentally caught a glimpse of the lantern hanging on the beam of the courtyard gate, as if he hadn't watched it for two days Take it down and replace it with a new candle.

The person who can remember to change the lanterns for new candles and wait for Lu Weiming to return will never come back again.

Lu Qi sighed, not knowing why he remembered Ye Qianyu, he should remember it for himself first.People who can't manage themselves, how can they care about others.

He turned around, took a deep breath, got into the carriage of Liang's family, and went to Liang's mansion.

"Young Master, have you thought about it?"

Just as Lu Qi approached the back garden of the Liang Mansion, he heard a voice asking. He looked over and saw that the man specially set up a table and a couple.

Lu Qi's heart trembled unconsciously.He had seen this kind of posture before in Juheng, but it was during the festival, when Zhao Zuo and Xie Wuling were together, of course, when he was not present, he had seen it quietly.

Seeing that Lu Qi hadn't replied for a long time, Liang Ce put away the book and turned to read it.

When he turned around, Lu Qi saw the person clearly, and immediately collected his attention, and responded: "Yes. But I want to exchange something with the adults."

"Exchange? What does the young master want to exchange with the old man?" Liang Ce raised his hand and stroked his little goatee. , no interest."

"I thought this was what the Prime Minister wanted all the time." Lu Qi spread his hands, and showed the half-faced jade antler in front of Liang Ce.

Liang Ce's eyes suddenly lit up, but he intentionally only glanced twice, then looked away, but slowly raised his hand to get the jade antler, and asked, "Why is it here?" In your hand?"

"This has nothing to do with adults."

Seeing this, Liang Ce also lay down on his side seat, trying to wear down Lu Qi's patience.

"Why does the young master think that I must change?"

"Don't you want it, sir?" Lu Qi learned how Xianzhi looked in front of others. He has seen it a lot in the past few years, and he learned it quite vividly. "I still want to win me over as an adult, it's because of the jade antlers."

"Then the young master is thinking too much, old man, why should you be the young master?" Liang Ce was shocked by Lu Qi's straightforward words, then calmed down, and said grandly, "I don't know what the young master wants to change? "

"How on earth did my mother die."

"Mr. Xie Xiao's glass of poisonous wine, poisoned to death. Didn't Lu Langjun tell the young master?"

Lu Qi looked at this old thing pretending to be garlic, and the anger in his heart rose for a moment. He fisted his hands under his sleeves, bit his lips, swallowed his anger, and said: "Mr. Liang should know that I want to ask Yes, not the last."

"Then sit down and talk slowly?"