Neighbors in the Qingliangshan area in the west of the city.
A small building in an alley.
Plum branches carved with jade are placed horizontally in front of the window.
Shi Mingniang was meditating in a quiet room, and her knife was also quiet, placed on the long iron wood knife rest.
Outside the door, two girls, Bai Lu and Shuang Jiang, were guarding the quiet room. They already knew that the madam had the most sincere sword intentions, and she planned to go to the house that day to find the Qingluo female ghost, and promised to fight to the death.
"Cao Xiwan is also a master of swordsmanship. She will not refuse." Madam said to Master Feng Xian, "I don't care about your business. I just want to die in this battle!"
Feng Junqing did not dissuade her. He arranged an ambush near the imperial mausoleum. Once Shi Mingniang was defeated, he would surround and kill the Qingluo female ghost. He left the Shi's small building. The wind was filled with the fresh green air of winter and spring. He rode on horseback.
Walking slowly in the early spring sunshine.
While walking through the Wucheng Bingma Si Yamen area, he heard the commotion in teahouses and restaurants, which was the vague discussion of the military attachés of the Twelve Guards.
There is a bet on who is the most powerful female devil in the world?
But this was far from enough for the business. How many spies did she have to keep trying to make money like this? He felt awe-inspiring in his heart. The prince's illness was still lingering and could not be cured. The prince's concubine returned to the Hou Mansion to invite Cao Xi.
Late at night, she avoided seeing him.
So heartless.
Feng Junqing rode through the long street in front of the palace, and saw Prince Zhou and his entourage riding into the palace. There was clearly a scholar among the guards, who turned out to be Liu Ruhai.
"...Come here, go and inform Jinyi Yamen secretly."
Feng Junqing sneered, Liu was a spy from Prince Zhao's palace. How dare he stay in the capital and follow him into the palace? He told him to never return.
At the same time, Qinglefang.
Duan family.
"Su Jintian...want to be the leader of the Tantric Sect?" Hui Ci was shocked on the spot. After all, Xiao Zhao had been a eunuch in the palace for a long time. He suddenly reminded him tactfully: "...the leader of the Tantric Sect, that's a monk."
"He was abandoned by his eldest sister. I think he wanted to become a monk a long time ago."
Don't you really have a grudge against Su Jintian and say bad things about him behind his back? Everyone in the room looked sideways and their eyes spoke for themselves. Especially Lu Xiuyun, who was next to Cao Xiwan, secretly pinched her.
Cao Xiwan endured the pain and touched the flesh of her arm, feeling aggrieved and surprised: "Don't you ever think so? He often accompanies me to the cemetery to pick up bones. Don't you think he is particularly weird?"
Lou Xiliu couldn't bear it anymore: "...the weird one...couldn't it be...you?"
She was really extremely grateful to Cao Xiwan, otherwise her tone would never have been so tactful.
How unlucky is Su Jintian to be close friends with you, Cao Xiwan?
She solemnly said: "You can't do this. You still have a crush on him. You can't do this to the Master of Biying Palace. Even female devils like beautiful boys."
Gray Thorn coughed hard, this is really not necessarily the case. Don't talk nonsense about the things in the Demon Palace. Just because you are doing this does not mean that others are doing the same.
Gray Thorn had already thought that the relationship between Su Jintian and the Qingluo female ghost might be that the beautiful young man was struggling to pursue his ruthless elder sister. He glanced at the Palace Master's Talisman in her hand, otherwise he would not be able to explain the situation.
Cao Xiwan caught a glimpse of his expression and secretly rejoiced. She just wanted Gray Thorn to know that she, the female devil, liked the little censor.
That night when we were having dinner, there were sparse shadows on the branches and the moonlight was clear and bright.
Gu Yongxiu was dressed in a commoner's white shirt and a black soft hat. When he stepped onto the steps in front of the Duan family courtyard, he had already heard about the major event of the past few days - the Qingluo female ghost entertained female guests at Qinglefang.
Shi Mingniang broke in and asked for a fight.
Cao Xiwan agreed.
Jinling City is like a fire, and this news is like a barrel of oil. When it is poured down, the entire Jinling City explodes.
The female ghost of Qingluo and Mrs. Daojun made an appointment to fight at the East Ridge of Zhongshan Mountain and the Imperial Tomb of Taizu.
The reason for the fight is not yet known, but the bet was on the secrets of the previous dynasty left by Lord Feng Dao.
"Secret—!?"
The capital is boiling.
This news alone was more exciting than the fact that Prince Zhou entered the palace. King Zhou reported to His Majesty that he had found the imprisoned Prince Dai. The person who rebelled was pretending to be a traitor and was not the real Prince Dai.
The person who found the Prince of Dai was none other than Liu Ruhai, a guest of the Prince of Zhou's Palace. He has now been conferred by His Majesty himself from the rank of Fifth Rank Prince's Palace Chief, and has been added to the rank of Jinwu Guard Hundred Household.
"Hey, the acting prince has been found? Is he not dead?" Even Cao Xiwan was asking about this gossip. She had no other reason to wonder where the real prince was imprisoned at that time. She probably didn't see her stabbing the fake prince one by one as the real one.
Let the prince kill him. It’s okay. When the time comes, he will say that she saw through the traitor and bravely saved him. She comforted herself.
They should have been silenced. The few who were alive looked at the half-dead Crown Prince of Qin and would not dare to speak randomly.
She smiled eerily.
"Sister Xiaowan?" Xiao Qiao looked at her fierce face and reminded her that the old shopkeeper next to her was frightened and frightened by her.
She was stunned and smiled kindly.
The old shopkeeper of the drug store originally told her that Boss Liu sent someone over to say that he would come to see the accounts in the next few days.
"You really want to come? Do you still dare to come?"
"Yes." The old shopkeeper speculated, is it because she is unwilling? Does she want to steal Dongzhu Liu's stock? But now she is also a long history of the royal palace, and His Majesty favors her! I heard that Miss Lian Cao's employer, Marquis Nankang, looked at it
I sent congratulatory gifts to the prince.
Qinhuai River.
Liuji Drug Store.
Cao Xiwan originally planned to change the sign in the drug store and find a scapegoat. Unexpectedly, she was sitting on the counter and was checking the accounts with Xiao Qiao, the old shopkeeper, when she saw Liu Changshi coming.
He had black hair and a jade face, and was dressed in a gauze and silk spring shirt, layered in the sunlight, just like his brows and eyes as misty as spring water. He came in calmly with a medicine box on his back, and there were only five words written all over his body:
A pretty boy in a green shirt.
She was not angry and turned around: "Show the account book to Dongzhu Liu. I'll go back first."
When he passed by him, he smiled and said, "Why do you insist on such rules with Mrs. Shi?"
Cao Xiwan was also worried. She also wanted to say that after the gambling was opened, she would have a life-and-death battle with Shi Mingniang to add fuel to the flames and make money.
But actually, it's not.
She held her chin and sat in the east room of the Duan family until the sun set in the west. When she saw the moonlight on the willow trees outside the window, she couldn't help but sigh. She said to Liu Ying: "She is very serious. I am embarrassed to be cheating."
"
"Because you are the most serious person." Liu Ying smiled.
Cao Xiwan felt that Liu Ying was really a confidant.
"The banquet has started, come and sit down - only Gu Yushi is not here." She stood up and greeted Su Jintian and others who were eating her banquet in the east room. She stretched out her hand to ask for the red envelope. Su Jintian was not polite to her,
He asked directly: "The next volume."
"What?"
"You haven't given me the second volume of Purple Talisman yet."
"..." She pretended to be stupid. She looked at the big red envelope in his hand. It was bulging with several blue pearls. She smiled and said: "You didn't come to ask for it when I came back from the palace. I thought you had forgotten it.
"I'll keep it for you." She grabbed the big red envelope and threw the amethyst talisman from the second volume of "Biying Xinfa" to him.
Xiao Qiao and Xiao Shuang were beside them, and they were inexplicably excited. Su Jintian put away the purple charm, sat down casually to have tea, and glanced at her: "You actually invited Gu Yongxiu? Aren't you afraid of cheating? He won't bring you to see him."
"No way!" She smiled and stuffed three green beads into her pocket, and with a fierce face, she asked Xiao Qiao and Xiao Shuang for red envelopes.
In the green lane reflecting the moonlight, Gu Yongxiu dismounted in front of the door and entered Duan's house.
The patio of the small courtyard is brightly lit.
Gu Yongxiu looked at the east room. Although the candles were held high and the people were wearing fragrant clothes, there seemed to be another group of guests in the west room of the Duan family.
The lattice window is half-pushed, and the moon shadow and flowers are swaying.
Hui Ji was in the west room and ordered his disciples Xiao Zhao and Lou Xiliu to remove the remaining tea that Su Jintian had eaten and serve tea again. He turned around and saw the visitor in the courtyard, Gu Yongxiu.
Gu Yushi crossed the patio and went to the east room, leading the way to the east room. Little Zhuer smiled and said, "There are guests in the west room who are paying for the meal, so it's okay."
Gray Thorn is in the west room, eating his rice dumplings with six vegetables and one soup.
Gray Thorn just finished talking to Su Jintian.
Lou Xiliu brought the food box from the kitchen and served the meal for the master, while her senior brother Xiao Zhao changed the tea. She had officially become a disciple of Gray Thorn at this time, and Su Jintian was not dissatisfied. Although he did not give her a gift to congratulate her, but she had just
When addressed as "Senior Brother Su", he nodded and said nothing.
She felt that the happiest day in her life was today.
But the next moment, Gu Yongxiu entered Duan's house and walked into the small courtyard. He looked at the lights and figures in the east and west rooms.
Logically speaking, Cao Xiwan, the host, would have come to welcome him.
"Master Gu is here——" little Zhuer announced.
Brother and sister Lou Xiliu and Xiao Zhao looked out of the window together, and they were all sweating.
Cao Xiwan didn't have stage fright at all. She lifted her skirt and went down the steps, heading towards Gu Yongxiu.