Song Chengming shook his head sadly and sat alone, meditating. A corner of incense was burning on the red sandalwood table, and the smoke was like snow.
He was remembering his first wife.
But the memory is blurry.
The first wife of Nankang Hou was a poor girl from an old lady family, but she also had a skill in making incense.
Gentle and gentle in temperament.
But he had no love for her. He met Lou Shuluan in Yanjing City. He once thought that if he could not marry her for the sake of his title, then the only wife in his heart would be Lou Shuluan. Most of his ex-wife could feel him
The indifference in my heart passed away within two years.
Later, when he met Xiaowan, he also thought about getting married.
Xiao Wan's status was too low and her temper was too strange. He never understood her thoughts. He even thought that Xiao Wan's indifference to his bones might be due to his late wife's hatred for him.
It was only after the battle with hundreds of swords that he realized that Xiao Wan was not without affection for him.
Zhan Baidao was originally an unknown scholar and one of his substitutes.
It's no fun to think about this anymore.
When the imperial doctor in the palace was treating the nobles, he would often be like Liu Ruhai in order to avoid taboos. He would tell the inside story of the closed Sophora Hospital in such a vague way. Doctor Liu was already young, and when he met a patient with taboos, he would dare to administer medicine and speak out.
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If it were an old doctor, he might simply avoid this matter and refuse to treat me.
Song Chengming knew it well.
The second steward stood in a corner.
There is pagoda incense burning in the stove on the table, and there is a silver basket of incense balls hanging on a triangular gold frame, with nine jade steps carved inside.
The whole reason is that the tower smoke is different from the letter incense. The letter incense soars upwards and reaches the blue sky.
The smoke of tower incense has always flowed downward.
Like water, it flowed through the nine white jade steps, outflowed the fragrant balls, flowed to the table, and then slid down.
Like mist and dream.
This is the late lady's favorite.
The old lady's family was originally one of the Yuangong Imperial Guards, guarding the Tantric monastery in the capital. It seems that the late Madam learned the art of making incense from the monastery.
In the mist, Marquis Nankang opened the secret button behind the bookshelf, carried a lantern, and entered the secret room.
Manager Lian Er stood guard silently.
The dark secret passage, with oil lamps every ten steps on the wall, is endless and leads nowhere.
If you listen carefully, you can still hear the flying footsteps of hundreds of ghosts and beasts that patrol the city.
Hear the sound of water in the underground river.
I heard the singing and dancing on the Qinhuai River.
The Marquis of Nankang stood in the secret passage.
The light was dim, and no corpse poisonous grass was found in the four corners. Su Jintian and Qin Meng had already eradicated them all with their own hands.
But before, Cao Xiwan told him that there were poisonous weeds in the secret passage.
He didn't care.
It seemed that he hadn't listened carefully to Xiao Wan's words for a while. Song Chengming felt the peeping eyes of enemies from all sides in the darkness.
He was promoted to the deputy governor of Jinyiwei through meritorious deeds. He had never been afraid of how many bloody sea sword mountains there were, but at this time, he felt a deep chill.
The Qingluo female ghost who accompanied him along the way, the little washerwoman in Yanjing City, is no longer there. She will no longer hold hands with him and walk with him all the way.
He could feel Xiao Wan's gradual alienation.
Execute her?
He pondered.
He didn't know how long he walked in the secret passage. After coming out, he sat quietly and meditated.
Xiao Wan was executed. Should Shu Luan be executed as well?
I would rather betray others than others betray me.
Xiao Wan is his confidant, he wants to save face, and he wants to prevent her from counterattacking and assassinating her while her skills are still high.
Shuluan is the daughter of Loufu. He needs help from Loufu for his ambitions.
——He has to make a decision before taking action.
It was afternoon, and the glazed tiles of Jinling Palace outside the window were covered with snow.
Liancheng was ordered to find all the records about the Immortality Pill in the secret files of the Jinyi Guards.
Song Chengming looked through them one by one and found that the longevity pill originally came from the secret collection in the palace of the Mongolian imperial master.
This secret treasure was abandoned by Emperor Yuan when he fled into the grasslands. It also contains the Nine Transformations of the Netherworld.
All of these can be regarded as the basis for Song Chengming to rise from a small family to a prosperous career.
He suddenly remembered that Cao Xiwan had mentioned before dispersing the exercises:
——The elixir of longevity is also a secret treasure.
——The Nine Transformations of Netherworld is also a secret.
——But the Mongolian national master may not be the one who made these things.
Cao Xiwan used half of her net worth to bribe Manager Lian Er, and she was well-informed.
The Marquis once again asked Liu Ruhai to search for poisonous weeds in the mansion.
There are countless secrets in the secret files of the Yamen, and she is used to it. There is no need to mention them in the Hou Mansion.
After all, she had been sweeping the floors of Buddhist temples over the years, and every time she heard from the nuns in Chengfu Temple, she heard many old stories about the ruins of the old Yuan Palace and the death of Yijiang Chun.
Now, this dynasty has just been established.
After the late Emperor Taizu left, His Majesty the new Emperor reprimanded the Marquis for a dead eunuch in the palace. This sounds strange. There must be something behind the scenes.
It was a sunny day and the snow was melting. She got on the Qingweizi car with Mrs. Six and took Qingque and Linghua out. The car arrived at Shunyifang. Mrs. Six went to visit her close friend. She went to sign the house deed.
Take a look at the shop.
This new shop, which is being converted into a residence, has blue bricks and black tiles, and green bamboo covered with snow under the whitewashed walls.
The courtyard of Shunyifang is covered with pine, bamboo and plum trees, and the underground river under the shop also leads to the palace wall of Chengtianmen.
In fact, she knew that the palace supervisors would also patrol every night.
There was a small building in the courtyard, and Chen Ming occupied the second floor. She went up to the third floor without disturbing it.
A red painted fork is erected in front of the palace gate, and the palace walls surrounding Chengtian Gate are the dividing points for inspections by the eunuchs in the palace and the royal guards outside the palace.
Could it be that the dead one was the eunuch on patrol?
The ghost doctor Chen Ming yawned loudly, woke up, drank tea and rubbed her eyes. She quickly turned on the stove and asked, "Are all miracle doctors like you?"
"No, I'm sloppy."
"..." She choked. Come to think of it, Liu Ruhai had the temper to sweep the floor in a big apron.
"It's not the frontier army. It's the Beijing camp." Chen Ming is from a military family and is Chen Qianhu's nephew. He can be regarded as an in-law of Liu Qianhu, the sixth wife's maiden family. His information is better among the military attachés and nobles.
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He ate a big bowl of shredded pork noodles, ate some wine, and chatted with her around the fire, "The Marquis wants to intervene in the military power of the capital camp. It's not the border army. There are several children of the Lou family and several old troops, all of whom are in the capital camp."
"Jingying." She was shocked. The Marquis was far less cautious than before. This trouble came to the head.
When she first heard the Marquis talk about his ambitions, and when he said that he was not satisfied with being a member of the Jinyiwei, he wanted to marry Miss Lou Liu, she knew that the Marquis had chosen a dead end.
She didn't want to be involved.
"Is this medicine really effective?" She took another bottle of imitation immortality pill made by Chen Ming.
Chen Ming gave it a more proud name: Fushou Dan.
She looked at the medicine bottle doubtfully.
"I've been feeling the cold lately. It's a bit weird."