Si Tian Guan Chapter 77

    Blood smell.

      There are long and short iron chains hanging from the top of the head, and by the light of the candle, it can be seen that the hand shackles above are full of dark red.

    Qu Chenzhou is familiar with this kind of environment.

    Liu Chongming finished lighting the candlestick, stood beside him, and asked, "What do you want to say?"

    Qu Chenzhou stood with his hands down, looking up at the iron chain above, listening to the tone of intimidation but no killing intent, he responded casually to the changes, and replied casually: "The place is not bad. "

    "Just nice?"

    Although he only replied these four words, Liu Chongming noticed that the other party didn't seem to be angry with him. This tone was no different from usual, as if nothing happened during the day.

    It made him feel relieved.

    "Why not angry?" He asked curiously with a playful smile.

    Qu Chenzhou looked at this place calmly, there was something standing beside the other wall, covered by a cloth: "There are too many enemies, I always think about it, it's not worth being angry with myself. ."

    "He is very generous." Liu Chongming praised him.

    "Award," he twitched the corners of his mouth, and said, picking up people who didn't like to hear: "Looking back at the past, I'm in my thirties, and I don't care about children."

    Liu Chongming walked around in front of him to block his sight. The two were almost a head taller, and the shadow cast by Liu Chongming almost wrapped his whole body inside.

    "Little fox," Liu Chongming threatened graciously: "Did no one teach you to be a handsome man? You've come here, and you're still stubborn? It's easy to break, don't you know? "

    Easy to fold…

    It was the first time he heard Liu Chongming say this to himself.

    In memory, Chongming often hated his cowardice and timidity, and reminded him from time to time: raise your head! You are the heavenly official appointed by the emperor! Don't let people underestimate you!

    He and Chongming broke their promises to each other a lot, "wait for me to come back", maybe it's a promise they rarely fulfill.

    "Thank you, Shizi, you have been taught." He twitched his lips and smiled, and looked around again: "Prince brought me here, does he want to torture me?"

    Liu Chongming was noncommittal, only asked: "Are you afraid?"

    "The prince is merciful," Qu Chenzhou answered honestly: "I am especially afraid of pain, and I am willing to fight even if I don't."

    "Anything?"

    "Sir, feel free to ask, whether I answer or not depends on my mood."

    "Um..." Liu Chongming dragged his long voice forward, step by step, pushing his chest against the person and stepping back until Qu Chenzhou's back was against the wall.

    "Is that so?" Liu Chongming couldn't find a place to start on his face, so he stroked his loose sideburns, pinched the tip of his ear, and said, "Then call it the truth."

    "I used to have a good relationship with the Bai family." Qu Chenzhou sighed and confessed.

    "For more than a year?"

    "Well, it's not easy for people to know. It's not good for people to hide and hide."

    Liu Chongming held on to his pulse, checked for a moment, and then let go: "It's not good, but if you really want to check it, you can still find it out. It is of great benefit, if you want to practice, continue to practice hard, from now on, you don't have to hide it."

    He took a few steps back, no longer forced Qu Shenzhou, walked around the room, and finally stopped in front of the torture rack and touched it.

     "Five years ago, my brother was killed in Dingling Hill, and none of the accompanying guards came back alive."

    Qu Chenzhou's eyes flashed, and he said softly, "I know, my condolences."

    "Dingling Hill has long been rampant with bandits. Because of this incident, the emperor later sent heavy troops to encircle and suppress them and arrested fifteen bandit leaders. Four of them admitted that they attacked my brother."

    "The emperor agreed with my father and I to participate in the trial for the sake of the Liu family. I unpacked the four people and brought them here."

    Liu Chongming didn't say anything about the next thing, Qu Chenzhou also knew.

    Until the four died, no valuable clues were found, only that the robbers attacked Liu Shizi's car, the decoration, clothes and number of people were all correct, and the time and place were perfectly matched .

    Liu Chongming didn't believe it, and was not reconciled.

    "Qu Shenzhou," Liu Chongming looked back at him: "If I get a seat in the Jinxiu Camp, can you tell me who the murderer is?"

    Qu Chenzhou looked at the hand stretched out in front of him, and touched it like a dragonfly, this is their promise.

    "Good."

    Liu Chongming stared at him for a moment, took a step back, knelt down on his knees, and gave him a solemn salute: "This kindness and virtue, Liu Chongming will never forget."

    "Prince..." Qu Chenzhou felt a stagnation in his chest, the name was about to be spit out, and he swallowed it reluctantly, and bowed deeply: "Prince is serious."

    Liu Chongming got up, strode to the other side, tore off the covering cloth, and on a weapon rack as high as one person, a dazzling array of bright weapons.

    "You have to walk with me in the future, it is always wrong to let people see, especially people like Liao Guangming, I will ask my uncle some other day to ask for some ways to practice Qi and restrain Qi, and then teach him you."

    "You can't protect yourself when it's really critical."

    "When you are growing your body, the weapon is too heavy, it will change your body shape, and it does not match your identity, so use this."

    "I will find a way later to help you hide in the slave ring and take it with you."

    Qu Chenzhou was stunned for a moment, then stepped forward to take the dagger, stroking Liang Kejianren's sword, a little embarrassed: "Sir, I..."

    "I wouldn't use this..."

    "If you know it, what do you want me to do?" Liu Chongming thought about it and confessed to him: "I learned the long sword from my uncle, and I am not good at this, so I will ask my uncle to learn it first. Yes. You set aside two hours a day to come here."

    Qu Chenzhou finally understood: "The prince wants to teach me martial arts?"

    "Don't want to learn?" Liu Chongming didn't give him a chance to refuse, and immediately dismissed: "I don't want to learn, either. Even if there are guards to follow me, at critical times I still have to rely on myself to be safe."

    Qu Chenzhou was wronged: "I didn't say not to learn..."

    "Then it's settled," Liu Chongming took back the dagger again: "Every three days, I have to check it, you'd better not think about being lazy. Be merciful."

    "From now on, you have to learn more than this. In the past three months, I will watch you change those habits in the palace."

    "I'll find someone to teach you the things they play at the banquet. You can't be as violent as you were from a school. Now your temper is fine. I don't mind, and no one else can tell you. what."

    "The government doctor said that depending on your condition, it's about to change your voice. Don't catch a cold recently. When the time comes, your voice will be broken. Don't blame me for disliking you."

    "Ask Manager Lin to make you more clothes. It's not good to show too much, so cover me up."

    "Sir," Qu Chenzhou had to interrupt him: "If my face can't be cured, we should consider other ways..."

    In the last life, he suffered more than once or twice before he was cured.

    "What is there to consider, who do I like to bring, can others manage it?" Liu Chongming interrupted impatiently: "Even if it is a last resort, what does it matter if it is cured or not? relation."

    Qu Chenzhou smiled wryly, watching the lights on the wall go out one by one, and the surroundings darkened a little bit.

    "Sir... We are living in the same room now, someone from unknown origin like me..." He asked softly: "Teach me martial arts, can you sleep?"

    Liu Chongming scoffed at his provocative question and answered him in the dark.

    "Qu Chenzhou, I have received your sincerity, this is my sincerity."

    Before going in with her father-in-law, Liu Chongming suddenly remembered something—a few days ago, Qu Chenzhou missed a word.

    "Counting the past, I'm in my thirties."

      More than 10 years old, most in early twenties.

    He thought it was interesting that Qu Chenzhou would have such a careless time to let go of his vigilance.

    It's just September, and the charcoal is already lit in the Zhaochun Palace, the cotton curtain is opened, and the heat is blowing.

     Emperor Yu was leaning on the warm slump, and by his side was the mother of King Huai, Concubine Yu.

    Liu Chongming heard that Concubine Yu spent a lot of time with the emperor recently.

    In addition to the fact that King Ning made the mother and son suffer grievances, this year's salt and iron taxes filled the treasury before and after the fall.

    After he saluted, Yu Dexi came over with a chair, he looked at the other direction and nodded lightly, he knew what he was going to say today.

    "Chongming," Emperor Yu took a sip of tea and said slowly, "I heard from Dexi, your fleet came back a few days ago?"

    Liu Chongming was about to get up and kneel when he saw Emperor Yu's gesture, and stood in place again.

    "Your Majesty, the account details booklet has been prepared and handed over to the father-in-law, with 200,000 taels of silver when boarding the ship, 126,000 taels of silver when disembarking, and a number of items , the minister does not dare to be entrusted, all the sales and purchases are recorded in the book, the emperor is clear."

    He could see clearly that what the emperor had in hand was the account book that he gave to his father-in-law.

     Emperor Yu sneered: "One hundred thousand taels."

    Yu Dexi knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "Your Majesty, it's the slaves who are not strictly inspected and disciplined. I beg the Emperor to convict me."

    Liu Chongming also knelt down: "Your Majesty, I have not reported the information, please forgive me."

    "Okay..." Emperor Yu frowned and muttered a word, took a sip of cheese in Concubine Yu's hand, calmed his breath, and then looked at them: "Get up."

    The two stopped for a moment, looked at each other, and then slowly stood up.

    "Yu Dexi." Emperor Yu, who seemed to be unable to lift his strength all the year round, called out.

    Yu Dexi stepped forward: "Your Majesty."

    "The Ministry of Internal Affairs has been working step by step for many years, and there are many elderly people. It's too lazy."

    Yu Dexi understood: "Yes."

    Liu Chongming probably guessed in his heart, because Pan He's case is one thing, and this digging will inevitably unearth a lot of private treasures, but the old fritters in the palace have their own support. I don't know how big or small this thunderstorm is.

    These are not his time to worry about.

    "Chongming." Emperor Yu called him again: "Come and sit."

    He had to sit down under the soft sloping steps, with Concubine Yu between him and Emperor Yu. Just as he was sitting down, he caught a glimpse of Concubine Yu turning his face in the corner of the light.

    This profile was not meant to meet him, but to avoid the emperor. When he glanced over, the confusion in Concubine Yu's eyes had not completely disappeared.

    Liu Chongming quickly recalled that in what they said just now, it seemed that there was nothing related to King Huai, what was Concubine Yu worried about?

    Not waiting for him to think about it, Emperor Yu coughed twice and asked, "Are you still playing with Jing Zhao recently?"

    He hurriedly replied: "Back to the emperor, Prince Ning has been taught by the emperor, and he has been studying hard recently.

    "I have nothing to do? You haven't asked your father for advice while you are in front of you." Don't blame me for not seeing your father's affection."

    "The minister does not dare, the minister must do his best to live up to the grace," Liu Chongming heard this again in the same tone he used to teach the younger generation in the past, and also used Po to roll around and act coquettishly: "Your Majesty, this minister took this opportunity to go to Dali Temple to get acquainted, but I was taught a lesson by my father."

    "My father said that the Dali Temple is a dense place, and I don't have a brand now, so I can't look at it casually."

    "It's still Mr. Cui who is sympathetic to me. He said that he would let me meet with my colleagues for a few days, and it is considered to be familiar."

     Emperor Yu listened with his eyes closed and nodded slowly: "Cui Xuan is good, but unfortunately he is old."

    "It's not just Cui Xuan, seeing that my generation is getting old," he looked at Liu Chongming and smiled: "Chongming, I have high hopes for you, waiting for you to support me What about Dali Temple?"

    Liu Chongming got up in fear: "Your Majesty is young, why do you say that you are old. The minister is young and ignorant, and dare not take on such a big responsibility."

    Di Yu laughed and waved to him: "You will make me happy when you are young. I see that you are really idle, why don't you give Pan He to you? How about you? Dare to respond?"

    Liu Chongming's heart jumped, but he didn't dare to say no, he hurriedly knelt down and thanked him, but he kowtowed, and before he could ask anything, he saw Emperor Yu wave his hand.

    "When the queen mother met Qingru a few days ago, she also mentioned you specially, saying that she hadn't seen you for a long time, a clever ghost, you go and talk with the queen mother."

    His words were blocked back, and Emperor Yu had turned around and whispered and laughed with Concubine Yu, so he could only withdraw with Yu Dexi.

    In front of the palace gate of Zhaochun Palace, Yu Dexi asked the palace servants to lead the way to Cining Palace. Before leaving, he smiled to Liu Chongming: "Thank you for today's matter, the prince. If not for the prince, the emperor If you are to blame, our family may not be able to withstand it."

    With the credit for this money, the emperor not only did not blame him, but reminded him to take good care of the internal affairs department, so as not to cause trouble.

    Liu Chongming returned the salute: "It's just a matter of duty for your father-in-law to be more polite. It was also my negligence. When the money was handed over to me, I should report it truthfully and be ashamed."

    "Your son has a wealthy family background, how can he take this money in his eyes, and he doesn't serve in the court, so it's normal to not care." Yu Dexi bowed and smiled, but excused him: "Your Majesty It's not to blame, and the prince doesn't have to blame himself."

    "Emperor Yu!" Seeing that Yu Dexi was about to turn around and go back, Liu Chongming called out, his eyebrows full of troubles: "The emperor just said, forgive me for being blunt, and please ask Eunuch Yu to give pointers. "

    The emperor only said that Pan He would be handed over to him. He didn't say what he wanted to judge, nor how to hand it over. There was neither a hand or a clear order, so he could bring people from the Jinxiu Camp without any evidence. Liao Guangming How is it possible to agree?

    Do you want him to grab it?

    "Your Highness, our family only serves the emperor, and I don't understand the affairs of the court." Yu Dexi bowed apologetically, and when he was about to leave, he added: "What does the prince know? Is that Pillian?"

    "Andilian..."

    Liu Chongming looked at Yu Dexi and left with a smile.

    At this time, he was muttering to himself, not knowing that he had not yet stepped into the officialdom, and one foot was already dangling above the endless dark abyss.

    The author has something to say:    Liu Tancai paid 300,000 taels

    2020 is coming to an end so soon, thank you for being with you all the way, please give me more advice next year, I hope that the virus will dissipate in 2021, everyone can achieve everything they want, and everything goes smoothly

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