Crown Jewels

Chapter 265

That day at Zhou Huaijin's private banquet, Shen Lanqing was able to maintain her dignity and calmness when she blamed her like that, but he only complained about the eunuchs in the palace who care about human lives, and her attitude was so strict. The appropriateness and smoothness.

"I remember!"

Meeting Meng Zizhou's aggrieved and accusing eyes, Shen Lanqing closed her eyes, but did not explain, she just lowered her eyes and said thank you, which was regarded as gratitude for his reminder, but she did not explain a word about the scolding about Fu Sinian.

Seeing that Shen Lanqing turned around and was about to leave, Meng Zizhou gritted his teeth, glared fiercely at her back, and said something dull for a while.

"Master, what kind of vision is this? How can such a person be my senior sister of Meng Zizhou?"

The candles of the palace banquet exploded, and the grievance on Meng Zizhou's baby's face did not fade away. At this moment, she wished to stare at Shen Lanqing's back until the figure disappeared around the corner, and then she looked back in disbelief.

Walking outside the Taiji Palace, the moon is as bright as smoke in the sky.

Shen Lanqing was riding in the carriage when she entered the palace, her eyes fell on the thin line drawn by the long armor on the cuffs, she changed into a new dark green official robe, and smoothed the folds of the clothes. Leaning limply against the wooden pillars of the carriage, with sour brows and eyes trembling slightly, the scene of passing Fu Sinian just now reappeared in his mind.

The breeze and hazy moon concealed the troubled mood, and Ah Zi's voice could be lowered from outside the carriage.

"grown ups--"

The car curtain was raised by Su Su, and Ah Zi got into the carriage. Seeing her excited expression, Shen Lanqing barely cheered up.

"My lord, Ah Zi has found out that Mr. Jiang you mentioned did not attend today's palace banquet. It is said that the old man in the palace, I Ching, has not heard of him for several years. Ah Zi has spent a lot of effort. Then The father-in-law barely spoke."

Seeing the stern look in Shen Lanqing's eyes, Ah Zi didn't dare to delay and said hastily.

"It is said that three years ago, Jiang Shan, who was having fun in Pingkangfang, seemed to have offended someone. When he was found in the middle of the night, his body was covered in blood. After being taken back to Jiang's mansion by his father overnight, he never appeared in Pingkangfang again."

"It's covered in blood?" "Three years ago?"

Shen Lanqing's right eyelid twitched violently, and suddenly thought of something, her black brows blushed slightly, she suddenly opened the car curtain and jumped off the carriage, walking towards the Tai Chi Palace, as if she was anxious to confirm something.

The voice of silk and bamboo singing and dancing was eloquent, and stopped suddenly with the high-pitched voice of the escorting eunuch.

Gu Baozhu wore a light dress with wide embroidery, the moiré pattern on the cuffs and skirt fluttered with the swaying of the lamp, and the phoenix on her head when her eyebrows were lightly raised made her even more dazzling and bright, and she was calmer and more powerful than before.

With Dongzhu trembling on the embroidered shoes, the eyes fell to Song Yan, who was dressed in iron suit and armor, and his face was as sharp as a knife and an axe. Gu Baozhu suddenly felt sour, and the eyes of the two met During this time, they couldn't bear to look away from each other.

Until the lamps and candles in the palace exploded and sparkled, Song Yan turned against the light, and the corners of his lips twitched as if he was signaling to Gu Baozhu from the air. A genuine smile rippled from the corners of his eyes, reaching his eyes without concealing it.

Tonight is an honor that belongs to Song Yan. He deserves the honor of defeating Xia Guo at the border.

Gu Baozhu's eyes flashed with pride, and he glanced at everyone in the hall, as if to say, this is her.

General Song Yan... is her Gu Baozhu's man.

The sound of the award was obviously joyful, and the bright yellow imperial decree directly conferred the general Song Yan as the Marquis of Zhenbei, and all the officials in the palace had fun with the empress, but the joyful audio-visual education was indeed quite different from this joy. His face was covered in shadows, and he was helpless when he opened his eyes.

Seeing this, Shen Lanqing took another step towards Lu Jiuxi, her tone was almost pleading but her attitude was firm.

"Shan Zhang, Lan Qing will ask you again, who is the person who brought me back to Lin'an City from the rainy night after that happened three years ago?"

The incense in the hall was slowly lit, and what was waiting was Lu Jiuxi's long silence.

Seeing this, Shen Lanqing's lips curled up in mockery, begging to restrain her expression and show a bit of determination.

"Forget it, if the head of the mountain is not willing, I will go to Qi Yuan, and then beat the Dengwen drum, and write a complaint to Dali Temple about what happened to Shen Lanqing, a civilian girl in the suburbs of Chang'an three years ago. Now I am the official of the Ministry of Rites. Minister, I don't believe that the government sent an envoy to deal with the case, and I can lose my justice?"

The word "Dengwengu" made Lu Jiuxi completely lose his demeanor, and his voice was a little harsh.

"You're crazy-"

Lu Jiuxi straightened his back suddenly, and a look of panic finally appeared in his eyes.

In that matter, at the beginning Lu Jiuxi urged him ten thousand times to prevent Qi Yuan and Dali Temple from interfering, which might be unjust, but he completely embraced Shen Lanqing's reputation and saved her from being criticized a lot in her official career in the future.

It is not easy for a woman to be an official; if she has to worry about the criticism of others and make fun of it at will, it will be even more difficult to stand out in the officialdom.

How could he let Shen Lanqing go to Qi Yuan and spread out the nasty thing three years ago again?
Meeting Shen Lanqing's stubborn eyebrows, Lu Jiuxi rubbed his frowning brows, wiped the tiredness after compromise across his eyes, sighed silently, and put aside the facts of the year in front of Shen Lanqing.

"That's right, he was the one who found you back then."

"When we rushed to the official road in the rain, it was he who dragged the broken carriage and lifted you out of the wilderness rainstorm."

When Lu Jiuxi said this, he recalled that scene again, and the guilty look in his eyes was fleeting.

In the dark and ferocious rainy night, thunder rumbled, and puddles half a foot deep accumulated on the uneven ground of the official road.

The young man soaked in rain, amidst the sound of rain and thunder, the outline of the night pearl in Qi Yuan's hand can be barely discerned. The rain flows along his forehead, hair, nose, and lips, drips into his neck and Adam's apple, and rolls into his clothes-covered body .

The young man staggered down the official road holding the reins on his shoulders with both hands, struggling to hold up the dilapidated carriage behind him. The young man used his not-so-broad shoulders to support his daughter as a shelter from the wind and rain.

As the fragrance in the hall slowly waned, Lu Jiuxi's eyes slowly focused, and his eyes fell on Shen Lanqing's face with Dai in the distant mountains, exhaling the stale air accumulated in his chest and abdomen.

"Not only that, when you were depressed in the mansion, you may have guessed that the person who wields the bamboo sword day and night in the bamboo forest is also him."

"It really is him?"

Shen Lanqing murmured, her eye sockets suddenly turned red, thinking of what Azi said about Jiang Shan before, her whole heart suddenly became agitated, she looked towards Fu Sinian, who was wearing a bullfighting uniform behind Gu Baozhu, with indifferent eyebrows, and suddenly A tear ran down his cheek.

Standing by Gu Baozhu's side, Fu Sinian's facial features were indifferent, his facial features shrouded in shadows, and his stiff neck turned with difficulty for a moment without turning his head.

Suppressing the turbulent emotions, Shen Lanqing smiled with a smile on her lips, thanked her and said goodbye.

"Thank you Shan Zhang—"

Seeing Shen Lanqing's back going away, without further questioning, Lu Jiuxi rubbed his sore forehead, but heaved a sigh of relief.

After a long while, Lu Jiuxi struggled to cast his eyes on Fu Sinian. The stern and indifferent Admiral Fu in front of him was no longer the sincere and passionate young man who returned to the ancient academy. He slowly looked away, but he couldn't hide the guilt and regret in his eyes... …

(End of this chapter)