He cheated this guy first.
Qin Shu said something shocking: "Put the blame on me. Just blame it on me, Qin Shu, for being drunk and losing my composure. What do you think?"
Don't be hurt after drinking. Qin Shu is a prince and he cannot bear the impeachment.
This is a good way to make big things small and small things disappear.
But obviously, not everyone is willing to take this matter lightly: "Your Highness is of such status that we are terrified to let you take the blame on Ren Xuan's behalf!"
Qin Shu sneered, not beating around the bush at all: "Second brother has been missing for many days and has not been reported yet. You should be worried."
"What does your Highness Prince Xiang mean by this?!"
"Qin Shu! What have you done to His Royal Highness the King of Han?!"
Qin Shu shook his head and laughed playfully, "You are the emperor's confidants. Don't you think it's ridiculous that you are drinking here by yourselves and then ask about the whereabouts of the little prince?"
Wen Congren seemed a little surprised by Qin Shu's reply and was slightly distracted.
Finally, Wen Congren bowed to Qin Shu in front of him and said, "Then it's settled. Your Highness will be responsible for this matter. Let's sign the contract."
The blood melted, the covenant was made. Qin Shu said nothing more and walked out with a wave of his sleeves.
Qin Shu waved his hand and beckoned Ren Xuan over: "Go buy me some mooncakes."
Ren Xuan looked at him in surprise: "It's already this late, where are the mooncakes?"
"Wait a minute—" His Royal Highness Prince Xiang's inner alarm bells rang loudly: "What time is it now?!"
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His Royal Highness Prince Xiang returned to the Lu Mansion just before midnight at the end of the hour of Hai.
Qin Shu rubbed Yangbaixue with a headache.
I give up. It's all Ren Xuan's fault. He let that bastard go to Lu's house every day.
After being poisoned, I am still the one who has to deal with the aftermath.
It's been delayed until so late that all the mooncake shops have closed. Now we are in trouble.
Down the hall, Mu Feng, the ungrateful bastard, was enjoying his meal again. The noise at the door alerted the beast.
Seeing that it was him, the beast didn't even move its paws and continued to eat with relish.
If it were Lu Xiyun, this ungrateful bastard would have pounced on him long ago. Tsk, it's been a waste of feeding him for so long.
Qin Shu took out a piece of dried meat from his pocket in a flattering manner and bribed the beast with ease.
"Mufeng, which room is your brother in?"
The frost wolf looked at the dried meat, then at Qin Shu, and finally turned its head to look in the direction of the garden.
"Good brother."
Qin Shu stroked Mu Feng's head like he was stroking a dog's head, almost letting this ungrateful person bite off a piece of his flesh.
The light is like water and the moon is bright in the sky.
The garden was not quiet, as frogs and insects could be heard croaking.
Lu Xiyun is definitely not the type of person who gets sad about the passing of time. Even on a day like Mid-Autumn Festival, which is a good time to look at the moon and feel sad, there is no melancholy scene of raising a toast to Mingcheng and the other two.
The stone pavilion in the courtyard was empty, and Prince Lu was planting trees.
Qin Shu came forward, feeling guilty but not daring to speak loudly. He just lent a hand naturally: "Why did you come out to do all this?"
"My aunt sent it tonight."
Lu Xiyun continued to fill the soil, and the young man looked rather helpless: "This kind of osmanthus tree from the Western Frontier has difficulty adapting to the soil and water in other areas. If we plant it tomorrow, it might not survive."
Qin Shu's focus wasn't here: "The doctor said you can get out of bed?"
Lu Xiyun avoided their gazes and answered ambiguously, "I don't know, but I felt very strong after dinner."
It turned out to be that Wen Congren who was causing trouble. Qin Shu lowered his head and cursed inwardly, then said: "That Wen Congren, be careful of him in the future."
Lu Xiyun looked up in surprise: "What's wrong? I think Congren is pretty good."
His Royal Highness Prince Xiang muttered softly: "You think everyone is good..."
"What?"
"without……"
Qin Shu sighed, then lowered his tone and spoke seriously, "Xiyun, there are countless people in the court who want to get close to your Lu family. You can't write letters to everyone."
The young man in front stopped what he was doing and looked up at him: "Is it you?"
Tsk, fatal problem.
Qin Shu met the young man's gaze without flinching or avoiding it: "No."
This is fake.
Of course he was. Qin Shu had always had a clear self-awareness; he wasn't that open and aboveboard.
Qin Shu originally contacted Lu Xiyun just to get in touch with the Queen.
He was lying to the other party because Lu Xiyun would believe him. This guy was too easy to fool...
But the one in Xiang Wang Palace was the type who would get into the car and weld the door shut.
If he gets it first, then it's his.
Qin Shu continued with certainty: "I will never harm you."
This is true.
Qin Shu knew that he was very suspicious and jealous, and he was even a little wary of his uncle who always protected him.
The human heart is like water, who dares to say that he can see through it?
But he could see through Lu Xiyun. This guy was too clean, so clean that Qin Shu could see clearly that this guy was opening his heart to him, the "ambitious man" in the eyes of all officials, without hesitation.
Qin Shu felt that he had regained some of his ability to trust people, and he felt like a human being again.
"Tsk, come on, you're giving me goosebumps." Lu Xiyun couldn't resist any more: "I didn't say I didn't believe you."
Lu Xiyun hastily changed the subject: "What were you doing tonight? Why were you so late?" Seizing the moral high ground, she said, "You said you'd bring me mooncakes, but I didn't let Uncle Fu buy any."
After that, he was back in the crosshairs. Qin Shu thought for a while and decided to put the blame on his beloved Uncle Wang: "Uncle Wang was tricked by a bunch of bastards, and I went to help him."
Qin Shu said this and pulled out a bag of peach cakes from his pocket: "The mooncake shops are all closed, so I got these from the restaurant. They're round and sweet, so they're about right, right?"
"That's far from it!" Lu Xiyun turned back to get the kettle, indignantly saying, "It's a custom to eat mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Who eats peach cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival?"
The water slowly seeps into the soil along the tree trunk.
Qin Shu helped compact the soil with his hands and said to Xiaoxiao in a flattering way, "Mid-Autumn Festival is all about the feeling of reunion."
Lu Xiyun became even more depressed: "But my father is not in the imperial city."
His Royal Highness Prince Xiang immediately said, "I'm here. We can make do this year, but next year I can go back to Western Xinjiang with you to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival."
"You said it."
"I said so."
Prince Lu reluctantly agreed to the idea of "making do for a year".
Qin Shu pushed back the restless claws that were reaching out to Tao Su: "It's all mud, go wash your hands first."
Lu Xiyun didn't care about that. If he didn't give it to her, he would just rob her. The Imperial City was a place where martial arts were forbidden. Qin Shu was really not afraid of him.
The freshly turned earth beneath their feet was still wet, and the two princes rolled in the mud and fought each other.
In the sky, a bright moon shines alone on thousands of homes.
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Around midnight, Qin Shu helped the man back to the house.
Qin Shu was born and raised in the imperial capital, and he had no idea about the concept of "sleeping in the open air", let alone the situation of "eating everything except people" during a war on the border.
Therefore, His Royal Highness Prince Xiang was very concerned about Lu Xiyun's borderland style of "daring to say anything".
You never know what might happen one day.
The noise was quite serious and Lu Xiyun couldn't take it anymore.
Qin Shu couldn't help feeling annoyed again. Why was he arguing with a patient who had just gotten out of bed?
Lu Xiyun devoured a whole bag of peach cakes. She said no but ate them happily and even asked him where he got them.
Tsk, he just picked something at random and chose the item that the picky Master Lu liked. With his luck, he deserved to be able to deceive Lu Xiyun.
Qin Shu stopped at the bedroom door, where an ungrateful person was waiting.
Mu Feng growled softly at Qin Shu, and the frost wolf's body began to lean forward, with the hair on its neck and back standing up.
Life is at stake, His Royal Highness Prince Xiang wisely let the person go and left quickly.
Tsk, if I don’t deal with this bastard, it will be a long time before I can enter the house.
His Royal Highness Prince Xiang left the Lu Mansion feeling rather annoyed.
Accompanying San Geng at night, the people from the Ministry of Justice were waiting for him patiently, working diligently and conscientiously.
The Right Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice, who had been waiting outside for a long time, clasped his fists and bowed politely: "Your Highness, Prince Xiang, I have been ordered to investigate the case of Minister Lu of Luhuaxuan tonight. Please accompany me."
His Royal Highness Prince Xiang extended his hand politely: "Do you want to torture me?"
"I'm sorry."
I spent the Mid-Autumn Festival in the Ministry of Justice’s prison. It’s a bit miserable when I think about it.
But if he took the blame, it wouldn't cost Qin Shu his life. If Ren Xuan took the blame, his head would be chopped off.
Ren Xuan is a capable person, but he has too many ideas of his own.
It was a wolf, solitary by nature, with a knife in his bones.
But he is very good at disguise——
He never showed his fangs or sharp edge, was courteous to everyone, and got along well with all the generals.
It is difficult to show favor to such people, and even more difficult to control them.
Your Majesty's thoughts are not important. Your Majesty is in his prime and doesn't look down upon any of the princes. The position of Crown Prince may not be given out for another three to five years.
What matters is the people’s heart.
Qin Shu was just thinking when he heard footsteps outside the cell. Quite a few people stayed up late to admire the moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Wen Congren stopped outside the prison gate and said, "I came here after I finished taking the statement. I've taken away the things that were left on Lu Xiyun."
"I see." Qin Shu lazily sat up against the wall: "Don't touch him again. Since Lord Wen knows me so well, he should know that I am lazy and like to get things done once and for all."
"I know—" Wen Congren's gaze became increasingly difficult to express. The young man sat down on the ground: "Whether you believe it or not, I have no intention of opposing you. Besides, I never intended to take your life."
"It's just that right now, I haven't seen a better path." The young man in front of him began to speak again, something he couldn't understand: "I also have someone I want to protect. Perhaps if you weren't the emperor, he could live a better life."
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At Wen's house, Ren Xuan had been exposed to the cold wind for two hours.
How could Wen Congren, who is not even twenty years old, stay out all night?!
Qin Shu was imprisoned because of him, and Ren Xuan couldn't sleep well.
If this happened to Qin Shu, he would be imprisoned. If it happened to Ren Xuan, his entire family would be exterminated.
Although I know that this is Qin Shu's usual method of winning people's hearts.
But even Ren Xuan had to admit that he was won over.
Ren Xuan often helps his boss do shady work, and he really needs a boss like Qin Shu.
Back then, he worked his whole life for the dog emperor.
Until that day, he knew that the letter was withheld by the dog emperor.
Was Qin Shu wrong? No, it was clear at first glance that he was trying to sow discord.
But why should Qin Shu make decisions for him? The dog emperor can't even manage his own affairs.
Lu Xiyun was so dead that he couldn't even fight his way back to his death, yet the dog emperor still dared to interfere in his affairs.
The night wind was so cold that Ren Xuan sneezed.
A lantern lit up at the end of the road, and Ren Xuan saw the short-statured boy from afar.
Wen Congren was still accompanied by his disciple who was much older than him.
Qin Yingtian held the lamp and looked warily at Ren Xuan who was leaning against the wall.
Ren Xuan held the knife in his hand and said, "Master Wen, don't get me wrong. Even if I am a troublemaker, I would never kill an official appointed by the imperial court in the street."
Ren Xuan clasped his fists and bowed: "I don't understand something, I hope you can enlighten me. I know you remember your previous life, but do you have a grudge against me?"
Wen Congren smiled and said, "General, you're worrying too much. My goal is the same as yours. I just want to find a new path. But General, if you were to live again, you would devote yourself wholeheartedly to Qin Shu. That's really unlike you."
Ren Xuan raised an eyebrow. "I remember that Lord Wen only started to get promoted after Qin Shu came to power. It's a great favor to recognize your kindness. Your behavior is even more strange, isn't it?"
Wen Congren shook his head and smiled: "The general died before me, so please don't speak nonsense about things you haven't experienced."
Ren Xuan sighed. What kind of outrageous thing had the dog emperor done again?
Ren Xuan simply laid his cards on the table: "No matter what, Your Highness, I will protect you, and I don't mind fighting to the death with you, Your Excellency."
"General, rest assured. When I said this matter ends, it wasn't empty talk." Wen Congren gave the other party what he wanted: "Until the next direction is clear, I will not take any further action. General, you should be guarding against it now, not me."
"In that case, thank you very much, sir."
Looking at Ren Xuan's departing figure, Qin Yingtian behind Wen Congren was still worried: "Ren Xuan is a man of both good and evil, Master, be careful."
"He's got a lot of debts on his shoulders." Wen Congren shook his head and simply asked, "He actually went to the Ministry of Justice just to deliver a cloak. Has he finished reading today's edition of the Spring and Autumn Annals?"
"I've read it already!"
"How long ago, in a previous life?"
"Ah, this..." Qin Yingtian was speechless and pleaded weakly: "I'm not worried about the teacher. Can I read it tomorrow?"
Wen Congren shook his head helplessly, and finally responded, "Okay."
The wind was blowing coldly, and General Ren, who had no one to pick him up, sneezed several times in a row.
The night wind was biting, but Ren Xuan suddenly thought of an even more chilling question.
He vaguely remembered Wen Congren's position in the Prince of Jin's Mansion back then—Wen Congren had risen to the position of Grand Secretary in the Prince of Jin's Mansion!
Shit! Thinking of the young man next to Wen Congren again, Ren Xuan got goosebumps all over his body. Could that guy be...? !
Damn it, the dog emperor Wutong is a father? ! !
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