Chapter 073 Jin丨Exclusively published by Jiang Wenxue
The system is full of sympathy: [Why did you make up such a pitiful past for Xiao Mian? ! ! ]
Xue Chen: [What else? Xiao Mian has a luxurious life every day? ]
System: [Woo woo, you are so cold. ]
Xue Chen: [What do you want? You want me to cry with you? Are you crazy? Xiao Mian is me, how can I not know what I am like? ]
System: [Woo woo.
Xue Chen didn't like this heavy atmosphere, and tilted his head, "Does it start from tomorrow?" Zhui
Ming promised firmly: "It starts from now."
Pei Rui: "But I'm very hungry now."
Zhui Ming remembered that they ran from the city to the outside of the city, and then came back from there, and made a confession in the government office for a long time, and now they came to the eldest senior brother again, without stopping at all.
Not only Xiao Mian felt hungry, he was hungry too, but his mind was always on other things, and he really had no time.
Zhui Ming looked at Wuqing: "Eldest senior brother..."
Wuqing said: "Let Jin Jian go to the kitchen to see if there is anything to eat."
Zhui Ming left and went to find Jin Jian far away.
Wuqing looked at Pei Rui: "Did your swordsmanship learn from your master?"
Pei Rui nodded.
Wuqing: "Who is your master?"
Pei Rui: "I don't know."
Wuqing: "I don't know?"
Pei Rui: "My master said that he has too many enemies, and I will have no fewer enemies in the future. It's better not to get involved with each other, so as not to be hunted by more people in the future."
Wuqing: "That makes some sense."
The two fell silent.
After a while, Wuqing asked again: "Why do you want the knockout drug?"
Pei Rui: "Take it yourself."
Wuqing: "..."
It's hard to understand.
No wonder Zhui Ming refused to give it to you.
Zhui Ming came over from the path with a chopping board, on which were two bowls of steaming soup noodles with eggs.
Pei Rui smelled the aroma and took the initiative to move over. He got closer and blinked his eyes: "What is this?"
Zhui Ming: "There are a lot of food in the kitchen, but it's too troublesome to cook. I'm afraid you can't wait, so the chef directly made two bowls of noodles. I watched him cook. It should taste very good. You try it, it shouldn't be too hot."
Pei Rui sat on a stone bench in the garden, holding the bowl of noodles with his left hand and holding chopsticks with his right hand. He ate in small bites and looked very polite.
Zhui Ming finished the noodles in a few bites and drank the soup in the bowl. Pei Rui was still eating slowly.
He was used to Pei Rui's slow eating, so he didn't urge him and continued to discuss the poison he got today with Wu Qing. Zhui
Ming: "If the Jin Kingdom sent more than just the dead, there is a high possibility that other people will bring poison powder into the capital."
Wu Qing nodded: "Fortunately, the conditions of these poisons are strict. After the poison is administered, it must be controlled by voice, and King Taiping already has an antidote. But I am a little worried..." Zhui Ming
: "Brother, don't worry, there will always be a way."
System: [What is he worried about? ]
Xue Chen: [The palace is heavily guarded. This poison should not be sent into the palace. It is very likely to be directed at several forces outside the palace. Excluding Liufenbantang, there are only Jinfengxiyulou and Shenbusi, and at most one Mitian League. The most terrifying thing is not to control them to act immediately after the poison is administered, but to not act at all. Even if the poisoned person will not notice it. Wait until the critical moment, and then make a big move. 】
System: 【How insidious! In this way, wouldn't the Six-and-a-half Hall directly gain the upper hand, and the situation in the court would also change? 】
Xue Chen: 【Yes. 】
Zhui Ming and Wu Qing finished talking, Pei Rui also finished eating noodles, followed Zhui Ming silently, and returned to the old building with him.
After a short rest, Zhui Ming was really worried, so he took Pei Rui to the government office, went to the coroner to carefully examine the body, and then went outside the city, asked the owner of the teahouse, and found a very simple bamboo flute.
Zhui Ming asked, "Why did the two fight this morning?"
The tea shop owner said, "I don't know. There are many people coming and going in my tea shop. We are the only ones working. She was cooking and making tea inside, and I was outside greeting customers. I really didn't pay attention to it. But it's common for people in the underworld to fight. Maybe it was because of that sentence that they got impulsive and started fighting after a few words."
The owner said the same thing when the constable came to collect the body.
Zhui Ming saw that he couldn't get anything out of him, so he took the flute and took Pei Rui back to the city.
He asked kindly, "You've been busy all day and have nothing to do tonight. Do you want to eat anything? I'll take you there."
Pei Rui shook his head, "I don't know."
Zhui Ming: "That's right. You haven't been in the capital for long and you're not familiar with it yet. I know a few places with good snacks. Maybe you'll like them too."
Pei Rui nodded.
The sun was about to set and the city gates were about to close. Zhui Ming saw a few people in brocade clothes riding out of the city.
They didn't seem to have any intention of leaving the city. Instead, they got off their horses, took things, and posted notices at the city gates.
When he got closer, Zhui Ming took a glance and saw the words "Taiping Palace". He said to Pei Rui, "Xiao Mian, wait a minute. Let me see what's written on it."
Pei Rui stopped obediently.
Zhui Ming read the words on the notice: "Is the eldest son of the Prince of Taiping seriously ill?"
Xue Chen: [? ]
System: [? ]
Pei Rui said decisively: "No."
Zhui Ming held Pei Rui and continued to walk: "I heard that the eldest son Xue's health has not been very good. He has rarely been seen walking around in recent years. However, at the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet, he followed his uncle into the palace and took a look from a distance. However, the two sons of the Prince of Taiping looked exactly the same, and I couldn't tell which one was the eldest son."
Pei Rui: "The one with a gentle personality is."
Zhui Ming knew that his way of identifying people was different from that of a discerning person, but he didn't expect that he could even tell apart twins who looked so similar.
The more Zhui Ming watched, the more he felt that Xiao Mian was very capable, and he felt even more heartbroken. Because no one taught him, he was forced to become the murderer he is now. Zhui Ming
: "You are the adopted son of King Taiping, and you are also brothers with the two princes of the palace. How do they treat you?"
Pei Rui: "Very good."
Zhui Ming: "That's good."
Pei Rui couldn't help but ask, "Why did you say that the eldest brother is seriously ill?"
Zhui Ming: "It is clearly written on the notice that the eldest prince of the palace is weak and sickly, and has been ill for a long time. He has been bedridden for several days. Therefore, a large reward is offered to recruit famous doctors to come to the Xue Mansion to treat the eldest prince."
Xue Chen: [What a good way to write, "has been ill for a long time", "bedridden for several days", it's as if I'm dying. ]
The system dared not say a word.
Xue Chen: [It must be my brother, that unfilial son, who deliberately hinted that others wrote this. 】
System: 【Why? 】
Xue Chen: 【If I wasn't seriously ill, there would definitely be a lot of scammers coming here to eat and drink for free, and prescribe some tonic medicine randomly, which wouldn't kill people anyway. He wrote that I was seriously ill, and any medicine could lead to serious consequences. Those people have to think carefully for their own lives. 】
System: 【He's not shy at all. 】
Xue Chen: 【I guess so. He didn't write directly that I was seriously ill, and those few words barely fit my situation. They were all deliberately misleading to make others think in this way. 】
Zhui Ming took Pei Rui to a tavern, ordered a few dishes, and asked for altar wine, and asked the tavern to prepare it and send it directly to the old building.
Zhui Ming: "In fact, freshly fried dishes taste better, but most of the dishes here are cooked, so even if they are left for a while, the taste will not be affected."
Pei Rui: "Yes."
Zhui Ming: "The most important thing is that I want to have a good chat with you, but I don't want others to hear us."
Pei Rui: "What about?"
Zhui Ming: "Your past."
Pei Rui was silent.
This time, Zhui Ming did not take his silence as reluctance. He had a deeper understanding of Xiao Mian and knew that he actually had a good temper.
Zhui Ming took the initiative to approach him: "Can you tell me? Just treat it as drunken nonsense. It doesn't matter if you can't explain it clearly."
Pei Rui: "Okay."
The sun gradually set, and Pei Rui and Zhui Ming returned to the old building in the sunset.
Taiping Palace.
Gong Jiu arranged how to receive the doctors who were called in, and returned to his residence. When he passed by his brother's room, he couldn't help but turn around.
He pushed the door open and saw his brother leaning against the window reading a book. He walked to the candlestick, lit the candle, and handed it to Xue Chen: "Don't worry about hurting your eyes."
Xue Chen put down the book and smiled faintly.
[Dog stuff, it came to my door by itself. ]