He walked to Rao Tu, touched the red marks on her face with his fingers, and then turned to look at the mountain ghost: "Your master is being bullied, what should you do as a servant?"

The little girl's face was full of anger, she moved her body, slipped in front of the Changping County Master in the blink of an eye, raised her hand and gave her two slaps.

The heat was just right, so as not to knock her out, but it was also full of blood. The princess of Changping burst into tears, holding her cheeks with both hands, and she was filled with grief and indignation: "Okay! Good! Lord Shen, Fifth Prince, today's shame, this county master has written down!"

Shen Zhu looked at her and asked in a deep voice, "What did you write down?"

The Changping County Master was frightened by his gloomy eyes and didn't dare to speak.

Shen Zhu said slowly: "Mountain ghost, go back and get thirty big boards."

The mountain ghost bowed his head and replied, "Yes."

Shen Zhu took Rao Tu's hand, "Staying at home dishonestly, if you have to come out to cause trouble, are you happy when someone beats you?"

Rao Tu shook her arm, "It's not that you went to a palace banquet and left them alone."

The voice was so sweet that it almost caught people's souls, Shen Zhu glanced at Xiao Yanning, did not speak, and walked out of the restaurant with Rao Tu's waist in his arms.

Rao Tu turned her head and smiled charmingly at Xiao Yanning, and Xiao Yanning also returned a gentle smile.

The mountain ghost had some heart palpitations. For some reason, she always felt that the Fifth Prince's eyes were calm and he was not smiling.

In the quiet alley, he took her by the hand and walked slowly, "With such a fuss, are you trying to ruin my reputation on purpose?"

Rao Tu looked at his slender figure and muttered, "It's just boring for a while, who would have thought so much?"

Shen Zhu turned his head to look at her, "You dare to wink at the five kings before you leave? I wish the whole city knew that you were frivolous and frivolous, so that the emperor would naturally marry Princess Xunyang to me?"

Rao Tu did not look at his deep eyes like well water, looked up at the sky, she murmured and asked, "Are the lanterns in the palace beautiful?"

Shen Zhu felt Microsoft in his heart, and the words of reprimand could not be uttered. After thinking about it, he had to give up. What kind of reputation does he care about when he builds a dying person? All he wanted at this moment was her smiling face.

The more she smiled, the more points he earned.

When Rao Tu stepped into the simple carriage parked on the side of the street, she found that there was also a woman in a different dress in the car. The thin felt mustache shirt had small sleeves and the skin of the waist was exposed, showing a woman's soft waistline, which was not enough to hold. The skirt is also tied with a leather belt, which is adorned with several small golden bells.

The woman has bright eyes and white teeth, but her skin is slightly yellow, her expression is clear, and she is a little sluggish.

Rao Tu didn't change her face, she turned around and wanted to get out of the car, Shen Zhu blocked her from behind, "What do you want to do?"

Rao Tu said lightly, "I don't take a car."

Shen Zhu frowned, supported her waist and pushed her in, then sat in as well.

He glanced at the beauty in the north who shrank in the corner, and ordered, "Go out."

The beauty in the north shuddered and hurriedly wanted to quit, Rao Tu bit her lip in her eyes, put her hand on the beauty's slender shoulder, and stared at Shen Zhu: "Why let her out, it's such a cold day, what do you think? Freeze the little beauty to death?"

As he spoke, he even undid his cloak and put it thoughtfully on the body of the beauty in the north. The beauty was surrounded by the fragrant and warm cloak, and on the contrary, she trembled even more.

Rao Tu patted her on the back and said with pity: "Don't be afraid, as soon as this man touches a woman's body, he is a beast. My sister is suffering, don't be afraid, don't be afraid, does it still hurt?"

Shen Zhu closed his eyes and took a deep breath, then stretched out his foot and gently kicked Ratu, scolding: "What nonsense? Do you want a woman's face?"

The woman in the north fell to the ground and said in a trembling voice, "Mrs. is wrong, the lord just brought the slaves back to serve the madam."

Rao Tu said in surprise: "You are a beauty brought here from the North, how can you be a maid for me?"

Shen Zhu was sullen, "Okay!"

The beauty in the north quickly climbed out of the carriage, Shen Zhu stretched out his arms and brought Ratu into his arms, wrapping it in his cloak. Rao Tu gave a charming snort and kept smelling him.

Shen Zhu raised his eyes, "It's a dog?"

Rao Tu said angrily, "Why is there such a strong smell of alcohol? Isn't it to cover up the smell of a woman's fat powder?"

Shen Zhu held up her face, he wanted to see a trace of jealousy in those eyes, but there was only a light smile.

His heart ached a little, and he was silent for a while before saying, "There's no smell of fat, it's the drink that stained the clothes."

Rao Tu thought thoughtfully, "I heard that the princess threw a beauty from the North who took the initiative to flatter you at the palace banquet, and the hero saved the beauty was stopped?"

Shen Zhu made a "hmm" and stared into her eyes, which were clean and empty.

Rao Tu looked away, didn't look at him, didn't pay attention to him.

He said softly, "The envoy from the North gave me that woman, so I'll be your maid."

Rao Tu gave a "hmm" in a nonchalant tone, "You can't get along with the princess because of this beauty, but now you gave it to me as a maid, didn't you slap the princess in the face?"

"Are you afraid?"

"What am I afraid of? When will Shen Lang marry the princess?" She lay in his arms, her fingers wrapped around a strand of white hair hanging down from his temples.

Shen Zhu was extremely annoyed, closed his eyes and stopped talking.

"If there is a riot today, I'm afraid that tomorrow's memorial to impeach you will fall before the saint's case like a snowflake." She was half-smiling.

"You don't need to remind me." He gently rubbed the red marks on her cheeks with his fingers, casually.

"Shen Zhu, do you really want to marry the princess?" She stopped laughing and asked by pulling his hair on his temples.

Shen Zhu lowered his eyes and said warmly, "Don't you care?"

"As you like." She stood up to break free from his arms.

Shen Zhu held her waist, "New Year's Eve in a few days, go buy some lanterns."

"Lanterns... It's late at night, and the shop has long been closed."

Shen Zhu instructed Yang Qian, who was driving, "Go to Yang's lamp shop."

Yang Qian responded, drove the car to East Street, and stopped in front of a closed lamp shop. Yang Qian jumped out of the car and patted the door. After a long time, the boss scolded the door and opened the door, "It's late at night..."

Before he could say the dirty words, he immediately stopped. The boss patted his face and was surprised and happy, "Young Master Yang?"

"I'm here to pick up the lamp I ordered earlier."

"Alright, alright... I've prepared it a long time ago. The three lamps are still in the old style, so I'll give them to you."

From time to time, Yang Qian came back with three lamps, lit one of them, and sent them into the carriage. Rao Tu stared intently at the revolving lantern, surprised and delighted.

Shen Zhu's eyes are soft, and the picture of a general on horseback drawn on the lamp surface rotates slowly. It looks like a few people are chasing me.

Rao Tu was holding the lamp holder, her face was bright yellow reflected by the warm yellow of the lamp, and a pair of eyes flashed a strange light. She murmured: "The revolving lantern, the lamp moves the horse, the lamp goes out and the horse stops walking."

Shen Zhu picked up the other two lamps without clipping patterns, "These two lamps, let's go back and make our own paper-cuts and stickers, okay?"

Rao Tu liked the lamp very much, and held it in her arms and couldn't put it down. After listening to Shen Zhu's suggestion, she casually nodded and said the word "good".

There are still three days before New Year's Eve. In the past few days, Shen Zhu has not gone anywhere, just in the green tile hut in the forest of Meihuawu.

Rao Tu was reluctant to go to the Green House, so Chengri and Shan Gui Liu Xing'er nested in the Nuan Pavilion, eating sweet confectionery and drinking sweet-scented osmanthus stuffed with osmanthus, and reading books, becoming more and more lazy. The spring, summer, autumn and winter were sent back to the princess' mansion by Shen Zhu, and Rao didn't care, she was happy to be out of sight and out of mind.

Lu Zhiming would come every day to cure poison with Raoda, smoke herbs every day, bath medicine soup, open the tendons and meridians, and then cut a small bowl of blood. After a few days, the blood that came out gradually turned from black to red.

Every time she was treating the poison, Shen Zhu was by the side. Seeing that she was clearly suffering from the medicine, she forced a smile. Apart from following the pain, there was no way to do anything, and the only thing she felt was deep remorse.

On New Year's Eve, in the morning light, just after firecrackers were set off, Lu Zhiming came to Meihuawu again. Rao Tu was lying on the kang and was coaxed by Shen Zhu to cut paper. Seeing Lu Zhiming, she smiled wryly and begged: "Mr. Lu, let me rest for a day now."

Lu Zhiming smiled and said, "I won't smoke the medicated bath soup today, just take blood."

She stretched out her two wrists, the old wounds were still bloodshot, and she looked at Lu Zhiming pitifully.

Shen Zhu took out an unusually delicate sandalwood box and said to Lu Zhiming, "This is the blood-clearing poison sent by the Imperial Physician's Office."

Lu Zhiming opened the lid of the box, and he smelled a refreshing fragrance from Raotu from a distance. Seeing Lu Zhiming, he smiled and said, "It is indeed a good medicine, it is more effective than cutting blood and turning poison, but... this medicine is rare, and adults can do it. How many do you get?"

When Shen Zhu heard it was effective, he was overjoyed, "I can get a few if you need it."

Rao Tu said: "I'm afraid I will eat you poor."

He casually asked: "What kind of official is it when you have scattered your family's wealth?"

Lu Zhiming laughed and said, "The way is natural, what kind of way do you cultivate?"

Rao Tu couldn't speak to the Zen machine of the two, so after taking the medicine pill, Lu Zhiming tapped the acupoints with Daomen Xuantong, only to feel that the medicine pill entered the abdomen, the effect of the medicine penetrated the muscles and veins, and the qi and blood flowed throughout the body. , very comfortable.

Lu Zhiming said goodbye and left, Rao Tu smiled and said, "Today's New Year's Eve, where are you going?"

"On New Year's Eve, the new peaches were replaced by the old talismans. The day before yesterday, I gathered herbs on the mountains outside the city. I asked an old man in the mountains for a taste of Gastrodia elata. I promised the old man to give the peaches a talisman. Now I will return the gift."

Rao Tu watched his figure go away, and her heart was slightly stunned. She, Shen Zhu, Xiao Yanning... They all had their own reasons for staying in Jinling. So what about Lu Zhiming? What is he for?

Shen Zhu waved his hand in front of her eyes, and said angrily: "Is my eyes straight? Is it so beautiful?"

Rao Tu recovered and smiled at him: "It's really beautiful. How can there be such a young living fairy in the world?"

Shen Zhu sneered, "Whether it looks good or not, it has nothing to do with you."

Rao Tu picked up a piece of paper-cut and stuck it on the lamp surface, and said with a smile, "I don't see it, and it has nothing to do with you."

Yang Qian reported from the door: "Sir, there is a holy will, after half a column of incense, the eunuch Sili Jian and the eunuch in charge of India will come to deliver the decree."

"Supervisor of Li?" Rao Tu jokingly said, "Looks like your lord is going to have a good marriage."

Shen Zhu was silent, he had long expected that the emperor would issue an edict today, ordering him to marry Princess Xunyang. The turmoil in that hot pot restaurant a few days ago made Long Yan unhappy, not only banning Xiao Yanning's feet, but also deducting Shen Zhu's salary for half a year.

Thinking about this troublesome koan case, he felt a big head. If it weren't for this riot, the matter of marrying the princess would have turned around. Now that he has completely touched the emperor's inverse scale, if he doesn't know how to advance or retreat, he will surely provoke Longyan's anger.

Even if Shen Zhu could be proud of his talents, he could not withstand the wrath of the Son of Heaven.

He rubbed his eyebrows. The emperor has already given enough steps to the matter of Princess Xunyang. If he refuses to accept the decree today, the identity of the daughter of the criminal minister of Xuanzhou will not be able to be hidden. It is not always a good thing to refer people to the prison of the Ministry of Personnel.

Glancing at the smiling Rao Tu, he said angrily, "Did you do this on purpose?"

Rao Tu was very aggrieved: "As long as any woman, who wants to serve a husband with others?"

Shen Zhu's eyes softened a bit, and without saying much, he got up and followed Yang Qian to the mansion to prepare to receive the order.

Rao Tu lazily leaned on the back stack, and ordered Liu Xiner to brush the glutinous rice paste on the lamp surface. She picked up the messy red paper-cuts on the kang table and stuck them one by one on the lamp surface.

Paper-cut is two little people, one male and one female. A man leads a donkey, and the donkey puts a scroll on its back; a woman holds a bamboo basket and picks green plums from the tree.

Rao lit the wick, and the revolving lantern slowly turned.

The scholar who led the donkey walked slowly among the green mountains and green waters, and came across a young girl who was picking green plums under the tree with a pure smile.

That year, the origin.

Light and shadow flowed on her face, Rao Tu's eyes suddenly changed from trance to resentment, and soon filled with hatred and determination. She suddenly swept the lantern down with a flick of her sleeves, the lantern fell to the ground, the candle flame fell on the wall of the lamp, and the fire immediately ignited.

Liu Xinger was startled, and hurriedly went to put out the fire.

Rao Tu shouted: "Let it burn, burn it clean!"

Liu Xing'er didn't dare to move, she stared blankly at the burning lantern, and soon the lamp bones also burned to ashes, she heard the girl smile bleakly: "What way? It was a scam from the beginning, Shen Zhu, Shen Zhu, why did you treat me like that? What exactly did I do wrong? "

At the main entrance of Shen's house, the eunuch of the Sili Supervisor read out the imperial edict in a high-pitched voice: "In the time of Tianshun, I was ordered by the Ming Dynasty: Shen Zhu, the servant of the Ministry of Rites and the Imperial Child Supervisor, has a gully in his heart, and the spring and autumn are hidden in his belly. Specially bestowed with the title of "Bad Dou Grand Scholar", the book business in the world is one stone, and Shen Qing can monopolize the eight Dou; Princess Xunyang has a soft and prudent personality, and she is conscientious and conscientious. —”

Shen Zhu looked indifferent, raised his hand over the top to accept the imperial decree. He didn't say a good word to the eunuch Sli, turned around and left.

The eunuch who announced the decree was stunned on the spot. He had read out many imperial decrees for marriage, but no one had ever reacted like Mr. Shen. Arrogant and indifferent, obedient, the emperor said that he can tolerate Shen Zhu to be arrogant, but this scholar is also a little arrogant!

Shen Zhu went to the bookstore, put the imperial decree at will, and asked Yang Qian to grind it. He spread out a large propaganda on the bookcase, sketched the picture with a fine brush, and quickly drew a map of the beam.

Yang Qian was speechless when he saw it, "Your Excellency is really good!"

Shen Zhu looked at the map, frowning in thought. This was nothing to him at all. He had traveled all over the Daliang River for a few years back then. The beam is not in his hands, but in his heart.

He drew a fork in the direction of Xiangyang City with a red pen, and then drew a circle in an inconspicuous place where Shuliang meets, and said thoughtfully, "Abandoning Xiangyang and going to Hanzhong will make a difference."

Yang Qian couldn't understand or understand, so he kept silent.

Shen Zhu also drew a red line on the rice paper, from Hanzhong to Tongchuan, passing through Xiangyang, passing Xinyang and hitting Jinling. He put down his pen, folded the rice paper and handed it to Yang Qian, and said slowly: "Using your ability, send it to the five kings' case, can you do it?"

Yang Qian lowered his head and returned a word: "Yes!"

"Heaven knows you know I know, he knows."

"Yes!"

A long time after Yang Qian left, Shen Zhucai slowly walked out of the academy. He showed Xiao Yanning the way to "Hanzhong" because he saw the incompetence of the current royal family. As for whether Xiao Yanning would rush to the barren land, and whether he could endure the loneliness and achieve something, that was not what he cared about.

Inside the Plum Blossom Pier, the door of the warm pavilion was closed. Shen Zhu stepped forward and knocked, and the little girl Liu Xing stuck her head out to see that it was Shen Zhu, she hesitated, but didn't dare to open the door for a while.

Shen Zhu frowned, reached out and pushed the door, only to find that the door was locked from the inside. "Liu Xing, what is Madam doing?"

Liu Xing wanted to say that Madam didn't do anything, she just didn't want to see you, but she didn't have the courage, so she timidly said, "Madam... fell asleep..."

Shen Zhu raised his head and looked at the sky. It was the time to eat at noon. He wondered, "But my body is not good? Why do I fall asleep at this time?"

"No... it's not..."

He frowned: "Open the door!"

Liu Xing was stunned for a moment when she was drunk. She had to bite the bullet and go to untie the bolt. Rao Tu's voice came from inside: "Don't open it!"

Liu Xing was in a dilemma for a while, annoyed that she had to stretch her neck to take a look when she heard the voice, and cause trouble for nothing!

When Shen Zhu heard Rao Tu's angry voice, he was a little confused, and asked Liu Xing in a deep voice, "What kind of evil fire does she have?"

Liu Xing was also confused by the second monk, so she could only say one by one: "The girl put the lamp face on, and after seeing the lamp face turn a few times, she got angry for some reason, dropped the lantern, and ordered the adults not to come in... …”

Shen Zhu's brows were slightly relieved, and he stood in the air for a while, but he didn't get angry, and actually left silently.

Liu Xing was surprised that Master Shen had become less and less tempered by the girl, and couldn't help but admire the girl's good skills.

Rao Tu slightly pushed open the window sash and saw Shen Zhu walking alone on the road to Merlin, her lips moved slightly, but her eyes were filled with unwilling indifference.

How he treated her back then, she returned little by little. Obviously returned his hand, but why, my heart is so dull, dull pain...

Shen Zhu returned to the green house in Meilin. It was cold and cold. He sat in front of the dilapidated book desk, stroking the mottled and bumpy writing with his fingers, and looked at the porcelain vase that he shattered and asked the craftsman to mend it with silver wire and gold nails. . The bookcase is from Qingzhou, the porcelain vase is from Qingzhou, and even the bricks and tiles in this house are all shipped from Qingzhou.

Qingzhou's house is gone, Qingzhou's love has turned into hatred, he built it here, after all, he has nothing.

The sigh of an uninvited guest broke his secret grief. He turned his head to look out the door, but it was Xiao Yanning leaning against the withered peach tree, with a piece of dry grass in his mouth, and looked at the yellow plums that were falling all around. .

That year, when Shen Zhu first entered the capital, he saw Xiao Yanning leaning against an old locust tree in the palace, with his head resting on his arms, looking up lazily at the sky. That time, Shen Zhu also raised his head and glanced at the sky. He saw that the clouds in the sky were changing, and the sun was warm. From then on, he didn't think that the waste prince was really a waste.

Shen Zhu said slowly: "What are you doing here?"

"I thought that Lord Shen had beauty on his side. The New Year's Eve should be a happy scene. Why is such a miserable situation?"

"If the lord is here to ridicule Shen, you can go."

Xiao Yanning threw a jade gourd and was caught by Shen Zhu. Shen Zhu gently threw the wine gourd back again, "For the wine of the fifth prince, please forgive Shen for not having the guts to drink it."

Xiao Yanning sighed: "Sometimes you are really boring. Although this king is often poisoned and assassinated, he still lived for thirty years. This person, when the death is determined by God, you are afraid. It's useless, it's better to be arrogant, but to be dashing."

"Shen Xie is a human being, and has no relationship with being chic. The fifth prince is also not a free and easy person, otherwise he would not have arranged so many calculations in secret."

Xiao Yanning took a sip of the wine from the jug and jade stopper. After holding it in his mouth for a moment, he slowly swallowed it. He sighed, "This wine is soft and stuffed with bitter cold, and I won't be able to drink this kind of wine in the future. Thank you. He chose that wicked mountain and water for me, and Hanzhong faces the enemy on all sides, it's really a good place."

"Hungry tigers from evil mountains, and raptors from evil waters."

Xiao Yanning asked curiously, "What's your plan in the future, Lord Shen?"

"Don't bother."

"Do you really want to marry my princess girl?"

"There are still some unfinished layouts in the capital, I can't leave immediately."

Xiao Yanning let out an "um", understood what he meant, and couldn't leave immediately, because he couldn't avoid marrying the princess. He said indifferently: "Anyway, your sweetheart doesn't care very much."

Shen Zhu suddenly looked directly at him and said slowly, "What does she care about?"

"I don't dare to understand this thing." Xiao Yanning smiled bitterly.

Shen Zhu got up and walked out of the washer, "I won't accompany you anymore."

Xiao Yanning stepped forward to grab his arm and said with a smile, "I still have something to say, don't worry."

Shen Zhu frowned, "What?"

"Do you want to know what she was like when I saw her that year?"

Shen Zhu was silent, but his heart was shaking violently. After a long time, he said coldly, "I don't want to!"

Xiao Yanning looked at his hurriedly away back, a little melancholy and a little lost.

When saw her that year, she was no different from a dead person. Today's glamorous beauty is nothing but a puppet driven by hatred.

Shen Zhu came to the warm pavilion, Liu Xing'er was pouring water out, and when she saw Shen Zhu coming back, the little girl was startled, and ran back three steps and two steps to close the door, but she was too frightened to move by Shen Zhu's sharp eyes.

He pushed the door and walked into the house, the water was misty. She was only wearing a light gauze, and her hair was wet and dripping with water, as if she had just taken a bath. Dullly lying in front of the dressing table, resting his chin on the back of his hand, instead of looking at himself in the bronze mirror, he stared at the revolving lantern on the case.

On the lamp surface were the silhouettes of monkeys, kittens, dogs, and various animals, and the cut was rough and ugly, but she was fascinated by it. Shen Zhu remained silent, took the cotton towel from Shan Gui's hand, and gently wiped her wet hair.

Rao Tu leisurely instructed: "Mountain ghost, cut out another Lord Shen."

The mountain ghost is in a hurry behind him, girl, girl, you are usually very alert, why can't you see Lord Shen coming?

"Mountain ghost?"

The little girl had to bite the bullet and said, "Not very good."

Rao Tu hummed and murmured: "The uglier the better, I know you're not very good at it, just cut a rough shadow, and cut him with a stinky face and a cold and ignorant appearance..."

The mountain ghost wants to cry but has no tears, "It's a bit difficult..."

The corners of Shen Zhu's mouth were slightly raised.