Shen Tianshu slowly retracted his five-hearted posture, and stood up without saying a word. Where he sat just now, there was a dent in the slate, and there was not a single crack!

Tong Kaiyang's pupils shrank, and he said in a low voice, "Congratulations to the eldest brother, you have made good progress, and the magic will be accomplished."

"What am I going to do if I don't practice martial arts?" Shen Tianshu said indifferently, "What are you doing in a hurry, what did you hear?"

Tong Kaiyang lowered his voice and said: "Duanwang's army was defeated, and the front line collapsed for thousands of miles. Zhou Cun drove straight in. He has already been in several cities within three days.

Shen Tianshu said blankly, "Where are the two wastes, Gu Tianxuan and Lu Yaoguang, dead?"

Tong Kaiyang: "...Dead."

Shen Tianshu paused in footsteps and turned around abruptly.

☆、Chapter 159

Shen Tianshu always felt that among the Seven Big Dippers, only Tong Kaiyang and Chu Tianquan were worthy of talking to him—Tong Kaiyang was one and Chu Tianquan was a eunuch, so he could only be counted as half.

The others, from character to ability, are all throwing goods.

Personality aside, anyway, they are not those who make a name for themselves, and they don’t need to talk about the morality of many falsehoods. Whether they are arrogant or unscrupulous, they are just personal styles of doing things. Eyes, can't tell the difference. But if you can't even practice the basics of staying safe, that little kung fu, then there's nothing to say.

He deserves to die, and he deserves to be looked down upon.

The narrow-minded, side-by-side people such as Lianzhen and Lu Cun, who have been on their own for many years without making any profit, know that there are people who are drilling camps everywhere, such as giant gates, and the famous Beidou in the Big Dipper. Shen Tianshu sees all of these things. Not used to it, in the past, he sneered at them very much, and when he had nothing to do, he lined up according to the height and short of them to ridicule them for entertainment. At this time, when he first heard the news of the death of Jumen and Pojun, he was stunned for a moment, and then he sneered. Sneered.

After laughing, Shen Tianshu walked a few steps without expression, and when he was about to enter the room, he paused slightly, as if awake from a dream, and said: "...So, the giant gate and the broken army are gone, The seven people who were brought together by the emperor in a hurry back then, aren't you and me left now?"

Tong Kaiyang was stunned for a moment, and then said: "Brother, the seven of us were gathered by the 'first emperor', not the current emperor."

Shen Tianshu was stunned, a sense of boredom suddenly surged in his heart, he said "oh" and stopped talking.

Tong Kaiyang took a few steps and lowered his voice: "Brother, we can be said to be very sharp this time. King Duan's life and death are unknown. Today in the court, I see that the emperor is a bit out of control. I'm afraid it's not good."

Shen Tianshu said indifferently: "What does that have to do with me, I will kill people and not fight. What, too... Does the emperor want me to fight?"

Tong Kaiyang smiled bitterly and said, "Who can send you to move your old man? When I came here, I heard that the Ministry of War has urgently dispatched people from the defenders in various places to support, but the army's heart has been moved, how can it stop Zhou Cun? Besides, I still I heard that there are rumors running rampant in the army, saying that the emperor could not tolerate his younger brother, and he deliberately defaulted on food for many times, which led to the collapse of the front line, otherwise, how could the talent of King Duan fail so badly?"

Shen Tianshu looked indifferent, and said, "Oh, doesn't that mean that the country will be subjugated?"

Tong Kaiyang: "Big Brother!"

Shen Tianshu raised his long eyebrows slightly, entered the room, and poured Tong Kaiyang a bowl of water with his only remaining hand.

Tong Kaiyang absently picked it up and took a sip, almost spitting it out on the spot - Shen Tianshu actually poured him a bowl of cold water, not even a broken tea stem.

Looking at Shen Tianshu's huge study room for meeting guests, except for the windows and windows, it is almost like a family. , A broken wooden table was placed in front of people. The table top had accumulated dust for hundreds of years. It was pitch black and looked very "chewy".

The study was quiet, there was neither a clever servant, nor a beautiful maid, Tong Kaiyang raised his nose high, and could not smell any excess popularity. He couldn't help but despair, feeling that he might not be able to get any ideas from Shen Tianshu today.

A person who is still considered a high-ranking person can live such a shabby life, then he may be self-denying, diligent and thrifty, or he may have a heart like a rock, and nothing can impress him.

Although it is said that "there are no eggs under the overturned nest", how can a character like Shen Tianshu be regarded as an "egg"? Even if the Cao's country is destroyed, Zhao Yuan can hunt him down in the territory of the king's land, and it has nothing to do with him. threaten.

Sure enough, Shen Tianshu said: "When the country is lost, the country is lost. I am the dog of the late emperor. Since he died, he did not leave a last word to let me continue to work for the court, so the other things have nothing to do with me. Do you have anything else? If you don't, just go about your business and don't disturb my peace."

Tong Kaiyang: "..."

He was about to search his stomach and say a few words, when suddenly, Shen Tianshu raised his head, a pair of eyes penetrated the wooden door and the courtyard like a steel cone, and she went straight out.

Tong Kaiyang was stunned for a while, and followed his gaze for unknown reasons. After a while, he could distinguish a very faint footstep. He couldn't help but feel ashamed at the time, and vaguely felt that Shen Tianshu, after not caring about common affairs, had been Martial arts together, it seems that they have reached a step that they can't touch.

Shen Tianshu sat still, flicking his sleeves lightly, the wooden door of the study opened with a creak, and only then did a figure fall to the door of the courtyard.

Shen Tianshu narrowed his eyes and said, "I didn't expect that I would also have an uninvited guest in someone's house, which is quite new."

The man outside the courtyard heard the sound and stepped forward, and his figure fell into the eyes of the two Big Dippers in the room. Strict, but still able to be seen by people at a glance - people who can be fat like this are rare after all.

Tong Kaiyang stood up abruptly and said, "Duan Wangye!"

Cao Ning lifted his hat.

His face was white and plump, originally like a big clean steamed bun, but now his face was covered with smudges and scars, and he became a man who had been cut a few times and thrown into the mud to roll around in a circle. dirty buns.

But even if he was like this, his shoulders were still straight, and he was still very calm when he walked slowly with a wounded leg.

"The bereaved dog, come uninvited." Cao Ning briefly cupped his hands and sighed, "I made you two laugh."

Shen Tianshu was holding a bowl of cold water, and he sat without moving.

Tong Kaiyang didn't dare to take it as big as he did, so he hurried up to meet him and let Cao Ning into the room.

Cao Ning dragged an injured leg, waved his hand and refused to help, said "nuisance", and moved into Shen Tianshu's study step by step.

Shen Tianshu glanced at him, and said unceremoniously: "Your limbs are already heavier than ordinary people, and your kung fu is mediocre. This time, the muscles and bones in your legs were injured, and after that, you ran around again and again, and your qi and blood were stagnant. It may not be able to recover later, maybe he will limping away."

Cao Ning's expression remained unchanged, and smiled: "Mr. Shen, if a person looks like me, one more lame leg or one less lame leg will not matter."

Tong Kaiyang was afraid that Shen Tianshu would make another rude remark, so he hurriedly said: "Why did Wangye go on the road alone? Since he has escaped danger, why not return to the court?"

"My imperial brother has long wanted to take my military power, but there is no reason for it. He finally seized such an opportunity, he will not let it go," Cao Ning sat down, the old wooden chair creaked, he laughed at himself and said , "This time I've come to the truth, and I have nothing to say. I've saved a few people over the years, and I didn't have time to make good friends with them when I retreated in a hurry. The emperor must not be able to send them. At this juncture, I must be even more annoyed. Me, once I show up, there's nothing left to do other than being convicted, dismissed from office and placed under house arrest in the capital - this is nothing, it's just that the so-called 'usable generals' in the emperor's hands are no more than Zhao Kuo and the like, let him continue to mess around, I'm afraid... "

Tong Kaiyang heard that his words were wrong, a little bit that the enemy still wanted his brothers to be separated from the wall. He didn't dare to take up the fight, and glanced at Shen Tianshu out of the corner of his eyes, only to see that the head of the Big Dipper was still sitting with a bowl of broken cold water, indifferent.

Cao Ning was not angry for a while in the study, he paused, reached into his arms, took out a private seal with a corner worn away, and placed it on the table.

The small seal is engraved with the words "Four Seas and Guests". It is quite a few years old. The dragon pattern on the seal has been played with countless times, and it is shiny and shiny.

When Shen Tianshu saw the seal, his expression suddenly changed.

"This thing was when the late father emperor was not yet proclaimed emperor. Later, when Beidou was formed, he took this thing as an order." Cao Ning stared at Shen Tianshu and said word by word, "Yes, father emperor left everything to me. Big brother, just give me this one."

When Cao Zhongkun died, the Big Dipper seven had gone to three, and the remaining Jumen, Pojun and Wuqu had official positions, and they were no longer bound by this private seal that was not on the table. Actually, only one was affected by this. Shen Tianshu, who doesn't like to be a nosy.

Shen Tianshu is withdrawn and withdrawn. Although he is highly skilled in martial arts, he may not be willing to intervene in the disputes between their Cao brothers, which is really useless. Cao Zhongkun left him to Cao Ning, probably just thinking that no matter how he didn't want to see him, he was also his own son, and he would save Cao Ning's life when he had to.

Shen Tianshu's gaze stayed on the small seal for a moment, and asked, "You want me to kill your elder brother for you?"

Cao Ning smiled and said, "No matter how stupid I am, I know that Mr. Shen will never do something that goes against the wishes of the father and the emperor. Besides, I am not so mad at the time of foreign enemies."

Shen Tianshu's face looked a little better, thought for a while, and then asked, "Then are you going to take Zhou Cun's head from the army?"

Cao Ning shook his head: "Let's not say whether this move can be successful or not, even if it can be killed, now the Zhao family in the Southern Dynasty has grown bigger, and there is no Zhou Cun, Wen Yu, and others. Individuals can stop the decline."

Shen Tianshu leaned back slightly, waiting for Cao Ning to write.

Cao Ning kept his voice low, and said word by word, "Mr. Shen, do you still remember when Mr. Li assassinated my father?"

Jinling.

Zhou Fei has heard the name of the Southern Capital for a long time, but she has never been there in person. There are many people in the suburbs who travel in autumn. There is a long and prosperous river everywhere, but the road is not easy to find. She wandered around for a day. , just now roughly distinguish the southeast and northwest.

Zhou Yitang has a mansion in the south, but Zhou Fei suddenly received a letter from the master of the same name in Luzhou Dark Pile, and then changed her route to Jinling temporarily. set foot.

Jinling Anzhuan is a shop for family fat powder. The fragrance is misty going back and forth every day. Several senior brothers have been here for a long time, and they only speak softly and softly. The gentle township is too exhausting.

Thinking of that Emperor Jianyuan had spent decades in such a place where he lived in brocade clothes and jade food, but he was still devoted to the wind and rain, and reclaimed the mountains and rivers without hesitation. It can be seen that this person is indeed a figure who is in the world.

Zhou Fei found out the location of "Duanwang's Mansion", so she relied on her own merits and went in and inspected the inside and outside for a few laps. Seeing that Zhao Yuan was doing a full set, she had already sent someone to renovate the mansion and garden of the palace. Every day, new servants are brought in, those who look after the house, those who renovate the courtyard... There are also a large group of beautiful maids who are fat and thin, very similar to that.

But the owner here has been missing.

Zhou Fei had been a gentleman on the beam for several days, wandering around the palace during the day and returning to the dark post at night. She never waited for Xie Yun, so she couldn't help but feel a little irritable, and she couldn't help but think about the bad things. She wondered whether Xie Yun could withstand the long journey. , for a while suspected that his scheming uncle was not good to him. Once, when he woke up in the middle of the night, Zhou Fei suddenly had a thought from nowhere—could Xie Yun be dead?

The sweet rouge incense came in from the window along the night breeze, and the bells on the eaves in the corner were mingled with the sound of running water under the stone bridge in the backyard. It was like a dream in itself.

Zhou Fei sat there for a long time, and suddenly came back to her senses. She couldn't describe the heart-rending pain in her heart, but it seemed as if a stone had been blocked, and she was about to lose her breath.

She really couldn't lie down, so she quietly gathered a handful of hair, jumped out of the window, floated on the roof, and headed towards Duan Wang's mansion.

Zhou Fei originally wanted to sit on the roof of the most splendid room in the palace for a while, but who knew when she went, she saw that Duan Wang’s palace was brightly lit from a distance.

Her heart skipped a beat, and she found a hidden place with ease. Looking down from a height, she saw a group of dusty guards driving their carriages and horses into the door. As soon as their front feet arrived, the reward like running water followed, and the palace lanterns fluttered. , The whole street was disturbed, and they sent servants one after another, stretching their necks to look at the haunted mansion that had been empty for more than ten years in Duanwangfu.

Suddenly, Zhou Fei saw a familiar figure get out of the car - it was Commander Liu who she grabbed from Tong Kaiyang.

Many people gathered around to talk to him. Liu Youliang, who had been the commander of the guards in the palace of the Northern Dynasty for many years, was naturally able to deal with such small scenes. Quickly guide the palace to be in good order.

Liu Youliang was entrusted by the three seniors of Penglai Sanxian to take care of Xie Yun along the way. He was busy until the middle of the night before he settled down in Duanwangfu, and finally he was able to rest for a while before dawn. Who knew he had just entered the house, and his heart was full of surprises. Trembling for no reason.

He fled all the way from the old capital to Jinan under Tong Kaiyang's eyes, relying on this intuition to save his life, Liu Youliang's somewhat chaotic mind filled with a coolness, and he grabbed the sword around his waist.

However, before he could ask, someone behind him politely knocked on the door a few times.

Liu Youliang was in a cold sweat, with people behind him, he didn't even hear a sound!

He immediately pulled out his saber two inches, turned back suddenly, and was stunned.

"Zhou... Miss Zhou?"

☆、Chapter 160 Thunder

When Xie Yun heard the report, he put the idle book on hand aside, and greeted him with the red tape that seemed to be familiar to him from birth.

Zhao Yuan came with a group of people with great momentum, and without waiting for Xie Yun to bow down, he quickly stretched out his hand to help him up, and said with a smile: "This is going home in Xiaoshu, since it is going home, how can it be so How verbose?"

Zhao Yuan was wearing casual clothes, tall and thin, with a face carved like a knife. He was middle-aged, but his face did not show much age. His eyelashes were unusually thick, and he often cast a heavy shadow on his eyeballs, which made his eyes faint. Shen, when you look at people for no reason, your heart will be tight. But once he laughed, he seemed very refined and kind, and he didn't have the air of being a 95-year-old at all.

Zhao Yuan stretched out his hand to hold Xie Yun, and did not shy away from the thickening of the bone-chilling cold air on his body, but Xie Yun saw that the tips of the emperor's pampered fingers were a little pale from the cold, so he used his skill to break away from him, not caring much. With a smile, he said, "The ceremony cannot be neglected."