It was late at night when Xi An returned to the palace.

Everyone in the palace rested, all the lights in the halls in the palace were turned off, and it was dark and silent.

Suddenly, piercing screams begging for mercy came from outside the mansion gate, and then the mansion gate was kicked open with a bang.

That loud noise directly resounded through the entire palace!

The thick crimson gate was kicked and swayed, and it slammed into the little guard behind the gate.

The little guard had just leaned against the door and fell into a drowsy sleep, when he was startled suddenly, he raised his eyes and saw Xi Anzheng walking in with a vicious face, dragging a person in his hand.

The person dragging was dressed in brocade clothes, with thin skin and tender flesh, he looked to be a wealthy businessman, Xi An's hand grabbed the person's hair, and dragged him into the mansion in a daze.

The man screamed in pain.

"General Xi, please forgive me, please forgive me!"

"Let's talk about something! Talk about it!"

"I was wrong, I was wrong, please forgive me! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"

Behind the two of them was an elderly man who was dry and thin, with his hands in his sleeves, his steps were erratic, and his face was full of sadness.

Seeing this posture, the little guard was terrified of the imminent disaster, and ran to the courtyard in a panic to report.

"General Xi is back!"

"General Xi is back!"

The lights in the halls of the mansion were turned on in an instant, and everyone was busy putting on and tidying up their clothes, causing a scene of commotion.

Lin Qingbai drank the medicine boiled by Liangyao Chu at night, and his body really improved a lot. He didn't have a fever at night, and his hands and feet had some strength. In addition, the fire in the capital stopped tonight, so he fell asleep after lying on the bed for a long time.

But just as he fell asleep, the originally quiet palace suddenly became noisy.

There were sounds of servants running, guards calling, and unknown screams.

Lin Qingbai woke up suddenly from the dream, her heart was beating wildly, and her hands and feet were covered with cold sweat, thinking that something serious had happened.

"Aunt Lian..." He called Aunt Lian in a low voice.

Aunt Lian was watching by the bed, and immediately understood what Lin Qingbai meant when she heard the words, she stood up and said, "My lord, I'll go and have a look right now, don't worry."

After finishing talking, Aunt Lian pushed open the palace door and went out. After a while, she came back quickly and said to Lin Qingbai: "My lord, I just went to see it. It's nothing serious. It's Young Master Xi'an who came back. He's in the main hall.You can rest assured about the investigation of counterfeit medicine."

Knowing that it was Xi An who was going crazy again at night, Lin Qingbai slowly lay down.

He understands Xi An's violent and unpredictable character more deeply than anyone else, and now he doesn't want to pay too much attention to it.

He whispered to Aunt Lian, "Close all the windows in the hall."

Aunt Lian quickly stood up and closed every window.

After all the windows were closed, the hall was indeed much quieter. Lin Qingbai lay on the bed and closed his eyes again.

Aunt Lian sat on the edge of the bed and looked at Lin Qingbai, her mouth opened, as if she wanted to say something.

She wanted to say that Young Master Xi An went back to the mansion so much at night because he cared about the prince in his heart.

But looking at Lin Qingbai's tired and pale face, Aunt Lian finally didn't say a word.

Lin Qingbai had always been smart, he understood many things better than Aunt Lian, and how could he not understand these things Aunt Lian knew.

I just don't want to understand, or it doesn't make sense to understand...

main hall.

Xi An dragged the man into the hall, and pressed his head hard on the table where the traditional Chinese medicine was placed.

The man was pressed so that his nose was bleeding, his hands were struggling, and he screamed sharply.

Only then did Xi An let go of his hand, he turned around and sat on the seat in the middle of the main hall, pointed fiercely at the Chinese medicine on the desk, and said in a cold voice: "Show me clearly, is this yours?"Sell me Chinese medicine."

The man was lying on the table, his calves were shaking with fright, he barely supported the edge of the table with his hands, his face was pale, and he came closer to look at the medicines.

Suddenly his eyes narrowed sharply, his nose moved closer to smell it, and with trembling fingertips, he picked up a piece of Chinese medicine that looked like a bone, and rubbed it vigorously in his palm.

That piece of traditional Chinese medicine was rubbed into ashes.

The man suddenly collapsed on the ground, crawled up in front of Xi An with both hands and feet, grabbed Xi An's clothes and said, "General Xi, you have learned that this is definitely not the medicine I sell! If you don't believe me, go to my medicine storehouseGo check it out! Although I have made some money by selling medicines, I have never been in the business of counterfeit medicines, which is harmful!"

"What's more, even if I have a hundred guts, I don't dare to sell you fake medicines. Please be clear!"

The man knelt in front of Xi An's forehead, knocking his head loudly.

Xi An didn't even look at him, he raised his eyes and looked at the old man he brought all the way, and said in a low voice, "Yaoshi Huang, you tested the medicine that day."

The old man bowed and said, "Yes."

"Test again."

Huang Yaoshi stepped forward in two steps, didn't even take his hands out of his sleeves, just glanced at him and said, "Return to the general, this medicine is not the traditional Chinese medicine that was brought to the palace that day."

"really?"

"It's absolutely true."

Xi An narrowed his eyes and said, "Do you know what will happen if you lie to me?"

Huang Yaoshi's face remained unchanged and said: "I would like to guarantee with my life, although this medicine is made realistically, it is definitely not the medicine I checked that day."

Hearing what he said, Xi'an's face darkened even more.

He stood up slowly, walked to the table, raised his hand to pick up the medicines, and rubbed them on his fingertips.

The medicine was rubbed into powder by him.

Xi An sneered, and said: "Since the medicine was no problem when it entered my palace, whoever had the guts of a bear dared to change the medicine for me!!!"

Xi An's voice was sharp and violent, and he raised his hand and overturned the entire table.

There was a loud bang!

The servant behind him was almost hit on the body, and backed away in fright.

The teacups and teapots on the table and the traditional Chinese medicine were all broken on the ground, and the wood grain on the table was also cracked in two.

Everyone was so frightened by this accident that they shrank their necks and dared not speak.

The little servant girl tremblingly wanted to go forward to pack her things, she moved her footsteps a few times, and was afraid of Xi An's aura, so she didn't dare to take a step forward.

For a while, the hall was silent, except for Xi'an's annoyed panting, the rest of the people even breathed with their mouths half-closed, not daring to make a sound.

After a while, Huang Yaoshi raised his hand and broke the silence and said, "General, I have something to tell you."

Xi An looked at him with serious eyes.

Huang Yaoshi lowered his eyes and said in the same tone: "Although these medicines are fake, they are produced at a very high level. If they enter the market, it will be difficult for ordinary pharmacists and doctors to tell the truth from the fake. As far as I know, in the capitalThere is only one place that can do this.”

"where?"

"The black market under Tangliu Restaurant."

"Black market?" Xi An looked up at the commander of the guards standing aside and said, "Has Commander Wu heard clearly?"

"I heard you clearly, General."

Xi An gave orders to everyone in a cold voice: "Catch me the person who changed the medicine within three days, or I will blame you for this fault!"

Commander Wu led several guards to kneel on the ground and said, "It's the general!"

When this incident happened, the entire palace was overwhelmed except for Lin Qingbai, who was the person concerned.

Xi An gave a time limit of three days, saying that if the culprit could not be found, he would blame everyone for the crime.

From the perspective of ordinary people, it must be an angry statement to let go of such cruel words, after all, the law does not blame the public.

But if it comes from Xi An's mouth, it must be true.

In his world, there is no law that does not blame the public, and there is no law that wrongs a good person. There is only one thing that cannot be missed if you kill ten thousand people by mistake.

So in the past few days, everyone wished to tie their heads to their belts and count the hours to live. The whole palace was covered with dark clouds and people were in panic.

It wasn't until the night of the third day that this matter was finally found out.

The commander of the guards invited Xi An back from the barracks on horseback, and everyone was relieved to see Xi An returning to the palace with a calm expression.

Kneeling in the main hall was a woman, her hands and feet were tied behind her back with hemp rope, her head was bowed, and her hair was messy and scattered behind her shoulders.

Everyone stood by and watched, glaring and spitting at her.

Xi An walked into the palace room and sat in the seat where he was sitting.

The guard commander next to him hurriedly informed Xi An of the results of the investigation, and he said, "General, according to my investigation, this woman was a rough envoy in the clothes washing department, and she was transferred to the pharmacy to clean up some time ago.The precious medicines in the pharmacy are sold, but because there are many kinds of medicines in the pharmacy, no one has used them for a long time, so no one has noticed. But this time, she saw that the new medicinal materials you bought, General, are precious and of good quality, so she moved her mind."

Speaking of this, the voice of the commander of the guards became more angry, and continued: "She ordered a batch of fake medicines in the black market that were enough to confuse the real ones, and surreptitiously put the fake medicines in the pharmacy, and secretly sold the real medicines...."

Xi An's expression didn't change much, he tapped the armrest of the seat with his fingers, and said in an inaudible voice: "You're quite courageous."

"Yes, when we found her head, she had already ran out of the palace with the money wrapped up, and was about to run out of the city. We tracked her down in the capital for a long time before we chased her back......"

Xi An laughed when he heard this, and said, "Escape? The entire capital is guarded by my heavy troops, who can escape? You say... don't you?"

Xi An raised his foot, the tip of the boot lifted the woman's chin, and asked the woman with a smile, as if he was talking about a trivial matter.

Relying on Xi An's strength, the woman lifted her head up.

Seeing this woman's face, Xi'an's gaze paused.

He touched his chin with his finger, seemed to find it very interesting, and said with a smile, "It's you."

Even though the woman was in a mess and her face was covered with mud, she could still see her beautiful face.

Seeing that Xi An recognized her, the woman quickly knelt down and rubbed against Xi An, with tears in her beautiful eyes, pear blossoms crying with rain begging for mercy: "Master Xi An, please spare me, I really cannot help myself."

"As long as the young master is willing to spare my life, I can do anything!"

"I am willing to be an ox or a horse for the young master!"

Xi An said slowly, "Yin Liu, it's been so many years, I never thought you were still alive."

Hearing Xi An's words, Yin Liu felt a sudden chill in her body. She trembled twice, pretending that she didn't understand the meaning of Xi An's words, leaned over and kowtowed: "Yin Liu was able to survive back then, all becauseThanks to Master Xi An for saving me, Master Xi An...you are my savior."

Most of the servants next to him are newcomers, they don't know the origin of Yinliu and Xi'an, they all looked at each other, not knowing why.

Xi An leaned down, moved his face closer to Yin Liu, and said with a smile in his eyes: "Unexpectedly, the person I rescued is just like me—revenge for kindness."

That Yinliu's mouth turned pale with fright, and her body trembled, but she still held up her courage and said: "Yinliu has no kindness and will take revenge... Yinliu always remembers the kindness of Master Xi'an!"

Xi An raised his eyebrows and looked at her, beckoning her to continue.

Yin Liu swallowed her saliva and tried her best to find reasons for herself. With tears in her eyes, she said, "Master Yin Liu really has no other choice. I have a cousin from far away who gambled and owed a lot of money. OthersSaid that if the money is not enough, he will be killed!"

"So you stole the life-saving medicine from my palace for your cousin's life?"

Yinliu suddenly realized that this remark was inappropriate, she squeezed her sleeves tightly, and said in a panic: "Yinliu is thinking of the general! Then Lord Yun, he... he... I have been waiting for you for a long time.I have seen him secretly sending messages to outsiders every time! He wants the general to die! I think if you keep Lord Yun, he will reveal the secrets in the future. This is... ah.....ah......."

Before Yin Liu finished speaking, Xi An grabbed her jaw.

Xi An's hands were like iron tongs, almost crushing Yin Liu's jaw, and Yin Liu burst into tears of pain in an instant.

Xi An's eyes showed hatred, and he gritted his teeth and whispered to Yin Liu: "Do you know? If he hadn't ordered me to save you back then, I wouldn't have cared about your life at all. I wasn't your savior, but he was.Do you think this counts as revenge for kindness?"

Yin Liu looked at Xi An in disbelief, her lips were trembling, and she couldn't say a word, but the tears in her eyes flowed down her cheeks to Xi An's hands, her eyes were full of pleading.

With such a pretty face and such a pitiful expression, as long as a man saw her, he couldn't bear to kill her.

Sure enough, Xi An was stared at by Yin Liu's lovely eyes, and his eyes softened a little, he let go of his hand and said: "I can forgive you this time, but since you have done something wrong, it isShouldn't you kowtow to plead guilty?"

Yin Liu was overjoyed, and nodded in a hurry: "Yes! Yes! The young master will do what Yin Liu says!"

Xi'an said: "My master is resting now, so you should kowtow to me and apologize until I forgive you."

After finishing speaking, Xi An rested his hands on the armrest, tilted his head and looked at her.

Yin Liu's excited little face flushed, and she quickly knocked her head on the ground, pleading like Xi'an: "Master Xi'an, please forgive me! Please, Master Xi'an, please forgive me!"

But she had just knocked twice, but Xi An said leisurely: "The voice is not loud enough, you have to knock louder to be sincere."

So Yinliu clenched her teeth, and knocked her head heavily to the ground. This knock was so hard that blood came out from her forehead, and her head felt tingling.

Xi An didn't say enough.

Yinliu increased her strength again!

Xi An is still not enough!

Just like this again and again, again and again, under the gaze of all the servants, she knelt down in front of Xi An, kowtowed her head and bled, and the blood on the ground became more and more red..

But no matter how hard Yin Liu kowtowed, Xi An didn't stop talking, only saying it wasn't enough!not enough!not enough!

Yin Liu's body softened suddenly, and she lay down on the ground.

She gasped weakly, her face unreservedly exposed.

I saw that her forehead was sunken, blood was flowing all over her face, blood was mixed with tears flowing out of her eyes, it was very scary to look at.

Some little maids, who had never seen such a posture, cried out in a low voice when they saw her bloody face, and then hurriedly covered their mouths for fear of being offended.

Yin Liu was lying at Xi An's feet, her mouth was slightly open, she opened her eyes and looked at Xi An with difficulty, her fingers tremblingly hooked the corners of Xi An's clothes.

"Young Master.......Please.......Forgive.......I......"

Yinliu's mouth was continuously overflowing with blood, and she muttered these words in a low voice, and then she saw Xi'an leaned down in the bloody eyes, looked at her with a smile, and said softly: "But you haven't knocked yet.Enough."

"Master.... Please..."

"Forgive me......."

Faced with Yin Liu's pleading, Xi An raised his eyebrows and said, "Since you begged me, then I will help you."

I saw Xi An raised his hand and grabbed Yin Liu's hair, before everyone could react, he raised Yin Liu's head high and smashed it heavily on the ground.

boom!

boom!

boom!

At the first sound, Yinliu screamed and struggled like a flash of light.

At the second sound, Yin Liu's body convulsed and trembled.

At the third sound, there was only a crisp sound, and her head split in two from the top of her head, blood plasma and brains splashed out, and her body softened like noodles.

Some of the little maids next to her were so frightened that they covered their eyes, gritted their teeth and shed tears drop by drop.

No one around dared to make a sound, and there was an unpleasant smell of blood in the hall.

Everyone knew that Xi An's temperament was unstable, and his methods were cruel and vicious, but people in the palace rarely saw Xi An's actions, and everyone was frightened today.

I saw Xi An slowly let go of his hand, picked up the handkerchief behind him to wipe his hands, then raised his hand to pick up the teacup and took a sip of tea and said: "Clean up the corpse."

That tone seemed to have just strangled a bug.

After receiving this order, the servants immediately acted in a panic, those who took tools took tools, and those who dragged corpses dragged corpses.

At this moment, Aunt Lian walked in, she paused as soon as she entered the door, she lowered her head and saw the bloody corpse on the ground.

Aunt Lian just glanced at it, then straightened her eyes without changing her face.

She bypassed the puddle of blood and walked up to Xi An, without saying a word about the corpse on the ground, she just said softly to Xi An: "An'er, the prince just woke up..."

Xi An tightened his hand holding the teacup, and gave a low voice of grace.

Seeing the child's unresponsive appearance, Aunt Lian sighed, and persuaded again: "He should not have fallen asleep until now, you finally go home and visit him with Aunt Lian, between usIf you have something to say, just say it..."

Xi An said coldly: "I still have something to do, I don't have time to watch."

"Why don't you have time?" Aunt Lian was a little anxious, and said, "If you have time to go back home to deal with the counterfeit medicine, it means that you still miss your master in your heart. Why don't you have time to take a look at him? ListenIf Aunt Lian, go and have a look..."

"...."

"Even if you just take a look, every time you go back to the palace for so many days, do you think your master doesn't know? Although he is sick, his heart is like a bright mirror. If you don't go to see him every time you come back, he will be sincere."I miss you so much, and I will be chilled by your attitude."

Seeing Xi'an's silence, Aunt Lian sighed and persuaded her earnestly: "Your master is sick now, he doesn't have the strength to beat you, and he doesn't have the strength to quarrel with you, so you go up to him, hold his hand,Even if you hug him and coax him, he can't resist anymore, so what can you say to coax him and take a step back?"

Seeing Xi An's lowered eyes, still looking stubborn and unmoving, Aunt Lian said angrily: "It's been so long, don't you miss him?"

Hearing Aunt Lian's words, Xi'an's eyes flashed suddenly.

"You take a step back first, and I will persuade him later. Your master is the most soft-hearted, and will definitely forgive you."

Xi'an's Adam's apple rolled, and his hand rested on the armrest and clenched tightly into a fist, his attitude seemed to loosen a bit.

At this moment, a soldier rushed in. He was so anxious that he even forgot to salute. He ran to Xi An and knelt down on one knee and said, "General! There is a difference in the battle ahead. General Yue told you to go back quickly!It's the battle report, please take a look!"

As he said that, the soldier held a booklet in both hands and handed it to Xi An.

Xi An took the battle report, opened the booklet, and frowned more and more as he looked at it.

After a while, he closed the booklet, but turned his head to meet Aunt Lian's eager eyes.

He remembered that just now Aunt Lian was still trying to persuade him to take a step back.

Xi An knew that Lin Qingbai must be blaming him, even if he went to look for him now, the gap between master and apprentice would not disappear.

But doesn't he blame Lin Qingbai?

He would blame, when his master knew that he was Xia Jingyang, he only cared about whether he would hurt the emperor or the people, but he never asked even a single question, how did he survive the rain of swords, lights and swords back then?.

He will blame, he has already promised that if he ascends to the throne, he will give him everything he can give him, and when he finishes his revenge and kills his enemies, even Lin Qingbai wants the throne!

It's not that he can't let it go!Can't give!

If Lin Qingbaiken stood behind him, he could retreat again and again.

He just didn't understand why Lin Qingbai never gave him a retreat...

Xi An suddenly said in a deep voice, "Aunt Lian, you know, if he hadn't set off the smoke that day, I wouldn't have fought such a difficult battle today, and my soldiers wouldn't have suffered so many casualties."

"..."

Xi An tightened his fingers on the battle report, he took a deep breath and said in a low voice, "If it wasn't him who set off the smoke that day, anyone else! I will..."

But Xi An suddenly stopped talking about the latter words, and didn't want to continue talking.

Things have happened, and there is no point in talking about those assumptions.

The upper veins on the back of Xi An's hands bulged, he turned around and strode out of the hall.