cold three feet

Chapter 14

In the Wangyue Tower, which plays and sings non-stop day and night, the plum blossoms in the building are covered by the frosty wind in the twelfth lunar month. They are spread on the residual snow that has not been cleaned. , where is the flower.

This faint fragrance, accompanied by a gust of cold wind, floated into one of the private rooms in Wangyue Tower.

Zhou Ziyan was sitting in the private room, drinking a small wine lazily, while listening to a ditty with his eyes closed.The water mist fell on his long and thick eyelashes, trembling slightly with the airflow, and that white and thin face, black and white were distinct, revealing a bit of sharpness.

At this time, someone knocked on the door suddenly, and whispered softly: "I brought the man here."

Zhou Ziyan opened his eyes slightly and said, "Then come in."

This person is not the pretty girl with a slim waist and pretty waist in Wangyue Tower, but Chen Ying, the commander of the Imperial Forest Army in a neat and strong outfit.And following in behind him was an old man with bitter melon face with wrinkles like knives and silver threads all over his head.

Zhou Ziyan waved to the girl who was singing a ditty behind the bead curtain, and said coldly, "Girl, go down. I don't need you here for the time being."

The girl who sang the ditty came out from behind the bead curtain with her pipa in her arms, bowed and said, "Thank you, my lord, Ruan Zhi will leave now."

This girl doesn't look like the girl in the smoke and dust, but she has beautiful features, like a lotus in clear water, but she is ill-fated and blind.

After Ruan Zhi left, Chen Ying sat down, picked up the jug on the table, and said while drinking: "Zhou Ziyan, you really enjoy it. Obviously we are here to Wangyue Tower for business, you are fine. Drinking is not enough, and a girl was called to sing. I'll go to your uncle."

Zhou Ziyan ignored Chen Ying, but looked at the old man brought by Chen Ying, and asked, "Is this really Eunuch Wu?"

Only then did Chen Ying think of the person she had brought, and hurriedly got up and helped the old man to sit down, and replied: "It's true! You also know Mr. Wu. When he was young, the old man followed the current emperor. I'm afraid at that time Our Daliang hasn’t established the country yet. It’s just that a few years ago, because of getting old, the emperor felt sorry for Eunuch Wu, so he allowed him to retire and return to his hometown. I asked someone to find him for you. If you want to ask the emperor Ask him what happened when he was young, he must be right."

Eunuch Wu followed Chen Ying's words and said, "Young General, just ask, and this old slave will definitely tell you everything."

Zhou Ziyan thought for a while, opened his mouth and said, "Ziyan wants to ask Eunuch Wu one thing, do you know why my father and the emperor did not get along in those years?"

Eunuch Wu was surprised and said: "Your Majesty and Old General Zhou don't get along? Why doesn't this old slave know that Old General Zhou followed His Majesty through life and death, fought on the battlefield, and died a few times. His Majesty treats Old General Zhou like his own brother." look at."

Zhou Ziyan frowned, then asked again: "Think about it again, for example, in the ninth year of Showa, on the seventh night of the first lunar month, did you ever hear something outside the emperor's palace?"

Eunuch Wu recalled for a while, his eyes flickered, as if he had thought of something, he said slowly: "The young general said so, but this old slave remembered something. Showa nine years, just over thirty, the emperor seems to have really wanted to Somebody argued a few words with Old General Zhou, but at that time the old slave didn't sound like a quarrel, and later when the old slave went in with cakes, the emperor kindly asked Old General Zhou to stay and have dinner with him."

Zhou Ziyan's eyes lit up, and he asked, "A person? Eunuch Wu, can you hear that person's name?"

Eunuch Wu shook his head, smiled, and the crow's feet at the corners of his eyes showed a little joy, and replied: "I didn't hear the name of the man, but I guessed it in my heart, maybe it's a woman."

Zhou Ziyan asked doubtfully, "A woman?"

Eunuch Wu deepened the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes a little more, and said: "When the emperor marched and fought with the old General Zhou, the old slave naturally did not follow the emperor, but I heard that in a battle with the previous court During the battle, the emperor wanted to kill a person, but General Zhou tried his best to protect that person, and he was dealt with by the fifty sticks of military law."

Zhou Ziyan suddenly thought of something, first smiled coldly, then shook his head helplessly, and said to Chen Ying: "Chen Ying, let your people send Eunuch Wu back."

After Eunuch Wu left, he looked at Zhou Ziyan's expressionless face and asked with concern, "Ziyan, are you okay?"

Zhou Ziyan smiled helplessly, and said, "Chen Ying, do you think my father won't rob the emperor for a woman? Or that the emperor also likes my mother? Otherwise, I'm not the emperor's illegitimate child."

Chen Ying was confused by Zhou Ziyan's inexplicable and illogical words, she was silent for a while, and said, "Don't talk nonsense, do you have a basis?"

Zhou Ziyan pointed at himself and said with a dull smile: "I'm not the evidence. No wonder the emperor treated me better than the prince when I was young. And do you know who my mother is?"

Chen Ying quickly said: "Isn't it the daughter of your dead Yanghou?"

Zhou Ziyan sneered and said: "No, you are wrong. Before my mother died, she told me that she was not Ru Yanghou's daughter at all. She was just a lady from a member's family in the previous dynasty. It was my father who wanted to marry her so he begged for her. Grandpa accepted my mother as a righteous daughter in order to give my mother a legitimate identity, and grandpa has no children, so he agreed to my father's request."

Chen Yingxuan thought of what Eunuch Wu said just now, "a battle in the previous dynasty", "the emperor wanted to kill him", and "Old General Zhou saved him". There is evidence, but this is just their guess after all. If they want to know the truth of the year, they need to send people to investigate further.

Chen Ying comforted Zhou Ziyan and said, "Ziyan, it's just your guess right now, don't worry, I will help you to investigate."

Zhou Ziyan waved his hand and said: "No need, after all, you are the commander of the imperial forest army next to the emperor, and it is not appropriate to use your people. I was looking for Eunuch Wu just because someone under your command knew this clue. You can use my people to check."

Chen Ying sneered slightly: "I don't know you yet, can just a few little girls under your command do it?"

Zhou Ziyan and Chen Ying knew everything when they were young, and when they came to the capital, Chen Ying saw behind Qing Huan and Ting Lan's daughter, and Zhou Ziyan told his good brother everything about Fengyuelou.

Zhou Ziyan was born in the year of fish, so melancholy comes and goes quickly.With Chen Ying's sneer just now, she returned to her dandy appearance, jokingly said: "If you compete with Qing Huan Tinglan another day, you will know how powerful my group of little girls are."

Seeing that Zhou Ziyan was able to make fun of herself, Chen Ying felt relieved, and said, "Forget it, good men don't fight women."

Zhou Ziyan gave Chen Ying a big white eye, turned around and said a sentence that didn't follow the above: "Brother Yingying, I think my father is really my own father. If my father and my mother love each other so much, I must be them." My own flesh and blood."

Chen Ying understood that Zhou Ziyan's words seemed to be a joke, but they were actually for reassurance, so she smiled and said, "I think you and General Zhou are carved out of the same mold, not his own son, so maybe it's his. Dear daughter. It’s useless to speculate here, you might as well think about whether the emperor and your father were because of other things.”

In the general's mansion, however, one person made a fuss, and this person was Su Han who found out that Zhou Ziyan hadn't returned all night.Su Han sat in the hall, faintly angry, asking the servants one by one if they saw Zhou Ziyan.

At this time, Qing Huan and Ting Lan were coming back from nowhere. The two little girls had just entered the hall when they heard Su Han's question. I went to Wangyue Tower to listen to a little song."

Qing Huan speaks quickly, Ting Lan wanted to cover her little mouth that flattered her at any time, but it was a step too late.Quickly wiped Qing Huan's buttocks and said: "Second Young Master, the Major General just went to Wangyue Tower to have fun because he was bored, and only listened to the ditty. I think he will be back soon."

Su Han hid the inexplicable anger in his heart, and said coldly: "Didn't the doctor tell him that the wind and cold are just right, so it's not suitable to go out. He doesn't do business all day long... Forget it, forget it , I'll pick him up."

Ting Lan wanted to stop Su Han, but before she could speak, Su Han quickly walked towards the Moon Tower.

After Chen Ying left, Zhou Ziyan called the singing girl in again, intending to drink another jug ​​of wine, listen to the first song and go home, unaware that someone was rushing here.

Suddenly a young man came in at the door, Zhou Ziyan was about to scold the young man for disturbing his interest, but the young man said in a panic: "Young general, there is a very vicious person looking for you outside."

Zhou Ziyan was suspicious for a while, and thought about it, did someone follow that Eunuch Wu or Chen Ying to expose himself.He was worried that someone would find out that he didn't really come to Wangyue Tower to look for flowers and ask Liu, so he quickly pulled the little girl who sang the ditty song to the bed, and said, "Miss, I'm sorry, I've offended you so much." Then he took off his shirt .

As soon as Su Han came in, he saw Zhou Ziyan, who was naked from the upper body, and the panic-stricken girl on the bed.At that moment, he was so angry that his eyelids twitched a few times, he clenched his fists hidden in his wide sleeves, and his nails were embedded in his flesh, but he suppressed his anger again, and said indifferently: " Brother."

Seeing that it was Su Han who came, Zhou Ziyan breathed a sigh of relief, quickly put on his clothes, and said, "Who told you to come here? And who did you learn the rule of barging in without knocking? If you come to this kind of place without my permission, I will break your legs."

However, Su Han glanced at the girl behind Zhou Ziyan, and said coldly, "They are all men, why can't I come if the elder brother comes?"

Zhou Ziyan wondered what was going on with this kid, and his tone seemed to have been eaten, and he opened his mouth and said, "Brother means you are still young, so you shouldn't come to this kind of place."

Su Han said nothing, but sneered.

Zhou Ziyan was confused and said, "Did this kid teach someone to set fire on his butt today?"

In the end, the two returned to the General's Mansion without saying a word.

On the second day, in a strange and embarrassing atmosphere, everyone in the general's mansion had just finished their breakfast. Suddenly, Mr. Lu, Minister of the Household Department, brought a large group of people and broke into the general's mansion. Han is the murderer who killed Miss Ruan Zhi in the Moon Tower.

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Oh, I just want to spoil the big brother, it's a fake replacement for old man Zhou's bastard~~~~ Floating away~~~~~ Please bookmark it, thank you everyone! ! ! !