"A pair of bed-warming maids from the Western Regions" seems to have spread among the fraternities.
Zheng Xiu asked Qingpi to pay attention to Wei Chen these days.
Maybe Qingpi's description of Wei Chen included "the man who dared to send a pair of maids to test the prince."
Which prince cannot withstand such a test?
When Zheng Xiu couldn't laugh or cry.
A calm shout came from outside:
"Things depend on people, success or failure depends on fate, fortune-telling depends on one's bones, and only one penny can be taken!"
A blind man stood in front of the prince's carriage.
He was holding a cane in his right hand and an old birdcage in his left hand. Inside lay a crow with dull fur and no luster. The crow was lifeless and would twitch its eyelids from time to time, as if to prove in this way that it was still alive. .
"Your Majesty, this guy is very brave. He knew that the Prince was in the car, but he still pretended to have met by chance. Should we..." The brother in charge of driving chuckled, but Zheng Xiu could tell from his hoarse voice that he was a little nervous.
Zheng Xiu stretched out his hand to open a gap next to the curtain with great interest, looked outside, and said in a low voice: "No need."
The coachman was silent for a moment, then smiled at the blind man blocking the carriage: "Do you know how to tell fortunes by touching bones?"
The burn scars on the blind man Chen Wei's face made the upper half of his face look extremely ferocious, but when he heard the words, he showed a gentle and calm smile: "I understand a little bit."
The coachman asked: "Is the calculation accurate?"
The blind man Chen Wei shook his head: "It varies from person to person."
The coachman laughed dryly: "So, it's up to you to decide whether it's accurate or not?"
The blind man Chen Wei raised his head, his pale face seemed to be able to see things, and he was facing the carriage.
Zheng Xiu looked at the blind man through the gap in the curtain.
The blind man Chen Wei said with a smile: "The person who borrows the knife calculates the future, and I calculate the present and the past. Whether it is accurate or not, the customer knows it well, I said it, it doesn't count. This is why I say, "It varies from person to person." . "
The true identity of the blind man Chen Wei, Zheng Xiu, knew clearly in his heart that he was another person who survived Baili Village twenty years ago: Wei Chen.
His true identity is the emperor's illegitimate son who has no right of birth.
Twenty years ago, the treasure king Cangyun, who was armed with sword guards and led Wei Chen to escape from the imperial city, "accidentally" fell into the ghost world of Baili Village.
After Zheng Xiu was imprisoned, as "Zheng Shan", he interfered with the "past" of twenty years ago, and the subsequent stories came into being.
If "Bai Li Village" twenty years ago was the beginning of everything and the "cause", then Wei Chen who stopped in front of the carriage was the other "cause" still living in the world besides Feng Bei. .
When Zheng Xiu was awarded the title of "Red King", Wei Chen once changed the name of "Blind Chen Wei" and said he wanted to give "a pair of maids", but in fact he gave a bad check and gave it away, but not completely.
It seemed that he was asking for directions to see the Red King's reaction.
Zheng Xiu deliberately ignored him and was busy with other things.
After waiting for some time, the blind man Chen Wei stopped in front of his carriage in this way. Zheng Xiu was both surprised and not surprised.
Not surprisingly, if Zheng Xiu was left alone, sooner or later the other party would be unable to bear it and make some movement. Speaking of surprises, Zheng Xiu did not expect that blind Chen Weixuan's timing was a bit subtle, just a few days before he planned to completely reorganize "Ye Weiyang".
"Let him come up."
The prince's voice sounded cold, and he seemed a little unhappy.
The coachman understood and suddenly realized. The blind man failed to deliver the gift.
Before I became a prince, I hated the behavior of women in business such as writing bad checks.
"Get in the car and touch it for our prince."
The driver smiled, got off the car and asked the blind man to get on.
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
Chen Wei still had the same indifferent expression on his face, and his calm demeanor made the people watching around him feel something was wrong.
The carriage kept going.
In the carriage, Zheng Xiu carefully looked at the badly burned face of the blind man Chen Wei.
For a while, neither the blind Chen Wei nor Zheng Xiu spoke.
They all seemed to be waiting for the other person to speak.
After a while, the carriage returned to the Red Prince's Mansion. The driver whistled a few times, and suddenly dozens of shadows fell on the wall. Assassins with hoods on and hidden swords surrounded the carriage.
Chen Wei heard the commotion outside and sighed softly: "Your Majesty treats guests so grandly, I am flattered."
"It should be." Zheng Xiu revealed the other party's identity with a smile: "After all, he is the owner of the incomplete building."
Chen Wei opened his mouth and couldn't help but laugh. After a moment, he shook his head and smiled bitterly: "It turns out that my identity is not a secret in the eyes of the prince. I am indeed the Zheng family."
Zheng Xiu took the lead in entering the palace.
"please."
Qing Shisan smiled and invited the blind man in.
Today is different from the past.
If it were in the past, when Zheng Zhai invited guests to the door, he would say a few polite words such as "Welcome to the humble abode" and "Your arrival will make the humble abode shine." But where is this place now? It's the Red Prince's Mansion. Qing Shisan's ability to say "please" is already a huge honor to the blind man Chen Wei. Many people who want to be guests in Chi Prince's Mansion are now unable to do so.
Nowadays, if you want to be a diner of the Red King, you must have a certain status. It's not that Zheng Xiu likes to hold it, but he has to hold it. Once this airs is not in place and everyone is invited to Prince Chi's Mansion, it will cause a disaster in the court that can affect the stability of the court.
Zheng Xiu whistled and ordered: Please invite Jiang Gaoyi, the Minister of Punishment, to come to the house to speak.
Someone go do it immediately.
After Zheng Xiu became the prince, the Zheng family was still like an efficient machine.
Not long after, Jiang Gaoyi was invited into Prince Chi's Mansion with a confused look on his face.
When Jiang Gaoyi entered the Prince's Mansion, he didn't hide it. He wished that the whole world would know about it. He invited Mrs. Zheng to accompany him and dragged him here. In front of Prince Chi's Mansion, Jiang Gaoyi wore a formal dress and tidied up for a while before entering cautiously.
It's not all luck that Jiang Gaoyi was promoted so quickly in a short period of time. He and Zheng Xiu are familiar with each other, but the prince is the prince, and Jiang Gaoyi can distinguish between public and private matters and handle them thoroughly.
As soon as he entered the living room, Jiang Gaoyi found a blind man sitting in the living room who looked like a street actor. The tragic look on the blind man's face made Jiang Gaoyi's heart skip a beat. He was extremely puzzled, but he quickly bowed his head and said:
"My lord, Jiang Gaoyi, pays homage to the prince."
"Mr. Jiang, there is no need to be polite. You and I can just get to know each other in private and treat each other as old friends."
"How can that be possible! The Red King's status is so noble that Jiang dare not surpass it." Jiang Gaoyi glanced at the blind man and refused sternly.
Refusing to refuse, he secretly changed his self-identification from "Chen" to "Jiang".
"Master Jiang, please sit down."
Zheng Xiu motioned Jiang Gaoyi to sit aside.
"The Red King has never treated you as an outsider. There is no need to be restrained in the Red Prince's palace, Mr. Jiang." Qing Shisan came to the side silently and poured tea for Jiang Gaoyi. Thick white smoke floated from the pipe. Smoke filled the air, wrapping Qing Shisan and Jiang Gaoyi inside.
Qing Shisan suddenly leaned over Jiang Gaoyi's ear and whispered: "Master Jiang, the prince specially invited you here. Do you understand the prince's thoughts?"
Sitting there, Zheng Xiu and the blind man Chen Wei started talking.
But Jiang Gaoyi, who was shrouded in smoke, only heard a hazy "buzzing" sound. Jiang Gaoyi couldn't hear clearly what they were saying. After feeling shocked, Jiang Gaoyi understood that the smoke was causing trouble. He immediately understood what the prince meant and nodded quickly: "Jiang knows."
"Lord Laojiang."
Qing Shisan continued to smoke, and Jiang Gaoyi let the smoke cover him. He began to hold his breath and stare at Chen Wei's face.
The voices of Zheng Xiu and the blind man Chen Wei talking were all "isolated" by the smoke.
As he watched, Jiang Gaoyi's expression suddenly became dazed, his eyes were moist, and he reached out to wipe the mist from his dim old eyes.
Qing Shisan looked at Jiang Gaoyi's reaction in confusion, thinking that Jiang Gaoyi was... crying?
What a weird way.
At this time, the two people who were chatting stopped talking. The blind Chen Wei lowered his head and remained silent, as if in deep thought. After a moment, he took two steps forward, stretched out his hand and tore off one sleeve in front of Zheng Xiu. Let Zheng Xiu look at the inside of his arm.
An orange cat jumped in from the window, squatted on the Red King's head, and looked at the blind man Wei Chen curiously, tilting its head, with a "puzzled" expression on the furry cat's face, just like a human.
After comforting the orange cat, Zheng Xiu looked surprised when he looked at the twisted word "Bingxu" on the inside of Wei Chen's arm. He suddenly remembered the world in the painting. Two hundred years ago, there was a silent swordsman named Cheng Xiao who killed the current dynasty. The words "Emperor" also appeared on his face.
The blind man Chen Wei handed over to Zheng Xiugong and left the Red Prince's Mansion.
After the blind man Chen Wei left, Qing Shisan waved his hand to disperse the smoke.
"Thank you for your hard work, Master Jiang." Zheng Xiu smiled a little more on his face and asked, "I, Master Jiang, have a turbulent look on his face, as if he has some understanding. I wonder what clues Master Jiang can see in this person's face?"
Mr. Jiang cupped his hands and apologized: "Your Majesty may have misunderstood. The thaumaturgy that Jiang learned in the doorway is not the art of reading minds in the true sense, but a kind of observation of words and expressions, which is closer to "emotion". "
"Affection?"
"All kinds of subtle expressions such as joy, anger, sorrow, and joy."
Zheng Xiu nodded.
Jiang Gaoyi sighed softly and continued: "Jiang will not ask what the prince talked about with this person, but from what Jiang has seen, this man values love and justice, and is a filial son."
"A filial son?" Zheng Xiu looked strange: "Are you sure?"
"Jiang is very sure that the word "missing relatives" is written all over his face. If Jiang is not mistaken, he seems to miss his dead relatives very much and will not hesitate to pay any price for it. "Jiang Gaoyi said with a somewhat embarrassed smile: "This person's "missing family" made Jiang extremely emotional and felt the same. He couldn't help but shed tears, which made the prince laugh. "
Missing family? Dead relatives?
Zheng Xiu thought it didn't make sense. He was the illegitimate son of Old Wei. There were a lot of strange things about him being hunted down back then. But as a member of the royal family and living among the people, he still ended up in such a miserable situation. It would be good if Wei Chen didn't hate Old Wei. What the hell? A deep feeling of missing family members.
After a while, Zheng Xiu thought about it and remembered a passage he had made in the mouth of Chu Susu, one of the ten leaders of the incomplete building.
"It's Treasure King Cangyun!"
Zheng Xiu now fully confirmed Wei Chen's thoughts. He remembered the words that appeared in front of his eyes when he had just contacted Wei Chen. He hurriedly left Jiang Gaoyi and left Qing Shisan to guard the house, then entered the dungeon and got into the prison of his heart.
[You discovered the inn, "Inn·Usurper·Bingxu·Wei Chen". 】
[You have not obtained permission to enter the station. 】
There is a new "station" on the game table.
The inn called [The Usurper].
"The position is approximately above the upper, middle and lower nine streams."
Not long ago, Zheng Xiu deduced the "Gateway Map" in Fengbei, and based on the position arrangement, he roughly calculated the location of the "usurper".
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Bei misunderstood and said it in advance before opening the door.
The door opened a crack, and Feng Bei, who had not yet washed up, could not hide her beauty. She squeezed her face out of the door and was about to say something, when an orange cat jumped on Feng Bei's head and stared at Zheng Xiu with narrowed eyes.
When Zheng Xiu saw that the orange cat was hiding in Fengbei's room, he couldn't help laughing and scolding: "No wonder I didn't look at you in your emperor's nest. It turns out you have been living here these past few days. Regardless of right or wrong, you are just a stepmother Meow took over my land, don't you feel a little guilty?"
"Meow!"
【I want you to take care of it! 】
The orange cat crossed its hands on its chest, raised its head, and blew its whiskers angrily, as if it was angry that Zheng Xiu scolded it for no reason.
This cat is...arrogant?
Zheng Xiu silently put an even weirder label on the strange creature from Chang An, and pushed the door open.
The craftsmen of Jixiang Workshop worked overtime to repair the wall that was broken by a "bad boy" some time ago, and there are no traces of damage. Zheng Xiu entered the room, looked left and right, and sat carelessly on the bed.
A piece of red clothing was exposed under the quilt. Feng Bei blushed and stuffed the mysterious clothing sitting under Zheng Xiu's butt into the quilt, pretending to be calm: "What are you doing here so early in the morning?"
Yeah, big red.
Zheng Xiu has a keen eye and knows that Feng Bei's dressing habits are exactly the same as hers in the valley, plain on the outside and red on the inside. After nodding secretly, Zheng Xiu calmly took out a small bronze mirror and handed it to Feng Bei: "This is for you."
The bronze mirror is long and narrow, with a small hole drilled at the top. It can be worn as a jade pendant and worn around the waist, or hidden in the arms. Feng Bei knew Zheng Xiu well and knew that he always liked to think of novel ways to make her happy. In his words, it "increases the joy of the boudoir." Feng Bei took the small bronze mirror and looked at it curiously. On the back of the bronze mirror, a vivid phoenix is carved with "intaglio" technique. The phoenix's head is facing north and its wings are spread high.
The "inscribed" lines were dark red, Feng Bei's nose twitched, and she smelled a familiar smell.
"Your blood?" Feng Bei frowned, secretly feeling distressed: "Didn't you say you don't want to paint recently?"
"Hey! On a whim!" Zheng Xiu took out the other side like magic.
The shape matches the one in Feng Bei's hand. The difference is that there is a dragon painted on the back of Zheng Xiu's bronze mirror. There are circles of sword shadows engraved around the dragon... This is a very sword-like dragon.
Ignoring the mirror in front, this is clearly a pair of "dragon and phoenix pendants". Feng Bei secretly spat in his heart, but there was a bit of worry on his face: "Aren't you afraid of violating a taboo?"
"Whatever, it's okay if he can't see." Zheng Xiu thought to himself that he didn't want to be an emperor, so drawing a dragon on his "mirror jade" was just for good luck and to make him a good couple.
"Yes." When Feng Bei heard this, since Zheng Xiu wasn't worried, she was even less worried. In her concept, there are only "people who can kill" and "people who cannot kill" in the world. Obviously, the status of the emperor cannot be compared with "people who cannot kill" like Zheng Xiu.
"Let me show you something fun."
Zheng Xiu winked at Feng Bei, walked outside and closed the door tightly. He drew the word "phoenix pillar" on the mirror.
In the room, Feng Bei stared dumbfounded at the dazzling red light flashing on her mirror, and she inexplicably imagined the sound of "didi, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep".
Two red words appeared on the mirror: Red King.
The writing on the mirror changed again, swimming like ants:
[The Red King calls, do you want to receive him? 】
【See? 】
【See? 】
There is no "disappear" option.
Feng Bei touched the mirror angrily.
The next second, Zheng Xiu's handsome face appeared in the mirror.
