Before the opening of the seal, the Qin Tianjian chose an auspicious time and informed the world first. After the 16th day of the first lunar month, the emperor bowed and bowed, and then business continued as usual.
The spirit of the new year has not completely subsided, but a spring rain fell first, floating in and out of the royal capital.
There are peach branches trembling slightly, which will welcome the apricot rain all over the city.
The flower building is still bustling with activity, and from time to time, sweet laughter and music can be heard from the half-open windows.
A little girl was squeezed to the window by the frolics, accidentally glanced outside, and simply lay down on the railing.
In the mist and mist, an open oil-paper umbrella slowly approached. The raindrops fell on the ink painting, and the lingering lingering lingering lingering and overflowing along the end of the umbrella ribs, the 'tick-tock-tick' sound was like beating on someone's heart.
The hand holding the umbrella is very white and is held on a bamboo joint. Although it is slender, the joints are strong and as flexible as the bamboo in the hand. A bright red cloak swayed in the wind and rain, but the corners of the clothes were lifted up to reveal a plain color, which was both strong and restrained. Under the turbulence, there was a tranquility that no one knew about.
The little girl leaned out again, suddenly curious about who was under the umbrella.
The man holding the umbrella paused for a moment, as if sensing something, he raised his head.
The little girl was overjoyed, but her joy quickly faded away. She moved her gaze slightly on the heavy brocade mask of the umbrella holder, and finally met a pair of deep black calm eyes.
It is hard to see sadness and joy, eyes as heavy as the deep sea.
"Yingxue, is it because the wine doesn't taste good or is this prince not good-looking?" A lazy and proud voice sounded behind the little girl, waking her up.
On the soft body, the man's light robe was slightly loose, and the gold embroidery flew in and out of the gold brocade worth thousands of gold, covering the ground. It looked unruly and could not hide its preciousness.
He raised his eyelids, his peach-blossom eyes brought out the beauty in the room, his lips curled up, and he laughed softly, smelling of alcohol, sexy and gorgeous, "You will be punished by feeding Mr. Su wine, mouth to mouth."
There was a burst of laughter in the room.
Yingxue ignored the people holding umbrellas outside, pursed her lips and chuckled, and said, "The slave family saw a girl with a good temperament and wanted to take a look, but the girl's face was covered." Her tone was full of regret.
The others hugged her, poured and fed her wine, and made a fuss. Only the one who was lying on the floor slowly got up.
"Brother Yun, what are you doing?" Su Zhi had two or three little girls on his left and right, trying to prevent him from moving. He could only shout at the top of his lungs: "Take me with you -"
As soon as the door closed, the sound suddenly stopped.
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In front of another door, Yun Qi packed up his clothes, his eyes no longer full of drunkenness, and the smile still hung on his lips, but it was different from before.
Guanyue opened the door for him, and he said to the inside: "I regret it now. You should have seen the body and the scene that night."
The person in the room turned around and was not surprised, "Is this what the prince asked me to come here to talk about?"
We are in the same flower building, but a few rooms apart. Compared with the wine and wine there, here one person has a pot of tea, which is so light and elegant that it makes people doubt that they are in the same place.
Yun Qi poured himself a cup of tea and said, "Ordinary people are not allowed to enter Jixia Palace, so I have no choice but to offend Miss Lu and come here to drink tea."
Lu Anran sat across from him, "I'm lucky enough to see the prince's 'don't ask for romance, but only for the day and night'."
Guanyue stood behind Yunqi. He glanced at Lu Anran a few more times after hearing this, but he didn't see anything. It seemed that he was just stating a fact.
Yunqi traced the rim of the cup with his index finger and chuckled: "Did you see it?"
Lu Anran didn't actually see clearly, but he saw many figures moving around through the half-open window, accompanied by various sounds of birds and birds. When he thought about Yun Qi coming here just now and smelling of alcohol, he all thought of it.
The two of them did not talk much about this topic. Yun Qi said: "You should have heard that the maid of the Gu family died. There is another important point."
At the mention of Gu Mansion, Lu Anran's mind was agitated, "Could it be her?"
Yun Qi: "Unfortunately, it's her."
Lu Anran just guessed casually, but she didn't expect it to be that maid. Thinking about the Lantern Festival, she shouted loudly and then died quietly in a dark alley. Life is unpredictable.
Yun Qi knocked on the table with his backhand several times: "What's even more unfortunate is that this case is the same murderer as the three cases that happened more than three months ago! Lu Anran, you have such a crow's mouth."
Mr. Yun, who encountered a serial case on his first day in office, felt depressed and depressed.
Lu Anran was unmoved and said: "Logically speaking, the prince should be in the punishment department now."
Yun Qi chuckled: "I found someone to sit in charge of the punishment department."
Lu Anran: "Who is the Crown Prince now?"
Yun Qi: "I'm free."
Lu Anran put his palm against the teacup, was silent, and asked a question that he had been thinking about for a long time: "After the prince came to the royal capital, I heard a lot about the prince's celebrity affairs. Now I don't think the prince is such a person, why do you have to do it?" Doing ridiculous things?"
Yun Qi talked about something else, "Jixia Palace has been reopened. Except for a few such as my maternal grandfather's family, the Yin family of Anxia County, the Lu family of Mengdu, Lanzhou County, and Mingshu County, all of them have been sent away. The legitimate sons and daughters are here, are they almost here?"
Lu Anran was stunned. Before he could figure it out, Yun Qi said slowly: "Mengzhou belongs to the Ning Dynasty, but it is independent of the Ning Dynasty. If you were the emperor, what would you think?"
Lu Anran made a simple and clear judgment, "Conquer, integrate, and stabilize."
Yun Qi smiled: "Understood? We are all protons."
Lu Anran exhaled very slowly. Her father had tried his best not to let her come to the capital, and even changed the list to Lu Jianyu. It was her insistence that attracted Liu Xiang's attention.
"I heard that Mr. Liu's handwritten letter was delivered to Governor Lu's desk. Do you think he is a bit talented?"
Lu Anran's tone turned cold and cold: "The prince knows a lot."
Yun Qi plays with the taste: "Naturally, the more secrets you have, the longer you will live."
Lu Anran thought of the rumors about the rights and wrongs of Prince Yun's Mansion, and his probing eyes swept over Yun Qi's smiling face. This person was somewhat true and somewhat false.
"Then why did the prince say this to me?"
Yun Qi looked surprised, "With our relationship, you still need to ask?"
Lu Anran pursed his lips, "Although we have the same position now, and indeed we have no other ideas, the Holy Heart is unpredictable, so the Emperor may have doubts."
Yun Qi deliberately spoke vaguely. Seeing that Lu Anran was not fooled, he threw away the jade bone fan with some boredom, "I just have to get in touch with him more so that I won't be suspicious."
Lu Anran frowned and heard Yun Qi explain: "On the night of the Enrong Banquet, I used a pretense of a night out with you. What would he think if we had no communication in private?"
After thinking about it for a moment, Lu Anran realized that the emperor must be suspicious of what else happened that night, or even that the two of them had an ulterior motive.
"My prince is famous for his beauty, so he might as well show it in the sun. In the end, it will be nothing more than a romantic affair."
The waiter at Hualou brought two plates of desserts, one was steamed chestnut cake with osmanthus sugar, and the other was a plate of fried golden butter pine nut rolls. Lu Anran had a sweet tooth, so she picked a cream pine nut roll.
In addition to flower wine, Hualou is most praised by people in the capital for its dim sum. The buttery pine nut roll in your hand has a fluffy appearance and distinct layers. It smells fragrant and is sweet and crispy in your mouth. It is a pleasure to eat.
Yun Qi watched her eating with one hand lifting a corner of the brocade veil, and covering it with her sleeve with the other hand. Although it was elegant, it was very inconvenient. He couldn't help but said: "The noble lady of the capital is covered with a veil. She wants to cover it up but is ashamed." , there is an extra layer of hazy beauty, but your sincerity is covered tightly by an 'Atlas'."
'Atlas' means tie-dye. People in the seven counties of Mengzhou love to use this kind of fabric because it is soft, light and elegant, yet silky, and is best protected from wind and sand.
Lu Anran finished the snack in his mouth before replying: "Your Majesty, you know clearly, why should you ask if you already know."
When Meng Du first met, Yun Qi threatened Lu Anran with a dagger after he killed the man in black, but now the two of them were drinking tea and eating snacks face to face, chatting and laughing, which was another kind of impermanence in life.
Yun Qi said jokingly: "You have a peaceful mind, don't you think that in your eyes, no matter the appearance, you will regard them as dead bones in the grave?"
Lu Anran took a sip of tea and slowly raised his head: "The bones are also different. Beauty is in the bones. The prince is already better than most people."
Guan Yue silently watched the two of them going back and forth, her thoughts twitching constantly. When she heard this, her eyelids twitched——
Miss Lu is teasing the prince? !
Yun Qi raised his eyebrows in surprise after being teased once, but when he saw Lu Anran's calm and calm eyes, he subconsciously confirmed that she really meant what she said. Relatively speaking, Lu Anran was one of the few people he had seen who spoke from the heart and was extremely sincere in everything he said and did.
Yun Qi's heart, which had been stained with ink for a long time, felt a little ashamed, but in just a moment, he immediately returned to his true colors and said: "Do you know what kind of mess I took over? In the past ten years, there have been two murders and serial murders in the capital. Thirteen cases. Seven of them have been solved, and the remaining fifteen cases are considered unsolved. The victims in the last three cases were all killed by the same murderer, so they were classified as one case."
Added another sentence: "Now there is one more deceased person in this case."
Lu Anran rarely saw Yunqi get emotional and asked, "Did the Gu family put pressure on him?"
Guan Yue couldn't help but said: "Miss Lu doesn't know that on the first day that the Crown Prince took office, the Gu family came to make a big fuss about the punishment, so the Crown Prince was sent back with just one word."
Lu Anran had seen what the Gu family did. In the inn where she stayed, she would search and interrogate anyone indiscriminately, and immediately pull the person away if there was any suspicion. It was very rampant.
If it were just for a maid, Gu Mansion would not do this, but the gangster who hurt Rongan County Lord has not been caught yet. If anything happens to Gu Mansion again, he will definitely vent his anger.
If you put it this way, it was conceivable to go to the Criminal Division, but I didn't expect Yun Qi to be so strong.
"What did the prince say?"
Guan Yue suppressed a smile and said with a slightly distorted expression: "The Gu family is coming fiercely, and they insist on finding the murderer immediately, so the prince told them: take the body back and investigate it yourself."
Lu Anran felt that this was something Yunqi could do.
Yun Qi looked at the sky and sighed: "You don't know, Yuan Fang of Jingzhao Mansion is really not a thing. He brought the corpse to the Criminal Division before dawn."
Lu Anran thought about it from Yun Qi's perspective and said, "The cases that occurred before the prince took office have been classified as old cases."
Yun Qi raised his eyelids: "Am I afraid of this? What I'm afraid of is your crow's mouth!"
Lu Anran: "..." What does it have to do with her.
Guan Yue rubbed her nose and pointed out: "It's been more than three months since the murderer committed another crime, and there may be more dead people."
