The meme "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 cry came from outside:
"Everything depends on people, success or failure depends on fate, fortune tellers can only take a penny!"
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.
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"Your Highness, this guy is very brave. He knew that Your Highness 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 interestingly stretched out his hand to open a gap next to the curtain, looked outside, and said softly: "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 pupils seemed to be able to see things, and he looked towards 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.'
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Zheng Xiu knew the true identity of the blind man Chen Wei, who 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" 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 was blocking the carriage was the other "cause" who was still alive in the world besides Feng Bei.
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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, but not completely.
It seemed like he was asking for directions, just to see the reaction of the Red King.
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.
To say it was no surprise, if Zheng Xiu was left alone, sooner or later the other party would be unable to bear it and would make some move. To be honest, Zheng Xiu did not expect that the timing of the blind man Chen Weixuan was a bit subtle. Just a few days before he planned to completely reorganize "Ye Weiyang"
day.
"Let him come up."
The prince's voice sounded cold, and he seemed a little unhappy.
The coachman understood and suddenly realized that the blind man failed to deliver the gift.
Before I became a prince, I hated the profiteering behavior of writing bad checks.
"Get in the car and touch it for our prince."
The driver smiled and asked the blind man to get on.
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
Chen Wei still had the same calm expression on his face, and his calm demeanor made the people watching around him feel that something was wrong.
The carriage continued to drive.
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.
When Chen Wei heard the commotion outside, he sighed softly: "Your Majesty treats guests so grandly, I am flattered."
"It should be." Zheng Xiu smiled and pointed out the other party's identity: "After all, he is the owner of the incomplete building."
Chen Wei opened his mouth and laughed. 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 to come in.
Today is different from the past.
If it were in the past, when Zheng Zhai invites guests to enter, they would also say a few polite words such as "Welcome to the humble house" and "Your arrival will make the humble house shine." But where is this place now? It's the Red Prince's Mansion. Qingshi
Being able to say "please" for San Neng is already a huge honor to the blind man. 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 serve, but that he has to serve. Once the shelf is not set up properly, and everyone invites people to the Red Prince’s Mansion, it will be
It caused a disaster in the imperial court that could affect the stability of the imperial court.
Zheng Xiu whistled and ordered: Please invite Jiang Gaoyi, the Minister of Punishment, to come to the house to explain.
Someone go and 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.
Jiang Gaoyi didn't hide anything when he entered the Prince's Mansion. 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 put on his hat and put on his formal clothes. After tidying up for a while, he carefully entered.
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It's not all luck that Jiang Gaoyi was promoted so quickly in a short period of time. He and Zheng Xiu were familiar with each other, but the prince is the prince, and Jiang Gaoyi distinguishes between public and private matters and manages 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. It's enough for you and I to get to know each other privately as old friends."
"How can that be possible? The Red King's status is so noble that Jiang does not dare to surpass it." Jiang Gaoyi glanced at the blind man and refused sternly.
He refused, but 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 Prince has never treated you as an outsider. You don't have to be reserved 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 out of the tobacco stick.
Wrap around and wrap up Qing Shisan and Jiang Gaoyi.
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 being shocked, Jiang Gaoyi understood that the smoke was causing trouble, and he immediately understood
What the prince meant, he nodded quickly: "Jiang knows."
"Your Excellency 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 sounds of Zheng Xiu and the blind man Chen Wei talking were all "isolated" by the smoke.
As he watched, Jiang Gaoyi felt dazed for a while, his eyes were moist, and he actually stretched out his hand 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 chatting stopped talking. The blind man 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 to tear off one sleeve in front of Zheng Xiu, and let Zheng Xiu look at the inside of his arm.
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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 human-like "puzzled" expression on its furry cat face.
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 bowed his hand 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, Lord Jiang." Zheng Xiu smiled a little more on his face and asked, "I, Lord Guanjiang, have a turbulent expression and seem to have some understanding. I wonder what clues Lord 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?"
"Emotions, anger, sorrow, joy and other subtle expressions that are beyond words."
Zheng Xiu nodded.
Jiang Gaoyi sighed softly and continued: "Jiang will not ask what the prince talked about with this person, but according to Jiang's opinion, this man values love and righteousness, 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 a little uncomfortable.
He smiled coquettishly and said, "This person's 'missing family' moved Jiang so much that he could not help but burst into tears, which made the prince laugh."
Missing relatives? 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 chiefs 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 station named [The Usurper].
"The location is approximately above the upper, middle and lower 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".
There are still many mysteries about Wei Chen's technique.
In the Xiangu Temple, Wei Chen once caused the deaf-mute and lame trio to explode from the air. They once said that this was a technique called "Fireworks". It was just that the "usurper" understood it in a literal sense, making it easier for Zheng Xiu
Reminiscent of the meaning of "scheming to usurp the throne", it is incompatible with the "fireworks" thaumaturgy of making living people explode in the air.
Zheng Xiu was still considering Wei Chen's proposal and had not made a decision for a while. After having a secret conversation with the blind man Wei Chen, Zheng Xiu practiced his sword during the day and brewed poison at night. Two days passed in this way.
A batch of custom-made bronze mirrors were finally completed and sent to Prince Chi's Mansion from Jixiang Workshop.
Zheng Xiu placed these bronze mirrors in his study. Zheng Xiu closed the door tightly. There was a sound of bones and joints rubbing in his right arm. [The Painter] The strange thing came out from under Zheng Xiu's skin, protruding from it and forming a shape.
Chic brush.
Holding the brush for a long time, Zheng Xiu personally added water to grind the ink and added his own blood to the ink.
After staying up all night like this, Zheng Xiu knocked on Feng Bei's door early the next morning, carrying a small bronze mirror.
"it's me."
Zheng Xiu might have misunderstood Feng Bei, so he spoke 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 actually hiding in Fengbei's room, he couldn't help laughing and scolding: "No wonder I didn't look at you in your emperor's den. It turns out that you have been living here for the 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. There was no trace of damage. Zheng Xiu entered the room, looked left and right, and looked carelessly.
Sitting 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 had sharp eyes and knew that Feng Bei's dressing habits were exactly the same as hers in the valley. She was 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.
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The bronze mirror is long and narrow, with a small hole drilled at the top. It can be worn with a string and worn as a jade pendant around the waist, or hidden in the arms. Feng Bei knew Zheng Xiu well and knew that he always liked to come up with novel ways to make her happy.
, in his words, "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 was carved using the "intaglio" technique, with its head facing north and its wings spread.
Fly 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 on the 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 couple.
"Yes." When Feng Bei heard this, since Zheng Xiu was not 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 does not mean that he is worried.
It cannot be compared with "people who cannot be killed" 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 "Feng Zhu" on the mirror.
In the room, Feng Bei stared dumbfounded at the dazzling red light flashing on her mirror, and she inexplicably made up the sound of "beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, 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.