The surroundings were very quiet, so quiet that Cheng Xi could clearly hear the sound of his own heartbeat.
"I, I'm not afraid."
He pretended to be calm, but when he opened his mouth, he found that his voice had become hoarse. There was no explanation for this, "The food we ate at night was too salty."
"Well, you're not afraid," Tao Shiyan said, "then you can let go."
Cheng Xi lowered his head and saw that his right hand was grasping the hem of someone's clothes. Tao Shiyan came in private clothes, and the hem of his black T-shirt was wrinkled by him, but he had no memory of when he did it, maybe because he was afraid.
A subconscious action.
Cheng Xi had the urge to die where he was.
It would be too embarrassing to be scared and pull someone's clothes or something.
"...Uh," he let go of his hand and made a very childish excuse, "I didn't catch him."
"Well, my clothes came to you by themselves."
Cheng Xi immediately changed the subject: "...Why are you here?"
Tao Shiyan spit out four words: "Protect Longzi."
Cheng Xi: "...Oh."
It's better not to transfer the damn thing.
"Have you found any clues?" At this time, Tao Shiyan finally remembered something serious.
"There are a few letters."
Cheng Xi returned to the table and spoke without squinting. He only stared at the drawer and tilted his body to one side, "Well... there is also a hairpin in it."
Tao Shiyan scoffed, walked to the corner, and threw the paper man out of the bedroom.
Cameraman: "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh from from from from insta-fucked" part of the job..."
The camera guy didn’t leave?
Cheng Xi observed three seconds of silence for him, then searched around again. He was afraid that the cameraman would collapse and did not stay long, so he and Tao Shiyan left the garden.
Yangxin Hall and Songlan Pavilion were not in the same direction. When they reached the fork in the road, Cheng Xi was thinking about how to thank Tao Shiyan and leave, but the man beside him tilted his head towards him: "Follow me."
"Where to go?" Cheng Xi was confused.
Tao Shiyan paused: "Go to bed."
Cheng Xi was silent for a moment. He joked about usurping the throne before, but now he really wants to kill the king.
As expected, the Dog Emperor cannot spit out ivory from his mouth!
But after all, during the recording, the emperor spoke and he had to obey. Cheng Xi took the letter and hairpin and followed Tao Shiyan step by step.
Seeing two handsome men who looked like landscape paintings from a distance, Xiao Luzi greeted: "Hey, Concubine Cheng, you are here to sleep with me again!"
Cheng Xi: "...I will discuss something with Teacher Tao."
"Your Majesty, you should be exposed to rain and dew," Xiao Luzi didn't listen to Cheng Xi at all, and repeated Director Liu's words in the earphone with a red face, "You can't catch a sheep, he's already carrying a baby!"
Looking back at the boy's red ears, Tao Shiyan took Xiaoluzi's headphones and said, "Old Liu, you know I can afford the liquidated damages."
That means I will resign if I continue to BB.
"Okay, okay," Director Liu said with a smile, "I won't say anything anymore, don't be angry."
Without the jokes from outsiders, Cheng Xi felt much more at ease. He walked into the main hall of Yangxin Hall. Tao Shiyan took him to sit down on a familiar small table, covered with an equally familiar heat-insulating cover.
The meal tonight is relatively light, consisting of simple porridge and side dishes.
Hearing the sound of people coming back, Zhang Jing ran over to help them put the dishes and chopsticks. Tao Shiyan indicated that she could do it herself, then turned to Cheng Xi: "Take out the evidence and analyze it while eating."
Cheng Xi was stunned for a moment: "Did you ask me to come..."
"Not what?"
"You don't mean to... bully me?"
Just like last time, I relied on my good status to make him salute and let him wait for the meal.
Tao Shiyan was dumbfounded. He admitted that his personality was not easy-going, but he never thought that in the minds of some children, he was already the kind of bully who specially called people to bully him.
He asked back: "You want me to bully you?"
Cheng Xi: "..."
I hope you die.
Seeing the boy's face fall quickly, Tao Shiyan shut his mouth with satisfaction. After all, he had just helped to deal with the paper man, Cheng Xi decided to forgive the dog emperor once and took out the evidence from his sweater pocket.
These letters are similar. They are all sentences expressing love for the late emperor. Nothing can be inferred except that the concubine loved the late emperor very much.
Then the only hope lies in the hairpin. Cheng Xi observed for a moment, "It's no different from the hairpin in the TV series... The carving is quite exquisite. Such a thin needle can actually carve complete phoenix wings." .”
Phoenix...Tao Shiyan frowned, "Can the ancient harem wear phoenix patterns at will?"
Cheng Xi's eyes lit up: "It seems that some dynasties only allowed queens to use the phoenix pattern."
In order to verify their ideas, Cheng Xi made a special call to Shen Yi. Shen Yi carefully observed the room twice and found nothing with a phoenix pattern.
"In other words," Cheng Xi said in an excited voice, "this hairpin does not belong to Concubine Zhao, but to the Queen!"
Then the question comes again, why is the queen's hairpin in Princess Zhao's room?
"I have a guess," Cheng Xi said, "This is evidence left by Princess Zhao, implying that she was completely killed by the queen. The queen at that time is now... the queen mother."
It is very common for the deceased to leave hints at the death scene, but if this is the case, Tao Shiyan said: "What is the meaning of the letter?"
Cheng Xi recalled yesterday's plot: "I remember Xiaohong said that Princess Zhao was in a semi-crazy state before her death. Maybe she missed the late emperor to the point of going insane, so she wrote many letters."
"There is another factor that you have not considered in the exam," Tao Shiyan paused, "If the Queen Mother wanted to harm Dowager Zhao, she would have done it long ago. Now that the late emperor has been buried, Princess Zhao has no place to compete with the Queen Mother for her favor, let alone threaten her. Given her status, what reason did the Queen Mother have to kill Dowager Zhao?"
Cheng Xi was startled.
Yes, killing Mrs. Zhao now is completely unnecessary. The program team has spent a lot of time and it is impossible to come up with tasks that are obviously inconsistent with logic for the guests to do.
"The most important thing is," Tao Shiyan continued, "If we go back to the ancient background, it would be easy for the Queen Mother to kill the childless old concubine with no backing. Why go to all the trouble to let the palace maid poison her?"
Although I don't want to admit it, I have to admit that Tao is sometimes a little better than him.
Life is not easy, Xiao Chengzi sighed, "I thought it was too simple."
Seeing that the guests were stumped, Director Liu finally felt proud and planned to invite the director who designed the plot to dinner tomorrow.
Then he heard Tao Shiyan imitating Cheng Xi's tone: "I have a guess."
Director Liu's heart skipped a beat: Can you please stop guessing?
"The palace maid who confessed is older. She must have been with Princess Zhao for a long time. It is difficult for someone to bribe her to harm her master. Moreover, the only NPCs in the plot now are Princess Zhao and the Queen Mother. If the Queen Mother did not do it, Princess Zhao would have a high probability of committing suicide."
"Suicide..." Cheng Xi was puzzled, "Then why did she commit suicide and why did she take the Queen Mother's things?"
"Go somewhere with me tomorrow."
Looking at the boy's confused face, Tao Shiyan said softly: "Let's verify it."
For some reason, the word "we" in Tao Shiyan's mouth gave Cheng Xi a strange and subtle feeling. No matter his family background, personality, career, or status, Tao Shiyan was inaccessible and unattainable.
It seems to be a rare thing to be able to collectively refer to him as "we".
Cheng Xi rubbed the tips of his ears and nodded.
It was getting late, and Zhang Jing happened to be packing up the hot spring, and Tao Shiyan asked Cheng Xi to take a dip first.
He had a stomachache yesterday and had been sitting on the damp ground for a long time. Naturally, he wanted to warm himself up and asked tentatively: "Aren't you going?"
Tao Shiyan asked, "Do you want me to go with you?"
Cheng Xi shook his head crazily and quickly ran into the hot spring pool and locked the door.
There was someone waiting behind him. It was not easy for him to soak for too long, so he came out after more than 20 minutes. Tao Shiyan went in immediately, and Cheng Xi lay lazily on the table, waiting for the great hypnotist with a pious expression.
Zhang Jing lay down opposite him and poked his arm with her finger: "Little Chengzi."
"Um?"
"I want to ask something. You have a good relationship with our boss, so you should be able to know."
...Who has a good relationship with him? Cheng Xi retorted silently in his mind and said perfunctorily: "Ask you, I probably can't answer."
It doesn't matter whether he answered or not, the main reason is that Zhang Jing was too curious, so she went to the doctor for a sudden illness and found the body of a young star who had just met her boss.
Her expression was mysterious: "Cheng'er, do you know who the sexy little wild cat is?"
Cheng Xi: "..."
Cheng Xi: "No, I don't know."
"Oh, then you..." Zhang Jing lowered her voice, "Do you know who the kid who gets hot easily is?"
Cheng Xi: "..."
Goodbye, farewell!!!
Unable to withstand Zhang Jing's devilish torture, Cheng Xi ran back to Songlan Pavilion without looking back.
After changing into his pajamas and going to bed, when he saw Zhao Xiaotao's message, he remembered that he wanted to post a clarification on Weibo tonight.
It's almost twelve o'clock now, which is when the traffic is heavy.
According to the agreement with Zhao Xiaotao, he edited the text and sent it to Tao Shiyan: [Is this okay? 】
Yan:【?】
orange: [Due to personal negligence, when my manager came to talk to me about something last night, he interrupted the live broadcast without explaining it to everyone. I'm very sorry for affecting everyone's viewing experience. I will make it right. I also want to thank my manager Xiao Tao for being so considerate to me.
take care of [heart]]
It took Tao Shiyan two seconds to realize what the other party was sending.
I just glanced at it casually without reading the content carefully.
While waiting for a reply, Cheng Xi kept paying attention to the trend. Fortunately, the popularity of the live video has gone down, and it is estimated that it will be out of the public eye tomorrow.
Clicking on the entry, although many people speculated that the other party was Tao Shiyan, the Orange Anti-Gangster Group can be seen in every Weibo post with similar comments.
[Use Brother Xi’s photo as your avatar, little fairy, you must be my fan! Then I hope you won’t mention Teacher Tao in the topic square anymore, so as to prevent my brother from being criticized. Let’s protect him together, okay? 】
[[Cute] Thank you for paying attention to the treasure boy Cheng Xiaoxi. Compared with the live broadcast, his singing is more charming! Guiding the way... Born to be an idol, you will not lose money if you invest in it! 】
[I am a long-time fan of Xi Bao since his debut. Based on my understanding of him, 80% of the people who deliver medicine are staff. Don’t get me wrong. 2333]
[My brother said during the live broadcast that he has no connection with the film industry, so that person can’t be Teacher Tao! Are you sure you have to stick to the pole to get a virtual CP! Wake up!!!]
Passers-by and people eating melons were confused.
I have been surfing the Internet for so many years, and I have seen people sucking blood when they get the opportunity to be tied up, people selling sex to attract attention, and people asking for help with their CP everywhere.
But I have never seen someone so vigorously denying responsibility and dragging out fans who have been tricked.
That's ridiculous.
Fans follow idols, and they have a new understanding of Cheng Xi.
Seeing this scene, Tao Shiyan's fan "Shiji" was also very satisfied.
There is no need for them to go out and argue, the other party has clarified it himself first, there is such a sensible fool in the world, and even the Yanxi CP is a bit fragrant!
It could have developed into a big fight, but it was unexpectedly peaceful. After watching it all, Cheng Xi breathed a sigh of relief.
However, at this moment, the phone suddenly dinged, and Weibo notifications popped up one after another, all of which were about gaining followers and being attracted by Aite.
He didn't do anything to attract fans today. Could it be that "Journey" released a new movie? Cheng Xi thought about it and clicked on the "New Fans" interface.
[Tao Shiyan became your fan]
I clicked on the homepage again, and my heart skipped a beat.