The little lady in the dining room

Chapter 142 Wei Su
Zichen Palace.

The emperor stayed up all night, and went to the morning court as usual.When I came back from the next court, I read two memorials, but I felt too sleepy to read them.

Just as he was about to go back to the dormitory and sleep for a while, the Imperial Order Wei hurriedly told Wei Chen to see him.

The emperor froze suddenly, and hurriedly said, "please."

Wei Chen immediately entered the hall, and Feiyu's clothes were heavily stained with blood.

A scratch stretched from the elbow to the wrist on the right arm, and the wound could be seen in the torn sleeve.The wound was too deep, Xie Zhao could see that the flesh was ripped apart before he looked carefully, and the half-coagulated blood filled the wound, the whole wound looked like a scarlet groove.

There is also a large bloodstain on the left chest, which is as big as two palms.It was shocking at first glance, but the clothes were not leaky, and it didn't seem to be his blood.

Wei Chen stopped and cupped his fists: "Your Majesty."

"Sit down and talk." The emperor nodded, and immediately sent for the imperial doctor.

Wei Chen took his seat, looking more tired than the emperor, he was silent for a while and said: "I know who the assassin who has been hurting the imperial guards all this time is."

"Who?" The emperor's eyes trembled slightly, and the most obvious answer at this moment made his heart beat wildly for a while.

"The dart that scratched the minister's arm is the same as the one that took Lu Yong's life." Wei Chen stood up and put a silver dart still stained with blood on the emperor's desk. "Your Majesty, take a look."

The emperor nodded: "It is the same."

Wei Chen was silent for a while: "I chased them all the way, and caught up with two of them at the final fighting place. There were a lot of people there, and I was careful and accidentally injured four people. They didn't take care of them. After getting this wound, he wanted to take advantage of the closeness of the dart thrower to stab him, but the stab hit the gate of a house behind him—the minister saw that both of them panicked at the same time, and they all stepped up to block, But it was just to block the minister. They forced the minister to retreat more than a dozen feet, during which there were countless opportunities to kill the minister, but they seemed to have forgotten all of them."

This shows that the courtyard may be their main family, or someone who is very important to the main family.

"Chengnan." The emperor thought for a while, "Which one did you find?"

"Yes." Wei Chen sat back exhausted, "The eldest son of the Patriarch of the Qu family has been ill recently, so he bought that house to recuperate."

Musician!

Even though he had guessed to some extent, when Wei Chen said these two words like this, Xie Zhao still broke out in a cold sweat.

For ten years, his mother's natal family has been hurting his imperial guards with vicious means.

And the Patriarch of the Song Family...

Xie Zhaoyou still remembered that he had called him "uncle" for several years when he was a child.Later, when he succeeded to the throne, he walked around less, and this relationship faded away.

Wei Chen raised his eyes to look at him: "Your Majesty, you told He Jiao that you will crush the murderer in front of Lu Yong's tomb!"

"Yes, I said so." Xie Zhao replied weakly.The weak voice broke out together with another layer of cold sweat.

After a while of silence, he asked again: "Is there any other evidence?"

To thoroughly investigate the composer, there must always be evidence that can be produced.Wei Chen's words were enough for him to believe, but not enough for him to block everyone's mouths after he completely fell out with the Qu family.

"Not yet." Wei Chen shook his head and sighed, concentrating for a moment, then got up again, "I will leave first, and I will investigate more evidence. But today, I have something else to do."

"Other things?" The emperor was slightly puzzled.

Wei Chen nodded: "Private matter."

"Go." The emperor didn't stop him much.At this critical juncture, it must be no small matter for him to leave his business to take care of his personal affairs, and no one can stop him at this moment.

The human heart is fleshy.

Ruan family.

After Sydney asked the imperial physician Su Zixian about her taboos in detail, she made a stewed duck soup with bamboo shoots and slices, and made two small stir-fries with mushrooms, rapeseed and ground three delicacies.There were bowls of rice and porridge each, and they were brought into Su Zixian's room together.

When Su Zixian smelled the duck soup, she really felt hungry.Feeling in good spirits again, she went directly to the bed to eat, only then did Sydney see where she was hurt.

The Bai Lian in her middle coat on her left shoulder was tightly wrapped, but from the front, there were bloodstains coming out of the middle coat, and the same from the back.

... Was it pierced?
After thinking about it carefully, Xueli was so frightened that she didn't dare to ask any more questions. She pushed the porridge and rice in front of her, and then bent over her desk to watch her eat.

Su Zixian didn't seem to want to explain the injury to her, she just said that the duck soup was delicious, and then she took a spoonful of the boiled golden soup and poured it on the rice, eating it very happily with the stir-fried vegetables.

Appetite is fine.With such a serious injury, it would be bad if he couldn't eat.

Xueli smiled: "I made a hawthorn porridge waiting for you to eat when you came back. I tasted it just now and it was not ready. I will redo it in a while, so I can eat and play at night!"

Su Zixian paused for a moment with the hand that was picking up the vegetables, and immediately understood why she couldn't do such a simple thing well.

"I made you worry." Zixian threw the small rapeseed she had just picked up into her bowl, and then took a bamboo shoot from the soup and fed it to Xueli's mouth, "I'm sorry! Never again!"

...Do you dare to be less sincere? ? ?
...It's okay to use the dishes she cooked to compensate her, and just give her a piece of bamboo shoots?Anyway, give me a duck leg!
Xue Li glared angrily. Just as she raised her hand to slap the table with her, she said outside: "My lord, you really can't go in."

The two were stunned for a moment, and when she looked at Zixian again, her face froze.

Xue Li patted her hand down: "I'll settle the score with you later!"

After she said that, she pushed the door and went out, and closed the door behind her backhand.Turning around, he saw that Wei Chen was stopped a few steps away by Peng Qizhong and Peng Qiyu brothers. He was wearing a straight dress with narrow sleeves. "Sydney!"

Xueli stepped forward, looked at him, and sighed: "Zixian said she doesn't want to see you, let her rest well."

Wei Chen took a look at her, and argued with her with a smile all over his face: "You are my god-sister..."

"Zixian and I are still in love with sisters." Xue Li responded with a word, paused, and then persuaded seriously, "Brother, don't make things difficult for me. Although I don't know what's going on with you two, but now I I can only help her. She was seriously injured, and the first thing she said when she saw me was that she didn't want to see you, and I agreed at the time, so naturally I can't let you in now."

Wei Chen was silent for a while.

Sydney said again: "What's the matter with you? Where did she go last night? Why did you send her back?"

Wei Chen shook his head, and only picked up the food box in his hand: "I'll talk about it later. Pass this to her for me. I still have something to check, so I'm leaving first."

Sydney: "..."

Then she carried the food box in as she said, and just as she opened it, she saw that there was a yam bean paste cake, a chicken and vegetable porridge, and two small cold dishes inside. Su Zixian hugged the food box and walked to the door to take the box with vegetables Throw it out together!
Xue Li was dumbfounded. Seeing that Su Zixian almost fell down after throwing, she hurried to help her, and called for someone to clean up outside.

The next day, Wei Chen came again.

He looked extremely tired, and Wu Qing looked so heavy that he hadn't slept all this time.This time, he didn't say a word. Seeing Xue Li coming out to "stop the drive", he directly stuffed the food box in his hand to her, then turned around and left.

Su Zixian threw it readily as usual.

Seeing the shredded radish pancakes, cherry milk cake, and stewed noodles with pickled cabbage and yellow croaker that fell all over the floor, Sydney felt grief and indignation: If you have something to say, it’s wrong to vent your anger with delicious food...

In the next few days, the two men were obviously in high spirits.

Wei Chen came over to stuff the things, and as soon as she went in to hand them over, Su Zixian turned her face and threw them out.Several times, Sydney wanted to stop Wei Chen and say, don't leave in a hurry, can you pick it up outside later?
She put up with it.However, as a result of taking care of Su Zixian and worrying about "what's going on with the two of them", many lingering worries in her heart faded away.

Or a little overwhelmed.For example, she used to write a long letter to the emperor every other day, writing to him all kinds of things she saw and heard, thinking that it would be good for him to read it when he had time.

But these days, she was so tormented by these two people that she lost all her leisure time, so she only asked Shi Zhan to go to the palace every day to report that she was safe, and then when Shi Zhan came back, she would report to her that the emperor was safe.

When she suddenly realized this, Xueli inevitably felt very sorry for her husband...

She went back to the house and wrote letters, still writing what she saw and heard - but in recent days, the "what she saw and heard" was almost only Wei Chen and Su Zixian, and after finishing writing, she found that most of the content was them Two strange things.

She was very distressed and asked the emperor what was going on. In the evening, she received a reply from the emperor: Tell Su Zixian that Mr. Mingxuan has been distracted too much recently and has repeatedly made mistakes.Next time, dismissal and investigation.

Based on this sentence alone, Sydney doesn't know whether this is the truth or he is playing tricks to help Wei Chen.Anyway, she didn't dare to delay, she went to find Su Zixian as soon as she received the letter.

When Wei Chen came back the next day, he just saw Xue Li who had come out to block him, and before he had time to say hello, he saw Su Zixian coming out behind her.

Su Zixian put on a cold face: "My lord, please."

Wei Chen looked very happy immediately, forgot to say hello to Xueli, and followed Su Zixian into the house quickly.

After Xueli passed by his ears like a gust of wind, she was dazed: Zixian's boredom was written all over her face, and he was still so happy?all right?
Then, she wanted to close the door and leave the space inside for them to talk.But Su Zixian insisted on dragging her in to accompany her, and Xueli felt as if she was sitting on pins and needles under Wei Chen's gaze.

—He obviously wanted to drag her out!
——But it's not her fault!
Wei Chen came with a food box again.Today, there is a steamed tofu with pork ribs, a vinegared cabbage, a bowl of rice, and a plate of peach cakes.

Xue Li looked at Su Zixian nervously: Don't throw it in front of your face...

Su Zixian didn't throw it away, she sneered: "What are you doing all this time, sir? This girl came out of the imperial dining room! There is no shortage of stuttering!"

"I know you have no shortage of food." Wei Chen still tried to smile, and nodded slightly, "If there is something suitable for your mouth, you can eat it, if not...I will see you off tomorrow."

Sydney was dumbfounded, while Su Zixian gritted her teeth.

The three of them sat face to face dryly. After a while, Su Zixian squeezed out a few words: "You...are...ill...ah..."

Sydney continued to be dumbfounded.If Su Zixian's hand hadn't been tugging at her, she really wanted to slip away.

Although it was inappropriate to leave a friend behind, she still felt inappropriate sitting here anyway!

Wei Chen didn't speak, and looked at Su Zixian quietly, Su Zixian calmed down: "My lord, don't waste your time, I haven't eaten a bite after you have delivered it for so many days, if you don't believe me, ask Sydney."

Su Zixian pointed at Sydney while Wei Chen glanced at her, and Sydney nodded subconsciously: yes yes yes.

Zixian said again: "I'm meeting with you today, and it has nothing to do with your delivery of things for so many days! It's His Majesty who said that you made too many mistakes because of this, and you will be dismissed and investigated again—so I want to talk to you. Make it clear, if the two sides don't get along well, you might as well save yourself! It's time for His Majesty to employ people!"

Xueli was about to nod in agreement again, when she suddenly saw a smile flashing in Wei Chen's eyes, and immediately put back her nodding in agreement.

——It seems that His Majesty probably knocked on Su Zixian's door for him.

Then she continued to sit stupidly, trying to make herself like a wood carving, if she could not mix it, she would not mix it.

After a while, Wei Chen tapped his finger on the table: "You can't 'save' the matter of marrying a wife, and you will have to pay six ceremonies in the future. What are a few dishes?"

He threw out such a content in a leisurely tone, which made Xue Li, who had just been put into the wood carving, look at him in astonishment.

Su Zixian was also shocked, froze for a moment and then sneered: "Who will accompany you to die!"

"Of course I don't want Miss Su to accompany me to die." Wei Chen frowned slightly, his expression turned solemn, "After this major incident, if I am still alive, there will be no more 'send to die' in the future. When the time comes, you marry Won't you marry me?"

What he promised was the future, but what Su Zixian noticed from the words was the present.

She turned pale: "You mean this time..."

"This time will be the most dangerous thing in my life." Wei Chen told her with a calm face, without hiding, "I would have died without you that day. It will happen at any time for many days after that. But if I can get through this, There will be no more risks, and I will try my best to marry you—unless you really hate me."

The emotions in Su Zixian's eyes were in a mess, and the hand holding Xue Li was a little loose.Xue Li gave her a backhand grip, signaling her to feel at ease.

Wei Chen apologized and said again: "The bad words that day were due to my fear that this time I might..." His expression relaxed, "I saw Lu Yong pass away, leaving his wife heartbroken, and in the end only Ah Yao was left alone. .I...I really dare not get married, even if I like you. "

"But from the day I fell in love with you..."

"I know you have been able to think clearly since then. At least, you think you can think clearly." Wei Chen laughed hoarsely, "But I can't really let you do it just because you are willing to do so. He Jiao also I told Lu Yong that you are the same as you, and I can't let you become the next her."

The doubts that had plagued her for several days gradually dissipated in Sydney's heart.From the words of the two, she more or less knew what was going on before.

In the end, she finally patted Su Zixian's hand and left.When she was about to leave the room, the last words she heard were...

"Then you marry me now! I'll follow you to the household registration department immediately!"

Wei Chen: "No, absolutely not."

"You made it clear to me! I have already been tempted enough, I will be sad anyway if you die!"

"That can be a little less. If there is an extra relationship between husband and wife and they live together for a few days, the deeper the relationship, the more heartaches will be. Let's wait for this calamity to pass, don't worry."

These two...

Although they didn't know that they were secretly in love before, but it sounded like a good match.

Good reasoning and love words must be said to be arrogant.

On this day, Sydney waited in the courtyard for half an hour before Wei Chen left.When she entered the room again, she saw Su Zixian's face was full of joy, and the faint blush on her cheeks made Sydney understand what kind of intentions she had - she had seen herself like this in the mirror countless times, because she thought of Xie Zhao Or if Xie Zhao said something nice to her, her face would turn red for a long time.

Then, she was able to "extort a confession" from Su Zixian, forcing Su Zixian to tell her all the stories here.

From what she said just now, she knew that it was Su Zixian who moved first.But when she heard the details, Sydney was still a little surprised——Su Zixian was so tough after being tempted!

Forget it, it's not really "sturdy", she just does things according to her usual straightforwardness.

Therefore, on New Year's Eve and Shangyuan, Su Zixian went out of the palace to find Wei Chen.

It was the first time she knew that Wei Chen had to be on duty at the imperial guard all night on New Year's Eve, in case something happened and his subordinates had nowhere to report.She brought him a lot of dishes that day, Wei Chen couldn't say anything bad about the craftsmanship in the palace, and seeing those when he was alone during the festival, it was natural for Wei Chen to experience some "send charcoal in the snow" "After moving.

But Wei Chen didn't think about that, he just felt that the two could barely be called "familiar" and felt ashamed to be taken care of by her like this.

He half-jokingly said: "Thanks to the girl's care, if the girl needs my help in the future, I am willing to do my best."

Su Zixian hadn't been able to sleep well for many days before, so she had already guessed some of the words he might say, and even thought about how to respond, okay?

So Su Zixian said leisurely: "It's okay to be a dog and a horse. You are so busy, sir. But can you take me around on a day when you are not on duty? I have been in Luo'an for many years, but I am in the palace. I will stay here, and I will leave the palace and go home in a few years... Speaking of which, I don’t know Luo An at all, so I won’t tell my parents when I go back.”

How could Wei Chen respond to this request?Think about the last two off-duty days: Chuqi and Shangyuan.

Su Zixian naturally chose Shangyuan, one is that there is a lantern festival to watch, and the other is that this day is originally for young men and women...

After that trip, the two became acquainted. They met every now and then, and Su Zixian would cook some food for Wei Chen from time to time. She didn't even know about this Sydney. After listening to it, she suddenly felt that she was too dull to live in the same yard. She doesn't even know!
"Then why did you turn your face again?" Xue Li asked her curiously, "Why did he say he would have died without you?"

Su Zixian blushed: "I went to express my heart to him that day, and then he suddenly turned his back on me, scolded me, and made me mad! Later, later, I was passing by! I happened to meet him with one against two, The right arm was seriously injured, and the knife was taken down very quickly. I originally hid in the corner and dared not come out, but the assassins have hidden weapons... Seeing that they were going to hurt someone, I blocked it without thinking. It's over."

"Oh...that's it." Xue Li smiled faintly, glanced at the food box, took a piece of peach cake sent by Wei Chen to eat, and presented Su Zixian with four words on the brows and eyes: Only ghosts believe you.

"It's true!" Su Zixian emphasized immediately.Reaching out and "Kaba" broke half of the peach cake from her hand, "I really just passed by and didn't think much about it, otherwise I wouldn't save him! It hurts and I'm scared, life and death are on the line!"

"Yes yes yes, life and death are on the line!" Xue Li hurriedly expressed her belief perfunctorily, lowered her head and ate peach cakes with a smile.

It's strange to believe it.She inquired about everything, Su Zixian went to Nanzhen Fusi to meet Wei Chen, and then Wei Chen went to Mou's house, and then was in danger on the way back to Nanzhen Fusi, the place where the fight was not close to Nanzhen Fusi , South of the city further away from Ruan's house.

... How can there be such a chance encounter?Zixian, have you been going around in circles between the Mou family and Nanzhen Fusi because of Wei Chen's anger?
He was obviously being followed!

(End of this chapter)