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Lu Shiqing didn't know that Shaohe was in Hanliang Hall, otherwise he wouldn't have chosen to come here, so he had to go with her for now.

Shao He retreated from the palace servant and walked in front very quickly. He reached the inner hall before turning back and said quickly: "What do Minister Lu need?"

Seeing that she had obviously seen her unwilling attitude, Lu Shiqing didn't say anything else, and kept standing and said, "Scissors, gauze, clear water, and a sack." After saying that, "Thank you."

Shaohe nodded, and did not take the risk of calling people. He went to find something in person. After delivering the item to him, he hesitated: "Can you be alone?"

Lu Shiqing leaned against the door, his face turned pale, and beads of sweat were flowing down his temples. In order to maintain his consciousness, his hands holding the door frame were almost forced to spasm. He heard this and gritted his teeth and said, "I'll beg your master to look outside for me."

The implication is that she doesn't need her help.

Shaohe Momo said nothing and left without saying anything. He ordered a maid waiting outside: "Anything happening in Hanliang Hall today is not seen, and they are told to take care of their mouths."

The maid nodded and replied: "Master, I just got the news. The maid is coming to Hanliang Hall. Do you see if Mr. Lu has hidden this matter?"

Shaohe frowned and shook her head to signal that she didn't know. She looked at the inner hall where Lu Shiqing was and said, "Let's hide it for now, let me go and see."

After she said that, she went to the outer hall and squatted down beside Zheng Hong, who was playing dice on her own, and touched his head: "Hong'er, sister, go out. If someone comes to find Mr. Lu later, you can say that he has been here earlier, but he will leave soon, okay?"

Zheng Hong fiddled with the dice and waved his hand, "I understand, sister, go."

*

Shaohe went all the way out, and when he arrived at the gate of Hanliang Palace, he saw Yuan Cixian riding in a sedan chair from afar and heading towards this side. She was about to come forward, but she saw another sedan chair suddenly turning out of the fork in the palace road ahead, blocking Yuan Cixian's way.

She stopped and frowned and stopped in place.

Yuan Cixian also called to stop chasing and glanced at the opponent.

The visitor was wearing a large purple flower silk robe that symbolized power, with a golden jade belt pinched his waist, and his body was tall and thin. He was in his thirties, but his face was very young, and his beard seemed to be clean and elegant. It was King Ping Zheng Ze.

Yuan Cixian's eyes were indifferent for a moment. Even this person who looked unrestrained, had helped the prince of Nanzhao to abduct her, kill her and her trusted guards, and he almost lost his life twice.

But she quickly laughed, got out of the sedan chair and greeted him, and then joked: "When we meet on a narrow road, the higher-level one will win, Your Highness will ask first."

King Ping sat in the sedan chair and smiled and said, "After all, I and the county lord have had a few games of chess in Shuzhou. You are so unfamiliar. When you meet on a narrow road, why bother to decide the winner? It's better to have the same road."

Yuan Cixian looked at the direction of Hanliang Palace, and her eyes fell on Shao He who was standing in front of the threshold, then turned back and said, "I'll go and talk about love with Mr. Lu, can you do the same?"

He chuckled: "That's not the case. I will go back to Huainan tomorrow and say goodbye to my thirteenth brother." After that, he said with a little playful expression, "The county lord and Mr. Lu are talented men and beautiful women, a pair made of heaven and earth. I just don't know what the relationship between Mr. Lu and Mr. Cai Siqing."

Yuan Cixian was stunned when she heard this, then blinked and asked, "Why, Mr. Lu actually secretly talked with Cai Siqing on his back?"

King Ping saw the wound on Cai He's right palm in Xuanzheng Hall, and he already suspected that he was Xu Shan. He came here to block people because he wanted to use this to test Yuan Cixian. But now he couldn't help laughing. I don't know if she really didn't know or pretended to be stupid and said silently: "I didn't say that."

Yuan Cixian looked at him suspiciously: "If you know the inside story, please tell me that we have had a few games of chess."

Unexpectedly, King Ping would be trapped in and asked, and waved his hand and smiled helplessly: "I don't know."

As soon as he finished speaking, Shaohe, who had been in front of the hall for a while, also arrived and said to the two of them: "Why are the third brother and the county lord standing here and chatting?"

Yuan Cixian saluted her and asked with a smile: "I heard that Mr. Lu went to Hanliang Hall later. Is he in there?"

Shao He shook his head: "The county lord didn't care. Mr. Lu just left not long ago."

She said softly and glanced at King Ping: "Since that's the case, can Your Highness and the Lord allow me to take the lead?"

The two nodded together.

After she left, Shaohe looked at King Ping again: "Did the third brother come to see the thirteenth brother? You came just right, and this child was infected with the bad habits from somewhere, but he fell in love with playing dice. I can't control him, so I just asked you to train him." As he said that, he was about to welcome him into the room.

King Ping smiled faintly: "Isn't Mr. Lu here? Your little lies can deceive her, but you can deceive your third brother?"

Shao He looked stagnant and said awkwardly: "Don't get me wrong with the third brother. I'm not trying to destroy the marriage between the county lord and the minister Lu, but he rarely comes to Hanliang Hall, I..."

King Ping shook his head helplessly: "Okay, don't explain so much to my third brother, go back. I still have something to do, so I won't go see my third brother." After that, he turned around and left.

Shaohe watched him leave, turned around and walked back to the hall, and breathed a sigh of relief. She was not sure who Lu Shiqing wanted to hide his injuries from, so for the sake of safety, naturally no one told him. And King Ping put a spy in the palace, and he would not know that he had only entered or left. Only by admitting that he was cheating Yuan Cixian and pretending to be selfish and wanted to be alone with Lu Shiqing, can he avoid suspicion.

She hurried to the inner hall, trying to see how Lu Shiqing was injured. She pushed the door and entered, but saw that it was empty and there was nothing. Even objects such as scissors and gauze were cleaned up. She felt tight and returned to the outer hall to ask Zheng Hong, but she heard him answer: "Mr. Lu said goodbye to me after changing his clothes. Didn't my sister meet him?"

*

Lu Shiqing was in the carriage outside the palace. As soon as Shaohe left, Zheng Zhuo's secret whistle avoided the eyes of King Ping and sneaked into Hanliang Hall, and picked him out of the side door. Judging from Shichen, he even left the neighborhood earlier than Yuan Cixian.

He retreated the wound in the carriage and changed his clothes. As soon as he recovered, he suddenly heard a sound of wheels behind him, as if someone was trying hard to chase him.

Cao An, who was driving outside, looked back and said in a terrifying manner: "Mr. Lang, it's the county lord's carriage. Have you finished it?"

Lu Shiqing's face changed drastically. He hurriedly took out a box of hidden under the car, stolen from Lu Shuangyu and applied it to his face, while explaining: "Not yet."

Cao An looked back and thought to himself that Shi Cui was driving fast enough, so he hurriedly raised his whip.

Shi Cui, behind him, seemed to have received Yuan Cixian's instructions and shouted at him from afar: "Brother Cao, stop for a moment."

He heard this and said anxiously: "Mr., what should I do?"

Lu Shiqing quickly closed the powder box, finished sorting it out in two seconds, and then said, "Stop."

Cao An quickly pulled the reins, and at the same time, Yuan Cixian's carriage also arrived.

Lu Shiqing stroked her heart, lifted her curtain, bent over and asked, "What's wrong?"

She poked her head out and said annoyedly: "You know it's me, why don't you stop and ask me to chase you for so long? Is there something shameful in your car?"

Yuan Cixian was skeptical about Shao He's words in front of Hanliang Palace, thinking that she and Lu Shiqing seemed to have some ulterior motives, but as soon as she left the palace gate, she saw his carriage from afar. She dispelled her doubts and thought she had thought too much. However, Lu Shiqing seemed to have seen a ghost and refused to catch her up.

Lu Shiqing explained seriously: "I didn't wear clothes just now."

Only then did Yuan Cixian notice that he was not an official robe, but a regular dress, and said suspiciously: "What clothes are you changing? Have you done something that is sorry for me?"

“…”

Lu Shiqing stepped into her carriage and went inside to explain: "I accidentally fell down in Hanliang Hall and my clothes were dirty."

Yuan Cixian was shocked. Could this be the truth that something was wrong with her intuition?

Her momentum diminished and she asked, "Where did you fall? Let's take a look."

Lu Shiqing looked embarrassed for a moment: "Are you sure?"

She nodded.

It was true that he fell, so he could naturally come up with evidence to make her feel at ease. He sighed, hesitated and loosened his belt, then rolled up his trouser legs, pointed to his knees that were blue to show her. Because he was eager to prove it, the expression looked a bit like a child was asking for advice.

Seeing this, Yuan Cixian said "Oh".

She just wanted to test the injury, but in fact she went to dispel her doubts. Now she really believed it. When she saw the terrifying Wu Qing, she was completely convinced: "It's okay if you have a cold end every few days, how can you fall down while walking!" After saying that, because she suspected that he was a little guilty, she reached out and touched it, "Does it hurt?"

Lu Shiqing "hissed".

It was not painful, but when she touched her skin, he was almost harder than this knee.

Yuan Cixian really thought he was in pain and sighed, "You can go on my carriage and go home with me. I'll give you some medicine."

This is exactly what Lu Shiqing wants. His carriage smells bloody, so you must not ask Yuan Cixian to go up, so I came here just now.

But he still had to be stubborn as usual and said, "No need, I'll rush back to the house to work." After that, he reached out to tidy up his messy robes.

Yuan Cixian's attitude became even tougher and ordered outside: "Shi Cui, tell Brother Cao to go back first."

*

Lu Shiqing was injured and sat in Yuan Mansion for a while. After enjoying Yuan Cixian’s kind greetings to his knees, he returned to Yongxingfang on the grounds of being in official duties. As soon as he arrived in the study, he saw Zheng Zhuo paced back and forth anxiously. Seeing that he was finally here, he seemed to breathe a sigh of relief. Afterwards, he asked, "You are so seriously injured, where are you going?"

Lu Shiqing choked and said honestly: "Yuan Mansion."

Zheng Zhuo looked like he was almost angry to death, and paced back and forth again. After a while, he pointed him with his index finger: "As sooner or later, your life is hers."

Lu Shiqing covered his heart and sat down aside, thinking that he had been right, but he didn't admit it. He changed his words and said, "What are your plans for Cai Siqing?"

When Zheng Zhuo saw that he was talking about the serious matter, he stopped pulling it away. He sat down opposite him and frowned and said, "Let's deal with it when you see a move. The third brother will not have the chance to take action for the time being. When he returns to Huainan tomorrow, the situation in Chang'an will be relaxed, so we can take a breath."

Lu Shiqing really disagrees with dragging Cai He into the water. But Zheng Zhuo's move was for him, so he could not speak ungrateful and ruthlessly, and shook his head and said, "I asked the saint to promote him not only because he was your secret stance, but because this person is very talented and useful. He is just too straightforward and not smooth enough to do things, so he has never had the opportunity to be promoted. But even if he has no worries about his life, he will be suppressed by the King of Zhongping. It may be difficult to hold the position of the Minister of the Dali Temple."

Zheng Zhuo was not unhappy, and frowned and explained: "In terms of age, he is also in his early thirties. In terms of background, his parents died early, and when it comes to the officialdom, it is also very consistent. There is really no one under my command who is more suitable to replace 'Xu Shan' than him."

"I know." Lu Shiqing sighed, "You don't have to worry about this for the time being. I will find a way to protect him. Can the 'assassination' of the King of Southern Yunnan be arranged?"

Zheng Zhuo nodded: "You can act tonight."
Chapter completed!