Chapter 368 Doesn't your wife get jealous?
Xu Fengnian looked at Zhou Ji who was waiting for them at the door, shook his head and chuckled, touched Xu Longxiang's head and said, "Then let's go~ I've been away for so long, I feel a little homesick~"
"Well~ brother, let's go home~~" Xu Longxiang nodded vigorously, and followed his brother closely for fear that he would leave again.
Ning Emei sent out a team of Fengzi Battalion to **** the captives away first, and personally opened the way for the young prince and his son. Zhou Ji deliberately stepped down a few steps, walked with Lao Huang, and asked him about Xu Xiao and the forces of all parties. Basic common sense.
Lao Huang has never let go of his fear of Zhou Ji. The more timid he is, the more cautious he is. This is his character instinct. To use this to find out the details of Zhou Ji.
The two walked at the end of the line and had a good chat.
Completely neglected that there was another person behind the two of them, that slender, noble and arrogant woman in white with sword eyebrows and star eyes, handsome and extraordinary~
Zhou Ji ignored her, and she just didn't want to talk to anyone.
Nangong Pushe walked slowly behind the two, neither far nor close, ten steps away from each other.
The disturbed mentality gradually returned to calm along with the towering city walls in the distance.
From Lao Huang, Zhou Ji learned that Xu Xiao holds a heavy army and guards Beiliang, which can be described as a separate regime.
The city of Lingzhou is high and wide, like a giant beast entrenched at the foot of Qingliang Mountain. Looking from a distance, you can feel a heavy and murderous aura rushing towards you.
"Is this Bei Liang?"
Zhou Ji nodded slightly, feeling the murderous aura emanating from the whole city, inadvertently glanced at Nangong Pushe who was also stopping by her side, and saw a faint smile on the corner of her mouth.
Noticing Zhou Ji's gaze, the smile on the corner of Nangong Pushe's mouth suddenly retracted, looked at the flowerpot in his arms, passed by Zhou Ji and Lao Huang, and said with a half-smile:
"You peek at me, won't your wife be jealous?"
"I"
Zhou Ji hurriedly lowered his head to explain to Si Teng. Lao Huang next to him curled his lips and led the **** horse a few steps away from Zhou Ji. Although he didn't say anything, he seemed to have said everything.
Well, it seems that there is no need to explain.
Zhou Ji was holding the flower pot weakly, and the buds of Si Teng gently touched the back of Zhou Ji's fingers in the swaying breeze, seemingly comforting, but actually 'ridiculous~'.
Although the Beiliang Palace is located in the city of Liangzhou, it is actually built on the hillside, occupying a huge area.
As the only surviving king of a different surname in the dynasty, Xu Xiao, the king of Beiliang, has received mixed reputations in temples and rivers and lakes. Cover the sky, turn the clouds and rain.
Entering the palace, Zhou Ji and Nangong Pushe were respectively arranged to live in two residences near the Shizi compound, while Xu Fengnian went to take a bath in the fragrant soup that was comfortable for the whole body, and changed into the brocade clothes of the big family son, in his own There were miscellaneous movements and strange noises in the yard.
Of course, the weirdness here is not something indescribable, but rather noisy and smashing things. Xu Xiao, who is known as the human slaughter, accompanied him to mess around, and staged a famous scene of "father's kindness and son's filial piety" with a humble and flattering attitude .
Although Zhou Ji has been a robber saint, he has always been a thief. He has no habit of listening to people's corners. He only knows this because he collected dew in his small courtyard to 'bath' Si Teng.
When he entered the mansion during the day, he noticed that there was a forest garden in the palace, so he wanted to use his spiritual consciousness to capture the evening dew in the flower garden to his residence.
As a result, not long after Xu Fengnian's commotion stopped, a thin, sneaky figure in night clothes slipped out of the Shizi's room openly and aboveboard.
Jiang Ni glanced left and right at the empty corridors and yards, and then looked back at the house. Knowing that Xu Fengnian had gone far away, she still waved the short blade of the talisman to give vent to the air a few times, then turned and walked towards her residence.
At this moment, the entire compound was empty, only the bright moon shrouded in thin clouds, and the faint moonlight sprinkled down.
Jiang Ni grew up in the mansion, and she was already familiar with the way back, but just as she walked down the steps to the yard, a crystal clear stream of light swished past her eyes.
'Um? '
Jiang Ni paused, subconsciously looked over there, the courtyard was empty and silent.
Yes. Are you dazzled?
In order to 'assassinate' Xu Fengnian, Jiang Ni hid under his bed for most of the night. At this moment, her back was sore and she was really sleepy.
Yawned and continued to walk forward, when she passed through a palace gate and came to the side courtyard, Jiang Ni froze in place.
The moonlight is hazy and the lights are dim.
Drops of glittering dew hovered over the flowers and plants, as if attracted by something, they flew in the same direction.
It must be my eyesight.
Jiang Ni showed a very stiff smile, and even her breathing was a little cautious, for fear that any louder movement would disturb some non-existent things.
Close your eyes hard, squeeze out a gap quietly, your beating heart seems to have stopped halfway, the dew did not fly out, but it still stayed in the air, and slowly fell back to the ground in front of her.
Jiang Ni shrank subconsciously, and while cheering herself up, she took out the short blade of the talisman, and planned to run back to the room and seal herself with a quilt~
But unable to hold back the desire to die, he followed the direction where Lushui had just flown away, and climbed up the wall in fear and curiosity, and looked outside the Shizi compound.
At this time, the thin clouds in the sky dissipated, and the bright moonlight illuminated the entire courtyard like daytime.
Jiang Ni climbed up the wall with difficulty, and looked into the yard with her head. She saw a graceful figure with long hair like a waterfall and dressed in a palace dress standing on the lawn of the guest courtyard, looking up and bathed in the quiet moonlight.
Because the woman was standing with her back facing Jiang Ni, she couldn't see her specific appearance clearly, but from her standing posture and elegant and luxurious long skirt, she could feel a kind of innate nobleness and elegance, which made her feel ashamed.
Beauty is beauty, but Jiang Ni always felt that something was wrong, until she saw that the woman was about to turn around and look at her, she shrank her head and glanced at the lawn where the woman was standing.
"Ah~!!"
An earth-shattering scream broke the tranquility of the night in Beiliang Palace.
"This Jiang Ni is relying on the prince's favor, what is he doing at night?" Sweet Potato was startled, she heard Jiang Ni's scream, and thought she was 'assassinating' the prince again, although she felt a little bit of resentment in her heart, But it was the first time to put on clothes, and rushed over after hearing the news.
When she arrived, she found that the blue bird had already arrived. Jiang Ni, who had never been very close to them, was now hanging on the blue bird like a koala, never leaving her.
"It's true. I see it."
"What did you see?" Sweet Potato stepped forward to ask what was going on, and couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded.
When Xu Fengnian returned to the mansion during the day, it was the place she had arranged for Zhou Ji and Nangong Pushe to live in. Only Mr. Zhou lived in this small courtyard, so there was no shadowless 'female ghost' in fancy clothes.
Dissatisfaction is dissatisfaction. After all, Jiang Ni is also a member of the Shiziyuan. She is also a maid, so it is not easy to reprimand in front of outsiders.
First, he sincerely apologized to Zhou Ji, and then motioned to Jade Bird to take Jiang Ni away, and said that he would definitely tell the prince about this and punish Jiang Ni severely.
Jiang Ni was full of grievances. Even though she was pulled far away, she still defended that she really saw a 'female ghost'.
Zhou Ji held the flower pot and touched the buds of the vines with his fingertips, and couldn't help but said, "This girl glanced at you, won't she see the psychological shadow coming?"
crack~
A vine branch slapped Zhou Ji's fingertips away, and the buds seemed to absorb the moonlight in the entire courtyard. As the light and shadow flowed, a faint afterglow spread out, like an elegant and dignified woman walking out from under the moon, whitening him with a smile With one glance, the red lips parted slightly, and the voice seemed to be absent.
"Schadenfreude~"
………
at the same time.
In the dungeon of Beiliang Palace.
Xu Fengnian was calm and unhurried, showing the demeanor of a man of the world. He did not appear to be an ignorant rumored dude at all. He confidently analyzed the leader of the bandits in the prison.
He’s here, he’s here, he’s coming again with trickery~
First shoot the arrow and then draw the target.
Logical and rigorous, every detail is in order.
Through the first three chases by the bandit leader, and the abandonment of the knife outside the restaurant, he asserted that the other party's previous assassinations were just a cover, and the intention was not to kill him, but to lead to the real assassination later.
The entire dungeon was silent, and the screams and chaos outside could not reach here at all.
If Zhou Ji was here, he would definitely smile wryly, shake his head and sigh.
It's not that Xu Fengnian's analysis process is wrong, but his analysis is a bit too pretentious. Through the process of reversing the results, he regards the coincidence as inevitable, and doubts everything around him except himself.
He is proud and full of self-confidence.
After showing off his ingenuity in front of the bandit leader, Xu Fengnian went to Lao Huang's place again, enjoying the freedom on the last day of his three-year tour.
Early the next morning, Zhou Ji was awakened by a maid outside the courtyard, saying that Xu Fengnian wanted to invite him to fish.
Tingchao Pavilion is built on the mountain, which is actually a tall tower. Zhou Ji came to the lake, glanced at the bottomless lake, turned around and looked at the seven-story tower swaying by the wind chimes, as if looking at a sword piercing through the sky. sword.
There are people in the tower, not just one.
Zhou Ji moved his gaze down to the slate clearing in front of Tingchao Pavilion.
There were light footsteps beside him, and the long hair band was swaying gently in the wind. Nangong Servant passed by Zhou Ji and stopped on the other side of the viewing platform.
"Old Zhou, are you also interested in Tingchao Pavilion?" Xu Fengnian walked all the way with **** paste, picked up a bunch of grapes from the fruit plate handed by sweet potato, and put it down again.
"I've heard about what happened last night. When I first came here, I punished this little girl severely. I hope Lao Zhou won't blame her."
Zhou Ji glanced at Jiang Ni, and found that she looked extremely painful and unlovable, waved her hand, and said with a smile, "It's just a misunderstanding, don't worry about it."
Jiang Ni's eyes seemed to light up again, she gently poked Xu Fengnian's shoulder, and whispered, "Return the money to me~"
Xu Fengnian tilted his body, moved two steps to the side, Jiang Ni followed, and said anxiously, "You see, he didn't care about what he said, and you still robbed me of money."
"Hey~ this is not a robbery, this is a fine~a fine~" Xu Fengnian said quickly in a low voice, then resumed his usual laughter, and introduced to Zhou Ji and Nangong Pushe, "My brother Xu Longxiang and Lao Huang, you all see After that, this is the blue bird, and this is the sweet potato, all from my yard~"
Jiang Ni poked Xu Fengnian a few times unwillingly, and said angrily, "Money!"
Xu Fengnian pointed to Jiang Ni, took out two rusty copper coins from his cuffs, and threw them to her, "Here, this, Jiang Ni is also from our yard."
After finally saving the copper coins for three years, Xu Fengnian snatched a lot of them. Jiang Ni was so distressed that he was about to vomit blood, and finally got two back. The original unwillingness, grievance and anger instantly turned into a heartless smile, just like a Seeing Qian's eyes open.
Zhou Ji glanced over the three of them, but only stayed on Qingniao for a moment. Among Xu Fengnian's three maids, she was the only one who possessed martial arts.
There is an old yellow in front, and a blue bird in the back.
Zhou Ji looked at Xu Fengnian with some pity, as if he understood why he had such complicated and suspicious psychology, and understood more clearly what kind of scheming this Xu Xiaozang, who had never met, had.
Shaking his head, Zhou Ji quickly shook off his messy thoughts.
I am afraid that if I continue to think about it, I will be assimilated into a 'riddler'.
Zhou Ji didn't have much interest in listening to Chao Ting, so he wouldn't be manipulated by Xu Fengnian, so he turned to look at Lao Huang in the distance, and walked to him with a flowerpot in his hand, lying lazily on the deck chair, watching the blue bird in front of the balcony Sprinkling bait to make a nest, beckoning Nangong Pushe to come along.
Nangong Pushe wanted to go to Chaoting with all his heart, and his purpose was too clear, so he didn't go with Zhou Ji, but took the initiative to mention the agreement on the way to Xu Fengnian.
"The Tingchao Pavilion is right there, and you can go whenever you want." Xu Fengnian glanced at Nangong Pushe's figure who turned and walked away, and added, "However, you can only stay for an hour."
Nangong Pushe's eyes turned cold, and he turned to look at Xu Fengnian. Xu Fengnian said calmly, "I only said to let you in, but didn't say that I would let you stay forever?"
"It's got to be taken care of, right?" Zhou Ji lay on the chair and played with the vines in the flower pot, complaining.
Old Huang thought that Zhou Ji was talking to him, so he couldn't help showing an embarrassed expression, and could only keep his head down and continue fiddling with the fishing rod.
Asking her original name from Nangong Pushe, and knowing that she is a swordsman from the Nangong family in Beimang, Xu Fengnian pretended to be relaxed, and said casually with the attitude of a dandy, "Promise me one thing? Be my two." Guardian of the sky."
Nangong Pushe said in a cold voice, "There are so many masters in Beiliang Palace."
"It's a pity that he doesn't believe in one of them." Zhou Ji arched beside him.
The corner of Xu Fengnian's mouth twitched, his original dandy appearance could no longer be taut.
As Zhou Ji said, there are many masters in Beiliang Palace, but there is no one around him. Right now, only Nangong Pushe and Zhou Ji can be believed.
Zhou Ji seemed to have no desires, Xu Fengnian didn't know what to do, so the choice was locked on Nangong Pushe.
(Thanks to ‘Wuxin*Yulong’ for the reward of 100 coins)
(end of this chapter)