Si Tian Guan

Chapter 61 Pain

Many things are suspicious.

On weekdays, Liu Chongming would definitely want to go home and find someone to discuss with, but the current situation of the person at home is terrible.

He was eager to go home, but because he wanted to inform Bai Shiyan of the palace affairs, he had to go out of the city first.

Bai Shiyan, who didn't go home for a few days, was tanned a lot, and dragged him into the tent full of complaints. He couldn't drink, so he could only drink two pots of tea, feeling aggrieved.

"It's nice to be an idler, why don't you report to Dali Temple! Hang around here every day?"

"Why can't you see me? Where am I free?" Liu Chongming looked tired and showed him the ashes on his boots: "I'm busy."

Bai Shiyan sneered and asked, "Is the trouble over?"

He is an insider, he even knows the ins and outs of Qu Shenzhou, Liu Chongming naturally does not hide this from him, or it should be said that Bai Shiyan used to be another layer of protection, but now he feels that it is not necessary.

"Not yet." Liu Chongming was so tired that he slumped in the chair, looking up at the light cast from above his head: "The next thing is to watch the movement of King Qi. When I came out, I saw Liao Guangming being announced into the palace."

"Jinxiuying came to visit?" Bai Shiyan was surprised: "It seems that the emperor is quite angry this time."

"Who knows."

Every time a few princes got into a quarrel, the emperor's temper seemed to be not small, but the result was nothing more than thunder and rain, one ebb and flow, pressing the gourd to float the ladle.

"This time King Huai and King Ning have both suffered, and King Qi is in the limelight. It is likely that only one Jiang Xingzhi will be able to end the game. What does Brother Xiaoqu say?"

For the busy Bai Shiyan, the matter of the Three Kings is still a bit far away. Although he was shocked when Liu Chongming said it, it was his younger brother who really convinced him. edge movement.

Everything was as Qu Shenzhou said, King Qi's people got the handle on Ren Rui, no matter whether Ren Rui would pull others out, it was all credit to King Qi.

Among the three of them, they should take turns to be the top bird, the emperor will not spoil the scenery at this time.

"He..." Liu Chongming smiled bitterly in his heart: "He didn't say anything."

"Still not talkative? Aren't you good at talking when you come up with ideas?" Bai Shiyan squinted at him: "You are not good either, Liu Er. How long have you surrounded people? Will you use both soft and hard methods?"

"Only you will!" Liu Chongming was especially annoyed when he thought about the turmoil in the room.

"I will, I will," Bai Shiyan volunteered, patted his chest, "Send him to my place. Don't say I didn't remind you, Brother Xiao Qu is a treasure if he uses it well, you should be careful... ..."

He put his hands on his neck and gestured with his teeth: "I really found something a little troublesome, so please remember to act first."

"how?"

"What's the matter? What happened to you if you didn't see Pan He?"

Speaking of this, Liu Chongming thought about it and asked: "How is Pan He doing now, is he alive?"

"What else can I do? The people are full of grievances. The emperor can't slap himself in the face because of a eunuch, saying that he wants to clean up the top and bottom. Looking at it like this, it probably means to kill Pan He, and then send someone down to walk around. Be greedy and come back."

"Maybe it's not that bad, there's always someone who isn't greedy."

"It's easy to offend people who are not greedy, and it's not their turn to get such a fat job. Even if it's their turn, it's the same," Bai Shiyan reminded, "Did you forget Rong Jiu'an from that year?"

Of course Liu Chongming remembered Rong Jiu'an.

At that time, someone pointed it out to him——the one in the blue cloth clothes was the famous Tui Cheng of the Criminal Division of Dali Temple, named Ling He, who was smelly and hard.

He had heard of Ling He's name, and saw Ling He standing far away with another person watching the announcement.

Everyone on the street was bustling around, only those two people were like immovable rocks in the river, and asked that person—who is next to Linghe?

Someone went out to inquire, and came back after a while and said that it was the Juren who took the exam this year, named Rong Jiu'an.

In that year, both the champion and the second place had already been decided, and they were not worth mentioning, but the Xinke Tanhualang was Rong Jiu'an, who had outstanding literary talent and was in the limelight for a while.

It's a pity that Rong Tanhua was released after less than a year of success.

"Actually...it's also good to be an official." He muttered to himself.

But I also understand in my heart that I am naive now, thinking that I can show my strengths by becoming an official, but when I am really in the middle of the game, I am afraid that I will be hindered everywhere and struggle at every step.

Just by looking at his father, he now hopes that he will not be so disheartened one day.

"You should also be more vigilant." Bai Shiyan didn't know what he was thinking about for so long, and poked him.

When he came back to his senses, he forgot for a moment what topic they had just talked about: "What alert?"

"How old are you, don't you just be stupid? I mean Brother Xiao Qu," Bai Shiyan was shocked: "Look at Pan He, and think about Du Quan, he is a murderer without blood, don't be too careless."

Liu Chongming felt uncomfortable and didn't speak.

"He is a bit capable, and I am always uneasy. Have you discovered anything new during this period of time? Who is he?"

Regarding the first half of the sentence, Liu Chongming has seven points of approval and three points of denial in his heart.

Can you be patient?

It was true, but the flame was burning so hot and fierce that he felt that it would be extinguished quickly in the next moment.

He should have noticed earlier that Qu Chenzhou obviously overreacted to many people and many things, but still made a clear distinction between madness and reason. That should not be done, and it is not something a normal person can do.

In fact, that calmness is as fragile as an eggshell that has been hollowed out, and the will inside has long been shattered, filled with hysteria.

Maybe Qu Shenzhou didn't want to go on the road alone, but he just had no time to care about others, and only hoped to take one more step forward before burning himself to ashes.

He should have found out long ago.

"Shi Yan, I used to always want to figure out who he is, but now, I don't think it matters who he is."

"Why doesn't it matter."

"Because... more important than 'who he was before' is to let him figure out who he is now."

Bai Shiyan was confused by this string of awkward words, and after thinking for a long time, he asked in confusion, "Who is he now... what does he mean?"

Liu Chongming opened his sleeves, his arms were covered with scratch marks one after another, he tore off his collar, his neck was bitten blue and purple.

Bai Shiyan stared in disbelief: "Chongming... you, you are not going to force yourself against the overlord, right?"

"Fart!" Liu Chongming swears viciously, and turns back to the topic just now.

"It means that if he can't escape the memory of 'Qu Shenzhou' and the nightmare of his previous life, he may be about to die."

Liu Chongming led the person into the study, motioned for the person to close the door, and pointed to the chair beside him: "Sit."

The man didn't dare to sit down, he just stood not far from the desk, and saw that he didn't seem to be angry, so he boldly whispered: "Master, Brother Xiaoqu is young and ignorant, if you offend you, you can scold him!" A beating is fine, can you..."

He only hated himself for being clumsy and tongue-tied, for all these years, he would plead for mercy like this, but the shopkeeper in the past never showed more mercy because of pleading, and he didn't have much confidence when he spoke.

Liu Chongming interrupted Manager Lin with a wave of his hand.

"I have my own plan on his side. You don't have to worry. I called you here today because I want to ask him about his past."

In the past few days, he has been carefully pondering one thing - which one is closer to the source of the little fox's collapse, compared with Qu Shenzhou's life experience and what happened in the previous life.

After thinking over and over again, and considering the little fox's reaction these days, he was sure it was the former.

This is also understandable, no matter what happened in the previous life, the little fox made it step by step.

Since he didn't go crazy in the previous life, he can still stay awake after rebirth, and even advise him, which shows that the little fox's willpower is far beyond ordinary people.

Although he lost his mind for a while when he saw King Huai and Liao Guangming, even after seeing the former, the little fox only took one night to return to normal.

The ordeals that have been experienced in the past have not crushed people, and they will not crush them now, at least they will not crush them like this.

And the situation and memory of being a slave for more than ten years is probably not something that a person living in the palace can easily bear. It is like pushing a person who lives on the clouds to be trampled in the quagmire.

In particular, Qu Chenzhou is said to have escaped countless times, and each time he wanted to escape home.

Home is Qu Chenzhou's obsession engraved in his bones, so the little fox can ruthlessly flood Changshui Town to avoid future troubles, but Qu Chenzhou cannot accept this reality.

One body and two souls, entangled with each other, one of them collapsed, and the other couldn't bear it.

The reason is, Changshui Town.

Moreover, when he fell asleep with someone hugging him in the past few days, he could always hear a few words murmured repeatedly. When he leaned over, he couldn't hear it clearly, as if he was saying—"My son..."

Heart disease needs to be healed by heart medicine, even if he doesn't want to face it anymore, he decided to start with Qu Shenzhou's previous experience.

Fortunately, Qu Shenzhou's life experience is far easier to find out than the other.

"When did you see him?" Liu Chongming asked with a pen in his hand. Maybe there are many details that are of great importance. He is afraid that he might miss them, so he should write them down.

Sensing his kindness, Manager Lin gradually relaxed.

"Returning to my son, Brother Xiaoqu was the one who took care of him since he was sold in the building. He was about three years old. I left for a while when I was attending the funeral for my mother. Later, I saw that Brother Xiaoqu had lost a lot of weight, so I went back."

Liu Chongming's heart tightened, and he suddenly understood the little fox's emotions.

I am just a bystander, so I dare not think about the scene back then, and the little fox completely empathizes, it can almost be said to be one with Qu Chenzhou, no wonder...

"What... was he like before?"

Steward Lin seemed to have held back his words for too long and had no one to confide in, his eyes were flushed, and he couldn't stop talking.

"Brother Xiao Qu could only cry when he first came, and he refused to eat. In the end, he cried until his voice became hoarse, and suddenly one day he was silent."

"Everyone thought that he had accepted his fate by not making a sound, but he didn't expect that he, a half-grown milk doll, had an idea, hid in the water tank before dark, and ran out at night, but he was arrested without even finding the gate. "

"Later, the shopkeeper asked someone to beat him, even when he ran away, when he was crying, and when he didn't eat. Gradually, he stopped crying and didn't talk to others. Some people said that he was crazy at that time. gone."

"Actually, I know he is a good boy, and he will talk to me a few more words, he is very sensible."

Ten years is too long, he naturally can't remember many things clearly, and what he rambles on is only trivial matters, but in this narration, the former Qu Shenzhou has not been so silent.

He didn't know what the elder son wanted to know. He peeked at Liu Chongming gently pressing his forehead, stopped nervously, and asked carefully, "What the elder son wants to hear...is it these..."

"It's okay."

Liu Chongming was a little confused. Hearing steward Lin talk about this, not only could he not help trying to bring himself into it, but he also always remembered the indifference of that person when he talked about the past.

Even if he has grown into a teenager, there is always that little child in this memory, happily waiting to go home with candy, but what he waits for is from the cloud to the purgatory in the blink of an eye.

Even if the person said that he could no longer remember the faces of his family members, the reaction of not being able to eat sweets cannot be deceived, and it is impossible to deceive people by running away again and again just to go home-there is always a desire to go home.

I am afraid that in addition to desire, it is more unwilling.

Not willing to be abandoned, not willing to be abandoned.

"You keep talking, you can say anything."

Steward Lin responded, and felt more at ease.

He hasn't been able to see the child for the past few days. He heard that someone is guarding him in the East Wing. Although he hasn't been able to go in to have a look, it can be seen that the daily soup, medicine and meals are delivered regularly, and he is somewhat less worried than before.

"He was born beautiful at that time. Some people couldn't help loving him, and some people hated him. Sometimes I couldn't see him at a glance, and he came back with injuries."

"I asked him to stay away from those people. He told me that he was injured not in vain, but saved a person. He is also a strange boy, I don't know what to think."

"I asked him to do less weird things, and he never talked to me about it again."

"Later, the shopkeeper listed him for divination. I haven't seen what it looks like, but the shopkeeper is happy. He can live a good life for two days, so I can rest assured."

Liu Chongming's heart was depressed. When the little fox was thinking about doing things for himself, did he ever consider that Qu Shenzhou's obsession with his family would make him collapse.

Yes... After all, that person has always been thoughtful.

He sighed, and asked, "I heard that after the card was hung, he also ran away, didn't he?"

Speaking of this, Manager Lin was heartbroken: "Even if you run away, you can't change it. I asked him once, and I said, Shen Zhou, what do you want to do when you run out? He said he wanted to go home, and he dreamed I saw my mother hugged him."

"He cried and I cried too. I knew he had such a knot in his heart, so I persuaded him, saying that if you run like this again, you will be beaten to death before your parents see you. Are you willing?"

"He's not reconciled." Steward Lin suddenly pulled up his cuffs and wiped his eyes. "He said he won't go back, so he forgot how his parents called him. I'll let him ask me to try first."

"He called dad, I answered, and called mother again, and I answered again, and he recuperated, and didn't run away for more than half a year."

"Later he asked me if I could tell my family that if he did something wrong, he would correct it."

"I'm not willing to say that his parents don't want him anymore, so I just persuade him that living a good life is more important than anything else, and when his parents can afford to support the children at home, they will definitely take him back."

"I thought he was a smart kid, but I didn't expect my words to completely stun him. I still regret it now. If I hadn't talked too much, he wouldn't have become what he is now."

The pen in Liu Chongming's hand stopped for a moment.

He faintly felt that the scar in Qu Chenzhou's heart that he didn't want to be uncovered was right in front of him.