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Chapter 49

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It was night now, Lu Xiu and He Bi personally sent Li Chengyun back to the courtyard, and ordered the servant girl to call the cook to his room.

Lu Xiu carried a lantern and walked together with He Bi, saying: "Our military rations have been prepared long ago, and I told you not to procrastinate and go to support Shaozhou before the Spring Festival, but you didn't listen, so it's over now I don’t know where it came from, it’s going to be killed as soon as it comes, and we don’t know if we can save our lives tomorrow.”

"It's not that I procrastinated and refused to support Shaozhou. Isn't it just to die when I go to Shaozhou?" He put his hips on his hips and said as he walked, "I will be afraid of him? Look, he has three guards with him at any time. He must be someone who is afraid of death, and he is here to show off his prestige."

"That's right, I think so too." Lu Xiudao: "I have already told Jin Qiao that she must take good care of Li Chengyun tonight, and no matter what Li Chengyun wants to do, she will bear it."

He Bi turned around and said: "I think it's a bit difficult to please him with Jinqiao. He's from Beijing, and I haven't seen anything before." He gestured to Lu Xiu's neck, but didn't say the word "killed".

Lu Xiu was startled, and quickly said: "No, he died in my yard, how can I explain it?"

He Bi looked a little disappointed in his eyes, and then looked in the direction of the yard, revealing a hint of ambiguity.

Lu Xiu sent He Bi to the door, and said, "I think it's better for you to let all the soldiers assemble on time tomorrow."

After the cook went out, Li Chengyun watched him write down the production process of Dongpo pork, and the corners of his mouth unconsciously raised.

At this time, Jin Qiao came in from the door, she was holding a red lacquered tray in her hand, her black hair was coiled up high, revealing her slender neck.

Jin Qiaojin knelt aside, raised the tray in his hand, and said softly: "Governor, Lord Zhizhou has servants serve you."

Li Chengyun didn't look at her, he picked up the hangover soup in front of him and was about to drink it, but suddenly he remembered something, he stopped, put the soup bowl on the desk, and looked at Jin Qiao who was kneeling on one side.

Her head was lowered down, like a quail, with a cute and lovable appearance, Li Chengyun supported her head with her hands and squinted her eyes for a moment, then said: "This soup rewards you."

Jin Qiao was not happy to hear that, hesitated for a moment, then slowly stood up, took a step forward, and in the blink of an eye when she put the tray on the table, a dagger with a cold light pressed towards Li Chengyun's chest .

The corner of Li Chengyun's mouth twitched, and the pedal case almost unhurriedly pulled back a little distance, as if he had expected this move a long time ago.

Jin Qiao missed a blow, her eyes suddenly became sharp, without the slightest obedience just now, she turned around and swung the dagger again to stab Li Chengyun.

Li Chengyun lost the patience to play with her, and with a flick of his long legs, he kicked the dagger in her hand away.

Mu Yu and Tan Qing next door rushed in hastily when they heard the movement, one left and one right pressed Jin Qiao's hands and locked her behind her back to make her kneel on the ground.

Li Chengyun casually grabbed a few pieces of waste paper from the table and stuffed them into Jin Qiao's mouth, his eyes turned cold: "Don't make any noise, close the door, and tie her up with a rope."

Soon Jin Qiao was tied up and knelt on the ground by Wu Huada. Li Chengyun picked up the dagger on the ground, and Tan Qing tactfully moved a chair for Li Chengyun to sit down.

Li Chengyun held up the dagger to look around for a moment, then pressed the dagger against Jin Qiao's jaw, forcing her to raise her head, followed the outline of her face with the tip of the dagger, and finally stopped at her throat, saying, "I heard A woman's skin can be broken by blowing bullets, I don't know if it is true."

Cold sweat broke out on Jin Qiao's forehead, she didn't dare to move, her eyes were fixed on the dagger that was touching her throat, she firmly believed that she would die here if the dagger advanced an inch, she couldn't help shivering.

"Why are you trembling?" Li Chengyun smiled and said, "Could it be that the dagger has been poisoned, why don't you try it on your face, what do you think?"

Jin Qiao was so anxious that tears flowed, she kept blinking her eyes, and her mouth choked.

Seeing this, Li Chengyun put away the dagger and said, "I'll give you a chance to speak. If you dare to play tricks, I'll scratch your face with this dagger, and then throw you into the brothel."

Li Chengyun signaled Mu Yu with his eyes to help her remove the ball of paper stuffed in her mouth.

The mouth was no longer restrained, Jin Qiao sobbed softly in fear, Li Chengyun saw her shoulders shrugged and said, "If you are so scared, why dare you assassinate me."

Jin Qiao didn't dare to raise her head: "This servant has no other choice. My mother suffered from blindness a few days ago and needs money to cure her illness. Master He somehow found out about this. When the Governor was taking a bath today, he called me to the On the side, he whispered to me that my mother was in his hands, and if he wanted to save my mother’s life, he had to follow his orders. He handed me a pack of poison and a dagger, and pointed to the room. You said, after the matter is completed, not only will you give me money, but you will also send us away."

Li Chengyun said: "Where is the poison?"

Jin Qiao glanced at the hangover soup and said, "It's all used up."

Li Chengyun looked at Jin Qiao like a fool, and said with a smile: "You believed what he said? You don't naively think that if you kill me, your mother and daughter still have a chance to live?"

Jin Qiao choked with sobs and said: "The servant is soft-spoken and lives a low life. It's just pity that the mother in the family is implicated by me at such an age. Anyway, she will die anyway. The servant can only gamble."

Li Chengyun glanced at the hangover soup on the case table, and said, "You almost got what you wanted. Unfortunately, if you want to show off in front of me, you have to study for 100 years." How will the imperial court officials deal with it?"

Jin Qiao slammed her head on the ground for dozens of times, until her forehead was red, swollen and bloody, she said: "It's not a pity to die as a servant, I just ask the governor to spare her life for the sake of my mother's old age and ignorance. The servant is willing to be a cow or a horse in the next life to repay you."

Li Chengyun smiled and said: "What's the use of begging me, your mother is not in my hands."

When Jin Qiao heard this, she pressed her head against the cold ground and cried out in despair.

Li Chengyun threw the dagger on the ground above Jin Qiao's head, the dagger was stuck in her messy hair, and a little forward, it hit the top of her head.

"It's so noisy." Li Chengyun said impatiently.

The atmosphere in the room was chilling, and everyone unconsciously suffocated.

Jin Qiao was so frightened that she fell to the ground and stopped crying immediately.

Li Chengyun turned his back to everyone and said: "Tomorrow in front of everyone, I want you to repeat what you just said. If you can do it, I will spare your life. As for your mother, it depends on your performance. Well done, I'll let someone rescue her, if she doesn't behave well, it doesn't matter, just let her die in the hands of He Bi, anyway, she has nothing to do with me."

Jin Qiao turned to tears and kowtowed again: "Your servant must behave well, thank you, Governor."

Li Chengyun waved his hand and said to Tan Qing, "Take her outside and look at her."

After he went out, Mu Yu cleaned up the blood on the ground, smoked incense again, looked at Li Chengyun's tall back and said, "Governor, how did you find out that the hangover soup was poisoned."

Li Chengyun stood in front of the window, opened a window, and said, "Didn't you pay attention to this maid's dress?"

Mu Yu recalled for a moment, with a puzzled look on his face, thinking he didn't find anything. When he came in, Jin Qiao had already played a trick with Li Chengyun, and the well-dressed makeup had long since disappeared.

Li Chengyun said: "When I was serving the hangover soup, I caught a glimpse of her as if she had dressed up specially from the corner of my eye. guess."

Mu Yu said again: "Why don't you hand her over to Mr. Lu?"

"I kept her in my room because I wanted Lu Xiu and He Bi to believe that I had already taken a fancy to her, and I didn't want to startle them, and give them a slash tomorrow." Li Chengyun's eyes were cold and piercing, like icicles on a tree outside the window.

Suddenly, the sound of fireworks and firecrackers outside the window resounded through the silent sky, and the new year came again.

Li Chengyun looked at the fireworks exploding in the air outside the window, his cold eyes were instantly dyed with warmth, and the corners of his lips curled up.

With the pen in His Excellency's hand, Liu Wenchao got up and walked to the window, the long wind brushed his hair, he reached out to catch a drifting snowflake, and stared in the direction of Jeju in a daze.It wasn't until Ji Rufeng knocked on the door a few times that Liu Wenchao withdrew his thoughts and let him in.

Ji Rufeng handed Liu Wenchao a plate of New Year's Eve seeds, and handed him the carved wooden box in the other hand.

Liu Wenchao looked bewildered, raised his head and asked, "Who gave it to you?"

Ji Rufeng's eyes under the mask were as calm as usual: "I was entrusted by the prince to give these to you when the fireworks are set off."

Liu Wenchao was stunned for a moment, unable to hide the smile in his eyes, he took out a handful of golden melon seeds from his sleeve and handed them to Ji Rufeng.

The golden melon seeds were what he had rewarded the servants of Fuzhong and Nanyuan today. He had already rewarded Ji Rufeng earlier, and now he gave them all.

Finally, let him go down to rest, and don't have to guard the door tonight.

Liu Wenchao sat down at the table with a plate of golden pegs, raised his hand to pick up the teacup on the side, fiddled with the tea leaves with the lid, but stared at the golden pegs with various patterns in front of him, and finally said Sound childish.

Indeed, Liu Wenchao is the only one in the world with such a grown-up man and receiving lucky money.

After taking a sip of tea, Liu Wenchao turned his gaze to the rosewood carved box lying quietly aside.

He opened the lid and saw that it was a good set of the Four Treasures of the Study, not much different from the ones he used.

Liu Wenchao thought about what to do with the Four Treasures of the Study, and he took out the pen, ink, paper and inkstone and placed them on the table. When he put the Langhao pen in the pen holder, he felt that the pen in his hand seemed a little uneven.

He took the pen and looked it over, and found that there was actually a line of small characters engraved on the body of the pen.

In the vicissitudes of life, only love remains unchanged.

Liu Wenchao chewed these words. Although there were endless crackling sounds outside the window, he seemed to be standing in the midst of no one, imagining the vicissitudes of life, the changing stars, and the picture of their two gray-haired old men still cuddling together. As if frozen at that moment, a warm current burst from the heart and extended to the limbs, until the fingertips were slightly hot, full of love.

Wan Lai was silent, and the capital fell into a deep sleep, like a sleeping lion.

The past 30 years have turned the page, and in the next few decades, he will be accompanied by Lee Seung Yoon, through ups and downs until the bones are wiped out.