When Jiang Xuening woke up, there were already some noisy sounds outside. She slept well, so she didn't feel any discomfort from being woken up. When she got up to wash up, she asked casually, "Has Wei Liang entered the city yet?"

Lian'er and Tang'er and the two servant girls were also following her.

At this time, Lian'er combed her hair, smiled sweetly, and said, "Come in, I came to look for you in the morning, but when I met Mr. Xie, he said that you were probably still asleep, so I sent him to look outside the city first. He also said that when you wake up, I will let you know and go find him over there. But in the afternoon, I still want you to spend more than half an hour to come back to practice the piano earlier. "

Jiang Xuening was speechless for a moment.

She still remembered that Xie Wei said last night that she didn't need to practice the piano this morning and asked her to sleep in. I didn't think about it, I didn't practice in the morning, and it was the same in the afternoon. It was really what Xie Juan could say and do.

It's just that she doesn't have an opinion.

Hearing that Lian Er said that Wei Liang met Xie Ju'an, she didn't think much about it. After eating some porridge and rice, she went to see Shen Zhiyi first, and teased the little Shen Jia who was already babbling, and then asked someone to prepare the car , Go out of the city to find Wei Liang.

When she left the mansion, the news was delivered to Xie Wei.

Jianshu said: "Miss Ning went to see the princess again before leaving the door."

Xie Wei sat in the gazebo and made tea.

The osmanthus planted around already has a faint fragrance.

Hearing this, he frowned slightly, and a faint scorn flickered in his eyes, but he asked in an ordinary tone: "Shen Zhiyi didn't talk nonsense to her, did she?"

Jianshu shook his head: "There never was."

Only then did Xie Wei close his eyes, caught the sea of ​​tea, and poured the purple sand tea cover with the boiling hot tea for the first time.

After a while, he said: "She is quite smart. The city is chaotic, and the princess's safety is always concerned."

Jianshu understood, and only said: "Yes."

Xie Wei didn't say anything, and made tea calmly, as if he was waiting for someone.

After about half a minute, Daoqin led people into the garden.

Xie Wei grabbed an empty teacup, stood on the steps beside the pavilion, and looked up.

Zhang Zhe was not wearing his official uniform, and was wearing a simple navy blue robe. His cold face was habitually non-smiling, like pines and cypresses rooted in rocks that would not be affected by wind and rain, or rocks standing on towering cliffs that would never change in frost and snow. A little calm.

A person's temperament can be known almost at a glance.

He neither fears nor hides, two or three years later, he is still upright and upright.

He clenched his finger playing with the teacup a little bit, and then slowly loosened it. Xie Wei slowly suppressed his emotions, seeing the person approaching, as if seeing an acquaintance, he laughed and said: "Master Zhang Coming from the capital, Xie was busy with some business, so he was unable to greet him in person, so he only sent the people below, I hope you will forgive me."

Zhang Zhe was originally a taciturn person, so to someone as eloquent as Xie Wei, he naturally seemed to be less talkative.

And he knew that he and Xie Wei were not speculative.

At this moment, he just cupped his hands and said: "The imperial court has orders, just come here to lobby, Master Xie speaks seriously."

He set out from the capital city last night and arrived at Zhending Mansion in the early morning light, but unexpectedly he was still standing outside the city gate, but he was stopped by a group of people and refused to let him leave for the time being.

The leader is Daoqin beside Xie Wei.

It is said that their husbands have heard of his grand visit, and because of the chaos in the world, they specially sent people to come to meet him, so as not to turn around and be reprimanded by the court for "beheading the envoy". It's just that Xie Wei is also busy, so I'm afraid I'll have to excuse him to wait.

So they are not allowed to enter the city.

Seeing that it was almost noon, a person came from Zhending Mansion and said something to Daoqin, then finally set off again and met Xie Wei here.

Xie Wei sized him up and said: "At the beginning, I heard that I lost my head when I was still in the imperial court. Mr. Zhang is neither in the Ministry of Rites nor in Honglu Temple. He is just a servant of the Ministry of Punishment that has nothing to do with this matter, and he is not good at speech. You come here as a lobbyist, it is really ingenious and surprising."

There was a hint of probing in these words.

Zhang Zhe put his hands in his hands, and his wide sleeves were hanging down, but he didn't speak obliquely, he just said: "They thought that in the battle of Tongzhou, I will do my best with the young master, and I have a reason with Miss Jiang, so it should be the last one." suitable person."

When Xie Ju'an heard "Tongzhou Battle", he didn't feel anything, but when he heard the word "There is a reason", for some reason, he just felt sourness gushing out.

He sneered: "It's a pity that the court thought wrong."

Not only were Zhang Zhe and him not colleagues who had jointly wiped out the Tianjiao, they were already at odds with him when they were still in Tongzhou. In other words, he was very jealous of this person.

Zhang Zhe didn't speak.

Xie Wei said again: "To be a lobbyist, you should have a bargaining chip. What bargaining chip did the imperial court give?"

Zhang Zhe said: "Jiang Mansion."

As we all know, whether it is true or not, Xie Wei claimed to be from the Xie family in Jinling. After he went to Beijing alone, he was the only one with the surname Xie in the house, without relatives or reasons.

And the news that Jiang Xuening was by his side was not difficult to find out.

After going back and forth, the court thought that it would be normal for the court to think of controlling the Jiang Mansion as a bargaining chip to restrain Xie Wei.

He thought of the undercurrents in the court these days, and said: "Master Jiang has not been in court for half a month, and no one inside or outside Jiang's mansion can come in and out at will, even the cook who buys vegetables has to be checked three or four times. It was only released after several times, and although it was not famously placed under house arrest, it was actually not the slightest difference."

Xie Wei thought it was funny when he heard it.

He turned the white porcelain teacup around in his hand, and then gently put it back on the tea table. Instead of showing any pity, there was a smile of interest on his face: "This is amazing. Well, recently, I always think of the grievances that Ning Er suffered in the past few years, they were unlucky, so I saved me from going back to find their bad luck."

Zhang Zhe looked at him.

Xie Wei didn't realize that he had said too much, and he didn't avoid his gaze, and even turned his head to him and said: "Speaking of which, Jiang Boyou had quite a crush on Mr. Zhang back then, and I have some old friends with him. When Mr. Zhang returns to the capital, he might as well send a message for Xie, please don’t worry too much, Ning Er, I’m well taken care of.”

When the voice fell to the ground, it was somewhat hostile.

Clearly he hadn't said a few words yet, he was already a little impatient, he just said: "Xie and Yan Shizi were originally returning to the capital for His Highness the Princess, and they were holding the banner of King Qin, and I asked Mr. Zhang to go back and report the truth. On this day, when the army has a good rest, they will definitely annihilate the Tianjiao in one fell swoop, save the imperial court from fire and water, and put an end to the rebellion in the Forbidden City."

This is a direct eviction order.

Zhang Zhe couldn't hear it.

It's just that according to Shen Lang's intention, sending him to lobby was nothing more than a cover. It didn't matter that much whether they could see Xie Wei and Yan Lin or not, and what kind of talks they could have.

A gust of autumn wind blows.

The sky, which was originally covered with white clouds, was covered with a large swath of dark clouds, and the sunny sunshine that was lazily falling in front of the steps dimmed a bit.

It looks like it's going to rain.

He stood under the pavilion, looked up, and thought of that time and that place at this moment.

But summer is over.

After one autumn rain and one cold, there are no lotus leaves and stalks that filled the lake in the summer resort in this courtyard.

At this time, he should have saluted Xie Wei and then left.

But when he turned around, he stopped again.

The thin eyelids were lifted, and there was a vague sharpness that was not smooth. Zhang Zhe stared at him for a moment, and said unexpectedly: "Shen Lang sent me here to lobby. It is true. It is true to meet the princess in secret. There is another thing to deliver."

Xie Wei's pupils suddenly shrank.

However, Zhang Zhe didn't say anything anymore, he just bowed his hands to him, turned around and went down the steps, and went straight to meet Shen Zhiyi.

Daoqinjianshu stood aside, all surprised.

When Zhou Yinzhi was in Xinzhou earlier, he also delivered something to Her Royal Highness the Princess.

Xie Wei knew it.

It's just one thing that she was kind to Jiang Xuening, and the other thing is worth using. He didn't ask anyone to find out what it was, and Shen Zhiyi didn't make any changes.

Now comes another Zhang Zhe...

But why did he tell Xie Wei so clearly what should be done in a secret manner?

Jianshu frowned: "Should we send someone to stop him?"

Xie Wei recalled that back in Tongzhou, he searched all over the secret letter he wrote to Tianjiao as Du Jun with his sword and sword book, but he turned his head and found it in Zhang Zhe's hands, but he didn't make any fuss about it, he just handed it back with him.

Now the matter of Shen Zhiyi is mentioned again...

The discrepancy between him and Zhang Zhe is well known to each other. He wouldn't think that the other party, a loner who didn't fit in with others, would form a gang to stand by him. In fact, when he returned the secret letter to him, he was murderous.

It's just that he was Ning Er's favorite person at that time...

Thinking of this, Xie Wei pursed his thin lips even tighter, his face covered with frost, after all he suppressed all the surging emotions, and said: "No need."

It's not the thing itself to be afraid of.

The only thing I'm afraid of is that I don't know about it.

Seeing that the sky was cloudy and about to rain, he felt more and more bored, so he simply walked away, leaving a message: "After seeing Shen Zhiyi, tell him to leave quickly, and don't let him stay in the city for a moment!"

Daoqinjianshu has been with him for many years, not to mention that he has been working since this morning, how can he not know what he is really afraid of behind his words?

It was not easy to dismiss the second girl Ning.

If you ask these two people to meet up...

The two looked at each other, tacit understanding.

Xie Wei went back to the room, because he was not very calm, he took out a volume of Taoist scriptures and read it, after a while, he heard the patter outside the window, it was really raining.

Autumn leaves are yellow, depressed and cold.

It's just that after watching it for a while, the restlessness in his heart was washed away. At this moment, he remembered that Ning Er would practice the piano when he came back, so he put down the Taoist scriptures in his hand, and took down a piano hanging on the wall. Untie the piano bag and tune the strings carefully.

When he was listening to Ning Er playing yesterday, one of the strings was a little loose, although the sound he played was only a little bit off, but if he didn't tune it every day, and the difference was a little bit every day, then he didn't know where the difference was.

The slender fingers wound the strings little by little.

Xie Wei thought, since it was raining outside, the little liar and Wei Liang would not continue to work in the fields, and would come back earlier, so he stopped his fingers and ordered Jianshu: "It's windy and rainy outside, call the kitchen first." Prepare a bowl of **** soup to dispel the cold."

Jianshu was ordered to go there.

However, when he came back, his expression was a bit wrong.

Xie Wei stood beside the qin table, leaning on the qin with one hand, just after tuning the string just now, he plucked lightly with his hand, the vibrato was gurgling, and a smile appeared on his lips.

It's just that it is a bought violin in the end, it is not as good as making it yourself.

When I'm free later, it's time to make a picture for Ning Er.

Seeing the sword book coming back, he asked casually, "Is the person back?"

Jian Shu bent his knees and half knelt: "Miss Ning came back earlier because of the rain. She was driving at the gate of the city and happened to bump into Mr. Zhang. She... blames the subordinates for not being able to do things well!"

He hung his head and dared not lift it up.

Don't even dare to say the exact words.

The curvature of Xie Wei's lips froze for a moment, and then slowly faded away bit by bit, like a colored painting put into water, the color slowly faded, and it became an extraordinarily peaceful and utterly stunning scene. Scared black and white.

He didn't blame them.

His eyes stopped on the trembling string, and he asked softly, "Ning Er went to look for him, didn't he?"

Jian Shu felt unprecedentedly depressed: "Sir..."

As if there was a heart-pounding pain coming straight in, Xie Wei's fingers on the body of the piano gradually tightened, whether he couldn't hold back the deep-seated hostility, in his lowered eyes, he copied the piano and smashed it on the ground. table corner.

There was a crash.

The harp fell apart and the strings broke.

He just stood there silently, watching with a blank expression on his face.

The slender fingers hang down by the side, and a stream of blood drips down the cut cut by the broken wood.

Outside the window is drizzling rain.