Chapter 77
Chapter 77
Hearing Xu Wenze's words was almost like a thunderclap.
Lin Qingyang's heart skipped a beat, almost kneeling, and he looked at Xu Wenze tremblingly. "No... No, we have to go. I'll talk to him again to get this matter back."
Now it's no longer a matter of cold war with Chu Lishu, it's the man who wants to kill him.
"Do you... have to go? Is it because you think it's a bonus for entering the palace?" Xu Wenze told Lin Qingyang that it was because he had promised to give Lin Qingyang this opportunity, but the head teacher had to change. Then I feel sorry for Lin Qingyang.But he felt that Lin Qingyang's reaction was a bit beyond his imagination, as if life and death were at stake.
Lin Qingyang frowned and said, "I can't explain it, but it's really important to me, and I must take him with me." After finishing speaking, he was about to leave.
Xu Wenze was stunned for a moment, and seeing Lin Qingyang's serious expression, he stretched out his hand to hold Lin Qingyang, "It may not be useful to find him, I will help you find a way."
Lin Qingyang was a little surprised. He thought that Xu Wenze had a good relationship with Chu Lishu, and he should help Chu Lishu. Moreover, Xu Wenze was not affected by the recent rumors outside.
Lin Qingyang's expression was a bit straightforward, Xu Wenze understood it at a glance, and said with a faint smile: "I knew you two when I saw you getting along before...the relationship is very good, and temporary conflicts will always be resolved. This is indeed a good opportunity. The two of you go over, maybe you can open up and have a good talk."
Lin Qingyang's eyes widened involuntarily. He seemed to see the brilliance of a saint shining on Xu Wenze's body. Not only did he not pursue his doubts, but he also considered everything for his friends. How could there be such a good person!
Reaching out to pat his shoulder, Lin Qingyang looked at him with golden eyes and said, "You are such a good person!"
Xu Wenze was amused by Lin Qingyang, "When you hear about my method, you probably won't think I'm a good person."
Lin Qingyang listened suspiciously, and Xu Wenze explained his thoughts. The more Lin Qingyang listened, the more surprised he became, and finally Xu Wenze felt a little embarrassed. "Is it a bit bad? Don't tell Chu Lishu, or he will blame me."
Lin Qingyang shook his head, gave a thumbs up, and said: "No, it's smart! I'll do it now! If it works, you will be my benefactor!"
After Lin Qingyang finished speaking, he immediately went to find the head teacher.
In fact, the method Xu Wenze gave is very simple, that is, cut first and play later.
Lin Qingyang found the head teacher, and seeing that the head teacher was worrying about the selection of new candidates, he just seized the opportunity, "Head teacher, I recommend myself and Chu Lishu."
Xu Wenze had recommended Lin Qingyang before, and Lin Qingyang had performed well recently. The head teacher felt that he and Chu Lishu were cousins, so going together should be able to complete the task well, and Cao Lao also mentioned it after hearing about it. In a word, the two of them are good, the head teacher made this arrangement.
In the end, Chu Lishu said that he couldn't go because the family had a private matter to deal with. The head teacher was a little unhappy, but he didn't want to and couldn't be rushed to such a good thing, so he agreed.
If Chu Lishu didn't go, Lin Qingyang's qualifications were obviously not enough.
But at this moment, Lin Qingyang had the cheek to take the initiative to invite Ying. The head teacher thought for a while and said: "Young Master Chu has something to do, so you can't force it."
Lin Qingyang immediately put on a earnest look and said: "My cousin wants to go, and it's not out of his heart that he came to refuse."
"Why?"
"There is no one in my cousin's house, and he lives temporarily in Annanhou's Mansion. He has always felt that he has caused trouble to his relatives. In order to avoid gossip, he has been cautious. This time was a good thing, and we planned to participate together, but my third brother just injured his leg. Back home, the elders in the family complained quite a bit, and some even blamed the cousin for not taking good care of the third brother for causing such a tragedy. If he only cared about his own future at such a juncture, it would be inevitable..."
When Lin Qingyang said this, the head teacher understood the connotation of it. How can he not keep a low profile when he is under the influence of others? No wonder Chu Lishu even gave up such a good opportunity. He really had concerns and had something hard to say. It was because he cared about the harmony of the whole family. Performance.
"Since he is so thoughtful, it's hard to force..."
"It has to be forced. I'm his cousin. I can decide for him in this matter. I can't let him wrong himself so much. When my father came last time, I was very pleased to know that we could participate in the work of the Ministry of Rites. In fact, my father and I We all hope that Li Shu will go further in the future, why give up a good opportunity?"
Everyone can see how purely the teacher appreciates Chu Lishu.
So Lin Qingyang had a point, although the head teacher thought that Lin Qingyang worked so hard to persuade him to give himself the opportunity to participate, and the starting point was for himself.
But it would be good if Chu Li's book could be sent. During the sacrificial ceremony, many court ministers could be seen. If he could meet someone who appreciated him, he would be able to break out of the world by himself without relying on the Marquis of Annan's mansion.After all, looking forward and backward for that reason is a waste of time.
After listening to the explanation, the head teacher also felt it was a pity, so as soon as he made a decision, he directly decided to let the two of them participate and not change the candidates.
Hearing the head teacher's promise, Lin Qingyang almost jumped up happily, quickly suppressed his excitement, continued to follow the method Xu Wenze taught him, and said: "Then the head teacher will keep it secret first, so that he won't be worried when he finds out. The next day, Taixue class is over, and my cousin and I will go directly to the imperial mausoleum in a carriage, and we promise to complete the task."
The head teacher thought it was feasible, so he also agreed.
yes!As long as the male lead is sent to the imperial mausoleum, no matter whether they are in a cold war or not, they can complete the task like a duck.
Wait until the young master's life is renewed, and then repair the relationship with the male lead.
In this way, Chu Lishu was concealed for a day, and when get out of class was over that night, Taixue's three-day vacation would arrive, and everyone was picked up by their own carriage one after another.
The carriage sent by the Ministry of Rites also arrived.
Seeing the head teacher come out to hand over, Chu Lishu, who was about to get into the carriage of the Marquis of Annan, was grabbed by Lin Qingyang.
Chu Lishu frowned and looked back at Lin Qingyang, "Is there something else, cousin?"
Probably because of the excitement of finally winning a round in the hands of the hero, Lin Qingyang smiled complacently, "Cousin, I got into the wrong carriage. It's the one over there."
Chu Lishu's face changed instantly when he saw the past, and he turned to look at Lin Qingyang coldly.
But Lin Qingyang didn't care what he thought, and directly dragged him to the officials of the Ministry of Rites and the head teacher.
"I have seen you, we are ready." Lin Qingyang saluted.
Chu Lishu could only be forced to salute.
The official nodded and said, "I'm going to trouble the two young masters. It's getting late, and it's far away from the Royal Mausoleum Road. Let's get on the carriage first."
"Okay, okay." Lin Qingyang immediately pulled Chu Lishu, and pushed him into the carriage.
Shuncai also knew about Lin Qingyang's plan a long time ago, so he took the two people's salutes and put them on the carriage of the Ministry of Rites.
"Master, when are you coming back?"
"It will be arranged by the Ministry of Rites on the night of the next day, or the morning of the day after tomorrow. You should go home and pass the letter first."
"Okay." Shun Cai hastily closed the carriage door for the two of them.
There was an instant silence in the car.
Lin Qingyang felt guilty at this moment, looked at Chu Lishu who was sitting opposite, and smiled.
"I remember that I have already rejected the head teacher." Chu Lishu sneered and said, "I don't know what my cousin did behind my back?"
Lin Qingyang didn't hide it, he honestly explained the process of his doing bad things, and tried to be frank and lenient.
"It's really a good idea. Xu Wenze thought of it for you?"
Lin Qingyang was startled, "How do you know?"
Chu Lishu looked at him indifferently.
"Although he thought it up, I implemented it, and it's not that I couldn't think of it, it's just..." Lin Qingyang was depressed, and the hero looked at him as if saying, depending on you, you can't think of it.
But on this point, Lin Qingyang wronged Chu Lishu. In fact, Chu Lishu knew that according to Lin Qingyang's personality, if he knew about his refusal to teach, he must be the first to come to him to intercede, instead of saying nothing. Said to set up a pit for him to jump.This is not in line with Lin Qingyang's style of doing things.
Unless someone gives him guidance, and Xu Wenze knows that it is useless to ask him for this matter, so it is more likely that Lin Qingyang will kill him first and play later.
"Cousin is really domineering. Even though I am staying in the Hou Mansion temporarily, it doesn't mean that my cousin can make decisions for me. I am not my cousin's servant."
Lin Qingyang sighed, and said depressedly: "Why do you say that? You clearly know that I don't mean it. If you hadn't been in a cold war with me, why would I do this? It's obviously for your own good, but the other way around You said..."
"For my own good?" Chu Lishu murmured coldly, as if he didn't believe it, so he chewed on these words over and over again.
Lin Qingyang was about to argue again, but Chu Lishu was already leaning against the wall of the carriage with his eyes closed.
Sitting opposite him, Lin Qingyang really wanted to reach out and punch him. This kid is too irritating, but think about it, even if he is awesome, he is still a little proud of being tricked into coming up by himself and obediently going to the imperial mausoleum. Woolen cloth.
Lin Qingyang saw that he gave up struggling and his mood improved, so he stopped forcing himself to talk and read happily.
The car staggered all the way to the imperial mausoleum, stopped for a while, and the officials who were also in charge of the imperial mausoleum brought them dinner.
Lin Qingyang asked Chu Lishu to eat, but Chu Lishu ignored him at all, and still relied on sleeping. Lin Qingyang knew that he was pretending to sleep, so it was a bit naive to vent his temper by not eating.
Lin Qingyang was speechless at his behavior.
Forget it, I will eat it myself.
Lin Qingyang simply got out of the carriage, stretched his muscles and bones, and made friends with other people to inquire about the situation.
In fact, for the sake of offering sacrifices, the imperial mausoleum has already been busy.
It's just that their work was ranked last, so they were only allowed to come two days before the sacrifice.
I'm here tonight. I'm going to rest for one night in the cemetery next to the imperial mausoleum. I will start working early tomorrow morning. The task is not heavy. Two people can finish it in one day. It depends on the situation that night. If it is late, I will rest for another night the next day. go again.
The day after tomorrow is the last inspection, and the third day is the sacrifice.
So in the next two days, court officials will come one after another, and the little official who chatted with Lin Qingyang kindly reminded: "As long as you behave better at that time, you may be noticed by the ministers and have a good reputation." , it will be easier to become an official in the future.”
Lin Qingyang didn't care about this, but was only interested in the process of inquiring. After all, he didn't remember the details of this part of the plot in the original text at all. All he knew was that the hero found some clues in the imperial tomb to identify his subordinates. It was nearby, and at night, I searched all the way and found my men.
If the work arrangement of the imperial tomb is fixed, it means that the key is late.
When the moon was high, they finally arrived at the imperial mausoleum. Lin Qingyang had never been in a carriage for so long, and the road was not easy to walk, and his bones were about to fall apart due to the bumps.
Looking at the opposite side again, although Chu Lishu kept his eyes closed and pretended to be asleep, his face turned pale at this moment.
"How is it, are you okay?" Lin Qingyang couldn't help but ask with concern.
Chu Lishu slowly opened his eyes, his brows looked exhausted, his eyes that should have been black and white were covered with bloodshot eyes, and his condition was obviously not good.
Although I know that he is weak, how about I haven't seen him in the carriage before?It's so serious this time?Lin Qingyang was a little surprised.
Someone outside came to tell them to get off.
Seeing that he was so weak, Lin Qingyang reached out to help him.
In the end, this kid was like this, and he was still struggling in front of him. He pushed his hand away, supported the wall of the carriage by himself, and walked down step by step.
Lin Qingyang gritted his teeth and could only follow quickly.
Soon the guardians of the cemetery came to entertain them and sent them to the wing room first. Because there were so many people, they basically shared a room for two people, which was similar to the arrangement of the dormitories of Taixue.
Lin Qingyang and Chu Lishu came together, so they were naturally allocated a room.
Chu Lishu's first reaction was to refuse. Facing the guards guarding the cemetery, Lin Qingyang was ashamed for a while, but there were really no vacant beds.They are just temporary workers, so naturally there will be no special arrangements.
After entering the wing room, Chu Lishu walked directly to his bed in silence, put on his clothes and went to bed, not only did not say a word, but also acted as if he didn't care about the surrounding situation at all.
Lin Qingyang really couldn't believe that Chu Lishu disliked him to such an extent, as if he didn't even want to communicate with him for a second.
Lin Qingyang endured it, and stepped forward and said: "You didn't eat at night, do you want to eat before going to bed? Or drink some soup to pad your stomach?"
Chu Lishu still didn't respond, just lying with his back to Lin Qingyang.
The extent of the cold war seemed to be more serious than before, it seemed that forcing him to come over really angered him.
Lin Qingyang has a good temper, so he reflected on himself, he should be in the wrong, thinking that he didn't seem to apologize just now, he took two steps closer and said: "Cousin, it's not my fault to arrange you in without your consent, I should respect your opinion, and I won't find any other reason, I just want to apologize to you, I'm sorry. If you are still angry, you can punish me, take revenge on me, whatever. Don't...don't be so rigid. "
It was still suffocatingly quiet.
Lin Qingyang's mood was up and down, and he didn't know what to do. Suddenly Chu Lishu spoke, his almost hoarse voice was chilling.
"Okay, you go out, I don't want to share a room with you!"
"What... what?"
"I tell you to get out!"
The blood on Lin Qingyang's face faded in an instant. It can be said that except for the first night after traveling, Chu Lishu had never treated him with such a bad attitude.
After being dumbfounded for a long time, looking at the back of Chu Lishu's rejection, he could only retreat in embarrassment in the end.
At night, Lin Qingyang found an excuse and squeezed on the bench in someone else's room, tossing and turning, unable to sleep, only feeling grievance welling up in his heart.
The snoring sound from inside the room was even more disturbing.
Lin Qingyang got up to take a sip of water, but he didn't see clearly for a while, and accidentally knocked over the kettle. In order not to make any noise and disturb his roommate, he could only catch it with his body in embarrassment. The spout slid open, and all the tea poured down. Lin Qingyang was drenched in a chill.
It's all over now, and I can't sleep anymore, Lin Qingyang can only go back to his room, thinking about changing clothes before coming back.
But when he went back, he found that the doors were all locked.
When he left, Chu Lishu was clearly on the bed, why, afraid that he would come back, she got up and locked the door on purpose.
This... this is so deceiving.
Don't let him go in, right? He insists on going in.
Lin Qingyang's temper also held back, he found the unfastened window and went in.
Funny, didn't expect him to open the window, so he was so careless that he didn't lock it?
Lin Qingyang pointed his middle finger at the bed with the curtains down, and then went to salute his own.
When changing clothes, I felt a little cold, but Lin Qingyang's heart was even colder. I don't know how long this situation will last. Can he complete the task smoothly?
Suddenly, a barely detectable moan slipped into Lin Qingyang's ears.
Lin Qingyang was stunned for a moment, and after waiting for a while, he couldn't hear the second sound, so he suspected that he had heard it wrong.
After changing his clothes, he was about to go out the window when he heard a very small sound again.
And the voice must have come from Chu Li's study bed.
Lin Qingyang was a little puzzled, after thinking about it, he still walked to Chu Lishu's bedside.
This time, he heard clearly.
The sound was like the thin moans and groans of a wounded beast.
Having a nightmare?
Lin Qingyang lifted the bed curtain furtively, wanting to see how Chu Lishu was doing.
As soon as he opened it, Lin Qingyang was stunned when he saw the situation on the bed.
The moonlight and the firelight of the lantern blended into a grayish white, shrouding the person curled up on the bed ominously.
Because of the pain, the man was almost drenched in sweat, and his whole body curled up into a ball, like a helpless baby hugging himself, the thin skin lines on his body were so tight that the lines could be seen, and even some places were still stretched from time to time. It twitched, as if even the thin bones were trembling.
His face was gray and white, his brows were tightly wrinkled, his eyelashes and lips were trembling, and he held the quilt into his arms with both hands and pressed it hard, as if the most painful place was in his abdomen.
What made Lin Qingyang unable to move his eyes the most was that Chu Lishu was not resting on a pillow, but lying on his side, and the pillow was bitten by him, as if he could only endure the pain by blocking his mouth like this, so as not to leak it movement.
Lin Qingyang was shocked by the scene of fragility and tenacity, but it was extremely familiar.
Is this...
Before that word came to mind, an alarm suddenly exploded in my mind.
System: [Crisis Warning! !The host's life is in danger. 】
Lin Qingyang's brain had just understood the words of the system, but it was too late. There was a flash of cold light, and the person on the bed was stimulated by the light. He jumped up instinctively, and the sharp knife in his hand came out, hitting Lin Qingyang's throat.
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