Chapter 116: You Can’t Go Crazy Even If You Want To

King Yu smiled and said, “It’s better to meet by chance, seeing as it’s noon, why don’t we find a restaurant and this king will treat you to dinner?”

Shen Qi slowly loosened the hilt of his sword in a deep breath, “My humble servant’s imperial order is at hand, there can be no delay, Your Highness, please make yourself at home.”

“No matter how dutiful, the meal must always be eaten. Besides, the case that Tongzhi Shen is now investigating, this king also knows a little about it and can provide some clues.”

King Yu said the words to this point, it is clear that he wants to invite this Hongmen Banquet, if you don’t go, you have to go. Shen Qi is not afraid to be alone with him, afraid that she can’t hold back for a moment and recklessly lay her hands on him.

The hand is also to be laid, but it can not be done recklessly, he is good at killing people with a knife, and can not be messed up here.

Shen Qi hooked the corner of his mouth, revealing a cold smile, “Your Highness is kind enough to accept it.”

King Yu said to go to the restaurant, the location of the invitation is actually a private garden, a set of famous chef team is also heavily hired. Wine case is located in the waterfront terrace, the seats do not make songs and dances, invited a young handsome Taoist priest, sitting far away from the pines to play the qin, the pride and luxury into a thing of elegance.

After toasting a cup of wine to the main seat according to the rules, Shen Qi directly asked, “Regarding the case, what clues does the king have, please also enlighten me.”

King Yu leisurely sipped his cup of wine, “In a grove next to the East Market, the red bean trees were newly planted overnight, and if you rake through the grass and leaves on the ground, you can still see the traces of the soil that was hastily piled up and filled in. The three young children of the Xin family, lured to the edge of the bushes by the vendors selling candy canes, saw someone folding the branches of the red bean cedar to feed the horses, and said that the horses love to eat. The children followed their example and climbed the branches that were pulled to a lower level and returned to their own stables. The clues that this king grasps, so far, Shen Tongchi guessed who the murderer is?”

The question was about the assassination case, the answer was about the horse fall case, the answer was not what was asked, but every sentence was to the point.

Shen Qi said without changing his face, “In the case of Commander Xin’s fall from the horse, the Ministry of Justice has already concluded that it was an accident. If Your Highness wants to overturn the case, you can raise it with Lord Wang, the Minister of Justice, my humble servant is not responsible for this case, and talking to me about this is tantamount to talking to a cow.”

King Yu laughed out loud and gave him a false salute, “In any case, this king appreciates Tongzhi Shen’s ability.”

The implication is that the nature of the heart is not to be agreed with. Hehe, is taking by force more noble than scheming? Shen Qi raised his glass, “Same as each other.”

The two men drank the glass of wine with each of them.

King Yu put down his wine cup, the maidservants standing on both sides came forward to serve the dishes, and one of them, a young and beautiful one, took advantage of the dishes to tease Shen Qi’s thighs, and her slender jade finger scratched along the knee to the root of the leg. Shen Qi’s hand tilted, the sauce dish dipped in sashimi knocked over on her skirt, reprimanding: ”How can you wear dirty clothes to serve the guests? Why don’t you go down and change your clothes. I don’t need you here!”

That maidservant was so ashamed that her face turned red and she hastily bowed and retreated.

King Yu looked on with cold eyes and laughed: “This servant girl is indeed clumsy, but Tongzhi Shen doesn’t have to be so harsh.”

Shen Qi looked indifferent: “I’m a rough man, not as compassionate as Your Highness, I’m sorry.”

King Yu said, “Where, the lone king is a prodigal son, my royal brother is the real compassionate incense and jade. And there is only one person who has the fragrance and jade in his eyes, and that kind of painstaking effort is too much for this king to hope for.”

Shen Qi hadn’t yet figured out what he meant by his words, so he simply didn’t say anything and waited for him to continue down the line and figure it out.

King Yu, however, stopped continuing this topic and changed his tone, “This king has heard that Imperial Magistrate Su has disappeared in Shaanxi?”

The person disappeared nine days ago, only three days ago the news was sent back to the capital through the secret report of the Brocade Guards, the emperor did not announce to the public, how did King Yu know? Could it be that there are some of his eyes in the accompanying guards?

Shen Qi thought it was unlikely, he and the emperor had sifted through the list twice, if there was a third person’s eyes, then how huge and pervasive should this person’s power be inside and outside the dynasty! King Yu, who was trapped in the capital and under the Emperor’s watchful eye, could not do it.

Perhaps it was the information that was extracted from the Crown Prince’s mouth when he discovered the abnormal movement of the Jinyiwei’s men and horses.

The safety and danger of Qinghe is important again, and with him Zhu Lvxiu what is the matter! Shen Qi’s face was expressionless: “The matter of foreign officials, I don’t know, the court has no relevant knowledge.”

King Yu taunted: “You and Su Royal Historian quite a friendship, when you were seriously injured bed, not his night and day personal care? Now a ‘don’t know’, not too cold. Shen Qilang ah Shen Qilang, everything is overdone, there must be something fishy, want to cover up the reasoning still want this king to teach you?”

Shen Qi coldly said, “Then the reasoning that paper can’t wrap fire, Your Highness naturally doesn’t need my humble servant to teach you.”

King Yu waved his hand to repel all the attendants at the table and got up to approach step by step, ”The Lone King knows what you are suspecting, but unfortunately you have set up the wrong arrow target from the beginning. What kind of handsome scholar needs to be crowned by the Son of Heaven himself? And what kind of important minister of the pillar state, missing for a few days will affect the heart of the king, making the son of heaven’s own army are in turmoil? Five thousand elite men are enough to fight another Henan Liao madman! Long distance rush to Shaanxi, countless food and grass depletion, would rather be criticized by the officials who know the inside information, not hesitate to damage the Son of Heaven’s holy name, just for the sake of a single Su Qinghe – do you think my royal brother is not crazy?”

Every time King Yu said a sentence, Shen Qi clenched his back teeth more and more tightly, and every word and sentence was like a sharp blade inserted into his chest, cruelly reminding him that the one who was competing with him for his beloved was a man who was so supreme that he held the power of life and death of the people in the world. The other party didn’t even need to make a move, just a look, could crush him into a crushed ant in the dust.

What kind of person can’t get such an honorable and peerless status?

Compassion is the measure of the son of heaven, clothing purple waist gold is the reward of the son of heaven, not to be blamed for the offense is the tolerance of the son of heaven, this time to save a person’s soldiers to send thousands of miles, naturally, is also the great kindness of the son of heaven.

What was he, Shen Qi? Without a nod from the Son of Heaven, he couldn’t even take half a step out of the city gates!

“It’s a pity, a status like yours and mine can’t go crazy even if we want to. Without a nod from the Son of Heaven, we can’t even take half a step out of the city gates.” King Yu lamented, “In that case, what’s the difference between you and I and the prisoners in the imperial prison? It’s just better food and better clothes, but the same lack of freedom.”

Shen Qi laughed coldly: “According to what Your Highness said, no one in the whole world, except the Nine to Five, has freedom.”

“But the plebeians can at least pursue their intended to their heart’s content, whether it works out or not, without fear of losing their heads. Can you?” King Yu leaned in close to his ear and said softly, “Do you dare to declare in front of my royal brother with a straight face, ‘Su Qinghe is my man, don’t hit on him’?”

Shen Qi’s fingers twitched as if they were twitching for a moment, and then he tightly pinched the hem of Tracer’s skirt.

“Naturally you wouldn’t dare. In my place, I wouldn’t dare either.” King Yu sighed softly, “So what if you are full of animosity towards me? In imperial brother’s eyes, you and I are both a joke.

“He is now just got the hand, forced by the situation had to put the person devalued out, still can not care about cleaning up our. To retrieve the person, and then to the capital a transfer, then is a hungry tiger to protect food, you still want to have a hand in the room? Wake up, Shen Qilang, not to mention exclusive possession, in the future you are afraid that even see him in private is difficult on the difficult!”

Shen Qi’s eyes showed a fierce light, like he was shocked, but also like he was not expected, his voice was hoarse and terrible: “What does ‘get a hand’ mean!”

King Yu laughed, the shadow of his smile had a compassionate undertone in it, as if to say, we are all men, this kind of thing still needs this king to explain in detail?

Shen Qi had a wooden face, but it was as if there were thousands of swords and shadows saving under his skin, suddenly the light and shadow closed, full of silence and coolness: “The whereabouts are still unknown, how can we talk about the future!”

King Yu’s concern was not here, he lifted up the wine pot on the table and filled Shen Qi’s wine cup, “This king is not too worried about this. What a smart person Su is, and what a blessing he was born with, he was able to turn a bad situation into a good one when he faced hundreds of prison robbers in Yan’an city, so just a few dozen Tartar cavalrymen would not be able to turn over a boat in the gutter.

“By the way, this king remembers that there was an assassin called ‘Wu Ming’ who he personally recognized as a concubine, is he accompanying him on this trip to Shaanxi?”

“What concubine, just a jianghu grasshopper.” Shen Qi nonchalantly sarcastically said, “Catchy words, the king himself can be taken seriously if he wants to, why say it in vain to cause jokes.”

King Yu actually didn’t get angry and nodded calmly, “Then it’s just to go along. That assassin I have dealt with, I know his weight, if he gives his full protection, nothing can happen to Su Qinghe.”

Seeing that he spoke with such certainty, Shen Qi also fell silent and stopped speaking out to provoke him.

King Yu patted him on the shoulder and said meaningfully, ”Snipers and mussels are fighting for the benefit of the fisherman.

“This king, this snipe, may as well say something sincere to you. I do love Qinghe very much, the day before he left the capital, I picked him up from the door of your residence, I just wanted to say a few words, as a separate, but I found out that he and his royal brother have a private affair–“

Shen Qi’s shoulders tightened under his palms, as if he was about to storm up and draw his sword the next moment, but in the end, he forced himself not to lash out.

“You don’t know how he defended his royal brother at the time, saying that His Imperial Highness was gracious and kind to him; that he was only grateful to His Imperial Highness, without the slightest dissatisfaction; that the two of them were innocent of each other, and that they had never taken half a step beyond the thunderbolt. That intention to cover up the secret because of the love, puts my heart to blow up!”

“Never taken half a step beyond the thunder pool, do you believe it?” King Yu snorted, “Look at imperial brother’s enthusiastic vigor of an old tree springing to life, I don’t believe it anyway.”

Shen Qi stared at him like a vicious wolf and hissed, “What happened after you finished talking, what did you make him suffer?”

King Yu looked at the water outside the terrace with a complex expression, and the color of guilt emerged vaguely, “This king ……”

The King never lets anyone suffer in bed. Instead of letting him serve him, this King served him in reverse. This King sent him a heavenly pleasure.

For some reason, when he thought of the way Su Yan looked at him, he couldn’t say all these frivolous words.

He opened and shut his mouth, shut up and opened his mouth, and finally spat out, “This king …… has less control over his dinner.”

For a moment Shen Qi seemed like he wanted to kill – this sentiment of King Yu, these words, were the most obscure confession under the sky, but he understood it without any obstacles.

He couldn’t even wait to draw his sword and slammed his palm with all his might.

King Yu stood extremely close to him, he couldn’t avoid it and didn’t want to, he directly reached out and clapped with him.

Stirring true qi blast collision, lifting off the tables on the terrace, wine dishes spilled all over the ground, the residual energy to the surrounding scattered, stirring up the waves of water like a shocking wave, rolled up a thousand piles of snow.

The servant girl on the far porch was screaming, and the guards were hurrying in with weapons in hand.

Shen Qi didn’t care, and King Yu blasted three palms one after another, no moves, no movement, all based on the full of anger and a body of true qi hard.

His lungs shook under the other party’s strong true qi, and blood dripped from the corners of his mouth.

King Yu did not use his full strength, nor did he use his true qi to protect himself, and a fishy-sweet taste welled up in his throat. He needed this hurt to suppress the guilt in his heart.

The guards rushed onto the terrace and surrounded Shen Qi in the center, with a forest of swords pointing at him. Shen Qi hung his hands, red eyes, staring at King Yu to death.

King Yu coughed out the mouthful of bruised blood, as if a bit of relief had come within his chest, and waved his hand, somewhat wearily, “All of you stand down.”

The guards were in disbelief.

King Yu raised his voice, “This king told you to stand down!”

The guards could only hold their swords and knives, cautiously withdrawing several feet backward, still watching the situation in the field with a tense spirit.

Shen Qi did not move a muscle. King Yu sighed: “It’s good to talk about it. This king still has the same saying, snipers and clams can still fight each other, if the fisherman wants to catch them all in one net, no one can escape. You think about it.”

He turned around and didn’t take more than a few steps before stopping and saying, “The East Palace assassination case is a good opportunity.” With those words, he walked away with large strides.

The royal guards looked at Shen Qi suspiciously and uncertainly, then looked at King Yu’s back, and finally followed.

Shen Qi’s lapel was speckled with wine marks, standing on the empty terrace, turning his head to look at the lake.

The wind passed without a trace, and the lake returned to calmness, with no trace of the half-excitement that had been seen.

His heart is so stuffy and mixed with so many chaotic thoughts that he just wants to appear in front of Su Yan right now, take a good look at him, and give him a good hug.

The two of them are now thousands of miles away from each other, with no news, and each other has so many unavoidable and unsatisfactory, unwilling and unsatisfied, how to solve? How can they fulfill their dreams?

I want to talk about the time being poor, who will follow me if not you. There is no end to my lovesickness, so I will not be able to drink again.