After resigning, I switched to fortune-telling

Chapter 34

The smile on Xie Tangru's lips was slightly suppressed, and his eyes glanced coldly in a certain direction.

"What's wrong?" Li Mengshu asked.

"It's nothing." Xie Tangru shook his head, "Someone seems to have been watching us just now."

Li Mengshu followed his line of sight and saw only the moving heads. They looked at Xie Tangru with curious and awe-inspiring gazes, cautiously, but once they touched Li Mengshu's deflected gaze, they quickly retracted.

It couldn't be more normal.

Li Mengshu frowned, and said with a smile: "It should be someone who is curious about you. Your reputation has spread all over the imperial capital. Even my mother and younger sister have heard about your recent deeds."

The hexagram stick was twirled in his hand, and then turned back firmly into the lottery holder, Xie Tangru smiled noncommittally: "Maybe."

But he knew in his heart that the gaze just now was different from the usual curiosity, it was more like some kind of spying, which made Xie Tangru accurately distinguish the one that contained no malicious intent but was indeed hard to ignore from all the gazes. .

Out of the corner of his eye, he quickly swept across the fish-like crowd, but it was like the calm water surface, without clues.Xie Tang withdrew his gaze expressionlessly, and landed on the person in front of him who didn't know when to sit down.

She is a young man with a pretty face, dressed in brocade clothes and a jade belt, with a colorful ribbon and jade pendant around her waist, her posture is calm and relaxed, and she looks at Xie Tangru with curiosity and apprehension.

This person is Song Xuan.

He said with a smile: "I heard that Your Excellency's fortune-telling is very accurate. I wonder if you can do the fortune-telling for me?"

Xie Tangru glanced at him, this person probably leaned forward because he didn't know him.He didn't know that Xie Tangru actually knew all the confidantes around His Royal Highness King Cheng, and naturally he had heard of Song Xuan's reputation--Song Xuan was in charge of the most elite and secret army in Shang Qingyao's hands, specializing in assassination, lurking A kind of secret mission, never missed, like a shadow appearing anytime and anywhere, it is frightening.

Looking at his appearance alone, Song Xuan looked more like a frail scholar, with no signs of murder at all.

Song Xuan is here—then Xie Tang has almost guessed who was looking at him earlier.

Why did Song Xuan show up when he didn't show up?

He sneered slightly in his heart, and said unceremoniously: "I am only a predestined person, the young master has no fate with me, and I can't count what the young master wants to count."

These words were cold, and those who would wink and thin-skinned would probably leave after listening to them, but Song Xuan had already practiced his shameless skills for so many years, and Xie Shizi could not shake him with a few words.Song Xuan shook his head with a smile: "Hey, what your Excellency said is too inhumane. Since I came here and saw your presence, then we are destined, aren't we?"

"No." Xie Tangru was indifferent to his sophistry, "Sitting here every day, I see so many people, and not everyone is destined for me. You don't have to think of yourself too special."

"..." Song Xuan touched his nose and sighed, "Okay, then what do you think is fate?"

"It suits my eyes." Xie Tangru said calmly.

Isn't saying the same as not saying it?Song Xuan was choked up by Xie Tangru's perfunctory answer, and immediately asked: "Then what kind of talent suits your eyes?"

Li Mengshu saw that he was being stalked by someone, and the other party seemed to have the intention of stalking him, so he immediately came over and refuted him coldly: "What kind of person has nothing to do with you, anyway, you must not be a good match! Why delay other people here for nothing time?"

Xie Tangru glanced at him.

Li Mengshu is a gentleman of integrity, he learned the words of a sage who is innocent, and being able to argue with others was beyond Xie Tangru's expectations.

He gave Li Mengshu a reassuring look, passed over Song Xuan, and didn't even look at him - anyway, Song Xuan didn't reveal his identity, Xie Tangru of course "didn't know" the celebrity in front of the new emperor, turned to the back of people said: "Next!"

A thin, shriveled old woman in Ge clothes immediately pushed Song Xuan aside, and put a basket of eggs in front of Xie Tangru: "Master Immortal, I would like to ask you to help me find my missing daughter..."

Song Xuan stood aside, watching Xie Tangru ask the old woman's situation with a gentle expression. The old woman stumbled while describing, and burst into tears while talking. The woman wiped her tears.

It's very different from how it was to him just now.

Song Xuan walked away in a daze, and seeing that Shang Qingyao didn't care whether the person in front of him was his immediate boss, he opened his mouth and asked, "Do I look so annoying?"

He pointed at himself in disbelief, unable to understand why he was treated so differently from an ordinary peasant woman.

Shang Qingyao didn't answer what he meant, but just looked at Xie Tangru's direction and smiled, with an inexplicably gentle expression on his face: "Go back to the palace."

When he turned around, Xie Tangru had just finished asking the peasant woman a question, and raised his eyes to pass through the tide-like crowd, passing by Shang Qingyao's back without any hesitation.He lowered his eyes as if nothing had happened, and continued to ask the old woman about the disappearance of her daughter many years ago.

After the cross-examination, his expression was a little dignified, "You go back first, come here in three days, and I will tell you your daughter's whereabouts."

After hearing this, the old woman was about to kneel and kowtow to Xie Tangru. After being stopped, she thanked him a thousand times, and then walked away without turning her head.

Li Mengshu looked at him with some concern: "I've been missing for more than ten years, I'm afraid that mother-in-law's daughter is no longer alive."

Xie Tangru said softly: "During the time her daughter disappeared, all over the country were looking for beautiful women to give to the late emperor to fill up the harem." He just asked, the old woman's daughter is quite a beautiful girl.

Li Mengshu: "Those women..."

"Even though the first emperor was absurd, he couldn't play with so many women at the same time. But he was obsessed with alchemy at the time, thinking that he would use the flesh and blood of his virgins to enter the alchemy." Xie Tangru suddenly changed the subject when he said this, "During that time, many civilians died in the imperial capital. woman."

After all, the first emperor still wanted to save face. He didn't directly order the people to donate their daughters, but secretly sent people to arrest many women from good families and used them as medicine.During that time, Liang Jiazi disappeared at home for no reason, but he went to Jing Zhaoyin to report the case, but he had nothing to do with it.In the end, it was the remonstrance of several ministers that forced the late emperor to finally stop, but on that day, three speech officials died in the imperial study, and the remaining few officials were also exiled to remote places in just half a year. .

——But these old things were all covered up in the ridiculous and lustful words of the first emperor, and they were forgotten and no one mentioned them.

……

Xie Tangru made an understatement, but Li Mengshu couldn't listen casually.These few words are enough to make him outline a bloody and cruel fact in his heart

Li Mengshu couldn't help closing his eyes.

But what made it even more difficult for him to accept was what Xie Tangru said next.

"Using the flesh and blood of a virgin as medicine is the way Li Hui offered. The first emperor was so happy that he promoted him, a small seventh-rank Hanlin editor, to become a servant of the Ministry of officials. It was a matter of course to become the Minister of the Ministry of Officials."

Hearing this, Li Mengshu's face turned pale and crumbling.

Xie Tangru didn't need to say anything about the latter, he already knew about it - the Minister of the Ministry of Officials was of mediocre ability, but he was used to making money, and he offered the method of buying and selling officials and titles to earn a sum of money for the late emperor, which was used to build the palace.Later, the first emperor passed away, and the new emperor came to the throne. What Li Hui had done was exposed, and the new emperor was furious.

If he hadn't told anyone in advance that he would come to Xie Tangru's place today, Li Mengshu would have thought that the old woman and Xie Tangru's words had been deliberately passed on to him by someone with ulterior motives.

—but that's the way it is.

His cousin, the Li family was separated so many times because of their own selfishness.

Li Mengshu couldn't deceive himself.

He stood there in a daze.

Xie Tangru didn't go to comfort him, but said: "I'm going to the Ministry of Punishments now to find the files of those women who died with their flesh and blood during the reign of the late Emperor."

Li Mengshu raised his eyes, his eyes were red, and his voice was hoarse: "I'll go with you."