Mountains and rivers pray for peace

Chapter 73
Half an hour later, a carriage stopped at the entrance of Qingyin Pavilion.Huo Qi helped Ting Yu get out of the carriage, and looked at the theater in front of him with a pair of phoenix eyes.

This is a three-story archway-style theater building. The three characters "Qingyin Pavilion" are written on the central arch, and a pair of couplets are placed on both sides. The inscription is "Right and wrong are indifferent to the eyes, and success and failure are dim in the eyes."Big red lanterns are hung high on the four corners of the eaves of the theater, and gold foil can be faintly seen in the lanterns.Several white-faced young men lined up on both sides, standing at the door to welcome guests, but there was no flattery on their faces.

Huo Qi came early today, and the show hadn't started yet, but many people had already gathered outside to watch the excitement, and the chattering could actually overwhelm the intermittent shouting inside the theater.

"What kind of day is it today? The formations in Qingyin Pavilion look different from those in the past!" A man who looked like a shopkeeper stretched his neck and looked into Qingyin Pavilion.

"You don't even know this? Today is Qin Xiaolian's performance, and that is the famous actor with the best voice in Bai Xiao's troupe! I heard that many distinguished people will come to listen to the play." An old man stroked his beard and shook his head.

A black-faced man sneered: "Oh, it turned out to be Qin Xiaolian, who was just an opera singer. After singing some famous tricks, he also learned the trick of Na Qiao, and only sang one song a month. The opera singer is really ruthless! "

After hearing this, everyone's expressions froze.After all, most of these people are Qin Xiaolian's fans, but they are just ordinary people who can't get tickets to Qingyin Pavilion, so they hide outside and watch the fun.This black-faced man stepped on Qin Xiaolian with his rude words, and also lost their face.

Huo Qi was awakened by the loud voices, and brought the two maids and Que Li behind him into the Qingyin Pavilion.A lot of people were already seated on the viewing stage on the first floor, Huo Qi didn't stop there, and walked up the left staircase to the third floor with a bi-color skirt.

Everyone knows that Qingyin Pavilion, a theater building, not only houses the best opera excerpts, but also symbolizes a kind of indulgence.Walking up the stairs of the theater, the higher the position, the more valuable the visitor is.Therefore, the third floor of Qingyin Pavilion is filled with the most valuable people in the capital.

Bai Zhusheng had long been waiting alone in Feng Qingju on the third floor, with a pair of slightly old long eyes staring at the murals on the wall, wondering what he was thinking.

With a "click", someone lifted the curtain and entered.

Bai Zhusheng turned his head and saw a young girl with the appearance of a maid leaning in. It was a familiar face who had delivered letters a few days ago.Looking back, a woman covered in tulle and wearing a blue double-breasted short jacket flashed in, followed by a man dressed as a maid and a guard.

Bai Zhu looked towards Ling Feng, then looked at Huo Qi: "Girl, who is this?"

Ye Feng said calmly: "Team Leader Bai, this is my master."

Bai Zhusheng calmly looked at the person in front of him. The woman was of medium stature and could not see her overall appearance clearly, but her eyebrows and eyes exposed outside the gauze were as beautiful as mountains, and the emotions in her eyes were like the ice and snow dotted on the mountains. It seemed Although beautiful, it is not close to people's hearts.

Looking at the man who looked like a guard behind him, his face was also expressionless, but Bai Zhusheng couldn't help frowning, he always felt that this man looked familiar, but when he thought about it carefully, he had never seen him before.

Huo Qi felt quite at ease, staring at the sound of white candles.This man has white hair, so he must be a little older, but his appearance is not old, and he has the look of a child with white hair.She took two steps forward and smiled slightly: "I have long admired the name of Team Leader Bai."

There was a ripple in Bai Zhusheng's heart, he thought it was an adult who entrusted someone to deliver the letter, but he never thought that it was such a young girl.He has been in the market for decades, and has seen all kinds of people, but Huo Qi's arrival still surprised him.

He waved his hand towards the coffee table in the middle of the private room: "I have been waiting for you for a long time, can I have a cup of tea with you?"

"Of course, it's my daughter's honor." Huo Qi sat on the futon beside the tea table, smiling at the sound of the white candles in front of him.

Bai Zhusheng responded with an experienced smile and poured a cup of tea for Huo Qi himself: "The girl used the secret in the secret letter as a threat to ask Bai to do things for you, but now you are so polite that I can't tell who you are. Enemies are friends.”

Huo Qi shook his head: "Of course I'm not a friend."

The white candle choked, as if he hadn't expected Huo Qi to be pissed off now, and a look of anger could not help but appear on his face: "Young lady is very quick-talking." Although he is an actor, he still has a bit of shame in front of the high-ranking officials and nobles in the capital. Now that she has been humiliated by a little girl, it is inevitable that she will not be able to come down to the stage.

Huo Qi was unmoved at all: "I only said half of what I said. Although Team Leader Bai and I are not friends, we can't be enemies, but we are purely interested. Although it sounds unreasonable, this is It is the strongest relationship in the world. I say this, and Team Leader Bai might feel more comfortable."

Perhaps because of these words, Bai Zhu's angry expression dissipated in the blink of an eye, replaced by a leisurely smile.He raised his hand and pushed the poured tea in front of Huo Qi: "Girl, you must understand. I have carefully considered the contents of the secret letter and I am here to help you. Why don't you try this fine snow-topped green emerald first?" Moisturize your voice, come to Qingyin Pavilion, naturally you also have to listen to a play and drink tea, so that you can live up to the beauty of this beautiful day."

Huo Qi looked at the white jade teacup in front of him with a half-smile.The color of this teacup is transparent, and the tea inside is also clear and translucent. It is brewed from the best tea leaves and the best sweet spring.She picked up the teacup and closed her eyes to sniff it, as if she was smelling the tea, but she had no intention of drinking it.

After a long while, she put down the teacup, and the sound of the teacup hitting the coffee table made Bai Zhusheng's heart skip a beat: "Master Bai never made things difficult for my maid that day, isn't it because he wanted to draw out the real master behind her so that he could kill someone? Is there crane crest red in the cup of tea?"

Bai Zhusheng suddenly raised his head, cold sweat running down his back: "You..." How do you know...

Assassinating the emperor was a crime that implicated the nine clans. Although he had lost all nine clans long ago, he did not dare to bet on the lives of the entire Baixiaban.

Now that someone knows his plan in advance, killing this person who holds the secret is the safest way.

On the surface, he arranged everything according to Huo Qi's instructions to confuse his opponents in the dark.At the same time, he is planning to assassinate Huo Qi. Once he succeeds, this plan will come to an abrupt end.

This cup of tea was mixed with blood-sealed throat poison, if you drink it, you will die immediately, as long as Huo Qi is dead, Bai Xiaoban will be safe.But he didn't want Huo Qi to be so vigilant, and his eyes were so vicious, that he could see through the red crest inside at a glance.

Huo Qi smiled faintly: "Since I dare to come today, I must have taken a foolproof plan. If I can't walk out of Qingyin Pavilion unharmed, the entire Baixiao squad will be buried with me. But if squad leader Bai does what I want, I won't care. Regarding He Ding Hong. After today, I will have nothing to do with Leader Bai, and we won’t know each other. Isn’t this a good thing? I believe Leader Bai is a smart man and knows how to choose."

Huo Qi fiddled with the tea cup in his hand, but he couldn't help but think of the past in his mind.In the previous life, Queli saved Emperor Xiaowen's life from an assassin, but the assassin eventually died of the death penalty of being torn apart by a car.

In fact, the assassin was Bai Zhusheng.

Bai Zhusheng's true identity is a servant of Emperor Xiaowen's elder brother, Prince Qing.Since ancient times, the rule of setting up a crown prince is to set up the virtuous and establish the elder. Back then, King Qing's house was kind-hearted, virtuous and the eldest son, so he was naturally the most powerful candidate for the crown prince.

In order to ascend to the throne of the prince, Emperor Xiaowen killed his brother. All the staff and disciples of King Qing fell to the ground, but Bai Zhusheng survived.

Bai Zhusheng has been living quietly to this day, going around to win over the subordinates of King Qing, and single-handedly formed the Baixiao Troupe, and performed in the palace under the guise of the leader, in order to win the trust of Emperor Xiaowen and avenge King Qing.This year's New Year's Eve banquet in the palace is exactly the time for him to prepare for it.

In the previous life, Bai Zhusheng did not bring the actors of Baixiao Troupe into the palace, but let Qing Wang's old department pretend to be actors to enter the palace to assassinate, which shows that he couldn't bear to implicate everyone in Baixiao Troupe.

Bai Zhusheng didn't dare to challenge her with the lives of everyone in Bai Xiaoban. This was the key to her being sure that Bai Zhusheng could do things for her, not the assassination of the emperor itself.

Sure enough, Bai Zhusheng took a breath, lowered his head and said Nuonuo: "I just had a misunderstanding. I will do what the girl said in the secret letter today. Please rest assured, girl."

"Squad leader Bai is a smart man. Now, my purpose is to get Mr. Liu, the secretary of the official department, to live in the Qingyin Pavilion. Naturally, you want me to save the lives of everyone in Baixiao Squad for you. We each take what we want I need it." Huo Qi gestured towards the sound of the white candle while holding up the teacup, with a calm expression he had never had at this age.

(End of this chapter)