Chapter 69 Playing Chess with Him

Shen Yu thought for a long time but couldn't figure out what Xie Tingzhou was upset about. In short, he didn't say a word to her until he entered the palace.

It was frozen in this way for no reason.

In the afternoon, Changliu found something wrong and stood under the eaves and hooked Xifeng's neck.

Changliu hadn't grown up yet. He would be sixteen in a few months, and his height was not much taller than Xifeng's shoulders.

Xifeng was bent down by his hook and shouted in a low voice: "What are you doing?"

Changliu leaned close to his ear and asked: "What's wrong with the prince? When he came back before, Shiyu was talking to him behind him, but he ignored her."

"I don't know."

Changliu looked at him, "You are lying, something must have happened."

When he reminded him like this, Xifeng suddenly remembered that he seemed to have heard such a sentence in the carriage before.

Changliu knew something was up when he saw his expression, and immediately asked, "What's the matter?"

Xifeng glanced into the window and whispered, "His Highness... seems to have been molested by Shiyu, so he's a little angry."

"Oh my god!" Changliu yelled, and Xifeng didn't even have time to cover his mouth.

Xie Tingzhou was playing chess with himself in the room, and he couldn't calm down. Now he was interrupted again, and asked, "I picked you up, where did your mother come from?"

Changliu ran over and pulled the window frame, laughing, "His Highness, you are my biological father, when will you find a biological mother for me?"

Xie Tingzhou didn't even raise his head, and a chess piece flew out of the window with a flick of his fingertips.

Changliu hurriedly raised his hand to grab it, and immediately shook his hand in pain and complained, "His Highness is too cruel."

Xifeng smiled and said, "His Highness didn't ask you to take it hard, you just dodge it, right?"

Changliu snorted and ran away with the chess piece.

He walked all the way to Lumingxuan, and smelled a fragrance when he reached the gate of the yard.

"What are you roasting?" Changliu stepped into the door.

Erya squatted by the fire, "We are roasting sweet potatoes."

Erya was still a little girl, and her temperament was unstable. In addition, Shen Yu was easy to talk to and was not a difficult master to serve, so Erya became more and more courageous.

When Shen Yu came back today, she held a few sweet potatoes and called her brother, asking her to roast sweet potatoes with her.

"Give me one." Changliu also squatted over.

Erya took out one and gave it to him. Changliu complained that it was too small, and Erya said she would keep it for brother Shiyu.

Shen Yu reluctantly accepted this sister with her brother.

She also wondered if she had been pretending to be a man for too long, causing her to look more and more like a man, so she went into the house and looked in the mirror for a while.

When she came out, she saw two children squatting in the yard eating roasted sweet potatoes.

Changliu saw Shiyu coming out and threw something at her.

Shen Yu grabbed it in mid-air, opened her hand and saw that it was a chess piece. She asked, "Your Highness, you want me to play chess?"

It had been a while since Xie Tingzhou asked her to play chess.

Chang Liu nodded vaguely while eating a sweet potato.

Shen Yu thought that Xie Tingzhou was in a bad mood today and could not delay, so she immediately went out of the courtyard.

Erya chased after her, "Brother, you haven't eaten your roasted sweet potato yet."

"Someone is eating it," Chang Liu grabbed it, "Isn't there a brother here? Brother, I will eat it all for you today."

The two chased and fought, and Lu Ming Xuan was rarely so lively.

Qing Pu Ju on the other side was surprisingly quiet.

When Shen Yu came, Xi Feng was not seen. There were two guards standing in the corridor, and a Saker Falcon standing on the window sill.

Shen Yu walked into the study, and Xie Tingzhou was still playing chess with her.

Seeing her come in, Xie Tingzhou looked up and then lowered his eyes, asking: "What's the matter?"

"I came to play chess with His Highness." Shen Yu walked straight to him and sat down, and began to collect the pieces on the chessboard.

Xie Tingzhou paused while twisting the chess pieces, and then gently put the chess pieces back into the basket.

It's a pity that such a game was about to be broken.

In the past, I asked Shi Yu to play chess just for quietness. At first, she was really quiet, but later on the way back to Beijing, I don't know why the bad habit came out again, always mumbling.

After a long time, Xie Tingzhou got used to it.

"Now that Liang Jianfang has died in the Dali Temple, the Dali Temple will certainly conduct a thorough investigation. The arrangements that Your Highness made in the prison before..."

"What are you worried about," Xie Tingzhou interrupted her and looked at the chessboard and said, "What arrangements did I make?"

Shen Yu glanced at him, "The Dali Temple is heavily guarded. Didn't you bribe someone to poison him?"

Xie Tingzhou raised his eyebrows, "Who said I asked someone to poison him?"

Shen Yu looked at him in surprise.

If Xie Tingzhou didn't find someone to poison him, then who wanted to poison Liang Jianfang?

Xie Tingzhou said calmly, "Countless eyes are watching the three courts. The Dali Temple is alert, and the food is delivered by a special person. There is no poison in Liang Jianfang's food. It's just that someone threw a dead mouse in to scare him."

"No poison?"

"No." Xie Tingzhou dropped a piece.

Shen Yu thought for a moment and wanted to clap his hands.

Such a good plan, in fact, she just set a trap for Liang Jianfang that night. He was just scaring himself, and finally a dead mouse scared him to death. So no matter how to link it, it can't be linked to Xie Tingzhou.

She has always been simple and rough in doing things. In comparison, Xie Tingzhou is better at playing with people's hearts. First, Zuo Zong, the Shaoqing of the Dali Temple, and then Liang Jianfang, caught people without any soldiers.

If she really fights with Xie Tingzhou, she probably won't know how she died.

"What bad idea are you thinking of again?" Xie Tingzhou asked while holding the chess piece.

Shen Yu said, "I'm thinking that we must not become the enemy of His Highness."

Xie Tingzhou looked at her, "Then what do you want to do?"

"Allies," Shen Yu said as a matter of course, "allies who support each other."

Xie Tingzhou chuckled, leaned forward with his elbows on the edge of the table, "I am not a person who cares about the world, and this case has nothing to do with me. After all, I am helping you now, what about you? What sincerity can you show?"

"Not necessarily?" Shen Yu said, "If it weren't for caring about the world, how could Qingyun Guard save Yanliang Pass?"

No matter in the past life or this life, Shen Yu was sure that Xie Tingzhou cared about the people's livelihood, because no matter which life he went to Yanliang Pass to save people, it was just earlier in this life.

Exposing his edge was originally a disadvantage for him.

Xie Tingzhou's eyes were sharp. Halfway through the game, he lost a piece and said, "You said today that you were wondering whether Jiang Lianzhi was involved. Let me tell you, he is."