Hello Chang’an

Chapter 617 The Dead and the Mad

Li Yin stepped over the totem that was half covered by fallen leaves on the bluestone floor tiles outside the pagoda courtyard, and said: "The capital has been recovered, and it's time to welcome the emperor back to the capital."

"Sir, this is an unavoidable step." Li Yin walked slowly and said to Luo Guanlin, who had not answered the conversation: "Besides, she is Axiao's biological mother. Based on this alone, I should give her some dignity."

When Luo Guanlin heard this, he no longer objected. He only sneered and said: "Although the Demon Queen is just a puppet in Taiyuan, she has chosen to support the Changsui Ning, which shows that she is determined to be the enemy of the prince. Even if she chooses to support the princess Ning. The prince welcomes you with dignity, but she may not be willing to return to the capital."

"I only need to do what I should do. As for how she chooses, it is her own destiny." Li Yin: "After all, she should also know that Taiyuan City cannot protect her for long."

Luo Guanlin: "The prince's words refer to..."

"Sir, you probably don't know that Chang Suining is no longer on the battlefield in the north at this time." Li Yin said, "She went to Beidi."

Luo Guanlin's eyes trembled slightly.

Li Yin: "According to the spies' report, no news has been returned since his departure... The northern desert is about to usher in a cold winter, and even if you just lead an army to wander around, your life or death will be unpredictable."

There was no trace of schadenfreude in his tone, but rather some concern.

Luo Guanlin slowly frowned: "Leading the army into Beidi alone, there is a high probability that there will be no return. This woman is so arrogant and impulsive..."

Li Yin shook his head and sighed almost imperceptibly: "It is hard for me not to admire her for having such courage and responsibility..."

"Her passing is enough to offset her mistake of confusing my Li family's bloodline in my heart."

The admiration in Li Yin's eyes was not fake.

He really admired such people.

God should allow such a person to fulfill her wish. If she wants to be a hero, she should fulfill her wish and let her become a hero that will be remembered for hundreds of years... By then, he will also remember it in his heart.

But heroic deeds cannot be revealed to the world only after the death of the hero -

Li Yin said: "Such a heroic and benevolent act should be reported to the world."

The autumn wind swept the fallen leaves under his feet. Luo Guanlin's eyes followed the fallen leaves, which fell down again in an instant. When he spoke again, his voice was as cold as ever: "It's just that this is how she gained this reputation."

Li Yin's tone was as warm as the wind: "Sir, she deserves this."

A good name is only useful to the living.

When it comes to good reputation, who can be better than Ah Xiao, but what will the result be?

At this moment, it is time to let the world know that the Crown Princess will not come back. How can people who cannot come back be loyal?

He has long said that as a master, living a stable life is the most important duty.

It's a pity that there are always people who are not willing to just be human masters, but also want to be gods who save the world.

However, this world does need such people to save it. Probably all things are constant, right and wrong, good and evil, life and death have their own order, and it is good that all living beings can just perform their duties.

She can be this heroic **** who saves the world, and he can just be a mediocre mortal who governs the world.

Gods do not belong to the human world, and only mortals can be accommodated in this world. This has been the case since ancient times.

After leaving Dayun Temple, Li Yin mounted his horse and said, "Sir, come with me to the Imperial College."

"It is said that on the day when Bian Chunliang destroyed the city, Qiao Jijiu chose to stay in the capital on his own initiative. He advanced and retreated with the supervisors and protected countless students. The teacher's morality and justice are truly admirable..." Li Yin slowly drove the horse, with admiration in his eyes: "Before I entered the city, I was thinking that I would visit him personally after I entered the capital."

He will definitely need to select talents in the future, and after this incident, all the supervisors in the Imperial College will respect and obey Qiao Yang, the wine sacrificer.

"Qiao Jijiu's character is certainly impeccable..." Luo Guanlin said: "But this person has a close relationship with the Chang family, and he once took Chang Sui Ning as his student. For this reason, he held a big banquet in Dengtai Tower. No one knows."

"That happened a long time ago. At that time, Chang Sui would rather be an ordinary girl in a boudoir. How could Qiao Jijiu have expected what would happen next." Li Hidden said with a smile: "Besides, the reason why Jijijiu interacts with the Chang family is because In the final analysis, it’s just the friendship between working under Ah Xiao in the past.”

He wore a sapphire blue robe with wide sleeves, sat on a horse, and said in an open-minded tone: "And I am also Ah Xiao's uncle, not an outsider."

"The prince is open-minded, but he also needs to be more careful..." Luo Guanlin said: "It's not too late to test his attitude after meeting him."

Li Xian smiled and nodded good-naturedly: "Sir, I always think carefully, and I always listen to him."

Naturally, it was impossible for him to trust Qiao Yang completely. No matter what Qiao Yang's attitude was, it was not even worth testing for him.

It's just that when he first arrived in the capital, he had to first appease and win people's hearts. After that... it would take a long time for him to become the emperor and his ministers.

Eager to suppress everyone with bloodshed is an unjust and unjust approach of the Ming Dynasty, and it is not suitable for the Li family like him.

Seeing Li Yin coming in person, Qiao Yang hurriedly asked people to serve tea.

The three of them sat together and had tea. Luo Guanlin said little. Li Yin appreciated Qiao Jijiu's hard work and the difficulty of these days. Qiao Jijiu said something that was not appropriate and stood up to salute Li Yin: "I'm going to lower my official position. I want to act on behalf of the Imperial College." All the supervisors would like to thank you, Your Majesty, for your support in Gyeonggi Province!"

Li Yin then stood up and helped Qiao Jijiu's arm.

No one on either side discussed their positions, and no one mentioned Chang Suining or Li Suining. They only talked about the situation in the capital and the many chaos and harm caused by the Bian Chunliang Rebellion.

When the golden sun was about to set, Li Yin said goodbye and left, and Qiao Yang personally escorted him out of the Imperial Academy.

Seeing Li Yin and his entourage walking away, Qiao Yang, who had become much thinner, turned around and walked back with the boy.

During the conversation, King Rong mentioned that he came from Dayun Temple...

Qiao Yang breathed a sigh of relief in her heart.

As early as a few months ago, Meng Lie sent a message to him through a hidden stake, asking him to try to destroy the white jade statue in the Goddess Pagoda before King Rong entered the capital.

Meng Lie didn't elaborate, but Qiao Yang guessed that it must be related to the resurrection of His Highness...

So he spread the word through the mouths of students whose fathers worked in Qin Tian Prison that the national fortune and feng shui were hidden in Tiannv Tower. It was the best choice to let Bian Chunliang do it. It was reasonable and would not arouse the suspicion of King Rong.

It can be seen from King Rong's attitude that the other party does not know that Suining is His Highness... It is best not to know. If he knows, he will go crazy. How can he maintain such a decent gentleman at this time? appearance?

And then again, who can imagine such a bizarre thing?

Qiao Yang looked towards the north, with sighs and worries in his eyes. Even now, he often felt unrealistic, as if all this was just an imaginary dream, a dream weaved for the suffering people.

Sensing that Master Jijiu was worried about the country and the people, the boy comforted him: "Jiujiu, it's rare for us to have free time. Let's go fishing? You haven't fished for a long time!"

Qiao Yang turned to glare at him.

The book boy thought he had made a mistake and shrank his neck. The next moment, I saw Qiao Yang laughing, her feigned anger dissipated: "What a suggestion, let's go, hurry up!"

The book boy breathed a sigh of relief and followed Qiao Yang, who was walking away quickly, with a smile.

The autumn wind blows, the fish are fat, and the fragrance of chrysanthemums fills the nose.

In the palace of Prince Rong of the capital, autumn chrysanthemums of various colors bloomed in the wind, welcoming the owner who had not returned for a long time.

Even though some officials politely suggested that Li Yin could stay in the palace to handle various affairs, Li Yin never agreed and still lived back in his former mansion.

Li Lu naturally returned to the palace, and Ma Wan was placed alone in a remote courtyard.

At this moment, women's shrill screams could be heard from time to time in this small courtyard.

When the woman's screams stopped, they were replaced by Wen Po's screams.

Not long after, the Wen woman crawled out of the house without even having time to wipe the blood on her hands. With a trembling voice, she knelt down to apologize to the clean young man wearing a cloak in the courtyard.

Ma Wan gave birth, but the baby she gave birth to was silent.

It was an extremely thin dead baby.

Li Lu still went to look at it, caressing it with his pale fingers, a sarcastic smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and said in a low and slow voice: "Sure enough...it really does look like me."

Being as lifeless as him was not enough to survive in this world.

Li Lu's cold eyes lingered on the child. The maid beside him was so frightened that her face was as white as paper and she was shaking like chaff.

"There is no need to tell my father." Li Lu finally spoke to her: "My father is on the occasion of great joy, how could he hear such unlucky things."

Li Lu said, looking outside the house, as if he saw the lively scene of powerful officials coming and going in the front yard. It was clear that he was so close, but he was in a cold hell.

The maid took the child away, and Ma Wan, covered in blood, suddenly jumped out of bed.

She was so thin that there was only a handful of bones left, her eye sockets were sunken, and the eyes embedded in them showed a look of madness, and her voice gradually became shrill and abnormal.

During these days of being imprisoned, Ma Wan had already shown signs of confusion.

Giving birth to a stillborn child at this moment is like the last string of reason breaking.

After she cried and made a fuss, she suddenly seemed to calm down, fell to the ground, and said in a daze: "You don't want to come to this world, right... It doesn't matter if you don't come, it doesn't matter..."

"That's not right." The next moment he looked confused again. He sat up suddenly and stumbled into the hospital to look for: "My child, where is my child!"

Li Lu watched quietly and did not let anyone stop her.

Ma Wan looked around, looking panicked. She felt like the world was spinning and she was unable to support herself. She fell to the ground, and then crawled towards a potted plant.

Chrysanthemums are planted in the pots, blooming as white as snow.

"You go back into my mother's belly..." She grabbed the flowers with both hands and began to crazily stuff the white chrysanthemum into her mouth, chewing it in a panic: "My mother, swallow you back and give you another life! One more time. Enough!"

With her hair disheveled, she sat there helplessly swallowing the chewed petals, one after another, repeating crazy words in her mouth.

At some point, Li Lu walked up to her, slowly squatted down, looked at her, and gently wiped the flower juice crumbs from the corners of her mouth with his fingers, saying with a gentle smile: "Wan'er, you seem to be crazy. ”

"Since you are crazy, then I won't kill you." His voice was low, his movements were extremely gentle, and his smiling eyes showed dissociation upon closer inspection. He said dissociatedly: "A dead man, a madman, so It’s not bad for company.”

The blood-stained petals were blown up by the wind.

There are many voices hidden in this year's autumn wind, bustling and flying everywhere.

After Li Yin informed the world that the capital was settled, he went to Taiyuan to welcome the emperor back to the capital.

In addition, Luo Guanlin wrote the book and went to turbulent places to preach and call for peace.

He also invited officials, scholars and talented people from all over the country to come to Beijing to discuss the plan for peace and stability - even officials in Jiangdu, Luoyang, and Taiyuan received the letter. Even to those officials who originally supported Li Suining as the crown princess, Li Yin also showed no regrets, treated them politely, and invited them to return to Beijing.

Li Yin never mentioned the word "Crown Princess" from beginning to end. He did not belittle or be hostile to her. He neither acknowledged nor denied her identity, as if he just pretended that she did not exist.

But at the same time, what spread everywhere was the news that Li Suining went deep into Beidi alone.

Some people said that her life or death was uncertain, and some even claimed that she had been buried in Beidi. For a while, people were in a storm.

On one side is the heroic young girl who does not know whether she will live or die, and on the other side is the tolerant and steady Lian Daren who has already taken over the capital. There seems to be no suspense about how the world will choose.

Regardless of the public opinion in other places, as long as there is no second college in Huainan Road, some students want to leave Jiangdu and go to Beijing, but they unexpectedly attract obstruction and criticism from their classmates.

Faced with the disdain of his classmates, the student gradually became more and more fierce in his words: "We are studying to serve the prosperous world. Now that the capital has been established and the king is benevolent, it is the time to employ people. Why can't I go to the capital! Could it be that I have entered this shameless world?" The Second Court can only be locked up here and be loyal to one person! What I study is the book of governing the world, not the book of betrayal!"

"... Pang Zhouyan! Don't forget, in these troubled times, who gave us books to study, and who gave us a stable place to study!" A young man retorted with red eyes: "There is no politics in reading. But we scholars have it! A drop of kindness should be repaid by a spring. If you go to Beijing at this time, it is equivalent to being an enemy of Her Majesty the Crown Princess. In fact, you are repaying a favor with a villain!"

"Yes, I am a villain!" The man said in a loud voice: "If I had a choice, I would also be willing to work for Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess. Her Highness went to Beidi alone, and I have great respect for you! But you can't make a future with admiration alone. !”

"Your Highness, her life or death is uncertain. There are already countless people who have come to the capital. If we stick to this place, we will be hated, excluded and suppressed by the people above... No matter how many books we read, we can only read them in vain!"

An angry young man wants to step forward and say, "You only have a vain future in your eyes, but where do you put your benevolence, justice, etiquette, and trustworthiness!"

When the situation was chaotic, Zheng Chao appeared, stopped the chaos, and said: "Let him go."

"...House Master!"

"The envoy once said that there are no two courtyards built for the people of the world, no matter where they come from or where they go." Zheng Chao looked at the young man: "As long as the original intention of governing the world and bringing peace to the people is not lost, it will not be considered as living up to the envoy." Heartfelt."

The young man named Pang Zhouyan had tears in his eyes. He bowed deeply and bowed deeply. After a long time, he turned away with tears in his eyes.

Zheng Chao looked at the students: "Anyone who wants to go with us can leave."

Everyone around looked moved, but they became more determined: "If the envoy does not send back a clear message for a day, we will not leave for a day!"

They can't stay here, but at least they have to accompany the envoy until the end... When the envoy returns, they will swear loyalty to the death. And if the envoy is really gone, it won't be too late for them to find a way to make a living again.

This little persistence, even if it costs them the so-called shortcut to a bright future... is one of the few things they can use to repay the envoy!

Good night~

Don’t worry, everyone, I can write about Ning Ning in the next chapter. There are not many chapters left. There is a high probability that this book will not exceed 700 chapters. Book lovers who are anxious about the plot can also save up.