I just like the Prime Minister

For more than a month, the April fragrance in the world is over, and the summer has not yet arrived.

The spring rain in the capital lasted for five or six days. In the dampness and irritability that will be born in the warm spring, God has planned a sunny day with a clear sky for thousands of miles. in the shadows.

The Khitan envoys, who were waiting for many days with their own concerns and ghosts in mind, entered the capital in a mighty way on this day.

On the day when the Khitan entered the city, the nine gates of the capital were opened wide. King Rui Li Chengsi, on the orders of the emperor, went outside the nine gates to greet the victorious Marshal Pei and the soldiers of the three armies. The imperial guards of the capital lined up solemnly and stood behind Prince Rui With the armor on his body and the weapon in his hand, anyone with a discerning eye can see the posture of being ready for battle—Prince Rui's name is "Welcome", which is actually a precaution. Even Young General Pei who "escorted" the Khitan envoy back to the capital all the way, It is in the name of "harmony and friendship, and comprehensive maintenance of envoys", and the reality of surveillance.

Dayu's monarchs and ministers followed suit, and they had a great time selling dog meat under the guise of sheep.

On the contrary, the people in the capital are much more relaxed than these officials who eat the king's salary. It is rare to have this opportunity to see the demeanor of a famous general. What's more, the bold girl of a certain age, who heard about General Pei's heroic demeanor from nowhere, hid in the crowd full of girlish thoughts, and was going to give General Pei a "fruit cart"-girls are gentle and gentle. To be honest, if His Majesty were to change the emperor, I'm afraid he would specially send someone to Fanbangyi to find that thorny fruit, and smash it on Pei Wenyuan's forehead.

The ostentation and rewards inside and outside the city are not shown. When the army entered the capital, some officials from the Ministry of Rites brought the inexplicably arrogant Khitan envoys to the post for tea. Pei Wenyuan received the emperor's oral order from Prince Rui, ordering him "don't need to enter the palace immediately." Xie En, go to the banquet at night to clean up the dust for the hero." Only then did he breathe a sigh of relief.

The politeness that the emperor said does not mean that Pei Wenyuan was really polite to go down the slope. If he turned around and returned to the mansion in a cool manner at this time, he would not have to wait for him to go to the banquet. "Disrespect" and "taking credit and pride" are enough to flood Pei Shuai's mansion into Jinshan Temple—a bold man who was born as a general, sometimes it is hard to understand the twists and turns of the sour literati who have read too much.

Pei Wenyuan was fine, after all, he was born in a noble family in the middle of the capital, even though he was tired of these things, he knew he had to deal with it patiently, politely "cared" for the body of the Holy Dragon with Prince Rui, and thanked the court for his kindness from afar, before letting him go People took him to find a place to rest.

In the evening, I have to go to the palace for a banquet. It is inappropriate to leave a place for the generals to rest. It is too far away from the palace, and it cannot be arranged simply in the palace. In the end, the higher-ups issued an order. The Yamen is waiting for the order.

This is indeed a suitable place, Pei Wenyuan received the order to thank him, and headed for the yamen.

The yamen of the Ministry of War is usually visited by a group of military generals, and even this yamen has a large and rough style-there are no delicate and graceful carved beams and painted buildings under the glazed tiles and vermilion lacquer walls. In this summer season, there are too many With a bit of heroic solemnity, Pei Wenyuan led the people off the horse and walked out of Kuan Street, facing the school grounds.

Those who returned to the capital with Pei Wenyuan were some of Pei Shuai's capable generals.This group of generals had been putting on airs to deal with the twists and turns prepared by the Ministry of Rites all morning. They spoke loudly in order not to scare their pretentious and polite colleagues. The ground is like a freshly baked big girl at the border. After being so aggrieved for several hours, she finally arrived at a somewhat familiar place.

A few people glanced at the swords, guns, swords and halberds in the school field, as if hungry wolves saw the braised pork, and immediately couldn't sit still, pushing and shoving each other to compete with each other.

Pei Wenyuan knew that it was the grand ceremony when he entered the city in the morning that these restless lunatics were held back, and he also respected his father's subordinates, so he smiled and let them go, waved off the few military officers who had been with him, and went around by himself. After passing the Baosha corridor on the side of the school yard, I went alone to find a clean place.

The backyard of the Yamen of the Ministry of War is a garden, the style is "unrefined" as seen by the eyes, and even the tumi that heralds the "end of flowers" is not included in this rough pattern.

The grass is wild grass, which grows quite luxuriantly; the tree is a wild tree, and at this time, its branches have been pulled out to give birth to a small piece of new green shade. Two words of deep affection and friendship.

The only thing that can be seen here is an old tree in the west of the garden pavilion. It is said that it was planted by a famous general who would rather die than surrender. Now that there is no one to take care of it, it still grows proudly and has a lot of integrity—— —As for the authenticity, anyway, everyone spreads it that way, and as time goes by, they all take it seriously.

Pei Wenyuan felt that the tree was quite interesting, so he simply sat by the pavilion and looked at the old tree that had been destroyed by wind and rain for many years before it grew into this "full of wind and frost" appearance, and he went up it very cheaply. Poked two fingers.

The old tree really seems to have inherited the hard-hearted integrity of the tree planters. General Pei's two fingers poked out a temper that would rather die than surrender. He proudly shook the new green leaves that had just grown this spring, and shook them off shamelessly. A lively and fragrant caterpillar just landed on the back of General Pei Shao's hand that hadn't been taken back, and he caught it straight.

Fat Chongzi writhed in displeasure, rolled down his forcedly exposed belly, stared innocently at a pair of black bean eyes, and looked affectionately at Pei Wenyuan.

Pei Wenyuan: "..."

As soon as General Pei returned home from the border, he suddenly encountered malice from the capital.

Originally, such a thing that was neither shameful nor honorable, I brushed my clothes away silently, which was enough to hide my merits and fame. However, before General Pei put on a dignified and heroic posture, I heard someone laughing clearly from behind. speak up.

Pei Wenyuan was taken aback for a moment, struggling for a moment between "killing people and destroying mouths" and "destroying corpses and destroying traces". He turned around with an upright face, and when he saw the person behind him, all his temper and embarrassment melted in that instant. A helpless smile.

He shook off the caterpillar that was "happy to meet him" with one hand, clasped his fists together, and performed a general's salute, but his tone of voice was relaxed like that of someone he knew well: "I thought that the prime minister could only be seen at the palace banquet at night... ...Don't come here without any problems, Junchi."

A person circled out from behind the corridor, mended his official uniform, a modest gentleman, with a gentle smile like jade, it was Jiang Xizhu: "I haven't seen you for many years, but I still have the same demeanor, brother Yiming."

Pei Wenyuan also laughed. He has been in the border for many years, and he has become accustomed to the straightforwardness of a warrior. At this moment, he just tore out a bit of the gentleness of a family member from the carelessness of a warrior, and came back with a whirlwind: "Where is that? You are about the same age as me to be raised in Beijing, but now you can still afford to say 'a young man is like a jade', I am not what I used to be... The Prime Minister has a lot of work to do, why do you have time to stroll around the Ministry of War today?"

"Yiming, you're used to making fun of me." Jiang Xizhu didn't take his jokes seriously, "I heard you're here, so I made a special trip to take a look."

Pei Wenyuan knew what he was referring to, but when he heard this, he started to joke: "Why, it's only two or three hours before the palace banquet, so I can't wait for a while, I really want to believe that brother, you have a deep friendship with me. "

Jiang Xizhu snorted, as if accusing him of being unscrupulous, and was about to prevaricate him, but heard a less serious voice from behind him: "I really can't wait, General Pei, but I can't wait." Not the prime minister, but me."

Jiang Xizhu and Pei Wenyuan were stunned at the same time, turned their heads and looked back, and saw that Li Chengzuo was wearing a black spring shirt, which was low-key but unobtrusive, with a graceful and graceful attitude, which looked like a bell ringing from a distance. The son of the family game world.

He walked out from the shadow of the corridor leisurely, but the peach blossom eyes were full of spring warmth, and there seemed to be a slightly mean smile on the corner of his lips: "These days when General Pei was at the border, I It is a rare peace of mind in the court, so I can't wait to come and ask, when will the general continue to guard the border gate that makes me sleep and eat for me?"

Jiang Xizhu: "..."

Pei Wenyuan: "..."

Throughout the ages, no emperor has treated heroes like this. This is a hero who has just won a battle. Li Chengzuo's brows and eyes reveal the meaning of "you get out of here." Yan Erdi said to Pei Wenyuan, "Cut and make a decision".

Although Li Chengzuo has been a fool all year round, although Pei Wenyuan is not pedantic, even if he has complaints, he will not contradict him face to face. He can't spy on Li Chengzuo, and he doesn't know where he has offended this emperor who is like a needle in the sea, so he just glanced at Jiang Xizhu beside him inexplicably. .

Looking at it, I found that Jiang Xizhu was glaring at the direction Li Chengzuo came out with a blue face, and was taken aback for a while, as if he knew something, but he didn't think anything through, so he had to salute in a regular manner, and by the way, he said to him: "The last general, Pei Wenyuan, didn't know that the emperor was coming, so he was far away to welcome him. Please greet my emperor. Long live the five emperors."

I don't know which compliment paid off. Li Chengzuo's right and wrong, like a cat's hairy hair, was calmed down a lot in an instant, but at this time he still looked at people arrogantly from the corner of his eyes, pretending to be slow and rambling , I can't wait to break one word into twenty.

"I see that the weather is good today... Come here, Aiqing, look at this day, it has not been so refreshing for a long time, because of such a good weather, I brought the prime minister out in micro clothes, unexpectedly, Shi Chen The choice was just right, and I happened to see General Pei's heroic appearance when he returned to the capital. I didn't care about you, why didn't Jiang Qing remind me."

As he said, he pretended to help Pei Wenyuan who had already stood up, and gave Jiang Xizhu a "blaming" look.

Jiang Xizhu: "..."

Pretend to be the same as the real thing.

Seeing him winking and winking in a serious manner, Jiang Xizhu suddenly felt that reading too many sage books would not do much good. At least when he wanted to kill the king, he always felt constrained. Li Chengzuo, this bastard, is probably just as good as a knife.

"Your Majesty." Jiang Xizhu gritted his teeth and paused every word, "There are still some things that need to be reported to you by General Pei. Have you forgotten?"

Seeing that his prime minister was about to get angry, Li Chengzuo finally managed to pull out the four big words "accept it when you see it" from his mind, and pretended to be serious: "What the prime minister said is that I do have something to ask General Pei... ...May I ask the general, did the Taoist priest captured by the Khitan people talk to the general?"

Jiang Xizhu knew that the Khitan peace talks were fraudulent, and it was Pei Wenyuan who corresponded, and Pei Wenyuan abandoned the memorial to return to Beijing, and instead used the roundabout method of correspondence with friends, which obviously showed that what he knew was either something strange, or the truth was uncertain.

Pei Wenyuan is a general who leads troops to fight. He has a father and then a lieutenant general. If it is really an obvious problem, or a non-important problem, it is not his turn or not to be cautious, but it happens He came to send a letter back to Beijing in such a covert way to remind Jiang Xizhu that it was obvious that someone had said something to him on purpose, which aroused his suspicion and made him alert at the same time.

Jiang Xizhu and Li Chengzuo thought about it, this person who might have something to say to Pei Wenyuan, and what he said was a message that needed to be conveyed in such a cryptic manner, except for the unreliable Daoist Zixu, he was hardly the second choice.

Hearing this, Pei Wenyuan couldn't help but look seriously, looked around vigilantly, and quietly let the emperor and Jiang Xizhu into the gazebo in the back garden: "Please sit down, Your Majesty."

Li Chengzuo seemed not to be afraid that the wall had ears at all, and sat upright.

On the other hand, Pei Wenyuan's face was solemn, and he carefully looked around for a long while before he said hesitantly: "In the name of protecting the safety of the national division, the Khitan people proposed to divide the troops into two groups. On the one side, the ministers and others will go first, and on the other side, only the Khitan people will go. Know the hidden mountain road, 'escort' the national teacher back to the court, and bring some tributes."

Li Chengzuo frowned: "Why didn't Pei Shuai refuse directly?"

Naturally, the question was Old General Pei.

Pei Wenyuan hesitated to speak, thought it over for a while, and said with all his heart: "The attitude of the court and the court is stalemate, and my father doesn't want to make trouble... My father also feels that Khitan is a barbarian, and there are many different things. There is no rush for this moment."

Li Chengzuo heard what he meant, and said without comment: "Go on."

Pei Wenyuan said: "The arrogant emissary who was traveling with the minister was arrogant and rude all the way, he didn't take hard and soft words, and he didn't know what to ask. He and the Khitan people who went the other way usually used a domesticated falcon. The falcon It is extremely ferocious, and it can hunt cattle and sheep. I am afraid that there are no natural enemies for it on the Khitan grasslands, and it only obeys the orders of the Khitan people. However, when the falcon flew back one day, it was burnt and bald with a piece of feather... The Khitan man With a bad temper, seeing the falcon injured, he slipped his tongue in anger... The Khitan people who accompanied the national teacher not only put the national teacher under house arrest, but also captured the guardian holy beast that the national teacher kept alive in the mountains of Liaodong—the Khitan people said , this holy beast is a monster that spits flames. They originally wanted to tame it by boiling an eagle, but they suffered countless casualties, so they planned to use it to make things difficult for Dayu..."

The author has something to say: one more chapter.