Record of ups and downs in troubled times

The daily competition in the capital city became lively.

First, in front of the court and in front of all the officials, Cheng Nan, the prime minister of the current court, led the crowd to impeach Xiaoxiang King Liu Yu for "embezzlement of national wealth, and disregarding the lives and deaths of the people for his own self-interest", which made "Xiang Wang afraid of the scandal being exposed, so he was in the palace. In the palace city, the gossip that bribed the emperor's attendant Su Jun to assassinate the prime minister was all the rage in the streets and alleys; later, King Xiaoxiang bumped into the sneaky prime minister's son Cheng Xiao in the palace, seized the handle, and bit the prime minister back The government "sneaks in the court, I don't know what the intention is."

They each had their own reasons, and there was a lot of trouble for a while.

This time Cheng Nan impeached King Xiang, but he came prepared: there were more than a dozen officials, big and small, who were invited by him to testify in the capital of the court, plus a crying and making trouble, who had been wronged by the little King Xiang Fu Xiyuan, the imperial historian, went to court every day like a funeral, pressing every step of the way, and he had the posture that Liu Yu would never give up if he died.

On the other side, King Xiang ordered his family Ding to detain Cheng Xiao in his own mansion, accusing the Cheng family of "intending to spy on the affairs of the palace, harboring evil intentions, and not to be lightly forgiven", and his words all reflected the Cheng family's overhead of imperial power.He has a reason for this, and there are people in the imperial capital who are dissatisfied with the Cheng family for a long time, and they are quite determined to win.

But Cheng Hanfeng has a deep foundation, no matter how King Xiaoxiang attacks the Cheng family, the capital city is still controlled by him.In addition, Liu Yu's own butt can't be wiped clean, how can he have the position to talk about other people's merits?But half a month later, this fleshy and soft guy saw that his situation was almost over, so he ran out of the city in a hurry and went to join Lu Guang, the garrison in the south.

The current situation is as Liu Pu expected before: Lu Guang has already made peace with Uncle Feng secretly, and was urged by King Xiaoxiang to come to the capital to "King Qin"!

Qin Wang? !

I'm afraid that when Lu Guang conquers the capital, he will be a few steps away from death as the emperor!

In an abandoned garden in the southwestern corner of Miyagi, a man was wearing a fur coat and surrounded by a furnace, staring at the flames in the furnace, frowning tightly, as if he was full of worries in his heart.The house here is really too remote, cold and damp, and the light is very dim. In addition, half of the man's face is tucked into the collar, so he can't see his face clearly. He can only vaguely see that his inner clothes are slightly loose and crooked, probably because he was in a panic. Just hid here.

The garden is very secluded, and the perennial lack of human presence makes dry vines surround the broken walls and ruins, adding to the sense of loneliness.A small yellow gate in Tsing Yi tiptoed into the garden from the small path, carefully avoiding the gravel everywhere, but accidentally startled a white crow perched on a dead tree, startled by the whirring sound of its quivering wings, and backed away After a few steps, he fell and sat on a pile of bricks and tiles.

The white crow circled the garden for two weeks before flapping its wings and flying away.

Watching the crow fly away, the young man suddenly remembered what his master told him, and hurriedly got up from the ground, only to see that the closed door was half opened, and there was a man wrapped in fox fur standing in front of the door. The man also raised his head to look at the white crow fluttering away in the air.

"Your Majesty..." Huang De knew that he had slipped his words, and immediately covered his mouth and looked around. Seeing no one around, he lowered his voice and said, "Why are you standing there? It's cold outside, and there are so many soldiers..."

"No problem." Emperor Liu Pu stretched out his hand, grasped it in the air, grabbed a piece of scattered and shattered snowflakes in his hand, and asked, "What's the situation outside? The palace city is broken." ?”

It is almost spring now, but the weather is still cold. Coupled with the wars in recent days, the people may be displaced, and the court may have to go through a long period of recuperation.

For hundreds of years, although the foreign races on the border have invaded several times, they have never invaded the edge of the capital.The only two wars against the capital were actually caused by civil strife... The military system of the DPRK has always been quite flawed. In the past, in order to consolidate the border and customs military defense, too much power was delegated to local generals, so now it has resulted in repeated civil wars. It can only be said that it is self-inflicted.Liu Pu originally planned to reform the military control while he was in power, but now I am afraid that he will never have the chance again.

"The city has not yet been broken. But since... the news of the martyrdom was released, there has been chaos in the city. It is rumored that General Zou Ji has mobilized to gather the imperial guards. He said that unless the prime minister gives an explanation, he will never work for the country without a master. .”

The person who died for the country in Huang De's mouth was a scapegoat dug out by Zhou Chang's attendant from prison.This poor thing should have been put on a royal robe and pushed down from a hundred feet high tower.

The "Emperor of Chaoguo" has already died for his country, that is to say, everyone in the capital will not notice Liu Pu himself who is still alive for a while.

"Master, tell me to send someone to escort you out of the palace when things are more stable outside. He asks you to wait another hour or two..."

Just as the words were being said, there was a sudden sound of footsteps in the garden. Judging from their voices, they seemed to be coming here.After all, Huang De was young, so he immediately looked at the emperor in a panic, only to see Liu Pu made a silent gesture towards him, stretched out his hand and pulled out a short sword with a forearm length from the warm blanket beside him, and held it on the hilt. The muscles and bones of a few fingers are clear, and they already have killing intent.

The sound of footsteps hesitated for a moment in front of the door, and lightly knocked on the door three times.

Boom, thump, thump.

Huang De only felt that these three knocks were not on the door, but on his own spine, which made his chest ache.

Naturally, no one answered at the door, and the people outside the door were no longer polite, and directly pushed open the two doors, and then respectfully made three big salutes to Liu Pu outside the threshold.

The visitor looked calm, as if he knew that His Majesty the emperor who was rumored to have died "martyred for his country" was not actually martyred for his country, but was hiding in this desolate garden.

Liu Pu pursed his lips tightly, looked at a man in a tough outfit and a few burly soldiers standing silently behind him, and unconsciously moved his short sword half an inch forward, revealing a little edge He came out and asked sharply, "Who is here?!"

The man was not ambiguous, and obediently reported his name: "The servant is a general under the command of Doctor Yushi. On the doctor's order, I implore Your Majesty to come to the mansion to explain!"

The doctor Yushi is Fu Xiyuan, and Fu Xiyuan is one of Cheng Nan's subordinates... Could it be that the "martyrdom" drama that Zhou Zheng painstakingly arranged did not hide the vicious eyes of Cheng Nan, an old fox?

Thinking of this, Liu Pu smiled slightly: "Interesting."

He has been an emperor for so many years since he was a child, and he hasn't learned much else, but he is very proficient in inconsistency.At this time, there was a faint smile on his face, but in fact, the dagger in his hand had already been handed over in an instant, and the speed was so cold that he might be able to cut off ten heads side by side at the same time.

He wasn't completely sure that he could escape from this abandoned garden, but he was definitely sure to kill a few pawns first to vent his anger.

"Your Majesty!" A woman's exclamation broke into the oblique stab, causing the blade in Liu Pu's hand to stop two inches in front of the general's throat.Taking a closer look, this woman is not someone else, but Fu Xiyuan's daughter, Fu Concubine of the dynasty!She was supposed to stay in the harem with all the concubines, but why did she appear here at this moment?

"It's a good combination of inside and outside."

Knowing that he couldn't escape, Liu Pu became more open-minded and open-minded.He let go and threw the dagger that was almost stained with blood into Huang De's arms behind him, then stretched out two slender fingers, slowly gathered the loose hair on the temples into the crown, and went outside the door first, quite a bit going to the execution ground alone means.

"Your Majesty," Concubine Fu couldn't bear it after all, she raised the hem of her clothes and followed behind her ear, "My father is not as sycophant as you think... Please rest assured that this trip, Your Majesty, he will never do you any harm..."

Although Fu Qizhen looks ordinary, her heart is not bad.Since entering the palace for many days, she has always been cautious in her words and deeds, never made a wrong step, and she is kind and courteous when meeting people, Liu Pu knows all of this.Furthermore, Fu Qizhen is quite talented, although she is a woman, she has read more books than ordinary men, even the bedroom has little rouge and gouache, but is full of bamboo books and sandalwood, which is quite interesting in the mountains and wild huts.

In this regard, it is very similar to Yan Gui.

Probably because of this woman's aura similar to Yan Gui's, the emperor couldn't bear to make things difficult for her.But now she, a mere concubine Fu, dared to inquire about the emperor's whereabouts privately, and colluded with the Fu family outside the palace to arrest her, how could he bear it?

The emperor sneered three times, kept silent, and went out of the garden with a group of soldiers.Huang De thought about it, and just wanted to find an opportunity to get away to inform and report a letter to his master Zhou Zheng, but he didn't want to be dragged away by two soldiers with quick eyes and quick hands, and invited them out of the palace together.

"My lord, you are already on your way."

Fu Xiyuan stood up, twirling the two blue sea thread beads with the porcelain flowers worn off in his hand, and nodded slowly.He thought for a moment, then asked again: "Can't Zhou Changshi teach the emperor to hide alone? Have the people he sent cleaned up?"

"Don't worry," the young general who came to report couldn't bear to see the dropped porcelain bead being tortured in Fu Xiyuan's hands, so he turned his eyes and comforted him: "Don't worry. Before they left the palace, you have already told them three times , there must be no mistakes. The prime minister is busy fighting with King Xiang, and I am afraid he has no time to take care of me."

Fu Xiyuan rubbed the two porcelain beads on the ground and said in his heart: I can rest assured!If this kid Qi Chen was still around, who would be willing to make such a fuss here!Tut tut!Sure enough, my son is easier to use than outsiders.

"By the way, servant here has one more thing to report." The young general was about to leave, but suddenly remembered something and stopped, "Just now Uncle Wang asked me to tell my lord, saying that the young master has not returned home for a long time, and I want to ask about it." Do you know where the young master has gone? If you don't know, then Uncle Wang has to prepare to send someone out to find the young master."

Uncle Wang is the housekeeper of the Fu family and also a distant relative of Mrs. Fu's family.Because the old man lived a hard life alone, he came to join Fu's family; and Fu Xiyuan is not a person who likes to put on airs, so the relationship with each other is very close, but when it comes to young master Fu Qichen, I am afraid that Uncle Wang is better than Fu Xiyuan. Be a father's heart.

"Don't worry about him," Fu Xiyuan snorted coldly, "this kid, I don't know where to go crazy again. Now that the city is in chaos, if you make him suffer twice, you will know that going outside is no better than staying at home. .”

"But……"

"Speak quickly! Who taught you to hesitate?" Fu Xiyuan frowned and scolded, completely forgetting his family's bear crying poor in the court.

"But... the young master is old enough to go out to practice, but he doesn't know martial arts. I'm afraid he will stumble outside without the care of his family." The Fu family is extremely kind to the servants. Working by Fu Xiyuan's side, his tone of voice was very friendly when he spoke, "The young master didn't come home, and the lady married into the palace again. Seeing that our family is gradually getting colder, I always feel that..."

"Home doesn't feel like home anymore?" Fu Xiyuan asked back.

"That's not what it means," Xiaojia Jiang hesitated, but Fu Xiyuan gave him a glare when he wanted to defend himself, so he had to confess honestly: "I'm almost...that's what you mean."

If the country will not be the country, how can we take care of the family.

Besides, how can there be a feast that lasts forever?His Fu family doesn't have the blessing of gods, so how can he ensure that his family will not fall apart in this troubled world?

Fu Xiyuan only thought about this in his heart, but didn't say it.He just put his hand on the skinny shoulder of the little general, patted it, and said softly: "It will be fine when the chaos is over."

As he said this, he caught a glimpse of two porcelain beads in his hand.

This bead was brought to him by Fu Qichen before, it's not a good thing, otherwise the porcelain wouldn't be worn off.But these two fake beads were the testimony of the last time he saw Fu Qichen.

They were a reminder, a belated farewell: that his son, indeed, was never coming back.