Chang'an [Rebirth]

Zhang Fan was actually a little curious. When he took the tiger talisman in his hand to fool Old General Xue, his calves trembled, and he didn't know anything about it except for the words from Junjun Ruan.

He grew up in Mobei since he was a child, and he has no acquaintances in Liangjiang. This time, he came here alone, without any entourage.

No matter how Zhang Fan thought about it, he felt that he was going to die, but before he was picked up by someone from the palace, Ruan Linshuang left him this sentence, "The time has come, you can go at ease." Thinking about it now, it is simply a sentence. The clichés of the magic stick to fool people, but at that time, they bit the bullet and believed it.

"Little General," Zhang Fan looked at Chai Zheng putting away the Tiger Talisman, and said again, "What if, I mean, what if Old General Xue didn't recognize the fake Tiger Talisman and instead exposed it to the public, wouldn't that be a bad thing for you and the military adviser?" Annihilation?"

"Jiang is old and hot, and General Xue is not stupid. When the late emperor was there, he served in the army and saw many intrigues. Regardless of the fact that the garrison has been killed and injured in the siege of water robbers for years because of food and grass, it is said that he and Liang Jiang If the governor is not on the same page, how can he rest assured of the court?" Zhang Fan is still young, so Chai Zheng will inevitably have to remind him, "Besides, General Xue understands that the current emperor is suspicious. Even if I am imprisoned after he reports, Zhao Qian will ask more questions. In a word, with so many commanders and generals in Dajing, why don't I find someone else, just Xue Yu?"

Zhang Fan gasped. If Zhao Qian really cared, even if he didn't attack Xue Yu at the beginning, it's hard to guarantee that there will be no changes in the future.

"Then why did the military advisor tell me 'the time has come'?" Zhang Fan was taken aback, and easily refused to let the Chai Zheng go, he had to reassure himself.

"You also went to Liangjiang, didn't you find that there is already turbulence there, even if no one is fanning the flames, is it only a straw away from collapse?" Chai Zheng shook his head, "Young man, you are still far away."

"..." Is my general and military adviser a goblin?The two rivers in Mobei are thousands of miles away, can you know this?

Ruan Linshuang may really be a goblin, but Chai Zheng can guarantee that she is not. She just relied on the blessings of her previous life. She knew in advance that this spring, the Yangtze River would flood, and floods would break out again in the land of two rivers that feed the world. Deductions, the people were displaced and mourned, and this was just the eve.

In the autumn, most of the farmland has no harvest. Liangjiang has to supply food and grass for border defense. Unless the imperial court orders, it cannot be seconded like other provinces. There was no food for many days, and many horses starved to death. Finally, bandits, thieves, mobs, and deserters were everywhere. In order to survive, they murdered and set fire to even robbed the state capital. Return to stability.

This attack also caused a huge loss to Dajing at that time. If it weren't for this, the whole country would not be as fragile as a piece of paper, and it would be broken into countless parts if it was torn casually.

Xiao Ruan chose this time to be the time when people's hearts are fluctuating up and down, as long as there is a spark, it can be ignited into a prairie fire.

"Zhang Fan, I have one more thing for you." Chai Zheng became serious with a straight face.

"Don't, don't," Zhang Fan was most afraid of the dignified face of the little general, so he hurriedly said, "If there is anything to do, just tell the little general."

"In a few days, the world will be in chaos, and Chang'an City will not be spared," Chai Zheng said, "My family, including my brother who has no strength to restrain a chicken, please watch over me."

"Yes, this subordinate has an order!" Zhang Fan raised his chest with his legs together, and said after a while, "Little general, do you really want to do such a rebellious act? As a subject who commits rebellion, even if you can succeed, you will be famous in history." It must not be pretty either."

"I didn't draw a pretty picture. I drew a blood debt owed to me by Zhao Qian more than ten years ago, and..." Chai Zheng's face softened, and she smiled, "You came out of Liangzhou, and you have seen this There are countless scenery and people's livelihood from the north to the south. The imperial court in the capital has changed, but the imperial court below is still a mess left by the late emperor. Turn a blind eye to this.”

"So I still plan to live and work in peace and contentment. Everyone has food to eat. Soldiers far away at the border don't have to starve or wait for death. When I get old, I can support myself as an ordinary farmer in the mountains and rivers."

"In life, there should always be some desire to help the world and save the people. Since I can do it, why should I be timid."

Zhang Fan often felt that his general didn't look like a 15-year-old girl. Her vision was too high and wide. Even if she stood on the top of the Forbidden City, she couldn't see the scenery she had seen.

"General," Zhang Fan didn't bring the word "little" this time, and finally there was some smile on his youthful face, "Wang Wan is right, we are the soldiers brought out by you, no matter what you want to do , even if you are scolded by the world, we will give you an excuse, so you can move forward with confidence."

These words have a shadow of his decisiveness, calmness and self-control in the future.

Chai Zheng patted him on the shoulder, "Okay, you should be tired after such a long journey back and forth, go and rest."

Only then did Zhang Fan leave, and only Chai Zheng was left in the empty yard. There were cloudy clouds in the sky, and the setting sun was setting and all sides were dark, but her eyes were wide open, like a rainy night of execution night, When the thunder and lightning fell, the cell leader who invited her to drink suddenly saw it——

It is the eyes of a pair of little girls, young and brilliant, who have hidden their grievances for more than ten years, and finally see the light of day.

The night passed quickly, and after a few hours, the name of today's No. [-] scholar spread throughout Chang'an City. The Ministry of Rites personally arranged to bring flowers, accompanied by Zheng Qing, who was second in the list. Chai Zheng searched, but did not see Xiao Ruan's The figure, it is said that the wedding is coming soon, and the princess needs time to prepare, so I won't get involved.

Without Xiao Ruan, these roads in Chang’an City would be meaningless. Chai Zheng was riding a horse, and there were many people watching the fun, but not many people were really convinced. Although Zheng Qinghe looked like a young old pedant, he was quite careful. , He saw that Zhuangyuan Lang was not in high spirits, so he rode his horse forward two steps, side by side with her, and said, "Actually, I don't like to deal with such occasions either."

"Oh." Chai Zheng was a little perfunctory. After a while, she realized that she owed this person a life, so she turned her head and asked, "Then what do you like, I will give it to you."

"..."

Zheng Qinghe thought to himself, "My little father-in-law and I have only been friends for less than two hours. During those two hours, I was still talking to the current sage. Regardless of my poor performance that day, even if we love each other, we won't be so familiar with this." For your sake?"

People's hearts are separated by belly, Chaizheng can't hear the twists and turns under his belly, seeing that he didn't answer for a long time, she said again, "If you don't have it now, you can keep it and think about it."

"My little father-in-law and I are not friends, are we?" Zheng Qinghe was frank.

"Maybe it will be in the future," Chai Zheng just said, suddenly remembered something, and his face changed immediately, "I have something to ask you... I heard that Brother Zheng's family is not rich. I have been studying all the time, but I don’t know who is behind the sponsorship?”

Zheng Qinghe seemed a little vigilant, "What are you doing asking about these things?"

"It's nothing, the prelude was right that day, I saw Brother Zheng wearing unusual shoes, and I saw this crown on your head just now," Chai Zheng pointed, "I've seen this crown before, so I'm a little curious. "

Chai Zheng was only two years old at the time, and when he saw Zhao Qian for the first time after his rebirth, he had a white jade crown on his head, shaped like a tube, with a pavilion and cranes carved in relief on it.

Personal objects used by the emperor would not be easily rewarded to people, but at this time Zheng Qinghe also had a white jade crown on his head, the quality of the jade was the same, and the craftsmanship was the same, but his one had a different meaning—a partridge was parked on a tall tree.

First the shoes, then the white jade crown, there must be some kind of relationship between Zheng Qinghe and Zhao Qian, but Zhao Qian can also be regarded as Zheng Qinghe's father-killing enemy, so what's the benefit of raising this child?Aren't you afraid that Zheng Qinghe will give him a knife when he learns the truth?

Or did the red-eyed priest see something, that's why Zhao Qian raised Zheng Qinghe in captivity in advance?

Chai Zheng suddenly stopped the horse in the middle of the road and did not move. Although the horse was a good horse raised in the palace, at this moment, Chai Zheng's whole body emitted a burst of murderous aura silently, and the horse's calf trembled in fright. Walking, but also standing is not a big deal.

Xiao Ruan killed himself, and the Chai family charged him with treason. Zhao Qian pinned all the scapegoats to Priest Musang, and then he wanted to kill Xiao Ruan to silence him. Xiao Ruan's death was the end. Being so cautious, he will definitely figure out who is going to kill Xiao Ruan so as to be safe.

Gu Hensheng took the initiative to become a knife for Dai Xuan to poison himself. What about Zheng Qinghe, is it another knife, another knife aimed at Xiao Ruan?Otherwise, why would Zhao Qian care so much about a boatman's son, who still died at his hands.

"Little Lord, Little Lord," Zheng Qinghe saw that Chai Zheng was in a daze, so he stopped his horse, "What happened?"

The murderous aura on Chai Zheng's body has not yet subsided, she glanced over coldly, Zheng Qinghe's horse was startled, neighed and took two steps back, Zheng Qinghe didn't know martial arts, but because of this, his breathing became tight and his chest was pounding. Jumping, until Chai Zheng blinked, a smile surfaced, and the murderous look in the eyes disappeared, and this feeling disappeared slowly.

"It's okay." Chai Zheng's smile was a little more terrifying than before. She just raised the corners of her mouth and narrowed her eyes. The smiles were piled up, and she looked like she was about to drag Zheng Qinghe to a corner and bury her to death. Scary face.

"..." Zheng Qinghe began to replay his life like a lantern in front of his eyes.

"I have a question to ask Brother Zheng," Chai Zheng conceived, "If I have a sworn enemy now, but he is also my meticulous benefactor who is willing to give me everything, I can let go of this hatred ?"

Zheng Qinghe was not stupid, he instantly realized what Chai Zheng was going to say - it was a coincidence that the little father-in-law had to ask himself such a question, and it was a coincidence that he had a sworn enemy and a meticulous benefactor.

So he didn't answer the question, but instead asked, "Is this enemy killing his father and enemy?"

Chai Zheng was also taken aback by his question. At least in his previous life, Zheng Qinghe was a genuine second place. In terms of real talent and learning, Zheng Qinghe is no worse than anyone else.

Seeing that Chai Zheng didn't speak for a long time, Zheng Qinghe said again, "Little Lord, do you know that this benefactor of mine is also my enemy?"

He waited a while for each question, and if Chai Zheng still didn't speak, Zheng Qinghe would continue to guess.

On the whole road, there are only the number one scholar and the second place sitting on horses. Three meters away are the guards who blare the gongs to clear the way and maintain order. The surroundings are noisy and noisy. If you keep your voice down, you can only talk to each other, and no one can hear you except the two of them.

Zheng Qinghe finally asked, "Is the person who secretly funded me the current Holy One?"

"Did my father be killed by the current Holy Majesty?" Zheng Qinghe's final voice trembled, and he spoke softer. If Chai Zheng hadn't insisted on dosing medicine these days, his ears and eyes had almost recovered, and he couldn't hear the second half of the sentence.

Zheng Qinghe said, "My father is just an ordinary boatman. If he offends anyone, he will not offend the current Holy Majesty. He must be dragged down by someone."

Just now Chai Zheng admired Zheng Qinghe's careful thinking, and could infer so many things from his own words, but at this moment, when he changed the subject, Chai Zheng didn't sound right no matter what——

Regardless of whether he was dragged down or not, the boatman died in Zhao Qian's hands in the end. Why does this mean that he wants to seek revenge from the dragged person, let alone the one who actually did it?

Chai Zheng has been a debt collector all his life, and this is the first time he knows how to settle the debt... That father was dragged down by mother, and brother was dragged down by me. I went back and took the knife to kill the whole family. If everyone is killed and then commits suicide, wouldn't that count as avenging the past life?

With his mind settled, Chai Zheng looked at Zheng Qinghe, "It is true that the current Holy Majesty killed your father. As far as I know, your father was only walking at night, and when he ran into His Majesty from a distance, he was killed."

"I don't believe it." Zheng Qinghe's persistence is frightening, his eyes are red, "little lord, how do you know so much, did you see it with your own eyes when my father died? My mother said, that day Father received money from others to cross the river before he was brutally murdered, did you give me the money, young master?"

"...Master Zheng, please be reasonable. How old was I ten years ago?" Chai Zheng was dumbfounded.

"A young child who has just been born can drag down the mother's dystocia. When my father died, you were old enough to cause my father's death!" Zheng Qinghe said more and more excitedly, as if he was about to turn his face. They are at odds with Chai Zheng.

Chai Zheng originally thought that Mei Xueyun was already a complete lunatic, but he didn't expect that Zheng Qinghe, who spoke like a dog and spoke logically, was also a lunatic, but he specialized in arts, and Zheng Qinghe's direction of madness was different.

"If my father had no business that day, he would have returned home early, and he would not have offended the Holy Majesty and was killed by him." Zheng Qinghe's eyes were severely congested, and he said again, "I dragged my father that day, which eventually led to this Everyone who ends up in the end deserves to die, young master, and you too, we will be officials in the same dynasty in the future, and the future will last forever."

After finishing speaking, Zheng Qinghe rode his horse and continued to walk forward, throwing Chai Zheng, who had not reacted so far, on the spot.

"……"ah?ah?ah?

Chai Zheng urgently needs a Ruan Linshuang to show her what a normal person looks like.

Fortunately, although Chang'an City is big, Chai Zheng seemed to be on a journey the whole way, and after half a day, he had already made a big circle. Zheng Qinghe was sure that the two-year-old Chai Zheng was a murderer. It played a key role, so there was no communication with her during the whole process, and when Chai Zheng turned around, he saw his gaze only twice, and it was also vicious as if he was about to kill someone, which was exhausting.

The last section of the street tour is from the gate of the city back to Chai Guogong’s mansion. Chai Zheng sits on a horse, and fresh flowers are thrown over from time to time. In his previous life, it was so lively when Xiao Ruan was admitted to the first prize. Chai Zheng prepared a large basket of flower petals early. On the eaves of the Prime Minister's Mansion, just as Xiao Ruan fell off the horse, she pushed the basket down...

At that time, the two hadn't communicated with each other yet, Chai Zheng could send the flowers, but Xiao Ruan couldn't let Xiao Ruan know who sent them, so he pushed the basket and ran away before being seen, and the basket also fell down the eaves. At the beginning, the flowers were flying all over the sky, and the beauty was like jade, but the next moment the basket covered the beauty inside.

Chai Zheng did a lot of stupid things in her previous life, and if she counted them down, she would have tricked Ruan Linshuang too.

Suddenly recalling the childhood, even though Chai Zheng is not very old at this time, she still can't help smiling.

Just when Chai Zheng was joking, the person in front of him sounding the gong suddenly stopped, Chai Zheng's smile froze on his face, and when he looked up, he saw that her father had just entered the city with a few guards, and Chai Yuandao looked at him from a long distance away. After looking at his daughter, he asked the person who hit the gong in front, "What crime did you commit? Was it dragged out to parade?"

"Master Chai," said Chai Guogong, who still remembers him so many years after he left Chang'an City, the guard who beat the gong said, "Young Lord, you have won the first prize, and you are patrolling the streets!"

Chai Yuandao's eyes gradually widened, "What happened?"

"No. [-] scholar!" The guard was really happy, and repeated again, "Congratulations to the Duke, a double champion!"

What an honor it is to be a double champion, not to mention that Chai Guogong’s mansion is a place where swords are played, even if there are several families with great Confucianism, there are no children who can be admitted to the champion. , I began to think on the spot whether there was a problem with the feng shui of the Duke's Mansion, and those who were watered were good at reading.

The son can't delay, and the daughter can't delay either. Seeing that there is no one to inherit the mantle, the guard said again, "I congratulate the Duke of the country again. Miss is not only the number one scholar in literature but also the number one scholar in martial arts. The future is limitless!"

"..." This sentence did not play a consoling role, and Chai Guogong began to reflect again. Chai Zhengyecheng can be both civil and military.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that he was delaying the child, Chai Yuan said "oh", turned his horse around and hurried home, saving Chai Zheng from embarrassing himself.

Chai Guogong's departure made the guard feel at a loss. He used to be Chai Guogong's soldier, and later he was brought back to Chang'an City through Liu Chuan. With this errand, he beat the gong in his hand, and he was also proud of it. He was lucky enough to bump into Chai Guogong who was returning to Beijing to report on his work.

It's just that he didn't understand why Chai Guogong suddenly reined in his horse and left. Could it be that the little prince won the first prize so extravagantly ostentatiously making his old man unhappy?

The family education in the Duke's Mansion is strict, no wonder they can produce sons and daughters like Mr. Chai and the young master.

Chai Zheng thought the same thing as the guard, thinking that her father was angry, so she quickly patrolled the last section of the road, gave out red envelopes to everyone, then let go of the reins, and went straight to the house to find her father. figure.

Now that Chai Guogong has returned to the mansion, all of Zhao Qian's arrangements will be unfolded one by one, and the family will have a rare peaceful life. Although Chai Zheng chased him quickly, he was still half an hour late. Chai Ji pointed at his mother's yard, Signal Chai Zheng, "Father has long forgotten us."

"..." Chai Zheng thought for a while, and invited her brother to listen to the wall.

Zhao Linlang had already heard the commotion outside, but what she and Chai Yuandao said was nothing to her family, and Chai Yuandao had just returned from Mobei, first saw his daughter with a tall head and a top horse champion patrolling the streets, and then saw his wife take out a roll of passing on the throne The imperial edict did not respond for a long time.

The arms of the Beijue people who hadn't been excited when they hit the door of their house were slightly trembling at the moment. Chai Yuandao read the imperial edict over and over again. It was indeed written by the late emperor, and even the silk was unusable in the palace. Type, Zhao Linlang doesn't need to fake such a copy by himself, he didn't speak loudly, but broke the end, "Is this thing real?"

Zhao Linlang nodded, and Chai Yuandao read it again and again according to the procedure just now. He calmed down very quickly, and when he spoke again, he had recovered his composure, "Does Zhao Qian know?"

"I should know that there is this edict to pass the throne, but I don't know that the first emperor wanted to pass the throne to me directly, but he is afraid of the power of the Chai family. If we raise our troops to support the person in the edict to ascend the throne, his name will not be right. The military power is in his hands, I know him...he will kill us all before the incident happens."

Zhao Linlang grew up with Zhao Qian, and she knew too well that Zhao Qian, like the late emperor, was a man who could be calculated in the world.

In Zhao Qian's eyes, everyone who knows this edict must die, even if this person is his own sister... If there is no such edict in the world, and he seizes Chai Yuandao's military power, Zhao Linlang can live, but in the world With this volume of edict, his throne is not secure. As long as Zhao Linlang is still alive, he can expose this secret at any time.

"However," Zhao Linlang paused, and suddenly laughed again, "Maybe he has seen this edict and knows what it says, so you have been deliberately suppressing the Chai family for so many years. He has carved up a lot, and when the time is right, we will go to Huangquan with our family."

Chai Yuandao was helpless, "You are still laughing, I can still have scruples in Mobei Zhao Qian, and now cheating me back, isn't it just to make it clear that he wants to do something?"

When he returned to the mansion just now, he felt strange, the whole Chai Guogong mansion didn’t have the joy of having a champion at home, and there were many guards with strange faces outside, Chai Yuandao thought at first that the champion had a big face, and these were sent to protect Chai Zheng , Now that I think about it, the number one scholar has gone to patrol the streets, how can there be any guards who are still at home and are still motionless.

"You are not prepared?" Zhao Linlang was a little strange. She thought that these actions of Chai Zheng and Xiao Ruan returning to Chang'an City were all planned by Chai Yuandao in advance, in order to protect the safety of Chai's family and to win Zhao Qian's country. Now they meet Only to find that Chai Yuandao didn't know either.

Chai Yuandao shook his head, "However, on the way back to Chang'an, I met Wang Wan, one of the guards who came back with Xiaozheng. He said that the Beijue envoy in the capital was restless. Xiaozheng and you sent him Go back to Mobei first, you have the seal of the Pioneer Officer in your hand, and you have taken my Tiger Talisman!"