Tongshu with Mei

On this day's partial pass, after Nasika's [-] troops entered, thousands of soldiers on and off the city faced Luo Ying's body in silence.

After throwing Ling Shu's long sword, he flew up to the tower, watching Luo Ying's blood winding out, his face was pale for a while, and he remained silent.

After a while, the lieutenants who followed Luo Ying all the year round knelt down, and then thousands of soldiers knelt down, but still no one made a sound.Wei Mengduo was calm by nature, he was a little flustered at this moment, worried that if the soldiers were instigated by someone at this time, there might be a riot.He turned around and made a careful gesture to his guard, but Luo Ying's lieutenant saw it and said with tears in his eyes: "General Wei, don't worry, my general never disobeys the orders of the court. Not today, but in the future." Not to mention. I will wait for my subordinates to follow his teachings, and I will not."

Seeing that the matter has come to this point, Wei Mengduo changed his gentle expression and said: "General Luo understands righteousness deeply, and this general admires it. I will report to His Majesty the Emperor to see how to arrange General Luo's funeral." He slowly Stepping closer to Luo Ying, he gave a deep salute, then picked up Ling Shu's Pillow Ice Sword, turned to Ling Shu and said, "Master Ling, you have been out of Beijing for a long time, and your majesty has repeatedly mentioned you in the report back to the mansion, so I am very worried." Your safety. You can go back with this general."

Ling Shu lowered his head and did not look at him, and said, "I will decide whether to return to Beijing or not, and no one else needs to worry about it."

Wei Mengduo handed the Bingbing Sword to a guard beside him, walked towards him slowly, and said with a smile: "His Majesty the Emperor has given Yi Zhen Ling to this general. If Lord Ling refuses to go back, Yi Zhen Wei will have to send it to you." Master Ling has gone back under custody. Why don't you go back on your own initiative if you go back under custody. What do you think, Master Ling?"

Ling Shu snorted coldly: "Who said I don't want to go back? I'll go back to the capital!"

Wei Mengduo said: "It's very good, this general can feel relieved."

Ling Shu followed Yi Zhenwei all the way back to Beijing, entered Luoyang city gate, went back to Dali Temple to settle everything, then immediately rushed outside the palace to see His Majesty the Emperor.

He always begged to see the emperor regardless of the time, and this happened to be the middle of the night, when the guards and eunuchs who were on guard at night passed the news in, Yang Tao had no choice but to push the beauty away from his arms, get up and leave the palace.It was late autumn, the wind and dew were heavy, and the leaves were yellow. Ling Shu stood at the foot of the jade steps outside his bedroom and looked up at him with a focused and dignified expression.

Seeing his pale face, Yang Tao walked down the jade steps slowly and said in a low voice, "You still know how to come back?"

Ling Shudao: "I would like to ask Your Majesty why you forced General Luo to death."

His tone was weird and cold, Yang Tao frowned and looked at him, then chuckled after a while: "Are you asking me again?"

Ling Shu remained silent, looking up at him with deep and cold eyes, not giving an inch.

Yang Tao hesitated, wanting to go down another step, but finally retracted his outstretched foot. Looking at Ling Shu's stubborn figure, he suddenly felt angry and shouted: "Kneel down!"

Ling Shu knelt down on the steps according to his words, Yang Tao said: "Go out this time, gain experience, and talk back to me when you come back. Then Luo Ying, when did you start to feel sorry for him? He committed suicide, you plan to blame him On my body? Besides, even if he didn't commit suicide, if the king wants his subjects to die, how can he live?"

Ling Shudao: "They all said that Jin Yaren can't be allowed to enter the customs. They said that they are luring wolves into the house. When talking about the affairs of my Dayan Dynasty, they can solve it behind closed doors. There is no need for foreigners to intervene."

Yang Tao looked at him sideways, and said lightly: "Who are they? Besides Luo Ying, who else?"

Ling Shu was speechless immediately, and looked up at Yang Tao. Yang Tao saw his aggrieved and unwilling eyes, and said coldly: "Who did you bring along the way when you came back from Xijia? You think that I am far away in the capital, so I don't care about anything." Do you know? I raised you so big, and you are really promising! Could it be that you fell in love with Yang Ye? Did you fall in love with that kind of person who is not as good as a beast?!"

Ling Shu's body shook slightly, but finally he bit his lips and remained silent. Yang Tao stared at him intently, unable to see what was going on in his mind, suddenly his anger welled up, and he repeated mutteringly: "You are so big in vain. Promise you!" He stepped down the steps quickly, and kicked him hard on the waist, Ling Shu was kicked by him so that his body staggered, and then he still knelt straight.But he heard Yang Tao groan softly, it turned out that the stone steps were wet and slippery with dew, he exerted too much force, one of them couldn't stand stably, slipped and fell to the ground, and there was a sharp pain in the condyle of his left foot.

Yang Tao was startled and angry, so he had to sit on the steps. The eunuch standing in front of the palace hurriedly wanted to help him, but he angrily shouted: "Go away!"

He turned his head to stare at Ling Shu, and said sharply, "You really are, you are...you, you want to betray me?"

Ling Shu kowtowed heavily on the bluestone ground, and said, "I dare not! I...will never betray His Majesty!" His tears fell to the ground with a soft patter.When Yang Tao heard the sound, his heart moved, and the tears fell on the softest part of his heart without a trace, and his anger gradually subsided, and he murmured: "Is it because you are raising you so big that you are going out to embarrass yourself?" Why are you still refusing to come back after being ashamed? In your heart...what are you thinking?"

The ground was damp and cold, and Yang Tao couldn't sit still on the steps. Seeing Ling Shu kneeling on the ground, he felt uncomfortable, so he said: "Get up, go back and think about it, what did you do wrong? Just change it later."

Ling Shudao: "I don't think there is anything wrong with me, I just feel that General Luo died unjustly."

The tears on his face were like tears, Yang Tao looked at him, he almost never saw Ling Shu shed tears, only the first time he saw him, he was still a child of seven or eight years old, and it was also this late autumn, wrapped in a Sitting under the eaves in the cloak of the adult, he looked at himself blankly, with tears in the corners of his eyes.

Ling Shu's uncle is Wen Yongfeng, the servant of the Ministry of War. Because of his participation in a suspected treason case, his house was ransacked, his family was wiped out, and the property of his servants was confiscated.Yang Tao was 14 years old at the time and had already been canonized as the crown prince. His father asked him to assist the Dali Temple Minister in investigating the case. He was always generous and serious. He saw Ling Shu's name on the list of people to be executed and asked Dali with a brush. Si Qing: "Who is this person whose surname is not Wen? Why is he going to be beheaded?"

The Minister of Dali Temple didn't know about it, so he summoned an official under his command to ask, and the official said carelessly: "It is said that he is a nephew of Wen Shilang. His parents left early and had nowhere to go, so he had to be fostered here. He is only seven or eight years old. Da, even if you don’t kill him, you may not survive.”

Yang Tao frowned: "Since it's not his family, I can't survive, and I can't kill him." He wrote and ticked off Ling Shu's name.

It was dusk when the matter was dealt with.When Yang Tao went out, Ling Shu was chased out by the soldiers who followed, and sat alone under the eaves.Yang Tao glanced at him, got into the sedan chair and left.After walking a long way, he always felt that the child's bright black eyes were staring at him from behind, so he ordered to stop, pondered for a while, and finally turned back the same way and led Ling Shu back.

More than ten years have passed, Dayan has as many officials as crucian carp crossing the river, and it is difficult for anyone to recall Wen Shilang back then.However, Ling Shu, who he brought back and brought up with care, has grown into a troublesome person, who can talk back and irritate others. When he gets angry, he kicks him and even sprains his feet.

He stretched out his hands to rub the condyle of the ankle that was still stinging like needles, and suddenly chuckled: "It's wrong to die, maybe it's because you got too close to him. If you complain about him again, I'm afraid he won't even be reincarnated." No more. Yuanmei, you should hurry up and go back to your Dali Temple!"

Ling Shu's expression froze, he bit his lower lip, and said in a shy voice: "Yes, then... I will go to Dali Temple, and I will never come out again." Slowly got up, turned around and walked out in the gust of autumn wind , the back is very bleak, very decisive.

After recollecting it, Yang Tao said to himself in a low voice: "Is this grounding myself? That's fine, it saves me from going out and causing trouble again. It's fine if I don't come out for the rest of my life!"

His majesty the emperor sprained his dragon's foot and was unable to go to court for several days. The reason was that he kicked Shaoqing of Dali Temple in anger.Such an inexplicable matter inevitably aroused a lot of discussion in the court, and all kinds of rumors were colorful and colorful, but it was a pity that none of them reached the ears of His Majesty the Emperor.

On the fourth day, there were too many memorials, and Yang Tao had to send the memorials to the bedroom for review. To commemorate Luo Ying, the guard who killed himself in Pianguan.

Yang Tao was furious, and threw the memorial to the ground: "Pretentious! If it wasn't for you, why would I bother to borrow troops from that Jin Yaren? How could Luo Ying kill himself?! And how did Liu Shulin die? Don't even think about it." Trying to fool me, in my heart, I understand very well!"

Out of reverence, Zhao Wang Yang Xi and Bei Chenqing set up mourning halls for Luo Ying in both places where they were stationed, and ordered the soldiers to pay homage to the dead.

Yang Ye followed Bei Chenqing to pay homage to Luo Ying, but privately said to Bei Chenqing: "Luo Ying is serious, why didn't you come to surrender to us if you feel wronged? It's really a big loss to put your life in like this. It's really a shame for the emperor." Face, in Yang Tao's heart now, he must hate him to the bone. Even the posthumous reward is just an effort to save face."

Bei Chenqing felt sympathy for Luo Ying, and sighed after hearing the words: "With his temper, I don't dare to expect him to surrender. In the past, he guarded the side pass, so there was no need to worry about the east side. We just need to guard Fengyu pass, Sika did not pose much threat to us. But now that Jin Yaren's [-] cavalry is approaching, it is really a headache. I'm afraid we have to avoid their edge for now."