Assassin A

Royal Palace.

The king of a country put down the memorial in his hand, frowned and closed his eyes in thought.

King Zhubei was seriously injured when he was attacked. It was a coincidence that this injury happened.Since Jin Ziyan inherited King Zhubei, he wished he could spend half of his time on horseback every year, fighting the Liu Kingdom in a small battle in March and a big battle in May, and he has never been "seriously injured".

Suddenly opened his eyes, and there was a itching in his throat.

The eunuch hurried up to wait on him, and gently patted the emperor's back, "Your Majesty, would you like some tea to moisturize?"

After a round of coughing, the emperor panted and waved his hands: "It's okay, I'm afraid it's still the cold that I got when watching fireworks with the concubines during the Chinese New Year."

The eunuch bowed his waist and lowered his eyebrows: "It's spring now, the sky is dry and everything is dry, so I still send the imperial doctor to come in and ask for a pulse..."

"No need! It's all right now. Zan'er... What has King Geng been up to lately?"

"Going back to the emperor, the prince sees the sky digging the soil and planting flowers in Concubine Lin's yard or gossips with the concubine. I read a few books in the evening. The person over there came to deliver the message yesterday, saying that the prince thinks that a man of his age should not live in it all the time. In the palace, so as not to break the rules. At that time, you took a lunch break, and the slaves..."

"Got it. How's his appetite?"

"Back to the emperor, the prince prefers light taste, only vegetarian dishes."

The emperor pondered for a while, and then asked: "What kind of flowers does he grow? That's all, I'll go and see for myself."

With only the personal eunuch and the usual attendants, they went to Concubine Lin's palace.He signaled that there was no need to inform him, and went in. When he arrived at the door, he saw a person squatting in the courtyard, carefully turning the flower soil with a small shovel.

The spring sun shone on his back, and sometimes he turned his head to take a spoonful of flower fertilizer, and he could faintly see thin beads of sweat on his forehead.

"Are you planting day lilies?"

Li Zan was startled when he heard the sound.He hurriedly got up and saluted, but he was so anxious that he didn't remember, and staggered forward.

The emperor stretched out his hand to support him, "It's windy and sandy now, you don't feel it after staying outside for a long time, but you don't know that this kind of warm and cold wind is the easiest to invade your muscles and bones." He squeezed his arm, "You are still wearing such thin clothes. Don't you know the old man who covers spring and autumn freezes?"

Li Zan stretched out his arms and saluted, "Thank you, Brother Huang, for your concern."

The emperor pulled out the towel from his sleeve, raised his hand and paused in front of him, hesitating for a moment.

Li Zan quickly took it over, "Your brother, come here yourself. I wanted to take advantage of the spring to turn over the flower soil and plant some daylilies." He lowered his head and glanced at his dusty clothes, and said with a smile: "The embarrassment of such a mess is so embarrassing. Brother laughed."

"Whatever you want to plant, let the servants go to it. You don't have to do it yourself because of your identity."

"Brother Huang taught me a lesson. It's just that my ministers planted daylilies all over the yard before leaving the palace. They are busy with official duties and don't have time to come back often to pay respects to the noble concubine. It's just that daylilies grow on the steps of the hall, and the wandering son travels to the end of the world. A loving mother leans on the hall door, but no daylily flowers.'”

As if some memories were touched, the emperor smiled slightly, "I still remember when you were young, you knew that I liked Chunlan, and you planted a few pots with your own hands every year. Occasionally, if there were good ones, you would give them to me. Now you... still Plant it?"

Li Zan raised his head and took a look, and raised his hand as a gesture of invitation, "I plant it every year, but I never had the chance to give it to the emperor. My brother's skill is not comparable to that of a gardener. Delicate and glamorous, it makes people laugh for no reason."

The emperor slowed down and walked side by side with him, "How do you know if I like it or not if you don't send it in? There are a lot more delicate and beautiful ones in the palace, and I've been annoyed by seeing them for a long time, but I just like Qingfu."

Li Zan smiled and was speechless.

After waiting to enter the room, Concubine Lin Guifei had seen the ceremony and received the emperor's greeting, so she took the maid and retreated, leaving the place to the two brothers.

Li Zan pleaded guilty, went to the inner room to wash and change his clothes, and then came out again.

Standing at the door of the inner room, he said with a smile, "Brother Huang, would you be interested in seeing the Chunlan planted by my younger brother?"

The emperor was a little surprised: "You really planted it?"

Li Zan pursed his lips into a half-smile, "My brother never lied to my brother, and I will never forget what I promised."

When he said this, the emperor suddenly remembered.

[From now on, I will plant Chunlan every year and give it to Brother Huang! 】

At that time Li Zan was only seven or eight years old, smiling sweetly with his face up...

In the inner room, there is a tangy fragrance of orchids, and there is a long table in front of the window, and the five pots of Chunlan are all in full bloom.When I came closer to enjoy it, I saw that the green ones were fat, like burning wax.There is also a flower with one arrow and two flowers, common ones are one arrow and one flower, such double flowers are very rare.

Li Zan looked at the emperor's tall and straight back with complex emotions.

"Shuangfeiyan."

Li Zan regained his senses, suppressed his thoughts, "What?"

The emperor turned his head and waved at him, pointing to the Chunlan with twin flowers on both sides and said, "One arrow and two flowers are commonly known as double flying swallows. I like this pot very much, please give it to me."

I?

Li Zan blinked, "Okay, see you off."

The emperor stared at him for a moment, then suddenly stretched out his fingers to fiddle with the flowers of Chunlan, "Jin Ziyan was attacked by surprise and was seriously injured."

"Oh? Are you in danger of your life?"

"For the time being, the military report has not yet been submitted, and we will know it in the next booklet."

"Fortunately, General Yu has already led the Northern Expeditionary Army to the past, so there is no need to worry about the front line."

The emperor took a step closer, and the two of them were only a foot apart, "This injury is so coincidental, so coincidental, it makes my heart worry."

It's changed back again... Li Zan sneered in his heart, but the corners of his mouth curled up, and his long eyelashes drooped slightly, "Brother, please wait a moment, I have something to present that will definitely solve the problem of Brother Huang." worry."

After finishing speaking, he turned around and took out a wooden box from the cabinet and put it on the desk, and after paying respectful salutes to the box, he opened it and stepped aside, "Brother Emperor, please have a look."

The emperor came over and just took a look before his face changed drastically, "This is..."

Li Zan replied respectfully: "It is the secret edict left by the late emperor to my younger brother."

Trying hard to suppress the trembling hands, he took out the imperial edict in the box, opened it and read it.The emperor looked at Li Zan, "Has it been in your hands?"

"Since the first emperor bestowed it on my ministers, it has been buried under the daylilies in this garden."

It is clearly written in the secret edict that King Zhubei can be dispatched to lead the army to Beijing in times of chaos.

However, what constitutes "big chaos" is not clearly stated.

Thinking of the Liu clan headed by Taifu Liu that Li Zan had been participating in before, the emperor couldn't help being startled.

His favoritism towards the queen's family has always been despised by important officials in the court. He can convince himself with various reasons, and he can also suppress all memorials with the king's power.But the emperor's share...

Thinking of the charges listed in the memorial to the impeachment of Taifu Liu, does this count as "big chaos"?What is the purpose of Li Zan giving him this will at this time?

Thinking of this, the emperor seemed to have some clues, and fixedly looked at the people around him for a moment, "Are you really willing to give up everything and just be an idle prince?"

The sunlight is separated by the window sills and hits the indoor floor in strips, reflecting a hazy light.Li Zan's originally fair face was rosy after working in the courtyard just now, it seemed to have been lightly rouged.

He likes to see Li Zanxiao, especially his calm smile now, "In order for me to live a peaceful life in the future, I have ruined the Xuanji camp that I cultivated by myself. Now I also give you the last life-saving talisman , you still come to ask me if it’s true or not?”

The emperor didn't care about the disrespect in these words at all, but his breath was a little unsteady, as if he was trying to suppress something, "Is there only one will?"

Li Zan chuckled, "Didn't you take away the imperial edict that my family temporarily received from the Metropolitan Procuratorate?" Turning his eyes, he raised his hand to caress the emperor's cheek, "Brother emperor, why don't you believe me?" The pad of the thumb lightly rubbed the emperor's lips, "What I did before was not to protect your country, do you... believe me?"

"Do not believe!"

Fifteen sat cross-legged on the big leather mattress with a toothpick in his mouth, burped, and gnawed on a snack.

"I'm really hurt!" Jin Ziyan patted his arm, "Look, it's a long cut and it hurts a lot."

On the first day of the new year, he quietly stuffed the skin pouch on his waist with dried meat.Although this stuff is not as delicious as eating in Qingnan Palace, it is still meat anyway. "A cut is not a serious injury."

Tangtang Zhubei Wang was very melancholy, he just found a way to arrange the first day, the fifteenth day and the eighth day of the first day of junior high school by his side according to Li Zan's request, and also suffered a "serious injury" according to Li Zan's request. Assassin, even the sky doesn't give a good face.

"Don't worry, there will definitely be opportunities, but if the people from the Ryu Kingdom don't come to fight now, I can't cooperate with you."

Fifteen narrowed his eyes, "Please trouble the prince to provoke me."

Jin Ziyan said seriously: "I am seriously injured now..."

"Do not believe!"

He came back again... Scratching his head and scowling, "Nowadays, the most important thing for the Northern Xinjiang Army is the military salary! I promised 50 taels of silver, but I haven't even seen a copper coin until today. How many things are waiting to be bought? I can’t let my soldiers wear tattered armor to go into battle, it’s death, do you understand?!”

The first day of the junior high school and the fifteenth day looked at each other and said, "Isn't it made under the unified supervision of the Ministry of War?"

Jin Ziyan sneered, "The things sent by the Ministry of War are the fine steel sabers of the Liu Kingdom, and the butcher's knives of the cooks in the mansion will break even if they are cut! I don't want any tattered leather for twenty dollars!"

Fifteen wonders: "Did you pay for the armor of the Northern Border Army yourself?"

Jin Ziyan's face immediately collapsed, "Where do I have so much money? Every year I play rogue with the tax officials. If I can pay less, I will get a penny. The rest depends on the products in the fief. If I save a sum of money, I will talk to Meng Zhouzhou buys good leather, and when I come back, there are craftsmen who work carefully, alas~~" He sighed, thinking of his princess, who has been with him for many years, so many years~ I frowned and thought about it on the first day of the new year, "Have you signed up for the book?"

It's okay not to mention it, but Jin Ziyan almost flipped the table when he mentioned it, "It's useless! That bastard Rong Min fought for the money this time, and even skipped the Ministry of War. Now it's all right, it's called Tian Tian Ying, so I can only wait stupidly." .”

At the first glance, I saw Fifteen's eyebrows move, a layer of spring appeared in his eyes, and there were mixed emotions in his heart.I want to beat this brother up, and I want to comfort him, making trouble!

For a moment, in the warm bedroom of King Zhubei, three people had three thoughts.

Jin Ziyan: Silver, silver, Rong Min, when will you bring it to me?

First day of junior high school: It's best not to let Shiwu hear someone mention the word Rong Min, as he will be distracted when he mentions it!

Fifteen: Rong Min, I miss you very much...

"Your Majesty, tonight the Emperor lives in the Imperial Study, and he said that he will have dinner with King Geng and talk by candlelight at night."

A dignified and beautiful woman stopped the small scissors in her hand, and snorted from her nose to show that she knew.What tricks does Li Zan want to play again?hateful!This King Geng was like a vicious dog, always wanting to bite them, Mrs. Liu.While thinking about it, the flower scissors in his hand cut off a flower branch with a click, and a large group of pink rhododendrons bloomed on the branch.

"Brother Huang, relax a little..."

Li Zan looked at the emperor with his lips tightly closed, "This is the soup made by Jianlanhua, with honey water added. It's not bitter at all. Come on, let me blow it for you, drink it when it cools down and drink it in your mouth. Sweet and fragrant aftertaste.”

As he spoke, he pursed his lips and gently blew the soup medicine.

The emperor really relaxed when he watched it, but he still kept a straight face: "I have lived for 40 years, and I have been strong and healthy since I was a child. I have never been sick a few times. This time I have a little bit of cold. It's disgusting to drink the black and sloppy medicinal soup as tea!"

Li Zan chuckled, "Doesn't anyone around you know that you hate bitter medicines? In the afternoon, I ordered the Imperial Physician Chang to change this Jianlan soup and add honey water, just to moisten the anger in spring. "

The emperor looked suspiciously at the decoction in his hand.

Li Zan signaled the eunuch to lead the people to leave, and when there was no one in the hall, he stepped forward and lifted the medicine bowl to the emperor's mouth, "Taste it, it's not bitter."

Seeing his brother shaking his head firmly, he changed another method, "Then I will taste it for you first."

The emperor watched Li Zan take a sip of the soup, and suddenly grabbed his wrist, "I thought you would poison me."

"Emperor brother?!"

It seems that the intimacy between the brothers was just a play, the emperor tightly squeezed Li Zan's wrist, "With your temper, you are willing to let go of Xuanji Camp first, and then you are willing to hand over the secret edict? You have been very protective of your things since you were a child. Did I forget? What about the jade ruyi? What about the jade ruyi that you refused to give me even if you smashed it?"

Li Zan tried to withdraw his hand, but the other party held it too tightly. After struggling several times, he suddenly frowned and said with a choked voice, "Of course I didn't accept it before! It was left to me by my mother. It’s all just thinking about it, do you still want it? You were a prince at the time, didn’t you have any fun?”

The emperor sneered: "You really are not convinced."

Li Zan raised his eyes and looked straight at him, "Of course!"

He turned his head again, and his tense body relaxed, "But that was in the past, and now I don't have this kind of thought. Who is the father? He can give me secret orders, and naturally there are people who can restrain me." , I... have been tied to death for a long time, so I can only... follow you. But, you just don't believe me."

Turning back, looking at the emperor, "I surrendered. When I handed over the Xuanji camp to you, I admitted it. Anyway, you will never believe me in your life..."

The corners of the emperor's mouth slowly turned up until it turned into a smile, "You have finally surrendered."

Li Zan suddenly pulled out his wrist violently, even spilled some of the soup in the bowl, and said fiercely: "I admit it, but it's a pity that the emperor still doesn't treat me as a real brother. He even doubted me. Is it poison?"

After finishing speaking, he raised his head and gulped down the soup.

The emperor suddenly stood up, held Li Zan's chin, leaned forward slightly, sucked all the potion from his mouth, took the bowl and drank the rest in one gulp.

He took out the handkerchief in his sleeve and wiped the corners of his mouth, "From today on, I believe in you." He licked his lips, "It's really not bitter."

Li Zan looked at him in surprise, and slowly, a layer of water welled up in his eyes, "Of course, I never lie to you."

At night, Li Zan, who was left sleeping on the same bed in the dormitory next to the imperial study room, gently got up, and the emperor who was next to him asked in a daze, "Where are you going?"

Li Zan bent down and whispered in his ear: "Wake up at night, will the emperor come with you?"

In the dark, I could only get a chuckle, "Go ahead, put on one, don't catch a cold."

Turn out of the inner room, and after the screen in the outer room is finished, there are two light clicks on the wooden lattice.Li Zan turned out the screen, and in the dim candlelight was the emperor's personal eunuch.

"My lord."

"Ah."

The two passed each other.In the eunuch's hand was a small paper bag that was folded squarely...

Li Zan returned to the inner room, lying quietly on the bed, and soon an arm came around to hug him tightly, "Zan'er..."

"Brother Huang, I'm very tired, go to sleep."

Li Zan slowly relaxed his body, and then took a long breath.After a while, the cheeks were gently kissed and counted by the people beside him, as if they were still unwilling.

After a while, the talent fell asleep, but that arm still hugged his waist tightly.

Brother Huang, you really have such shameless thoughts!

It was the first time Li Zan wanted to kill someone with his own hands... He didn't want to do this scene again!

The night in the palace is so peaceful.

Concubine Lin Gui lay on her side on the bed, her fingers slowly traced a small wooden box.

The third secret edict that can dispatch the Gyeonggi General Army and all its troops is in it.