Hypocrites

Liang Heng's emotions had been suppressed for a long time, and finally vented out. Exhausted, he fell asleep on Shen Yu's shoulder.Shen Yu carried him back to the bed, and outside the hall, several guards in armor and swords were still guarding him.

Xinzhou wanted to go in, but Shen Yu waved his hand to indicate that it was okay.Zou Fang glanced over intentionally or unintentionally, curious about the relationship between Shen Yu and the new emperor.

Looking out of the corridor, Qionglou Yuyu carved beams and painted buildings, and the golden glazed tiles are the proud top color of Zhangyi Palace.How many scholars in the world dream of this center of power, to learn literary and martial arts, and to belong to the emperor's family, but there is a yellow-browed sparrow with a bloody head and a bloody head imprisoned in the golden palace.

Zou Fang said, "Shen Youdu, what are you thinking?"

Shen Yu asked: "If you want to hide something in Wangdu City, where is the safest place?"

Zou Fang thought for a while: "Imperial Palace? Daily guards patrol and soldiers guard the palace gate. It should be the safest place in the world."

"Other than that?"

"Is it a safe place? If the other party can't find it, or if they find it, they won't be able to get in. If I want to hide something, I'll hide it in the Southern Army camp. Who can detect the fire in the midst of thousands of troops? Shen Youdu, what's wrong?" Zou Fang noticed that Shen Yu's expression turned ugly.

Shen Yu made a perfunctory sentence, and fell into deep thought. After half a stick of incense, he returned to the Yangshi Hall. Liang Heng had already woken up, with his hand on his forehead, looking for him with a headache. He was looking around for him.

"Did you see Emperor Wu's bone ring later?" Shen Yu asked.

Liang Heng frowned: "No, the bone ring is no longer in the Ming Hall, I guess, the third eunuch is also wary of me destroying the bone ring. But the strange thing is..."

Shen Yudao: "Emperor Wenshen has not taken back the bone ring from the three eunuchs during his 20-year reign. Dare to act rashly?"

Liang Heng beckoned for Shen Yu to come over, and leaned on his shoulder: "I have a headache, you just say it."

"There are three places that even the Emperor Wenshen can't reach," Shen Yu said, "the southern military camp under the jurisdiction of the three generals in Langzhong, the garrison camp led by Yuan Xing's prefect Xu Chou... and the four southern Sichuan towns where heavy troops are stationed!"

Liang Heng immediately understood what he meant, and murmured: "After all, the Southern Army is the royal imperial army. The late emperor is not completely out of control. It is not safe to hide in the Southern Army. And after Xu Fu's death, is Shixing still considered a third eunuch?" Its sphere of influence, let alone talk about it, let alone put this trump card in Shixing. Could it be that it is in southern Sichuan?"

As soon as this idea came to mind, the late emperor's gloomy and resentful face immediately appeared in front of Liang Heng.He immediately realized that if the three eunuchs colluded with the king of southern Sichuan, Liang Yu, the [-] elite soldiers in the four towns of southern Sichuan would suddenly become a guillotine on the late emperor's neck.

If this secret is no longer a secret, but a tool that everyone tacitly shares the spoils behind their backs...

Even Shen Yu couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat.

Liang Heng said: "You are quite worried. In fact, what I think in my heart is that if I can tell you one day, we will leave Wangdu and return to Ruyang, or Zhangshan, where the clouds and wild cranes go. Let them make their own troubles."

Shen Yudao: "Your mother doesn't care anymore? You don't want your uncle or cousin? The three eunuchs ride on the emperor's head to do their best, and you can bear it and walk away? The single official killed my whole family..."

Liang Heng hurriedly said: "These four people are telling stories and accusing Zhongliang, they must be severely punished!"

Suddenly he laughed again.

Shen Yu: "What are you laughing at?"

Liang Heng said: "Ever since you came back, you have always treated me as the emperor and alienated you, sticking to courtiers. Now you have found some meaning from the past."

Shen Yu said: "How do I feel, after you told me, I feel a lot more relaxed."

Immediately, he lifted his robe and got down on the bed, knelt on one knee before the emperor collapsed, and bowed his head with his sword in one hand: "As long as your majesty is the king, I will be a minister every day."

When he got up, the robe brought a gentle wind, and he went out of the hall, still guarding the gate for Liang Heng.The slanting sun poured into the Guangmen of Gaoliang, and the fiery red colors were flying.

At the beginning when he learned about his life experience from the three generals in the Langzhong, Liang Heng was always in fear, and everyone seemed to have ulterior motives. Later, everything was calm and no one was right or wrong, and this thunder became a murderous intent hidden behind the clouds.

He pushed aside the clouds and mist for Shen Yu to take a peek at. Afterwards, the dark clouds gathered again, and no one could see the clues.Everything is moving forward according to the established track.

It was the guard's turn to go on patrol. It was a muggy, cloudless day, and the patrol in front of the square made people dizzy from the sun. Duan Yanling made it easier for Lian Zhen to go to Tianlu Pavilion and stand in the shade.After standing for a while, Liang Heng called in.

"Isn't it boring to wear so much? Here, you can put away your armor and sit next to me to rest for a while."

Xinzhou observed the words and expressions, and poured herbal tea for Mr. Lian.

Lian Zhen really didn't look like a bodyguard. After the first emperor, the Lian family was favored again.

"I'm worried about my father's injury," Lian Zhen said with a sad face, "You know, his back hasn't healed yet, and when it's hot, he's lying in bed all day, I'm really afraid of getting sores."

Liang Heng said: "It's okay, I'll ask Xinzhou to take the disease doctor to have a look later."

Liang Heng still had a bunch of reported affairs on hand, and after being screened by the three eunuchs, some of the most innocuous ones were selected for the emperor to take charge.The Tingwei Mansion submitted a case where the people in a certain county fought privately, and the officers and soldiers suppressed them and put them in prison, planning to be executed after autumn.

Kill, kill, kill, you know how to kill. In the past two years, from the imperial court to order officials to kill ordinary people, the blood mud and muddy water on the execution ground can't be washed clean.Huo Liang is really a good dog of the three eunuchs, and the heads harvested by severe punishments are made into skull necklaces, waiting to be presented to his ancestors when they celebrate their birthdays.

With a swipe of Liang Heng's pen, the comment was rejected.

Lian Zhen looked at it for a while and asked, "Your Highness, do you find it interesting?"

Liang Heng put down his pen: "What do you want to say?"

"I think," Lian Zhen said, "in the past, when we got together every other day, chatting in the rain pavilion, and sharing the news in the Xie Ling Pavilion, it's not as happy as it is now? When did you become a person who can sit still? Write a book and read it for a day?"

Liang Heng laughed: "You fool, talking nonsense again."

Suddenly, a person came in from the pavilion, wearing a plain brocade robe and satin, gold-studded cloud head shoes, a waist card hanging high, and a jade tree facing the wind.Liang Heng clapped his hands and said, "It looks beautiful! Where did you make the clothes?"

Shen Yu leaned over and picked up an apricot from the fruit plate on his case: "Deng Yang is looking for a tailor."

Liang Heng was overjoyed by this little gesture of his, and said eagerly: "I'll let the palace servants cut you a body, it's sure to look better than his!"

Shen Yu and Lian Zhen met eyes.

"Even my brother is here."

"Ah," Lian Zhen was stunned, "Shen Yu, is your father okay?"

Liang Heng hurriedly pointed at Shen Yu's mind and waved his hands.

"Thanks to your father," Shen Yu said to Liang Heng very tacitly, "Are you free? I'll take you to meet someone."

Duan Yanling was on patrol today, Liang Heng wanted to inform Duan Yanling and ask him to cover it up, but Shen Yu said, "Don't let the surname Duan know."

Liang Heng looked at Shen Yu, then at Lian Zhen.

A quarter of an hour later, the three of them appeared at Chengming's gate in a fair and honest manner.

Duan Yanling was teaching a subordinate a lesson, when he saw Shen Yu, his complexion became even worse.

"want to go out?"

"I invite His Highness to go and see my father, he is not well recently." Lian Zhen said.

"Yes..." Duan Yanling looked depressed.Liang Heng suspected that what he wanted to say was "sickness", but Duan Yanling never said that he was mentally ill in front of Lian Zhen.

"See you later." Liang Heng swaggered out of Chengming Gate, the Southern Army of Yan Gate might go to inform Qiu Zhiyuan, but it didn't matter, Qiu Gong never cared about the trivial matter of the emperor and his down-and-out ministers sympathizing with each other.

Walking along Fengyang Avenue, willows and green crowns are all over the capital.The blue sky is like clouds, and the sun is like sparkling.

Leaving Zhangyi Palace, Liang Heng felt a lot more relaxed, and heard Shen Yu say that this trip was to visit Jieyun, the former Minister of Agriculture.The Jie clan was also a veteran minister, and his experience was not much worse than that of Wen Yao, who was trapped in an iron house. In the last year of the late emperor's reign, Jie Yun begged to retire and return to his hometown.Somehow, in the past so long, the new emperor has ascended the throne, and he still lives in Wangcheng.

"Didn't you say to visit my father?" Lian Zhen asked.

"Go to see Mr. Jie first, and then go to your house," Liang Heng coaxed him, "We'll see how you behave."

At the beginning when he served as the minister of the Ministry of Agriculture, the Jie family had a beautiful family, and the gates of the houses were all facing the street.The original gold coating is peeling off, and the door beams are worn out to embarrassing white cores.

The door boy came to answer the door, knowing that it was the Marquis of Youdu who came to visit. It was not like the Wen family refused people, but welcomed them generously, and invited them to the hall to serve tea.

Shen Yu came early to sniff out the situation, and said to Liang Heng in a low voice: "Although Jieyun will not refuse anyone who comes, but whoever shows his kindness to him, there will be no sound, and it will be very difficult to deal with."

Sure enough, the master came after a while. He was a dark old man with a ruddy complexion. He was dressed luxuriously and elegantly. He smiled and reached out to shake everyone he met: "My lord, my lord, what are the names of these two young masters?"

Lian Zhen was taken aback by being very attentive.

A servant came in to refill tea, Liang Heng knew that Lian Zhen didn't like serious scenes, and asked him to have fun, Lian Zhen followed the servant and left.

"Sir, this junior visited you last time, I think you still have an impression." Shen Yu said.

There was a hint of hesitation on Jieyun's rough face, and he hesitated, "Well, Mr. Shen, I... this old man is no longer an official. What orders does the court have, let the young people do it, old man... this old man is half-cut The age of being buried in the loess."

Shen Yudao: "Sir, since you are determined to resign and return to your hometown, how can you stay in Wangdu for a long time, reluctant to part?"

Jie Yun was speechless, and said after a while: "This is the decision of the eldest lady... Zhuo Jing, a master must obey his wife."

After some refusal, Liang Heng observed from the side, and had a strange intuition that this Master Jie was nothing like what he had imagined, speaking hesitatingly, expecting love.Every word Shen Yu said seemed to have caught him off guard, but Luo made some inexplicable excuses to block the words back.

"My lord."

As soon as Liang Heng opened his mouth, Shen Yu leaned on his heels and gave way, allowing his aura to be set up in front of Jieyun's nose.

"I'm not talking too much. I just want to ask you a question. I have read your dictionaries back then. It mentioned that you should go back to your hometown to recuperate due to old age and sickness. But now I see your face glowing red. , with a sharp tongue, how can you look sick?"

Once this statement is made, it is to open the skylight and speak frankly. The words of the important ministers are kept on the emperor's desk, who can see it?Nature speaks for itself.

With a lonely expression, Liang Heng said, "You must have met my father. Back when he was lingering on the sick bed and dying, he was a chronically ill man. You resigned when you were healthy. What is your reason? To protect yourself, or to cherish your reputation? ?”

There was a long silence in the hall.

Shen Yu got up and went out, so that Liang Heng and Jie Yun could confide in each other.Jieyun may be unwilling to be lonely, otherwise he would not have stayed at the foot of Emperor Wangdu. When he abdicated, the government was in turmoil and the sun was covered by dark clouds. If he could gain the trust of the new emperor, I wonder if he would be willing to be the one who can turn the clouds and see the sun. column.

In the courtyard, the servants who had previously served tea were feeding the birds, sprinkled a handful of millet, and the birds chirped and flew down the branches.

Lian Zhen sat side by side with him on the porch, chatting.

"In my impression, my father is always hunchbacked."

"Lian Tielang's spine is the straightest in the world. That's because you were born late, and your father came too late to have a son, so you bow your head and be willing to be a bully."

Shen Yu's heart moved, and a thought flashed by.I've been here once before, have you ever seen that servant?

He returned to the front of the hall. What was strange was that after Liang Heng euphemistically revealed his identity, Jie Yun still pretended not to understand with a cheeky face, and continued to prevaricate with old words.Shen Yu listened for a while, then walked down the stone steps, stretched out his hand to summon Lian Zhen, explained a few words, and let him go back.

The servant asked, "Do you want to feed the birds?"

Lian Zhen replied: "Is it interesting to feed the birds? Mr. Jie, why do you feed the birds here, but let your servants entertain guests in the hall?"

The servant turned his head, looked at Lian Zhen, and slowly revealed a gentle smile.