Reincarnation of the powerful minister

Yinshi is coming to an end, the east is not yet clear, and the mountains and trees in the countryside are shrouded in indigo blue like a deep sea.

On the mountain road leading to the capital, the sound of horseshoes was loud, and a group of galloping Tiriders came through Lin Talu, and the leader was Shen Qi, the Commander of Jin Yiwei.

A light suddenly lit up in the middle of the mountain road ahead, vaguely illuminating a standing figure.Shen Qi subconsciously stretched out her hand and drew the knife, but she heard the other party call out: "Master Shen."

Shen Qi recognized the voice, slowed down her horse and approached to see the figure clearly, it was indeed the imperial guard Chu Yuan.

"Why are you here?" Shen Qi asked.He knew the weight of this black charcoal head, although his official rank was not high, he was Emperor Jinglong's real confidant, even more trusted than Longquan, the commander of Tengxiang Zuowei who held elite soldiers.Only a few people knew about Emperor Jing Long's fake death, and Chu Yuan was the only one among the imperial guards who knew.

Chu Yuan replied, "I'll stop you, and I'll welcome you."

"Where are you meeting me?" Shen Qi asked.

On Chu Yuan's dark, unremarkable face, there was an imperceptible smile: "Master Shen, please follow me."

"Qilang returned to Beijing? When did it happen?" Under the eaves at the entrance of Su Mansion, Su Yan shook the raindrops off the umbrella, feeling a little surprised.

While wiping the water marks on his body with a dry cotton towel, Su Xiaobei replied: "The morning before yesterday. I also heard about it when I ran into the servant of the Shen residence when I was shopping today."

Apart from the accident, Su Yan also felt a little uncomfortable: Well, I went to handle the case for several days, and I didn't even come to see me when I returned to Beijing, and I didn't even hand the letter to me, so I just went home... The incident happened. Every abnormality must have a demon.

After thinking about it, she wondered if Shen Qi was injured while handling the case. In order not to worry him, she purposely kept it a secret.Su Yan hurriedly stopped the carriage that was unloading, and planned to visit Shen's residence.

Shen Qi was not injured.

When Su Yan came to the door, he saw that Shen Qi was wearing Chu Xia's green cloth stickers, her figure was very agile, but there seemed to be more gloom between her brows than usual, and it disappeared the moment she saw him.

"When did you come back?"

"……just came back."

"Fart! The day before yesterday, I had the nerve to call it 'just'? Then I just turned eighteen the year before last!"

"Didn't you just turn eighteen?" Shen Qi said, "It will be the same in another 80 years."

Su Yan's face was stern, but in the end he didn't hold back, and laughed.

Shen Qi pulled him into her arms and kissed him again and again.The two chatted for a while about the topic and gossip, and sometimes the first business matter and the next private matter did not feel confused, and understanding each other was enough.

Knowing that Shen Qi came back from the southwest, Su Yan asked: "That road is not too far from Fenghe Bieyuan, did you take a look at the emperor for me?"

Shen Qi once promised him that if he was passing by and his actions were hidden, he would take a look at Emperor Jing Long's situation. After all, Su Yan was in a high position now, so many eyes were on him in the capital, and it was inconvenient to do many things.

"seen it already."

"How is the emperor?"

Shen Qi hugged him even tighter, lowered her eyelids, and said in a calm tone: "As always, there is no sign of waking up."

Su Yan couldn't hide his disappointment: "Actually, I just went to see it in the middle of the night two days ago. It's true... well, I felt that his fingers moved a month ago, so why is there no progress? When will I wake up?" ..."

Shen Qi comforted: "Everyone has tried their best, the rest can only depend on God's will. By the way, you'd better not go to Fenghe Bieyuan again during this time."

"why?"

"I ran into Chu Yuan and said that there seemed to be some unknown person spying on something nearby recently. He was worried that the emperor would be exposed. Just in case, don't go there for a few months, and there is Immortal. , you should also remind him. If there is any change in the emperor's condition, Mr. Ying Xu will send a letter to me, and I will pass it on to you."

Su Yan frowned worriedly, nodded and said, "I see. Don't worry, He Lin is not a person who doesn't care about what matters."

He Lin... Shen Qi was hit by a sudden toothache, and secretly squeezed her fist again and again, only then could she hold back her anger.

Do you want to tell him?Su Yan thought.

Do you want to tell him?Shen Qi thought.

The two stared at each other silently for a few seconds, then looked away at the same time.

The topic suddenly became cold, Shen Qi was a little restless, and Su Yan was a little restless.After being so inexplicably embarrassed for a while, Su Yan got up and was about to say goodbye, when Shen Qi dragged him back and pressed him on the armchair - since it's hard to talk, let's do things properly.

At this moment, in a quiet room in Fenghe Bieyuan, Chu Yuan knelt and sat in front of the curtain hanging from the floor, holding his breath and waiting.

After a while, a double-folded note was quietly pushed out from the gap under the curtain.

Chu Yuan picked up the note and opened it to see that there were two lines written on it.

The handwriting is very unfamiliar and difficult, even if it is similar to a modern hard pen, it is easier to write with a double-petal close-tip bamboo tube pen.The first few characters are particularly distorted, as if written by a young child who can't hold the pen.

Chu Yuan was a little sad. After reading the note, he burned it to ashes with the candle beside him, kowtowed and got up to leave the quiet room.

He met Chen Shiyu who was waiting outside the door.Chu Yuan moved his lips, for a moment he didn't know what to explain or ask for—whether they confessed or not, Mr. Ying Xu had already done his best with the heart of a doctor.

Chen Shiyu nodded to Chu Yuan with a smile, and said, "Master Chu, go, leave this place to the old man."

Chu Yuan clasped his fists at him and bowed deeply: "The holy bow is entirely up to you, sir."

After the night of "medication", Zhu Helin always wanted to find an opportunity to be alone with Su Yan, thinking about how to open up his heart and have a good communication, so that the other party could accept his feelings.

It's a pity that Su Yan abided by the agreement that night, and after leaving the palace gate, the two cleared up, and when they met again, they had a completely amicable and business-like attitude.

Zhu Helin touched his nose a few times in a row, no matter how full of love he is, he will inevitably be chilled by cold water.

Fu Bao couldn't bear to see him distressed, so he came up with an unkind idea: "This servant finds a reason to invite Mr. Su to the palace for a banquet, and coax him to drink the royal wine 'Hantan Xiang'. The wine is sweet and delicious, but it has a strong stamina. Very. At that time, the servants will lock the door of the palace... we will see the emperor's ability later."

Zhu Helin scolded with a smile: "What kind of tricks, thank you for being able to say it!" After all, he was a little moved after hearing it.

He and Su Yan met each other when they were young, and they know each other's temperament well. On the one hand, he secretly hates this guy who is flirting with each other and has no integrity; very.

Fu Bao thanked him, and said with a smile: "Although this slave is a rootless person, she also knows that there is no reason to talk about love, and separation and reunion don't all depend on the current feeling. No matter how hard Lord Su is, the Emperor Use more water to grind it, and it will melt if you grind it."

Zhu Helin hit him with the tribute fruits on the plate, Fu Bao smiled and dodged, and exited the hall.

In the corner of the main hall, pear blossoms and crabapple bite into a ball.I don't know if it was because she bullied her companion too much and was finally counterattacked. Lihua let out a series of screams, which sounded a little sad.Zhu Helin was startled, afraid that his beloved cat would be hurt, so he rushed over a few steps to separate the two cats.

It was only when I got closer that I saw the situation clearly. Today, I looked at the two mating cats with complicated expressions, turned around and walked away with a "tss", thinking in my heart: The cats are done, and people can only sleep with an empty pillow ... It's unreasonable!

Su Yan didn't go to Fu Gonggong's appointment, not because he was wary, but because he has been busy recently and really couldn't find time.

Seeing that May is approaching, and the day of the national public sacrifice is approaching, he has to ensure that there are no problems in the specific operations of the officials in each prefecture. The spies also had to cooperate with large-scale mobilization.

Eduardo, a western painter, worked non-stop for a month and was almost out of shape. He wanted to complain to Su Yan and ask for credit, but when he went to the gate of Wenyuan Pavilion, he was even more tired than himself. The playbook on the case was drowned.

Su Yan didn't feel particularly tired, but was busy, with a thousand thoughts coming at the same time——

Battle reports from Beizhili, Henan, and Shandong continued to be sent back to the capital: Crazy Liao woke up from the state of being beaten in the first place, and realized that the combat effectiveness of the Beijing army led by Yu Chezhi was not comparable to that of the local guards , So under the strategist Shi Sui's advice, the "rebels" changed their tactics, and started the guerrilla warfare they are best at, trying to stretch the front line and drag down the behemoth of the Beijing army.

Therefore, the recent battle situation is very stalemate.From Yu Chezhi's point of view, Liao Crazy's team is like a swarm of rats running in the alley, every time they are about to drive them to a dead end, but they don't know where they go in the blink of an eye, and they can't be found for a long time. Coming out of the gutter and biting your ankle is a real pain in the ass.

Deputy Admiral Qi Jingtang advised him to capture the king first, Yu Chezhi said: How could I not know?This lunatic Liao, I have been suppressing him intermittently for five years, and I don't know where his ancestral grave burned high incense, and he escaped several times. Cutting the grass is hard to get rid of the root!

Qi Jingtang listened, thoughtful.

And the Wang brothers, who were fleeing in Shandong, robbed several granaries and armories under the banner of returning to the Liao tribe, chasing tens of thousands of guards officers and soldiers behind their buttocks, but they were more comfortable than the Liao lunatic.

Crazy Liao has repeatedly urged the two brothers to meet up and respond as soon as possible through the disciples who are in charge of summoning through the vacuum teaching.Wang Wu fully agreed, and turned to his younger brother Wang Chen and said: Our chance has come.

In the previous battle, Wang Chen got an arrow in his right rib, and the arrow got stuck in the gap between the ribs and he couldn't pull it out. Later, the flesh grew and the iron plate was sealed in his body, and that place was painful and itchy from time to time.He scratched and scoffed: What chance, the chance of being chased away by the local guard and the Beijing army at the same time?

Wang Wu squinted: Silly, what a chance to eat Crazy Liao!Do you want to be a left and right guardian for the rest of your life?

Wang Chen knew that his elder brother had ambitions, and his ambitions had inflated in recent years. If he killed tens of thousands of Liao troops, he might plan to march to the capital next step.

But who does great things without ambition?It's just that many times you don't look at the process and look at the outcome, and the winner is the loser.Wang Wu patted his younger brother on the shoulder: Are princes and generals interested in each other?Taizu was able to do it back then, and so can our brothers.

Wang Chen was not as aggressive as his elder brother, but he didn't refuse. After thinking about it, he felt that the opportunity was indeed rare. If Crazy Liao's luck ended this time and finally fell into the hands of his old enemy Yu Chezhi, they would take over the rest of the department without hesitation.So this return aid can neither be too early nor too late.

Wang Wu felt that his younger brother was getting more and more enlightened, and was very happy, but then he heard his younger brother say something out of nowhere: I heard that the lieutenant general who is in charge of military affairs this time is surnamed Qi, and he was personally recommended and promoted by that kid. What do you think they are related to each other? ?Back on the battlefield, I caught the man surnamed Qi, and I had to interrogate him... Cough, why didn't he lead the army himself?

"That kid" and "he" both have specific references, and the twins have a tacit understanding about this.Wang Wu was so angry that he punched his younger brother in the right rib, and cursed: It's been three years and you're still thinking about it?You worthless thing!

Wang Chen's old wound where the arrowhead was buried became more painful, but the itching stopped.So this itch crawled from the old wound into the old heart, and turned into a strange thought-has he grown up, or is he still young?Is it still the same as back then, when fingers always have a faint smell of ink, and there is not a single callus on milky white feet?

Wang Wu slammed the door and left the house, leaving behind a brother who was worthless and continued to dream.

Wang Chen thought: If he falls into my hands one day, the first thing I will do is... force him to dig out the arrowhead from my rib.

Su Yan didn't know that he was still being missed by the thieves and robbers.But even if he knew it, he wouldn't care too much, because there were too many people who cared about him, both with good intentions and with malicious intentions, and he could take care of each of them.

——Except for today's concern, which caused him a headache, other people's thoughts are really not enough.

But what Su Yan didn't expect was that there was someone who was thinking about him thousands of miles away in Beimo.This person doesn't even remember his name or appearance, and only in the vague dreams and broken flashes, he passed the back of the scholar in the Central Plains costume over and over again.

Altan, who had already ruled the Northern Desert and was the Khan, flipped through the letter of credence sent by the envoy sent by the newly enthroned emperor on the table covered with colorful carpets, looking for words that could be related to the letter between the lines. The name associated with the blurred figure in memory——

After a long while, Altan frowned and shook his head, the gold beads and green jade beads made a slight sound of colliding between the braids.He subconsciously reached out to caress the dark green ribbon wrapped around his left arm.

He had no memory of any of the names of the participating officials mentioned in the letter of credence, and he didn't know whether the person he was looking for was among them.Perhaps he would be able to gain something by seeing this group of people with his own eyes until the end of June, before the ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven on the grassland.

His time is running out - if he doesn't find the antidote to the blood poison in time, find the man who stained his tattoo with his own blood.

An old shaman far away in Wulan Shenshan sent him a piece of parchment through a lost hunter. On the paper, it was written in the form of the shaman's divine song:

"Blessed by the sacred tree in the middle of winter,

Lost the shelter of the sacred tree in the middle of winter,

Three years will be over, three years will be over,

The sons of the gods on the earth will eventually return to the Longevity Heaven. "

It is now April in early summer, and there are only eight short months left before the deadline for the poisoning.