How dare the cannon fodder be arrogant

"Just wait for your serious master to come back."

These words hit the Tai Tuo on the head like a thunderbolt, he suddenly raised his head, but his sight only caught half of Zhuang Qingyue's sleeve, before disappearing around the corner of the dungeon in an instant.

The Tai Tuo paled and sat down on the haystack, unable to maintain even his superficial composure.

Whether he was taken captive by Zhuang Qingyue to the dungeon, or he knew his background, even if the secret of Concubine Shu's two suspended animations were exposed, the impact on him would not be as great as the words "serious master" .

The Taifu leaned his back against the stone wall of the dungeon, and the deep chill penetrated into the marrow of his bones from his back, causing his heart to cool down.

They have been planning in secret for so many years, Xu Lin's past experience has nothing to do with Liangzhou, how did Zhuang Qingyue know?He didn't seem to understand what had gone wrong.

At this moment, there was a sound of iron chain shaking outside the dungeon.Following this movement, the prison door was reopened, and the guards who had been waiting by Zhuang Qingyue's side before—in fact, they were soldiers of the Jingbei Army—went back with a knife in their arms.

Obviously, Zhuang Qingyue was ordered to stay and interrogate him.

The soldier had a cold face, even if he faced the current imperial tutor, he would not show him any good looks.

"I'm offended, Taifu." The soldier said apologetically in a rough voice, then pulled the chain between his wrists and dragged him out of the cell, his hands were merciless.

The Taifu staggered and almost fell, before he could stand still, he was pushed into the execution room by the guards, and before he even had time to catch his breath, his wrists were grabbed and handcuffed with iron chains.

Within a few moments, the dignified Tai Tuo was hung on the newly repaired torture frame—just like interrogating a secret officer in the army.

The soldiers waiting in the torture room didn't think there was anything wrong. After all, in their eyes, they were the masterminds who led Xisha into the customs, caused tens of thousands of Jingbei troops to fight hard, and caused their brothers and sisters to die for nothing. One, the Tai Tuo, who was supposed to be the mainstay of the court and a good example, is even more hateful than the secret works of other countries.

——It should have been cut to pieces!

The soldiers stared at the Taifu's face closely, and unconsciously tightened the hand holding the knife handle: "How did the Suxi Army collude with foreign enemies? Who are there, the Taifu had better tell the truth."

Taifu said nothing.

Thinking of Zhuang Qingyue's order, the soldiers gritted their teeth, turned their eyes to the wall on one side, lingered on the various instruments of torture hanging on the wall, and finally settled on a long whip full of barbs.

"Even the bravest barbarian soldiers in Xisha can't stand these few whips..." He took off the long whip and weighed it in his hand, "Teacher had better be straightforward, otherwise he will suffer a lot."

Anyway, I asked him a question before the torture, and the soldier thought that he had given the traitor enough respect by saying that he was courteous first and then soldiered.

Of course the Taifu couldn't stand this kind of interrogation, but the more he couldn't stand it, the happier Zhuang Qingyue felt.After all, his original intention was not to pry some news from the Tai Tuo.

The movement of the interrogation in the dungeon has been left far behind by Zhuang Qingyue.

After returning to the ground from the exit of the secret passage, the declining Shangshu Mansion was in front of him.

Since Zhuang's father and son were dispatched to the northwest, the huge Shangshu Mansion was left unattended. In just over half a year, it was extremely desolate and dilapidated, which was out of place with the prosperous area where it was located.

The soldiers accompanied Zhuang Qingyue to stand in the weedy courtyard for a while, looking at Zhuang Qingyue's thin back that could not be concealed under the cloak, a big old man belatedly began to worry about the injury of his military commander up.

"Let's go." Zhuang Qingyue interrupted the unorganized language of the soldiers, and took the lead to walk to the most unobtrusive and remote corner gate of the Shangshu Mansion.

"Military teacher, are we going back to the palace now?" The soldiers followed him in two or three steps, and asked behind him, "The prince said that he will stay in the palace today, so he can't come back to accompany you for dinner."

Zhuang Qingyue stopped when she heard the words, and looked up at the darkened sky.

"Don't go back to the palace yet." After finishing speaking, Zhuang Qingyue turned around and went to the most prosperous street in the imperial capital.

Under Xiao Jue's arrangement, Xiao Lingfeng became the new regent of the Dajing Dynasty.

Soon, the regent had his own office in the side hall of Chaoyuan Hall.Although this move was quite unethical, Xiao Lingfeng said to the outside world that as an elder brother, he was close enough to take care of the emperor, so no one dared to say anything more.

It's just that when the words reached the ears of those who cared, it was the ironclad proof that Xiao Lingfeng threatened to put him under house arrest and monitor the emperor.Of course, this is exactly what the Xiao Lingfeng brothers want those people to think.

"How is the emperor's condition?" When it was getting dark, Xiao Lingfeng finally raised his head from the pile of memorials, "Has it ever improved?"

It was obviously just an ordinary question, but the little eunuch who was serving at the side began to tremble unconsciously.

He quietly took a look at the regent, then immediately lowered his head and said tremblingly: "If you go back to the prince, your majesty has never been sober."

Hearing his voice, Xiao Lingfeng remembered that Eunuch Zhao was serving Xiao Jue. He was a little eunuch who didn't know the inside story, so he rubbed his brows and said "hmm" expressionlessly.

The little eunuch trembled even more.

Xiao Lingfeng obviously noticed that he was trembling, so he stopped talking and waved him to pass the meal.

The little eunuch fled out of the side hall immediately as if he had been pardoned, as if if he was too late to offend the regent, he would be dragged to death on the spot.

Looking at the back of the little eunuch, a feeling of helplessness welled up in his heart, causing him to sigh silently.

I don't know how the people in the palace usually arrange him. When they see him, they really want to retreat as if they have seen a fierce god.

However, thanks to his vicious reputation, even if the Jingbei King Xiao Lingfeng "coerced the emperor to command the princes" happened, even if it happened suddenly, it seemed very reasonable.

——Except for those who have ghosts in their hearts, almost no one in the palace doubts this.

His gaze fell back to the book in front of him, in order to deal with those ministers with different thoughts in the morning, even if Xiao Ling Fengjing is not good at handling government affairs, he still has to bite the bullet and read these things.

Suddenly, Xiao Lingfeng's ears moved, and he caught the sound of footsteps that did not belong to the little eunuch.

The person who came seemed to be afraid that Xiao Lingfeng would not be able to hear him, so he deliberately stomped every step, but he walked through the wrong door.

Xiao Lingfeng knew it in his heart, and the irritability of watching the memorial all afternoon disappeared immediately.

He hooked the corners of his lips, and stretched out his hand almost the moment the person behind him approached, and firmly grasped the hand that came to cover his eyes.

"Why are you here?" Xiao Lingfeng tilted his head, saw the eunuch's robe on Zhuang Qingyue's body, and the smile on his face deepened, "Here is... Eunuch Zhuang?"

"Eunuch Zhuang is here to deliver dinner to the Prince Regent..." Seeing the teasing look on his face, Zhuang Qingyue put the food box on the table with a thud, pulled back her arms and looked at him, "It's a whole catty, will the regent eat it?"

"Of course I have to eat it. A catty is nothing, and I won't be afraid of another hundred catties."

As long as Zhuang Qingyue dared to give it away, he dared to eat it.What's more, he had already seen the emblem of Yue Fanlou shining brightly on the food box.

With Zhuang Qingyue's eye-knife coming, Xiao Lingfeng's smile remained undiminished, and he was even interested in joking with Zhuang Qingyue: "Anyway, the drug killed the regent, and I don't know who will be the widow in the end."

Zhuang Qingyue, who originally wanted to choke him, heard the word "widow", her ears turned red, and what she wanted to say was blocked in her throat for a long time before she could utter it.

After a long time, he could hold back a sentence dryly, "What nonsense, who has no name and no title, who will make you a widow?"

Xiao Lingfeng has good ears, so of course he could hear clearly. The words "no name, no distinction" really hit his heart. If the Tai Tuo and Xiao Jue hadn't got in the way, Zhuang Qingyue would have been included in his Xiao family tree long ago.

Thinking of this, Xiao Lingfeng placed the last dish, then stretched out his long arms, and firmly pulled the man into his arms.Under the light of the warm yellow candlelight, Zhuang Qingyue's embarrassment was almost invisible.

Xiao Lingfeng chuckled, and first hugged him tighter by two points.

"It's not nonsense." He stared into Zhuang Qingyue's eyes and assured him, "Although I don't want you to be my widow, you must have a certain status. Ah Yue, you will be a member of my Xiao family in a short time. "

Anyway, as the Regent, the first thing Xiao Lingfeng did after taking office was to order the Minister of Rites to submit a letter of request. Soon, Zhuang Qingyue would be his legitimate family member.

Zhuang Qingyue was hugged and coaxed by him again, and the gloomy mood caused by the Taifu during the day was turned over again, the haze was swept away, and was replaced by the sweetness in the heart.

The two enjoyed their meal tenderly, and the atmosphere was so beautiful that for a moment people forgot about the dark tide surging up and down inside and outside the imperial palace—until two cries of night owls suddenly sounded outside the window.

Xiao Lingfeng paused, and looked up at Zhuang Qingyue who was also sitting upright with a dignified expression.

He remembered clearly that this was the secret signal agreed upon by Zhuang Qingyue's hidden guards, and the two cries of night owls meant that there was urgent news.

"I'll go and have a look." Zhuang Qingyue greeted in a low voice, got out of Xiao Lingfeng's arms, and walked quickly to the window.Xiao Lingfeng thought for a while, got up and followed.

The window was about to open halfway, and a man in gray immediately rolled over from the window and knelt down to salute the two of them.

"My lord, my lord." The man in gray told them in a deep voice with the chill all over his body, "Xu Lin led his troops to sneak all the way from the southwest, and they have arrived in Yuezhou this morning."

Xiao Lingfeng frowned, after crossing Yuezhou, Quezhou, where the imperial capital is located, was only three to five days away.And Quezhou has no dangerous pass, as long as you step into Quezhou, you can directly attack Gyeonggi.

The gray-clothed dark guard said again: "After noon today, Xu Lin's troops suddenly became agitated, and then they stopped hiding their tracks. In the evening, the soldiers and horses who had sneaked separately met in Yuezhou. Xu Lin's soldiers and horses A rough estimate should be fifty thousand."

[-] troops?

The Jingbei Army's [-] elite soldiers are able to defend the northwest defense line tightly.The Suxi Army has only [-] troops in total, how can there be [-] soldiers and horses for Xu Lin to mobilize?

As if seeing what Xiao Lingfeng was thinking, the gray-clothed dark guard said again: "There is no obvious change in the southwestern Suxi army well, although these fifty thousand soldiers are under the banner of the Suxi army, they should be Xu Lin's private soldiers. "

Hearing this, Xiao Lingfeng suddenly remembered that Taifu's party feathers framed Zhuang Yizhi in the name of corruption.Regardless of the account books, the flow of money has now been confirmed.

And Zhuang Qingyue obviously thought of something with him, and she looked at him with a little teasing at the moment: "The number of private soldiers that can be raised is just a sprinkle of water to frame Uncle Zhuang."

After finishing speaking, Zhuang Qingyue looked at the gray-clothed dark guard: "If you have any news, let Yijing tell you."

"Back to your son, after Xu Lin assembled his troops, he took the Taifu's secret letter to lobby the defenses of the states, claiming that the prince rebelled, and asked the defenses of the states to join him..." The gray-clothed dark guard paused slightly, and continued, "Will you On behalf of His Majesty Qing Jun."

On the side of the Qing emperor?

Xiao Lingfeng couldn't help sneering, who didn't know that most of the people who used the name of the Qing emperor throughout the ages were rebellious officials and thieves?

But fortunately, Xu Lin's move happened exactly as Xiao Lingfeng expected.As long as Xu Lin makes a move, the scene between him and Xiao Jue will not be in vain, and the goal of luring the snake out of the hole has been achieved.

After waving the man in gray to step back, the two sat back at the table.The food on the table was completely cold, and the two of them had no intention of continuing to eat.

"Xu Lin is determined to restore the country—or rebellion. If he marches all the way in a hurry, it will take at most three days from Yuezhou to Quezhou."

Xiao Lingfeng straightened Zhuang Qingyue's collar, and said in a deep voice, "The situation is urgent, and we have to make complete preparations in the next few days."

After all, they didn't expect Xu Lin to be so impatient that he would strike earlier than the original tenth day of the twelfth lunar month.

Zhuang Qingyue frowned: "How many troops does the emperor have? Is there any chance of winning against Xu Lin?"

"The Gyeonggi Patrol Battalion is [-], the forbidden army is [-], and there are [-] royal guards in the palace." Xiao Lingfeng said leisurely, "The force is three times that of Xu Lin, so the odds of winning must be [-]%."

As soon as the words fell, Zhuang Qingyue twisted the soft flesh on her waist: "Since Xu Lin wants to be on the side of the Qing emperor, he must bring elite soldiers and strong generals, can they be compared with those old soldiers of the Imperial Army?"

"Besides, Tai Tuo and others have deep roots in the court and many party members. It is not known whether the patrol battalion will listen to you. The only ones who can really be used are the five thousand royal guards in Huo Qing's hands."

Zhuang Qingyue squinted her eyes, and pinched a small distance between her thumb and forefinger, "Three times the soldiers? I think it's a fraction of the three times the soldiers."

Being told by him, Xiao Lingfeng pinched his hand helplessly, retracted his fingers and clasped it in his palm: "Ah Yue, although I can't hide anything from you, let's discuss it, don't tear me down like this next time." stage."

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