Linque

"sick?"

In the Mingcheng Palace, the maids in the palace were carefully waiting for the emperor to put on the court clothes. When Ling Ye heard the report from the bandit, he frowned and turned around suddenly. fell to the ground.

Although the Lingyu was not broken, it was not a good omen when it landed. All the servants changed their colors immediately, and the little maid was so panicked that she even forgot to pick up the jade pendant lying on the ground, and knelt down on the ground with a white face.

A needle can be heard in the hall instantly.

Ling Ye glanced at the tuanlong pendant on the ground, frowned deeper, and asked in a deep voice, "Is he in Luyuan or Zhongpinghou's mansion? Didn't you feel well yesterday? Why did you suddenly get sick?"

Bandit Gao quietly winked at his apprentice Zhu Geng who was standing beside him, lowered his eyes and said in a respectful voice: "Reporting to Your Majesty, when the gate of Maochu Palace was just opened, Lishan Luyuan sent the notice of leave to the Hall of Martial Ying , because Chu Shimo is currently working in front of the imperial court, the emperor's guard who was on duty this morning went directly to Jingzhang Palace."

Bandit Gao lightly raised his head and glanced at Ling Ye's face, seeing his face sinking like water, he quickly lowered his head and continued, "Lu Yuan said that after Chu Shimo left the palace yesterday evening, he went to the bookstore and picked up the books. As soon as I came out, I was..."

Bandit Gao suddenly paused at this point, hesitant to speak, and then he thought about his words and said: "I was robbed by the people from Yan Xiangfu on the long street. Not a little fright. In addition, when I went back, I accidentally caught the cold due to the wind. After coming and going, the roots of my childhood illnesses were brought back. It is estimated that it will take two days for Lishan Dongjun to arrive and sort out the meridians for Chu Shimo. It will take a few days for him to recuperate carefully before he can improve. I am afraid that this period of time will not be worth it, so Lu Yuan hastily asked him to rest early this morning."

Ling Qi had already reported to the emperor that Lord Lishandong was coming to the imperial capital last night. Ling Ye was not surprised by this, but——

"Yan is quite a street robber?"

Speaking of this matter, Bandit Gao was also a little embarrassed, nodded, hesitated for a moment, saw the emperor staring at him, so he had to say bluntly: "Lu Yuan said that the people of Yan Xiang directly put sacks on the avenue, and the whole time Everyone in the street saw it, and the reason is unclear, but Chu Shimo must have been terrified."

Ling Ye immediately frowned, feeling a sense of irritability and gloom in his heart. He took two steps forward, then stopped as if he suddenly remembered something. Hall of Martial Arts, tell Xie Chu to let him go to Luyuan to have a look."

He rubbed his forehead lightly, managed to suppress the depression in his heart, and continued: "Go in person, and try not to let others in the Hall of Martial Arts see you. If you meet other emperors and guards to greet and ask, just say I sent you You go to Su Lang and tell me about the Honglu Temple."

Zhu Geng, who was at the side, picked up the tuanlong jade pendant that fell on the ground lightly, and stood three steps beside the emperor with his head bowed. Hearing this, he immediately understood that Chu Heng's coming to the imperial court was a special case, and his foundation in the imperial capital was still shallow. It is not a good thing for the holy family to be too much, on the contrary, it is easy to cause people to hate.

His Majesty abolished such a big Zhou Zhang, did not send people around him, but asked Commander Xie to visit people in a roundabout way, and even used Su Lang to cover up people's eyes and ears, all for the sake of "not being happy for the Emperor".

Zhu Geng was thinking to himself, when the emperor suddenly turned his head and said to him: "Go quietly and reveal to the Yushitai about the robbery of the people in Yan Pingjie Street. It is best to let the Korean public know before the court today. Pinghou also knows a little bit about it. Be smart and don't be too deliberate."

Zhu Geng quickly responded, hesitating for a while, lowering his head and holding the ball of dragon jade pendant forward.

Ling Ye glanced, and out of the corner of his eye, he caught sight of the panicked little palace maid kneeling beside him. He was still agitated, but he didn't want to punish people for a trivial matter, so he just frowned and waved his sleeves to call people up, Said: "I don't wear it anymore."

……

Today is the tenth day of the Lunar New Year, just in time for the Grand Court Meeting in Xuanzheng Hall.

The list of Nanxi missions had been delivered to the imperial capital last night, and the national teacher Jing Xueli was indeed on the list, and this matter was discussed in detail at the court meeting.

After discussing many important matters related to the Empress Dowager's future, Han Zhuo, the royal official of Lantai, came forward with a tablet, and read a copy of Yan Xiang in court, saying that he had no respect for the emperor, disregarded the laws of the country, Hijacking an imperial court official in the street, his heart can be punished, and Yan Xianghao has a big hat on him.

Zhong Pinghou Chuhong also came out to second the proposal.Although he didn't care much about Chu Heng on weekdays, no matter how he was, his surname was Chu, and he served as a deacon by His Majesty's side. It was as if the face of Zhong Pinghou's mansion was directly trampled on the ground, Chu Hong's face was naturally not very good-looking.In public and private, he has to stand up and participate in a book.

Naturally, Prime Minister Yan refused to admit it, and members of Yan's party defended it one after another.The radical rhetoric intensified, and a group of people quarreled in such a disregard for decency.

The Korean government asked Yan Mao, "If you don't wear a sack, how can you get sick when you are so nice? You are rude and vulgar!"

Yan Xiang firmly denied it, "Impossible, people in our family have always convinced people with virtue the most reasonable!"

Zhong Pinghou sneered coldly, "De? The whole street in front of the bookstore saw it. Your family took people with knives and sticks and forcibly robbed them in the street. The movements are smooth and smooth, and they are habitual offenders!"

……

After a few words, all the families of the Yan Party and the Korean Party and even the poor families in the court were disturbed. Several waves of people quarreled, and the scene was very chaotic for a while. It was His Majesty who came forward to stop it.

Yan Xiang didn't make sense at all, and Han Zhuo was his former senior brother, and his knowledge and debate were no worse than him, so of course Yan Xiang couldn't win the argument.He was also accused by the Korean public that the gentlemen who learned under the teacher of Han back then cultivated four virtues and six virtues, but now Yan Mao threw them all away.

He couldn't gain the upper hand verbally, and he also lost a lot in the inside - the matter finally ended with Yan Xiang being fined for half a year.

As soon as the court was over, Yan Mao didn't even go to the Shangshutai, full of suffocation, he went out of the palace and went back to the mansion. The first thing he did when he entered the door was to ask Yan Cang: "When you brought Chu Heng here yesterday? Wearing a sack?"

Yan Cang looked blank: "No." He was ordered to "invite" Chu Heng to the mansion last night. Although his words were not very polite, he never used force.

"Then why are people saying that you are robbing people in the street? And the movements are smooth and smooth, and you can see that you are a habitual criminal! You are rude and vulgar!"

Seeing Yan Xiang's state of suffocating and looking for trouble, Yan Cang immediately felt resentful: "Didn't you say that you directly robbed Xiang Ye?"

"When did I say that?" Yan Xiang flatly denied, "Didn't you propose that?"

Yan Cang was so angry that he opened his eyes and said nonsense, his head was buzzing: "I didn't propose!"

"Then why did you emphasize the word 'please'? And you said it twice!"

"..."

Yan Xiang was very reasonable, and he regained some of the face that he had lost in the early court on Yan Cang, and he felt much smoother in his heart, and then he began to think about business.

He knew in his heart that the rumors in the market must have been deliberately released by the people sent by Lishan Luyuan.But thinking that Dongjun will come to the imperial capital in a few days, and Chu Heng just said that he will not be sick at the node of Ka, no matter how he thinks about it, he feels that this matter is strange.

So he turned his head and told Yan Cang, who was about to faint from anger, "You will pack up some ginseng and medicinal materials later, go to the dew garden to visit, just say that what happened yesterday was so offensive, and apologize to Chu Heng in person for me. Remember, you must see Chu Heng with your own eyes to see if he is really sick or if he is not in Luyuan at all."

……

At that time, Chu Heng, who was recuperating from illness due to excessive shock, was rushing to Zhongning Road to join the convoy from Lishan to the imperial capital.

It was already the afternoon of the next day when Chu Heng actually saw Mu Xiyun and his party.The secret guard sent by Lu Yuan arrived half a day earlier than him, and delivered the letter to Mu Xiyun early in the morning.

At this time, the distance to the imperial capital was less than [-] miles, and it was obvious that it was no longer possible to give the illusion that Dongjun was walking with them from Lishan Mountain.After Mu Xiyun read the letter, he simply said bluntly that Dongjun came from another place and wanted to wait to meet him, and asked the motorcade to stop at the inn for a day.

Therefore, the first person Chu Heng met on Zhongning Road was the person Mu Xiyun quietly sent to meet him.

Chu Heng was galloping fast in the cold wind, wearing a bamboo hat and rushing here all night. He didn't dare to rest for a few hours on the road. He was really tired, but this person who came to greet him was too much.

The Lishan secret guard at the front led the horse for Chu Heng, led him to a wide carriage parked in a sheltered place, and gave him a look of "everything is said and done".

Chu Heng opened the door of the carriage, and the heater inside the carriage, which was smoked with silver frost and charcoal, rushed towards him. There were also a few wisps of agarwood fragrance mixed in, the light and clear smell, which smelled good and was very stylish.

And the person sitting in the carriage is also very tastefully dressed. The whole person is wrapped in a white fox fur, and the part of the outer shirt exposed at the neckline and front is a crimson warm satin brocade embroidered with silver butterflies, which is luxurious and elegant. Without losing elegance.

He focused his eyes on a book spread out in front of him, and the steam from the tea in the white porcelain cup in his hand engulfed the handsome and gentle eyes of the people in the car.The fragrance of tea, ink, and agarwood are mixed together, making the person shrouded in this fragrance look more dignified and dignified—if he is not eating melon seeds with his legs crossed and the book is down.

The door of the carriage was opened suddenly, and the cold wind was blowing straight into the car. The people in the car gathered the fox fur on their bodies, half raised their eyelids, and lazily called out: "Brother."

Chu Heng glanced at him, didn't speak, and got into the car by himself.

Ye Shuli moved aside, with an inexplicable smile on his face, and said sincerely to Chu Heng: "Uncle Master asked me to come and meet you."

"Are you coming to welcome me, or are the secret guards coming?"

"It's all the same." Ye Shuli grabbed a handful of roasted chestnuts and handed them to Chu Heng, bending his eyes: "Just do what you want."

Chu Heng peeled a chestnut, weighed the value of the "heart" in Ye Shuli's mouth, and finally felt that it was not as valuable as a chestnut, so he asked instead: "Why do you suddenly want to come with Teacher Niang this time?" Didn't you always dislike running to the imperial capital?"

Hearing this, Ye Shuli held melon seeds in one hand, and lifted off the fox fur wrapped in the other, revealing a gaudy crimson brocade dress, squinting his eyes and said: "My master said that it's time for me to marry a wife, let me wear a festive dress." Come to the imperial capital for a stroll, so I can find a cute, lovely, gentle and understanding daughter-in-law to take back with me."

"..." Chu Heng didn't know how to evaluate the master and apprentice for a while, so he changed the subject and said casually: "Didn't Xinghui just want to come out to play? You have come here, and he is willing to stay in Lishan. with you?"

Ye Shuli's hand knocking melon seeds didn't stop at all, and he was obviously in a good mood when he heard this: "When I came, he was copying the door regulations at the Shuijingtai, a hundred times, and he probably won't be able to get out now."

Hearing the undisguised gloating in his tone, Chu Heng suddenly felt a little disdainful, "Didn't I leave you a piece of Dongjun Ling when I left, and you didn't go to get him? Is there anyone like you as a senior brother?"

When Ye Shuli heard the words, he turned his head to look at Chu Heng with a smile, and said slowly and word by word: "The master master personally issued the order."

"..." Chu Heng was silent for a while, then coughed lightly and said, "It's good to copy the door rules twice more to calm down."

"That's right, I think so too." Ye Shuli stole two chestnuts that Chu Heng peeled from the table and stuffed them into his mouth, then took out a jade bottle from his bosom and put it in front of Chu Heng, and said vaguely: "Half Mengtan."

Chu Heng took it and took a medicine with tea.Ye Shuli glanced at him, and recalled the conversation he had with Mu Xiyun at the back of the Wangshu Palace in Lishan Mountain a month ago. He looked at the person in front of him, hesitated to speak, and finally turned his head away from the Xuan window. He found a random sentence and asked, "Before you came here because you said you were sick, did you make arrangements at the imperial capital? What if someone visits you?"

Chu Heng's breath seemed to be a little unstable, a thin layer of cold sweat leaked from his forehead, and he said slowly: "When I came, Uncle Qi found someone who was good at disguise from the hidden guards and pretended to be mine. It looks like you're lying on the bed so you can deal with others."

Ye Shuli turned his eyes to look at his face when he heard the sound, gave a "tsk", stroked his chin and said, "Your mountain face is not easy to imitate."

Chu Heng frowned and tried his best to calm his breath, and said: "Imitating Chu Heng is easier than pretending to be Dong Jun. You don't have to be too similar, just six or seven points are enough, just say that you are sick and have a bad complexion."

The carriage moved forward slowly, and the outline of the inn was looming in front of it. Ye Shuli handed the mask and gauze hat to cover his face to Chu Heng.

Following the neighing of the horse, the inn where Lishan was staying arrived. Seeing that Chu Heng was already dressed, Ye Shuli got up and got off the car first.

The moment he opened the car door, the cynical smile on his face faded away, he glanced at the group of people waiting in front of the inn, bowed slightly towards the car, and the moment he spoke again, his tone became more respectful——

"Dongjun."