Late at night, an old figure disappeared in the long queue out of the palace, looking back at the Zhu Palace shrouded in the night rain and hazy lights, in a trance, he seemed to recall many years ago with the dead Ruo Ao Ziwen, Cheng Dechen, Mane Fist, Lao Situ, and the living Pan Chong and others, strutting into this magnificent palace.

At that time, they were all so young and vigorous, and they all knelt down under the throne on the ninth-level jade steps, and they begged for news to reach the princes...... But over the years, one by one, they have either survived to death on the top of the great Golden Palace, or they have become old and immortal old guys.

Outside the wide carriage, the night rain was pouring down, and a dark voice suddenly interrupted the silence of the car, "Old Li, today's matter is really strange, obviously I have arranged everything, how can I suddenly run out of a fist?

"yes!"

Looking at the capital, which had nearly doubled its army, a drop of rain shattered on the curtain of the car, blurring a small splash of water, Li Lao looked away from the curtain of the car, and asked back to his senses, "Who will destroy everything today?"

"While everyone was celebrating, someone silently borrowed the cheap life of the fist, provoked the relationship between the queen and the horse, destroyed the political alliance this time, and detonated a thunderbolt in the flat ground of the entire capital. ”

As soon as he thought of the smug guy in Mane Fist, he insulted him, and Li Lao hated it so much.

It's all too coincidental!

They just entered Yingdu on the front foot, and he appeared on the back foot, destroying the first grand carnival after the political peace talks, which directly made the atmosphere of the entire capital reach the freezing point again, the relationship between the royal family and the Ruo Ao clan broke down, and the emperor was even more uneasy inside and outside the entire Yingdu.

Everything is like a conspiracy.

The peace talks are fake.

The mutiny is probably real.

This scene is so familiar. ”

"It's very similar to the spring of the last year of his reign twenty years ago. ”

He looked at the silent colleagues in the car, and said with emotion: "It's just that what happened that year was the case of the murder of the father of the king who caused a sensation in the whole of Dachu. ”

Wang Yin's face was full of shock.

"Who would want to do that?"

"Could it be that His Royal Highness himself was dissatisfied with this peace, and was forced by us to go to the Ruoao clan to worship Lord Ling Yin first, so he deliberately arranged this bitter meat scene?"

Zhao Hou looked at them and muttered with a deep look in his eyes.

"In that case, this new queen is much more powerful than the king!"

"If you are forbearant and resourceful, you can be ruthless. ”

Li Lao lowered his head and gently flicked the tea soup foam, a ripple was reflected in his eyes, and he snorted coldly, "If the six departments of Ao are all stationed outside the city now, and the horses only bring a few people and horses to enter the city alone, if this is a plan to invite you into the urn, do you say that the horses can spend safely tonight?!"

When everyone heard this, their hearts were palpitating.

can't help but think of the night King Cheng died.

Tonight, I'm afraid that they won't dare to sleep well when they go home, and then think back to Mi Huang who just returned to the palace, his expression is also dark and unpredictable, "Your Highness doesn't really want to kill the horse family, right?"

"It's hard to say......"

There were only two words in Li Lao's mouth.

But he shook his head again, "But I don't think it's all her idea today, otherwise wouldn't it be a surprise to kill the mane fist? ”

"Who could that be?"

The ministers panicked.

"Cheng's?"

Wang Yin thought of a possibility, "Now that I think about it, only they can't see Ruo Ao's big again, after all, the king first promised a Ling Yin's position to the Cheng clan, and the queen gave Ling Yin's position to Ruo Ao's clan, which will inevitably make them unconvinced." ”

In the dimly lit canopy carriage, someone said, "Who is this Yin Zhi's position now? If anyone mentions this, which side should we stand on?"

"Needless to say, it must be the pony's side. We all saw the horses and soldiers this time, and even His Royal Highness was very afraid of the soldiers and horses in the hands of the horses, so even if the Cheng clan made great contributions, it could not match the military power in the hands of the Ruo Ao clan, if I were to at least find the queen at this time to ask for a Sima position back. Zhao Hou patted his thigh and said with great pity for Cheng's family, "Otherwise, how can you be willing?"

Regarding the speculation in everyone's hearts, Li Lao gently pursed the corners of his lips, and did not speak, but his eyes fell on the edict on the bronze case, and his eyebrows touched the smooth silk texture slightly, and looked at Wang Yin playfully, "But tonight's edict can be given to Wang Yin, you still have no plans?"

Wang Yin had just poured a few sips of tea soup to suppress his shock, and when he heard this, he immediately choked on water in his mouth and nose, wiped his clothes and hands in embarrassment, shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Now His Royal Highness has asked me to undertake the enthronement ceremony, but now I don't know what scale and shape this enthronement ceremony should be held?"

"In the ceremony, what identity should the colt have?"

"The king has previously issued an edict of knighthood, as long as the horse wins the four kingdoms of Jin, Chen, Wei and Song, he will be crowned a first-class duke of the horse, and now the horse has won the north, so do we want to continue to ask for credit for the horse and show credit for me?"

Li Lao looked sideways at him wiping his clothes and wiping his face in embarrassment, and after a pause, he leaned on the soft backrest, shyly pooping, but patted him on the shoulder with a smile and said, "You are almost forty people, and you are still so impatient, how can you do it?"

"Elder Li, in front of you and Zhao Hou, I am the youngest generation, only if you are as stable as Mount Tai, I can follow you to the ......"

Now that there is no Ling Yinzi, he has no one to rely on, hearing this, Wang Yin's face turned pale, and he bowed his head in the crowd, encountering such a big event, especially if it fell on him alone, where did he have Li Lao who was not in a hurry after three dynasties?

In case he is again targeted for attack.

How's that good?

Today, the double anger of the colt and His Royal Highness has frightened him, and he patted the horse's ass, and finally slapped the two horses on the legs, and kicked him with a gray nose.

Li Lao squinted and smiled, slowly sat up straight, took another sip of tea knowingly, looked at the fear and anxiety in the eyes of his colleagues, and thought for a while, "Okay, after this Ruo Ao Yue Jiao, if the Ao Zike brothers make a fuss, everyone is tired for a long time, and they haven't slept a single night, so they are all at ease, go back and rest for a few days, and then see if the death of this fist will cause some chaos in Beijing...... If we are still in peace, then we will naturally do whatever we should do. ”

The young courtiers should have heard this.

"What if it's really messed up?"

Wang Yin looked at him worriedly.

A pair of eyes quietly fell back to the edict on the bronze case, and a sharp light came from Li Lao's thin eyes full of crow's feet, like electricity, and he smiled and said meaningfully: "Only in chaos can we people have a chance!"

"It's not messy, what else are we trying to do?"

"But I worked hard for a few more years...... Li Lao chuckled.

When these words came out, everyone showed a thoughtful expression, but what they were thinking about, they didn't know, and when they arrived on the streets of Nancheng, the convoy put the adults on the doors of each house, but they were surprised to see that their house was looted by the rebels and did not scold Ruo Ao Yuejiao, and they were also secretly resentful of Ruo Ao's family, but they still smiled at each other and said goodbye according to their temper, returned to their homes, and closed the door for two days.

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Cheng Daxin, Chen Huang and other Cheng children also followed the convoy back to the house, and finally returned home after a bumpy time, but at this time, the mansion was empty, quiet and uninhabited, all the belongings that were too late to take away were looted, and Mrs. Zhao and the others did not come back.

Because of this war, the situation in the various mansions is almost the same, everything is waiting to be rebuilt, the Cheng family and the Pan family are the worst, everything is afraid that they will have to be cleaned up again, and there is a group of assigned slaves and attendants in front of the door temporarily, and all of them are blind, they can't be named, and it is not very convenient to speak.

He and Chen Huang walked all the way in the night rain with an oilcloth umbrella, walked to the depths of the house, and when they returned to the room, there was no one in the house, Chen Huang pulled him to discuss today's affairs, "Big brother, I think we should pick up my mother later, sister-in-law and they come back! Not to mention that there is still a plague outside the city, just say that these hundreds of thousands of troops are stationed outside the city, and I always feel that the capital is not very peaceful." ”

"Well, just let my mother and them stay outside for a few more days, and then they should go out for a walk...... Cheng Daxin was headed, originally thinking that he could bring them back safely after the end of the war, but he had an intuition that there would be chaos in the capital for a while.

It's just a matter of what it will be like and how long it will be messed up.

He didn't have a bottom in his heart.

Nor have I ever experienced it.

"Then today's matter, tomorrow I have to repair a letter and send someone to inform the second brother?" Chen Huang asked again.

"Wait...... Second brother's body, I'm very worried......" Cheng Da thought for a while, "Let him calm down and recuperate first, and let's take a look at the situation ourselves first and think of a way." ”

Chen Huang responded, and was about to leave, but was stopped by Cheng Daxin and said, "By the way, this time Su escorted the little boy to the north from them, and it was hard all the way, you can also arrange a place for them to rest first." “

"Yes!"

When Su Cong and them were arranged to live in a side courtyard, in the house, Su Cong thanked Chen Huang for his arrangement as a courtesy, "Su Cong thanks the eldest son, the fourth aunt for your concern." ”

Chen Huang patted him on the shoulder and chuckled, "You and I are both from poor families, and we used to be on errands together by the side of the second brother, so we don't need those false courtesies." ”

If this is the case, Su Congyou really doesn't know whether to say it or not. Seeing that there was no one in this side courtyard, Su Cong hesitated.

Chen Huang let him speak bluntly, "It's all back to the Cheng family, what else can't be said at home, you and I know each other, what's not good to say." ”

Su Cong pursed his lips tightly, looked at him for a while, and then said, "Now that His Royal Highness has returned the position of Ling Yin to the Ruo Ao clan, Su Cong is thinking, how should my Cheng clan deal with himself next? ”

"This ......"

Chen Huang was stunned.

There were too many things that had happened on this day, and there were too many things to deal with, and he still had the heart to think about these court battles, let alone these next things.

Su Cong's voice raised slightly, and he arched his hand with an indignant expression, "Forgive Su Cong for the right disciple and for my Cheng clan, hug a grievance! The right disciple is infected with a vicious plague, all because of this battle, and this battle, my Cheng clan paid the most, the eastern suburbs were destroyed, my Cheng clan died and injured nearly 10,000 people, and the adults still don't know whether they are alive or dead, and they will pay everything to pacify the Yuejiao Rebellion, Your Highness must give us Cheng and the right disciple an explanation?......

"Otherwise, in the eyes of others, what has become of our Cheng clan?"

"Is it that there is no Cheng Lao, Lord Right Disciple, our Cheng clan can let the Ruo Ao clan bully at will, and the people of Ning will give up the position of the Right Disciple Lord's Ling Yin? As Fu Fist said, if there are people in the Ao clan who have usurped power in a chaotic country, doesn't he have to pay no price at all?"

"Where is the law of the land?"

The night rain outside the house was like a curtain sweeping the west wind, and Chen Huang was embarrassed like a phoenix forced by his fists, standing cramped and uneasy in the room.

He is actually not as good as Su Cong, an outsider, who plans for the Cheng family and the second brother, but when he thinks of the rare peace now, Chen Huang found his tongue and pulled the two of them to sit down at the round table and talk, "Su Cong, I understand what you said, and I am not worth it for the second brother, but at this time, we must focus on the overall situation." ”

"But Su Cong wants to ask here, the peace of a country is important, and the interests of my Cheng clan are not important?" Su Cong looked at him and disagreed, "If the Ao clan wants us to continue to make concessions next time, will our Cheng clan have to make concessions according to orders?"

"In every thing, there will be two. ”

"Human desire is endless!"

Su Cong's insistence and forcing attitude made Chen Huang waver in Ling Yin's decision to retreat, but this matter is related to the future of the Cheng family, and he, as the uncle of the foreign family, naturally can't make the decision, promising that Su Cong will ask Cheng Daxin tomorrow, and the two will say goodbye and go back to the house to rest.

When the sky cleared on the second day, Cheng Daxin woke up and heard about it, so he called Su Cong to ask him again.

"Why do you think that?"

"Su Cong once heard that all the important ministers in this court are bullying the weak and afraid of the hard. ”

"If my Cheng clan shows weakness today because of this matter, in other days, even if the right disciple returns to the dynasty after recovery, he will definitely be looked down upon, so Su Cong thinks that even if we give up the position of Ling Yin in order to take care of the overall situation, at least His Royal Highness should compensate us, and let the Ruo Ao clan vacate the positions of Right Yin and Sima for us, otherwise if the Ao clan is still bigger, not only will it seem that my Cheng clan is incompetent, but it is even more difficult for His Highness. And only when my Cheng clan's power grows, can I let Ruo Ao know that there are people behind His Highness, so I can be afraid. ”

"Therefore, the Cheng clan cannot rest on our laurels, at least to express our dissatisfaction and release a tough attitude to the entire court. ”

Chen Huang was afraid that Cheng Daxin would blame Su Congxin for being straightforward and fast-talking, "Big brother, Su Congxin has been following the second brother before, so this temper has not been trained in this officialdom, and it is a bit straight." ”

"It doesn't matter, my Cheng clan is the trace of employing people, what Su Cong said is all for us and His Royal Highness, how can I blame him. Cheng Daxin not only didn't mean to blame more, but looked at Cheng Jia's main book differently, and asked him if he could think of a way to deal with it.

After listening to Su Cong's meaning, Cheng Daxin stood in front of the window, looked at the Phoenix Mountain in the distance outside the window, patted the windowsill for a long time, turned around and said, "Okay, Su Cong, you will use my name to prepare an excerpt for the second brother and my Cheng clan in the past two days, and write your name by the way." “

"Yes, Lord Zuo Yin. ”

Su Cong hurriedly bent his knees to respond to this matter, Cheng Daxin's words were tantamount to promising to recommend him for his career, and he finally touched the threshold of the Golden Palace of Zhu Palace with half a foot.

It's just that these are all things later, this night is still very long, and the night rain is thick like ink, knocking on the Huawu palace room like a night leak.

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