Chapter 130: The Fuse
"What a North Flying Fish. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info the main hall has not looked away. Li Jingpei laughed loudly, "However, the main hall has always been curious. You and your mother, that is, the county king of Changping, are loyal to different masters. But there has never been a disagreement, on the contrary, you are a well-known filial son, and your mother is also a well-known mother. ”
Xin Qi's gaze deepened, and a tenderness rose between his eyebrows: "If it is the county monarch of Changping, knowing that I serve His Royal Highness, I am afraid that I will cut off dissidents early and be loyal to my master." But if Xin Zhou, a mother, sees that his son has chosen to deliver his faithful lord to the faithful Lord, and has his own passionate followers, shouldn't he be happy?"
There was a sudden silence in the field.
Li Jingpei did not speak. Xin Qi didn't speak again. Only flakes of snow accumulated on the plum branches that protruded from the wall, crushing the plum blossoms.
The north wind was blowing, the water was flying, and a layer of snow curtain hung down from the nine skies, Li Jingpei's figure was a little blurred, and his eyes behind the snow curtain also turned into pitch black.
"Mother, is this the kind of existence?" he whispered, calling to the snow.
"She's just a mother, I'm just a son, that's all. This is the tacit understanding between me and my mother. ”
Xin Qi smiled. Laughed like a child.
There is no longer half of the anger of being the Lord of the Night, but there is a clean gentleness between the eyebrows and eyes.
What to say to pacify Beifeiyu, what to say about courtiers and writers, he has always been, the child who snuggled up to his mother.
If possible, he is willing to never grow up, never see his mother's sideburns, and never see her wrinkles.
The snow is getting heavier.
Hanhai is dry and icy, the clouds are gloomy, and there is a faint whisper that the naughty children can't wait for the New Year, and they have already laughed and set off firecrackers.
A sound, a year old, spring full of old mountains and rivers.
However, as the New Year approached, the joy was not blown to Chang'an by the north wind.
On the contrary, the city is depressed, the snow is dark, and the wind and snow blow people's hearts colder than the ice mounds under the eaves.
It's only because of the Lu Gao accident that ended with "Lu Huan killed the entire Gao clan on the street" that made waves again.
Late at night on the 15th. sub-hours.
There was already a curfew, Chang'an City was pitch black, and the night snow was silent. The palace lamp in the study on the Daming Palace suddenly lit up.
Emperor Li He issued three holy decrees in a row and urgently summoned Lu Huan. Lu Huan came to see him late at night and stayed in the upper study for two hours.
When the dawn broke, Lu Huan left the palace. According to the eunuchs who served at the time, General Lu's face was terrifyingly gloomy.
When Chang'an had not recovered from this abnormal summons, he was alarmed by Lu Huan's excerpt.
Day 2. Xuanzheng Hall is always in the dynasty.
Lu Huan led all the officials surnamed Lu in the court and publicly handed over the excerpt to the emperor. The excerpt cried out for the Lu family. On the day of the defense, in the Ziyun Building, the Lu family's words were inappropriate and their behavior was inappropriate, because the eldest grandson did not respect the emperor first, and the Lu family, as a loyal minister of the Son of Heaven, was not angry with his disobedience, so he came forward to defend Jiuding and angrily reprimanded the eldest grandson. Under the excitement, there is a slight flaw in the speech. Lu Jiazhong is the sky, guarding the frontier for the country for decades, and is willing to make the merit and then punish the eldest grandson and traitor for the country.
This excerpt was announced at the time, and the whole world knew it, and the entire Kyushu was swept by a turbulent undercurrent.
The people and officials never expected that the already calm Ziyun Tower had changed, why did the Lu family take the initiative to stir up trouble again. Again, the reason is "inappropriate speech and inappropriate behavior". As for what kind of misconduct and what kind of defect, the excerpt did not elaborate.
However, everyone also vaguely guessed that this was the reason why Emperor Li He summoned Lu Huan late at night, but he was afraid that he got a secret report from Jinyiwei afterwards, and this "inappropriateness" was probably "not light", so that the Lu family, whose eyes were higher than the top of their heads, took the initiative to write a letter to ask for guilt, and they had to pull a black pot.
And what surprised the court officials the most was that the Lu family attributed the sin to the eldest grandson. How the eldest grandson "disrespected the emperor first, and his disobedience was obvious", the excerpt did not elaborate. But then the actions of the emperor, who had been absent for a long time, once again pushed Kyushu to the brink of unease.
The first holy decree: The Lu family's capital crime can be avoided, and the living crime cannot be escaped. punished Lu Huan for confessing his crimes, and the book "Guilty of Self-negligence" was announced to hundreds of officials.
The second holy decree: summon the head of the eldest grandson family and put him in prison. After Dali Temple finds out the original situation, the conviction will be carried out.
The third holy decree: summon Lang Xinqi, the author of the Five Grades. The emperor angrily reprimanded him in the upper study, temporarily dismissed him, and returned home to relax.
If the first and second decrees are understandable, the last decree is like a spark that ignites a fuse, and a storm of change quickly blows across the whole country of Great Wei.
this day. Chang'an, Guanzhong, thousands of miles of ice, thousands of miles of snow drifting.
The door of Xinfu can be full of birds, cold and decayed. There were cobwebs under the eaves of the gate, the red lanterns for the New Year had been extinguished for a few days, and no maids had come to light them, and the steps were covered with a thick snow quilt, and even the threshold was annihilated, but no one came to sweep it.
The passers-by hurried through like hiding from the plague, covering their mouths and noses, and the long-tongued women hid in the corners and pointed, sighing from time to time "The great disaster of Xinfu is coming", which startled the sparrows picking up food at the gate of the mansion.
The world is foolish, but it is not stupid. The emperor's three holy decrees, the last one came inexplicably, but it secretly revealed the eldest grandson's "rebellion", which was probably implicated in the Xin family. The head of the eldest grandson family has been imprisoned, and Xin Qi, who is temporarily idle, is only afraid that the "big disaster" will be soon.
Xin Mansion, upper room. The doors were closed, the doors and windows were closed, and the peach talisman hung in the wind and snow. The people of the Xin clan watched the movement of the upper room from the windows of each room. The maids were busy packing up their things, always ready to fly separately when disaster came.
There were only three people in the room. Xin Zhou's at the top, Xin Qi, and Xin Yi at the bottom. The candlelight in the room was dim, the fire in the fire pit had been extinguished, and a cold breath made people's hearts freeze.
"Six women. You don't have to worry about it. Women's families, it is better to prepare for their own marriage. For the rest, there is the old body and your father in charge. Xin Zhou's eyebrows and eyes were hidden in the shadows, looking a little dark.
The old lady was right. The affairs of the government conform to the mandate of heaven. It is a disaster that cannot be avoided, and a blessing cannot be escaped. You are a woman in the boudoir, don't that heart. Xin Qi stroked his beard, and his expression was very calm.
It's the kind of calm that has already anticipated everything, but it didn't come to worry, but it was relieved when things came. This scene fell into Xin Yi's eyes and stirred up a few ripples.
"Grandmother, Daddy. Xin Yi bowed, and his tone was clear, "If it's on the side, Ziqing won't talk much." But the change in my Xin Mansion involves the Dou family, how can Ziqing still sit still. ”
Dou is Xin Yi's mother.
The merchant's daughter. The mother who committed suicide when Xin Yi was weaned and almost only existed in the "mouths of others".
Xin Yi overheard Xin Zhou and Xin Qi mentioning "Dou". With just one word, it is easy for others to ignore the past, but Xin Yi is like a cat caught by the tail, and his hair instantly stands up.
Even if the memory has been blurred like something from other families, it has left a thorn in her heart after all: everyone has a mother, but she almost never hears Xin Qi mention it, as if she Xin Yi jumped out of the stone at all.