Chapter 82: It's not a pity to get your clothes dirty

Qin Jin finally knocked on the door of his own mansion, and a rather burly servant peeked out from behind the door, with an impatient expression on his face. He immediately realized that it might not be easy to get into the house tonight.

Sure enough, the servant angrily rebuked, "Where did you come from, beggar? Don't look at whose mansion this is?

This made Qin Jin a little uncertain, could it be that he had gone to the wrong door?

"Dare I ask which mansion is this?"

The servant sneered exaggeratedly, as if he had seen something very funny, "What a strange thing, I came to knock on the door, but I don't know where I am going." Tell you, this is the mansion of General Qin, the lieutenant general of the Shenwu Army. Hurry up and get out of the way, don't delay me to close the door, otherwise you will be sent to the government to eat the board!"

On the evening of the day before yesterday, the Son of Heaven rewarded ten maidservants and 100 horses of silk and silk, so the servant also learned the news of Qin's promotion. Knowing that his future master was deeply favored by the emperor, and he was a young man, he would have a good future in the future, so he swept away his bad luck, raised his eyebrows, and straightened his waist.

It's just that the beggar in front of him who came to provoke was really annoying, and he wanted to drive it away, but he couldn't get rid of it anyway, so he straightened his face and planned to scare and scare the beggar again.

"If you don't leave, I'll let the dog bite you, do you hear it, my big dog can eat fifty catties of raw beef a day!" he said, he pretended to look Qin Jin up and down, "Your body is enough to eat three or two meals." ”

Qin Jin couldn't cry or laugh after hearing this, he couldn't imagine that one day his domestic servants would actually fight with dogs, and let dogs bite people, I really don't know how violent Qin Ye's temper is, so he rolled up his arms and sleeves, and wanted to reason with him.

The servant saw Qin Jin's face bluffing, and his body involuntarily stepped back, "What, do you still want to beat someone?"

Qin Jin squeezed out two sneers: "Don't beat you, teach you to know and know, who am I!"

"Whoever you are, this is not the place for you to go wild. Don't you want to leave? I'm really going to let the dog go!"

Qin Jin stretched out his hand and took out a plaque from his waist and threw it to the servant, "Look carefully at what is written on it!" This is the photo of him when he was the lieutenant of Xin'an County, and his name and official rank are engraved on it.

The servant took the heavy bronze medal and looked inside and out for a long time, and then brought it to his mouth and bit it with his teeth, and then threw it back indifferently.

"Don't bully me for not being literate, I don't know this thing. Tell me quickly, who are you, who are you looking for, don't say it, don't say it, I'll let the dog go!"

Qin Jin can see it, this guy keeps saying that he will let the dog go, but there is not a single dog barking inside, obviously scaring people, but he doesn't poke it. However, the bronze medal was of no use to the illiterate servants, and there was no way to scratch their ears and cheeks.

I can't say that I am Qin Jin, the owner of this family, who will believe it if I say it with empty words and white teeth? Even he may not believe it. At this time, Qin Jin regretted a little that he didn't come to the mansion the night before yesterday to walk around, otherwise he wouldn't have made such a joke.

"General Qin?"

Someone behind him suddenly called in a low voice.

Qin Jin looked back, but found that it was a man with a fair face and a long body, about thirty years old, but his face was very raw, he was sure that he had never seen this person.

The middle-aged man looked back when he saw Qin Jin, and his expression was yours, "If it's really General Qin, General Qin's big view of the army can make his heart surging down." How can you get to the door of your house and not go in?" he deliberately didn't say anything about Qin Jin's black and gray embarrassment, because he didn't want to embarrass him. Qin Jin knew this.

Looking at Qin Jin's eyes that were both confused and delighted, the middle-aged man suddenly said: "I forgot to say, I went down and my surname was Wei, and I lived opposite the door of General Qin's house." ”

Qin Jin's heart moved, and he suddenly remembered that Zhang Fuchen had told him yesterday that the opposite door of the house was Wei Xianggong's house. The Manchu Dynasty had a Wei Xianggong, that is, Wei Jiansu. And Wei Jiansu's son, who is about thirty years old, is in Beijing, and only his subordinates are Wei Wei in the matter.

This made Qin Jin a little embarrassed, he looked so embarrassed when he met for the first time, but he couldn't be rude, so he arched his hand and said: "It turned out that the subordinates were in the middle of the matter, disrespectful, disrespectful!"

Qin Jin guessed correctly, this middle-aged man was Wei Jiansu's eldest son, Wei Qi.

The servant on the side was already stupid, he knew Wei Qi, and he could always see this person entering and leaving the Wei Xianggong Mansion opposite every day. This person called this beggar General Qin, and said why he didn't enter the house door, and every word of these words sounded like a drum...... I never imagined that I hit a ghost today, how did I scold my own master for the first time?

Counting nine cold winters, beads of sweat have crackled down his sideburns.

After holding on for a while, he finally couldn't help it, knelt on the ground with a plop, and cried loudly while hugging Qin Jin's feet.

"General Qin spared me, I, I gave birth to a pair of dog eyes, with eyes but no beads...... Spare me, don't dare to ...... again"

Seeing this, Wei Wei nodded indifferently, "General Qin will deal with the housework, go down and say goodbye!" and then floated away.

Qin Jin said in his heart, Wei Wei is really timely rain, if it weren't for this person himself, he might have to spend a lot of money with this servant before he could enter the house. At this time, the rest of the servants in the courtyard also heard the movement outside, and leaned on the side of the door to watch the excitement.

At this time, Qin Jin didn't know that after today's evening, after tomorrow afternoon, what happened to him today would become a topic of conversation among the powerful ladies in the city after tea and dinner.

"Let go, is there still decency to pull and pull on the street?"

The servant didn't let go, only grabbed Qin Jin's calf, and cried incessantly.

Qin Jin wanted to kick him away, but he knew that this person was not bad, he just lacked discipline, and people always had to give him a few opportunities to make mistakes and correct themselves.

"Let go, spare you!"

When the servant heard that General Qin had spared him, he immediately let go of his hand and wiped his eyes, "General Xie's grace of sparing his life, I, I will never forget." ”

Qin Jin smiled bitterly, and returned the grace of sparing his life, where did he learn the rhetoric, so he followed his words and said: "The death penalty is bypassed, and the living crime is inevitable!"

As soon as he heard that there was still a living crime, the servant was about to pounce on Qin Jin's feet again, Qin Jin had already prepared, how could he let him succeed for the second time, and with a light flash, he let him fall to the ground with a stumble.

Looking at this picture, Qin Jin couldn't bear to see it, and pointed to the door inside the door, "Go, help him up!"

Teach the servants to close the door at home, how can they let outsiders see jokes on the street? So Qin Jin ordered everyone to go back to the house and close the door......

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On the small building, Wei Wan reluctantly withdrew his gaze, and the red lacquered wooden door separated his figure from herself.

"Since Ah Mei can't see enough, why didn't she go down in person just now and relieve him from the siege?"

Wei Wei glanced at Wei Wei, "If you can go down, what do you want Brother to do?"

She always thought that Qin Jin was a ruthless person, after all, when she was in Xin'an, she had seen Xin'an's unity soldiers ordered to kill the rebel thieves, and their heads were cut off on the spot, and black blood with temperature spurted out of the cavity, not to mention how terrifying the scene was. But seeing that Qin Jin only lightly punished the servant who contradicted him, he had a new understanding of him.

Wei Wei was intuitively funny when she saw Ah Mei's appearance of suffering from gains and losses, she has always been tough, and this kind of demeanor is rare.

"It's better for Brother Prospective Grandpa to go to the Qin family to propose marriage, he is now an official and a lieutenant general of the Shenwu Army, and he is a young talent newly valued by the saint, and he is also worthy of the daughter of our Wei family!"

Who knew that Wei Wan blinked her eyes and asked rhetorically: "Who are you proposing for?"

Early the next morning, the news of the fire in Xingqing Palace spread among officials, and Qin Jin also got the news. He also guessed that it was really just a fire in Xingqing Palace the night before yesterday?

Qin Jin put down the pen in his hand, this is the first time he has written since he entered Beijing, Chen Qing Table, but he didn't write it for himself, he wrote it for Gao Xianzhi. From the text, Qin Jin explained the situation when he first arrived in Hongnong County, as well as the accident of the fire in Da Xian Mountain, which also mentioned what he saw with his own eyes, the tragic scene after the Tang army's defeat at the Binghu Lake, and then the necessity of burning Taiyuan Cang.

He looked at the table and thought for a long time, and finally tore one of them to pieces, because no matter how it was explained, the burning of the solar warehouse became a hard injury, after all, it was also a fact that Cui Qianyou's department was defeated after the burning of the Taiyuan warehouse. Who would stand in Gao Xianzhi's position at that time and analyze the current situation? Most people will only be busy picking up relationships, deducting black pots, and grabbing credit afterwards.

"General, someone came to the palace, said yes, said it was summoned by the emperor!"

The messenger was Li Gou'er, the servant who made Qin Jin difficult last night, Li Gou'er looked quite tall, but he was actually only sixteen years old. In Qin Jin's opinion, this is still a half-grown child.

Hearing that it was the emperor who summoned him, Qin Jin didn't dare to slack off, so he had to not return to the forbidden garden barracks first.

It was the eunuch Zhang Fuchen who came to pass the decree, but this time there was no four-horse carriage, and the two of them each took a high-headed horse all the way to the north, due to the fire in Xingqing Palace, Li Longji, the son of heaven, temporarily moved to Daming Palace.

As Zhang Fuchen entered the Daming Palace, a deep and dark atmosphere suddenly came to his face, and the peaceful atmosphere of Xingqing Palace changed.

Daming Palace was built in the Zhenguan period, flourished in the period after the martial arts, the palace struggles are innumerable, the tragic death of the people is innumerable, and I don't know how many unjust souls, floating in the middle of the upper and lower places. After Li Longji succeeded to the throne, he disliked the bad luck of Daming Palace, and expanded the mansion of the vassal king into Xingqing Palace, and lived here all the year round.

Zhang Fuchen led Qin Jin to turn around in the Daming Palace, and arrived at a side hall where there was no plaque and could not be named.

"Please enter the general, the saint is already in the temple!"

Qin Jin thanked Zhang Fuchen, took off his boots at the door, and entered the hall directly.

The second time he met the Son of Heaven, Qin Jin was no longer as unable to touch the doorway as he was the first time, and the corner of his eyes swept away, but he saw that there were many people in the hall, the palace maids and eunuchs stood on both sides behind him, and there was a white-haired servant in front of him, and there was no one else.

Qin Jin suddenly wondered, when would the emperor summon Wei Jiansu, who only knew how to nod, alone?

And the atmosphere in the hall is also very strange, not so much that this is a gentleman's question, but that this is a tea party.

In front of Wei Jiansu was a red sandalwood case, on which was the steamed tea soup, and the teapots and bowls were steaming. Qin Jin shrugged his nose unnaturally, and a faint smell of pepper permeated the hall.

After kneeling and bowing, a eunuch led Qin Jin to another empty case and sat down opposite Wei Jiansu.

As soon as he sat down, Qin Jin's nose smelled a faint fragrance, and it turned out to be a palace maid who came over with a teapot and a teapot, skillfully placing it on the table. Qin Jin didn't squint, and didn't dare to look at these women more, for fear of causing unnecessary misunderstandings. But he still felt that the maid of the Fengcha Palace glanced at him up and down a few times, and then covered her mouth and chuckled.

This made Qin Jin a little embarrassed, and he quickly secretly glanced at his body left and right to see what was wrong, and after finding that there was nothing abnormal, his heart settled down a little. Until this time, Qin Jin suddenly sensed that the atmosphere in the hall seemed to be a little wrong, and the old Son of Heaven suddenly said: "Laugh if you want to, don't hold back!"

Suddenly the warbler Yanyan in the hall laughed, and several palace maids behind Li Longji slapped their chests with a smile, and suddenly it was like a spring breeze, and the room was full of spring, and the warbler sang and swallowed. This made Qin Jin feel like a world away, as if the bloody wind was suddenly far away, and he had returned to the prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty.

Then, the old man couldn't help but laugh a few times, and Wei Jiansu, who had never been smiling, seemed to have the corners of his mouth slightly raised, and his beard moved with the rhythmic rhythm. Looking at this scene, Qin Jin couldn't imagine that the Son of Heaven had just been frightened by the fire in Xingqing Palace on the eve before. However, I also feel that the coup d'Γ©tat speculated that night should be false.

Looking at Qin Jin, who was confused, the Son of Heaven seemed to be in a good mood.

"Qin Qing, taste the tea soup that I have steamed and boiled with my own hands!"

Hearing this, Qin Jin hurriedly got up and bowed to him, the emperor made tea for his courtiers to drink, what a glory it was. He really hated the red tape of this era, and he had to get up and bow down at every turn, especially when the emperor was by his side. So every time he came to see Li Longji, he felt uncomfortable, not because he was nervous.

"General Qin's training is breathtaking, I don't know that disciplining domestic slaves is like training soldiers?"

A duck-like voice sounded in the hall, which immediately disturbed the harmonious atmosphere, even if he didn't have to look up, Qin Jin knew that the person who spoke was Bian Lingcheng. Until this time, he had already reacted, and the palace maids in the Shicai Hall trembled because of the laughter. It turned out that the joke that he was embarrassed by the house slave last night spread, it seems that there is really no secret in the capital, and the jokes in the market can enter the deep palace overnight.

"The ruler is long, and the inch is short. A soldier may not be a good slave!"

Qin Jin couldn't believe it, this sentence was said by Wei Jiansu seriously, as if he was discussing state affairs.

The old man smiled: "Yes, Qin Qing is informal, and has a straightforward temperament, which I also admire very much." ”

Then the Son of Heaven pointed to the tea soup that Qin Jin only took a sip of, and asked: "The tea soup should be drunk while it is hot, if it is cold, the taste will not be right!"

To be honest, looking at the bowl full of tea soup mixed with pepper and various stew ingredients, Qin Jin asked himself if he drank it all, maybe he would vomit on the spot.

Qin Jin said: "The minister doesn't like pepper condiments by nature, and he is really not used to drinking it, if he is forced to drink it, in case he ......."

The palace maid behind Li Longji secretly laughed again, Qin Jin was also short of breath, after such a while, his reputation was completely ruined, at least he had to end up with a reputation of being lax and vulgar.

Li Longji didn't think it was wrong, he had been a son of heaven for more than 40 years, what kind of person had he never seen, even if there was no leakage in the Q&A, he could still understand what the other party was thinking, and he answered bluntly like Qin Jin, but he was very angry with him.

"If you can't drink tea, isn't it less fun to be a human being?"

Bian Lingcheng's voice sounded in the hall again.

Qin Jin didn't want Bian Lingcheng to get his wish, so he said: "It's not that the minister doesn't drink tea, but he doesn't drink tea soup!"

"Oh?"

These words greatly aroused Li Longji's interest, from Qin Jin's entry into the palace to just now, all of Qin Jin's responses were in his expectations and insights, only this sentence was expected. Drink tea, and don't drink tea soup, what kind of tea is that?

In fact, Qin Jin did not study tea, and he used to drink tea only to drink the kind of Tieguanyin sold in the supermarket, dozens of yuan a pack, so he only made up a kind of green tea with sharp leaves in Henan Province based on his impression, or fried or steamed in the drawer, and then dehydrated and dried, and then brewed with boiling water, and it was a cup of fragrant and pleasant tea in a moment.

"General Qin's method of drinking tea is similar to the tea stalk water used by the mountain village man to relieve the heat!"

Bian Lingcheng sneered at the right time, but Qin Jin no longer refuted this time, but chanted softly: "The road is narrow and the grass and trees are long, and the evening dew touches my clothes." It is not a pity to stain the clothes, but the wish is not violated. ”

Bian Lingcheng didn't know how to learn, and he couldn't understand what Qin Jin said, so he immediately scratched his ears.

Li Longji clapped his hands sharply, and then said to Bian Lingcheng: "This kind of artistic conception, I am afraid that I will have to refer to the next life!"

Qin Jin has been waiting for Li Longji's highlight today, but when the tea party ends, he has been gossiping all the time, without a word of seriousness. When he came out of Daming Palace, it was Zhang Fuchen who led the way, "General Qin, the sage gave me a four-horse chariot, please come with the slave!"

This time, Qin Jin was not refusing, after having the embarrassing experience of entering the public gate without a car or horse, he learned to be obedient, or honestly enjoy the privileges given by the Son of Heaven, with privileges, these people will treat you as a human being.

Sitting on the four-horse carriage, as the carriage swayed, Qin Jin's eyelids became heavier and heavier, he leaned on the wall of the carriage, recalling what Li Longji and Wei Jiansu had said in the Daming Palace word by word, but after thinking about it many times, he still didn't find anything.

Could it be that the summons of the Son of Heaven was just to hold a tea party? Talking about some gossip? Qin Jin did not believe that although the Son of Heaven Li Longji was old, he did nothing for nothing, and as for the reason for today, he had a hunch that he would know it immediately.

Daming Palace and the Forbidden Garden are only separated by a wall, and you can drive straight into the barracks after exiting the Yintai Gate.

After returning to the barracks, Qi Bihe, Zheng Xianli and others were in a hurry to lead their troops straight to Chang'an City to search and rescue. Because they heard that there was chaos in the city the day before yesterday, the streets were closed for nearly a day and a night, and until the street ban was opened yesterday afternoon, but Qin Jin had not returned to the forbidden garden, and they had already made the worst plans.

Who knows, before noon today, Qin Jin actually came back.

"Did you hear anything suspicious?"

Qin Jin's question was clueless, Zheng Xianli shook his head, "The Forbidden Garden is not as slow as Chang'an City, the news goes out slowly, and it comes in slowly!"

"Bad news, Feng Yijun can't go. ”

"What? Could it be that the old thief Geshu is making trouble?"

So Qin Jin explained in detail about his promotion to the rank of lieutenant general of the Shenwu Army, and then hesitated for a while and said: "The promotion is Yang Guozhong's idea, and Ge Shuhan wants our Xin'an Army." ”

Everyone couldn't react for a while, and they were a little puzzled.

"Could it be that Ge Shuhan wants to lead the general of the Shenwu Army?"

Or Zheng Xianli reacted quickly, and immediately understood.

"Ge Shuhan, this is going to cut off our contact with Changshi Jun. ”

Qin Jin sighed and said helplessly: "The matter has come to this point, it is definitely impossible for all the Xin'an Army to stay by his side, as for you can follow me to the Longwu Army." ”

Among several people, Zheng Xianli and Wuhu Huaizhong don't care where they go, they chose to follow Qin and Jin, only Qi Bihe is different, he has a strong sense of identity with Xin'an, if he is allowed to leave the Xin'an army and go to the Shenwu army with black eyes, he will hesitate slightly.

However, if you don't go to the Shenwu Army, and you don't want to be separated from Qin Jin, you don't have an idea for a long time after thinking about it.

After conveying the news, Qin Jin sent the rest of the people away, leaving only Zheng Xianli because he had a major matter to discuss with him.

"What's Chang Shijun means, Doctor Gao is only afraid of being more auspicious!"

Qin Jin nodded: "Well, I thought about it all night the day before yesterday, and I am afraid that the emperor's road will not work, so I can only think of other ways." ”

Zheng Xianli slammed his fist on the table, "What can I do? Could it be that Dr. Gao will be allowed to pull the flag and rebel? In this way, the reputation will be ruined, and it is better to die!"

These words are ugly, but they are all true. Qin Jin knew that Zheng Xianli was very familiar with both Feng Changqing and Gao Xianzhi, and hoped that he could provide some useful information, hoping to help him find a breakthrough in solving this matter.

However, with the recommendation of time, Qin Jin was desperate to find that the road was getting narrower and narrower, and there were almost no options to choose from, what could he do? He even thought about whether he could send Gao Xianzhi back to the Western Regions, where the mountains were high and the emperor was far away, and maybe he could gather the old department to create a new world.

But he immediately denied this unrealistic fantasy, not to mention whether the expansion of the Western Regions could continue without the support of the central court of the Tang Dynasty, and the current Anxi Jiedu envoy alone might tolerate Gao Xianzhi to return to the Western Regions as a fugitive.

Qin Jin thought of Bian Lingcheng again, this guy unabashedly expressed his malice towards him today, and he was in front of the Son of Heaven. This special abnormal move made Qin Jin suddenly startled in his heart, and at the same time, he also made the biggest discovery of the tea party in today's Daming Palace.

Bian Lingcheng is not a stupid person, and he will definitely not expose his liking and hatred for a certain minister and general for no reason, this person must still know something he does not know.

What is it? Qin Jin looked at the flickering candle flame on the table, stunned.

Zheng Xianli saw that Qin Jin was stunned for a long time and did not move, so he called in a low voice: "Chang Shi Jun?

Suddenly, there was a commotion outside. Qin Jin and Zheng Xianli were immediately shocked, you must know that with the strict military discipline of the Xin'an Army, when it comes to the night when the lights are in charge, except for the soldiers on duty at night, no soldier or general is allowed to walk around and make noise without the order of the commander.

However, now that there is a commotion, the source of the chaos must be from outside!

"Let's go, go out and have a look!"

Qin Jin rarely took the horizontal knife.

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