[Chapter 199: Draw your sword and look around]

The coldest is never when it snows, but when the snow melts.

This year, the belated heavy snow on the Great Wall fell suddenly and stopped suddenly.

The city is full of snow, the people are inconvenient to move and can only close the business to clear the snow, the backyard garden of the big family is because of the embellishment of the snow to add to the scenery, there is snow cover on the rockery, the water is diverted from the white snow to pass through, infiltrate the new green shoots in the flower bed, wait for the snow to melt, the pavilions and pavilions bricks and tiles glazed flowers and leaves and pines and cypresses are all clear and bright, everywhere shows new ideas.

It is said that Ruixue is a good year, and the situation of this year should be good, but spring has arrived, and the cold has not dissipated.

The little maid walked into the pavilion, looking a little anxious, and bowed her head and said, "My lord, madam...... The little boy and the eldest son were playing in the snow in the yard and refused to go back to the room to study, and there was a lot of trouble, and the slaves and maids couldn't persuade them......"

Wang put down the book in his hand and said helplessly: "This kid ...... Cheng Yun is too naughty, husband, you also go to discipline and discipline, otherwise my sister-in-law will blame us for not being able to teach children, and we are not allowed to play with Jiyuan and Cheng Yun......"

She chattered anxiously, urging Yin Shaochu to take out the majesty of being a father to restrain their seven-year-old son Yin Chengyun, and then caught a glimpse of Yin Shaochu's irritable and depressed face, thinking that her husband was thinking about big things and had not raised his eyebrows for a few days, and he still disturbed his purity with such a trivial matter, and immediately regretted it.

Wang just wanted to give up, but saw that Yin Shaochu had already dropped the teacup and left his seat: "Okay, I'll go and have a look." ”

Wang hurriedly followed, fearing that he would get angry and start a move on the child.

Yin Chengyuan's son Yin Ji was nine years old in the first year, smart and clever, with a steady personality, and he showed extraordinary talent at a young age, just like his father when he was a child. He only likes to read and write, and never teaches people to worry, but as soon as he meets Yin Chengyun, who is two years younger than him, he becomes lively, and the two of them get together to show their naughty heart, and they also complain that his mother Dong doesn't love him to play with this younger brother.

Yin Chengyun was born prematurely in less than a month, frail since he was a child, and the youngest in the family, and was distressed by the elders in the family. is so pampered and favored, he has developed such a stubborn heart, naughty and playful, not stopping for a moment, reading and literacy are not liked, and playing and funny is all the same. Coupled with his father's open-minded style, he doesn't discipline him much on weekdays, of course he is lawless, although he is noisy, it is simply a strange seedling that is difficult for the Yin family to produce in a hundred years.

The two young masters played in the snow in the garden clearing and built a snowman, their four hands knew how to be like carrots, and the deerskin velvet gloves were thrown aside because they were in the way, and they were pitted all around, and the snow flew wildly, and the maids and women were so anxious that they stomped their feet.

Yin Jiyuan was holding a snowball, and when he saw that there was one less maid, he knew that someone was going to call the elders, so he hurriedly thought of an idea.

So when Yin Shaochu and his wife passed, the two no longer rolled in the snow, but squatted together, each paddling around the snow with their fingers, and occasionally the two little heads came together and muttered.

"Jiyuan, Chengyun ......" Wang called them.

The two of them stood up suddenly, smiling on their cold red faces, and saluted them in a proper manner.

"Father, mother. ”

"Second uncle, second aunt. ”

Wang Shi said sternly: "Can you finish your homework today?

Jiyuan said: "Auntie, please calm your anger, we are not greedy to play and waste schoolwork, but just change a place to learn words." My younger brother doesn't like to write, so I taught him to write and read on the snow, which is also doing schoolwork. ”

Cheng Yun grinned, flashed to the side, showed the crooked handwriting on the snow behind him, and said proudly in a childish voice: "Mother, you see, I can read the poems that my eldest brother taught me to write about snow......"

Most of the words in that pile are crooked and clumsy, and the strokes are quite square.

“…… Creek...... Creek Depth...... Gu Xue is in, and the stone ...... Break...... Cold spring flows. ”

"Hua Mingyu Guan Xue, Ye ...... Warm...... Gold...... Golden Window ...... Smoke. ”

Cheng Yun stammered and read, and while making eyes with Ji Yuan, he asked him to give a hint, and finally finished reading two sentences, the last sentence was a bit long, but it was difficult for him, and it was thanks to his good memory that he read it out, "Yellow River...... Holding...... The soil is still acceptable...... Stopper, north wind...... Sleet...... Hate...... Difficult...... Cut!"

The Yellow River holds the soil, and the north wind, rain and snow are difficult to cut.

Li Bai, Li Bai again.

Although Yin Jiyuan is young, he has the ability to never forget, he has read a lot of poems at a young age, and often goes in and out of Yin Shaochu's house, knowing that his second uncle loves Taibai poetry, so he is obedient and wants to make him happy.

Wang knew that they were playing a little trick and a little abacus, and he was about to reprimand them, but he saw Yin Shaochu standing motionless next to him, he didn't look at the words on the ground, he only pinched his cheeks and looked at the snowman built by the two children, his face was still gloomy.

Seeing that they didn't seem to be fooled, the two little guys also noticed that Yin Shaochu was in a bad mood, and he was no longer proud, and shrank his head.

Yin Shaochu turned his head and glanced at them, spoke, and instructed the maid: "Go and get a broom, it is the kind of long rattan tied up, the kind that is easy to ......"

The maid had no choice but to do so and ran to the backyard to get a broom.

Wang and the children chuckled in their hearts, seeing that Yin Shaochu was about to get angry and make a move, Wang quickly asked the two children to admit their mistakes, not wanting Yin Shaochu to ignore them, so they just squatted down, squatted there and picked the briquettes on the snowman's head, and said in their mouths: "No, no...... That's not how it is stuffed...... It's too down...... There is also a nose missing, with carrots...... You've got to add a hat, so who's going to find a small barrel, a small one, remove the handle......"

The broom and the keg were delivered, Yin Shaochu buckled the keg on the snowman's head, and asked someone to find the carrots, and he was busy all of a sudden, having fun with himself, and stunned the others.

He looked at the snowman he was dressing up, and suddenly called the maid to get the pen and ink, and watched and adjusted it before and after, and when the pen and ink came, he dipped the ink and raised the pen, and wrote four words on the barrel, "The snowman is too white", which made them all laugh.

At last he remembered the broom, picked it up, untied the rope, picked it up and picked it in a handful of rattans, and said that it was not thick enough or not, so that the two children began to break out in a cold sweat again, and they couldn't help imagining the feeling of the rattan thug, and their hearts were terrified.

Wang persuaded: "Husband, the children are just playful, so they won't do it, right?"

Instead, he glanced at them inexplicably: "Who is going to do it with them? I won't beat them...... Madam, it's not like you don't know that the Yin family has never had corporal punishment......"

They breathed a sigh of relief and watched as Yin Shaochu inserted the two vine branches in the shape of Yazigzag on both sides of the snowman, which became two hands.

He was very satisfied, looking left and right, more like children than them, and kept showing off: "What's the matter? This is called a snowman, you can't see what you have piled up." Now this looks a lot better, doesn't it? Ma'am, what do you say? Isn't it beautiful?"

The children also laughed and gathered around to admire the masterpiece they had completed with Yin Shaochu, and they were all very happy.

The Wang family didn't want to pay much attention to him, and wanted to take the two brothers to apply antifreeze ointment on their hands and call them, but Yin Shaochu stopped them: "What are you doing, madam, you are really disappointed, we have to build a bigger snowman." ”

When the children heard this, they cheered and did not want to go, and the Wang family had no choice but to treat them as three children.

Yin Shaochu asked the two brothers to make a snowball together, they rolled excitedly, and when they were all the size of two hands together, Yin Shaochu stopped them again.

"Come here. The expression on his face was no longer light, but solemn, and they stood side by side in front of the snowman, arms outstretched, each holding his own snowball in both hands.

He said, "Just stand here and don't move." ”

Jiyuan asked, "Uncle, when are we going to stand?"

He closed his tired eyes and sighed, "Stand until the snowball melts." ”

"Huh?" Cheng Yun couldn't stand it anymore, and wanted to throw away the snowball, but he glared at him, so he had to beg: "Father, my hands are so cold, can I not ......?"

"No!" Yin Shaochu turned his back to them, cutting the railroad to the forefront, this was the first time he showed such a stern side in front of the child, and Cheng Yun was shocked.

Jiyuan couldn't help crying, his arms trembled, "Uncle, are you punishing us?"

"Hmm. Do you know why you're being punished?"

Cheng Yun also cried, and his little head shook like a rattle: "I don't know, father, I don't know." ”

Jiyuan replied: "We are playful and disobedient...... Uncle, we know it's wrong......"

But he said, "No." ”

Jiyuan thought about it again, and his arm trembled even more: "It's ...... us who lied"

He still shook his head, "No." ”

"No, it's because you're clever and opportunistic, and you don't dare to take the consequences for your mistakes. You are the Yin family, and you can't even afford this little mistake, how can you be expected to take on the Yin family in the future?"

The garden was pale and desolate, the twilight was four, the pavilions and pavilions were all discolored, the north wind rose again, the wind and snow whimpered like a complaint, accompanied by the intermittent sobbing of children, scattered between heaven and earth.

The snow melted, the snow froze on the hands, the cold began to invade the skin, from the cold at the beginning, to the burning sensation, and then began to hurt, every inch of the skin was like being poked by a needle, cut by a knife, but it did not bleed, only to watch the ten fingers become more and more swollen and red, and finally numb, dare not move, even dare not breathe, arms are also sore and stiff, and gradually forget that these hands are their own......

Yin Shaochu opened his eyes, the candlelight in the house was about to go out, he stretched out his hands from the quilt and tried to see clearly through the faint light, now it is as clean as usual, warm and lively, but the pain of his childhood has penetrated deep into the bone marrow and is rooted in his heart.

I don't know what's wrong with me, it's not surprising to dream that I and my brother were punished by my father when I played in the snow and didn't read, but tonight I taught Chengyun and Jiyuan to recite a few lines of poetry, and I didn't want to fall asleep with the night......

His father's reprimand that year was loud in his ears, reminding him over and over again that they were the Yin family, and they had to take responsibility for themselves and the Yin family.

Since he was punished that year, he and Yin Chengyuan have never touched snow for so many years.

In a flash, he and his brother have become fathers, but the younger brother died tragically, his father died, and the Yin family went through ups and downs......

Yin Shaochu got up and stayed, and Wang also woke up and asked him: "Husband, what's the matter? It's still early to catch up with the court......

He put on his coat and turned around to put on the quilt for his wife: "It's okay, Mrs. go to sleep, I want to go see Chengyun and Jiyuan ......"

Wang knew that her husband was heavy and sleepy, so she also got off the bed: "Okay, I'll go with you." ”

So the couple carried the lantern side by side to the children's bedroom, and when the night was quiet, the snow had stopped, and the moonlight was covered in silver, and two shadows cast on the snow, elongated with the pace.

Since Yin Jiheng's accident, Yin Shaochu took his wife back to live in the mansion, Yin Chengyun and his cousin Yin Jiyuan slept in the same room, playing and reading together every day. In the past, the two boys always caused trouble when they met together, but during this time, they experienced the death of their relatives twice, and they were aware of the changes in the atmosphere at home, and even the naughty Chengyun was much more obedient.

The two children lay down together, already asleep peacefully. On the bookcase in the room there were also notebooks that they had practiced during the day, one with square handwriting and the other with crooked and immature handwriting.

The couple entered the room silently and sat beside the bed for a long time, only looking at them in silence.

In the end, he sighed softly, "They are also the Yin family...... We can't help but plan for them......"

Yin Shaochu didn't go back to the room that night, he carried a lantern alone, walked through the snow, strolled to the back garden, and a lonely shadow stood under the moon.

The sky is bright and sunny, and there is a tall snowman in the garden, a body made of snow, eyes inlaid with black charcoal, a nose made of carrots, vine branches inserted into hands, a wooden barrel buckled on the head, and four words written on it.

Snowman is white.

……

After three days of suspension, Sangu finally received a summons order from the Third Division.

The three divisions will be tried, because they are all officials of the imperial court, and the case will be presided over by the Imperial History Observatory, and Yin Chengyuan, who is currently the highest-ranking official in the three divisions, will be the chief prosecutor.

Gu Qingxuan's physical condition deteriorated, and after receiving the summons, he vomited blood and fell unconscious, so he was unable to appear in court on the first day of the summons. Gu Qingning and Gu Qinghuan both retired in official uniforms, dressed in cloth clothes, holding a summons order, and were escorted to the Yushitai for trial by a large group of people.

Almost all the high-ranking officials of the three divisions have gathered in the Imperial History Tower, including Lu Qian, the chief inspector of the Yin family's faction, and Zhao Ming, Langzhong of the Criminal Department, who is still the Yin family's faction.

Jiang Hechuan, as an accuser and witness, went to court early in the morning and met with the Gu family sisters and brothers.

Gu Qingning and Gu Qinghuan looked at the rivers and rivers that they hadn't seen for a long time, as well as the thick pile of testimony in front of him, they knew that every one of them was fatal, and at this time, the sky and the earth were close at hand.

The rivers and rivers that have supported them for more than 20 years have finally been used as the most powerful weapon to push them to destruction.

In the solemn and solemn drinking of the judge, after going through the procedure of entering the court, the Gu family sisters and brothers knelt down in the court, saluted the officials on the presiding judge's seat, and bowed three times.

"Who is there to be tried?"

"Gu Qingning, the waiter of the Criminal Department. ”

"Gu Qinghuan, the secretary of the ministry. ”

"What is it charged with?"

After the last bow, Gu Qingning and Gu Qinghuan raised their heads together and looked at Yin Chengyuan on the main seat.

After hearing the second question, they looked at each other and smiled, and Gu Qinghuan asked them rhetorically: "Aren't you going to end your work today?"

"Presumptuous, how dare you be so rude in the court?" Zhao Ming shouted at him.

Gu Qinghuan was still smiling, stretched out a hand to Gu Qingning, Gu Qingning also smiled and handed him a hand, he helped his sister to get up, the two were standing in the hall, Gu Qinghuan said: "The head has been knocked over, how can it be rude?"

Gu Qinghuan met Zhao Ming's gaze, walked towards him, picked up the thick pile of testimony handed in by Jiang Hechuan, turned to Yin Chengyuan and said: "Lord Yin, you have tried your best to expose our crimes, use my uncle's secret as a threat, force out these testimonies, and accuse us of raising the Immortal Life Sect to spread rumors and cause trouble in Chang'an, killing people and eliminating dissidents, all of these charges can bring us to death......

"What do you want to say?" Yin Chengyuan yelled at him angrily, impatient to look at his pretending to be profound.

Gu Qinghuan approached him, and Huo Di put the pile of documents in front of him, "I want to say, you can directly stamp the verdict on this testimony." ”

Yin Chengyuan gritted his teeth and looked directly into his eyes, "So you admit it?"

"Yes. Gu Qinghuan sighed helplessly: "Lord Yin, you have used such a means to pinch our biggest flaw, we have reached the end of the road, what is the use of dying and struggling? ”

Yin Chengyuan angrily slapped the case, "Okay! Now that you have confessed, then draw a charge on the confession and immediately arrest and take him to prison!"

Gu Qinghuan dusted his hands, took the confession handed over by the document that recorded the case on the side, and put it down casually: "Why is Lord Yin so anxious? ”

He got closer and closer, his smile became more and more gloomy, and the contempt in his eyes was unmistakable: "You don't want to know how many people we killed to get to where we are today? You don't want to know how the Lu family came to an end? You don't want to know how your Yin family fell to the present? You don't want to know why we burned your own brother? And your father......

Gu Qinghuan approached him, threw out these questions in one breath, and stopped abruptly when Yin Chengyuan was most shocked.

Yin Chengyuan stared at Gu Qinghuan in front of him, he had the light on his back, and his face was covered with a layer of darkness, which made it impossible to see clearly, but the sharp edge in his eyes pierced people's hearts through the dust in this hall.

Gu Qinghuan stretched out the palm of his right hand in front of Yin Chengyuan, spread out his five fingers, and said, "This hand has written the champion article, this hand has held the official seal of Shangshu, and this hand has also been stained with blood...... This hand had slit a man's throat with a piece of porcelain, and he had pressed the piece down and left it in that man's throat forever......"

Saying that, his hand suddenly touched Yin Chengyuan's Adam's apple down.

"Gu Qinghuan!" Yin Chengyuan was startled, his face was pale, and he was furious.

Gu Qinghuan turned around, took a few steps back, and bowed: "Oh, I'm sorry, I've offended Lord Yin." “

He raised his hand again and shone it in front of everyone: "But you see, this is still an ordinary hand, and it doesn't look any different, does it?"

After listening to what he said, all the officials in the hall felt chills down their spines after listening to what he said. Zhao Ming yelled at him again: "Gu Qinghuan, are you stunned?"

Gu Qinghuan ignored him, just looked at the sky outside, walked down, walked to the side of Jiang Hechuan and stopped, and was silent from then on, no longer moving.

At this time, they noticed Gu Qingning, who was standing at the front and had not spoken, she still didn't say anything at this time, but her eyes began to flow, looked at Yin Chengyuan for a while, and went down in turn, looking at all the officials present in the hall one by one.

When his eyes fell on Lu Qian, Lu Qian couldn't stand her gaze and asked, "What are you doing?"

Gu Qingning smiled and spoke: "I want to remember what each of you looks like." ”

As her words landed, there was a sudden burst of screams outside the hall.

Short and frightening, blood splattered on the doors and windows, chaos erupted inside and outside the Imperial Historical Observatory, the sound of swords clashing and screaming were mixed, and a rapid offensive instantly invaded the Imperial Historical Observatory.

What was even more terrifying was not the attack besieged on all sides, but some kind of murmur wafting from all over the south, east, west, and north—

"Immortal Religion, Chang'an Robbery ......"

"The courtiers hate, and the family and country are destroyed......"

……

Like the groans of ghosts, like the funeral joy of a funeral......

The wind rose, and the white unicorn paper rolled into the hall like heavy snow, rushing towards Yin Chengyuan......

There was chaos in the hall, everyone desperately ran outside, but those terrible blades had been forced out of the door, the guards of the Imperial Observatory resisted stubbornly, and people continued to die under the cold long sword, and the guards in the hall closed the heavy door, resisting the impact from the outside, shouting to arrange for everyone in the hall to enter the underground anti-danger room.

The Gu family sisters and brothers fled in a panic, and Gu Qingning, relying on his familiarity with the secret room, first dragged Gu Qinghuan and Jiang Hechuan to find the entrance of the secret room and drill inside.

Yin Chengyuan was hugged by the officials and pushed into the secret passage. The structure of the anti-danger chambers of each government office is generally the same, with only slight differences, and the escape routes mastered by officials of various official ranks are different, and the secret rooms where they hide are also different.

Those who make a mistake can only be buried under the mechanism of the underground secret passage, but fortunately, Yin Chengyuan is not chaotic and finds the right route.

He is the highest-ranking official in this hall today, and he lives in the third rank, so he entered the secret room of Zhongcheng, who is also a third rank.

As soon as the stone door was closed, Yin Chengyuan was safe, he breathed a sigh of relief, and with a shake of his hand, he knocked off the small candle that had been brought down for lighting, and it was pitch black in front of him.

He was trying to grope around and look for the spare fire fold in the secret room, but he saw a little fire in the darkness, it was candlelight, and the light spread out, brighter and brighter, illuminating the face of the person behind the candlelight.

"Lord Yin, Gu has been waiting for you for a long time. ”