Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Fighter
The gate of the palace was closed, and the Imperial Forest Army guarding the imperial city stopped Ning Caichen's palanquin. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
"Tokens. ”
The sergeant is iron-faced and selfless.
"Let's help pass it on, just say that Mr. Zhuge has something important to report!"
Ning Caichen got out of the sedan chair, and as he spoke, he carefully looked at the guards who escorted him over, these people were all transferred to him by Zuo Qianhu, and he didn't think that these people were really ordinary guards.
"Tokens. ”
The sergeant guarding the door still only had two stiff words and a stiff face, and he was stubborn.
Because Ning Caichen's 'panache' was too big, dozens of archers' eyes had already shot at the palace gate, and the sharp gaze seemed to open dozens of openings in Ning Caichen's body.
"This is the Taifu waist card! This big brother!
Being stared at by dozens of murderous eyes, even a person like Ning Caichen, who had experienced a little bit of turmoil, couldn't bear it, and he hurriedly took out the waist card he gave when he was named Taifu.
"Wait a minute. ”
The sergeant of the guard took the card, he retreated to the gate of the palace and knocked on the door three times, and the gate opened, but the gate was only opened by a crack and could only allow one person to pass through.
"Pounds. ”
The palace gate closed again, and the time was so short that it was not even enough for Ning Caichen to take a look at the scenery behind the palace gate.
The style of the guards is very strict, and it is really useless to put people who can abide by such a style to stand guard at the gate of the palace, but at this moment, Ning Caichen obviously has no heart to think about this.
He had mustered up the courage to make such a decision, and at the moment he only had two points in his mind:
1. How to explain all this to the emperor and ask for help.
2. If Pudu Cihang found out about his actions, how should he deal with the aftermath.
Many guards stood behind him, and no one had asked Ning Caichen since they went out, they were like a group of wooden people, just watching everything Ning Caichen had done.
"Pounds. ”
Ning Caichen didn't wait long, the palace gate was quickly opened again, but this time it was completely opened, and the sergeant holding the Taifu waist card walked out of the door with a team of heavily armed Imperial Guards.
"Lord Taifu, the emperor is in the imperial garden, please come with me. ”
He handed Ning Caichen's waist card with both hands, and his posture seemed to be very respectful, but his words were very distant.
He seems to be just doing a routine, or maybe he doesn't take Ning Caichen's identity as the prince in his eyes.
Ning Caichen took the waist card, solemnly put it away, and then followed.
The palace door closed behind him, blocking the guards from the door.
Ning Caichen should have felt relaxed when the surveillance on his body was cut off, but for some reason, he felt a gratuitous palpitation when he followed the sergeant and was surrounded by the Imperial Forest Army towards the Imperial Garden.
"It's a delusion, right?"
When people are on palpitations and on high alert, their sense of smell becomes extremely sensitive, and Ning Caichen smelled a sour smell from the air.
This is not pear sour, not orange sour, not shabby, but like the smell emitted by the flying insects who desperately wanted to collide with the candle flame and disturb Ning Caichen's reading on a summer night in memory when they were crushed.
Thinking of this, Ning Caichen cautiously looked at the heavily armed Imperial Forest Army beside him-
The mighty crimson armor is like the limbs of some kind of insect, the hideous helmet is like the mouthparts, and the heads are contained in it, and the expression without sorrow and joy does not seem to be the normal state of a living person.
Ning Caichen's heart trembled.
……
"Your Majesty, Lord Zhuge has arrived!"
In fact, there are not many flowers in the Imperial Garden, and only in the middle of winter will there be a shortage of flowers throughout the year, and at this time it is only a little past autumn, and this place is also the Imperial Palace, so such a depressed scene should not be.
"Wechen knocks on the emperor!"
Ning Caichen knelt on the marble-paved path of the Imperial Garden.
The emperor had already changed out of his court clothes, and at this moment he was wearing a black-bottomed dragon robe, and he was sitting in the pavilion near the lake watching the rockery in the lake, and he seemed to be unaware of Ning Caichen's arrival, until a quarter of an hour later, when he turned around, he saw a person kneeling in the garden before he reacted.
"Zhuge Qing's family, when did you come?
There were no eunuchs and attendants around the emperor, all the people were just guarding outside the imperial garden, and even the sergeant of the Imperial Forest Army who led Ning Caichen all the way in did not step into the imperial garden for half a step, as if he was in awe, as if he was taboo, and as if he was just obeying the rules.
"Your Majesty, Emperor. ”
A quarter of an hour may not be too long, but considering the stiff and cold marble on the ground, Ning Caichen's movements were already a little stiff when he got up.
"What's the matter with the Qing family? But it doesn't hurt to say it. ”
The emperor did not come out of the pavilion, he did not even stand up.
This doesn't seem to be the attitude you should have when facing the famous "Zhuge Wolong", and Corporal Lixian doesn't seem to be the emperor's hobby.
"Your Majesty, it seems that this imperial garden is too depressed, and early autumn should be a good time to enjoy chrysanthemums. ”
Ning Caichen's heart was very chaotic when he was standing in front of the palace gate, and when he was surrounded by the Imperial Forest Army and walking on the road to the Imperial Garden, Ning Caichen's heart was also very chaotic, and when he knelt on the cold stone road a quarter of an hour ago, his heart was still very chaotic.
He couldn't see through this treacherous situation, he couldn't smell the smelly limelight clearly, and the words that he had decided to say when he went out finally turned around when he came to his lips.
"What the Qing family said is good, but it's a pity that this year's weather is not beautiful, and many flowers and plants originally planted in this imperial garden have somehow suffered from insect plagues, and it is still useless to order people to watch over them day and night, and catch insects all the time. Alas, what a terrible bug. ”
The emperor's words seemed to mean something, and Ning Caichen's heart moved when he heard this.
"Your Majesty, Weichen is not talented, he has planted land for two years, according to Weichen's eyes, the insect plague that disturbs the imperial garden is nothing more than ants, caterpillars, centipedes and the like. If done right, it's not that hard to deal with. ”
Ning Caichen said.
"Oh, then according to the Qing family's thoughts, what should we do with this insect that messes with the imperial garden?"
The emperor seemed to have forgotten that when Ning Caichen said that he had something important to report, he asked with great interest about Nongsang.
"The whole world is not the king's land, there are countless capable people around the emperor, I believe that there is a way, but Weichen should not be ugly. ”
As soon as people start to play the official tone, they can't hold it back, the people who say it are tired, and the people who listen are also tired, but this official tone still has to continue to play, if anyone puts down the official tone first, then who can't help but have a showdown.
Ning Caichen can't have a showdown, because his gambling book is very small, and his hole cards are even smaller, so he can only expect the opponent to have a showdown first, or guess the opponent's hole cards, and then choose to advance or retreat.
"The Qing family laughed, now there are many people in the world who don't know my name, but the number of people who know Buddhism and national teachers is increasing day by day...... Mr. Zhuge can I call you that, or do you need to introduce yourself again?"
The gray-eyed Emperor had lost interest in continuing to play pantomime, his time was running out, and his mind was not as active as it had been when he had been younger.
He's tired.