Although Gao Chi and the three returned to Beiping, the imperial court's reprimand edict also arrived immediately, because the local officials of Zhuozhou reported that Gao Xu had flogged the post without authorization, and hundreds of officials wrote to accuse, and the emperor seemed to have some regret and let them back, and the edict said that Gao Xu was "a brave scoundrel".

And what is even more unexpected is that on June 1, Ni Liang, a hundred households of Yanshan Wei, suddenly ran to the Beiping Command Envoy Division, and accused Yu Liang and Zhou Duo of Yanshan Wei Guanxiao of conspiracy and a number of intricate events - and these two people were ordered to build a crypt and build one of the leaders of the weapon, although this hundred households named Ni Liang did not directly report the military rebellion of King Yan, but the imperial court took Liang and Zhou Duo directly from the palace, and even commanded the envoy without handling it, and was directly escorted to Jingshi, and then was executed after some interrogation.

The new emperor learned some of the yin affairs of King Yan from the mouths of these two people, and he once again reprimanded King Yan -

This is a very bad omen, this has confirmed that the imperial court is also not easy to deceive, and they also know Zhu Di's antipathy, so this is not just a matter of suspicion, the imperial court may capture King Yan at any time. And King Yan's preparations were too late, they didn't have sufficient preparations, and suddenly there was a lot of bad luck-

So King Yan began to pretend to be crazy, and in the first few days, he claimed that the illness was getting worse, and everyone in the palace was waiting in front of the bed day and night, but King Yan got sick in the middle of the night, ran out of the palace barefoot, and caused everyone to chase after him, and lay back on the bed, and the next day he said that he didn't know at all. In the middle of the night on the third day, he began to talk nonsense again, and then he jumped out of bed again, and threw himself into a large water tank in the courtyard, and the people were so shocked that they fished people out.

After the doctor of the palace Zheng Liu observed the diagnosis and treatment, he said to the outside world that Yan Wang was called madness, and there was no cure for this disease, and that madness was completely different from Gao Sui's madness, because when madness did not occur, it was a normal person when it did not occur; and madness was a nervous disorder and mental disorder, and the patient would be a complete crazy person in the future.

King Yan is now getting more and more crazy, and he lies under the tree in the back garden, and he lies down for a day, and he doesn't wake up all day long, no one wakes up, and he is still carried back to the dormitory. He got up again in the middle of the night, looked for water to drink, drank and said nonsense that he was the Jade Emperor and the Sanqing Sage, and the mansion was quiet for a while.

King Yan pretended to be crazy and couldn't hide it from Princess Xu, but he actually concealed it from his three sons, Gao Chi could feel the bones on his thin back in a few days, Gao Xu's chin had a layer of blue and black stubble, Gao Sui was sent by Gao Chi to call famous doctors in Beiping and the surrounding counties, he didn't expect King Yan to be so seriously ill before he left, and he didn't recognize King Yan when he came back, because the ragged person who wandered around the market like a beggar and grabbed wine and food, how could it be King Yan?

"What's the matter," King Yan sat on crutches at the restaurant in the market, and looked at the shopkeeper kneeling on the ground with dissatisfaction: "Tell you to compete with me, if I win, I will take away your wine, are you reluctant to give up your wine?"

But looking at today's Yan Wang, his face is thin and thin, and the wrinkles are squeezed out, as if he is wrapped in a layer of bark, especially worth mentioning a pair of eyes, the left eye is squinted, at first glance it is not much bigger than the needle point, like blind. But when I glanced at the right eye, it was a blood-red stare, as if I had pink eye, and when I was stared at by this eye, the shopkeeper was suddenly frightened, and waved his hand and said: "The villain doesn't dare, the villain doesn't dare-"

King Yan was happy and said, "Then let's shake the bamboo, let's shake the bamboo, okay, I can shake it for a quarter of an hour, and I can shake the chicken on the shelf, if you can't compare to me, you have to be careful about your wine!"

Hollow bamboo is a toy that makes a sound when a string is shaken and rotated at high speed. Like the empty bamboo in the hand of Yan Wang, it is a wooden hollow, single shaft, but the rim is made of bamboo, when playing, each hand holds two small bamboo sticks two feet long, and the top is tied with a cotton rope about five feet long, winding the spool one or two circles, shaking and rotating.

Yan Wang held one hand and sent it in one hand, constantly shaking, and when it accelerated and rotated, the bell sounded. And the posture of the Yan King is changeable when he shakes, the rope turns over the flowers, the empty bamboo is strung for a while, and the high is lifted for a while, and there are even actions such as throwing and crossing the bridge, which are called "chicken on the shelf" and "fairy jumping", and everyone who was kneeling in the restaurant involuntarily raised their heads and opened their mouths wide one by one.

King Yan also seemed to be quite proud, and after showing off his skills for a long time, he shook off the empty bamboo and said, "How is it, are you comparable to me?"

The owner of the restaurant naturally shook his head vigorously and said: "The villain can't compare to His Royal Highness, although His Highness takes wine, even if he takes wine!"

King Yan didn't relent: "You haven't competed with me yet, how can you say that you can't compare with me! You villain who steals and cheats on both sides and stabs, if you don't show real kung fu today, I will smash your restaurant to pieces!"

This boss really couldn't, so he could only take the empty bamboo, but he trembled and played a few times, and it seemed that he was still stable, and someone even secretly said on the table: "This old man Sun can still play with the teapot lid!"

King Yan was even more shocked when he heard this, and sure enough, he ordered someone to replace the empty bamboo and replace the teapot lid, and the owner of the restaurant actually really held it, pulling back and forth with a stick in each hand, the speed accelerated, and the buzzing sound of the teapot lid was even louder than the sound of the hollow bamboo.

"So cool, so cool!" King Yan laughed when he saw it, and even sighed, and the whole table echoed it, but this whistling was interrupted by a sharp voice.

"His Royal Highness King Yan!" the voice said: "How can you be so light that you can drink and eat with the people!" Your Highness is responsible for the government of a country, but you live a leisurely life, but what?"

The palace guards didn't take long to pick up this person who spoke up, and when King Yan saw that it was a young scholar wearing a square scarf and a soap-colored shirt, he couldn't help but smile and said, "Who are you, dare to ask me?"

"Student Du Qi," the man saluted unhurriedly and said, "Peiping Mansion student member." ”

"It turned out to be a showman," Yan Wang haha, "What skills do you have, are you playing better than him?" Come on, come on, give you an empty bamboo, and you can also throw one to play!"

This Du Qi did not squint, and knelt down and admonished: "His Royal Highness King Yan, the student grew up in Beiping, but seeing that within the vassal country, the government is harmonious, and the people are happy, this is all the work of His Royal Highness's education, but I don't know how His Royal Highness King Yan can't always be, and now I see His Royal Highness light here, and the people in the market are peers, frolicking and feasting, and despise the countrymen, and the students are really not worth it for His Royal Highness, taste it,' Governing the country is no different from recuperating from illness, the world is a little peaceful, especially cautious, if you are arrogant, you will be defeated', now the vassal country is in the royal highness, so the reason is cautious for a day, although the rest is not resting, may your highness remember the difficulty of Emperor Gao's entrepreneurship, the descendants of the Xu to abide by, think about the rules of governance, in order to carry forward the long-term industry, it is not easy for eternity, and the country has no borders. ”

King Yan looked at him, but said in his mouth: "You scholar, full of ridiculous words! Saying that these are useful and useless are no different from those sour Confucians in my house!

King Yan swaggered back to the mansion with a group of guards, and retreated from everyone and said to Meng Shan, the personal guard: "That person just now, you must especially remember that since I am determined to raise troops, I will recruit talented people from Beiping to participate in the great cause, if there is a person with broad knowledge and far-reaching plans, I will naturally treat him with all my heart." ”

Before he finished speaking, he heard a report from someone outside: "Your Highness, the political envoy Zhang Yu and the commander Xie Gui have come to inquire about the disease." ”

King Yan was shocked when he heard this: "Sure enough, it's here!"

Since King Yan is pretending to be crazy, it is naturally self-evident who to show his madness, Zhang Yu Xie Gui came to ask about the disease, King Yan was already ready, and he was about to play a big drama to watch.

When Zhang Yu and Xie Gui walked into the main hall, they saw a Yan Wang wearing a quilt and a cotton jacket, sitting by a stove to roast the fire, and repeatedly chanting a sentence in his mouth: "Freeze me to death! Freeze me to death!"

The two of them were taken aback, just because this summer day was the time when the red sun was scorching, and they would sweat if they sat there without moving, not to mention that King Yan had set up a hearth in the four corners of the palace, and he still held the largest stove in his chest, and he actually shouted that he was freezing to death, could it be that King Yan is really sick now?

Zhang Yu didn't believe it in his heart, the news that King Yan had madness came out from King Yan's mansion, he felt that this was King Yan pretending to be crazy and plotting something big, he and Xie Gui glanced at each other and stepped forward, "His Royal Highness King Yan, the ministers came to ask about the disease, I don't know Your Highness, how is the illness?"

King Yan didn't pay attention to them, but his mouth was turning over and over again, vaguely like chanting a mantra, and like gibberish, Ma He, who was waiting beside him, could only comfort and reply: "Your Highness, the two adults have come to see you, take a look, do you still know them?"

King Yan glanced at him and exclaimed, "Could it be that the Three Qingjing Realm Daode Tianzun and Lingbao Tianzun have arrived?" Daoyou, the poor Dao has waited for thirty-six Chiming Tribulations, but it can be regarded as waiting for two Daoists!"

Xie Gui was stunned and said, "Your Highness, what are you talking about?"

"Poor Dao Yuan Shi Tianzun," King Yan lifted the quilt, and when he came over, he wanted to arrest them: "You and I are the three of you, but the three of you and I are the Void Nature Daluo Sanqing Three Realms and Three Treasures Tianzun, Yuqing, Shangqing, and Taiqing are also! How can Daoist friends forget? Is it because you two have been through the calamity for too long, and have been disturbed by the world, and have forgotten their original faces? Come and come, let the Poor Dao brush away the dust for you, and see the nature clearly!"

Ma and Li Xing hurriedly came up and hugged King Yan, King Yan struggled for a while, his eyes were dull again, and he said with words in his mouth: "Above the Three Realms, Brahma Mira, the supreme world, the heaven in the sky." Yuluo Xiaotai, Yushan Shangjing. Slim gold, Sen Luo Jinghong. Xuanyuan Yiqi, the precursor of chaos......"

Ma He saw that Xie Gui seemed to have some faith, but Zhang Yu still sneered and was silent, and sighed in his heart, and said: "Forgive me, two adults, our Royal Highness, our royal highness, is already terminally ill, not to mention the two of you, even the three princes and princesses are here, and I don't know it." On weekdays, I was confused, but yesterday I said that the Jade Emperor descended to earth, and today I can say that it is Sanqing——"

Before he finished speaking, he listened to Zhang Yu and said: "His Royal Highness King Yan's illness is like a symptom of a momentary dizziness and dysfunction, and when this official was in charge of Henan before, he also saw someone who lost his will and talked falsely, but he tried to fight with his brother for family property, and he rolled at the door of the public office, so that the evil of summer heat and wind and cold took advantage of the void to invade and become sick, and it was also as hot and cold as King Yan. In my opinion, His Royal Highness's illness is to delay the quack doctors, and when the official plays the Ming Imperial Court, he will send a national hand from the Tai Hospital to His Royal Highness King Weiyan for diagnosis and treatment, and it will definitely not be like this. ”

Ma He said: "My lord is joking, since His Royal Highness fell ill, the medical officers of the palace have taken turns to see it, all of them are said to be crazy, from the bottom of their hearts, it is extremely difficult to treat, we really can't, listen to the princess's meaning, recruit talented people from all over Beiping, just to see His Highness's illness, but dozens of people come and go, and they are helpless, and no one can prescribe the right medicine." Even if the Holy God has mercy and gives the imperial doctor, he will return empty, which will increase the incident. ”

Here Ma He explained unhurriedly, over there Gao Chi and Zhang Zhaohua hurried over when they heard the news, Zhang Yu and Xie Gui were also taken aback when they saw Gao Chi, because Gao Chi's original fat appearance was reduced by a star, his eye sockets were blue, and the robe on his body was wider, and the princess Zhang had no traces of makeup, unkempt, and the two of them came in and confessed: "The princess is not very good there, the two of us serve, just fell asleep, and left the kings of Gaoyang and Anyang to serve in the middle hall." ”

Gao Chi and Zhang Zhaohua took the towel spittoon, did not take a breath, and waited for King Yan to get up, Zhang Yu saw that King Yan did not spit out a mouthful of thick phlegm into the spittoon, but spit on Gao Chi's body, and Gao Chi did not change his color at all.

Zhang Zhaohua knelt on the ground to put on boots for King Yan, just put on one, but was kicked away by King Yan, looked up and saw that King Yan actually rushed out of the hall, and there were just three or five palace people carrying a bucket in front of the palace passing by, unable to dodge, the gold juice inside spilled on the ground, and suddenly the smell was stinking, and King Yan was actually happy to dance, and he still lay on the ground, picked up the filth inside, and stuffed it into his mouth.

Everyone screamed and hurriedly pulled King Yan away, but King Yan was still holding something in his hand and throwing it into his mouth, without a look of self-patience, but was willing, seeing that everyone was blocking, he even got angry, overturned a few people, and wanted to pounce on the ground. Seeing this scene, Zhang Hao couldn't help but gasp, if King Yan pretended to be crazy, the price would be too great, and it would really be unbearable for ordinary people.

Zhang Zhaohua covered his eyes with a handkerchief and cried, after a while, everyone began to cry, Ma and a few brought King Yan into the side hall to wash, Gao Chi couldn't speak for a long time, thinking that the impact of the scene just now on him was also very huge, and Zhang Yu and Xie Gui were also thinking in their hearts, if King Yan was really sick to the bone marrow, there was no possibility of pardon in the imperial court, after all, the feudal domain was cut one after another, and the public opinion blamed the court was also very great, both of them heard about the princess of Ningguo to reprimand the emperor, and there were many people left by Emperor Gao in the court, especially the officials of various ministries, who could not bear the pain of reform, and took turns to ask for the restoration of the ancestral system。

Zhang Zhaohua saw that the expressions of these two people also changed in turns, and he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and secretly poked Gao Chi, Gao Chi was stunned for a moment, and said: "Two adults, my father is in a daze, and he can no longer see things, please report the truth to the Son of Heaven and give a good doctor, and Beiping will have to bother the two adults as soon as they are in charge." ”

Zhang Yu has always heard that among the three sons of King Yan, the son is gentle and gentle, and the second son Gao Xu is brave and scoundrel, he saw that Gao Chi was respectful, and he also planned to get up in his heart.

Zhang Hao paused for a moment, and suddenly said, "King Yan is so sick, it's really sighing. I originally had one more thing, and I had to ask His Royal Highness King Yan to preside over it. ”

Gao Chi said: "What does the political envoy command, just say it." ”

Zhang Yu smiled and said, "I heard that His Royal Highness King Yan has a righteous daughter Xue, who is seventeen years old, is that so?"

Zhang Zhaohua rushed in front of Gao Chi and said: "Exactly, Xue's father saved his father's life on the battlefield back then, and died because of it. ”

Zhang Yu said "oh" softly, he didn't believe what the princess said, but he didn't know the relationship between the Xue family and Xue Xian, the Marquis of Yongcheng, just guessed that this righteous daughter Xue was not ordinary, but seeing that there was no taboo for this family to enter and leave the palace, he was very suspicious in his heart, and suspected that the Xue family and her widowed mother were hiding their identities, or where the demon nuns and nuns were, no matter what it was, it was one of the evidence of King Yan's lawlessness.

"I have two sons," Zhang Yu said unhurriedly: "The eldest son is an official in Yingtian, and the second son has also reached the marriageable age, but the family that was decided before passed away a few years ago, I see that His Royal Highness's righteous daughter and my dog seem to match the same name, I don't know what the son thinks?"

Gao Chiwan didn't expect Zhang Yu to say such a thing, and he was shocked for a while. Zhang Zhaohua's mind was racing, she knew Lan Lan's identity, she was the daughter of Xue Houye, but others didn't know, so even if Lan Lan was accepted as a righteous daughter by King Yan, her identity still couldn't match a high-ranking official like Zhang Yu, but I heard him say that it seems that this son is also suspected of being a wife, after "Xiaoding", in fact, even if he is married, then the second son of the Zhang family is actually considered to be married once, so it seems that the two families are matched.

However, Zhang Hao's proposal to marry at this time is a very suspicious and abnormal thing in itself. After all, Zhang Yu is a person from the imperial court, he is loyal to the imperial court, and he was sent to Beiping, originally a person who coveted the movements of King Yan, and even had the opportunity to act against King Yan at the right time.

Could it be that he, Zhang Yu, is planning to take refuge in King Yan?

For a while, Gao Chi and Zhang Zhaohua had such a thought in their hearts, and quickly analyzed it, the bureaucrats of the administrative, judicial and military institutions in Beiping were exchanged by the new emperor, and even Chen Ying, who was the inspector, was questioned, Lu Zhen himself was difficult to protect, and it was impossible to become the help of King Yan, if the supreme administrator Zhang Yu joined King Yan, it would be extraordinary, but Zhang Zhaohua looked at the look of the other commander Xie Gui, but found that he did not seem surprised that he said such a thing as marriage to Zhang Yu.

No-Zhang Zhaohua immediately reacted, the two of them had discussed, this was a temptation.

If Yan Wangfu is really isolated and desperate and looking forward to being invoked in the officialdom, then it should have agreed immediately, Zhang Zhaohua made a very happy look, and said: "My lord's words are true? This family affair is really a match made in heaven, I didn't expect her Xue family to have such a blessing, and it is really fortunate to be able to marry into the family of the political envoy!"

She immediately even sent someone to Ma Shi to get the blue Geng post, Gao Chi coughed heavily, and said: "It is naturally a good thing for adults to get married, but it is a major marriage event since ancient times, and it is to obey the orders of parents. ”

Zhang Hao smiled and said, "I want to ask the princess!"

After sending Zhang Yu and Xie Gui away, Zhang Zhaohua hurried to the middle hall and told the princess Zhang Yu's words word for word.

Xu also seemed to be taken aback: "Zhang Hao really wants to propose marriage for his second son?"

"Mother," Zhang Zhaohua said, "What does Zhang Yu mean?"

"Zhang Yu's youngest son is a gentleman," Xu said, "I didn't marry a wife because of bad conduct, and I was very unrestrained in women, which was really a scourge." ”

"It is indeed impossible for Zhang Hao to throw himself at us," Princess Xu muttered: "This is a temptation, but we can't refuse, Lan Lan marries us, and when he is ordered to liquidate us, his hands will not be one or two points lighter - but if one or two points of doubt can be subtracted and one or two points of time can be earned, this family affair will also be settled." ”

Zhang Zhaohua's heart trembled greatly, she opened her mouth and wanted to speak, but when the words came to her mouth, she couldn't spit out a word.

Xu asked, "I just heard that the front hall is shaking, what's going on?"

Zhang Zhaohua couldn't help laughing when she heard this, because she was proud that her little trick was not seen through by anyone, and she saw King Yan picking up filth and eating it in her mouth, and thought it was really "filth".

The "filth" in the Nagong bucket is actually something made by Zhang Zhaohua by wrapping dough in brine water, and the reason why it stinks is because stinky tofu is stuffed into it, which actually deceived everyone.