Chapter 13: Flowers Are Not Flowers, Fog is Not Fog (1)
A group of officers and soldiers patrolling the streets heard unusual sounds, fights and screams. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 After consulting the commander, they adhered to the mission of the soldiers to protect the people and maintain law and order in the city, and with spears and spears in their hands, they walked in a uniform step, and surrounded the carriage and a few people.
The leader rode a brown and red horse, with a leopard's head and eyes, a swallow's jaw and a tiger's neck, a dignified appearance, a horsewhip in his hand, and shouted: "Dare to be a thief, dare to kill and fight at the feet of the Son of Heaven." If you don't surrender quickly, you will report your name. "Unlike other soldiers, he held a spear in his hand, but a long sword with red tassels hanging from his waist, and the armor he wore was different from that of other soldiers, and he should have been the head of this captain's guard.
The man found a comfortable place in the carriage to settle his sister, let go of the black curtain, and jumped out of the carriage. His brows furrowed, his thick eyebrows were like an upside-down sword, his cold eyes narrowed, as if he was extremely angry, his two fingers were combined, he pointed at the person who was questioning, and rebuked angrily: "You are also worthy to ask my name." ”
"Captain Han Lin, what's going on here?" The leader was named Han Lin, and he turned his horse's head, and the soldiers behind him split a way.
A person approached elegantly and calmly, seeing the imminent crisis, he was not anxious, and greeted Han Lin with a smile on his face, and then silently greeted the angry man beside the car. The man was so unconvinced that he withdrew his arm and turned his back, revealing a look of disgust and disdain for being in the company of Han Lin and the others.
"Brother Jiaheng." Han Lin rolled off the saddle, walked up to him, patted him on the shoulder very familiarly, and laughed with a smile, "Why are you alone today, I still thought that I could meet you by chance and see Miss Shangguan's face." ”
Shi Jiaheng smiled awkwardly and persuaded him not to talk nonsense: "If you are greedy, it is better to ask General Gu to help you introduce you." He spread out his palms and made a gesture of invitation, pulling him to where the man was standing.
Han Lin heard Shi Jiaheng's introduction, and suddenly realized, his eyes were on him back and forth, as if he didn't believe it, and he hugged his fists and hesitated: "Oh, who am I, it turned out to be the left guard of the Prince's East Palace who led General Gu Chaomin, disrespectful and disrespectful." In Xia, Han Lin is the infantry captain in this Chang'an City. ”
Gu Chaomin grimaced and said coldly: "The captain himself went into battle, and the gangsters can blatantly abduct and sell women from good families in the city." Could it be that the soldiers and generals under the commander are all rice buckets? Why don't you all go home and plow the fields? The soldiers looked at each other in fright at his reprimand.
Han Lin laughed angrily, his hand was tightly clenched on the hilt of the sword, and the whole person seemed to be a sharp sword about to be unsheathed, and it was easy to strangle the other party. He proudly pointed to the corpse on the ground, and his voice was full of dissatisfaction: "The saint is wise, lest some lawless people take advantage of the Lantern Festival to lift the ban and fish in troubled waters." The generals at all levels of the Chang'an garrison were specially ordered to patrol all night, and while we were doing our duty, the generals were unhappy with the people. In addition......"
He dragged out his long tail and said with a sneer: "The general commands half of the forbidden army in the East Palace, and his duty is to protect the prince, as far as I know, this is not under the jurisdiction of the general, and the general is suspected of overstepping his duties by disposing of human lives in the city at will, right?" At this, he felt that he had refuted the other party speechless, and his smug expression proclaimed his authority to his men by raising his voice. The soldiers were inspired, raised their heads and chests, and regained their dignity as soldiers.
"Moreover, the general keeps claiming that these people are the most vicious gangsters, what is the evidence? Can anyone prove that you are on your side alone? Han Lin, who had the chance to win, raised his voice and insidiously countered the army.
Gu Chaomin made a low-level mistake, he shouldn't have let go of all the victim women on his own initiative. After all, Chang'an City was not opened by his family, even if he killed a few gangsters, he had to explain the situation to Jingzhao Mansion and hand it over to the government to deal with, not to mention killing people on the street. It is precisely because he holds the title of Gu's eldest son and concubine's nephew, and he must beware of others accusing him of being arrogant and arrogant, and bullying others, even his prince cousin does not dare to openly show off his power in front of the court officials, but he never puts others in his eyes, offending people in vain, it is really not the way to be an official. Shi Jiaheng sighed silently in his heart, very worried about his future career. Now he is the only one who has stepped forward to act as a peacemaker and resolve the grievances of the two parties.
Shi Jiaheng smiled and shook the hands of the two respectively, and persuaded: "Misunderstanding, misunderstanding, both of you are close friends in the next place, look at my thin noodles." Today, we will stop and shake hands and make peace, so why make a fuss and break up unhappily and provoke laughter from outsiders. He folded their hands together, and the two turned their faces away, ignoring each other, as if to force the disgust in their hearts.
"I can prove it." A faint but firm and soft voice reached everyone's ears. The black curtain on the carriage was lifted, and a beautiful face appeared from it, and the woman's gaze was slightly flustered, like catkins fluttering in the air.
The second miss of the Gu family, the small character dream shadow, is the pearl of Lord Gu Chen's palm. In the face of such a delicate and weak lady, the reactions of the three can be described as different.
In order to take care of the faces of Miss Gu Er and Gu Chaomin, Shi Jiaheng ordered all the soldiers to withdraw their weapons and stand with their faces facing outward. Gu Chaomin seemed to be very useful for his friend's thoughtful courtesy, and bowed slightly to express his gratitude. Han Lin was completely stunned, staring at Gu Mengying's eyes full of obsession.
Shi Jiaheng coughed clearly, kindly reminding Han Lin not to overstep his bounds. Gu Chaomin had a gloomy face, and waved at Gu Mengying angrily: "You go back to the car and sit, you don't care about this matter." I've got my own way to deal with it. ”
Gu Mengying thought that the eldest brother was angry because she appeared in front of a strange man at will, but she didn't know that it was Han Lin who was angry with him. She was a little weak-hearted, and her hands tightened the curtain, giving her the strength that she couldn't give up. Her voice was even weaker, but she still insisted on her original intention: "I am willing to go to the government office to explain the reason, testify in court, and clear my brother's grievances." ”
As soon as Han Lin saw Miss Gu suddenly, the three souls lost two and a half souls, and he had already thrown Gu Chaomin's offending of him out of the clouds.
Shi Jiaheng took advantage of Han Lin's stunned moment, pulled Gu Chaomin aside, lowered his voice and whispered: "Since Miss Gu is so knowledgeable, you don't have to postpone it, so you don't have to leave a handle to be criticized." For the sake of today's plan, it is still necessary to send someone to inform Lord Jingzhao Yin Si first and thoroughly investigate the matter. In addition, it is necessary to immediately block Chang'an City, evacuate the people on the streets, and prevent the gangsters' accomplices from holding the abducted women hostage and escaping, otherwise it will be like a stone and difficult to pursue. ”
After he finished speaking, he hooked Han Lin's shoulder again, and Han Lin felt his shoulders sink, and then he came to his senses: "General Han, you must focus on the overall situation." Lord Gu's daughter was almost poisoned, Lord Gu and the concubine Niangniang heard about this, and they were definitely unwilling to give up, and then they would condemn you for dereliction of duty, what should you do? These gangsters are bold, and there are a lot of royal ladies traveling today, if their gold and jade quality are damaged, we will not be able to escape the involvement. You see if you are going to take us with us to Jingzhao Yin's mansion. ”
Gu Mengying's dreamlike face disappeared behind the heavy black curtain. Han Lin felt a little pity, his eyes were reluctant to leave, and he said to the car curtain with a blank face: "It's easy to say." ”
Gu Chaomin accompanied his sister to sit in the carriage, Shi Jiaheng drove the horse with a rope, Han Lin rode a horse to open the way in front, and the three young and promising generals in Chang'an City personally acted as flower messengers for Gu Mengying.
But Miss Gu couldn't be happy when she looked at her brother's frozen face, she wanted to make her brother happy, but she didn't know what to say. The wheels of the carriage drove through the street where the lantern riddles were guessing, Gu Mengying had an idea, and said excitedly: "Ah, brother, I was bluffed by them like this, but let me guess that we just drew those two lantern riddles, each playing two things, and together they played an idiom." You draw a spear, mine is a shield, as the old saying goes: attacking the shield of the son with the spear of the son should be a defeat for both. ”
Gu Chaomin was silently blaming herself, blaming herself for not being soft-hearted for a while, obeying her sister's pleas, and only letting her take a girl with her. In the past, Gu Mengying always went out in a carriage, protected by four or five girls, and a group of attendants behind her, comparable to a princess. She has a light nature, doesn't like pomp, and can't have fun when there are too many people. Therefore, today she begged her eldest brother to dress lightly, Gu Chaomin's original intention was not to follow, and then she relied on her strong martial arts skills and agreed without wanting to wipe her sister's enthusiasm.
He should stay by his sister's side every step of the way, and leave the trivial matter of buying things to the girl Kikyo. The more he thought about it, the more irritable he became, but Gu Mengying's kind words were like a fire that increased the flames of the fire, as if his five internal organs were burning. His heart was cold, and he felt like someone touched the cold water on his head, and he suddenly felt ice and fire. Such a dangerous thing happened on this good day, and he drew such an ominous mystery, he suddenly felt that the road ahead was confused, and he didn't know whether it was evil or auspicious.
The sky exploded with a ceremonial flower called colorful auspicious clouds, which turned out to be the most prosperous and dazzling scenery tonight. The people clapped and shouted wildly, and the earth trembled. The embers of the fireworks fell under the wheels of the carriage, and after being crushed by the rolling wheels, they turned into a pile of ashes, sticking to the soles of people's shoes, and scattered in the mortal world, and who remembers that it once bloomed so unscrupulously in its glory at the highest point. (To be continued.) )