Chapter 34: Siqing Ripples
The night house at the end of Nanhua Street. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
On a slightly wide ground in the morning, there was a man in black, standing with his left hand holding a sword with his eyes closed, and the powerful aura exuded around him made even the birds in the trees dare not stop. After the breeze was gently blowing, the sword-wielding man's ears moved slightly, his eyes suddenly opened, his thumb lifted the hilt of the sword in his hand, the hilt of the sword received a thrust and flew up into the air, the man in black jumped up from the ground, as fast as lightning, and caught the sword that was falling back with his right hand, and when he reached a certain distance, he waved his right hand, and then fell back to the ground steadily. Where the sword qi passed, the impatiens petals in the flower pot by the pool fell, followed by the leaves divided in two halves, and the cutting place was flat, without a single concave and convex flaw.
A good wind rises, sword dances, and when the waves surge, the wind sweeps the pool and the water shocks the world. The sword fell, the wind and clouds stopped, and everything returned to calm.
There was a sound of hurried footsteps, the man in black withdrew his sword, exhaled deeply, returned the sword to the sheath, waved his hand to let the subordinate retreat, and then asked the person who came over, "What's the matter?" ”
Seeing that his master had retreated, Risheng took two steps forward and whispered: "There is a letter from the palace, saying that the emperor has transferred more grain and grass to various states and counties than expected. ”
Yetian walked to the stone pillar by the pool and sat down. "More than expected? Doesn't he want the people to have a good winter, and he is not afraid of the Northern Han and Southern Tang Dynasty attacking from both sides? ”
Risheng followed behind Yetian, "That's not the case, the emperor secretly found some merchants who often haunt other countries, and asked them to go to various countries to buy grain and grass. ”
"It's a good idea," he sneered, "Merchants often haunt other countries, and others will not suspect it, and if the quantity purchased each time is not large, it will not attract attention." ”
"Yes, the grain and grass bought by the merchants are used to fill the vacancies in various places, so that they can maintain local production and operation."
"Tell the day to spread the news to all the nations, and to spread it unintentionally, and leave no trace. I want to see, how else can he buy this grain? "The surrounding countries are now thinking about how to take advantage of the danger of others, how can they still let the Zhou State go to their territory to replenish grain and grass.
Sunrise did not retreat as ordered, and continued to stand hesitantly. Seeing him like this, Yetian asked, "Is there anything else?" ”
"Master, this idea was come up with Concubine Li."
Concubine Li, Moyu. And if she came up with the idea? Ye Tian was shocked, this kind of idea was indeed like Moyu's style. But once something happens, the first thing to pursue is Moyu's responsibility. What will the emperor think of her, is she colluding with others to calculate him? Or was she originally a fine work sent by someone else?
Moyu can't have an accident. "Is everything we have prepared in vain?"
Risheng saw his master's thoughts and said, "Master, you have thought clearly, we finally spread the news to Shu Kingdom!" ”
Yetian rubbed his eyebrows, that's it, this time, let him go! "Forget it, I don't hear the news. Moyu is innocent, and I don't want anything to happen to her. Later, there are opportunities. ”
"Yes," Risheng replied, and to be honest, she didn't want anything to happen to Concubine Li.
Yetian turned around, wrapped his arms around his chest, and said: "In addition, let the people in the palace be careful, I'd rather not inquire than show my feet, she is very smart, don't let her see anything." ”
Risheng knows who this "she" is, but she has suffered her master. obviously liked her tightly, but he didn't dare to get close to her, because he was afraid that he wouldn't have the ability to protect him. "Then, Aunt Zhao......"
Yetian smiled sarcastically and said, "Don't you say that I forgot, go and prepare, and we will go out to worship her later, showing our deep love between husband and wife." ”
"Yes. How will the Northern Han respond? ”
Yetian looked at him for a while, and said with a smile: "Respond, what to respond to, what to say and what not to say, don't need me to teach you." If he Liu Hao has the ability, he will gather troops and horses to fight, and when the time comes, he will roll back to Taiyuan with his tail between his legs, and that is none of my business. ”
Risheng responded with a "yes" and respectfully stepped back.
Yetian continued to sit on the stone pillar and tease the goldfish in the pond, and as soon as the fish food was scattered, a large number of goldfish scrambled to open their mouths, waiting for the fish food in the hands of the people on the shore.
After a while, another servant came to report, saying that Sikong Jun had handed over the post and asked to see him in front of the house. Ye Tian threw the fish food in his hand into the distance, and the fish rushed forward. He turned around, asked someone to invite them in, and asked his servants to make a pot of tea.
As soon as the tea arrived, the little guy brought Sikong Jun in.
"Yetian, such a good interest!" The one who spoke was Sikong Jun, who had just come in. A folding fan in the right hand, "brushed" to open, and there is a fan for a while, and the merry boy is full of energy.
Yetian walked up to the stone table and watched him impatiently wave the fan in his hand. Scholars like to hold a fan in their hands and pretend to be romantic. He didn't like this, so he motioned for Sikong Jun to sit down. "What are you so excited about, but you are upset!"
Sikong Jun sat down with his clothes, took the tea poured by the night, said "thank you", and then said: "You also have troubles, don't you fall in love with the girl of which family, but you can't ask for it?" Hey, you are wearing black clothes, but you look more handsome and chic, and more mysterious, with your peach blossom eyes, I don't know how many girls will dream of you when they sleep! ”
Is it? The hand pours tea at night, and he rarely wears black clothes in front of people. If it was Moyu, she would have laughed at him, saying that he was really like a crow. "you, don't make fun of me. But, you guessed it, I do bother with a girl. ”
"Oh? With such a discerning eye as Yetian, the girl she likes must also be a unique wonderful person. Tell me, which girl is it, if it's inconvenient for Brother Night, I can help. He was curious that someone as picky as Ye Tian would fall in love with someone's girl.
Yetian sighed, shook his head and said, "No need, people look down on me." ”
"Hey, you are so handsome, and you are in charge of the entire Privy Council, which girl is so conceited that she still looks down on you, but it is strange."
"She is the daughter of a big family, very beautiful and talented. But she thinks I'm from a small family and my family background is not good, and she said that I am a martial artist, I don't understand the customs, and I have nothing to talk about. ”
Sikong Jun slapped his thigh violently, "brushed" the luck fan, threw it on the table, and said: "There are more beautiful and talented women in Tokyo City, Wang Zhen'er of the Wang family, that is a standard beautiful and talented girl, Lin Chenwan of the Lin family, which is also a symbol, and Zhao Danxiu of the Zhao family, innocent and beautiful, and ......"
"Hey, okay, okay." Yetian interrupted him, "If you keep talking, you can't finish talking about it when it's dark." I'm also a proud person no matter what I say at night, since people don't look down on me, why should I bother. There is no grass at the end of the world, and the twisted melon is not sweet. Don't laugh at me. ”
Sikong Jun looked a little confused, and his tone was helpless. "How dare I laugh at you, in fact, I also encountered such a thing?"
"Oh, Sikong also encountered such a thing, you are not a martial artist, what other woman looks down on you?"
"It's not that people look down on me, it's that we don't have that fate."
Yetian suddenly remembered that on the morning of Moyu's wedding, he stood on the teahouse and watched the frame of the wedding pass in front of him. On the window to his left, a human head also poked out, and that person was Sikong Jun. I see. He added tea to Sikong Jun again, and said with a smile: "Yes, is it because her family is against it?" ”
"It's not that her family is against it."
"That's what she doesn't want to do."
"No, it's that she's already engaged."
"This is a dilemma, the ancients said: It is better to demolish ten temples than to destroy a marriage. But if you're in love, why don't you take her away? ”
"Hehe, I'm afraid that no one knows my intentions! I've only seen her once, and when I went to her house that day, I happened to meet her picking flowers in the garden. The sun shone on her face, and it was red. When she looked up at me, her eyes were clear, she was dressed very elegantly, and she didn't wear a hairpin on her head, and she stood there like a fairy who didn't eat fireworks. ”
Sikong Jun recalled the first time he saw Moyu, the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. Later, her brother told me that she was married. At first, I didn't believe it, thinking that her brother didn't want me to be close to her, but within half a month, she really got married. That day, I was standing upstairs watching her chariot pass in front of me, and I wish I had the courage to take her away, or at least tell her that I liked her. But I didn't have the courage to watch her walk away. ”
That night, night and day with her drinking, drinking, drinking, she fell asleep. He covered her with a quilt and sat and watched her until dawn, which was probably the last time he could look at her in the open. Not to mention that Sikong didn't dare to take her away, even he didn't dare to do it himself.
Towards dawn, someone came in. He hid on the beams of the house and watched as she began to wash, then groomed and put on her wedding dress. After wearing the wedding dress, she is very beautiful, and she can be called the most beautiful bride in the world. Then follow the ancestors, bow to her parents, and hear every word, every word, and every expression she said at the door of the Ji Mansion. Then, he looked at her, boarded the carriage, and walked into the palace that could never be left again, and from now on, the man who accompanied her was only the emperor who stood high.
"Okay, I'm still the same sentence, there is no grass at the end of the world, there are many good girls." Night Heaven persuaded.
Sikong Jun sighed and said with a smile: "I also told myself this, but I can't forget her, at least until now, I still can't forget her." You know, I drink to the moon every night, imagining her standing under the same moon, thousands of miles away from me. Every time I pass by her door, I want to step through that door and see how her life is doing. ”
Ye Tian remembered that every time the two of them entered the palace together, he would see that Sikong would always look in the direction of the harem intentionally or unintentionally. Large and small palaces were side by side, and he didn't know which one was the Jade Immortal Palace, and occasionally he could hear her flute, and he would laugh contentedly for a long time.
"Time will forget everything, don't be too obsessed." Night Heaven persuaded.
Sikong shook his head and said, "Hehe, I'm sorry!" I was the one who comforted you, but now you are the one who comforts me. ”
"We two brothers, what are we sorry for?"
He had known Sikong three years earlier, when he had just entered the Privy Council and was not taken seriously. Later, when the emperor was assassinated, he saved the emperor's life, and the emperor saw that he had high martial arts, good knowledge and insight, and good management of the army, so he asked him to be the privy council envoy and take charge of the military institutions he established for the emperor. Sikong Jun often goes in and out with the emperor, and the two have many opportunities to meet, so they know each other, they are of the same age, and they chat very speculatively, so they become friends who talk about everything.
Sikong Jun suddenly said: "I almost forgot, I came to talk to you today, but I talked about other things." ”
"What's the matter?"
"The emperor secretly asked some merchants to go to other countries to buy grain and grass, let me tell you, pick a few reliable people, go to protect them secretly, and report any problems in time."
Yetian nodded, "That's right, with this money, I have to buy grain, grass and weapons." ”
"Two days ago, the emperor did that, and those officials were so distressed that they shouted to donate tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands, but when they returned home, they probably cried for half the night?"
Two days ago, the emperor held a donation activity according to Moyu's method. Needless to say, businessmen competed for the plaque of "loyalty and patriotism", and in the end they almost fought, and the emperor was not allowed to write "Ming Shang" and "Shanjia", etc., in short, write as much as they sold, anyway, those businessmen do not lack money. As for the officials of the DPRK and China, at first everyone donated about the same, but later someone exposed the shortcomings, saying, "What an adult, don't you have a few teahouses, and the income is good." "What, my lord, your wife told my wife yesterday that the officials of some place gave him a few boxes of silver and a few boxes of jewelry." In the end, if you don't want to vomit, you have to vomit horizontally.
Ye Tian knew about this, and he was also very distressed and donated a few hundred taels, and the emperor still smiled and said, "Ye Tian, this is all your belongings!" "Yetian can only nod innocently" Your Majesty, there is only so much left of my salary over the years, and the emperor has to leave a little for his ministers to visit the spring flowers and autumn moons!" ”
This method will not be the emperor's method, Yetian knew whose handiwork it was from the beginning. I wonder if she will smile when she hears that he donated a few hundred taels of silver?
The night sky "cut" sarcastically. "These officials, the people's fat and ointment they loot on weekdays are not just a little bit, but let them take it from the people for the people, or the emperor has a way. But once things are done, there will be a possibility of exposure, and what should I do if the businessmen are found at that time? ”
Sikong Jun looked at the teacup and said quietly: "What the emperor means is that if you can withdraw without a trace, you can withdraw, and if you can't withdraw...... It was regarded as sacrificing his life for the country, and it was faked as an accident. ”
After the end of the sentence, the courtyard fell silent. In the empty courtyard, only the sound of summer cicadas can be heard. Their emperor, is ruthless and decisive, and he will give up what he deserves, and he will be ruthless.
After a long time, Night Genius said. "Sikong, accompany me to practice swords!"
Sikong Jun also knew that he was trying to ease the atmosphere, so he raised his head and said unhappily: "You're joking with me!" ”
Only then did Yetian react, "Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot, you don't know martial arts." ”
"But don't practice martial arts all day. Let's go and find Bo Yuan to drink. ”
"Let's go."