Xiao Yiran was troubled by the father and son of the Hu family, where was there any sleepiness, the two girls did not have the intention of keeping vigil, but they really did not sleep all night. After dawn is the first day of the Lunar New Year, Hu Weiyong, as the head of the hundred officials, must enter the palace and lead the civil and military officials and major family members to pay New Year's greetings to the emperor and the queen.

Throughout Chinese New Year's Eve, Hu Weiyong didn't even close his eyes, and he kept speculating whether Tu Jie had denounced himself. If not, it's okay to say, if it's reported, then you won't want to come out again as soon as you enter the palace. As soon as the sky was bright, Hu Weiyong sent the housekeeper and his confidants in the prime minister's mansion to the street and the palace gate to check the movements. One after another, people came back to report that everything was normal, and there was no sign of abnormality.

It's just that the people who have been staring at the door of Tu Jie's Mansion still haven't seen Tu Jie's figure. Including the entire Imperial Palace, the mansion is quiet, and there is no New Year's atmosphere at all. This made Hu Weiyong really unable to guess whether it was Tu Jie's serious illness or Tu Jie's detention by the imperial court for informing. Seeing that the time to enter the palace is coming, Hu Weiyong knows that he can no longer delay, if he is okay in normal times, he can find some excuses to shirk the past, but today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, and hundreds of civil and military officials, as long as there is still a breath of air, will enter the palace to worship the festival. No way, Hu Weiyong had no choice but to bite the bullet and let his subordinates prepare a sedan chair. Walking on the way into the palace, Hu Weiyong was already in his heart, the so-called wealth and danger are sought, as long as he survives today, the world will be surnamed Hu.

When I came to the palace gate, I saw that all the civil and military officials had arrived, and they were waiting for him, the prime minister, to enter the palace together. Hu Weiyong turned his eyes to look at Xu Da, the right prime minister, and arched his hand:

"Happy New Year to Wei Guogong."

"Happy New Year, Prime Minister."

In Hu Weiyong's eyes, among the civil and military officials in front of him, that is, Xu Da, the Duke of Wei who worships the right prime minister, is still worthy of his worship. At this time, the rest of the officials greeted Hu Weiyong for a hundred years.

"The hour is almost up, all colleagues, let's enter the palace together to face the saint."

Hu Weiyong and Xu Da, one left and one right, walked in front, the civil and military officials followed closely, only the female dependents of a group of officials, naturally led by the inner servants, had already walked in the direction of Kunning Palace.

Coming to the Jinluan Palace, Wen Zuowu and the right stood in shifts, and after hearing three net whips, the attendants shouted:

"Hooray, Lord Drive."

Zhu Yuanzhang walked into the hall and sat on the dragon chair, Hu Weiyong and Xu Da led hundreds of officials to kneel on the ground, and the mountain shouted long live, calling it auspicious. Unlike previous years, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was sitting on the dragon chair, did not immediately flatten the hundred officials, but started with Hu Weiyong and looked at them one by one, as if he had never known the kneeling officials. After a long time, Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the waiter beside him, and the waiter understood and shouted:

"Long live the purpose, and all the officials are even."

All the officials, except for Xu Da, Lan Yu and a few others who knew the inside story, and Hu Weiyong was a little frightened, the rest were inexplicable. Could it be that the emperor is really not in good health, and he doesn't even bother to say anything, but is announced by the inner servant, and his face doesn't look like Cheng Dù, who is so sick that he doesn't even bother to speak, which one is this singing?

"All Aiqing, the Ming Dynasty has been founding for four years. The Ming Dynasty can have today's weather, all thanks to the concerted efforts of all the ministers, like-minded, here, I thank all the ministers. ”

"Hooray, this is what a courtier should do."

"yes, hooray."

Although he couldn't get the first day of junior high school, Zhu Yuanzhang would drag a few sentences, and this year's drag was a little sour. In the hearts of the hundred officials in the palace, it is inevitable that they will snicker a little bit. Zhu Yuanzhang didn't have much knowledge, but in his later military career, he gradually learned a few words. It's just that this peasant emperor especially likes to drag texts. And he likes to compose poems, such as "the chicken crows and pouts, and the rooster crows twice and pouts twice".

Suddenly, Zhu Yuanzhang's topic changed, looked at Hu Weiyong and asked:

"Hu Aiqing, I heard that Aiqing's new beauty is still one of the few amazing and brilliant women in the world, and she will be included as the seventh aunt on the sixth day of the first month, and all the civil and military officials have received invitations, why didn't you give me a post?"

When Hu Weiyong heard the words "There are few in the sky and the world", he chuckled in his heart, and a cold sweat came out. This is what he said to Chen Ning and Tu Jie in the secret room, and outsiders don't know. The cow herding baby suddenly said it, was it caused by Tu Jie's whistleblowing, or was it just a coincidence?

"Long live, Wei Chen has a concubine, how can you alarm the long live lord?"

"Hu Aiqing's words are wrong, I and Aiqing are not only the righteousness of the monarch and the minister, but also the friendship of fellow villagers, and since Aiqing followed me in the first year of the dragon and phoenix, he has made outstanding contributions to the Ming Dynasty. Aiqing took a concubine, and I should come to congratulate in person. ”

The more Hu Weiyong listened, the more he felt that something was wrong, the cowherd baby has never had the habit of talking about fellow villagers with others, especially now that he is the Ninth Five-Year Plan, it is even more impossible to talk about the friendship of fellow villagers.

"Long live, the whole world is not the king's land. On the land of China, all of them are compatriots, but Yong is just one of them. ”

"Oh? It seems that Hu Aiqing has never put the friendship with me in her heart. No wonder, no wonder. ”

Two in a row are no wonder, so that all the officials are stunned, at this time, many people smell something unusual. In the entire Jinluan Palace, except for Zhu Yuanzhang and Hu Weiyong, no one else spoke.

"With smudges."

As soon as he heard this, Hu Weiyong's heart was completely cold.

After Zhu Yuanzhang finished speaking, he pretended to sleep on the dragon chair. At this time, the Jinluan Hall is called silent. The civil and military officials can even hear the heartbeat of their colleagues, especially Hu Weiyong's henchmen. Die-hard friends like Chen Ning all know that Hu Weiyong planned to start the sixth incident. Hearing the emperor suddenly come today, everyone knew where Tu Jie, who had not appeared for a long time, went and what he did, and the luck in everyone's hearts was suddenly broken, and like Hu Weiyong, he was only paralyzed on top of the hall.

When the sound of rattling chains came, everyone turned their heads to look towards the entrance of the main hall. It's just that Tu Jie, who has not been seen for five or six days, does not look like a person in his forties, but more like an old man in his sixties and seventies. Under the push of the two royal guards, Tu Jie, wearing heavy shackles, entered the Jinluan Hall step by step with difficulty, and fell to his knees with a pop.

Zhu Yuanzhang hasn't opened his eyes until now, and he is still pretending to sleep. In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang is waiting, waiting for Hu Weiyong's men, who will be the second to take the initiative to confess after Tu Jie. I also want to see what Hu Weiyong's prestige among the hundred officials is. If the people on the list handed in by Tu Jie don't take the initiative to explain today, it means that the power of the gang that Hu Weiyong has managed over the years is far beyond his imagination.

"Poof." "Poof." "Poof."

Zhu Yuanzhang closed his eyes, silently counting the number of people who took the initiative to kneel down in the hall. Five, six, seven, eight, nine, every time one is counted, Zhu Yuanzhang's eyelids jump. When I gradually counted to twelve, I didn't hear anyone kneeling for a long time. Only then did Zhu Yuanzhang open his eyes, looked at the kneeling officials in the hall, and secretly checked the list handed over by Tu Jie.

"There should be more than that."

It's like talking to yourself, and it's like saying it to the attendants around you.

"Tu Jie, who else?"

As soon as Zhu Yuanzhang's words fell, several pops sounded one after another. Seeing that Hu Weiyong was still standing there quietly, Hu Weiyong laughed self-deprecatingly.

"Hu Aiqing, count it, who is missing? It's only been a few years, and almost half of the Ming Dynasty has been dug up by you. ”

"Alas, the providence is so, and it is not the fault of man."

Hu Weiyong sighed, knowing that the matter had come to this point, and there was no power to return to heaven. Now, above the main hall, only Chen Ning is still standing, and the feeling in Hu Weiyong's heart can be described as extremely disappointed.

"Haha, providence? Yes, providence. I am the true son of heaven carried by Fengtian. ”

After Zhu Yuanzhang laughed a few times, his tone suddenly sank:

"Spread the decree, the right prime minister, Xu Da, the Duke of Wei, and the general Lan Yushuai Royal Forest Army, arrest the families of the anti-thieves, and no one will slip through the net."

On the first day of the first month of the fourteenth year of Hongwu, at the beginning of the hour, a pair of royal forest troops suddenly rushed to the street and surrounded the mansions of more than a dozen ministers.

Xiao Yiran, who was in the Prime Minister's Mansion, knew that the imperial court had made a move when he heard the sound of hurried horses' hooves on the street. immediately pulled Xiaomei and ran towards the west courtyard of the Prime Minister's Mansion. Coming to a corner in the northwest corner of the West Cross Courtyard, Xiao Yiran said to Xiaomei:

"Hu Weiyong rebelled, the emperor has sent troops to surround the front and back gates of the Prime Minister's Mansion, if we want to survive, we can only escape from here."

Xiaomei looked at the wall that was more than high between the two of them, and asked in embarrassment:

"Miss, how do you get out of such a high wall?"

"Don't worry, my sister will carry you up."

Xiao Yiran didn't use a clone, and she didn't want people to know her secret yet. Bending down to carry Xiaomei on her back, she first climbed a big tree next to the wall, and then jumped to stand on top of the high wall. Xiaomei, who was on her back, was so frightened that she let out a "ahhhhhhhh

"Hold my sister tight."

Xiao Yiran bent his legs, stared at the wall under his feet, jumped down steadily, waited for his feet to touch the ground, and did not put down Xiaomei on his back, but quickly ran into a remote alley. Seeing that there was no one around, he put Xiaomei down.

"How did Mademoiselle do that?"

"Don't worry about this, we are not out of danger now, this is still the territory of the Prime Minister's Mansion."

Xiao Yiran casually grabbed a handful of dust from the ground, wiped it on Xiaomei and his faces, and sprinkled some on the clothes of the two, looking completely dirty little girls from the countryside, this time he stopped with satisfaction and said to Xiaomei:

"If you encounter officers and soldiers for a while, don't panic, a sister will deal with it. Also, after you go out, don't tell anyone about today's events, let alone say that you are a girl from the Prime Minister's Mansion. Remember? ”

"Miss don't worry, Xiaomei remembers."

The Xiangfu occupies too much land, and the Imperial Forest Army only surrounded the residence, because there was a wall that was more than two people high, so they didn't worry that someone would run out, so that Xiao Yiran's master and servant walked to the street very lightly.