The emperor and empress came to the courtier's house to offer condolences, which was a supreme honor. If you see this situation, you should be flattered and ecstatic.

But when Chu Rui and Emperor Zhang Shaoguang came hand in hand, what they saw was that the family members of the Jin State Mansion were in a panic and scattered in all directions.

There were even many officials who came to mourn and begged him not to enter the mourning hall, so as not to be hit by the assassins and hurt the royal body.

Assassin?

Chu Rui and Zhang Shaoguang glanced at each other in shock, and hurriedly asked what the reason was.

Several of these officials were withdrawn from the mourning hall of the Duke of Jin, and now the mourning hall has been quietly fenced around in order to prevent the green-clothed officials from escaping, and most of them can only explain the situation at the beginning, and they don't know what happened to the road later.

But just the first part, it's horrific enough.

When Chu Rui heard that it was the grandson of the Xinguo Mansion who came to mourn that was robbed, and the kidnappers demanded that Li Mao commit suicide, he was shocked.

This is the Jin State Mansion, how can outsiders be allowed to get in! Who is the green-clothed official, and why did he kidnap the son of the Xinguo Mansion? Did he come prepared, or did he come on the fly?

Zhang Shaoguang was worried about whether there was any involvement of the Jin State Mansion in this matter.

It was too coincidental to have an assassin who was an official mixed in at this time. Her cousin just asked Ding to worry, if Li Mao had an accident here, wouldn't he still be the dominant family in the world? Moreover, if officials can be mobilized to risk killing their heads and robbing their homes, only the clan has such a big stroke.

She felt that her cousin was not such an impatient and unwise person, but it could not be said that there was no anxious clan who was self-righteous and tried to turn the situation around.

The emperor and empress were all shocked and worried, that is, they did not want to listen to these ministers to return to the palace, but they would not risk being assassinated to enter the mourning hall to find out.

The assassination of the first emperor is still a shadow in Chu Rui's heart.

Therefore, Chu Rui ordered the accompanying palace guards to quietly clear out all the irrelevant people outside the mourning hall, and the guards also replaced the family members of the Jin State Mansion to guard the main hall of the mourning hall, and Zhang Shaoguang asked the eunuch to go back to the palace to invite the imperial doctor to come in case anyone was injured.

After this arrangement, the emperor and the emperor, under the protection of the guards, quietly stood outside the hall and listened attentively to the movements inside.

When Chu Rui and Zhang Shaoguang arrived outside the mourning hall, Gu Qing was saying sharply, "What I'm doing at the moment, what my son is doing, isn't it the same thing as your father doing?" This is what parents do, and your father is obviously for you, why can't you understand it, but think that it was my son who killed your father? ”

This remark made Chu Rui and Zhang Shaoguang sigh infinitely in their hearts. Chu Rui and Zhang Shaoguang both thought of their parents, and they couldn't speak for a while, so they could only stand in place, thinking about the past.

Then there was the exclamation of snatching the knife, the noise of controlling the gangsters in the mourning hall, the sad cries of Li Mao, Li Rui and Li Ming, and the scream of Old Taijun Qiu.

Old Taijun Qiu screamed miserably, almost startling Chu Rui to stick his head out to see what was going on. If it weren't for the fact that he still remembered the demeanor and demeanor that he should have as the Son of Heaven, I am afraid that he would really have escaped.

A janissary quietly touched over and reported in a low voice: "Your Majesty, the gangsters inside have been captured, Old Taijun Qiu and the son of Xinguo Gong are injured, and the others are fine." ”

Chu Rui hurriedly gestured to the eunuch next to him.

"Lord Guogong, His Majesty the Emperor has arrived! The Queen Mother has arrived! ”

Chu Rui and Zhang Shaoguang stepped into the mourning hall, only to see Qiu Lao Taijun's hands covered with blood, sitting on the ground gasping for air, Li Mao kneeling on the ground to support her, and another man next to Qiu Lao Taijun bowed his head and bandaged her.

There was a child kneeling beside Li Mao, who thought it was the kidnapped Li Ming. The child had a wound on his neck and a face full of blood and tears, which looked shocking.

After the eunuch sang, the whole room was shocked, and he knelt down in an uproar. Zhang Nuo had already been quietly reported by his family first, and he knew that the Dao Shengshang and the Empress were outside, so although he also knelt down, he was not surprised.

Everyone □ to go, Gu Qing was already so painful that he could only gasp and not inhale, and he had to bend down and kneel, and he couldn't help but curse "unlucky" in his heart, and he was about to bow down.

"Zhong Aiqing is flat. Mrs. Qiu, if you are injured, you don't have to salute. I have summoned the imperial physician of the palace, and I will be here in a moment. ”

Chu Rui looked at Gu Qing's sweaty head and the thick strip of cloth wrapped in his hands, and immediately deduced what the situation was, and hurriedly asked everyone to get up, and it was important to calm people's hearts.

When everyone stood up, Chu Rui smiled and was about to praise Old Taijun Qiu for his amazing courage, but suddenly saw the man standing next to her, except for the hair that looked a little inconsistent, no matter how you look at it......

Chu Rui's mind exploded and blurted out:

"Li Meng!"

For a moment, he even thought he had seen his friend's ghost.

Could it be that this disciple of the old Jin Kingdom Gongguan learned of the master's death and rushed from the underground to greet him?

When Li Mao and Zhang Nuo saw the appearance of the saint's gaffe, they both knew it in their hearts.

Li Mao pulled Li Rui's sleeve and knelt down again.

"Your Majesty, this son is not the minister's brother, but Li Rui, the widow of the minister's brother."

This time, I was surprised to change to the queen's mother.

She saw Li Rui once two years ago, when Li Rui was so fat that he couldn't even stand up by himself, and his facial features were squeezed by the fat on his face, and now this child is so tall that he has lost his obesis at all.

It's only been two years......

Did the Xinguo Mansion invite any immortals to reincarnate this Li Rui and cut off the hair and wash the marrow?

Chu Rui's eyes couldn't take his eyes off Li Rui. Li Rui didn't dare to look directly at Jun Yan, so he could only lower his eyes, but even so, he could feel that urgent gaze.

Gu Qing saw that everyone fell silent for a while, and his grandson couldn't lift his head when the emperor looked at him, so he deliberately □□ loudly.

At this moment, everyone finally woke up. The emperor withdrew his gaze and carefully inquired about Old Taijun Qiu's injuries. Gu Qing was so painful that he couldn't speak impatiently, so he could only nod or shake his head indiscriminately. Chu Rui saw that the old lady had really suffered a big sin, so he stopped greeting her, let her recuperate on the side, and turned to ask others about the cause of the incident.

Zhang Nuo is the master of this room and one of the parties involved, so he hurriedly reported the original report.

It is said that when Li Mao's family heard Gu Qing's cry, they all gathered around with anxious faces, not caring at all about what Zhang Nuo said to the emperor.

For them, the safety of Mrs. Qiu is the first priority.

Chu Rui, who had listened to the whole process, moved to the green-clothed official and glanced at him.

"I remember you, you are the Jinshi of Enke in the first year of Zhenyuan, I am still the crown prince, and I have seen you in the palace examination with the emperor. It's been more than ten years...... Why did you get to this point? ”

As soon as Chu Rui's words came out, the green-clothed official looked ashamed and frightened, he was tied with a rope all over his body, knelt there straight, and when he heard the emperor's words, he immediately rushed forward......

Swish! Airplanes!

"Escort!"

The guards around Chu Rui pulled out their weapons in unison to protect Chu Rui.

The official did not want to stab, but threw himself to the ground with the power of a pounce, and kept touching his head to the ground in worship. His mouth was blocked by a sackcloth, and he could only make a "woo woo" sound, but judging from this performance, he should be excited when he met Tianyan, and it would never be a bad word.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Gu Qing looked at the performance of the green-clothed official, and scolded in his heart.

Holy! If Emperor Zhidao's words could make him so excited, how good would it be for the emperor to come out one step earlier? She wore out the skin of her mouth, and she just made him shake his mind a little, and his hands were going to be wasted, okay?

The emperor came out and shouted, maybe this thing immediately threw away his knife and bowed his head to confess his guilt!

Gu Qing was in this resentful expression, and was bandaged by the Huang Imperial Doctor who rushed from the palace.

As Gu Qing deduced, there were no injuries to tendons and bones, only relatively serious flesh injuries. Moreover, Gu Qing stopped the bleeding in time, and did not cause any secondary trauma, this time to clean up the wound and recuperate, although it will take a little longer, it will always recover as before.

Because the assassination was about Li Mao, Li Mao stayed to deal with the follow-up affairs, while Gu Qing was picked up by Li Rui, who had amazing strength, and took his younger brother Li Ming, surrounded by the families of the two families, to return home.

Woo woo, the first princess in my life hugged her grandson or something, and she was a fourteen-year-old child, which was really miserable to look back on!

In the Jin State Mansion, Chu Rui and Zhang Shaoguang just put on incense, put up a eulogy, and hurriedly returned to the palace because of the assassin's matter. The Assassin was taken away by someone sent by the Dali Temple, and he was to be interrogated in the prison of the Dali Temple until the truth was fully revealed.

On the way back to the palace, Chu Rui thought of the kid just now, and couldn't help but sigh:

"Li Meng's son is too much like Li Meng."

Zhang Shaoguang didn't have an interface, because she knew that her husband was just expressing his thoughts at the moment, and he didn't necessarily need someone else's response.

"The queen said earlier that this Li Rui is so fat that she can't bear to look at ......"

"Yes, when the concubine met him in Rushian two years ago, he was fat and needed help from others to stand up. In the past two years, the world has changed, and I can't imagine that this child has become like this. ”

It can be seen that Li Meng's heir is still good, but it was delayed before. Within a few years, he can turn from extremely fat to normal food, and this son should have suffered a lot. His perseverance and endurance are evident from this. Chu Rui loves the house and Wu, and he did not hesitate to say beautiful words, "Before, I was still thinking that if I could carry Li Rui's horse to save my uncle for thousands of miles, maybe it was really a good horse that was rare in a hundred years......"

Zhang Shaoguang couldn't hold back for a moment and laughed out loud. She covered her lips and her shoulders shook.

"Don't laugh, I really had a thought about that horse, and I wanted Li Mao to bring it into the palace to show me......" Chu Rui saw that his wife finally laughed out loud, and he was also relieved in his heart, and deliberately said a little more.

"Now it seems that I still don't want it, I already know the reason."

He thought back to the past.

The young man he saw in the camp of the Xinguo Mansion back then, the stubborn and taciturn young man Li Meng.

At that time, he was not as big as Li Rui, and his stature was not as tall as him, but it was this stubborn and thin young man who changed himself and Da Chu little by little.

It was he who actively went to the book and re-promoted the imperial examination; It was he who overrode public opinion, so that the children of the poor family could also enter the country to study; It was he who led people to revise the "Great Chu Law", which was regarded as the criterion for the country......

Among all the people in the Li family, he is the best and the most unlucky.

"I'm really looking forward to the selection of the acolytes next month......"

Li Mao's assassination in the Jin State Mansion shocked the government and the opposition, and many officials impeached Taichang Temple and the Jin State Mansion one after another, believing that they were guilty of lax management, unclear knowledge of people, and lax imperial family. The Xungui faction was even more indignant, believing that this was a conspiracy of the Jin Guogong faction, in a vain attempt to destroy the hope of the Xinguo Mansion in one fell swoop by vainly using filial piety as a guide.

Everyone knows that there is such an adult man in the Xinguo Mansion, if this Xinguo Duke also comes to "die young", wouldn't it be like a curse?

If Li Mao is to fall, it will take at least ten years for the two children in the public mansion to become talents. Ten years, how many things have been settled, how can they have a foothold again!

This dispute was finally settled by Li Mao himself. In the end, Taichang Siqing, that is, Chu Lian, the king of Xiangcheng, who had a conflict with the Xinguo Mansion, was fined for one year.

And the Jin State Mansion was only reprimanded, but it did not hurt the bones.

This move finally calmed the hearts of many clan officials.

Moreover, from the home of Wang Kun, a doctor from Taichang Temple, who was arrested, many letters from his father who had exchanged with him over the years were also found, and there were important clues among them.

This shepherd of the horse farm was entrusted with an important task because he was appreciated by the old scholar who was the former secretary of the military department. It has been a long time since this incident, and no one remembers it, but in Wang Delin's letter, he has a lot of words of gratitude for this old scholar, and even has words such as "Give me a great opportunity to make a fortune".

Chu Rui immediately sent someone to the home of the military department Shangshu who had returned to his hometown and escorted him back to Beijing.

Three or four days after this incident, something big happened to Da Chu again.

The Western Army and the Central Army were sent to the Dingbei Army in the north to capture Wang Taihe, who was a major suspect. This team encountered Wang Taihe's resistance, and more than 10,000 people from the Fifth Army and the Sixth Army of the Dingbei Army defected, and went out of the border with Wang Taihe and went to the north.

The Western Army tracked it for several days and lost no trace of this force outside the pass. The Seventh Army and the Eighth Army of the Dingbei Army surrendered on the spot under the persuasion of Yuan Xi, the general of Zhenbei, and claimed that he had no knowledge of Wang Taihe's rebellion.

Now Wang Taihe's old department is under the care of the Western Army and the Chinese Army, and he doesn't know how to deal with it. And Zhenbei general Yuan Xi was accompanied by Zhou Qing in the imperial history of the army to return to Beijing, this Wang Taihe has been acting under his nose for so many years, if it is not for the handwriting in the crossbow of the divine machine is discovered, I don't know when Lu Dao will be able to catch his handle. This Yuan Xi is also a veteran, but this kind of thing happened, and his career will end here.

The north of the Dingbei Army lost two generals, and both of them were generals in the early years of the expedition to the east and west, and the whole north was in turmoil.

At this moment, the generals of Da Chu are gearing up, and countless generals who are already idle at home can only shoot birds, hoping that this time they can fill the vacancy in the north, make meritorious deeds, and revitalize their families.

Wang Taihe, who ran away, didn't know when Lu Dao would fight back, at this time the importance of the north is undoubted, whoever can sit in the position of the general of Zhenbei, whose children will have a new opportunity.

The threshold of the Xinguo Mansion was once again broken, but this time it was not the students, but the old Xinguo Gong Li Shuo's old subordinates, who came to see Li Mao because of his current position as the secretary of the military department.

Li Mao was annoyed for a while, and after explaining his difficulties to Gu Qing and Fang, he entered the palace to cry to the emperor about his troubles for a while, and Chu Rui made a decree, saying that he needed to discuss military affairs with Li Mao, and ordered Li Mao to stay in the palace to accompany him until Yuan Xi returned to Beijing.

At this moment, Li Mao went to court during the day and stayed in the Lang House specially prepared for officials in the palace city at night, and there were only the old and young in the home of the Xinguo Mansion, and these people no longer came to the door.

For a while, all the generals scolded Li Mao in their hearts, but they were helpless.

Everyone has run away, can they still go to the palace to chase after them?

A few days later, the imperial envoy who went to the home of the former military department Shangshu reported that the old Shangshu had died of illness at home just three days before they went. They went to a local magistrate for an autopsy and confirmed that he had died of poisoning, not of illness. As a result, the task of the imperial envoy to escort Lao Shangshu back to Beijing became to escort his family back to Beijing, which was really aggrieved.

Wang Taihe and the former military department Shangshu who was suspected of this matter died and fled, and the truth of the matter sank into the sea, where the remnants of the king of Qiyang were hiding, and when they began to plan, these reasons suddenly became confusing.

Shinkoku Mansion.

In order to avoid the persuasion of the generals, Li Mao left home and fled into the palace; Gu Qing hurt his hands and couldn't do anything, he even had to be served by people when he was dressed and eating, and he was so depressed.

Fortunately, Li Rui and Li Ming stayed in Zhiyun Courtyard except for classes, although Gu Qing felt that he was extremely unlucky, but he was not bored for a while.

"Grandma, open your mouth." Li Ming stood beside Gu Qing, holding a small bowl, specially serving vegetables for her. Gu Qing said what he wanted to eat, and Li Ming quickly brought it and fed it to Gu Qing.

And Li Rui is holding a rice bowl and is responsible for feeding.

When Gu Qing wanted to drink soup, the two children were about to fight.

Li Ming said that the soup is a "vegetable" and should be fed by him, Li Rui said that Li Ming is a small person, he is the eldest brother, and he should be able to work harder, and he should feed this soup.

Gu Qing took a bite of rice, a mouthful of food, and then smiled and watched the two children fight over who would feed the soup, and her heart blossomed.

It's so emotional to compete for favor or something in order to get her love!

"Grandma, when will your hands be good?" Li Ming watched unwillingly as his brother brought the soup spoon to Gu Qing's mouth, and his face was about to turn into a bun.

"What's the matter, you feel like you're tired of serving me so quickly?" Gu Qing took a sip of soup.

Well, it feels so good to hug left and right.

"How could it be!" Li Ming's eyes widened. "It's just that your hands are going to be bad all the time, and it's going to be Qingming soon, and if you don't take us and your family to put paper kites, how boring it is!"

"Ugh." Gu Qing didn't dare to say that she almost forgot about this.

When the Hu people retaliated, their family's ancestral grave had been ruined. Now there are only the tombs of Mrs. Qiu's two dead daughters in the old family. Just these two tombs were erected because of Old Taijun Qiu's insistence.

In ancient times, dying at an early age was regarded as unfilial piety, and it could not be buried in the ancestral grave, and even the tomb was rarely erected. The tombs of Li Mao's two sisters have always been taken care of by the family members in the Xinguo Mansion, and in addition, Li Jun's family has also been renovated.

Therefore, the Xinguo Mansion does not go back to his hometown to sweep the tomb, but will open a family temple to worship on the day of Qingming. Lao Guogong and Li Meng were not buried in their hometown, Li Shuo was buried on Lingyun Mountain on the outskirts of the capital, and Li Meng was also there, with his family taking care of the grave.

In addition to sweeping the tombs, the Qingming here is basically to find a way out of the ground to go out, so adults and children are looking forward to it. Last year, they went to Lingyun Mountain to sweep the tomb, because it rained halfway, the kite was not flowned, and they were not able to make an outing, so they hurried back after sweeping the tomb.

She also comforted the two children at the time, saying that they would come back next year, and she really couldn't remember after such a long time.

"Put, how can you not put it. When I go back, I will ask my family to send a letter to your father, and when the day is good, let him take a Qingming holiday, and we will go out to sweep the grave. Although my hand is injured, I still have the ability to hold the thread. At most, you can put the kite on it and hold it for me. ”

Gu Qing saw Li Rui and Li Ming's eyes lit up, and knew that the two children were worried that after their hand injuries, they would not go out this time, so he added with a smile: "This time you must find a better day, this half a year has indeed been very unlucky, let's disperse all the bad luck!" ”

"Good!"

"Grandma's word is a deal!"

"It's a deal!"

"Grandma, did you ask someone to make the paper kite?"

"Uh......"

The author has something to say: Little Theater:

Li Meng (underground): Lately, people have been talking about me.

Li Shuo: (proud) What are you, there have been girls who have said they want to marry me recently.

Mrs. Qiu (squint): Huh?

Li Shuo was silent.