The twilight drum is like thunder, resounding through the thousands of streets and hundreds of squares in Chang'an.

Daye Fang, Bluestone Lane.

The old man goes to the new man, and the alley of many generations has been covered with a layer of white snow, and scattered footprints are left on the snow surface, spreading forward until the source of the aroma of wine.

Sun's shop is still the same as it used to be, three old wine tables are placed in the wine shop, the old shopkeeper has a towel on his shoulder, wiping next to several large wine tanks, and muttering:

"It's going to be over last year, and it doesn't feel like it's going to be very lively this year. In the old days, the wine was sold out at noon, and I could go back to rest earlier, old man......"

The wine shop was as quiet as ever, next to the wine table leaning against the fence, a middle-aged man in a Confucian shirt held a warm broken jade roast, and in front of him were two small dishes, drinking by himself.

Behind the middle-aged man was a fair-skinned young man, less than thirty, facing feminine, not as tall as an ordinary young man, always hunched over, with a respectful and humble expression.

Hearing the words of Shopkeeper Sun, the middle-aged man recalled the past and looked at the alley where he could line up to the mouth of the alley in previous years:

"Yes, I often sat here with Song Yu and Xu You to drink, Song Yu peeked at the women who came and went from the south to the north, Xu You looked at it openly, after drinking, I paid the bill every time, alas...... Time has passed, and I have become a loner, but in retrospect, it is quite interesting......"

Shopkeeper Sun smiled with the corners of his wrinkled eyes: "That's not it, when you are young, you are not free, this is old, and you want to be as dissolute as a young man, and you are powerless." ”

"Hehe......"

Song Ji picked up the wine glass, took a sip of the broken jade burn, and looked at the goose feathers and snow in the alley, his eyes were deep.

Shopkeeper Sun wiped the wine vat, looked at the young junior standing next to him, felt that his face was raw, frowned and said:

"Follow your old man, you won't leave, will you? That old guy is a round older than the younger old man, and when I was an apprentice, I often followed Ling Zun over to drink, and I always looked good......"

Song Ji shook his head: "He also watched me grow up." After being a servant all his life, he was in poor health when he was old, and he paid attention to the fallen leaves and returned to his roots, so he went back to his hometown. ”

"That's good." Shopkeeper Sun showed a little smile: "It's a blessing to be able to return to the roots, the wine shop is passed to the hands of the little old man, and the things on the ancestors can't be lost, I don't even have a chance to go out, I'm afraid I have to guard this small shop until death." ”

Song Ji was silent and looked at the towering Chang'an City:

"It's all the same...... It's also a blessing to be able to defend until death, it's better than losing it halfway. ”

"Hehe......"

……

In the midst of trivial chats, it was already dark and the wine was cold.

Song Ji rarely went out of the palace, and stayed away from cumbersome government affairs for a while, and was not in a hurry to go back.

It's just that if you are in your position, sometimes if you don't do something, things will come to you.

Pedal Pedal –

Footsteps sounded in the dim alley, and Lao Yi, the secret guard with three straight knives behind his back, stood outside the wine shop and bowed slightly.

"Gone."

Song Ji's face returned to his former Gujing Wubo, took out a few copper coins from his sleeve, put them on the table, and slowly walked out of the wine shop.

Shopkeeper Sun wiped his hands with a towel, stood under the dim wine flag, and watched the three figures disappear at the end of the field of vision, before shaking his head and sighing lightly, wanting to sigh a few words, but he didn't know where to start.

I have been in this small wine shop all my life, and I have seen too many people, and there are countless lonely people who can sit alone in the wine shop and drink.

Everyone has seven emotions and six desires, even the son of the sky and the emperor of the people are no exception.

But the position of 'Son of Heaven' is destined to be a lonely person, and the temptation of imperial power is too great, so big that friendship, love and even family affection with blood thicker than water are sometimes not worth mentioning.

There are too many examples in the history books, the son kills the father, the younger brother kills the brother, do these people not have the love of father and son? There must be, but before the imperial power, this bit of affection was like a sky full of snow, blowing away and wavering.

Song Ji is a very qualified emperor, so he is never confused and private feelings, and in the face of the betrayal of his younger brother, he did not hesitate to treat him as a chess piece, because this is what an emperor should do. In the past, the brother became a tiger beside the couch, and he did not hesitate to start cutting the domain, which is also what an emperor should do.

Compared with Jiangshan Sheji, there is nothing that cannot be abandoned, and you must always regard yourself as a cold-blooded person with no feelings, and you can't have the slightest pity or hesitation in your heart.

But emperors are also human beings, and being able to give up something for the sake of the overall situation does not mean that they will not miss it.

Sitting in this small wine shop that used to drink at the same table, Song Ji also missed the scene of drinking with Xu You in the past, and missed the red face when he and his younger brother Song Yu were arguing about state affairs.

If you can get the best of both worlds, not only can the world be peaceful, but also can keep the brotherhood, who doesn't want to have three or two confidants to drink and talk about when they are old?

But this is the way of the world, the position of the emperor is like this, you can only choose one between the two, Song Ji can only choose the world, give up everything else, and is destined to be a lonely person.

Shopkeeper Sun sighed softly, shook his head and smiled.

This is the loneliness of the emperor, and I am afraid that only he, an old drunkard, can get a glimpse of the tip of the iceberg......

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In the dim alley, Song Ji walked slowly with his hands in his hands, and the little eunuch held an oil-paper umbrella in his hand to block the goose feathers and heavy snow that was falling down.

Lao Yi walked in front of him, took out a note from his sleeve, and said respectfully:

"Holy Lord, Song Ying has news again."

Song Ji's eyes have been on the sky above Chang'an City, which has a strong New Year's flavor, and said softly:

"Song Ying's temperament is a little utilitarian, the Tang family's affairs have not been done well, and I want to make up for it, but I am too impatient, just by this matter, even if I bring Xu Buling back to Chang'an, I have no reason to detain Xu Buling. Did he find new incriminating evidence? ”

Lao Yi nodded: "The day before yesterday, there was a small mess in Leting County, Liaoxi County, and someone asked the county order to summon the people to dig up the bottom of Bodhi Island, and found a bunker underneath, which led directly to Yuetuo Island. There were traces of a fight nearby, but the bodies had been erased and difficult to identify. ”

Song Ji frowned slightly: "Xu Buling went to Liaoxi?" ”

Lao Yi nodded: "No trace was found, but it is likely to be there." Song Ying has been following Xu Buling's traces, and he happened to be in western Liaoning, and when he heard the news, he hurried to Bodhi Island to investigate, and guessed from the martial arts moves left in the underground palace that it might be the hermitage of Zuo Zhexian, the founding general of the Great Qi Dynasty. Then a secret room was found in the bunker, there was a body of a Great Qi eunuch, looking at the accessories, it may be a palm print eunuch in the Great Qi Palace...... The one who disappeared in front of Jiazi. ”

"Huh?!"

Song Ji's footsteps slammed suddenly, and he turned his head to look at Lao Yi:

"Confirmed?"

Lao Yi bowed down and said seriously: "It's just speculation, but eight or nine are not far from ten." ”

“……”

Song Ji's hand behind his back clenched into a fist, and after a moment of silence, he paced back and forth in the alley, his face becoming more and more gloomy.

Lao Yi bowed, and when he saw that Song Ji was slow to give an order, he said:

"Shengshang, the stakes are very high, the Investigation Department ran and killed two messengers to send back the news, Xu Buling is likely to have something to do with this matter, and he should not have left Youzhou yet......"

Song Ji's eyebrows frowned like a lion about to explode, paced for a moment, and waved his sleeves violently:

"Decree that the capital of western Liaoning, from now on, the entire territory of Youzhou, Jeju, and Qingzhou will be closed and curfewed, and those who dare to cross the border will be killed. The Qingzhou Navy was ordered to blockade the coast, stop all shipping and fishing, and kill those who dared to go to sea. Order all the wolf guards in the outer Tianzi camp to rush to Youzhou immediately, and you will be dispatched with full authority. ”

"No."

Lao Yi respectfully possessed himself and thought for a while: "If you intercept Xu Buling, King Su will ...... there."

"Since you are fighting with people, there must be other people interfering, and the thing is not necessarily in Xu Buling's hands, after intercepting Xu Buling, you must ask about your whereabouts, and if you can't ask, you will be detained. From now on, Guo Zhongxian was appointed as the commander of the Guanzhong Army, and the soldiers and horses were mobilized on the western front until the jade seal was found. Xu You really dared to fight, and he also saved my defense. ”

"This ......"

"Go!"

"No."

Lao Yi was stunned and hurriedly retreated......

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