Chapter Fifty-Eight: Entering Without Notice
Around noon.
Xu Buling drove his horse back to Kuishou Street, and the long street was full of soldiers and armor, and many officials gathered around the door of Li's house at the end of the street.
Dayue established the country by force, attached great importance to the construction of the army, and the matter of deducting military salaries by fraudulently receiving money was more serious than fraud in the imperial examination, and the exile of the family was already regarded as a light punishment.
This matter has nothing to do with Li Baoyi's premeditated assassination, anyway, Li Baoyi is dead, Xu Buling has no heart to pay attention to what will happen to the Li family in the end, the most important thing is the lock dragon Gu on his body.
After coming to Chang'an for more than a year, Lao Xiao has been secretly investigating in many ways, and there are all kinds of messy news, but there is almost no news that can really solve the maggot attached to the bones, even if the ironclad evidence points out the murderer, it cannot change the current predicament.
The news brought by Ning Qingye is one of many news from the rivers and lakes, and the so-called 'Yin and Yang Combination' detoxification method is a bit unconvincing.
It may be that you are in a hurry to go to the doctor, and when there is no way out, any news is not easy to come by, even if it has failed many times before, and the news you get is incredible, you still have to do it if you want to investigate and confirm.
The horses ran across the street and came to the outside of Jinghuayuan behind the Xiao family.
Xu Buling turned over and dismounted, and after tidying up his clothes a little, he walked to the courtyard by the lake.
Ping Baiyue happened in front of Jiazi, and the emperor had changed three, which had already become an old thing. Chang'an is uninhabited in King Su's Mansion, and it is impossible to store any books and archives, so if you want to check what happened back then without attracting the attention of those who care, you still have to go to Aunt Lu.
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On a warm day, a few maids in the Qingya courtyard gathered in the water pavilion and said the secret language of the boudoir, and the moon slave listened with an embroidery needle, and the courtyard was very quiet.
Mrs. Lu ran around last night to seek justice for Xu Buling, and only returned to the other courtyard in the early hours of the morning, and only rested after making sure that the Li family had received the punishment they deserved, and the courtyard was very quiet.
After Xu Buling learned about this situation from the mouth of the moon slave, although he was a little anxious, he didn't want to wake up Mrs. Lu, who had just fallen asleep, so he sat down in the courtyard outside the boudoir and poured himself a wine jug.
And so he waited from noon to the setting of the sun.
There was a rustling sound in the small boudoir, and a gentle voice that was slightly tired sounded:
"Moon Slave ......"
Xu Buling put down the wine gourd, got up and walked outside the wing room and pushed open the door, with a bright smile and was about to open his mouth to call out, when he thought of raising his eyes, he saw Mrs. Lu standing next to the sea of tea, drinking water with a water cup.
The room was very warm, and Mrs. Lu should have been thirsty, so she stepped on her palace boots and walked out of the beaded curtain without wearing a dress.
The belly pocket embroidered with peonies collapsed tightly on the body, and the slender tether was a little overwhelmed. The white thin pants wrap around the waist and legs, and the water cloud brocade produced in the water town in the south of the Yangtze River is as thin as cicada wings, looming to reveal a bit of flesh color and the outline of camel toes, plump and soft, moist as warm jade.
Holding the cup in both hands and drinking water in a hurry, a line of water beads slid from the corners of the lips to the chin, and dripped on the peony flowers, dripping the white cloth almost transparent.
Sensing that the door was pushed open, Mrs. Lu moved her eyes to the door.
"Shhhh
Xu Buling said that it was not good at a glance, and reacted very quickly and took the door directly.
The door opened and closed almost simultaneously, with only a soft 'squeak'.
In the blink of an eye, Mrs. Lu had already closed the door, and she put down the water cup with some doubts:
"Moon slave?"
Xu Buling stood outside the door a little panicked, and was thinking about how to explain, when he saw the moon slave in a winter skirt standing under the eaves, holding the washing utensils in his hands and stunned.
Xu Buling was pardoned, and ran to the moon slave lightly, his eyes signaled, and he raised his hand to push the moon slave to the door.
Yue Nu can be the personal maid of the young lady of the family, and her brain is definitely not stupid, so she naturally understands what Xu Buling has just seen, and she looks like she wants to say something.
Xu Buling's face was full of embarrassment, he made a 'shhh' gesture, and hurriedly waved his hand to signal the moon slave to respond quickly.
Although the moon slave is the same age as Mrs. Lu, the disparity in identity is here, and it is not good to disobey the will of the little prince, so he glanced at Xu Buling with a strange look in his eyes, and walked to the door:
"Ma'am, what's the matter?"
"You just pushed the door?"
"Well, I forgot to take the towel, go back and get it."
"Oh...... Hurry up and go. ”
“…… By the way, madam, the little prince came over at noon and has been waiting outside. ”
"Huh? Hurry up and let Ling'er come in, why don't you call me, he hasn't recovered his qi yesterday......"
"The little prince didn't want to disturb his wife's rest, so he didn't let the maid report ......"
"Yes...... Hmph~ It's a bit of a conscience......"
Outside the room, Xu Buling breathed a long sigh of relief and gave the moon slave a grateful look.
The moon slave bowed and smiled, turned around and made a gesture of taking the towel, thought about it, and suddenly asked in a whisper:
"Little prince, is the lady good-looking?"
“……”
Xu Buling put on a straight face: "Don't talk nonsense, go get the towel." ”
"Hehe......"
The moon slave snickered, and ran away with the washing items.
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After a while, Mrs. Lu finished washing, changed into a blue long dress, and only after tidying up did she leave the room, and looked at the white-clothed boy standing in the courtyard with his hands in his hands and looking at the sun with a smile:
"Ling'er, why didn't you call me when you came?"
Xu Buling turned around, showed a bright smile, and walked under the eaves:
"Aunt Lu ran around all night yesterday, she should have a good rest, I'm fine anyway, it's okay to wait."
Mrs. Lu smiled gently, and naturally stretched out her arm for Xu Buling to support, and walked side by side:
"Li Baoyi ate leopard gall, and dared to attack you, not letting his Li family be removed from Kuishou Street, and my aunt was also in vain. It's okay if you're fine, don't go out at night in the future, a good little prince is inappropriate, pretending to be a Jianghu guest and running to Hutai Street, don't you think the price is cheap? ”
Xu Buling held his soft arm and shook his head: "It's okay to be idle, just hear some wind and take a look." ”
Mrs. Lu hummed lightly, thought about it a little, and remembered what happened a few days ago:
"By the way, the Queen Mother came to you a few days ago, and I don't know what the illness was, so I had to let you go into the palace to see her, and I went to the Holy Lord, and asked the Holy Lord to send you to her to take it, hum~ If it weren't for the fact that she was an elder, I would have to send her back to Huainan ......"
Xu Buling naturally knew why the Queen Mother was looking for him, and the lotus Tibetan carp was still on his body. But obviously I didn't dare to say it, so I could only laugh:
"The Queen Mother has lived in the deep palace for a long time without being accompanied, and it is natural to be a little bored. I entered the palace a few times, and my speech and demeanor may be more stable than Xiao Ting's, and the Queen Mother probably also wants to chat with me to relieve my boredom. ”
Mrs. Lu also thought so, and nodded: "Hmph~ She thinks beautifully...... You are not allowed to go to the palace in the future, the Queen Mother has been rude and willful since she was a child, and now she is so old that she has not changed her problem, if you really want to take your mind, you will definitely be pestering people everywhere, it is better for you to stay away. ”
Xu Buling naturally agreed: "Aunt Lu rest assured, I must be far away, how can the Queen Mother be intimate with Aunt Lu, and Ling'er is not a white-eyed wolf, she will stay in front of Aunt Lu all her life." ”
"Hmm~"
Mrs. Lu was satisfied.
Xu Buling accompanied Mrs. Lu to walk around the lake and move her body, pondered for a while, and asked seemingly unintentionally:
"By the way, in the past few days, I have been on the street and I have overheard a caravan from South Vietnam talking about the war in those days. Back then, it was my grandfather who broke the Baiyue National Gate, but I went to the optical martial arts since I was a child, and I basically didn't read a few books, and I really didn't know anything about the years......"
Mrs. Lu sneered: "I don't even know your Xu family's own great achievements, how can you be the king of Su in the future?" …… Well, but also, it happened more than sixty years ago, and you can't be forgiven......
…… When Emperor Xiaozong was in power, although it was a scene of the three kingdoms competing for deer, Baiyue was located in southern Xinjiang, with a lack of materials in the mountains and mountains, and there were few places to produce grain, and the national strength was very weak. General Xu personally led his troops south, and basically arrived in Liuzhou without a big battle, and there was nothing to say......
…… At that time, Dayue's national strength was weak and there was no Ma Yuan heavy armor, and the 30,000 iron Rakshasa of Daqi was a cavalry equipment, invincible across the four seas, and the old general Xu gnawed it down little by little with his teeth, and he didn't put down the army for a day in his life, and he remembered to marry a daughter-in-law when he was a king in his fifties......"
Xu Buling listened quietly for a moment, and then said with a smile: "Aunt Lu, do you have any books here that recorded the war situation back then?" ”
Mrs. Lu also felt that it was difficult to reproduce the tragic battlefield of the year, and as the prince of King Su, he could lead his troops north at any time, and it was a good thing to understand these things, so she nodded at the moment:
"There is a detailed record in the Xiao family's library, I will take you there later."
Xu Buling nodded......