Chapter 8 The Little Eunuch Escaped
General Li Tong saw that General Mo Lin congratulated him, but in fact he didn't raise his eyelids, and saw him take a sip of tea lightly, then cover the cup, and put it on the small wooden stool coffee table next to the chair where he was sitting, and the whole tea drinking action was as gentle as a scholar.
"This general who leads troops to war, like a girl, drinks tea and grinds and chirps." General Li Tong secretly scolded Mo Lin in his heart, it is really a pot that does not open which pot, not long ago he led his troops to fight, and was just defeated by Liu Heimin, and now Mo Lin mentioned Liu Heimin again, and deliberately said that the emperor looked at me differently, and it was clear that he wanted to show a joke to the civil and military officials who were waiting.
Since the emperor ascended the throne and became the emperor, he sealed the world and rewarded the meritorious ministers, and a large number of people who were not as good as him were reused as ministers of the humerus, and they were greatly rewarded.
are also generals, why can he Mo Lin be named a hussar general, ranked in the first rank, and I have an official position lower than him, although he is an auxiliary general, but he is a positive second grade, and defeating the battle is not what I want to defeat.
I was the first person to support Tang Gaozu Li Yuan, and I once raised troops in Guanxi, but now the people who are not as good as me are above me, and I am really unwilling and unconvinced, besides, I am still the elder of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty!
Let's just say that on the day of the last Kaifeng, after hearing that he was named the general of the auxiliary country, after waiting for the next dynasty, he immediately asked Gonggong Zhang to tell him, and after seeing the emperor, he expressed his dissatisfaction.
Unexpectedly, his nephew would say a lot of words: "Uncle is my dearest, and I respect you very much." But when it comes to the rules of rewarding meritorious deeds, I think you know it too. Although you initiated the rebel army, you did not serve the country, so you cannot be rewarded. Moreover, you have lost two battles, and the rest of us have come to my aid many times, otherwise our army will be defeated. Therefore, I want to reward and reuse them. And you're my uncle, so I'll be rewarded for your fellow contributions as a founding father, okay? ”
Li Tong knew that he Emperor Taizong of Tang was influenced a lot by his words, because of his qualifications and status, he Tang Taizong was afraid that he would make peace with the old subordinates of the Qin Palace, and he was afraid that the old subordinates would be angry, so he gave him the title of an auxiliary general, but what is the use, it is not under those pens and generals Molin!
It is said that beating people does not slap their faces, scolding people does not expose their shortcomings, the two major black spots in Li Tong's life, one is that he was captured alive by Dou Jiande, and the other is that he was beaten by Liu Heimin and fled.
These two things are the pain of Li Tong's life, good for you, General Molin, and deliberately mocking him and slapping him in the face in front of so many civil and military officials.
The more Li Tong thought about it, the more angry he became, he had led the three dogs and the people to come on horseback and had been slightly red from the sun, but now because he thought of those things, he felt even more dull.
Li Tong only felt that his face was getting hotter and hotter, his heart was like a fire, his mouth was getting more and more thirsty, and his dry mouth made him even more irritable in his heart, so he picked up the teacup next to him and drank the tea in it like spring water.
Who knew that the freshly brewed tea was piping hot, and the hot tea was not spit in the mouth, nor was it swallowed, Li Tong could only hold the tea in his mouth, the two cheeks were round and round, the eyes were round, and the sweat on his forehead came out silently, quickly condensed into big beads of sweat, and rolled down.
Li Tongguang caught a glimpse of the rest of the others with their heads down and smiling, so he had to swallow the hot tea slowly, his mouth was already hot and numb, and there was a slight smell of blood between his lips and teeth.
"Bastard, dog slave, what is the intention of giving such hot tea to my father to drink, and his mind is so vicious, do you want me to drag you out and cut you with a thousand cuts?"
Li Tong's eldest son, Li Mang, immediately bounced up from the chair, walked to the little eunuch standing behind his father with tea, snatched the teapot from the eunuch's hand, and poured more than half of the pot of tea on the little eunuch's face.
If it weren't for the fact that the sword on his body had been confiscated before entering the palace, Li Mang had no weapon in his hand, if he had a sword on his body, I was afraid that this little eunuch would have reported to Lord Yama a long time ago, Li Mang, Li Mang, his reckless and impulsive style of acting really had a fight with his name.
The little eunuch couldn't care about the pain of the separation of skin and flesh on his face, so he hurriedly ran forward and knelt down in front of Li Tong, knocking his head on the gold brick like pounding garlic and begging for mercy: "The general spares his life, the general spares his life, the little one doesn't dare anymore, just spare the slave's life!"
Ben because of the gold brick is a kind of high-quality paving brick for the use of important buildings such as palaces, the texture is fine, knocking like a metal sonorous sound, the head of the little eunuch is like a chicken pecking rice has been knocking, and suddenly there is a knock in the hall.
General Mo Lin sat on the chair, and quietly took advantage of the gap between stroking the teacups, and secretly skimmed the little eunuch who knelt in front of Li Tong and begged for mercy.
Because the boiling tea poured down from the face flowed down and splashed on the hands, the slender white and tender hands had already bubbled one by one, not to mention such a delicate face.
The meticulous eunuch uniform wrapped the thin body, looking at this little man who was only thirteen or fourteen years old, long-term malnutrition, his body was like a bamboo pole, and at this time, because of panic and fear, he shrunk into a ball.
It is the cardamom years, not a child born in a poor family, how could he choose to enter the palace as a eunuch. I have already suffered a lot when I entered the palace, and now I have to suffer such pain, and I have to be afraid of losing my head from time to time in the palace, which will eventually be my fate.
Originally, Mo Lin didn't notice this little eunuch, every time he saw a eunuch in the palace, he felt the same, a uniform eunuch hat and eunuch suit, a numb and dull gaze, but this eunuch was different.
Because his two big glass bead-like eyes flashed with the light of youthful enthusiasm, which is extremely rare among eunuchs, eunuchs, as eunuchs, and do the work of serving people with tea and water, ordinary eunuchs have long been dead to their fate.
So Mo Lin couldn't help but secretly observe him, and found that the originally boring work of serving tea and delivering water became relaxed and cheerful in his hands.
From time to time, those big eyes stared at which master's teacup was about to finish drinking, and immediately ran to the full, which official finished eating the dried fruit and pastries in front of him, and immediately walked to the table full of pastries and dried fruits on the side of the side hall and picked it up, and added it to the official's fruit bowl.
He is also very intelligent and careful, which official likes to eat which kind of pastry and dried fruit, he will fill that kind of pastry and dried fruit, and then take advantage of the situation to turn the eight-grid fruit plate in another direction, and turn the kind of pastry and dried fruit to the side of the official's hand, so that the official can pick it up simply and easily.
A little eunuch has such a delicate and meticulous mind, if he hadn't entered the palace as a eunuch and was included in my door, with such a ability to observe words and colors, he should be able to cultivate a rare soldier, it's a pity, that's it, Ben will always love talents, and it doesn't hurt to help.
"General Li Tong, today is the emperor's special banquet in the palace because of the Xia Yuan Festival, today is the day of the ban on slaughter and blood, if it is because of such a trivial matter, this little eunuch will have to die in Huangquan, if the emperor blames it, we here will not be able to eat and walk around."
General Mo Lin walked to Li Mang's side as he spoke, and patted Li Mang's tiger back: "Today is a happy day, why bother with this minion, he has time to clean him up, if he punishes him today, he will make trouble on the emperor's side, and I am afraid that it will not end well in the future."
"Ling Lang, you have to be careful that the wall has ears." General Mo Lin whispered in Li Mang's ear.
Li Mang heard General Mo Lin's words, frowned, scratched his ears, this General Mo said is reasonable, today's emperor gave a big banquet, he didn't dare to add any more trouble, in case the emperor blamed him, there was no good fruit to eat, but now if he was soft, it would not be a joke for these people present.
"How can the sin of that father be relieved of his innocent and unprovoked sin." Although Li Mang's mind was running rapidly, he thought for a long time before he could hold back these few words, he turned his head to look at his father and walked to his father's side.
Hearing General Mo Lin speak, the officials sitting there persuaded Li Tong one after another: "General Li Tong, the emperor has a banquet today, don't disturb the emperor's good mood."
"Mang'er, don't make a mistake, you really can't let the emperor know about it today, you have lost the emperor's interest, since General Mo kindly reminded us, we will give up."
Saying that, Li Tong stood up, hugged his fist with his hand upward: "I have fought on the battlefield for my father and the emperor for many years, and my body is full of wounds and scars, how can this little thing hurt the general, just look at General Mo's face, and spare his dog's life."
Although Li Tongshi is reckless, he is not stupid, if he makes an incident today, he will just give people a handle, and the emperor will casually condemn a crime on his head, and it is not worth it to cause death.
These words, but at the same time he praised himself by the way, and let General Mo Lin owe him a favor, killing three birds with one stone.
Although he can't read a single big word, yo, I feel that I am becoming more and more intelligent, thinking of this, Li Tong actually laughed, which made everyone confused.
The little eunuch also knew each other, and when he heard General Li Tong say this, he hurriedly kowtowed: "General Xie Li Tong, General Xie Molin, spare the slave's life."
General Mo Lin was afraid of another incident, so he glanced at Qinglong, who immediately understood, stepped forward with an arrow, picked up the eunuch suit on the back of the little eunuch like an eagle catching a chicken, and strode towards the door of the side hall.