In the fifth year of Taihe, October was not completed, and it was two o'clock at noon.

Chang'an, Wannian County, Jing'an Fang, Li Xiangfu.

Li Zongmin sat in the inner hall of the Prime Minister's Mansion, pinched a rhino horn cup in his hand, and tried to clear his complicated mind. He held the cup tightly, and the cup trembled slightly, and the tea soup contained in it spilled, dripping on the ground. His expression was very different from the elegant furnishings in the hall.

At this time, a maid in the house who was washing tea and making tea for Li Zongmin missed it, and the spout of the rosewood tea was crooked, and the maid hurriedly endured the scalding and held the body of the pot with her hand, but a small stream of tea soup still flowed out of the spout, which coincidentally spilled onto Li Zongmin's dark purple robe.

The handmaiden's face was as pale as earth in an instant. Li Zongmin's already irritable mood was so excited, his face changed when he landed, and he slammed the rhino horn cup on the low case, and scolded angrily: "Useless! Get lost! Get out! ”

The maidservant stumbled out of the inner hall, her sideburns were scattered because of this, and she went out of the moon gate in a panic, but she bumped into the Xiangfu family who heard the noise.

"What's wrong with Ah Lang?" The family's deep voice sounded, and the maidservant quickly knelt down and kowtowed to confess her sins.

"It was the who missed and spilled the tea soup on Ah Lang's robe...... It's all the fault of the......"

The relatives glanced at the moon gate, and then coldly ordered the maidservant: "Excuse yourself from the rod, and quickly retreat!" ”

The servant girl was relieved and kowtowed again and again in thanksgiving. Family affairs are worried, Ah Lang is usually happy and angry about things in the house, what's wrong today? Thinking like this, the relatives approached the moon gate, and saw that the door of the inner hall was empty, and raised his hand and knocked lightly on the door, and then the low roar in the back hall resounded, so that the relatives standing outside the hall couldn't help but tremble.

"Who's coming again? Didn't you say it, get out! ”

"Ah Lang," the person touched the door with his hand, and said gently: "Moving hurts your body, moving hurts your body!" ”

The inner hall was silent for a moment, and then Li Zongmin sighed, "It turned out to be you...... Come in......"

The relatives sang, gently pushed the door in, and raised his hand to the head of the house and saluted: "Ah Lang, the maids are not well trained, it is the fault of the slaves, don't be angry......"

"It's the slaves and maids who are clumsy, and it has nothing to do with you......" Li Zongmin waved his hand, but the housekeeper who often accompanied the head of the family could still see that the prime minister was sulking.

The family gently closed the door, and said secretly: "Where is Ah Lang's thoughts, could it be the matter of Changle Pingzhang?" ”

Li Zongmin knew that the family affairs here were called the new upstarts of the Nanya by the Changle Fang where Mu Qingchen lived, and he also used the Pingzhang to refer to the Pingzhangshi (Prime Minister) under the Tongzhongshu Door.

"Yes," Li Zongmin no longer hidden, he knocked the desk with his palm, and said slowly: "Although Si Di was assigned to Li Guyan to dissuade the saint in the matter yesterday, who knew that the saint was so strong......

"That's it, this Mu Qingchen paid homage to the prime minister yesterday, and this morning he recommended Wang Fan, the secretary of the ministry, as Jing Zhaoyin, and the saint was immediately gracious, it is inevitable...... It's so exciting......"

"Kyung Zhao Yin?" The family thought for a while and said, "Is this position vacant since Li Liang was transferred to the Guiguan Observation Envoy at the beginning of the month?" ”

Li Zongmin nodded, "Although Wang Fan has a good personal relationship with me, he was recommended by Mu Qingchen, so it is difficult to judge what this upstart wants to do......"

"Has the Duke of Qizhang ever expressed his respect to the Muhammad family?" The family arched his hand and lowered his voice.

Li Zongmin let out a long sigh, and he suddenly got up, looking at a pair of ink treasures.

Li Zongmin secretly said that his old friend of the prime minister has always shared honor and disgrace with him, advancing and retreating together, but because Mu Qingchen is really upright, Niu Sidian has a good impression of Mu Qingchen since the beginning, so after Li Guyan failed to dissuade him, Niu Siyan did not personally enter the meeting. Later, Si Di seemed to find out that this person had no relationship with Li Deyu, and even told himself that Mu Qingchen was an upright person and that it was not impossible to be promoted to prime minister, and he also praised Mu Qingchen for his honest and honest government, no regard for money, and self-denial and loyalty.

Li Zongmin couldn't help but complain about Niu Siyi. At the beginning, I knew that I would say good to myself and try my best to postpone Mu Qingchen's visit to the prime minister, but in the end, this was the result. His heart is full of suspicions, the will of the Son of Heaven is so firm, Mu Qingchen is promoted quickly, there must be a secret in it, it is not a simple reward for not forming friends and being honest and honest.

Li Zongmin squinted his eyes carefully, glanced at the ink treasure, and wrote the words "Harmony with Light and Dust", the pen body was crisp and beautiful, and the bone strength was strong. Li Zongmin remembered that this ink treasure was Yan Zhenqing's authentic handiwork, and it was given by Yang Ning, the governor of Chang'an County, to his own jinshi and the queen. And Yang Ning is the father of Yang Yuqing, the doctor of the dynasty.

"Tao Te Ching" has a saying: frustrate its sharpness, solve its disputes; and its light, and its dust; It is said to be the same as Xuantong.

"I don't believe it, this Mu Qingchen...... Is it really as clean as it rumors? The corners of Li Zongmin's mouth rose slightly, and he muttered in his mouth. He turned his hands behind his back and instructed the housekeeper in a loud voice: "You go and send someone to inform Shigao, so that he can come to see me quickly!" ”

Three o'clock in the afternoon.

Chang'an, Wannian County, Jinchangfang.

Jinchangfang is probably the most easily found in Chang'an City, the towering spire of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda is very eye-catching, even in the north of the city can be seen in the daytime.

When Zhang Yijun rode the "Sa Yuqi" to Jinchangfang, it was almost uncorrect. Zen Buddhism flourishes in the workshop, from the beginning of noon to the end of the day every day, and there are often monks of the Great Mercy and Grace Temple near the wall to distribute some fasting for pedestrians and travelers. Zhang Yijun didn't eat anything after simply using some morning food since Chenshi, and hurried to Jinchangfang at noon, and rushed to Jinchangfang to be hungry, so he lined up at the root of the wall for a while and begged for a vegetarian oil.

The seeds are kneaded with wet noodles, fried in vegetable oil, decorated with sesame seeds, fragrant, very hungry, and the most suitable for filling the stomach. Zhang Yijun bit the oil while leading the "Sa Yuqi" towards the place agreed with Li Shangyin, and happened to go to Zhang's family when the drum sounded at the right time.

Zhang Yijun patted the sesame seeds on his hands, pinched the head of the shop and knocked three times on the door of the house......

After a while, footsteps were heard from behind the door, and then the latch was lifted, and the door leaf opened a crack.

Li Shangyin only showed half of his face, and deliberately lowered his voice and said: ""Song of Long Hatred, who are you looking for?" ”

Zhang Yijun was stunned for a long time, hating songs? Which one is Sixteen Lang playing?

"What do you mean?"

Li Shangyin opened the door wider, as if revealing the answer: "From now on, the king will not ...... early."

Zhang Yijun didn't understand what Li Shangyin meant for a while, but time was pressing, and he didn't have time to play riddles with Li Shangyin, so he urged him to open the door.

Li Shangyin opened the door and said with a smile: "Brother Yi Jun hasn't played this kind of code language?" ”

was reminded by Li Shangyin's words, and Zhang Yijun understood what he meant. The first sentence of the meeting first selected the scope of the code language to find from the "Song of Long Hatred", and then asked who came to find it, Zhang Yijun came to find Sixteen Lang, which implied that the corresponding code word should be the sixteenth sentence of "Song of Long Hatred", that is, the mystery of Li Shangyin: "From now on, the king will not be early to ......"

I see, Zhang Yijun said in his heart. It's not that he doesn't know this kind of simple codeword, it's just that he didn't expect Li Shangyin to play this play, but judging from his selection of Bai Juyi's famous work, this code language is also in line with his Li Shangyin's character, "Are you hungry?" Brought you an oil......"

Li Shangyin shook his head, "Yishan ate some soup cakes in Lifang for lunch. ”

Zhang Yijun bolted the reins of the jade horse to the wooden stake of the horse in front of the second gate, and Li Shangyin couldn't help but wonder: "Huh? Aren't we going to investigate the case? ”

"Riding a horse is too eye-catching," Zhang Yijun explained concisely, then glanced at Li Shangyin, and suddenly remembered it: "By the way, Sixteen Lang, can you bring your poetry collection?" ”

Li Shangyin's expression was first surprised, and then delighted. Brother Yi Jun never mentioned it except for the day when the two of them met and flipped through his own poetry collection, which made Li Shangyin inevitably beat the drum in his heart.

"Of course I brought it, this thing Yishan never leaves me!" Li Shangyin spoke three points faster, his expression was rather excited, and after speaking, he stretched out his hand into his arms.

"Don't be busy first, just bring it," Zhang Yijun smiled mysteriously, led Li Shangyin to the inner room of the courtyard, rummaged through the cabinets and found two silk brocade robes, shook off the dust attached to them, handed one of them to Li Shangyin's hand, and pointed to the bamboo screen on one side, "Go, put this one on." ”

Li Shang didn't know why, although this brocade robe was a little old, but the material was first-class, he couldn't help but speculate in his heart, they were going to see some big person.

When it was time to change clothes, Li Shangyin half-complained and half-jokingly through the screen: "Fortunately, Brother Yijun came over in a hurry, otherwise Yishan thought that Brother Yijun was like last time, so he left a certain person and went to investigate the case alone......"

Hearing that Zhang Yi didn't respond, Li Shangyin smiled again and asked him why he had been here for so long?

Zhang Yijun tied his knees around the waist of the brocade robe, he sighed lightly and pouted, he actually didn't want to involve Li Shangyin in the unclear murder case, so he said haha: "It's okay, there was a delay on the road......

"Is it really okay?" Li Shangyin changed his clothes, walked out from behind the screen, and looked like a young man, he laughed: "Yishan understands ......"

"What do you think?" Zhang Yijun glanced at him, tilted his head to the front yard and said, "...... gone"

"Wait, we'...... Who do you have to meet? Li Shangyin couldn't help but be curious anymore.

"It's not certain if you can see it."

"But who is it?"

Zhang Yijun walked to the door of the mansion, lightly raised the latch and turned his head and said: "The head of the 'Three Yangs', the chief examiner of your scientific examination, advises the doctor Yang Yuqing......"