Approaching the New Year, the door was closed and not out, as if the major events in Taiping City had nothing to do with Liu Zhixing. For half a month, Liu Zhixing hid in the courtyard and saw no one, but Xia Er was the only one to take care of the second son's daily life. Few Yang Chen and his friends came to visit, and it was surprising that Liu Zhixing seemed to be a different person, and Yulian's entry into the palace seemed to have not happened.

After the morning class all day, I mostly studied the art of war and strategies at home, and I consulted my father Liu Ce in this delicate study. Liu Ce, who was originally worried about his son's trouble, was very relieved, and Taiping City is not lively now. Liu Zhixing changed his temperament and closed his door, half a month ago, Liu Zhixing broke into the Qi Palace, although it caused a storm. Now it seems that breaking into the palace is not a big deal, and Zhang Bai, the champion of today's department, doesn't know how to get a list, and there are many rumors related to Xing Tai, the head of the household department, involving hundreds of officials, and the implication is very wide.

Zhang Bai presented the list of the prince vigorously and resolutely, and immediately handed over the list to his henchmen for secret investigation. It was as if someone was behind the scenes, and it went well. When the prince lacked evidence to point out that Xing Tai, the head of the household department, a young chivalrous man appeared in Zhang Bai's mansion with an old man in his sixties tied up one morning, which was the second time Zhang Bai was surprised. I only know that the person behind the scenes is probably Liu Zhixing at a young age, but I really don't know that Liu Zhixing has such a means at the same age.

It was immediately handed over to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, causing a storm. Originally, the Hubu Shangshu corruption case was not over, and the squire of the Criminal Department was involved in the wanton killing of the people's family because of a noble son. was supposed to be the chief judge of the Criminal Department, because the waiter Cao Yao performed misdeeds, and he was involved in a murder case in the list. The crown prince of Qi quarreled constantly, and finally could only be handed over to Dali Temple for the chief judge. A corruption case caused extreme chaos between the two ministries, and for a time the household department lacked a chief officer, and the criminal department's perversion of the law became a topic of discussion among the people.

The king of Qi, who was closed door, could not get out of the background, and in the face of the prince's courage to give up the criminal department Shangshu, he had to execute Xing Tai, the head of the household department. His Majesty the Emperor, who was originally getting weaker and weaker, would never have thought that the competition between the crown prince of Qi would come to such a situation. lost two first-grade books in a row, and couldn't help but look at this matter again.

Far away in the Taiping Daliang rivers and lakes set off a bloody storm, especially in Xuzhou, a gang Lotus Gang suddenly appeared, the gang leader is a young man, 24 people under the seat, everyone is strong in martial arts. Claiming to be a boiling eagle, the second gang leader is a typical scholar, but in a few days, the major merchants in Xuzhou have been like-minded, and gangs of all sizes have followed suit, vaguely unifying the rivers and lakes of Xuzhou.

It is said that the leader of the Lotus Gang had a close relationship with Xu Zhichang, a general in Xuzhou, and was known as an uncle and nephew. The Huangqu Lu clan, which has dominated the rivers and lakes of Xuzhou and Suizhou for many years, has a vague tendency to retreat. The second master of the Lu family withdrew a lot of business in Xuzhou, but it made the Lotus Gang prosperous.

In the small courtyard, Xia Er walked in eagerly: "Second son, second son." ”

Liu Zhixing, who was holding the book of war in his hand, glanced at it, and Xia Er handed the letter to Liu Zhixing and smiled slightly. The Lotus Gang newly established by Chu Hanlin and Zheng Shui in the letter almost occupied the rivers and lakes of Xuzhou, and the Huangqu Lu clan seemed to have deliberately avoided it, and there was never a conflict. With the help of General Xu, now the entire Xuzhou territory is covered with the eyeliner of the Lotus Gang, plus the twenty-four boiling eagles are mostly from the rivers and lakes, each with its own relationship network, and the accumulation of money is enough to help thousands of people.

The other is written by Zhao Ping, who has not been a rich man for a long time, and now he is also a famous Zhao Gongzi in Taiping City. From the mouths of many noble princes, he got a lot of news that was not known to outsiders, and after several battles between nobles, the red sleeves became a place of fighting. Mrs. Fang was first cut off by Yang Chen, and now she doesn't know who deliberately provoked everyone's fight. Most of the fights caused by the girls with red sleeves moves, when it was found out which Zhao Gongzi instigated it, it had become a melee situation, and the fights and brawls in Taiping City, which was calm for a while, were not obvious, but which personable Zhao Gongzi disappeared without a trace.

Liu Zhixing, who looked at the letter, smiled indifferently and said, "Mrs. Lu, King of Qi, no matter what, you shouldn't calculate Yulian, you should pay some price. ”

Liu Zhixing asked, "Sister Xia'er is in her twenties today. ”

Xia Er always went to an inn to find a young man, but she never set foot in Lu's Restaurant again, and she still has a lingering concern about who delivered the letter. On that day, Lu Xiaozhao was asked to catch up, but he saw that the middle-aged man had no communication when he returned home. In the end, Yang Chen found someone to investigate and found out that the letter was brought out by Princess Qi from the palace, and King Qi didn't even know that there was such a thing. If it weren't for the chief eunuch in the palace who had a good relationship with Yang Chen, he would not have known that the letter was actually brought out by Princess Qi.

The only thing that made Liu Zhixing strange was who the person behind Mrs. Lu that King Qi said, Zhang Bai had asked the prince intentionally or unintentionally, and the prince didn't know anything about it, and he didn't have a clue. Zhang Bai wholeheartedly helped the prince with advice, so much so that Liu Zhixing was extremely curious that Zhou Heng, who often forced himself to study when he was a child, turned out to be the prince's adviser.

"The second son is only nineteen today, and he will only be twenty tomorrow." looked at the second son with curious eyes.

Liu Zhixing looked in the direction of the palace and said, "There are still nine days left on Chinese New Year's Eve, and another year is about to pass." ”

Suddenly, the door of the courtyard opened, and the elder brother Liu Zhiming came in a hurry, with a kind of eagerness on his face. Liu Zhixing asked with a calm look; "What's wrong with the eldest brother, what's going on so anxious."

Liu Zhiming stared at Liu Zhixing with serious eyes and asked, "Brother Zhixing, ask you now, you have to answer truthfully and don't hide anything." ”

Looking at his brother's anxious appearance, Liu Zhixing nodded lightly, as if he had guessed what his brother wanted to ask. Liu Zhiming asked: "What happened in Xuzhou is not what you mean, the Huangqu Lu clan was suppressed by the rising Lotus Gang extremely fiercely. Uncle Xu wrote to say that the leaders of the Lotus Gang are your subordinates Zheng Shuixin and Chu Hanlin. ”

Liu Zhixing smiled slightly: "It's what I mean, the Lotus Gang is the gang I wrote to Uncle Xu to help establish, and the twenty-four masters of the gang are the thirteenth battalion of boiling eagles." Big brother, you don't know about Boiling Eagle, because now Boiling Eagle doesn't even know Chen Dashuai, it has just been established. ”

Liu Zhixing's answer surprised Liu Zhiming, and he immediately pulled Liu Zhixing and said: "If you want to see you, you must remember that what happened in Xuzhou has nothing to do with you." ”

Walking on the road together, Liu Zhixing suddenly stopped and said: "Big brother, in fact, what happened in Taiping City has the shadow of the thirteenth battalion, and many of the things Zhang Bai did were the so-called sword servants under Gao Xiaolong, and now they are combined with Yang Chen's dark web. ”

I never thought that Liu Zhixing, who was closed door, would actually do so much, and walked all the way to Liu Ce's study, Liu Zhixing said: "Big brother believes in me, he will not do anything harmful to the foundation of the beam." With that, he strode into the study.

This year, the snow came early, but there was no heavy snow after the first snow. Qinglin Palace is extremely depressed, and there is no other sound except for the sound of the piano all day long. His Majesty the Emperor, who had been here once a few days ago, had no news. The whole palace is full of weirdness, as if all the palaces and halls are busy. It is often heard that people disappear, especially the Jiaofang Hall is extremely lively, and then there is the Taihe Hall noisy all day long.

Qinglin Palace is like a paradise in the palace, calm and suffocating. After Yulian finished playing a song, she took a sip of tea and said, "Hongyi is about to have Chinese New Year's Eve, and you should also hurry up and practice the newly learned song." ”

Hongyi said: "Sister knows, why did you say that Your Majesty asked your sister to play a song on Chinese New Year's Eve." ”

Yulian said: "Letting you practice the piano is always making excuses, when will you grow up." Forget it, I had to go alone. ”

As he spoke, he got up and stretched his waist, and he was very tired from practicing music all day long. Walking out of the palace gate with red clothes, the wind and the sun are beautiful, but unfortunately he is like a caged finch who wants to fly high and has no chance. Suddenly remembered that Huaqing Daoist once counted a hanging, not entering a city, at that time Yulian Xiuwen always thought it was a joke, isn't it just a city? If you want to go, you can go, who can stop you. Only now did I have an epiphany, and the people of Huaqing Dao did not enter a city, referring not to Taiping City, but: the Imperial City.

Standing at the gate of the palace and looking at the two begonias still in full bloom under the eaves, Yulian was extremely curious about this. Princess Qi has explained that every year she will send new begonias to Concubine Xin's palace. These two begonias bloom in the sun and do not wither due to the cold of winter.

Hongyi looked curiously at the palace maid who was cleaning the courtyard, shouting as if she was saying something, but Yulian immediately kept silent as soon as she went out. Yulian asked curiously, "What are you talking about?" ”

The two palace maids wanted to leave but were called to Yulian's side, and replied under the pressure of the red clothes: "Back to the beauty, the slave maid heard from the sister of the Shangyi Bureau that the second son of Lu Guogong went to the Qinglou to fight and fight before he returned to Taiping City. is still the original attitude of the four sons, and there is no change at all. I don't know how His Majesty would give the daughter of the King of Tianshui to General Liu, Daliang has not yet had a prince who is married to Tianshui. ”

Hearing the news that Liu Zhixing had returned to Taiping City, Yulian was stunned at first, but she didn't expect Liu Zhixing to return to Taiping City. It is very clear in your heart that you don't want Liu Zhixing to return to Taiping City, especially the letter to Zhang Bai is to prevent Liu Zhixing from returning to Taiping, and you don't want Liu Zhixing to get involved.

Another palace maid said: "The slave maid heard from Xiao Lizi a few days ago that Xing Tai, the head of the household department, was dismissed by His Majesty. His Royal Highness King Qi has been in the study for several days, as well as His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. The beauty is not peaceful in the palace these days, and please don't go out in the palace. ”

In fact, Yulian, who rarely leaves Qinglin Palace, doesn't really care so much about these. When I heard that King Qi was frustrated, I subconsciously thought of Liu Zhixing and Zhang Bai, now a border general, a champion of the current department, I really don't know what to do.

Covering his mouth with one hand, he still said, "I know, I try not to leave Qinglin Palace." If only you had heard. "Still unspoken.

The sensible palace maid Yazhi said: "I know the beauty, if I can find out the news of General Liu, I will tell the beauty secretly." Another palace maid kept pulling her sleeves, which was a taboo in the palace. The harem concubines have a personal affair with the generals outside the palace, and they don't know that the master is executed, and even everyone in the palace will be implicated.

The ignorant red clothes kept being made by Yulian to look at her, but she didn't understand what it meant, and Yulian said directly: "The weather in red clothes is cold, give the two slaves some silver taels to buy some cotton clothes." Then he turned and returned to the temple.

Looking up is the two begonias under the eaves, no one asks about living in the deep palace for a long time, who knows the sadness. The cold wind is blowing outside the window, and the begonias are fluttering in the wind. Yulian said: "Red, you go and move the begonia back, the cold air in the evening is heavy." ”

Two lines of tears fell from his eyes, but he didn't know that the sadness was even more in the sadness. The white-clothed young man in her mind, the red-brown horse, the silver spear is high, and the sedan chair, gongs, drums, and red clothes are all her.