Chapter Ninety-One: The Theft of the War Horse
"Although we don't believe that this person can really steal the moon, but on the fifteenth day of March, it is also doubly guarded, that night, our brothers who stayed behind guarded until the end of the hour, the moon was still hanging high in the sky, just when we all thought that the thief Tengu would not come again, we went into the house to drink tea, the moon in the sky suddenly disappeared, the entire Yingzhou City was dark, and the five fingers were not seen when we stretched out our hands, and the candle lights could not illuminate a darkness, and the entire Yingzhou Mansion was in a hurry, and everyone went out to search for the traces of the tengu."
"After that, did you catch a tengu?" The queen mother was excited when she heard this, and she couldn't wait to know the next text, so she moved the stool in the direction of Lu Li.
"Well, you guys guess?"
Lu Li made a fuss and picked up the usual shelf of a storyteller.
"Could it be that Tengu really stole the moon in Yingzhou City?"
"And how did he steal it?"
"Miss Lu, don't sell it, hurry up and tell us about it."
"Actually, the dog didn't steal the moon at all." Lu Li said slowly, imitating the storyteller, and touched the non-existent goatee.
"Why? Didn't you say the moon was gone? I can't see my fingers when I reach out, so I didn't steal it from the tengu? Several concubines were even more puzzled.
"The moon wasn't stolen, but the tengu used a trick to hide it."
This moon hangs high in the sky and can be hidden.
Several people were even more puzzled.
"I don't know if you have ever seen something called a trick in the folk, that is, you can change a thing out of thin air, and when everyone can't find it, you can change it out of thin air."
A few ladies felt that it was a novelty, such an interesting thing, they had never heard of it in the capital.
It turns out that the world outside the capital is so interesting and novel, which is fascinating.
"In fact, this so-called trick is just a trick, the thing has not actually disappeared, but the trick has been slightly tricked by the trickster, so people mistakenly think that the moon has been stolen." Lu Li stretched out his hand, and a handkerchief was placed in his palm, "Ladies and gentlemen, please take a look,"
She put the handkerchief in the palm of her hand, clenched her fist slightly, blew into the palm, and when she opened her hand again, the handkerchief inside was gone, she clenched her fist, blew again, opened her palm, and a delicate begonia flower appeared in it.
"Wow......"
Several ladies were quite surprised, and they all looked at Lu Li's palms in disbelief, "How did Miss Lu do this?" ”
"Secret," Lu Li smiled slightly, "If a few ladies like it, the grass people have novelties and slowly share them with a few maidens." ”
Several ladies were quite happy by Lu Li, and they didn't notice Shangguan Ling and Duan Lang at the bottom.
Duan Lang felt bored, so he ran to the side to admire the varieties of flowers and plants, and Shangguan Yinling was still sitting under the pavilion until Gonggong Hai walked next to him and said in a low voice.
"Your Excellency, please do so."
Shangguan Yinling nodded slightly, got up and followed Gonggong Hai out of Zhengkun Palace and came to the Imperial Garden.
The Holy Lord was waiting for him in the pavilion above the pond in the Imperial Garden, Shangguan Yinling walked over quickly, and the Holy Lord was drinking tea, and he hurriedly bowed.
"What did the Baozhou party find?"
Shangguan Yinling took out all kinds of evidence found during their journey, and the saint flipped through the folds and frowned slightly.
"I expected the south to be uneven, but I never thought it would be so chaotic." The saint sighed slightly, "This immortal slang dao has a lot of plans, and the purpose behind it is too obvious. ”
"Saint, I'm afraid this immortal slang Dao is just doing things for others, forgiving the ministers for courage, the people behind this are very likely to be the princes or powerful ministers in the court, only if they themselves have the capital to get close to the throne, it is possible to plan these."
From gold and silver to soldiers to weapons, this man's purpose couldn't be more obvious.
"That's exactly what I thought." The saint closed the fold, and rubbed the edge of the fold slightly with his fingertips, "I said before that there was civil strife in the capital, and it was also because I found information related to the people behind the scenes. The Miao people in northern Xinjiang who raised war horses for our pilgrimage also had an accident. ”
"Miao?" Shangguan Yinling frowned slightly, it seems that that person has also attacked Northern Xinjiang.
The northern frontier is vast, the terrain of the extreme north is bitter and cold, but there is the most fertile grassland in the south, which is the most suitable for raising and training war horses, and every year the northern Xinjiang has to send tens of thousands of war horses to the imperial court, if the war horse has an accident, it is bound to be a big harm to the imperial court.
"Most of the young and strong men of the Miao tribe who are good at riding horses disappeared overnight, and many war horses were missing, and the patriarch of the Miao tribe wrote to ask the court to help find them."
These people actually attacked the war horses.
"Holy Lord, the minister requests that he will leave the northern frontier in the near future to find the war horses and the people of the Miao tribe."
"I'm not in a hurry, there's one most important thing I haven't done right now." Shengshang frowned slightly, "Then Zheng Qicheng dared to attack my people, I have already sent someone to escort him back to Beijing, and it is not too late to set off after dealing with him." ”
"Thank you, Holy Lord," Shangguan Yinling got up and saluted, and said, "Holy Lord, Xiaguan asked to bring Shang Lu Li and others to investigate together, she and Duan Lang already know a lot about the Immortal Slang Dao, and I believe that they will definitely be able to assist the minister in solving the case of the Miao Clan." ”
"I don't have any opinions, it depends on whether the queen is reluctant to let go."
Sheng Shang said, and couldn't help but smile, "It's been a long time since I've seen Prime Minister Shangguan, but his old man is talking in front of me every once in a while, and his words are complaining that I let you go to Baozhou, so you should go home to visit your parents quickly." ”
"Emperor Xie is compassionate." Shangguan Yinling stood up and saluted and left the Imperial Garden.
When Shangguan Yinling returned to Zhengkun Palace, Lu Li's mouth was dry, and the queen mother was also very compassionate, and reluctantly took her hand and said that she would come back tomorrow.
"It's not me who said, you're too good at, if you let the queen know that there is no tengu stealing the moon at all, you just wait for the saint to cure your sin."
Out of the noon gate, Duan Lang finally relaxed, and couldn't help but worry about Lu Li's nonsense.
"You are too worried about this, have you heard that the price of pork from Er Mazi's house on the next street has risen, will you really ask Er Mazi? Queen Mother, just listen to it as a pleasure, and listen to it happily, we haven't really experienced any strange stories, listening to books, isn't it just happy to listen. ”
"You can see it through." Shangguan Yuling couldn't help but smile.
Not only transparent, she has seen a lot, the queen mother has been clothed and fed since she was a child, growing up in this prosperous and wealthy capital, she naturally feels novel about the outside world, but she doesn't know the suffering of outsiders, and what she wants to hear is just her own curiosity, those who are unpleasant, who will feel fresh.