On August 21, the 35th year of the New Song Dynasty, it rained lightly.

Since yesterday, the sky seems to have leaked a hole, and the rain has been falling non-stop, continuously, and cold, and even the water in the Qinhuai River has risen a lot.

Yesterday there was a major event in the Taiji Palace, the prince's teacher Fang Tai disobeyed the emperor's order, was ordered to be beheaded, blood splashed three feet on the spot, and some people said that Fang Tai was stubborn, and had a dispute with the emperor in the main hall, the emperor was angry, and he killed Fang Tai by mistake.

There are many versions circulating in the streets and alleys of Jinling, although the palace deliberately concealed it and ordered that it was strictly forbidden to discuss the matter, but the number of people who saw it on the spot was so large that it was difficult to put an end to it, and the matter spread at once.

No matter which version it is, Fang Tai's death has been confirmed, and now the person has been quietly buried by the palace Yulin, and even Fang Tai's family doesn't know where Fang Tai is buried? There was no way to cry for a while, and the whole family blocked the door of King Yan's mansion, asking Li Jingsui, the king of Yan, to give an explanation, after all, Li Jingsui did everything in this matter.

There is no precedent for killing literati in the Southern Tang Dynasty since ancient times, since the time of the martyrs, the literati prospered, and continued to this day, the death of Fang Tai caused an uproar, and there is news that the students of Guozijian drafted a book in Taixue yesterday, and Chen refuted the mistakes of the emperor of the dynasty, and handed it over to the cabinet to ask for an axiomatic explanation.

In short, a major event occurred yesterday, which caused more major events to occur in the future, the dark tide of the DPRK and China is surging, the forces of all parties are gearing up, and there will be changes in Jinling.

For the ordinary people of Jinling, life has no impact, but the rain is still falling, and the days are still going on, but there is just a topic of idle conversation after dinner.

Li Shuangshuang seems to can't wait today, so she took Xiong Er to the market early in the morning to buy a new table and a new stool. It won't rain much.

Mr. Su also got up early today, yesterday on the top of the main hall, looking at Fang Tai such a living person, it disappeared in a blink of an eye, that kind of shock, that kind of shock has not calmed down this morning.

Yesterday I was frightened, and I don't know how I got home, but I remember that the blood in the hall was very red yesterday, and the rain outside the hall was very heavy.

After drinking a bowl of sweet soup early, the old gentleman found a clean place under the eaves, and asked the little maid to move the Taishi chair out, and sat under the eaves to watch the rain and already had two teas.

"Faint King!"

The old gentleman scolded in the palace yesterday, and I don't know how to scold, and also watched Li Jing's butcher's knife wave down again, if it wasn't for Li Jingsui coming in time, I am afraid that it will be the same fate as that Fang Tai, yesterday panicked, and his brain was in chaos, thinking about it today, everything came too fast, and it was too coincidental, Li Jing made an exception, and killed Wenchen in public in the palace, and he was also the prince's teacher, I believe that someone will soon go to the book, and Li Jing does not cultivate Junde, and loses the edict of heaven, these old gentlemen do not care much, What he is concerned about is whether some of his disciples will be implicated, after all, he just committed a taboo yesterday, although the old emperor didn't say it, but he must have a grudge in his heart, and the careers of those students will definitely be affected, if so, it is a great sin.

"Su Kan, since I came back yesterday, what happened to me?" It turned out that the little guy who had been serving Mr. Su was named Su Kan.

Su Kan was making tea on the side, and when he heard the old gentleman shouting, he condensed his eyebrows and recalled what happened yesterday, and responded, "Nothing big happened, after Mr. came back yesterday, everything was as usual, but Mr. 's face was not very good, and he said that he was going to sleep, and after I sent away those officials, he closed the door, and it has not been opened until now, during this period, nothing major happened!"

"Well, ......," replied the old gentleman, leaning back in his chair and looking at the rain pouring down from the eaves.

"Oh, by the way, sir, Li Shuangshuang, who rented our shop yesterday, stood alone in the shop and stayed for a long time, looking like he had some kind of hysteria?" Su Kan remembered that he went out yesterday morning and saw Li Shuangshuang standing alone in the shop, sometimes frowning, sometimes smirking, and sometimes muttering, so he talked to the old gentleman.

"Hysteria?"

"She seems to be thinking about something! She didn't go back until the lame boy in the next yard called her!"

"The lame boy went out yesterday?"

"No, I just stood at the gate of the courtyard and shouted, I didn't go out, it's strange to say, I don't know what official position the lame boy holds, it's been four or five days, and I haven't seen him go out!" In Su Kan's insight, those who can live in Wutong Street are all Qingliu families, most of whom work in the palace, and there are people on duty in Hanlin Courtyard in Seventeenth Lane.

"This is not what we should worry about, you go to Honglu Temple, invite Xin Ji over, and say that I have something to do with him!" The old gentleman did not tell Su Kan Li Congjia's true identity, after all, there will be more time to get along in the future, and he will know one day later, and be more restrained one day later.

Su Kan entered the house, stretched out an old umbrella, and under the gaze of the old gentleman, he quickly went to Honglu Temple to invite Xin Ji.

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"But here? Then the Chang'an family lives here?" After a while, there was a sound outside the distant door.

"No, it's the one inside!" Then, seven or eight people walked past the old gentleman's door one after another, and they were rushing towards the family from Chang'an.

The old gentleman sat under the eaves, heard Li Congjia's courtyard door being slammed open by brute force, and heard the sound of fighting in the courtyard next door, but he couldn't help but get up and look at the excitement.

When I went out, I saw that Li Congjia's courtyard door was broken, and the two door panels were removed by brute force, and they fell to the ground at will.

Xiong Er, who had seen a little stupid before, carried two people and squeezed through the door in great strides, the old gentleman gave way, and Xiong Er passed by, and then, "plop" and "plop" twice, the two were thrown into the river.

When the old gentleman entered the courtyard, he saw Li Congjia on crutches, leaning under the eaves, yawning, and going back to the house.

"What's going on? Why did you throw people into the river again? The old gentleman asked.

"Sir, why come to see the excitement again, I don't want to, but someone is in trouble, huh...... Five thugs were hired!"

When he got closer, the old gentleman saw that the five big men either had broken hands or legs, and the five people wailed, so he admired the simple Xiong Er, and in a few breaths, he knocked the five people to the ground, and the force was really high.

"That's not the way, let's report to the official!"

"I can solve it myself, why should I report to the police? Throw them into the river a few more times, and I don't believe they will dare to come?"

"Sir, I'll return the book!" The old gentleman was listening to Li Congjia under the eaves, and then he heard a woman's voice coming from the door of his house, it turned out to be the girl who borrowed the book the day before.

"The door is not closed, you go in, put it under the eaves, don't let the rain get wet!" The old gentleman gave an order, and he was not worried that a strange woman had entered his yard and lost something.

"Who is the gentleman talking to?" Li Congjia under the eaves looked at the old gentleman and didn't know who he was talking to, and asked.

"Yo! The official messenger is here, I advise you to go out and take a look, that big man in your family is not a shrewd person, in case you get entangled with the official messenger, it will be difficult to do!" The old gentleman did not answer Li Congjia's words, but caught a glimpse of an official by the river to inquire about the situation, and kindly reminded Li Congjia.

Li Congjia listened, sighed, took off the umbrella leaning against the corner, and carefully walked on his half-human-high crutches, slowly passed by the men lying in the yard, and followed the old gentleman out of the door.

Seeing that Li Congjia's appearance was very funny, the old gentleman smiled, and he was really a lame boy, and when he came closer, the old gentleman helped Li Congjia slightly, "You are young, your legs and feet are not old!"

In fact, when the old gentleman went out of the house, he also wore a cane, and when he was old, his legs and feet were always a little insufficient, but he was not like Li Congjia, who had to take crutches in these two steps.

Li Congjia heard the old gentleman's joke, but he didn't say anything, just regarded it as an elder's joke, he was now worried that Xiong Er and the official had a conflict, and things would be difficult to handle, so he couldn't help but speed up his steps.

When I came to the front, I found that the official errand was still those people, headed by Zhou Zong, who were on an errand in Ping'an County.

"These two people, hired thugs to come to my house, my family is just self-defense! Throw them into the river just to give them a long memory! Those five thugs are now lying in the courtyard!"

Zhou Zonghu glanced at Li Congjia suspiciously, coughed dryly twice, waved his hand and took a few officials to the courtyard to check.

The old gentleman stood by the river, looking into the river, he was still an acquaintance, it was Jin Qiming who soaked in the river a few days ago, and there was another one, the old gentleman also recognized, it was the second prince of Fujian, and he had several encounters.

"That's the second prince of Fujian, you should be careful!" The old gentleman kindly reminded.

"Sir, save me, save me,......" Obviously, the second prince of Fujian also recognized Mr. Su, who kept fluttering in the river, he was not like Jin Qiming, and he still didn't recognize this ordinary old man as a contemporary Confucian, Mr. Su.

The old gentleman moved slightly, until the second prince in the river saw him, and then stopped.

"Sir won't try to save him, will he?" Li Congjia asked with an umbrella in one hand and crutches in the other.

"Probably not!" The old gentleman gave a not so clear answer, and simply snatched the umbrella in Li Congjia's hand and propped it on his head, "I don't know how to respect the elders at all, don't you look at the old decay in the rain?" ”

"You old man don't take an umbrella by himself, how can you come to rob my young master!" Xiong Er was not happy, and stepped forward to theorize, he was about to snatch the umbrella, but fortunately, Li Congjia raised his hand to stop it, so that the old gentleman was not poisoned by Xiong Er.