Chapter 807: Crisis
The carriage slowly turned from the top of the royal street into the alley to Zhao Ruyu's mansion, and continued straight forward as if it were a carriage following behind, and finally stopped in front of a tea shop in Dawazi.
Bai Chun slowly walked down from the carriage, Zhong Qing on the second floor said hello to Bai Chun who was looking up, and then one went down from the second floor, and the other walked inside.
Even now, Li Fengniang doesn't like Zhong Qing very much, and after Bai Chun arrived in Lin'an before the first day, basically every time he enters the palace, he chooses Bai Chun.
"Look at this." Zhong Qing, who walked downstairs, first handed Bai Chun a secret letter with an umbrella, and then went to the second floor with Bai Chun again.
Looking at Zhong Qing who was pouring tea, Bai Chun put down the letter in his hand and sighed helplessly: "Han Cheng's goal has been achieved, alas...... I...... I still can't help you ....... ”
"Drink some tea first, after a day's journey, I guess you won't like to drink tea in the palace." Zhong Qing interrupted Bai Chun's words and said with a smile.
The expression is tranquil, the temperament is gentle, elegant and exquisite, and it has always been perfectly combined with Zhong Qing's body, but the more this is the case, the more Bai Chun, who has just come out of the palace, feels difficult to let go of in his heart.
"I thought it was ......." Bai Chun tried to explain.
And Zhong Qing was the first time, put her hand on Bai Chun's arm holding the teacup, shook her head silently with a smile, looked at Bai Chun quietly, and thought for a while before saying with an extremely sincere attitude: "Believe me, I am not disappointed, but I am very relaxed now." ”
Bai Chun slowly withdrew her hand and shook her head, but compared to the relaxed and natural smile on Zhong Qing's face, her already indifferent and unworldly smile was a little more bitter at this time.
"You know why I'm here, I'm really disappointed." Bai Chun sighed and looked out of the gloomy window.
Zhong Qing continued to smile indifferently, looked at the melancholy Bai Chun, and said lightly: "Actually...... In fact, I never thought that I would be able to successfully achieve my goal in such a short period of time. Everything went so smoothly, everything was so simple, it was unbelievable. Especially when the letter of rehabilitation for King Xin appeared in the court, I almost thought that everything would soon be settled, and the revenge of the Zhong family would soon be avenged. ”
"Zhong Qing, I'm sorry ......." Bai Chun turned his head and looked at Zhong Qing and said with some guilt.
Zhong Qing grabbed Bai Chun's hand again and shook her head silently, indicating that she understood.
There is good news from Yangzhou almost every day, and Ye Qing has almost forced Zhao Ruyu to his death, giving Han Cheng, Shi Miyuan and others the best chance to fall into the ground, but everything fell short because of the attitude of the emperor.
I thought that with the words of the Emperor Taishang, then everything would be difficult to change, but obviously, everyone underestimated the contradiction between the current Emperor and the current Emperor, so no one thought that when the Emperor Taishang also wanted to rehabilitate King Xin, such a position did not play a role at all, but caused the rebellious psychology of today's Shengshang, and he actually suppressed this matter by force.
Li Fengniang put aside Bai Chun and rushed to the Vertical Arch Palace, only to see Zhao Ruyu with red eyes, kneeling three times and bowing nine times to the Holy Lord, and then walked out of the Vertical Arch Hall with a sad face.
As for what happened on Huainan East Road, the attitude of the saint is also very direct, and the mess will be handed over to the pacification envoy of Huainan East Road to deal with, since Liu Dexiu is dead, then it is time to close the coffin, and everything will be over.
"If I had gone to the palace earlier, or later at that time, maybe the queen would not have been delayed in the vertical arch hall because of me, and the Holy Lord's decision on this time would not have been delayed." Bai Chun said with some self-reproach.
Zhong Qing still shook her head and said with a smile: "Silly girl, this has nothing to do with you, it's a matter between the Holy Lord and the Emperor, in fact, it's ......." Zhong Qing's tone said with a hint of regret: "If I could think more and be more thoughtful, maybe the result would be different." At the beginning, I was too anxious, and I shouldn't have been too sad in front of the Queen Mother and the Queen Mother. If I can be more thoughtful, at least I don't let the Emperor Taishang speak out in the Lonely Mountain, maybe I can make the Holy Lord change his mind. To put it bluntly, I missed the best opportunity myself. ”
Through today's events, Zhong Qing can see that the Emperor Taishang belongs to the kind of person who has not achieved enough things and has more than enough failures, although it is a bit rebellious to say this, but in this matter, the original supportive attitude of the Emperor Taishang has played a counterproductive role in the saint.
Because of her desire for revenge, she forgot the contradiction between the Holy Emperor and the Emperor, and forgot that as long as the Emperor agreed, the Holy Emperor would definitely oppose it.
I also forgot that court politicians have always liked to keep one hand to protect themselves, and then use people who do not pose a threat to themselves to deal with their enemies above the court.
Ye Qing chose this method at the beginning, using Zhao Ruyu to fight Han Cheng, thus causing their alliance to be disintegrated from within.
And Han Cheng, an old minister who has been immersed in the court for many years, in the end, how can he not understand who single-handedly created the chaos in the court after the Yuan Dynasty? Although I couldn't understand it at first, when Zhao Ruyu returned to Lin'an and began to negotiate with the saint in the palace, then everything was actually not a secret.
Things seem complicated, but if you think about it carefully, once you put your eyes on Yangzhou, then everything will become extremely clear and clear, and you can see at a glance that all of this is completely the ghost of Ye Qing who returned to Yangzhou, and it looks more like warning those opponents above the court: Even if I, Ye Qing, leave Lin'an, I can still make the court smoke and miasma, so in these days when I, Ye Qing, am not in Lin'an, it is best not to mess around behind my back.
Therefore, Han Cheng did not kill Zhao Ruyu, but gave Zhao Ruyu to Ye Qing again, just like Ye Qing used Zhao Ruyu, and now, it is also the time when Han Cheng began to use Zhao Ruyu to deal with Ye Qing. So if I'm worried, what I'm most worried about is how Zhao Ruyu will design to deal with Ye Qing next. Zhong Qing frowned, compared to the open-mindedness just now, at this moment, his expression was solemn and worried.
"Why didn't Han Cheng take advantage of this great opportunity to eradicate Zhao Ruyu who wanted to deal with him?" Bai Chun asked with some confusion.
She understands the matter of the umbrella better than Zhong Qing, but when it comes to the sinister and deceitful people in the court's political affairs, she is not as thorough as Zhong Qing.
"It's the same as what you said when you just came in, Han Cheng's goal has been achieved, so there is no need for him to kill Zhao Ruyu, it is more beneficial for him to keep it to deal with Ye Qing." Zhong Qing said with a smile: "So you need to tell Ye Qing as soon as possible about the changes on Lin'an's side." ”
"Han Cheng has achieved the goal of dominating the court, and now Zhao Ruyu is no longer enough to pose a threat to him, leaving him to continue to sit in the position of the right minister, can he become a containment and opponent for Ye Qing in the future?" Bai Chun nodded silently and asked.
"Yes, that's what it means. Now that Zhao Ruyu is no longer able to pose a threat to Han Cheng above the court, Liu Dexiu's death has already made Zhao Ruyu unable to raise his head in front of Han Cheng, after all, it was Zhao Ruyu who took the lead in tearing his face with Han Cheng, where does he still have the face to fight with Han Cheng again at this time? And Zhao Ruyu was able to endure back then, and now he will definitely not admit defeat easily, he will definitely sort out where he lost and who framed him, and then try to make a comeback. Zhong Qing said in the end, and the worry between her expressions became more and more intense.
She found that this matter was completely due to her own negligence, not only failed to grasp the good situation left by Ye Qing and let her take revenge with her own hands, but put Ye Qing in danger.
"No, I'm going to write a letter to Ye Qing in person." Zhong Qing thought of Ye Qing, who was thousands of miles away and didn't know it, once something unexpected happened because of Zhao Ruyu's revenge, he became confused.
"So what can we do now?" Bai Chun looked at Zhong Qing, who was anxiously looking for pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, and only after asking did he begin to focus on the envelope in his hand. Looking at the envelope that no one had touched, he continued, "Didn't you open it? ”
"I didn't, I saw that it was written on it, so I waited for you to come back and hand it over to you to open." Zhong Qing found a pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, and was about to start writing a letter to Ye Qing.
Looking at Bai Chun on the other side slowly opening the envelope, Zhong Qing also began to bow his head and prepare how to write a letter to Ye Qing, but there was no reaction on the other side, and there was even a somewhat dead atmosphere, which made Zhong Qing, who was thinking about it, couldn't help but set his eyes on Bai Chun.
I saw Bai Chun's face, I don't know when it had turned pale, and the hand holding the letter no longer knew whether it was because of anger or other distance, it was trembling extremely much.
"What's wrong?" Zhong Qing asked subconsciously, and her heart involuntarily tightened.
"The military department is still in Yangzhou." Bai Chun frowned and muttered, "And he has returned to Lin'an." ”
The brush in Zhong Qing's hand clicked, fell on the snow-white paper, opened his mouth, and asked a little dryly, "Hair...... Did you find anything? ”
"King Qing's concubine, under the bewitchment of Chongguo Gong, made it extremely grand, and ...... Xi'er's story has spread all over Yangzhou, and the story of the sparrow turning into a phoenix is not only liked by the people of Lin'an. Xiao Zhen temporarily placed the three Liu brothers in the officialdom of Huainan East Road, and this matter has been known to Liuzheng ....... Bai Chun's eyes became colder and colder, and even a trace of killing intent began to faintly appear.
As for what Bai Chun said later, Zhong Qing couldn't hear it at all, through these words, she had already reached despair, the people above the court were all human spirits, through this incident, it must be possible to find out that the mastermind behind this matter about Liu Dexiu and Zhao Ruyu was Ye Qing.
In this way, because of one of his own negligence, it is very likely to cause a great crisis to Ye Qing on Huainan East Road and Lin'an Chaotang.