Chapter Seventy-Three: Be Prepared
"The emperor has arrived!" With the shrill voice of the eunuch, Murong Che waved a fan under the protection of Father-in-law An and came leisurely.
"See the Emperor." Whether it was the guards of the Prime Minister's Mansion or the people, they all knelt down and saluted.
Murong Che raised his hand and asked them all to get up.
"Your Majesty."
Murong Che pretended to be puzzled, glanced back, and raised his eyebrows to look back: "So many people are making trouble at the gate of the Prime Minister's Mansion, I'm afraid there is really something." It's good that I can watch a good show when I leave the palace in this micro-service. ”
When An Zhining heard that Murong Che was coming, he hurriedly put down the teacup and came to salute.
After Murong Che asked him to get up, he stepped aside and made a gesture of invitation: "Your Majesty, please come to the palace." ”
Murong Che took the fan and waved his hand: "No need, it's just that outside the Prime Minister's Mansion, it's extremely lively, doesn't Aiqing explain?" ”
An Zhining changed his posture and arched his hand: "It's just that there are some rumors in the market that are unfavorable to Wechen, Wechen doesn't care about it, and he doesn't plan to deal with it." ”
"How is it a rumor?" In the crowd, the old man who came forward yesterday appeared with a cane, and he had two pieces of silver in his hands.
One piece is unsmelted silver for the imperial court, and the other is smelted silver that circulates in the city.
An Zhining looked sideways.
The old man handed over the silver to Grandpa An, and after checking it, Grandpa An handed it to Murong Che.
Immediately, the old man knelt down and explained to Murong Che: "The silver used by the imperial court is only used for disaster relief or infrastructure construction, and each item is recorded in detail and will not be circulated in the market at all, while the other piece is ordinary silver, which is smelted and circulated after the prime minister's embezzlement. ”
"Hehe, it's just two different pieces of silver, how can it prove that I am corrupt?" An Zhining flicked his sleeves indifferently.
"I, I can prove it!" Another person in the crowd stepped forward, and this person was none other than Huang Ning.
He came over and knelt down.
"Yesterday, the grass people wanted to intercept the carriage from the prime minister's mansion, but who had thought that they couldn't beat the other side, so they chose to run away in desperation, and then the grass people thought about it left left and right, and felt that it was wrong, so they secretly followed the mark left by the carriage, and finally found the place where the silver was smelted. In the deep mountains, it is very difficult to find, and these two pieces of silver were found by the grass people and handed over to the old man. Huang Ning made up a paragraph and deliberately came out.
And these are all negotiated.
In fact, there is no need to be too cautious about excuses and designs, this is the truth.
Their purpose is to be An Zhining, the place where silver is smelted, but they can't escape from it!
Moreover, there is no big difference between yesterday and today.
An Zhining knelt down: "Weichen is wronged!" ”
Murong Che lowered his eyes and looked at the silver that were different in shape and size between the two ingots, and looked at it leisurely: "Prime Minister An, I know a lot of rumors in the market, I originally thought that you were just greedy for ink, but I never thought that you actually have a smelter." ”
"Wechen didn't." An Zhining refused to admit it.
Murong Che smiled lightly: "Now, if there is one, you just need to go and see." ”
"You, lead the way." Murong Che pointed at An Zhining.
"Wait."
An Zhining stood up and stopped in front of Murong Che.
Murong Che's smile deepened, but it was as cold as ice, which made people daunting: "Prime Minister An, what else do you want to say?" ”
An Zhining took a step back and knelt down: "Weichen doesn't mean anything else, it's just that in the deep mountains, there are too many uncertain situations, and the emperor's dragon body is important." ”
This is refusal, not wanting him to go.
Murong Che raised his eyebrows and smiled sympathetically: "An Zhining, An Zhining, this court and harem belong to the imperial court, and now you are blocking me in front of me, are you obstructing me?" ”
"Wechen doesn't dare." An Zhining knelt down again.
"If you don't dare, then let people lead the way! Greedy for official silver, is to ignore the people! I don't want to be in my pocket! This is Murong Che's attitude.
An Zhining chuckled in his heart, and his face changed faintly.
It seems that this time it is the emperor's conspiracy.
His smelting nest is deep in the mountains, and it was very dangerous in the past, if the emperor is determined to go, he can ......
Thinking of this, An Zhining relieved himself.
On the surface, he was embarrassed: "That Weichen will obey his fate." ”
They were accompanied by only a dozen people.
Huang Ning walked in front, protecting Murong Che behind him, and the more he walked into the mountains, the more cautious Huang Ning became.
In this deep mountain, there is only a rugged path, only the width of the carriage, and a small stream next to it, occasionally flowing with fishy water, and the surrounding mountains are all unfathomable, and there is a faint whisper from the mountain, like the threat of a fierce beast, and like the salivation of a vicious dog.
However, before he had gone far, the road ahead was blocked by fierce beasts, and the rear was even more hungry wolves.
They have entered the land of two dilemmas.
Huang Ning looked embarrassed: "The road I took before was not like this. ”
Murong Che's face remained unchanged, and he calmly looked at An Zhining, who was still in the list.
An Zhining chuckled proudly: "Wei Chen never thought that this was the emperor's plan, and in the face of the emperor's plan, Wei Chen couldn't be alone, so he could only take this road." The former beast, the hungry wolf, the emperor, you can only die here. ”
Death, An Zhining said extremely seriously.
Murong Che snorted disdainfully, raised his eyebrows, and said, "Do you really think that just a few people are really going to a desperate situation if they follow you?" ”
When he left the palace this time, he must have thought that An Zhining would fight back, so he was ready.
"Oh?" An Zhining stretched out his hands, he didn't think that the emperor's ability had reached the point of reaching the sky.
"These people, maybe they want someone else's life, but I ......" Murong Che's dark eyes gradually sharpened, and after sweeping around, he actually took out two medicine bottles from his arms and opened them together, and the white powder spread with a pungent breath.
"Ahem." Everyone choked.
An Zhining felt that his eyes were so uncomfortable that he couldn't open them.
"What kind of powder is this, why is it so powerful!"
"It's seven cordyceps poison! This powder is not only good for people, but also for beasts! Murong Che stood in the white smoke, but his sharp eyes were like a sword, which could penetrate through the heavy and reach everyone's hearts.
An Zhining kept coughing, and the suppressed discomfort became more and more serious, and he fainted suddenly.
Murong Che took another bottle out of his arms and handed it to Huang Ning: "Go, save them." ”
At this time, the beasts and hungry wolves not far away all fell, and the obstacles on the way forward were cleared.
"Yes." Huang Ning took the antidote and did it quickly.
In a moment, everyone woke up.
At this time, An Zhining was escorted by Huang Ning and walked beside Murong Che.
Half an hour further on, the smelter was discovered.
The smelter was an open lot, which had been emptied, but the traces of the furnace and ruts were clearly visible, and there were white marks on the ground.
Huang Ning got some powder and rubbed it in his hand: "Your Majesty, it's silver powder." ”
Murong Che bowed his head and pointed ahead: "Let's go again." ”
Huang Ning was unwilling, and reached out to push An Zhining, and An Zhining immediately fell to the ground: "Say, where did you move the smelter!" ”
A questioning tone.
An Zhining smiled and smiled leisurely: "The emperor wants to know, just go and investigate it yourself, Weichen doesn't know." ”