Chapter Sixty-Eight: The Law of Peace and Perfection in the World
The words of the second room of the Huo family still have a lot of weight in the eyes of the general commander Wen Mu, and whether to let him go or not is to distinguish between priorities and urgency.
Huang Wanli was sent out for the first time, and led the team to raise the gift to go to the house to make amends, although Huang Wanli was beaten by the ladies and looked miserable, but the large boxes and small boxes of rare supplements are countless are heavy sincerity, and the exchange of medical expenses and nutrition fees for treasure money and silver bills is a real benefit, if he is hacked and killed at will, it can be regarded as helping Ming Jinlou save food.
Before Huang Wanli and his party set off, Xu Wenchang specially told him to go to Xiaolian Village to listen to Cui Tanhua's dispatch at the end, and to fight or kill all of them:
"If you get into trouble yourself, take it yourself, the matter of the spies in the Green Water Camp has nothing to do with Mingjin Building, otherwise if you don't have to do it yourself, I, Xu Wenchang, will be the first to kill you."
Shu Lanxuan's side is atmosphere is more and more solemn, when Ding Guogong Song Yushan finished reading the twists and turns of the imperial history, he slapped his palm on the desk with anger, and the shocking tea spilled out.
"Mingjinlou deserves death, is this under his nose, giving us four old men to play with the lights in the dark?"
"I'm afraid I have to see what Commander Cui says, just a Mingjin Building can't make such a big splash." Ru Yu, a scholar and university scholar, is determined to pull people behind the scenes into the water.
"Ru Shangshu has something to say, the Longyuan River Water Master was set up by Mrs. Huo, according to the old man, let the boss of the Huo family come over and talk about it first." Cui Jing, the head of the household, didn't want to let Hanzhang be at the forefront so quickly, last night's incident Cui Hanzhang had already sent someone to send a letter to Cui Fu before he boarded the ship, and Cui Shangshu pointed out the current predicament of the Longyuan River Sailor, and it would be a sharp weapon if used properly.
"The old man never targets anyone, but the Black Fire Thunder incident involves the safety of the people of Taikang City, and the Longyuan River Sailor wants to make it clear, then the boss of the Huo family is waiting outside the door."
"Then let him come in and tell me what the pestle is outside the door." Cui Shangshu turned his head and ordered the guards around him to pass him in.
"Huo Yunlong has seen the four prisoners." Huo Yunlong was in armor, strode meteors, and saluted after entering.
"The boss of the Huo family, to make a long story short, explain the matter of the Black Fire Thunder and the Mingjin Building clearly, the old man doesn't believe that a mere green building can have so much energy." Ru Yu, a scholar of the Ministry of Officials and a scholar of the university, took a good time and directly urged Huo Yunlong to reply.
"Wait, General Huo is wearing armor and holding a knife, is he preparing to go to the battlefield of the Northern Expedition?" Qin Zheng, the king of Luyang, suddenly interjected.
"Back to the four prisoners, the last general has already ordered all the warships of the Longyuan River Naval Division to be dispatched, and cooperated with Cui Hanzhang, the commander of the ranger army, to block the river and waterways, and eliminate the water thieves within a radius of more than 100 miles, and they can go upriver along the Longyuan River at any time and go straight to the black water." Today's Huo Yunlong is indeed different from usual, this armor is polished, and a murderous aura rushes towards him.
Today's palace is particularly lively, not only Huo Yunlong played a confession with the four ministers of the prison state in Shulan Xuan, but also Jin An Xiao Jing complained to his aunt in Kunyi Palace. Xiao Jing galloped fast overnight, and went straight to Yikun Palace after going ashore, but unfortunately he was catching up with the queen mother to go to the queen mother's palace to ask for peace, and he didn't dare to move around at will during the period, so he had to wait in the side hall of Yikun Palace with a hungry stomach, during which he paced back and forth and thought about how to talk about the matter of Mingjin Building.
"The queen mother's phoenix hairpin today matches her makeup very well, especially these small mountain eyebrows, which are really far away from Daishan, please ask Sister Qingyun to draw one for Lan'er later." In the distance, Princess Yunlan's silver bell-like laughter was heard.
"Shame or not, the girls who have not come out of the pavilion are all painted willow leaf eyebrows and crescent moon eyebrows." Queen Xiao put her finger on her daughter's forehead and teased her.
"Aunt Wan An, nephew Xiao Jing is here to greet you." After Xiao Jing heard the footsteps, he quickly walked out of the side hall, greeted him directly, and kowtowed to the porch in front of the hall to bow and salute.
"It's Jing'er, hurry up and feel free to go to my aunt's place." Queen Xiao smiled with a smile on her face.
"I've seen Sister Yunlan." Xiao Jing got up and saluted Princess Yunlan again.
"Royal Ouchi, cousin still has to be polite and restrained, and he should be called the queen mother and Princess Yunlan." Yun Lan pursed her mouth, she couldn't look down on this Jin'an's sycophant since she was a child, and she came to the palace to coax the queen mother to turn around, and her flamboyant tongue pretended to be like a little sheep, but in fact she was a big bad wolf with a bad stomach.
"Yun Lan can't be rude, talk to your cousin well."
"No, Lan'er didn't say anything wrong, my father pays the most attention to etiquette, and he has taught all the royal brothers and Lan'er since he was a child, and there are no rules." Yun Lan didn't want to pay attention to Xiao Jing at all, so she grabbed Queen Xiao's arm and coquettishly.
"Sister Yunlan is right, Chen Xiaojing has seen the queen mother and Princess Yunlan." Xiao Jing smiled and saw the salute again.
"You two, you've been making trouble since you were a child, and now you're both adults, and you're still so restless." Empress Xiao smiled and patted Yun Lan.
"Jing'er, don't stand, eat with the palace, the Longyou osmanthus cake just made by the imperial chef."
"My aunt is the best for Jing'er, and her stomach has finally settled after being hungry for a long time." Xiao Jing followed behind Yun Lan, and when he heard what Queen Xiao said, he climbed up along the pole.
Hearing him speak like this, Princess Yunlan still couldn't help but turn around and stick out her tongue at him to vomit, she has been a rival since she was a child, and she can't get along when she grows up.
The sky is getting late, the clouds are full of clouds, and the afterglow of the sunset has put on a golden coat on Taikang City, Cui Hanzhang has only seen such a sunset on the northern grassland.
Before he could quietly enjoy the sunset, Xiaolianzhuang received a decree and a warrant, both from the palace, one from Yikun Palace, and one from Shulanxuan.
"It's really enviable, jealous and hateful, the love for you in the palace makes me, a first-class Lingwu Marquis, bow down." Bai Yanqiu coincidentally appeared on the trestle bridge of Xiaolianzhuang again.
"Ming Jinlou should break your leg, and you won't be able to live for a while."
"Treber
Quickly find someone to show our eldest marquis. ”
Bai Yanqiu waved his hand to signal Cui Bo to leave him alone, and he limped across the trestle bridge, climbed the second floor of Xiaolianzhuang, picked up a horse at will, and sat down side by side with Cui Hanzhang.
"It's as if you're better than Ben Hou, Ben Hou will suffer some flesh and skin at most, and you will continue to suffer from soul torture."
"According to me, splitting you into two is the double full method, so that you can go to Yikun Palace to reply while going to Shulanxuan to make an errand."
"What did Master Hou say? Now I, Cui Hanzhang, am alone, with no obstacles and no fear. Cui Hanzhang interrupted him and clasped his hands on his shoulders.
"Don't be stubborn, where are you going to talk first? You can't afford to offend either side. ”
"Cui is loyal to something, and everything must be said to others. The Hou Ye was also present that night in Mingjinlou, so you will go back to the four prisoners first, and Cui will go to Yikun Palace to return to the queen's questioning. Cui Hanzhang's tone is high, but the second half of the sentence is a little shameless, and Bai Yanqiu wants to beat people.
"If you want to borrow the Yikun Palace, you can visit Yun Lan and say, brother, I will not hesitate to go up the sword mountain and go down the sea of fire for your lifelong happiness." Bai Yanqiu rubbed him on the shoulder and said with a wicked smile.
"As long as you have a lot of flowers, someone is wearing small shoes for the two of us in Yikun Palace, the impression is gone, you have to take some dry goods out, right?" Cui Hanzhang didn't bother to pay attention to him, Princess Yunlan was in some trouble in Yikun Palace.
"You're talking about an old enemy, Xiao Jing's grandson has a set of intrigues and tricks, and Ben Hou estimates that he won't meet you."
"It's not that enemies don't get together, what should come will come after all."
"Let's go, if it's slow, I'm going to be deducted for a big crime of disrespect, Shulanxuan can drag it out, if you can't drag it all on me, anyway, if there are more lice, I'm not afraid of biting." Cui Hanzhang was not melancholy, got up and exhaled.
"I specially brought a hundred-year-old mountain ginseng to make up for Brother Xuan, if he didn't set the fire, Ben Hou would have to plant it." Bai Yanqiu mentioned the purpose of this trip, and asked the personal guard to put down his things and leave.
Cui Hanzhang asked Kun Baichuan for a waist card before entering the palace, and now he is holding a waist card, and the former Jin Yuwei and the twelve internal affairs supervisors have to obey the dispatch, but they were stopped outside the Yikun Palace, and the person who came was Princess Yunlan's personal maidservant.
"Miss Ziqing, what do you have to say?" Cui Hanzhang walked out of the sedan chair and stepped forward to salute.
"The slave doesn't dare to instruct Tanhualang, please take a step to speak." Ziqing was wearing a pink embroidered Luo shirt and a pearl white lake crepe skirt, and after making a blessing ceremony slightly sideways, she moved the lotus step to the root of the palace wall next to her.
The princess asked the maidservant to pass the word: "The queen mother is very angry, be careful of Xiao Jing." Ziqing stood on tiptoe, put it on Cui Hanzhang's ear, whispered such a sentence, and left quickly.
Looking at the Ziqing girl who was like a touch of sunset drifting away, Cui Hanzhang's psychology couldn't hold back a wave of anger rising,
People don't hurt the tiger, the tiger is harmful to people's hearts, this Yikun Palace is really not easy to enter.
"Minister Cui Hanzhang to the queen mother to say goodbye, the queen mother is a thousand years old." Cui Hanzhang was guided into the main hall by the internal affairs eunuch, and the two rows of maids saw the queen Xiao wearing a phoenix crown, wearing an embroidered peony Bixia Luo jacket, and a pink narcissus scattered flower skirt that dragged the floor.
"Get up." Empress Xiao said expressionlessly.
"Cui Hanzhang, I heard that you got drunk again last night?"
"Previously, the Holy Lord punished you for thinking about Shulanxuan, but I never thought that you were unrepentant, but instead intensified and committed murder while drunk." As soon as Queen Xiao's phoenix mouth opened, she reprimanded sharply.
"Weichen doesn't know what the queen mother is referring to, and she hasn't been drunk in recent times."
"Bold! Prick up your ears and listen to the queen's words, and dare to talk back? The internal eunuch next to him waved the Buddha dust in his hand, pointed at Cui Hanzhang with his finger, and interrupted him with a sharp voice.
The voice of the male duck of the internal eunuch echoed in the main hall of Yikun Palace, and the maidservants in both rows did not dare to breathe.
"The Holy Lord and the main palace have high expectations for you, and now that the safety inside and outside the imperial city is entrusted to you, are you just doing things by drinking?" When Empress Xiao said this, the phoenix crown on her head shook slightly, and it could be seen that she was moving.
"Weichen knows his mistake, but there is a reason for it, and he asks the queen to be tolerant." Cui Hanzhang hurriedly knelt down and bowed to the ground with his head.
"Okay, I'll hear you say you're ugly." Empress Xiao changed her posture and picked up the wine glass on the table and drank it slowly.
"Weichen went with Lingwu Hou to visit the black fire thunder lost in the arsenal of the military department, and he couldn't help but startle the snake, so he used the Mingjinlou wine banquet as a trick to secretly send people to find clues." Cui Hanzhang lay on the ground and replied with his head down.
"And Lingwu Hou? Don't you say that the palace has forgotten, usually he doesn't have a proper line, and he regards the prodigal wreckage as a chic and graceful manner, is this the reason why you smashed the Mingjin Building? ”
"Fulai, you go and send a decree to invite the Marquis of Lingwu, the palace wants to listen to what Bai Yanqiu has to say, Cui Hanzhang, you continue."
"The slave obeys." The internal eunuch Fu Lai lowered his waist deeply and slowly withdrew.
Cui Hanzhang then recounted when to go upstairs, the banquet in the hall, and the competition between the two sides, and finally recounted the whole process of the black fire and thunder explosion in the Longyuan River.
"Get up and talk, don't keep kneeling." Empress Xiao's face softened slightly, and then asked him to get up and reply.
"Drink the wine, right?"
"Something was smashed, right?"
"Now that the bitter master has come to the palace, what do you say should I do?" Empress Xiao raised her eyebrows
Pick, sink your face again.
"Weichen also wanted to visit the Black Fire Thunder, and he was forced to protect himself because of the critical situation at that time, and Lingwu Hou can also testify to this."
"Then did you find the Black Fire Thunder on the Mingjin Tower, or did you catch the spy of the Beihu Green Water Battalion?" Empress Xiao heard him excuse himself to investigate the black fire thunder, so she asked again.
"You men, drinking flower wine, playing dice, flirting with girls, and your temper is a smash, Cui Hanzhang, you are a dignified and holy Tanhualang, a Sven scholar, how can you also do such a thing, do you know that more than one bitter master is now suing the palace, how do you let the palace protect you?" The more Empress Xiao spoke, the more angry she became, she directly threw the wine glass in her hand out, and the bronze gilt wine glass rolled out on the ground of the main hall for a long time, and finally stopped at Cui Hanzhang's feet........
Cui Hanzhang understood that he must have been sued by the wicked first, the queen mother must have been deceived, the so-called catching thieves and catching stolen goods, although he took Zhuo Siniang, but the matter has not been investigated clearly, and the spies of the Green Water Camp have not been caught, I am afraid that it is not clear here at this moment.
"Wechen is guilty, please be considerate of Wechen's loyalty, for the sake of the safety of the people of Taikang, things are in a hurry, but Wechen has no malice to smash Mingjin Building." This matter will not be clear for a while, and if you can't produce ironclad evidence, I'm afraid that you will be bitten back. Mingjin Lou is really not easy to mess with, but now it seems that his hands and eyes are up to the sky, and he directly sued the palace.
"Weichen has an agreement with Mingjinlou, and this matter has been turned over." Cui Hanzhang's face was embarrassed, and his mind was racing rapidly, thinking about how to phrase him back, and thinking about how to get out.
It is said that at this time, there was a thrilling conversation in Shulan Xuan, and Bai Yanqiu used his three-inch tongue to say the Mingjin Mansion Feast Battle vigorously, and the four ministers of the prison were even more stunned.
"Lingwu Hou, how did you know that the Black Fire Thunder was hidden in the Mingjin Tower?" Qin Zheng, the king of Luyang, asked sharply.
"Ben Hou and Commander Cui found the Mingjin Building along the line of the Qingshui Cabinet Fang, and in the end, the black fire and thunder exploded on the river two or three miles near the Mingjin Building, if it weren't for the thief's heart, why would the Mingjin Building obstruct us from handling the case." Bai Yanqiu did not answer King Luyang's words directly, but his speculation was reasonable.
"Before boarding the building, Commander Cui had already notified the Longyuan River Naval Division to cooperate, at that time, the entire water area within 100 miles of the upstream and downstream of Taikang City had been blocked and passed, and the general commanded Wen Mu to lead three warships to follow Mingjinlou from afar, once Mingjinlou left Dongyunmen Wharf, no one could board the ship halfway, and could only abscond from the ship." Bai Yanqiu mentioned the Longyuan River Sailor in passing at this time.
"What Marquis Bai said is true, that night the sailor was cooperating with the rangers, Commander Cui and Marquis Bai's action, and the sailor brothers saw with their own eyes that the black fire thunder was detonated by a rocket on the Mingjin Tower, and General Wen even sent Zhang Cangshui Barracks to salvage two stumps and broken arms underwater, although it could not be restored to the original shape, but after inspection, the thick joints did not look like people from the Central Plains." General Huo Yunlong followed Bai Yanqiu's words and continued to state the situation that night.
"Then the Longyuan River Sailor also suspects that the Black Fire Thunder is the thief of the Ming Golden Tower?" Ding Guogong asked him.
"The sailor is only speculating based on the available evidence, and Commander Cui has already mastered important clues such as a cadre of criminals in the Qingshui Cabinet Fang, when General Wen Mu boarded the ship, he did see Ming Jinlou besieging Commander Cui and Marquis Bai, and Wen Mu also heard with his own ears that Ming Jinlou promised to provide the spy stronghold of the Green Water Battalion lurking in Taikang City in exchange for a truce between the two sides."
"What did General Huo say? Mingjin Lou promised to provide a spy base for the Green Water Battalion? Cui Jing, the head of the household department, immediately grabbed the key information.
"There are no three hundred taels of silver here." Ru Yu, a scholar and university scholar, said leisurely.
"Where are the gangsters in the Clear Water Cabinet Workshop now?"
"Have you found the Green Water Camp spy stronghold now?" The four ministers of the prison state are all old and serious people, and they can't sit still at this time, chasing one question after another.
"Ben Hou can't answer this information for the time being, and the only person who can answer is Commander Cui, but it's a pity that he was called to Yikun Palace by the queen mother for questioning." Bai Yanqiu thought at this time that Cui Hanzhang had not shown up for so long, and he must have been in trouble, so he had a plan to let the four ministers of the prison state come forward.
The four of them are all cunning and cunning, and when they heard the queen of Yikun Palace, they all stopped drinking tea. They have eaten more salt than Bai Yanqiu has walked, and it is not unpleasant to find it at this time.
"When Benhou entered the palace, I heard that Xiao Jing, the eldest young master of the Xiao family in Jin'an Mansion, had already entered the palace in advance, and it should be in Yikun Palace at this time, and Commander Cui seems to be very lucky." Bai Yanqiu's eyes rolled, and he released a message again, if these four old things were not stimulated, I am afraid they would not end up in person.
It's a pity that he didn't wait for the four ministers of the prison state to agree to the end of the dignitaries, and he heard the internal eunuch Fu Lai read out the decree of the Yikun Palace:
"On the orders of the queen's mother, Xuanling Wuhou Baiyan entered Yikun Palace in autumn to reply." After the internal eunuch Fu Gonggong read the edict, he crossed his hands and put them on his abdomen.
"How many, are you there?"
The minister of supervision and other officials all nodded to the internal eunuch.
"Let's go, Lingwu Hou, don't let the queen wait for a long time."
"Ben Hou is discussing important matters with the four ministers of the prison state at this time, don't you know?" Of course, Lingwu Marquis Bai Yanqiu didn't want to go to Yikun Palace, he knew that when he got there, he couldn't tell clearly.
"Master Hou will go to Yikun Palace to reply first, don't let the queen wait for a long time." King Luyang and the others all smiled and asked him to go first.
Lingwu Hou Bai Yanqiu had no choice but to drink the tea on the table in one gulp, so he could only get up and follow the internal eunuch Fu to Yikun Palace, stepping out of the threshold of Shulanxuan, he looked up at the sky, and unconsciously the night was coming.