(Ask for collection and recommendation)

Lou Wen wrote three times to return the handsome seal, but the court refused three times, and sent the chamberlain to visit the general, proclaim comfort, and ask the general to reluctantly eat and serve the country.

This is the end of the temptation of you to come and go, Lou Wen is grateful to the tears-really "tears", and sheds many tears in front of the inner servants - drank the medicinal soup sent by the inner palace on the spot, walked to the bed and put on the armor, and announced that he would die for His Majesty.

In case of any event, the "sick" general asked the court to send a prison army, this time there was no modesty, the court immediately agreed, and after a brief discussion with the ministers, the emperor assigned the crown prince to supervise the army, claiming that "I entrust my son to the general, and I have no regrets."

Lou Wen was supposed to resume his position as commander of the Western Expedition on the fifth day of the ninth month - the official name was the Governor of the Western Province, and he was also the Governor of Qin and Erzhou, and the Governor of the Metropolitan was in charge of the army, and the Assassin Shi could levy grain and levy goods - he officially handed over the responsibility of the Su guard to the King of Jibei, who had just entered Beijing, on the evening of the fourth day of the ninth month, and immediately pretended to leave the city, stayed in the military camp overnight, and lived with several of his most trusted children, grandchildren, and generals, and planned to retrieve the seal from Cao Shenxi, the Duke of Xiao State, early the next morning.

At the same moment when Lou Wen left the city, Lou Qiang, who did not trust the emperor's conspiracy, personally took Lou Ji to the inner palace to "ask for guilt", claiming that there were rumors outside, and the Lou family was willing to confront the assassin and return his innocence.

Of course, the two of them could not enter the inner palace, so Lou wrote a sealed letter, stuffed it through the small hole in the palace door, and begged the familiar chamberlain to let the emperor see it as soon as possible, and then knelt outside the palace gate and waited, which was the regular practice of the close ministers to ask for guilt.

Although it was early autumn, the night breeze was already cool and refreshing, and Lou was hard and fat, but he was still shivering with cold, and complained: "You are too careless, you are really careless...... Why aren't you scared at all? ”

Lou Ji was indeed not afraid, and smiled, "Your Majesty's eyes are like torches, and you must have already seen that I was slandered, so I naturally have nothing to fear if I didn't make an assassin's confession public." ”

"Hey, guess Your Majesty's thoughts, you're humiliating yourself. You must think that you have the protection of the general and the love of your father-in-law, King Jibei, so Your Majesty can spare your life, tell you, don't think about it, Your Majesty will never ......" Lou Stiff shuddered again, and didn't dare to continue, for fear of affecting himself.

An hour later, the emperor's dictation came from the palace: "If it is a rumor, what should it do?" Go back to bed, and be in the park tomorrow. ”

The two brothers kowtowed to thanksgiving, but could not receive the order, the general had given a death order before leaving, and tonight was to confront the assassin anyway and make it clear.

The chamberlain passed the message through the door for the third time: "Lou hard, Lou foundation, Your Majesty said, 'These brothers are really dead-eyed, worthy of being the Shi children and grandchildren of the Lou family, immediately roll to Zishi Garden, and then dare to resist the order, and the guards will fight with sticks'." ”

Lou hard overjoyed, dragging a piece of kowtow at the base of the building to thank you.

The two brothers knelt at the palace gate, and there were eunuchs watching from afar, so they took them to the nearby Zishi Garden, and on the way, Lou Qiang whispered: "Your Majesty said 'get out', then you may be fine." ”

"Assassins can't fool Your Majesty."

"Of course, no one in the world can fool Your Majesty." Lou Hard is both fearful and respectful of the emperor, like a domestic dog that has been tamed since childhood.

At night, the garden was more empty than during the day, and the two were sent into the horse viewing hall, which had no walls on three sides except for the gable behind it, and the emperor would occasionally sit here to rest and watch others ride horses and dance.

At least one real lance was placed in the nearby small arsenal, guarded by eunuchs, and the foundation of the building could only be glimpsed.

Half an hour later, someone entered the garden, and Lou Qiang was about to shout "Long live", and found that it was not the emperor, but Zhang Shiyu, the prince of Jibei.

"Why are you here?" The building is very unexpected.

The two of them have been on standby in the garden all the year round and are familiar with each other, Zhang Shiyu asked the attendants to stay outside, walked into the hall by himself, yawned, and said, "Come by order, Your Majesty has something urgent." ”

"I mean, how can you enter the Imperial City at night?" Lou Hard is very concerned about the signs of anyone being unexpectedly favored.

Zhang Shiyu arched his hand to the foundation of the building and said with a smile: "I forgot that my father just took over the guard, and asked me to accompany him to live in the imperial city, not far from your residence." ”

Lou Hard laughed at this time, "I see." Remembering that he was still "waiting for sin", he immediately changed his serious expression, "Your Majesty wants you to come over, probably ......"

No longer guessing, the gate of the garden was wide open, and a group of knights galloped in and stopped in front of the hall.

The three of them hurriedly went out, the rules in the garden, the courtiers did not have to kneel, and the three of them bowed down to greet them.

The emperor rode on his horse and said coldly: "What is the crime of disturbing my dreams at night, what is the crime of the hard fat man?" ”

"It deserves to be a capital offense." As soon as Lou Hard heard the emperor call him by his nickname, his heart became more steady, "But the rumors are really unbearable, the ministers listen to them in their ears, and they are anxious in their hearts, so they don't dare to be a little slack, so they immediately come to ask Your Majesty for their guilt." ”

"If it is a false rumor, what is the guilt?"

"The whole family has a pure heart, and there is no room for the slightest flaw."

"Hey." The emperor sneered and turned to the foundation of the building, "The rumors are related to you, why don't you speak?" ”

"Weichen thought that His Majesty knew it, so he didn't say anything."

"Haha." "That's right, the Assassin did confess that he had visited Lou Ji and discussed with him the assassination plan. ”

Lou was shocked, and pulled his younger brother to kneel, but the emperor waved his hand to stop him, "But I don't believe it, do you know why?" ”

Zhang Shiyu stood aside vigilantly, not nodding or shaking his head, and maintaining a posture of staying out of the matter.

"Your Majesty knows that the Lou family is loyal, and there will never be the slightest evil thought." Lou hard back.

The emperor looked at Lou Ji, "The Lou family can only ensure that half of you are innocent, and the other half is made by yourself." I ask you, why are you reluctant to speak when you have the intention of admonishing? ”

"Wechen...... We-Chen......"

"Do you think Lord Huanyan can fool me? Although she has outstanding talents, there are some words that she can obviously not come up with, what kind of grain ships carry private goods, and local officials abuse the people's power under the pretense of the power of the imperial court...... If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, you wouldn't have said it in such detail. So I inquired about the eldest princess and knew that this was your advice, but I gave it to Lord Huanyan, right? ”

"Wechen is terrified, and Wechen is guilty."

"You seem to like to give your articles to others, first there is 'use of the people to time', and then there is 'advice to urgency', because you are imprisoned, thinking that the article is useless?" The emperor has inquired about the foundation of the building clearly.

"Weichen thinks he is smart, and he takes a temporary plan and begs for heavy punishment."

"Grant you innocence. In any case, you have the heart to admonish, and even travel in person, so that seeing is believing, and on this basis, I believe that you are not a fellow Assassin, so how can you be a stabbing and admonishing at the same time? ”

"Your Majesty's cave is faint, and he is aware of everything, and Weichen's heart is suddenly clear, and he only hopes to be able to serve His Majesty for a long time, not leaving the left and right, in order to serve the modest force."

The Emperor pursed his lips, disapproving of such remarks, "But I don't like your way of messing with articles, and I will have something to say to me in the future." ”

"Weichen should know everything, and say everything."

"Well, as for your 'advice to urgency', I have understood, you don't need to say it anymore, I know it in my heart, and it will naturally slow down when it should be delayed."

"Wechen looks up at the mountains, doesn't understand its height, speculates without authorization, and discusses it in vain, Your Majesty chooses one or two good people to think about it, and Wechen's wish is enough."

"In the future, I should go to the people to listen and watch more, but if I have something, let me know."

"Weichen obeys the order, Your Majesty has the heart of the people, and the people of the world must feel the grace of heaven and do their best.

The emperor shook his head, "Forget it, you still want to give advice, saying such things, you are too far behind the ministers of the court, and you can't even compare with your third brother." ”

Lou Gong laughed.

"Okay? I will explain, are you still satisfied? ”

Lou said hurriedly: "Satisfied, satisfied, the Lou family has always been satisfied, but I can't stand the villain's wrongdoing." ”

The emperor hesitated for a while, "Since you are here, you will stay for a while, lead the horse, I and Sanqing gallop to the Beginning Garden at night, as long as you don't leave the imperial city, the old lady should have nothing to say, right?" ”

Lou hard overjoyed, hand dancing, nonsense, after getting on the horse is not stable, run not far to fall to the ground, the horse was unwilling to carry such a heavy object, hoof run away, refuse to come again.

The emperor laughed, and galloped with Lou Ji and Zhang Shiyu, and Lou Hard dragged his fat body to chase around.

It wasn't until the second half of the night that the emperor was happy, and when he left, he said to Zhang Shiyu: "The king of Jibei wants to recruit Lou Ji as his son-in-law, so I will recruit you to come and listen to it, lest your family listen to the rumors and do not want to marry." ”

Zhang Shiyu smiled: "My younger sisters are rushing to marry Lou Gongzi, and my father is having a headache because of this." ”

The emperor left with a smile, and Lou Ji and Zhang Shiyu carried the stiff Lou Gong back to his residence.

Although he was half tired to death, Lou Jian was very happy, and said vigorously: "See, this is trust." ”

Zhang Shiyu had a good impression of Lou Ji, and at this time, he accepted him sincerely, and really regarded him as his future brother-in-law, although this brother-in-law was older than him.

When he arrived at the residence, Zhang Shiyu said goodbye, the Lou brothers went back to the room to rest, and Lou grabbed the foundation of the building, "I didn't expect you to hide so many things from your father and me." ”

"Third brother Haihan, I really thought it was all a trivial matter, but I didn't expect Your Majesty to know about it, and I didn't mean to hide it."

"Haha, this is called eclecticism, your flattery is so wonderful, it is exactly what Your Majesty wants. Now I can assure you: The order of imprisonment can ban others, not the people of our Lou family, the official position is just a false name, and the favor of His Majesty is the real power, plus the power of the Lou family, you will have a bright future. ”

I was able to hear the words "name" and "reality" from the third brother, and Lou Ji was both surprised and felt normal, "the study of name and reality" was originally the knowledge in life.

When he returned to his bedroom, he was extremely tired, poured a cup of herbal tea in the dark, and was about to drink it, when he heard someone in the corner: "The seventeenth prince is back." ”

There were three people living in this room, and Lou Ji thought that the two staff members had gone out of the city with his father, and he didn't think that there was one person left, "Mr. Qiao didn't leave?" ”

"Well, the general ordered me to stay and go out of the city tomorrow to meet."

"Oh."

"How? Since the seventeenth prince is back, His Majesty must be fine. ”

"All is well, Your Majesty took us on horseback riding in the garden...... Mr. Qiao didn't seem to be worried at all. ”

"Hehe, actually...... Don't talk about it. ”

"There is no one left and right, the sky is not yet bright, and the lights are not burning, but Mr. Qiao is okay."

"The general went out of the city overnight, but he prevented 'what if', but in this way, how dare Your Majesty act rashly against the descendants of the Lou family?"

Lou Ji was silent for a while, "I'm a fox and a fake tiger." ”

The two laughed out loud at the same time, the calmness before the building foundation was derived from this, the general went out of the city to watch the incident, and the emperor did not want to have an "incident" because of this.

The laughter quickly disappeared, and neither of them spoke, because they knew in their hearts that the emperor did not really trust the Lou family, and if he could forbear, he must have a deep plan.