Chapter 241: Dark Clouds Dominate

Qingcheng Palace

When Chongzheng returned to the dormitory, it was already late at night, and Xu Liang, who was following behind him, could see that after the last incident with King De, the old emperor seemed to have experienced a lot of vicissitudes overnight, and he had mentioned many times that he wanted to return to Wangjing when he was in front of him, but the envoys who were involved in the peace talks had not returned, and he was not good enough to leave like this, so he had been talking about it all the time and did not put it into action.

Maybe it was because there were too many things in his head, Chongzheng actually forgot to drink today's rich tea, and just remembered it before beckoning to Xu Liang: "Xiao Liangzi, can I prepare today's rich tea?" ”

Xu Liang hurriedly bowed down and replied: "If you go back to the emperor, you have already prepared it, you asked the minister not to come in and disturb you before, so I didn't dare to bring it to you, now it is warm, and the minister will go to bring it to the emperor." ”

As he spoke, Xu Liang turned backwards and walked out of the dormitory, and after a while, he returned to Chongzheng with a steaming cup of rich tea.

"Your Majesty, please use it."

Chongzheng took the rich tea, looked at the brown tea soup, and did not drink it in one gulp as usual, but fell into contemplation and asked: "Do you know that the Zhao Yuan over there in the Tai Hospital used Brother Wang's new recipe, and what was the effect of the match?" ”

Xu Liang stood on the side with his hands down, bowed slightly and replied apologetically: "Your Majesty, the matter of this hospital was taken over by Uncle Jingyuan, and the ministers really don't know." ”

"Alas~"

Chongzheng sighed, and said with some embarrassment: "Whenever I ask about this, An Qing always answers like a stream, and now he goes to Han Lin for peace talks alone, and it seems that the peace talks are also quite smooth in the folds sent back. Do you think I'm still a monarch who knows right from wrong? ”

After hearing this, Xu Liang hurriedly bowed down and bowed to the ground, and replied: "If you go back to the emperor, the questions you asked are too heavy, and the minister doesn't want to move." But the ministers know that this merit should be rewarded, and if there is a mistake, it should be punished, if the courtiers are relying on their own merits to the court, they begin to be arrogant and disrespectful, then where is the law of the court? Where is the face of the Son of Heaven? ”

"You're right."

Chongzheng sighed lightly again, and then said: "Punishment, I will punish and reward, let the person who should reward him." ”

Before Xu Liang could understand the meaning of Chongzheng's inexplicable words, Chongzheng waved his hand at him, "Go and bring me the four treasures of my study, I haven't practiced my pen skills for a long time." ”

"Your Majesty, it's late at night, see if you ...... tomorrow?"

Chongzheng seemed to have made up his mind, and did not listen to Xu Liang's persuasion,

"Go get it, I can sleep when I write, I have my own measure."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

To say that Chongzheng's set of four treasures of the study is indeed a good thing, just this inkstone is not comparable to the purple-robed jade official inkstone that An Zhiyuan and Jin Deju fought over and over.

Chongzheng this official inkstone is made of the black dragon tail rough stone, it looks like it is warm and delicate, the texture is clear, the pavilions and pavilions on it, the mountains and peaks are lifelike, it is said to be built by the famous teacher in the south of the Yangtze River, the name is picturesque, it feels like a child's face is like a beautiful skin, and it is gently knocked with a finger, it is the sound of jade and gold, sonorous and exquisite.

After Xu Liang put this set of four treasures of the study on Chongzheng's table, he turned around and retreated.

He walked and walked with a seemingly unconscious glance, and saw a palace lamp flickering by the side of Chongzheng's dormitory as if it was about to be extinguished, so he stepped forward again, took off the lampshade, and saw that the wick inside was indeed burned and only a candle root remained.

"Little Liangzi, I'll rest for a while, and this lamp doesn't need to be changed."

Chongzheng seemed to see the meaning of Xu Liang walking over to the palace lamp, and said loudly,

However, Xu Liang didn't seem to intend to retreat according to Chongzheng's words, but smiled shyly, turned around and said respectfully: "Your Majesty, it's too late this night, I'll still light the lamp for you, and when you rest, I'll put it off for you." ”

Chongzheng didn't care, nodded after listening to Xu Liang's words, then picked up the brush and began to dance on the rice paper.

The maid on the side was still very eye-catching, and hurriedly took a whole red candle, and respectfully waved at Xu Liang, and planned to change it for the light.

How do you know that when you were about to do it just now, you were stopped by Xu Liang with your hand,

Xu Liang waved his hand at the maid, took the red candle in her hand, and whispered, "Go ahead, I'll come." ”

This made the maid a little overwhelmed, when did it start, Grandpa Xu even did these jobs himself?

"What are you doing in a daze, go down."

Xu Liang's voice was very low, as if he was afraid of the noise to Chongzheng, who was concentrating on the dragon and snake,

Hearing this second time, the maid felt strange no matter how strange she was, and she could only bow slightly towards him and turn away.

Xu Liang took advantage of the fact that when he saw the maid leave the dormitory, he glanced at Chongzheng in front of the table with his spare eyes, and saw that he didn't notice his side, so he took out the small red box that Grandpa Sun gave him earlier from his arms without a trace.

When the box was opened, it was found to be a piece of decayed and dead leaves, and only the "leaves" were very small, about half the size of the little mother's finger.

Xu Liang held this "leaf" with one hand, and with the other hand, he broke a small opening of the red candle in his hand and slowly filled in the "leaf".

This "leaf" was originally dark gray, but when it touched the red candle, it was like a trick and the whole body was bright red, and it was completely integrated with the red candle, and it looked like the flaw that the red candle had accidentally protruded during the production.

After doing this, Xu Liang quietly lit the red candle with the flickering embers, replacing the dying remnants and re-illuminating the surrounding darkness.

Then he slowly withdrew from the dormitory.

Chongzheng, who was still concentrating on the bookcase just now, heard the sound of the door of the dormitory closed, he raised his head again, and after seeing that Xu Liang had already withdrawn from the hall, he beckoned to the dark place on the right side of the dormitory.

A small internal official dressed in a dark blue eunuch uniform walked out of the shadows on tiptoe and bowed in front of Chongzheng.

Seeing him, Chongzheng just nodded expressionlessly, and did not open his mouth to order anything, but took out a piece of yellow silk from his arms and spread it on the table.

Then he picked up the dark gold imperial pen in his hand, wrote the small characters engraved on the yellow silk line by row, and finally held the jade seal on the side of the table with both hands, and covered it heavily on the top of the yellow silk.

"Get up."

Chongzheng gently dried the ink on the yellow silk with his mouth, rolled the thin yellow silk into a scroll, and handed it to the little official.

The little inner official seemed to be very transparent, took out a scroll cylinder from the cuff, took the yellow silk and gently put it inside, and then stuffed it back into his cuff.

"Do you know who to give it to?"

It stands to reason that the emperor asked in a deep voice, are you so squeaky? But the little insider only nodded his head three times heavily, and didn't say a word.

Chongzheng felt that this was a matter of course, and nodded slightly, and then made a gesture to signal the little insider to escape back into the darkness.

The silence of the night was shrouded in the hall again, only a few bright palace lights, struggling to dispel the darkness for the old emperor, but one of them was a little different, curling with green smoke, like a woman in the deep palace looking forward to the emperor's blessing, constantly dancing and dancing, swaying and dancing alone, taking his own elegant dance steps, step by step towards the bookcase,

"Ah sneeze~"

For no reason, Chongzheng shivered, I don't know what to suck into my nose, I always feel itchy.

.................

Earl's Court

It seems that in this not very peaceful season, there is no pure land anywhere,

When An Xin arrived at the inner house with a bowl of soup and medicine, Liu Siyi had been lying on the sickbed for many days.

"Ahem...... Ahem! ”

Before entering the door, An Xin heard Liu Siyi coughing violently inside, and when she pushed the door in, Liu Siyi was quickly trying to hide the handkerchief that had just been stained with blood in her hand.

But where could this little action escape An Xin's eyes, she hurriedly stepped forward, snatched the square silk handkerchief in Liu Siyi's hand, and put it in her hand to see that the tender pink satin handkerchief was already red.

"Sister Siyi, are you coughing up blood?"

The worry on An Xin's face was already very strong, she saw that Liu Siyi's originally shiny and tender little face had turned into an extremely sickly waxy yellow, and the whole person looked very unenergetic, and even those beautiful eyes lost their brilliance.

Liu Siyi smiled at her with great difficulty, "No..... Ahem, it's nothing, when I practiced martial arts in the past, these fevers and colds were common, and I will raise them for a few days. ”

However, An Xin didn't believe what she had said so many days ago, she took the soup bowl in her hand, slowly scooped up a spoonful of soup medicine with a porcelain spoon, and carefully blew it gently with her mouth, before handing it to Liu Siyi's somewhat pale lips,

"Where are you doing the cold, the new recipe made by the Zhao Yuan has also been given to you to drink, and all kinds of antipyretic decoctions have also been brought to you to drink, but you haven't improved at all, no, this matter can't be dragged on like this, I'll go write to my brother in a while."

Liu Siyi took the spoonful of decoction medicine from his mouth, put his slender hand on An Xin's shoulder weakly, shook his head and said, "Don't tell your brother that he is in Hanlin now and has not returned, and he is not an imperial doctor, doesn't this add to his troubles?" Don't worry, even if I have an epidemic, won't the hospital be able to treat it now? Nothing to worry about. ”

Liu Siyi looked open, but An Xin next to her was about to cry.

"But you don't see it well, huh? How many days have passed? If it drags on like this, it will definitely become a problem. Alas, it would be nice if I were in Chengdu, I could still go to Sister Ying Shu to help me, now in Lanzhou, I don't even know anyone, my brother is not here, Ah Yi is not here, and I don't know who to go to now. ”

Liu Siyi was said by An Xin, and at the same time, another mouthful of decoction was filled into her mouth, and when she heard her say this, she suddenly asked: "By the way, Xin'er, now the people under your brother's hands outside are all under Liu Biao's control?" ”

"That's right, including the people brought by the prince and my brother from Sichuan, are all under his command."

An Xin nodded in response, then leaned over to Liu Siyi's approach, and then said in a low voice: "I heard Sister Juan'er say that Liu Biao is very arrogant now, a few days ago, because of the patient's stay problem, he quarreled with Meng Qi and Lin Muzhi, and the next day he directly dismissed both of them. ”

Liu Siyi's brows furrowed, "Is there such a thing?" ”

An Xinzhen nodded again, and while flipping the medicine bowl in his hand, he continued: "Not only that, Jiang Yun's deputy chief soldier was also picked up by him for a reason, and now except for the soldiers and horses in Shu who can't move in the hands of General Jiang, the rest of the men and horses have all been replaced by Liu Biao." ”

Before, including listening to An Yi's mouth, I felt that Liu Biao was a plastic material, and he was also a straightforward man who was quite righteous, but Liu Siyi now seems to have changed his face too quickly, right? The last time the emperor was assassinated, she remembered that Liu Biao was still quite respectful to her, why did this change change? Could it be that because of Chongzheng's holy decree, even if it is a comfortable person, it is cool?

Liu Siyi is an old Jianghu, she knows that human nature is the most fickle, but she feels that in just a few days, her attitude has taken a big turn...... Too fast, right?

Before she could figure out a clue in her mind, Meng Qi suddenly pushed open the door of the house and came in.

Of course, An Xin had to raise her eyebrows again and sneer at him for being as unruly as Jin Mingyin, and he didn't know how to knock on the door when he entered the house, but before she could speak, Meng Qi hurriedly spoke first,

"Something's wrong, there's something big going on in the palace!"