Chapter 853: Hints, Enlightenment

In the south house in the courtyard of the ancient and modern Tongji Library, Cheng Jiu had been sitting and waiting for an hour, although he remembered that the fire was burning in his heart, but when he saw the people guarding outside, he could only suppress the anxiety. Originally, when Zhang Yue asked him to enter the house before, he was still thinking about how to avoid the important and light when questioning, but after Zhang Yue came to his senses and found another place to place him, he knew that this thought was in vain, and if he could treat the official as this one, he would naturally not be so reckless. But after waiting for so long and still no news, could it be that the Queen Mother didn't think it was a big deal for him to go to Taiyuan, and she didn't have time to deal with this?

But he really gained a lot this time!

Thinking of this, Cheng Jiu couldn't help but clench his fists, then picked up the teapot and poured another cup of water, not caring that the tea was already cold, he raised his head and poured a sigh. When he was about to pour it again, he found that before he knew it, the pot of tea had been drunk, and his lower abdomen was a little distended.

Just when he stood up, he only heard some movement outside, and after a while, the thick curtain was raised high, and he suddenly saw the woman wearing an autumn-colored carved silk gown, and he was stunned and hurriedly stood up and knelt down.

In the small study to the north, Zhang Yue was rolling up his sleeves and grinding ink there slowly. Cao Jixiang hurried back after finishing his errands, so he also knew that Zhu Ning would come to meet people in person.

He didn't know why Cheng Jiu went to Shanxi for a special trip, but he already had some guesses in his heart. I think that Zhu Gaoxu, the king of the Han Dynasty, was poisoned by him, but the rest of his subordinates died quite tragically, and then although he was in Shandong to investigate the rebellious people, but the Han Wangfu study only those letters exchanged with the local military attaché in Shandong, so to say bloody rain, that is, a province in Shandong. As for the letters that should definitely exist between relatives and vassals, there is not a single one left, as if someone has hidden or destroyed all the prophets. The brutality of the Jin Domain is famous, and it must be known that the Ding border guards moved from Shanxi!

He thought of Zhu Ning outside again, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh softly. thought that Zhu Ning would be implicated because of the crown prince's illness, but now it seems that Empress Dowager Zhang is indeed a reasonable person and has not been angry for some reason. It's just that why didn't he send someone to bring Cheng Jiu to Renshou Palace for secret questioning, but Zhu Ning took a trip in person?

Cao Jixiang wanted to come forward to help, but Zhang Yue insisted on coming by himself, so he could only stand beside him. Seeing that the inkstone was already full of thick ink, and he could faintly smell the special fragrance of the ink, Zhang Yue still didn't stop, he couldn't help but want to step forward to remind him, but he didn't want to ring the curtain behind him, and when he turned his head to recognize the person, he hurriedly took two steps back to the side without saying a word, and knelt down quietly.

"County Lord?"

Zhang Yue didn't expect Zhu Ning to finish asking after such a short while, and he came to him, hurriedly dropped the piece of ink, wiped his hands and stepped forward: "Why is the county lord here?" ”

"You go out and keep watch."

Even Zhang Yue was stunned when he heard this, Cao Jixiang didn't dare to disobey, and hurriedly tiptoed out of the house, but the elderly female official in her early forties behind Zhu Ning did not move at all. Looking at Zhang Yue, Zhu Ning was silent for a while, and then said word by word in a very slow voice: "The Queen Mother's dictation, now that there are many events outside, Zhang Yue, the squire of the Ministry of War, does not have to stay in the palace for a long time, but still returns to the Ministry of War to do business. ”

Unexpectedly, Empress Dowager Zhang changed her mind overnight, Zhang Yue couldn't help but be surprised in his heart, but seeing Zhu Ning's serious posture, he knew that this was not a joke. Only one in and one out is a verbal message, he can't help but feel uncomfortable in his heart, and his expression is a little subtle after worshipping. At this moment, Zhu Ning looked at him and added two more sentences.

"After leaving the palace, please ask Lord Zhang to go to the Wuding Marquis Mansion to pass the Empress Dowager's message, and announce that Wuding Marquis Guo Xuan entered the palace. I will take that Cheng Jiu back to Renshou Palace, and this matter is also thanks to Lord Zhang, otherwise it will inevitably be delayed. ”

Although Zhu Ning had the heart to remind Zhang Yue, there was someone behind her, and now that she was talking more and more wrong, Zhang Yue was also more wrong, so she didn't stay any longer, just nodded and walked out with the female official, but suddenly turned around when she came to the door.

"I haven't been free these days, and I don't have time to see Wan'er and Xiao Wu, but I miss them. Wan'er is busy with the big sacrifice of the king of Hejian, and she can't help but get out, but Xiao Wu is still idle. If she is free, let her go to my house, doesn't she like that pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses? I'm busy, but maybe one day I'll be able to leave the palace and talk to her. ”

If Zhu Ning said this when he came to the house on weekdays, Zhang Yue would naturally feel that it was normal, but there was a female official with a flat face next to him, but Zhu Ning actually smiled in front of her and said these things cordially, so Zhang Yue felt weird no matter how he thought about it, but he could only agree, but the corner of his eye fell on the female official. Seeing that her expression had not changed at all, as if she was really a wooden man who couldn't laugh or cry, he had to withdraw his gaze in discouragement, and personally sent the two to the door.

In the palace, except for the emperor and Sun Guifei, they are not allowed to take the shoulder, Zhu Ning was the same in the past, and he was unwilling to let himself be the focus of attention, but today, the mahogany shoulder that was carried by two people stopped in the courtyard of the ancient and modern Tongji library. After Zhang Yue watched her go up, the two strong young eunuchs carried the shoulders and set off quickly, Cheng Jiu was also caught between the two eunuchs, and the group disappeared from sight in a moment, and couldn't help but ponder Zhu Ning's seemingly unintentional words in his heart.

Zhu Ning came over in person, and the old eunuch of the Yin Silk Prison had to come out in person to wait, and he sent the people away at this moment before he turned around and stepped forward. After Zhu Ning's instructions, he knew that the military officer who occupied his house was about to leave the palace, and his sad face also showed a smile that was more ugly than crying, and after a few words of greeting, he asked people to take care of Zhang Yue's things, and that posture seemed to be a plague god. And Zhang Yue was not happy to stay in an overly coercive place like the palace, and as soon as Jin Ying, the celebrant and eunuch, came, he immediately packed his few things into a rattan box and left the ancient and modern Tongji Library, where he only lived for one night.

As soon as Zhang Yue walked on the front foot, Jin Ying, the eunuch of the ceremonial eunuch on the back foot, brought people over, but he didn't enter the courtyard, but just said a few words to the old eunuch who came out at the door, and beckoned Cao Jixiang again, and glanced at him, only then did he say with a smile: "Today you have made a great contribution, the county lord has a word, but it is more effective than others to say a hundred words." ”

After saying this, he ignored Cao Jixiang, and said directly to the eunuch with a miserable face: "Lao Huang, it's not our family that said you, we should also use some powerful people now, if it weren't for auspiciousness today, this important person would be stopped outside, and the matter would have been really delayed." Our family has already punished those people in the celebrant supervisor, and even those guards have been dismissed for half a month's money and food, who is the one under your hands...... It's time for the position of the young eunuch of the seal ribbon to be vacated, and go to the treasure money department to be a servant! ”

The Seal Prison is not a good place. However, from the seal and ribbon eunuch to the treasure money division in charge of the thick and thin papyrus of the palace, it was almost comparable to the people's flow of three thousand miles to the frontier, and the young eunuch collapsed directly to the ground as soon as he heard this. The old eunuch with a miserable face had a little more sadness on his face, but his mouth was full of yes. As for the others, most of them cast hateful and fearful eyes on Cao Jixiang, and even Cheng Jiu, who had already been taken away by Zhu Ning, hated him.

The Seal Ribbon Supervisor was also a well-known signboard at the beginning, but now a young eunuch can't even fight the eunuch and the chief attendant of the celebrant supervisor!

The New Year is approaching, and although it is difficult for the canal to freeze merchant ships to go north, the merchants have been hoarding New Year's goods since the autumn, just to make a fortune while they are doing New Year's goods. The families of dignitaries and dignitaries often have domestic slaves who go out to open shops, but there are too many things to purchase during the Chinese New Year, and many goods still have to be done outside. So, from the beginning of the month, spices, fruit wine, satin cloth, new porcelain ...... There are many shops and people constantly wandering around the mansions to meet the purchasing needs of each family. Among them, there are layers of oil up and down their hands, only God knows.

The big shops were for the dignitaries, and the medium-sized shops or the small shops run by only one person were for the common people. It's about to be the New Year, and the small people can't afford to buy big things, but they have loose money, cut new clothes for their mothers-in-law and children, and order a few catties of pork from the butcher to prepare dumplings for the New Year; If you don't have loose hand, you always have to get some leftovers to make uppers, and get some charcoal to light a fire on Chinese New Year's Eve.

As for the poor, they can only be wrapped in tattered clothes and shivering in the leaky house, only cursing why there is a lunar month and why there is a New Year. And every day, when the soldiers and horses of the five cities patrol the city, it is inevitable to see frozen deaths in some places - after all, although beggars have always been strictly forbidden to enter the city in the capital, it cannot avoid the locals becoming beggars for various reasons, and those who have mixed into the city are even more prohibited.

However, on this morning, there were more than several times more cars sent out of the city from Chaoyangmen under the cover of gaibu than usual. Even if many of the people who were preparing to leave the city on the side of the road heard the movement of horses running all over the capital last night, they couldn't help but feel palpitations when they watched the expressionless sharp soldiers escorting the big cars out of the city on the side of the road. In this case, even if they know each other well, no one talks to each other. It was not until the group had passed, and the gates began to let people into the city continue to pass, and the people began to move again, that the people came closer to each other, muttering and asking each other questions.

And at the entrance of those mansions in Jingshi, there were also many heavily armed sergeants overnight. There are eight people in front of each household who serve in the five prefectures, six scholars in the cabinet and six scholars, and six people in front of each house in the imperial envoys of the Imperial Inspectorate, and the alleys that are often crowded with traffic in front of the door suddenly become solemn and deserted, although it is not forbidden for people to enter and exit, but as long as the owner of the house still has some eyes, he will not let his family run out at such a time.

In contrast, the Wuding Marquis Mansion in Wudinghou Hutong is completely forbidden to people to enter and exit. In the rather spacious alley, there is a cross-sword brocade guard every three steps, and there are eight neat sergeants standing at the gate, even the back door of the Hou Mansion. Fengcheng Hutong, which is only separated by a bridge here, has also suffered from the pond fish, from time to time there are trotting sergeants passing by, Fengcheng Hou Li Xian simply sent a letter to the former military governor's mansion early in the morning to ask for leave, he stayed at home to restrain his family not to go out, and did not allow people to go to the long-decayed mansion next to him to investigate, although there were a lot of brocade guards at once, which made people feel that the wind was loud at a glance.

In addition, Li Xian could only lament in his heart - his father should not have chosen this alley to live in peace and be a neighbor with Princess Yongping. Now the princess's family has been unlucky one after another, and the reputation of this alley in the capital has spread far and wide, and now it has even affected the Wuding Marquis Mansion on the opposite bridge. Although he didn't know what Wu Dinghou had done, he had already made up his mind in his heart to move away as soon as this gust of wind passed.

So, when Zhang Yue and a few Jinyi guards who accompanied the guards galloped across the bridge from Fengcheng Hutong, the Fengcheng Hou Mansion, which was supposed to be extremely lively with hundreds of people, was no different from the deserted mansion next to it, and there was no sense of existence at all. It wasn't until he crossed the bridge that Zhang Yue suddenly remembered that there was a Fengcheng Hou family, and looked back, but when he saw that the east and west corner doors and gates were closed, he withdrew his gaze.

There are no more than three generations of wealth, and no more than two generations of expensive. After all, he was a son of heaven and a courtier, and he had to stand aside after the second generation. If you want to disobey this established law, except for the great merits of your father's deaths on the battlefield, the emperor is worried about it, and he can only rely on the four sides to pay the three decisions to the south like Zhang Fu at the beginning, and use military merits to bring decades of prominence to his family.

As soon as he crossed the bridge and galloped into Wudinghou Hutong, Zhang Yue saw the sergeants around this huge mansion. Such a big battle is put out, not to mention the Wuding Hou family, I am afraid that even the other people living nearby also know that something happened here, even if it is finally found out that it is not the fault of Guo Xuan, the Marquis of Wuding, this Hou Mansion will be deserted for a while. However, thinking so, he saw a carriage parked there at the gate of the Marquis of Wuding's mansion.

Although the carriage of the carriage was mottled and painted, and the horse pulling the carriage was far from being called a divine horse, it could still be seen that it was not an ordinary carriage for a female dependent. The old driver who drove the car also had a straight waist, even if he saw the glances of others, he was still motionless. When Zhang Yue dismounted in front of the door, the brocade guard on duty in front of the door heard him explain his intentions, and saw him show the seal of the seal, so he explained.

"That's the eldest princess of Yongjia, who came early in the morning, and no one dared to stop her."

Zhang Yue had also heard about the grievances of this family, and he understood it at this time, and he didn't plan to care about it. After entering the door, he saw that the front yard was empty and there was no one, until a brocade guard opened his voice and shouted, only then did a servant who looked like a steward rush out, as soon as he heard Zhang Yue's name, his originally snow-white face was like a blank sheet of paper, and the whole person trembled.

Zhang ...... Master Zhang, wait a minute, old ...... The lord is coming! ”