Time flies, and it is golden autumn in a blink of an eye. In the past few months, the imperial army led by Hu Dun won fewer victories and suffered more defeats, and gradually switched from offensive to defensive in the confrontation with the rebels. The Luoyang court's confidence in him also gradually collapsed in the repeated defeats, so a large army was transferred from the east to support Hu Dun. However, the disaster did not go alone, as soon as the army entered the battlefield of Youzhou, the news came that the mob of Qingxu and Erzhou responded to Yu Chenglie to conquer the state capital, so they had to hurriedly turn back and quell the rebellion.

Although the state affairs are difficult, the Luoyang court is not without happy events, and the wedding of Changle Wang Yuanrui last month was really lively. After that, Sun Qian officially became the princess of Changle, and Sun Rong was officially canonized as a partial general by the imperial court by virtue of this relationship and the great victory of Xieshan, and was able to become an official.

The autumn breeze was blowing, in the Bifeng forest behind the Taiji Palace, after Yuan Yao and Yuan Rui "fought three hundred rounds", he panted and said: "I still thought that you would be a beauty, and your swordsmanship would regress a lot, and I didn't think that if you want to win, you still have to fight with the spirit of twelve points!" ”

Yuan Rui: "The country is so difficult, and the younger brother does not dare to indulge in the gentle township. I heard that the imperial court re-employed the old general Geng Tong and wanted to attack the thieves from the east road, and these days the younger brother has been thinking that if the imperial brother is gracious, the younger brother is willing to act as the old general's pawn and go into battle to kill the enemy! The thief in his mouth was the former Yuli Town General Chengyeol, who was the first to rebel, and all the rebels who rebelled after him consciously took him as their leader, as if they wanted to set up another court.

Yuan Yao: "Don't you know, although I am nominally pro-government, it seems that this conquest still needs the approval of the queen mother, and I can't be the master of this matter." But there are too many accidents on the battlefield, can you think about it? ”

Yuan Rui: "If there is something in Dawei, if my family is still hiding, who will be willing to die for us in the future!" ”

Yuan Yao: "Well said! If the Queen Mother learns your intentions, she will be very pleased, so you will go back to your house and wait for the order! ”

Within a few days, Yuan Rui really received a holy decree, ordering him to send troops to fight against the rebellion as Geng Tong's deputy general, first go to Qingzhou to help the official army eliminate sporadic rebellions, and then wave the army to the northwest, gather garrisons in various states and towns along the way, and go straight to Yuli Town, Chenglie's old nest. In addition to Yuan Rui, Cui Mingyou and Geng Bao were also ordered to go out with the army.

The news spread quickly, and on this day, Hanako held a banquet in the most prestigious Fuhe restaurant in Luoyang to entertain Yuan Rui, Cui Mingyou, and Geng Bao. By the way, bringing Sun Qian can be regarded as fulfilling the promise he made at the beginning, although this promise was made by Yuan Rui for him without authorization.

Since the last time I passed by Fuhe Restaurant, I was attracted by its fragrance, Sun Qian has been thinking about it, and I heard that this time Huazi is holding a banquet here, so she pestered Yuan Rui early. Huazi booked a private room by the window on the second floor, and enjoyed the busy street scene downstairs while dining, which was the best for Sun Qian, who was bored in the palace all day. After a while, the host Hanako arrived as promised, but in addition to himself, he also held a little girl in his hand.

The little girl looked like she was about two or three years old, and her two big eyes were looking left and right, which was very cute. As soon as she saw Yuan Rui, the little girl shouted from afar: "Uncle Wang! "The childish children's voice sounds very pleasant.

Yuan Rui touched the little girl's head in the past: "Xiao Yiyi, and clinging to your father to prevent him from leaving, right?" ”

Hanako hurriedly explained: "Your Highness is really like a god, this is the case, I thought that Yiyi was familiar with everyone anyway, so she followed." ”

After a few words of greeting with Sun Qian, Huazi said to Huayi: "Yiyi, come and meet the princess!" ”

Hua Yiyi had never seen Sun Qian before, and her eyes rolled: "Yiyi to see my sister." "Maybe in the little girl's heart, when she meets such a young woman, she should call her sister.

Sun Qian rubbed Hua Yiyi's forehead: "You are the little girl who loves butterflies, you are really cute!" ”

Yuan Rui also pinched Hua Yiyi's little face and teased her: "Xiao Yiyi, is my sister beautiful?" ”

"Beautiful!" Hua Yiyi replied without thinking.

"Is that my sister beautiful or Yiyi beautiful?" Yuan Rui asked.

This question has obviously not been encountered before, Hua Yiyi thought for a while before saying: "Yiyi is beautiful!" It made the three of them laugh.

With Yiyi's pistachio, time seems to pass very quickly, and after a while, everyone arrives, and Hanako takes the lead in raising a glass: "Tomorrow, His Royal Highness and the two virtuous brothers will go out on behalf of the imperial court, and the foolish brother wishes the army to be invincible, and the clowns from all walks of life will be wiped out as soon as possible!" And they drank it all.

Cui Mingyou reminisced about the mellow taste of wine: "Now that I think of the battle of the mountain, it's really a pleasure!" ”

Geng Bao immediately echoed: "That's it! If Hu Dun had half the talent of General Sun Rong, he would not have become the situation he is in today! ”

Everyone talked freely, and the atmosphere was not warm. Suddenly, Geng Bao shouted "oops", and saw Hua Yiyi running to his seat at some point, looking at Geng Bao with big eyes and laughing: "Maomao!" Maomao! It turned out that Geng Bao's body hair was more vigorous than ordinary people, and there were also a lot of hairs on the back of his hands.

Seeing this, Hanako hurriedly educated: "Yiyi, how many times has Daddy said that you can only pluck Daddy's hair, and it's rude to pluck other people's hair, do you know?" ”

Yuan Rui and the others were secretly embarrassed, such an education method, no wonder he was so dignified in Hua Yiyi's mind.

Hua Yiyi said casually: "I know!" He jumped up and down to the window to look at the scenery. Hanako said a few more words to her, but I don't know if she listened.

A lively little girl like Hua Yiyi is the most endearing, especially Sun Qian, at this moment, a girl's heart is about to melt by her, and she greeted her from afar: "Yiyi, come to my sister's side, my sister's side has delicious food." ”

Hua Yiyi was completely unmoved: "Don't, Yiyi wants to see the army!" ”

How could there be an army in Luoyang City, everyone gathered to the window to see what was going on. Sure enough, a group of soldiers hurried towards them from a short distance, and when they passed by the window, they could even see their murderous expressions as if they were facing a great enemy. What's even more surprising is that the leader of the team is actually Luoyang Ling Hu Yuan himself, Yuan Rui estimated the number of people, there are about a few hundred.

Something was wrong, and everyone decided to go along and take a look. I saw that Hu Yuan and this group of people came to the gate of Yongning Temple and stopped, and then quickly surrounded the entire temple in front of and back. There were many people gathered outside the temple gate, as if they were watching some kind of excitement, but when they saw the officials and soldiers coming, they all dispersed at once, and they hid farther away and stretched their necks to watch.

The crowd dispersed, and only Hu Yuan's group and a few elderly monks were left outside the empty temple gate, and the presiding master, Master Jueyuan, was also among them, and there was a young man lying on the steps at the door, motionless and not knowing whether he was dead or alive. Under the gaze, Yuan Rui and the others found that Hu Yuanzheng was arguing with Jueyuan emotionally, and as for the content of the dispute, they couldn't hear it clearly because they were far away from the crowd watching the excitement.

At this time, Hua Yiyi suddenly cried: "Yiyi is afraid!" Yiyi wants to go home! "I think I was scared by the tense atmosphere. Sun Qian hurriedly coaxed and teased her into the shop next to her.

Yuan Rui asked a middle-aged woman beside him, "Auntie, what's going on?" ”

The middle-aged woman's expression was exaggerated: "You still don't know? Something big happened, the monk of Yongning Temple killed someone! You see, aren't the officers and soldiers here to catch the murderer now? ”

Yuan Rui: "Which monk killed the murderer?" ”

The woman's eyebrows fluttered even more: "Don't you see? Whoever the officers and soldiers talk to is the murderer! That monk beat a person to death with two punches, it's really vicious! ”

Yuan Rui is a frequent visitor to Yongning Temple, and Master Jueyuan is a very good personal relationship, although this Master Jueyuan has a very high attainment in Buddhism, but he is over the age of sixteen and in his early years, I don't know why my arms were seriously wounded and I can't use my strength, how can I kill a person with two punches? So Zhengse asked: "Human life is at stake, but Auntie has seen it with her own eyes?" ”

The middle-aged woman wanted to brag about it again, but when she saw Yuan Rui's serious face, she muttered: "Although I didn't see the killing a step late, everyone is right to say so." ”

Yuan Rui smiled bitterly and shook his head, the three of them became tigers, the rumors were really terrible. At this time, there was a new movement on Hu Yuan's side, only to see that his soldiers bent their bows and arrows and lit the arrows, one by one, ready to attack, just waiting for Hu Yuan's order, he will fire ten thousand arrows and burn Yongning Temple to ashes.

"Wait!" Seeing that the tragedy was about to happen, Yuan Rui hurriedly spoke out to stop it.

Hu Yuan looked back and squinted at Yuan Rui, who came out of the crowd: "It turned out to be His Royal Highness the King of Changle, doesn't His Highness want to protect the demon monk?" ”

Yuan Rui: "Hu Fujun's words are serious, where is the demon monk from the feet of the Son of Heaven!" ”

Hu Yuan: "In broad daylight! Murder! What is not a demon monk? ”

Yuan Rui: "All the masters of Yongning Temple are compassionate, according to this king, there must be a misunderstanding in the middle, and please Hu Fujun calmly find out the truth, don't wronged good people." ”

The three of them also came forward to help the monks speak at this time. Although the Hu clan is now powerful, he is still a courtier of the Yuan clan, and the face of a dignified prince still has to be bought, so Hu Yuan had to suppress his anger and order his subordinates to unload the rocket.

Jue Yuan took a step forward: "Hu Duwei's death is very strange, in the morning Hu Duwei led people to rush into the temple, the monks of this temple did stop it, but ordinary body collisions will never kill people." At that time, Lao Wei was also at the scene, and Hu Duwei fell to the ground and died without warning, and Lao Qu and the others were also very puzzled. ”

"Hu Duwei...... Hu Duwei ......" Yuan Rui thought silently in his heart, and inadvertently caught a glimpse of the corpse lying on the ground with its face turned to the side. When he looked closely, he was startled, the deceased was Hu Yuan's eldest son, Hu Xiude, the governor of Luoyang, no wonder Hu Yuan lost his mind so much and wanted to burn Yongning Temple.