Chapter 32 A night of snow flooded Chang'an
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Pingkangli is the place of fireworks in Chang'an, and it is also the most prosperous square in Chang'an, because of the unique location, almost all the people who come to Beijing to report or travel from other places almost all gather in Pingkangli, singing every night. ๏ฟกโ๏ผ
At this time, it was already night, and the whole Chang'an was shrouded in night, and everywhere was dark and rumbling, and all the buildings were hidden in the night, blurred, and only the general outline could be seen.
However, the eyes are cast on Pingkangli, which is located in Chang'an County, but there are lights on the side, and when you pass in front of Pingkangli, you can hear the sound of silk and bamboo inside, singing and dancing.
"Lang Jun Lang Jun, look at it!"
In a family called Nuanchun Building in Pingkangli, a delicate woman in a pink skirt held a piece of paper-like notice, pushed open the door of a warm pavilion, and as soon as she entered it, she raised the paper in her hand and shouted in the warm pavilion.
At this time, there were five or six young men in brocade clothes lying in the warm pavilion, drunk one by one, talking drunk to the happy women around them, and let out an unbridled laugh from time to time.
"Chun'er, what are you making all this fuss about?" Among the seven or eight young men, one of them was holding a cup of grapes and tasting it, and when he heard Chun'er shouting, he immediately put down the cup in his hand and said unhappily.
"Lang Jun Lang Jun, look at it!" The woman named Chun'er didn't seem to realize the unhappiness in the young man's tone, handed the paper in her hand to the young man, and said, "This is what Chun'er picked up outside just now, Lang Jun, look at what is written on it?" โ
What else could there be, nothing more than a proclamation!
The young man pursed his lips, thinking nonchalantly, but he still took the paper in Chun'er's hand and glanced at it casually.
It was at this casual glance that the young man's originally lazy expression suddenly became serious, until he finished reading the above content in one go, then he smiled 'hey' and said in his mouth: "It's really interesting!" โ
Then, she looked at Chun'er's woman and asked curiously, "Chun'er, where did this come from?" โ
"Just now, when Chun'er went out, she saw a lot of sisters watching in the yard, so Chun'er asked for one!" Chun'er is only thirteen or fourteen years old, but she is a delicate woman, just saw that so many sisters in the yard are vying to see the content of this paper, and she feels strange, so she asked for a copy and went upstairs.
"You mean, there's a lot of paper like that?" When the young man heard this, he opened his mouth in surprise, looked at Chun'er, and asked in disbelief.
"What is written on it, it actually shocked you Li Jingheng!" Several young men who were originally indifferent to this matter heard the two of them talking in surprise at this time, and immediately attracted all their attention, and one of them snatched the paper from the previous young man and looked down.
These young men are none other than a group of Chang'an gentlemen who are called the second ancestor by Zhao Chen, the previous young man is Li Jingheng, the son of Li Shentong, and the one who took the paper from Li Jingheng was the eldest grandson Chong.
The rest are Chai Lingwu and others!
During this time, because of the heavy snowfall, these gentlemen had to shrink in their respective mansions, but they really suffocated these gentlemen, and tonight was the first time they came out collectively for an event during this time.
Changsun Chong read the above content in silence, but his eyes were still staring straight at the paper, his eyes thoughtful.
The above content is narrating an incident in the voice of a woman, just like a woman sitting facing each other, plainly telling you what happened to her.
said that she used to be a woman from a good family, and later married a businessman, but unfortunately her life was smooth, but who would have thought that her beauty was spied on by a county order, and then the county order unjustly put her husband's family in prison in order to occupy her, until the county order occupied her, and then released her husband's family.
In the end, this woman was divorced by her husband's family, and in desperation, she chose to jump into the well and die!
It's this kind of bland narrative on the whole page, and it looks like a story. However, Changsun Chong knew that this was not a story written by a literati, but something that really happened.
Although it did not name her, or even say who this woman was, Changsun Chong knew that this woman was from Lantian and he also knew that the county order that occupied this woman was Zhao Yuankai, the county commander of Lantian County.
Chai Lingwu doesn't look at his usual big grin, but in such a matter, his reaction is always much faster than that of Li Jingheng, who is addicted to alcohol, almost at the same time that Changsun Chong reacted, Chai Lingwu also reacted instantly.
The two of them got up almost at the same time and ran to the door, when the eyes of the two looked at the courtyard of Nuanchun Building, almost everyone was holding such a piece of paper in their hands, and they suddenly glanced at each other, and their eyes showed a look of surprise.
There is no doubt about this matter, it was Zhao Chen who was sentenced by their Gewu Academy, and they were all clear about what had happened in the past few days, so after seeing the content on the paper, they immediately reacted that this must have happened in Lantian.
It's just that both of them don't understand Zhao Chen's intention to do this, there is no name on the paper at all, even if he wants to stink Zhao Yuankai's reputation, His Majesty has to attack Zhao Yuankai, so the culprit of this matter must also be noted!
This night's Chang'an was flooded with such paper almost overnight, and in addition to all the Goolan tiles in Pingkangli, there were many people's yards, and even the Yamen Imperial City in Chang'an County, which was sprinkled with this kind of paper.
Overwhelming, like snowflakes, the content on each one is different, but there is one thing in common, that is, they are all told in a self-telling way.
Let's talk about the peaceful life before, and then the miserable life after being bullied by the county order. It is precisely this stark contrast that makes everyone who reads the content become indignant.
People in this era have nothing to entertain, so many strange papers that suddenly appeared in Chang'an this night, and when they got up the next day, they suddenly became a hot topic in Chang'an.
Anyone you meet on the street, after a normal greeting, the first thing you say must be what you say on the paper that appeared in your house last night?
The three religions and nine streams, the gentry and celebrities, are all discussing in private, and some people are angry on the spot, saying that the Tang Dynasty has just been established, and it is a time when it is thriving, how can such people be tolerated to stay in the officialdom and harm the people of the Tang Dynasty!
It's just that the vibrating arm is vibrating the arm, and all of them are not named! It's useless to shout loudly where you are, you have to figure out first, who is the county order that this thousand people are referring to, right?
As a result, everyone's questions began to converge, and they all began to scramble to inquire about who this county order was?
It was at this time that a piece of news gradually spread in private, first in a small area, and then like an avalanche, it spread all over the city in an instant.
This news is that the county order in all the stories that appeared last night is named Zhao Yuankai, and these things happened in Lantian County, not far from Chang'an.
The news also vaguely spread all the things that had happened in the court in the past few days. It's not that Zhao Yuankai will not be brought to justice for bullshit county orders like Zhao Yuankai, but that many people in the court have stood up to obstruct the investigation and prosecution of Zhao Yuankai.
It's like a stone stirring up a thousand waves, and now I finally understand, why don't you dare to point out Zhao Yuankai by name, it turns out that there are many people in the court who are sheltering Zhao Yuankai!
It's so damning! How can someone like Zhao Yuankai stand up and protect him, but you can imagine how much favor these people usually receive from Zhao Yuankai, how can Your Majesty tolerate such a person staying in the court!
One after another, people were privately inquiring about the senior officials of the DPRK who stood up to protect Zhao Yuankai, and when everyone was impatient to inquire, the information of several people led by Cui Shilang was suddenly exposed.
Even how Zhao Yuankai closed the city outside Lantian City that day, he would rather watch thousands of people outside freeze to death and starve to death than let the people enter the city, and in the end, it was a deputy envoy sent by His Majesty who decisively ordered the siege of the city, so that those people would not freeze to death outside the city.
All right! This is the official of our Tang Dynasty, who is willing to risk the disapproval of the world for the sake of the people, brazenly attacking the city, Your Majesty finally knows how to make good use of people, and the more such people the better!
It's just that no one knows the name of the deputy envoy, and the person who broke the news seems to have disappeared, and people craned their necks and waited for a long time, but they couldn't wait for the revelation about the deputy envoy again.
Three days! It only took three days!
From the appearance of the paper that night to the news of Cui Shilang and others later, it took just three days. But in just three days, Zhao Yuankai's incident has become the hottest topic in Chang'an, like a catalyst, and even Cui Shilang and others are on the cusp of public opinion.
When the housekeeper of Cui's Mansion got up in the morning, he found that his yard was full of messy things, rotten vegetable leaves, rotten straw shoes, stones and dirt, etc., and the housekeeper took advantage of the fact that the housekeepers had not yet gotten up, and quickly instructed someone to clean up all these messy things.
But when the yard was cleaned and the door of the mansion was opened, the housekeeper stayed at the gate of the mansion, because more things were thrown outside the gate of the mansion, almost blocking the gate of the Cui Mansion.
"This son, what a vicious heart!" Just when the housekeeper turned around and beckoned to the subordinates, and hurriedly cleaned the things outside the mansion gate, Cui Shilang stood at the door of his bedroom, looking at everything outside the mansion door, and said with a pale face