Chapter 212: Indispensable

The branches and leaves of the acacia willow in summer are luxuriant, reflecting the sunlight on the official road in the middle of the trees, casting a piece of fine but bright light and shadow, and the cicadas on the branches on both sides are calling loudly, but it does not make people feel noisy and noisy, but adds a bit of contrast to the quiet of the sparsely populated official road in the hot weather.

In this season, which is not suitable for long-distance travel, there are two horse-drawn carriages on the official road out of Chang'an southbound, the size of the carriage is between the Xuan car and the scallion oil cart specially used for "women", the workmanship is fine, and you can even smell some incense along the way.

There is nothing strange about the layout in the carriage except for the fine and rich, the only special thing is the incense, the incense burner is not unusual, but the incense burner from the rest of the cold soul incense is really more than gold, and there is a price in the market, it is rare, the greatest effect of this incense is to go to the fire, calm the mind.

In the faint cigarette smoke, Qizhi, who was sitting on a pillow in the carriage, gently stroked Tang Cheng's black hair that had spread out after taking the crown, her white hands were very soft and slow, and a long woman's feelings flowed out like water through this gentle movement.

Tang Cheng, whose head was resting on Qizhi's legs, was sleeping Zhengxiang, and in the slight bumps of the carriage, his breathing was as steady and long as the curling cold soul incense.

Looking at Tang Cheng, who was curled up tightly into a ball after falling asleep, Nanori couldn't help but curl the corners of her mouth slightly, what made her laugh was not only the huge contrast between the man in her arms after falling asleep, who would have thought that a person who is confident and calm on weekdays would look no different from a child after falling asleep? In addition, what made Nanori smile from the bottom of his heart was that he suddenly remembered what he had said unintentionally before when he looked at Tang Cheng's current appearance.

Only in front of people who are truly trusted and close to him, a man will let go of all pretenses, and at this time he may be very different from usual, but absolutely true!

When she heard this sentence at the time, Nanori just felt weird, but it was at this moment. This untraceable sentence, which she had long forgotten, suddenly popped up automatically from a deep corner of her mind.

After curling the corners of his mouth, Nanori did not stop in his hand, and exhaled a long breath in his mouth.

How many days have passed since I learned the news, and this is the first time I have seen Tang Cheng fall asleep so peacefully, listening to the sound of steady and even breathing, Nanori only feels that the things that have been depressed in her heart these days are being cleared with this breath, and the feeling of relief is like the sun outside the car window, clear and brilliant.

Outside, there was the sound of horses' hooves. Then Rifle appeared outside the window of the car that opened the curtain, and after looking inside the window, Rifle suppressed his voice in a low voice: "There is a sharp place not far ahead, Miss see if you want to stop and rest."

"Go on, if you're hungry, everyone will eat two bites of the prepared dry food and rest in the next place," Nanori finished. looked down at Tang Cheng in his arms, "As soon as the car stops, you have to wake up, let him sleep a little longer."

Hearing this, Laifu didn't say anything more, nodded and rode his horse to inform the coachman behind.

Tang Cheng had already woken up. As soon as Laifu spoke, he woke up, but he didn't open his eyes or move, so he didn't deliberately pretend to be asleep. I just didn't want to move, I didn't even want to touch a finger, and I didn't want to speak.

The sound of cicadas outside and the slight jolting of the carriage created a peaceful atmosphere, and Nanori's finger movements in the same rhythm were very helpful for complete relaxation, and after finally leaving the capital, it seemed that even the breathing of people was much lighter because of the reduction of oppression.

Tang Cheng lay quietly, and the experience of pure Ren since entering Beijing without restriction flowed through his mind like water.

When I entered Beijing last year, I was not in high spirits. But he is indeed full of expectations for this trip to Chang'an, and now that more than half a year has passed, the scene in Beijing is like a world away.

Think about this trip to Chang'an, although it has gone through twists and turns, but the purpose of his coming has finally been achieved, participated in the imperial examination and finally passed the Jinshi, after passing the official examination, he also successfully completed the leap from the "official" to the "official" in the stream. And because of his performance in the palace change, it is also destined that his rank when he is awarded the official again will directly step from the eighth rank and the eighth rank to the rank of the seventh rank of the official. This means that he has the qualifications to serve directly as the chief officer, and he no longer has to go through the transition of a county lieutenant or a county officer like the new recruits of the same department.

He is a freshly baked new jinshi. There are meritorious deeds and great achievements in this palace change! Li Longji's existence also ensures that his credit will not be buried. These reasons determine that Princess Taiping cannot suppress his ordination arrangement forever. The reason why he refuted and refuted again and again was just to use this as a means to "force" him to take refuge.

Although he didn't agree in the end, as long as he left the capital and couldn't let Li Longji use it comfortably, Princess Taiping would have a reason to stop, after all, as far as the current situation is concerned, the common enemies - such as the clean-up of the remnants of the Wei Party in the local Daozhou, the existence of Li Chongfu in Junzhou, etc., all determine that Princess Taiping cannot turn against Li Longji now. Even in order to appease the officialdom and the hearts of the people after the two palace earthquakes, and consolidate the throne of the prime minister who was jointly raised, the aunt and nephew must now show a posture of concerted efforts in front of the world. In this context, intensifying the contradiction with Li Longji for the sake of a small official position like herself is really not worth it for Princess Taiping, who has an all-round upper hand in strength.

Because of the small and the big, Princess Taiping would not do such a stupid thing.

Since he has left the capital and is difficult for Li Longji to use, the award after the breakthrough is certain, Tang Cheng has no doubt about this. Of course, he also clearly knows that under the current situation that Princess Taiping is powerful and the officials are in her hands, Li Longji can win the position of the chief official for him is already the limit, and it is impossible for the officials to distribute him any good places, and it must be far away from the two political centers of Chang'an and Luoyang.

Tang Cheng didn't mind this, and even he was looking forward to this arrangement.

The imperial examination was also examined, the jinshi was also selected, the official was promoted, the chief official also had hope, and the credit for the investment and pre-accumulation in front of the future son of heaven Li Longji was also left, it is said that although Tang Cheng's trip to Chang'an had twists and turns, the final result was still happy.

But Tang Chengcheng couldn't be happy!

Why? Previously, even Tang Cheng himself thought that Wei Bo's death caused all this. But after meeting Zhang Xian just now, he knew that this was not entirely the case.

The impact and blow of this incident on Tang Cheng was really great, so big that there was always a sense of guilt in his heart that could not be erased because of his conscience, and conscience is not something you can do without if you want to! It's so big that I don't know how to eat these days, I can't sleep well, and I have nightmares every night to talk to Wei Bo about wine, but Wei Bo always suddenly turns into a bloody headless corpse. Tang Cheng, who was under heavy psychological pressure, was out of breath.

However, after the sacrifice swept Wei Bo, especially after hearing that Mrs. Wang's mother and son were separated safely. This also means that at least Wei Bo has not been wiped out, and Tang Cheng is still not happy, which is enough to show that the reason for his extremely poor state is not just because of Wei Bo's death.

So what is it? Aside from Wei Bo's heavy psychological pressure, Tang Cheng's deepest feeling for this trip to Chang'an was two fears, the first time was intuitive, on the night of the palace change, when he stood in front of the window of the small courtyard of the Xiangwang Mansion and listened to the shouts against him outside, Qizhi's unintentional words sharply broke the most real fear in his heart.

If the matter is not confidential. What should I do if the news that he was hiding in the Prime Minister's Mansion was known by the Ten Thousand Cavalry Army? What if Li Longji threw him out in order to show goodwill? The idea that Wei Zhen and Wei Rui gave Wei Bo that day was really good, Wei Bo was useless, would Li Longji use it?

Tang Cheng will never forget that night in front of the window of the courtyard of the Xiangwang Mansion, when the night was dark, and the shouting and killing outside seemed to never stop. He was like a panicked rat hiding in a corner and not daring to move, and at that moment, he was so close to death that he could hear it. At your fingertips. But he is powerless to change this situation, his people, his life has been entrusted to others. He couldn't do anything but wait in trepidation.

After that night, the situation did not improve, Tang Cheng still had to hide or hide, every day was under the threat of precarious death, maybe the next moment the small door would be kicked open, and then a group of angry cavalry swarmed in......

It's a long, real, and intuitive experience of fear of death. People who have not experienced it will never be able to truly appreciate what it is like, just like the murderer who has been on the run for more than ten years in the later life finally chose to turn himself in, at that moment death itself is not enough to fear, what is more terrible than death is the never-ending, never-ending pressure of hiding and fleeing, under such pressure, no matter how long you can hide, it is destined not to have an easy day.

It's different from this time when you face the fear of death. Another time it was fear. If it was not Wei Bo but Wei Rui who used him that day, if his identity had already been recognized by Wei Bo. If the secret words in the study between the three Wei hadn't been heard by Wang Yi...... All of this is too possible, after all, his identity was far from secret when he was doing Infernal Affairs in Wei Bojun, not only did many people know his true identity, but the most terrifying thing was that even Princess Taiping knew! In those long months, if any of these people revealed his identity in the slightest, the outcome would be doomed.

When Tang Cheng was still in Wei Bojun, he didn't realize it, or he didn't have the heart to think about it at all, but when the matter passed, when he could also review the whole incident as a bystander, in addition to being lucky, Tang Cheng felt the deepest fear.

Everything he did in the Ten Thousand Cavalry Army was a bottomless black hole, and he was a fool dancing on the cliff at the edge of the black hole.

So what is the root cause of this double immersion in the Ten Thousand Tribulations? It's Tang Cheng himself. No one instructed him, and no one "forced" him to do so, but he happily dug himself a bottomless pit, and then consciously took the initiative to jump down, and what was even more funny was that he was still complacent when he jumped down.

Idiot, utter idiot!

In the palace change full of unforeseen risks and crisis killings, he plunged into it with an identity that was almost looking for death, which in Li Longji's opinion is certainly the best performance of "daring to do anything", but for Tang Cheng...... Since when did he get to this point in hubris? When did you start to be short-sighted to this point? He was carried away by the smooth road construction in Jinzhou, and he was so dazzled by the praise of the people around him that he forgot that the sky was so thick that even he thought he was an omnipotent superman.

And these two contacts with death are the best irony and wake-up call, in today's court situation, as a person who has been targeted by Princess Taiping, if it goes on like this......

Luck doesn't always come with it!

A few days ago, Tang Cheng didn't have the heart to think about these things at all, and at this time, the things that were quietly pillowing on Qiweaving's legs and serving as Chang'an were replayed one by one, Tang Cheng finally sorted out the root cause of his low state of 'confusion' and irritability these days, this was not just because of Wei Bo's matter, but also his dissatisfaction with his psychological state and way of doing things during this time, although he didn't think about it so carefully before, but after that night of fear of the palace change, he clearly felt and realized all this.

On the whole, although the results of this trip to Chang'an are not bad, but the mentality and method of acting are a mess of mistakes, and the wrong methods lead to wrong results is the norm.

Lying motionless, Tang Cheng is like an old cow who has eaten night grass regurgitating everything that has happened in the past half a year, making irreparable mistakes, regretting is meaningless, only by summing up lessons in the regurgitation of past mistakes, this is the only meaning.

Although the long-distance journey is the most abrasive, on the way back to Shannan East Road in Chang'an, Tang Cheng's mood and body are slowly getting better and better, and throughout the journey, the front and back of this trip to Chang'an have also been broken and "kneaded" many times, just like gnawing sugar cane, to ensure that every bit of nutrients and sugar is fully "touched" and absorbed.

The carriage and the carriage finally returned to the eastern Daocheng of Shannan, and after sending Qizhi to Daya to Zhengyuan, Tang Cheng didn't even go to see Zhang Xiangwen, so he went straight out of the city from the garden and embarked on the official road to Jinzhou, the closer he got home, the more eager he became, at this moment for Tang Cheng, even if the whole world was in front of him, he didn't want to stop going home for a while.

In Jinzhou City, when Tang Cheng saw the door of his home again after being absent for more than half a year and experiencing the risk and fear of death, the feeling in his heart at this moment was really complicated and indescribable......

Home, and only home is the deepest concern and the best place for wanderers.