Li Jinzhong pondered Wei Chang's seemingly ordinary but unspoken inquiry all the way, and vaguely felt that he seemed to be hinting at something, as if he was provoking the relationship between himself and the emperor.

The rebel chieftain is dead, quelling the rebellion has become a matter of imminent time, the emperor is appointed as the commander and deploys a counteroffensive, these are all very normal things, why did Wei Chang just squeeze to his side and say such a salty and indifferent word?

It wasn't until he returned to the Jin State Mansion and saw Lai Xing'er standing by the door in front of the study that Li Jinzhong's mind suddenly brightened, and recalled what Lu Guangting had persuaded him on the night he detained Lai Xing'er: The emperor had promised him to be crowned.

Yes, if you follow the precedent of the previous dynasty, whenever there is a major event in the imperial court, such as quelling a rebellion, the first person to reward is the Emperor Zuozan and the ministers of Zaifu, who are the assistant of Yin and Yang. And at today's court meeting, Mo said that it was a reward, that is, he did not even mention the hard work of the prime minister for counterinsurgency, which is indeed an abnormal thing.

Li Jinzhong sat alone in his study, and after a lot of thought, he came to a very unfavorable conclusion for him: the emperor was deliberately avoiding mentioning his merits, and it is very likely that the previous rumors were not groundless......

From the time he returned to his home from the Sanchao Dynasty to the time when Shen was approaching, Li Jinzhong spent his time under the domination of a recurring and uncertain mood. The more he followed the words of Lu Guangting and Wei Chang and thought deeply, the more he felt that his prospects were not optimistic, and he couldn't help but regret that he had not listened to Lu Guangting's advice a few days ago, and took the initiative to propose to the emperor to leave the capital to avoid trouble.

"Your Excellency, Your Excellency!"

Lai Xing'er's repeated calls woke Li Jinzhong from his infinite reverie, he opened a pair of bloodshot eyes, raised his head, and stared at Lai Xing'er with questioning eyes.

"There is a messenger from outside the mansion, saying that the emperor has a will."

Lai Xing'er did not have a smile on his face, and his tone of voice was extremely cold.

"So fast!"

Li Jinzhong couldn't help but blurt out a sigh, holding a few cases in his hands and wanted to stand up and go to the door of the mansion to greet Qin Cha, but he accidentally helped him into the air, and the whole person almost fell to the ground. At this moment, he really felt that his journey of more than 30 years was finally coming to an end, and there was a sadness in his heart, and two lines of cloudy tears couldn't help but burst out of his eyes......

Seeing that Li Jinzhong was so embarrassed, Lai Xing'er hurriedly stepped forward and stretched out his hands to hold him steady, and asked, "Why don't you invite Qin to the study to meet the adults?" ”

Li Jinzhong pushed Lai Xing'er away violently, and shouted loudly outside the door: "Listen, all the guards are lined up in front of the study, waiting for Qin Cha's master!" ”

Although Lai Xing'er had only been on an errand for a few days in the Jin State Mansion, he found that the Jin Kingdom Mansion was full of bright or dark guards, and compared to the forbidden troops who patrolled and guarded around the Li Fang, all the guards in these mansions could be called elite soldiers, and many of them were good at technical combat and swordsmanship.

Before Li Jinzhong's words fell, he saw twenty or thirty guards dressed in soft armor and holding sharp blades from all corners of the courtyard one after another, and they were instantly lined up in the two compartments of the corridor in front of the door of the study, and bowed their heads and said, "We will obey the orders of the adults. ”

Li Jinzhong's pale face flashed with a trace of blood, and he waved his hand at Xing'er, and ordered: "Go quickly, please send Qin to enter the mansion, and the old man will answer the order here." ”

Lai Xing'er came to the gate of the Jin State Mansion as ordered, and saw at a glance that the palace envoy who came by order was none other than Wang Bao'er. When Wang Bao'er saw that Lai Xing'er actually appeared in Li Jinzhong's mansion, he was also taken aback, and couldn't help but ask, "You, why are you here?" ”

Lai Xing'er didn't want to bother with him, so he only leaned to the side, stretched out his hand inward and made a gesture of concession, and said lightly: "Lord Li invites the palace envoy to enter the mansion to meet you." ”

Wang Bao'er was bored, stared at Xing'er fiercely, and strode into the gate of the Jin State Mansion with his head held high.

When Wang Bao'er led the four palace people with high palace clothes and high hair to follow Lai Xing'er to the study of the Jin State Mansion, he was stunned by the tense posture in front of him, and hurriedly asked Li Jinzhong, who was standing in front of the study, "What do you mean, my lord?" ”

Li Jinzhong raised his eyes and saw that the four palace people behind Wang Bao'er were holding white silk, medicinal wine and short swords that did not look like the emperor's courtiers used to commit suicide, and knew that what he expected might be wrong, so he forced out a smile and replied: "Today, when I heard the good news of the death of the rebel chieftain, the old man was quite excited. No, I'm thinking about gathering the guards in the palace to perform diligently, so that I can serve the emperor in the future. ”

What he said was very far-fetched, and when Lai Xing'er heard it, he couldn't help but laugh secretly in his belly. Wang Bao'er naturally heard that Li Jinzhong was deceitful in his words, and at this time he was on a mission, so it was inconvenient to ask in detail, so he said to Li Jinzhong: "In this case, please ask Lord Li to accept the order." ”

Li Jinzhong let Wang Bao'er into the study and stood still, knelt down facing him, and shouted loudly in a hoarse voice: "Minister Li Jinzhong respectfully asks the Qin to announce the decree." ”

Wang Bao'er stood with his face south and north back, looked ahead, and sang loudly with the male duck's throat: "The Holy Lord's mouth, 'Shang's father' Li Jin is loyal to the king of Pinglu County."

Li Jinzhong knelt on the ground, and really heard that Wang Bao'er came to announce the will of the Tao to canonize himself as the king, and couldn't help but be surprised. ”

Wang Bao'er was stunned by the question, and after a moment, Fang smiled awkwardly: "Well, I really don't know about the little one." However, although the small one did not give the adult, no, the prince brought the canonization edict, but the crown robe and seal letter of the county king did not fall. As he spoke, he waved his hand at the palace people, signaling them to present all kinds of things that should be used by the county kings in their hands.

Li Jinzhong saw that it was really the emperor who canonized himself as king, and he had just turned from sadness to joy, and his heart seemed to have returned to the world from the gloomy eighteenth layer of hell, and there was an indescribable brightness and joy. However, when he heard that Wang Bao'er had indeed only brought an edict from the emperor, he couldn't help but cast a shadow in his heart: Could it be that because he was a eunuch, there had never been a precedent for a eunuch to be crowned a king before, so he only used an edict instead of canonizing the edict?

Wang Bao'er originally wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to get some rewards from Li Jinzhong, seeing that his proclamation had been completed, Li Jinzhong still knelt there upright, his face was cloudy, and he looked at the two columns of Li Mansion guards holding sharp knives outside the door of the study, everyone had no expression on their faces, so he completely dispelled the idea of taking the opportunity to make extra money, and commanded the palace people who came with him to put all the things that the emperor had rewarded on several cases, and then bowed to Li Jinzhong and said goodbye, and raised his legs to leave.

"The palace envoy is slow, wait for the old man to enter the palace with you to face Saint Shane."

Li Jinzhong wanted to ask the emperor for canonization in person. (To be continued.) )