Chapter 169: After the Traitor
Seeing that Xin Twelve Niang and Bo Hu were bored with him, the old priest still returned to the courtyard gate to guard it, so he suppressed the excitement in his heart, and turned his head to the old servant standing by the side with a lantern and ordered: "You lead the son to come closer and take a look." Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info”
Lai Xing'er followed the old servant to the three tombstones in confusion, and the old servant deliberately put the lantern in his hand close to the tombstone where he lived, and Lai Xing'er looked at the tombstone with the light emitted by the lantern, and couldn't help but be stunned: I saw that this tombstone was engraved with three big characters in the center: Come and be cautious. This is a tombstone for my father!
As a dignified member of the three-grade imperial court, the old sacrificial wine actually risked the extinction of the three clans and openly erected his father's tombstone in the courtyard of the Guozi Prison! What made him feel even more incredible was that at the beginning of his punishment to be used as hard labor in the Guozi Prison, the old sacrificial wine clearly intended to arrange himself to live in this small courtyard, and he didn't find that there was a tombstone of his father in the courtyard for several days! What's going on here?
Jing Zhao stood not far from the courtyard, and when he saw Lai Xing'er walk to the tombstone, his expression changed greatly, and he stayed in front of the tombstone in the center for a long time, and walked forward out of concern, and also looked at the tombstone. Jing Zhao is not a few years older than Lai Xing'er, obviously he hasn't heard of this person who came to be cautious, but because he has the same surname as Lai Xing'er, he roughly guessed a little bit of the reason, and was about to open his mouth to persuade Lai Xing'er not to see Jing Shengqing, but when he was too sad, the old sacrificial wine sitting on the stone bench spoke first.
"General Jing, please go to the gate of the courtyard to keep an eye on those two for the old man. The old man has something to say to Xing'er alone. ”
Jing Zhao's debut is only a month old, and he has cracked a number of major cases in the capital one after another, that is, even Bo Hu, who was hiding in the palace of King Mu, finally failed to escape his pursuit, and was called "Uncle Detective" by the people of Chang'an, informing the old sacrificial wine to Lai Xing'er of the details created a good opportunity not to be heard by others.
When Bo Hu saw Jing Zhao walking towards him with a cross eyebrow, he was so frightened that he hid behind Xin Twelve Niang. Xin Twelve Niang changed her original intention of killing him for Bo Hu because she learned that Jing Zhao was the brother of Jing Xuan, who sacrificed his life for the country, and became much more polite to him.
Lai Xing'er returned to the old sacrificial wine with a full stomach of doubts, and there were many questions in his heart that the old sacrificial wine needed to solve for him, but he didn't know where to start for a while.
The old sacrificial wine seemed to understand his intentions, motioned for him to sit down on another stone bench next to him, and took the initiative to say to Lai Xing'er: "You must think it is strange, your father is obviously a rebellious traitor, why does the old man still dare to erect a tombstone for him in the Guozi Prison Courtyard, right?"
To tell you the truth, even if the old man has such a mind, he doesn't have such courage. These three tombstones were all made by the old man to ask the emperor for permission before they were allowed to stand in this courtyard. ”
"And what is this for?" Lai Xing'er was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "Isn't my father a traitor who was beheaded by the emperor, why did the emperor still order the lord to play it and erect this monument for my father in the courtyard of the country's prison?" ”
The old sacrificial wine subconsciously raised his eyes and glanced at the gate of the courtyard, and saw that there was no change, so he took a long breath and replied to Lai Xing'er: "Regarding the cause and effect of this matter, if you want to talk about it carefully, I am afraid that the current situation does not allow the old man to do this." I'll pick up some of the most important things and tell your baby to listen, and if there is a chance in the future, it will not be too late for the old man to tell you one by one.
Now talking about it, this matter has to start from more than ten years ago: at that time, the old man was in the Hanlin Academy as the head of the Hanlin Academy, your father came to Shenxing and the other two tombstones in this courtyard to commemorate the person is the Hanlin Academy most appreciated by the old emperor of the three bachelors of the Hanlin Academy, especially your father is the most appreciated by the old emperor, day and night with the grass edict, although the rank is low, but the prime minister, if it is not for the rebels to capture Chang'an, the old man is convinced that sooner or later your father will enter the cabinet to worship the prime minister, become a generation of famous ministers. Alas, the world is impermanent, the world is impermanent. ”
The old sacrificial wine recalled the past many years ago and sighed.
On the way back to Chang'an from Luo Xue with Na Yu a few months ago, Lai Xing'er heard Yu Chengen talk about some of the situations when his father was an official in the Jingzhou Prison Embassy, but he didn't expect that his father was the first favored close minister in front of the emperor.
"That year, on the eve of the rebels' capture of Chang'an, the old man received an urgent order from the old emperor in the Hanlin Academy, ordering the old man and the three Hanlin scholars, including your father, to rush to Anyuan Gate immediately to wait for the car, and prepare to accompany the westward migration. After the old man received the order, he ordered people to rush to the three mansions to plead, who knows, led by your father, the three Hanlin scholars appointed by the old emperor disappeared without exception. Later, after the first emperor led the army to recover Chang'an, the old man learned that on that day, in the name of discussing important matters, the Yang family invited the three most favored Hanlin scholars in front of the old emperor to his mansion, and drunk the three of them respectively, deliberately leaving the three in Chang'an City, intending to use the hands of the rebels to get rid of his opponents who threatened him.
The old man searched for it in many ways but couldn't, so he had to truthfully show the old emperor. I remember that the old emperor stood in front of the Zichen Palace, muttered for a long time, and then instructed the old man: You go and pass on my will to these three people's families, as long as the three of them live, I will not ask about the rest of the things, and when I return to Luan in the future, as long as I can see the three Aiqing safe and sound, my wish is enough.
Xing'er, do you understand the deep meaning of the old emperor's message? ”
Lai Xing'er seemed to be moved by the old emperor's love for talent, and replied: "If the kid guessed correctly, the old emperor had already noticed the misdeeds of the Yang family's power minister, but it was inconvenient to say it clearly. With this message, it also means that the three people including the father can adapt and act expediently. However, the boy didn't understand, if this was the case, then why was his father beheaded as a rebellious traitor? Since the imperial court has recognized my father as a traitor, why would I allow you to erect a monument for my father and the other three in the Guozi Prison Courtyard? (To be continued.) )