Zhang Cai and Tang Yin waited together in the study.

This is the place where he often comes and goes, and he can always sit and wait calmly, plus Tang Yin said some poems and articles, time flies quickly. This time, however, he could not sit still at all, pacing back and forth on the ground with his hands behind his back, and his eyes swept towards the door from time to time, but each time the curtain remained motionless. It wasn't until he himself felt that he was too impatient to pace back and forth like this, and was about to sit down patiently, that he suddenly saw a hand pull up the curtain.

"Your Excellency...... Ah, it's the old man! ”

Although Zhang Cai was disappointed, he still bowed forward in spirit, and Tang Yin on the side helped explain: "Boss, I just came back from Xianyuan, and I met Master Zhang in front of the door, and Lord Zhang said that he had something important to see, so I waited here with him." Now that the boss is here, I will retire first. ”

"Hmm." Xu Liang knew that Tang Yin had never cared about this kind of thing, so he nodded immediately, and when he got out of the house, he smiled and said, "It's not me who is the old man's Yue Jiao, it's really Xun'er who came back after nine days in a row, he just arrived last night, and he didn't have a good rest, and today he was called into the palace again, and when he came out, he went to Fuqing Lou to serve again, and when he came back, he couldn't support it, and now he has slept so much that he doesn't know who is going to work." Even if he reluctantly called him up, he was afraid that his head would be confused, and he would not be able to think or think about things when he heard them. So, if you have something to say, tell me, I asked for leave at home today, and I'll tell him when I get back. ”

"The boss just calls me good-looking, I really can't afford this sound."

Seeing that Zhang Cai hurriedly got up and said humbly, although Xu Liang knew that Zhang Cai was a few years older than him, he still nodded and said, "In this case, I will call you Xilu like Xun'er." Zhizi Mo Ruo's father, you didn't see him come back today, if I hadn't supported him, I'm afraid I would have collapsed and fallen asleep halfway through. So, even though I don't care about him. But this time, I had to intervene. ”

Zhang Cai originally wanted to go back for the time being, but when he heard Xu Liang say such sincere words, he thought that he was Xu Xun's father after all. He hesitated for a moment before he spoke, "Since the old man said so, then I can only bother." To tell you the truth, I came here today on purpose to be assassinated on the way back this time. I heard that the Lord ordered the mouth to be sealed, but there are rumors about yesterday's events in the capital today, and it can be described as terrifying, if you don't suppress it at this moment. I'm afraid that Gonggong Liu will inevitably think that the adults are secretly instigating public opinion. Now the plan, it is best to find a scapegoat immediately, otherwise the Yanguan who was forced down by Lin Shangshu, Zhang Duxian and others earlier is afraid that they will seize this opportunity to attack Liu Gonggong in a big way, and the adults will be tied to the carriage by them instead. ”

Xu Xun only had time to tell his wife last night that Xu Liang had just learned that Xu Xun had been assassinated again on the way back, but in front of Zhang Cai, he still suppressed this inexplicable emotion of surprise. In his heart, he scolded Xu Xun half to death. But after listening to Zhang Cai's words, he immediately said: "Xun'er said before that Xilu is good at planning and decisiveness. So who do you say you blame the Assassins? ”

"Prisoner!"

Xu Liang was surprised when he heard this. In the past few months, the bandits in the area have been in full swing, although they have not hurt the important places of the county and prefecture capitals, but the folk rumors have been quite fierce, he thought that Zhang Cai should also attribute the excuse to them, but he never thought that Zhang Cai opened his mouth to be the word prisoner. However, Zhang Cai's next words convinced him.

"First, my lord's trip to Shaanxi this time, although there are many small victories, but compared to quelling the rebellion of King Anhua. Those small victories are not so conspicuous at first glance, so there were many difficulties in the transfer of troops in the capital before, from the cabinet assistant Li Dongyang down, many people have objections, even Lin Shangshu and a few others. If it had been a blatant provocation by the captive, it would have been different. And just preach it. It can be known that this time it was the third prince of the little prince, who was equivalent to the Mongol father Khan, Balsborot, who was afraid and even sent someone to assassinate the adult, which was obviously afraid of the adult like a tiger, so that the reputation of the adult would be as high as the sky. ”…,

Speaking of this, Zhang Cai paused for a moment, and pondered for a moment before continuing: "Second, although it is simple to attribute to the mountain bandits, the imperial court is bound to dispatch a large number of troops to suppress the bandits next, which is invisibly dispersed compared with the use of troops to prepare the border. What's more, so that the mountain bandits and thieves have a defense, they lose the opportunity to calculate unintentionally. Third, Gonggong Liu's suspicion can be washed away for the time being, and he will be relieved to think of it. ”

Xu Liang suddenly realized, and immediately nodded and said, "Okay, if Xun'er hears your words, he will definitely agree." Just do what you said in Xilu, and I'll tell Xun'er when I get back. ”

"Thank you for your trust!" Zhang Cai was afraid that Xu Liang would look forward and backward, and at this moment, seeing that this Xing'an Bo was so recklessly entrusting the big things to himself, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, and while standing up, he arched his hand again, and said solemnly, "In addition, when the adults wake up, please also ask the old man to tell me that this is not what it used to be, and it is difficult for one mountain to accommodate two tigers!" ”

Seeing that Zhang Cai got up to say goodbye after the salute, Xu Liang had to send people to the door of the study, and seeing the people striding away, he stood in place and muttered for a while, and then silently returned to Xu Xun's huge study, and sat down on the wide Huanghuali armrest Taishi chair that Xu Xun often sits. thought that just a few years ago, he was still a poor man who had nothing under the Dazhong Bridge in Nanjing, but now he has everything, to put it mildly, it is still because of his own coincidence that he has a son like Xu Xun. But while being rich and glorious, the price is also considerable.

The mother of the child is worried...... In the Xu family, it was replaced by a son who was worried about his father, and his wife was worried, that kid was a restless master in the capital, and there were also constant incidents outside.

Thinking about it, Xu Liang finally stood up and went to see Shen Yue in person to ask a few words, and then asked people to prepare horses and quietly go out. Three or five horsemen came out of Wu'anhou Hutong, and someone had already quietly followed, and the intelligence news quickly spread to the Liu family's private house in Shajia Hutong.

"After Zhang Cai left, Xu Liang went to the Shouning Marquis Mansion?" Liu Jin, who took leave to return to the private house today, raised his eyebrows, and then sent the messenger away angrily, and snorted softly, "Go back and tell me to go down, and don't stare at Xu Liang." The son hero Lao Tzu pus, he has a little closer contact with the capital is some nominal generals, that is, Shouning Hou, but because of Xu Xun's relationship, he is polite to him. On weekdays, Xu Xun never let him touch his hands on those important matters. Instead of putting limited manpower on him, it is better to pay more attention to Zhang Cai, even Tang Yin is more useful than him! ”

Since Wang Ningheng's death, although the celebrant is Liu Jin's private person. It's okay to respond to every call, but with Wang Ning who can figure out his mind and come up with ideas, there is no one, if it weren't for the fact that he was afraid of changes in front of the palace, he didn't dare to leave the palace for half a step, and he would have returned to this private house a long time ago. Now that Xu Xun is back, he is relieved. I simply asked for leave and came back. At this moment, he saw that Zhang Wenmian and Sun Cong both looked like they wanted to speak and stopped, so he pouted impatiently.

"If you have something to say, our family is not the kind of person who can't hear advice!"

Zhang Wenmian said respectfully: "Father-in-law, the student thinks that Xu Xun is not a person who is eager for quick success, and if he is assassinated on the way back, he must know that he is not the mastermind of his father-in-law......"

The words are not finished yet. Liu Jin sneered and said, "Of course he's not stupid, this slippery kid doesn't know if someone framed him and has a ghost!" But since this matter has come out, I have to find an explanation. For those guys who don't deal with our family, our family's explanation is naturally the most ideal. The emperor doesn't believe it, let those guys who are only shouting and chattering to make trouble, if there is one, we will clean up one, and discipline Xu Xun is hard to speak! Seeing that Zhang Wenmian's reminder was not to the point, Sun Cong flashed a smile in his eyes, and then bent down and said: "Father-in-law, Xu Xun has just come back, if he really wants to make trouble, he will tear his face in front of the emperor before." Just taking a few dead people shows that he doesn't think he can be trusted by his father-in-law. The important thing is that those decrees of my father-in-law! ”

Although Sun Cong slapped a lot of sycophants, Liu Jin did not have the slightest smile on his face, and when he heard the two words of the decree, his face turned even more pale. He, Liu Jin, is not a short-sighted person like Wang Zhen. I only know that I want to appoint private individuals to desperately seize power. This history was written by those literati, so it was crucial to win over a large number of officials under their command. And those rules that have been in use for hundreds of years, those rules that only civil officials can preside over and participate in politics, those decrees that are drafted and implemented by them, these are the foundation of civil officials, and what he wants to do is to destroy these precedents and become the supreme supervisor with the power of the emperor.

"Needless to say, these fluttering words!" Liu Jin waved his hand impatiently, and then ordered in a deep voice, "Tonight, let Jiao Fang, Liu Yu, Cao Yuan, and all of them come here!" ”

When Xu Xun woke up in a dazed state, he found that the light was already in the room. He thoughtfully raised his hand and rested it on his forehead, and then he felt another rumbling in his stomach, but this hunger was a little panicked. He opened his mouth and called out to someone, and when he saw a head poking in and looking at it, he immediately retracted and shouted, and then Shen Yue opened the curtain and entered the room, and he said weakly: "Lady, get me some food, I can eat even a cow now!" ”

"Come on, who told you to do it last night?" Shen Yue knew that Xu Xun was powerless at this time, so she deliberately poked Xu Xun's chin lightly with her fingers, and seeing her husband's helplessness being teased by herself, she laughed and said, "Dad asked again before leaving, the porridge has been paused for a long time in the morning, I just let Ruyi get it." You lie down honestly for me, and I'll feed you! ”

Xu Xun was about to ask where his father went, when he saw Ruyi bring a steaming small clay pot with a boxwood strip plate, first put it on the begonia high table on the side, and then used a porcelain bowl to hold a small bowl, he couldn't help frowning. Before he could complain, after Shen Yue took the bowl, he picked up the spoon and scooped a spoonful, but he didn't blow it and stuffed it into his mouth without saying anything.

Xu Xun, who was startled, thought that this time he was only afraid that his tongue should be numb, but as soon as the porridge was in his mouth, he felt that his mouth melted, and he couldn't help but be stunned for a while. At this time, Shen Yue, who reached out and came back with a spoon, said with a smile: "I'm afraid that you don't care about it when you're hungry, and it's not good to see people when a big bubble burns out of your mouth, so you pause on the fire every hour to keep it warm." There are everything from dried scallops and sea cucumbers to bird's nest and red dates, which is the health porridge I learned from the Duchess of England. ”

Hearing this, Xu Xun only felt that he couldn't cry or laugh. However, the porridge that he probably wouldn't be able to look at on weekdays is now empty in his stomach, something he desperately needs. So, seeing that Shen Yue only fed one spoonful and then didn't move, he could only cough angrily: "Hey, lady." That's not enough to stuff your teeth, go ahead! ”

Seeing that Xu Xun's gaze fell directly on the crockpot, although he said that he wanted to feed him, the look in his eyes clearly wanted to swallow the crockpot together. Shen Yue immediately moved her body to block his gaze, and fed him a bowl of spoonfuls one by one, and when Ruyi fed another bowl together, she stopped her hand, and then said undoubtedly: "Okay, I really have to eat after an hour, I've been hungry for so long." Void is not remedied! ”…,

I know that reasoning with the lady is unreasonable, not to mention that I am still unreasonable at this time. Therefore, Xu Xun leaned back helplessly, and heard the crunching sound of the big bed, and he suddenly asked, "What time is it, where did Dad go out?" ”

"It's almost time now." Seeing Xu Xun's face full of consternation, Shen Yue explained with a smile. "As for Dad, he went to the Shouning Marquis Mansion. At the end of the year, the prince of Shouning Hou was about to get married, because Mrs. Shouning Hou looked at the daughter of the Cao family. is very satisfied with people, Shou Ninghou is now very close to his father, and often drinks and chats with homely people. ”

"Huh? The Cao family has already entered the capital? Xu Xun was stunned for a moment, then patted his head and said, "I forgot about this stubble, so let Cao Qian go back to see his mother and sister!" ”

"Do you still need to say it? He came back from outside in the afternoon with a drunken face, and I told him to go back. Speaking of this, Shen Yue waved his hand to signal Ruyi to sleep, and said what Zhang Cai had seen before Xu Liang, and relayed the two important words that Xu Liang had instructed. Only then did he say with some concern, "But, will others not believe in Master Zhang's idea?" ”

"Jiang is old and spicy, Zhang Xilu's trick is really clever!" Xu Xun thought that he had been abducted and deceived and had managed to get Zhang Cai, and after thinking about it carefully, he knew that Zhang Cai was killing birds with one stone, and he felt even more excited. immediately forgot that he rarely talked about these important things in front of his father and wife, so he said half-lying, "First, the Shaanxi Division is famous, second, it can calm Liu Jin's heart, and third, as long as he rushes to connect up and down, this matter will not make trouble." Of course, if someone still wants to go against Liu Jin, then I can't care about it! ”

Shen Yue is not a deep house woman who doesn't know anything, she raised her eyebrows when she understood it at this moment, and then said with a smile: "No wonder you trust Master Zhang so much, the relationship is because he is the same as you, and he has one ghost idea after another." To say that although Mr. Zhang is fifty years away, he has a personable demeanor and a talent. You are not in these days, the house is a lot deserted, Lord Lin and they rarely come, but Lord Zhang often comes to the door, and he also invited Mr. Tang to go outside the city. I heard Mr. Tang come back and say that when he was in Qingqing, he met some dignitaries and nobles, and he knew that they were your people, so he called them over to drink together, and as a result, the singers they called out a note were all eyebrow-raising with Master Zhang. ”

"Hehe, did Bohu miss himself? Compared with Xilu, he is a lot younger, and those singers should be right! Yes, he now has a wife and daughter, and he used to be in the water, and he scared people away without pretense, right? As for Zhang Xilu, I remember that at the beginning of the year, he seemed to have only accepted a beautiful concubine? ”

"More than half a month before you came back, he added another room pet, and my father even asked people to send congratulatory gifts." Although Shen Yue was a little unimpressed with Zhang Cai's lustful virtues, this was someone else's private matter, and she mentioned it and then gave up, "It's just that I heard from my father that the emperor summoned Master Zhang several times, and it seems that he has plans to use people to enter the ministry." ”

The Ministry of Officials is now in charge of Lin Han, and Zhang Cai's seniority, who was only mentioned last year, is the fourth rank of the right to the imperial history, and when he was first mentioned in the Ministry of Officials, he naturally went to the position of the left and right servants, although this is the promotion path that Xu Xun had planned for Zhang Cai a long time ago, but now when he heard about it, he was still a little surprised. Compared with Lin Han, who is still in the prime of life, Zhang Fuhua, an octogenarian man, is the one who needs the most help in the Metropolitan Procuratorate. However, it is a great step from the fourth grade to the third grade, and I missed the emperor's intention this time, and I don't know when it will be until the next time. He pondered again and again, and suddenly thought of someone in his heart.

Among the four gentlemen of the southern capital, Zhang Mao was in poor health because of the pain of losing his wife and children, so he never had the idea of inviting him into the court, but there should be a "fish that slipped through the net" among the four gentlemen in Jiangnan. I remember that when he went to invite Lin Han and Zhang Fuhua before, the two of them once mentioned that Lin Junding's mother was worried about the funeral at home, counting the days, and now they should live their lives! ..., Xu Xun fell into contemplation unconsciously, until his ears hurt, he came back to his senses and saw Shen Yue quickly withdraw his hand and go back, he was about to reach out and get the person back, but he saw that his wife was already agile enough to stand up, and then smiled at him and said: "It's late at night, husband, please rest well, if you are hungry, call the concubine." There are still people to see tomorrow, please take care of your body, don't be so embarrassed as today! ”

What is treacherous and cunning, Xu Xun thought that he was the best model, but at this moment, seeing that Shen Yue had flashed outside the door, Xu Xun heard the laughter like a silver bell from outside, as well as the voice of lowering his voice and Ruyi's speech, he couldn't help but be angry. He wanted to continue sleeping with a pillow on his pillow, but he slept soundly in the afternoon, and the result of two bowls of porridge was even more uncomfortable, so he had to pull his shoes and get out of bed. I thought that going outside would definitely catch people off guard, but the result was that he quietly walked out of the house after solving it, but found that the outside was empty, so he had to turn around and lie back.

Let's rest for the night, this kind of peaceful day is estimated to be very rare!

This night, Liu Jin's private house was brightly lit. Jiao Fang, Liu Yu, Cao Yuan, and other high-ranking and powerful ones don't talk about it, and in the matter, Li Xian, Zhang Long, etc., only Liu Jin is the first to look forward, and they are all here. After a long conversation and a long speech of loyalty, Liu Jin smiled and watched the group of people wait for the salute to leave, but the hall was empty, so he asked coldly with a gloomy face: "Qian Ning didn't come?" ”

Because Xu Xun, the Pingbei Bo, was deeply trusted by the emperor, most of the generals were willing to make friends with him, and even the Shenying, who had a good relationship with Liu Jin earlier, threw himself in the past, so Liu Jin naturally attached great importance to Qian Ning, a person who was finally pulled over. At this moment, seeing that no one dared to answer, Zhang Wenmian and Sun Cong also avoided their gaze, he couldn't help but pound the handrail heavily, gritted his teeth and asked again: "This guy went to see Xu Xun?" ”

"Probably not." Sun Cong personally sent Xiaolou Mingyue Shang Fenfen to Qian Ning, and Qian Ning gave him a lot of benefits later, so although he knew that Liu Jin was angry, he still tried to say two good words to Qian Ning, "Father-in-law is angry, maybe something in the inner factory is stumbling, and he won't ......be able to leave for a while."

Sun Cong and Qian Ning are good friends, but Zhang Wenmian doesn't look down on such a person at both ends of the head, at this time, without waiting for Sun Cong to finish speaking, he sneered and said: "This guy has always been inflammatory, and his father-in-law recommended him to a high position, so he will naturally be a little kind to you, but if Xu Xun shows dissatisfaction, he will definitely run faster than anyone else." Father-in-law, it's not that the student is alarmist, Qian Ning can't be trusted......"

Before he could finish his words, a small fireman's shrill voice came from outside the door: "Father-in-law, Master Qian is here." ”

Seeing that he was really right, Sun Cong suddenly glanced at Zhang Wenmian triumphantly. However, Liu Jin's face did not improve much, seeing Qian Ning hurriedly entering the house, he didn't even wait for him to salute before he laughed and said, "Lord Qian is such a busy person, our family has already asked someone to send you a letter, you actually waited until everyone else dispersed?" ”

"How dare you be lowly!" Qian Ning keenly noticed that Liu Jin's face was gloomy, and it was obvious that he was really angry, so he simply knelt down with a roll of his eyes, and arched his hand again and said with a sincere face, "Father-in-law, my humble position happened to be stumped by an important matter. It's the unresolved case of leaving a book in the imperial road in the middle of March before, and after so long of investigation, I finally got a few clues, although there is no too conclusive evidence, but this matter should not be those civil officials who complained, and the roots were in the internal officials in the palace! ”

Liu Jin originally planned to teach Qian Ning a good lesson and completely cut off his thoughts of being left and right, but after hearing these words at this time, he couldn't help but stand up, and after a while, he realized his gaffe, and sat down on the armrest again, but still asked in a loud voice: "Who is so bold?" ”

"It's the father-in-law of Dongchang Hill Juqiu!"

PS: Try to change as much as possible tomorrow, the number of words is not guaranteed...... (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )