Chapter 43: The Butcher

In the lingering medicinal fragrance of the East Palace, two jars of different medicines were bubbling. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Pang Wanyue stopped fanning her hand and wiped her sweat, looked at Qi Jiang on the side hesitantly, and asked, "What is the origin of that person?" ”

Qi Jiang paused for a moment, and then replied lightly as if nothing had happened: "Civilians in a small county in Yuezhou. ”

"Yuezhou?" Pang Wanyue keenly grasped the point, "You were assassinated before, it was in Yuezhou. ”

"In Yuezhou, he was the one who saved me. The Wei River flooded, and he was requisitioned to serve in Weicheng and helped me a lot. Qi Jiang glanced at the man lying quietly on the soft couch in the hall, and his eyes were clear.

It was really strange, Pang Wanyue's heart moved slightly, and she looked at Qi Jiang's demeanor but didn't say anything.

"I've tested that recipe," Qi Jiang turned to the medicines that Jiang Qiao brought back: "Although I can't understand what the names of those medicines refer to, the source is reliable." Jiang Qiao couldn't tell if the names of the medicines were right or not, but with his personality, he wouldn't take them out without a ten. ”

My brother's current situation is not allowed to pick and choose.

Gathering his sadness, Qi Jiang wrapped the handle of the pot with a rag and poured all the brown medicinal juice in the medicine pot into the jade bowl.

Pang Wanyue's eyes kept on Qi Jiang's body, watching her personally walk to the person with the bowl in her hand, and then gently shake the other party. The man, Jiang Qiao, opened his eyes almost immediately. Qi Jiang couldn't see his expression when he turned his back to her, but looking at the man's gentle smile, Pang Wanyue knew that probably this highness who had always been cold and affectionate also had a similar expression.

"Drink the medicine." Ah Jiang held the hand of the jade bowl and handed it to Jiang Qiao.

Jiang Qiao blinked his eyes and deliberately showed a pitiful appearance: "Sore hands." ”

Ah Jiang looked at him expressionlessly, and it was not easy to distinguish emotions in the black holes of his eyes, which made Jiang Qiao feel slightly uncomfortable in his heart.

"I ......"

"Open your mouth."

Jiang Qiao's heart was relieved, and he immediately did it obediently. Ah Jiang scooped a spoonful of medicinal juice and fed it to Jiang Qiao's lips but suddenly withdrew back. Jiang Qiao was a little stunned, but saw Ah Jiang approaching the spoon and blowing it gently.

Jiang Qiao's eyes widened slightly. He still remembers that when he was at Chen Yuanwai's house in Qingfeng County, he hid in the rockery with Ah Jiang in his arms, and she was talking next to his face, and the feeling of exhaling like an orchid.

After slowly feeding the bowl of medicine spoonful by spoonful, Jiang Qiao was flattered to accept Ah Jiang's treatment of wiping the medicine stains from the corners of his mouth personally, until she pressed and lay back, until she slowly walked out of his sight with an empty bowl, and until he was wrinkled with a bitter face...... He is still rippling in Ah Jiang's awkward gentleness.

Moving his limbs, Jiang Qiao pillowed his arms and silently thought about the changes in Ah Jiang.

According to her temperament, no matter how anxious and anxious she is about the prince's condition, she will definitely calm down when she wakes up. Naturally, those people would also tell her where she was, so Ah Jiang would wait for him at the city gate. Jiang Qiao smacked his lips and accidentally discovered a beautiful misunderstanding:

It was early in the morning when they entered the palace, and at that time, even Ah Jiang's emperor father had not yet gone down to the court, and when he left the palace after playing majestic to those imperial doctors in the East Palace, it was estimated that Ah Jiang would wake up not long after. She waited at the gate of the city until midnight, and when she saw him coming back covered in blood, she would definitely think that those medicinal materials were not easy to come by, and he got them by "nine deaths and one life".

According to Ah Jiang's little temper that is cold on the outside and hot on the inside, I can't tell how the sky and the earth are falling apart in my heart! Touching his chin, Mr. Jiang did not intend to clarify the facts.

But not long after he was satisfied, he narrowed his eyes again. The little girl seems to have changed a little......

Before he could figure out a clue, a fat-faced eunuch stopped in front of the couch, Jiang Qiao raised his eyes and guessed the identity of his master on the extraordinary clothes.

"Jiang Qiao." Ah Jiang's steps were slightly hurried, and he didn't look at the eunuch when he walked, and said directly to Jiang Qiao: "My father wants to see you, you go with him, if there is anything bad to answer, he directly says that he doesn't know, and I will return later." ”

Hearing Princess Yining's self-proclaimed and protective meaning in her words, the eunuch's expression changed for a moment, but he quickly recovered his original respectful and not flattering expression.

Nodding wordlessly to Ah Jiang, Jiang Qiao calmly followed the eunuch out, and began to move his hands and feet slightly when Ah Jiang's sight came out.

His body was really on the verge of collapse last night, but now it is really healed. Although I don't feel that I will be pushed out by His Majesty the Emperor, I still have to prepare well.

I don't know where they went, they finally arrived in front of an atmospheric and majestic palace, the eunuch's chubby face restrained a polite smile, and made a gesture of invitation to Jiang Qiao with a tense face.

Jiang Qiao controlled his legs, feet and eyes well, and when he saw the dragon-tattooed ink robe of the person on the throne from a distance, he immediately stopped, and then simply knelt on the ground on his knees, slammed his forehead on the ground, and said clearly: "Long live the grass people Jiang Qiao, please see my emperor!" ”

The emperor on the seat was silent and did not scream, his eyes seemed to be looking at Jiang Qiao for a while, and his eyes contained many years of coercion as a human emperor, which made Jiang Qiao, a visitor from another world, suddenly feel a little like a man's back.

The atmosphere in the hall seemed to be frozen, Jiang Qiao pondered the psychology of being an emperor, deliberately controlled his body trembling slightly, and let himself show a little bit of youthful stubbornness that was annoyed and ashamed and refused to admit defeat.

Sure enough, Emperor Qi said to him with a kind of condescending affinity: "Get up." ”

Jiang Qiao stood in the hall with low eyebrows, listening to the emperor's voice echoing in the empty palace: "Yi Ning wrote you an order, and also gave you his token, you humiliated the feudal officials in Leizhou and drank the order Xinglin Guoshou in the East Palace, why did you come to me and call yourself 'grass people'?" ”

"Your Majesty," Jiang Qiao seemed to be trying his best to restrain the panic in his heart, and his voice was trembling at first: "The matter is urgent, Her Royal Highness the princess had no choice but to temporarily assign an official position to the grass people, and the grass people have not gone through the imperial examination, and no one has recommended them for the time being, and it is not an official position given by His Majesty himself, so naturally he does not dare to overstep it." ”

"'Falling red is not a ruthless thing, turning into spring mud is more protective of flowers', Jiang Qing is a great talent, why is he not willing to actively join the ranks, but instead make my daughter suffer the crime of cronyism and contempt for the law!"

It's almost a matter of asking for sin.

Jiang Qiao didn't care about Emperor Qi's pretense, he quickly speculated in his heart about who the person lurking beside Ah Jiang was, and replied respectfully: "Father and brother are newly mourned, and the grass people have been filial piety to their father for three years according to the law, and they only showed filial piety last year, but they are suffering from no entanglement, and the old mother and weak nephew can't be taken care of by no one, so he gave up the idea of the imperial examination, and killed pigs and sold meat in the town for a living." ”

"With Yiqing's talent, he wants to stoop down to be a lowly butcher?" Emperor Qi's words were filled with anger, "I asked for the Magi all over the place, but I didn't expect the Magi to be like this!" ”

With this violent voice, Jiang Qiao knelt down steadily, and raised his face to show the perseverance in his eyes: "Your Majesty forgives the sin, the grass people don't think that the butcher is lowly, and they don't think that Wenchen is superior. ”

"Oh?" The emperor asked lightly, and his momentum pointed directly at Jiang Qiao.

Jiang Qiao knew that if he couldn't satisfy him, he wouldn't be good today. But...... He suppressed the excitement in his heart, flattened the corners of his mouth and did not reveal his ambitions and calculations.

"You don't see, the lion and tiger prey has gained prestige, who has pity for the poor elk? The world has always been strong and weak, even if it is reasonable, it is in vain. Jun Xiu asked, men have their own men. Men should be violent. Things and benevolence do not stand. Men are in the killing arena, as bold as a bear and as a wolf. If you are born as a man, you will kill people, and you will not teach a man's body to wrap a woman's heart. Men never show mercy to themselves, and they laugh at their opponents. There are 100 battlefields in the field of revenge, and there are weeds everywhere. The man does not tremble, there is a song to listen to: killing one is a crime, and slaughtering ten thousand is a hero. Slaughter 9 million, that is, the male of the male. The male is the male, the way is different: see through the thousand-year-old name of benevolence and righteousness, but make this life majestic. Good name does not love bad name, and murder is not punished. I'd rather teach 10,000 people to grit their teeth and hate it, and don't teach anyone to scold my name! ”

"What did you say?" Emperor Qi slapped his palm heavily on the desk, leaned forward and drank Jiang Qiao repeated.

Without missing the excitement and praise in those words, Jiang Qiao honestly recited it again, and then solemnly kowtowed with his hands flat: "Your Majesty, what Jiang Qiao wants is not to be a great Confucian who has a reputation in the literary world, but to be a fierce general who will defend the territory for me!" ”

"What a 'killing one is a crime, and slaughtering ten thousand is a hero'! Qing sells meat on the street, but he wants to tell me about his ambitions! Emperor Qi was overjoyed, and personally stepped down from the throne to help Jiang Qiao, "Qing has the courage of 'smiling and laughing at the enemy', which is already a hundred times better than others!" ”

Jiang Qiao hurriedly swept the face of Emperor Qi that was somewhat similar to the crown prince, and humbly bowed his hand: "The Wen family's army is famous, and the grass people dare not boast. ”

This sentence, intentionally or unintentionally, made the emperor's good mood discounted, he patted Jiang Qiao's shoulder, turned around and sat back again.

"Yi Ning is willing to use you, which means that you are indeed brave and loyal, and I can trust my princess, so I can naturally trust you." Emperor Qi took out a piece of music and threw it to Jiang Qiao, and lowered his voice: "General Zhenbei asked me for a decree that if you want to marry Yining, who is like a flower and jade, you must empty the military power of the Wen family within a year." ”

Wen Shaojie really didn't die. Jiang Qiao sneered.

"The minister will live up to His Majesty's expectations!"