Chapter 178
"Jin Wuwei General Li Rong worked hard for the king's affairs, made many meritorious deeds, and was promoted to General Zuo Yu Lin Wei, leading the flying cavalry, admiring this. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info" Yang Siqiao unfolded the holy decree and read it in a low voice, "Congratulations to Yuan Ming." ā
Yang Siqiao handed the holy decree to Li Rong, "The Queen Mother knows that your injuries are not light, so she specially allows you to rest at home for three months before taking up a post in the army." ā
The day after Qiu Xingfang's death, the Empress Dowager Wu Zetian sent Yang Siqiao to the Li Mansion and promoted Li Rong to the general of Yulinwei and commanded the flying cavalry, but he was promoted to a large rank.
"The Queen Mother's ears and eyes are sensitive enough, but thank you for it." Li Rong took the holy decree and said, "Seeing that Brother Yang has also reached the sixth rank of martial arts, it is gratifying." ā
After not seeing him for many days, Yang Siqiao's realm has reached the sixth grade of martial arts, and his breath has become more and more obscure, obviously entering the realm is not slow.
"The Queen Mother is really pleased that you can kill Qiu Xingfang." Yang Siqiao said tacitly.
The Qiu family became a thorn in the side of the queen mother, and it became a well-known thing in the palace, and Yang Siqiao, a popular person in the palace, naturally knew it.
The two walked into the inner hall with a smile, Li Rong invited Yang Siqiao to sit down, and the maid came up to serve the tea set and exited the hall.
"Hey, I haven't seen this tea set." Yang Siqiao looked at the tea set in front of him and said.
"I just got the purple clay pot from Jiangnan yesterday, and it's my first time trying it." Li Rong said.
Looking at Li Rong's series of skillful tea-making actions, Yang Siqiao sighed.
The fragrance of tea is curling, the tea leaves are floating and sinking, which is a feast for the eyes, and there is a feeling of relaxation and joy before drinking tea.
After drinking the tea in his arms in one gulp, Yang Siqiao's mood was a lot clearer, and his gloomy heart was alleviated a lot.
"You'll have to give me a set, and this tea." Yang Siqiao said after drinking a few glasses.
"No problem." Li Rong said.
During this trip to the south of the Yangtze River, Li Rong specially ordered people to go to Yangxian, that is, modern Yixing, and asked the local pottery master to take the local clay and burn teapots, teacups and other tea sets according to the specified methods and steps.
Those skilled potters got the guidance given by Li Rong, and after several experiments, they fired an ideal tea set, which was sent to Luoyang in the past few days.
Li Rong sent people to give Di Renjie and Yuan Xingchong two sets, which were praised by the two of them.
At that time, Li Rongke ordered several sets and was going to return to Beijing to give them to his friends, and it was not a big deal to give Yang Siqiao a set.
The two drank and chatted for a long time before parting.
"As soon as Qiu Xingfang died, the Queen Mother's reward arrived, this is to roast you on the fire," Seeing that Yang Siqiao had left, Li Hui came in and said.
"If I don't experience wind and rain, I will meet a rainbow, and I have the confidence to gain a foothold and climb to the peak of martial arts." Li Rong said confidently.
"It's good to have confidence, by the way, the Ghost King sent the Nine Ghost Orchids," Li Hui said with relief, "From today on, you can cultivate the Jade Bone Golden Body, strive to complete the martial arts within three months, and advance to the third realm of the sixth grade." ā
"Yes, father." Li Rong said.
Li Rong received the document of General Lin Wei of Zuo Yu and sent it to the Ministry of War, and the news of Qiu Xingfang's death in the underground palace also reached the ears of Qiu Shenji.
"Bang", the utensils in the study were devoured by blood flames and turned into ashes in an instant.
Qiu Shenji received the news that Qiu Xingfang had died in the underground palace, and when he saw Li Rong's sealed documents, he was furious, and he couldn't control his qi and blood, and he couldn't wait to kill Li Mansion immediately and break Li Rong's body into ten thousand pieces.
The loss of Qiu Xingfang is not just as simple as losing a grandmaster-level master. Qiu Xingfang was in charge of most of the Qiu family's business transactions, coordinating the relationship between the Qiu family and all parties, and no one could take over these things in a hurry, and chaos was inevitable.
Qiu Shenji is superior to his martial arts skills, but he is an official and is busy with official affairs on weekdays, so he can take care of family affairs.
"Damn Li Rong," Qiu Shenji said with a hideous face.
Although Li Rong used a horizontal knife, his peculiar knife technique and dazzling sword aura could not hide the eyes of a grandmaster like a blood ghost, and he would guess Li Rong's identity after a little inquiry.
Having said that, after catching the thief and taking the stolen goods, the Qiu family failed to recognize Li Rong's identity on the spot, and they couldn't keep Li Rong, so they could only knock out their teeth and swallow it themselves.
Being in the center, Qiu Shenji did not have the excitement when he returned from peace. The complicated affairs from all over the country, the mutual conflict between colleagues, and the intricate relationship between various forces made him irritable and wanted to kill, but now when he encountered Qiu Xingfang's affairs, he was even more annoyed.
Of course, Qiu Shenji is not an ordinary person, he is determined, and after getting angry, he began to think about the political implications behind this matter.
"Wu Zetian?" A figure flashed through Qiu Shenji's mind.
From being given the important task of commanding the army to being awarded the title after quelling the chaos, and then to Wu Sansi's intentional or unintentional revelation of the news of the imperial court's attack on the ghost mansion, a large net of conspiracy against the Qiu family is about to come out. Behind all this is undoubtedly the Holy Mother God Emperor Wu Zetian, who sits high on the ninefold top.
Both the imperial court and the ghost mansion chose the Qiu family as the target of the counterattack, the difference is that the imperial court used political tricks to suppress the Luoyang Society by the hand of Li Rong, and the ghost mansion killed people with red fruits.
In the early stage, Wu Zetian needed to control the situation in Luoyang with the help of the Qiu family, but now that the general trend has been decided, he must remove this stumbling block and replace it with the martial arts family himself.
The blood flames around his body contracted with Qiu Shenji's mood, changing into various shapes, and disappeared into invisibility for a long time, revealing his cold and resolute face.
The news of the destruction of the ghost mansion spread all over Luoyang City, falling into the ears of people with hearts, causing a big uproar.
Soon another piece of news came, causing even greater changes in the situation in the DPRK.
Xu Jingzhen, the younger brother of Xu Jingye, who raised the flag of rebellion in Yangzhou during the vertical arch period, returned to the Central Plains from the exile and wanted to flee north to the Turks, but was captured by officials when he fled to Dingzhou. Immediately after Luozhou Sima Gong Heiye, Luoyang ordered Zhang Siming to escape from prison for funding Xu Jingzhen to the north, Gong Siye hanged himself, Zhang Siming and Xu Jingzhen in order to save their lives, under the instruction of Suo Yuanli and Lai Junchen, framed many court ministers for rebellion. Among them, Zhang Siming falsely accused Zhang Guangfu of internal history, and Yun Qi "conquered Yuzhou Day, privately discussed diagrams, astronomy, and both ends of Yin Huai." ā
Zhang Guangfu, who had just become prime minister, died at home. Then the new Qiuguan Shangshu Taiyuan Zhang Chujin, Shaanzhou Assassin Guo Zhengyi, Fengge Shilang Yuan Wanqing, the predecessor Luoyang ordered Wei Yuanzhong to avoid death and exile Lingnan. Nearly 100 internal and external ministers, including the local official Shangshu and Nayan Wei Xuantong, the Xia official Shilang Cui Cha, the governor of Pengzhou, Shi Liu Yicong, the general of the Right Military Guard, Yan Gong Heiya Changzhi, and the Ezhou Assassin Shi Zheng Wang Li Jing, were either executed or exiled.
After some purging, the prestige of the Queen Mother has risen to a higher level, it can be said that the sky is in full swing, no one in the court dares to do the song of the horse, and the children of the Wu family headed by Wu Chenghei began to blatantly spread the news, contacting the ignorant people to write to ask the Holy Mother of God to ascend the throne as the emperor, and even the emperor Li Dan also wrote to resign, imploring his mother to come to the court to be the emperor.
The situation in the DPRK did not affect Li Rong, who was busy cultivating the "Jade Bone and Golden Body".
After a few days of pranayama, Li Rong's injuries recovered somewhat because he had suppressed the remnants of the Blood Flame True Qi after taking the Qinglian Pill, and after a few days, he adjusted his state to the best before he began to cultivate the "Jade Bone Golden Body".
In the martial arts arena in the backyard of the Li Mansion, a large vat made of fine copper was filled with various medicinal herbs, filled with a full vat of water, and placed on a mound of earth, with a solid charcoal stuffed underneath.
The charcoal fire was blazing, burning the copper jar red, and after a while, the water turned into a viscous liquid medicine, gurgling.
Li Rong resolutely jumped into the vat, sat cross-legged to breathe, and absorbed the essence of the medicinal liquid.
A stream of air that seemed to be cold but not cold, like hot but not hot, seeped into the body from the skin, and followed along the meridians, like a small knife cutting the muscles and bones, making Li Rong's head sweat flow, drop by drop falling into the tank.
As the charcoal fire became more and more vigorous, the temperature of the liquid medicine in the copper tank became higher, and bubbles bubbled up one after another, which made people tremble when they saw it.
"San Lang, is there anything wrong with Yuan Ming?" Gweed, who was watching from the side, said with some concern.
Li Hui is the third among many brothers, and Ge Weide is usually called Li Hui Saburo.
"It doesn't matter, Yuan Ming has cultivated the golden bell jar of Shaolin Temple before, and his muscles and bones are strong enough to cultivate this secret method." Li Hui said.
Li Rong latent true qi, guiding the air flow to slowly flow through the meridians and moisturize the skin.
The liquid medicine boiled, but the air flow introduced into the body was as cold as ice, as if it was about to freeze people's qi, blood, muscles and bones together, and even the spirit was stagnant.
This vat full of rare medicines, in addition to the Nine Ghost Orchids, there are also several kinds of five-hundred-year-old fire elixirs with medicinal properties, fused together, the cold is so great, if ordinary people take it, they will immediately die of cold poison.
Maintaining a trace of clarity in the center of his eyebrows, Li Rong followed the method in the ice jade recipe, letting the air flow wash over and over again, and using his heart to capture wisps of cold qi and integrate into the bone marrow, slowly the gray bones became a little whiter.
In the middle of the sound, Li Rong attracted the liquid medicine in the jar, stood up, jumped out of the jar, assumed the posture of Yi Jin Jing, and slowly spit out a breath of turbidity.
Although it was only less than two quarters of an hour's effort, Li Rong felt that his muscles and bones had actually strengthened a little, and his strength had increased a lot, and the medicinal power did have a rare miraculous effect.
"Holy Fire Alchemy Body," back in the quiet room, Li Rong ran the body refining method obtained from Adani, and the true qi in his body turned into Samadhi True Fire, smelting his muscles and bones, and incinerating the impurities brought by the trace of cold qi.