Chapter 87: Take care of my apprentice
Fan Wuyi had a big wish, but he felt a lot more relaxed, and he didn't care if it was the middle of the night, he directly broke the window and entered Zhang Ru's room.
This sudden change frightened Zhang Ru to turn over and get up from the bed, and grabbed the embroidered spring knife hanging at the head of the bed.
"Don't take the knife, the old man wants to kill you, and he won't give you a chance to take the knife." Fan Wuyi found a stool to sit down on and said while lighting the fuel lamp.
Zhang Ru breathed a sigh of relief after hearing the familiar voice, rubbed his eyes and smiled bitterly: "I said that senior, are you idle and panicked, why don't you let me sleep if you don't sleep in the middle of the night." ”
"The old man is leaving." Fan Wuyi's voice sounded a little lonely, and the thin back under the dim light of the oil lamp made it even more lonely.
Zhang Ru was obviously stunned, and then walked to the opposite side of Fan Wuyi with his shoes on his feet, waiting for a pair of bull's eyes to look at Fan Wuji for a while: "What's the situation?" ”
Entering the world and being born is no different for a Taoist priest.
Now that his wish has been fulfilled, he is born to escape the world and enjoy his old age in peace, which is his best choice.
Fan Wuyi looked at the young man in front of him with a somewhat flustered expression, and couldn't help but feel a sense of pride, although the time to protect him was not long, he still had a little conscience, and he knew that he was worried about himself.
"After a grudge that has been sealed for 30 years, now there is no concern except Fan Tong. The old man walked the rivers and lakes and killed countless people, in the words of those old bald donkeys in Buddhism, it is a deep sin, and now it is also the year of ear shun, and finding a place with beautiful mountains and rivers to enjoy his old age is the life that the old man should choose. Fan Wuyi said lightly.
As he himself said, except for Fan Tong, there is no more concern.
Even if Zhang Ru is in a high position, he doesn't pay much attention to it. At least in the opinion of Fan Wuyi, who had an extremely calm personality when he was young, some of the methods used by Zhang Ru were inevitably a little too shady. Moreover, Zhang Ru never blinked when he killed people, and he didn't do it himself, but countless people died at the hands of his subordinates. His ruthlessness was not a suitable object of assistance in Fan Wuyi's opinion.
Besides, Fan Wuyi's current ability is only difficult to compare with in today's world, and he doesn't need to assist a so-called dignitary to achieve his goals.
After getting along for half a year, although there was little communication, there was still a trace of inexplicable emotion in his heart, Zhang Ru said very lowly: "Can you not go?" I'll find you a place with beautiful mountains and rivers, and I'll collect what you want. ”
A look of unbearability crossed Fan Wuyi's eyes, it seemed that he had been following this young man for almost half a year, and it was not until this moment that this child really looked like a child.
He didn't speak, in fact, not that he didn't want to speak, but that he couldn't find a suitable reason to refuse.
After a while, Fan Wuyi laughed: "I didn't expect that there would be a child who values the old man so much." All right! You find me a place with beautiful mountains and rivers, and get ten or eight slaves, and the old man can enjoy the blessings. But Fan Tong, you have to take care of me, although my apprentice is a little stupid, but he is down-to-earth. If he has three longs and two shorts, don't blame the old man for turning his face and not recognizing people. ”
Zhang Ru said solemnly: "Don't worry, I won't fall, no one can do anything to him; I'm down, and no one will do anything to him. ”
Fan Wuyi stroked the gray beard under his chin, and couldn't help nodding: "This promise, the old man wrote it down, after returning to Beijing, find a good place for the old man, a month, a month without a good place, the old man left by himself." ”
Zhang Ru nodded: "It's late at night, go and rest!" ”
Fan Wuyi said with a smile: "The old man is an old immortal, even if he doesn't eat, drink or sleep for three days, it's fine, but you are a young man, you have to sleep a little more." ”
He smiled strangely, and without waiting for Zhang Ru to ask, he had already gone out.
The two brocade-clothed guards at the door were shocked when they saw Fan Wuyi walking out of Zhang Ru's room, they didn't know how Fan Wuyi entered Zhang Ru's room, and even, the sound of the two talking was not small, they didn't hear it.
Fan Wuyi walked away, and the poor two brocade-clothed guards were worried for most of the night, but the next day they knelt in front of Zhang Ru to plead guilty.
At that time, Zhang Ru seemed to have completely given up all suspicions about Fan Wuyi, an old man of unknown origin, and only wanted to keep him by his side.
The team started again, the speed has accelerated a lot, the team has accelerated the speed, and the happiest person is Zhang Peng. The road was bumpy, and his old bones were about to be torn apart, and if he didn't return to the capital soon, he was afraid that his body would not be able to hold on.
At this time, within the capital, the call for reversal was getting louder and louder, not only the officials of the Six Divisions and the Imperial History Tower, not only some low-level officials in the Six Ministries, but even many people from the Hanlin Academy joined the ranks of the crusade.
It seems that the reason why the Ming Dynasty has developed to the point where it is today is completely caused by Zhang Ru. The situation was much bigger than the crusade against Wang Zhi back then, and there were many more officials who joined than the officials who crusaded against Wang Zhi.
Every official said it conclusively, and every book of recitals was full of Zhang Ru's crimes.
What kind of careless and disrespectful words about human life are light, and even the imperial historian who is famous for Bo actually deducted the charge of rebellion and rebellion on Zhang Ru's head. said that he entered the military camp of the border army in Liaodong many times, ate and lived with the soldiers to win the hearts of the army, and said that his unsubservient heart was clearly revealed.
Each of these people who participated in the crusade longed for Zhang Ru not to return to the capital, and he should die on the way, as if Zhang Ru was the kind of heinous person who could not be cut by a thousand knives.
Zhu Jianshen, who had lived in the Dongnuan Pavilion for a long time, was really annoyed, and among the elders of the pavilion, except for Wan An and Liu Mian who spoke for the official many times, Liu Jue rarely joined the ranks of the crusade against Zhang Ru.
Rao is like this, there are too many voices chattering in his ears, he simply didn't even go to court, and simply lived in Wan Guifei's bedroom. Even the crown prince Zhu Youzhu went to greet him every day, and he went to the palace of Wan Guifei.
In the Great Interior, except for Li Guang, a henchman left by Liang Fang, no second person can find the trace of the emperor at any time.
Wan Zhen'er is old, and after half a hundred, she no longer has a face, except for maintaining her status by relying on the unreasonable and chaotic family affection in the emperor's heart, she can no longer influence the emperor's thoughts.
Not only her, but also her younger brother Wan Tong was rarely able to speak in front of the emperor.
Zhu Jian has been in a daze for decades, and the mediocre decades seem to have opened his mind in an instant. The pillow wind had no effect on him, and he pretended not to hear what Wan Guifei was saying.
When people are old, they know a lot of things, but they can't say them anymore.
Half a month later, Zhang Ru returned to Beijing, no one in the capital greeted him, and what was waiting for him was the officials of Dali Temple, as well as a pair of heavy flails.
The people of the Jinyi guard immediately greeted him: "My family has not yet been convicted, why do you put shackles on him." ”
"My Jinyiwei has his own Zhaojiao, and there is no will of His Majesty, so you have to be pretentious!"
"My Jinyi Guard, when will it be your turn to take care of Dali Temple."
A few brocade-clothed guards rode one by one, saying that they were speechless when they didn't really want to hold Zhang Ru down, they were just ordered to come and give Zhang Ru a dismount, and they didn't really have the authority to let Zhang Ru wear the heavy flail that only death row prisoners would wear.
Zhang Ru didn't even glance at these little people who acted as forwards, and entered the city with his head held high.
Zhang Peng, who was not far behind him, walked past a few Dali Temple officials, and his eyes swept viciously. These people made him feel disgraced, and at the same time, he felt that some people in the capital did not take the people of the military department too seriously.
No matter what, Zhang Ru is also the governor of the Nine Sides, that is a person from the Ministry of War, and Zhang Peng, the secretary of his Ministry of War, didn't say anything, why did Dali Temple stretch out its claws.
Let's not say that Zhang Peng gave Dali Siqing a big hang afterwards, let's just say that after Zhang Ru entered the city, he and Zhang Peng entered the palace through the noon gate as soon as possible.
After Emperor Zhu Jianshen learned the news of his return, his sick body was half better in an instant, and after dressing up neatly, he went from Chengqian Palace to Dongnuan Pavilion. Zhu Youzhang, the crown prince of Yuqing Palace, even ignored the summons and went to Dongnuan Pavilion to wait.
Goodbye Zhang Ru, Zhu Jianshen sighed a lot, only to feel that the child in front of him had grown a lot taller and matured a lot. The wind and frost in Liaodong made his originally slightly green face more resolute, his straight backbone, and his eyes that were neither humble nor arrogant, all made Zhu Jianshen look at it in his eyes and be sweet in his heart.
There are a lot of eyes in the court, and there are even more eyes of that person in the inner palace, Zhu Jianshen is not good at acting too eagerly, and deliberately said with a straight face: "Zhang Ru, you are guilty." ”
Zhang Ru knelt on one knee and made a military salute, and stood up on his own without waiting for Zhu Jianshen to let him get up: "The minister doesn't know what the minister is guilty of." ”
"Li Guang, bring me the fold." Zhu Jianshen shouted in a low voice at Li Guang.
The thin Li Guang dragged a large box of folds with great difficulty, placed them in front of Zhang Ru, and then returned to the emperor's side backwards.
Zhang Ru didn't look at those twists and turns, and said lightly: "If you want to add to the crime, there is no excuse, these imperial historians have nothing to do when they are full, they only know how to accuse the border generals, but they have never thought about whose protection is it that allows them to attack with their tongues in the court." Without the border army, the ministers didn't know if they could still scold the 300,000 iron horsemen under the command of the little Tatar prince Batu Munk with an indefatigable tongue. ”
Zhu Jianshen sighed: "Tomorrow's court meeting, you defend yourself." ”
Zhang Ru nodded: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for believing in your subordinates." ”
"I don't trust anyone, your matter, I have been handed over to the Criminal Department, Dali Temple, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate for trial. Take off your sins at home for a while, and don't go anywhere. Zhu Jianshen hid his joy and said lightly.
Zhang Ru respectfully knelt on one knee: "Minister, obey the order!" ”
Zhu Jianshen waved his hand: "Go back!" You and the prince haven't seen each other for a long time, so let's catch up. ”