Chapter 152: The Peak Turns Around
Xiao Fan was imprisoned for the seventh day.
The Beijing division is cloudy, the air seems to be filled with a dignified atmosphere, the seemingly calm and waveless court, still every day the court meeting, the ministers casually reported to Zhu Yuanzhang about the large and small government affairs in the Ming Kingdom, people's livelihood, agriculture, rivers, taxes and so on.
The ministers seem to have all suffered from collective amnesia, completely forgetting that when today's son imprisoned Jinyiwei and Xiao Fan in the edict prison, every minister is secretive about it, but when he went to court, he faintly glanced at Huang Zicheng, the official of Chunfang.
For the Qingliu ministers, Huang Zicheng is their leader, their weather vane, if the weather vane does not move, they will not move.
The weather vane was silent for seven days, and there was no movement.
Huang Zicheng is really calm this time, the Son of Heaven has ordered the Criminal Department to try Xiao Fan, it seems that the Son of Heaven is really angry with Xiao Fan, so he doesn't have to come out to impeach Xiao Fan again, when the Son of Heaven wants to die alone, whether he is guilty or not, he has to die, the so-called crime is nothing more than a superficial article for everyone to see, the Son of Heaven wants to live alone, even if this person is heinous, he can live more nourishing than anyone else.
Huang Zicheng, who has been through the ups and downs of the court for a long time, deeply understands this truth, so he is waiting, watching, if Xiao Fan is arraigned by the Criminal Department, he is convicted of a capital crime, and the Son of Heaven decrees that it will be played, then Xiao Fan will be dead, no one can save him, and Huang Zicheng and the Qingliu ministers in the court naturally do not have to come forward to participate in the impeachment.
What Huang Zicheng is worried about now is that the Son of Heaven will be soft-hearted to Xiao Fan, or he will let go of this annihilator, even if he offends Tianyan at that time, he will unite the ministers to jointly send a letter, whether it is a request or persecution, he must make the Son of Heaven firm in his determination to kill Xiao Fan.
At that time, it was the time for him Huang Zicheng to stand up, and the court would either be wiped out, or he would not be able to bear it, and once it was launched, it would be thunderous.
Ming said that it was the sentence of the Criminal Department to interrogate Xiao Fan...... Shohito Palace.
The county lord of Jiangdu faced the empty mirror alone, and tears flowed down his stunning cheeks.
She looked haggard and withered, like a withered flower, and had gradually lost her life, with only a few faint breaths left, proving that she was still alive, living like a walking corpse.
I finally looked forward to the true feelings of my sweetheart, and finally kept the clouds open to see the bright moon, I thought that the future of myself and Xiao Fan was happy and complete, just like the touching little stories that Xiao Fan told her, the prince and princess lived a happy life from then on.
She really hated her innocence, it turned out that once all the good things in this world were touched by the imperial power, they became so hateful. It turned out that she was born in the emperor's family, and it was impossible for her to be with her beloved even if she was in love, and she had never hated and hated her identity as the county lord so much as she did now.
If he was born in a common people's family, how good would it be, why did he become the county lord? Why can't the county lord be a concubine for someone else? Because of the imperial power? Joke! In this life, I just want to marry a handsome young man who treats me like a treasure, even if he has a full house of wives and concubines, even if he has no power or power, so what? As long as he treats me well, this life is begging on the streets, and it is like being in heaven.
Xiao Fan is about to be arraigned by the Criminal Department, with the emperor's will, the arraignment is just a formality, and the death penalty is a foregone conclusion.
As soon as the county lord of Jiangdu thought that his sweetheart was about to be beheaded in the court, the crystal tears became more and more uncontrollable.
Quietly clenched a sharp phoenix hairpin in his sleeve, and the pretty face of the county lord of Jiangdu floated resolutely.
If Xiao Fan dies, she will never live alone, since the emperor's grandfather values the emperor's prestige so much, then let me be a stepping stone for his great majesty, and go to Huangquan with my sweetheart!
After Cao Yi came out of the edict, he hurriedly went to a Qinglou called Dark Xianglou, and threw a few hundred taels of silver to the old bustard, the old bustard saw that he was a person from Jinyiwei, and he was a thousand households, so he naturally didn't dare to say more, and immediately called out some beautiful girls in the Qinglou, and then a group of warblers Yanyan followed a black-faced and bearded Jinyi Wei Qianhu, all the way through the streets and alleys, swaggering through the city to Xiaofu, the slightly dull streets and alleys of the Beijing Division suddenly became violet, and the spring was infinite, and the girls were in the Qinglou for a long time, and their words and deeds were naturally much more frivolous, followed Cao Yi while throwing flattering eyes at passers-by, or scratching his head and posing, or making a few provocative movements, adding a bit of prodigal anger to the streets of Jingshi in early summer.
Cao Yi twitched as he walked.
He felt like an old turtle boy who sent the girl to the lady's house to offer him silver pleasure,—— which was indeed the case.
Now he was thinking about whether to simply skip the seduction program and put a fire on those two old guys...... The apprentice is in trouble, the master actually refuses to save him, and he has to rely on this kind of indiscriminate method to lure the master out, if the master insists on refusing to come out, the apprentice will set fire to the master...... Cao Yi felt more and more that this pair of masters and apprentices was too weird, and they were both very ruthless to each other.
Walking and stopping all the way, Cao Yi tried to ignore the pointers of passers-by at him and the group of girls behind him, and finally reached the Xiao Mansion.
It didn't matter if the few henchmen who followed Cao Yi, they played with the girls while walking, and they enjoyed it very much.
As soon as he stepped into the door of the Xiao Mansion, Cao Yi let out a long sigh of relief, and asked about the room where Zhang Sanfeng and Taixu were retreating, Cao Yi waved his hand, and under the strange gaze of the people under the Xiao Mansion, a group of girls from the Qinglou followed Cao Yi and walked in, twisting their waists and swinging their hips all the way, sprinkling countless silver bell-like ...... Laughing.
Coming to the door of the wing room on the left side of the front yard, Cao Yi took a deep breath, looked at the closed door, and said loudly: "Two old immortals, Xiao Fan is in trouble, and he urgently needs the two old immortals to help, both of them are Xiao Fan's elders, and they can't die without helping!" Please also invite the two old immortals to meet each other! ”
There was silence in the wing room for a long time, and suddenly there was a leisurely and long sigh, and the tone was very otherworldly, like a heavenly immortal sound, distant and unpredictable, but with a bit of majesty.
"Amitayus Buddha, the poor Taoist is in retreat with his senior brother, and he has not broken through the realm of martial arts for many years, and the realm does not break through, and he vows not to go out, as the so-called 'essence is the essence, the object is the coarseness, the accumulation is insufficient, and the gods live alone'......"
Cao Yi stood outside the door and frowned, turned his head and asked Steward Zhang of Xiao Mansion on the side of the escort: "What did he say?" ”
Steward Zhang smiled: "The little one is not clear, most of the two of them are double cultivating in it......"
Two old men locked up in a room for double cultivation?
Are all cultivators so evil?
Cao Yi's brows furrowed again, no matter what, as long as they are willing to come out, even if they perform on the street, Cao Yi is willing to help them beat gongs and drums for publicity.
"The two old immortals are gracious, save Xiao Fan, he is your junior, the juniors are in trouble, how can you sit idly by?"
Taixu coughed twice inside, and said with a little weakness: "This...... Amitayus Buddha, poor path retreat, really can't come out, after three years and five years, after the poor path out of the customs will definitely save him, you let him live hard for a few years, wait for the poor path to come out, then talk about ......"
Cao Yi was so angry that his heart was on fire, is this fucking human talk? How many years can I live, what else can I ask you to do?
Turning his head with a gloomy face, Cao Yi looked at the group of warblers and warblers in the Qinglou behind him, pointed to the wing room and said to them: "Which of you can help me seduce the two old men inside, and the official will reward her with one hundred taels, no, one thousand taels of silver!" Talk the talk! ”
When the girls heard this, their eyes suddenly lit up. This is a big customer, a thousand taels of silver, more than enough to redeem himself.
As a result, all the girls originally pretended to be shy and reserved, but now they were all thrown aside, and everyone lined up in a row, and tried their best to seduce the two old immortals who were in retreat at the door of the wing.
"Two old immortals, you come out, the slave family misses you so much, as long as you come out, the slave family ...... Anything willing. "It's subtle.
"Old man, you come out, the slave family will give you a quality control blow job and sing in the backyard, only what you can't think of, there is nothing that the slave family can't do...... this is a technical school.
"Two old brothers, my own brother, the slave's legs are so white, and the breasts are also very big, you come out to take a look, oops, the slave is so itchy, you come out and help the slave scratch it...... "This is a direct selling faction."
"A pair of bright moons are close to the chest, amethyst grapes and jasper are round, the husband is crispy under the window, and a few dewdrops of gold stems hang ......" This is a graceful school.
"Bang, bang, bang!" Kicking the door. - This is a bold school that gets straight to the point.
…………………… In the front yard of Xiao Mansion in broad daylight, there was a lot of hustle and bustle, and the silver waves fluttered to convey the ...... outside the sky The girls rushed to evaluate the title, all of them were full of energy, high morale, gritted their teeth, and their sideburns were messy, where did this seem to seduce men, it was clearly a group of hungry wolves who saw two pieces of big fat meat, and rushed up.
Cao Yi looked at the noisy scene in front of him, and couldn't help but wipe a cold sweat silently, from ancient times to the present, seducing men to seduce a group of girls whose eyes were bloodshot and drenched in sweat, only now and now...... In the wing room, Zhang Sanfeng is profound in the end, and there is no reaction yet.
Taixu couldn't sit still, and the girls hooked up for a while, and there was a sound of laughter that Taixu couldn't hold back.
"Don't worry, fairy aunts, the poor road will come out ......"
"Senior brother!" Zhang Sanfeng's angry shout.
"Ahh Senior Brother ......"
"Calm down!"
"Yes." It's too vain and immediately regular.
"A cultivator who is not strong in the Dao heart, how can he transcend the world and become an immortal and attain the Tao?"
"Senior brother, I was wrong."
“…… After leaving the customs, let's go to the Qinglou by ourselves. ”
"Yes."
Then, Taixu's reluctant voice came from inside: "Immortal Gu, please go back, Poor Dao cultivates sincerely, and I will never go out today, and when I come, I will turn all Immortal Gu into immortals again......"
The girls were disappointed when they heard everything, so they turned love into hate, and began to point to the door of the wing room unwillingly and scolded.
Cao Yi was so angry that he stomped his feet, this Zhang Sanfeng is really eventful! It almost succeeded, but it was all stirred up by his cold drink.
scolded a few times with hatred in his heart, Cao Yi gritted his teeth, turned his head and said viciously to several Jinyi lieutenants behind him: "You burned this house for Lao Tzu!" Burn it clean! ”
Several lieutenants clasped their fists: "Yes!" ”
Steward Zhang next to him was shocked: "Lord Cao, you ...... What do you mean by that? My lord has only been in prison for a few days, and you have burned his house, aren't you friends and brothers? ”
Cao Yi waved his hand impatiently: "Your master asked me to burn it." ”
"Nonsense! How could my lord say such bastard things? It's his own house......"
"It's okay to dodge! Don't get in the way! When your master comes out, you ask him yourself......"
When the two of them were pulling and pulling, the captains in brocade clothes had already lit the prepared torches and threw them into the roof window of the two old immortals' retreat, and suddenly they saw the fire inside and outside the house, and the thick smoke covered the entire house, and the fire soon became bigger and bigger.
Steward Zhang Leng watched the house being burned, and couldn't help beating his chest with anger, crying: "It's over, it's over!" When the master comes back, he will definitely blame me for not keeping the house well, surnamed Cao, the old man's job was smashed by you......"
Cao Yi patiently explained: "No, this is really what your master asked me to burn......"
"You're still talking nonsense! The old man didn't count on it anyway, so I'm fighting with you today......"
At this time, I could only hear a choking cough in the burned wing, and then, the roof with thick smoke suddenly slammed twice, and two smoked duck-like figures smashed through the roof, rising into the sky, and the person was still in the air, and then I heard Taixu shouting with a crying voice: "The surname Cao, I say that you are the ancestor!" You win, you win! Won't my brother and I go to save that criminal? It's so fucking vicious! ”
Cao Yi laughed, waved his hand vigorously, and shouted: "Quick, put out the fire!" ”
In the night of the Jingshi breeze slowly, in the quiet, there were a few bangzi sounds in the distance, knocked twice and paused, it was already the second watch.
In Wuyi Lane in the west of the city, three black shadows merged with the night, and quietly approached the corner of the street of Yanwang Courtyard.
Taixu covered his face, looked at the guards outside the Yanwang Courtyard from a distance, snorted stupidly, and then sniffled: "Why does Poor Dao always smell a smell of fireworks?" ”
Cao Yi, who was also covering his face, couldn't help but smile and said: "Smoke ascends to the immortal realm, this is a good sign for the old immortal to quickly cultivate to the positive fruit and rank in the immortal class......"
Zhang Sanfeng sneered: "Fart! Obviously it was smoked by fire during the day......"
Taixu looked at the heavily guarded Yanwang Courtyard, frowned, and said, "So many people are guarding? How can a prince's courtyard be more tense than the palace Ouchi? And there's a smell of saber-rattling, do they know we're coming? ”
Cao Yi smiled dryly: "I quarreled with King Yan during the day, and I gave him a few cruel words......
Taixu glanced at him: "So King Yan has strengthened his vigilance to guard against us?" ”
“…… Yes, too. ”
Tai Xuan said: "Aren't you making trouble for yourself?" Da Ming Da Liang told King Yan that we were going to scare him, this move was not only stupid, it was simply ...... Stupidity! ”
Cao Yi frowned and smiled dryly.
Zhang Sanfeng smiled proudly: "But that's it, back then, Poor Dao participated in the anti-Yuan resistance, and millions of troops came and went freely, and he also took the head of the general, and there were only hundreds of Yanwang guards, what is the use?" ”
Cao Yi was overjoyed and said: "In this way, there will be a hard trip for the old immortals, let's touch it in......"
Zhang Sanfeng nodded: "Okay!" When I go in with my junior brother, you won't work lightly, and you will be guarding outside......"
Cao Yi hurriedly nodded in agreement.
So Zhang Sanfeng and Taixu stood up, tidied up the night clothes on their bodies, and were about to fly into the wall of Yanwang's courtyard with light skills, Zhang Sanfeng was stunned, turned his head again, and said slowly: "Before leaving, there is something in the poor road that I haven't figured out......
Cao Yi hurriedly said: "Old immortal, please say ......"
Zhang Sanfeng looked puzzled and said blankly: "...... What the hell are we going to do tonight? ”
Cao Yi broke out in a cold sweat and said with tears: "...... Scare the Yan King. ”
Zhang Sanfeng suddenly realized: "Oh-"
Before Cao Yi could breathe a sigh of relief, Zhang Sanfeng said coldly: "...... Why scare King Yan? ”
Cao Yi's eyes were a little moist, and he gritted his teeth and said, "...... In order to save your nephew Xiao Fan. ”
Zhang Sanfeng was taken aback: "Does the poor road have a nephew? Who? Who is Xiao Fan? Do you know the poor road? ”
Cao Yi burst into tears, and the five-foot-tall man wiped his tears like a wronged child.
Taixu has known Zhang Sanfeng for a long time and knows him very well.
He stepped forward at the right time, patted Cao Yi's shoulder comfortingly, and then said to Zhang Sanfeng: "Senior brother, after this vote, Cao Xian's nephew is willing to invite us to visit the kiln, and give a belly pocket with body fragrance for senior brother to enjoy, what does senior brother think?" ”
Zhang Sanfeng looked relieved, stroked his long beard, looked like a fairy wind and bones, and said with a smile: "You said this earlier, I know it......"
Cao Yi was dumbfounded: "............"
Two black shadows rose into the air, paused silently in mid-air, and then the sleeves of the robe were spread, like two big black birds, and they didn't feel that they flew into the wall of the Yanwang Courtyard, and the guards of the Yanwang Courtyard were unaware of it, and they were still patrolling around calmly and leisurely.
Cao Yi stood around the corner, opened his mouth wide and watched with amazement and reverence as the black shadow merged with the night, and then disappeared silently into the wall, Cao Yi said with a voice in his mouth, in the end, he was a peerless master, his skills were really high, and it was still necessary to ask these two to come out with all his might.
Early the next morning, the atmosphere in the Jingshi court became more and more tense and solemn.
Today is the day when the Criminal Department interrogated Xiao Fan, in other words, it is the day when Xiao Fan was convicted.
There was a heavy atmosphere in the court, and the ministers were uneasy, and today it was extraordinary, and they didn't know if something would happen...... Lined up, arranged shifts, Fengtian Hall saw the driver, everything was carried out in an orderly manner as usual, and in the silence, a strange and inexplicable atmosphere in the Golden Palace gradually condensed...... Inside the Yanwang Courtyard.
A terrible and angry roar shattered the silence of the morning.
"Ahh......h What about the king's beard? What about the beard? ”
A guard hurriedly ran into King Yan's bedroom and said, "Your Highness, Cao Yi, a thousand households of Jinyi Guard, is here again, and is waiting for His Highness in the inner hall......"
Zhu Di's heart sank, he got up and took the bronze mirror, looking at himself in the mirror, he used to have a hairy and bearded face, but now his chin is smooth like a white-faced child, and his beard has been shaved cleanly, and there is no stubble left...... A chill rushed from the soles of his feet to the top of Zhu Di's head.
Who is it? Who has such great ability to shave the king's beard in the middle of the night without realizing it under such strict guards? He can shave my beard, so wouldn't it be as easy for him to take my head as it was to get my head?
For the first time in his life, Zhu Di felt fear, it turned out that he was asleep, so he unconsciously walked through the ghost gate, thinking of this, Zhu Di was soaked in cold sweat, and couldn't help but tremble a few times.
Outside the bedroom, Cao Yi's heroic voice came from afar: "His Royal Highness King Yan, have you changed your mind?" If His Royal Highness still does not change his original intention, the lower official will come again......"
Zhu Di's eyes suddenly turned red, his angry gaze burned like fire, the cheeks on the side of his face bit loudly, but his fist hit out fiercely, and a heavy punch pierced the bronze mirror in front of him.
Staring at the blood-red eyes, Zhu Di's cheeks twitched, and he said word by word to the guards in the room: "Go and tell Cao Yi that this king will enter the palace,...... Recognize Chang Ning as a daughter, and ask her father to restore her title of county lord! ”
(To be continued)