After a snowfall, the back garden of the Marquis of Xining was a dazzling snow white, the stumps and leaves of the garden were covered, a thick layer of ice formed in the lotus pond, and a few little maids in red jackets were giggling and playing.

Ling'er took Qi Yu for a walk along the path by the lotus pond, because she was wearing too much, Qi Yu looked extremely bloated, and she could move slowly with Ling'er's support. These days, Imperial Physician Wang came to the mansion the next day to diagnose her pulse, and everything that happened in the Daming Palace was clear to her. The Thorn Horse Camp was planted this time, and although it was impossible to uproot this deep-rooted tree, the tight hoop on her head could take the opportunity to take it off.

Imperial Physician Wang brought her Lin Tongwei's instructions: she can decide to stay or go according to the situation.

Ling'er was attracted by the laughter on the ice, and her eyes were full of longing.

"Why don't you go and play with them too?" Qi Yupi stared at Ling'er's face with a smile.

"Hypocritical, are you really willing to let me go?"

Qi Yu stared at Ling'er with a smile: "This time, we have finally completed our merits." If you really want to leave, I won't stop you, and I'll go back and tell the above. Ling'er didn't dare to move, she grabbed Qi Yu's arm and said with a smile: "People are joking, you won't really drive me away." ”

The haggard little fish carried a food box, lowered his head, and walked over in a trance.

Qi Yu stretched out his hand to stop her, and said with a smile: "Walk without looking at the road, be careful of falling into the pond." ”

"Alas-" Xiao Yu sighed slightly, and lifted the lid of the food box to let Qi Yu take a look.

"What? Did he eat nothing? Qi Yu asked in surprise.

Xiao Yu nodded, and said with a sad face: "It's been three days and three nights, you better go and persuade him, how can you do it if you don't eat." ”

Qi Yu sneered: "Yo, look at what you said, if you don't listen to your persuasion, will my words work?" Alas, men's thoughts, sometimes you can never guess. You don't care, he's upset, let him be quiet. Maybe it's good to know what. Qi Yu didn't stop when he spoke, still moving his heavy body and continuing to walk forward.

But after taking two steps, she turned around and called Xiaoyu: "Bring some shortbread, he can take two bites when he is hungry." ”

Xiao Yu cast a grateful glance, and he was worried, why didn't he think of this good idea.

Looking at Xiao Yu's restless back, Ling'er asked Qi Yu: "Didn't the above say that you can go, what are you still doing?" Are you really emotionally attracted to him? ”

Qi Yu sighed faintly: "This person is not too bad, and he saved our lives, is it a little unrighteous to leave at this time." Ling'er snorted coldly: "You have a personal affair again, no wonder you can't climb up after so many years, and I'm unlucky to follow behind." ”

"Is it that good to climb up? What can you do if you are a conductor? It's not that you can't help yourself and are at the mercy of others. You and I sisters can stay together, be content. Hearing Qi Yu's frustrating words, Ling'er also smiled helplessly.

When the master of the kitchen, Yang Fu, saw Xiao Yu entering the door with a bitter face carrying a food box, he guessed that Yang Hao must have eaten nothing, and he advised Xiao Yu: "Don't worry, this person has something in his heart, his appetite is not fragrant, and if his appetite is not fragrant, he naturally doesn't want to eat anything." Don't worry, I've stewed some thick soup, and you bring it over and let him drink a little bit, and after two days he'll figure it out and there's nothing going on. ”

Xiaoyu exhaled and asked, "Do you still have shortbread at home?" ”

"Yes, it just came out this morning, and he loves this one the most." Yang Fu has been a cook in the mansion since the establishment of the Xining Hou Mansion, and he knows the taste of everyone in the mansion, this kind of scallion oil shortbread was learned from an imperial chef in the palace, and Yang Hao has been particularly fond of eating since he was a child. Yang Fu took out a thermal insulation bucket made of wheat straw, and as soon as the lid was lifted, a fragrance came to his nose. Those golden shortbreads aroused the appetite of the little fish. In the past two days, he has only worried about Yang Hao, and he has not eaten a full meal.

Xiao Yu picked up a piece of shortbread and ate it with relish, Xiao Si quietly slipped into the kitchen, he bent down and squatted behind Xiao Yu, pressed against Xiao Yu's left rib, and reached out to the thermos bucket.

"Hey!" Xiao Yu suddenly saw a hand stretching out from under his ribs, and screamed "ah" in fright. Xiao Si took the opportunity to put his hand into the bucket, grabbed two pieces of shortbread and ran.

"Beat you thief." Yang Fu picked up a bamboo clip to chase Xiao Si, Xiao Si ran around the pillar, and in a blink of an eye, two pieces of shortbread entered his stomach, leaving only some crumbs in his hands.

"It's delicious, Uncle Yang's craftsmanship is becoming more and more authentic! It's time to catch up with the imperial chef in the palace. Xiao Si gathered the shortbread crumbs in his palm into a pile and swallowed them in one bite.

"Eat your stuff, that's such nonsense." Yang Fu heard him mention the word "palace", and he was afraid that it would cause Xiaoyu's sadness again, so he hurriedly interrupted Xiaosi's words.

"What can't be said? Uncle Li Fu asked me to come back and report the news: There is news from the ministry that our son-in-law is about to be promoted. From the Liupin Tiande Army, he took office after the New Year. ”

"Ahh I'm going to the Tiande Army again, isn't that outside the gate? Xiao Yu said with some surprise, she had heard the name Tiandejun a month ago, but she still hadn't figured out where it was, in her impression, except for Chang'an and several nearby counties, it was outside the Guan, and it was uninhabitable.

"You can't talk nonsense about this kind of thing." Yang Fu didn't believe it either.

Although Yang Fu didn't know what happened in ** a few days ago, judging from Mrs. Zhang's face and the movements in Beijing in the past two days, it was definitely not a good thing. This morning, I went to buy groceries, and heard rumors that Prime Minister Shu Yuanyu was arrested and imprisoned by the Shence Army, and people in their seventies were hung up and beaten overnight, and they were forced to falsely accuse themselves of rebellion, and the whole family was imprisoned and beheaded.

"Really, I swear to God." Xiao Si said this, and grabbed another piece of shortbread in his hand. Yang Fu raised the bamboo clip in his hand and threatened: "Don't be busy eating, tell me quickly, what's going on." ”

After the prince returned home, Uncle Li Fu asked some old friends in the army to inquire about the news in the palace. They said that on the 21st, Prime Minister Shu Yuanyu and Li Xun intended to rebel, and thousands of rebels entered the Daming Palace. ”

"Ahh Xiao Yu and Yang Fu screamed in unison, sure enough, someone rebelled.

"That son, isn't he a golden sword guard? He, this can't also participate in the rebellion, right? Xiao Yu asked nervously, a little incoherent.

"Listen to me," Xiao Si's mouth was stuffed with shortbread, and his speech was a little unfavorable, "General Han of Jin Wuwei is the same party as Li Xun, and many people in Jin Wuli have participated in the rebellion, and many people have lost their heads, but our son is a loyal minister and not a traitor." ”

Xiao Yu patted her heart, and with a long sigh of relief, she smashed the shortbread in Xiao Si's hand with her hand, and shouted: "What else do you know, say it quickly!" Xiao Si looked at Xiao Yu in amazement, this girl was really anxious.

"You know what? Second Master Qi and Sixth Master Yin are also traitors to the party. The second master ran away, and the sixth master was injured and was caught, locked in a prison and beaten half to death. His Majesty remembered that his ancestors had made great contributions to the imperial court, so he spared his life, and now he is sentenced to exile in Lingnan. Only our son is brave and loyal, not only innocent but meritorious! No, Your Majesty is rewarding meritorious deeds, and you want to promote our son-in-law's official? The soldiers and horses of the Tiande Army, from the sixth-rank officer, to the ninth rank to the sixth-grade, that is a three-level promotion. ”

Xiao Si also knew in his heart that although the official rank of this soldier and horse envoy was from the sixth grade, he was a military general in the border area, and he did not have much real power in his hands, so he could not be compared with the captain of the Golden Sword Weidian Military Academy.

Xiao Yu and Yang Fu were completely relieved when they heard this, Yang Hao came back from the palace in only three days, but these three days were even more difficult than three years.

Xiaoyu still vaguely remembers that at noon three days ago, he was about to go out to buy needlework. A team of sergeants of the Shence Army suddenly broke into Chongrenfang, surrounded the house of Liu Weiyuan, the soldier on the same street, and after a stick of incense, the soldiers led Liu Weiyuan, whose face was covered with blood, out and stuffed it into the prisoner car. Liu Weiyuan was obese, and he couldn't climb into the prisoner car for a while, and was pulled to the ground by several soldiers and kicked violently. Liu Weiyuan feces and urine. Frightened, the little fish soul flew away, and hurriedly ran back to tell Mrs. Zhang.

Mrs. Zhang also panicked, and hurriedly sent someone outside to inquire about the news. The inquirer soon ran back and reported that the Shence Army had set up checkpoints everywhere on the streets, forbidding the people to travel, saying that the traitor Li Xun had colluded with the outside feudal towns to plot rebellion, and that the Holy Lord had issued an order to arrest the rebels.

When Mrs. Zhang heard this, she didn't take a breath, but fainted. Qing'er took leave to go to Miaofu Temple outside the city to pray for her parents and did not return, Xiaoyu suddenly panicked, but fortunately, Li Fu rushed back to the house at this time. Li Fu heard some rumors in the cloth village that there had been a drastic change in the palace, and when the dusk drum was beating, the Chang'an City Street Patrol and the Jin Wu pawn in the Wuhou shop were all gone, and he suddenly knew that something was wrong, so he left Xiao Si to guard the cloth village, and he took a dozen sturdy men with sticks to go back to the house to guard.

Just when there was chaos inside and outside, Yang Hao was escorted back by a team of Shence sergeants. Except for a stick wound on his forehead, nothing else was serious. He didn't say a word about what happened in the palace, the whole person was like an evil spirit, and after saying a few words to Mrs. Zhang, he locked himself in the study, and no one knocked on the door.

After nightfall, Chang'an City became an undefended empty city, and the Shence soldiers roamed the streets in groups with sharp blades, and they looted property everywhere under the banner of catching anti-thieves, raped women, and the slightest disobedience was immediately a severe beating, and there were not a few people who lost their lives because of it.

Chongrenfang is close to Taiji Palace, and the people who live there are either rich or noble, so they naturally become the objects of care of the Shence soldiers. In addition to Liu Weiyuan's house, which was ransacked at noon, the door was split open after nightfall, and the looted family of Zhang Bingkun, the former Jiannan Jiedu envoy, the family of Qianjiu Ming, the household servant, and Zhang Baishun's family, Zhang Baishun, not only was his property raided and looted, but even his wife was taken advantage of the chaos.

But none of this seems to have anything to do with Xininghou. The Shence Army that sent Yang Hao back planted a flying dragon military flag of the Shence Army at the gate of the Xining Hou Mansion, this military flag was like a talisman, although a large number of Shence Army sergeants passed by, but no one dared to come in.

After dark, the weather was surprisingly cold. Because the general of Jin Wuwei, Han Yue, was accused of participating in the rebellion, he had absconded in fear of crime at this time, and the Jin Wuwei group was leaderless. In addition, when the Daming Palace changed, Jin Wuwei stood on Li Xun's side and had many conflicts with the Shence army, and the soldiers were afraid of retaliation by the Shence army, so they all hid at this time. There was no one on the street patrol, and the Wuhou shop was empty. After the Shence soldiers returned with a full load, Chang'an City became a hell on earth.

As early as dusk, the evil youths of Chang'an finished their neatness and prepared to move, and they sent people to stand outside the Danfeng Gate. After the dusk drum sounded in the palace, the palace door slowly closed. The wicked youths lit beacons and told their companions, who were scattered in the streets, to start plundering. The Shence soldiers are powerful and greedy like tigers, and they specialize in plundering the homes of officials and eunuchs. Although the evil youths are not as powerful as the Shence army, they are both large and small, and they not only plunder the large households that raise many servants and slaves in groups, but also sweep and plunder the ordinary people.

Chongrenfang was raided and looted again, and this time Zhang Baishun even lost his wife, he sat in front of the door and cried. The Marquis of Xining miraculously escaped the catastrophe again. The evil young leader Hu Haiyang, Tan Zhongwang and the dumb overlord Yang Hao are sworn brothers, Hu Haiyang ranks fifth in the "Chang'an Eight Horses", Tan Zhongwang ranks eighth, although the two are arrogant and scoundrels, but they are very righteous in the rivers and lakes, they hung a white silk scarf on the knocker of the Xining Hou Mansion, and the evil young people in Chang'an saw this white silk scarf like seeing the ministers and seeing the holy decree, all of them walked around.

"Have you told Madame about this?" Xiao Yu retracted his thoughts and asked Xiao Si urgently.

"Not yet, last night I guarded the shop alone until late at night, and I didn't eat a mouthful of food. All the restaurants on the street were closed this morning, and they didn't eat. Xiao Si was talking while lifting the pot and carrying the stove to find something to eat. Shortbread is delicious, but it can't be eaten as a meal.

"Eat, eat, and you know how to eat. Come with me to my son. Xiao Yu grabbed Xiao Si's hand and pulled it out.

"Hey, don't talk about it, it's falling, it's falling." Xiao Si said "plop" and really fell to the ground. wiped off a piece of oily skin on his hand, "Ouch, this married woman is really unwanted, she only has his man in her heart, and she still cares about the life and death of others?" Xiao Si said angrily while sucking on the wound.

"If you fall well, don't go, be careful to eat my stick." Yang Fu picked up a rolling pin and chased after him. Xiao Si was so frightened that he shrank his head and ran away.