readx; The banquet continued, Li Linfu, Li Qing'an and Wang Heng were still talking deeply in the hut, and the dance clothes didn't like the noise in the hall, so they came to the courtyard. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

At this time, it was early spring, the night sky was clear, the stars were brilliant, the breeze was blowing, bringing a trace of coolness, the dance dress took a breath of fresh air at night, everything around was so familiar, the rockery in the corner, she still remembered when she was a child when Seventeen Niang chased her, she hid behind and shivered.

There is also the well next to the rockery, one of her pianos is still sinking at the bottom of the well, it was five years ago that Banniang was jealous of her piano skills and stole her piano and threw it into the well.

Maiyi stared blankly at the well, she seemed to have returned to the old years, at this time, there was a burst of laughter from the distant door, all of which were familiar to her, and the dancer flashed and hid behind the rockery.

Li Linfu's three daughters, Twenty-Niang, Twenty-two Niang and Twenty-third Niang, walked in from the small door, they haven't seen each other for a few years, they have all been married, but their appearance is still gorgeous and arrogant.

"Did you see the woman? It's so arrogant that you think who you are! This is the voice of Twenty-three Niang, her tone is full of sourness.

Twenty-two Niang also sneered in a leaky tone: "That's it! She is just a concubine, Li Qing'an's wife can't take her turn, this person doesn't love herself, she dares to sit on the main seat, if my husband's concubine dares to do this, I would have beaten her to death with a stick, this woman just relied on her posture, so Li Qingan was stunned, to be honest, I really sympathize with that Dugu Mingyue! ”

"How can she compare with us, she is a widow, of course it is the life of the concubine, what are we, the daughter of the dignified country, she is so despicable, she is insulting us, don't mention her, go and see!"

The three women walked quickly into the courtyard, and stood at the door, staring at the banquet in the small hall, in which neither they nor their husbands were eligible for it, and after a long time, the three women walked through another small door full of disappointment.

Maiyi walked out from behind the rockery, silently turned around and walked towards another small door, although such ridicule and insults had become commonplace since she was a child, but the words of the three women today still deeply stimulated her,' The word 'concubine' cut her heart like a knife with blood, and she was moved by Mingyue's tolerance in the past two days, and she began to be willing to accept her fate and be Li Qing'an's second wife.

The dance dress walked aimlessly, everything here was so familiar, she didn't need to know the way, she naturally turned around the door, walked through the path, walked past the flowers and trees, and before she knew it, she came to a door, which was the place where she used to live, and the small courtyard where she had lived for more than ten years.

The door of the small courtyard has been locked, and it has been coldly locked by a large copper lock, and in the cold night light, the patina on it is faintly visible, and the dancer sighed, and was about to turn back, when an old woman's voice came from behind him, "Is it the girl in the dancer?" ”

"Aunt Wang!" Mai Yi heard the voice of the comer.

"It's me!"

A person walked briskly from the side path, with a lantern, it was Aunt Wang, who used to be in charge of the chores in the house, she saw the dance clothes, and her eyes flashed with surprise, "It's really you, I felt like you in the courtyard just now, and I followed all the way." ”

"I'm a guest at my uncle's house today, and by the way, I'll come to the old house to have a look, Aunt Wang, can I enter this small courtyard?"

"Absolutely!"

Aunt Wang untied a large bunch of keys from her waist, found one of them, and said with a smile while opening the door: "Girl in a dancer, where have you been all these years, the last time you left, you said you went to Lingnan, but I heard that you went to Anxi, and some people said that you got married, and there are all kinds of theories." ”

"I got married and became the second wife of a big family."

Wuyi smiled, her smile was full of bitterness: "Today, I came to my uncle's house with my husband as a guest." ”

Aunt Wang heard the sadness in Wuyi's tone, she looked back at Wuyi again, and saw that she didn't have the joy of ordinary people when she talked about her husband, she sighed secretly and said: "Girl in Wuyi, I grew up watching you grow up, there is a saying, I don't know whether to say it or not." ”

"Aunt Wang, say it!"

"Girl in a dancer, do you know that Twenty-two Niang was abused at her husband's house?"

"Twenty-two mothers were abused at her husband's house?" The dancer was stunned.

"You can't think of it! It's still Xiangguo's daughter, she was so beautiful when she got married, I heard that because she scolded her husband's concubine, she was punched in the face by her husband, and two teeth were lost. Now Xiangguo's health is getting worse and worse, he doesn't care about things at home, and he is not as feared as before, and even his married daughter has begun to be bullied. ”

Wuyi was speechless, she thought of the poison that Twenty-two Niang had just mocked her about, it turned out that it was to vent the resentment in her heart, and she couldn't help but sigh in a low voice.

Aunt Wang opened the lock, pushed open the door, and handed her the lantern in her hand, "Girl, go in!" Just like when you left, it didn't move. ”

"Thank you, auntie!"

The dance clothes walked into the small courtyard, and at this time Aunt Wang said behind her: "Girl, I will give you a word, marriage is like wearing shoes, whether it fits is only clear to yourself, your husband is willing to take you to Xiangguofu, it means that he values you, some people are jealous of you, you don't want to be swayed by them." ”

Maiyi nodded silently, pushed the door open, creaked, the door opened, a musty smell came to her face, she stood in the door for a while, and then raised the lantern and walked into the room.

In the dim light, the furnishings of the room are still the same as when she left, the copper basin stands by the wall, and there is half an unfinished cloth on the table, which is that she is going to make a skirt for herself and Yunu, scissors are put aside, all the past events are vivid, and the memory is clear, as if it happened yesterday, but two years have passed, and things are no longer people.

Wuyi looked at it for a long time and sighed lowly.

"Why sigh?"

An extremely familiar voice suddenly sounded behind her, and she turned around suddenly, only to see Li Qingan leaning against the door, looking at her with a smile.

"Why are you here?" Mai asked in surprise.

Li Qingan stepped forward and smiled: "I can't find you, so I guess you're here, what's the matter, are you very emotional?" ”

Without saying a word, she slowly walked to the window and looked out the window at a begonia planted by herself, which had grown exceptionally strong and lush.

"Li Lang, just now I heard my uncle's three daughters talking about me behind my back, and my heart was cold."

Li Qing'an seemed to know her thoughts, slowly walked to her side, and whispered in her ear: "Wuyi, you shouldn't have the idea of inferiority, you and Mingyue are my wives, you are equal, at least in my heart, there is no difference between you." ”

"I know, I know you love me."

Wuyi raised her head and said with tears in her eyes: "But, I don't want to be looked down upon, you didn't hear, they scolded me for how vicious I was, like a knife poking into my heart." ”

"No one dares to look down on you!"

Li Qing'an stroked her hair and muttered to herself, "Don't underestimate yourself, one day, you will be more noble than anyone else, believe me!" ”

Wuyi looked at Li Qing'an blankly, she didn't understand the meaning of Li Qing'an's words.

．．．．．．．．． At the moment, the rumbling drum sounded, after eight hundred drums, the city gate and the square gate will be slowly closed, the drum sounded, the people on the street ran up one after another, ran to the neighborhood where they lived, the streets and alleys were chaotic, in Yongfu Fang, a carriage rushed into the square gate at high speed, stopped in front of a wide mansion, there is a square in front of the mansion, surrounded by a high wall, there are nearly 100 guards patrolling at the door, it can be seen that it is a noble family, this is Li Yan's Di Wangfu, after Li Yan was assassinated, This made it the center of the storm in Chang'an, and it was extremely well defended.

As soon as he stopped, he immediately rushed up to more than a dozen guards, raised his knife and shouted, "Who is it?" ”

"You bastards, can't you even see my carriage?" Out of the carriage came a fat middle-aged man, beardless under his chin, with a high-pitched voice, who could be seen to be a eunuch.

"Oh! It's Grandpa Zhang. ”

More than a dozen guards hurriedly put away their knives, bent down and said with a smile: "The night is dark, I didn't see clearly that it was Father-in-law Zhang's carriage, please forgive Father-in-law!" ”

"Humph! You bastards, all the grass and trees, will the real assassins park the carriage at the door? ”

"Yes! Be! Be! We are also routine and dare not slack off. ”

"Got it, I don't blame you, did the prince go out today?"

"Grandpa Zhang said that he laughed, the prince was injured by an arrow, how could he go out?"

"I'm asking if he's out of the room?"

The eunuch glared at the guards fiercely and walked towards the gate, this eunuch's name is Zhang Fengen, and he is the great eunuch who serves Li Yan, these eunuchs are all sent by the Ministry of Internal Service to serve in the mansion of every prince and princess, and they are generally brought up from a young age, and the feelings will be very deep, but this Zhang Fengen is different, the eunuch who has served Li Yan since he was a child was originally surnamed Luo, died four years ago, and this Zhang Fengen took over.

Because Li Yan has always missed the old eunuch in the past, so the relationship between him and this latecomer Zhang Fengen has not been good, the two are often in a state of cold war, Zhang Fengen often said bad things about Li Yan in the report to the above, magnifying some small mistakes, accumulating a lot, and gradually making Li Longji dislike the fourth son, Li Yan lost points in this battle for succession.

Zhang Fengen usually doesn't bother to ask about Li Yan, but because of the assassination in the past few days, his top boss Yu Chaoen specially told him to pay more attention to Li Yan's movements, and today he was called into the palace again, and Li Longji personally asked him about Li Yan's physical condition.

Zhang Fengen did not feel that it was the father's concern for his son from the tone of the saint, but felt that the saint seemed to be doubting the true situation of King Di's injury, and he also reported it according to the truth, King Di's injury was not as serious as he imagined, and he asked the widow to sleep with him last night.

Zhang Fengen walked up the steps, but met a few people coming out, a group of maids and Sun Ruren came out of the house.

"It's about to close, where are the widows going?"

Zhang Fengen asked a little unhappily, he didn't like this grandson, this woman was favored and had always been rude to him, and he could also see from her that King Di disliked him.

Sun Ruren didn't raise his eyelids or salute, snorted, passed by him, and asked the guard, "Is my carriage ready?" ”

"Back to Mrs. Sun, it's already fine, I'll let the carriage come!"

'Ma'am? Zhang Fengen was really annoyed, a small widow dared to let others call her Mrs., he snorted heavily, and strode into the palace.

"I'm going to see the prince, take me there quickly!"

Sun Ruren's peach blossom eyes squinted at this damn old eunuch, but he was just an eggless minion, and he dared to speak to himself in such a tone?

At this time, a light carriage drove over, and Sun Ruren took her henchman and maid into the carriage and ordered: "Go to Suo Luo Lane!" ”

The carriage started, drove in the opposite direction of the fangmen, walked out a hundred steps, and a man on horseback came out of the alley opposite, followed the carriage unhurriedly, turned a corner, and went south, Suo Luo Lane was in Yongfu Fang, not far from King Di, only about two miles apart.

The carriage stopped at the mouth of the alley, Sun Ruren got out of the carriage, her maid came quickly to a small door and knocked on the door, and in a moment, the door opened a crack, Sun Ruren and the maid flashed into the door, and the door creaked shut.

The man on horseback also walked into an alley across the street, hiding in the darkness.

．．．．．．．． Although Zhang Fengen and Li Yan have a bad relationship, but this time he did not wronged Li Yan, although Li Yan was wounded by an arrow, but it was not as serious as imagined, he also summoned Sun Ruren to live happily last night, at this moment, Li Yan was sitting in the study to write a reply to Yang Guozhong, this afternoon Yang Guozhong sent someone to inform him of what happened in the morning, telling him that because Li Qing'an's foreign army came out, it sabotaged the operation to capture Xing Wei, so that they were passive, and they had to give up the original plan.

Li Yan didn't care about Yang Guozhong's plan to fall the king, he only cared about whether Yang Guozhong still fulfilled his promise to him and supported him to enter the East Palace.

In the afternoon briefing, the person sent by Yang Guozhong did not mention this, so that Li Yan's heart hung in the air, his worry did not start this afternoon, but from the time he was assassinated, his father did not come to visit him, only sent Yu Chaoen to appease him, if his father intended to make him the crown prince, he should be furious about his assassination, strictly ordered the whole city to be under martial law, arrested the murderer, and then came to visit him in person, this is really to value himself, not to send a eunuch around him to send him so lightly, This made Li Yan's heart endlessly lost and full of frustration.

Now Li Yan is worried that Yang Guozhong is using him in vain, and then kicks him away, Yang Guozhong has gradually become the first powerful minister in the court, if he can officially form an alliance with him, then in the matter of establishing a prince, with Yang Guozhong's help, coupled with the pillow wind of the concubine Niangniang, his possible surname is still very big, and his top priority now is to hug Yang Guozhong's thigh, and he can't let him dump himself.

At this time, footsteps sounded outside the door, and someone reported: "Lord, Grandpa Zhang asks to see!" ”

Li Yan was startled, almost knocked over the inkstone, he was weak for a while, hurriedly hid the letter he wrote to Yang Guozhong, sat up straight and said, "Please come in!" ”

Li Yan was extremely disgusted with this Zhang Fengen, and even hated him, hated him for occupying the original Eunuch Luo's room and throwing away all his things, which made Li Yan unable to forgive Zhang Fengen, he has been serving by his side since he was two years old, being with him every day, bringing him up, Li Yan has always regarded Eunuch Luo as the closest person in his heart, Eunuch Luo died of illness four years ago, giving Li Yan a heavy blow.

Although he hated this Zhang Fengen, on the surface he still had to pretend to get along.

The door opened, Zhang Fengen walked in, he didn't kneel, just bowed down and saluted, "See the prince!" ”

Li Yan was stunned in his heart, why didn't this Zhang Fengen kneel for himself today? He was a little displeased and said, "Grandpa Zhang, is there something wrong with me so late?" ”

"Lord Wang, I met Sun Ruren in front of the gate of the mansion just now, she went out so late, the prince should be strictly disciplined!"

Li Yan's face slowly sank, Sun Ruren went out with his consent, Sun Ruren secretly went to drink medicine and ask for a child, this is his own private matter, what does it matter to him Zhang Fengen? Li Yan could no longer hide the disgust in his heart, and he asked coldly, "Does Gonggong Zhang have anything else?" Nothing else, I want to rest. ”

Of course, Zhang Fengen could understand Li Yan's face, and he sneered in his heart, this prince is still dreaming!

He said slowly: "Lord, I went to see the saint today. ”

Li Yan suddenly came to his senses, and he hurriedly asked, "What did the father emperor say?" ”

Zhang Fengen glanced at him, and said in an extremely slow and mocking tone: "The Holy Lord asked me to bring you a word, so that you can take care of your body and prepare to go to Anxi to take up your post!" ”

"Anthy?" Li Yan was stunned, and the pen in his hand 'clicked!' 'Fall to the ground.

．．．．．．．．． Half an hour later, Sun Ruren came out of the courtyard and said to a middle-aged woman dressed strangely: "Fifth aunt stay!" I'll come back another day. ”

"Madame, don't worry, I will invite the Bodhisattva in two days, and she will manifest her spirit for Madame."

"Then it's going to be troublesome for the fifth aunt."

Sun Ruren's face was very proud, got into the carriage, and ordered: "Go back to the palace!" ”

The carriage started and returned to the palace, and the door of the small courtyard creaked shut, and there was no one in front of the alley, when a man on horseback flashed out of the opposite alley, and he quickly wrote a note, tied it to the leg of a pigeon, and released the pigeon with fluttering.

The pigeon flapped its wings and circled all the way to the west.

．．．．．．．． Li Qing'an lived in the Furong Pavilion on the Gaolishi Mansion, and he had already fallen asleep, when suddenly a soldier called outside his door: "General! General! ”

Wuyi woke up first, and she pushed Li Qing'an, "Li Lang, wake up!" Your guards are calling you. ”

Li Qingan woke up from his sleep and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"There is a pigeon letter from Atamiju, and it is a red letter."

Li Qing'an once instructed that if a red letter came from Atamiju, he should be woken up immediately, maybe there was some news from Anxi.

He rolled over and sat up, and walked out into the room.

"Li Lang, wait a minute."

Wuyi hurriedly got up, took a robe and put it on him, and told him: "Chunhan, don't be careless." ”

Li Qingan hurriedly put on his robe and went out.

He opened the door, took the pigeon letter from his own soldier, and sure enough, it was a red letter, and he poured out the paper roll from the bamboo tube, slowly unfolded it, and looked close under the lamp.

There is only one line of small letters: Mansur, the envoy of the Prince of Great Food, has arrived in Fengxiang.

(To be continued)