Chapter 20 A headache
"My lord, what am I going to do now?"
may feel a little awkward to stay with Chen Bei, the commander of the Taiping Army, but not say anything, Fei Guo casually picked a topic to hide the uneasiness in his heart.
Xie An shrugged his shoulders when he heard this, and said, "It's nothing, just take a walk around the street and see if you can get lucky enough to find the traces of the Dongling assassin!" β
"Dongling Assassin?" Su Xin was stunned when he heard this, and said solemnly, "Could it be the murderer who killed the patrol guards of Weiwei Temple on the streets of Jijing in the middle of the night the previous day?" β
"What, you've heard about it? Let's talk as we go! β
"Yes!" While following Xie An out of the official office of the Great Prison Temple, Su Xin explained, "On the way to the Great Prison Temple, General Fang Cai and Li Jing learned about this from the people on the street...... The city is so busy in order to capture those Dongling assassins? β
It's not just the Dongling Assassins......
Xie Anxin sighed, but said with a wry smile, "It's not!" His Majesty has sent a message, ordering the official and Lord Xun Zhengxun, the secretary of the Weiwei Temple, to arrest the offender within half a month and punish him severely! β
"Oh......" Su Xin suddenly realized, and then asked curiously, "My lord, what is the matter with the palace?" The last general also heard that in the middle of the night, thieves had infiltrated the palace and made a big disturbance in the palace......"
"Well," Xie An raised a somewhat weird smile on his lips, and after glancing at Chen Bei silently, he chuckled and said, "This matter is in charge of Guanglu Temple Qing Wenqin, and it has nothing to do with this official and Lord Xun...... Being able to calmly enter and exit the heavily guarded palace is not an ordinary person, and that Lord Wen is probably going to have a headache! β
Seeing Xie An's gloating smile, the generals were slightly stunned, a little puzzled. Seeing this, Liao Li lowered his voice and explained, "That Guanglu Temple Qing Wenqin is a member of the prince Li Wei's family......
"Oh!" The generals suddenly realized, and they all showed a look of schadenfreude.
After all, Xie An and the crown prince Li Wei did not agree, they already knew. And now, since they are on Xie An's boat, it is natural that they must advance and retreat with Xie An.
One day Xie An gained power, and their self-heating was also rising and rising, on the other hand, if the crown prince Li Wei was in power, they would not have any good fruit to eat.
After a few words of discussion about what was happening at the moment, Xie An took this cadre of generals to wander around the streets of Jijing.
In all fairness, Xie An doesn't feel like he is wandering the streets like this. What kind of help can it play in the current situation, after all, the whole city of Jijing is under martial law, and the streets and alleys are full of guards from the Patrol Division of Weiwei Temple, where is the need for Xie An to go out in person?
But the problem is that the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty has issued an imperial order, so Xie An can't sit comfortably behind the public desk in the Great Prison Temple like Pingrì, and he has to go to the streets of Jijing anyway. Commanding and supervising the guards patrolling and searching the streets and alleys, after all, he is one of the persons in charge of the joint law enforcement and search operation between the Great Prison Temple and the Weiwei Temple. Whatever he says, he has to make the Son of Heaven feel that he is trying his best to solve the case.
But in fact, after walking around Guang'an Street, Xie An led the people to the teahouse to eat tea, not to say that he had the intention to slack off, but he felt that Jijing, which had a population of more than 200,000 in the city, searched for dozens of Dongling assassins. This is simply looking for a needle in a haystack, and you can find a ghost!
As for the assassin named Xiao Li caught yesterday, it can only be said that the blind cat met the dead mouse.
The bar chirped and drank a big bowl of tea, and it was no wonder that the generals had a lack of interest on their faces. For these warriors, how can bland tea be as good as intoxicating wine?
As for those pastries that are very delicious for women, I am afraid that for these warriors, they are also like chewing wax, light and tasteless.
In fact, it's not just Su Xin, Li Jing and others who feel like this, even Xie An also misses the taste of fine wine, but he just endured it, after all, eating tea and snacks in the teahouse, if he is discovered by Yushitai, Xie An can also be said to be a break on the way to handle the case, but if he sets foot in the tavern, it is not easy to quibble.
This refreshment, everyone ate for more than an hour, because they were idle, the generals asked about what happened in Guang'an Street in the middle of the night, during which Qi Hao wondered, "My lord, why don't you ask the eldest grandson to help?" The last general thought that the eldest grandson military division was very strategic and pedantic, and most of them could find the Dongling assassins lurking in the city! β
I have to say that as one of the three generals of the Zhou army in the west, Qi Hao admired the resourceful eldest grandson Xiangyu very much, and this admiration was almost worshipped.
"She?" Originally, Xie An was laughing with the generals, but the smile on Wen Yan's face gradually receded, sighed slightly, and said with a wry smile, "She was forcibly taken back to the house by her father......"
Except for Chen Bei's expression, the rest of the people were stunned when they heard the words, especially Qi Hao, Su Xin, Li Jing and others, whose faces were even more anxious.
"This ...... When such a thing happens, why are adults indifferent? β
Looking at Qi Hao's surprised expression, Xie An rolled his eyes and said angrily, "What do you want this official to do?" Go to the palace of the head of the military department, Sun Jing, and the eldest grandson, ask the master for the crime, and forcibly bring her back? β
The generals froze when they heard this, and after glancing at each other, Su Xin whispered, "As long as the adults say a word, the last general will wait for tonight, sneak into his mansion, and take back the eldest grandson military division!" β
Xie An was angry and funny when he heard this, shook his head and said, "Okay, okay, the first two Dongling assassins killed the street patrol guards are not over yet, if there is another incident of the eldest grandson's daughter being kidnapped in her own mansion, this Ji Jing will be in chaos!" Don't mess with this official! β
"But my lord, that's the eldest grandson military master!" Qi Hao said hesitantly, and the rest of the generals also nodded again and again.
Xie An knew what these people wanted to express, because he knew very well that whether it was Su Xin, Li Jing, Qi Hao, Liao Li, or even Liu Yi, Wu Peng and others who had died on the battlefield, it can be said that at the beginning, almost everyone admired the eldest grandson Xiangyu under the command of Xie An's 160,000 troops on the Western Expedition.
For Liangqiu Dance, they are just respectful, or a lot of jealousy, after all, they have never seen the heroic posture on the battlefield with their own eyes, even though it is rumored that Liangqiu Dance once killed 100,000 Beirong wolf cavalry alone in the battlefield of northern Hebei, not only killed more than 3,000 enemy soldiers. It is even more to kill the head of the thief of Wairong, like such a rumor that seems to be a fantasy, it is a person who will doubt the truth of this matter, but the eldest grandson Xiangyu is different, on the way to the west to conquer the rebels in Chang'an, this woman showed impeccable resourcefulness. really convinced a large number of soldiers, if it weren't for Xie An's words before and after that nearly 100,000 rebels had been surrendered, I am afraid that the limelight would be crushed to death by Changsun Xiangyu" "Why would the Western Expeditionary Army be so happy when they learned that Changsun Xiangyu had made a bet and kept his promise to marry Xie An?
First, they felt that Xie An fought for these men and finally won the resourceful and invulnerable eldest grandson Xiangyu; Second, in their opinion. Xie An attaches great importance to love and righteousness, and the eldest grandson Xiangyu is very wise, and the two of them are definitely the most suitable pair, and even most of the generals like Qi Hao still secretly feel regretful in their hearts, regretting that Xie An married Liang Qiuwu first......
Of course, they would never dare to say this kind of thing, after all, Xie An's wife. That's no ordinary woman.
Understanding is understanding, but the congregation will be that so-called. Xie An didn't dare to listen to a word.
What sneaked into the eldest grandson's mansion in the dark and robbed the eldest grandson Xiang from the rain......
Why pretended to be a thief and covered the eldest grandson Jing with a cloth bag and repaired it......
Are you kidding!
If Xie An really dares to do this, even if Yin Gong has a good impression of him, I'm afraid he won't be able to spare him!
"Okay, okay," the more the crowd talked, the more boundless they became. Xie An waved his hand angrily, interrupted everyone's discussion, shook his head and said, "Later, this official will go to the Prime Minister's Mansion to find out the tone of Duke Yin." Let's make a final decision! That's the best way to go! β
Su Xin listened, licked his lips, and said, "If the eldest grandson's family doesn't obey, I'll wait for another middle strategy, rob the eldest grandson's military division out in the dark, and hide the general's division in a hidden place!" As long as we deny it, forgive him and Changsun Jing will not dare to do anything to adults! β
"......" looked at Su Xin, who was swearing, and Xie Anxin was speechless.
Boy!
Is this what the meritorious men of the Chang'an rebels in the west should say?
The whole gang of bandits who robbed the people's daughters!
Xie An rolled his eyes, he didn't plan to discuss the matter of Elder Sun Xiangyu with these people anymore, because if he continued to talk about it, these people would probably have to carry knives directly to Eldest Sun's house to beg for help, although they understood their good intentions, but can this matter be decided casually?
The eldest grandson Xiangyu is not the daughter of an ordinary family, she is the daughter of the eldest grandson's family!
With the presence of Yin Gong, a respected old man, even Xie An today does not dare to be presumptuous, so he can only solve this matter calmly, and there is no room for the slightest anger.
Until now, Xie An can only hope that before he goes to ask Yingong about it, the woman of Changsun Xiangyu will not do anything stupid, but he also knows that this matter is difficult, after all, Changsun Xiangyu is the kind of woman who would rather give in, this woman will never learn to compromise, in the face of the persecution of others, the only thing she will do is revenge, and she would rather die like a fish and a broken net!
Let's hope things haven't gotten that bad......
Sighing secretly, Chen Bei thought about it for a while, and decided to go to the Prime Minister's Mansion, although it was not very appropriate to visit Duke Yin at this time.
Originally, Xie An planned to ask Su Xin, Li Jing and a group of people to go back to his mansion first and take care of the room where they lived.
However, I don't know if it was to cheer Xie An or how "Wife is a headache in Chapter 20 of General Nai", Su Xin, Li Jing and others were reluctant to go back to Xie An's mansion first, and in desperation, Xie An had to take this group of people to the Prime Minister's Mansion of Duke Yin, so that when they came to the door of the Prime Minister's Mansion, the soldiers guarding outside the mansion were really startled, and they thought that Xie An's gang wanted to do something.
It's no wonder, after all, in addition to Xie An, Chen Bei, Fei Guo, Su Xin, Li Jing, Liao Li, Ma Dan, and Qi Hao, these seven people, are all veterans who were born and died on the battlefield, except for Chen Bei, they all wear weapons around their waists, and the murderous aura on their bodies is heavy and terrifying, not to mention, Su Xin, Li Jing, and Qi Hao, these three people also have a fierce look
Evil faces, how can this not make the guards guarding in front of the Prime Minister's Mansion tremble?
Seeing that those guards seemed to have the urge to draw their swords and face each other, Xie An hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Don't misunderstand, brothers, Xie An, the young secretary of the Xia Nai Great Prison Temple, is here this time." yΓΉ asked to see Yin Gong, and I hope that a few brothers will make it convenient and report on their behalf! β
"It turned out to be Xie Shaoqing and Lord Xie from the Great Prison Temple, ......" A guard hugged his fist towards Xie An and said with a smile, "Lord Xie will rest for a while, and the little one will go and report!" β
The guard said very politely. In fact, he had already noticed the official uniform on Xie An's body, no, it should be said that if it weren't for Xie An's official uniform of the fifth grade, he would have already asked someone to take down these guys who dared to spread wild in front of the Prime Minister's Mansion.
"So, thank you, brother!" Xie An chuckled and arched his hand, as if he had noticed the guard's strange gaze, and his heart moved. Turning his head and glancing at Su Xin and the other three, he happened to see that the three of them were viciously attacking those guards, and his heart was excited, and he lowered his voice and said, "Don't make trouble for this official!" β
Seeing Xie An speak, Su Xin and the three of them reluctantly put away the fierce expression on their faces.
After a while, the guard returned, smiling. Clenched his fists and said to Xie An, "Lord Xie." Yin Cheng is walking in the backyard flower garden...... Sir, please! β
"Thank you!" Nodding, Xie An was about to follow the guard into the mansion, but when he saw that this person had a little embarrassment in his eyes, he looked at the swords on the waists of Fei Guo, Su Xin, and Liao Li, and said hesitantly. "If you don't mind, can you ask your guardians to leave your sword here for the time being......?"
"Yes, yes!" Xie An suddenly realized, took the initiative to untie the sword that originally belonged to Liang Qiu Wu, and then glanced at the generals behind him with his eyes.
See here. Except for Chen Bei, who was not carrying a weapon in the first place, the generals hesitated, reluctantly unsheathed their swords, and handed them over to the guards one by one.
"Master Xie, please!"
"There is labor!"
Following the guard, Xie An and his party walked through the pavilion and through the house until they came to the small garden in the backyard of the Prime Minister's Mansion.
From a distance, Xie An saw that Yin Gong was holding a small water scoop and watering the flowers and plants in the garden, and to his surprise, his cheap teacher, Ruan Shaozhou, a scholar of the Ministry of Rites, was also there.
And Yin Gong obviously saw Xie An as well, put the water scoop in his hand back into the bucket on the ground, stroked his white beard and smiled heartily, "Xiao An, leading this big group of people, but it's time to ask the old man Xingshi for the crime?" β
Xie An was stunned when he heard this, walked up to Yin Gong, and said with a wry smile, "Yin Gong said that he was laughing, how dare the kid!" Meet the Teacher! In the latter sentence, he said it to Ruan Shaozhou.
Seeing Xie An's respect for the teacher like this, Ruan Shaozhou was satisfied, nodded his head "Wife is the general", and said with a smile, "Xiao An, I was talking to the master about this matter just now......" As he spoke, he sighed slightly, looked at Yin Gong and said, "Master, the student thinks that Brother Zikang's incident yesterday was indeed rude......
"Hmm!" The smile on Yin Gong's face gradually put away when he heard this, and after a long sigh, he shook his head and said, "Actually, the old man expected this, but he didn't want to ......come so quickly," he said, he turned his head to look at Xie An, and said in a condensed voice, "Xiao An, you came to the old man's mansion today to explore the old man's style, right?" To tell you the truth, the old man only learned about it after the fact! β
Xie An nodded, after all, he didn't think that it was Yingong's idea to forcibly take away Changsun Xiangyu, and even said that even Changsun Jing, who took away Changsun Xiangyu, probably just happened to bump into his daughter, and when he saw that she was so good at obeying the rules, he was furious in his heart, so he decided to forcibly take her back to the house.
Sighing slightly, Yin Gong said in embarrassment, "This matter, the old man also feels a headache...... Not only the old man, but also your teacher helped you to intercede with the old man after learning about it......"
Xie An looked at Ruan Shaozhou with some shock when he heard this, and the latter smiled slightly.
"Xiao An, you are also a smart person, the old man will not beat around the bush," Glancing at Xie An deeply, Yin Gong said in a deep voice, "Xiangyu, that girl, is she already interested in marrying you?" β
Xie An smiled, with a little embarrassment, nodded, and said, "Yes, she said ......."
"Okay, good," to Xie An's surprise, Yin Gong nodded with relief, and said with a smile, "When Rì bumped into him in the palace, the old man noticed it, so good......"
"What's good?" Xie An glanced at Yin Gong strangely, and stopped talking.
The daughter of the eldest grandson's family, is it good to marry herself as a child?
As if seeing through Xie An's thoughts, Yin Gong stroked his beard and said with a smile, "Are you thinking?"
Xie An's face stiffened, and he looked embarrassed.
Under Ruan Shaozhou's smiling gaze, Yin Gong shook his head and said, "The daughter of my eldest grandson's family, marry you to be a child." This spread the word, it is indeed damaging to the reputation of my eldest grandson's family, but in any case, it is better than letting the old man lose his beloved grandson, isn't it? Besides, it's the eldest woman. It's a concubine, this is something that the girl should consider, it has nothing to do with the old man, the old man just wants to see it, the girl is good, don't make trouble, this is better than anything else......"
Listening to Yin Gong's words, Xie An was dumbfounded, because he felt. Duke Yin seems to be inclined to marry his eldest grandson Xiangyu to him.
After thinking about it, Xie An asked in a low voice, "Yin Gong, what ...... about this matter?"
"This is also the old man's headache," Yin Gong sighed, shook his head and said, "Jing'er is no longer successful, after all, she is the son of the old man." Xiangyu's girl is his daughter, and the palms and backs of her hands are full of meat. The old man is really ...... Alas! It shouldn't be, Xiangyu's girl shouldn't say that she wants to cut off the relationship with the eldest grandson's family, otherwise, Jing'er will not be afraid of the old man, and she will not be persecuted too much, and she will stay for a long time. That's the end of it! As for now, this matter is really difficult to handle...... The old man can only help each other! β
"Huh?" Xie An was stunned for a moment, and asked tentatively, "What does Yin Gong mean is that the kid will handle this matter?" β
"Hmm!" Yin Gong nodded. Zheng said, "The old man hopes that you can come up with a way to get the best of both worlds" "Beautiful, and as soon as possible!" Xiangyu's girl's temper, you don't know it, it's been delayed for a long time, and the consequences are unimaginable! β
"......" Xie An opened his mouth and was speechless.
Boy!
This old man just threw all the headaches on himself?
Not only to take care of the face of the eldest grandson's family, but also to stabilize the eldest grandson Xiangyu, lest this woman be angry in her heart and do something......
Is this an easy thing to do?
When leaving from the Prime Minister's Mansion, Xie Anbei sighed weakly, but compared to Fang Cai, he had some bottom in his heart, after all, Duke Yin had acquiesced to his affair with the eldest grandson Xiangyu, and the next thing left was how to persuade the eldest grandson Xiangyu's father, the eldest grandson Jing......
But it's a pity that Sun Jing, the head of the military department, is a notoriously stubborn cow, except for not daring to disobey his father, anyone dares to offend, will he be a good talker?
Apparently not!
Headache, headache......
Standing on the street in front of the Prime Minister's Mansion, Xie An sighed, raised his hand and wiped his face very tiredly, and at this moment, Su Xin and the others seemed to notice something, and whispered to Xie An, "My lord, in that alley not far away, there is a guy who has been looking at the adult ......."
"Huh?" Xie An was stunned, raised his head, and looked at the alley that Su Xin said, and then he found that at the entrance of the alley, there was a man dressed in ordinary people's clothes, who was constantly looking at this side.
"My lord, do you want to arrest that person and ask him?" Li Jing asked in a low voice.
Xie An shook his head slightly, looked straight at the person at the entrance of the alley, and muttered to himself in his heart, because he felt that this person was very familiar.
Suddenly, Xie Anxin moved.
Isn't that person Xiao Li, the assassin of the dangerous building that he put back yesterday?
Thinking of this, Xie An strode towards the alley, and the generals were stunned, afraid that something would happen to Xie An, so they hurriedly followed.
Sure enough, the one who frequently looked at Xie An at the mouth of the alley was the assassin of the dangerous building who was rescued by Xie An yesterday, Xiao Li, seeing Xie An walking in front of him, he looked left and right, clasped his fists and said, "Little brother Xiao Li, I've seen the eldest brother!" Does the eldest brother remember the younger brother? β
Xie An was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then shook it with a smile.
Xie An knew that Xiao Li called him eldest brother with respect for him, after all, Jin Ling'er was the eldest sister of many assassins in dangerous buildings, and since Xie An had an ambiguous relationship with her, wasn't he the eldest brother?
But despite this, Xie An still felt a little funny, as if he had transformed into an underworld person, an underworld person wearing the official uniform of the Great Zhou, this strange feeling made him laugh.
After thinking about it, Xie An said with a smile, "It's only been a long time, how can you not remember?" Brother Xiao Li, how is the injury? β
"Thank you big brother for your concern," Xiao Li licked his lips and said in a low voice, "The younger brother asked the eldest sister yesterday, and learned that what the eldest brother said was true, so he kept his promise and reported the eldest sister's movements to the eldest brother...... An hour ago, the eldest sister went to the palace! β
"The Imperial Palace?" Xie An frowned and asked in a low voice, "Are you going to see Li Wei?" β
"Exactly!" Xiao Li nodded and said, "The eldest sister said that I want to ask Li Wei clearly to see what Li Wei means!" β
"......" Xie An frowned and thought for a while, and said, "What happened later?" β
"What is the place of negotiation, the younger brother does not dare to ask the eldest sister, I don't know...... I saw that the eldest sister was not in a good mood when she came back, and locked herself in the house alone, as if thinking about something! β
Xie An's face tightened, and he hurriedly asked, "What's the matter?" β
"How does this little brother know?" Xiao Li shook his head with a wry smile, and then he seemed to think of something, and said, "Oh, by the way, according to the eldest sister's tone, it seems that there is some agreement with Dongling, telling me not to find out the whereabouts of those people in Dongling again, so that I can recuperate from my injuries, and after counting the numbers, there is still a big thing to do......"
"Big deal? What's the big deal? β
"This little brother doesn't know right now! The younger brother can't stay here for long, otherwise, the eldest sister will definitely find out...... Brother Rong will retire for the time being, and if there is anything urgent, report to the eldest brother! β
"Hmm! It's hard work! β
"Don't dare!"
Looking at Xiao Li's departing back and thinking carefully about his every word, Xie An had a vague bad premonition...... (To be continued.) )