Chapter 76: Nowhere to Find Broken Iron Shoes
Xiao Shunzi walked lightly to Zhao Zhen's side and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, you have to take care of your dragon body!" If you have any questions, I'll think about it tomorrow! The queen has sent someone to urge her a few times, so go and eat! ”
Zhao Zhen nodded, got up and walked towards the queen's bedroom. There are so many problems in the world, how can one person solve them! He has always been a good emperor, can't figure it out? Let someone else think about it!
Zhang Rou saw Zhao Zhen coming to the door, and quickly got up to meet him and took off his coat for him: "Your Majesty, why is it delayed for so long today?" ”
"Alas! It's not Li Yuanhao's disobedient baby, he has to make trouble! I don't want to pay attention to him, I have to provoke me. Zhao Zhen hugged Zhang Rou and sat down at the dinner table: "Let's not talk about him first, let's eat first!" ”
After speaking, he waved his hand at Xiao Shunzi and Chunlan again, and the two of them were also very interested, and after saluting, they went outside silently.
For dinner, there are still four dishes and one soup, two meat and two vegetables, adding a glass of wine, drinking two sips together, and there is a different flavor in the tranquility.
"Husband, what do you ask you about?" Zhang Rou put down her chopsticks and hesitated a little before asking.
Zhao Zhen asked vaguely while shaving rice, "What's the matter?" ”
Zhang Rou: "What do you think of the Golden Flower Girl?" ”
"That's good!" Zhao Zhen blurted out without thinking about it, and after speaking, he felt that something was wrong, and hurriedly defended: "Wife, don't think about it!" My husband just said that she was good, and she really didn't mean anything else! You have to believe your husband, your husband has always loved you only! ”
"Poof!" Zhang Rou covered her mouth and smiled: "Look at your stupidity!" Haven't you heard the phrase "the darker you go"! ”
Zhao Zhen swallowed the rice in his mouth vigorously, then held Zhang Rou's hand, and said solemnly: "Wife, you look at my eyes, what I said is true!" We met, knew and loved each other in the vast sea of people in our last life, and it was you who gave my heart, which had been wandering for many years, a warm harbor. From that moment on, I vowed to make sure you had a good life. However, we had just had a good life, and God got us here again. I know that this era is an unfortunate time for women, and I don't care what happens to others, but I can not let you be wronged. So, don't talk about it again! ”
"You're selfish!" Zhang Rouyu with pear blossoms mixed with a smile gathered on one face.
Zhao Zhen: "Why"
Zhang Rou wiped away her tears and looked at Zhao Zhen affectionately: "Do you know that if you do this, you will only make your name go down through the ages, and your wife and I will be scolded to death by those court ministers, and maybe the reputation of a jealous woman will be written into the history books, so that our children and grandchildren will know that there is such a role as me." Let's talk about Jinhua, she is also twenty years old, in the current era, she is already an older leftover girl, have you thought about her? What do you still say that you are not selfish? ”
"I ......"
At this time, Xiao Shunzi pushed open the door and rescued him from the entanglement.
"Your Majesty, the Lord of the Six Gates Willow Gate asks to see you!"
After Zhao Zhen and his family cleaned up their mood, he said to Xiao Shunzi: "Go and call him!" ”
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"Wechen see the emperor! See the Queen! ”
Zhao Zhen: "No courtesy!" Coming to see me so late, is there a new development in the case? ”
Liu Qing: "The emperor is wise! I wonder if the emperor still remembers the traffic accident on Jingcheng Avenue not long ago? ”
"A little impressed? It seems to be trying to destroy our path, but what does this have to do with the current case? Zhao Zhen recalled a little before saying.
Liu Qing: "Back to the emperor, among the people we arrested that time, one of them said that he had a secret about Li Yuanhao sent to our court to engage in sabotage activities, but he bit it to death and wanted to see you before he said it...... Wechen has no choice but to ask you! ”
Zhao Zhen: "Have you figured out the situation of this person?" ”
Liu Qing: "Back to the emperor, according to his own confession, he was originally from Yinzhou, and he had also studied, but he was unfortunately taken captive by King Xia's people five years ago, and the rest will not be detailed." ”
Zhao Zhen thought about it for a while, and felt that it didn't hurt to see it, and there would be no shortage of meat, in case there was a harvest!
So, he said to Liu Qing: "Anyway, we don't have any new clues now, and it's not a way to always bump around like a headless fly." I will see him, and you will bring him. ”
Liu Qing: "Yes, Your Majesty!" ”
Grunt......
It may be that Liu Qing made a little effort when he got up, and there were some discordant sounds in his stomach.
"Stop!" Zhao Zhen stopped him, circled him twice, and after determining the source of the sound again, he said to the red-faced Liu Qing: "I remember to let you take a good rest, not only did you not rest, but you also didn't eat?" ”
"Hey, hey!" Liu Qing smiled a little embarrassedly: "Weichen is not a little excited to hear this news, so he wanted to come to see you quickly, so he didn't care about eating, don't worry, I will eat later!" ”
"Don't be so troublesome, anyway, I haven't finished this meal yet, you can eat some first, it's not good to be hungry, don't pay attention to these things for your martial arts, but you will suffer when you are old!" You eat first, and I'll send someone else to bring him!" Zhao Zhen dragged him to the table without saying anything.
Zhang Rou also cooperated to give Chunlan a look, and the latter took a new pair of chopsticks and handed it to Liu Qing.
"Thank you, Emperor! Thank you! Liu Qing held the bowl and chopsticks and thanked Zhao Zhen gratefully, and almost kowtowed.
Zhao Zhen: "Okay! Eat it! After eating, I have to work for me! ”
"Your Majesty, do you usually eat this meal?" Liu Qing asked vaguely while holding the bowl and gobbling it up.
Zhao Zhen: "Yes! How? You still don't like it! ”
Liu Qing: "Don't dare, don't dare!" Weichen just felt a little incredible, I used to hear those ministers say, and the ministers thought it was a joke! You are the Ninety-Five Supreme, just eat these four dishes and one soup, isn't it ......"
"Isn't eating just to be full? I think it's good, it's comfortable, and it's not wasteful. Besides, there are still many people in the world who are not well fed and clothed, how dare I covet my selfish desires and disregard the people of the world! ”
Zhao Zhen's just right compassion made Liu Qing from the folk moved. In the past, the respect for the emperor came from the words and deeds of the elders since childhood, or it was just a habit, which was a world of difference from feeling the emperor's kindness up close.
In order not to let the tears in his eyes waste in the air, he buried his head in the bowl and let the tears swallow as he mixed with the food......
After a short period of silence, Zhan Zhao came to Zhao Zhen with the person Liu Qing said.
Liu Qing also put down the dishes and chopsticks, stood in front of Zhao Zhen, and said to the man: "You want to see the emperor, the emperor is benevolent and righteous, and agreed to your request, you will be honest with me, and tell me everything you know!" ”
The man nodded at Liu Qing, and suddenly slammed into the ground, so frightened that Zhan Zhao almost pulled out his knife.
"The sinners moved to see the emperor, long live my emperor, long live, long live!"
Zhao Zhen dragged a chair and sat in front of him: "Raise your head and take a look!" The young man was born quite handsome! But what is a thief? ”
Syllable! Qiao Qian knocked his head to the ground again, and said to Zhao Zhen with the back of his head: "The grass people are guilty!" Don't dare to ask the emperor for forgiveness, a cheap life, you want to take it at any time, and the grass people will never blink. However, the criminals are willing to exchange the secrets they know for a promise from the emperor! ”
Liu Qing said angrily: "Bold! Dare to talk to the emperor about the conditions! ”
"Huh? Don't be so violent! Zhao Zhen stopped Liu Qing and said to the housewarming: "Let's talk first, what do you want me to promise?" ”
Housewarming: "Your Majesty, the sinners want you to promise that you must do your best to rescue the people of the Great Song Dynasty who were enslaved by the Xia people as soon as possible, and there are also wives and children of the sinners, if they can return to my Great Song Dynasty alive, I also hope that you will not put the sins of the sinners on their heads, so that they can live in peace for a lifetime!" ”
Zhao Zhen: "You don't need to say this, as long as they still admit that they are from the Great Song Dynasty, I will definitely find a way to rescue them, that is my duty." Do you have any other requirements? ”
"The criminals still have a small request...... "Seeing that Zhao Zhen readily agreed to his request, the housewarming tentatively asked: "Your Majesty, can you please hang the corpses of the criminals on the city gate at that time, and publicize the crimes of the criminals?" ”
Zhao Zhen has seen a lot of people looking for death, but there are really few people who can take looking for death to this point. Zhao Zhen thought about it, and did not rush to answer, but said in a noncommittal tone: "It depends on whether your secret is worth the trouble I have!" ”
Housewarming: "The criminals know the overall plan of Li Yuanhao to send people to my Great Song Dynasty to sabotage, I don't know if this secret is enough?" ”
Zhao Zhen: "Tell me carefully!" ”
"Housewarming" is a long story, but the sinners will make a long story short. It is said that it was five years ago, and the sinners were still Xiucai in a village in a remote part of Yinzhou, and when they were newly married Yan'er, a small group of Xia people came unexpectedly and captured the villagers of the entire small village to Xiazhou, ploughing the fields and cultivating the land for them, and being cattle and horses. Later, when they found out that the sculprit had studied, they escorted the sinner to Xingqing with his wife and children, and the sinner also became a staff member of Li Yuanhao......"
"Stop talking nonsense, get to the point!" Liu Qing was a little anxious and was in no mood to listen to his story.
"Huh?" Zhao Zhen stretched out his hand to stop Liu Qing, and housewarming signaled: "Keep talking!" ”
"Emperor Xie!" After kowtowing, he continued: "Just two years ago, Li Yuanhao suddenly had a person named Wang Qiu next to him, and he should also be from our Song Dynasty, but for some reason he won Li Yuanhao's trust. Moreover, the plan to sabotage in the Great Song Dynasty this time was also made by him, and the criminals were sent to assist Li Qihu because they were literate and hyphenated and familiar with the Song and Xia languages. This Li Qihu is the biggest leader of the criminals and others in the Great Song Dynasty, he is Li Yuanhao's clansman, a hardcore confidant, vicious, and thoughtful.
In order to achieve Li Yuanhao's order, Li Qihu divided the entire plan into three parts. First, destruction; second, provocation; Third, slay the dragon. ”
Zhao Zhen: "What do you mean?" ”
Housewarming: "Sabotage, the main purpose is to destroy important facilities, or to create disturbances. Stirring up is designed to sow discord between you and your ministers, or even to support ambitious people to do things that are not subordinate. Dragon slaying, as the name suggests, is the emperor! ”
Zhao Zhen: "What about the specific situation?" ”
Qiao Qian shook his head slightly: "The criminals only know the whole general plan, and Li Qihu didn't tell us the details. And the criminals are responsible for sabotage, and according to Li Yuanhao's order, our first task is to destroy the Jingcheng Avenue you built. The sinners did not dare to disobey their orders, so they had to lead them to destroy the roads, either for fear of death or for fear of endangering their wives and children.
Fortunately, the avenue you built was as solid as a rock, and those Xia people couldn't do anything for a while. When the sentencing people passed by the exit of the avenue to inquire about their news, they saw the passage notice posted on the wall, and a flash of inspiration flashed in their minds, and they had a rough plan.
So the sinners told them that they had thought of an excellent solution, which was to find a dangerous place and destroy the bridge there, so that they could block traffic for a long time, so as to meet Li Yuanhao's requirements. They listened to the advice of the sinners and were very approving of them, so the sinner led them on the Gyeongsei Avenue to find the target of destruction.
I don't know if it was the bad luck of the sinners, or their good luck, the sins deliberately led them on the road in the wrong direction, but for a long time no one stood up to stop them, and they did not meet the patrolling officials. The sinners had no choice, and in order to delay time, they deliberately pretended to accidentally knock over the carriage coming from the opposite side and entangled with them. Finally, the emperor lived up to his wishes, and it happened that at this time, a team of soldiers escorted several sons and brothers back to Beijing...... You know the rest. ”
Liu Qing: "If it's really as you said, why didn't you explain the situation to the official at the beginning?" (To be continued.) )