When Li Ang left the Zuo Prime Minister's Mansion, it was already twilight, and if it was usual, the door would have been closed early.

Today is the sixteenth day of the first month, three days before and after the Lantern Festival, Jinwu in Chang'an City can't help it, a large number of people are still carnivaling on the street, the flow of people is like weaving, and the lights and the moon are contending.

Li Ang and Wu Xuan rode horses in the crowd, and Wu Xuan saw that he was silent, so he asked, "Lang Jun, is the matter really serious?" ”

Li Ang said casually: "I offended Zuo Xiang's henchmen and staff, do you say it's serious?" ”

Wu Xuan thought that he was worried that Wei Jian and Huangfu Weiming's affairs would affect his Chunyu, but he never thought that he was worried about Li Shizhi's staff.

"Lang Jun, just a staff member, do you need to worry so much?" In Wu Xuan's opinion, no matter how big a person is, Li Ang can handle it, let alone a staff member.

"Haven't you heard that a grain of rat droppings spoils a pot of soup?"

But for Li Ang, Wei Jian and Huangfu Weiming are in prison, he doesn't have to worry about directly implicating himself, he is only worried that these two people will affect Li Shizhi, if this is the case, then his chances of being named on the gold list this year are very slim.

Compared with Wei Jian and others, although Xu Jinghong is a figure who cannot be on the stage, most of the things planned for Li Shizhi are stupid;

But his idea is very much in line with Li Shizhi's character and style, which is probably why he can become Li Shizhi's confidant.

Last time, Li Ang refused Li Shizhi's recruitment of a son-in-law, which had already estranged himself from Li Shizhi, and if Xu Jinghong kept saying bad things about himself, it was really hard to say what the result would be.

If it weren't for Li Xia to help him this time, Li Shizhi might not have listened to him.

Wu Xuan asked a little worriedly, "Then does Lang Jun have a countermeasure?" ”

Leon replied dryly: "No, at least not yet." Let's go, let's go back first. ”

Li Ang and Wu Xuan went all the way north. When I went to Pingkangfang, I saw that the gate of the right minister's house that split the wall of the fang was brightly lit. There was an endless stream of chariots and horses, among which there were messengers galloping fast horses;

From this, it is not difficult to know that Li Linfu must be seizing the opportunity to pursue the victory, in order to further expand the results of the battle, and finally use the cases of Wei Jian and Huangfu Weiming to bring down the crown prince and Li Shizhi.

Li Ang did not linger much in front of the Right Prime Minister's Mansion.

The water in the court is too deep, and he actually doesn't want to care about it, just to be able to get a title on the gold list. had to get involved, as long as he could guarantee being on the list, he really didn't want to care about other things.

When he arrived at the northwest corner of Pingkangfang, as soon as he got on Chunming Street, Li Ang, who was full of worries, almost collided with a carriage from the east, and the coachman hurriedly stopped the horses and shouted at Li Ang: "Are you blind..."

"Ah Fu, don't be rude." The curtain opened, and a man in his fifties sat in the car. He arched his hand to Li Ang, and looked in from the curtain on the side, there seemed to be a female dependent in the car, and Li Ang didn't look good. He also arched his hand and said sorry.

The moment the man lowered the curtain, he suddenly let out a startled cry and quickly lifted the curtain. However, at this time, Li Ang and Wu Xuan had already ridden their horses and walked away.

The man in the car was none other than Shi Jingzhong, the most trusted envoy of land and water transportation and the most trusted by Yang Shenjin in the imperial history. He looked at Li Ang's distant figure and stared for a moment. Then he ordered the coachman to drive to the East Market.

The East Market is also brightly lit, and most businesses have not closed, taking advantage of the opportunity of lifting the curfew in the past two or three days, Zhang Lantern is doing business.

After nightfall, the number of people shopping in the city continues unabated, and it is very lively. Shi Jingzhong's carriage finally passed through the crowded flow of people and stopped in front of the Moyun Liuxiang Bookstore.

Shi Jingzhong got out of the car alone, and the shopkeeper in the bookstore welcomed him in and took him directly to the back hall. Xiao Luan, who was dressed in men's clothes, walked down the steps and said to Shi Jingzhong: "Mr. Shi, the younger generation has been waiting for a long time. ”

Shi Jingzhong replied: "The little lady doesn't have to be polite, if it wasn't for the rescue of the ancestor back then, Shi would have been a pile of dry bones." The grace of saving his life has not been repaid, but it is a pity that the deceased has already driven the crane immortal, which is the biggest regret in Shi's life! ”

When mentioning his master, Xiao Luan's expression was a little gloomy, but he quickly adjusted and said to Shi Jingzhong: "When the ancestor was alive, he mentioned Mr. Shi to the younger generation, saying that Mr. Shi is talented and has great magical powers, not only proficient in Zhou Yi gossip and yin and yang arts, can measure the blessings and misfortunes of life, drive away ghosts and evil spirits, and can also investigate the chaos in the world. The younger generation has long wanted to invite Mr. Yi, and today I am fortunate to see him, Mr. Please come in and serve tea. ”

"The first teacher has won the award, little lady, please!"

After the two entered the hall and sat down, Shi Jingzhong took the initiative to talk about some old things with Xiao Luan's master Yang Jinse, and couldn't help but sigh.

There are people guarding outside the hall, and there are only Xiao Luan and Shi Jingzhong in the hall, although the past is unbearable, but it has enhanced the trust of both parties;

Xiao Luan brought the conversation back to the topic and said: "On that day, the family teacher listened to Mr. Shi's instructions and retired to Jiannan, and it has been more than 20 years in a flash. When the family teacher was dying, he once told the younger generations that if they wanted to know the fortune of the world, they could ask Mr. Shi for advice. It is rare that Mr. today has leisure and hopes to teach. ”

Xiao Luan sat on his knees, bowing and bowing.

Shi Jingzhong quietly observed Xiao Luan's face, and was secretly surprised in his heart, tonight, this is already every two faces that surprised him.

Yang Jinse took opposing Li Tang and helping Yang Sui as his life's ambition, Shi Jingzhong couldn't be clearer about this, so Xiao Luan asked, he tasted the celestial phenomena, and then calculated with yin and yang gossip, and learned that the world would be chaotic, so he persuaded Yang Shenjin to avoid living in Linru, buy land, and accumulate strength to plan for the future.

Yang Shenjin is the great-great-grandson of Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty, and he supported Yang Shenjin and Yang Jinse to oppose the Tang Dynasty and restore the Sui Dynasty, which is why he will come to see Xiao Luan in person tonight.

Xiao Luan asked, and he told him what he had observed, Xiao Luan listened, couldn't help but tighten his fists, and asked, "Mr. Shi, is this world really about to be in chaos?" ”

Shi Jingzhong was silent.

A gust of wind came from outside the hall, and the lights on the shelves shook slightly, but in Xiao Luan's bright eyes, there was a lot of light.

Today's Datang is still in its heyday, and before that, Xiao Luan hardly saw a glimmer of hope. Shi Jingzhong is proficient in Zhou Yi, known as Shi Banxian in Chang'an, it is said that he can investigate the chaos in the world, in Xiao Luan's opinion, although his words are not enough to be fully believed, but it is always a hope.

Shi Jingzhong continued: "If you can manage it well, when the chaos arises, the will of the ancestor may not be unrealizable, looking at the descendants of the Ming Emperor, Yang Shenjin is the most capable and talented, and can be the hero, the little lady wants to help the Sui room, Yang Shenjin is really the best choice!" ”

Emperor Yang is Li Tang's nickname for Yang Guang, in fact, after Yang Guang's death, when Yang Guang's grandson Yang Tong was called emperor, he once gave Yang Guang a nickname: Emperor Shizu Ming. When Shi Jingzhong said about the Ming Emperor, he was referring to Yang Guang.

Objectively speaking, there was not much enmity between Yang Sui and Li Tang, so Li Tang was relatively tolerant of the Sui Dynasty royal family, and many descendants of the Sui Dynasty royal family were officials in the Tang Dynasty, a phenomenon that was extremely rare in the changes of previous dynasties.

Like Yang Nan's father Yang Xun, as well as Princess Xianyi's concubine Yang Xun, and Yang Shenjin, the water and land transport envoy, are all descendants of the royal family of the Sui Dynasty.

But these people who entered the Tang Dynasty as officials, in the eyes of Xiao Luan's master Yang Jinse, are all soft bones, and they are Yang Sui's traitors, they don't think about recovering Sui, but they are willing to be Li Tang's lackeys, so Yang Jinse has never looked for these people.

Now, Shi Jingzhong asked Xiao Luan to help Yang Shenjin, which was contrary to her master's wishes, so she was silent.

Shi Jingzhong persuaded: "Little lady, if you want to achieve great things, you must have a righteous name. The ancestor was unswerving in his life, but in the end he did nothing, and the reason for it was that he was lacking in the name of righteousness, and there were very few followers. Yang Shenjin is the great-great-grandson of Emperor Ming, and his talent is outstanding. ”

Yang Shenjin, who Shi Jingzhong tried to persuade Xiao Luan to support, is now in prison and is in a contradictory state of mind. In the gloomy prison, there was a terrible scream, which made people feel terrified.

In order to gain a firm foothold in the court, Yang Shenjin had to rely on Li Linfu on the surface, but in his heart he was reluctant to join Li Linfu and act for the tiger.

The screams in the prison were like whips on his heart, and his heart was enveloped with guilt and guilt. The consciousness of self-blame tormented him from time to time, and he felt more and more uneasy that he could exchange the lives of so many people for his own future.

Therefore, he adopted the method of evasion, and the specific criminal trial was all handed over to Wang Ji and Ji Wen, and he watched from the wall. This made Wang Ji and Ji Wen secretly very dissatisfied with him.

Ji Wen has a treacherous temperament, bold and ruthless, he doesn't care so much about you, as soon as he arrives in the prison, he brings up some death row inmates in the prison, and in front of Wei Jian and Huangfu Weiming, he inflicts all kinds of inhumane torture, which frightens the hearts of the two families, and their faces are colorless.

This is the genius of Ji Wen, he did not directly punish Wei Jian and Huangfu Weiming, but used the way of killing chickens and monkeys to scare the two families, so that they could confess according to their own will.

And once the Huangfu and Wei families confessed, if the crown prince or others said that he was tortured, and the emperor asked them to come for a review, and the Huangfu and Wei families had not been punished, then others would not be able to find anything wrong.

After bringing several death row inmates back to life, Ji Wen did not look for Wei Jian and Huangfu Weiming, but first interrogated the two housekeepers.

As soon as Wei Jian's butler, Wei Fuqing, was brought up alone, he was so frightened that he collapsed in front of Ji Wen. Ji Wen's sinister face stepped forward and said in a ghostly manner, "There is more to this official's methods than what you see. Steward Wei, you'd better recruit them carefully, otherwise this official will make you unable to survive or die! ”

"Recruit ......... Recruit what? Wei Fuqing trembled, he couldn't say a word, and the three souls and six spirits all flew.

Ji Wen suddenly sighed: "Say, yesterday your master and the prince met in the East City, but there is such a thing?!" (To be continued.) )