Li Xin grabbed a piece of venison before it was sent to the mouth and the door was kicked open from the outside, with the wind and snow poured into the house, a few poor people in official clothes came in, poor Li Xin was hungry and cooed, how could he bear to throw it away, and then did not hesitate to send it into his mouth, and suddenly the mouth overflowed with fragrance, which was really delicious in the world.

It's a pity that the pot of stew.

"The second son is enjoying it, I'm sorry, let's go with our masters!"

Li Xin couldn't figure out the situation for a while, no matter how this scholar Wen Wenjing looked at it, he didn't want to do evil, how could the official send him to arrest him in the wind and snow? Looking at his face as usual, he was not afraid at all. Li Xinxin said that this person must not be simple, not to mention these fierce and vicious officials, even if he is also full of beard and has a steel knife pinned to his waist, he dares to let such a stranger come in and eat venison with him alone, what kind of courage is that?

The scholar who was called the second son snorted coldly and did not answer, and stood with his hands in his hands, and the official wanted to step forward to take someone when he was annoyed.

This group of officials called this scholar the second son, obviously they should have known each other, but they didn't know what he could do with the government. Li Xin begged to eat other people's venison, how could he stand by and watch, and stretched out his hand to stop the official who was the leader.

"If you have something to say, the official must also have a charter, the son of the family is a scholar, can you be polite?"

Li Xin's words were like a provocation, and the official who was the leader suddenly became angry.

"The Criminal Department handles the case and takes people, and the idle people are all open."

Several officials stepped forward to push Li Xin, but unexpectedly, the cloth bag in his arms was squeezed out and fell to the ground. With a few clicks, a waist card flew out. The official who was the leader was stunned for a moment when he saw the waist card, and then waved his hand and said hatefully:

"Brothers, all withdraw." Then he stared at the scholar and threw down a sentence fiercely. "Can Dongchang protect you for the rest of your life? Let's come a long way! ”

The fierce officials walked away, leaving Li Xin stunned, but he breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the scholar, slapped his chest a few times, and slammed Li Xin to the ground.

"Thank you, brother, for coming to the rescue!"

Li Xin hurriedly waved his hand and said, "What does this have to do with so-and-so, it's completely inexplicable!" ”

The scholar picked up the black cloth bag that had fallen from the ground, picked up the waist card, stuffed it into the cloth bag, and handed it into Li Xin's hand.

The scholar insisted and thanked him, and Li Xin couldn't cry or laugh.

"In short, thank you Brother Tai, I haven't asked Brother Tai for his name!"

"In the lower Gaoyang Li Xin!"

Li Xin now calls himself a Gaoyang person no matter where he goes. The scholar smiled when he heard this: "It was originally Brother Gaoyang Li, and the younger brother was surnamed Huang, Xing Er." Then he pointed to the copper pot sitting on the charcoal stove, "Brother Li, please take a seat, don't take this pot of good meat!" ”

After the scholar's reminder, Li Xin immediately felt the bursts of hunger coming from his stomach again, and he was no longer polite, and picked up the chopsticks and feasted. Li Xin ate happily, but his heart was not idle, and he felt more and more that this Huang Er was not simple. Although he first arrived in the Ming Dynasty, he still had some understanding of the etiquette of the two people exchanging names and surnames. I said my name of origin, but the other party only said the surname ranking, and if I was sincere, I didn't act like this. It seems that this Huang Ergongzi may not want to have too much to do with himself.

Seeing that Huang Ergongzi stopped after eating a few bites by himself, he kept sandwiching a large piece of venison into the bowl in front of Li Xin, and then slapped his forehead with his hand and smiled: "Look at the head of the little brother, the venison still needs to be served with warm wine, Brother Li wait for a while, and the little brother will go get the wine!" ”

Huang Ergongzi didn't see anything outside, and Li Xin was embarrassed to get up, and when he saw that he was busy with his work, he couldn't help but joke:

"The second son is a little brother, how do you know that Li Xin is older?"

Unexpectedly, Huang Ertou replied without raising his head: "Brother Li is full of beard, and the younger brother has not grown a beard yet!" ”

Li Xin laughed, and said in his heart that what he said was also that in this era, adult men have to grow beards, and only the eunuch is old with a smooth chin.

After a while, the warm wine was served, Li Xin unceremoniously picked up the wine cup and poured it all by himself, and a warm feeling suddenly rose in his abdomen, and the cold air on his body disappeared in an instant, and he couldn't help but praise sincerely:

"Good wine!"

Immediately, Li Xin filled the wine cups in front of the two of them one by one, picked up the wine cups and said:

"Little Brother Huang, let's do it!"

Huang Er's eyes flashed with a hint of discoloration, and he picked up the wine cup and said, "Brother Li is really refreshing, dry!" ”

After a few glasses of wine, Li Xin's words also increased, pointing to himself.

"To tell the truth, this bearded appearance with a knife, how dare Little Brother Huang invite someone in alone."

Huang Er said with a smile: "Brother Li asked knowingly, in the inner city of the Ming Jingshi, under the Zijin City, who can blatantly carry the Yanling knife, the younger brother privately speculated, who else could it be in addition to the Ming official army?" ”

Li Xin suddenly realized, indeed, the Yanling knife is the standard saber of the Ming army, and ordinary people can't carry it, except for the officials and soldiers, there are really not too many answers. This person's mind is delicate and clear, but he doesn't know how to provoke the officials of the Criminal Department, but one thing he is very sure of is that the people who can live on the edge of this Forbidden City are probably not idle people. Everyone has a secret behind them, I'm afraid this Huang Er is too, he may not want outsiders to know, it's better not to ask.

This Huang Er is full of mystery, and he may not be involved in any secrets, he is still uncertain about his future in Beijing, where can he have the ability to care about the fate of others? It's better to just talk about the wine in the cup in front of you and the meat in the pot.

There should be a vague courtyard behind this house, but seeing that Huang Er did everything himself, he should be the only one here. Li Xin was afraid that those officials of the Criminal Department would come to trouble him again, and everyone would take care of him when the time came, so he had to get up and say goodbye until it was dark.

Li Xin asked himself if he could drink enough, but when he saw the wind when he went out, his head suddenly became dizzy, and he said in his heart that the stamina of this wine was enough. Mi Xiang is not far from the residence of Taiji Factory, and it is only a moment to walk, open the door and enter the house, the charcoal brazier has long been extinguished, the room is cold, and the cry is loud when you fall on the couch.

At dawn the next day, I heard someone shouting in the courtyard, Li Xin was hangover all night, still having a headache and dizziness, and faintly heard that someone outside was calling him to receive the order. Pick-up? Li Xin sat up from the couch suddenly, the emperor had a will so quickly, could it be that he was hallucinating in a dream? According to what he meant by the emperor, he obviously wanted to dry him for a while, but this time the shouting outside was more real, and it was indeed a call for him to accept the order, so he hurriedly got up and pushed the door out.

But I saw a little eunuch standing in the courtyard, and Li Xin, the eunuch holding the holy decree, recognized that it should be Cao Huachun's person, and he had taken care of him when he entered the palace that day.

"Li Xin is not coming to answer the order yet!"

Li Xin fell to his knees as if he were on his knees.

The eunuch did not read out the decree that came into effect through the cabinet, but the emperor's direct decree. To Li Xin's surprise, the content of the holy decree turned out to be some bits and pieces, and only two of them were the major things he cared about.

The first is to order him to participate in the ceremony of presenting prisoners tomorrow, and the second is to order him to go out of the city to lead the army immediately after the ceremony is completed.

Li Xin was confused, the emperor clearly didn't want him to have anything to do with these two anymore, how did he change his attitude overnight, not only let him participate in the ceremony of sacrificing prisoners, but also let himself go out of the city to continue to take charge of the army, which is simply incredible.

"General Li, General Li?"

It wasn't until the eunuch who delivered the decree that Li Xin recovered from his consternation, and happiness came too suddenly, and he was a little overwhelmed. Li Xin hurriedly said: "It's no wonder that the public is not strange, Li Xin has lost his mind." ”

The eunuch didn't think it was wrong, handed over the holy decree to Li Xin, turned around and sighed almost imperceptibly, and left in a hurry with a few little eunuchs.

After a short time, a special eunuch came to the door to tell him the process of tomorrow's ceremony, and sent the corresponding military attache dress.

……

The next day, there was a clear sky on the city of Beijing, as if God was also praising this ceremony, outside the noon gate, the civil and military officials Liang Guan's python robes gathered here, the imperial city guards were dressed in flying fish suits, bullfighting suits were lined up in two compartments, and the city tower was even more slaughtered, and the emperor Zhu Youzhen slowly appeared in a crown dress. The ministers who watched the ceremony under the city immediately stopped whispering and chattering, knelt and saluted, and shouted long live.

Zhu Youzhen nodded slightly, the crown on his head shook slightly, and the eunuch Shen Dantian beside him shouted angrily: "No courtesy!" ”

The ministers cheered and cheered up, Yang Sichang was at the head of the hundred officials, and beside him was the second assistant Xue Guoguan, who whispered behind him:

"Yang Xiang looked, His Majesty was crowned."

Yang Sichang also noticed this, although the city tower of the noon gate is high, but the emperor's solemn face can still be vividly remembered, the dark shirt is black and red, embroidered with twelve chapters, the sun, the moon, and the stars. Yellow bottoms weave Zongyi, algae, fire. A large red and white belt is tied around the waist. The black crown on the front and back of the head is round, and the twelve crowns are swaying in the wind. The power of dominating the world does not stop there.

Song Kai sacrificed the prisoner, the emperor wore a leather dress of black gauze silk clothes is already a high standard, and now he is wearing a crown dress for heaven and earth and the temple, which shows that the emperor attaches great importance to this prisoner sacrifice Cheng dù.

It is no wonder that with the years of war tightening, internal and external pressure, this year has reached an unrepeatable Cheng dù, the Tartars destroyed the pass into the Kou Ruinto into no man's land, and now it is a large-scale siege outside the city, the Manchu Dynasty is helpless, the emperor needs a big gift to inspire people.

This time it was the right time to take prisoners.

"Boost morale, long live is also painstaking!"

Yang Sichang replied lightly, and Xue Guo's view should be reconciled.

"Long live the hope for a big gift, but I'm afraid of ......" changed his tone halfway through the words. Yang Xiang's high wind and bright festival, for the horse thief to fight for the honor of sacrificing prisoners in front of Long Live, and return his military power, the lower officials admired it until, then Li Xin dared not to die for Yang Xiangxiao? ”

"Xue Xiang said cautiously, long live the power of heaven is unpredictable, this battle must be fought without its own long-live suffering, let's do our best as courtiers!"

As he spoke, a mighty procession of prisoner offerings entered through the end gate.

"Woooooo

The blowing horn sounded through the noon gate again and again, followed by Huang Zhong Dalu, and the brocade-clothed angry horse slowly entered.