Chapter 313: Curfew
The days are getting warmer day by day, but this country is like falling into an ice cellar.
Because of the war on the frontier, he lost.
This was the first time that the Western Zhou Dynasty had lost to the Western Regions since the Jade Gate Alliance, and it is said that the Galmore royal court, with the help of God, also fought the first victory between the two countries in decades.
The pride of the Central Plains collapsed overnight, and the undercurrent of panic swept across the country, bursting the embankment, and Shengjing, which was at the foot of the Son of Heaven, bore the brunt of the attack.
In order to reassure the people, in March, the imperial palace began to implement a curfew, after the unitary time, ordinary people were not allowed to go out for no reason, and sent an additional internal forbidden army to patrol the city at night.
On this day, it was just dark, and Shengjing City was quiet, and the big yellow dog howled twice occasionally, and it was also panicked.
The once prosperous country was shrouded in an uneasy atmosphere, and the people looked through the cracks in the closed doors and windows, the lights were turned off early, and the streets and alleys were dark and rumbling.
The back door of Jiafu. Cheng Yingyu and Rong Wei together, the three of them leaned against the wall in the dark, stretched out their heads to look at the corner of the street, and saw a column of soldiers dressed in military uniforms coming, and their eyes immediately lit up.
This is the forbidden army of the night watch. The young man at the head stopped the generals, stepped forward alone, and whispered to the three of them worriedly: "It's curfew, what are you doing here?" Didn't you say that tomorrow is early, I must send the news in person? Do you need to wait for me now? ”
Cheng Yingyu looked left and right, and knew that it was not in accordance with the law, and his voice was suppressed and suppressed: "Shen Yu, am I not worried...... You went to search Huamuting today, I'm really afraid that you will find someone...... No, I'm just in a hurry, I can't wait, you tell me quickly, what is the result? ”
"Yes, little marquis, if you don't get your permission, no one will be able to sleep tonight!" Yun Niang and Rong Wei were also uneasy, and pulled Shen Yu to prevent him from leaving.
Shen Yu sighed and responded: "That's it, you can have a good night's sleep tonight, I haven't found any big reversals, and the flower garden is a flower house for fun." ”
Cheng Yingyu and the three of them breathed a heavy sigh of relief, as if they had walked away from the ghost gate, and their pale faces returned a little blood, and Shen Yu secretly said that something was wrong.
It turned out that Cheng Yingyu had sent him a message before, saying that he suspected that there were party members from the south hiding in Huamuting, and asked him to bring the forbidden army to search, on the premise that no matter whether it was good or bad, he had to be the first to tell Jixiangpu.
Shen Yu thought about the two personal relations, and agreed, the above had long suspected that the war that suddenly broke out in the frontier was related to the southern party, and the latter was hiding in Shengjing City, and the dragon could not see the head and the tail, and the two saints in the imperial palace could not be caught.
Searching the Southern Party is also the duty of the forbidden army, in order to reassure the people, Shen Yu took people to go, but now it seems that the whole thing is full of a strangeness: the so-called hidden rebellion, what is the auspicious shop?
"Great, I didn't find it, maybe we thought too much, he didn't ...... Yes, it must be like this, it's good if you don't do anything stupid......" Yun Niang kept wiping her eyes next to her, grabbed Cheng Ying's and Rong Wei's hands tightly, and muttered to herself.
Shen Yu chuckled in his heart, and suddenly thought of Hua San, who he hadn't seen for a long time, and his expression gradually changed to shock: "Could it be that San ......?"
"Where! My brother quit home and traveled away! Cheng Ying interrupted suddenly, and said with a fluttering look in his eyes, "Little Marquis, don't misunderstand anything...... Hurry back to the camp and get back to your life, go and go! ”
Shen Yu wanted to speak and stopped, but after all, he glanced at Cheng Ying a few times, suffocated all his guesses in his stomach, he waved his hand at the soldiers behind him, and as soon as his front foot was raised, his back foot was stopped by Cheng Ying.
"Wait! Little Marquis, are your soldiers holding a person? ”
When Yun Niang and Rong Wei heard this, their faces turned white, and the eyes of the four people brushed over, and they could vaguely see a man with a bloody face in the forbidden army in the night.
Cheng Yingyu glanced at it for a while, and was sure that it was not Xiao Zhan, her body shape was too similar, and her heart immediately fell when she mentioned her throat, and her chest hurt.
But this time it was Shen Yu's turn to stop talking: "It's not a big deal...... It was the gentleman who met Liang Shang on the way to patrol the night...... Yes, Liang Shang gentleman, take it back and hand it over to the government office along the way. ”
"The government? This road is obviously leading to your Pingchang Marquis's Mansion, and the government is not on this side! Cheng Ying laughed and subconsciously retorted.
Shen Yu's demeanor became unnatural, thinking of going to Huamu Ting today and seeing the scene of Shen Xi colluding with the people of the Western Regions, even in the face of Cheng Yingyu, he swallowed many words.
"Home ugly, family ugly...... Not enough to mention...... I, I take my leave. Shen Yu beckoned to the soldiers, turned around and was about to leave, but he didn't expect an angry shout of thunder from the bottom, blowing up the night.
"What a faux pas!!"
Because of the silence in the streets and alleys of the curfew, several people spoke in suppressed voices, and they could really hear each other's breathing, so everyone was so frightened that they were silent and didn't come back to their senses for a long time.
In the night, there are glass palace lights coming, neat and orderly footsteps and bamboo spring swaying sounds, a blue silk sedan chair stopped, the servants opened the curtains, and the sedan chair came down with a purple robe and gold belt of the official old man.
With the orange light, Cheng Ying frowned, not recognizing, the old man was well-behaved, and arched his hand from afar: "Yang Gong, the chief of the cabinet, has seen the Liangjiazi of the East Palace, the new imperial army Shen Junshi, and all the soldiers." ”
"Elder Yang Ge!" Shen Yu and the soldiers of the forbidden army finally woke up, brushed and knelt down, and even Xiao Niang and Rong Wei bowed down, after all, this name is really too thunderous.
Yang Gong, the head of Confucianism, is a scholar and a giant of learning, except for the only bad thing: his temperament is not pleasant.
It is said that it is good to be rigorous, and if it is not good, it is called old-fashioned, the outline is often heavy, and etiquette is enshrined as the guideline, except for the circle of readers, it can make people unhappy everywhere.
Emperor Shun and Emperor Wai Emperor two emperors personally invited him out of the mountain, Yang Gong declined, until the Western Zhou Dynasty, the only daughter of the third generation, Yang Aman and Lu, was intentionally assigned to the children of the Qian family by Qian Mu, Yang Gong was anxious for his own camp.
This party received the order to enter Beijing, and became a courtier of the Zhao dynasty, the official to the head of the cabinet, the civil and military ministers looked at his eyes, and the heavenly royal family also had to give him a share of face.
"It turned out to be the elder of the pavilion, and the concubine was just a good family, so she couldn't afford such a big gift from the elder of the pavilion." Cheng Yingyu returned the salute in accordance with the rules of respect and inferiority, but muttered in her heart, afraid that "the person who came is not good".
I heard that even Zhao Xixing, who is known as a saint, has suffered losses in front of him, and this Yang Gong is really a "demon king of the mixed world" who is rampant in the world in some aspects.
Sure enough, Yang Gong saw the salute, straightened his waist, and his gentle face suddenly became cold: "The frontier is in turmoil, the political affairs are busy, the old man has only finished the discussion in the East Palace now, but he didn't want to bump into such an ugly thing when he returned to the mansion in the next dynasty." ”
Not giving Cheng Ying a chance to argue at all, Yang Gong took a breath, and his pupils quickly filled with anger: "Not to mention how the Liangjiazi of the East Palace can meet with the ministers in private, it is already the curfew hour, and the two people behind the Liangjiazi are still walking around outside the mansion, which is already a violation of the laws of the Great Zhou!" The Son of Heaven is guilty of the same crime as the common people, this is a loss of women and the other is a violation of the ban, even if it is a good family favored by the East Palace, if he does not give the old man an explanation today, the old man will beat the drum to sue the court, and impeach in front of the palace! The sages are above, and Yang Gong is born later, and today he will be in accordance with the laws and regulations, and he will not hesitate to die! ”
After saying that, Yang Gong knelt down with a thud and bowed three times to the black rumbling night sky, almost a handful of snot and tears.
That scene must be said to be righteous and awe-inspiring, that posture, saying that the heartache is light, and the three people of Jixiangpu are full of black hearts, each of them is a crime that cannot be punished, and their heads are not worthy of being raised.
Cheng Yingyu only had three words left in her mind, as for her, although she had misbehaved, Yang Gong made it so hard that she didn't understand the truth, and thought she had done something that people and gods were angry about.
Seeing that Cheng Ying was stunned, Yang Gong became more and more violent, and the old tears burst into tears: "The world is declining, and people's hearts are not ancient!" It's sad and lamentable, the etiquette is broken! There is nothing to linger in the turbid world, sages, and the next generation will follow you! ”