Chapter Forty-Eight: Giving the King a Lamp That Never Sleeps
Cui Kongling took a caged Zhao Yeqing, walked to the staircase, and handed it to the girl.
Duanmu Yuhua reached out to take it, but he retracted. She looked up suspiciously, the eyebrows of the person in front of her were crooked, and her eyes were full of honey tenderness.
"Xiao Xihua, stretch out your hand."
The stars are ying, under the swaying firelight, the boy in Tsing Yi has a straight face, and he cannot refuse. She thought for a moment and obediently stretched out her hand.
With gentle movements, he untied the colorful silk silk tied to his hand. Between the fingertips, a dexterous bow jumped on the girl's white wrist.
"Alright."
Then Cui Kongling took a step upstairs, stood behind her, and got out of the way. The girl's eyes were clear, she looked at her wrist, and looked up at him with a soft smile.
"Thank you, cousin."
Then she nodded slightly to the young man in white next to him.
"Lu Xiang, it's getting late, so I'll leave first."
The smile on the lips of the young man in white burst instantly. Heh, call yourself Lu Xiang, but call Cui Konglingrong and cousin? It's only been a while, and they're so affectionate, haven't they just met.
Lu Weizhen's happy mood just now disappeared, and he didn't have time to say anything more. Cui Kongling took the first step and blocked in front of him.
The boy in Tsing Yi waved his hand at the girl, making a reluctant gesture.
"Then Xiao Xihua, be careful all the way, I look forward to seeing you again."
When the figure of the girl in red completely disappeared at the door, Cui Kongling turned her head playfully. Lu Weizhen was wearing a mask, he couldn't see the expression on his face, and only looked at him with a pair of cold eyes.
"Lu Xiang, do you think there is a strange smell?"
Ignoring Lu Weizhen's increasingly gloomy eyes, the little marquis continued fearlessly.
"It's so sour."
Seeing that the young man in white brushed his sleeves, he no longer paid attention to him, and turned straight away. Cui Kongling hurriedly chased after him, but the words in his mouth still made people angry.
"Hahaha, Lu Xiang, you're really angry."
"Don't don't, don't be, I'll take a picture of the night with the county lord, and I'll give you a lamp that never sleeps."
The young man paused and turned back. Although the smile on his lips was the same, his tone was a bit of gnashing of teeth.
"Master Hou poured the tea, I can't afford it."
"Lu Xiang, Master Hou."
The two were at a stalemate, and Zhao Sinian waited for no one to come in the private room for a long time. Thinking that something had happened, he went out to look for them.
At this moment, he saw Cui Kongling grabbing the sleeve of the young man in white with a hippie smile, full of flattery, and he narrowed his narrow eyes.
Cui Kongling noticed Zhao Sinian's gaze, secretly screamed that it was not good, and hurriedly let go of Lu Weizhen's sleeves and put away the impropriety.
"No kidding, it's not an accident that Lu Xiang appeared in the Drunken Moon Tower today."
However, his weak-hearted behavior was fully seen by Lu Weizhen. Heh, Cui Kongling, since you are unkind first, don't blame me for being unjust.
The young man in white looked at Zhao Sinian with a smile and a sincere tone. Under the candle flame, there is a little warmth.
"Master Hou is wise, I haven't seen fellow cultivators for many years, and I miss it very much. I heard that he was going back to Beijing in the morning, so I stayed here. I thought about arranging a comfortable place for him to live, and then reminiscing with fellow initiates about the past. ”
In the past, he worked with Lu Weizhen and was taken care of by him a lot, and Zhao Sinian was slightly moved.
"I'm in Lingnan, and I'm also very concerned about Lu Xiang."
The young man's tone became more and more gentle, with a little melancholy.
"Xiu Ming is separated from me, didn't you call me Fusu before."
This sentence evokes a lot of memories of Zhao Sinian's past. He immediately responded and shouted to the person in front of him.
"Fusu."
The young man in white nodded with satisfaction, and glanced at Cui Kongling.
Cui Kongling: "......" (Damn, careless, Lu Weizhen, this dog thing, he couldn't help but scold in his heart.) )
I saw the little marquis drooping his head with a deflated expression. The sullen breath he had just held dissipated a lot, and his heart instantly became happy.
"Fusu, the tea is going to be cold, let's go to the room and talk."
Zhao Sinian didn't care about the little marquis's complaining accusation like an abandoned dog, and his heart was all on Lu Weizhen at this moment.
"Okay."
The young man nodded and walked ahead with him. Looking at the two unusually harmonious white shadows, Cui Kongling was a little stunned and stunned. He clenched his fist, Lu Weizhen, you wait.
"Wait for me, Xiuming."
The three of them came to the private room and sat down, and Zhao Sinian's eyes never left Lu Weizhen. Cui Kongling was panicked in his heart, listening to the greetings between the two, he endured and endured, and finally couldn't help but interrupt.
"If there is anything Lu Xiang, just say it directly, the hour is not early, I can't be late for the banquet with Xiu Ming tomorrow."
The implication is that you know each other. Hurry up and leave after saying something, don't disturb him and Zhao Sinian to rest.
However, the more Cui Kongling couldn't hold back, the more happy Lu Weizhen became.
"Master Hou is going to Beijing this time, how long are you going to stay?"
Compared with Lu Xiang's current style of wind and moonlight, the mood of the little marquis is not so beautiful, and even the tone is very impatient.
"Lu is concerned about this, what are you doing?"
The young man in white smiled even deeper, he looked at Zhao Sinian, and replied kindly.
"Naturally, I am reluctant to cultivate Ming, and I want him to stay longer."
Cui Kongling grinds his teeth, this person is really caught.
"No matter how long it takes, naturally if I go, Xiu Ming will go with me."
"Before I do, though, I need to confirm one thing."
He had to investigate Duanmu Xihua's background to see what was going on.
The two of them have been playing haha, and Zhao Sinian also noticed that the atmosphere was wrong, and there was a faint-for-tat. Thinking about some of the recent ups and downs, he considered his mouth.
"Fusu, the news you sent from the sect said that His Majesty was going to bring King Min back."
As soon as this sentence came out, the emotions of the two people who were secretly competing faded.
Today, His Majesty only has two sons, one is Duanmusong, the king of Jin, who was born by Concubine Wei Shu, and the other is Duanmulang, the king of Min, who has been raised outside the palace.
Before the death of the first emperor, the emperor Lu Xingyun and the abolished prince Duanmu Qinghui were temporarily summoned to enter the palace, but I don't know what they explained. caused the abolished prince to go crazy and kill many royal children with a sword.
Duanmu Qingjia was originally born to a lowly orchid, but he escaped because of the protection of the Wei family. In accordance with the mandate of heaven, he became the current Emperor Yuande, which is the palace change recorded in the history books.
But there are still many strange things to be investigated.
In any case, the Wei family is the greatest contributor to Duanmu Qingjia's ability to be the emperor. He gave the Wei family the supreme favor, named Wei Qizhao as the prince, promoted his sister Wei Linlang as the concubine, and appointed the children of the Wei family as officials.
After Concubine Wei had a child, the brothers and sisters of the Wei family, and even the whole court, thought that the child would be naturally canonized as the East Palace.
But Emperor Yuande refused on the grounds that the child was still young.
This is nothing, who knew that Duanmu Qingjia suddenly set up a folk woman as the queen a few years later. She can be called the most mysterious queen in the Beixiang royal family, and no one has ever seen her true face.
Because the queen was happy and quiet, Emperor Yuande ordered that no one should be allowed to enter and leave Chonghua Palace without permission.
I thought that the emperor was just a ghost for a while, but I never thought that he valued her so much. Once, Concubine Wei Shu was grounded for several months after just a few gossips outside the palace.
Later, there were those who dared to provoke, or those who deposed the queen in words, and the end was even more tragic.
Because of Duanmu Qingjia's favor, and because the woman's maiden family has no power. Although the people below had a little rhetoric, it didn't cause much turmoil in the end.
What really made the Wei family dissatisfied was that Emperor Yuande announced Duanmulang's identity.
The emperor's tone was pitying, and he made it clear that this was the queen's child. Because of poor health, he will be kept outside the palace since he was a child. Now that you're almost recovered, it's time to get it back.
Even Concubine Wei Shufei's hoarse crying voice kneeling outside the imperial study could not stop the emperor's determination, and he specially gave this son the title of Minzi.
It wasn't until Wei Sique won the battle in Xiliang and returned to Beijing that Wei Qizhao united with his ministers to write a letter, which made the emperor stop a little. But it was only delayed in the open, but someone was still sent to pick it up in the dark.
The person sent to pick it up was Lu Weizhen, Emperor Yuande's henchman.
The position of the East Palace has not been decided, and it is self-evident what the emperor's move means.
The Wei family's Jiaowei Feast is a big deal and covers a wide range. From the kings and grandsons to the nobles, down to the children of the family, almost all the power in their hands was invited.
Although the invitation said that it was to celebrate the joy of Wei Sique and Wu Anjun, who didn't know that he took this opportunity to form a gang in order to seek the crown prince for the king of Jin.
"King Min is just a six-year-old child."
"What?"
When Zhao Sinian and Cui Kongling heard this, they were all shocked. But the young man in white had a slightly condensed face, and it didn't look like a joke.
"Well, no one else knows about it."
"Naturally, King Min is now in one of my private houses. Just wait for His Majesty's edict to come, and then welcome him into the palace. ”
"Your Majesty, what are you going to do?"
Zhao Sinian frowned, feeling that there was a fog in front of him that could not be removed.
Lu Weizhen was noncommittal, picked up the teapot and poured a cup of tea for the two people in front of him.
"Your Majesty's thoughts, we can't guess. But the Wei family's thoughts, their next plan, can be explored in this banquet. ”
Zhao Sinian looked at the young man.
"Fusu, what are you going to do."
"I found Master Hou tonight, I wanted to invite you, no matter what variables there are at the banquet, you will not move."
Cui Kongling smiled cynically, didn't he squeeze him just now, don't you have something to ask for now, see what this person does.
He spoke in a harsh tone.
"Why should I help you?"
The young man in white did not flinch, as if everything was under control. With a look of confidence, he took out a token from his cuff and pushed it over.
"Naturally, I am sincere and want to cooperate with Master Hou."
Cui Kongling's eyebrows moved slightly, with this token, he could enter and leave every corner of the palace and the six departments at will, without leaving a trace.
This man is really prepared.
In fact, it is beneficial and harmless to help Lu Weizhen, he seems to act dissolutely, but he is restricted everywhere, and people in the shadows are watching closely.
Sheng Jing is naturally as chaotic as possible, Emperor Yuande is distracted, and it is not so obvious what he has to do.
Seeing Cui Kongling's distraction, Zhao Sinian thought that he was still hesitating, and opened his mouth to persuade him.
"Master Hou has been helping Su in the past few years."
Although they have different obsessions in their hearts, they have long been grasshoppers on the same rope.
Listening to Zhao Sinian shouting one by one, Cui Kongling shook his head.
"Xiuming, it's because he sent you that I'm willing to help."
Zhao Sinian was not Emperor Yuande's eyeliner, he obeyed Lu Weizhen's orders. It was after he came that the tarsal stares around Cui Kongling gradually disappeared, and he had a chance to breathe.
The cooperation between him and Lu Weizhen began early in the morning with the arrival of Zhao Sinian.