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"Grandpa Guo......" Ashina put down all his dignity, walked a few steps on his knees, and begged bitterly, "Grandpa Guo, you must help me!" I can only rely on Grandpa Guo! ”
Qin Sui had already exited the study under Geng Hai's gesture, and there were only the three of them in the room.
Geng Hai and Geng Anhao, father and son, looked at each other again, and quickly exchanged a look that only their father and son could understand, and the corners of their mouths were hooked up with a deep smile.
Geng Anhao stood up and helped Ashina, who was kneeling on the ground, up with a smile, "Lord Wang, you have something to say." ”
"yes." Geng Hai said comfortingly, "Sit down, let's discuss it slowly." There is no obstacle in this world that cannot be overcome. His tone was meaningful.
Ashina was already in a mess, what Geng Hai said, it was what it was, he sat down without saying a word, and looked at Geng Hai as if he had seen the backbone of the main heart.
"An Hao, don't pour tea for the prince yet!" Geng Hai instructed Geng Anhao and gave him another look.
The sound of pouring tea immediately echoed in the room, smelling the elegant fragrance of tea, Ashina's heart settled a lot.
"Lord Wang," Geng Hai pointed to the pot of pruned orchid grass on the square table, "Do you know how to raise orchids?" ”
Ashina was a little inexplicable, but Geng Hai didn't expect him to answer, and continued: "In the process of raising orchids, pruning the leaves is a very important thing. ”
"When the leaves of bluegrass are too luxuriant, some old, dead and diseased leaves must be cut off, so that the good leaves have better space to grow......"
"Whether it is raising orchids or being a person and doing things, you must first understand the 'way of choice'."
As he spoke, Geng Hai picked up the scissors on the square table again, and with a "click", he mercilessly cut off a green and intact orchid leaf.
This time, it was cut neatly.
The long orchid leaf just fell from the branch and landed lightly on the square table, mixed with a pile of residual leaves.
Ashina looked at the shimmering scissors, and his heart chuckled, his face changed slightly, and his eyes were gloomy.
The air became more and more solemn, like a stormy summer evening, and it felt breathless.
The Weiguo Mansion has been shrouded in a depressing atmosphere for several days, and everyone in the mansion knows that the grandfather is not happy, and everyone is holding their tails and being a man, trembling.
Not only the Weiguo Mansion, but also the entire capital.
On the tenth day of the first month of April, the emperor officially issued an edict to build the imperial mausoleum, and moved the bones of the emperor Chongming in the imperial mausoleum.
Originally, the emperor was unwilling, but Cen Yin reminded him:
"Your Majesty, you have justified Emperor Chongming's name, enshrined the Taimiao, and announced to the world...... It is better to take the last step and move the imperial mausoleum for Emperor Chongming. ”
"In this way, it is better to block the mouths of the people, so that the world's mouth will not say that you say one thing and do another, leaving people to speak."
"Anyway, it's just a 'ritual' on the scene."
Cen Yin said it was not unreasonable, but the emperor still hesitated for several days, tossed and turned, and finally issued an edict, but the hatred for Geng Hai in his heart was a little more, and he counted all the accounts on Geng Hai's head, thinking that when the January period came, Geng Hai would be punished well.
Even if he can't kill Geng Hai for a while, he can also ask Geng Hai for the crime of lax handling of the forbidden army, demote his lordship, and cut his power, so that he will no longer have to be restrained by Geng Hai as the king of a country in the future!
What he has is time, he can take his time little by little, he must let Geng Hai, the traitor who bullied the king, die and have no place to be buried, so that their Geng family will never have the possibility of turning over!
Thinking about it this way, the emperor was in a better mood, and he chose a mausoleum for Emperor Chongming with the book of the Ministry of Rites.
From the emperor's edict to the name of Emperor Chongming to the repair of the emperor's mausoleum, this series of things came too fast, so fast that the courtiers are still a little confused, but seeing that the once powerful Wei Guogong was suppressed step by step, the ministers were also smart and didn't say anything, and stood by.
Up and down the government and the opposition, there was peace and stability.
Only Wei Guogong's heart became heavier and heavier, and as the deadline given by the emperor approached day by day, he seemed to be in a hurry, so that Jin Wuwei searched the streets and alleys of Beijing, and the momentum was impressive, and the place he passed was like a locust crossing the border.
There was chaos in the capital, people were panicked, and the wind was loud.
Even Dongchang, which has always been against the Weiguo Mansion, did not move, and others dared not speak out, and many people did not dare to go out for nothing, for fear of being involved in this storm.
In this regard, the emperor adopted a laissez-faire attitude, so that Jin Wuwei became even more wanton and rampant, teahouses and restaurants, theater inns, and study academies...... Everywhere, Jin Wuwei did not let go, searched the house, inspected the shop, arrested people, acted unscrupulously, turned the entire capital upside down, those merchants were panicked, and the people complained.
Even the Guozijian did not escape this catastrophe.
For three days in a row, Jin Wuwei forcibly broke into the Guozijian every day, violently searched the Guozijian over and over again, and in the name of searching and collecting evidence, he made a mess of the Guozijian every time, making the prisoners all restless and unwilling to learn, and some of the prisoners simply asked for leave to avoid the limelight.
"Boom!"
When a group of Jin Wuwei once again crashed open the gate of the Guozijian and turned around in a rampage inside, they found that today's Guozijian was empty, and there was no one.
"Commander Wu," a bearded guard walked quickly to a tall middle-aged soldier with a long knife, and said with a fist, "My subordinates have inquired, and the Guozijian is suspended today......
"yes, yes." The porter who followed Wu Xingdong sweated profusely and said, "Commander, the little one, there is no one here today." ”
The bearded guard glared at the porter, and said in a rough voice: "Commander Wu, they all went to Huilan Garden next door......"
Saying this, even Wu Xingdong moved his eyebrows in surprise, and the bearded guard hurriedly told the ins and outs of the matter, it turned out that today Wuchen Gongzi was invited to Huilanyuan to give a lecture to the students of the women's school, and as soon as the news came out three days ago, it alarmed Guozijian.
In the minds of these prisoners, Wuchen Gongzi is a legendary figure, and he is the object of their admiration.
Thinking that the Guozijian has not been able to live in peace recently, and he can't attend classes properly, a few prisoners have the courage to mention the matter of going to Huilanyuan to listen to the Guozijian wine, and Sun Xianjiu is not a pedantic person, so he thinks this idea is good, and personally went to Huilanyuan to discuss with the three female gentlemen such as Qi, and decided to make an exception for the women's school to open to Guozijian today.
This morning, those prisoners did not come to Guozijian, and they all went to the girls' school next door.
After finishing speaking, the bearded guard looked at Wu Xingdong inquiringly, "Commander, ...... you look?"
"Search for women!" Wu Xingdong's eyes were gloomy, and he decisively raised his voice and ordered.
The guards beside him all clasped their fists and responded in unison, "Yes, commander." ”
Their voices were unanimous, and their shouts shook the sky.
So, thirty or forty Jinwuwei guards came out of the Guozijian with great momentum, and rushed to Huilan Garden, "Knock knock", and one of them rudely knocked on the door of Huilan Garden.
"Master Jun, do you have any advice?"
The concierge of Hui Lan Yuan was an old man in his fifties, with gray hair, a withered description, and a little cringe.
"Open the door!" A triangular-eyed guard shouted at the top of his voice, "We, Jin Wuwei, have been ordered to search here, so don't you hurry up and get out of the way for us!" ”
The porter was shocked, and while glancing at a woman in green clothes behind him, he politely explained to the guard: "Master Jun, this is a female ......."
Before the concierge finished speaking, he was rudely pushed away by the triangular-eyed guard, and the other party reprimanded coldly: "What are you talking about, open the door to Lao Tzu!" ”
With a "squeak", the gate was slammed open, and the shouting and footsteps at the gate were mixed with the noise.
The woman in green clothes hurriedly ran towards Xuanji Hall, she had to hurry up to get through the three of them, these military masters didn't look so easy to deal with.
The woman in Tsing Yi gritted her teeth and ran faster, almost using her strength to feed.
At this moment, in the Xuanji Hall, there was a crowd of people, and the young girls and sons gathered together, laughing and laughing.
There are bookcases in the hall, each of which is covered with a calligraphy and painting, and the ink on the inkstone next to the calligraphy and painting has not yet dried, obviously these paintings have just been painted.
Everyone turned their heads and ears in twos and threes, but their eyes mostly fell on a wheelchair, or should I say, a man in Tsing Yi in a wheelchair.
Wen Wuchen wore a simple azure pigment straight jacket, his hair was pulled up with a bamboo hairpin, revealing a smooth and full forehead, his narrow eyes were gentle and bright, even if he was in a wheelchair, the whole person still looked so calm, relaxed and elegant, and he had a fairy temperament.
The wheelchair stopped in front of a certain bookcase, and Wen Wuchen was looking down at a painting on the bookcase.
It was a picture of a lady, a red sun hanging high in the sky, willow branches flying in the wind, a girl dressed in red like fire galloped away on a white horse, holding a bow staff and swinging it with all her might.
In this painting, only the back of the girl is seen but not her true face, but the white horse under her crotch neighs and looks back, the galloping demeanor is full of spirit, triumphant, very vivid and interesting.
"The layout of this painting is dense and orderly, whether it is the demeanor of a person or a horse, it is grasped just right, the whole painting moves appropriately, and there is a trace of aftertaste, which leads people to reverie......" Wen Wuchen commented unhurriedly, with a gentle smile on the corner of his mouth.
Qi nodded slightly, obviously agreeing with Wen Wuchen's comments. She looked at Duanmu Fei, who was standing next to Wen Wuchen, with a kind expression.
Today, Wen Wuchen will come to the women's school to give a lecture, and there is also Qi's facilitation.
She knew that Duanmu Fei admired Wuchen's son very much, and handed a message to Duanmu Fei early in the morning, telling her that Wen Wuchen was going to come to the women's school, in fact, even if the Qi family didn't say it, Duanmu Fei would know the news from Feng Yan.
No, today Feng Yan went to Duanmu's house early in the morning to bring the two sisters to Huilan Garden.
Since this person came, Qi simply took advantage of Wen Wuchen's question to ask Duanmu Fei to draw one.
Wen Wuchen's question just now was "Polo", and the girls and several prisoners of the Guozijian all painted it, but the composition of the completed paintings was similar, mostly a few knights riding horses chasing a ball bow, and the knights showed their magic skills across the sea on horses.
Among the dozens of paintings, only Duanmufei's painting is eye-catching.
She simplified the complexity, drawing only one man and one horse, and did not emphasize those ornate techniques, and she had already clearly brought the joy of playing polo to the fullest.
Wen Wuchen raised his head from the painting, looked at Duanmu Fei, and said with a smile: "Fourth girl Duanmu, you are painting Sister Ling?" ”
Although Duanmufei's picture of a lady does not depict the girl's face, many people who know Duanmujun can also see that the girl riding a horse in this painting is her sister, and that bright and refreshing temperament is presented in front of everyone's eyes through her brushstrokes.
"Master Wuchen, your vision is really good." Duanmufei didn't shy away from it, and responded crisply, thinking in her heart that she would frame this painting well and hang it in the small study when she returned.
As soon as her words fell, the woman in Tsing Yi rushed in panting, and her panicked appearance attracted the attention of many people.
"Everyone Qi, everyone Li, everyone Zhong, and Jin Wuwei's people are here, saying that they want to search Huilan Yuan." The woman in Tsing Yi rushed to Qi's, Zhong Yu and Li Yu, and ran out of breath.
Just one sentence made the hall explode.
The faces of the nobles studying in the women's school changed slightly, they are basically from official eunuch families, and there are not a few people with prominent backgrounds, how can anyone dare to be rude to them casually on weekdays, and at this moment listening to this woman, or surprised, or suspicious, or angry, or at a loss.
As for the prisoners, they were filled with righteous indignation and started a commotion one by one.
"It's too much!"
I don't know which inmate shouted, and the other inmates also nodded in agreement.
"yes, what do they mean?! I run to our country every day to find trouble! ”
"We have all avoided it, and they still don't give up, it's really too deceitful!"
“……”
Feng Yan frowned unhappily, and his heart was ignited: Zhen Zhen was difficult to come out to relax, and her mood finally improved, and these people came to make trouble again! It's endless!!
Thinking about it, Feng Yan narrowed his beautiful phoenix eyes, and there was a dangerous light flashing in his eyes.
Wen Wuchen on the side was still smiling lightly, admiring the painting by himself, as if nothing had happened.
In the midst of the commotion, there were bursts of messy footsteps outside the hall, mixed with the man's shouting: "Commander, it should be over there!" ”
Through the open windows of the hall, everyone in the hall could see dozens of guards with knives dressed in brocade walking towards this side in a verandah dozens of feet away, one by one, with their heads held high and their eyes showing a cold light, which was quite a kind of bad taste.
Soon, Jin Wuwei, led by Wu Xingdong, rushed in, making the already stiff atmosphere of this hall a little more cold.
Wu Xingdong looked around at everyone, a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he said roughly: "Search!" Give this commander a good search! ”
The prisoners' eyes were blazing, and they dared not speak out.
Feng Yan took a few steps forward, looked at Wu Xingdong with a slight pick, and asked, "Dare to ask Commander Wang what he wants to search?!" His face seemed to be smiling, and his expression was arrogant.
The handsome boy is as dazzling as the sun, and people can't feel a trace of evil.
"Commander Feng," Wu Xingdong looked at Feng Yan with a proud expression, and said righteously, "Recently, there have been frequent young people in Beijing, and we are ordered to arrest thieves to protect the peace of the Beijing Division." ”
The so-called "order" in Wu Xingdong's mouth is also a name given to Geng Hai by the emperor, after all, you can't openly say that you want to investigate the people who tamper with your own edict.
"If there is something offended, I hope Haihan!" Wu Xingdong arched his hand at Feng Yan.
His tone looked quite polite, but there was a coldness in his demeanor, and there was no room for negotiation.
Feng Yan smiled, smiled brightly, and raised his right hand casually.
Meaning, please take care of yourself.
Commander Wang snorted disdainfully, and commanded the guards behind him one by one:
"You guys go west!"
"A few of you go to the East Road with this commander!"
"And the three of you left behind to search these rooms carefully!"
The guards were commanded one by one with high morale, and they followed them like uncontrollable beasts, rampaging towards all corners of Huilan Garden, including Wu Xingdong.
"Bang! Syllable! Boom! ”
Soon there was a loud clashing sound outside the hall, and through the large open windows around the hall, the guards of the Jinwuwei could be seen rudely searching the courtyard outside, kicking down the flowerpots on the side, poking and chopping between the bushes with long knives, and even the rough women who passed by were swept to the ground with their scabbards......
Outside, chickens and dogs jumped.
There were also three guards left in the hall, swaggering between the crowds, their sharp eyes swept over the faces of the girls and sons around them one by one, and many of them frowned.
"Hey, you!" A black-faced guard casually pointed to the nose of a blue-clothed prisoner and asked, "That's you, who is your surname, and who is you?" He inquired about the identity of the other party.
Not only him, but the other two guards also pointed to a few prisoners and questioned and searched their bodies, and the feeling of humiliation made the prisoners blush, and they were all filled with righteous indignation and forced themselves to endure it, after all, the other party had a holy decree to rely on.
After the black-faced guard finished checking a person, he looked around for half a circle, and suddenly walked over to Feng Yan, Wen Wuchen, and Duanmufei, and said with a fearless smile: "Commander Feng knows a little, but who are this son and these two girls?" Why don't you report it all ...... quickly?"
Before he finished speaking, it stopped abruptly, Feng Yan stepped forward without warning, and before everyone including the black-faced guard came to his senses, Feng Yan pushed and pulled on him, and the black-faced guard's tall mountain-like body somehow flew up and fell out of a window next to him......
In the hall, all the voices seemed to be sucked away for a moment, and everyone watched this scene silently.
"Plop!"
The black-faced guard crashed straight into the small lake outside the hall, splashing high.
Everyone was dumbfounded, and they didn't react for a while.
"Commander Feng, what do you mean by that?!"
The other guard with triangular eyes took a few steps forward aggressively, Feng Yan approached the other party with a smile, and his body stiffened in fright and took a step back, and his voice trembled slightly, "You...... What do you want to do......"
Before he finished speaking, his body flew out, and he fell into the lake outside the window as if he was making dumplings, and made a big splash.
And Feng Yan didn't look at the two people who fell into the water outside the window, but just hooked his index finger defiantly at the last guard in this hall.
At this moment, the other people in the hall had come to their senses, and those sons and girls had happy expressions on their faces, and they almost didn't applaud Feng Yan.
"Bang bang."
Duanmufei had no scruples, and directly applauded and smiled.
The crisp applause broke the silence in the hall.
Feng Yan turned his head to Duanmu Fei and smiled brightly, so proud that his tail was almost facing the sky. Zhen Zhen is really happy with herself!
The other people in the hall all looked at Feng Yan and Duanmu Fei with subtle expressions, most of them knew that the emperor had given them a marriage, and at this moment, they inevitably had a feeling of what pot and what lid.
Although Feng Yanshicai's behavior was smooth, it was a sword that went off the rails, and some old-fashioned prisoners were a little disapproving.
"Stepping on ......"
At this time, there was a messy and hurried footstep outside the hall, and Wu Xingdong came back with his subordinates with angry eyes.
Fang just fell into the water with the two of them, and of course such a big movement alarmed Jin Wuwei, who was searching in Huilan Garden, so Wu Xingdong returned to Xuanji Hall in a hurry.
The remaining guard in the hall hurriedly stepped forward and complained to Wu Xingdong: "The commander is the commander who made him ......."
Wu Xingdong raised his hand to signal him to silence him, and strode to Feng Yan's body.
"Feng Yan!"
This time, Wu Xingdong didn't bother to be polite to Feng Yan, and directly reprimanded: "We act according to orders, and it is a capital crime to resist the order!" ”
Feng Yan calmed down, opened the folding fan in his hand with a "snap", and felt that the folding fan painted by his own Zhen Zhen was really good-looking, and said slowly: "My son remembers clearly, the holy will is to let Wei Guogong search for thieves in Beijing, and this son will also be searched by you." Commander Wu, the Holy Decree did not let you search your body. ”
Feng Yan shook the folding fan in his hand elegantly, but his words were aggressive and sharp.
"Commander Wu, you use the holy decree as an excuse to play, this son is really blind. Why don't we enter the palace immediately and let the emperor decide in person? ”
As he spoke, the smile on Feng Yan's face deepened, and he looked like he was not afraid of heaven and earth.
Wu Xingdong's face changed slightly, and his hands were clenched subconsciously.
Feng Yan is just talking about words, but now it is different from the past, in the past, with the intimate relationship between the Duke of Wei Guo and the emperor, not to mention "body search", it was not a big deal to directly bring people back for interrogation.
Now that the situation between the emperor and Wei Guogong is in flames, the emperor is waiting to catch Wei Guogong's handle, if he follows Feng Yan to the imperial theory, it will only be himself and Wei Guogong who will suffer!
Feng Yan relied on this.
Wu Xingdong was a little unwilling in his heart, and his left hand holding the scabbard was even harder, as tight as iron.
He stared at Feng Yan a few steps away without blinking, and the air became solemn as the silence spread, as if a spark was faintly flashing.
The big picture counts. Wu Xingdong said to himself in his heart, his eyes were as deep as the bottomless abyss.
He is Geng Hai's confidant, and he also knows what Geng Hai is planning.
The search is just a cover, it doesn't matter if you find something or not, it's important to ......
It's just a blink of an eye, and Wu Xingdong already has a trade-off in his heart. He looked up at the two guards who had just swam up from the lake outside the window, and reprimanded, "Shame on you." ”
As soon as the words fell, he brushed his sleeves and left.
The Jin Wuwei under his command looked at each other, although they felt a little gloomy, but since even the boss was gone, they all followed and left.
After a while, the dozens of people from Jin Wuwei were gone, and even the people who had been searching in other places in Huilan Yuan left.
As soon as they were gone, the rest of the hall seemed to come to life again, and began to talk nonsense.
Feng Yan stared at their backs for a moment, and a smile crossed his lips.
Then, he looked at Duanmu Fei flatteringly, and as soon as he changed his talent, he handed her the folding fan in his hand, and said seriously: "Zhenzhen, I'll go out, you can keep this folding fan for me first." I'll be back to pick you up soon...... and my sister's. ”
Feng Yan silently praised himself in his heart, feeling that the idea of leaving the folding fan to Zhen Zhen first was really wonderful. Even if Zhen Zhen didn't wait for him to pick him up, he had the interface to run Duanmu Mansion for this.
Duanmu Fei didn't have a chance to refuse at all, the folding fan had already been forced into her hand, she looked at Feng Yan speechlessly, those black and white eyes made Feng Yan's little bit of caution have nothing to hide.
Feng Yan cleared his throat, his heart was a little weak, his ears began to get hot, he looked away at Wen Wuchen in the wheelchair, and after arching his hand to Wen Wuchen, he left in a hurry.
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