Chapter 416: Ready to Move (I)
Nangong Jin took advantage of the old woman's family to sneak out to look for Xiao Lu after the old woman's family was asleep in the middle of the night, but found that she could no longer find its trace, and couldn't help but wonder if it was a hallucination that she had fallen off the cliff not long ago and encountered such a harmless python.
Later, after he returned to Kyoto, he sent people down the cliff to look for Xiao Midori, but was told that there was only the corpse of a python that had been dead for many years at the bottom of the cliff......
Of course, that's all for later.
As soon as the morning dawned, Nangong Jin said goodbye to the old woman's family and returned to Kyoto, the old woman was not easy to stop, only simply packed some dry food that was convenient to carry on the road into a bag and handed it to him, and wished him a smooth journey.
Nangong Jin was very gracious, and finally handed over a jade pendant on his body to her, and said softly: "The grace of dripping water will be reciprocated by a spring," If his descendants go to Kyoto to take the imperial examination, please wear this jade pendant to a trip to the Ping'an Marquis Mansion, and if you can help, you will do your best." ”
The old woman was stunned for a moment, and then took the jade pendant, but she didn't take Nangong Jin's words to heart, because the reputation of the ghost and the peace marquis was too loud, how could such a powerful person be exiled to a poor and remote mountainous area like theirs?
And this young man is quite handsome, and his gestures reveal a kind of nobility, I am afraid that he is just a child of a big family in Kyoto.
It's just that when the plague broke out in their poor and remote place, the old woman let her children and grandchildren carry this jade pendant to Kyoto to ask Nangong Jin for help, and finally made them survive, and these are all later words.
The old woman didn't know that the one person her family saved would give them a good reward in the future.
Nangong Jin carried the fragmentary silver given to him by the old woman, bought a horse at random in the town, and then hurried back to Kyoto.
After four days of wandering on the water with the princess of Pingyuan Country, Song Anguo finally returned to Kyoto after riding a horse together for two days and two nights.
The people guarding the city gate were soldiers from the garrison battalion, and they recognized at a glance that the embarrassed man in front of them was their leader, Song Anguo.
Without Song Anguo taking out the items to verify his identity, he opened the city gate and entered the city with the woman behind him, and sent someone to find some clean clothes for the two of them to change into.
"Song Zhang, no...... General Song, why are you the only one coming back? What about the Hou Ye and Lin Shilang, as well as the princess of the Plains Country? The soldiers wondered, most of them were unaware of the dangers they were encountering on official roads.
Even Zhao Yue, although he had already received the exact news from Shangguan Jing that Nangong Jin's life and death were uncertain, did not dare to let this bad news leak out, because this would only make the army's morale dissipated, and the court was hidden, and the traitorous ministers who had close contact with those spies on the official road could not find out.
It's a pity that people are not as good as heaven, according to normal circumstances, Nangong Jin and Song Anguo should have returned to Kyoto with the princess of Pingyuan Country during this time, but they didn't see them for a long time.
Those old foxes in the court began to move, and they impeached Nangong Jin one after another, asking Zhao Yue to treat him for a crime of incompetence.
The civil officials and the military attachés quarreled in the serious court, and this loud debate made Zhao Yue have a splitting headache, and finally had to pretend to faint and retreat from the court.
Seeing that the impeachment was unsuccessful, and Zhao Yue used the trick of pretending to be sick to escape, they had to jointly write a petition to pressure Zhao Yue to punish the arrogant Nangong Jin.
When Zhao Yue, who returned to the imperial study, saw this joint book, he was so angry that he threw it directly to the ground, picked up the candle lit on the bookcase and threw it onto this joint book, burning it all.
"This group of old horsemen, this Da'an Dynasty, how much effort have they made? If Nangong Jin hadn't come forward in this country, would they be able to show off their power like this, relying on the old and selling the old!! Zhao Yue said angrily.
Everyone knows that it is not a good errand to greet the princess of Pingyuan Kingdom, and now that Nangong Jin and Song Anguo have an accident, they can't return to Beijing at all, and their fox tails are no longer hidden, and they are starting to grow taller......
"Your Majesty, don't hurt the dragon body for them." Gao Gonggong comforted and brought him ginseng tea to moisten his throat.
"Father-in-law Gao, I can't pretend to be sick every day and get by, this problem will have to be solved sooner or later." Zhao Yue said worriedly, once the news of Nangong Jin's accident leaked out, it would make the entire Da'an Dynasty fall into turmoil, and when internal and external troubles coexisted, should he be balanced?
"Report!!" Outside the door, a soldier knocked on the door of the imperial study, and said eagerly.
"Who!!" Zhao Yue said unhappily, no matter who rushed in front of him now, he was just cannon fodder.
"Back to Your Majesty, the small one is the third-class soldier of the defense battalion, and I have something to tell you." The soldier said in fear, kneeling outside, he clearly felt the anger of the saint today.
Hearing this little soldier say that he was from the defense battalion, Zhao Yue's anger was reined in, and he asked Gao Gong to open the door to lead him in.
"What you say is true!!" Zhao Yue was surprised, Song Anguo took the princess of the Plains Kingdom into Beijing smoothly!!
The third-class soldier nodded vigorously.
"Okay, don't leak this news, everyone wants to blackmail you, you just say that General Song is dead, and the princess of the Plains Kingdom will not escape." Zhao Yue admonished, and then let him go.
Sure enough, as soon as the third-class soldier left the palace, he was covered by a man in black with strong martial arts and came to a corner, and a sharp blade that exuded a silver cold glow rested on his neck.
"Hero, I have no grievances with you, what are you holding me hostage?" The soldier panicked, his eyes wide open and full of fear.
"Say, you just secretly went in to meet the current saint, what did you talk about!!" The man in black said indifferently, and pressed the sword close to his neck, and with a slight slash, blood suddenly overflowed from the soldier's neck, dripping onto the sword of the man in black.
"I said, after I said it, can you spare my life?" The soldier pleaded, no one wants to die!!
"Yes." The man in black said coldly.
"I told Your Majesty about General Song and the princess of Pingyuan Kingdom in distress, this is a letter from the squire of the military department on the official road." The soldier agreed, and then handed the note that Zhao Yue had copied casually in the imperial study to the man in black.
The man in black took the note and said cruelly, "You can hit the road." ”
With a flick of the sword, the soldier's head fell to the ground, leaving only a pool of blood on the ground.
After the man in black flashed away, Zhao Yue's dark web leader appeared in place, stretched out his hand to close the eyes of the dead soldier, and then informed Zhao Yue of what happened here.
"Have you seen the hand or origin of the man in black?" Zhao Yue said solemnly, to be able to lurk near the palace gate like this without knowing it, there must be someone behind this person to support him.
"Sorry, the little ones can't see the clue in this." The leader of the dark web fell to one knee on the ground and pleaded guilty.
"That's it, you don't have to keep an eye on that person, if those people in the court want to make a move, they will definitely make a secret move, and then they will be wiped out."
"You now pass on my message to Song Anguo, and let him come to the imperial study for a secret audience during the third watch." Zhao Yue admonished.
The leader of the dark web disappeared in an instant, and Zhao Yue stood up at this time, walked slowly to the window, looked at the bright blue sky outside the window, and muttered, "It seems that the sky is going to change again." ”
After Song Anguo changed his clothes, he hesitated again and again before deciding to bring the big trouble of the princess of the Plains Kingdom back to Shuifu.
The news that Song Anguo had brought a woman back to the mansion spread instantly among the subordinates in the mansion, and the subordinates put down their work and gathered in front of the gate curiously, wanting to get a glimpse of the prosperous face of the woman who could bring them back to the mansion.
As soon as Song Anguo got off the carriage, he found that the gate of the house was full of people, and he couldn't help but have a gloomy face, these people are afraid that the world will not be chaotic? The news that he is still alive cannot be known to the ministers of the DPRK and China who have colluded with the spies of other countries.
"Where's the butler!!" Song Anguo asked unhappily.
It didn't take long for the housekeeper to come out from behind the dense crowd and say respectfully, "What do you command?" ”
"If I count three times and they don't disperse, I will deduct their wages."
As soon as the people heard that they were going to deduct the moon silver, they immediately scattered like a swarm.
Song Anguo then helped the princess of the Plains Kingdom, who was wearing a veil and a hat in the carriage, and instructed the housekeeper to clean up a room in Song Jiayao's courtyard to settle her.
After finishing the order, he found that his baby sister didn't come to greet him, and the alarm bell in his heart rang loudly, and he said anxiously: "Where is Jia Yao?" ”
"Young master, you come in first, it's inconvenient to talk about it outside." The housekeeper proposed, after Song Anguo and the woman entered the gate, he immediately ordered the guards to close the gate tightly and lead the two of them to the warehouse, and then told Song Jiayao about asking for orders to find him and the Hou Ye one by one.
"Don't you know it's dangerous, this stupid girl?" Song Anguo was furious.
The housekeeper is also helpless at the moment, the young lady is not thinking about tea and dinner for the sake of the two of them, and it is understandable that she will make such a risky decision, and there is also a soldier with the soldiers to follow, there should be no major problems along the road.
"No, I'll have to go find her." Song Anguo said firmly, and then turned around and left, but he didn't expect a person in dark blue clothes to fall in front of him.
"Knock on General Song." The masked man in dark blue said respectfully, and handed his identity badge to Song Anguo for inspection.
"Disrespectful, I wonder what you have to bring?"
Song Jiayao's matter has to be slowed down at the moment.
The man glanced at the butler and the princess of the Plains Kingdom, but did not answer immediately.
The housekeeper understood what this person was afraid of, and immediately took the woman away, leaving Song Anguo with him in the same place.
"The Holy God ordered you to enter the palace to meet you during the third watch."
"Got it, I'm sorry for you."
Coming to this strange place, the princess of the Plains Kingdom was very uneasy in her heart at the moment, but when she thought that this was the mansion of the person she loved, she felt bitter and happy.
"Girl, you can rest in this room first." The butler said respectfully, and found two maids to wait on her.