The price of vegetables in high-rise buildings has plummeted.

This king set up a table according to the standard of Zhao Mengqing's birthday banquet on the seventh day of the ninth month, and the shopkeeper of the high-rise building accepted me fifty taels of silver tremblingly.

Turning his head and asking Zhao Mengqing: "When Lord Zhao was entertained, how much silver was a table?" ”

Zhao Mengqing took the umbrella, brushed off the snow falling on the silver fox coat, glanced at the signboard of the high-rise building hanging in the middle of the lobby, and said casually: "At that time, a table was also fifty taels. ”

Ben Wang knew what he was going to say, but he still pretended not to know, smiled gently, and gave him a tone: "Oh? The price of this dish is not cheap. ”

The corner of Zhao Mengqing's lips was wrong: "It was fifty taels of gold at the beginning." ”

This king turned his head and praised Chen Changfeng: "Today we can eat such a delicacy at the price of fifty taels and one table, which is stained with the light of Lord Chen. ”

Chen Changfeng hugged his fists and said: "Your Highness has praised it, this is what you should do as an important official in the court." ”

The king smiled and took the two of them up to the private room on the third floor. It's just that this atmosphere has not been quite right, I am afraid that today is the day of Li Jingtang's execution in Gaoshu, or maybe it is the reason why there are only three of us diners in this huge high-rise building.

The king and Zhao Mengqing were quite calm, waiting for the time to serve the food, one held the iron clamp and leisurely turned the pine charcoal in the stove, and the other pinched the teaspoon and slowly sent Huizhou hair tips to the teapot.

Chen Changfeng is not quite the same as the two of us, he stroked his beard, but he couldn't sit still for a moment, he looked at the tea cup for ten seconds, got up and paced five steps by the window, asked three times when Xiao Er would serve the food, and finally stood at the dinner table, looked at the king and said cautiously: "Your Highness invited me to drink Lord Zhao for dinner today, what is the matter?" Fang Cai Xiaoer said that there have been few diners recently, the stove needs to be alive, and there will be half an hour before the food is served, Your Highness might as well take advantage of this gap to give instructions to the two of us? ”

The king looked up at him and was about to persuade him not to be impatient, but Zhao Mengqing, who was making tea over there, smiled and spoke: "Lord Chen is really anxious, I don't know if the things Your Highness wants to explain are good or bad, let him say it first, in case it is a bad thing, then do we still want to eat this meal tonight, can we still eat it?" His Royal Highness King Chong'an's reputation for frugality is well-known, and today he finally paid fifteen taels of silver to invite the two of us to eat, and Lord Chen should seize the opportunity to eat more. ”

The thrifty king smiled serenely at Zhao Mengqing: "Lord Zhao is right. ”

Actually, I was going to talk while eating, but since Zhao Mengqing felt that it was good to say after eating, then wait until he was full of wine and food, after all, this king has a request for him.

In addition to the roast whole sheep that was erected in the lobby at the beginning, which could not be done as swaggeringly as at the beginning, and finally served three roast lamb legs, other dishes such as crab, roast duck, shrimp, venison, and the shopkeeper of the high-rise building can be found in this snowy day, which shows that the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and the bankrupt high-rise building is not bad.

But the ingredients are not fresh in the end, and the dishes made are indeed inferior to those when Zhao Mengqing invited guests, and the three of us barely ate a lot of warm osmanthus wine, and finally stopped the chopsticks and prepared to get down to business.

The king didn't talk much and went straight to the point. At present, there are three major issues in Dajin that need to be solved urgently. This king has no skills, and he can only do one of them with all his might. It stands to reason that everyone should work together to tide over the difficulties, but now it coincides with the retreat and cultivation of the Holy Lord, and the already stable court has been hit hard by the fall of Gao Shu and Li Jingtang, and most of the other ministers are mediocre. ”

When Zhao Mengqing heard this, he picked up his chopsticks again, picked up a piece of meat left over from the roast leg of lamb, and put it in his mouth.

Chen Changfeng was as attentive as ever, and sat down and asked me, "What do your highnesses mean by the three major events?" ”

I handed over the urgent military information sent from the southern and southwestern frontiers: "The first thing is that war is about to break out on the border again. Ning Guo Yang and Qiong Guo He Wanli have formed an alliance, and three days ago, they raised troops at the same time to invade our border. This king is very familiar with the terrain of the southern border, and what he has done for many years is only to defend the southern border and protect the people of the southern country. Therefore, this king had to go to the south as soon as possible to stabilize the army's morale, defeat the Ning thieves, and disperse Qiongkou. ”

Zhao Mengqing over there finally put down his chopsticks, his eyes paused, and his face was no longer as calm as Fang Cai.

Chen Changfeng echoed me and said: "Your Highness has guarded the southern border for more than ten years, and he has never been defeated, at most, he is just to save his strength and fight a tie to hinder each other. His Royal Highness is a god-like existence on both sides of the Changlan River, and now, I am afraid that it only appears in the southern border, which is also a great coercion for the thieves of Ning and Qiong. ”

This king is not stupid, why can't he hear the joy in his words, he wants this king to go to the south, before this turbulent situation, a royal prince took the initiative to leave the struggle for power, he can be in this competition, more chance of winning.

So, I touched the tea and poured a sip, poured the fire on my heart, and poured him on his arrogance: "The second thing needs the help of Master Chen." ”

"Your Highness, please speak."

I knocked on the table, glanced at the heavy snow outside the window, and said, "I heard that there was a plague outbreak in Kang'an Mansion, and countless men, women, and children were infected with the plague. ”

Chen Changfeng suddenly realized, patted his head, and hurriedly took out a fold from his sleeve pocket and handed it to me: "The minister almost forgot about this matter, this is the fold handed by Zhou Mingqi, the governor of Kang'an, to the imperial court, which describes in detail the outbreak of the plague in Kang'an Mansion, and asks the imperial court to appoint a doctor and broadcast silver to relieve the disaster." ”

I took the excerpt, carefully read the current situation of Kang'an Province, understood how many people had died of the plague, and how many people were waiting for treatment, and finally turned to the last page of the fold and confirmed the date of the fold:

October 12th.

Today is October 16th, and it stands to reason that it took four days from Kang'an to Dijing from this recital, which is already so fast that the speed of the horse is about to tire the horse. But this king just felt that something was wrong.

The fingertips rubbed to the blank space of the movement, and then rubbed to the place where the words "Twelve" were written, and there was nothing unusual.

I was about to dispel my doubts, put down the fold and continue to instruct things, but my fingertips crossed the word "ten" in "October", and the roughness came from my fingertips. It doesn't matter if it's not confirmed, as soon as it is confirmed, it almost hammers the guess in my heart-

The date of the inscription of Zhou Mingqi's letter is not October.

Someone made a trick on this piece and scraped off the original handwriting and replaced it with the character "ten".

The king thought that they had manipulated the date and presented the letter more than ten days late...... But this king didn't expect that they directly pressed this seal in their hands for more than a month or even more days, which provided a great opportunity for the spread of the plague in Kang'an Mansion, and also completely cut off the hope of the people of Kang'an Mansion for survival.

The plan in my mind was spinning quickly, and I wanted to take off Chen Changfeng's mask immediately, but I was worried that he would not cooperate with the next thing.

The hand holding the chapter trembled, and when the king was about to use his identity or martial arts to deter him, Zhao Mengqing raised his hand and took the chapter in my hand: "Rong Mengqing is rude, the situation in Kang'an Mansion is so serious, I am worried, and I want to take a look at the current situation in Kang'an Mansion as soon as possible." No matter how sad Your Highness is, you must stabilize your mind, and first finish talking about the things you want to explain, and then do other things. ”

I understood the meaning of his words, looked at Chen Changfeng and said: "The imperial doctor and the disaster relief silver for disaster relief can't rest assured that others will bring it to this king, and the imperial court must send an important official to preside over the current affairs of Kang'an Mansion. Moreover, this king heard that Lord Chen's grandfather was from Kang'an Mansion, and Kang'an Mansion should be Lord Chen's hometown, and when he went to his hometown for disaster relief, Lord Chen should be able to do his best to save the people of Kang'an from fire and water. ”

I thought that this passage was well-founded and sincere, and Chen Changfeng had to take on this task even if he didn't want to go.

But I never expected that Chen Changfeng immediately refused.

He stood up, bowed down to me, and when he looked up again, there were tears in his eyes, and he sighed: "Your Highness, it is precisely because Kang'an is my hometown that I am reluctant to go...... The scene of mourning. ”

This king couldn't help but want to sneer: You don't want to see such a scene of mourning, why do you still hold the music in your hand for more than a month and don't report it to the court? Now crying and crying and acting like a fake, who are you going to do to show it?

This king should punish himself with three cups, and compensate Zhou Mingqi, the governor of Kang'an, I Chong'an Wang's villain's heart, I actually gave you a good official who asked for the people's life, and let go of Chen Changfeng, who was ruthless and killed in front of him.

Chen Changfeng ignored my unhappy face, and found a reason to excuse himself: "Now, it happens that the corruption case of Gao Shu and Li Jingtang is about to be concluded, and the financial reports of the two people who are greedy for ink will be handed over to the treasury one by one. But right now, no one has the ability to handle this matter except for Zaixia, so Zai Xiaxia can only ......"