Chapter 21: Birthday Celebrations
Yan Cheng is dead.
He died in front of the Imperial City.
The murderer was a madman.
Then there was chaos at the scene.
Yang Xuan rushed over, knelt down on one knee beside the old man, looked at his wide eyes, and couldn't help but think of that sentence.
ββThe five surnames of the family do not fall, and the ministers do not turn a blind eye.
Yang Xuan reached out and wiped his eyelids down, and said softly, "It's not worth it." β
He let go of his hand, his eyes looking at the blue sky.
Yang Xuan's heart trembled, and he wiped it again, "It's not worth it." β
Those eyes were still stubbornly looking at the sky.
"Get out of the way!"
Yang Xuan was violently pushed away, and the two sergeants set up Yancheng and ran all the way to the city. Blood continued to drip from under Yan Cheng's body, like rain in late spring.
"Medic!"
The sergeant who rushed into the imperial city shouted: "Help! β
Yang Xuan turned around and saw Zhao Sanfu with a gloomy face, and also saw He Huan with a cold and sneering face in the back. There was a middle-aged man who looked like a literati beside He Huan, smiling and saying something. Yang Xuan remembered that this person had always been by He Huan's side, and Zhao Sanfu said that this person was He Huan's think tank.
The murderous madman fell to the side, and a sergeant went over and kicked him, squatted down to look at it, and then turned back and said, "My neck is half broken, and I am out of breath." β
Yan Cheng was killed, what will happen to the emperor?
The mirror platform was dispatched, and Zhao Sanfu hurriedly entered, and when he came out with the team, he brought an oiled paper bag.
"This is what Yan Cheng gave you."
When Wang Shou got the news, he sent someone to find out the background of the murderer, and Zhao Sanfu was among them. He hurriedly said: "Yan Cheng said that his family is poor, and when he saw you wearing patched clothes that day, he didn't think he was rich, and he couldn't use money to thank you for saving your life, so he could only use books." β
Yang Xuan took the oil paper bag and turned around to leave.
On one side, the people of the mirror platform rushed out of the imperial city, and on the other hand, there was a young man who walked alone.
Yang Xuan felt a little stuffy, but today there were no clouds, and the spring breeze was cool.
There was no one around, and Yang Xuan said, "Suzaku." β
"I'm here."
Suzaku's voice was low.
Yang Xuan asked, "What does it mean to send books?" Or send history books. β
Suzaku said: "There is Yan Ruyu in the book, and there is a golden house in the book. Sending books is sending future. Taking history as a mirror, we can know the rise and fall of ......"
Is that so?
Yang Xuan returned home, opened the window, and placed the only table in the house in front of the window. Light came in through the window. He placed Suzaku on the table, sat next to him and opened the oiled paper bag.
Three history books are inside.
Yang Xuan opened the first page.
Four vigorous and powerful ink characters.
ββThe world of the family and the country!
The ink looks fresh, and it should have been written for a few days.
"Is the country the world?" Yang Xuan pretended to laugh easily, "I'm just the son of a thief, what does it have to do with me?" β
He went to get food.
When he was full, he knelt there and slowly looked at the history books.
The history of the state of Chen is lackluster, at least for more than a thousand years. Like all empires, the state of Chen gradually declined until Emperor Wen re-emerged, which lasted for 150 years.
Then the world was in turmoil...... Hey!
Yang Xuan turned the page, and there was a piece of paper sandwiched behind him, which was full of annotations.
- The greed of the powerful and the ambition outside the world are the cause of the demise of the Chen State.
The powerful are greedy, this Yang Xuan understands, but outside the world......
"Outside the square?" Yang Xuan scratched his head, feeling that Fang Wai was very good.
For example, the state religion of the Tang Dynasty, those congregations are very religious.
He sat there and looked at the history book all the time, and the Suzaku on the desk had long been filled with electricity.
After a long time, Yang Xuan raised his head, rubbed his eyebrows and said, "Why can powerful people kill people unscrupulously?" Why? Why? Why? β
He asked three whys in a row, and finally raised his eyes, "Suzaku, who can kill people unscrupulously?" β
Suzaku said rigidly: "Emperor." β
"Oh!"
The young man realized, and then said: "But they are not emperors!" β
He got up, slowly packed up his things, and finally put Suzaku into a small leather bag, and said with some reluctance: "Suzaku." β
"I'm here."
Suzaku is a companion who never gets tired of answering whatever he asks.
Yang Xuan asked, "Suzaku, what should I do if I am not angry in my heart, I can't stand it?" β
Suzaku said: "Either endure or be ruthless." β
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Yang Xuan went out of the house, and at the moment most of the neighbors were outside or doing things at home, and Chen Quli was quiet.
When he first arrived, every time he went in and out of Chenqu, he would always attract dogs to bark, but now even if he strode and made a loud noise, the dogs did not say a word.
Later, he slowly realized that strangeness was a sin. And bullying is an instinct, which does not distinguish between man and beast.
He carried a burden on his back and slowly walked out of Yongning Fang from a remote place.
He searched all the way to the outside of He's mansion.
In the house, He Huan was telling He Jincheng about today's actions.
"Yancheng is knocking on the que today, and he is bold and reckless, and most of them will be recorded in the annals of history." He Huan felt that it was a little worthless for the historians to write for such people, "I should have done it a long time ago, but after the last mistake, the Yang family was noncommittal." Today, Yancheng knocked on the que, humiliating the five surnames of the family in public, I made a decision on the spot, I think they will not be angry. β
He Jincheng had already learned about this, he took a teacup and sipped slowly, and said calmly: "Someone from the Yang family came in the afternoon, saying that it was a good killing." The abbot went to the palace first, and when he left the palace, he looked calm, and then the palace rewarded the abbot. β
The daughter of Yang Songcheng, the head of the Yingchuan Yang family, is now the queen, so outsiders often call him the national abbot.
He Huan smiled and said contemptuously: "Yan Cheng thought he was a loyal minister, but he didn't know that he was just a dog in the eyes of the emperor. By the way, Ayah, have you ever rewarded Chen Shen, the left minister? β
He Jincheng put down the teacup, but covered the rim of the cup with both hands, there was more jealousy in his eyes, and he muttered for a long time, "No." β
When he saw He Huan laughing, he shook his head and admonished: "Chen Shen is scheming, and there have been countless schemes against him over the years, but he still walked into the temple step by step, and now he is the first person standing under the emperor. Such a person must not be taken lightly. β
He Huan nodded, "Yes." β
The father and son had dinner together, and He Huan immediately retired.
Out of He Jincheng, the thinker Chen Ju smiled over.
"You're doing a good job today." He Huan said appreciatively: "It's just a few breaths, you can make a person a dead soldier." β
Chen Ju smiled, "It's just relying on the prestige of Lang Jun and Xiao Lang Jun." β
The two smiled at each other, Chen Ju retired, and prepared to go back.
There was a lantern hanging outside the door of the He family, and at this moment the night fell, the gate and the side door were closed, and the door hid in the small room on the side, drinking comfortably and secretly.
"Open the door."
Chen Ju had a cold face, as He Huan's confidant, he also had a considerable say in the He family, and it was no problem to get rid of a disciple.
Menzi ran out while wiping his mouth, opened the side door with a smile, and bent down to send him away.
After Chen Ju walked away, Menzi snorted at his background and scolded: "Damn! What's wrong with a sip of wine? If you like to go to the Qinglou to drink women's footwashing water, yes, you can't drink wine? β
Chen Ju is talented, most talented men like to show, and there is no better platform than Qinglou.
Chen Ju turned this alley, and in front of him was the intersection in the fangzhong, which was very spacious.
Chen Ju squinted and looked ahead, thinking about today's changes.
Thinking of the end, he felt that his suggestions and disposition today were not bad at all, and he would secretly applaud when he came to He Jincheng.
"Who else is me?"
There was more burning emotion in Chen Ju's eyes.
He worked as a staff member in the He family, but he still wanted to be an official in his bones. But if you want to be an official, you must show your value to the He father and son. Today is an excellent opportunity, and he did not let it go, and perfectly let the He father and son see their potential.
"Fame! O Lelu! Touching ......"
The front was dim, and when Chen Ju noticed that someone was coming, the two sides were already very close.
This person lowered his head slightly, Chen Ju didn't care, still thinking about his good future.
When he was about to stagger, someone raised his eyes.
In the night, those eyes were exceptionally cold and bright.
"Poof!"
The short knife stabbed into Chen Ju's lower abdomen.
Pull it out again.
Poke it in again......
Finally, I stirred it vigorously a few times.
Poof!
Chen Ju fell off the horse, convulsed in pain, and looked at the person approaching, it turned out to be a teenager. He pointed at the boy and hissed, "You ......"
Bang!
The sound of explosion and thunder suddenly came, and my ears were full of vibrations.
Yang Xuan approached, bent down and said: "I don't know what it means to be a family and a country, but I know one thing, the more good people in this world, the better the people in the world will live." Good people can't be killed! β
Chen Ju felt that life was passing and wanted to roar loudly, but the voice at the end was extremely subtle, "Who are you?" β
He saw the young man squatting there, took out three sticks of incense, skillfully lit them with a fire fold, and inserted them in front of him.
Chen Ju was cold all over his body, and he didn't know what this meant.
He whispered, "Who are you?" β
Yang Xuan said: "Yang Xuan." β
"It's you!" Chen Ju thought that the first assassination of Yan Cheng was destroyed by the young man in front of him, but what he couldn't figure out was why Yang Xuan wanted to kill him, "Why kill me?" β
Yang Xuan threw his hand towards the sky, prayed silently, and lowered his head and raised his knife.
The short knife was inserted into Chen Ju's mouth, and when he stirred, his mouth and tongue were eroded. A stab pierced the back of the neck.
Chen Ju, who was dying, looked at the young man, saw him leaning over, approached him, and then said softly:
"Yan Cheng asked me to say hello to you."