Chapter 19: Punishment I
The triennial Imperial Tomb Festival ended in a hurry before it began.
When Emperor Chen Yang, who was far away in the imperial city, received a secret report from the secret guard, he was angry and threw everything on the imperial case to the ground. Those well-made enamel pen holders worth 10,000 gold, Huizhou cloud ink and the colorful glass lamps that will naturally shine at night all fell on the smooth and mirror-like floor, and fell to pieces. If the soup bowl is here, he will beat his chest and pause: "Loser, loser!" ”
However, this emperor Lao Er didn't care about those things at all, he just put his hands behind his back and kept going around the imperial study: "Lu Ziyi, Lu Ziyi, it's all because I am too indulgent to you!" So much so that you're crazy! ”
Emperor Chen Yang knew in his heart that he asked Lu Ziyi to preside over this imperial mausoleum festival, and he wanted to see what thoughts existed in his heart of this courtier who had always declared his loyalty to him.
But who knew that he would come up with such a trick of "drawing salary from the bottom of the kettle"!
Seeing Emperor Chen Yang's face with an angry face, he kept moving around in the imperial study, and Gonggong Ma, who had been serving him closely, gently raised the dust whisk in his hand, and stopped talking.
"Pony, when did you even become so cowering in front of me? What to say, just say! I don't know when, Emperor Chen Yang had stopped that chaotic footsteps, stood in front of Ma Gonggong, and looked at him with a gloomy face.
Ma Gonggong's body was agitated, and he fell to his knees with a plop: "The emperor forgives the sin, the old slave, the old slave dare not say it." ”
"Don't dare to say? I grant you innocence! If even you don't dare to tell the truth in front of me, who else can I trust? ”
Ma Gonggong has been his follower since Emperor Chen Yang was born, and has accompanied him all the way from the prince to the prince to the son of heaven.
"Thank you, Lord Ronne! The old slave also heard the secret guard's report just now, but there was something unclear, and he kept going back and forth in his heart. Ma Gonggong knelt down in front of Emperor Chen Yang, and after bowing respectfully, he lowered his head and said.
"Arise and speak, what is the matter?" Emperor Chen Yang asked.
Gonggong Ma slowly stood up: "The old slave heard from the guard that this beast was killed, it was really an accident. The knife was said to be aimed at the national teacher, but he was pushed by the little minion, which made the knife rush towards the Rui Beast...... It's just that the old slave thinks, how could there be knives in the royal forest for no reason? ”
"If you become a big thing, how can you be restrained? Why don't you wonder why that little slave knew so coincidentally that there was a knife there? Emperor Chen Yang snorted coldly.
"But the old slave thought that he was ...... the national teacher" Ma Gonggong still wanted to continue to say something for Lu Ziyi, but suddenly found that the black gas on Emperor Chen Yang's face was a little thicker, and he swallowed the half of the sentence that had not yet been said back into his stomach on the spot.
"The triennial festival has ended dismally with this ghostly appearance, where do you put my face? I don't know how many changes and turmoil will be born in this secretly! Emperor Chen Yang's anger, which had already calmed down a little, rose again, he stopped, and gave an urgent order to the secret guard in the air: "Quickly take Lu Ziyi back to the imperial city, I will interrogate him personally!" ”
"Whoa!" A sharp reply was heard in mid-air.
"By the way, bring that little minion with you!" Chen Yangdi added.
The brocade guards who received the holy decree rode out of the imperial city and rushed straight to the outside of Cloud City.
At this time, Lu Ziyi was looking at the soup bowl lying quietly at his feet with a serious face. Li Mohan's voice still echoed in his mind: "My lord, the knife wound in this soup bowl was originally not serious, but the tip of the knife was smeared with an extremely powerful poison, which came from southern Xinjiang and was used for hunting. And there was something on the soup bowl that could induce the first attack of this toxicity, but what is this thing, Lao Chen still needs to study and study......"
For hunting ...... As soon as he thought of these four words, Lu Ziyi's eyes shrank suddenly, and an extremely cold light shot out from that pupil: the object of this knife was not originally him, but ......
However, if it was a coincidence that he was also involved in this unwarranted disaster, Lu Ziyi sneered: In this world, where is there so much coincidence? It's just the deliberateness of someone with a heart!
What made Lu Ziyi even more surprised was another news that Li Mohan told him: the soup bowl was a woman.
Because she was injured in the shoulder, and it was also a wound caused by the knife head penetrating downward, Li Mohan inevitably needed to untie her collar and bandage it. As a result, such a secret was discovered.
In the eyes of the doctor, there was no distinction between men and women, but he still told Lu Ziyi about this matter when there was no one around. The National Teacher's Mansion is now in a whirlpool, so if you can be careful, you naturally have to be careful.
"Rotten this secret in your stomach!" After Lu Ziyi finished speaking, he picked up the unconscious soup bowl and turned around and walked to his carriage.
"This one-third of an acre of land in Cloud City has finally begun to mess up." Lu Ziyi looked up at the carriage window, looked at the clouds that kept retreating, and continued: "Since you have chosen here, you can do it yourself." The soup bowl in the coma seemed to hear Lu Ziyi's words clearly, and his closed eyes wrinkled unconsciously.
Lu Ziyi's carriage, before it entered Yuncheng, was surrounded by the officers and soldiers sent out by Emperor Chen Yang: "In accordance with the Holy Command, come and escort the suspect Lu Ziyi!" ”
Lu Yun, who was sitting at the front of the carriage and was in charge of catching up with the carriage, heard the words of the officers and soldiers, and suddenly stood up from the front of the carriage: "The national teacher is a national meritorious hero who is personally enshrined by the Holy Lord, so dare you speak wildly?" ”
The leading general sat upright on his horse and still said in a loud voice: "By the Holy Lord's command, the hussar battalion came to escort the suspect Lu Ziyi, the national teacher, you connived at your subordinates to shout like this, do you want to resist the decree?" ”
Lu Ziyi's voice came from behind the carriage curtain: "Lu Yun, don't be unreasonable!" ”
"But my lord, it's just too ...... for them to do this" When did Lu Yun see his master being wronged like this?
"Shut up!" Lu Ziyi walked out of the carriage: "Please lead the way!" ”
In fact, when the officers and soldiers of the hussar battalion saw Lu Zi escape, their hearts would still jump involuntarily: this, but he is an extremely difficult master, and he is really a character who turns his hands into clouds and covers his hands into rain. If it weren't for the inviolability of the Holy Order, the vast majority of them would have chosen to turn off this errand.
Seeing that the officers and soldiers were still looking at him with a stunned look, Lu Ziyi said: "Is it difficult for the poor masters, what else can not be done?" ”
The leading general, with one hand behind his back, struggled for a long time, but still couldn't take out the rope used to tie people and use it on Lu Ziyi's body, and finally could only wave his hand, signaling the soldiers below, took the horse whip in Lu Yun's hand, took over the carriage, and went straight to the direction of the imperial city.
And those people of all sizes in Cloud City, watching this strange convoy speeding past in front of their eyes, didn't dare to say a word: when he went, he was a prominent minister, and when he returned, he was imprisoned under the steps, and everything that the national teacher encountered along the way was as ups and downs as he sang in that play! The sky of this cloud city, I'm afraid it's really going to change!
This hussar battalion drove the carriage, but it was not as meticulous as Lu Yun, and soon, the soup bowl was turned upside down and woke up from that coma.
As soon as I saw her eyes open, Lu Ziyi's wooden face, which had not changed for 10,000 years, suddenly had a trace of ice-breaking fluctuations. It's just that the fluctuations are very inconspicuous, and they are fleeting, so fast that people can't catch them at all.
"Your Excellency, are you alright?" The soup bowl felt that his mouth was so thirsty that the skin of the upper and lower mouths was so dry and cracked that it almost peeled, so that the words rushed out of his throat like a broken gong that had been struck indiscriminately, and it was so rough and broken that it almost made people want to plug their ears.
But Lu Ziyi didn't seem to be able to tell the difference at all, he just turned his head to look at her: "Do you know where we are going now?" ”
The soup bowl struggled to get up from the floor of the carriage, lifted the corner of the curtain and looked out: "Imperial City? Are we on our way to the palace now? "Didn't they prepare for the big sacrifice at the Imperial Tomb? Why did you come back to the Imperial City in a blink of an eye? Could it be that the knife she received made her lie down for a month?
"And, Rui Beast, dead." Lu Ziyi didn't explain to Tang Wan why they returned to Cloud City so quickly, but told Tang Wan about the death of the triangular colored deer. He believed that this little beggar who dared to play a game of women and men under his nose would understand what he was talking about.
"What? Rui Beast is dead? The soup bowl was really startled, and then she turned her head to look out of the window of the carriage a few times, and saw the heavily armed soldiers with serious expressions around the carriage, and suddenly a lightning bolt struck in her mind: "My lord, do you say that they ......?"
That emperor is really not a good person! Perhaps, he has been waiting for this day for a long time, right? The soup bowl suddenly felt a little indignant.
The speed of the carriage was very fast, and the gate of the palace was in sight, but the carriage suddenly stopped. The soup bowl was driven by the inertia, and its head immediately hit the inner wall of the carriage, making a muffled sound.
The general who led the team said to Lu Ziyi: "Offended!" So he and the soup bowl were like two grasshoppers, tied them with a rope and tied them firmly, and dragged the two of them all the way to Chongren Palace.
Emperor Chen Yang sat on the dragon chair, watching Lu Ziyi stumble in by the rope, and frowned: "Lu Qing, are you guilty?" ”
Lu Ziyi knelt on his knees, and by the way, he pulled the soup bowl behind him and knelt on the ground: "I don't know." ”
"I don't know? I don't know! Lu Ziyi, do you really think that your kindness to me can be used as a bargaining chip for a lifetime? Emperor Chen Yang was furious, and slapped the yellow rosewood handrail that he had brought to rest his hand a corner.
"No." Lu Ziyi still maintained a kneeling posture, but the look in his eyes became more and more indifferent.