Although tomorrow is the Lantern Festival, An Ruichen is in an extremely bad mood tonight. Just now, he was in a state of suffrage.

Here's the thing.

His Majesty has become more ill in recent days, and he has been in a coma and vomiting blood more and more often. However, Zhou Xuan, who was the eldest son, and Yu Hai, the great eunuch who had been with him all his life, did not care about this matter, but simply ordered that as long as His Majesty could still breathe, the imperial doctors would be able to spend the day smoothly.

However, it is better to live than to die when the pain attacks, and His Majesty will always wail when he is awake, wanting a happy death.

What's worse is that at noon today, there was a little eunuch who was loyal to His Majesty who was soft-hearted and really put poison in His Majesty's decoction. Fortunately, when the imperial doctor was examining the decoction, he sniffed out the abnormality and secretly informed An Ruichen.

An Ruichen learned the news, quietly investigated, and soon found out about the little eunuch.

To An Ruichen's surprise, the little eunuch was indeed loyal, did not implicate anyone, and immediately confessed his sins.

An Ruichen felt that although the little eunuch was bold, his original intention was not bad, and if it was him An Ruichen, he might also hope that His Majesty could be liberated. Since the matter did not cause serious consequences, it is better to turn a big thing into a small matter, so An Ruichen just gave the little eunuch a glass of poisoned wine and left him a whole corpse, which can be regarded as respecting him with sincerity.

Here's where things go bad.

Because the whole thing was done in private, he didn't deliberately alarm anyone, let alone report it, so An Ruichen didn't expect that just an hour ago, the prince knew about this incident and taught him a harsh lesson, because he took it upon himself and did not execute all the eunuchs who had served His Majesty in order to prevent such a thing from happening again.

Since An Ruichen didn't do it, the prince personally ordered it to be done. Therefore, except for Yu Hai, all the servants and palace maids who have served His Majesty have been executed, and now the servants around His Majesty, except for the imperial physician of the imperial physician, are the only ones left with the little princess Zhou Ran.

But what made An Ruichen angry and shocked was not that his kindness was devalued by the prince, nor that his hands were forcibly stained with blood by the prince, but that behind this incident, he found that there was no one around him who could be trusted.

An Ruichen's deputy general Bao Ming is a general who has been following his father Han Zhanghou, and he is also a playmate who has grown up with him since he was a child, and he is usually very close to him, after the death of Han Zhanghou, An Ruichen regarded Bao Ming as the only person he trusted, and promoted him one after another, so when dealing with this matter, An Ruichen just took him with him. Now that the prince knows the cause and effect of the incident, it means that the lieutenant he trusts turned out to be the eyeliner that the prince planted beside him.

In fact, An Ruichen originally knew that there were many princes around him, such as Wen Hao, the chief of the guard, such as several eunuchs and maidservants, such as the cook in his kitchen and the little servant in the account room, but he endured it, because this was a sin created by his father, as long as he was careful, but when this happened, his bottom line was touched.

He didn't have his father's resourcefulness and means, he didn't know who else to trust, and he didn't know when he would become the prince's outcast.

I heard that today's Commander Qu was impeached by Bo Weihou and questioned by the prince for no reason, and the final result was that from now on, the forbidden army was under the control of him and Ji An.

An Ruichen thought, I don't know if he will also end up with Qu Shao.

As soon as An Ruichen, who was physically and mentally exhausted and depressed, arrived at the door of his house, he saw a carriage parked in front of his stone lion, which turned out to be the carriage sent by Su Dingxuan to pick him up for the banquet.

An Ruichen, who was in a bad mood, thought of Su Dingxuan's energetic appearance when he came to visit, and he didn't want to save his friend's face, so he had to fight his spirit and get into the carriage.

Because in wartime, there were few pedestrians on the streets, and homes were closed.

Sitting in the Su family's carriage, putting aside the troubles of the recent days, An Ruichen was in a trance in his heart. He hadn't seen the night view of the capital for too long.

In the past, the night in the capital was the most lively, and now it is still the end of the year, tomorrow and the Japanese Festival, it should be a prosperous scene with bright lights, but now it is so cold and deserted, people think that they have entered some wilderness.

However, as Su Dingxuan said, although the Lanyue Restaurant is closed, but through the back door, through the corridor, the scenery has undergone earth-shaking changes, each private room separated by partitions and brocade curtains is high-minded, staggered, and there are soft singing voices of girls on the stage.

The servant sent by Su Dingxuan led An Ruichen to the compartment on the second floor called "Changxin Xiaozhu", and Su Dingxuan had been waiting at the door for a long time.

The people at the wine table, An Ruichen basically knew everything, either childhood playmates, or old classmates, except for a young man of twenty-five or sixteen.

Su Dingxuan pointed at the young man and said to An Ruichen with a smile: "Yanzhi, you know everyone else, so I won't talk nonsense, but you don't know this brother, I have to introduce it well." ”

An Ruichen saw the grandeur of what Su Dingxuan said, and he was also interested. You must know that with Su Dingxuan's background and talent, he is not a person who is more outstanding than him, he is too lazy to get acquainted.

Su Dingxuan said: "This is Zheng Yi, the word Renyuan, I mentioned it to you before." He was the previous Wu champion and the current General Mingwei. Although you both hold military positions, Zheng Yi patrols outside all year round, so you don't know each other. Zheng Yi will stay in the capital in the future, take this opportunity to get to know each other well. ”

Zheng Yi had already picked up two wine glasses, walked up to An Ruichen, and said: "I heard about the general's name early in the morning, but it's a pity that the rural village man, with a humble identity, didn't have the opportunity to see it. Please admire the face of the general, with a glass of wine under it. ”

Zheng Yi's words were respectful, An Ruichen was embarrassed to refute other people's face, so he politely said a few words, took the wine glass, and drank it all.

The little song outside was singing happily, and there were more and more laughter in the private room, and An Ruichen's mood calmed down a lot.

Drinking to the fullest, Su Dingxuan laughed and said: "The ancients said well, 'Life must be happy, don't make the gold bottle empty to the moon'." When you meet a confidant, no matter when it is, it is right to have fun in time! ”

"It's not," Lin Qiong, a childhood friend, Yinghe, "Even if the country changes hands, it's not our responsibility, what is the prince's, what does it matter to us!" ”

"Drunk talk, drunk talk!" Xiaohui, a former classmate, taught him, "If such words are heard, do you still want to have a head?" ”

Lin Qiong's wine was even stronger, and she shouted, "Who? Who will listen? Who wants my head? I don't want to be the ruler, I can't say two words? ”

"You don't slaughter for officials, you have your own slaughter for officials, such a big person, why don't you have a door?"

Su Dingxuan, who came to his senses, glanced at An Ruichen who was stunned embarrassedly, and hurriedly stabbed Lin Qiong with his elbow, and said with a smile: "Blame me and blame me, what did you say, come, continue drinking!" ”

Although Lin Qiong kept her mouth shut, everyone's eyes involuntarily turned to An Ruichen, which made An Ruichen very embarrassed, it seemed that there was less contact, and friends were also estranged a lot.

He sat bored, so he simply excused himself and went outside.

As soon as An Ruichen left on his front foot, Zheng Yi also followed.