Chapter Seventy-Four: The Night of Shangyuan

As a fan of a certain dynasty, I recently watched a few episodes of a certain TV series that was on the air, and then I was thundered...... At present, I am depressed, which seriously affects my writing mood...... Although this article is about revenge and power struggle, in essence, I still yearn for those clear, open, and majestic historical periods......

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"What, is it someone Mr. Su knows?" Xia Dong looked at Mei Changsu's expression and asked.

"It's not an acquaintance, it's just a sight. It was a person from King Jing's Mansion, although I had only visited King Jing once, but I had some impressions of this benevolent brother. ”

Xia Dong was a little surprised, "A centurion would actually leave an impression on Mr. Su, I think there should be something outstanding, right?" ”

Mei Changsu nodded, "I don't know what he is good at, but it's no ...... to change it for the better now."

This sounds strange, Xia Dong raised his eyebrows and was about to ask again, but the centurion had already stepped over in stride, ignoring Mei Changsu, but just gave Xia Dong a fist salute and said: "Under the command of the king of Xiajing County, the centurion Qi Meng, may I ask Lord Xia from the mountain?" ”

Xia Dong glanced at him and bowed slightly: "Not bad." ”

"When you two were on the mountain, did you see any monsters?"

"Monsters?" Xia Dong frowned, "This is the jurisdiction of Kyoto, how can there be monsters?" ”

"Yes, it was a monster with brown fur that disturbed the mountain people, so we were ordered to round it up."

Mei Changsu interjected and asked, "I remember that you have also acted for a while, why haven't you caught it yet?" ”

Qi Meng was originally a four-rank general, but the rank obtained in the bloody battle was demoted to a centurion because of Mei Changsu's cold words, to say that there is no pimple in his heart for him, it is false, but there are also quite discerning people in King Jing's mansion, after he was beaten with a military stick that day, at least three people came to persuade him, and explained the truth clearly, which made him feel ashamed. When he saw Mei Changsu again at this time, although he was still a little uncomfortable in his heart and was unwilling to take the initiative to pay attention to him, since he opened his mouth to ask, there was no reason to throw his face and not answer.

"The eastern suburbs are densely forested, and the monster is extremely cunning, we can't stay here every day, but the mountain people come once when they have a report, but every time they come, they can't even see the shadow, and I don't know if those mountain people are ......wrong."

Mei Changsu Zhan looked at Siye, thinking that the mountains in the eastern suburbs are continuous and the range is extremely wide, and if he wants to catch a beast in a targeted manner, he is afraid that it is like looking for a needle in a haystack, no wonder he always works in vain.

"The mountain people here reported the case, shouldn't Jingzhao Yin Yamen be in charge?" Xia Dong asked again.

"That monster is so powerful, the catchers of Jingzhao Yamen surrounded it once, and half of the fifty people were injured, and they didn't catch it in the end. Gao Fu Yin had no choice, so he begged in front of our prince. This kind of idle work that doesn't have much merit is done, and only our prince is willing to take care of it. ”

Xia Dong knew in her heart that what this centurion said was true, but she had a knot with King Jing, and she didn't want to comment more, so she snorted and turned to Mei Changsu: "I'll go back to the city." See you another day. ”

"Lord Xia walks slowly." Mei Changsu owes himself a courtesy, and has been watching Xia Dong go to the tea house to pick up the deposited mount, and after whipping the horse to go, Fang slowly turned around and glanced at Qi Meng.

"What for?" Qi Meng was a little weak by his eyes, and his mind spun quickly, recalling if he had said anything wrong just now.

Seeing his nervous look, Mei Changsu couldn't help but smile, "Not bad, yes, I haven't seen you for a few days, and I have learned to self-reflect." It seems that His Royal Highness King Jing does have subordinates. There is nothing wrong with what you just said in front of Xia Dong, but if you can not say it in the future, you won't say it. His Royal Highness King Jing now has to do more things and talk less, he understands this truth, and you should understand it even more when you are your subordinates. ”

Mei Changsu is just a commoner, not a strategist next to King Jing, and Qi Meng is somewhat Liangzi, logically speaking, he is not qualified to teach people, but for some reason, he stood there weakly, but he did not have a convincing momentum, so Qi Meng nodded unconsciously and said, "I know."

At this time, Li Gang had already ordered someone to drive the carriage over, put down the footstool, and supported Mei Changsu to board the carriage. Just as the carriage was about to start, Mei Changsu suddenly lifted the curtain of the carriage, leaned out half of his body as if he remembered something, and said to Qi Meng: "You ask the mountain people what the monster likes to eat, and set a trap to lure it." ”

Qi Meng was stunned and didn't react, the curtain was lowered again, and the coachman's whip sounded slightly, and he went slowly.

That night, Mei Changsu returned home and learned that King Yu had really come to the door to invite him, because he didn't believe that he was really not there, and insisted on going into the backyard to look around.

After the tenth day of the Lunar New Year, lanterns began to be hung up in various parts of the capital to prepare for the Lantern Festival. The palace is no exception, up to the queen, down to the concubine, each palace and each courtyard have their own strange ideas, competing to make new and ingenious lanterns, in order to prepare for the emperor on the fifteenth day to enjoy and win, won praise.

For some, however, the atmosphere of joy and peace is only scratching the surface. While stepping up the investigation of the murder of the inner prisoner, Meng Zhi, the commander of the forbidden army, vigorously improved the palace defense setup, intensively arranged shifts and intensified inspections, and soon achieved results, stopping two incidents of eunuchs deliberately setting fire to the palace in a row. It is a pity that the arrested suspects committed suicide on the spot and did not ask for a confession, but according to the identity of the corpse, these suspects were indeed registered internal eunuchs, and did not mix in from the outside. Empress Yan was reprimanded in public by Emperor Liang and was forced to take off the hairpin and ask for guilt. She understands that if there is any chaos in the palace, it is herself, the master of the East Palace, who is responsible, not other concubines, and Concubine Yue does not bear any responsibility, so she can only be more careful and strictly control the movement of the personnel in each palace. The queen is the daughter of the prince of the first dynasty, and at the age of sixteen she married Emperor Liang, who was still the king of the county at that time, as a concubine, and was named queen because Emperor Liang ascended the throne, and has been in charge of the six palaces so far. Although she has long been kind and has not given birth to children, but after all, the mother of the main palace in these years is not in vain, and she has her own uniqueness in controlling the harem.

Compared with the gloom in the palace, Mei Changsu's actions outside the palace seemed to be much more leisurely. After finding out several masters of the rivers and lakes who are currently in contact with Zhuo Dingfeng in Beijing, the sect master of the Jiangzuo League quietly and urgently transferred an unknown swordsman into Beijing, and challenged them one by one according to the rules of the rivers and lakes, all of them were beaten so that they couldn't get out of bed for half a month, and they were solved cleanly. And after this nameless swordsman quickly caused a trend, he quietly disappeared, causing rumors to spread for a while, and everyone was speculating about where this person came from, and whether he would be on the Langya master list next year......

Without helpers, Zhuo Dingfeng sensitively noticed that there always seemed to be eyeliner around, and the way to visit was extremely spicy, although it didn't feel right, but he couldn't catch it. In this case, he had no choice but to stand still and consume his opponent like this. Xie Yu is a cautious and cautious person, and he does not leave evidence in his affairs, because he is worried that the hanging mirror has already taken action, so he does not dare to urge Zhuo Dingfeng to act rashly, so the stalemate has been for many days, and the capital is naturally calm.

The tradition of Chinese New Year's Eve is to observe the New Year, and the tradition of the Lantern Festival is to call friends and wives to go out to see the lanterns. Although the vigilance has been strengthened inside and outside the palace in the dark, for Mei Changsu, who is hidden behind the scenes, the entertainment that should be there is no less, especially when Feiliu changed into beautiful clothes before it was dark, tied a new hairband and prepared to go out to see the lights.

Since there was no curfew this night, and the crowd in the market was rolling, Li Gang did a lot of nervous work, not only arranging for the guards to surround him from front to back, left and right, but also specially told Feiliu to hold Brother Su's hand firmly and not to get lost.

"I won't lose it!" For Uncle Li's order, Feiliu felt humiliated.

"You will know when you go out, the street market of the Lantern Festival is crowded to death, and if you are not careful, you will get lost, Feiliu, you can't be careless."

"I won't lose it!" Feiliu still insisted angrily.

Mei Changsu couldn't help but smile and patted the young man's head, and said softly: "You are mistaken, Uncle Li means that Brother Su will be lost, not that we Feiliu will be lost." ”

Feiliu was stunned, thought seriously for a long time, and suddenly grabbed Mei Changsu's hand tightly, and said loudly: "Don't lose it!" ”

Li Gang breathed a sigh of relief and wiped the slight sweat on his forehead.

After the first shift was drummed up, the group went out of the house, and just entered the bustling main road of Dengjie, and immediately felt the atmosphere of rubbing shoulders. Between the fish and dragons, the brilliance and the brilliance, the crowds are like weaving, and the laughter is noisy. This is the most unclear day in the capital of the Great Liang Dynasty, whether it is a noble official or a commoner, there is no particularly obvious difference in the crowd of people watching the lanterns, many famous families even wear white clothes and masks during the Lantern Festival and squeeze into a bunch of lanterns to enjoy the lanterns as a fashion, only the noble ladies and ladies will pull up the cloth curtain to block it slightly, but there are still many people who deliberately change their clothes as civilian women, and walk around at will with a top pocket covering half of their faces. Shangyuan Festival will become the best day for couples to make a secret appointment, and it is also because of this.

Like all the kids, Flystream loved the shiny and dazzling things, the rabbit lights, the goldfish lights, the marquee lights, the fairy lights, the jack-o'-lanterns, the butterfly lights...... Zhan Zhan made him star, every time Mei Changsu asked him, "Do you want to buy it?" He would reply affirmatively, "Yes!" "So much so that before I finished half the street, basically everyone had two or three lamps in their hands.

"Sect Master, that's not the case with spoiling children...... Li Gang couldn't help but complain, "Feiliu must be eager to move the entire street back home......"

"Good!" Juvenile joy, immediately agreed.

"It's okay, after meeting them later, you hire two people to send these lights back, anyway, our yard is big, hang them all along the eaves, and let Feiliu have a good time for a few days." Mei Changsu smiled and comforted Li Gang, and then turned back to coax Feiliu, "Feiliu, these lights can only be hung in the first month according to the rules, and they will all be put away after the first month, do you know?" ”

"Yes!"

Li Gang smiled bitterly, so he had to stop chattering, and stretched his neck to look forward: "There are so many people, how can you find them?" ”

"Let's find the peach blossom lanterns, let's say they're under the peach blossom lanterns......"

As soon as Mei Changsu's voice fell, one of the guards shouted: "Look there! ”

Everyone looked in the direction he pointed, and about fifty steps ahead, slowly picked up a huge peach blossom lantern, pink yarn astragalus, tied very exquisitely, even if it was in the ten thousand lights, it was still very eye-catching.

"It's so big, it's hard not to see it." Mei Changsu smiled while leading his entourage and others towards the lamp, and in just fifty or so steps, he walked in and out for almost a quarter of an hour, and finally gathered together.

"Xiao Feiliu, do you like this peach blossom lantern for you?" Yan Yujin smiled and shook the long lantern pole.

"Hmm!"

"Thank you, Brother Yan." Mei Changsu reminded.

"Thank you!"

"There are so many people, if you want to go to the Miaoyin Fang you said, I'm afraid that you will have to squeeze until dawn......" Mei Changsu looked at the tide of people and sighed, "I regret agreeing to let you come out......"

"It doesn't matter," Xiao Jingrui said, "It's just that there are more people on the main street, and we can go directly to the back door of Miaoyin Fang by walking through the alley." Yujin is the most familiar with that road, and he walks back almost every few days......"

Yan Yujin glanced at him, "If you are familiar, you are not ashamed, only a great hero can be true, and it is a true celebrity who is the first ......"

"Okay, don't be windy for now, let's go quickly, I'm afraid that the seat you booked will be canceled later...... It's rare that Miss Gong Yu came out of the hall today and said that she was going to play a new song. Xie Bicha came in to play a round, and the group squeezed and squeezed until the entrance of the alley, and then breathed a sigh of relief.

(This chapter is also transitional, but the past cannot be omitted...... Also, believe that I am a good person...... Shake your hand and continue depressed...... οΌ‰