Chapter 79: The Moon
So, just when the emperor couldn't wait for Pingling Jun and was about to issue an edict to ask for guilt, something happened to Pingling.
The eldest princess of Danyang issued a letter of complaint on the last day of the sacrifice day of Li Shan, the former Pingling monarch, accusing him of being disloyal and unkind.
In the second year of Daxing, because of the seizure of power with Weiwei, Li Shan made a feud and strangled Sun Weiwei, who was nearly fifty years old and had been loyal to the imperial court for many years, and threw him in the cold palace. In the third year of Daxing, he wanted to seize the concubine Feng, forcing Feng to commit suicide, not thinking about his own faults, but killing all the people in the concubine's palace.
In the same year, Li Shan unjustly killed Xu Xian's eldest brother, making his bones cold at the border pass and unable to return; The treasury of the volume is 300,000 taels, and the cultivation palace is the emperor on the surface, but in fact it is for himself, and hundreds of laborers are exhausted. Some people played, but they couldn't reach the emperor, and those who played were also killed, which led to the unhealthy atmosphere of the court for many years.
The eldest princess asked, how can such a person enter the temple and be worshiped for three days every year? The blood of the Li family on his body is a shame for the Li family!
As soon as this indictment came out, the world was in an uproar, and not many people knew whether it was true or false, so they could only discuss it.
But then, Li Fangwu, the son of Li Shan, the then Pingling Jun, personally confirmed that these were indeed facts.
He played to the emperor, and with the posture of killing his relatives with righteousness, he said that he would not go to Beijing to worship his father in the future, but only worship one or two at home and talk about filial piety.
This decision seems to be appropriate, both filial piety and good reason not to go to Kyoto. The emperor could not condemn him for the crime of unfilial piety, nor could he force him to leave Pingling.
But in this way, everyone in the world knows that Li Shan has done a lot of evil, and he is far from being as good as what he praised in the book and recorded in the history books.
Someone with a heart began to verify the things in the indictment, and found that what the eldest princess said was true, and even according to her, Sun Weiwei's bones were soon found in the cold palace.
The court shook, and countless twists and turns flew to the emperor's imperial case, demanding that the worship of Li Shan's temple be revoked for three days every year.
Li Huailin sat alone on the soft couch in Longyan Palace, the window was closed, and the shadows in the corner fell on his eyes.
"Your Majesty." Liu Yunlie came in and said in a low voice, "It's been dealt with." ”
The worship of the temple was set by Li Huailin, and Liu Yunlie knew the reason, and it was impossible to change it because of a few letters from the courtiers. But...... The eldest princess's move really caught them off guard, and His Majesty originally planned to posthumously seal Li Shan, but I am afraid that it will not be possible.
Li Huailin's voice was low: "What the imperial sister said, is it true?" ”
Liu Yunlie paused, shook his head and said, "Don't you know what kind of character the eldest princess is?" After many years, he suddenly came out to say this, and there must be interests behind it. It doesn't matter if what she says is true or not, the important thing is to be on guard and see what she wants to do. ”
Huailin shook his head: "I always feel that Sister Huang's move seems to be telling me that she didn't kill Li Shan wrong." ”
Liu Yunlie was silent.
He thought that the eldest princess would not mention these old things again, after all, she is not a person who likes to clear her name, when Pingling Jun died, she was in power, and she was already a one-handed cover, but she would rather spend her energy on Lu Jingxing, and she never shouted for herself.
I don't know who I've heard say that in the eyes of the eldest princess, reputation is the least valuable thing.
So now, what happened to make her change her mind?
"How's my business doing?" Huaiyu happily took the construction map of the tributary canal of the Qulin River and shook it in front of Lu Jingxing's eyes, "Do you make money by changing a letter for a picture?" ”
Lu Jingxing looked at her deeply: "I made a lot of money." ”
She hasn't gone out in the first-tier city, and no one chews the root of her tongue in her ear, so Huaiyu still doesn't know that earth-shaking changes have taken place outside.
Isn't it just earning a picture......
Lu Jingxing looked sideways at the window, Jiang Xuanjin was standing in the courtyard, the fox fur cloak was blown slightly, and a jade crown was upright with ink hair.
"The indictment, did he ask you to write it?" Lu Jingxing asked in a low voice.
Huaiyu let out a "huh" and raised his eyebrows: "How do you know it's his idea?" However, my words are ugly, and he directly asked Jiang Shen to write on his behalf. Jiang Ergongzi can't do anything else, he is really good at pen and ink, and he uses words to form sentences, and he writes old things into big cases that must be recorded in the history books. ”
His eyes moved slightly, and Lu Jingxing pinched the cold fan bone and thought for a while before he said, "He has a heart." ”
"He doesn't lose either." Huaiyu hugged his belly and said, "Pinglingjun's thank-you gift has arrived today, and a big xiāng zǐ and a big xiāng zǐ are almost full of my yard, and it is really generous." Presumably, there will be a lot of contacts between Pingling and Ziyang in the future. ”
Lu Jingxing raised his eyebrows: "I remember that in the third year of Daxing, you refuted anyone's excerpts, saying that there were too many exchanges between fiefdoms, which was not beneficial to the country." ”
"Yes, but Li Shan didn't listen, and he didn't even support Huailin." Huaiyu shrugged, "Because Li Shan is a feudal monarch, he knows very well that the exchanges between fiefs are conducive to consolidating the power of feudal monarchs, and if he can share the same hatred with feudal monarchs everywhere, it will be enough to fight against the imperial court." ”
Huailin felt that Li Shan was wholeheartedly good for him, so now he should understand that Li Shan was also selfish back then, and while he supported him, he also left a way back for himself.
It's also fate, and now she is stepping on the back road of Li Shanliu, and she is going to be embarrassed by Huailin.
Taking a deep breath, Huaiyu felt a little bored, so he said to Lu Jingxing: "I want to go out for a walk." ”
Lu Jingxing shook his head firmly.
"Oh, I've been in the house for a day, will it be boring? The doctor has said that I need to move around more to have the strength to have a child! Huaiyu puffed out his mouth and looked outside, "Today is still the Winter Flower Festival of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Winter Flower Festival of previous years, we are all going to drink on the street, aren't we?" ”
Lu Jingxing snapped his finger at her: "The day before yesterday, when you went out, you threw off Qingsi in a hurry, causing her to look for you for a long time, and when she came back, she didn't dare to move the ground for three days at the door of your room, and now she is still outside the door." The day before yesterday, you went out and went to help people grab the purse with a big belly, which scared the Wu half to death, and alarmed the entire yamen, and the thief who stole the purse thought that he had stolen a large stack of silver tickets, but he recovered the purse with three copper plates. Yesterday...... You finally didn't go out, and Chijin personally cooked a hot pot to celebrate. ”
The first few sentences made her face blush, but at the end, Li Huaiyu was angry: "Don't call me when you eat hot pot?!" ”
Lu Jingxing spread his hands: "You spare them, call you, Chijin still dares to cook things at will?" You have to prepare three days in advance. ”
Huaiyu was a little crying and laughing: "My own stomach, don't you know it yourself?" It's solid, it's okay to be in prison for so long, it's okay to bump along the way, how can you go to the street to eat something? ”
Walking two steps forward and opening the door, Lu Jingxing turned around and said, "If you want to breathe, just stand here for a while." ”
Standing over reluctantly, taking a breath of the cold wind outside, Huaiyu pouted: "There is no fresh air on the street." ”
Lu Jingxing's forehead jumped straight, and he said with a smile: "You will be ordered." ”
His eyes rolled slightly, and Huaiyu suddenly said: "That's it, let's compare the pitching pot, if I win, you let me out, how about it?" Pitching is what you're best at, and I haven't won once! ”
Lu Jingxing squinted: "If I win, you will stay in the mansion honestly?" ”
"Hmm!" Huaiyu nodded.
Jiang Xuanjin stood not far away with his back to them, but he could clearly hear the sound of these two people joking.
She said, "You've won me for five years, what's wrong with me standing three steps closer than you?" ”
He said, "Did you take these three steps with your legs splitting your legs?" Standing by the pot or shouting? That's called putting it inside! ”
She was not happy: "That...... Two steps? ”
He sneered: "It's better for you to stay in the mansion." ”
Jiang Xuanjin didn't look back, a pair of dark eyes looked at the clouds in the distance silently.
Chengxu frowned slightly, and said in a low voice: "Master, let's go back to the house, shall we?" Ziyang has just sent a lot of paperwork, and you haven't read it yet. ”
There was no reply, and the man in front of him sat on his own, his thin lips pursed white.
The stance over there has been set.
Li Huaiyu held three arrows and stood behind the line with Lu Jingxing with a desperate face. The line was eight feet away from the pot, and she looked at it for a long time, looking at the direction of the wind and calculating the fortune, but in the end two arrows missed, and only one arrow was inserted into the mouth of the pot alone.
Her head drooped, she wrapped the tiger skin cloak on her body, pouted and said to Lu Jingxing: "Don't throw it so accurately, okay?" ”
Lu Jingxing pinched the long arrow and turned it around between his fingers a few times, and snorted: "I can hit it with my eyes closed, maybe it's too difficult." ”
"Then you just close your eyes." Huaiyu went up the pole, "Qingsi, bring a piece of white brocade to the shopkeeper Lu to cover his eyes!" ”
Lu Jingxing: "......"
Qingsi really did so, and he reluctantly took Bai Jin and covered his eyes: "Your Highness is really persistent." ”
It's not that he is confident, throwing pots, this kind of play, he will play small, no matter who he compares with, he will win back, because he will not miss an arrow.
The white brocade covered his eyes, and he could faintly see some light and shadow, Lu Jingxing stood up straight, pinching the arrow and throwing it.
Huaiyu was shocked, look at this quasi-head, she is really going to be hit, once she is hit by an arrow, then she will not be able to go out!
A little desperate in her heart, she had already begun to think about whether to break out of the house by force.
However, just as the arrow was about to fall into the mouth of the pot, a stone came into the sky, and with a fierce momentum, it hit the arrow accurately.
The direction was crooked, and the arrow fell to the ground with a "snap".
didn't hear the expected sound of the pot, Lu Jingxing was very surprised, opened Bai Jin and looked at it, and frowned: "Did you do it?" ”
Huaiyu stood beside him and shook his head innocently: "No." ”
As she spoke, she glanced at the man standing at the other end of the courtyard.
Jiang Xuanjin didn't look at her, stared seriously at the flower branches that had already been thanked in the flower bed, and his slender hand slowly retracted and put it back into his fox fur cloak.
Retracting his gaze, Huaiyu smiled and pulled the white brocade on Lu Jingxing's eyes: "You still have two more chances." ”
Lu Jingxing was puzzled, looked at the position of the copper kettle again, and after remembering it accurately, he closed his eyes and cast again.
With two snaps, two feather arrows with good quasi-heads landed on the ground not far from the copper kettle.
Pulling Bai Jin, Lu Jingxing was dumbfounded, Li Huaiyu almost jumped up with joy, clapped his hands and said, "Go to the street!" ”
"It's impossible." He couldn't figure it out, "Why didn't you get in?" ”
"Your hand is raw!" Pretending not to know anything, Huaiyu comforted him, "It's good to practice more in the future." ”
After saying that, he cheered and walked out.
Lu Jingxing frowned and looked at the copper kettle for a long time, and finally had no choice but to take his cloak and follow the steps of the man in front of him.
People all over the Northern Wei Dynasty like camellias, so they set up a winter flower festival, which is set on the day when camellia blooms the most, for people to enjoy the flowers. In a barren place like the first-tier city, there hasn't been a winter flower festival for several years. But this year is different, there are many new Lu Kee Restaurant study rooms in the city, and there are even Song Fang Music Halls, which are open to celebrate the festival.
The people have food to eat, the river is about to reflow, and all kinds of happy events are superimposed, making the streets very lively.
Huaiyu looked at the people around him with bright eyes, and sighed: "When we first came, there was only loess on the street here. ”
"yes." Lu Jing walked beside her, blocking the surging crowd for her, "Thanks to His Highness, the first-line city is alive." ”
couldn't stop laughing, Huaiyu rubbed the corners of her mouth, wanting to be reserved, but she was really happy: "The eldest princess of Danyang has done a good deed." ”
She is finally not the scourge that the people will only say for the chaos of the country, if there is a funeral again, even if someone still points to her coffin and scolds, someone should be able to say half a good word for her.
Danyang is actually a good person.
Thinking of the funeral lantern floating on Chang'an Street a long time ago with the name of Danyang written on it, she subconsciously waved her hand again.
I won't wronged you this time!
Lu Jingxing glanced at her and helped her to walk up the Lu Ji Restaurant next to her: "There are too many people, you go up and listen to the book for a while." ”
"Good!" Huaiyu walked away with her skirt, holding her bulging belly, and her steps were rare and light.
The business of the restaurant is very good today, and there are not many vacant seats on the second floor, so Lu Jingxing has reserved a place and let her sit at the table closest to the storyteller.
Shocked the wood so much, the noisy upstairs quieted down, and the storyteller who was not young raised his voice and began to speak, Huaiyu held a small snack and listened to it with relish, Lu Jingxing inadvertently turned his head, and saw that there were guests upstairs.
Jiang Xuanjin had a cold face, found a vacant seat and sat down, Chengxu and Yufeng stood behind him, the three of them were really eye-catching, and as soon as they sat down, many people whispered.
The eyebrows were slightly raised, and Lu Jingxing glanced at the person next to her, she was listening to the book and was fascinated, as if she hadn't noticed it at all.
The hand propped up on his chin lightly tapped his lips, and Lu Jingxing suddenly reached out and handed the tea to Huaiyu's lips.
Li Huaiyu was holding the dim sum in both hands, and he didn't have time to pick it up, so he just took a sip of it in his hand, swallowed the dim sum, and said, "Why are you so good today?" ”
Lu Jingxing smiled: "When will I treat you badly?" ”
"Many times, they quarreled with me yesterday and said that they would not go to the main city of Danyang. The day before yesterday, I changed into a new dress, and you just said it was ugly. Li Huaiyu squinted, "Really when I have a bad memory?" ”
Choked slightly, Lu Jingxing said: "What I said is the truth, who likes to go to the main city of Danyang, what color is not good for your new clothes?" Choose a green amber color, ugly to death. ”
"What does it have to do with me?" Huaiyu snorted.
Lu Jingxing wants to say, if people choose you, wear it? But Yu Guang caught a glimpse of someone who was looking this way, he paused, leaned forward, and said in Huaiyu's ear: "Is it under the pass, when these two teas are drunk, Your Highness wants to go to Buzhuang to have a look?" Redo two bodies for you. ”
"Excuse me." Huaiyu ate and said vaguely, "I'll forgive you if you take another copy of this jade bean bag." ”
With a doting smile, Lu Jingxing summoned his buddy and commanded in a low voice.
Jiang Xuanjin didn't know why he came along, he didn't like to be lively, and he didn't like to see Lu Jingxing and Li Huaiyu get close. But he sat here and stared at them for a long time.
She said that a duplicitous person like him is not very popular. Lu Jingxing is very good at talking, whispering a few words slowly, and his eyebrows are gentle, which can make her laugh and take care of her.
He wasn't there for her, and the smile on her face seemed more real.
"Master." Chengxu is really distressed, "Let's go back, shall we?" ”
"yes, it's noisy." Yu Feng also helped, "It's better to go back and see the Buddhist scriptures that the second son found for you." ”
"Hmm." Jiang Xuanjin lowered his eyes and responded in a low voice, but when the table man got up and went downstairs, his feet still followed as if he didn't obey the call.
If someone told him before, whose son-in-law was deceived and betrayed, he still couldn't give up that person, and insisted on finding a way to live. He must have said that the man was a fool, and his heart did not know what it was made of, and he did not know that it hurt.
But now, he stepped on the ground with a lot of sand and soil in the first-tier city, and he clearly knew how stupid he was, and he could clearly feel how much it hurt, but he was still moving forward.
Why? He himself couldn't figure it out, in just half a year of warmth, the fox was tamed, should he have to stay in the cage for the rest of his life?
Let's follow one more street, Jiang Xuanjin thought, one more street, and he will leave.
When I came out, it was almost dusk, and after walking for a while, it was dark. Lanterns were lit all over the street, but there were still a lot of people. Huaiyu walked with great interest, and when he arrived at the corner of the street, he looked up inadvertently and saw the lantern hanging on the eaves of the second floor.
The lantern was round and bright, shining with a bright light, like the bright moon in the sky.
……
"I'm so angry and so good-looking, I really want to go to the sky to pick the moon for you!"
"If you want to pick it, pick it, if you can't take it off, don't let me see you again!"
"The moon for you."
“……”
"You said you wouldn't see me if you couldn't take it off. I said I would see you all the time, don't you remember? ”
……
It seems that it happened yesterday, and it is too far away to touch in a blink of an eye. Huaiyu looked at it for a while, and his eyes were a little blurry.
There may never be anyone else in the future who can make her want to climb the stairs to pick the moon. Most of the paper lanterns that used to be placed in the main building of the ink house have now been broken into slag, and I don't know where they were thrown.
That's it, the fake is the fake after all, and no one except her would be so ridiculous as to pick the lantern as the moon.
"The sugar gourd you wanted." Lu Jingxing followed from behind and reached out to hand her a string of big, red things.
Shaking his head and shaking off the fog in his eyes, Huaiyu smiled: "Do you think I'm obedient or disobedient?" Didn't run away directly, still standing here waiting for you. ”
Lu Jingxing raised his eyebrows, looked at her face carefully, and felt that something was not quite right: "What's wrong?" Isn't it okay? ”
After a slight pause, Huaiyu hurriedly yawned, and said with teary eyes: "I'm sleepy, I want to go back to sleep." ”
"Okay." Lu Jingxing breathed a sigh of relief, "It's rare that you also know that you are sleepy." ”
Pulling the corners of his mouth and smiling, Huaiyu lowered his eyes and followed him back.
Jiang Xuanjin said to let her get ready, and that tone ...... It's really very elegant to even hold grudges, unlike her, who looks really stingy and vicious.
What was he going to do with her? After so many days, there seems to be no movement.
Speaking of which, this person has also lived in the first-tier city for a long time, why has he not returned to Ziyang? Looking at the speed at which Ziyang sent the papers, it didn't look like he was idle, but he wasn't in a hurry, he didn't have any intention of leaving for the return trip after so long.
Could it be that he didn't want the first-tier city to be merged into Danyang, so he came here in advance and waited, and once she made a move, he would stop it?
Thinking about it, this reason is the most convincing, Huaiyu settled down, planning to test him once and see what his next move was.
The courtyard was dark, only her room was lit up, Li Huaiyu pushed open the door, and was about to say who was so considerate and left the lamp, but when she looked up, there was no one in the house.
A round lantern was placed by the window and lit up, revealing a bright light, reflecting the dark night sky outside, and she was stunned.
Qingsi looked at it suspiciously, and asked the subordinate guarding outside the door, "Who is coming?" ”
The subordinate was at a loss: "The slave has been guarding here, and I don't see anyone!" ”