In the nine-foot alley of Lanling Fang in Chang'an City, Liu Changqing, the servant of the imperial history, led the horse in the direction of the door, and he bowed his head and swayed like a walking corpse. A merchant carrying a load passed by him, waving a rattle in the opposite direction.

He came to the door of the temporarily purchased mansion and pushed open the door with a letter at his feet. He looked back alarmingly into the depths of the alley before returning to the hall with the envelope in his hand, and sat down at the desk to open it with a knife.

He poured out the paper in the envelope, and when he opened it, he saw the familiar Juanxiu font, his heart beating violently, and his breathing stopped.

"Luoyang Renhefang, the fifth courtyard of Nanqu West Lane, the concubine is waiting here alone, looking forward to the meeting of the monarch soon."

Liu Changqing was excited, and pondered the joints carefully, Li Siye was sent by the emperor to Luoyang to clean up the silt of the canal, presumably Du Jiuniang was also taken there. But why did Du Jiuniang send a letter to him to see, and said that she was alone. But there is no doubt that it is her own letter.

He didn't have time to think carefully, so he quickly got up to pack his baggage, led the horse and prepared to go out to Luoyang.

After the merchant walked out of Lanlingfang, he returned to his mansion to change his clothes, and in the name of Mi Chagan, the richest man in Chang'an, he delivered a letter of worship to Li Chongyun, the concubine of Princess Yonghe, and entered the princess's mansion.

Michagan came to the palace of Princess Yonghe, and under the guidance of several beautiful maidservants, he went to the outer hall of the main hall.

The concubine Li Chongyun and the princess were in the pavilion in the back garden, and the princess was sitting on the beauty with her hands on her waist and hips, and her abdomen was already high and bulging. Li Chongyun squatted down with a smile and listened to the sound in her stomach with his ears.

The maidservant stood in front of the pavilion and said, "Michagan is already waiting in the hall." ”

"Let him wait first."

The princess smiled and pushed him on the shoulder and said, "Go quickly, don't keep the guests waiting." ”

"Whoa!" Li Chongyun happily crossed his hand towards the princess, and then turned around and walked towards the main hall in the front yard.

Li Chongyun and Michagan are also old acquaintances, when he entered Chang'an at the end of Tianbao, he relied on Michagan and Cao Anding to live in Chang'an City, and now he suddenly visited, perhaps on the orders of his father Li Siye.

Michagan faced Li Chongyun, who was belated, and said with a smile: "The eldest son." ”

Li Chongyun asked with a smile: "Mr. Mi suddenly came to visit, I don't know what to see?" ”

"I came on the orders of the Tai Lieutenant, and I ask Gongzi to leave Chang'an with me."

Chongyun suddenly suppressed his smiling face, pinched his chin and lowered his head and hesitated, as if he was making a difficult choice.

"What else is there to hesitate about? Now Your Majesty is jealous of your father's meritorious deeds, and will not tolerate him. Even if Childe becomes a colt, but after all, you are the son of the captain, and you will inevitably be implicated, so please make a decision as soon as possible. ”

"Now that I have a family, I can say that I will leave."

Michagan eagerly stated: "The colt is just a vassal of the royal family, how can they consider it a family member. Your only family members are your parents and brothers, and the Taiwei used to give up 3,000 soldiers and horses to form the Longxiang Army, didn't it just so that you could survive safely beside the dangerous royal family? You also know the current situation, what should be given up must be given up, and the green mountains will be left, not afraid of no firewood. ”

"Okay...... I ......" Li Chongyun's heart loosened a little.

"Yunlang." The princess stood on the side of the palace pillar with her waist in her hands, with a bit of expectation and affection in her beautiful face.

He helplessly spread his hands and lowered his voice and said, "You can also see that she can't leave me, and the child can't leave me." If we leave Chang'an, it means that we will be displaced. also asked Mr. to tell his father that Yunlang could not be filial under his knees, and the grace of nurturing could only be repaid in the next life. ”

In front of the princess, Michagan couldn't say anything, just crossed his hand towards Li Chongyun and said: "Your father really didn't give you the wrong name, Chongyun, Chongyun, what you are pursuing is just the ethereal thing in front of you, and for them, what you are pursuing is just a funeral object of power, which has no meaning." ”

After he finished saying this, he turned to Li Chongyun and saluted: "Childe, I quit." ”

After Michagan left the princess's mansion, he immediately went to Yishanfang and asked to see Gao Lishi, who lived in the workshop. Who knew that when he came to the door of Gao Lishi's house in the workshop, the majestic high gate that used to be busy was full of weeds, and the plaque was full of cobwebs, as if it had been abandoned for a long time, and the house of the powerful right prison guard general Gao Lishi had now fallen to this point.

He knocked on the door with the intention of trying it out, but a lazy man in tattered clothes pushed the door open and asked, "Who are you looking for?" ”

He pointed to the lintel above his head and asked, "Isn't this the mansion of the tall general?" ”

The man yawned and said, "When is this, since the general followed the Emperor Taishang to escape from Shuzhong, this house has been deserted." Later, General Gao followed the emperor back, and did not come back here to take a look. ”

"And who are you?"

"You said me." The man pointed to his nose and said, "I am a homeless man who has been favored by the tall general, and I am here to take care of the house for him." ”

Michagan asked again: "Do you know where the general has gone?" ”

"Alas, I used to serve His Royal Highness in the palace Shenlong Palace, but for some reason I offended Li Fuguo and was sent to the Yeting Palace to govern the prisoners who entered the palace. The people who served on the Emperor's side changed. ”

He learned from this man that the eunuch who is now serving the emperor is called Sun Fu, and he is one of Li Fuguo's disciples and grandchildren, so he specially inquired about Sun Fu's address, bribed a lot of money, and sent a box of longevity cakes and snacks to the Shenlong Temple.

The white-haired Emperor Taishang was pacing in the hall in a yellow middle single, and a box of pastries was placed on the table in front of him. He sat down slowly, stroked the word shou engraved on the food box, and smiled bitterly: "Now you are the only one who has lost the Qianqiu Festival." ”

He pinched a piece and bit it into his mouth, biting into a thin and flexible layer, and reached out to tear it apart, which turned out to be a piece of silk cloth, on which were written in small letters. He scrutinized it, and a look of anger suddenly appeared on his face, and he staggered back and sat down on the floor and shouted, "Someone! Come on! ”

……

In the south of Yecheng, within the border of Anyang County, the Hexi Army Battalion is stationed here, and the nearest Anxi Army Camp and the Longyou Army Battalion are also thirteen miles, which shows that the gap between the envoys of each section is not small.

In the middle of the night, the stars on the canopy were scarce, and the clouds were piled up to drown the moon.

He opened the curtain and broke in, and everyone was silent at first, and there was a gap in their eyes. Bai Xiaode, the left commander of the Flying Tiger Cavalry, sneered at him: "Father-in-law Yan, the brothers have been in a depressed mood recently, take a few sips to relieve their sorrows, and ask your father-in-law not to blame." ”

After Bai Xiaode finished speaking, several detainees around him let out low laughter.

Yan Xiaosi had no anger on his face, his eyes did not look at Bai Xiaode, but he glanced around at the people in the tent and said: "You may not know that Tubo has attacked Hexi on a large scale, and all the defending cities have fallen, and only the four counties are still holding on. I am afraid that it will not be long before the Hexi Corridor will become a horse breeding ground for the Tibetan people, and your parents, brothers and sisters will become slaves of the Tibetan people. ”

Among them, four Hexi generals stood up and said with a sullen face: "Yan Xiaosi, what do you mean by this...... Is this true? ”

Yan Xiaosi continued: "My hometown is about to fall, you and I are still being stifled here, and we are riding on our heads by a few eunuchs, how can we endure this breath." When the lord was here, how majestic was the three armies of Anxi in the northwest of my river, but now they have fallen to the point where they are now? ”

Everyone looked at each other at first, and Lu Chongben grinned: "Deputy Envoy Yan, you don't have to use this method to blackmail us, we know the dangerous methods of the three fathers-in-law, how dare you have such thoughts?" ”

Yan Xiaosi saw that everyone refused to believe him, so he grabbed a jade seal from his arms and stretched it out in his hand: "What do you think this is?" ”

The crowd hurriedly got up from the sheep felt that was sitting cross-legged, and asked eagerly, "How is the doctor's seal here?" ”

"After the lord was relieved of his military power by the imperial court in Luoyang, he ordered me to commit myself to the thief and wait for the opportunity. Now he has found an opportunity to break away from Chang'an, and is now rushing from Luoyang to Yecheng. Brothers and I have been favored by the Lord in the past, and now we are fighting under the command of eunuchs! Why don't you tell all the brothers in the army that Hexi is in danger, mutiny to restrain the eunuchs and thieves to welcome the lord! ”