The tranquil aroma of tonka is the most calming. Zhang Yan added a handful of charcoal, and the corners of her lips showed a slightly bitter smile.

There is a way that it is easy to invite God to send God, when she lost her gun and unloaded her armor that day, although Liu Ying let her go, in fact, she turned around and let Guan Sheng take her own belongings and stationed in the housekeeper. And she couldn't say no - Han Cheng and Qin folk customs, although it is considered open, but there is still a certain amount of harm between men and women. The women's bedroom is the most intimate place. On that day, she asked Liu Ying to hold hands and enter the room in front of all the housekeepers, and she almost announced their relationship to the world, how can she ask him to go out now?

That day, on her bed, Liu Ying kissed her fingertips and said, "Chang'an is still stable now, but I can't stay outside for a long time after all." Ah Yan, you have seven exquisite thoughts, I can't guess it. What do you want me to do? Let's just say it. If I can, I'll do it for you. ”

She smiled wryly.

What do you want, how can you say it in a sentence and a half? Even if he said it, could he really do it?

The partners in the world are like this, even if they raise their eyebrows, it is difficult to settle in the end.

"Little lady," Qing Kui came in with a tea set, "Meng Daxia is back, asking to see him outside." ”

"Oh?" Zhang Yan perked up, "Invite him to the outer courtyard, and I'll go over immediately." ”

"Big lady," Meng Guan arched his hand, "How are you doing now?" ”

Zhang Yan took a sip, her face flushed slightly, "I haven't talked to you about the things you lied to me that day?" ”

"When did I lie to you?" Meng Guan couldn't help but laugh, "Oh, you mean what I told you that day?" I must have met the man at the gate that day, and he told me to bring it to you—not a lie. ”

As for what happened later, he blinked. But it's not in my mind.

"By the way, you want me to check the whereabouts of the man. I've found it. ”

Zhang Yan's face also became serious, "What do you say?" ”

"I didn't have any clues to investigate. But that day I bumped into a man with a birthmark on his hand that looked very similar to what they described. So he followed him for a few days, and sure enough, his surname was Wang, and his whereabouts were strange. ”

"Where did you meet him?"

Meng Guan suddenly smiled a little strangely, "Maybe you don't believe it, it's in the cloud market." ”

Later, I followed him to a house in the east of the city. The people inside told him something about him, and let him out. I suppose that man was the mastermind who was plotting against you that day. ”

Zhang Yan pondered for a moment, "Get ready." I'm going to go and meet the gentleman behind the scenes. ”

The incident in Shanan City Gate Lane that day has become a thorn in Zhang Yan's heart. She couldn't tolerate such an unknown force watching her in the shadows. And he counted himself. Whether she decides to get along with Liu Ying or not, she has to figure it out.

The small courtyard is loose and tight, since what happened last time, there is no need for Liu Yingtie to order with a blushing face, Shen Mo himself has stepped up his protection. Xu Huan was still thinking about it at this time. If the queen makes some mistakes, I am afraid that he, the deputy general, will have to come back to see His Majesty.

"Madame, where are you going?"

Zhang Yan smiled indifferently, "Your master didn't say that I wasn't allowed to go out, right?" ”

"This ......" Shen Mo was speechless for a while.

"I must go out of this gate today." Zhang Yan smiled, "-But I don't embarrass you." Send men after you. This time. I'm not going to do any tricks. ”

She stepped on the pestle and boarded the carriage, and with a flick of the horsewhip, the carriage passed through the street. Heading towards the East Side, stop in front of a high-gate mansion.

The doorman in the house saw the famous thorn and said respectfully, "Meng Niangzi, the master of the family has been waiting for a long time. Please enter. ”

"Please come in and wait. The host will arrive later. ”

Zhang Yan nodded and sat down on the couch in the hall. took the black pottery tea cup served by the green-clothed maid on the side, lifted the lid, the tea soup in the cup was green, the fragrance was compelling, and at the same time, he looked at the furnishings in the hall without a trace. The furniture is made of fir lacquer, simple and heavy, although it is not as gorgeous as the palace, but it is also everyone's weather - I think the master is not an ordinary family.

A middle-aged man with a beard and a beard on his head hurriedly walked out from the back of the hall, laughing and bowing, "I don't know if the lord is coming, and I miss the welcome." ”

Belch.

The teacup in Zhang Yan's hand was crooked.

Since he was escorted into Chang'an with his father ten years ago, he has not heard the title of Lord Weng for a long time. Suddenly hearing this name, which was already far away from her, she couldn't help but be stunned, "Forgive me for my fear, I don't know ...... Mr. ”

"Can't you remember the old man?" The person who came laughed and stroked a long beard on his chest, "It's also normal." Lord Weng was only six years old when he left Zhao Di, and it has been ten years now. The voice was already a little angry, and he said, "Old man Meng Shu." ”

"Yikes."

Zhang Yan's eyes widened even more.

She knew Meng Shu's person.

Her grandfather, Zhang Erjiu, the late King of Zhao Jing, and Chen Yu were both famous scholars of Wei, and they were known for being able to attract guests from thousands of miles away. At the end of Qin, the world was in turmoil, and his grandfather first followed Chen She, judged the situation, and slightly moved to Zhao in the north, and then switched to the Han dynasty and crowned the king of Zhao with merit. At its peak, there were nearly 1,000 guests under the door.

In the fifth year of the Han Dynasty, Zhang Er died of illness and was called King Zhao Jing. His son Zhang Ao succeeded to the throne and was her Aweng. Four years later, the first emperor learned that Zhao Xiangguan was plotting rebellion, and was furious, and ordered Yousi to arrest Ah Weng and the rebels as soon as possible. When the news reached Zhao State, more than a dozen people who had heard about it before were all fighting for themselves, but they didn't want Ah Weng to be wronged, so they followed Ah Weng to Chang'an.

When Guan Gao confronted the prison history, he just said, "It was our people who did it, and King Zhao really didn't know." The jailer was punished thousands of times, but Guan Gao did not retract his confession after all.

Later, the first emperor ordered the doctor to leak the case and asked Guan Gao, "Does King Zhang really have a plan?" ”

Guan Gao said, "People would rather love their parents and wives?" Now, my three clans are about to die, will I exchange King Zhang for my relatives? It's just that King Zhang really didn't rebel. In return, the Emperor forgave Ah Weng. And because of his appreciation for Guan Gao's promise, he asked Guan Gao to tell him about it.

He then went to see Guan Gao again and told him, "King Zhang has been released." ”

Guan Gao happily asked, "Has my king really been released?" ”

He said, "Yes." And Your Majesty appreciates your righteous deeds and forgives you. ”

Guan Gao laughed miserably. "The reason why I didn't die was just to confess that King Zhang really never reversed. Now that my king has been released, I have no regrets even if I die. As a minister, I have the name of usurpation, and I can no longer do things for the king, even if Your Majesty does not kill me, I am ashamed in my heart. "Die on your back, famous all over the world.

The first emperor issued an edict, and those who dared to follow Ah Weng were all punished by clan punishment. The edict was so severe. But there are still more than a dozen guests who are willing to be slaves of their own clamps, and enter Chang'an from Aweng. Even Liu Bang had to praise the loyalty of King Zhao's guests. The edict sealed these officials who entered the customs from King Zhang with clamps.

And Meng Shu was one of the guests who entered the customs with King Zhao with his own tongs, and now he is worshiped as the county guard in the clouds.

"It turned out to be Lord Fujun. Lord Meng, please get up. Zhang Yan helped him weakly, "My Ah Weng is no longer King Zhao, the title of this Weng master." Lord Meng, don't call it? ”

Meng Shu stopped with her momentum and smiled meaningfully, "That's what I said." Now that the lord of Weng is already the queen of the Han Dynasty, this lord is indeed not to mention it. ”

He took a step back and paid his respects with a great bowe. "The minister has seen the queen's mother."

Between the lightning and flint, Zhang Yan's thoughts turned, and after all, she received his full gift. There is no evasion.

Ten years have passed since those past events, and after her Ah Weng was deposed as a marquis, she scattered all the guests, and Meng Shu has also been a Hanchen for ten years, and she, the old Zhao Weng master. There has been no connection for a long time. But in the here and now, it appeared as a sensitive identity. Why did you come to call it this way?

"How did Uncle Meng know about my whereabouts?" Zhang Yan smiled lightly and asked casually.

"I'm ashamed, Niangniang has been living in the clouds for half a year, and Meng Shu has never known it. It wasn't until a month ago that Master Hou sent someone to the clouds to inform me that I didn't know about it.

"Am I?" Zhang Yan's face was stunned, very surprised.

She really didn't expect that it would be such an answer.

"Yes."

"You mean," Zhang Yan's apricot eyes narrowed slightly, "The events of the day are also what I mean?" He wants ......"

Zhang Yan stopped talking.

"Niang Niang Hui has a blue heart," Meng Shu smiled, a little clear, "There is nothing that I can't figure out." ”

I see.

As it should be.

The real Ah Weng is like this.

As a man, he tried his best to push his daughter out to be the queen, how could he not have his own ambitions? And even though he was deposed as a marquis by the first emperor, Zhang Ao was once the king of a country after all, how could he not have a trace of power? Half a year ago, Zhang Yan quietly escaped from the Yang Palace, and the Son of Heaven sent people to investigate Zhang Yan's whereabouts. At that time, Zhang Ao may have ordered someone to investigate, or he may not have bothered to do that again, but when Liu Ying left Ganquan Palace, the whereabouts of the lord of a country may be able to hide from the world, but there are always some people who know. As for whether Zhang Ao knew about it from Lu Yuan, or whether it came from Liu Ying himself at all, she didn't know at this time. Importantly, after this, he sent someone to inform his former subordinate, Meng Shu, a guest of the late Zhao State, who was known for his loyalty.

She was just confused by Ah Weng's leisurely and indisputable over the years, and the love for his daughter, thinking that he would be willing to accept her political position at this time after she withdrew. But he forgot that he was also a man with his own political intentions and ambitions.

So, what does Aung want to achieve?

"Have you ever thought about it," Meng Shu asked earnestly, "Why did the Hou Ye make you the queen back then?" ”

"Nature." Zhang Yan tightened her chin, "At the beginning, the Huns asked to marry me," Ah Weng didn't want me to go to the Huns to suffer, and at the same time, the Queen Mother proposed this marriage, so he pushed the boat along the way. "Ah Weng has always loved me since he was a child, and in his opinion, only the laurels of the Empress of the Han Dynasty are worthy of me."

"Hou Ye naturally loves his daughter," Meng Shu smiled slyly, "But, is that all?" ”

What else?

It was her sister-in-law, Ah Weng, so naturally it was impossible to hurt her. Meng Shu also said that he had arranged manpower in the Min family's Dongshan Village, and he would not let her be really hurt. The Min family is just a jumping board, or rather, a catalyst, their real intention is to delay their departure, and let Liu Ying's feelings for herself that she has accumulated for a certain period of time explode.

Zhang Yan felt stunned for a while.

Ah Weng, does he actually believe that Liu Ying loves him?

He has always felt that the relationship between himself and Liu Ying is not a problem, as long as she marries into Weiyang Palace, she will eventually become a real queen, be able to get Liu Ying's affection, and have children. And the next emperor of the Han Dynasty will have the blood of the Zhang family.

It is only for such a future that he is willing to lie dormant.

"Lord Weng, when you were born, the world was already peaceful, and I had never seen the demeanor of your grandfather. When the late King Zhao Jing was at his peak, there were thousands of guests under his door. In the ninth year of the Han Dynasty, Guan Gao rebelled, Tian Shu and I went with each other, and there was still a dry of guests staying in Zhao Di, and the camera moved. ”

Meng Shu's voice was whispering, and little by little, he revealed in front of her what Ah Weng had not told her before.

"They are all from the family of the late Zhao Wang. Loyal to your father and your ancestors, it is only because of luck that they have not been seen by everyone ever since. You're not reconciled. From the princes and kings who guarded one side to the powerless and powerless Marquis Che, how can you not be depressed. And we, the former guests of King Zhao, are not willing to sink here. We are not reconciled. Lord Weng, do you really think that whether you can be this queen or not is just your own business? Of course, today is benevolent, and there is the elder lord by his side, even if you don't be this queen, the Xuanping Marquis Mansion will not suffer any great disaster. But, Lord Weng, decades later, what will happen to the Zhang family, Lord Weng, have you really thought about it carefully? ”

……

"Let's go back."

Walking out of the door, Zhang Yan said softly.

The sound of the car was sparkling, and the horses were pulling the cart in the direction of Pingnan Street.

"Lord Weng. A bunch of old people grew up watching you. Meng Shucai's rough voice above the middle hall sounded in Zhang Yan's ears, "Master Hou said, you are just young, you are the granddaughter of the late King Zhao Jing, and you have always been smart." Just figure that out and you'll do just fine. ”

If it is said, this trip to the east of the city has solved a doubt that she has had in her heart for a long time. After the doubts were solved, she didn't know whether she should breathe a sigh of relief or carry a heavier burden on her back.

However, she leaned against the wall of the car and gently closed her eyes.

Somehow, after knowing the inside story behind the Min family, the anger that had accumulated in my heart these days gradually dissipated.

——4,000 words in total, revised on May 10, 2011