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"Is there a suitable one?" Wang Chengen scratched his head and asked, he himself knew that this request was a bit evil, so that he was a little unconfident when he spoke, and he was far from the image of the second-in-command of the celebrant who was resourceful and scheming on weekdays.

"This thickness and size is about the same as the rafters used to build a house, in the last two months, I just bought a batch of hardwood rafters, and my subordinates went to find them."

"No need, I'll go and see it with you."

"The timber warehouse is messy, I'm afraid it's ......"

"It's too late......"

When he arrived at the treasury, the eunuch in charge begged the prince to wait in the courtyard, and he took a few small officials to open the door of the treasury and go in to check it.

Wang Chengen was not idle, he was thinking about a backup plan, if the palace supervisor could not find a suitable stick...... Pillars, so what to do?

Go to the Imperial Horse Warden?

Nominally, he is in charge of herding horses, but in fact he is the emperor's personal soldiers, and the twelve guards in his hands are responsible for the defense of the capital and the guards of the imperial city.

Weapons should be well-made......

But......

Or a superintendent?

Responsible for the fontanelle and the guard of honor, there are a few ceremonial poles in it, and the pole can barely meet the requirements, so I have to dismantle it to make do with it......

There is also the Salary Division, which is responsible for the affairs of the Imperial City, and there should be the most wood in the Forbidden City, if the previous ones don't have the right materials, they can only grieve the eunuchs here to find wood at night.

He's wondering what.

Hu Rong did not disappoint the prince, he personally hummed and dragged the long rafters out of the library.

With three points of flattery, three points of self-satisfaction: "Prince, please take your eyes, this is a good hardwood." If it is needed for the third hall or the long live dormitory, it is not eligible to be used in general places. ”

Wang Chengen saw that the wood was dark and inconspicuous, and he didn't believe it in his heart, so he slashed it on the wood with his fingernails, leaving no traces.

"Princess, this ebony Mo is a fingernail, even if you cut it with a waist knife, you can only leave a shallow mark. Otherwise, can it be that heavy? Because the wood is so tight, insects can't bite it. ”

"Good! That's it" Wang Chengen clapped the board, "Well, three feet long, and then polish it, there can be no burrs!" ”

"Okay, Princess, you wait, your subordinates will see it." Hu Rong replied, and then personally went out to pull a big saw, in order to leave a good impression in front of this celestial celebrity.

Soon, a three-foot-long, goose-egg-thick section of rafters fell to the ground, and it turned out to be the sound of gold and stone when it hit the green bricks.

"That should fit that guy's point, right? Wouldn't it be too heavy? And then scold our family for not being able to do things? Wang Chengen looked at the murder weapon and muttered in his heart.

These three-foot-long pillars are estimated to weigh thirty or forty pounds......

It takes a lot of effort for ordinary people to hold it, let alone as a blade.

Hu Rong asked the two little eunuchs to carry this thing and go with the prince.

"This errand is well done, our family has written it down" Wang Chengen was very happy.

Hu Rong is even happier, and with the blue eyes of the prince, the future will be much better.

"Father-in-law, the subordinates have a lot of mouths, what do you want this thing for, if it is commonly used in the future, the subordinates will send it to your old man if they have a good one."

Wang Chengen said lightly: "You shouldn't ask, don't ask, if you ask again, our family will send someone to find you, have you ever understood?" ”

"Yes, yes, yes" Hu Rong, cold sweat trickled down, deeply regretting his unstability.

How can the head of the East Factory be so good?

Wang Chengen was also awkward in his heart: This is what the Lord of Long Live wants, so naturally he has to keep it secret, but even if he can talk about it, how should he speak?

Long live the murder weapon to go out and beat the fat dog to satisfy his hunger?

Who believes it?

……

Lu Zhishen's eyes lit up when he saw the rafters, and he snatched it from the shoulders of the two little eunuchs, waved it a few times, and brought a strong wind to his face, so frightened that the little eunuchs didn't dare to open their eyes.

After the small half set of awkward sticks, the Son of Heaven held the stick in his right hand and gently patted it on his left palm, "Well, it's still lighter, but it's also usable!" If you don't accept it, you will be smashed with a stick! ”

……

"Little monkey, there must be a door on your mouth! If you dare to say anything about it, be careful that our family tears your skin! Take this is a bounty! Wang Chengen glared and threatened, but he still rewarded two coins of silver.

The little eunuch was so grateful that he patted his chest and swore that he didn't see anything with his eyes closed just now.

Although they are only twelve or thirteen years old, begging for a living in the palace makes their minds mature far better than their peers.

The picture was so terrifying just now, Long live, who had always been handsome, suddenly burst out of divine power, and danced with one hand a stick as thick as a goose egg for two people to lift......

Let's not talk about this divine power, the key is that ordinary people can't hold it!

What the fuck is this......

Even if Wang Chengen doesn't threaten, the two of them won't leak a word, this secret is going to be brought to the coffin, who dares to spread the privacy of the emperor's family? It's the sin of raiding the family and destroying the family!

These two little eunuchs are too poor in their families, so they can only let them go to the palace to ask for a background, and they will be expected to support the family in the future......

……

Besides, Ruda, after a few tricks, he got tired of it, and the lethality of this thing still comes from its size and weight, which is not the same as the skillful mad wand method.

But fortunately, it's just to fight dogs, not to go into battle, and this thing is enough.

"Hooray, this thing is very majestic, is it famous?" The prince asked

"Just a stick, what name do you want?"

"Slave maid, this thing is in the hands of Long Live God Wei Linlin, Long Live is the Son of Heaven, why don't you call it Optimus Prime?"

"The majesty is tight, the Sprinkle family likes it!"

"Wang Chengen ......"

"Slaves and maids are ......"

"You complain, the treasury takes a set of monk's robes, well, two sets, you and I have one each......"

"Hooray......

"Go quickly!"

"Yes!"

A moment later, the two figures, both dressed in monk's robes and hats, cleverly avoided the night patrol in the shadow of the imperial garden, and quietly approached the palace wall.

Night.

For some reason, the barking of dogs outside the wall was unusually loud.

Lu Zhishen was overjoyed: "The listener barks at the dog, full of energy, it must be fat and tender, and after washing and peeling, it can produce more than ten catties of good meat, not more, hit two...... No...... Three of them is enough for the Sprinkle family to have a good dinner......"

Wang Encheng cried with a sad face: "Long live ......"

"Oh, I forgot about you, depending on your physique, it's enough to divide you......"

"Long live Xie...... "Poor Wang Chengen has never eaten dog meat in his life, but he still has to be grateful."

"But hooray, how do you get out here, do you want the slave to get a ladder?"

"What are you doing about that!?"

Before Wang Chengen knew what was going on, he felt his feet off the ground, and then a ball of rice paper was stuffed into his mouth.

"You bear with it" Banzai next to him chuckled, and then Wang Chengen felt that he was flying......

But it was Luda who threw him directly to the wall, and Wang Chengen was so frightened that he clung to the palace wall and couldn't say a word (because he had waste paper stuffed in his mouth.) ）

Looking at Lu Zhishen again, pinching the three-foot-long rafter with his right hand, he took a few steps back, suddenly lifted his breath, and saw the figure flickering, and took three steps in an instant, with this momentum, his right foot stepped on the palace wall, and the whole person rose into the air, and then climbed the wall with his left hand, and then stared at the whole person with his left leg and sat on the wall, looking at Wang Chengenle.

The next moment, the emperor grabbed the back collar of the great eunuch and jumped down from the wall in unison......

As soon as he landed, Wang Chengen hurriedly took out the waste rice paper in his mouth and spit it out.

Banzai patted his stomach and was arrogant: "Let's go, let's beat the fat dog!" The Sprinkler family is hungry! ”

After speaking, he strode away.

Wang Gonggong sighed, looked up and saw that the Long Live Lord was already two feet away, and suddenly he had no thoughts, so he hurriedly caught up......

……

After walking for less than half a cup of tea, Wang Chengen found that the emperor's face was wrong by the moonlight......

The cold hairs on his own back also stood on end.

Creeps.

Fang Cai ran in a hurry and didn't pay attention to the surrounding environment, and at this moment he realized that this Jingshi was no longer what it used to be.

The Forbidden City is located in the north of Beijing, and the residence of the capital has formed a situation of being noble in the north and cheap in the south.

The area around the Forbidden City is known as the Inner City, which is where the mansions of the dignitaries and nobles are located, and the common people mostly live in the outer city further south, that is, in the vast area between Yongding Gate and Zhengyang Gate.

To be eligible to live around the Imperial City, it's not just about being rich.

Such a lot, which was later called a noble residential area, is now full of ghosts.

Along the way, many high-rise houses have been dilapidated, the black lacquered gates are hidden, the courtyard walls are mottled, and even huge holes have been broken.

And there seemed to be a cold gaze in the hole in the portal that was always staring at the two of them, like a shadow of a maggot attached to a bone.

The moon in the sky is bleak, and it is even more revealing the coldness and deceit of the red and green eyes.

Danger and fear are born here.

Wang Chengen is considered bold in the internal prison, otherwise he would not be able to take charge of the East Factory, but in the face of this abnormal environment, he still trembled.

And Emperor Chongzhen just snorted coldly, and with a casual wave of his right hand, the hardwood rafters as thick as goose eggs opened holes in the already rotten wall, and all the dislocations disappeared in an instant.

"Why, how can this be?" Wang Chengen was also stupid.

Over the years, he has been deeply favored, and he has been busy with the emperor every day, and he has not left the palace for a long time.

A few years earlier, at that time, Cao Huachun's father-in-law was waiting by the side of Long Live Lord.

Wang Chengen is also a eunuch with the court, his status is quite high, there are not many things, he often has the opportunity to go out of the palace on errands, and he is quite familiar with the surroundings of the palace.

At that time, there were not many households in this place, but the high-level households were heavily guarded, and the walls were re-painted with lime every three or five times, which looked clean and tidy.

The door, whether it is black lacquer or vermilion lacquer, is closed tightly, and the copper nails and knockers on the door are shining.

It's so majestic and elegant.

Where is it like today, like a ghost domain.

Sniffing carefully, the night air, which should have been clear, actually smelled rancid.

"Hooray......

"Well, the magnitude of this plague is unexpected......"

Luda recalled the memory of Zhu Youzhen, and said with a long sigh, "The Hebei epidemic in the fourteenth year was introduced to the capital in the seventeenth year, that is, at the beginning of this year...... The courtiers said that more than forty percent of the dead were dead...... I thought they were alarmists, but now I look at ......"

"Long live, the northern city is like this, and the southern city is only afraid of ......," Wang Chengen muttered

"Hmph, not really, according to the Sa's family, so many houses are empty, most of them are smart people, they think that the Ming Dynasty is going to end, so they abandon the Jingshi and run away with the looted silver......"

"Hmph, I don't want to think about it, where in this world is there a safer place than here? As long as I am here, they can finally rely on the big tree to enjoy the shade, even if the sky is thundering, it will be the first to hit my head, and they can do it all. ”

"Leaving the Jingshi, no matter where they go, they will become a local tree, a big tree, hum, in such a troubled world, don't say that it is to protect the finances, even if you can pick up a dog's life, then you can't!"

"Over the years, the court has been full of such people, no wonder the Daming River ......is declining" Emperor Chongzhen spoke very slowly, word by word, word by word, word by word "Use these stupid materials!" I'm sorry for the Ming Dynasty, I'm sorry for the people......"

"Long live ......" Wang Chengen's heart was shocked, even more shocked than when he witnessed the scene of the invincible Zhu Youzhen of the Divine Fist during the day.

Because......

Because!

The emperor even apologized! even admitted that he used the wrong person, sorry for the Ming Dynasty, sorry for the people.

Look at what the same people said in the court in the morning, "The king is not the king of the dead country, the minister is the minister of the dead country, and it is the ministers who misunderstand me!" ”

At that time, Emperor Chongzhen still thought that he had nothing wrong.

Amazing!

Wang Chengen has served Chongzhen for more than 20 years, and knows that this master's temperament is cold and perverse by nature.

It's not the kind of things that can be done by people who are evil in their hearts...... Ay......

Ay...... I can't say it, I can't say it.

After all, the eunuch is the emperor's servant, where can he speak ill of his master?

Wang Chengen has been watching many things, and he wants to persuade him, but he doesn't know where to start.

In fact, he also knew that if he spoke, not only would it not help, but he would also lose his life.

But just now, the Son of Heaven admitted his mistake!

Wang Chengen suddenly felt creepy, he thought of the books he had heard in the teahouse when he was idle, and what he said about moving his soul.

is a good person, and his temperament suddenly changes drastically, because the body is no longer the original soul.

Wang Gonggong came out of the formal inner study hall, followed a group of Confucians to read the Four Books and Five Classics, and has always scoffed at the things of gods and monsters.

But in the strange night, the fear in people's hearts destroys the original reason, and many thoughts that were not thought of much or dared to think about quietly arise and immediately fill the heart.

He looked at Chongzhen with a look of horror in his eyes.

The emperor didn't pay attention, but continued to say slowly: "Emperor Taizu is wise and martial, starting from the end of Wei, repeating my Han family's rivers and mountains, and chasing away the black Tartar in Mobei, so he has the foundation of the Ming Dynasty, since the Sprinkle family is here, then it is inevitable that the tragic situation of Shenzhou Lu Shen will be repeated......

Wang Chengen felt that there was nothing to be afraid of.

No matter who this person is, at least he is a heroic man, broad-minded, ambitious, and able to see current politics clearly......

Isn't that what a good emperor should look like?

Besides, this is the Zhu Youzhen he has been serving.

Of course, when I changed his clothes just now, I felt that the body of the Son of Heaven was much more powerful than before, with thicker arms, thicker neck, and wider back...... Could it be a delusion?

Yes, it must be that I have been too tired recently, so that I have misremembered the outline of the Son of Heaven's posture, damn, damn, really damn it......

Wang Chengen's inner drama kept climaxing, and suddenly he only heard the emperor shout: "Good guy!" ”

When I looked up, I saw six or seven dogs lying across the middle of the alley, not barking, their scarlet tongues dragging long, drooling and snoring, and their throats purring.

"What a fat dog!" Emperor Chongzhen's eyes lit up, "If this is slaughtered on the top of the top of the best fat sheep outside the mouth!" ”

The voice was already muffled, and then there was a throat sensation, apparently swallowing.

"Wang Chengen, you lean against the wall, open the fork bag, and sprinkle a few sticks to settle the account!"

"Wan, long live......" Wang Chengen was helpless, anyway, it had already come to this point, and he also let it go, "You, you be careful, this wild dog, we, we always feel that something is wrong." ”

Lu Zhishen was the first person to eat dog meat on Liangshan.

In the past, the monks traveled to the Great Song Dynasty, and everywhere they went, the local people were blessed, and the wild dogs suffered here.

A real dog expert, he can be called the reincarnation of Bole.

Bole can see at a glance how fast the horse can run, and Master Lu knows how much meat the dog in front of him can dismantle and clean, whether it is suitable for braised or boiled, and how much to put in the big ingredients......

Right now, it's already a greedy worm on the brain, and the six roots are not clean.

was said by Wang Chengen, and he also felt a little abnormal.

"No, this dog can't get into his mouth," Chongzhen said solemnly.