Luming Street, just after noon.

A loud sound of horses' hooves came from far and near, breaking the silence of the entire street.

At the gate of Sufu, the sleepy old porter jumped up and looked timidly.

In a few moments, the noise was transmitted from the gate all the way along the twists and turns of the promenade, all the way to the depths of Sufu.

The crisp wind chimes that filled the pavilion of the Sioux Gallery for the birthday of a certain little girl, and the tinkling and swaying in the midday wind were for a moment drowned out by the footsteps rushing below.

It's like a silent artery is activated by a frantically beating heart, and the blood flow rate increases...... The whole Su province was revived.

When the old housekeeper Shun Bo rushed to the outside of the fishing platform by the pond.

He sat on the steps at the edge of the platform, fishing with a rod in his hand, nodding his head drowsily, just like the hook buoy that jumped from time to time on the water.

Shun Bo hurriedly said: "Master, the envoy of the Luoyang court is here, and now he is outside the palace gate!" ”

Lixian slowly opened his eyes, subconsciously glanced at the calm water where the fish hook was in the distance, he turned his head, looked at Shun Bo with a nervous old face, and nodded.

Lixian silently put down the fishing rod, got up and sighed:

"What should come, still come, go, go out to receive orders."

"Yes, sir."

At this time, Su Bao'er, Wei Mei, and Su Dalang also hurried over.

"Father!"

"Shichiro!"

Looking at his wife and children with worried faces, he waved his hand, although his fingers trembled a little, he smiled reluctantly:

"Don't worry, didn't the stellgivious nephew of Liang Hanxian who was in Yilanxuan say that day, our family is still useful to the queen mother, and now it is not in the way of the queen mother, and it will not be easily forced to death like the second brother."

When Wei Mei and the others heard this, they immediately sighed silently.

Lixian is the third son of the Empress Wei, there were two sibling brothers, the eldest brother was the prince at first, but he died young, and the second brother inherited the position of the prince, but because of his wisdom and intelligence, he was suspicious of the guard, and was later deposed as a concubine on the charge of treason, exiled to Bazhou, and the Empress Wei was called the emperor, and was forced to kill by the cool officials and female historians who were surveilling.

At the beginning, it was also because of the accidents of these two brothers that they became the prince of the country by mistake, but unfortunately they still couldn't play the mother, and they came to a "few days tour of the emperor", and then they were deposed and degraded, driven out of the capital, and came to this remote Jiangzhou.

Speaking of which, the encounter of the Lixian family is indeed very similar to the family of the former prince and the second brother who was deposed as a concubine, and they were almost killed by the last killing.

This is also the reason why he was so pessimistic about the future before he met Ouyang Lianghan, who was shocked by him, and when he had not overheard that exquisite strategic plan.

On the side of the Luojing Palace, a little wind and grass can make Lixian suspicious and frightened.

Because his queen mother has really done this kind of thing, and she doesn't joke with you.

Fortunately, I really met a sage in the field and a peerless national warrior...... Ouyang Rong's leisurely and determined voice that day still faintly echoed in his ears, and he was a little calm.

After comforting his wife and a pair of children, he took the lead and rushed to the gate of Sufu without hesitation.

Close to the house gate.

I saw a group of Sufu slaves and maids crowded around the threshold, looking timidly out of the door.

Through the figure of the crowd, you can faintly see the green and crimson skirts and dark clothes that belong to the palace envoy team outside the door.

It is in stark contrast to the monotonous colors of the white walls and tiles of the streets of the small county town in the south of the Yangtze River.

Just like their identity as uninvited guests, they seem out of place everywhere.

Within the threshold, he held his hat and separated his arms from the crowd, and took the lead in stepping out.

"Bao'er, Dalang, you wait inside."

Wei Mei stretched out his hand to stop Su Bao'er and Su Dalang, who wanted to keep up.

Then the housewife of Su Mansion sorted out her manners, walked gracefully, followed her husband's footsteps, and walked out of the door.

"Sister." Su Dalang turned his head and glanced at Su Bao'er.

"Listen to Grandma." Su Bao'er didn't reply, paused and added, "I also believe in his strategic judgment." ”

Today, she wears a sky-blue waist-length skirt with a light cyan tulle on her pretty face to cover the lower half of her pretty face.

Only the bright red plum print in the center of the eyebrows, the two oblique reds on the temples of the left and right temples, and the narrow lacquer eyes with slightly upturned corners and cold eyes.

Su Dalang swallowed back his words, and naturally understood who the "he" in Ah Mei's mouth was.

The brother and sister looked at the backs of their father and mother together.

At the same time, his gaze unconsciously moved to the group of palace envoys.

"Where's the leisure?"

"The grass people are here." Leave the voice and walk out.

"Merriam-Webster?"

"The women are here." Wei Mei followed.

Su Bao'er couldn't help but look sideways, only to see that the person who asked the first question was a woman in palace clothes who was the leader of the palace envoy team.

He is about thirty or forty years old, dressed in a crimson luxurious palace dress, which is particularly conspicuous.

There are two small dots of rouge between the dimples at the corners of her mouth, which are the makeup dots and lips that are popular in the Great Zhou court at the moment.

These makeup and dresses all show the identity of the female officials in colorful clothes around Her Majesty the Empress.

This should be the person from the Liupin Palace mentioned in the secret letter of the Prime Minister's Mansion a few days ago...... Su Bao'er said secretly.

The questioning seemed to be a routine confirmation of identity, and after a salute with Wei Mei lowering her eyebrows and pleasing eyes, the woman in palace clothes who seemed to be a six-grade person did not speak for a long time.

She stood at the front of the crowd of messengers, raised her chin slightly, and her eyes scanned the couple in front of her, who were reduced to commoners, without saying a word.

Su Bao'er immediately heard the words of his father who stepped forward respectfully:

"The angels of Luojing came from afar, and the grass people were a little sluggish, and they were terrified, so they dared to ask the angel's name, and please move to ......the humble house."

Su Bao'er suddenly saw the corners of the palace woman's mouth pull up, and chuckled as if "heh".

Before Su Bao'er frowned, she saw that her father, who was looking up, was suddenly silent, her expression was dumbfounded, and so was the grandmother in the back, as if she was also attracted by the chuckle and saw the face of the woman in the palace dress clearly, and the grandmother's breathing seemed to be short, and she clenched her fists under her sleeves.

In front of everyone, the palace woman tapped her chin and said, "Has Your Highness forgotten the name of the concubine?" It's really a noble person who forgets things. ”

"You...... Ling is ...... "It's a little unstable to stand on the leisure."

"Miaozhen, how can it be you!" Wei Mei blurted out.

Miao Zhen squinted at her, "Why can't it be a concubine, well, maybe Your Majesty thinks we have a good relationship." ”

She nodded, and said to the departing with a very wonderful face:

"The concubine came on the orders of His Majesty to give a seventeenth birthday gift to the princess of the clan, in addition, although Your Majesty has a lot of opportunities, but still thinks about Your Highness, and also picked a small gift, let the concubine send it, Your Highness should not live up to Your Majesty's wishes."

Lixian bowed his head slightly, and stopped talking: "Miaozhen, I ......"

"Your Highness, don't delay time, open the gift in person, prepare to thank you, come on, present the gifts of Your Highness and the princess." Miao Zhen didn't look at him, turned his head and commanded lightly.

This words and indifferent attitude made everyone on the field silent.

Listening to this tone, could it be that there was any grievance, and countless eyes fell on Su Xian.

The latter was also crumbling, a little unsteady on his feet, and was supported by Wei Mei, who stepped forward, Wei Mei's eyes were wide open, and he stared at Miao Zhen as if nothing had happened.

"Uncle Shun, you used to be from the palace, and your father and mother know this female official named Miaozhen?"

Inside the gate of the Su Mansion, Su Bao'er, who was hiding behind the crowd, turned his head and asked Shun Bo, the big butler with a worried face.

"How do you feel that you have old grudges with your father and mother, it seems like a lot." Su Dalang couldn't help frowning.

"Miss, young master, where should this entanglement begin, ......"

Shun Bo smiled bitterly and sighed:

"This female official named Miaozhen, when she was young, she was one of the favorite maids of the Empress Wei in Xingqing Palace, when the master was only the seventh prince, she occasionally entered and exited Xingqing Palace...... Well, in Madame's words, it was this woman who didn't abide by the palace rules and seduced the master, but the result was naturally rejected by the master.

"After all, at that time, the lord had already married his wife as the princess, and he had deep feelings and single-mindedness, and between the lord and the queen of the guard, the relationship between mother and son was not very close, so he naturally respected the palace people around her.

"If that's the case, it's nothing, after all, when the old man was young, he was a famous handsome gentleman in Chang'an City, and there were countless women who sought pleasure.

But this wonderful truth seems to have hurt her self-esteem, and she was ridiculed by the lady who learned about it from some unknown source, and she held a grudge.

"The old slave listened to the palace people say that this woman often went behind the guard's slander, and she told bad things when she saw the stitches, and then the relationship between the lady and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law of the queen of Wei deteriorated, and there must be a 'credit' of this woman, not to mention that the lord was deposed as the king of Xunyang, and she also participated in the advice."

Speaking of the past, Shun Bo reminisced, sighed melancholy, and shook his head.

"Aren't they rivals?" Su Bao'er frowned slightly, and murmured softly:

"It is a feud with my mother, and I also have a deep grudge against my father, the female officials of the palace seem to be glamorous, but like the eunuchs, they are locked in the palace, unless they are favored by the Son of Heaven, or given to the prince by the queen's concubine, they are all abstinent palace people in this life."

"The famous handsome man in Chang'an City? How handsome my father used to be. Su Dalang, who had a scumbag face, asked curiously, focusing on a slightly different focus.

Shun Bo's face was stunned, and he whispered: "It's almost the same as Ouyang Gongzi who was named Tanhualang." ”

"Brother, don't interrupt." Su Bao'er didn't have a good airway.

Su Dalang scratched his head, and his face turned solemn.

At this time, the abnormal movement outside immediately caused the attention of the brother and sister to divert their attention.

Luming Street, outside the gate of Sufu, has been blocked and emptied by a group of elite soldiers in Zhichong Mansion.

In the center of the clearing, Miao Zhen nodded slightly and signaled to the palace people behind her, her face turned sideways calmly, and she got out of the way, and eight palace maids in white skirts stepped forward and one of the palace maids in Tsing Yi stepped forward.

The people of Tsing Yi Palace held a carved brocade box in both hands, raised the box to the eyebrows, and bent down to hand it to the front of Lixian.

Leave the idleness stunned.

Miao Zhen stared at his vaguely familiar face and said coldly:

"Your Highness, please, Your Majesty has instructed you to open it personally."

Leaving the idle body froze in place.

The audience also tacitly fell into a dead silence.

Countless eyes fell on the brocade box in front of him and Lixian.

As we all know, today's holy gifts have never been so easy to receive.

It may be a rare treasure.

It may also be an empty box, a pot of poisoned wine, or a foot of white ling.

It is decent.

As for if you ask, if you really send this "decent triple", what if you pretend not to understand, pretend to be stupid or run away, and are not decent?

Then this is the use of sending Miao Zhen, a person from Liupin Palace, and the soldiers of Zhichong Mansion to come over.

Before meeting Miaozhen, the idle couple would not think so much and would not be so worried.

But after seeing the "old acquaintance" Miaozhen, even if the words of the virtuous nephew of Lianghan are still in their ears, in the face of the carved brocade box sent by the moody Empress Wei, the idle couple still can't help but beat their hearts like drums.

Even if you take 10,000 steps back, the king of Hades is good, but the little ghost is difficult.

The Empress Wei coincidentally picked a former enemy of the couple to come here, even if it was a normal gift, even if it was just a routine beating.

But what if Miao Zhen seizes the opportunity, makes a big fuss, and takes the opportunity to force the two to kill?

At this moment, Su Xian felt as if time was forbidden, all kinds of thoughts flashed through his mind, he felt the shirt on his back soaked, and the wet and cold feeling came, and a cold and shivering electric current swept through his stiff body.

"Your Highness, let's do it yourself."

Miao Zhen's cold voice came, urging again.

Su Xian raised his head, glanced at the calm expression on Miaozhen's face, and then looked at the gloating palace people behind her, as well as the soldiers with indifferent faces who blocked the street in front of Su Mansion.

Suddenly feeling that the whole world was very cold, he looked at the carved brocade box like a blind box, and slowly raised his hand.

"Wait."

At this moment, a clear young man's voice suddenly sounded on the field:

"Let's let go, this official is the order of Longcheng County, this is my official seal and ribbon, this place is the jurisdiction of this official, you Zhichong Mansion soldiers first take out the official document of the transfer to see, this is a must be presented, this official has a little experience, you don't want to be led around crookedly, and finally was inspected by the imperial history to participate in the front of the palace, and wore a rebellious hat in a daze......

"In addition, please let me, this official wants to see the angel from Luoyang, by the way, do you have official documents or holy decrees, but don't break into people's houses...... I'm sorry, although the place is small, there are many scammers, and the official is helpless, routine inspection, pay attention to anti-fraud ......"

Everyone in the audience was stunned and followed the prestige.

I saw a young man in a blue-green official uniform with a caged sleeve walking with a somewhat embarrassed face, he was talking sincerely about the law, and his footsteps kept walking straight through the crowd, looking around curiously all the way, and finally walked to the position between Su Xian and his wife and Miaozhen.

Ouyang Rong turned his back to Su Xian and his wife, and inadvertently blocked in front of Miaozhen's palace envoys.

attracted the attention of the audience for a while, and Su Bao'er, who was hiding behind the crowd inside the door, looked straight at him and landed on his slender back.

Ouyang Rong first looked up and down to see Miaozhen's dress, slowly clenched his fists, and saluted sincerely:

"May I ask you, what is the matter, why are you blocking the door of my law-abiding and good people in the Great Zhou? Is this a trip from thousands of miles to raid the house? Is there a divine will? ”

Miao Zhen squinted at the young county magistrate who pretended to be stupid, and after a while, she suddenly reached out and grabbed a stack of official documents and a token from her sleeve and handed it out:

"Is that enough?"

There are naturally things such as customs clearance documents, road introduction charms, and even troop transfer tokens presented by the smiling face of Jiangzhou Thorn History, but from Beidi Guanzhong to this southern Jiangnan Province, Miaozhen has gone all the way, who dares to check her carefully? It's not all going through the motions.

Ouyang Rong smiled apologetically: "Don't worry, wait a minute, this official is a little short-sighted, let me take a good look......"

Ouyang Rong lowered his head and squinted, as if he was carefully examining the documents one by one, but the afterglow was silently looking around, especially the carved brocade box not far away.

Miao Zhen stared at the slow young county magistrate for a while, surprisingly did not urge, and after a while, suddenly asked:

"You are Ouyang Lianghan? The first year of long-sighted Jinshi Tanhualang? ”

"Exactly down there." Ouyang Rong was a little surprised.

Miaozhen nodded and said leisurely: "The concubine knows you." ”

The audience was silent.

……

Woo woo, I'm sorry good brothers, it's Xiao Rong who is useless, I didn't come out in the early morning, Kavin has been uncomfortable for most of the day, the thief is uncomfortable, orz (kowtow and admit mistakes)

(End of chapter)