Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Palace of the Clouds and the Clouds (Part II)
Yandu, Rotten Keyuan.
Fang Heda has been the largest game hall in Yandu for three consecutive days.
Back then, when Fang Heda was still making erudite sacrificial wine in the Yandu Lecture Hall, he had completed the feat of playing against ten national players at the same time and winning ten victories in a row in this Rotten Academy.
At that time, he still had the nickname of a layman in Yandu, and his limelight was no less than He Shanxue in the Tang Dynasty.
Later, Empress Lu took a fancy to his literary brilliance and sealed a royal history, and his career was smooth, but when Fang Heda was proud of the spring breeze, the appearance of a person made these moments a phantom.
That man was Nimro!
Not long after Fang Heda was enthroned as the imperial history, Ning Lu sent someone to encircle him and ask him to impeach Lu Dingguo.
At that time, he had no grievances and no enmity with Lu Dingguo, except for the court, and he had never had any contact with this extremely popular minister.
Fang Heda saw at that time that this was a tense open and secret battle taking place in the power center of the Hao Dynasty, and he wanted to stay out of the matter, but Ning Lu forced him to sign his name on the recital on the grounds that thirty-one of the thirty-two imperial histories of Yandu had already signed a joint recital.
But he kept an eye on it, and wrote another letter to the secret recital, indicating his true position and the coercion of Ning Lu.
After that, the impeachment of the hundred officials was forcibly suppressed by Empress Lu, and Ning Lu picked eight of the thirty-two imperial histories, coercing and inducing these eight imperial histories to die.
And among these eight imperial histories, there is Fang Heda.
Fang Heda was discouraged at that time, thinking that he had never provoked Ning Lu, why did he choose himself, could it be that his secret letter was leaked to Ning Lu?
And what Ning Lu used to coerce Fang Heda was his old father, who was too old at that time.
"If you don't die, I'm afraid your father will replace you."
Before his old father resigned, he was just doing a clerical work in the yatang, so what was the use of letting him die?!
Fang Heda is the most filial person, how can he see his father give his life for himself?!
This is clearly forcing him to die!
He also thought about escaping from Yandu, but at that time, Ning Lu's minions were increasing day by day inside and outside the court, and those righteous sons and righteous grandsons seemed to have all appeared overnight, and it was not easy to escape from Yandu under the noses of these people.
After all, Fang Heda still couldn't bear to let his old father, who depended on him, give his life, not to mention that since Ning Lu could take his father's life, wouldn't his own life be taken by him at any time.
It's really a dead word......
However, it was his father who saved Heda.
The old man didn't know how to know about his son's forced death, so one night while everyone was asleep, wearing single clothes, he walked out of the house in the heavy snow and sat on the ground in the courtyard all night.
When he was found in the morning, the old man had almost frozen into a whole piece of ice, and on the snow in front of him, he could vaguely see the two big characters that the old man wrote with his last strength after the snow stopped: solar terms!!
As a result, the "Eight Imperial History Death Advice" planned by Ning Lu finally became the "Seven Imperial History Death Advice" because of an old man's self-defeat.
Fang Heda also resigned and returned to his hometown outside the customs on the grounds of filial piety.
Until LĂź Dingguo was sealed to Xia Tang County, Fang Heda surrendered on his way from Yandu to Xia Tang.
Since then, there has been a strategist around Lu Dingguo who can come forward for him to mediate between various forces, and his subordinate Bai Weishan, who has the name of "killing gods", and called the Xianyong Marquis Mansion "one article and one martial arts".
This time, he returned to Yandu with Lu Dingguo, and Fang Heda also completed his mission very smoothly, and the people who should be seen were met by him on behalf of Hou Ye, and the words that should be passed on by him were also passed on by him for Hou Ye.
It's just that he felt a little strange in his heart, after the Fire Aversion Festival a year ago, he also saw this wave of people in Yandu, but at that time, everyone was in danger, and they didn't want to choose a side between Lu Hou and Ning Lu.
I have seen each other in the past few days, but they all said that they would take Lu Hou's head as the leader.
Could it be that these people have finally woken up and recognized the face of the eunuch?
Or was it that Lu Dingguo had 200,000 troops in the three counties during a night banquet, and the news of the military power of the army in the three counties spread to Yandu, making them fearful?
It's not like ...... It's not like ......
Fang Heda thought about it hard, but he couldn't understand it in every way, and he didn't even notice that the guys in the game hall called him a few times.
It wasn't until the boss walked up to him, added some tea for him, and refilled some charcoal, that Fang Heda came back to his senses from his contemplation.
"Mr. Fang, it's been a few days of sitting there, it's better to compete with a few players, and they are all looking forward to seeing Mr. Fang regain the majesty of the year."
Fang Heda looked around, his gaze swept over the black and white chessboards, and then at a few other glances that were also directed at him.
Obviously, his appearance here has attracted the attention of many people.
And between the squares of that size, it was difficult to make Fang Heda interested anymore.
After leaving Yandu, he rarely played against others, first, he had no opponent, except for the young marquis Lu Shaoqing who could compete with him, the chess strength of others was too weak.
The second reason is that, compared with his current layout in this treacherous world, the fight of more than 300 black and white chess pieces in this nineteen-way chessboard is really like child's play.
What he is plotting is to lay out a strange game that can leave a name in history on the chessboard of the world!
It's just that, at least at this stage, Heda is still only acting on behalf of others.
All his layouts, there is one person behind him.
That person is Lu Dingguo.
This Dahao Shangzhu State, who is famous all over the world for his outstanding military exploits and is a very popular minister, is by no means seen by the world as brave and strategic, his meticulousness and the depth of the city are the only ones Fang Heda has seen in this life.
When he arrived in Yandu this time, Lu Dingguo seemed to be just visiting Empress Lu according to the practice of previous years, but in fact, before he set off, he had already explained who he wanted to see and what he was going to do.
In the details, some even Fang Heda did not take care of them.
In Fang Heda's heart, Lu Dingguo is by no means just a powerful minister, he always feels that fighting down Ning Lu, a powerful eunuch, is definitely not Lu Dingguo's ultimate goal.
Besides, without Ning Lu, under the power of Empress Lu and Lu Dingguo, is this Dahao really still surnamed "Wu"?
Fang Heda shook his head unconsciously when he thought of this.
The owner of the game hall who was still waiting on the side thought that Fang He Dayi was refusing, so he also retreated.
However, at this moment, a face with a grease powder face appeared in front of Fang Heda's eyes.
The man was dressed in an emerald green robe, with a colorful brocade cigarette hat on his head, and he looked like a eunuch in the palace.
The man bowed down to Fang Heda and said:
"Mr. Fang, Gong Ning sent a small one to invite you."
Fang Heda took a sip of strong tea, the corners of his mouth rose slightly, revealing an imperceptible smile.
After waiting for three days, it still came.
Fang Heda didn't say much, got up and stretched his muscles, and said lazily to the little eunuch:
"Bother your father-in-law to lead the way."