Chongqing Prefecture.

After hanging up the projection call with Yang Baize, Pei Xingjian was sitting behind a bookcase at the moment, looking at the invitation of Huang Liang's dream that appeared again in his sight, frowning slightly, and whispering to himself: "It's really perseverance." ”

Pei Xingjian pondered for a moment, picked up a brush lying on the pen mountain, dipped it in ink, and put the pen on the white paper.

The ink marks are staggered, and the word 'Zhu' in an arbitrary posture jumps onto the paper.

"Then let's see what you want to do."

Pei Xingjian smiled coldly, threw away the brush in his hand at will, and slowly closed his eyes.

"Link."

A faint feeling of weightlessness disappeared in a flash, and a little bit of cold wetness melted on his face.

Pei Xingjian opened his eyes again, and there was already heavy snow in front of him.

In the distance, a towering square temple stands in the wind and snow, nine beams, eighteen pillars and seventy-two ridges, the inside is reinforced iron bones, the outer layer is luxurious and luxurious wood, each layer is eighty-one zhang in length and longitudinal, and the overlapping layers are also the number of ninety-nine.

The sky is round and the place is the residence of the emperor.

"You're finally willing to see me?"

A bold and hearty laugh sounded behind him, but Pei Xingjian didn't look back, slowly retracted his gaze to stare at the imperial city, his hands were wrapped in his sleeves, and his emaciated figure became more and more rickety.

"Since you have the ability to leave the Imperial City and enter the Wa District, then why don't you come to Chongqing Mansion to see me, why do you need to meet in the Huangliang Dream Realm?"

"At this time and at that time, now Zhang Fengyue is staring at a pair of eyes to count the harvest of the first phase of the new deal, and he is full of ambition, I don't want to touch his mold at this time."

"You also know that the royal family still holds part of the authority of Huang Liang in their hands, and there is no wall to meet here, and I am also for your safety."

Pei Xingjian's furrow face pulled out a disdainful expression, "Then I really want to thank His Royal Highness King Min." ”

"Everyone is an old acquaintance, instead of calling me King Min, I would rather listen to Xingjian and you call me a senior. After all, during the years I was imprisoned, I often remembered the scene of you and my classmates studying hard at Xindonglin Academy. ”

Zhu Pingyan walked out of the night behind Pei Xingjian, and stood side by side with him.

"Since you miss it so much, then why don't you build the dream realm into a academy, but the appearance of an imperial city?"

Zhu Pingyan smiled and asked, "What's the difference?" ”

Pei Xingjian glanced at him and said: "If it is in the New Donglin Academy today, then it is reasonable for me to call you a senior." But here, then I can only call Your Highness. ”

"I can't imagine that I haven't seen you for so many years, and you are still such a serious character."

Zhu Pingyan smiled: "Senior or Your Highness, it's just a title, whatever you want to call it." ”

"This snow is not very good."

"Xingjian, don't you think that this siege and snow should be exactly the situation you and I are facing now?"

"I just feel cold. During this time, my Chongqing Mansion was very warm. ”

Pei Xingjian threw down a meaningful sentence and took the lead in moving forward.

The wind and snow are dark, and the road ahead is long.

The two were on the same road but not side by side, silent, and seemed to have their own thoughts.

In the distance, the outline of the bottom floor of the palace is already in sight, and through the mottled snow shadows, you can see a huge sedan staircase engraved with the word "noon gate" on the top.

Zhu Pingyan had a clear premonition that if he didn't open his mouth, before he walked to the noon gate, Pei Xingjian would withdraw from this yellow dream.

Thinking of this, he couldn't hold his breath anymore and said, "The Spring and Autumn Club has recruited you many times, but you have never agreed. Xingjian, I will ask you again now, would you like to join us? If you nod your head, I can give you a place as vice-leader right now. ”

Pei Xingjian said lightly: "The Tao is different, and it is not conspiratory. No matter how many times you ask, Your Highness, my answer will be the same. ”

"Everyone's goal is to bring down the new Donglin Party, and although the methods taken are different, the result is the same. Why can't they be complicit? Zhu Pingyan was still unwilling.

Pei Xingjian's voice sneered: "You Spring and Autumn Festival want to replace it, and I, Pei Xingjian, want to have no more party differences in the Confucian order, can this also be regarded as the same end?" ”

"But it's up to you to do it alone, when will you be able to fulfill your long-cherished wish?"

"Running water does not rot, and the hub does not beetle. I can't do it, so I'll leave it to future generations, nothing can be as long as the sun is thousands of years. ”

Zhu Pingyan tilted his head slightly, looked at the free and easy face of the person beside him, and said solemnly: "Emperor Jiaqi is not yet at the age of bundling his hair, but he is not walking in the Zhu family, but in Confucianism. The teacher who guided him was Zhang Fengyue. ”

"I heard about it, but so what. The throne of the Ming Empire has been succeeded by fathers and sons, brothers and brothers, but there has never been a teacher who has taken over the throne from a student. If Zhang Fengyue dared to do this, the new Donglin Party would immediately fall apart. Because at that time, he is no longer the head of the gate valve, but the enemy of the gate valve. ”

Pei Xingjian also turned his head to look at Zhu Pingyan, and said with a smile: "Compared to joining the Spring and Autumn Meeting, I actually want to know when Your Highness regained your freedom?" ”

"It's just being able to stretch out, and it's far from being able to regain freedom."

Seeing that Zhu Pingyan had brought this question lightly, Pei Xingjian didn't care, even if the other party didn't say it, he could guess one or two.

The Spring and Autumn Festival has been able to develop to such a scale and attract so many young people, and it is by no means possible to do it in a day or two.

It seems that the background of the royal family is far deeper than I imagined.

"It should be when Zhang Fengyue decided to lay out the new policy, so that you, the vertical and horizontal three, found a chance to get out, right? After all, the more chaotic the world, the bigger the stage for you to dominate. ”

Pei Xingjian bluntly stated his guess and said with a smile: "But you chose to start showing your head so early, you are really so sure that this ritual will Zhang Fengyue lose?" ”

"Until the last minute, no one can decide whether to win or lose. All I know is that there are a lot of people who want him to lose this time. ”

Zhu Pingyan sighed: "The two sects and the nine streams, even within your Confucian order, who wants to see Zhang Fengyue become the first order, become a living saint, and be their living ancestor?" No one wants to, no one wants to survive under someone else's crotch. ”

"There are many who oppose it, but there are few who have the ability to stop it. And people's hearts are separated from their belly, and they are all ghosts in people's hearts. If the two families of Buddhism and Taoism had not easily disturbed the situation and looked for an opportunity for themselves to be promoted to the first order, how could they be willing to accept Zhang Fengyue's exchange of Su Ce's life for the successful conclusion of the first phase of the new deal? There are a lot of short-sighted fools in these two families, but there are also heroes with a single eye. ”

"But so what? That's not something I should be thinking about. Just like what you just said, the more chaotic the situation, the happier it is for me, an old man, to see it come to fruition. ”

Zhu Pingyan changed his words and asked with a smile in a joking tone: "Xingjian, when you knew about the Spring and Autumn Festival, you should have thought that I was a short-sighted idiot, right?" ”

Pei Xingjian was noncommittal, just smiled and said nothing.

"I understand your thoughts, in your opinion, the Spring and Autumn Festival and the New Donglin Party are just a hill, there is no difference. It is that one day the Spring and Autumn Festival will be able to replace the New Donglin Party, and it will immediately turn the gun to deal with the royal family, and the first person to be killed is probably me, the King of the Ming Empire, the head of the Spring and Autumn Festival. In the end, I just created an enemy for myself, and I couldn't change the situation of the royal family at all. ”

"These pros and cons were very clear on the day I decided to set up the Spring and Autumn Meeting. But I still resolutely chose to take this path, do you know why? ”

Pei Xingjian asked, "Why?" ”

"Because there is no room for the royal family to continue to deteriorate now, the next step is the ruin of the country. The rest, that's whether it's a pole or not. ”

Zhu Pingyan looked heroic between his eyebrows, and said with a loud smile: "As long as I can bring down this peak that is pressed on my body, I can face any result calmly, and I will support a New Spring and Autumn Festival meeting again, and continue to collect gambling books and gamble." Can't everyone be as amazing and peerless as him Zhang Fengyue, right? ”

Pei Xingjian said with a solemn expression: "Your Highness, you can think so, I can only say that I admire!"

"A desperate gambler."

Zhu Pingyan waved his hand and continued: "Now that the dust has settled on the affairs of the sin area, all that remains is some water grinding work. I'm afraid that it won't be long before Zhang Fengyue will start to work on the next stage of the new policy, being thrifty, where do you think he will go next? In other words, destroying the Buddha, clearing the way, and cutting the valve. Which of these three things will he do first? ”

"Destroy the Buddha and clear the way, choose one of the two."

Pei Xingjian's voice was firm: "The three schools of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism are all based on faith, if Zhang Fengyue wants to win the 'reputation' that is enough for him to become a saint of Confucianism, he will definitely take back those population bases from the hands of the two families of Buddhism and Taoism." ”

"Then what do you think he will use as an excuse to stir up trouble?"

"Gate valve."

"Heroes see the same thing."

Zhu Pingyan laughed, and did not hide the admiration on his face: "Although you are reluctant to join the Spring and Autumn Meeting, fortunately, you and I are not enemies for the time being." ”

"That being said, I don't have a good impression of the Spring and Autumn Festival. Those little bunnies bullied my students so badly in the Japanese district, maybe when I, an old thing, can't hold back the fire and personally clean them up, will I become an opponent with your Highness when the time comes? ”

Pei Xingjian muttered in his mouth, and his words were full of dissatisfaction, completely like a calf protector.

How could Zhu Pingyan not understand what he was thinking, and said angrily: "I came to recruit you to join the club today, but now I have to apologize to you." Forget it, I'm too lazy to bother with you, I want to help your students with something, just say it. ”

"I would like to ask Your Highness to arrange a good position for Yang Baize in the empire."

Pei Xingjian said with a smile: "After all, the teacher is doing this kind of headless business, and he can't let the student not even have a good life before being implicated by me, right?" ”

"I arrange?"

Zhu Pingyan sneered: "I saw that you had already chosen a good place, right?" Where do you want to go? ”

"Huating." Pei Xingjian spoke softly.

"Hua Ting. Xu Valve's turf? ”

Zhu Pingyan frowned slightly, and looked at Pei Xingjian with deep meaning: "This position is not good." ”

"Just if I owe you a favor, how about it? If Your Highness doesn't think it's enough, then I haven't mentioned it. ”

"Okay, no problem."

When Zhu Pingyan heard this, he immediately smiled, and readily agreed.

Before they knew it, the two people who were walking all the way had arrived in front of the 'noon gate'.

Zhu Pingyan didn't seem to notice that Pei Xingjian beside him had stopped, and only turned around to look at the other party after walking a distance of one zhang by himself.

"Don't go up? Maybe someone up there is waiting for you. ”

Pei Xingjian had a hesitant expression on his face, and after struggling for a long time, he exhaled heavily.

"Forget it, I'm not qualified to see him right now."

When the words landed, Pei Xingjian's figure faded from this Huangliang dream.

"Not qualified, or are you afraid that you won't be able to refuse after you see each other?"

Zhu Pingyan raised his eyes to look at the snowstorm and whispered to himself: "Senior brother, you are still so cautious."

"Adult, if it's not a villain, I can't shirk it, I really don't have the ability to do this."

Zheng Xing, who was square-mouthed and wide-eyed and rugged-looking, looked at Chen Shuo, the official of Fenghua Mansion who was sitting at the main seat of the dinner table, with a smile on his face.

It stands to reason that Jinyiwei belongs to the vertical management of the Beizhen Fusi, and there is no need to grovel to these local officials so much.

But today's Jinyiwei no longer has the transcendent status of the past, not to mention that Fenghua Mansion is the basic plate of Confucianism, and being a Jinyiwei here and being a man with his tail between his legs is just a basic skill for survival.

Not to mention that the person who invited him to the banquet today was the magistrate who was in charge of the criminal name of the government.

Therefore, Zheng Xing ate seven times and eight times at this meal, and he never sat in the chair all night.

"Isn't it just for you to be a spy for the inside and outside, and it's not for you to carry a knife to suppress bandits, what are you afraid of?"

Chen Shuo rubbed his slightly stiff Guozi face, which he had just gone to the Agricultural Order Medical Center for maintenance, and said in a contemptuous tone: "Besides, it is still unknown whether those people have the courage to enter Fenghua." According to this official's opinion, Lord Lu's arrangement is just to be prepared. ”

Prepared? I think it's a certainty!

You Lu Yuzhang did those dirty things, and now you are being approached by creditors, so you want to use a small role like me as cannon fodder. When there were other good things in the past, why didn't you think of taking care of me?

Zheng Xing was slandered in his heart, and the expression on his face became more and more bitter.

"Zheng Baihu, don't worry, don't forget whose territory this is."

Chen Shuo took a sip of wine comfortably, and said with a lazy expression: "How can the barbaric land with poor mountains and bad waters in the Wa District be compared to our Fenghua Mansion?" They can act recklessly and unscrupulously in the Japanese area, and that is covered by Su Ce. Now that Su Ce is dead, what storm can a group of fugitives set off? ”

Zheng Xing cautiously accompanied: "What the adults said is true, but the villain heard that even the people of the Langya Wang clan died at their hands." ”

"It's just a rumor, if they really killed it, can the Wang family be so quiet now? There's something else going on behind this matter. ”

Chen Shuo waved his hand: "But these secrets are not something that you Qiu Ba can touch." ”

"It seems that it is indeed a villain who is spreading falsehoods."

Zheng Xing smiled, was silent for a moment, still a little uneasy, and continued to ask stubbornly: "But my lord, I also heard that a soldier of the Liutao Group died in Edo City that day, is this also fake?" ”

Chen Shuo rolled his eyes and said angrily: "The martial order fights the military order, that is, the father beats the son." Although Su Ce is old, he is also a martial artist, so what's so difficult about killing a soldier with all his might? ”

"Then according to what you say, my lord, these people were able to leave the Japanese district alive, it was completely lucky?"

The bitterness on Zheng Xing's face dissipated slightly.

"Is that not the case?"

Chen Shuo glared at the other party, and his tone suddenly rose: "These people are just some fish that have slipped through the net." Master Lu said that he had already laid a net this time, as long as they dared to come, let them have no return! ”

"As long as you can catch all these people, maybe Lord Lu can help you get out of Jinyiwei and transfer to Fenghua Mansion to take up a post, you have to take advantage of this opportunity!"

"Don't worry, as soon as they contact the villain, I will report it to you immediately."

The muffled beating of the chest and the impassioned voice of the voice rippled together in the enclosed room.

Bang!

The door of the private room was kicked open.

Zheng Xing, who was facing the direction of the door, suddenly turned pale as paper, and his whole person seemed to have his spine pumped, and he instantly collapsed on the chair.

Chen Shuo didn't notice Zheng Xing's strange appearance, and turned his head angrily, only to see a dirty sole hit him.

Boom!

Chen Shuo's standard Chinese face was stepped on by a tall bustard ghost with one foot on the table.

The table was full of overturned dishes and chopsticks, and the soup flowed sideways, polluting the snow-white shirt on his body.

Fan Wuyi, dressed in black, walked in with his shoulders swaying, and on his shoulder sat a bald-headed novice the size of a palm.

This is a miniature Buddha host that can shield all signals within a radius of ten zhang.

"It's fucking good."

Fan Wuyi glanced at Chen Shuo, who was trampled on and could only snort, and looked at Zheng Xing, who was slumped in the chair.

"You're also a Jinyi Guard?"

Zheng Xing's eyes straightened, his Adam's apple rolled down unconsciously, and his frightened gaze swept past Fan Wuyi, looking out of the open door.

Scarlet blood pooled and flowed down the ground.

The guards he and Chen Shuo brought had all been killed silently.

(End of chapter)