The door of the guest room squeaked open, and Xue Bai flashed in.

Qinglan quickly closed the door, plugged the bolt, and patted her heart, and was afraid.

"Is there any water?"

"Yes."

Xue Bai didn't say a word, picked up the water bladder and poured a big mouthful, took two deep breaths, and regained his composure.

When I turned my head to look, I saw that Du Goro was trembling wrapped in a quilt.

"We also just came in, and I told the Tang family that it was your friend who got drunk in Qingmen and went crazy."

Qinglan said, taking out a spare set of jacket robes from her baggage and handing them to Du Wulang.

Du Wulang shivered again, put on his clothes, and asked, "Is there anything to eat?" ”

"If there is a beard cake, it is cold."

Du Wulang took the Hu cake, gobbled it up, and muttered in his mouth: "Greasy to take it every time?" ”

"Gorou slow down, don't choke."

Qinglan poured a glass of water and handed it over.

After drinking the water, Du Wulang finally felt relieved and felt alive again.

Xue Bai said: "The prince buried us alive. ”

"Ahem, ahem."

Du Wulang was so shocked that he choked on a mouthful of water into his nose.

"What?!"

Xue Bai and Qinglan probably talked about what happened in the past two days, Du Wulang was disappointed, and muttered softly: "Grandpa, Auntie, eldest sister......"

Thinking that his family was still suffering in prison, his heart was clenched.

There was no candle in the room, and Xue Bai stood by the window, looking out through the gap.

Dense footsteps sounded on the street from time to time, and the light of the torches filtered through the window paper, illuminating Xue Bai's side face and also shining on Du Wulang's face full of tears.

Plunged back into darkness.

"I've been thinking about it today." Xue Bai spoke: "Maybe we were wrong from the beginning. ”

"Wrong?"

"It's wrong to focus on the crown prince." Xue Bai said: "If you want to protect the prince, no one knows what to do better than the prince himself, so he did not hesitate to bury us alive, but we still don't know why." The key is that we are not protecting the prince, but the Du family. ”

Du Wulang and Qinglan didn't speak, as if they were stunned.

"How do you protect the Du family? can't hope for the prince, the prince can't even protect himself. Xue Bai said: "Once the Du family and the prince were separated, I suddenly became enlightened and found that the Du family's case was actually not big, and it was a ridiculous and ridiculous false accusation from the beginning. ”

"But Jingzhao Mansion is so persecuted, we have no way at all."

"Because we were asking right and wrong and looking for evidence, but the other party directly pressed it down with power, Li Linfu stepped on it, who cares if the ants are wronged or not. Therefore, we made a mistake from the beginning, this is the road of fighting for power, and we cannot use the way of investigating cases. ”

Qing Lan nodded vigorously and said, "Yes, in this Chang'an City, Li Linfu is not the most powerful. ”

"Saint?" Du Wulang exclaimed, "Should I avenge the saint? ”

"Do you have such connections? Is there anyone who can speak for you in the palace? ”

"Me?" Du Wulang shook his head and said in a low voice: "No." ”

He thought for a moment and asked in a low voice, "Xue Bai, do you recognize Yang Guifei?" She must be able to save the Du family, right? ”

"I don't recognize it. However, she is one of the characters who can save the Du family, and there are several such characters, even Li Linfu, the important thing is that we need connections to catch them. ”

"Second sister can figure it out." Du Wulang said: "It must not be her who ordered you to be killed, she is not that kind of person." We can find the second sister. ”

Xue Bai said: "I know, I came here to find her, but today I heard that she seems to have reconciled with the prince." ”

"Huh? So where is she? ”

"I'll inquire more about it tomorrow."

Suddenly, people neighed again on the other side of the long street, and the torches were bright.

Xue Bai hurriedly looked out the window.

Du Wulang was frightened, craned his neck and stepped forward to peep, and asked in a low voice, "They won't be here to search us, right?" ”

"Hmm."

"We're hiding here, but are we safe?"

"He shouldn't come over, it's more important to take the opportunity to search the prince's residence."

"That ......"

"Shh

After a while, I saw a tall man in fur riding a horse, surrounded by armor soldiers, and hurried in the direction of the Ten Princes' Mansion.

One of them shouted to the Marquis of Wu who was guarding the entrance of the alley: "Right Xiaowei Yang has joined the army, get out of the way." ”

"......"

It wasn't until the group turned the alley that the long street fell silent again.

Xue Bai looked at the mouth of the alley and thought about it.

~~

Throughout the night, the Prince's Courtyard was lit up.

But in the end, the right guard only found a bundle of clothes.

~~

Ji Wen stayed in Jingzhao Mansion for one night, and only slept for two hours, when he was aroused by Xin Twelve.

"Ah Lang, Yang has joined the army."

"Yang Zhao?"

Jiwen stood up from the couch and rubbed his head, knowing what it was for, and couldn't help but sigh.

He and Yang Zhao both worked for the right minister, and they had a good relationship, and they didn't see each other, so he said while putting on his clothes: "Please let him in." ”

As he spoke, footsteps sounded in the courtyard.

"Yang joins the army, please wait a while......"

"Get out of here!"

Yang Zhao and Ji Wen were even more out of sight, and went straight to the house, and scolded: "Okay, you chicken tongue, unburned waste materials, this foolish errand caused Lao Tzu to be busy all night!" ”

The reason why it is called Jiwen "chicken tongue" is because Jiwen has bad breath and often contains female cloves, and female cloves are also known as chicken tongues.

Ji Wen was not angry, the so-called "Lang Guan has a chicken tongue in his mouth, and his breath is fragrant", he thought that Yang Zhao was calling himself Lang Guan.

On the contrary, he did not dare to call Yang Zhao a "spit pot".

"Don't blame Yang for joining the army."

"Don't blame you?!"

As a chair was kicked down, Yang Zhao had bypassed the screen and stood in front of Ji Wen.

Yang Zhao was born in the side branch of the Yang family of Hongnong, and his mother was the sister of Zhang Yizhi, a beautiful man from the Wu Zhou Dynasty.

He is over forty years old, wearing a fur coat, a round-necked robe deliberately unbuttoned, a jade belt around his waist, and high-soled soap boots.

But as soon as he opened his mouth, he showed a debauchery and a stubbornness that did not learn and did not know.

"I've rummaged through the prince's courtyard, only this broken thing, you can take it yourself and intersect with the right!"

A bundle of clothes smashed into Geven's arms.

Ji Wen knew this result and said with a smile: "Don't worry about Yang joining the army, the errand hasn't been done yet." Do you think, people must have entered the prince's courtyard, why can't they find it? It must be because there is another secret passage in the other courtyard......"

"Secretly you egg!" Yang Zhao was furious, picked up Ji Wen, and said, "Don't think that Lao Tzu doesn't know what you think, plant me on my head?" Teach the right to blame, I can't find the secret way? ”

"No, no." Ji Wen hurriedly said: "Because the prince transferred people, the secret passage was filled, and he couldn't find it." ”

Yang Zhao only smelled a breath of bad breath coming to his nose, almost wanted to gag, threw the person away with force, dizzy for a moment, and almost forgot what he was here for.

Ji Wen hurriedly picked up a piece of female clove and put it in his mouth, and said with a smile: "In this way, the prince has been accused of not being cleared, and he can also explain to the right minister." ”

Yang Zhao eased his nerves and said, "You and I both know very well that people didn't enter the prince's courtyard at all, and it was your fools who let them go on the road." ”

"In front of the right prime minister, it can only be said that the prince hid it."

Yang Zhao said impatiently: "Anyway, you did a bad errand, why did you let Lao Tzu wipe your ass?!" ”

"Help each other out." Ji Wen gave up his hand again and again, and said with a smile: "The day before yesterday, someone gave me three cars of good red silk, and it was transported to Yang Senjun's mansion today, how about it?" ”

Yang Zhao couldn't help but smile with satisfaction and said, "Remember, I was taught a lesson by the right minister because of you." ”

"It's hard work for Yang to join the army."

"Well said." Yang Zhao picked up the bundle of clothes, turned around and left.

Out of Jingzhao Mansion, he turned over and got on his horse and went to the right minister's mansion in Pingkangfang.

~~

Although Pingkang Fang has the name of Huanchang, in fact, the Qinglou wine shop is mostly concentrated in the three curved alleys in the north of the square, called "Beili Sanqu", which occupies only one-sixteenth of the entire workshop.

However, the mansion of Li Linfu, the right minister, accounts for nearly a quarter of the entire square.

The entire southeast location drawn by Pingkangfang Cross Street, except for a Bodhi Temple, is the right prime minister's mansion.

Yang Zhao turned over and dismounted from a long distance, and tied the horse to the horse stake with the reins.

There was already a horse tied to it, and two servants were waiting with a donkey, apparently an official was visiting the right minister.

Yang Zhao accepted Fang Cai's arrogant expression, bent his waist and rushed to the side door, and asked the porter, "Is the right phase available?" ”

As he spoke, he handed over a few coins in his hand.

The porter happily snorted and said, "Yang is polite to join the army, the right minister is meeting guests, please go to the side hall for a while." ”

"Oh?" Yang Zhao smiled and asked, "Who is here to see the right minister today?" ”

"Li Wei, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites." The porter is also extraordinary, and said with a smile: "I said that I came to ask for some trivial things." ”

"Is there a trivial matter in the Prime Minister's Mansion?"

As he spoke, he saw a man in a scarlet official robe, an official-like head, and a jade belt with a fish bag hanging from his waist coming from the middle hall, presumably Li Wei, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites.

When Yang Zhao first arrived in Chang'an, he saw that everyone wanted to stammer, so he hurriedly stepped forward and saluted, and said with a smile: "Li Shilang is in front of him, and he joins Yang Zhao in the army under the guard Cao." ”

Li Weizheng was walking with his head down, frowning and contemplative, and when he looked up, he saw Yang Zhao's graceful demeanor and smiling face, so he nodded in return.

It was a friendship with a smile, but Yang Zhao asked: "I don't know what Li Shilang is worried about?" Can Yang Zhao share your worries? ”

Li Wei didn't want to speak, but Yang Zhao had already stepped forward, looking at him with warm eyes, his heart moved, and he stroked his beard and groaned: "There is indeed one thing, it makes people wonder." ”

"Oh? I don't know what made Li Gong wonder? ”

"When you see the right minister, you still need to persuade him one or two, how can you resist the order of a courtier?"

The curiosity in Yang Zhao's eyes intensified, and he waited for the following.

"There is an old man in the palace to worship, superb craftsmanship, the saint wants to give him to move the official, but he refused, and said that his son-in-law Wang Ruzhu Ming is a jinshi, begging the saint to give a and the first, the saint has agreed, and the Ministry of Rites has handled. But the province of Zhongshu is actually under the law, no. ”

"Really?" Yang Zhao wondered: "Why? ”

"I just asked the right minister, but the right minister said, 'Ming Jing, Jinshi, the way of the country's materials, if it is excellent because of the grace of God, it can be with the official, and now it is given with the first, how will it be viewed?' ”

At this point, Li Wei's tone became a little excited, and he said: "Perfunctory words are simply ridiculous. When was there no public recommendation and general examination for the imperial examination? Is there any reason for a saint to recommend talent and the right to veto? ”

Yang Zhao hurriedly comforted: "Gong Li is not in a hurry, wait for Yang Zhao to persuade the right minister." ”

"Ugh."

Li Wei sighed again and walked away.

Yang Zhao got acquainted with a high-ranking official, was satisfied, and continued to move forward, passing through the two instrument gates, turning the winding path, first waiting in the side hall, and then going to the front hall to meet Li Linfu.

Because the house was too big, he sweated slightly along the way.

The front hall is warm like spring, full of fragrance, gorgeously furnished, covered with soft carpets, and a large screen in the middle, behind the screen there are more than a number of people, and a group of beautiful maids are surrounding Li Linfu to keep warm from the wind.

It is said to be a real screen and a meat screen.

Yang Zhao bowed down and sang a promise, and said with a smile: "The right minister is healthy, Yang Zhao just met Li Shilang in the front yard and talked a few words, but he and I are stupid, and I can't guess the right minister's mind." ”

Through the screen, Li Linfu said lightly: "You want to ask me, why did you violate the holy decree of the saint?" ”

"Yang Zhao is worried about the right minister, which not only makes the saint unhappy, but also makes enemies with others."

"A corrupt Confucian, a scoundrel, I can't understand it." Li Linfu said: "Without this, it is difficult for the saint to open his mouth and refuse, so it is up to me to be this wicked person, and that's it." ”

"I see!" Yang Zhao suddenly realized, couldn't help but admire, and exclaimed: "The right minister is really a fairy figure!" How can you see the heart of a saint in such a way! ”

"It's just a small thing." Li Linfu was unimpressed.

"Isn't it a trifle?" Yang Zhao was amazed and said sincerely: "Yang Zhao can't learn the ability of the right minister in his life!" ”

"That's enough, Hugh is here to get the prince's incriminating evidence?"

Yang Zhao hurriedly knelt down and responded: "The prince must have dug a secret passage in the other courtyard and transferred the witnesses......"

Before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted abruptly.

Such words could not defeat him, and the person who Li Heng was hiding was found within two days. Not only Du Wulang, but also the maidservant who disappeared out of thin air, and the unidentified Xue Bai. ”

Yang Zhao couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat on his forehead.

He took Ji Wen's three cars of red silk, thinking that he would only need to be taught a lesson, but this problem fell on his head instead.

But there is no excuse in front of the right minister, and he immediately responded: "Don't worry, even if you go through Chang'an, Yang Zhao will definitely find out the person!" ”