The twilight drums beat again.

Xue Bai was in the Right Prime Minister's Mansion and didn't care much about the curfew.

It's hard to say whether it's freer or not.

Li Linfu was in the palace every day to deal with the government, but today he took the time to see him.

"You stupid way, you can really find people?"

Xue Bai responded: "The scrolls will always leave traces, as long as you have patience, you will definitely be able to find traces." ”

"Givin can't find out."

"Gifaccio is too impetuous." Xue Bai responded bluntly, and said: "Since they have found out that Wu Kangcheng and the Jiang brothers have met, he doesn't want to deny it directly. In addition, he deliberately chatted and dragged me to the curfew, maybe he just wanted to slow down my progress, or he may have used the identity of Jin Wuwei to patrol the street to notify the Longyou veteran during the curfew. We can arrange for someone to conduct an unannounced investigation in Jinwuwei. ”

Li Linfu coughed twice, and someone arranged to do it.

After that, he seemed to change his mind and took the initiative to give benefits.

"You've done a good job. The prime minister intends to recommend you as an official, but I wonder if you have ever recalled your life and have a shade in your home? ”

Xue Bai was busy flattered, and responded: "I really can't remember." ”

He knew that with Li Linfu's suspicion, such an answer could easily make him mistakenly think that he was deliberately concealing.

The already thin trust between the two was further shattered.

"It's okay, think slowly." Li Linfu said: "You supervise the affairs of the veterans of Longyou." ”

"Whoa."

Xue Bai turned around and walked out of the hall and sat down in the room in the front yard.

He was waiting for Jin Wuwei to arrange it, and then went over to supervise.

Not long after, someone probed in, but it was Yang Zhao.

"I heard that the chief steward said that you are going to Jin Wuwei, I said why I haven't seen you for the past two days, but what have you gained?"

"Got some clues."

"Who asked you this?" Yang Zhao said: "I heard that you went to Wang Wei's house, but he was born in the Taiyuan Wang family, so he didn't give you some good things?" ”

Xue Bai shook his head.

Yang Zhao said: "No wonder my brother didn't remind you, do things for the right minister, you have to reach out for the benefits." In this way, if you have the capital to do something, you will be motivated. Like me, I often give gifts to three ladies, and they speak well for me in front of the saints, and when the saints want to use people, they will remember me. Otherwise, you work hard and just wait for the right minister to seal you official? ”

He paused for a moment and added.

"Today's brother's words are worth a thousand gold."

Xue Bai was speechless for a while, but now the atmosphere of officialdom is like this, the saint is so extravagant, and the right minister is relying on the ability to manage wealth with one hand, and he will go up and down, and it is inevitable that he will be more direct when he arrives at Yang Zhao.

He had no choice but to thank Yang Zhao for giving him his daughter, and asked, "Why is Uncle Guo here?" ”

"I'm a lackey under the right minister." Yang Zhao smiled proudly, lowered his voice and said, "There is a big happy event, the concubine has returned to the palace." ”

"Oh?"

Yang Zhao sat down beside Xue Bai and said in a proud tone.

"Let me tell you, I heard that after the concubine left the palace, the saint didn't even eat the imperial meal, and he was angry. When General Gao saw this, he presented a poem you wrote for the concubine, and the sage said that the poem was not good, but he gave the imperial meal to General Gao, and General Gao asked for a decree to summon the concubine to return to the palace. ”

Xue Bai asked, "How does Uncle Guo know so meticulously?" ”

Yang Zhao still had a smug smile on his face, and said in a low voice: "Mrs. Qiu Guo can inquire clearly. ”

Xue Bai nodded.

Yang Zhao said again: "The concubine said, she wrote down the matter of you sending poems." ”

In this world, if there is another incident of the Du family, Yang Guifei's words may be able to save dozens of lives.

Xue Bai then said: "I should thank Uncle Guo for giving me the opportunity." ”

"You and my brother, what's polite."

Yang Zhao had already returned to Xue Bai anyway, and he was not polite.

"With this matter over, Mrs. Qiu Guo can finally let go of a matter of concern. After you have finished your errand for the right minister, I will take you over for a visit and show you the future. ”

"Uncle Guo has carried me too much."

Yang Zhao said: "This is a good opportunity, you are caught, don't learn from the Wang Wei you saw today." ”

"Oh?"

"Don't you know?" Yang Zhao glanced at Xue Bai and felt that he still had to remind him, so he beckoned, let him go over with his ear, and asked, "Do you know Princess Yuzhen." ”

"I don't know."

"You, you still want to be motivated." Yang Zhao complained softly and said, "Princess Yuzhen is the sister of the saint, and she has won the grace of the saint and is extremely noble. ”

Xue Bai knew that today's saint would kill his son when he said he would kill him, but he was good to his brothers and sisters.

After all, the saint's biological mother was secretly executed after meeting Wu Zetian, and he couldn't even find the body, and he had been dependent on his brothers and sisters since he was a child.

"Princess Yuzhen did not choose a horse, but became a woman, and the people who came and went were talented and famous, and Li Bai was able to worship Hanlin because of Princess Yuzhen's recommendation."

Speaking of this, Yang Zhao shook his head and smiled, and said: "I also heard, it is rumored that Wang Wei fell off the list that year, and King Deqi introduced him to Princess Yuzhen, wearing a white dress, holding the pipa, and playing a song "Yulun Robe" for the princess at the banquet. The princess ordered the palace maid to take Wang Wei to the inner room to change into colorful clothes, ascend to a guest seat, and treat him as a distinguished guest. During the banquet, the princess saw Wang Wei's romance, and couldn't help but look sideways again and again. ”

Xue Bai listened to it, and was no stranger to this situation, but remembered what he had seen and heard in Mrs. Qiuguo's mansion that day.

It's no wonder that Wang Wei would say that sentence "You are very similar to me when I was young", it is really similar.

Yang Zhao said: "It seems that Princess Yuzhen has promised to nominate Zhang Jiugao as the champion that year, and after seeing Wang Wei that day, she changed her words, 'This year is the solution to this life, and it is honestly called Guohua', and the examiner went to the princess's mansion to send palace maids to preach, and Wang Wei became the first in one fell swoop." ”

Xue Bai couldn't help asking: "As a result of the imperial examination, can the princess decide in one word?" ”

"Of course."

Among the entire rumors, the part that shocked Xue Bai the most, Yang Zhao responded with two words as a matter of course.

As for whether the other rumors are true or not, I don't know whether they are true or not.

"That year, Wang Wei was twenty years old, Princess Yuzhen was just over thirty, one was a versatile and handsome young man, and the other was a noble Meidao aunt, I won't say what happened, you think for yourself."

Yang Zhao was interested, and the smile on his face became brighter.

It can be seen that he usually chats with Mrs. Yu Guo and others, and most of the chats are about the romance between these celebrities and nobles.

It's even rare to appear erudite and talented.

"It's a pity, Wang Wei doesn't know how to lift, heh, 'don't be favored today, and forget the past grace', probably such a poem, he went against the will of Princess Yuzhen and married his childhood sweetheart cousin Cui. It didn't take long for him to be relegated to Jeju for an excuse. You see, when his wife died, he refused to renew the strings, saying that he was infatuated, but why didn't he even dare to write a mourning poem? ”

After that, Yang Zhao turned his head to look at Xue Bai, his eyes were a little mental, and said, "I knew this was the case, why bother in the first place." People, you can't cut off your future. ”

"Yes, the official career is like ascending to the sky, and you can't always think that the road is bad."

Based on what Xue Bai saw today, Yang Zhao and Wang Wei were indeed worlds apart.

But this kind of Datang, that is, with Wang Wei's family background and talent, can still think that clinging to the right minister is "not the right way", and that befriending the princess is "a shortcut that can't be taken".

Ordinary people can't even find their way.

Xue Bai is not Yang Zhao, but he is not Wang Wei either.

No matter how dirty and rough the road is, he has to go on.

At this moment, a servant from the Prime Minister's Mansion came over outside the door and said, "Xue Xiaolang, Jin Wuwei has arranged it." ”

"Thanks for the reminder, let's go."

~~

As night fell, Chang'an City was under curfew.

Xue Bai climbed the Wanghuo Tower in the East City, raised his eyes, and saw that the firelight of every household in Chang'an City was as neat as a chessboard.

"Oooo

A forty or fifty-year-old bearded general Jin Wuwei strode up to the Wanghuo Tower, looked at Xue Bai with a knife, and said, "Jin Wuwei is here with Guo Qianli, but you are from the Right Prime Minister's Mansion?" ”

When he opened his mouth, a smell of wine came to his face, Guo Qianli had drunk a lot of wine before he came, and he was already a little drunk.

"Xue Bai, on the order of the right minister, visit some things."

"Hey, what a young man."

Guo Qianli looked startled, poked his head in front of Xue Bai, and said, "I have been ordered, and I have already sent someone to follow Wu Kang." ”

Xue Bai didn't expect that among Jin Wuwei, it was such a reckless man who switched to Li Linfu, which was a little strange, but he couldn't ask, "I think you look like a good person, how can you do things for the right minister?" ”

"General Guo is hard, does he have any changes?"

"No, he's leading people to patrol the streets of Anyifang."

Xue Bai looked south for a while, and couldn't see anything else in the night, only the faint light of the fire behind the building.

Guo Qianli said: "Don't worry, my people are quietly staring at him." ”

Xue Bai nodded and asked, "General Guo, can you talk to me about Wu Kangcheng?" ”

"The veteran who came back from Longyou, when I was transferred from Longyou to Chang'an, he hadn't passed yet." Guo Qianli burped and said, "Our Zuo Jin Wuwei General Xue has made meritorious contributions in Longyou, and many veterans of Longyou have been settled by him. ”

"General Xue? has the same surname as me, which General Xue is it? ”

"General Xue Hui of Zuo Jinwuwei, his grandfather is my famous Tang Dynasty general Xue Rengui, and his father is the prince of Pingyang County who defeated Tubo, Xue Ne Xue Jieshuai."

Speaking of this, Guo Qianli got drunk, patted his chest and said: "I have made meritorious contributions under Xue Dajieshuai, and Li Taibai has written poems to praise me!" ”

Xue Bai originally wanted to check on the Jiang brothers, but he didn't expect that anyone he met in Chang'an City would have such an extraordinary experience.

"Oh?"

"In the second year of Kaiyuan, I fought against Tubo with Xue Dajieshuai! In the battle, more than 17,000 people were beheaded, 1.2 million cattle and sheep were seized, tens of thousands of Tibetan soldiers were killed and wounded, and corpses were everywhere! Wait, I'll read you the poem Li Taibai wrote to me...... Wait a minute. ”

Xue Bai looked at it, and saw Guo Qianli take out a crumpled piece of paper from his arms, presumably he often recited poems with others.

Guo Qianli coughed a few times and read aloud.

"The general's young man went out of martial arts and took charge of Yintai to protect Ziwei."

"Ping Ming flicked his sword to the sky, and the twilight whipped drunk."

"The beloved son blows the jade flute, and the beauty dances to the moon."

"The heroes of the past are like in a dream, meeting and wanting to get drunk in Chunhui."

His voice is hard to hear, but Li Bai can show elegance and heroism even if he just writes a poem at random.

Xue Bai looked at Guo Qianli again, and he could see some stories from that vicissitudes of life.

The night was silent, and Wu Kangcheng had not moved, so they simply talked about the old things of the Longyou battlefield on this lookout tower.

He didn't deliberately want to track down anyone, what Guo Qianli said, Xue Bai listened to it.

"In that battle, General Wang was the vanguard, chasing the Tibetan army to the trench, entering the Changchang Castle, besieged, the generals were jealous of General Wang's military exploits, and refused to come to the rescue, and finally General Wang was outnumbered and died in battle."

"Which General Wang?"

"The prince's right guard rate, Feng'an military envoy, Wang Haibin Wang General." Guo Qianli said: "After General Wang died in battle, his son was accepted as a fake son by the sage, and was given the name of Zhonghe, that is, the prince's righteous brother, and now the envoy of the four towns of Hexi, Longyou, Shuofang, and Hedong, Wang Zhonghe. ”

Xue Bai became clearer and clearer.

From Huangfu Weiming to Wang Zhonghei, the Longyou Army has always been inextricably linked with the East Palace.

The knots can be changed, but this network of relationships has always been there.

What he was puzzled about was that listening to Guo Qianli's tone, he should also be one of the people in this network.

"You said that the prince raised dead soldiers and had something to do with Longyou, I believe it." Guo Qianli said again: "But there are many veterans of Longyou in Jin Wuwei, and in recent years, I have secretly investigated on the orders of the right minister, but I have never found clues, and Wu Kangcheng has never made any unusual moves." ”

At this time, someone rushed to the Wanghuo Tower and said, "General, Wu Kangcheng has finished his night patrol and gone home." ”

"Did he move?"

"Nope."

Guo Qianli then asked, "Is it possible that Xue Langjun made a mistake?" ”

Xue Bai looked at Guo Qianli, who had thick eyebrows and big eyes in front of him, but felt that Li Linfu had made a mistake, and the person in front of him clearly looked like a prince.