The right minister's mansion, the atmosphere in the hall is gloomy.

Yang Zhao peeked at the figure behind the screen that had not moved for a long time, and finally couldn't hold his breath and asked, "Right Xiang, this poem is very ......."

"Pei Mian." Li Linfu said lightly: "What do you think of this poem?" ”

"There is a metaphor in this poem."

Pei Mian spoke, his tone firm.

Yang Zhao couldn't help but secretly say that he had pondered the poem many times, but he couldn't hear any metaphors?

"The first two sentences of this poem are based on the metaphor of 'chess game' and 'vegetable furrow', as if talking about dominoes, but in fact they describe the grandeur of Chang'an; the last two sentences turn to the Daming Palace, using 'a star' as a metaphor, describing the many officials who hold torches and ask to meet the saints, alluding to the dissatisfaction of too many courtiers."

Pei Mian said, raised his voice and said: "Xue Bai's heart can be punished, he is scolding the right minister for being unpopular!" ”

"It is so, this fang is hateful." Yang Zhao wasted no time in scolding: "Kill." ”

Li Linfu was impatient and said, "I'm asking you, what do you think of the name of the poem?!" ”

The name of the poem was so long that even Pei Mian couldn't remember it once, so he took out the note and read it again.

"Fenghe Holy System Forbidden Garden Waits the Saint All Night After Serving the Saint to Play Dominoes, the Daming Palace City Tower Viewing Lanterns Should Be Made", the Saint went to the Forbidden Garden, and he didn't want to be disturbed by state affairs. Oh, it's not like a poem. ”

That's what Li Linfu asked.

Whenever he needed to compose poems, he would ask the guests to prepare poems in advance, such as when the sage personally sent He Zhizhang back to his hometown, he presented a good poem, in short, he did not know the rules of making poems.

Pei Mian said: "The poems that should be made are usually five-character poems, but Xue Bai's poem is a seven-character quatrain. The poems are usually ornate in rhetoric and loud in rhythm, but this poem is simple in words and straightforward. It wasn't the saint who asked him to write it, he wrote it himself. ”

"Sure enough." Li Linfu muttered: "The Forbidden Garden is still far from Daming Palace, how could the saint send him to Danfeng Gate on the fourth watch?" ”

"But, the thing of playing dominoes all night should be true......"

"Hmm."

Luo Xixiao couldn't help but be nervous, thinking that Xue Bai would be taken by himself the day after he played the dominoes, and the saint must be displeased, and asked: "Right Xiang, in that case, did I let Xue Bai go?" ”

Yang Zhao was also afraid of offending people, so he hurriedly said: "Yes." ”

"No."

Luo Xi was taken aback, and secretly said that he was so bold!

Li Linfu shouted in a deep voice: "Since you have already taken it, you dare to let it go before the saint speaks, aren't you afraid that the saint will think that you are secretly spying on the palace?!" All of them acted according to Tang law, and Hugh had to let Xue Bai find fault in the prison of Dali Temple. ”

"Whoa."

"The right is wise."

Several people in the hall couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, admired Li Linfu, and secretly said that the right minister could be the prime minister for more than ten years, which has its own reason.

Yang Zhao secretly swore that sooner or later he would have to learn this kind of kung fu to ponder the sacred heart.

"All down."

Li Linfu waved away everyone, but his eyes became more and more cloudy, and he suddenly got up and slammed a porcelain bottle on the ground.

Boom!

He was angry that by the third day, there was no news that Xue Bai had stayed up with the saint to play dominoes.

But it has to be calm...... Saints are generally in Xingqing Palace, this time the move to Daming Palace is for the sake of quiet, if you can really grasp the traces of the saint, then it is the time of death.

They were already angry and smashed things, and the words of complaint were stuck in their throats, Li Linfu's eyes rolled, and finally he scolded something else.

"How dare anyone be more favored by a saint than me!"

……

"Aaron."

Cangbi walked around the broken porcelain all over the ground and bowed in fear.

"The villain got the news that Seventeen Niang went to Dali Temple Prison."

~~

Li Tengkong has been very concerned about the condition of the Yan family's Sanniang recently, and often goes to visit.

Although Yan Yan is three or two years younger than her, her attainments in calligraphy and painting are very good, so she often asks for calligraphy, and occasionally talks about Yan Shaofu's acceptance of apprentices because Xue Baizi is too ugly.

"Although there is a benefit, this word is still ugly, and I don't know if he has been lazy recently. Liu Niangzi said that she didn't see him go home after the spring release list, maybe something happened? Grandpa said that Jingzhao Mansion caught a lot of troublemakers. ”

It was after listening to Yan Yan's words that seemed to be intentional or unintentional, Li Tengkong immediately asked Jiaonu to ask, and after getting the news, he rushed to Dali Temple Prison.

After all, she still used the power of the Right Prime Minister's Mansion to ask the little official if she could visit the prison, and she had been waiting for more than an hour.

Standing there, suddenly thinking of Yan Yan's sparkling eyes when she spoke, and the smile that slightly lifted up at the corner of her mouth, Li Tengkong couldn't help but wonder, I don't know if she saw anything, or even deliberately reminded her.

It shouldn't be, how can such an innocent and well-behaved little girl be so cunning?

After noon, many officials in the imperial city had lunch and began to disperse and return home. Finally, a servant came over and lured her to prison for a visit.

"Please leave a record, what is the relationship between the refiner and the criminal?"

"Friends."

Li Tengkong didn't expect them to record it when they knew their identities, and watched the little official inscribe the word "best friend" under the file, and couldn't help but shrink his eyes.

Kyauknu handed over a silver cake and a string of money, and said lightly: "The criminal's food book." ”

"Shiben has already been handed over by a lady surnamed Du, enough."

"Give him something good."

The little official just accepted the silver cake, weighed it and recorded it on the file, but he didn't accept the string of money at all, and his businesslike attitude made Li Tengkong surprised for a while.

~~

In the cell, Du Wulang organized a grass fight.

That is, each person chooses a thatch and decides the toughest one.

He took a fancy to the haystack under Xue Bai and stretched out his hand to pull it out.

"Don't touch him." Du Fu leaned on the dirty grass and smiled, "It was not easy for him to pick out the clean thatch." ”

"He's just too particular." Du Wulang said: "Even the gaps between the teeth must be washed after eating, which is more squeamish than the fifth surname." It was when my cousin heard about this that he wanted to marry his daughter to him. ”

"Hahaha, the big husband should be informal."

Xue Bai didn't bother to pay attention to them.

In the world, many parts of the body, including teeth, were broken and could not be repaired, so he had to pay attention to maintaining them.

"E-shaped cell, Xue Bai, someone is visiting!"

Suddenly, I heard a shout, and someone walked through the corridor with a torch.

Several people in the prison got up from the ground and looked out of the wooden fence.

I don't know who exclaimed "wow".

"Xue Bai." Li Tengkong quickened his pace in the last few steps and rushed to the wooden fence, "Are you okay?" ”

She looked more beautiful than ever, the lotus crown and robe on her head were clean and pleasing to the eye, and the fragrance on her body made people want to take two deep breaths.

"I'm fine." Xue Bai said: "You shouldn't come here, go back." ”

"It was Yan Shaofu who asked me to come and see you, how did you get involved in the Chunqiu case?"

"It has nothing to do with the spring squirt."

Yuan Jie listened on the sidelines and said, "We are the left minister Li Shizhi, and we may be Wei Jian's comrades. ”

Hearing this familiar charge, Li Tengkong was stunned and suddenly felt embarrassed.

She had heard Grandpa and Brother say with her own ears that before Yi Chu, Wei Jian's case would never be closed, and all political enemies could be hunted and killed in this name, and she couldn't help but feel guilty in the face of these people at this time.

"This is my friend, Zong Xiaoniang, after the Duke of Yingguo, the prime minister, even Li Taibai has to call her aunt with his wife." Xue Bai introduced it and said with a smile: "These people are my friends." ”

"It turned out to be the little lady in front of her." Du Fu saluted and said, "I am Du Fu, Taibai's best friend." ”

"I have admired the name of Du Gong for a long time."

Li Tengkong responded with Taoist etiquette, peeked at Xue Bai, and said in his heart that he was really gentle and meticulous in his treatment of people, and he did not forget to relieve her of the siege.

She also noticed that he referred to her as a "friend" and others as a "friend".

"It turns out that Xue Bai also has a fairy-like confidante."

Everyone was still ridiculing, and Xue Bai urged Li Tengkong to go back again.

Li Tengkong said: "I'm here, I want to ask how to save you?" Well...... Because I don't think the right phase is doing the right thing......"

"Since someone will protect me, I will go to Yuzhenguan to thank you when I am released from prison."

"Will you come?"

"Well, look at Kyaukun." Xue Bai said, "Go back." ”

Li Tengkong turned his head and saw that Kyauknu did not look at this side, as if he had nowhere to put his feet, holding his shoulders with both hands, trying to shrink his body, with a suffocated expression.

Because Xue Bai had a joke, she couldn't help laughing.

"Well, I'm leaving."

Li Tengkong glanced back at Xue Bai again, and floated away in a Taoist robe.

……

"What a good woman." Yuan Jie praised, still not knowing that this was the daughter of the god.

Du Fu couldn't help but miss his wife and children at home, and he was poetic and catchy, and muttered: "Take pity on the little children, and I don't remember Chang'an." ”

"It's too late to have a beauty, the day is twilight, and the color is declining, and you dare to think about yourself." Huangfu Ran beat Xue Bai with Sima Xiangru's fu.

Du Wulang was more straightforward and said, "Xue Bai, you are too cold to others. ”

"I should have been colder to her." Xue Bai could vaguely smell some residual aroma, knowing that Li Tengkong was different from Yang Yuyao and Du Yan, and once the girl's feelings were provoked, it would be much more troublesome.

"Why?"

"I can't marry you."

"Doesn't the door match?" Du Wulang shook his head, "It's not right for you to be like this, the little lady is willing to come to see you in such a place, and you should do your best for her." ”

"I have something to do. I told you that men should be more respectful. ”

"No matter how self-respecting, you can't be self-respecting to the little lady of Zong." Du Wulang hated that iron could not become steel, "I have an uncle in the clan, and I miss a little lady who has a marriage contract, so he is willing to give up his future for this little lady." ”

Xue Bai didn't bother to bother with him anymore.

Du Fu stroked his beard and sighed: "There is a nephew in my clan who has feelings for each other with the daughter of a traitorous minister, and he has decided to put aside the world. ”

"Huh? That's ......" Du Wulang was stunned, turned his head to look, but saw Du Fu nodded.

There is nothing to do in prison, in short, it is such a leisurely chat.

In the evening, the jailers brought food that matched the food they had given, and there was no arbitrary deprivation.

Du Wulang felt that something was missing.

It wasn't until the next morning that a jailer came in and took a prisoner out of Cell C for execution, and his face immediately changed.

"It's broken. I forgot that we're going to be tortured to extract confessions......"

"When we're cool?!"

A jailer walked in, with a straight face and a righteous appearance.

"Dali Temple handles the case, only talking about evidence, the reason why you and others appear in Li Shizhi's other house, and routinely approve and verify them, can you and others be served?"

"Not convinced."

Xue Bai spit out two words cleanly.

The jailer suddenly felt the pressure, but he didn't hear it, and said in a deep voice: "Xue Bai and Du Cheng, you two entered the other house in the afternoon of that day, and they didn't stay for an hour. It has nothing to do with this case, but can go. ”

The locks were unlocked and the cell door was opened.

Xue Bai refused to leave, but sat down in the thatched pile and said, "Since we have come together, we must go together." ”

~~

Right Prime Minister's House.

It was rare that Li Linfu was not behind the screen, but walked to the window and stood with his hands in his hands, looking up at the sun outside the window that was gradually setting westward.

"What time is it?"

"Back to the right phase, it's almost time."

While speaking, Luo Xixiao hurried over and said: "Right Minister, Xue Bai still refuses to leave, he insists on letting Dali Temple Lian Yuanjie and others go." ”

"No." This time, Wang Ji was also in the hall, and said in a deep voice: "Yuan Jie is the key person in the Spring Trouble, if it is released, the majesty of the Right Prime Minister's Mansion will be greatly damaged, and the sons will think that they have won a move, and they will become more and more aggressive." At that time, who is still afraid of being implicated in Li Shi's case, the situation cannot be controlled, and he will be burned. ”

"Right Prime Minister, the little eunuch said that if Xue Bai can't be found again, he can only go back to the palace to resume his life, and tell the truth to the saint."

"Just drive Xue Bai out directly."

"How so? didn't let Yuan Jie and the others go, he refused to enter the palace. ”

"That saint is also to blame, can he hide?!"

"Coercion and temptation, the means that can scare him have been exhausted." Luo Xizao said: "This fang is stubborn, and he refuses to leave the Dali Temple Prison. ”

"What makes sense of that? Yuan Jie and others openly gathered and raised their sons, and stayed overnight in Li Shizhi's other house, the evidence is conclusive! ”

Luo Xizao's face became more and more bitter, and he bowed down and said: "We will do things according to the rules, but Xue Bai is unreasonable, he is completely a shameless scoundrel!" ”

Yang Zhao said: "Once there is a curfew, it will be difficult to enter and exit the gate of Daming Palace. ”

Everyone knew that the saint planned to play dominoes all night, and if he didn't arrange it quickly, the whole night would become a time for the saint to store up his anger.

"When."

In the hall, the leaky pot dripped out, making a clear sound, and the unitary time had arrived.

Li Linfu is still waiting, he has sent someone to the Daming Palace to make a speech, asking to see the saint, and he is waiting for the saint to agree.

Finally, Cangbi hurriedly ran over and said, "Ah Lang, someone from the palace has been summoned by the saint." ”

Li Linfu breathed a sigh of relief.

"Let go."

"Right Phase." Wang Ji still needs to be persuaded again.

Imaka was the first to be reviewed by him, and he knew how terrible the consequences would be if he couldn't calm the situation.

Li Linfu waved his hand and said, "This prime minister will enter the palace in person to calm down the situation." ”

"......"

"Enough!" Li Linfu rarely said to Wang Jie: "There are thousands of things in the world, and none of them is more important than the mood of a saint!" ”

~~

Sunset.

On the official road to the north, a group of people were trekking on foot.

Yan Zhuang turned his head for the last time and squinted in the slanting sun, only to see that the magnificent Chang'an City had become a black outline.

His heart was empty, and he had spent half of his family's fortune on this trip, and all he felt was incomparable disappointment.

……

In Chang'an City, Ping Wei looked at his articles again and again, firmly believing that as long as there was a retest, Jinke himself would be able to win.

He heard that Li Shizhi and Yuan Jie, who advocated for the retest, had been arrested, but he was still lucky and wanted to wait for an exact news.

……

In the dark torture chamber.

Zhang Tongru gasped in pain and was finally released from the torture rack.

He behaved cowardly, and the jailers allowed him to summon his fellow villagers home.

Walking out of the Jingzhao Mansion prison, he saw several corpses lying on the cart.

The young Hao Changyuan was already dead, his back to the sky, his eyes widened, as if he was watching the clouds in the sky roll up.

Zhang Tongru stepped forward and reached out to caress Hao Changyuan's eyes, but he couldn't close them, so he had to cry guiltily.

……

Changle Fang, Li Shizhi's house.

With a "poof", the corpses were thrown into the front yard like sacks, piled up in a pile.

"Search carefully! Find evidence of Li Shizhi's rebellion! ”

Yang Zhao shouted, squinted his eyes, and picked up a gold bead from the crack in the stone.

……

In addition to these, Datang is still a prosperous scene.

Horses of exquisite silk were moved into the Taifu treasury, and they were splendidly piled up; Bags of grain were filled with various warehouses, and the rice was dripping; Boats sailed to Guangyuntan Wharf, full of Jianghuai tribute.

Chang'an City is incomparably magnificent, the market squares drawn out of 12 streets are neat like vegetable beds, and hundreds of thousands of people are scattered like a chess game.

In the sound of drums at dusk, the caravan leading the camels, the pedestrians on horseback, the women riding the car, and the people on foot are hitting the hub of the car on the long street, and the people are rubbing on their shoulders.

Five figures ran towards Daming Palace.

Danfeng Gate became more and more majestic in front of their eyes.

Xue Bai confronted people in Dali Temple Prison for a whole day, and finally, at the last moment, the other party relented and let them go.

"Xue Xiaolangzi!"

A small eunuch waiting in front of the palace gate hurriedly ran over, panting and said, "Hurry up, the saint has been waiting for a long time." ”

"Hard work."

Xue Bai turned to Yuan Jie and said, "You are waiting for me here, the sage may summon you!" ”

"Curfew......

"Let's go." The eunuch pulled Xue Bai over and hurried away.

Yuan Jie turned his head and saw a team of Jin Wuwei guarding a carriage in front of the Danfeng Gate, which was Li Linfu's carriage.

With a roaring sound, the heavy palace door was completely closed.

……

The drums stopped and the palace door closed.

Xue Bai turned his head and saw lanterns lit up on the palace wall, like stars. The Sixth Army of the Northern Ya, guarding the head of the city, is extremely solemn.

The whole country and the world are disturbed, and all of them are isolated.

Ahead, even Li Linfu, who rules the world and controls all the people, is also running in a hurry, like a dog.

"Quick, don't spoil the mood of the saint!"