The musicians rehearsed the mourning music, and Xue Bai made up for a sleep in the Taile Department.

In a daze, someone gently pushed him, and called in a tactful and crisp voice: "Xue Lang, wake up." ”

Xue Bai thought it was Mingzhu again, turned over and hugged the quilt and rubbed it, feeling that it was not Yang Yuyao in his arms, so he opened his eyes. But I saw Xie Aman standing there, the little lady who was good at dancing was temperamental, and even her neck was good-looking.

"Huh?"

"That," Xie Aman said stunned: "The drill is over, you Taile Cheng should take the musicians to the heir Xu Palace." ”

"I thought that when Taile Cheng was a concubine, he just had to rehearse for the concubine."

"Although it is." Xie Aman had no choice but to coax him softly, and said, "Occasionally, if something goes wrong, you can worry about some official business." ”

Xue Bai saw that she was still wearing a servant's soap robe, and asked, "Why don't you change your clothes?" ”

"I won't go, and I won't play that mourning, I'll only take care of you when I come to the Taile Department."

"Gone." Xue Bai rolled over.

Xie Aman stopped him again, picked up two pastries from the table, and said, "I'll go when I'm full." ”

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"Makes sense."

Then, she looked at him twice, shook her head, and said, "No, I'm too energetic, sit down, I have to make you haggard." ”

When Xue Bai came out of the public house, his hair was also messy, and there were some tear stains in the corners of his eyes, looking very sad.

He took the musicians of Taile Cheng to line up and join the team of the musicians of the Drum and Drum Department into the procession of Taichang Temple. At the front of the line, Zhang Po had red eyes and a sad look on his face.

Xu was a little bored when he was standing, Zhang Wei beckoned Xue Bai to come forward to chat, and said, "Taile Ling is sick, you can take care of it more."

Xue Bai knew that Liu Ci was compiling books in the secretary province, and because he had anointing fees every day, he had not come to the Taile Hall for two or three days.

"Siqing rest assured."

"Let's go, you and I together."

While speaking, the officials of the Rite House came out last, all with solemn expressions, and the shelves were so big that even Zhang Dui, Tai Changqing, had to wait for them.

chatting on the road, Xue Bai asked about something, Zhang We know a lot, and we are willing to say everything we can say.

The heir Xu Wang Li Qian has a younger brother, who is the king of Shangzhu State and Baoxin County, Li Mu, and the official is Zong Zhengqing and the palace supervisor.

"When Li Qian and Li Mu brothers were young, their uncles and brothers were killed by the Empress Wu, and when the saint cleansed the demon wind, Li Huang succeeded King Xu, and Li Mu succeeded and succeeded King Ze."

"Li Shangjin, the king of Ze, had seven sons, who were exiled to Xianzhou, and it is said that they all died. But one of them, Li Yixun, knew that there was no way to live after being exiled, so he went incognito, disguised himself as a slave, and escaped. ”

"During the reign of Emperor Zhongzong, he returned the official title of King Ze, and the brothers Li Qian and Li Mu falsely accused Li Yixun of pretending to be the emperor, exiled him to Lingnan, and wanted to send someone to kill him. But Li Yixun found the protection of Princess Yuzhen and escaped again, and after the saint ascended the throne, he found out the truth and restored Li Yixun's official title. ”

Hearing this, Xue Bai couldn't help asking, "How to find out the truth?" ”

Zhang Po said: "The royal jade, Li Yixun was seen by many people when he was young, and he looked like King Ze when he grew up. ”

"What if Li Yixun is real or fake?

"The saint and Princess Yuzhen have seen it since childhood, and it can't be fake."

"I see."

Zhang Po said with a smile: "The saint treats the clan leniently, and Li Qian and Li Mu persecuted their cousins, and they were not severely punished. Li Qian is still the heir of the king, although Li Mu was robbed of the heir of the king, but he was also named the king of praise. ”

"Praise King ........ dissatisfied?"

"That's him." Zhang sneered slightly: "Now that Li Qian has died, the person who stares at the heir of the king and the official lord he left behind is his own brother and the king of praise, Li Mu. ”

"Li Qian has a son."

"Li Mu secretly told the sage that Li Qiang's son is not of the Li bloodline."

Xue Bai groaned, asked a question he was very concerned about, and said, "True or false, who will decide." ”

"He is a saint and a clan." Zhang Po said: "There are many such disputes in the clan, if you say which yamen usually handles it, it is Zongzheng Temple." But Li Mu is Zong Zhengqing. ”

As he spoke, he looked back behind him and continued, "And the courtyard behind us. ”

Xu Wangfu has already begun to hold a funeral.

The people of Taijoji Temple are called "Sheng'er" because they line up to chant songs on such occasions.

Xue Bai took the musician to the back of the mourning hall to play mourning music, only to see that the surviving people had already knelt in a row.

Li Qiang's princess Xu is a stepfamily, looking about thirty years old, she is beautiful.

"Zhang Yuma, you know Ah Lang's thoughts." Xu Shi wept endlessly, knelt and turned around and cried: "Father and son follow, it is justified." Before Alang's bones were cold, someone bullied our orphans and widows, and begged the horses to help.

Zhang We have our own opinions, and if helping others will not hurt him much, he is willing. But if you offend the saint's cousin and Zong Zhengqing for something unrelated, you can't help it.

He sighed and said in a low voice: "The princess takes care of her body, and it is important to protect the child." At the time of the funeral, let's talk about the side events later. ”

This is a very meaningful reminder - the orphans and widows are still young, and now they can survive Li Mu first.

Xu probably felt that once the prince was lost, he would not come back, crying and refusing to give up, kneeling forward and wanting to continue begging.

If people gossip, it is a fatal thing for Zhang We, he avoided it, and showed Xue Bai a look of "this place is not suitable for a long time", and quickly left the mourning hall and went to the gate.

Xue Bai still had to stay to deal with official business, but fortunately, he was young and tender, and the Xu family didn't ask for him.

Taking this opportunity, he observed Li Qiang's two sons, Li Xie and Li Xu, who are quite good-looking with small faces, and they are indeed more like Xu's, as for whether they look like Li Qiang...... Comparing the old man with a child, he really can't look at it.

"Brother!"

Suddenly there was a mournful cry in the mourning hall, and the voice was old and extremely sad.

"You and my brother have been through hardships since childhood...... It's hard to survive to this day, but the day is not a holiday, brother!

Presumably this is Li Mu, the king of Baoxin County, who is said to have fainted several times from crying, and continued to cry when he woke up.

Behind Li Mu stood several young people, all dressed in linen and filial piety, with sad expressions, and they were supporting one after another.

"Grandpa also has to take care of his body....... Uncle, why are you willing to go like this?!"

One nephew cried, several nephews cried one after another, and the scene couldn't help but be chaotic.

Xue Bai was standing there watching, when someone suddenly pulled him and said in a low voice, "But Taile Cheng?" Something happened here, please come with the villain.

In the courtyard behind the mourning hall, there is a Taoist priest doing business.

Bypassing the altar and walking through the corridor to the door of a house, Xue Bai recognized the back of the linen cloth outside the door as Li Cong.

He immediately stopped, turned to leave.

As Zhang Po said, Mo Zhen these people, he can reduce a lot of deadly turmoil in his career, and it is no surprise that he can be ranked as a minister in peace.

Unless, more than that.....

Xue Bai quickly glanced around, and followed the person towards Li Cong.

"Who asked King Qing to ask me for the position of secretary and supervisor?

"A eunuch by my side."

"Check him."

Li Cong was stunned for a moment, and said in a low voice: "Princess Tangchang's situation is better now, you let the secretary regain authority, but are you paving the way for big things?" ”

Xue Bai realized that he had indeed communicated too little with Li Cong, resulting in misplaced messages and ideas.

"Well, King Qing doesn't have to do anything, don't send someone to contact you again, just wait.

"Secretarial ........"

"The secretary can't be supervised." Xue Bai couldn't help but say, and asked again: "Who wants to seek Wei Qing?" ”

"A lot." Li Cong said: "As far as I know, there are Li Zhen, the heir of the Qi King, Li Mao, the heir of the Xue King, and Li Chenghong, the king of Guangwu. ”

"Stop all movements, don't fight." Xue Bai solemnly reminded again........

Then I turned back to the mourning hall and saw Zhang Fill.

"There was a conflict just now, why didn't you stop it?

Xue Bai responded: "King Qing called me over and said a few words. ”

Zhang Po was slightly stunned and asked, "How did you reply?" ”

"I advised him to stop fighting for his son's secretary and supervisor."

"Not bad." Zhang said: "Being in the court, you should be walking on thin ice. Such scourges are full of evils and have nothing to do with oneself, and it is better to be less troubled. ”

"Yes, as soon as the funeral is over, I will drive to Huaqing Palace."

"It's smart people."

Zhang Po only then talked about the conflict that occurred in the Fang Cai Ling Hall, but there were officials and relatives who muttered that Princess Li Qian and Princess Xu had an affair with others, and was invited out by Zhang Po.

That day, Xue Bai saw a lot of Li Tang clans, but he had a headache just remembering his name.

Even so, he tried his best to contact the other two heirs, Li Zhen and Li Mao.

Li Zhen and Li Mao are also a pair of brothers, and their father is Li Longye, the king of Xue. Li Longye is Li Longji's fifth brother and gave birth to more than ten sons, Li Yue is one of them with good looks and talents, and has the most prestige, so he inherits King Xue.

Li Zhen resembled Li Longji because of his appearance, and passed on to King Qi, the heir of King Qi. Because Li Longfan, the king of Qi, originally had two sons, he was addicted to wine in his early years and became violent.

The brothers are not very old and have eaten 5,000 households, but they are still enterprising, and they are all staring at the positions of Hongluqing, Wei Weiqing, Zong Zhengqing and other Jiuqing.

Therefore, they had a lot of complaints about Li Mu's actions, and when they met Zhang We, they couldn't help but comment a few words.

"It's just a villain."

"It is said that the princess is allowed to have an affair with someone, so I can come up with evidence." Li Mao said: "Li Mu's appearance is inevitably too ugly. ”

"It's not the first time he's done such a desperate thing." Li Zhen said: "Practice makes perfect." ”

"Li Qian has two sons, but they are not desperate, but unfortunately, even the saint doesn't feel like it."

"Li Yixun was not a desperate household back then, Li Mu was good at hard eating."

Li Mao sighed slightly and said, "Zhang Yuma, if I remember well, Li Hui, the heir of Li Yixun's son, is the current Taichang Shaoqing, right?" ”

"Yes, he presided over the Taichang Temple Rite Ceremony."

Li Mao said: "If it weren't for Princess Yuzhen, Li Mo and his father would only be afraid of falling on the streets." Now it is up to him to give Li Huang a posthumous name, and the cycle of heavenly principles.

"Heavenly Cycle."

The speaker was unintentional, the listener was intentional, Xue Bai stood beside Zhang Po and listened, and couldn't help but turn his head and glance at Li Bin, who was too often Shaoqing and the head of the Rite Academy.

After a few people talked for a while, Li Zhen greeted Xue Bai and looked very close.

"I heard that Li Tan and Zhang Si have some minor holidays with you?

"Don't dare." Xue Bai responded: "We're joking." ”

"Li Tan is a waste material, don't pay attention to him." Li Zhen said with a smile: "You and I are in love, we both like music and opera, and we should get together often in the future." ”

"Yes." Xue Bai said: "I also feel a little intimate with King Qi. ”

"Hahaha."

A funeral has become a gathering for the ministers and nobles to connect with each other.

Li Mu was still crying to death in the mourning hall, and when he was about to faint, a son stepped forward to help him and whispered a word in his ear.

"All the kings think that Grandpa wants to seize the throne of King Xu, and they have secretly contacted to block this matter."

Li Mu was taken aback, and after being helped down, he immediately grabbed his son and said, "What you just said is true?" ”

When the boy passed by, he did hear them talking, and he didn't shy away from it. ”

"Say what?"

"It's better to expose it to the saints together...... Grandpa's name is secret, and the child doesn't dare to mention it. ”

Li Mu frowned and paced, beckoned the steward, and said, "You go and find out, who is the Xu family fornicating with......

"Understood."

Xue Bai inadvertently glanced in the direction of the house, and saw that the steward beside Li Mu came out of it, but he went to the back house of King Xu's mansion.

He then pulled Zhang over and motioned for him to look over there.

"Fly camp dog." Zhang Po snorted lightly and reminded in a low voice: "You are not too enthusiastic, Fang Cai's proposal should not be, listen to them discuss a few words, do you really think they can come out?" ”

"I was hasty."

"It's really not the right time for Li Qian to die."

Regarding Li Qiang's death, Yang Yuyao was quite annoyed.

If it weren't for this, she would have taken Xue Bai to the Huaqing Palace at this time, but Xue Bai still had to lead the musician to Xu Wang's mansion to blow and play in the past few days.

After two or three days, she finally couldn't stay anymore and went over to see Xue Bai in person.

"Yao Niang shouldn't come over, it's a funeral here after all."

"Come and see you.

Yang Yuyao pulled Xue Bai into the carriage and reminded in a low voice: "Yuhuan told me that the sage probably wants to regret it, and you and I don't want to stand up for King Qing." ”

"Yes, I have already sternly rejected him."

"Sure enough, it's asking for help everywhere, it's really annoying."

Xue Bai said: "I shouldn't leave for too long, I have to go back if I send Yuyao to the street." ”

"I'll send you there."

"No, someone is staring at us." Xue Bai lifted the curtain and looked out, and said in a low voice: "It should be the people of Brother Nu or Chen Xilie, who want to take our handle and force me to hand over the newspaper institute." I sent someone to beat them.

"Just pretend you don't know, go to the front to cover up, and let me go down."

Fengwei Building.

Du Shi almost doesn't take care of the trivial matters in the restaurant, and only cares about the various affairs hidden under the restaurant.

Few people know that there are secret pavilions behind the elegant seats of many restaurants and tea shops in Chang'an, and some valuable news will be transcribed and sent to Du Shi.

Today, she was sorting out the news, but she saw Qu Shui coming.

"Xue Lang is here."

"At a time like this?"

Du Shi hurriedly greeted Xue Bai, with both joy and worry in his eyes.

"You're here now, but something is important?"

"It's an idle matter that has nothing to do with us, but if it is done, it will have far-reaching consequences."

"Then you can speak quickly."

"It's about the clan, and the relationship between the characters is complicated, so you can only understand if you are afraid that you have to take it slowly."

"It's okay, I'll listen." Du Shi smiled, "You please." ”

Xue Bai began to slowly stroke.

"To put it bluntly, it's nothing more than a group of relatives eating each other's homes, Li Mu looks ugly, and some of the Li people can't get used to it, but they don't dare to meddle in their affairs?"

"Almost."

"You want to care?"

Du Shi was a little puzzled, "This matter is a big trouble, could it be that the beautiful widow Xu begged you?"

"With my position, I can't interfere in this matter."

"But you came to me quietly, presumably with something else in mind?"

"Not bad." Xue Bai said: "This is an opportunity to experiment, we can try it once." ”

A small test?

A few days later, Li Qiang's funeral was completed, and Li Longji had ordered Gao Lishi to prepare for the Huaqing Palace.

Chang'an City is already getting hotter, how can you stay comfortable in the mountains.

However, there are still some clan matters that Li Linfu cannot deal with, and must be decided by the Son of Heaven himself, such as the official lord left by Li Qiang.

The first thing to be decided is the heir to the king's lordship.

Li Longji then summoned Zhang Po and spoke very directly.

"I see that Li Huang's two sons are not worthy of their father, you go to the Gongxin Palace to choose a suitable candidate, and succeed to Li Xuan's name.

Zhang We were going to obey the order, but after hesitating a few times, he said: "The minister asks the saint not to choose others." ”

"You are Tai Changqing, my son-in-law, and you have nothing to do with this matter. If you don't do it, who will?

"The minister is guilty." Zhang We's face was a little bitter, and he said helplessly: "The minister has something to do with this matter." ”

Li Longji glanced at Gao Lishi, and Gao Lishi was also very puzzled.

"Say it."

"Rumors...... Li Qiang's two sons are ......"

Zhang We didn't say anything, bowed down, kowtowed, and said with an aggrieved face: "Sage Mingjian, the minister is really wronged."

Li Longji scolded with a smile: "I'm not a faint king, can I still believe such rumors in the market?" ”

"The minister really has nothing to do with Princess Xu, it's just that someone slandered her at the funeral, and the minister invited people out."

"I know, go down."

Zhang Wei made a bitter face, saluted again, and retreated.

Li Longji looked at it, the smile on his face turned cold, and he gradually became a little displeased, and said, "General Gao went to check, is this a rumor or not?" If so, find out who is spreading the rumor. ”

"Yes." Gao Lishi received the will, hesitated for a moment, and then asked, "What about the official left by King Xu?" ”

"Put it on hold."

Li Longji was very unhappy.

He wanted to see who had nothing to do in this hot summer to delay his visit to the Xinghua Qing Palace........