Pei Xiaoyuan walked in, walked to the front of the couch, bowed as usual, and said goodbye.

The Emperor smiled, and his gaze fell on him with the sound. The lights are shining, and the eyes are full of kindness.

"Well, how have you been resting lately?" His name is Pei Xiaoyuan.

"I've been thinking about it for the past two days, Wanshou is suspended, Lu Wusi has nothing important to do for the time being, and if you stay in office, it will be a grievance because of your ability. It just so happens that under the stage of the Chinese book, there is a lack of a waiter. I thought, although you are young, but you are both civil and military, have good knowledge, and are tired of meritorious deeds, it is quite suitable to take on this position. What do you think? ”

Without waiting for Pei Xiao Yuanying, the emperor continued to say so, and after speaking, he quietly waited for a reply.

Although the official position of the squire is also of four grades, it is no different from the Zhonglang he was awarded before, but in fact, the two are not the same.

Zhonglang will not be a military officer, but Zhongshu Xingtai assists the government of the Son of Heaven, is the place of cardinal in charge of government affairs, and the real power center of the court. Those who can enter it before the age of 30 and serve as a giver or a giver are rare. Now the emperor intends to directly promote him to be a squire, and his background is not a imperial examination, but a military general who has been serving in the border area before.

This is a great trust and grace, and it has a profound meaning. Entering the center at such a young age, after the experience, it is logical that in the future, compared with the court, he will reach the pinnacle position that countless people dream of.

Zhao Zhongfang held his breath, looked at the young man in front of him without blinking, and secretly looked forward to infinity.

However, this figure was like a stone pillar, and there was no reaction at all.

There was no sound in the hall for a while.

The water of rain and snow on his body gradually melted into droplets along the corners of his clothes, splashing on the floor of the palace where his boots stood.

The emperor was alarmed by the sound of extremely light water droplets, listened to it a few times, and then turned to Zhao Zhongfang: "Say it's snowing outside?" Is Xiao Erlang wet? Take him down first, and change into dry clothes. ”

"Please come with the old slave." Zhao Zhongfang immediately came to Pei Xiaoyuan's side.

Pei Xiaoyuan thanked him, then turned to the emperor again, looked at the person in front of him who looked like an ordinary elderly relative in the family, and said slowly but clearly: "Your Majesty, the minister came tonight to ask about something." ”

"Oh." The emperor's eyelids moved, "What's the matter?" ”

"Since the minister entered Beijing, he has heard different people tell the truth about the battle of Beiyuan to the minister more than once. The more he listened, the more he dared not make judgments. Your Majesty is a man of God, who can perceive the hidden corner of the haze and see what the world does not see. Because of this matter, it is related to the festival of the minister's father, the name of 800 soldiers who died in battle, although the minister is at the end, but he also has the courage to ask Your Majesty, who was the real promoter of the war back then? The father and the 800 soldiers who died together were merit and sin, should the court give an explanation? ”

Although Zhao Zhongfang knew that it would not be good tonight, when he heard such straightforward words coming out of the young man's mouth, his face was still pale with horror. Regardless of the inconvenience of his legs and feet, he rushed up, dragged Pei Xiaoyuan with a hand, and while struggling to pull out, he scolded angrily: "Donkey! Are you crazy? How dare you talk nonsense to this point! Why don't you step back quickly, go and change your clothes, think about it, and come back to talk to Your Majesty! ”

Pei Xiaoyuan stood upright, like a pine body cypress, deeply rooted in the ground of the main hall, no matter how Zhao Zhongfang dragged it, he did not move at all.

"Someone!"

Zhao Zhongfang called outward. Soon, seven or eight squires of strong bodies rushed into the outer hall.

"Leave the colt!" Zhao Zhongfang shouted sharply.

"Let him speak!" The Emperor said suddenly, in a calm tone.

"You can't die when you talk, what are you afraid of?"

Zhao Zhongfang was stunned for a moment, and then knelt down at Pei Xiaoyuan's feet.

"Please, old slave! Exit from the country. How dare you do that? You're committing a great sin—"

"Get out."

The Emperor said, his tone flat.

Zhao Zhongfang shook.

"All out." The Emperor said again.

Zhao Zhongfang slowly got up from the ground, took the people, and withdrew.

The Emperor's eyes stared at the vague, upright figure on the other side.

"Pei Er, am I not good to you?" He continued to smile.

"You dispose of Wei Juren privately. He is a member of the three grades of the court, and the second rank of the ministers, you will kill if you say kill, and he will be buried, and the corpse will be destroyed; You connived at Ashina's murder of my son, and in the end, you showed favoritism, didn't shoot him to death, and let people go! Is it because you don't have enough arrows to penetrate your back? I don't believe it. Do you know what he did when he escaped alive? Not only the northern border, but even the western Tibet, which was finally subdued, is about to be chaotic again! ”

"You have done so many bold things behind my back, and I don't care about you!"

"Not only that, but I also married my lady to you. I can't give it to you except in this world, and I ask myself that I am already a great favor for you. How did my two own sons ever be treated? Why do you dare to come to me and ask such a thing? ”

"You are pampered and arrogant, I don't know how thick the sky is, it's not too much, right?"

At this point, the smile on the emperor's face completely disappeared.

He shuddered and said coldly.

Chapter 132

Pei Xiaoyuan was slightly moved.

He knelt down slowly again towards the man in front of him.

"People are not plants and trees, and they can not be enlightened. Since the minister was summoned to Beijing, His Majesty has been very fond of the minister, and the minister has repeatedly committed crimes, and His Majesty has given leniency, and even married the princess to the minister, and the favor of the minister is unique in the world. Pieces of piles, the ministers remember in their hearts, toothless and unforgettable. The minister came here tonight, how could he not know that it was an extremely ungrateful rebellion, and he lived up to the princess's will to the minister, even if he died, it would be difficult to repay the princess's kindness. However, the minister still had to come. ”

"People die, the lights go out. The father and the eight hundred dead soldiers, in the world, are at most a few idle words after tea and dinner, and the sympathizers sigh twice, and those who are scornful are just a few words of slander. Don't say that a hundred years later, there are still few people who can still remember them, and even those who are willing to scold twice. However, as far as the ministers are concerned, they are the fathers of the ministers, the brothers of the ministers, and the uncles of the ministers. Everyone has a surname and a first name, a wife and a child. They are not dispensable dead people. The historian can ignore Beiyuan and wipe away the blood shed by this group of people for the Holy Dynasty at will, as if they had never fought for the Holy Dynasty, and the ministers here, like others, should wipe everything out when nothing happened, in exchange for the rest of their lives, and the ministers are afraid that they will not be able to bear such a blessing. ”

When he spoke, the corners of the emperor's eyes drooped deeply, his face was indifferent, and he faintly showed a bit of a demented state, and when he finished speaking, he was silent for a moment, and the emperor raised his eyelids.

"So, what are you asking for when you come here tonight?" He asked lightly.

"The minister has already made it clear, please come out behind the scenes. If the father and uncles really should not have been wronged, then ask the court to give them a due explanation. Pei Xiaoyuan bowed, straightened up and said.

"If you want to give an explanation, I will give it when the time comes!"

"So be it! Let's go back! Be your colt and consider my proposal. ”

At this point, the emperor's voice also revealed a little tiredness and loneliness. He propped up the couch with one hand and moved his body, as if he was about to lie back slowly, but the young man in front of the couch did not make the slightest sound.

I still knelt like that, motionless.

The Emperor's half-crooked body paused slightly in the air and frowned.

"Why, you're not leaving?"

He shouldn't have come tonight.

No one knows better than him what it means to come. All the ornate brocade robes will be torn off, revealing the true face that no one knows what it will be underneath. No matter what that face is, as long as he takes this step, the new world of bliss and tenderness that he once strayed into will not deserve to have it again from now on.

If he had never known her, if she was not the daughter of the person in front of him, perhaps, he would have been able to end this old affair that had been in his heart for nearly twenty years in another way. Even, blood for blood.

However, there are no ifs.

When revenge becomes impossible, then it is left to face the bare minimum of justice for the dead, which is the only thing he can think of now. How could he have turned away with such an understatement of reply.

"Confession is not for ministers, and ministers do not need to confess. What the court owes is my father and the 800 dead soldiers. ”

"Your Majesty is pampered and arrogant. The minister is indeed the first person in the world who does not know what to do. If they are innocent with Your Majesty, the Ministers once again implore Your Majesty that this is now, not the future. ”

Pei Xiaoyuan's clear and straightforward voice resounded in this palace.

The Emperor's crooked figure froze for a moment, then he sat upright, turned his face, and faced forward.

"Pei Er, who are you talking to?"

His voice was faintly angry, he paused, and his tone was calmer: "I will tell you again, and I will give you an explanation in the future!" ”

"The minister is guilty. Again, why can't it be now? ”

"If you don't read the world, why ask. You are not in my position, how do you know my considerations? Once my words are out, they will come true, so why do I need to explain everything to you! The Emperor said coldly.

"There is no need to say anything more! Stand back! ”

He whispered, and he groped his way to slowly lean down, closed his eyes, turned his back to the person behind him, and did not say anything more.

Pei Xiaoyuan was still kneeling on the ground.

He slowly raised his head, staring at the thin back of the distant mountain peaks in the twilight of the dead winter, and looked at it for a long time.

"Your Majesty." He opened his mouth suddenly.

"You are known as a saint, your deeds are obvious to all, and even the uncles of the ministers also respect Your Majesty and call Your Majesty the Lord of Zhongxing. Not only that, but Your Majesty, you can also be called a benevolent lord, and even allowed the children of the guilty □□ to be in Chang'an, and even allowed them to work in the royal orchard, so that they would not starve to death. When have we ever seen a sinner's relatives receive such forgiveness from a king? When the minister went to see them for the first time, what he heard was not their resentment and curses, but panic, and gratitude to the court and to Your Majesty. The place of exile, that's where they originally belonged. ”

"Your Majesty, your heavenly power and the name of the heroic lord among all the people have long been like the sun and the moon, and all things worship it. Justify the names of a group of people who died in battle for the country many years ago, and return them to the honor they deserve, and will not disgrace half of your majesty's reputation. ”

"The minister once again asks Your Majesty to give them an explanation, so that the souls of the dead can be respected as they deserve, so that they can rest in peace as soon as possible, instead of waiting for a certain day in the future."

"They've been underground for almost twenty years!"

He prostrated his head deeply and touched his forehead to the ground.

As his words fell, the night hall fell silent again.

At first, the emperor's side-lying back did not move. "You're teaching me how to do things?" Suddenly, the Emperor's cold voice came from above his head.

Pei Xiaoyuan looked up and saw the emperor turn over and sit up, facing him, his face was already cloudy.

"I don't dare."

"As the Son of Man, this is the voice of the Father. As a minister, this is also the order of the minister, and he should do his best. If the minister is lucky enough not to say anything wrong, please accept it, then the minister has nothing else to ask for, and he is grateful. If a minister is deceived by others and sends such a barking remark to His Majesty, His Majesty really has no last resort, then please correct Your Majesty. The minister is willing to swallow the words of Fang Cai's wild words back into his stomach, admit his mistake before his majesty's feet, and let his bones be disposed of! ”

The Emperor let out a hoarse, grotesque laugh.

"I still underestimate your guts. Are you blatantly persecuting me? ”

"I don't dare." Pei Xiao Yuanying.

"Why don't you dare?" In the strange laughter, the emperor nodded.

"Son of Man! Renchen! You've thought it through! So I ask you, where did you put your other identity when you came here tonight? I have endured you again and again, if it weren't for my sister-in-law, do you think you would still be able to speak here at this moment? ”

"The minister is just a guilty person, a barren martial artist, and he is favored by the princess, which is a great luck for the minister. If the minister dies, he will repay the princess's kindness in the next life. If he is lucky enough to survive, no matter what happens in the future, he will keep the promise that the minister once made to His Majesty, and do his best to protect the princess for the rest of his life until the day of his death. ”

After a moment of silence, he said.

In a wheezing sound that grew heavier and heavier, the Emperor slowly raised his eyes, completely opening his eyes, which had always been slightly drooping.

These eyes were clouded, but at this moment, the fierce light in the eyes flashed, like ten thousand arrows in unison, all of them rushed towards the person opposite.

"Pei Xiaoyuan, you have the courage to tell me again! Did I hear me right? Have you already thought about it, don't you want my concubine? ”

"Do you dare to be my sister-in-law!" The emperor rattled and repeated.

Pei Xiaoyuan closed his eyes, and finally, he prostrated himself deeply at the emperor's feet.

"The minister knows that the minister is coming tonight, it is a capital crime, how can he dare to covet the princess of the heavenly family again."

There was a dead silence.

"My daughter, she doesn't need you to protect her!"

Suddenly, with the angry roar of a lion's roar, the emperor slammed his palm and slapped it heavily on the couch. In the humming echo of the roar rushing up to the temple dome and hitting the corner of the temple, he rose into a rage, rolled down from the couch, and unexpectedly, he stepped on the corner of a piece of clothes that hung on the ground, and lost his balance when he landed, unable to stand, and the man threw himself forward.

In front of it is the imperial case, and the corners and edges of the four sides are extremely hard.