Chapter 6: The Emperor's Mind

Snowflakes swaying and falling, the cold wind blows people's silk, drinking according to the sword, and getting drunk on all things in the world. The young man is spirited, the three-foot mangs are as sharp as bones, he dares to cut the yellow dragon, and he laughs at others who are not husbands. What is a husband?

This poem, named "Sword Cold Repentance Song", was written by Yang Fengzheng, the person who carried forward the Wen Yao Sword Sect back then, and returned to the sect after the battle of Shili Pavilion in Qingcheng Mountain. It is said that after Yang Fengzheng decided on the gods and demons, Huizong had been closed to the cave of Yaoquan in Houshan until he died, and only then did he pass down some of his life martial arts insights and this poem.

also deliberately left a message, although "Sword Cold Repentance Song" has nothing to do with Wen Yao's martial arts, but it is also a classic of praise, whether it is the inner or outer door or even the sword servant, I hope that readers can read it.

Wen Yao Sword Sect, a kendo sect located in the north of Huangyang, began in Xiangliang, the former dynasty of Huangyang, a court guard named Yang Zhi. At that time, the Huangyang Iron Cavalry had already arrived under the capital of Xiangliang, Xiangliang was no longer able to return to the sky, and Yang Zhi, who was accustomed to the sinister officialdom and the gloomy court situation, decided to withdraw from the rivers and lakes, and with his own savings and legends, as well as the secrets of Xiangliang court martial arts, he came to the north and founded the Wen Yao Sword Sect.

In less than two months, Xiangliang was gone, and the new dynasty Huangyang replaced it and changed its name to Kyoto. Although the war stopped, it was inevitable that the civil and military attachés of the previous dynasty would surrender. When the situation calms down, some old people do evil, and although Yang Zhi, the sect leader of the Wen Yao Sword Sect who has entered the rivers and lakes, has the heart to restore the country, he is actually just greedy for the treasures and cheats that he may carry when he leaves the palace.

Even in the rivers and lakes, some self-proclaimed knights of the green forest, or literati who were sad and cynical about the change of the world, also denounced Yang Zhi's behavior of withdrawing and leaving at the last moment. However, fortunately, although the court and the rivers and lakes all had words, no force really made a move against Wen Yao Sword Sect from beginning to end, and most of them were just quick to speak.

Until the tenth National Day of the new dynasty of Huangyang, when the old lord of Huangyang Li Zhixing died, the new emperor Li Qinxin ascended the throne at a young age. He will implement the Huangyang world, and the temple must be above the rivers and lakes, and the two cannot be separated. Therefore, the wide collection of chivalrous and high-ranking people, and even some unwilling small sects, were directly wiped out when they were recruited by the government. After all, the Imperial Army, coupled with some Eagle Claw lackeys who are willing to work for the court, is really hard to refuse.

At that time, Wen Yao Sword Sect was only in the position of strength of a second-rate sect in the rivers and lakes, but what everyone didn't expect was that Yang Zhi, who had always been criticized and didn't defend himself, and didn't say a word when people were terrible, stood up at this time and said to the rivers and lakes, or to the entire Huangyang.

"Learn literature and martial arts, don't sell the emperor's family!"

As soon as these words came out, both the rivers and lakes and the court were shaken, and even in the Wen Yao Sword Sect's own sect, some disciples were afraid that because of the sect master's remarks, the court would be attacked and destroyed by force.

Emperor Li Qinxin of Huangyang said that it was also strange, after learning the words of the old man of the previous dynasty afterwards, he was not angry, but said at the National Day ceremony: "Since some people are unwilling, then it is good to volunteer, it is the National Day, and there are fewer killings, the rivers and lakes are still the same rivers and lakes, but Huangyang, it will always be Huangyang!"

Li Qinxin's words, like Yang Zhi, are they said to the entire rivers and lakes and the entire Huangyang.

At night, in the Huangyang Deep Palace, an old man in a black robe stood outside the Qianhong Palace with a child, and did not enter the palace until the caller in the palace summoned him. I saw that the man was half-lying on a luxurious bed with gold carvings and jade carvings, and he was still holding a reading book called "Liang Zheng's Poetry Collection" in his hand.

"Teacher, I'm still bothering you at night, and I can't help but call you over. What is this child? Is it the heir to the mantle that you have chosen?" The person who got up from the bed was none other than the Huangyang Emperor Li Qinxin, glanced at the old man who was standing there and the child kneeling at his feet, and said softly.

Although the words were apologetic and polite, the tone and movements were not a little warm. Li Qinxin just glanced at them, then turned sideways and picked up the red sandalwood needles on the incense table and stirred up the ashes in the incense burner.

The old man surnamed Chen was still no different from when he first came in, but the child kneeling on the ground, looking like he was only seven or eight years old, and he couldn't raise his head just because of Li Qinxin's natural coercion. If it weren't for the fact that he had just been shocked by the old man beside him, he was afraid that he would have lost his normality early and cried.

"Your Majesty has a heart, Chen Yinzhan is terrified. This child was seen when I was walking in a small village, and I saw that he was both physically and spiritually, and thought that he had just brought him with him when he was old, and he also planned to pass on to him the old slave's little ability, and that there was someone to inherit this simple mantle, so that he could continue to serve His Majesty, and the old slave had just taken him to cleanse his body. After Chen Yinzhan finished speaking calmly, he coughed violently.

It was the child on the ground, listening to his words, the uncomfortable expression that had just been a little suppressed by Li Qinxin's coercion also became cold and calm. Li Qinxin didn't know what the so-called bringing meant, with Chen Yinzhan's habit of doing things in his hands for many years, presumably the child's village was no different from purgatory now. Of course, Li Qinxin wouldn't care about these at all, no matter how Chen Yinzhan's methods were, for this person who stayed behind when he was the first emperor, he couldn't do anything in the end. Not to mention his profound force, just the unknown things that he has secretly helped him do as a prince in the past few years. Just because Chen Yinzhan chose him among the seven princes back then, every time he thinks of this, Li Qinxin sometimes lets him go, after all, he is old.

Li Qinxin smiled and said: "Then I'll congratulate the teacher first, in fact, it's no big deal to call the teacher today, just kill someone." ”

"Wen Yao Sword Sect, Yang Zhi, this person should be killed, if Your Majesty is celebrating today, the old body understands that it is just to appease those reckless gangsters. is like Na Lin Jia Shilang, although he is talented, but he is not disrespectful, he should be killed. Chen Yinzhan said as he covered his coughing mouth with his hand, and slowly raised his head to look at the king in front of him.

Li Qinxin still took care of himself and fiddled with the incense ashes, and from time to time he used the rosewood needle to pick and cut the cigarette, and laughed softly: "The teacher misunderstood, I said it in front of the people of the world, if the teacher goes to kill Yang Zhi now, the world will talk nonsense, how can it be killed by then? It is enough to scare those Jianghu guests, the person who wants the teacher to kill is this, Ge Laozi, the author of "Liang Zheng's Poetry Collection", this old thing is talking nonsense, writing this kind of poem about Liang is not right and Liang is crooked, it should be killed. While speaking, Li Qinxin threw the book "Liang Zheng's Poetry Collection" in his hand in front of Chen Yinzhan.

Chen Yinzhan curled up under the black robe, and he couldn't see what his expression was, so he said lightly: "Since Your Majesty has Your Majesty's plan, the old slave will do it, if there is nothing else, the old slave will take this baby and retire." ”

When Li Qinxin heard this, he just looked down at the child again, and asked with a soft and peaceful smile, "What's your name?"

The kneeling child was also stunned, looking at the emperor who felt a little kind now, and said weakly: "My name is Gong Shoupeng, and everyone in the village calls me Peng Peng... Now it's called Little Gongzi.... ”

The child's temperament, because the person in front of him who was full of coercion suddenly became friendly and relaxed, and he didn't think about some things, so he couldn't help but say, and lowered his head after speaking.

Li Qinxin didn't say anything when he saw this, but Chen Yinzhan, he Nuan Nuan put down the hand that was blocking his mouth and coughed: "Your Majesty has nothing to ask, can the old slave leave now?"

This time, Li Qinxin didn't say anything, just smiled and waved his hand, signaling that he could go, so Chen Yinzhan also took the child with him, and went out of the Tinghong Palace with his father-in-law.

"Didn't Your Majesty say that this Yang Zhi is arrogant and disrespectful, and that there is a talent in this collection of Ge Laozi's poems? How can it be the opposite of what the slave said and what he explained to Mrs. Chen?" a brocade-clothed concubine was sitting on the bed and pressed Li Qinxin's forehead and asked curiously.

Li Qinxin closed his eyes and didn't answer, Lin Jiashilang was the same age as him, and most of his talents and hobbies were the same, and when he was a son, he often rode and shot and talked together, until Li Qinxin's party competed for the position, and he had little communication. It was Lin Shilang's decision that Lin Huanting did not get involved in party strife, but it became the target of Li Qinxin's later ascension to the throne and others used to invite merit and provoke assassination, until Lin Huanting wrote the poem of the prime minister's spitting that He was too anxious, and the Lin family was imprisoned, so Li Qinxin secretly ordered Chen Yinzhan to save Lin Huanting's family of thirteen. Indeed, the Lin family who was still in prison at the time later said that they were robbed by people in the rivers and lakes, Li Qinxin naturally knew that Chen Yinzhan did it, so he always thought that the Lin family had escaped, and it was not until just now that he knew that Lin Huanting's family was killed by Chen Yinzhan.

Li Qinxin also knew that Chen Yinzhan said that he had killed, and that must be the fact that he had been killed. Li Qinxin also knew that the reason why Chen Yinzhan slaughtered the Lin family was not just because Lin Huanting was disrespectful, but more because Chen Yinzhan fell in love with the little sister of the Lin family and wanted to ask for double cultivation, but it was Lin Huanting who begged Li Qinxin to stop the matter, so Chen Yinzhan always held a grudge. This old thing, ruthless, will be revenged, and he is still double cultivated, why don't you also clean yourself up.

Li Qin thought about it, scolded in his heart, slowly opened his eyes, looked at the concubine in front of him, and said slowly: "Didn't you ask me what the last few moves were called when you played chess with me yesterday? I'll tell you now." The concubine asked, blinked her eyes a few times, looked at Li Qinxin, whose eyebrows had obviously changed, and asked softly, "Your Majesty, what is it called?"

"Imperial Mind. ”

Only Li Qinxin himself knew that in fact, just now after he heard Chen Yinzhan say that he had killed Lin Huanting, he was extremely angry, but he also knew that his anger was not because Chen Yinzhan killed Lin Huanting at all.

After hearing what Li Qinxin said, the concubine just smiled, lay soft in his arms, and said softly: "It seems that Your Majesty wants to play a game of chess again." ”