Chapter 14 Hidden in the Secret Scheme
Let's say that Li Xuan didn't come back from the palace until noon, and after learning about Li Bing's true anger, he didn't panic.
personally took him to the "Beimeng" house, and said on the way:
"Even if there is nothing you can do, there is another place that can cure you. The Li family's background is bigger than you think, but this is a secret that only the princes know. I can't say it yet, but in short, it's not a big deal, you can rest assured. ”
Fortunately, as soon as he arrived in Beifu, Beimeng asked about the situation and the pulse, and agreed to it, only saying that it would take a few days to prepare properly, so he would come to do this on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year.
Na Meng has reached the age of old age, with a slender figure, withered skin and white hair, and trembling when he walks, this magic master in Li Bing's imagination is completely different.
Li Xuan explained: "He himself does not know any martial arts, he is arithmetic and astrological research, although he is highly outstanding in the crossing, his muscles and bones have not been practiced again, and most of his techniques belong to stargazing; But if you really fight each other, I'm afraid you won't be able to beat the scoundrels in the market. ”
Coming out of the Beimeng Mansion, Li Bing finally relaxed a little, and when he returned to the palace, he was finally able to let go of his burden and celebrate the New Year lively.
Chinese New Year's Eve should be the busiest day of the year.
In fact, it is. Even the curfew orders of the city guards and patrol battalions could not stop the enthusiasm of people to celebrate the end of the year and welcome the new.
As soon as the time came, the people rushed into the streets, the cannons were fired, the lanterns were lit, the three teas and five wines were dedicated to the gods, the paper was burned and incense was burned to welcome the ancestors, and there were laughter and laughter everywhere.
The saying that the law does not hold the public accountable has never been as fully embodied as it is today.
Yesterday's rebellion not only did not stop the enthusiasm of the Spring Festival, but became the biggest topic of conversation during the New Year's Festival banquet and in the streets and alleys, which only increased the fun of the people.
The decoration of the palace is the same as in the past, but the atmosphere is much more serious than outside the palace. The emperor even canceled the year-end palace audience and reunion dinner, and changed it to a separate government to give dishes.
Li Yu went to the queen's palace by himself, and the rest of the princes and princesses also celebrated the New Year in each palace.
Xiangwang Mansion large and small more than 20 people sat together, a large table feast, basically gathered the signature dishes of various restaurants in Chang'an, sumptuous and incomparable, the family talked and laughed, and enjoyed happily.
A young aunt sat next to Li Xu, holding a four or five-year-old girl in her arms, who was Li Xu's youngest child. She didn't eat vegetables, and her big watery eyes looked at Li You's dripping and spinning, thoughtful, and stopped talking.
When King Xiang saw it, he smiled and touched the tip of her nose: "My precious daughter, why don't you eat today!
The little girl stuck out her tongue, pursed her lips, and said with a playful smile: "Father, father." Why don't you pay 100 years old!"
After saying a sentence, the people at the table laughed together, and the aunt patted the little girl on the shoulder again and again, held her in her arms, turned left and right, her face turned red, and she smiled again and again: "Tong Yan Wuji, let everyone see the joke." ”
On the contrary, Li Yu thought that this little girl was cute, gave her subordinates a look, took the little girl into her arms, and teased her: "The baby daughter wants to be 100 years old, so what should I say to my father?"
The little girl skillfully bowed her hands, and her voice was milky: "I wish my father a long life and a long life." ”
When she was doing this, she was still looking at Li Yu at first, but when the next person came up with a tray, she couldn't take her eyes off - twelve big red plain cloth purses, neatly placed on the tray, each bulging.
Li Yan looked at this girl's innocence, and she really couldn't put it down. He smiled brightly, grabbed a purse, and handed it to the little girl: "In the new year, be obedient!"
The little girl put her purse into her arms with both hands, smiled like a flower, fell into Li Yan's arms, and put her arms around his neck: "Thank you, father!"
This coquettishness really melted Li Yan's heart. I don't know how many souls of the sons of the family will be snatched away by this girl more than ten years later.
The aunt hugged the little girl away, and Li Yu gave all the children 100-year-old money from childhood to adulthood, and the purse was more bulging than the other, and even Mi Xin's children also had a share.
In the end, there were only two purses left on the plate, and Anzi was still stunned on the table. Li Bing bumped his arm and whispered to him, "It's your turn!"
"Oh" Anzi hurriedly got up, walked to Li Xuan's side, learned from Li Bing's sisters just now, and kowtowed to Li Xuan: "I wish my father-in-law, all my wishes come true, and everything goes well." ”
"Okay!" Li Hao helped Anzi up, put the heavy hundred-year-old money in the palm of his hand, and said kindly: "Since you have officially lived in the house, you will be a family in the future." You can also pay money in the house according to the rules every month, and it won't treat you badly.
By the way, Bing'er asked me to find you a gentleman, and I found it, and I came to the house after the New Year, one to teach you to read, and the other to learn some rules, you have to follow well, don't be like your brother-in-law, who didn't have a proper shape when he was a child. ”
Li Bing grimaced at Li Yan, but Anzi was grateful, and said, "Thank you, father-in-law." ”
Looking at his eyes, Li Xuan suddenly had a thought, and asked: "By the way, listening to your accent, it doesn't look like a person from Guanzhong, where is your home? Who else is at home? Do you need to write back?"
"My parents died young, I grew up wandering in the Ezhou area. There are no other relatives in the family. ”
Li Xuan nodded slightly: "Oh! is a hard-working child." After speaking, he thought thoughtfully: "I remember Bing'er said that you are fourteen years old." Is it the second year of Zhide?"
"Exactly. ”
Li Yan touched his beard, looked at the contours of his cheeks, his face became slightly solemn, and asked, "Your parents died early, who took the name 'Anqing Fang'?"
"When I was very young, I had a nurse with me, but she died when I was four years old. After that, I grew up eating 100 family meals, and the neighbors said that the nurse called me this name, and I have been using it ever since. ”
Li Yu nodded: "Oh! It's okay, I'll just ask." After speaking, he regrouped his smile, looked at Li Bing, and said with a smile: "This year's 100-year-old money will be distributed here." Children who are in trouble everywhere don't have 100-year-old money, and yours will be confiscated this year!"
"Hahahaha. The cheerful voice filled the entire palace again.
Some places are lively, and some places are deserted.
In the prison of Taiji Palace, from the gate of the prison to the cell, there are four layers of garrison, and the personnel on each floor are from different institutions: the jailer of the Ministry of Officials, the Guards of the Military Department, the eunuchs of the Great Inner Palace, and the forbidden army of the Northern Ya. Each performs its own duties and supervises each other, and if you want to do something here, I'm afraid it's more difficult than climbing to the sky.
But there's a good saying – it's man-made.
King Mu took off his court clothes, dressed in brown cloth prison clothes, and sat with his back against the cold wall, looking sad and silent, listening to the crackling of firecrackers outside.
In addition to the upper floor of the ground, there are four underground dungeons, and each layer is divided into eight partitions: "Qian, Kun, Kan, Li, Zhen, Xun, Gen, and Yan", and between the partitions, they are closed by iron doors to prevent collusion. In each partition, there are four cells in the south, east, and west, separated by a log fence.
King Mu's status is precious, and he is locked in the first floor, and in the north-facing room of the Kanzi Group, there is still some light that can penetrate in. The other three cells next to him were empty. All day, there wasn't even anyone to talk to.
"Woo~~~" With a long, heavy sound, the door of the cell was opened.
The forbidden army took a food box from a eunuch and handed him back the token: "You wait for me here, don't come in." ”
The eunuch nodded and said to the forbidden army: "Thank you, for your understanding, we are also acting on orders." I'm tired of my lord. ”
The forbidden army ignored him, carried the food box, walked down the steps, walked to the front of the prison of King Mu, took out a plate of slots, and put it by the fence.
Listening to the iron gate again, the eunuch shouted: "Your Highness, this is the 'slot' that Concubine De entrusted me to bring." Niangniang still remembers His Royal Highness. She believes that His Royal Highness is innocent, His Royal Highness must hold on, Concubine De will find a way. ”
Concubine De Niangniang is the biological mother of King Mu.
When King Mu heard that it was Concubine De, he was secretly happy in his heart, but he still pretended to be lost, sat at the base of the wall, and remained motionless.
"Bang!" the heavy door was locked again in an instant.
Hearing the forbidden army walking away, King Mu hurriedly crawled to the entrance of the cell, picked up the bowl of horns, and took a closer look. The pineapple bowl, with ten clear soup slots in it, looks very normal.
In the prison, only wood can be used to deliver food, not porcelain and iron, in order to prevent the prison rice from being used as a tool to make trouble.
He touched the bowl around, found nothing, and chewed the horn carefully, which was also ordinary meat filling, and there was nothing special about it.
"How could it be, the appearance of the eunuch just now is obviously that there is news coming in. ”
Thinking about this in his heart, he poured out the clear soup, turned the bowl upside down again, and touched it carefully, and sure enough, there was a very subtle splicing trace, even if he touched it with his hands, it was difficult to detect.
This is the masterpiece of a joiner, relying on the falcon structure to create this double-layered bowl, the two layers of wood are the same color, the texture is similar, and the nails are not used to paste together, like a piece of solid wood.
King Mu put the bowl on the ground, split it with one palm, the bowl was lined up into pieces, and a thin piece of oiled paper appeared in the middle of the mezzanine, densely written with small characters.
"Your Royal Highness, I have ascertained that Meng Haiyuan and Ah Qiuse are both members of the crown prince.
A year ago, he became our henchmen by paying a large amount of money. I didn't expect him to rebel and catch me off guard.
The assassination incident at the end of the sacrifice was an opportunity for the prince to deliberately plot to frame us and put us to death.
He started planning this a year ago, which shows the weight of his thoughts.
Now that the human and material evidence are in his hands, we have no chance to defend ourselves, so we can only fight against the water.
On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, the four layers of the prison were all my people, and I had a way to rescue His Highness, and at the same time sent 10,000 troops to attack from outside the palace. I know that there are still forces in His Highness's palace, and it shouldn't be difficult to control the palace gate and let us in.
When the time comes, the inside and the outside should be combined, and great things can be expected.
Forcing the palace on the fifth day of the first month is the only opportunity for us to make a decision as soon as possible. ”
The signature on the letter was "Chao Eun".
After reading it, King Mu not only did not get angry, but became calmer, he put the oil paper in his mouth, chewed it slowly and swallowed it. All doubts have finally been solved.
On that day, he and Yu Chaoen were in the palace of the king of harmony, and they only had the intention of wooing, and did not talk about anything else. The year-end ritual assassination was indeed unaware of the assassination, and he was indeed wronged.
"Okay, you Li Shi! You are even more ruthless than me! You started plotting to murder me a year ago. Now that I'm going to let you see, who laughed at the end!"
Li Shu punched the fence, and a treacherous smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
At the same time, the same smile also appeared in Zheng Guogong's Mansion.
He is nearly fifty years old, and his skin is slightly wrinkled, but he is still fair, much better than his peers. Under the narrow eyebrows, a pair of eyes also showed a shrewd gaze.
This person is none other than Zheng Guogong - Yu Chaoen.
"Why is the father-in-law laughing?" it was Yu Chaoen's righteous son, Yu Linghui (see volume).
The entire Zheng Guogong Mansion was surrounded by the forbidden army on three floors, inside and outside, and all Zheng Guogong's family members were placed under house arrest and were not allowed to go out.
"News has finally come from the palace!" Yu Chaoen pointed to the food box on the table and said with a smile: "Look at it, what's wrong with this dish given by Your Majesty?"
Yu Linghui looked at it carefully, and even checked the chopsticks in the food box: "It doesn't seem to be anything special, there is no secret grid in the food box, and there is no ...... in the chopsticks I don't see ......."
"You can't see it with your eyes, you have to look with your heart!" Yu Chaoen said, pouring all the dishes on the plate on the ground: "Your Majesty has always used only silver and porcelain plates to give dishes, when have you ever used wooden plates?" After speaking, he handed the plate to Yu Linghui: "You take a closer look?"
knocked on the wooden plate, looked around carefully, and reached out to touch both sides: "Made of solid wood, not hollow, no mechanism, no dark lines?"
Yu Chaoen smiled: "This is the Falcon Mu structure, it seems to be a whole, but in fact it is two layers stuck together, otherwise, how can you deceive the forbidden army?
"Smack! a crisp sound!" the wooden dish cracked, and sure enough, there was a piece of rice paper inside.
"Father, look!"
Yu Chaoen took the note, which was also full of small words:
"Love will be Chaoen, I have found out that Meng Haiyuan and Ah Qiuse are both the prince's people.
A year ago, he became our henchmen by paying a large amount of money. I didn't expect him to rebel and catch me off guard.
The assassination incident at the end of the sacrifice was an opportunity for the prince to deliberately plot to frame us and put us to death.
He started planning this a year ago, which shows the weight of his thoughts.
Now that the human and material evidence are in his hands, we have no chance to defend ourselves, so we can only fight against the water.
On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, the four layers of the prison were all my people, and I had a way to get out of trouble and control the palace gate. I know that it is not difficult for you to get out of house arrest, and I hope you can prepare soldiers and horses to lead the army to attack the imperial city.
When the time comes, the inside and the outside should be combined, and great things can be expected.
Forcing the palace on the fifth day of the first month is the only opportunity for us, and I hope Aiqing will live up to the trust. ”
There is only one word "state" on the letter.
Yu Chaoen handed the letter to Yu Linghui and said with a smile: "I know that the prince is behind this matter!"
"I wanted to sit on the hill and watch the tiger fight, betting on both sides. Since you are unkind, don't blame me for being unjust!"
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