Chapter 42: Ouchi's Guards

Le Yiyang and Lai Jiyun were both amazed, admiring the old beggar's magical martial arts and chivalrous heart. Pen~Fun~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Le Yiyang sighed: "The capital is the land of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. That old-timer came and went without a trace, and his martial arts were far above us, no wonder the beggar gang had been the largest gang in the Central Plains since the end of the Tang Dynasty. In the future, if you are lucky enough to meet your seniors, you will ask him for guidance. Lai Jiyun responded: "The old-timers don't want to be famous, and they are willing to be a chivalrous beggar, which really makes Yun'er admire." ”

The two of them were praising with great interest, when suddenly they heard a mean voice from behind them: "What's the big deal, isn't it just a stinky beggar? Le Yiyang and Lai Jiyun turned around and saw Zhai Jingyue holding on to the door frame, with a look of disdain in their eyes.

The man on the ground saw Zhai Jingyue and said angrily: "Shopkeeper, you can't say that, if it weren't for the old beggar's action, would we still be able to work for you in the future?" Zhai Jingyue saw that he said good things for the old beggar, shook his sleeve vigorously, and said: "You eat xenophobic things, you are useless and were beaten, who else can blame? You also heard the words of the stinky beggar just now, the one hundred and twenty-nine twenty-seven cents are counted on him, and he has long since disappeared, where can I go to him to ask for money?" Since the stinky beggar has healed your wounds, the money will be counted on you. From this day on, you and I will work honestly, no laziness, no gambling, and all tips from customers must be handed over. Remember, one hundred and twenty-nine taels and seven cents are not missing. After saying "hum", he turned around and walked towards the house.

The two people on the ground are usually used to being so fierce by her, and they are so frightened that they dare not gnaw at the moment. Le Yiyang was about to comfort them a few words, but Lai Jiyun pulled him aside and said, "This shopkeeper is very arrogant, let's not wade into this troubled water." Le Yiyang felt that what she said made sense, thinking that she would cause so many things as soon as she came to the capital, it would be important to go and do the right thing first, so she said: "Yun'er, Princess Yelu's affairs have been understood, and her subordinates are full of masters, so Tuoba Jiyu can't help her." ”

This will follow Ji Yun to the edge of the Bianhe River, and the breeze will blow, slowly raising the dresses of the two. Lai Jiyun looked at the passenger boats passing by on the river, pointed to a boat and said, "Brother Yang, look over there." Le Yiyang looked in the direction of his finger and saw three people standing in a small boat, a man and a woman with a little boy, three people standing side by side. Looking at the dress of the three people in the boat, it should be a family. The man's expression was solemn, and he occasionally looked back at the river, the woman snuggled up to his shoulder, her face showing a tired face, and the child was young and ignorant, staring at the bustling pavilion on the edge of the Bianhe River and smirking.

Le Yiyang looked at this family and said with a sigh: "They are coming from the north, and they will go in the direction of Xuzhou, which should be to avoid the southern invasion of the Khitan." Pity this family, born at the wrong time, floating around. Lai Jiyun said: "As the saying goes, husband and wife are birds in the same forest, and they fly separately when disaster comes. It is rare that this family can still support each other in troubled times. Le Yiyang nodded and said: "It's not easy to be in troubled times. I hope that this war can end as soon as possible, and then we, the people of the Jin Kingdom, will no longer have to live this life of hiding in Tibet and being displaced. After speaking, he shook his head helplessly.

Lai Jiyun saw that he seemed to have something on his mind, and asked softly: "Brother Yang, why did you shake your head just now?" Le Yiyang said sadly: "I am afraid that the people of the Jin Kingdom will be wiped out this time. "Come to Jiyun to walk with him all the way, I have never seen him so pessimistic, and now although the Jin State is not lucky, attracting the Khitan to invade, but the Jin State is still heavily garrisoned on the front line, and it will not be ruined. Thinking of this, Lai Jiyun stepped forward and comforted: "Le Gongzi, Hedong Jiedu made Liu Zhiyuan, the king of Beiping, garrison Taiyuan, with 50,000 troops, and there are Guo Wei, Shi Hongzhao, Wang Zhang, Su Fengji and other military generals and Confucian soldiers, which are enough to resist the Khitan army in the north; ”

Le Yiyang said: "The king of Beiping is loyal and brave, broad-minded, I have a relationship with him in Daizhou, and he is stationed in Taiyuan, which can ensure that I have no worries on the northwest border of the Great Jin." What I'm worried about is this Du Chongwei, although he is the uncle of the current emperor, but this person is ambitious, brave and unscrupulous, and the Jin country may be destroyed in his hands. So he told Ji Yun about Du Chongwei's external communication with the Khitan and the internal handover to the ministers. Lai Jiyun was shocked, and said angrily: "Du Chongwei's move is so similar to what his brother-in-law Shi Jingjiao did back then, but it's a pity that Yelu Deguang is still the same Yelu Deguang, but Du Chongwei is not Shi Jingjiao." Yerod will not give up this time. If Du Chongwei surrenders to the enemy, then my Jin country may be doomed. ”

Le Yiyang nodded and said, "Yun'er's worries are not unreasonable. The emperor already knows about the conspiracy between Du Chongwei and Du Chongwei, and I don't know if he will be wary. Suddenly, I remembered that Concubine Lu Siyi was extremely intelligent and would definitely give advice to the emperor. Le Yiyang was originally going to tell Ji Yun what happened in the palace in the morning, but after thinking about it, he was worried that she would not have time to accept it for a while, and it would not be too late to explain the treatment when she saw Xian Yunhuan or Lu Zhicheng.

The two of them left the Bianhe River and marched all the way along the main road of Kaifeng City, when they suddenly saw a group of Imperial Forest soldiers rushing over on horseback, shouting: "Idle people, wait, hurry up and get out of the way!" Le Yiyang stretched out his hand to see Ji Yun pull to the side of the road, and asked loudly: "What happened?" One of the Imperial Forest soldiers turned around, and the two glanced at each other, this person was the Royal Forest Guard who led the way for her and Feng Ruoxiang in the palace today.

The man reined in his horse and said, "I didn't expect to meet Childe here." Just now, someone assassinated the emperor in the palace, and followed the brothers all the way down, presumably that person was still in the city, so he didn't dare to slack off. Childe, we'll have a meeting later. With a wave of his whip, he galloped forward. Le Yiyang looked at their backs and said to Ji Yun, "Yun'er, let's go and have a look." Lai Jiyun didn't know why, but along the way, I listened to him talk about some recent things intermittently, and only then did I know that Le Gongzi had recently met a few extremely beautiful women, and I couldn't help but feel confused.

The two followed the group of guards to a ruined temple on the edge of the city, only to find Cuixin and Du Chi bowing their heads in front of the temple. The guard stepped forward and said, "Brother Du, I didn't expect you to be so elegant, and take the cuixin of the farewell building here to relax." Du Chi looked up and saw that the person who came looked nervous, and said with a wry smile: "Brother Guo, what are you kidding, you didn't see Cuixin's sad appearance, I came to comfort her." ”

The guard's surname is Guo Dan, a single name is a Rong character, he is twenty-seven years old this year, and he is the adopted son of Guo Wei, a general under Liu Zhiyuan's account, and his real name is Guo Rong. Guo Rong's family is illustrious, and his grandfather and father are important ministers of the Tang Dynasty. Guo Rong's aunt Zeng Gui was the concubine of Li Cunqiao of Tang Zhuangzong. After Tang Mingzong Li Siyuan ascended the throne, he advocated simplicity, and in order to open up sources and reduce expenditure, he ordered Li Cunxuan's concubines to return to their hometowns. Guo Rong's aunt met Guo Wei on the way home, and the two fell in love at first sight and made a private decision for life. Later, the Chai family gradually declined in the troubled times, and Guo Rong was fostered in his uncle Guo Wei's house in order to make a living. Guo Rong was smart and capable, and he was deeply loved by Guo Wei, so he adopted him as his adopted son and changed his name to Guo Rong.

Guo Rong was on an errand in the Great Jin Palace at this time, and he was a guard officer like Du Chi. Since the founding of the Sui and Tang dynasties, the guards in the palace have been served by the children of the family. Although the guard officer is only a fourth grade, because he can get along with the emperor day and night, he is extremely respectful. Guo Wei's two sons, Guo Dong and Guo Xin, are adults. Guo Wei asked his second son to go to Taiyuan with the army to exercise, and let Guo Rong enter the palace to protect the emperor, which shows the importance of Guo Rong.

Guo Rong looked around, then retreated to Du Chi's side, leaned over and asked, "Brother Du, I can see an assassin passing by here." Du Chi shook his head and said, "Brother Guo, I've been bowing my head to talk to Cui Xin, where have I seen any assassins? Guo Rong dismounted sideways, stepped forward and said respectfully: "Brother Du, we chased all the way in the direction where the assassin fled, but we lost his trace when we chased here, so I asked this question, and I hope you will bear with me." ”

Although Du Chi was in the palace with Guo Rong as a guard officer, he didn't have any martial arts, so he admired Guo Rong very much, and at this time, seeing Guo Rong's humble attitude, he got up and saluted back: "Brother Guo, why should you be like this, we are all our own brothers, you just said that there were assassins in the palace, what is going on?

Guo Rong glanced at Le Yiyang, Lai Jiyun, and Cuixin, and saw that these people were not outsiders, so he told everything that happened in the palace just now.

At that time, Le Yi Yang walked out of the Nuanfang Palace, said goodbye to Guo Rong and others, and left the palace. After a while, Shi Chonggui happily walked out of the Nuanfang Palace, Guo Rong saw that the emperor's expression today was different from the past, and he was wondering about this matter along the way. As soon as he walked more than ten steps with the emperor, a black shadow suddenly jumped out from the side. Guo Rong thought it was Le Yiyang at first, but after a closer look, the person's figure, hair bundle, and clothes were quite different from Le Yiyang. Before he could think about it, the man had already flown out. Guo Rong saw him coming and going in a hurry, unlike an ordinary assassin, and he didn't know what the purpose of his trip was, so he had to escort the emperor back to the palace while strengthening the palace's vigilance.

Guo Rong was worried that the assassins lurking in the palace would be a scourge after all, so he personally led people to inspect the palace. As expected, at noon, I finally heard movement in the library. Guo Rong rushed in with nine guards, only to see that the books in the library were scattered all over the ground, and the large boxes used for the collection of books were also broken up. Looking at this scene, Guo Rong understood that the assassin seemed to be looking for something important, and this thing was probably placed in the library cabinet.