Chapter 444: The End of the Season
The sun had set, and some of the sounds of the bustling Bianliang had gradually faded away. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
A gentle summer breeze blows through the streets, and lanterns that emit warm yellow sway gently under the eaves, and the craftsmen of the Red Mansion have already left their work at nightfall. When the door closed, Luan Hong's clothes tightened the red veil that hung tightly, and they sat next to the man and got into the carriage parked on the side of the street.
With the groom's shout, the horses were driven towards the Donghua Gate, and in the other direction of the intersection, a carriage also came and passed by by a staggered way.
When night fell on Bianliang City, the brightly lit and bustling street night market, the carriage passed through the crowd, drove for a while, and stopped at a mansion, and the people inside came out of the car to look at the closed door of the house, and motioned for the coachman to go over and pass his name.
On the original summer night, after the Jurchen retreated, the glitz of the past regained its vitality, but this scene made his face extremely ugly.
The rise of the eunuch party in the Wu Dynasty, carrying the status of the martial arts has gradually risen, as a literati, he has not complained, under the general trend, he can also see clearly, but in the past, the brother's family died tragically under the knife, and the anger in his heart is really difficult to vent.
The betrayer turned out to be the best friend in his life.
Li Ruoshui got out of the carriage and walked straight towards the gate, there was a crack in the door, half of the face of the door poked out, looked at the person, and immediately said: "Two, my family is not a guest today." ”
"I know that Qin will be there!"
As he spoke, he forcefully pushed open the door and broke in, and the door wanted to be blocked, but he was entangled by the coachman brought by the other party. Li Ruoshui watched the hall opposite the courtyard with bright lights and figures walking on the window paper, he walked past the lights in the stone pillars in the garden, and walked into the dim light.
Stepping up the stone steps, I walked into the half-open door of the hall. Qin Hui, who was sitting in the middle, saw the figure coming outside the door, was stunned, and put down the dishes and chopsticks in his hand.
"Brother Li, you haven't eaten yet, come and eat together. ”
Li Ruoshui arched his hand: "I can't eat for my brother..... after all, I don't have the capacity of those who have no heart and lungs." Looking at Brother Qin's family gathered around the table, when I thought of today's vegetable market, Brother Wang's family was a headless soul....."
"I'm uncomfortable!" Li Ruoshui's smile retracted, and his eyes stared straight at the scribe who fell into silence.
Qin Hui's family also put down the dishes and chopsticks in their hands at this time, and the atmosphere fell into solemnity for a while, and their eyes were probably not so friendly. Qin Hui sighed and waved his hand at them: "Let the subordinates take the food down, you move the ground to eat, and I will talk to Brother Li." ”
His wife, Wang, shook her head at Qin Xi and the others who were still resentful: "You are obedient, go down first, and let your father and Uncle Li talk about things first." ”
After the children went down, Wang gently patted the back of Qin Hui's hand and advised, "I don't know what happened outside, but the two of you are more than a hundred years old, don't quarrel like children." ”
Qin Hui smiled and nodded, looking at his old wife, his eyes were mostly gentle. Then the hall was gone, and the servants served tea.
The figure over there held the tea cup in his hand, and soon, with a bang, the body of the pear blossom fell and shattered.
Water stains splash ......
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At the same time, Donghua Gate, inside the investigation factory.
In the heavily guarded Dongchang, Luan Hongyi was a little nervous and pinched the palm of the man next to him, and a team of Jinyi guards and Fanzi were patrolling around, and occasionally heard a voice faintly outside the White Tiger Festival Hall, intermittent and very weak.
"....Shaoqing, that's it. ”
"Go back to the palace ..... let An Daoquan come over....."
....
Not long after, the arrogant and silent black-robed eunuch came out of it holding a square-shaped box, squinted at the men and women waiting outside, and turned straight on horseback, "Do things well for the overseer, you Jianghu people..."
He glanced back coldly, very disdainful.
The door of the festival hall opened again, and a small eunuch beckoned to the two people waiting, "The Overseer is waiting for you inside." ”
Zhao Mingtuo hurriedly returned the salute, and then walked into the solemn and gloomy White Tiger Festival Hall with Luan Hongyi, and the huge braziers on both sides shone brightly, and the figures of the two of them staggered and stopped at a distance of one zhang from the stone steps.
His eyes followed the stone steps up, and Zhao Mingtuo immediately pulled the woman to kneel, his eyes lowered: "Zhao Mingtuo (Luan Hongyi) visits Admiral Chitose." ”
The light and dark firelight showed a light and dark color on the soft and cold face, and the corners of the mouth were arcing into a smile as the other party spoke.
"Nine thousand years old....hehe, what our family said on a whim really spread. Bai Ning sat there flatly, his fingers unconsciously tapping on the armrest.
"I called you over today, because I didn't say it in detail before, and when I come back this time, we have something to say while we are free. ”
Zhao Mingtuo's eyes raised, and he clenched his fists again: "Please also ask Lord Admiral to command." ”
In the firelight, the slender figure slowly stood up from the chair, dragging a long shadow on the white tiger blanket, "The six doors were originally established by the governor to maintain order in the rivers and lakes, and the role played is obvious, but it is not what the governor wants. ”
"So there's me and Red?" The kneeling figure didn't have much mood swings.
Bai Ning looked at the burning flames with his hands and nodded: "That's right." Then his gaze moved to Zhao Mingtuo's face below, "After a long time of polishing, the six doors hang like a knife on the heads of the Jianghu people, but they are too direct. ”
Walking down the stone steps, his robe swayed, he said: "This governor also needs another knife, hide in the dark, do something not very clean, after all, the affairs of the rivers and lakes, the rivers and lakes, by you people in the rivers and lakes, it is often more convenient than the imperial court to use the East Factory." ”
"It's just... There are only me and the two in red mansions, I'm afraid it's..."
"Don't pay attention to this, there is a shortage of manpower, we will provoke it to you, those masters with a bad reputation on the rivers and lakes, you can also recruit, what price, from the East Factory." But—"
Bai Ning shook his finger in front of him, and his tone became cold: "If the other party is unwilling, then let's do it together, it's clear enough, right?"
"Clear enough. ”
"Then go down. Bai Ning walked back to the stone steps and made a gesture of retreat. Over there, the two of them bowed down and walked backwards out of the gate of the festival hall.
As soon as Luan Hongyi came out, he patted his chest, up and down: "I'm scared to death....I don't dare to gasp." ”
"The superior has the power of the superior, and it is something that the people of the rivers and lakes can't practice martial arts all their lives. Zhao Mingtuo glanced at the closed door behind him and explained to the woman.
In the dark, his palms were also full of cold sweat, and he was tired of it.
......
"Qin Hui....you did a good job. ”
"Brother, don't be angry, sit down first. Qin Hui picked up the tea and didn't look at the broken tea cup on the ground, and asked the servant to re-serve it.
Li Ruoshui raised his arm and trembled and pointed to a casual figure, gritting his teeth: "At the beginning....you, me and Wang Yun were together..... you went back to Beijing to report on work, and there was nowhere to go, and he recommended you to Cai Xiang....But what have you done in the past two days....what have you done!!"
"What are you doing...."The teacup that Qin Hui had just put to his lips slowly took it away and put it on the table, "..... the scholarly spirit mentioned by the Admiral of Dongchang in the past, I was not aware of it in the past, but in the past two days, Qin has been taught." ”
The originally kind face gradually became fierce, his eyes were instantly bloodshot, his lips trembled and he stood up, and walked quickly to the figure standing there who refused to sit down, and pointed out the door with his arm: "Let me watch him report the Admiral of Dongchang?"
"Can't you?"
"Yes!!" Qin Hui suddenly shouted, and waved his arm in the air, "He told him, he was happy, but this government and the opposition, who dares to take Bai Ning? Is it you Li Ruoshui, or am I the Imperial History Zhongcheng who relied on Bai Ning to go up?"
His fingers were pointing at the other party again and again through the air, and his tone was abrupt: "The Jurchen has just retreated, remember! It's retreat, not defeat, my Wu Dynasty should be bent on cleaning up the mess now, and at this time I will go to expose it, have you ever thought about it, when the time comes, things will be shaken out, how will the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty deal with this matter?"
Li Ruoshui, who was in a hurry, was drunk by him at this time, and he was also a little dazed.
Qin Hui sighed, and his tone softened, "When the time comes, how embarrassing the scene is, do you know? At that time, it was not Bai Ning who came down, but the court was a sea of blood, how many people would be killed, how many families were destroyed, the scholar should shed his blood and donate his life for the dawn of the world, but it shouldn't be in this matter....brother....you still don't understand?"
The hall was quiet, and after a while, the Wang family behind the screen came to take a look, and went back, obviously relieved of something. Among the two people who had their backs to each other, Qin Hui raised his head and let out a long breath.
"....Some of Dongchang's practices are a little too much, and they don't agree with it, but now in danger, only the steel knife on the neck of some people can push this Wu Dynasty away. Brother, you and I are both literati, usually drink and have fun and chat about things, don't you all want to do something for the people, now the north is rotten, and there is an urgent shortage of officials, brother might as well go over. ”
"Are you saying this to Bai Ning?" Li Ruoshui looked at the candle flame burning in the high hall and repeated it again, "This was said by Bai Ning?"
Qin Hui looked at him and shook his head.
"I said that, and I don't want my only friend to shed any more blood in this matter. ”
Over there, Li Ruoshui closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and then nodded violently, "Okay! I'll leave Bianliang tomorrow." Suddenly, his arm was raised.
With a tearing sound, the torn cuffs were sprinkled, and half of the cloth fell in front of Qin Hui's feet.
"We cut off our robes and cut off our righteousness. The figure turned and stepped out of the hall door as the cloth fell.
Qin Hui picked up the pieces of cloth on the ground, squeezed his hands, and sat on the chair, after which he summoned the servants, closed his eyes and ordered: "Prepare some manpower, and leave the city tomorrow...... Clean hands and feet. ”
After the man left, the cloth floated from his hand to the ground.
".....I'm sorry just in case. ”
The night wind was blowing, whipping up the raindrops from the leaves and breaking them on the muddy ground.
In the foothills of Bianliang, more than 100 miles to the south, a heavy rain has just fallen, and there are heavy forests in the distance, ticking...ticking...ticking...ticking...there are small footsteps walking.
Soon after, a figure kept looking left and right in panic, and in the shaking sight, there was a black shadow standing next to a tree, and when he was frightened, the figure stood in front of him very quickly, and suddenly stretched out a hand like an iron hoop, firmly holding his neck, and by the night, the other party's eyes were looking at him brightly, face to face.
A click, a crisp sound was heard through the woods.
The corpse slowly fell to the ground, and the white figure reached out and pulled out a strangely shaped metal object from the corpse's robes.
"....finally got it together, the last one. ”
The voice sounded, and the man took the treasure into his arms and walked into the deep mountains, walking briskly.
PS: There is still only one change, 3,400 words delivered. But the quality should not be low,