Everything was packed up, and Han Jiangliu and Huai Zhongzhuan waited for the night to freeze, so they crossed the river and continued to march south.

Not to mention this, let's talk about the two soldiers who were ordered to go to the capital to meet the emperor, all the way to eat and drink, Xiaoxing overnight, not only one day, to Bianliang City, Tokyo.

When I arrived in the city, I saw the crowd on the street bustling and lively, and I really felt like I was in a different world.

Because the two sergeants were too low in rank to see the emperor directly, they should have gone to see their direct leader, Lin Chong, the head of the 800,000 forbidden army in Tokyo, but Lin Chong was assassinated in Cangzhou Prison City because he mistakenly entered the White Tiger Festival Hall.

Helplessly, the two sergeants had to go to the eunuch Yang Jian.

The eunuch Yang Jian asked, "Why did you come back?"

The two sergeants told Yang Jian how the situation was and how it was one by one.

Yang Jian lowered his head and pondered for a long time, thinking: "This is a new situation, it is better to report it to Master Cai first." So Yang Jian said to the two sergeants, "You wait here first." "Arrange the two sergeants in the side room of his house, serve good wine and food, and then quietly sneak to Master Cai's mansion.

Cai Jing and Cai You's father and son are all there.

Yang Jian said: "Taishi, Master Cai, is there a new situation?"

Cai You asked, "What's the situation?"

Yang Jian said: "The news brought back by the two sergeants said that Han Jiangliu led people to occupy Kaiyuan Island. ”

"Oh?"

"That's true," Mr. Yang said, recounting the details of what had happened.

"Hahahaha. Cai Jing looked up to the sky and laughed.

Yang Jian wondered: "Taishi, why are you laughing?"

Cai Jing said: "The death of the Han family father and son is not far away. ”

"Oh?" this time it was Yang Jian's turn to have doubts.

Cai Jing said: "You know the situation in Beijing very well recently, Lord Yang. ”

"I know. Yang Jian replied.

Recently, the situation in Jingli is mainly that Han Jiangliu's father, Han Zhongyan, and Cai Jing's son, Cai You, jointly investigate Taoist priest Lin Lingsu. Han Zhongyan originally had the intention to work hard to investigate, but Cai You was constrained everywhere, and often reported to Lin Lingsu privately, which made Han Zhongyan's investigation difficult, although he knew that Lin Lingsu was doing some strange things in secret, but there was no way to find evidence, which made him distressed.

At the same time, because he was the main force in the investigation of Lin Lingsu's task, the investigation was slow to progress, which gave Emperor Huizong the impression that Han Zhongyan was in name, but in fact he was not a very talented person, and gradually he did not trust Han Zhongyan so much.

Although Han Zhongyan did not investigate Lin Lingsu's illegal trajectory, which was the result that Song Huizong wanted to see, he also adopted an increasingly distant attitude towards Han Zhongyan because of this.

Cai Jing's just said that the death of the Han family's father and son was not far away, which was a speculation based on this estranged attitude: the emperor had lost confidence in Han Zhongyan, and at this time, Han Zhongyan's son Han Jiangliu was tasked with finding the princess, but he did not reply for a long time, but brought back an irrelevant task to find a new territory, which was obviously a manifestation of not discriminating priorities.

"If—" Cai Jing thought to himself, "I'll play another book in front of the emperor, saying that Han Jiangliu is looking for a new territory to prepare for his own expansion of territory, and their father and son are preparing to rebel? The more Cai Jing thought about it, the more proud he became, and thought: "Han Zhongyan, if you want to fight me, it's not so easy." ”

This is exactly the case, when Yang Jian took the two sergeants to meet Song Huizong, and Emperor Song Huizong asked the reason for the incident, Song Huizong frowned slightly and said, "Okay, I know." In his heart, he was very unimpressed, and thought to himself: "Han Jiangliu, my eldest princess, have you taken it to heart? How can you care about such an insignificant trivial matter?

The two sergeants did not know the current affairs, and continued to ask, "Dare to ask the emperor, when will the army be sent to Kaiyuan Island." ”

Song Huizong raised his hand: "If you don't send it, what if you don't send it?"

"This—" The two sergeants were stunned, not knowing how to answer the emperor's rhetorical question.

Yang Jian said for the emperor: "The emperor is tired, you can step down." ”

"Yes. The two sergeants stepped back.

They couldn't get an idea, and when they returned to the forbidden army camp again, the newly appointed head of the forbidden army checked the roster, and the names of these people had all been written off, and the two of them had nowhere to go, thinking that if they returned to the desolate Kaiyuan Island, there might not be any good results, so they discussed it and went back to their hometowns, one went to Gansu, and the other went back to Shaanxi.

And so inexplicably it ended.

In fact, the emperor is not a mediocre person who only cares about the safety of his daughter and does not care about the security of the territory, he needs to be busy with too many things during this time, Shandong Liangshan thieves are in trouble, in addition, Jiangnan La, Huaixi Wang Qing, Hebei Tianhu have been troubled one after another, so that Song Huizong is very busy.

Moreover, as far as foreign relations are concerned, the Western Xia, which originally had a good relationship with the Song Dynasty, has officially paid tribute to the Liao State in the north, forming a flanking attack on the Song Dynasty, which is also a thorny issue that is difficult to deal with.

Moreover, in the capital, even in this palace, strange things are still happening one after another, in the palace, there are often fox spirits, the prince Zhao Heng reported to the emperor several times, saying that "in the palace in the middle of the night, there are often demon fairies, and the smoke is pervasive, and they often turn into women to seduce guards and even sons."

Although Song Huizong said high-sounding words such as "If people have righteousness, demons and evil will destroy themselves", he also felt uncomfortable in the end, so he asked the prince to temporarily move out of the palace and live in his own imperial study temporarily, and asked Lin Lingsu to find someone to subdue demons and eliminate monsters.

In addition to the vixens in the Imperial Palace, the situation of the three demon towers has also been abnormal recently.

Every time in the middle of the night, the three demon towers shine at the same time, illuminating half of the palace shining, I don't know what's going on.

The emperor sent people upstairs to see, and the situation upstairs was the same as before, and there was no difference between them, which made people panic and rumors.

Song Huizong once heard someone say that these three demon towers actually have opposite effects, not to suppress demons, but to suppress the royal spirit of the Great Song Dynasty, but Lin Lingsu swore and said: "This is the demon town, how can the rumors from the outside world be believed!"

Song Huizong trusted Lin Lingsu very much, so he never demolished the three small buildings.

It's just that the essence light in the middle of the night has been shining continuously for half a month, which can't help but make people suspicious.

In the evening of that day, Song Huizong, accompanied by the crown prince Zhao Heng, summoned Lin Lingsu again.

The crown prince Zhao Heng has always been unimpressed by his father's behavior of favoring Taoist priests. This prince, who is only twenty years old this year, is dignified and talented, like his father, elegant and elegant, and loves calligraphy, painting and antiques.

It's just not good.

Song Huizong specially told Zhao Heng: "Prince, when you see Lin Zhenren in a while, you have to be polite and ask Lin Zhenren for advice." ”

Zhao Heng said: "I wrote it down, father." ”

The sound of the curtain sounded, and the eunuch paging: "Lin Zhenren has arrived." ”

Lin Lingsu walked in and asked for peace: "Lin Lingsu asks the emperor and the prince." ”

Song Huizong said: "Lin Zhenren doesn't have to be polite, sit down on the side. ”

The prince tilted his head to the side and looked at the stacks of books on the shelves.

Lin Lingsu said: "I don't know what happened to Your Majesty's summoning of Xiaodao?"

Song Huizong said: "There are two things now, one is that there are fox spirits in the palace, how should this be dealt with? ”

Lin Lingsu glanced at Zhao Heng and asked, "Prince, may I ask if you saw the fox spirit with your own eyes?"

"Yes. ”

"What image is she?"

"That's it. "The prince loves to ignore it.

"Speaking of the image, I can easily deduce where she is. ”

Song Huizong sank his face and said, "Prince, please answer Lin Zhenren's question truthfully." ”

"Yes. Zhao Heng promised Song Huizong a "yes", and then coldly told Lin Lingsu about the situation: "In the night twenty days ago, a strange scream suddenly came from the palace. ”

"What's that weird scream like?"

"I didn't hear it, but the maids heard it, and according to their description, it was like the cry of a fox, and it was like the cry of a man, and it was a terrible wail, and it was very unpleasant. ”

"I see. ”

After the scream, half of the dinner party prepared for me disappeared inexplicably in the kitchen with the door closed. At that time, I thought it was the palace maids and eunuchs who were gluttonous and secretly eating, but they shouted injustice and said no, and the next day, the third day, the food in the kitchen disappeared out of thin air. On the fourth day, I personally supervised it, and the food would still be lost. In this way, food was lost for nine days in a row. ”

Song Huizong interjected and said, "This is really a gluttonous monster. ”

Lin Lingsu shook his head gently, meaning that this was not the case.

The prince continued: "On the evening of the tenth day, when one of the guards was guarding the door, he suddenly saw a beautiful woman in fluttering clothes, and scratched his head at him. When the prince said this, he was embarrassed to continue, and felt that it was very indecent to say such a thing in front of his father.

Song Huizong didn't care, and said: "Tell the truth, you can tell what you have, don't hide it." ”

"Yes. The prince continued: "After the handover, the guards felt that their energy was leaking, and they did not know if it was a dream, but they felt that they had no strength to stand guard in front of the door anymore, and they just wanted to lie down there and sleep for three days and three nights. ”

When the other guards saw him lying there for no reason, and thought that he was ill at something, they helped him up and carried him to the duty room. The guard lay on the bed, dazed, and said those unashamed words, what kisses, what hugs. ”