Ning Gu

Chapter 117

Liang Ce was long in coming when the wind lifted the eaves and bells.

The old eunuch who was waiting by the vermilion palace pillar saw Liang Ce's slow approach, and went up to him with a smile on his face. Seeing that Prime Minister Liang was not sick, he didn't dare to say anything, and said, "The Holy Majesty treats you a little bit." It's time", and led Xiang Liang into the hall.

The officials and palace officials had already informed the two of them when they entered the hall.The main hall was empty, Yu Shi Zhongcheng was given a seat in the hall, and Xianzhi stood beside Zhao Zuo's table, watching Zhao Zuo applaud Zhu Pian without haste, and hearing footsteps coming in a hurry, he turned his head towards the hall Glanced at the door.

The sound of footsteps stopped, and Zhao Zuo just happened to close the folder in front of him. He raised his eyes, and handed the folder in his hand to Xianzhi, and asked him to put it on the small table behind him that had already sorted the folders.

Xian Zhifang took the notebook, opened it to see the type, and heard Zhao Zuo say: "Mr. Liang is here."

"The old minister sees my emperor, my emperor..." Liang Xiangfang was about to kneel down to ask the ceremony, but Zhao Zuo winked at the old eunuch.The old eunuch hurriedly stepped forward to stop Liang Xiang and asked him.

"Hey, this ceremony will be waived," Zhao Zuocai said, "Xiang Liang is sick, and I invite Liang Xiang to enter the palace. It's my fault." Zhao Zuo looked at the eunuch waiting by the door Yan Yan, "Aren't you showing your seat to Prime Minister Liang?"

"The old minister dare not." Liang Ce shook his head again and again, but when the wooden chair was moved, he still sat down.

"I don't know what Prime Minister Liang is today..." Zhao Zuo looked at Liang Ce, trying to find a little sickness on his face.

"I'm sick, I'm sorry for labor." Liang Ce sat down, put his head down and straightened his official uniform, and suddenly laughed.

Zhao Zuo put the pen in his hand on the sapphire pen resting on the side, and said very solemnly: "This disease comes like a mountain, but Prime Minister Liang still worries about the country and the people for the widow, so he must take good care of his body."

"The Holy One said so."

Seeing Zhao Zuo and Liang Ce exchanging greetings, Xianzhi cleared his throat in due course: "Cough, father, let's get down to business."

"That's true. But Prime Minister Liang didn't enter the court in the morning, so he must not know about it." Zhao Zuo raised his chin at Xianzhi again, "Xianzhi, you can tell it yourself."

"Yes," Xianzhi nodded, and said confidently, "Ye family was originally one of the few imperial courts who granted marquis permission and hereditary inheritance, and has been guarding the northwest border. Now Yehou's sister has been raised in the hands of her father and brother since she was a child. Besides, when Yu Xinling was young, she treated Xinling very kindly, and during the battle outside Guzang City, she treated Xinling with kindness. Xinling Ling has always wanted to repay the second wife of Ye Hou's family, but he suffered from powerlessness. Later, Ye Qiaoyu married Lu Weiming and became the daughter-in-law of the Lu family. But now what happened to sister Peanyu in Fufeng. In a big way, It is a matter of the imperial court, and if you want to give an explanation to the soldiers in the northwest and the north, it will be difficult for the ministers to go to the subordinate ministers; but to put it mildly, it is Xinling's fault in the end, if Xinling doesn't do his best at this time, I'm afraid it will be difficult to convince the public in the future."

Xianzhi looked at Liang Ce and said intentionally, "Besides, Lu Qi has not been deeply involved in the world, and Uncle Shi cannot leave Fufeng. In this case, Xinling is the most suitable."

"Besides, Mr. Zhongcheng also thinks this is the perfect solution now." Xianzhi's eyes turned to Yushi Zhongcheng. Yushi Zhongcheng didn't say a word all the time, but he looked at him and nodded, counting it as is seconded.

"Your Majesty, I'm afraid that we are taking the first step now, but we are fooling around casually, letting General Ye get the news, and can't appease the anger of the northwest, so we have to pursue it. In this way, the royal family will lose face even more. With the arrogance of that Gu Zang, it will be easier to change." Yu Shi Zhongcheng added and analyzed.

"What does Prime Minister Liang think?"

Liang Ce listened to Zhao Zuo's question, and deliberately made the posture of sitting upright just a little bit more lazy, and the remonstrance became more friendly when he said it.

"Your Majesty, you must be worried about the Lord of Xinling. The old minister thinks that the Holy Majesty can let go of this matter. If you go to Guzang City, the pace of the soul-supporting team will be slower. One month is still enough. Besides, Xinling Master Shen’s martial arts came from Mr. Shen, and it’s not easy to cause any trouble. If the Holy Majesty is really worried, he can ask Xuan Chengzhu to send a few Zhaoxing masters to follow Xinling Master. The old minister heard that Zhaoxing’s masters are all strong martial arts. Personally, There is no difference in level between them."

Seeing that Zhao Zuo's brows were still frowning, Liang Ce added: "Since Yushi Zhongcheng also thinks there is no problem, the old minister naturally can't see any gaps in the middle."

"Then let's draw up the decree." Zhao Zuo looked enviously with his eyebrows crossed, and then deliberately made a helpless expression to show Liang Ce, "Leave tomorrow, go early and return early."

"Thank you, Father."

Zhao Zuo responded in a low voice: "If that's the case, then everyone kneel down..."

Before Zhao Zuo finished speaking, Liang Ce cut him off. Liang Ce got up, cupped his hands again, and called out, "Your Majesty."

"Ms. Liang, what else do you want to ask?" Zhao Zuo lowered his head and wrote. Hearing Liang Ce calling him, he paused, and then continued to open the next memorial, asking casually.

"I do have something to ask. I wonder if the three ministers will submit the Guanyi case at the court meeting today?"

Zhao Zuo seemed to ask him to give some advice, he raised his hand and tapped his forehead, and said to the only old eunuch who was still waiting in the hall: "Go and ask Shang Shulang, when will Guan Zhi's crimes be handed over? "

Seeing that Zhao Zuo seemed to have forgotten about it, Liang Ce couldn't help heaving a sigh of relief. There was still a smile on his lips, but he tried his best to hide the smile in his eyes. , the old minister still wants to say a word of persuasion, after all, he is still your son. You can't delay this matter because of the criminal minister Xie Pingzhi involved in the rumor, the people of Fufeng are all looking at you."

"Let it go..." Zhao Zuo raised his hands and was about to slap him down, but it may be because he has experienced it once. Zhao Zuo knows better than anyone that he is playing games with Liang Ce, an old fox. With a good result, he swallowed back the word "presumptuous", and changed his words: "I thank Guo Liang for reminding me."

"The old minister dare not take the word 'pointing out'." Liang Xiang said hastily, but there was no haste on his face, "The old minister also wants to take care of the king, especially this situation."

As soon as Liang Xiang finished speaking, Yu Shi Zhongcheng's eyes turned to Liang Xiang, and the smile on his face was somewhat contemptuous.He was too familiar with this scene, he seemed to have only seen it in this hall a few years ago, but the reaction of this person was different.

"After all, it's my fault." Zhao Zuo's gaze met Liang Ce's, and the corners of his mouth were a bit sly, even with a hint of winning, "I think that Prime Minister Liang is really thinking too much. The sickness on this face is still there." Zhao Zuo rushed to the eunuch beside him and said: "Fu Nuer, send Prime Minister Liang back to the mansion for the widow, this is really exhausting Prime Minister Liang."

"Yes." Nuo Nuoran, the old eunuch, said "please" to Xiang Liang again, and then left the hall with Xiang Liang.

After Prime Minister Liang was invited to leave, Yu Shi Zhongcheng also got up, found excuses and withdrew from the hall.Only Zhao Zuo and Xian's father and son were left in the hall.

Only then did Zhao Zuo let out a sigh of relief, and looked at Xianzhi, the worry on his brows was not much relieved, which made Xianzhi not quite understand.But before Xianzhi had time to appreciate the relief in Zhao Zuo's expression, he was ordered by Zhao Zuo to get up.

"Xianzhi, on the way there, pay attention to your surroundings. If something changes, take Ye Qiaoyu back, and turn back later."

Xianzhi frowned, always felt that Zhao Zuo's words had some deep meaning, but he didn't understand the deep meaning of the words: "What does the emperor mean?"

When Zhao Zuoling asked him, he wanted to talk nonsense, but when he really wanted to say something, he paused and found a reasonable excuse:

"Ye Jianyu is too important to us. Whether the Lu family can restrain her, and whether the Ye family is willing to cooperate, all depends on whether she can return to Guzang safely." Said that Zhao Zuo will stay on the table again. Throwing the sign to Xianzhi, said: "Lu Yan is not a fuel-efficient lamp, but he is more focused on the overall situation than Lu Weiming, and understands the pros and cons. Lu Weiming is different. Xie Wuling chose him to tell Lu Qi about his life experience. It proves it."

Zhao Zuo sighed, and then pointed out: "Your master said that Fufeng people have no kindness, and the only ones with kindness will be forcibly used by Fufeng people, until the goodness is exhausted and the evil is reborn. This is not wrong."

"Father means that when Lu Weiming loses his beloved wife, so..."

Zhao Zuo didn't respond bluntly. Instead, he handed the letter written in the palm of his hand to Xianzhi: "In a while, you will go to Lu Weiming with the order. Let him take it back to Lu Yan."

"But I'll go find Lu Weiming, where Lu Qi..."

Zhao Zuo put down his pen, folded his arms and looked at Xianzhi, saying with certainty: "He should still be in Liang Ce's house. Liang Ce knew that Lu Weiming was going to leave, so he would never let Lu Qi go back. He has to take Lu Qi away." Look under your nose."

After Xianzhi agreed, the servant of the Ministry of Rites who was assigned to send the spirit back to Shangshang handed over the process report of Ye Qiaoyu's leaving the city.Zhao Zuoli immediately left him and Xianzhi to finalize the details of the way back, and then issued a complete decree.

The second lady of Fu Ye's family took the position of general, and took the servant of the Ministry of Rites as an imperial envoy. The master of Xinling personally helped the spirit to return to Guzang's hometown.

When this imperial decree was issued from the Changming Palace, it was too late.Xianzhi and the Minister of Rites went out of the Chongque together, and took Zhao Zuo's handbook to Lu Weiming's small courtyard without stopping.

At that time, the courtyard was small, and there were few laughs.

From the moment Xianzhi stepped across the courtyard, he looked around the small courtyard.As Zhao Zuo expected, Lu Qi left the small courtyard today and has not returned yet.

The golden crows were all hanging down to the foot of the mountain, and they were about to rest, but Lu Qi had not yet returned.And even the four or five young servants and maidservants waiting around didn't know where Lu Qi had gone, but they all knew that Lu Weiming was still drunk in front of the coffin with a wine jar in his arms.

The mourning hall where the body is placed is placed behind the main room. Perhaps it is because Lu Weiming arrived in Fufeng secretly, and the body of the peeping fish was also taken into consideration by Xianzhi, so someone took him here.In the end, he had some scruples and didn't dare to make a big splash, so he didn't make a big splash. He envied that this was one of the few things he could accomplish.

The lintels on the hall behind the main chamber were covered with plains. In a not-so-big hall, there was a not-so-big wooden coffin, and a gentleman sat slumped in front of the coffin.

The man seemed to have heard the sound of footsteps, he was holding the neck of the jug in his hand, he threw his head up and poured it on his face, he didn't know how much he drank.The only thing I can know is that the poured wine washed the face of the gentleman, but it didn't wash him clearly, nor made him unconscious, but he was just like this, confused and muddled.

"Come to offer incense?" the confused person opened his mouth vaguely.

Xianzhi nodded, but looking at his situation, it is impossible to offer incense to himself.

Xianzhi went forward on his own, took the incense from the incense candle box, lit the incense with the fire from the candle, then stood in front of the coffin, facing the coffin, and also to the slumped gentleman in front of him, bowed three times bye.

Xianzhi inserted the incense into the censer, returned to Lu Weiming's side, walked a few times to take away the empty bottles beside him, and also forcibly took down the wine jug with half a bottle in his hand, and handed it to Lu Weiming. To the boy waiting outside the house.

This action made Lu Weiming squint his eyes, then shook his head, and finally saw the person in front of him clearly. "Hey, Xianzhi, you are as cold as your master."

Xianzhi sat beside him, leaning against the coffin behind him together, like leaning on the person lying in the coffin: "My master is not cold-hearted"

"Not cold? Not cold will not let me tell him the old things about that precious adopted son." The corners of Lu Weiming's mouth trembled a little, but his mind didn't seem to be drunk, "Hey, then Lu Qi is still the same as me back then, silly Foolishly, I don’t believe in anything. Now I’m reaping the consequences.” Speaking of Lu Qi, he suddenly paused, and then asked, “Where is Lu Qi, he came here last night, why didn’t he come today?”

Xianzhi curled her lips and said in a deep voice, "I went to find Liang Ce."

"Ha, he also went to find that old fox?" Lu Weiming laughed when he said that, "That old fox is the one who has no conscience. My father said earlier that he favors me and doesn't believe in evil."

As Lu Weiming spoke, the smile in his eyes was like tasting bitter medicine, making people feel bitter and astringent just looking at it.It's a pity that the person who could be the candied fruit in his mouth lay early in the coffin behind him, and his brows and eyes were slightly frowned with some panic and regret.

Xian Zhiqu raised one leg to hold his hand, hooked the corner of his mouth and smiled at this rare honesty, and then heard Lu Weiming intermittently said, "It was him who caused me to lose the peeping fish. My peeping fish."

"You don't know how happy I was when I met Pea Yu'er at that time. Compared with my ten years of sensuality in Fufeng and the days of riding a sword with her, the former can be regarded as I can't stand it..." He raised his hand and paused every word, and said loudly, "Taste, such as, chewing, wax. At that time, she came to Saibei immediately, and then I took over my brother's remnant soldiers. When everything is in chaos.

When Lu Weiming said this, he paused again. He searched for the few pens and inks hidden in his stomach, and said metaphorically: "It's like the kind of chaos that is about to come. After she comes, All of a sudden, it was gone. They were willing to obey her, and she went to the military camp every day, and often called me to follow her."

"I've been coming and going for a long time, so I just thought about it," Xianzhi didn't interrupt him, he looked back at the woman in the coffin as he spoke, "My brother told his sister-in-law back then that he didn't have anyone who could be hired by the whole country." Wealth can't compare to Mr. Xie Xiao in terms of writing and ink. He only has the grassland in Saibei, himself and his sword. That's what moved my sister-in-law. Me, I just pulled Peeping Fish , I went to the grassland where my elder brother took his sister-in-law. When I saw her riding a horse, I felt that those fancy intestines were not good enough for her, so I took my elder brother’s words and told her. Don’t you I know, she froze on the horse after listening to it, and I looked at her motionless under the horse, I was afraid that if I moved, I would startle her, and if I startled her, wouldn't I have no answer? I don't know how long I waited, and she suddenly I started to cry, and the tears fell drop by drop, hitting my heart, and I thought at the time that I must have done something wrong again, I..."

As Lu Weiming talked, tears flowed down his face, Xianzhi patted him, and after deliberating for a long time, he said coldly: "There are no people left."

"Yeah, people are gone, what's the point of me saying this."

"I'll send her back to Guzang tomorrow, will Lu Langjun go home with her?"

Lu Weiming lowered his head and wiped the tears on his face perfunctorily with his sleeve, then nodded.

"Mr. Qi said that I have been here for a long time, and I will kill people sooner or later. Unexpectedly, it really made him a prophecy."

Xianzhi looked at Lu Weiming and smiled self-deprecatingly, with a bit of guilt and nostalgia in his eyes, this was the first time he overturned his own conviction.

He thought that Lu Weiming might have always loved Ye Qiaoyu, but he never saw it, so he thought it was not worth it, but now that Ye Qianyu is dead, there is another person who is willing to stay by her side, who knows their past like a treasure Lu Weiming.Then he couldn't hold on to his preconceptions about Lu Weiming no matter what.Maybe Ye Jianyu is really the "human world" of a wanderer like Lu Weiming

It's just because of deep love.

And what is probably most indispensable in this world is this love that will never live and Huiji will hurt.The former are Lu Weiming and Ye Qiaoyu, while the latter are Zhao Zuo and Xie Ling.

A brocade frame drove slowly towards Lingjian Temple in the dark. This frame went straight from the outside of the city to the city that was advancing through the city gate, and the frame stopped at Guantou. hat strap on.After getting off the frame, he was taken to the main house of the temple master.The person waiting in the room was not Chang Le, the viewer, the man with the hood looked at the person waiting for him in the room.

"Brother Zuo, why did you choose this place today? A tryst?" The man in the hood took off the hood and walked in front of Zhao Zuo, "Can I trouble Changle to make room for you?"

Zhao Zuo still didn't say a word, Xie Ling approached and saw his cold eyes, he felt uneasy, but still asked knowingly: "What's the matter?"

"Xianzhi will leave Fufeng tomorrow." Zhao Zuo said, Xie Ling nodded thoughtfully.

Seeing Xie Ling's reaction like this, Zhao Zuo seemed very flat, neither the surprise of being expected, nor the surprise of knowing that Xianzhi was going to leave for the first time, which made Zhao Zuo even more confused.

"Mr. Xie Xiao, won't you tell the widow about your plan?"

Xie Ling's peachy eyes moved slightly: "How can I have any plans?"

"No? What about Guanzhi? Tomorrow, as long as the widow mentions it at the court meeting, do you know what situation you will face?"

"I……"

The author has something to say: If I were a wanderer, you would be the world

The world of wanderers is taken from this sentence

Today there is a power outage so it will be later