While the palace banquet was in full swing, Chang Geng was helping to collect herbs in the small courtyard where Miss Chen temporarily stayed in the capital.

He had a cold that came and went quickly. After taking two doses of medicine, he was almost healed. The reason why he still didn't cancel the holiday was that he was born in a sensitive family and Gu Yun deliberately asked him to avoid it. Secondly, he also heard that Chen

Qingxu has new clues about Ur Bone.

"You mean Urbone is in my blood?"

Chen Qingxu's hands were occupied by all kinds of yellowed old books, and he often had to rescue the fallen pages. He was in a hurry, but his mouth was not messy: "Ur bone hurts people's sanity. I always thought that its

The foundation is in my mind. If the Marquis hadn't reminded me, I wouldn't have thought of this level...Look here - the earliest record of the evil god Ur Bone by the barbarians, 'Born to be dangerous, eats the flesh and blood of brothers, strengthens one's own body, and has four powers.

He has four legs, two hands, two hearts, and a sea of ​​blood flowing across his chest, which is particularly violent.' I originally thought that the 'sea of ​​blood flowing' was just a metaphor, but it turns out it refers to the mechanism of Ur bone's attack."

She could only utter so many words at once when talking about these things.

"Flesh and blood," Chang Geng was silent for a moment, shook his head and smiled bitterly, "Ms. Chen, do you mean that my whole body is poisonous, unless I emulate the myth of scraping my bones and removing my flesh?"

It seems like he might as well have lost his mind.

Chang Geng calmly sorted the herbs into categories, put them into containers in order and arranged them neatly. The gears on the shelf meshed with each other, making a "squeaking" sound, and slowly rose to a high place, revealing the empty grid below.

This is a delicate job that cannot be done by an impatient person.

Chen Qingxu looked at him with some admiration. There was only one person in history who was still sane enough to reach adulthood despite having a Ur bone, let alone maintaining such a calm temperament.

I don’t know if he is born with perseverance or because he has more Gu Yun than others.

Chang Geng: "To tell you the truth, I haven't been feeling very well lately. Urgu attacks are becoming more and more frequent."

Chen Qingxu said casually: "Master Hou told me."

Chang Gen was stunned for a moment: "He..."

Gu Yun seemed to have always carried out the attitude of "mere barbarian voodoo" and never took his "little problem" seriously. He rarely talked about it and never showed any concern in front of Chang Geng.

Did it turn out that I was actually worried about you all along?

Chen Qingxu paused, realizing that he had said too much, and changed the subject as if nothing had happened: "If Your Highness has nothing else to do, I plan to go back to the Chen family's old house in Shanxi. It will be much easier to find Genjie. There is always a way.

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"Well," Chang Geng responded, cupped his hands and said, "Thank you, I also have Zi Xi's antidote..."

Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by someone from the palace.

The medicine boy brought in a chamberlain, and he greeted Chang Geng respectfully: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty heard that you are ill, and ordered a servant to come and have a look. I also brought an imperial physician, but the imperial physician did not dare to enter the Chen Geng Palace.

The courtyard of the Holy Hand is waiting outside."

Chang Geng frowned: "Thank you for your trouble, brother Huang, but I occasionally feel cold, so it's not a serious illness."

The servant smiled and said: "Yes, I think the prince is in good spirits. Well... Your Majesty, there will be a banquet in the palace tonight for the three princes of the Northern Barbarians and their envoys. The envoys from the Eighteen Tribes mentioned the prince to the emperor. His Majesty ordered the servant to tell the story.

The oral instruction said that if the prince's body and bones are not fit, he does not need to work, but if his spirit is still good, he should come out and get some fresh air."

Chen Qingxu was stunned for a moment, and quickly looked up at Chang Geng - it would be fine if no one said anything, but when the Northern Barbarian envoy mentioned this, Chang Geng was really embarrassed to refuse. There was an embarrassment in the middle: since the Northern Barbarians were

Daliang's enemy is also the mother's family of His Highness Prince Yan. Of course, he cannot approach them intentionally, but it is not appropriate to avoid them intentionally. It is very subtle.

The envoys called his name, but the key to whether they saw him or not was to see Li Feng's attitude. That was the direction he took to avoid suspicion.

Chang Geng took out a purse from his body with a good attitude, stuffed it into the chamberlain, and asked: "Excuse me, steward, what did my brother-in-law say?"

The chamberlain weighed in on King Yan's generosity, smiled so much that his round face turned red, and said politely and incoherently: "Don't you dare, don't you dare... Oh, the prince has betrayed this slave, this... I really deserve it..."

While saying that he felt guilty, he happily put it away, and then said to Chang Geng: "What kind of person is our prince? There is no need to give face to those barbarians who drink hair and blood. The emperor said that if the prince is willing to move around, he can enter the palace and give it to the emperor."

I would like to wish you a happy New Year, so that you won’t be bored. You can go into the palace and sit down for a while before leaving. You don’t have to socialize with those idle people. Seeing that the New Year is approaching, I will feel relieved to see you."

Chang Geng understood: "Let me take a rest and change my clothes, then I will go into the palace with the steward."

The chamberlain responded cheerfully: "Then I'll prepare a car for you."

Chang Geng watched him walk away with a smile, then turned around and entered the house. His smile immediately turned cold.

Chen Qingxu followed up: "How can I help you?"

Chang Geng shook his head: "This year's palace banquet is very strict. Zixi is there, and everyone who comes in and out has to go through several inspections. Except for the third prince and the envoy, all the servants of the barbarians are detained in the post. Even the third prince of the barbarians

The person's skin is full of purple liquid gold, and I guarantee that nothing will happen with the explosion - you can just lend me a private room to tidy up your clothes."

Chen Qingxu didn't understand this, so she didn't say much and asked the medicine boy to lead the way.

Chang Geng walked to the door with his hands behind his back. Suddenly, he stopped and turned around: "Miss Chen, do you have a silver knife?"

Wang Guo was among the civil servants, listening to a group of sharp-tongued civil servants venting their hatred of the country and their family, and vehemently running against the Northern Barbarian envoy.

The Northern Barbarian envoy was not very eloquent, but he advanced and retreated. Once the topic was too sharp for him to answer, he would just laugh and say nothing. It seemed that he had really endured the humiliation and came to negotiate peace.

Uncle Wang's eyes also paused for a moment on the third prince who bowed his head in silence, but then quickly shifted his attention - he was not interested in that fool and had already arranged a better show.

Wang Guo is different from Fang Qin and other big shots who always talk about the national economy and people's livelihood. He knows it well and knows that no one thinks highly of him. Even Lord Fang and his group only use him when they need him.

The adults are different from each other, and they always call him "Uncle Eunuch" behind his back, saying that he should "do his duty as an eunuch" and even act as the eunuch's general manager.

Wang Guo used to be a little person who ran errands for the late emperor. He was destined to be a jester and a person who helped those in power take the blame. Ever since the incident between the late emperor and Man Fei broke out, he has been living in trepidation.

He has no objections to Gu Yun or even the Gu family at all. In terms of interests, there is very little intercourse between Liang's civil servants, ministers and generals. As long as one of the parties does not have such ambitions that they want to cover the sky with one hand, even if they fight for power, they will not be able to compete for the same pot.

, what's more, the Gu family is the real head of the family, but there are only a small number of people, and the marriage partner is too special. And Wang Guo himself and Gu Yun can't even talk about any differences in opinions - he

He didn't have much insight into important matters of family and country. His only insight was how to serve the emperor comfortably.

All the great figures in the civil, political and martial arts circles of the dynasty had great ideas. There had to be a few people who could make the emperor relax a little while fighting wits and courage, right?

If he could, even if he took the rat poison, he wouldn't be able to take action against Gu's family.

But destiny is difficult to understand, and divine destiny is difficult to deal with. Now that the old saint has blown out the lamp and pulled out the wax, he still insists on the fallacy of "the king wants his ministers to die", but he is left as the scapegoat that the world reviles.

At present, Emperor Long'an is nostalgic and is willing to use this good-for-nothing as his uncle to protect him and let him survive and beg for food.

What about the future?

How much land tax and civil and commercial laws King Yan has reformed is not scary. What is scary is that once King Yan comes to power, what will he do to his king?

King Yan has had a close relationship with Gu Yun since he was a child, and as he is the son of the late emperor and a concubine, it is impossible for a son to hold his parents accountable. When the time comes, in order to further win over Gu Yun and gain military morale, the first thing he will do is to take advantage of

I want to sacrifice myself to the Gu family to worship my ancestors.

Mr. Fang and the others are worried about nothing more than King Yan reshuffling the cards in the court. They are just about fame, fortune and the future of the family, but Uncle Wang Guo's life is hanging by a thread. He is always worried about his own head - high officials and generous salaries require a life to enjoy them.

When the barbarians first arrived in the imperial capital, they were very honest and did not look around without a shrewd eye. There were princes and nobles everywhere in the capital, and no one was so poor that they were crazy.

crime.

Before arriving at the palace banquet, the envoys from the Eighteen Tribes stretched out their tentacles for the first time and made contact with a person. It was Uncle Wang Guo, a seemingly insignificant flatterer.

The envoys of the Eighteen Tribes swore an oath to the Immortal Heaven and gave Wang Guo two promises: First, King Yan would no longer be the sword hanging above his head.

Second: No matter whether this matter succeeds or fails, Wang Bao will not be recruited. If Wang Bao is desperate in the future, the Eighteen Tribes are willing to save his life.

The mobs of the Eighteen Tribes are uncivilized, cruel and murderous, and they are fond of tinkering with poisons, but they are good at one thing and take their oaths very seriously.

And what they asked for was nothing more than a simple effort - King Yan probably did not show up to avoid suspicion, and this time Uncle Wang wanted to ensure that King Yan showed up at the palace banquet.

The barbarians didn't say what they were going to do. Wang Guo planned to wait and see what would happen. In case the barbarians were defeated, he also prepared a back-up move - thanks to Mr. Fang. In order to bring down King Yan, Fang Qin was in the Fang Family Courtyard.

Keeping someone secretly.

When Concubine Man fled, she implicated a large number of palace people, guards and imperial doctors. Many of them died unjustly, but those who really had problems were prepared in advance. The old imperial doctor from the Fang Family Courtyard was one of those who absconded out of fear of crime.

His son accidentally killed someone, and he had to sell a secret because of his debt to his children: when Concubine Man, who was pregnant with Liujia, fled, Princess Xiu who was with her was unmarried and pregnant.

Xiu Niang Hu Ge colluded with the barbarians in Yanhui Town and hated Daliang deeply. Will she really raise the son of her enemy honestly?

Is the person Gu Yun brought back from Yanhui the son of the late emperor, or the bastard Hugel gave birth to whose biological father is unknown?

Fang Qin took in the imperial doctor and did not act rashly. He learned the lesson from the last time he failed to bite King Yan to death. This time he planned to hit the target with one strike. He was still slowly brewing the plan, but Wang Guo did not intend to cooperate anymore.

Wait for him.

Adults have their own ways, and villains have their own ways. You don’t have to be clever, and it doesn’t matter how bad you are, as long as it’s effective.

When the envoy from the Eighteen Tribes asked to see King Yan, Li Feng actually did not answer the call immediately. He just asked his servant to run errands and take a look at him after he found out that King Yan was ill. Li Feng's original words were, "Bring an imperial doctor over to have a look and ask Amin to

Take good care of yourself. If he gets better in two days, he will stop being bored in the house and come into the palace to pay me New Year greetings. He won't have to wait with other people to socialize."

After saying this, Emperor Long'an fulfilled his obligation to attend the palace banquet and drove away.

Uncle Wang Guo was not called the "eunuch uncle" for nothing. He had already bribed a bunch of seemingly insignificant servants to run errands. As long as the messenger skillfully distorted Li Feng's words, King Yan would definitely come.

King Yan, who took leave of absence, made a special trip to see the Northern Barbarian envoys after the emperor left. Then, in front of everyone, a story about confusing royal blood and unknown life experience was revealed - how will he end up?

Ever since Li Feng left, the entire palace banquet had passed peacefully for most of it. Seeing that it was coming to an end, Gu Yun breathed a sigh of relief, picked up the wine glass and touched his lips a little, before he could taste it.

As soon as the smell came, the chamberlain suddenly came to report that King Yan was coming.

Before Gu Yun had time to clear his thoughts, his heart thumped.

Fang Qin was a little surprised, but Wang Bao lowered his head. The envoys of the eighteen tribes turned to the outside of the hall with smiles on their faces, but the third prince of the barbarians who had been eating and drinking in the corner suddenly stopped eating.

When Chang Geng entered the hall, he saw at first glance that there was no one on the throne. At that time, he knew that he was being plotted against.

However, it was too late to go back at this time. Chang Geng did not stop, his slightly sickly face was calm, and he still maintained a gentle smile. He walked in calmly, took off his cloak smoothly, and
To be continued...