Lu Shubao finally returned home safely. After experiencing a catastrophe, he finally came back alive. His hands were burned, his feet were frostbitten, and one of his ears was missing. The injuries were so severe that he could not go out to do evil for at least a while.
In the Fenyang Hou Mansion, the old Marquis was sipping fragrant tea from above, and his two sons and several staff were sitting below to discuss matters. The fact that the third young master was kidnapped is really strange, and the current situation in Chang'an is so complicated that it is hard to imagine.
Understand which force is opposing Fenyang Hou.
There is no doubt that these people are guests of the Yuchi family. Yuchiguang himself has admitted it personally, but this just proves that this case was not arranged by Yuchiguang. Just imagine if he wanted to deal with Lu Shubao, how could he blatantly do it in Hongxiu?
The recruitment uses the Yuchi family's signature.
The conversation that Lu Shubao heard in the mountain temple is the key. Mr. Wen, just imagine how many adults named Wen there are in Shaanxi. They are all Wen Yan who has only been in office for two years. It happens that Wen Yan was the governor of Gansu before, and these swordsmen
He is also from Gansu, which inadvertently increases Wen Yan's suspicion.
"In my opinion, it's definitely not Yuchi's fault. When he does business, he doesn't conflict with us. It's too late to curry favor with us, so how can he stir up trouble? It's probably the idea of an old man like Wen Yan, who wants to take advantage of us.
The Fenyang Marquis Mansion took action to consolidate its position." The boss, Lu Zhongda, expressed his opinion.
"That's wrong. The swordsmen in Gansu are not necessarily Wen Yan's people. Maybe they are the people of Liu Songpo, the current governor of Gansu. Liu Songpo and Wen Yan have always been at odds, so it's unknown whether they took this opportunity to blame others."
The boss Lu Bodang said with a gloomy face.
The staff also shook their heads and jumped in. They were just targeting the enemies of the Fenyang Hou family. After careful analysis, it seemed that everyone was suspected. It is no wonder that the Fenyang Hou family was too arrogant and made many enemies. They wanted to move into Shaanxi.
There are too many of them.
There was a lot of discussion below, and suddenly the old man put the tea cup down hard and coughed. There was silence, but Marquis Fenyang asked an irrelevant question: "Has King Qin entered the city?"
Lu Bodang replied: "Back to my father, His Highness the King of Qin has arrived in Chang'an, but he occasionally caught wind and cold on the way. He has not seen anyone in the past two days and only rested in his mansion."
Marquis Fenyang said oh and lowered his head to drink tea again. Everyone below looked at each other. Could it be that King Qin was also suspicious? Lu Zhongda suddenly stood up: "Don't care who is against our family, we have accepted this trick. Since you dare to attack the third child
If they start, they must have some back-ups, let’s see who owns Shaanxi!”
Fenyang Hou nodded slightly: "What I said is right. It is right to respond to all changes by staying the same. The other party must have back-ups. Let's take the initiative. Let's all disperse and go find out the news."
The people in the hall suddenly retreated, and the old Marquis said to himself: "King of Qin, King of Qin, who in the eight hundred miles of Qinchuan is qualified to be king..."
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The three-day deadline came quickly. When the lights started to turn on at night, a two-person sedan came to the door of Audrey's house. The curtain of the sedan was opened, and an elegant scribe came out, stroking his long beard and kowtow.
The door rang, and a moment later it opened, revealing a woman, looking up and down at the strange guest.
The scribe was Yuan Feng in disguise, and the woman was Audrey. The limelight was not over at the moment, so everyone was careful. Audrey glanced at both sides of the alley and whispered: "Go out and turn left, there is someone there.
Waiting for you." Then he raised his voice and said: "Sir, please come back, this place has been closed for a long time."
The scholar complained, stepped back and still got into the sedan chair and walked out of the alley. Looking to his left, there was indeed a two-wheeled carriage parked on the side of the road. They looked at each other twice and confirmed the target. The carriage led the way in front, and the sedan followed behind, and passed through.
Halfway through Chang'an City, he finally stopped at the back door of a huge mansion.
Meng Yeluo jumped down from the carriage, opened the back door and welcomed everyone in. The small sedan was carried into the back door, and everyone lost the sedan and revealed themselves. It turned out that the two sedan bearers and a follower were none other than Zhao Ding'an, Ye Kai and Zhao Ziqian.
, Yuan Feng came out of the sedan, his fake beard had been taken off, he looked at this magnificent mansion and asked Meng Yeluo: "Thirteenth Master, whose house is this?"
"You'll know in a while, come with me." Meng Yeluo led the four people inside and asked as they walked: "Brother Ninth, what have you done for a living these years?"
It's not that he doesn't believe his brothers, but it's because he doesn't know who is standing behind Meng Yeluo and which camp he belongs to. Yuan Feng can only say vaguely: "It's not like I'm living a life of licking blood from the edge of a knife. In the northwest area, with my
A sword and a horse fight for life."
This answer was in line with Meng Yeluo's expectations. He said nothing and led everyone through the long corridor to an elegant courtyard. Zhang Ping was standing at the door of the courtyard wearing a bearskin cloak, waiting for them. When he saw four people coming,
Zhang Ping bowed his hands and saluted: "We meet again."
The two parties met the ceremony and walked into the main hall. A sumptuous banquet was already held in the hall. A maid came forward to help Zhang Ping take off his cloak, revealing the apricot yellow robe underneath. When he turned around, a four-clawed golden python with teeth and claws spread out on his chest.
Eye-catching!
Everyone was stunned for a moment. This was not just an act. Zhang Ping was actually a relative of the emperor! Even Yuan Feng had not expected this. Zhang Ping was very satisfied with the effect and smiled softly and said: "Gu Bian."
This is the King of Qin who has recently ascended the throne. I paid a private visit incognito the day before yesterday and was unable to tell the truth. I hope you will bear with me."
"See King Qin is a thousand years old." Yuan Feng was the first to react and was about to bow, but was helped up by the King of Qin: "We are all brothers, why are these false gifts coming? Hurry up and take a seat, let's have a few drinks before talking."
Everyone sat down, with happy expressions on their brows. They were happy that Meng Yeluo had finally made a career, following His Highness the King of Qin. At least he was a long history official in the palace. Meng Yeluo was also very happy. He thought that the brothers had found a big backer.
He was happy, but he didn't know that everyone here was a man who had seen the world. He had wiped out countless small kingdoms and tribes in the Western Regions, and even overthrew emperors like Timur the Great, who still cared about this man with a silver spoon in his mouth.
The little prince born?
The King of Qin picked up the wine glass and said: "The day before yesterday, I had a big fight with my brothers about the Red Sleeve Moves, punishing evil and promoting good, and gratifying grudges. This is actually the happiest thing in my life. Come and have a drink for this."
Everyone raised their glasses, only Zhao Ding'an frowned and looked thoughtful. King Qin smiled slightly, clapped his hands, and two maids in the hall helped Miss Ziyuan out.
"The jade is returned to Zhao, haha." King Qin laughed. Zhao Ding'an suddenly stood up, jumped in front of Ziyuan and said, "Xiaodong, are you okay?"
Seeing this strange man caring about her so nervously, Ziyuan didn't know whether to be happy or sad. He was facing herself, but what he really cared about was another woman named Xiaodong. But then again
, there are still many such infatuated men in the world, and I am just a prostitute. It is not a blessing to be able to take this opportunity to escape from the sea of suffering, so just accept it.
So she said in a low voice: "Everything is fine in the slave family. I am worried about you."
"Xiaodong!" Zhao Ding'an hugged Ziyuan with tears streaming down his face. Everyone also sighed that it was finally a good thing for Ding'an to find a replacement for Meng Xiaodong.
"Okay, help Miss Xiaodong down to freshen up, and let's talk about some serious business." King Qin said.
Zhao Ding'an reluctantly watched Ziyuan go down, and then returned to his seat. Yuan Feng stepped on him, and Zhao Ding'an's confused eyes returned to normal. He calmed down and listened attentively to King Qin's speech.
"Gu is the prince who was granted the title of prince in October this year. The fiefdom is in Chang'an. Chang'an is thousands of miles away from the capital. Gu is not familiar with him at all. Before the formal vassalage, he brought Mr. Meng to come for a private visit incognito. Everyone knew the result.
The civil war in Shaanxi is particularly troublesome. Dandy boys fight in groups and can actually recruit three battalions of soldiers and horses to block city gates and search houses at will. Is this still the world of the Zhou Dynasty? Is this still the domain of the Zhang family? This
Could it be that the surname of Chang'an City is Lu?"
The King of Qin got more and more angry as he talked, and in the end he even knocked on the table, but everyone was unmoved. It has nothing to do with us whether the surname of Chang'an City is Zhang or Lu. Ye Kai and Zhao Ziqian just drank, and Zhao Ding'an's eyes seemed to be wandering.
His mind was already gone, and Yuan Feng also lowered his head in deep thought. Meng Yeluo saw that it was not a problem and coughed quickly. Yuan Feng suddenly raised his head and said loudly: "Yes, does this Chang'an City belong to him, Marquis Fenyang?"
, it simply turned against him.”
After receiving the resonance, King Qin calmed down a little, and said: "In the past two days, officials from Shaanxi have come to visit, including a governor, two governors, and local officials from various yamen. The only exception is Lu Bodang, the admiral of the Shaanxi army.
There is also Fenyang Hou, an old thief. If he thinks that I am a prince, why should he still come to see him?"
Yuan Feng and others had just arrived in Chang'an and were not very clear about the political situation of the Zhou Dynasty and the situation in Shaanxi. They could only follow the wishes of King Qin. King Qin said to have a drink, and everyone also drank with him. As the saying goes, drinking with a bosom friend
, King Qin's drinking capacity was not very good to begin with. After drinking heavily, he became drunk and lay on the table still mumbling.
Meng Yeluo sighed, called two maids to help King Qin in to rest, and said to everyone: "Brothers, please don't blame me. My younger brother also had difficulties in not being able to tell the truth about his identity that day."
Although Yuan Feng and the others drank a lot, they were not drunk at all. Everyone expressed their understanding to Meng Yeluo. After all, they were eating from the official family and could not help themselves.
Only then did Meng Yeluo talk eloquently, telling what happened after he escaped from Shibali Fort. In a melee that day, Meng Yeluo was injured and fell into a coma. It took three days to crawl out of the dead body, and the nearby villages did not dare to take him in.
The people of Shibalibao had no choice but to seek refuge with a passing caravan. He could write, do calculations, and was handsome. He was adopted by the caravan boss as his adopted son. He traveled to the Central Plains, where he met the imperial court and his adopted father helped him.
I donated a tribute student and participated in the provincial examination in Henan. Unexpectedly, I won the title of high school in Henan Province in one fell swoop. I participated in the Spring Festival the next year and was named in the gold list again, ranking among the top three. In the palace examination, the emperor selected the number one scholar and paraded on horseback for three days. It was a great sight.
Infinitely, starting from Hanlin Academy, in just over two years, Meng Yeluo reached the position of supervisory censor. Although his rank is not high, he patrols the world on behalf of the sky and has unlimited power. Now he is responsible for patrolling the censor.
The supervisory censor of Shaanxi.
As for why he joined King Qin's sect, it's a long story. King Qin is the fourth prince of the current generation. He has always been very favored and had a chance to win the heir. However, the situation in the court was unpredictable, and the emperor finally decided
The eldest son was made the crown prince, and the other three sons were entrusted with various places. The fourth son Zhang Chengping came to Chang'an and became the king of Qin.
It is absolutely impossible to be a gangster in the court without joining a certain camp. It happened that Meng Yeluo's mentor was the fourth prince's teacher, so the two got acquainted. They were similar in age and had similar interests, so Meng Yeluo became the general of the fourth prince's faction.
, when the King of Qin came to Chang'an, he also served as the supervisory censor who patrolled Shaanxi, assisting the King of Qin in managing the fiefdom.