Mother Li snatched away the half-rolled rice paper from Master Li, unfolded it, looked at it, and read aloud:
""Youth Travel".
The sword is like water, Wu Yan beats the snow, and the delicate hand breaks the new orange.
The brocades are beginning to warm up, and the smoke from the beasts is constantly rising. They sit opposite each other and tune the sheng.
I asked in a low voice: Who am I going to spend the night with? It’s already been three o’clock in the city.
The horses are slippery and the frost is thick, so it’s better to leave because there are only a few people traveling.”
Mother Li exclaimed without reading the signature:
"Good words, good words!
Tsk, tsk, tsk, it’s indeed the words written by Mr. Zhou, who is known as the ‘crown poet’!
The rhythm is neat and tidy, the artistic conception is wonderful, and the concubine's love makes people imagine.
Those husbands and literati are the best.
Unfortunately, Master, you have been hired by Zhao Daguan. It is not appropriate to come forward to play and sing this song "Youth Travel: Swords are Like Water" in the recent days.
Mom first takes this word to the front yard and lends it to your sisters to learn to sing.
Later, mother will return this poem to you."
"Mom, there is no need to pay it back!" Master Li said coldly: "My daughter has memorized this word.
However, my daughter kindly reminded her mother that it is best not to spread this word, so as not to get into trouble!"
Mother Li smiled and said: "It's just a new song, what kind of trouble can it cause?
Master, please don’t forget who took you in after your father was imprisoned, who taught you how to play music, sing lyrics, sing, dance, calligraphy and painting?
Who gave you the glory and wealth you have today?"
"It's all given by my mother!" Li Shishi sighed: "My daughter will never forget her mother's kindness in her life. When my daughter was four and a half years old and living on the street, it was you, my mother, who adopted me!"
"Teacher, just remember it." Mother Li smiled proudly and said, "Then don't be stingy about lending these words to your sisters to learn how to sing!"
After Mrs. Li finished speaking, she happily took the rice paper with "Youth Travel: The Knife Like Water" written on it and left.
Li Shishi secretly sighed: "If Zhao Yan is really the current Zhao Guan family, then this Alum Tower may be in trouble."
However, she knew that she could not persuade the stubborn Mother Li at all, and it would be useless to say more.
…………
Just now, after Zhao Ji and Liang Shicheng were discharged from the hospital, Wang Fu, who received the news from Cui'er, jumped out of bed in a hurry, put on his lower clothes, and ran out of the fan building in a panic.
He ran to the gate, came to Zhao Ji, bowed and said in a low voice: "Guan family, did you enjoy your time?
Are you going back to the palace so soon?"
"Mr. Wang, just have fun!" Zhao Ji glared at Wang Fu and scolded:
"Mr. Wang, have you forgotten your instructions before traveling?"
"I was careless at the next moment. I thought there were no pedestrians on the street, so I called the master that way." Wang Fu defended.
Zhao Ji used the light from the brightly lit Alum Tower to shine on the street and saw that Wang Fu was tall, wearing silk clothes, and quite handsome.
Wang Fu's black and yellowish hair is tied high on his head. His two big eyes are also golden, but his gaze is piercing. His mouth is huge, much like the mouth of a big toad.
When Zhao Ji saw Wang Fu's appearance, he saw that he looked different from the Han people in the Central Plains. Sure enough, it was recorded in the history books that Wang Fu had Hu ancestry. You must not deceive me!
Zhao Ji waved his hand and said: "Let's go quickly!"
"Yes!" Wang Fu agreed, untying the white horse from the horse post in front of the Fan Tower door, and leading it to Zhao Ji first.
The three of them, the monarch and his ministers, had jumped out from the palace wall before, and then went to Wang Fu's house first, and after riding on three horses, they came to visit the Fan Tower.
As a time traveler, Zhao Ji has never ridden a horse.
Now, he saw Wang Fu asking him to ride back to the palace. After a moment of hesitation, he remembered how to mount the horse through the memory left by the original owner, Song Huizong.
Unexpectedly, when Wang Fu saw Zhao Guan's family hesitating and not getting on the horse, he wondered: Could it be that the officials had a private meeting with Master Li and were exhausted, so they couldn't get on the horse?
Wang Fu was very discerning and stepped forward, lying on the ground, and whispered: "'Shen Zong,' please step on my back so that you can mount the horse."
Zhao Ji secretly sighed: Although this treacherous minister is very harmful to the country, in terms of flattery, service and ability to make me feel comfortable, those upright ministers really can't compare!
Zhao Ji was not polite. He stepped hard on Wang Fu's back with his left and right feet respectively, then moved the saddle and the stool to get on the horse. He held the reins with both hands and put his feet into the stirrups to step on them.
Wang Fu endured the pain in his back, stood up, and brought the bay-red horse over again.
He treated Liang Shicheng as a father and said respectfully: "Mr. Enfu, I will help you mount your horse!"
Liang Shicheng was helped onto the horse, and finally Wang Fu got on his black gelding.
The three of them came to a relatively remote palace wall near the Donghua Gate of the palace city, reined in their horses and stopped.
Bianjing City, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, built three walls, from the outside to the inside: the outer city, the imperial city, and the palace city.
The Alum Tower, known as the Seventy-Two Towers in the Capital City, is located outside the Donghua Gate of the palace city.
The Northern Song Dynasty did not implement a curfew like the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, Liang Shicheng and Wang Fu found this place for Zhao Ji that could be dug out and entered into a remote part of the palace. It took a lot of effort.
Wang Fu got off his horse and looked at the high palace wall. He knew that he had to be used as a human stool again, and he felt a dull pain in his back from being stepped on when he asked Zhao Guanjia to mount his horse.
He flattered Zhao Ji and said:
"I have a plan. Officials no longer have to climb over the wall to enter and exit the palace so hard! If I follow my plan, in the future, like tonight, officials will be able to go to Fanlou Liuxiang incognito to understand the sentiments of the people."
As a time traveler, Zhao Ji has read from unofficial history that in order to make it easier for him to leave the palace and visit brothels, the original owner Song Huizong ordered people to dig a tunnel in the palace that could lead to the outside of the palace.
Zhao Ji said coldly: "Could it be that Wang Shaozai's plan is for me to order people to dig a tunnel so that we can have private access to the inside and outside of the palace?"
Wang Fu was so shocked that his jaw dropped, his mouth opened even wider, his yellow eyes rounded in shock, and he looked at Zhao Guan's house in disbelief.
Liang Shicheng, who was still cunning and cunning, coughed lightly and said after seeing Wang Fu's embarrassment: "Jiang Ming, the officials are asking you a question!"
Wang Fu, courtesy name Jiangming.
Wang Fu reacted immediately and hurriedly replied: "'Sage Shenzong' is a wise man! The official family is really a wise emperor for the ages. Before the minister's plan is revealed, the official family already knows it!"
"Hmph!" Zhao Ji, the time traveler, looked at the flattering face of Wang Fu, and was so angry that he wanted to jump off his horse immediately and beat up the young king of the dynasty.
Zhao Ji said coldly: "The plan of Shao Zai is really not feasible!"
Wang Fu was stunned on the spot, extremely confused.
Liang Shicheng, who had always been friends with Wang Fu, immediately asked tentatively: "Officials, old slaves, it seems that the general's plan is very good, why can't it be feasible?"
"Hmph!" Zhao Ji snorted coldly: "I act, why do I need to explain?!"
Liang Shicheng and Wang Fu talked.
Wang Fu also thought about using him as a stool like when he climbed out of the palace wall before, and let Liang Shicheng and Zhao Guanjia step on him to climb over the palace wall respectively.
However, at this time, Zhao Ji scolded in a cold voice: "My palace, I want to return to the palace, why do I need to climb over the wall like a rooster and a dog?
When I return to the palace, I will take the Donghua Gate!"
Wang Fu and Liang Shicheng were shocked again.
However, Zhao Ji's previous words, "I act, no need to explain" worked this time. The two of them were very understanding and did not suggest anything to Zhao Guan's family.
The monarch and his ministers rode on horseback and turned towards Donghua Gate.
Donghua Gate has long been closed, and the city is guarded by imperial guards under the Imperial City Department.
Liang Shicheng took Zhao Ji's oral instructions and went to call the city gate...
Tonight, Zhang Caosi was on duty at the Donghua Gate. When he saw someone calling the door, he led the troops on the city and recognized it: the person calling the door was Liang Shicheng, the great eunuch known as the Hidden Prime Minister, and the two people riding behind him were
Wang Fu, the young prime minister of the current dynasty, and Zhao Guanjia, the current sage.
Zhang Caosi was very suspicious. It was already three o'clock in the night. Why did the Zhao Guan family return to the palace?
However, he still followed the strict rules for entering and exiting the palace stipulated by the Imperial City Department, and after symbolically checking the bronze medal for entering and exiting the palace handed over by Liang Shicheng, he opened the Donghua City Gate.
Zhang Caosi and his imperial guards knelt down to pay homage to Zhao Guan's house...
Zhao Ji waved his hand and said: "Ping Sheng. Tonight, I will go out of the palace to observe the public sentiment. If you reveal secrets, you will be killed."
Zhang Caosi was so frightened that he trembled all over and immediately swore that he and his imperial guards would never dare to reveal the secret.
Although the eunuch Liang Shicheng has a residence outside the palace city, it is late at night and he is on duty tonight. It is normal to accompany Zhao Guan's family back to the palace.
However, at this time, after Wang Fu was reprimanded by Zhao Guanjia, he was no longer as bohemian as before. He asked cautiously: "Guanjia, are you escorting Guanjia back to the palace, or are you leaving here?"
Zhao Ji glanced at Wang Fu and remembered that after returning to the palace, there was one more thing to do, which was to make the demon Dao Lin Lingsu, who had spent a huge amount of money on the treasury, swallow the rejuvenation pill he had refined to verify whether the pill was
Toxic.
Zhao Ji ordered Wang Fu: "Wang Shaozai, please pass on my oral instructions and ask Taoist Lin to enter the palace immediately. I would like to help Mr. Yuanmiao help me solve my doubts on the road of cultivation!"
"Weak minister Wang Fu, I will obey the imperial edict." Wang Fu agreed.
He also had some doubts: At least the eunuchs were responsible for summoning Taoist priests to meet him. Why did the Zhao family appoint me, the young minister of the dynasty, to handle such matters?
Although Wang Fu was really tired by the middle of the night when he drank in the shower with the girls in Fanlou and studied poetry, etc., how could he dare not to obey Zhao Guan's instructions obediently?
However, Wang Fu vaguely felt that the Zhao Guan family seemed to have a different attitude towards him tonight than usual.
Could it be that the Zhao Guan family did not have a good time in the Chu Pavilion in the backyard of Fanlou?
Wang Shaozai, who was suspicious, turned the horse's head, yawned, and whipped the horse straight to the Shangqing Baolu Palace where Lin Lingsu lived outside the palace city.
The last owner of Shangqing Baolu Palace was Mr. Wang Zaixi, a Taoist priest who was once favored by Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty.
However, four years ago, Wang Zaixi committed suicide by raising a daughter in the temple and committed adultery. Lin Lingsu reported that he was impure and deceived the king, so he was killed.
At that time, the main reason why Wang Zaixi was convicted was that Song Huizong gradually lost favor and trust in him, and he was so arrogant that even the eunuchs around Zhao Guan's family, such as Liang Shicheng, Yang Jian, etc., and he, Mr. Wang, were shouting at each other.
Just like servants. The eunuch and Lin Lingsu colluded with each other and moved Mr. Xiao Wang down.
Tonight, Wang Fu, who has been in the political arena of the Song Dynasty for more than ten years, has a vague feeling that Lin Lingsu, who has been doted on by the Zhao family for the past four years, may be in trouble.