A large group of Huben warriors bypassed the front yard of the Kou Mansion, opened the doors to the middle courtyard and the back yard, controlled all the main roads in the Kou Mansion, and respectfully welcomed Zhao Zhen as he walked step by step to the Garden of the Four Lords.
In the bedroom.
The old Kou Zhun was a light sleeper. After the royal guards entered the Garden of the Four Lords, he was awakened by the slight footsteps.
Kou Zhun quietly got up from the bed, moved to the window, and poked a hole in the window paper with his fingers. When he looked outside, he saw Zhao Zhen stepping on the doorstep under the flaming red lantern.
Entered the Sijun Garden.
Kou Zhun tugged at his beard, wriggled his lips, and murmured in a low voice, "I actually chased him to the palace. It seems that the situation in the palace is not good..."
Relying on the faint light cast by the torch held by the imperial guards outside the window, Kou Zhun turned around and looked at the bed not far away. Several benches were used to create a bed, which was in the shape of a large font and was sleeping soundly on it.
Kouji.
Kou Zhun complained in a low voice: "The brat slept soundly. Someone broke into the garden and I didn't know. If someone touched his head at night, I probably wouldn't know either."
Kou Zhun just complained casually.
He also knew it in his heart.
With the dumb tiger guarding Kou Ji secretly, Kou Ji can sleep peacefully.
If someone really took advantage of the darkness and sneaked up to Kou Ji, he would probably be cut in half by the mute tiger if he couldn't get even a foot in front of Kou Ji.
Kou Zhun carefully left the window and returned to the bed. He glanced at Kou Ji and murmured in a low voice, "I should sleep more peacefully. Just pretend that you didn't notice the official's arrival."
Kou Zhun muttered softly, wrapped himself in a quilt, and pretended to be asleep.
Outside the bedroom.
Zhao Zhen walked to the door of the bedroom and listened carefully to the movement in the room. He heard nothing and couldn't help but smile bitterly.
Chen Lin glanced at the bedroom with a resentful look and prepared to knock on the door.
Zhao Zhen stopped him.
"Since the Grand Master doesn't want to see us now, let's wait here."
Chen Lin's voice rose slightly, and she muttered towards the bedroom: "Isn't it too unfair to the official family?"
The reason why Zhao Zhen and Chen Lin reacted this way is because Kou Zhun's pretending to be sleeping was not realistic enough.
Kou Zhun had spent countless nights in the palace, and Zhao Zhen and Chen Lin also knew some of Kou Zhun's habits.
After Kou Zhun fell asleep, he snored slightly.
In a slightly noisy environment, it is almost inaudible.
But in the silent night, it was extremely clear.
Zhao Zhen and Chen Lin were the ones who had helped Kou Zhun cover him with blankets and quilts several times, so they naturally knew.
Zhao Zhen walked outside the bedroom door and listened carefully. After hearing no snoring from Kou Zhun, he knew that Kou Zhun was not sleeping, but pretending to be asleep in the room.
Chen Lin felt that Kou Zhun knew Zhao Zhen had arrived, but pretended not to know, which was a bit rude.
Only then did he raise his voice to remind Kou Zhun.
Kou Zhun in the bedroom has become a spirit.
Hearing that Zhao Zhen stopped Chen Lin from disturbing him, and that Chen Lin called him at a higher pitched voice, Kou Zhun knew that he had exposed his flaw in pretending to be asleep.
After thinking about it carefully, Kou Zhunyi saw where his flaw was.
Ever since.
The snoring sound, like the explosion of drought thunder, sounded in the Sijun Garden.
Zhao Zhen said dumbfounded: "It's really difficult for the Grand Master..."
Chen Lin curled her lips, full of disdain for Kou Zhun's deceitful way, and raised her voice again, "That's not..."
In the bedroom.
Kou Zhun was annoyed.
This won't work, and that won't work either.
He also prevented others from pretending to be asleep.
Immediately.
Kou Zhun stopped snoring. He snorted in bed and stopped dealing with Zhao Zhen outside the bedroom.
Love so and so!
As long as you don't break into the bedroom and expose me, I will just pretend that I have been sleeping.
Kou Zhun turned over, faced the wall of the bed, covered himself with the quilt, and continued to sleep.
After a while, a slight snore sounded.
He actually fell asleep.
I really agree with the saying, if you plant flowers with intention, they will not be successful, but if you do not intend to plant willows, they will create shade.
Kou Zhun insisted on pretending to sleep, but couldn't fall asleep.
When he didn't pretend to be asleep, he fell asleep quickly.
Outside the bedroom.
When Zhao Zhen and Chen Lin heard a slight snoring sound, they looked at each other with a wry smile on their faces.
Zhao Zhen let out a long sigh and ordered Chen Lin: "Let someone set up a tent here, and we will wait for the grand master to wake up."
Chen Lin opened her mouth but stopped talking.
Zhao Zhen glanced at him.
Chen Lin sighed and obediently led the people to set up the tent.
The tent was set up quickly.
Chen Lin also ordered the eunuchs and maids to lift the soft couch and other items from Zhao Zhen's carriage and lay them for Zhao Zhen.
Zhao Zhen entered the tent and lay on the bed.
The rest of the people waited obediently outside the tent, standing quietly with their eyes wide open.
The eunuchs and palace maids, under Chen Lin's instructions, moved around, preparing things for Zhao Zhen to use when he wakes up tomorrow, as well as a breakfast meal, but they didn't make any noise.
If Kou Ji were awake and watching the behavior of those eunuchs and palace maids, he would definitely criticize them.
Every living person was forcibly bound into machines by the palace's dogma.
shameful!
After criticism.
Kou Ji would not hesitate to approach Zhao Zhen and ask him to lend these people to the Kou Mansion to serve him.
As for when?
It depends on when he remembers that these people are borrowed.
It's strange to say.
Zhao Zhen, who couldn't sleep in the palace, actually fell into a deep sleep after settling down in the Kou Mansion.
Chen Lin slightly opened the tent curtain and looked at Zhao Zhen sleeping inside, with a very complicated expression on her face.
He had prepared countless words in his mind to reprimand Kou Zhun's ancestors and grandchildren for being rude, but at this moment they all disappeared.
After experiencing so many great events, Zhao Zhen was already exhausted physically and mentally.
Zhao Zhen couldn't sleep elsewhere and was even a little irritable.
But after arriving at Kou Mansion, it became very quiet and peaceful, and he fell asleep not long after.
What does this mean?
This shows that Zhao Zhen is very dependent on Kou Zhun's ancestors and grandchildren, and has great trust in Kou Zhun's ancestors and grandchildren.
He felt that even if a big trouble appeared in front of him, Kou Zhun's grandparents would help him deal with it properly.
Therefore, Zhao Zhen could sleep peacefully here.
It can be said that Kou Zhun's ancestors and grandsons are in the heart of the emperor.
As long as Zhao Zhen is still alive, Kou Zhun and his grandson will always be the holy family.
Chen Lin didn't want to offend two people who were in the emperor's heart.
Previously, he secretly took action, instigating Guo Huai and a master of equipment supervision to deal with Liu E secretly.
Kou Ji was not informed, which already caused Kou Ji's dissatisfaction.
Now he should find ways to ease the relationship between the two parties instead of intensifying the conflicts between the two parties.
Chen Lin lowered the curtain of the tent and looked faintly at the bedroom where Kou Zhun's grandparents were.
I sighed for no reason.
"It would be great if Kou Ji were a woman... With him assisting the official family in the palace, the official family will definitely become an eternal sage... Our family doesn't have to fight with him..."
"..."
Kou Ji didn't know what Chen Lin was thinking.
If Kou Ji knew about it, he would probably use a hundred tigers to rush forward and shoot him into a sieve.
Kou Ji in the bedroom turned over without any image, lying on the bed like a toad, sleeping soundly.
One sleep is a night.
The next day.
When the sky is bright.
Kou Ji was awakened by the faint scent of tea, opened his eyes, shrank back with a look of astonishment, and fell off the bench.
"Fuck!"
Kou Ji fell to the ground, rubbing his butt and staring at the bedroom in shock.
The bedroom was full of people.
Densely packed.
Zhao Zhen and Kou Zhun were sitting on chairs by the window in the bedroom, sipping tea.
Chen Lin bowed her waist and poured tea aside.
Everyone shrugged their shoulders and suppressed laughter.
"Hahaha……"
Kou Zhun was the first to laugh out loud.
Later.
Zhao Zhen, Chen Lin, as well as the palace maids and eunuchs who were standing in the room waiting to serve Zhao Zhen, all laughed out loud.
Kou Ji got up from the ground, patted his butt slightly, and muttered depressedly: "Is it fun? How old are you, but you still act like a child, how childish!"
"Um?!"
Kou Zhun raised his eyebrows and snorted dissatisfiedly.
Kou Ji quickly put on a smile, stepped forward and cupped his hands and said: "I've met the official family, I've met my grandfather..."
Kou Zhun snorted coldly, "Go get dressed quickly."
Zhao Zhen waved his hand.
Chen Lin put down the teapot, shook the whisk, and said loudly: "The official family has orders, let you help the Ministry of Industry dress."
Then.
Kou Ji stretched out his arms and allowed the maids to dress him and wash him.
After helping him clean up, he obediently helped him clean up his bed.
Kou Ji shook his official uniform and stood next to Kou Zhun.
Only then did Zhao Zhen start talking about business, "Grand Master, I came here this time to invite the Grand Master to the palace."
Kou Zhun cupped his hands and said: "The officials came to invite me in person, and the old ministers were frightened."
Zhao Zhen said with a smile: "The Grand Master is my sage, and he should be respected by thousands of people. Although I am an official in my court, I still have to respect the Grand Master, and I should come to your door in person."
Kou Zhun handed over his hand again, "The official family is so kind, and the old minister is so grateful."
Zhao Zhen paused for a moment, then said with a hint of helplessness: "Master's hard work has made great achievements, so I should treat him kindly."
"..."
Kou Ji stood aside quietly, looking at Zhao Zhen and Kou Zhun doing Tai Chi.
After Zhao Zhen stated the purpose of his trip, Kou Zhun did not respond, but rambled on about other things and refused to answer what Zhao Zhen said.
Seeing the two of them playing Tai Chi endlessly, Kou Ji sighed in his heart and said: "My grandfather is old and cannot be frightened. The officials should not embarrass my grandfather."
I would like to go to the palace in place of my grandfather."
When Zhao Zhen heard this, he was stunned for a moment, then grinned.
Kou Zhanzhan glared at Kou Ji fiercely.
Kou Ji naturally knew that Kou Zhun glared at him because he was complaining that he had taken over the errand with Chu King Zhao Yuanzuo.
In Kou Zhun's eyes, it was a big trouble, and it was better not to provoke it.
Kou Ji cupped his hands and said: "The King of Chu is worth a thousand pieces of gold, and I dare not hurt the King of Chu. I can only rely on the King of Chu's appreciation for me, and climb up and say a few words. I can't guarantee whether it will work."
"
When Kou Zhun heard this, his expression softened a bit.
The meaning of Kou Ji's words was very consistent with Kou Zhun's thoughts.
It's okay to go to the palace to make peace.
Whether it can be done or not, I can't guarantee.
The retreat was not blocked, and no military orders were issued.
There is room for maneuver, and there is no need to be afraid of being criticized.
When Zhao Zhen heard Kou Ji's words, a joyful look appeared on his face.
Let’s not mention whether it works or not.
If Kou Ji could talk to Zhao Yuanzuo for a few words, that would be a good start.
The people he sent before could not even speak to Zhao Yuanzuo, so they were killed by Zhao Yuanzuo.
"Without further delay, enter the palace quickly!"
Zhao Zhen stood up, pulled Kou Ji and ran towards the palace.
Chen Lin trotted behind, calling loudly to the guards, eunuchs, and palace maids to prepare a carriage for Zhao Zhen.
Zhao Zhen, Kou Ji and their entourage entered the palace.
Zhao Zhen sent Kou Ji all the way to a fork in the road not far from Liu E's palace, and ordered nearly a hundred tiger-shaped army guards to guard Kou Ji before letting Kou Ji go to see Zhao Yuanzuo.
When Kou Ji arrived at the door of Liu E's palace, he saw corpses on the ground and dried blood.
Zhao Yuanzuo sat on the threshold of Liu E's palace door with his sword in hand, taking a nap.
Zhao Yuanzuo's guards were sitting cross-legged on the ground, blocking the door of Liu E's bedroom, and were also sleeping with their eyes closed.
A eunuch in Liu E's palace tried to break out of the palace to deliver a message while they were sleeping.
As soon as he entered the palace gate, a spear shot out, piercing the eunuch's chest and nailing him to the pillar behind the gate.
The eunuch stared, vomited blood, fluttered his feet a few times, and died.
Zhao Yuanzuo and Zhao Yuanzuo's guards all opened their eyes.
One of the guards slowly withdrew his hand, stepped in front of the pillar behind the palace door, and pulled out his spear.
Later.
Everyone's eyes fell on Kou Ji and the soldiers of the Tiger Army behind Kou Ji.
Zhao Yuanzuo's bloodshot eyes fell on Kou Ji and said in a hoarse voice: "Kou Zhun asked you to catch me?"
Kou Ji paused, was slightly stunned, and said, "Why not an official?"
Zhao Yuanzuo wiped the long sword in his hand and said calmly: "If my nephew had such courage, my eighth brother would not cause trouble, and Liu E would not dare to do anything behind his back.
Among the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, only your grandfather and Li Di had the courage to send people to arrest me."
Kou Ji was stunned, and found that what Zhao Yuanzuo said was very reasonable.
"The official family is still very powerful..."
Zhao Yuanzuo said calmly: "Compared to my uncle?"
Kou Ji smiled bitterly and said, "You are the only one in the world who dares to ridicule officials."
Zhao Yuanzuo frowned and said, "Stop talking nonsense, is there any water and dry food?"
Kou Ji was stunned and quickly searched his body and the soldiers of the Tiger Army behind him. He only found a bag of water.
Kou Ji threw the water to Zhao Yuanzuo, and Zhao Yuanzuo picked up the water bag and took a sip.
Kou Ji was stunned for a moment.
Because Zhao Yuanzuo seemed to be drinking water, but his throat did not move.
Zhao Yuanzuo handed the water bag to the guards.
The guards took the water bag, waved it around, and handed it to Zhao Yuanzuo.
Zhao Yuanzuo weighed the water bag and lamented, "I am the one who caused you trouble..."
The guards didn't say a word, they just stared at Zhao Yuanzuo.
Zhao Yuanzuo sympathized with them and just moistened his lips with water, and they did the same.
So when the water bag was handed to Zhao Yuanzuo, it was still full of water.