Fu Tang

The expedition was so sudden this time, Li Congjia thought that Shi Xueting would finally be able to rest for a while, but he never expected that the Guiyi army would make a comeback, and there was a Seventh Prince working hand in hand with the Guiyi army.

In fact, if you think about it, you will know the purpose of the Guiyi Army. After all, Suzhou fought with the Guiyi Army, turned around and fought with him again, and now the Dragon King has been abolished. The ability may not be so fast, and the military resources may not be very sufficient. If we don't start at this time, when will we start?

Li Congjia wasn't afraid of Guiyi Army at all. Originally, he didn't bring up the agenda of fighting Guiyi Army, but it was because there were too many things to be busy now, and his recent focus was how to give Shi Xueting the title of National Teacher.

Shi Xueting doesn't seem to care at all, but the topic about him has slowly started to ferment. His military achievements are his amulet, but this has nothing to do with the word "National Teacher". Shang Guoshi, you must have a profound Dharma, a compassionate heart, and a large number of believers.

Shi Xueting's Buddhist teachings... When Li Congjia first met him, at that age, Shi Xueting's Buddhist teachings were really good, not inferior to eminent monks. However, after so many years, Shi Xueting is now studying more possibilities It is the art of war.

Learning this kind of thing has always been sailing against the current. If you don't advance, you will retreat. Today's Shi Xueting doesn't know how much he can remember. This is why Li Congjia didn't dare to let Shi Xueting discuss Buddhism publicly.

Otherwise, if there is dissatisfaction, then open discussion, everyone can come to see who can win, anyway, except for Shi Xueting who wins, he will not be a national teacher.

It is precisely because of this that this matter has been delayed, and Shi Xueting has been doing his own thing silently. This time, all his masters, uncles, brothers and brothers came out to build momentum for Shi Xueting.

Up to now, the grievances between him and Shi Qingsong have been almost resolved. In fact, there is no big enmity between them. It is just that Shi Qingsong is greedy, but it can't be regarded as treating him badly. The brothers and sisters treat him as well. Very good, so even though Shi Qingsong and the others were a little uneasy after they came over, Shi Xueting never did anything to them, and even now faintly released a signal of reconciliation.

Shi Xueting really wanted a position beyond all the courtiers in the court, he wanted to make himself different.

The relationship between him and Li Congjia was really good before, but it doesn't mean that it will last forever. Li Congjia will go farther and farther, and there will be more and more people around him, and more people will help him. Shi Xueting is indeed He has military merits, but that's because Li Congjia doesn't have many generals who are good at fighting. When he wins Suzhou and then the Guiyi Army, he will have many more people in his hands. At that time... it will naturally Someone disliked him and asked him to give up his position.

And Shi Xueting didn't have much contact with other people in the court, he didn't want to become a powerful minister, so he had to go another way.

In fact, even Shi Xueting himself is at a loss at this time, accompanying the emperor is like accompanying a tiger, and the most ruthless emperor's family is in his mind, but every time he sees Li Congjia looking at him with those bright black eyes , he couldn't help but feel soft-hearted.

The result is sweet or bitter, you have to try it to know.

"It's so cold, what are you doing standing outside?"

Shi Xueting was thinking about Li Congjia, when Li Congjia appeared.

He looked at Li Congjia in surprise and asked, "Why is Mr. Lang here?"

"Let's come and see you." Li Congjia said with a natural expression, of course this was also pretended, and he continued: "What's wrong? Is there any other problem?"

Li Congjia was a little confused. As soon as he entered the temple gate, he saw Shi Xueting standing alone in the yard. His figure was tall and slender, pleasing to the eye, but it gave off an extremely lonely feeling. The calmness on his face and the expression in his eyes The depression made Li Congjia's heart tense, what's wrong?

Shi Xueting smiled slightly, shook his head and said, "It's nothing, I just came out to understand the world."

Li Congjia didn't ask Tiandi what he wanted to understand, but just said: "It's too cold, don't stand outside and get cold."

Shi Xueting looked at Li Congjia wrapped in thick sable fur, with half of his face buried in the fluff, couldn't help smiling, Li Congjia looked like a young man in his twenties .

Li Congjia was a little dazed by his smile, looked down at his clothes, and didn't think there was any problem.

Seeing his ignorant look, Shi Xueting smiled even wider, but he saw that Li Congjiadong's nose was a little red, so he couldn't continue standing outside, and said, "Let's go in."

Li Congjia followed him into the meditation room, heaved a sigh of relief, and took off the outer sable fur. After Chunsheng who came over gently took the sable fur, he exited the room and closed the door thoughtfully.

Li Congjia stared straight at the hands that were making tea.

Shi Xueting's hands are beautiful, although there will inevitably be some small wounds caused by practicing exercises, they are white and slender, very attractive.

Shi Xueting handed Li Congjia a cup of tea and asked, "Why are you here suddenly?"

Li Congjia came back to his senses and said, "I'm here to hear your opinion."

Shi Xueting was a little surprised: "About the Guiyi Army and the Seventh Prince?"

Li Congjia nodded, and Shi Xueting asked, "Why didn't you ask the cabinet?"

Holding the teacup, Li Congjia lowered his eyes and said, "They think too much."

Li Congjia needs to think about problems from his own perspective. There are more people and the team grows stronger. That's it. Those people always think about their own interests, but they don't care about the interests of their superiors. They may even want to suppress Li Congjia and control the entire situation. The right to speak in the court.

Power minister, who doesn't want to do it?

However, what Li Congjia wants is that he has the right to speak, even if there is a powerful minister, he needs to come out again, and he will fall if he does not need this powerful minister.

This is a bit difficult, but Li Congjia thinks he can do it from now on, but when he makes mistakes in his own judgment, he needs an outsider to help analyze.

Shi Xueting is a good candidate. He didn't join the bureaucracy system, so there is no such thing as grabbing territory for himself.

Shi Xueting was keenly aware of this, smiled and said: "On this matter, everyone's views should be the same, probably they will fight."

"But Suzhou wants to negotiate a peace." This is where Li Congjia is troubled. The officials in Suzhou don't have much trust in him. Instead, they are squeezed out of their living space because of his arrival. I hope to save my energy to grab territory, instead of consuming national power to go to war, not to mention that fighting may not necessarily win.

Before, they were in the same boat as the Guiyi Army, and neither of them got much benefit. Although it seems that they have won many cities here, but after careful calculation, almost all of those cities were brought down by Li Congjia and replaced by Suzhou. The city in the city is equivalent to Suzhou, which has almost no benefits, but only superficial prestige. After all, Li Congjia is still the Marquis of Anning.

From the perspective of outsiders, it is Suzhou who has won the territory. Who knows that Suzhou is swollen to pretend to be fat?

Shi Xueting thought for a while and said, "The cabinet probably wants to fight."

Li Congjia raised his eyebrows: "If we work hard to kill people, Suzhou will benefit?"

"Isn't the one in Suzhou yours?"

Li Congjia snorted coldly: "Who knows? People from the Long family... I don't trust that much."

"The current Dragon King is pretty good." Shi Xueting said again: "If that's the case, how about we fight and the territory belongs to us?"

Li Congjia's eyes lit up, and he frowned again and said, "It's impossible for the aristocratic families in Suzhou to watch us win so many territories."

Li Congjia had a big killer in his hand, he didn't worry about the outcome of the war at all, anyway, he would fight the Guiyi Army sooner or later.

"So what if they agree? War is not a one-day or two-day thing. Let's take down the city first. During this period, can't we deal with them?"

Li Congjia thought so too, why is he being polite to those aristocratic families?What's more, it's not that he doesn't have the support of his family. Those down-and-out families who have taken refuge in him are red-eyed and want to get a piece of the pie. If these families don't cooperate, they should get rid of them and start a new batch.

Moreover, these new families are not as powerful as those, so they are easy to control.

Li Congjia frowned and said, "It seems that some tough measures are needed."

Shi Xueting laughed: "Why should you be too gentle with them?"

Li Congjia nodded in satisfaction, feeling a little regretful that he had finished his business so soon, and he was going back after he finished speaking, otherwise why would he stay here?To be honest, he wants to stay overnight. Now it is getting more and more difficult for Shi Xueting to stay in the mansion, so he can only go to Shi Xueting's place. Well, there is no harm in thinking about it, at least where Shi Xueting lives now There are not many houses in this place, and there is nothing extra for him, he probably needs to share a Zen room with Shi Xueting.

So Li Congjia, who was originally very dissatisfied with this environment, didn't say much in secret, and wanted to stay for two times first, and then change it for Shi Xueting.

However, once the cabinet approves the battle proposal, Shi Xueting will lead the troops away, and he doesn't know when he will get it.

Just when he was thinking about finding a topic, Shi Xueting suddenly said: "It seems to be snowing outside, and the road is slippery in snowy weather, it's not easy for your husband to go back, why don't you just stay for one night, but my place is a little rough .”

Li Congjia's eyes lit up, but he still said reservedly: "It's snowing outside? How do you know?"

The windows of the meditation room are all closed, how did Shi Xueting know?

Shi Xueting closed his eyes and said: "Listen and smell, there is the sound of snow falling in the room, and the air that blows in also smells of ice and snow."

Li Congjia looked at Shi Xueting, and couldn't help swallowing, Shi Xueting's eyes closed like this is really... so sinister.

Li Congjia was thinking about whether he would be beaten into a pig's head if he leaned in for a kiss, and suddenly Shi Xueting opened his eyes and said, "It's getting late, get ready to rest."

Li Congjia was a little dazed, wasn't he talking about snow just now?

How did he know, because he was greedy for beauty and didn't respond to Shi Xueting, making Shi Xueting think about whether what he said made Li Congjia feel boring.

Chunsheng came over to help them wash up and go to sleep. Li Congjia was lying on the bed, feeling the warmth from Shi Xueting. He felt very excited and wanted to get closer. He could not help rubbing against Shi Xueting. .

Shi Xueting hadn't fallen asleep yet, and he couldn't fall asleep even with the person he liked beside him. Feeling Li Congjia's slow squirming, he couldn't help asking: "Does your husband feel a little cold?"

Li Congjia's body froze, and immediately moved his body back to the original position cowardly, and said with a dry smile: "It's a little bit, is there not enough carbon here?"

As soon as Shi Xueting turned over, he stretched out his long arms and took Li Congjia into his arms.

Li Congjia acted like a frightened owl on the spot, staring and not daring to move, his heart beating so fast that it was about to burst out of his chest.

After a while, he uttered a sentence: "You... what are you doing?"

"Doesn't Mr. Lang feel cold?" Shi Xueting's voice came from above Li Congjia's head: "When I was young, I lived with my seniors. When I was cold, I would keep warm like this."

Li Congjia was so close to Shi Xueting that he could even feel the vibration in his chest when he spoke, but he calmed down and laughed at his excitement just now.

This kind of thing is very common in other people's place, and only his impure thoughts can make him so excited.

At this time, he was a little jealous of Shi Xueting's seniors, who could hug him to keep warm.

However, he ignored it, what Shi Xueting said was that he would do this when he was a child.

When I was young, I would hug each other to keep warm, just like animal cubs. Even if they don’t keep warm, children like to hug each other and talk quietly, not to mention that they all entered the temple since childhood, and they feel somewhat insecure. This can soothe Their restless hearts.

When you get older, of course no one does this.

Shi Xueting just found a high-sounding reason, hugged Li Congjia, looked at the moonlight shining on the window, tried hard to restrain his body that was about to move, thinking in his heart that fortunately the two of them were covered with two quilts, and there was a little block in the middle, so they could always cover up .

Li Congjia slowly relaxed, his IQ returned to normal, but he still felt a little embarrassed, two big men hugging each other like this... Wait, something seems wrong, shouldn't he be the one holding Shi Xueting in his arms?

After all, he is bigger than Shi Xueting, as for his size, he is already lying on the bed, height is not important!

But Li Congjia didn't want to move, he was afraid that if he moved, what would Shi Xueting do if he felt that he was not cold, so he would let go?What's more, he was cold, so Shi Xueting hugged him, the problem was that Shi Xueting was not cold.

Li Congjia had no choice but to lie in Shi Xueting's arms without moving, and added: "It's true that your place is not too warm, the airtightness is too bad."

Shi Xueting was a little confused, he had never heard of the word sealing.

Li Congjia also felt that he was too advanced after speaking, but he still couldn't help thinking about how to seal the house. These days, the windows of high-ranking officials and aristocrats actually have colored glaze, but colored glaze is too expensive after all, and ordinary people use more window paper.

Do you want to get the glass out?

Anyway, it's just to get some sand or something, the cost is not high, but... Li Congjia is not sure if he has time in the future, but he feels sorry for Shi Xueting. The windows of Shi Xueting's meditation room are pasted with paper.

It's better to get it out first, at least let Shi Xueting use glass windows, not to mention, colored glaze is a treasure of Buddha, and glass is now a kind of colored glaze, and colored glaze is also called a treasure of Buddha, and colored glaze Buddha statues are sacred in Buddhism. thing.

Well, why don't we just create a Buddha statue and try to create momentum for Shi Xueting?

Li Congjia was thinking about these things, and slowly fell asleep.

After feeling Shi Xueting's long breath, Shi Xueting lowered his head and looked at his profile under the hazy moonlight, couldn't help but kissed Li Congjia's forehead, and hugged him even tighter.

No matter what the future holds, at least for now, Li Congjia trusts him so much that he can fall asleep defenselessly in his arms.

The next morning, Shi Xueting woke up very early. After all, he still had to practice and do morning classes. However, Li Congjia was fast asleep in his arms. After thinking about it, he decided to stay in bed!

Li Congjia was lying on Shi Xueting's arm at this time, sleeping very sweetly. Although Shi Xueting didn't wake up, he couldn't fall asleep either, so he had to admire his sleeping face. Ting looked at it and couldn't help it.

But he didn't do anything too extreme, he just lowered his head and kissed Li Congjia's forehead, then the tip of his nose, and finally kissed his rosy lips.

After the kiss, Shi Xueting raised his head and looked at Li Congjia with some trepidation, for fear that he would find something when he woke up.

But obviously, this level of harassment couldn't pull Li Congjia out of his sleep, and he didn't even respond at all.

Just as Shi Xueting wanted to continue to take advantage, he heard Chunsheng asking softly outside: "Is Your Highness awake?"

Shi Xueting stopped and said helplessly in a low voice: "Not yet."

Chunsheng was a little anxious: "Today's grand court meeting, master, please help."

Chunsheng didn't dare to call Li Congjia, but in the past Li Congjia never missed the court because of snoozing, and today can be said to be a special case.

Shi Xueting felt a pity in his heart, and really wanted to drag Li Congjia to escape together, but if it was a small court meeting, it would be fine, if the big court meeting did not go, it would be a little troublesome.

Shi Xueting had no choice but to whisper softly in Li Congjia's ear: "Master, wake up."

Li Congjia is actually in a light sleep state at this time, after all, there is a biological clock, and it is not too late.

It's just that when I heard Shi Xueting's deep and magnetic voice ringing in my ears, I felt my heart beat a little faster, and my whole body was numb from my ears, I didn't think about it, I just wanted to be a foolish king who never came to court early.

Hey, if he can really take Shi Xueting down, he probably will have to go to court early.

Li Congjia was thinking about something, slowly opened his eyes, seeing Shi Xueting's expression of relief, couldn't help but rubbed his eyes and said, "What time is it?"

"It's five o'clock." Shi Xueting felt that he was a bit hopeless, but he actually saw the cuteness from the way the other party rubbed his eyes!

Li Congjia was startled, it was late at this point, he got up quickly and said, "It's so late? Chunsheng!"

Chunsheng hurriedly brought people in with toiletries and clothes, and Shi Xueting and Li Congjia started to wash and change their clothes respectively.

They are all on their own and there is no need to put on airs, Li Congjia stood under the bed and stretched generously, just in time for Shi Xueting to see the small waistline that was leaking.

Compared with the snow-white obscene clothes, Li Congjia's complexion is not bad, and it looks smooth and delicate, just like the best southern tofu. When Li Congjia put down his arms, Shi Xueting felt very sorry, but looking around, he found that he was so beautiful. It's better not to show them.

After the two of them washed up, they hurriedly boarded the carriage and headed to the palace.

Because Shi Xueting lived in a temple, it was a little far away from the palace, and they were already late when they went. However, the current Dragon King had already refrained from his original edge. After discovering that Li Congjia was very violent, he said to the disobedient children He would fight as soon as he hit, and when he could still fight violently, he would decisively admit cowardice, so even though the civil and military officials had arrived, he didn't let everyone start discussing, but had to wait for Li Congjia to come over.

This made the original officials in Suzhou very dissatisfied, but Li Congjia's fist was so big that even the Dragon King was afraid, so they naturally did not dare to confront him face to face.

Before Li Congjia brought Shi Xueting to the hall, he was thinking about how to explain who was in Shi Xueting's meditation room, but after he entered the hall, all the officials on both sides bowed to him and saluted all the way. , Li Congjia decided not to explain anything.

Where does he like to sleep and where does it matter to them?Even if you explain it, you should explain it to your own cabinet.

If you are not arrogant, how can you be considered a powerful minister?If you are not arrogant, how can you attract people to bite him?If you don't bite him, how can he become a famous clean-up man?

Even powerful ministers have to be careful, you can't deal with people casually, even if you don't like it, but the other party treats you with low eyebrows and wants to follow you, you still deal with others, be careful that no one messes with you!

As soon as Li Congjia stood at the head of the hundred officials, the Dragon King said: "The Marquis of An Ning looks not very well, presumably because of his hard work for the country, come and watch."

All the officials were dumbfounded. At the court meeting, even the crown prince had no seat to do, and now he is making an exception for a courtier?

However, they found that Li Congjia thanked him calmly, and then...then sat down on his seat with a calm expression on his face!

The Suzhou native officials looked at each other, and they all had a bad premonition in their hearts.

However, the discussion still had to continue. Suzhou officials kept standing up to report on their work or ask questions. The Dragon King sat at the head and kept observing Li Congjia's face.

Li Congjia listened to them with his eyes half downcast. At the beginning, he didn't express any opinions. After the discussion was over, he generally kept silent if he was in line with his opinions. Once he was dissatisfied, he objected.

Then the Dragon King also objected, coming down once or twice, no matter how stupid the Suzhou officials were, they could see that the Dragon King... was the puppet of the Marquis of Anning!

They were a little uneasy. To be honest, everyone wanted a puppet emperor, but that was based on the fact that they were the ones manipulating the puppet. The current scene did not meet their expectations.

There is also a censor in Suzhou, and one of the officials couldn't stand it any longer, so he stood up and said: "Chen Shen An Ninghou is arrogant and domineering, manipulating the holy will!"

Li Congjia raised his eyelids and glanced at him, but ignored him. This level is too childish. You can ignore me. What are you talking about manipulating the holy will? The holy will that can be manipulated is no longer the holy will, you know child?Your words have already offended the Dragon King to death!

The Dragon King's face suddenly became very ugly. He is indeed a dog, but he doesn't want to be exposed in person.

Unexpectedly, the speaker looked at Li Congjia righteously after finishing speaking and said, "Traitor! There is still a bright future in this world, and you alone cannot cover the sky in Suzhou!"

The Dragon King looked at Li Congjia, and everyone looked at Li Congjia, wanting to see what he would do.