laughing soul

"Ah Yu, did you hurt from the fall?" The little bastard showed a wicked smile that Chu Yu was very familiar with, and took out a wine cup from under the table familiarly, poured a cup of Zhuyeqing and drank it. The condescending angle made this person look like More like a wolf with a big tail, "Do you want me to rub your waist for you?"

Chu Yu had flinched a few days ago, but he fell down hard again, and struggled for a long time before getting up.The process of getting up is also very difficult, and a wounded person has to devote most of his energy to dodging the ubiquitous salty pig hands, and his forehead is already sweating when he sits on the stool.

He watched Qiu Sheng's suave peach blossom eyes smile into a funny crescent shape, and he couldn't help but bewildered: "I thought you would whip me up with a sack and a leather whip, or drag me to the execution ground. kill."

Qiu Sheng has been staring at Chu Yu's face for a long time. Hearing this, he couldn't help but sneered. He stretched out his tongue and licked the liquid splashed on the corner of his lips. : "What did I do to harm you?"

Chu Yu greedily snatched a glass of wine and drank it. He was surprised that the wine was much better than the previous one at the Qingzhou post station, so he couldn't help but drink several glasses in a row.When he raised his face again, his pale complexion turned red a lot. Following Qiu Sheng's eyes, he laughed out loud: "I've put you down, you don't care? You are the emperor, you are at ease. , it’s comfortable to sleep with nothing to do, isn’t it?”

Qiu Sheng smiled but did not answer, and slowly shifted his gaze upwards without making a sound, met those eyes that were gradually becoming drunken, and lightly lit the well-behaved old-fashioned candle lamp on the table, watching the dancing lamp shadows in the His eyes were radiant, and for a moment he forgot all the burdens of his family and country, and he didn't know what was going on.

Qiu Sheng put a glass of wine in his hand and forgot to drink it. Chu Yu felt a little greedy and kept drinking. In a blink of an eye, he had already poured ten glasses full, but there was no sign of stopping. Instead, he became more and more courageous: "You Don't worry that I'm an informant? Bad motives? I'm here to kill you...a killer?" In the end, he didn't even know what he was talking about, and he only focused on raising his eyebrows and smiling, "Are you afraid of death? Um?"

Qiu Sheng wanted to build up his courage by drinking, and sort out all the questions that he didn't ask the reason last time. How could he have expected that the prisoner who was going to be interrogated would drink all the wine in the end. This person is not very good at drinking. After drinking a small cup of wine, I started to lose my mind, how can I ask a ghost?

The young man who only drank half a glass of wine maintained his sobriety by relying on the huge amount of wine, but when he touched the other party's confused and chaotic eyes, he didn't know his name in an instant.

Alcohol can magnify the emotions of ordinary people several times. At this time, the little bit of bamboo leaf green in Qiu Sheng's body can't wait to catch fire, and the person next to him is also burned into his blood without mercy, and turned into fly ash and blown by the wind.

"At this point, anyone who is cowardly and afraid of death will be finished. I have no turning back." He dazedly approached the man, lowered his head and stared intently at the faintly fragrant hairpin. After a while, he reached out his hand in a daze and stroked it very gently and gently.

It was like stroking a little milk cat that had settled down for a while and was lying on his lap. Fearing that the force would be too strong, he would startle and scare it away.Young people who are accustomed to informality have no choice but to try their best to please it and get close to it. On the one hand, they are afraid that they are not doing well enough, so they enjoy the warmth of nephrite jade and become afraid at the same time.

Chu Yu grabbed his hand and seemed to be dazed for a while before looking up.

Qiu Sheng's already out-of-rhythm heartbeat changed another frequency almost instantly.

Those jet-black eyes seemed to be filled with a bowl of pure ink, which could be assimilated with the night in the darkness, but if you gave it a little light, it could change the angle and refract the mottled light and shadow.

At this moment when his eyes met, he finally decided that this person, even if he was an informant, was a killer who wanted his life, and a villain who approached him with sinister plans, he couldn't turn against him and plot against each other. You can't even stand by and stand by when anyone is against him.

It seemed as if the dust had already settled, just waiting for him to look up at this moment.

Even though Qiu Sheng is a flirtatious love veteran, he has never felt like this before. The completely unfamiliar feeling made him feel like a little girl who just fell in love.

But the person in front of him doesn't seem to be some kind of flirtatious Mr. Bao.

The world in the eyes of drunkards is as unpredictable as their steps. Chu Yu tightly clasped the paw that made him quite distressed, and did not know what to do. Eye.At this time, he also forgot all the lessons learned from the past. He barely managed to tell the difference for a long time, but he couldn't help but raise his hand and touched the end of his eyes. The person in front of me is crying.

Even when this person was intoxicated, the weakness of heart still played its role dutifully. Chu Yu stumbled and bit his tongue, and raised his hand to wrap around Qiu Sheng's back, pressing down on the spine several times, He said vaguely, "Don't cry...don't, don't cry...you, I won't bully you, okay? Xiaobao...don't cry..."

A "Little Treasure" hit Qiu Sheng's brain, which was already on the verge of collapse, without exaggeration, it had the effect of exploding people with red blood. He was squinted by the other party's eyes that were burning red with the smell of alcohol, and his temples were obvious. The ground trembled, almost exhausting all the self-control accumulated in this area after beating the mother's womb, and then he pulled his hand out of Chu Yu's palm, and then knocked hard on his sky spirit cover non-stop for a moment.

With a painful snort, it effectively drove away the filth and filth in his mind. Qiu Sheng put his eyes that had nowhere to rest on the toe of his shoes, and never dared to look at Chu Yu's flushed face, and avoided it in a very upright manner. The hidden part held up his knees.

Fortunately, this alcoholic's alcohol quality is not bad, knowing that he is honest and not flopping around, he was transferred to the bed smoothly. Qiu Sheng covered his eyes and threw a quilt and wrapped him up like a caterpillar. Not daring to delay for a moment, he moved out with his hands and feet, watching his nose, nose and mouth.

As soon as he went out, he was shocked by the bone-chilling chill of falling snow and ice all over the sky, but his heart was warm and melting. He breathed lightly between his hands, smiled lightly, and walked away soundlessly.

After all, Chu Yu was not a long caterpillar. He threw the quilt under the bed without sleeping for a while, hugged his body and sucked the snot all night, and Huan Tian finally came back from the imperial dining room in the middle of the night. What I arrived at was such an unrefined and unrestrained scene.The image that the pavilion master worked so hard to maintain in the child's heart in the past few years was instantly shattered and shattered into a piece of scum.

At that time, the culprit was rushing to the Yizheng Hall to find Jiang Chen, and he didn't know anything about it, but he was very happy for this situation to happen, and might even try shamelessly to make the whole world hate his family. Ah Yu didn't have any indiscretions, from an eighty-year-old mother to a young boy, any living person would be driven far away with a big knife in his hand, wishing to gouge out the eyes of those who had seen him down.

Qiu Sheng's almost extreme uneasiness only surfaced from time to time in Chu Yu's place. At this time, he was sitting opposite Jiang Chen, surrounded by Hu Tiandu, Cai Du and Dong Qi, listening to the three people's different political opinions. Gao Lun, but he didn't mean to be worried or anxious at all, he just tapped on the rim of the teacup lightly, occasionally nodding his head to show his approval.

Everyone felt that the noise was almost over, and they all raised their heads to ask Qiu Sheng for his opinion.

"The matter of settling the Cuiwei Pavilion has been entrusted to Master Jingsheng to arrange. No matter who the master entrusts to handle this matter, Master Hu, you follow." Qiu Sheng casually took out a waist card from his arms and put it on the table. "When you leave, take a team of Imperial Forest Army with you. Everything is in order, and the safety of the monks in Tianyuan Temple is the first. Be sure to bring back a lot of people. Don't rush to Loulan and Guijue Kingdom if you move them back. Go, put it in the treasury for me to have a look at first, handle this matter carefully, Cuiwei Pavilion is not easy to mess with, follow Tianyuan Temple's orders, don't reveal your identity, the people on the mountain have old grudges against us."

The entangled and complicated relationship between Cui Weige and Dayue is only known to a few in-laws in the royal family, and Fang Jiu, who has learned a lot of knowledge, even Qiu Sheng learned from him, so Hu Tian naturally didn't understand it. Yes, I didn't dare to ask in detail, and nodded to take over the errand: "I obey the order."

Qiu Sheng waved his hand away from him, and turned to Cai Du: "Lord Cai."

Cai Du was not very old, but his paunch was inconvenient, and it was inconvenient to bow and salute, so Qiu Sheng deliberately avoided all the big gifts from this person, and he just bowed: "I am here, but I am at your majesty's order."

"The navy on General Su Wanyue's side should let it go, and the old man should also take a good rest. You have selected five or six good materials for me from the military test tributes in the past two years. Well, Wen Try to take a closer look, those who have real talents and learning, and are willing to solve the country's worries and problems will be brought before my eyes. Also, the officials in the palace are very optimistic, don't make a fuss when I don't have time to control them." Qiu Sheng rubbed his chin habitually, "Tell those old people who are free and always take money from the people to be careful, don't you have the vision to see that the treasury is almost empty? When the palace can't open the pot, I will copy them one by one. their home."

Cai Du nodded repeatedly, thinking in his mind whether to take the knife on his own home first.

Since the Son of Heaven is the leader of all dragons, the words and deeds of civil and military officials will inevitably gradually converge to the emperor. The minister issued a plaque saying "Corrupt officials are the most useful, bribery and money are extremely clever" and hang at the gate of the mansion every day. Who can be sober in this mud?

Cai Du, as the head of the official department at the head of the six banners, served on behalf of his father when his mind was not yet firm, and was immediately abused by the late emperor whose head grew into the shape of an ingot. Bai Lianhua, even a brainy person wouldn't believe it.

Qiu Sheng looked coldly at his big belly raised by wine, meat and lard, pretended to be ignorant of it and said innocently: "This will take a lot of trouble, Mr. Cai, I heard that the people in the capital are clean and upright. There are not many left, and I hope Master Cai will make a strict ruling and share my worries."

He can't clean himself up and fall into the boundless abyss, but someone can.

The brochure presented by Hu Tiandu, Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, clearly stated the cashier’s amount of Dai Viet in recent decades and the salaries that the ministers should receive, compared with the congratulatory gifts offered by the late emperor every year on his birthday, the expenses of the princes and daughters of their respective houses, and the various expenses. This item of expenditure simply cannot make ends meet, and this excess amount is often 500 taels of silver.

If he is not innocent, no one would dare to report all these important ministers.

Cai Du is a smart person, but right now he obviously underestimated the level of the new emperor, and before he had time to think carefully, he wishfully thought that Qiu Sheng really didn't see it.

Since ancient times, it is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but difficult to go from luxury to frugality.I have already tasted the taste of spending a lot of money to buy a laugh, who can bear to live a poor life on that little court salary?

Qiu Sheng didn't have the time to practice mind reading skills, so naturally he couldn't see the fox's tail hidden behind his back, so he unilaterally thought that this matter was temporarily closed, and waved his hands: "You two go back and rest first, Mr. Jiang, I have Talk."

Jiang Chen had been listening with his ears stunned, and immediately knelt down on one knee after hearing this: "Your Majesty."

Seeing that the two men walked away, Qiu Sheng shook the cup to signal for more tea, and after sending Li Ci away, he stretched out his arms and stretched his waist greatly. Sitting upright and stiff, his muscles and bones relaxed, and when he opened his eyes, he saw Jiang Chen kneeling without changing his position, frowning helplessly, so he slipped down a few steps and forced him to sit on the stool: "That's it!" Everyone is gone, who do you kneel for, Mr. Jiang?"

Jiang Chen's wrinkled old face looked very aggrieved: "Old minister, please forgive me."

Qiu Sheng's back ached from being called "veteran", and his eyes ached from his expression as if he had swallowed a fly: "Uncle Jiang, what's your crime?"

Jiang Chen: "The inner ghost was not found out before the peace talks, and it didn't win the opportunity for His Majesty."

"Come on, I'm just here to talk to you about this. If you make an apology, don't you mean you're going to stop working?" Li Ci served two cups of tea, but Qiu Sheng turned her head to ask him to give it to you first. Jiang Chen sent it, "Just don't worry, I suspect that no one can put it on your head, even if my father is not a good thing, you are still dedicated, right?"

Jiang Chen turned pale with shock, and almost swept the cup to the ground with his hand: "Xiao Sheng, you can't say such treasonous words!"

"Why? The old man who hangs the people's livelihood, family and country behind the horse's ass dares to do it, and still doesn't allow me to make a fuss?" Qiu Sheng snorted coldly, "Just talk about how capable he is, the cabinet is also saved, and the Jinyiwei of the Military Aircraft Department has great power Holding it, covering the sky with one hand. When squandering wantonly, he threw out a lot of the hard-earned money of the common people, and put it all into the pockets of those gentry and big businessmen. He dared to work hard. Isn't he the one who can eat human flesh and blood? Mr. Hu's booklets were all sent to the stove to be roasted for light, Mr. Jiang, even you can hide this matter from yourself, do you know what it means to be short of the treasury?"

Jiang Chen was taken aback for a moment, Qiu Sheng drank half a cup of tea to moisten his throat: "Is this country still a country? Are you kidding me? I have a lot of debts and left a pile of stinky debts for me to pay back. Is there such a father? Is there such a person who sits on the throne?" Didn’t he think that the throne is an iron rice bowl? It’s a coincidence that he died, why didn’t he stand up until now and take a good look, right, Mr. Jiang?”

A series of questions with yes or no answers were thrown down in a hurry, Jiang Chen was at a loss, so he had to write "don't know" all over his face.

After cursing for a while, Qiu Sheng felt refreshed, and immediately changed faces quickly, carefully picked up the memorial that Jiang Chen presented a few days ago, glanced at it, picked up the ink pen and drew a circle: "Your memorial It said that it would be convenient for Wang Jiusi to help him investigate the case. This is not good. Now it is not clear what is true and what is false. Don't use people casually. I asked Liancheng to investigate this matter, but don't stop here, now Any troubles in the court will fall into the eyes of the inner ghost, don't mess with his steps, you have to slowly force out his openings little by little."

"Your Majesty suspects Jiu Si?" Jiang Chen was shocked, "He has been under my command for more than ten years, and his temperament is very clear. I guarantee his innocence with this old life!"

The old ball really exploded when poked, Qiu Sheng sighed helplessly, bit the tip of her tongue for a long time before saying: "Don't have nothing to say about your head, I'm not a pervert, why do you want your head? I'm not targeting Jiu Si, but how many people work for him under his hands? Do you know all of them?"

Seeing that he was silent, Qiu Sheng softened his tone and added a few words: "Mr. Jiang, special treatment in special times, don't always live in the same old way. One more person who knows is dangerous. I can't afford it right now, everyone supports it." I'm sorry, I can't let go of my arms and lead everyone on a rampage. It's not the same as going to the mountains to fight bandits. Back then, it was all backed by the treasury. Now? The granary is almost a doghouse, and I don't have the capital to gamble with the ghosts .”

Jiang Chen finally spoke up: "Your Majesty's words are absolutely true."

"Don't talk to me, I know you're not feeling well, and there's nothing serious about it for the past two days, so let's rest at the mansion for the next two days," Qiu Sheng said, "Go back first, and ask me tomorrow morning about the state treasury. What do you think of the fact that almost all the money is locked up in the hands of the gentry and landlords? I won’t be able to finish talking about this matter for a while, and it’s okay if you don’t want to be lazy.”

These words were purely to cheer people up for a while, of course Jiang Chen couldn't stop coming to court just because he was sleeping on a lazy bed, so he just responded at this time, and slowly withdrew out.

As soon as he left, Qiu Sheng hooked his fingers at Li Ci: "Go to the imperial hospital and ask Mr. Liu An to visit Mr. Jiang's mansion. He has worked hard these two days. Don't be too old to stay here anymore. It’s critical, no matter how expensive it is, as long as it is a good medicine that works, tell Liu An to use it boldly.”

Li Ci received the order, twisted the pig's waist and swayed his buttocks, and walked out deftly like twisting a twist.

Qiu Sheng was shocked by his astonished walking posture and broke out in a cold sweat. After several days of busy driving, his body was already weak, and a cold wind in front of him triggered a series of sneezes.

Li Ci hung his thick voice outside the door and pretended to be shrill and asked: "Oh, Your Majesty, what's wrong with you?"

Qiu Sheng couldn't bear to see him again, before the little eunuch who had gone far in the future had not returned, he quickly grabbed the door latch: "Are you going to make a fuss if you sneeze? It's okay, you go!"

The sound of small footsteps finally went away, and Qiu Sheng breathed a sigh of relief, and slowly pulled out a copy of "The Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic of Plain Questions" from his cuff, smoothed the edges and corners, lit the lamp and opened the old pages.

This book was originally placed by Chu Yu's bedside, but the emperor, who had no heart to take advantage of it and had to be a pickpocket, brought it along, intending to flip through it casually and return it back tomorrow morning.

This thing was completely done while being stunned by the smell of alcohol. As soon as Qiu Sheng went out, she realized that this move was simply ridiculous.It's just one night, could it be possible to sleep soundly with this book on your head?It's unlucky like leaving behind a relic.

But when he thought about it, he was still reluctant to put it back.

If he can't get that person for the time being, he will just make do with his possessions.

Chu Yu didn't borrow the book from Zangshu Pavilion, but got it from Xu Liushan during his trip to Huadu.Probably because of this reason, the book does not have the smell of old people who are almost rotting corpses in the imperial hospital, but the sweet and bitter fragrance of ink slightly pungent.

The book is full of elegant excerpts by Chu Yu, and in some places it is even hard to see what was written in the original, which shows the master's painstaking care.

Qiu Sheng slowly brushed over the delicate and delicate small script, and for some reason imagined a calligraphy picture of a beauty, and when he thought about it, he couldn't help but start to stray.He stared at the line "Yin and Yang should be like the fifth chapter" and became restless. He imagined that one day, Chu Yu would be able to hold his hand and teach him to practice calligraphy in person. He is confident that he should be able to obtain this privilege.

When the brain is not at home, at least the eyes are still good.Suddenly seeing a few small characters in his eyes, his sanity suddenly returned to half.

The man deliberately marked that line to show its importance, but he deliberately wrote it small and scribbled. Qiu Sheng had to lean closer and read it for a long time before he figured out the way.

"Within two months, Tianyuan Temple's soul-elimination technique, I will go with Zhou Yong."