laughing soul

The few jokes he said were purely improvised. Qiu Sheng's behavior in the past when he had a disagreement with Yanliu Lane in Yanliu Lane can no longer be picked up now. On the one hand, he was really moved this time. So he was more or less not so impatient with Xiangyan, on the contrary, he was looking forward to the early reconciliation between the two parties. On the other hand, since then, whenever he saw a pretty girl or a young man, he had to secretly talk to him in his heart. The man made a comparison, the more boring the comparison, the less interest he lost, he might as well go home and become a monk.

This sleep was extraordinarily peaceful, there was a cool breeze in the middle of the night, and he felt that someone was tucking the quilt for him in a daze, and the dream was so beautiful that he didn't know what day and night it was.

Chu Yu, the little servant who does not need wages, went out once at night and met with Zhou Yong who had been chasing him all the way. He listened to the man's account of all the recent events in the capital, so he went back to guard dutifully. I borrowed a small casserole from the imperial dining room to cook herbs, leaned against the wall and counted the distant bells of the Zhanshan Temple in the distance for one night.

Although I was haunted by strange nightmares all the time when I was away from the soul, I didn’t sleep well. After all, it was a real two days and two nights. When I first got together, my mind was blank, and even Zhou Yong’s iconic square face was left behind. Unrecognizable in front of my eyes.

The black smoke in his body was still persistent, jumping out from time to time to harass him, which made him panic, and he even had to concentrate all the time, for fear that if he was not careful, he would be taken advantage of, so he could only take an acupuncture needle. The spare silver needle was placed on the Yangbai acupoint, almost piercing into the flesh.

At dawn, he sat down on the edge of the bed and looked at Qiu Sheng in silence for a while, a cloud of sadness gradually appeared on his always smiling face.

When did you tell him that you are from Cui Weige?When is the right time?He can let go of the hatred of his predecessors, can he?

Like an idiot, he sighed at the sleeping Long Live Lord, perhaps due to the sudden change of air flow around him, Qiu Sheng frowned slightly, and opened his eyes not long after.

The scene he saw when he woke up was that Chu Yu was propped up on top of him just like last night, her long hair was not bundled up, and the slightly curly ends of her hair rested softly on his elbows, her eyes were deep, but His face was filled with unspeakable sadness, not as if he was going to cry, but as if he was extremely helpless and at a loss.

Seeing that he woke up without warning, Chu Yu froze for a while, and the expression on his face quickly degenerated into extreme panic, almost like a mouse guarding the cat to sleep. Seeing the cat waking up and running away Running is not dementia-like.

His slightly parted lips were close at hand.

The opportunity cannot be missed, Qiu Sheng seized the time to raise his arms and retract them fiercely, raised his upper body slightly, and precisely met Chu Yu's chapped lips, as if he was afraid of scaring the other party, and released it with a light touch , and then quickly lay back honestly with an expression as if nothing had happened.

He lay flat on his back, smiled lightly and looked at the frightened Chu Yu above him for a while, and watched this person's pale face quickly smeared with an even layer of reddish, and even pursed his lips unconsciously, with a look on his face. Staring innocently at the culprit on the bed, his lips trembled a few times, but he didn't say a coherent and meaningful sentence.

Seeing him like this, Qiu Sheng couldn't help liking him so much, she sat up completely with her arms propped up, rubbed lightly on the blushing face of the person in front of her, and said in a low voice: "Stop making trouble, get up and talk about business."

Chu Yu's whole sanity has been burned to the ground, and even the spirit of exposing the big gangster for doing bad things and wanting to frame him has gone to hell. When he saw Qiu Sheng sitting upright, he hurriedly lowered his head, his eyes wandered all over the place. It looks like him who just played a hooligan.

Qiu Sheng's steadfast staring made him fidget, his mind wandered in the air for a long time, and finally remembered that there was still boiled medicine in the imperial dining room, he hesitated a few words, and ran out like reincarnated.

He walked away, leaving the Long Live Lord alone in the room to self-reflect. Qiu Sheng rubbed his chin and thought about it for a long time, silently thinking: "Go back to Tianyuan Temple and ask carefully, and think of a way to cure this person's illness. Find out the details. From the looks of it, it should be the first kiss, and I've taken advantage of it. If you don't take responsibility, it's really unconscionable."

It seemed that he had decided to ignore those little girls in Zuihualou who were crying and begging to be Master Qiu's concubine.

He even thought about what kind of punishment would be given to force him to open his mouth if that old bald donkey Jingran joined forces with Chu Yu to practice Tai Chi together. He waited worriedly for a long time, wondering if he just lost his popularity. He came in with medicine.

He hugged his arms in the imperial dining room and calmed down for a while before he dared to come out. His heart was already flushed and he was out of breath. He handed the warm medicine bowl to Qiu Sheng, and gestured: "Good medicine, the prescription prescribed by the imperial doctor is here." Stop for two days."

Qiu Sheng winked: "Are you worried about me? Huh?"

Chu Yu nodded honestly: "Yeah."

Just now, she was at a loss for a kiss like a new love affair, but now she is still flirting, Qiu Sheng was stunned, took a sip of the medicine, and gave Chu Yu a greasy smile: "It's delicious."

Chu Yu: "I didn't put any sugar."

"Little lady made the medicine with her own hands, Coptis chinensis is sweet," the bitter taste filled with strong stamina, he wiped the corners of his mouth pretending not to care, and slightly restrained his unscrupulous expression, and said seriously, "I kiss you, Ah Yu You have to be responsible to me, so let me tell you how you got the pulse of your dying body first? Don’t fool me with the tricks of pretending to be gods and ghosts in martial arts and high mountains, only half-crazy fools will believe it.”

As soon as Chu Yu heard this, he understood that he was definitely not ignorant, and he didn't dare to open the skylight rashly to speak out, so he could only pick and choose his words and said: "The pulse condition is dangerous, but I haven't died for a long time. I have a poisonous bone in my body. This is the reason, which not only caused my qi and blood to be exhausted, but also temporarily protected my life from dying quickly. The highly poisonous substance has been deposited in the blood veins all the year round, creating a black and dirty blood. Those who drink this blood will die within half an hour. If you lose your sanity and do what you want, within three hours, you will definitely die."

He finished the hand gestures slowly, thinking that Qiu Sheng would turn pale with shock, or at least be dumbfounded, but he didn't know that Long Live Lord had just accepted the fact that Wujin Gu had destroyed Jinyiwei not long ago, so he didn't show too much surprise for a while, only He frowned when he heard the last word, stepped forward and squeezed Chu Yu's hand resting on the corner of the table: "Is it your blood that Sernks used?"

Chu Yu didn't expect that he could remember it for so long, so he nodded and admitted in a daze.

"Poisonous bones...how is it..." Suddenly remembering that Chu Yu seemed to have shown obvious avoidance of this question, Qiu Sheng quickly changed the topic temporarily, while slowly kneading Chu Yu's fingers, "Can it be removed... can it be cured?" Okay?"

Chu Yu looked down at him, and smiled softly: "Naturally, there are far more Jianghu masters than Lord Qiu thinks."

When he thought of this question, he was filled with emotion. Half a year ago, Xu Liushan was indignant because of his categorical attitude towards death. Who would have thought that on this single-plank bridge, Qiu Sheng would come out halfway. , he has definitely not been willing to go to hell.

If you want to come to the only point of true love in the world, the most difficult thing to nail is to rivet or to tear it apart.

"When are you going?"

Hearing that, after a brief hesitation, Chu Yu immediately threw Xu Liushan's advice "the sooner the better, don't delay" out of the blue, and after thinking it over, he replied, "One year later."

The pavilion master's ability to pretend to be a rogue and hide his thoughts is superb, but lying and deceiving people is a big shortcoming. Seeing that he hesitated to speak, Qiu Sheng knew that what he said must not be true, so he pinched Chu Yu's fingertips hard. Frowning in pain, he rubbed it twice as if comforting, and asked in a deep voice: "To be honest, how did the doctor explain you?"

Chu Yu withdrew his hand.

Qiu Sheng, who occasionally plays childishly rambunctious, is extremely rare. While laughing, he shamelessly reached out and grabbed Chu Yu with the other hand and continued to rub: "Don't lie to me in the future, just At your level, little prince, you may not be able to play tricks, and you still want to fool me?"

He joked about Chu Yu, saying that he had seen this man's illness more than once, and he knew that this matter should not be underestimated.Usually those barefoot doctors with beards and dog skin plasters running rampant all over the world are eager to put the patients down earlier, otherwise they will not feel at ease no matter what.This man is going to die, and a doctor can't let him jump around all over the sky under his control.

A few years ago, Qiu Sheng followed General Han in the Southern Day Camp to practice the look he used when interrogating prisoners of war. Although he had no intention of forcing him, he finally revealed a little bit unintentionally. It was more than enough to deal with the already soft-hearted Chu Yu. .

He sighed softly: "Immediately."

"This won't work," the Long Live Lord, who just said he wanted to seek truth from facts, immediately changed his face, "Let's stay for a month."

He looked up at Chu Yu, and was about to reach out to wrap his arms around his waist, when he heard the wind outside suddenly change, and his arms were empty, but he saw Chu Yu dodge sideways, and hid in the inner room.

Qiu Sheng rubbed his eyes vigorously, got up and took a few steps outside, and saw Zheng Nanmao sneaking into the imperial dining room with his waist down. It was still early, his hands and feet were light, and no one inside noticed.

This person also suffered some minor injuries when he followed Qiu Sheng to put down the Tiancheng rebellion, and sneaked into the palace under the name of a meritorious and loyal minister. The elders of the Royal Hospital saw him, and they almost wrapped him into a mummy on the spot with a big cloth towel.He tried his best to hide back and forth, but in the end he was wrapped in a big white skirt and dangled around inside and out.

Qiu Sheng originally wanted to give him the position of Admiral of the Southwest as soon as he came back, so that he could have a better life in the capital, so that he would not be bullied by those unreasonable people who recognize money and ignore officials, but this As soon as he entered Beijing, he was first banned by Liu An, and he was not allowed to go to the morning court, so it was useless to be an official.

Now that he was in better spirits, he became playful, and he quietly followed Zheng Nan to the kitchen, thinking that this man could do something important secretly.Unexpectedly, after a while, he watched in amazement as the commander-in-chief of the pro-military army ripped off two chicken thighs with a wretched expression, and ran out on tiptoe, biting the chicken legs while drooling.

Qiu Sheng felt that her chin and eyeballs were going to fall off together.

"Zheng Nan!"

The half-hunted cat-waisted commander's back stiffened suddenly, and he turned his head with wide-eyed eyes, but he stubbornly refused to discard the evidence of the crime in his mouth.Seeing that it was Qiu Sheng who came, he first breathed a sigh of relief, then he held the chicken leg firmly and muttered to explain: "I'm hungry."

Qiu Sheng didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and slapped Zheng Nan on the forehead: "Just tell the cook to do it for you, and there's no need to sneak around?"

"Station Master, don't mention it soon," Zheng Nan swallowed the large piece of chicken in his mouth, with a sad face, "First, the Royal Hospital tied me into a rice dumpling and banned me from saying anything, and specially ordered me The little boy said that the food was light these two days, and he couldn't eat big fish and meat, which is good, because he forced me to be a monk for so long, mushrooms would grow on his head."

Qiu Sheng chuckled, snatched the half-eaten chicken leg from Zheng Nan's hand, and dragged Sheng Sheng out: "Let's go to the Yizheng Palace and summon the civil and military officials!"

Zheng Nan: "Why go?"

Shifting left and right to avoid his hand grabbing the chicken leg, Qiu Sheng laughed and said, "Promote your official position!"

The two people walked away noisy outside the door, Chu Yu leaned on the bedpost in the inner room to read medical books, and before he calmed down for a while, Zhou Yong came to harass him right away.

His long legs were hooked on the beams of the house, and he was dangling in the air: "Gu Wei is awake."

"It's time to wake up. I'll kill that Kunlun Mountain ghost that scared him unconscious." Chu Yu didn't raise his head, "Is there anything important at Cui Wei's side recently?"

Zhou Yong frowned: "You ask me? Where are the tomato eggs?"

Chu Yu didn't change his face: "Give it to Qiu Sheng to play with, don't you still have a letter bird?"

"Since you went back last time, there have been no strange things in Beiya, such as the number of Nansong fluctuating from time to time, and seeing ghosts in the middle of the night. It seems to have calmed down. I guess I won't be able to find that person recently," Zhou Yongfei said. Liang, standing in front of Chu He, glanced at him, "Is the Kunlun Mountain bird just sent out for fun? Pavilion Master."

The pavilion master raised his eyes and smiled when he heard the words, but didn't speak.

Seeing that he avoided answering, Zhou Yong snorted coldly, and said in surprise: "Are you sincere? Have you got rid of the poisonous bones? Are you going to run away with a stick, or are you going to be responsible for a long time?"

Chu Yu seriously thought about these questions for a while, but after all, he didn't understand any of them, so he waved his hands and walked towards the tea table: "Drink tea, brother Zhou, it's too hasty to worry about these things now."

"Think I'm worrying about nothing?" Zhou Yong said coldly, "I've said all about the poisonous bone, and he's not a fool. If things go on like this, he won't be able to guess whose name the Cuiwei Pavilion belongs to? It’s a mess and I’ll figure it out sooner.”

"... "

It seems that not only is "people without long-term concerns must have near-term worries", but now Chu Yu is simply "having both long-term concerns and near-term worries".After thinking hard for a long time, he still couldn't understand why Zhou Yong, who used to be a taciturn man in Cuiwei Pavilion, developed towards Gu Wei after staying in the capital for a while.

The ancients once said that behind every prodigal and heartless young man there is a sloppy housekeeper. Now it seems that this statement is true.

He suddenly suffered from liver pain, turned his eyes away from Zhou Yong's upright face, and turned to the green shoots of the ancient trees outside the window, sighed, and laughed softly.

All in all, the following month passed a period of peace.

After the Nanman occupied Jiangnan by force, there was no change for a long time. The Western Navy withdrew its troops for no reason. The Beili, who made trouble not long ago, also saw that Qiu Sheng was blown up by the red blood at close range and could pat his ass in the Tiancheng incident. The ability to do nothing, coupled with the mental and physical exhaustion of the patriarch Latu, and the extremely cold and chilling place is not conducive to recovery from injuries. He was stunned by a small north wind and has not gotten up from the bed so far.There is no trouble in the north and south, and the coastal line is safe and sound. Although there are constant small battles on the border, it is unlikely to open fire in a short period of time.

Once the war was gone, almost none of the previously formulated regulations and orders did not use a knife. Regarding whether the worthless banknotes that were half-pushed to be circulated among the people should be cashed to all parties after the war, civil and military officials have already exchanged red ears in the courtroom. Been firing for a long time.Qiu Sheng's main daily task is to sit on the dragon chair and act as a mural at will. When they quarrel to the end, they have to come to a conclusion, because he hasn't made up his mind yet, so he has to cover it up.As time went by, even Tao Qinglin had a problem with Long Live Lord's perfunctory attitude. Seeing that he was about to become the target of a new round of public criticism, Qiu Sheng quickly dragged the new official into office. All of them were tortured together.

Wang Jiusi, Shangshu of the Ministry of Justice: "Your Majesty, when the measure of substituting paper for money was implemented earlier, it caused a large-scale dissatisfaction across the country, especially among luxury and luxury families. In the past, they could be lobbied to say that they were afraid of treasury in the current war. Now, it is Heqing Haiyan during the Taiping period, if this matter does not come out with silver to appease everyone's emotions, I am afraid there will be endless troubles."

The people in the Ministry of Criminal Affairs ignored the finances and said that if they wanted to let them all go, they would let them all go. If they really stood up and talked without pain in their backs, Hu Tian came out and said: "Master Wang is so easy to say, dare to ask Sir, the paper with a forehead of 500 million taels Tickets, what will the imperial court buy back?"

Wang Jiusi: "Naturally, it's the gold and silver in the national treasury, the regular silver donated by taxes, Loulan ghosts, and many surrounding small countries."

What he said seemed to be out of his wits, and Zhao Yan, the procurator, said in solidarity with Hu Tiandu: "My lord, if there is enough gold and silver in the treasury, why do you need to exchange paper notes for silver? Send it back, I'm afraid the treasury doesn't have the financial resources right now. As for taxation and silver, compared to the current situation, it's just a drop in the bucket. These are things that need to be saved slowly over the years. Mr. Wang has the power to rule the world without leaving home. The courage to control the overall situation really makes Zhao admire, but the root of everything is based on reality, and adults should not talk about it on paper."

Seeing that Wang Jiusi, a clumsy duck, was stupefied and speechless by the two of them, Lu Yun, the left minister, came out and said, "Could it be that Mr. Zhao and Mr. Hu are not going to pay back anything? The meaning of paper instead of gold is okay, but the paper tickets distributed during the war are poorly made and easy to forge. Counterfeit paper notes will spring up like mushrooms after rain. Your Majesty, I dare to say that fake paper notes with small denominations have already started to appear in the capital. If you don’t hurry up and exchange them for silver, I’m afraid the consequences will be unimaginable.”

It was originally a group of their ministers who were arguing and bickering. Lu Yun's words were equivalent to throwing the blame on Qiu Sheng. Long Live Lord was in a dilemma, waved his hand and said, "Master Jiang, what do you think?"

He has nothing to say about carrying a big knife to fight the enemy, but he knew almost nothing about the political affairs in the past, and he was helpless to manage this group of important ministers who were more arrogant than the other. Resolute and upright, Qiu Sheng, as he speaks in the vernacular, often feels pain in his heart.Man court civil and military, only Jiang Chen can help him block the sky full of arrows.

Jiang Chen: "Your Majesty, although it is said that the world is safe and peaceful and the people live in peace, it is necessary to exchange paper notes on a large scale, but the tigers and wolves in the four realms are not dead. After all, the battle in Weizhou and the peace talks in the south of the Yangtze River are not done once and for all. In addition, the national treasury is tight. I can't wait to go in and out. During the peaceful years After all, it is not a prosperous age, and one must not take it lightly and put the cart before the horse, and pour out the treasury for comfort and luxury. In my opinion, it is better to exchange the paper notes in the capital and many surrounding towns first, and tell the world that the move of the imperial court is definitely not a back-and-forth. Among the tickets, you can first leave the large-value paper tickets that are used in daily life, and exchange them for small-value paper tickets. The number of the former is very small and it is convenient for the control of the states and counties. You can draw it slowly."

Neither party can complain about this arrangement of [-] boards each. They can understand Qiu Sheng's attitude. If they continue to entangle, they will be unable to bear it. Although everyone's face is still stinky, they still respectfully They knelt down one after another: "Minister, wait, second."

"Then let's deal with the capital city, Huadu and the surrounding towns first. Master Hu, take care of this matter." Seeing Wang Jiusi holding up the wat board, Qiu Sheng did not pause, "If you love me, if you want to start Settle down in Tiancheng first, and don’t come to me to find happiness. If you can achieve your goal by rebelling, will these grandchildren still have etiquette and morality in the eyes of them? But still I?”

All the ministers shouted long live, but Wang Jiusi had to bow his head in the crowd.