laughing soul

Qiu Sheng couldn't speak for a while, only felt his temples throbbing suddenly, his eyes were blurred, and he couldn't tell east, west, north.

The old injury between the heart and the lungs has been well taken care of by Chu Yu for a long time, but now it seems that he is about to be exploded with anger, and his heart feels dull.

He turned his head and glanced at Jiang Chen who was still moving, and gave him a pause gesture, and was about to explain, but when he heard the stern sound of the cane whip piercing the air, he suddenly felt that time was too late. Borrowing the force from the top of the wall, he pulled away, picked out a piece of tile at random, flew out and hit the vine whip that was about to fall on the girl, barely acting as a flower protector.

There was a crisp sound, and the tiles fell to the ground. Qiu Jingran stood up in shock, and raised his hand to call for the escort: "Who!"

Seeing the pretentiously stern expression on his still immature face, Qiu Sheng couldn't help sneering a few times, untied the cloak before landing, carefully avoided the horrific wound on the girl's body, and wrapped her around her, Looking up, seeing Qiu Jingran's face full of disbelief, without saying a word, he stepped forward and kicked him down.

All the people in the courtyard fell to their knees.

He stepped on the young man's slightly thin shoulder blade with his left foot, grabbed his neckline with one hand and strangled his throat desperately. The young man was caught by him, and his expression changed from initial shock and embarrassment to fearless anger and frenzy. Both eyes were red, like two wounded lone wolves in the thousands of miles of wilderness.

"Are you crazy!"

"Am I crazy?" Qiu Jingran fell to the ground with a chuckle, and two bloodstains slowly dripped from his nostrils. He reached out and wiped it nonchalantly, making most of his face covered with blood, crying and crying Smiling, it looked like he was insane, Qiu Sheng looked down at him indifferently for a while, and finally withdrew his strength in his hands, allowing the boy's head to hit the hard and cold ground heavily, but his feet suddenly increased, and there was a sound There was a soft sound, like the sound of bones breaking.

The young man just smiled and wept, as if the bones that had been trampled and cracked hadn't grown on him.

"I really believe it, you are really a figure carved out of the same mold as your father and grandfather..." Qiu Sheng slowly stood up straight, took the long whip from the boy's hand, and forcibly broke it off with the cold handle He scratched his chin, stared coldly at Qiu Jingran's eyes full of resentment for a while, and finally threw the long whip on his face, "It's a pity, I don't like you as an independent talent."

He raised his eyes and glanced at the servants who were kneeling beside him, and saw that these miserable people had more or less scars on their bodies. Is that how you teach it, can't you?"

Qiu Jing fell to the ground sprawled all over the place, for a long while he was only focused on crying and sneering in a high voice, but he couldn't say a complete sentence. That appearance made people feel chills, but he saw the grievance and embarrassment on his face. The desolation of the words, it will be difficult to make people hate for a while.

"It's my fault, I'm guilty, you can punish me..." He hummed in a low voice, "But, uncle, if you don't have me, do you still have a second candidate for the East Palace?"

Qiu Sheng couldn't help frowning when he heard the words, these words were definitely not something a child like this could have imagined, there must be some courtier who blew his ears.

Thinking about it this way, there should be no doubt that Qiu Jingran colluded with the important officials in the court.

He still wanted to ask something out of Qiu Jingran's mouth, but when he lowered his head again, he met his cold and resentful eyes. Rao Qiu Sheng, who had experienced many battles in the trial field, had never seen a person who had not yet reached the weak crown. The [-]-year-old child had such a fierce look in his eyes, his back felt chills for no reason, he sighed, and flung his sleeves away: "Let's close it for a while, you can do it yourself."

As soon as he turned his head and walked away, Qiu Jingran's chilling laughter subsided in an instant, and he fell on his back to the ground panting heavily, blood and tears mixed together on his young face, which was pretending to be fierce, and gradually flowed along the texture of his skin Between the auricles, the warm skin was stimulated by the freezing liquid, and suddenly twitched heavily, and the ears were icy cold.

Looking at the young man's back going far away on the ground, the thin string in the young man's heart that he couldn't bear to cut finally collapsed. He whimpered and growled for a while, covered the wound on his shoulder blade and stood up slowly, looking to the side The confidant whispered: "Go and find Lord Wang Jiusi, just say that His Royal Highness has made a decision."

Naturally, Qiu Sheng didn't know, he sent Jiang Chen away exhausted physically and mentally, and when he returned to the small bamboo hut, it was already night when the bright stars were shining brightly.

There were two letters on the table, and next to them were the decoctions that Li Ci ordered the imperial hospital to prescribe for him to soothe the nerves and nourish the mind. Qiu Sheng raised his hand to pick up the medicine bowl and took a sip. Looking at the two letters with different styles, he pondered After a long time, I finally opened the letter from Liancheng first.

On the side is Chu Yu's letter. After a fierce ideological struggle, Long Live Lord still decided to put business affairs first and put private affairs aside for the time being.

Lian Cheng and Zheng Nan secretly probed in the Huadu government office for a while, and after discovering something unusual here, they didn't dare to act rashly, and immediately notified Qiu Sheng, and got an order to observe secretly, not to startle the snake.Even though Zheng Nan had a lot of troops at hand, he didn't dare to mobilize a single soldier, so he could only rely on the strength of two people to fight against Huadu Jiedu. The two finally took Zheng Nan's sneeze as an opportunity, and sent a letter to Qiu Sheng: I am exhausted by you, you can figure it out!

Qiu Sheng was amused when he saw it, he just wanted to find an opportunity to slip away from the capital, and his understanding brothers over there gave him such an open reason, which was really a timely help.

Thinking about the date of leaving Beijing, Qiu Sheng threw aside the long letter of pain and hatred, and picked up a piece of plain paper from Chu Yu with great care, which was rolled into a tube and then wrapped The traces of unfolding are clearly visible, and someone should have untied it from the paw of Tomato Egg.

The person who can enter the bamboo house unimpeded, and knows that the communication between him and Chu Yu is through tomato eggs, is probably Zhong Han.

Every time Chu Yu sent him a letter, he paid special attention to anti-theft and anti-peeping. When sealing the wax, he always deliberately dripped the wax liquid into a certain spherical shape. Once someone opened the letter, the sealing wax was bound to be damaged. Even if it was dripped again, it still couldn't drip out the proper shape. Because of this, Qiu Sheng was not worried that Zhong Han would read his letter secretly, but felt that something like a family letter would always be in someone else's hands. Inexplicably pantothenic acid water in my heart.

However, right now is indeed not the time to be confused by false public aid and private criminals. With a skillful hook of two fingers, Qiu Sheng tore off the sealing wax completely and read the letter intently.

Chu Yu's speech has never been sloppy, and ordinary things are usually hurriedly brought up in a few words, but this time he wrote more than a thousand words eloquently, which is quite Jiang Chen's style.

Qiu Sheng secretly thought it was funny, read every word, but gradually frowned, this person is still the same, every word can't be deleted, but it's really hard to say clearly about the Wugu village.

Chu Yu originally wanted to find an excuse to hide this matter for the time being. After all, Qiu Sheng is now so focused on the melee between the North and the South and catching the ghosts in the court. It is really a military battlefield to be distracted by such bad things. Besides, even if you are very anxious and angry, it is still useless to solve the matter after all. This level of interference should be avoided as much as possible.

Therefore, he once wrote a fake manuscript full of nonsense, but when he tied it to the paw of the tomato egg, he suddenly regretted it, and explained the matter clearly from beginning to end, trying his best to use gentle and smooth words to describe, He even wrote a few words of love at the end of the letter to comfort him. He was really afraid of Qiu Sheng's temper that could run wild for thousands of miles with only one blood.

The matter of Tiancheng still lingers, he is worried that if this person impulsively rushes to the southern border to find the village master to make a theory, then he will be unprepared and will be tricked by him, but it will not be a simple matter of taking two medicines.

Chu Yu, who had predicted things like a god, rushed to Tianyuan Temple while worrying, but he never expected that Qiu Sheng's biggest reaction after reading this letter was to sigh helplessly, and even the teacup in his hand took a life, and his body was never broken.

He is no longer the insolent young man who cares nothing and has no scruples. Now he has no choice but to take a step forward, and he is willing to calculate the consequences invisibly. The heroic spirit of stepping through the mountains with a sword in the past has been reduced by two or three. Divided, faded into the royal vulgarity of both sides.Although he can't catch up with other royal children who put on airs and stand tall, compared with himself before, he is quite well-behaved.

When Qiu Sheng went back to southern Xinjiang, apart from feeling that the village owner was really frightening, there was nothing unusual about it.Now that I have received Chu Yu's letter and looking back, I feel that all the paradoxical things mentioned in the letter can be compared with that day one by one, and I can't help but break out in a cold sweat.

He couldn't investigate this matter himself, leaving it to Chu Yu was the best choice. Qiu Sheng stretched out his finger and lightly scanned the last two personal words written by Chu Yu twice, and couldn't help but smirk twice.In the middle of the night, the surrounding area was very quiet, and once the heart-wrenching tune came out, it was like a duck popping out of a chicken coop, quacking and pricking her ears tightly, Qiu Sheng was startled, and looked around cautiously , making sure that this silly laughter didn’t fall into the ears of others, then he felt relieved, and looked at the bright moon hanging high outside the window in a blink of an eye. Taking this opportunity, he quickly flattened a piece of letter paper, sharpened the ink by himself, and prepared to It's a good night to go back to that person with some heartfelt love stories.

Unexpectedly, while he was writing, he couldn't help laughing softly. The muffled noise sounded extraordinarily fresh and refined in the middle of the night, and Li Ci, who was about to come in to deliver soup, was stopped outside the door.

He stood silently outside the door for a long time, noticing that the long-lasting smirk of the people inside the door did not stop at all. For the sake of his own safety, he picked up the food plate and left quietly.

On the one hand, he slandered in his heart: he is really promising, and he started to be fascinated after setting up a house, and those who didn't know it thought he was half-stretched with a smile after swallowing a bottle.

In the early morning of the next day, Qiu Sheng got sick and gave civil and military officials a whole day's short leave. Instead, he mercilessly left Jiang Chen and Tao Qinglin, who were in their seventies and eighties, behind. The fire is still burning hot, and not long ago, he thoroughly investigated a lot of local corrupt officials and made great achievements, and he was named the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, so he is full of enthusiasm for working hard for the country and the people.Qiu Sheng kept him to work more, but he was overjoyed to accept His Majesty's kindness, completely thinking that Qiu Sheng was giving him face.

"Seeing that your majesty's dragon body is well, why did you go to court this morning..."

Qiu Sheng raised his eyebrows: "Qing Lin, what I said to you today is a court secret, and now there are mixed fish and eyes in the court hall, which really makes me uneasy, so I have no choice but to make such a bad plan, and I hope Ai Qing will forgive me. "

Jiang Chen raised his head and glanced at him, thinking that this bear man's problem of talking nonsense really has been going on for a hundred years, the Ministry of Punishment has long been investigated by Jin Yiwei, and those who can still stand in the court today have been interrogated repeatedly What the test revealed was that no matter how problematic it was, those accomplices who were lucky enough to escape the catastrophe would not act rashly, and the possibility of someone leaking the secret was extremely low.

He knows everything about Qiu Sheng, but Tao Qinglin doesn't have this blessing. He has the right to be the Lord of Long Live, and he trusts him unreservedly. Qiu Sheng threw his head and sprinkled his blood: "Your Majesty's words are serious, and the power of a humble minister is shallow and insignificant. It is a great fortune to be appreciated by Your Majesty. In this life, I am willing to be a pawn in front of Your Majesty's horse and swear allegiance to the death!"

Qiu Sheng suddenly celebrated with great fanfare in his heart, but his expression was calm and serious, and he said: "Ai Qing, please stay calm. I have three important things to ask you to come here today. One of them is the ministers of the court. Cooperating with the letter to mediate the war, I also ask the two of you to deal with it for me; secondly, the matter of exchanging paper notes can be slowly figured out again, the supplies on the battlefield are not bad. , It is the trend of drawing salary from the bottom of the pot. If you can't hold it for a long time, you will have to stop cooking. Let's put it first to bluff many rich businessmen and stabilize the people's hearts. The war of Da Viet and foreign aggression has already exhausted everything, and it can't support the internal strife; third, the East Palace will definitely Change of owner."

Tao Qinglin, who had impeached the crown prince, suddenly became excited: "Your Majesty knows people with eyes!"

These words made Qiu Sheng feel guilty for a while, waved his hands and said: "That little bastard is not human, and he can't hide it...I heard that he secretly colluded with some important ministers in the court? The two of you commented on this." Do you know one or two?"

At the beginning, Qiu Jingran harbored mischievous intentions and was apprehensive, and he knew how to avoid people's eyes and ears when he gathered for action, but after a long time, and the fact that Long Live Lord rarely stayed in the palace for a few days in a year, he gradually became careless. When he got up, he didn't take the loyal ministers of the court seriously.

Jiang Chen: "The old minister has seen Mr. Wang Jiusi, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment, Mr. Furen, Minister of Dali Temple, and two or three servants of the Ministry of Punishment several times. They often sneak in and out of the East Palace in the middle of the night. Maybe they should be suspected of this."

It's Wang Jiusi again...

"Wang Jiusi shouldn't show up for the time being, Mr. Jiang, keep an eye on the others for me," Qiu Sheng felt something was wrong as soon as he finished speaking, "Mr. Jiang, it's not good for you to go back home to rest at night." , what are you doing blindly when you’re free?”

Jiang Chen secretly scolded the little bastard, groaning and chirping: "I'm too busy with the case, I often can't sleep peacefully, so I stroll around in the courtyard, and I see it by chance."

There is only one sentence left to hold back: you kid is wandering outside, who will show you the memorial?

Qiu Sheng was choked by a sip of tea, and continued after a while: "Mr. Jiang, I wonder if you remember that the late emperor once had a cousin who lived with him for [-] years, wandering in the countryside for years, and hadn't returned to Beijing for several years? "

These are all old things, it's hard for Qiu Sheng, who has been homeless for many years, to remember this matter, Jiang Chen: "There is such a character, but he has no ambitions and hates the court. The first emperor loves and pities the youngest His cousin followed his wishes and did not give him any official titles and fortunes. He just gave him a piece of fiefdom and let him play freely. Since then, this man has lost track of him, and he has not heard from him for several years. Your Majesty, this is it?"

Qiu Sheng smiled maliciously: "Of course, Qiu Jing will not be abolished, but the Datong needs someone to inherit it. Naturally, it is necessary to pull an unlucky guy with a top bag to flourish in the future. Jin Yiwei's business is almost done. Zhong Han will go with you to arrest my little uncle, and I will reward you very much."

Tao Qinglin was puzzled: "Since you want someone to inherit the throne, and your majesty is young and strong, why don't you add two little princes to the royal family? It also saves you all this trouble."

Qiu Sheng: "...Don't mention it, I was born with a disease, and I can't give birth."

Jiang Chen: "..."

Tao Qinglin: "..."

In order not to take a step into the harem, Lord Long Live even bet his entire life on his face and self-esteem.

"Hey, Mr. Jiang, please be more concerned about the affairs of the court recently. Qinglin, if my uncle doesn't want to come, just ask Zhong Han to tie him back. No royal face, for the time being. Don't give it."

His obsequious look is very much like a weasel giving New Year greetings to chickens, Jiang Chen said coldly, "I don't know where Your Majesty is going to go this time?"

Qiu Sheng: "Liancheng Zhengnan has dug a hole there, and I'm waiting for me to fight the big rat who can't bear it and is about to come out of the hole with them. How can such an exciting thing not get involved? Etc. Once the connection between the north and the south is cut off, I can go to Nandaying to settle with the shaman Chuanmu with peace of mind. It will take about a year or two to go... If any accident happens, it will not be something I can control Yes. Mr. Jiang, this court still has to trouble you a lot..."

"Your Majesty," Jiang Chen interrupted suddenly, "Have you never thought about the possibility of a blunder? If something unexpected happened to you, what should I do for the old minister?"

Qiu Sheng smiled: "Naturally, I know how to advance and retreat. It is useless to trap me in this capital. I am not good at government affairs. If I don't do it, there will be overwhelming shouting... I still have to rely on Mr. Jiang for everything. Master Hu from the Ministry of Rites and Master Dong from the Ministry of War are all loyal ministers..."

He stopped suddenly in the middle of speaking, just because Jiang Chen's complexion became more and more gloomy, it was obvious that he was not very happy to listen to the dispensable praise from Long Live Lord.

"The fire army of the South Camp has always been in my hands. Han Jianhua really can't deploy it alone, and he can't get out of the mid-level generals for a while. Once this war is over, my goal is for decades or even centuries to come. You can't make waves, and you can't feel at ease if you run around by yourself." He lowered his brows slightly, and seeing Jiang Chen's expression softened a little, he turned his head and said to the stunned Tao Qinglin, "I always feel that this kind of bad guy is hiding the matter of finding my uncle. There are still ghosts hidden in things..."

As he was talking, he put Wang Jiusi and Qiu Jingran in a row, and suddenly thought of an unexpected possibility, and the hairs all over his body were almost blown up.

If Qiu Jingran has something to do with Wang Jiusi, and the latter is most likely an informant who has been hiding for a long time in Beili or Nanman, thinking about it this way, it means that Qiu Jingran deliberately cooperates with foreign enemies and drags him, the emperor who has just sat firmly on the throne, off his horse No way!

"Li Ci! Hurry up and announce that Master Dong Qi, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, will enter the palace to face the saint!"

He said this very anxiously, Tao Qinglin was puzzled and asked: "Why is Your Majesty so anxious?"

"Perhaps it's just an inference, and I don't want it to be confirmed by the facts...Qiu Jingran, I'm afraid he already has the intention of treason...I have to send Dong Qi to thoroughly investigate the situation of the commanders of the pro-armies in the states and counties around the capital. If he really has this intention, After all, the northern and southern barbarians are far away from the capital, and the distant water cannot save the nearby fire, so he must have his own deployment of soldiers and horses."

Tiancheng has already been a lesson learned by foreign thieves, and this time I only hope that it will still be effective.