Aggrieved Fish Sprite

After an hour or so of "fighting hard", the flow of people gradually became thinner, and Lu Min couldn't help but wipe off a cold sweat. His earlier longing for the folk life in the capital had all turned into fear.

Along the way, the carriage was in danger.

The teams in front and behind were changing at any time. At first everyone had a clear direction, but later it became a mess.Because in addition to the young master Wei who is both excellent in poetry and painting, there are also Luo Juren from Donglin Academy, Master Zhu who is good at playing the pipa, and sisters from the Chen family who are leaders in Liyuan.

Whenever someone yelled, the crowd broke into a commotion.

These beauties would not be in the same place, so some people wanted to turn their horses around, while others rushed forward, and two conflicts almost broke out.Fortunately, everyone was anxious to see the beauty and didn't want to waste time, otherwise it was hard to say what would happen.

On the other hand, Lu Min lost his temper after being tossed about by the carriage bought by the Beijing carriage.

Thinking that his second prince was in the palace, and he was dubbed brave and intrepid, this "courage" is not bad.Although the skill of getting off the horse is not comparable to that of Liu Dan who was born in northern Xinjiang, but which horse in the imperial horse prison in the palace can't be controlled by him?Lu Min even thought that horses were much better understood than humans, but he never expected that one day he would be stumped by a horse.

The vehicles that haul goods are all poor horses, slow to respond. The good thing is that they don’t panic when they hear the sound, and they don’t run around in a hurry. The bad thing is that they are very inflexible when turning.

Forget it, it still doesn't obey, and often walks to the side of the road and nibbles on the tender grass with relish.

Lu Min: "..."

Compared with the exhausted second prince, Meng Qi seemed calm and casual.

The smile on his lips could not be covered even by the veiled bamboo hat. Even though the surroundings were too noisy and people came and went, he always leaned on the shaft of the car and looked at the spring and green willows by the roadside, facing the warm wind and the sun. , extremely leisurely.

After Dr. Mo was gnawed by the fat rat, he was also a little uncomfortable at first, but fortunately Meng Qi went out soon, and Mo Li touched the place that had been added for a long time, calmly suppressing the sudden restlessness in his internal energy.

The carriage stopped and went, and Mo Li couldn't turn a page of the scroll in his hand for a long time, so he simply leaned against the window and looked at Chun.Light, but the eyes can't help wandering around someone.

For masters, being stared at is a feeling.

This is the reason why Meng Qi sitting on the shaft of the chariot can be so leisurely.

So the two of them were admiring the spring scenery on the surface, and the ink carp admiring it became a spectator, and the person being watched pretended to be ignorant, but the pride was about to overflow.

"..."

Lu Min felt like sitting on pins and needles, moving a few times every once in a while, wishing he could ride directly on the driving horse, so that he could not only control the disobedient horse, but also get rid of the strange atmosphere between the two people.

"What are you doing?" Meng Qi suspected that Lu Min's stomach was ruined, not only couldn't sit still, but also had an expression of unspeakable pain on his face.

"No……"

Lu Min was shocked and sat up straight under the cold gaze of the national teacher.

He looked into the car quietly, and finally couldn't help but say, "Well, why don't you go in?"

"Can you know the way?" Meng Qi squinted.

The second prince didn't dare to speak anymore, and continued to drive the horse with difficulty.

This is the only way to the Qingjiang Ferry.

There was another traffic jam ahead, but this time it seemed that they were not beauties. Many Confucian scholars dressed up and got out of the carriage, and walked towards the barrier surrounded by colorful brocades in the distance.

The sedan chairs and carriages they left behind stopped together, which naturally caused congestion.

Some passers-by also slowed down and looked over there.

The one who can use the walking barrier is naturally Gaomen Guidi.

Participating in the spring outing was not only the people of Taijing, but also many foreign merchants. Some of them were doing business, some were visiting relatives and friends, and there were even a group of Confucian scholars who went to Beijing in the name of giving lectures and studying abroad.

Seeing that the common people in Taijing are admiring beauty before, their expressions are very ugly, and those who are more tempered directly talk about the decline of the world.In a place like the capital, where the literary style is at its peak, and it’s springtime, it’s time to follow the example of the predecessors, reciting poems in Qushui Liushang, as a result, it’s not the talented celebrities who are sought after, the scholars gather spontaneously, and no one cares about it. , everyone rushed to that Mr. Wei, how can we not make people angry?

Now seeing a place with a very high status and suspected Wenhui, I couldn't help but sound it.

"... It seems that people from Zhang Xiang's residence have invited many disciples to drink and sing with their colleagues. I heard that Zhang Xiang will retire and return to his hometown in a while."

"Ah? Zhang Xianggong is only fifty, shouldn't it be Jiang Xiang who resigned from his old age and returned to his hometown?"

"That's not clear. How can we clarify what happened in the court?"

Listening to passers-by's gossip, Lu Min curled his lips with a look of disdain, and then he met Meng Qi's inquiring eyes with great interest.

Lu Min's back felt cold.

"What do you think about Mr. Zhang's resignation?" Meng Qi asked casually.

The road is still blocked, so I might as well use this trinket to kill boredom.

Lu Min bit the bullet and said, "What can I think? I don't know anything about government affairs."

"nonsense."

The person who spoke this time was Mo Li, and he said unhurriedly, "You have forced the palace to rebel, and you will know nothing about the government? Haven't you thought about how to subdue the ministers after you succeed?"

Lu Min's expression was subtle, and Meng Qi saw something was wrong, and asked in surprise, "I really haven't thought about it?"

"..."

Lu Min turned his head in embarrassment.

In the past, the second prince thought that since the prince was around, it would not be his turn to ascend the throne anyway.Later, the crown prince became seriously ill, and the second prince only wanted to put all his eggs in one basket. Whether he could kill the king was the most important thing, let alone the courtiers.

Especially after finding Patriarch Qingwu, who claims to be the best master in the world, Lu Min is even more confident. He thinks that as long as he is escorted by this master, and he takes the opportunity to seize military power after killing the king, who would dare not accept it?

In order to cover up his mistake, Lu Min honestly confessed: "I just thought that Brother Huang would not let Prime Minister Zhang go."

"Oh?"

"Before the emperor's enthronement, the deputy commander of Jin Yiwei, Gong Tongzhi, and General Liu were looking for evidence of Zhang Xiang's power-taking. Although I don't know the result, but at the enthronement ceremony, Zhang Xiang directly sued for a lie. It's very abnormal." Lu Min counted down solemnly, "Unless you really can't get up, there is no reason not to go to such an important day. Prime Minister Zhang may have found out that the emperor's brother is going to deal with him."

"It's interesting, and then?" Meng Qi continued to ask.

The second prince curled his lips and said: "What else is there, the old way of civil servants? I was tired of reading it before, so I wrote a letter to resign. According to the usual practice, the emperor must stay. I guess this is a temptation from Prime Minister Zhang. He wants to see my emperor. How much evidence does my brother have, and let me show off my ability, half of the court belongs to him... Zhang Xiang doesn't want to resign at all, this is actually a threat! Hmph, he misjudged my big brother, big emperor Brother will not be threatened by him, and he will not let him resign and return to his hometown. If he does not do anything now, it must be to clear up Zhang Xiang's party feathers. At that time, it will be enough to kill chickens and monkeys. Naturally, they will also deviate for the sake of power. I think they are all stupid to come here today to participate in any literary conference!"

Meng Qi raised his eyebrows. He was very surprised and almost looked at Lu Min with admiration.

He said to Mo Li through sound transmission: "Lu Min seems to have become smarter, maybe it's because he got through the fight with the sixth prince."

"If the meridian in the brain is blocked, this person is either stupid or paralyzed, not like Lu Min..."

Meng Qi immediately changed his words and said: "Probably after going through all these twists and turns and being forced to go out of Beijing to leave his imperial brother, he is willing to use his brain more, so he looks much more pleasing to the eye than the sixth prince."

Mo Li thought, if it was not pleasing to the eye, it would be impossible for Lu Min to stay here.

If it were the third prince who was shy and shy and was making small calculations behind his back, or the sixth prince with a perverse temperament, let alone asking for regicide with 100 taels of silver, Meng Qi might not even look at it even if he gave 1000 taels of silver, let alone kill people. out of the palace.

The money is not collected, and the following things do not exist.

Now there is Lu Min's place in this carriage, because Lu Min's performance has not been "unpleasant" in these days, so he was entrusted by Lu Xi, and he did not hesitate to bring the second prince with him.

——Anyway, he just left the capital, and when he arrived in the field, he would be met by people sent by Lu Gui.

"If Lu Min maintains this momentum, he will see and think more about everything, and study harder. Maybe in a few years, he will be able to beat his younger brother Lu De and let Lu Jie pass the throne to him." Meng Qi said solemnly .

Mo Li hesitated to speak, he wanted to say that the prince might not live that long, and he wanted to say that Lu Min had thought so thoroughly just now because it was about the prince. Astute.

But Mo Li thought about it again, Meng Qi has experienced more things than him, and he is more accurate than him in judging people, Lu Min may really have such a day!

After all, people will change, especially now that Lu Zhang is dead, which means that the shadow over these princes no longer exists.

"If Lu Min wants to go back to Taijing, to return to his brother, he must work hard and become a superior person." Meng Qi said slowly, "I was going to remind him at first, but now it seems that this makes sense. I understand."

Mo Li took a deep look at Lu Min, and said sympathetically, "That's not an easy task."

"No matter how difficult it is, it can only be like this, because one way can realize what he wants in his heart."

Not only to assist Lu Jie, but as the prince, Lu Min is also ambitious, at least he is unwilling to give up the throne to the other two younger brothers.No matter before or after Lu Jie's death, the second prince would never really kill each other for the throne with his two brothers, which would make him feel ashamed to meet his elder brother in the underworld.

Meng Qi didn't know about the affairs between their brothers before, but now the onlookers are clear, and he can casually express Lu Min's thoughts.

Mo Li sighed softly, and whispered: "Lu Min can see his way clearly, but he doesn't know where the real way out of this world is."

The prince's life is short, and he is unable to carry out the New Deal, nor can he make the Qi Dynasty look brand new.

——They came to Taijing, but nothing seemed to change.

Mo Li looked at the bustling scene outside the car window, and faintly felt what Meng Qi was thinking - I only wish that the people of Taijing would be like today, travel lightly and live up to the spring scenery.

Everything else is luxury.

"Don't worry, doctor. The so-called way out may be just like the one in front of us, but it is blocked. If you really stumble and wait to go on, keep going, you will finally reach the ferry."

"I hope so."

Mo Li was about to speak again when he suddenly heard a commotion on the road behind him.

When a beautifully decorated carriage was rushing to this side, it accidentally bumped into another low, small carriage. The latter was standing on the shaft to watch the excitement, but suddenly encountered an accident and fell off the carriage in embarrassment. .

Fortunately, the horse was low and the car was low, and the car stopped again, so that it did not fall into a serious injury.

The carriage that caused the accident didn't even look at it. The coachman yelled and forced the carriage in front of him to move away.

But the road has become like this, and the power is not easy to use, the carriage can only stop at last, and the people inside get out of the car resentfully, ready to walk to the place of the Wenhui.

"Minister of the Ministry of War." Lu Min muttered.

Not only did Lu Min know each other, but Meng Qi also looked familiar, as it was common in the womb a while ago.

Meng Qi's eyes flashed, and he quietly concentrated his inner strength, and poked the two black horses pulling the cart of the servant of the Ministry of War from the air.

"Hey!"

A foul smell permeated the nose.

Meng Qi was stunned, he just wanted the two horses to jump around in place, so that the servant of the Ministry of War who got off the carriage also fell down. As a result, the tall horse of the servant's family didn't know what he ate before going out. He was planning to excrete, but now he was stimulated by this internal force and threw a lot of horse manure directly.

The ink carp subconsciously held its breath and changed its internal breath.

Lu Min could only cover his mouth and nose like the people nearby.

The most unlucky person was the Minister of the Ministry of War. He was suffocated by the stench, and the horse manure was piled up around the carriage. For a while, he could neither get out of the carriage nor avoid the stench.

Now I don't have to attend the literature meeting anymore, the clothes are tainted with a stench, how can I show up?

The servant of the Ministry of War was so angry that his face turned purple, he shrank into the carriage and called the coachman to leave.

However, there are rules in the Spring Festival. All the main roads are under the jurisdiction of the Taijing government office. Because there are too many vehicles and horses, there will inevitably be collision accidents, and the embarrassing situation encountered by the Minister of the Ministry of War.Cows and horses are not human beings, and it is common for people to scatter in the street. At this time, you have to pay a sum of money to have them cleaned up.

In the city of Taijing, there are limited places where horse-drawn carriages can go, and people who pick up horse manure and sell them for money wander around the market all day long.At the spring outing today, they also left the city in one go, strolling around with carts and baskets on their backs, and when they saw a cow or horse in trouble, they immediately went up and asked for a reward, saying auspicious words.

"Give it to them, hurry up!" The Minister of the Ministry of War paused.

The road is so crowded that you can't walk, you can only move slowly.

That car, which was originally eye-catching, was avoided by people, because not only the ground, but also the shaft and wheels were stained with horse manure.

Everyone dared not say anything in front of their faces, but they were whispering behind their backs.

What did the horses of the Minister of the Ministry of War eat? Just pull them. How could there be so many at once?Are officials so rich?No, other high-ranking families did not make such a scandal.

March [-]rd is a grand gathering for the common people in Taijing. Those who feed the horses in Guannian have experience, and it is not yet noon, even if they are rented horses from the carriage and horse dealers, they will not be like this.

Meng Qi decided to pretend that he didn't know anything.

"Brother Meng."

Oops, shouldn't the doctor have seen it?

Meng Qi turned his head calmly, only to hear Mo Li pointing at the scholar who was knocked to the ground by the carriage of the Minister of War before, and said: "That seems to be Mr. Jin Shui?"

Meng Qi was taken aback for a moment, then realized something was wrong.

Mr. Jinshui didn't seem to be out for a spring outing, and a box fell out of the carriage, plus the vaguely visible baggage and other things, as if he was traveling far away in Beijing or moving.

"His carriage broke down."

Meng Qi found that the wheel of the car was knocked crooked.

Mo Li thought for a while, and said to Lu Min, "We may have to have one more person traveling with us."

Lu Min was very surprised. It must not be a simple person who can make Meng Qi and Mo Li old acquaintances, and get the two of them to take the initiative to invite him to take a ride!Who is this seemingly ordinary scholar?

"May I ask that Mr. Gao's name?"

"...I don't know about this." Mo Li only knew the name signed by the other party on the painting.

Lu Min looked blankly at Mo Li, then at Meng Qi, and asked hesitantly, "What does that gentleman do?"

"Painting Spring. The palace albums are the ones we saw in Fengxing Pavilion." Meng Qi finished speaking quickly, and at the same time reminded, "Mr. I don't know."

Lu Min: "..."

Doubt how difficult my life is.