Is slag Gong whitewashed today?

After the next day, Qi Rang was summoned to the side hall by the emperor.

"Wei Chen pays respects to the emperor."

Kneeling in a respectful posture, as cautious as ever, the young emperor spoke calmly through the curtain,

"get up",

He winked at Eunuch Qin beside him, and the attendants on both sides bowed and retreated, leaving only the two of them in the hall.

"Thank you, Your Majesty", Qi Rang stood up slowly, looking at the emperor of this world without a trace,

Different from Wei Li's aggressive and gorgeous face, his face is only delicate and handsome, but his eyes are full of vigor and depth. Even if the dragon is stranded on the beach, he is still an emperor after all. I don't know how many layers of filters the original owner added. People see them as helpless little white flowers.

Before the young emperor had time to change out of the heavy court clothes, he walked down the stairs step by step, walked up to Qi Rang, grabbed him with one hand, put down his honorific title, and showed weakness and guilt in his tone,

"A Rang, I'm useless, I failed to protect you"

Qi Rang knew what he meant, he guessed it after thinking about Wei Li's reaction after returning home yesterday, Wei Li thought it was a play he and the emperor played together.The fact is that the emperor did not inform him in advance, it is true that he is impeached, and it is true that he wants to arrest him and put him in the Ministry of Punishment.

For the time being, he doesn't know why the emperor made such a self-destructive act of trust, but it doesn't prevent him from acting out a scene of deep affection between the emperor and his subjects.

Qi Rang looked at him with gentle eyes, stretched out his hand to cover it, but retracted his sleeve and clenched it tightly like the courtesy of a monarch and minister, with a respectful and helpless tone,

"It's the minister who didn't protect the emperor. Did you scare the emperor yesterday?"

And full of anger again,

"It's useless to be a minister. I have never been able to kill the guard thief for the emperor. He dared to lead troops into the palace without authorization. This is clearly a rebellion!"

The emperor frowned slightly, sighed,

"A Rang, some time ago you insisted on moving out of the Wei Mansion. I never asked why, but now, Wei Li is about to kill him..."

"Your Majesty!" Qi Rang interrupted him anxiously, "I'll just move back today."

The emperor raised his eyes, looked at him, stepped back suddenly, bowed,

"I thank Qi Qing on behalf of the world."

Qi Rang didn't speak any more, knelt down and kowtowed slightly.

One bows and one kneels, the monarch and his ministers reconcile.

Exiting the hall, Eunuch Qin came out from the side hall, carrying a basin of water, walked to the front of the imperial court, and sighed in a low voice, "Master Qi is only passionate, reckless and ignorant, can he really be regarded as Wei Li? I'm afraid he will be used instead. I know that this is a risky move, Your Majesty."

The emperor above picked up the hot pa in the basin, wiped his hands in disgust, "Wei Li is blind", his lips moved slightly, but he didn't say any more.

Eunuch Qin withdrew knowingly.

After leaving the palace, thinking that the emperor asked him to move back to the Wei Mansion, Qi Rang's mouth curled into a smile, so it was exactly what he wanted.

Walking to the downtown area, Qi Rang heard the cries of peddlers on both sides, and on a whim, he opened the car curtain with a fan, and the steward accompanying the sedan chair sharply called the driver to stop, and came over with his ears.

"What orders does your lord have?"

Qi Rang stepped out of the sedan chair, and jumped down before the attendants took down the footstool, then pointed to Qin Yi behind him, and said,

"He followed me, you go back to the mansion first."

Then he took Qin Yi and walked a few steps quickly, flowing into the crowd.

There are many shops and tourists come and go. Qi Rang was crowded by the crowd and lost his way. He sighed helplessly,

"Today, the capital is quite lively."

Qin Yi said in surprise, "Master, don't you know, today is the moon eve, and there will be a banquet in the palace tonight."

He seemed to think of something after he finished speaking, maybe he was afraid of causing his sadness, so he paused for a moment, then hurriedly said, "This subordinate made a slip of the tongue"

Qi Rang was closing his fan, intending to say nothing, when a group of people suddenly passed by in front of him, heading straight for the crowd, Qin Yi quickly pulled Qi Rang back, but he didn't expect those people to slow down when they saw the crowd Gaining speed, they all dismounted after gesturing.

On the contrary, the common people on both sides saw the two leading men wearing Linlongwei's clothes, and they squeezed to both sides and quickly cleared a road in the middle of the road.

The two leaders bowed their hands to the crowd, got on their horses and galloped away.

Qi Rang staggered when he was squeezed, looked at his unchanging court uniform, and the calm eyes of the people around him, and turned around with emotion in his heart, the prestige of Linlongwei was even louder than he thought Some,

Turning to look at Qin Yi,

"Where did those people go just now?"

Before Qin Yi could answer, a big brother at the shop next to the road took over the conversation,

"Where else can I go? Over there is the mansion of Chen Yong, the Minister of Rites who was stabbed to death by Lord Wei in the court yesterday. I must be going to clean up the house today."

Another person next to him drank a glass of wine,

"It's a pity, a good August Festival, but it has become a day when families are ruined."

Qi Rang showed a kind smile,

"Judging from the tone of the two elder brothers, is this Chen Yong a good official?"

The first elder brother who answered the conversation just now bowed his hands to him,

"My lord, don't make fun of us. Don't you know your official uniform better than us?"

Seeing that they didn't dare to say more, Qi Rang also smiled and cupped his hands, walking a little further away.

Behind him, Qin Yi couldn't guess what he was thinking. After thinking about it, she explained later,

"Chen Yong is a member of the neutral faction. Although he is a civil servant in the Ministry of Rites, he is under the tutelage of General Han Yuhan. He doesn't flatter the guards or follow the royalists. Yesterday, Master Wei offended many people with his sword."

There are three factions in the court. One is the royalist party headed by Li Yi, the teacher of the original body.One faction is the Guard Party headed by Wei Li, most of them are old friends of Wei Shang and upstarts from aristocratic families single-handedly promoted by Wei Li.One group is neutral, these people are either in a wait-and-see state, or they are pure ministers like Han Yu who only care about the country.

According to the character of the original owner, he should have been a pure minister, but now he has become a tool in the struggle between the Guards and the Royalists.

The original owner only said not to let Wei Li ruin the world, but he didn't say who should be the emperor. Qi Rang weighed the fan in his hand,

"Let's go to Weifu."

***

The palace is full of warm yellow lanterns because of festivals, and the brick-red palace walls look very beautiful. If there is another snowfall, it will be a landscape that can be painted anywhere.

The palace man led the way with a lamp in front, and Wei Li walked beside him, hesitating to speak, wanting to say something, but afraid of ruining the rare harmonious atmosphere between the two.

At the entrance of the banquet hall, Qi Rang suddenly reached out and grabbed Wei Li,

"Master Wei, the general of the town led by Linlong Division, and Lord Qi, Minister of the Ministry of War, have arrived!"

The sharp voices of the palace people interrupted the laughter of the banquet, and the sound of silk and bamboo continued, but the atmosphere suddenly became tense.

The two clasped their hands under their sleeves, Wei Li smiled, and walked towards his seat with a normal expression.

Someone came up to talk along the way, but Qi Rang didn't let go, he just stood aside and looked at Wei Li straight, brushing his fingertips on the back of his hand, watching his ears turn red, with a fake expression on his face. Laugh at others.

As soon as he sat on the seat, Qi Rang heard a disdainful sneer in his ear, Wei Li's hand suddenly tightened, Qi Rang rubbed it soothingly twice, retracted his hand, and looked aside.

It is the youngest son of the right prime minister, Qi Rang's younger brother, Li Rui.

The arrangement of the seats was interesting, so Qi Rang swept his gaze around the hall.

He thought that his position was arranged by Wei Li, but now it seems that Wei Li's position has been arranged by him to the right disciple.

Qi Rang glanced forward again, and sure enough, the right minister was at the top on this side.

Qi Rang laughed at the emperor's naive behavior from the bottom of his heart. Could it be that one position can determine anything?

He remembered a story of his own era, when a strong country invaded and a weak country was forced to sign a contract that humiliated the country.

"These savages, I just opened the side door for them and they didn't even notice."

Qi Rang shook his head in his heart, Wei Li received the training of a dead soldier since he was a child, grew up in the countryside and honed in the battlefield, while the emperor was only trapped in the deep palace since he was a child to learn the way of the king.

The two people's vision and heart are not at the same level, but it's no wonder that the little emperor lost to Wei Li despite his deep scheming.

Before the emperor arrived, the banquet could not be held. During the banquet, the ministers chatted in twos and threes, but their eyes all swept towards this side intentionally or unintentionally.

Most of the guards sat opposite, Wei Li made a big fuss in the hall yesterday, the table of the two of them was so clean that it was incompatible with the banquet, the people of the right side didn't even bother to save face.

Listening to the increasingly harsh conversation in his ear, Qi Rang turned the wine glass in his hand and turned his head away.

"Junior brother seems to have some opinions on me today?"

Li Rui snorted,

"Don't dare, how dare you, senior brother and Master Wei are singing in harmony, and junior brother is very envious."

Qin Se and Ming described men and women, and Wei Li sat with Qi Rang. These words were obviously mocking Wei Li as a woman, and ordinary people would inevitably vomit after hearing this.

What's more, Qi Rang and Wei Li's relationship is not good, everyone knows that they moved out of the Wei Mansion, what he said is really stabbing Wei Li's heart.

Wei Li has always been too lazy to care about these verbal disputes, but Qi Rang is idle and ruthless at the moment.

So Qi Rang seemed not to understand, held Wei Li's hand openly and aboveboard, and said with a smile, "Ah Li and I are both men. Although it is not appropriate to use Qin Se to describe it, it is true that we have a good relationship. Junior brother go back You should ask Master for advice more, otherwise it will be bad if you lose the face of Master's generation of Confucianism outside."

Li Rui didn't seem to have expected Qi Ranghui to come back so bluntly, his face flushed with anger, he pointed at Qi Rang, and was persuaded by the people around him, after all, he just snorted, stopped talking, and the surrounding area became much quieter.

Qi Rang turned his head to look at Wei Li who was staring at him,

"what happened?"

With deep eyes, Wei Li shook his head and smiled,

"nothing",

After thinking about it, I looked at him again and asked,

"Can I go back to the Wei Mansion today?"

Qi Rang raised his eyebrows,

"My wife lives in Weifu, where should I go if I don't go back?"

Wei Li clenched the cup in his hand, his eyes became colder and colder, tried his best to control the layers of coldness on his body, he still shook his head helplessly, and flirted with Qi Rang,

"My husband is so enthusiastic today that I don't know what to do."

Qi Rang saw that something was wrong with him and frowned.

Suddenly there was a sound at the gate,

"The emperor is here!"

Everyone got up and knelt down, even though Wei Li was exempted from kneeling, he followed the crowd and bowed down.

When he sat down again, there was no trace of strangeness on his face.

***

Back at Wei Mansion, Qi Rang looked at Wei Li who was sitting on the bed, not knowing whether to laugh or cry,

During the banquet just now, Wei Li did not refuse to drink one cup after another, talking to everyone clearly, except that his ears were a little red, and his face was calm and unmoved, Qi Rang thought he was really a good drinker.

But at this moment,

Wei Li stared at Qi Rang with wide eyes, expressionless

"Why did you listen to him?"

Qi Rang tried to reason with him,

"I just deal with him"

"You lied, if he told you to come back, you would come back, and you still held my hand!"

"You were still bullying me yesterday, but today you are a different person!"

Qi Rang got up and wanted to call him a cup of sober tea, but was stopped again.

"Why did you listen to him?"

Well, the problem is back again,

Qi Rang patiently responded to him,

"I didn't listen to him, dear, let go first, I'll make you a cup of sober tea and I'll be back."

Wei Li looked at him, still expressionless,

"Are you going to find him?"

Qi Rang: Why didn't anyone tell him that Wei Li, who is usually a thief like a fox, will become a resentful woman when he drinks alcohol?

Qi Rang gradually became irritable, "Let go!"

Wei Li persisted for a long time, watching him purse his mouth, but still let go, like a child, shrinking himself into a ball, but staring at him, watching him go to the door, call someone, and then come back,

Afterwards, Qi Rang asked someone to feed him hangover soup and asked someone to help him change his clothes. After everything was tidied up, he was about to lie down, but found that after Wei Li changed his clothes, he was still in the same position, huddled in the corner of the bed, staring at him. with him.

Although his face was expressionless, Qi Rang could see the grievance on his face.

Oh, so what.

Qi Rang blew out the candles, covered himself with the quilt, and turned around not to look at him.

After a while, there was a rustling sound from the corner of the bed, and a smooth body crawled over and lay on Qi Rang's body.

With his eyes closed, Qi Rang could still feel the scorching gaze from above, so he finally broke down and pushed him back on the bed.