Don't go down if you have a kind [Rebirth]

"Where did this hairpin come from?" When Wei Pei saw it, his complexion turned as white as gold paper, and he stared at Song Fei with blood-red eyes.

Song Fei was suddenly intimidated by Mr. Wei, and said in a daze, "Where else can you get the things from the girl's house?"

I hurriedly pulled up Wei Pei, who was about to kneel unsteadily, sighed, and looked at Song Fei sternly: "Please explain clearly to me."

Baboon Song probably hasn't fully evolved, and like Xu Changan, he is a fool who can't beat his boss.Under my persecution, he spent more than half an hour expounding his personal subjective conjecture, proving that this hairpin was a token of love bestowed to his highness by a certain lady in Kyoto.I was so angry that I really wanted to go up and kick him, but before the kick landed, he suddenly "teared at the coffin", and suddenly shouted as if the three souls returned to their seats: "That's right! I remembered! It's an old man." It was delivered, and the old man handed a package to the doorman, saying that it was His Highness’s old things in the palace. The bag was indeed filled with glass beads and small slingshots with golden handles. Said to invite that person to enter the mansion, but when I went out again, he had already left."

I withdrew my foot: "What kind of old man, do you remember?"

Song Fei scratched his head: "Swishy, ​​his face is as white as a ghost, a lot of young girls are holding their voices and talking, what a weird old man..."

This baboon Song...probably has never seen a eunuch.I have some speculations in my heart, the "weird old man" is probably the old man who was with the emperor's nephew in the East Palace, and after the emperor's nephew moved out of the East Palace, he released this man to retire in the palace.He gave things to the old owner, and why did he turn his face away without even entering the door?I looked at Song Fei: "What happened later? Did you find this person?"

Song Fei curled his lips slightly when he heard the words: "His Royal Highness really sent someone to look for it. Xiao Guan, that idiot, led the personal guards and the dark guards to turn Liangzhou Mansion upside down. He didn't find it. He came back to live with the [-]th Army." Staff, almost crippled..."

I think the emperor's nephew seems to like Xiao Guan very much, even if he encountered an indescribable scene that day, he just scolded Baboon Song, and didn't say anything serious to Xiao Guan, why would he beat him with the Eighty Army Staff?How exciting is this?

When Song Fei mentioned this matter, he seemed to be quite resentful: "I was just a guard at the time, otherwise I would not have been beaten."

I muttered to myself: "The good king has always been kind and prudent, rewards and punishments are justified, since he is angry, this matter must be of great importance..."

"Your Majesty," Wei Pei suddenly said, "Immediately order the palace to trace the origin of this hairpin. I suspect the death of Master Jiezi and the death of my benefactor..."

"Don't worry," I picked up the golden hairpin, "General Song, who else has seen this?"

Song Feidao: "There are two keys, one for His Highness himself, one for Xiao Guan, mine was entrusted to me by Xiao Guan before he left, no one should have seen the others, right?"

I comforted Wei Pei: "With a lock, it is different from those wooden stakes that can be moved casually outside the account. If you want to take it to the palace for investigation, you need a name. If this is the case, the good king will end up with suspicion from others. Besides. It takes a long time to travel to and from the capital. It is too troublesome. I grew up in the imperial city. According to me, the origin of this hairpin is also simple. Jiuling's pure gold phoenix hairpin was sealed off from the prince's mansion. It is hard to say, but the emperor Most noble families dare not use it, most likely it is something in the palace, maybe it belonged to the former princess, but the princess was still young when she passed away, young girls in the palace love white pearls and red agate, and it is only fashionable to wear green in their thirties Emerald, this kind of dark purple jade essence is only used after forty years. This year, the Secretary of the Inner House gave the emperor the dress for the Spring Festival ceremony. There is such a phoenix hairpin. The emperor is not willing to wear it. At such an old age, I should be held accountable to the inner government, who said that they also acted according to the rules, and their clothes followed the old rules..."

Follow whose example?I shut my mouth suddenly, my heart skipped a beat, and I bluffed myself.

Wei Pei stared at me: "Is it the Empress Dowager's?"

can't you?How could grandma's things be in the hands of the emperor's nephew?It is even less likely to belong to the emperor's mother. The emperor's mother has only been the queen mother for a few years, and she should have gotten this kind of hairpin during the festival this year.

I feel that there is a huge conspiracy hidden behind everything. I don't know the ultimate purpose of this conspiracy, but I can probably see it. Those who received the "Mayfly" marked things are all dead?

"Your Majesty?" Wei Pei and Song Fei called me in unison.

I was a little panicked: "I won't go back to the capital yet, I'll gather some troops, and go to Xiaoguan... No, prepare your pen and ink, let's send a letter, I'll ask the emperor's nephew..."

"The letter can't be delivered," Song Fei said, "Xiao Guan is close to the Jin King's camp. Not a single bird can fly in, let alone men and horses. Those who have passed the pyrotechnic soldiers of other factions will not be released. The fake customs clearance letter prepared by His Highness for His Majesty is still there, or..."

So, I changed from the Emperor of the Ninth Five-Year to the son of a bankrupt medicine merchant who failed in business.

It turns out that according to the emperor's nephew's plan, he and I are the sons of a bankrupt drug dealer, one is in charge of running the family, the other is in charge of the prodigal, the father went bankrupt and committed suicide, and the older mother is about to remarry. Asking for a debt that has not been collected for 20 years, and this old creditor is none other than Fang Yelan, the former Jiang family army guarding Xiaoguan...

Who would like a moneylender to come into the house?The imperial nephew can really make up.

Song Fei told me that this matter was not fabricated.There are indeed drug dealers, and Xiaoguan Shoujun is indeed famous for being "poor" inside and outside the customs, and has owed a fart/share of debts in the three northwest states for more than 20 years.The two stupid sons of the drug dealer went to ask the military family for a debt, but they were hacked to death by the rebellious army of Apunu's nephew on the way.

When I dug out the bloody customs certificate from my luggage, Song Fei slapped his head: "No, no, your majesty, you can't go in person, so ask someone to take this certificate and send a message..."

"Order someone," I pawed at the package of the drug dealer's son, "just serve as my guard, isn't there a certificate for customs clearance?"

Song Fei looked at the two documents in my hand, wondering: "There are no women in the barracks."

I opened it and found out that this other customs clearance document probably belonged to a woman, who wrote "Jia Yue's wife, Li Shi, Ji Shitang, Nanyang City, Cangzhou", and was the wife of a prodigal son.

While hesitating, Wei Pei suddenly said from the side: "I will go with His Majesty."

Although I was calm on the surface, I was a little scared in my heart. I wanted to show some courage. I took a look at Wei Qing and knew that there was no more white person in the camp, so I nodded slightly: "Okay, change clothes, Wear a big robe that covers your head and face, and when you reach the pass, if you can't do it, don't follow, just wait outside."

So on this day, I secretly vowed in the morning to stay away from King Liang and go back to Beijing to eat fast, and at night I rushed towards Xiaoguan in a hurry.What a "face pain".

Before leaving, tell Song Fei and teach him to be careful about the Zhongzhou reinforcements this time. It's hard to say whether the opponent is an enemy or a friend. If asked, don't reveal the whereabouts of Zhen and His Royal Highness King Liang.

I feel that the emperor in this life is much more appropriate than the last one, but the enemies are also more appropriate, which makes me still very embarrassed.

On the one hand, I was wondering if the Zhongzhou army brought by Jiang Bi had fought Song Fei and the others, on the other hand, I was thinking about what was going on in the capital, and I was thinking about the empress.Hurrying on my way, the wind and sand cut my face like a knife, and I have no time to think about what happened to my nephew in front of me. No matter what other people want to do, if I come to him, he will not do anything to me, right?

Wei Pei had the case in mind, and he was speechless all the way.

In the northwest wilderness, the sky is high and the earth is far away, and there are no people living in the distance.The two of us ran wildly all the way, stopped at the post station on the way, changed horses a few times, and added a few drinks and dry food. After seven or eight days, we saw the rolling gray brick city wall like a hill, stretching across hundreds of miles, lying thick and solid on the ground. Among the vast yellow sands - it is Xiaoguan.

Wei Pei and I took another ride and went downstairs to shout out.The sentries came down to check the documents, searched the body, and saw that they were going to touch Wei Pei, so I stopped him and said, "Master Jun, you can buy wine for this money."

Wei Pei stood upright, taller than a horse by a head, covered his head and face with a black wind robe, revealing only a pair of cold eyes, holding the horse's rein with one hand, his wide cuffs showed white and thin fingers And the wrist bones—really unfeminine.

Wei Pei's "not cooperating" made the sentinel suspicious, and immediately drew his sword and shouted at his companions: "Tie them up!"

When I saw this, I couldn't care about anything else, I struggled and shouted: "You guys who eat sand and have never seen the world, what's wrong with men! The whole camp owes me thousands of taels of silver! The dignified officials are shameless! "

The sentinels showed unimaginable expressions at first, but after listening to the second half of my sentence, they seemed to be short of breath, and the expression similar to "here comes another debt collector" flashed across their faces, and I took the opportunity to say: "My brother is coming!" Those who came here a few days ago, let me in, let me in!"

They didn't believe me very much, and they wanted to tie me up to play the killing stick first.During the dispute between the two, they suddenly heard a shout: "Stop!"

I saw a person trotting over from the foot of the city wall not far away, it was Xiao Guan.

Xiao Guan showed the token to the sentinel, pointed to the beacon tower a few hundred meters away, and said that General Fang invited me into the camp.

I took a closer look and saw that there seemed to be two people standing on the top of the beacon tower, the two black spots were so blurred that they couldn't distinguish each other, but I could still tell at a glance that the one on the left was the emperor's nephew.

Wei Pei and I led our horses into the camp, climbed up the city wall, and walked around for about a quarter of an hour before entering the stone building under the beacon tower.

Along the way, except for a few soldiers at the sentry tower who were still young and bright, all the soldiers I saw had gray hair on their temples and gray armor, and almost all of them had reached the age of retiring from the army—is this the throat of Daxing that the nephew said?

The hall made of gray stone was empty and dark, with no tables or chairs, only a sheepskin map hung high on the front wall, and a faint oil lamp was placed in the center under the map, and two people sat cross-legged on the ground on both sides of the oil lamp.

Xiao Guan led Wei Pei and I into the stone hall, the heavy door creaked shut behind us, and the rest of us retreated instantly.The emperor's nephew got up, and greeted me with a steady courtier, "Uncle Emperor."

The other person got up, approached, and knelt tremblingly: "Fang Yelan, commander of the garrison of the last general Xiao Guan, see Your Majesty."

While pulling the emperor's nephew to stand up, I looked at this "Daxing Throat" with weak voice, thin and crooked, and a question stuck in his throat along the way was suddenly taken down by a mouthful of saliva, together with the dry-swallowed rough bread from last night , went to the six rounds and went back.King Liang has [-] troops in his own hands. He just wants to do something, so he doesn't need to go all the way to find a piece of yellow sand that can be buried up to his neck and necks, right?

Suddenly, the head of the elderly group raised his head, and two indifferent and sad eyes shot out from his gray and cloudy eyes that seemed to be filled with old tears all year round. Before I could say goodbye, he stood up and beat himself With a back bent like a shrimp's tail, he slowly moved back to his "seat".

Wei Pei stepped forward, frowning.

The imperial nephew took my hand and got up, and guided me to the "seat". When I saw the round gray stone floor tiles that were polished smooth by someone's buttocks, I immediately didn't care about anything. You have eaten sand at the border for decades to defend your home and country, and you don’t even have a futon, so what else can you say?

No matter what the situation is going to be in the future, I plan to sit down first and thank the old general. Unexpectedly, halfway through my seat, Liang Wang suddenly tore off his robe and randomly piled it up, and quickly spread it on the "round" floor tiles. Dazed for a moment, she turned to look at him while maintaining a half-squatting position.

He lightly pressed my shoulder indifferently, with a faint smile on his face.

I was suddenly pressed down by him, and instantly felt that what sat under my buttocks was not the robe of His Royal Highness Liang, but a nest of fragile grass eggs with thin shells - I didn't dare to use any force.

Old General Fang suddenly coughed wildly with "iron cavalry sticking out swords and guns", and after struggling with the thick phlegm in his throat for a hundred or two rounds, he said in a cracked voice: "The last general is poor in the camp, Your Majesty's seeing is believing, if the food and salaries owed by the imperial court can be made up, Fang, on behalf of all the officers and men, will thank God."

Just as I was about to respond, Wei Pei suddenly said: "I remember that Xiao Guan's garrison belongs to the King Jin's army. According to the law, the food and salaries of the kings' army are paid by the princes' residences themselves."

...Nearly being blackmailed?I rubbed my nose and didn't know how to respond. The national treasury has been unable to make ends meet in recent years. Once Liuzhou's taxes were given away, the annual income has been cut by more than half, not to mention the years of drought, flood, famine, and wars. The food and salary may not be honored when they go back.Although according to what Wei Pei said, Fang Yelan's debt should be charged to the account of Prince Jin's Mansion, but aren't the twelve princes from the eight prefectures all from Daxing?I pretended to be a debt collector, how did I become a debt collector?

Feeling disturbed for a while, I raised my eyes to look at the emperor's nephew: What are you doing, you let me come with you, just to make the court take advantage of it?

The emperor's nephew bowed slightly behind me, and leaned closer to my ear: "Xiao Guan has 20 garrisons, each with an annual salary of 180 taels of silver, and owed 80 years, a total of 20 million taels, plus the pensions of more than [-] casualties. , about [-]. In addition, [-] years of food, horses, weapons, armor, cotton clothes and other materials need to be checked and liquidated by the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Households."

...Are you asking me to dismantle the palace and buy it?

The imperial nephew smiled slightly and stared at me for a moment.I was silent for a moment, and suddenly understood what he meant. He wanted me to act on behalf of the Kyoto court, and the seller Yelan would give me a favor so that Fang Yelang would agree to help us seize the military and political power in Cangzhou.I nodded: "Old general, I will first allocate three years' worth of food and supplies to the soldiers, and the government has not been rich in recent years. I promise to make up the rest in batches within five years. What do you think?"

Fang Yelan laughed loudly, his cloudy eyes vaguely fell on the yellowed sheepskin map beside him, and he murmured, "20 years... General, 20 years..."

I hurriedly said: "The court is sorry for you, General Fang..."

"Fang has guarded Xiaoguan for 20 years..." Fang Yelan interrupted me, "It's not all for the court's few rations. Can your majesty guarantee that the nine cities of Cangzhou will be recovered within three years?"

I said honestly: "This is also my wish, but I can't guarantee it. The shortest is half to a year, and the longest is five to ten years. Sooner or later there will be such a day."

Fang Yelan nodded slowly: "Five years and ten years are too long, I'm afraid I won't live to that day, Your Highness..."

"General Fang."

"Remember to come here and burn some paper money when the time comes." Fang Yelan got up on his knees, hunched his back, and walked out, "Xiaoguan is yours now, and I will guard Cangnan Fifteenth City."

……

What kind of operation is this one after another, and I didn't get over it until the senior group was evacuated.The outside world is too complicated, maybe I shouldn't leave the palace.

A strong wind suddenly rose at night, flying sand and rocks.Liang Wang took the few remaining soldiers and lit the torches of the Xiaoguan sentry tower one by one, pretending that everything was as usual.

Wei Pei and I cooked a pot of brown rice and fried pots of dried wild vegetables on our own, and set the table in the rusty stone kitchen. Only after we finished the table did we realize that there was still some dried bacon we bought on the way. a plate.Everyone said that the food made by myself would taste extra delicious. Sure enough, only the jerky I tore with my own hands was the most delicious in this meal.

Wei Qing slowly chewed his wild vegetables, and suddenly asked: "How much does Your Majesty know about the old prince?"

I picked up the vegetable soup and boiled rice: "Brother Prince has a very good temper. I don't believe that he is collaborating with the enemy and treason. I remember your teacher was implicated and sentenced to autumn sentence. How did he escape?"

"...The teacher once said that it was 'Hu You' who saved him. I always thought that 'Hu You' was a person." Wei Pei was silent, and added, "The teacher is from Liuzhou."

... This is definitely the worst time Liuzhou people have been hacked.I knocked on the side of the bowl: "That doesn't make sense, 'Mayfly' saved him, why did he kill him again?"

"Because," Wei Pei frowned lightly, "at that time, the late emperor was seriously ill. If I guessed right, the contact between 'Mayfly' and the teacher should be for the sake of the throne, and the two sides have different opinions..."

My mind was a little confused: "You don't think 'Mayfly' is a person? What is that?"

Wei Pei stared at me: "It's a group of people. 'The feathers of the mayfly, the clothes are beautiful. The worries in my heart are here, and I will return'...Does your majesty know about the Eighth Family of Emperor Wu?"

It all happened when my great-grandfather, how could I know a ghost, who was staring at Wei Aiqing who "knows everything" with a masked face, and there was a hissing outside - the emperor's nephew came back.

Wei Pei was about to leave, leaving King Liang to have dinner with me.

King Liang sat in Wei Pei's position just now, sweeping the CDs on the table as soon as the wind swept through the clouds.

I don't like it.

He just smiled, asked me for the remaining jerky, and took it out to distribute to several veterans.

I was thinking about the Eighth Family, so I still went to look for Wei Pei.

As soon as the front foot stepped on the threshold, the emperor's nephew followed me, and said behind me: "There are no guards at night, uncle and I sleep next door, Master Wei is here for Xiao Guan to take care of."

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