Loyalty Hou Tiansheng rebellious

The air in the dark tunnel was damp and sticky, and the wind blew into the sleeves like a snake.With his sleeves covered, Chen Hen clenched his fists tightly.

Half of the books blocked him, so he couldn't hear Xu Xie's voice clearly.

Xu Xie scolded Xu Xing for a while, and then softened his tone, he said: "...Zhou Mian, your mother died young, and there are many affairs in the court, and being a father sometimes ignores you. Your aunt will take care of you, and the Ministry of War The third girl in Zhang Shangshu's house... She will tell you the details. You have taken care of your body..."

Xu Xing didn't speak, and remained silent for a long time, only the sound of footsteps, and soon fell silent again.

Chen Hen hid in the secret passage and didn't dare to go out again, but quietly watched Xu Xing through a gap in the book wall.

He was still lying on his side on the couch, with his eyes closed and his eyebrows furrowed, not knowing if he had fallen asleep.

The poor man, who was born in a family, enjoyed the prosperity of the family, suffered all the fame of the family, but was burdened by the family after all.

Chen Hen sighed again, turned around and left along the secret path with the young man.

Xu Xiang's mansion is in the east of the city, and the secret passage in Xu Xing's house leads all the way to the east of the city.

The boy led him out of the tangled bamboo forest.

"Go straight ahead, wait until you get out of the yard, and then go east out of the street, you probably know the way." The boy paused, and then said, "By the way, the guard of this yard is an old man with a crooked neck. Don't be frightened by him who was hacked by a knife when he was young."

Chen Hen bowed to him: "Thank you."

"What you just heard..."

"I understand." Chen Hen nodded solemnly, "Master Xu, save me once, I won't talk too much."

The boy turned his head and muttered softly: "If you were not talkative, you shouldn't have sung those two broken tunes a few years ago."

Not hearing his words, Chen Hen tentatively asked him: "Master Xu, is it..."

"No." The servant hastily defended Xu Xing, "Master and master are not the same people."

"Of course I know that." Chen Hen asked again, "Do you know when he started coughing? What did he do it for?"

The young man lowered his head and touched the back of his neck: "It was the year when the crown prince had an accident. On that day, many people were called to the palace, and the young master was the last one to come out. I waited at the gate of the palace for a long time. , It wasn’t until noon the next day that a small sedan chair carried him out. I don’t know about anything else.”

"Then, is there something he's hiding from me?"

The young man also got angry, took half a step back, and said: "What kind of person are you? What kind of friendship does our young master have with you? If he wants to tell you, he can tell you, and if he doesn't want to, he can't." Tell you. If he doesn't tell you something, he just keeps it from you? You are unworthy."

"I'm sorry, I made a slip of the tongue." Chen Hen raised his hand and touched his sleeves. He came out in a hurry and didn't bring anything.After thinking about it again, he raised his hand and folded two bamboo leaves.

The bamboo leaves are still wet with snow water.

Chen Hen lowered his head, and while fiddling with the bamboo leaves in his hand, he said to the boy: "Your young master and I met once after all, and it can be regarded as a friendship between gentlemen. My elder brother was on good terms with him before, so I can't let him go." in spite of."

He said softly: "Go back and tell him that if Chen Liting can barely catch his eyes, I will sneak a look at him while Xu Youxiang is away. If he finds me annoying, then forget it, and I will let General Wu come and see."

Chen Hen made two pieces of bamboo leaves into a grasshopper and handed them to the boy: "I didn't bring any valuables. This little thing is to make him happy. If he likes it, he can keep it. If he doesn't like it, he can throw it away. I Seeing that the charcoal basin in his room is burning vigorously, even if it is burned, it will do."

"He doesn't tell me something, probably because he doesn't like me getting involved in his affairs..." Chen Hen paused, raised his hand and folded two smaller bamboo leaves, and sighed, "Forget it, I'll do it again." Make him a female grasshopper."

Finally, the boy used a long grass stalk to string up several grasshoppers, and hung them on his hand like a fried skewer.

When the boy returned from the secret passage, Xu Xing was falling asleep.

It's getting late, and the nights are getting cooler.He relaxed his hands and feet, walked to the side of the charcoal basin and stirred up the charcoal fire.

He originally wanted to throw all the long bunch of grasshoppers that the man gave him into the fire and burn them, but after thinking about it, he arranged them in order of size.

Originally, Xu Xing was angry for a while, so he grabbed the poetry collection in front of the bed and used it to throw him, but Xu Xing picked it up by himself, and still put it on the bedside.

When he grabbed the collection of poems, he used his hands so hard that the paper was crumpled, like an old book.Xu Xing smoothed it out, and found a book ruler to press it on, trying to restore it to its original shape.

The grasshopper that Chen Hen gave him was placed on top of the collection of poems.When Xu Xing woke up, he was still staring at a bunch of grasshoppers in a daze for a long time.

He picked up one casually, held it in the palm of his hand, and played with it for a while, smoothing the edges and corners of the bamboo leaves.

The servant passed Chen Hen's words to him word for word, saying: "'...Forget it, I'll make him a female grasshopper again.'"

Hearing this, Xu Xing smiled unconsciously, lost his mind for a moment, and the female grasshopper in his hand fell on the quilt.

He lowered his eyes, looked at the grasshopper, and said, "Bring the poetry collection he sent today, and read two pages while I'm in good spirits."

The young man advised him: "Master, let's sleep a little longer, you can read poetry collections anytime, don't force yourself."

Xu Xing smiled and said, "It's not forced."

As the sun set, Chen Hen climbed over the wall and came out of the abandoned garden as he pushed aside layers of dead branches and couldn't find his way.

Just now the boy told him that the gardener was an old man with a crooked neck.

When he came out, Chen Hen saw him, and he was sitting on the steps in front of the garden gate, with a tattered scarf around his neck and a rag hat, his face could not be seen clearly, and there was a bamboo stick and a broken bowl by his side.

Chen Hen remembered what Li Yan told him last night. Li Yan also met a man with such a crooked neck in the east of the city. He was an official in Jiangnan back then.

He suddenly understood that Xu Xing probably pushed this person to Li Yan on purpose.

In other words, Xu Xing has been keeping such a witness in secret all these years. He is waiting for an opportunity, for someone who can vindicate what happened back then.

After walking out of the street where the garden is located, Chen Hen knew the way.

He went to Xu Mansion on horseback, and he came out from the secret passage by himself, and his horse was still tied under the tree beside the wall of Xu Mansion.

At this time Xu Xie was in the mansion, he didn't dare to go back, he could only walk back to the palace alone.

Passing by a pastry shop, he dug out two copper coins from his purse and bought two pear candies to eat.

In winter, it gets late and early, and as soon as you are past, there are people playing watch on the street.

When he was eating candy, when he heard the sound of shifting, Chen Hen suddenly remembered that he had made an agreement with Li Yan last night, if he couldn't go back at this time, Li Yan would go to Xu Mansion to find him.

Chen Hen was taken aback for a moment, and then came to his senses, wrapped the pear flower candy in oiled paper, stuffed it into his sleeve, and ran towards Xu's mansion.

If Li Yanzhen went to the Xu Mansion, he would be in big trouble.

Don't say anything to startle the snake, nothing is arranged.Facing Xu Xie head-on, Xu Xie has many disciples and officials in his family, and his foundation is deep. Li Yan has only been on the throne for one year, so it is hard to predict who will win.

The sky was getting dark, and there were no pedestrians two streets away from Xu Mansion.

Chen Hen looked carefully, Li Yanren was all hiding in the alley, with swords and swords around their waists, half an inch out of their sheaths, as if they were ready to strike at any time.

He could only step up and run forward, and finally saw Li Yan at the end of the long street.

Li Yan was wearing casual clothes with narrow sleeves, with one hand resting on the saber at his waist.Leaning his back against the wall, he raised his eyes to look at the sky, it was getting dark, he said coldly, "Wait no more."

Don't wait for anything, of course, before Chen Hen comes out of Xu Mansion by himself, he is going to go in.

Li Yan frowned, he regretted that he shouldn't have let Chen Hen come out alone.

"My lord! My lord!" Chen Hen sprinted two steps forward, calling out to him with his breath.

Li Yan suddenly turned around, saw him, grabbed his arm as soon as he stretched out his hand, and picked him up: "You..."

She wanted to scold him a few words so that he could remember, but she was reluctant to speak.

"My lord..." At this time, Wu Duan trotted forward, "Huh? Did you find Liting?"

Li Yan gritted his teeth, stared at Chen Hen, and said, "I found it."

Chen Hen turned to look at Wu Duan: "Xunzhi, why are you here?"

"I have a few people under my command. The emperor said that something happened to you and it's not easy to use the imperial army, so let me bring someone over quickly."

Wu Duan thought that someone had captured Chen Hen, and he was crying and waiting for him to rescue him, but who knew that before he could rescue him, he ran back by himself.

Wu Duan looked at him again: "It's good that people are fine."

Chen Hen asked him: "Well, Xunzhi... How many people did you bring?"

"Not much, just two or three..."

Li Yan interrupted him in a cold tone: "Two or three."

Wu Duan swallowed the word "thousand" and repeated Li Yan's words with a smirk: "Two or three... one."

"More than that? I saw it from two streets away..."

Li Yan continued to lie without changing his face: "That's twenty or thirty."

Wu Duan lowered his head uncomfortably. Whenever the little general Wu of Zhenyuan Mansion told a lie, he would be whipped by the old general Wu, so he was not used to lying.

In fact, those 3000 or [-] people were lined up to twenty streets away, and there were still people at the gate of the city.

The sky was not clear, those people were all hidden in the night, Chen Hen didn't see many people, he thought about it, twenty or thirty people were indeed about the same, so he didn't care about it anymore.

"Wu Xunzhi, go and bring back the horse from Liting."

While Li Yan gave Wu Duan instructions, he grabbed Chen Hen's wrist again, turned to look at him, and said word by word: "Go home."

He asked, "It's so late, why are you still wandering outside?"

"No." Chen Hen withdrew his hands, but Li Yan held on tightly, "something happened..."

Hearing this, Li Yan was startled, grabbed his wrist, brought him forward, and touched him with the other hand: "What's wrong? Are you injured? What's wrong with you?"

Guang touched it up and down, but it wasn't over yet, Li Yan was about to unbutton his shirt and take a look.

Check everything inside and out.

"No." In a blink of an eye, seeing Wu Duan came back leading the horse, Chen Hen hurriedly slapped his hand away, "We'll talk about it when we go back."

General Wu dismissed all the people he brought, and led the horse to escort the emperor back to the palace.

On the way back to the palace, Li Yan was probably still angry and didn't speak.He didn't speak, Chen Hen didn't dare to speak, Wu Duan didn't dare to speak, the three of them didn't speak, it was very embarrassing.

"That..." Chen Hen took out the pear flower candy hidden in his sleeve, "I bought some candy on the way, do you want to eat it?"

He bought a total of four pieces of pear candy, and ate two pieces on the way, and now there are only two pieces left.

Chen Hen was a little embarrassed: "There are only two yuan left, I have eaten it, why don't you each have one piece?"

But Li Yan took off the jade around his waist and threw it to Wu Duan: "There is not enough sugar, if you want to eat, go buy it yourself."

Throw out Yujue and take back the candy.

He held the pear flower candy in the palm of his hand, like the other hand held Chen Hen's hand.