Second minister and thief

General Xiao slept for a long time, and when he woke up, he only felt sore in his limbs and dizzy, as if he had been carried to practice for several hours in the school yard last night.

He was lying on the bed like a cripple, moving his fingers lightly, just staring blankly at the bed curtain beside him in a daze.However, after a while, he jumped up as if he suddenly remembered something, and shouted to the door: "Han Chen!" at home.

"Xiaobei, what time is it?"

As soon as the words fell, a small head poked in from the door and said to him with a smile on his face, "Master, it's time, and Eunuch Yan has brought an imperial decree, saying that the saint will give you a reward. You are sitting in the front hall right now." The second master asked the little one to find you."

"Which Eunuch Yan? What Second Master?" Xiao Cen was so drunk yesterday that he didn't even know what he did or how he got back. He was sitting on the bed at this moment, his mind was still a little dazed, and he couldn't turn around.

"Master, it's Eunuch Yan Zhengyan. Second Master...Young Master, how can you even Second Master..."

"I see, I'll be there in a moment." Xiao Cen raised his hand and rubbed the center of his brows, looking tired and a little impatient.For some reason, he felt uneasy in his heart, and this uneasiness turned into a touch of fear when he saw Yan Zheng's smiling face.He wanted to run away, but was already seen.

Yan Zheng is indeed here to declare the decree, and it seems that he has been waiting for a long time.He was holding a bright yellow scroll in his hand, with a dust fly slung over his arm, and when he saw Xiao Cen coming, he said "Congratulations" a few times eccentrically, and then read aloud the contents of the imperial decree.

Xiao Cen knelt at the very front, staring down at the ground, clenched his teeth, and clenched his fists tightly.He only felt that these words could be read separately, but when combined into one sentence, he couldn't understand it.

What is "Made in Heaven"?What is "the beauty of becoming a beauty"?What is "getting married on an auspicious day"?

Who am I with?Chu Linqiu?Ridiculous... how ridiculous!

Now Xiao Cen only felt that his heart was aching with anger, and he was about to lose his breath. He suddenly became violent, snatched the imperial decree from Yan Zheng's hand, put it in front of his eyes and looked at it carefully. After a long while, he actually said "hehe "Laughed.

"Give a marriage..." At this moment, he finally understood that the emperor's temptation in the Chongguang Palace yesterday was not just to choose a woman from a family for him and trap him in Taodu, but had more sinister intentions.

Why Chu Linqiu?Why Chu Linqiu?Just because I inadvertently showed that I cared about him?

Suddenly, a few words between the lieutenant general and others flashed in Xiao Cen's mind, and he suddenly realized.Yan Zheng's next words also confirmed his guess.

"Marquis Dingnan, accept the order. Lord Hou, the sage asked the servant to bring you something extra. The sage said that since the two of you are in love with each other, after marriage, you should raise your eyebrows and support each other, so that you can live up to my wishes. .”

Xiao Cen stood stiffly on the spot, the expression on his face became more ferocious, and the veins on the side of his neck were also very obvious.Gritting his teeth like this, it seems that he is about to start a massacre in the next moment.

Seeing that Yan Zheng made the others take a step forward, he was always on guard against him, worried that he would do something outrageous because of his sudden enthusiasm.But General Xiao's martial arts skills are outstanding, he used to move freely among thousands of troops, how could the dozen or so imperial guards and eunuchs in front of him be able to stop him?

I saw Xiao Cen's footsteps were light, his clothes fluttering, and the next moment he disappeared in front of them with the imperial edict, and only sent a sentence with the wind, "I want to face the saint, I will not accept this edict!"

"Stop him quickly! Stop him quickly!!!" An Lehou was the first to react. With the support from his left and right sides, he stood up tremblingly, raised his hand and pointed in the direction of the door, and shouted to everyone.

After being stunned for a moment, Yan Zheng hurriedly led a group of people out of the mansion.But how could there be Xiao Cen outside?He had already disappeared into the street with that imperial decree.

Xiao Cen did the same thing that Chu Linqiu did last night. He held up the scroll and knelt in the Qinghe Hall to beg the emperor to take back his order, but he was told that the emperor was not in the palace, but in the residence of Master Chu, the commander of Xuanwuwei.

After hearing this, Xiao Cen's complexion kept changing, and he turned faintly blue. He was puzzled by the fact that the emperor was not in the palace during the rest of the court, but instead went to Chu Linqiu's residence.This shows what?It shows that what he guessed before is very likely to be true, that is, the whole "marriage-giving" incident is a trap set by the emperor and Chu Linqiu.

Not only does the emperor want to trap himself in Taodu, he also wants to use Chu Linqiu to contain him, monitor him, and even seek to seize the military power in Mobei!And the words "two love each other" that he asked Yan Zheng to bring to him precisely explained what Chu Linqiu must have said to the emperor alone after the palace banquet last night.