Placid Chang'an

Feng Yiming set a return date, and returned to Yangzhou after the Lantern Festival.

In fact, Feng Yiming came here this time, Su Cen couldn't tell whether this person came for Li Shi, or just wanted to spend a new year in Chang'an.After all, compared to being alone in Yangzhou, there are still a few people who are familiar with him here.

These festivals under various guises seek nothing more than a spiritual sustenance.

As one of Lord Feng's spiritual sustenance, Su Cen was forced to give Feng Yiming a farewell party.

A farewell party is a farewell party, and it doesn't hurt to eat and drink.But Su Cen really couldn't figure out why the farewell ceremony was brought to the temple?

"You don't understand now," Feng Yiming stood in front of the mountain gate and pointed to the three large characters on the gate, "This temple is called Caotang Temple..."

Su Cen also looked at those three words: "We are not blind."

"..." Feng Yiming opened his mouth, and finally decided that he had a lot of adults and didn't care about Su Cen, and continued: "In this temple, seeking marriage is the most effective, so it is quite favored by good men and women, and the fireworks are always strong. But count The most famous one is a well in this temple. It is said that when this well meets a predestined person, smoke will flow from the bottom of the well for no reason. It's been smooth sailing."

Su Cen smiled slightly: "Master Feng is so unconfident about himself, he has already started to seek these ghosts and gods."

Feng Yiming sneered: "It can't compare to Mr. Su's holy family."

Zheng Yang knew the grievances between the two of them, so he watched the fun with his hands, but Ning Santong didn't know why, so he helped smooth things over: "The smog in the cottage is indeed a scene in Chang'an, and everyone is here, so it's okay to go in and have a look."

Instead of looking at the monk's face and the Buddha's face, Master Su condescended to enter the temple, but it's a pity that the well didn't know how to praise him.

They didn't even look at the edge of the well, and were told by the novice monk in the temple that the ancient well had been in disrepair for the past two days and would not be open to the public for the time being.A group of people came here in good spirits and returned in disappointment. They burned a few sticks of incense in the hall, left some money for incense sticks, and then went back home.

After going down the mountain and returning to Chang'an City, every house is decorated with lanterns and festoons, just in preparation for the Shangyuan Festival at night.

The curfew in Chang'an City is strict, but only at this night, the gates of the city are wide open, and a Suzaku Avenue extends in all directions. Red silk lanterns are hung on both sides of the road.The east and west markets are not far behind, the flags of the teahouses and wine shops are spread out, and there are already crowds of people before nightfall, in order to occupy a good seat in advance and watch the lanterns from the heights, which is very interesting.

Since Su Cen and the others came, they first found a teahouse to sit in, so that they could go to the street together at night, so that there would be too many people and they would not be able to find each other.

A table of young talents, sitting by the window frequently attracts people's attention. Outsiders see only skins. Jinling was young at the time, noble, cool, elegant, steady, each with its own characteristics.Little did they know that at this table there was a champion, a second place, and a passer-by, but Ning Santong had no interest in reading, but he was well-informed. In his early years, he traveled all over the world with a master of martial arts, and saw all kinds of weird things.The conversation is full of wit and wit, and several of them are talents who are not born in the world, and they cherish each other soon after they met.

Talking about how Ning Santong would be interested in the corpse if he was not a good son and brother, Ning Santong held a cup and recalled the past: "I think back then, when I was only six years old, my family in the east of the city was wiped out by the enemy's revenge. The door, big brother has nothing to do, take me to see the scene..."

Zheng Yang said: "Then you became interested in corpses?"

Ning Santong shook his head lightly: "Then I vomited."

Everyone: "..."

Ning Santong: "When I got home, I was terrified and kept shaking. For this reason, my elder brother was beaten by my father. At that time, I was timid and didn't dare to get out of the bed at night. I peed in the bed for several months. My father saw it, this is not good, he was able to attack the poison with fire, so he found a magistrate in the county government, and he took me with him for autopsies on weekdays, so he won’t be afraid if he sees too much.”

Su Cen only said that although Ning Santong was young, his autopsy technique was quite sophisticated, better than that dizzy old foreman in Dali Temple before, not at 01:30, otherwise he would not have discovered Liu Kang's cheating.I never thought that when this talent was so young, he would already have a lot of experience with Wu Zuo, so he is really a veteran.

"Later, my master offended someone in the city of Chang'an, and was sent down to work as a servant in a small valley. I had nothing to do, so I packed my bags and went with him. The small valley was sparsely populated, but the distribution of people was extremely scattered. , where people often die, it takes a few days to come and report the crime. Master and I rushed there again. After this, the corpses were all rotten and there were all kinds of weird shapes. I remember one time we lived in At the deceased’s house, the corpse was placed in the yard, and wild wolves came to steal it in the middle of the night. Master and I snatched the corpse from under the mouths of the wolves in the middle of the night, and finally only got back half of the body, but with this half of the body, the master saw it at a glance It was found that the person died of poisoning, and the murderer was caught on the spot."

Feng Yiming's methods have been seen by all, so his master should be even more outstanding. Su Cen cherished his talents, so he asked, "Where is your master now?"

Ning Santong smiled helplessly, "Master was tricked by people in Chang'an City in the early years, and he didn't want to come back. Now he is traveling all over the world, and I don't know where he went."

Feng Yiming also said: "Many high-ranking people in the world disdain to fight in court, but now that they are free and easy, their wish may come true."

But Su Cen asked: "What kind of case did your master handle back then, why did someone plot against him?"

Ning Santong shook his head: "I was still young at the time, and the case was undertaken by Dali Temple. Master didn't let me follow. I just remembered that it was probably in Yonglong's year, which should be in Yonglong's 22nd year... Yes, it was that year, the first emperor Succession, the second year after Master and I left, the Tianshou calendar was changed."

"In the 22nd year of Yonglong, Dali Temple handled it?!" Su Cen was surprised. There were only two cases that Dali Temple handled in Yonglong's 22nd year. One was Tian Ping's case and the other was Lu Xiaoliu's case.Although the Lu Xiaoliu case happened in the 22nd year of Yonglong, it did not happen in the capital. That is to say, Ning Santong's master was the author of the Tian Ping case!

A small official case involved the tragic relegation of Dali Temple Minister Chen Dali. Now it seems that even the officials who handled the case were expelled from Beijing. What is so unusual about this case? It involved so many people in a row people?

Su Cen only wanted to let Ning Santong know when he had news about his master, and wondered if he could find some clues about the case from Ning Santong's master.

Ning Santong nodded in response, and everyone continued the previous topic and continued to chat about all kinds of weird corpses Ning Santong had seen. .

Not long after dusk and early darkness, some places lit up lights in twos and threes. Zheng Yang leaned against the window and looked into the distance. After looking at it for a while, he turned around and said, "Look who it is."

The rest of the people raised their eyes to look, and they all knew this person, it was Song Fan who was beaten in Xingqing Palace back then.

Now that the bridge of his nose has grown back, he is ostentatiously walking around the market with a beautiful woman in his arms. Now he is standing in front of a stall selling lanterns, bossing around a child.

Zheng Yang said: "No wonder Huang Mian wants to beat him. This Song Fan is really too much. The engagement with Huang Wan'er has not yet been broken, and he is so prostitute in broad daylight."

Ning Santong also said: "I think the reason why Huang Wan'er eloped is probably because she didn't want to marry him."

Su Cen's attention was not on Song Fan, he looked out the window for a while, but said, "Do you think that kid looks familiar?"

Then everyone turned their attention to the child.

Feng Yiming frowned: "It looks familiar."

Ning Santong also nodded: "I seem to have seen it somewhere."

Finally, watching Song Fan snatch the lantern from the child with one hand and walk away, Zheng Yang suddenly slapped the table: "Little emperor!"

It dawned on everyone that this is not the little emperor who sits in the court every day!They took off their dragon robes and changed into ordinary clothes, but they almost didn't recognize them.

Looking at the back of Song Fan swaggering away, everyone mourned silently: Song Fan, it's over.

It happened that the child looked up and was facing Zheng Yang and the others.Now that they recognized each other, it was inconvenient for Zheng Yang and the others to stand on the sidelines and come down to salute the little emperor one after another.

The little emperor waved his small hand, and said loudly: "I am leaving the palace in a modest suit, so you don't need to be too polite."

Here Zheng Yang is the most familiar with the little emperor, he knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, why did you come out?"

"The queen mother is going to preside over the sacrifice to the silkworm god. The palace is full of the songs and dances of previous years. It was very boring, so I ran out secretly." The little emperor raised his hand at Zheng Yang, "Brother Yang, can you take me to play? Yanfu I don’t understand anything, I don’t want to follow him anymore.”

The eunuch named Yan Fu was sweating on his forehead: "The slave entered the palace since childhood, and really doesn't understand the customs outside."

When Zheng Yang thought about it, he was really worried about leaving him here, so he picked him up, "I can take you to play, but you have to go back when the time comes, otherwise you will be blamed by the queen mother, and we will all suffer."

The little emperor responded with a full mouth, and waited to be at the same level as everyone and smiled at Su Cen, "Su Cen, you are here too," and glanced at the other two, "Why didn't you see Cui Hao?"

The little emperor selfishly thought that since there were two of the three in the head armor, the third one should also be there.

Zheng Yang smiled helplessly, "Cui Hao is not here, this is the grandson of Taifu Ning's family, His Majesty just call him Ning San, that..."

Feng Yiming reported to his family: "Feng Yiming, the Jianghuai Salt and Iron Transfer Envoy, has met His Majesty."

The little emperor nodded and continued to ask, "Where is Cui Hao?"

It's hard to say that they are not familiar with Cui Hao, so Su Cen changed the topic: "Your Majesty, what happened just now?"

"Ah, I just got angry when I said it," the little emperor finally put down Cui Hao for the time being, "I was the one who fell in love with that lantern first, but that person said that his beauties were also in his fancy, and insisted that I give it to him. If I don't let him grab it, it really pissed me off!"

Zheng Yang thought of teasing: "I know who that person is, do you want me to tell you, you want revenge."

The little emperor frowned and thought for a while, and finally waved his hands and said: "Forget it, he just robbed me of a lantern, and I have no charges against him. It's useless to know."

Su Cen smiled lightly. Before that, he could only see the little emperor in the court hall, with a strict eye, bound by various rules, unable to decide everything.Now it seems that he is a good emperor who does not show favoritism and understands the general situation.