Ten thousand people think gloom is reborn

I froze for a moment, then knelt on the ground.

The voice of the emperor came from above my head, "What are you kneeling for? Get up, the humidity is heavy now, your body has always been weak, don't kneel down."

I didn't stand up, raised my head and asked, "Father... how did Father know?"

"Lin Chongtan naturally wouldn't dare to say such a thing. If he dared to say it, I would have his head cut off on the spot. It wasn't Niu Xi, I gave him to you. He is your slave. For slaves, the word loyalty is the most important. It has been raining non-stop during these days, and I was afraid that the books in the Library Pavilion would get moldy, so I asked the inner eunuch to sort out all the books, and the inner eunuch found a seal in the Xiaoxie Pavilion."

The emperor opened the drawer, and what he took out was the seal of Wanwupu.

"I found out that this seal was unique, so I gave it to the Ministry of Industry." He said, and opened the seal according to the way Lin Chongtan taught me, "I will ask people to find out where this seal came from, and finally found a The shop called Wanwu Shop, I had someone secretly seal the shop, thoroughly searched the contents, and finally found a bunch of scrolls in a box, and the scrolls were all about you."

I asked people to check the Cangshu Pavilion again. After the incident happened in the Cangshu Pavilion, I handed over the matter to the crown prince.All the people in Zangshu Pavilion were changed, but there was a little eunuch who would record the people who entered and exited Zangshu Pavilion every time. When something happened that day, the booklet only recorded that you entered Zangshu Pavilion, but did not record that you left Zangshu Pavilion. She arrived later than the prince. "

I don't know what to say, there are no secrets in the palace walls, ever since I decided to take revenge on Lin Chongtan, I have thought about the day when something will come out.

The emperor was silent for a while, then Fang said: "Lin Chongtan died of the epidemic, it would be better for him, if he is still alive. I will definitely divide his body into five horses, so as to vent my hatred."

The emperor looked at me again, "Okay, get up, don't kneel. The emperor told you this, not to blame you. I have already filled all the things in the Wanwu shop into the treasury. Don't go back to Tianji Palace during this time. When autumn comes, set off to seal the land and take away all the things from the Wanwu shop. Your mother and concubine will leave Beijing with you. There is no precedent for concubines and concubines in the harem going to seal the land with their sons. a while."

I didn't expect that the emperor had already decided to let me go to the fief, and even Concubine Zhuang would leave with me.Before I had time to think about it, the emperor frowned and put his hands on his waist, as if the waist injury was getting worse and the pain was unbearable, I had no choice but to call the imperial physician first.

As soon as the imperial doctor came, the queen and the concubines of the harem came, and even the princes who lived outside the palace and had been canonized as princes also rushed to the palace. The closest place to the side of the couch, the people next to it can only stand a little far away.

Not long after, the queen kicked us all out on the grounds that the emperor wanted to be quiet.

Concubine Zhuang Gui also came, she walked out of the hall with me, and when I got back to Huayang Palace, she asked me what the emperor had said to me earlier and why he suddenly called me back to the palace.After learning that the emperor intends to grant me a fief and let her leave with me, Concubine Zhuang's eyes instantly turned red.

I thought for a while and walked out from the inner hall. Sure enough, not long after I went out, Concubine Zhuang's suppressed crying came from the hall.

I didn't go far, so I stayed in the outer hall.

Outside the hall, there was continuous rain, falling from under the eaves onto the stone bricks of the promenade.With the sound of the rain, I wrote a letter to the national teacher, saying that I will not return to Tianji Palace for the time being.

When I was writing the letter, someone from the East Palace came to pass on the words of the prince.

The prince invited me to have dinner in the East Palace tomorrow.

"I'm a little tired. You go back to the prince. I'll go there when I get better in a few days." When I said this, the palace servant who came to deliver the message was visibly trembling.Seeing his strange expression, I couldn't help asking, "What's the matter? Are you feeling unwell?"

"No, no, the slave will go back and answer." The palace man saluted me, but left with a pale face.

The emperor's back injury has been bad for a long time, and the faces of the people in the palace are like the sky, full of sorrow and mist, and the envoys of the Northern Kingdom entered Beijing under such conditions.

I didn't attend the banquet for the envoys of the Northern Kingdom, and excused it with a reason of being unwell. Over the past few years, I have become more and more disliked attending banquets and staying in crowded places.

Today, when I went to the Imperial Palace, I accidentally ran into the envoy of the Northern Kingdom.Most of the people sent by Beiguo this year are strangers, and there is only one Gongyanglu that I have seen before.

"His Royal Highness the Ninth Prince." Gong Yanglu recognized me, and saluted me from afar. When he saluted, everyone behind him saluted.

I nodded slightly, because the place where they stood was the only way I had to pass, and I needed to pass by them.When passing by, I smelled a familiar smell in the strong fragrance of the envoy from the North Kingdom.

It's a medicinal scent.

People in the Northland are nomads, and they have few opportunities to bathe. In addition to their heavy body hair, they habitually use a lot of spices on their bodies.

Although I only smelled the scent of the medicine for a moment, I still stopped and looked back at the group of people next to me.

Gong Yanglu noticed my gaze, and asked me with a smile, "Does His Royal Highness Ninth Prince have any instructions?"

I glanced around among the group of envoys from the Northern Kingdom, and finally landed on a person.That person was standing a little behind Gongyanglu. Although his clothes were similar to those of other envoys from the Northern Kingdom, the patterns on the cuffs were more delicate and cumbersome. The most important thing was that he was wearing a mask and gloves on his hands. .

"Who is he?" I asked Gong Yanglu.

Gongyanglu followed my gaze and said with a smile: "His name is Shaobu, he is a warrior from our northern kingdom, because of the unacceptable water and soil, he has a red rash on his body, he is afraid of scaring the nobles, so he wears a mask and gloves. "After he finished speaking, he said something to the man in the northern language.

The young man named Shaobu by Gong Yanglu heard the words and performed a northern etiquette to me, speaking the northern dialect.

His voice was not like Lin Zhongtan's.

It must be because I thought too much, and mistakenly smelled the scent of spices on the envoys of the Northern Kingdom as the scent of medicine.

Furthermore, Lin Chongtan has been dead for two years.

I didn't say anything more, and after letting Schaub excuse me, I turned around and left.For some reason, I felt that there was a gaze on my back, so scorching that I couldn't ignore it, but when I turned around, I only saw the group of envoys from the Northern Kingdom walking forward with their backs to me.

That year Chatai kidnapped me, and I learned afterwards that Beiguo paid a heavy price for it, ceding three cities in a row and doubling the tribute every year.

This year, due to the rain, the previous horseback riding and archery competitions were canceled, but Wubi was cancelled, but Wenbi was not.It turned out that the northerners lost in the text competition. They lost in this aspect, so they tried their best to find their place in the martial arts competition. But this year there is no martial arts competition, only the text competition. I don't need to think about it to know that the northerners will lose.

But the news that reached my ears surprised me a bit.

The Northerners didn't lose, they drew with us.

I didn't watch the live game, Niu Xi told me.He told me that there is a young man named Shaobu among the people from the Northland who is very powerful. He matched almost all the pairs and poems we published here, but Shaobu used the Northland dialect. After a layer of translation, the translation It took a lot of time before it was a tie.

It was that Schaub again.

I recalled Schaub's appearance, and I noticed him that day, not only his dress, but also his figure, which resembled Lin Chongtan very much.

I shook my head.

Impossible, Lin Chongtan died a long time ago, even if he had not died, he would not have dared to appear in the capital so openly, and turned himself into an envoy of the Northern Kingdom.

The national teacher wrote back to me, asking me to live in the palace well, without worrying about Tianji Palace, as long as I hand in my homework regularly.There was also a feather of Caiweng in the letter. I knew it missed me, so I put the feather in the letter, so I specially set aside a day to go out of the palace to buy things for Caiweng that it usually likes to eat and play with. , Let Song Nan send it to Tianji Palace at that time.

In the evening when I was shopping, I was a little hungry, so I went to the restaurant for dinner. Unexpectedly, I ran into that young man named Shaobu again in the restaurant.

He was still dressed in that weird way, and came down from the second floor of the restaurant with a few people from the Northland.When they saw me, they wanted to salute me, so I stopped them first, "This is outside, so you don't need to be polite, are you eating here?"

Among those northerners, only one can speak Beichao dialect, and he doesn't speak it very well. He spoke a lot, but I only understood a few sentences.

He said that they often eat here, and the food here is in line with their appetite. He also said that they will go to the brothel for entertainment later, and asked me if I want to go together.

"No, you go. By the way, do you have enough money? You can't use your money here."

As soon as I finished speaking, the northerner who answered my words said: "Dog, enough, go and lead (money) Zhuanghuan (change)."

I let the envoy of the Northern Kingdom go first, and when Shaub passed by, I paid special attention to him.He didn't react abnormally when he passed by me, but I smelled the scent of medicine again, although the smell was very weak.

I paused, and when I got into the box on the second floor, I said to Song Nan, "Go check that Schaub and see what his face looks like under the mask."

Song Nan nodded and left. Not long after he left, the box door rang, and it wasn't the waiter who knocked, it was Nie Wenle.

I haven't seen Nie Wenle for a long time. It is said that he has had a bad life in the past three years. Yue Feiguang has people guarding him outside the Nie Mansion all the year round. As long as Nie Wenle comes out, Yue Feiguang will arrive soon and beat Nie Wenle up. .

The emperor scolded and punished him, but it didn't help. Yue Feiguang recovered from his injury and continued to beat Nie Wenle, forcing Nie Wenle to be unable to go out.

As expected, Nie Wenle was not doing well as rumored. He lost a lot of weight. He hadn't seen me for a long time, so he stood there for a while, staring at me blankly, and then walked up to me, "Nine Prince, can I have a conversation with you alone? It's very important."

I heard the words and gave the people behind me a look, and they retreated knowingly.When the box door was closed, Nie Wenle almost lost his composure and reached out to my hand, but when he was about to touch it, he stopped again.

I withdrew my hand from the table, pretending not to see the disappointment in his eyes, "What's the important thing you're talking about?"

"For the past three years, Yue Feiguang has been staring at me and following me. Once, he was almost followed to the house in Guan Duan Xinting in the suburbs, so I didn't dare to send anyone there again. It was hard for me to leave today. Mansion, let me tell you a few words, I have to leave, or Yue Feiguang will come. Duan Xinting has not been there for almost half a year, and the money I gave to the person who took care of him has probably been used up. I don’t know who he is now. It's life or death."

It was Duan Xinting's matter. Since I handed Duan Xinting over to Nie Wenle, I haven't asked about it for the past three years, as long as he remains locked there.

"I see, I'll go there tomorrow." I originally wanted someone else to go there, but thinking about Duan Xinting's identity, I decided to go by myself.

After I finished speaking, Nie Wenle did not leave, but looked at me eagerly.I remembered that Yue Feiguang said that he had three teeth knocked out, and I also became curious. I saw him talking just now, and I didn't seem to see any missing teeth.

"I heard you lost three teeth?"

As soon as I finished speaking, Nie Wenle's face turned red and blue, which was very ugly. Finally, under my gaze, he faltered and said, "The tooth inside fell out." Then he hurriedly added, "It's okay. , eating and talking are not in the way."

I oh.

He was still about to say something, but a voice suddenly came from outside, "Young Master, Young Master, come out quickly, His Excellency is here."

When Nie Wenle heard this, he turned his head and left, but when he was halfway there, he ran back and said to me with a blushing face, "Give this to me, I... I didn't bring a handkerchief when I went out, so it's better to cover my face when I go out later." .”

He was talking about the handkerchief I just used to wipe my hands, and I just threw it on the table.

But isn't it more eye-catching to cover your face with a handkerchief?

I didn't speak, but the people outside urged me again, "Master, hurry up!"

Nie Wenle didn't wait for my reply, snatched the silk handkerchief from my table and ran away.Not long after he ran, there was a commotion outside.My private soldier later told me that Nie Wenle failed to escape and was blocked by Yue Feiguang at the restaurant entrance.

Yue Feiguang roared, "He's dead, you still have the face to come out to eat?!" He beat Nie Wenle up in front of everyone.