A traitor

When the doctor arrived, Mei Liusheng and Cai Jun helped Su Qinglang into the inner courtyard.

After diagnosis and treatment, Master Su's injury was serious, but due to Mei Liusheng's previous good medicine, he was breathless, so his life was narrowly saved.

After sending the doctor away, Cai Jun turned back and saw Su Qinglang leaning on the bed, thinking about something listlessly.

He walked over and said: "The servants have already gone to get the medicine, I asked them to prepare it and bring it, Master Su will wait a little longer."

Su Qinglang raised her eyes to look at him, and smiled: "Thank you, Mr. Cai."

Cai Jun moved a bench, sat beside Su Qinglang's bed, and asked lately, "Is this the case with General Cheng?"

Su Qinglang looked at him, with a smile in his eyes: "If not so, how does Master Cai plan to deal with this matter?"

Cai Jun was at a loss for words for a moment, and he heard him say again: "Write a memorial and present the truth to the emperor intact, or should I follow the court's law and ask Cheng Ying and others for their crimes? At that time, how do you want the emperor to interrogate and how to judge?" Sentence?

The rebel army is rampant, only Cheng Qi leads the army in Qinzhou to fight, but at this time, the emperor ordered his daughter to be arrested, what do you want Cheng Qi to do, what will the generals and people in Qinzhou think? "

Seeing that Cai Jun didn't answer, he covered his chest and coughed again: "It's nothing if you and I suffer some grievances here. The key is to take the overall situation into consideration. Now that it's a time of war, the most important thing is to put down the rebellion as soon as possible and return the people's lives An Ning, if you lose your army's prestige and morale because of yesterday's incident, it is obviously the most worthless thing."

"I know……"

Cai Jun lowered his head and said silently: "If it's a trivial matter, I won't pursue it anymore and let it pass. But...how did their actions yesterday differ from those of the rebels? They are clearly deceiving the emperor. You are disobedient, disobedient, do you want me to pretend that I didn’t see it and ignore it?”

He frowned, with his hands on his knees, obviously worried: "The ancients quenched their thirst with poison. Although they solved the immediate crisis, they left endless disasters behind. In order to deal with the rebels, do we have to tolerate them being so presumptuous?"

Su Qinglang sighed softly: "I know what you mean, and I understand your thoughts, but the world is like this, sometimes for the sake of the overall situation, you always have to compromise."

"A quick knife, although it can cut through the mess, can also make the situation worse. If you want to completely solve the problem, you still have to be patient, peel off the cocoon, and break through one by one."

Seeing Cai Jun's gloomy expression, he said with relief: "You work in the Ministry of Punishments to be fair and upright, and every case must be worthy of the court's laws. However, you still have to combine the situation and know how to adapt. No matter what, it is also determined for people, if it is not beneficial to people, why do you have to force it?"

Cai Jun hummed, and heard him say again: "I know Mr. Cai is passionate and loyal. I have wronged you for today's matter."

"No no..." Cai Jun hurriedly waved his hands and said, "After listening to Mr. Su's words, I am suddenly enlightened. I still have to thank Mr. Su."

After a pause, he said with some consideration: "Then let's put this matter on hold for the time being. Let's talk about everything after the rebellion is quelled."

Su Qinglang couldn't help but smile when he heard the words, if he wanted to pursue the matter, wouldn't it be as simple as waiting until the rebellion was put down?

With the shrewdness of the emperor, how could he not know about the affairs in Qinzhou?There has been no movement for a long time, but it is just turning a blind eye.

He Yunqi and Qin Jian held high positions in the court. Although the emperor was not sure, whether they had ambitions for their own throne.

But he wouldn't be so stupid as to let them go. Now that Chang'an is guarded by Prince Changshan and his son, Qin Jian doesn't dare to go too far. However, outside the city, except for Cheng Qi, who else can counter He Yunqi?

The so-called check and balance technique is like this. Once in the future, He Yunzhen and Qin Jian echoed both internally and externally, raising troops to revolt, and He Yunzhen led the troops back from the border.

If he wanted to break through Chang'an, he would have to go through Qinzhou. Although Cheng Qi's troops were no match for He Yunqi, it would be no problem to hold him for a month.

In this way, they who are in Chang'an have a little more chance of winning.

So what he did today was firstly to give Cheng Qi a step up so that he could prepare for the chaos, and secondly to sell him a favor, hoping that in the future he would be able to restrain himself cautiously and do his best for the court.

Su Qinglang thought about it, and suddenly asked, "Where did Brother Mei go?"

Cai Jun was stunned for a moment, then reacted and replied: "After sending the doctor away, he went with General Cheng. There must be something important to discuss."

Su Qinglang was even more puzzled: "You and I, even though I am seriously injured and unable to move, but with you here, if Cheng Qi has something to do, why go to Brother Mei?"

Cai Jun also recalled that, logically speaking, although Su Qinglang was the chief officer during the trip to Qinzhou, he and Su Qinglang were at the same level after all, and Master Su is injured now, so all matters should be decided by him, Cheng Qi If there is anything, he should be looking for him, not Mei Liusheng who is a junior.

But he was not as suspicious as Su Qinglang, and he didn't want to doubt Mei Liusheng just because of this, he just said: "Maybe... It's because I have a grudge against what happened yesterday, so I don't want to talk about it."

Su Qinglang hummed, but in her heart, there was another calculation.

The two were talking here, and Mei Liusheng on the other side followed Cheng Qi, one in front and one behind, into the study of the general's mansion.

As soon as he entered the room, Cheng Qi shunned the crowd, closed the door, walked up to Mei Liusheng, presented the dagger in his hand, and said, "My minister sees Your Highness."

Before the ceremony was completed, Mei Liusheng hurriedly stopped him. He helped Cheng Qi up and said, "Old General Cheng is the pillar of the country. I am already grateful in my heart, why does the general need to be so polite? What's more..."

He smiled wryly: "This king is a person who deserved to die ten years ago. If he survived today, he has committed a serious crime of deceiving the king. How can he afford such a great gift?"

Cheng Qi continued: "The second prince was kind to the old minister back then, and His Highness is an orthodox royal family. The second prince's blood, the old minister's salute, should be based on emotion and reason."

Mei Liusheng's eyes fell on the dagger in his hand, and after a long time, he reached out and took it back, and said with half emotion, "Unexpectedly, General Cheng still remembered what happened back then."

Back then, when the first emperor was hunting on the mountain, he went with his father and king. Because of mischievous running, he lost his way on the mountain, and unfortunately met a fierce tiger in the forest.

Fortunately, his father came on horseback and saved his life under the claws of the tiger, but the strength of the two sides was very different.

Even though his father fought desperately, he gradually lost the wind. At the critical moment, he pulled out the dagger from his father's waist and stabbed the tiger in the eye. In the end, the tiger was killed, but his father was seriously injured to protect him.

He still remembered that although his father was injured at that time, he was very happy in his heart and praised him for being brave despite his young age. He gave him the dagger that he carried with him in public. There was a kind of smile that was not majestic but gentle in front of him.

In that long memory, after learning that the father was seriously injured, the mother and concubine came here for an unprecedented time. She stood outside the camp, watching their father and son for a long time without saying a word, until he was praised by the father and subconsciously went to Looking for the eyes of the mother and concubine, hoping to get the same appreciation from her as the father.

At such an inexperienced age, he thought that he had saved his father, that he had done such a great thing, and that being praised by his father was the greatest affirmation he had received, and he would be able to see his mother and concubine showing off to him. smile.

At least, like a mother, I can hold him in my arms, comfort his bravery, and comfort his fear.

However, no, she just walked up to him and slapped him hard across the face.

Even though her son had just experienced such a dangerous thing, there was still no trace of worry in his calm eyes.

His mother and concubine were such people. Although the scene at that time was unacceptable and abrupt, when he thought about it now, he felt it was expected.

People say that he loves the house and the black, and he firmly believes that his mother and concubine have always loved his father and king deeply.However, he didn't give him any love for his father.

She just regards him as a dagger that can stab into the heart of her father. If she hits him, her father will feel sorry for him. If she treats him harshly, her father will be angry. It's good to ignore her.

This incident hurt him deeply, so he remembered it very clearly. Every time he thought about it, his chest would ache involuntarily.

At first, at that young but sensible age, he thought that his mother and concubine beat him because she cared about him, and was angry with him for running around, and almost lost his life.

Later he realized that her anger at that time was not from a mother, but from a wife who hated him for putting his father in danger and hurting his father.

Although the father's injury was kept a secret, he did not want to alarm more people, especially the late emperor who was in the camp not far away.

However, because his mother and concubine beat him, the two quarreled again, and the movement quickly alarmed the late emperor, who was concerned about the almost death of their father and son because of his face.

So he poured all his anger on the guards, and accused the soldiers who were in charge of protecting them at that time on the grounds that the guards were unfavorable. Cheng Qi was one of them.

In the end, it was his father who came forward and asked the late emperor to take back his life. There was a fuss, and it turned out that Cheng Qi and others owed his father the favor.

The past is over, and it is not worth remembering by many people. Even when the palace fell and the father was in trouble, people like Cheng Qi and others never stood up to defend them.

Later, with the destruction of the palace, the dagger was also missing from the house. He searched for it secretly for many years, but there was no whereabouts.

Later, when he returned to Chang'an, Su Qinglang asked him that day, what interesting things in his past life were worth recalling.

He considered it for a long time, and finally said the matter with half truth and half lie.

But how did Su Qinglang know it?

The dagger that he gave as an ordinary gift has such a relationship with him, pain and joy, sorrow and glory.