Jiang Qing

Three days later, Shili Red Makeup Shop spread all over Pingdu.

Mei Shao almost controlled the entire Pingdu, two thousand elites took over Pingdu from the garrison army, and even all the soldiers guarding the city were replaced by Meishao's people. Mei Shao came back from the dead, but the closed gate of the palace was still not opened, and Zhao Zhen didn't say anything.

The elites in Mei Shao's hands hung red lanterns all over the city overnight, and dressed up everywhere. Jiang Yan looked at the white mansion everywhere, stared at the redundant red lanterns and "囍" window grilles in the yard, wondering whether to move or not.

Mei Shao put on her wedding attire early in the morning, with Bai Bingchen's memorial tablet on hand, and a small businessman in coarse cloth kneeling in front of her.Asking something, Mei Shao's eyes kept staring at the things covered by a large pile of red cloth in the yard. Jiang Yan hesitated for a moment, but Mei Shao caught his eye.

"Hang it up." Hearing the voice from the room, Jiang Yan raised his hand to pick up the white banner on the courtyard wall, when Mei Shao's voice sounded again, "You don't need to pick it up, just hang it next to it."

Jiang Yan paused for a moment, and according to his words, hung a red lantern beside the lantern. When the breeze passed, the red and white contrasted, which almost dazzled Mei Shao's eyes.

It took him a long time to come back to his senses, the confusion in his eyes hadn't dissipated, his voice was as soft as floating in the clouds, as if he was asking about an unreachable dream.

"After the ghost marriage, will it really be written that we are together in Huangquan's book?"

A person in business is always open-mouthed, talking nonsense when he sees people, talking nonsense when he sees people, and taking care of the guests properly, but at this moment he hesitated for a moment and didn't say anything.

Not only because of the great disparity in status, for fear of losing his head if he answered a sentence badly, but also because of the sadness that enveloped the person in front of him.

This is completely different from the first time he met Mei Shao when he was released from the Yamen.

He was originally a small businessman who made joss sticks, paper money, and food. He secretly made and sold artifacts for ghost marriages because the customers wanted them. Unexpectedly, in the ghost marriage case that shocked Pingdu a few years ago, he almost became a... The scapegoat, in the end, only saved his life with a word from the adult in front of him.

The goods used for ghost marriages are completely different from the utensils used by ordinary people for marriage. He still has a batch of goods in his hand, but he has neither the courage nor the customers to sell them. , put it in the corner, and it was covered with dust all these years, until Mei Shao came to the door and carried the last batch of goods to the Baifu.

After a while, when the time came, Mei Shao didn't care about his answer and stood up.

The complicated wedding dress hangs down as he stands, the phoenix embroidered with gold thread climbs from his back to his heels, the outstretched wings of the phoenix are covering his cuffs, Mei Shao caresses the lines on his head, the eyes are full of With a little gentleness.He still remembered the temperature of Bai Bingchen's fingertips rubbing his back when he folded the Bamboo Pavilion—Bai Bingchen liked the black bird behind the gauze dress, so he would wear the auspicious suit embroidered with phoenixes to marry him and go home.

"Go get ready." Mei Shao nodded lightly to the kneeling man, and the incense and candle seller hurriedly got up and ran out.

Mei Shao bent down and held Bai Bingchen's tablet in his arms, wiped it lightly, and said softly: "Yanfang, come home with me."

As soon as the words were finished, the appropriate sound of the suona sounded, and the sound waves stirred up the white flags and lanterns in the courtyard to flutter. Mei Shao left the house with the tablet in her arms, and walked out of the White Mansion.

Outside the gate of the mansion, five hundred armored troops formed a team, and guards stood on both sides of the Xi team.The happy team is also divided into two sides, one red and one white, with red soft sedan chairs and white paper sedan chairs running side by side.Maybe it was really because the things that the incense and candle dealer took out from the bottom of the box were pressed for a long time, and the peeling red paper covered the utensils, which could not be dropped. The faded paper figurines seemed to have just crawled out of the underworld, with crooked eyes and noses. , with a bloody grin and a festive smile.

Mei Shao's face was indifferent, but when she put the tablet in her arms in the paper sedan chair, she slightly bent the corners of her mouth and patted it gently.

Most of his body was leaned into the paper sedan chair, and the wedding dress on his body was entangled with the white tassels on the sedan chair, as if he had voluntarily stepped into the gate of hell.

The hanging thin paper trapped the two of them in a narrow space, and the gloomy scent of incense filled Mei Shao's nose with a slippery smell. The heavy red mole on the corner of the eye made him look like a ghost who returned from hell, and he could only rely on this bit of incense to maintain his true nature in the world.

With slightly cool lips covering the cooler fragrant wood, through a layer of red cloth, Mei Shao kissed the man he was about to marry.

"Don't blame me for breaking the rules and kissing you before the bridal chamber." Mei Shao laughed softly, "I'm just too happy... Yanfang, I'm here to marry you, come with me."

Mei Shao stroked the tablet, as if he was touching Bai Bingchen's face. He waited for a few seconds, and seemed to hear the man say "OK" in the void, then stepped back and put down the paper curtain.

The howling north wind blew the golden hairpin on his head, Mei Shao restrained his smile, and glanced back, as if to see if Bai Bingchen's soul could keep up, he got on his horse, and amidst the din of gongs and drums, Overlooking the disgusted, angry or indifferent eyes of the people on both sides of the street, facing the flickering voices and the eyes coming from all directions, Mei Shao walked slowly and steadily, and the armored soldiers opened the way, turning all the streets in the whole city around. Repeatedly, silently proclaiming his ownership of a man, a criminal, a dead man.

The high-pitched suona sounded from far or near, resounding in every corner of Pingdu. It seemed to be weeping in the distance, but it was very lively in the near, and finally stopped at the gate of Mei Shao's mansion at dusk.

Dozens of tables of banquets were neatly arranged in the bright hall, Mei Shao sat at the head seat, the front of the hall was empty, no one dared to come to his wedding banquet.

Mei Shao seemed to have never seen an empty banquet, and said calmly, "Let's go."

The attendants shuttled through the banquet serving dishes silently. The steaming dishes were completely cold as the sun sank to the west. There were no passive chopsticks for the dishes at the entire 23 tables, only the wine jars in front of Mei Shao’s table piled up. Gradually at the table to cover up his indifferent Leng.

The pair of dragon, phoenix and red candles burned all night without breaking a bit. It was not until the sky suddenly lit up that the last spark was burned out, and the last breath of weakness was exhaled.

Mei Shao held Bai Bingchen's tablet and sat withered all night, watching the pair of red candles burn out, and there was only the last cup of wine left in his hand.

"Licheng." He said softly.

There is no need for witnesses from heaven and earth, no permission from Gao Tang, and even no need for two people to face each other. As long as the red candle they said can be lit for one night, it is a ceremony.

The sound of pushing and shoving suddenly came from outside the house, like a stone being thrown into a calm lake, disturbing the tranquility of Mei Mansion for a whole night.

Mei Shao frowned slightly, and saw that the door opened as a person slammed heavily on the door, and the dazzling light hit Mei Shao's eyelashes, but he didn't dodge or dodge, let it hurt Eye sockets are slightly warm.

"Mei Shao! Don't you have enough trouble? What time is it now? You immediately take your soldiers to clear the city of bandits!"

The white light in front of her eyes spread out, Mei Shao's pupils focused slightly, and she saw clearly the two people standing in front of her, and said indifferently, "What if Doctor Yushi and Shaoqing of Dali Temple come to have a wedding?"

"Mei Shao!" Guo Huan wanted to grab Mei Shao's wine glass, but was held back by Wen Cheng.

"Mei Xiang, the black armor that appeared in the city before has reappeared this morning. Your people took over the security of Pingdu, but did not clear it up. Now the city garrison has been transferred to the palace by His Majesty. That point of troops is not enough to resist, so please ask Prime Minister Mei to help." Wen Cheng was obviously calmer than Guo Huan, and explained the matter clearly in a few words.

"What does it have to do with me?" Mei Shao drank the last glass of wine slowly, stood up, stared at Guo Huan with sharp eyes and said, "I heard that you were the ones who impeached Yan Fang in the court hall that day, how dare you run now? Come here, are you courting death?"

Guo Huan was stunned for a moment, and then he said angrily: "If Bai Bingchen didn't beg us, you think I would be willing to get involved in these crap things? If you want my life, then come and take it! I really don't understand how all of you are like Fools usually jump into the fire by themselves, my father is like this, and Bai Bingchen is like this... If you can continue to do it from beginning to end, I can still praise you for your bravery, but now the fire is burning hot, and you are no longer moving! You If you are willing to let Bai Bingchen's previous efforts go to waste and Pingdu to be destroyed, then sit here drinking your wine and dreaming your dreams. I, the Guo family, will be on the wrong team and recognize the wrong person. It's just a waste of my time. My father's reputation and official career was in vain!"

"Guo Huan!" Wen Cheng held him down, stopped his words, and said to Mei Shao: "Your Majesty has just issued an order to call all civil and military officials into the palace. Bai Bingchen left a list for His Majesty, and where should he go?" I still have the copy, so you won’t miss it.”

Mei Shao pursed her lips and did not speak.

"First, the news of your death came from the north, and then Prime Minister Bai passed away, and there was no leader in the court. However, in just over a month, the situation in Pingdu has changed drastically. Your Majesty's use of patrol troops to defend the city is to show weakness and lure that person to show up. As a matter of fact, the situation in Pingdu changed, although the storm was chaotic, but the center under the vortex could still be discerned, His Majesty summoned his ministers into the palace today, so he knew who he was and was ready to attack." Wen Cheng said for a long time, Mei Shao didn't even move his eyelids, as if he didn't listen at all.

He took a deep breath and continued: "Originally, His Majesty summoned the garrison troops into the palace, just to end everything in the palace, and the chance of winning is only half. But they didn't expect you to be alive, so he put all his eggs in one basket to mobilize Hei Jia, As long as you can stand on His Majesty's side, His Majesty's chances of winning will be much greater. You know in your heart that those black armors are not bandits, you know that they came out of the ground in Pingdu, and you also know that they are the ones involved in the ghost marriage case. The guards of the ghost city under Qianjintai, at that time, didn’t you already see that they are well-trained soldiers?”

"I know a lot." Mei Shao chuckled, and slowly opened the robe that had been sitting all night, with a smile on the corner of her mouth, "Then how do you know that there is no one in the list that Yan Fang left? Your two names?"

"If there is, let Prime Minister Mei deal with it." Wen Cheng said in a deep voice, "It's just that now that major events are ahead, Prime Minister Mei should still put the overall situation first..."

"I said it! It has nothing to do with me!" Mei Shao's eyes suddenly burst into light, "Zhao Zhen didn't do what he promised me, so he deserves to die! Yan Fang died in the so-called overall situation in your mouth. Will you maintain the overall situation that took the life of the person I love!"

Mei Shao showed a cruel smile, "If the two adults want to save someone, it's too late to go now."

"Let's go!" Wen Cheng wanted to say something, but was dragged out by Guo Huan.

"I don't believe that without him, Mei Shao, Pingdu would not be able to pass this test!"

With that said, Guo Huan dragged Wen Cheng out angrily.

Mei Shao sneered, the mocking laughter resounded low, and then grew louder, shaking his entire chest to resonate.

He smiled, with a tear in the corner of his eye, pointing to the backs of the two people leaving outside, the accumulated sadness seemed to be ignited out of thin air, turned into a monstrous anger, and frantically said to the tablet: "Ping is not I can’t live without me, but without you, Yanfang, have you seen it? If you’re not here, Pingdu will be gone! Hahaha... The king you guard, the capital you guard, and you Watching... I..."

Mei Shao nodded to herself, the voice stuck in her throat was full of tears, and said in a hoarse voice: "It's almost gone, why don't you get up and take a look? Don't you care about these things the most in your life! Get up and have a look!"

Mei Shao pushed hard, pushing the whole table of dishes to the ground, laughing loudly amidst the roar of porcelain shattering, laughing and laughing, he collapsed back into the chair, staring blankly at the wide-open door.

"The owner..." Chu Yan stood among the broken porcelain on the ground, not knowing what to say.

Mei Shao seemed to have drunk too much, he couldn't get up from the chair after struggling a few times, he was tired from laughing, and said: "Let all the Shenyang army enter the city..."

He leaned on the corner of the table and staggered to his feet, beckoning to Chu Yan, "Bring me my sword. Command me, [-] Shenyang troops will enter the city, but when they encounter black armor, they will all be killed on the spot. The rest will follow me into the palace." .”

Taking the Qingshuang sword and pinning it on his waist, Mei Shao didn't change his hi-clothes, hugged Bai Bingchen's tablet with one hand, grabbed a wine jar to hold it in the other hand, and stumbled out.

"I'm going to treat His Majesty to a wedding wine..."

Chu Yan silently followed the erratic, crazy person walking out.

In just one stick of incense, there are endless cavalry in front of the Mei Mansion. They all wear golden masks and are fully armed. The military flag of "Shenyang" is set up every thousand people, flying in the blue-gray sky Down.

Chu Yan glanced at Mei Shao's unsteady body, and asked, "Is the owner still riding a horse?"

Mei Shao glanced at him sideways, and the smell of alcohol turned into hazy water vapor in his eyes, making him look decadent and lethargic.

A laugh escaped his throat, he raised the wine jar as if he was paying respects to the soldiers of the three armies, and said boldly: "Let's go! Sober up!"

The dull sky suppressed a layer of dark light, his messy hair fluttered on his forehead, the red clothes on his head were empty and scattered, and the heavy armor behind him was solemn and gloomy, as if an invisible line had been drawn between them. Wire.

His eyes were full of blue and gray, and only he was the last touch of color, like the tip of a wave soaked in blood, about to bring the muddy and deep tide behind him into the resplendent palace.