Jiang Qing

The jade touched the porcelain, making a crisp sound, causing Zhao Yuansheng to glance at the person opposite, and the tea in his hand almost spilled.

"Bai Xiang is a long-term lover. This king remembers that this jade ring refers to Bai Xiang for many years, but he still hasn't gotten tired of it?"

The scent of aloes on the table was leaking out, staining Bai Bingchen's robe. He frowned and sniffed the cup, and praised: "Good tea. It's just not the Dahongpao that the prince likes to drink, but the prince is a tea." Someone who can change easily."

The tea soup in the cup is light yellow and clear, the tea leaves are distinct, and the cup is full of green. It is obviously the cloud and mist of Lushan Mountain that Li An is used to drinking.

Bai Bingchen's words meant something, Zhao Yuansheng also saw what he said, and felt a little unhappy, "Bai Xiang came to look for this king as soon as he left the palace, he couldn't be just to ask for a cup of tea, right?"

Bai Bingchen didn't even touch the teacup in his hand just now, and said bluntly, "Is King Xie En's jade document still in the hands of the prince?"

Hearing this, Zhao Yuansheng raised his eyebrows and chuckled lightly: "Why, Prime Minister Bai wants to cross the river and tear down the bridge?"

"After all, he is from the Jiang Kingdom. It's fine for the prince to pamper him. Don't forget to leave a piece of rope in your hand that can pull him. Don't let anyone run away." Bai Bingchen rubbed the jade wrench in his hand, not salty. He glanced at Zhao Yuansheng indifferently.

"He is from my Prince Cheng's residence. As long as there is no one who is as smooth-talking as Bai Xiang, Zang Yu will not go to the bitter cold place for several years."

At this point, Zhao Yuansheng's eyes narrowed slightly, showing a hint of warning.

Bai Bingchen knew what he was referring to when he used Li An to help Mei Shao go south.

At that time, the whole palace was preparing for the funeral of the old prince. Li An took advantage of Zhao Yuansheng's busy time and ran out to catch up with Bai Bingchen, and the two reached a deal.

Bai Bingchen helped him escape from Pingdu, and protected him from being restrained by the late emperor when he was in the cold city. Correspondingly, when Li An was drunk, he pretended to provoke the late emperor, and asked the late emperor to give Mei Shao to him, and then took him southward with him.

This was originally a good deal for both parties, but Bai Bingchen was too patient. He waited for Li An to come to his door, waited for him to open his mouth, and mixed the matter of saving Mei Shao into one of the links, so that Li An did not let it go. Seeing his real purpose, he also deceived Li An's jade certificate into his own hands, as a means of trading.

During the banquet, Zhao Yuansheng waited for the banquet to stop Li An, coaxed him well, and brought him back to the palace. Who knew that the wine was only half full, and Li An looked like he was drunk, and he spoke rudely in front of His Majesty. Ask Mei Shao to enter the house.

In a rage, the first emperor ordered Li An to be demoted to Hancheng, and he was not allowed to return to the capital without an edict.

At the banquet, there were many eyes and ears, and the late emperor had already issued an order. Zhao Yuansheng only came in time to bribe the maid who took Li An to change clothes, and asked her to secretly stuff the waist card of Prince Cheng's mansion into Li An's close purse.

It was almost as if they had been negotiated, and without any hesitation, Bai Bingchen asked Fang Min to open the city gate that night, and sent the two of them out of the city overnight. By the time Zhao Yuansheng finished dealing with the palace affairs and rushed out of the city, the carriage had long since disappeared from sight. middle.

"Is it my words to instigate, or is it that the king of Xie En has a heart to avoid the world? You should know better than anyone else, my lord." Bai Bingchen lowered his eyes and smiled slightly: "I just came to remind the lord, a few years are enough to change people's minds, and the body will change forever." For the royal family of the Li Kingdom, it is better for the prince to keep an eye on it all the time."

"As for the jade certificate, it has long belonged to the prince. It is not a loss for the prince to support His Majesty in exchange for a jade certificate." Bai Bingchen loosened his fingers, got up and saluted, "I will take my leave."

It was only after Bai Bingchen walked out that Zhao Yuansheng let go of the hand he had been holding on to the teacup for a long time. When he let go, he felt a slight soreness spreading from the tiger's mouth, and several fingers were numb.

He laughed self-deprecatingly, the firm posture in front of Bai Bingchen just now disappeared, his whole body relaxed slightly, and let his numb hands hang down on the side of the table.

The sky gradually darkened, and the skylight was closed, and even the road outside became blurred.

Zhao Yuansheng didn't know how long he had been sitting in a coma, and suddenly he called out to the servant, and the servant hurried in, and before he could speak, he hurriedly replied: "My lord, King Xie En hasn't come back yet!"

After a moment of silence, Zhao Yuansheng whispered, "I didn't ask him..."

The young man vaguely heard half a sentence, but he didn't dare to have the courage to ask what his lord said again, but he secretly wondered: Normally at this time, as long as King Xie En didn't come back, the lord would always ask this question.

"Forget it." Zhao Yuansheng sighed inaudibly, as if the half of the words just now were talking to himself.

"Go and light up all the lamps in the mansion, more."

The boy went as he said, and the house was empty again.

Zhao Yuansheng began to feel uneasy. In fact, this uneasiness slowly seeped out of his heart when he was talking to Bai Bingchen just now, but he kept suppressing it all the time, but now it entangled him like a thread and gradually covered his whole body.

Bai Bingchen was right. Li An was determined to leave back then, but if he could think of himself, Li An would just run over to make a deal with Bai Bingchen, whom he had never met before, and put his own jade certificate into it.

Zhao Yuansheng knew very well what the jade certificate meant to Li An. It was a proof of his Li's blood, and it was the only homeland he held in his exile.

But it was such a precious thing that he dared to give it away, but he never came to him once.

Now that he got his wish and got the jade document, will he never come back?

Zhao Yuansheng felt that he was betting, betting on a false and absurd thing.

He wanted to know, all the closeness of Li An in the mansion during this period of time was really for the sake of the Jade Document, how much of it was thinking about him?

With this thought in mind, Zhao Yuansheng took out the jade ultimatum, and handed over the power of adjudicating himself to him.

The evening was sinking, and the lights outside were scattered, but they didn't shine into the room.

The tiredness mixed with the night almost engulfed Zhao Yuansheng in the silence. He was nailed to that chair like a petrified statue.

And there was not even a sound of footsteps outside.

I don't know how long it has passed, and in a trance, it seems that a person walked in.

He sighed softly: "Brother Yi?"

Zhao Yuansheng almost thought he was hallucinating in the night, so he didn't dare to move.

"Brother Yoshi... fell asleep?" He hesitated and took two steps forward lightly, and said with a light smile, "Even though it's the end of summer, you can't sit here to blow the wind at night... ..."

Before he finished speaking, Zhao Yuansheng hugged him by the waist.

In the darkness, Li An's eyes showed a bit of obscurity, and then he raised a small smile and coaxed softly: "Brother Yi is waiting for me to come back?"

Zhao Yuansheng didn't speak, but hugged his waist tightly, hiding the tears that no one saw in his waist.

Li An thought that he was going to ask him where he was, who he was with, and what he did, and he knew the answer by heart, and was waiting for Zhao Yuansheng to ask, so that he could be coaxed into submission.

But after a long silence, only a hoarse voice came from his waist, calling him: "Zang Yu..."

Just two words lightly, but like a sigh, it fell on Li An's heart, and the starting point was a little sour. For a moment, he couldn't tell whether it was true or false, and his hands had already gently wrapped Zhao Yuansheng's back, lightly patted.

For some reason, he felt Zhao Yuanshenghua's deep loneliness in this sigh.

Li An responded, "Chu Wei, I'm here."

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After Li An went back, Mei Shao sat alone in Lanwei Pavilion for a while.

From the window on the second floor, he watched the afterglow receding, the vendors returning home, and the dusk getting darker. It wasn't until the night market lit up with bits and pieces of light that Mei Shao realized that he had been sitting here in a daze for a long time.

During this period of time, he thought a lot, but he didn't seem to think about anything.

Because those fragments passed through his mind without leaving any actual traces.

When he knew the truth, he had imagined what method Bai Bingchen should use to protect his own life and send him to the Southland amidst the tragic punishment and the late emperor's indifference.

How did he persuade the first emperor and Wei Tao, how did he plot against Li An, and how did he help Zhao Zhen ascend to the throne step by step? At that time, he cast his cold and indifferent eyes on his face, what was he thinking? Woolen cloth?

Mei Shao kept imagining these pictures he had never seen before, comparing them with the appearance of Bai Bingchen in his memory one by one, imagining his changes in the past six years, as if accompanying him through this place in his mind. An absent road.

Thinking all the way like this, before she knew it, Mei Shao had already walked to the wall of the White Mansion.

There was no one around, so after hesitating for a while, Mei Shao leaped over the wall and touched Bai Bingchen's residence lightly.

There is still light in the window paper of the study.

During the days when we went to Cangzhou, there were already a lot of officials' letters in the mansion, including the recent affairs that Jiang Yan sorted out, until the lamp was turned on, Bai Bingchen couldn't read it.

He glanced at the cold medicine on the table, turned the page in his hand, tapped the table twice, and signaled Jiang Yan to take it away.

A hand passed under Bai Bingchen's eyelids, touched the wall of the bowl, and tested the temperature, but there was no next move.

Arms block the light and cast shadows on the paper.

Bai Bingchen raised his head impatiently, but touched a familiar face. He was in a daze for a while, and after a while, he asked, "Why are you here?"

"Don't be afraid, I sneaked in over the wall, no one knows." Mei Shao thought he was worried that he would be seen by others when he entered the White House, so he explained aloud.

"Have you made it clear to His Majesty?" Mei Shao asked.

For a moment, he didn't know whether he was referring to clarifying their current relationship with His Majesty, or asking about the follow-up of letting him go to the army stationed in the city. matter, His Majesty has also agreed to the matter of the leader of the garrison army, and you will be able to take office after a while."

Afraid that he would encounter any trouble when he was not around, Bai Bingchen added a few words uneasy, "You try to build a good relationship with Zhang Xiang in Ping. I transferred his two ministers. During this time, he should be more careful. Rely on you more. If he finds any flaws, if you can't solve it, you can go to Cao Shangshu, he is my man, and His Majesty will protect you."

After listening to Bai Bingchen's rambling words, Mei Shao was silent for a moment and asked, "Where are you going?"

Bai Bingchen is used to being alone, and always doing things, at most, he will follow Zhao Zhen's way, and he will not take the initiative to tell others. In addition, he just returned to Pingdu today, and came back to deal with political affairs after entering the palace, busy in a mess After a while, he really forgot to tell Mei Shao that he was going out.

Seeing his gloomy expression, Bai Bingchen blocked him with his words before he could speak.

"Are you going to Yanzhou?"

From the carriage back to the capital, after hearing from Bai Bingchen that Anxiang Pavilion paid attention to the movement of Li Guo's military power, Mei Shao thought that the old department of the Mei family was still in the hands of Beihou of Yanzhou Town.

Originally, he wanted to take advantage of Zheng Yuan's troubles when he was stationed in the city army barracks, and took advantage of his energy as the minister of the Ministry of Industry to let Zhang Jiudai take advantage of the opportunity to hand over the matter of Yanzhou's border cross trade this year to himself.

Zhang Jiudai knew that he and Bai Bingchen were not on good terms, and he hoped to know some of Bai Bingchen's privacy from him. He would never give up on him easily. In order to balance the discord between him and the Zheng family, Zhang Jiudai would definitely separate them during this time, and Zheng The family has followed him for a long time, and there is absolutely no reason to let him go out.

After much deliberation, Mei Shao thought that this step was safe.

Unexpectedly, Bai Bingchen moved so fast, he had already asked His Majesty for an errand to Yanzhou.

Originally, in Mei Shao and Li An's plan, Mei Shao only needed to use the pretext of going to Yanzhou to let Li An's people in Jiang Guo do something on the territory of Zhenbeihou. An sent to Yanzhou.

At this point their deal is completely over, how Li An returns to Jiang Country, and how Mei Shao persuades the old department to reorganize the banner depends on their respective abilities.

But after glimpsing a corner of the truth, Mei Shao intuitively felt that Anxiang Pavilion was too familiar with the control of Li country's military. If Anxiang Pavilion secretly stirs up a war, I'm afraid relying on his little strength from the old department can save the entire country. Don't worry.

And he was still thinking about the female killer next to "Young Master", the white medicinal powder she used to confuse the enemy when killing people, Chu Yan saw that it was a medicinal material unique to Liang country, and there was no medicinal material in the mutual market between Li country and Liang country.

Mei Shao always felt that underground, the business done in that ghost market might not only be in the territory of Li country, but might have spread to the dignitaries of Liang country.

If this is the case, once the Anxiang Pavilion provokes a war, it may cause the Liang country to oppress it from the outside. Under the internal and external troubles, the current Li country's military strength cannot compete at all.

He needs Jiang Guo's help, and he needs to consolidate Li An's position in Jiang Guo before the storm comes. If there is a change in the future, it can be regarded as a layer of protection.

Li An is a man who knows how to judge people's hearts. Just now, after the conversation with Mei Shao, he asked Mei Shao if she knew whether she would return to her mansion or Prince Cheng's mansion after she walked out of Lanwei Pavilion.

Before Mei Shao could answer him, he answered it himself.

"I will go back to Prince Cheng's mansion, because I will leave immediately after getting the jade document, and he will think that I stayed by his side because of the jade document. Now that the play is done, we might as well make it more realistic."

Mei Shao knew he would do such a thing.

Because he and Li An are similarly soaked in hatred, the more they know what kind of thing they are, the more they will unconsciously show their unbearable and despicableness to the people they care about.

While pushing away the other party, I also longed for the other party's eyes to stay on me for a longer time.

In such tugging, they watch themselves sink, but they still need to grasp something to make themselves look like normal people.

For example, a promise.

It's funny to say that people like them would keep their promises.Just like a person full of evil, he will always show kindness to those who gave him a little favor at the beginning.

Therefore, Mei Shao asked Li An for a promise in such an unkind way.

He felt that Li An would keep this promise no matter what he became in the future, just like when he hated Bai Bingchen so much, he still thought that Ji Pu saved his life and gave Bai Bingchen the "lonely pillow" relief. like medicine.

Not for anything else, just being in the middle of the bustling crowd, I always want to feel a little bit like a human being.

The author says:

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