Qi Huang

The government office is brightly lit.

Yongzhou people's banquets like to cloth at night.The shadowy moonlight fell into the darkness, into the silent silence. In the cool night, Li Jingyang was in high spirits.

Perhaps this is not his intention, but to put on a show.

He said that he wanted to clean up Xie Xuan and everyone.

It's just that Xie Xuan and the others have been in Yongzhou for several months, and they are familiar with which alley sells shortbread and which street sells knives. dust.

But Li Jingyang said yes.

Just before entering the yamen, a small incident happened.

After many months, with the imperial decree, Yu Qian, the servant of the Ministry of Industry, has already started work in a hurry, and Qin Ting is nowhere to be seen. Among them, only Xie Xuan was invited to be seated by Li Jingyang.

Before entering, Xie Xuan and Feng Jiuyuan took the same carriage, Feng Jiuyuan got out of the carriage first, then turned around and stretched out his hand to Xie Xuan: "Come."

Xie Xuan is not a cranky person, he put his hand into Feng Jiuyuan's palm openly in front of his servants.

He could have jumped down easily with Feng Jiuyuan's strength, but for some reason, his legs suddenly softened, and even the hand holding Feng Jiuyuan lost strength, and his whole body was about to fall like a falling leaf. fall down.

Fortunately, Feng Jiuyuan pulled him quickly so that Xie Xuan would not be injured.

"What's wrong?" Feng Jiuyuan pulled him into his arms, frowning in a rare way.

Xie Xuan's face suddenly turned snowy, and he held Feng Jiuyuan's front for a while, until his knuckles turned bluish white.

He looked expressionless, but the small reaction revealed that he was not feeling well at the moment.After a while, he said: "It's okay, there was a bit of wind last night, and I felt a little dizzy."

Feng Jiuyuan remained silent.

Holding Xie Xuan's hand, you can feel the tiny sweat in the palm of your hand.His eyes were deep, and he wanted to say something, but when it came to his mouth, it turned into: "Then go home, your health is important."

Xie Xuan smiled and pointed not far away: "I'm afraid not."

I saw that Mr. Li Jingyang, who had "lived in a boudoir for a long time", was all smiles, standing beside the stone lion in the yamen, looking like he had been waiting for a long time.

Xie Xuan and Feng Jiuyuan were grandly welcomed in.

Entering the house, Xie Xuan's face visibly warmed up without seeing the cold winter wind.

At the beginning of the banquet, apart from the silk and bamboo orchestra, there is a full banquet of Man and Han, and golden jars of jade liquid.Li Jingyang spent a lot of money to make amends, and the long endless banquet filled the table with dazzling arrays.This posture is even worse than those in the palace.

Li Jingyang raised his sleeves and raised his wine glass, the wolf drank a few sips, he laughed and said: "A few days ago, I was ill and neglected His Highness the Thirteenth Highness. Now I punish myself with three cups of 'full house spring'. If I apologize to His Highness, I hope His Highness will forgive me a little bit."

Xie Xuan didn't move.

He folded his arms, didn't move a chopstick from the food on the table, and didn't even bother to stretch out his hands from his sleeves, as if he didn't give Li Jingyang any face.

After all, Li Jingyang is a prefecture, with officials up to the third rank, while Xie Xuan has only a false name in counting.He drank three glasses of wine in a row, but Xie Xuan didn't even lift the glass, his expression changed suddenly.

He endured it, but it didn't happen after all.

A few days ago, Li Jin's words of admonition were still ringing in my ears.

"Take care of him first, and report any changes immediately. I always feel that his visit to Yongzhou this time is not just for the excavation of the Supervisory Canal."

Li Jingyang was still a little annoyed at that time: "He is just a prince and has no official position, why is he so arrogant?"

"Because he is a sharp knife picked up by Wang Jinse."

Li Jin slowly took out a roll of paper as small as sheep intestines from his sleeve. The roll was yellowed and looked old. Through the thin back of the paper, one could still see the sharp handwriting on it.Li Jin didn't open it, but said, "Do you still remember the time when I went to Hangzhou in the tenth year of the Yuan Dynasty?"

Li Jingyang was shocked.

He looked left and right, worried that the partition wall had ears, carefully closed the door and window before turning back: "You were..."

Li Jin handed out the roll of letter paper: "This is what I was looking for back then."

Looking at the roll of letter paper that was almost frayed, Li Jingyang didn't dare to pick it up at all: "Didn't you say...that you didn't find anything?"

"It's just a matter of deceiving the world." Li Jin said, "Only by letting caring people know that I didn't find anything will they feel at ease. Those who knew a little about the previous situation back then knew that the destruction of the Xiao family was not accidental. After the destruction of the Xiao family, Wang Qi quickly came to power, Resolutely controlled the military power of the Southwest Army Headquarters, and at the same time, Wang Jinse supported Xie Qingshan to completely take power. Do you have any explanations for this?"

"Then you take this thing out today..." Li Jingyang thought about it, and then he had a flash of inspiration, "The thing that was investigated back then is now more likely?"

Li Jin closed his eyes slightly, neither saying yes nor no.

Seeing this gesture, Li Jingyang flattered him naturally: "Master Patriarch, if you need my help, I will definitely go through fire and water!"

Li Jin opened his eyes.

He was already old, and under the bark-like folds of his eyes, a pair of hazy eyes were embedded in them.Even if the years are long and time is like a mighty river, it can't conceal the mighty ambition in it.

"I just want to tell you that if this can be done, Wang Jinse will surely fall from the throne." Li Jin said slowly, "At that time, both you and I will be seated."

"Before that, you need to confirm for me whether someone is deliberately guiding me in various matters."

"Master Patriarch means... maybe it's a trap?" Li Jingyang thought for a while and said, "How do you want me to confirm?"

Li Jin was silent for a long time, and suddenly raised the corner of his mouth coldly.

It's just that Li Jingyang, before he had time to touch the threshold of temptation, was severely humiliated.

The so-called feng shui turns, if you come to my house next year, if you knew it was like this, you wouldn't give Xie Xuan such a prestige back then.

He had some regrets, but he was only annoyed that he might not be able to complete what Li Jin had told him.In the difficult situation of riding a tiger, Feng Jiuyuan who was beside Xie Xuan suddenly raised his wine glass and sent it forward: "Your Highness is unwell and not suitable for drinking, so I will drink it for you."

Li Jingyang's eyes slowly moved to Feng Jiuyuan.

He was not familiar with this Feng Jiuyuan, but he had some impression of his old man Feng Yi.

Back then when he entered Beijing by order, the Feng family had just lost power.When Feng Yi left Beijing, he left Feng Jiuyuan and his concubine in the palace.That middle-aged man is gentle and elegant, and his every gesture is noble, and he can be known at a glance that he is the proud son of heaven.

Feng Yi didn't fight or grab, even if she left Beijing to go to northern Xinjiang, she didn't complain, she left quietly and never disturbed anyone.

Thinking about it now, his only son, Feng Jiuyuan, must have inherited his disposition.

Otherwise, why hasn't there been any movement from Huaiyuan Wangfeng's lineage that has been entrenched in northern Xinjiang for decades?

If you can't start with Xie Xuan, it's not impossible to find a breakthrough on Feng Jiuyuan instead.

Li Jingyang smiled again, his rich and bloated face was like two pieces of freshly cut animal meat, shiny: "Thank you, my lord, for your face."

After a round of drinking, Li Jingyang was already drunk.He looked at Feng Jiuyuan and Xie Xuan who were sitting opposite each other, whispering to each other, and suddenly thought.

Taking advantage of the strength of the wine, Li Jingyang stood up and clapped his hands. Immediately, a servant left knowingly, as if he had taken something.

"To express my apologies, I selected an item from the collection and specially gave it to His Highness. I hope His Highness will not refuse."

At this time, Xie Xuan became interested: "Oh? What is it?"

The smile on Li Jingyang's face was even bigger: "Your Highness, you will know after seeing it for yourself. Believe me, you will definitely like it."

Not long after, several servants who had just left the stage walked in again steadily.

The four of them stood in the four directions of east, west, south, east, and west, holding up a long and square box like stars arching the moon. Just judging from the complicated carvings on the box, it can be seen that the things inside the box must be extremely valuable.

After Feng Jiuyuan and Xie Xuan approached with a sense of watching the excitement, Li Jingyang no longer kept his secrets.

He stepped forward, opened the long box himself, and a bow and arrow with a graceful figure lay quietly under the eyes of everyone.

In a corner where no one was paying attention, Feng Jiuyuan paused slightly, lowering his eyes and withdrawing his expression.

It seems to have recognized the source of this thing.

He raised his head and saw that Li Jingyang's cheeks were flushed and his eyes were bloodshot. It seemed that after he had drunk his stomach, the smell of alcohol rushed into his brain along his body, making his sanity scattered, and he didn't seem to be awake.

Xie Xuan: "What is this?"

Li Jingyang laughed: "This is a baby!"

He took out the bow and arrow from the long box, at the moment when he retracted and put it away, the dim light outside the window flowed from the head of the bow to the tail of the bow like a shooting star.The streamer seemed to have a sound, and there was a ding-dong that fell into the string.

Feng Jiuyuan said: "The autumn water is bright and the sun is setting, and the stream of light destroys the distant mountains. It is indeed a good thing."

"My lord is really insightful!" Li Jingyang was overjoyed, "It took me a lot of effort to find this thing. It has been sealed in my Treasure Pavilion for a long time, and now it happens to find a new owner for it."

Xie Xuan said with a smile: "But such a good longbow, what's the use of giving it to me, who can't even know three-legged cat kung fu?"

Li Jingyang: "Who said that it is only accepted if it is useful? I said it, this is an atonement for Your Highness the Thirteenth Highness. Naturally, the apology must be sincere. If His Highness does not accept it, I will not accept it."

Even a fool can see that there is something wrong with his forced buying and selling style of gift giving.

Xie Xuan was silent for a while, but still stepped forward to take the bow and arrow.

No matter how bold Li Jingyang was, he would never dare to kill him in public.

The bow is indeed a good bow. It is heavy in the hand but not hard in the hand. After the string is tightened, it is like the eternal bell under the cold night light.

Xie Xuan turned the bow, and when the fingertips were rubbing slowly, suddenly touched an uneven spot on the inner side of the bow.

From a closer look, it's just one word.

Xie Xuan's complexion changed slightly.

One horizontal and one vertical, Xiao.

Li Jingyang didn't let go of the slightest change in Xie Xuan's expression.He said: "I heard that this bow was held by a general who fought on the battlefield all the year round. Because he fought north and south with him, he ate sand, drank snow, and almost gave birth to spirituality. The so-called 'If you want to drive away the light horse, the heavy snow is full of the bow and knife', That’s what it means.”

Xie Xuan asked: "Can you study it?"

"I don't know about this subject." Li Jingyang smiled, "But most of these spirits have countless legends."

Yes.

Xie Xuan stroked it slowly.

Whatever Li Jingyang wants to test, let him go, Xie Xuan knows everything he wants to do.

It's just that I don't know what happened to this bow. After being scraped by wind and frost, the bow body is still as new, even though the person who whipped the horse along with it is no longer by his side.

I don't know if the stream of light on the bow is moonlight or Liren's tears.

Xie Xuan thought silently.

He seemed to miss Mr.