An old lady's life

On June [-], Emperor Changping led a mighty team to leave the capital, and the entire capital was emptied, especially in public places such as teahouses, restaurants, theaters, and brothels. It is also deeply affected, but in order to eat, this business has to be done, and it has to find ways to specialize in ideas and sell its own things.

Originally, Jia Jing was qualified to accompany him, but considering Jia Daihua's health, Emperor Changping deliberately excluded him and asked him to serve Ning Guogong at home.Emperor Changping was close to Jia Daishan, and Jia Daihua was just an important minister he trusted, but after Jia Daishan passed away, Jia Daihua was upgraded in his mind, no longer just a courtier, but also Jia Daishan's elder brother.

As for the Zhang family, Zhang Laosan Zhang Yang originally had a low official position, and someone in the household department always had to stay behind, and because of Mrs. Zhang's affairs, he was also left behind.

For this, Jia She was in favor with both hands and feet. The relatives he was paying close attention to stayed in the capital, and even his cousin Shi Hao stayed in the camp in the suburbs of Beijing. The army traveling with the emperor except five hundred guards The army was the No. [-], [-], [-], [-], and [-] Battalions of the Green Camp stationed in the suburbs of Beijing. The Green Battalion had been deployed to the Palace earlier. Fang Lou Gao of the Imperial Guard personally led a team to the Palace to join the Green Camp, waiting for the arrival of the emperor's chariot.

It's just that Lin Hai, as a more valued official around the emperor, was deliberately taken away by Emperor Changping, and the three female family members of the Lin family also followed, which meant that the entire Lin family had gone to the palace.

"Mother, all the Lin family are going to the palace, fourth sister and brother-in-law?" Jia Amnesty scratched his head and looked at his mother eagerly.As the news of Lao Zhou's return increased, Jia Amnesty was worried all day long, and the bad feeling in his heart became more and more obvious. Now the eldest uncle and the second uncle have been dispatched abroad, and the third uncle has been left behind by his father-in-law. After coming down, my cousin Shi Nai was not in the first five battalions of the Green Camp, but obediently went to work in the suburbs of Beijing, but the mother at the Lin family didn't give any hints.

Hongye nodded and shook her head again: "Don't worry about the Lin family, Lin Hai is not a fool, he has grown up very fast by staying with the emperor in the past two years, besides, he has no value for others to deal with him now, and it is a weak point to win over him, he is in a safe zone, let alone the emperor's side The group of guards has a special relationship with him, and they won't watch him have an accident." There is wormwood, so worry about it?

Jia Amnesty thought about it, the Lin family seemed inconspicuous, but the emperor knew the Lin family best, and Lin Hai was transparent in front of the emperor.Let go of this worry, but Jia Amnesty is still worried all day long, Mrs. Zhang can feel it, even Jia Zheng, who spends all day in Guiyuan Book Building, can see that the whole Rongfu, including the servants We all know that the master is in a bad mood recently, and everyone is acting with their tails tightened, for fear of angering the master.

Ten days passed in a blink of an eye, and the things in the palace would be much later if you wanted to know anything because of the distance. Lao Zhou came back to report to Jia She every three days.

"My lord, there isn't much movement in Beijing right now. They've all been transferred to the palace. There hasn't been any useful news in the past few days. Why don't you send your brothers there?"

Jia Amnesty thought for a while, and it would not work if there was no news, so he had to send someone over there, so he nodded: "Okay, let everyone be careful, there should not be too many people passing by, five or six people are enough, and there are only people who are just inquiring." message, don’t do anything.” Because the vicinity of the palace must be strictly managed, and any strangers appearing will arouse vigilance.

There is a confidant replying in front of the old master of the Zhang family. Ever since he had that secret guess in his heart before, he couldn’t sit still. The ones belonged to the Crown Prince and King Sujun. King Sujun seemed to be investigating something. King Xiangjun and King Gong were stirring up trouble. King Zhaojun and King Qin had just grown up. He shrank back, but King Qin was still jumping up and down, but his brothers thought he was a monkey.

Mrs. Zhang was in a somewhat complicated mood. He had taught the prince anyway, and the prince respected them and never neglected them, but he watched him go astray. He sighed deeply. He found that It was too late, but after another thought, what could he do?The crown prince has passed his thirties, and he has been a crown prince for many years, coveting the throne is almost his only goal, coupled with the growth of his brothers, he is afraid, afraid of falling into the same fate as those princes who have not ascended the throne in history, but he The more eager he was to get rid of this situation, the more the blinded prince went astray.

There is nothing he can do with the prince, seeing him frequently discussing things with the generals in the army, he knows something bad is going on.Thinking about it again and again, thinking about his son-in-law, he has been thinking about it. After Rong Guogong passed away, Mrs. Jia changed her past indulgence and doting on her sons. Not only did she send her two sons back to Jinling to observe filial piety, Even more efforts were made to reform the two sons. It can be said that the son-in-law was taught by Mrs. Jia. Let’s not discuss why she changed so much. Just because she is a woman who has such a vision and a source of information, the daughter and the son-in-law But you don't have to worry about it in the future.

Yuquan Palace is the emperor's summer vacation palace this time. The entire palace is built on the mountainside, and there are several roads up and down the mountain. Moreover, the temperature in the mountain is lower than that in the capital, and the mountain breeze blows through it, which makes people feel cool.Whether it is Emperor Changping or the officials and family members who came with him, they are very comfortable, especially the young men and women can be said to be carried away.

The Zhuangzi of the Lin family is still five miles away from Yuquan Palace. Every day, Lin Hai goes to report in front of the emperor, and Ai Cao and Jia Min are playing nearby. Lin Nuan is not very interested in playing, and stays in the yard refining pill , especially Lou Gao's medicine is changed every three months now, and it's time to change it again this month.

However, wormwood wanders around the Shanlin family every night. This area is a hilly area with many mountains and forests. There are many secrets hidden in the dark woods.

These days, she has already figured out who these people are. The way here is extremely complicated. The prince himself has bought a lot of generals, and King Su has military power, but both sides have inserted a lot of power into each other. He is a spy, and ever since King Sujun found out the outrageous things the prince did, the two sides have been playing games in secret. King Sujun asked his own people to add fuel to the prince, and let people reveal that he had caught the prince. Now we are waiting for evidence , and then stabbed him in front of Emperor Changping in one fell swoop, and it would only be a matter of course to pull the prince off his horse at that time.But the prince panicked and planned to act first!

Well, Ai Cao is a little speechless. King Su just found out where the iron mine is, and knows that the prince has refined a lot of weapons and trained a lot of private soldiers in private, but he doesn't know that there are still Some of the weapons were sold by the prince, let alone the identity of the buyer.

However, King Xiangjun and King Gong seemed to have reached an agreement with King Sujun that the prince should be removed from the horse first.

As for King Zhaojun and King Qinjun, I'm sorry, they didn't take these two seriously at all. They just got married for more than a year, and they just got married for two years, and their team hasn't been set up yet, so they just want to participate in such an event. event?

In fact, who is worse than the prince.

It was past midnight, King Zhaojun hadn't gone to bed yet, the lights were on in the study, and Wang Minglang was answering in front of King Zhaojun.

"Master, my subordinates have a bad premonition. From the situation in Beijing before leaving Beijing to Yuquan Palace, the flow of people underneath is very fast, and everyone is competing." After a pause, Wang Minglang said, "To go out Big deal."

King Zhaojun also nodded solemnly: "I know, my elder brother has been a little inflated towards the prince recently. He seems to be very confident that he can deal with the prince, and he is not as scrupulous as before. I don't know what kind of handle the elder brother has on the prince. But judging from the increasingly unstable demeanor of the prince's second brother, I'm afraid that the matter will not be small. The third brother and fifth brother are also helping the eldest brother faintly, I'm afraid they have reached some agreement." After finishing speaking, he shook his head and smiled wryly, " My eighth brother and I haven’t seen it yet.”

"The rain is about to come and the building is full of wind!" Wang Minglang summed it up succinctly.

King Zhaojun nodded: "Order, we can't move, all this can't be hidden from the eyes and ears of the father." He firmly believed that the father must be clear about such a big move, but he was waiting. With the two elder brothers by his side, and repeatedly emphasizing brotherhood, he knew that his father was giving the two elder brothers one last chance.

Wang Minglang agreed, blew out the candles in the study, and one master and one servant left the study one after the other, King Zhaojun went back to the backyard to prepare for bed.Princess Zhaojun didn't go to bed, she had been waiting for him to come back.At such a late hour, it was the bedroom again, only the husband and wife, the princess of the county served the king of Zhaojun to wash up, and the couple went to bed together and fell asleep.

King Zhaojun was not in a good mood tonight, so he was not interested in doing husband and wife affairs. He just hugged the princess.

"Luo Ling, when I see my mother-in-law tomorrow, send a message to my father-in-law."

The princess of the county came to her senses all of a sudden, and looked up at the person below her, "Okay, the prince said so."

King Zhaojun whispered in the ear of the Princess of the County, and the Princess of the County nodded, and then muttered: "My lord, the eighth younger siblings are all pregnant."

The tone was very sour. She married into the royal family together with the girl from the Wen family. This year has passed, and Wen's family was suddenly diagnosed with pregnancy today. Now everyone is staring at her belly.

King Zhaojun couldn't help but comfort Yao Shi, the couple whispered in the night, the maid outside kept watch and blinked sleepily, thinking that the prince and concubine are in such a good mood, they still haven't fallen asleep so late?

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Today, Lin Hai was reading the selected memorials. He sorted out the memorials from various places, and then classified the other memorials. After browsing the memorials, he would subdivide them.

The invitations to Ann are all concerned with the emperor's body in the same way, dragging the text to write long speeches, Lin Hai has selected ten invitations to An An, and there is nothing unusual.

But for the letter in his hand, he glanced at the first page, and there was nothing abnormal, but the content on the second page completely changed. When he looked at it carefully, his expression suddenly changed, and he returned to normal after a while, and he put the notebook into the folder as if nothing had happened. Please install the pile of zhezi, so that he can hold them and send them to the emperor later.

Half an hour later, after reading the other notebooks, he got up and packed his desk, picked up a stack of memorials and went to Yuquan Palace as usual.

When he left, Counselor Zuo and his subordinates all nodded their heads, some of them looked at him more, and some bowed their heads and went about their own business.

Coming to Ganquan Hall, the place where the emperor does business in the palace, unlike in the palace, the court and the imperial study are separated, the space here is not as good as the palace, and the emperor didn't want to bother, so they combined them into one.

It just so happened that the crown prince and King Su Jun had just left the Ganquan Palace, and they walked past Lin Hai without looking sideways. He entered the Ganquan hall.

He put the memorial aside as usual, and took out the special memorial and presented it to the emperor.

Emperor Changping was a little surprised, "Ruhai, why?"

Lin Hai handed the memorial to Wang Wei: "Your Majesty will know it at a glance." Wang Wei was puzzled, but he still kept his expression slightly respectful, took the memorial and placed it in front of Emperor Changping.

Emperor Changping opened it curiously, and raised his eyebrows: "Isn't it just an ordinary greeting book?"

Lin Hai's expression changed slightly: "Please turn to the second page, Your Majesty." This is a [-]th-rank county magistrate's greeting paper. Usually, the emperor will wait for a month or two to see such papers, so the county magistrate can't I don't know the process of the emperor's handling of affairs, but he still used this method. If he didn't always like to turn over a page or two, I'm afraid he would have missed it.

Then Emperor Changping's face changed. It was the county magistrate who came to ask for help, saying that the drought in their area was severe, and the crops in the common people's fields were almost useless. When Qiu received it, the people were about to run out of food, the county government’s storage was insufficient, and there was a serious water shortage. Use this method to deceive the world.

What Lin Hai could think of, Emperor Changping could naturally think of. Although the county magistrate in the memorial did not inform the state of the government, but the county magistrate's outrageous behavior is enough to make people suspicious.

"I know." Emperor Changping was a little annoyed. If he remembered correctly, he had just received a memorial from the prefect not long ago, saying that their place had not been greatly affected. Although the weather was not as smooth as last year, the conditions in the field The crops are growing well, and the autumn harvest is bound to be a bumper harvest season.

Emperor Changping frowned in thought, and Wang Wei waved to Lin Hai.

"Weichen resigns." The memorial has also been conveyed, the emperor can't take care of him now, so he has nothing to do with him, Lin Hai kowtowed and left Ganquan Hall.Thinking that it will be neither too early nor too late, he will go back and play with his mother and wife.

Emperor Changping immediately sent someone to investigate, and then he remembered that he seemed to have sent an imperial envoy, why didn't the imperial envoy report it?

Lin Hai didn't know what was going on, he only knew that he would come to deliver the memorial a day later, the emperor's face was drawn, and the emperor's aura was threatening.There didn't seem to be any voices about this in the court, and he couldn't find out.

Another day, when Lin Hai was carefully selecting the memorials, the Tongzheng envoy passed by him and patted him on the shoulder meaningfully. After a while, the left and right Tongzheng praised him for his professionalism with half-smile smiles. Compliment him, he is incomprehensible.Thinking of something, he took the opportunity of going to the toilet to go out, and only then figured out what was going on.

It turned out that the last time the letter was not a greeting, the emperor had issued a decree, and the magistrate was dismissed from his position, and he will be sentenced according to the law after other things are found out.At the same time, the emperor promoted the Tongzhi of Fuya as the new magistrate, and the first order given to the new magistrate was to quickly resolve the local drought.

Of course, this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that there is someone behind the magistrate who deceived others. This backer seems to be the king of Sujun. Don't give up until the magistrate is killed.Well, King Sujun has to support the emperor's decision with a fair attitude. No matter how provocative the prince's side is, King Sujun will only obey the emperor.

Lin Hai pursed his lips and didn't take this matter to heart, but if King Su Jun wants to retaliate against him, he should really be careful, maybe his mother's dream not long ago was indeed a warning dream.

Going back to Zhuangzi, Lin Hai didn't want to mention it at first, but considering that King Su might be a little annoyed, he might not really remember him, but he couldn't keep those disciples who were only thinking of the master, so they cleaned him up and asked the master for credit. Maybe it will start.

Ai Cao was a little tongue-tied, she made up that dream, but seeing Jia Min and Lin Nuanru facing the enemy, she thought it might be okay for them to take it seriously.

These things were told to Hongye when Ai Cao ran back to Beijing at night, and Hongye couldn't help sighing: "Originally it had nothing to do with Lin Hai, but unfortunately some people just hold grudges."

Wormwood was also a little speechless, Lin Hai really suffered an indiscriminate disaster.

Lin Hai has been vigilant for several days, nothing unusual happened around him, but upwards, the smell of gunpowder between the crown prince and Su Jun Wang is getting stronger and stronger, he wonders if Su Jun Wang is temporarily unable to take action to deal with him?

In the blink of an eye, it was late July, and it seemed that they were about to return to Beijing. In the middle of the night, outside the Zhuangzi where the Lin family lived, there was the sound of trampling footsteps and the sound of horseshoes.

Ai Cao was watching with great interest in Zhuangzi, but Lin Hai and Jia Min were awakened. It can be seen that the voice was so loud that those people outside did not hide it!

Lin Hai and Jia Min got off the bed, before they had time to put on their coats, they were about to light the lamp when their mother's voice came from the yard, "Don't light the lamp!"

Lin Hai was startled. Regardless of the darkness, he immediately opened the door and went out of the bedroom, almost tripping over the threshold, "Mom, what's going on?"

It will be the end of the ten days, and there is a deep moon hanging in the sky. The moon is not too bright, and it is still hiding in the clouds. It took Lin Hai a long time to see his mother's figure.

Jia Min came out, her heart beating non-stop.

"It's not very good there." Ai Cao pouted in the direction of Yuquan Palace, "There are quite a few people passing by our Zhuangzi, at least five or six hundred people, and a team of cavalry."

Lin Hai and Jia Min's expressions changed immediately, Lin Nuan jumped down from the wall, "Aunt, are Lou Gao and the others in danger?"

Ai Cao grabbed Lin Nuan's hand and shook her head: "Don't act recklessly, the power of an individual cannot be compared with that of an army. Lou Gao is the emperor's most trusted guard, and it is his duty to protect the emperor's safety."

Lin Nuan bit her lip with a flickering expression. Ai Cao couldn't let her sneak away, so she reached out and tapped the acupuncture points on the back of her neck, and Lin Nuan immediately fell limp in her arms.

"This girl cares about her lover, so we can't let her run to make trouble." Ai Cao muttered, and then said to Lin Hai, "Don't worry, it's none of our business anyway, go to bed when you should go back to sleep, if the emperor asks later ..." She frowned, as if she clearly knew that the emperor was in danger and did not save him, it would lose points in the eyes of the emperor.

Lin Hai and Jia Min's faces were blank, and Ai Cao immediately ordered, "You two go and put on your coats, and we will go up the mountain later." Seeing that the two of them hadn't figured it out yet, Ai Cao glared, "Rush to save you, no matter what happens. No, you have to have an attitude, otherwise the emperor asks, how will you answer? There are traces of this iron cavalry passing by Zhuangzi, and it is impossible to sleep soundly all night."

The two suddenly realized that they were still shocked by the change. The mother had already considered the aftermath. The two immediately turned back to the bedroom, and quickly came out in the dark. They obeyed their mother's orders and stayed quietly in the yard. Listening to the movement in the mountain, about two quarters of an hour later, Ai Cao woke up Lin Nuan, ordered the steward to lock the gate, and the four of them went to Yuquan Palace in the solemn night.

Under her spiritual consciousness, Ai Cao found that some officials at the foot of the mountain were also running up the mountain in the dark. Everyone really understood the true meaning of "seeking wealth in danger"!

In order to avoid bumping into others, Ai Cao did not take the main road, but took other mountain roads. There were so many thorns, the mountain road was not easy to walk. Ai Cao and Lin Nuan walked easily, but Lin Hai and Jia Min could suffer. Seeing how relaxed his mother and cousin were, Lin Hai was a little ashamed. He is not as strong as his mother and cousin as a man!

Although they could hear the sounds coming from the mountains, the screams of people, the roars of animals and the clang of metal colliding together, it was especially deafening in the night, and the Yuquan Palace was full of flames, but they It's been an uneventful journey.

They didn't walk fast, but they weren't slow either. This mountain road turns around and is the usual mountain road up and down the mountain. There is also Yuquan Palace less than 100 meters away. I thought there would be heavy guards here, but there was no one here. Ai They collided with other officials who came to rescue them.

But Yuquan Palace is still full of flames, adding a heavy, oppressive and dangerous under the night.

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