How many buildings are in the mist

The contestants arrived in Jiankang one after another.As Cui Xuanji expected, Feng Zisong and Erlu did not dare to do anything, nor did they dare to wait too long. Stimulated by the suspicious transfer of the officers and soldiers, they delayed for a few days, and indeed they issued a call to action at the end of June. reversed.The real mobilization of the army has already been completed, Feng Zihuan ordered the officers and soldiers to surround them first, and not rush to destroy them. Anyway, the imperial court has considerable advantages, so they can stand still and increase the pressure on the rebels; then he asked for an article written by Lu Mao. look.Let Cui Xuanji read it, but it's not enough. I read it myself, laughing and sighing in disappointment.

"I thought he could write some brilliant articles, but the result was nothing more than that. Even the words he scolded me were nothing new! He said that I ignored the distinction between Hua and Barbarians, married a wife from the Hu family, forgot to conquer the Central Plains, and so on. It’s the same as cursing outside the palace gate! The rhetoric is gorgeous, so gorgeous that it’s almost gorgeous, but the content is nothing new, what’s the point! Thanks to him, he still thinks that his essay can make a big wave!”

Feng Zihuan's words were certainly humorous, but Cui Xuanji saw her throwing the proclamation forcefully - it can be seen that no matter how she pretended not to care, she was still angry.

"Your Majesty, the population of the Lu family in Jiankang has been kneeling outside Taicheng for four days."

"Continue to kneel." Feng Zihuan said without doubt.

The news of Feng Zisong's rebellion and the proclamation were spread to Jiankang together. Feng Zihuan immediately changed his mind that day and asked Cui Xuanji not to rush to surround the Lu residence, but to observe secretly.Sure enough, that afternoon Lu Mao's old father, Lu Jing, took his family out of the Lu residence, dressed in linen clothes, and went to Taicheng to kneel and wait for the crime.Lu Jing used to be like this, last time Feng Zihuan didn't allow him to bring a big family to the crime, he didn't want him to take the opportunity to make things worse to gain sympathy; this time he was allowed to treat the crime, it was his fault.At the beginning Lu Jing knelt there, although his back was not straight, according to Cui Xuanji, his face was full of despair and fear.Going back to report to Feng Zihuan, Feng Zihuan sneered and said that the old thief has always been like this, if he is afraid, it is because Lu Hao never knew him, and he did such a big thing by himself; if he is not afraid at all, it is collusion, like this It's nothing more than a gesture.

"I want to see what he looks like in a few days!"

Sure enough, on the morning of the third day, Lu Jing, who found that the emperor ignored him and Jiankang City was quiet and peaceful, changed his appearance.But it is impossible to stand up and leave after posturing the posture. Treating the crime is really treating the crime.Two days ago, people from Gu and Sun's family took turns to deliver water and food, but now that the wind direction has changed, no one comes.In the seventh month of Jiankang, the weather was so sultry, the whole family, including women and children besides him, fell down one after another.Seeing Cui Xuanji, although he felt despicable for Lu Jing's disobedient way of threatening the imperial power, he felt sorry for the innocent women and children.She wanted to say otherwise, let these women and children go, and let Lu Jing kneel by himself. This was her second proposal, but as soon as the words came out of her mouth, Feng Zihuan immediately refused.

"Let those who fainted be carried home to be treated. If they don't fall, don't leave. As for Lu Jing, let him kneel down and treat the crime as he is. Do you think you are innocent?"

"Yes."

She knew she couldn't bring it up again.

Cui Xuanji couldn't guess how much of the Lu family brothers' instigation of treason was due to madness and how much they wanted to bargain with the emperor.According to Feng Zizhang's secret letter, Feng Zihuan and her knew that Feng Zisong would probably find a way to cooperate with the officers and soldiers in order to save his life, so they told Cui Ren, the uncle of Cui Xuanji who was in charge of the siege at the front, to take advantage of this.Cui Xuanji was curious, and asked Feng Zihuan, is Feng Zisong really so useless as the letter said?Or will this be a trick?Feng Zihuan said: "Zi Song was originally a rich man, with nothing to do but eat, drink and have fun. It is impossible to say that she would take the initiative to plot rebellion. Without Er Lu's crazy agitation, she would only be a dissolute prince for the rest of her life. Judging from Zizhang's letter, I feel that the Lu family has been betting everywhere since sending Lu Yu to Luling Kingdom, and now it's just the result of so many years of betting. Let's hope that idiot Zisong can come up with something Make some efforts to save yourself, and let the court stop earlier."

Cui Xuanji saw that her mouth was relaxed, but her hands were slightly clenched on the cup, knowing that she was angry, so she changed the subject: "I heard that King Ren Cheng is already on his way."

"That's right, Ziju gave me a list and sent it urgently; not only did she plead guilty, she said that she had sent her country's prime minister to lead troops to join the imperial army and take command, and she also said that she herself had worn rough clothes and shackles. Come to Jiankang. Just come. By the way, I told you to pay attention to those families, how are they going?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, the Gu family and the Sun family have not changed much. It is nothing more than going out less, and no longer entertain guests or participate in banquets held at other people's homes."

Feng Zihuan asked in surprise: "In this season, is there still someone hosting a banquet?"

"Your Majesty, I don't know. In Jiankang City, my cousin Lu Hao likes to hold banquets the most. He enjoys inviting scholars to talk. He doesn't care about worldly views, nor does he care about changes in the political situation. It is he who still Feast every day."

Feng Zihuan talked to her about Lu Hao's personality for a while, and then discussed how to keep an eye on those involved in the next stage, and that's all.

After ten days of siege at the front line, a very unexpected episode happened - the frontline soldiers rumored that Feng Zisong wanted to deprive Er Lu of his command, but because of his poor strategy, Er Lu saw through and was put under house arrest by Er Lu instead.It is unknown how the news got out, whether it was Feng Zisong's desperate counterattack, or the soldiers themselves were really disgusted with the treason.Cui Ren and other front-line commanders took advantage of this rumor and made a big publicity on the front line, shouting loudly all day long. As a result, the rebels of King Luling—those are just civilians who just wanted to survive—rebelled one after another.A rebellion was put down within two months.The only few battles took place in Xichang City. The morale of the army was shaken, and the fighting power was very limited. The court officials and soldiers drove straight in, and the king of Luling himself and the leaders of Erlu were all captured alive.Feng Zihuan ordered that he be escorted to Jiankang for interrogation.

During the war, Feng Zizhang, who made his first contribution, stayed in Nankang.That day, she urged Gongsunman's men to rush all the way to the border of Nankang country, and immediately showed their identities and nameplates when they arrived at the checkpoint.Of course the guards knew the brand, and the guards knew her even more—thanks to Feng Zizhang’s wife and children who had saved him once he was sealed off the country many years ago—immediately found a military doctor for Xie Yan, gave Xie Yan a simple treatment, and then Then change to a stable carriage and send it all the way to Nankang, the capital.Gongsunman's subordinates were about to leave as they said this, Feng Zizhang said that you might as well stay for a while and wait until the situation stabilizes before leaving.The man waved his hands and said no, he even tore off his face easily - it turned out that he was easy to treat each other along the way.Feng Zizhang was surprised, the man said with a smile: "Your Highness, please don't be surprised, the villain's fake face was originally prepared for the convenience of walking in the rivers and lakes. During this adventure, he never showed his true face to others, it was also for convenience. I have to go back to be worthy of the Patriarch, so tear it up. Your Highness, don't blame me."

Of course, Feng Zizhang was not surprised, and wanted to reward him with money, but this very handsome man refused: "City Master Xie is a close friend of the Patriarch of my family, how dare you claim credit for it! Thank you, Your Highness, please leave this room!" After saying that, he drove away He left in a bullock cart.

Feng Zizhang had no choice but to rush to Nankang with Xie Yan, and asked his followers to inform Wang Fuzhong to prepare medicine along the way.Xie Yan had been running a fever since she fell into a coma, and the hemostatic medicine didn't work well.Feng Zizhang had never been so worried.Before reaching the border of Nankang, Xingye got out of the bullock cart and ran wildly. While pressing Xie Yan's wound to prevent it from being torn due to the bumps, she kept saying in her heart, don't die, don't die, don't die, don't die...

At the checkpoint, she saw the blood on her hand was black under the light of the torch, and her heart sank to the bottom of the valley.

Xie Yan was in a coma for a few days, and when he woke up he couldn't see clearly, but he knew it was Feng Zizhang by the voice, so he first asked what day it was, and was surprised to find out that he had been in a coma for three days.

"It's just two arrows, could it be..."

"You've lost a lot of blood, and there's poison on the cluster of arrows. You've been poisoned, and you're not fully recovered yet. Lie down quickly." Feng Zizhang put his hands on her shoulders and pushed her back on the bed.

At this time, her vision became clear, and she saw Feng Zizhang's face.It was precisely because she saw that face clearly that she was almost stunned.Feng Zizhang covered her with a light silk quilt, turned around only to find that she was being stared at, and blushed uncontrollably.

"What are you looking at?"

"Look at you taking off the Western Region veil, it looks so pretty. I thought..."

"Why?"

"I thought you were wearing a veil, only your eyes were exposed, and you were already a fairy, but I didn't expect that if you took off the veil, it would be..."

She intentionally stopped in the middle of speaking, Feng Zizhang was angry and funny, "What is it? Queen Mother of the West?"

"Tch! You can't belittle yourself like this even if you are in the immortal class! Besides, you were born in Jiankang, how could you be the Queen Mother of the West! In my opinion, it seems that the soul of the moon has fallen into the world."

Feng Zizhang was laughing and blushing again, Xie Yan was still staring at her, so she had no choice but to fight back: "You also said that you don't like sweets, if you don't eat stone honey{79} with your mouth every day, why don't you eat sweets? You can say that."

Xie Yan asked again: "How is the situation now?"

"I have sent the news to Jiankang, and a reliable person sent the secret letter. For safety, I also sent all the troops in my country to the border. I dare not send it too fast, so as not to arouse suspicion. You Just take care of your wounds, don’t worry about these things.”

Xie Yan smiled, "Your Highness is truly a hero. May I ask Your Highness, can I write to Shuangluo to report my safety?"

"I can post it immediately, what do you want to write?"

Xie Yan didn't answer, Feng Zizhang found that she was staring at him in a daze again, so he protested softly: "Don't look at it."

This soft-spoken one made Xie Yan feel like he was going to melt, so he forced his reason and said, "Don't look at it or look at it. Oh, your journey is really..."

"Ok?"

"You have such a good name!"

"I'm just pretending to be Li Zhang. We are very close, and it's easy to pretend to be her." The two talked about the reasons for coming out this time, and Xie Yan said with a smile: "Then, do you think my family is reliable?" Zizhang nodded slightly, "When I first saw you, I didn't dare to believe it, because I was afraid that you would be hypocritical. Now that I have traveled such a long way, of course I believe it."

"Aren't you afraid that I'll keep putting on airs?" Xie Yan smiled even more, Feng Zizhang knew that Xie Yan was teasing himself.In fact, in the past, even if her emperor sister teased her like this, she might not always accompany her; but she never seemed to get tired of bickering with Xie Yan. Along the way, there were more bickering than in the past ten years.

"Oh? Anyway, you still have to stay in my house for a while to recuperate. Couldn't I just kill you if I saw something wrong halfway?"

Xie Yan wanted to get up and bowed after hearing the gesture, but Feng Zizhang pushed her down while laughing, "This is a real gesture! Lie down quickly."

When the soup arrived, Feng Zizhang was going to feed it himself, but suddenly thought of being so close to her, he was inexplicably shy; seeing this, Xie Yan hurriedly took it and drank it himself.After drinking, Xie Yan asked: "Seriously, are there enough soldiers? If not, I can give you my token, and you can mobilize my family's private soldiers." Feng Zizhang shook his head: "You must never use your family's private soldiers. Otherwise, it will be bad for your family. My sister certainly wants to be a hero of the generation, but if you send troops to fight in such a matter without authorization, you will encroach on her authority, and she will hate you."

Xie Yan nodded: "Only you dare to say that about Your Majesty."

Feng Zizhang said: "I think anyone who has been a prime minister or a high-ranking official in the court understands this. My sister has been like this since she was a child. She is kind and nice on the surface, but in fact she has long hated it. I don't post it now, but I feel that It's not a big deal, so there's no need to make a fuss. When something happens, she will settle your account together. If you don't believe me, just wait and see what happens to the Lu family."

Xie Yan then stayed at the Nankang Palace to recover from his injuries.Because the arrow wound was poisonous, it festered, so that she could only lie on the bed to dry occasionally.The dressing was changed twice a day, and after seven full days of application, the festering stopped at last, and I could barely get up and walk around.During the rest of the palace, the two simply stopped intervening in the chaos, and spent the whole day watching the wind and rain, reading poems and books, and chatting freely about the past and the present.When the news of Feng Zisong's house arrest came, Feng Zizhang was drinking tea with Xie Yan. Hearing this, he shook his head and chuckled: "She can only do this."

"In your eyes, this is what King Luling looks like?"

"Yeah, I'm not strong towards the clan. I think it's good to have one less like her."

"You still expect her to go to prison?"

"I won't go to prison. Zisong is nothing more than a useless clan. What my sister has to do at this time is to attack the family, not the clan. She won't die. She will only be imprisoned somewhere in Jiankang , so that she doesn’t have as much food and drink as before, and there are so many concubines. Besides, look.” Feng Zizhang picked up a letter and handed it to Xie Yan, “The fourth sister brought the shackle to plead guilty, return it to me Here is such a letter, I hope I can help, and I beg my sister to save Zisong's life."

"No matter how you say it, King Ren Cheng is a prince who has not been abolished since the founding of the country, and his status is no better than others; now he even speaks out about the confiscation of the fief, which shows that it is sisterly love after all."

Feng Zizhang sneered and said: "I don't know if the love is deep or not, these years, the fourth sister is not like this, even she was punished, this point, she can see it very clearly."

Xie Yan looked at Feng Zizhang's side face, intoxicated physically and mentally, took a deep breath and said: "So, after the civil war, there are only a few people in the clan, but you are the only one who is safe."

"Why do you think I'm safe?"

"For such a big matter, His Majesty can send you out, which shows that he has a lot of trust in you."

"That's what you said." Feng Zizhang felt helpless when he thought about what happened when he was a child, "My sister knows me well and knows that I have no desire for power and position, so she has no doubts about me; but she sent me out because of no If someone is available, someone will be available in the future, so probably I shouldn’t be like this anymore.”

Xie Yan was lying on the couch—waiting for the ointment to dry—at this moment, he said softly: "Do you feel that in the world of mortals, these trivial things are bothering and hateful?"

"Ah."

"Then how about we go to the mountains to live in seclusion together in the future?"

Feng Zizhang just shook the fan in his hand, smiled and didn't answer.

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{78}Han·Wang Chong's "Lunheng·Beitong": "Food fast and drink quickly, think deeply and ask to lie down, the abdomen is the food pit, and the intestines are the wine bag." Check the allusions and you will die of laughter.

{79} Also known as cliff honey and rock honey, it is often called flake sugar now, which refers to the solid raw sucrose obtained from sugarcane juice after being exposed to the sun.