To The Land of Nevernight

The next day, Tang Shen met Li Jingde among the officials receiving the Liao envoy.

General Li shaved off his beard again, and hid behind Meng Lang in a suit of civilian clothes.Seeing Tang Shen, he made a look, but didn't deliberately talk to him.

Tang Shen sighed in his heart: Look at this Li Jingde, now he has a little thought!Anyway, being used by Tang Shen is also being used, and being used by Meng Lang is also being used.He could still beat Meng Shangshu with a sack at any time, but he couldn't beat Tang Shen with a sack.So this time he went directly to Meng Lang instead of Tang Shen.

On this day, the envoys of both sides still broke up unhappy.

After getting off the Yamen, Tang Shen came to Su Wenyun's mansion again, this time he memorized the appearance of the young Liao official: "His earlobe is very thin, his left eye is slightly bigger than his right eye, and there is a scar on his right cheek. Little mole."

Su Wenyun squinted at him: "Master Tang has the ability to never forget, but I don't."

The implication is that he and Brother Na Yelushe only met once in Xijin Mansion, so how could he remember it so clearly.

Tang Shen also realized that his actions were really lacking in consideration. He was thinking about how to confirm whether the man was Brother Yelushe, and whether he should take the risk of taking Su Wenyun to meet him, but Su Wenyun sneered and said, "Of course, then Brother Yelushe does have a small black mole on his right cheek."

Tang Shen was surprised: "Didn't Master Su just say that you don't have the ability to remember?"

Su Wenyun asked straightforwardly: "Why, I really can't remember it with my photographic memory, but I can't remember that brother Yelushe has a mole on his face?"

Tang Shen: "..."

This person is very poisonous!

Now that it was confirmed that the person was Brother Yelushe, Tang Shen quietly had a countermeasure against the current situation.

Tang Shen approached Li Jingde privately, and said bluntly, "Among the envoys of the Liao Kingdom, one of them is the second prince of the Liao Kingdom, Brother Yelushe."

Li Jingde was shocked, touched his bare chin: "Really?"

Tang Shen: "Really. But I want to ask the general first, what is your reason for returning to Shengjing this time?"

Li Jingde was silent, and said: "What I want to do when I go back to Shengjing actually has nothing to do with the envoys from the Liao Kingdom coming to Beijing. This matter has nothing to do with you, so you don't need to ask Mr. Tang. It's just that I just happened to meet this group of shameless people. Liao officer, so this general decided to stay a little longer, and wait for these guys to get out before I go back to Youzhou."

Li Jingde actually has other important things to do when he returns to Beijing?

Tang Shen was suspicious for a moment, he bowed and said, "From what the general said, it seems that you have already done what you need to do. You stayed in Shengjing for these Liao envoys. If so, I have a plan... ..."

That night, Tang Shen quietly entered the palace and met the emperor in Funing Palace.

Zhao Fu's complexion improved a lot. He sat on the soft bed and drank the bird's nest porridge. After hearing Tang Shen's words, he continued to drink the porridge, and then gently put down the jade bowl.The delicate small bowl made of white jade was placed on the low table of huanghuali, making a crisp sound.

Zhao Fu sighed: "Liao people seem to always like to send envoys to our Song Dynasty during the cold winter months."

Tang Shen lowered his head and replied in a calm voice: "The Liao Kingdom is located in the north. Once winter comes, it will be frozen for three feet and it is difficult to travel. The Song Dynasty occupies the Central Plains. The land is vast and abundant. The winter scenery is different from place to place. Liao people have The admiration is also understandable."

Zhao Fu burst out laughing when he heard this.

When leaving the palace, Tang Shen hadn't taken a few steps when he was stopped by a person at the gate of the palace.

He stopped, looked at the other party, and bowed respectfully: "I have seen Mr. Li."

The person who came was Li Xiaoren, the supervisor of Qintian Supervisor.

Li Xiaoren is a third-rank Qin Tianjian supervisor, and on the surface he is one rank higher than Tang Shen, but Tang Shen is a fourth-rank, which actually means third-rank.Li Xiaoren also bowed, his small eyes quietly looked at Tang Shen, and said with a smile: "Master Tang, did you just come out of the Holy Majesty's bedroom?"

"Exactly."

Li Xiaoren showed a concerned look: "This time, Your Majesty has a cold and can't afford to get sick. Your Majesty is really anxious. Fortunately, Your Majesty is the son of a real dragon, and he was blessed by the heavens, so the danger was saved and the dragon was in good health." After a pause , Li Xiaoren said: "I haven't seen Mr. Wang for a long time. Has Mr. Wang not returned from Jinling yet?"

Tang Shen's body froze for a moment, and he said, "Never."

Disappointment flashed across Li Xiaoren's face, but he quickly continued talking to Tang Shen.This Li Xiaoren was originally just a bull-nosed Taoist priest, who was born in Qingyun Temple in Huaizhi Mountain.Later, he was favored by Zhao Fu, so he got the official position of Qintian Supervisor.He doesn't have enough ink in his stomach, but when it comes to flattery, he is a master.

He intends to deal with Tang Shen, and Tang Shen also has this intention.

The two hit it off and chatted happily.

After chatting for a quarter of an hour, a round-faced monk in a plain robe was led by the eunuch from afar.Li Xiaoren's voice stopped suddenly, the monk walked up to the two of them, he saluted Li Xiaoren and Tang Shen slowly, and said, "Friend Li Daoist." He looked at Tang Shen.

Tang Shen nodded slightly: "The next official is Tang Shen, the advising doctor from Yushitai."

The good listening monk had kind eyes and a gentle voice: "Master Tang."

Tang Shen: "I've met the master of good listening."

His listening eyes lingered on Tang Shen's eyebrows for a while, Tang Shen thought he was going to say something to him, but unexpectedly he turned his eyes away quickly, and said to Li Xiaoren: "You Daoist Li also want to go to Funing Palace, for Your Majesty. Pray?"

Li Xiaoren: "Exactly."

"Let's go together."

Li Xiaoren smiled hypocritically: "Of course that's good."

The two bid farewell to Tang Shen together and went to Funing Palace.

On the second day, when Tang Shen went to the post house again, he did not see Li Jingde among the accompanying officials.Without Li Jingde's backing, Meng Lang became a little timid in an instant. He found an excuse and left the post house, pushing the matter to tomorrow.

On the other side, Li Jingde hurried back to Youzhou.He had just arrived in Youzhou City, instead of going to Northwest Daying, he went to Yin Yinsi and called Wang Xiao directly.Wang Xiao thought to himself that he hadn't offended this killing god, and saw Li Jingde plucked his ears, and said, "I heard from Mr. Tang that you are responsible for everything about Yin Yinsi?"

Wang Xiao was startled, he didn't know how to answer.

Li Jingde is not an official of Yinyin Division, he is Marshal Zhengxi.Can you tell Li Jingde about their placement of spies in the Liao Kingdom? How much does Li Jingde know?

Seeing this, Li Jingde immediately understood.He slapped the table and pretended to be angry: "This general can still lie to you, of course it was Tang Jingze who told me personally!"

Wang Xiao: "...the subordinate officials are in charge."

Li Jingde cut to the chase: "Where is the second prince of Liao Kingdom now?"

Wang Xiao thought to himself: This General Li actually knows that the biggest spy they have installed in the Liao Kingdom is Xiao Zhen, the political officer of Zuo Pingzhang under the command of the second prince of the Liao Kingdom.It seems that Li Jingde really knows the inside story.

So he said: "Brother Yelushe should be in Xijin Mansion in Nanjing."

"He's gone to Shengjing!"

"what?!"

Li Jingde rolled his eyes, attracted Wang Xiao, and whispered in his ear: "Even Xiao Zhen didn't know about it, it seems that this matter was done in secret, and no one knew about it. Then Brother Yelushe went to Shengjing secretly, there must be some conspiracy. Didn’t the princes of the Liao Kingdom have a great fight and killed our Princess Anding as a pawn? Then why not follow their wishes? So, it’s better to reveal the whereabouts of Brother Yelushe. The Liao Kingdom hates it the most Who is Brother Yelushe? The Prince Taibao Yeluyin who was dismissed from office, and the third prince Yeluhan and Prince Taishi Yeluding after Yeluyin disappeared. My lord Wang, do you know what to do?"

Wang Xiao looked at Li Jingde in surprise. He didn't expect General Li to be brave and resourceful, and he could use his tricks. He thought of this.

Wang Xiao immediately said: "The lower officials know!"

Li Jingde nodded in satisfaction.

In Shengjing City, Brother Yelushe was in the post house, conspiring with Liao envoy Xiao Zhang.But he didn't know that a secret letter had been sent to Xijin Mansion of Liao Kingdom along with a cart of tea, and sent to Xiao Zhen, the political officer of Zuo Pingzhang under his command.

Three days later, the news that Brother Yelushe was not in Xijin Mansion came out of nowhere and spread throughout Nanjing.

Xiao Zhen paled in panic, hurriedly approached Yeluqin and told him about the matter. "Lord Yelu, is it true that the Second Highness is not in Xijin Mansion? Didn't His Highness come to Xijin Mansion to recuperate from a hunting injury a few days ago?"

When Yeluqin heard about this, he was also horrified, "How could there be such a rumor?"

Xiao Zhen heard it: "Second Highness is really not in Xijin Mansion?"

Yeluqin said anxiously: "Not here! It's broken, Your Highness came to Xijin Mansion to recuperate from illness a month ago, and just left Dading Mansion on the grounds of recuperation, avoiding the matter of the Fourth Prince and Princess Anding. Now, once the news reaches the capital, even if His Majesty does not inquire, Yeluhan and Yelvding will seize the opportunity to question the whereabouts of His Highness the Second Highness. This matter is very important, you have done a good job, I will go find the Second Highness right now."

Xiao Zhen said eagerly: "You can't spoil the important matter of the Second Highness!"

On October [-]th, the first snow of the year fell in Shengjing City.

The envoys of the Liao Kingdom still stayed in the post house, and they were determined to ask the Song Dynasty to give an explanation.

Tang Shen came out from the imperial censor's platform. He opened the oil-paper umbrella and was about to step into the snow when he saw Liu Dushan's sedan chair coming out of the door.Doctor Yushi is a third-rank official, and Liu Dushan can be regarded as Tang Shen's immediate boss.Tang Shen immediately stopped, and slightly bowed to Master Liu's sedan chair.

Liu Dushan saw Tang Shen through the gap in the sedan chair curtain, he said loudly: "Stop the sedan chair."

Tang Shen looked at him in surprise, only to see Liu Dushan lifted the sedan chair curtain from inside, and said with a smile, "Master Tang is going home?"

Tang Shen: "Responding to your lord's words, that's right."

Liu Dushan looked at the snow falling from the sky, and said with emotion: "It's snowing quite heavily, why doesn't Mr. Tang sit in a sedan chair?"

Tang Shen smiled bitterly and said, "Your Excellency is teasing the lower officials. According to the laws of the Song Dynasty, only third-rank officials can use official sedan chairs."

Liu Dushan was taken aback: "I forgot."

It can't be blamed that Liu Dushan forgot, everyone in the court didn't know that Tang Shen was an official of the fourth rank, but had the power of the third rank.He was too young, and Zhao Fu would not easily promote him, so he specially sent Yu Chaosheng to be the left deputy censor of Yinyin Division, who was in the same rank as Tang Shen, and secretly raised his rank.

Liu Dushan: "The Yushi Terrace is quite close to the Hubu Yamen, maybe Mr. Tang wait a while and go back with Mr. Wang?"

Tang Shen was startled and said: "Brother is back?!"

Liu Dushan smiled, sure enough, this Tang Shen has a very good relationship with Wang Zifeng, and he blurted out that they were "Senior Brother".

Liu Dushan: "I went to the Qinzheng Hall at noon today to run a business. I happened to meet Mr. Wang. It seemed that he had just returned from Jinling Mansion. It was snowing very hard. Mr. Tang can also go directly to the Ministry of Households to find Mr. Wang."

Tang Shen saluted, Liu Dushan closed the sedan chair curtain, carried the sedan chair and left.

Goose feather heavy snow fell densely from the sky, and the cold wind in the snow was biting, but Tang Shen's heart was beating hotly.He held the umbrella handle tightly, pondered for a long time in the snow, gritted his teeth, made up his mind, and turned to walk towards the yamen of the household department.He mustered up great courage and came to the yamen of the Ministry of Households. Unexpectedly, the official said: "Master Shangshu went to the palace half an hour ago and has not returned yet. Now that he has left the yamen, Lord Shangshu may not come to the hukou again today." department."

The raging flames in Tang Shen's heart were instantly extinguished by the heavy snow.

He gave a soft "oh", and walked back silently holding the oil-paper umbrella.

The white snow is fine and dense, gently falling on the umbrella surface, the snow falls silently, and the world suddenly becomes quiet.When Tang Shen walked to the Yamen of Yushitai, he saw a sedan chair parked at the door from a distance, he took a look and then looked away, looking down at the gradually accumulated snow layer on the ground, feeling calm and lost in his heart.

Walking to the gate of Yushitai, only to hear a clear and gentle voice, Tang Shen's heart skipped a beat, he thought he had heard it wrong, and continued to walk forward.

Until the voice smiled again and called again: "Little Junior Brother."

Tang Shen turned his head suddenly, and saw Wang Zifeng wearing a snow-white fox fur cloak in the white snow, leaning against the sedan chair, looking at him with a light smile.Snowflakes fell on his long black hair, like embellishments, it looked cool and cool, the black and white complemented each other, and the beauty was astonishing.

Tang Shen stood there blankly, looking at Wang Qin not far away.

Looking at his appearance, Wang Qin sighed in his heart, how could he not feel distressed.

He stretched out his hand and said softly, "Come here, Jing Ze."

Tang Shen stood still, seemingly neither hearing nor walking over.

Wang Qin looked at him with silent eyes. After a long time, he finally surrendered.He sighed a long time, then went straight up and grabbed Tang Shen's hand, held his umbrella, and led him into the sedan chair.

The warm air in the sedan chair woke Tang Shen up suddenly, and he found himself sitting with Wang Qin, the space in the sedan chair was small, and Wang Qin was still holding his hand.

Tang Shen subconsciously wanted to break away: "Senior brother..." The voice stopped suddenly, Tang Shen didn't expect that Wang Zifeng would let go of his hand before he struggled.

Tang Shen slowly raised his head and looked at Wang Qin.

Wang Qin smiled at him, as usual, with a gentle voice: "It happened to pass by Yushitai, and the snow was falling so heavily, so I wanted to give you a ride along the way."

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