"The clouds are beginning to rise, the sun is sinking into the pavilion, and the mountain rain is about to come, and the wind is filling the building." [Xianyang City East Tower]
Zou was the daughter Liu Jiang selected into the palace and placed next to Fu Shou. At first, Liu Jiang valued her for her outstanding beauty. Keeping her next to Fu Shou would help Fu Shou retain the emperor's attention. Feng Fang
The same goes for women, but Ms. Zou is more mature and smarter than Ms. Feng Fang. She vaguely noticed that Liu Jiang's gaze towards her seemed to convey some kind of message, and after receiving the 'punishment', she prepared to go to a side hall to wash up.
When she was getting dressed, she took the initiative to stop Feng Fangnu, wanting to accept the punishment alone.
"This is not possible, I still want to go alone." Feng Fangnu looked at the sister in front of her who had been taking care of her, and said very seriously: "This matter has nothing to do with you in the first place, why did you have to bear all the trouble for me just now?
To share the blame? I was a little forgetful and didn't take good care of the young master, so just let me go alone..." She pressed Zou's hand, as if she suddenly grew up and understood things. In fact, she was very grateful in her heart.
Zou has taken care of her for a long time and does not want the other party to suffer for her own sake: "Good sister, please listen to me this time. The noble lady is pregnant with the child. Once the two of us leave, if anything happens, who can take care of her?"
Coming?"
Zou thought the same thing. Now Fu Shou also had the prince Liu Xi and the Song palace man besides himself. If something happened, Zhao Cainu alone would really be in a hurry. Compared to Liu Jiang's secret instructions,
Zou wanted to stay by Fu Shou's side during this critical period. The lessons of Song Capital's loss of power were just around the corner, and she could not let Fu Shou be put in danger.
"I didn't expect that there would be times when you would be sensible." Mrs. Zou took a step back and made a choice: "I thought you just knew how to hide and play around all day long." She looked at the bright light shining on Feng Fangnu's bun.
I thought of a recent rumor that Empress Dong donated the palace servants around her to the emperor in order to invite favors. I am afraid that Feng Fangnu on my side will follow in her footsteps soon... After all, I heard
The emperor paid attention to the other party more than once, but Fu Shou did not let go.
Thinking of this, Mrs. Zou joked: "Just do some heavy work like washing clothes. Don't damage your hands by washing them. I may have to call you noble in the future."
"You're making fun of me again." Feng Fangnu's face turned red and she lowered her head.
Chang'an, Duli.
Duli is not a village where rich people live together. After Wang Ling left office, the newly appointed Chang'an magistrate Zuo Ling did not pay attention to these small villages. Unlike the stone roads on the main roads in the city, there are still many buildings here.
It was a bumpy loess road. After a rain, the alley was full of mud and puddles, and the air was filled with a turbid stench.
Several children aged four, five or six were chasing and playing happily in the alley. They were barefoot and didn't care about the dirt on the ground. A few children gathered under a jujube tree and drank a puddle of yellow mud seriously.
There was a skinny little child standing not far away, staring blankly at the place.
"Asu, come here!" An older child under the tree reached out and waved to the child standing far away, with an innocent smile on his face: "Come here!"
This sound was like an order, and it contained enough temptation to make the lonely child walk over.
"Would you like to eat sesame cakes?" The leading child raised his head and looked at Asu enthusiastically.
Asu's eyes lit up and he said simply: "I want to eat it!"
The leading child smiled slyly, pinched a few pebbles from the ground, and sprinkled them on the yellow mud that he kneaded into a cake shape. He presented the cake-shaped mud to Asu: "Then I'll treat you to it!"
"I don't want it, I don't want it!"
"Eat! Eat quickly!" The innocent child suddenly revealed his dark nature. Together, they grabbed the timid and introverted Asu, who had never had a mother since childhood, and began to put mud on his face.
"What are you doing?" An adult came over and yelled, "Stop it!"
The group of children was stunned for a moment. One of the leading children looked forward and found that among the adults who had walked in at some unknown time, his uncle, Du Lili, was also among them. He cleverly revealed his cute expression
Laughing, he shouted crisply: "Uncle!"
"Get away!" Uncle Li Zheng, who had always been kind, did not give him a good look. After driving these naughty boys away, Li Zheng pointed at Ah, whose face was covered with tears, and his hair and cheeks were stained with yellow mud.
With a flattering smile on Su.'s face, she said to the man wearing gorgeous dark clothes beside her: "This is the child."
A small car with green curtains was parked low-key on one side of the alley. Wu Da from the Zhonghuang Gate walked through the mud and walked over from a distance. He explained what he had just seen through the wall of the car: "... Already
He took the young master to take a bath and eat hot soup cakes, and now he went to rest aside. According to Li Zheng, Qin Yi was seriously injured in Liangzhou. Although the court later provided compensation and was appointed to Huayin County
He wanted to punish Cao, but he was bad at what he did, so the matter was shelved. Perhaps because his future was hopeless, Qin Yi drank all day long and ignored everything..."
"You don't even care about your children?" The woman in the car complained angrily, "How could he do this!"
Wu Da stood quietly outside the car, neither persuading nor doing anything. When the people in the car calmed down, he heard her ask cautiously: "Why don't Mr. Wu bring the child?"
"It's not the time yet. As long as you want to see it, you can see it anytime in the future." Wu Dapi said with a smile. He was young and was the capable assistant of Mu Shun of Xiaohuangmen. This time he was ordered to leave the palace.
, is to untie the knot of people in the car. In fact, it is not difficult to choose. One is rich and the other is poor. Wu Daxiang also knows how the people in the car will choose.
After a long time, the woman in the car seemed to have been relieved of a heavy burden, and said softly: "...Go back."
Wu Da immediately took action and left the alley with the green curtain car as quickly as he came.
Not long after the car drove away, several figures appeared at the end of the alley. They were Yan Qian, Li Yi and others. After asking the nearby pavilion chief and Li Zheng for the news, Li Yi looked at the leaving car in confusion.
Ma said: "It's so strange. The Zhonghuangmen in the palace came to Duli to find out what Qin Yi and his son were doing?"
"Is it for the Du family?" Yan Qian had a terrible idea in his mind. When he was asking around for information about Guo Zhao, Shunman learned that the Du family seemed to have the same last whereabouts as Guo Zhao, so he investigated all the way.
, happened to see this scene: "Could it be that Dong Cheng sent Mrs. Du to the palace in order to clear up the relationship? In this way, no one can find her whereabouts."
"Then the person in the car just now must be the Du family?" Li Yi still felt very strange. He touched his chin: "Sending people into the palace without authorization and ignoring the palace ban, Dong Cheng is so bold."
"This alone is enough to convict him of death." Yan Qian said this. After knowing that Guo Zhao might be deep in Weiyang Palace, he was not so anxious. With a clear location, after finishing Dong Cheng's case
After the incident, Chen explained the reason, which naturally allowed Guo Zhao to be released from the palace. Suddenly, Yan Qian felt a sense of justice and couldn't help but mind his own business. During his stay in Guanzhong, he heard a lot about Dong Zhao.
Cheng Cheng's misdeeds were so bad that if he had the opportunity to seize the other party's leverage, he would naturally be willing to take action: "We have to go find Wang Fu first."
"There are also embroidered clothes and pointed fingers." Li Yi thought of going with him and then added.
"Look for both of them. This is not something we can take on." Yan Gan thought calmly for a while and said: "I think when I was chatting with Wang Fu, the man next to him, Xiang Cun, mentioned it many times.
Qin Yi's family. Now that I think about the meaning of his words, it seems that he had the idea of involving Wang Fu..."
Only then did Li Yi remember: "Xiang Cun and Qin Yi had been on good terms, and perhaps they had the intention of letting the Wang family and the Dong family fight to avenge their old friends."
"This matter may need to be carefully planned." Yan Qian patted Li Yi on the back and said, "Go back first!"
After returning home, he naturally told Wang Fu, Wang Yue and others in a roundabout way. Wang Yue, the embroidered cloth messenger, was obviously cautious and calm about this matter. He just told Li Yi, "Leave this matter for later discussion", and then said nothing.
Don't mention what to do. If Wang Yue hadn't been personally promoted by the emperor and didn't have much contact with Dong Cheng, Li Yi would have doubted Wang Yue's position.
Wang Fu's attitude was exactly the opposite. He keenly seized this opportunity and was eager to take action.
When he returned home and saw his cheerful appearance, Wang Duan couldn't help but ask a few questions. When he learned the cause of the incident, he was shocked and immediately wanted to lock Wang Fu up: "This matter must not be messed up! The Dong family is so powerful that the Queen
You are pregnant again, do you want to bring him down just because of this? My family is weak now, so you should give me more peace of mind!"
Wang Duan was overly cautious by nature. He admitted that he was a little afraid of Dong Cheng's growing power in the past two years, because he knew that since the death of his father Wang Bin, his family no longer had the greatest support. He could only rely on himself.
With Wang Fu and Wang Fu, two young men who resigned from office and observed filial piety, together with the Mi family's wife clan, could they fight against the powerful Dong Cheng? Wang Duan did not think that the emperor's affection and trust in the two brothers would be as strong as in his late father's.
Same as Wang Bin.
"Brother!" Wang Fu didn't expect that his amiable brother would suddenly turn against him. Before being taken away by the healthy servant brought back from Youzhou, he said anxiously: "This matter is important, don't make a mistake! If you make a mistake,
From now on, I, the Wang family..."
Wang Duan was no longer in the mood to listen to what was said after that. Of course he understood Wang Fu's hard work, but he also understood that at this juncture, after even the Yang family, Huang family and others had lost power, Wang Duan, who had just arrived, did not have the same relationship with Dong.
Have the courage to face tough situations.
Of course, Wang Duan's prudent move was very appropriate in hindsight, but he did not have the ability and courage to attract people's attention. He did not see that because of Guan Ning's death, Yuan Tingwei Shejian stood by and watched Dong Cheng.
He was forced to leave the political center and became a postdoctoral fellow in Taixue. The new Tingwei was surprisingly Yang Pei, who was famous for his strict law enforcement and was dismissed for breaking the law.
After all the hardships, Yang Pei finally got the position of the Nine Ministers that belonged to him. In the eyes of those who were interested, this seemed to mean that the emperor had pulled out a sharp blade with a dazzling light from its sheath.
Because he had no official position and was not in the court, Wang Duan did not know that the two forces headed by Dong Cheng and Liu Yu had launched several fierce attacks on the court.
Dong Cheng first used the topic as an excuse to impeach Liu He for his lack of control and incompetence on the grounds of the internal disputes in Dasinong, which Liu He belonged to. Especially after seeing the emperor's attitude that he did not want to protect him, Dong Cheng even wanted to take advantage of this.
The situation forced Liu Yu to submit, so that he could compromise on Fan Chou's matter.
"Liu Gong has always been gentle and modest, but he is also very stubborn on some things, otherwise he would not have had an irreconcilable quarrel with Gongsun Zan." In the carriage entering Chang'an, Fazheng sat upright, and his body followed the carriage as it came off the bridge.
He shook his head and said, "I expect that this matter, whether it is Dong Cheng or Liu Gong, will not end well in the end."
Sitting opposite Fazheng was Yang Pei, who was silent and resting with his eyes closed. He actually had no unnecessary emotions in his heart when he was ordered to enter the court this time. During this period of being left out, he did not stay home for a long time.
Instead, he traveled around, making his already dark and lean look even darker than before. After listening to Fazheng talking to himself for a while, Yang Pei persuaded him as soon as he opened his mouth: "This is a whirlpool.
If the emperor doesn't want you to come back, you shouldn't come back. Instead, you should stay in your hometown peacefully and wait for the edict. Then your official career will be very stable, instead of having to do such risky things."
Fazheng has become much calmer in the past few years. He was not angry after hearing this. He just smiled and said: "Now everyone in the government and the public is talking about getting rid of the Dong thieves again. The country has appointed Yang Gong as a court captain. Maybe this is also the intention."
?Even if I have no role in this matter, I still want to take a good look at the methods of the princes in the court."
Yang Pei closed his eyelids slightly, as if he didn't want to say anything more. Since he could agree to let Fa Zheng ride with him, he naturally affirmed Fa Zheng's approach from the bottom of his heart. It was just out of friendship for his old friend Fa Yan that he didn't want to let him go.
It's just a matter of risk.
"...I didn't expect that after working for so long, Da Sinong's prestige was not enough to convince the public." Fa Zheng was full of energy in the car, especially when he heard the lively shouts and cries in the East and West Market, which he had not seen for a long time, his mood was worse than before entering the city.
Even better: "I'm afraid it won't be safe this time. Mr. Yang, don't you have any idea about this?"
"The emperor ordered me to be in charge of the court, not in charge of the agriculture." Yang Pei was already a little tired, but he knew that he could not rest because he was disturbed by Fa Zheng along the way, and he would soon have to go to the palace for an audience, so he simply didn't
He closed his eyes and rested his mind: "But why do you want to keep Da Sinong? Although Da Sinong has been internally discordant over the years, he has never made any mistakes in his work. According to Han law, this is not a dereliction of duty..."
Fazheng moved his body, with a smile on his face: "Mr. Yang, there is not only law in this world, but also other things that are practiced in the world."
Yang Pei didn't understand where Fa Zheng's confidence came from, and he himself didn't like to overthink a certain matter. That would only affect the fairness of law enforcement. Whatever the people in the court wanted to do, it was up to them.
Well, Yang Pei has already thought about his future position.