The night ban began at the first quarter of Xu, but the city gates were closed much earlier than the first quarter of Xu. Looking from outside the city during the day, it just looks like a majestic capital. After nightfall, when viewed from the dark, it looks more like a towering city.
A huge thing on the plain. On the four walls, through the lanterns hanging high on the towers and the torches on every few arrow stacks, patrol figures walking back and forth can be vaguely seen. Occasionally, someone will look down from the crenellations.
, there are also dark shadows on the city wall and arrow tower above the urn gate.
Therefore, when a burst of rapid horse hoofbeats gradually came from the west of Fucheng Gate, the well-trained sergeants immediately reported it one by one. Li Zi, who was on duty in the tower that night, immediately brought several people with him.
The soldiers came to the city wall above the Fuchengmen Urn gate.
Before he could speak, someone shouted loudly: "Uncle Jingyang is escorting the imperial envoy Pingbei Bo back to the capital, please release the basket quickly!"
Li Zi was startled at first, and then immediately startled. However, the task of guarding Fucheng Gate was extremely important. After a brief thought, he ordered his accompanying deputy Qianhu to sit in the hanging basket and go down. When the sound came from below
After confirming the information, he made a gesture to his subordinates. When the first two people climbed onto the city wall, he looked through the light of the torch and saw that they were an old man and a young man. The older one was obviously over seventy years old.
, and the younger one seemed to be less than twenty. Standing there, the contrast was so strong that it made him murmur in his heart.
He knew the older one, he was undoubtedly Shenying, but he had never met the younger one, but since he came up with Shenying, he must be the most favored Uncle Ping Bei in front of the emperor.
"For humble positions, see Pingbei Bo and Jingyang Bo."
"Um."
Xu Xun nodded, and then said with a smile: "You are cautious and sent people to investigate, which is good."
This sentence sounds good and plain, but Li Zi is still smiling. When about ten or twenty servants under the city all went up to the tower one by one, and the rest took their empty mounts back to the Xishan camp, Xu Xun took a look around
The sergeants who turned the roulette wheel to pull up the hanging basket winked at Cao Qian: "We encountered some twists and turns on the road, so we had to go to the city overnight. Thank you for your hard work. You will be on duty tonight. Tomorrow at noon
I invite you all to have a drink at Fuqing Tower, Xisi Archway!"
After saying this, he said to Shenying: "It's getting late, Uncle Jingyang, let's go into the city!"
Because Fucheng Gate has also been closed, even if you go down the stairs inside the city gate, you can't enter the city. Therefore, Li Zi had no choice but to lead everyone to send Xu Xun and his party down in hanging baskets. When everyone was sent away, he thought
Following Xu Xun's invitation to have a drink, he saw a dozen or so sergeants clinging to the wall at the crenellation and watching the soldier walking quickly eastward along Fuchengmen Street, and he couldn't help but coughed dryly.
"What are you looking at? Mr. Pingbei has always said that you are indispensable for tomorrow's lunch. Why don't you all return to your place?"
"Li Qianhu, are Uncle Pingbei and Uncle Jingyang planning to walk home?"
Hearing this, Li Zi was stunned for a moment, and then scolded him angrily: "Don't forget that there are also patrols from the Five Cities Military and Horse Division on the road. They will meet you soon. You don't need to worry about it. Everyone.
Return to your positions and cheer up. If you dare to be lazy, you won't have to eat the wine tomorrow!"
When everyone on the city tower ended the brief commotion and returned to their positions to continue guarding, Xu Xun and Shenying soon met a group of patrolling guards from the Xicheng Bingma Division. Xu Xun and Shenying
Ying's family lived in Xicheng, and it was common to go out at night. The deputy commander of the troops who recognized them not only readily lent his own horse, but also pulled out the horses of several subordinates and borrowed them, and even went to help
He knocked on two stores on the north side of Fuchengmen Street and asked directly to borrow a horse. Xu Xun directly left the money as a pledge, and his name was really useful, so the two stores were reluctant to do so.
He immediately led the horse out happily...
Although he was eager to return home, Xu Xun did not rush home immediately. Instead, he and Shenying and his party rushed straight to Lingji Hutong. When he jumped down neatly in front of the Xichang Gate, he heard the movement
A fan who came out to check only glanced at it, then turned around and ran away like a gust of wind.
"Eunuch Gu, boss, Uncle Pingbei is back!"
This burst of yelling alerted the people inside for a moment. When Gu Dayong and Huitong came out one after another, they saw the figure of Xu Xun striding in with a riding whip. As soon as the two sides met, Gu Dayong and Huitong came out one after another.
Dayong first stopped and looked at Xu Xun for a while, then stepped forward and hugged Xu Xun's arms with a smile.
"Well, I came back from a trip to the northwest. I looked darker and thinner, but in the end I became a lot stronger!"
"Does this need to be said? It's strange that you're not thin or black after eating sand all day long!" Xu Xun looked at Gu Dayong with a smile, and then joked, "I don't know how much you ate in the capital.
You look like you’ve gained weight again!”
"I have a generous heart and a fat body, but I have a dry heart and a fat body. There is nothing I can do about it!" Gu Dayong chuckled, and then said to Shenying, "Uncle Jingyang, if we don't see each other all day long, I won't greet you anymore.
.Anyway, Brother Xu has been living outside for almost three months. He has not yet hugged the fat girl at home, so I have to comfort him first!"
Shenying suddenly laughed bitterly: "You should comfort and comfort him, but you should also comfort and comfort me! He had entered Juyongguan a long time ago, but on the way, he was blocked by a large tree with rocks and rocks from nowhere, followed closely by another
I was attacked by an assassin once. God knows, when I heard the word "assassin", my heart almost jumped out of my throat. I was afraid that something like this would happen again like before!"
Huitong followed Gu Dayong and only met Xu Xun's eyes for a moment.
But at this moment, when he heard that he had really met an assassin, his face suddenly darkened, and he couldn't help but interrupt and said: "Did Uncle Jingyang personally lead his troops to meet him, or did he meet an assassin?"
"Genuine goods." Xu Xun said these four words concisely and concisely, and then said, "It is inconvenient to talk in this yard."
Gu Dayong invited Xu Xun and Shenying into the room together. Huitong naturally called a few managers from the West Factory to greet the others. However, when he was about to enter, he suddenly noticed that there was someone beside Cao Qian.
A capable-looking man couldn't help but take a few more glances. After waiting for a long time, he arrived at the room where Gu Dayong usually handled official duties. As soon as he stepped into the threshold, he heard a bang. Apparently, it was three people.
I don't know which one of them slapped the table.
However, after he actually entered the room, none of the three people showed any signs of patting the table. Before he could say anything in confusion, Gu Dayong suddenly turned to look at him and ordered: "Old Zhong, you go
A message came from the palace, saying that Uncle Pingbei was back and that he must send a message to the emperor so that the emperor could have a peaceful sleep. The emperor had asked him countless times from afternoon to evening, but Uncle Jingyang did not say anything but meeting.
I haven’t sent any other messages!”
"I was so busy cleaning up the mess that I didn't have time to say anything else. Didn't I just send the people back in one piece?"
Seeing that Huitong agreed and went out, Shenying said in a deep voice: "Eunuch Gu is right, Eunuch Liu couldn't have done this!"
Xu Xun also helplessly spread his hands: "I know it's impossible and everyone knows it's impossible, but the matter has already happened. Even if I ordered it to be sealed, there were still some passing cars and passersby around at that time. This kind of news cannot be concealed.
.You all know Lao Liu's temperament. There is a high probability that I am setting him up to take the blame. What's more, Lao Gu, you just said that An Weixue actually arrived in the capital this morning.
.”….
"Yes, it's hard for him, a civil servant, to be able to travel three hundred miles to the capital. This journey is no small matter."
Gu Dayong sneered and then explained in an orderly manner one by one all the major and minor events that had happened in the capital recently, especially the letter left by the emperor to accuse Liu Jin and the matter of Liu Jin's heat stroke. He carefully selected them and gave them to Xu Xun in detail.
After saying that, he said with a smile: "The first one made Old Liu very angry, but in the end Rui Sheng was clever and instigated the emperor to go to our future queen, and then went to the empress dowager in Qingning Palace.
, in the end it was nothing. If you ask me to say that Lao Liu was smart all his life and was confused for a while, the virtue of this civil servant is that he would like to die for advice. Who would be so sneaky? The person who did this was either Luo Xiang, Wei Bin, Ma Yongcheng, Luo Xiang
When I came back from Huaiyang, I was really disappointed..."
While Xu Xun was listening to Gu Dayong talk about the big scandals in the capital, he also asked Liu Jin in detail about the government orders these days. He heard that in addition to the ridiculous farming order in Shaanxi, he also had to measure the acres of land and determine the size of the land.
The Canal Banknote Tariff Law... There were no less than 20 new policies in various categories, and he couldn't help but secretly clicked his tongue.
Liu Jin's thoughts are really too big and too urgent!
Huitong has always been resolute and resolute. Now that Gu Dayong gave the order, he immediately sent a message to Xi'an Gate. So, even in the middle of the night, the sound of galloping horses was heard in Xiyuan. When the news came from the west
The news reached Chengqian Palace one by one. Ruisheng was relieved after receiving the news. He walked to the door of Xinuang Pavilion and gently opened the curtain and took a look. He saw that the figure who was tossing and turning on the bed was now motionless. He hesitated.
After a while, he tiptoed in.
He originally planned to stay at the bedside, so that if Zhu Houzhao woke up, he could report it immediately. However, he didn't want him to stand in front of the bed. Zhu Houzhao, who had his back turned to him, suddenly muttered: "It's so late, what's the matter?"
?”
"Your Majesty, Uncle Pingbei has entered the city and is currently in the west factory of Lingji Hutong."
"Um?!"
Suddenly, Zhu Houzhao lifted up the quilt and sat up. He stared at Ruisheng for a moment and made sure that the other party was not lying to him. He breathed a long sigh of relief and then complained: "I have traveled a long way to get here."
When you come back, you won’t go back to see your wife and children. Why did you go to Lingji Hutong West Factory first? You might as well come to see me first!”
"Your Majesty, the palace door has been locked. Uncle Pingbei also went to Xichang to report that he is safe, so that Eunuch Gu can deliver a letter to the palace..."
After being reminded by Ruisheng, Zhu Houzhao just snorted, and then said with piercing eyes: "Ruisheng, if there is a key under the palace gate that others can't get in, can I get out?"
Facing Zhu Houzhao's excited look as if he was about to do it, Ruisheng hesitated for a long time, and finally said helplessly: "If the emperor wants Uncle Pingbei to be announced to the palace and reprimanded by the empress dowagers of the two palaces just after he came back, then
I will sacrifice my life to accompany the emperor."
Zhu Houzhao stared at Ruisheng for a long time. Seeing the uncompromising look on the little guy's face, he couldn't help but fell back angrily, then grabbed the quilt and covered his head.