Liu Jin was well-informed and naturally knew early on that today was the return of Zhang Yong and Miao Kui. Therefore, he was not surprised when he heard that Xu Xun had led people out of the city. After all, it had been the avant-garde of the Xiyuan Army training camp since the beginning.
, Xu Xun and Zhang Yong were good enough to wear a pair of trousers. However, when he learned that Wei Bin, Luo Xiang, and Ma Yongcheng had also gone out of the city to greet them, he had to pay attention. He waited until next to report that the three of them were having a banquet at Fuqing Tower.
Zhang Yongmiaokui also took Xu Xun with him. Even after Gu Dayong went to Xu Mansion, he took Ruisheng who happened to be there to announce the good news and went straight to Fuqing Tower. He finally couldn't sit still.
However, at this moment, he, who had always been given a lot of face by everyone inside and outside the palace, was blocked downstairs. Not to mention losing face, Liu Jin also had a burning feeling in his heart.
Fire. After he vented his anger through a burst of laughter, the people above him who were laughing and talking suddenly became silent. He just looked at the two strong firemen and sneered sinisterly: "Why?
, you two are still going to stop our family?"
Everyone who served in the palace knew Liu Jin's power and methods. The two firemen would not have dared to stop Liu Jin even if they had given them ten courages. However, let alone Wei Bin's death order, if Liu Jin
I had to delay him when I came. I just found out that Ruisheng had brought the little emperor. Now, hearing this obvious threat, the two of them still bravely stopped there. One of them was even more cautious.
Said: "Eunuch Liu, all the nobles above have drunk a lot of wine. If you go up like this, I'm afraid you will see everyone's rudeness. Please don't embarrass me. Someone will come down to greet you soon..."
"
Hearing these words of procrastination, Liu Jin's smile suddenly disappeared, and she suddenly raised her hand and slapped him hard. Seeing that the young fireman was slapped by him, he staggered back two steps, but was stunned.
He held his body without falling down or giving in. He suddenly became more annoyed.
"If you don't get out of the way, don't blame us for being rude!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a laugh came from above. However, to Liu Jin's ears, it was different from the smiley voice when he just arrived downstairs. This familiar voice contained some obvious joking.
: "Old Liu is having a blast, why is he so angry? They really can't help standing in the way of you. You know, each of us drank at least a dozen glasses just now. Although we drank some sobering soup, we were so intoxicated.
If you notice your drunkenness, will it not be a joke in the future?"
Following this voice, Xu Xun walked downstairs slowly with a smile on his face. He glanced sideways at the young fireman with a clear palm mark on his left cheek, then he withdrew his gaze and said, "Everyone is here today.
They came together by chance. When you arrived, everyone had not had time to welcome you, but you were a little too impatient. The same goes for you two. Even Old Wei had ordered you to keep out of the way, but Eunuch Liu was not the one.
Outsiders, if they want to explain, they have to explain it clearly..."
Seeing that Xu Xun, who had never been talkative in the past, actually said such a lot of words, Liu Jin became more and more suspicious, and many thoughts even appeared in his mind - among them, everyone formed an alliance and conspired to deal with him upstairs, and even wrote
He had doubts about the most vulgar but also the most possible scenario of making an alliance letter, or hiding some important person, or even Qiu Ju secretly coming back. So, he didn't wait for Xu Xun to finish.
He laughed and said: "Brother Xu, what are you talking about? I remember when I met them without looking up, not to mention being drunk, I have seen them even with their pants taken off and beaten in embarrassment. Now they are all shaking. It's true.
Are you being hypocritical all of a sudden? I really don’t believe it anymore, I have to see what happens above!”
Seeing Liu Jin running up the stairs in three or two steps with rare agility at this age, Xu Xun stopped the two young firemen who were frightened, and said with a smile: "You two have tried your best today, don't do it."
Go tease Eunuch Liu again, otherwise even Eunuch Wei won't be able to protect you. And you. Hurry up and apply cold water on the slap marks on your face. If your ears feel uncomfortable, find a doctor as soon as possible.
.”….
At this point, Xu Xun seemed to be doing magic. Two coins appeared in his hand, and he threw them towards the two of them. Seeing that they all caught them in a hurry, he just said with a smile: "It's so boring upstairs, I
Go outside and get some air."
As for the two young firemen who were delighted with the sudden reward and grateful for his gentle reminder, but at the same time were even more confused about why he left Liu Jin to go outside to enjoy the breeze, that was not his concern. Shi Shiran
Stepping out of the door, I saw a group of soldiers and horses standing on the spacious Fuchengmen Street in front of Fuqing Tower. The leader, Qian Ning, scolded the sergeants around and looked around, just in time to catch his eye when he came out.
There was a positive exchange of blows.
Sure enough, Qian Ning is here too!
Qian Ning's eyes suddenly widened, and he couldn't figure out why Xu Xun came out of the restaurant at this time. Now his inner factory is Liu Jin's most powerful spy, so after informing Liu Jin today, even though Liu Jin immediately asked him
He led the team here, but after careful consideration, he agreed and only stayed outside without going in. At this moment, seeing Xu Xun looking at him with a smile, he felt a kind of fear in his heart for a while.
He was reluctant to bite the bullet and step forward.
"grown ups……"
"Did Lao Liu ask you to follow him?" Xu Xun asked casually, but did not expect Qian Ning's answer. Instead, he stretched himself and said, "Hey, Lao Gu came here specially to deliver a letter just now. Congratulations.
I was promoted to a high position, but I was forced to drink several glasses of wine, especially the emperor, who was so cruel that he almost knocked me down."
Although Xu Xun said this carelessly, Qian Ning's whole body was tense. How could he miss that key word? He only felt his heart suddenly shrinking, and then he said quietly: "Your Majesty
...The Emperor is actually here?"
"Isn't it?" Xu Xun smiled so hard that he narrowed his eyes, "The emperor didn't know where he got it from, so he disguised himself and followed Ruisheng to my house to announce the good news, and even Lao Gu didn't recognize him.
If he hadn't gone upstairs and exposed his flaw later, everyone would have been fooled by him. Today, the emperor was so happy to see so many people gathered together, so he drank a few more glasses, but ended up choking on the sobering soup.
Suddenly, a sneeze caused everyone to suffer. At this moment, Lao Liu actually barged in. When the people below stopped him, he got angry... Hey. When he got upstairs, he would know that he was a small boy.
A man's heart will judge a gentleman's belly."
Seeing that Qian Ning was dumbfounded, Xu Xun didn't say much more. Shi Shiran, with his hands behind his back, took two steps on this street that was mostly blocked for a while. His eyes fell on the flagpole of the Xisi Archway where human heads were always hung.
Summer is here, and it seems that it is not that far away from the time of execution in autumn.
When Liu Jin finally climbed the stairs in three steps and two steps, what he saw was naturally the faces that he was already very familiar with before. Although everyone looked red and drunk, how could he be gullible?
Today it was as simple as drinking to catch the wind or celebrating Xu Xun's promotion, so he looked around at everyone and said with a half-smile: "Drinking is not a shameful thing, so why avoid me? And let people stop me?"
Let me come up?"
As soon as he said these words, he originally thought that someone would always stand up to answer the question or smooth things over. Who knew that the faces of each of them were extremely strange, especially Luo Xiang, Wei Bin and Ma Yongcheng. The expressions on their faces were not so much that of conspiracy.
The embarrassment or fear of being caught on the spot is better described as schadenfreude.
Feeling something was wrong, he frowned, and then he realized that two people in the group of people had their backs to him. One of them he could recognize as Rui Sheng, and the other was wearing the clothes of the Little Fire Man.
. But since he could be present at such a critical moment today, he was certainly not an ordinary person. However, he stared at the back and looked again and again. The unusually familiar feeling finally made his expression gradually change, and in the end his voice was somewhat difficult.
He opened his mouth and asked...
"Your Majesty... Your Majesty?"
"Yes, it's me!" Zhu Houzhao turned his head angrily, and seeing Liu Jin's dumbfounded look, he said angrily, "There happened to be a lot of people here today, so I was happy and had a few more drinks with them.
, You’re here right now, what kind of bullshit are you putting on, and you’re making sarcastic comments and slapping people down below?”
How did he know that Ruisheng actually abducted Zhu Houzhao today! Those spies he sent in front of the imperial court were all blind!
Liu Jin glanced at Ruisheng, who was beside Zhu Houzhao with a low eyebrow, in shock and anger. After a while, he apologized and explained with a smile: "Your Majesty, the servants just rushed over happily, but they were stopped by the two dogs.
, just out of urgency..."
"Excited? Are you looking so angry?" Zhu Houzhao's previous enthusiasm was completely defeated by Liu Jin. He immediately stood up and slapped the case in annoyance, "Just to delay you for a while, you look like this.
, one can imagine what kind of temper you always have! Come on, I also drank the wine, Zhang Yong Miao Kui also accepted it, Xu Xun’s congratulations were over, and now I am very sleepy, and I plan to go back to sleep, since you
If you are anxious to join in the fun, then continue the fun with them! Ruisheng, let’s go!”
Seeing Zhu Houzhao drink, Ruisheng immediately stood up and followed the fast-paced Zhu Houzhao downstairs. Liu Jin opened his mouth several times and wanted to ask the little emperor to stay, but when he reached his mouth, he didn't know what to say. He just
He could hear Xu Xun and Zhu Houzhao saying a few words, and after a long silence, the sound of footsteps going upstairs was heard. He thought it was Zhu Houzhao who was persuaded by Xu Xun to change his mind, but finally went up
When I came upstairs, I hurriedly walked forward to greet him. Who knew that the only person who came up was Xu Xun, who had a look of helplessness on his face.
"Old Liu, can you change your short temper?"
Xu Xun blocked Liu Jin with one sentence as soon as he came up, and then he sighed and said: "It's rare that the emperor left the palace today and met so many people here. He was planning to abandon the etiquette and make a fuss. What a good result.
As soon as he came to join in the fun, he got angry and ran away! I stopped him just now, wasn't it because the emperor sneezed and made everyone embarrassed, and everyone was in a hurry to clean up?"
You didn’t tell me earlier!
Liu Jin felt extremely bitter in his heart for a moment. However, although the five big men here had a close relationship with him in the past, they were not very considerate now. He could not find any of them who could comfort him.
Although he vaguely felt that the little emperor would not neglect him for such a trivial matter, he was not sure in his heart. Even if he was sure, if what happened today got into Zhu Houzhao's heart, it would not be possible.
Okay. So, he took a deep breath and finally forced a smile out.
"I've always been such a hot-tempered person, don't you guys know that? Come on, today I was impulsive and messed up everyone's good things. I don't have anything to say, so I'll punish myself!"
After saying this, Liu Jin didn't care what others said, and without saying a word, he picked up a jug next to him. He weighed that there should be more than half a jug of wine in it, so he pulled out the cork of the bottle at once, followed by gurgling.
He poured it straight down his throat. Being a heavy drinker, he originally just wanted to relieve his embarrassment and leave as soon as possible, but as soon as the wine entered his throat, he felt something was wrong.
It was not a weak drink. The moment the drink entered the throat, it was burning, and the moment it entered the stomach, it suddenly burned like a ball of fire. However, there was no turning back, and he had already said what he said.
At this time, he had to keep pouring his heart out until most of the bottle of wine was gone into his stomach. When he put down the bottle of wine, he even felt a little unsteady, but Xu Xun, who was beside him, stretched out his hand.
Give him a hand...
"Old Liu, 伱 is really... This is the roasted knife that was just served. Everyone was making bets on who can drink it. 伱 is good. Even people who are not good at drinking can't hold it. 伱 turned out to be more than half a pot!
"Xu Xun shouted loudly as he spoke. "Come here, help Eunuch Liu back quickly and let him go back and have a good rest. Even sobering soup won't work with such strong alcohol!"
Liu Jin wanted to open his mouth and say something, but this time his tongue and teeth failed to obey him. Therefore, when the next few of his followers hurriedly came up to help him, he had no choice but to let them help him down, who was top-heavy.
.It wasn't until the cold wind blew when they left Fuqing Tower, and Qian Ning, who had a look of fear on his face, hurried forward to greet him, that Liu Jin's mind suddenly sobered up.
No, how could there be so many coincidences? He was tricked by that kid, and he must have been tricked by Xu Xun!
Xu Xun, who was standing at the window, saw Liu Jin being helped into the carriage. The group of people left in a hurry, and he couldn't help but smile. At this time, someone at the table finally couldn't help laughing. He turned his head
Looking around, I saw that the person who was leaning forward and laughing non-stop was none other than Luo Xiang. Not only was he laughing, he was also laughing and slapping the table with his hands.
"I've known Lao Liu for so long... except when he was implicated by Li Guang. I've never seen him in such a mess!" Knowing that the people here today are not ordinary people, my gloating attitude will definitely not spread to others.
After hearing Liu Jin's ears, he slapped the table a few times, and even leaned back exaggeratedly. He finally calmed down the smile, and then he snorted, "This is an investigation, but the result is to kick the iron plate. It's so happy."
, what a pleasure!”
Now that Luo Xiang has spoken, even though when Xu Xun and Zhang Yong Miao Kui expressed their intention to form an alliance, they all mumbled their words, but Wei Bin still struck while the iron was hot and said: "You
We have also seen that Old Liu is acting condescendingly now. He will break in when he says it and beat people when he says it. If the emperor were not here today, even if Brother Xu is now the newly promoted Marquis of Pingbei, it would be a huge loss.
, it’s still unknown whether he can be suppressed? He is always calculating this and that, and he only thinks that others are the same as him. I think he wants to monopolize power and is going crazy!"
"We are not greedy, and we don't want to take away his power. As long as he doesn't monopolize all the ways and is not even willing to share a piece of the pie with others, that will be fine." Ma Yongcheng sighed, but sincerely
He said, "Actually, it was Lao Qiu's sad departure that gave us a wake-up call. His power in both the government and the opposition is now so powerful that he can't do anything about it. Not to mention me, even me, Lao Wei and Lao Luo, are not him."
Our opponents. So Brother Xu, Lao Zhang, and Eunuch Miao, the three of us have no other intentions. We just want you to give us a hand at the critical moment!"
This time, Xu Xun didn't look at him like he did at first. He put away the half-smiling expression, pondered for a moment and then nodded: "My lips are dead and my teeth are cold. It's no wonder you have this idea. Even though I can't
I really have that ability, but if it’s just this, I can clearly promise you today. But even if I, Xu Xun, are around for a day, I will never let you end up like Lao Qiu!"
Zhang Yongye said sternly: "After all, we all sat on the same boat in the East Palace back then, it's not like we have any deep hatred! But if it really comes to that, I needless to say, I will definitely give you a hand."
Now half of Miao Kui's body is about to be buried, but since he still has great ambitions, facing the attitude of these three old people who looked down upon them after becoming powerful for a while, Miao Kui smiled in humiliation.
, then nodded and said: "As long as my old face still works for one day, I won't just watch you guys suffer misfortune."
Xu Xun always sticks to his word when doing things, and Zhang Yong and Miao Kui are not people like Liu Jin who are sweet-talking and secretive. Therefore, after getting this promise, Wei Bin, Ma Yongcheng, and Luo Xiang were all happy for a while. When the people below came up to clean up this
The food and drinks were placed on the table again, and the table was set up again. The three of them enthusiastically pulled Xu Xun and others to toast and arrange the dishes for a long time. Seeing that Xu Xun showed signs of fatigue, they sent him off with the opportunity.
. Seeing that the swaying three people still insisted on riding away, Luo Xiang couldn't help but break into a cold sweat.
"What can go wrong?"
"With so many guards following, what could go wrong? Unless someone gets mad and commits another assassination." Ma Yongcheng sneered, and then wiped his shiny forehead with a handkerchief, "If that's the case, we will
It's time to congratulate you. The emperor just lost his temper. If he comes again, Old Liu will have no chance of escaping... That's all. Don't even think about such a good thing. Anyway, let's get together now.
I lost such a little fox, but I can go back and take a good nap."
"What you mean is that Xu Xun had planted the assassination on the bandits before. In fact, it was probably Lao Liu..." Wei Bin's eyes lit up, and when he saw Ma Yongcheng's expression of "I just know that you know," he couldn't help but smile.
He breathed a long sigh of relief and said, "Well, we deserve it today! It's been a long time since I've seen Old Liu look so deflated, it's so satisfying!" (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come (.)
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