Chapter 397: Which one of you will be the bigger one? Who is the younger one?
The generals were pondering Chu Pingsheng's strength, while some of the civil servants went to comfort Prime Minister Lin, some discussed His Majesty's attitude towards Chu Pingsheng's master and disciple, and some stared at Xin Qiwu who was paralyzed on the ground. , the expression is indescribably weird.
This guy was promoted from the fifth rank of Honglu Temple Shaoqing to the fourth rank of Honglu Temple Minister just by relying on two cakes.
"Master Xin, congratulations, congratulations."
The two people who were obviously from the prince's lineage smiled and congratulated.
Xin Qiwu's eyes blinked and blinked, and it took him a long time to squeeze out a smile that was uglier than crying.
On the surface, he was the biggest winner of this court meeting, but in fact he felt like he had been wandering back and forth several times.
At first, when I saw Chu Pingsheng being so bold and forcing him to play with him, I felt a lot of panic in my heart. The officials behind me were furious and wanted His Majesty to deal with Chu Pingsheng, and their hearts were in their throats. Son, I am afraid that I will be harmed by Chiyu.
Following on, Chu Pingsheng refuted his critics one by one, and His Majesty also expressed his support. He was beautiful and thought that the weather had cleared up, the rain had stopped, and Xin Shaoqing was doing well again.
As a result, this happy mood flew away into the sky while sipping a sip of tea, and Ren Zhonghuang almost frightened him.
This boy Chu Pingsheng actually dared to challenge His Majesty at the court meeting!
Yes, he was promoted to an official, and he even triple-jumped. The problem is that this official was obtained by Chu Pingsheng for him. What if one day the relationship between the great master of Xihu, Bai Feng, and His Majesty Emperor Qing becomes bad? , what will happen to him?
As the saying goes, accompanying a king is like accompanying a tiger, and the same goes for a foreign envoy like Chu Pingsheng.
Now he is scared to death, okay?
……
After a stick of incense.
The court officials in Taiji Hall dispersed one after another.
The prince Li Chengqian and the second prince Li Chengze were at the end. One had his sleeves hanging down and walked in a carefree and airy way. The other had his sleeves folded up and looked steady and restrained.
"What do you think, second brother, of Fan Xian being Ye Qingmei's son?"
"What do you think, His Highness the Crown Prince?"
"I...of course I feel very good."
"Then I feel very good too." Li Chengze blew a few strands of hair covering his left eye and looked at his half-mother with a smile. 's younger brother.
"Really?"
Li Chengqian leaned a little closer, tilted his head, covered his mouth with his hands, and whispered: "I was not responsible for the Niulanshan assassination. Lin Gong and It doesn’t matter to me.”
Li Chengze frowned and paused.
"Second brother, be careful. I heard that there is a great master beside Ye Qingmei... Since he is Ye Qingmei's son, that great master... should be beside him, right?"
Li Chengqian walked away with his head held high, swinging his sleeves.
Li Chengze stood there for a long time, looking in the direction of Guangxin Palace, then rolled up his sleeves again and walked towards the south gate.
……
That night.
Royal Villa.
Across the long road is a large locust tree with a history of fifty or sixty years. In late spring and June, many of the small white flowers on the big locust tree have faded. The night wind blows, carrying the fragrance of half of the tree. Cross the porch, turn around the pontoon, and run to the yard where two crabapple trees are planted, laughing at their hurried arrival and departure.
Ye Ling'er ran across the long corridor with wooden floors like a red pepper, quickly climbed the steps, opened the closed door, and appeared in the princess's boudoir with fluttering gauze.
"Didn't the doctor say that your condition is getting worse and you need less wind?"
She put the long sword with a red tassel on the handle on the case, went over to cover the window, and was blown away by the wind. The raised gauze curtain fell gently, scattering the fragrance of locust flowers all over the place.
Lin Wan'er, who was half lying on the bed, just shook her head and said nothing.
Cough cough...
Cough cough cough.
“Look at you, you’re coughing again.”
Ye Ling’er walked to the bed and sat down, looking at her best friend who looked pale with annoyance and a trace of sadness between her brows. .
"Wan'er..."
"You're here to tell me the result of today's meeting, right?"
"Hey, how do you know?" Ye Ling'er looked surprised.
"Fan Xian has just left for a while."
"Wan'er..."
Ye Ling'er held the transparent and cold little hands of jade, not knowing how to comfort her.
Based on Prime Minister Lin’s position in the court, taking all the ministers to visit Chu did not change His Majesty’s mind throughout his life. It is conceivable that Master and Disciple Baifeng holds great importance in Li Yunqian’s mind. Judging from this trend, , if nothing unexpected happens, Lin Waner will most likely marry that Xihu villain Chu Pingsheng.
"It's okay, I can hold on." Lin Wan'er clapped her hand and smiled: "Look at your depressed expression. When I die one day, if you continue to do this... ahem, Ahem..."
"It's all that damn Chu Pingsheng. If it weren't for him, you wouldn't be so worried and weak like this. I don't know where my uncle went, and there's no news about him. None. If he were in Kyoto, how could he let master and disciple Bai Feng be so arrogant and treat our Qingguo as a nobody!"
Ye Ling'er suddenly tightened her grip on Lin Wan'er's wrist: "Wan'er, I see. Why don't you... elope with Fan Xian? Go far away, to Danzhou, Huizhou... or even Nanzhao Kingdom, or go to Dongyi City... No, Fan Xian killed Sigu Jian's disciple, maybe he will There’s trouble.”
"Ling'er, Ling'er..."
Lin Wan'er pushed her hand: "I won't leave."
"Not leaving?" Ye Ling'er said: "Don't you? Let’s go, do we really want to marry that bastard?”
Lin Wan’er: “…”
In fact, when Fan Xian came here just now, he not only told her what was going to happen in today’s court, but also probed her. , Do you want to escape Kyoto City together?
Her answer at that time was consistent with her answer to Ye Ling'er now.
"Wan'er, are you crazy?"
Ye Ling'er suddenly jumped up from the bed, her eyes full of incomprehension and anger almost staring out. , she felt it was betrayal.
Yes, the betrayal of Fan Xian was also a betrayal of her.
……
at the same time.
In the Concierge Court diagonally across from Honglu Temple, a servant took off the lantern hanging at the door, lit the candle inside and hung it back up. The dim light dispelled the darkness and illuminated the bluestone road where a pin could not penetrate. Chu Pingsheng walked into the concierge courtyard under the cold moonlight. Before he passed the screen wall, he caught a glimpse of a pair of green lights wandering in the air. He took a closer look and couldn't help but laugh. It turned out to be the black cat that purred when it saw him. .
Woo…
Woo…
"Hei Wuchang, you have to know that my patience has its limits."
Chu Pingsheng flicked his finger, and a brick on the screen wall exploded, and the fragments splashed on the black cat, and only a miserable howl was heard. Yelling, he kicked off his hind legs, swooped up the high wall next to him, and fled quickly.
Meow.
Meow.
Accompanied by a different meow, a white cat ran out of the yard with its tail raised high. It walked to his side with brisk cat steps, tilted its head and rubbed against his legs. .
"It has to be you, who can bend and stretch, and can please others."
Chu Pingsheng picked up Bai Wuchang and gently stroked him twice.
At this time, there were soft footsteps in the yard. I turned sideways and saw Si Lili wearing an apricot yellow shirt walking over.
“You’re back.”
“Yeah.”
He agreed and walked towards the yard with the cat in his arms.
“Hei Wuchang is here to find it?”
“You mean that black cat?”
Si Lili couldn’t laugh or cry about this. Yesterday Chu Pingsheng brought him from outside She brought back a white cat and called it Bai Wuchang, and named the black cat that came to the guest house to steal food every day Hei Wuchang. She didn't know what Wuchang was, but she was sure that these two names were not pleasant to hear.
“Of course.”
"Yes, I came here to find it, but I drove it away." Si Lili sighed: "I don't need you to give them names like Feixue and Moxiang. Even black glutinous rice and white sugar cake are also good. Black and white, don’t you think it’s ugly?”
“I remember that the second prince had two companions, one named Xie Bian and the other named Fan Wujiu, right?”
“ It seems so.”
“These two are a perfect match for Black and White.”
“Where is the match?”
Chu Pingsheng put the white cat into her arms and walked straight towards the west wing without explaining the connection between the two things in detail.
When he parted the bead curtain that blocked flies and walked into the room, he saw a round table with lychee shells piled into a hill in the middle.
“So you love eating lychees so much.”
“Not really.”
Si Lili placed the white cat on the soft cushion next to the bed and sat down on the bed On the bed with a mat.
"This afternoon, the official from the Vegetable Inspection Department delivered a basket of mangoes. I thought of the lychees soaked in water. After checking them, I found that some of them had become soft. I was worried that they would break if I put them down. They are just idle anyway, so I just Eat them all."
"I can't communicate with you."
"What do you mean?"
"That's not the lychee I'm talking about..."< br>
“It’s not this, what is that?”
"I'll tell you later."
Si Lili always felt that Mr. Chu's eyes were a bit inappropriate when he said this.
"By the way, I heard that this morning's meeting...you were besieged?"
"Huh." Chu Pingsheng was surprised: "Who told you?"
"In the evening, Ye Ling'er came here."
"What is she here for?"
"What else can she do? Of course she wants to persuade you to give up your engagement with Lin Wan'er."
Chu Pingsheng picked up the teapot on the tea tray and poured half of it into the cup. He picked up a cup of herbal tea, took a sip, and said lightly: "Dreaming."
"You and Lin Wan'er... have a grudge?"
It has been a few days since she came out of the Supervisory Yuan, although she has not Wandering around, I also got some information from people in Honglu Temple. I learned that the lecher in front of me not only took her blood, but also forcefully intervened in the marriage of Fan Xian and Lin Waner, and took advantage of the great talent Fan.
To be honest, Si Lili had a very good impression of Fan Xian.
“No grudge.”
“Have any grudge?”
“No grudge.”
“There is neither grudge nor grudge, why did you do it deliberately? Expose my relationship with you? I don’t believe you don’t know what impact this will have on her.”
Chu Pingsheng put down the cup and smiled at her: "Just for fun, are you satisfied with this answer?"
Just for fun...?
Si Lili was stunned by his answer, but if you think about it carefully, when the Second Prince, the Crown Prince, Prime Minister Lin, Fan Xian... all of them wanted to make a fuss about her, Chu Pingsheng bloodbathed the Supervisory Council just for the sake of It doesn't seem impossible to sleep with her, the top drunk fairy, and to make a big news that would embarrass the royal family and tease Princess Chen who is famous all over Kyoto just for fun.
Then she remembered Ye Ling'er's description of everything in the early dynasty. For some reason, she suddenly had a feeling that Chu Pingsheng, the Xihu envoy, was trying to mess up Kyoto and turn the politics of the Qing Dynasty upside down. Come feel.
Then if his enemy is Li Yunqian...it seems that all his willful and unreasonable actions make sense.
The manager thought about his parents' hatred, clenched his hands slightly on his knees, and his eyes changed from simple shock to melancholy that was difficult to express in words.
"Ye Ling'er said... Lin Gong was killed by your master Bai Feng. Is this... true?"
Chu Pingsheng's eyes narrowed slightly: "You care very much. Who killed Lin Gong?"
"No...I just..."
The manager held his hands on both sides with an unnatural expression.
(End of this chapter)