174. Chapter One Hundred and Seventy-Fourth
As soon as he stepped into the gate of Ningshou Palace, the emperor saw that the Supreme Emperor and Wang Yi seemed to be arguing something. All the palace servants had retreated, and Dai Quan was the only one who was with him on the side.
The Supreme Emperor, who was sitting at the top facing the hall gate, did not care about the emperor's arrival. At this moment, he seemed to be defeated... like an emperor, depressed, without a sound.
Wang Yi, who was so bold that he dared to "sweep" the Supreme Emperor, comforted with a calm look on his face: "When the child is grown up, he has to let him see the outside world. He can't trap him in this small place in the capital for the rest of his life!"
"The tired bird returns. He is tired of playing outside and will always know how to go home."
The Supreme Emperor sighed lightly, "I'm afraid I won't wait for him to go home one day!" To be fair, the Supreme Emperor is already in his seventies, over seventy years old. In this era when the average age is only fifty, he is considered a long life.
After speaking, he glared at Wang Yi, "It's all your fault! If you weren't a good example and led him to the wild, how could he have such an idea!"
Wang Yi did not chat with this jealous old emperor, but turned to salute to another emperor with a good temper and general attitude.
After the emperor personally helped Wang Yi up, he took out the memorial in his arms, handed it to the Supreme Emperor with both hands, and said hurriedly: "Father! Jingya him..."
"I already know this... Jingya is lively and active, she likes moving but not quiet, she has been a person who has been unable to sit still for a quarter of an hour since she was a child. With the example of his master, it is probably extremely difficult to stay in the capital quietly!" The Supreme Emperor brushed his sleeves and did not take the letter from the emperor, and said in a state of distraction.
Both the emperor and Wang Yi could hear that the Supreme Emperor had already given up.
Wang Yikuanmei, as long as the Supreme Emperor does not insist, Jingya's resignation from office and leaving Beijing and traveling around the world can almost be said to be a foregone conclusion.
How could I give up like this!? The emperor was almost rumored to the point of complaining.
Everyone knows that the Supreme Emperor has an unparalleled influence on Li Lian. As long as the Supreme Emperor resolutely refuses to allow Li Lian to resign, Li Lian is eager to travel around the world and travel around the world, and he has to obediently surrender to a small corner of the capital.
Therefore, Li Lian had already asked his master to lobby the Supreme Emperor in advance, and Wang Yi was worthy of being a good friend of the Supreme Emperor for decades. He knew every reaction of the Supreme Emperor. With full preparation and unintentional calculations, he successfully let the Supreme Emperor let go with both soft and hard work.
"Father!" You haven't tried it yet, how could you know that you can't keep him?
The Supreme Emperor said in a deep voice: "Can you keep his people, can you still keep his heart?" It is actually very simple to keep Li Lian, just one decree.
"But...Father, now there are foreign thieves in the country, and foreigners are still eyeing them. The Great Zhou cannot be without the Marshal Jingya..." Although the generals recommended by Li Lian are all proficient in military affairs and have fought countless victories, when he thinks that Li Lian is not here, the emperor only feels that he is not so confident and confident even to fight foreigners.
"Forget it! I think you, a fool, will never believe it just by my empty words!" After a pause, the Supreme Emperor opened his mouth and said, "Just try it, and for your father, you must see if you have the ability to leave Jingya!" With one sentence, he handed over the important task of keeping Li Lian to the emperor.
Wang Yi could see that the Supreme Emperor was not giving up completely and was making the final struggle.
"Yes!" The emperor nodded seriously, thinking hard about how to make Li Lian stay in the capital obediently without any intention of leaving.
This thought took half a month.
Li Lian couldn't sit still!
If you are accurate, you are accurate. If you are not accurate, you are not accurate. What does it mean to drag it like this?
Half a month ago, after Wang Yi left the palace, Li Lian had already asked the master for information. From the master, he learned that the emperor had let go, but the emperor was "willing to do whatever he wanted" and was trying to prevent him from leaving the capital! Could the emperor have planned to keep the money and not send it out, and he could regard the matter as if it had not happened!?
Li Lian had already packed all the luggage and waited for the resignation to be approved, and he could immediately take Xiaozhi (the wife) and Benxiao (the concubine?) to leave the capital, travel around the mountains and rivers, and be free.
In a hurry, Li Lian decided not to wait!
Who knows if the emperor really plans to use the word-and-drag until he forgets it!
Li Lian was also a practical person, so he rode his old friend (concubine?) directly onto his night, rushed straight to the palace, and wanted to enter the palace to ask for clarity.
According to the "Bo Le Xiang Horse Classic", the golden age of war horses is between five and fifteen years old, and most horses have a lifespan between twenty and thirty-five years old. When Li Lian first saw Benxiao in the horse farm, Benxiao was only half a year old. In a blink of an eye, he was twenty-seven years old, and among horses, he was considered a grandfather's generation.
Although Benxiao is considered an older trouble among the horses, he does not look old at all. Just like Fengshen when he was young, his footsteps are still faster than those "grandsons". In addition, the distance between the Champion Marquis' Mansion is not far from the palace, and he will arrive in front of the palace in just half a cup of tea.
The two imperial guards standing in front of the palace gate, one left and one right, heard the sound of the hooves trampling on the stone slabs from a distance, and they all looked up and saw a horse running towards the palace gate. They couldn't help but hold the weapons in their hands tightly and shouted loudly: "The palace gate is in a heavy place! The person who comes stops!"
Li Lian touched Benxiao's hair, and Benxiao, who had already had a deep understanding, stopped.
He jumped off Benxiao's back easily, threw the reins and a five-two ingot into the hands of the imperial guards on the right, and took a big step to enter the palace.
Unexpectedly, the guard on the left moved one side and blocked Li Lian's way.
The guard looked pretty and had a little sadness between his eyebrows and eyes, and his face was a little unnaturally pale, but his straight back made people feel particularly tough.
Li Lian said in surprise: "What's wrong? You want tea money too? But can you, that fool, deduct your salary and your mother's dowry? If this is true, don't be afraid of Xiaolanhua. Just tell me that I will call your uncles to beat you up after I leave the palace later!"
The Imperial Guards have always been composed of good families near the capital. They are all carefully selected, have innocent wealth and no records of crimes within three generations. Except for a small number of children and nephews of ministers who were trusted by the emperor, some are children and nephews of veterans, while most are farmers, and each one is the emperor's loyalty.
It is not easy to live in the capital.
Although the monthly salary of the imperial guards is relatively generous, who doesn't need to raise a family? Because most of the imperial guards are frugal people. Li Lian once served as the imperial guards or even the commander of the imperial guards. In addition, he was a helpful person, casual and fake money. Whenever he entered the palace, he would always throw away a few taels of "tea money" to the guards at the palace gate to drink tea, and he treated it as a thank you for taking care of the peng night.
Not everyone collected all the tea money given to them by the imperial guards, and only the Supreme Emperor and the Emperor nodded, so they dared to take Li Lian's money.
Wei Ruolan, son of General Wei Heng of Light Che, showed embarrassment.
His family is extraordinary. His father was a third-rank general. His mother was a noble daughter of the Li royal family. When he got married, he was named the county lord and was considered a real prince. However, his mother gave birth to him prematurely, and his health was not good for those years. When he was seven years old, he passed away. Two years later, his son Wei Heng married a second wife who was born from everyone. Within three years, he had a son and a daughter, making a good word.
As the saying goes: With a stepmother, there will be a stepfather. Fortunately, Wei Ruolan's mother has two uncles. Although they have no talent, they are enough to make the stepmother dare not attack Wei Ruolan at will, but it is okay to blow the wind on Wei Heng. However, under the wind on the pillow day and night, although Wei Heng did not treat his eldest son badly, he was a little more biased towards his younger son when dealing with his two sons, and tended to suppress his eldest son slightly. There are many reasons, such as the eldest son being the eldest son, and most of his family business will be his in the future. The eldest son can't get much. If the eldest son has the help of his uncle, the younger son can only rely on himself. Otherwise, with Wei Ruolan's identity, even if he is an imperial guard, he will never have to guard the gate.
"Great...Great General..." Wei Ruolan stammered and couldn't say a word after talking for a long time.
"If you have something to say, just say it! What's the hesitant thing??" Li Lian was anxious to enter the palace, but was stopped by Wei Ruolan outside the palace gate. He did not curse the streets or directly knock Wei Ruolan into the palace. He had become much gentler in recent years.
"General... Please... Please show the token of entering the palace!" After Li Lian said this, Wei Ruolan had to close her eyes and rush out her mouth with all her thoughts.
Li Lian was confused, "Oh! Little Orchid, have you eaten the courage of the bear heart and leopard, or have you suffered from absenteeism?" He even dared to stop him from the little overlord of the palace!?
Wei Ruolan didn't want to stop Li Lian. He could even imagine that after today, his career would probably add a lot of obstacles.
You Wei Ruolan is so brave, but a small imperial guard dares to make the general shameless in public! Such a powerful figure, I am sorry that the small temple of Tiance Mansion (Lantian Daying) (Fengtai Daying, etc.) cannot accommodate your great Buddha! Don’t let your ability be wronged!
Although he was extremely reluctant, thinking about the meaning of the above person, Wei Ruolan resolutely chose the former in the future, in the two ways of being blocked by the official career and not having any official career in the future. He smiled bitterly on his face, "General, it's not that the young man intentionally makes things difficult for you, but he just led the rectification of the imperial guards recently and captured several colleagues who did not follow the rules, each of whom beat twenty military sticks. The young man has never been strong, and he really dared not take the twenty military sticks. Please understand!" The implication is that these are the orders from the superiors, and they are definitely not deliberately targeting Li Lian.
Li Lian also knew that if it weren't for the reason, Wei Ruolan would never dare to block his way, but he knew even more that the imperial guards would not rectify them for no reason.
This is obviously because the emperor doesn’t want him to enter the palace!
"Okay! You are also following the rules, and I don't make things difficult for you, kid." Li Lian said in a reasonable manner.
Wei Ruolan immediately breathed a sigh of relief and clasped his fists to thank him: "I thank you very much for the general!"
Logically, since Li Lian had guessed that it was the emperor's intention, he should go back home and find a way.
But this is not the bold Li Lian.
"I'll go back to the mansion and get the token of the palace!" Don't think that this will prevent him from entering the palace! As the unnamed godson of the Niu family, Li Liansifu, who has a temper with Niu, he has to enter the palace today!
When Li Lian was young, he was led by Dai Quan himself. When he was a little older, the Supreme Emperor directly gave him a token to enter the palace. However, because the guards in the palace recognized him, and the Supreme Emperor was extremely favored by him at that time, there was not much chance of showing the token. Later, Li Lian became a member of the Imperial Guard, and even the Imperial Guard commander, so he did not need to use the token. Now, he only needs to scan his face to enter the palace, and the token to enter the palace was put away by Feng Zizhi and put it on the shelf.
This time, Li Lian failed to scan his face for the first time.
Upon hearing this, Wei Ruolan's face turned green.
Before he could react, Li Lian said he would take it and then take it. He stepped on the stirrup with his left foot, stepped on his right foot and sat steadily on Benxiao's back.
"Run the night, go home."
Without making too many move prompts, Benxiao blinked spiritually and turned his head and ran back towards the Marquis' Mansion.
Li Lian's decisive behavior made Wei Ruolan stunned.
Seeing Li Lian go away, Wei Ruolan quickly glanced at a blind spot on the palace gate.
A middle-aged man wearing the imperial guards' clothing quickly passed through countless passages and came directly to the Hall of Harmony.
"Report to the emperor, the Champion Marquis arrived outside the palace gate and was stopped. Now he returned to the mansion to get the token of entry given to him by the Supreme Emperor." The Imperial Commander Chang Liang lowered his head and reported.
The figure who was writing fast on the imperial desk paused and sighed, "It's still here after all."
Wave your hand and let Chang Liang exit the Palace of Harmony.
"Bi Yun."
"I'm here." In the shadow, Bi Yun stepped forward and responded.
"I know that you are close to Jingya. You can reveal some small news to Jingya on weekdays, and I can pretend that I don't know..." The emperor was still reviewing the memorials, not paying attention to Bi Yun at all, and saying to himself.
But hearing this was enough to scare Bi Yun to his face pale and he kneeled on the cold ground with a thud.
"I deserve to die! I deserve to die!" Bi Yun did not ask the emperor to forgive me, but just kowtowed his head to death, and he knocked his head down to the point of blood, which was very meaningless to kowtow to death.
He dared not beg for mercy. He should know that the two charges of revealing the holy will and seducing foreign ministers are too serious, and can be regarded as the two most important mistakes that the palace maids who served in front of the imperial court should not make.
The emperor intends to ask you to mention something, or if you want to sell someone, it would be fine to mention a few words. Those who often communicate with Li Lian from time to time are serious, which means they have an affair with foreign ministers and have ill-intentioned plans.
What are the eunuchs? No matter how powerful they are outside, they are just slaves from the emperor. The slaves collude with outsiders and want to pursue their own property or even their own lives every minute. Which owner of the family will turn a blind eye to them!?
If Bi Yun revealed nothing particularly important news...
If Bi Yun wants to "collude" with Li Lian...
If the emperor did not know Li Lian's loyalty to the emperor and patriotism...
If Bi Yun had not followed the dragon's power back then...
If any of the above four items are established, the emperor would have sent Bi Yun to guard the imperial tomb long ago!
Thinking of Bi Yun's ability to follow the dragon, and thinking of Bi Yun's various benefits in the past, the sound of kowtow echoed in his ears. The emperor's hand holding the brush paused, and he finally felt soft-hearted.
"Okay! I thought you were loyal to the imperial affairs in the past and gave up your past affairs!"
"I thank the emperor for his kindness! In the future, we will definitely be cautious in our words and actions, serve the emperor wholeheartedly, and work hard to do our best!" Bi Yun kowtowed his head again before thanking him with a bloody face.
He has been complacent in the past few years.
Since he took over the position of eunuch as the leader of Anfuhai Yangxin Hall, his life has been so smooth and he has become more and more careless.
After knocking on Bi Yun, the emperor calmly continued to review the memorials.
"In a moment, no matter who asks for a meeting, it is said that I am refuting the memorial and will not see you."
"Yes." Bi Yun recognized him respectfully.
After reviewing the memorial for a while, the emperor could not hear anything nearby. He paused his hand with his pen and couldn't help but turn his head and scolded, "Why don't you go down and bandage the medicine quickly! My leader and eunuch have not wanted to be replaced yet!" Yibiyun's wound continued to bleed like this. If he didn't deal with it, he might die of blood loss.
"Thank you for your compassion, I'll go down now." After understanding the emperor's meaning, Bi Yunhuan happily tried to maintain a respectful expression and retreated. After repeatedly reminding his adopted son Bi Daxia to serve the emperor, he avoided other palace servants in the Yangxin Hall with the help of another adopted son Bi Dayong and returned to his room to apply medicine to bandage.
Sometimes, you are not afraid of doing something wrong in the palace, and you are most afraid of losing your holy heart. As long as you have a holy heart, even if you lose everything, you will not have a day to make a comeback.
Chapter completed!