The First Yamen of the Great Song Dynasty

Gao Ming stared blankly at Hua Rong completing this series of actions. In fact, he had a chance to stop Hua Rong before he approached him.

But he still didn't do anything in the end, and let Huarong's face be gently imprinted on his face.

Then, he secretly sighed in his heart, he really wasn't that straight anymore.

At least, he didn't dislike Hua Rong's actions at all, and even felt a little sweetness in his heart.

At this time, he heard Hua Rong whisper: "If I knew you wouldn't avoid me, I would have kissed somewhere else."

Only then did Gao Ming turn his head away, and smiled at him and shook his head.

Hua Rong knew that some things should not be rushed, and he was already satisfied with what he got today.

Looking at Fang La at his feet: "Let's go back first, no matter who this person is, his status must not be too low. Maybe he is Fang La's son-in-law.".

At this time, the old monk came out of cooking and saw a person lying on the ground for no reason, he couldn't help being surprised and said: "Almsgiver, this is..."

Gao Ming said: "We don't eat this meal, I leave the money to you."

He walked to the door and opened it for Hua Rong, so that Hua Rong could come out with the unconscious Fang La.

When they reached the foot of the mountain, Hua Rong tied Fang La firmly to the saddle, and he and Gao Ming shared the same horse and returned to the army tent.

At this time, the army has captured Bangyuan Cave, and is checking the prisoners and spoils, sorting out various objects and storing them, or storing them, or locking them up.

As soon as Gao Ming appeared in front of the big army tent, he saw Song Jiang running towards him in a panic.

Since the start of the war, the Liangshan Army led by Song Jiang has been charging forward, and Gao Ming rarely has direct contact with them.

Seeing Song Jiang running over, Gao Ming asked first, "What happened?"

Because seeing Song Jiang's crying face, he already guessed that nothing good would happen.

This guy came to him ninety percent of the time to let him clean up the mess.

Song Jiang bowed to Gao Ming, and immediately said: "Xiao Ke didn't intend to disturb Mr. Gao, it was really forced by the situation, so he had to do so."

Gao Ming said: "There is no need to explain, just tell me what it is."

"We dug up the Bangyuan Cave, and who knew that Brother Xiaoqi found the dragon robe made by Fang La. You know him, he always loves to play around, and even put the dragon robe on himself, riding a horse for fun, and was imprisoned. The army saw it and reported it to the secret envoy Tong Shu, and now he has been arrested and must be dealt with severely."

Gao Ming vaguely remembered that such a thing would indeed happen, that is, when Ruan Xiaoqi was handing over the spoils, he found Fang La's box where Fang La placed the dragon robe and flat crown, and for some reason, he even wore it on his body and flaunted it everywhere.

However, he seems to remember that in the original plot, Ruan Xiaoqi was reprimanded by Song Jiang after making such a fool of himself, and that's all. Why is he being arrested and punished severely now.

Instantly Gao Ming understood, because this time there were two princes present.

Tong Guan is just pretending, so he should be severely punished for this matter.

Moreover, in the original plot, the Liangshan army was the biggest hero in attacking Fang La. At that time, these arrogant soldiers who had just killed people were on the rise, and Tong Guan didn't want to make things big and cause trouble, so he turned a blind eye and closed his eyes. For nothing, but the situation is different now, there are two lords Zhao Kai and Zhao Ji present, trying on the dragon robe, Tong Guan must not take it lightly, must show an attitude, let The two princes are at ease.

Gao Ming didn't want to care about this matter, Ruan Xiaoqi committed suicide, didn't he know that dragon robes can't be worn casually.

Gao Ming didn't want to cause trouble because of Ruan Xiaoqi's matter, so he said to Song Jiang, "I'm afraid I can't help you with this matter. You also know that this matter is no small matter. It's fine if no one cares about it, but now this matter may be over. It was reported by Tong Guan to the two princes. It is not for me to make a decision, you go back."

Hearing what Gao Ming said, Song Jiang didn't dare to pester him anymore, and returned to the Liangshan Army camp.

At this time, Ruan Xiaoer and Ruan Xiaowu were all waiting for Song Jiang's return, and when they heard that Gao Ming didn't want to take care of this matter, they couldn't help but stare blankly, "My brother's life is at an end."

To be honest, Song Jiang didn't really want to take care of this matter, after all, these [-] were all the old troops left by Chao Gai, so they weren't his direct descendants of Song Jiang.

Now that such a catastrophe has happened again, Song Jiang went to Gao Ming to plead for mercy in order to have an explanation in front of his brother. Now that Gao Ming refused, he just followed suit and no longer cares about it.

Many people in the Liangshan Army were worried about Ruan Xiaoqi on the surface, but they were secretly worried about themselves, fearing that the court would use this as an excuse to bring disaster to the Liangshan Army.

Is the dragon robe so easy to wear?To put it more seriously, this is to imitate Fang La's conspiracy.

It depends on how the court punishes.

Ruan Xiaoer looked at Wu Yong pedantic with bitter eyes, "Go and ask Gao Yanei again."

After all, they are all old people who gathered together with seven stars. Wu Xuexue knew the three of them when he was in Shijie Village. "At least let Xiaoqi live."

Wu Yong just shook his head, "Brother Song Gongming can't do anything, how can I ask Gao Yanei to help me?"

Li Kui said angrily: "Didn't you just wear a rag? What a big deal! If the dragon robe fits my Tie Niu, I will wear it too."

After he finished speaking, Dai Zong scolded him: "Stop talking! Shut up!"

Song Jiang also said: "If you talk nonsense again, don't eat at night."

Li Kui shut up indignantly.

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On Gao Ming's side, he and Hua Rong called for help to untie Fang La.

"Master Gao, General Hua, this man is..."

Gao Ming pretended to be confused, "I don't know, but he must have escaped from Fang La's army. Your prisoner on Fang La's side should identify him."

The man took the order and went down, Gao Ming and Hua Rong walked into Zhao Kai's military tent to report back.

Before Zhao Kai could say anything, Zhao Ji took a step forward and said to Gao Ming, "You are back. You took the soldiers out yesterday and didn't return overnight. We thought you were ambushed. Fortunately, the man named Shi The one who came in came back with the army horses and said that you were resting in the back, so we were relieved. Right now the army is chaotic, and you are too willful and reckless."

He kept saying "we", but in fact, he was only worried. Both Zhao Kai and Tong Guan felt that there was nothing wrong, after all, Gao Ming had Hua Rong by his side.

Moreover, Fang La's large army had been wiped out, only some scattered soldiers fled around, and when they met Hua Rong, they could only be wiped out.

Gao Ming's reaction to Zhao Ji's concern was very cold, especially when the other party's last sentence was suspected of accusation, "Your Highness, don't worry, with General Hua here, nothing will happen." Then he turned around and looked at Zhao Kai .

He found that Zhao Kai was a little unhappy, so he said, "Why is Your Highness so sad?"

Tong Guan, who was at the side, took the initiative to say: "The Liangshan Army who broke through Bangyuan Cave first, only went in to grab the loot, search for gold and silver, but let Fang La go. They said that these people can't get on the stage, and they can't change their behavior when they were bandits. Stinky bug."

Gao Ming is not protecting Liangshan, but he has one thing to say, when the officers and soldiers grab the spoils, they are no softer than Liangshan's army.

He knew what Tong Guan was up to, he wanted to push the blame for letting Fang La go to Liang Shanjun.

In addition, Ruan Xiaoqi stole the dragon robe, which just made Zhao Kai hate these people, and finally blamed Liang Shanjun for letting Fang La go.

Gao Ming pretended to be surprised, "Fang La ran away?"

Zhao Kai nodded slowly, "If I knew this was the case, I should have sent more people to follow you to search the mountains. Maybe there are enough people to catch the fleeing Fang La."

Hua Rong was taken aback, "The person caught in the dilapidated house... By the way, I wonder what Fang La looks like?"

People around all mentioned the characteristics they heard from Fangla Palace's maid, Gao Ming pretended to be surprised and said: "It sounds like this is the person we caught just now."

The people in the big tent were surprised at the same time, Zhao Kai stood up excitedly, "Bring this person up quickly, and ask Fang La's maid to identify him."

As soon as he finished speaking, someone ran in from outside the tent, "His Royal Highness, the suspicious person brought back by General Hua and Lord Gao was identified as Fang La!"

Everyone was overjoyed, Zhao Ji smiled and looked at Gao Ming, only to find that his gaze was on Hua Rong, and the two looked at each other and smiled as if no one was there.

Zhao Kai was relieved at first, and then said happily: "This is really great."

The bandit leader Fang La was captured, and the battle was considered complete.

After hearing this, Tong Guan had only one feeling, it’s not true, he remembered that Hua Rong’s men named Shi Jin came back and reported that Gao Ming and Hua Rong were tired from searching the mountains, and Gao Ming had to go to a thatched hut to find water. That's why they all came back first.

Fang La can be caught just by drinking saliva on the spur of the moment?There is such a coincidence in the world.

Hua Rong shot Fang La's prince Fang Tianding to death, and now Fang La is captured.

This time against Fang La, the combined military exploits of the others were not as much as him.

Zhao Kai also did not hesitate to praise Hua Rong, and smiled with satisfaction: "It is my great Song's luck to have a general like this."

Zhao Kai took the lead in boasting, and the others naturally couldn't lag behind. For a while, the entire camp was full of praise for Huarong.

Hua Rong explained modestly: "Fang La has been beaten to the ground by the army, and there is no one around him to protect him. Even if it wasn't me, other people could catch him when they met him. I just happened to appear There."

Zhao Kai smiled and said, "This statement is wrong, it is your credit." He looked at Gao Ming again, "And your thirst is also credited."

Gao Ming said: "Fang La is a heretic and rebel, God wants to take him in, otherwise how could he be caught by such a coincidence."

Zhao Kai also thought it was a coincidence, presumably it must be a fate in the dark, this Fang La is not the real dragon emperor at all, but a traitor, so God told him that no matter what, he would not be able to escape the net of the officers and soldiers.

At this time, Fang La was already awakened by the splash of water, and she was tightly bound and escorted to Zhao Kai.

Fang La knew that a thorough thief like him could not escape death.He didn't bow his head to Zhao Kai at all, instead he kept sneering.

Zhao Kai didn't intend to get any feedback from Fang La, he just wanted to see what Fang La looked like?

Seeing that he only has a fierce air, other places are very ordinary, but I am a little disappointed.

Fang La kept sneering at the corner of his mouth, looking down on everyone in the audience, fully demonstrating the fearless spirit of seeing death as home.

At this moment, Tong Guan deliberately provoked Fang La, "Do you know who the person who caught you was? It was Hua Rong."

Fang La clearly remembered that the person who killed his son was a man named Hua Rong.

In any case, he never thought that the person who caught him was actually this person, and the father and son fell into the hands of the same person.

He fled overnight and was so hungry that he smelled the smell of food coming from the hut, so he couldn't help leaning over to get something to eat, but he didn't want to be discovered by the people inside. He vaguely saw a man in armor and ran away , but was still shot by an arrow, then hit his head on a stone and passed out.

He didn't see clearly who captured him, but he had heard Shi Bao describe Huarong's appearance before, at this time he searched among the crowd, and soon found a handsome young man who fit the description, "You are Huarong? "

Huarong nodded silently.

Fang La was stunned, and suddenly laughed, "Our father and son fell into the hands of the same person, it seems that it is destined, the sky will kill me, the sky will kill me!"

Laughing and laughing, laughing tears.

Zhao Kai had no interest in Fang La anymore, so he asked someone to take him down and escort him to Beijing.

After taking Fang La down, Zhao Kai sent everyone else away, leaving Gao Ming alone, "Do you know that Ruan Xiaoqi in the Liangshan Army stole the dragon robe?"

Gao Ming said honestly, "I heard about it on the way back."

Zhao Kai said: "Private Tong means that Ruan Xiaoqi imitated Fang La's appearance and has a heart of disobedience, and there are many people like him in Liangshan, so we should deal with them as soon as possible to avoid catastrophe. Xiaoqi made a fuss about this matter and suppressed them. This king wants to hear what you think."

Tong Guan wanted to take the opportunity to make trouble, but of course Gao Ming couldn't allow it.

After the Baobuqi situation escalated, it was said that Liang Shanjun's audacity was due to someone backing him up, and this backing person was Gao Ming.

Gao Ming sighed, "His Royal Highness, in my opinion, it is better to make this matter smaller and smaller. I think Fang La has just been defeated. There are no external conflicts, and internal troubles are easy. The most important thing is to return to Tokyo safely. Moreover, the one wearing the dragon robe is only Ruan Xiaoqi. If he uses excuses to accuse other people of crimes, I am afraid that other people who have no intention of disobedience will do so. It seems His Highness is not kind enough."

Less tossing, going home safely is better than anything else.

Zhao Kai felt that Gao Ming's thinking was very similar to his, "But Ruan Xiaoqi is wearing a dragon robe. If we don't check it carefully, it may appear that the imperial court does not take 'rebellion' seriously enough, and I am afraid there will be imitators."

Gao Ming remembered that during the conquest of Fang La, both Ruan Xiaoer and Ruan Xiaowu would die, but only Ruan Xiaoqi survived, and now because of a deviation, Erwu survived, and Xiaoqi is hard to say.

"It's better to say that he stole the theater robes of Fang La's puppet court, pretended to be a joke, violated military discipline, refused to obey the supervision of the army, and was punished with a staff of one hundred. If he can live, he will live, and if he doesn't live, he will be rewarded."

Whether he can survive it all depends on Ruan Xiaoqi's physical fitness.

Zhao Kai also didn't want the matter to expand. In the army under his command, there would be any topic related to "rebellion". It is indeed a good choice to call the dragon robe a theater robe. He nodded slightly, agreeing with Gao Ming's proposal, "You It's been a long day, let's go back and rest."

As soon as he stepped out of Zhao Kai's tent, he saw Hua Rong waving to him not far away, Gao Ming looked up at the sky, the corner of his mouth hooked uncontrollably, then walked towards Hua Rong, and entered his room with him. In the tent.

As soon as he came in, Hua Rong dismissed all the followers, and then took out a roll of paper from his sleeve, "Hand in the paper, I told you before that I have answered all the questions, I am not lying to you."

Gao Ming was delighted when he saw the number of words, "When I was in Liangshan, I asked you to write me an apology letter. You held it back for so long before you could write a single line. In the end, you returned it to me here. You What you owe me, you can’t escape after all.”

When talking about what happened back then, Hua Rong smiled and said, "I didn't write anything back then, and you acted like a spoiled child to me. Now that I've written so much, do you have to show something else?"

"When did I act like a baby?" Gao Ming asked in surprise.

Hua Rong said leisurely: "Who said 'coax me'?"

"I don't remember." Gao Ming shook his head blankly as if he had amnesia, "Anyway, let me go back and see how you answered this set of questions." Rong stopped him, "Just look here, you're not alone when you go back to the camp." He brought Gao Ming to the couch, pressed his shoulders, and made him sit down.

"Okay." Gao Ming was tired all day, so he simply fell on the couch and looked up.

At this time Hua Rong leaned over and sat next to him, Gao Ming said vigilantly, "What are you doing?"

Hua Rong looked innocent, "I'm just afraid that some words are too sloppy and you don't recognize them, so I want to point them out to you."

Gao Ming smiled, "Okay, let me trust you."

Hua Rong said: "Otherwise, what do you think I'm going to do?"

Gao Ming didn't speak, just looked at the words on the paper in his hand.

It has to be said that Huarong's memory is excellent, and he recorded every bit of their past clearly.

Therefore, Gao Ming realized one thing from these clear expressions, that is, Hua Rong had "coveted" him for so long, thinking about the long period of time before, how he got along with him ignorantly. Dances with wolves.

When he was in Liangshan, Hua Rong "treated him differently", but he didn't notice it at all.I have to say that he is really good at disguising, tsk tsk, a man's heart, a sea needle.

However, because the words written here come from Hua Rong's heart and are full of affection, there is a feeling of reading a love letter in front of the person concerned, which is a bit shameful.

Gao Ming could only hear the breathing of Hua Rong above his head and the sound of himself flipping the paper.

He wanted to break the silence, but he didn't know what to say. He just took the paper back to his camp and read it.

Suddenly, he heard Hua Rong say, "How do you think my paper can be graded?"

"It's hard to say, but I can give you one point. If it's very full, I'll give you eight points. After all, the protagonist of the confession is me, and you already have a five-point foundation." Gao Ming smiled "without shame" road.

Hua Rong couldn't help laughing, "It would be great if your attitude is always so generous and you don't avoid it."

"Since when have I not been generous?"

"Then close your eyes."

Gao Ming didn't close his eyes, instead he opened his eyes wide and said with a smile, "Don't think I don't know what you're up to."

Hua Rong sighed, "Alright then, forget it, after all we haven't served wine yet."

This is someone outside the tent: "Excuse me, is Master Gao in the tent? His Royal Highness King Jing wants to summon you."

Gao Ming got along with Hua Rong just right, he didn't want to see Zhao Ji, so he got up and walked to the tent door, "I'm really too tired, I've already rested, Your Highness, please forgive me."

The person who came to send the message was obviously stunned for a moment, "Okay, I will go back and report to His Highness."

When the man left, Gao Ming looked back and saw Hua Rong looking at him with his arms around his shoulders, with a playful expression on his face.

Gao Ming was a little puzzled, "What's your expression?"

"You probably forgot that you are in my military tent now."

Gao Ming slapped his head, isn't it? He said in his own camp that he had already rested, and he still made sense.

But now that he is in Huarong's tent but he doesn't want to go to King Jing with such an excuse, then there will be two results.

First, Zhao Ji felt that Gao Ming didn't take him seriously at all, and lied so perfunctorily.

Another possibility is.Thought he was having an affair with Hua Rong.

Gao Ming thought about it, and felt that with Zhao Ji's brain circuit, he should not have thought that the next day, he should stop being guilty.

Besides, Zhao Ji loves to think whatever he wants, no matter what it is, he doesn't care.

He shook the paper in his hand towards Huarong, "I really have to go back and rest."

Hua Rong said disappointedly: "I thought you would stay here to rest, just like we did before, just chatting under the quilt."

Gao Ming said with a smile, "Stop doing this, I believe in your evil!" He is a man, and he knows what a man thinks too well.

Hua Rong pursed her lips and smiled without any excuse.

Gao Ming returned to his tent, he wanted to lie down and sleep, but after tossing and turning for a long time, the drowsiness still didn't hit him, so he got up and continued to read Hua Rong's answer sheet.

Scanning the ink-scented handwriting, he seemed to see Hua Rong's serious expression when writing these words.

He believes that Huarong's feelings for him are not appreciation, but true love.

Holding these papers, he couldn't help lowering his head and talking to himself with a smile: "Am I going to fall in love with Hua Rong?"

After thinking about it, he fell down on the couch, closed his eyes with a smile, and fell asleep beautifully.

The next day, Gao Ming heard that Ruan Xiaoqi was still alive after being beaten with a hundred military sticks. His two elder brothers offered to take him home to recover from his injuries and return to being a fisherman.

Tong Guan probably felt that the few canonized people would save court resources, so he agreed.

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The army returned to court.

The autumn tiger was very strong, and the weather was too hot to march, so they stayed in place to rest.

Hua Rong went to Gao Ming's tent to look for him again, and seeing a "Mrs. Bamboo" on his couch, she couldn't help laughing and said, "You brought it from Hangzhou? You've prepared enough when you go out."

The so-called mistress is a cooling utensil woven from bamboo, which is used to sleep in the arms at night to dissipate the heat.

"No, Zhao Ji sent someone to deliver it last night, probably he sent someone to buy it along the way."

Hua Rong was thoughtful, "It's really endless for him to repay you for saving your life."

"It's just small favours, worthless gadgets, he might as well just give me 20 taels of gold." Gao Ming didn't take it to heart at all.

"Actually, you don't need to use King Jing. If you want, I will watch over you at night and fan you."

Said Cao Cao Cao Cao invited.

At this time, someone outside the tent reported that His Royal Highness King Jing wanted to invite Mr. Gao to play chess.

Gao Ming frowned, of course he didn't want to go, so he excused himself: "What a coincidence, I have something to do here, so I can't leave."

Hearing what Gao Ming said, the man outside couldn't tie him up by force, so he withdrew.

Hua Rong is still very satisfied with Gao Ming's handling. He is here, how can Gao Ming go to see other people, even the prince.

The two had another conversation, and the eunuch's voice came from outside the tent again, "His Royal Highness, I want you to come over."

The monitoring voice was clearly Zhao Ji's personal eunuch.Why is it that King Yun told him to go over.

Although he had doubts in his heart, he couldn't help but give Zhao Kai face, so he said to Hua Rong: "You wait for me here for a while, I will come when I go."

After leaving the gate of the camp, he followed the eunuch and found that the eunuch led him directly to the gate of Zhao Ji's tent.

When he walked in, he saw Zhao Ji half lying on the bed, while Zhao Kai was standing aside, with a somewhat helpless expression on his face.

Gao Ming stepped forward and said, "I have seen the two Highnesses."

Zhao Ji frowned slightly, and looked at Gao Ming with some complaints in his eyes.

Gao Ming's face was expressionless, he didn't roll his eyes at Zhao Ji, he just looked at his father's face, "I don't know why His Highness asked me to come?"

Zhao Ji said honestly: "There is nothing else, but my king's eyes are uncomfortable recently, and I want someone to help me read the news in the mansion, but the voices of these eunuchs are too unpleasant, and I want to hear normal people read it." , I wonder if Mr. Gao is willing to help?"

Gao Ming thought to himself, you can toss me in a different way, is it because the scar is healed and you forget the pain, and you want to trouble me again?

Zhao Kai frowned, "Just read it for him." Seeing Gao Ming nodding his head in agreement, he left, but before leaving, he stared at his younger brother for a while, but finally turned around and left without saying anything.

Holding back his energy, Gao Ming sat on the chair in front of Zhao Ji's couch, took the residence report handed by the eunuch, relieved himself, and took a look at what happened in the court these days.

While Zhao Ji was watching quietly, Gao Ming began to read to him the news from the mansion newspaper.

Suddenly, Gao Ming caught a glimpse of a corner message from the corner of his eye. It didn't take up too much space, but every word hit Gao Ming's nerves.

Because it said that the emperor ordered the state capitals to put up a list to recruit people who could recognize tadpole characters.

It also clearly states the origin of the tadpole text to be identified.

It turned out that on the fifth day of the first month of last month, lightning suddenly fell in Liangshan, Shandong. Afterwards, a stone tablet was dug out at the place where the thunder fell.

The characters on this stele are twisted and curved, written in ancient tadpole characters, and not many people know it.

The way this stele appeared must have a special meaning in the eyes of Zhao Ji, who is deeply involved in Taoism, so it is called someone who can understand the signs of the state capital.

Gao Ming was startled. Isn't this stone tablet the one inscribed with the ranking of heroes in Liangshan that was dug out by Song Jiang under Gongsun Sheng's method of setting up an altar in the original book?

He always thought that this thing would never appear, but he didn't expect a thunderbolt to strike out.

If nothing else, Huarong is on the list, and the ranking is not low.

He pulled up his sleeves and wiped the cold sweat off his forehead. When Zhao Ji saw him, he quickly took out his fan, knelt down on the couch to fan him, and asked with concern: "Raise it higher, is it still hot?"

Gao Ming shook his head and said, "It's not hot." At the same time, he grabbed the fan and fanned himself vigorously.

I'm afraid that after the stele is deciphered, the emperor thinks of the previous rumors about the released [-] Demon Lord, and feels dissatisfied with Hua Rong recorded on the stele, so he no longer reuses it.

Well, all their efforts so far have been in vain.

He has to figure out a way.