Li Qinghuan

When Ji Qing found Song Li, he was sitting on the porch watching the fish.The weather was fine and the sun was shining brightly. Song Li's half face was bathed in the sun. The young man was thin and tall, with one leg bent and the other hanging down and swinging slowly. Throw one in the water, one in the water.

Ji Qing watched from a distance for a while, turned and left, and came back with a jug of wine after a while, this time he went straight to Song Li and handed the wine to him: "Ah Li, do you want a drink?"

Song Li turned his head lazily, took the wine, raised his head and took a sip, and said casually, "How did you deal with her?"

Ji Qing retreated into the shadows without a trace, and asked, "What do you think I will do with her?"

Song Li shook his head honestly, he didn't know, he trusted Ji Qing very much, but he couldn't understand Ji Qing, it was strange to say that he was so steadfast in believing in this person he couldn't understand at all.

Ji Qing seemed to see through his thoughts, and smiled: "I didn't kill her, let Gao Yangsu take her away."

Song Li heaved a sigh of relief, feeling much better, and changed the topic as if nothing had happened: "The scenery in the south of the Yangtze River is so beautiful, but it's a pity that I came late, and I didn't see the misty rain of apricot blossoms in July."

Ji Qing smiled at him and said, "If you want to see it, we can come earlier next year."

Song Li was a little melancholy and slightly expectant, and said, "Next year... I might not be able to come."

Ji Qing: "Huh? Why?"

Song Li: "My imperial brother asked me to go to court to listen to politics."

Ji Qing's heart skipped a beat, feeling uneasy for no reason, and hurriedly asked, "When did you say that?"

Song Li thought for a while: "I said it more than two months ago."

Ji Qing: "You...agreed?"

Song Li: "Yeah, what's wrong?"

Ji Qing came back to his senses, and said with a smile: "It's nothing. From now on, the future will be long, wait... Well, when you are old, I will accompany you all over the country."

Song Li nodded and said with a smile, "Okay, you have to keep your word."

Ji Qing: "Once a word is spoken, it is hard to chase after it."

Song Li raised his head and took another sip of wine, and sighed sincerely: "Heming, I am so lucky to know you."

Ji Qing didn't open his mouth, thinking: "I'm the lucky one in Sansheng."

Seeing that he was silent, Song Li turned to look at him: "What's wrong?"

Ji Qing: "It's nothing, me too."

Song Li smiled brightly. Under the sun, even the tip of his fingertips and hair were the tenderness and warmth unique to teenagers.

Ji Qing lowered his eyes and smiled.

……

The next day, evening.

Ji Qing stared at Yuan Xi who suddenly appeared in Qifeng Garden in front of him, he was completely confused.

Yuan Xi sat at the table drinking tea leisurely, and even snatched some sweet-scented osmanthus candies from Song Li.

Ji Qing was dissatisfied: "Why are you here?"

Yuan Xi was calm and composed: "Brother, what you said is wrong, why can't I come?"

Ji Qing: "I'm asking why are you here?"

Yuan Xi: "Your master has taken in a new apprentice, and he trains there every day. I'm bored in Yudu, so I came to see you. By the way, let's take a look at the shop on the Jiangnan side, and take care of some things, you Don't rush to dislike me, don't worry, I will only stay in Gusu for two days, and I will go to Yangzhou after two days."

Ji Qing frowned: "What apprentice? Which family's children is he following again, don't cause trouble."

Yuan Xi explained: "It's not a child from any family, it's Ji Luoyan. He saw that the child was pretty good, so he accepted it. Congratulations, senior brother, there is another little junior sister who I didn't know about."

Ji Qing: "Don't you also have a little junior sister? It's good to practice with the master, it's just a matter of strengthening your body."

Yuan Xi: "She didn't train for physical fitness. I didn't expect that girl to be able to endure hardships. My father taught me desperately, and she practiced desperately. The old and the young... Tsk tsk, I can't stand it." .”

Ji Qing nodded and stopped answering his words.

Yuan Xi stretched out his hand, snatched a few sweet-scented osmanthus candies from Song Li next to him, and praised: "If you ask me, this sweet-scented osmanthus candy is still delicious from Jiangnan."

Ji Qing said angrily: "It's delicious, it's delicious, can you not grab the one from Ah Li, it's such a big plate, the one in Ah Li's hand is more delicious, right?"

Yuan Xi said embarrassingly, "Isn't it close?"

Song Li hurriedly said: "It's okay, we can eat together.

Ji Qing: "Yuan Xi, do you have the nerve?"

Yuan Xi rubbed his nose: "What's so embarrassing about this, I didn't say that you are senior brother, so I started to protect my shortcomings?"

Ji Qing: "You don't care about me."

Yuan Xi: "All right, all right, pretend I didn't say anything."

Ji Qing: "If you want to eat, take it yourself, don't grab Ah Li's."

Yuan Xi pursed his lips: "Oh."

Ji Qing thought for a while and asked, "Is there nothing serious about Yu Du?"

Yuan Xi: "Are you talking about business or something else?"

Ji Qing: "Tell me everything."

Yuan Xi: "Business is nothing serious. Guo Yu manages it very well. It's just that there has been a problem with a payment in Yangzhou recently. This is also the reason for my trip. There are too many other things, so I can't say no." over."

Ji Qing looked at Song Li and asked, "Recently...the border seems to be not very stable. Has the imperial court issued any new decrees?"

Yuan Xiyun glanced at him: "Senior Brother, since when did you start caring about state affairs?"

Ji Qing glanced at Song Li again: "You just said there is?"

Yuan Xi: "Don't say it, there really is, it's still a big movement. This Emperor Xuande has been opened up, and he has started to rectify military affairs."

Hearing this, Song Li suddenly raised his head and clenched his fists involuntarily.

Yuan Xi: "There's a big commotion over there in Yudu, and you haven't heard anything about it?"

Ji Qing: "Say it straight, don't be silly."

Yuan Xi gave Ji Qing an aggrieved look, and said no more: "A few days ago, Emperor Xuande ordered the imperial army to be dispersed and sent to various places to serve as the admirals of the local garrisons, and... set up a Jinyiwei, and sent With a recruiting order, many warriors from Tai'an Street have joined Jinyiwei. And... what else is there... I forgot."

Song Li became serious at this time, he stopped eating the sweet-scented osmanthus, frowned, and asked sideways, "He Ming, what do you think?"

Ji Qing pondered for a moment, and said calmly: "I think there are two reasons. One is the foreign aggression we talked about before, the border situation is not optimistic, and it is common for barbarians to harass the border. It is very intended to test the strength of Wei. There is an urgent need to strengthen the army. The second is internal worries. He urgently needs to gather military power to consolidate his imperial power. The imperial army can be regarded as the elite of the Wei army, but now Emperor Xuande has dispersed this elite force and sent it to a local garrison as an admiral. This played a decisive role in his gathering of military power. Although the Wei army is weak, it has a large number of troops. If the local army can be raised, its strength should not be underestimated. First, the imperial army is well-trained, and sending them to the local area as an admiral is conducive to promotion The strength of the local garrisons. Second, since the founding of the Wei Dynasty, the imperial army has been loyal to the emperor for generations, and has become more loyal under the methods of recent generations of emperors. It is absolutely credible in the eyes of Emperor Xuande. But once the imperial army left, Yudu and the entire There was a vacancy in the guards of Yongzhou, so he set up Jinyiwei. He sent people he absolutely trusted to places he could not fully control, and gathered all the people he didn't trust to watch every day, so that he could barely feel at ease."

Yuan Xi: "He made such a drastic change, is it a little too hasty?"

Ji Qing nodded: "Indeed."

Yuan Xi thought for a while, and then asked: "Then why don't you let General He send people to train soldiers? Or just take back the military power from General He."

Ji Qing just wanted to explain, but Song Li said unexpectedly: "If you can't take it back, even if you take back the soldier amulet, you can't take back the military power."

Yuan Xi: "Why?"

Song Li: "My grandfather was a veteran of the two dynasties, and he was named the general of the country during the Wanxi period. In the first year of Wanxi, the dog army invaded on a large scale. My grandfather was just a small captain in the army at that time. The enemy was strong and powerful. Wei is not as rich as he is now. He wants soldiers but no soldiers, no money if he wants money, and there are no real men in the generals of the Manchu Dynasty. My grandfather risked his life to stop Emperor Wanxi's carriage and asked to fight. In the end, he was ordered to go around with [-] subordinates. Liang, led the Red Wing Army with one hand, and it took five years to repel the dog army. Now the main generals of the Red Wing Army are all old subordinates who followed my grandfather from birth to death. They only obey my grandfather, even if they take away the soldiers. Replacing my grandfather in order to take back the military power will not chill the hearts of the Red Wing soldiers. How can the Red Wing Army obey him? As for the training of the Red Wing Army, it will be of great help to the improvement of the army's strength, but Brother Huang He certainly doesn't want to."

Ji Qing nodded, and continued: "In a sense, Emperor Xuande wants to raise an army that can compete with the Red Wing Army."

Yuan Xi was confused again, and asked Song Li: "Isn't your grandfather also his grandfather? Aren't we all in the same family?"

Ji Qing took a sip of tea unhurriedly: "How can you understand the emperor's thoughts?"

Song Li didn't say a word, his brows were still furrowed.Seeing this, Ji Qing put down the teacup, and stretched out his hand to smooth the wrinkles between his brows.

Yuan Xi couldn't see it: "When did the relationship between you two become like this?"

Ji Qing withdrew his hand: "..."

Yuan Xi continued to babble: "Little prince, don't frown, my brother looks like he's going to cry..."

Ji Qing glared at him without grace: "I advise you to stop talking."

Song Li came back to his senses and blushed, but he still looked worried.

Ji Qing said softly: "A Li, what can I say."

Seeing this, Yuan Xi had nothing to say, out of sight and out of mind, he left.

Song Li sighed, and said: "My brother's military affairs rectification is a little too hasty. Based on my understanding of him, I don't know what stimulated him to start such a hasty rectification. Although it is a good thing, I always have some ominous premonitions. Furthermore, why did he want to draw a clear line with his grandfather in such a hurry, as Mr. Yuan Xi said, they are obviously a family."

Ji Qing smiled, leaned back in his chair, and said in a calm manner: "In the 11th year of Yunhe, Emperor Yunhe's younger brother, King Yongcheng, and Li Jiming, a military general of the court, hunted in the hunting ground, and King Yongcheng hunted more female deer. However, Emperor Yunhe concluded that his martial arts were superior to Li Jiming, and he believed that he had the heart of rebellion, so he copied and beheaded all over the family. In the 13th year of Changping, Song Yi, the king of Chao, was framed by a eunuch next to Emperor Changping because he had a private friendship with Cheng Jin, a scholar of the Imperial Academy. With the intention of rebellion, the family died tragically in prison, and their three-year-old son was not spared, and was taken to prison to be tortured to death. After death, his body was hung on the city wall for ten days. Regarding Wei's matter, they are also a family, but they can easily instigate swords and swords because of others' undistinguished words, there are many examples like this, do you want to listen to it, Your Highness?"

After listening to him, Song Li leaned beside him without saying a word.

After a while, he got up and left, with an indescribable loneliness in his back.

……

When Yuan Xi arrived in Gusu, Song Li's letter was also delivered to Song Duan.

After reading the paper, Song Duan handed it to the little eunuch standing beside him, and ordered: "Send it to the Queen Mother."

The little eunuch took the order to leave, and Song Duan took out another piece of paper from the envelope.

"The person traveling with His Royal Highness Yu Wang is a young man in white clothes. He is handsome and imposing. His identity is unknown. His Royal Highness Yu Wang only called him "He Ming" or something else. Judging from these two words alone, Gusu household registration and There is no such person in the household registration of Yudu."

After reading it, Song Duan breathed out a foul breath, and put the paper on the swaying tongue of fire, which turned into ashes in an instant.