Lintai Storm Record

yes. "Song Qianzhi said in his heart that most of the reasons why Xu Ruiyun followed them were to get along with Liu Pingwen. A loyal and brave general, he is also kind-hearted, and wants to do his part for the common people.Now there is no news in Xunzhou, I don't know what the situation is, the waterway is blocked, Xu Ruiyun knows a lot of inside information, and I am afraid that he will also want to accomplish something big by following us. "

"In a peaceful and prosperous age, what great things can be done." The woman bowed her head and drank tea.

Lu Guan stood up, walked forward, knelt down to the woman, cupped his hands and said, "Wangfei really thinks this is a prosperous time?"

Song Qianzhi's heart trembled, and he sat with his back straight.

Princess Dongming slowly swallowed the bitter and sweet tribute tea in her mouth, raised her eyes, and looked at Lu Guan.

"Engong, be wise and protect yourself. This is the four-character motto that you gave me when you helped my son escape the assassination a few years ago. How can I change it to Engong himself, so I don't understand?"

Lu Guan raised his head: "At that time, I had never seen mountains of corpses and rivers of blood, children who had lost their parents crying and unaccompanied on the battlefield, never seen Yi Zi eating, never seen people wearing military uniforms Soldiers wielding knives at civilians have never seen adulterers|shameless villains of wives and daughters. They have never seen a parent fleeing from the city, or a sergeant sitting side by side watching the city being slaughtered. Princess, do you really think that Is this the peace and prosperity of Great Chu?"

The messy flower branches in the copper basin trembled slightly, and the branches tore the water light into pieces.

☆, orthodox (Xiwu)

Princess Dongming was obviously stunned. After a while, she laughed, her smile was uncontrollable, and finally pressed the corner of her lips with a handkerchief, forced herself to hold back her laughter, and her expression returned to calm.

"Master Lu, please get up first."

Lu Guan frowned.

Song Qianzhi said: "Lu Guan, get up and speak well."

"Yes, Mr. Lu, I'm just a woman who has lived in a boudoir for a long time. Engong is now an official of the court. He kneels to the sky and kneels to the king. He shouldn't kneel in front of me."

Song Qianzhi helped Lu Guan to sit down, and secretly shook his palm.

Lu Guan picked up the tea cup and took a sip, his face stiffened.

Princess Dongming took a sip of tea leisurely, her bright eyes moved, and she looked over. She was not looking at Lu Guan, but Song Qianzhi.

"The two adults are here, does the palace know?"

Just as Lu Guan was about to speak, his hand was held by Song Qianzhi. He glanced at Song Qian and remained silent.

"I was ordered to go south to find out the atrocities that Liu Yun's old troops disguised as Heidi troops in Songzhou and Xunzhou and massacred civilians."

"Oh?" Princess Dongming's lips moved slightly, "Whose order?"

Song Qianzhi smiled slightly: "Princess Wang asked more questions."

"I heard that the Son of Heaven wants to make Liu Yun's daughter a queen, and has already sent someone to bring Liu Yun back to the capital from the place of exile. From then on, the Liu family is extremely expensive, and even Prime Minister Li has to be courteous. To investigate Liu Yun The person who is here will definitely not be the emperor."

Song Qianzhi thought to himself, Princess Dongming spoke very politely, and there were only two people in power in the palace, either the emperor or the queen mother.I don't know if she knows that the situation of the Queen Mother Zhou is far worse than before.

"In the early years, I heard that the Empress Dowager treats the emperor very well, as if she was her own. Later, I heard that the two ministers in charge of the court, the Minister of the Ministry of War and the current Prime Minister, are directly under the orders of the Empress Dowager." Princess Dongming laughed Laughing, "It's just rumors, no one takes it seriously. If every generation of monarchs is at odds with the harem or the prime minister, there will be a bunch of dirty villains chewing their tongues. You know, first Husband is not a person in charge, I took my son away from the capital, and I also wanted to stay away from all kinds of gossip in the royal family. There is a small Susukida in the family, so life is just getting by."

Lu Guan wanted to say something again, but Song Qianzhi grabbed his hand, and he had no choice but to swallow the words back.

"That's the reason." Song Qianzhi said lightly.

The woman was very satisfied with Song Qianzhi's attitude, and said kindly, "However, what is Liu Yun doing?"

"I don't know about the humble job." Song Qianzhi let go of Lu Guan's hand, put it in his hands, and lowered his eyes to avoid looking directly at Princess Dongming.

Princess Dongming's tone became more and more relaxed and comfortable: "Liu Yun, Rong Zong thinks he is a criminal minister. It must be that the emperor was bewitched by someone in order to take charge of the government as soon as possible."

"What the princess said is."

Princess Dongming: "I also understand what benefactor means. However, the duty of the hundreds of soldiers in Dongming Palace is to protect the palace. Qizhou has a patron saint of General Bai, so it's not for us to intervene."

"The princess doesn't need to send troops." Lu Guan said.

"Then what does benefactor want me to do?"

"The edict left by the first emperor has not been passed on to the current emperor."

Princess Dongming was obviously taken aback, the calmness in her expression was gone, and her brows were furrowed deeply.

"what?"

Lu Guandao: "The late emperor's edict was not to pass on the position to Fu Mingshao, he was anxious to take charge of the government because he was not in the right position."

"How is this possible?" Princess Dongming stood up suddenly, her nose flaring, her pupils constricted, and she put her hand on her heart. After a while, her face was bloodless, and she was troubled by thousands of thoughts.

"If it is not passed on to Fu Mingshao, who is the edict going to be passed on to? Fu Mingmao? All the other princes have already been disqualified..." In the years after Fu Mingshao was established as the crown prince, there was a bloody storm in the court, and everyone was in danger , the lineage of the prince's son and grandson was more like a reminder at the time.Princess Dongming couldn't remember how many sleepless nights she had spent in that seldom-occupied Buddhist hall in the palace.

"The princess doesn't need to know, I just want to get a promise from the princess." Song Qianzhi said with a smile.He was born with a face as white as jade, even though he has been traveling around recently, he is still a noble son with an elegant temperament, and his speech is not as impatient as Lu Guan.

"Sir Song, please tell me." Princess Dongming understood it.This is the empress dowager's nephew, and under the order of the empress dowager, he went south to investigate, and the investigation was on Liu Yun's dirty work, which made it clear that the empress dowager wanted to tear his face apart.She was also mentally prepared, and secretly weighed whose team she was on.

Song Qianzhi glanced at Lu Guan, his eyes met, he immediately looked back at the princess, and said: "Please hold back the army and protect yourself. If there are refugees in Song and Xunzhou for help, please do what you can , lend a helping hand."

Princess Dongming's brows trembled imperceptibly.

"That's all?"

Song Qianzhi looked at her and nodded.

"If Qizhou is in chaos, the concubine can take the little prince to find a safe place to protect himself." Song Qianzhi said, "It's early spring, and before the spring is warm and the flowers bloom, there will always be a cold spring. In this season, It's like a child's face, the princess must understand it too."

Princess Dongming bit her lip, with 12 hesitation on her face.She is a strong woman. After her husband dies, the palace will rely on her. Today's life is not bad. The idle princes who were sent back to the fief are all in such a situation. Their salary can't be counted on. Whether the fief is rich or not.King Dongming's land can only be said to be neither good nor bad.

Biantian is not only not bad for an offshoot like King Dongming, but it will also be a good opportunity to turn around.

"Besides, didn't the princess originally intend to do so?"

Princess Dongming was stunned.

Even if Lu Guan didn't come today, at most, when there was chaos in the south, she took her son and fled here and there for a while to protect herself. Those hundreds of soldiers were in the chaos, and they couldn't do anything at all.

After thinking this through, Princess Dongming's expression softened a lot. She sat up straight with a smile, and looked carefully at Song Qianzhi.

"What the two of you said to me today, don't go out and talk nonsense. I have the right to pretend that I haven't heard what the two adults said. Mr. Song is right. If there is a mess, our palace will only ask for self-protection." Princess Dongming's eyes twitched slightly, "No matter how much you want to help someone, you will be at your wits end, and you will be powerless."

"We understand that." Lu Guan said, "This matter is confidential, and I ask the princess to forgive me for not being able to talk endlessly."

After the replay, Song Qianzhi felt a little pain in his toes. Lu Guan asked him to take off his boots, and saw three or four blisters on the tips of Song Qianzhi's bloodless white toes, soaked in a faint pink.

Lu Guan touched it with his finger.

Song Qianzhi grinned in pain, but didn't cry, just pouted.

"..." Lu Guan poked his cheek, feeling a little distressed.

"It doesn't hurt." Song Qianzhi muttered.

Lu Guan asked the housekeeper of the palace to get a needle, roasted it on the fire, pricked the blisters, put some medicinal powder on it, and insisted on wrapping up Song Qianzhi's toes.

Song Qianzhi was a little angry when he saw Lu Guan, and he didn't dare to say the words of refusal.

As a result, Lu Guan wrapped his thumb so much that he couldn't fit in his boots. During dinner, Song Qianzhi was carried to the dining room by Lu Guan. Princess Dongming didn't eat with them, so the atmosphere during the dinner was much more relaxed.

Xu Ruiyun walked around Song Qianzhi, and found that his toes were wrapped in gauze like a white radish, he almost died of laughter.

Zhou Xian came out and yelled: "Which quack doctor made it for you, what's the matter? Are you lame or have a broken bone? How did you do it?"

"Blisters." Song Qianzhi said depressedly.

"Oh, that's serious. How about riding a horse tomorrow? Why don't you hire a carriage? I don't think Mr. Song should ride a horse, but take a carriage." Xu Ruiyun gave Liu Pingwen a fish with chopsticks and teased him, "How about younger brother Liu? Riding in a carriage with Mr. Song will only delay a few more days, and when we arrive at the capital, Songzhou, Xunzhou, and Qizhou must all be flattened, burned, killed, and looted, it is really hard."

"..." Liu Pingwen was so frightened that his neck stretched out, and he swallowed the food in his mouth with difficulty, eating like a little mouse, "Well, then I'll ride a horse, brother Xu can take me." Liu Pingwen's eyes As soon as he got up, he came up with a good idea, "Master Lu can take Eldest Brother Song, and Lord Zhou can take Li Xuan. Every time we reach a posthouse, we will change our horses. The fastest one will definitely be able to return to the capital as soon as possible."

"Brother Song, that radish foot, how can you ride a horse? You want to hurt him to death." Xu Ruiyun bluffed him.

Song Qianzhi really couldn't stand it anymore, so he told Liu Pingwen that it didn't matter, he would still be riding a horse tomorrow, but the toes were rubbed with medicine, and they were wrapped up first to prevent any dirt from getting on them.

Li Xuan fidgeted beside Zhou Xian, his eyes kept looking at Song Qianzhi's feet, his hands were itchy, and he wanted to hug Song Qianzhi's gauze-wrapped feet into his arms, but his mind was hazy about what to do. Dimly couldn't figure it out, but thought that if he could blow it twice, it wouldn't hurt.

Zhou Xian, who was always paying attention to Li Xuan, wished he could tie him to his belt, but he didn't dare, he was also the son of the first emperor, and the illegitimate son was also a dragon son. If it happened, this lunatic would become the emperor in the future. When the madness is cured, remembering that I tied him up, wouldn't I want to take his head off.

So Zhou Xian had no choice but to pull back the man who was about to pounce on Song Qianzhi again and again.

In fact, if you think about it carefully, Li Xuan is only a little younger than Xu Ruiyun, and he is older than Song Qianzhi and the others.

"It would be great if Doctor Lu was still alive." In the middle of the night, Song Qianzhi turned over and hugged Lu Guan's waist naturally. His eyes were closed, but his mind was clear. "What do you think about his son's medical skills?" ?”

"How do I know?" Lu Guan said, "Sleep." He patted the back of Song Qianzhi's neck, the thin neck could be held with only one palm, and his fingertips wrapped around Song Qianzhi's back neck and stuck to it. s hair.

"Go back and find Dr. Lu's son and show Li Xuan a look. If it doesn't work, then look for Imperial Physician He."

Lu Guan squeezed Song Qianzhi's neck in displeasure, and said lightly: "After being crazy for so many years, you let him suddenly wake up and remember how he was crazy. Maybe he will not only go crazy, but also die."

Song Qianzhi's head moved in Lu Guan's arms, and when he spoke, his warm breath harassed Lu Guan's neck, scratching Lu Guan to react.

Song Qianzhi also noticed it immediately, Lu Guan's waist moved back a little, Song Qianzhi didn't stick it on, and pulled the quilt between the two of them calmly, and said in a low voice: "You can't accumulate some morals. ?”

"Is it okay to tell the truth?"

Song Qianzhi pinched Lu Guan's ear and said with a little complacency, "You're just jealous."

"Yeah." Lu Guan said, "I'm jealous, what's wrong?"

Song Qian was stunned, the quilt on his waist was torn off by Lu Guan, he suddenly hugged Song Qianzhi tightly, and with his waist and hips pushed forward, he threatened: "If you don't sleep anymore, I will do you, on the way back to Beijing, this is it You can sleep peacefully for a night, and there is no such a good place anymore, do you think the condition of the palace is good, but you want to be intimate but are embarrassed to say it? What are you doing talking about others?"

"..." Song Qianzhi tugged at Lu Guan's ear, "Why are you becoming more and more shameless?"

"What kind of face do I want in front of my wife?" Lu Guan kissed Song Qianzhi's forehead and patted his shoulder, "Sleep quickly."

Song Qianzhi thought that he was going to ride a horse tomorrow, so he didn't dare to act recklessly. If Lu Guan really got angry, he would at least sleep until the afternoon, and riding a horse would be painful, so he quickly closed his eyes and pretended to fall asleep.

Lu observed that the person in his arms was still, opened his eyes, and rubbed Song Qianzhi's neck like a small animal. His breathing was hot, his brows were tightly knit, and he persisted until dawn. , while Song Qianzhi was still awake, went to take a shower, and met Princess Dongming by the way. Seeing that he came alone, the princess took him to see the 11-year-old King Dongming.

Dongming Wang got up to study at four o'clock, and practiced martial arts at five o'clock. During the day, his master gave lectures in the morning and learned riding and archery in the afternoon.

In the bright sky, Princess Dongming was wearing an empty robe, her face was pale, and her lips were pale.

"Lu Guan."

Lu Guan looked away from the young King Dongming.

"Only with the great Chu, can the world of the Fu family be established. You must know the priorities." At this moment, Princess Dongming looked like a most ordinary middle-aged woman. She held her thin arms and turned around. With a straight face, he looked seriously at the young man in his 20s in front of him.

"The first time I saw you, I knew that you were not someone in the pond, but the person next to you, who is the descendant of Taifu Zhou." Princess Dongming thought vaguely of the first time she met Lu Guan, and he still had the innocence of a young man on his face. Uprightness, an idea came to her mind, and she said it inadvertently, "It's still because you have taken a fancy to his identity."

Lu Guan lowered his eyes.

"His surname is Song now."

Princess Dongming laughed: "It's just a surname..." No matter what Song Qian's surname is, half of the Zhou family's blood is flowing on his body.

"His surname will be Lu in the future." After saying this, Lu Guan had already left.

Princess Dongming was absent-minded for a while, and the corners of her mouth twitched.A maidservant not far away came over with a food box, Princess Dongming took it in person, walked to her son with a smile, asked him to rest for a while, and have breakfast.

☆, Upheaval ([-])

There were still about ten days to go to the capital, and Song Qianzhi was not in a good mood because of the continuous spring rain. He always felt restless, but he couldn't tell what was going on.

Song Qianzhi tried not to think of things as bad as possible.

One night, Song Qianzhi dreamed of the ancestral hall of the Song family. When he was young, he was often punished to kneel in the ancestral hall. Song Qianzhi was only a few years old at that time, and he didn't understand why the old lady was upset again. He didn't even know that his father An Dinghou was drunk most of the time because he was oppressed by his mother's superior father-in-law, so he could only vent this bad breath on Song Qianzhi.

At that time, Song Qianzhi was young and was deeply loved by his grandfather, and because the emperor's uncle doted on his aunt, his status as a young prince became extraordinarily precious.Boys always have some skin when they are young, and when they talk about breaking the sky, they are just calling friends and friends to secretly catch a few bugs for fun, skipping classes and skipping school, and go into the water to fish for fish.As for the interesting things about the children in the capital after the age of ten, Song Qianzhi never had a chance to experience them.

The ancestors of the Song family are enshrined in the ancestral hall. In Song Qianzhi's dream, he was kneeling on one of the futons as he did when he was a child.

Late at night, a little light leaked through the crack of the door.

Song Qianzhi was cold and hungry, so he climbed onto the altar and secretly took out a plum cake from the cakes piled up in a small tower and stuffed it into his mouth. , Soon, a small tower was piled up again, and there was no abnormality at all.

Song Qianzhi didn't know why he had the body of a child in the dream. He was a little fleshy when he was a child, and when he was going down from the altar, Song Qianzhi accidentally brushed one of the wooden signs with his sleeve.

The little fat man had no choice but to climb up again panting. The moment the wooden sign was put back in place, a white light flashed in front of his eyes.

The words on the sign completely woke Song Qianzhi out of his dream.

On the bed, Song Qianzhi sat up suddenly, gasping for breath.

Lu Guan practiced martial arts, and his sleep has always been light. He reached out to hug him, and Song Qianzhi lay back with lingering fear. This is an inn with air leaks everywhere, and the bedding on the couch is full of the unique moisture of spring.

"Dreaming?" Lu Guan leaned against Song Qianzhi's ear, kissed him lightly, and rubbed against his smooth neck heavily with his nose.

"Yeah." Song Qianzhi pushed Lu Guan. Just as he was pushed away, he stuck to him again. His eyes were still closed. Song Qianzhi's loose hair was pressed under his arm by Lu Guan. It was a little cooler, Song Qianzhi closed his eyes, the palpitations of his heart beating just now were still there, and his vest was also sweaty and damp.

"What did you dream about?" Lu Guan raised his hand and touched Song Qianzhi's lips kissing his eyelids, and then felt that his face was also soaked in sweat. He opened his eyes, pinched Song Qianzhi's chin with his fingers, They kissed each other face to face, bit Song Qianzhi's mouth twice, the tip of his tongue twitched on his soft lips, his breathing was short, and he couldn't help deepening the kiss.

After a while, Song Qianzhi pushed Lu Guan an arm's length away with sweat all over his body, panting, "It's uncomfortable, it's too hot."

"Get some water for you to wipe?" Lu Guan asked in a low voice, with his lips on the bridge of Song Qianzhi's nose.Spring is here, and he always wants to touch Song Qianzhi's skin, even the back of his hand. Of course, at this moment, he is holding Song Qianzhi's hand, with his palm against the back of his hand and his thumb on Song Qianzhi's. rubbed the back of his hand.

Lu Guan thought greedily: Song Zhuxing's hands are really slippery.He rubbed Song Qianzhi's fingers with his index finger and middle finger, felt the thin calluses on his fingers, woke up suddenly, and immediately got out of bed to fetch water.

Lu Guan fetched water and came back, Song Qianzhi sat on the couch in a daze with the quilt in his arms, the candles on the table were already lit.Lu Guan sat on the edge of the couch, twisted the veil, first wiped Song Qianzhi's body, then wiped himself, changed another basin after wiping, and went out to find hot water.

In this small, poor inn, there are still people guarding the kitchen at night. There is still hot water in the pot. Lu Guan puts a copper basin in the room and scalds Song Qianzhi's feet. With Qianzhi's cold feet, he bent his index finger and touched several acupuncture points on the soles of his feet.

Song Qianzhi yelled twice, blushed and closed his mouth.

"Stop barking?" Lu Guan pressed his fingers hard.

Song Qianzhi covered his mouth with both hands and stared at him.

Lu Guan turned up his mouth and smiled, and put Song Qianzhi's feet into the water.

In the dim candlelight, Song Qianzhi looked at the man in front of him expressionlessly. He was bending over and washing his feet.Song Qianzhi raised his wet instep and rubbed against Lu Guan's arm twice.

"You wash too."

Lu Guandao: "I'm not cold."

"Roll on the floor and go to sleep without washing your feet."

Lu Guan had no choice but to put his feet into the basin too, his feet were a bit bigger than Song Qianzhi's, and the basin was not big enough for the two men's feet to be flat on the bottom of the basin, so Lu Guan stepped on Song Qianzhi's feet. On Qianzhi's instep, he didn't dare to use too much force.

Song Qianzhi's insteps were smooth and his skin was very tender. He could feel the calluses on the soles of Lu Guan's feet. He stared at Lu Guan's feet and thought of those farmers in their village who rolled their trouser legs high during the harvest season.

"Why do you always look at me?" Lu Guan stepped on Song Qianzhi's foot with his foot.

Song Qianzhi didn't speak, he reached out and touched Lu Guan's face, carefully feeling the man's eyebrows and eyes with every inch of skin with his fingers.

"Your eyebrows are really high."

Lu Guan let out a cry, never expecting Song Qianzhi to touch it for so long, and couldn't help laughing when he said such a sentence: "Why is it so stupid tonight, was brought by Li Xuan?" He stretched out his hand to caress Song Qianzhi's back, Through the thin layer of unlined clothing, the palm of my hand wiped the coolness.

"It wasn't washed clean." Song Qianzhi frowned and raised his hand to smell his arm, then handed it to Lu Guanwen.

Lu Guan blushed and said, "Then wash it yourself."

Song Qianzhi grabbed Lu Guan's hand on his lap: "No, you wash it."

"...Okay, I'll wash it." Lu Guan pinched Song Qianzhi's nose, wanting to ask him what kind of nightmare he had, but after hesitating for a moment, he didn't ask, and Song Qianzhi didn't say either.

After the two lay down under the blanket again, Song Qianzhi hugged his waist and buried his head in Lu Guan's chest.After a while, Song Qianzhi turned his head sideways, put his ear on Lu Guan's right chest, and listened to his heartbeat. After a while, Lu Guan thought Song Qianzhi had fallen asleep, and his breathing sounded steady and long.

But Song Qianzhi said: "I dreamed that when I was a child, my father punished me to kneel in the ancestral hall. I was so hungry that I crawled to the altar table to find food and knocked over a memorial tablet." Song Qianzhi opened his mouth slightly, his tongue was dry, He raised his head to kiss Lu Guan's lips, licked his dry tongue around Lu Guan's warm lips, and stared at Lu Guan's sharp lips in a daze, where there was a little bit of water stains shining a tiny bit of luster.

Song Qianzhi closed his eyes forcefully, and put his head on Lu Guan's fiery chest.

"What's wrong with the memorial tablet?" Lu Guan asked in a low voice, suddenly, he thought of something, and patted the back of Song Qianzhi's head twice, "Dreams are always reversed, I don't know how many times I died in dreams, but I'm still alive now Well done, and you."

Song Qianzhi had never heard Lu Guan talk about his dream, and for a moment he even forgot his fear of seeing the name on the tablet.

"You always dream of yourself, yourself..."

"Yeah, always die." Lu Guan touched Song Qianzhi's ear with his fingers, he liked this place, and touched the goose bumps that exploded on Song Qianzhi's arm with his other hand, he knew Song Qianzhi's The ears are extremely sensitive, and the more he refuses to let it go.

Song Qianzhi didn't hide, but chased after him and asked him what he was dreaming about.

Lu Guan counted one hundred and eight tragic ways of death in his dreams, his voice didn't fluctuate at all, as if he was talking about other people's affairs.

"You haven't been woken up by fright." Song Qianzhi's neck was red, his ears were hot, Lu Guan was still rubbing his soft earlobes, and he kicked Lu Guan under the quilt.

"I know I'm dreaming. If I know it's a dream, I won't be afraid. Sometimes I will carefully watch the weapon piercing my body. Anyway, it doesn't hurt too much. When I wake up, I won't be able to recover for a long time."

Song Qianzhi listened quietly, he was thinking that the two of them knew too little about each other's past, they had stepped on a spider's thread since they met, and if they didn't pay attention, they would be smashed to pieces.If he wanted to die, at least he had to die later than his mother, otherwise his mother would be bullied miserably by the Song family.

Song Qianzhi's eyes blurred, he was a little tired, closed his eyes, leaned his chin on Lu Guan's shoulder, and murmured that he dreamed that Zhou Wanxin's tablet was enshrined in the Song family's ancestral hall, and it said Song Zhou's family.

"If there is such a day, my mother will definitely feel very uncomfortable." Since childhood, Song Qianzhi has heard too many things about his mother's youth from other people's mouths, "In the past, people in the capital who wanted to marry my mother , I can’t finish the list of cities. Uncle Qin thought that I didn’t know, but he liked my mother very much, and there are many more.”

"Fortunately, you are not a woman." Lu Guan sighed.

Song Qianzhi was stunned for a moment, and then he came back to his senses, relaxed a little, and the corners of his mouth curled up: "It's not a girl, there are many girls who want to marry me."

Lu Guan didn't speak, just tightened his arms.

Song Qianzhi panted anxiously, his whole body was turned upside down, and he was immediately speechless.

The unhurried wind outside the window throws the endless spring rain on the eaves. The leaves of the leaves are intimately entangled with the rain silk that is connected in a line. The thin silk condenses into raindrops, along the spider web-like veins of green leaves, and gathers at the tip of the leaves. Bean-sized raindrops.

Ye Ji couldn't bear its weight, and it was finally irreparable.

Zhou Xian took Li Xuan to be familiar with him, and Li Xuan no longer pestered Song Qianzhi all day long. Song Qianzhi was uncomfortable riding a horse, and Lu Guan said that he would not sit in a horse-drawn carriage.

On the day I arrived in the capital, the sun was shining brightly, but the whole bustling and majestic city was shrouded in a lifeless haze.

The number of peddlers setting up stalls in the city is significantly less than usual by more than half. Tea stalls, teahouses, brothels, theaters and other places where good and bad people are mixed up are places where news flows fastest, but now they are all sealed.Soldiers stood guard at the entrances of restaurants and inns. Although the gates were open, they were empty.

The interrogation when entering the city was also extremely strict. Fortunately, Song Qianzhi brought the seal of the Ministry of Secretary when he left Beijing this time. He also knew the guards, but there were many new faces.

Song Qianzhi grew up in the capital, and was very familiar with the commander of the imperial army, but he was chatting with the guards, but he heard that the commander of the imperial army had changed.

So after entering the city, Song Qianzhi did not enter the palace immediately, but found the home of his childhood playmate Lu Lin. Lu Lin's father used to work in the official department. In the fifth year after his father's death, it was also the year that Lu Linzhong took the martial arts examination and hanged himself for love.

Knocking on the door of Lu's Mansion, Song Qianzhi looked around and found that there were a lot fewer servants. Walking all the way in the whole courtyard, going back and forth, he saw less than ten servants.

Song Qianzhi was familiar with the courtyard where Lu Lin lived, and when he walked to the courtyard gate, the overwhelming smell of alcohol became stronger and stronger.

Song Qianzhi frowned.

He turned down and said: "My friends, can you sit in the flower hall for a while?"

That servant was an old servant of the Lu family, he knew Song Qianzhi, he respectfully agreed, and took the rest of the people to sit elsewhere.

Song Qianzhi walked into the small courtyard where Lu Lin lived, and saw a man lying on the stone table, with his waist straddling the stone table, one long leg bent, pedaling on the stone bench, the whole person leaned back, Like a discarded bow.

Lu Lin lifted the wine jar with his right hand, and the wine dripped into his wide-open mouth. His beard and hair were disheveled, and his Adam's apple rolled several times. He vaguely heard someone calling his name, turned his head, and saw a figure.

With the little finger of Lu Lin's right hand, he brushed aside the messy hair on his face, and frowned tightly with difficulty in distinguishing. When he thought about it, the doubt in his eyes dissipated like the wind, and he waved to Song Qianzhi.

"What wind brought you here..." Before he finished speaking, Lu Lin rolled down from the stone table, and the wine jar fell to pieces with the sound of shattering. Water or wine.

Song Qianzhi got a little angry, walked over and grabbed Lu Lin's arm, pressed his shoulder to let him sit down on the stone bench.

The servant girl was startled by Song Qianzhi who rushed into the room like a gust of wind, and stood timidly by the door, lowering her head, for fear of being discovered by Song Qianzhi.

Song Qianzhi didn't look at the person directly, picked up a copper basin from the wooden stand, went to the yard, shook a bucket full of water, filled the bucket, lifted it up, and walked in front of Lu Lin.

Lu Linxu opened a slit to look at Song Qianzhi. He felt that the sunlight was dazzling, so he just covered his face with one hand.

There was a splash of water.

The cold water in the pocket made Lu Lin almost suffocate, and the well water in this season was as cold as a bucket of crushed ice scum fell on his face.

Lu Lin kept yelling, and cursed loudly: "Song Zhuxing, you're promising! Even your brother Lu dares to splash, you want to kill me?!"

Song Qianzhi lifted the lapel of his robe and punched him when he went up.

Lu Lin was dazzled by this punch, with golden stars in front of his eyes, he couldn't tell whether it was a dream or reality, and then the second punch came in front of him, Lu Lin grabbed the fist that hit his eyes, and loosened his palm to grab Song Qianzhi's. Push the wrist forward, and fold it to the right in a circle, but the abdomen is pushed by Song Qianzhi's knee, and all internal organs are dislocated.

"You bastard." Song Qianzhi looked at Lu Lin's wrinkled face indifferently.

One of Lu Lin's eyes was so swollen that he could only see through a thin slit. He opened his mouth to speak, but a sour taste rushed up in his throat, so he had to turn sideways to vomit.

Song Qianzhi watched him finish vomiting indifferently.

Lu Lin vomited so badly that the bile flowed all over the floor, and Song Qianzhi dragged him up from the ground. He shook his whole body violently. When he saw Song Qianzhi raised his hand, he thought he was about to be beaten again, so he hurriedly dodged back. , the soles of his feet slipped, he stepped on something he had vomited out, and fell to the ground. Lu Lin's face turned pale under the severe pain in his tailbone.

"You're really back..." Lu Lin still couldn't believe it. He had heard that Song Qianzhi had gone to the Zhenbei Army to supervise the army. He seemed to have come back a while ago, and then left again.Counting back and forth, the last time I saw it was at the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet in the palace, and I haven't seen it since.

The friendship when they were young, after they each went on business, has almost faded away.

Lu Lin could only think that Song Qianzhi must have come because of his removal from office.

"Thank you for coming to see me."

Song Qianzhi snorted coldly: "If I had known what you looked like, I wouldn't have come here. Have you been living in Zhang Jing for a long time, and you look like you have kidney failure?"

Lu Lin: "...I've been dismissed from office, can't you say something nice?"

"If you drink to death here today, I have a load of good things to say to you."

Lu Lin went in to change his clothes with a dark face, and took a shower by the way. He was too drunk to sit still in the barrel, and didn't want to wash his hair, but he trembled three times when he smelled sour.Lu Lin was rubbing his hair with his hands, and his mind slowly came to life.

Song Qianzhi is back.

He remembered a rumor he had heard while drinking outside the palace with his subordinates a while ago, saying that the Queen Mother Zhou was under house arrest in the palace, Liu Yun's daughter became the queen, and Li Yeyuan's prime minister was considered successful.

What did Song Qianzhi come back for?Once the Empress Dowager Zhou lost power, he didn't even want to wait for the secretary.

In the early years, Lu Lin and Song Qianzhi played very well. He knew that Song Qianzhi stayed in Lintai as the emperor's eagle dog, but for his mother.He also asked Song Qianzhi why he didn't take the imperial examination. Song Qianzhi was drunk that time, and even the singing girl was sitting in his arms, and he forgot to push her away.

"Today, I won't rest assured that I am an official, and neither can my father. As long as my hands are not clean, they will be relieved. Only when I have face in front of the emperor, can my mother live a clean life in the Song family for two days. "

Lu Lin came out of the bucket, wiped all his muscles, changed into a clean martial robe, stood in the corner room, and suddenly leaned down to the window to look.

I saw Song Qian sitting bored on the porch not far away, playing with throwing a random stone in his hand.

Those clear and beautiful eyes swept over.

Lu Lin trembled suddenly, stood up straight, and walked out.

☆, Upheaval ([-])

Song Qianzhi's attitude when he came to Lu Lin was very clear, and he wanted Lu Lin to be ready at any time to return to the Forbidden Army to be the commander.

Lu Lin laughed straight after hearing this, rubbed his nose with one hand, raised his eyelids and glanced at Song Qianzhi: "Do you think this is going to the street to buy fish, and if you want to buy it, you can have it? Liu Yun is back, and the commander of the imperial army has been replaced by his man, Qin Yuning I came out to protect me, but the next day I was impeached by the censor, and I was almost beaten by the imperial staff."

"It's none of your business, you just need to be prepared, don't get drunk all day at home." Song Qianzhi frowned.

The blazing sun made Song Qianzhi's face extraordinarily pale. Lu Lin stared blankly for a while, smiled lightly at the corner of his mouth, turned his face away, rubbed his thumb and middle two fingers together, and sighed wistfully, "Chasing the stars, Do you know that Liu Yun's daughter is going to be the queen?"

Song Qianzhi looked at Lu Lin, and found that there were more than ten white hairs on Lu Lin's right temple. Lu Lin was four years older than him, and a little younger than Lu Guan.

"know."

"Then do you know where are all the officials who opposed Zhou Taifu back then?"

Song Qianzhi didn't answer.

"Actually, it's all the same." Lu Lin lowered his head, "The Zhou family back then, and the Liu family now, the emperor recalled Liu Yun to use him to eradicate the power and influence left by Zhou Taifu. No gold is enough, and no one is perfect. , no one can count as perfect.”

"Then what do you want to do?" Song Qianzhi said.

Lu Lin let out a long breath, and said with a wry smile: "What can I do, if the emperor can remember that our Lu family has not made any contributions but has worked hard all these years, I will take the old man back to the countryside of Lingzhou to plant land, he likes to paint and raise flowers and birds Yes, go fishing, follow him."

Song Qianzhi saw a plate of marinated peanuts on the table with no expression, and peeled two out to eat. He heard Lu Lin beside him saying that he wanted to eat too, and asked Song Qianzhi to give him two peanuts, but Song Qianzhi ignored it. He said coldly: "You still remember the Nanzhou Palace."

Lu Lin's hands froze, he retracted, his neck retracted, and he said guiltily: "What?