Everyone loves Huo Qubing

When I told His Majesty all this, he just frowned slightly.

"Go back to sleep first, and I will tell you when I have a decision."

I did not see the emperor the next day.In the evening, I was lying on the couch, watching the golden dragon under the beam release to the sky.

Someone opened the door and came in.

"Dou... General Dou?" I rubbed my eyes, in disbelief.Probably too sleepy, I have already fallen asleep.

"Dou Ying" grinned: "How is it, do you look like it?"

"Your Majesty?" I asked tentatively.

The grizzled "Dou Ying" stroked his beard, nodded and said, "I was still worried that I didn't look like my cousin. From this point of view, there should be no problem."

I raise my eyebrows.

"Give Qu Bing a change of clothes." The emperor signaled the eunuch to hand over a set of clothes.It was a bright red deep coat. The outer coat was embroidered with fine Jiangnan embroidered silk, and the middle coat was also made of uniform red densely woven fabric, with layers of collars. Only nobles in Chang'an City would wear this kind of cumbersome dress. format.Coincidentally, the length and size of this dress is just the same as my figure.

The servant fastened my belt and tucked in the slightly longer cuffs and hem for me.The messy horns were loosened, carefully combed into a neat single bun, tied with a red string, and put on a ruby-encrusted crown.The bottom of the crown was a little loose, so the servant found a string to tie it tightly.

When the housekeeper wiped the charcoal pencil on my face to outline the corners of my eyes and brows, I couldn't recognize myself in the mirror.

The emperor directed me to go around the hall with great interest.

"Chun Tuo, do you think Qu Bing looks like it?"

"Like, very similar!"

"I think so too, except I'm a little shorter."

"Your Majesty, most people can't tell the difference."

"Take the slingshot and follow me." The emperor pointed to the red box I put on the shelf.

The moment I stepped out the door, tears welled up in my eyes.

"Uncle!" I ran towards the man standing tall under the lights.

"Qubing can't cry, crying will reveal the truth." In the midst of the rising moonlight, the "uncle" with a soft voice smiled, and leaned over to catch me who was rushing towards me.

I raised my head, wiped the water from the corner of my eyes, and poked the fine mustache on the other's upper lip curiously.

It turned out that the second uncle had a beard like this.

The emperor cleared his throat: "It's getting late, it's time to start, Prime Minister Tian is still waiting for us."

***

When passing through the East Sima Gate, the censor Zhang Tang, who was dressed as a judge, got into the carriage.

"He is a member of the Ting Wei Department, responsible for reporting the Changjun case. I will leave him as a witness for us."

After a while, the carriage stopped in front of a luxurious mansion.

"Please inform the Prime Minister that several of his old friends are passing by and come to pay a special visit." The second uncle who was driving clasped his hands.

"Ghost—" the servant howled dryly, and staggered into the inner courtyard.

Zhang Tang led us into the prime minister's mansion with ease.

The prime minister's mansion is very large, visually observing its surroundings, it is comparable in size to the Chengming Hall. Among them, the pavilions, terraces and waterside pavilions, carved with gold and silver, strange mountains and rocks, and magnificent, are even more magnificent than the Chengming Hall.

All the way was unimpeded, and when all the servants and guards saw us, they fled in all directions as if they had seen a ghost.A few lanterns were discarded in the courtyard, and the second uncle picked them up and distributed them to everyone, lighting up the path under their feet.

When we found Prime Minister Tian, ​​he was drinking.The wine waiter beside him turned pale with fright, Lord Yan got up, took the young son of the Tian family by the hand and hurriedly hid in the inner room.

Zhang Tang stretched out his five fingers and waved them in front of Tian Fu's eyes. Tian Fu drank a glass as if no one was around, thinking he was quite drunk.

"Tian Fu, I am the judge of the underworld, and today I bring the three of them here to seek justice from you." "Judge" Zhang fooled the drunken man.

Tian Fu got up and walked forward to me, leaned over and squinted his eyes and stared at me for a while, then his gaze fell on the slingshot in my hand, and he suddenly turned pale with shock.

"You, you, don't come here! It's not me, it's not me!" He backed up again and again, and fell on the wine table behind him. The wine jar was overturned, and the ground was immediately in a mess.

"Do you still recognize him?" Zhang Tang pointed at me.

"I, I recognize it!" Tian Fu's head was dripping with cold sweat, and he pointed at me and exclaimed, "But, he committed suicide, and the Ou knife was given by my sister, don't count it on me!"

"You were the one who captured the bell room, you sent the murderer, and you planned the internal audit!" I couldn't help roaring.

"I was wrong, please forgive me!" Tian Chengxiang hugged his head and wailed.

"This is just the first accusation," Zhang Tang shook his head, pointing to "Dou Ying" dressed as the emperor, and asked Tian Fu, "Do you know him?"

Prime Minister Tian opened his terrified eyes: "Your Majesty, Dou Ying was convicted by a judge, and his death is none of my business."

"It's pretty good at shirking responsibility." The emperor shouted, "Did you take the backup of Liu Qi's secret edict?"

"Yes, it was my informant who reported the secret, but it was my sister who went to the central office to get the edict, not me!" Tian Fu kept bowing his head, and there were several blood spots on his forehead.

"Sure enough." The emperor closed his eyes and sighed.

The second uncle came out of the shadows, his eyes were slightly red.

"Wei Changjun's death was an accident, it was an accident!" Before Zhang Tang could speak, Tian Fu was already waving his arms vigorously and wailing loudly.

"Yes, the person you planned to kill was not me, but Your Majesty!" The second uncle's voice trembled.I stretched out my hand silently and held his five fingers clenched so tightly that they were white.

"Me? Kill Your Majesty? Hahaha!" Tian Fu was stunned for a moment, then raised his head suddenly, bursting into laughter, "Ridiculous! I am Che'er's uncle, how could I harm Che'er?"

"Who else could it be if it wasn't you?" I took a step forward.

Tian Fu closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, crazy flames danced in his eyes.

"I love Che'er, I won't kill Che'er, it's not me, don't wrong me."

Heckle laughter echoed in the room, making one's hair stand on end.

"Che'er, I was wronged, not me." The prime minister sat slumped on the ground, letting the wine drip down from behind him, soaking the hem of his clothes, and muttering the same words over and over again.

"Your Majesty, the assassin may not have been sent by Prime Minister Tian, ​​maybe there is someone else behind Hu Wu." On the way back, Zhang Tang said cautiously.

In the swaying carriage, the Son of Heaven removed his hand from between his eyebrows.

"Qubing, besides the prime minister and the queen mother, who else was there that night in the bell room?" He raised his eyes and asked me.

I closed my eyelids, and the scene of that night flashed through my mind.

The woman's sharp nails scratched my chin, and the golden hairpin on her head swayed left and right with her wanton laughter.

I took a deep breath, opened my eyes, and met the gaze of the emperor.

"Queen Chen!"

The emperor and I spoke in unison.

***

In October, the setting sun reflected thousands of rays of light in the sky, and double happiness came to both inside and outside Chang'an City.

The Wei Mansion outside the East Qingming Gate was full of red, bamboo pipes and suona, and firecrackers sounded. I rode on the back of Huoyun and followed the procession to walk around the streets and alleys outside Chang'an City, all the way to Su Mansion in the south of the city.The lineup to welcome the bride was not long, the Wei and Su families decided to keep the wedding simple, for celebration purposes, but our horses are all the best high-bred colts in Chang'an City and even in the capital, naturally many passers-by stopped to watch.

The emperor gave me the cumbersome wide-sleeved deep coat that the Prime Minister's Mansion wore that night with a big wave of his hand.Today, half a year later, I finally have the opportunity to wear the red dress again, the size is just right, and the cuffs and hem are no longer fluttering.Dressed in fine clothes, I will play an important role later on. As the oldest junior in the Wei family, I have to call the door for the bridegroom.

The protagonist of today's wedding banquet is not far from me right now, riding on a bay red horse, wearing a red jade crown, a long agate hairpin passing through, wearing a crimson red phoenix fine pattern dress, with a gold belt buckle around his waist .I stared at the familiar figure, and my thoughts couldn't help being in a trance for a moment.

In the Wei Mansion half a year ago, there was no red, only a vast expanse of white.White lanyards and white ribbons are entangled layer by layer, wrapped around the edge of the house, the beams and columns, and floated to the ground, stained with muddy water splashed by the drizzle in spring.

I tidied up my skirt, straightened the linen belt on my forehead, took a deep breath, and stepped over the threshold.

"Xuan Chun is good, don't cry." In the courtyard, the winter jasmine was proud of the snow and frost, and Su Jia, who was dressed in linen clothes, was walking back and forth holding her crying little cousin.When his cousin woke up, he instinctively sensed the changes in the surrounding environment and became restless.

"The boy eats a lot, Zhuyi's nanny can't feed him enough, so I have to hire another one." Aunt Su's voice came from a distance.

The cook that Da Jin Niang invited was wearing an apron and stood at the door of the kitchen to greet me.The vegetarian food in the kitchen smells very fragrant, like the aroma of Guanzhong spicy tofu.

Standing in front of him was the handsome figure with broad shoulders and narrow waist, which set off the perfect proportion of the silhouette.It's just that he is not red at this time, but is dressed in white, like a fairy.

"Qubing, did you fight with others again? How many times have I told you to study hard, you are the hope of our Wei family." In the trembling candlelight, the black coffin bottle quietly stopped in the middle of the main hall, the uncle's voice and smile , as if still stuck in yesterday.

***

"Your Majesty, the Shangshu of Gong Sunhong, a sage of the Suichuan Kingdom." The eunuch trotted all the way to deliver a bundle of letters.

"Look, it's another person who came to scold me for 'being in his position without seeking political power'. Even the swineherds of Dahan County dare to criticize me face to face. I really don't have a little time to steal." The emperor smiled and threw black on the board. , even swallowing the fourteen white stones I painstakingly built.

"Victory is not martial arts!" I complained in my heart.Many people lined up outside the Golden Horse Gate, eagerly looking forward to playing chess with him. This person just likes to fight against me. Others see him as the emperor letting him go, and they don’t think winning is enough; Broad axe, rub round and pinch flat.

However, the emperor hadn't laughed so heartily for a long time.

On the night when he left the Prime Minister's Mansion, Li Guang, the Weiyang Forbidden Army, led the Weiyang Forbidden Army to surround Yongxiang and seal up the Jiaofang Palace. At that time, Empress Chen was singing and dancing with a group of witches to celebrate. The wooden men of wine arrested dozens of people in strange clothes, and were dragged to Beishikou with ropes.

From spring to summer, the Weiyang Palace was filled with a tense atmosphere. A seal report was passed to the Chengming Palace, and the censor Zhang Tang was tortured to extract a confession. He followed the clues, Yongxiang, Donggong, and inside and outside Chang'an City. A total of more than 300 people were captured before and after. People, took away the assassin's stronghold in the east of the city, and seized all kinds of prohibited weapons such as guns and arrows.

"Empress Chen was bewitched by witches because she loved His Majesty so much and wanted to call back His Majesty's love!" Taizhu Dou cried hoarsely, "Empress Chen didn't know anything about the assassination. The witch is the chief culprit! Your Majesty, for the sake of our mother and I helping you successfully enthroned, please spare my daughter."

"I didn't say I wanted to kill Empress Chen." The emperor's eyes closed and opened again, "After all, she was once the mother of the world, and I just accepted her empress seal. Now she is no longer my empress, and it is not easy to continue. She is imprisoned in the Ye Ting Palace, the Nagato Palace that my aunt gave me before is no smaller than the Jiaofang Palace, so you can take her to live there."

"But the Changmen Palace is far away from Chang'an City, so she will never see His Majesty again!" Taizhu Dou's face turned pale, and she cried bitterly.

"For the crime of regicide, confinement without killing is already a kindness. Does my aunt want to go further?"

The above words came out from between the teeth of the emperor.

Tian Fu had been frightened since that night, and after more than half a month, he died suddenly.Although he was an accomplice in the internal investigation of Han Yan and the frame-up of Dou Ying, Zhang Tang's pursuit of Hu Wu along the line of Empress Chen did not involve the prime minister's mansion.When the emperor was sad, he entrusted Han Anguo, the official censor, to act as the prime minister of the foreign court, and appointed Zhang Tang as the doctor of the Taizhong to be in charge of the affairs of China and North Korea. A month later, two things were successfully recovered from the Queen Mother: one was the emperor's seal, which was the Royal Seal of the Kingdom carved with Heshibi by the first emperor Yingzheng; the other was the Changle Forbidden Army Tiger Talisman.

After the Son of Heaven came back from the East Palace, his face was stinky for several days, and his mood seemed to be worse than before he left.What did he say to the Queen Mother, whether it was soft-spoken or coercion, and what terms the Queen Mother put forward for the transaction, I have no way of knowing; however, after experiencing so many things this year, I gradually figured out the "lonely family" that the emperor talked about before. "What's the matter.

Sometimes, people are more angry than others. Compared with the emperor who caught fire in the backyard, I am glad that I was born in the Wei family where everyone loves each other.

"Your Majesty, why don't we go outside for some activities. Taoism says that things generate and restrain each other, and you have to work hard to relieve your qi. I have learned some boxing skills recently, so I can fight with Your Majesty." I recommended myself.

"You?" Tianzi raised his eyebrows and stretched out his hand to compare the height difference between him and me.

"Don't believe me?" I squinted at him.

When the fine iron swords collided, there was a clanging sound surrounded by white light.

"Hey, why did my nephew learn Zhongqing's picky moves so quickly?" The emperor stared at me, the imperial sword in his hand was thrown flying, and stuck obliquely in the mud.

"Hmph, I'm General Wei's proud disciple." I smiled and raised my head.During the closure of Weiyang Palace, Taixue had no classes. Although the emperor arranged for me to wander around with him during the day, I did not lose any of my second uncle's swordsmanship. In the past six months, I have been free to learn swordsmanship with "Xuanshi Gatekeeper" Dongfang Shuo , he also stole [-]% to [-]% of his swordsmanship, and the two masters have mastered it, and I am no longer at the previous level.

"Haha, it's really... a famous teacher produces a good apprentice." The emperor laughed.

So I, a boy with poor chess skills, finally turned around and beat the big man with his own strength.However, I always feel that his last sentence originally meant to say "rats are born to make holes".