cloud

Chang'an City is not living in peace these days. The people are panicked when they go out to buy vegetables. When they see acquaintances, they gather together and bite their ears.

On weekdays, the people in Kyoto are under the foot of the emperor, and the law and order have always been good. Recently, there have been many major incidents in the court, and the first thing that has affected the various forces in Kyoto.First, the visiting Turkic Khan was murdered by the head of the red man in front of the Holy One. After hearing the news, the Turkic people deployed troops on the border, and the war was imminent.Later, with God's blessing, the Khan survived and the soldiers withdrew.It was also rumored that the chief executive had colluded with the East Palace, and even the letters and stolen goods were there, which made it clear to people.

Now Longyan was furious, and ordered a thorough investigation into the matter of party formation and selfishness, and followed Shi Nanyue to find out many court officials and generals who had contacts with the East Palace.

Those who were implicated, those who were dismissed from office, those who made up demotions, all of them were unlucky, their whole families were beheaded, and even their servants were exiled...

Although the people in the capital knew little about the affairs of the imperial court, when they closed their doors, they all said that the chief executive was really capable of doing things, and they all died, and so many people were buried with him.

At the beginning, Shi Nanyue only wanted to avenge his own revenge, and he even climbed to a high position, communicated with the East Palace, and suppressed the Jin Palace. He did it to dissuade Mu Qianshan.After taking revenge, he no longer wanted to live, and before committing suicide, he didn't care what would be left behind.Those letters that had been exchanged with the East Palace before were all placed casually, and even the little eunuch who led him away did not tell him to keep his mouth shut.

I'm going to die, why do I care so much?He has no feelings for the crown prince, Mu Shao, or anyone else, but they just use each other.

Shi Nanyue didn't think too much about it, but she didn't realize that it helped Zhao Xu a lot.Although he had been fighting with the crown prince for so many years, the emperor only said that they didn't get along very well, and they all wanted the throne that he was sitting on, but they didn't know that they had already won over half of the courtiers in private.

The unenthroned prince wins over his subjects without authorization. It is said that the princes of every dynasty and generation have done this, but none of them dare to put it on the bright side. Can't be favored.

When something like this happens, the prince is the worst.He didn't need to do too much, as long as there were no major troubles, he could ascend to the throne.However, Zhao Xu secretly set him up too many stumbling blocks, and deliberately urged him to do more things.

The East Palace had a close relationship with the courtiers and the chief eunuchs in the palace, and the news of the secret collusion spread with lightning speed. For a time, both the temple and the rivers and lakes were full of blood and blood.

The emperor took the crown prince's position as supervisor of the country, and also removed his official position in the court. He only said one sentence and asked the crown prince to reflect on himself in the East Palace.

As soon as this sentence came out, almost everyone understood that it meant house arrest.

Most people are like weeds on the wall. Seeing that King Jin lost power before, they all go up to add fire. I don't know that 30 years in the east and 30 years in the west of the river, there is nothing that they can predict if they think they are smart.

Zhao Xu looked at those former subordinates who cried bitterly and said that they had gone to join the prince because of a fascination, but just told Xu Jingyan to send them some money and see off the guests.

He doesn't need to stay with people like that, and he doesn't bother to stay.

In the twinkling of an eye, the season came to the great heat, and Chaozhong also calmed down.

Those who deserved to be punished were punished, the cloud of blood hanging over the heads of the people in Kyoto slowly faded, and everything returned to normal, seemingly without any waves.

At night, the stifling heat still dominates the world.The courtyard is deep and covered in the dark night, only the stone wall and the outline of the house can be seen.On both sides of the vermilion wide high gate, there are brightly lit lanterns, illuminating the golden words "Zhoufu" on the plaque.

At this time, someone was under the wall, taking advantage of the night and quietly walking towards the residence, suddenly raised his head and saw the person he was most afraid of seeing.

"elder brother……"

Zhou Cangran hid his hands behind his back, everything was hidden in the night, but he was still quite guilty.

Zhou Haoran had a slight smile on his face, and his voice was gentle, but the words he said were not too gentle.

"What? Who gave it to you? Hand it over."

"..." Zhou Cangran turned his head, sighed, and took out the jug behind him.

"Not bad." Zhou Haoran said.

"My health is really fine, brother, don't worry." Zhou Cangran knew that when his brother said it was good, it meant something was wrong, "Just give me a little every day, and you will feed the cat!"

"There's already a lot of wine for you. I don't want to have an alcoholic brother."

"..."

Although Zhou Cangran wanted to refute him, saying that he was actually a good drinker, it would be too aggrieved to restrain himself like this..., but he decided not to say any more, so as not to be asked who gave him the wine again.

And he did whatever he wanted, Zhou Haoran picked up the jug, just sniffed at the mouth of the bottle, the smile on his face disappeared.

This is the unique Fushengzui of the Western Regions, which is exclusively for the Turkic royal family, and he once drank it at the banquet when the former Turkic king came to envoy.

"I told you not to have anything to do with him, but you still don't listen?"

The reason why he sold Zhou Cangran's house and brought him home was because he was afraid that he would be fascinated by others. Fortunately, his younger brother would still come and go secretly without telling him.

Zhou Cangran was also helpless, and said: "He came all the way here, I can't let him go... Besides, brother Shuxin is actually quite a nice person, brother, you have prejudice against him."

Zhou Cangran had to be trusted by Ge Shu before, but after getting in touch with him a lot, he felt that this person knew a lot and could chat well, and like himself, he loved wine like hell.

There was a time when he gambled with Ge Shuxin, and they didn't decide whether to win or lose after drinking until dawn. Zhou Cangran cherished such a rare and hard-to-find friend.

But Zhou Haoran sneered and said, "You think everyone is fine."

That kid from the Xu family fought with his younger brother since they were young, and the two families are still feuds, but Zhou Cangran still has a good relationship with others; there is also that Sun Yanshan, the son of the stubborn donkey of the Sun family, Zhou Cangran is still the same. And call him brother.

Zhou Haoran didn't know why his younger brother's friends seemed to be everywhere in the world, basically anywhere.

A colleague once praised Zhou Cangran to Zhou Haoran for his open-minded and clear nature, and he only took it as a compliment.As everyone knows, he often thinks that Zhou Cangran lacks roots in human relationships, but he is just too lazy to deal with these things, which is quite frank.

Zhou Cangran only makes friends who are worth making, regardless of background or status, as long as they are like-minded, they can be friends.Conversely, if he despises that person's character, even if he is an official to the Sangong, he will not take a look at him.

Zhou Cangran didn't know how his elder brother had strictly prohibited it from the very beginning after he knew that Ge Shuxin had become friends with him. He thought it would be fine if he didn't use the word "good".

"That... not bad?"

Zhou Haoran only felt a headache for a while, and after handing over his flagon, he said, "It's up to you, I'll just sue you one more time, that kind of person can't be sincere, so don't pretend to be real, just play around."

The younger brother has grown up, and he doesn't need to watch by himself anymore, Zhou Haoran felt a little lonely for a while.

And Zhou Cangran also had a headache, how many times he had told his brother that he liked girls, why did he still feel that he was interested in Ge Shuxin, or that Ge Shuxin was interested in him.Although it is true that Ge Shuxin looks better than girls... huh?

It seems that this kind of thinking is quite dangerous.