Chen Yingliang was expelled from the imperial city by Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty and returned home to be punished. Chen Yingliang's political opponents didn't just hold a banquet to celebrate and wake up from their dreams? Even before leaving the imperial city after the dynasty was over, many Guanlongmen clan officials couldn't wait to cheer in the imperial city of the Eastern Capital. The editor beamed with joy, Yu Shiqian, who was in the same spirit as the old Li family and the Dugu family, smiled, and Xiao Huaijing, the uncle of Xiao Xiaoguo, kept sighing to the members of Guanlong, "Evil will be rewarded with evil! Evil will be rewarded with evil! Heaven finally Open your eyes once!"
Unlike the smiling Guanlong Clan, most of the newly emerging dignitaries looked unfriendly, because although Lai Huer and Chen Yingliang didn't have much interest in them, they were both from Guanlong, Central Africa. Outstanding representatives are their role models, and even more their shields, bearing most of the political pressure from the Guanlong Group for them. Now that these two outstanding role models are down at the same time, the Guanlong Group, which was hit hard before, must take advantage of the situation When the time comes to counterattack, it is unknown that there will be emerging dignitaries who are not born in Guanlong. Of course, these emerging dignitaries who are not from Guanlong have some sympathy for Lai Huer and Chen Yingliang.
The Wenxi Pei clan's important ministers also looked unkind. The Wenxi Pei clan, who valued literature and despised martial arts, had finally found Chen Yingliang as an important military minister in the side branch, but now they suddenly fell down. Of course, Pei Ju, Pei Yun and others He was not in a happy mood, and Pei Hongce, who had the best relationship with Chen Yingliang, behaved even worse. On the way out of the palace, his face was so gloomy that he could almost bleed out. After leaving the palace gate, Pei Hongce immediately asked Pei Ju and Pei Yun in a low voice: "Brothers, is there any hope for Ying Liang's nephew to be freed?"
Pei Ju, who was very deep in the city, had a stern expression on his face, and he said in a low voice after a long while: "It is still impossible to judge, the key is to see how long His Majesty will be angry? If His Majesty can quickly dispel his anger, then of course there is hope for Ying Liangxian, but if Your Majesty's sulking is getting bigger and bigger, and things will become more difficult."
After finishing speaking, Pei Ju turned his face slightly to Pei Yun, and said in a low voice: "My dear brother, you can't be shy about avoiding suspicion in this matter. You have to snatch the missions that have convicted Lai Zhuguo and Ying Liangkan, and delay as much as possible. The longer the time, the more likely His Majesty will calm down, and we will have time to move around, but if time is urgent, His Majesty may become impulsive."
Pei Yun nodded. Just as Pei Ju was about to instruct Pei Hongce to secretly order Chen Yingliang to keep a low profile, Pei Renji, who had never thought that he rarely walked with the Pei family brothers, suddenly caught up and asked in a low voice while bowing to Pei Ju and Pei Yun. : "Two elder brothers, brother Hongce, and nephew Yingliang who suffer innocently. We can't stand by and watch. Would you like to contact the officials of the DPRK and China to jointly protect nephew Yingliang?"
Hearing Pei Renji's words, Pei Ju fell silent, Pei Yun's chubby face was also a little gloomy, but Pei Hongce was a little tempted, and asked if he would jointly intercede for Chen Yingliang? Pei Ju also seized the opportunity to vent, and said coldly: "Brother Hong Ce, if you want to kill Ying Liang's nephew, then you should do so! Your Majesty is currently in a fit of anger, and with his temper, it is time for Ying Liang to die." The more people the nephew pleads for, the worse his death will be!"
"Also." Pei Yun also said in a cold tone: "Brother Hongce, if you really love the nephew you brought in for us, you'd better find a way to contact Ying Liangxian's old army department and let them be honest. Stay, don't give outsiders an excuse to accept the order of Liangxian! Especially for the national army, there must be no accidents!"
The word 'outsider' was deliberately emphasized, and then Pei Ju and Pei Yun, who were in a panic, walked away without even looking at Pei Renji, leaving Pei Hongce and Pei Renji, cousins, in a daze until Pei Ju and Pei Renji When Pei Yun walked away, Pei Renji said awkwardly to Pei Hongce: "Brother, Brother Yu really didn't do it on purpose. Brother Yu really doesn't know. At this time, the above table is to plead with the good nephew, and it will be so unfavorable to the good nephew."
Glancing at Pei Renji who was full of embarrassment, Pei Hongce, who was almost caught in the trap, suppressed his anger, said in a low voice that the younger brother understands, and then walked away, leaving Pei Renji alone on the spot crying secretly, lamenting in his heart: "My dear brother, you Believe me, I really didn't intend to harm him this time. I just know that the two clan brothers attach great importance to him, and I want to try my best to help him and take the opportunity to ease the relationship with the two clan brothers. What happened in the past two years , really made me understand what it means to break bones and connect tendons, what it means to mean blood is thicker than water, only my own family is the most reliable in the world."
Inadvertently offended Pei Hongce, who was closely related by blood, and even angered the two backers who were originally disliked by him. The depression in Pei Renji's heart can be imagined. Having an idle job without real power, there is nothing to do in the imperial city after leaving the court. Pei Renji, who was in a bad mood, simply left the imperial city. He came up, greeted Pei Renji loudly, and said with a smile: "Doctor Pei, are you going home now? It just so happens that my younger brother is planning to go home too. How about sitting at my younger brother's house for a while?"
"Thank you Xiao Jianyi for your kindness. I have something to do, thank you very much." Pei Renji, who was in a bad mood, refused straight away.
"Then how about we go on the same road?" Xiao Huaijing was not angry, she clung to Pei Renji with a smile, and insisted on following Pei Renji back to Fujiaofang, and then used the excuse that she had never been to Pei Renji's house to visit, and brazenly entered. The gate of Pei's house, and then naturally, Uncle Xiao Guo proposed to have a drink with Pei Renji and renew their friendship...
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In this situation, the dejected Chen Yingliang has already returned to his luxurious mansion in Lushunfang. According to Lai Huer's instructions, the first thing Chen Yingliang does after returning home is to order his family to close the main entrance facing the street, and only walk in and out. At the small door in the workshop, Chen Laosan, Wang Xuance and other family members asked the reason in surprise, but Chen Yingliang didn't hide anything, and directly told his family that he had been convicted, and asked his family to keep a low profile and not to find anything for him trouble.
Sitting alone in the study for a while, the eldest grandson Xiao Luoli and Wang Xueji both came to the study to visit Chen Yingliang. After meeting the two wives, Chen Yingliang was not polite and said to the two wives with a smile: "Wugou, Xueji, I have good news for you, from now on, I don't have to go to the imperial city to work every day, I can stay at home with you every day, are you happy?"
"My husband can stay at home and accompany us, of course I wish for it." The eldest grandson Xiao Luoli was very calm, pouring tea for Chen Yingliang, while comforting her softly: "Husband, the official career is dangerous, and the ups and downs in the officialdom are very normal. As long as you are fine, no matter how precious wealth and glory are, they are not as precious as your husband's safety."
"Sister Wugou is right, as long as you are fine." Wang Xueji rarely showed a gentle expression, and while hammering Chen Yingliang's leg, she said softly: "Sister Wugou and I have discussed it just now. It doesn’t matter if you are dismissed from office, we can sell the big house and live in a small house, and use the money left over to live a good life.”
"That's right, it seems that I'm quite discerning, and the two wives I found are good." Chen Yingliang smiled very gratified, hugged the two wives, one on the left and the other on the right, each of them took a sip of incense, and said with a smile: "Originally I I'm still worried, I've lost my job as an official, and my two daughters-in-law may not forget it, it seems that my worry is really in vain."
The eldest grandson Xiao Luoli and Wang Xueji refused to follow each other, and jointly punished Chen Yingliang for underestimating them. They had a great time, and at the end, the eldest grandson Xiao Luoli cooked a few small dishes for Chen Yingliang, and brought them to Chen Yingliang's room. Drinking, drinking and relaxing with Chen Yingliang, who rarely has time to rest, fulfilling the duties of a good wife and mother, Wang Xueji, who is physically convenient, also took time to accompany Chen Yingliang Hu Tianhu, trying to help Chen Sangliang create a little Chen Shimei again .
It was almost in the afternoon when Fang Xuanling, Wei Zheng, Yuan Tiangang, Changsun Wuji and other accomplices returned home. They saw Chen Sangliang drinking wine accompanied by his eldest grandson Xiao Luoli and Wang Xueji. Fang Xuanling, Wei Zheng and others Immediately happy, Fang Xuanling said with a smile: "Young brother, you will enjoy it. We were worried that you would be devastated on the way, but I didn't expect you to drink with your two younger brothers and sisters. You are so free and easy."
"What's free and easy? I lost my official position, and I just use wine to drown my sorrows." Chen Yingliang smiled heartlessly, and then told the two wives: "Wugou, Xue Ji, go get some more wine and vegetables, I want Qiao Brother Song and Mr. Xuan Cheng wept bitterly to drink together, mourning my loss of power, and they were unlucky with me, let's see who is the first to cry out after drinking today."
Fang Xuanling and the others laughed loudly, while the eldest grandson Luoli and Wang Xueji pinched Chen Yingliang alone, blaming Chen Yingliang for his inauspicious words, and then they went to cook together to prepare food and drinks. It was only after the two daughters left that Fang Xuanling spoke to Chen Yingliang. Said: "My dear brother, it was my arrangement that we came back at this time. After receiving the news that you were expelled from the imperial city, I immediately took Mr. Xuan Cheng and the others out of the city to the Youwuwei camp, and told you about your situation. I have left your former troops of Qiao Peng, and General Liu Changgong and others, and in your honor, order them to stay calm and not make any moves, let alone make any mistakes in the army."
"Have you reported to the National Army?" Chen Yingliang asked.
"Of course there is an explanation." Fang Xuanling replied: "We came back late because General Guo and General Chen were a little impulsive and wanted to join forces to plead for you. It took us a lot of time to explain the truth to them and calm them down. come down."
"You still know what I'm thinking." Chen Yingliang sighed, and cupped his hands to Fang Xuanling and the others, and said with a smile, "Thank you, I can finally rest assured now, if the army can't hold back and something goes wrong, Then I call it really over."
Fang Xuanling and the others smiled modestly, saying that this was what they should do, and then quickly asked what happened to Chen Yingliang's sudden loss of power. After Chen Yingliang explained the whole story carefully, Fang Xuanling and the others Only then did he suddenly realize, and then Wei Zheng, who was good at direct admonishment, frowned and said: "Our Majesty, it's really..., too much, and the admonition from Zhuguo is also for the sake of his country and society. It's fine if he doesn't listen to it. Expelling Laizhu Kingdom from the imperial city, and implicating the general, you are also unlucky, such Your Majesty... oh."
Fang Xuanling and Yuan Tiangang sighed softly together. Like Wei Zheng, they both completely lost confidence in Emperor Sui Yang. Only Changsun Wuji asked worriedly: "Brother, do you have a chance to get rid of the crime? Will your majesty really?" accuse you?"
Chen Yingliang was silent, and said after a long while: "Your Majesty is moody, and I don't know what he will do next. Fortunately, several of my backers are still there, and the possibility of losing his head is very small."
The room fell silent. Fang Xuanling, Changsun Wuji and the others had complicated thoughts. They were both worried for Chen Yingliang and themselves. Chen Yingliang also began to think in his heart. If he was really beaten to the end, what should he do next? ? To go to Li Jing or Fan Zigai? Or simply pull together a team to act as thieves, and fall into the warm and broad embrace of the peasant uprising army at the end of the Sui Dynasty? For a while, everyone sat silently.
At this time, the housekeeper Chen Laosan suddenly came to report that someone was knocking on the front door of the Chen family, and said that he must see Chen Yingliang immediately. It was a girl who knocked on the door, she said her name is Pei Cuiyun, she is your old acquaintance, please be sure to meet her."
"Pei Cuiyun?" Changsun Wuji's ears pricked up, and Chen Yingliang's face became embarrassed, after some calculations, he said helplessly: "Please come to the back living room, she saved my life, so we can't be too unfeeling to her. "Chen Laosan, who had never seen Pei Cuiyun before, heard that someone had saved Chen Sangliang's life, so of course he rushed out to meet the guests. Chen Yingliang confessed his crime to everyone, and went to the back living room to meet Pei Cuiyun. He immediately ran to the back house to inform his sister, saying that his brother-in-law's mistress had come to hook up with Chen Sangliang again without mentioning it.
As soon as he entered the back living room, Pei Cuiyun came in under the guidance of Chen Laosan. The little girl's eyes were red, and there were still tears on her face. It seemed that she had just cried. Distressed, she also said that the little girl was crying because of her bad luck, so she waved her hand to let Chen Laosan go out, and said with a smile: "Why are you crying? I was just expelled from the imperial city. Your Majesty hasn't issued an order to dismiss me as an official. They didn’t even order to kill my head, it’s unlikely that my head will be lost, so there’s no need to be sad for me.”
Tears slowly flowed down Pei Cuiyun's fair and tender cheeks, choking for a long time, Pei Cuiyun suddenly said: "My father is going to kill you, my father colluded with a man named Xiao Huaijing, and is going to kill you."
"What did you say?" Chen Yingliang asked in shock.
"I said, my father colluded with Xiao Huaijing to harm you." Pei Cuiyun choked up and said, "Just now he brought that Xiao Huaijing home, and I overheard their conversation. Xiao Huaijing urged my father to take your life and give it back to me. My father pointed out three ways, the first is to ask my father to come forward and encourage Pei Zuoxiang to give up you as a side child; the second is to ask my father to come forward and pull some civil and military officials to plead for you, deliberately adding fuel to the fire to anger the emperor even more "The third is to let my brother, the Youwuwei army incited to make trouble, force the emperor to reinstate you as an official, so that you will die without a place to bury you."
Chen Yingliang's face became extremely ugly, and Pei Cuiyun sobbed again and said: "That Xiao Huaijing, who kept trying to provoke the relationship between my father and you, talking about you and me, made my father lose face, my father can't take over smoothly. General You Wuwei, it is also because of your cross-talk, and you kept saying that the last time you recommended my father as the left guard in the Eastern Capital, you deliberately embarrassed my father. My father was demoted and fined, and then deliberately took the credit with just a few orders, completely embarrassing my father, and persuading my father to take the opportunity to take revenge... "
Chen Yingliang still didn't speak, but Pei Cuiyun cried even more sadly, choked up intermittently and said: "I already understand, you haven't visited me since you returned to Dongdu, it's not that you forgot me, it's because my father is sorry for you, he is in an official position. I can't compete with you, so I deliberately target you, you don't go to see me, it's my father who forced me..."
Chen Yingliang turned his face away, admitting in a disguised form that this was indeed the case, Pei Cuiyun didn't say anything more, and gradually stopped crying, wiped the tears from his face, choked up and said: "I'm done talking, you Take care, since my father has done something wrong to you, the grievances between you and me will be evened out, and I won't force you to do anything, just forget about me."
After all, Pei Cuiyun really turned around and walked out the door, but when she opened the door, Pei Cuiyun was taken aback again—a young woman with a big belly was already standing outside the door. Seeing Pei Cuiyun's surprised look, the young woman smiled sweetly, and said naturally: "Sister Cuiyun, let's get to know each other. My name is Changsun Wugou, and I am brother Yingliang's wife. Hello."
"You..., hello." Pei Cuiyun was a little at a loss.
"Sister Cuiyun, I heard what you and Brother Yingliang said." The eldest grandson Xiao Luoli said softly: "Thank you for reminding Brother Yingliang, you are a good sister, because of me, Brother Yingliang It's his bad luck that he didn't get married with you... Huh? Sister, why is there a slap on your face? Who did it?"
Hearing the words of the eldest grandson Xiaoluoli, Chen Sangliang, who had been silent all along, immediately rushed to Pei Cuiyun, and turned Xiaosan to face him in front of his wife. When he took a closer look, Chen Sangliang finally realized that On Pei Cuiyun's left cheek, there was indeed a five-fingerprint that hadn't faded away. Chen Sangliang analyzed it in detail, and immediately asked, "Is it your father who hit him? Did you quarrel with him?"
Tears of grievance gushed out of Pei Cuiyun's red and swollen eyes again, and she couldn't help but threw herself into Chen Yingliang's arms, hugging Chen Yingliang and crying loudly. As a result, Chen Yingliang, no matter how Chen Shimei was, would inevitably feel a little embarrassed, so she hurried to look at herself timidly His wife, eldest grandson Xiao Luoli made a cute face to Chen Yingliang, and said with a sweet smile, "Don't look at me, I didn't see it, pretend I don't exist, so I can comfort Sister Cuiyun."
Embarrassedly smiling at his wife, Chen Yingliang patted Pei Cuiyun's beautiful hair and comforted him in a low voice. The biological father was angry and talked for a long time before Pei Cuiyun finally calmed down. It was only after Pei Cuiyun blushed and took the initiative to leave Chen Sangliang's embrace that the eldest grandson Xiao Luoli took Pei Cuiyun's hand and said kindly: "Sister Cuiyun, let's talk about your business slowly, I will take you to see Xueji Sister and Brother Yingliang's son will go."
"Brother Yingliang's son hasn't been named yet. At first, Sister Xueji and I thought that Brother Liu and the others chose Chen Shimei, but Brother Yingliang didn't know why, but he just didn't agree..."
Speaking kindly, the eldest grandson Xiao Luoli insisted on pulling Pei Cuiyun away, who was already blushing, but as soon as the daughter-in-law and mistress left, Fang Xuanling, eldest grandson Wuji and others sneaked in from behind the rockery and flower beds in the courtyard When he came out, Changsun Wuji said, brother, you know how good my sister is now, right? Fang Xuanling, Wei Zheng and the others gave Chen Yingliang Lianqiao a thumbs up and said in admiration: "After all, he is a great general. He is so powerful that he can make other girls do it for her." You, quarrel with her biological father."
Chen Yingliang smiled awkwardly, and then said in a low voice: "Uncle Pei Renji hates me, I already knew this, but I really didn't expect that he would walk with Xiao Huaijing."
"My dear brother, this is a good thing, it is a chance to exonerate you." Fang Xuanling said in a low voice, "You can take Miss Pei to see Zuoxiang Pei and tell him what happened. Prime Minister Pei let His Majesty know about this, and His Majesty, in his great anger, directed his anger on Dr. Pei and Xiao Huaijing, vented his anger on them, and the anger towards you can basically be dispelled."
Changsun Wuji, Yuan Tiangang and others applauded, but Chen Yingliang remained silent, and suddenly said: "If I do this, Dr. Pei will die, and I will be ashamed to see Cui Yunxian who has saved my life." sister."
"Brother, why are you benevolent to a woman again?" Changsun Wuji was anxious when he heard this, and hurriedly said: "People don't hurt tigers, tigers hurt people's hearts..."
"No need to say more, I understand." Chen Yingliang interrupted Changsun Wuji with a wave of his hand, and said seriously: "I will keep Miss Pei temporarily, with her here, Dr. Pei dare not mess around, even if he really dares to collude with Xiao Huaijing, Pei The girl is also a witness who can put them to death at any time."
Changsun Wuji reluctantly gave up persuasion, but he still didn't give up, so he asked again: "Brother, how do you plan to avoid this disaster?"
"Wait and see what happens, wait." Chen Yingliang replied: "My backer is still there. Your Majesty is moody. If you get angry today, you may calm down tomorrow. In addition, His Royal Highness Yue Wang should also say a few words for me. I just need to wait honestly." A few days, there may not be no hope of getting rid of the crime."
"It doesn't matter if you are really demoted to a commoner." Chen Yingliang thought to himself: "Then I will go to Taiyuan first and help Fan Zigai eradicate the remnants of the Li family there, so that the old Li family will completely lose hope of making a comeback. Then pull the team to rebel and conquer the world!"