Li Guogong's son has a man in the house, which is something that many of his confidantes have heard of, but except for a few people who often walk around in Beijing, few people know what the "house man" looks like, and everyone spreads it by word of mouth. It is inevitable that they will add fuel and vinegar, so this matter has changed to the ears of Beijing foreign officials.
Some said that the man did not abide by etiquette and was wild and unrestrained, and some said that the man had a peerless talent and was knowledgeable about the past and the present, but more often it was said that the man had a stately appearance. After all, Xiao Shizi himself is Jasper Flawless, and his talent is unparalleled in the world. If he is not a person who can crown the world, how can he easily fall into his eyes
Now when everyone sees the "person in the house" being so frivolous and arrogant, not only is this young prince not annoyed, but he also puts aside such important matters as discussing in public, just to put the other party to sleep, it is even more true to those gorgeous and absurd things. rumors.
Ji Hong didn't care how other people slandered him for being "fascinated by sex", so he got up and went back to the backyard. A cook came to deliver food and tea. Seeing that it was the head of the house, she immediately stepped aside. Ji Hong took a glance at the things presented, and took them together. He also asked her to go to the third floor and asked Mr. Luo to take them. Come back with some cooling ointment for swelling.
After giving the order, he opened the door, the young man seemed to be leaning over to get up, and when he saw him coming in, he immediately lay down like a corpse, pretending not to see him. Ji Hong couldn't help laughing in his heart, but his face was still suppressed, and he walked gently to his bedside, seeing his long breath, it seemed that he had really "fallen asleep".
Yu Jinnian closed his eyes, waiting for Ji Honglai to wake him up or kiss him awake, but after waiting for a long time, there was no sound beside the bed, and after a long time, he wondered if he was embarrassed to see me fall asleep disturb me? Then do I want to make some noise so that he can understand what he should do at this time
Sitting in front of the table, Ji Hong lit the small clay stove, opened the food jar that the cook had prepared, scooped out a few spoonfuls of clear green powder from the jar, put it into a white porcelain mortar, added a handful of white sesame seeds, and slowly Grinding slowly, sometimes putting the porcelain bowl on the clay oven to bake on a low fire.
Yu Jinnian smelled the aroma of sesame seeds mixed with whole grains. He hadn't eaten anything since he went out for a stroll at noon yesterday, and he had a quarrel with Ji Hong all night when he came back. Hearing this aroma, his stomach started to rebel. Ji Hong heard it, but he didn't shame him, he was still grinding the tea powder quietly, but Yu Jinnian couldn't help himself, turned around and took a peek.
Opening his eyes, he saw Ji Hong making tea, one stove, one soup, one cup, peacefully and leisurely.
After a while, when everything was done, Ji Hongcai lifted the boiling soup from the stove, poured it into the teacup, stirred it well with a small spoon, and blew it slightly before standing up. Yu Jinnian hurriedly closed his eyes and pretended to sleep.
Ji Hong sat by the bed and laughed: "Why, didn't you say you want tea? The eight-treasure tea made in the kitchen is just ground, and it is very fragrant. But how do you want me to feed you when you fall asleep like this, because you miss me Mouth feeding you?"
He pretended to sigh distressedly, shook his head and said: "It's not impossible for you to be so arrogant..."
"Who is so proud of being favored?" Yu Jinnian opened his eyes fiercely, and wanted to stare at him, but he might as well bump into Ji Hong's undisguised smiling eyes.
There were waves of light flowing in the bottom of Ji Hong's eyes, and the warmth in his eyes was even stronger. He stretched out his hand to help Yu Jinnian up, lowered his head and sniffed the aroma of eight-treasure tea, and then rubbed the young man's temple with the aroma of the roasted tea. Yu Jinnian was so tempted that he couldn't hold back, he took the initiative to hook him over and kissed him, then lowered his face in embarrassment, and ate tea from the man's spoon.
This eight-treasure tea is hand-ground. It is made of fried rice, sesame, peanuts, corn, pumpkin seeds and other whole grains and spices. They are ground into powder one by one, mixed with tea powder, and brewed in boiling soup. . These eight treasures are meant to be auspicious, but in fact, rich people use dozens of ingredients, while ordinary people only use fragrant tea, sesame seeds and peanuts.
The brewed eight-treasure tea is like rice milk and rice paste, light and elegant, quenching thirst and satisfying hunger. For Yu Jinnian who has been tossed hard at this time, it is a good meal.
While feeding him, while talking about what happened during the discussion just now, Ji Hong didn't blush at all: "What do you think? I can't sleep because I think about it. Now those people under my hands know that you are acting like a baby to me. That's all Those who speak unreliably, maybe next month, everyone in the south of the Yangtze River will know how you are so proud of your favor."
"..." Yu Jinnian choked on a mouthful of tea soup.
Ji Hong seemed to have expected his reaction long ago, calmly took off his handkerchief and wiped his mouth with him, then went to stir some tea powder into the cup.
Yu Jinnian looked at him suspiciously: "Could it be that everyone heard it?"
Ji Hong looked at him with a smile, and calmly handed the spoon to his lips: "A dozen or so informants came here today."
"..." Yu Jinnian covered his face, feeling ashamed to go out for a walk, "I'm not alive anymore." He just thought that he had been messed with all night, and now his body and mind were empty, so he had to mess with Ji Hong anyway, so he could vent his anger and feel that it was a matter of discussion , that is, those few acquaintances of Min Xuefei, who thought there would be outsiders there.
"It's only now that I know how to be ashamed. When I asked Duan Ming to shame me, why didn't I think that there were other people in the room? But it's okay." Ji Hong took off his hand covering his face, leaned forward and tasted it himself. The taste of eight-treasure tea, "I hope you will pamper me a few more times. In the future, if they ask me to socialize, I can say that the family is strictly controlled and it is inconvenient."
Yu Jinnian thought for a while, he could really say this kind of thing, if the whole capital would say that he was fearful of the prince of Duke Li, he would probably be able to nod in agreement.
Said Ji Hong hooked his hand towards him.
Yu Jinnian was surprised: "What are you doing?"
Ji Hong took it for granted: "Don't you still want to hug? Come here, let me take a look at you."
Yu Jinnian: "..."
While holding him with peace of mind, Ji Hong watched him drink tea by himself while holding the teacup, while gently kneading his sore place. Yu Jinnian was indeed sore and didn't want to get out of bed, but he felt embarrassed to be hypocritical after being served like this. After eating a few bowls of eight-treasure tea to fill his stomach, he leaned on Ji Hong's body and closed his eyes to rest his mind, listening to what Ji Hong said Ahead.
Originally, the war and rebellion had nothing to do with him, and he didn't care about Yan Chang's life or death. He just opened his eyes and looked at him when he heard Ji Hong said that he was going to go to prison. Although he didn't say anything, his eyes were entangled. Okay, but the plan can't change fast enough, he was worried.
Ji Hong patted him on the back and said lightly: "It's okay, don't be afraid."
Yu Jinnian was full of unease, but he couldn't hold back his eyelids and fought on his own, and soon fell asleep in Ji Hong's arms.
The people in the room in front were waiting for Ji Hong to come back to make up his mind. Everyone poured down their stomachs with tea and burned all the incense sticks in the hall, but they only waited for Duan Ming to come over in a hurry: "Young master is really not well, I feel very uncomfortable." Great, our son will not be able to get away for a while, so we won't come here. Mr. Min, please be considerate... "
He is inside, how is that kid in good health
Duan Ming thought so too, but he still had to bite the bullet and spread the word.
"..." Min Xuefei was so angry that blue smoke rose from his forehead. Ever since he had an accident in Fengcheng, he hadn't had time to send a letter of safety to Lian Zhi, but the two of them were so happy that they stuck together day and night.
But when it came to Fengcheng, Min Xuefei couldn't help but frowned. He was originally ordered to secretly investigate the corruption case of local officials, but he didn't know who leaked the news. Lead him step by step into the bureau. If he hadn't suddenly realized that something was wrong, and brought a few guards out of the village, he still didn't know what would happen to him at this time.
That group of daring people actually sent people to chase them all the way to this point, if they hadn't met Jing Zhong who gave his life to help, they might have died by now.
Min Xuefei's trip was based on the emperor's secret decree. Only Lian Zhi, Ji Hong, and Yu Jinnian knew about it. Needless to say, Ji Hong and the others, Lian Zhi would not speak nonsense to the outside world. It can only be traced back to the imperial study.
He started to write, put it down again, and drew it in his stomach several times but was not satisfied. Finally, after thinking about it, he sighed and said to himself: "I didn't want to involve you..." After a while, he will finish writing The two letterheads I wrote were folded into the envelope, and they were about to be sealed with wax. After thinking about it, I took it out again, added a few words of caution at the end, and then handed it over to the subordinate, and ordered that I hand it over to the other party. Never pass through the hands of a second person.
After all, I drew up another secret letter, reporting the military changes in Kangnan and the fact that Beidi was probably lying about the military situation. First, let someone take it to Ji Hong's room to show him, and wait for him to nod , and quickly sent it to the palace.
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Min Xuefei used the excuse of recovering from his injuries to live in Chunan for half a month, and the weather turned cold, and when it came time to wear an extra layer of clothing outside, there was too much dew at night, so he could no longer sleep with the windows open. He went to three or four secret palaces one after another, and with Prime Minister Min running around in Beijing, he finally got half a golden tiger talisman, which can mobilize the soldiers and horses of the ten prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River.
On the sixth day of the seventh month, when the fire first came down, the heat was gradually receding and autumn was approaching.
A young eunuch came first with a secret edict, entered the city, got off his horse, and greeted "General Min" with a smile.
After receiving the order, there was no tiger talisman, and when he was about to question him, the little eunuch said with a fake smile: "General, don't be impatient, you have to have an envoy to supervise the army when you send troops. This has been a rule since ancient times, not to mention how important the tiger talisman is." How could it be possible to hand things over to the servants? Naturally, they are in the hands of the envoys. My lord, please."
Min Xuefei's hands tightened, and he thought to himself, could it be that the rumors in the palace have also caught the wind, and that old thing Feng Jian got a loophole? Although it is a nominal rule for eunuchs to supervise the army, it is not followed every time. It is not a good omen to send a supervisor down at this time. Feng Jian was no longer a member of his own camp. If the supervising army was stuffed in by him, he had to find a way to get rid of it, otherwise he would definitely get in the way when he took action in the future.
Entering the back hall of the government office, there is a eunuch in red and purple in the hall, who is looking up at them with his back to them, and above his head, the former government official hangs an ironic "Innocence Worthless" plaque. Surrounded by two or three little ones in blue gowns, they are all quite clever young people, they are much more delicate than those eunuchs in the palace who do menial jobs.
In this battle, Min Ji was allowed to be the main general. Naturally, according to the law, he should be the deputy general first. However, this deputy general Wei followed the supervisor all the way. At this time, he was standing in the corner next to him with a look on his face. resentment. There were several other military officers who came with the army, all of them were sullen and resentful. When they saw Min Xuefei walking in, they all breathed a sigh of relief, pointing at him to support the big guys, so that this eunuch would not be so arrogant!
The man in the hall was thin, with a slender neck, and his hair was tied neatly in the crown. He wore a plain jade hairpin with a wishful head and a pair of jade pendants around his waist. Standing in the shadow of the hall, he could not see clear face. No matter how noisy the group of young people next to them was, they couldn't encourage the person in the middle, which made the other person look cold and arrogant.
Min Xuefei was stunned.
Hearing the sound of footsteps entering the door, the other party lowered his head, fiddled with the jade wrench on his finger with his snow-white gloves, and said calmly: "General Min came so slowly, he must have planned it on the way, thinking about what to do. Get rid of our family." Qing Lingling's voice was eunuch-specific soft and thin, like a gorgeous little silk wrapped around her throat, but her words could kill people.
"It's okay for our family, but the general's method should be smarter. If it's a small trick like feeding poisonous arrows in the dark, it will be too unreasonable."
Min Xuefei moved a bit, then held back.
The atmosphere suddenly became stiff, a group of young eunuchs knelt on the ground in fright when they heard this, and the deputy general Wei raised the saber at his waist, and stared at the eunuch in the middle, showing his murderous intent. When the two met for the first time, they didn't even have a polite word, and the opening was so merciless, leaving it elsewhere, that is, the supervising army directly tore apart the face with the leader. There is a civil war to be fought.
That's right, Mr. Min's family has always been at odds with Sigongtai, and the supervising army is from Sigongtai, and is Feng Jian's own son. Naturally, he is the one who leads the army first when they enter the city. It is serious to dismount, otherwise the Min family will think that they are easy to provoke.
The little eunuch on the ground turned his head to look at Min Xuefei, saw that he was empty-handed, plainly dressed, and didn't even bring a gift slip, and felt even more contemptuous. The money they paid for their filial piety each time was enough to buy dozens of pieces on his body, and it was said that Min Xuefei, who was said to be able to argue with his officials, was nothing more than that.
Min Xuefei didn't speak, and there was some annoyance on his face.
Only then did the supervisor say all that, but Min Ji didn't show anything, obviously he just can't handle things, and it might be difficult to return to Huan in the future. On the ground a slender-eyed little eunuch rolled his eyeballs twice. Seeing that his face was torn apart, he swayed unrulyly and said in a low voice, "Worshiping even when I see you, it's just a wild way to commit crimes and make meritorious deeds." General, who is the imperial censor, when he sees us, he must call him a hundred years old, what kind of person is he?"
The one in the hall is Feng Jian's own son, who will succeed Feng Jian's Bo'er in the future, and be the home of Si Gongtai, half of the people in the palace city must obey his orders, even the empresses and princesses in the palaces have to curry favor Their prestige is real prestige, and power is real power. Compared with Min Xuefei, an official who relied on his ancestors' merits and failed to do a job, I don't know how stronger they are.
The supervising army and the general have always been fighting openly and secretly, and in the end there will always be a priority. After all, two tigers cannot be accommodated in one mountain.
The superintendent turned around, and a gorgeous face emerged from the shadows, with peach-like eyes half-drooped, hurriedly passed over Min Xuefei's feet, and settled on the head of the whispering little eunuch, he raised his eyebrows. hand, called him up, and asked lazily, "What's your name?"
The little eunuch licked his smiling face, and rushed to support Lian Zhi's forearm: "Return to Lian Shaojian, call Jin Chun'er."
"Well, you're not bad." Lian Zhi Ruoyou nodded, raised his hem and walked in front of the adjutant surnamed Wei, raised his hand to hold his knife, and before the adjutant Wei came back to his senses, he slammed Draw out the knife. Jinchun was proud of himself, when suddenly there was a coldness in his chest, and there was a puff sound, like a butcher knife piercing into pork, and piercing his beating heart, he still had a smile on his face, and he could still feel the apex of his heart against that beating heart. The thin blade shrunk, squeezing out blood one after another.
He sent it again, the point of the knife pierced his back, and hot blood spurted out like a fountain.
Adjutant Wei took a quick step back, and the kneeling eunuchs threw themselves on the ground tremblingly, blood splashed all over their heads and faces when they were close, even Min Xuefei couldn't hide the shock in his eyes.
As if the ruthlessness was just a fleeting illusion, Lian Zhi pulled out the knife, shook it and handed it back to Adjutant Wei, and said slowly: "It's not bad, but you have to know what to say and what not to say, you're too smart, It’s easy to stumble. When you say he’s not a thing, what does that mean, I’m not a thing either?” He waved his sleeves, “What are you?!”
The pierced body fell down with a bang, and blood flowed all over the floor. A group of young eunuchs were so frightened that their faces were as white as paper, and their shoulders trembled. No one dared to say a word.
Lian Zhi kicked a young eunuch nearby, and scolded: "I'm not cleaning up yet, waiting to pollute the eyes of the adults? In the future, whoever breaks the taboo of tongue, don't come to me, and find a beam to hang himself That's it. Save me from seeing... a short life."
When the adjutants saw him, they felt that he was trying to make an example of others, and they were afraid that they would have to be wary in the future.
When the eunuchs saw him, they felt that he was uncertain and difficult to serve, and they were afraid that they would be the next to die.
"Yes, yes..." The little ones kowtowed a few times, hurriedly carried the dead body out, and broke the basin in and out to wipe the ground. Just now the group were still arrogant, but now they are stuffy at Lianzhi's feet, wiping the blood on his boot toe, and dare not even show their breath, let alone look up at their faces.
As everyone knows, Lian Zhi lowered his eyes, and didn't dare to look at Min Xuefei.
Min Xuefei waved his hand, the adjutants gritted their teeth and retreated, Lian Zhi saw that he had pushed back his subordinates, hurriedly called "Get out", and let a group of little eunuchs who were wiping the floor also retreat. After closing the door, there were only the two of them. The room above the yamen was large and empty, filled with the smell of old wood. There was a faint smell of blood.
Lian Zhi took a few steps back from his sight, leaned against the desk, and murmured: "I know you're going to say I'm cruel, cold-blooded, and violent, but I..."
Min Xuefei yelled angrily: "You are not in Beijing to be your young supervisor of the Sigongtai, why do you come here to be a supervising army! How can you get money to be a supervising army? There are so many filial piety in the palace, isn't it enough for you to spend! All the way, come to me to kill?"
"..." Lian Zhi closed his eyes in pain, twitched his lips, and resisted, "If I don't come, Feng Jian will insert someone else, those little ones, some of them are Feng Jian's people..." He had to kill , otherwise they will think of ways to find out Min Ji's fault, take precautions against everything, it's hard to guard against backstabbing, and it's better to deal with it first, than to fix it after a dead sheep.
Even if Min Xuefei said that he was ruthless or vicious, since he killed this person, he would not feel guilty.
Lian Zhi swallowed a few times, but still felt dry in his throat. He pushed away the man in front of him and walked out the door. He is the envoy of the Supervising Army who can stand up to the top generals of an army. He has the right to command and supervise. Even Min Xuefei, Can't help him easily. Standing up to leave, Min Xuefei suddenly asked from behind: "Is it because Feng Jianjian sent someone to deal with me?"
"... Hmm." Lian Zhi nodded.
Min Xuefei closed her eyes: "Just because of Feng Jian?"
Lian Zhi's heart skipped a beat, and when he turned his head, he saw a little gauze protruding from his collar, his thinned cheeks and slightly blue chin in the past few months, he knew that he had suffered a lot, and in his heart It hurts so badly. I used to scold the little eunuchs for being cruel and unfeeling, but now I stood in front of Min Ji and said incoherently: "I miss you... You have no news, don't write to me, I think you are thinking too much! I know You are in Chunan, and I know that you are asking for soldiers from the palace. I want to come, I want to come to see you, I—”
It's fine when it's over, and regardless of whether he appreciates it or not, Lian Zhi can see with his own eyes that he is indeed fine, which is considered a fulfillment of his wish.
It's a pity that he couldn't finish speaking, Min Xuefei suddenly bullied him, took his breath away, and a soft object savagely broke in between his lips, hitting his palate numb. But Lianzhi didn't dare to move, and opened his mouth cautiously, allowing him to conquer the city, lowering his eyelashes as if punished, his waist stiffened in the man's hand. The saliva that was too late to swallow spilled out of the corner of his mouth. He felt ashamed, but he didn't dare to push the other person away, and his eyes turned red instantly.
Min Xuefei saw that he couldn't stand the bullying, and became even more anxious in his heart. With both arms, he hugged him to the table, lowered his head and bit the throat of the military supervisor. What he smelled was the dusty smell of the exhausted boats and cars, and his goal was the dignified official clothes. Lian Zhi was one rank lower than Feng Jian in the palace, but when he left the palace, he should be raised one rank to facilitate walking, so he changed to Zi. Although this purple is the eunuch's purple, it is not the same as the civil and military officials of the previous dynasty, but in terms of rank, it is actually higher than him.
The little eunuch who had his heart pierced with a knife was right, Lian Zhi was in power and popular, if he saw him, he should be called a thousand years old.
Seeing the two talking for a long time, the little eunuch knocked on the door: "Young Prison, the quarters have been tidied up, you move?"
"ah… "
The little eunuch was anxious: "Young Supervisor, are you alright?"
"No, it's nothing. You go down first, burn some hot water, burn sandalwood, and I'll take a bath when I get back." Lian Zhi lay on the table, sent the little eunuch away, and then gently pushed Pushing Min Xuefei, said weakly, "Xuefei, this is at Yashang..."
Min Xuefei raised his head and said sullenly: "You know it's in the Yamen! Then do you know that those adjutants who have made good friends with me all hate the eunuch to the bone! Then Wei He's father was killed by Feng Jian Damn, you call Feng Jian godfather, he doesn't know how much he misses you dead, you are still with them, it's your fate if you didn't die on the way! Did they attack you?"
Lian Zhi avoided talking about it, but said slowly: "They are all loyal to you."
"That's the start." Min Xuefei's eyes turned cold, and he turned around suddenly.
Lian Zhi hurriedly wrapped his sleeves around him: "What are you going to do?!"
Min Xuefei: "I'll go and tell them that you belong to me, so they don't think of you!"
"How can I do that!" Lian Zhi said anxiously, "You and I should be at odds, and they hate me even more. Besides, I did do something for Feng Jian before, and I don't know if I have indirectly harmed their relatives. You If you said that, wouldn't it force them to have a different opinion of you? I don't care what I do, I can't make you lose the morale of the army just because I'm such an eunuch."
"Lianzhi..."
Lian Zhi hooked it up, bit his lip, and clumsily licked it fawningly, not asking him to say any more.
Min Xuefei's eyes filled with heat, he turned him over and folded him on the table, and gritted the eunuch's beautiful snow-white earlobe with all his teeth: "I just want you to say a few words for me in the palace, but you just come here regardless If you don’t listen to me and stay in the palace, you can’t blame me for punishing you.”
"Go back and punish." Lian Zhi looked at him secretly, his eyes didn't seem to be afraid that this was at the government office, but he seemed to expect that Min Xuefei would punish him more, if the punishment was to bite and suck on him a few times. If he wanted to, he was willing to be punished, even to die in Min Xuefei's hands.
"Go back, Xuefei..." He begged tremblingly, "Please, go back and punish me as you like."