North Song

Chapter 178: Out of the palace

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During the two dynasties of Taizu and Taizong, he was very kind and generous to the people.

Often when there is a voice from the people, Taizong Taizong will immediately conform to the people's will and make adjustments to the government.

After Zhenzong Zhao Heng succeeded to the throne, he often followed the practice of Taizong Taizong when dealing with the voices of the people.

Therefore, the people in Bianjing City have voiced their voices, and the court has always attached great importance to it.

At this time, the people blocked the official residences and clamored for the officials to punish the demon queen, and the officials also attached great importance to this matter.

They got together in groups and rushed to dismiss Liu E.

They gather together from time to time, write to the inner court, and even repeatedly speak up in the court.

However, Liu E is guarding the spirit of the first emperor, and no matter how loud their voices are, it will not be of much effect.

As long as Liu E does not leave the Daqing Hall or appear in the Suigong Hall, the memorial of the hundred officials impeaching her will fall into the ocean.

With Liu E's status today, the officials had no other choice but to impeach her and ask her to ask her to eliminate her post.

Unless they can imitate Zhou Huaizheng and have another rebellion.

But before Zhou Huaizheng's rebellion sounded a wake-up call for the court, Kou Zhun made a redeployment of the defense in Bianjing after the general regent.

And transferred to his confidant Zhu Neng, as the guard general of the imperial city.

Zhu Neng is a fierce general who has experienced many battles, far from the generals who defended the imperial city before.

There is Zhu Neng to guard the imperial city, not to mention attracting 50,000 soldiers and horses to attack, even if there are more than 50,000, Zhu Neng can still defend it.

He has fought in the northwest border for many years, and he is best at defensive warfare.

It is useless for the officials to impeach Liu E, and they cannot follow Zhou Huaizheng's example.

But they didn't stop because of this, instead they ran more jubilantly.

They not only filed a letter to impeach Liu E, but also sent letters to outside the capital, pulling the classmates who served as local officials outside the capital to impeach Liu E together.

All of a sudden, hundreds of officials gathered into a wave, one wave after another, shot at Liu E.

Only after Liu E's guard for the first emperor is over, the biggest wave will slap her violently.

Time flies.

Forty-nine days have passed.

Inside the Daqing Hall.

Liu E watched the eunuchs help Zhao Heng put on a new coffin of the emperor. After paying respects to Zhao Heng’s cold remains, Liu E asked him to close the cover of the coffin, leading Zhao Zhen, Kou Ji and others to Zhao Heng’s coffin. Three bows and nine prostrations were performed.

After the ceremony, Liu E took Zhao Zhen to the outside of the hall.

When she reached the gate of the temple, she hesitated in her footsteps.

She stood at the door of the hall, stunned for a long time, and finally, when Concubine Yang reminded her, she slowly crossed the threshold of the Daqing Palace.

Kou Ji was behind her and witnessed a scene of her hesitating at the gate of the temple.

He could probably guess why Liu E hesitated.

Liu E stayed quietly in the Daqing Hall for forty-nine days.

From the end of summer, I hid until late autumn.

Now that she couldn't hide anymore, she was going out to face the forty-nine turbulent waves that the officials had prepared for her.

Kou Ji waited for Liu E and the others to leave, turned around and bowed to Zhao Heng's coffin, and then exited the Daqing Hall.

After leaving the hall, Kou Ji took a deep breath.

After staying in the hall for forty-nine days, Kou Ji dared to take a big breath for the first seven days. On the eighth day, Kou Ji didn't dare to take a big breath.

Although Zhao Heng's body had been treated with embalming, a faint smell of corpse still came out from the eighth day.

Kou Ji didn't like the smell of corpses very much. He smelled too much and couldn't even eat rice.

That is to say, starting from the eighth day, Kou Ji never secretly snatched the meat from Zhao Zhen's hands again, but exchanged his own meat for vegetable cakes with Zhao Zhen.

After eating more than forty tiancai pancakes, Kou Ji's whole body was thin and unkempt.

Kou Ji stood at the gate of Daqing Hall for a long time before taking a step outside.

Within two steps, one staggered and almost fell to the ground.

"Be careful… "

Chen Lin didn't know when he appeared beside Kou Ji and supported him.

Kou Ji held Chen Lin's hand and said with a wry smile: "I have been kneeling for a long time, and the blood of my legs is not smooth. Just move around more."

Chen Lin nodded slowly, "Our family knows..."

Kou Ji looked at Chen Lin and said seriously: "I hate you more and more."

Chen Lin rolled her eyes and ignored him.

Why Kou Ji hated Chen Lin, Chen Lin knew in his heart.

From the eighth day of the Shouling, Liu E, Concubine Yang, Concubine Li and others have eunuchs and Gong E secretly giving them food.

Zhao Zhen also has them, and Chen Lin is responsible for delivering food to Zhao Zhen.

Kou Ji has seen many times that Chen Lin secretly gave Zhao Zhen eggs, rice porridge, and meat soup.

Zhao Zhen deliberately shared with Kou Ji, but was stopped by Chen Lin, the dead eunuch.

Kou Ji felt that the dead eunuch was deliberate, and he could obviously prepare an extra to distribute the money to Kou Ji, but he didn't prepare it.

That's why Kou Ji hates him.

Chen Lin helped Kou Ji out of the palaces of the Daqing Palace, and when he arrived at the palaces next to Donghua Gate, she let go of the hands that supported Kou Ji.

"Our family won't send you out..."

Chen Lin retracted her hand, hugged it in her arms, and said something unpleasantly.

Kou Ji glared at Chen Lin, and walked out of the palace.

Looking at Kou Ji's back, Chen Lin reminded in a low voice: "When you leave the palace gate, don't take a car, don't sit in a sedan chair, and don't find a place to wash up nearby. Just go back so unkempt, you can be ashamed as you can."

Kou Ji curled his lips and said, "I don't need your reminder, I'm not stupid."

Kou Ji knew what he meant by letting him go shamelessly to slander the market.

Kou Ji knelt in the palace for forty-nine days. The people in the palace could see his filial piety to the first emperor, but the people outside the city could not.

Chen Lin asked him to slander the city, just to let the people see Kou Ji's filial piety to the first emperor.

When the people saw Kou Ji's filial piety to the first emperor, they would naturally help Kou Ji become famous.

Once Kou Ji's filial piety to the first emperor became famous all over the world, his position in the officialdom would be as stable as Mount Tai.

Even if Kou Zhun fell, Liu E took power, and if he wanted to move Kou Ji, he had to ask the people whether he would agree.

Kou Ji waved his hand to Chen Lin coolly, and walked away from the palace.

As soon as I left the palace gate, I heard a quarrel.

"Let me go, I'm here to pick up my fourth brother."

"The palace is heavy, no idlers are allowed to enter."

"I have a waist card to enter the palace, so why not let me in."

"No one can enter without Kou Xiang's order. Go back and go one step further, and I will cut you off."

"If you have the courage, cut it!"

"..."

Along with the quarrel, Kou Ji appeared outside the Donghua Gate.

As soon as I left the house, I saw two figures, one big and one small, bumping into each other, you pushed me and shoved, not giving way to each other.

"What are you doing?"

Kou Ji stared at the two figures, raised his brows and asked.

Liu Heng heard Kou Ji's voice and was overjoyed. He cried out: "Fourth brother, I'll pick you up, this guy won't let me in."

Zhu Neng, who was blocking Liu Heng, slowly turned around and laughed: "My nephew, are you out?"

Kou Ji bowed his hand to Zhu Neng: "Uncle Zhu family, why are you having trouble with Liu Heng."

Zhu Neng rubbed his hands and said with a smile: "As soon as your brother appeared, Zhu realized that he was armed with martial arts, and he felt temptation in his heart. Zhu joined hands with him and thought that his martial arts was good.

If it is handed over to Zhu, it must be a fierce general on the battlefield in the future. "

Liu Heng snorted coldly when he heard Zhu Neng's words, and said, "You still have some eyesight."

Zhu Neng smiled calmly: "It's a pity that I was born in the wrong place. I'm afraid I won't fall into Zhu's hands in this life. I have simply lost a piece of material."

Liu Heng was annoyed when he heard the words, and he opened his eyes and shouted: "You..."

Seeing that Zhu Neng and Liu Heng had a tendency to fight again, Kou Ji hurriedly stopped him and said: "Liu Heng stop making trouble, didn't you say that you came to pick me up? I have appeared in front of you now, and you still have Mind quarreling with others."

Upon hearing this, Liu Heng coldly snorted to Zhu Neng: "I will let you go this time, and I must find you next time as a gesture."

Zhu Neng was not polite, and said with a smile: "I'll be with you anytime..."

Liu Heng bypassed Zhu Neng and ran towards Kou Ji. Zhu Neng did not stop him this time.

Liu Heng ran up to Kou Ji, looked at Kou Ji up and down, and sighed: "The days of keeping the spirits are really not humans. Look at you, you are all thinner.

Walk around, go to Qingfang Hall, and my brother will set a table for you to eat and drink, and make up for the lost meat. "

Kou Ji glared at Liu Heng, and cursed badly: "Are you crazy? What time is it, it's the time of the great funeral. During the great funeral, you can't have fun. Now go to Qingfang Hall, isn't it just looking for death?"

Qingfang Pavilion is one of the best flower houses in Bianjing.

Kou Ji only heard a little, but never visited.

After Kou Ji reminded him, Liu Heng also knew that he had made a mistake, so he quickly patted his mouth and said, "It's my brother who said the wrong thing. How about going to Fanlou?"

"If you go to Fanlou in Lao Shizi, you must eat well. Go to Zhu's mansion. Zhu's mansion will have countless delicacies from the mountains and the sea."

Zhu Neng chipped in.

He stared at Kou Ji and said, "My nephew, don't you like to eat big insects? Zhu recently hunted two more."

Kou Ji rolled his eyes and sighed: "That thing is also rare, it's better to kill less."

When Zhu Neng heard the words, he opened his big eyes and yelled: "How can that thing be killed less? If you kill less, it will harm people. If you kill them all, there will be no way to kill them."

Kou Ji opened his mouth, but could not speak.

He couldn't think of a rebuttal to Zhu Neng.

The big insect, that is, the tiger, is indeed a rare and protected animal in later generations, but in the Song Dynasty, it was only a pest that caused a disaster.

If it is a pest, it must be removed.

This is Zhu Neng's logic.

Kou Ji couldn't change Zhu Neng's thinking, so he could only say with a smile, "It's another day... It's not appropriate today."

Zhu Neng was taken aback, looked up and down Kou Ji, as if thinking of something, nodded slowly and said: "Today is indeed inappropriate..."

Kou Ji arched his hand at Zhu Neng and led Liu Heng away from Donghua Gate.

As soon as I arrived on the street, I saw a group of Liu Heng's followers dangling in front of him carrying the sedan chair.

Before Liu Heng could speak, Kou Ji waved his hand and said, "If you don't sit in the sedan chair today, let them not follow."

Liu Heng questioned: "Why?"

Kou Ji rolled his eyes and said, "If I sit on the sedan chair today, I will kneel for so many days."

Liu Heng was taken aback first, then suddenly realized.

"I understand… "

When the voice fell, he turned around and drove away his followers.

When the attendants were about to go far, he rushed up again, grabbed one of them that looked like him, took off his coat, and put it on himself.

Then he leaned in front of Kou Ji and said with a smile: "My dress, right

Kou Ji looked at Liu Heng's plain gray clothes and nodded with a smile.

Afterwards, the two of them made a full circle along the streets of Bianjing City.

Kou Ji led Liu Heng back to Kou Mansion when someone recognized Kou Ji and began to rumors that Kou Ji's filial piety was commendable.

Kou Ji was shocked as soon as he arrived at the entrance of Kou's Mansion.

Half of the alley in front of Kou's Mansion was full of people.

Some of them held a greeting card, some held a letter of recommendation, and some simply carried them with a bow and asked to see Kou Zhun at the gate of Kou’s mansion.

Liu Heng looked at the gift-giving person at the entrance of Kou's Mansion, with a look of envy, "When will my Liu Mansion be so beautiful? Among these people, there is no one below the sixth rank."

Hearing this, Kou Ji rolled his eyes and said, "If your Liu Mansion has such a situation, then your Liu Mansion will not be far from the Destruction Gate."

Liu Heng was taken aback, sighed and said, "That's right... The family is different."

Kou Ji looked carefully among the gift-giving crowd, shook his head and said, "Let's go... Go to the back door."

The gate of Kou's mansion was full of people, and Kou Ji couldn't squeeze through.

If he wants to show his identity, he can also pass, but these people will definitely pester him.

Kou Ji led Liu Heng to the back door of Kou Mansion.

Looking up, the back door was also full of people.

Without a word, Kou Ji led Liu Heng to the location of the secret door.

He was not afraid to expose the secret door of Kou Mansion to Liu Heng.

Because he knew Liu Heng would not harm him.

If Liu Hengzhen wants to harm him, there is no need to make a fuss about the secret door of the Kou Mansion.

Kou Ji reached the secret door and knocked on the door.

There was a knock on the door soon.

Like a secret signal, the secret door slowly opened after being right three times.

Kou Zhong showed an old face.

"Little Master, you are back..."

Kou Zhong was slightly taken aback when seeing Liu Heng standing next to Kou Ji, but he didn't say much.

While welcoming Kou Ji into the mansion, he smiled and said: "The old servant has forgotten the days, knowing that you are out of the palace today, young master, and knowing that you can't go through the front and back doors, so I have been waiting for you here.

Kou Ji nodded slowly and said, "I'm interested..."

Kou Zhong took Kou Ji and Liu Heng to the gate of Sijun Garden.

Kou Ji said: "Go and boil some hot water. I have to wash up well, and then let the kitchen prepare a sumptuous table of wine and dishes. I want to have a good meal."

Kou Zhong was taken aback and hesitated: "Little Master, you haven't eaten oily water for a long time in the palace. Suddenly eating big fish and meat will easily hurt your intestines and stomach."

Kou Ji shook his head and said, "I can't manage that much, go now."

Kou Zhong hesitated, nodded, and prepared to leave.

Kou Ji was about to enter the Garden of the Four Kings, and when he walked under the moon gate, he heard a burst of laughter.

He thought he had hallucinations and listened carefully for a while.

Kou Ji hurriedly called out Kou Zhong, and asked: "How come there are women in my garden?"