So, just when the emperor couldn't wait for Pingling Lord and was about to issue an order to question the crime, something happened in Pingling.
Princess Danyang sent a letter of indictment on the last day of the former Pingling Lord Li Shan's memorial day, accusing her of infidelity and inhumanity.
In the second year of Daxing, Li Shan killed Sun Weiwei, who was nearly fifty years old and had been loyal to the court for many years, and left him in the cold palace. In the third year of Daxing, he wanted to seize the concubine Feng, and forced Feng to commit suicide. Instead of thinking about his own mistakes, he killed all the people in the concubine's palace.
In the same year, Li Shan unjustly killed Xu Xian's eldest brother, making his bones cold at the border and not allowed to return; the treasury's wealth was 300,000 taels, and he practiced in the palace. Some people play, but if they fail to reach the emperor, those who play will be killed. As a result, the court has been in a bad mood for many years.
The eldest princess asked, why can such a person enter the ancestral temple and receive three days of worship every year? The blood of the Li family on him is a disgrace to the Li family!
As soon as this lawsuit was published, the world was in an uproar. Not many people knew whether it was true or not, so they could only discuss it.
However, later on, Li Fangwu, the son of Li Shan, who was appointed Lord of Pingling, personally confirmed that these were indeed true.
He played to the emperor, showing that he would never go to Beijing to pay homage to his father in the future, and only worshiped one or two at home to show his filial piety.
This decision seems to be very appropriate, not only filial piety, but also a good reason not to go to Kyoto. The emperor could not convict him of unfilial piety, nor could he force him to leave Pingling.
But in this way, people all over the world know that Li Shan has done a lot of evil, far from being as good as what is praised in the book or recorded in the history books.
Interested people began to verify the things in the indictment, and found that what the eldest princess said was true, and even according to her, Sun Weiwei's remains were found in the cold palace soon.
The court was shaken, and countless memorials flew to the emperor's case, demanding that Li Shan's annual three-day ancestral temple worship be revoked.
Li Huailin sat alone on the soft couch in Longyan Palace, the windows were closed, and the shadows in the corner fell on his eyes.
"Your Majesty." Liu Yunlie came in and whispered, "It's been dealt with."
The ancestral temple worship was ordered by Li Huailin, and Liu Yunlie knew the reason. It is absolutely impossible to change because of a few notes from the courtiers. But... the eldest princess' move really caught them off guard, and the posthumous title that His Majesty originally planned for Li Shan might not come true.
Li Huailin's voice was low: "Is everything that Huang Jie said true?"
Liu Yunlie paused, shook his head, and said, "Don't you know what kind of temperament the eldest princess is? After so many years, she suddenly came out to say this, and there must be interests involved behind it. It doesn't matter whether what she said is true or not, the important thing is to get it." Watch out for what she wants to do."
Huai Lin shook his head: "I always feel that Huang Jie's actions seem to tell me that she did not kill Li Shan by mistake."
Liu Yunlie was silent.
He thought that the eldest princess would not bring up these old things again. After all, she is not a person who likes to clear her name. When Lord Pingling passed away, she was in power, and she was already in power, but she would rather spend her energy on it. On Lu Jingxing, he never complained for himself.
I don't know who I heard it said, but in the eyes of the eldest princess, fame is the least valuable thing.
So now, what happened to make her change her mind
"How is my business doing?" Huaiyu proudly held the construction plan of the tributary of the Qulin River in front of Lu Jingxing. "A letter is exchanged for a picture, is it profitable?"
Lu Jingxing took a deep look at her, "I made a lot of money."
She hadn't gone out in the first-tier cities, and no one had talked to her, so Huaiyu didn't even know that earth-shaking changes had taken place outside.
More than just earning a picture...
Lu Jingxing turned his head and looked out the window. Jiang Xuanjin was standing in the courtyard, his fox-fur cloak was blown up slightly, and his black hair was neatly tied up in a jade crown. This world is full of wind and snow.
"The indictment, did he ask you to write it?" Lu Jingxing asked in a low voice.
Huaiyu let out a "huh" and raised his eyebrows: "How do you know it was his idea? But my handwriting is ugly, so he just asked Jiang Shen to replace the pen. The second son of Jiang can't do anything else. The fact is that he is good at writing and ink. , Live to write the old things into a big case that must be recorded in the history books."
His eyes moved slightly, Lu Jingxing pinched his cold fan bone and thought for a while before saying, "He has a heart."
"It's not bad for him." Huaiyu hugged his belly and said, "Mr. Pingling's thank you gift has arrived today, a big box and a big box, almost filling up my yard, and it's really generous. It must be in the future There will be a lot of exchanges between Pingling and Ziyang."
Lu Jingxing raised his eyebrows: "I remember that in the third year of Daxing, you refuted someone's account, saying that there are too many contacts between fiefdoms, which is not beneficial to the country."
"Yes, but Li Shan didn't listen, and even Huai Lin didn't support it." Huaiyu shrugged, "Because Li Shan is a feudal monarch, he knows very well that exchanges between fiefdoms will help consolidate the power of the feudal monarch. The feudal monarchs all share the same hatred, which is enough to fight against the imperial court."
Huailin felt that Li Shan was wholeheartedly for his own good. So now he should understand that Li Shan back then was also selfish. While supporting him, he also left a way out for himself.
It's also a trick of fate, and now she is on the back road of Li Shanliu, and she is going to make things difficult for Huai Lin.
Taking a deep breath, Huaiyu felt a little bored, so she said to Lu Jingxing, "I want to go for a walk."
Lu Jingxing shook his head firmly.
"Oh, I've been staying in the house for a whole day, and I'm going to be bored, okay? The doctor said, I need to move around more to have the strength to have a baby!" Huaiyu pouted and looked outside, "It's still the Northern Wei Dynasty today. During the Winter Flower Festival in the past, we all had to go to the street to drink, didn’t we?”
Lu Jingxing snapped his fingers at her: "The day before yesterday you went out, and you flung Qingsi away, causing her to look for you for a long time, and came back to guard the door of your room for three days without daring to move, and now she is still outside the door. The day before yesterday, you went out with a big belly to help someone grab a purse, which scared Jiu Wu half to death, and even alarmed the entire yamen. Three copper coins. Yesterday... you finally stayed home, and Chi Jin personally cooked hot pot to celebrate."
The first few sentences made her blush, but at the end, Li Huaiyu became angry: "Don't you call me for hot pot?!"
Lu Jingxing spread his hands: "Give them a break, call you, how dare Chi Jin cook anything at will? It has to be prepared three days in advance."
Huaiyu didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "My own stomach, don't you know? It's solid. It's fine after being imprisoned for so long, and it's fine even if it's bumped all the way. How could it be possible to go to the street and eat something?"
After walking two steps forward and opening the door, Lu Jingxing turned his head and said, "If you want to breathe, just stand here for a while."
Reluctantly standing over, taking a breath of the cold wind outside, Huaiyu pouted: "It's not as fresh as the air on the street."
Lu Jingxing's forehead twitched, and he said with a half-smile, "You'll be fine."
Eyeballs rolled around, Huaiyu suddenly said: "How about this, let's compete in throwing pots, if I win, you let me go out, how about it? Throwing pots is what you are best at, I have never won once!"
Lu Jingxing narrowed his eyes: "I won, so you just stay in the mansion honestly?"
"Yeah!" Huaiyu nodded.
Jiang Xuanjin stood not far away with his back to them, but he could clearly hear the voices of the two joking.
She said: "You have beaten me for five years, what's wrong with me standing three steps closer than you?"
He said, "Did you walk with split legs in these three steps? Standing by the side of the pot is called throwing? That's called putting it in!"
She was not happy: "then... two steps?"
He sneered: "It's better for you to stay in the mansion."
Jiang Xuanjin didn't look back, but silently looked at the distant clouds with a pair of dark eyes.
Chengxu frowned slightly, and said in a low voice: "Master, let's go back to the house? Ziyang just sent a lot of documents, and you haven't read them yet."
There was no reply, and the person in front of him sat upright, his thin lips pursed white.
The posture over there has been set.
Holding three arrows, Li Huaiyu stood behind the line with Lu Jingxing with a face full of despair. The line was eight feet away from the pot, and she took aim for a long time, looking at the wind direction and counting luck, but in the end, two arrows failed, and only one arrow stuck into the mouth of the pot alone.
With her head drooping, she wrapped the tiger skin cloak around her body, curled her lips and said to Lu Jingxing, "Don't throw it like that, can you?"
Lu Jingxing held the long arrow and twirled it a few times between his fingers, snorting, "I can hit it with my eyes closed, it's too difficult to be sure."
"Then you should close your eyes." Huaiyu stepped forward, "Qingsi, bring a piece of white brocade to cover shopkeeper Lu's eyes!"
Lu Jingxing: "..."
Qingsi did as she did, and he reluctantly took the white brocade to cover his eyes: "Your Highness is really persistent."
It's not that he's confident, he's good at throwing pots for fun, and he's good at it since he was a kid. No matter who he compares with, he always wins. Because he can't miss a single arrow.
Bai Jin covered his eyes, and he could faintly see some light and shadow. Lu Jingxing stood up straight, holding the arrow and throwing it.
Huaiyu was startled, look at the aim, she was about to hit, once she got hit by an arrow, she would not be able to get out!
A little desperate in her heart, she has already started to consider whether to force her way out of the house.
However, just as the feathered arrow was about to fall into the mouth of the pot, a stone came across the sky, and with a sharp momentum, it precisely hit the arrow.
As soon as the direction was tilted, the feathered arrow fell to the ground with a "snap".
Lu Jingxing was surprised that he didn't hear the expected sound of the pot. He lifted the white brocade to look at it, and frowned, "Did you do anything?"
Standing beside him, Huaiyu shook her head innocently: "No."
While speaking, she glanced at the person standing at the other end of the courtyard from the corner of her eye.
Jiang Xuanjin didn't look at her, but stared earnestly at the withered flower branches in the flower bed, slowly gathered his slender hands, and put them back into his fox fur cloak.
Looking away, Huaiyu smiled and tugged at the white brocade on Lu Jingxing's eyes: "You still have two more chances."
Lu Jingxing was puzzled, and looked at the position of the copper pot again, and after remembering it correctly, he closed his eyes and cast again.
With two pops, two extremely well-aimed feathered arrows landed on the ground not far from the copper pot.
After pulling the brocade, Lu Jingxing was dumbfounded, Li Huaiyu almost jumped up in joy, clapped his hands and said, "Go to the street!"
"It's impossible." He couldn't figure it out, "Why didn't you go in?"
"You have a baby!" Pretending to know nothing, Huaiyu comforted him, "It will be better if you practice more in the future."
After speaking, he cheered and walked out.
Lu Jingxing frowned and looked at the copper pot for a long time, but in the end he had no choice but took his cloak and followed the pace of the man in front.
People all over the Northern Wei Dynasty liked camellias, so the Winter Flower Festival was set up on the day when camellias bloomed the most, for people to enjoy the flowers. In a barren place like a first-tier city, there hasn't been a winter flower festival for several years. But this year is different. Many new Luk Kee restaurants and study rooms have been opened in the city, and there are even music halls that have opened their doors to celebrate the festive season.
The people have food to eat, the river is about to resume flow, all kinds of happy events add up, making the streets extremely lively.
Huaiyu looked at the people around with bright eyes, and sighed: "When we first came here, there was only loess on the streets here."
"Yes." Lu Jing walked beside her, shielding her from the turbulent crowd, "Thanks to His Highness, the first-tier city has survived."
Unable to stop laughing, Huaiyu rubbed the corners of her mouth, trying to be reserved, but she was really happy: "Princess Danyang has done a good deed."
She was finally not the scourge that the common people said would only cause chaos. If there was another funeral, even if someone still pointed at her coffin and scolded her, someone should be able to say something nice for her.
Danyang is actually a good person.
Thinking of the funeral lantern with Danyang's name written on it that floated by on Chang'an Street a long time ago, she subconsciously waved her hand again.
I won't wrong you this time!
Lu Jingxing took a look at her, and helped her to go up to Lu Ji Restaurant nearby: "There are too many people, you go up and listen to a book."
"Okay!" Huaiyu walked away with her skirt in her arms, her round belly in her arms, and her steps were rare and light.
The restaurant's business was very good today, there were not many vacancies on the second floor, fortunately Lu Jingxing reserved a seat and let her sit at the table closest to the storyteller.
With a slap of the gavel, the noisy upstairs quieted down. Seeing the old storyteller raised his voice and began to speak, Huaiyu listened with gusto while holding a small snack. Lu Jingxing turned his head inadvertently, and saw another guest went upstairs.
With a cold face, Jiang Xuanjin found a vacant seat and sat down. Chengxu and Yufeng stood behind him. The three of them were really eye-catching. As soon as they sat down, many people whispered.
With his eyebrows raised slightly, Lu Jingxing glanced at the person next to him. She was listening to the book fascinated, as if she didn't notice it at all.
The hand resting on his chin lightly tapped his lips, Lu Jingxing suddenly reached out, brought tea to Huaiyu's lips.
Li Huaiyu held the snack in both hands, and had no time to take it, so he took a sip of the snack, swallowed the snack, and said, "Why are you so good today?"
Lu Jingxing smiled: "Will I treat you badly?"
"A lot of times, yesterday I was arguing about not going to the main city of Danyang. I changed into a new dress the day before yesterday, and you just said it was ugly." Li Huaiyu narrowed his eyes, "Do you really think I have a bad memory?"
He choked slightly. Lu Jingxing didn't start: "I'm telling the truth, whoever wants to go to the main city of Danyang, what color is not good for your new clothes? Choose a green amber color, it's so ugly."
"What does it have to do with me being selected by the first brewing?" Huaiyu snorted.
Lu Jingxing really wanted to say, if someone chooses you to wear it? But out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of someone looking this way, he paused, leaned forward, and said close to Huaiyu's ear: "It's my fault, wait until these two cups of tea are finished. Your Highness can go to Buzhuang One view? Make two bodies for you again."
"Excuse me." Huaiyu said vaguely while eating, "I'll forgive you if you have another serving of this emerald jade bean bun."
With a petulant smile, Lu Jingxing called the assistant and gave instructions in a low voice.
Jiang Xuanjin didn't know why he came here, he didn't like excitement, and he didn't like to see Lu Jingxing and Li Huaiyu get close. But he just sat here and stared at them for a long time.
She said that a duplicity like him is not very attractive. Lu Jingxing was very good at talking, uttering a few words in a low voice. The eyebrows are gentle, can make her laugh, and can also take good care of her.
When he wasn't by her side, the smile on her face seemed more real.
"Master." Chengxu really felt distressed, "Shall we go back?"
"Yeah, this place is really noisy." Yufeng also chimed in, "Why don't you go back and look at the Buddhist scriptures that Second Young Master found for you."
"En." Jiang Xuanjin lowered his eyes and responded in a low voice, but when the people at the table got up and went downstairs, his feet still followed them as if they couldn't control them.
If in the past, someone told him that someone's son was deceived and betrayed by others, he still couldn't let go of that person, and was persistently looking for a way out. He will definitely say that that person is a fool, he doesn't know what his heart is made of, doesn't he know it hurts
But now, he was stepping on the sandy ground in the first-tier city, clearly aware of how stupid he was, and clearly felt the pain, but he was still walking forward.
why? He himself couldn't figure it out, after only half a year of warmth, the fox was tamed, so would he have to stay in the cage for the rest of his life
Let's follow another street, Jiang Xuanjin thought, one more street, and he will leave.
It was almost dusk when I came out, and it was dark after walking for a while. Lanterns were lit everywhere in the street, but there were still many people. Huaiyu walked happily, and when he reached the intersection, he inadvertently raised his head and saw the lantern hanging on the eaves of the second floor.
The lantern was round and bright, revealing a bright light, like the bright moon in the sky.
…
"It's so pretty when you're angry, I really want to go to the sky and pick the moon for you!"
"If you want to pick it off, pick it off, if you can't pick it off, don't let me see you again!"
"I picked the moon for you."
"..."
"It's you who said that if you can't take it off, you won't see me. I said that I want to 'see you every year', don't you remember?"
…
It seems that what happened just yesterday is too far away to be touched in a blink of an eye. Huaiyu stared at it for a while. My eyes are a little blurry.
In the future, there may never be anyone who can make her want to climb the stairs to pick the moon. Most of the paper lanterns that used to be placed in the main building of Moju have been broken into slag now, and I don’t know where they have been thrown.
Forget it, a fake is a fake after all, except for her, no one would be so absurd as to pick a lantern like a moon.
"The candied haws you wanted." Lu Jingxing followed up from behind, and handed her a bunch of big, red things.
Shaking his head and shaking the mist from his eyes, Huaiyu smiled and said, "Do you think I am obedient or not? I didn't just run away. I am still standing here waiting for you."
Lu Jingxing raised his eyebrows, looked at her face carefully, and felt that something was wrong: "What's wrong? Wasn't it fine just now?"
After a slight pause, Huaiyu quickly yawned, and said with tears in his eyes, "I'm sleepy, I want to go back to sleep."
"Okay." Lu Jingxing heaved a sigh of relief, "It's rare that you also feel sleepy."
Pulling the corners of his mouth into a smile, Huaiyu lowered his eyes and followed him back.
When Jiang Xuanjin said to get her ready, her tone...was really elegant to hold grudges, unlike her, she looked really mean and vicious.
How is he going to deal with her? So many days have passed, and there seems to be no movement.
Speaking of which, this person has lived in the first-tier city for a long time, why hasn't he returned to Ziyang? Judging by the speed at which Ziyang delivered the documents, it didn't look like he was idle, but he was not in a hurry, and he still had no intention of leaving for the return journey after so long.
Could it be that she didn't want the first-tier city to be merged into Danyang, so she came here in advance and waited, and if she made a move, he would stop her
Thinking about it, this reason is still the most convincing, Huaiyu made up his mind and planned to test him once to see what his last move is.
The yard was dark, only her room was lit. Li Huaiyu pushed open the door, and was about to say who was so considerate and left the light on, but when she looked up, there was no one in the room.
A round lantern was placed by the window and lit, revealing a bright light, reflecting the dark night sky outside, and she was taken aback.
Qingsi looked suspiciously, and asked the servants guarding the door: "Who is here?"
The servant was at a loss: "The servant has been guarding here, and I didn't see anyone!"