Front yard study.
When Fang Zuotang was crouching at his desk to approve official documents, he heard someone knocking on the door outside, and he didn't even look up. Asked outside: "Who is it?"
"My lord, it's me. Wen Jie is back." Kong Wenjie said outside the door.
"Oh. Wen Jie, come in." Fang Zuotang hurriedly said.
present. Kong Wenmin and Kong Wenjie entered the study. After closing the door, he walked to the desk and saluted Fang Zuotang: "This subordinate has met your lord."
"Sit down first," Fang Zuotang looked up at the two of them. Nodding to the two of them, he lowered his head again, "I'll get it in a while."
"Yes." Kong Wenmin sat down on the soft couch. Kong Wenjie did not sit down. He went straight to the brazier to warm his hands. The journey was windy and snowy, so he was in good health. But it was too cold all over. When I dismounted outside the door just now. He couldn't stand still.
Kong Wenmin poured a cup of hot tea and stuffed it into Kong Wenjie's hand: "Drink while it's hot."
"Thank you, brother." Kong Wenjie took the tea and drank it all in one gulp, only then did he feel better. Then he pulled a stool and sat in front of the brazier to continue roasting the fire.
"Wen Jie, you've worked hard this time. It's so cold that you've been traveling outside for so long," Fang Zuotang got up and walked out from behind the desk after a while. He also poured a cup of tea with his own hands, handed it to Kong Wenjie, patted Kong Wenjie's shoulder, and said, "Go back later and have a good rest."
"Yes, thank you, my lord," Kong Wenjie took the cup of tea, put it aside without rushing to drink it, then hurriedly took out a letter from his bosom, handed it to Fang Zuotang, and said, "This is the letter." Sir, please take a look at the urgent mail sent by Commander Ma."
The Royal Forest Army and Ninggu Pagoda have never been interrupted, and Kong Wenjie has never been needed to make a trip in person, but since the beginning of winter, the road has been blocked by heavy snow, and the road is inevitably difficult, so now every half month, Kong Wenjie They all went to Jilin in person, where they joined the Imperial Forest Army from the capital and handed over secret letters and other things, and it was the same this time.
Sitting down on the soft couch, Fang Zuotang opened the urgent letter, his eyes quickly scanned the letter paper, and then his brows were knit together. After reading the letter paper, he put the letter paper on the small table, and then shook it inexplicably. Shaking his head: "This is strange."
"What's the matter?" Kong Wenmin asked hastily, "Does Commander Ma have any instructions?"
"Yes," Fang Zuotang nodded, patted the letter on the small table, and said to Kong Wenmin, "You can read it for yourself."
At that moment, Kong Wenmin was so busy picking up the letter that he read it, and he really looked puzzled. Kong Wenjie looked at the two of them with this expression, and he was so puzzled that he was too busy to go over to read it. Immediately there was a look of shock on his face: "Commander Ma asked us to ensure the safety of the deposed prince in Ninggu Pagoda? And he even said that he would swear to protect him to the death? Isn't this too unbelievable?"
Yes, although the Ninggu Pagoda is firmly in the hands of the Yulin Army, the Yulin Army is indeed obliged to maintain the stability here, and an identity like Zhong Mingwei is naturally the focus of care, but there must be no intersection between the Yulin Army and the deposed prince. Besides, the abolished prince is just a common man now, so he can't bear such a heavy word of "swear to protect him to the death".
Moreover, the purpose of the Imperial Forest Army has always been to remain neutral and never fight in a team, but Ma Zhiming's letter has been so clear that it is clear that he wants to stand in line, but he is standing in that half-dead paralyzed man. It's too unbelievable.
"What does Commander Ma think?" Although Kong Wenjie was not good at strategy, he clearly understood what Ma Zhiming meant, so he was stunned for a moment, "The deposed prince is now a paralyzed man, how long he can live and he can't say no." That's right, what's more, it's Lord Long Live who decreed to depose him himself, and he's doomed to be a commoner for the rest of his life. At this time, Commander Ma has such thoughts, could it be that he's been lowered?"
"Don't talk nonsense," Kong Wenmin gave Kong Wenjie a blank look, and he read the letter carefully, and then said in a deep voice, "This is not what Commander Ma meant, but what my lord meant. For such a big matter, Commander Ma is not the one who can make the decision at all. It must be after the lord gave the order that Commander Ma took orders. It’s just that it’s hard to explain clearly in the letter, but look at the end of the letter. Commander Ma specially added a sentence My lord, why does he have to be so humble to us? It's just to remind us that this is what the lord means."