One of the two eunuchs was trembling with fear as he was swept by that gaze. He almost lost his soul and said incoherently, "Kill... Killed..."
Another older eunuch suddenly pulled him down to his knees.
"I don't know the contents of the secret decree..." The older eunuch crouched low and said in a trembling voice, "I think... I think there is a possibility... that it is a false message!"
Although the eunuch tried to remain calm, his voice was filled with the sound of extreme fear and crying.
Out of the corner of his eye he caught a glimpse of the blue-robed eunuch's unwilling face. He trembled, closed his eyes, and clenched his teeth - he had long felt that this eunuch in charge was too arrogant!
Relying on his relationship with the head of the Palace Office, this man was used to bullying others in the palace on a daily basis. He also believed that the palace should be the most honorable place in the world... As soon as he left the palace, he revealed his reckless and arrogant behavior!
But this is Jiangdu! What makes him think that Chang Suining, the governor of Huainan who relies on his military exploits, is a good person who likes to please others?
That's good, he finally shut up!
The young eunuch knelt there, his whole body shaking like a sieve, even his fingers supporting himself on the ground were trembling violently. When he saw Chang Suining's feet slightly turned, as if facing them, the eunuch was so scared that he started to cry and beg, kowtowing continuously: "Don't kill me, don't kill me..."
While kowtowing, he saw from his hazy vision that the woman in green robe was holding a sword in her hand, and a drop of blood was dripping from the tip of the sword.
She spoke calmly to herself, "I have also heard about the Luoyang Incident—"
After hearing her words, the two eunuchs fell to the ground trembling, not daring to utter even the slightest sound of begging for mercy to disrupt her words.
"The Saint is thinking about the overall situation, so I think he should have Huainan Road send troops to help. This is reasonable." Chang Suining "inferred" and said: "So, it is true that the Saint asked you to convey the secret order, but the content of the secret order was tampered with by someone with ulterior motives..."
"I said, the saint is so wise, how could he do such an unreasonable and foolish thing at this critical moment and try to force his subjects to rebel." The clear and calm voice concluded: "So, the saint's original intention must be for me to lead the army to help Luoyang."
Finally, she asked seriously, "What do you two fathers-in-law think?"
The older eunuch's scalp tingled and trembled when he heard this. What was true and what was false... It was just a matter of her words at this moment. It all depended on whether she needed it or not!
The pressure from the leader made him dare not say anything that would go against the other party's wishes. He could only say: "Yes... yes! I guess that's it!"
The young eunuch also kowtowed quickly, saying "yes" repeatedly, and said in a trembling voice: "Envoy Chang Jie has a sharp gaze..."
"In this case, Chang Suining has no reason not to obey your order." Chang Suining turned to face the outside of the hall and said to the generals standing in awe: "Pass the order down, immediately mobilize 100,000 troops to follow me to Luoyang to suppress the rebellion of King Fanyang!"
"I obey your command!"
The seven or eight generals took the order with solemn and excited expressions and quickly retreated.
The two eunuchs seemed to have already dared not make a single sound, their hearts seemed to have fallen into a bottomless abyss - to disobey the emperor's orders in the name of obeying the emperor's orders, this was clearly a rebellion... a rebellion! As for them, the best thing in misfortune was that the person in front of them had no intention of killing them.
With a sound of "clang", the long sword in the hand of the green-robed woman returned to the sheath, and an equally sharp voice rang out: "Please go back to the capital and tell the emperor that I will take Luoyang back safely this time. Please rest assured."
When the two eunuchs heard this, one of them replied "yes" in a trembling voice, while the other one said in a confused state, "Thank you, Envoy Changjie, for not killing me... Thank you, Envoy Changjie, for not killing me!"
Chang Suining walked out of the hall without looking back and said, "Ani, have someone escort the two eunuchs out of the house."
"Yes, sir!" Kang Zhi responded with bright eyes.
Chang Kuo, who had never spoken a word, followed Chang Suining on a crutch and left the front hall together.
Seeing that the two eunuchs were unable to get up on their own, Kang Zhi had them dragged out.
Seeing a pool of unknown turbid water where the two had just knelt, Kang Zhi wrinkled her nose in disgust. Just as she was about to leave and catch up with her master, someone suddenly grabbed the corner of her clothes.
Kang Zhi looked back and saw a pale face. The owner of that face was still kneeling in the same place, begging her in a trembling voice: "Captain Kang... quickly have someone drag the remaining one away..."
After Kang Zhi's punishment of picking beans was over, he was rewarded according to his merits and promoted to the position of captain.
Seeing that the young man looked like he was crying, Kang Zhi mocked him, "Gu Erlang is in charge of the reception, why is he afraid of this?"
"I am good at welcoming living people..." Gu Erlang was about to cry: "But this is a dead person!"
He has never even seen a chicken being killed in his life!
The envoy is such a good-looking person, why would he draw his sword and chop off someone's head just because he disagrees with something?
This isn't a battlefield, is he totally unprepared?
Kang Zhi curled her lips and said, "It's really like an embroidered pillow raised by a Jiangnan family. It looks good but is useless."
"Isn't being good-looking enough..." Gu Erlang cried but did not forget to defend the fact that he was beautiful: "How many people in this world are as good-looking as me?"
Kang Zhi rolled her eyes, pulled the corner of his clothes out of his hand, and randomly called two people in: "Take the body away!"
"Captain, what should we do with this corpse?"
Kang Zhi: "Just burn it!"
The soldier looked at the bright yellow cloth soaked in blood: "Then this imperial edict..."
"Since they are fake, just burn them all!" As Kang Zhi spoke, she strode out, her steps moving with a breeze and her eyes shining with excitement.
After Chang Suining left the front hall, he headed towards the study.
Chang Kuo followed behind her, and contrary to his usual behavior, he never spoke. Chang Suining could only hear the sound of his footsteps and the tapping of his cane.
"Today is an important day after all, why are you silent?"
When passing by a corridor, Chang Suining asked casually without stopping.
After a while, she heard Chang Kuo speak from behind her, but his voice was slightly hoarse: "I am happy."
"Are you so happy that you can't speak?" Chang Suining said with a smile, "I've never seen you like this before."
"I have never seen Your Highness like this before." Chang Kuo also laughed, but with a hint of bitterness: "Your Highness, you drew the sword very well today."
Your Highness often draws the sword, but today, when he drew the sword, he not only cut off the eunuch's cervical vertebrae, but also cut the puppet silk strings that were trying to bind Your Highness.
He couldn't help but think in a trance, if His Highness could have wielded the sword to cut off everything before going to Beidi, would those three years have not happened?
"Old Chang, things were different before." Chang Suining seemed to have seen through Chang Kuo's thoughts and said, "I have never regretted anything in the past. Everything I have done is worthwhile. You don't have to feel sorry for me."
Now they had already walked out of the corridor. While she was talking, she had never stopped and had never looked back, as if all the past was not worth her stopping to feel sad. Her eyes were always fixed forward.
The cage called family affection could not hold her, nor could the scarred past.
She never holds a grudge or harbors hatred, and always moves forward courageously.
Looking at that light figure, Chang Kuo's eyes felt a little sour, but his heart also became much lighter, as if he had unloaded many of his knots and pains.
This sword strike today had nothing to do with good or evil, but he felt it couldn't be any better - Chang Kuo repeated in his heart.
"I'm going to Luoyang now, and I won't be able to return in a short time." Chang Suining said as he walked, "I'll leave Jiangdu and Huainan Road to my father."
"Don't worry!" Chang Kuo patted his chest: "Leave it all to me!"
"Oh, and there's Xuanzhou." Chang Suining stopped, turned around and said with a smile, "Dad, please remember to take good care of it for me."
Facing those smiling eyes, Chang Kuo coughed lightly and nodded as seriously as possible: "Don't worry..."
Chang Suining smiled and said nothing more. He continued to walk forward and said jokingly, "Father, please go to the outer study room to discuss matters with the chief secretary and others. I will go see the two immortal masters first and ask them to tell my fortune for me."
The two immortal masters that Chang Suining mentioned were naturally Wu Jue and Tianjing.
Chang Suining went straight to look for the two of them. When she arrived, she saw a straw mat spread next to a clump of yellowed bamboo in the yard. On the mat was a chessboard. Wu Jue was sitting cross-legged and playing chess with Tianjing. Wu Jue was cursing and mumbling something.
Seeing Chang Suining arriving, the two of them hurriedly stood up to greet him.
Wu Jue pushed Tianjing aside, stepped forward and asked, "My Lord, you are here in person, do you have something important to tell me?"
Chang Suining sat down casually in a rattan rocking chair nearby, leaned back, and said with a smile, "No hurry, you guys finish this game first."
She had ridden back from the army overnight, so she was inevitably a little tired. But before returning to the city, everything had been arranged, so she didn't need to be busy at the moment, so she could just relax and rest here for a while.
Seeing the girl lying in the rattan chair with her eyes closed in peace and relaxation, Wu Jue followed her, dragged Tianjing back to the seat and started fighting.
Wu Jue was a chatterbox who always loved to find fault with Tianjing. At this moment, because he did not want to disturb his own prince's rest, he tried to lower his voice and changed his cursing into nagging.
Two quarters of an hour later, the winner was decided. Tianjing stroked his silver-white beard and said with a smile: "I lost."
"I've said it before, you're not as good as me." Wu Jue said with a double meaning, smiled, moved his butt, faced his own prince, and asked first: "Sir, are we going to send troops?"
Chang Suining didn't know what he had predicted, or whether he had seen the recent movements in the governor's mansion. He smiled and said "hmm", still leaning back in the rattan chair, and said, "That's why I came here specially to ask you two to predict for me."
It is very common to ask for divination before marching, but Tianjing smiled and shook his head, saying: "If you lead the troops this time, there is no way to predict it."
He said bluntly: "You are an outsider. The direction of everything you are involved in is unknown."
Chang Suining: "I don't predict the outcome of a war."
She believed that the victory or defeat of a battle was in her own hands.
Tianjing: "Oh? Then I wonder what you want to predict?"
"I want you two to predict the birth date of a person from outside the world." Chang Suining rocked the rocking chair and said, "I can use it when I go to Luoyang."
Previously, she had obtained a very powerful and valuable birth date from Wu Jue, intending to replace it with a suitable age for her own use. But after she met Wu Jue, she happened to talk about this matter, and Wu Jue smiled and reminded her that the so-called birth date and eight characters can affect the whole body, and a slight change will make it completely different.
In other words, matters within the industry should be left to people within the industry, and it almost turned out to be a joke.
"Which one do you want, sir?" Wu Jue asked Chang Suining about his request, and gave him a tailor-made treatment: "Something more expensive?"
"The more expensive, the better." Chang Suining asked seriously, "It should make people feel that the country is peaceful and prosperous. It would be best if an expert could see it and realize that I am the one destined by heaven."
"Ordinary people really can't bear it..." Wu Jue subconsciously wanted to wipe the cold sweat off his forehead, but then he changed his mind and thought, fortunately, his master is not a human being.
Tian Jing on the side reminded: "Envoy Chang Jie's actions are equivalent to falsifying the will of heaven..."
Chang Suining nodded indifferently, squinting his eyes and looking up at the sky, saying: "Since we are already on the path of tampering with the will of heaven, it shouldn't be a problem to create a birth date and eight characters to use."
She is quite optimistic, as if she doesn't need to worry about having too many lice.
Tianjing smiled when he heard this, stroked his beard and nodded, saying "good", and took out a handful of yarrow from his sleeve: "I saw yarrow this morning, so I picked some, it turns out you want to use it here..."
The origin of using yarrow to ask questions is earlier than copper coins, bamboo boards and other items. In normal times, yarrow is rarely used in Tianjing, unless it involves really big things.
At this moment, Tian Jing took out the yarrow and arranged the hexagrams, which showed how much he valued it.
But before he could put it in place, Wu Jue reached out and messed it up: "What do you want? I'll take care of this..."
He knew that this old man was still trying to compete for his favor! And Tianjing's next words confirmed Wu Jue's suspicion: "How about you and I each give our birth dates and let the master choose?"
Faced with such a provocation, Wu Jue would never admit defeat: "Why not? Am I afraid of you?"
Wu Jue said this, crawled up, sat up, and ran to get his stuff.
Tianjing also took the whisk and went towards the study.
Seeing that the two were in such a state that nothing could be accomplished in a short while, Chang Suining stood up and said to the two men from behind, "I will leave early tomorrow morning. Just give it to me before then."
Little did they know that Wu Jue and Tianjing both stayed awake the whole night.
After Chang Suining left here, he went to the outer study.
In the outer study, Wang Yue and others learned that their master had drawn his sword and killed the eunuch who delivered the imperial edict in the front hall. Everyone was greatly shocked.
Wang Yue lowered his voice and said: "...Sir, are you disobeying my order?!"
Yao Ran said with a convinced look on his face: "It is clear that the order is false, so how can you say that you are disobeying it?"
Wang Yue came back to his senses and nodded with a rather interesting expression. The Lord's order was quite profound, and upon closer thought, it even revealed a sense of righteousness and consideration...
After all, it is not a good thing to openly disobey the imperial order. It will greatly affect the speed of marching when the troops are mobilized. After all, you have openly shouted that you disobey the imperial order. When you pass through various places, the local officials will not even turn a blind eye. Will they stop you? If they stop you and a fight breaks out, who will be responsible? The lady could have directly disobeyed the imperial order, but she took a detour so that she could rush to Luoyang as quickly as possible... If this is not righteousness, not consideration, then what is it?
As expected of an adult, even if it was a rebellion, he was able to take the overall situation into consideration...
Wang Yue couldn't help shouting in his heart: My Lord! (End of this chapter)
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