Chapter 056 Chapter 56
Chapter 56
When Emperor Yuanxing saw the words "Immortal Master", he broke out in a cold sweat. Fortunately, the person who wrote the report did not breathe heavily, but attached the subsequent investigation report.
"...This person is probably a refugee. I don't know where he learned this trick and fooled the prince. But he does have some real skills. The fairy clouds were made from the dye he offered."
It was mainly because of this investigation report that Emperor Yuanxing breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out that he was just a vagrant who was a magician. He came out to commit crimes at night and used some magic tricks and sleight of hand to deceive that evil creature.
But that evil creature was actually fooled by this kind of magic?
After reading the report carefully again, Emperor Yuanxing was reluctant to admit that it was not that evil creature's fault.
After all, who knew that the so-called entrance to the secret realm was also provided by this person?
Now it seems that it is very likely that the person who discovered the entrance to this secret realm wanted to make the matter public through the mouth of the bastard in order to save up capital for his future entry into the court. After all, as a refugee, he has no family behind him, and he probably doesn't have enough knowledge himself, so he can't find a teacher to guarantee him.
This also shows that the evil creature has not made any other predictions in recent times except for the prophecy about the entrance to the secret realm.
Moreover, from beginning to end, the refugee had no contact with the evil creature. He just pretended to be a god through notes and some magic tricks.
The ultimate purpose of this refugee is probably to enter the imperial court through that evil offspring.
"Zhang Dehai, how is this refugee now? Did you alert the enemy?"
Emperor Yuanxing put down the memorial in his hand, took a sip of tea and spoke casually.
Zhang Dehai also immediately bowed and replied: "Your Majesty, the refugee should still be mixed in with the refugees recruited by King Chungnyeong. The guards who went to investigate did not alert the enemy, and should still be working now."
"Well done, keep a close eye on him. When this refugee is eager to sacrifice himself, catch him."
Emperor Yuanxing nodded and said softly: "The majesty of the royal family cannot be offended by anyone."
Zhang Dehai lowered his head again, secretly praying that King Chungnyeong would quickly recognize the man's true identity, so that he would not become a stepping stone to fulfill His Majesty's reputation.
In fact, compared to the moody Emperor Wonheung, the palace maids and eunuchs had a favorable impression of Prince Chungnyeong, who was young and looked lively and cheerful.
Unfortunately, these good feelings are basically useless.
Emperor Yuanxing put the memorial aside. The evil creature had recently been recruiting refugees and building temples, which had touched his bottom line. Fortunately, the evil creature was just a child, and he was easily deceived by the bad guys and became trusting of others.
This can be considered as a lesson for that evil creature.
Emperor Yuanxing thought about it and picked up the next memorial. As soon as he opened it, his brows unconsciously frowned.
This was a memorial from the Grand Marshal asking him for food.
While they were celebrating the New Year in the capital in winter, Marshal Bai Lao at the border had already faced three battles in which the Huns attacked the border.
Last year, Marshal Bai Lao obtained fresh food and fodder, as well as some baggage, and did not allow the Huns to gain any benefits at the border.
However, without enough straw in the autumn, the Huns had a hard time in the winter. Not to mention the small tribes, even the royal tent had a hard time.
Coupled with some political struggles within the Xiongnu royal court, the Xiongnu began to attack villages frantically in winter.
Some Huns even tried to sneak into border towns.
Fortunately, Marshal Bai Lao discovered the situation in time and prevented the Huns from succeeding. However, they still seized some villages and towns, giving them a chance to recuperate.
This year is a warm winter and the ice melted early, making it easier for the Huns to wreak havoc on the border.
This is also the reason why Marshal Bai wrote a letter to Emperor Yuanxing asking for food just after the Spring Festival.
If we don’t have food, the entire border city will be undefendable.
However, Emperor Yuanxing simply responded lightly.
"This great marshal is asking me for food again."
Emperor Yuanxing said with a sigh.
Zhang Dehai on the side lowered his head even lower, thinking himself to be a deaf and blind man.
"Alas, even if I am the emperor, the spring plowing has not yet begun, and I have no surplus food, but what can I do? After all, the Grand Marshal is fighting at the border for me. If the Huns enter the border, I don't know what the consequences will be."
Emperor Yuanxing didn't care whether the palace maids and eunuchs around him could hear him clearly or not, and he kept saying his helplessness. But in the end, he still gave the food, but it was less than what the Grand Marshal wanted.
"Zhang Dehai, do you think the Grand Marshal will blame me?"
Emperor Yuanxing put the memorial in his hand aside after reviewing it and asked casually.
As soon as he finished speaking, Zhang Dehai broke out in a cold sweat, but Emperor Yuanxing was still waiting for a reply. Could it be that Zhang Dehai really dared to keep silent?
Zhang Dehai almost stuttered as he said, "I think Marshal Bai knows your majesty's dilemma and understands your majesty's friendship. He will not have such a rebellious heart."
After hearing what Zhang Dehai said, Emperor Yuanxing shook his head and continued, "I knew you were playing tricks on me, old man. I have already withheld the military rations for him. It would be a lie if he didn't blame me. He is just a stubborn person."
After hearing what Emperor Yuanxing said, Zhang Dehai immediately knelt down.
His Majesty, you have already made up your mind, why ask a eunuch?
Fortunately, Emperor Yuanxing also knew that what he did was not quite right, and he had no intention of blaming Zhang Dehai. Instead, he continued reading the memorial.
Zhang Dehai breathed a sigh of relief and quietly got up from the ground.
However, the next memorial was still not good news, which made Emperor Yuanxing look gloomy as he brought the memorial to the court.
"How dare those lowly barbarians curse at us over there? Where are those people I asked you to find before? Are they dead? How dare those barbarians utter such nonsense to us?"
Emperor Yuanxing threw the memorial in his hand heavily in front of the ministers. Marquis Weiyuan happened to see the words written on the memorial and subconsciously covered the mouth of Prince Zhongning who was standing in front of him.
King Chungnyeong, who was originally drowsy:?
The princes and marquises standing by pretended not to see anything. What the little prince did last time almost scared them half to death.
Fortunately, the little prince seemed to know how dangerous the last incident was, and did not make a fuss. Instead, he had his mouth covered and looked at the memorial on the ground with curiosity in his eyes.
The young prince was so curious that Marquis Weiyuan broke out in cold sweats. By the time Marquis Weiyuan finally survived the grand court meeting and returned home, his court robes were already soaked with cold sweat.
He wiped the sweat from his forehead, quickly asked someone to prepare water, cleaned his body thoroughly, then changed into regular clothes and went to see his beloved daughter.
Now his precious daughter is a famous lady in the capital. She can get on the good side of Princess Funing. Even if she doesn't marry into the royal family in the future, she can get acquainted with other princes and nobles. This is much better than following the Fourth Prince.
And now who wouldn’t praise the close friends of the princesses?
Her needlework and female virtues were top-notch. After all, to follow the princesses and question their upbringing was to question the upbringing of the royal family. Even if there were a few who wanted to go down in history and go against the royal family, they would not dare to say a word under the majesty of King Chungnyeong.
King Chungnyeong was really able to kidnap the women in his family for Princess Funyeong. Even if he did not kidnap the women in his family, he would intercept the officials on their way home from get off work. King Chungnyeong had done this before.
And who is King Chungnyeong?
He was crowned a king when he was born, and has received rewards from His Majesty since he was a child. He is the one who can beat up all the princes and escape unscathed. He is the true favorite of His Majesty.
If they were the crown prince, they could still escape unscathed. However, they were just some ordinary minor officials. Since King Chungnyeong beat them, they had no choice but to accept the defeat. Moreover, they were only invited to King Chungnyeong's mansion as guests. Shouldn't they be grateful?
With such a person protecting Princess Funing and the young ladies from official families around him, Marquis Weiyuan had to admit that he had made a mistake in following the crowd and reporting to Prince Zhongning.
Fortunately, my daughter turned a disaster into a blessing, and now I don’t have to worry about her marriage anymore.
Marquis Weiyuan smiled as he watched his daughter, who was resting at home today, walk towards him.
Lu Yirou looked at her father, who was smiling brightly, and slowly asked, "Father, what happened in the court?"
Why are you laughing like a fat cat that has caught a mouse?
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Lu Yirou listened to her father briefly talking about what happened in the court. She knew clearly that something was hidden, but she still kept her mouth shut and didn't ask any more questions.
There have been many changes in the court recently. Many officials were demoted for unknown reasons and then transferred away. Some even had their families confiscated and their women sent to the Music Bureau.
Because of Xianyuncai, Lu Yirou's popularity among the women in Beijing improved a lot. She was invited to many banquets, and the wife of Marquis Weiyuan was naturally happy. So Lu Yirou attended many banquets during the Spring Festival alone.
——He also witnessed with his own eyes the process of some women from official families having their property confiscated and being sent to the Jiaofangsi.
In her previous life, Lu Yirou only knew how to chase after the Fourth Prince and had never seen these scenes, and her family would not let her see them.
But in this life he had to go to work in a designer's studio, so naturally the carriage would pull her around the city every day, and naturally she saw this scene.
The little girl who had sweetly called him sister the day before yesterday was today being roughly escorted to the carriage by the guards in a state of panic.
The newly married bride, before she had even adapted to life at home, was sent to the Jiaofangsi and asked her parents for help. However, the men in her family dared not say a word for the sake of their reputation.
The mother cried until her eyes were red and swollen, but she did not dare to disobey the man in the family.
These scenes made Lu Yirou feel cold all over.
Only after returning home and seeing the wife of Marquis Weiyuan did he feel better.
But these still gave her a nightmare that night. She dreamed of the time in her previous life when she lost her virginity and was forced to accompany the poor scholar to the seaside to take up her post.
After Lu Yirou woke up in a cold sweat, she was frightened for several days before she gradually calmed down.
But it also left some roots of illness. Every day when Marquis Weiyuan came back from court, Lu Yirou had to visit her father before she could feel at ease.
The same is true today.
"...So that's how it is. The Grand Marshal is fighting the Huns during the New Year." Lu Yirou's heart ached when she heard the news.
Could it be that the catastrophe is about to come again after being postponed for half a year?
Marquis Weiyuan looked at his daughter's worried expression and nodded with relief.
"My daughter is no worse than those men. Some of the children of noble families have passed the year without knowing that the border has been at war with the Huns, and are still playing with cats and dogs everywhere."
Weiyuan Hou looked at his daughter's blushing face after being praised by him, and said with a smile: "I don't know which brat my daughter will end up with."
"Father! I'm going to find mother."
Lu Yirou rushed out of the door angrily, but did not go to find Mrs. Wei Yuanhong. Instead, she returned to his room and took out the account books in her dressing box.
All the money she had recently used to design clothes and his previous New Year's money were spent on food. They bought everything and hid it in the room in the mansion where the food was stored.
Dad wouldn't care about these things, and after her mother found out that she had done the accounts so well, she also stopped caring about these things and turned around to teach her how to manage the dowry and the farm.
The household expenses had not increased, and the dishes were the same as before, so people who did not notice anything unusual naturally did not comment on the matter.
Only Lu Yirou knew how much pressure she was under.
During the catastrophe last year, the entire capital city was still prosperous and the number of refugees outside did not even increase. Lu Yirou cried as if she had been in another world, and only then did she slow down the pace of collecting food.
However, the amount of food was huge after all, and Lu Yirou did not process all of it immediately. Who would have thought that the catastrophe did not disappear quietly.
But it was postponed to this year!
Lu Yirou bit her lips, as if she wanted to bite them until they bleed, as she looked at the account book in her hand.
Now these foods are enough to save their family, but God knows whether this postponed catastrophe will make the situation of the refugee riot even more terrifying?
Lu Yirou was thinking about these things even when she went to the designer's studio, and she also asked the young ladies from official families around her where she could find a reliable blacksmith.
Unfortunately, nothing was found.
Just when Lu Yirou was so anxious that she couldn't sleep the whole night and even had to take drugs to help her sleep, Weiyuan Hou brought Lu Yirou good news when he came back from court.
"Great victory! Great victory at the border! Marshal Bai drove those Huns back!" Wei Yuanhe said excitedly.
Lu Yirou finally let go of her nerves that had been tense for the past two months. She suddenly felt dizzy and slowly fell to the ground.
"Daughter!" X2
Before falling into a coma, Lu Yirou listened to her parents' screams and thought to herself that if her parents knew that she didn't sleep well, she would be punished with a ruler when she woke up.
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Let’s not talk about whether Lu Yirou was punished with a ruler or not.
Marquis Weiyuan took this opportunity to enhance the reputation of his precious daughter. Such a loyal and patriotic woman deserves to be praised.
The entire court was happy and naturally would not pour cold water on Marquis Weiyuan's little tricks.
Everyone in the court was really happy. Marshal Bai had been guarding the border for a long time. Although he prevented the Huns from crossing the border every year, the loss of manpower, material resources and financial resources still made the officials in the court complain.
If the Huns had not been watching closely, Marshal Bai would have been summoned to the capital to be questioned long ago.
In addition to this, the Huns were also too arrogant. After all, they were a nomadic people and were brutal by nature. Every time a city was massacred at the border, it was a bloody tragedy.
These were tragedies that made the people of Feng Dynasty feel very humiliated.
Now that the Huns have finally been beaten back, both the court and the common people are really happy!
At the royal celebration banquet, even the fourth prince Pei Muli no longer had the thorny look he had before. He actually congratulated his father and Prince Zhongning normally.
The wording was surprisingly unambiguous, and there was no intention to deliberately set a trap for King Chungnyeong.
Of course, Prince Chungnyeong accepted it all, and he even approached Emperor Wonheung with a smile on his face.
"Uncle Emperor, my grandpa is so great. He beat the Huns back. He was really great!"
The little prince opened his cat eyes and danced around Emperor Yuanxing, like a happy kitten rubbing against his master.
It looks cute.
Even the prince standing aside had to admit that the guy without a father or a mother did have a good appearance.
Unfortunately, Emperor Yuanxing was not happy about this situation. He looked at the evil creature with deep eyes, even with a hint of cruelty.
The bastard seemed to have lost his vigilance. He circled around him happily and spoke to the princes beside him.
"To celebrate grandpa's victory, I will be giving porridge to the refugees for the next week! My sister is also participating, do you brothers want to join in?"
Seeing how the evil creature was winning people's hearts, Emperor Yuanxing's originally wavering thoughts finally settled down.
Rather than having a bad sleep for the rest of his life, it is better to let Marshal Bai suffer a little.
Lend me your head so that I can sleep peacefully.
The middle-aged man in a dragon robe had a gloomy look in his eyes under the light that made the hall seem as bright as day.
The third prince, who happened to be looking at his father, was startled.
Pei Muyan looked at his father's eyes and followed his father's line of sight, just in time to see King Zhongning jumping up and down like a cat slave, pulling people around to give out porridge.
Pei Muyan clenched the wine glass in his hand while maintaining a gentle smile on his face.
But there is still a heavy shadow in my heart.
Father, can’t you even tolerate Prince Chungnyeong?
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Border.
"Ah! Good wine!"
"Xiongnu, I will fuck all your eighteen generations of ancestors!"
“Wuwuwuwu——!”
At the banquet, there were ghosts howling and screaming, some drinking and crying, some stuffing themselves until they were about to vomit, and some lying dead on the ground.
The chaotic scene gave Marshal Bai, who was sitting in the main seat, a headache, but the smile on his lips showed that he was still happy.
How could they not be happy? They beat up their old rival, the Xiongnu, and drove them back to the grasslands. They even nearly reached the Xiongnu’s royal court. Even if they didn’t reach it, this war also caused great damage to the Xiongnu.
The following year was better.
Marshal Bai was also very happy and drank several more glasses.
In a drunken state, he looked at the moon in the sky in the yard, and in a trance he saw his little daughter making noises with her two brothers under the moonlight decades ago.
Decades passed, his youngest daughter had seen off her youngest son, her two older brothers had also started their own families and careers, and he, an old man, had driven his old enemies back to the grasslands.
The only thing he is worried about now is his two children in the capital.
As Marshal Bai watched, tears welled up in his eyes.
The generals and lieutenants present pretended not to notice the pretentious look of their Marshal.
After all, some of their comrades are crying.
The next day had already passed since I woke up from a drunken stupor. It was already four days later when I cleaned up the battlefield and distributed some food to the people in the city to cheer them up.
Just as Marshal Bai was about to check on the progress of the seedlings from the spring plowing.
The imperial edict from the court has arrived.
Still came with a token.
The purpose was to urge him to go to the capital to accept the reward.
The announcement of the imperial edict was made in a grand manner, with the eunuch chief Zhang Dehai leading the way, and they were also presented with various things bestowed by the emperor.
But Marshal Bai didn't want to go to the capital.
He missed his grandson in the capital, but...
His wheat seedlings are not yet ripe, there are bandits outside the city, his little grandson has just been born, and so on.
In short, he is still needed at the border.
But once the imperial decree came down, he had no choice.
He had no choice but to start preparing and instruct his old brothers on how to guard the border.
The old brothers did not scold him for being nagging as they did in the past, but cooperated with him as much as possible and allowed him to stay at the border longer.
Everyone knew that this was a Hongmen Banquet, but no one dared to say it out loud.
So does General Zhang.
When he saw Zhang Dehai coming, his face turned pale, making his already shifty face look even more like a eunuch.
Zhang Dehai looked at it with disgust.
But Zhang Dehai did not make any trouble, and Military Supervisor Zhang was also obedient and polite, and even brought the man to live in his own mansion.
The residence of General Zhang is a rare haven of tranquility on the border.
Although Zhang Dehai did not indulge in it, the same could not be said for the eunuchs and guards around him.
It was the first time that Marshal Bai discovered that General Zhang could actually be of such a use. Although he still thought that the eunuch was a beast, he would delay as long as possible at this time.
Marshal Bai finally slowly began to sort out his household affairs.
He first dealt with the wheat seedlings for spring plowing, then arranged the affairs of his old brothers' families, and also readjusted the defense.
When Zhang Dehai escaped from the arms of gentleness, he found that a month had passed and Marshal Bai's house hadn't even packed his luggage.
It was not until Zhang Dehai, with a dark face, urged Marshal Bai that he began to pack his luggage slowly.
However, packing can also cause trouble. The two daughters-in-law quarreled with Marshal Bai's son every few days.
The eldest daughter-in-law was fine, she sent the child back to her parents' home when she got angry. But the younger daughter-in-law scratched her youngest son's face until it was covered with bruises, and then sent both her and the child back to her parents' home, which was a month's journey from the border.
Two months later, as the summer harvest was about to begin, Zhang Dehai finally couldn't sit still anymore. If he kept delaying like this, the moment he returned to Beijing would be the moment he was beheaded.
Marshal Bai finally slowly returned to Beijing with his wife and two sons.
Before leaving, he took advantage of his drunkenness to beat up Military Supervisor Zhang.
It was a rare cloudy day when Marshal Bai was leaving, as if even God was trying to keep him.
But even though the sky was overcast, the people were not afraid. Instead, they came out to see Marshal Bai off.
The dense crowds of people accompanied Marshal Bai for fifty miles out of the city, and only then did they go back after being repeatedly urged by Marshal Bai.
Zhang Dehai was also shocked by the densely packed crowd. Two days later, he was still wondering why Marshal Bai was so popular.
By the time he realized that there were no more children's cries in the team, they were already nearly 800 miles away from the border.
"My grandson? Oh, two days ago at the border, two daughters-in-law got angry and one sent the child back to her parents' home, while the other sent both the child and the woman back to her parents' home. You know that women have long hair but short knowledge."
Marshal Bai said lightly.
He also spoke to his two sons who were riding horses beside him.
"Remember to ask for imperial decrees for your two wives when you go to the capital this time. Treat them well and don't let them get divorced."
Zhang Dehai: ...Do I look like a fool? ?
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