Chang Anqing

Above the pavilion, Li Sui leaned on the railing and saw the beautiful spring scenery of Furong Garden. This was the place where my sister said goodbye to Zhao Yi and Yang Chongyuan before she left. Now my sister has been away for several years. He has also changed his surname, but the tall building of several feet has never changed.

Sister, no matter what I want to do, you will always stand by my side, right——

When a gust of wind passed, the catkins scattered all over the sky as if being induced, and let the breeze swirl them around like snow, fascinating Li Sui's eyes.

In a panic, Li Sui seemed to have returned to the winter of that year, when she and her elder sister were sitting on the porch making tea, and had seen the most beautiful snowball fight.

Involuntarily, Li Sui stretched out his left hand, and the moment he opened his palm, a wisp of catkins landed on her palm, touching the lines on her palm numbly.

"Princess Yuling."

The sound from the ear interrupted Li Sui's fluttering thoughts. In an instant, Li Sui lowered his eyelids, covering up the softness and fragility at the bottom of his eyes for a moment. When he turned his eyes again, they were as bright as usual but undetectable.

"Stay safe."

Hearing Li Sui greeted him familiarly, Chen Zhiyan answered with lowered eyes.

"Miss Shangguan has been gone for a long time—"

While speaking, Li Sui turned his head lightly, and when he heard Li Sui's words, following her gaze towards the distance, Chen Zhiyan also looked at Chang'an City outside the garden, and Li Sui's words came to his ears immediately.

"You never wanted to marry another wife?"

As soon as these words came out, Chen Zhiyan's unwavering eyes were rippling, and his lips were slightly raised. He was obviously smiling, but it was so light and sarcasm, no longer as gentle as jade in the past.

"I live under someone else's fence, and the future is uncertain, so why bother others to suffer along with me."

Suddenly, Li Sui had heard the words in her ear, when she and Zhao Yi were sharing the same bed on their wedding night.

In the silence, Li Sui and Chen Zhiyan's eyes met. Looking at those eyes that lost their vitality, Li Sui knew in his heart that in fact, as early as the Zhou Dynasty collapsed, Yuan Chengdi died, and the Linzi Palace fell, the former proud son of Bohai The county king is dead.

Today, he has long lost the good wishes of ordinary people.

Relatives are gone, friends are gone, but in his heart, there is an impossible person living from the beginning to the end.

"The princess met me in private, just to exchange old news?"

Hearing what Chen Zhiyan said, Li Sui smiled, turned to look at Chen Zhiyan and said, "Do you still remember what you and I said before the court on the night of our wedding in the East Palace?"

Chen Zhiyan frowned upon hearing the sound, but when he raised his eyes, he saw Li Sui's meaningful smile.

"Living for tens of years, although there are sorrows, there are also joys. If you only indulge in this, it will be unreal. The Chang'an city in front of us has the grace of all nations, and I, Chang'an, have the tolerance of the world. People say the bridal chamber The festive night is a joy, and it is also a joy to be named on the gold list. The king of the county has been rich and famous since he was a child, and one day he will see all the flowers in Chang'an. It is not in vain to experience this life..."

The words of consolation and pride that night rang in his ears again, making Chen Zhiyan's heartstrings that hadn't moved for a long time groaned softly.

But does he still have a chance?

"Princess, what do you want to tell me—"

"If I want to say, I can help you."

Chen Zhiyan's words were stuck in Li Sui's throat by Li Sui's response. When he met Li Sui's determined and serious gaze, Chen Zhiyan couldn't help saying: "Help me for what?"

"Help you become an official, help you truly display your talents, so that the pearl will not be dusted."

As soon as these words came out, Chen Zhiyan's pupils trembled slightly, but after a long time, he smiled lightly, breaking the strange silence.

"Join an official?"

Whispering, Chen Zhiyan's eyes gradually grew aloof and alienated, and said: "Being an official of his Yang family?"

Li Sui was not surprised by Chen Zhiyan's reaction, so at this moment she calmly looked at the pavilions and pavilions in the distance and said: "This world has never been a world of one family, but a world of thousands of people. I thought you were Understand this truth."

Hearing Li Sui's words, Chen Zhiyan couldn't help but look sideways, and saw Li Sui say calmly: "Look at those people, they never care who is sitting on the emperor's throne today, let alone being pushed down tomorrow Who is on the altar, because for them, the nobles who are high above the emperor are far inferior to the parents who can protect their safety, and the generals who can guard the border for them and protect them for generations are more worthy of their admiration."

Having said that, Li Sui turned his gaze towards Chang'an City to Chen Zhiyan and said, "If you want, I believe you will be able to do it. At least in this so-called Yang family world, you also have people who can protect you, and you can fight for them." Do your best in your life, instead of spending your life in mediocrity under the pity of the world and the eyes of others."

"After all, when I saved you and the lives of the Chen clan, I didn't mean to see you waste your life—"

Chen Zhiyan suddenly raised his eyes when he heard the words, and when he met Li Sui's deep eyes, he understood at that moment.

It turned out that Yang Xingjian's mistake was not the result of the emperor's poisoning.

It was Li Sui in front of him who borrowed his hand to force Yang Chongyuan to let the Chen clan go amidst the doubts from all over the world.

At this moment, Chen Zhiyan's gaze towards Li Sui became much more complicated, and he said after a long time: "You, why do you want to help us, aren't you—"

"I'm not the Li family from the Yang family's in-laws? Am I not the princess of the Li family who helped the Yang family sit on the throne?"

Li Sui smiled, and the next moment the smile froze between his brows and eyes little by little until it disappeared.

"You were once in the vortex of power struggle, so you should understand the general trend. In the past, Mrs. Li helped Mrs. Yang because he had no choice. As for why I helped Mrs. Chen, it's very simple——"

At this moment, Li Sui looked at Chen Zhiyan solemnly and said, "Because I was entrusted by one person, and because my blood also flows from the Chen family."

Because, I know, Mrs. Chen will always be useful one day.

Because, as long as the Chen family's royal family is in my hands, those veterans who are loyal to the Chen family can become my people.

At this moment, Li Sui suppressed the last words from his heart and did not say them out.

Because this is her truth that no one knows.

"Who is that person, you should know."

Li Sui's words were still in his ears, and Chen Zhiyan couldn't help tightening his fists bit by bit. From Li Sui's eyes, he had already got the answer.

That name has long been etched in his mind, his heart.

"The reason why I want to help you now is also very simple. First, I said that I don't want to see the bright pearl get dusty. Second,—"

Aware of Li Sui's pause, Chen Zhiyan looked at Li Sui quietly, and only heard a few words, but it was enough to shock people's hearts.

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend."

……

As usual in the Shangsi Festival, there will always be high-ranking officials and ordinary people who like to watch the kicking match, but no one would have thought that this year's kicking match will be very intense, and the most surprising thing is that they won the first prize. It was not others who won the rounds of cheers on the field, but Chen Zhiyan, who had long since disappeared from the eyes of the world, the proud son of a talented man in the past. Couldn't help but shed tears.

Just before this wave of turmoil was submerged, a few days later, countless veterans of the Zhou family began to speak to the emperor, admonishing the emperor to always be thirsty for talents, and now that there are ready-made talents for governing the world, why not use them? It can also be regarded as Zebei the world.For this reason, the courtiers even quoted the allusion that Cao Cao reused the Zhang embroidery that had the revenge of killing his son, so as to ask the emperor to re-enable the original talents of the Chen family. Chen Zhiyan who showed his demeanor.

Just before the emperor gave a clear reply, half a month later, a shocking news came from Bozhou.

Bozhou rebelled——

It turned out that at first it was the son of Jie Hong, the governor of Bozhou, who bullied others by beating his classmates in public in the state school. Thousands of students in Bozhou prefecture and county were indignant for a while, and they immediately went on strike and went to the governor's mansion to denounce.However, instead of punishing his son, Xie Hongfei suppressed it with his soldiers and guards, and even arrested many students and imprisoned them.

As soon as this incident happened, the people in the prefecture and county immediately condemned and pleaded for their orders. At this moment of public dissatisfaction, a book of accounts completely angered the people of Bozhou.

It turned out that this account actually wrote down all the details of Xie Hong, the governor of Bozhou, who had embezzled and accepted bribes over the years. What's more, Xie Hong raised taxes in private, exploited the people layer by layer, paid half of the income to the court, and took half of the income himself.

As soon as this incident happened, civil unrest broke out in Bozhou, until the people rushed into the mansion, killed Xie Hong's son, cut his heart and liver for food, and Xie Hong was so frightened that he fled in a panic. It was only introduced to Chang'an.

However, most of Bozhou has fallen at this time, shocking the whole Daxing.

Although the emperor was furious, he also knew that the most urgent task at the moment was to send people to quell the civil disturbance.

But now the civil unrest in Bozhou is no small matter. You must know that the backbone of the civil unrest is not the grassroots thugs who can't read the big characters, but the students who have read poetry and books. Adding fuel made the rebellion spread even more. Secondly, if Bozhou's well-educated talents are really killed, I am afraid that even if the rebellion is quelled, future history books will not know what to say about how talented Qin Shihuang was back then. Being criticized generation after generation?
It can be seen that this errand is now a hot potato, and if it is done successfully, the emperor may not get the slightest favor, and if it is not done, it is a big crime.

Therefore, for a while, none of the civil and military personnel of the Manchu Dynasty was willing to go to Bozhou to suppress the rebellion.

Until one late night, Dangchao approached the emperor's favorite minister and recommended a person to the emperor.

"Chen Zhiyan?"

Yang Chongyuan frowned and looked at Su Hui without hesitation, but he saw that Su Hui said with a calm expression: "Your Majesty, the situation in Bozhou is now tense, and the arrow is on the line. If you send Chen Zhiyan to go this time, you can stop the mouths of those old Zhou officials. , so that no one will question His Majesty's mind of a saint, and secondly—"

Hearing the deep meaning in Su Hui's words, Yang Chongyuan stared and saw Su Hui's eyes flicker and said: "Chen Zhiyan went to Bozhou, if he can't put down the rebellion as he wished, then he will explain his incompetence to the world, and then rely on If He Xiao wants to reuse the word, or if he died at the hands of the rebellious people, it will be once and for all—"

"Then if he's calmed down?"

Hearing this, Su Hui looked at Yang Chongyuan and said, "If he really has this ability, it all depends on His Majesty."

Yang Chongyuan's eyes sank slightly when he heard the words, and he said after a long time: "Okay, then let him have a try, I'd like to see if there is anyone in this declining Chen family."

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