fast and ferocious

Chapter 45 A Good Show (Part One) Two More

Qin Wubing sighed and said: "It's better to have someone in the court! You have nothing to do with the serious crime of leaving your post without authorization!"

"Who went AWOL?"

"Didn't you leave the barracks privately?"

"Yes, but I have been removed from office..."

"We lost that battle? Because of you?"

"How is it possible!" Lin Huai saw someone in the posthouse looking towards them, and hurriedly dragged Qin Wubing to his room, and then continued: "The battle was won, but my father kept calling me Going home to get married, if I don't come back, my father will ask the emperor to order me to go back to Beijing, but I still won't go back..."

"Do you dare to resist the order?"

"Oh, it's impossible to talk about it. The emperor also persuaded me. If I didn't listen, I was dismissed and sent back to Beijing."

"Does your father ask you to marry a sow or a tigress? You can't do that?"

"As for! What can he choose for me?"

"Then find one yourself!"

"All the flies in the barracks are male!"

"You are being unreasonable. It is for your own good that your father arranged for you to get married! Which girl? Have you met her before? Is she good-looking?"

"I don't even know who it is, how can I know if it looks good? Anyway, I don't want what he is looking for!"

"Have backbone!"

"Why aren't you married yet?"

"It should be soon." Qin Wubing said and lowered his head: "Because I was a fast arrester, I was looked down upon by the right family, and my mother looked down upon me, so I just dragged it like this. It's good, but there is a family who doesn't care about my status, alas, who is not married? Marry if you can make the family happy!"

"Listen...it's quite heroic!"

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The two chatted in the room for a long time about getting married before they realized that they hadn't had breakfast yet, but it was already too late, it was the end of the day, and Prince Xiang was about to leave.

Qin Wubing and Lin Huai, dressed as soldiers, walked with Guo Yi on the side of the apricot-yellow sedan chair.

Prince Xiang knew that the Governor of Jiangnan, the Governor of Hedao, the governor of Mingzhou and other officials were already waiting at Dongyue Temple, and the salt merchants he had found overnight had also arrived, so Prince Xiang slowly got into the sedan chair.

The Dongyue Temple was not too close to the post house. The scorching sun in mid-April was already full of enthusiasm at noon, and Qin Wubing was already sweating profusely after halfway through.

Sweat soaked into the wound, and he grinned his teeth in pain, but he didn't dare to make a sound. Lord Xiang's personal soldiers had strict military discipline, each of them held their heads high and their chests were full of majesty, no one dared to make a sound!

The officials and salt merchants waiting at Dongyue Temple were not much better.

The officials of Jiang Yidong still have a temporary arbor, but more than 20 salt merchants can only wait by the big screen wall in front of Dongyue Temple, with the scorching sun above their heads, which can be said to be miserable!

These people are usually rich and powerful, and they are used to being domineering. Although they all know each other, they can be regarded as occupying their own side, with their own lairs, and no one looks down on the other.

But today, everyone knows in their hearts that there is no good feast for Prince Xiang, and it is for their money, but this year is no different from previous years. Among them, the confession that should be made was handed in early, and even the money from those people in Beijing was handed over early. It was only three or four months after the end of last year, and now there is another prince, how is this going to be? Is good?I'm afraid that the past two years will be in vain.

More than 20 salt merchants gathered in small groups to discuss countermeasures in low voices. Among them was Chen Qi, who was over fifty years old, with a round face and drooping eyes. He seemed to be the most capable, and there were always people around him. Come and ask a few questions.

Chen Qi has always been expressionless and calm. No matter who asks, he always says: "They are more anxious than us, just wait and see what happens!"

Everyone will look at all the officials who are drinking tea under the awning. Except for Xie Yu, the procurator for punishment, and an official sitting on the edge of the awning, the expressions of the others are tense.

The official sitting by the side of the awning is Cui Lixuan, who is in charge of the salt affairs of the Salt Transport Envoy Yamen. At this moment, he does not know how much he hopes that Prince Xiang will take care of such a salt dog!It stands to reason that the county magistrate is not as good as the current one, but when he came to him, the salt merchants didn't take him seriously at all, and he had no choice but to arrange the relationship between them clearly, and he couldn't even use small tricks. The filial piety that I get every year is far less than expected. Can Cui Lixuan be unhappy at this time?

Cui Lixuan was secretly complacent when he heard the commotion among the salt merchants, and then he heard someone shout: "Prince Xiang is here!"

Jiang Yidong led a group of officials immediately got up out of the arbor to greet them, and the salt merchants bowed behind them.

Prince Xiang got off the apricot-yellow sedan chair, and saw him wearing the azure dragon dragon tongxiu python robe, with a nonchalant expression on his face, surrounded by several eunuchs and a large group of personal soldiers, he walked to the crowd.

The salt merchants knelt behind the officials, they didn't dare to lift their heads, they only heard Prince Xiang say kindly to everyone: "It's such a hot day, I kept you waiting for a long time, but today I treat you, but I want to make you spend money! "Prince Xiang laughed twice after finishing speaking, and said again: "Get up, everyone, the banquet is ready, and it will be set in front of the Eighteenth Hell Corridor. I think that place is better, with more trees and cooler."

After saying that, Prince Xiang took the lead to enter Dongyue Temple, followed by his followers and officials and salt merchants, many people were already trembling.

Entering the temple, the feeling is quite different from the outside. There are cypresses standing on both sides of a stone corridor, covering the sky and blocking out the sun and gloomy.

Prince Xiang suddenly stood still, pointed to a pair of couplets on a stone pillar in front of him, and read aloud:

"Ah! How many beautiful girls, riches, gold and silks have been brought in by the dark room for cheating and plundering?!
Hello!The divine eyes are like lightning, knocking on the bones and sucking the marrow, how many lives have been taken, human flesh and blood? ! "

This couplet, with a brush stroke of vermilion in Chinese characters, was dripping with ink, as if human blood was still dripping down, which made all the officials and salt merchants feel terrified.

Prince Xiang didn't say anything more, then walked inside, entered the second gate, there were guards of the palace waiting there, bowed and said: "My lord, the banquet is set in the inner porch."

"No hurry, no hurry!" Prince Xiang waved his hand, pointed to the Zhandai Gate on the top of the verandah in front of him: "Since we are here, we naturally have to take a look!"

Walking closer, Prince Xiang took a look at Dexi, and Dexi read out the couplets of the Zhandai Gate aloud: "Traitors in the yang world, those who violate the heavens and evil principles are all up to themselves; the retribution of the underworld, who has been let go through the ages!"

Prince Xiang followed with a smile: "No one can hide! No one can hide!" After saying that, he walked through Zhandai Gate first.

(End of this chapter)