Who says sleep is not spiritual practice?

Chapter 290 Now, His Royal Highness should be happy, right?
"Li, Master Li..."

Seeing Jiang Qingyu staring at him, Jin Xian's voice trembled, and he involuntarily took a few steps back.

next moment.

He subconsciously glanced at the bloody, unrecognizable corpse on the horse's back, and his legs went limp again in fright.

As a civil servant, Jin Xian wrote excellent calligraphy, and his calligraphy was even praised by Emperor Jing Hong himself.Whenever someone holds a banquet, he only needs to write a letter and present it, and it will attract a lot of envy and praise, making the guests and hosts happy!
And on the hands of writing, the minister of the Ministry of Rites also put in a lot of thought!
On weekdays, his hands are soaked in warm goat milk twice a day, and they are never exposed to the hot sun or frozen in the cold snow. This habit has not changed since he entered the court and became an official, so The slender white tender raised by hand is like a girl in cardamom age!
It is said that Jin Xian valued his own hands more than his children. He had not hurt a single penny in decades and cared for them carefully. Except for goat milk and water, the only time they would be stained with various valuables was when he was practicing calligraphy. ink, and as for the gore...

That's never been touched before!
Now Jiang Qingyu asked him to pick up the corpse himself, leaving his official uniform and hands covered in blood?
Then what kind of literati is he?
"Li, Master Li..."

"His Royal Highness is calling you!"

Even though he knew Jiang Qingyu was talking about Master Li himself, Jin Xian still had the cheek to dump the matter on another important court official.

Because that person's surname was Li, his first name was Yao, and he was an admonishing official of the fifth rank, and his official rank was one rank lower than his own.

"..."

Li Yao, who was called by Jin Xian, suddenly turned pale.

He is a civil servant like Jin Xian, and he is used to being pampered. It is not difficult for him to write an article, but if he is asked to search for his son from thousands of corpses, it is better to just chop off his head. up.

You can refuse...

Jin Xian was one rank higher than him, so he didn't dare to offend him.

"You, go! Go find my son's body!"

Li Yao pointed to a handyman in the mansion and ordered.

"Sir, I..."

The handyman who was called looked embarrassed.

This is not a good job!

He was not afraid of the dead. As Li Yao's confidant, he even personally killed many people.

But he was afraid that he would not recognize Li Yao's son who died in battle!

The imperial guards were all dressed in standard armor, and thousands of corpses had never been cleaned, and some of them must have been completely changed.

It would be fine if the young master of the Li family was in good condition, he would probably be able to find it after a lot of hard work, but if unfortunately the young master's appearance was destroyed in the battle, wouldn't he have searched through thousands of corpses? Can't find it?
Once you can't find it, you won't be able to report to your master. Instead of being rewarded, you will be severely punished!
At least dozens of lashes can be whipped, and at worst, the whole family can be implicated!

"Why, you don't want to go?"

Seeing that the handyman hesitated, Li Yao's face darkened.

"me……"

Handyman has suffering.

at this time.

Jiang Qingyu laughed lightly, and said abruptly:
"Master Jin Xian, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, your most cherished son died for the country. As a father, can't you even find his body and put it in the coffin yourself?"

This statement came out.

Both Li Yao and the handyman were amnesty, and even secretly glanced at Jiang Qingyu gratefully.

"..."

Now it was Jin Xian's turn to look ugly again, he trembled as he looked at the densely packed corpses, unable to speak a word.

Afterwards, he couldn't help but glanced at the top of the city, hoping that Xue Fang, the commander of the imperial guards, would come to his aid and take the corpse on his behalf.

But Xue Fang chose to sit on the sidelines.

As a general, he also disliked the style of some literati above the court.

The Thousand Imperial Guards were his colleagues no matter what. They did not die for suppressing bandits or rebels, nor did they die for guarding the border and conquering foreign races. Instead, they were acted out by their father to please the emperor. The drama lost his life!

Simply ridiculous!
Xue Fang didn't dare to vent his anger on Jing Hong, but he couldn't help but feel a little bit happy seeing all the dignitaries being bullied by Jiang Qingyu.

"Deserved!"

He muttered something under his breath.

The little eunuch Yan Gao beside him smiled wryly when he heard the words:
"This Prince of the North has quite a personality. It's really unreasonable to move thousands of corpses and ask all the civil servants to search for their sons in person!"

"The literati hold grudges the most. If he disrespects the literati so much, I'm afraid that after today, articles slandering the Prince's Mansion will be flooded in the capital again!"

As he spoke, he couldn't help but sneak a glance at Jing Li.

I saw that Jing Li's gaze stayed on the sick young man all the time, without saying a word, his face was full of tenderness that he had never seen before...

And unabashed pride.

That is her son, who has been dormant in Ziyan Courtyard for more than ten years, and has always been regarded as an idiot that cannot be supported, but today he is finally Hualong.

That snowy day, when she was taken away from the palace, he said that he would come to the capital to see him soon.

Now, he did it.

"Your Highness is really infatuated with the son of Prince Rejecting the North!"

On the side, the little eunuch couldn't help feeling complicated when he saw this.

"No reason!"

At this moment, another dignitary stood up from the city, pointed at Jiang Qingyu and the rest of the Anbei Army, and yelled:
"Jiang Qingyu, all our sons died because of you! Instead of feeling ashamed or expressing a single apology to us, you used their corpses to humiliate us in public!"

"Where is your conscience?"

"Would it make you feel happy to let our literati's hands be stained with blood, and let a group of outsiders watch us rummaging through the sea of ​​corpses and blood to find our son's corpse?"

These words were so loud that they immediately attracted the support of all the dignitaries.

"Master Lu is absolutely right! This is the capital city, not the northern territory of Jiang and his son, so please put away your bandit temperament!"

"My child is alive in heaven. If he finds out that after his death, his body was used to humiliate his father like this, he will definitely regret protecting you, the heir of the king of the North, with all his might last night!"

"My son died protecting you, you should kneel down and apologize to us!"

"Yes, kneel!"

"kneel!"

……

The dignitaries returned to their usual high-spirited faces, clamoring for Jiang Qingyu to kneel down and apologize with sharp teeth and sharp mouths, which aroused the amazement of the onlookers.

"The airs of these officials and gentlemen are really big. They actually want Prince Jubei to kneel down? Aren't you afraid that someone in the Anbei Army can't hold back their anger and draw their swords angrily?"

"But after listening to their conversation, I think the words and deeds of His Royal Highness are indeed too much! The sons of these officials and lords died to protect him. He didn't say a word of thanks and apology. Literati officials went to the corpse pile to find the corpse of their son with their own hands! Such a banditry, no wonder this group of people brought coffins and stopped at the north gate to mourn!"

"Hey, what do you, a baker who sells cooking cakes, empathize with the officials and gentlemen? This is called the wicked need to be tortured by the wicked! This group of officials and gentlemen rely on the official hats on their heads, and they are lawless in the capital on weekdays. This time, the prince can punish this group of people severely when he enters the capital, no matter what method is used, I will be the first to applaud!"

"Oh, it's difficult! A strong dragon can't overwhelm a local snake, let alone a group of poisonous snakes, and there might be a real dragon behind the poisonous snakes..."

"Shh, shut up, you don't want to die!"

……

"..."

On the other side, Jiang Qingyu listened to the noisy discussion, but did not speak, but stared coldly at the dignitary who spoke first.

He recognized this person, and he was discussing the doctor Lu Guang, a fourth-rank official. Jiang Qiushui wrote three memorials in one day, admonishing the reduction of the Yongzhou fiefdom, the reduction of military power in the northern border, and the appointment of Jiang Qingjian, the second son of the palace, as his son. His words were sharp, and he became famous in one fell swoop.

Although the three memorials were evaluated as flashy by Jing Hong at the time, and Lu Guang was very depressed when he laughed them off, Yan Hui, who was the prime minister at the time, invited him to play a game of chess in private, and promoted his official rank half a year later. Yipin.

Two years later, he was promoted two ranks in a row and became a Zhengyi doctor.

After becoming a doctor of justice, Lu Guang acted in a public manner, and intensified his efforts to target the Beidi Palace in the court. Even though Jiang and his son subdued Beidi through the Winter Hunting Competition this time, he still couldn't utter a good word , and took the lead in writing a memorial to revisit the reduction of the northern king's fiefdom and military power, and advised Jing Hong to canonize Jiang Qingjian as Bingzhou Biejia.

Today, unlike other dignitaries, Lu Guang brought three sets of coffins.

Because not long ago, he sent all his only three grown-up sons into the Imperial Guard led by Dong Shen, including the eldest son whom he had always placed high hopes on!

Without exception, all three died in battle!
In addition...

Jiang Qingyu learned that Lu Guang still has a secret unknown to outsiders——

This person had been classmates with Jiang Yu, the head of the Jiang family in Yongzhou, for five years.

This can also explain why he has been persuading Jing Hong to canonize Jiang Qingjian, the second son of the palace, as his son.

Jiang Qingyu has always been quite contemptuous of such ruthless people who sell their sons for glory.

But I have to say that this kind of ruthless people can indeed bring people huge troubles sometimes.

"Jiang Qingyu!"

Sure enough, in the next moment, Lu Guang unhurriedly took off his official hat, court uniform and official boots, folded them aside, and then walked forward barefoot in only a white gown :

"Jiang Qingyu, didn't you want us to rummage through the corpses of our own heirs?"

"Okay, I will do as you say!"

"In the battle last night, the whole process took less than half an hour, and all three of my sons were killed. Today, I want to see how long it will take to find all three bodies!"

Lu Guang turned around and bowed to the dignitaries, and said:

"Everyone, please send someone to invite all the colleagues in the mansion to come to the north gate, and tell them that the son of the king of the north has brought back the bodies of our descendants, but he deliberately made things difficult, and wanted to see us with his own eyes. Find the body."

"That's fine, we'll look for the corpses one by one outside the north gate."

"However, I still have a question..."

He looked at Jiang Qingyu again, and asked:
"Before the corpses of a thousand imperial guards are all claimed and taken away, I believe His Royal Highness should enter Beijing without Yan Yan first?"

This statement came out.

All the nobles were slightly taken aback, and then smiled tacitly.

They all understood Lu Guang's intentions.

It would take days and nights to search for the corpses of a thousand imperial guards one by one.

Naturally, these local snakes can afford it, but Jiang Qingyu is different.

An eldest son, who entered the capital by order, was blocked outside the capital because of the collection of the corpse, and was not allowed to enter for several days and nights.

Once this matter gets out, it will definitely deal a big blow to the reputation of the Jiangs and his sons, and they will surely become famous as participants, be reused by Jing Hong, and be promoted!

At this moment, everyone was looking at Jiang Qingyu, guessing how the new prince would respond.

He was the one who brought the corpse, and he also proposed to search for the corpse. It would be a bit embarrassing if he backed down at this time.

But obviously Jiang Qingyu would not back down.

I saw him with a calm face, and said lightly:
"That's natural."

"I will wait for the adults to claim all the corpses before entering the city."

He paused, and then emphasized again in a low, inaudible voice:
"However, not just your heirs, but every corpse!"

It's a pity that Lu Guang didn't hear this last sentence, otherwise he would have seriously considered being the first to stand up and search for the corpse.

"So good!"

After hearing the response, he looked solemn and began to walk forward with bare feet.

Because it was cold winter, and this doctor Zhengyi was only a literati with not outstanding martial arts, so his feet were red from the cold after walking a few steps.

But he didn't show any pain because of this, he just walked forward slowly under the eyes of everyone.

Jiang Qingyu stood on the carriage and gently raised her hand.

Immediately, the soldiers of the Anbei Army standing in front moved sideways to make way for Lu Guang.

Lu Guang was not afraid, and walked straight forward along the path made by An Beijun without stopping.

A group of dignitaries looked at this scene, worried about it, but at the same time secretly admired and sighed.

At this time, Anbei's army was on both sides of Lu Guang, and anyone who couldn't help but draw his sword could separate his head!

But Lu Guang had a calm demeanor and a steady pace, as if he was sure that these people would not dare to draw their swords to kill him.

Even though many of them looked at him with anger and ferocity, like wild beasts who would choose to eat people one by one.

It can be seen that this doctor Zhengyi who sent all three sons to the Imperial Guard to die is really a ruthless person.

"Why is this Lu always showing off?"

Seeing this scene, Jin Xian, the servant of the Ministry of Rites, couldn't help feeling a little jealous in his heart.

But when he thought of rummaging through thousands of corpses with his own hands, he felt a little ashamed.

"Do you really want to go forward and look for them one by one?"

He stared closely at Lu Guang who had already walked in front of a horse, and then glanced at the four bloody corpses of the imperial guards on the horse. Subconsciously, his legs became weak, and he took half a step back.

Contrary to this, Lu Guang turned his back to everyone, stretched out his hands and carefully wiped the cheeks of a corpse with his sleeves.

After the blood was wiped off, he recognized his face, and after confirming that he was not his heir, he bowed to him, mourned for a moment, and then changed to another person.

One person, two people, three people...

Lu Guang was very patient and courageous. He rummaged through thousands of corpses all by himself, without trembling or showing any signs of fatigue.

Finally, after searching for nearly a hundred corpses after half an hour.

He finally found the first corpse of his own heir.

It was a young-faced man who looked only seventeen or eighteen years old, with a childish smile on his face before he died.

His fatal injury was on his back. He seemed to be attacked from behind while he was chatting and laughing with others. He stabbed through and broke his heart with a single knife, killing him instantly.

"Yan'er..."

Lu Guang held the child's cheeks in both hands, at first he froze in place, and the next moment he burst into tears:

"Yan'er, daddy is here to take you and bring you home."

After all, Lu Guang took the corpse off the horse with difficulty, put it on his back, turned around again, and walked towards the north gate step by step with difficulty.

Jiang Qingyu kept looking at this person.

The body of the dead son bent Lu Guang's waist, his white shirt was stained red with blood, and his feet were bruised from cold. He looked a bit destitute and pitiful.

Since the corpse was already stiff, Lu Guang carried the corpse in a weird posture, which seemed to be uncoordinated and even a little funny.

But no one would laugh at the father of a white-haired man sending a black-haired man.

Everyone didn't say a word, watching Lu Guang carry his son's body to the north gate silently, with sympathy in his eyes.

Only a few women of the Lu family were crying.

"Why are you crying!"

Lu Guang placed the corpse in the coffin with his own hands, and then glared at the women:

"Don't cry! Yan'er is a hero of the Chu Kingdom, the glory of his death, we should be proud of him!"

As he spoke, he turned around again and walked towards the location of An Beijun.

Because besides Lu Yan, he still has two sons who have not been found.

"Master Lu..."

Someone couldn't help but stepped forward to dissuade:
"Forget it, I'm afraid you... won't be able to hold on."

Someone also asked Jiang Qingyu angrily:

"His Royal Highness, are you satisfied now?"

Jiang Qingyu ignored the man, just looked at Lu Guang, and asked in a cold tone:

"Master Lu, can we continue?"

Lu Guang nodded, pushed away the dissuading person, with a determined face:
"Don't worry, I can hold on!"

"Even if I die from freezing to death today, I have to find all three sons and put them in the mansion!"

His original intention was to keep Jiang Qingyu and his party out of the north gate, now is a good opportunity to delay time and damage the reputation of Jiang and his son, how could he give up on his own initiative?
……

So for the next hour, Lu Guang rummaged through the corpses under everyone's gaze. His luck was not bad, and he found all the corpses of his three sons after finding less than [-] corpses.

However, someone noticed that Jiang Qingyu made a secret gesture, ordering the people under his command to drive away the horses and change the positions of some corpses, which is why Lu Guang found all the corpses so quickly.

All the dignitaries believed that this was an expression of their refusal to be subdued by the Prince of the North.

at the same time.

What happened at the North Gate spread to the entire capital, attracting more people to watch. The dignitaries who were mourning at the mansion were summoned by their colleagues, and they all rushed to prevent the crown prince from entering the capital.

"Cough, cough..."

At this moment, Lu Guang, who put all the corpses of his three sons into the coffin, couldn't bear it anymore. His face was pale, and he vomited wildly while holding the coffin.

His feet were purple and swollen from the cold, and he lost consciousness. His white shirt became a red one, and his body was filled with a disgusting stench of corpses. He was no longer the spotless image he used to be!

"Here, this time..."

"His Royal Highness should be happy, right?"

Lu Guang smiled miserably, and scanned the surrounding people at the same time, seeing that everyone, including the common people and even the [-] Anbei Army, showed sympathy, intolerance and admiration for him.

So he foresaw that after today, he would surely rise to the top, and his status in the court would rise steadily!
"Next, who will go?"

Lu Guang looked at the dignitaries.

As soon as the voice fell, someone immediately scrambled to respond:

"I, I go!"

"I go!"

"Let me go, I can't let the bandits in the north underestimate our literati in the capital!"

……

This is a rare opportunity to become famous in one fell swoop and express loyalty to Jing Hong. The rich and powerful are not stupid people, so they naturally know how to grasp it firmly.

Seeing this scene, Lu Guang was very pleased.

Today, his performance can be regarded as flawless.

From now on, just wait on the sidelines, and watch the reputation of the Jubei Palace and his party be ruined.

however……

Just when Lu Guang felt that he could retire with success, Jiang Qingyu's cold voice suddenly sounded beside his ear:

"My lords don't have to fight for it, just wait in line at the side!"

"But it's not the next person's turn yet!"

"Master Lu..."

"Did you forget that besides the three heirs, there are seven corpses that should also be collected by you?"

　Something bad has happened in the past few days. I've been drinking for two days. I haven't updated it. I dare not go to the backstage to read comments. I'm sorry.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)