Book with Emperor

Chapter 255 Laba
On the night that the letter was sent to the palace, Qin Guanyue was called into the palace by night.

This is the first time she has entered the palace to meet the saint after she was ordered to suspend her duties. The place where she met was the Longquan bedroom.

There was a drizzle of snow in the city, and it melted into water when it landed. The ground outside the bedroom was covered with a thin layer of rainwater, and the blood that the old Hou Ye sprinkled on it when he committed suicide that day was washed away.

Steward Wang was not there, and there was only a night watchman in front of the bedroom, who lowered his head and held a lamp to guide her.

She stepped into the bedroom, and saw Ning Zhao sitting cross-legged in front of the incense table in regular clothes, on which was the letter signed by Gong Yue that she asked Xiao Sheng to send.

"Do you know why I called you into the palace late at night?" Ning Zhao looked up at her.

Qin Guanyue bowed her head and folded her hands in front of her forehead, "I'm guilty of the Han family's incident."

"You are indeed guilty of wanting to intercede for the Han family, but I summoned you here tonight for another matter." Ning Zhao's eyes were half dark under the candlelight, "You all said something when the prince visited the emperor's mansion at night. What?"

Qin Guanyue's expression was calm and calm, and he slowly replied, "Prince, he... finds a minister to conspire with him."

In the early morning of the next day, the Ministry of Industry reported that the Feng rice cultivated by Sinong Temple had been successfully tested. If it was planted nationwide, it would more than double Daxi's grain yield per mu.

His Majesty was overjoyed, and immediately rewarded the relevant personnel and officials who offered the rice seeds, and because the abundant rice was the work of Han Zhengwei, who was wanted abroad, he specially offered mercy to spare him the death penalty, demoted the frontier, guarded the Yanmen border, and could not return without an edict. .

When the news came out, the crown prince was drinking medicine, and immediately dropped the medicine bowl in shock, "Is this really true?"

His injuries were not healed, his face was pale, and he tossed and turned like a frightened bird in the past few days. At this moment, the circles around his eyes were black, like a ghost.The confidant who came to send the letter was horrified by his staring at him so directly, and hurriedly lowered his head and said, "The Yushitai has drawn up an order, and there is no objection. This matter should be settled."

Ning Chen's eyes were empty, he sat on the couch, and murmured, "It's over, Yanmen Pass is where the Yanling Army is located, Royal Father... this is going to give up my palace."

Liu Wuxin has long been used to seeing him like this for the past few days, so she just leaned over in front of him, staring at him, "Your Highness, we can't wait any longer."

As the cold wind got colder, Qin Guanyue received a letter from Beizhou. The letter was written by the empress, who first scolded her for the matter of the emperor's mausoleum, and said that the royal families of the four countries realized that they had been deceived and were secretly investigating rumors Source, Emperor Xi's Habayashi Guard is also on the way back to Langya City.

After another round of nonsense, I finally said at the end of the letter: The wind, snow and cold weather are coming, and the crescent flowers in the vast sea will bloom, welcome to watch.

Qin Guanyue read the letter and lit it on the candle, then handed another letter to Hua Wukong, "Send it to Yongzhou."

Hua Wukong nodded, turned to leave, but was stopped by someone behind him.

"and many more."

"Huh?" He looked back.

Qin Guanyue handed him an object, and said, "After delivering the letter, don't come back for now."

Hua Wukong was startled, "You want me to stay by his side?"

"En." Qin Guanyue nodded, "All the hidden stakes in Qin Tianjian have been pulled out, but Gong Yue has not moved. It is very likely that he will attack him, as well as that Wensan."

"what do you want me to do?"

"Protect him, pull out the nails around him, and find a chance to kill Wen San."

"understood."

A few days passed in a blink of an eye and it was the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. Miao Miao cooked Laba porridge early in the morning and distributed it to the whole family, and also prepared a medicinal Laba porridge for Qin Guanyue.

"I won't drink this porridge unless it can immediately make me walk fast and get rid of all diseases." Qin Guanyue looked at the dark bowl of porridge on the table and said seriously.

Miaomiao herself felt guilty looking at the porridge, so she didn't try to persuade her anymore, and simply changed the subject, "The curfew will be lifted in the imperial city after Laba and the end of the year, and the maidservant plans to go with Xiaoping to the Hongmian Temple outside the city to offer incense, my lord. Want one?"

"No, you can go after lunch."

"How can this be done? Today is Laba, and as usual, His Majesty will hold a banquet in the palace, and the slaves have to accompany you to the palace to have the banquet."

"My lord, I'm still introspecting behind closed doors, so I can't go to the banquet. Besides, there are many things this year, and His Majesty may not hold another banquet. You can go."

Miaomiao agreed, and left with Xiaoping after lunch.

As soon as the two girls left, the palace sent people to each mansion to deliver decrees to enter the palace for the Laba Banquet.Most of the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty were gone, including the prince who was lying on the hospital bed, except Qin Guanyue.

Miaomiao complained about this matter, but she didn't dare to say more. While pouring hot tea for her and replacing the stove, she said, "In winter, the days are short and the nights are long, and the nights are even more bitterly cold. I think His Majesty is concerned about your health. Good. The servants serve the adults, wash up and go to bed earlier."

"No hurry." Qin Guanyue sat in front of the window, resting her chin and looking at the stars in the night sky outside the window, the hot air from her mouth quickly dissipated, "What time is it?"

"It's almost time."

"Xu time..."

Qin Guanyue dipped her tea and wrote "person" and "ge" on the table, "At this hour, it's time for the imperial guards to change their guards."

Miaomiao looked puzzled, "Huh?"

It was late at night, and just after a quarter of Xu time, the imperial guards on duty to guard the east and west gates of the palace began to change shifts. Cao Chenghu, the commander of the imperial palace, was holding a knife and waiting for someone to hand over.

"Why are you kid today?"

Cao Chenghu was a little surprised when he saw the visitors. The Forbidden Army also has internal and external divisions. The Inner Imperial City Army is also commonly known as the Four Gates Forbidden Army. Its usual duties are to guard the four main gates of the palace, while the Outer Imperial City Army is responsible for guarding the outer layer close to the residential area. Dealing with the Patrol Division and the Public Security Division, the Imperial City Army will only be called when the Imperial Army is too busy with other things.

Wu Xiaofeng, the commander of the Outer Imperial City Army, was nearly thirty years old, with drooping beards, and looked lazy, "Who knows, the shifts above and below must be cold today. You internal guards miss the warmth of your mother-in-law." If you are under the bed, let us from the outer city suffer!"

What he complained about happened many times, who made many of the inner guard army be the children of the family generals, and the outer city army were all the children of ordinary people with no background.

Cao Chenghu couldn't control this matter, and felt a little embarrassed, he patted Wu Xiaofeng on the shoulder and smiled, "Thanks for your hard work, brother, I'll buy you a drink when you take a break!"

Wu Xiaofeng waved his hand lazily, signaling Cao Chenghu to get out of here, Cao Chenghu laughed, turned around and led people out of the palace gate.

Wu Xiaofeng yawned, squinted lazily to see that all the imperial guards had left, took a step back, and gestured to the high place outside the palace gate.

The next moment, a young man in silver light armor came out of the dark alley and held up a gold medal with the word "御" engraved on it.Wu Xiaofeng had only seen this Jinling twice in his life, one time was at the waist of the previous emperor's teacher, and the other time was at the emperor's canonization ceremony.

His heart was agitated, in his opinion, [-]% of what happened tonight was completed, and the next [-]% was within his reach.

Wearing silver armor, Yang Fei turned sideways slightly, revealing the three thousand Lingyun riders behind him, and said with a raised mouth, "According to reliable information, His Majesty was drunk and returned to the bedroom. Commander Wu immediately led the outer city army to surround the bedroom. With Ling Yunqi guarding him, he will definitely not disturb the prince's affairs."

(End of this chapter)