Prime Minister dare not be

Chapter 10

Everyone was startled by this blow, their morale was greatly reduced, they hesitated for a while, and their speed slowed down.

Lu Xihuan saw it from a distance, and wanted to chase it himself, but was held back by Gu Chang, the son of the Gu family: "This man is very skilled, and he is not afraid of threats from you and me. I'm afraid he is not just waiting for you. Let his men go after him, even if something goes wrong. Dodge."

Lu Xihuan felt that his words made sense, so he no longer went there in person, but only followed behind, letting his subordinates continue to work hard.

Everyone had no choice but to bite the bullet and continue.

Wei Yizhi galloped all the way, and the pursuers followed him like a shadow.He told Xie Shu to hold the reins, turned around and shot another arrow, which hit the leader's horse.

The horse stumbled and fell to the ground, and the horses and horses rushing behind were tripped and fell to the ground, but those who were not affected were still chasing after him.

"Prime Minister!"

A call came from a distance, Xie Shu squinted his eyes, and under the dark sky, the person in front of him had not changed his shirt and sleeves, it was not Wang Jingzhi.

"The one surnamed Wang has arrived!" Seeing the mighty government army, Lu Xihuan flicked his horsewhip angrily.

False success.

Gu Chang's face was uncertain: "Damn it, she's like a bitch without the strength to restrain a chicken, yet so many people can't take him down!"

At this moment, Xie Shu reined in his horse and turned around, shouting loudly: "Is Lu Xihuan, son of the Lu family, in front? The truth is that he is being chased by thieves, please help me, master Lu!"

Gu Chang was surprised: "He knows we did it?"

Lu Xihuan was also very shocked, but not flustered. He gritted his teeth and said, "Forget it, it won't do us any good if we make a big fuss. On the contrary, we won't be able to do anything. Since the prime minister has given you a step, why don't you go down it?" He yelled: "Where did the bandits come from, dare to hurt my Prime Minister of Jin!" Then he raised his hand and ordered his subordinates to arrest his own people.

Xie Shu pretended to be grateful, and Yao Yao bowed his hands to the two of them to thank: "Thank you, Mr. Lu, for your rescue."

Lu Xihuan forced a smile on his face, and replied from a distance: "The Prime Minister is serious, and it should be. The two of us passed by by chance, so how can we die without saving our lives?"

Wang Jingzhi saw the clue, and came over on horseback and said, "The prime minister is frightened, what should we do with these 'rogue bandits'?"

"Let's deal with the governor."

"Yes."

Lu Xihuan and Gu Chang watched helplessly as their own people were taken away by the government's army, clutching the reins tightly, feeling unbearably angry, hesitated for a long time, finally did not step forward, and hastily said goodbye and left.

This is a dumb loss, and I can only admit it.

The sky was dark, and Wang Jingzhi didn't see clearly who was sitting behind Xie Shu until now, and asked in surprise, "Why is King Wuling here?"

"I'm ashamed to say that this king was just having fun for a while, and it's just a coincidence that I met my prime minister on the way to thank you."

He clearly watched him go with his own eyes, but in the end he appeared here. Wang Jingzhi couldn't doubt it, but seeing that he was holding a long whip and carrying a long bow at this time, he really looked like a hunter.

He acted as if he didn't know anything, seeing Xie Shu's embarrassment at this moment, he hurriedly ordered his servants to bring the carriage over.

Wei Yizhi got off his horse and helped Xie Shu down. It was dark, but he had excellent eyesight, so he accidentally caught a glimpse of her feet wearing straw sandals, and couldn't help being startled.

The toes were round and white, and they were much smaller in straw sandals than when she was wearing boots. Although I only took a second look, they felt that they were not inferior to women's feet.

But he quickly suppressed his thoughts. If Xie Shu knew that he had such thoughts, it would be an offense.

Back at Wang's house, Wang Jing gave an order not to discuss the matter indiscriminately, and then ordered the servant girl to take care of Xie Shu to wash and change clothes.

But the group of maidservants were all driven out of the room by the prime minister.

Xie Shu was physically and mentally exhausted, and almost fell asleep in the tub, and it was Xie Ran who rescued her from the semi-cold bath water after he came to ask for help.

Xie Shu tidied up and opened the door. Xie Ran looked her up and down before walking in the door, and said in a low voice, "Fortunately, there is no danger. If Cheng meets danger, Xie's family will be in danger."

There is still a sentence that has not been said, that he is also in danger.

After Xie Shu sat down to the case, he motioned him to sit down too: "This matter was done by the southern gentry, but their purpose should not be to kill me, otherwise they would have done it early in the morning."

Xie Ran poured a cup of tea for her to calm down: "Does the Prime Minister know their purpose?"

"Maybe go back and ask Le'an and you'll know."

"Is Le An one of them?"

"It must be, otherwise it would be too coincidental. The purpose of Le'an is to let me fight with the King of Wuling. When the Nanshi succeeds in Kuaiji, the King of Wuling will naturally become the scapegoat. At that time, the two officials of the court, Chinese and Wuling will be eliminated. , The Wang family was also dragged into the muddy water, the northern gentry must be in chaos, and the southern gentry is already strong, so it is easy to do what they want."

Xie Ran frowned and said, "If that's the case, shouldn't the Prime Minister be excluded?"

Xie Shu shook his head: "They didn't kill me, it must be because I'm still useful, I think it's not a trivial matter to do."

Xie Ran saw that she analyzed the matter in detail and listened to him, so he guessed a bit: "Prime Minister wants me to interrogate Le An?"

"You alone are not enough." Xie Shu smiled and said: "Bring Mubai, he likes to bully others with the identity of Xie's family."

Xie Ran also couldn't help laughing: "He is loyal. He just heard that the prime minister came back and clamored to come to see you. He was given a few bowls of soup by the doctor and just fell asleep."

Xie Shu sighed: "It's good that people are fine."

Not only Mubai, the prime minister came back safely, other aristocratic families couldn't help but want to visit one after another.After all, he was the prime minister, no matter how bad his background was, no matter how unpopular he was, he was still the top of all officials.What can people who can't even the emperor do anything about?
Xie Shu came back late, and within a few hours of sleep, he heard the commotion outside the Yaguang Pavilion, and smashed the pillow depressedly, but when he turned his head, it seemed that the smashed thing belonged to the Wang family, so he put it away and got out of bed Angry, sullenly got up and dressed.

Xie Ran lived not far away, so he came over to block people considerately, Xie Shu finished washing and opened the door, he had made arrangements for the adults, and everyone was enjoying flowers and playing games in the courtyard.

Huan Ting was the most active. Seeing Xie Shu appear, he rushed forward and asked, "Cousin Prime Minister, are you alright?"

Xie Shu was taken aback by this title, when did she become his cousin?

Xie Ran came over and whispered something in her ear.

That's right, Xie Mingguang's wife, that is, her grandmother, is the daughter of the Huan family.No wonder Huan Ting always likes to cling to her all the way, and there is such a relationship in Ganqing.

The Huan family is also a big family, so this relationship is not for nothing, Xie Shu smiled and said, "Thank you for your concern, cousin, no problem."

Huan Ting has a pure heart, seeing her good attitude, he pulls Yang Zao and other good friends over, and asks her to talk about yesterday's thrilling experience.

Yang Saw was relatively calm, stopped everyone and said to Xie Shu: "From my point of view, the Prime Minister should return to the capital earlier. If those people are not dead-hearted or their ideas hit other people, they will be troublesome."

When the people present heard that they might be unlucky, they all expressed their approval and tried their best to encourage the prime minister to return to the capital as soon as possible.

Xie Shu nodded: "Then go back."

When Wang Jingzhi received the news, as usual, he wanted to retain him, blame himself, and guarantee the security of the next year.

Xie Shu sat in the hall, smiling and comforting him: "The governor must not blame himself, this incident was an accident. Fortunately, there are four families from Lu, Gu, Zhang and Zhu in charge, so those refugees will never dare to make trouble again in the future."

Sitting below, Lu Xihuan and Gu Chang echoed perfunctorily: "That's natural, that's natural..."

The prime minister was in a hurry to go back, so he must have gone to the bottom line, they all knew it, and they dared not do anything else for the time being.

After everyone left, they dispersed. Wang Jingzhi walked up to Wei Yizhi and said, "I don't know when the King of Wuling will come to Kuaiji as a guest again. As a junior, I have always wanted to see Mrs. Xiang, but I don't have the skills to do so. Why not?" Let Luoxiu go back with you to visit her old man, what do you think?"

Wei Yizhi naturally understood that his drunkard's intention was not to drink, but he couldn't refuse, so he smiled and said: "Since the governor Wang has such a heart, let's do it this way."

Xie Shu beat him and passed by, and covered his mouth with a folding fan to suppress his smile. Wei Yizhi looked over, and for some reason, his eyes turned around her feet.

The boots were the same as usual, and he even wondered if he had read them wrong last night.

A group of people rushed to the capital in mighty force, this time the defense was tighter than when they came.

The carriages and horses stopped in Xin'an County for a rest, Xie Shu had just sat down in the gazebo holding tea, Huan Ting rushed in with several people, each occupying a corner, and wanted to chat with the prime minister.

Xie Shu waved his hand: "The truth is not eloquent, why don't you go to King Wuling, his reputation is not inferior to Wang Jingzhi's."

Huan Ting said with a smile: "The prime minister doesn't know. Zhongqing's eloquence was really good before. The former Taiwei Yuan Qing was known as a three-inch tongue. When he confronted him in the year of the chief, he said that I can't afford it. It's a pity that Mrs. Xiang didn't let him talk too much later, and he gradually talked less, and now he mostly listens to us when chatting with us."

Xie Shu was puzzled when he heard this: "Why doesn't Mrs. Xiang let him talk more?"

A voice behind him said, "Because too much talk is bound to fail."

Xie Shu turned his head and saw that Wei Yizhi was coming slowly, followed by Wang Luoxiu.

As soon as they saw a woman coming, everyone moved their seats to make room for Wang Luoxiu, who was a little far away from the men present.

Wei Yizhi sat down next to Xie Shu, looked around, and said with a smile: "Everyone knows that I'm behind the arrangement of the king, and I don't know what An's heart is."

Huan Ting teased him with a suppressed smile: "Who told you to just take care of people and not talk to us, who would you arrange if you didn't make arrangements?" After speaking, he smiled and looked at Wang Luoxiu.

After all, Wang Luoxiu was a lady, her face was reddish but she was not flustered, she took the tea handed over by the maid and drank it slowly, Quan Zuo didn't hear it.

Yang Saw shook his head towards Huan Ting and sighed: "In my opinion, Enping should be silenced by his mother."

Everyone laughed.

After laughing, they chatted again, and then they talked about Xie Shu being robbed.

Huan Ting didn't know the inside story, and wondered: "Didn't you say that the southern gentry are quite powerful, how can this happen in their land? In my opinion, saying that they are powerful is just bragging."

Xie Shu shook his folding fan and smiled without saying a word, when suddenly he heard a soft female voice say: "Mr. Huan's words are wrong. If you have heard of the battle of the white fan, you will know the skills of the southern gentry."

Everyone froze for a moment, because it was Wang Luoxiu who spoke.

Xie Shu became interested, and raised his hand towards her: "I would like to hear more about it."

Wang Luoxiu glanced at her, her face turned even redder, and she lowered her head slightly: "At the beginning of the chaos in the north, we urgently needed rice in the south of the Yangtze River, but Chen Min, who was in charge of water transportation, seized the money and food and rebelled. They fought across the river, but Gu Rong of the Gu family only took a white feather fan and slapped it a few times across the river, and Chen Min's troops broke up and fled. This is the battle of the white fan."

Huan Ting was shocked: "So powerful?"

Wang Luoxiu nodded: "Chen Min's troops are all locals in the south of the Yangtze River. How dare they compete with the local gentry? The southern gentry not only has power, but also prestige."

Xie Shu said to Huan Ting: "Now you know that he is very knowledgeable, let's see if you still dare to talk nonsense."

Huan Ting hurriedly stood up and saluted Wang Luoxiu, willing to bow down, which made everyone laugh again and again.

After the rest, continue the journey.

Everyone said goodbye first to make preparations, Wei Yizhi deliberately took a step behind, and said to Xie Shu: "What Wang Luoxiu said is true. Nanshi is powerful. If you are really caught, you can't do anything. What are your plans?"

Xie Shu sighed: "It's not easy to dig a century-old foundation. It's good to be able to balance it, but at least you have to know what their purpose is first."

Wei Yizhi nodded slightly: "Having said that, you don't have to worry too much, I'm still here when you need help."

In fact, the two of them were like grasshoppers on the same rope in front of the southern gentry, but what they said was really useful to Xie Shu.

"Well, I remember."

When we approached Jiankang, everyone was completely relaxed, and someone suggested not to go back to the capital for the time being, but to go for a tour nearby.

Wei Yizhi visited all the places available in Jiankang when he was young, and didn't want to go at all, but Yang Saw tried his best to pull him to go with him.Huan Ting couldn't move the prime minister, so he came to move him hard, and tried his best to persuade him to play horses together.

Xie Shu saw that there was only a group of Aweng Abo who didn't want to move left at the scene, and silently supported his forehead.

Being a prime minister is destined to be lonely...

Most of the rest of the people had entered the city first, and Wei Yizhi had also ordered Fu Xuan to escort Wang Luoxiu back to the Da Sima Mansion, but she might not be ashamed to run to see Mrs. Xiang by herself, so she asked the chariots and horses to stop and wait for Wei Yizhi. Yizhi.

Xie Shu was about to leave when Wang Luoxiu lifted the curtain and called her.

"May I ask the prime minister, is Dr. Guanglu Wang Mu still living in Wuyi Lane?"

Xie Shu thought for a while, nodded and said, "It's true that I live in Wuyi Lane, not too far from Xie's Mansion."

Wang Luoxiu thanked him: "Wang Mu is my cousin, and I will go to visit him in a few days, but I haven't been back to Jiankang for many years, and I don't know if he has moved."

Xie Shu nodded with a smile. In fact, he didn't quite understand why he had to ask her about such a trivial matter. He asked his servants to inquire about it. Isn't Fu Xuan still standing there?
Wang Luoxiu talked to her again, and they were all innocuous things. Xie Shu gave Wang Jingzhi face, so she could only answer patiently, but her heart became more and more strange, why did she feel like she was pulling her away? like.

After this delay, the group of playboys actually came back early.

Huan Ting shouted happily: "Zhongqing is so lucky, he actually met a wild deer, and an arrow pierced his head."

Yuan Peiling, the son of the Yuan family, laughed at him: "Look at your joy, those who don't know think it was you who hunted it."

Wei Yizhi came straddling his horse, still wearing a toga with large sleeves, but there was a fat dead deer in front of him.

Yang Saw followed with a smile and said, "Mrs. Xiang has to buy some deerskin boots when I go back. You have to share this venison with everyone."

"That's natural."

Seeing Wei Yizhi's generosity, Huan Ting shouted greedily: "I want deerskin boots too, Zhongqing will leave me half of the deerskin!"

Yuan Peiling held him back, and winked at Wang Luoxiu, meaning that there was a cousin there, where would it be your turn?
Wei Yizhi didn't answer directly this time, and suddenly glanced at Xie Shu: "Give half of the buckskin to my mother, and the other half, give it to Xiang Xie to make boots."

Xie Shu said unexpectedly, "Really?"

Wei Yizhi smiled: "Xie Xiang is the head of all officials, as it should be."

Well, the King of Wuling took the deerskin to be a good man, and everyone will not argue.

It was evening when we entered the city, the sun was about to fade, but the roadside was full of people, half of them were looking forward to thanking Xiang Xiang, and half of them were silently looking for King Wuling.

Soon, sharp-eyed people discovered that there was an extraordinarily magnificent carriage in the Wei family's carriage, and it was closely following behind the Wuling King's carriage.The curtain fluttered with the wind, occasionally revealing the maid's shoes and skirts inside, presumably a female relative was sitting in the car.

The fans of King Wuling felt a chill in their hearts.

The king of the county went to Kuaiji and brought a woman back, thinking about it with his toes, he knew what was going on.

My heart is broken into dregs...

Mu Bai, who was still seriously injured, got into the car happily, and said to Xie Shu: "Young master, according to my subordinates, King Wuling will soon lose the qualification to stand shoulder to shoulder with you."

Xie Shu was thinking about something, and was taken aback when he heard it: "What?"

"What do you think, once King Wuling gets married, all the women in the capital who are obsessed with him will turn to support you?"

"..." But what's the use of this support!
Xie Shu patted his head: "You'd better heal your wounds obediently."

Mubai pouted and left.

When Wang Luoxiu came, who else was happier than Mrs. Xiang?Her old man took one cousin and one daughter, and she called her very kindly.

The housekeeper saw her mouth shape several times as if she was going to call Wang Luoxiu his daughter-in-law, but finally forced her back.

Madame is anxious about her grandson...

Wang Luoxiu is indeed likable, she has a calm personality, without the squeamishness of the children of the family, and she has a good collection of poems and books. She can talk to Mrs. Xiang in a logical manner, and occasionally add some small jokes, which makes her even more amused.

Satisfied, very satisfied!
Mrs. Xiang intends to find an opportunity to tell Wei Yizhi that this candidate for daughter-in-law is too good, so she must seize it quickly.

Unexpectedly, Wei Yizhi took Wang Luoxiu into the palace.

Xie Shu went to meet the emperor and was about to leave the palace when he bumped into Wei Yizhi and Wang Luoxiu on the way.

"I have met the prime minister." Wang Luoxiu saluted respectfully.

Xie Shu helped her up, and asked Wei Yizhi suspiciously: "Where is King Wuling going?"

"Go to see the Queen Mother."

"I see."

(End of this chapter)