Chastity Layman

  Chapter 119 Cool

  Eastern Palace Chongjiao Hall, Li Shimin looked forward to the returning Qin Lang.

  He has a soft-footed hood on his head, and a bright yellow dragon casual robe on his body, with anticipation and anxiety between his brows.

  Qin Lang smiled, "Your Highness, it's done."

   "It's finished?"

"Well, it's done, I'm going to visit Your Highness with the Crown Princess Concubine..." Qin Lang told Li Shimin the details, and told the emperor that he would abdicate and hand over the throne with a ditty about the ordinary road. He hoped that the emperor would let go, etc., and said that he played mahjong with the emperor with the princess and Cheng Chumo, so that the emperor could relax and be happy.

"Your Highness didn't see His Majesty's joy when he won the money. I thought His Majesty really wanted to let it go. But His Majesty said that although he had already thought about letting go, the person who tied the bell had to abdicate to untie the bell." He hopes that His Highness will go and talk to him in person."

   Li Shimin even said several good words.

   "As long as His Majesty thinks it through, no matter how His Majesty treats me after meeting, I will go."

  He stepped forward with an excited expression, and patted Qin Lang on the shoulder, "Good son-in-law, you have made another great contribution, how can I reward you?"

Qin Lang smiled, "To please His Majesty, the minister took Chu Mo to play mahjong with him today. Chu Mo lost more than 800 gold coins, and almost put a thousand bulls' knife in there. This meeting is still waiting outside the East Palace. He didn’t dare to go back to Cheng’s mansion, he said he was afraid that General Cheng would beat him to death with a belt after he found out.”

   "Hahaha!" Li Shimin laughed loudly, "Isn't it just a few hundred gold coins, I will give them to you."

  A gold Kaiyuan weighs less than two coins, and if converted into copper coins, Kaiyuan Tongbao, one gold is equivalent to one penny.

  Compared to Li Shimin, this amount of money is really not worth mentioning.

   "Give Cheng Chumo a thousand gold coins, and a pair of gold bowls."

  Li Shimin asked Qin Lang with a smile, "I'll give you a thousand gold coins, a thousand pieces of silk, a pair of silver bottles for wine, and six jade cups for drinking."

   After rewarding him, he remembered and asked, "How much did you lose?"

   "I didn't lose, and I won more than 300 gold coins."

  Li Shimin froze for a moment.

   "You didn't lose, you still won?"

   "Your Majesty won the most, winning more than 600 gold."

  Li Shimin's face collapsed. He thought that Cheng Chumo had lost so much, and Qin Lang should have lost a lot, so he also rewarded him with a lot of money. Who knew that this kid not only didn't lose but also won. Calculating silently in his heart, Cheng Chumo lost more than 800, the emperor won more than 600, Qin Lang won more than 300, and the Guanyin servant girl lost one or two hundred.

  Thanks to myself, I just said to reward him to make up for it.

   But now this kid has made money at both ends, but the reward has been said, Li Shimin can only do it.

   "Accompany Gu to the Tai Chi Palace again." Li Shimin said.

   "Your Highness, Your Majesty said that if you are going to face the saint, it is fine for you to go alone."

  Li Shimin froze for a moment.

"I thought that Your Majesty meant that father and son could have a heart-to-heart talk without foreign ministers present. Your Highness, I have just returned to Beijing and have been away from home for more than a month. If you haven't come yet, please go home. Say goodbye and go home."

   Li Shimin waved his hand.

   "Go! I will give you a day off today, and starting tomorrow, the prince's army will be handed over to you. You will be responsible for the safety of the Eastern Palace."

   "The minister resigns."

  Qin Lang found the prince's family decree, took Li Shimin's decree, and successfully received the rewards that he and Cheng Chumo had received, including a thousand pieces of gold, a thousand pieces of silk, two small silver vases and six jade cups, which is really good.

   And the more than 300 gold coins won in Taiji Palace are really worth playing today.

  Out of the palace gate, Cheng Chumo was sighing, with a melancholy expression on his face.

  Qin Lang threw his bag containing a thousand gold coins at his feet, "Look."

  Cheng Chumo knew it was gold when he heard the voice, picked it up and opened it, and saw a piece of gold, "So much?"

   "One thousand gold, this is a reward from His Royal Highness. You lost more than 800, and His Highness rewarded you with one thousand, and another thousand bolts of silk, and a pair of golden bowls."

  Cheng Chumo unexpectedly carried the bag of gold, which weighed more than a dozen catties, and it was all his own, so he couldn't help but blushed with joy.

   "If it is rewarded to me, then I can not only pay back the gold owed to His Majesty, redeem my jade, but also leave more than a hundred gold?"

   "Exactly."

  Cheng Chumo hugged the two gold bowls and kept kissing left and right. When he finally saw a bag of gold at Qin Lang's feet, he felt a little strange.

"these are?"

   "Oh, these are rewards from His Highness, one thousand gold, two silver vases and six jade cups, and one thousand bolts of silk are hard to get. The prince's family order said that someone will be sent to my house soon."

  Cheng Chu was silently stunned.

   "You didn't lose any money, and you earned more than 300 gold, why now you are rewarded by the prince, more than me?"

   "That's not right." He rolled his eyes, "Aren't you going to take my share?"

"Fuck you, if I didn't ask the prince to intercede, where did you get the reward? Your boy just played mahjong with him, and he earned more than a hundred gold and a pair of gold bowls for nothing. It's too late for you to be happy Woolen cloth."

   "Is it really for you?"

   "Why don't I wait for you here, and you go into the palace and ask the prince?" Qin Lang said with a smile.

  Cheng Chumo picked up the gold bag and patted his butt, "No need, what's the matter with our brothers, I won't trust you? I was just joking."

  Cheng Dalang patted the purse, "I earned more than a hundred gold in half a day, mother, this is more than my annual salary."

   "Sanlang, when do you think we will go to His Majesty to play mahjong again?"

  Qin Lang glanced at him.

   "Stop thinking about it, there is nothing wrong, you should have less contact with His Majesty, understand, be careful."

Cheng Chumo was moved, and then he remembered the embarrassing situation of the emperor. If he had more contact with the emperor, such as playing mahjong and winning the emperor's money, then he would be suspected of being bribed by the emperor. Will feel distressed to death.

  Qin Lang patted Cheng Chumo's shoulder, "Recently is a critical period. You are working in the palace, so you have to be careful everywhere. I haven't been home for a long time, so I'll go back first."

  Eastern Palace, Li Shimin looked left and right in the mirror, and changed his clothes one after another. In the end, Li Shimin decided to go to Taiji Palace in the casual clothes that he saw Qin Lang just now.

   "Guanyin maidservant, do you think the father has really figured out and let go?"

  The princess, who had lost more than a hundred gold in a poker game with her father-in-law in the Taiji Palace, helped her husband arrange her clothes, "It seems that Huailiang's words have touched His Majesty a lot, but when you see His Majesty, you should not disobey His Majesty."

   "I know, if it wasn't for the tense situation right now, I would need that identity, and I wouldn't want to force my father right now." Li Shimin sighed, turned around and hugged his wife, and then walked towards Taiji Palace with anxiety on his face.

  Qin Lang was walking on the street riding a leopard head. Someone in the East Palace had fed the leopard head just now. They all knew that this horse loved wine and meat just like Qin Qiong's Hu Leibo, so they specially prepared a large amount of wine and meat for it.

   This leopard head is a little drunk now, and he sways around when he walks, completely drunk.

   Gold coins clinked in the saddle purse.

  Qin Lang staggered on the horse, left for more than a month, and then came back to look at Chang'an City, as if it was very strange, and it seemed that nothing had changed.

The streets are still relatively deserted, and there are no pedestrians to be seen. The walls of the square are towering, and the gates of the square are closed. Because the Turkic vanguard cavalry has appeared in Weibei, so now Chang'an City has begun to enforce martial law, even if it is in broad daylight. Accepting the inspections of the left and right Xiaoyou, many patrols of the left and right Wuhou guards have been added to the streets.

   Chang’an city has newly added many drum towers. These drum towers were built under the presidency of Ma Zhou. There are big bells and drums on them. Soldiers from the Zhenfu Division are stationed specially to beat the drums in the morning and evening to open and close the doors. And it can also transmit information through the sound of flags, fireworks, etc., which greatly increases the speed of information transmission in such a large city as Chang'an.

   This is like adding many beacon towers in Chang'an City, which is much more efficient than relying on Marquis Wu's patrolling horses to send orders.

   Ma Zhou is a **** talent.

It's a pity that such a talented town governor can't tolerate it after all. Li Shimin has already discovered the talent of this humble scholar, and for the time being it's just a temporary errand for the province, but this is just a transition. Officially confer on him.

   Ma Zhou will surely soar into the sky, and the blue sky will rise straight up.

  Zhen Fusi lost a great talent, but Qin Lang was happy for Ma Zhou.

  It is his luck that a humble scholar like Ma Zhou can stand out, it is also the luck of the poor families in the world, and even the people of Tang Dynasty.

  In comparison, he prefers to use the abandoned prince of a powerful family to build it. Li Shimin is undoubtedly more open-minded. Maybe it is because he is not in the right position and needs the hearts of the world more, but the result is not what Qin Lang wants to see.

   There was a slight breeze, and there was a hint of coolness.

  Qin Lang suddenly came to his senses, it was autumn.

Now it’s almost August, autumn is here, and so are the Turkic people. The biggest test after Li Shimin succeeded to the throne is here. This move is too risky, once it misses, both Li Shimin and Datang will fall into a situation of eternal doom.

  Qin Lang no longer had the calmness he had during the Xuanwumen Incident. At that time, he believed that Li Shimin was the winner in history, so he didn't think about the process at all.

  However, after more than two months here, especially after this trip to Hebei, let him understand that even if he knows the result, the process is not easy.

  Although Leopard Head was drunk, he still accurately returned to the gate of Duke Yi's Mansion in Pingkangfang.

  Ah Huang rushed out to greet her.

   "I've been waiting for Saburo to come back. Why did you enter the palace for so long?"

  Qin Lang untied the money bag, "A total of one thousand three hundred and sixty-five gold."

   "Rewarded by the crown prince?"

   "Accompanying the Crown Princess to meet His Majesty in the afternoon, the fraction of more than 300 gold was won from His Majesty, and the remaining 1,000 was rewarded by His Majesty."

Ah Huang didn't ask Qin Lang why he went to Taiji Palace, and accepted the gold, "Ma Zhou moved to live in the lower province of the gate, so that he can be on duty, and we have to find another accountant in our house." As he said, he gave the gold to him. Go to the inner courtyard to give to Yuxiao. It turns out that Ma Zhou is in charge of the accounts in the house, and Yuxiao is in charge of the money.

   Entering the inner courtyard, I met Zheng Shisanniang.

  Seeing herself stop, she froze for a moment, and finally called out to Sanlang.

   "Ms. Yuxiao heard that Sanlang is back, and she is currently taking a bath in the bathroom."

   "Oh." Qin Lang wanted to ask her how she was doing, but he opened his mouth but closed it. Zheng Shisanniang nodded to him, turned and left.

  Qin Lang suddenly felt a little lonely.

  This house is too big, covering an area of ​​more than 200 mu, and it feels more and more empty.

  Maybe it's time for me to have a few children and bring some life to this house.

  (end of this chapter)