Spring Banquet - Chapter 79

So, when the emperor couldn’t wait for Lord Pingling to come, and was about to make an order to inquire about the crime, something happened to Pingling.

The princess Danyang issued a complaint on the last day of the former Pingling Lord Li Shan, accusing her of being unfaithful.

In the second year of Daxing, because he seized power with Wei Wei, Li Shan became vengeful and murdered. He strangled Sun Weiwei, who was nearly 50 years old and had been loyal to the court for many years, to the cold palace. In the three years of Daxing, trying to seize the concubine Feng’s family, he forced Feng’s family to commit suicide, and instead of thinking about himself, he killed all the people in the concubine’s palace.

In the same year, Li Shan died of Xu Xian’s eldest brother unjustly, making his bones cold and unable to return; the treasure of the treasury was 300,000 taels, the palace of cultivation, the emperor in the face, in fact, he was himself, and hundreds of laborers died. Someone played, but the play failed to reach the emperor, and those who played were also killed. Leading the imperial court for many years.

The princess asked, why can such a person enter the ancestral temple and receive worship for three days every year? The blood of the Li family on him is a shame to the Li family!

As soon as the lawsuit was published, there was an uproar in the world. Not many people knew whether it was true or not, and they could only talk about it.

But then, when Ren Pinglingjun Li Fangwu, the son of Li Shan, personally confirmed these facts.

He played to the emperor, using the posture of righteousness to destroy his relatives, indicating that he would never go to Beijing to worship his father again, and only worship at home for one or two, and talk about filial piety.

This decision seems very appropriate, both filial piety, and there are good reasons not to go to Kyoto. The emperor could not convict him of unfilial piety, nor could he force him to leave Pingling.

But in this way, everyone in the world knows that Li Shan does a lot of evil, far from being as good as the book praised in the book and the history books.

Someone started to verify the facts in the complaint, and found that what the princess said was true, and even according to her, the remains of Sun Weiwei were quickly found in the cold palace.

The court shook, and countless memorials flew to the emperor’s imperial case, demanding that Li Shan’s three-day ancestral temple worship be cancelled every year.

Li Huailin sat alone on the soft couch of Longyan Palace, with the windows closed, and the shadows in the corner fell on his eyes.

“Your Majesty.” Liu Yunlie came in and said in a low voice, “It has been handled.”

The ancestral temple worship was set by Li Huailin, and Liu Yunlie knew the reason. It’s impossible to change just because of the courtiers’ letters. But… The princess’s trick really caught them off guard, and the seal that Your Majesty had originally planned for Li Shan would not be possible.

Li Huailin’s voice was low: “Is what the emperor said is true?”

Liu Yunlie paused and shook his head: “Don’t you know what kind of temperament the princess is? After so many years, she suddenly ran out to talk about this. There must be an interest behind it. It doesn’t matter whether she is true or not. Watch out, see what she wants to do.”

Huailin shook his head: “I always feel that the emperor’s move is like telling me that she did not kill Li Shan by mistake.”

Liu Yunlie was silent.

He thought that the eldest princess would not mention these old things again. After all, she is not a person who likes to clean up her own crimes. When Pingling Lord passed away, she was in power, and she was already overwhelming, but she would rather spend her energy In Lu Jingxing’s body, he has never called out injustice for himself.

I don’t know who I’ve heard before. In the eyes of the princess, reputation is the least valuable thing.

So now, what happened to make her change her mind?

“How’s my business doing?” Huaiyu happily dangled in front of Lu Jingxing with the construction plan of the tributary channel of the Qulin River. “A letter is exchanged for a picture, is it profitable?”

Lu Jingxing took a deep look at her: “You’ve made a lot of money.”

She hasn’t been out of the first-tier cities, and no one is chewing her tongue, so Huaiyu still doesn’t know that earth-shaking changes have taken place outside.

More than just earning a picture…

Lu Jingxing looked out the window. Jiang Xuanjin was standing in the courtyard. The fox fur cloak was blown slightly. A jade crown was tied with ink and hair. From a distance, he looked like someone who didn’t know anything about it. This world is full of wind and snow.

“He asked you to write the complaint?” Lu Jingxing asked in a low voice.

Huaiyu gave a “Hey” and raised his eyebrows: “How did you know that it was his idea? But my words are ugly, so he directly let Jiang Shen replace the pen. The second son of Jiang is not good at anything else. The facts of pen and ink are good at writing words and sentences. , To write the old things into big cases that can be recorded in the history books.”

Lu Jingxing’s eyes moved slightly, and Lu Jingxing pinched the cold fan bones for a long time before saying: “He is interested.”

“He’s not at a loss.” Huaiyu said with his belly in his arms. “Pingling Jun’s gift of thanks has arrived today. A large box and a large box are almost full of my yard. The shots are really generous. I think it will be in the future. There will also be many contacts between Pingling and Ziyang.”

Lu Jingxing raised his eyebrows: “I remember in the three years of Daxing, you refuted someone’s remarks, saying that too many exchanges between fiefdoms are not beneficial to the country.”

“Yes, but Li Shan doesn’t listen, and he doesn’t even support Huailin.” Huaiyu shrugged, “Because Li Shan is a prince, he knows that the exchanges between the fiefs will help consolidate the power of the prince. Fengjun has the same hatred and hatred, and it is enough to fight against the court.”

Huailin felt that Li Shan was wholeheartedly doing him good. So now he should understand that Li Shan back then was also selfish. While supporting him, he also left a way for himself.

It was destiny to make people, and now she was on the road behind Li Shanliu, and she was embarrassed with Huailin.

Taking a deep breath, Huaiyu felt a little bored, and said to Lu Jingxing, “I want to go for a walk.”

Lu Jingxing shook his head firmly.

“Oh, I have stayed in the house for a whole day, okay? The doctor said, I have to walk more to have the strength to have a baby!” Huaiyu gushed, looked outside, “Today is the Northern Wei Dynasty Winter Flower Festival, the Winter Flower Festival in previous years, we all have to go to the streets to drink, don’t we?”

Lu Jingxing shook her fingers at her: “The day before yesterday, you went out and shook the blue silk around. It made her look for you for a long time. She came back and stayed at the door of your room for three days without daring to move the ground. She is still outside. The day before yesterday, you went out to help someone grab your purse with a big belly. You scared Jiwu half to death, and also shocked the whole yamen. The thief who stole the purse thought he had stolen a large stack of silver bills, but he came back to his purse. Three copper plates. Yesterday…you finally didn’t go out. Chijin personally cooked the hot pot to celebrate.”

The first few sentences made her face flushed, but at the end, Li Huaiyu became angry: “Don’t you call me if you eat hot pot?!”

Lu Jingxing spread his hands: “Please forgive them, call you, Chi Jin dare to cook anything at will? You have to prepare three days in advance.”

Huaiyu was a little bit dumbfounded: “My own belly, don’t I know it? It’s solid. It’s fine in prison for so long, and it’s okay with bumps along the way. How could it be possible to go to the street and eat something?”

Walk two steps forward to open the door, Lu Jingxing turned around and said, “You want to breathe, just stand here for a while.”

Reluctantly stood over, took a breath of the cold outside, Huaiyu curled his lips: “There is no fresh air in the street.”

Lu Jingxing’s forehead jumped straight, and said with a smile, “You will just order it.”

Eyeballs rolled round and round, Huaiyu suddenly said: “Let’s do this, let’s compare the pots, if I win, you will let me go out, how about? The pots are what you are best at, and I have never won!”

Lu Jingxing squinted, “If I win, you just stay in the house?”

“Yeah!” Huaiyu nodded.

Jiang Xuanjin stood not far away with her back to them, but could clearly hear the sound of these two men joking.

She said: “You have beaten me for five years. What’s wrong with me standing three steps closer to you?”

He said: “You did these three steps splitting your legs? Standing by the pot is called throwing? That’s called putting inside!”

She was unhappy: “Then…two steps?”

He sneered: “It’s better for you to stay in the house.”

Jiang Xuanjin didn’t look back, her dark eyes silently looked at the distant clouds.

Cheng Xu frowned slightly and said in a low voice: “Master, let’s go back to the house? Ziyang just sent a lot of papers, you haven’t read it yet.”

There was no response, and the man sat in front of him, his thin lips pursed white.

The posture over there has been set.

Holding three arrows, Li Huaiyu stood behind Lu Jingxing in despair. The line was eight feet away from the pot. She looked at it for a long time, looking at the direction of the wind and calculating her fortune. In the end, two arrows fell through, and only one arrow stuck into the mouth of the pot alone.

Her head drooped, she wrapped the tiger skin cloak around her body, curled her lips towards Lu Jingxing and said, “Don’t you throw it so accurate?”

Lu Jingxing pinched the long arrow and turned it a few times between his fingers, humming, “I can hit it with my eyes closed. It’s too difficult to guess.”

“Then you close your eyes.” Huaiyu went straight up, “Qingsi, bring shopkeeper Lu a piece of white brocade to cover his eyes!”

Lu Jingxing: “…”

Qing Si did so, he reluctantly took Bai Jin and covered his eyes: “His Royal Highness is really persistent.”

It’s not that he is confident, and he is good at playing the game like playing pot for fun, no matter who he is compared with, he will win back and forth. Because he can’t leak an arrow.

Bai Jin covered his eyes, faintly seeing some light and shadow, Lu Jingxing stood up straight, pinching the arrow and throwing it.

Huaiyu was taken aback. Seeing this quasi-head, she really wanted to hit, and once she hit an arrow, she couldn’t get out!

A little desperate in her heart, she was already considering whether to force her out of the house.

However, just as the arrow was about to fall into the mouth of the pot, a pebble came out of the sky, with a fierce momentum, and hit the arrow precisely.

When the direction was crooked, the arrow fell to the ground with a snap.

Lu Jingxing didn’t hear the expected pot sound. Lu Jingxing was very surprised. He lifted Bai Jin and looked at it, frowning, “Have you done anything?”

Huaiyu stood beside him and shook his head innocently: “No.”

While speaking, she glanced at the people standing at the other end of the courtyard.

Jiang Xuanjin didn’t look at her, but stared at the flowered branches in the flower bed that had already died, her slender hands slowly closed and put them back in his fox fur cloak.

Withdrawing his gaze, Huaiyu smiled and pulled Bai Jin in Lu Jingxing’s eyes: “You still have two opportunities.”

Lu Jingxing was puzzled, and looked at the position of the copper pot once more. After making a note of it, he closed his eyes and shot again.

With two snaps, two feather arrows with very accurate heads landed on the ground not far from the copper pot.

Talking about Bai Jin, Lu Jingxing was dumbfounded, and Li Huaiyu almost jumped up with joy, clapped his hands and said, “Go to the street!”

“It’s impossible.” He couldn’t understand. “Why didn’t you enter?”

“Your hands are born!” Huaiyu comforted him by pretending that he didn’t know anything. “It’s better to practice more in the future.”

After speaking, he cheered and walked out.

Lu Jingxing frowned and looked at the copper kettle for a long time. Finally, helpless, he took his cloak and followed the steps of the man ahead.

People from all parts of the Northern Wei Dynasty liked camellia, so the Winter Flower Festival was set up on the day when the camellia blooms most, for people to enjoy the flowers. In a barren place like Tier 1 city, there hasn’t been a winter flower festival for several years. But this year is different. There are many new Lu Ji restaurant studies in the city, and there is also a Gefang Music Hall to celebrate the festive season.

The people have food to eat, and the river is about to re-flow, and all kinds of happy events are superimposed, making the streets very lively.

Huaiyu looked at the people around with bright eyes, and sighed: “When we first came, there was only loess on the streets here.”

“Yes.” Lu Jing walked beside her, blocking the turbulent crowd for her, “Thanks to your blessing, Tier 1 is alive.”

Can’t help but want to laugh, Huaiyu rubbed the corners of his mouth, trying to be more restrained, but was really happy: “Princess Danyang is doing good deeds.”

She was finally not the scourge of the chaos that the people said. If there is another funeral, even if someone still points to her coffin, someone should be able to say something good for her.

Danyang is actually a good person.

Thinking of the funeral lantern on Chang’an Street long ago with the name of Danyang written on it, she subconsciously waved her hand again.

I won’t wrong you this time!

Lu Jingxing glanced at her and helped her to walk up to the Lu Ji restaurant next to him: “There are too many people, you go up and listen to a book.”

“Okay!” Huaiyu walked away carrying the skirt, holding a swollen belly, and his steps were rare and light.

The restaurant’s business today is very good. There are not many vacancies on the second floor, so Lu Jingxing reserved a place and let her sit at the table closest to the storyteller.

With that shot of the gavel, the noisy upstairs quieted down, and when he watched the young storyteller’s voice brightened, he began to speak. Huaiyu was holding a small snack, and Lu Jingxing tilted his head inadvertently and saw another customer. Go upstairs.

Jiang Xuanjin had a cold face, and sat down after finding a seat, Chengxu and Yufeng stood behind him, the three of them really punched their eyes, and as soon as they were seated, many people were murmured.

The eyebrows were raised slightly, and Lu Jingxing glanced at the person next to her. She was fascinated by the book as if she hadn’t noticed at all.

The hand resting on his chin lightly tapped his lips, Lu Jingxing suddenly stretched out his hand and held the tea to Huaiyu’s lips.

Li Huaiyu was holding the snack in both hands, and there was no time to pick it up, so he simply took a sip with his hand, swallowed the snack, and said, “Why are you so good today?”

Lu Jingxing smiled, “Will I treat you badly?”

“A lot of times, I quarreled with me yesterday, saying that I can’t go to the main city of Danyang. I changed a new dress the day before yesterday, and you just said it was ugly.” Li Huaiyu squinted, “Really when I have a bad memory?”

Slightly choked. Lu Jingxing did not start: “I’m telling the truth, whoever loves to go to the main city of Danyang, which color is not good for your new clothes? Choosing a green amber color is ugly.”

“What does it have to do with me?” Huaiyu snorted.

Lu Jingxing wanted to say, “You can wear it if they choose?” But Yu Guang caught a glimpse of someone looking here, he paused, leaned forward, and said to Huaiyu’s ear: “It’s a passing time, wait until the two cups of tea are finished. Your Highness is going to the cloth shop. One view? I’ll make you two again.”

“Forget it.” Huaiyu said vaguely while eating, “I will forgive you if you give this jade bean bag again.”

Chong Du smiled, Lu Jingxing called in his buddies and whispered.

Jiang Xuanjin didn’t know why he came here. He didn’t like the excitement, and even less liked watching Lu Jingxing and Li Huaiyu get close. But he was sitting here, staring at them for a long time.

She said that duplicity like him is not very popular. Lu Jingxing was very good at talking, chanting a few words slowly. There is gentleness between the eyebrows, which can make her laugh and take good care of her.

He was not by her side, and the smile on her face seemed more real.

“Master.” Chengxu was really distressed, “Shall we go back?”

“Yeah, this place is really noisy.” Yufeng also helped. “It’s better to go back and look at the Buddhist scriptures that the second son found for you.”

“Yeah.” Jiang Xuanjin lowered her eyes and responded lowly, but when the person at the table got up and went downstairs, his feet still followed him as if not at his disposal.

If it was before, someone told him that the son of someone had been deceived, betrayed, and still couldn’t let go of that person, and insisted on finding a way out. He would definitely say that the man was a fool, and he didn’t know what he was doing, didn’t he know it hurts?

But now, he stepped on the sandy ground of the first-tier city, clearly knowing how stupid he was, and clearly feeling how painful, but he was still walking forward.

why? He himself couldn’t understand. After just half a year of warmth, the fox has been tamed, should he stay in a cage for the rest of his life?

Follow another street, Jiang Xuanjin thought, another street, and he will leave.

It was almost dusk when I came out, and it was dark after a while. Lanterns were lit everywhere on the street, but there were still a lot of people. Huaiyu walked happily, and when he reached the entrance of the street, he inadvertently looked up and saw the lantern hanging on the eaves of the second floor.

The lantern was round and bright, showing a bright light, like a bright moon in the sky.

…

“I’m so angry and so good-looking, I really want to go to the sky to pick the moon for you!”

“If you want to pick it, pick it. If you can’t pick it off, don’t let me see you again!”

“The moon I picked for you.”

“…”

“You said you can’t take it off and you won’t see me. I said I would’see you every year’, don’t you remember?”

…

As if it happened yesterday, it is too far away to touch. Huai Yu looked at it for a while. There was a blur in front of my eyes.

In the future, there may be no one, making her want to climb the stairs to pick the moon. Most of the paper lanterns that used to be placed in the main building of Moju are now broken into slag, and I don’t know where they were thrown away.

Forget it, the fake is fake after all, except for her, no one would be so absurd to pick a lantern as the moon.

“The candied haws you want.” Lu Jingxing followed from behind and reached out and handed her a bunch of big and red things.

Shaking his head, shaking off the fog in his eyes, Huaiyu smiled and said, “Do you think I’m obedient or not? I didn’t just run away. I’m still standing here waiting for you.”

Lu Jingxing raised his eyebrows and looked at her face carefully. He felt that something was not quite right: “What’s wrong? Isn’t it all right?”

After a slight meal, Huaiyu yawned quickly and said with tears: “I’m sleepy, I want to go back to sleep.”

“Okay.” Lu Jingxing breathed a sigh of relief, “It’s rare that you know you are sleepy.”

Tucked at the corners of his mouth and smiled, Huaiyu lowered his eyes and followed him back.

Jiang Xuanjin said to let her be ready, in that tone… it was really elegant even to hold grudges, unlike her, she looked really stingy and vicious.

How is he going to deal with her? After so many days, nothing seemed to happen.

Speaking of which, this person has lived in the first-tier cities for a long time, why hasn’t he returned to Ziyang? Seeing the speed at which Ziyang sent the documents, it didn’t look like he was idle, but he wasn’t in a hurry, he didn’t mean to leave for the journey after so long.

Is it possible that you don’t want the first-tier cities to merge into Danyang, so come here in advance and wait. Once she moves, he will stop it?

Thinking about it, this reason was the most persuasive. Huaiyu settled down and planned to test him once to see what his next move was.

The yard was dark, only her room was lit, and Li Huaiyu opened the door, trying to say who was so considerate, and left the light. As a result, he looked up and there was no one in the house.

A round lantern was lit by the window, showing a bright light, reflecting the dark night sky outside, and she was taken aback.

Qingsi looked suspiciously, and asked the servant guarding outside the door: “Who is here?”

The servant was at a loss: “The minion has been guarding here, I haven’t seen anyone!”