muddy water
Gu Yun slept until it was almost noon.
He felt very unhappy the night before, and he had some intention of drowning his sorrow by drinking. He was drunk too strongly, and his whole body became a ball of flesh and blood, which was even more tired than not sleeping all night.
Someone on the small table next to him put a bowl of sobering soup. Gu Yun pinched his nose and drank it all, and then opened his dry eyes. He sat by the bed blankly for a while, quickly reflecting on it, and noticed his inexplicable anxiety recently while half asleep.
"As for it?" Gu Yun yawned and asked himself.
If you think about it carefully, of course it won’t happen.
The treasury has been a little difficult in recent years, and of course the military expenditure has been tight, but it has not been so nervous that it cannot be exaggerated.
God is quite smooth. Several floods, earthquakes, and a drought two or three years ago were not particularly serious. The Central Plains is so big that the Dragon Prince in any cloud can make a fuss, so the court must not be anxious to follow the disaster relief. In the past few years since the beginning of the first year of Long'an, it has been considered a rare peaceful river and sea.
There were two cases in Jiangnan and Southwest. Although the momentum was quite high, it made the emperor panic, but in Gu Yun's eyes, it could only be considered a small fuss. The King of Wei was obviously not ready in the East China Sea, and Zi Liujin was leaked. The incident in southern Xinjiang was caused by many forces. Fu Zhicheng probably didn't even have the intention to rebel at the beginning. In short, it was not as dangerous as they were chasing the sand bandits in the yellow sand of the desert.
What is it compared to the six Western Regions where the country had no strong soldiers and he took the lead in fighting against the joint rebellion?
At that time, he didn't know whether he could see the sun tomorrow every day, and he had no distractions in his heart. Now, he was very powerful and leisurely watching the iron golem dance in his yard. Instead, he drank his sorrows with alcohol. What a great future!
After watering it, he seemed to have done something unnecessary...
What are you doing?
"Oh, by the way," Gu Yun rubbed his temples in a daze, thinking, "It seems that he has teased a girl and scared her."
"It's so unreasonable." Gu Yun muttered to himself while washing and changing clothes.
Halfway through, he suddenly paused - no, the Marquis' Mansion doesn't even have a mare, where did the girl come from?
Gu Yun finally woke up completely. He thought about it for a while, and turned around and lifted the quilt - he saw a small thing rolling down the corner of the bed, which was the leather purse on Chang Geng's body.
Gu Yun: "..."
Shen Yi was not good at drinking, and was even more drunk than Gu Yun. Before he woke up early in the morning, Gu Yun broke into the guest room and dragged it alive.
"I'll tell you something." Gu Yun's expression was as serious as a ghost.
Shen Yi did not dare to be negligent, and his thoughts were rolling over in a mess: Did Fu Zhicheng escape from prison? Did Gong Feng Han be convicted by the emperor? Did the Northern Barbarians invade? Or did the troops garrison in the Central Plains rebell?
He forced himself to hold back his discomfort, tried to calm down, and waited to listen to Gu Yun.
As a result, the Gu, who was surnamed Gu, stumbled for a while, and his eyes moved from the roof ridge to the tip of his shoes, and he didn't even let go of his fart.
Shen Yi asked with fear, "What happened?"
Gu Yun: "...Forget it, I don't want to say it."
Shen Yi went crazy on the spot, his hair was thirty feet high. Why hasn't this kind of thing that has been half said to be hacked to death?
"Slow down," Chen Yi rushed over and grabbed Gu Yun, and said angrily, "What the hell is going on?"
Gu Yun was already following the "evidence" on his bed and slowly regained his drunken memories. What he said and did was vivid in his mind for a moment - it was too embarrassing, too naughty, too bad, too something.
Gu Yun covered his face: What is the matter doing this?
He felt his stomach soaked up and asked Chen Yi in pain: "Did I be drunk and crazy?"
"You haven't drunk too much, right?" Chen Yi hugged the bedside with the quilt in his arms. They were always at the border. Although they also drank, they didn't dare to get drunk. Otherwise, it would be bad if military information accidentally made a mistake.
"What," Chen Yi looked at Gu Yun's face and asked enthusiastically, "What embarrassing thing did you do yesterday?"
Gu Yun reached out and pressed Chen Yi, who was not interested in watching the fun, into the quilt, face down, and drifted away in dismay, thinking that he should have a belt hanging on it.
At the beginning, Gu Yun was somewhat lucky and thought: "Xiao Changgeng won't be like a drunk, right? If it were me, I wouldn't take it to my heart."
...At most I would make fun of this for a year or two.
However, this luck disappeared quickly because Gu Yun remembered that Chang Geng, who was pressed on the bed by him yesterday, was trembling. From this point of view, Chang Geng might not only take it to his heart, but also be so angry.
Gu Yun was holding Chang Geng's purse with a frown, as if he was carrying a pack of gunpowder that was about to be fried at any time.
The faint fragrance of peace and soul spreads refreshingly. Gu Yun secretly thought, "Am I pretending to be confused? Or do I pretend not to know? Or do I pretend that nothing has happened?"
Before he could make a decision, the old housekeeper was coming towards him, and Gu Yun asked in a gentlemanly manner: "Where is the Fourth Prince Wang?"
The old housekeeper replied, "Just about to tell the Marquis that His Highness went out to Huguo Temple early in the morning."
Gu Yun: "..."
Run away from home directly!
The old housekeeper didn't pay attention to his expression of swallowing a mouthful of Coptis chinensis, and said, "By the way, Lord Jiang from Dali Temple yesterday sent a painting to the Marquis to celebrate his birthday, and there was also a letter in it. Should the Marquis want to take a look?"
Gu Yun was stunned: "Take it and see it."
Although Chen Yi was inexplicably a general with Gu Yun, he was indeed a general in the literature and was a master of the literature. Dali Temple Minister Jiang Chong was his fellow disciple. Through this relationship, he became familiar with Gu Yun. Later, he found out that the other party was very compatible and gradually became friends. However, in order to avoid suspicion, the two did not walk very frequently.
Gu Yun swept his letter at a glance, and he couldn't take care of Chang Geng, who was getting angry with him.
In addition to Jiang Chong's greetings, he briefly told him that the emperor planned to go all out and completely destroy the purple and golden black market.
This sentence alone contains too much information.
On that evening, Qi Yuanlou was still full of people. In the Tianzi private room, I trusted the Southwest Admiral Chen Yi to be the host. He invited his old classmates and friends in the capital and his colleagues in the Lingshu Courtyard. Chen Yi will take up his post to the southwest. Although he is in a remote location, he is promoted at least. The old friends have already made trouble for him to treat him.
After three rounds of drinking, Anding Hou also showed up in person. However, after only a while, he said that he had something to do at home and left early. Not long after he left, Jiang Chong, who was the Minister of Dali Temple at the time, also said goodbye and left.
Jiang Chong left Qi Yuanlou and did not take a bus. He sent his family. He only said that he wanted to walk for a while and sobered up. He only took a servant and walked along the snow-capped road in Hanjiang downstairs.
As soon as the road turned, there was a broken carriage that was not astonishingly beautiful. The curtain was lifted, revealing half of Gu Yun's face: "It's too cold, I'll send Brother Han Shi for a ride."
Jiang Chong said "I'm working hard" and got into his car tacitly.
Lord Jiang is already forty years old and can't tell her face. Apart from being calm and composed, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a young man.
When he got into the car, he warmed his hands with Gu Yun's small furnace. Jiang Chong didn't talk nonsense and said straight to the point: "After the Marquis left the palace that day, the emperor secretly summoned the three departments. I heard what he meant. He might not only want to restart the 'financial order', but also plan to do something along the aftermath of the rebellion in the southern Xinjiang, start to take a knife from the southwest, and thoroughly investigate the purple gold black market in the territory."
The so-called "Ruanjin Order" was a matter of Gu Yun's grandfather, during the reign of Emperor Wu of Liang. At that time, the shipping was about to begin, and the private use of Ziliujin by the people was once difficult to curb. In order to strengthen the control of Ziliujin, Emperor Wu issued four strict orders, which are what later generations called "Ruanjin Order".
However, as civilian lighter steel armor became more and more, the order of financial finance gradually stopped being applied and was abolished during the Yuanhe period.
Jiang Chong: "The Marquis will probably go back to the northwest after spring. Logically speaking, even if the capital changes the day, it will not be affected by the Marquis' head. However, if the emperor wants to strictly investigate the purple and gold black market, I am afraid that the Marquis will be stationed in the border for a long time. At that time, it will be a waste of melon fields. Please pay more attention..."
Jiang Chong could not point directly at Gu Yun's nose and said, "I know you are not clean. I have checked it hard recently and cleaned the black market line in your hand for two days." He said this, and the hint inside was quite clear.
Gu Yun knew it in his heart and said gratefully: "Thank you, Brother Han Shi for your advice."
Seeing that the words had already been heard, Jiang Chong stopped talking, and said with a wry smile: "Once Zi Liujin is involved, you must face a group of vicious people. It's okay to be extremely vicious in the world. I'm afraid I'll have to secretly collude with many important officials of the court. Who doesn't investigate who doesn't? How to investigate? Alas, I'm not sure about it now."
When the water is clear, there will be no fish. I don’t know whether Emperor Longan wants to be at peace with the world or to make the whole world uneasy.”
Gu Yun knew his difficulties and comforted him: "Brother Han Shi, don't worry, as soon as this news comes out, as long as it is not too ugly, we all know that we are not nervous than you. If there is really something difficult at that time, you can send someone to send me a letter. Now there is no Black Iron Tiger Talisman, and the troops stationed in various places will not be assigned by me, but I will still have to give you a little bit of thinness."
Jiang Chong smiled bitterly and said, "Then I would like to thank the Marquis. First, it was the Palm Law, and then the Financial Order... I rarely leave the capital and don't know many things. I just heard that in the early years, "the white fog was stained with long streets, and I didn't see anyone else." Everyone said that the grand scene of the future where I would travel on the Pegasus was no longer there."
Gu Yun fiddled with the old wooden beads on his hand all the time, and did not answer the topic, saying, "How is Feng Han Gong?"
"It's still closed," Jiang Chong said, "Don't worry, I've taken care of you-Don't the Marquis plan to write a letter to the Fenghan Gong?"
Gu Yun smiled bitterly and said, "Me? I can only write a letter to urge him to die soon. In fact, it is not necessary to explain clearly that many of the artifacts in the palace were made by Lingshuyuan. When the emperor saw it, he could naturally think of his benefits. Feng Hangong was obsessed with the lighter and was not humane. He was even that dog-tempered. The emperor also knew that it would be fine if the weather disappeared in two days."
The words are light, but after the emperor quenched the fire, he cleverly asked Gong Feng Han, who raised a dog as his son, to make the emperor angry and funny and unable to get angry, but he has to be careful.
Jiang Chong glanced at Gu Yun and knew that he had probably done some tricks in secret. Hou Anding had grown up in the palace since he was a child, so it was not uncommon to have a few people who could use it, but...
Jiang Chong whispered: "The Marquis came back from the northwest this time and seemed to be much more harmonious in dealing with people."
Gu Yun replied meaningfully: "When tigers and wolves are outside, they dare not do anything without exploring their energy. The mountains and rivers are not yet determined, and they dare not be despised. It is useless to fight for those useless loyalty and tempers."
The two of them communicated the news in a few words. Jiang Chong said goodbye and left. Before leaving, he suddenly stopped and said to Gu Yun: "To be very disrespectful, in the past or two years, the local government has reported how the harvest of puppets has been harvested. Where did the steam firers that can weave cloth and make clothes by themselves have been released, but the warehouses in our country are not rich, and they are like shackles. The officials really have an illusion that it seems that after so many years, Daliang has retreated to the Emperor Wu's reign."
Gu Yun smiled and said, "I'm not hiding it from Brother Han Shi, I have been inexplicably anxious for the past one or two years, but when I think about it, I feel that it makes no sense. Maybe people are like this, and they always have to make better and better day by day. Once they have a stagnation for a while, even if they are already in a high position, they will be lost and irritable, right?"
Jiang Chong's expression moved, as if he wanted to speak but stopped.
Gu Yun asked: "What?"
The Dali Temple Minister whispered: "The people we investigate cases sometimes have an intuition, which has no reason or basis, but it is very likely to come true in the end. The more experienced the man, the more accurate the intuition - the Marquis's interactions on the battlefield, and their birth and death, your intuition may really indicate something... I hope to take care of you."
Gu Yun was stunned for a moment and didn't say anything more. The two of them said goodbye and left with great worries.
When Gu Yun returned to the Hou Mansion, it was already dark. He asked the guards and said that Chang Geng had not come back yet, but he just brought a message and said that Master Luoran had returned to Huguo Temple and planned to stay there for a few more days.
Gu Yun had no choice but to think helplessly: "Live it, just live, it's better to calm down and come back."
Who knew that Chang Geng was "extraordinary" or what, he lived there for four or five days, and he meant to settle down there. Gu Yuntong could not stay in the capital for many days, and he could not see it for several years after leaving. Finally, he couldn't help but couldn't help but go to Huguo Temple with his nose.
Monk Leran is still like that. Throughout the year, the few days he went back to Huguo Temple were all distinguished guests. He could wash himself into a lotus tree in clear water, pretending to be a ghost every day. He finally got idle that afternoon and played chess with Chang Geng in the Zen room. The two of them talked and gestured, quiet and silent, but they spoke a lot.
Chang Geng: "I want to ask the master one thing - what exactly is my adopted father's eyes and hearing?"
Leran quickly gestured and replied, "The person behind his back has no good ending."
"I must know this." Chang Geng said seriously, "and I will definitely track it down to the end. If the master doesn't say it, I will also look for someone else."
Monk Leran looked at him calmly for a moment.
After a long time, Leran replied in a dumb voice: "The monk was just catching the wind and shadows. I heard about it. When the Marquis was a child, he was taken to the northern border by the old Marquis and His Highness the Princess. At that time, the war between Daliang and the Northern Barbarians had already subsided. It should not be in danger. Unexpectedly, a group of Northern Barbarians fought to fight to the death and broke into our garrison. The Marquis was injured by a trap. Unfortunately, it happened to be the poisonous arrow of the barbarians."
This statement coincides with Gu Yun's excuse.
Chang Geng asked, "What poison?"
Leran shook his head: "Your Highness is following Miss Chen. You should know that even the Chen family is helpless in the poisonous substances of the barbarians. The poisonous substance is very domineering. Those who have been infected with this poisonous arrow died of paralysis within a few days, but the effect on the child is much slower. Mr. Chen rushed from Shanxi overnight to the northern border station, sleepless for two days and one night, and used the Chen family's golden needle skills to save the life of the young marquis, but his vision and hearing were also seriously damaged afterwards."
Chang Geng frowned slightly: "Northern Xinjiang..."
If this matter was done by the Northern Barbarian Dead Soldiers, how can I explain Chen Yi's words "They ruin you like that"?
Could it be that it’s really just drinking too much and talking nonsense?
Chapter completed!