Chapter 711

Chang'an city still looks calm. Naturally, the people will not know what happened in Changchun Garden. As for the people in the Taiji palace, they were transferred to Changchun Garden, and the direct and collateral descendants of the Yang family were also invited to Changchun Garden, which caused a great shock among the courtiers, but they would never think that the little emperor was dead.

The courtiers did not think that the armored general would kill the little emperor. The reason is that if he wants to do so, he doesn't have to wait until now. So people speculate in one direction that the little emperor has been banned, and all the descendants of the Yang family have been banned.

Niu huilun, a great scholar, has been at home for a while. Although he is the Assistant Minister of the late emperor, he has never been to the court since general Tiejia took charge of the court. He is not young. It is also a good excuse to say that he is old and ill and needs rest. General Tiejia seems to be too lazy to pay attention to literati like him. After approving his folding, he seems to have forgotten him soon.

Niu's residence covers a small area, and the decoration and furnishings in the residence are also very simple, because Niu huilun has always adhered to her lofty position. Since he was promoted to the position of assistant minister, in fact, many people came secretly to give gifts, which were politely rejected by him. He is a person who knows that it is safer and more leisurely not to stand in line sometimes than to stand in line, so he is unmoved no matter which side of the imperial court draws him in.

Knowing his attitude, he had no trouble.

It was already warm in spring. Niu huilun played a very strange boxing before breakfast as usual. People in the house were not surprised. They knew that this boxing was called Wuqinxi. It was taught by Xiaofang, a famous adult in Chang'an city. Since practicing this set of Wuqinxi, Mr. Niu's body has really become much stronger.

Literati are lofty, which is doomed to a certain contempt for Wufu. It's like a military man who is destined to have no good feelings for literati. So Niu huilun always said that this is not boxing, but medical skill.

After breakfast, Niu huilun asked people to move the reclining chair to the small pavilion in the yard, make a pot of tea, lie on the chair and read for a while. She threw away all the troubles and was free. It is the best spring season. Drinking tea and books is really a great enjoyment for a literati.

A woman in a long green dress came slowly and put a plate of snacks and dried fruits on the tea table. It seems that she is in her twenties, and her clothes are still a girl's style, so it's a little surprising. According to the practice of the Sui Dynasty, a woman reaches the age of marriage at the age of 14 or 15. A girl who remains at home after the age of 20 will always be pointed out regardless of her status.

But she was different. When people in Niu's house mentioned this girl, none of them despised her. They all wanted to praise the heroine secretly.

"Dad, I heard there's another big event outside the mansion."

The woman stopped behind Niu huilun and massaged her shoulders for the old man.

The old man closed his eyes and seemed to like his daughter's technique very much.

"Whatever his business is, let's just close the door and live our own life. Didn't I tell you after you came back, don't get involved in those external things again. If you can come back alive, we'll depend on each other, so don't think about other things."

"Yes"

The woman nodded: "I just think it's strange, so I want to tell my father."

"Strange?"

Niu huilun looked back at her with a flicker in her eyes: "you are as curious about everything as Huahua..."

The woman was stunned, and a trace of pain flashed in her eyes. She thought of the woman who looked charming but was always lonely in her bones. The woman who always deliberately seduces men but treats men as playthings. When she was in the martial arts academy, she despised niuhuahua the most. She felt that when a woman reached this point, she not only lost the face of her family, but also the face of a woman.

She never thought that later, she would become best friends with niuhuahua.

"In fact, I wanted to talk to you for a long time. Your father is a general of the imperial court. How did he give you such a vulgar name as Marilyn?"

"Your father is still a great scholar of the imperial court. Why did he give you a more vulgar name like niuhuahua?"

Then the two laughed together.

"It's almost Huahua's memorial day. The days are really fast."

Niu huilun sighed: "it's been a long time since you came back from the northwest. When you came to me, I couldn't recognize you. It's still like a daughter's house. It's like you're going to die."

"My father died in the fight against the rebellion in the Northwest... At that time, I was thinking, if I returned to Chang'an, who should I take refuge in?"

Marilyn said somewhat absentmindedly.

Not only because of the sadness of family destruction, but also because of other things. When she fled back from the northwest, she hesitated for a long time. Is it to go back to Chang'an city or go to Huangyang road to take refuge in the boy named Fang Xie. Finally, she gave up the second idea. Although she occasionally remembers it up to now, she still has some regrets.

"Just look for me. Your family has lost relatives and I have lost my daughter. Now you have a father and I have a daughter... It's good."

Niu huilun smiled: "by the way, what strange thing did you just say?"

As soon as Marilyn was about to speak, she saw the steward running over in a hurry and said in a low voice, "Sir, there's someone outside asking for an audience..."

"Didn't I say that no one was seen?"

"This man is a little unusual. It's your old acquaintance. He's from Yongzhou... He's a beautiful young man."

Hearing this, Marilyn's heart suddenly jumped wildly. The name Fang Xie jumped out again from the deepest part of her heart that she could hide and hit her heart, so heavy.

……

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"So it's you?!"

Niu huilun looked at the young man in front of him and couldn't help exclaiming. Marilyn, who stood beside him, could not hide her disappointment in her eyes. The person who came was not Fang Xie. But this man was sent by Fang Xie.

"It's a gift to the bachelor."

The boy made a big gift, got up and smiled and said, "I haven't seen you for years. I didn't expect your spirit to look better."

"Mu San, how did you get to Yongzhou?"

Niu huilun thought for a while before he remembered the young man's name. He clearly remembered that this man was a little eunuch waiting in the imperial study when Tianyou emperor was in power. But this man seems to have disappeared since the northwest war and the emperor Tianyou's personal expedition. Unexpectedly, he ran to the southwest of the great Sui Dynasty, which seems to be closely related to Fang Xie.

"Don't hide it from the bachelor..."

Mu San took out a secret edict from his arms and handed it to Niu huilun: "it was handed over to me before the emperor's personal expedition. I asked me to contact some people outside the imperial court to work for the imperial court. However, some changes happened later. Nine out of ten people on the secret edict were killed by the rebels. I found Lord Xiao Fang and stayed with him all the time."

He handed the secret message to Niu huilun in order to dispel Niu huilun's doubt.

Sure enough, Niu huilun took the secret order, looked at it, immediately sat up straight, and her face changed immediately: "There's such a thing... When your Majesty was in the northwest, he should have expected the great changes in the imperial court, so there was such an arrangement. Your majesty sent huailao back to the south of the Yangtze River, dismissed the commander of the Imperial Guard Office, and ordered Luo Weiran to expel him from Chang'an for later preparation. Just didn't expect that the plan was far from keeping up with the changes..."

When he said the last sentence, his tone was particularly sad.

"Yeah."

Mu San hurriedly said: "At the beginning, your majesty ordered your maidservant to take out the secret edict at the right time and invite several important ministers on the secret edict to return to Chang'an. However, later, Huai Lao and Lord Su died in the hands of the rebels, and your maidservant could do nothing with your Majesty's Secret edict. Fortunately, you finally came to Xiaofang's army, which barely insulted your Majesty's trust. Commander Luo now also works in the black flag army."

"No wonder!"

Niu huilun sighed: "I thought Fang Xie was also against him. I have scolded him countless times. He was deeply loved by the former Emperor longen. If he really colluded with those traitors, I would really look at the wrong person. It turned out that he had followed the secret order of the former Emperor to prepare military forces in the southwest and wait for the opportunity to counter the rebellion... The former Emperor was far sighted. I'm afraid he had long expected the chaotic situation of the court and the villains in in power..."

Ma Lilian was glad to hear that. One of the important reasons why she didn't choose to go to the southwest to take refuge in Fang Xie was that she thought Fang Xie was also on the contrary. Her father died in the war against the rebels, and she experienced so many things of life and death in the Northwest that she couldn't accept the rebels.

Hearing that Fang Xie operated the southwest with the secret order of the former Emperor, her regret that she had deliberately suppressed was stronger.

"Why did he ask you to come?"

Marilyn asked eagerly.

Mu San looked left and right, lowered his voice and said, "Lord Fang heard that the imperial court had changed dramatically. Someone controlled the imperial government and coerced the king. He had been waiting for the news from the palace, but he couldn't wait. Lord Fang was worried, so he sent his slave servant back to check it. Because the slave servant had been in the palace for a long time, it's better to check these things."

"Well"

Niu huilun nodded: "I am not a minister, you are not a gentleman... Alas..."

It was surprising that such treacherous words came out of his mouth.

"Lord Fang has another account to tell you to finish it. He said that if the capital is really not peaceful, he will try to rescue you from Chang'an. Now Lord Fang has a firm foothold in the southwest. Recently, he led his troops to kill and retreat the Allied forces of Nanyan and he people, and recovered the whole Pingshang road in one fell swoop. Although it is poor, it is safe. Lord Fang said that he has been thinking about you and I will be sure I want to see you. "

"He really has a heart."

Niu huilun sighed: "I've always blamed him..."

"Bachelor, do you know the origin of that armored general?"

Mu San asked.

Niu huilun was silent for a moment, and her face was very ugly: "When the emperor asked us to be the three assistant ministers, he specially explained one thing... His majesty only told the three of us about it. Now Yang Shun will run to Dongjiang, Xu Xiaogong won't come back outside, and I'm closed at home. Is it not because of this? I only have limited knowledge, and what his majesty said at the beginning was very vague, but I speculated some ... so I dare not go to court again... "

"What does the bachelor know?"

Mu San asked eagerly.

"Do you have a way to take me away from Chang'an?"

Niu huilun asked.

Mu San nodded: "yes, I came with me this time, and there are people waiting for scattered gold. It should be no problem to take you away from Chang'an with the ability to connect goods with the world."

"That's good"

Niu huilun was silent for a moment and said, "when I see Fang Xie, I'll tell him myself!"

"Dad..."

Ma Lilian was surprised and said, "didn't you say that you didn't participate in anything? Stay at home quietly to provide for the aged."

Niu huilun smiled and smiled with the old man's unique cunning: "can't you deceive yourself?"