I was Idle and Cool Chapter 197: Writing

It was a rare sunny day.

It hasn't snowed for several days, the sky is pure blue, like a layer of glaze, and the bright sun brings a rare warmth to the icy capital.

The streets after the festival are full of passersby in a hurry.

When the terrified soldiers, wearing armor and riding fast horses, rushed into the city from outside the city gate shouting "Retreat", the pedestrians all over the street looked over, and they all retreated in their hearts. Curious, I don't know what happened.

They could only watch the horses leave, all the way into the Imperial City.

The time is now.

After going to court in the morning, Emperor Qing'an Xiao Che had clearly noticed something was wrong: it was for no reason, and Xue Kuang was strong and healthy, but suddenly he said he was ill, and he must have moved.

So after the court, he left Gu Juefei to discuss affairs in the palace.

It was almost three or five sentences before I opened my mouth, and panicked voices from outside already came in: "It's not good, it's not good! Your Majesty—"

When I first heard this voice, Xiao Che felt his heart skip a beat!

Wearing a bright yellow robe on him, he looked strangely pale at this time. When he got up, he even knocked over the tea cup and a stack of memorials on the table, but he couldn't care about it. !

"Say!"

"Your Majesty..."

The **** who passed the decree and reported the letter was pale, his lips were constantly shaking, and he was holding a page full of words in his hands, and he knelt down with a "pop".

"Reporting to the emperor, Xue Kuang - it's the other way around!"

The sad voice was like a mourning concubine.

When Xiao Che first heard it, he only felt a "buzz" in his head, as if he had been hit by something. He even had a feeling of being caught off guard and couldn't believe it at all!

"How could, how could it be so fast..."

Should not.

Should not!

Xue Kuang took a lot of work to return from the border, and returned to the court in an open and fair manner. Even if he wants to rebel, he should wait for a while, otherwise what is he doing here? !

People stood on the royal steps, Xiao Che almost fell from the top without standing, and he didn't even have time to see the expression of Gu Juefei, who was standing with his hands down, he just hurriedly asked: "Where are others, where are they from? On the contrary, can relatives at home be there?!"

"Xue Kuang raised his troops from Baoding, and now the general's house is empty, and all his relatives have been moved to Baoding a few days ago! This is an order posted by the anti-thief and anti-party outside the city gate today..."

When the word "Xiwen" was mentioned, the eunuch's voice became more and more trembling, as if he was afraid that he would accidentally offend him.

Gu Juefei, who was standing below, glanced at the **** indifferently, then at the page he was holding in his hand, and raised his eyebrows imperceptibly.

Xiao Che was furious.

The veins on his forehead jumped up, gritted his teeth, and said gloomily, "Bring it up!"

The **** tremblingly presented the letter.

After handing the things to Xiao Che, he knelt down on the ground as if he had no strength, and then deeply knocked his head onto the cold ground of the Golden Palace.

Don't dare to breathe or look up.

In the silent hall, only Xiao Che's breathing became heavier and heavier for a while. His eyes quickly swept across the page in his hand. The more he looked at that face, the more hazy he became. In the end, it was horrific!

"Impossible! Impossible!"

"The chaotic ministers and thieves, it's just slanderous words to confuse the public, nonsense! Come on! Quickly spread the civil and military officials into the court! If there is a mistake-"

"Kill without mercy!"

He slammed the thin page of the letter on the imperial case, so that the ink on it jumped, and Xiao Che was almost on the verge of losing control.

Gu Juefei just looked at it so coldly.

He stood aside with his arms folded, neither going up to say a word of concern nor asking about the specific situation for the time being.

It's always impossible to hide the big things, not to mention that the wall of the city is already covered with a wall of inscriptions today, and those who pass by can read it clearly.

No matter how fast officers and soldiers clean up, they can't match the speed at which rumors spread.

Almost at the same time when the civil and military officials rushed to the Golden Palace after receiving the news, the news of Xue Kuang's rebellion and raising troops in Baoding had exploded in the market!

Isn't that nice?

Why is it suddenly reversed?

The moment everyone heard the news, they almost couldn't believe their ears, thinking that the person who spread the news was out of their minds: Just kidding, that's Xue Kuang! General Xue Kuang! How many contributions have you made for Daxia? To say that he will rebel, it is better to say that the sun will come out from the west!

But less than an hour later, the sudden appearance of the Imperial Guards and the sudden martial law gates in the streets and alleys of the capital made everyone realize at once—

No kidding!

Xue Kuang is the opposite, really the opposite!

It's just that at this time, no one cares about why he wants to rebel, and what kind of purpose he wants to achieve.

A chaos is imminent, and everyone is packing up and trying to escape.

However, the closed city gates trapped everyone's hope, and the terrified people surrounded the city gates guarded by heavy troops, shouting loudly and angrily...

The entire prosperous city seems to be shrouded in a huge and thick shadow at this moment!

The chaotic movement on the street was so loud that it was even mixed with the cries of women and children, and it spread into the Grand Master's Mansion from a distance.

At this time, Lu Jinxi was still playing chess with the old lady teacher Gu Chengqian.

As usual in every game before, the old lady asked Lu Jin to cherish the three sons, and let her play black. But things haven't changed much from what they used to be.

It wasn't until the mid-game that Lu Jinxi knew that he was going to lose again.

The next question is just how to make yourself lose less, or lose more beautifully.

"In the past few days, your chess skills seem to have improved a little." Sitting opposite her, Gu Chengqian pinched a white stone and pressed it on the chessboard. His hoarse voice became more old-fashioned. Weak, "I played a good move around the southeast corner of me earlier, have you read the chess manual?"

"I haven't seen much."

The old lady sent the chess manual, and she has only turned over the two books on her face. How can it be so fast to study it?

Lu Jinxi smiled slightly and said, "My daughter-in-law played chess with the eldest son a while ago, and he gave me two pointers, so you think my chess skills have improved. I don’t know why, I just learn it hard.”

“…”

The old lady reached out to the chess box to grab the chess piece, and suddenly paused, her expression changed a bit, but her eyes involuntarily fell on the chessboard, staring at the dead fighting in the southeast corner.

So I remembered in a trance-

It's Gu Juefei's.

He was still young at the time, but he was obsessed with playing chess. When I come back every day, I will definitely see him waiting in the study, laying out the chessboard, waiting for me.

He won the first chess game with this hand.

I established a chance to win in the most critical corner, and then expanded that slight advantage like a snowball. The layout was meticulous and rigorous, and I kept hitting the opponent to the end.

He was eleven years old at the time.

Gu Chengqian has never seen such a smart person, his ability to calculate and the overall situation are impeccable, and his usual modest temperament will show another kind of killing and ferocity when it comes to the chessboard .

As a teenager, he didn't know how to hide his emotions.

When he finally found out that he had won three and a half eyes from his father, he was very happy, just like when he played "The Rest of Guangling" for the first time, he defeated his father, who had been regarded as a **** since childhood. And ecstatic.

But Gu Chengqian saw a brilliant phantom from him.

Such a person is destined to be extraordinary.

In the days that followed, Gu Juefei was addicted to that feeling of victory, and kept looking for him to play games. At first, he only won occasionally, and then he won a big victory.

But at this time he already had a very subtle perception of human emotions.

Gradually, he stopped playing chess with his father, and turned to talking about poetry and other important things in the world, and he no longer showed excessive joy at any new achievements he had achieved.

He is growing rapidly.

With a speed beyond the reach of ordinary people, but also with a speed that makes him, the minister of the father, unmatched.

So he didn't know when it started, he felt that he gradually became ignorant of this son, and all disputes and ruptures started with Xue Kuang...

"Master Taishi?"

A slightly concerned and worried voice sounded from the opposite side.

Gu Chengqian came back to his senses, sighed and smiled, and said, "When I get old, I always start to think about the past."

Lu Jinxi didn't dare to accept this.

Aging is a testament to the ruthlessness of time. It is something that everyone will face and face, but it is always too cruel to mention these in front of the elderly.

Listening to the voices outside, she quietly changed the subject: "It's so noisy outside, I don't know what happened."

Speaking of which, I really think about it.

Lu Jinxi dropped a piece on the chessboard, then turned around and shouted to the wind chimes standing at the door, "Go and ask and see what's going on."

"Yes."

The wind chimes are also strange, and they will go out the door when they respond.

Just before she could get out of the eaves, a figure with a terrified face was already running from the front corridor. It was Wan Baochang who just came back from the outside.

There is a secret cold sweat on his forehead, his wrinkled face has an abnormal flushing due to excessive shock and fear, and his eyes are even more flickering.

As soon as the man walked past the wind chimes, he entered the house.

"My lord, my lord, something big has happened—"

But the voice was only halfway through, the throat was inexplicably blocked, and suddenly there was no sound.

He was holding the letter he received from outside, and his elderly hands were shaking. At this time, he felt that he really didn't want to tell Gu Chengqian the news.

Wan Bao has been with Gu Chengqian for too long, and he is very clear about the contradiction between him and Gu Juefei.

For the eldest son, this may be a piece of good news that can wash away his grievances; but for the old lady, it is undoubtedly a blow to his past judgments.

Even...

The involvement may be wider, wider, and even more unbearable for the old lady and master!

Wan Baochang regretted it immediately. Standing in this room, he suddenly wanted to quit and start over, just pretending that nothing happened, hiding all the bad things that happened, and not letting the old lady Teacher knows.

It's too late.

Gu Chengqian raised his head and looked over. The moment he saw his expression, he was already shocked.

If there is, don't say it explicitly.

What's more, as early as the day Xue Kuang came back, he already had vague expectations?

The warm white jade chess piece in his hand suddenly became extremely cold.

The change in the atmosphere was so violent that one shuddered.

As early as the moment Wan Baochang's voice sounded, Lu Jinxi had an ominous premonition in her heart, and she also saw Wan Baochang's struggle and hesitation.

I didn't speak at the moment, just pushed the chess box and stood up.

Wan Baochang looked at her.

She just frowned and took the roll of paper full of words that he was holding in her hand, unfolded it and took a look——

"Fight against the party!"

The four big characters pierced into the eyes in an instant!

Lu Jinxi only felt that the tip of her finger was hurting when she was holding the letter, as if she was not holding a page at all, but a sharp blade!

Looking back, it is full of spicy and thrilling!

There are three reasons for retribution:

First, the emperor is incompetent and incompetent;

Second, the traitor is in power, slandering the loyal;

Third, the throne is not right, it is conspiracy to kill the father and kill the emperor, and the person who inherits the throne is indeed the seventh prince of the previous emperor - Xiao Tingzhi!