Love Affairs in Chang’an Chapter 237: The secret of Zhao Chong

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We talked very happily, and there are a thousand glasses of wine every confidant. After Qin Mubai, Zheng Anshun, and Li Ke experienced this water ghost storm, they can be regarded as "shared wealth and wealth". They are the same kind of brothers, and now they feel more and more speculative.

As a prince, Li Ke has an extremely rare advantage in him, which is also inherited from his father Li Shimin-Li Xian, corporal, no pretension.

When the wine was half full, the three had long forgotten who was the prince, who was the general, and who was the son of the richest man in the Tang Dynasty. The three only knew that they were a confidant and close friend of the drink.

Under the influence of the drink, some things that I don't usually say very much have also been unscrupulously fluttered.

"Mu Bai, that said, your wife who has never been through the door is coming to Xiangzhou. This is Zhang Ming's awe-inspiring elopement, really gratifying!" Li Ke smiled shamelessly, his eyes bright The thief Liang said in a whisper, "But, what about the female Chen in the golden house?"

"What should I do?" Qin Mubai squinted his eyes drunkly while pretending to be silly.

"Hey, you still pretend! Believe it or not, I will shake everything about you to Wu Meiniang and Gao Yang? When that happens, you won't be able to eat and go around!" Li Ke said angrily, "I don't see I'm so used to you pretending to be stupid!"

"Hoho!" Qin Mubai smirked unscrupulously, "You have threatened it more than 800 times, it's invalid!"

Zheng Anshun also laughed: "Brother Qin, you are so romantic! Wherever you go, you will also drive a colorful skirt to fly. As far as I know, from the rich to the common people in Xiangzhou, But there are many women who love you very much."

"It's not." Qin Mubai said with a hey smile, "They, at most Aiwu and Wu. If you spend some time with your Highness, it's probably the same."

Li Ke was so angry and funny, he cursed and said: "People Zheng Anshun praise you, but you hurt me! You are really not kind! Answer the question quickly, if Wu Mei Niang comes, your Chen Xia What to do? Is it possible that you still dare to keep Jinwu hiding Jiao?"

"Why don't you dare?" Jiuzhuang dared, Qin Mubai opened his mouth and exclaimed, "It's a big deal, Jinwuzang double pride!"

"Haha, this boy, the courage is getting fatter and fatter! Just keep your mouth hard. When Wu Meiniang comes, you won't be so arrogant." Li Ke laughed loudly, "Even if you can handle Wu Meiniang, I think if Gao Yang also comes by then, you will not die!"

"Ah!" Qin Mubai was really excited about this, "You—what did you say?"

"Haha, did you see it? He panicked!" Li Ke and Zheng Anshun laughed together.

"His Royal Highness, you quickly clarify what you mean by "High Sun is coming"?" Qin Mubai asked.

"Hmph, listen well!" Li Ke said solemnly, "Did you talk with King Qi a few days ago that you want to meet Gao Yang to Xiangzhou? Li You is a quick man. He will definitely do what he thinks of. No, he sent someone to pick up Gao Yang. He was already halfway there. He sent a letter today to inform me about it. Let me ask you to be there. I will go to Dengzhou to meet up and take Gaoyang."

Qin Mubai's eyes widened and swallowed: "He really did it?"

"What's weird." Li Kexing sneered. "In the past, Gao Yang didn't spend half of the year in Chang'an, and most of them stayed at her uncle Bingzhou's house. But now her uncle Yin Hongzhi is already I went to Dengzhou as an official with King Qi and moved here. Gao Yang wants to stay here, it is normal."

Qin Mubai turned a pair of eyes, and said in his heart: "My dear, it's okay to come to Wu Meiniang. If you want her to have peace with Chen Yan, it's not difficult; if it's lawless. Ling'er, the little demon of, is also coming together...Three women in a drama, maybe it is a martial arts, and they are playing martial arts together, I will play the role of cannon fodder.

"Miserable!" Qin Mubai screamed out, and then showed a bitter smile on his face.

"Haha!" Li Ke and Zheng Anshun laughed treacherously and proudly.

"The sea is flowing, and the heroes are true! I'm not afraid of them!" Qin Mu's baijiu rushed, slapped on the table and drank this sentence with awe-inspiring death, and stared at the two people in contempt, and scolded , "At the critical moment, I learned that the world is cold, I can see you clearly!"

"Hahaha!" Li Ke and Zheng Anshun laughed more rampantly, they almost burst into tears.

At this moment, a woman hurriedly walked into the hall and said to the three of them: "Hey, you guys keep your voice down, the princess has just gone to bed, don't wake her up!"

The three of them saw that it was Su Lianqing who had newly entered the mansion and became the princess's personal servant and bodyguard.

Li Ke's stubborn face: "No rules! Are you just talking to the king like this? The princess can't get up after sleeping? Take two **** of cotton and bet on her ears!"

"Don't, don't." Qin Mubai hurriedly waved his hand, "His Royal Highness, we'd better be a little quieter. Su Lianqing, you can go back and serve the princess!"

"I know!" Su Lianqing curled her lips, muttering "Three Drunks", and went away in shock.

Qin Mubai asked: "His Royal Highness, I heard that the princess is seriously ill, what is going on?"

"Hey, don't mention it!" Li Ke knocked on the table a little annoyed, and said, "Since the day she got married, her health has not been well. I haven't left the medicine jar all year round. I can’t figure out, how could she be so weak? At the beginning of last year, I was relegated to Chang’an. At that time, she was suffering from the bumps of the journey, so she stayed in Anzhou for a peaceful recuperation. She gave birth soon. My daughter is getting weaker and weaker. I was taken abducted by the water ghost not long ago, and I was frightened and irritated. After returning to the mansion, there were eleven hours out of twelve hours a day on the couch, like a waste . Don’t scold me for being guilty. For her illness, I sought medical advice, asked medicine, worshipped God and prayed to Buddha, but it was really troublesome. But it didn’t improve at all. Because of her ill health, I have never been married to a child. I'm afraid to stimulate her."

"No concubine, it doesn't mean you don't have any other women." Qin Mubai said, "His Royal Highness, as the saying goes, a wife who is stubborn can't give up. Don't have patience."

"That's not true, it's just a bit annoying in my heart. I don't know how to heal her disease." Li Ke frowned, and said, "Love is romantic, and feelings are feelings. I have always distinguished this very clearly. "

"It seems that you have reached a certain level of romance." Qin Mubai said with a narrow smile, "I heard that the princess and your mother and concubine are still family members, and they have the blood of the former Sui royal family. This marriage can be regarded as a good match. A match made in heaven!"

Li Ke smiled indifferently, and said: "To be honest, I and her were only married by decree. There is no deep relationship. At best, they can only be regarded as two friends. But one night and a hundred days of grace, I am absolutely I won’t leave it alone."

"That's good. The love has a beginning and an end, and he is a man." Qin Mubai nodded.

Li Ke knew that there was something in Qin Mu's vernacular, but he didn't clarify, and nodded vaguely. In his heart, he couldn't help but think of Qin Shuang'er who was far away in Chang'an, and an inexplicable sorrow and sorrow appeared in his heart. After so many years, the two have never been together. Seeing that Wu Meiniang and Gao Yang are coming to Chang'an, Li Ke's heart is somewhat jealous, and there are also some thoughts, ready to move. But when I thought of the princess who was ill in bed, I had to hold this thought in my heart and dare not say it.

Zheng Anshun is a man of ingenuity. Seeing Qin Mubai and Li Ke both fall into silence thoughtfully, knowing that both of them are thinking about things, so he provoked the topic and diverted their attention. Broke the momentary cold.

"Two, this wine is going to be cold."

"Oh?" Li Ke returned to his senses and called, "Come here, change the wine and delicacies!"

The drinks and dishes were changed, and the three of them still sat eating and drinking. Li Ke suddenly remembered something and said, "By the way, I was so happy that I almost forgot! Mu Bai, do you remember Zhao Chong in the death row?"

"Remember, what's the matter?" Qin Mubai asked.

"He asked the prisoner to pass a message, saying that he would see you again before leaving." Li Ke curled his lips and said, "The prisoners are customary. Anyone on death row can eat a sumptuous guillotine meal. A torture wish like'meeting with family members'. But Zhao Chong's torture wish is not to see some family members, but to see you. It's strange!"

"Does it mean that if I don't go, it means that I am disrespectful to the deceased, and he will not look down?" Qin Mubai asked.

"It's almost what it means! Generally speaking, no matter how vicious a death row prisoner is, as long as his sentence is not excessive, he will be satisfied." Li Ke said, "Besides, you will not go. Right?"

"Of course I will go." Qin Mubai picked up the corner of his mouth and smiled, "As you know, my curiosity has always been very strong."

Death prisoners are all cut at the end of autumn, Zhao Chong still has some time to survive among death row prisoners. Moreover, Zhenguan Datang has always advocated "cautious punishment", that is, the death row sentenced to death must be taken to Chang'an uniformly, and only after the emperor's approval can be executed after the autumn. And before the execution, Li Shimin had to patrol the prison himself. If there are death row prisoners who call injustice, the case will be retrial.

Because of this, Li Shimin’s prison patrol a few years ago left a story of the ages. It is said that on that occasion, he patrolled prisoners before the autumn punishment as usual, and there were 390 death row prisoners in prison, but no one complained. It occurred to Li Shimin that he would let these people go home for the New Year, and then return to prison to be sentenced after the autumn harvest in the coming year.

This sounds like a fantasy, but Li Shimin did. You know, in this era, there is no high-tech tracking technology, let alone hunting and escaping from the sea.

But what is truly fantastic is that these 390 death row prisoners have really come back after the autumn harvest in the coming year, and there are a lot of them! Among them, there are several young men who gave their daughter-in-law pregnant after returning home and gave the family a follow-up incense. Finally, under the supervision of their hometown, they came to Chang'an to die with a grateful heart!

Li Shimin, the emperor and his officials, were all moved. The 390 death row prisoners were about to be released from death and returned home to be good people.

It's just a pity. There may be only one such thing in Chinese history, and it will only happen once. Even Li Shimin will not do it again. Otherwise, the law will be lawless.

When the dinner was over, Li Ke left Qin Mubai and Zheng Anshun to sleep in the governor's house. Qin Mubai saw that it was still early and there was no sleepiness, so he took a pot of wine and called the official to lead the way, went to the prison, and visited Zhao Chong.

Zhao Chong, a serious prisoner on death row, was detained alone in the iron cell Qin Mubai had seen before.

The iron door opened, Zhao Chong sat on the haystack against the wall, looked up at Qin Mubai and smiled: "I knew that you would definitely come."

Qin Mubai told the prisoner to close the door from outside, walked to him and sat down on the haystack, shook the hip flask in his hand, and said, "Come on?"

"You've already drunk a lot, give me this pot!" Zhao Chong was also polite, and his shackled hands reached out and grabbed the pot, unplugged the cork and poured it into his mouth. Coming down, half of his body was dripping wet.

"Happy! It really is a good drink!" Zhao Chong took a deep breath, smacked his lips, looked at Qin Mubai and said, "Are you curious? Are you guessing why I called you?"

"Yes." Qin Mubai nodded directly and admitted.

"You are very smart, so I want you to do me a favor." Zhao Chong said, "There is a secret left by my grandfather, but it has not been solved since my father's hands. I just Even worse."

"What's the secret?" Qin Mubai asked.

"I’m not quite sure. It was given to my father when my grandfather was dead. Unfortunately, he returned to heaven before he finished speaking." Zhao Chong said, "My father has been thinking about it for half a lifetime, and I have been thinking about it. For twenty years, I haven’t thought through it. Although I don’t know what this secret is about, I vaguely feel that it may be a treasure, or a major secret that has long been forgotten by the world."

"Oh?" Qin Mu Baisha raised an eyebrow with interest, "You mean, treasure map?"

"Probably it was something." Zhao Chong nodded, looked at Qin Mubai seriously, and said, "Originally, I wanted to take this secret to the ground together. Later, after all, I had the heart. Not reconciled. It’s not that I reluctant to bear any treasure, but that I’m not reconciled to lose to this secret. It’s not that I boasted that for so many years, I have never met a person who is smarter than me and worthy of me to study this secret. Finally met one, but unfortunately, he was an adversary who dug my grave for me. It can be said that I am both regretful and gratified when I ran into you. General Qin, you are much smarter than me. If you are to crack this secret, you must OK!"

"If you can trust me, I can give it a try." Qin Mubai was also very interested, so he nodded.

"I have invited you with a torture, can I still trust you?" Zhao Chong grinned and said, "I am not interested in any treasures or secrets. I just want to see someone crack it. This secret is the long-cherished wish of our father and son for many years."

"Okay, I will help you." Qin Mubai nodded, "If I can crack it before the autumn punishment, I will definitely send someone to Chang'an to tell you the secret."

"Thank you!" Zhao Chong nodded solemnly, walked to the door and glanced vigilantly, beckoned to Qin Mubai, let him come over.

Qin Mubai stretched out his head without hesitation, and Zhao Chong smiled: "General Qin, you are not afraid that I will hold you and strangle you with shackles and iron locks?"

"You won't." Qin Mubai smiled indifferently, "Say it!"

Zhao Chong stared at Qin Mubai for a moment, nodded, smiled and said, "It's indeed a human being. Okay, let me tell you where the drawing is! I only have one request. I don't care how you deal with this drawing and possible existence. Treasure, but if you crack the secret, whether I am in the sun or the underworld, you must let me know!"

"I promise you."

……

Out of the jail, Qin Mu rushed to the place where Zhao Chong said the pictures were hidden, not far from the jail.

Zhao Chong used to be a Yexiang picker. There were no other people in the house, just a lot of dung buckets. The backyard has not been inhabited for a long time, and there are weeds and piles of dung. Although it hasn't come in handy for some years, the stench is still lingering.

Qin Mubai put a mask on the corner of his robe to cover his mouth and nose, holding back the stench and turning over the dung buckets one by one. Finally, I found the dung bucket that Zhao Chong said was missing a bucket ear. Turn it over and see that the bottom is really thick. He fought hard to break the barrel, and the bottom of the barrel broke, revealing a very small interlayer inside, and a small piece of stuff was wrapped in oil paper.

Qin Mubai was overjoyed—it was it!

Recovering the messy yard casually, Qin Mubai packed a small paper bag and returned to the guest room of the Governor's Mansion. I opened the small bag with an oil lamp. It turned out to be five pieces of thick oil paper about the size of an ordinary book, all of the same shape and size, and some scattered lines were drawn on each of them, and some words with inconsistent meaning were staggered.

Qin Mubai tried to spell back and forth, but he couldn't spell out any shapes, and the words couldn't be understood.

After pondering for a while, I was confused and clueless.

He couldn't help but laughed, thinking, if it's just a simple piece of work, would it still be necessary for me? Don't worry, think about it slowly!

No matter what the secret of his treasure, Qin Mu is really in no rush. Put the paper away, and fell asleep peacefully. There was no dream all night, and I woke up in the morning after sleeping on a couch.

Li Ke has already gone to the government office to handle official duties. Perhaps he was banned for a full year in Chang'an and suffered a lot. By the time he came to Xiangzhou, Li Ke really changed his face and became more diligent. I visit the yamen every day to deal with the public property, take care of everything regardless of size, and devote most of my energy to political affairs. When he was the governor of Anzhou in the past, he only remembered that he was the prince, and he didn't care about the so-called governor. So spending nine points of energy on eating, drinking and having fun, and using one distraction to handle official duties, it was still scribbled and perfunctory.

The backyard of the Governor's Mansion, which is where Li Ke lives, is very large, and all officials and soldiers in the mansion can live and station here.

Qin Mubai heard a roar of slaughter on the campus of the backyard, and knew that it was the soldiers of the palace who were training in the morning. As soon as his mind moved, he decided to take a look.

Now the personal commander of the Royal Palace is already the Lieutenant Xue Rengui of the Military Academy, and there are two other deputies Yin Yang and Yuwen Hongtai. I don't know how well these three people are training the recruits of the Wu Palace now? There is also Xue Rengui. Although he has talent and potential, he has no military experience since he started in Baishen. What should the morning training he presided over?

Qin Mubai was very curious and strode towards the school grounds. Still wondering in my heart, I have to think of a good way to flick Xue Rengui from the "iron cock" of Li Ke, and borrow a period of time.