Just in time for rain [恰逢雨连天] - Chapter 202

[202.201 Chapter]

Ah Liu was shocked, and his heels trembled. He wanted to say something, but before he opened his mouth, his tongue quivered.

An Ran rushed over from the front yard: “Why did your lord go back to the mansion at this time?”

“I left a single volume in the study.” Liu Chaoming looked as usual.

An Ran glanced at Aliu: “Why don’t you go and get it for your lord?”

Aliu hurriedly nodded, turned and pushed the door in.

Su Jin was sitting facing the door. When the door opened, he looked up, and across the light smoke on the charcoal basin, his eyes met Liu Chaoming.

She didn’t look away immediately, looked at him for a while, then stood up and walked inside.

Aliu came out of the study, paused on the spot, and then locked it.

Liu Chaoming accepted the solitary book, but did not leave immediately, but turned to the study in the East Courtyard.

An Ran followed behind and asked, “Aren’t you going back to the palace?”

“I won’t be going back today.” Liu Chaoming said. Aliu was half a step behind the two of them. Seeing Liu Chaoming’s calm expression, he expected

that he had just returned to the house, and he didn’t hear what Mr. Su said to him. He was relieved when Liu Chaoming suddenly stopped: “Aliu.”

The solitary book in the store handed him: “Take it to the post station, and ask someone to send it to the Liu Mansion in Hangzhou.”

Aliu was stunned, and then remembered that more than a month ago, when Marquis Wen Yuan was going to the Liu Mansion in Hangzhou, he seemed to ask Liu Chaoming for something. pass this book.

He held the solitary book in his hand and couldn’t help but glanced in the direction of the study.

He had already promised Mr. Su that he would speak to Qin Zhaolin today.

When he went to the post station, he happened to pass by Su Mansion, and the adults ordered him to go there, so it would not cause suspicion. What the third brother said, what he promised, should be done—this is the best chance.

He hurried to the gate of the mansion, without asking Li Huyuan to help drive the car, he personally untied the reins from the stake, and drove the car in the direction of Su Mansion.

However, Aliu didn’t see it. The wheel of the carriage had just turned a corner at the end of the alley, and several figures appeared outside the mansion in an instant. They were actually Yushi Yanxiu of the Imperial Court, deputy commander of Jinyiwei Wei Jiang, and several others. Jin Yiwei.

Liu Chaoming stepped out of the house and glanced in the direction where Aliu had left, his face cold.

An Ran’s face turned pale, and immediately knelt on the ground and pleaded, “Sir, Aliu has a simple nature and does not know the importance of what he does. Please don’t blame him. It is An Ran’s disciple who has nowhere to go and is willing to be punished for him.”

Liu Chaoming didn’t answer . This is what he said to Yan Xiu: “Go to the Minister of General Affairs and let Zhou Ping go to the northwest with Qin Zhaolin; if you order another person to follow Mrs. Tan, she must know Su Wan’s whereabouts.”

“Yes.” Yan Xiu took the order, Immediately hit the horse and leave.

Liu Chaoming said to Wei Jiang again: “Go back to the palace and ask Qian Yueqian to take Zhu Yiheng out of the prison of the Ministry of Punishment and tell him that it is time to send a letter to Mu Yan Sanwei of Dadan.”

Mu Yan Sanwei (note), That is, a group of soldiers and guards in the northern grasslands of Dadan, with a total of 180,000 people. It originally belonged to the Dadan Dynasty. Later, when Beiliang was established, the Dadan Dynasty disintegrated and dispersed into various tribes. , and the rest became mercenaries who collected money.

At the beginning of the establishment of Dasui, Muyan Sanwei still caused troubles in the frontier from time to time. In the past ten years, there has been a lot of peace. Rao Shi has frequent wars on the border between the northwest and Beiping, but the middle places such as Qiongzhou and Qingzhou are relatively peaceful.

Such peace lasted only until Jinan three years.

In November, an urgent letter came from Qiongzhou – Muyan Sanwei assembled an army in the central part of Dadan, General Wu Erdi led 150,000 troops to the south, stationed outside Xinjiang, and invaded Qiongzhou. Qingzhou trend.

As soon as the urgent letter arrived, the government and the opposition were shaken, and even Gong Quan, the grandfather of the state, who had not recovered from a long illness, forced him to come to the court to discuss. But sending envoys is not to negotiate peace. After the great follower established the dynasty, although the internal troubles continued, the outside world has always been iron-boned, and every inch of the territory has to be defended, but Mu Yan Sanwei suddenly waved his troops, and many ministers thought that there was a reason for the incident and should be dealt with first. Clear the situation, should not blindly start a war.

The ministers quickly reached an agreement, and immediately sent a letter to Emperor Jin An who was on his way to Qingzhou, asking for instructions on the envoys.

Zhu Nanxian, who was in Qingzhou, received military letters earlier than the capital.

Although he also planned to send envoys, the foreign enemy had to strengthen the garrison of Qiongzhou and Qingzhou since the foreign enemy was consolidating his army on the border.

600,000 new troops from the northwest, of which 300,000 were left in the northwest by him, another 150,000 were distributed by him to various divisions in the territory, and the remaining 150,000 were with him. The original plan was to disperse another 100,000 and bring 50,000 with him. The people returned to the North Camp, but now—

Zhu Nanxian took a close look at the territory sand table and pointed to one of them: “I can make the 100,000 soldiers who were originally going to be dispersed from various frontier defenses to stay here temporarily, and wait until the envoy asks Ming Muyan Sanwei The reason for the whole army is to make another plan.”

Zuo Qian and Mao Zuofeng were also in the camp with him. After thinking about it, Zuo Qian asked, “What about the fifty thousand soldiers your Majesty intends to send to Lingnan?”

“Still go to Lingnan.” Zhu Nan said enviously, “I will only bring 5,000 people back to Beijing, lightly packed and simple, and the journey is fast.”

At this time, a guard guarding outside the tent said: “Your Majesty, the camp is from outside the camp. I asked a soldier surnamed Tan to see him.”

Zhu Nanxian frowned when he was thinking about the formation on the border of Qiongzhou.

Mao Zuofeng waved his only remaining arm, and said loudly: “See you, see, I have already said hello, why does everyone come to see His Majesty?”

From the northwest all the way to Qingzhou, all the officials along the way were extremely hospitable, but when the emperor was in the prefecture, there were many etiquette and customs. In one place, choose a place to set up camp. If you are so, you can’t avoid officials from various states coming to meet the Holy Spirit. You can’t blame them. It’s a rule, and it’s disrespectful not to come.

Zhu Nanxian calculated the strength of the troops in his mind again, and felt that the arrangement had been made properly, and now he should choose an envoy to go to Dadan.

When I think of the envoy, I think of Ayu.

She returned to the capital at the end of June, and it has been more than four months now.

There are many things in Beijing, and Qingyue went to Wuchang Mansion again. She has a strong and resolute temperament, and the things that are at hand must be resolved immediately to be at ease.

When the thought turned to this, the heart suddenly moved, what was the name of the soldier who just came to see him?

The last name is Qin?

Zhu Nanxian’s eyes flashed inexplicably, he turned his head and strode out of the tent, and asked the guards who were guarding outside, “Where do you want to see my soldiers?

”

But he couldn’t come back like this, otherwise he would anger Longyan, give Zhu Nanxian a nod, and turn his head to look for someone. Fortunately, Tan Zhaolin insisted on staying outside the camp and came back shortly after. When he saw Zhu Nanxian, his eyes immediately turned red, his knees fell to the ground, and he almost gritted

his teeth: “Your Majesty, please, save my family!”

When Zhu Nanxianfu heard this, he didn’t react. He looked at Tan Zhaolin and saw that he was full of stubble, dark blue eyes, and dirty clothes, as if he had rushed all the way from the capital.

He came with a cage in his hand, and Zhu Nanxian, the white parrot in it, recognized it as Ah Fu.

“Save?” After a long while, Zhu Nanxian seemed to have found the point, “What do you mean?”

Qin Zhaolin raised his sleeves and wiped the sweat from his forehead. When he was about to speak, Zhu Nanxian stopped him: “Go into the tent and tell me.”

When he got to the tent, he took the bird cage and patted it, then called out, “Ah Fu.”

Ah Fu was imprisoned for a long time, and he was a little slack, until he recognized the person in front of him as Zhu Nanxian, and then he flapped his wings and flew out of the cage, resting on the side of the military rack – maybe from time to time When he was rescued by him, he was born close to him.

Qin Zhaolin took the glass of water handed over by Zuo Qian and calmed down before talking about the incident.

From Zhu Yushen’s return to Beijing in August, to Shen Xi’s attempt to sink the Fourth Highness into the lake but was blocked by the four princesses; from Su Jin’s investigation of the Lingnan business case, to the sudden disappearance after returning home on the second day of September; and from the October Snow Festival, Liu Yun asked the minister of the army, and Su Jin’s disappearance turned into fleeing in fear of crime. Two days later, Aliu, the servant of Liu’s house, suddenly came to Su’s house and asked him to lead Ah Fu to leave the capital quickly.

“After the lord disappeared, I searched day and night, dragged a lot of paths, and didn’t even find a clue. In fact, before Aliu came to me, I knew that the news of the capital could not be delivered, and it was from Jin Wuwei. What Commander Yao said. Later, Aliu came and asked me to take Afu to find its original owner. I didn’t understand it at the time, but only then did I realize that it was my family’s adults who dragged Aliu. She must still be alive, She was just trapped, and I couldn’t save her by myself, so she asked me to come to you.”

Zhu Nanxian became more and more stunned.

What was missing, what was asked, and he had never heard of so many things that happened in just two months.

If someone else told him to listen to him, he really wouldn’t believe a word of it.

But unfortunately, this is what Tan Zhaolin said. This man of five big and three rude people only keeps the word “loyalty” in his life, and his temperament is gentle, and he is the least able to deceive others.

So, if what he said was true, did something really happen to Ah Yu?

Zuo Qian and Mao Zuofeng on the side were also anxious after hearing what Tan Zhaolin said, and they asked: “The minister of the cabinet has disappeared, and the minister of the Ministry of War has been beheaded. What about Lord Shen? Didn’t Lord Shen come back from Wuchang Mansion?”

Tan Zhaolin also hurriedly said: “The news can’t get out, why did Lord Shen come back!”

Zuo Qian said: “No, we also received a letter from Lord Su two days ago, saying that everything is fine, Lord Su—”

Zhu Nan Xian raised his hand and stopped: “The letter was written by Shu Wenlan.”

He was still surprised when he received the letter. Su Jin was a cautious person, even if he wrote a letter to him, he signed only the word “Shi Yu”, and he didn’t know it. Why, after September, the signature of the letter changed to “A Yu”, because this letter came after Shen Xi’s secret letter urging him to return to Beijing, and he thought she was looking forward to his return soon.

My heart seemed to be surrounded by a giant palm, hanging and twisting, unable to even breathe.

All thoughts are flying in my mind, but they are complex, disordered, cloudy and confused.

He tried to calm himself down.

Holding the corner of the table, he slowly sat down in front of the desk, waiting for the messy thoughts to settle, but the more he settled, the more clearly two words caught his eye.

A rain.

where is she? Why get stuck? Is she- is she alive?

With this thought all his life, the hand that was holding his heart suddenly loosened, and the blood that had accumulated for a long time rushed into the bones, into his mind, and dazzled him. With a wave of his palm, he directly put the tea cup on the case , Calligraphy, the territory map and the water prince all fell to the ground.

The shattering sound instantly made the people inside and outside the tent fall to their knees.

However, in the next moment, what they were waiting for was not Longyan’s anger, but unusual calmness.

“No.” Zhu Nanxian said, “How did you come out?”

Seeing that Tan Zhaolin seemed puzzled, he asked again: “Because the news of the capital has been banned, even I and Qingyue can’t receive letters, you are dignified. How did a big living person leave the capital?”

[End of This Chapter]