louisehourcade Chapter 48 (Revise 17)
Chapter 48 (Revise 17)
"Master Li."
"What's the matter?" Li Gang asked while holding a medicine bowl.
"Yuwang sent someone to bring some gifts." The servant said.
Li Gang frowned: "Give him back."
"Keep it, I don't think it's anything expensive, I think it's good for Fei Liu to play with." Xiao Xuan walked in with a box.
"Sir." X3
Xiao Xuan raised his eyebrows, and glanced at Mei Changsu who was lying on the couch: "I'm sick, how long have I been away?" His voice sounded like he was joking, but those who knew his temper would probably guess this person is angry.
Mei Changsu smiled with a pale face, knowing that he was right and did not dare to answer.
Dr. Yan who was standing aside saw Xiao Xuan, then looked at Mei Changsu's cowardly appearance, and smiled unceremoniously: "Aren't you arrogant, now that your husband is back, you've become a little boy." White rabbit?"
Xiao Xuan smiled and greeted Fei Liu to come over and play with the things in his hands: "Come on, let's see what Yu Wang gave you, I think it's very interesting."
His appearance gave Dr. Yan a message, so the old man chuckled twice, looked at Mei Changsu coldly, and started his own education unceremoniously with a look of "Now let's see how I deal with you".
Mei Changsu smiled helplessly, watched Xiao Xuan and Fei Liu sitting on the ground playing puzzles, and nodded to Doctor Yan's obedient appearance.
Because Xiao Xuan came back, the legendary mysterious special effects also began to work. Dr. Yan was amazed by Mei Changsu's quick recovery, and investigated Xiao Xuan thoroughly.
Dr. Yan was picking blood for Xiao today, meaning he wanted to investigate whether there was something wrong with the blood in his body. Xiao Xuan scratched his face and looked at the bowl in Dr. Yan's hand.
"Then what, hurry up, it's the first time I've shed so much blood."
His embarrassing look fell into Dr. Yan's eyes, and he got a disdainful 'hmph': "Don't worry, you won't die if you cut your wrist."
Xiao Xuan: "Of course I know that people won't die, but it's like having an operation. I know I'm fine, but I still have a guilty conscience."
"Surgery?" Dr. Yan asked.
Xiao Xuan: "...Please hurry up, thank you."
Knowing that he couldn't get an explanation, Dr. Yan didn't bother anymore, and after draining Xiao Xuan a bowl of blood, he left contentedly.
Xiao Xuan, who was standing there clutching the wound that was still bleeding desperately: I said, did you forget something? …
So Tong Lu, who had just found out about the private cannon workshop of the former Household Minister's respect, and came to report the news, was fortunate to see his suzerain with a distressed face, bandaging the legendary gentleman's wrist.
Tong Lu: I finally know what everyone has been saying about the Sovereign feeling a little special today.
"Tong Lu?" Mei Changsu glanced at him, but didn't find anything strange, "Is there something wrong?"
"...Yes." Tong Lu looked at Xiao Xuan, lowered his head and couldn't help but raise it again.
"What's the matter, just tell me." Mei Changsu said.
Tong Lu looked at the man who was eating and lying on his patriarch's lap with a look of enjoyment, nodded and said: "It has been found that there are gunpowder in the official ships of the household department that are directly transported by water, and there are four of them. The gunpowder was transported to a large enclosed courtyard next to the north gate, where there was a private artillery room. This private artillery room was opened by the former Minister of the Ministry of Finance, Zhijing, and at the same time, the new Minister of the Ministry of Accounting, Shen Zhui, was also sending People are checking."
Mei Changsu tied the bandage in his hand, looked up at Tong Lu, "I see," he pondered for a while before opening, "Once you find any information related to the private gun house, you can release it to Shen Zhui."
Tong Lu: "Understood, we will cooperate more with Mr. Shen."
Mei Changsu nodded, "Go."
Tong Lu glanced at Xiao Xuan who had already got up, and the other party also looked over at him. The man's dark eyes were filled with an unfinished smile, which made him stunned for a moment.
"Anything else?" Mei Changsu asked.
Tong Lu hastily lowered his eyes, said no, and backed out.
Li Gang came in and nodded to Tong Lu, he walked up to Mei Changsu and talked about the news he had just received, about the news that the empress was seriously ill that suddenly came out from the palace.
"Is there any serious problem? Why are the people in Prince Yu's Mansion so flustered?" Mei Changsu was rarely surprised.
Xiao Xuan, who was touching his wrist at the side, couldn't help laughing when he heard two pairs of doubtful eyes looking over, he touched his nose: "Maybe he was poisoned, but he didn't dare I said it, so I simply said that I was seriously ill." After speaking, he shrugged.
"......"
"Cough, what are you looking at me for?" Xiao Xuan became inexplicably nervous. Could it be that he said something wrong just now?
Mei Changsu looked at him and smiled: "No, what you said is right, the end of the year is approaching, so there must be no news of the queen being poisoned."
"Hehe." Xiao Xuan laughed inexplicably when he heard this.
Xiao Xuan (wiping sweat): Numbness, what happened just now, I suddenly feel so stressed...
......
"Brother Su, if you like it, I'll send some more later." Yan Yujin said with his mouth full.
Mei Changsu looked at his gluttonous look: "Why do you have time to visit me today? The empress is sick, and you don't come to the palace to visit."
Yan Yujin was very surprised when he heard it, and said that he didn't know at all, if he was really sick, he would have to go and tell his father, who was about to become an immortal, that he should go to the palace to see you girl.
Xiao Xuan happened to bring Fei Liu in at this time, and raised his eyebrows when he saw three people sitting on the ground in a room.
"Mister is back?" Mei Changsu greeted first.
Xiao Xuan glanced at the two people in the room who were restrained when they saw him, and smiled: "You play, I will take Fei Liu to the yard."
After he finished speaking, without waiting for anyone to react, he dragged Fei Liu out, leaving behind a room full of three people in a daze.
After a long while, Yan Yujin rubbed his nose and said, "Mr. seems quite approachable, but when I see him, I always feel that I deserve to be much shorter than him and respect him."
"Hey, you wild cat still knows how to respect people." Xiao Jingrui couldn't help joking.
The three of them started chatting and laughing again, during which Yan Yujin said that he would take Mei Changsu to play in the brothel, and let Fei Liu and Xiao Xuan go with them by the way.
"Oh?" Mei Changsu squinted at him.
"How about it, I'm alone in the family business, go out and have fun with me." Yan Yujin blinked his eyes.
"It's fine with my husband," Mei Changsu said slowly, "As for Fei Liu...just come and pick him up when the time comes."
"Okay, that's the deal." Although only one person was caught, Mr. Yan, a large number of adults, didn't care about it. After all, there is someone to accompany you when you go shopping in the brothel, right?
On the other side, Xiao Jingyan went to the palace to visit Concubine Jing, met Shen Zhui, Minister of the Household Department, and asked about the water transportation, and learned about the private gun house. He met his mother and concubine, explaining that he had already participated in the seizure Afterwards, they came to Mei Changsu's place non-stop.
The two chatted a bit about the private cannon house. When they talked about Shen Zhui, they inevitably talked about how to deal with good ministers. Although Xiao Jingyan's personality was a little inflexible, after these days, he still knew that he should learn to improve. , Mei Changsu's advice to him made Xiao Jingyan somewhat uncomfortable, but at least he knew that the other party was doing it for his own good.
Finally, when it comes to Tong Lu, Mei Changsu told Xiao Jingyan that his way of doing things often requires not only the trust of his subordinates, but also the skill of others.
"You." Xiao Jingyan frowned.
But the next moment he stopped abruptly, because he saw a person.
Xiao Xuan was holding Fei Liu and standing in the yard looking at him and Mei Changsu. The look in his eyes reminded Xiao Jingyan of the conversation he had with his father in the palace that day. The simple words told him that he should give good advice, and lightly mentioned a little bit about his own way of governing the country.
Xiao Jingyan turned to look at Mei Changsu, he opened his mouth, then stopped again, and said after a while, "Is this the way to be a king?"
Mei Changsu never thought that Xiao Jingyan could hear the deep meaning of his words. A monarch must show his trust and sincerity to his subjects so that they will serve the country loyally, and at the same time, he must not lose his respect for the country. The control and manipulation of a courtier is a quality that a superior should have, and it is something that must be understood.
Xiao Jingyan left, and Mei Changsu stood on the porch watching his childhood friend slowly disappear in the rain. He suddenly felt that the bullish Xiao Jingyan was finally willing to grow up. In him, as well as Chi Yanjun, And all these years after King Qi died.
"What are you thinking about?" Xiao Xuan asked, holding the tangerines in his hand that Yan Yujin sent over again.
Mei Changsu turned around at once, avoiding the extended hand, and after seeing Xiao Xuan's surprised look, he smiled subtly: "It's nothing, I just thought of some past events."
"Really?" Xiao Xuan laughed, and withdrew his hand in a nonchalant manner. He handed the citrus to Fei Liu beside him: "Eat it."
Mei Changsu lowered his eyes: "I'm entering the house, sir."
"Okay."
Those who chose to escape because of certain emotions heard the people behind them talking to Fei Liu with a smile as usual.
"Why did you peel it off and stop eating?"
"Don't eat."
"You used to like to eat this most, you have to eat it for me after you peel it off."
"..."
"Hey, Fei Liu, I'm suing you. You sniffed it twice and stopped eating it. What's the point? It's a waste of stuff, you know?"
Fei Liu dropped the basket of tangerines and slipped away. While picking up the citrus, Xiao Xuan looked at Mei Changsu's leaving figure. After a while, under Li Gang's strange eyes, he smiled twice and said, "Laugh." It's really ugly."
"Sir?" Li Gang didn't understand at all.
Handing the things in his hand to Li Gang, Xiao Xuan stood up, looked at the sky, turned and left.
......
"Private artillery houses use official ships to smuggle gunpowder. It has a long history. The amount of smuggling is fixed every year, but this year there are two more ships. However, these two ships of gunpowder did not enter the private artillery houses in the end. I don’t know, it disappeared without knowing it, maybe..."
"Maybe what?" Li Gang asked.
"There are other people who smuggled these two ships of gunpowder."
Li Gang thought about it for a while: "In other words, there is still a batch of gunpowder hidden in the capital. I don't know where it is and what it is for?"
"If the gunpowder is transported to the capital, if it is not used to make firecrackers, then it is to blow up something." After saying this, he suddenly felt a tightness in his heart, and soon this feeling turned into another feeling. An indescribable anxiety.
Mei Changsu's tone subconsciously became hasty, as if something was making him restless: "This person is able to mobilize official ships, and also knows how to use cover-ups, using the Ministry of Finance and private gun houses as shields, he must be not ordinary. He is a Jiang Hu person. Does he want to kill or destroy something by doing this, and if there is any place in the capital that will become his target, he needs two whole ships of black fire."
The tense atmosphere infected Li Gang who was at the side, and he wisely kept silent.
Mei Changsu quickly deleted one thing after another from his mind. He had a faint sense of something, but there was nothing stopping him from believing it. He blinked and said that the last guess in his mind was deleted. After that, an impossible but most possible answer emerged——
"The end of the year festival."
outside the porch.
He suddenly turned his head to look at the citrus on the table in the house. The bright color seemed to explode into a burning flame. It was the most familiar color, but it was also the scariest thing.
"It's an official ship shipped directly from Lingnan Mansion."
"Why did you peel it off and stop eating?"
Mei Changsu: "I really have something very urgent, I have to go out!"
"Go to Fujiang."
"You used to like to eat this most, you have to eat it for me after you peel it off."
Mei Changsu: "I wear a lot of clothes, Fei Liu and Li Gang will follow me, the wind and snow have stopped, there is nothing else to do."
"There is no need to stop and pick up halfway."
"Hey, Fei Liu, I'm suing you. You sniffed it twice and stopped eating it. What's the point? It's a waste of stuff, you know?"
Mei Changsu: "You let me go out today, and I will listen to you when I come back!"
......
Mei Changsu closed his eyes, and the hand on Li Gang's arm tightly grasped the man's sleeve.
"metropolitan!"
He lowered his head and smiled, showing a ridiculous expression: "It's okay, let's go in quickly."
On the majestic Houye Mansion, there are two words written on the solemn plaque: Yanfu.
The author has something to say:
This is today's 2333333
There are a lot of words, almost 4000~~~ hehe
Brother Su is still worried, so he is in a hurry to save Xiao Xuan~
And where is our hero now?hey-hey