Lin'an Never Night

Chapter 647 A Drama (Additional Update for JJM Leader)

The Goose King was ready to transform into the village bully and bite people to death, but he was surprised by the reactions of the officials.

None of the civil and military officials stood up to oppose the emperor's appointment.

No one thought that Yang Yuan was promoted too quickly, and no one thought that he had too little experience and should be given more time to work.

All the civil and military officials shouted in unison, "The government is wise!"

The Goose King was a little confused. What was going on?
All the officials were very happy. Let’s go, let’s go, please go quickly and leave the Censorate as soon as possible.

Do you know that everyone hates this censor who is so capable of causing trouble?

We wanted to kick him out before, and we even gave him the lucrative position of Quanzhou prefect, but he just refused to leave.

He has to be an official and a wise ruler!
Zhao Yuan was also worried about opposition, but with his current prestige, he certainly had the confidence to face it.

But if someone really came out to cry and make a desperate appeal on such a grand occasion, that would be quite annoying, wouldn't it?

As a result, Zhao Yuan was very happy to see such a scene that was in line with public opinion.

Yang Qing, he is truly what everyone expects.

Yang Yuan accepted the imperial edict and had just stepped down when many officials came to toast and congratulate him.

Including but not limited to the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Revenue, and the Dali Temple, which he had little contact with or even did not get along well with...

Everyone was happy for Yang Yuan's promotion from the bottom of their hearts.

Yang Yuan was moved by the officials' sincere intentions.

However, he didn't dare drink too much, as he had to preside over the military parade and prisoner presentation ceremony with Generals Li Xianzhong and Shao Hongyuan.

Yang Yuan was humble and told the officials that he had important tasks to attend to and did not dare to drink too much.

Finally, he simply held up a glass of wine, toasted to all the officials who came to congratulate him, and then drank it all.

Then, he, Li Xianzhong and Shao Hongyuan stepped forward to bid farewell to the emperor so that they could rush to the army to reorganize. They waited for the civil and military officials to finish the banquet and the emperor to go to Zongyang Palace for a military review.

For such a major event, the government naturally would not try to keep them, so the three of them left in a hurry.

……

When Fu Guang arrived at Han Su's room, he saw Han Su sitting there with her cheek in her hand, looking thoughtful.

There was a pot of wine and four exquisite side dishes on the table.

Han Su frowned slightly, bit his thin lower lip, and looked worried.

Suddenly seeing Fu Guang coming in, Han Su was startled and jumped up.

"Fuguang?"

Fu Guang looked at the table and raised his eyebrows: "Han Su, you are so interested?"

"Ah, no, I haven't even started eating yet. I was thinking of inviting you to come drink with me. Come and sit down."

Han Su quickly offered her a seat, Fu Guang sat down opposite her, and chuckled, "What? Are you nervous?"

Seeing her sit down, Han Su also sat down, rolled his eyes at her in reproach, and said, "You and I are both daughters of good families. When have we ever done such a thing? Aren't you panicking?"

After hearing this, Fu Guang couldn't help but sigh.

Han Su poured her a glass of wine and filled his own as well. He held the glass in his hand, his eyes a little dazed: "Fu Guang, if this thing works out today, it'll be fine. If not, you and I..."

She didn't want to talk any more, so she gently raised her glass and said to Fu Guang: "We didn't know each other before, but because of this, we shared a great responsibility. From now on, we will live and die together. I think... this is also the fate we formed in our previous life. I toast you a glass."

Fu Guang was moved after hearing this. He also raised his glass, clinked it with Han Su's, and they both drank it in one gulp.

Even women in the North can drink a few glasses of wine, but today's wine seems to be particularly spicy because of her mood.

Fu Guang covered his mouth and coughed a few times, with a faint blush at the corners of his eyes, and said to Han Su: "You are eighteen, I am seventeen, and the two of us are only thirty-five years old in total. We should still have a lot of years to live. I am unwilling to accept this, I really am so unwilling..."

Han Su said quietly, "I am no different. My parents love me and don't want me to get married early. Otherwise, I would have been married long ago and wouldn't have had this disaster. I don't know how much my parents regret this."

"me too."

Fu Guang's eyes were full of ripples, like the rippling water in a shallow pond: "So, I'm sorry..."

Fu Guang suddenly pulled out a sharp hairpin made of tortoise shell from his sleeve and stabbed it fiercely towards Han Su's throat.

However, although she was determined, her fingers were still shaking due to nervousness.

Han Su was so surprised that she leaned back subconsciously to avoid the throat. Fu Guang's hairpin immediately pierced her chest.

"Ah~"

Han Su cried out in pain and fell to the ground on his back.

Fu Guang didn't care about anything else and quickly jumped forward, raising the hairpin to stab again.

Han Su hurriedly grabbed her wrists with both hands, and the two started fighting in the room.

"Fu Guang, what are you doing?"

"I will kill you and then confess to the prince."

Fu Guang pushed the sharp hairpin down with all her strength, panting, "I've thought about it, it's better for you to die than for us to die together.

The prince is such a good person, as long as I tell him the truth, he will definitely protect me.

At that time, we can just announce to the public that we failed in the assassination attempt and were beheaded by the Song people. Then my family will not be implicated by me."

Han Su was stunned and said in a lost voice: "What? You want to confess yourself to the king?"

She was so startled that she lost strength in her hands, and was stabbed in the chest by Fu Guang's hairpin.

Fu Guang wanted to stab him again, but Han Su held his wrist tightly.

Han Su said anxiously: "You...you have this plan, why didn't you tell me earlier..."

Fu Guang sneered: "Why didn't you say it earlier? This is related to the life and death of my whole family. Who knows if there are any spies in the palace? Do I dare to say it? I..."

Fu Guang suddenly felt a cramp in his stomach, and he almost lost his grip on the hairpin in his hand. Han Su's expression became very strange: "I... I thought the same as you. I have been testing your feelings these days, but I haven't heard you complain about anything. I was afraid that you would not agree. So... I... I poisoned the wine..."

Fu Guang held up the hairpin and his eyes suddenly widened.

Han Su lay on the ground, holding her wrists tightly with both hands, with the tip of the hairpin pointing to his chest, which was already wet with blood.

The two girls maintained this posture, staring at each other in astonishment.

……

"The emperor has granted me a special imperial decree to ride a horse in the palace~"

Two young eunuchs rode on Taiping horses, leading the way, and shouting out imperial decrees all the way.

Behind him, Yang Yuan was in front, Li Xianzhong and Shao Hongyuan were half a horse's length behind him, one on the left and one on the right, following the two young eunuchs and galloping out of the palace.

After crossing Liubu Bridge and going a short distance ahead, you will reach the block where Zongyang Palace is located.

This Zongyang Palace is actually the residence granted to Qin Hui.

Qin Hui was killed for treason, his property was confiscated, and his palace was taken back by the court.

The imperial court made some minor modifications and turned it into a palace with Taoist style, which was named "Zongyang Palace".

In the original history, after the long-lived Zhao Gou became the emperor emeritus, he expanded and renovated this granted residence and turned it into the De Shou Palace where he would live in his old age.

In the last years of the Song Dynasty, De Shou Palace was converted into a palace and named "Zongyang Palace".

However, although it is called a Taoist temple, in fact many important activities of the royal family were held here.

The reason is that the location where the imperial palace was built was really inappropriate, and there was no grand square in front of the palace, so there was no space to hold any ceremony.

This mansion is located right next to the Imperial Street. If the imperial road outside the mansion is used as a square, it can accommodate more people and horses than the area in front of the Meridian Gate of the Imperial Palace.

If the military parade and the presentation of prisoners were held in front of the imperial palace, it would be impossible to handle the event.

But there is no problem here. The officers and soldiers line up, come in from the Chongxin Gate, go around the Imperial Street where the Zongyang Palace is located, and then go out from the newly opened gate on the other side of the square. It is very smooth.

Yang Yuan, Li Xianzhong and Shao Hongyuan left the palace, took their four guards each, and a group of more than ten people rode onto the Imperial Street.

Because of the military parade today, the parade route has been put under martial law and the people watching the parade are outside the marked dividing lines.

On the line, the imperial guards and soldiers stood solemnly with guns in hand.

In front of Zongyang Palace, the garrison soldiers had just arrived.

Shui Fu stood at her designated position with her knife in hand, glanced around, and sneered secretly.

She was implicated in the "fake meeting case" and spent several days in jail.

Although she was released later due to insufficient evidence, and Shui Fu secretly observed that it seemed that the Song Dynasty really did not suspect her and did not continue to monitor and investigate her, but she was a real spy, so how could she dare to be careless.

Therefore, Shui Fu has always been very careful in her actions.

Today, she disguised herself and quietly left Cuiyu Tower, and as expected, she discovered that someone was following her.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Shui Fu immediately quickened her pace and went to Zhongwazi first.

Taking advantage of the dense crowds and numerous shops in Zhongwazi, Shui Fu took the opportunity to get rid of her pursuers, then changed her clothes and rushed to the assembly point of the imperial guards.

The imperial guards team that was preparing to perform guard duties in front of Zongyang Palace was making final preparations.

Once the parade begins, they cannot leave their posts during the entire process.

Therefore, before you pack up and set off, you should go to the bathroom as soon as possible to avoid any urgent needs at the critical moment, which would cause trouble.

Shui Fu took advantage of this convenient time to kill her "distant cousin" in the land of reincarnation of grains, and then replaced him and joined the team.

She had already understood clearly in advance that the group she was in adopted the model of old leading new, with both veteran soldiers from the imperial guards and new recruits selected from the wing troops.

The generals still couldn't recognize all of their own soldiers, and as long as the generals didn't find fault with her, the soldiers standing on her left and right would only regard it as an adjustment made by the generals, and no one would say anything even if they found out that they had never seen her before.

Sure enough, the badge and military uniform were genuine, and she successfully got in.

More than ten riders on fast horses galloped past the Zongyang Palace.

An officer of the Imperial Guards immediately expressed his pride: "Look, that's General Yang, the top scholar among our warriors! When I was in the Imperial Dragon Guard, I was Yang's soldier!"

"The one behind, that's General Li Xianzhong, look!"

Shui Fu looked over, her eyes narrowed slightly, and her gaze was as cold as a sharp arrow.

Outside the imperial guards' cordon, there were crowds of people who had arrived early to grab a good spot.

"Big Teapot" had already changed his clothes and squeezed into the crowd.

Shui Fu was still in prison, but when it was confirmed that she would be released, he entered Cui Yu Tower in advance.

From a secret agent of Tongzhou Society, he transformed himself into a glorious "big teapot".

After so much surveillance, there are finally results.

When tracking Shui Fu, Shui Fu, who had already disguised herself as a man, was dodging and shuttling around in Zhongwazi.

He was not sure whether Shui Fu was being alert instinctively or had discovered something, but he immediately followed the surveillance methods taught by Mr. Song and began to counter the surveillance.

Now, after watching here, he realized that Shui Fu was not looking for an opportunity to leave Lin'an.

But, what was she doing standing here, pretending to be a lieutenant of the Imperial Guards?
You know, although she was guarding at the foot of Zongyang Palace, when the emperor stood on the top of Zongyang Palace, the distance between them might not be much closer than Tianya.

What can she do?
Although it is hard to guess, it is obvious that a famous prostitute like Shui Fu is here disguised as a soldier of the imperial guards and has some important conspiracy.

And since she was already standing here, it was impossible for her to walk away at will.

So, the "Big Teapot" stared at her location again, then left quietly and hurriedly reported to his superiors.

PS: I owe you one chapter about capturing the screen leader, and four chapters about speaking frankly.

(End of this chapter)