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Chapter 68
68. The head of the ranks
Pei Nianyu had stayed up all night before, and forced himself to attend the dazzling banquet, which made people extremely dizzy.I was shocked again later, so I slept for seven or eight hours in this sleep.
When he woke up, the sky outside the house was already bright.Pei Nianyu woke up in a somewhat unfamiliar environment, got up and lifted the bed curtain, and saw Lou Yefeng's black back sitting in front of the table, who was messing with something, so he felt a little relieved.
When he walked into the house, he saw that he was already in the bedroom of Fangchen Palace.There were several dark shadows outside the door, which were vaguely He Qi and several other shadow guards.
"Master, you are awake."
"Ye Feng, how long have I been asleep?"
"It's the end of the second day."
Pei Nianyu nodded, but he was a little puzzled, but he didn't know how he got here from the side hall of Chenghua Palace.
"Your Majesty was afraid that your master would not rest comfortably in that side hall, so he ordered me to move you here."
Pei Nianyu's first reaction was to think, how did Ye Feng move?
It is very likely to be hugged by the princess!
So he felt full of regret instantly in his heart. It seemed that he had slept too hard, but he couldn't wake up all the way, and he didn't know how much he missed... Tsk tsk.
Pei Nianyu couldn't help daydreaming, and was in a daze for a while, only then did he see what Lou Yefeng was messing with with his head down——
In a bowl was a brown-black, sticky, semi-solid substance.
"Ye Feng, you made this..."
Lou Yefeng smiled inexplicably, and Pei Nianyu clearly saw a bit of schadenfreude from that smile:
"Returning to the master, this is a nourishing food specially sent to you by His Majesty's order from the imperial dining room... Supplementing qi and nourishing blood, black chicken, goji berry, mutton and duck soup, deer antler and ginseng porridge."
Pei Nianyu: "..."
He looked at the black, red, black and brown stewed porridge in the bowl, which was rotten and indistinguishable. It exuded the aroma of greasy meat and the bitter taste of herbs, and the two flavors mixed together strangely——
Pei Niancheng, you did it on purpose, didn't you?Don't you know what level your own imperial dining room is!
He was very speechless about his younger brother's bad taste, and sighed that raising a younger brother is worse than raising a loyal dog, and then asked the person around him:
"Ye Feng... Your master is seriously injured, so didn't you give me a little treatment?"
Lou Yefeng felt helpless:
"The imperial dining room is under martial law and no one is allowed to enter, so the subordinates can't sneak in and steal any ingredients to cook for you. If you are hungry, master, why not fill your hunger with this bowl of porridge first."
Pei Nianyu: "..."
What a ghost, the clear noodle soup made by this imperial dining room is more delicious than this thing, even reheating the leftovers from last night's banquet for him, there must be leftovers after cooking so much.
However, it was useless, how could the imperial dining room give leftovers to His Royal Highness King Yu?Besides, His Highness was injured, so he had to carefully prepare a nourishing royal meal...
Pei Nianyu took a deep breath, then turned to shout out the door:
"Old He!"
A figure rushed in from outside the door.
"The subordinate is here. What is the master's order?"
"Pack up your things, take your people with you, and go home!"
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His Royal Highness King Yu was going back to the mansion, but he was still wounded, so the palace quickly prepared the chariot.Several shadow guards from the palace came along with the servants to place the chariot outside Fangchen Hall—the servants were in charge of placing it, and the shadow guards were responsible for checking the safety of the chariot and sedan chair.
Pei Nianyu couldn't bear to stay in this majestic palace, no matter it was the architectural style or the furnishing utensils, he felt uncomfortable everywhere he looked.
At this moment, he was hungry, and he just wanted to go back to his Hanqiu Pavilion in Prince Yu's Mansion full of flowers and plants, and eat a bowl of sweet white fungus and lily bowl made by Lou Yefeng himself with his family Ye Feng.
So he went out of the yard first, but when he was about to turn out of the wall, he accidentally heard the murmurs of the imperial shadow guards who were doing inspections over there.
They are discussing in a very small voice:
"Our Commander Lin knelt in the Diligent Government Hall for more than a night...Has His Majesty still not calmed down?"
"This time, after all, it is about His Royal Highness King Yu. It's hard to say... Our commander is probably going to..."
"Speak carefully, speak carefully."
Pei Nianyu was taken aback for a moment.
He slept from night to noon of the next day, and having enough sleep for a few hours made him feel quite happy at the moment.And during these few hours... Li Han has been kneeling in the Diligent Government Hall?
He just wanted to reflexively ask Lou Yefeng beside him why, but then he reacted and sighed softly.
He was stabbed at this banquet, although Pei Nianyu believed that it was entirely his own responsibility and had nothing to do with Li Han - after all, if he had learned martial arts well, he would naturally be able to tell how good the assassin was, and it would not be foolish to pounce on it.
But he wasn't so innocent that he didn't know why Li Han was punished.The shadow guards have always been like this, as long as something goes wrong, the commander has to take responsibility.
Pei Nianyu's own habit over the years is of course...to not punish Ye Feng if he can, but his younger brother is not as "generous and kind" as he is.
Thinking of this, Pei Nianyu sat in the sedan chair, but ordered:
"Wait a minute, let's go to the Diligent Government Hall first."
The shadow guards who were in charge of inspecting the sedan chair immediately looked at each other, their faces turned pale, and they took a sneak peek at Pei Nianyu.
This... sounds like His Royal Highness King Yu changed his words after hearing their conversation. just hope that His Highness King Yu will not sue His Majesty for their unreasonable remarks. This will be severely punished.
Pei Nianyu said to himself:
"I don't know if His Majesty was surprised or not. I, the elder brother, have to pay a visit before leaving the palace."
Those shadow guards immediately cast a few expressions of gratitude over them, and then hid in the palace wall.
………………
Right now, in Diligent Government Hall.
As a rule, there is no permanent court on the second day after each big banquet, but because of the assassination incident, a brief court meeting was held to announce the ins and outs to the officials.
Then arranged the work matters in various places during the New Year's Eve, procrastinated, and finally returned to the court after three poles in the sun.
Pei Niancheng went back to the Diligent Government Hall study, and saw Li Han kneeling outside the door at a glance.
Although the man's eyes were still calm, Pei Niancheng looked at his kneeling back, but for some reason he vaguely felt a little tired.
Li Han heard the cold footsteps of heavy boots on the ground, and subconsciously looked up at Pei Niancheng:
"Owner……"
Immediately, he realized that he was talking too much, for fear of offending his master, he quickly lowered his head again.With his eyes fixed on the ground, he quietly closed his mouth.
Seeing the panic and uncertainty in his eyes, Pei Niancheng knew that he was a little scared, so he nodded slightly and said:
"come in."
After entering the door, Li Han closed the door and knelt respectfully in the middle of the room.Pei Niancheng thought about it, but still waved away the servants in the room.
Pei Niancheng didn't have time to chat nonsense with him, so he said directly:
"Kneeling for so long, do you want to understand what's wrong?"
Li Han lowered his head and made his posture more respectful:
"The subordinate was negligent and failed to find out the assassin in advance."
Pei Niancheng snorted coldly:
"Neglect, negligence... How did you promise me in the first place!"
Even after a night of calmness, Pei Niancheng couldn't help but get angry when facing Li Han.
"If I knew that you, Li Han, would be so negligent, I wouldn't have agreed to your plan in the first place!"
In fact, the previous assassin had been detected by the shadow guards as something amiss.
However, because the purpose of these people's infiltration is not yet clear, and there are still accomplices who have not been exposed, it is impossible to find out the behind-the-scenes instigation.Therefore, Li Han proposed to let them go first, and wait for the rabbit to wait. After following the clues to find out who stuffed them in, he would catch them all in one go, so as to avoid future troubles.
However, that's how it happened.
According to the analysis of their shadow guards, this group of people is very likely to cause trouble at the Winter Solstice Banquet.So they specially arranged for two groups of people to keep an eye on His Majesty's vicinity, and immediately arrest his accomplice as soon as his identity is revealed. Of course, he will be caught alive.
However, who knew that their shadow guard's original target was knocked out by Lou Yefeng, and Pei Nianyu wanted to leave early, causing the assassin to attack early.
They originally estimated that they could definitely catch the assassin before he hurt His Majesty. Who would have thought that Pei Nianyu would step in and pounce on him. In order to prevent the assassin from causing more damage to him, Li Han had no choice but toGive up his life and kill him on the spot.
Fortunately, he identified his accomplices before he died, so that Lin Han would not get nothing in the end, and the rest was slowly grinding out the person behind the scenes.
Li Han couldn't help but smiled wryly in his heart. He would definitely take the crime of dereliction of duty, which he had already mentally prepared for.However, judging by the master's tone, I'm afraid it's more than that.
"Li Han, if you are so careless, how can I trust your actions in the future and let you do it?"
He panicked all of a sudden, the master even brought up the title of His Majesty, Li Han didn't want to hear such a distant title, so he quickly stepped forward and explained:
"Master! This time... was really an accident, if not, if not..."
Li Han wanted to say that if His Royal Highness King Yu hadn't made a sudden move, nothing would have happened.But he gritted his teeth and still couldn't continue.He has never liked to shirk his responsibilities, but he also absolutely does not want His Majesty to be disappointed in him.
As soon as Pei Niancheng heard his words, he became angry and interrupted him directly:
"If Lou Yefeng hadn't come in instead of him by accident and prevented my brother from being hijacked, you would have been killed right now! If such an accident really happened, do you think I would still keep you alive?"
Li Han felt bitter and unspeakable. He lowered his head deeply and silently tightened his black sleeves with his fingers at his side.
He really wanted to say, no, no, even if they let them take action, he would not let His Royal Highness King Yu do anything.But the owner obviously didn't want to hear what he said "what if". He knew that what the owner wanted was "it won't happen at all".
"...Yes, this subordinate knows his mistake, please master punish me severely."
Pei Niancheng was in a fit of anger, and no matter what Li Han said, he would deliberately refute it:
"Heavy punishment? If something really happened to my brother, what's the use of me punishing you? Ten of you, Li Han, are not as important as my brother!"
Li Han didn't deny it.Of course he knew that he was just a shadow guard, even if he was a confidant, how could he compare to the dignity of His Royal Highness King Yu.
"...Yes, please punish the master."
"Accident, accident. How did you guarantee me at the beginning? You promised me so firmly that there would be no accident. Is this your guarantee?"
"...It's my subordinate's fault. I really never thought that His Royal Highness King Yu would... fight with assassins after gaining martial arts..."
——After all, among the royal family members of the Da Jing Dynasty, there are not many martial arts masters.And the few princes who know martial arts will never leave the shadow guards alone, so keen to fight by themselves...
Pei Niancheng laughed angrily:
"I didn't expect that? What are you using your brain for!"
"...Please punish the master."
"..."
Not only was Pei Niancheng a little annoyed when he saw that he only knew how to use wheels, he took a deep breath and said directly:
"You know how much you should be fined, so I won't ask. However, I hope that today's lesson will let you know that my brother's safety is as important as mine. If my brother appears under your nose in the futureWhat is the problem, it is the same crime as despising the master..."
"—Just remember one thing, from now on, His Royal Highness King Yu will be your second master!"
Li Han suddenly raised his head, his eyes were three points puzzled and seven points stubborn:
"Master, you are the only master under him!"
Of course he knew what the master meant, but to Li Han, the safety of the master was of course more important than the safety of His Royal Highness King Yu.If the two were in a dangerous situation together, of course he would save the master first.
Let him equate the safety of His Royal Highness King Yu with the safety of his master, of course he can't do it.
Seeing that he refused to carry out his most important sentence, Pei Niancheng acted as if he wanted to reason clearly.He looked at the man on the ground, and saw a persistent expression on his face. He couldn't help being furious, and kicked Li Han's chest directly:
"You don't even want to do what I order, but some shadow guards are willing! If you can't do it, get out. Do you think you can be the leader of the shadow guards?"
Li Han knelt for a long time, naturally he didn't use any internal energy to resist, while Pei Niancheng used all his internal energy when he was furious, although his martial arts were mediocre.So Li Han received the kick without any resistance, and flew straight upside down.
In mid-air, he felt the blood in his lungs rushing up, he couldn't help closing his eyes, and sighed silently in his heart - he was afraid that the internal injury would be aggravated when his back hit the pillar later.
Unexpectedly, the expected pain did not come.There seemed to be a faint sound of the palace door being opened and closed quickly. Then, Li Han was suddenly firmly grasped by the collar with one hand, stabilized and then gently placed on the ground.
Before Li Han could turn his head to see who it was, he heard the person behind him spout:
"Xiao Sheng, what are you doing!"