The upper room of this post house is a small courtyard house. The entrance to the courtyard is a small courtyard, except for some seedlings and flowers, there is a stone table and several stone benches erected in the middle of the courtyard.

At this moment, two people were sitting on the stone bench playing chess, and a man dressed as a butler was standing on the side and waiting. Although it was late at night, the light from the two candles on the stone table illuminated the small courtyard.

Zhang Yixian, who had just rushed into the courtyard to ask someone for the crime, was kneeling on the ground in front of the stone table at this moment, not even daring to raise his head.

The chess player was a middle-aged man with a pockmarked face, and a young man with a sharp eyebrow. What the two of them played was not the game of Go that the scholars loved, but the elephant opera that people in the market loved at this time.

The middle-aged man looked at Zhang Yixian, who was kneeling on the side and didn't dare to come out, and then looked at the young man opposite who didn't seem to care, and his mind couldn't help but be a little distracted. There is not much difference in the chess strength of the two, and when he was distracted, he was checkmate by the young man's sinking bottom cannon.

The middle-aged man looked at the chess game, arched his hands at the young man and said, "Your Majesty's chess strength is old and spicy, and Jingting is not as good as it." ”

Zhu Youzhen just smiled slightly, then stretched out his hand to mess up the chess game, and then said: "Definitely, if it weren't for this vulgar thing to disturb today, I should still lose this last game, Mr. Liu is letting me." ”

Liu Jingting smiled silently, just pointed at Zhang Yixian who was kneeling on the ground, and Zhu Youzhen turned his head to look at Zhang Yixian, who was kneeling on the ground and didn't dare to come out.

Although Zhu Youzhen still had a smile on his face, there was no smile in his eyes. He said to Zhang Yixian kindly: "I just asked you to go out of Beijing to pick up a few people for me, and that's how you represent me outside?" ”

"Weichen is guilty, the minister deserves death, please punish Your Majesty." Zhang Yixian couldn't feel any backache at the moment, and even his underwear was soaked with sweat under his fright.

"Since you know that you are guilty, tell me what you have sinned?" Zhu Youzhen said mockingly.

Zhang Yixian dared to answer again at this moment, he could only knock on the ground with his head desperately, the place where he knelt happened to be the ground paved with green stones, and these few hard kowtows suddenly made blood stains appear on his forehead.

"Enough, if you say that you have committed some crime, will you pretend to be pitiful to me? Grandpa Zhang, where did you just rush into the yard and go? Zhu Youzhen finally couldn't bear to look at it anymore, and scolded Zhang Yixian loudly.

Seeing that Chongzhen finally raised his voice and scolded himself, Zhang Yixian finally relieved his heart, with his observation of Chongzhen these days, once this young man is willing to scold you, it means that his anger is almost over.

Sure enough, after scolding a few words, Chongzhen said to Wang Chengen beside him: "After I go back, let him go to the Great Light Hall to serve Sanqing for a few days, and go to this evil spirit." ”

Wang Chengen naturally agreed in a low voice, Zhang Yixian secretly complained in his heart, he had been stumbling for half his life, and when he was assigned to King Xin's mansion, he thought that this life was like this, but he didn't expect King Xin to turn around and become the emperor.

With his deferential attitude in front of King Shin, he finally came to the fore, but he didn't expect to be beaten back to his original form just by getting carried away for a while. However, he didn't dare to say anything now, so he could only wait for Chongzhen's fate with peace of mind.

After instructing Wang Chengen, Zhu Youzhen said to Zhang Yixian: "What are you still doing here, go and invite Mr. Xu in, I want to talk to him well." ”

Zhang Yixian didn't even dare to wipe the blood on his forehead, so he got up and walked out of the courtyard. After watching Zhang Yixian leave, Liu Jingting retracted his gaze and said cautiously to Chongzhen: "Your Majesty went out of Beijing in the white dragon fish suit today, and did not return until night, which has violated the ancestral system. At this moment, if you summon the foreign ministers, the grass people are afraid that the government and the opposition will criticize His Majesty's actions in the future. ”

"Mr. Liu is so roundabout that the emperor is not allowed to leave the palace and Beijing, what kind of ancestral system is it? Is my Emperor Taizu also not allowed to leave the palace? If the superior does not have contact with the people's feelings, how can they know the people's suffering? Some people obstruct my access to the people, just to blindfold my eyes and ears, so that I can be a clay statue on the royal gate. Zhu Youzhen did not hesitate to criticize the motives of the civil officials to isolate the communication between the emperor and the common people.

Although Liu Jingting thinks he is bold, he can only keep silent when he encounters this kind of topic. In the Ming Dynasty, it may not be okay to offend the emperor, but if you offend the civil official group, there will definitely be no good end.

Xu Guangqi and the other three waited at the gate of the courtyard for a long time, listening that there seemed to be nothing abnormal in the courtyard, and they planned to leave to rest, after all, they had been tired for a few days, and several of them were also a little old, and they could not be compared with those energetic young people.

Originally, they were worried that Zhang Yixian would lead people into the courtyard, which would be detrimental to the residents in the courtyard. Although it is not known who lives in it, it must be an official who can live in the upper room of the post station. Xu Guangqi and the others were afraid that it was an old man they knew, so they naturally wanted to help from the side.

However, looking at the Jinyi guard who rushed in, the speed of exiting was faster than rushing in, and now he was firmly guarding the hospital, looking like he was not disturbed. It can be seen that the identity of the residents in this courtyard is not trivial, and even the factory guards can drive it.

After feeling that the people in the courtyard should be fine, Xu Guangqi rubbed his waist and said to the two friends around him: "People are old, and the bones of this body are not neat, looking at this calm appearance, it seems that the people inside should be familiar with Grandpa Zhang." Let's not disturb them, let's go back and rest. ”

After Wang Zheng and Li Zhizao glanced at each other, they helped Xu Guangqi and wanted to leave. At this time, the originally closed courtyard door opened again, and Zhang Yixian, who rushed in with high spirits before, now trotted out in embarrassment.

Wang Zheng looked at the front end of Zhang Yixian's robe, which seemed to have traces of kneeling on the mud, but Xu Guangqi saw some small blood marks on Zhang Yixian's forehead, and the three of them were stunned.

Zhang Yixian looked at the light from the lantern hanging in front of the courtyard and saw the three people standing on one side. He settled down, then walked up to Xu Guangqi and bent down and said, "Lord Xu, please follow me into the hospital, there are distinguished guests in the courtyard, please see your lord." ”

Wang Zheng frowned and replied, "If the people in the courtyard want to see Mr. Zixian, why don't they go out and invite him personally?" Mr. Zixian is also a great Confucian in the sea, can't he afford this person to invite him personally? What's more, Mr. Zixian was personally recruited into Beijing by His Majesty, who is in this courtyard who dares to despise Mr. so much? ”

Although Xu Guangqi is much older than Wang Zheng, the speed of his brain is still flexible. After he entered and exited the courtyard from Zhang Yixian, he immediately became condescending, looking like he didn't dare to come out, and faintly thought of the identity of the guests in the courtyard.

Although Xu Guangqi felt that it was impossible for the person in the courtyard to be as he thought, if it wasn't for that person, who could drive the factory guards to be like the people in his own family.

Xu Guangqi naturally knew that if the courtyard was really the person he thought, then Zhang Yixian really couldn't explain. Otherwise, once the official learns about it, the ministers, factory guards, and even the people who accompanied the person who appeared here today will be criticized by the government and the opposition.

Thinking of this key, Xu Guangqi immediately stopped Wang Zheng, who was still denouncing the people in the courtyard, he grabbed Wang Zheng's arm and pinched it hard. Then he smiled at Zhang Yixian and said: "This day's running around has also made the old man's mouth dry, since someone has invited him, then the old man will be an uninvited guest." Liangfu and Zhenzhi went back to rest, and I will come back after disturbing a cup of tea. ”

received Xu Guangqi's hint, although he was a little unclear, but Wang Zheng still kept his mouth shut. Li Zhizao on the side talked to Xu Guangqi for a few words, and then pulled Wang Zheng to the courtyard arranged by Yicheng.