Chapter 854: The Rise and Fall of the Hou Gate, Insight into the Truth

Due to the favor of Guo Guifei during the Hongxi period, the Wuding Marquis Mansion was built by the Ministry of Industry, and the magnificence was not a problem. Three rooms and five frames of gold lacquer beast face tin ring gate, seven rooms and nine frames in the middle hall, rest on the top of the hill blackboard tile, the roof ridge is decorated with a variety of delicate tile beasts, the beams and eaves are all painted, the doors and windows are decorated with gold lacquer, showing the atmosphere of wealth and luxury.

After Zhang Yue was welcomed into the middle hall by Wuding Marquis Guo Xuan, he saw the big plaque with black ground gold characters in the center at a glance, the book Xuanzhong Hall was written, and the first month of the first year of Hongxi was written below, and the book was given to Wuding Marquis Guo Xuan, and the imperial seal on that side was particularly eye-catching. Because it was Emperor Hongxi's imperial book Zhu Gaochi, not only Zhang Yue immediately gave a salute when he saw it, but Guo Xuan and others also gave salutes. After this ceremony, Guo Xuan, the Marquis of Wuding, sent all his subordinates away in a panic, and only took his eyes to Zhang Yue.

"I just came by the way to summon the Marquis of Wuding into the palace for the Queen Mother."

This fluttering sentence made Guo Xuan frightened again, and there were some sweat stains on his forehead. This main hall is for the imperial treasure, on weekdays he never lives and sits here, and the earth dragon is rarely used, plus yesterday evening to now, the home is already a mess, where to take care of this, therefore, here is almost the same as the outside, almost dripping into ice weather, but his feet are frozen, but the vest is a burst of cold and a burst of heat, there is a heart to say something, but the words to the mouth is blocked, a long time before the heart of the heart, actually stepped forward and knelt down.

"Virtuous nephew...... No, no, Lord Zhang, please turn around for my family, it's all my rebel son who doesn't keep the family motto, and after I asked, he has been beaten half to death and imprisoned in the grange outside the city. If you don't believe me, I can ......"

Faced with Guo Xuan's sudden move, Zhang Yue was stunned at first, and then immediately put his hands on his hand without waiting for him to finish speaking. Although he is a civil official and Guo Xuan is a military general, Guo Xuan is just an ancestor Yu Yin, who has never fought even a day, and at this time he is in a hurry, but he can't resist his strength, and he is dragged up. It's just that Zhang Yue's wrist was also tightly clamped by Guo Xuan.

Although at this moment, Zhang Yue can ask the Jinyiwei outside to pull people away, but it is not clear how the Guo family's guilt is, the Empress Dowager Zhang just asked the Jinyiwei to surround the house, neither sent someone to copy and inspect, nor sent someone to ask, but just went to the grange to arrest a Guo Cong, which shows that she wanted to control the situation within a certain range, at least temporarily. So, he didn't shake off Guo Xuan's hand, but helped him to the sandalwood chair on the side.

"Master Hou, don't say that Ling Lang is Ling Lang, you are you, and the Queen Mother is just calling you into the palace now, and she has no other will. Hou Ye is also a general, and now the situation is unknown, why do you ask for people indiscriminately? ”

As soon as his butt was next to the chair, Guo Xuan came back to his senses. He was just frightened by the news that the Queen Mother sent Zhang Yue to spread the message, thinking that the next thing would be an unforeseen disaster, but at this time, when he tasted Zhang Yue's words, he thought that it was Zhang Yue who came instead of the head of Dongchang or Jinyiwei, and he suddenly woke up and knew that there was a turning point this time. It's just that he couldn't take back what he did just now, so he couldn't help but glance at Zhang Yue, thinking that he was lucky to send his subordinates away, otherwise it would be even more intelligible if people saw it.

With this level of realization, his snow-white face just now became a little more bloody, and he tried his best to forget the experience of kneeling down to the back of his mind, and still grabbed Zhang Yue's hands gratefully: "I have lived a lot of years, but I still can't see through it, thanks to your reminder." You're right, the Queen Mother is merciful and will definitely see ......"

Guo Xuan's babbling was for a while, but Zhang Yue was already a little impatient. He didn't care about listening to people's ramblings, but the question was, what's the matter with this guy holding his hand? It was easy to wait until the nagging came to an end, and he withdrew his hand quietly, and then said with his hands behind his back: "Since the Hou Ye understands the queen mother's hard work, let's prepare a horse to enter the palace as soon as possible." ”

"Yes, yes......" Guo Xuan nodded again and again, and suddenly remembered another matter, so he asked tentatively, "Why, Lord Zhang doesn't enter the palace with me?" Those brocade guards in front of my house and behind the house ......"

Zhang Yue was called by Guo Xuan's virtuous nephew for a while, and his head hurt for a while, so he interrupted Guo Xuan's words at this time: "I said everything, the Queen Mother just asked me to preach by the way, and just bring a few brocade guards with her." As for the guards around the house...... The officials of the various princes and uncles of the Jingshi and the six departments of the Imperial Court are all like this, but the number is just a small number. Please also ask Master Hou to restrain his family well, there will always be a day when the truth will be revealed, don't do anything bad at this moment. ”

Listening to it, Guo Xuan, who was frightened again at first because Zhang Yue did not enter the palace with him, gradually believed it. This call by the way and the special call of the leader originally had different meanings, so it seems that there may really be that luck. So, he nodded his head like a chicken pecking rice. When Zhang Yue was sent out of the main hall, he realized that he was just worried and scared, and he withdrew his subordinates, and he didn't even have a cup of tea. Thinking of the ugly appearance at the beginning, he has always paid the most attention to etiquette, and his face can't hang up.

"Master Zhang, if there is any rudeness just now, please bear with me."

Zhang Yue, who had already gone down the steps, heard this, so he stopped his steps and turned around, and said two more polite words, but his eyes couldn't help but fall on the three big gold lacquer characters on the main hall. Zhu Gaochi has only been on the throne for a few months, and among the ministers, he can get Mobao, that is, several top nobles and Yang Shiqi Jianyi and other important ministers in charge of the five mansions, but Guo Xuan has a plaque in the main hall of the imperial gift, as long as it is not really a rebellion, Empress Dowager Zhang is afraid that she will still open up.

Zhu Gaochi didn't appreciate him much for Zhang Yue, and he borrowed more from the Zhang family than really trusted. If Zhu Gaochi lives for a few more years, the Guo family will prosper with the power of Guo Guifei, like the Jia family in the dream of Red Mansions.

This realization climbed to the top when he left the gate of Guo's house and saw the carriage that was still parked in front of the door. One door and two marquis, Taizu Ning Concubine, two princesses, and one concubine...... After more than 20 years of decay, it ushered in a short period of revival, but it split the family, coupled with this incident, the current Guo family has no chance at all, even if it is not defeated, it will be greatly damaged.

It has never been Zhang Yue's habit to be a man, so when he crossed the bridge and galloped out of Fengcheng Hutong, he threw the trace of twilight contaminated in Guo's house out of the clouds. Lerma looked at the still clear sky, and then glanced at the snow that was already thawing around him, and he couldn't help but stretch a big waist right away.

Because he was in a hurry when he left the palace, the two entourages who came with him were from the palace, and he was left in the Wuding Marquis Mansion to accompany Guo Xuan into the palace, and he was left alone. Even so, he stood on the street at the mouth of the alley at this moment, which not only attracted many curious eyes, but more people took a detour.

The reason is very simple, the warriors ride horses, the scholars ride in the car, although Zhang Yue does not wear official uniforms, but he is a Confucian scarf with a big cover, and he is alone on the street of Xuanwumen when the city is full of soldiers, who knows what the name is? This strange situation continued until a carriage suddenly stopped in front of him, blocking many views.

The checkered curtain of the carriage was half-opened at once, and an angry face poked out: "Hey, what are you doing standing here alone, do you know that my sister and your family are dying!" ”

"Little Five?" Zhang Yue was just thinking about what Zhu Ning meant by mentioning Xiao Wu, and when he saw the main lord at this time, he shook the reins with a smile and turned the horse over, and then smiled, "I just came out of the palace and did a trip, so I stood here and breathed a sigh." Did you say that, have you been to my house? ”

"It's a cold day, this is the tuyere, you stand here and blow the wind, do you call it breathable?" Xiao Wu looked at Zhang Yue with wide eyes in surprise, and almost wanted to jump out of the car to see if this brother-in-law had a fever, "Hey, you don't look at how many people are watching you...... Will you go back to the Yamen? If you don't go back to the yamen to find a place to stop, I still have something to ask you, you are really more uncomfortable than my family, mother, sister, and a lot of people in your family remember you. ”

"It just so happens that I have something to say to you."

Although he walked further north, after the West Fourth Archway and a few alleys, it was his own Wu'anhou Street, but Zhang Yue knew that Empress Dowager Zhang let him out of the palace, not to let him go home and report safety to his family, so he directly turned the horse's head to the south, and said to Xiao Wu in the car: "Just go to the Yuhe Zhongqiao your restaurant, how about it?" ”

Xiao Wu heard Zhang Yue directly say the words of your restaurant, she couldn't help blushing a little, and when she put down the curtain, she suddenly opened a crack unwillingly, and asked weakly: "How do you know that it is my restaurant?" ”

"Your family has said it, will I still know?"

In the face of this unexpected and reasonable answer, Xiao Wu suddenly had nothing to say, so he had to put down the curtain and grind his teeth viciously, picked up the cushion next to him and rubbed it twice, as if to vent his hatred, he muttered: "Dead guy, if you tell others everything, you can't leave me some secrets, and you have to open two small restaurants to be known to everyone, just a big mouth!" If I let my sister know, I should say that I refuse to stop all day long! ”

Complaining is complaining, but when they arrived at the Chengji Restaurant in the middle bridge of the Yuhe River, the men came out to take care of the carriage and horses, and Zhang Yue and Xiao Wu went to the backyard. Because this is a special box lunch for the high-ranking officials of the five governments and six ministries, for the sake of safety, there is no place for people to eat, so the backyard is extremely quiet. Xiao Wu is the benefactor of the shopkeeper and the real proprietor, naturally no one came to disturb them, as soon as the two sat down in the back room, Xiao Wu couldn't hold back.

"What the hell is going on, I listened to the sound of running horses all night last night, and when I got up early in the morning, I found that there were two more guards guarding the door of the house, and Uncle Yue and Uncle Nan were all shocked."

"Your sister knows about this, you ask her when you go back, and I have something important to ask you now." Seeing Xiao Wu glaring at him with an unkind face, Zhang Yue had to add another sentence, "It's the county lord who asked me to bring you a message." When was the last time you saw her? ”

"Sister Ning?" Xiao Wu put away his puffing appearance and asked suspiciously, "Sister Ning told me last time that there are too many things in the palace, and she is so busy that she doesn't have time to go out with my sister and me." Don't say it's me, even her pair of babies can't see her. Even if you are busy, you can't leave your two children alone! ”

"How often do you go to the county lord's mansion?"

After receiving a positive reply, Zhang Yue became more and more convinced that Zhu Ning had something to say before, so he repeated what Zhu Ning had told Xiao Wu by himself. Seeing Xiao Wu sitting there with his cheeks raised and groaning, his brows were almost furrowed, but he didn't seem to have any experience, he sighed secretly and stood up again: "If you can't figure it out, forget it, this is what the county lord asked me to tell you, and I brought it too." Later, you can also help bring a letter back, and tell my family that I am still living in the yamen for the past few days, and I may not be able to go back. ”

"I know, I know......" Xiao Wu answered twice without raising her head, but the moment the curtain fell outside, she suddenly jumped up with unusual agility, and rushed out of the door with a quick dash of the curtain, "Brother-in-law! ”

Zhang Yue only went down the steps and walked into the courtyard when he heard such a sound, turned around and looked, only to see Xiao Wu rushing over with his skirt and a smoke, and hurriedly reminded: "Slow down!" ”

As soon as the words fell, he saw that Xiao Wu had stepped on the ice somewhere in the yard, and there was a slip under the embroidered shoes. Before he could come back to his senses, Xiao Wu miraculously stretched out his hand to stabilize his body, stumbled and slid for a while and stopped. Before the person could stand firmly, she hurriedly said: "I remember, Sister Ning and I have learned to recognize acupoints and apply acupuncture needles before, and she has also used it on King Zhou." Last time, she told me again that the Queen Mother worked hard all day, and even her iron body couldn't support it, so I asked me to teach her a few more hands in addition to the medicinal diet, and said that as long as she left the palace, she would send someone to deliver a letter to her mother......"

"How many hands do the county master learn from you, what he said is for the queen mother?"

After asking again, seeing Xiao Wu nodding affirmatively, Zhang Yue faintly gave birth to a guess. Perhaps, it was not the crown prince who suddenly fell ill last night, but the Empress Dowager Zhang, who released such news just to hide the more fatal facts. But if this is the case, Zhu Ning, who is in the inner court, is not an ordinary burden, if Empress Dowager Zhang really has something to do, she will be favored and trusted again, and she will not be able to survive it in the end.

"Brother-in-law, brother-in-law?" Xiao Wu saw Zhang Yue's face uncertain, and couldn't help but call twice, seeing that he was silent, she had to stretch out her hand and shake it twice in front of his eyes angrily, and when he came back to his senses, she asked, "What's wrong, but this news is very important?" ”

"It's very important. After seeing your sister, tell her all this, and then pass on a word for me, so that she can pay attention to some movements in Shanxi. If she doesn't have enough people on her side, let her go see my father. ”

Although he didn't understand what Zhang Yue meant, Xiao Wu tilted his head and thought about it, then nodded heavily. Anyway, her head is not thinking about these materials, so let my sister worry about it!