Leng Cui Garden is a corridor garden built around the lake, the trees are planted in the corner furrow and stacked green like smoke, and in the summer season, the shade in the garden is as cool as autumn. The guards of Zhang's mansion were armed with knives and armor, and they were on guard outside the garden, not to mention that even a fly could not fly in if people approached.

"You rebel, disloyal and unfilial, and you still have the face to come back alive! You are going to trap the Zhang family to death! An old and hoarse voice came faintly, and anyone who was close to the courtyard wall of the garden could hear that it was the voice of Zhang Xie, the current minister.

"The child is also struggling in the hands of Dongyu, and he didn't immediately sacrifice his life for righteousness, he is really unwilling," Zhang Ximiao knelt on the hard brick ground and cried, "Li Zhuo delayed the fighter plane, resulting in the defeat of Liaoxi, and tens of thousands of generals ...... in the cold."

"! You beast, you can't act in front of me," Zhang Xie hated so much that he beat the ground with a cane, and when he saw his son pretending to be innocent with his eyes open, he poked his face with the head of the cane and scolded, "You animal, greedy for life and afraid of death, others don't understand you, I have been your Lao Tzu for more than 30 years, can I still see through you?" Hao Zongcheng is still a little loyal to the emperor, but your injuries are all new injuries - everyone is staring at Hao Zongcheng at this time, and the emperor will only suspect Hao Zongcheng if he is suspicious at this time, even Hao Zongcheng was confused for a while and deceived you. Do you think that in three or five days, no one will ever see the strangeness? ”

Zhang Ximiao's face was poked with blood, and he was injured and injured, but his father's words pierced his heart directly, which made him panic and uneasy, stunned there, and didn't know what to say for a while, peeking at his father's face, as if he didn't have the anger he imagined, he had the courage to ask: "Father knows, why did he help Hao Zongcheng speak in the palace and urge the emperor to kill Li Zhuo?" ”

"You're stupid!" Zhang Xie saw that his son had not grown at all, and he had the helplessness and powerlessness to hate iron and steel, so he sat down on a chair and said in a suppressed voice, "You can hide this trick from others for three or five days, but you can't hide it from Li Zhuo for a moment." If Li Zhuo is allowed to confront Hao Zongcheng in court about the defeat of the Liaoxi army, your trick will be exposed in the court. For the sake of the Zhang family's more than 200 people, how dare I let Li Zhuo enter the palace to confront him? Li Zhuo doesn't die, the Zhang family is full of disasters, and it's not all for you to do this beast! ”

"Let Chen Xinbo force Li Zhuo, what if Li Zhuo sees something to remind Chen Xinbo?" Zhang Ximiao was a little bolder and asked.

"Li Zhuo's mind will still be on Hao Zongcheng for a while, not to mention that Li Zhuo may not have this quick wit, even if Li Zhuo reminded Chen Xinbo, do you think Chen Xinbo is loyal to the emperor? What he has done all the best to do over the years is nothing more than to overpower his father, and his father has a handle in his hands, and he is too late to be happy, how can he poke it open? Zhang Xie's tone calmed down and said, "Moreover, Li Zhuo is the scapegoat, either Li Zhuo's fault or the emperor's fault." Who can make the emperor bow his head and admit his mistakes? If Hao Zongcheng doesn't come back, the matter will drag on. When Hao Zongcheng comes back, the responsibility for the defeat of Liaoxi cannot be ignored, otherwise everyone is uncertain and uneasy, how to break through? Speaking of this, Zhang Xie breathed a sigh of relief and said, "No one is in love with children? Unlike me, half cut into the ground, your life is still long, and it is normal to have no will to die. I don't blame you for it, but sit up and talk and tell me in detail what you know, and see how you can remedy it. ”

Zhang Xiluo detailed the situation that Yezier, the king of Yanhu Khan, forcibly summoned him in after the Jizhou banquet, and said: "...... The child will either die immediately, or he can only secretly help Hao Zongcheng get out of prison, and those brave soldiers who robbed the prison are no problem - except for this, the king of captives has not mentioned anything else. If there are other conditions, the child will die in the Donghu prison, and it will never drag down the father. ”

"The Donghu people have already seen you through, as long as you and Hao Zongcheng come back, their goal will be achieved, what conditions do you need to agree to?" Zhang Xie let out a long sigh, and his thin hand hung weakly on the table.

At this time, the old housekeeper Zhang Cheng was carrying a basket box, and the vegetables and meat were fragrant - Zhang Cheng put the box on the table, pulled out a drawer, and put the dishes full of delicacies on the table, and said: "In the kitchen, I can only make these for emergencies at this time, and the second young master will fill my stomach with ......" took out a pot of wine, did not put it on the table, but stretched it out to hand it to Zhang Xie, and said, "The second young master's injuries have not healed yet, can he really drink?" ”

Since I came back last night, I have been under review, although I have not embarrassed him, but except for the nest made of two grains of rough face, Zhang Ximiao has not eaten anything else for two days, and his stomach is so hungry that he is screaming. Seeing that there was still wine, Zhang Ximing's father's anger had subsided, and he reached out to snatch the wine jug from the old family member Zhang Cheng, and said in his mouth: "I can drink, I can drink ......."

Zhang Cheng saw that Xiangye did not stop him, so he let the wine jug be snatched from the second young master's hand, and the eyes of the second young master were full of pity.

Zhang Ximao didn't take a cup, his mouth was close to the mouth of the pot, so he poured a big mouthful, couldn't wait to pick up the bamboo chopsticks, and stuffed the vegetables into his mouth, as if he was reincarnated as a hungry ghost, knowing that the old family Zhang Cheng was a confidant who had followed his father for decades, and he didn't have to hide any secrets, his mouth was stuffed with vegetables and meat, and he said vaguely: "My father said that others may see the flaws in three or five days, that is, Chen Xinbo used this to blackmail our Zhang family, and it is not a good thing, how to hide it now?" It's still that the child is sick at home, and if he doesn't show his head, there should be no problem. I can see it clearly, the 100,000 elites of the Jizhen army are vulnerable, and there are 300,000 or 400,000 soldiers and horses in the south to save it, which is useless. The general trend of the world is in the hands of the Donghu people, but if the Donghu people want to rule the world, we are still indispensable. The situation dragged on until the fall of Yanjing, and my father led his ministers to follow suit, and the Donghu people would still reuse our Zhang family's ......" Speaking of this, the heart beat violently inexplicably, and then the heart twitched sharply, colic like a knife, the whole body was paralyzed and couldn't move, and looked at my father in panic......

"Don't blame your father for being ruthless," Zhang Xie said desolate and ruthlessly, "If you don't die, more than 200 members of the Zhang family will be hung under the knife; If you don't die, Chen Zhihu will see something strange one day, and he will not spare the Zhang family; If you don't die, the emperor will also be suspicious, how can Daddy compete with Chen Xinbo for the position left behind in Yanjing? Without the position left by Yanjing, what value can the Zhang family have in the eyes of the Donghu people in the future? The Donghu people asked you to come back, without mentioning any conditions, but you have lived for more than 30 years, and I also teach you with my heart, but you can't understand that you are a chess piece that will be scrapped when you use it, who can you complain about? I can't even save your eldest brother, it's all fate......" Zhang Xie's tone became faster and faster, and his voice was fierce, like a tiger......

"Xiangye, the young master died of his injuries, you have to mourn!" Zhang Cheng, an old family member, whispered on the side.

Zhang Xi was so angry that he was on the seat, he didn't expect that his father would poison him with his own hands!

Zhang Xie stood up and said to Zhang Cheng: "You sent someone to the palace to report the news, and said that the old man was sad and sick and was already bedridden - the emperor was very suspicious, maybe he would send the imperial doctor to inspect it, you have to be careful with the arrangement, you can't fail it!" As he spoke, he staggered out, leaving the mess to Zhang Cheng to clean up......

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Chen Xinbo and Wang Qishan returned to the palace to reinstate, and they were still worried about the escape of Chen Dingbang and the dog calf Lu Xiong......

Hao Zongcheng really called it a wreckage that had been dragged for a long time, and people couldn't doubt it if they wanted to. The imperial doctor's examination of injuries is mainly to examine Hao Zongcheng, and the examination is mainly to examine the Jizhen soldier who rescued people from Jizhou.

Compared with Hao Zongcheng, who served as the military supervisor of Jizhen for a long time, had a deep influence on the Jizhen army, and was in charge of the Jizhen army at the last moment, which directly led to the rout of western Liaoning, Zhang Ximao was just an unlucky ghost who came to western Liaoning to deliver the decree at the end. In terms of the role he played at that time, Zhang Ximeng was even far inferior to Yang Wenchang, who went out of the customs with a secret decree at that time, and then openly voted for the east and said that he would surrender to Changli.

Besides, the emperor still trusts Zhang Xie, who will embarrass Zhang Ximiao at this juncture? Zhang Ximao leaked out of the past inconsequentially.

Chen Xinbo's mind was only on Hao Zongcheng at the beginning, but with Hao Zongcheng's appearance at this time, he just let him go, and it was a question whether he could survive or not, and it would never be possible for him to come out to power again in a short time.

Even if the blame for the defeat of the Liaoxi army is attributed to Hao Zongcheng, in fact, it is nothing more than forcing the emperor to bow his head and admit his mistakes, and the final result is likely to be to use Li Zhuo again to clean up the mess, but the situation has reached this point, who is in it good to use Li Zhuo again?

Based on Chen Xinbo's understanding of Li Zhuo, if Li Zhuo could afford it, he would most likely suggest that Zhou Zongfan and Chen Zhihu lead the Qinwang Division of the West Road to support the emperor to take refuge in the south, and Li Zhuo would lead his ministers and the Jingying army to stay behind to hold Yanjing and contain the main force of the Donghu people.

Maybe Chen Xinbo, Zhang Xie and other civil and military officials can follow south, but there are tens of thousands of people in the Manchu civil and military families combined, and Li Zhuo will never let these tens of thousands of people drag and drag along with them to break through to the south - not to mention the danger of breaking through to the south, that is, if he can escape, he is seventy or eighty years old, and it is not a pity to die, but leaving the Manmen family in Yanjing to be slaughtered by the Donghu people, so that Chen Xinbo really can't be ruthless.

No matter how big the suspicion of Hao Zongcheng's escape is, let alone Zhang Xie, the situation has dragged to this point, even Chen Xinbo will not let Li Zhuo have another chance to be useful.

Chen Xinbo did not suspect Zhang Ximeng at the beginning, but when he heard the news that Zhang Ximeng was seriously injured and died, he suddenly realized that he had suddenly realized that the doubts and problems of Hao Zongcheng's escape were not in Hao Zongcheng, but on Zhang Ximeng's head - Chen Xinbo stomped his feet with hatred, and secretly thought in his heart: It is said that tiger poison does not eat children, but I didn't expect that I would be inferior to Zhang Xie in the end!