Mu Gonggong agreed softly, drafted a secret decree on the side, handed it to the emperor to see, and then stamped the emperor's seal, after doing all this, he looked up at the emperor again, the emperor had closed his eyes and fell asleep, he and the middle-aged eunuch withdrew lightly, and called two little eunuchs into the house.

"Ancestor, Jiuyang soup is almost gone. The middle-aged eunuch reported in a low voice, and Gonggong Mu was shocked when he heard this, and his face changed suddenly: "Why is it gone?

"Old Ancestor, don't worry," the middle-aged eunuch hurriedly explained: "The main medicine of Jiuyang Soup, the Fire Marble, is almost gone, and the ones stored in Liyang Palace are almost exhausted, and this emperor can't be found anywhere." ”

Gonggong Mu was a little anxious, the emperor was seriously ill, and he almost couldn't afford to get sick, so he relied on Jiuyang Soup, and the main medicine of Jiuyang Soup was this fire marble. Fire marble is not a stone, but a kind of strange medicine of the appearance of the stone, long in the Western Regions hot land Flame Valley, through the earth fire and the scorching sun cultivation, it takes more than five years to mature, must be picked in the middle of the night when the yin is the heaviest, otherwise once picked it will turn into powder, after picking, it must be preserved with cold jade, otherwise after three days, the medicinal properties will dissipate, and the effect will be greatly reduced.

"What do you say about Liyang Palace?" Father-in-law Mu is still relatively calm, he has a lot of things, especially during this time, inside and outside the palace, he has to keep an eye on it, usually the internal guards report every seven days, and now it is a report every day, he also supervises the middle secretary, and he is busy every day, and these eunuchs around the emperor are all trained by him, I thought that I could give them to them with confidence, but I didn't expect such a big leak.

Liyang Palace is not a palace but a Taoist temple, there are hundreds of Taoist temples inside and outside the imperial capital, the city is headed by the White Horse Temple, and the Sanqing Palace is famous outside the city, but in the eyes of the royal family, Liyang Palace is the most important. Liyang Palace is located in the south of the imperial capital in Liyang Mountain, as for when it was built, no one knows, anyway, there is an imperial capital, there was before the Great Jin Dynasty, it is estimated that there are thousands of years of history.

It is recorded in the secret of the royal family that after Taizu established the country, he gave a large amount of incense money to Liyang Palace every year, and this money was secretly allocated from the inner treasury, and then, every emperor was like this, including the talented Emperor Wu, but after Emperor Wu, the inner library was empty, and this offering gradually stopped.

But after the emperor was seriously ill, his uncle Pan Ji offered Jiuyang soup, in which the main medicine was the fire cloud stone, and the palace searched around, and finally found the master of the Liyang Palace, Miao Xuan Dao, who handed over the fire cloud stones stored in the palace to the palace.

The palace sent people to look for Huoyun Stone everywhere, and rummaged through the inner library and the Tai Hospital, but there was none, the middle-aged eunuch was in a hurry, and if Gonggong Mu didn't come today, he would also go to find him.

Father-in-law Mu is the backer of the eunuchs in the palace, and the middle-aged eunuch was originally just a little eunuch who took care of the stable, but it was Father-in-law Mu who single-handedly lifted him up and sent him to the emperor.

"How long can the remaining fire marble stones last?" Gonggong Mu's expression was stern, and the middle-aged eunuch whispered: "It's still enough for about half a month, and I didn't dare to serve Jiuyang soup today, and I used the century-old ginseng sent by the King of Dongyue." ”

"That's it!" Father-in-law Mu was shocked, and the middle-aged eunuch's face was pale: "The little ones are also anxious, but they have searched all over the inside and outside, but there is none, and they dare not make a noise, father-in-law, can you pass the internal guard... ”

"Well, you did the right thing," Father-in-law Mu nodded and said, a fierce look flashed in his eyes: "The news is not allowed to be spread, you tell it to go down, whoever dares to say it, don't blame our family for being ruthless!"

The middle-aged eunuch nodded yes, but then he was embarrassed: "Father-in-law, the hospital knows about it, do you want to?" ”

"Don't worry, I'll go say hello over there, besides, they are also old errands, and they know how powerful this is, and this is to be offered to the family's head. Father-in-law Mu's tone was fierce.

The emperor's health status has always been top secret, no matter what the imperial doctor knows, whoever dares to reveal it will be guilty of raiding the house and destroying the door.

But the fire marble is now the top priority, and the internal guards of Yongzhou Liangzhou soon received an order to use all their strength to find the fire marble, and after finding it, they quickly sent it to the imperial capital.

The internal guards of Yongliang and Liangliang secretly checked the pharmacies in various places, and the head of the internal security of Liangzhou secretly sent people to the Western Regions to buy fire marble stones.

The palace is strictly guarded, but the internal guards secretly mobilize to find the news of the fire cloud, but there is no secret in the world that can be kept, especially in places like the palace, well-informed nobles also act secretly.

The great general Qiuyun finally returned to the imperial capital two days later and stayed at Luoshuiyi. After hundreds of years of construction, the transportation of Sili is developed, the transportation of the imperial capital is better, every year from all parts of the huge empire there are people rushing to the imperial capital, the imperial capital is surrounded by post stations, these post stations are set up every thirty miles, specially for the court officials to rest and pass on military information, each post station depends on the size of the scale, with a few people to dozens of people.

Each post station has expenses, the initial post station expenses are provided by the central government or local government, to the time of Zhongzong, the imperial court financial difficulties, Zhongzong implemented reforms, ordered to allocate ten or dozens of hectares of land to each post station, no longer pay for the post station, in the past officials must pay for accommodation, only military intelligence transmission is not used.

Luoshui Station is close to the imperial capital, this is a post station that the imperial court rarely retains to provide expenses, the Qincha who goes out and comes back, the important ministers who enter the dynasty from all over the country, must first stay in the post station, Yongliang and the three states all stay in Luoshuiyi, the north of the Liao Prefecture in Hebei Province stays in the Tao Pavilion, the Qingyan Taiyang Prefectures in the west stay in the Taolin Station outside the Jianyang Gate, and the south Jingzhou and other places return to the Dynasty to stay in Liyang Station.

According to the imperial court system, whether a foreign minister enters the court or returns to the court, he must first stay in one of these four post stations, wait for the emperor to summon him, and only after the emperor summons him can he go home or stay in another inn.

The only difference between all these foreign ministers who entered the court was that the commander of the army who went out to win the expedition did not stay in any of the four post stations when he entered the city, but was sent by the emperor to set up a camp outside the Arc de Triomphe.

Qiuyun once enjoyed such treatment, more than 10 years ago, he broke Xianbei and returned to the dynasty victoriously, the emperor set up camp outside the triumphal arch, when entering the city, the court officials were led by the prime minister, greeted at the city gate, and the emperor personally sent a guard of honor as the guide.

The Son of Heaven Luan Yi is forward, and hundreds of officials are waiting, and there is nothing more proud of life than this.

It was the most glorious moment in Qiu Yun's life, and it was also the most glorious moment for the Qiu family!

But this time it was different, Qiu Yun quietly checked in to Luoshui Station, but before the evening, someone sent a post, and in the evening, there were more than ten posts sent to Qiu Yun, but what disappointed them was that Qiu Yun was all rejected on the grounds of illness, and everyone was strictly not allowed to go out.

To Qiuyun's surprise, the emperor did not immediately summon him to see him, but sent a imperial physician to treat him and instructed him to recuperate before entering the court.

Qiu Ge thought that since the imperial doctor had come, he could go out and enter the city, but Qiu Yun still ordered that no one was allowed to go out except for buying things, which made Qiu Ge extremely depressed, and every day in the small courtyard of the post station, he circled around the courtyard, looked at the majestic imperial capital, thinking about the talents and handsomeness in the imperial capital, and couldn't help but be anxious, but he didn't dare to disobey Qiu Yun's orders, especially at this time.

"Father, how long will this be waiting!"

Qiuyun is indeed sick, he has traveled for a long time, his age is also on the older side, he suffered from a cold a few days ago, Qiu Ge wanted to stop, but Qiuyun insisted on hurrying, treating the disease while hurrying, and the illness was not completely cured when he arrived at Luoshuiyi.

Qiu Yun was dressed in civilian clothes, lying on the recliner casually, listening to Qiu Ge's complaints, and smiled disappreciatively: "What's the hurry, aren't you Xuan Xiu, Xuan Xiu pays attention to a static word, Duanmu is saying that you are a person in the red dust, not a cultivator, it seems that he is not wrong." ”

Qiu Ge looked unconvinced, and argued: "It's been two days, and the edicts have come one by one, but they don't see it when they arrive, is the emperor ... ”

When he said this, Qiu Yun glared at him, Qiu Ge hurriedly stopped his mouth, Qiu Yun said slowly: "The emperor has the emperor's consideration, according to the imperial court system, the officials of the Hui Dynasty are not allowed to see the ministers of the court without meeting the emperor. ”

"You're a general, I'm not!" Qiu Ge was very helpless, these days in front of Qiuyun, he has to behave every day, not to mention the flower wine on the Huaxi River, even if he can't see a drop of wine, Qiuyun governs the government with military orders, and he is not allowed to drink alcohol during the march according to military orders.

"Is there a difference between letting you go out and me going out?" Qiu Yun asked rhetorically, Qiu Ge smiled bitterly: "I see you, you are just too careful." ”

"Be careful at this time. Qiu Yun said meaningfully, Qiu Ge sighed and got up and walked out of the house, and when he arrived outside the house, several guards were complaining to the chief guard, saying that the forage provided by the post station was not good, not concentrate feed, and the guards were angry and wanted to find trouble with the post station, but after thinking about Qiu Yun's instructions, he endured it again, and asked the guards to find the people in the post hall to ask them what they meant.

Qiu Ge stopped them: "Forget it, no matter how bold this post station is, they don't dare to withhold our horse material, they don't have concentrate, you can send someone to buy some back." ”

The chief guard was indignant, he could catch up along the way, the horses were all thin, and now he was in the imperial capital, but he didn't think it was actually this treatment, the brothers rushed all the way, and when they arrived in the imperial capital, they wanted to go to see this world of flowers, but they didn't want to go into the city, even if they went out, they didn't know what the general thought.

According to Qiu Ge's words, the chief guard asked the two guards to buy fodder, and when he turned around, he saw Qiu Ge staggering towards the side room, and hurriedly chased after him.

"Second son, I found a good thing, you can take a look. "The chief guard chased Qiu Ge in, the chief guard is the head of the Qiu family's private soldiers, and he cultivates to have seven grades of martial arts.

Qiu Ge sat lazily on the chair: "What a good thing, what other good farts can you kid have, do you think of any ghost ideas again? I can tell you, I can't get out, so don't think about it!"

"How can you look at this. The chief guard looked out of the door, took out a wine jug from his arms, and handed it to Qiu Ge, Qiu Ge was stunned for a moment, and then he was overjoyed, and grabbed it, this wine jug was flat, and there was a relief on it, Qiu Ge didn't have time to appreciate the wine jug, uncorked it and poured it into his mouth, and sighed after taking a long sip: "Good wine!

The chief of the guard sneered, it seems that the second son is suffocated, what kind of good wine is this, but as far as the ordinary Liangzhou burning knife, he hid two jars in the guard.

Qiu Ge slapped the chief of the guard: "You kid has also learned to hide his secrets! This imperial capital can't buy burning knives, how much do you kid hide?"

The chief of the guard smiled, if you want to talk about the sons of General Qiu, the eldest son Qiu Ge is the most feared and admired by the big guy, but the closest is the second son Qiu Ge. Qiu Ge is brave and good at fighting, bravely crowning the three armies, and the brothers follow him, even if they walk tens of thousands of miles, even if they face the iron cavalry of the Xianbei people, their hearts are steady. And the second son is gentle, there is no shelf, whether it is a slave or a maid, or an officer and a soldier, you can sit with them to drink and chat, the brothers accidentally violate military law or family rules, and ask the second son here, he tries his best to help intercede, and everyone in the house likes him.

"I know that the second son likes to drink, so I hid two jars. The chief guard whispered: "Second son, you drink quietly at night, don't let the handsome smell the wine." ”

"Interesting!" Qiu Ge patted the guard on the shoulder again, then remembered it again, pulled down his face and scolded: "****, why did you only take it out now, I almost suffocated my master!"

The chief guard hurriedly put on a smiling face: "Second son, second master, this is not a military order from the general, you can't drink alcohol during the march, you and the general don't see each other that day, this burning knife is strong, and the wine can't be dispersed for a long time, this is going to make the general smell it, isn't this wine just unkeeping, don't you say?!"

Qiu Ge thought for a moment and took a sip of wine, but the chief guard hurriedly stopped: "Don't drink it now, at night, the general is asleep, and it's not too late for you to drink again!"

Qiu Ge condensed, stared at the wine jug, sighed regretfully, put the wine jug away, the chief of the guard breathed a sigh of relief, the general is going to find out, it is really going to punish the crime, this kind of thing has happened before, although it will not be beheaded, but dozens of military sticks are not comfortable.

"Second son, why do you say that the general, this is all in the imperial capital, why don't you let us go out and stay here all day, isn't this equivalent to imprisonment." ”

"What do you kid know!" Qiu Ge scolded with a smile, as if he didn't expect that the age of the chief guard was actually more than ten years older than him, but the chief guard was accustomed to it, these two sons don't look small, as soon as they are happy, no matter who they are, they are called boys.

"The saint is seriously ill, the situation in the court is delicate, and my father is in a delicate situation, so he is cautious and does not dare to take a step beyond Lei Chi. ”

The chief guard shook his head and said: "The general is too careful, the general is loyal to the emperor, even if he sees a few people, is it possible that the emperor will still punish the general?"

Qiu Ge laughed dryly, and the chief guard gradually became solemn, and asked with some surprise: "Is it true... Speaking of this, he was a little excited: "Damn! The general guarded Liangzhou for the imperial court, and fought bloodily for several years, before there was peace in Liangzhou and Yongzhou, just see a few people, and the emperor will punish the crime, I think the emperor is dizzy, damn, it's a big deal, let's go back to Liangzhou." ”

"What's the matter, you kid wants to rebel!" Qiu Ge slapped him the shoulder, he didn't cultivate, and the chief guard accepted it as if nothing happened.