Qingchuan History

Chapter 47 The Stars List Ye Mingshen

It was night, and Ruan Xueyin re-entered the Wanlan Palace.

Counting the five days of her illness, tonight is her tenth time coming in, and she is already very familiar with the light and shadow in this palace, the rustling sound of those plane trees in the night wind, and the cobblestone path leading to the imperial study.

When she was approaching the door of the study, she reminded herself that no matter what, the matter of Heluotu had to be settled tonight.Everything else gives way to this one.

Rarely, Gu Xinglang was not reviewing papers.He was sitting in front of the ebony desk, holding an object in his hand, and was staring intently at it.It was a bit far away, but the object was crystal clear, shining brightly under the light, and Ruan Xueyin could still see clearly that it was a jade bracelet.

He looked at it very seriously, as if he was caught in some kind of thought, so that she stood at the door for a long time, but he didn't notice it at all.

Ruan Xueyin waited for a while, feeling that she might be peeping if she stood any longer, so she coughed lightly and said, "Your Majesty is safe."

Gu Xinglang woke up like a dream, calmly put the bracelet into a small gold-painted box, and pushed the box to a corner of the desk.

"It's so fast today."

"Master Diyan met me near the Qingyan Pavilion and I was walking this way, so it was earlier than usual."

Gu Xinglang got up and walked towards the balcony, "You've learned to come here uninvited."

Ruan Xueyin smiled, "Your Majesty will send someone to pick you up anyway, so it's okay for my concubine to take a few steps."

Xu Shizhen was a little familiar, and her speech was not as stiff as before.

"It looks like you have a lot to say to me."

"indeed so."

Gu Xinglang stopped in his tracks, and looked at her with great interest, "Come here prepared."

"Your Majesty, don't you think that someday I won't?"

"Indeed. But the sense of purpose is especially strong tonight. I can feel it when you stand at the door of the study."

He sat down at the round table, and she also sat opposite him, the scene seemed to have happened a thousand times naturally.

"So Your Majesty knows what I'm going to say."

"not yet."

Ruan Xueyin was startled, "Your Majesty means—"

"That's what you understand."

Ruan Xueyin's eyes changed twice.

"Is it strange? After all, the Yuwen family has dominated Qingchuan for 200 years. How can the gate of Jizhao Pavilion be opened so easily?" He thought for a while, a little puzzled,

"Didn't you expect this answer? Lord Jiji should know it."

It was expected.I didn't expect you to answer so readily.

"Which door are you at?"

Gu Xinglang thought for a moment, it was really just a moment, so short that Ruan Xueyin didn't notice it,
"The fourth way."

She looked at him again with a sinister expression.

"What are you looking at me for? Yuwen's family also set up one for one day, and we untie one for one day, which is very reasonable."

It is reasonable.But also very unreasonable.

"That is to say, you haven't solved it yet, or haven't solved it?"

"Ah."

Ruan Xueyin definitely looked at him for the third time.

After sitting down for less than half a stick of incense, Gu Xinglang coughed and said:

"You have also seen the current situation since I came to the throne. I really don't have time to go to Jizhao Pavilion to break through."

"When I went down the mountain, the teacher said that with your ability, if you start to solve the problem since you ascended the throne, you may have reached the sixth path."

Gu Xinglang raised his eyebrows: "Two ways in seven years? Master Ji Ji thinks highly of me."

"Your Majesty Taizu, Taizong, and Dingzong, they all opened one."

"They've been working together for a lifetime."

"So. You are Gu Xinglang."

He looked at her and didn't answer.

"Gu Xinglang is the person with the best brain in the past 300 years in Daqi, and even in the past [-] years in Qingchuan. This is not only said by the teacher, Master Ji Huan, but now everyone is saying the same thing."

It was obviously a powerful compliment, but because of the atmosphere and events, it became full of oppression.

"So what? No one stipulated that I must clear the level of Jizhao Pavilion."

"Opening the gate of Jizhao Pavilion and taking out the map of Heluo is one of the ancestral precepts of the Gu family." Ruan Xueyin was not in a hurry, she drank a sip of tea and said, "I'm afraid that the whole Qingchuan is looking forward to the king's clearance. "

"In this Qi Palace, you are the only one who dared to say the three words Heluotu to me openly, and dared to ask me to borrow it."

"But Your Majesty is not surprised."

"Pengxi Mountain has obsidian curtains and mountains and rivers. It is reasonable to be interested in things like the Heluo map." He also took a sip from the white jade cup, "It's just that the Heluo map is a royal property, and there is no reason to borrow it. .Even if I have already got it today, it is impossible to borrow it.”

"The map of Heluo belongs to the Yuwen family."

Gu Xinglang's complexion changed slightly, and he looked at her with serious eyes: "It's something that Yuwen's family is keeping. No one knows where it belongs."

Ruan Xueyin smiled: "So now the Gu family is taking care of it. Pengxi Mountain just wants to borrow it for a look, and doesn't want to take care of it."

"How to borrow the law?"

"Give me an hour."

"Rubbing?"

Ruan Xueyin was startled, and then realized: "Have you read the rubbings of Shanhepan?"

Gu Xinglang straightened his robe casually, and leaned back in his chair, "I am the number one suspect, so of course I want to see it. The Shanhe Pan can be rubbed. Although I have never seen it, I am surprised. Didn't you say that the Shanhe Pan and the Obsidian The curtains are constantly flowing? Wouldn’t rubbings disrupt its operation?”

"I don't know how she did it, anyway, I dare not."

Gu Xinglang smiled slightly: "Your junior sister is more ruthless than you."

“How come you see?”

"Feel."

"Your Majesty said that he never believed in feelings."

"Some feelings are accumulated based on facts and can be referred to."

Ruan Xueyin faintly sensed that the topic was about to be pulled away, so she stopped continuing and asked instead: "So how does Your Majesty consider Heluotu's matter?"

Gu Xinglang picked up the white jade cup on the table and began to turn it in his hand, "You said earlier that you have saved enough to borrow things from me, let's hear it."

improvement.Ruan Xueyin let out a long breath.

"First, I cleared your suspicion in the case of the crown prince war, and you have accepted this favor; second, I saved your life ten days ago, although it was unexpected, it is considered a great favor; third,"

She confirmed the wording in her heart, and said loudly:
"It is the mission of the royal family of Gu Shi to open all the checkpoints in Jizhao Pavilion and take out the map of Heluo. No matter how stubborn your mouth is, your majesty is going to do this. If what you just said is true, then there are still three gates left. Luo Tu was taken by the Gu family during the reign of Jing Hong, and it is just around the corner."

Gu Xinglang laughed: "You have more confidence in me than in myself."

Ruan Xueyin was very serious: "It's a bit exaggerated to open three ways with one person's power. Has your majesty never thought of asking for help?"

Gu Xinglang leaned forward slightly, and looked into her eyes with deep eyes: "A hundred years ago, the Taizu destroyed Yuwen and demolished all the architectural regulations in the palace. Only Jizhao Pavilion remained, of course because of Heluotu. Similarly, from Yuwen's family When I arrived at Gu's house, all the rules have changed except one thing: Jizhao Pavilion, only the monarch can enter."

Ruan Xueyin naturally knew it, and the whole Qingchuan knew it.

"Your Majesty, what do you think is the current situation in Qingchuan?"

"On the eve of the mountain rain."

"Your Majesty, how many years do you think there are?"

He knew she was asking, and there were still a few years when war might break out.

"That depends on Murong Xun's speed."

Ruan Xueyin raised her eyebrows: "Your Majesty thinks so highly of Wei Guo?"

"First, the Yin Kingdom cannot be conquered. During the Dingzong period, you had General He Ming who didn't dare to act rashly. Who is there now? And your father always likes to work hard in secret. It's not his style. Of course, unless he There are other preparations, and they have been hidden from the people I put in the Yin Palace. Based on the way the Ruan family has been doing for 300 years, even if the Yin country sends troops, it must be started by someone, such as the Wei country."

This is not a good comment, but Ruan Xueyin didn't take it as disobedient, as if the Ruan family he was talking about was not his mother's family.

"Secondly, the current situation of the Wei Kingdom is the best they have seen in more than a hundred years. I met Murong Xun once when I was young, and he has the demeanor of my third brother. Shangguan Shuo's strategy is not inferior to Ji Huan, but Murong Chong (Note) ) is really unbearable, and now that the new king is on the throne, he has a place to use his skills. What's more," he glanced at her,
"Although you didn't say why Jing Tingge entered Cangwu, you can tell from the results that you, a junior sister, are going to do this Wei country counselor to the end. I believe in Pengxishan's vision."

"Don't you wonder why the teacher promised her to help Murong Xun?"

"I'm curious, don't tell me."

　Note: Murong Chong, Murong Xun's father, was the previous monarch of Wei Kingdom.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)