After my rebirth, I married my ex-husband and his uncle

Chapter 374 Meet again!

The blood moon quietly disappeared behind the dark clouds, and the oriole finally appeared.

Wang Yan hadn't figured out why Lu Ci appeared here, and why he was waiting for Li Zhou's order, when suddenly, ten men in black descended from the sky and surrounded him.

Ten shining long knives were held in the air, and the dead air from the sharp tips of the knives crushed towards Wang Yan like an overwhelming sea.

The muscles of Wang Yan's whole body tensed up to the extreme at this moment. His eyes moved extremely fast, watching every move of the men in black around him warily, and at the same time, he also took a look at Fa Heng's situation at the moment.

Outside the encirclement, Faheng had been pressed face down on the ground at some point. It was probably the first time in his life that his old face had suffered such pain, and it was so distorted on the ground.

The luxurious as new cassock on his body was torn to pieces at this moment, even the clothes rolled into the dust at this moment, the red sandalwood beads hanging around his neck were torn off at some point, and the precious red sandalwood beads were scattered Everywhere.

His eyes turned again, and Emperor Yongjia was also in a dangerous situation. The eldest prince Li Zhou brandished a short blade and pressed on Emperor Yongjia step by step. It's hard to say whether Emperor Yongjia can avoid the second round of attacks.

The crisis of the praying mantises has begun.

"Eunuch Wang, we meet again."

Lu Ci walked out slowly from behind the man in black, and looked at Wang Yan with a warm face in the firelight.

Wang Yan fixed his eyes on Lu Ci, clenched his molars tightly, and couldn't help but swear in his heart: Damn, I was cheated by this fat man.

His words were almost squeezed out between his teeth: "Lord Lu, do you want to rebel?"

Lu Ci is like a Maitreya Buddha descended from the west, with a very friendly smile, harmless to humans and animals.

He chattered homely: "Hey, Eunuch Wang, you misunderstood, how could I, Lu Ci, do such a terrible thing."

The blue veins on Wang Yan's forehead popped up: "Then dare to ask what your lord is doing now?"

Lu Ci stood on the spot and looked at him fixedly, neither in a hurry to speak nor to make a move, his eyes were full of amusement, just like watching a mouse caught in a mousetrap, watching him nervous, Watching him struggling to death, he suddenly found interestingly that Wang Yan's Adam's apple was rolling up and down too frequently, swallowing eight times in ten seconds, obviously extremely nervous.

He watched it with great interest for a while, and then, facing Wang Yan's cannibalistic gaze, as if he just remembered, he answered Wang Yan's words: "My father-in-law asked me what I was doing? Naturally, I was protecting Your Majesty." .”

As soon as the words fell, he suddenly put away the smile on his face, and said in a serious voice: "The eunuch, the chief inspector of ceremonies, saw that Wang Yan, the governor of the East Factory, colluded with the demon monk Fa Heng to perform sorcery, intending to murder His Majesty the Emperor and kill hundreds of civil and military officials." Officer, your conspiracy has been seen through by the King of the East China Sea, and now you are ordered to kill you on the spot!"

"Lu Ci, don't make false statements and confuse black and white!" Wang Yan yelled violently, "Your Majesty is here, whose order are you following? Lu Ci, you are so brave, how dare you falsely preach the imperial decree!"

Lu Ci picked out his ears, and said, "What are you doing so loudly? My ears are deafened by you." He glanced at the emperor's direction, then looked at Wang Yan, and said Shi Shiran, "I said it's from Your Majesty. Is it the purpose?"

Wang Yan's pupils shrank suddenly, and his heart skipped a beat.

If it's not Emperor Yongjia, then could it be...

Lu Ci looked at his sudden expression, and said slowly: "I am following the Queen Mother's order."

It really is the queen mother.

Wang Yan guessed the answer right, but he didn't feel the joy of getting it right.

"Okay, I see that I have let my father-in-law live long enough in terms of old friendship, and now it's time to send him on the road."

"Wait a minute," Wang Yan said suddenly, "You can kill me, but I want to be a fool."

"Oh?"

Wang Yan: "When did you collude with the First Prince?"

One of the reasons why Empress Lu was abolished and died was that Empress Lu was rejected by Emperor Yongjia, and another important reason was that Emperor Yongjia had been on the throne for several years at that time, and the dragon chair under his buttocks became more stable, so So he desperately wanted to centralize power, but the aristocratic family was the first to block the road of Emperor Yongjia's centralization of power. Among them, the Fanyang Lu family, because of the merits of Conglong and the fact that the family's daughter is also the queen, lived in Yongjia during the Yongjia Dynasty. In the early stage, he became the top clan in Da Xia, and half of the family's children worked in the ruling and opposition parties.

Because the emperor's centralization of power violated his own interests, the aristocratic family became a rope, and the leader of the aristocratic family, Lu Shi, naturally became the vanguard of resisting the emperor's centralization of power.

Any aspiring young emperor would not allow the existence of such forces that challenge the authority of the emperor, so the fierce collision between the imperial power and the ministers' power is inevitable. When the Empress Lu was deposed, it can only be said that the emperor's tolerance has reached Extremely, it just happened to happen after Queen Lu's incident that the family was troubled.

What happened afterward was that Empress Lu was killed, and the power of the Millennium Fan Yang Lu family in the court and the opposition was completely wiped out.

Although the imperial power won, it was a tragic victory, because Emperor Yongjia discovered that after he expelled all the power of the family from the court, there was an embarrassing situation in the court where nearly half of the official positions were uncompetent. However, the cultivation of the family is extremely important. Almost all aristocratic families have their own ethnology, providing opportunities for the children of the family to study.

Even if an unremarkable bastard from an aristocratic family is randomly selected, he can understand the basics of literacy and punctuation. Even if he is not as full of knowledge as the direct descendants of the aristocratic family, at least he can understand official documents, which is enough .

Although there was already an imperial examination system for selecting officials in the imperial court at that time, there has been a saying since the former dynasty that "the imperial examination cannot go to the poor family", which means that the imperial examination is only carried out among the nobles, and the children of the poor family do not even have a chance to sign up. No.

So this created the most terrible situation at that time. The poor families at the bottom of the society had no way to receive education at all. Not to mention entering the court as an official.

At that time, facing the government and the opposition that was half vacant, Emperor Yongjia was in a hurry to catch the blind all over the place. Among the poor children, one counted as one, and those who could read were promoted, but the effect was still unsatisfactory. Frequent mistakes in the implementation of policies led to The people complained against Yingtian.

As a last resort, Emperor Yongjia had no choice but to step back and listened to Wang Yan's suggestion to select a group of descendants from the aristocratic family who were not in harmony with the direct line of the family, and let them enter the court as officials, so that the court could continue to operate normally.

And Lu Ci is one of this group of people. When Wang Yan first selected candidates, he did a survey on everyone. He clearly remembered that Lu Ci had a deep quarrel with the Lu family. At the beginning, he was bullied by the family. Too ruthless, Lu Ci was so extreme that he found the elders of the Lu family, set up a written statement and took the widowed mother out of the family independently, and let out the word that from now on, he would never be a descendant of Fan Yang's Lu family.

That is to say, his decisive action, which was tantamount to betraying his ancestors and forgetting his ancestors, made Wang Yanxiang fall in love with him, and submitted his name to the emperor's court case.After that, Lu Ci really lived up to expectations, all the way from the seventh-rank small Beijing official to the position of the prefect of Tongzhou, a senior member of one party.

The position of Tongzhou is not insignificant. Emperor Yongjia was able to entrust the military and political power of Tongzhou to him, which shows that he valued and trusted Lu Ci.

But now, a military and political official who had been respected and trusted for many years suddenly caught him off guard with a backhand stab, which Wang Yan could never have imagined.

Wang Yan: "Lu Ci, have you forgotten that I was the one who saved you when your mother and son were kicked out of the house by Fan Yang Lu like two dogs? I put your name on His Majesty's court case. After so many years Come to protect you all the way to sit in the position of prefect of the same state, rich and powerful, enjoy the power and position, how can I not support you behind your back, and now you are repaying me like this? Want to kill me?"

Facing Wang Yan's questioning, Lu Ci smiled nonchalantly, and said, "Okay, before you die, let me be a sensible ghost."

Wang Yan looked at him mockingly, waiting for his explanation.

I saw Lu Ci raised his hand to touch the joint between his neck and jaw, groped there for a while, then suddenly raised his hand slowly, and a very translucent face was raised together with his hand.

The facial skin was uncovered from the lower jaw, all the way to the lips, nose, eyes, eyebrows, forehead, and finally, at the root of the hair on the forehead, Lu Ci pulled the facial skin on his hand, and a completely different face appeared in front of Wang Yan.

Wang Yan's eyes widened suddenly, disguise? !

"You are not Lu Ci, who are you?"

Wang Yan looked at the completely unfamiliar face in front of him, and Tian Linggai's scalp felt cold. After so many years, he didn't realize that Lu Ci was disguised!

Lu Ci gently shook the face on his hand, looked up at Wang Yan: "I am Lu Ci, and Lu Ci is me."

Wang Yan: "Impossible! I sent someone to investigate Lu Ci, and Lu Ci is not as good as yours."

Compared with Lu Ci's original fat and fat face, Lu Ci's face now has clear outlines, sword eyebrows and star eyes, and he is a handsome and extraordinary middle-aged Confucian scholar, not to mention exactly the same as before, completely It's just a thousand miles away.

With that overly handsome face on his face, Lu Ci licked the corners of his lips, and said, "I am Lu Ci, but it's not the 'Ci' of 'Poetry', but the 'Ci' of 'Will Never Die'."

Lu Ci, Lu Ci, Lu Ci...

Hearing the familiar name, the past is like scraps, and I don't know where it disappeared in a corner for a long time. Wang Yan, who claims to have an excellent memory, can't remember where he heard this name for a while.

Lu Ci reminded him with a smile: "The Changning Palace is on fire."

Changning Palace, fire, Lu Ci...

"Are you the youngest son of the Lu family who was buried in the Changning Palace fire together with Empress Lu back then?!" Wang Yan suddenly raised his head, looked directly at Lu Ci, and was very surprised: "You didn't die?!"

(End of this chapter)