Spring Forest Evening

Qin Zhihai went to the side hall to pass on the words of Empress Jiang.

When Duke Hu heard this, he knew it in his mind: This is to stop his family Ah Fu from leaving the palace on purpose, and since that is the case, we have to go out!

He glanced at the man who had already begun to control his low-pitched chat on the straw mat, then glanced at Shen Fu next to him, and motioned him to be calm. The Duke Hu then stepped forward and patted Qin Zhihai on the shoulder who was about to leave after delivering the message. Seriously pointing to the crowd in the lower hall, he asked:

"I'm talking about Commander Qin, the elders here probably have been frightened for the past two days and haven't been able to take care of anything else. Did your own family notice it?"

In any case, everyone must pay attention to it.

Sure enough, with this question, the heads-up rate on the straw mat immediately increased.

Qin Zhihai naturally denied:

"Not at all. Thinking about it, now that the gates of the city are closed, and the soldiers and horse commanders of the five cities have also sent more people to maintain law and order in the city, those gangsters wouldn't be so bold."

The Duke Protector shook his head, hehe, I know you will answer like this, but we don't expect your answer:

"No. Commander Qin, to put it bluntly, you are still young after all. Although I was also surprised by what A Fu said, I also thought that it must be a thief who had nowhere to go. But then I thought of some old After thinking about the old matter carefully, I feel that this matter should not be underestimated, and the most urgent thing is to ask Ah Fu to go back to the house quickly and confirm it again."

After saying this, Qin Zhihai was not polite, and arched his hand:

"I also ask the Duke of the country to explain it clearly, and I would like to hear the details!"

Hehe, of course I want to tell you well!The Duke Protector laughed secretly in his heart, but he pretended to sigh, and turned to the straw mat audience, who had almost raised their heads, and began to tell vividly the improvised story just now:

"Everyone here, anyone who is 40 years old and going up must remember more or less the experience of almost eating bark when he was young. Xie didn't want to repeat the credit for the Yasukuni Army's efforts to relieve the capital's difficulties, but suddenly remembered that when the old man When Prince Jing, that is, A Fu’s grandfather, passed away, it was rumored that the remnants of the barbarians threw a series of firecrackers on the Northwest Road tower..."

Shen Fu originally wanted to go to the Queen himself to ask for favors, and said that he would go and return, but unexpectedly his uncle spoke suddenly, and the look he gave him just now was quite meaningful. Listen to what he has to say.

Now hearing Duke Protector mentioning about his grandfather, Shen Fu felt relieved:

Uncle must tell this matter to Dali, and give himself an excuse that he has to go out of the palace tonight.

Sure enough, the Duke Protector then told a group of people who said "I'm idle now anyway, why not just listen to a story" about what happened three years ago.

Speaking of it, he himself admired his wit very much, that is, just now, taking advantage of Qin Zhihai's report to the queen, he managed to quickly find a reason for A Fu to leave the palace:

"...Then three years ago, you all know that Ah Fu's father, my brother-in-law, alas, saw him well when he came down to court, but he fell ill and died at night! In the prime of life, let alone my relatives find it unacceptable, even the emperor finds it strange, so he secretly sent people to investigate."

As soon as I said this, I saw that everyone's faces began to look different, some were surprised, some understood, and of course, some gloated.

The Duke Protector sneered in his heart, with a look of pain on his face, he patted Shen Fu's shoulder beside him, and sighed, feeling very sorry for Qin Zhihai and the group of people on the straw mat who couldn't help showing a little curiosity means:

"To tell you the truth, some clues have been found about this matter, and all of them point to the resurgent barbarians without exception! It's just that if this matter is announced, it will shake the hearts of the people and the army, and even the dead will not be resurrected, Ah Fu is still young and still has to be filial to his father, in the end the emperor stated that he will temporarily cover up the matter and seek justice for Prince Jing later!"

Speaking of this, Duke Hu only felt that the more he said, the smoother he said, oh my god, even he felt like he had to believe it!At this moment, everyone in the side hall was silently looking at him. As for the one lying in the main hall, he was described as a wise king, hmph, he really took advantage of him!

Duke Protector spoke happily, but Shen Fu couldn't wait any longer, so he coughed lightly and reminded:

"Uncle, it's not too early now, let's make a long story short, Commander Qin has a lot to do..."

Alright, let's stop here today. Although Qin Zhihai said dryly and politely, "Where is that?", Duke Hu still wisely chose a decisive ending:

"You must all know the fire in the palace before. The emperor was still in the palace to escape the summer heat. He also summoned Xie after hearing about it. At that time, he said that it must have been caused by the barbarians, but why did they come?"

"To tell you the truth, although this matter was done decently during the thunderstorm night, we speculated later that the barbarians must have shady purposes. Think about it, especially Commander Qin, do you have Experience, what do the barbarians most want from Prince Jing's mansion? At that time, A Fu was accompanying him in the palace."

Seeing that all the people below were discussing one after another, Huguo Gonggong thought to wait a while before announcing the correct answer, but Qin Zhihai rushed to answer:

"Ordinarily they should have come to look for the Northwest Road City Defense Map or something, but if that's the case, they should have taken it silently and left. Why did they set fire to it, oh no, Qin remembers that there were still two fires—"

What a mouthful!The Duke Protector was displeased in his heart, but his face was full of admiration, and he cupped his hands and said:

"What Commander Qin said is very true. It's just who are those people? They are barbarians who were beaten into the depths of the desert by the old Prince Jing, and only dared to secretly throw a bunch of firecrackers at the tower! They don't have such brains, and neither does Prince Jing's mansion." It may allow such military secrets to be easily obtained."

"So, at that time, those people must have searched like headless chickens. Afterwards, many traces of man-made damage were found in the mansion. I think the two fires were their venting anger after searching for nothing. In a blink of an eye, a torrential rain poured down, and in the end only two unimportant places were burned..."

Shen Fu was speechless when he heard this, fortunately Chen Huishan who put out the fire at that time was the one who sent people to set the fire, so she wouldn't tell the outsiders about it, otherwise, Uncle, such a fool, would not be able to withstand much scrutiny.

Then he coughed lightly again to interrupt Duke Protector's words:

"Since then, the palace has stepped up its defenses. It cannot be said that this incident must be caused by the barbarians, but it is a serious matter. As my uncle said, I have to go back and check it myself before I can rest assured."

…When Shen Fu got the queen’s favor and left in a hurry, the protector of the country still continued to add material to the story he made up temporarily. The night is long, when did a group of old men have such a sleeping straw mat? when?

The key point of vigil is to let you watch the dead in the main hall not to sleep, how can you get through this long night without saying something?

"...I just took advantage of this opportunity today, and Xie is also very upset! Oh, my family, Ah Fu, everyone present has watched him grow up. I was engaged to a girl from the Zhou family before, and that is also my cousin. Niece, it's a good marriage to be married, so I hope that besides serving, the wedding date will be given."

"I dare not say it in front of Ah Fu, but think about it, the Zhou family is not a small family, the girl's house is also cautious when going out, and a bunch of maids and women are guarding it. How can it be... well, here, maybe ..."