The Happy Life of Small Officials in Northern Song Dynasty

The study is at the east end of the third entrance, surrounded by green bamboos, it is really clean, only a few maids are on duty to clean the study.

Brother Li Ningling brought Ye Li Duanyun into the study, and seeing Su Jin and others also followed into the study, he frowned and turned his head and said: "These brothers are resting outside, I asked the servant girl to bring some refreshments to entertain you."

Ye Li Duanyun hurriedly said: "Cousin Prince, these people are..."

Su Jin pulled Ye Li Duanyun's sleeve, pointed to her lips to signal her to keep quiet, and gestured behind her,

Dynasty Ma Han, Zhang Long and Zhao Hu acted immediately, and quickly checked the four corners of the study. [

Li Ning was astonished, and asked Yeli Duanyun softly, "Cousin, is this...?"

Yeli Duanyun said softly: "Be safe and don't be impatient, I will explain to you later."

Su Jin and the other five people inspected the spacious study for a while, and they seemed to gain something. Su Jin stretched out his hand to beckon Brother Li Ningling and Ye Li Duanyun to come closer, and pointed to the west corner of the study to make an eavesdropping gesture. Li Ning Brother Ning took a closer look and was surprised, only to see a small hole in the lower corner of the wall covered by the Molan frame in the corner, revealing a small half of the bamboo tube. Just as Brother Ning Ling was about to speak, Su Jin hurriedly waved his hand to signal him not to make a sound, and pulled him He moved his sleeve a few steps to the north, reached out and picked it up on the wall, and a small round hole was exposed again. The opposite side was dark and dark, but it was obviously a small hole for peeping.

Su Jin dipped his hand into the tea and wrote on the desk: "It's not safe here."

Li Ning surprised his brother, dipped in the tea and wrote: "Who are you? What's going on here?"

Su Jin wrote: "Look for a safe place to talk, is there a secret room?"

Brother Li Ning thought for a while, dipped in the tea and wrote, "Yes, come with me."

After finishing speaking, he walked out of the study room, walked along the long corridor to a room, and said loudly: "Put the things in the warehouse first." After finishing speaking, he opened the locked door and entered the warehouse. Su Jin and others picked up the boxes and followed them in. This place is indeed a warehouse. There are a lot of miscellaneous things piled up in it. It looks like dust is piled up, and no one has come in for a long time.

Brother Li Ningling walked quickly to the west end, stretched out his hand to move somewhere on the wall, and suddenly revealed a dark hole with a height of one person; everyone followed him in, closed the hole and lit the candles inside, and found that it was A not-so-small secret room, with a bed and a table, fresh water and dry food, and several sets of clothes hanging beside the bed, with swords, bows and arrows on one foot, and there is no depression in the room as imagined. Look up at the sky, Lights can be seen, apparently ventilated overhead.

"This is a secret room with sandwich walls that I built secretly. The wall between the two rooms is thicker, and the inside is hollowed out to form a secret room. Although it is small, it must be safe." Brother Li Ningling said.

Su Jin didn't answer, and still took Wang Chao Ma Han and others to check it inch by inch with candles, found and peeked at the eavesdropping place, then he was relieved, put down the candlestick, bowed his hands and said: "I, Su Jin, pay my respects to the prince. Your Highness, these are some of my brothers."

"Su Jin?" Li Ningling was stunned, and suddenly remembered who Su Jin was. He grabbed a scimitar beside the bed, pulled it out and shouted, "You are Su Jin from the Song Dynasty? You little thief, how dare you?" Sneak into my prince's mansion, what do you want to do?"

Ye Li Duanyun hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Cousin, don't panic, Mr. Su came to help us at the invitation of my aunt."

"According to the queen mother's promise? Impossible, how can the queen mother have anything to do with the Song people, and this is Su Jin, the big enemy of your Yeli tribe. Have you forgotten how the two Yeli kings died?"

Ye Li Duanyun said: "My aunt has a trust letter for you. Originally, she would come to your mansion to discuss important matters together, but the emperor decided to take her to Dingzhou Hot Spring Mountain temporarily, so she only had time to write this letter." The believer gave it to me and handed it over to you, so as not to misunderstand you."

Ye Li Duanyun took out a letter from his sleeve and handed it to Brother Li Ningling. Brother Ning Ling was suspicious of the letter and held the scimitar in his hand. After reading the letter carefully, he found that it was indeed written by Ye Li Dulan , there was an agreed letter, and the letter also clearly told him that it was her invitation that Su Jin and Ye Li Duanyun went to the Prince's Mansion, and she wanted the Prince to discuss countermeasures with Su Jin.

"How is it possible? The queen mother...how could she have anything to do with the southerners? Haven't you avenged the wild blood of the Yeli tribe? What can I talk about with this Su Jin? How can he help me with my affairs?" Ning Brother Ling was confused and couldn't make sense of it at all.

Ye Li Duanyun said softly: "Cousin, there are some things I haven't told you, because I was afraid that you would be overwhelmed and let it go. In fact, the death of the two uncles has nothing to do with Mr. Su Jinsu. The people who really killed them Do you know who it is?"

Brother Li Ning asked: "Who is it?"

Ye Li Duanyun said: "It's your father, he planned to kill two great kings on the front line of Weizhou, all this has been confirmed by us secretly."

Brother Li Ning was startled and said: "How is it possible? Isn't the father self-destructive by doing this?"

Yeli Duanyun said: "He was afraid that our Yeli tribe would be too powerful, and he was afraid that the throne would not be preserved, so he did this. In order to keep the Yeli tribe, my aunt and I had to ask Mr. Su for help. Famines have been frequent in recent years. But my Yeli Tribe has enough food and can help the victims. Master Su secretly provides food. Because of this, your father thinks that my Yeli Tribe is still useful, at least in terms of relief and supplies. With his greater help, this is why he didn't do anything to us for the time being."

Li Ning terrified Brother, although he had heard some rumors about these things, he had never believed them, now that he heard them from Ye Li Duanyun himself, he couldn't help but not believe them.

"But why did you bring them here to me? Aren't you trying to harm me? Once the emperor finds out about this matter, I will die and die. It's just nonsense, and the queen mother is also confused." Brother Li Ningling Anxiously said.

Su Jin sneered and said: "I thought His Highness the Crown Prince was a person with a clear head and a clear mind, but I didn't expect him to be a fool. That's all, let's say goodbye. Some people don't know when they are about to die. There is nothing to say to such a person."

Ye Li Duanyun hurriedly said: "Mr. Su, don't be angry, the cousin of the crown prince was just shocked for a while, and he will naturally understand later."

Brother Li Ningling said angrily: "How can my highness not know that his death is imminent? You should stop talking too much. You Nan people are all sinister and cunning. Who knows what kind of plan you have?"

Su Jin smiled and said: "Don't open your mouth, what about you Song people, you can be the prince without me?"

Brother Li Ning said angrily: "What does my ascension to the crown prince have anything to do with you?"

Su Jin smiled and said: "Do you still remember that you have an elder brother named Li Ningming? If I hadn't captured him and detained him in Bianliang, how would you have a chance? Don't say that your father will definitely abolish Li Ningming." Let you be the prince."

Brother Li Ningling said angrily: "It's fine if you don't talk about it, I haven't settled with you for the matter of you detaining my brother."

Su Jin shook his head and said: "It's not right for you to do this. We are all people who are in the officialdom, and we can roughly guess [-]% to [-]% of what we think in our hearts. I will detain your brother and let you ascend to the position of prince. I don't intend to help you directly, but it also helps indirectly. It's fine if you don't thank me. If you say something to settle accounts with me, this is against your will. If I knew that the peace agreement between the two countries was reached, I would let your brother come back , take back your crown prince, and see what you do."

Brother Li Ningling said: "He's back? He can't even save his life when he comes back, why are you talking about the crown prince?"

Su Jin smiled and said: "Look, this is your attitude towards your biological brother. How hypocritical it is to ask me to settle accounts for detaining your brother."

Brother Li Ningling seemed to have been slapped in the mouth, and he said angrily: "Cousin, are you bringing this southerner to my house to make him humiliate me? For the sake of my mother and you, I will not make things difficult for him. You immediately Tell him to get out of here, or I won't be polite."

Ye Li Duanyun looked at Su Jin reproachfully and said, "Young Master Su, why do you deliberately tease His Highness the Crown Prince, we have something important to come here, and this matter is also related to Ari, please, can you speak well?"

Su Jin sighed and said, "If it wasn't for Ari and your Yeli people, but for him, I would never have waded into this muddy water."

Brother Li Ning said angrily: "What do you think of yourself, you look like a savior, who wants you to worry about my affairs?"

Su Jin slapped the table and scolded: "Are you really stupid or fake? Your mother worries about your affairs day and night, and she doesn't hesitate to ask your own sister to get married and marry you so that you can keep the crown prince. For an idiot, do you still feel guilty? The new prince of the Wuzang family, Liang Zuo, means that the throne of the crown prince under your ass is unstable. The Wuzang family is planning to marry you, the prince, and you. The mother and queen are all overthrown, don’t you really know? You’re still here babbling and pretending to be confused, if you really don’t need my help, the young master will leave immediately, I like Ari, but I have my own way to save her , haven’t you considered that after you are forcibly rescued, the Wuzang tribe and your father will use this as an excuse to eradicate you? You don’t know good and bad things, look at your situation, there are people spying and stealing everywhere in your study Listen, the stewards in your mansion can be so domineering. It is obvious that these people are not relying on your power, but relying on other people's power to monitor your words and deeds and the people you contact. Don't you understand this? "

Su Jin scolded mercilessly, Li Ning Ling was tongue-tied, and wanted to fight back but he hit back, and after a while he blushed and fell down, muttering: "I know, but what can I do? What can I do?"