Li Zhang

Chapter 15

After Ling Feng arrived in Beijing, Ling Yuncong visited the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice once.Seeing that Ling Yuncong was well, Ling Feng felt relieved, knowing that he had found Sima Yi instead of Sima Yao, he couldn't help being a little surprised.Ling Yuncong comforted him, telling him what he had seen and heard when he was in Xishan, and bluntly believed that Sima Yi was more favored by Emperor Jing than Sima Yao.Ling Feng didn't take it seriously, but he didn't want to disobey Ling Yuncong's wishes, so he only asked him to protect himself well, and if something happened to him, he should stay away from the officialdom and do business with his grandfather.

Ling Yuncong felt sad when he heard the words, knowing that his father really hurt his heart this time, he has been depressed since returning to the palace.

Seeing that Ling Yuncong could not be coaxed well, Sima Yi remembered that it was the day when the guards competed, so he dragged Ling Yuncong straight to the school grounds.

In the distance, the crisp sound of weapons intersecting can already be heard.Sima Yi suddenly became curious himself, wanting to know how Mu Yan's rules were played, so he took Ling Yuncong and quietly hid in the sentry box beside the school grounds, stopped the guards on duty, and watched with Ling Yuncong .

Looking at it, one can see the record of Li Zhang and his trio sweeping the school field.The others were annoyed, and clamored to say it was unfair to Duan Shijin. Li Zhang was Mu Yan's apprentice, so he naturally learned the truth. Three-on-three is not fair at all.

Wu Zijun didn't wait for Duan Shijin to speak, he squinted at the speaker, and asked, "According to your opinion, how much is fair?"

"At least three against six!"

"Row!"

Wu Zijun made the decision himself.Zhang Yu pursed his lips and looked at the speaker with a sneer. Only Li Zhang stood quietly with his eyes down.

Ling Yuncong couldn't help but whispered: "This formation is very exquisite! I think each group is very powerful, wouldn't it be too disadvantageous for three versus six?"

Sima Yi also felt the same way, felt that Wu Zijun and the others were too arrogant, and wanted to see their jokes.He knew that Li Zhang was the conductor, and when he thought of the proud declaration he had heard, his eyes became more scrutinized and thoughtful, but more of them were still contemptuous and disapproving.

After the formation was unfolded, Li Zhang raised his eyes lightly, facing the direction of the sentry, the brilliance of this glance fixed Sima Yi, and made Ling Yuncong say hello in a low voice.There is no surprise or arrogance in this glance, neither rush nor anger, but full of self-confidence and concentration, people can rely on trust at the first glance, peaceful and quiet, but naturally awe-inspiring.

Sima Yi was a little dazed, he didn't believe that it was Li Zhang's eyes, and he couldn't believe that the match in front of him was another one-shot. It wasn't until Duan Shijin annoyed that the competition was over that he looked at Ling Yuncong, who was also unbelievable. After a pause, he asked, "How does Yun Cong feel?"

"What kind of formation is this? It's so powerful!"

"It is said to be called Nine Fanzhen."

"Can I learn?"

"Yun Cong also wants to learn? It's just something the guards can't win when they fight alone. Yun Cong is the general who leads the troops!"

"Uh..., my lord is absurd."

"In my king's eyes, Yun Cong is the best."

Ling Yuncong was finally amused by Sima Yi's straightforward praise.Seeing that his goal had been achieved, Sima Yi no longer cared about those guards, and dragged Ling Yuncong back.

On the school grounds, Wu Zijun smiled with his hands behind his back, looked at Peng Cui, Xiong Jinhui and others who were leaving wearily, touched Zhang Yu on the shoulder, and said, "Even if they form a team of ten, they won't get much favor. "

Zhang Yu rolled his eyes at him, and said while tidying up: "Don't be too crazy, you can't do it in the dark, it's not him who is unlucky!"

Li Zhang also interjected: "Brother is right. The competition is to improve everyone's proficiency in the formation and tacit cooperation, and it is not for anger."

Wu Zijun let out a "tch", looked at the two partners who continued to tidy up the school grounds, waved his hands and said, "The villain is in charge! Where is your wise and powerful master? He left his apprentice for nothing and was bullied and never came back!"

"It's no different when the master is back..." Li Zhang suddenly retorted in a low voice.Wu Zijun and Zhang Yu looked at each other and stopped talking.

Everyone knows that the real root lies in the prince.That is a boulder that cannot be shaken at all.

Ling Yuncong waited anxiously every day for the Ministry of Criminal Justice to start the trial and then close the case, but the Ministry of Criminal Justice never promoted him because of collecting and arranging evidence, but Ling Feng did not make things difficult for him, and specially arranged a fresh and clean private room.

Ling Yuncong was restless waiting in the palace, and Sima Yi exhausted his patience after being with him for a few days, and Ling Yuncong was only curious for a while after admiring a lot of delicate games.Ling Yun was clever enough to know that he couldn't be urged, so he didn't dare to give Sima Yi a bad look on purpose, but in the eyes of the third prince, he was still unwilling and unsatisfactory in every way, and almost turned his face on the spot when his interest was wiped out a few times.In desperation, someone told Sima Yi that Ling Yuncong had gone to the guard camp to look for Li Zhang, and he was obviously in a better mood after returning.Sima Yi pondered, thinking that Li Zhang didn't dare to talk nonsense, so he simply called Li Zhang into the inner courtyard to accompany Ling Yuncong to relieve his boredom.Li Zhang was full of reluctance, but he was helpless. When he really saw Ling Yuncong worrying about his father every day, he couldn't help putting aside his embarrassment and embarrassment softly, and silently accompanied him like when he was a child.

Li Zhang loves his mother carefully, and always tries to make her happy. The biggest magic weapon is to divert her attention.Now facing Ling Yuncong, he is the same as when he was with his mother back then, not simply explaining and persuading, but calmly leading Ling Yuncong to do something he likes, and even practicing martial arts and swords with him every day.Ling Yuncong has practiced martial arts since he was a child, and his internal strength is even and long. After entering the military camp, his martial arts became more simple and ruthless. Many times, he directly crushed people to death with force.Li Zhang yearned for Ling Yuncong's simple and direct way of killing enemies on the battlefield. He didn't intend to find loopholes, and he didn't want to blindly wander and dodge.When Ling Yuncong made fun of Li Zhang's lack of energy, he also forgot the worries and depression that lingered in his heart.

Because of this, Ling Yuncong became more and more used to Li Zhang being around, thinking that Li Zhang was also very much loved by Sima Yi, and he pulled Li Zhang at any time without hesitation, completely oblivious to Sima Yi's complexion getting darker and darker.Sima Yi couldn't get angry with Ling Yuncong, so Wu Minghuo ran towards Li Zhang.Here, Ling Yuncong just let Li Zhang taste the fruit of Yushang, and then Sima Yi fined Li Zhang for a day's meals.That day Ling Yuncong had neglected Sima Yi because the chess game was not over, and Li Zhang was fined to kneel all night when he turned around. He still held the chessboard and knelt on the gravel under the back window, listening to them flirting and laughing inside the window.

Ling Yuncong didn't realize it, and was immersed in worry and expectation. The passionate sex with Sima Yi aggravated his sense of guilt, and he liked being with Li Zhang more and more.Sima Yi didn't understand what Ling Yuncong was thinking, he only thought that Li Zhang was provoking and instigating him, and he became more and more cruel to Li Zhang.Li Zhang was innocently caught between Ling Yuncong and Sima Yi, and had no chance to defend himself, nor could he avoid it, so he could only silently endure more and more severe punishments.

On this day, Ling Yuncong brushed off Sima Yi's kindness to go to the flower viewing banquet together, and casually picked up the Chunjun sword that Sima Yi had newly awarded, and practiced swords with Li Zhang.The sword is a peerless famous sword, holding it in Ling Yuncong's hands is no longer the surprise and love he had when he first saw it last night. Thinking of his father's detention for many days but no news of the trial yet, the heavy boredom in his heart overwhelmed his sense of propriety. When he woke up, he cut off Li Zhang's long sword, and the sword energy cut off the ribbons of Li Zhang's hair, and the black hair fell down one after another.

Ling Yuncong was stunned, and stretched out his hand to pull Li Zhang to take a closer look, but was gently pushed away by Li Zhang.

"It's a good sword! Cousin, rest for a while, I'll go back and sort it out before I come back."

Ling Yuncong picked up Li Zhang's broken sword, seeing that it was not as good as his old saber, he couldn't help frowning and said, "It's strange that you have to cut it. Let the prince find a good sword for you later!"

Li Zhang froze for a moment, smiled vaguely, took the broken sword from Ling Yuncong's hand, and walked out of the courtyard.

Ling Yuncong returned to the house, intending to take a nap, but tossed and tossed and tossed under the burden of worry, he came out to wait for Li Zhang, but he didn't see Li Zhang walking slowly with his head down until lunch time.Ling Yuncong couldn't help but rushed over and slapped him a little angrily: "I didn't say where I went, you made me wait!"

Li Zhang didn't stop, staggered a few steps and fell to the ground, closing his eyes in pain.

Ling Yuncong sensed something was wrong, and pulled up Li Zhang's trouser leg involuntarily, and saw that his calf was covered with two finger-wide bruises, swollen to a high degree, and his knees were covered with old bloody scars, and he was stunned.

Li Zhang pushed Ling Yuncong's hand away without a word, and slowly stood up by himself.Ling Yuncong didn't understand, so he grabbed Li Zhang who was about to leave, and asked, "What's going on? It didn't fall!"

Li Zhang silently broke away from his hand, didn't know what to say and didn't want to say anything, and turned his head in silence.In recent days Sima Yi has become more and more domineering. Whenever Ling Yuncong refuted his face, Li Zhang would have to go to the execution room to receive his punishment.Today was a big violation of the taboo. As soon as he left Zhenlongyuan, he was escorted to the execution room by the dark-faced Mr. He. He couldn't help but be beaten with a stick. Li Zhang suffered silently without asking a word.

Ling Yuncong knew that although his cousin looked cowardly, he was unstoppable when he was stubborn. Seeing that he didn't want to talk, he knew he couldn't ask.He had no choice but to help him walk into the house, and said as he walked: "Mr.

Li Zhang stopped when he heard this, and wanted to break away from Ling Yuncong's hand, but Ling Yuncong refused to let it go: "Didn't you love this kind of delicate dim sum when you were young? I will leave it to you later, and you are so happy to eat it." !"

"That's because my cousin left it to me."

"So I'll wait for you to come back and eat together!"

"This is a reward from the empress, it's different." Li Zhang said it gently, but firmly.

It was only then that Ling Yuncong remembered that since the first time Li Zhang was forced to eat an apricot, he had never eaten at his place, and there were always some excuses, let alone eating at his table.Since he was new here, he only knew that the rules were like this in the palace, but the day before yesterday when the young master named Feng Yu came over, he generously asked the servant to bring the order and had lunch with him.

Thinking of Fengyu, Ling Yuncong felt that he was really a good person, and he lifted him to the sky with a few words, which didn't make Ling Yuncong angry or like him, but made him feel more guilty.He seemed to have mentioned Li Zhang too, but at the time he felt uncomfortable and didn't pay attention, but now thinking of it, he persuaded himself to stay away from Li Zhang, saying that the prince didn't like it.

Thinking of this, Ling Yuncong suddenly felt more and more wrong. The prince seemed to be really unhappy recently, and Li Zhang was much more silent than when he first came here, and his actions were more rigid than at the beginning.

Ling Yuncong couldn't help asking again: "How are you doing in the palace?"

Li Zhang nodded silently, and saw Mr. He personally bring in a food box, and saluted and said goodbye to Ling Yuncong.

"General Ling, please have dinner. Li Zhang will come back later." After speaking, he bowed his head and stepped aside. After everyone entered the room one after another, he turned and left alone.

Ling Yuncong held back until Sima Yi returned home at night, and asked Sima Yi directly about Li Zhang, telling him what he didn't understand.

Sima Yi glanced at Ling Yuncong, and said calmly: "He is just Yuncong's servant, and he will be punished if he breaks the rules. Even though you are cousins, when you enter the palace, you must abide by the rules in the palace, and you must not mess up and down. Humble."

Ling Yuncong's eyes widened unexpectedly, and he asked in a low voice, "He...wasn't he summoned by the prince as Yun Cong?"

"But how can he compare with Yun Cong!"

Ling Yuncong felt a little moved in his heart, but also felt sorry for Li Zhang. He stared blankly at the candle and stopped talking.

Sima Yi seemed to see Ling Yuncong's uneasiness, hugged him with a smile, and teased, "Who made Yun Cong think of others? This king is very jealous."

Ling Yuncong glanced at Sima Yi, and argued in a low voice, "Why is Li Zhang someone else?"

"He can't!"

"why?"

"What this king hates the most is weakness and deceit!"

"But……"

"Don't talk about him! This king just can't see his cowardly and humble appearance!"

"..."

Ling Yuncong intuitively sensed that there was a big problem, and Sima Yi's domineering was clearly seen because of this.Ling Yuncong felt that he couldn't please everyone inside and outside, so he simply sent Li Zhang back to the guard camp.

The Ministry of Criminal Justice finally began to try Ling Feng's case.

The Ministry of War had already spoken harshly about Ling Feng's disobedience before the battle, saying that Ling Feng, as the general of the Dingbei Army, ignored the unified dispatch of the Dingbei Army, which caused the enemy to be unable to unite with the outside world. The result of the carnage.The Ministry of War was extremely dissatisfied with such practices that seriously disturbed the morale of the army, and demanded severe punishment to serve as an example.He also pointed the finger at Cheng Xuan, believing that Cheng Xuan, as the temporary envoy of the two counties, secretly bought the generals of the Dingbei Army and was the mastermind behind the incident.

Ling Feng defended himself based on the letters from the Rouran spies seized by the scouts, and believed that the main reason for the defeat in the war between the two counties was that we fell into Beiman's plan to divert the tiger away from the mountain.And it was precisely because he was worried about this that he decided to return to Yunzhong when he received the report that Rouran was attacking Yunzhong.The facts finally confirmed the Beiman's tactic.

The Ministry of Criminal Justice wanted Ling Feng to produce evidence, but Cheng Xuan categorically denied that he had received Rouran's spies and letters reported by Ling Feng!

Only now did Ling Feng truly believe that he had once again become a victim of party struggle, and he sighed deeply.

As a martial artist, Ling Feng was in Wang Yuzhang's Dingbei Army when he joined the army. He won his current status and honor through countless military exploits. The Ling Family Army has also become a sharp knife in the Dingbei Army.Ling Feng was good at fighting but not good at drilling camps. Wang Yuzhang had always had a love-hate relationship with him.When Tuoba Xianbei raided the two counties last time, Wang Yuzhang secretly ordered Ling Feng to abandon the defense and pretend to be defeated, so that Xianbei would chase and kill Cheng Xuan, and then he would lead the army to cut off the rear, encircle and annihilate him.But Ling Feng didn't want to let the two counties that had just stabilized go back into the flames of war. He urged Chen Lili to ask Wang Yuzhang to send troops to support him, and at the same time resisted desperately. In the end, Wang Yuzhang's good show was dragged down, and Cheng Xuan took the opportunity to draw the Dingxi Army into the two counties. county.Wang Yuzhang's hatred for Ling Feng is not insignificant.

But Ling Feng didn't expect that Cheng Xuan would make trouble at this time, but he already knew that he would be the scapegoat for the defeat of the two counties. As for the dispute between the second prince and the eighth prince, I am afraid that this will also determine the outcome.

Ling Yuncong was very happy to see that the trial had finally started, but he became more and more worried as he watched.Cheng Xuan's betrayal made him angry. He wanted to testify for Ling Feng, but was stopped by Sima Yi.

Sima Yi's behavior in Ling Feng's matter was a self-willed and self-willed one.At the beginning, Jin Bai tried his best to oppose his intervention, but Sima Yi took the initiative to speak to Emperor Jing for the sake of Ling Yuncong and to teach Wang Yuzhang a lesson.He originally thought that Cheng Xuan would definitely side with Ling Feng in order to attack Wang Yuzhang, but he was very annoyed by the current situation.

But Sima Yi was annoyed, but he couldn't think of anything but to ask his second brother directly.

Sima Yao was only half a year older than Sima Yi, and because Emperor Jing preferred Sima Yi and Concubine Cheng to be domineering, he was in a state of opposition since he was a child, and he never had any intention of brotherly love.Therefore, Sima Yi himself never thought that one day he would ask for this second brother.

But Sima Yi still went.

No one knows what Sima Yi and Sima Yao talked about when they met, only that Sima Yi entered the palace after seeing Sima Yao, and then Emperor Jing was furious and demoted Sima Yi to King Ning, leaving Beijing immediately without delay.

Ling Yuncong was like a bolt from the blue when he heard the news!Sima Yi, who thought he could be relied on, was so unreliable, how could he watch his father die because of his own mistakes!He suddenly felt that what Sima Yi did to him was to get his own means, and he couldn't see half of his sincerity.He couldn't listen to Sima Yi's explanation at all, and just kept cursing Sima Yi hysterically, hating himself for being deceived by him after all, hating himself for being blind!

Sima Yi was ordered to leave Beijing immediately and there were a lot of things to deal with aftermath. Thinking of his heart, Ling Yuncong would understand one day. Seeing that he had lost his mind at this time, he locked him in the house and planned to wait for the road Then explain it to him slowly.Who knew that Ling Yuncong tricked the guards into opening the door in the middle of the night, wounded the guards and escaped from the palace.

After Ling Yuncong left the Third Prince's Mansion, he went directly to the Second Prince's Mansion.Kneeling in front of Sima Yao, he said that he was naive, credulous and blind, and begged the second prince to forgive his frivolity and disorder, and save his father for the sake of the Ling family's bloody struggle for the country.

After Sima Yao listened calmly, he asked him to swear an oath with the lives of his family in front of him, and after that, he stood up to support Ling Yuncong, and said meaningfully: "It's too easy, but this king feels a little boring. gone."

The Ling Feng case took a sudden turn for the worse.The person who negotiated with Rouran was caught by Wang Yuzhang, and the evidence of collaborating with the enemy and releasing the water was conclusive. Wang Yuzhang knew that his crime was unforgivable, and committed suicide in Youzhou.Although Wang Xueli did not have direct evidence to know and participate in this incident, he was inevitably guilty of negligence and was relegated to Jiaozhou to do it.Since then, the line of the Eighth Prince has declined.

In the autumn of the 25th year of Anping, Sima Yao was made the crown prince by Emperor Jing.