Chapter 104: A momentary pleasure in hugging a big leg

At the White Cloud Inn in the East City, Huo stood in the lobby with his own soldiers and said to Su Yan, “Imperial historian Su went to the guest room to pack his luggage by himself, I’ll wait here.”

Su Yan knows that he is not waiting for himself, but can verify the identity of the appointment of the instrument, to this point, and how to delay can not be delayed, in addition to the truth to tell, there is no second way, only to smile a little bitterly: “Here are many idle people, it is inconvenient to talk, but also please Huo Senator up the stairs, into the house for a talk.”

Huo YiYan upstairs into the house, listening to SuYan said about the missing paperwork, just listened to a few words, changed color and said: “you two act secretive, I have suspected that your identity is different, really no proof. Do you know that impersonating an official is a capital offense? Coupled with trespassing in the garrison fort, tricky words to swindle me to let go of the Waratah spies, clearly collusion with the Northern Barbarians, plotting mischief! Men, take them down!”

The soldiers drew their swords and surrounded the two as if they were enemies. Jing Hongchu didn’t put these soldiers in his eyes at all, only staring at Huo’s lance, his right hand poised to strike hanging down next to his scabbard, as if what hung at his waist wasn’t a sword but a bolt of lightning that was about to rip through the sky at any moment.

Su Yan measured Huo: ”I see that you also do not seem to be unreasonable people, how indiscriminate to start a fight? Are you afraid of being swindled by someone pretending to be an official, or are you worried that once my identity as an imperial historian is confirmed, what you and Temple Secretary Yan did today will be exposed, and you are afraid of being liquidated by the court. So rather I am a sibyl?”

Huo was poked in his pain, eyes flashed killing, coldly said: “If you can take out proof of identity, I naturally have nothing to say. If you can’t take it out, I’ll put you in jail for trial according to the law, and if you dare to resist the law and resist arrest, you’ll be executed on the spot!”

Su Yan secretly sighed, knowing that he was determined to tie up with Yan Chengxue in the same boat.

Own this supervision of the royal historian, to say the least is also a high-risk occupation, down to the grassroots level to check corruption, check malfeasance, check corruption, if the local officials to stand up their own okay, if there is a ghost in the heart, is certainly a hundred ways not to see him. Encountered black hearted, dog courage of the local officials, secretly hand foot to the imperial court sent to kill the royal historian, is not a thing.

I heard that not long ago, the Yellow River broke, resulting in flooding in the Huai’an area, the court sent to check the relief work of the supervision of the royal inspector, in the Shanyang County boundary died in an unknown manner. This case is still hanging in the hands of the North Township Division.

If you can take out the paperwork and the imperial decree, the material Yan Huo two people are not so bold, dare to murder the royal historian. After all, this night to make such a big battle, but also involved in the Warat people, it is easy to make a big fuss, if you kill a royal historian, paper simply can not wrap the fire.

However, this moment can not self identification, then trouble. The other side can completely take advantage of the fire, just bite him to be an outlaw who impersonates the official, down to the prison, and then before the trial casually move what hand to get him dead, then dead without proof.

This kind of thing, that Lord Yan must have done it without any psychological pressure, and this Huo in front of him, even if he didn’t want to kill with the intention, but for the sake of his base friend’s safety and future, I’m afraid that he is also capable of doing anything with a clenched tooth and a crossed heart.

–You’ve got fags, don’t I?

Su Yan skillfully ducked behind Jing Hongchou while poking out half of his head: ”I advise Senator Huo to think twice before acting, and to be a good person. What you and Yan Siqing did to the Valar people may not be an irreversible major crime, but in case you did something to me as the imperial royal inspector – not that I’m bragging shamelessly, not to mention the imperial master’s thunderous wrath, but just the little master can take both of your heads off. By the way did I forget to tell you that I still have the title of Crown Prince’s Servant Reader on me, and am still nominally a member of the Eastern Palace?”

Huo was clearly hesitant, his mind in a celestial battle, his eyes flickering.

Is Fox Falsehood happy? Su Yan tortured his heart …… of course happy! Holding a thigh is good for a while, and holding a thigh all the time is good all the time.

Hugging one after another is even better.

Just as at this moment, he is still holding the thigh of Ah Chou, a martial arts expert, the mouth cannon really does not work, we can still walk for the top.

The situation seems to be at a delicate stalemate.

The wooden door of the guest room was suddenly pushed open, “bang” sound, the door frame hit the wall, a few silhouettes rushed in.

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Chu Yuan led the jinyiwei and cavalry team, along with the commander of the garrison rushed to the garrison camp fort, to see the Lingzhou senator Huo.

The gate guards at the camp fort told them that Senator Huo had just left, as if escorting two spies who had trespassed into the camp, to search for evidence at the White Cloud Inn.

Chu Yuan gave a jolt and asked, “What spy?”

The guard rubbed his straggly eyebrows with the hilt of his sword, ”What exactly is the situation, I can’t say. Anyway, today the camp fort was fighting so hard that even the council hall collapsed, and it was rumored that there were northern barbarian spies who mixed in and wanted to assassinate Lord Seneschal, but they were caught on the spot. Later, somehow, the senator lord ordered those barbarians to be released, but then arrested two backwoodsmen …… who were in the country and abroad You said that these two, the good Da Ming people are not not good, but have to go to be a Tartar’s dog, in the end, what kind of mentality is it?”

Chu Yuan listened to the clouds and asked after him, “What spy, what scion, what does it look like?”

“This I saw with my own eyes, a sixteen or seventeen year old scholar, a small appearance really handsome, the other one wearing a sword is a bit older than him, look at the dress like a guard.”

Gao Shuo slapped his thigh and shouted, “Bad dish! That’s not a spy, it’s our ancestral master!”

Chu Yuan also doubted that the martial arts expert who could bring down the camp fortress was anyone else but Jing Hongchou.

After asking for the location of the White Cloud Inn, several brocade guards jumped onto their horses in a hurry and sped off with whips, not even caring about the cavalry. The commander of the guards chased after them and shouted, “How will these cavalrymen be placed?”

Without looking back, Gao Shuo replied in a loud voice, “Anyway, it’s Commander Sheng Qianxing’s men from the Commander-in-Chief of the Shaanxi Commanding General’s Department, so you’ll see what you can do!”

Guard Commander: “……得，都是爷. This way please.”

Fearing that the hard-to-find Imperial Secretary Su would be in danger again, a few of the brocade guards pushed their horsepower to the limit and crashed directly into the courtyard of the inn.

Chu Yuan and Gao Shuo can’t even make it to the stairs, they saddle up on their horses, step on the railing and flip up to the second floor corridor, grabbing a shopkeeper and forcing him to ask: “Which room did Senator Huo of your city enter just now? Speak quickly, or I’ll kill you!”

The mate’s brain was a beat slower than his hands, and before his brain could react, his hands subconsciously pointed to a door to a room in front of him.

Gao Shuo let go of him and swept forward to push open the door of the room at the same time as Chu Yuan.

A few of the brocade guards stormed in like eagles fighting rabbits, right into the scene of Huo’s own soldiers holding swords, surrounding Su Yan and Jing Hongchou in the middle.

Chu Yuan’s voice was like thunder as he shouted, “The Brocade Guards are here, who dares to act rashly? All of you put down your weapons, or you will be punished for committing insurrection!”

This voice straight shook the soldiers. The Brocade Guards are renowned for their fierce reputation, and in the two capitals, they are an existence that everyone talks about with fear, even in a frontier place like Lingzhou, they are also like a thunderclap. The soldiers cast their eyes towards Huo in disbelief, counting on their backbone to give them an idea.

After Huo was stunned, a chill ran through his heart, realizing that today’s matter could not be settled.

Almost desperately and in desperation, he reached his hand to the concealed pouch at his waist, and as he touched the sharp edge of the basalt flying spikes, his spiritual platform cleared abruptly – What am I doing? This is what I’m doing! Using my improved flying spikes, quenched with the poison that Old Yan personally prepared, this spike will send both of our lives, along with our families, to the Yellow Springs!

Huo snapped out of it at the last minute, let out a long sigh, and ordered his own soldiers, “Collect your weapons and withdraw from the encirclement.”

Chu Yuan first carefully surveyed Su Yan from top to bottom, confirming that he was unharmed before pulling out his Jinyiwei belt tag, waving it in front of Huo, and saying in a deep voice, “We are under imperial orders to escort Imperial Secretary Su to his appointment in Shaanxi. His Holiness has ordered that if anyone endangers the life of Royal Historian Su, we can make a decision on the spot and decapitate him first.”

Huo waxed white and said nothing.

Gao Shuo hidden tears in the bottom of his eyes, toward Su Yan cupped his fist and half kneeled: “Duty dereliction of duty, failed to protect the adults in the chaos of the soldiers to protect the whole, almost failed …… to fail the entrusted by the superior officer, but also please the adults to surrender.”

This is actually a very inappropriate statement, as the Prince of Heaven’s own army, he should have said “failing the Emperor’s grace”, rather than “superior officials” as the object of allegiance.

However, when he met Su Yan again after all the hardships, an impulse was born out of oil, that is, he wanted to let the other party know plainly that who exactly was the one who, with a thousand warnings and worries, entrusted the safety of his beloved into his hands.

His superior officer could do his best to arrange and give in the shadows, but he couldn’t just be a silent pair of eyes and hands.

The words were not coming out of his mouth!

Su Yan’s eyes instantly turned red. The two words “seventh son” rolled around like a sharp blade on his tongue, unable to be spit out, cutting painfully, and then turned into a fierce and lingering taste of blood, wrapping him tenderly.

In order to hide this urge to shed tears, Su Yan averted his gaze from Gao Shuo, scrutinized the remaining brocade guards one by one, and choked back tears as he asked, “Where are the others?”

The jinshiwei hung their heads slightly, not daring to touch his eyes with grief.

“Nine. Plus the ones recuperating in Yan’an, ten …… And half of them, when are they coming back? I still remember what each of them looks like and their names ……”

The presence of these nine ironclad men, even if the blood in the fire has long been indifferent to life and death, at this moment, none of them are not moved.

Chu Yuan forced his nose to hold back the sourness in his nostrils, “My condolences, Lord Su. We will bring the ashes …… of our fellow soldiers back to the capital.”

Su Yan clenched his hands tightly into fists and suddenly walked up to them, embracing one by one these brocade guards who were covered in dirty dust and stinking sweat. Arms looped over their shoulders, fists pounded on their backs, a gesture that fellow soldiers in the military use to embrace each other.

“Black Charcoal Head,” he said at last to Chu Yuan, “I owe you ten lives.”

Chu Yuan gritted his teeth and replied, ”We are burdened with the Emperor’s orders, and although we die, we are still honored. If His Majesty had ordered us to protect others, the result would have been the same. So Lord Su doesn’t owe his life to anyone, he only has to keep in mind His Majesty’s favor.”

Suyan let go of his hand and sighed, “Yeah, there’s too much I should remember.”

He calmed down a little and looked at Huo with still reddened eyes, “Chu Yuan, did you pick up my bag at the bottom of the steep slope? Show him the appointment papers inside.”

Gosaku unzipped the bag he was carrying, took out the paperwork, and handed it to Huo.

Huo Muren glanced at the bright red Ministry of Revenue seal above, slowly raised his hands and cupped his fists, bowing his head and saying, “Lingzhou Seneschal Huo, meet Supervisory Royal Historian and Imperial Inspector of Shaanxi, Lord Su Yan Su.”