Chapter 14: The Brick in His Face

“Bang!” The teacup slammed heavily on the ground, the expensive pre-dynastic Ru porcelain in pieces.

“Waste! All of them are wastes! I can’t even catch an assassin, what’s the use of keeping this bunch of guards who can only eat, it’s better to keep a litter of dogs!”

Feng An Marquis Wei Jun roared with rage, pulling the wound that had just been bandaged, and it hurt so much that he covered his waist and fell back to sit on the bed, panting, “There’s also those brocade guards from the Northern Zhenfu Division, who bragged on weekdays that every blade of grass and tree in the capital was under their control, but when it comes to the critical moment– “

“–Marquis ah!” The nearby butler Xu Yong hurriedly interrupted, nervously making a gesture of “the walls have ears”.

Wei Joon angry mouth, was so reminded, immediately remembered Feng to go to the evil that God aversion to avoid the face, as well as the Imperial Prison depths of the wailing for many years, the heart of fear, the second half of the sentence hard swallowed back.

Xu Yong persuaded, ”Marquis is not in a hurry. Since the Commander has agreed to this matter, he won’t rest easily, or else the face of the Northern Zhenfu Division will not survive. That assassin is very skillful, it is not a matter of a day or two to apprehend him, perhaps in a few days, he will be captured.”

Wei Jun gritted his teeth, “When caught, I will personally skin him!”

“But an outlaw, which is worth the Marquis to dirty the golden hands, then the Imperial Prison of the Brocade Guards will certainly make his life worse than death.”

“And that old and undead Li Chengfeng! All day long, relying on the identity of the two dynasties to bully and humiliate me, really angry killing! This old tree has deep roots and leaves, it can’t be shaken now, but it’s always possible to saw a few of his branches and trunks, so that he can feel a little pain, right?”

Wei Jun asked Xu Yong, “His disciple, Zhuo Qi, the priest of the State Scholarship Academy, is still condoning the students to slander this candidate, and Feng Deyeong hasn’t taken it down yet?”

Xu Yong replied: “I asked, Feng commanding officer said, has been handed over to the competent generals to do, the State Prison priest after all is also a from the fourth rank, need to do not leakage of water is good. If not, his side of the small and then make a few points?”

Wei Jun waved his hand: ”Beat the hell out of him! He hasn’t paid back the favor of the Empress’ favor last time! If I have this free money, why don’t I go and hit up Lan Xi.

He is the eunuch in charge of the seal, all day long in front of the emperor to serve, casually say a few words, even if the emperor does not care, time is long, more or less can listen to what. I see that he and Li Zhanfeng as the head of the civil officials are not eye to eye, on the face of the peace, behind the scenes, I do not know how to trip each other, if we can pull him to our boat, that’s a sure thing!”

Xu Yong nodded his head repeatedly in agreement.

Wei Jun asked with his remaining anger, “How is it on the Empress’s side, when will she give birth?”

“The eunuchs say it will be more than two months.”

“Blessed by the ancestors of the Wei family, we must win a man in one go!”

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After half a month, Su Yan can finally walk a few steps away from the couch, and then opened up to move a Luohan bed in the courtyard.

Originally, there was an old peach in the yard, a tree of thin pink and light red open will be defeated, the lavender wind whisked by, the falling Ying colorful, residual color to the extreme.

Peach blossoms fall like red rain, Su Yan emanate barefoot, a plain dress on the couch, feel the tea drink out of the taste of wine, even the bruised buttocks are not so painful.

On the spur of the moment, he was about to recite two lines of Tang poetry and Song lyrics in response to the scene, but then he saw Su Xiaojing hurriedly trotting all the way over, gasping for breath, “The king, the king is here ……”

Su Yan’s brain instantly jumped out of the sentence “close the door, let the dog”, busy from the Luo Han bed reluctantly get up.

But I heard a laugh from the corridor: “Don’t move, don’t move, you’ll scare the beautiful scenery. I’ll go back and find a skillful artist to make a ‘Peach Blossom Fairy under the Peach Blossom Tree’.”

Su Yan wiped his face with his wide cuffs and wiped away what could be described as a hideous look before turning back, “Your Majesty driving in vain is really a fluffy sight.”

King Yu walked to the tree, picked up a petal of red from Su Yan’s collar, and chanted, “I always hate that there is no place for spring to return to, and I don’t know where to turn to. Qinghe, your place really deserves the four words ‘spring-colored home’.”

“Though the name bestowed by His Majesty is stylish, my humble servant does not dare to accept it, much less post it on the gate.”

“Oh, why?”

“In case a fragrance-seeking guest mistakenly enters, the servant boy in my family is a donkey, I am afraid that I can’t help but let the dog out to drive him out, so I can’t help but cause some trouble again.”

King Yu raised his eyebrows, “Qinghe’s words have a deeper meaning, that person who is going to drive the general out, wouldn’t be the Lone King, would it?”

Su Yan squinted at him, “Your Highness is joking, my official’s door is always open to your Highness, your Highness is not free to come and go.”

King Yu sighed: “It seems that I have offended Qinghe, fortunately, today I have prepared a slight gift to make amends, lest the next time I will really be swept off my feet.” Said toward standing under the corridor of the attendant a wave, immediately someone end over a party with the palace silk wrapped object.

Su Yan was a bit curious, what kind of gift would this king who was full of flowers send to him, it wouldn’t be an aphrodisiac chart or something like that, right?

King Yu placed the gift on the couch and smoothly sat down on the edge of the couch to unwrap the palace silk, which turned out to be a pair of exquisite to the extreme Western chess.

The chessboard is made of black and white jade spliced together, glistening smooth without half a gap, the pieces carved into the shape of rooks, horses, figures, hair visible at the slightest point, when the array of leaping, lifelike.

He pointed to the black chess piece and said, “This is Fuping Ink Jade, its color is heavy and greasy, its texture is meticulous, it is black as ink, and it is polished and lovely.”

He also pointed to the white chess piece and said, “This is Xinyang Water Essence, exquisite and clear as ice, refracting dazzling rainbow colors in daylight.”

Su Yan looked at it and tsked. This was simply a set of perfect to amazing works of art, even if it was put into the Forbidden City to receive 10,000 people’s appreciation was not too much.

King Yu saw his face showing pleasure, his heart secretly happy, “That day you in the East Palace asked people to make a chess, soon popular in the palace, even the emperor is also quite interested, I will according to your description, not the slightest difference to make a pair, you see can like it?”

Su Yan couldn’t help but pick up a crystal knight and play with it, “Craftsmanship, Your Highness is so elegant.”

King Yu smiled and said, “It’s good that you like it. How about we cut a few games?”

Su Yan momentary itch, readily agreed, asked the boy to bring a beech wood winding lotus pattern kang table resting on the Luohan bed, because of the injury is inconvenient to sit, but also with a thick soft cushion spread under the waist, one hand leaning back to play chess.

King Yu picked black, intending him to make the first move.

Su Yan wasn’t polite either, advancing his Wang Qian Bing two frames and making a short, intense opening.

King Yu smiled slightly and did not directly seize the center with him, advancing the pawn in front of the phase, and after his opponent jumped his knight, he got out another pawn in front of the king to pave the way for the phase.

Su Yan did not expect the other party to respond calmly, but even went into one of the modern popular layout method of the Sicilian defense, and immediately brightened up the spirit.

After the two of them had gone dozens of rounds, Su Yan slowed his eyebrows and gazed in thought.

King Yu took time to scrutinize, see his finger crystal chess like jade, the tip of the light pink, nails and mid-air flying petals a few different, even more magnificent than the crystal chess pieces a few points, can not help but the mind ripples, a thousand thoughts.

“Your Majesty, it’s your turn.” Su Yan landed his son for a long time, and when he saw that the other party was slow to respond, he couldn’t help but urge.

King Yu woke up like a dream, “Oh, right.” Falling a piece, but revealing a break in the king’s wing.

Su Yan hey, take advantage of the opportunity to pursue, after a few rounds really will be the other side of the death, carrying the black king’s body smiled freely said: “Played so painfully! The king’s chess strength is excellent, just a month or so actually learned this level, I’m afraid it won’t be long, I’ll be defeated under the king.”

King Yu suddenly caught his fingers, gently rubbing them in his palm, and softly said, “If you like to play chess, I’ll come and play with you every day, and as long as I see that you’re happy, I’ll be happy too.”

Su Yan was stunned, alertly drew his hand back, who knew that he had collected it in a hurry, and the wound touched on the bed surroundings, and he drew cold air in pain.

King Yu hastily pounced over to visit, hold his waist boo pain ask for pain, suddenly realized that Siren in the arms, where to find such a good opportunity, the heart of the suppressed fire of desire suddenly into a prairie fire, rolled over and pressed Su Yan, hand into the clothes and touch and knead, mouth messy said: “Qinghe, you let me touch a …… me don’t do anything else, just a kiss …… Hey, don’t move, be careful of the wound ……”

Su Yan’s cold sweat broke out from the pain, and he angrily shouted: ”Zhu Xu Jing! What kind of madness are you having! If you don’t stop, don’t blame me for being impolite!”

King Yu ** around his neck and said in a wavy voice, “Kisses, heart and soul, but don’t be polite ……”

Su Yan was so angry that his eyes went black, and he couldn’t care less about committing a major offense, curling the tip of his elbow and slamming it hard towards his ribs.

King Yu ate pain, stifled a grunt. Su Yan took the opportunity to push and push, and felt a hard object in his hand, and manipulated it, and greeted him on the head with the standard posture of a brick lifting the front face.

King Yu was shocked to see the wind and shadow breaking through the air, and in his haste, he fell back and managed to avoid it.

The kang table swept down to the ground with a dull thud, and a cadre of chess pieces crackled and flung everywhere. He covered the back of his bumped and sore back and shouted in annoyance, “You …… you still don t put it down for me, this is a offense!”

Su Yan hand holding a brick, ah no, is a jade chessboard, squinting eyes can not stop sneering: “playing the fight can not be anyway have committed, simply earn a fish death net break, the next official a cheap life is not enough to cherish, just the king of the body of a thousand gold, now also want to fall back.”

King Yu knew that he had pushed him to the edge, his heart was greatly chagrined, how could he not hold back for a moment, causing him to flip out.

In the middle of the embarrassment, he was sent out of the courtyard of the attendants heard the tremor, fear of change, busy rushed to protect, but see Yu Wang crown is not neat, Su Yan sash loose, only to say that the king of the good things, trembling worship a piece.

King Yu, full of resentment, immediately dropped his spearhead and scolded them, “Have you been called in? What do you want to do when you’re just trespassing! A bunch of fools!”

The attendants kowtowed cutly, “I am ignorant, please rest your anger, Your Majesty.”

King Yu fumed through the evil fire and turned his head to Su Yan with a sarcastic smile, “His men were reckless, letting Qinghe be frightened, the lone king will make amends to you.”

Su Yan knows that Yu Wang is to take this opportunity to soften, they also need to give him a step down, take a deep breath, “the king’s words are heavy, the next official just sleep thought gradually, people are a little confused, I do not know what the mouth said, I hope that the king do not blame.”

King Yu relaxed, “No blame, no blame, since Qinghe is tired, he should rest well.”

He straightened the head of the tired silk embedded gemstone gold crown, got up and walked out a few steps, and turned back and said: “This injury is how to raise, a more and more thin, turn around I let people send you some supplements to, can not excuse.”

Su Yan gathered his lapels and looked calm: “Thank you for your king’s love.”

Yard soon quiet down, the wind moving flowers red rustling, but no sound, silent to the dust.

Su Yan slowly moved his waist, the fluffy thick cushion underneath his body hurting him. He used the tip of his boot to pluck the chess pieces that had fallen to the floor and lazily called out, “Xiao Jing, put these things away in the cabinet.”

“What kind of treasure are these …… these!” Su Xiaojing was both amazed and envious, and regretful as she picked up the chess pieces in the dirt, storing them along with the board in her arms in a precious manner, and headed for the house with unusually steady footsteps.

“Which is a treasure, it’s all ill-intentioned favors.” Su Yan muttered, wanly rolling over to sleep.

Instead, a cold, sharp voice was suddenly heard in his ears, “If there are people you don’t want to see, you can come to me to do business, and you won’t be charged for the first time.”

Su Yan slightly tilted his face, looked at the shadows in the window of the threshold, smiled bitterly: “It seems that today is really a mess. But buy and sell or forget it, although he crooked stalker, but not to the point of letting my heart to kill, and I also do not want you to risk.”

The voice then vanished like a vision.