Unparalleled Concubine

   Chapter 775 New Year's Eve

After all, Li Xin has made great contributions, and the Ye family in the court echoes him. In addition, this time he actually left no evidence on the surface. Of course, the emperor knew that he did what happened in the southwest. , but the dialogue between the two can only be known by the two of them, and it is impossible to tell the third person.

Therefore, at the level of "law", Li Xin was not charged with any crime. He was taken into the Dali Temple, and he was not reviewed by the three judicial divisions. It can only be said that he offended the emperor, so he left the palace angrily and returned to his home. At that time, the court did not continue to embarrass him.

Li Xin is no longer in Dali Temple. The old Taoist Yiyangzi and his master Wang Zhong were also released from Dali Temple. Yiyangzi returned to Taiyi Temple in Beishan, but Wang Zhong had nowhere to go. Lived in Jing'an Houfu.

It is worth mentioning that although the imperial court did not make any further moves, the number of people guarding outside the Jinganhou mansion did not decrease but instead increased. It seemed that the emperor was afraid that Li Xin would escape from the capital. Even the inner guard sent a school captain to guard outside the gate of Jing'an Hou's mansion.

   Li Xin turned a blind eye to this.

   He lived in his own house silently and did not go out for more than ten days.

   He returned to the capital around the tenth day of the twelfth lunar month. After returning to Beijing, he struggled for several days. Now more than ten days have passed, and it will be the 30th year of the eighth year of Taikang.

  The dark part of the capital was turbulent, but the people in the capital didn't notice it at all. At this time, whether it was Datongfang, Liushufang, or the most wealthy Yonglefang, every household was decorated with lanterns to celebrate the annual festival.

   In previous years, the Marquis of Jing'an would hang up the lanterns early, under the arrangement of the eldest princess, but this year, until the 30th year of the year, the Marquis of Jing'an remained silent.

   At this time, the people in the other squares only heard some rumors about the Jing'an Houfu, but they didn't notice the tension in the courtroom, but most of the people in Yongle Square felt the wind and rain were coming.

  After all, Jing'an Hou's mansion has been surrounded by guards for twenty days.

For other officials, they would either be innocent within 20 days, or they would have been sentenced to prison long ago, but after being surrounded by guards for more than 20 days, Jing'an Hou's mansion remained unmoved, and even the people of the Three Judicial Justices remained unmoved. He never stepped into the waiting room.

On the evening of the New Year's Eve, according to the rules, the emperor would entertain some important officials in the palace. Therefore, from the morning, the palace servants of the inner court and the eunuchs of the eight prisons were already busy. Yi's **** left the palace and walked towards Jing'an Hou's mansion. He went straight across the siege of Xie Jing and other imperial guards, walked into Jing'an Hou's mansion, and successfully met Li Xin in the backyard.

   At this time, the Marquis of Jing'an's mansion was no longer as high-spirited as it once was. He was wearing ordinary clothes, sitting under a pavilion, his hands were black, and he was fiddling with a pile of charcoal.

   Xiao Zheng, the **** in red, walked over with small steps and saluted Li Xin.

   "I have seen Lord Hou."

  Li Xin bowed his head and was busy with his work, ignoring the head of the inner court.

   Xiao Zheng wasn't angry either. He glanced at Li Xin, whose hands were black, and asked with a smile, "What are you busy with, Lord Hou?"

   "Have nothing to do, fiddle with a few pieces of charcoal."

   Li Xin didn't lift his head, and said lightly, "I won't be able to eat imperial grain in the future. I'm going to resume my old business and live by selling carbon."

   When Li Xin first entered Beijing, his first occupation was to sell carbon. Not only the emperor knew about this, but Xiao Zheng also knew about it. He smiled awkwardly and said, "Master Hou, today's New Year's Eve."

   "Your Majesty invites you to the palace for a banquet..."

  Li Xin had no expression on his face, and said slowly, "I am a grass-roots citizen and can't go to the palace. I would trouble the Grand Duke to report to His Majesty, saying that Li Xin is busy with his livelihood and has no time to go."

   "Master Li..."

   Xiao Zheng bowed his head and smiled.

"Your Majesty has made it clear that your servants will invite you into the palace, so don't play with your temper. Besides, it's 30 years old today, you won't enter the palace yourself, the eldest princess, your young lady, and the young master will always enter. Gong go to kowtow to the Empress Dowager?"

   The current Empress Dowager is the grandmother of Li Xin's son and daughter, and the Empress Dowager is also quite fond of this grandson. For this reason, little Ahan and Li Ping are often carried to the palace.

  Li Xin raised his head and glanced at Xiao Zheng.

   "The eldest princess is ill and has no way to enter the palace. The two children have to accompany her at home."

   He stood up from the chair, wiped the black ashes on his hands with a handkerchief, his face calm: "If someone has to enter the palace, I will do it."

  Xiao Zheng breathed a sigh of relief, and quickly lowered his head: "This servant is here, waiting for Lord Li."

   "Wait for me to do what?"

   Li Xin frowned and said, "I can leave now."

  Eunuch Xiao coughed and pointed to the black and gray coarse cloth on Li Xin's body.

   "Master Hou, the court department is going to enter the palace today, why don't you change your clothes..."

   Li Xin glanced down at his clothes, then nodded slightly: "So, Grand Duke will wait for me."

   After saying that, he dropped the carving knife in his hand, got up and went back to the backyard. Not long after, he put on a black robe with a hanging eye and a white tiger embroidered on the front of the robe.

  General court officials, as long as they have quality and rank, the court will give out three sets of clothes, one set of regular clothes, one set of court clothes, and one set of dresses.

  The three sets of clothes can be regarded as official uniforms, but the application occasions are different.

   The dress Li Xin is wearing now is the dress he wore when he was a general in Yulinwei. Li Xin likes this dress very much. After all, there is a big white tiger on the front, which is very majestic.

After    changed his clothes, Li Xin said to Xiao Zheng with a calm expression: "Grand Duke, shall we go?"

   Xiao Zheng glanced at the Yulinwei dress on Li Xin's body, and nodded with a complicated expression: "Master Hou, please, the sedan chair is already waiting outside."

  Li Xin walked out of the gate of his house with an expressionless face. The two purple sedan chairs at the gate had been waiting for a long time. After he and Xiao Zheng sat up, the sedan chairs went straight from Yonganmen into the palace city, and walked all the way towards Weiyang Palace.

   At the gate of Weiyang Palace, the sedan chair stopped.

Xiao Zheng first got off the sedan chair and led Li Xin into the main hall of Weiyang Palace. In the main hall, the low tables had been placed. In the evening, the banquet in the palace was going to be held here. Xiao Zheng looked back at Li Xin and lowered his voice. He said, "Master Marquis, this banquet will not start until the evening. Do you want to see His Majesty now?"

  Li Xin found an inconspicuous corner and sat down, his voice calm: "I won't go to face the saint."

   "No accident, Your Majesty will probably be very unhappy today, so I won't go looking for bad luck. Your Majesty invited me to come. I'll just sit here and go home after dinner."

   Xiao Zheng glanced at Li Xin, sighed slightly, then turned to leave and went to see the emperor.

  The Weiyang Palace is brightly lit and resplendent.

   At this time, outside the capital city, a post soldier, one person and two horses, with information from the southwest in his arms, is daring to come to the capital at a high speed.

  This New Year's Eve in the eighth year of Taikang is destined to be an uneasy New Year's Eve.

   (end of this chapter)