Little Cardamom

Ming Tan didn't know how long she slept, she seemed to have fallen into an extremely lengthy dream.

In the dream, when she was a child, her father pushed the swing for her. The swing was pushed so high that it seemed as if she could fly out of the high walls of the Hou Mansion, and she could see the catkins swaying in summer, the golden ginkgo in autumn, and the heavy snow in winter in Shangjing. .

In a blink of an eye, it was her wedding ceremony again. The pearls were shining and the house was full of guests. She was wearing a bright and complicated brocade dress. On the brocade skirt, the gorse on the cardamom branches were all clearly visible, and the luster of the pearls on the hairpin was also clear and lustrous. .

Before she walked towards the hairpin, the picture changed in a daze, and it was the wedding day again.

The red eyes were full of joy, and the husband held the scale of happiness and lifted her red hijab. She exchanged glasses with him, and then she bowed her head again, and untied the jade belt around her waist for him anxiously.

Suddenly, a cold arrow shot in from the window, she was just watching in a daze, but her husband suddenly blocked her in front of her——

"Husband!"

Ming Tan suddenly opened his eyes.

Her eyes were blank for a moment, and when she closed her eyes, she realized that there was a light pink tent in front of her.

It turned out to be a dream, but fortunately, fortunately, it was just a dream.

Her heart was beating extremely fast, and a thin layer of sweat was forming on her back, but when she wanted to get up, the pain from her shoulders made her face turn pale again, and she went down slowly, finding a position to relieve the pain and lying down , did not dare to move.

"Miss, you're awake!" Lue happened to come in to change the water, and when she heard the movement, she covered her mouth in disbelief, her eyes flushed, "Miss, you're finally awake! Slave, I'm going to be so worried!"

"It's nothing..." Ming Tan opened his mouth, but his throat was very dry, the words he spoke seemed to be silent, and he couldn't use his strength all over his body.

Seeing her frowning and subconsciously swallowing her saliva, Lu'e was overjoyed and flustered, but also did not forget to come forward to give her some water to moisten her throat.

"Come on, miss, drink slowly."

After taking a few sips of water, Ming Tan finally came back to life, and his voice became loud.

"I'm still in... Bieyulou?" The curtains and the room are the same as what she saw before she fell asleep.

Lue nodded hurriedly: "Physician Feng said, you should not act rashly before you wake up, you have just been detoxified, you are very weak, coupled with the bumpy carriage, moving back and forth may easily cause the wound to open, so His Highness directly sealed the Bieyulou, Let you recuperate here, don't worry, the servants inside and out are all the maids of our palace, and we will never let those dubious women get close, and outsiders will not know that you are in this building." She Thinking that Ming Tan thought the brothel was dirty, Tete explained it.

But Mingtan only noticed: "Am I poisoned?"

"That's right, the arrow was poisoned. Fortunately, Imperial Physician Feng's medical skills are excellent, and His Highness sealed the acupoints around you in time, so that the poison will not spread." Lue looked at her distressedly, "But Feng Feng The imperial doctor said that the young lady was seriously injured by the arrow poisoning this time. After the injury is cured, she will have to recuperate for at least a year and a half before she can fully recover. And this right hand must not be a female celebrity for a long time in the future. Get back your life, if you shoot down more, how can you let the slaves live!"

Ming Tan was about to comfort her, but suddenly something flashed through her mind, and she asked again: "How long have I been in a coma?"

"You've been in a coma for five whole days, and this servant almost thought you wouldn't be able to wake up!" Lu'e replied crying while wiping her tears.

Five days?

Ming Tan was stunned.

"That husband... my lord, have you already set off?"

"The army has been going out for five days, but you have not woken up, so His Highness will stay and take care of you, but His Highness has to go out tonight, and if it is later, you will not be able to catch up with the army..." Lue slapped his head, "Oh no, Your Highness is only watching I missed you, I saw that you were not awake, so I went to change into my military uniform, so I must have already left!"

She got up in a hurry: "Your Highness is going to pass the message to His Highness. His Highness has been guarding you for the past few days. You have not woken up. If you can know that you are awake before you leave, Your Highness will feel much more at ease on the battlefield." Yes. By the way, I still have to pass this letter to the old lady..."

Ming Tan was still stunned by the news that someone was about to leave the capital and couldn't regain his senses. After a moment of delay, he suddenly stopped Lu E: "What did you just say? Mrs. Madam?"

Lue reacted later: "Look at the brains of this servant, I forgot to tell you when I was happy, the master has cleared up his grievances!" She said comfortingly, "This matter of collaborating with the enemy and treason was framed by the queen mother, and those letters were also framed by the empress dowager. It is not the master who is forging, collaborating with the enemy and treasoning the country, but the remnant of the old party and the former subordinate of the master, the current Yangxi Road Commander Guo...Guo Bingmao! Yes, it is Guo Bingmao, the Dali Temple has already found out the truth and the master is innocent!"

When Ming Tan heard the words, his thoughts wandered for a while.

So, is it a temporary expedient measure to arrest father, or did he soften his heart after all and let the Jing'an Hou Mansion go?

At the moment when Ming Tan was in a daze, Lu E had already gone out to communicate.

Jiang Xu brought a small group of people and was about to leave the city, when he heard that Lue came to announce that Ming Tan had woken up, he raised his hand to signal the crowd to stop, and said in a deep voice, "Leave on time in half an hour." Saying this, he quickly got off his horse , dressed in military uniform, went straight to see Ming Tan.

Not long after, Jiang Xu stepped into the house.

Ming Tan raised his eyes, met Jiang Xu's gaze not far away, he was usually silent, walked to the side of the bed, and sat down quietly.

"How do you feel?" His voice was slightly hoarse.

Ming Tan didn't respond, enduring the pain, turned over and turned to the inside.

But Jiang Xu turned her over again: "Facing in will press the wound."

Ming Tan didn't refute him, just kept silent and didn't look at him.

He fixedly looked at Ming Tan for a while, brushed away the stray strands of hair from her thin face, and said in a low-pitched voice, "I'm going to leave the city in half an hour, at least half a year, and at most a year." , some words, whether you believe it or not, I should explain it to you.

"Your father's matter is a plan to plan. Your father already knew about it and cooperated fully. The so-called correspondence with the enemy was also created by your father. This is a big matter. If you don't pay attention, you will startle the snake, so you can only hide it." After returning to Beijing, I didn’t go back to the mansion immediately, but I also wanted to catch the Queen Mother’s elite archers, and I didn’t intend to plot against the Jing’anhou’s mansion.”

After a while, he added another sentence: "At least, not now."

During the autumn hunt, he sent Jin Yunwei to Yangxi Road to investigate the communication between Guo Bingmao and Beihe.

It turned out that Bei He held evidence that Guo Bingmao had accepted bribes and silver on Yangxi Road, so he threatened to cooperate with him and promised a large amount of gold and silver. However, Guo Bingmao has no real power in his hands, and what Bei He really wants to cooperate with is the actual power holder of Yangxi Road, Ming Tingyuan.

After finding out the ins and outs of this matter, Emperor Chengkang called Ming Tingyuan into the palace.

According to Emperor Chengkang's intention, since Bei He had this idea, it would be better to follow his plan instead of falsely exchanging information, discovering the truth, obtaining information, and then using the crime of collaborating with the enemy to create a decent reason for Daxian to go out first.

When the army goes out to fight, there is no turning back, and this crime can be passed on to the Empress Dowager Su. The Empress Dowager Su has done a lot of evil, and it seems that she is going to die. Buried in the imperial mausoleum.

But the queen mother of a country can't move easily. Previously, the Su family tried to launch a palace change, and the whole family suffered. Only the queen mother retreated to Shoukang Palace and retreated. Get the punishment you deserve.

Ming Tan was silent for a while, then suddenly asked: "There are none now, so there were some in the past, right?"

In fact, some things are very obvious. In the past, the emperor and the empress dowager were competing to bestow the marriage. Your majesty was worried that your father would have too much military power and could not be suppressed for a while, and he didn't want your father to be wooed by the empress dowager, so he cut off the marriage first. It's just her I never thought before that what His Majesty wanted to cut off this marriage might not be to win him over, but to make it disappear completely.

Jiang Xu didn't make a sound, so Quan should acquiesce.

Ming Tan said calmly again: "Father doesn't seem to have the right to choose not to cooperate with the enemy. If he cooperates obediently, he still has the same room for maneuver as today. If he refuses to cooperate, then he will be on Dad's head and sit down. There is nothing wrong with this charge. This trick is half-truth and half-false. It is also implying to my father that the monarch will never be able to let go of his guard against a courtier who cannot be fully trusted and has a heavy soldier in his hand. It is reasonable to turn over the military power after the matter is over. ,Am i right?"

"It's not what you think."

"What's that like?"

Jiang Xu had no way of explaining this, because Emperor Cheng Kang might indeed have thought so.

Emperor Chengkang was afraid of Marquis Jing'an, even if he knew that he had no intention of rebellion, he had to seize his military power to be completely at ease. This time, although all kinds of tricks were used, Marquis Jing'an could feel all kinds of feelings in it. It means how taboo the ruler is to the ministers who hold power.

Half an hour was exhausted in the silence between the two of them. There was already a signal from the general downstairs. Jiang Xu got up, stared at Ming Tan, and said in a deep voice: "No matter how it used to be, how you think, I am happy." For you, so as long as you are the princess of Dingbei for a day, I will protect Jing'anhou's mansion with glory for a day regardless of the cost."