Chapter 409 Sudden summons

Author: Fragrance is all over the world

Chapter 409 Sudden summons

After the newly arranged wedding banquet that day, Fang Anren and Yan Ru spent a period of life in Zhuangzi like a couple of gods and immortals.

But the emperor's cleansing of traitors to the party was still going on. Fang Anren did not dare to celebrate his wedding in a big way, so he took Yan Ru back to Beijing within a few days.

After returning to Beijing, he went to the blacksmith shop to pick out a good weapon and gave it to Pei Mo as a return gift.

Watching the days gradually calm down, people's lives have returned to their former prosperity.

On this day, the emperor's sudden summons broke Fang Anren's peaceful life.

It was early in the morning and he got up early. Because Yan Ru was pregnant, she slept longer, so Fang Anren did not wake her up and went to the back of the yard to practice boxing alone.

Before the punch was over, the eunuch from the palace arrived. Because Pei Mo had warned him, he thought the emperor had summoned him to ask him something about Sheng Xiuyu's rebellion.

Without thinking much, Fang Anren entered the palace.

Without Fang Anren's voice, this huge imperial study would be eerily silent.

"The humble minister comes to see the emperor."

As soon as he stepped into the imperial study room, he was hit by the smell of medicine. It must be that Sheng Xiuyu's rebellion made the emperor sick from anger, so the emperor had to take some medicine to take care of himself.

Fang Anren knelt down, but his eyes were attracted by a pile of bamboo slips and booklets pushed under the desk. It seemed that the emperor didn't trust the people around him, so he turned over the past documents with his own hands.

"An Ren is here, please get up quickly."

After hearing the voice, the emperor finally looked up from the pile of papers.

Fang Anren stood up and looked up to see the emperor's haggard and gloomy look. He couldn't help but secretly sighed. It had been a long time since the old emperor had a good rest. No wonder the smell of medicine was so strong in this room.

Even an iron body cannot withstand such a build!

However, Fang Anren did not open his mouth to care. This was not his responsibility. After all, the emperor was surrounded by Li Fuquan and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. No matter how bad things were, there would still be imperial doctors who would come to diagnose the emperor's pulse every half month.

"Thank you, Your Majesty. I wonder what the important matter is for Your Majesty to summon the minister?"

Fang Anren said, now he finally understood why Brother Pei always asked for leave and couldn't attend the morning court. If it were him, he wouldn't want to come. Instead of talking roundabout words to the emperor, it would be better for him to have breakfast with Yan Ru in the mansion.

The emperor asked, "How long have you been back in Beijing, An Ren?"

It's strange, why didn't the emperor ask about Sheng Xiuyu? Fang Anren had doubts in his heart. This question made him unsure of the emperor's true purpose.

He thought for a while and decided to answer truthfully, "Your Majesty, I returned to Beijing at the beginning of summer last year. It has been more than a year now."

In just over a year, so many things happened. First, Sheng Xiuyu injured his life and exchanged the death-free gold medal for thousand-year ginseng. Then, his wife entered the palace. Then, his wife was framed and imprisoned. He recognized Yan Ru.

Then came Brother Pei's nightmare. Brother Pei didn't know how to survive Sheng Xiuyu's conspiracy. The wife lost her child and fell off the cliff in despair. I don't know whether to call it fate.

The separated brother Pei and his wife met again at the bottom of the cliff and spent more than three months in peace.

During this period, he and the Southern Realm Prince's Mansion, which was Madam-in-law's mother's family, tried their best to escape from Sheng Xiuyu's clutches.

Later, they gradually settled down, and he finally married Yan Ru, whom he had longed for.

It seems that everything is developing in a good direction. Thinking of this, Fang Anren can't help but be full of hope for life.

"More than a year has passed. It's been so long." The emperor was in a daze for a moment, and then asked again after a while, "What is your official position now?"

"Returning to the emperor, I am now the sixth-grade guard general of the Xiguan Army."

"Sixth grade, only sixth grade..." The emperor murmured, "It was my negligence. Anren, you have done great work in exposing Sheng Xiuyu's conspiracy. I should reward you!"

Hearing this, Fang Anren subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief. He was on tenterhooks, thinking that the emperor was going to make insinuating questions, but it turned out that he wanted to reward based on merit!

It is naturally a good thing to be promoted to an official position, but you must be humble when you should be humble. Fang Anren pretended not to be so, "Thanks to the emperor's love, it is the duty of a humble minister to catch the rebels and protect my safety.

How dare I take credit?"

How could the emperor not hear the humility in Fang Anren's words, but that was not his purpose, "There is no need to refuse, Anren, this is what you deserve."

With that said, he walked down the steps of the Imperial Study Room and said, "Let's do this. I will make you the third-grade commander of the Xiguan Army and title Zhongwu. What do you think of An Ren?"

Fang Anren was overjoyed. He thought it would be good if he could be promoted to the fourth rank. Unexpectedly, the emperor jumped three ranks in a row and granted him an official position of third rank!

Not only that, the emperor actually sealed his title! What an honor this is!

Although this title does not sound that loud, it is better than nothing. Fang Anren smiled happily and knelt on the ground to thank him, "I thank the emperor for his grace!"

The emperor raised his hands and smiled, "Haha, get up!"

Seemingly seeing Fang Anren's smiling face, the emperor became visibly happy, and the wrinkles on his face became more obvious when he smiled.

"You have been guarding Xiguan since you were fifteen, and you have been guarding Xiguan for more than four years now. Not to mention that Anren has solved such a big problem for me. If I don't reward you, wouldn't it mean that I am going to hurt those ministers who are loyal to me?"

Just as he was speaking, when Fang Anren was feeling complacent, a light flashed in the emperor's eyes.

Behind the great honor is a huge hidden danger. Fang Anren is still young and does not know this truth. If King Yi were here, he would definitely kneel down and ask the emperor to take back his life.

Sure enough, it seemed to come true, and the emperor's face began to become serious.

"Anren doesn't have to refuse. I have already drafted an imperial edict. When the time comes, you will take this imperial edict and set off for Xiguan to guard the border for me."

The smile on Fang Anren's face froze. He turned his gaze to the emperor's face. He couldn't believe his ears. What did he hear?

The emperor wants him to guard Xiguan?

"thump--"

Fang Anren knelt down in response, hitting his knees heavily on the floor of the hall, but he felt no pain at all.

"Thanks to the emperor's great love, I have little experience and do not have the ability to guard one side. Moreover, Xiguan is the western fortress of Dashun, and it is the territory of other tribes such as Mongols and Dayuezhi. This position is one of the most important in Dashun.

Seriously, it is really difficult for a humble minister to hold a big position. I am frightened. Please think again, Your Majesty!"

Fang Anren seemed to feel what was called a bolt from the blue. Such a gap seemed to knock him off a cliff thousands of feet high.

One moment he was in a paradise of bliss, and the next moment he was knocked down to eighteen levels of hell.

He knocked his head heavily on the hall, and a dull sound echoed in the hall, which was far heavier than his heartbeat.

The beauty suddenly shattered, revealing the bloody reality underneath.
Chapter completed!