Chapter 496 Furious
Wen Sutong's mansion is not big, but it is decorated in a Jiangnan style. After all, he comes from a family of officials from the Qian Kingdom. In terms of taste and style, there is really nothing to say.
Uncle Zheng and the blind man came to visit. Wen Sutong opened the front door and came to greet them personally with a cane.
Later,
Uncle Zheng went to the study alone to take a rest;
Firstly, because the duel in the imperial study room in the morning consumed too much energy, and secondly, he wanted to leave the opportunity to speak to their son-in-law. At most, he would show up and say a few polite words when he was about to leave at the end.
Perhaps because of the armor on the body, the body naturally switches to some functions on the battlefield, and it is always easier to fall asleep.
Uncle Zheng really fell asleep.
While Uncle Zheng was sleeping,
a red-robed eunuch led the eunuch to the lake pavilion and opened the iron door.
"Common Ji Chengyue accepts the decree."
The third prince, dressed in white, looked at the scene in front of him in astonishment. He had already prepared that there was no hope of leaving here in this life. He really did not expect that the imperial decree would come at this time. arrive.
"My dearest minister...the common people bow to me, long live my emperor, long live him."
The red-robed eunuch smiled slightly and read out the decree:
"I will carry out the emperor's edict from heaven. Said, common man Ji Chengyue..."
Purpose can be roughly divided into two meanings.
One meaning is to admonish him for the mistakes he made in the first place. Of course, it is impossible to clearly state in the imperial edict what Ji Chengyue did in the first place. The other is nothing more than laziness and disobedience;
The second meaning is that His Majesty thinks that you have a good attitude in Huxinting in the past few years, so you can leave here. It is impossible to restore your status as a prince, but you are allowed to enter the clan mansion.
That is to restore your status as a royal family, but you will not be given any treatment.
But he is a prince after all. This dynasty has concluded that if there is an amnesty in the future, he will at least be able to inherit a title. In short, the most difficult hurdle is over.
"My son, thank you Lord for your kindness."
Ji Chengyue knelt on the ground and raised his hands.
The red-robed eunuch put the imperial edict in his hand and helped him up. The third prince was already in tears.
"Your Highness, I will help you go back. Your Majesty means that you can continue to live in the prince's residence. The imperial doctor in the palace is also ready to diagnose your health."
"Thank you, father-in-law, thank you...Father."
After being imprisoned in Huxinting for several years, the damage to the body is obvious, and the root cause of the disease can easily be found. After being released, he will need to follow the instructions of the imperial doctor to take good care of himself.
The red-robed eunuch looked at the third prince in front of him with a warm feeling.
After all, this third prince is now a member of the same family as himself.
Once this man goes to that root, over time, he will naturally develop a feminine aura;
Besides, the third prince originally liked to read poetry and books, and his temperament was naturally It's more literary.
The red-robed eunuch immediately dismissed all these miscellaneous thoughts from his mind. What on earth was he thinking about?
In the carriage,
the red-robed eunuch personally brought a cup of tea to Ji Chengyue.
Ji Chengyue took the tea with both hands and begged:
"Father-in-law, I left some books, calligraphy and paintings there. I was in a hurry before and didn't take care of them. Please help me... …”
"Your Highness, look at what you said. All you have to do is give the order. The Zajia family cannot afford your 'please'. The Zajia family will send someone to get it later."
"Thank you, father-in-law."
"Your Highness is welcome."
The carriage was passing through the streets.
Ji Chengyue smelled the aroma of sesame cakes and inhaled subconsciously.
The red-robed eunuch has been serving people since he was a child. Although he has now climbed to a high position in the palace, he has never left behind his housekeeping skills. He immediately ordered a young eunuch outside to buy two sesame cakes.
Ji Chengyue held the hot biscuits just out of the oven and devoured them hungrily.
"Your Highness, please eat slowly, eat slowly, be careful not to choke."
In fact, although the food in Huxinting is mainly light food, this light food is not as good as the standard small food. In terms of people’s lives, it has The experience is not bad, but the food needs to be inspected when it is delivered. By the time it really falls in front of Ji Chengyue, it is basically cold;
It's okay in summer, but in winter, it can only be Heat your own rice on a small stove that makes tea.
He was not greedy for the sesame seed cakes,
but for the hot smell of fireworks.
In other words,
What he is craving for is the taste of freedom.
After eating the two sesame cakes, Ji Chengyue breathed a sigh of relief, picked up the already cold tea, drank it all in one gulp, and kept the tea foam in his mouth to continue chewing.
This is a habit he has developed in the Huxin Pavilion in the past few years.
Immediately,
Ji Chengyue looked at the red-robed eunuch and said:
"Father, when can I go to express my gratitude to my father?"
< br>“Your Majesty did not order this.”
"I understand."
Ji Chengyue has nothing to be dissatisfied about.
…………
“I said, Fifth Brother, you are leaving, what are you still busy with here?”
The fourth prince sat at the table next to him. , watching the fifth prince drawing blueprints there.
"Didn't you see it, fourth brother? My brother and I are drawing blueprints. There are some water conservancy methods recorded in ancient books and collected by my brother himself. I don't think they will be of any use. I just want one to confirm each other."
"Oh, I know you are drawing blueprints, but you, a river worker, probably won't be able to repair it."
"Oh ? Is there any news about the fourth brother?”
“Bucai, there are still a few acquaintances in the Ministry of War.”
The fourth prince’s mother’s family is the Sanshi Deng family. He was defeated in the Battle of Wangjiang, but some legacy was left behind. Furthermore, he was a prince himself, so it was not difficult to find out some information.
"What's the matter?"
"It seems that military affairs were discussed in the imperial study today."
"What's the matter?"
"The talk from the Ministry of War, It seems like the wind is going to blow at the meeting tomorrow.”
“The wind is blowing”
"Maybe, there is going to be a war."
"Now, a war?"
"Yes, a battle that can go to court is not like that of the eldest brother in Nanwang City and Qianguo. It's a little fight."
"How to fight? Our Dayan Treasury is now. It’s not like you don’t know what’s going on, Fourth Brother, otherwise we wouldn’t still be living here.”
According to established rules, the prince’s treasury and internal treasury will pay a “settlement allowance”. , used to buy a house, and at the same time, the prince's monthly income will be greatly increased to provide for his family.
When you live in the prince's mansion, theoretically there is a big pot of food, meals are provided, and there are also several eunuchs and maids to serve you, and their monthly salary is almost as low as that of Xiao Qi in the palace.
Actually, it's not just that. In the past two years, the old man in the family has left, and the discounts waiting for Chengjue's descendants have been put on hold.
If you accept the title one year later, the court can save a year's money and food. They say that they are going through the procedures to determine your identity, judge your character, and see if you are qualified to inherit the title. How many levels do you need to downgrade when you become a knight?
Do you dare to make trouble?
Yes.
If it's more serious, your character will be judged to be unqualified and your family's title will be taken away directly. If it's more serious, you will be demoted two more ranks to give you a long memory.
The princes of Dayan, that is, taking the fourth prince and the fifth prince as an example, they are now comparable to the prince's political treatment. After the establishment of the palace, they will have to be equal to the prince's living treatment.
This treatment must continue until a brother among them ascends the throne, and their relationship with the Supreme changes from prince to royal brother. Then according to tradition, they will ask themselves to be demoted.
Leaving aside their salary for errands in the court, it is actually only two hundred taels of silver a year, but as princes, they can get 10,000 taels of silver a year plus grain and 10,000 shi. Here The head does not include the palace rewards of four sections of welfare and filial piety.
For other titles, the annual money and food is definitely not as much as that of the prince, but there are also a lot of nobles who cannot stand up to Dayan, so when all of them are added up, the scale is huge.
Uncle Zheng, now an earl, has two thousand taels of silver and two thousand shi of grain a year. When the court sends money and grain to Xuehai Customs, additional details will be given for this amount.
In short,
the fourth prince and the fifth prince alone can save the court 20,000 taels of silver and 20,000 shi in food expenses every year just by living in the prince's mansion.
Ji Laoliu's reputation among the clan and the nobles in the past two years has been very bad. The reason is that the imperial court is in financial difficulties, so he did not hesitate to attack the clan and the nobles.
Not only did they get stuck in the rated money and grain, but they also used bank notes from the merchant bank to redeem their money and grain, allowing them to use the banknote to pick up goods of equal value from the merchant bank.
In fact, the business of ticket numbers has been around for a long time, and it has been popular in Jiangnan, Qianguo for a long time. However, it is basically used for convenience when doing business. It is not widely spread among the people. Ji Laoliu does not dare to do it on a large scale. The purpose of using this is to provide subsidies to the nobles of the clan. If the same bill is collected on the street, it will be discounted at 20%. This is blatant exploitation of the nobles and the clan!
It’s a pity that
Emperor Yan is now too powerful. In addition, the residual power of horse stepping on the family still exists. If it were another emperor, the clan and nobles would probably have supported him. Youchi went to the palace gate to cry.
They dare not face this person;
This can be regarded as a reflection of Dayan's financial constraints from the side, because the clan and nobles must be well cared for as long as conditions permit. Even if some of them have become rice bugs, they still have to be kept. After all, our ancestors fought for Dayan for your Ji family and shed their blood to earn the blessings of their descendants.
Once this aspect is not handled well, who will be willing to continue to work for your Ji family in the future?
Big guy, what you want is not for a duke to be your wife for generations to come?
The fourth prince smiled and said
“I estimate that we may really have to fight.”
"How can we fight if we don't have money or food?"
"How can a living person be suffocated to death? If we really want to fight, there will always be a way to fight. So, you, a river worker, there should be no need to repair it." . ”
A war is about to begin,
Where are the extra money, grain and people to send to the river workers?
The fifth prince shook his head and said: "Before Father gives the decree, I still have to do what I should do."
"Okay, be good."
At this time,
there was a sound outside.
The eunuch accompanying the fifth prince ran over and reported:
“Master, Fourth Master, His Highness the Third is back.”
The fourth prince and the fifth prince immediately looked at each other and saw shock in each other's eyes.
To tell the truth,
They have long been mentally prepared to never see the third child again in this life, because no matter how they look at it, it is unlikely that the third child will leave the lake. The heart pavilion comes out.
The fourth prince murmured: "I heard that Zheng Fan went to the Huxin Pavilion to see the third child yesterday. So, this is an explanation and the old feud is settled?"
Five The prince shook his head and said: "I don't think the third brother will really let go of the past."
"Oh, you have never been locked up there."
"I really don't mind if you can provide me with wood if you are locked up there."
"You are crazy. "
The fourth prince jumped down from the table and straightened his clothes.
The fifth prince took off the clothes he wore as a carpenter and put on a new one.
No matter what, the third brother is back, and as younger brothers, they naturally have to pay their respects.
When he was about to go out, the fourth prince suddenly remembered something and said, "If I remember correctly, the second half of the month should be Concubine Ming's birthday, right?"
Concubine Ming has a reputation for virtue. , whose temperament is plain and knowledgeable.
The third prince liked poetry and calligraphy in his early years, and was somewhat influenced by his mother and concubine.
Hearing this, the fifth prince said, "You mean, my father stayed at Concubine Ming's place last night?"
The fourth prince immediately kicked the fifth prince,
swearing:
“Do I know this!”
If even where the father stayed last night If I can receive reports every day, then what do I want to do?
The fifth prince shrugged and said, "I thought you knew."
"Don't hurt me."
"Hey, I'm just asking casually, but I think that if Concubine Ming knew that Zheng Fan had visited the third brother, she would take advantage of the situation to plead with her father. The father might Seeing that Concubine Ming's birthday was approaching, she agreed to let the third brother out. "
" Alas, our father is still soft-hearted," the fourth prince said with emotion.
“Fourth brother, are you talking nonsense because you have a fever?”
The fourth prince glanced at the fifth prince and said:
"You started the fire first."
......
As soon as the third prince moved into the prince's mansion, the fourth prince and the fifth prince came to visit.
"My younger brother wishes my elder brother well."
"My younger brother wishes my elder brother well."
"Brothers, please get up, please get up."
Next, there was a ceremony of respect between brothers and sisters, and everyone sat around and exchanged greetings.
However, because the imperial doctor came, the fourth prince and the fifth prince took their leave.
After coming out, the fourth prince stretched himself and said: "The third prince used to act like a scholar and didn't look at us seriously. Now it seems that after being imprisoned for two years, he has become more down-to-earth. A lot of anger.”
“Yes.” Lao Wu agreed.
"It's a pity. I think the third brother has no chance to take revenge."
"Do you think the third brother still wants to take revenge?"
"Haha." The fourth prince laughed twice. "I don't believe he doesn't hate it anymore, because every night, he will hate it. But Zheng Fan has already It’s Uncle Hirano. The prince is holding the horse and the prince is driving. Oh, how can we compare?”
“I’m going to my sixth brother’s house later to give the children some toys I made.”
"You are very attentive. Are you going to see Zheng Fan?"
"That's right. After all, Zheng Fan will have to leave Beijing in the future. If my father doesn't issue a new decree, I still have to go to Jin with him."
"You are not afraid of others taking you too. As a member of the Sixth Master?"
The fifth prince smiled,
and said:
"Fourth brother."
"Huh?"
"The third brother has come out."
"What's wrong?"
"No matter how bad it is, can it be worse than the third brother?"
“I don’t know what you are talking about.”
"Brother, let me put it another way. People like Zheng Fan, who dethroned the prince, can still be knighted. What is it based on? It's ability.
It doesn't matter whether it's our father or the second brother. Or the sixth brother,
As long as they sit in that position,
what kind of blood, brothers, heirs,
are not as important as those who can do things. < br>
Therefore, even if there is no human or material support this time, my brother, Wangjiang, must and will definitely go. I will try my best to avoid being treated as a waste.
Do you understand this, fourth brother? "
"I understand. "
"That's good. "
"You are calling me a waste. ”
"..." Lao Wu.
…
When I woke up at noon, Uncle Zheng went to the living room of the Wen family.
Then,
Uncle Zheng realized that it was a huge mistake not to take the blind man to see the Queen Mother of Jin before.
At this time,
The blind man and Wen Sutong were sitting face to face, both holding tea in their hands.
“You look so energetic.”
“You have lost weight. You must be too busy and have too many things to do. Pay attention.”
The two are chatting Homely things,
But the speaking speed is very slow,
it often takes a long time to pick up the next sentence.
Uncle Zheng knew that the blind man was using "spiritual chains" to communicate with Wen Sutong.
It is normal that there are people from the Secret Service in the Jin Palace;
Wen Sutong’s family also has many people from the Secret Service.
Uncle Zheng could not find a secret room to have some private words with the Queen Mother of Jin, because as long as he did so, Emperor Yan's anger would come immediately.
The ambition of Emperor Yan was to unify all the Xia. How could he sit back and watch his own generals invade the queen mother of a country?
This also made Uncle Zheng’s trip to Prince Jin’s Mansion too dull and far from what he expected.
Oh,
If there is a blind man here,
It's much more convenient, and you can also talk privately.
Finally,
Uncle Zheng sat down and drank half a cup of tea again, and chatted with Wen Sutong about Xue Customs and the climate of Yanjing City. As soon as the tea cooled, he stood up and left.
Back at the Sixth Prince’s residence, everyone had dinner.
Gou Moli asked Zheng Fan if he could take him to the Secret Service Prison. Uncle Zheng hesitated.
It is clear to the outside world that
The Savage King was defeated, captured, and sent to Yanjing City.
There are rumors that the Savage King has been executed, and there are also rumors that he has been imprisoned in the Secret Service Prison.
Of course Uncle Zheng knew that the real Savage King was in front of him, and the one imprisoned in Yanjing City at this time was an impostor.
The impostor is called Alai, a man who looks exactly like the Savage King and is willing to become the shadow of the Savage King.
If Gou Moli asked him to take him to the back garden to meet the princess,
then Uncle Zheng would definitely kick him over,
but if he asked himself to do this,
Zheng My uncle is in a bit of a dilemma,
he can only say;
"I asked Ji Laoliu's people to send a message to Wei Zhonghe for me, saying that in order to clearly deal with the situation in the snowfield, I wanted to see the Savage King.
Can we meet specifically?
< br>It depends on Wei Zhonghe’s intention.”
Gou Moli knelt down and kowtowed heavily to Zheng Fan.
Tonight,
Ji Laoliu didn't come back until late at night. When he came back, he didn't come to see Zheng Fan. Instead, he went back to his house and rested.
The next morning,
Uncle Zheng had just woken up. After washing, he walked to the small courtyard and was about to have a cigarette to wake up;
but he saw someone in the courtyard. On the bench,
Ji Laoliu is sitting there,
He held a hookah in his hand.
Nowadays, Gan people like Wushi Powder, which is much more effective than tobacco.
As for tobacco, most of it is used as a medicinal material. There are some people who smoke tobacco, but it has not become a trend.
How can I put it, in this world, the older the people are and the more unhealthy they are, the more they smoke because they think tobacco smoke can get rid of diseases.
The hookah in Ji Laoliu's hand is exquisitely shaped and is simply a work of art. There is also a chalcedony and bergamot snuff bottle hanging on his waist, which is also an extremely valuable object.
Dayan's treasury is nervous, but it does not affect Ji Laoliu's life. As long as political conditions permit, he, like Uncle Zheng, still likes to enjoy himself.
The most important thing is that he does not rely on the money from the imperial treasury for enjoyment. In fact, according to Ji Laoliu, among the businessmen in Dayan, Ji Laoliu is more meticulous and rigorous in paying taxes. The trading firm under his command is undoubtedly the number one.
Uncle Zheng walked up to Ji Laoliu, took the hookah out of his hand, and said:
“Don’t touch this thing, it’s not good for your health.”
Said,
Uncle Zheng lit his cigarette with a fire stick and took a puff.
“What about yourself?” Ji Laoliu rolled his eyes at Uncle Zheng.
"I am a sixth-grade martial artist and I am in good health."
"Is it to make up for this shortcoming by practicing martial arts with you Zheng Fan?"
"Haha, what are you doing today? Not going to court? ”
"I'm taking leave. I'm taking leave with my father. You're leaving Beijing tomorrow. I'll take you for a walk."
"So grand?"
"It's necessary. God knows next time When will I see you?”
“Okay.”
“The carriage is waiting to take you to Kuanmin Lane for breakfast. The one there is the most authentic. ”
"Okay."
Eunuch Zhang is still driving.
Kuanmin Alley is an old street in Yanjing City. It is not big but very popular.
For breakfast, we had small wontons.
Ji Laoliu ate two bowls, Uncle Zheng ate three bowls, and Eunuch Zhang ate four bowls.
Afterwards, the two of them stopped riding in the carriage and started wandering around.
Went to Yinlang Temple. Like Yinlang County, it was first famous for the Prime Minister of Yan. However, this temple in the capital has become a calligraphy and painting antique market.
Ji Laoliu introduced the antique market to Zheng Fan while walking side by side.
“Many people in the capital like to stroll around Yinlang Temple, always wanting to pick up something missing, but what can I say, what you buy is never as good as what you sell, so you want to pick something up here? , difficult.
It is impossible to put gold, silver and jade here, only fools sell that.
As for things like ancient calligraphy and painting and inkstones and vase kilns, firstly, most of them are fake. Secondly, even if they are real, if you like them and buy them to collect and play without thinking about changing hands, then it doesn’t matter. You just want to pick them up and resell them. You also have to see if there is someone who knows the same business as you, and that person who knows the business is wealthy.
And for this thing, if the time comes, you won’t be able to get any food in exchange for it if you go to Mihang. The guys at Mihang won’t appreciate this. "
That's what he said, but Ji Laoliu still bought an inkstone, a painting and a variegated jade pendant for Uncle Zheng.
"The inkstone is real and made of good materials. value. The painting is fake, but the person who copied it is also old. If you buy it for one tael of silver, you can't sell it for a hundred taels, but you can easily sell it for ten taels of silver. This jade pendant has not been cultivated yet, but it is actually high-quality Huairou jade. If you wear it on a person and raise it for three generations, by the time your grandson reaches adulthood, the texture will become extremely clear and smooth, making it valuable.
If the price of rice at that time was the same as it is now, it would be worth five hundred taels of silver. ”
Uncle Zheng held a cloth bag and put the things in it. Eunuch Zhang smiled and took it over to help keep it.
"You are really starving to death. If you have no money to eat, just come here and wander around. After a few flips, you have everything."
As the saying goes, craftsmen will not starve to death in lean years. That's the truth.
Ji Laoliu shook his head and said: "These are just trivial things. To put it bluntly, these things are very common in my eyes."
Born in the royal family, his mother The family belongs to the Min family. What ordinary people see as precious antiques and valuables are no different from the chopping boards in their own kitchen in Ji Laoliu's eyes.
"Then why were you so poor that you had no money to eat?"
Ji Laoliu casually took out a piece of silver and threw it into the gong of a monkey charmer in front of the ancestral hall street.
The monkey immediately stood up happily, kowtowed to Ji Laoliu, and then did a somersault.
“Look, just like this monkey, it may not like to do somersaults and kowtow, but it has to do it because people like to see it do this.”
“Haha.”< br>
"Including this time, you have only been to Yanjing City twice, and you have only met my father twice. In your eyes, what kind of person is your father?"
"I don't know what to say."
"You should be afraid of my father."
"I don't like the word fear."
"Okay, Then change it to... fear?”
"I don't like this topic."
"Do you think it's dangerous to talk about this on the streets of Beijing?"
"That's right."
"Father, for you Very good."
"Hmm."
"But you still went to Litian City."
"Yes."
"Emperor, this is how it makes you grateful, but also makes you afraid."
"No. Appropriate.”
“I know it’s inappropriate. What works for people does not work for you. You are more willing than all of us. What I admire most about you is that you seem to regard your own life as a game. A social drama performed in the temple during festivals.”
"This is appropriate."
"I can't be as free and easy as you."
"You still need to make progress."
"When you have children, You won’t be so free and easy.”
“Is it time to have children again?”
"What do you want to eat for lunch?"
"You haven't digested your breakfast yet."
"Then let's go drink tea. The teahouses in the capital are also famous."
"It's boring."
"I've been telling stories about you in the teahouse for a while."
"I'm thirsty."
Drinking tea in the teahouse,
drinking until noon.
When they were feeling hungry and the melon seeds and peanuts could not suppress their hunger, Uncle Zheng and Ji Laoliu came out.
"How is it?" Ji Laoliu asked.
"After listening to my story, I feel full of strength."
In the storyteller's story, Uncle Zheng is a third-grade warrior who fights against the eighteen Taibao of Chu!
No one knows whether there are eighteen eunuchs in Chu State, probably not even the princess herself;
Of course,
Uncle Zheng also doesn’t know that he is already a third-grade Peak warrior.
Coming out of the teahouse,
Uncle Zheng felt that his steps were a little sloppy,
he had poured too much chicken soup and was about to overflow.
“What do you want to eat for lunch, except roast duck.”
“I still want to eat roast duck.”
"Quandelou roast duck doesn't taste good now."
"I've never found it delicious."
"Okay."
Lunch, in Quan De Lou.
Ji Laoliu ordered a roast duck and a pot of wine.
He divided the wine with Zheng Fan, and gave Eunuch Zhang the roast duck to eat alone.
They bought a few more dishes from the vendors at the entrance of Quande Building.
"There is a rule in Yanjing City. If a store can make one sign, it can only make this sign. At the same time, outsiders are not allowed to set up stalls. If you want to add another dish, just ask them to bring it in. , the store must not rush.
After all, even this store started as a street vendor. Maybe when my son and grandson take over this shop, the eagle will turn into a chicken again and have to run back to set up a stall. This is called making it convenient for others. If you can eat seventy percent full, you have to stay. "Shi'er gives people soup."
"Why are you telling me this, telling me that I look ugly?" asked Uncle Zheng.
"I am a businessman. I have told you this many times. Since you are a businessman, you will inevitably like to be friendly and make money. Sometimes, I feel that some of your practices are too much."
Uncle Zheng shook his head and said : "I just want to be happy for myself."
"Just to be happy for myself is actually a kind of selfishness."
"Isn't it bad to be selfish?"
"Also , very good.”
"No, it's enough for a person to live this life to the fullest."
"Haha, it sounds like you have lived this life and experienced many things."
" Maybe.”
“Sometimes, I am also very helpless. In fact, I am more narrow-minded than my second brother, and I don’t like to do things to perfection, but my second brother is actually really small-minded.
The reason why the eldest brother stands. On my side, I also like this.
But the problem is,
Now outsiders, especially the clan nobles, the household department and some small local families, think that I am a cruel official, but the prince is the kind king. ”
“The crow doesn’t know he is black. "
"What do you mean? "
"The position is different, the method is different. When you are in the position of the prince, you will also become kind-hearted. In fact, I have always felt that people are all the same;
If you can live a comfortable life, who would want to face the loess and turn your back to the sky for the rest of your life?
If you can have a group of wives and concubines, why not be cool and unrestrained?
It’s just that the locations are different, so I can’t choose as much as I want.
People are still the same people. ”
“That’s right. ”
"So, you are being hypocritical."
"After all, you have been wandering in front of me every day these days, and you have led me astray."
"Leave alone."
"Dry."
Down with a glass of wine,
Ji Chengjue poured wine and said:
"My third brother came out from the Huxin Pavilion."
"Is it possible that the afternoon plan is to visit your third brother?"
"It's too cruel not to rub salt into the wound."
"How to talk, I helped him get out."
"Then I'll ask him to come to your door tonight with a gift to thank you?"
"I am a charitable person and don't like to leave my name behind."
"What are you going to do in the afternoon?"
“You are the tour guide.”
“Tour guide? This word is appropriate. The scenery in the back garden is excellent, and it contains the scenery of the Jiangnan gardens of the Qian Kingdom.”
"No matter how beautiful the scenery is, if you have a tiger, you won't be able to appreciate it."
"I heard that my father punished her to copy the Heart Sutra at home."
"Your Majesty is wise, I I feel that the Four Books and Five Classics and various ancient You can come to the classics several times, which is very good for cultivating your sentiments."
"Go horse racing outside the city? I have been practicing horsemanship a lot in the past two years."
"You run. But me.”
"Not necessarily."
"I'm riding Pixiu."
"..." Ji Laoliu.
In the afternoon,
I didn’t go to horse racing or the back garden. Instead, I went to a Yingchun House and drank flower wine all afternoon.
Ji Laoliu ordered nine girls.
He and Zheng Fan were two by one, three dancing and the other two singing.
But the people who played there were all naive, at most they were mopping up, but no one really went into the back room to borrow a fragrant couch.
At dusk,
the two came out a little drunk.
Ji Laoliu reached out and patted Uncle Zheng on the shoulder, and asked:
"How is it?"
"Next time we'd better not come to a place like this. If word spreads, it won't be good for our reputation." Okay."
"Obviously, if they know you are the famous Hirano, they will definitely recommend themselves to you."
"If they know you are the prince, they will be even more crazy. ”
"I'm going to see my third brother. Look at it today. It's already so late. I'm afraid it'll be too late if I don't go."
"Go ahead, I won't go."
At this time,
beside Eunuch Zhang’s carriage, stood a man in black.
“See my uncle.”
The man showed his spy agency badge.
Ji Chengjue rubbed his eyes and said:
"What's the matter?"
"I beg Eunuch Wei to let me go see the Savage King."
"Oh, okay, it seems that Eunuch Wei is willing to do this. Then you can go, I will take a carriage to the prince's residence."
"I am a guest, and the carriage must be used by me."
"This is my carriage."
"I am a guest."
Finally,
< br>As a last resort,
The two people, who both valued security very much and were extremely afraid of death, took a carriage together and returned to the Sixth Prince's Mansion.
Uncle Zheng got out of the car,
The Sixth Prince took his own carriage to the prince's residence. Uncle Zheng took the blind man, Gou Moli and the Sword Master with him and got into the small carriage. The carriage driven by Eunuch Zhang went to the secret agent's capital prison.
The "Savage King" is imprisoned in the deepest part of the prison.
Someone from the Secret Service brought a chair for Uncle Zheng to sit on, and Uncle Zheng sat down.
Sword Master, Gou Moli and the blind man stood beside Uncle Zheng.
In the cage,
Alai slowly opened his eyes,
his gaze swept over Zheng Fan and the three people behind him.
Then,
He lowered his head and
laughed,
laughing louder and louder.
He laughed for a long time,
laughed until he coughed, continued to laugh after coughing, and then continued to cough;
He kept laughing until he ran out of energy and his throat became hoarse, but he still held the chain with both hands and continued to open his mouth at Zheng Fan.
"The stars are immortal, the saints will live forever!"
"The stars are immortal, the saints will last forever!"
Until the last time I left,
Uncle Zheng sat in the chair without saying a word.
Just like in Prince Jin's Mansion and Wen Sutong's Mansion, there are not many places in the capital where you can speak normally.
In the cells next to the Savage King's cage, God knows whether those incarcerated are prisoners.
Subsequently,
Uncle Zheng led his people out of the cell.
Outside,
A red-robed eunuch was waiting there.
"My slave, please pay your respects to Uncle Hirano."
This person should be the leader of the Secret Intelligence Service, a subordinate of Wei Zhonghe.
"Uncle, you seem to have said nothing?"
Zheng Fan smiled,
He reached out and patted the red-robed eunuch on the shoulder, and then hugged him,
said:
“Looking at the defeated generals in the past, this feeling is comfortable enough. , say a word, it’s all Waste, father-in-law, tell me, is this the reason?”
“It is the reason, it is the reason.”
Before leaving, Uncle Zheng took out a small handful of golden melon seeds. , stuffed into the hands of this father-in-law.
"Uncle, you can't do this, you can't do it, how dare your servants ask for your gold."
"Sir, please, please tell me when you report to Eunuch Wei later, I said to the Savage King After talking a lot, I was afraid that if Eunuch Wei knew that I was here, I saw that the savage king was just trying to make himself happy and laughed at Uncle Zheng for being hopeless."
"Hahaha, that's right."
Soon,
Uncle Zheng. I got into the carriage driven by little Eunuch Zhang and left.
In the carriage,
Gou Moli felt a little melancholy.
Uncle Zheng closed his eyes slightly.
Gou Moli stretched out three fingers and said
;
"The savages in the snow field will send out 30,000 young men to attack the city of Dayan."
......
Although he drank two meals of wine during the day, Uncle Zheng did not Can fall asleep early.
I am leaving Beijing tomorrow, but I am not reluctant to leave, just a little lonely.
He does not have the pride of Huang Chao who waits until autumn comes on September 8th to kill all the flowers after they bloom.
Yes,
it's just a faint thought, as if you know that things will be different the next time you come back.
This kind of thought has been lingering in my heart.
The blind man did not rest either. Instead, he sat by the bed and silently reflected on what he had seen and heard in the past few days. Among all the demon kings, the blind man was the most enthusiastic about rebellion.
Because other demon kings have their own hobbies, and the blind man's hobby is rebellion.
The Savage King didn't rest either. He huddled in the corner, the embroidered shoe had been thrown aside. He covered the left side of his face, laughing sometimes and crying again.
He Chunlai and Chen Daole were sitting across from each other drinking tea. The tea was bitter, but in their hearts, it was actually even more bitter.
This is Yanjing, the heart of Dayan. They came here, but they dared not do anything.
Inside the prince's residence,
it was extremely lively.
The third prince left the Huxin Pavilion and the brothers drank together.
Even Xiao Qi was sent out by his mother and concubine, but while his brothers were drinking, he sat by the side and drank ice.
The prince did not come, but he brought two jars of good wine.
Ji Laoliu is not a cultivator after all, and his ability to drink is not as good as Uncle Zheng’s. In addition, he has had two meals during the day and is already drunk. He points to the two jars of wine sent by the prince,
< br>cursed:
"This heartless thing is still a brother. What a bastard brother. He won't even meet him once!
The clan's side,
The nobles' side,
They all say that I, Ji Laoliu, am a bastard, that I am cold-blooded, that I am stingy, and that I am a cruel official. Hahahahaha. They all say that the prince is kind. How can he be so kind?
Cold-blooded,
Shameless,
show no mercy! ”
Finally,
Drunk Ji Laoliu was transported back by Eunuch Zhang’s carriage,
It is said that,
When he was drunk, he continued to scold the prince as harshly as he wanted.
......
The next morning,
Uncle Zheng picked up the princess who left the palace at the gate of the palace. When the princess came out, she was accompanied by a princess carriage. He was very generous, accompanying eighty eunuchs, one hundred and sixty maids, and more than twenty boxes of various gifts.
Uncle Zheng left the gifts and accompanying eunuchs and maids at the Sixth Prince's house, asking him to look at the arrangements and laugh at how long it would take him to return to Snow Customs with this large group of people and things. time?
This time when I went back,
I didn't even ask for a carriage.
All the guards rode out and galloped as soon as they left the capital.
The princess sat in Zheng Fan's arms, and Pixiu carried the two of them without any problem.
“My lord, why are you in such a hurry to go home?”
Uncle Zheng replied loudly:
"Hit your house."
…………
In May of the third year of Yongping,
Ming Fei’s birthday , the emperor praised the concubine Ming for her ability to know etiquette, and she was named a noble concubine and held a big banquet;
During the banquet, a musician from Chu was invited to play "Yangchun Ancient Song" to add to the entertainment;
In the middle of the song, the musician drew his knife blade on the bottom of the piano and wanted to stab you;
The prince Yue sacrificed his life to save him, but died of the knife. ;
The emperor was furious.
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Good night. (End of this chapter)