After being divorced, my identity as a poet was exposed

Chapter 518

While Hua Manting was chatting with Su Yi'an in the small courtyard behind Sanwei Bookstore, Wen Zhuyu, who lives quietly in Kyoto, also welcomed an old friend.

He is Yu Dingzhi, Minister of Rites of Wu State!
Yu Dingzhi's complexion was a little dark.

It's just that in this kind of night, Wen Zhuyu didn't seem to see clearly.

He greeted Yu Dingzhi happily to the study room, made a pot of tea, leaned over, looked at Yu Dingzhi's face carefully, Yu Dingzhi's heart tightened when he saw it:
"What? Is there a flower on the old man's face?"

Wen Zhuyu grinned: "Old Yutou, your face is prettier than flowers!"

"Get out of here!"

Yu Dingzhi glared at Wen Zhuyu fiercely, "It's been so many years since I saw you? You are also a first-rank official in the cabinet, why are you still acting like this?!"

Wen Zhuyu laughed.

"Old Yutou, you are still so serious, boring, boring!"

"Boring fart! Why don't you ask people to prepare wine and food?"

"Hahahaha..." Wen Zhuyu laughed again, "Of course the food and drink are easy to talk about, and it happens that we just came back from court and haven't eaten yet... just wait a moment."

Wen Zhuyu got up, walked out of the study, gave some instructions to the housekeeper before turning around and walking back.

"I think we were in Dongxu City... At that time, we were all in our early twenties, just in our prime!"

The water in the pot boiled, warmed the rain, took the tea into the water, and said: "I still remember that winter, you, I, and Xia Liu, the boy from Xiafu, took the little girl Miao Qiuqin from the Miao family to the shore of Acacia Lake. Xiangsiju, I ate a meal of stewed velvet antler with pickled vegetables!"

"That taste... tsk tsk tsk, I dare say that in the entire Dongxu City, only the simmered velvet antler stewed by Li Xiangsi from Xiangsiju tastes the most delicious!"

"correct,"

Wen Zhuyu looked up at Yu Dingzhi, "How about Xia Liu and Miao Qiuqin now?"

Yu Dingzhi took a look at Wen Zhuyu: "The eldest son of Xia Guogong's mansion, of course has a bright future!"

"Xia Liu is now the Secretary of the Ministry of War of the Wu Kingdom... Miao Qiuqin married him... Do you regret it?"

When Wen Zhuyu heard this, he was stunned for two breaths, and then he grinned: "I didn't expect this, but speaking of it, it's a good match for Qiuqin to marry him."

"Are you pretending to be stupid?!"

Yu Dingzhi glared at Wen Zhuyu again: "At that time, who didn't know that you were the one Miao Qiuqin liked!"

"Let me ask you, according to Qiuqin, she is also the daughter of the General's Mansion!"

"You need to have a family background, you need to be knowledgeable, and you need talents. Back then, he was one of the four beauties that were famous in our capital!"

"You poor literati, that is, an aide of the Prince's East Palace, Qiuqin doesn't care, what are you afraid of?"

"What are you running for?"

Wen Zhuyu turned off the stove, poured two cups of tea, passed one cup over, and shook his head:

"What I like is freedom!"

"Like you are now? 40 years old! Are you free?"

"After you left Dongxu City, Qiuqin has been waiting for you!"

"She knows that you like Li Xiangsi's braised velvet antler with pickled vegetables. She stayed in Xiangsiju for three full months to learn how to make that dish... When she learned how to cook it for you, you ran away !"

"Do you know how sad Qiuqin was at that time?"

"But people are still waiting for you!"

"You guys ran away to Huihe, but news came that you married a girl from Huihe..."

"Wen Zhuyu, Wen Zhuyu, you bastard is really not a person!"

"After Qiuqin heard about this, she heard that she shut the door and cried for three days... After more than a year, she married Xia Liu."

"By the way, this time I'm coming to Ningguo, Xia Liu asked me to bring you a word."

Upon hearing this, Wen Zhuyu waved his hands, "Stop talking!"

But Yu Dingzhi still said:

"He said that one day, he will attack Ningguo, capture you, and dig out your heart to see why he is so cruel!"

"In addition, he will thank you in person!"

"Thank you for running away and allowing him to marry such a good wife as Qiuqin!"

Wen Zhuyu smiled wryly.

No explanation.

Because some things cannot be explained. ,

"How many children do they...have?"

"They had a son and a daughter."

"The eldest son, named Xia An, served in the Beifu army, and now he is the commander of a thousand commanders."

"Daughter Sixteen, named Xia Hua, the closed disciple of the master of the Tianyin Pavilion, one of the Seven Swords of Tianshan."

Yu Dingzhi picked up the teacup and looked up at Wen Zhuyu: "Actually, now that I think about it, it's much better for Qiuqin to marry Xia Liu than to marry you!"

"You... If you say that you are indifferent to fame and wealth, you are now the chief minister of Ningguo."

"If you say that you are pursuing fame and fortune, the emperor met you three times back then, if you had stayed in Wu, you would also be a first-rank official now!"

"So, sometimes I'm thinking, what are you going around doing?"

"In Wu country, you have already achieved success and fame!"

"You will have a happy home, at least not like now, with old friends visiting, no hostess, not even a cook!"

"I heard that you have a daughter, but your daughter seems to be very dissatisfied with you... If you stay in Dongxu City..."

Wen Zhuyu waved his hand again and interrupted Yu Dingzhi's words:

"It was useless for you to persuade me, but it is still useless to say these things now."

"This is roughly called fate, I am... not so lucky."

"By the way, I've been in Kyoto for nearly a month. You know, I'm too busy, so I have to treat you poorly. Since you are old friends, I think you will understand."

Yu Dingzhi took a sip of tea and put down the cup, "I can't understand you!"

"Old Yunshu Xianyun, back then you stole and slaughtered people's guard dogs and stewed them."

"Mr. Yun has been brooding over this matter, why don't you see him apologizing?"

"His Royal Highness, when His Highness was young, you took His Highness to steal Yunlao's dog... His Highness still remembers the taste of that dog meat, shouldn't you go and see him?"

"You ate at my house for a month, forget it, treat it as a dog!"

"You are not a ruthless person, why do you do such a ruthless thing?"

Wen Zhuyu grinned:
"The second half of your last sentence is wrong!"

"I'm really not a ruthless person. If I want to say that I did something ruthless, it's about Qiuqin."

"His Royal Highness brings you here. If you come to Ningguo for exchange and fun, no matter how busy I am, Wen Zhuyu, I will definitely spare time to entertain you."

"But your motives for coming here are wrong!"

"Ningguo destroyed Yongguo and occupied Wuyaguan in the 27th year of Jingtai, almost 40 years ago."

"Wuyaguan is of course the territory of Ningguo!"

"Does this need to be negotiated?"

"His Royal Highness needs credit, but it cannot be based on the ceded land of Ningguo!"

"Wouldn't Wu Guo just look at the decline of Ning Guo's national strength and be bullied?"

"If there hadn't been the change in Kyoto last year, and if there hadn't been the downfall of Ji Tai's family, His Royal Highness's trip would have been a success!"

"But it's different now!"

"Now it is the Regent King Li Chen'an who controls the power of Ning Kingdom! Presumably, after these few days, you must have a certain understanding of the Regent King."

"Tell me, if I go to see His Royal Highness, what should I say?"

"I think, you should persuade His Royal Highness to give up this idea, and form an alliance with Ning Guo, which is the best policy!"

Yu Dingzhi narrowed his eyes slowly.

After a while, he asked:
"What if Li Chen'an dies?"

(End of this chapter)