Still waiting for Zhaoyang

Chapter 4 Kanai Indus Autumn Leaves Yellow (1)
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Master Min's health was getting worse and worse, even so, he still took Zijin and the two brothers from the Chu family on a long trip.

After Xia Yue sent them back to the house, she saw Zijin's Gao Xinyu lying quietly on her bed.He didn't know when he quietly put it there, and as her father and the others traveled far more frequently, she spent more and more time keeping it for Zijin.

I don't know what's wrong with Zijin's attitude towards her recently.

Xia Yue had nothing to do, so she went to Qi An's place again.

"Wouldn't that be great. Remember when I said tolerance and something like that, maybe there was some reason that forced him to be a good boy that everyone loves at home and in private school. Now he suddenly has a temper, which shows that he My heart is no longer pretending to be in front of you, but it is completely open." Qi An said.

Xia Yue blinked, she also thought about it, but it was not as thorough as Qi An's.

"Mr. Qi is old, why don't you marry a wife?"

She changed the subject abruptly, and the sudden question caught Qi An off guard: "I..." He pondered, "I just think that it's easy to get a daughter, but hard to find a confidant."

"I thought that Mr. Qi wanted to hide in the city, but I didn't expect to write such sharp articles in public."

"However, seeing that my family and country may eventually be ruined by these people, I couldn't help but complain. Speaking of that, I would like to thank Master Min for taking care of me in the state prison."

"It's not that it's useless at all. If it wasn't for the emperor... the emperor, the old man said something, maybe he would be useless."

Qi An smiled: "I'm all alone, never tied down, death is not a pity."

Xia Yue shook her head: "It's not a pity for Wang Kui."

Just as Xia Yue took a step forward, a young girl entered the door.The girl is about fifteen or sixteen years old, her single name is Lan, her family lives next door to Qi An, and she has often come to private schools to play since she was a child, and Qi An has always treated her as a younger sister.

Qi An looked at Xia Yue's back and thought, "She is a very special person, as smart and courageous as a man."

"She is Mr. Min's older sister?" Ah Lan has always secretly liked Zijin, and Qi An also knows this.

"Alan..." Qi An looked at the little girl meaningfully, hesitated to speak, vaguely felt that this love affair would end in failure.

After a while, Xia Yue left and returned.She smiled embarrassedly: "I forgot the chess record I bought just now with my husband."

The book boy went to look for it immediately, and Qi An stopped her when she was leaving: "I'm going out too, let's see the girl for a ride."

As soon as they left, an uninvited guest was caught in the air.

A blue two-lift sedan chair stopped outside the private school.

The person in the sedan chair raised a corner of the curtain, and said to the big man who was accompanying the sedan chair, "Just say that you came here from the imperial capital in admiration of Qi'an." The voice was neither high nor low, and occasionally there were one or two words with a nasal sound that was slightly languid. Profound, it sounds like a warm spring breeze, but there is a deep breath in the transition, which makes people suddenly want to explore.

It's a pity that the light inside was too dim, and the book boy couldn't see clearly. He only saw a suet white jade finger wrench on the man's slender and powerful hand.

The burly and well-dressed man responded respectfully and went to ask.

The book boy bowed back: "I'm very sorry, my husband just went out with a friend."

"When can I go back?" The big man asked anxiously.

The book boy glanced warily: "I don't know." After speaking, he closed the door and couldn't leave.

The man in the sedan chair was rather regretful: "Hong Wu, what a pity, I managed to sneak out for a few days by taking the opportunity."

The big man called Hong Wu said anxiously: "Young Master, let's go back first, and we can talk about it another day?"

"No." The man simply threw out two words, and the tone of his mouth turned at the end, full of jokes.

"Then..." Hong Wu said nothing.

"I've heard that Jinluo's wine is good, and the girl is beautiful. Go and listen to a little song, drink some wine, and then come back to him." The man drew up a plan.

"But……"

"Let's go on horseback in the sunset, and I will definitely catch up with them, don't worry."

Hong Wu sighed, and had no choice but to do so.

At the intersection of the street, people are coming and going, and several people can't tell the difference between southeast, north and south.Hong Wu managed to find someone to ask: "Miss, if I bother you, where is the best restaurant in Jinluo?
It was none other than Xia Yue who was stopped by him.

She thought for a while and said, "The word 'best' has many meanings. Are you looking for the most expensive one, or the one with the best taste?"

Hong Wu was taken aback by her question.

But he didn't want the person in the sedan chair to sneer, and asked, "What's the best way to say this is the most expensive?"

Xia Yue replied: "Some people have a lot of money, and they like to find restaurants with good locations and good views. It seems that eating and drinking are pompous. Some people don't stick to small details, and think it doesn't matter whether they are grand or not, as long as they are delicious."

"Interesting." The person in the sedan chair couldn't help laughing, "The girl, what do you think I should look for?"

Xia Yue heard that she wanted to see the face of the person inside the sedan chair, but Hong Wu took the first step and stood in front of the sedan window like a thief.

Xia Yue couldn't help but feel that the master and servant were really rude. She was a girl, how could she eat a man in broad daylight?

So she said angrily: "Go straight along the street, turn right, and just go in when you see the signboard of Cuiwei Building. It's definitely suitable for you guys. The store is magnificent and luxurious, and the waiter can laugh at everyone when he sees it." Duohua, there are several private rooms upstairs, in short, everything is good, but it's unpalatable."

As soon as she finished speaking, the man in the sedan chair couldn't help being amused.

Xia Yue was too lazy to continue wasting her words, so she lifted her foot and left.

After walking a few steps in the sedan chair, the man suddenly remembered something, lifted the curtain and said to Hong Wu again: "Hey——take it easy. You haven't asked her where the girl is."

Hong Wu's black face: "My lord, she is a yellow flower girl!"

"Knowing that she is a girl with yellow flowers, you still stop her from leaving. You look honest, and you have to find a beautiful one when you ask for directions."

Hong Wu: "..."

At sunset, the sedan chair left and returned, but Qi An still did not return.

The man in the sedan chair couldn't hold back Hong Wu anymore, so he had to go back the same way.

After the sedan chair left Jinluo City, they changed horses and headed north.

When the man got off the sedan chair, he let out a long breath and said, "Hong Wu, your sedan chair almost suffocated me, I'll see you when I go back." After speaking, he got on his horse.

The man's brows are sharp, he wears a simple bun, his blue shirt has narrow sleeves, and he doesn't have any accessories except the jade ring finger on his left hand, but the people next to him are respectful to him.

"This is for the sake of your son's safety. It's hard to guard against backstabbing. If one of your subordinates can't protect you, what should you do?" Hong Wu accompanied him on horseback.

"To protect me is to make me sit in a sedan chair like a woman? Besides, in this huge city of Jinluo, only Wang Kui may recognize me."

"We must guard against it." Hong Wu said stubbornly.

The man raised his eyes and saw the scenery of lakes and mountains in front of him. He pointed at the rein and said with a smile, "I've heard that Jinluo's mountains and rivers are beautiful, why don't we run around?"

Hong Wu was in a hurry, looked around, then lowered his voice, and begged to call him: "Your Majesty—"

"Hey, you've called me that all the time, and you're bullying me. Is it up to you or me?" Emperor Shangrui said again, "Let's compete and you've caught up with me. I'll just listen to you." As soon as the words fell, he rode forward.

Hong Wu was conflicted, if he wins, he is afraid of offending Longyan; if he doesn't win, they have been spending so much time outside, if the Queen Mother finds out, they will not be able to eat and walk around.

While he was hesitating, Shang Rui had already dumped him by a large amount.

Pity him, an old man who wields knives and guns. After thinking about it several times, he gritted his teeth and followed.

two

In the early morning of the second day, the carriage, which had been going smoothly and steadily, stopped. Although it was very slow, Shang Rui, who was sleeping on the soft couch, still felt it keenly.

"Minglian." He rubbed his eyes and called out in a deep voice.

Immediately, a young eunuch opened the curtain and got into the car: "Your Majesty, we will be arriving at the Imperial Capital soon, so General Hong asked you to stop for a while. Didn't disturb the Emperor, did you sleep?"

Shang Rui seems to have not woken up from the deep sleep just now.His eyes were dimmed, his hair was a little messy, and a lock of hair hung unrulyly on his forehead. Against the sharp corners of his eyebrows, he had a different kind of handsomeness than usual.

"How long have I been asleep?"

"It's not yet dawn in less than two hours." Minglian knelt down to help him put on his shoes, and replied, "You and General Hong rode for so long last night, you must be tired, you should sleep a little longer .”

Shang Rui touched his forehead, and said softly as if talking to himself: "I had a very long dream."

At first, he thought that he had forgotten the things before he took the throne.

While having breakfast, I suddenly heard a loud commotion outside the car.

Shang Rui wondered for a while: "What's going on outside?"

A eunuch who had just brought in a meal replied, "Let me tell the emperor, they are excited to see the sunrise."

"Oh?" Shang Rui also became interested, stopped laughing and said, "Then I will go and have a look."

In the early morning of autumn, it is really cool.As soon as the car curtain was lifted, I immediately felt the biting cold wind, and was cut off from the soft warmth inside the hood.

I saw that the top of Yishan Mountain in the east was gradually turning white, and the sky in the west was still dark, and it became lighter and lighter as it went east, showing blue, and it was already twilight at the end of the sky.

At the end, there is a fiery red cloud, as if there is a hot thing hidden behind Yishan.The purple-red colored clouds became thinner and thinner, lying across the sky.

Just in the blink of an eye, a fiery red charcoal ball leaped out, reflecting the magnificent imperial capital standing on the side of Yishan Mountain in the distance as if stained with a layer of orange red, and the bright color quickly spread all over the place in the blink of an eye. The entire thousand miles of rivers and mountains.

Shang Rui stood on the hill with his hands behind his back to witness this scene, and was suddenly infected by an inexplicable and strong emotion.

When it was dawn, Shang Rui went back to the car to rest for a while, and then went to Zimo Studio.

Zimozhai is located in the South Garden of the Imperial Palace. It is built attached to the Imperial Palace but can be entered and exited independently, so few people visit it on weekdays.After Shang Rui arrived in Gyeonggi early in the morning, he only brought a few confidants with him, and left the brigade to escort the imperial driver, and secretly came to Zimozhai.So everyone just said that the emperor was still on the way, busy preparing to pick him up.No one in the palace knew about it, and Wei Wang Shangxian naturally didn't get the news either.

So when the king of Wei heard about Shang Rui's oral order, he asked Ming Lian who came to announce the decree in surprise, "Dare to ask Eunuch Xiao, when did the emperor return to Beijing?"

"This morning." After answering the two words, Ming Lian didn't say anything more, because King Wei knew the rules in the palace, so it was inconvenient for him to inquire further.

After King Wei asked An Xing to kneel down, Shang Rui looked at him and said, "I rushed back from Jinluo overnight for King Wei." But it highlights his handsomeness even more.

Before King Wei could answer, he suddenly asked again: "How many years has King Wei not been back to the Imperial Capital?"

"Almost ten years." King Wei replied with his head bowed.

"how so?"

"Because...because..." King Wei's forehead was sweating unceasingly, "because" he couldn't finish the sentence even after saying it a few times.He was somewhat similar to Shang Rui in appearance, but the frightened expression at the moment was far behind Shang Rui's calm and self-confidence.

"Pa—" the teacup was put down heavily by Shang Rui, and there was a sound of collision with the table, which made King Wei bend his knees in fright, and knelt down again.

Suddenly, the room became extremely quiet, as if he could hear King Wei's violent heartbeat.

"Let me tell you. Because there is an imperial decree, all vassal kings are required to become vassals from the day I ascend the throne. Without an edict, they are not allowed to leave the fiefdom for life, let alone return to the capital. But you just didn't want to stay well and broke into it recklessly. Come on. King Wei, do you know that this is a capital crime?" Shang Rui finished speaking in one breath, with a harsh tone, and then slowed down when he called "King Wei" later, so it seemed that the word "capital crime" at the end was even more shocking .

Wei Wang put his hands on the ground and didn't dare to show his breath, completely forgetting the purpose of his trip.

Seeing that Shang Rui didn't have anything to say, he only saw the few drops of tea spilled from the teacup, then Shang Rui changed the subject and asked slowly: "How is myna in the fief?"

It doesn't matter if you don't ask this question, but if you ask it, it will immediately arouse the infinite sorrow of King Wei.The first emperor originally had nine sons, but only five survived to adulthood. Then the first prince was executed, and the remaining five brothers were enshrined separately. On the surface, being enshrined as king is actually almost like exile.Most of the fiefdoms are sparsely populated, and it is a barren land. How can these emperors and nobles who are used to squandering brocade clothes on weekdays be able to bear it.

But all of this is thanks to Shang Rui and Empress Dowager Xu, no matter how bitter he is, he can't pour it out here, so he can only kowtow: "Thanks to the emperor's grace, everything in the minister's family is fine."

Shang Rui said: "I also know the situation in the fief. If you have something that is not enough in the future, just hand over the booklet and tell me. I will try my best. I heard that my sister-in-law is pregnant with her second child, but I have nothing to do with her. Haven't seen him before, how are you?" Shang Rui is the youngest among the nine brothers, followed by King Wei.

Hearing this, King Wei's heart felt hot, his eyes were moist, he was really moved, and he kowtowed again: "Thank you Your Majesty for your concern, everything is fine in the house."

Shang Rui smiled and helped him up: "Brother, do you have something important to tell me personally?"

Only then did King Wei think about business, looked around, and said in a low voice, "Does your majesty still remember that piece of high-sin jade?"

Shang Rui's expression froze: "Baoyu has been stolen for many years, why bring it up again?" He didn't want to think about the past ten years ago, and he also dreamed about it in a drowsy carriage last night. Could it be a coincidence?
"Someone found it."

Shang Rui still just looked at his feet quietly.

"Your Majesty, guess who acted so recklessly?" King Wei said to himself, "It's King Huai Shangren."

He thought it would give the emperor a shock of panic, but he didn't expect Shang Rui to just smile slightly. Wei Wang was afraid that Shang Rui would not understand, and added: "Prince Huai must be using the name of the first prince..."

Shang Rui interrupted him as soon as he raised his hand, and said with a relaxed smile: "Does anyone know that you entered Beijing yesterday?"

"No, according to the emperor's order, stay in a servant's house at night."

Shang Rui nodded: "Very well, you can go back directly, I will let Hong Wu send you off." Wei Wang came back very recklessly, and he was worried that if the Xu family knew about this move, he might not be able to keep him.

King Wei glanced at Shang Rui with some disappointment, as if he had something to say but was ashamed to say it.

Shang Rui said knowingly: "Your boss, I remember his name is Ran Hong."

"Thanks to His Majesty's concern."

"I'm six years old this year, and I'll send him to study in Taiyuan Academy at the end of the year." Pitying the parents of the world, Wei Wang risked his life to tell him the news himself, and it was just for this reason.

As soon as King Wei went out, he found that the skirt of his clothes was completely wet when the autumn wind blew.He couldn't help but sigh with emotion. When he left Beijing, Lao Jiu was still a child hiding in the arms of his mother, Concubine Xu. In recent years, I heard that he was too fond of playing and didn't grow up.But it doesn't seem to be the case at all, otherwise, how could he tame himself with some kindness just now.

After King Wei left, a person came out from the back room. He is about 40 years old, with a thin body and a bookish air of a Confucian scholar.

Shang Rui pursed his lips and said with a smile: "Helan Xun, thanks to him hiding so deeply." Among the five vassal kings in these years, King Huai was the most knowledgeable about current affairs, so he was also the most favored by the queen mother and the most powerful. When you find out that the domestic dog has become a wolf, the expression must be very funny."

He Lanxuan twirled the short beard on his chin, frowned and said, "But what about the precious jade?"

Shang Rui said: "It was an accident that he was able to find Gao Xinyu."

He Lan patrolled and said, "Could it be that the emperor is worried that Duke Huai will have that extra thing, and what troubles will arise?"

"You don't know, that piece of jade hides some secrets." Shang Ruiyan thought for a while, but didn't say anything further.

He Lan Xun only regarded it as a royal secret, not enough for outsiders, so he urged: "The emperor should go out of the city as soon as possible to meet with the imperial driver and return to the palace."

Upon hearing the word "return to the palace", Shang Rui frowned in displeasure: "I know."

Because I returned to Beijing suddenly, I didn't follow all the etiquette when picking up the driver.Between the two rows of ceremonial books, there was a boy in brocade clothes with earlobes and double hair. When he saw Shang Rui get off the car, he knelt down and kowtowed in a sensible way, and said loudly, "I bow to welcome my father."

Seeing what he said, Shang Rui was amused, and took his hand and walked at the same time, and suddenly remembered something: "Jun'er, your eighth uncle's son is coming to study with you, you have to study hard. Don’t let others compare to you.”

(End of this chapter)