13. Chapter 13
The next morning, the morning light shimmered, illuminating the otherwise dim windows through the wooden lattice.
Lying on the couch of Pingling Yu was a tall young man, he was wearing a slightly tight moon-white middle coat, his face showed an extremely unhealthy pale in the bright light, and his lips were chapped and white, but he could still see that this person had a good appearance.
"Sir. Bai Lu pushed the door in with the freshly picked water chestnut porridge, and Pingling Yu slept on the small couch in the study wrapped in a quilt, the whole person shrunk into a ball, his eyebrows and eyes stretched, and he looked a little childish.
"What time is it?" Pingling Yu stretched his waist, yesterday the person who was finally rescued let Han Zheng carry it back, he took Bai Lu all the way to clean up the traces, returned to the yard and picked up the other party again, only to find that this person was on the back of the arms and legs are large and small wounds, some of the flesh and skin turned out is obviously a knife wound, some are abrasions, fortunately there is a strong wine at home, Pingling Yu used a whole jar to wash the other party's wounds, and picked up a clean middle coat cut open with some hot herbs wrapped up, because he was worried that this person would have a high fever at night, he let his couch out again, and ordered Han Zheng and Chen Xun to put away each other's clothes and accessories, Prepare for the second day to see what is free, and what should be disposed of must be disposed of, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble.
"It's already hour. Bai Lu is wearing a blue dress today, the green skirt is swaying to the ground, and the short jacket on her body is embroidered with plum blossoms on the cuffs, and the green calyx plum at the corner of the skirt is in contrast to each other.
"How many of them are there?" Pingling Yu changed into a dark ultramarine coat, stretched his wide sleeves, and knelt under the window to comb his hair by Bai Lu.
"The practice of boxing, the practice of sword, even Chen Xiaolangjun is practicing his double sword. Bai Lu stretched out his plain white hand and combed Pingling Yu's waist-length hair into a bun, and put on a bamboo crown, while answering his own Langjun's words.
"What about the clothes that the man changed from yesterday?" Pingling Yu rubbed his neck, fortunately, the weather has been getting hotter recently, and he slept under the window last night It was also very comfortable, took the porridge brought by Bai Lu, and drank a bowl of porridge, the water chestnut boiled soft and glutinous mixed with the sweet rice fragrance, and it was very delicious without adding any condiments.
He spread out in the yard, and the accessories he was wearing were packed up in the dressing box that Madame had left behind. Bai Lu took two steps back, because she had to keep up with her eating and drinking recently, the original goose egg face was white and red, and this smile revealed a pair of dimples, and she felt sweet when she looked at it.
"It turned out to be him!" Pingling Yu motioned for Bai Lu to bring things over, and he walked to the bedroom in a few steps and poured a bowl of lotus leaf water, thinking about moisturizing the lips of the person he saved last night, but he didn't expect to see an acquaintance in this morning light!
"Sir, the stuff has been put down. In the middle of Pingling's confusion, Bai Lu came over with a dressing box, but it turned out that the things he got from the man were a few pieces of broken gold, a token and a jade pendant.
"You burn his clothes first, and there will be nothing left. Pingling Yu took the box, his mind turned sharply, when he said that the identity of the other party Chen Xu only said that he was a cousin in the family, born in the Ji family of Jinzhou, and now he is holding this phoenix bird wrapped around a vermilion token of the word Ji, his heart was surprised, but it turned out that he had read the grandfather's codex one by one, he traveled all over Kyushu and naturally dealt with various families, or side branches or main families, these big families have their own family emblems, the ancestors of the Ji family can be traced back to Shang, said to be the descendants of the phoenix, the children of the family according to the identity of the clan The phoenix bird drawn by the token is also different, the eldest son of the descendant is the phoenix, and the rest is the red birdHe looked at the jade pendant again, and sure enough, there was a small Rin character carved on its back, and then compared with the previous memory, the identity of the person in front of him was about to come out, and the eldest son of the Ji family in this generation was officially born, Gongzi Rin!
But it is said that today, in the final analysis, although the saint is ruled by the arch, but the family has been inherited for many years, and there is quite the momentum of ruling the world with the saint, when today's big family is divided into three classes, the first class is those who have been in Kyushu for hundreds of years on each side of the nine families and the families where the saints are located, the second class is the nobles of the founding of the country hundreds of years ago, and the third class is those who were born in merchants or those who jumped to the top of the imperial examination.
At that time, many people admired the nine wealthy families, and among them, there were two of them who were the most outstanding, one was Ji Rin, the eldest son of the Jinzhou Ji family, and the other was Yuwen Rui, the second son of the Yongzhou Yuwen family. Jinzhou is located in the north to resist the Northern Wei Dynasty all the year round, Gongzi Rin entered the front line at the age of ten to fight, after a thousand miles of attack, with 10,000 troops to break the Northern Wei 100,000 army, so that the land of the Great Qin to the north into another hundred miles; Yongzhou and Western Chu are adjacent to each other, Gongzi Rui at the age of six with his father to the Western Chu, in front of the king of Chu can say a lotus, laying the foundation for the two countries to open a mutual market.
Therefore, the people of the world praised Lianglang Jun and said: "If the husband Yuanzhao and the son of the banquet are also handsome sons, they are all flying benevolence and righteousness, leaping Taoist art, wandering in the heart, resisting the clouds, driving the world, waving the nine wild winds, and generosity is like a rainbow." ”
Even the original owner regarded the two as heroes in the world and objects of worship.
But Pingling Yu did not ignore the treacherous nature of the whole thing.
The Ji family and the Chen family are in-laws, which is well known to the world, but from the perspective of before and after the apprenticeship, Chen Xun and Ji Yuanzhao are not familiar with each other, although he also secretly looked at Ji Yuanzhao that day, and only felt that this person had a cold temperament and a straight shoulder, but he was very different from the children of the current good and soft family, like a green pine and a handsome bamboo.
Looking at its color, Chen Xu and Ji Rin are indeed familiar with each other, and the two went to Beijing together with the Chen family and his wife, and they have only been resigned for a few months, so how can they be rescued here.
And Ji Rin has many years of career as a horseman, he is vigorous, everyone goes to Beijing, and although the number of guards he brings with him is limited, he is by no means mediocre, even he has fallen to such a point, I don't know how Chen Xu and the Chen family are like, what kind of disaster they have encountered, and whether this qiē will affect themselves, after all, he is Chen Xun's division commander.
As soon as he thought of this, he turned his head to look at Ji Rin, who had retreated from fever and fell asleep, and Pingling Yu only felt angry.
"There are five fire attacks as Sun Tzu said: fire man, fire accumulation, fire chariot, fire storehouse, fire team, ......"
When Ji Rin woke up, it was already past noon, the sunlight was shining through the blue curtain, the nose was filled with a faint fruity fragrance, and a gentle voice came from his ears, which actually made him feel like he was tonight.
"Childe is awake?" Bai Lu guarded him to do needlework, it was an ivory white dark silk purse, not as embroidered by ordinary women, and Tilian, mandarin ducks, etc., but with a white sketch of the distant mountains and beautiful waters, heard the sound and raised his head to put the purse aside.
"Are you the little lady of the Pingling family?" Ji Rin blinked, as if recognizing who the person in front of him was, and slowly sat up and raised his hand to Bai Luzuo, "Please also ask the little lady to pass on the master, thank you Langjun for saving her life." ”
"I don't mention the grace of saving lives, but I don't know if it's a weapon to urge life. Pingling Yu accepted the book, motioned for the three of them to review the "Art of War" taught by Fang Cai, stretched out his hand to open the curtain and entered the inner hall, Bai Lu saw this and walked out with a half-embroidered purse and covered the door lightly.
"Ji is not such a wolf-hearted person. Ji Rin arched towards Pingling Yu.
"You went to Beijing with the Chen family and Chen Tingshi and his wife, why did you fall into such a situation alone?" Pingling Yu had thousands of clues in his heart to figure it out, but at this moment, he could only pick up the most important question.
"On that day, a certain and Qianzhi (Chen Xu's words) and aunts and uncles went to Chang'an to congratulate the saint's birthday, out of Jinguancheng against the Ningjiang River, received a military report in Tai'an City, saying that the Jinzhou horse farm suddenly showed horse plague, hundreds of horses died in one day, a certain and Qianzhi separated, he went to Chang'an, a certain back to Jinzhou, but will go out of the boundary of Shuzhou but the road encountered a thief, self-named Guiyi Sect, it is rumored that the leader of the sect Fan Zao has magical powers, can overwhelm the mountains and seas, in fact, it is a thief, cunning in the name of gods and ghosts. Ji Rin's expression was awe-inspiring, "Since the fourteenth year of Shengping, he has been wandering in Zhuzhou, but every time he sends troops to suppress it, there is no one around, only the people, and now he is getting stronger and stronger, and he even went down several cities half a year ago, and called himself the Emperor of Dongyue. ”
"Lang Jun borrowed it from Pingzhou all the way to settle down?" Pingling Yu's expression was silent, he came here for a few months, but he had a deep understanding, although "Guanzi" has clouds, Shinong industry and commerce, and the pillar of the country, but life in the countryside is extremely unfavorable, agricultural taxes are amazing, and there are layers of exploited officials, even if there are traversers before, there are such as corn, peppers, Potatoes and other crops, but in this era, productivity is limited, and all people can count on is to watch the sky and eat in addition to their own hard work, but the successive floods and droughts have already scarred the entire land of Kyushu.
"Wherever I passed, there were no rogues. Ji Rin smiled bitterly, "When you meet the mountain, you climb the mountain, you wade in the water, and you don't enter the forest." ”
"The prestige of the king, although the emperor lives in the mountains and wilderness, he has also heard of it. Pingling Yu was unmoved.
"I fought with one in Hengyang, and punished its main force, but the thief was without a trace. Ji Rin paused, looked at the cold face of Pingling Yu, and had to sigh.
"Therefore, the Jinzhou Racecourse incident is true, but Fan Zao's revenge is also true, but I don't know if Jinzhou Racecourse is widely implicated and the crime cannot be punished?"
"Please also ask Mr. to help Rin. Ji Rin struggled to sit up on his knees and bowed solemnly to Pingling Yu.
"The son wants to go to Jinzhou, I am afraid that the journey will change, but the royal scholar is riddled with illness, the only disciple next to him, a boy, a maidservant, a guard, and there is no earth-shaking can only send the son back to Jin, I really can't afford to worship the son. Pingling Yu slightly turned sideways to avoid his salute, "The humble house is simple, but the food and clothing are rich, and I hope that the son will leave by himself after recuperating from his injuries." ”
"Jinzhou Horse Factory, it is related to the Ji family, but also the safety of the barrier in the north of Daqin, once the horse factory is lost, the Northern Wei Dynasty will wave its troops south, it will inevitably be thousands of miles of red land, and the people will not have a good life. Ji Rin's expression was majestic and sincere, Rao still didn't change his face because he tore open the wound because of his movements, and his phoenix eyes stared at Pingling Yu, lest the other party say something to refuse.