After staying in Fengming Town for five days, Zhou Jian received a letter from Xianyang Palace, and he was very happy to hear that he had found Ji Rin, and heard that they had arrived in Fengming Town, so he ordered them to quickly return to Beijing to meet him.

After doing this for a day, he saw Chang'an City.

Since arriving in Fengming Town to Chang'an, several people changed to ox carts in accordance with the customs of the times. Because there are many short horses in Shu, when people travel or take a boat or sit on a dwarf horse-drawn oil car, Pingling Yu is still the first time to see the ox cart that is called the Taiping car, he carefully looked, saw that the carriage is rectangular, the whole is closed, the door is located in the back, but there are similarities with the truck compartment of later generations, the door is not set up, only with a hanging curtain to block, and there is a carport, and there are lattice windows on both sides of the carriage. A pillar is erected at each of the four corners of the roof, and a large curtain is supported on the four pillars. The curtain is made of navy blue, embroidered with a pattern of green calyx plum with silver thread, and the surrounding area is adorned with silver silk spikes strung with southern pearls, which is extremely gorgeous. The cart is pulled by two parallel buffaloes, the speed of the car is slow, extremely stable, there are wooden tables on both sides of the panes, the owner drinks tea and lowers it from the wall of the car, and the ox cart is wide, sitting or lying, extremely comfortable.

Everyone passed the city gate but did not see the city guards to check, Pingling Yu was a little curious, and was about to inquire, but Ji Rin smiled and said: "According to the law of our dynasty, the kings can drive eight oxen in a calf cart; ”

"But at the feet of this Son of Heaven, there are not a few ordinary petty officials of six or seven grades, and such people don't check when they pass through the city gate, won't there be something missing?"

But it was because the curtain was printed with the family crest of the eldest princess of Jinling. Ji Rin was used to seeing his usual confident appearance, and now he saw that Pingling Yu was as curious as a child, so he couldn't help but explain to him in detail.

"But the green calyx plum?" Pingling Yu was able to get through, "I just don't know if Yuan Zhao entered the palace first to face the saint or?"

"I will enter the palace with Ling Yun to face the saint, you will rest in his mansion with the carriage and horse, and when I come out of the palace, we will go to my second uncle's mansion together. Ji Rin thought for a moment.

"In this case, I will take Ah Xun and Bai Lu to disturb Zhou Xiaolangjun first. "Pingling Yu didn't plan to throw Chen Xun aside and let him go back, when Ji Rin and the head of the Chen family and Chen Xu were attacked by Fan Zao at the beginning of Tai'an City, this timing was too coincidental, he did not question the friendship between Chen Xu and Ji Rin, but he was a little wary of Chen Zhen, the head of the Chen family who had never met.

The children of the big family since the age of fifteen or sixteen, the elders of the family will put one or two young maidservants in the room to make a room, but also to avoid the young Mu Ai's little Langjun planted a heel in the female color, like the Ji family is so upright, the man is forty childless can take concubines is a minority, most of the children of ordinary families have concubines in the house, and even those who are good men also raise demon children and slaves, that is, the bad two colors are not avoided by the world to be jokingly called the fear of wives like tigers and also raise one or two more kittens to pretend, of course, if you marry the princess of the heavenly family, the concubine is naturally rarely concubines, but Chen Zhen is not like this。

Pingling Yu used to have a disagreement with his mother, and he also paid special attention to the news of the Chen family, he was not a mediocre talent, and naturally felt strange, for many years in Shuzhou, Mrs. Ji's reputation was extremely poor, and the people secretly called the "rouge tiger", and it was rumored that the Ji family was domineering, and Mrs. Ji pressed each other with the momentum of her mother's family, but I don't know if the original owner was born with prejudice or something else, he only felt that the Chen family acted very arrogantly, arbitrarily and wantonly, and the children of the clan bullied men and women, and there were not a few in the fish and meat township.

Therefore, even though the eldest son Chen Xu has a lot of constraints on the children in the clan, the Chen family's reputation has not been good in the past few years, but it has been hairpins for generations, and there are countless in-laws, even if there are several twists and turns, it is still Xuan He after all. Even though there is an impeachment of the imperial history, but in the end the emperor is far away, and Shu is surrounded by mountains, Shu road is difficult and dangerous, and most of the officials who serve in Shu are selected from the local area, if it is not for the rise of the Zhuang family, Shu is afraid that the Chen family is a hall.

Chen Zhen was a teenager at the age of 20 to explore the flowers, at that time across the horse to travel the street, overnight in the flower shop, so not romantic, Pingling Yu once heard the old man of Shu said that he fell in love at first sight with the famous Chang'an Jiaofang Oiran Lou Xinyue, and also promised to redeem Lou Xinyue in the middle of the lift, and even wrote a sixteen-word song for the woman "Guanlou Yuan Niang plays the Gong Hou and preface" , but unexpectedly he was not long in the flowers, Lou Xinyue married a Salu businessman, Chen also married the Ji family, after the marriage, he changed the habit of sleeping in the willows, but only guarded the Ji family Siniang to live, the Pingling Imperial Committee was really surprised, but it was only an ear to listen to back then, and did not pay attention to it, and now I am afraid that it is not so simple.

Therefore, he didn't dare to let his disciple, who was extremely stupid and sweet in the words of later generations, go to the Chen family, and now they still don't know how Chen Xu is, it is difficult to be innocent in the big family, if the Ji family is like that, there are really a few, and before there is no exact news, Pingling Yu still decided to take Chen Xun with him.

Ji Rin is not the first time to face the saint, the Ji family women are scarce, and the saint is the only one Ji Siniang, she is nine years younger than the saint, most of the women in the Eastern Qin Dynasty are fifteen or sixteen years old to marry, and the men are eighteen to twenty-three years old to marry are uncertain, but the children of the royal family will be fifteen years old and get married out of the palace to open the mansion, at that time Ji Siniang will be a seven or eight-year-old girl, and the eldest daughter of the Yuwen family was fourteen years old at the time, but it was justified, and she was designated as the crown princess by the first emperor.

These families of nine surnames intermarry from generation to generation, even if it is not a branch or a side branch, over time, almost all of them have a relationship by marriage, seriously calculated, Queen Yuwen is still Ji Siniang's cousin, when she was a child, Ji Siniang stayed in Chang'an for many years, and Queen Yuwen has a very good relationship, every time she sees her, she always introduces her sister-in-law Liang who was born in Yuezhou, Liang's sex is cheerful and sparse, Yuezhou Yi and Han live together, and the status of women is higher, Liang went to Kyushu with his father in his early years, and his father was familiar with the law and his mind was keen.

At that time, the prince died, the saint went out to survey the river work, Queen Yuwen was ill, Liang was more than four months pregnant, she asked for orders to enter the palace to stare at the palace people to take care of the queen, and on the other hand, she cooperated with the mother in charge of the Houtu Hall to investigate the truth, Queen Yuwen recovered, the two of them were sisters, and later Ji Rin was born, Queen Yuwen often called the two into the palace, at that time the emperor was still in love, and Ji Rin was also common when he was young.

Only later when he reached the age of five and was sent back to Jinzhou to study, so after more than ten years, in addition to debriefing, he returned to Chang'an and re-entered the palace to see Empress Yuwen, that is, in just a few quarters of an hour, the queen and His Majesty gradually became estranged, and it was rare for him to meet His Majesty, plus it was even more difficult to enter and leave the palace when he was older, so it was the first time in so many years to accept His Majesty's summons alone.

The saint summoned them in the east side of the Huangtian Palace, here is the study where the saint lives, the interior furnishings are not luxurious, a soft couch, the case did not use red sandalwood, but chose the bright color of Huanghuali, when the two went in, the saint wore an autumn fragrance color group flower golden dragon collar regular clothes, wearing a bundle of hair inlaid with jade hollow silver crown, standing in front of the desktop to draw, seeing the two of them come in, did not speak, but first finished the stroke of the pen.

When the saint was young, he was the youngest son of the first emperor, Su Xi calligraphy and painting, often hidden in the Taiye pool for several months, just to draw the brocade scales in the pool, and the old self-formed faction, when the people called it "gold and jade school", in the calligraphy together is also quite profound, the original "silver hook body", the font is steep, there is the meaning of iron painting silver hook.

At this time, when he saw the two of them coming, he didn't say hello, but took a few steps back, and looked at the peony picture he had just drawn, and did not use vermilion, only relied on the shade of ink to blend, and revised a few strokes from time to time, and when he felt that it was acceptable, he put the lake pen on the pen stand, and looked up at the two young people who looked a little dusty.

"How is this way?" The sage put down the pen, and the waiter on the side brought a basin of water for the sage to wash his hands, and wiped it clean with a silk cloth, and the sage sat down on the big kang next to the window, with his back against the vermilion sea dragon pattern backrest, and the stone blue flower sea dragon led the pillow, and the little waiter standing on the side moved two low piers very coloredly, and the sage smiled slightly when he saw it, "It's a clever one, sit down." ”

"I haven't seen my uncle for a long time, but I miss it so much. Zhou Jian and Ji Rin waved their hands solemnly, sat down on the low pier, Zhou Jian smiled and spoke, and then said how he met Ji Rin all the way and how he came back, although it had been explained in the letter submitted before, but Zhou Jian's witty words, painting and painting caused the saint to laugh, Ji Rin added a little from time to time, but he said plain and concise, not very vivid, the two of them moved and stilled to provoke the saint to be more and more happy.

"I remember that Yuan Zhao was not so silent in the queen's palace when he was young, he must have learned from your father, and he was very upright, not as fun as when he was a child. "The saint knows the longevity of the Mandate of Heaven in his years, and does not focus on the political affairs of the court, he specializes in calligraphy and painting every day or composes music and choreography with the virtuous concubine Lin, and the life is comfortable, and he looks quite young.

"When I was young, I was stubborn, but now adults are no longer as playful as children. "Ji Rin has been in the army for many years, compared to the children in Chang'an City, he is a little rude and unruly, he and Zhou Jian received the sage's food at the same time, the latter still has a small half bowl left, but he even drank the soup, but he is not sensitive, nor does he feel embarrassed, but he wiped the soup on the side of his mouth with a handkerchief, which provoked many small chamberlains in the palace to peek at him a few times.

"Are you full?" The saint is old, there are only two princes under his knees, an eight-year-old prince Ziyan, and a three-year-old prince Ze, if you really count it, Ji Rin's age is about three years different from that year's prince Zihan, and when the saint sees him, even if he doesn't like the queen, he can't help but think of the child who died young, and for a while he has a bit of a fatherly heart, "The injuries on your body are better all the way?"

"His Majesty is worried, the minister came all the way, met the hermit in the mountains, and was rescued by him, but it was no problem. Ji Rin replied respectfully.

"This year is my birthday, can Qing's parents come to Chang'an?" the sage smiled.

"His Majesty's birthday, naturally I want to go to Chang'an to congratulate, only Jinzhou Road is far away from the Majesty's birthday a few days before the birthday, the minister is edicted to kill the thief, and I have not contacted my father all the way, only my father has mentioned it before, and now I have to ask the second uncle for the specific itinerary. Ji Rin thought for a moment.

"It's a sincere child. The sage smiled when he heard this, and saw that he was dressed simply, so he ordered Zhangwen to take a new crane made this autumn and give it to Ji Rin, and discussed calligraphy and painting with the two young men before letting the two out of the palace.