Chapter 41: "Imperial History"
This wine has a mellow taste and is a rare gem. Kaoru Tandai had drunk some good wine with her father, but she couldn't help but purse her lips at such a good wine.
King Jin silently stared at her fair-skinned Shengxue's cheeks, also drank the wine, and looked up at the uninvited guests outside the door faintly, and Kaoru Tai also turned around at this time.
"Why didn't His Highness write a letter before His Highness, Weichen was really lazy. โ
Outside the house, the cold moonlight shone on Ye Chi's body, as if emitting a silver glow, and the black hair on his shoulders fell loosely on his shoulders.
The return date was clearly a few days later, and he suddenly ran back, which was really a big surprise.
Without waiting for King Jin to entertain him, Ye Chi walked in, lifted his robe and sat next to Kaoru Tai. He hasn't changed much from a month ago, except that his hair seems to have grown, which makes Kaoru Tantai want to touch his head.
"Lord Ye is really coincidental. King Jin didn't look surprised, and specially poured a glass of wine for Ye Chi and poured another glass for Kaoru Yutai, "Since we're here, let's catch up." โ
Ye Chi still smiled, patted Tai Kaoru's arm under the table, raised his wine glass and said, "Ah Kaoru is not sensible yet, and he is not very good at drinking, so it is enough to have Wei Chen accompany the prince." โ
Kaoru Tai frowned when she heard this, she felt that this person was simply talking nonsense with his eyes open, but she could see that Ye Chi was different from usual, there seemed to be some vigilance under that gentle smile, and the usual good gentleman who was happy suddenly seemed a little unfathomable.
So she put down her glass.
King Jin nodded knowingly, and didn't force it, so he raised his sleeves and drank a drink with Ye Chi, and swept over his body with an angry gaze, quite arrogant: "The intention of this king was told to Lord Tantai before, but there is also a reason to come and see you." โ
Ye Chi finished his wine slowly and briefly expressed his gratitude, but to be honest, he was not very familiar with the person in front of him.
Although King Jin is the younger brother of the regent, he was sent to a fief by King Lian a few years ago. He naturally has the privilege of entering Beijing and going out in various places, but the ministers around the little emperor, led by the generals, don't treat him very well, and he doesn't need to look for it himself, because Ye Chi has very little intersection with him.
When the eldest princess said that King Jin was coming to Qinzhou, Ye Chi thought she was joking, and when he received a letter from Kaoru Tai, he immediately rushed back, and sure enough, he saw the real person.
"Does Your Highness have something to do with Wei Chen?"
"Oh...... Actually, no. King Jin shrugged, his smile was a little meaningful, "I often hear Brother Wang mention you, and it just so happens that this king has nothing to do, so he came to Qinzhou." โ
Although his behavior was suspicious from beginning to end, Kaoru felt that the reason was true: this man was indeed idle and had nothing to do.
After all, there were catchers waiting below outside the small building, and they didn't stay long, just a few words of greeting, Ye Chi took Yutai Xun away, and ordered Tao Xun and others to send more guards, and the assassins should not be neglected.
The night was hazy, Ye Chi ran out one step ahead of Tai Xun, and secretly waved to Chang Su to signal him to hurry up. After all, he had been with him since he was a child, and Chang Su knew too much what he wanted to do, so he immediately drove away in the carriage, leaving the two of them to walk together at night.
The road was dark, and the more he left the small building, the more he couldn't see the road, and he gently held Ye Chi's hand, remembering that he used to walk at night with two lamps in one hand, and walked slowly on the street like a luminous body, and couldn't help but smile: "You came back so early." โ
Ye Chi nodded, and his face was a little red after drinking the wine. His sudden return this time was a purely temporary decision, and as soon as he got home, he heard that Kaoru Tai had gone to King Jin, and he ran over before he even had time to get the lamp.
"In the future, if His Royal Highness King Jin is looking for you, remember not to go alone. โ
Kaoru Tandai was a little surprised, "I thought you had a good relationship. โ
Ye Chi was noncommittal, and wanted to add something, but when he heard her, he said, "Then you tell me about the capital." โ
In fact, the affairs of the capital are not so difficult to inquire about, but Kaoru Tantai always wants to dig from the inside. At first, he thought she was curious, but after thinking about it carefully, it seemed to prepare for himself - of course he hadn't forgotten that her goal was to become an official in the capital.
"What do you want to hear?"
"Either way. Yutai Kaoru paused, "King Lian." โ
Ye Chi knew that she was going to ask this, so he slowly spoke: "No matter how it is spread outside, His Highness is a good person. His Majesty was only six years old when he succeeded to the throne, and General Sun's faction was a close confidant of the Empress Dowager. The affairs of the DPRK and China are not complicated, but they are just people's hearts. โ
The world says that the court is a place of turmoil, but Ye Chi always says it lightly. Kaoru turned her head to look at him, didn't speak, and sent him home before going back to sleep.
The next day, after Ye Chi took a bath and slept for a while, he basked in the courtyard refreshed, but there was no movement in Kaoru Yutai's house, and it seemed that he had gone to the yamen early in the morning.
The โกโก of the indigenous areas is not โกโก to be precise, but the people of the two areas do not speak the same language. The language barrier is a matter of urgency, and a trivial matter may summon the government. Ye Chi quickly reconciled, and then spent most of his time lecturing, and he felt that it would be a pity not to open a private school when he was old.
However, what made him care was that Kaoru Tandai never asked him what happened during that time.
Why didn't she ask, why didn't she care about him.
She doesn't like him anymore.
Ye Chi thought about it carefully, and was thinking about this matter when he gave Su Yu a trip, and the two of them also brought Yutai Yao over to discuss, and the final conclusion was that he was not the ideal type of Yutai Kaoru.
Ah Yao sighed a little abruptly, sighed again after looking at Ye Chi, and went home and brought a booklet over, saying that it was painted by Kaoru Tai when he was a child, and he has always treasured it at home.
Ye Chi took it and flipped through it, the first few pages were normal, it was seen that it was from a child's handwriting, and it was a family of four drawn by the Tantai family, although it was not very good-looking, but in general it was very positive.
A little wrong began to look at the back, first a woman with a length of eight feet appeared, and there was a man about the same height behind him, a carriage, a beam of the house, and he could fly in the sky, fighting a spiral boat, and the three of them were shocked.
Ye Chi silently closed the booklet.
"You mean, I need to make Kaoru feel that I have the same skills as these people?"
Yao nodded sincerely.
Ye Chi has lived so much, he doesn't think that a normal person can do such a thing, but he has no choice but to like this, of course he needs to fight in this direction.
Su Yu was stunned and said, "Do you really want to try?"
Ye Chi looked at him with some puzzlement and nodded twice.
Su Yu patted him on the shoulder and sighed meaningfully.
Ye Chi's plan is very simple, although he can't lift the beam, he can build a thing that can lift the beam, he read a lot of books about smelting and casting when he was in the capital, although he didn't try it himself, but the general principle is very thorough, and it won't be long before he returns to Beijing, so it's okay to give it a try.
When King Jin walked to the governor's mansion, he came in on a whim to greet Ye Chi, but saw him sitting alone in the courtyard fiddling with some wood.
Ye Chi's thoughts had always been incomprehensible to him, which was why he felt that this person was really fresh, and smiled a little incredulously: "This king will return to Beijing tomorrow, won't Lord Ye go with me?"
Ye Chi bowed his head slightly with him, and he was surprised that he didn't show it: "Your Highness went to the capital rashly, is it a little inappropriate?"
"This king is just going to see his brother. King Jin squinted and smiled, "It's Lord Ye, I've been in this Qinzhou City for a long time, I'm afraid I won't be able to adapt to it when I return to the court?" โ
Ye Chi didn't quite understand the meaning of his words, he just smiled faintly, and didn't leave King Jin down to eat, so he watched the other party go away.
I don't know when it was already light rain on the street, and the black-clothed guard at the corner held up an umbrella for King Jin, lowered his head and said something in his ear, his expression changed slightly.
King Jin smiled and said indifferently: "This favor, I don't know if the general will return me." โ
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Soon after Su Yu left, King Jin also left Qinzhou. Ye Chi resumed the work of the state pastor, but after all, he was going to hand over all the qiฤ to Kaoru Tai soon, and he was a little unsure.
He is not worried about Kaoru Tai's work ability, but she treats people more directly, and she will inevitably stumble in officialdom.
Kaoru Yutai was very indifferent about Ye Chi's imminent departure, but her heart was not as superficial as it was on the surface, but she was actually very irritable. Ye Chi's stay in Qinzhou was just an expedient measure, which she had learned earlier, and the situation in Jingzhong was complicated, so there was no point in her retention.
Approaching the end of spring, Ye Chi has always been busy lately. Kaoru knew that his mind was not normal sometimes, so he didn't ask anything, and one day he went to the yamen as usual, but saw a young man sitting in front of the hall playing with a pen.
She has always been the first to arrive, and occasionally only Ye Chi is the one who is earlier than her, but this time this is obviously an uninvited guest, and when she saw her coming, she didn't get up, and looked up and asked, "Where is Lord Ye?"
Kaoru looked him up and down, burly but handsome, judging from the official uniform, he should be a person from Beijing, but there was no warning before he arrived, and it was a little strange.
"You're sitting in my place. โ
"Don't you understand people?" the young man knocked on the table, looked at the empty yamen around him, and said dissatisfiedly, "What about the people here? Is this still a yamen?"
Kaoru Tai was inexplicably yelled at by him, stunned for a moment, and walked over with a frown: "Who are you?"
The young man raised his eyebrows and smiled, yawned, and lightly tapped the document on the table with his fingers: "This official's name is Xu Zhihuan, and he is the supervisor of the capital. Lord Ye was suspected of illegal industrial mining and the assassination of the prince, and the imperial court specially sent me to investigate. โ
Yutai Kaoru's eyes widened in disbelief, and he suddenly walked over and opened the document and looked at it, probably saying that Fan Yuan's coal kiln would become a fish that slipped through the net because of Ye Chi's unfavorable affairs, but this was just a small mistake, and what really attracted Yushitai was the attack on King Jin, which showed that the security of Qinzhou was very problematic.
What kind of place Qinzhou is, everyone knows very well, there are mountains, rivers and minerals, but there is no public security. Although the situation has improved greatly after Ye Chi came, it is not difficult for anyone to grasp this point and make a fuss.
But the King of Jin ...... The news spread too fast.
She bit her lip silently, frowned and ran out, just happened to meet the master, and hurriedly lowered her voice and asked, "Where is Ye Chi?"