A little after noon, Gong Shuwen and Gong sent Xu Heng and Chai Lao out of the gate of Hanlin Academy. 【Fengyun Reading Network.】

Xu Heng clenched his fists at Gong Shuwen at the door, and said apologetically: "Lord Gong, please stay, I have been delaying my lord for a long time, and I am already uneasy in my heart." ”

"Where is Prince Heng, it is an honor for the lower officials to serve the emperor and grandson. Gong Shuwen returned the salute, looked at the old man standing beside Xu Heng after speaking, sighed, and said to Xu Heng, "Chai Lao has hallucinated because of the loss ......of his son, and he has been running to Hanlin Courtyard every day in the past few days, just to tell us that Chai Xing is not dead."

"But Chai Xing is really dead, and the imperial doctor invited by Wang Fengzhi personally confirmed that there would be no mistake, and Chai Xing's body had already been buried half a month ago...... This is all seen by the lower officials with their own eyes, how can Chai Xing be resurrected again?"

Xu Heng nodded, looked at the old man with a calm face beside him, and agreed: "The son who was in the prime of life passed away suddenly, and if it were me, I wouldn't be able to stand it." Chai Lao is like this," Xu Heng also sighed, "It is also reasonable." ”

"It's good that Gongzi Heng understands," Gong Shuwen said and remembered their previous decision, and smiled, "Gongzi and Chai Xing are good friends, I don't know how to talk to Gongzi about this matter, Chai Xing suddenly fell seriously ill and died, His Highness was worried about it for a while after he knew about it, and seeing Gongzi so calm today, His Highness doesn't have to worry." You must know that people cannot be resurrected after death, even if they ......"

"Your Royal Highness, father," Xu Heng heard his father worrying about how to tell him, his heart was both uncomfortable and funny, "Chai Xing's violent illness and death is not your responsibility, what are you entangled......

came back to his senses, Gong Shuwen's words of comfort were finished, and when he saw the wry smile on Xu Heng's face, he frowned again: I thought that Xu Heng's calm before Fang Cai was all pretending, thinking that Xu Heng and Chai Xing were good back then, and his friend must have been sad when he died suddenly, but Xu Heng was indifferent from beginning to end when he heard that his friend had died, and he couldn't see his sadness, thinking that his grief had reached the extreme, but because of his bad face, he showed it in front of him, so he endured it,

Thinking of forcibly enduring his own health, he enlightened: "Xu Heng, I know that you and Chai Xing are good friends, but Chai Xing is dead, don't be overly sad, don't force yourself to endure it, it's not good for your health......"

Bachelor Gong Shuwen of the Hanlin Academy treats Xu Heng as if he were a junior, and is very concerned, but because he usually reads a lot and has poetry and books in his belly, it is inevitable that he will speak in chapters and talk endlessly, which makes Xu Heng a little unbearable.

Seeing that Gong Shuwen was about to talk about it again, Xu Heng hurriedly saluted the adult and said: "Uncle Gong doesn't have to worry, the little nephew has a lot of feelings in the past ten months, and he can't say that he is down-looking about life and death, but he also sees it a lot more indifferently, the little nephew knows: Chai Xing is dead, and the most important thing in front of him is how to settle the orphans and widows left by Chai Xing, so he is not overly sad, Uncle Gong doesn't have to worry." ”

Seeing the satisfied look on Gong Shuwen's face, Xu Heng breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Uncle Gong is busy with affairs, you don't have to take care of us anymore, I'll just send Chai Lao back." ”

"Okay, good!" It is indeed because Xu Heng has delayed too much time, and the official document is quite important, Xu Heng took the initiative to resign, and Gong Shuwen no longer retained, so he instructed the little official behind him, "Tanaka, send Chai Lao back with Gongzi Heng!"

"Yes, my lord!" The little official who had stopped Chai Lao at the gatehouse hurriedly stepped forward to receive the order, and came to Xu Heng to salute, "Tanaka didn't know the identity of the son before, and he was offended, so please ignore the past suspicions." ”

"Well, it's okay, you're doing the right thing. Xu Heng nodded, didn't pay much attention to this little official, and finally said to Gong Shuwen, "Uncle Gong, let's go first!"

"Okay, Your Highness told us yesterday that you will go back to the palace tonight to see your daughter and daughter-in-law, so go back and prepare as soon as possible. Gong Shuwen nodded to Xu Heng with a smile on his face, and the two officially said goodbye.

Tanaka led the way, and Xu Heng took him and Chai Lao away.

Chai Lao calmed down after entering the Hanlin Academy, but he turned a deaf ear to the things around him, his eyes were straight and no one looked at him, allowing Xu Heng to hold his arm and walk around, at this time Xu Heng took him out of the imperial city, and he didn't care where he was going.

Similar to Shen'an City, there are also three gates in the south of the Imperial City, from east to west are Hanguang, Suzaku, and Anshang three gates, Hanlin Temple is in the north of the Imperial City to the east, the three of them go directly to the south, and the Anmen on the east side of the south leaves, after walking out of the Imperial City, walk through two streets, go directly to the west along the east and west streets, and turn to the north after passing through the bustling and lively West Market.

Opposite to Wanghou Lane, there is also a street on the west side of Shen'an City, called Jiangxiang Street, who lives here, the lowest official position is also the five-rank member of the imperial court, Chai Xing's Hanlin Academy, although there is no official title, but because he won the emperor's love during the palace examination, he was given a house here.

This mansion has been given to Chai Xing by the Holy Heavens, and although Chai Xing is dead, his family still lives here.

Walking to the depths of Jiangxiang Street, in front of the Chaifu Gate where the door was full of vegetarian lanterns, Xu Heng was bored in his heart, and stood at the door for a long time without stepping forward. Tanaka, the little official, stood behind the two of them, hesitating whether to step forward and answer the door.

After hesitating for a long time, Xu Heng turned around and called the little official: "Tanaka, you take Chai Lao in, I have other things, he will come to visit again in the future." ”

"Yes. Xu Heng s words, how dare a small official who is not even an official not listen, and nodded hurriedly.

Tanaka walked up to the old man, stretched out his hand to hold the old man's arm, and pulled it, but he couldn't hold it. He looked at the old man in surprise, only to see that the old man was holding Xu Heng's hand tightly.

Chai Lao may have remembered who Xu Heng was, and when he saw that Xu Heng was leaving, he hurriedly stopped him.

"My Xing'er is not dead! he is alive again!" the old man said straight to Xu Heng.

Xu Heng's face was calm: "I know." ”

"My Xing'er is alive! I've come home!" exclaimed the old man with an excited expression.

"I know. Xu Heng's face was still calm.

"My Xing'er!"

"I know!" Xu Heng interrupted the old man's words and looked directly into the old man's eyes, "I know everything," the old man's expression calmed down in Xu Heng's determined gaze, "I remembered something, I want to do that thing, and I will come back." ”

Xu Heng slowly took the old man's hand off his arm, and at the same time calmed the old man's emotions with words, "Uncle Chai, you don't have to worry, I know that Chai Xing is not dead, he is alive again, I have something to do now, I want to do that, I will come back......"

The old man looked straight into Xu Heng's eyes, relaxed the strength in his hand, and the hand holding Xu Heng's forearm was taken down by Xu Heng.

"I'll be back. ”

Xu Heng glanced at Tanaka, and Tanaka ran over at the right time and hugged the old man.

"Uncle Chai, go back and think about how Chai Xing came back at that time, and tell me when I come back, okay?"

Under Xu Heng's light words and comfort, the old man regained some senses, said the words beyond a few repeated words, closed his eyes tightly, tears flowed out of his eyes, nodded heavily, and said two words: "Good, good!"

Xu Heng handed Chai Lao to Tanaka, and he stood at the door and did not enter the door.

Tanaka helped the old man to the door and knocked on the door a few times, and after a while, the Chai family in plain clothes came out to open the door, and saw the old Chai who was being supported by the official, and was surprised, as if it was at this time that the old man was found out. After several thanks, Tanaka refused the invitation to go in and thank him, and left the Chai family, and the Chai family also returned to the house and closed the door.

Xu Heng always stood in the shadow of the Y on the wall outside the door, surrounded by a circle of gray light, and no one paid attention. When there was no one on the street anymore, he stepped out of the Y shadow and walked south alone.

When I am alone, sadness comes to my heart.

Xu Heng doesn't have many friends, and there are even fewer who can be called close friends, and Chai Xing is one of them.

Chai Xing's sudden death hit him hard.

Xu Heng has not been that kind of emotional person since he was a child, he is extremely indifferent to many things, and there are not many people or things that can make him move his true feelings.

He thought that he could face death calmly, until he heard the news of Chai Xing's death in the Hanlin Courtyard, but when he really got the door of the Chai family, he found that he didn't dare to face the family of Chai Mansion, and he didn't dare to face the fact that Chai Xing was really dead.

He needed to take a break. So he retreated in front of the Chai Mansion.

Gong Shuwen said that his father would return to the Qi Palace's mansion at night, so Xu Heng still had a lot of time. There was no purpose, Xu Heng walked around Shen'an City in a daze, thinking about the question of life and death.

The court is a cage, Xu Heng desperately wants to break free from it, in the process of struggling out of the court, Xu Heng found that the rivers and lakes he longed for are also a cage, but this cage is always better than the court, so he decided to leave the court.

The two cages in front and back made Xu Heng no longer have hope of being completely free, and at this time, he found another cage: life and death.

No matter how long you live, there will come a day when you will come to the end, and when that day comes, you will fall into death.

At birth, it is a cage, and after death, it is also a cage, and the two cages are interlocking throughout a person's life.

Sure enough, true freedom does not exist. On the one hand, Xu Heng mourns the death of his best friend, and on the other hand, he mourns the non-existence of true freedom.

The reverie of life and death was too huge, Xu Heng's thoughts were chaotic, and he wandered around Shen'an City, and when he finally stopped, he found himself standing in front of a small door. The small door is embedded in the blue wall, and the door has an eaves that extend far from left to right, and the edge is not visible. The scene inside the wall is tightly blocked by a wall that is more than a foot high.

"I ended up here by accident...... Providence. ”

You don't have to think about it to know where this is the back door, Xu Heng smiled bitterly, put away his chaotic thoughts, walked to the door and pushed his palm, and found that there was a door bolt blocking it, Xu Heng did not use force, nor did he call people with the code agreed in the past, but took two steps back, weighed the height of the wall, stopped the movement in the wall, lifted his breath, raised his body, and went up to the wall.

Inside the wall is a small garden with a lot of trees, and it is winter, and all the trees are left. In the distance beyond the garden, there are eaves of buildings hidden in it, and the sound of reading aloud is faintly heard.

Xu Heng stayed on the wall for a moment, and when he saw no one, he jumped off decisively.

He stood quietly in the small garden in the backyard for a while, dressed neatly, and saw that no one was paying attention to him, so he slowly walked out of the small garden and walked along the road in the courtyard in the direction he was familiar with.

It was now afternoon, and when class was held, there were no idlers in the courtyard, and Xu Heng came to his destination unimpeded, a small courtyard located in the depths of the house.

Before entering the courtyard, Xu Heng smelled the skyrocketing smell of wine, and after entering the courtyard, the smell of wine was even stronger.

The courtyard was a mess, and everywhere you could see all kinds of wine bottles: some were upright, some were lying on the ground, some were broken into pieces, and some were old, directly covered in mud.

There was no unexpected change, Xu Heng glanced at it and then quickly walked through the courtyard and walked towards the only room in this courtyard. As if he knew that Xu Heng was coming, the door of the room was open, and there was a loud snoring sound, Xu Heng entered the house without saying a word, and saw the man who was drunk on the bed.

A bed, a table, a chair, and countless papers thrown on the table floor...... Xu Heng looked around, and saw that the four walls of the house looked almost exactly the same as before he left, he didn't disturb the man sleeping soundly on the bed, but walked to the table facing the door, and leaned over to look at the papers that were thrown on the table.

Horizontal, vertical, apostrophe, pinch, Zhao, Qian, Sun, Li...... All of them are basic strokes and men, one stroke and one character occupy one piece of paper, countless pieces of paper are spread half a foot thick on the table, and there are more on the ground.

Xu Heng rummaged through the papers on the table and on the ground, picked and chosen, spent a quarter of an hour finding all the three words, put them in order, took a deep look, and compared them with the three words in his memory, and the result was exactly the same.

Gambling Emperor Zhai.

"What are you looking for?" The man on the bed behind him sat up with a wine burp, glanced at the man standing at the table, and closed his eyes again, "That was all written before you left, I haven't written it for a long time." ”

Xu Heng turned around and looked at the man sitting on the bed with his eyes closed: "Long time no see." ”

"Long time no see," the man opened his eyes, leaned against the wall, looked carefully at his friend who had returned from the rivers and lakes, and smiled, "I thought I wouldn't see you in a few years." ”

The man smiled as always: "How is it, are the rivers and lakes fun?"

"It's a little more interesting than Shen'an City," Xu Heng turned his head to look at the shabby room, turned around and pulled a chair and sat down, and sighed, "I thought you could still grow a little after my bad friend left, it seems, alas, ......"

"What is the growth of growth, and then there is a chance to come, isn't it the same as Chai Xing's violent illness, and if you say you die, you will die?"

The man smiled and asked rhetorically, which made Xu Hengteng stand up, and said angrily: "Yu Qisi, do you still know that Chai Xing is dead?!"

(End of chapter)