Chapter 33: A Visit to Sima Nan
Lin Ruochen did not answer the words of the Ten Princes, but looked at Sima Tan and said: "If Brother Sima has the courage, then I will accompany Brother Sima to have a long experience and see which demons and monsters are causing trouble." Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info”
Sima Tan was stunned for a moment, what does Lin Ruochen mean by this?
"Mr. Lin......"
Before Sima Tan finished speaking, Lin Ruochen interrupted him. "It's too rusty to call me Mr. Lin, just call me Ruochen!"
The Ten Princes were dissatisfied, "He, why?"
Lin Ruochen turned his head to look at the Ten Princes and told him word by word: "With his personality and loyalty, he is worthy of our trust with our lives." It's not just me, I hope you respect him as much as you respect me. To put it mildly, if something happens to you in the future, he may be the only one standing in front of you. ”
The Ten Princes did not speak, but they were skeptical of Lin Ruochen's words in their hearts. It was Sima Tan who was really shocked in his heart, even he didn't know what would happen in the future, Lin Ruochen had already awarded him a loyalty medal.
At Lin Ruochen's request, Sima Tan and Lin Ruochen sat beside the Ten Princes at the same time, and walked with him towards Sima Nan's residence.
After Sima Nan received the letter from the Ten Princes, he had been waiting for the arrival of the Ten Princes in his heart. The people around him reminded Sima Nan not to lure the wolf into the house!
Who is the wolf? Naturally, it is not the Ten Princes, but the hundreds of pairs of eyes representing the Emperor around the Ten Princes. They will convey everything they see today to the emperor, so the moment when the ten princes come in is the moment when their true strength is exposed to the emperor.
Sima Nan deliberately spread the troubles he had encountered recently, wanting to see the reaction of the Ten Princes. However, the Tenth Prince still handed over the sticker without a single day of delay.
Sima Nan's heart was filled with joy, melancholy, and indescribable hesitation. As his only relative in the world, the Ten Princes should be happy to see him, but the birth of the Ten Princes represents the death of his daughter. The daughter is his own, but the ten princes are the emperor. Sima Nan couldn't even bear to see his daughter, let alone her daughter.
However, after all, the Ten Princes kept their daughter's blood, and as he grew older, Sima Nan, who longed for the warmth of the family, also had the idea of meeting the Ten Princes. However, as soon as Sima Nan had the idea, he received an invitation from the emperor. So Sima Nan hesitated, he took the initiative to see his grandson because he missed him, and the situation of passively meeting was different, because this may indicate that the Ten Princes wanted to use their connections and financial resources to consolidate their power.
Sima Nan wanted to greet him, but after thinking about it, he decided not to do any welcome ceremony, and treated it as an ordinary person at home. However, before the arrival of this special guest, Sima Nan hid most of his weapons and horses, leaving only a small part of the place.
The Ten Princes lifted the curtain of the carriage and opened their mouths wide in surprise. Not to mention the identical buildings on both sides of the road, even the stones paved on the avenue have been carefully selected, and all the stones are almost the same size and color, and they are all fine pebbles.
At the end of the road, a gate that could accommodate three carriages side by side appeared in front of me, and instead of two mighty lions, two one-man tall stone statues appeared on both sides of the gate.
On the left side of the statue is an old man, not only the old man's beard is carved vividly, but even the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes are clearly carved.
The person carved on the right side of the statue is supposed to be a little younger, and although his face is wrinkled, it is the hat on his head that is more attractive. There appears to be a hole in the hat, but it has been sewn up by the owner. In order to restore the true appearance of the owner, the carver even carved out the patches little by little.
"I've never heard of such a powerful carver who can carve people as if they were alive. I could even see the dentures of the stone statue in front of me, and the scars on his fingers. The Ten Princes sighed while stroking the stone statue in front of him, like a child who had never seen the world. But Lin Ruochen knew that he would see something that surprised him even more in a moment.
The moment the door opened, even Lin Ruochen, who was mentally prepared, was shocked by the scene in front of him.
Two rows of stone statues are placed on either side of the path. Each stone statue has a different shape and pose, and you can even judge the joys and sorrows of these people by looking at their expressions. And the stone statues in front of him look like there are at least a hundred or ten. And these stone statues are all from the hand of one person. In his previous life, after Lin Ruochen heard the Ten Princes talk about this, he always wanted to meet this sculptor, and after seeing these works today, he wanted to see the sculptor's demeanor even more.
"Welcome!" a gray-bearded old man with light steps came quickly from a distance, saying words of welcome and polite in his movements.
"Are you...... Butler flowers?" Sima Tan asked uncertainly.
looked at Lian Lian nodded, glanced at the three of them with his eyes, and then made a gesture of invitation.
"Welcome here, the city lord has been waiting for a long time!"
Sima Nan proclaimed himself the lord of the city here, and although this city was not nominally owned by Sima Nan, it was actually managed by Sima Nan for a long time. After Sima Nan became the lord of the city, he not only paved all the streets in the city into stone roads, but also planned the shops on both sides of the road. Everyone here calls Sima Nan a god-man, feeling that he has created a myth that no one can surpass.
However, such a person is now regarded as a plague, because all the people who are close and friendly to him have all kinds of bizarre and strange accidents. The closest sworn brother to him is now an unconscious vegetative person.
Is there really a curse in the world? Lin Ruochen didn't believe it, and neither did the Ten Princes. So they came to Sima Nan to see what strange things they would encounter.
As a result, they were greeted only by a few cups of freshly brewed tea, but there was no one to be seen.
"Where's Grandpa?" the Ten Princes turned to ask the butler. The butler politely answered the question of the Ten Princes: "I don't know!"
"What do you mean I don't know? Just now you said that your city lord has been waiting for a long time, so where is he waiting?"
A voice replied, "Hippodrome!"
The Ten Princes and Sima Tan turned their faces to look at Lin Ruochen together, with admiration written in their eyes. The housekeeper was surprised, he didn't know how Lin Ruochen guessed, because from the time Lin Ruochen entered the gate, he never left his sight for a moment.
Lin Ruochen smiled mysteriously at them, and then walked towards the racecourse.